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SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 SHAWWAL 4, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Drone kills Turkey orders Plane crashes Dortmund thrash four Sinai citizens to in Connecticut; Augsburg; Hertha militants7 leave Lebanon8 611 feared dead rout19 Eintracht 6-1 US reopens consulates, Max 45º Min 30º embassies after threat High Tide 02:31 & 14:14 Embassy in Yemen, Lahore Consulate remain closed Low Tide 08:35 & 20:55 40 PAGES NO: 15894 150 FILS WASHINGTON: Eighteen of the 19 US embassies and MERS virus linked consulates that were closed in the Middle East and Africa because of a terrorist threat will reopen today, the to Arabian camel State Department says. The US Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, will remain closed. The US Consulate in Lahore, PARIS: Researchers yesterday pointed to the Arabian Pakistan, which was closed Thursday because of what camel as a possible host of the deadly human MERS officials say was a separate credible threat, also was not virus plaguing the Middle East. The exact origins of scheduled to reopen. the virus is a riddle scientists have been working In the statement Friday, State Department spokes- hard to solve in a bid to halt its spread, especially in woman Jen Psaki did not cite a reason for the decision the lead-up to the annual haj pilgrimage to Saudi to reopen the 18 missions. She cited “ongoing concerns Arabia in October. about a threat stream indicating the potential for terror- Now an international team says blood tests were ist attacks emanating from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian positive for antibodies in camels from Oman, mean- Peninsula,” or AQAP, for keeping the embassy in Sanaa ing they had at some point been infected with closed. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus “We will continue to evaluate the threats to Sanaa (MERS-CoV), or a closely-related virus. The findings and Lahore and make subsequent decisions about the suggest that Arabian or dromedary camels “may be reopening of those facilities based on that information,” one reservoir of the virus that is causing MERS in Psaki said. The 19 outposts were closed to the public humans,” said a statement that accompanied the beginning last Sunday. Most American employees at study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases the US Embassy in Yemen were ordered to leave the journal. country on Tuesday because of threat information. MERS has killed 46 of the 94 people confirmed An intercepted message between Al-Qaeda officials infected since September last year, according to the about plans for a major terror attack triggered the 19 World Health Organization. SANAA: Yemeni soldiers inspect a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the US and British embassies in closures. The State Department issued a travel warning Continued on Page 13 Sanaa, Yemen yesterday. — AP Thursday night regarding Pakistan, saying the presence of several foreign and indigenous terrorist groups PAGE PAGE posed a potential danger to US citizens throughout the American charged over 20 die as Syria troops country. At the same time officials ordered nonessential government personnel to leave the US Consulate in wife’s Facebook murder bombard Sunni town Lahore. Continued on Page 13 SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 LOCAL MP urges intervention to ease Schengen visas KDF criticizes US drone strike By A Saleh trillion mega watts by 2022”, said the report holiday. All cables used in the service are fiber released by Business Monitor International. optics, the ministry announced. KUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Tamimi urged Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Drone strike GCC Railway Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah to intervene with his The Kuwait Democratic Forum (KDF) criti- International companies were invited to pro- counterparts in European countries in order to cized American drone strikes carried out recently vide assessment studies for a project to connect address alleged delays in giving Schengen visas at Yemeni villages and left civilian casualties Gulf Cooperation Council states with railways by to Kuwaiti nationals through their respective after missing their supposed targets of Al-Qaeda 2018 tentatively, Minister of Communications in embassies in Kuwait. “Citizens of these countries members. “The excuses that the United States the Kingdom of Bahrain Jamal Bin Ahmad can obtain visas to enter Kuwait very easily at make do not justify breaking humanitarian prin- announced recently. He added that the study the airport, seaports and border checkpoints ciples that they have defended for long”, reads a focuses on putting the mechanism to execute and enjoy many privileges during their stay in statement released by the liberal group recently. the project in a way by which major cities in the the country”, he said in a press statement. He fur- Gulf region are connected, among other issues. ther argued that Kuwait’s oil exports, European Co-ops law The study should also determine whether the imports as well as Kuwaitis’ travel for studying Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Thekra Al- estimated $10 billion project will be funded by and healthcare could be used as bargaining Rashidi plans to review the executive regulations GCC government, private companies or through chips in negotiations to ease issuance of of the new co-operative societies law during a partnership between the public and private sec- Schengen visas. Cabinet meeting this month, according to tors. sources familiar with the case. The sources also $2.5bn investments said that the minister plans to refer amendments Thekra advisor While Kuwait looks to reduce national con- to the social care program to the parliament Member of Parliament Faisal Al-Shaye said if sumption of oil in order to increase production, next October. The amendments aim to guaran- the news about Social Affairs and Labor Minister the government has plans to improve energy tee the rights of Kuwaiti women married to non- Thekra Al-Rashidi appointing her sister as an production through power plants that run on Kuwaitis. advisor in her office for a salary of KD 1,250 natural gas. A recent international report indicat- without having to report to work was true, then ed that the Ministry of Electricity and Water eyes Fiber optics it is a tragedy. Al-Shaye asked “How does the $2.5 billion investment to meet demand by 2015 The Ministry of Communications announced Prime Minister allow such trivial matters to as part of plans to double power plants’ produc- connecting landlines to 4,000 housing units in occur owing to a minister’s irresponsible behav- tion by 2017. “Electricity generation in Kuwait the Saad Al-Abdullah, Jaber Al-Ahmad, Sabah Al- ior?” He hoped the Prime Minister would cancel increases by 4.2 percent and is set to reach one Ahmad and Al-Nahdha areas after the Eid Al-Fitr the decision before things got out of hand. MPs call for ‘health’ reforms

By A Saleh strong stand against him. Abdallah must show his keenness the constitutional norms and must Sources said there are MPs who to reform by responding positively be changed. Constitutional expert KUWAIT: Several members of opposed the minister during the to the request. Hisham Al-Saleh said the “one vote” Parliament asked Health Minister annulled Parliament period, and Meanwhile former MP Saleh Al- system has already been protected Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdallah to considered these appointments Mulla said he will file an appeal to and cannot be contested in court, cancel appointments made by for- good reason to grill him. They cancel the “one vote” system in front and any such move is propaganda mer Health Minister Dr Mohammad believe the appointments are ille- of the constitutional court tomor- because the court will reject it auto- Al-Haifi and threatened to take a gal, and Minister Mohammad Al- row, because it is a system outside matically.

Crossdresser arrested after entering lingerie shop KUWAIT: A young Kuwaiti crossdresser was insisted he was entitled to be in the shop, locat- Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, prohibits arrested by police after he entered a women- ed in the posh Salmiya area in Kuwait City. crossdressing in public and media often report only lingerie shop. A saleswoman had to call the police to end police swoops and court cases against those A female shopper, shocked by the presence the dispute, local Arabic daily Al Rai reported. who break the rules. of a man wearing women’s clothes and heavy The crossdresser was eventually taken by the Some of the online comments on the fight KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary Ministry of Interior Lt General Sheikh Mohammad makeup, told him to leave the premises, saying police to the station. He is accused of crossdress- called for allocating special areas, mainly in Al-Yousuf paid a visit to the marine centers of the coastguards on the second day of he had no right to be there. ing and getting involved in a fight in a public remote places, for “soft men” where they could Eid. He congratulated them on their hard work and conveyed to them the greetings However, the crossdresser objected and place. Kuwait, like the rest of the Gulf wear their makeup and transgender clothes. of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid and the Undersecretary General Ghazi Al-Omar. Kuwait honours Traffic campaigns to Malaysian scholar curb recklessness KUWAIT: A Malaysian youth made waves to a proper study plan,” he said recently. in Kuwait when he was acknowledged by “I plan to continue my tertiary educa- KUWAIT: Ahmadi Traffic Department created on Subhan and Airport Road to the country’s Education Ministry as one of tion in the field of Arab language studies. carried a traffic campaign on Wafra Road limit racing on the roads. the highest achievers for A-levels. Hopefully, the Kuwait government will and convoy roads, where they spotted Expressway department carried a Islamic Institute Kuwait student continue to support my efforts.” some vehicles being driven in a reckless similar campaign on King Fahad Muhammad Safiuddin Mohd Soyong, 20, However, he will be missing out on cel- way. Expressway and King Abdul Aziz was first in the A-levels for religious ebrating Hari Raya in Malaysia as he still Simultaneously, Jahra traffic depart- Expressway limit speeding on the roads stream with a score of 98.18%. had to settle his university admission. ment carried out a campaign in the and reduce accidents. The campaign Kuwait Education and Higher The prize-giving ceremony for high Northern part of Kuwait, Al-Sabbiya road resulted in 200 direct citations, deten- Education Minister Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf, scorers in the General Secondary to monitor racing and reckless driving. In tion of 30 vehicles and the arrest of four who announced Muhammad Safiuddin’s Certificate (GSC) exam 2013 was also Mubarak Al-Kabeer, check-points were teenagers. achievement, also awarded him with a attended by Malaysian Ambassador to certificate, a gold medal and a KD 300 Kuwait Datuk Adnan Othman. prize sponsored by the National Bank of The GSC is an A-level certificate equiva- ‘Old Puzzles’ publication released Kuwait. Muhammad Safiuddin said he was lent to STPM in Malaysia. Muhammad happy that his success had brought hon- Safiuddin, from Kota Baru, has a record of KUWAIT: The Kuwait Sea Sports Club Kuwaiti society’s cultural heritage. KUWAIT: Despite the strict traffic campaigns launched our to Malaysia and attributed his academic excellence - clinching 5As in his announced that Sea Heritage Committee The new book contains a collection of across Kuwait, some people still insist on flouting the achievement to his mother Siti Fatemah UPSR and 10As in Religious Lower Consultant Thamer Al-Sayyar released a new puzzles, as well as documentation of rules with complete disregard for the law. This picture Abdullah. “There wasn’t any particularly Secondary Assessment (PMRU) before new edition of his series which has popular sites, works, customs and items from old shows a boy hanging outside a 4WD playfully on the difficult subject in the examination but it’s continuing his studies on a scholarship puzzles from old Kuwait, which are highly Kuwait with illustrations by artist Hamed first day of Eid. — Photo by Abdellatif Al-Sharaa more of a challenge to organise and stick from the Kuwait government. regarded as an important part of the Al-Sayyar.

News in brief

Well-wishers thanked KUWAIT: HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah expressed his appreciation and gratitude yesterday for Kuwaiti nationals and expatriates, who congrat- ulated him on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr. The well- wishers’ sentiments reflect the unity of the Kuwaiti society, said a statement by the Crown Prince’s Diwan, wishing the people all the best on the fes- tive occasion, as well as further development and prosperity for Kuwait under the leadership of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Proposal to impose tax KUWAIT: Informed government sources said that the government will propose a draft to National Assembly to impose taxes on a number of services provided to the public. Sources said that the gov- ernment tender is being studied quietly and will be proposed during the next term to be studied by both authorities for approval. The same sources claim that the government is aware of the Parliament’s opposition regarding this. The reason for imposing taxes on services is to improve the lev- el of services provided and reduce wasta. The law will not include all services but will cover certain limited ones only.

New industrial plots KUWAIT: Sources revealed that council of ministers is studying granting the Industrial Authority the approval to make use of KD 8 million which repre- sent the earnings of the authority last year. Sources said that this step is one of many steps to support national industry, revealing that there are new reg- ulations to distribute new industrial plots in the short run or those coming up in Al-Shidadiya and Subhan areas. KUWAIT: A delegation from National Guards headed by Maj Bader Saad Ruwaished from public relations paid a visit to a senior citizens’ home to wish them for Eid. Maj Ruwaished conveyed the greetings of National Guards Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali and his deputy Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad and Lt General Hashem Abdul Razaq Al-Rifae, Undersecretary of National Guards and all the staff of National Guards. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 LOCAL Kuwait criticised over jailing of female activist

KUWAIT: US-based advocary group Human “The government should drop charges Rights Watch has blasted Kuwait over a 20- against those accused or convicted of month jail sentence served on a female crimes solely for exercising their right to online activist for offending His Highness freedom of expression, and it should the Amir and urged the Gulf state to end amend Kuwait’s criminal code to remove such prosecutions. the crime of ‘offending the emir’,” Stork said. The appeals court on Wednesday “Kuwait used to have a better reputation upheld the sentence on Sara Al-Darees for than most other Gulf states in respecting making remarks on Twitter deemed insult- the right to free speech,” he added. “But ing to the Amir. with each case like this, the authorities are The sentence “further erodes the right lowering themselves to the standards of to free speech in Kuwait,” the rights group the rest of the region.” said in a statement. According to the verdict, Sara now has “The Kuwait authorities over the past to go to jail unless the Supreme Court year have prosecuted dozens of people for agrees to grant her bail until it has peaceful political statements,” said Joe reviewed her challenge to the ruling. Stork, acting Middle East director at HRW. Sara , a teacher, is the second Kuwaiti “The government should tolerate this kind woman to be jailed on charges of insulting of criticism, not persecute people who dare Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad A-Sabah on express it.” Twitter. Last month, the lower court sen- At least three youth activists are serving tenced online activist Huda Al Ajmi to 11 jail terms on similar charges and many oth- years in jail for posting remarks on Twitter ers are still on trial, including former oppo- deemed insulting to the emir and calling sition lawmakers. for the overthrow of the regime. Kuwaitis urged to abide by rules when visiting Bosnia SARAJEVO: Kuwaiti tourists are urged to offices”, said the ambassador, adding that abide by rules and regulations when visit- usually such offices are located in well- ing Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to known commercial centers in the country. avoid fraud, said Kuwaiti Ambassador to He also urged Kuwaiti citizens to keep Bosnia Mohammad Fahdel Khalaf here yes- their money in safety boxes in their hotels terday. and exchange their money only in banks. At a dinner banquet, Khalaf called on Khalaf added that Kuwaitis, residing in Kuwaiti tourists to deal with legitimate rented apartments and houses, are advised to tourism and real estate offices in Bosnia to inform the nearest police station in their area avoid fraud. within a period of three days of arrival to avoid “Kuwaitis should only deal with certified violation of the country’s laws. —KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah began the first day of Eid Al-Fitr by performing Eid prayers at the State Grand Mosque. Accompanying HH the Amir were HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim, former speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi, senior Sheikhs, Deputy Chief of the National Guards Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and senior State officials. MSAL ‘going forward’ with labor restructuring plans Al-Rashidi clarifies ‘misconception’

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs and are often referred to in government rhetoric as a ‘misconception’ regarding a picture published Labor is going forward with plans and strategies ‘marginal labor forces’, and they have been iden- on Friday showing a senior citizen about to kiss aimed at reorganizing the state’s demographic tified by Al-Rashidi as the target of a plan her extended hand during her visit to social care structure by reducing the number of expatriate announced last March to deport 100,000 foreign- homes during the first day of Eid Al-Fitr holiday. labor forces. This was announced by Minister of ers each year as part of a plan to cut the country’s She told Al-Rai daily who published the photo Social Affairs and Labor Thekra Al-Rashidi who expatriate population by one million within a that the moment was spontaneous and that she explained that the ‘reduction’ mechanism is decade. was caught off-guard by the old lady’s actions. mainly based on limiting commercial visitor’s There are nearly 90,000 people living illegally She further explained that she pulled her hand visas to experts and staff required for major in Kuwait according to official figures. away before the old lady could proceed to kiss it projects. Crackdowns on illegal residents resulted in thou- and instead, planted a kiss on the old lady’s head. Al-Rashidi further indicated in recent state- sands of arrests and deportations over the past Separately, a local charity group criticized the ments to Al-Rai that an announcement to estab- few months, but there was no news about steps Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor for delaying lish the Public Authority for Labor Forces is taken to pursue traffickers. Kuwait has been the delivery of receipts during this year’s Ramadan expected soon. The authority will work on organ- subject of criticism from rights groups over the charitable campaigns. “We received the receipts izing expatriate labor forces and execute the past few years over human rights’ violations during the last 10 days of the holy month which ministry’s strategy, mainly to replace the spon- resulting mainly from practices relating to defi- gave us little time to start accepting charity from sorship system under which employers have ciencies in the sponsorship system. Kuwait is donors”, said Secretary of the Social Reform expanded power over an employee’s recruitment home to 2.6 million expatriates who make 68 Society Dr Abdullah Al-Otaiqi during a reception process and visa status. percent of the country’s 3.8 million population. held on the first day of the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. The sponsorship or ‘kafeel’ system also has In other news, Al-Rashidi also announced that Licensed charity organizations in Kuwait are Fire dept visits Al-Babtain Hospital loopholes often exploited by visa traffickers to the ministry resolved problems facing Kuwaiti usually handed receipt books before Ramadan to By Hanan Al-Saadoun Relations Director said that the visit was in release work permits on fake companies or non- women married to non-Kuwaitis when they use for collecting donations only through bank keeping with the tradition over the years existent job openings and then sell them to apply for benefits from social security allowances account deductions or K-Net services. The books KUWAIT: A delegation from Kuwait’s fire and the role of firemen is to not only fight unskilled labor forces looking for a chance to they are entitled to. She explained that appli- are returned to the ministry after the holy month department paid a visit to Al-Babtain fire but also help and support patients work in the oil-rich Gulf region. Once they reach cants are no longer required to provide a docu- to carry out necessary checks, which are a part of Hospital for burns on the first day of Eid, to recover quickly. Kuwait, workers in most cases end up with no ment proving that their husbands are unable to efforts to tackle illegal money-related activities wish patients a happy Eid, and gifts were Al-Bluchi thanked the hospital’s man- physical jobs, and resort to accepting hard labor work due to a disability. during the month that records the highest chari- handed out to patients and kids. agement for the help and cooperation they and often live without valid visas. Such workers On another note, minister Al-Rashidi clarified ty in the year. Captain Yousuf Al-Bluchi, Acting Public provide society. Fire dept plays key role By Hanan Al-Saadoun consisted of three phases. The first was to inspect mosques and praying tents, KUWAIT: Jahra governorate fire director before the start of the month, and ensure Col Khalid Al-Ajmi announced the success that it met the safety norms. of the emergency plan laid out by the fire The second was to train employees to department to ensure safety of worship- handle crises and the third was to ensure pers during the month of Ramadan on the fire-fighters are on standby in the eventu- instructions of General Director of Fire ality of a blaze. Al-Ajmi said that more Department Lt General Yousuf Al-Ansari than 100 firemen had participated, includ- and his deputies Khalid Al-Zaid and Khalid ing a woman for the first time. He also Al-Mikrad. thanked God for no untoward incidents Al-Ajmi said that the emergency plan during the holy month. New augmented reality campaign launched KUWAIT: Snipp Interactive, a mobile marketing associated with this contest. For instance, con- firm, has announced the launching of a new aug- sumers can use the SnippAR application to acti- mented reality campaign for the National Bank vate a digital tour of the contests’ grand prize: An of Kuwait. Augmented reality has managed to Azimut yacht. establish a strong presence in the marketing The National Bank of Kuwait expects that world due to its interactivity. Consumers that augmented reality will help attract tech-savvy have engaged in marketing campaigns that consumers to its contest. The marketing cam- make use of the technology often report a favor- paign is also expected to help expose consumers able experience and show willingness in partici- to the services that are offered by the bank. pating in these campaigns on a regular basis. The Snipp Interactive suggests that the technology dynamic nature of augmented reality helps allows for the most engaging marketing possible make marketing campaigns feel less like adver- and using the technology could set marketing tising and more like a brush with science fiction campaigns apart from others that do not make in some regards. use of the technology. The new marketing campaign for the Depending on the success of the campaign, National Bank of Kuwait can be accessed the National Bank of Kuwait may opt to work through the use of the SnippAR application. with Snipp Interactive in the future. The market- Using the application, consumers will be able to ing firm has shown proficiency in engaging activate augmented reality experiences that are mobile consumers through the use of innovative KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah visited here yesterday several mili- embedded in posters and other such marketing technology and marketing techniques. With tary outposts conveying greetings from the country’s leadership to army personnel. The Defense Minister urged all army person- material. The campaign is part of a contest that more consumers becoming heavily reliant on the National Bank of Kuwait is currently hosting. smartphones and tablets, marketing campaigns nel to carry on their duties to protect Kuwait from external threats. He took the chance to commend the Kuwaiti military on its Much of the augmented reality content is that are designed to appeal specifically to these performance, wishing the army a joyous Eid Al-Fitr occasion. The minister inspected several military facilities during his visit. designed to show off the various prizes that are consumers are becoming more important. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 LOCAL

In my view kuwait digest Where do Define a ‘serious’ we stand? traffic offense

By Nasser Al-Eidan By Ramzy Baroud n his defense of Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez easons come and go; yet Arab countries are in following the infamous biting incident, legendary ongoing turmoil. They called it an ‘Arab Spring’, but Imanager Kenny Dalglish criticized the 10-match Seven if that ‘spring’ had ever existed in the shape ban by claiming that the Liverpool forward only ‘bit’ and form that the media portrayed it to be, it never really his opponent and did not eat him! Meanwhile, Italian lasted. It has now morphed into something far more manager Roberto Mancini argued that if Suarez was complex. But it is not an ‘Islamic winter’ either, a forebod- English, he would never had been handed such a ing term favoured by Israeli policymakers and analysts. harsh penalty. The Islamic dimension of Arab rebellions — some of Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Maj Gen which turned into bloody civil and regional wars — Abdulfattah Al-Ali made a decision a while ago that an should have been palpable from the very start to anyone expatriate will be deported immediately on commit- who cares to understand political reality beyond its use- ting a serious traffic offense. I have to stop here on the fulness as a propaganda tool. word ‘serious’. I personally cannot find any explanation Islam has and will always be a component in shaping or classification that shows expatriates what ‘serious’ collective cognisance of Arab nations. Political Islam traffic violations really are. The more important ques- moved to the heart of the ongoing strife and was a man- tion is this: are Kuwaitis included in the Interior ifestation of a century-long struggle where Islam was a Ministry’s plan against drivers committing serious vio- platform of political expression, governance and lations? It goes without saying that the undersecre- jurisprudence that has fought against many imported tary’s decision should have been based on studies and western-styled trends. comparing statistics of ‘serious’ offenses committed by Throughout the years, there has not been one suc- In my view Kuwaiti drivers and those committed by expatriates. cessful union between Islam and Arab ruling classes - Furthermore, is deportation a suitable penalty for successful in the sense that it contributed to progress, the offense? Is this the Interior Ministry’s way to rights, and prosperity for all. Islamists were either co-opt- No end in sight to Syrian crisis resolve the country’s demographic imbalance result- ed or conflict reigned. The atrociousness of the results of ing from excessive expatriate labor forces? Shouldn’t these conflicts varied depending on how clever Arab the ministry first address problems which lead to rulers were in their management. By Mohammad Bassam In Jordan, low-level discord has always existed Is deportation a suitable penal- between Islamic opposition parties and the ruling class. yrian President Bashar Assad and the interna- inside and outside the country. This is so because It teetered between partial inclusion of Islamic forces in tional community have one thing in common: there is no real alternative. Assad will fall. ty for the offense? Is this the a parliament that operated with little authority and SThey’re wrong about Syria. The Syrian people continue their struggle while Interior Ministry’s way to resolve occasional spats and political crises of little conse- Assad believes he will triumph over the revolu- the international community stands by, refusing to the country’s demographic imbal- quence. However, not all failed experiments came at a tionaries and hold on to power. He won’t. The inter- save them from the massacres the Assad regime and relatively low cost. In Algeria, an attempt at harmonisa- national community thinks it can create some kind of its supporters commit every day. You would think ance resulting from excessive tion went terribly wrong. The 1991 Algerian civil war last- power-sharing agreement between the rival factions that after so much carnage, and given the fact that a expatriate labor forces? Shouldn’t ed for over a decade and resulted in the death of up to and impose it on the Syrian people. It can’t. democratic and stable Syria is in everyone’s interest, the ministry first address prob- 200,000 people. Things were not meant to be so bloody, The sad reality for Syria, meanwhile, is that there is the world would be planning to help Syria in a mean- as it had begun with something rather promising: an no political solution in sight to put an end to the ingful way. lems which lead to excessive election. death, the destruction, and the suffering caused pri- Syria can only reach stability if the United States issuance of driving licenses to for- The ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) cancelled marily by the regime’s Scud missiles and fighter begins to provide real material and financial support eigners? More importantly, is the elections after the first round, fearing what seemed like planes, as well as by the Shabiha - Assad’s personal to the rebels, or if the member nations of NATO con- an assured loss at the hands of the Islamic Salvation thugs. duct a military intervention. The Syrian people also ministry going to deport an expa- Front (FIS). The promise turned into Algeria’s second worst nightmare, the first being its even bloodier strug- Assad will never give up power. If he gives away desperately need anti-tank and anti-aircraft rockets triate driver if he was a special- gle for liberation from colonial France. All ingredients control of the army or the intelligence forces, he’ll to defend themselves. Of course, a serious interven- ized doctor overseeing serious were in place for a complete disaster. lose his grip on Syria. He cannot allow a transition tion would have to be outside the ambit of the medical conditions, an engineer There was a strong army running the country into any sort of civilian government if he wants to United Nations Security Council, because Russia and through a deeply enriched ruling party, an emboldened keep his dictatorial position. Having worked in the China would never accept such an act under UN aus- or an expert with huge influence political opposition that was about to achieve political Syrian foreign service, I’m familiar with Assad’s stub- pices. at any institution - the same way power using the ballot box, and a thoroughly frustrated born mindset. Assad has used chemical weapons against the public eager to move beyond the tired slogans and eco- Assad has already rebuffed overtures from former opposition, making Syria’s situation comparable to unemployed victims of visa traf- nomic disenfranchisement. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the those of Rwanda and Kosovo, where NATO inter- fickers are deported? Additionally, a radicalised generation of youth existed United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to vened. NATO also took action in Libya to save the as they had serious doubts about the sincerity of the rul- Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi. He’s buying time because he country from then-Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, ing class in the first place. The cancelling of the elections thinks he can crush the revolution with the aid of who wanted to obliterate the city of Benghazi. Yet, excessive issuance of driving licenses to foreigners? More importantly, is the ministry going to deport an was the final straw, and bloodletting seemed as though Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia. There’s very little hope for Assad is obliterating the whole of Syria, and NATO it were the only common denominator. expatriate driver if he was a specialized doctor over- a political solution. has yet to intervene. Why should Syria be different? seeing serious medical conditions, an engineer or an Even now, Algeria is still entrapped by the conse- On the other side of the equation, the Syrian The international community must realize that quences of that very conflict as it sits at a political stand- expert with huge influence at any institution - the National Coalition - which many countries recognize what happens in Syria will affect Europe, the United same way unemployed victims of visa traffickers are still without much of a roadmap to anywhere. as the legitimate political representation of the States, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and all the other coun- Despite one’s insistence to evade generalizations, deported? Syrian people - is unrepresentative of, and detached tries around it. It will fundamentally affect the stabili- I am most certain that human rights activists will knowing how some media tend to lump all Arabs and from, the Syrian people. Any deal it could strike with ty of a part of the world that’s already dangerously Muslims into one convenient discourse, the similarities not remain silent on the lack of clear description the Assad regime, if indeed it were able to make any unstable. between the Algerian and Egyptian experiences are sim- regarding serious offenses, and cannot logically ply uncanny. On Jan 25, 2011, Egyptians revolted with kind of deal at all, would never be recognized by the If you look at the videos and the photographs, you accept a penalty that ‘destroys’ rather than punishes. the hope that they could finally break the chokehold of revolutionaries fighting in the streets. They have not will see that Syria is in ruins. But still, nobody wants I am not against introducing stiffer penalties, but as the ruling elites: The National Democratic Party, with its sacrificed the lives of their comrades and loved ones to act. Where is the conscience of the world? Where long as they are based on systematic and strategic adjoining business class and the army, which operates its only to accept an accommodation that would allow are the human rights? Where are democratic studies instead of being a part of bigger plans to own massive economy within the larger, haggard, Assad to retain power. American values? People are being killed in the thou- address the expatriate workers’ problem that is essen- Egyptian economy. So, the fighting will continue and, at the end of sands, but nobody wants to make a move. tially out of the General Traffic Department’s field of But by extension, the revolution could have targeted the day, the revolution will prevail. It will win because Instead of pursuing action, the international com- work. Furthermore, state officials are required to keep the larger regional and international conglomerate that the people of Syria are behind it, despite the losses munity is chasing illusions of a diplomatic settlement in mind the humanitarian and legal dimensions of aided and abetted the Hosni Mubarak regime and his they have already suffered - despite the deaths of down the road to irrelevance. Meanwhile, Assad is decisions they take. From a humanitarian standpoint, massively corrupt power apparatus. more than 100,000 people, despite the millions dis- chasing delusions of victory down the path to ever a reckless driver’s nationality does not matter for a vic- Indeed, without an elaborate benefactors’ network, placed and wounded, and despite the refugees more slaughter and destruction. tim left with a permanent disability. Subsequently, the the United States being in the lead, Mubarak would have nationality should not matter as well when enforcing never managed to sustain his reign for over three tougher penalties.—Al-Rai decades. Egyptians however barely had the time or the resources to develop much of a foreign policy agenda, as kuwait digest their revolution faced too many obstacles and decided kuwait digest attempts at sabotage. On one hand the army was still in charge, although it branded itself as if it were the guardian of the nation and Assembly of social categories its revolution by using the same old corrupt media. On Calculations the other, there was never a cohesive structure that would allow Egyptians to translate their collective aspi- By Mohammad Hayat of Edison ration into anything tangible. The only available forum was that of elections and fter deciding to boycott the parliamentary tions successful in allowing full representation of the referendums, and Islamic parties squarely and democrat- elections in protest against the government’s people. This sets the foundations for a culture by By Hamad Nayef Al-Enezi ically won every single one. Fair and transparent elec- decision to reformulate the electing mecha- which a citizen cannot feel represented in the parlia- A rab nations keep attempting to unsuccessfully elect tions maybe, but their results allowed the Mubarak nism, I felt like writing an analysis of the elections’ ment unless there are MPs who share their ethnic or regime to resurface. Using its never dismantled infra- a leader who would truly live up to the people’s results and the subsequent Cabinet formation in sectarian groups, whereas a lawmaker should be con- structure, notwithstanding a most corrupt media owned Aaspirations. Take what happened in Egypt as an by powerful businessmen, and with the army playing a order to give a better picture to optimistic people sidered a representative of the whole nation regard- example. They revolted against Mubarak, elected Morsi, dubious role, the old regime managed to turn the revo- who still hope for development and stability. less of social categories. Needless to say, we can then ousted him to appoint an interim government until a lution against itself. It cleverly sold the June 30, 2013 Sectarianism and ethno- describe the current parlia- new president, who might not stay in office for long, is protests as if they were a call to correct the wrong path centrism undoubtedly remain ment as an ‘assembly of elected. History tells us that the lives of great people taken after the January 25, 2011 revolt. dominant features that Sectarianism and ethnocentrism social categories’ instead of have witnessed moments of despair and frustration that In a strange turn of events, millions of those who decide how many of us vote undoubtedly remain dominant the National Assembly. We almost made them give up their hopes and dreams protested against Mubarak were back protesting against regardless of the voting also noticed a sharp increase because of their unsuccessful experiments that made democratically-elected Mohammed Morsi, allying with mechanism’s shape. However, features that decide how many of in vote-buying incidents them question their own capabilities in the end. the very political forces that wrecked the country for The great scientist, Thomas Edison, who invented a the single vote system’s us vote regardless of the voting during elections held under many years, calling on the same army, and siding with multitude of devices that had a great impact on humanity the ‘baltajiya’ - thugs who terrorised protesters merely results show that it has deep- mechanism’s shape. However, the the single-vote system. such as the phonograph, motion picture and the light two and half years ago. ened such concepts within a single vote system’s results show My objection to the sin- bulb and has 1,093 patents to his name, was far away from Egypt is now taking its first steps towards becoming majority of people as sectari- that it has deepened such concepts gle-vote system stems from disappointment. He was a man who did not know despair another Algeria during the civil war. Do the coup leaders an and ethnic representation the fact that it was forced by and viewed life as a chain of continuous experiments truly understand the repercussions of what they have became a priority ahead of within a majority of people as sec- the government on people where one of them would ultimately succeed. done? Tunisia, that small nation that inspired the world national one. The parliament tarian and ethnic representation who are supposed to deter- In his notes on trial and error, Edison mentioned so in December 2010, is not far behind in that sad saga. A also saw a vast representation became a priority ahead of nation- mine the mechanism by many interesting things about this approach. He clears the recent assassination, this time of nationalist politician of social categories, which which they elect their repre- slate for many of them who do not realize that things do Mohamed Brahmi, followed an earlier assassination of not always end as planned and ‘Today is just another real gave rise to the trend of al one. The parliament also saw a sentatives in the parliament. another high profiled politician, Chokri Belaid. vast representation of social cate- day and is the first day of the rest of our lives”! Tunisia stands divided between those who want to showing loyalty to the family, Is this system seen as the Therefore, he insisted that the best way to achieve suc- topple the government, and those who insist on its dem- tribe and social group instead gories, which gave rise to the trend best solution for all negative cess is by trying again all the time. He believed that failure ocratic right to govern. Either way, there is no doubt that of voting on the basis of qual- of showing loyalty to the family, aspects of the electoral is not devoid of some sort of success, ‘if fairly and objec- some suspect hands are trying to push Tunisia into an ity and competency. process, so that people can tively reviewed’. “I have not failed in my previous attempts, abyss that is being marketed as Islamists vs. secularists. Moreover, illegal primaries tribe and social group instead of elect a Cabinet capable of I just discovered 10,000 ways that did not work”, he said, Syria has been the bloodiest example by far. flourished and helped candi- voting on the basis of quality and living up to its duties prop- urging everybody not to give up. Although in the Syrian civil war, the stakes quickly dates reach the parliament competency. erly? Or is it a way by which Looking at the Arab people nowadays, we see that they became much higher, and along with the pertaining dis- where they are going to legis- the government seeks to are following Edison’s steps and think the way he did with only one difference: productivity. cussion, the war rapidly took on a dangerous sectarian late, monitor the govern- control power by making conflict whose implications are felt near and far. Here in Kuwait, it is much easier. Sheikh Jaber Al- In some sad way, the Arab regimes are making gains. ment’s work and combat corruption. people more eager to vote on sectarian and ethno- Mubarak has just formed his third Cabinet comprising of Some are doing so through war, others through military During his speech in front of HH the Amir as the centric basis rather than on the basis of competency? new and old faces, names and tactics. It is not expected to coups, and some are actively plotting in hopes of mak- oldest lawmaker prior to the speaker’s election, MP The government’s formation is clearly a repeat for be a successful one if a book were to be judged by its cov- ing their move soon. Hamad Al-Harshani credited the single vote system Cabinets seen in the past years which were formed er. However, we must not give up. We still have plenty of As costly as it has been, one thing is for sure, the old for “allowing all categories of Kuwait’s society to on the basis of favoritism and dividing quotas. time and, according to Edison’s calculations, we still have Middle East paradigm, of powerful elites backed by for- become represented in the parliament”. By this logic, Repeating the same failed steps is nothing but a 9,997 trials to reach the perfect Cabinet and if we don’t, we midable allies, oppressing weak, dismissible peoples, is we can say that all social categories have to be repre- waste of time - in which development and reform can will, at least, have learnt 10,000 ways to form unsuccessful unlikely to be resurrected. There will be more blood, but sented in the parliament in order to deem the elec- never be achieved.— Al-Rai Cabinets. So, we should better start looking for new faces a return to the past is surely a thing of the past. in our 10,001st attempt. —Al-Jarida SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 LOCAL Providing joy to social welfare houses’ occupants

KUWAIT: Providing joy to occupants of social Al-Barjas here Friday. In a press release, Al- darity to the occupants. He stressed that such welfare houses is a must especially during the Barjas said that the social committee of the sentiment was important to make sure that occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, said Director General of KRCS and volunteers visited social welfare this sector of society was given much care, Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Dr Barjas houses as a step to provide joy and social soli- compassion, and attention.—KUNA

Panels ready to outline priorities before sessions Cabinet plans ‘practical’ work program

KUWAIT: Parliament committees are pending legislations and mega proj- to allocate a session as soon as possi- working on finalizing lists for issues to ects”, and to use financial surpluses to ble to debate the fallouts of the K- be given priority when the National “speed up building new hospitals and Dow deal and specifically the reasons Assembly resumes sessions in universities, and address the unem- behind the government’s ‘rush’ to pay October. Parliament Secretary Yaqoub ployment and housing problems”. the $2.16 billion penalty fine to Dow Al-Sane announced that heads of Also, MP Mohammad Al-Enizy Chemical. committees have been assigned with announced discussions to form a new Meanwhile, Al-Watan daily quoted preparing lists containing six topics parliamentary committee whose job parliamentary sources who revealed each with a September deadline in is to focus on priorities which he per- that several MPs discussed the idea of order to be addressed during early sonally identified as “unemployment, making a similar request in order to discussions. Al-Sane also hoped that development, and stateless residents’ discuss government hiring for senior the Cabinet presents a ‘practical’ work issue” among other topics. officials during the parliament’s program during the first session after In the meantime, MP Yousuf Al- absence, including posts in the oil the summer recess. Zalzalah demanded in statements to sector. Also, MP Kamel Al-Awadhi Meanwhile, head of the legislative Al-Rai that the Cabinet is held demanded that the housing problem committee Mubarak Al-Hurais accountable for “failing to properly be given top priority during early par- announced that the panel meets execute” the Family Fund that was liament debates, including discus- Tuesday to discuss nearly ‘48 priorities’ passed by the scrapped parliament as sions to amend the buy-operate- on its schedule. He also urged the a debt relief policy for bank loan transfer (BOT) law “so that the private Cabinet to present a work program defaulters. In other news, MP Al-Sane sector can become active in building “with a clear approach to address announced plans to submit a request housing projects”. Kuwait building $56m desalination project

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity and Water has rolled out a new $56 million desalinated water supply project in Wafra oil field. Kuwait grants The project will reuse low-salinity water in Umm Kudair region to feed Al-Zour desalination plant, providing newly financial aid to constructed residential areas with desalinated water, accord- Mexican Red Cross ing to Electricity and Water Minister Abdel-Aziz Al-Ibrahim. “The new project will improve water supply in the residen- MEXICO CITY: The State of Kuwait has donated $50,000 tial cities of Subah al Ahmad and Al Khiran,” he said. to the Mexican Red Cross on the occasion of the 150th It involves drilling five wells, installing pumping stations, anniversary of the International Committee of the Red and laying a pipeline network to transport desalinated water Cross (ICRC). to nearby reservoirs. Mexico City Mayor Dr Miguel Angel Mancera asked Also last week, the ministry August signed a $5 million the ambassador of the State of Kuwait to Mexico, Samih cooperation agreement with the Kuwait Scientific Research Johar Hayat, who personally handed over the donation Institute to develop new desalination solutions. The institute during a meeting at the governing palace, to convey will also look for ways to rationalize the water use and waste- deep appreciation to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- water reuse. Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for this donation, praising the “The ministry is pinning high hopes on the outcome of solid and distinctive ties bounding the two countries. these studies in its quest for better desalination solutions and The Mexican Federal District government organized rationalizing methods,” Undersecretary Ahmed al Jassar of the on Wednesday a broad celebration at the palace for electricity and water ministry said on Aug 7. receiving collective donations for the local Red Cross- “The studies will also aim at reaching the best methods to with ambassador Hayat attending as a guest of honor. achieve water security and optimum water resources man- Ambassador Hayat said he was pleased to take part agement.” in the gathering to mark the anniversary of Mexican Red The new desalination project is part of the government’s Cross that was founded in 104. efforts to keep pace with growing demand for drinking water Since then, the association has been seeking to in the country. Total drinking water production in Kuwait is improve citizens’ health, alleviate plight of the needy, 453 million gallons per day. the weak, the women, the elderly and the children dur- The country’s population hit 3 million in 2010 and is ing and after natural catastrophes, he stated, expressing expected to be 5.5 million in 2025. Per capita water consump- hope to establish cooperation between the association tion is 110 gallons per day, almost double the international and Kuwait red Crescent Society. rate. In addition, a recent official study showed that around 25 Hayat received a certificate of appreciation from the percent of the country’s drinking water production is being Mexican Red Cross Chairman. —KUNA wasted. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 LOCAL Zain takes its customers to ‘Frozen Planet’ experience

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, yesterday announced that it has taken its customers and 360 Mall visitors to an entirely innovative technological experi- ence entitled “Augmented Reality” during Eid al-Fitr holidays. This experience was presented among the company’s latest Eid act entitled “Frozen Planet”, by which attracted great num- ber of audience from all age groups. The event was hosted in collaboration with renowned BBC World in cooperation with 360 Mall to present a new technological interface to the public, allowing them to view one of the most advanced technologies of the past decade. The audience gathered around to get a feel of the Arctic polar as well as the species and inhabitants of the Arctic world like the polar bear and polar penguins. These extraor- dinary species roamed around the mall in a scene that felt both real yet imaginary to bring to Kuwait an exciting experience for the sec- ond time. It is worth mentioning, that Zain previously hosted a similar event that carries the same technological advancement with a theme entitled “The world of dinosaurs”. Commenting on the event, Waleed Al- ond time to Kuwait, aiming to reaffirm its lead- modern technology applications and focus on with a pledge from the company of creating a digital content capabilities to its customers. Khashti Zain’s Corporate Communications and ing position in the technology sector. This enhancing the cultural aspects, which is cur- Wonderful World of telecommunications For more information about Zain’s ongoing Relations Manager said: “Those who hold pas- event also is hosted to coincide with the com- rently a main feature that accompanies all experience for every customer in Kuwait. As a activities and numerous promotions, cus- sion towards the frozen world, and feel curious pany’s 30th anniversary celebrations indicat- lifestyles. Zain will continue its pledge of leading telecommunications company, Zain tomers are advised to visit any of Zain’s about exploring its wonderful sides, are invit- ing that this wonderful experience, which intensifying its efforts to achieve its customers’ has invested heavily to operate its high-speed branches located in more than 76 locations ed to visit the event to fulfill their dreams of Kuwait hosted once again, highlights the birth needs and aspirations. 4G LTE network in Kuwait, turning the mobile across Kuwait, visit the company’s website on getting close to wonderful creatures in a real of a new era of technology.” Zain’s 30th anniversary celebrations are operator into one of the most technically www.kw.zain.com, contact its 24 hour call world of fantasy. Zain is bringing this techno- Al-Khashti went on to explain that the com- available all year round. Zain invites everyone advanced in the world, and making available center at 107, or visit the company’s social logical advancement experience for the sec- pany will spare no efforts to provide more to be part of its ongoing celebratory activities, a whole new realm of exciting high-speed media channels. Al-Falah society concludes Ramadan charity program GAZA: Al-Falah Charitable Society in aid including Zakat, charity money, and Palestine, concluded its “Ramadan Al-Khair” money to support orphans. project this week, by providing poor fami- Giving Iftar meals in Al-Aqsa Mosque lies with break-fast (Iftar), and giving Eid square plays a big role in attracting more clothing to hundreds of orphans and chil- worshippers, to be present at the mosque dren of the poor in Gaza Strip. he said, adding that this could help in Head of the Society, which is funded by defending the mosque against Israeli donors in Kuwait, Sheikh Ramadan actions aiming to destroy it. Tanboora said yesterday that the society Tanboora thanked His Highness the Amir pays great attention to providing people in Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, need with essential items during Ramadan the Kuwaiti people, charitable organiza- and Eid, adding that the society had tions, and all those who gave donations to launched the project in the beginning of support Palestinians. Ramadan, in an attempt to make life easier He also praised the efforts of the Head of for Palestinians who are under Israeli siege. the International Islamic Charitable Tanboora noted that the society had Organization in Kuwait, Dr Abdullah Al- also run other charity projects such as pro- Matouq, and Head of Kuwait Relief Society viding poor families with bread, and other Shaikh Yousif Al-Hajji, to support charity food supplies, also giving them financial projects in Palestine. — KUNA

KUWAIT: The illegal entrants who were arrested during extensive campaigns carried out during the Eid Al-Fitr holidays. Woman goes ballistic over failed love affair Coastguards nab 13 suspects KUWAIT: A woman was arrested on gage screening. The man was several charges including attempt- placed under arrest after the items ed suicide and murder threats at were retrieved and identified as the Bayan police station recently. pieces used for M16 rifles, before he According to a source, the woman was taken to the Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh had sent threatening messages to police station for questioning. another woman who her ex- boyfriend had apparently left her Illegal entry for. After discovering that she was Coastguards managed to appre- charged for threatening, the hend 13 people on a boat that woman went to her foe’s house, snuck its way into territorial waters Photos from NBK Ramadan campaign. stood outside with a knife in hand, during extensive campaigns carried called her and gave her the choice out during the Eid Al-Fitr holidays. of either coming out or her barging The boat was spotted 13 miles NBK distributed 100,000 Iftar in. Police arrived within minutes in away from the Kubbar island response to an emergency call, and approaching from southeast, after meals during Ramadan they went in pursuit of the suspect which a coastguard boat was sent who drove away at a high speed to intercept it. The 13 suspects were KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) upon spotting patrol vehicles. After arrested and referred to the proper concluded its philanthropic Ramadan cam- paign which comprised a series of activities stopping at a roadblock, the KUWAIT: The vehicle used by a woman who was arrested on several authorities and charged with illegal and events aimed at encouraging commu- woman pointed the knife at her charges including attempted suicide and murder threats. entry. chest and threatened to stab her- nity engagement and solidarity and charity self if approached. Firefighters were Taima when he was hit by a stray used to fire one shot which missed Reckless driver in Kuwait during the holy month of called and they managed to bring bullet. He was rushed in an ambu- its target. He escaped soon after, A woman and her child were Ramadan. her under control after breaking lance to the Jahra Hospital in a criti- according to the relative’s state- hospitalized following a hit-and- Abdulmohsen Al-Rushaid, NBK Public the car’s window. She was taken to cal condition. Police believe that ments to the police. A case was run accident reported recently in Relations Manager, said that NBK’s Iftar the psychiatric hospital after suffer- the gunshot was likely fired by a filed for investigation. Jahra. According to the female citi- Banquets, which comes within a well- ing a nervous breakdown during person while celebrating Eid. A zen’s statements, the suspect was mapped social program that comprises a the incident. case was filed. Armed passenger held performing dangerous stunts out- multitude of philanthropic activities, was Airport officials apprehended an side her house before losing con- received this year with remarkable partici- ‘Celebratory’ gunshot Attempted murder American citizen employed at trol over his vehicle and hitting pation at NBK’s tent located opposite to the Investigations are ongoing to Fahaheel police are searching Camp Arifjan after magazines and both her and her son who were Grand Mosque in Sharq area. Also, more determine the source of a gunshot for a male suspect who fired a gun- bullets used for a mechanical standing outside at the time. than 100,000 Iftar meals have been distrib- that left a man with a serious head shot that missed his relative at the weapon were found in his luggage. Doctors at the Jahra Hospital uted to fasters at various mosques and injury in Jahra on Friday. A police latter’s workplace recently. The sus- Security officers checked the man’s described the victims’ condition as crowded areas in Kuwait via special con- source said that a stateless resident pect had entered the area’s poly- suitcases after growing suspicious stable. Search is on for the reck- voys and under the supervision of many of Abdulmohsen Al-Rushaid was coming out of his house in clinic with a gun in hand that he of items they spotted during bag- less driver. NBK staff volunteers. Al-Rushaid stressed that NBK’s Ramadan Social Program included also daily quizzes Banquets campaign represented a new with valued prizes through NBK’s official concept of the private sector humanitarian social media channels on Instagram, daily DM Healthcare Group in Kuwait expansion and philanthropic involvement and had and visits by NBK’s Public Relations person- become one of the main pillars of NBK’s nel and staff volunteers to NBK Children’s KUWAIT: DM Healthcare Group, which oper- In June, Abu Dhabi’s Al Noor Hospitals Healthcare has three hospitals in the UAE, 89 corporate social responsibility endeavor. Hospital, as well as the distribution of ates hospitals in the UAE under the Medcare Group raised $342 million through a London pharmacies and 33 clinics. Al-Rushaid added that NBK Ramadan Girgian throughout NBK’s branch network. and Aster brand names is planning an initial IPO, valuing the company at more than $1 bil- In Dr Moopen’s native southern Indian state public offering by the first quarter of 2015 to lion. NMC Healthcare, also listed in London, of Kerala, the company expects to invest more fund expansion beyond its current markets of has a market capitalisation of about $850 mil- than $300 million through four hospital proj- the Arabian Gulf and India. lion. ects. The hospital, clinic and pharmacy group is “The companies are considering IPOs to The company is building a hospital in Qatar looking at the London, Dubai and Indian stock raise capital to invest in opportunities in the and three more in the UAE. That includes an exchanges for the IPO, and is not ruling out a region, and to take advantage of a source of Aster hospital in the Mankhool area of Dubai, a dual listing. funding that has recently emerged,” said hospital in Sharjah, and a women and children DM Healthcare, which also currently oper- Charles Weston, the director of equity research speciality hospital under the Medcare brand ates in Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, is in at London-based Numis Securities who covers on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai. It is also look- talks to open pharmacies and clinics in Kuwait. NMC. Moreover, “the financial markets have ing for an investor to enter the Abu Dhabi hos- The company is also exploring opportunities in improved following a long period of difficulty pital market. Jordan. when IPOs were infrequent”, he said. In December, the group launched its budg- Any IPO funds raised by DM Healthcare With mandatory health insurance likely to et brand of clinics called Access, and currently would be used for further expansion. come into effect in Dubai, Sharjah and Qatar has three under the new line in Jebel Ali, “As per our Vision 2025, we will be one of over the next couple of years, healthcare com- Sonapur and Deira. the large healthcare companies in the world,” panies will see a rise in demand similar to the The group plans 25 Access clinics in the said Dr Azad Moopen,the chairman and man- effect seen in Abu Dhabi from 2007, Weston UAE, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait by the end of aging director of DM Healthcare Group who said. “Capacity expansion is therefore required, next year. founded the company in Dubai more than 20 and capital is therefore required to be Almost 60 per cent of the DM Healthcare years ago. “With our private equity valuation deployed.” Group is owned by Dr Moopen’s family and we are at par with other hospital groups that The group expects a turnover of 1.6bn 35 per cent by two private equity companies. have issued IPOs. It is after the public market dirhams for its Gulf operations for this year The remaining 5 per cent is owned by a local that we are going.” with a growth of 30 per cent over last year. DM partner. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013

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SINAI: A funeral convoy carrying the bodies of four Egyptian militants, drives through the small Sinai village of Sheikh Zuweid yesterday. The Egyptian militant group, Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, said four of its members belonging to Sinai tribes had been killed by Israeli drones. — AFP Israeli drone kills 4 militants in Sinai UN calls for dialog as tension escalates

ISMAILIA: An Islamist militant group said yesterday four of its tants were killed by a missile strike on Friday as they prepared Militants based mainly in North Sinai near the border have courage and commitment of the Egyptian people” towards members were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Egypt’s North to launch rockets at Israel. escalated attacks on Egyptian security forces and other tar- peaceful change since mass protests began in January 2011. Sinai region. “Our heroes became martyrs during their jihadi It was not clear how the militant group determined that its gets since July 3, when the army deposed Islamist President “Yet in light of current tensions and given the risk of poten- duties against the Jews in a rocket attack on occupied lands,” members were the target of an Israeli drone strike. Five securi- Mohammed Morsi and installed a new government. The Sinai tial violence, the secretary-general also believes it is of critical the Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis group said on a jihadist website. ty sources said the attack was carried out by Israel. But the is largely demilitarized as part of the Israeli-Egyptian peace importance that all sides in Egypt-those in positions of author- Egyptian security sources said earlier that four Islamist mili- Egyptian armed forces officially denied that was the case and treaty of 1979 but Israel has approved troop reinforcements to ity as well as those protesting in the street-should urgently an Israeli army spokeswoman in Jerusalem declined to com- combat the militants and arms smuggling by Palestinians into reconsider their current actions and language,” the statement ment on the incident. Gaza. read. Defiant Morsi supporters rallied in their thousands The two countries have cooperated in tackling the threat The desert peninsula has long been a security headache across Egypt on Friday, sparking clashes that left dozens ‘Facebook murder’ from Islamist militants in Sinai in the past and neither seemed for Egypt and its neighbors. Large and empty, it also borders injured, as interim premier Hazem El-Beblawi suggested that a interested in creating a fuss over this case. Ansar Bayt Al- the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip and flanks the Suez Canal link- crackdown on their protest camps was imminent. Ban “urges MIAMI: A Florida man who allegedly gunned down his Maqdis criticized the Egyptian military for what it called its ing Asia to Europe. It is also home to nomad clans disaffected Egyptians to set aside or avoid actions and words likely to be wife and then posted a picture of her dead body on repeated cooperation with Israel. The Egyptian military said with rule from Cairo. The Egyptian army said on Wednesday it perceived by others as provocative. Facebook was charged with murder on Friday. Derek two explosions took place at a site 3 km west of the border had killed 60 militants in the Sinai Peninsula in the month Instead they should try to look creatively at new Medina, 31, was ordered to be held in jail without bail fol- and south of the city of Rafah on Friday afternoon. since Morsi’s overthrow. approaches toward a genuinely inclusive political process lowing the macabre slaying of wife Jennifer Alfonso on The security sources in Sinai said an Israeli aircraft struck at Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday that would be rooted in reconciliation.” Ban’s “immediate Thursday. First degree murder is punishable by death in the militants, killing four, after discovering they had planned appealed to Egyptians to avoid provocations and favor dia- concern is for the leaders of Egypt, on all sides, to exercise Florida. Medina must appear before another judge in 21 to fire rockets into Israel. One source said the Israeli aircraft logue amid heightening tensions between supporters of their leadership and their responsibility to do whatever can days time. Medina appeared in court via closed circuit tel- had observed the militants preparing three rocket launch deposed president Mohamed Morsi and the interim govern- be done to prevent further loss of life among the Egyptian evision from the psychiatric ward of Miami-Dade Country pads to hit Israel. It launched a missile, killing two men, then ment. Ban said he is “deeply concerned” by the political stale- people,” the statement read. The UN leader said he was con- jail where he is being held. killed another pair who stepped up to the pads after the first mate in Egypt, in a statement released by his spokesman on fident “that the Egyptian people, representing one of the He appeared wearing a black protective vest common- strike. However, an Egyptian army spokesman denied in a sub- the occasion of the holiday marking the end of the holy world’s great and historic civilizations, will successfully find ly used for psychiatric patients or detainees who have sequent statement any Israeli role in the incident. Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Ban “applauds the deep a way forward.”—Agencies been placed under suicide watch. An arrest affidavit revealed Medina confessed to having shot his wife after an argument about her leaving him unfolded at their home on Thursday. The incident attracted media attention after Medina uploaded a grue- some picture of his slain wife’s blood-soaked body on Facebook, under the caption “RIP Jennifer Alfonso.” The photo remained online for several hours before being taken down. “I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife love you guys miss you guys take care Facebook people you will see me in the news,” Medina wrote on the site. “My wife was punching me and I am not going to stand anymore with the abuse so I did what I did I hope u understand me.” The affidavit was consis- tent with the events described by Medina on Facebook, noting that he told police that “he com- mitted a murder by shoot- ing his wife.” Police then visited the couple’s home and discov- ered the victim’s body on the kitchen floor. She had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. According to the affidavit, Medina said the eventual victim “began punching him several times with a closed fist,” which led him to arm him- self with a gun. When he confronted her she armed herself with a knife. The document said Medina had recounted how he had disarmed his wife but she “began punching him again, at which point he discharged his firearm mul- tiple times into the vic- tim.”— AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Turkey orders citizens to leave Lebanon Turkey to withdraw peacekeeping force in Lebanon ANKARA: Turkey plans to pull out troops before the kidnapping. “On the 6th of presence in UNIFIL with the maritime task from the UN peacekeeping mission in August, we have been informed by the force. “Our units at the maritime task force Lebanon UNIFIL, Turkish and UN sources department of peacekeeping operations whose numbers periodically vary said yesterday, while denying that the that the Turkish government decided to between 100 and 300 will remain in decision was linked to the kidnapping of withdraw the Turkish engineering con- charge,” according to the Turkish diplo- two pilots. “An approximately 250-person struction company,” UNIFIL spokesperson matic source. The UN spokesperson engineering construction force will not be Andrea Tenenti said. described the move as a regular process. actively involved in UNIFIL in the coming The Turkish source confirmed that the “It’s up to countries to decide on contri- period,” a Turkish diplomatic source said pull-out decision was made in conjunc- bution, but it’s important to know that on condition of anonymity. tion with UNIFIL’s own needs. “The man- this is a constant process in all peace- The decision comes as two Turkish date of our force was extended in early keeping missions, when you see troops Airlines pilots are being held by kidnap- July. At that time, it was also decided that decreasing or other countries increasing,” pers in Lebanon. They were seized early there would be some changes in the con- Tenenti said. “What’s important for the Friday on a road leading out of Beirut air- figuration of our force, but the decision mission is that our operational capabili- port, in an apparent bid to secure the on this was entirely made in line with ties are not changed, and they are main- release of Lebanese pilgrims held in Syria. UNIFIL’s own needs and it has nothing to tained on the ground, so that the effec- The abduction drew condemnation from do with the latest incident,” the source tiveness of the mission will not change,” Turkey which urged its citizens to leave said. A previously unknown group calling he added. “UNIFIL always has adequate Lebanon amid mounting fears that the itself Zuwwar Imam Ali Al-Rida claimed preparations to ensure that the opera- country is being dragged further into the responsibility for the abduction, saying it tions continue without any kind of inter- Syrian conflict. was carried out to secure the release of ruption.” UNIFIL was established in 1978 SAITAH: Picture shows the base of the Turkish engineering construction compa- Both Turkish and UN sources said the nine Lebanese kidnapped in Syria last in south Lebanon following Israel’s initial ny, a unit of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in the south- troop withdrawal decision was made long year. Turkey will however maintain its invasion of the country that year. —AFP ern Lebanese village of Saitah. — AFP Six migrants drown Nearly 100 rescued off Sicily

