sunrise. —AFP(SeePage8) SURUC, Turkey:ASyrianKurdishwomanwalksinarefugeecampthistownSanliurfaprovinceyesterdayduring at carmuseum cars showcased American muscle attending theoutdoor concert. than 700people werebelievedtobe tinued performing onthestage.More apparently oblivioustotheaccident, con- the popularall-girlK-popband 4Minute, tators surroundingthecollapsed grateas YTN newschannelshowedshocked spec- Amateur videofootageobtained bythe parking areawhenthegratecollapsed. fell morethan10mintoanunderground dition. injured understoodtobeincriticalcon- death tollmightrisewithsomeofthe 16 wereconfirmeddead,butaddedthe local fireservicestoldAFP.Rescuerssaid under theirweight,”aspokesmanforthe get abetterviewwhenitcollapsed were standingontheventilationgrateto Seoul yesterday,rescuerssaid.“They door popconcertinSeongnamsouthof way whiletheywerewatchinganout- injured whenaventilationgrategave ple werekilledandnineothersseriously SEONGNAM, SouthKorea: 16 killedinSKoreaconcertcollapse

Television reportssaidthe25people SUBSCRIPTION 5 150 Fils AUDY COE 8 04 HLIA2,13 HNo:16316 SATURDAY, 1435 AH OCTOBER THULHIJA 18,2014 24, MoI seekstosafeguard youth fromextremism Sixteen peo- IS trainingpilotstoflyinthreejets lowed upfromthe ventilationshaftafter nearby saidagreat “cloudofdust”bil- one witnesstoldYTN.Awoman standing were beingsuckeddowninto ahole,” and whenIturneditlookedas if people goers fellthroughitintoanunderground parkingareabelowyesterday.—AFP SEONGNAM: Policemenstandguard nearabrokenventilationgrateafterconcert- “There wasasudden,loudscreaming, for ‘ArabIdol’ Israel riskarrest Arabs from 23 collapsed. —AFP spectators tomove offthegratebeforeit organisers hadrepeatedlyurged the dents, YTNsaid,addingthatthe concert and injuredwerebelievedto bestu- the gratecollapsed.Mostof dead ritory. —Agencies Qaeda offshoot controlsuptoathirdofthe country’ster- of themainbasesIslamic State inSyria,wheretheAl- and diplomats.Thecountryside eastofAleppocityisone aircraft hadappearedunusable, accordingtoanalysts ed picturesofcapturedjetsin otherpartsofSyria,butthe wherever theymaybe.” their equipment,facilities,fightersandcentresofgravity, Syria andIraqwillcontinuetoconductstrikesagainst continue tokeepacloseeyeon(IslamicState)activityin Command spokesmanColonelPatrickRydersaid.“We flight operationsinSyriaorelsewhere,”USCentral tured fromtheSyrianmilitary. nesses saidappearedtobeMiG21or23modelscap- pilots couldflylongerdistancesintheplanes,whichwit- the jetswereequippedwithweaponryorwhether which is70kmsouthofTurkey.Itwasnotclearwhether witnesses innorthernAleppoprovincenearthebase, skies outsidetheairportandcomingback,”hesaid,citing many timesfromtheairportandtheyareflyingin Abdulrahman said.“Peoplesawtheflights,theywentup before for(formerIraqipresident)SaddamHussein,” was thefirsttimeithadbeenabletopilotwarplanes. armies andhasoverrunseveralmilitarybasesbutthis larly usedweaponrycapturedfromtheSyrianandIraqi Islamic StatebasesinSyriaandIraq.Thegrouphasregu- State flyingjetsinSyria.US-ledforcesarebombing and USCentralCommandsaiditwasnotawareofIslamic Observatory forHumanRights. Rami Abdulrahman,whorunstheBritain-basedSyrian captured Al-JarrahmilitaryairporteastofAleppo,said land inSyriaandIraq,hasbeenflyingtheplanesover group hadtakentotheair.Thegroup,whichhasseized yesterday, sayingitwasthefirsttimethatmilitant captured fighterjets,agroupmonitoringthewarsaid in Syriaaretrainingmembersofthegrouptoflythree regard importantforsecurity. cooperation, andreportingwhateverinformationthey groups”. Itthankedcitizensandurgedthemformore tect youngpeopleagainstfallingpreyto“terrorist gathering aswellprosecutioninaseriousbidtopro- ty precautionsbeingtaken,includinginvestigations,data means ofcommunication.Theministryreferredtosecuri- by falseslogansonjihadthroughsocialmediaandother said inastatement. and stability”,theministry’ssecuritymediadepartment vated bytheir“loveandloyaltytocountry’ssecurity and joinedextremistgroups.Parentshavedonesomoti- parents whoreportedthattheirchildrenweredeluded ed the“constructive,fruitfulandpositive”cooperationby KUWAIT/BEIRUT: perspective in Kuwait:A Martial arts 47 Pro-Islamic StateTwitteraccounts hadpreviouslypost- “We’re notawareof(IslamicState)conductingany “They havetrainers,Iraqiofficerswhowerepilots Reuters wasnotimmediatelyabletoverifythereport Meanwhile, IraqipilotswhohavejoinedIslamicState It warnedagainstattemptstodeceiveyoungpeople The MinistryofInterioryesterdaylaud- Min Max 22º 35º LOCAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