ROME: The Italian coastguard found yesterday the dead bodies of six clandestine migrants on a tourist beach in Sicily while nearly 100 others, thought to be Syrians and some Egyptians, were rescued in the latest desperate attempt to reach Europe. “We were alerted just after 5:30 am that a boat had run aground across from a beach resort” near the island’s second largest city Catania, said spokesman for the port authority Roberto D’Arrigo. “Most of the migrants jumped into the water” when they saw the coastline, he said. The bodies of two of the dead migrants were found on the BAMAKO: Supporters of Mali’s presidential candidate Soumaila Cisse hold posters beach while “four other bodies were recovered” during a campaign meeting in Bamako. Mali’s presidential election is going to a sec- by rescuers around the boat, as they apparently ond round today after no candidate secured a majority in the crunch poll which the did not know how to swim and drowned, runner up said was tainted by electoral fraud. — AFP authorities said. A three-year-old child suffering from dehydration and a pregnant woman have been hospitalized. Mali votes in historic D’Arrigo said that all the passengers were young adults and one of the deceased was a teenager. Most of the passengers were on the presidential election shore when authorities arrived at the scene, he BAMAKO: Mali’s presidential hopefuls round, there is a good chance that they said, indicating a total of “91 migrants, Syrians entered a final day of behind-the-scenes would be confirmed in the second,” he said and Egyptians” had been saved and were cur- preparations yesterday for a crunch election on Friday. “My first priority would be the rec- rently being identified by authorities. Earlier intended to turn the page on a political cri- onciliation of the country... after the trauma investigators had said the 18-metre-long (59- sis following a coup, which led to an Islamist that it has suffered, a new start is needed.” feet) boat was carrying around 120 people. insurgency and French military intervention. Keita, widely known as IBK, claims to have Dario Monteforte, owner of the Lido Verde Campaigning wrapped up Friday with for- the support of most of the candidates elimi- which alerted authorities, told Sky TG24 televi- mer Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita nated in the first round and is backed by sion that he “saw a crowd of youths on the beach and ex-finance minister Soumaila Cisse both Mali’s influential religious establishment, running toward the road”. saying they were confident of victory in while Cisse has been endorsed by Adema, Monteforte, visibly shaken, has closed his Sunday’s runoff, called after none of the 27 Mali’s largest political party. establishment for the weekend. “Something has candidates achieved an outright majority in The rivals both lost the 2002 presidential to be done. This is really an unending tragedy,” he said of the plight of thousands of clandestine CATANIA: Bodies of immigrants lie on a beach on the Sicilian city of Catania yesterday. The the first-round vote on July 28. election to Amadou Toumani Toure, who Italian coastguard found yesterday the dead bodies of six clandestine migrants on a tourist The election, the first since 2007, is cru- was overthrown in the March 2012 military migrants in rickety boats who seek to reach Italian shores each year. According to D’Arrigo, it beach in Sicily while nearly 100 others, thought to be Syrians and some Egyptians, were res- cial for unlocking more than $4 billion in aid coup led by Captain Amadou Sanogo. The cued in the latest desperate attempt to reach Europe. — AFP promised after international donors halted chaos following the mutiny opened the way was “totally unusual” for migrants to land on a contributions in the wake of a military for the Tuareg separatist National Movement beach in Catania as “normally they arrive further Italian mainland. They had left Syria two weeks Improved weather and calmer waters have mutiny in March last year. The days leading for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) to seize south in the region of Syracuse”, or else at the earlier and had to change boats several times seen a spike in boat people arrivals in Italy in up to the second-round vote have been the towns and cities of Mali’s vast northern extreme southern point of Sicily or the island of before being left adrift aboard an 11-metre ves- recent days. But shipwrecks are frequent largely uneventful, with cities and towns desert with the help of allied Islamist Lampedusa. sel. The conflict in Syria has killed more than because the boats are often old and over- deserted as Malians-over 90 percent of groups. The MNLA was then sidelined by its Another group of about 100 migrants, most- 100,000 people since it erupted in March 2011 loaded. Human traffickers regularly abandon whom are Muslim stayed at home to cele- one-time allies, Islamist extremists who ly Syrian families, were rescued overnight and millions more have been displaced or fled their passengers when Italian or Maltese coast- brate the Eid festival marking the end of the imposed a brutal version of shariah law in Wednesday off the coast of Calabria on the the country, according to the United Nations. guards spot them.— AFP holy month of Ramadan. the north and destroyed historic buildings Keita, who is considered the favorite, has and artifacts in the desert city of Timbuktu. refused to participate in a television debate When the Islamists pushed south toward offered by his rival Cisse, saying he preferred Bamako in January, France deployed troops British teen girls in hospital to spend his time meeting voters. The 68- who forced the militants back into the coun- year-old was more than 20 percentage try’s mountains and desert. Mali remains the points ahead of his rival in the first round, continent’s third-largest gold producer but after Zanzibar’s acid attack but Cisse has remained optimistic about his its $10.6 billion economy contracted 1.2 per- presidential bid. “I am confident because it is cent last year, according to the International LONDON: Two British teenage girls close friends who were working for been questioned. The girls’ families as “a shame on the people of not about adding to the votes from the first Monetary Fund. The impoverished north is were being treated for burns at a three weeks as volunteer teachers released a photograph of one of Zanzibar”. round, there will be new votes, it is a new home predominantly to lighter-skinned London hospital yesterday after on Zanzibar, were attacked by two the victims’ injuries, showing dark Tourism is the lifeblood of the election. Everything restarts from zero,” the Tuareg and Arab populations who accuse acid was hurled in their faces in the men on a motorbike as they burns seared across her jaw, neck semi-autonomous Tanzanian island, 63-year-old said. the sub-Saharan ethnic groups that live in Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar. strolled through the historic centre, and chest, without identifying her. which is famed for its pristine Cisse had complained about widespread the more prosperous south-including Doctors said Kirstie Trup and Katie Stone Town. Trup’s father, Marc Trup, told The white-sand beaches. “We have to ballot-stuffing in the first round while more Bamako-of marginalizing them. The MNLA’s Gee, both 18, were doing “well” The island’s authorities have Times newspaper that efforts to work harder to make sure that than 400,000 ballots from a turnout of 3.5 top representative in Europe said the move- after Wednesday’s attack, and Gee offered a reward for the capture of help one of the girls after the attack Zanzibar is safe for visitors and citi- million were declared spoiled. Mali’s ment would resume fighting today if no took to Twitter to thank supporters those responsible, and police said had actually made her injuries zens,” Mbarouk said. Tanzanian Constitutional Court rejected the allega- negotiated solution was reached to grant for their good wishes. The girls, on Friday that seven people had worse. President Jakaya Kikwete, who visit- tions, however, confirming Keita had won autonomy to the northern homeland they One was immersed in the sea, ed the two girls in hospital in Dar es 39.8 percent of the vote, while Cisse had call Azawad. The MNLA and the authorities where the salt water soothed the Salaam, said the attack had “tar- garnered 19.7 percent. Keita has urged vot- in Bamako reached a deal in June that wounds, but the other was doused nished the image” of the country. ers to hand him a “clear and clean” majority allowed Malian troops to enter the northern with dirty water which only made Tanzania is predominantly Muslim, in the runoff to ensure victory couldn’t be rebel bastion of Kidal ahead of the July 28 things worse, he said. Gee’s father, and the attack happened at the “stolen”. “Given the results from the first presidential vote. —Reuters Jeremy Gee, earlier described the end of Ramadan as people were burns as “horrendous”, telling The beginning to celebrate the Eid Al- Daily Telegraph: “We are absolutely Fitr holiday. Tunisia opposition mulls devastated. The level of the burns Some of the island’s more con- are beyond imagination.” The girls, servative Muslims object to foreign cabinet of independents who are due to start university in tourists who wear revealing the coming weeks, were flown to clothes, as well as bars selling alco- TUNIS: A coalition of Tunisian opposition “can be no discussion until a government of Tanzania’s economic capital Dar es hol. One of the girls had posted on parties intends to propose next week a national salvation is put in place. That is non- Salaam for treatment, and then on her Twitter page that she had been Cabinet of independents to end the political negotiable.” Larayedh has refused to resign, to London on Friday. hit by a Muslim woman in the crisis shaking the country, one of their num- and vowed Thursday that his cabinet will In a Twitter message from the street earlier in the trip, apparently ber said yesterday. “The National Salvation make every effort to turn to dialogue with its Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for singing during Ramadan. There Front will continue to work toward a govern- critics to resolve the crisis. “Dialogue is the in the British capital, which has a were also reports that the pair had ment of national salvation and make its pro- best way to overcome difficulties and resolve specialist burns unit, Gee wrote: argued with a local shopkeeper. But posals on independent figures to constitute current problems,” he said in a message for “Thank you for all your support x”. their families insist they had been it next week,” said Karima Souid, from the the start of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking Andy Williams, consultant burns careful to dress modestly while out Massar party. “The front will also set out a the end of the Muslim fasting month of and plastic surgeon, said on Friday on the streets of Zanzibar. Both precise road map,” she added. The front is a Ramadan. It was his first reaction to that the team was still assessing the from Jewish families, they also mixed bag of parties running from the Tuesday’s suspension of the work of the girls’ injuries. “Both girls are well avoided any prominent displays of extreme left to the centre-right that is elected National Constituent Assembly and their families are with them. their faith. demanding that the Islamist-led govern- pending negotiations between the opposi- They will be staying at Chelsea and “Both families are extremely ment of Prime Minister Ali Larayedh step tion and the government. Westminster Hospital,” he said. upset and distressed at this com- down. The North African country has seen Assembly speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar “Both families would like to thank pletely unprovoked attack on their almost non-stop political turmoil since the has proposed that the powerful UGTT trade everyone that’s helped to bring the lovely daughters, who had only February assassination of opposition politi- unions organization, which has called for a girls back. The families now wish to gone to Zanzibar with good inten- cian and MP Chokri Belaid. His killing was fol- government of technocrats, mediate talks have time with the girls.” tion,” a spokesman for the girls’ lowed by the murder on July 25 of another between the cabinet and opposition. Since Hospital staff in Dar es Salaam mothers said on Thursday. The girls opposition figure, Mohamed Brahmi. its 2011 election, the assembly has failed to said their injuries were relatively had been coming to the end of a The murders have been blamed on radi- hammer out a consensus on a new constitu- minor and suggested the liquid three-week placement teaching at cal Islamists, and the cabinet has been tion following a revolution that ousted long- thrown at them may have been a local school, organized through i- accused of not doing enough to prevent time president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali earlier diluted acid. Zanzibar’s Tourism to-i Travel, a British company that such killings. The opposition has rejected the same year. The suspension of the assem- Minister Said Ali Mbarouk offered a organizes gap year work. Acid has talks with the government until it steps bly throws into question Larayedh’s target of reward of 10 million Tanzanian been used in several recent attacks down, while the Ennahda party that heads adopting a new constitution and electoral shillings ($6,200, 4,600 euros) for in Zanzibar, although this is the first the coalition has ruled out any dialogue con- law by October 23 ahead of a proposed ZANZIBAR: Image shows one of the two British teenagers attacked with information leading to the arrest of assault of its kind targeting foreign- ditional on its ouster. But Souid said there December 17 election.— AFP acid in Zanzibar. — AP the suspects, describing the attack ers on the holiday island.— AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Police decry Belfast anarchy; 56 injured Dozens of police hurt as clashes erupt DUBLIN: Northern Ireland’s police chief vowed yesterday to hunt down and imprison scores of Protestant mili- tants after they attacked and wounded 56 officers protecting a parade by Irish Republican Army supporters. Friday night’s outbreak of violence in down- town Belfast could be the first in a tense weekend involving disputed parades by both the Irish Catholic and BARCELONA: A handout picture released by the Spanish Police and Spain’s Interior British Protestant extremes of society. Ministry shows suspected members of a gang allegedly smuggling Chinese migrants Senior police said Protestant into Europe and the United States after they were arrested by police in Barcelona. —AFP extremists encouraged by social- media messages rallied to block the parade on Royal Avenue, Belfast’s Chinese trafficking ring major shopping boulevard. Some wore British flags as capes or masks, busted in Spain, France and tore up scaffolding and pavement stones to attack police girded in full MADRID: Spanish and French police said Malaysia, had the “complete confidence” riot gear. Police responded by striking yesterday they have dismantled a human of the ringleaders and were “thorough rioters with water cannons and 26 trafficking ring that smuggled Chinese connaisseurs of the European airports plastic bullets - blunt-nosed cylinders migrants into Europe and the United and cities along the route of the trans- designed to deal punishing blows BELFAST: A Loyalist protester runs past a burning car during rioting in the centre of Belfast, Northern States, charging up to 50,000 euros per fers,” the statement said. Once their mis- without penetrating the flesh. Several Ireland. —AP person. A total of 75 suspects including sion was accomplished they would protesters could be seen staggering two “main operatives” based in Barcelona return home immediately, “in order to away from the confrontation zone ers, mostly Protestants confronting the British flag, a practice that had per- York honoring the suicide attackers of were arrested, including 51 in Spain and make it more difficult to track them,” with bloodied faces. police in the streets of Belfast, already sisted year-round for a century. July’s 9/11. Sinn Fein insisted it would be had been charged and convicted for violence followed a decision by the dignified. The Parades Commission 24 in France after a two-year joint investi- police said. Protestant politicians said security officials should never have authorized earlier spasms of street violence in government-appointed Parades ordered the parade to avoid central gation, a police statement said. Upon the migrants’ arrival in December, January and July. Commission to block an annual Castlederg, but it still will pass other The traffickers charged 40,000 to Barcelona, operatives of the trafficking what they called a deliberately provocative march by Irish republican Baggott said the Protestant Protestant parade by the Orange spots where the Provisional IRA killed 50,000 euros ($53,000 to $66,000) per ring would meet them and take them to demonstrators lacked organization, Order brotherhood from skirting an Protestant civilians. Biggest parade person to provide “false identities and safe houses before they embarked on hard-liners opposed to Northern Ireland’s peace process. After rival self-respect or dignity. He said his offi- IRA power base in north Belfast, scene was in Londonderry, Northern Ireland’s transport Chinese citizens to the United the next leg of their journey. The route cers had put their own lives on the line of heavy Catholic-police clashes fol- second-largest city known for its 17th- States and countries such as Spain, taken from China, as well as the travel crowds of march supporters and opponents briefly outflanked police “to prevent that anarchy from spread- lowing previous years’ Orange parades. century walled center. There, an esti- France, Greece, Italy, the United documents used, “changed constantly lines to trade salvos of rocks and bot- ing. Without that courage, many lives While the major IRA faction, the mated 6,000 members from the city’s Kingdom, Ireland and Turkey,” the state- according to the successes and failures of tles, march organizers abandoned may well have been lost.” This year’s Provisionals, renounced violence and main Protestant fraternal group, the ment said. In some cases the ring was previous trips... or in order to prevent dis- their plan to parade past Belfast City unusually protracted street trouble disarmed in 2005 after killing nearly Apprentice Boys of Derry, are march- involved in the sexual exploitation of covery of the traffickers,” the statement Hall and diverted it back into Catholic reflects rising working-class Protestant 1,800 people in a failed bid to force ing alongside 145 bands from across migrants, it added. said. The migrants were given precise turf. Britain’s government minister for anger at Irish Catholic gains from the Northern Ireland out of the United Northern Ireland and Scotland. Police Spanish police seized 81 fake pass- instructions on how to avoid detection at Northern Ireland condemned the peace process. The US-brokered Good Kingdom, breakaway IRA factions have braced for potential nighttime clashes ports from Asian countries such as customs controls, for example by mixing Protestant mobs for “utterly disgrace- Friday peace accord of 1998 sought to continued to mount bomb and gun in Londonderry, a predominantly Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan, in with a group of tourists. ful” behavior. “Whatever people think end IRA and other paramilitary vio- attacks. Last year they formed a “new” Catholic city where hostility to the Hong Kong and Singapore. The investi- The two top officials were arrested in about the merits of the parade or the lence, spur police reform and British IRA that does garner some support, annual parade in 1969 triggered days gation into the ring, described as “com- Barcelona, while another 49 suspects views of the people taking part in the military withdrawals, and forge a joint and Friday night’s march reflected that. of rioting that forced Britain to deploy plex”, began in July 2011. “The composi- were picked up in Spanish airports parade, the rule of law has to be Catholic-Protestant government. But even the Provisionals, with their troops as peacekeepers. That fateful tion of this perfectly structured, hierar- including those of Barcelona, Madrid, respected,” said Northern Ireland Those goals have largely been Sinn Fein party now at the heart of decision inspired the formation of the chical organization, with its kingpin in Malaga and Mallorca, plus another 24 in Secretary Theresa Villiers. Chief achieved. But the supposed “unity” Northern Ireland’s government, still Provisional IRA. The Apprentice Boys government continues to reflect fun- justify and glorify past IRA violence, a commemorate the Protestant side’s China and independent cells operating France. The 81 fake passports were found Constable Matt Baggott said Northern Ireland’s prison population soon “will damental divisions in Northern Ireland fundamental sore point that shows no successful defense of the city in 1689, in different countries, completely shut off in two lodgings owned by the ring in society. They have failed to reach a signs of easing. when an attempted handover of from each other, complicated the investi- Barcelona. There police also found equip- be bulging” as detectives used video footage to identify and arrest rioters. common position on each side’s dis- On Sunday a Sinn Fein-backed Londonderry to Catholic forces was gation,” the police statement said. ment for forging documents including puted marches. And as the Irish role in march honoring Provisional IRA mem- prevented, in part, by teenage appren- The traffickers accompanied their portable computers, scanners, around 20 Baggott said seven people were arrest- ed Friday night for attacks on police government and policing has risen, bers in the religiously divided town of tices who bolted the city gates. A 105- clients all the way from China to Spain, fake customs stamps and an electronic Protestant opposition to that changing Castlederg is proceeding, despite local day siege in which starving residents “the last stop (serving as a) trampoline to magnifier. Police also provided pictures and the hijacking of cars, one of which was set on fire in the middle of the face of authority has grown. Protestants’ complaints that the IRA resorted to eating rats followed. The the final destination, usually the United of a firearm, cellphones and wads of parade route. “You can be assured that The winter violence followed killed dozens in their community. One events involved marches atop the wall Kingdom or the United States,” it said. cash, both euros and yuan, that were many more (arrests) will follow,” he Catholic politicians’ surprise decision in local politician compared it to permit- and a period-costume recreation of The operatives, mainly from China and seized in the operation.—AFP said. He noted that more than 500 riot- Belfast City Hall to curtail the flying of ting an al-Qaida parade through New events 324 years ago.—AP Britain issues forced marriage alert LONDON: The British government days is shocking,” said crime preven- they are being taken to be married yesterday warned teachers, doctors tion minister Jeremy Browne. against their will. But the opposition and airport staff to be on alert for a “Teenagers expecting their GCSE Labor party said the warning might rise in forced marriages over the or A-level (exam) results should be have been more helpful if it was school summer holidays. Summer embarking on a bright future, not issued before schools broke up for the marks a peak in reports of young condemned to a marriage with holidays. people-mainly girls-being taken someone they have never met and The Forced Marriage Unit said the abroad on “holiday”, not knowing do not want to marry. “My message victims it had dealt with last year were their families are forcing them into a to young people who feel they are taken to 60 countries, including marriage, the interior ministry said. at risk is, please come forward-you Bangladesh (11 percent), India (8 per- Britain’s Forced Marriage Unit do not have to suffer in silence, cent) and Afghanistan (2.1 percent). In dealt with some 1,500 cases last there is help available and it can be 18 percent of cases, the victim was year, a third of them involving chil- stopped.” The Forced Marriage Unit male. The government announced dren aged under 17. In nearly half is handing out cards this summer plans last year to introduce new laws the cases the victims were taken to providing information for potential for England and Wales that would Pakistan. “The rise in forced mar- victims, telling them to speak to see parents sent to jail if they force riage reports over the school holi- police or airline staff if they believe their children into a marriage.— AFP Murder suspect spotted in Idaho

SALMON: Horseback riders returning careful to not get too far out by say- Since Sunday, authorities have from Idaho’s wilderness have told ing what Hannah is doing because we issued child-abduction alerts across police they may have encountered a just don’t know.” the US West and asked authorities in Californian man suspected of killing a Police who later converged on the Canada and Mexico to watch for the longtime family friend and her son, area found a car belonging to fugitive and either of the Anderson and kidnapping her teenage daugh- DiMaggio at a trailhead in the wilder- children. Dozens of searchers, includ- ter, the San Diego County sheriff said ness, covered in brush, its license ing the US Marshals, were scouring on Friday. The riders told police they plates removed. But there was no the Idaho back country on foot and came across fugitive James Lee sign of the wanted man or his alleged on horseback looking for clues on the DiMaggio backpacking northeast of victim. Police had cautioned the car pair’s whereabouts, Dearden said. Air Boise on Wednesday with a teenage could be rigged with explosives, but a search and rescue teams have been girl thought to be 16-year-old bomb squad found none in or near called in but weather conditions have Hannah Anderson, who he is accused the vehicle, the Ada County Sheriff’s prevented them from helping with of abducting, Sheriff William Gore Office said. the search. said. San Diego County Sheriff’s Captain Two people with light camping The group said they spoke briefly Duncan Fraser said that the camping gear could be ill-equipped to master with the man and his young compan- gear being used by DiMaggio and the some of the most remote, rugged ter- ion and realized only after returning girl had been purchased several rain in the lower 48 US states, said from their excursion and seeing news weeks earlier. “We believe this was a Chris Grove, district ranger with the reports that they may have encoun- planned event. The information we’re Salmon-Challis National Forest, which tered DiMaggio, 40, whose car was working with now tells us that this oversees the area. Nighttime temper- found in the same area on Friday. The was planned,” Fraser said. DiMaggio is atures in the high country are already riders, who spotted the pair in the wanted in the killing of Christina dropping below freezing, and cross- Frank Church River of No Return Anderson, 44, and 8-year-old Ethan, country travelers will face numerous Wilderness, said the two seemed out and in the disappearance of Hannah, obstacles on trails such as large, fallen of place in the area’s rugged terrain all of whom were last seen on trees and steep grades that may lead with only light camping equipment Saturday, the day before he is sus- to nowhere, Grove said. but that they appeared to be in good pected of setting his own house on “The path you may choose may health, Gore said. fire. take you to a cliff or a river like the One of the riders told police he The San Diego County Sheriff con- Middle Fork that is difficult to cross,” saw no indication that the girl was firmed late on Friday that the remains he said of an area known for forested upset or being held against her will, of a second body found in DiMaggio’s peaks, canyons and whitewater said Andrea Dearden of the Ada house was Ethan’s. Police have not rapids. The children’s father, Brett County Sheriff’s Department in Idaho. said how Christina Anderson was Anderson, pleaded with DiMaggio in “He didn’t feel a need to jump in. He killed. The computer technician has a televised message this week to let didn’t feel he was stumbling upon been described as a like an uncle to his daughter go and advised the somebody in distress or that he need- Anderson’s children. His own uncle, teenager to make a run for it. ed to get her away from the situation,” Joe DiMaggio, 62, said he was Authorities have said they have no Dearden said. Asked if the girl’s shocked by the reports and, when evidence of a precipitating incident apparent lack of distress meant she asked what he would say to his or circumstances that might have led could have gone with DiMaggio will- nephew, said, “I’d tell him to give him- to the crimes DiMaggio is suspected ingly, Dearden said: “We’re being very self up and straighten this out.” of committing.— Reuters SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL US outraged as Mexico frees drug lord

MEXICO CITY: US law enforcement work in the shadows of the Mexican “The United States wants Mexico to strengthened and this is likely to have officials expressed outrage over the ‘justice’ system,” the organization said comply with due process but it is likely little impact on the overall relation- release from prison of Mexican drug in a statement. The DEA, meanwhile, that due process was not followed ship between Mexico and the United lord Rafael Caro Quintero and vowed said it “will vigorously continue its when many criminals were caught 10 States, said Tony Payan, an expert on to continue efforts to bring to justice efforts to ensure Caro-Quintero faces or 15 years.” Mexican courts and pros- US-Mexico relations at the University the man who ordered the killing of a charges in the United States for the ecutors have long tolerated illicit evi- of Texas-El Paso. The US and Mexico US Drug Enforcement Administration crimes he committed.” dence such as forced confessions and “will scramble for a bit, but in the end agent. Caro Quintero was sentenced But experts say the case against have frequently based cases on ques- they will understand this is a very to 40 years in prison for the 1985 kid- Caro Quintero was flawed from the tionable testimony or hearsay. Such complex relationship and nothing is napping and killing of DEA agent beginning and his release is the result practices have been banned by recent going to happen,” Payan said. “They Enrique Camarena but a Mexican fed- of a stronger federal justice system in judicial reforms, but past cases, includ- are not going to jeopardize the overall eral court ordered his release this Mexico, and it’s not likely to have an ing those against high-level drug traf- relationship over this.” week saying he had been improperly impact in US-Mexico relations. Caro fickers, are often rife with such legal Caro Quintero still faces charges in tried in a federal court for state crimes. Quintero was a founding member of violations. the United States, but Mexico’s The 60-year-old walked out of a one of Mexico’s earliest and biggest Mexico’s relations with Washington Attorney General’s Office said it was prison in the western state of Jalisco drug cartels. He helped establish a were badly damaged when Caro unclear whether there was a current early Friday after serving 28 years of powerful cartel based in the north- Quintero ordered Camarena kid- extradition request. Attorney General his sentence. The US Department of western Mexican state of Sinaloa that napped, tortured and killed, purport- Jesus Murillo Karam later said in a Justice said it found the court’s deci- later split into some of Mexico’s largest edly because he was angry about a statement that his office is analyzing sion “deeply troubling.” “The cartels, including the Sinaloa and raid on a 220-acre marijuana planta- whether there are any charges pend- Department of Justice, and especially Juarez cartels. tion in central Mexico named “Rancho ing against Caro Quintero. The US the Drug Enforcement Administration, But he wasn’t tried for drug traffick- Bufalo” - Buffalo Ranch - that was Department of Justice said it “has con- Miguel Angel Caro Quintero is extremely disappointed with this ing, a federal crime in Mexico. Instead, seized by Mexican authorities at tinued to make clear to Mexican result,” it said in a statement. The Mexican federal prosecutors, under Camarena’s insistence. Camarena was authorities the continued interest of the balance too far against prosecu- Association of Former Federal intense pressure from the United kidnapped in Guadalajara, a major the United States in securing Caro tors and victims. “This is all thanks to Narcotics Agents in the United States States, hastily put together a case drug trafficking center at the time. His Quintero’s extradition so that he the excessive focus on procedural said it was “outraged” by Caro against him for Camarena’s kidnap- body and that of his Mexican pilot, might face justice in the United guarantees supported by the US gov- Quintero’s early release and it blamed ping and killing, both state crimes. both showing signs of torture, were States.” ernment itself,” Gonzalez said. “I corruption within Mexico’s justice sys- “What we are seeing here is a contra- found a month later, buried in shallow Samuel Gonzalez, Mexico’s former warned them (US officials) that they tem for his early release. diction between the need of the gov- graves. American officials accused top anti-drug prosecutor, said the US were going to get out, and they are all “The release of this violent butcher ernment to keep dangerous criminals their Mexican counterparts of letting government itself has been promot- going to get out,” he said referring to is but another example of how good behind bars and its respect of due Camarena’s killers get away. Caro ing, and partly financing, judicial long-imprisoned drug lords such as faith efforts by the US to work with the process,” said Raul Benitez, a security Quintero was eventually hunted down reforms in Mexico aimed at respecting Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who is Mexican government can be frustrat- expert at Mexico’s National in Costa Rica. Times have changed procedural guarantees for suspects, an also serving a sentence related to the ed by those powerful dark forces that Autonomous University. since then, and cooperation has approach Gonzalez feels has weighted Camarena case.—AP Obama’s proposals on US surveillance

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama COURT REFORM has proposed reforms of US surveillance Obama called for Congress to reform programs in the wake of a public furor fol- the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, lowing revelations by former government a secret tribunal that approves government contractor Edward Snowden. Here are requests for surveillance behind closed Obama’s key proposals: doors. Obama called for the court, which now only receives the government’s TELEPHONE SURVEILLANCE requests without a rebuttal, to start hearing Obama asked Congress to work with the opposing arguments as is customary in vir- White House to reform one of the most tually all the US judicial system. controversial aspects of the Patriot Act, which was passed after the September 11, TRANSPARENCY 2001 attacks, that allows the government Along with declassifying the Justice to collect records of telephone calls. Department legal statement, Obama said Obama insisted that the program, known that the National Security Agency would ENNISKILLEN: In this file photo, US President Barack Obama (left) holds a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during as Section 215, was “an important tool in put in place a “civil liberties and privacy the G8 summit at the Lough Erne resort near Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. — AFP our effort to disrupt terrorist plots” but officer” in charge of releasing more infor- called for “additional safeguards” to address mation. Obama said that the US intelli- public concerns, including bringing more gence system would also set up a website Putin’s Cold War stance oversight and transparency. to promote transparency about its work. The Justice Department, in a declassi- fied paper that laid out its legal justification OUTSIDE BOARD chilling Washington ties for the efforts, said that the program col- Obama said he was forming a group of lects data about telephone calls-including outside experts to review US surveillance time, numbers and duration-but does not to study “how we can maintain the trust of Obama describes Putin as ‘like a bored kid’ record the conversations themselves. Up to the people” and to look at the effects on 22 officials at the National Security Agency foreign policy. Obama said the board WASHINGTON: President Barack said. “There’s been cooperation in cotted the 1980 Moscow Summer hoped for a frank exchange of are in charge of authorizing the data if an would produce an interim report in 60 days Obama complained Friday that some areas. There’s been competi- Olympics in the wake of the Soviet views. He noted that both he and individual is suspected of “terrorist” ties, the and issue final findings by the end of the Russia had adopted a frostier tion in others. It is true that in my Union invasion of Afghanistan. As his Russian counterpart Lavrov play statement said. year.— AFP stance towards the United States first four years in working with Obama was addressing reporters, ice hockey. “We both know that since Vladimir Putin’s return to the President Medvedev, we made a lot Russian Foreign Minister Sergei diplomacy is like hockey and some- Kremlin, but both camps insisted of progress.” Lavrov was sparring with his US times results in occasional colli- California faces longer, ties have not broken down. “I don’t Medvedev ruled Russia between counterpart John Kerry just across sions,” Kerry said. Despite the have a bad personal relationship 2008 and 2012 while then former Washington at the State Snowden case, Kerry said he hoped tough wildfire season with Putin,” Obama told reporters at president Putin took a turn as Department. to work with Russia on Syria, espe- a White House press prime minister-having first boosted Lavrov acknowledged that ties cially to organize a long-delayed BANNING: California truly is the Golden engines on days with hot, dry conditions, conference.”When we have conver- the powers of the office-before were strained, but played down talk peace conference in Geneva. Russia State this summer - golden brown - and that Berlant said. And while state officials encour- sations, they’re candid, they’re returning to the top job. The inter- of a return to the confrontation of provides key support to Syria’s has fire officials worried heading into the aged residents to rid their properties of dry blunt; oftentimes, they’re construc- regnum saw a brief flowering of the era when the West faced off embattled President Bashar Al- peak of the wildfire season. It’s still weeks brush before fire season starts, he said tive. joint US-Russian projects, including against the former Soviet bloc. “It’s Assad in the civil war that the before the fire-fanning Santa Ana winds usu- authorities are now urging the public not to “I know the press likes to focus a new strategic arms reduction clear there is no Cold War that we United Nations said has claimed ally arrive and already it’s been a brutal fire use lawnmowers or weed eaters during the on body language and he’s got that treaty and a deal that saw Russia should expect,” Lavrov said of US- more than 100,000 lives since 2011. season, with nearly twice as many acres heat of the day because a spark off the metal kind of slouch, looking like the help supply US forces in Russian relations after a meeting in The United States supports burned statewide from a year ago, including blades can trigger a blaze. bored kid in the back of the class- Afghanistan. “What’s also true is, is Washington. “We shouldn’t expect “non-lethal” aid to the rebels, who 16,000 scorched this week in a blaze still rag- On Friday, firefighters launched a fleet of room. But the truth is, is that when that when President Putin... came any aggravation.” “The overall mood are backed by US-allied Sunni Arab ing in the mountains 90 miles east of Los seven retardant-dropping airplanes against we’re in conversations together, back into power, I think we saw was very positive, which inspires monarchies Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Angeles. Southern California’s latest destructive wild- oftentimes it’s very productive,” the more rhetoric on the Russian side optimism,” he added, after talks “Sergei and I do not always agree So far this year, California fire officials fire, which has destroyed 26 homes and president said. Washington and that was anti-American, that played with Kerry, US Defense Secretary completely on responsibility for the have battled 4,300 wildfires, a stark increase threatened more than 500 others in the San Moscow are at loggerheads over into some of the old stereotypes Chuck Hagel and Russian defense bloodshed or on some of the ways from the yearly average of nearly 3,000 they Jacinto Mountains. The so-called Silver Fire the war in Syria, the fate of US intel- about the Cold War,” Obama said. minister Sergei Shoigu. forward,” Kerry said. But, he contin- faced from 2008 to 2012, said Daniel Berlant, has forced some 1,800 people to flee their a spokesman for the California Department homes and injured six people, including one ligence leaker Edward Snowden, “And I’ve encouraged Mr Putin The most immediate barrier to ued, “both of us and our countries of Forestry and Fire Protection. Until last civilian with serious burns. The fire grew by missile defense, nuclear disarma- to think forward as opposed to warmer relations is the case of agree that to avoid institutional col- week, those fires had already burned more 2,000 acres to 25 square miles overnight, but ment and human rights. backwards on those issues. With Edward Snowden, a former US lapse and descent into chaos, the than 71,000 acres - up from 40,000 during it was significantly less active Friday morning. And so great is the gulf between mixed success.” Obama however intelligence contractor who fled to ultimate answer is a negotiated the same period last year. The annual aver- In the Twin Pines neighborhood outside the former Cold War foes on many said he was against a boycott of Moscow after revealing details of political solution.” age for acreage charred in the last five years Banning, Andy Schrader said he couldn’t get of these issues that Obama this Russia’s Winter Olympics next year the US National Security Agency’s Lavrov agreed on the need for a was 113,000, he said. out in time. The wildfire crept up suddenly week canceled a planned summit over a controversial new law ban- vast electronic spy networks. peace process but said that a top “We have seen a significant increase in and blew over his house, burning his motor meeting with Putin next month. On ning “homosexual propaganda.” “I Washington has demanded his priority should be to “fight terror- our fire activity and much earlier than nor- home and singeing his hair as he sprayed Friday, as Russia’s defense and for- want to just make very clear right extradition to face espionage ists,” the term both Damascus and mal,” said Berlant, adding that fire season water from a hose to try to keep the house eign ministers met in Washington now, I do not think it’s appropriate charges, and was outraged when Moscow use for the Syrian rebels. began in mid-April, about a month ahead of wet. “I could feel my face burning,” the 74- with their US counterparts, Obama to boycott the Olympics,” Obama Moscow decided last month to US missile plans in Europe have schedule after an especially dry winter. year-old carpenter said. “And I thought I was said Putin’s return to the Russian said. grant him political asylum. Lavrov long been a sore point for Russia, “We’re not even yet into the time period going to die.” Most of Southern California’s presidency in May 2012 had cast a “We’ve got a bunch of said, however, that the row had not which charges that the missile where we see the largest number of damag- severe wildfires are associated with Santa chill over thawing ties. “I think Americans out there who are train- “overshadowed” talks on other shield is designed to reduce the ing fires.” US Sen Barbara Boxer, D-Calif, who Ana winds, caused by high pressure over the there’s always been some tension in ing hard. Who are doing everything issues. Earlier, Kerry acknowledged deterrent effect of Moscow’s arse- lives in Riverside County, said more than West that sends a clockwise flow of air rush- the US-Russian relationship after they can to... succeed.” There is a the two nations were facing “chal- nal and thus alter the balance of 165,000 acres have burned in California this ing down into the region. the fall of the Soviet Union,” Obama precedent: the United States boy- lenging moments” but said he power on the continent.—AFP year, and climate change is setting condi- This week’s fire, however, was being tions for more disastrous blazes, while budg- fanned by a counter-clockwise flow around a et cuts are limiting resources to fight them. low pressure area over northwest California. Boxer’s data comes from both California The National Weather Service said conditions Obama accuses Republicans of officials and federal agencies, including the could change in the second half of next US Forest Service. This year, state fire officials week, with weaker winds in the mountains have called up more firefighters and reserve and deserts. —AP ‘fixation’ against healthcare law WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has that 30 million people don’t have healthcare.” costs, turns full-time jobs into part-time jobs and launched an aggressive defense of his landmark Obama has been battling Republicans over reduces the quality of care.” Cooper urged pas- healthcare law, attacking Republicans for seeking universal health insurance since 2009, when he sage of Republican legislation that would delay its repeal without offering a substitute for the mil- launched an effort in Congress to also clamp the startup of the healthcare sign-up program for lions of Americans who would be left uninsured. down on insurance companies’ ability to deny individuals, just as Obama has done for certain With enrollment set to begin on Oct 1 for individ- coverage to those with pre-existing medical con- employers. In early July, the Obama administra- uals who want to receive health insurance under ditions and place caps on individuals’ lifetime tion, in a surprise announcement, said it was the 2010 law, Obama used a White House press insurance benefits. The enactment of the delaying until 2015 the requirement for employ- conference to counter a massive Republican cam- Democratic legislation in 2010 has been met with er-provided health insurance. The “employer man- paign to discredit and destroy the new program, repeated attempts by the Republican-controlled date” would level a $2,000 fine for every full-time including a threat by some Congressional House of Representatives to kill the Patient employee without coverage. But the law exempts Republicans to insist on repeal as a condition of Protection and Affordable Care Act. Senate small companies with 30 workers or fewer. The funding the government. Republican leader Mitch McConnell also has con- administration said the delay would give govern- “The really interesting question is why it is that tinued to hammer away against the law. On his ment and businesses more time to prepare for my friends in the other party have made the idea 2014 re-election website, McConnell leads with the program, while Republicans said it under- of preventing these people from getting health- the message: “It’s time to repeal Obamacare, root scored that the law was unworkable. Republicans care their holy grail,” Obama told reporters. Saying and branch!” attacked Obama for unilaterally delaying the pro- that Republicans have “an ideological fixation” In response to Obama’s news conference vision of the law, saying he went beyond his presi- CALIFORNIA: A firefighter battles a wildfire in Cabazon, Calif. A growing wildfire against “Obamacare,” the Democratic president remarks, Rory Cooper, a spokesman for House dential powers. Defending his decision, Obama chewed through a rugged Southern California mountain range, damaging build- added, “The one unifying principle in the Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the second-ranking said it was done after consulting with “businesses ings, threatening as many as 600 homes and forcing people to flee. —AP Republican Party at the moment is making sure House Republican, said, “Obamacare increases all across the country.” —Reuters SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL India unveils its first nuclear submarine Atomic reactor activated for nuke sub

NEW DELHI: India announced yesterday that its first indigenously-built nuclear submarine is ready for sea trials, a step before it becomes fully operational, and called it a “giant stride” for the nation. India unveiled the 6,000-ton INS Arihant- Destroyer of Enemies-in 2009 as part of a project to built five such vessels which would be armed with nuclear-tipped missiles and torpedoes. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was “delighted to learn that the nuclear propulsion reactor on board INS Arihant, India’s first indige- nous nuclear powered submarine, has now achieved criticality”. Criticality refers to the point at which a NEW HAVEN: A firefighter surveys the scene of a plane crash in East Haven, Conn. — AP nuclear reaction is self-sustaining. Singh described the development as “a giant stride in the progress of our indigenous technological Plane crashes in US killing 6 capabilities” and said he hoped to see the sub- EAST HAVEN: A small plane crashed into a Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr said later that the marine commissioned soon. Arihant is powered residential neighborhood a few blocks houses were still unstable and crews had by an 85-megawatt nuclear reactor and can from an airport while trying to land, setting not completed a full search. The 10-seater reach 44 kilometers an hour (24 knots), accord- fire to two houses and likely killing up to six plane, a Rockwell International Turbo ing to defense officials. It will carry a 95-member people, authorities said. Just before noon Commander 690B, flew out of Teterboro crew. Friday, the multi-engine, propeller-driven Airport in New Jersey and crashed at 11:25 India earlier activated the atomic reactor on- plane struck two small homes near Tweed am, the Federal Aviation Administration board the INS Arihant, paving the way it to begin New Haven Airport. The aircraft’s left wing said. Tweed’s airport manager, Lori sea trials. The Indian navy inducted a Russian- lodged in one house and its right wing in Hoffman-Soares, said the pilot had been in leased nuclear submarine into service in April VISAKHAPATNAM: In this file photo, the wife of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the other. communication with air traffic control and 2012, joining China, France, the United States, Gursharan Kaur breaks a coconut on the hull of India’s first nuclear-powered submarine INS Britain and Russia in the elite club of countries Late Friday, officials from a number of hadn’t issued any distress calls. Arihant during a ceremony at Visakhapatnam. — AFP with nuclear-powered vessels. Nuclear sub- agencies were still at the scene trying to “All we know is that it missed the marines can function underwater without need- Muslims in the Indian portion of Kashmir, objected to Muslims shouting pro-indepen- determine how many people had been approach and continued on,” she said. A ing to surface regularly to be recharged, unlike wounding three people, police said. The rival dence slogans during the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, killed. Officials said the total was between neighbor, David Esposito, said he heard a their conventional diesel-electric counterparts. groups also burned some homes in Paddar, a vil- which caps the Muslim fasting month of four and six. The victims of the crash have loud noise and then a thump: “No engine India is due to receive the first of six Franco- lage about 50 kilometers north of the town of Ramadan. Anti-India feelings run deep in not been identified. “We haven’t recovered noise, nothing.” “A woman was screaming Spanish diesel-electric Scorpene submarines in Kishtwar, where clashes between Muslims and Kashmir, where about a dozen rebel groups have anybody at this point, and we presume her kids were in there,” he said. Esposito, a 2015, part of a multi-billion dollar project to Hindus during Muslim holiday celebrations been fighting against Indian rule since 1989. there is going to be a very bad outcome,” retired teacher, said he ran into the upstairs modernize its navy. The submarine announce- Friday killed at least two people and injured 24. More than 68,000 people, mostly civilians, have East Haven fire Chief Douglas Jackson said of the house, where the woman believed ment came just two days before India was due Police rushed to Paddar yesterday to control been killed. The rebel groups have largely been Friday. National Transportation Safety her children were, but couldn’t find them to launch its first indigenous aircraft carrier “INS the situation, a police officer said on condition of suppressed by Indian troops in recent years, and Board investigator Robert Gretz said at a after frantically searching a crib and closets. Vikrant”. The navy will launch its first indigenous anonymity because he was not authorized to resistance is now principally expressed through news conference Friday night there were He returned downstairs to search some aircraft carrier Monday at Kochi, making India talk to reporters. Three people who sustained street protests. casualty reports of two or three people in more, but he dragged the woman out only the fifth country in the world with the capa- gunshot wounds were evacuated by helicopter One Muslim was burned to death and one the plane and two or three people in one of when the flames became too strong. bility to build such vessels. The 40,000-tonne air- to a nearby hospital, the officer said. In Kishtwar, Hindu died of gunshot wounds in Friday’s clash- the homes. Wilson Idrovo said he was working on a craft carrier sets a new global standard in terms government forces fired warning shots yester- es, a police officer said on condition of anonymi- He said the reports were unconfirmed house nearby when his son said: “Daddy, of size and complexity, the defense ministry day to enforce a strict curfew and to push angry ty because he was not authorized to talk to and that local and state authorities were at the airplane is falling down.” says. After final fitting of equipment and exten- people back into their homes following Friday’s reporters. He said that 24 people were being the scene looking for victims. Shortly after Idrovo said he went into the house but sive trials, the aircraft carrier is due to join the deadly clashes. treated in hospitals, but that their injuries were the crash, officials had said at least three couldn’t get into a room where the plane navy by 2018. It will ply the seas alongside the Jammu-Kashmir state director-general of not life threatening. people were missing: the pilot and two had crashed. Angela Wordie was on her former Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral police Ashok Prasad said the situation was tense “The curfew is being strictly enforced. We are children, ages 1 and 13, in one of the hous- deck taking in towels when she noticed a Gorshkov”, now the “INS Vikramaditya”, due to be yesterday, although no new violence was report- not taking any chances as the situation has the es. Later, Gov Dannel P Malloy said the plane making a strange sound. “It kind of delivered by year-end after a delay of more than ed in Kishtwar. Troops in armored vehicles drove potential to have serious ramifications for the plane also may have been carrying two was gliding,” she said. “The next thing I four years. India has been Russia’s top arms cus- through the streets of Kishtwar, where the rival entire state,” Prasad said. He said police were passengers. However, officials were still try- know it hit the house.” Maturo, the mayor, tomer for years, but relations have frayed over groups had attacked each other Friday with working to identify the troublemakers. Indian ing to verify whether that was true. Less said a priest was with the woman whose delays and cost-overruns. India is spending tens firearms, stones and sticks. The town is 200 kilo- authorities ordered an inquiry into the rioting than two hours later, Malloy said rescuers children were feared dead, and he offered of billions of dollars upgrading its mainly Soviet- meters southeast of Srinagar, the main city in and replaced the local police chief and the top had spotted two bodies, including one of sympathy to the family. “It’s total devasta- era military hardware. Indian-controlled Kashmir. Scores of shops, vehi- civil administrator as part their efforts to restore an adult, but hadn’t recovered them. tion in the back of the home,” he said. cles, two hotels and one gas station were set on peace in the town. The plane’s fuselage had entered one of Neighbors said the woman moved into the CLASHES ERUPT IN KASHMIR fire by the mobs on Friday, police said. The riot- Authorities asked all members of the Village the houses, and the recovery effort was neighborhood recently. A vigil is planned In another development, fresh clashes erupt- ers also looted guns from a private arms shop in Defense Committee in the area to hand their focusing on the home’s basement, he said. at Margaret Tucker Park.— AP ed yesterday between groups of Hindus and the area. The trouble erupted Friday after Hindus weapons over to the police. —Agencies For mixed-status families, US reforms would end anxiety PHOENIX: US-born Junnyor Diaz washing dishes and enrolled Edder in Angelica two months to scrape studies at a Phoenix high school. His school. A year later, Junnyor was born together the $12,500 bond to secure Mexico-born older brother, Edder, has a US citizen. Edder’s release to a family trans- applied for a program to avoid depor- Edder, now 23, acquired English formed by the experience. With limit- tation, while their undocumented swiftly, but he faced challenges on ed work and study options, Edder mother, Angelica, cleans houses to graduating high school in 2007. threw himself into community keep the family fed and, above all, Despite grades that got him into a activism in Phoenix, registering together. They are among millions of pre-law course at Arizona State Latinos to vote in local and presiden- families across the United States University, he faced hefty internation- tial elections. made up of citizens, so-called al student fees because of his status. Junnyor joined him canvassing Dreamers and immigrants without “We were having to pay three times as door to door during his school vaca- legal status who are hopeful that a much as any other student,” Edder tion, becoming more aware of the comprehensive immigration overhaul said. Ineligible for student loans and opportunities and the responsibilities might finally simplify their lives. financial aid, he dropped out after a that befall the only citizen in the fami- The US Senate passed a sweeping year. His difficulties came amid a back- ly. “My brother had to go through all bill backed by President Barack lash from anti-illegal immigration that stuff (but) I can do whatever I Obama in June that offers a pathway activists and sweeps for the undocu- want,” Junnyor said. Two years from to citizenship for many of the coun- mented by a tough local sheriff, Joe high school graduation, he has try’s 11 million illegal immigrants, but Arpaio. already sounded out several colleges the Republican-led House of about studying medicine and wants Representatives opposes it. For TERRIFYING ARREST to become a pediatrician. “I want to Junnyor and 16 million others like him In 2010, a state law was passed make my mother proud, I want to in mixed-status families, reform could requiring police to question those make my brother proud, I want to bring stability to a fraught situation in they stopped and suspected of being make myself proud,” he said. which a US-born child is a citizen with in the country illegally about their While the Senate passed an immi- a shot at a university education and a immigration status. That year, Edder gration overhaul, House Republicans stable working life, while a sibling or was detained after he and a US-born are divided over the granting of legal parent born abroad can face instabili- friend took an illegal shortcut across status to those in the country illegally, ty and deportation. the tracks of a light rail network. “They a step many see as rewarding law- “There isn’t a day that goes by that let him go ... but the police came, breakers. With the fate of the legisla- I don’t worry for either my brother or handcuffed me and arrested me,” he tion now uncertain, the Diaz family my mother,” said Junnyor, a basket- said. remains hopeful for even incremental ball-loving 16-year-old whose child- After being interviewed by federal changes to the immigration system. hood in Phoenix has been filled with immigration police, he was sent to the After a lifetime of uncertainty, anxiety. “I just want it to go away.” The Eloy Detention Center in the desert Junnyor is impatient to put the tra- family’s complex life began when southeast of Phoenix and placed in vails of mixed status behind them. Angelica slipped over the porous bor- deportation proceedings. “I was terri- “It’s not just me, there’s millions of der from Mexico with then 4-year-old fied ... my family is here, my life is families across the nation who just Edder in 1995 in search of a better life here,” he said. “It was nothing I had hope that this whole thing just goes in Arizona. She quickly found work ever experienced before.” It took away.”— Reuters 3 Chinese shot dead in Kabul

KABUL: Three Chinese citizens have been shot dead in guard but their deaths were only reported by a neighbor their apartment in the Afghan capital while one of two oth- on Friday. “Initial investigations show they were perhaps ers who were missing has been found alive, officials said prostitutes killed by a gun with a silencer,” Mohammad yesterday. Police said the murder victims, two women and Zahir, head of the criminal investigation department said. a man, were shot late on Thursday along with their Afghan “Two Chinese men are missing, we have launched an inves- tigation to find them.” The Chinese embassy in Kabul later said one of the two missing men had been found alive and transferred to a safe place, according to state news agency Xinhua. It said the five were all self-employed business people and the two women were killed accidentally when they stopped at the apart- ment while criminals were inside, the agency reported. Earlier the embassy confirmed the incident and asked the government to ensure the safety and security of its citizens and institutions in Afghanistan. No one has claimed respon- sibility for the attack. In the past, both the Taleban and crimi- nal groups have been involved in the kidnapping and killing of foreign nationals in Afghanistan. There are hundreds of KABUL: Afghan children play with plastic toy guns in Chinese working on different projects in Afghanistan. China, Kabul. Civilian casualties in the Afghan war rose 23 per- which shares a 76-kilometre border with Afghanistan’s far cent in the first half of this year due to Taleban attacks northeast, has secured major oil and copper mining conces- and increased fighting between insurgents and gov- sions in Afghanistan, which is believed to have more than $1 ernment forces. — AFP trillion worth of minerals.— AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL

Monasteries decline as TV and smartphones grip Bhutan

THIMPHU: Kencho Tshering, a red-robed mental well-being with economic of spiritual influence, some say monastic Buddhist monk, takes a call from the King growth. Yet Tshering, who spent three materialism is partly to blame for a of Bhutan’s office, then duly dashes off to years, three months and three days in decline. start a ceremony praying for a break in silent meditation, believes Buddhist Although usually associated with a the monsoon rains. But while he may be devotion has waned since Bhutan spartan existence, Bhutan’s strand of on speed dial for royal requests, the clout allowed television in 1999 - the world’s Buddhism allows monks to own a range of his fellow monks is on the wane in the last country to do so. “People are less of possessions-”there are even monks remote kingdom as it absorbs the impact god-fearing, less superstitious... The num- with big cars,” said Damber K. Nirola, a of technology and democracy as well as ber of rituals they do has gone down,” psychiatrist in Thimphu. But the monas- an abuse scandal. “Bhutan is changing. agreed Karma Phuntsho, author of “The teries still play a vital social role, provid- The monastic body is going down and History of Bhutan” and a former monk. ing homes to thousands of children down,” Tshering said at Dechen Phuntsho said the Bhutanese world- whose parents may have died or feel Phodrang, the monks’ school where he is view has changed dramatically since sec- unable to support them. At Dechen principal, which is perched with majestic ular education was widely introduced in Phodrang, young monks can be found views over the capital Thimphu. the 1960s, weakening the dominance of busy learning the national ‘dzongkha’ “Even for senior monks, there’s no monastic schools that for centuries were script, making colorful cakes to offer the respect in the city,” he sighed. Bhutan- a powerful force. Bhutan was unified in deities, or blowing the sound of the long nestled in the Himalayas and flanked by the 17th century by a Tibetan Buddhist ‘dungchen’ Buddhist trumpet over the both India and China-is renowned for its teacher, and the old ‘dzong’ fortresses, valley. rich Buddhist culture, and villages are still part-monastery and part-government With a government allowance per boy steeped in its traditions. Fluttering prayer offices, are a reminder of the previous of less than a dollar a day, Tshering says it flags are a common sight, as are giant fly- intertwining of religion and politics. is a struggle to look after their 260 stu- ing phalluses painted on walls to ward The decline in monastics’ clout was dents, aged as young as six, who sleep in THIMPHU: A Buddhist monk hangs up clothes for drying at the Dechen off evil-a symbol of a national saint, the clear with the onset of democracy five rows on classroom floors. While just over Phodrang Monastery in Thimphu. — AFP “Divine Madman”, who is believed to years ago. Bhutan’s monks, nuns and a 7,000 monks are registered with the cen- saying the monasteries look after and by two of the older monks, who are sup- have subjugated demonesses with his large community of lay priests are now tral monastic body, on the ground about educate “Bhutan’s poorest of the poor”. posed to be celibate. The National penis in the 15th and 16th centuries. barred from the process to ensure reli- 9,000 to 11,000 exist at any one time, They are also not without controversy. A Commission for Women and Children Protecting the Buddhist culture is a gion and politics are kept apart. “They according to Karma Penjor, secretary at recent report by The Raven, a Bhutanese confirmed to AFP that the case had been key pillar of Bhutan’s unique “Gross don’t have a say at all, they don’t have a the Commission for the Monastic Affairs magazine, told the story of two young dealt with internally by the monastic National Happiness” development mod- franchise to vote. So political authority of Bhutan. “They can’t say no when peo- boys who said they escaped their body, and one of the accused had been el, which aims to balance spiritual and has really waned,” said Phuntsho. In terms ple come with their children,” he said, monastery after being sexually abused disrobed. —AFP

Thousands flee as troops 20 die as Syria troops fight rebels in Philippines PIKIT: About 2,000 farmers have fled Philippines. “The soldiers are protecting bombard Sunni town their homes in the southern Philippines the highway. We cannot afford to have it after renewed fighting between govern- fall into the rebels’ hands, otherwise the ment forces and renegade Muslim rebels, economy of Cotabato and other officials said yesterday. Families carrying provinces will be paralysed,” she added. Assad keen to protect Latakia bastion bags of clothes and cooking implements The government is in advanced peace BEIRUT: Warplanes bombed a village in Syria’s where insurgents have made significant head- million Syrians have been forced to flee to neigh- dragged their water buffalo and cattle talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation north overnight in an apparent effort by way over the past few weeks. After the rebel cap- boring countries, the United Nations says. into the rural hamlet of Nalapaan on Front, the largest of the insurgent President Bashar Al-Assad to prevent rebels fight- ture last month of Khan Al-Assal, a town south- Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for more Mindanao Island yesterday as exploding groups, to end the decades-old conflict ing him from advancing on communities in the west of Aleppo city, activists said yetserday sol- than four decades, has relied on Alawite-led mortar rounds could be heard in the dis- that had claimed 150,000 lives. stronghold region of his Alawite sect. Assad’s diers killed 12 civilians, including a woman, in a army units and security forces from the start, but tance. “We can hear the fighting from However the BIFF opposes the peace forces are on the defensive in his family’s home nearby town. has turned increasingly to loyalist militia armed here,” said Tibungko Abdul, village chief talks, and the government alleges the province of Latakia and recent rebel gains across The government accuses rebels of executing and funded by Damascus to fight the rebels. He of Nalapaan. “As of now we feel we are group is mounting armed actions in a bid northern Syria, including a military air base cap- 123 people in Khan Al-Assal and activists say the has also enjoyed staunch support from Middle safe here, but if this worsens we may to derail the peace talks. On Thursday, tured last week in Aleppo province, have further killing in Tabara Al-Sakhani, 12 miles to the south, East Shiite powerhouse Iran, neighboring have to leave for the town centre as well,” President Benigno Aquino said a series of loosened his grip on the country. could have been retaliatory. Rebel-controlled dis- Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement and the he added, referring to Pikit, the town deadly bombings in Mindanao that Assad controls much of southern and central tricts of Aleppo city, once Syria’s commercial hub Assads’ longtime arms supplier Russia. His frag- nearest to Nalapaan and to the villages claimed 14 lives and left more than 70 Syria, while insurgents hold northern areas near but now partly reduced to rubble by the conflict, mented foes have received little military aid from where the evacuees had come from. other people injured may have been the Turkish border and along the Euphrates val- were also bombarded by army artillery, the Western powers that want Assad removed but The villagers fled overnight Friday launched by groups he did not name to ley towards Iraq. The northeast corner of the piv- Observatory said. More than 100,000 people are wary of the growing presence of radical from fresh fighting between government relieve military pressure on the BIFF. otal Arab state is now an increasingly have been killed in the 28-month conflict and 1.7 Islamists in the rebel ranks.—Reuters forces and the Bangsamoro Islamic Police reported two other violent inci- autonomous Kurdish region. The mainly Sunni Freedom Fighters (BIFF), said provincial dents elsewhere in Mindanao in the past Muslim insurgents are battling to overthrow governor Emmylou Mendoza. “We have 24 hours, including a grenade blast Assad, whose minority Alawite sect is an off- about 2,000 people who have sought outside a house that injured four peo- shoot of Shiite Islam, in a civil war which erupted shelter at a local high school,” Mendoza ple in the town of Kabacan late Friday. two years ago when mainly peaceful protests said. The local military spokesman, Army An improvised explosive went off at a against his rule were put down with force. As Colonel Dickson Hermoso, confirmed the roadside near the town of North Upi many as 20 people were killed in the air strikes operation but would not provide details. yesterday, injuring no one, while on the village of Salma, including 10 civilians, six “This is an operation against lawless ele- police disarmed a second device near- Syrian fighters and four foreign fighters, the anti- ments,” he said. by. The bombs were “most likely” Assad Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Mendoza said the fighting was cen- meant for military convoys that use group said yetserday. tered in villages near the town of Aleosan the road, said Senior Superintendent Salma is a Sunni village in the Jabal Akrad on Mindanao, the southern homeland of Rodelio Jocson, police chief of mountain range which overlooks the the large Muslim minority in the Catholic Maguindanao province.— AFP Mediterranean. Rebel forces comprised of mainly Islamist brigades, including two Al-Qaeda-linked groups and based in Salma, have killed hundreds Fukushima’s nuclear operator in offensives this month and have seized several Alawite settlements. Amateur video footage pumps out toxic groundwater posted on the Internet showed a large apart- ment block with all its outside walls blown out. TOKYO: The operator of the crippled said this week that Tokyo estimates 300 Men, some in military fatigues, were seen load- Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant tons of contaminated groundwater may be ing bodies onto a pickup truck. has started pumping out radioactive seeping into the ocean every day. “But groundwater to reduce leakage into the we’re not certain if the water is highly con- ALAWITE STRONGHOLD AT STAKE Pacific Ocean. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) taminated,” he added. The International Assad has deployed extra forces in the region began the work after it admitted last Atomic Energy Agency said it stood ready and the air raids reflected an urgent priority to month that radioactive groundwater had to help, if asked. “The IAEA has been protect the main region of his Alawite sect - 12 been seeping out of the plant, confirming informed by Japanese authorities about percent of Syria’s 21 million people. The presi- DEIR EZZOR: Rebel fighters walk past the bodies of government soldiers in Syriaís eastern long-held suspicions that the sea was the leakage of radioactive water into the dent’s forces have also been pushing to retake town of Deir Ezzor yesterday. The United Nations says that more than 100,000 people have being contaminated. sea...and agency experts are following the lost ground in neighboring Aleppo province, been killed, and millions have been displaced or fled the country. — AFP The company said it pumped out 13 issue closely,” IAEA spokesman Serge Gas tons of groundwater from a well between said. 2:00 pm (0500 GMT) and 8:00 pm on Friday. “The agency has provided some recom- By mid-August, TEPCO plans to complete a mendations to the Japanese authorities on South Korea, US to conduct joint drill new system enabling it to pump out 100 the long-term management of liquid tons of groundwater a day. The water will waste. The IAEA continues to be ready to SEOUL: South Korea and the United Koreas have already held six rounds to negotiate their release are organ- response of US lawmakers and the be filtered and recycled to cool the reac- provide assistance on request,” he said. States yesterday said they would of fruitless talks aimed at resuming izing a satellite vigil in New York, State Department, which has called tors. But there are growing fears that exist- Jerome Joly, deputy director general of the launch an annual military exercise operations at the Kaesong complex, one of the journalists, Euna Lee for Bae’s immediate release on ing facilities will soon be overwhelmed, as French Institute for Radiological Protection later this month, routinely shuttered down by Pyongyang in said. Bae spends eight hours a day, “humanitarian grounds,” but resisted TEPCO scrambles to find ways to process and Nuclear Safety which has closely moni- denounced by North Korea as an early April as military tensions on six days a week planting and plow- sending high-profile envoys to and store waste water. tored the disaster, said the environmental “all-out war rehearsal”. The South the Korean peninsula soared. Both ing fields of potatoes and beans negotiate, as it has done in the past. “It has been an urgent issue for us to risk posed by the leaks was small compared Korea-US Combined Forces sides blamed the other for its clo- among other work at a prison for An Internet petition started by Bae’s suck out groundwater from this area as to the overall radioactive contamination Command (CFC) will conduct the sure, with the North insisting that its foreigners near Pyongyang where son urging US President Barack soon as possible,” a TEPCO spokesman said from the disaster. Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise hand was forced by hostile South he is kept largely isolated, Chung Obama to secure a “Special on Friday. TEPCO officials could not be “We are not seeing anything new in our from August 19 through to August Korean actions and intimidation-in said, adding that his health was Amnesty” for Bae has garnered near- reached yesterday. The embattled utility- measurements of the ocean water, sedi- 30, the CFC said in a press state- particular, a series of joint military deteriorating. North Korea has in ly 8,000 signatures. There have been kept afloat by a government bailout-last ment or fish. I think it is negligible.” Prime ment. “Ulchi Freedom Guardian is a exercises with the United States. the past used the release of high- other calls for his release, such as a month admitted for the first time that Minister Shinzo Abe has recently pledged critical alliance exercise to sustain profile American prisoners as a Twitter message from former basket- radioactive groundwater had been leaking deeper public involvement into the clean- the readiness” of the two allies’ VIGIL FOR US INMATE means of garnering a form of pres- ball player Dennis Rodman, who vis- outside the plant. It has since said tainted up of the Fukushima plant. While no one is armed forces, said General James Meanwhile, family and friends tige or acceptance by portraying vis- ited North Korea in February, but water has been escaping into the Pacific for officially recorded as having died as a direct Thurman, commander of the 28,500 seeking the release of an American iting dignitaries as paying homage Chung said US officials have assured more than two years since the atomic crisis result of the meltdowns at Fukushima, large US troops based in the South. About Christian missionary imprisoned in to the country and its leader. That her they are pursuing quieter triggered by a huge quake and tsunami in areas around the plant had to be evacuated 30,000 US troops, including most of North Korea held prayer vigils yes- pattern has complicated the clemency efforts. —Agencies March 2011. with tens of thousands of people still those based in the South plus 3,000 terday, seeking to raise his global An official at Japan’s industry ministry unable to return to their homes.— AFP from overseas, are taking part in the profile and spur clemency pleas, his drill, a CFC spokesman told AFP. sister said. Kenneth Bae was sen- More than 50,000 South Korean tenced in May to 15 years of hard Australia’s Abbott vows troops will also take part, Yonhap labor after North Korea’s Supreme news agency said. The drill is largely Court convicted him of state subver- to be ‘PM for Aborigines’ a computer-simulated exercise, with sion. It said the 45-year-old had SYDNEY: Australian conservative leader Tony Abbott pledged yester- troops remaining in their normal used his tourism business to form bases. groups to overthrow the govern- day to spend one week every year in a remote indigenous communi- Hours after the CFC notified the ment. Bae was detained in ty if elected, saying he wanted to be the “prime minister for North of the planned exercise, there November as he led a tour group Aboriginal affairs”. Abbott said he wanted to make Australia’s most was no official reaction from through the northern region of the disadvantaged minority his top priority were he to win national elec- Pyongyang. Pyongyang has previ- country. His sentencing came amid tions on September 7, unveiling a new policy to promote private ously reacted angrily to such drills, acrimonious relations between ownership of some communal Aboriginal land. branding them all-out war Pyongyang and Washington over “It is all very well having the right to live on your land, having the rehearsals and vowing to bolster its the reclusive state’s nuclear pro- right to walk over your land, having the right if necessary to exclude “nuclear deterrence”. The announce- gram. people from your land,” Abbott told a community meeting in ment came as the two Koreas are to Members of Bae’s family and the Nhulunbuy, part of central Australia’s Arnhem Land. “But land has to hold a fresh meeting on the reopen- broader community will light can- be an economic asset as well as a spiritual asset, and I will do whatev- ing of a shutdown joint industrial dles and pray for Bae at a Seattle er I humanly can in government to bring this about.” Abbott said he estate in the North on Wednesday. church and will read from a letter he wanted to be the “prime minister for Aboriginal affairs” and described Rodong Sinmuun, the official daily sent home from prison, his sister, the gulf between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians as a of the North’s ruling communist par- Terri Chung, said. “This is the time. “lack of engagement”. ty yesterday called for mending ties We must appeal to our legislative He pledged to spend one week of every year living in a remote with the South. leaders to act and seek amnesty for community, starting with Nhulunbuy, and said he would bring It urged Seoul to abide by a 2000 Kenneth,” Chung said. Two American responsibility for Aboriginal issues into the prime minister’s depart- joint declaration for reconciliation journalists arrested in 2009 by North ment, also appointing a former heavyweight from the rival Labor par- FUKUSHIMA: Local government officials and nuclear experts inspect a construction and exchange adopted at a land- Korea and held until former ty, Warren Mundine, to spearhead his efforts. —AFP site to prevent the seepage of contamination water into the sea. — AFP mark inter-Korean summit. The two President Bill Clinton traveled there NEWS SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis, expatriates enjoy an attraction at the Hawally park during the Eid Al-Fitr holiday yesterday. — Photo by Joseph Shagra Obama outlines surveillance reform

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has announced pursue “appropriate reforms” of Section 215 of the anti- ism activities,” Cordero said in an email. Patriot Act, launched by then-President George W Bush plans to limit sweeping US government surveillance pro- terrorism Patriot Act that governs the collection of so- Thirdly, Obama said he wants to provide more details after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, was initiated as a terror- grams that have come under criticism since leaks by a for- called “metadata” such as phone records. He insisted that about the NSA programs to try to restore any public trust ism-fighting tool to prevent a similar attack from happen- mer spy agency contractor, saying the United States “can the government had no interest in spying on ordinary damaged by the Snowden disclosures. The fourth meas- ing again. But frequent questions have been raised about and must be more transparent.” “Given the history of Americans. Obama did not specifically lay out how the ure was the creation of a high-level group of outside the scope of the law and whether its sweeping tactics abuse by governments, it’s right to ask questions about program will be reined in, however. Instead, he pledged experts to review the US surveillance effort. Gigi Sohn, allows unwarranted intelligence gathering on innocent surveillance, particularly as technology is reshaping every greater oversight, greater transparency, and constraints. head of public interest group Public Knowledge, said Americans. The Snowden disclosures generated concerns aspect of our lives,” Obama told a news conference at the Civil liberties advocates wanted more details. “He said he Obama’s plans were a good start, but added: “It’s going to about whether people were being forced to sacrifice their White House. would recommend 215 reform, but he said ‘appropriate’ depend a lot on Congress.” constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties in the open-end- Saying that it was important to strike the right balance reform and we don’t know what that means,” said The NSA declined to comment on Obama’s proposals. ed search for terrorism links. between security and civil liberties, Obama vowed to Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights analyst Trevor It is not clear if Congress will take up the initiatives. A The NSA has long monitored communications abroad improve oversight of surveillance and restore public trust Timm. “There were no concrete changes to the actual sur- number of influential lawmakers have vigorously defend- but the documents released by Snowden indicated the in the government’s programs. “It’s not enough for me as veillance programs.” Outlining his second measure, ed the spying programs as critical tools needed to detect email and phone data of Americans is being routinely president to have confidence in these programs. The Obama said he would pursue with Congress a reform of terrorist threats. US Senator Dianne Feinstein, head of the monitored on a vast scale, with the cooperation of major American people need to have confidence in them, as the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that US technology firms. Obama met with the CEOs of tech- well,” Obama said, adding that he was confident the pro- which considers requests from law enforcement authori- her panel will hold a series of hearings to study the sur- nology and telecoms companies such Apple Inc and AT&T grams were not being abused. ties to target an individual for intelligence gathering. veillance programs. Brendan Buck, spokesman for House Inc on Thursday to discuss government surveillance. A The announcement - made just before Obama heads Obama said he wants to let a civil liberties representative of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, said Google Inc computer scientist and transparency advo- for summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard - may be greet- weigh in on the court’s deliberations to ensure an adver- Republicans expect the White House to ensure that cates also participated. The search for Snowden has upset ed as a partial victory for supporters of ex-NSA contractor sarial voice is heard. reforms do not compromise programs that protect US relations with some Latin American countries, China Edward Snowden who is now in Russia, where he was The secretive court, authorized under the Foreign against terrorism. and, above all, Russia. Obama this week canceled a granted asylum last week. The Obama administration has Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, has been criticized Republican Representative Peter King issued a state- planned summit in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin. vigorously pursued Snowden to bring him back to the for essentially rubber stamping the US government’s ment stridently defending the surveillance programs and Obama said the United States has always had tension United States to face espionage charges for leaking requests to search through Americans’ electronic records. calling Obama’s reform plan “a monumental failure in with Russia and it was an appropriate juncture to reassess details of the surveillance programs to the media. Currently, the FISA court makes its decisions on govern- presidential wartime leadership and responsibility.” The where the two nations stand. — Reuters “I don’t think Snowden was a patriot,” Obama said at ment surveillance requests without hearing from anyone the news conference, brushing off the suggestion that but US Justice Department lawyers in its behind-closed- Friday’s announcement showed Snowden had done the doors proceedings. right thing in revealing the extent of the government’s Appointing a civil liberties advocate to argue before US reopens consulates, embassies after... program. The president said he had ordered a review of the surveillance court may have little value, said Carrie the surveillance programs before Snowden provided Cordero, director of national security studies at Continued from Page 1 9/11 has been broken apart and is very weak and does secret documents to The Guardian and The Washington Georgetown University Law Center and a former Justice not have a lot of operational capacity, and to say we still Post, but he added that there was no doubt those leaks Department lawyer. “I will be interested to hear how this In an appearance Tuesday on NBC’s “The Tonight have these regional organizations like AQAP that can triggered a “much more rapid, passionate response” to the would work in practice, but as an initial reaction, I do have Show,” Obama said the terror threat was “significant pose a threat, that can drive potentially a truck bomb issue. Obama said he had decided on four specific meas- concerns about additional layers of bureaucracy slowing enough that we’re taking every precaution.” However, into an embassy wall and can kill some people,” he said. ures. Firstly, he said, he plans to work with Congress to down the speed and agility of conducting counterterror- closing embassies and consulates called into question Shutting down so many US missions also raised the Obama’s assertion last spring that Al-Qaeda’s headquar- thorny issue of security, a political problem for the ters was “a shadow of its former self” and his administra- administration since the deadly assault last September tion’s characterization of the terror network’s leadership on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya. The deaths of the as “severely diminished” and “decimated.” American ambassador to Libya and three other $38,000 handbag not On Friday, the president noted that he was referring Americans brought criticism over the lack of security to “core Al-Qaeda” and that “what I also said was that Al- and whether the administration had been forthright Qaeda and other extremists have metastasized into about the perpetrators. The closings covered embassies unheard of in market regional groups that can pose significant dangers.” “So and other posts stretching 4,800 miles from Tripoli, it’s entirely consistent to say that this tightly organized Libya, to Port Louis, Mauritius, and were not limited to LONDON: A $38,000 handbag? For most people, it’s and relatively centralized Al-Qaeda that attacked us on Muslim or Muslim-majority nations. — AP unthinkable. But for the richest sliver of the global pop- ulation, like Oprah Winfrey, it’s a realistic option - and buyers aren’t short of choices. In the upscale boutiques MERS virus linked to Arabian camel of Singapore, New York or Zurich - where Winfrey claims Continued from Page 1 “For that, studies are needed that collect the right a sales clerk refused to show her a luxurious bag - purs- samples from camels while they are infected,” said es priced in the four figures are common. Concerns about the virus, for which there is no vac- Koopmans. Other animals from the Middle East, like In fact, they’re so common that a higher level of cine, have led Saudi Arabia to restrict visas for the 2013 goats, must also be tested. Dromedary camels are pop- extravagance exists to set the super-rich apart from the hajj, which sees millions of Muslims flock to the holy ular animals in the Middle East and North Africa, used merely affluent. A budget of about $1,000 to $2,000 will sites of Mecca and Medina every year. Scientists had for transport, meat and milk, as well as racing. There are buy one of the cheaper bags by luxe labels such as long suspected that like its cousin virus SARS, which an estimated 13 million of them in the world today-all Prada, Hermes, Fendi, Chanel or Louis Vuitton. But that’s killed hundreds of people in Asia 10 years ago, MERS but a few domesticated. A respiratory virus that causes just the starter step. Many labels create the same style may originate in bats. fever and pneumonia, MERS has claimed lives in Jordan, of bag in a range of fabrics, from leather to more expen- It is unlikely, however, that these shy, nocturnal crea- Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, France, sive calfskin, snakeskin and crocodile skin. Adding silver tures are passing the virus on to humans, and the Germany, Italy, the UK and Tunisia. or gold clasps or precious stones can increase the price involvement of an intermediary “reservoir” animal is sus- All people who had fallen ill outside the Arabian tag, while limited editions and one-off creations can pected-with anecdotal evidence of patients having peninsula had either visited one of the Middle Eastern fetch astronomical sums. been in contact with camels or goats. The virus is not countries or had been infected by a person thought to The item at the center of the Winfrey dispute was very adept at jumping from person to person, though have come from there. “This looks like the big break that reportedly a Tom Ford Jennifer bag - named for Jennifer there have been isolated cases. For the study, the team public health workers needed in the fight against the Aniston, a fan of the American designer. The version on took blood from 50 camels from across Oman and spread of MERS,” University of Reading microbiologist sale at Zurich’s Trois Pommes was one of the higher-end another 105 in the Canary Islands, as well as llamas, Benjamin Neuman said of the study. “This is the first models, priced at 35,000 Swiss francs ($38,000). Prices CAMBRIDGE: In this file photo, Oprah Winfrey alpacas, Bactrian camels, cattle, goats and sheep from hard evidence that camels may be the missing link in for Hermes’ Birkin bag - a square, sturdy tote that has speaks during Harvard University’s commencement the Netherlands, Chile and Spain. They found MERS-like the chain of transmission.” The next step, he said, would become one of the most-coveted luxury handbags ceremonies in Cambridge, Mass. Winfrey says she antibodies in all of the Omani camels and lower levels in be to look for the virus itself in camels and find out since it was introduced in the 1980s - start at about had a racist encounter while shopping in 15 of those from the Canary Islands. whether it is mutating in a way that makes it easier to $10,000, but have gone as high as $200,000, for a red Switzerland and the apologetic national tourist “What it means is that these camels some time ago infect humans. crocodile skin Birkin sold in 2011 by Heritage Auctions. office agrees. The billionaire media mogul told the have come across a virus that is very similar to MERS- Koopmans said the findings had by no means solved Hermes also produced a platinum version studded US program “Entertainment Tonight” that a shop CoV,” the paper’s senior author Marion Koopmans of the the puzzle, but was an important pointer for further with 2,000 diamonds, designed by Japanese jeweler assistant in Zurich refused to show her black hand- Netherlands’ National Institute of Public Health and the research. “Camels indeed are very important for the Ginza Tanaka and valued at almost $2 million. That, bag because it was “too expensive” for her. She was Environment, said. According to the study, the Oman region, an important source of food, transportation and however, is not the world’s most expensive handbag. in town to attend last month’s wedding of her long- samples came from various locations in the country, fun (racing), and we should certainly not jump to con- According to Guinness World Records, that honor goes time pal Tina Turner, who lives in a Swiss chateau “suggesting that MERS-CoV, or a very similar virus, is cir- clusions,” she said. “We need to find the virus first, and to a heart-shaped gold purse from jewelry house along Lake Zurich. Forbes magazine estimates that culating widely in dromedary camels in the region.” But we need to know in more detail how people get infect- Mouawad covered in 4,500 diamonds and valued at Winfrey earned $77 million in the year ending in the team could not say when the animals had been ed. Only when that is clear, it may be possible to draw $3.8 million. — AP June. — AP exposed, or whether it was the exact same virus. up some specific control measures.” — AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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Issues Have Al-Qaeda, terrorists won?

By Doyle McManus

ast year, in the heat of his campaign, President Obama boasted that he had put Al-Qaeda “on the path to defeat.” LThis year, with 19 US consulates and embassies closed and the State Department issuing vague warnings against travel anywhere in the world, Al-Qaeda suddenly seems resur- gent - and as frightening as ever.

DEFEATED OR RESURGENT? Neither, really. Al-Qaeda hasn’t gone away, but it has changed - in a way that makes it less dangerous for Americans at home, but more dangerous for Americans who live in the Middle East and Africa. Once it was global, but today’s Al- Qaeda has gone local. This month’s threat against Western Arab integration in Israel, one classroom at a time embassies, for example, was focused on capitals in the Middle East - especially in Yemen, where Al-Qaeda in the Arabian By Mike Prashker Secondly, with the on-going regional conflict casting a workers (who are invariably Jewish). Peninsula has been fighting to overthrow a government sup- long shadow on relations between Israel’s Jewish and These expensive programs are criticized as unsuccess- ported by the United States. Other attacks by Al-Qaeda fran- ne hundred newly qualified Arab-Israeli teachers - Arab citizens, the program will significantly improve rela- ful and wasteful, not to mention unnecessary and unfair chises have had a similarly parochial focus, from Mali and fresh out of teacher-training college - are now tions between Israel’s Arab and Jewish citizens. when there are thousands of unemployed Arab teachers Somalia to Pakistan. Even in Libya, where a group loosely con- Obeing actively recruited to teach in Jewish-Israeli Research supports this advantage. In 2006-2007, the seeking employment whose studies are state subsidized. nected to Al-Qaeda attacked the US consulate in Benghazi last schools by the Ministry of Education and Merchavim Achva Teacher Training College research department con- Savings also result from the reduction of unnecessary re- year, the operation appeared to stem from a local struggle for (Hebrew for “Spaces”), a non-government organization ducted a study that included 11 Jewish elementary training programs for unemployed Arab teachers to enter power, not a global plot directed by the heirs of Osama Bin specializing in shared citizenship education. This follows schools, 29 classes, 703 Jewish-Israeli students and 10 other, non-teaching professions. Also, reduction in unem- Laden. Outside its home territories, though, Al-Qaeda has last month’s announcement by Israeli Minister of Arab-Israeli teachers, teaching Merchavim’s “Let’s Talk” ployment and poverty among the Israeli-Arab population failed to strike successfully in the United States or Europe since Education and Knesset Member Rabbi Shai Piron of the Arabic curriculum. The study showed that students adopt- can only serve to strengthen Israel’s economy in the long the 2005 bombing of the London underground - an eight-year Ministry’s adoption of Merchavim’s plan to integrate 500 ed more positive attitudes toward Arab society largely as a term. slump. The organization still employs the man some US offi- Arab-Israeli teachers in Jewish-Israeli schools across Israel result of the presence of the Arab teacher and their rela- Of course, there will be Jewish citizens for whom this cials call the world’s most dangerous terrorist, Saudi-born over the next five years. tionship with him or her. program will create discomfort, either as a result of unfor- bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan Asiri - but Asiri’s plots haven’t The program has three clear benefits for Israel and Furthermore, the very act of inviting Arab citizens of tunate but understandable unfamiliarity with Arab citi- worked so far. In 2009, his underwear bomber got as far as Israeli society. Firstly, it will improve student achievement. Israel - too long marginalized - to take up positions of zens, fear of change or because of outright prejudice and Detroit, but the detonator failed. That same year, Asiri’s brother, The Jewish-Israeli education system is currently lacking authority, trust and prestige in the education of young racism. On this matter, there must be two clear responses outfitted with a similar bomb, got as far as the palace of Saudi Jewish teachers that are qualified to teach a range of sub- Jewish-Israelis, strengthens this community’s sense of from the Ministry of Education, Merchavim and all fair- Arabia’s counterterrorism chief - another local target - and blew jects, including math, science, English and Arabic. The civic worth and belonging. The opportunity also advances minded and responsible leaders. himself up, but he was the only casualty in the attack. placement of high-quality teachers with appropriate aca- hope among Israel’s 20 per cent Arab-Palestinian minority First is the provision of comprehensive teacher training US officials say they still consider Asiri and his innovative demic training, motivation and skills - regardless of their for the provision of equal employment opportunities for and cultural preparation to address the inevitable chal- bombs a major threat to aviation security. But note that this month’s alerts, based on intercepted communications racial or national background - should go a long way all of Israel’s citizens. lenges and legitimate concerns related to how Israel’s between Al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen and Pakistan, didn’t focus toward improving learning. Thirdly, at this time of economic austerity with a 40 bil- Jewish and Arab citizens interact. Second is a policy of on planes; they focused on embassies. In that sense, Al-Qaeda In Israel today, according to research conducted for lion shekel (approximately $11 billion) state deficit and zero tolerance to expressions of racism and discrimination may be returning to its roots, reprising the kind of plots it suc- Merchavim by Dr Khaled Abu Asbah, director of the Masar related pressures to cut the education budget, economic that are both immoral and tangibly threaten the educa- cessfully employed before Osama bin Laden escalated to spec- Institute for Educational Research, Planning and analysis shows that this initiative will save Israeli taxpayers tion of our children and the cohesiveness of Israeli society. tacular attacks in the West. Counseling, there are around 7,000 qualified Arab teach- hundreds of millions of shekels in the coming years. The This program will strengthen our economy, relations Before 2001, Al-Qaeda’s main focus was on attacking ers that are seeking employment in their profession, many savings will in part come from reduced investment in between populations within Israel and thus the future of embassies and other outposts of foreign power in the Middle of whom have completed teaching degrees with honors. teacher re-training programs for unemployed high-tech the state of Israel. — CGNews East and Africa - operations like the attack on the US destroyer Cole off Yemen in 2000 and the bombing of US embassies in East Africa in 1998. According to some scholars, bin Laden’s successor, Ayman Zawahiri, always thought it was more cost- US-led university thrives in North Korea effective to strike US embassies in the region than to attempt attacks inside the United States. Al-Qaeda and its many out- By Ben Barber growths have become a different kind of problem for the United States and its allies. Homegrown terrorism can still s North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un threat- occur on American soil, as it did at the Boston marathon. But at least for now, Al-Qaeda seems focused on the Western pres- ened to nuke South Korea and the United States ence in its own backyard, not on targets in the West. The good Athree months ago, a small group of American profes- news, to put it bluntly, is that most Americans have less to wor- sors remained at their lecterns at Pyongyang University of ry about. New Yorkers no longer live in the shadow of another Science and Technology (PUST). The little-known university 9/11. American tourists can visit London, Paris or even Bali in the North Korean capital city was opened four years ago without being any more vigilant about suspicious packages or and its first classes started in 2010. About 400 undergradu- unaccompanied suitcases than they would be at home. ates and 110 graduate students - all products of North Even the State Department’s “Worldwide Travel Alert” Korean schools - study in English at PUST. issued Friday had a slightly sheepish tone, reminding The school taught on even as the US sent nuclear-capa- Americans of “the continued potential for terrorist attacks,” ble bombers and missile-firing warships to the region in especially in the Middle East. But for US diplomats working in response to Kim’s warlike declarations. The chancellor of embassies overseas, the new normal is a serious problem - as the university, Chan-Mo Park - whose home is in Bethesda, much for their ability to do their work as for their safety. “There’s Md., when he is not in Pyongyang - recalled with some a serious case of Benghazi-phobia going on,” one government humor that as the airwaves crackled with tension small official told me. After terrorists attacked the US Consulate in children played in the parks of the North Korean capital. Benghazi, killing Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three And the students showed up for classes. Chancellor other Americans, Congress demanded tougher security meas- Park said in an interview in Washington as he prepared to ures. This month’s closure of embassies for more than a week return to North Korea in August that the new university was, in part, a response. The State Department said the action was funded by Christian missionary groups and approved was taken “out of an abundance of caution.” But working diplo- by the North Korean government as a “model for globaliza- mats worry that if embassies close in response to every threat, their work will be impossible. “Washington makes decisions on tion.” Initially the main funding came from So Mang a zero-risk basis, (but) there has been a level of risk for years,” Church, which is attended over the border in Seoul by the noted Ronald E. Neumann, a former US ambassador to former South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak. Afghanistan. Put more bluntly: If a bomb maker in Yemen can The school teaches electrical and computer engineer- close US embassies just by making plans for his next attempt, ing; international finance and management; and agricul- doesn’t that mean the terrorists have won? ture and life science. There are no South Korean citizens among the 60 professors teaching at the university. Thirty- Over the long run, diplomats are going to have to find new PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspects a bed while visiting the construction site of nine of the teachers are US citizens and the rest come from ways to work without exposing themselves to danger, accord- the apartment houses for scientists close to completion in Pyongyang. — AFP ing to the State Department’s former counterterrorism chief. countries around the world. Twenty-six of them are - like “This is the new normal,” said Daniel Benjamin, now director of Park - ethnic Koreans who settled abroad. local stores. “Now we can change our sim card at the air- returned to dancing. the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding The rest of the teachers are from Canada, Britain, port and use our cell phones,” he said with a smile. “We TV announcers called on South Korea to rise up against at Dartmouth College. “We’ve been closing embassies off and Australia, New Zealand, Finland and others. In a sign of suc- even take videos in the subway. We can exchange local its government and be ready for immediate war, but out- on for the last five years.... In a lot of places, after the Arab cess, last year three PUST students went to study at the currency and can shop in local stores. The economy seems side, children were roller skating and happy to see foreign- Spring, we can’t rely on local security services anymore. It’s University of Westminster in London. They did well and will improved - people dress more vividly.” ers. The North said diplomats should be ready to leave going to be very difficult to fix. But if you lose an embassy (to a return home in September. Now Westminster picked five He can now receive CNN and Chinese news channels. because their safety could not be guaranteed. But Park successful attack), that’s an even bigger setback.”— MCT more students for the coming academic year; and others But Park acknowledges the people he meets do not talk called the Swedish embassy, which represents the US gov- will go to Cambridge University under a Chevron scholar- about any problems and will not talk about anything politi- ernment in Pyongyang, and was told there was no immedi- ship; and four are going to study at Uppsala, Sweden. cal. And for the teachers to leave Pyongyang, which is an ate threat. The university is one of three places in the capi- All articles appearing on these Chancellor Park says that for himself and the other island of elites and shows very little evident poverty - the tal that holds Christian religious services on Sunday, but pages are the personal opinion of teachers in Pyongyang they feel more free. This is contrary university teachers have to go with a minder. He has, how- “the students don’t go,” Park said. the writers. Kuwait Times takes no to the view in the West that President Kim has ushered in a ever, seen evidence of hunger. He saw a group from the He says the government approves of the American and new hard line with his threats against the West, missile fir- countryside visiting the capital - they appeared lean, ema- other Western professors teaching at Pyongyang responsibility for views expressed ings, nuclear weapons tests and cutting off commercial ciated and had black skin from malnutrition, he said. University of Science and Technology so that the students therein. Kuwait Times invites read- partnership with South Korea at the Kaeysong industrial He also saw people some years ago harvesting acorns, can learn to work with foreigners and eventually “global- ers to voice their opinions. Please park on the North-South border. “There has been a big which can be used to feed pigs or are eaten by humans. ize” the country so it can compete in world markets. PUST send submissions via email to: opin- change after Kim Jong-un came into office,” says Park. “In Park, who is a US citizen, said that the US government students read the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. the old days it was not possible to contact the locals. Now would not mind him to take his job in Pyongyang: “When I “Our students are the only ones in North Korea allowed to [email protected] or via snail the locals approach us to take photos.” have time, I brief the State Department. And the North have direct access to the Internet - others have to go mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Before Kim Jong-un he had to leave his cell phone at Koreans like that I do that. They think I say good things through a local intranet. So far we have no problems.” He The editor reserves the right to edit the airport when he landed and was forbidden from taking about North Korea.” During the March and April period of noted that the former co-president of PUST was recently any submission as necessary. photos in the subway. He could not exchange North global tension, Park’s students switched from square danc- appointed to be head of higher education in North Korea, Korean currency by himself and could not shop at certain ing to martial arts - but “they were not so serious” and soon “a sign they are pleased with the experiment.”— MCT SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 SPORTS

Suarez antics ‘laughable’ Coe rejects Sochi Lin scrapes into final LONDON: Former Liverpool stalwart Jamie Carragher has described Luis Suarez’s boycott suggestion GUANGZHOU: Defending world and Olympic champion Lin Dan is through to the attempts to engineer a move away from the Premier League club as “laughable”. final of the badminton world championships in Guangzhou, China after a shaky Earlier this week, Suarez accused Liverpool of breaking promises by preventing MOSCOW: Sebastian Coe’s life was changed by his 1,500m gold medal start against a fired-up underdog. him from joining another club, but manager Brendan Rodgers has refuted that and at the politically riven 1980 Olympics so it came as no surprise to hear The women’s singles will see top seed Li Xuerui of China take on Thai 18-year-old forced the Uruguayan to train on his own. Arsenal have him argue yesterday that a suggested boycott of next year’s Sochi Ratchanok Intanon, who outplayed fellow teen P.V. had two bids for Suarez rejected, but Carragher Games was misplaced. Sindhu in their semi-final. does not think the striker should be thinking Coe, along with many other British athletes, defied a government But China will not achieve a third straight clean about turning his back on Liverpool. call to boycott the Moscow Games in protest at the Soviet invasion of sweep of the world championships after their “It didn’t surprise me that Brendan Rodgers Afghanistan and went on to win the 1,500 after surprisingly losing to men’s doubles pair lost out to Indonesia. Chinese has made him train on his own,” wrote compatriot Steve Ovett in his preferred 800. superstar Lin, widely regarded as badminton’s best Carragher in Saturday’s edition of the Daily Back at the same Luzhniki stadium for the athletics world champi- ever player, took on Vietnam’s Nguyen Tien Minh, Mail newspaper. onship 33 years later, Coe, an IAAF council member, dismissed calls for a seeded seventh. “I never thought Luis would down tools boycott of the Sochi winter Olympics over Russia’s new anti-gay propa- Dancing around the court, the agile in the way Fernando Torres did when he ganda law. Vietnamese player, 30 — who became Vietnam’s wanted to leave Liverpool-his attitude over “I am against boycotts. I don’t think they achieve what they set out first ever world Championships medallist by reach- the final 18 months became progressively to do. They harm only one group - the athletes,” said Coe, who headed ing the semi-finals won applause from the partisan worse-but now Suarez has given me reason to the organising committee for the 2012 London Olympics and it widely crowd with a cheeky over-the-shoulder return as think again. tipped to be the next president of the International Association of Lin took his time to find his feet. “To see it come to this is very dispiriting. A lot Athletics Federations. Lin, who is back on court after almost a year of good people have stood by Luis since he “International sport is not an inhibitor of social change, it actually on the sidelines to spend time with his family, joined the club. Rodgers and Kenny Dalglish has a catalytic effect. “This stadium in a large part defined what I did in slipped behind in the first game after misjudging could not have done more for him.—AFP my athletics career and a large part of what I went on to do.—Reuters Nguyen’s early returns.—AFP MLB results/standings Yankees keep Tigers at bay Minnesota 7, Chicago White Sox 5; LA Angels 5, Cleveland 2; NY Yankees 4, Detroit 3 (10 innings); Washington 9, Philadelphia 2; Oakland 14, Toronto 6; Cincinnati 7, San Diego 2; Atlanta 5, Miami 0; NEW YORK: Alex Rodriguez drew loud boos in his a victory over Cleveland, which dropped its fifth in a straight victory. The Astros led by one entering the Minnesota 3, Chicago White Sox 2 (10 innings); Kansas City 9, Boston 6; Texas 9, Houston 5; Chicago return home and the New York Yankees overcame row. eighth before Adrian Beltre tied it with an RBI single Cubs 3, St. Louis 0; Colorado 10, Pittsburgh 1; Arizona 5, NY Mets 4; Milwaukee 10, Seattle 5; LA Miguel Cabrera’s crushing home run off Mariano Weaver (7-5) allowed two runs and six hits in seven off Josh Zeid (0-1).esley W Wright’s two-out, bases- Dodgers 7, Tampa Bay 6; Baltimore 5, San Francisco 2 (10 innings). Rivera, beating Detroit 4-3 in 10 innings Friday night innings. The right-hander has dominated at loaded walk of Jurickson Profar put the Rangers on American League National League and snapping the Tigers’ 12-game winning streak. Progressive Field, going 6-0 in nine career starts. top. Martin then belted a line drive to right field to Eastern Division Eastern Division Cabrera temporarily saved the Tigers by hitting a According to the Angels, he entered the game as the score two and make it 7-4. Matt Garza (2-1) yielded W L PCT GB Atlanta 71 45 .612 - two-out, two-run homer in the ninth off Rivera that first pitcher since 1916 to be 5-0 or better with an ERA seven hits and four runs with eight strikeouts in sev- Boston 70 48 .593 - Washington 55 60 .478 15.5 made it 3-all. The reigning Triple Crown winner con- of 1.52 or lower at any road ballpark. en innings for the win. Tampa Bay 66 48 .579 2 NY Mets 52 61 .460 17.5 nected while still hobbling after apparently fouling a Hamilton connected in the first inning when the The Astros used five pitchers in the eighth inning Baltimore 64 51 .557 4.5 Philadelphia 52 63 .452 18.5 ball off himself earlier in the at-bat. Angels scored five off Scott Kazmir (7-5), who lost for alone, but it didn’t help relieve their bullpen woes. NY Yankees 58 56 .509 10 Miami 43 71 .377 27 Brett Gardner grounded an RBI single with the the first time since June 10 - a span of 10 starts. JC Houston’s relievers have given up the lead six times Toronto 53 62 .461 15.5 Central Division bases loaded and two outs in the 10th to end New Gutierrez worked the eighth and rookie Dane De La in the last 13 games and have blown six saves in that Central Division Pittsburgh 70 45 .609 - Detroit 68 46 .596 - York’s four-game losing streak. Rosa had a 1-2-3 ninth for his first major league save. span. St. Louis 66 49 .574 4 Cleveland 62 54 .534 7 The AL Central-leading Tigers were trying for their Kansas City 60 53 .531 7.5 Cincinnati 64 51 .557 6 best string since 1934, when they tied the team record TWINS 7, WHITE SOX 5 BREWERS 10, MARINERS 5 Minnesota 51 62 .451 16.5 Chicago Cubs 51 64 .443 19 of 14 straight wins. That run ended across the street at In Chicago, Oswaldo Arcia homered leading off the In Seattle, Yuniesky Betancourt highlighted Chicago W Sox 43 71 .377 25 Milwaukee 50 66 .431 20.5 the old Yankee Stadium when Babe Ruth and Lou 10th inning and Minnesota beat Chicago to complete Milwaukee’s five-run fifth inning with his second Western Division Western Division Gehrig each drove in runs to down Detroit. Gardner the day-night doubleheader sweep. grand slam of the season, and the Brewers beat the Oakland 65 49 .570 - LA Dodgers 65 50 .565 - Arizona 59 55 .518 5.5 singled just past Cabrera’s dive at third base. Al Texas 66 50 .569 - Alburquerque (2-3) took the loss and Shawn Kelley (4- Seattle 53 62 .461 12.5 Colorado 53 64 .453 13 LA Angels 52 62 .456 13 San Diego 52 63 .452 13 1) got the win. Houston 37 77 .325 28 San Francisco 51 64 .443 14 ROYALS 9, RED SOX 6 In Kansas City, Justin Maxwell homered and sin- gled twice in a six-run sixth and Kansas City rallied to Braves pound Marlins beat Boston. The Royals have won 15 of their past 17 games to move seven games above .500, matching ATLANTA: Justin Upton, Chris Johnson and innings, and Chicago recorded its first shutout in their best record of the season. Brian McCann homered, Brandon Beachy St. Louis in 16 years. Maxwell, whom the Royals acquired on July 31 pitched eight strong innings, and the Atlanta Rusin (2-1) twice worked out of bases-loaded from the Houston Astros for a minor league pitcher, Braves beat the Miami Marlins 5-0 Friday night jams and only set the Cardinals down in order in homered leading off the second. for their 14th straight victory. The Braves are one the first. He struck out a season-high five and With the Royals trailing 6-3 in the sixth, he led off victory shy of tying their 2000 team for the issued two intentional walks. the inning with a single. The Royals sent 11 men to the longest winning streak since the franchise relo- Kevin Gregg recorded his 24th save to com- plate in the inning against Red Sox pitchers Jake cated to Atlanta in 1966. plete the Cubs’ first shutout in St. Louis since Peavy, Drake Britton and Pedro Beato. Beachy (1-0) scattered three hits, allowed Jeremi Gonzalez tossed one on June 23, 1997. Peavy, who was making his second Red Sox start one walk and struck out six in eight innings to Lance Lynn (13-6), attempting to become the since being acquired in a July 30 trade from the win his third start back from elbow ligament National League’s first 14-game winner, labored Chicago White Sox, yielded singles to Maxwell, Mike replacement surgery on June 21, 2012. He made over 6 2-3 innings despite giving up just three 67 of 99 pitches for strikes. With only 15 losses at hits. He threw 115 pitches and was charged with Moustakas and Alcides Escobar to start the inning. Turner Field, Atlanta improved its home winning all three runs. He struck out five, walked five and Escobar’s RBI single finished Peavy. percentage to .722, best in the majors. hit two. Chicago has won two of three, but only The Braves were eight games ahead of sec- has three wins in its past 12. ATHLETICS 14, BLUE JAYS 6 ond-place Washington in the NL East after losing In Toronto, Josh Reddick broke out of a slump by NEW YORK: Miguel Cabrera No. 24 of the Detroit Tigers follows through on a game tying their last game, July 24 at the New York, but now ROCKIES 10, PIRATES 1 homering in three consecutive at-bats, and Jed Lowrie two run home run in the ninth inning against the New York Yankees.—AFP lead the division by 151/2 games. In Denver, Wilin Rosario doubled and home- and Yoenis Cespedes also connected in Oakland’s vic- red to drive in four runs, leading an offense that tory over Toronto. Josh Willingham and Chris Hermann also went Mariners. Once the Mariners starting shortstop, NATIONALS 9, PHILLIES 2 batted around in the first and second innings, Reddick was hitless in his previous 20 at-bats deep. Brian Duensing (6-1) picked up the win in both Betancourt came back to haunt his former club as In Washington, Dan Haren won his third and Colorado snapped a five-game losing streak before connecting off Esmil Rogers with a solo blast in games, and the Twins prevailed in the nightcap after the teams opened a three-game series. straight winning start while Anthony Rendon by beating Pittsburgh. Francisco Liriano (12-5) the second inning that hit the facing of the second rallying to take the opener 7-5. Betancourt’s slam was his 13th homer of the season and Ryan Zimmerman homered to help bore the brunt of the Rockies’ outburst in his deck in right. He hit another solo homer in the fifth, an The big news came before the first game, with the and he enjoyed every second of going deep against Washington snap a four-game losing streak by first appearance at hitter-friendly Coors Field, opposite-field shot to left off reliever Neil Wagner, White Sox trading Alex Rios to Texas. Then, Justin his former team. Betancourt drove the pitch from beating Philadelphia. allowing a career-high 10 runs on 12 hits in 2 1-3 then smacked a three-run drive off Juan Perez in the Morneau hit a grand slam and solo homer to lift the Joe Saunders (10-11) out to left, walking and watch- Haren (7-11) limited the Phillies to two runs innings, his shortest outing of the season. sixth. The home runs were the sixth, seventh and Twins in the early game. ing as he left the batter’s box, then flipped his bat and four hits over seven innings for his first With the game out of reach, Pirates infielder eighth of the season for Reddick, who has three career In the second game, Minnesota was trailing 2-1 before excitedly running the bases. It was his sixth career win against Philadelphia in eight starts. Josh Harrison was summoned by manager Clint He struck out seven without issuing a walk. Hurdle to relieve Jared Hughes and got pinch- multi-homer games. All three homers came with two heading into the eighth when Willingham greeted career grand slam. Norichika Aoki also drove in three John Lannan (3-5) allowed eight runs, nine hitter Corey Dickerson to fly out to left to close outs. reliever Matt Lindstrom with a leadoff homer. runs as the Brewers scored 10 runs for the first time hits and five walks over five innings. The Phillies out the eighth. Oakland came in batting .219 in 22 games since Arcia, who also homered in the first game, put the since June 12. have lost seven of their last nine games. Jorge De La Rosa (11-6) went five innings, July 10, but set a season high in runs and pounded out Twins ahead when he drove a 1-0 pitch from Dylan While the Brewers were knocking around Seattle’s shaking off a blow near his pitching shoulder 17 hits against the Blue Jays, winning for the sixth time Axelrod (4-9) well beyond the center-field wall leading pitchers, Kyle Lohse was putting in another strong from Jordy Mercer’s comebacker and keeping in eight games at Rogers Centre. off the 10th. performance. Lohse (8-7) won for the seventh time in the Pirates in check by working out of two his last eight decisions, holding the Mariners to three bases-loaded jams early. ANGELS 5, INDIANS 2 RANGERS 9, ASTROS 5 runs in seven innings. Kyle Seager had a two-run sin- In Cleveland, Jered Weaver chalked up another win In Houston, Leonys Martin hit a two-run double gle in the third for Seattle, but Lohse pitched out of DIAMONDBACKS 5, METS 4 in Cleveland and Josh Hamilton hit a three-run homer in a four-run eighth inning, and Texas rallied to trouble in the third, fifth and seventh innings. Lohse In Phoenix, Paul Goldschmidt homered to as Los Angeles ended its four-game losing streak with beat Houston and tie a season high with its fifth has lost just once since May 30.—AP the opposite field with one out in the ninth inning to carrry Arizona past New York. Goldschmidt’s 27th homer, his second game- winner of the year, came off Scott Atchison (2-1) Luna Rossa takes 3-0 lead after the Mets had rallied from a two-run deficit. Brad Ziegler (5-1) pitched an inning of score- less relief for the win. The Mets’ Marlon Byrd was thrown out at the plate trying for an inside-the- over Artemis in semi-finals park home run in the second inning. Patrick Corbin, looking for his 13th win, left with a 4-2 lead after six, but the Mets scored SAN FRANCISCO: Italy’s Luna Rossa is one victory “Today was a great start,” Luna Rossa skipper Max said Artemis skipper Iain Percy. “They sailed excellently twice off Heath Bell in the eighth to tie it, ending away from advancing to the America’s Cup challenger Sirena said. “After the start we sailed probably our best from start to finish. Now it’s sudden death tomorrow the reliever’s string of 11 straight scoreless out- finals and another showdown with powerhouse race on the water as a team, which is good because and we like that. We look forward to that pressure.” ings. Emirates Team New Zealand. tomorrow’s going to be tough. Artemis Racing is get- Artemis was going through a slow tack during Luna Rossa beat Artemis Racing on Friday to take a ting quicker and quicker every day and it’s not finished prestart maneuvers when Luna Rossa helmsman Chris INTERLEAGUE 3-0 lead in the challenger semifinals, putting the yet. We need to keep focused and race well tomor- Draper tucked the chrome-hulled Italian catamaran DODGERS 7, RAYS 6 Swedish syndicate one loss away from going home row.” underneath the Swedish boat and into control. In Los Angeles, reliever Fernando Rodney’s after just four races in a regatta that was marred when Luna Rossa led at every mark and won by 1 Artemis protested but the on-the-water umpires throwing error allowed the winning run to score crewman Andrew “Bart” Simpson was killed in a cap- minute, 18 seconds, the closest margin in the chal- waved it off. in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving Los size during preparatory sailing. lenger series so far. Artemis Racing sailed better, It was the first time in three races that Draper won Angeles an improbable victory over Tampa Bay. Luna Rossa can wrap up the best-of-seven series including doing a better job of getting its boat up on the starter. Even though the Italian boat trailed at the ATLANTA: Brandon Beachy No. 37 of the Rodney (4-3) took the loss, allowing four runs Saturday on San Francisco Bay and earn a berth in the hydrofoils. “We upped our game hugely today, but the start in the first two races, it quickly overhauled Atlanta Braves pitches against the - three earned - and four hits while getting just Louis Vuitton Cup final against the Kiwis. bad news for Artemis Racing was so did Luna Rossa,” Artemis Racing. Miami Marlins at Turner Field. —AFP one out. Ronald Belisaro (5-6) got the victory in Artemis Racing sailed with a new daggerboard in relief, helping the Dodgers extend their winning the port hull. Percy said that the board coupled with Adam LaRoche snapped a 0-for-16 lifetime streak to three games. new winglets on the rudders helped the team get foil- skid against Lannan with an RBI double in the Jerry Hairston Jr. grounded into a fielder’s fourth. Denard Span’s two-run single capped a choice to first base and Adrian Gonzalez scored ing. four-run fifth inning. Bryce Harper added an RBI on Rodney’s throwing error. Gonzalez’s RBI dou- Foiling is when the boat is going fast enough to single. ble tied the game 6-all after Mark Ellis’ RBI triple pop up onto the daggerboard in the leeward hull and and Nick Punto’s RBI double sparked the winglets on the bottom of the rudders and ride over REDS 7, PADRES 2 Dodgers’ rally. the tops of the waves, its hulls out of the water. That In Cincinnati, Joey Votto drove in a pair of reduces drag and increases speed. runs with a single and a triple, and Bronson ORIOLES 5, GIANTS 2 “The winglets seem to give it a little more lift when Arroyo recovered from his roughest outing of In San Francisco, Chris Davis hit a two-out, the rudders are being worked hard in the gybes, and the season to lead Cincinnati over San Diego. two-run double in the 10th inning to lift seem to have made it a little easier pulling off the foil- The Reds have won three straight since get- Baltimore past San Francisco. JJ Hardy homered ing gybes,” Percy said. ting embarrassed by the St. Louis Cardinals at and Adam Jones had two hits and drove in a run A foiling gybe is when a boat changes direction home last weekend, dropping games by scores for Baltimore. Matt Wieters also drove in a run. while sailing downwind and stays on the foils, without of 13-3 and 15-2. Jim Johnson (3-7) gave up a game-tying hit the hulls touching the water. Arroyo (10-9) took the loss in that first game to Hunter Pence and then worked out of the jam Luna Rossa gradually increased its lead at every against the Cardinals, giving up seven runs in a to gain the victory. Orioles starter Chris Tillman mark on the course that stretches from just inside the season-low 3 2-3 innings. He was back on his threw eight stellar innings, striking out a career- Golden Gate Bridge to just beyond Alcatraz Island. The game against San Diego, allowing only four hits high nine, giving up one run on four hits and in seven innings, including Logan Forsythe’s solo walked one. finish line is right off America’s Cup Park on Piers 27-29. homer. Votto drove in the first two runs off Brandon Belt had two hits, including a home Artemis helmsman Nathan Outteridge said the boat’s Andrew Cashner (8-6), ending the right-hander’s run, for the Giants, who have lost five of seven. performance was 30 percent better than in Race 2. streak of three straight wins. Brandon Phillips Javier Lopez (1-2) allowed all three runs in the “We’re looking for another improvement tomorrow, added a two-run homer off Tim Stauffer. 10th to take the loss. and honestly, we’d love to take a race from Luna Rossa Ryan Vogelsong, who was reinstated from and keep this going,” Outteridge said. The challenger CUBS 3, CARDINALS 0 the 60-day disabled list before the game, series final starts Aug. 17. The winner faces defending In St. Louis, Anthony Rizzo had a two-run sin- allowed two runs on six hits over six innings. He SAN FRANCISCO: Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge (left) and Sweden’s Artemis Racing (right) face champion Oracle Team USA in the 34th America’s Cup gle, Chris Rusin pitched around seven hits in six walked three and struck out four.—AP off at the start of a Louis Vuitton Cup semi-finals.—AFP starting Sept. 7.—AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 SPORTS ’John Daly of Asia’ makes his mark at PGA