KUWAIT: The National Assembly delegation is received at the Kuwait International Airport. — KUNA Ghanim casts his vote for the new IPU president’s election. Speaker returns after attending IPU Assembly KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Key role of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). of the Maldives Parliament Abdulla Shahid - in Marzouq Al-Ghanim returned home from In Geneva, Ghanim expressed pride that Ghanim said that Kuwait for the second time an election on the concluding day of the Geneva after heading the parliamentary cau- Kuwait’s great relations with world countries in a row could help its candidate be president 131st IPU Assembly. Chowdhury becomes the cus delegation at the Inter-Parliamentary have helped rally support for its candidate to of the IPU. 28th president of the Organization in its 125- Union Assembly October 12-16 talks. the IPU presidency. “From the beginning, it was a challenge as year history. The delegation also consisted of Kuwaiti Kuwait’s role was crucial in rallying support there were three candidates, backed by differ- In a statement to KUNA and Kuwait’s TV, lawmakers Faisal Al-Shaya, Saleh Ashour, Saif for the new president of the IPU Bangladeshi ent countries in the Islamic group, in addition the IPU newly elected President Chowdhury Al-Azmi and Abdallah Al-Turaiji. MP Saber Chowdhury, Ghanim told KUNA to the Australian candidate, who had clear commended Al-Ghanim’s role in backing him Receiving Ghanim was the Deputy Speaker Thursday. He noted that Kuwait’s strong and views against woman’s hijab and Islamic in today’s elections. Over the past days, Mubarak Al-Khurainij, Minister of Oil and state close relations with all world countries were issues as well, running for the IPU’s presiden- Ghanim presided over three meetings with Minister for National Assembly Affairs Ali Al- key factors in rendering the Kuwaiti delega- cy,” he added. Arab and Islamic groups for having a single Omair, the parliament’s Acting Secretary tion’s efforts successful. Chowdhury outrivaled the three other can- stance on the elections. Chowdhury is the General Sulaiman Al-Subaiee and Assistant Bangladeshi MP Chowdhury, the candidate didates - Speaker of Australia’s House of third IPU president from South Asia after Secretary General for MP Affairs, Public of Arab group and some Islamic countries, Representatives Bronwyn Bishop, Indonesian Najma Heptulla (1999-2002) and Gurdial Relations and Media Sami Al-Shaya. was elected on Thursday as the new President MP Nurhayati Ali Assegaf and former Speaker Singh Dhillon (1973-1976). —KUNA GCC eager to boost economic ties with China Business forum stresses importance of women’s role BEIJING/MANAMA: The Gulf Cooperation exchange was due to China’s ever-growing Cooperation and Openness”, also called for Council (GCC) region is willing to further need for energy supplies in which the GCC finding means to assess the impact of the develop economic, commercial, and region was gladly providing, said Mutairi. implementation of plans, strategies, and investment ties with China, a GCC official outcomes of former forums, as well as said yesterday. Business forum adopting and supporting programs of GCC This statement came during a meeting Separately, the second GCC business- chambers that are designed for the servic- between the GCC delegation, headed by women forum, organized by Bahrain es of entrepreneur advisors in Gulf states. It Advisor Mohammad Al-Mutairi, and repre- Chamber of Commerce and Industry also pointed out the necessity of adopting Abdullah Al-Sharrah sentatives of Chinese government. (BCCI), stressed the importance of the role university graduation projects by cham- Muatiri said that the meeting discussed of women in making legislations and regu- bers and their partners, that are viable to Kuwait involved the upcoming dialogue between friends lations amongst Gulf states. transform into successful economic proj- on the Silk Road gathering next Tuesday The two-day event, which kicked off ects, as well as providing further support in implementing UN which aims at developing economic ties Wednesday in cooperation with the and encouragement to Gulf pioneering between China and the GCC. Federation of GCC Chambers (FGCCC), also projects in the fields of financing, market- Development Agenda He indicated that both sides were will- emphasized in its concluding statement ing, and investment services. ing to further bolster economic and com- the need to form an integrated Gulf net- The forum also recommended the for- NEW YORK: The State of Kuwait is taking part in efforts, along mercial relations in the future, noting that work for member states in order to extend mation of integrated assessments for with other nations, aimed at reaching a global consensus on UN- commercial exchange between the GCC cooperation links among Gulf business- institutions and authorities backing small masterminded Post-2015 Development Agenda, a Kuwaiti diplo- and China had reached USD 175 billion in women, and to establish an official head- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in mat has stated. It is keen on implementing all plans, envisaged 2013 after being at USD nine billion in quarters for them. order to benefit from their expertise and within a new development framework that would serve the Post- 2002. This huge leap in commercial The forum, entitled “Bridges of services. —KUNA 2015 plan, said the third secretary of the permanent Kuwaiti mis- sion at the UN, Abdullah Al-Sharrah. Sharrah, who was addressing a meeting of the UN economic commission, held as part of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, indicated that such an approach is essentially designed to create a new global partner- ship to bolster cooperation between the UN and other parties involved in development, namely the private sector, civil associa- tions, educational institutions and charities. The Kuwaiti diplomat was referring to a UN-masterminded process that aims to help define the future global development framework that will succeed the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight global development targets which come to an end in 2015. Current UN development agenda is cen- tered on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), established following the Millennium Summit of the UN in 2000. It envisaged eight globally agreed goals in the areas of poverty alleviation, education, gender equality and empowerment of women, child and maternal health, environmental sustainability, reducing HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases, and building a global part- BEIJING: Members of the GCC delegation pictured with representatives of the Chinese government. —KUNA nership for development.—KUNA

LOCAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 Crime Companies to have limited Report foreign labor recruitment ability Woman leaps to 3-year limit for workers to transfer employers KUWAIT: Companies will still be alities of workers hired in order to avoid will be denied, the sources said. death in Khaitan required to depend heavily on the local negative impact on the country’s demo- The full list of regulations is expected market for hiring even after foreign graphics, said the sources who spoke to to be announced simultaneously with a KUWAIT: A Filipina was killed after falling from the fourth labor recruitment opens at the begin- Al-Watan on the condition of anonymi- decision to reopen hiring from abroad. floor of a Khaitan building. The body was recovered by the ning of next year, according to recent ty. “Employers will be required to recruit The Manpower Public Authority’s coroner. The Filipina worked for an Egyptian expat who discussions held on that regard. labor from different nationalities and Director Jamal Al-Dousary, as well as along with his wife was out of the apartment when the Ahmad Mussa, Deputy General avoid focusing on nationals of specific Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, incident took place. Detectives are investigating how she Director for Labor Recruitment at the countries,” they explained. Minister of State for Planning and fell to her death and whether foul play is involved. Manpower Public Authority, chaired a Development Hind Al-Subaih had previ- meeting recently with labor depart- Transfer limit ously stated that foreign labor recruit- Teacher questioned ments’ directors to discuss the mecha- Meanwhile, another regulation was ment will be opened on January 1, 2015. A student’s mother accused a teacher of detaining nism for issuing work permits. The sen- approved to make it mandatory for The manpower authority was estab- her son in a dark room, which made him suffer a nerv- ior officials discussed ways to allow pri- workers recruited from abroad to stay lished this year as a state department ous breakdown. The woman said she was surprised by vate companies to recruit labor from for three years with their original with the goal of handling all the affairs her 9-year-old son crying out of control, so she calmed abroad freely under criteria that employers before obtaining permission of expatriate labor, gradually phasing him down and asked him about what happened. He improve the labor market and prevent to transfer to another employer. This out the sponsorship system in the said that his teacher kept him along with three class- causing demographic imbalance. step includes people with university process. Hiring foreigners from outside mates in a dark room for over an hour. His mother then On that regard, sources familiar with degrees who were previously excluded was suspended earlier this year to allow went to the school and met the assistant director and the meeting said that the officials from a similar rule, the sources con- the state-owned body to work on con- asked why was a student who is less than 10 years of approved a decision to allow companies firmed. In the meantime, workers in trols to regulate the process and insure age tortured, but she attempted to play down the to recruit only 20 to 30 percent of their fields such as agriculture, fishing and that foreign recruitment does not add to issue. The mother said the teacher claimed that what specified number of workers from out- industry will not be given permission to the state’s augmenting demographic she did is a suitable punishment for the student for side, while the remaining percentage is transfer to other fields. Moreover, appli- imbalance. Kuwait is home to 2.8 million being a troublemaker. The mother called on the educa- filled via local hiring. Furthermore, com- cations to change the job title when expatriates who make 70 percent of the tion minister to investigate the incident. panies must achieve balance in nation- renewing or transferring work permits country’s 4 million population.