PITTSFORD: I’m thinking of changing my said we swing very similarly.” The resem- comfortably and took up golf at age 8 after just nerves working against him again, much. Starting out in a fuchsia shirt and name to Justin Timberlake. And why not? blance, however, doesn’t end there. tagging along behind his father on the though Kiradech acknowledges those were white pants, Kiradech was hard to miss. But People in Thailand change their names for Kiradech shares Daly’s go-for-broke course course. Every time there was a tournament, frayed. There was also the fatigue of lug- the small gallery he garnered while shoot- good luck all the time, or so I’m told. management style. Until a closing run of the two stayed behind to watch the tro- ging his large frame up and down the hills ing 34 on his first nine had dwindled to his That bit of knowledge was imparted three bogeys in the last five holes, he was phies being presented. It didn’t take long on the course in steamy weather. He’s listed manager and a handful of family members cheerfully by Kiradech Aphibarnrat outside at 4 under and zooming up the leader- for the son to get his hands on a few of his at 5-foot-10 and 210, but his agent, not long after he made the turn. He hit just the clubhouse Friday at Oak Hill, where he board. What made the fall tougher to take own. Pimporn Rojsattarat, pegs his weight at two fairways on the back, and like the John had just signed for a 1-over 71 that left him was how well Kiradech recovered from an “My dad said if I play golf well, he will let closer to 260. “I don’t work out a lot. I just Daly of America, tried powering his way out 1 under for the PGA Championship and early bout of nerves. someone else do my homework,” Kiradech try to play good golf. You don’t have to of trouble. “My game is very good, but I eight shots behind leader Jason Dufner. “After four or five holes, my hands were recalled, smiling mischievously. have a good body for that,” Kiradech have to learn more,” he said. By that, he pre- His name, for example, used to be Anujit shaking ... before every shot,” he recalled. As if he needed further reinforcement, explained, with typical good humor, while sumably meant patience, a quality that Hirunratanakorn, at least until he was 16. “Every time on Friday, you have to make Kiradech won the Junior World playing last weekend in the Bridgestone, Pimporn recognizes doesn’t come naturally That’s when Kiradech’s family ventured to a the cut. I feel I cannot make any mistakes, Championship in consecutive years, 2003- where he tied for 40th. to 24-year-olds. Especially someone like monastery in northern Thailand for the that I have to be perfect.” 04, then turned pro in 2008. He won a mini- He didn’t set himself a target score for Kiradech, who spent a year or two racing renaming ceremony. Oddly enough, both For some of his golfing predecessors, tour event the following year and his first Oak Hill, but after Kiradech shot 68 in the cars before giving up the circuit to grateful his former and current names translate into that was quite literally the case. Most of the big-league tournament on the Asian tour in opening round, he candidly admitted the tears from his mother. English as “bright.” Thais who preceded Kiradech onto the 2011. His real breakthrough, though, came weight of expectations settled across his “Sometimes,” said Pimporn, who repre- But in golfing circles, the charming, European and Asian tours picked up the in March, on the European Tour at the broad shoulders. sents more than three dozen promising portly 24-year-old is known as a two-time game after working as caddies, often with Malaysian Open, a tournament shortened “I was quite proud,” he said. “I was able Thai golfers, “we have to instruct the caddie Junior World champion, or more recently, clubs they had to assemble from discarded to 54 holes due to thunderstorms - a victo- to see myself on TV. A friend called and told to slow Kiradech down. “He is like many the “John Daly of Asia.” “I played with him iron heads and grips. ry Kiradech admitted he might not have me, “They’re talking about you on the Golf young men,” she added. “He likes to do two times,” Kiradech said. “He’s a good guy Kiradech, on the other hand, grew up secured had it gone the distance. It wasn’t Channel.’” After Friday, unfortunately, not so everything fast.”—AP Dufner takes run at PGA leaderboard and history

ROCHESTER: Jason Dufner bright- good start while the tough condi- ened up a dreary day with a charge tions were out there and I managed up the PGA Championship leader- to hang on. “The course is obvious- board and a run at golf history, ly softening up and I’m sure some carding a seven-under 63 on Friday guys will take advantage of that to match the best score for a round but so far so good for two days.” at a major. The heavy favorite coming into Just hours after Webb Simpson this week after romping to a seven- thrilled the rain-soaked crowd with stroke victory at the WGC- a 64, equalling the Oak Hill course Bridgestone Invitational today, record, Dufner went one better, Woods was unable to take advan- becoming just the 24th player to tage of the soft conditions. shoot 63 at one of golf’s four major “I made my share, I missed my events. share. Just the way it goes,” he said. His bogey-free round also shot “Obviously I’m going to have to put the laid-back American to the top together a really good weekend. HUNGARY: Korea’s Mi Na Kim fights with Russia’s Diana Yakovleva for the of the leaderboard with a two “I’m going to have to do my job bronze medal of the women’s foil team final competition at the 2013 World round total of nine-under 131, giv- and shoot a good round.” Fencing Championships.—AFP ing him a two shot advantage over Defending champion Rory McIlroy Australia’s Adam Scott (68) and the (71), eager to turn his game around American pair Matt Kuchar (66) and after a poor season by his stan- Chamley-Watson Jim Furyk (68). dards, looked headed for an early Britain’s US Open champion exit until a late turnaround down Justin Rose (66) and Swede Henrik the stretch. bags fencing title Stenson (66) will start Saturday’s The Northern Irishman’s play third round one stoke further back was as gloomy as the early weather BUDAPEST: Miles Chamley-Watson won the before the semi-final round. World number one, at six-under. until he roared back with four men’s foil at the World Championships on Friday, Andrea Baldini of Italy, ended up 17th while Tiger Woods, stuck in a five-year birdies over his final seven holes to becoming the first American man to win an indi- London Olympic gold medalist Sheng Lei of major-victory drought, was unable get back to level par 140 for the vidual world title in fencing. China took sixth. Chamley-Watson had placed to work his way up the leader- tournament and make the three- The 23-year-old Chamley-Watson clinched 25th in Olympics. board, scrapping to a level par 70 over cut. Plenty of big names, the championship when he beat Russia’s Artur London-born Chamley-Watson won three to sit 10 strokes behind the leader. major winners and former-champi- Akhmatkhuzin 15-6 in the gold medal match in key direct-elimination matches by a solitary “It’s tough when you’re chasing ons will, however, have the week- Budapest. Ranked 17th coming into the compe- point on his way to being crowned champion. In history,” Dufner told reporters. “You end off. American Shaun Micheel, tition, Chamley-Watson was forced to compete the round of 32, he beat Giorgio Avola of Italy will be the first one to do some- who won his one and only PGA title in the preliminary rounds earlier in the week but 15-14; then in the round of 16, he snuck up on thing. I don’t think I’ve been the ROCHESTER: Jason Dufner of the United States walks to a a decade ago with a shock victory sailed through undefeated to join his three high- world number three, Alexey Cheremisinov, with first to do anything in my life. green during the second round of the 95th PGA the last time the PGA er-ranked teammates in the main event. a simple direct attack to the Russian’s right “So it was a little nerve-wracking Championship. —AFP Championship was staged at Oak “I’m beyond happy right now,” Chamley- shoulder for a 15-14 victory. In his quarter-final for a Friday. It’s usually the pressure Hill, labored to back-to-back 76s to Watson told Reuters by telephone before the against Germany’s Sebastian Bachmann, you might feel towards the end of when it slowly rolled to halt short at 17 ensured he signed for a 65. miss the cut by nine strokes. medal ceremony. “I’m world champion. I have to Chamley-Watson was down by seven touches, the tournament but I got through of its target. “Obviously had a fan- The early starters were greeted Woody Austin paid a hefty price get used to saying that. “I was happy I was able or points. He fought his way back to win, again it. “I made a couple of pars, and I tastic day today in a major champi- by dark skies and pounding rain at when he was penalised four strokes to break the seal. That was very cool.” by a score of 15-14. wish I had that putt on the last hole onship, chased a little bit of history,” stately Oak Hill Country Club but for carrying an extra club. With his The lanky right-hander joined a rare circle of Chamley-Watson provided a payback for his back again.” said Dufner. “Came up a little short the soggy conditions could not second round 75 the 49-year-old American fencing champions who have started teammate Alexander Massialas, who lost a con- While the galleries were electri- on that last putt but all-in-all I’m prevent some of the contenders American finished on four-over 144 to transform the United States into a force on troversial bout against Italy’s Valerio fied by the 36-year-old’s composed excited.” from getting off to hot starts. and if not for the penalty would the world fencing circuit. Aspromonte 15-14. and masterful display, Dufner was As the rain disappeared and the Scott, the joint overnight leader have easily made the cut. Mariel Zagunis is the only other individual “I wanted to help my teammate back. I’m so typically blasÈ, showing not a hint sun began to peak out from behind alongside Furyk, teed off on the Former Masters champions world champion from the US She won the world happy. I couldn’t let Aspromonte beat two of emotion when his approach at the clouds, there was more drama back nine in the worst of the condi- Bubba Watson and South African title in 2009 and 2010, in addition to winning the Americans,” he said, having won the semi-final the second spun back into the cup unfolding with the late starters tions but the Masters champion Charl Schwartzel were among the individual gold medal at the Athens and Beijing 15-9. In foil, the lightest of the three weapons for an eagle or when his approach attacking a defenseless East course was unbothered by the downpour, big name casualties joined at the Olympics. She finished fifth in Budapest, where that include epee and saber, the valid points to the 18th landed 12-feet from the with gusto. picking up a birdie on his opening exit by double British Open winners competition finishes August 12. The US men known as touches, are scored only with the hole. With the sun-setting, KJ Choi hole. “It was raining pretty hard on Ernie Els and Ireland’s Padraig won the epee team gold at last year’s world point of the blade on the front and back of the As Dufner walked onto the was poised to challenge the record, and off and the course was playing Harrington, who also has a PGA championships in Kiev. The men’s individual foil torso. Matches, or bouts, are fenced up to 15 green sizing up the historic putt, reaching six-under for the round tough,” said Scott. Championship in his major collec- event in Budapest was turned upside-down touches, in three minute periods up to a total of the crowd fell quiet, then groaned with two holes to play but a bogey “So it was nice to get off to a tion.—Reuters with the elimination of the top seeded fencers nine minutes.—Reuters Iran, Philippines in final

MANILA: Iran, led by NBA centre Hamed Haddadi, end- ed the giant-killing run of Chinese Taipei yesterday to reach the final of the FIBA Asia basketball champi- onship. The Iranians will gun for their third Asian title today when they play hosts the Philippines, who ousted South Korea in a pulsating semi-final. Haddadi, the first Iran-born player in the US National Basketball Association, scored 17 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in 25 minutes as Iran defeated the Taiwanese, 79-60. Point guard Mahdy Kamrani led all scorers with 19 points plus six assists for the Iranians, champions in Chad Le Clos of South Africa in action in this file photo.—AFP 2007 and 2009 in the biennial event. Chinese Taipei had sensationally bundled out Le Clos picks up week’s defending champions China in the quarter-finals on Friday, but ran out of gas after a close first quarter. second World Cup win They were again paced yesterday by their centre Quincy Davis with 16 points and five rebounds, but his BERLIN: South Africa’s Olympic and world racing two World Cup meets in a week, straight fellow starters offered little support. champion Chad le Clos claimed his second after the world championships, was taking its Meanwhile, backed by 20,000 raucous local fans, the World Cup win of the week yesterday with victo- toll. “I’m happy with the time and nice to get Filipinos overcame the much-taller South Koreans to ry in the men’s 200m butterfly final in Berlin. The another win (in the 100m fly final) under the run out 86-79 winners in a closely-fought match. 21-year-old, who shot to fame by beating belt,” Le Clos told AFP. “It’s been a great couple of The hosts’ backcourt starred, with reserve point Michael Phelps in the 200m fly final at last year’s days, I’ve got a couple of events to come and London Olympics, set the event’s short-course then I get about 10 days off. “Everyone is in the guard Jim Alapag pitching in 14 points including four world record in Eindhoven (1:49.04) on same boat, it’s been a pretty tiring week. three-pointers to complement shooting guard Jayson Wednesday. “I was up at 5am on Friday to get the train William’s 17. Le Clos won both the 100 and 200m butter- from Eindhoven to Berlin, so it’s been a really Forward Jean Marc Pingris scored 16 points and fly gold at Barcelona’s world championships, busy few days after the worlds.” snared 10 rebounds as the Philippines overcame the which finished last Sunday before the World Cup Australia’s world champion James early loss through injury of starting centre Marcus series kicked off in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Magnussen had to settle for second in the men’s Douthit. on Wednesday then continuing in the German 100m freestyle final as he finished 0.3secs capital this past weekend. behind winner Vladimir Morozov of Russia, the The Filipinos had been champions five times, second Le Clos had to dig deep in Berlin as he 50m freestyle world silver medallist in Barcelona. only to China’s 15, but their last title came in 1985. clocked 1min 49.90secs in the 200m final with The 21-year-old Magnuseen, who defended Substitute guard Kim Min-Goo led the Koreans with 27 Poland’s Pawel Korzeniowski second at 0.53sec his 100m title in Barcelona, will race again on points. back and Japan’s Daiya Seto adrift at 1.06 in Sunday in the 50m freestyle. The Asian championship is also the qualifying tour- third. Over the shorter sprint distance, Le Clos, Spain’s Mireia Belmonte, who won world sil- nament for the region’s three representatives to the who added the world title to his Olympic crown vers over 200m fly and 400m IM in Barcelona, FIBA World Cup in Spain next year. As Asian champi- in the 200m fly at the world championships last broke the world short-course record in the week, then finished third in the 50m final behind women’s 800m freestyle final. Belmonte clocked onship finalists, Iran and the Philippines get the first two compatriot Roland Schoeman. 7mins 59.34secs, with New Zealand’s Lauren slots, with losing semi-finalists Chinese Taipei and South MANILA: Iran’s Asghar Kardoust (centre right) fights for the rebound with With Le Clos also swimming the 100m fly Boyle came second and Denmark’s Lotte Friis Korea contesting the third slot in the third-place play- Chou Po-Chen of Taiwan (centre left) in their men’s Asia Championships bas- and 200m individual medley today, he admitted finished third. —AFP off, also today. —AFP ketball game. Iran won 79-60.—AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 SPORTS Kenya acknowledges growing doping problem

ITEN: With limited resources to catch cheats, great Kipchoge Keino, Kenya’s National Olympic Kenya were first aired by the German national metres steeplechase champion, earlier this year issue is confined to the minority but are Kenya sees education as the best tool to fight Committee chief, told Reuters in Eldoret in the television broadcaster ARD before last year’s became the first high-profile former Kenyan adamant Athletics Kenya is not doing enough to doping as it comes to terms with the reality that Rift Valley. London Olympic Games. athlete to allege doping was widespread. educate or shield the runners, whose parents performance enhancing drugs are threatening “We need to educate our athletes. We need Kenyan officials were furious at first, saying “When you talk to these runners, and I’ve are often subsistence farmers and cannot afford its reputation for producing world-class runners. to sit down together and give them seminars so the country was being defamed. But after talked to some of those who have been caught, to school them properly. Kenya has suspended 14 athletes since the they can understand. We have to show them in months of denials and angry ripostes, they have they say ‘I’m not the only one’,” Kiptanui told Athletics Kenya (AK) president Isaiah start of last year for doping amid a trickle of practical terms that this is not the right way.” started to acknowledge the problem. Reuters in his home near the Ugandan border, Kiplagat disclosed in May that the World Anti- claims that cheating is widespread in the train- In Iten, a small village at the heart of Kenya’s “I think they’ve realised that this is an issue in reachable only by a sun kissed dirt road which Doping Agency (WADA) was concerned the ing camps dotted across its lush Rift Valley running revolution, athletes are reluctant to talk Kenya. For a long time we kind of ignored the pierces through lush maize plantations. government was not taking doping seriously region. about doping with outsiders but the issue is a idea that it’s there,” O’Connell said, adding that A wealthy businessman, Kiptanui last year and conceded Kenya’s credibility was being While Kenyan officials stress none of those common topic of conversation among coaches, the federation has to get on top of the doping in stopped coaching to focus on his large dairy doubted in the athletics world. caught were top athletes, the controversy has former runners and agents. order to maintain its credibility. business. He said several athletes have told him However, Kenya’s ability to root out doping cast a shadow over one of the world’s most suc- Brother Colm O’Connell, coach to Kenya’s While no one knows the scale of the doping they can buy banned substances at chemist on its own is limited as the east African country cessful running nations at a time athletics is reel- Olympic champion and 800 metres world problem in Kenya, critics say officials need to do shops in the Rift Valley towns of Eldoret and does not have a single IAAF-certified drugs test- ing from high-profile doping scandals. record holder David Rudisha, said the failed more and point out that only one athlete from Kapsabet. ing lab. All the blood samples taken in Nairobi The run up to the Moscow World drugs tests by some Kenyan athletes had come Ethiopia, Kenya’s neighbour and greatest rival, is One top foreign agent told Reuters how a are flown to Johannesburg, Barcelona or Paris Championships has been overshadowed by as a total surprise and the suspension of Gay serving a drugs ban. By contrast, eight Kenyans low level athlete he did not represent phoned for tests. failed drugs tests by American Tyson Gay and and the Jamaican sprinters had left a sour taste have been suspended in the last year alone, him for advice over what constitutes doping A new testing lab is planned in Eldoret but Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell, Veronica for the running community. according to the International Association of after a doctor from Eldoret offered to conduct a officials say that will be constructed by the IAAF Campbell-Brown and Sherone Simpson and “With recent developments, we are in a very Athletics Federations (IAAF). blood transfusion for him. “There is an issue in and may take years. Kenya is also short of multiple positive tests by Turkish athletes. hazy situation about this whole drug situation,” IAAF figures released last month showed Kenya where doctors and pharmacists see an trained scientists, proper equipment and mon- Kenyan officials say it is vital to stop doping said O’Connell, who has trained 25 world cham- Kenyans were the world’s most tested athletes opportunity to approach athletes or have ath- ey. “They don’t have the ability, the strength, the in its tracks to ensure no Kenyan athlete of a pions and five Olympic champions during his 37 in 2012, followed by Russians and Americans, letes come in looking for vitamins and then they money. Most importantly, they don’t have the similar calibre to Gay or Powell is lured into years in Iten. “But I think as a coach you have to something Kenyan officials said was a byprod- say, ‘look we can help you, we can give you this will. They just want to protect their seats,” using performance enhancing drugs, some- somehow shut it out from what you’re trying do, uct of having the highest number of top ath- medication’ or ‘this will help you perform,” the Kiptanui said, echoing the thoughts of other thing they fear could devastate the sport. otherwise you give up.” letes. agent said. coaches, agents and former runners who spoke “We need to clean our own house,” running Allegations that doping is widespread in Moses Kiptanui, a three-times world 3,000 Both Kiptanui and the agent say the doping to Reuters about doping.—Reuters Rogers’s century revives Aussies after Broad burst

CHESTER-LE-STREET: Chris Rogers’s maiden Test cen- tury took Australia to within sight of a first-innings lead when bad light forced an early close to the sec- ond day of the fourth Ashes Test. Australia were 222 for five at stumps, 16 runs behind England’s first innings 238, with 35-year-old left-handed opener Rogers 101 not out and Brad Haddin unbeaten on 12. Australia had been in trouble at 76 for four shortly after lunch, thanks mainly to paceman Stuart Broad, who took four wickets for 48 runs in 20 overs. But a fifth-wicket stand of 129 between Rogers, dropped on 49, and all-rounder Shane Watson, reprieved on five before making 68, kept England, who at 2-0 up with two to play had already retained the Ashes, at bay. At 35 years and 344 days, Rogers was the second oldest Australian to score a maiden Test century after Arthur Richardson, 37 years and 353 days when he made exactly 100 against England at Leeds in 1926. South Africa’s Dave Nourse (42 years, 295 days) is the oldest from any country. And, in a sign of their recent problems, this was the first time in 12 Tests an CHESTER-LE-STREET: Australia’s Chris Rogers hits a boundary to bring up his century Australian opener had scored a hundred, the longest on the second day of the fourth Ashes cricket Test match between England and sequence since they went 13 Tests without one at the top of the order between 1899 and 1902. Prior to Australia at the Riverside stadium. —AFP Rogers’s innings, David Warner’s 119 against South Africa at Adelaide in November 2012 was the last Test SCOREBOARD PHILADELPHIA: Eagles quarterback Nick Foles (9) fumbles the ball as he is hit by century by an Australian opener. New England Patriots defensive lineman Tommy Kelly (left) and defensive end Rogers had waited five years since making his Chandler Jones during the first half of a preseason NFL football game. —AP Australia debut in 2008 before playing his second Test CHESTER-LE-STREET, United Kingdom: Scoreboard at stumps on the second day of the fourth at the start of this Ashes series after several years of Ashes Test between England and Australia at Chester-le-Street yesterday: heavy run-scoring in both Australian and English first- Patriots down Eagles class cricket. The 35-year-old, who started the season England 1st Innings (overnight: 238-9) Siddle 18-6-41-1 (1nb, 1w); Lyon 20-7-42-4; as captain of English county Middlesex, had come A. Cook lbw b Bird 51 PHILADELPHIA: Michael Vick took an early lead although that game was called because of light- close to a Test century with 84 in the drawn third J. Root c Haddin b Watson 16 Australia 1st Innings over Nick Foles in the first round of the Philadelphia ning with 5:49 left in the third quarter. J. Trott c Khawaja b Lyon 49 C. Rogers not out 101 Eagles’ quarterback competition. match at Old Trafford and this was the third time he’d K. Pietersen c Haddin b Lyon 26 D. Warner b Broad 3 Tom Brady led the New England Patriots to a LIONS 26, JETS 17 passed 50 in the series. pair of 80-yard TD drives in his only two series in a In Detroit, Mark Sanchez had an interception Before lunch, Broad took three wickets, including I. Bell c Harris b Lyon 6 U. Khawaja c Prior b Broad 0 31-22 win over Philadelphia on Friday night. returned for a touchdown, and Geno Smith left that of Australia captain and batting lynchpin Michael J. Bairstow lbw b Lyon 14 M. Clarke c Cook b Broad 6 Vick threw a 47-yard touchdown pass to with an apparent ankle injury in New York’s loss to Clarke. M. Prior lbw b Siddle 17 S. Smith c Prior b Bresnan 17 DeSean Jackson, but the new-look Eagles kicked Detroit. Broad, making use of the overcast conditions, T. Bresnan not out 12 S. Watson c Prior b Broad 68 off the Chip Kelly era the same way they ended Lions rookie Ziggy Ansah made an immediate seamed one back in to clip the top of left-hander S. Broad c Warner b Harris 3 B. Haddin not out 12 Andy Reid’s long tenure - with another loss. impression, intercepting Sanchez’s pass and return- Warner’s off-stump. G. Swann c Lyon b Harris 13 Extras (b2, lb11, nb2) 15 Kelly’s biggest decision will be picking a starting ing it 14 yards for a touchdown. The 6-foot-5 defen- And 12 for one became 12 for two when Broad J. Anderson b Bird 16 Total (5 wkts, 74.4 overs, 335 mins) 222 quarterback. Vick and Foles each led the Eagles to a sive end from Ghana put his hands up just in time had an uncertain Usman Khawaja caught behind for a Extras (b5, lb1, w3, nb6) 15 Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Warner), 2-12 (Khawaja), touchdown in two series apiece. to pick off Sanchez’s screen pass in the first quarter. duck off the bottom edge by wicketkeeper Matt Prior. Total (all out, 92 overs, 403 mins) 238 3-49 (Clarke), 4-76 (Smith), 5-205 (Watson) Vick’s came against New England’s starters and He had an easy return to the end zone for the The latest controversy involving the Decision Fall of wickets: 1-34 (Root), 2-107 (Trott), 3-149 To bat: P Siddle, R Harris, J Bird, N Lyon he looked sharp, completing 4 of 5 passes for 94 game’s first TD. Sanchez played three series, going Review System this series came when Tony Hill gave (Pietersen), 4-153 Bowling: Anderson 20-7-54-0; Broad 20-6-48-4 yards. Foles lost a fumble on his second play and 10 of 13 for 125 yards and a touchdown. Smith was Rogers out caught behind off Broad on 20. (Cook), 5-155 (Bell), 6-189 (Prior), 7-193 (2nb); Bresnan 16.4-3-60-1; Swann 15-5-37-0; then went 5 of 6 for 43 yards. Kelly already said 6 of 7 for 47 yards but left shortly after halftime. Rogers reviewed and the much-criticised Hot Spot (Bairstow), 8-198 (Broad), 9-214 Trott 3-0-10-0; Foles will start next Thursday night against Carolina. Detroit’s Matthew Stafford was 3 of 8 for 58 yards. element of the DRS indicated he hadn’t hit the ball. (Swann), 10-238 (Anderson) Tim Tebow made his New England debut after Although the ball hit Rogers’ back pad, Hawk Eye Bowling: Harris 19-3-70-2 (5nb); Bird 22-9-58-2; Match position: Australia are 16 runs behind backup Ryan Mallett left with a head injury late in DOLPHINS 27, JAGUARS 3 tracking technology said it would have just clipped Watson 13-6-21-1 (2w); England with five first-innings wickets standing. the second quarter. Tebow was 4 of 12 for 55 yards In Jacksonville, Ryan Tannehill connected with the bails and the ‘umpire’s call’ verdict meant Rogers and ran for 31 yards on four carries. Brady finished 7 Dustin Keller for a 22-yard touchdown, and Miami of 8 for 65 yards and one TD. thumped Jacksonville. was not out lbw either. Tannehill played a little longer and a lot But there was no dispute when Clarke, who made SAINTS 17, CHIEFS 13 smoother in his second preseason game. The a brilliant 187 in Manchester, drove without moving In New Orleans, Preston Parker had a pair of Jaguars can only hope Blaine Gabbert will do the his at a Broad outswinger on six and England captain touchdown catches in his bid to fill one open same. Tannehill completed 5 of 9 passes for 75 Alastair Cook held a sharp chance above his head at receiver spots, and New Orleans defeated Kansas yards, getting things rolling late in the first quarter. first slip. City in coach Sean Payton’s first game back from his He connected with Keller for a 24-yard gain and Bresnan would have dismissed Watson for five had bounty suspension. New Chiefs coach Andy Reid then found the former New York Jets tight end five he held a sharp left-handed caught and bowled saw all he needed of new starting quarterback Alex plays later for a score. Safety Chris Prosinski looked chance. Rogers was then reprieved in the act of reach- Smith in the opening drive, which went 80 yards on lost on the play, the first of many mistakes for the ing 50 when he nicked Broad only for second slip 14 plays, capped by Jamaal Charles’ TD run. Smith rebuilding Jaguars. Jacksonville finished with four Graeme Swann to drop a catch that looked as if it was 7 of 8 for 68 yards. turnovers. Gabbert was hoping to make a strong would have carried to Cook at first slip. Drew Brees was 7 of 10 for 65 yards in two impression in Jacksonville’s preseason opener. But After Rogers drove off-spinner Swann to reach 96, series, which produced one field goal. His longest Gabbert looked a lot like he did in his first two sea- he was fortunate to see a leading edge off the same completion went for 22 yards to rookie Kenny Stills, sons. He completed 5 of 10 passes for 19 yards, bowler fall short of Broad at mid-on. who like Parker is a candidate to replace injured with an interception. Meanwhile, Watson’s 22nd Test 50 failed to yield deep threat Joe Morgan as the Saints’ No. 3 receiver what would have been only his third century when a behind Marques Colston and Lance Moore. PANTHERS 24, BEARS 17 leg-glance off Broad was well caught by a diving Prior. In Charlotte, Chicago forced three first-half Rogers spent 30 minutes on 96, facing 19 balls, all TEXANS 27, VIKINGS 13 turnovers and linebacker Jonathan Bostic returned In Minneapolis, rookie DeAndre Hopkins an interception 51 yards for a touchdown, but from Swann, without scoring. caught a 34-yard touchdown pass in Houston’s vic- Carolina capitalized on turnovers to spoil Marc However, when he swept Swann for the 13th four tory over Minnesota. The Vikings showcased their Trestman’s NFL head coaching debut. of his innings it meant Rogers had completed a centu- rookie wide receiver, too, during a flashy first half by The Bears - who forced four turnovers - picked ry, his 61st in first-class cricket, after more than five Cordarrelle Patterson. up where they left off last season when they led the hours at the crease before, with no floodlights on the CHESTER-LE-STREET: Australia’s Chris Rogers is given out, caught-behind by umpire Hopkins, the 27th overall pick in the draft, had NFL with 44 takeaways and finished with nine ground, the umpires took the players off shortly Tony Hill only for the decision to be overturned after a DRS appeal during play on the four receptions for 52 yards. Patterson, taken two defensive touchdowns, one shy of the league before the scheduled close.—AFP second day of the fourth Ashes cricket Test match against England. -AFP slots later, caught four passes for 54 yards and record. Chicago’s offense, however, left plenty of returned the opening kickoff 50 yards. Christian room for improvement. Jay Cutler was intercepted Ponder connected with Jerome Simpson for 15 on his first play from scrimmage by Josh Norman, Hotspot inventors want bat coverings removed yards right after that, but when he went back to setting up a touchdown pass from Cam Newton to Simpson on the next play the throw was a bit high Brandon LaFell. Cutler completed 6 of 8 passes for CHESTER-LE-STREET: The inventors of “In layman’s terms the protective nique you go back to the nets - I sug- Nine TV alleged that silicone tape on and bounced off Simpson’s hands and into Shiloh 56 yards but the Bears had three turnovers and cricket’s ‘Hotspot’ technology have coating definitely diminishes Hotspot gest he takes his technology back to the bats had confused Hotspot during Keo’s for an interception. Ponder, entering a critical allowed seven sacks. Newton was 3 of 6 for 16 called for protective coverings to be marks. BBG Sports believes that in the nets.” Vaughan doubted whether the Ashes series and reported that the third season for his future as Minnesota’s quarter- yards. Norman had two interceptions, including removed from bats in order for the sys- order to achieve optimum Hotspot Hotspot could continue as an aid to International Cricket Council (ICC) was back, only took those two snaps. one he returned 60 yards for a score. tem to work properly. results then the removal of protective test umpires. “He is trying to protect his investigating the matter. The ongoing five-match Ashes coating from bat edges needs to occur.” company,” said Vaughan. “We just want The ICC, cricket’s governing body, CARDINALS 17, PACKERS 0 RAIDERS 19, COWBOYS 17 series between England and Australia Former England captains Michael technology that will present the right issued an immediate denial and said In Green Bay, Stepfan Taylor rushed for 63 In Oakland, Sean Lee and rookie J.J. Wilcox has been dogged by controversial Vaughan and Alec Stewart described result more often than not. the report was “totally incorrect”. yards on 21 carries in his rookie debut, and forced first-half turnovers for Dallas’ revamped umpiring decisions and there have the statement as “embarrassing” and “It shouldn’t be down to the game England captain Alastair Cook Arizona picked apart Green Bay on both sides of defense before Oakland rallied for the victory. been several occasions when Hotspot urged BBG Sports managing director of cricket to help Hotspot, it should be described the claims as a “blatant the ball. Tyrann Mathieu had a sack in his first Lee flattened Matt Flynn on a delayed blitz on has failed to pick up edges. Warren Brennan to go back to the up to Hotspot to help the game of fabrication” and demanded an apol- game in two years, and also returned two punts the opening drive of the game to force a fumble Hotspot uses infrared cameras to drawing board with his system. cricket. I don’t think Hotspot can carry ogy from the network. for Arizona, which was playing its first game deep in Oakland territory in his first action since a determine whether the ball has struck “I played in the 1980s, 1990s and on as bat manufacturers aren’t going to Brennan acknowledged yester- under new coach Bruce Arians. season-ending toe injury last October. the batsman, bat or pad, with any con- early 2000s - bat tape and coatings change ... it has to go.” England’s lead- day that Hotspot was far from fool- Aaron Rodgers connected with James Jones Wilcox intercepted an ill-advised pass from on a 50-yard gain in his only series, and Vince Terrelle Pryor in the end zone to thwart a promising tact supposed to show up as a bright have been around for 30 or 40 years so ing batsman Kevin Pietersen was proof. “At the end of the day no tech- Young showed flashes of potential just three Raiders drive. The Cowboys forced just 16 turnovers spot on the image. it’s embarrassing for him to suggest it involved in an incident during the nology is 100 percent perfect, how- days after signing with Green Bay. But those last year, contributing to the firing of coordinator “The type and thickness of the pro- should be banned,” Stewart told BBC drawn third test in Manchester when ever at BBG Sports we are continu- were among the only highlights for the Packers, Rob Ryan, who was replaced by Monte Kiffin as the tective coating unquestionably affects radio. he was given out caught behind, even ously researching and developing who were shut out in a full preseason game for defense moved from a three-man front to a four- the thermal signature of the Hotspot “He has openly admitted there is a though nothing appeared on the our products to provide the best the first time since 1987. The Packers also were man front. Dallas has forced four turnovers in its system,” BBG Sports said in a news fault with his system. If you’re a crick- Hotspot review. technological service for sport,” he shut out in the 2003 Hall of Fame game, first two preseason games under Kiffin.—AP release on Saturday. eter and you have a flaw in your tech- Earlier this week, Australia’s Channel said.—Reuters SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 SPORTS Watford smash Photo of the day six, QPR held

LONDON: Troy Deeney claimed a sec- minute lead from an Oliver Norwood ond-half hat-trick as last season’s beat- cross, but David Hoilett levelled just en play-off finalists Watford crushed three minutes later for Harry Bournemouth 6-1 yesterday to surge Redknapp’s visitors. to the top of the fledgling New signing Charlie Austin came Championship standings. close to snatching victory for QPR Deeney found the net 20 times last shortly before the hour, but his header season and he already has four strikes came back off the crossbar. to his name this term after helping Brighton and Hove Albion saw a for- Gianfranco Zola’s side put promoted gettable week come to an end with a Bournemouth to the sword at Vicarage 2-1 defeat at home to Derby County. Road. Losing semi-finalists in last season’s Gabriele Angella, a summer signing play-offs, Brighton were dumped out from Udinese, gave Watford a 13th- of the League Cup by fourth-tier minute lead and then restored the Newport County in mid-week and hosts’ advantage early in the second were beaten again after Chris Martin half after Lewis Grabban equalised for replied to Jose Ulloa’s opener with a Bournemouth. brace. Deeney opened his account with a Like Brighton, Millwall remain with- deflected shot in the 56th minute and out a point to their name following a 3- after Lewis McGugan, another new 0 defeat at Ipswich Town, while signing, made it 4-1, Deeney slammed Charlton Athletic have also lost twice home Watford’s fifth goal before com- after Lukas Jutkiewicz scored the only pleting his treble with a 90th-minute goal in a 1-0 win for visiting penalty. Middlesbrough. Watford are top of the table on goal Yeovil Town’s first ever home game difference from Blackpool and in the second tier ended in disappoint- Nottingham Forest, both of whom ment as they lost 1-0 to Birmingham claimed 1-0 victories with dramatic late City, but there was better news for goals. Burnley, who won 2-1 at Sheffield Blackpool prevailed thanks to an Wednesday. injury-time own goal from Barnsley’s In the day’s other fixture, Nick Sebastian Vettel prepares for his race at the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Herten, Germany. —www.redbull.com Scott Wiseman, while Darius Blackman earned Reading a 1-1 draw Henderson exploited a stoppage-time at Bolton Wanderers with a 51st- error by Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper minute penalty after the hosts had tak- Jake Kean to earn Forest a first league en an early lead through a Darren River wins season opener win at Ewood Park since 1999. Queens Pratley header. Leicester City and Park Rangers, favourites for promotion Leeds United meet today, both sides following their relegation from the having won their opening games, BUENOS AIRES: River Plate glossed over a trou- Premier League last season, were held while FA Cup holders Wigan Athletic bled start to the season with a 1-0 home win over to a 1-1 draw at Huddersfield Town. are not in league action due to their Rosario Central on Friday while they continued to Former Everton striker James Community Shield date with wait for Colombia striker Teo Gutierrez’s transfer Vaughan gave the Terriers a 35th- Manchester United.—AFP clearance. Teenage substitute Federico Andrada headed the only goal in his third top flight appear- ance to give River the victory over promoted Central in the Argentine “Inicial” championship. River, playing poorly at the Monumental, scored from a corner 12 minutes from time when Andrada headed home at the far post. Two minutes later River found themselves down to 10 men after midfielder Jonathan Fabbro was shown the red card on his debut for a nasty foul. Paraguay international Fabbro was sent off for striking Pol Fernandez in the face with his boot as the Central player headed the ball out on the wing. Coach Ramon Diaz’s side had lost 1-0 to Gimnasia-La Plata, another promoted team, in their opening match of the season last weekend. Diaz, who made attacking substitutions mid- way through the second half to try to unlock the Central defence, admitted his team had played poorly but said he thrived on pressure from the home crowd. “This is River and you’ve got to play well. The public put pressure on us but we also have a lot of courage... We needed the points and Federico Andrada went looking for them,” he told reporters. Winning was a relief for Diaz who is keen to slot Diaz said: “Teo is desperate to play (for River), Racing had to stage the game behind closed Gutierrez into his rebuilt side for a tilt at the title. he keeps telling everyone that.” The only team doors after their Cilindro stadium was suspended Cruz Azul issued a statement on Friday demanding with a maximum six points after two rounds of for one match following crowd trouble. Uruguayan Gutierrez return to Mexico and report for training matches are Juan Antonio Pizzi’s San Lorenzo, striker Martin Cauteruccio took his tally to three in on Monday after the transfer fee from River had impressive in a 3-0 away win over Racing Club but two matches since joining San Lorenzo from not come through. unseen by fans. Quilmes in the close season.—Reuters Fan fury as Hull City become Hull City Tigers FRANCE: Montpellier’s Brazilian defender Vitorino Hilton (left) challenges Paris Saint-Germain’s Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic (center) during the French LONDON: English Premier League side Hull City are Meanwhile, a popular Hull City blogger, Rick football, not angry at a ridiculous rebrand. L1 football match. —AFP to change their name to Hull City Tigers, sparking a Skelton, was among those to express opposition. “And the feeling towards the Allam family-who furious response from outraged supporters. He wrote: “We are not a major club in England let have done wonderful things for our club and our PSG held on opening day “Hull City is irrelevant,” the club’s Egyptian-born alone the world. That won’t change with rebrand- City-should be one of fondness not fury.” owner Assem Allam was quoted as saying by local ing. It would only change with sustained success. Allam said that changing the name by which the MONTPELLIER: Paris Saint Germain in the first half. If we had been a little newspaper the Hull Daily Mail on Friday. So this is a pointless exercise. Yorkshire club have been known since their forma- dropped points on the opening day of more clear-headed, we could have cre- “My dislike for the word ‘City’ is because it is “Mr Allam’s assertion that the name ‘Hull City’ is tion in 1904 would take effect from the start of the the French league season, held 1-1 ated more chances. But then we suf- common. City is also associated with Leicester, irrelevant, that it’s too common, is as disgusting a new season, which starts on August 17. Friday at Montpellier as they began fered in the second half,” he said. Bristol, Manchester and many other clubs. “I don’t use of the English language as his new name for the In the meantime, references to “AFC” on club like being like everyone else. I want the club to be club. “It’s not irrelevant, it’s been the name of the branding would be phased out, said Allam, who their defence of the title. But after an early Lavezzi header special. It is about identity. City is a lousy identity. club for 109 years and it matters to people. took over the club in 2010 after they were relegated PSG have moved swiftly on since flashed off target it was the hosts who Hull City Association Football Club is so long.” “Those people, the fans, have fought to save Hull from England’s top division and invested heavily. landing their first league crown in 19 scored the opening goal of the new sea- But Hull fans have already made it clear they are City numerous times down the years. It may only be He added that shorter names worked better years in May, with Italian coach Carlo son, a rasping drive from Remy Cabella unhappy with the rebranding. A poll on the a name to Mr Allam but to us, it’s the name of commercially and the club would be marketed Ancelotti leaving for Real Madrid and after just ten minutes. Facebook page of the Hull City Official Supporters’ something we love, we’ve cherished and will be locally as “Hull City Tigers” and “Hull Tigers” national- loan star David Beckham retiring. Cabella robbed Ibrahimovic and Club which asked fans if they were for, against or cherished long after the current owners. ly and internationally. But Allam’s son and club vice- But awash with cash from their then found Emanuel Herrera, who fired indifferent to the plans was overwhelmingly “The saddest part of all that is that this has come chairman Ehab Allam conceded that they could not weighted in favor of those opposed to the idea. at a time when fans should be excited for top flight force fans to use the new name.—AFP Qatari owners the capital club, touting a in an effort which was blocked only for budget of 400 million euros, are hot Cabella to drive in at the second favourites to repeat their success, even attempt. Hearts hope for if newly-promoted fellow moneybags Though enjoying the lion’s share of outfit Monaco will look to push them the possession PSG were forced to grind hard. through the gears as they strove to derby respite Falcao, a 60-million-euro acquisition respond and Ibrahimovic sent in a GLASGOW: Crisis club Hearts are “Edinburgh derbies are always from Atletico Madrid, is the big draw for fizzing effort which Geoffrey Jourdren in hoping to give their beleaguered fans good games but I think we just need the Monegasques, bankrolled by the home goal tipped away. some respite from the gloom sur- to worry about ourselves,” said Russian billionaire owner Dimitri A goal to the good at the break, rounding Tynecastle by defeating Walker. “Hibs lost on Sunday as well. Rybolovlev. Montpellier could have doubled their Hibernian in the first Edinburgh der- It’s a massive game, probably our But the principality club must begin lead on 50 minutes but Herrera fired by of the season today. Hearts have biggest game of the season. We’ll the season with a two-point deduction over from the edge of the area. started the season with a 15-point have a huge crowd behind us at after a series of incidents at the end of a And PSG finally managed to get deduction and a transfer embargo as Tynecastle and everyone is looking a punishment for entering adminis- forward to it. game last season. back on terms on the hour mark tration with debts totalling £28.4mil- “Picking up points at home is a Montpellier represented a tough through Brazilian Maxwell. Javier lion (32.9 million euros) in the sum- must. We are looking to win most of opening day test for the Parisians given Pastore fired over a cross from the left mer. our games at Tynecastle and also pick the southerners’ status as 2012 champi- which Ibrahimovic just reached at the With the club facing possible liqui- up a few points on the road as well. ons though they saw the architect of far post, nodding on for former dation, Hearts manager Gary Locke That’s the only way to close that gap that win, Rene Girard, switch to Lille in Barcelona defender Maxwell to net from has been left with a threadbare and get closer to the other teams in the summer, with Jean Fernandez arriv- close range. squad with stars such as Darren Barr, the league. Andy Webster, Mehdi Taouil, Marius “That’s what it’s going to take, Jamie Walker ing to replace him. Montpellier had a nervous final 18 Zaliukas and John Sutton all depart- every game is a cup final. We need to Europa League qualifier, and head to because people will take it out of PSG, now under the stewardship of minutes after their Moroccan defender ing Tynecastle. start picking up points quickly Tynecastle needing a result to poten- context, but a derby is always a must- former France and Bordeaux coach Abdelhamid El Kaoutari was red carded However, the remaining Hearts because every game we play is one tially save their manager’s job. win match.” Laurent Blanc, elected to start with a for a foul on Pastore. players put in a good performance in less opportunity to get points and Despite the despair surrounding Elsewhere late yesterday, table- strike tandem of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Monaco open their campaign late their narrow 1-0 defeat to St make up ground. their recent performances new Hibs toppers Inverness Caledonian Thistle Ezequiel Lavezzi, leaving 64 million-euro yesterday at Bordeaux, whom PSG’s Johnstone last week and gave their “We want points on the board as signing Rowan Vine hopes to return are away to Dundee United while new boy Edinson Cavani on the bench Blanc led to the title in 2009, while other support some hope that a miracle quickly as possible and that starts from Tynecastle with a win that could Ross County host promoted Partick escape from relegation from the today.” Hibernian had been expected kick-start their season. Thistle with both sides looking to get to begin with at the Stade de la Mosson. weekend action sees Lyon host Nice and Scottish Premiership could be possi- to go into the first derby of the sea- “It’s a good opportunity, the boys their first win of the season. “We expected a better result,” admit- Lille welcome Lorient. ble. son as overwhelming favourites but are confident and they want to go Motherwell and Aberdeen meet ted Blanc. “But we created too little for Today sees Ajaccio take on former Hearts winger Jamie Walker, one the Easter Road club have problems there, be positive, get the win and so at Fir Park today while Kilmarnock my taste and made too many mistakes giants Saint Etienne with the former of the youngsters who has been giv- of their own. get our season up and running,” Vine entertain St Johnstone at Rugby which allowed Montpellier to score.” now being coached by former Italy strik- en his opportunity in the first team Pat Fenlon’s side have had a terri- said. Park. Champions Celtic are not in Fernandez believed the game could er Fabrizio Ravanelli. Newly-promoted because of the crisis, knows the der- ble start to the new season having “Then again, we’d want to win action after being given permission have been wrapped up in the first 45 eight-time champions Nantes host by could be his side’s most important lost all three of their competitive regardless of who the opposition to play a glamour friendly with match of the season in terms of the matches, which included a record 9-0 might have been. I’m careful about English giants Liverpool in Dublin minutes. “We could have won the game Bastia on their return.—AFP morale boost it could give them. aggregate loss to Malmo in their labelling today as a must-win game late yesterday.—AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 SPORTS Community Shield: Moyes eyes first United trophy

LONDON: After a brand-building slog before 11 impressive but trophyless years “We’re almost there as far as preseason facing Wigan, which was relegated to the first time United has played at the national around the Far East and Australia, the seri- with Everton. goes,” Moyes said. “I think we’d like to have second tier after winning the FA Cup, with stadium since 1985 without Ferguson in ous business of managing Manchester He was hand-picked, though, by a bit more continuity than what we’ve United disclosing that he has a shoulder the dugout. Even Wigan’s manager will United is beginning for David Moyes. Ferguson to succeed him after a 27-year had. We’ve had one or two players drop- injury after missing the tour matches with find it strange encountering Moyes The newcomer could excuse lackluster United reign that produced 38 trophies - ping in and out because of injury, but the hamstring troubles. United won just two instead. “Sir Alex was there for a long time, results on the preseason tour while get- including 10 Community Shields. players have been great.” Apart from of its six preseason tour matches against particularly for football,” Coyle said. “The ting acquainted with the United side he “I will be trying to make this the first Wayne Rooney, perhaps. the backdrop of the Rooney saga and the way football works, that time is probably inherited from Alex Ferguson. But starting trophy of many,” Moyes said. “But, if we Frustrated at his playing time last sea- struggle to sign reinforcements. worth 10 times that amount in any other today, there’s little margin for error. win, it’s really something that will have son, the 27-year-old Rooney asked Efforts to sign former Arsenal captain walk of life.” For Coyle, though, Moyes was In the traditional curtain raiser to the been earned by Sir Alex.” Ferguson toward the end of the season to Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona seemed to the “natural successor.” “It is great to see a English season, Premier League champion “It’s because of his good work in the be allowed to leave the 20-time English hit a wall on Thursday, and Thiago home-grown manager evolving to that United faces FA Cup winner Wigan at Premier League last season that we’re in champions. The striker, though, is being Alcantara already opt to leave Barca for level,” Coyle said. Wigan’s season has Wembley Stadium. the Community Shield. I’ll do my best to denied a move to rival Chelsea, with Bayern Munich instead of Old Trafford. already begun because, after winning the Though the Community Shield is rarely finish off the job but it’s Sir Alex who will United rejecting two bids and stating that “We appreciate Cesc is a contracted FA Cup at Wembley in May, the team was considered a major piece of silverware, it deserve a lot of the credit if we’re success- he won’t be sold. “You don’t need to con- player at Barcelona and completely relegated from the Premier League. presents Moyes the chance to pick up his ful at Wembley.” Moyes has already said it’s vince anybody to play for Manchester respect everything Cesc has said,” United The trophy success saw manager first trophy as United manager. “impossible” to try to match the trophy United,” was Moyes’ latest stance on said Thursday after Fabregas said he want- Roberto Martinez enticed by Everton to Moyes’ only honor so far is the third- haul of his fellow Scotsman. The success, Rooney’s future this week. ed to stay with the Spanish champions. replace Moyes, with Coyle taking charge tier title he won with Preston in 2000 however, will have to continue. There is only a slim chance of Rooney Sunday’s game at Wembley will be the at Wigan.—AP Dortmund kicks off season with 4-0 win Aubameyang slams hat-trick BERLIN: New-signing Pierre- South Korea striker Heung-Min Freiburg’s new signing Mike the win with 52 minutes gone, Emerick Aubameyang hit a hat- Son also scored on his first com- Hanke levelled just before the while Leverkusen goalkeeper trick as Champions League final- petitive appearance for break. Son restored Leverkusen’s Bernd Leno protected his side’s ists Borussia Dortmund kicked off Champions League side Bayer lead just two minutes after the lead when he saved a 67th- their Bundesliga season with an Leverkusen in their 3-1 win at break when he fired home from minute penalty from Jonathan emphatic 4-0 win at Augsburg home to Freiburg. close range after a final pass from Schmid. yesterday. With defending cham- Germany striker Stefan Sidney Sam. Hertha Berlin marked their pions Bayern Munich, under new Kiessling put the hosts ahead Germany midfielder Sam then return to the top-flight after a coach Pep Guardiola, having with 22 minutes gone, but converted Kiessling’s cross to seal year’s absence with a 6-1 rout of already enjoyed a 3-1 win at Eintracht Frankfurt. Colombia home to Borussia striker Adrian Ramos and Tunisia Moenchengladbach on Friday, forward Sami Allagui each scored 24-year-old Gabon forward twice in the hammering at Berlin’s Aubameyang showed why Olympic Stadium while a first-half Dortmund paid French Cup win- penalty from Eintracht Frankfurt DOHA: In this file photo, FIFA president Sepp Blatter (right) and Qatar Football ners St Etienne 13 million euros midfielder Alex Meier was all the Association (QFA) President Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Bin Ahmed Al-Thani (US$17.3m) for him. guests could muster. “The per- exchange documents after officially appointing Qatar as the host of the 2022 “Aubameyang was used to formance was sensational,” said FIFA World Cup.—AP great effect,” said Dortmund Hertha coach Jos Luhukay. “From coach Jurgen Klopp. “I am not the first minute, we made sure Qatar hits back at English surprised about what he has to Frankfurt failed to find their offer, only the fact that most of rhythm. “We have our first three FA: We deserve World Cup his shots went in. “It’s a very good points, it was a good start, but LONDON: Insisting they deserve the chance to August-May season. start from us.” now we need to get back to busi- stage the World Cup, Qatar’s football leaders yes- FIFA President Sepp Blatter recently agreed Aubameyang became the ness and improve on it.” terday hit back at their English counterparts for that his executive committee should consider in sixth player in Bundesliga history Hanover 96 enjoyed a 2-0 win suggesting that FIFA consider taking the 2022 October whether the showpiece event should to hit three goals on his debut. He over Wolfsburg, who finished tournament away from the desert nation. be moved to the winter, having described a opened his account by heading with nine men after both mid- New English Football Association chairman summer tournament in Qatar as “not rational home a Marcel Schmelzer cross fielder Maximilian Arnold and Greg Dyke incensed the Qataris by arguing that and reasonable.” from the left wing to put Swiss defender Timm Klose were the heat could be “very dangerous” and calling “We have always maintained that this issue Dortmund ahead after 24 min- sent off. Arnold was shown a on FIFA to find a new location for the World Cup requires the agreement of the international foot- utes. straight red card with just 32 min- or anger European leagues by rescheduling it in ball community,” the Qatar statement said. “A Aubameyang celebrated with utes gone for a bad tackle on winter. decision to alter the dates of the 2022 FIFA World his trademark forward somer- Hanover’s Tunisia defender Karim Concerns about Qatar’s plans have mounted Cup would not affect our infrastructure plan- sault, then doubled Dortmund’s Haggui, while Klose was sent off since its bid surprisingly triumphed in 2010 ning.” advantage when he slipped his seven minutes after the break for despite being declared “high risk” by FIFA’s own Qatar planned to counter the extreme heat marker and fired home across the his second yellow card. inspection team, which highlighted the swelter- by building air-conditioned stadiums, but goal on 66 minutes. Hoffenheim were held to a 2-2 ing summer heat in the Persian Gulf where tem- potential health concerns remain for players, The Gabon star went on to draw at home to Nuremberg. peratures can hit 50 degrees Celsius (120 fans and officials traveling around the country - convert a great pass from Robert Later yesterday, newly-pro- Fahrenheit). an issue the organizers didn’t address yesterday. Lewandowski on 79 minutes to GERMANY: Augsburg’s defender Matthias Ostrzolek (left) and moted Eintracht Braunschweig But the Qataris yesterday insisted that they “The development of environmentally wrap up his hat-trick before the his teammate midfielder Daniel Baier (right) and Dortmund’s host Werder Bremen while, today, could deliver football’s biggest event and that friendly cooling technologies is an important Poland striker converted a penal- Polish midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski vie for the ball during Mainz host Stuttgart and the 2010 vote was the “right decision.” legacy issue for our nation, region and in coun- “Football is the most popular sport in the tries with similar climates,” the statement said ty in the dying stages. the German First Division Bundesliga football match.— AFP Hamburg are at Schalke.—AFP Middle East and the people of our region after Dyke questioned how air conditioning sta- deserve the opportunity to have history made in diums fits with a “green policy.” Oil-wealthy Qatar their part of the world,” the Qatar World Cup successfully saw off rival bids from the United Barcelona end Asia tour supreme committee said in a statement to The States, Japan, South Korea and Australia to land Associated Press. “We are committed to deliver- the World Cup, allowing FIFA to take the tourna- ing on the promises we made in our successful ment to a new frontier. “Clearly people wanted with win over Malaysia XI bid. We are ready to host in summer or winter.” to take football to a place like Qatar where Although the English FA is open to resched- there’s no footballing tradition,” Dyke said. “But it uling the tournament for the cooler winter wasn’t thought through properly ... if thousands KUALA LUMPUR: Spanish giants months in Qatar, the English Premier League is of fans turn up for a tournament in Qatar it could Barcelona wrapped up their Asian firmly against any changes that would disrupt its be very dangerous.”—AP tour with another comprehensive victory yesterday, beating a Malaysian XI 3-1 at the Shah Alam Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. With World Player of the Year Lionel Messi on the bench over injury concerns, Brazilian wonderkid Neymar was the star of a tight first half, showcasing his talents to make one goal and score another. First, the 21-year-old wriggled free on the left before sending a pinpoint cross for Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas to head home. It was a tame header and Malaysian goalkeeper Khairul Fahmi Che Mat should have done better, but he may have been dis- tracted by a firecracker that was set off by a fan. Malaysia, who had gone clos- est to opening the scoring, FINLAND: Arsenal’s Laurent Koscielny fails to stop Manchester City’s Alvaro equalised in the 40th minute Negredo (right) from scoring City’s only goal during the friendly match of when the ball fell to Amri Yahyah, Premier League giants. —AFP and the striker curled in from the Gunners lack firepower edge of the box. The home fans’ joy was short- MALAYSIA: Barcelona football player Cesc Fabregas (right) fights for the ball against Malaysia but still too strong for City lived as two minutes later, football player Fadhli Shas during a friendly football match. —AFP Neymar-who was this week HELSINKI: Arsenal underlined why they are still stranded Joe Hart in the City goal. Fot all their reportedly diagnosed with moved from Bukit Jalil National Asia than Europe and the coming here and spreading our in the hunt for Liverpool’s controversial running, Arsenal had no-one to apply the finish- anaemia-broke free and beat two Stadium because of an uneven Americas combined. brand,” he said. “In fact, our num- Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez yesterday when ing touch until Ramsey cut through a static defenders before shooting home. pitch, which Malaysian Youth and More than 40,000 tickets were ber one Facebook fans are from they scraped a largely unconvincing 3-1 win defence on the hour, collected Walcott’s pass Neymar joined Barcelona after Sports Minister Khairy sold for the friendly in Malaysia. Indonesia. As such, we intend to over Manchester City in a pre-season friendly and slottted past Hart with Vincent Kompany a summer move from Santos and Jamaluddin described as an “We realise not all our fans can travel to this region for more pre- played in Helsinki. stranded on the line. opened his account for the club “embarrassment” for the country. afford to fly to Spain to watch us, season matches in the coming The Gunners were distinctly short of firepow- Minutes later, Giroud, a half-time substitute, in the 7-1 win over the Thai Barcelona, however, managed to and we want to reward them by years.”—AFP er upfront, and although French striker Olivier made the most of a defnsive mix-up between national team on Wednesday, on add a third after 74 minutes Giroud got on the scoresheet, all the attacking Hart and Kompany to nip in and only had to the first leg of a tour designed to through Gerard Pique, who initiative came from midfield and they could apply a deft fnishing touch, delicately chipping rammed the ball past substitute promote Barca’s brand in the Today’s match on TV muster only four shots on target. home for the third. Meanwhile, Arsenal’s pursuit region. The second half was a goalkeeper Farizal Marlias. Big-spending City, on the other hand, of Suarez appears doomed to failure after drab affair with the teams making The tour comes three years appeared to have little appetite for the contest Liverpool owner John W Henry told the unset- multiple changes to their lineups, after Barcelona’s last visit to the and after a bright start faded and failed to pro- tled Uruguayan he wouldn’t be allowed to leave football-mad continent, before Comuunity Shield duce more than a single goal through Alvaro at any price. Suarez has been desperate to leave which disrupted the flow. There were few attacks, and the fans the start of the La Liga season lat- Negrado 12 minutes from the end - but it was the Reds since the end of last season and er this month. Wigan Athletic v Man United ...... 16:00 too little too late. The first goal came as early as Arsenal have tried to take advantage by making showed their displeasure by whistling at the players. Many will Barcelona vice president Jordi Al Jazeera Sport +9 the ninth minute when Arsenal winger Theo a £40 million plus £1 bid that was supposed to Moix Latas said a survey by the Al Jazeera Sport HD 1 Walcott glided on to an incisive through ball trigger a clause in the forward’s contract that have already been disgruntled club showed it had more fans in from Aaron Ramsey to chip the ball over a allowed him to talk to interested clubs.—AFP after the match venue was Rogers’s century Qatar hits back revives Aussies at English FA: after Broad burst We deserve WCup

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MOSCOW: Britainís Mo Farah celebrates winning the men’;s 10,000-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium. — AP Farah shines, Kiplagat makes history Bolt cruises in 100m heat

MOSCOW: Briton Mo Farah continued his impressive track “Two years ago, almost exactly the same thing happened happy with my run,” said Bolt, who survived a false start in his ond place. form by claiming a hard-fought victory in the world 10,000m (around the final bend). It was important I had something left heat. “I took it easy as it was the first round. I just wanted to In the decathlon, Olympic champion Ashton Eaton of the yesterday, as Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt cruised through on the final lap.” Jeilan took silver and Kenyan Paul Tanui get my reaction and start right. United States started well, clocking a leading 10.35sec in the his 100m heat. bronze, Rupp just missing out on the podium in fourth. “The false start in my heat didn’t affect me. I made that 100m, a third-best 7.73m in the the long jump, and 14.39m in Farah, who is attempting to replicate the double 5,000- Track icon Bolt, within touching distance of equalling mistake in Daegu and now I’m staying focused.” The second the shot put. 10,000m gold he claimed at last year’s London Olympics, had American sprint legend Carl Lewis’ record of eight world gold gold on offer on the opening day of competition went to But the world record holder and silver medallist in Daegu a slow race pace, American training partner Galen Rupp and medals, clocked an easy-going 10.07sec in his heat of the Tanui’s teammate Edna Kiplagat, who became the first dropped to fourth after a best in the high jump of 1.93m. his own definitive race-end kick to thank for his victory. 100m, which featured neither American rival Tyson Gay nor woman to retain the world marathon title. Teammate Gunnar Nixon’s 2.14m saw him soar into the lead, There was an all-too-familiar finish to the 25-lap race Asafa Powell after both tested positive for banned sub- The 33-year-old, who could only finish 20th in the London followed by German Michael Schrader. when Ethiopia’s defending world champion Ibrahim Jeilan stances. The Jamaican saw teammate Yohan Blake claim vic- Olympics last year, timed 2hr 25min 44sec to take gold ahead Eaton duly retook the overnight lead with a 46.02sec in tried to edge past Farah on the final bend. tory in Daegu after his shock false start in the final, the one of long-time leader Valeria Straneo of Italy (2:25.58) while the 400m, leaving him on 4,502 points, just nine ahead of Two years ago in the Daegu worlds, Farah wilted into sec- blip on his impressive CV, that includes Olympic gold in the Japan’s Kayoko Fukushi took bronze (2:27.45). Nixon and Schrader a further 66 points adrift. ond behind the sprint-clever Ethiopian, but a season dedicat- 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay events in Beijing and London, “I’m delighted I was able to defend my title successfully. I “Before the 400m, my coach said to me: ‘Wake up! It’s the ed to honing his speed this time paid dividends. and five world titles, as well as the 100 and 200m world got confident I was going to win at the 40km mark when I world championships. Come one, go into the lead for the sec- “It was the perfect race for me,” the Somali-born Farah records. upped my pace,” Kiplagat said. ond day’. And I did it. Now I feel some spark for Sunday,” said said. “It was quite slow, and the important thing was to stay Bolt will be joined in today’s semi-finals by American rivals Olympic champion Tiki Gelana of Ethiopia never featured Eaton. out of trouble.” Justin Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic champion, London bronze on her return to competition after being knocked over by a Reigning double world champion Trey Hardee, in fifth With Jeilan and his three teammates plus a strong Kenyan medallist and double world champion in 2005, and Mike wheelchair competitor during this year’s London Marathon. after three events, failed to register a height in the high jump line-up, Farah said he and Rupp, who both train in Oregon, Rodgers, who have both served doping bans. Kiplagat, having allowed Straneo to set the pace, finally for a disappointing end to his campaign. Portland, with Alberto Salazar, had tried “to work together The duo were the only sprinters to clock sub-10sec times made the decisive move just after the 40km mark, and this Today’s second day of action features the 110m hurdles, and to cover every move”. to serve notice that Bolt will not have it all his own way. “I am time the Italian had no answer, contenting herself with sec- discus throw, pole vault, javelin and the 1500m. — AFP Djokovic, Nadal in Kvitova crashes out TORONTO: Defending champion Petra pretty good, playing much better than I Kvitova suffered a shock exit when have in the past month,” said Williams. semis showdown unseeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea Radwanska and the fifth seeded beat the Czech 4-6 7-5 6-2 on Friday to Errani embarked on a marathon quar- MONTREAL: Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal thundering forehand winners on the way to a move in the semi-finals of the Rogers ter-final reminiscent of their three-hour advanced to a mouthwatering semi-final show- 6-2 6-4 victory which booked his place in Cup. clash at the WTA Championships in down at the Rogers Cup after they crushed another Masters series semi-final against Cirstea was joined by top seed Istanbul. their quarter-final opponents in ruthless fash- Djokovic. Serena Williams, who thumped They played much the same style of ion on Friday. “It is always exciting to play against Novak in Magdalena Rybarikova 6-1 6-1 and set match in Toronto, with both steady off Djokovic, the world number one, was flaw- a great tournament, a Masters 1000,” Nadal said up a semi-final clash with third seed the ground and neither able to dictate less in a 6-1 6-2 demolition of French seventh in a courtside interview. “It will be a great Agnieszka Radwanska who overcame with their service game with 11 succes- seed Richard Gasquet while Nadal was equally match and I’ll try my best as I always do.” her own ineffective serving to beat sive breaks of serve in the first set alone. emphatic in a straight sets win over Australian Local favorite Milos Raonic held his nerve to Italy’s Sara Errani 7-6(1) 7-5. “For both of us the serves is never qualifier Marinko Matosevic. beat Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis in a thrilling quar- Fourth seed Li Na of China also the key, that’s why we are always play- Serbia’s Djokovic and Spaniard Nadal will ter-final to join fellow Canadian Vasek Pospisil advanced with a 7-6(1) 6-2 win over ing long rallies and matches,” face off for the 36th time after the 11th seed in the semi-finals. Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia and will Radwanska said. Milos Raonic and local wildcard Vasek Pospisil Raonic, the world number 13, kept his cool meet Cirstea in the last four. The Pole decided to hit with more compete in an all-Canadian semi-final. in front of a parochial home crowd as he over- After playing respectably in the first power towards the end of the first set, Djokovic was imperious against Gasquet as came Gulbis 7-6(3) 4-6 6-4 in a two and a half set, 2011 Wimbledon champion Kvitova easily taking the tie-break 7-1 with he produced his best performance since hour showdown. could not keep the ball in the court. She some hard and deep shots. returning from a month off after losing the With the crowd willing him on and jeering doubled faulted on break points in six The pair traded breaks to 5-5 in the Wimbledon final. Gulbis’ every shot, Raonic claimed the first set different games and ended the game second set, but then Radwanska broke Unleashing his full repertoire of big serves, tiebreak, before his opponent forced a decid- with just 12 winners and 55 unforced Errani for the eighth time of the match crushing ground strokes and plenty of touch, ing third set through a brilliant display of shot errors. to go ahead 6-5 then served out with Djokovic barely raised a sweat as Gasquet was making. Kvitova said that after winning her four winners including an ace. emphatically dispatched in just 52 minutes. Gulbis kept swinging in the decider but third round match on Thursday that she “I was trying to focus really hard in The crowd then got more entertainment Raonic’s serve got him out of some difficult could not get to sleep and therefore the last few points because I knew it when Djokovic returned to the centre court for spots and when his opponent wobbled, Raonic lacked energy. By the second set, she could really turn around for her,” said what has become his customary celebration pounced to seal victory and set up a meeting looked lackadaisical. Radwanska. dance as the stadium roared its approval. with Pospisil. MONTREAL: Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates “The serve was really bad after this, “I was looking at the clock and saw “It’s a great feeling when you’re playing this “It’s a great thing, it means a lot, not just to victory over Marinko Matosevic of Australia and I didn’t find energy from my legs,” two hours already and I said ‘Enough I well and you beat a quality player like Gasquet,” us but to Canadian tennis,” Raonic said. “But at in the WTA Rogers Cup quarterfinals.— AFP she told reporters. “So that’s why it looks have to end this now’.” Li tossed away Djokovic told reporters. the same time, it’s another tennis match. That ing to catch my breath,” a tired Pospisil said. “I that bad.” her strategy of playing a steady game “I’m going to try to memorise what I’ve done doesn’t change.” felt like I had a bit of sore legs ... so it (quick The sixth seeded Czech added that against the hard hitting Cibulkova after today and how I felt and hopefully take it on Pospisil won through after Russia’s former win) came at a great time.” fatigue contributed to her 10 double the first set and began to go for her the court tomorrow ... same kind of feeling.” world number three Nikolay Davydenko, who Andy Murray’s singles campaign may have faults overall with the problem with her shots more. Nadal was always in control of his quarter- had showed signs last week of a return to form, ended prematurely but the Wimbledon cham- serve initially physical before it became “(At the) beginning of the match I final against a fatigued Matosevic, who had retired while trailling 3-0 in the first set of their pion and partner Colin Fleming have won a mental one. was feeling more control the ball, but come through two qualifying matches on top quarter-final. The 71st ranked Pospisil had through to the doubles semi-finals. Williams, who has only lost 10 games that was totally wrong because she’s the of his three main draw victories. already beaten American John Isner and Czech They defeated the fifth seeded Aisam Ul- in three matches this week overpow- hitter,” said Li, who reached last year’s The 12-time grand slam champion never fifth seed Tomas Berdych this week in three sets Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer to set up a ered Rybarikova with big serves and final. “(In the) second set just try to con- looked like being seriously challenged under so was happy to finally have a lighter workout. match against the top ranked Mike and Bob lethal returns. “I’m definitely feeling tinue to hit the ball.” — Reuters the lights and he let rip with a procession of “Even in those three games, I was really try- Bryan. — Reuters Return of sectarian war hits Iraq’s oil exports Page 22 China data in focus after Business trade bounce ups hopes SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 Page 23 BOE’s guidance is clear: economists

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BEIJING: A man delivering metal pipes in the Central Business District of Beijing. The world’s second-largest economy seen as a key driver of global growth expanded 7.8 percent in 2012, the government announced in its slowest annual pace in 13 years. — AFP (See Page 23) Banks, Diaspora help Lebanon ride out crisis Capital inflows to Lebanon falling sharply amid sectarian conflict DUBAI: Lebanon’s politics are By triggering a flare-up of sec- not affected them significantly. This Sunni Gulf; Gulf Arab states are former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri descending into sectarian conflict tarian tensions in Lebanon, the has allowed deposits at Lebanese punishing Lebanon’s Hezbollah for in 2005 caused an outflow of bank and its economy is starved of Syrian civil war is taking a heavy toll commercial banks to continue its intervention in Syria by expelling deposits worth 5 percent of GDP investment. But its sovereign bonds on the Lebanese economy. Prime growing; combined deposits of pri- Lebanese expatriates linked to the over several weeks; Israel’s attack on are steady, foreign reserves are Minister-designate Tammam Salam vate sector residents and non-resi- group, and are keen to block any Hezbollah in 2006 prompted a 3 holding up and there is no sign of has been unable to form a cabinet dents at commercial banks climbed illicit fund flows to Lebanon. percent outflow; and the 2011 fall serious pressure on its currency. since March, when his predecessor to 182.6 trillion Lebanese pounds But it is not clear that the num- of Saad al-Hariri’s government led That striking contrast suggests the quit, and parliamentary elections ($121 billion) in May from 168.3 tril- ber of people affected will be nearly to an outflow of under 1 percent. country may avoid the economic have been delayed until November lion pounds a year earlier, accord- large enough to cut the global Since the peg survived those inci- crisis which has engulfed other 2014. Rival militias and the army ing to central bank data. amount of remittances. Meanwhile, dents, a bigger political shock nations during the Arab Spring have been battling in the coastal Philippe El Hajj, deputy general other events abroad have helped would be needed to even raise the uprisings, even though it is suffer- cities of Sidon and Tripoli. manager at Fransabank in Beirut, Lebanon; the debt crisis in Cyprus possibility of it being dislodged in ing increasing damage from the civ- This has slashed inflows of port- estimated banking system deposits caused Lebanese to bring back future, he said. Another vulnerabili- il war in neighboring Syria. folio and direct investment; tourism grew 3 percent in the first half of hundreds of millions of dollars from ty is the risk that state debt, now An overseas Diaspora of around revenues have also tumbled as 2013 and predicted a 5-6 percent that country this year, bankers said. about 140 percent of GDP, could 14 million people, more than three wealthy Gulf states and other coun- increase in 2013. “This is mainly Lebanon’s dependence on expand beyond the capacity of the times the size of Lebanon’s domes- tries have issued travel warnings to driven by Lebanese expats and by remittances is not without costs. banks to fund it. The current disar- tic population of about 4 million, their citizens because of poor secu- the accumulated interest on For example, its banks keep their ray in the government could wors- PARIS: French Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade continues to send billions of dollars rity. The result has been a sharp deposits. I don’t see why remit- interest rates about 3 percentage en the problem by blocking efforts Minister Pierre Moscovici, speaks at a press confer- back to the country each year. This reduction of capital flows into tances to Lebanon should decrease points higher than US rates in order to control spending; the ence. —AFP is swelling bank deposits and allow- Lebanon. Net private capital inflows - those helping their families at to attract deposits, even though the International Monetary Fund ing banks to keep buying govern- shrank to $2.4 billion last year from home won’t stop and will find many Lebanese pound is pegged to the expects the budget deficit to rise to France revises ment debt, which means the gov- a peak of $12 billion in 2009, and ways to continue supporting them.” US dollar. This slows lending and 9.7 percent of GDP this year from ernment can boost spending to try are expected to drop further to just Rising deposits have in turn per- economic growth. 9.0 percent in 2012. to ease social tensions - and main- $1.6 billion in 2013, according to mitted Lebanese banks to continue But as long as the currency peg But with commercial bank down 2013 tain a minimum level of political the Institute of International buying their government’s debt, holds, sustaining the Diaspora’s deposits at roughly twice the level stability needed to attract more Finance, a global banking body. and to buy into any selling by for- confidence that their remittances of government debt, there appears growth figure remittances. It is a three-pronged For an economy with a gross eign investors, keeping prices of the will not lose value, the system is a to be little risk of banks losing their arrangement based on mutual domestic product of about $45 bil- country’s bonds remarkably stable. robust one. So far, in contrast to capacity to buy bonds for the fore- PARIS: French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici yesterday need that has sustained Lebanon lion, that is a big blow. From levels Bid at 6.05 percent, the yield on some other crises in the past two seeable future - as long as deposits revised down the country’s growth for 2013, estimating during repeated political crises around 8 percent in 2007-2010, Lebanon’s $650 million bond decades, the current political insta- do not fall sharply. “The pound’s gross domestic product will end up somewhere between - since the end of its civil war in 1990, economic growth slipped to just 1.3 maturing in 2019 is up just 40 basis bility has not appeared to threaten peg to the dollar survived through- 0.1 percent and 0.1 percent, but insisted France was out of and which is so far working well in percent last year, and it is expected points since mid-May, outperform- a run on the pound. The central out the past 30 years despite a 15- recession. the current instability, bankers and to be close to that level this year. ing many emerging market bonds, bank’s combined holdings of for- year civil war, conflicts with Syria The French government had been expected to present economists say. “The situation is not But inflows of remittances from where yields have jumped 100 bps eign currencies and gold edged up and multiple Israeli wars,” said a a modest growth of around 0.1 percent, still judged by ideal but people aren’t panicking,” Lebanese abroad have been stable. or more because of concern about to $44.4 billion in May from $44.0 source close to the central bank, economists to be insufficient to reduce unemployment. said Nassib Ghobril, chief econo- The World Bank estimates they rising US Treasury yields. billion a year earlier. declining to be named because of mist at the Byblos Bank Group in totalled $7.5 billion last year, flat One potential threat to Ghobril said the pound came the sensitivity of the subject. “Why Despite the government’s revision, the minister told the Beirut. “The country has coped with from 2011, and bankers in Beirut Lebanese remittances is a political under pressure three times in would that change now? It’s quite Nice Matin newspaper that the “French economy is out of similar situations before.” say the latest political turmoil has backlash against Shiism in the recent years. The assassination of impossible.” — Reuters recession and is recovering to be more sustainable, stronger and able to create more jobs”. “What is important is that the trend has reversed,” said the minister. “After two quarters of negative growth, the N American oil boom eases OPEC supply problems: IEA last quarter of 2012 and the first of 2013, the second and third quarters of 2013 will experience positive growth,” he LONDON/MOSCOW: North America’s shale the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) overall output to 30.31 million bpd in July, according to the IEA, very close to its self- boom is insulating the world from steep oil over payment and contract terms,” it added. down 100,000 bpd on June. imposed target of 30 million bpd after pro- predicted, adding that “all indicators would improve, start- price spikes as several OPEC members Pipeline attacks in Iraq’s north helped push Security issues also cloud supply ducing heavily above the target for several ing with industrial production”. struggle to maintain production due to output below 3 million barrels per day prospects in OPEC members Algeria and years. “I have every reason to believe that 2014 will be the first unrest and infrastructure problems, the (bpd) for the first time in six months, and Nigeria, the IEA added. OPEC supply outages helped send year of real growth for three years,” said Moscovici. Despite International Energy Agency (IEA) said. planned work at southern shipping termi- “Right now, OPEC’s main challenge benchmark Brent oil futures up $4 a barrel this, the economy’s stagnation in 2013 complicates prepa- The agency, which consults developed nals in September may slash exports by seems to be less future demand softness month-on-month to a four-month high of rations for next year’s budget. The minister indicated to nations on energy policies, said key among 300,000-500,000 bpd for months, the IEA than practical difficulties in bringing pro- $107.43 in July. Nice Matin that the 2014 budget, to be revealed in the next those disruptions were Libya and Iraq, said. duction to market,” the IEA said. OPEC By contrast, non-OPEC supplies few weeks, will make a provision for an increase in the tax where violence has steeply curtailed out- That will further cloud plans by Iraq, leader Saudi Arabia raised oil production in increased by 570,000 bpd in July to 54.9 burden equivalent to 0.3 percent of gross domestic prod- put. Upcoming work on key Iraqi terminals which signed billions of dollars worth of July to a 12-month high of 9.8 million bpd, million bpd, the IEA said, with North uct. could further upset oil buyers in Europe, exploration deals with oil majors, to ramp up 150,000 bpd on June, but still not America providing around 40 percent of “We must reduce the deficit... but at a pace which does Asia and the United States. up output in the next few years and ulti- enough to offset the decline in other mem- the growth. OPEC also said output from not upset growth. “First, in line with International Monetary “Officially, volumes will be curtailed only mately double or even triple production bers. rival producers had risen rapidly last Fund recommendations, we will reduce public spending, in September but the fear is the shut in volumes. “OPEC July output was down 1.1 million month, though by a more modest 170,000 then by a limited increase in the tax burden of 0.3 percent, could drag on for months given the scope Elsewhere among OPEC members, in barrels per day on the year for reasons that bpd, while the group’s own supply had fall- of the work as well as the country’s poor Libya, civil unrest has cut exports to their had very little to do with lack of demand or en. “Canada, rather than the US, was in line with social justice,” said Moscovici. record of delivering projects on time,” the lowest since the 2011 civil war with ship- competition from North American supply, responsible for most of this increase,” the In its annual report on the French economy, published IEA said in a monthly report. ments standing at only one third of capaci- and everything to do with domestic devel- IEA said, adding that strong growth in Monday, the IMF estimated that Paris had begun to “stabi- “Northern (Iraqi) exports are expected ty. The Organization of the Petroleum opments in some member countries,” the North America is expected to lift total non- lize deficits” but should slow down the pace of austerity. It to remain constrained indefinitely given Exporting Countries said on Friday that IEA said. OPEC supply to as much as 55.4 million in recommended France continue its efforts but to rely more the lack of progress between Baghdad and losses from Libya and Iraq had sunk its OPEC is producing 30.41 million bpd, the fourth quarter. —Reuters on spending cuts and less on tax increases. — AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 BUSINESS

Return of sectarian war Bayt.com weekly report How you can use team-building hits Iraq’s oil exports activities to achieve success By Lama Ataya is given large sheets of paper, some string, glue, and other items. Their ‘Crude for blood’ rganization heads and depart- task is to build a paper plane that can ment managers have a tough travel the farthest. The next hour or BAGHDAD/MOSUL: Iraq’s Sunni insurgents are November, the highest level in decades, but territory still in the grip of warring sectarian mili- Ojob - they have to make sure so will see your teams engaging in targeting its main northern oil pipeline, undoing progress has since been reversed. tias. The last five years saw a gradual decline in their team understands that while strategizing, debating, agreeing, dis- plans for a massive increase in exports as vio- The total has been kept down in part by tech- violence in Iraq. US forces pulled out at the end they belong to a different depart- agreeing, trying and erring, and lence reaches levels unseen since the darkest nical problems that have little to do with securi- of 2011. Iraq touted plans to ramp up its oil pro- ment, they should work with other besides this will be great entertain- days of civil war. Iraq’s ambitious plans to ramp ty, especially in Basra, the southern port where duction and earn funds for reconstruction. Last departments in order to accomplish ment for all to watch too! This is a up its oil output have been held back by poor few Sunnis live. An official at the South Oil year its output surged. But Maliki’s Shiite-led the organization’s overall objectives. great team-building activity because maintenance and technical problems. Violence is Company said on Thursday Iraq will have to cut government never managed to win over the Along with this, managers in the it has the team work together to build making the situation worse, and, if it continues its exports in Basra by 400,000-500,000 barrels support of Sunnis, the minority that ruled under Middle East also have an additional something they need to think of to to escalate, could have a measurable impact on per day in September for maintenance. But one Saddam. A fragile political system has come tough challenge: handling multicul- accomplish a goal. global supply. of the main reasons for the fall is the damage close to unravelling this year, with Sunnis stag- tural teams. In fact, according to the 2. The Hall of Fame - While this may Death tolls for the past three months in Iraq inflicted by insurgents to the Kirkuk pipeline, ing mass demonstrations against the govern- Bayt.com ‘Management Challenges in not be a team-building activity, it does have been the highest for five years, since the constructed in the 1970s to bring 1.6 million bar- ment, accusing it of marginalising them. the MENA’ poll, January 2012, almost contribute to better motivation and days when rival Sunni and Shiite militias fought rels of oil per day to the Turkish Mediterranean Civil war in neighboring Syria along the same 30 percent of managers claim that the satisfaction on the job. Does your for control of neighbourhoods and battled port of Ceyhan. sectarian lines as in Iraq has emboldened Sunni most difficult aspect of their job is organization have a value-based 170,000 US troops. Today, the Americans are A bomb attack on June 21 kept the pipeline militants, including Iraq’s branch of Al-Qaeda, managing multicultural teams. Other reward system where employees are long since gone, but sectarian animosity has re- closed for much of July. A repair crew sent to fix which merged with a powerful Syrian rebel areas that managers find challenging emerged, fuelled by resentment among Sunni the damage was ambushed by gunmen who force. The combined group claimed responsibili- commended on how well they are motivating and inspiring teams demonstrate the company’s values? If Muslims at what they perceive as domination by killed two engineers and two police. ty for this week’s Iraq prison attack. (18.6 percent), and encouraging open Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s Shiite majority. In the end, Kirkuk oil shipments for this “The prospects of a descent into civil war not, then it would be a good idea to communications (16.2 percent). This week insurgents staged possibly their month averaged just 150,000 bpd, less than a along the lines of the violence that dominated introduce one. Approach department Team-building exercises can be a boldest attack in years, freeing hundreds of pris- tenth of official capacity. “Bomb attacks and Iraq in 2006-07 are very real,” wrote security con- managers to nominate their best per- powerful way to unite a group, devel- oners in coordinated strikes on two jails that leakages due to corrosion have made the sultancy Eurasia Group in a research note two formers, and these could be op strengths, and address weaknesses killed dozens of troops. That tactical sophistica- pipeline unfit to handle steady shipments from weeks ago. That note still said the deployment of announced during your annual meet- - but only if the exercises are planned tion is also being turned against Iraq’s oil northern oilfields,” a senior official with Iraq’s government forces in Sunni provinces would up. When it comes to rewarding your exports, hurting plans to turn the country into state-run North Oil Company told Reuters. “The probably be sufficient to prevent Sunni insur- and carried out strategically. In other team, there are a number of innova- words, there has to be a real purpose the world’s biggest new source of traded oil and deterioration of security in areas where the line gents from developing “forces that can engage tive non-monetary rewards you can behind your decision to do the exer- raise the money to rebuild after decades of sanc- stretches has made it impossible for our crews to government units directly”. But Monday’s subse- give away. cise - for example, improving the tions and war. “It is government crude for Sunni repair damage in time as we used to. Now it quent attack on the prisons suggests the assess- 3. Minute to Win It - As the name team’s problem-solving or creativity blood,” said Abu Ammar, a Sunni tribal leader in takes ages,” said the official. ment may be optimistic. suggests, this exercise is based on the southern Nineveh province, where a stretch of “In recent meetings we told the oil ministry Suicide bombers drove cars packed with skills. Not only is this an opportunity for your team to discover facets of popular TV show with the same name. the main Kirkuk oil pipeline has repeatedly come that Kirkuk’s major export pipeline is now suit- explosives to the gates of Abu Ghraib prison on All participants are divided into two under insurgent attack. able for watering gardens and not for carrying the outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday night and their colleagues’ personalities that they otherwise were not aware of, but teams (you can make this easier by “The Baghdad government should under- oil.” A former official in Iraq’s oil industry said the blasted their way in, while gunmen attacked randomly assigning everyone to stand this message: stop spilling our blood and incidents were familiar from the dark days of guards with mortars and rocket-propelled also cement communication and facil- groups). One good idea is to put num- we’ll stop attacking the oil pipeline,” he told Iraq’s sectarian civil war. “It seems like we are grenades. Other militants took up positions on a itate better future interaction. bers at the bottom of their plates or Reuters. going back to the 2006-2007 environment highway and fought off troop reinforcements. A Having said that, there are a lot of “The Shiite government is killing and perse- where the pipeline was halted for months on similar attack was staged simultaneously at options you could choose from to their seating location. Team members cuting Sunnis in all parts of Iraq. As revenge we end,” the former official said. “The attacks are another prison north of the capital. The two make help your team succeed by inte- then choose one leader from their have to make the government suffer, and the deliberate: the aim is to stop Kirkuk from flow- attacks killed at least 26 soldiers. Some 500 pris- grating team-building activities. With team who subsequently chooses who best way is to keep blowing up the oil pipeline.” ing.” Although sources differ on the precise num- oners, mainly Sunni militants, escaped. a little bit of creativity, you can in fact will compete for each of the coming According to oil shipping figures tracked by bers of casualties, at least 2,500 people have “The situation is definitely deteriorating and evolve most activities into fun team- games. These one-minute ‘games’ can Reuters, Iraq’s oil exports have fallen this month been killed in Iraq in the past three months, we’re seeing attacks on a scale we haven’t seen building activities that you can in fact easily be downloaded online for free. to just 2.27 million barrels a day, a fifth below mostly by bombings that target security forces, since late 2007,” said John Drake, an Iraq analyst apply for your next team outing or They are really entertaining to watch the government’s target of 2.9 million bpd this worshippers in mosques and ordinary people. at AKE, a consultancy that advises oil companies dinner. Here are some options that the and play, with everyone strategizing, year. Iraq has ambitious plans to increase oil According to UN figures, the death toll for the and other firms with exposure to Iraq. “If they HR experts at Bayt.com, the Middle cheering, and ultimately having fun. exports as high as 6 million bpd after decades month of May surged above 1,000 for the first can successfully attack a prison, it’s going to be East’s #1 job site, would like to share: That’s not to mention interacting and when production was held back by sanctions time since mid-2008, when US and Iraqi troops important to keep other essential facilities - 1. Build a Plane - The room can be experiencing each other’s company in and war. Its exports reached 2.62 million bpd last launched an offensive to recapture swathes of including oil facilities - safe.” — Reuters divided into four groups. Each group a non-work environment. Small companies power ahead with big gains

NEW YORK: You may be unfamiliar Apple. The S&P 600, another index that 500 is forecast to have declined 0.6 son? Big companies often pay a premi- with some of the best stocks on Wall tracks small-company stocks, is also percent compared with the second um to acquire a company. When Street this year. Small, mostly unknown reflecting the popularity of small caps. quarter of 2012. But smaller companies investors think a deal may be coming, names are leading the surge in stock That index is up 24 percent this year. entering new niches can grow quickly. their buying boosts a small company’s markets. Companies like Entravision Investors have poured a net $18.2 Digital marketing is one area of stock price. Communications, a Spanish-language billion into small-company mutual strong growth as smartphones and In June, Salesforce.com, a cloud media company; SunPower, a maker of funds this year, according to Lipper, a tablet computers soar in popularity. computing company, agreed to buy solar panels, and MannKind, a biophar- company that tracks funds. If that The majority of Americans now own a ExactTarget, a digital marketer similar maceutical company, have more than trend continues, the sector could have smartphone of some kind, according to Responsys, in a $2.5 billion deal. tripled in value. All are part of the its best year since 2004, when investors to a survey published by the Pew Salesforce paid $33.75 for ExactTarget’s Russell 2000, an index of small-compa- put a net $20.8 billion into small-com- Research Center on June 5. outstanding stock, a premium of more ny stocks that has outperformed other pany funds. Smartphone adaptation among US than 50 percent. ExactTarget’s stock major indexes in 2013. Here are the factors behind the rise adults has climbed to 56 percent from had climbed $3.09, or 16 percent, to The Russell 2000, as its name in small-company stocks. only 35 percent two years ago. $22.10 in the five weeks before the implies, includes about 2,000 compa- Typically, small-company stocks are Responsys, a software firm that cre- Salesforce bid was announced. nies with a market value ranging from riskier investments than larger compa- ates marketing campaigns for social Another example is Gannett’s acquisi- $129 million to $3.3 billion. The index nies. The companies tend to be rela- networks and smartphone users, saw tion of Belo. Gannett, which owns USA broke through 1,000 for the first time tively young; it’s harder for them to revenue rise by 25 percent in the sec- Today, said on June 13 that it was on July 5 and closed Friday at 1,048. It raise money to expand; and they are ond quarter as demand for its services acquiring Belo in a deal that valued the has jumped 23 percent this year. That’s more vulnerable during downturns increased. The company’s stock has Dallas-based TV broadcaster at $2.2 bil- better than the Standard & Poor’s 500 because they aren’t as diversified as GREELEY: Mike Shoop, owner of a debt collection agency, sits for a portrait risen to $14.90 from $5.96 at the start lion. Gannett agreed to pay $13.75 a index, which is up 19 percent, and the big companies. But in times of eco- inside his office at Professional Finance Company, in Greeley, Colorado. Shoop of the year, a gain of 150 percent. share for Belo’s outstanding stock, 28 Dow Jones industrial average, which nomic growth and rising stock mar- says his company may have to cut back on coverage for employees if they “There are so many small companies percent more than the company’s mar- has gained 18 percent. kets, like now, demand for small-com- can’t afford insurance under President Obama’s new healthcare law. — AP out there with opportunities,” says ket price. The Russell’s performance is even pany stocks goes up because investors percent for the S&P 500. small-company stocks for James Craig Hodges, chief investment officer The theme of increasing consolida- more impressive over the past 4-1/2 are more comfortable taking on risk. Investors, however, do need Investment Research. “It’s a bit harder at Hodges Capital, which runs a portfo- tion in the TV market is one of the rea- years. The index is up 205 percent since And small companies can reward risk- stronger nerves to own small-company to sleep at night when you own small- lio of small-company stocks. “There’s sons behind Entravision’s surge, as a bull market in stocks began in March takers with bigger returns. The S&P 500 stocks. The Russell has fallen 10 times cap stocks.” new stuff coming up all the time.” investors speculate the company may 2009; the S&P 500 is up 150 percent. has risen 22 of the last 30 years. In in the past 30 years while the S&P 500 In an economy that is expanding Higher growth rates make some small be acquired, says Michael Kupinski, a That suggests investors are slightly those years when the broader market has declined six (one year it finished slowly, rather than powering ahead, companies tempting acquisitions for media and entertainment analyst at more comfortable buying stocks of gained, the Russell outperformed the unchanged). many companies are finding growth larger rivals, who can boost their rev- Noble Research. Entravision is also smaller, riskier companies, than they S&P 500 about 64 percent of the time. “Historically they have outper- hard. When corporations finish report- enue growth by absorbing them. Many benefiting from higher advertising rev- are holding shares of big, multinational The index’s best year was 2003, when it formed large-cap stocks,” says Barry ing second-quarter results, revenue for of the big gainers in the Russell this enue and from refinancing its debt, companies, like Exxon Mobil and soared 45 percent, compared with 26 James, who helps run a portfolio of companies in the Standard & Poor’s year are acquisition targets. The rea- says Kupinski. —AP EXCHANGE RATES

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PetroChina to join Exxon China data in focus after at giant Iraqi oilfield trade bounce ups hopes BEIJING/MOSCOW: China’s biggest sion. energy firm PetroChina will join Exxon “Lukoil bosses have already said they Mobil in developing Iraq’s giant West would prefer an Asian partner, a Chinese Economists see 9% rise in industrial output Qurna oilfield and is in talks with Russia’s partner, in the project to secure a guar- Lukoil to buy into a second project at anteed market for oil sales,” the source BEIJING: Global investors will look to the field, industry sources said. China is said. a batch of Chinese data for evidence already the top foreign player in Iraq’s Lukoil’s Chief Executive Vagit that a strong bounce in July trade oilfields. A deal at West Qurna, which is Alekperov has said that the company was not a fluke and that the world’s around 50 km northwest of the south- wanted a Chinese firm to replace second-largest economy is stabilizing ern oil hub of Basra, would boost its Norway’s Statoil at the project. Statoil after more than two years of slowing dominance and could make PetroChina agreed last year to sell its 18.75 percent growth. Economists were quick to the biggest single foreign investor in stake. point out that the overall trend Iraqi oil. China is the world’s second-largest oil remained subdued and it was too West Qurna is central to Iraq’s oil importer after the United States, and its early to treat a 5.1 percent rise in exports from a year ago and an even expansion plans, with enough reserves growth in fuel consumption has driven bigger 10.9 percent jump in imports to pump more than 5 million barrels per global oil demand expansion for a as signs of an imminent turnaround. day (bpd), and it could rival the world’s decade. Indeed, exports in the three biggest producer, Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar Faced with falling demand for months ended July 31 posted the field, when its two phases are running imported oil in the United States and slowest annual increase since fully. Europe, producers from the Middle East, October 2009, Reuters calculations “PetroChina will participate in devel- Russia, Africa and Latin America are all showed. But Thursday’s figures, oping the field,” an industry source with competing for a bigger share of China’s which handily beat market expecta- direct knowledge of the deal with Exxon growing market. West Qurna-2 is tions, raised hopes that China could said on Friday. The agreement would be expected to start up this year, produce be spared a sharp slowdown that dis- announced in weeks, the source said, 500,000 bpd in 2014, and need total mal June figures, when exports fell but declined to give further details on investment of $30 billion. Lukoil plans for the first time in 17 months, how the world’s two most valuable list- to invest $5 billion in the project in 2013 seemed to suggest. ed energy firms would work together in alone. Economists polled by Reuters are Iraq. Both PetroChina and Exxon Last year, Exxon offered to sell its looking for an annual 9 percent rise BEIJING: Goods are delivered to a store in the Wangfujing shopping street of Beijing yesterday. The declined to comment. West Qurna-1 stake after a dispute with in China’s industrial output in July PetroChina already partners BP at Baghdad over contracts it signed with world’s second-largest economy seen as a key driver of global growth expanded 7.8 percent in 2012, the and a 13.5 percent increase in retail government announced on August 9, in its slowest annual pace in 13 years.— AFP Rumaila, now Iraq’s largest producer, autonomous Kurdistan in the north, sales. The numbers are due at 0530 and operates the Halfaya and Al-Ahdab deals the central government rejects as GMT. Fixed asset investment is fore- ernment has made clear it will accept cast of 7.4 percent growth in 2013.” relatively positive numbers should fields. The company was the first foreign illegal. cast to have risen 20 percent in the some slowdown. It has said it China’s trade performance has whip- shore up market sentiment, analysts firm to sign an oil service deal in Iraq A source familiar with PetroChina’s first seven months of the year, in line remained confident of meeting a 7.5 sawed this year after data was first warned against concluding that the after US-led forces toppled Saddam operations in Iraq said in March the two with growth in the first six months, percent growth target this year - the inflated by companies reporting fake upbeat July performance, particularly Hussein. Baghdad signed a series of companies were discussing a deal that while inflation, due at 0130 GMT, is lowest in 23 years. Barclays analysts deals to disguise illicit cash transfers, exceptionally strong imports, was driv- service contracts in 2009 that commit- would enable Exxon to retain operator forecast to have quickened to a five- said the data backed their view that and then subsequently deflated by en by an actual improvement in final ted international oil companies to rais- status at the oilfield, where Royal Dutch month high of 2.8 percent. A steady- the goal remained within reach. “We the government as it quashed the fic- demand. Imports of crude oil and iron ing Iraq’s oil output by 2017 beyond 12 Shell is minority partner with 15 per- ing of the economy would be a relief argued last month that the economy titious transactions. Signs of China’s ore rebounded from multi-month million bpd - more than Saudi Arabia cent. to China’s leaders, fearing that a is not as weak as suggested by the improving health would also be a fil- lows to record highs last month and produces now. Some industry sources said it was slump could derail their efforts to May-June trade figures,” the bank said lip for international markets given soy bean purchases hit a record for Infrastructure and security problems unlikely that PetroChina would buy rebalance the economy away from its in a note. “Some improvement in the China’s importance as an engine of the second straight month. But ana- have since forced the government to cut stakes in both projects, due to their credit and investment-driven model ‘true’ export growth in the second global economic growth and a top lysts said the rebuilding of depleted the target to 9 million bpd by 2020. The sheer size. But Iraq’s oilfields are the in favor of more consumption. half on the back of a recovering US import market for a range of com- stocks and shipments may have also issues are so acute Iraq could report a largest in the Middle East open to for- The economy has slowed in nine economy is expected, and has been modities from iron ore to soybeans been inflated by unprocessed deals year-on-year output fall for 2013, its first eign investment, making them hard to of the past 10 quarters and the gov- factored into our baseline China fore- and crude oil. While another set of from June. —Reuters after two years of robust gains. Despite resist as China’s dependency on imports the frustrations, Exxon, which holds a 60 rises. percent stake in West Qurna-1, has “PetroChina is under big pressure to Regulators shutter small bank in Wisconsin made steady progress with minority add output and reserves for its size,” said partner Royal Dutch Shell and the field, a second industry official, who has direct WASHINGTON: Regulators have closed a small bank to cost the deposit insurance fund $13.5 million. Bank declined to a total of 92 in 2011. a $50 billion investment project, is knowledge of PetroChina’s investment in Wisconsin, bringing the number of US bank failures of Wausau is the second FDIC-insured lender in Last year, bank failures slowed to 51 - still more pumping around 480,000 bpd. strategy abroad. to 18 this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Wisconsin to fail this year. In May, the FDIC shuttered than normal. In a strong economy, an average of four In March, PetroChina’s ex-chairman “Iraq, given its attractive contract said Friday that it has taken over Bank of Wausau, Banks of Wisconsin, based in Kenosha, Wis. US bank or five banks close annually. The sharply reduced Jiang Jiemin told Reuters the Chinese terms, was among the brightest spots based in Wausau, Wisconsin. failures have been declining since they peaked in pace of bank closings shows sustained improvement. energy major was willing to team up for PetroChina’s international operations The lender, which operated a single bank branch, 2010 in the wake of the financial crisis and the Great From 2008 through 2011, bank failures cost the with Exxon at West Qurna. over the past three years, working shoul- had about $43.6 million in assets and $40.7 million in Recession. In 2007, only three banks went under. That deposit insurance fund an estimated $88 billion, and the fund fell into the red in 2009. With failures slow- PetroChina is also in talks with Lukoil der by shoulder with global oil majors.” deposits as of June 30. Nicolet National Bank, based number jumped to 25 in 2008, after the financial in Green Bay, Wis., agreed to assume all of the failed meltdown, and ballooned to 140 in 2009. ing, the fund’s balance turned positive in the second for a stake in another development proj- In a separate deal, Exxon and bank’s deposits and to buy roughly $29.9 million of its In 2010, regulators seized 157 banks, the most in quarter of 2011. The fund had a $35.7 billion balance ect at the field, West Qurna-2, a Lukoil PetroChina agreed in late July to jointly assets. any year since the savings and loan crisis two decades as of March 31, up from $32.9 billion at the end of source said. The source declined to study the 3,830 square-km Changdong The FDIC will retain the remaining assets for later ago. The FDIC has said 2010 likely was the high-water December. The FDIC expects bank failures from 2012 reveal the size of the stake under discus- block in northern China’s Ordos basin, disposition. The failure of Bank of Wausau is expected mark for bank failures from the recession. They through 2016 will cost the fund $10 billion. —AP