Teen threatens driver A Saudi teenager forced a Sri Lankan driver who works for the Interior Ministry to unload his car from a tow truck and escaped in it after signing its impounding papers. A security source said that traffic police impounded the car of a 17-year-old Saudi, but while being towed away, he unloaded and stole it. The Saudi was charged with theft and is being sought by detectives.

Auto theft Sabahiya police are looking for an Arab expat who disappeared in his friend’s car after asking him to repair it, but never brought it back. Detectives are looking for the suspect. —Al-Rai

Kuwait partakes in WHO regional meeting KUWAIT: Kuwait will take part in the 61st session of the World Fire Department, EQUATE Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean slated for October 19-22 in Tunis. hold campaign at 360 Mall Kuwait’s delegation, headed by Minister of Health Dr Ali Al- Obaidi, includes senior officials. KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Service Directorate ent emergencies. Being a very critical point, tives aimed at overall sustainability through- In a press statement, Kuwait’s Ministry of Health said that (KFSD) and EQUATE Petrochemical it must be noted that safety and avoiding out Kuwait to embody our tagline ‘Partners the Regional Committee’s members would review the annual Company, Kuwait’s first private sector hazards at home, work and other places in success’ in cooperation with several bod- report of the WHO Regional Director Dr Ala Alwan, which petrochemical company, continued the require awareness, understanding and ies including KFSD with its notable role highlights the work of the Regional Office and Member States. activities of Safety at Every Home readiness to apply suitable instructions and throughout Kuwait and currently with 360 The gathering will discuss several topics and challenges Campaign (Safe) at 360 Mall for direct inter- guidelines, followed by applying them Mall which deserves heartfelt appreciation that healthy systems face in the Eastern Mediterranean action with members of the Kuwaiti society, when needed. Through that, the objectives for hosting this campaign.” region, including progress made by the region’s states to get nationals and expats, over the course of of this campaign, cordially hosted by 360 As part of awareness activities at differ- the development objectives related to health, the statement three days. Mall, will be realized.” ent colleges, universities and malls in added. The meeting will review the future vision of regional Speaking at the activity, KFSD Director On his part, EQUATE Environment, Kuwait, Safe Campaign will be at 360 Mall strategic development objectives and combating AIDS as well of Public Relations & Media Colonel Khalil Health & Safety (EH&S) Leader Mohammad throughout Thursday, Friday and Saturday as implementing international health regulations, precaution- Al-Ameer said, “Safe Campaign is not only Al-Shamary said, “Safety is a very simple to create community awareness on overall ary measures in emergency and healthy safety in the Region, about slogans and theories, it is a practical word that carries many significant mean- safety at home, work, while driving a car it noted. The WHO’s meeting will share with the participants and realistic application of the strategic ings, as safety at home and all places is a and other places. Aimed at avoiding haz- documents highlighting the achievements and challenges in regard to: polio eradication, tobacco control, health-related objectives KFSD aspires to implement at critical matter of utmost importance to all ards and preventing incidents at home and Millennium Development Goals and health targets after 2015. different levels in Kuwait through a sustain- individuals. Based on that, community other places, Safety at Every Home In addition, it focuses on regional strategy for health sector able partnership with EQUATE at all rele- awareness through direct interaction with Campaign (Safe) is launched in partnership response to HIV 2011-2015, saving the lives of mothers and vant levels. For that, holding this activity at Kuwait’s population has utmost importance between Kuwait Fire Service Directorate children, and shaping the future of health in the WHO Eastern 360 Mall will allow the members of Safe for a tangible impact to clarify the concepts, (KFSD) and EQUATE Petrochemical Mediterranean Region. Campaign, from KFSD and EQUATE, to tools and guidelines of safety. Along those Company. To create awareness between Some calibers, who were granted WHO’s awards, are interact and network with several individu- lines, EQUATE has previously launched members of the Kuwaiti society, nationals expected to be honored in the meeting. als in Kuwait and provide them with guide- EQUATE Home Safety Campaign (Stay Safe) and expats, the campaign will address how Kuwait’s delegation will make a presentation on the lines and instructions regarding fire extin- which focused on potential hazards at to handle fires, emergencies within and Ministry of Health accomplishments view of the future health guishers, types of fires, smoke alarms, gas home and how to avoid unfortunate acci- outside the household, the importance of visions of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. The meeting will cylinders, gas leaks, fire evacuation, and the dents. All such efforts are part of EQUATE having a fire extinguisher, the role of smoke address a range of important health issues representing prior- importance of calling Emergency Number Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) alarms, as well as safely using gas cylinders ities for the countries of the region.— KUNA 112 when needed and dealing with differ- Program that has launched several initia- and other critical matters. LOCAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