Investors undeterred by MENA crises LONDON: Looking beyond the problems Qatar National Bank, up 35 percent, and recovery play, whether in real estate or of a region beset by regime change in in Saudi Arabia, food and fashion retailer banking, in Qatar there are quality busi- Egypt, a security crisis in Yemen and civil Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair , which has nesses,” said Akhilesh Baveja, fund man- war in Syria, international investors are rocketed by more than 100 percent. ager at asset management group seeking out well-run businesses in Middle More of a surprise may be the per- Charlemagne Capital, adding that Eastern and even some North African formance of Egypt, which saw the oust- increased government spending to pre- stock markets. ing of President Mohamed Mursi last vent political unrest in many Gulf coun- The Middle East and North Africa month, less than 2-1/2 years after its Arab tries had led to a consumer boom. (MENA) region is a diverse investment Spring uprising. Egyptian stocks are up 3 Investors say the 2009 debt standstill universe which includes both energy percent in 2013, outperforming the MSCI of Dubai World, which sent Dubai’s mar- importers and exporters, and surplus and emerging markets index of which they kets into a tailspin, is largely a distant deficit economies, but enjoys cross-bor- are a part; that index is down 11 percent. memory. The property sector has der trade, investment and even aid links. Some investors are nervous, particularly returned to life and banks are also bene- Investors have focused on young popula- as stocks have fallen in dollar terms, but fiting from that revival. Dubai and Abu tions across the region, which they others focus on companies that continue Dhabi’s stock markets are trading at 4-1/2 believe will provide future workers and to do well. year highs. therefore opportunities for business Favorite companies include In gas-rich Qatar, spending ahead of growth. They say businesses are often Commercial International Bank (CIB), the soccer World Cup in 2022 is also giv- able to carry on, regardless of political which has rallied 11 percent this year. The ing the non-energy economy a boost. instability. first MENA fund opened in 1997 and after The UAE and Qatar got a slightly unex- “Mankind is an animal of habit. After a flurry before the 2008 financial crisis, pected upgrade to emerging market sta- 2-1/2 years we have got used to living around three MENA funds a year have tus from index compiler MSCI in June, with unrest in certain countries such as opened on a net basis since 2009, accord- potentially opening their markets to a Egypt,” said Nina de Martinis, fund man- ing to Lipper, a Thomson Reuters service. larger group of investors. The upgrade ager at asset management company Four net new funds have already takes effect in May 2014 and many Amundi, adding that increased govern- launched in 2013. Assets under manage- investors have not yet positioned them- ment spending and economic growth ment in dedicated MENA funds rose to selves for it, analysts say. meant: $1.9 billion at the end of July, from $1.1 Many funds also invest in Saudi Arabia “MENA is one of the future develop- billion in July 2012. - which does not feature in the MSCI fron- ment areas of global emerging markets.” According to Lipper, MENA equity tiers or Arabia indices - because of its Stocks in the Gulf economies of Abu funds have seen net inflows during the large, liquid stock market and strong con- Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar have shown first and second quarters of 2013, the first sumer firms. some of the most spectacular perform- two straight quarters of positive flows Saudi Arabia may open up further to ances in the world this year. That may not since the beginning of 2008. Net inflows foreign investors, particularly after the be a surprise, given these economies’ safe in the first seven months of 2013 were at kingdom recently moved its weekend to haven value in a region of conflict. “Dubai almost $150 million, equivalent to more the regional standard of Friday and has been a beneficiary of everything that than 8 percent of current assets under Saturday, from Thursday and Friday. Stock has gone wrong - Syria, Libya, Egypt,” said management. Many investors are also market reform has been in preparation Oliver Bell, fund manager at investment buying into to the region via funds invest- for years but officials have still not given management firm T Rowe Price. ing in frontier markets, a growing asset any clear sign of timing. Adding to their Companies which investors say they class which has outperformed emerging attractions, Gulf stocks tend to pay large particularly like include Dubai property markets this year. dividends, and can offer a risk premium company Emaar, up 68 percent this year, “In the UAE, the whole market is a to US dollar-based investors without cur- rency risk, due to their dollar pegs. Valuations are starting to get toppy, however. Price/earnings ratios are above emerging market norms, at 12.7 for Qatar and 13.7 for the UAE, but investors are calm. “There has been a re-rating but UAE does not seem to be overvalued,” said James Bannan, senior portfolio manager for frontier markets at asset management firm Bankinvest. Egypt, while benefiting from Gulf aid and described by some commentators as “too big to fail”, is causing more anguish. Ghadir Leil-Cooper, head of emerging equities at Baring Asset Management, holds only one Egyptian stock: CIB. She went underweight long before the oust- ing of Mursi. “We are still underweight. Egypt could go either way. There is still violence on the streets.” But for many investors in emerging and frontier stocks, the trick is to look TOKYO: Japanese lead negotiator for Japan-US trade talks, Takeo Mori away from the headline political noise (center), answers a question during a Q and A session at the foreign min- and concentrate on the companies which istry in Tokyo on Friday. The three-day trade talks between Japan and US are effectively managed and enjoying started in Tokyo on August 7 on autos, insurance and non-tariff measures strong revenues, often from overseas in parallel to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks.— AFP businesses.—Reuters SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 BUSINESS New finance minister may face challenge ALSHALL WEEKLY ECONOMIC REPORT KUWAIT: The formation of the more important after the anarchy that prevailed since the end of arm in the public administration in Kuwait was 2012 and until the middle of 2013, which we announced last week. The formation of the new warned against. government came worse than our pessimistic There is need to examine trends of the exist- expectations in our report prior to the forma- ing liquidity to assess its feasibility. Therefore, tion. It came out as allocations government par we monitored the share of the top 30 compa- excellence but with a major and sudden inclina- nies in terms of their trading value, which cap- tion towards the Ruling Family share therein tured KD 5.257 billion from that value, or about and with very narrow change despite its huge 65.5 percent (two-thirds) of the total value of failure record. Contrary to all expectations, the market trading, while the market value of these Family got 43.75 percent vis-a-vis 37.5 percent 30 companies scored about KD 14.917 billion, out of the cabinet portfolios. It also got 83.3 which represent about 47.7 percent of the total percent vis-a-vis 80 percent of the key positions market value. But the scrutiny of the compo- in the previous government, ie the Prime nents of this 30-company sample, we find out Minister and 4 positions for his deputies, five that 22 are characterized by acquiring high out of six key positions. As such, Article 6 of the trading value coupled with representing low Constitution has been revoked. market value, which denotes they are specula- There is no objection to that if science has tive and a general indicator for the dominance confirmed that administrative capacities are of speculative activity in the market. Nearly 22 genetically acquired. Likewise, there is nothing companies captured 47.7 percent of the total able for trading which means that the actual and Category”, for the period from 01/01/2013 - 27.9 percent between 12/2011 and 7/2012. wrong with that if options take into considera- value of market trading, i.e. around KD 3.831 bil- turnover average, or speculation severity, is 31/07/2013, published on KSE website. The Number of active accounts in the end of July tion standards and capabilities, or if it is the pre- lion while their capital value represents only 3.6 probably higher than our estimates.Comparing report indicated that individuals are still the 2013 settled at 21,367 or 8.7 percent of total vailing trend in the troubled world around us. percent of the total value of the market compa- the first 7 months of 2013 with that of the first dominating group and captured 59.9 percent of accounts. Contrary to all expectations, the change came nies. half in terms of the market value share of the 22 total value of sold stocks (about 55.2 percent for limited -25 percent versus 52 percent- in The share turnover index may provide us speculation companies, which dropped from the same period 2012) and about 57.8 percent 4. The Comparative performance Parliament as if indicators implied that it is a with a different viewing angle as it measures 3.7 percent to 3.6 percent of the total market of total value of purchased stocks (53 percent Performance during July was positive and government of achievements to mandate main- the number of times company stocks are trad- value and in terms of the share of their trading for the same period 2012). Individual investors within our expectations, Out of 14 selected mar- taining its core but indicators suggest the oppo- value of the aggregate market value, which fell sold stocks worth KD 4.916 billion and pur- kets, 12 markets achieved gains some with site. The only and good exception is the chased shares worth KD 4.739 billion with a net quite high while only two achieved very slight appointment of the ex-governor of Kuwait’s trading value, more selling, by KD 176.991 mil- losses (the Japanese by about -0.1 percent and Central Bank, a competent member of the lion. the Indian by -0.3 percent) , which is an oppo- Ruling Family, as Finance Minister, to handle in Corporations and companies sector cap- site performance for June when 12 markets coordination with the Central Bank the affairs of tured 18.6 percent of the total value of sold achieved negative performance. Excluding the the loose financial policy and the monetary pol- stocks (16.9 percent in the same period 2012) Chinese market which is in the negative zone by icy. However, he will face a big challenge and 18.4 percent of total value of purchased -12.1 percent together with the Indian Market because he is not within the general appropri- stocks (about 20 percent for the same period though slightly whose part of its negative per- ate political environment nor is he a member in 2012). The sector sold stocks worth KD 1.523 bil- formance is believed to be deliberate out of fear a team within the Cabinet which supports or lion and purchased stocks worth KD 1.513 bil- of assets bubble, the other 12 markets became understands the same directions. The reason for lion, with a net trading, more selling, by KD in the positive zone compared with their level in his resignation as Governor was attributed to 10.011 million.The third contributor to market the end of 2012. colliding with the cabinet after a meeting about liquidity is the trading accounts (portfolios) Dubai market has achieved remarkable per- the financial policy in February 2012. Nothing which captured 18.5 percent of total bought formance in July and added about 16.5 percent has changed in the Cabinet which is before a stocks (about 19.9 percent for the same period in one month to its gains. Its brother market challenge of implementing the content of his 2012) and 16.8 percent of total sold stocks (20.1 Abu Dhabi was not quite remote from it and article in Al-Anba newspaper published in percent for the same period last year). This sec- added in July alone about 8.3 percent. Two November 2012 about the resources curse. tor purchased stocks worth KD 1.514 billion and European markets, namely the French and the Most of the political opposition has voluntar- sold stocks worth KD 1.378 billion thus making British, came third and fourth. Two regional ily chosen not to participate in the elections. the net trading more buying with KD 135.689 markets, the Saudi and the Omani, came fifth There is no disagreement among the opposi- million. The last contributor to liquidity is the and sixth which implies that gains were inclu- investment funds sector which captured 5.4 sive to almost all markets. Gains of the price tion, the Government and the loyalists that percent of total value of purchased stocks index and the weighted index (Kuwait) scored Kuwait is at its worst. Its development project (about 7.2 percent for the same period 2012) 3.8 percent and 3.3 percent respectively though moves contrary to its objectives; sterile bureau- and 4.7 percent of total value of sold stocks they were different apart in the past part of cracy gets more complex; and corruption is as (about 7.9 percent for the same period 2012). 2013. Graph (1) displays the performance of the prosperous as stocks in the Al-Manakh era (early This sector purchased stocks worth KD 440.344 selected markets in last July. It indicates that the eighties) and the divisions and fragmentation is million and sold stocks worth KD 389.033 mil- Chinese, the Indian, the Japanese, and Bahraini in abyss. The solution, after participation in the lion with a net trading value, selling, by KD markets are common in the phenomenon of late elections, is to exploit this and those miser- 51.312 million. modest performance during the month each able conditions by presenting an outstanding KSE still continues to be a domestic stock with its own justifications.The Dubai market led administrative team that rescues the country exchange; Kuwaiti traders formed the largest performance during the past part of 2013 and from its conditions and embarrasses each one trading group and sold stocks worth KD 7.553 boosted its leading position by July perform- who bet that the situation is getting worse. billion, 92 percent of total sold stocks, (90.7 per- ance and scored gains in seven months by However, it is a formation which embarrassed cent for the same period 2012), and purchased about 59.5 percent. Abu Dhabi came second in whoever believed them and participated. stocks worth KD 7.523 billion capturing 91.7 gains by about 46.2 percent. The Kuwait stock That means one thing, the Government is percent of total value of purchased stocks (91.1 market came next with its price index without a either in a State of denial of the reality of the sit- percent for the same period last year). As such, similar reflection or close to the capital value of uation, or that it has lost the ability to under- the net trading was more selling by KD 30.150 its companies, which is a false reading. stand the most basic requirements of reality, or million. Other investors’ share, out of the total Therefore, it is not counted within ranking. The that obstinacy is the master of the situation. purchased stocks, scored 6.5 percent (6.2 per- Japanese market came third with 31.5 percent Whatever the reality behind this government cent for the same period 2012), worth KD gains due to the expansion policies of the new formation is, its outcome is the same, namely, 533.106 million, while value of their sold stocks Japanese Prime Minister.August may repeat July the country will be the victim of its manage- scored KD 474.550 million, 5.8 percent of total performance, i.e. general positive trend, though ment. In addition, the early signs of the National value of sold stocks, vis-a-vis 6.3 percent for the slower if good news about performance of main Assembly activities do not seem promising as same period 2012. Thus their net trading, the economies continues like enhancing growth, about one-third of its members began coordi- only ones buying, scored KD 58.556 million. low unemployment rates and rise levels of trust, nating meetings at the headquarters of deputy GCC Investors’ share out of total sold stocks but this remains unguaranteed. The bulge in accused of bribery, while another one third scored 2.2 percent (3.1 percent for the same asset prices is not justified by the real economic strongly criticized the formation of the new period 2012), or KD 178.869 million, and value growth rates, but the continued monetary stim- Government. of purchased stocks scored 1.8 percent (2.7 per- ulus policies-printing currency-which is a stimu- We hoped the government formation would cent in the same period 2012), worth KD lating policy with subsequent inflationary dam- surprise us and to the better but it surprised us 150.463 million. Their net trading was more sell- ages must be stopped. Any hint at their halting in the opposite direction. What we do not know ing worth KD 28.406 million. will lead to correction operations in most mar- is its term but what we know is that it is unable Comparing trading characteristics during the kets. We do not know if we are going to hear to build nor to stop the deteriorating condition past 7 months, the relative distribution among something about their stopping or limiting and to limit corruption. He who does not have ed. The total turnover average of the market nationalities remains unchanged: 91.9 percent them in August. something cannot give that something. stocks scored 25.7 percent compared with 35.2 from 48.1 percent to 47.7 percent, it does not for Kuwaitis, 6.1 percent for traders from other percent in the 30- company sample with the seem there is a clear trend to move away from nationalities and 2 percent for GCC traders vis- 5. Weekly Performance of KSE 2. KSE liquidity features highest share from trading value, i.e. liquidity. harmful speculation. The reduced value of spec- ‡-vis 90.9 percent, 6.2 percent and 2.9 percent The performance of Kuwait Stock Exchange By the end of July, Kuwait Stock Exchange Within these, the turnover average of the 22 ulative companies share in trading value may for Kuwaitis, other nationalities and GCC traders (KSE) for the last week was mixed, (4 working has added to its liquidity -trading value- about speculation companies is about 336.1 percent; be due to the general decline in liquidity during respectively for the same period 2012. This days due to the Eid Ul-Fitr) where the indices of KD 719.807 million, rising by 9.8 percent from not only that but the turnover of one of the July as part of the stock market correction in the means Kuwait stock exchange remained the trade value, the trade volume, and number liquidity level in the first half of the year, bring- companies within these 22 speculation compa- stock exchange market as we indicated in the domestic with more trading by investors from of transactions show a decrease, while the gen- ing the market’s liquidity since the beginning of nies scored around 1166 percent (more than 11 beginning of this paragraph, and not as awak- outside the GCC region than their GCC counter- eral index shows an increase. AlShall Index (val- 2013 and until the end of July to KD 8.032 bil- times its market value), followed by three com- ening indicator. parts. Besides, individual trading excelled that ue weighted) closed at 456 points at the closing lion. However, the liquidity of July vis-‡-vis June panies whose turnover average exceeded 500 of institutions, a characteristic which is on the of last Wednesday, showing an increase of dropped by 38.7 percent, which is continuous percent turnover. It is worth noting that the 3. Trading features at KSE increase. about 1.1 points or about 0.2 percent, and an decline since May in what seems to be part of turnover index assumes that all shares in trad- Kuwait Clearing Company issued its report Number of active accounts between 12/2012 increase of 17.8 points or about 4.1 percent the correction witnessed by the stock exchange ing, while in reality only some shares are avail- titled “Trading Volume According to Nationality and 7/2013 rose by 38 percent vis-‡-vis a rise by compared to the end of 2012. Petroleum nationalism fades as super-cycle cools: Kemp

LONDON: The balance of power between host EQUITY OR SERVICE to capture the “windfall profits” from higher oil and be merely a high-performing element in an average- countries and petroleum companies has shifted Under the traditional model in the oil and gas gas prices. By 2008 as commodity prices were peak- performing portfolio. decisively as a result of the shale revolution and the industry, producers paid semi-fixed fees in the form ing, governments appeared to have won. Whether push into deepwater oil and gas fields off the coast of royalty payments and bonuses to the resource oil was produced under a royalty-and-tax system or COMPETING FOR CAPITAL of Latin America and Africa. owner, normally the government. In return they got some form of production-sharing or service con- The last three years have seen a remarkable shift. The first decade of the 21st century was domi- to keep any residual revenue from selling the oil and tract, host governments had succeeded in capturing References to resource nationalism have declined nated by talk about increasing “resource national- paid taxes on the profits in the normal way. most of the upside from oil and gas prices. Oil and markedly, and instead a race is on to offer better ism” as governments demanded a greater share of By the late 1990s, however, that model had been gas companies were left to accept defeat and what- terms and attract investment. the revenues from natural resources located on replaced in most emerging markets by production- ever terms were offered to them. The United Kingdom has eased taxes to reverse their territory. But in the past three years, resource sharing arrangements and service contracts, under declining investment and production of offshore oil nationalism has disappeared from the agenda. which the oil and gas company received a largely PORTFOLIO PERSPECTIVE and gas and is offering generous terms for onshore Rather than trying to impose tougher terms on oil fixed fee for investment in exploration and develop- Petroleum leases are complicated, but most of shale exploration. Russia is seeking foreign technol- and gas companies, most countries are now com- ment, and the host government kept the residual the seemingly arcane disputes boil to down to a ogy and companies to help develop its Siberian and peting to attract investment by offering reductions revenue. Service companies such as Halliburton and simple question of who gets to keep the benefits Arctic fields. Even hyper-nationalist Argentina is in royalties and lower tax rates. Schlumberger were happy to work as contractors on from periods of high prices. offering more generous pricing and taxation to Countries as diverse as the United Kingdom, fixed fees. But most international oil and gas majors For the oil majors, exceptional profits produced attract investment in its giant Vaca Muerta shale for- Argentina, Ukraine and Poland want to attract such as Shell , BP, Total and Exxon Mobil resisted and from some fields during periods of high prices are mation. In the late 1990s and 2000s, numerous oil explorers and developers to exploit shale deposits. continued to press for access to oil and gas as equity needed to compensate for the enormous risks they companies were chasing a handful of new opportu- And countries along the east and west coasts of owners. undertake in exploration and production and mak- nities. Now thanks to the shale revolution as well as Africa, as well as Latin America, are all vying to ing long-term capital investments. The extraordinary advances in offshore drilling, the set of potential attract spending on offshore oil and gas discover- PLUCKING THE GOOSE profits pay for all the wells that come up dry and for investments has widened dramatically, outpacing ies. Faced with so many competing opportunities, In the 1990s and through the 2000s as China the poor returns in years of low prices. the number of international companies pursuing oil and gas companies are pushing for a better bar- boomed and the commodity super-cycle pushed For resource owners, however, exceptional profits them and the amount of capital available to be gain. “We are not an opportunity-constrained com- prices for oil and other commodities to record highs, can look like an unearned windfall, a gift of nature, employed. The result is a noticeable shift in the bal- pany, we are a capital-constrained company,” Shell resource owners pushed for even tougher deals, and which should be kept by the people of the host ance of negotiating power. Chief Executive Peter Voser told Reuters in an inter- for the most part they were successful. country. It is mostly a matter of perspective. view, a position he has stressed to investors several Resource owners such as Iraq insisted on service Resource owners evaluate profits on a well-by-well, FISCAL TERMS AND RISK times over the course of this year. contracts with exceptionally tough terms, and the field-by-field or at most country-wide level and usu- Fiscal terms and resource nationalism tend to fol- The underlying message from Shell and other international oil companies eventually agreed, most- ally at only one point in time. Exploration and pro- low a fairly well defined cycle. In the early phases of oil companies to resource owners is clear: if you ly to get a foot in the door and hope the terms could duction companies evaluate profits on a portfolio the development of a new oil field or province, host want us to invest time, money and technology be renegotiated to something more favourable later. basis across the whole set of their assets and over countries are keen to attract investment and offer developing your resource rather than somewhere Even countries such as the United Kingdom, the entire price cycle. attractive terms, especially if a field requires very else, you must offer us competitive and attractive which continued to offer traditional royalty-and-tax So what to a resource owner appears to be unjus- large amounts of capital and complex technology to terms. terms, hiked tax rates, in many cases retrospectively tified windfall profits may appear to an operator to exploit. — Reuters SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 BUSINESS BOE’s guidance is clear, say economists

LONDON: Forward guidance months. “We expect the CPI infla- third quarter of 2016, from its cur- want them to go,” he said. mists said it will raise them in either dicting a 25 basis point hike from brings new clarity about the Bank tion knockout to be breached rent level at 7.8 percent. Asked when the Bank will next 2015 or 2016, with a handful of their present record low 0.5 per- of England’s policy, according to a somewhat earlier than Q3 2016, Twenty-nine out of 50 econo- change interest rates, 38 econo- forecasts either side, almost all pre- cent. —Reuters thin majority of economists polled which is the current guidance by mists said that was a pessimistic by Reuters, while the rest said it the BoE,” said Slavena Nazarova, forecast, while only 19 thought it contained too many caveats. economist from Credit Agricole was about right. Two respondents And in a shift from earlier polls, CIB. said that was optimistic. “The 7 per- the survey of 50 analysts also “CPI inflation has consistently cent is just a threshold and not a showed more than half now think surprised to the upside and risks kick-starter for rising rates. If they the Bank has drawn a line under its remain that it will continue to do really think the labor market won’t asset purchase stimulus program. so.” The lack of consensus among improve significantly until Q3 2016, The Bank of England broke with economists was reflected by an they will just start thinking of rais- tradition on Wednesday by plan- uncertain market reaction on ing, not doing it immediately (if the ning to keep interest rates at Wednesday to the forward guid- jobless rate hits that level),” said record lows until unemployment ance announcement. Norman Rudschuck, analyst at falls to 7 percent or below, which it Underwhelmed investors NordLB. The poll also showed more said could take three years. brought forward expectations for than half of respondents - 28 of 50 - Twenty-eight out of 50 economists when rates would rise from 0.5 now think the Bank has put its asset surveyed since the announcement percent - the opposite of what the purchase program behind it. said this guidance was clear, while central bank was hoping for - That’s a shift from two weeks the remaining 22 said it was weak- although the move faded later in ago, when a minority of 17 out of ened too much by three caveats the day. Setting the main thresh- 47 thought it had done away with that would override the plan. old for forward guidance at an bond purchases under quantitative The Bank will reconsider if the unemployment rate of 7 percent easing (QE), which stand at 375 bil- public’s inflation expectations also surprised economists. lion pounds ($580 billion). become dangerously high, if ultra- Bank of England Governor Mark Michael Saunders, economist at low rates pose a threat to financial Carney has said that was not a tar- Citi, said it wasn’t clear if the coun- stability, or if it forecasts inflation get, but a “way station” at which the try had seen the back of asset pur- will be 2.5 percent or higher in 18- Monetary Policy Committee would chases from the Bank. “They’ve 24 months. reassess the economy. The Bank’s drawn a line under a large QE pro- The last of those break clauses Inflation Report on Wednesday gram, but I think it’s quite possible LONDON: People walk near the Bank of England in London. The Bank of England caused the biggest surprise, given projected the unemployment rate they’ll do it on a modest basis to announced a major policy shift saying explicitly that it was now targeting unemployment inflation has topped 2.5 percent would not fall to 7 percent before underpin guidance, if market rate as well as inflation. The new head of the bank Mark Carney provided clear guidance on for all but four of the last 43 the end of its forecast horizon, the expectations don’t go where they when it can be expected to raise Britain’s record-low interest rate. —AFP German economy grew strongly in Q2: Ministry Private consumption, investment rise BERLIN: The German economy is likely to have Since then, the data picture has brightened The ministry said foreign trade would likely expanded significantly between April and June, somewhat, with industrial production and dampen growth, though investment in capital helped by higher private consumption and orders increasing much more briskly than equipment had continued to stabilize. Slowing investment in construction, but growth will be expected in June. Preliminary data on second investment, combined with weak exports, more modest in the rest of the year, the quarter gross domestic product (GDP) in drove Germany to a contraction in the last Economy Ministry said. Europe’s largest economy is due on August 14 - quarter of 2012. Industrial output would con- “The German economy grew briskly in the five weeks before parliamentary elections. tinue to grow in the coming months, but not spring,” the ministry said in its monthly report. Economists are forecasting growth between too dynamically. Recent data has also shown “After the weather dampened growth in the 0.6 and 1 percent on the quarter. Europe’s eco- the private sector expanding, business and first quarter, there was a growth spurt in the nomic powerhouse performed strongly in the consumer morale brightening, industry orders second quarter due to catch-up effects.” early years of the euro-zone crisis but only nar- surging, unemployment falling and exports ris- MANILA: Customers buy vegetables from stalls on the street in Manila The modest underlying rate of growth in the rowly avoided a recession in early 2013 thanks ing modestly. economy should accelerate slightly in the rest to private consumption, which has been strong The ministry said the economy still faced Friday. The Philippine central bank forecast that inflation would remain low of year, held back by the tough European and thanks to stable employment, wage increases headwinds from the struggling euro zone and a even amid expectations of rising economic growth. —AFP international environment, the ministry said. and moderate inflation. “Private consumption tough international environment. For Germany The Bundesbank said in June that the German remains an important pillar of the economy to remain the region’s anchor of stability and Libya’s worst oil unrest since economy would slow down after a surge in the and like in the first quarter, it likely made a growth engine, it is important to increase firms’ second quarter and expected just 0.3 percent strong contribution to growth in the second willingness to invest and thereby boost growth civil war stores up trouble growth for the year as a whole. quarter,” the ministry said. potential, the ministry said. —Reuters

LONDON: Unrest that has already slashed budget for this year is strained by subsidies Libya’s oil output to the lowest levels since the and spending on salaries partly to thousands 2011 civil war and more than halved its of former fighters from the war that over- Obama: Summers, exports is now spreading, with serious impli- threw Muammar Gaddafi. Prime Minister Ali cations for its economy, foreign companies Zeidan has asked for an extra $11 billion. Yellen ‘qualified’ and consumers of crude. In the latest develop- Before the latest disruption Libya’s oil ment, field workers at its Arabian Gulf Oil exports brought in about $4 billion a month. Company (AGOCO), with complaints over Another serious problem down the line could for Fed management, said late on Wednesday they be the impact the disruption is having on for- WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said would cut output by 10,000 barrels per day eign investors, who had been pleasantly sur- Friday that the two leading candidates to head (bpd) every day their demands are not met. prised by the country’s quick production the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen and Larry They join a wave of strikes by oil workers recovery last year. Production reached just and protests by people demanding work, that under its pre-war level of 1.6 million barrels Summers, are both fully qualified for the job. began in late July, shutting down the two one year after the conflict. But the continuous Acknowledging that the two economists are largest terminals of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf. outages since then have reduced the appeal among his candidates to succeed current Fed The Zueitina port has been closed since of upstream investments. In an early sign, Chairman Ben Bernanke in January, Obama said mid-July, while workers at Libya’s biggest Marathon Oil, for example, is studying the both were suitable to take on the central bank’s refinery, at Ras Lanuf, are also on strike. Now, potential sale of its stake in the Waha Oil mission to control inflation and boost employ- with the onset of the Muslim festival of Eid al- Company. Italy’s Eni is the biggest foreign ment. Fitr, a trader with a foreign oil company said operator in Libya with around one third of the “The Federal Reserve chairman is not just one he did not expect either talks or oil flows to country’s output. of the most important economic policymakers in restart before Sunday. Eni has said last week its output came in America, he or she is one of the most important TOKYO: Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda speaks to the press “Eid started last night so there won’t be below targets in the first and second quarters policymakers in the world,” Obama told reporters. at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo after a two-day policy meeting. The BOJ any resolution during this period. Meetings because of Libyan unrest making it lose some Obama stressed his responsibility “to make sure issued an upbeat assessment of Tokyo’s efforts to counter growth-sapping and negotiations will take place afterwards,” a $2 million a day in lost production. “The situa- the economy is growing quickly and robustly and deflation, as it left its vast monetary easing program unchanged. —AFP trader with another oil major said on tion in the country remains volatile and we is sustained and durable so that people who work Thursday. cannot exclude further disruptions in the sec- hard in this country are able to find a job.” Libyan officials were not immediately ond half,” CEO Paolo Scaroni said “My main criteria for the Federal Reserve chair- Russia’s growth slows to available to comment. Meanwhile production Germany’s Wintershall, owned by BASF, man is somebody who understands they’ve got a in Libya is now around 600,000 bpd, roughly was the second largest foreign oil firm in Libya 1.2% in blow for Putin half of July’s level, an industry source familiar but its producing assets have not returned to dual mandate,” he said in a press conference at with Libya’s operations estimated. The country pre-war levels. Austria’s OMV and Spain’s the White House. “A critical part of the job is mak- MOSCOW: Russia’s growth slowed sharply in ing Putin’s first two terms as president in 2000- has a production capacity of around 1.6 mil- Repsol had to temporarily shut in production ing sure that we keep inflation in check, that our the second quarter despite President Vladimir 2008. lion bpd. Exports to world markets remain at due protests in early July. monetary policy is sound, that the dollar is Putin’s efforts to reverse the trend before he “This is the slowest pace of expansion since just under half of pre-disruption rates of Other players include Total, ConocoPhillips, sound.” “But the other mandate is full employ- hosts the G20 summit next month, initial esti- the fourth quarter of 2009 and the sixth con- about 1 million bpd. Eastern Libya, with 80 Hess, Marathon, and Suncor. There is a risk to ment.... The challenge is we’ve still got too many mates showed on Friday. secutive quarterly decline in (the) GDP” growth percent of the oil, has seen the most protests Libya’s reputation as a supplier that could people out of work, too many long-term unem- The first growth reading from the Federal rate, the Moscow-based Renaissance Capital as locals seek more influence over the sector. prove costly. “If Libyan supply consistently ployed, too much slack in the economy, and we’re State Statistics Service dealt a heavy blow to investment bank said in a note to clients. Although oil provides 95 percent of Libya’s comes to be viewed as unreliable, then Libya not growing as fast as we should.” the government by revealing that the econo- “It is likely that the poor number is driven revenues, analysts say its economy can man- will be forced to discount their crude prices “So I want a Fed chairman who’s able to look at my had expanded in the second quarter of this by an across-the-board slowdown in con- age for a while. “They are not that straight- for their customers,” Hawes at Eurasia said. those issues and have a perspective that keeps an year from the same period in 2012 at a rate of sumption, investment and net exports.” ened because they have significant (mone- Europe’s refineries are already finding them- eye on inflation.” “Frankly, I think both Larry just 1.2 percent. The government admitted it The damage for Putin-who has already tary) reserves. It would take a couple of selves short of Libya’s prized light sweet crude Summers and Janet Yellen are highly qualified may now be forced to revise down its already stared down a wave of protests that preceded months of zero exports before they would not this summer, pushing up the prices of alterna- candidates.” sluggish prediction for full year growth and his return to the presidency in May 2012 — be able to pay for things. It’s a medium term tives such as Azeri or Kazakh oil. Although Obama, who is expected to nominate analysts warned final data could show Russia will be especially keenly felt when he hosts the was already in recession. G20 summit in his native city of Saint issue,” said Crispin Hawes, director of Middle Libya, even at full production, is only ranked Bernanke’s successor as soon as September, said East and North Africa at consultancy Eurasia around ninth of OPEC’s 12 producers, the sup- The reading is well below both the first Petersburg on September 5-6. The Russian he had “a range of outstanding candidates” for Group. ply interruptions has lent extra support to quarter’s already-disappointing growth rate of leader had been hoping to use the high-pro- Prolonged shut-downs would risk crip- benchmark Brent crude oil futures and there- the job. —AFP 1.6 percent and the economic ministry’s own file event to showcase Russia as an example pling state finances. The roughly $51 billion fore to world energy prices. —Reuters second-quarter forecast of 1.9 percent. for Western powers now grappling with record It is also much too slow not only to meet unemployment and overwhelming state debt. Putin’s initial 2013 growth target of five per- Russia’s own state debt figure stands at just cent but also the economic ministry’s down- 10 percent of gross domestic product thanks wardly-revised forecast of 2.4 percent. to a hawkish policy that has seen revenues GDF buys Balfour Beatty’s Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach from the country’s vast energy exports saved conceded that the initial reading “provided an up in two rainy-day funds. argument for a downward revision” of the But the poor economic readings may UK facilities unit annual forecast. “Second quarter GDP data throw a wrench into Putin’s plans and under- from Russia were not only much weaker than score Russia’s current standing as one of expected-according to our estimates they are world’s worst-performing emerging markets. PARIS: GDF Suez said it had acquired WorkPlace, lishments, and will complement GDF Suez’ Cofely to double the size of our energy efficiency activi- also consistent with the economy having fall- The International Monetary Fund-its own 2013 the facilities management unit of Britain’s Balfour unit, a provider of energy and technical services ties in Great Britain,” GDF Suez Chief Executive en into recession during the first half of this growth forecast for Russia now set at 2.5 per- Beatty, to bolster its energy services and facilities to the private sector. The combined activities will Gerard Mestrallet told Les Echos newspaper, year,” London-based Capital Economics said. cent-has warned that Russia’s economy was in operations in Britain. The enterprise value of the generate annual revenues of around 800 million which reported the news late on Thursday. A recession is defined as two consecutive fact operating at full capacity and therefore in business is 190 million pounds ($296 million), but pounds, GDF said. Completion of the deal is expected in the contractions of quarter-on-quarter growth. urgent need of deep-rooted structural any cash payment will be reduced by pension lia- WorkPlace’s facilities management business, fourth quarter of 2013. “We believe this will be These figures will only be published when the reforms. Friday’s growth report is also certain bilities and any net debt transferring with the which employs over 9,000 people, generated rev- seen as a good move for Balfour as it has done statistics office gives the final reading for the to raise pressure on the central bank to cut business, the French utility said in a statement. enue of 482 million pounds in 2012 with operat- what it said it would do even though it has taken second quarter. interest rates in the coming months. GDF did not give details of the purchase price. ing profit of 21 million pounds. a little longer than hoped and a target considera- ‘An across-the-board slowdown’ — Governors at the bank decided earlier in the WorkPlace provides a range of services to The subsidiary’s British clients include the tion of 250 million pounds (our estimate) was not Analysts noted that the figure was part of a day to keep the main refinancing rate thousands of public facilities in Britain, such as Department for Work and Pensions and HM reached,” Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman broader negative trend that began in 2011 unchanged at 8.25 percent for the 11th month hospitals, schools and local government estab- Revenue & Customs. “This operation will allow us Howard said. —Reuters after nearly a decade of rapid expansion dur- running. —AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 BUSINESS US stock investors pin hopes on retail therapy

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NEW YORK: Wall Street’s spotlight will fall In the absence of strong earnings and earnings growth at 3.8 percent for the sec- US-based Treasury bond funds suffered a dent at Cuttone & Co in New York. on the consumer next week. Investors will economic data, however, analysts say the ond quarter. record outflow of $3.27 billion, according to “If it comes in lower than 2 percent, then look to earnings from major retailers and market is likely to trend lower as volume Consumer spending has been restrained Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company. I actually think you’ll see the market rally on data on consumer spending with the hope thins out heading into the latter half of by an increase in taxes at the start of the For the year, the Dow Jones industrial the news because then people will say ‘OK, that the numbers will show that Americans August. year, but it is expected to accelerate during average has advanced 17.7 percent and the they aren’t going to taper,’” he added. have indulged in some retail therapy in “We’re a consumer-driven economy, so if the second half. Growth in the S&P 500’s Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has climbed Economists polled by Reuters have forecast recent weeks. those earnings come in shy of expectations, consumer discretionary sector is second 18.6 percent. The Nasdaq Composite Index that July CPI, on a year-over-year basis, will Good news on the shopping front could the lack of personnel on Wall Street could only to the technology sector in 2013; the has gained 21.2 percent for the year. show a gain of 2.0 percent. The Thomson provide some potential catalysts for a stock certainly cause some weakness,” said Tom consumer discretionary index has climbed In addition to earnings, the coming Reuters/ University of Michigan consumer market that has stumbled a bit of late. The Schrader, managing director of US equity 26.6 percent so far this year week’s numbers will include consumer sentiment index will be released on Friday, last two full weeks of earnings season are trading for Stifel Nicolaus Capital Markets in Of the 13 S&P 500 companies scheduled spending and sentiment figures. The eco- with a preliminary reading for August. packed with consumer bellwethers. Macy’s Baltimore. Earnings on the whole have to report next week, four are retailers. “Any nomic data will include a reading on infla- Expectations are for a small uptick. The con- is scheduled to report results on topped expectations, with 67 percent of the commentary coming out of these late-filing tion, measured by the US Consumer Price sumer sentiment index hit a six-year high in Wednesday, while Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the 446 companies in the S&P 500 that had retail companies is going to be interesting,” Index. On Tuesday, the Commerce July on increased optimism about the cur- world’s largest retailer, will release quarterly reported earnings so far beating estimates. said Kim Forrest, senior equity research ana- Department will release data on July retail rent economic climate. earnings on Thursday, along with upscale About 54 percent of companies have lyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group in Pittsburgh. sales. The forecast is for a 0.3 percent gain “We are starting to get consumer confi- department store Nordstrom and discount reported revenue above expectations, “We’re shifting back to a little broader per- since June, with a 0.4 percent rise expected dence numbers rising, which is very normal retailer Kohl’s. Home Depot, Target and exceeding the average of the past four spective on how the economy is doing, when car sales are excluded, according to in a rising stock market,” said Leo Kelly, man- Staples will follow the week after that. quarters, but below the historical average. how the consumer feels, and how that economists polled by Reuters. aging director and partner in HighTower’s Positive news about consumer spending The consumer discretionary sector has feeds back into GDP.” July CPI will be released on Thursday. If Kelly Wealth Management in Hunt Valley, could give the market some upward tallied the second-best earnings growth of Despite the stock market’s pullback in the CPI figure comes in between 2 percent Maryland. “We have seen gas prices level off, momentum, which has lagged since stocks the 10 S&P 500 industry sectors, with 8.5 the latest week, analysts say sentiment and 2.5 percent higher year-over-year, the which is a positive, but mortgage rates are wrapped up a strong July. The S&P 500 fell percent growth in the second quarter, about equities remains positive. US-based Fed is likely to take the data as a sign that it up, and we saw the number of refis go 1.1 percent this week - its worst weekly per- according to Thomson Reuters data. stock funds marked their sixth straight week can start trimming its stimulus as early as down significantly, so that’s less cash in the formance since June. Consumer staples have been weaker, with of inflows in the week ended Aug 7, while September, said Keith Bliss, senior vice presi- consumer pocket.” —Reuters FASTtelco, X-cite reach a strategic partnership

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On his part Abdulwahab Al-Nakib, Chairman and Managing Director of Al-Deera Holding, and CEO of FASTtelco expressed his aspiration for this new partnership with X-cite, he went on to say “we are always keen to offer the highest standards of services to our valued customers and meet their expectations, we want to be much closer to our current and potential clients”. HAVANA: A farmer rests as he waits for fruits and vegetables retailers to buy Al-Nakib then added “FASTtelco is develop- from him a wholesale market in Havana. After 50 years and due to President ing, and our client base is on a continuous Raul Castro’s economic reforms, the wholesale trade has reborn in Cuba. —AFP growth. 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US oil rises 2.5% on America Movil NEW YORK: US crude oil futures finished positions before September, when the sharply higher on Friday reversing five US Federal Reserve is expected to start makes bid for days of losses in the largest one-day per- paring back its massive stimulus pro- China, tight supply centage gain in a week on signs of rising gram. Friday’s rally helped offset the loss- rest of KPN Chinese demand and concerns about es. U.S. oil lost 0.9 per cent for the week, NEW YORK: US crude oil futures finished massive stimulus program. Friday’s rally supply disruptions in the North Sea and while Brent lost 0.67 percent. sharply higher on Friday reversing five days of helped offset the losses. U.S. oil lost 0.9 per MEXICO CITY/LONDON: Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s the Middle East. Brent crude recovered China’s factory output grew in July at losses in the largest one-day percentage gain cent for the week, while Brent lost 0.67 per- America Movil has made a 7.2 billion euro ($9.6 billion) bid from closing at its lowest point in more its fastest pace since the start of the year, in a week on signs of rising Chinese demand cent. for the 70 percent of Dutch telecoms group KPN it does not than a month in the previous session, but adding to a run of data suggesting the and concerns about supply disruptions in the China’s factory output grew in July at its already own, challenging an arch-rival’s attempt to buy trading was more active in the New York world’s second-largest economy may be North Sea and the Middle East. Brent crude fastest pace since the start of the year, adding KPN’s German business. Spain’s Telefonica last month made market, with front-month September stabilising after more than two years of recovered from closing at its lowest point in to a run of data suggesting the world’s sec- an $11 billion offer to buy KPN’s crown jewel, Germany’s E- West Texas Intermediate (WTI) leading slumping growth. Crude oil imports rose more than a month in the previous session, ond-largest economy may be stabilising after Plus, disrupting America Movil’s expensive - and on paper the gains, sparking sharp moves in to a record, although implied oil demand but trading was more active in the New York more than two years of slumping growth. money-losing - foray into Europe. spread trades. softened from a four-month high in June. market, with front-month September West Crude oil imports rose to a record, although America Movil and Telefonica together control about 60 The premium for September crude “Today was the second day we heard Texas Intermediate (WTI) leading the gains, implied oil demand softened from a four- percent of mobile phone business in Latin America. The futures over December crude widened positive news in China,” said Gene sparking sharp moves in spread trades. month high in June. Mexican firm’s surprise move to buy stakes in KPN and by as much as $1.03 cents from the prior McGillian, an analyst with Tradition The premium for September crude futures “Today was the second day we heard posi- Telekom Austria brought their rivalry to Europe, and the day’s settlement price to $3.90. Analysts Energy in Stamford, Connecticut. over December crude widened by as much as tive news in China,” said Gene McGillian, an battle there now looks set to rage for months to come. cited upbeat data from China and more Bullish news out of China coupled $1.03 cents from the prior day’s settlement analyst with Tradition Energy in Stamford, European telecoms firms are mostly struggling with saturat- signs of a sharp fall-off in Libyan oil with supply disruptions supported price to $3.90. Analysts cited upbeat data Connecticut. ed markets, recession-hit consumers, tough regulation and exports as possible causes for the appre- prices. The International Energy from China and more signs of a sharp fall-off Bullish news out of China coupled with expensive network upgrades, leading some to look at con- ciation of front contracts. Administration (IEA) said it expected in Libyan oil exports as possible causes for supply disruptions supported prices. The solidation. America Movil has not expressed an opinion on Market watchers also said a rush to Libya’s oil output to show a drop of the appreciation of front contracts. International Energy Administration (IEA) said Telefonica’s bid for E-Plus, which is backed by KPN’s board. buy back contracts to cover short posi- 600,000 barrels per day to 400,000 bpd in Market watchers also said a rush to buy it expected Libya’s oil output to show a drop But people close to the matter have said America Movil tions ahead of the weekend also con- early August, its lowest since the 2011 back contracts to cover short positions ahead of 600,000 barrels per day to 400,000 bpd views the offer as too low and fraught with regulatory risks, tributed to the rally. conflict. of the weekend also contributed to the rally. early this month, its lowest since the 2011 fuelling speculation that it might try to block a deal or push “We’re bouncing back from five ses- The Forties Pipeline System in the “We’re bouncing back from five sessions conflict. for a higher price. Telefonica said on Friday its offer still sions of losses,” said Joseph Posillico, sen- North Sea was shut down for a few hours of losses,” said Joseph Posillico, senior vice The Forties Pipeline System in the North stands and is “definitive.” A Telekom Austria source said ior vice president of energy derivatives at Thursday night, prompting suspension of president of energy derivatives at Jefferies Sea was shut down for a few hours Thursday America Movil was likely to launch a bid for the rest of that Jefferies Bache in New York. The positive production at Buzzard, Britain’s largest Bache in New York. The positive Chinese data night, prompting suspension of production company as well. The Mexican firm is currently barred from Chinese data buoyed the market and oilfield and the most important contribu- buoyed the market and traders “generally go at Buzzard, Britain’s largest oilfield and the making a bid until after Sept. 25, the anniversary of its pur- traders “generally go long in the front tor to the Forties stream that underpins long in the front two months, and that’s most important contributor to the Forties chase of a stake in the business. Telekom Austria shares two months, and that’s going to lend the Brent crude contract. going to lend strength in the spreads as well,” stream that underpins the Brent crude con- rose 8.2 percent on Friday. strength in the spreads as well,” he Concerns that the shutdown could he added. US oil futures for September deliv- tract. Telekom Austria declined comment on the matter. added. US oil futures for September further delay August Forties cargoes, ery climbed $2.57 to settle at $105.95, after Concerns that the shutdown could further Shares in America Movil, Latin America’s largest phone com- delivery climbed $2.57 to settle at which had already suffered delays, hitting a high of $106.24. Brent crude oil rose delay August Forties cargoes, which had pany, fell more than 6 percent early on Friday on news of $105.95, after hitting a high of $106.24. helped support Brent prices. $1.54 cents to $108.22. The North Sea bench- already suffered delays, helped support Brent the KPN bid. “By declaring his intention to make an offer for Brent crude oil rose $1.54 cents to US investment bank Goldman mark’s premium to its US counterpart prices. all of KPN, Slim has in reality drawn a line in the sand that $108.22. The North Sea benchmark’s pre- Sachs maintained its 12-month fore- widened from an intraday high of $1.78 of to US investment bank Goldman Sachs tells Telefonica: This deal (E-plus) is not good enough,” a per- mium to its US counterpart widened cast for Brent oil at $105 a barrel on settle at $2.25 per barrel. maintained its 12-month forecast for Brent oil son familiar with the matter said.Telefonica wants E-Plus in from an intraday high of $1.78 of to settle Friday but said tighter OPEC supplies Still, both Brent and US oil posted weekly at $105 a barrel on Friday but said tighter order to strengthen its challenge to market leaders at $2.25 per barrel. and a rise in Chinese net crude oil losses as investors closed their positions OPEC supplies and a rise in Chinese net crude Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone in Germany, Europe’s Still, both Brent and US oil posted imports would push prices up in the before September, when the US Federal oil imports would push prices up in the near biggest economy. —Reuters weekly losses as investors closed their near term. —Reuters Reserve is expected to start paring back its term. —Reuters SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 technology Duel over Apple’s punishment for e-book price-fixing

SAN FRANCISCO: US antitrust attorneys ate to the purported harm from the price- e-book market if those contracts would Buterman argued that was justified, sanctions would contradict the deals they defended their push to restrict Apple in fixing scheme. The maneuvering came in not limit price competition. And it said that after the publishers joined together to negotiated with prosecutors for their roles the e-books market as hearings opened briefs and letters submitted to federal Apple should be compelled to allow other argue against the proposed restrictions on in the price-fixing scheme. Friday on how to punish the tech giant court ahead of Friday’s hearing. In its filing, e-book retailers to sell their products Apple. “There is reason to believe that the “The plaintiffs are attempting to found guilty of price-fixing. In a submis- the DOJ defended its proposed remedies through Apple’s iPad and iPhone apps for Publisher Defendants are positioning impose a specific business model on the sion to a federal court in New York, anti- in the case as “necessary to rid the e-book two years.Going further, the DOJ order themselves to pick up where they left off publishing industry, despite their express trust attorneys for the US Justice market of the effects of a successful and would prohibit Apple from seeking to as soon as their two-year clocks run,” he and repeated representations that they Department suggested that publishers long-running price-fixing conspiracy and drive up prices by signing agreements sim- said in the letter. “The very fact that pub- would play no such role,” they said. Apple were already joining hands again to pre- to restore this market to competitive ilar to its e-book deals “ with suppliers of e- lisher defendants have banded together has condemned the DOJ proposal, and on vent prices from falling, and insisted Apple health.” The department has recommend- books, music, movies, television shows or once again, this time to oppose two provi- Friday sought to move to reverse the July should be forced to end its current con- ed that Apple be forced to end its current other content”-a move which puts Apple’s sions in the proposed final judgment that verdict, submitting a list of evidence it tracts with them. e-book deals with five top publishers- powerful iTunes service in DOJ sights. In a they believe could result in lower e-book argued was “improperly admitted, exclud- But Apple, backed by the publishers, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, letter to the court, Lawrence Buterman of prices for customers, only highlights why it ed, or disregarded” before or during the tri- argued in its own submission that the Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster. the DOJ antitrust division acknowledged is necessary to insure that Apple (and al. Apple attorneys called the proposed judge in the case made numerous legal All had already struck deals with prose- that Apple’s punishment would effectively hopefully other retailers) can discount e- punishment “a draconian and punitive missteps that gave it grounds to appeal cutors to settle price-fixing conspiracy extend by three years a restriction placed books and compete on retail price for as intrusion into Apple’s business, wildly out the verdict. And it said the proposed sanc- charges. It said that Apple should only be on publishers in their settlements in the long as possible.” On Wednesday, the pub- of proportion to any adjudicated wrong- tions were “draconian” and disproportion- able to set new contracts with them in the case. lishers argued that some of the proposed doing or potential harm.” —AFP Some Samsung imports banned in patent case Samsung has infringed two Apple patents: ITC WASHINGTON: The US International Trade smartphone industry is not a global war in the ministry made its feelings clear at the time. Legal Commission on Friday blocked imports of some courts, but fair competition in the marketplace. analysts point out that a critical difference in the older model Samsung mobile devices following “Samsung will continue to launch many inno- cases is that the USTR intervened regarding complaints by Apple that the South Korean com- vative products and we have already taken meas- patents deemed “standards essential,” indicating pany had violated its patents. The ruling by the ures to ensure that all our of products will contin- that the technology involved was needed to com- Washington-based trade body was the latest in a ue to be available in the United States,” the ply with industry standards. long-running and bitter global battle over alleged Samsung spokesman said. It was unclear precisely “Our ministry expresses concern about nega- patent infringement between the two smart- which devices would be targeted in the ban, but tive impacts the decision by the USTR will have phone and tablet computer giants. it was aimed at early model smartphones and on protecting patents held by Samsung,” the The ITC ruled that Samsung had infringed two tablets that are no longer hot products in the company said in a statement at the time. The ITC Apple patents-numbers 949 and 501, dealing United States. ruling also opens a door for Apple to try to use with touchscreen actions and headphone jack “It really doesn’t mean that much,” independ- the same patent violation claim against newer BOCA RATON: Marie Jose Brau, owner of the Bakery of France in Boca Raton, plug-ins-but cleared the South Korean company ent Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle said of the Samsung gadgets that have incorporated the Florida, displays one of the iPad minis equipped with a Square credit card of charges that it had violated four more. Apple ITC ruling. “It is not the new stuff they are talking same technology. reader that her servers deliver to diners, who swipe their own cards to speed welcomed the ITC ruling while Samsung about, but the older devices that are more likely Samsung has taken pains to modify smart- up transactions. —MCT expressed its disappointment. to be shipped to emerging markets than here.” phone and tablet designs to avoid attacks over “With today’s decision, the ITC has joined The import block is subject to a review by the Apple patents. “I don’t think this decision will courts around the world in Japan, Korea, White House and Samsung will be allowed to reverberate much through Samsung’s product Germany, Netherlands and California by standing continue to sell the items at issue during the two- line,” Enderle said. In a separate battle in US feder- Apps help businesses up for innovation and rejecting Samsung’s blatant month review period. al court, Samsung was ordered last August to pay copying of Apple’s products,” Apple said in a The ITC ruling raised the question of whether more than $1 billion for patent infringement, a tap into more profits statement. “Protecting real innovation is what the US President Barack Obama’s administration will ruling which also opens the door to a ban on patent system should be about,” it said. once again intervene in a patent fight playing out some Samsung devices. Boosting business potential may be just a Monetary Mobile, an application for Spokesman Adam Yates said Samsung is “disap- between the companies at the agency. Less than A judge later slashed the award to $598.9 mil- few taps away. Mobile applications are a Android phones. When a call ends, the pro- pointed that the ITC has issued an exclusion order a week ago, the US Trade Representative over- lion. Apple continues its quest to get other growing high-tech trend, and some busi- gram prompts her to indicate whether the based on two of Apple’s patents.” turned an ITC ruling in a patent suit brought by Samsung mobile devices banned in that case. nesses are taking the digital phenomenon call is billable and to file details of the call. “However, Apple has been stopped from try- Samsung against Apple that would have banned Legal brawls between Samsung and Apple into new territory. They are using apps to She invested more than $7,000 and ing to use its overbroad design patents to achieve the sale of certain iPads and iPhones in the United became common after the South Korean compa- improve customer service, increase profits, 1,000 hours into creating it.”This way, you’re a monopoly on rectangles and rounded corners,” States. ny began gobbling smartphone market share and get an edge on competitors. At the not stuck at the end of the day trying to Yates said, referring to design features at issue in It was the first time the USTR has overruled the with devices powered by Google’s free Android Bakery of France in Boca Raton, Fla., lines remember what you talked about,” she said. rejected patent claims. “The proper focus for the commission since 1987, and South Korea’s trade operating system. —AFP are becoming a thing of the past thanks to Hampton said the app has already helped the specialized programs for smart phones her bill more than $8,000 she would other- and tablets. wise have missed. Monetary Mobile app will When owner Marie-Jose Brau purchased be available for sale on Google Play by the the cafe more than four months ago, she middle of August. A 30-day free trial will be realized the cash register had to go. The offered. After the trial, users can purchase lone machine at the back of the bakery han- the app for $29.99. dled all customers - whether eating in or When a company is deciding on whether taking out - and could only conduct one to use an existing app or create one, digital transaction at a time. Lines routinely backed strategist and business consultant Justin up. “It was a mess,” she said.”It was too old- Dennis recommends potential users look at fashioned.” the cost. “They need to be very concerned Brau’s solution was to go high-tech. She with how much they invest versus the purchased an iPad and two iPad minis and return on investment,” said Dennis, who has equipped them with Square, a mobile pay- been a consultant for than six years. ment app that works on both Apple and He defines return on investment as Android devices. The app allows businesses technology that “makes your employees’ to conduct transactions through the mobile lives easier and increases revenue.” devices and swipe credit cards using a plug- Accelerated Waste Solutions, a trash in accessory. Purchasers pay either a month- removal and recycling company, has met ly fee or a per-swipe fee. both criteria with the company’s patented Now the iPad has replaced the cash reg- Junk Shot app. The free app allows cus- ister used by take-out customers. The iPad tomers to snap a picture of their trash, send minis are brought directly to eat-in diners’ it to the company, and obtain a price quote tables when they are ready to pay. “It’s so via a phone call before booking the DOS PALOS: The Project Loon team from Google launch a high-altitude bal- cool,” cafe regular Erica Goodstone said. For removal service. The Tampa, Fla.-based YOKOHAMA: Japanese schoolchildren enjoy a Royal Palm Beach, Fla., lawyer Lynne company is currently opening an office in nature movie on a 40-meter (131-foot) wide loon carrying electronic testing equipment into the skies above Dos Palos, Hampton, a mobile app is the ideal way to Palm Springs as part of its expansion. Fred screen at a preview of the new amusement facility California. —MCT increase profits. Tomlin Jr, co-founder and director of busi- “Orbi” in Yokohama. Japanese videogame and Previously, when clients called the solo ness development, said the app is a crucial amusement giant Sega and BBC Worldwide plan Google looks to balloons for practitioner on her cellphone, she had no part of the expansion. It has allowed the to offer a unique experience using BBC’s nature easy way to track who called, the length of company to compete against such estab- Internet access in Third World the conversation, and what was discussed. lished companies as 1-800-Got-Junk? and video images and Sega’s latest image presenta- That’s critical to someone who bills clients College Hunks Hauling Junk. “What our app tion technology to visitors at the “Orbi”, which will DOS PALOS: Only half-filled with helium, and tudes of 12 miles or more above the Earth. at an hourly rate. So Hampton designed does is next-generation,” he said. —MCT open August 19. —AFP already more than 12 feet wide, the giant plas- The launch was also webcast for an audi- tic envelope shimmered and shook in the ence of young tech enthusiasts, who watched breeze like some airborne jellyfish rising the action and relayed questions to Ponda and TV blackouts aren’t shutting out fans through a gentle current. Soon it shot into the another Loon project staffer, Paul Acosta. The sky, soaring thousands of feet with a payload kids participated through an Internet video LOS ANGELES: A week into the black- sumers could find sports and other CBS ets such as Roku devices or Xbox game using a personal wireless data plan on of sophisticated radio gear, processors and “field trip” organized by Google and Maker out of CBS programming to millions of programming in other ways. consoles. their cellphone or tablet. Fans of solar panels. Its launch was part of an offbeat Camp, a free online summer program for teens Time Warner Cable subscribers, viewers In New York, the cable operator has Other CBS shows such as “Big Showtime shows like “Dexter” and “Ray experiment by Google in using lighter-than-air who like to build things and figure out how are finding workarounds. Nancy Keiter, recommended signing up for a month- Brother” are available for free on the Donovan” don’t have a legal alternative balloons, a concept pioneered in the 18th cen- they work. Project Loon is one of several a graphic designer in New York, plans long free trial of Aereo, which transmits CBS mobile app and CBS.com the day to get the latest episodes, unless they tury, to solve the 21st-century problem of undertakings by Google’s secretive X division, to watch early rounds of the PGA CBS signals to laptops, mobile devices after airing, as long as customers are know someone who gets Showtime delivering Internet service to underserved overseen by co-founder Sergey Brin, which is Championship golf tournament on and computers for $8 a month. People not using an Internet connection pro- from another satellite or cable provider parts of the world. responsible for so-called “moon shot” projects TNT on Saturday and Sunday until 2 with a relatively unobstructed view of a vided by Time Warner Cable, because and has room on their couch. “This is a great, big, hard problem,” said - ideas that seem off the wall but could have p.m. Eastern time. Then, she’ll switch TV tower can buy and hook up a digital CBS has blocked video to those using Paul Scoptur, a lawyer in Richard DeVaul, a Google engineer and chief huge potential -including Google’s self-driving from the TV set to her computer, where antenna to catch free over-the-air an IP address from the cable operator. Wauwatosa, Wis, who is suing Time technical architect for the company’s Project car and the wearable computing device she’ll head to PGA.com. The site will fol- broadcasts on their own. Live golf coverage will be available on Warner Cable for a similar blackout in Loon, so named in part because even Google dubbed Google Glass. Google has been work- low the featured golfers with live video Fans of CBS show “Under the Dome” CBSSports.com with the same restric- southeastern Wisconsin, planned to concedes the idea sounds a little crazy. But ing on Loon for nearly two years, but it only coverage through the trophy ceremo- can watch new episodes online four tion. Full replays of the final two rounds catch the Green Bay Packers’ first pre- after a trial run in New Zealand earlier this year, recently went public. ny. Still, Keiter is peeved that she can’t days after their original air date by sign- will be aired on the CBS Sports season game Friday night against DeVaul and other engineers on the project say “Our goal is to provide Internet service to watch the action the normal way: by ing up for Amazon.com’s $79-a-year Network channel, which was not Arizona with an awkward workaround. they believe a global network of low-cost, people in areas that can’t afford to throw switching to CBS on her TV. “I have my Prime shipping and video service. blocked out. He planned to watch the game on high-altitude balloons could carry enough down fiber lines or even cell towers,” Ponda fingers crossed that cooler heads will Amazon Prime video is watchable on Cable subscribers looking to get Spanish-language Telemundo with the wireless transponders to beam Internet con- explained. “We’re hopefully going to be able to prevail,” she said in an email interview. “I computers, mobile devices and around the Internet blockade can go to volume turned down while listening to nections to remote parts of Africa, Asia and make that a reality in the next few years.” think it is so rich that CBS and Time through the TV using connected gadg- a cafe for free Wi-Fi, or run the app the play-by-play - in English - on AM other developing regions. The concept calls for a fleet of hundreds or Warner say they have the ‘best interests’ radio. They’re now embarking on a new series of even thousands of balloons that will float of the viewers in mind. Please. This is In a separate fee fight, Time Warner tests in California’s Central Valley, aimed at twice as high as most jetliners fly, in a circle about money and shareholders, not Cable has blacked out Journal working out the answers to a multitude of around Earth. But while it sounds relatively about the viewer!” Communications Inc’s NBC affiliate, technical questions that must be resolved to simple, the logistics are mind-boggling. Since Both CBS and Time Warner appear WTMJ-TV, to cable subscribers in make the project work. Google invited a the balloons drift with the wind, Google engi- to be hunkered down for the long haul. southeastern Wisconsin since July 25. “I reporter and photographer to observe the neers devised a system to raise or lower them Their fight is over how much Time blame Time Warner because that’s who launch at a rural airfield that’s primarily used in order to catch the air currents needed to Warner Cable pays for CBS program- my contract is with,” said Scoptur. by crop-dusting planes. More tests are keep them floating just the right distance from ming and how much of the network’s “There’s a lot of people situated like planned this summer in the same area, chosen each other - and aligned so if one floats out of content it can use online. Since the two myself who are just ticked off.” because of its relatively uncrowded air space range from Internet users in a particular sides couldn’t agree, about 3 million Daryl Balod, a design consultant in and a driving distance of only two hours from region, another will come along and take its cable subscribers in New York, Los the Dallas suburb of Colleyville, said her Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. place. Angeles and Dallas have been without family is unlikely to be rigging up cords “Our main challenge right now is power,” said The balloon is a test device; its radio equip- CBS programming since Aug 2. from laptops to their TV or running Sameera Ponda, a Massachusetts Institute of ment was not intended to deliver an Internet Although both companies say coaxial cable from an antenna on their Technology-trained aerospace engineer hired connection. It also was filled only with helium negotiations are ongoing, top repre- own. She’s surprised the dispute has by Google to work on the project. She and is smaller than those tried in New Zealand, sentatives for both companies were gone on this long. Her family members explained that the Loon team needs more Acosta said. The larger models can be 45 feet away on Friday and weren’t expected are huge sports fans, and avidly watch data to decide how to configure the solar array in diameter and were designed by Google back for the remainder of the weekend. everything from major golf tourna- and batteries so they can keep a balloon’s with separate chambers for helium and air, so Time Warner Cable sent out a news NEW YORK: This image shows a CBS advertisement in Times ments to college sports and Cowboys radio equipment and computers running for the latter can be pumped in or out to raise or release Thursday detailing how con- Square in New York. —AP football. —AP weeks at a time, even at night, at frigid alti- lower the balloon. —MCT SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Anti-smoking battle moves outdoors; bans increase

ATLANTA: First it was bars, restaurants hand smoke it’s hard to pin down the health effects of Still, cigarette smoke in a place like a decided to act after an encounter with a and office buildings. Now the front lines of while in the open air. But that hasn’t outdoor smoke. There have been some park can be a nuisance to some, just like smoker in a park. A ban on smoking in the the “No Smoking” battle have moved out- stopped outdoor bans from taking off in studies - fewer than a dozen - that tried to loud music or dog waste. That’s how city’s parks went into effect last summer. doors. City parks, public beaches, college the last five years. The rules can apply to measure how much secondhand smoke Roger Montiel of Atlanta views it. “I don’t Technically, a violation could result in a campuses and other outdoor venues playgrounds, zoos, beaches and ball fields, can be found outdoors. Some have found really like the smell and I don’t like it blow- fine of as much as $1,000. But - as in other across the country are putting up signs as well as outdoor dining patios, bus stops levels that rival what people may breathe ing in my face. If I’m enjoying a day at the cities - Atlanta officials have not arrested telling smokers they can’t light up. and building doorways. “Secondhand indoors, depending on which way the park, I’d rather it not be part of that experi- anyone. “Enforcement generally has been Outdoor smoking bans have nearly dou- smoke is harmful. It’s particularly harmful wind is blowing or whether there’s an ence,” he said while walking through a someone says ‘put that out,’ and they put it bled in the last five years, with the tally to children,” said Councilwoman Mary overhang or sheltered area that can trap downtown park recently. out,” said George Dusenbury, Atlanta’s now at nearly 2,600 and more are in the Cheh of the District of Columbia, one of smoke. One study detected significant That’s good enough reason for outdoor parks and recreation commissioner. works. more than 90 US municipalities or coun- fumes as far as 44 feet away from a smok- bans, Repace said. “People don’t have to At Woodruff Park, a 6-acre downtown But some experts question the main ties considering an outdoor smoking law. er. “If you can smell it, it’s obviously there,” be dropping dead for you to regulate hangout, nearly a dozen smokers could be rationale for the bans, saying there’s not But is it really dangerous outdoors? said James Repace, a Maryland-based sci- something,” he said. Well, not so fast, said spotted in the park on a recent, sunny good medical evidence that cigarette Federal health officials say yes. Studies entist-consultant who’s done some of the Simon Chapman, an Australian researcher. Friday morning. The regulars said they smoke outdoors can harm the health of have clearly established that even a brief outdoor studies. He once won a prestigious American knew about the rules, but found children and other passers-by. Whether it exposure indoors to cigarette smoke can Two small studies tested about two Cancer Society award for his anti-smoking ways to get around them. “Smoke rises. is a long-term health issue for a lot of peo- cause blood to become sticky and more dozen nonsmokers at a smoky outdoor efforts and formerly was editor of a med- I don’t see a reason why it should bother ple “is still up in the air,” said Neil Klepeis, a prone to clotting. How long that lasts after dining area in Athens, Georgia. The saliva ical journal focused on smoking’s dangers. other people out here,” said Tommy Stanford University researcher whose just one dose isn’t clear, officials say. The tests detected significant jumps in coti- But in recent years he’s become a vocal Jackson, 55, lighting up with a friend at work is cited by advocates of outdoor best-known studies so far have measured nine, a substance produced when the opponent to wide-ranging outdoor smok- the edge of a paved footpath through the bans. Ronald Bayer, a Columbia University only up to about a day afterward. body metabolizes nicotine. That doesn’t ing bans. park. Park worker Rufus Copeland said he’s professor, put it in even starker terms. “The Repeated exposures are more dangerous, mean it’s causing chronic illness, though. He and Bayer worry such bans are real- seen only a small drop in smoking since evidence of a risk to people in open-air and can worsen your cholesterol, increase Repace thinks only two kinds of people ly motivated by desires to make smoking the green and white “Smoking Prohibited” settings is flimsy,” he said. There are hun- the odds of plaque building in arteries, may face a serious health risk outdoors - seem like an unusual, socially unaccept- signs went up last year. He steers smokers dreds of studies linking indoor second- and raise the risk of chest pain, weakness, those with severe asthma and staff at out- able behavior. Ban proponents see that as to the sidewalk rimming the park. But hand smoke to health problems like or heart attack. door cafes where smoking is allowed. a worthy goal; Chapman thinks it’s a bad people still smoke. “It’s hard,” he said. heart disease. That research has bol- Health officials say there’s no reason to Indeed, health advocates in some precedent. “Next you might say ‘Let’s not Brianna Mills, a 26-year-old nursing stu- stered city laws and workplace rules that think that can’t happen from breathing in places have focused on sites like sidewalk just stop there. Let’s not have people dent from suburban Marietta, sat down now impose smoking bans in nearly half smoke outdoors. cafes, feeling they can’t make the case for smoke anywhere they might be seen’” he for a quiet moment in the park with her of the nation’s bars, restaurants and work- “There’s no risk-free level of second- beaches or open-air parks. “We only get said. “And then is it legitimate to say that Newports, unaware of the ban. “It’s sup- places. hand smoke,” said Brian King, an expert on involved where there’s a real health risk,” any behavior that people don’t like should posed to be a free country,” said Mills, who In contrast, there’s been little study of secondhand smoke with the Centers for said Flory Doucas, co-director of Canada’s be disapproved of because people might developed her habit 10 years ago. “It’s like: the potential dangers of whiffing second- Disease Control and Prevention. However, Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control. see it.” In Atlanta, a city council member ‘Where can you smoke?’” —AP Early promise for malaria vaccine that mimics bites Experimental vaccine contains malaria parasites

WASHINGTON: A new kind of malaria vaccine nal Science. Six of nine volunteers in a separate showed 90 percent of volunteers were protected that mimics the effect of mosquito bites has group that received four shots of the highest against malaria after getting more than 1,000 shown early promise by offering 100 percent dose — 135,000 sporozoites per injection-were bites from infected mosquitoes that had under- protection to a dozen human volunteers, also fully protected against malaria, it said. gone radiation to weaken the Plasmodium falci- researchers said. The phase I study included 57 people-includ- parum parasite. Hoffman said his product is The experimental vaccine, called PfSPZ and ing 40 who received the vaccine in varying doses believed to protect against malaria for a period produced by the Maryland-based company and 17 controls. The study was co-authored by of six to 10 months. It also needs to be shown to Sanaria, contains live malaria parasites collected Hoffman and Robert Seder of the National work against all different kinds of malaria para- through a painstaking process of dissecting the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. sites. Next, several small clinical trials are planned salivary glands of mosquitoes. These immature “The good news is that the proof of concept is for Tanzania, Germany and the United States. parasites, known as sporozoites, are then weak- quite impressive,” said Anthony Fauci, director of Hoffman estimated it would be four years ened so they cannot cause illness and incorpo- NIAID. “The sobering news is that we that we still before a vaccine may reach the marketplace. He rated into a vaccine, which must be injected into have a lot of work to do in order to prove that said about $110 million has been invested so far. a person’s veins several times, with each shot this is something that has very broad applica- “The major challenge has been overcome-that is about a month apart. tions.” There is no vaccine on the market for to prove the principle that we actually have a “When we started doing this, everybody knew malaria, which infected some 220 million people product that can protect all the people whom we that sporozoites were the gold standard but in 2010 and killed 660,000 according to the immunize.” everyone thought it was impossible to make a World Health Organization. Most of the deaths Sanaria is also teaming with Harvard vaccine out of sporozoites and we were crazy. were among children in Africa. University engineers to automate the process of And we have proven them wrong,” Sanaria chief Another vaccine effort under way is the RTS,S dissecting the mosquitoes. The company current- scientific officer Stephen Hoffman told AFP. trial. Its phase III results, reported in Science in ly employs 16 “dissectors” who can each tease A test two years ago that administered the 2012, showed 31 percent effectiveness in young apart about 150 mosquitoes an hour, Hoffman same vaccine into the skin of patients, the way infants and 56 percent in older babies and tod- told AFP. most vaccines are given, protected only two of 44 dlers. According to Regina Rabinovich, a malaria volunteers. But the latest trial showed that inject- Hoffman told Science he realized years ago expert and scholar in residence at Harvard ing the vaccine into the bloodstream protected that a single protein vaccine like RTS,S would University, the results are “encouraging.” against malaria in all six volunteers who received “never do the job” of warding off malaria, which However, she said the researchers “need to fig- a five-shot regimen at the highest dosage, is caused by a 5,000-gene parasite. He was ure out how to replicate with a scalable technol- according to the results published in the US jour- inspired instead by studies in the 1970s that ogy.” —AFP Dogs help sniff out ovarian cancer: Study

PHILADELPHIA: Researchers trying hopes to change that with the help to develop a diagnostic tool for of McBaine, a springer spaniel; ovarian cancer are hoping dogs’ Ohlin, a Labrador retriever; and keen sense of smell will lead them Tsunami, a German shepherd. down the right path. An early “If we can figure out what those detection device that combines old- chemicals are, what that fingerprint fashioned olfactory skills, chemical of ovarian cancer is that’s in the analysis and modern technology blood - or maybe even eventually in could lead to better survival rates the urine or something like that - for the disease, which is particularly then we can have that automated deadly because it’s often not caught test that will be less expensive and until an advanced stage. very efficient at screening those Using blood and tissue samples samples,” Otto said. donated by patients, the University Ovarian cancer patient Marta NAMIBIA: In this photo supplied by UNICEF, a woman attends the Engela of Pennsylvania’s Working Dog Drexler, 57, is heartened by the Health Center with her child, near the border with Angola in Ohangwena Center has started training three effort. Drexler describes herself as a Province, Namibia. (Above) Children of the Himba tribe outside a home in the canines to sniff out the signature textbook case of the disease not Okangwati village. Children are the ones who suffer mostly from the drought compound that indicates the pres- being detected early enough which has swept across southern African nation and its northern neighbor ence of ovarian cancer. because she had no symptoms. Angola. An estimated 778,000 Namibians, which equates to a third of the If the animals can isolate the After two surgeries and two PENN: Jonathan Ball practices with Tsunami in the first round of country’s population, are either severely or moderately food insecure. —AP chemical marker, scientists at the training for a study that will eventually involve detecting cancer- rounds of chemotherapy, Drexler nearby Monell Chemical Senses ous tissue at Penn Vet Working Dog Center in Philadelphia. —AP said she didn’t hesitate when Dr. Center will work to create an elec- Tanyi, her physician, asked her to tronic sensor to identify the same About 70 percent of cases are smelling their urine. Dr Leonard donate tissue to the study. Last Dengue epidemic looms for odorant. “Because if the dogs can identified after the cancer has Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical week, she visited the Working Dog do it, then the question is, Can our spread, said Dr. Janos Tanyi, a Penn officer for the American Cancer Center to meet the animals whose Central American region analytical instrumentation do it? oncologist whose patients are par- Society, said while the canine con- work might one day lead to fewer We think we can,” Monell organic ticipating in the study. For those cept has shown promise for several battles like hers. “To have the oppor- MEXICO CITY: Central America is on track to where more than half the municipalities chemist George Preti said. More women, the five-year survival rate is years, there haven’t been any major tunity to help with this dreadful dis- have one of its worst years ever for the have registered dengue cases. Most of than 20,000 Americans are diag- less than 40 percent, he said. breakthroughs yet. ease, to do something about it, even painful, sometimes fatal disease of dengue, Nicaragua’s 2,000 cases, including six deaths, nosed with ovarian cancer each The Philadelphia researchers will “We’re still looking to see if it’s just a tiny little bit of some- prompting governments across the region to are concentrated on the border with year. When it’s caught early, women build on previous work showing whether something could be devel- thing, it’s a big thing,” said Drexler, of mobilize against the mosquito-borne virus. Honduras, which has reported nearly 18,000 have a five-year survival rate of 90 that early stage ovarian cancer oped and be useful in routine nearby Lansdowne. The ovarian can- There have been 120,000 suspected cases cases so far, compared with 15,000 for all of percent. But because of its generic alters odorous compounds in the patient care, and we’re not there cer detection study is being funded of dengue reported across Central America 2012. symptoms - weight gain, bloating body. Another study in Britain in yet,” said Lichtenfeld, who is not by an $80,000 grant from the so far in the season, which is roughly June to Dengue is a leading cause of illness and or constipation - the disease is more 2004 demonstrated that dogs could involved in the study. Cindy Otto, Madison, NJ-based Kaleidoscope of November, when the rains make it optimal death in the tropics and subtropics, accord- often caught late. identify bladder cancer patients by director of the Working Dog Center, Hope Foundation. —AP for mosquito breeding. The number of cases ing to the US Centers for Disease Control. The already is about to surpass the total for all of virus-transmitting aedes aegypti mosquitoes 2012 in the seven countries from Guatemala are found in dense population areas where a to Panama. At least 39 people have died so combination of people and standing water NZ dairy giant faces new milk scare in Sri Lanka far, more than the 32 for all of 2012. allow them to breed and thrive. The disease is endemic to the region, but There is no vaccine or cure for dengue. COLOMBO: New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra, Fonterra, whose brands are the market results incorrect. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s Court cases tend to surge every three to five years, Treatments can mirror those for standard flu already under pressure over a global botulism leader in Sri Lanka, accounting for nearly two of Appeal has slapped a temporary ban on and the Pan-American Health Organization symptoms or can be more extensive for scare, is facing fresh trouble over milk powder thirds of imports, has denied its products con- Fonterra advertising. The ban will remain in says this year’s looks unusually bad. Perhaps patients who have to be hospitalized. People in Sri Lanka allegedly mixed with a farm chemi- tain any trace of DCD. “Our milk is 100 percent force until August 21 when test reports from the worst major outbreak in the Americas contracting the most severe type, hemor- cal. pure,” Fonterra spokesman Roshan Kulasuriya foreign laboratories are expected, a court offi- was in 2010, when 132 people in Central rhagic dengue, can experience severe pain, The company said yesterday it had complet- said. “But we complied with the directive and cial said. America died. breathing difficulties, bleeding and even cir- ed a recall of two batches of milk powder under have completed the recall of the two batches Following the botulism scare earlier this Honduras and El Salvador have declared culatory failure. Sri Lankan government orders because of alle- said to contain traces of DCD by today month, Sri Lanka suspended the release of milk health emergencies to channel extra funds Epidemics can depend on which type of gations it contained traces of chemical DCD. (Saturday).” imported from New Zealand at a port in and efforts to prevent the spread of the dis- dengue is circulating in a particular year, and Dicyandiamide, or DCD, is added to pastures to The Sri Lankan action is unrelated to the Colombo until an internationally recognized ease. Other nations are also sending teams whether the population has already built increase agricultural yields. A New Zealand global safety recall announced by Fonterra ear- laboratory certifies they are toxin free. Fonterra of workers across villages and cities to squirt immunities to that type. People with immu- government website says DCD is not toxic and lier this month after tests turned up a type of insists the batches at the port do not contain bursts of insecticide at puddles and to lec- nity to one type of dengue can still contract poses no food safety risk but adds that interna- bacteria that could cause botulism. any harmful bacteria. ture citizens against leaving standing water others. “New, susceptible people are being tional regulators are likely to view DCD residues New Zealand’s government said last week- Sri Lanka imported $307 million-worth of where mosquitoes can breed. “They’re born all the time,” CDC epidemiologist Dr. as a “contaminant”. end products potentially tainted with botulism- milk and milk products in 2012 with the bulk involving people from public health, police George Han noted. However, Sri Lanka’s health ministry said it causing bacteria included infant formula, sports coming from New Zealand and Australia, the and soldiers. It’s an all-out effort to fight the Associated Press writers Freddy Cuevas in considers DCD to be a “toxic chemical” that drinks, protein drinks and other beverages. central bank says. The developments globally effects of the epidemic,” said Vilma Areas, Honduras, Luis Galeano in Nicaragua, Vivian should not be in milk and that is why it ordered Fonterra has said the Sri Lankan government have been bad news for New Zealand’s dairy spokeswoman for the Nicaraguan Health Sequera in Colombia, Marcos Aleman in El the recall, spokesman Dharma Wanninayake tests that allegedly found traces of the DCD industry which is a key driver of the nation’s Ministry. Salvador and Javier Cordoba in Costa Rica told AFP. chemical in its products were flawed and the economy. —AFP At least 17 people have died in Honduras, contributed to this report. —AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Multiple Sclerosis

“We are physicians from different specialties with a specific interest in public health advocacy and promotion. We, also, aim to increase awareness among the Kuwaiti public regarding a variety of diseases and conditions and to rectify the misconceptions they may have. Since our group consists of multiple physicians we decided to write under the pen name of L’homme en Blanc.”

Multiple sclerosis or MS is a disease that symptoms between 20 and 40 years of age. head. Other symptoms include difficulty treating physician can decide if your symp- to be effective. There exist a multitude of was virtually unheard of in Kuwait ten The symptoms of MS are all related to the emptying the bladder, constipation in addi- toms are a result of multiple sclerosis or DMDs however the decision as to which is years ago, but now it seems that every- nervous system; however, they can be very tion to memory and cognitive problems. As another disorder. If you or any of our loved the best for the patient depends on the body knows at least one person who is diverse and tend to differ from one person you may all realize, living with this disorder ones have received a diagnosis of MS you type of MS that the patient has and suffering from this disease. It is imperative to the other. Nevertheless, these symptoms can be quite exhausting, and for this rea- are definitely wondering, is my disease cur- whether s/he is able to tolerate its side to shed some light on this condition as, can still be grouped. Symptoms of MS son patients tend to need a lot of patience able? MS is a chronic disorder, it does not effects. In addition to medication, rehabilita- like many diseases that have a sudden include problems with vision, such as dou- and emotional support from their family have a definite cure to date; however, after tion, exercise and physiotherapy play a very increase in number within a society, it has ble or blurry vision, sudden loss of vision in and loved ones. years of research multiple highly effective important part in the holistic approach to a lot of misconceptions surrounding it. one or both eyes, or pain when moving the Another question that seems to loom in treatments exist and the majority of MS and have been shown to be beneficial Firstly, what is multiple sclerosis? eye. They also include weakness of one or peoples’ minds is how do I know if I have patients can live very productive lives when for patients. It is an immune mediated disease in more limbs (resulting in difficulty walking MS? In order for your doctor to diagnose treated. The treatment of multiple sclerosis The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis can which the body attacks the cells of the and gait problems), numbness and tin- you with MS s/he has to look at your signs is grouped into treatment of acute attacks have an adverse impact on ones psyche, for nervous system. It specifically attacks the gling, tremors or sudden quivering or shak- and symptoms, fully examine you and then and treatment to slow the progression of this reason support from within the com- myelin sheath, which is the insulating lay- ing of the hands, and dizziness and vertigo run an array of tests. These tests include, a the disease. Acute attacks of multiple scle- munity is crucial to a patients well being. er that covers the nerves in our body. The (which is the sensation that the room is spinal tap (this is when the physician inserts rosis are generally treated with intravenous This support can be attained from ones presence of this insulating layer helps moving around you. Another very impor- a needle into your back to retrieve some of corticosteroids. These drugs are very effec- family and friends, physician and societies electrical signals travel from the body to tant symptom of MS is fatigue. Up to 80 the fluid that surrounds your brain and tive for controlling the acute symptoms but supportive of multiple sclerosis such as the the brain and vice versa; thus, its destruc- percent of those suffering from this disor- spinal cord for analysis), an MRI and a test cannot be used in the long term due to Kuwait Multiple Sclerosis Association tion causes impairments in signal conduc- der have to live with fatigue that may sig- called visual evoked potential which their various side effects. Instead, a group (KMSA). It is also imperative to keep a posi- tion leading to the multitude of symp- nificantly impair their ability to function. includes sitting in front of a screen that has of medications called disease modifying tive outlook and decrease stress which can toms that are seen in patients who suffer Pain may also be a part of the aforemen- images on it and measuring the electrical drugs or DMDs are used for long term con- have a major impact on a patient’s life. For from MS. tioned constellation of symptoms, specifi- activity that your brain produces in trol of symptoms. more information regarding this disorder The majority of people who suffer from cally an electric like sensation that patients response to the images seen. Once the These include interferon-beta which is feel free to visit www.nationalmssociety.org. this disease tend to present with their first feel down their spine when flexing their results of these tests are finalized then your the most widely used drug and has proven Stay Healthy Kuwait! —L’ Homme en Blanc US probes spike in dolphin deaths off East Coast WASHINGTON: At least 124 bottlenose dolphins often death. want to speculate, but the researchers feel com- have washed up along the Atlantic coast since Most of the dolphins were already dead fortable in saying they do not believe that this is July, a startling number of deaths that has when they were found, scientists said. A small a result of human interaction, that it is some sort prompted US officials to launch an investigation. number have been stranded alive, only to die of biological event.” If it is a virus, there is not Scientists are working to find out if an infectious shortly after. Typically an average of seven dol- much that wildlife officials can do, she added. pathogen may be to blame since several of the phins wash up in Virginia in July, so the 47 ani- “It has to run its course,” Candler said. “You dolphins appeared to have lesions in their lungs. mals found last month is a significant increase. can’t immunize a wild population, unfortunate- An “unusual mortality event” has been declared “It is an important issue,” said NOAA spokes- ly.” Recent studies have shown that dolphins due to the “unexpected and significant die-off” woman Connie Barclay. The last time morbil- have an unparalleled ability among animals to that has spanned the coasts of New York, New livirus was implicated in a mass dolphin die-off remember each other for decades, and that they Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia since was in 1987 and 1988, when more than 740 bot- call each other by name using whistles that are early July, said the National Oceanic and tlenose dolphins died from New Jersey to distinct among close friends and family. There Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries unit. Florida. According to the Virginia Aquarium and are four distinct populations of bottlenose dol- Eighty-nine were found in July and another Marine Science Center, which has been collect- phins off the Atlantic coast, including about 35 have washed up so far this month, a NOAA ing and studying the dolphin carcasses — 67 of 22,000 living near the shore and nearly 82,000 in spokeswoman told AFP on Friday. A NOAA state- which have come ashore in Virginia-most have deeper waters. ment released Thursday said “preliminary testing been male. According to NOAA expert Fionna Matheson, of tissues from one dolphin indicates possible Spokeswoman Linda Candler told AFP they little can be done to help the dolphins that are morbillivirus infection, although it is too early to have been found in “all conditions from very already sick. “However, we can work to minimize say whether or not morbillivirus may be causing fresh to badly decomposed, all ages and sizes.” the stress caused to the dolphins by human this event.” She added that a dolphin that had recently died activity,” she told AFP by email. Emily Guarino (left), Administrative Director of Research, congratulates an However, NOAA scientists say an “infectious came in for analysis on Thursday and samples “If there is a link to things humans are doing Atlantic bottlenose dolphin named Tanner after he copied a behavior by pathogen is at the top of the list of potential were sent off for analysis, which may take up to that may make the dolphins more susceptible trainer Wade Davey, right rear, while blindfolded, as research assistant Jane causes.” Morbillivirus is similar to a marine mam- two weeks. to disease (e.g., exposure to pollution, malnutri- Hecksher (right foreground) looks on during a demonstration at the Dolphin mal form of distemper, which in dogs attacks the Other potential causes for mass dolphin tion from lack of prey, stress from disturbance), Research Center on Grassy Key in Marathon, Florida. central nervous system and causes breathing deaths could include stormy weather, ship then we can certainly strive to mitigate those problems, vomiting, diarrhea, brain swelling and strikes or pollution. Candler said scientists “don’t threats.” —AFP WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 More than 30,000 participate in NBK’s SEND US YOUR INSTAGRAM PICS Instagram competition hat’s more fun than clicking a beauti- during Ramadan ful picture? Sharing it with others! Let Wother people see the way you see ore than 30,000 fans participat- Kuwait - through your lens. Friday Times will ed in the National Bank of feature snapshots of Kuwait through Instagram MKuwait’s (NBK) Instagram com- feeds. If you want to share your Instagram pho- petition during the holy month of tos, email us at Ramadan. “NBK has launched a special [email protected] social media competition for Ramadan as a way of rewarding our fans and encour- aging the spirit of the holy month of Ramadan,” said NBK Public Relations Announcements Officer Zaina Al-Humaidhi. Al-Humaidhi noted that NBK page on Instagram @NBKPage has seen a jump in the number of fans since the start of Indian Embassy sets up helpline Ramadan. More than 30,000 fans partici- he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has set up pated in NBK’s Ramadan competition helpline in order to assist Indian expatri- that rewarded 20 winners with KD 5,000 Tates in registering any complaint regard- in cash prizes. ing the government’s ongoing campaign to stamp out illegal residents from the country. “NBK greatly values the role social Zaina Al-Humaidhi The embassy said in press release yesterday media channels play in Kuwait and uti- that it amended its previous statement and lizes them as an important mean of stated if there is any complaint, the same could keeping in touch with NBK customers be conveyed at the following (as amended): and their concerns. We answer their Operations Department, Ministry of Interior, Kuwait. Fax: 22435580, Tel: questions on Facebook and Twitter and 24768146/25200334. It said the embassy has post the latest news, promotions and been in regular contact with local authorities services. In other words, we listen to regarding the ongoing checking of expatriates. what people are saying online,” Al- The embassy has also conveyed to them the concerns, fears and apprehensions of the com- Humaidhi explained. munity in this regard. The authorities in Kuwait NBK is keen to support customers have conveyed that strict instructions have through all channels and views social been issued to ensure that there is no harass- Enjoy the taste of true Espresso at media networks as important aspects for ment or improper treatment of expatriates by those undertaking checking. “The embassy Vergnano Cafe at Olympia Complex supporting the lifestyle and banking would like to request Indian expatriates to habits of NBK clients. For more informa- ensure that they abide by all local laws, rules he superior quality of the blends espresso to everyday life at home. tion regarding banking transactions, and regulations regarding residency, traffic and comes from the meticulous selec- Espresso is now available in Kuwait, events and competitions check out other matters,” the release read. It would be tion of the best raw materials avail- through Al-Sanabel Al-Thahabiya Est. Tel: prudent to always carry the Civil ID and other T National Bank of Kuwait official facebook able, and from an extraordinary produc- 22413795/98. Espresso Vergnano can be relevant documents such as driving license, etc. page NBK - Official Page or follow NBK on In case an Indian expatriate encounters any tion process. Cafe Vergnano is the first to ordered through www.taw9eel.com Twitter @NBKPage, and on Instagram improper treatment during checking, it may be introduce an innovation that brings all the Espresso Vergnano capsules are compati- @NBKPage. NBK’s official Instagram page conveyed immediately with full details and passion and pleasure of the perfect ble with other espresso machines. contact particulars to the embassy at the fol- lowing phone number 67623639. These contact details are exclusively for the above-mentioned purpose only. Pakistani Blood Donors in Kuwait Issue of online visa by Indian embassy hold blood donation drive oreigners requiring visas for India need to apply it online from 16th June 2013. akistani Blood Donors in Kuwait, a social welfare FApplicants may log on to the Public portal group in collaboration with Kuwait Central Blood at ww.indianvisaonline.gov.in. After successful PBank, held their third blood donation drive in online submission, the hard copy, so generated, Kuwait on Friday, August 2 at the Central Blood Blank has to be signed by the applicant and submit- in Jabriya. The event was organized in response to call ted with supporting documents in accordance from Kuwait Central Blood Bank requesting Pakistani with the type of visa along with the applicable community to support blood bank as their blood fee in cash at any of the two outsource centres stocks hits lowest levels. at Sharq or Fahaheel. It is essential that appli- Responding to the call, Pakistani Blood Donors in cants fill in their personal details as exactly Kuwait managed this event on an emergency basis. A available in their passports. Mismatch of any of huge number of Pakistanis attended the event with the personal details would lead to non-accep- the purpose of expressing solidarity and gratitude to tance of the application. Fees once paid are the country while strengthening brotherly relations non-refundable. All children would have to and credentials as a socially responsible community in obtain separate visa on their respective pass- Kuwait. ports. Expressing his views and commenting on behalf of the welfare group, Syed Abrar Hussain, also a blood 8th Expo Pakistan donor at the event said, “we remember August 2, 1990 to commence in September when Iraq brutally invaded a brother Muslim country he 8th Expo Pakistan will be held from and exercised all inhuman tactics against Kuwaiti September 26 to 29 in Karachi. Held annu- nationals and expats at that time in Kuwait. Pakistan Tally, Expo Pakistan is the biggest trade fair army was part of collation forces those who fought in the country showcasing the largest collec- Iraq to free Kuwait and Pakistani soldiers offered their tion of Pakistan’s export merchandise and serv- lives and blood. Today again, Pakistani civilians hon- ices. Foreign Exhibitors also use the event to ored the call of Kuwait Blood Bank and we are here to launch their products. Expo Pakistan 2012 was serve Kuwait and Humanity by means of donating our visited by delegates from 52 countries and gen- blood.” The ambassador was received and greeted by erated a business of over $ 518 million. A 16 Ali Al Mhmeed, the Head of Public Relations and member delegation from Kuwait including rep- Doctor Ossama Sharawi at the Kuwait Central Blood utable companies like Al-Yasra Foods also took Bank. Stressing further on the Pakistani community’s part in the last exhibition. role in Kuwait, Syed Abrar said, “Pakistan and Kuwait Expo Pakistan 2013 is being held under the enjoy bi-lateral relations based on common faith and auspices of the Trade Development Authority culture and the Pakistani community in Kuwait holds Pakistan. Details about the event can be viewed leadership of Kuwait in high esteem. The community is www.expopakisan.gov.pk. Further information desirous of expanding and strengthening bilateral and details of sponsorship can be obtained relations with Kuwait in all domains”. from the office of Commercial Secretary, The event witnessed a large attendance of over 250 Pakistan Embassy, Jabriya (25356594) during attendees but only few over 100 able to make dona- office hours. tion due to time restrictions, mostly of Pakistani her- itage who have been living and working in Kuwait KERA badminton with their families for over a well number of years and rominent badminton association IBACK is have always considered this country as their second organizing a badminton tournament to be home. Moreover, immense support was shown from held on 24th and 31st August 2013. Total prominent Pakistani communities such as Hala P Pakistan, Help Desk for Pakistani Community in prize money is 475KD & last entry registration is Kuwait, Kuwait Pakistan Friendship Association, 15th august 2013. Interested to participate in the Pakistan Business Council and Pakistan Employment same as Team KERA shall be entertained, Please Forum Kuwait. Also Club 25, a group of young Kuwaitis contact 97156575. actively took part with Pakistani Blood Donors in Kuwait. The participation also represented a strong Australian Embassy announcement and humanitarian message that exemplified a sincere n the occasion of the Eid Al-Fitr, the contribution to provide support to needy individuals Australian Embassy wishes to advise that it of the community, especially those in need of rare Owill be closed today till Sunday, August 11, types of blood. 2013 The Embassy will reopen on Monday, August The community had exceeded the expected 12, 2013. turnout and has responded with enthusiasm to the donation drive and expressed their willingness to take South African Embassy announcement part in donating blood. The Pakistani Blood Donors in n the auspicious occasion of Eid-Al-Fitr, and in Kuwait group aspires to inspire other people among accordance with the Eid holidays announced the community to donate blood and thus increasing Oby the Government of Kuwait, the Embassy of the awareness in the Kuwait society on lives that can the Republic of South Africa will remain closed from be saved with blood donation. 8 - 11 August, 2013 (Thursday to Sunday) if the first day of Eid is today, and will reopen with its routine office timings from 8:00 to 16:00 & the Consular Section operation hours will be from 8:30 to 12:30 on Monday, August 12, 2013. In case Eid falls tomorrow, ERNAKULAM DISTRICT ASSOCIATION HOSTS IFTAR the Embassy will resume its work on Tuesday, August rnakulam District Association- Mundakkadu, Abey Varicad, Hudson C, 13, 2013. For emergencies, please contact: 94924895. Kuwait (EDA), hosted IFTAR Meet Anil kumar and Shream Lal delivered Eon 4th Aug 2013 at Pravassi the Ramadan felicitation speeches. Auditorium, Abbasiya. The function was A large number of people including started with special prayer and condo- families, media representatives and lence for Late President Madhu Warier. prominent personalities in Kuwait Write to us The meeting was presided over by Vice attended the function. The function was President Sunil Kumar and gathering coordinated by Thajudeen, Maxi Joseph, Send to What’s On was welcomed by Gen. secretary A C Santhosh, Johnson, Babu Palluruthy, Varghese Paul. The president of Kerala Biju M Y, Stanly and Balakrishnan. The upcoming events, birthdays or Islamic Group (KIG) Sakeer Hussain deliv- IFTAR Meet was sponsored by M/s. Bank celebrations by email: ered the message on the importance of of Bahrain and Kuwait-Geojet. The pro- Ramadan and Patron of EDA, Dr gram ended with vote of thanks and [email protected] Namboori spoke about the true spirit of delivered by Joint Treasurer Kishor Fax: 24835619 / 20 Ramadan. Capt. Johnson, Abdul Rahim, Kumar. Lissa Varghses, Raju Sacria, Joy WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 Embassy Information

EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Embassy of Australia has announced that Kuwait citizens can apply for and receive visit visas in 10 working days through www.immi.gov.au. All other processing of visas and Immigration matters are handled by the Australian Visa Application Centre located in Al Banwan Building, 4B, 1st Floor, Al Qibla Area, Ali Al Salem Street, Kuwait City. Visit. www.vfs-au- gcc.com for more info. The Embassy of Australia does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters is conducted by the Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: [email protected] (VIS), immigra- [email protected] (Visa Office), Tel: +971 4 205 5900 (VFS), Fax: + 971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). Notary and passport services are TEC hosts visitors during Eid holidays available by appointment. Appointments can Hundreds of people visited the Entertainment City, Fountain Park, sea clubs, beaches and other Touristic Enterprises Company facilities during the Eid Al-Fitr hol- be made by calling the Embassy on idays which featured special activities and competitions organized by the TEC management. 22322422. n n n n n n n

EMBASSY OF CANADA The Canadian Embassy will be closed on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr from 8/8/2013 till 11/8/2013. The Embassy will resume its duties on August 12, 2013

n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF UK As of July 22, the British Embassy’s Visa Application Center (VAC) will be extend- ing opening hours to be from 08:00 to 15:00 (previously from 09:30 to 14:30). This will generate more appointments in addition to the ones created from the Iftar opening time from 20:00 - 22:00. This step comes in response to the increasing number of applicants during summer. TEC Public Relations Manager Sagr Al-Bader n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF GREECE The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the pleasure to announce that visa applica- tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa Application Centre (VFS office) locat- ed at 12th floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al-Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collection from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications please visit the fol- lowing website www.mfa.gr/kuwait. n n n n n n n

EMBASSY OF INDIA On the occasion of the Independence Day of India, a flag hoisting ceremony will be held at the Indian Embassy premises at 7 am on Thursday, August 15, 2013. This will be followed by the reading of the message of Hon’ble President of India by the ambassador and singing of patriotic songs. We expect a lot of Indian nationals to participate in the function.

EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA On the auspicious occasion of Eid-Al-Fitr, and in accordance with the Eid holidays announced by the Government of Kuwait, the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa will remain closed from 8 - 11 August, 2013 (Thursday to Sunday) if the first day of Eid is on Thursday, and will reopen with its routine office timings from 8h00 to 16h00 & the Consular Section operation hours will be from 8h30 to 12h30 on Monday, 12 August 2013. In case Eid falls on Friday, the Embassy will resume its work on Tuesday, 13 August 2013.

n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF US Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa applications - completely free of an inter- view or a trip inside the Embassy. The children must be under 14 years of age, and additional requirements do apply, but the serv- ice means parents will no longer have to sched- ule individual appointments for their children, nor come inside the Embassy (unless they are applying for themselves). The service is only available for children holding Kuwaiti pass- ports. To take advantage, parents must drop off the following documents: Child Visa Drop-off cover sheet, available on the Embassy website (http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.htm) - Child’s passport; The Child’s previous pass- port, if it contains a valid US visa; 5x5cm photo of child with eyes open (if uploaded into DS- 160, photos must be a .jpg between 600x600 and 1200x1200 pixels, less than 240kb, and cannot be digitally altered); A completed DS- 160 form; Visa Fee Receipt from Burgan Bank; A copy of the valid visa of at least one parent. If one parent will not travel, provide a visa copy for the traveling parent, and a passport copy from the non-traveling parent with a letter stat- ing no objection to the child’s travel. - For chil- dren of students (F2): a copy of the child’s I-20. Children born in the US (with very few exceptions) are US citizens and would not be eligible for a visa. Parents may drop off the application packet at Window 2 at the Embassy from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday, excluding holidays. More information is avail- able on the U.S. Embassy website: kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.html

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EMBASSY OF PAKISTAN On the auspicious occasion of Eid-Al-Fitr, and in accordance with the Eid holidays announced by the Government of Kuwait, the Embassy of Pakistan will remain closed from August 8 to 11, 2013 (Thursday to Sunday) if the first day of Eid is on Thursday, and will reopen with its routine office timings from 08.00 am to 04.00 pm on Monday 12th August 2013. In case Bid falls on Friday, the Embassy will resume its work from Tuesday 13th August, 2013. TV PROGRAMS SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013

14:00 Live NBC Today Show 8:00 Seinfeld 1:00 The Colbert Report 17:57 MSNBC Hardball With Chris 8:30 The Neighbors 1:30 Malibu Country Matthews 9:00 Last Man Standing 2:00 The Neighbors 18:38 MSNBC The Rachel Maddow 9:30 Two And A Half Men 2:30 Friends 4:25 I Shouldn’t Be Alive 3:10 My Hero Show 10:00 1600 Penn 5:20 World’s Toughest Expeditions 3:40 Last Of The Summer Wine 19:19 MSNBC The Last Word With 10:30 Arrested Development With... 4:10 Lark Rise To Candleford Lawrence O’Donnell 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 6:10 True Stories 5:00 Buzz & Tell 20:00 Live MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Leno 7:05 Marley Africa Road Trip 5:05 Charlie And Lola Reports 12:00 The War At Home 8:00 Animal Armageddon 5:15 3rd & Bird 21:00 Live MSNBC Newsnation 12:30 Hope & Faith 8:50 One Of A Kind 0:30 Super League 5:25 Me Too! 22:00 Live MSNBC The Cycle 13:00 Hope & Faith 9:00 One Of A Kind 2:30 AFL Premiership Highlights 5:45 Garth And Bev 23:00 Live MSNBC Martin Bashir 13:30 Arrested Development 9:15 A Racing Car Is Born 3:30 Futbol Mundial 5:55 Tweenies 0:00 Live MSNBC Hardball With 14:00 Raising Hope 9:45 Marley Africa Road Trip 4:00 Cricket Friends Life T20 6:15 Buzz & Tell Chris Matthews 14:30 Two And A Half Men 10:35 Feral Children 7:00 Cricket Friends Life T20 6:20 Charlie And Lola 1:00 Live MSNBC Politicsnation 15:00 1600 Penn 11:30 Weaponology 10:00 Sailing Louis Vuitton Cup 6:30 3rd & Bird 2:00 Live NBC Nightly News 15:30 The Daily Show 12:20 I Shouldn’t Be Alive 11:30 European Senior Tour 6:40 Me Too! 2:30 ABC World News With Diane 16:00 The Colbert Report 13:10 World’s Toughest Expeditions Highlights 7:00 Garth And Bev Sawyer 16:30 The War At Home 7:10 Tweenies With... 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 12:30 Golf The Challenge Series 7:30 Last Of The Summer Wine 14:05 True Stories 18:00 Friends Highlights 8:00 My Hero 14:55 Mummy Autopsy 18:30 The Simpsons 13:00 Super League 8:30 The Weakest Link 15:50 How We Invented The World 19:00 Modern Family 15:00 Sailing Louis Vuitton Cup 9:15 Eastenders 16:45 Animal Armageddon 19:30 1600 Penn Highlights 9:45 Doctors 17:40 Weaponology 3:00 Last Man Standing 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 15:30 Futbol Mundial 10:15 The Planets 18:35 World’s Toughest Expeditions 3:30 Raising Hope Leno 16:00 Live Cricket Friends Life T20 11:05 Lark Rise To Candleford With... 4:00 Seinfeld 21:00 The Daily Show 19:00 NRL Full Time 11:55 Last Of The Summer Wine 19:25 I Shouldn’t Be Alive 4:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 21:30 The Colbert Report 19:30 Sailing Louis Vuitton Cup 12:25 The Weakest Link 20:20 Secrets Of... Leno 22:00 Malibu Country Highlights 13:10 My Hero 21:10 One Of A Kind 5:30 Malibu Country 22:30 The Neighbors 20:00 Live Sailing Louis Vuitton Cup 13:40 Eastenders 21:20 One Of A Kind 6:00 All Of Us 23:00 Friends 21:30 PGA European Tour Weekly 14:10 Doctors 21:35 A Racing Car Is Born 6:30 Arrested Development 23:30 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 22:00 Inside The PGA Tour 14:40 Lark Rise To Candleford 22:05 True Stories 7:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 0:30 The Daily Show 22:30 Trans World Sport 15:30 The Planets 23:00 Secrets Of... 23:30 Super Rugby 16:25 The Weakest Link 23:55 Final 24 17:10 Eastenders 0:50 I Escaped Death 17:40 Doctors 1:45 One Of A Kind 18:10 Lark Rise To Candleford 1:55 One Of A Kind 19:00 One Foot In The Grave 2:10 A Racing Car Is Born 19:30 Only Fools And Horses 2:35 Secrets Of... 20:00 Hustle 3:30 Final 24 ‘Elysium’ 20:50 The Impressions Show With Culshaw... 21:20 Alan Carr: Chatty Man ritics are praising Matt Damon’s commentary was a little too on-the-nose. 22:05 Little Britain “Elysium” for its ambition, even as “A high-low tension runs through 22:35 New Tricks some reviewers gripe that its ‘Elysium,’ not only in the narrative itself, 23:30 One Foot In The Grave C 0:00 Lark Rise To Candleford sharper insights are overwhelmed by a but in Blomkamp’s own cinematic lan- 0:50 Eastenders 3:00 Brandy & Mr Whiskers few too many explosions. guage, which can be lofty one moment 1:20 Doctors 3:20 Brandy & Mr Whiskers The science-fiction thriller involves and gleefully pulpy the next,” Hornaday 1:50 The Weakest Link 3:45 Emperor’s New School an impoverished man’s struggles to wrote. “If that juxtaposition isn’t quite as 2:35 Only Fools And Horses 4:05 Emperor’s New School break into a luxurious spaceship where a bracing as it was in ‘District 9,’ Blomkamp 4:30 Replacements group of one-percenters bliss out. Any is still clearly on his own mission: to 4:50 Replacements allusions to Occupy Wall Street are pure- bring new intelligence and even princi- 5:15 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 5:35 Brandy & Mr Whiskers ly unintentional, the filmmakers claim. ples to bear on a genre too often domi- 6:00 Austin And Ally “Elysium” co-stars Jodie Foster and nated by banal cyborgs and recycled 6:25 Suite Life On Deck marks Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to plots.” 6:45 Shake It Up TRANSPORTER 2 ON OSN ACTION HD “District 9.” It hits theaters Friday, armed Steven Rea of the Philadelphia 3:15 Bondi Vet 7:10 A.N.T. Farm with respectable, if mostly earthbound, Inquirer gave “Elysium” points for asking 4:05 Pit Bulls And Parolees 21:15 Austin And Ally 7:35 Jessie 9:05 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean 22:25 Charly’s Cake Angels 4:55 The Snake Buster 21:40 That’s So Raven reviews from critics. “Elysium” currently its audience to think instead of just 7:55 Good Luck Charlie Cookbook 22:50 Unique Sweets 5:20 Shamwari: A Wild Life 22:00 Jessie holds a 67 percent “fresh” rating on pummeling moviegoers with mindless 8:20 Good Luck Charlie 9:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 23:15 Unique Sweets 5:45 Gator Boys 22:25 A.N.T. Farm Rotten Tomatoes. spectacle. 8:45 Doc McStuffins 10:20 Extra Virgin 23:40 Food Wars 6:35 Call Of The Wildman 22:50 Good Luck Charlie In TheWrap, Alonso Duralde said “As summer movie sci-fi extravagan- 9:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 10:40 Unique Sweets 0:05 “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” 7:00 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 23:10 Wizards Of Waverly Place 9:30 A.N.T. Farm 11:10 Unwrapped 0:30 “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” Blomkamp’s film lacks subtlety, but zas go, ‘Elysium’ is easily the best thing 7:25 Too Cute! 23:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 9:55 A.N.T. Farm 11:35 “Red, Hot And Yummy” 0:55 United Tastes Of America hailed the director’s staging of the out there right now,” Rea wrote. “And the 8:15 The Most Extreme 0:00 Hannah Montana 10:15 Jessie 12:00 The Next Star 1:20 United Tastes Of America movie’s action setpieces. bleakest, too.” 9:10 Penguin Safari 0:20 Hannah Montana 10:40 Jessie 12:50 Reza’s African Kitchen 1:45 Charly’s Cake Angels “Blomkamp is a master of creating Not everyone was a fan. New York 10:05 Big Five Challenge 0:45 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 11:05 Good Luck Charlie 13:15 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 2:10 Charly’s Cake Angels action out of a grimy, quotidian kind of magazine’s David Edelstein found the 11:00 Animal Cops Miami 1:05 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 11:25 Good Luck Charlie Basics 2:35 Unique Sweets 11:55 The Snake Buster 1:30 Emperor’s New School next-gen hi-tech, but when it comes to performances of the leads a bit off - 11:50 Good Luck Charlie 13:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 12:20 Call Of The Wildman 1:50 Emperor’s New School metaphors, he prefers the sledgeham- writing that Damon lacked the merce- 12:15 Shake It Up Basics 12:50 Rescue Vet 2:15 Replacements mer,” Duralde wrote. nary air his part required and ranking 12:35 Shake It Up 14:05 Tyler’s Ultimate 13:15 Rescue Vet 2:35 Replacements The New York Times’ Manohla Dargis Foster’s villainess among her worst offer- 13:00 Austin And Ally 14:30 “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” 13:45 Animal Precinct 13:25 Austin And Ally 14:55 “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” agreed that Blomkamp’s allegory could ings. 14:40 Big Five Challenge 13:45 A.N.T. Farm 15:20 Guy’s Big Bite 3:30 Scam City have employed a lighter touch. “[Foster’s] accent is either English, 15:30 Shamwari: A Wild Life 14:10 Jump In! 15:45 Chopped 4:25 Lonely Planet: Roads Less However, she praised Damon for South African, or Martian - it’s hard to 16:00 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 15:30 Good Luck Charlie 16:35 Barefoot Contessa - Back To Travelled grounding the film and for making the tell, since it’s different in every scene - 16:30 The Most Extreme 15:50 Jessie Basics 5:20 Banged Up Abroad 17:25 Talk To The Animals audience feel for his character’s plight. and she moves more stiffly than the 16:10 Shake It Up 3:00 “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” 17:00 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 6:15 Bondi Rescue 17:50 Talk To The Animals It’s the kind of charisma that only a robots,” Edelstein wrote. “With ‘Elysium,’ 16:35 A.N.T. Farm 3:25 Food Wars Basics 6:40 Bondi Rescue 18:20 ’s Most Outrageous favored few film stars enjoy, she wrote. Foster joins the ranks of outspoken lib- 17:00 A.N.T. Farm 3:50 “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” 17:25 Tyler’s Ultimate 7:10 Bondi Rescue 19:15 Going Ape “Mr. Damon has become the greatest erals (hello, Tim Robbins) who can’t 17:20 Austin And Ally 4:15 Unique Eats 17:50 “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” 7:35 Bondi Rescue 19:40 Call Of The Wildman utility player in movies: No one can bet- manage to play their political opposites 17:45 Good Luck Charlie 4:40 Chopped 18:15 “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” 8:05 Scam City 20:10 The Snake Buster 18:10 Shake It Up 5:30 Iron Chef America 18:40 Guy’s Big Bite 9:00 Don’t Tell My Mother ter vault across rooftops and in and out without turning themselves into carica- 20:35 Shamwari: A Wild Life 18:30 That’s So Raven 6:10 Challenge 19:05 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean 9:55 Banged Up Abroad of genres and make you care greatly if tures.” 21:05 Big Five Challenge 18:55 Suite Life On Deck 7:00 Unwrapped Cookbook 10:50 Scam City he falls,” Dargis wrote. “He’s so home- Hollywood wrote Blomkamp a blank 22:00 Predator’s Playground 19:20 Jessie 7:25 Unwrapped 19:30 Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity 11:45 Lonely Planet: Roads Less spun that he could have sprung wholly check after the success of “District 9,” but 22:55 Saving Rhino Phila 19:40 A.N.T Farm 7:50 Andy Bates American Street Cook Off Travelled 23:50 Animal Cops Philadelphia formed from a corn silo (he shares James Slate’s Dana Steven’s implied he never 20:05 A.N.T Farm Feasts 20:20 Chopped 12:40 Banged Up Abroad 0:45 Biggest And Baddest Stewart’s extraordinary likability if not should have cashed it. The film’s aspira- 20:30 Shake It Up 8:15 Unique Sweets 21:10 Chopped 13:35 Maverick Chef 1:35 Untamed & Uncut his later-life, postwar neurotic edge). But tions to be something weightier are 20:50 Suite Life On Deck 8:40 Reza’s African Kitchen 22:00 Charly’s Cake Angels 14:00 Delinquent Gourmet 2:25 Big Five Challenge 14:30 David Rocco’s Amalfi Getaway it’s the ease and sincerity with which Mr. eschewed in favor of numbing action 14:55 Food Lover’s Guide To The Damon conveys moral decency - so that sequences, she wrote. Planet it feels as if it originates from deep with- “‘Elysium’ has some very basic struc- 15:25 Scam City in rather than from, say, God or country - tural and story problems: The last half is 16:20 Don’t Tell My Mother that helps make him a strikingly con- essentially one barely interrupted chase, 17:15 Banged Up Abroad temporary ideal of what used to be reg- leaving no breathing time for either the 18:10 Scam City ularly called the American character.” characters or audience, and the incoher- 19:05 Lonely Planet: Roads Less Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post ent, absurdly simplistic ending-which I Travelled 20:00 David Rocco’s Amalfi Getaway praised Blomkamp for finding new should probably discuss in a second 20:30 Food Lover’s Guide To The avenues to explore in a genre that has location, so as not to spoil-would be an Planet been oft-exploited by Hollywood - insult to the intelligence of an audience 21:00 Maverick Chef though she did complain that his social of llamas,” Stevens wrote. — Reuters 21:30 Delinquent Gourmet 22:00 Warrior Road Trip 22:55 The Best Job In The World 23:20 Street Food Around The World 23:50 Mega Food 0:45 Scam City 1:40 Ultimate Traveller 2:35 Bondi Rescue

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Paris pokes fun at Parisians 3:00 Live MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes PARIS: A loving couple queues in front of a Far from targeting just Parisians, the 4:00 Live MSNBC The Rachel Parisian cafe. “For the brunch, I’ve got one posters are translated into English so that Maddow Show table at 6pm”, a waiter tells them. tourists too can have a little chuckle at the 5:00 Live MSNBC The Last Word That scene is depicted in one of 48 posters expense of the French capital’s inhabitants. With Lawrence O’Donnell put up across the French capital in an outdoor Dee Hyde, an American teacher, stares at 6:00 NBC Nightly News exhibition that casts a tender and amused eye one drawing that depicts a man standing in 6:30 ABC World News With Diane on the quirks of Paris and its inhabitants, front of a gigantic stall full of bread of every Sawyer whose reputation as grumpy complainers has shape and size. “Would you have any squash- 7:00 NBC Nightly News almost become a badge of honour. A woman sesame-coconut country bread left?” the man 7:39 Live ABC Nightline 8:06 MSNBC The Rachel Maddow on the phone running to her meditation class, asks the baker. Show a never-ending queue to get in a restaurant, a “She (the baker) looks a little mad. She 9:00 MSNBC The Last Word With chock-a-block cafe terrace as a ray of sunshine doesn’t look so happy. If I was speaking Lawrence O’Donnell appears... All these feature in the exhibition English to her, she might look like that,” Hyde 10:00 Live ABC World News Now that ends on August 28. says. Paris has long been a subject of endless 10:30 Live ABC World News Now “Yes, that’s Parisian life”, laughs Iverlene fascination for foreigners, who view it as a city 11:00 Live NBC Early Today Worrell, a British tourist staring at a poster on full of beautiful, elegant women, delicious 11:30 Live ABC America This the Champs-Elysees depicting the queueing eateries and quaint cafes. Morning couple. “It gives a light, friendly kind of vibe,” As such, the French capital-the most visit- 12:00 Live ABC America This Morning adds her friend Nicole Broomes, who is dis- ed city in the world-has been a source of inspi- 12:30 Live ABC America This covering Paris for the first time. The illustrator ration for many authors. “Lessons from Morning of the posters is Kanako, a Parisian by adop- Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned 13:00 Live ABC America This tion who has for years been drawing for mylit- While Living in Paris” and “The Sweet Life in Morning tleparis.com, a popular blog that reveals all Paris” are just some of the books available on END OF DAYS ON OSN ACTION HD 13:30 MSNBC First Look the latest trendy happenings in the capital. the capital.—AFP Classifieds

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CROSSWORD 276 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

At home today you may find that others want you to respond to their This day could demand a lot of energy. However, it may be very impor- needs in rapid order. You can show others how to help themselves and you are willing to tant to work out the details of any plans that you have previously made before moving help with some chores that others might not be able to handle. A list would also help; it ahead with today’s activities. Perhaps there are some phone calls that you need to make. would definitely help to eliminate nagging demands from others. If you do not take the You may even find yourself looking to improve a variety of situations today such as time to focus first there could be a lot of pressure to make decisions that you might regret choosing colors, arranging furniture, clearing away the clutter on bookshelves, etc. This later. This is a good time to consolidate and organize your affairs or rearrange your living sit- afternoon is a fun time to become involved in group sports or some other group activity. uation. Older people, possibly parents, give you straight talk about finances. You could be Events may line up in your favor and fair play can be realized. You are willing to listen to seen by others as just the person to be put in charge of some project. Take time to play and others, take cues and then reflect and build upon that information. Others find you gen- enjoy your loved ones this evening. tle, steady and kind.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

You are able to cut through the red tape and get at what is beneath and You may be especially dynamic and assertive just now. You certainly put a behind any problems today. There are breakthroughs regarding inner growth and transforma- lot of energy into accomplishing anything you want to involve yourself with tion as well as compassion and communion. This is a time during which you reach new levels in today. You may be representing your company in public surroundings today in some form of understanding life and death. There is the possibility of new visions or sudden insights into advertisement, display or presentation. Ambition and achievement are qualities you hold in your self-image or into your ideals and dreams. This is a good time to reshape and renew your special regard. This is a time for getting ahead, a time for combining business and pleasure, a philosophy or religion, during which your imagination is at full tilt. Find ways in which to bal- time for enjoying your career and savoring its rewards. The social graces pave your path to suc- ance your life so that there are opportunities for adventure. This evening you may find your cess. You excel as a social being and should make a career out of your deep-seated interest in own life influenced when you encourage a young person to continue his or her education and other people, partnerships, relationships, etc. You find yourself through other people. Someone make goal plans. new in your life is quite captivated with you.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

There is something gentle, regular, steadfast and determined about you Today you are finally able to catch up on those long-distance conversations today. You could be providing a base for new growth and understanding to take as well as some letter writing. A good conversation with neighbors may open place. You are accepting and nurturing. You want to be helpful to your loved ones. Try just lis- up some ideas you would have never thought of before this day. You may be preparing for out- tening first as sometimes listening is all that is necessary. You allow someone else to have the of-town company later today. Situations that were confining in the past have taken their toll ACROSS sarily employed). great ideas or the last word today. There is a great interest in new experiences. You may find and now you realize, it is the perfect time to soak in the good vibrations from all around you. 1. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of 2. Relating to or caused by a virus. yourself on the newest ride at the popular tourist attraction. This is one reason you like a vast Your enthusiasm is high and your energies are channeled in positive directions. Stop fussing, everything is great—you will be able to enjoy company from out-of-town and they will enjoy rubber in electric cables. 3. Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria. number of friends—you enjoy a vast array of experiences. This is a very good day where close relationships can become even closer. You are fortunate to have friends and family with that you. Pay special attention to your diet and make plans to improve your dieting habits. Enjoy a 4. Adroitness and cleverness in reply. 4. A sudden short attack. long walk later this evening to relax. 12. Standard time in the 8th time zone west 5. Either extremity of something that has same sense of adventure. of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridi- length. an west. 6. An informal term for a father. 15. The former capital and 2nd largest city of 7. With rapid movements. Brazil. 8. A motley assortment of things. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) CAPRICORN 16. A metrical unit with unstressed- 9. A cooperative unit. There is optimism today and you are ready to do your best in a contest. This may You may find yourself at odds with subject matters that are discussed today. unstressed-stressed syllables. 10. Electronic warfare undertaken under It could be that you have grown with regard to insight into life, the world and 17. (informal) Of the highest quality. direct control of an operational commander mean you are on a debating team, choir group, or some political discussion. This is a kind of restlessness for new emotional experiences. The explosions of pop-up markets are fun and this conditions between people. If you try to push your ideas on others, you may be going against 18. Any of numerous plants of the orchid to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic may be a focus for you and your family this afternoon. Numerous handmade goods and creative tradition. Back up and reassess before emotional differences take a footing and all of your theo- family usually having flowers of unusual energy for the purpose of immediate threat inventions are one of a kind and lots of fun to see. There is an emphasis on communication, expres- ries are blown away. A natural sense of what is right brings you a great deal of popularity. shapes and beautiful colors. recognition. sion of ideas and the connections between things, places and people. What goes on in your mind is Family, home, relatives and real estate play a big part in your life now. You want to be included 20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of 11. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet. the all-important motivation in your life at this time. You tend toward mental pursuits and admire in decisions and by asking questions you may be able to solicit the attention needed to express the Old World. 12. A formal expression of praise. intelligence. You may be looking for a particular author’s new book this afternoon. your feelings. You are lucky today. Like a fish in water when in the limelight or in a group, you 21. The universal time coordinated when an 13. Lean end of the neck. have an innate social charm. event is received on Earth. 14. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fish- 22. Closed with a lace. es. 25. English essayist (1775-1834). 19. A large number or amount. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 28. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a 23. A state in midwestern United States. You have optimism, faith and a tendency to take chances at the deep- paste and often allowed to ferment. 24. (from a combination of MOdulate and Your day begins, interestingly enough, when a neighbor or friend asks est emotional levels. A healing of some sort is recognized. You are in top form when it 30. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are DEModulate) Electronic equipment consist- you to sign a survey, report or petition, etc. You are intuitive and enjoy debates. You have an comes to mental activities and this could be a time for real breakthroughs in the idea produced. ing of a device used to connect computers opportunity to carry out your dreams into reality—to make the spirit matter. Continued department. Your dreams propel you in your free-time activities. This is a time of good for- 33. Censure severely. by a telephone line. education or a new class in a favored subject may catch your attention. You are always tune when things open up in a very natural way. Relationships in general get a boost. searching out some answer or another. You are very communicative as well as curious and 38. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother 26. Being one more than two. Even if there is not a lot of time . . . A little watermelon or homemade ice cream creates may find you enjoy writing, teaching, lecturing or just talking with other like minds. Study, of Jacob and Esau. 27. A compartment in front of a motor vehi- wonderful reasons for quick get-togethers with friends. Harmony is deeply satisfying and research and investigations of all kinds appeal to you. Visiting with family, especially sib- 42. (of roads) Made of logs laid down cross- cle where driver sits. get-togethers with friends and loved ones put a fun ending to a very full day. Perhaps you lings, is an important part of your afternoon. This evening you will enjoy catching up on wise. 29. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock are learning to truly relax. 43. Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a exchange. your loved ones’ activities. residence. 31. A projecting bay window corbeled or 45. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic cantilevered out from a wall. and Pacific. 32. An abnormal new mass of tissue that Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 46. (physics and chemistry) The smallest serves no purpose. component of an element having the chemi- 34. One of the 7 gods of happiness. This is a time of much energy and drive—perfect for starting some project Everything points to your being inventive. Fun times with friends, fami- cal properties of the element. 35. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel. or taking care of personal business. Your physical wellbeing is nourished with good food and ly or both can be enjoyed now. If you need it, you will find a great deal of support from 48. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent 36. English explorer who with Sir Richard good water and you will probably be feeling very good at this time. You may be tending to those around you. You feel healthy, natural and highly energetic. You love a social life— metallic element. Burton was the first European to explore some repairs as well as just simply running errands and taking care of your living area. You friends and relationships play a major role in your makeup. You could decide to take a 49. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor. Lake Tanganyika. have great insight into matters of personal freedom. You come up with brilliant ways to short trip to a nearby city for an auction, entertainment, special sale, etc. Close bonds are 50. 10 grams. 37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. express or act out ideas. New methods of lovemaking, raising kids, caring for animals are yours. very important to you. You like beautiful surroundings, everything that is calm, tasteful 51. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse. 39. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spo- You are outspoken, very dramatic, impressive and even regal. You relax with children, sports, and harmonious. You are very giving and flattering in relationships, able to adjust to most situations. Reflective and tactful, you are able to please others. This is one of those days 52. A small natural hill. ken in southeastern Asia. acting, singing and such. There is a chance to socialize this evening with some of your very favorite people. that are fun for all. Keep the sun block on your skin. 55. Deciduous South African tree having 40. Jordan's port. large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fra- 41. United States golfer who won many grant orange-yellow flowers. major golf tournaments (born in 1912). 57. An international organization of 44. A knockout declared by the referee who Word Search Yesterday’s Solution European countries formed after World War II judges one boxer unable to continue. to reduce trade barriers and increase cooper- 47. English economist noted for his studies ation among its members. of international trade and finance (born in 58. 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&B singer Usher will hold on to primary custody of his two young sons. A Rjudge in Atlanta yesterday dismissed an emergency request by Usher’s ex- wife seeking temporary custody of their two children. Tameka Foster Raymond requested the hearing a day after the former couple’s 5-year- old son got caught in a pool drain while in the care of the multi- Grammy winner’s aunt at Usher’s Atlanta home. Fulton County Superior Judge John Goger dismissed her request for decision- making authority after hearing from both sides in court. After the judge issued his ruling, Usher approached his ex-wife, who broke down while testifying, and gave her a long hug. Based on the evidence presented at the hearing, Goger said he wasn’t certain anyone really could have done any- thing to prevent the accident. But he also advised the 34- year-old Usher to keep his ex-wife well advised of his whereabouts and who’s taking care of the children. Usher Raymond V fell to the bottom of the pool and became stuck in the drain on Monday, according to an Atlanta police report. A housekeeper tried unsuccess- fully to free him. A contractor doing work at the home pulled the boy from the pool and performed CPR. The boy was “conscious, alert and breathing” when emer- gency medical workers arrived, police said. The boy was still in the hospital yesterday. “They’re just assess- ing him,” Raymond told reporters outside the court- house after the hearing. “There is a lot we don’t know. I mean you can’t - it’s only been a few days so we’re very thankful that he’s obviously alive but we still have to observe him and make sure that everything is OK.” Usher, who has recorded multi-platinum R&B albums “My Way” and “8701,” left the courthouse in downtown Atlanta David, Victoria Beckham offer without speaking to reporters. He also has several chart- toppers including “Nice & Slow,” “U Remind Me” and “Love in This Club.” The filing had said the boy “suffered a near- £40m for Versace’s mansion death accident” while left unsupervised at Usher’s home when the singer was out of town. Contrary to what Raymond he Italian fashion designer was shot on the doorstep of his Miami home in claimed, Usher’s aunt, Rena Oden, was poolside watching the 1997, and the retired soccer star is said to be ready to make a bid on the villa. children when the older child became stuck in the drain, and T According to reports in the Daily Mirror newspaper, the superstar couple are Usher was at a music studio one highway exit away, said the among the big names set for an auction next month where the home will be up singer’s lawyer John Mayoue. Rather than being grateful that her for sale. The property has been used as an exclusive hotel for many years, and its child had survived, Raymond used the episode to revisit the custody owners failed to sell it for £82 million last year. The potential moves comes with battle and gain publicity, Mayoue said. The pool accident comes nearly a speculation David is planning to start up his own US-based soccer team, a year after members. Usher and Raymond married in 2007 and divorced two prospect which excites the nation’s professional league. A spokesman for Major years later. They went through a lengthy child custody battle, and Usher was given League Soccer commented: “It would be great to have David involved with us.” An primary custody of the boys, who are about a year apart in age. insider recently added: “The Beckhams’ people have enquired about the mansion, but it’s all very hush-hush. “It’s an incredibly beautiful family home and oozes Gianni Versace’s style ideas. Posh would be in heaven. She’s positively drooling at the prospect of living there. “It’ll be very much a second home for them because they intend to be based in the UK from now on. But if all goes well with David’s football venture they’ll spend a lot of time in Miami and want a spectacular house right by the water.” Simon Cowell is ‘too busy Robin Thicke with love’ supportive he ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge teased his boss for his of Paula’s Tromance with Lauren Silverman - who is reportedly pregnant with their first child - and joked a stronger work ethic would mean “there would be no baby”. Speaking love scenes on his radio show, the outspoken host said: “I don’t think Simon is thrilled. He is too busy with sex. If he was here doing he ‘Blurred Lines’ singer has been married to the 37- his job and running things, there would be no baby. “I was year-old actress since 2005 and Paula says he doesn’t wondering why he never shows up on the set, he’s like an T object when she films intimate moments with her executive producer of the show, now I know he’s busy making hunky co-stars, such as with Denzel Washington in new kids. Meanwhile Simon, 53, is keen to support Lauren by giv- movie ‘2 Guns’ - and he enjoys watching the raunchy footage. ing her and the child everything they need - but lawyers have She said: “He was like, ‘I want to see everything!’ He’s very insisted he should demand proof the baby is his. Former pros- supportive. We’ve been together since high school, and we ecutor and US legal expect Loni Coombs told the Daily Star know each other’s dreams.” Paula also revealed Robin loves newspaper: “If he is going to take on child support, you should how tough she is in real life, and is a huge admirer of her make sure.” The star has been advised to lie low while Lauren, competitive streak. She said: “I’ve always been athletic, I can 36, continues with her divorce settlement with husband hang with the guys, I get too aggressive sometimes. Once, I Andrew. got a black eye playing soccer with friends. My husband was like, ‘Yo dude, that’s my wife’. The couple have a three-year- old son, Julian, together and Paula revealed he wants to fol- low in his father’s footsteps. She told People magazine: “He wants to be just like Daddy. He sings and makes up his own songs. One’s called ‘Pop Song’. It’s all choruses.” Wahlberg gets nervous if wife visits him on sets and hile the 35-year-old Angelina Jolie Brad Wactor was shooting ‘2 Guns’ in New Mexico, he asked his wife have never been happier Rhea Durham to accompany him to the city but to avoid the set because he feels lthough the couple have had a tough uncomfortable working in year with Angelina undergoing a dou- front of her. He said: “I get A ble mastectomy after discovering she very shy working in front of carried the BRCA1 mutated gene - which her. I’d worry about what she meant it was highly likely she would get breast thought.” However, his chil- cancer - their relationship has come through it dren are a different story and stronger than ever. A source said: “Their rela- Mark has asked Ella, nine, tionship could have been rocked to the core Michael, seven, Brendan, by the mastectomy and Angelina could have four and three-year-old become distant, which she has always said is Grace to be in his forthcom- her tendency to do in a crisis. But she has ing blockbuster found that it was a comfort to have someone ‘Transformers 4’. He told US there with her, for her. “Angelina felt like they Weekly magazine: “All four of had been so blessed for so long that the fairy- the kids are going to be in tale had to have problems at some point. the movie. They’re excited.” Better to face it head on and then be able to Rhea recently admitted live happily ever after and continue to raise going to the gym with her their kids, get married and live their lives.” The spouse leaves her feeling couple’s six children, Maddox, 11, Pax, eight, nauseous. She said: “He nor- Zahara, seven, Shiloh, six, and four-year-old mally makes me throw up or twins Knox and Vivienne, haven’t let Angelina’s cry. I can’t do his workouts, health scare upset them and instead are doing but I try.” Although she can’t everything they can to ensure their mother is handle Mark’s regime, Rhea feeling well. The insider added to America’s is always impressed by her OK! magazine: “Angelina has really bounced husband’s stamina and she back from the surgery, she’s much healthier in can’t believe the amount of general and the kids constantly remind her pull-ups and sit-ups he does and ask if she’s taken her vitamins that day, if to maintain his super-ripped she’s eaten breakfast. If not, Zahara will offer to physique. She added: make her cereal, Pop-Tarts or Eggo waffles. “Really, the stuff he does Whatever it is, it’s the thought that always with his own body weight is makes Angie happy.” the toughest ... the pull-ups!” lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 Gossip

Cheryl Cole

worried her relationship with Tre Holloway is ‘fizzling out’

he ‘Fight for This Love’ singer is busy relationship where she feels cherished and Trecording a new album in the UK while her secure, instead of fearing it is fizzling out. He dancer boyfriend is back in Los Angeles says it sometimes feels as though he’s waiting working and the difficulties of being apart for so for her to end it. She doesn’t know how to fix long is said to be taking its toll on their this and to bring them back together. She keeps romance. A source said: “The long distance rela- asking her friends, ‘Am I being too needy?’ “And tionship is hard on them. They’re trying to keep Cheryl’s fears are strengthened with Tre’s reluc- it going on the phone, but sometimes a day or tance to move to the UK. The insider added to two can pass where they don’t speak. “When its Closer magazine: “Tre doesn’t even mention evening for Cheryl its morning for Tre and he’s moving to the UK now he’s getting even more rushing to the dance studio so they’re constant- work in Los Angeles.” ly trying to play catch up. “She wants to be in a

Katie Holmes in ‘constant contact’ with Luke Kirby he 34-year-old actress - who divorced Tom Cruise, the father of her Tseven-year-old daughter Suri, last year - has been growing close her ‘Mania Days’ co-star in the past few weeks and their blossoming chemistry appears to have moved to the next level. A source said: “Katie and Luke are getting closer with everyday they spend together - and at the moment, with the filming schedule so tight, that’s nearly seven days a week. “The chemistry between them is tangible but that’s all because since their break in filming in July, Katie and Luke have stayed in constant contact. “The 35-year-old actor is rumoured to have split with his long-term girlfriend Jonah Hill Andrea Sarubbi amid speculation about his relationship with Katie, but Luke is said to be in turmoil over the women in his life. The source explained to LOOK magazine: “Luke is currently trying to figure out his relationship spotted buying issues with Andrea. I don’t think he knows what to do. Katie’s trying to be a friend to him, as she would to anyone, but the more time they spend together, the more time they spend together, the more she seems to be engagement ring falling for him. “She even jokes he’s her Mr. Right - but the elephant in the room in his confusion over what’s happening with Andrea.” he ‘This Is The End’ actor rec- Tonciled with Jordan Klein - who he dated for four years before they split in 2011 - in May and the renewed relationship has reportedly gotten so serious that Jonah is ready to tie the knot. A source told America’s Star magazine: “He knows she is the right girl for him. She knew and Amanda Bynes placed under loved him before he was famous and he has realised how important that is and he’s ready to commit.” In September, Jonah and Ali Hoffman called time on their relationship after nine months together. ‘Moneyball’ star Jonah was said to have been close to 24-year-old Ali - the daughter of actor Dustin Hoffman - for some conservatorship of her mother time before they started dating, and even went to the same school, Crossroads High School in Santa Monica, although they were in different years. Dustin also had a hand in Jonah’s career, spotting him while he was still in high school and ynn and Rick Bynes launched a bid to gain control over helping him land his first role in ‘I Heart Huckabees’. Ltheir troubled daughter’s personal and financial affairs after she was placed under an involuntary psychiatric hold last month for attempting to light a fire in a stranger’s driveway and on Friday (09.08.13) a judge agreed. According to Us Weekly, Judge Glen. M. Reiser said the conservatorship gives Lynn the “right to control placement and right to deter- mine medical care. Provisionally does not have ability to con- tract other than minor conservatory matters. Essentially you’re the boss”. Tamar Arminack, the lawyer for Amanda’s parents, said: “My clients are just interested in getting their daughter well.” Amanda’s lawyer told the court during the Ashley Tisdale engaged hearing on Friday (09.08.13), which the actress did not attend, that she did not believe the conservatorship was nec- to Christopher French essary. Another court date has been set for September 30 to reassess Amanda’s care. Meanwhile, Kris Jenner -who man- he ‘High School Musical’ actress was overjoyed after Christopher, who she first went ages her reality TV star daughters’ careers - recently praised Tpublic with in December 2012, popped the question on the top of the Empire State Amanda’s parents for officially applying to gain legal control Building in New York on Thursday night. She tweeted: “Best night of my life. We’re on of the actress’s personal welfare and financial affairs follow- top of the world.” While friends say Ashley wasn’t surprised by the proposal, she was thrilled ing her downward spiral. She said: “This is something that, for by Christopher’s choice of location. A source told Us Weekly: “He had been planing on it for me as a mom, makes me very sad, but happy that she’s get- awhile. I think she knew it was coming but she is so happy.” Ashley, 28 - who has previously ting perhaps the help that she needs for one reason or dated musician Jared Murillo and music video director Scott Speer - has revealed she likes another. “I’ve always said, ‘I don’t know what goes on behind “mysterious bad boys”. She said: “There’s definitely a thing where I like the dark, mysterious the scenes, I’m not there, I don’t want to be the one who’s bad boy.” Ashley prefers an “old-school” approach to dating and would rather be honest quick to judge, you know, and be real negative.’ I like to look about her feelings than play games with guys she likes. She said: “I’m definitely old-school at the glass half full. And so I’m really glad that, whatever’s when it comes to dating. “I’m not into the ‘game’ so much. If I like you, I’ll confront you and going on, this would be the start of a new beginning for her.” be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.” The actress has previously admitted she loves giving dating advice to people. She has said: “I give dating advice on a regular basis. It’s not that I’m any expert, but it’s always nice to share that with your friends.” Ashley’s biggest relationship tip relates to the importance of communication. She explained: “Communication is so key. Especially in this business, I’m always travelling and doing some- thing else. So I think communication is the foundation of it all.” Jimmy Fallon, Nancy Juvonen’s baby was born via surrogate he chat show host and his wife - who welcomed daughter Winnie into the world last month - Tstruggled for some time to have a baby of their own and eventually turned to a surrogate to help them start a family. Speaking in an interview with Samantha Guthrie for ‘Today’, he said: “My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a sur- rogate.” Jimmy, 38, and Nancy, 46, kept their impending parenthood a secret until Winnie was born and they could introduce her to everyone. He said: “We said, ‘We’re not going to tell anybody.’ It’d be just more fun if it’s just private between me and my wife. And then we get to introduce her to everybody.” Jimmy recently spoke of his excitement at becoming a dad and revealed despite his exhaustion he was loving every minute of it. He said: “I’m pretty tired. But basically it’s a weird type of tired, where it’s like you’re so tired but you don’t feel exhausted, you feel like, ‘I just have to do this, so I’m gonna keep moving through this pace.’ It’s fun, it’s fun tired because you’re just excited to what she does next. It’s exciting. “Last night we were giving her a sponge bath and she loves it when you put the water on her head, her little head, she has a tiny little round head...She’s a great baby. Doesn’t cry.” Jimmy isn’t the only one who is can’t get enough of Winnie, his dog Gary also can’t resist the tot. He explained: “The real Gary is super cute, totally protective. Loves her. “This morning we were feeding her, and Gary walked up and she was like, ‘I’m cool, don’t worry about me.’ And quickly looked over and licked her head. It was really cute. Because she smells so good and everyone would like to lick her head, but Gary gets away with it ‘cause she’s a dog.” lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013

Eustace Conway rests on a wooden sledge in front of the horse barn at his Turtle Island Preserve in Triplett. Eustace Conway, left, offers encouragement as a camper hammers a wedge into a log at his Turtle Island Preserve in Triplett, N.C., on Thursday, June 27, 2013. People come from all over the world to learn natural living and how to go off-grid, but local officials ordered the place closed over health and safety concerns.

he way Eustace Conway sees it, there’s the natural ed beneath a building’s metal roof, not through it, and lift the lien. In the climactic final episode, Conway and a islature passed a bill exempting “primitive” camps and world, as exemplified by his Turtle Island Preserve in unpermitted outhouses intended for public use. Several friend make a dramatic ride into Boone - on horseback, farms - including “sheds, barns, outhouses, doghouses” and Tthe Blue Ridge Mountains. And then there’s the “plas- buildings were not connected to the stacked-stone foun- rather than taking one of the many vehicles that dot the other structures - from the building codes. GOP Gov. Pat tic, imitation” world that most other humans inhabit. dations supporting them. property. McCrory signed the bill into law on June 12. But the border between the two has always been In his 78-page report, consultant W.O. Whaley conclud- He arrives at the courthouse just in time “to make his By month’s end, Conway was back in business. porous - uncomfortably so these days. ed that many of the buildings were “not structurally sound.” final stand.” On a recent sultry day, a dozen or so campers and When Conway - known today as a star of the History “The property in its present state presents a hazard to the But Conway’s true nemesis is not “the courts” or some interns listened intently as Conway held court in the Channel reality show “Mountain Men” - bought his first 107 safety of anyone near any of the structures,” he wrote. “I heartless “tax man.” It’s a 28-year-old woman who was breezeway of the main horse barn. The smell of wood acres in 1987, his vision for Turtle Island was as “a tiny bowl would suggest obtaining a court order to vacate the prop- injured during a visit to Turtle Island. smoke, stewing cabbage, manure and sweat mingle in the in the earth, intact and natural, surrounded by pavement erty to protect the lives of the public and the interns.” In August 2005, Kimberly Baker of Wilmington came to steamy air as speckled chickens scratch for food in the dirt and highways.” People peering inside from nearby ridges Conway and his supporters argued that Furman’s office the preserve on a retreat as part of the North Carolina around the teacher’s feet. would see “a pristine and green example of what the whole was missing the point. How, he asked, can he teach primi- Teaching Fellows program. She and the others were taking Conway points to the rounded rafter just above their world once looked like.” tive living in modern, cookie-cutter structures? part in an orientation at Turtle Island’s entrance when one heads, explaining how this “puncheon” construction, com- Since leaving his parents’ suburban home at 17 and Humans have built their own houses for thousands of of Conway’s people pulled out a sling and began demon- mon during the 17th and 18th centuries, allows the flat moving into the woods, Conway has been preaching the years, Conway says. “And now we can’t even build our own strating how to hurl stones. surface of a split log to act as the floor above. The barn is gospel of sustainable, “primitive” living. But over the past house with our own material that grows on our own land? A rock flew backward, blinding Baker’s right eye. She one of the buildings singled out as potentially unsafe, and three decades, those notions have clearly evolved. That’s not some regulation that’s just a county problem. sued. Baker settled with two of Conway’s staff for a com- Conway can’t resist a jab. Conway has ditched his trademark buckskins for jeans That’s a human rights issue.” bined $400,000. In September 2009, Conway agreed to pay “My problem with the government is they see that I’m and T-shirts. Visitors to Turtle Island are as likely to hear the To counter Whaley’s report, friends posted interviews Baker $75,000, and to mortgage some of his land within a teaching people about simple, natural living, and that buzz of a chain saw as the call of an eagle, and interns learn with Drew Kelly, identified as a certified building inspector, year to cover the amount. doesn’t jive with their corporate sponsors, you know?” that “Dumpster diving” is as important a skill as hunting or on YouTube. Kelly said most of the buildings were con- When the deadline passed without payment, Baker filed Conway says. “So it’s real important to realize that the mod- fishing. And then there are the TV cameras, which he’s used structed “above what they’re wanting regular houses to be a lawsuit for breach of contract. Finally, in April 2012 - el is something that we need to keep alive. And what I to convey his message of simpler living for two seasons of built at.” around the time those episodes were filmed - Conway paid want you guys to do is go out and teach the rest of the “Mountain Men” - a role he concedes is inherently oxy- “Do they fit modern-day building codes?” Kelly said. “No. up. world how to do it. Because it’s our birthright as a human moronic. Because they’re not modern-day structures.” Conway says his contract with the History Channel pre- being.” “I think television’s terrible,” the 52-year-old woodsman Conway believes it’s no coincidence that his trouble vents him from commenting “about the correctness of If Conway was a folk hero before, this incident has only says with a chuckle that shakes his long, iron-grey beard with the planning department began during the first sea- that” depiction of events. But he avers that reality shows increased his stock. Nick Rosen, who runs the site www.off- and braids. “So it’s definitely a paradox.” son of “Mountain Men.” are about building suspense and drama, “And a lot of the grid.net and included a chapter about Conway in a book But it’s all part of a complex dance. For Conway and “What do I do for a living?” he says in the premiere life out here is not as dramatic as they want it or need it to about the movement, says what happened at Turtle Island Turtle Island, sustainability has come to depend on interns episode. “I live for a living.” be.” “is part of a national trend to create obstacles in the way of and apprentices, and on tax-exempt status from a regula- people wanting to carve out their own freedom.” tory system he openly despises. But while many feel the government went too far, some It also depends, increasingly, on a steady stream of pay- think Conway is trying to have it both ways. ing campers. And that is where Conway’s peaceful coexis- He promotes a lifestyle, but he also runs a business - tence with the “modern world” broke down. albeit a nonprofit one. Available records don’t disclose how Acting on a complaint about alleged illegal building, much the “Mountain Men” deal is worth, and Conway isn’t officials from the Watauga County Planning and Inspection saying. Fees he charges at Turtle Island vary. Those who Department raided Turtle Island last fall and found dozens just want to come and look around can pay $75 for a of structures without required permits. Citing numerous horse-drawn buggy tour. Paying campers can learn every- potential health and safety code violations, the county thing from basic blacksmithing to how to build a log cabin. attorney gave Conway three options: Bring the buildings Tuition for one of Conway’s “Chainsaw Work-Studies” is $20 up to minimum state standards, have an expert certify that to $60 a day, “depending on how helpful you are.” they already met code and obtain proper permits, or tear Conway also offers an unpaid, 14-month internship them down. called “Work-Camp,” a regimen of “4 or more days a week of What ensued was more than just a battle of govern- full-on, focused work.” Food and shelter are provided. ment versus an individual. It was also very much about the Boone contractor Douglas McGuire grew up in these lines between what is real and what is “reality.” hills. Standing beside a stone fireplace in the modern log County Planning Director Joe Furman says the conflict home that serves as his office, he says he understands the started in late spring of 2012 with an anonymous phone traditions of rugged independence and mistrust of govern- call, followed about a week later by an unmarked envelope ment interference. containing a color-coded map. It showed buildings, road But McGuire says this was a question of public safety, grading and wiring - all allegedly done without proper per- not private property rights. mitting, engineering or inspections. “What he is doing, 50 years ago, was a way of life,” he Unlike some of his fellow TV “Mountain Men,” who toil says. “And people need to be taught to fend for themselves high in the Rockies or far out in the Alaskan wilderness, - to raise their gardens, to raise their crops. But I don’t know Conway is hardly cut off from civilization. that going back in time to accomplish that is the answer.” Turtle Island lies near the Tennessee border, just a few A former intern expresses a different reservation about miles east of Boone, N.C., a county seat of 17,000 residents Turtle Island. whose population doubles when Appalachian State Calling the buildings solid and the planning depart- University, Conway’s alma mater, is in session. Just beyond ment’s criticisms “off base,” Justin McGuire (no relation to the gravel road that leads into the 1,000-acre preserve, spa- the contractor) says it’s the camp’s facade that’s a bit shaky. cious, modern homes nestle on wooded lots within sight The 31-year-old from Newnan, Ga., had hoped to learn of the Blue Ridge Parkway. how to live off the land, to live simply. He says that’s not Once through the gates, everything changes. what he got. After crossing a dancing stream, the road opens onto a When the cameras were off, McGuire says, campers meadow ringed by a blacksmith shop, open-air kitchen were using nail guns, bulldozers and backhoes. They ate and dining room, a corn crib and other outbuildings. mostly donated food, including condiments. “There wasn’t Dominating the scene is a massive barn, constructed of Naturalist Eustace Conway, center, speaks to diners at the Nacho Mama’s eating hall at Turtle Island Preserve in a whole lot of agriculture going on,” he said in a recent tele- dovetailed logs and roofed with 5,000 hand-hewn, moss- Triplett. — AP photos phone interview. covered shingles. Although he quit his internship after six months and the The name Turtle Island comes from an American Indian show portrays their relationship as rocky, the young man creation myth about a great reptile that saved the world’s says he still has a great deal of respect for Conway. He just creatures from a cataclysmic flood by supporting them on The show is mostly about man’s struggle against nature. He expressed much the same sentiment when he spoke feels that Conway has “kind of gotten away from what he its shell. “In the figurative sense,” Conway’s website But in Conway’s story line, a frequent adversary is “the gov- with writer Elizabeth Gilbert for her 2002 Conway biogra- originally was and what he originally stood for.” explains, “we are an island of wilderness in a sea of devel- ernment.” phy, “The Last American Man.” Former Turtle Island apprentice Christian Kaltreider is opment and destruction.” In season one’s second installment, titled “Mayhem,” “When I go out in public, I deliberately try to present now an engineer specializing in energy efficiency and Not exactly, say local officials. Conway opens his mailbox to find an official-looking letter myself as this wild guy who just came down off the moun- renewables, He’s dismayed - if not exactly mystified - by After a cursory inspection, Furman says talks between inside. He slits it open with his pocketknife. tain, and I’m aware that it’s largely an act,” Gilbert, who also Conway’s decision to take part in a reality show. “I think it’s his office and Conway broke down. So on Sept. 19, Furman “Motion to claim exempt property?” he reads from the wrote the best-seller “Eat, Pray, Love,” quoted him as saying. ego and a drive to teach the world,” the Asheville man says. came back with a warrant and sheriff’s deputies. court document in his hand. “This is crazy. Damn attorney “I know I’m a showman. I know I present people with an Conway once told Kaltreider that his dream was that Inspectors found Conway’s own home lacked minimum is paying the sheriff to serve me. Going to take all my land? image of how I wish I were living. But what else can I do? I those he touched would go home and create “hundreds of water and sewer connections. All of the buildings were ... Basically, I just got a letter saying, ‘Your life is over.’” have to put on that act for the benefit of the people.” little Turtle Islands everywhere.” Most have fallen far short constructed mostly of wood milled on site, not the marked, In setting up the scene, a voiceover gives the distinct As word of Conway’s bureaucratic problems spread, of Conway’s goals, Kaltreider says. But, he adds, “We’re still graded lumber required in the building codes. impression that it’s the government that is coming after hate mail inundated Furman’s office. trying to save the world.” — AP Solar panels run the equipment in Conway’s little office, Turtle Island. In a petition posted on www.northcarolinanaconserva- and a micro-hydroelectric plant installed by students from “Eustace has always been able to survive living off his tive.net, author Vicky Kaseorg made allusions to Nazi Appalachian State’s Appropriate Technology Program pow- land,” the sandpaper-voiced narrator growls. “But he always Germany and Stalinist Russia. ers a small workshop. Inspectors say they found wiring and struggles to pay the tax man.” “Are government officials upset that someone can sur- junction boxes that were not up to code. For the remainder of the season, Conway and his interns vive without them?” she asked. The team noted a wood stove whose chimney was vent- split firewood and fence rails to raise the cash needed to Meanwhile, North Carolina’s Republican-dominated leg- lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013

aren Black, the prolific actress who appeared in stop thinking,’ because that’s how Rayette is.’” and “Party of Five” and enough horror movies, notably more than 100 movies and was featured in such In 1971, Black starred with Nicholson again in “Trilogy of Terror,” that a punk band named itself “The Kcounterculture favorites as “Easy Rider,” ‘’Five Easy “Drive, He Said,” which Nicholson also directed. Over Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.” Pieces” and “Nashville,” has died in Los Angeles. the next few years, she worked with such top actors Black was also a screenwriter and a playwright Black’s husband, Stephen Eckelberry, says the and directors as Richard Benjamin (“Portnoy’s whose credits included the musical “Missouri Waltz” actress died Wednesday from complications from can- Complaint”), Robert Redford and Mia Farrow (“The and “A View of the Heart,” a one-woman show in which cer. She was 74. Great Gatsby”) and Charlton Heston (“Airport 1975”). she starred. Known for her full lips and thick, wavy hair that She was nominated for a Grammy Award after writing Black was born Karen Ziegler and grew up in Park seemed to change color from film to film, Black often and performing songs for “Nashville,” in which she Ridge, Illinois. Her father was a sales executive and vio- portrayed women who were quirky, troubled or threat- played a country singer in Robert Altman’s 1975 linist, her mother the children’s novelist Elsie Reif ened. Her breakthrough was as a prostitute who takes ensemble epic. Black also starred as a jewel thief in Zeigler. By grade school, she already knew she wanted LSD with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 1969’s Alfred Hitchcock’s last movie, “Family Plot,” released in to be an actress and at age 15, she enrolled in “Easy Rider,” the hippie classic that helped get her the 1976. Northwestern University to study drama. By the early role of Rayette Dipesto, a waitress who dates - and is “We used to read each other poems and limericks 1960s, she had moved to New York; made her film mistreated by - an upper-class dropout played by Jack and tried to catch me on my vocabulary,” she later said debut, in “The Prime Time”; and had married Charles Nicholson in 1970’s “Five Easy Pieces.” of Hitchcock. “He once said, ‘You seem very perspica- Black, whose last name she kept even though they Cited by The New York Times as a “pathetically cious today, Miss Black.’ I said, ‘Oh, you mean “keenly were together only for a short time. appealing vulgarian,” Black’s performance won her an perceptive?” ‘Yes.’ So I got him this huge, gold- She studied acting under Lee Strasberg and Oscar nomination and Golden Globe Award. She would embossed dictionary that said ‘Diction-Harry,’ at the through the ‘60s worked off-Broadway and in televi- recall that playing Rayette really was acting: The well- end of the shoot.” sion, including “Mannix” and “Adam-12.” Her first read, cerebral Black, raised in a comfortable Chicago The actress would claim that her career as an A-list Broadway show, “The Playroom,” lasted less than a suburb, had little in common with her relatively simple- actress was ruined by “The Day of the Locust,” a trou- month, but brought her to the attention of a young minded character. bled 1975 production of the Nathanael West novel that director-screenwriter, Francis Ford Coppola, who cast “If you look through the eyes of Rayette, it looks brought her a Golden Globe nomination but left Black her in the 1966 release “You’re a Big Boy Now.” nice, really beautiful, light, not heavy, not serious. A struggling to find quality roles. By the end of the ‘70s, Black was married four times. She is survived by very affectionate woman who would look upon things she was appearing in television and in low-budget pro- Eckelberry, a son and a daughter. — AP with love, and longing,” Black told Venice Magazine in ductions. Black received strong reviews in 1982 as a 2007. “A completely uncritical person, and in that transsexual in Altman’s “Come Back to the Five and In this May 14, 2012 publicity file photo provided by KPP, President of the sense, a beautiful person. When (director) Bob Rafelson Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.” But despite working Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tom Sherak and actress Karen called me to his office to discuss the part he said, constantly over the next 30 years, she was more a cult Black are seen during “Keeping the Promise,” presented by California ‘Karen, I’m worried you can’t play this role because idol than a major Hollywood star. Her credits included Disabled Veterans Business Alliance at Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles. The you’re too smart.’ I said ‘Bob, when you call “action,” I will guest appearances on such TV series as “Law & Order” ‘Easy Rider’ and ‘Five Easy Pieces’ star Black, 74, has died. — AP

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ome directors, for better or attending in the city. Their solitude is worse, have their last name occasionally interrupted by a truck Sturned into adjectives - driver (veteran character actor Lance Hitchcock-ian, Tarantino-esque, LeGault, who passed away last Lynch-ian. The upside to that is that an September), who shows up offering artist has a distinct style they can not booze and sardonic wisdom. only call their own but that also will The only other person Alvin and be a point of comparison to future Lance encounter is a mysterious lady imitators. (Joyce Payne), who turns up at the The only problem with being made strangest times, but her character is a descriptor is the underlying assump- best left undescribed to avoid spoilers tion that your work can be easily cate- for the film, which so perfectly transi- gorized. (With exceptions, of course - tions from the hilarious testiness of “The Straight Story,” for example, is the Lance-Alvin relationship to the probably David Lynch’s least Lynch- bleak majesty of the burned-out Texas ian film, and there’s not a whole lot landscape. (Green shot the film out- that’s Hitchcock-ian about Hitchcock’s side of Bastrop.) underrated 1941 screwball comedy Rudd may be outfitted with dorky “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”) ‘80s eyewear and a mustache, but he’s Director David Gordon Green isn’t not playing the clown here, even likely to spawn adjectives anytime though Alvin’s puffed-up sense of self- This publicity photo released by Walt Disney Studios and Marvel shows Natalie Portman, left, as Jane Foster and Chris soon, mainly because he makes films importance is a balloon that’s waiting Hemsworth as Thor, in Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World.” Disney is previewing several of the studio’s upcoming live-action films that fall into two very separate and to be popped. With an equal proclivity for fans at the D23 Expo, Aug 9-11, 2013, a three-day Disney extravaganza at the Anaheim Convention Center.— AP photos distinct categories. for success-poster aphorisms and At the age of 38, he’s a filmmaker hissy fits, he makes the perfect coun- whose resume already runs the gamut terpart to whiny slacker Lance, who from the quiet and elegiac “George seems to resent any activity that does- Washington” to the violent and outra- n’t directly lead to getting laid. geously funny bromance “Pineapple Like his co-star, Hirsch finds the Express.” He’s probably the only living subtle moments and grace notes that filmmaker who could comfortably col- build a dramatic undertone to this laborate with both Terrence Malick comic character. isney has found Dory’s parents - and a school of to jokingly angle for a part in “Finding Dory.” (who produced Green’s 2004 film “Prince Avalanche” is a remake of celebrity voices for its upcoming animated films. The “I’ve been reading the Disney-Pixar fan blogs, and I know “Undertow”) and Judd Apatow (on an Icelandic movie (“Either Way”), but DWalt Disney Co. kicked off its three-day, fan-centric D23 you don’t have a sea cucumber in ‘Finding Dory,’” said Hader. “Pineapple”). it’s pure David Gordon Green, from its Expo with a Friday presentation focused on its upcoming “Yet.” Christina Hendricks and Tom Hiddleston later came on In “Prince Avalanche,” Green suc- absurdist humor to its quiet, haunted array of animated films, which includes the “Finding Nemo” stage to hype their roles in the upcoming “The Pirate Fairy,” cessfully marries his proclivities for landscapes. (David Wingo’s delicate sequel “Finding Dory,” prehistoric comedy “The Good which transports the Disney fairy characters from Pixie Hollow both the wacky and the lyrical. score enhances both the wit and the Dinosaur” and manga-style Marvel adaptation “Big Hero 6.” to Neverland. Hendricks will portray a captain sprite named Set in 1980s Texas following a dev- wonder.) “We’ve installed seatbelts on all of your seats,” Disney ani- Zarina, while the villainous “The Avengers” actor has been astating forest fire, this oddball little Now that he’s blending his seem- mation chief John Lasseter told the crowd of 4,000 fans gath- tapped to portray a young Captain Hook. gem follows two mismatched laborers ingly contradictory (but strangely ered Friday morning across the street from Disneyland inside “He’s Hook before the hook,” teased director Peggy Holmes. assigned the Sisyphean task of complementary) interests and dra- the Anaheim Convention Center. “I recommend you fasten Disney also showed off footage and concept art from such them, and if you don’t have a seatbelt on your seat, just hold other projects as the “Disney’s Planes” follow-up “Planes: Fire & repainting the yellow lines on the matic viewpoints into one coherent the person next to you. You’re gonna need it because this is an Rescue,” which is set in the world of Disney-Pixar’s “Cars,” and highway and installing reflector poles and compelling package, the writer- exciting slate of films and an amazing bunch of filmmakers.” the recently announced “Zootopia,” which imagines a modern along the shoulder. For the driven and director may wind up creating a style Among the many announcements made was that Diane world populated by animals like overpopulated bunnies and task-oriented Alvin (Paul Rudd), the of filmmaking that will one day be Keaton and Eugene Levy will voice the parents of forgetful fish not-so-smart wildebeests. “If you are a wildebeest, you will be job calls for discipline and allows him known as David Gordon Green-ian. Dory in “Finding Dory,” which is slated to debut in November offended by this movie,” joked screenwriter Jared Bush. The to embrace the solitude and the quiet — Reuters 2015. Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks will reprise their new “Monsters University” short film “Party Central,” Mickey of nature. respective roles as Dory and Marlin from the original film, and Mouse short film “Get a Horse!” and the first 10 minutes of a His new co-worker Lance (Emile “Modern Family” co-star Ty Burrell will join the cast as a beluga “Toy Story” special airing on the company’s ABC network this Hirsch), the brother of Alvin’s fiancÈe, whale named Bailey. The studio revealed that “Up” director October were also screened for fans in attendance. Thousands chafes at the boredom and repetition Pete Docter’s “Inside Out,” which is also set for a 2015 release, of attendees, some dressed as Disney characters, began lining of his duties, blathering on endlessly would feature the voices of Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Bill up early Friday morning to be among the first inside the about the parties he’d rather be Hader, Mindy Kaling and Phyllis Smith of “The Office” as char- extravaganza, which includes special musical performances, acters representing different emotions inside the brain of a presentations and previews of upcoming projects. young girl. Disney-Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” will include the However, the Force apparently won’t be with the 45,000 voices of “Raising Hope” star Lucas Neff, John Lithgow, Frances expected D23 attendees. The company’s chairman and CEO McDormand, Neil Patrick Harris, Judy Greer and Hader as an blasted any speculation the expo would include a peek at the apatosaurus farming family. next “Star Wars” film. “We’re just as excited as you are about Hader, who recently departed “Saturday Night Live” and ‘Star Wars: Episode VII,’” Bob Iger told the crowd at the begin- played a comically slow slug creature in this summer’s ning of Friday’s presentation. “In fact, we’re speechless. At “Monsters University,” was on hand at the presentation. least, we’re going to be somewhat speechless at this expo Despite being cast in both “Inside Out” and “Good Dinosaur,” because we aren’t ready to share too many details just yet.” the funnyman appeared on stage in a sea cucumber costume Disney bought George Lucas’ Lucasfilm empire last year for $4.06 billion and plans to unleash a new “Star Wars” trilogy and two spin-off films beginning in 2015 with “Star Wars: Episode VII,” which is being directed by J.J. Abrams and written by Michael Arndt.Among the live-action films expected to be teased during a Saturday presentation are “Thor: The Dark World,” “Captain America: Winter Soldier,” “Saving Mr. Banks” and “Tomorrowland.” There might also be glimpses at “Maleficent,” which stars Angelina Jolie as the “Sleeping Beauty” baddie, and new intergalactic and superheroic exploits from Marvel. Patterned after San Diego’s wildly popular Comic-Con, the biannual D23 Expo, which Disney launched in 2009, isn’t just about movies. On the show floor, attendees can snap up exclusive merchandise, trade collectible pins and meet stars from Disney Channel properties like “Teen Beach Movie” and “Sofia the First.” There will also be presentations about Disney history, theme park attractions and video games. The event could also offer an update on “Avatar” land at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando, Fla. The company announced in 2011 that it had struck a deal with filmmaker James Cameron to build attractions based on the top grossing film of all time, which is set on the lush alien world of Pandora. He’s currently working on three sequels to “Avatar.” — AP

Publicity photo released by courtesy Disney shows a cast member as Perry the Platypus, left, of Phineas and Ferb greeting fans at Disney’s D23 Expo, yesterday. Reality TV meets real world ‘Mountain38 Man’ style SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013

NEW YORK: A woman has her picture taken next to a mural painted on the “5 Pointz” building yesterday in the Long Island City neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. 5 Pointz is a series of properties that graffiti artists use as an outdoor art exhibit space - it is considered the Mecca of the graffiti world. The space has been used as a space for graffiti artists since the early 1990s, though in 2011, Jerry Wolkoff, the owner of the property, announced he planned to demolish the building to build high-rise residential buildings. The 5 Pointz graffiti community has since been in a battle to keep the space as is; theyre a currently petitioning the government to consider the space a protected cultural landmark. — AFP

uba’s first English-language bookstore, cafe and literary Library. Gorry said Cuba Libro is not in the business of offering owned private enterprise, with five Cubans. rosecutors filed charges of bomb possession salon opened in Havana yesterday, offering islanders anything that could be considered “counterrevolutionary.” But Washington’s economic embargo bars US citizens from yesterday against a recently crowned Utah Cand tourists alike a unique space to converse, thumb Cuba Libro’s offerings do include views not commonly found conducting financial transactions with the Cuban govern- Pbeauty pageant winner. through magazines and buy or borrow tomes in the language on an island where the government controls nearly all media. ment, and Gorry said she was careful to avoid anything that Kendra McKenzie Gill was arrested last weekend of Shakespeare. For starters there’s Mexican journalist Alma would run afoul of laws back home. with three accomplices for what one described as a The brainchild of a longtime US expat, Cuba Libro Guillermoprieto’s, “Dancing With Cuba,” a nuanced memoir of “I’ve had to tread extremely carefully, everything above- prank. All four face the same set of four felony launched with just 300 books on offer, about what you’d her experiences in Cuba, warts and all, as a ballet instructor in board and legal, because I’m an American, I’m a North charges, prosecutor Blake Nakamura said Friday. expect to find in the lobby of an average US bed & breakfast. the 1970s. American, I am beholden to US laws,” she said. “And so I’m not The 18-year-olds were arrested yesterday after Next to what’s available elsewhere in English in Cuba, howev- Along with back issues of The New Yorker and Rolling in agreement with those laws, but I abide by them.” driving around neighborhoods and allegedly tossing er, it might as well be the Library of Congress. Stone, there’s a summer 2010 edition of ReVista, the Harvard Cubans tend to be well-educated, and millions attend plastic bottles filled with caustic chemicals at people “I know how hard it is to get English-language sources Review of Latin America, dedicated to Cuban ally Venezuela. Havana’s annual Book Festival each February and snap up they knew. Nobody was injured. here,” said New York City native Conner Gorry, 43, a journalist It’s generally sympathetic to the late President Hugo Chavez Spanish-language volumes for pennies. “We don’t really understand a clear reason for living in Cuba since 2002. “So I started cooking this idea.” but also includes an essay by critic Teodoro Petkoff calling At the same time Cubans are increasingly eager to learn their behavior,” Nakamura said. “The reason we Cuba Libro is a play on “libro,” the Spanish word for “book,” Chavez’s government “an authoritarian, autocratic and mili- English for careers such as computing or medicine, or as a charged them is obviously, what they possessed was and “Cuba libre,” the rum-cola cocktail that, legend has it, was taristic regime.” ticket to a relatively high-paying job in the tourism industry. indeed explosives, and we’re alleging they were invented in 1900 to celebrate the island’s independence from You’ll never hear that on Cuba’s nightly state TV news Cuba Libro is already planning English classes taught by throwing them near homes and at people, and there- Spain. broadcast. “I hope (the store) flourishes,” said Carlos native speakers, and those who can’t afford to buy books will fore, had the potential to cause a great deal of harm.” The concept was hatched two years ago when a friend Menendez, a 77-year-old retired economist who dropped in be able to borrow them in a lending-library format. Felony bomb possession is punishable by 1 to 15 called Gorry to say she had a sack of about 35 books she didn’t for a coffee and was delighted to find “Freefall” by Joseph E. Meanwhile staffers are reaching out to diplomats and other years in prison. Gill was crowned Miss Riverton, top- know what do with. More donations have come in since. Stiglitz, 2001 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. foreigners to build the store’s stock. ping a slate of nine beauty contestants earlier this Locally produced English-language fare includes the occa- “Freefall” argues for more government regulation of the US “Getting donations is going to be another interesting piece summer in the Salt Lake City suburb. She showed off sional translated Cuban novel, two weekly newspapers full of economy, but even a left-leaning prescription for capitalism is of it, because importing books here is very difficult,” Gorry years of piano training with a Scott Joplin number the bland official-speak of state media and a smattering of a novelty in this Communist-run country where the concept of said. Her litmus test is simply that books be good literature, and took home a $2,000 scholarship. tourist magazines. Beyond that, it’s mostly books such as the free market is anathema. “It is increasing in Cuba, the pos- and she’s trying to keep dime-store mysteries to a minimum. Others charged yesterday were John Patrick translations of the writings of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” sibility to have different alternatives,” Menendez said, seated Still, there’s a small whodunit section with the likes of Sue Reagh, Shanna Marie Smith and Bryce Christopher Guevara, and pro-government works denouncing the United on Cuba Libro’s shady patio under a towering almond tree. Grafton’s “Q is for Quarry.” It will be up to future donors to sup- Stone. All four are due to make their first court States. He was referring to President Raul Castro’s economic and ply A through P, and R through Z. — AP appearance together Aug. 26 in Salt Lake City. Each One state bookshop offered a few dog-eared texts that social reforms, which have allowed hundreds of thousands of has been released on $50,000 bond. Nakamura said pushed the definition of random: “Diving Physiology in Plain islanders to legally open or go to work for private small busi- some or all of the teens had attorneys, but he didn’t English,” a volume published by the Undersea Hyperbaric nesses in recent years. know the lawyers’ names. Medical Society, and “Woe Unto You, Lawyers!” a first-edition Cuba Libro operates on food-service and used-book-sales All four acknowledged they were tossing bombs critique of the legal profession from 1939 that, judging by a licenses made possible by the reforms, and functions with powered by a toilet bowl cleaner reacting with alu- sticker inside, once belonged to the Columbia University Law Gorry’s help as a kind of unofficial cooperative, or group- minum foil on sidewalks, front yards or in streets “to scare some of their other friends,” Unified Fire Authority investigator Steve Bowen said in a court affidavit filed yesterday. Stone reportedly told authorities it was a prank. “They were throwing them at both property and people,” Unified Fire Authority Capt. Clint Mecham told KUTV-TV earlier this week. “This goes well beyond a teenage prank.” A Riverton pageant official didn’t immediately return calls Friday on Gill’s prospects for moving up in beauty competitions, or whether her title will be revoked. “That’s a local matter,” said Jean Hatch, a producer for the Miss Utah Scholarship Pageant, set for next June. Hatch said she didn’t know if Gill’s legal trou- bles would disqualify her from statewide competi- tion. — AP

HAVANA: US citizen Conner Gorry smokes a cigar as she poses for a portrait next to the HAVANA: Customers read at the English-language bookstore, cafe and literary salon logo of a new English-language bookstore, cafe and literary salon “Cuba Libro,” a group- “Cuba Libro” in Havana, Cuba, yesterday. Cuba Libro operates on food-service and used- owned private enterprise she is part of with five Cubans in Havana, Cuba, yesterday. “I book-sales licenses made possible by President Raul Castro’s economic and social know how hard it is to get English-language sources here,” said New York City native reforms. — AP photos Gorry, 43, a journalist living in Cuba since 2002. “So I started cooking this idea.”