US Ambassador Douglas Silliman is welcomed at the event. — Photos by Joseph Shagra Ambassador Silliman checks a classical car during the tour inside the museum. Classical, muscle cars showcased at car museum By Nawara Fattahova classic cars, I’m compelled to say two words - Route 66. For those of you who may not know, KUWAIT: As part of the second annual ‘Discover Route 66 is a highway that runs from Chicago to America Week 2014’, the American Embassy in Los Angeles, covering nearly 3,000 kilometers cooperation with Alghanim Automotive held the across the great American West,” he explained. American Muscle and Classical Car Showcase “But in American culture and for American car event at the Historical, Vintage and Classic Cars enthusiasts, Route 66 is more than just a high- Museum in Shuwaikh on Wednesday. More than way. It is the open road. It is driving west into the 250 modified American cars participated in the sunset. (For those of you with hair), it is the wind event, which was launched by US Ambassador to in your hair with the top down. It is the intersec- Kuwait Douglas Silliman. Besides the vintage tion of sun, desert, mountains and asphalt lead- vehicles at the museum, owners of Corvette, ing you to the Pacific Coast. In short, the spirit of Camaro, Cadillac, Silverado and other cars who Route 66, the spirit of the open road, is the very have clubs in Kuwait also participated in this reason for the cars you see here tonight,” added event, displaying their beautiful vehicles in the Silliman. yard of the museum. The ‘Discover America Week’ held from Oct Abdallah Mouazzen, Director of Sales at 13-18, 2014 by the US Embassy highlights iconic Alghanim Automotive, said that as the local US fashion brands, food, film, music, education, agent of various American brands, they are par- business knowhow and tourism. The five-day ticipating with the clubs of these vehicles and event is taking place throughout Kuwait City in will be giving away valuable prizes to the win- different venues including The Avenues, 360 A vintage Camaro. ners at the competition held during the event for Mall, Sultan Center, Marina Mall, Arabella and the most beautiful car. “Alghanim Automotive is love of cars, Kuwait’s love of cars, and Kuwait’s panies combine their resources and expertise to Cinescape theatres. always encouraging young drivers to drive safe, love of American cars. These beautiful automo- form a winning partnership,” he noted. This week provides people of all ages with an as we are pioneers in holding traffic awareness biles showcase the best in American manufactur- opportunity to enjoy a slice of American life that activities and events and encouraging safety and ing, high performance, fun and adventure. They Route 66 they may not have experienced before. It is a fun security measures for all drivers,” stressed also celebrate the long partnership between He also spoke about Route 66. “Tonight we way of bringing the two peoples closer together, Mouazzen. Chevrolet and Cadillac and Yousuf A Alghanim have on display a special breed of American car - and at the same time, highlighting the many ties Silliman expressed his happiness to attend this and Sons Automotive. It is a great example of the muscle car. Seeing all of these beautiful cars, of friendship between the United States and event. “I am delighted to help celebrate America’s what happens when American and Kuwaiti com- all of these customized Corvettes, Camaros and Kuwait.

Newer Chevrolet A customized Camaro vintage models Chevrolet showcased. truck.

A 2014 Chevrolet Corvette A customized showcased Chevrolet at the Classical Cadillacs on display. Corvette. event.

CONDOLENCES

Dr. Ziad, Abd Al-Rahman and Saleh Al-Alyan

convey their deepest condolences to Al-Marrikhi Family

on the sad demise of Dean of the Family Abdul-Aziz Mohammed Suleiman Al-Marrikhi

Father of Mohammed, Saud, Yousuf, Salah and Khalid

May Allah Almighty bestow His mercy on him SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 Russia, Ukraine fail to India top court grants Japanese lawmakers visit make progress in talks 10 bail to Jayalalitha 12 controversial war shrine 14

MURSITPINAR, Turkey: In this photo, made with an extreme telephoto lens from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc on the Turkey-Syria border, Kurdish fighters enter their positions in a house in Kobane in Syria during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group on Thursday. — AP Kobane key to US strategy against IS

WASHINGTON: Dusty and remote, the Syrian that if it falls to the Islamic State, it would be in Syria, both dream of an independent nation aid to the Kurdish fighters who are defending city of Kobane has become an unlikely spoil in seen as a defeat for the Americans, and thus for ethnic Kurds. “The current level of airstrikes Kobane due to a decades-long dispute it has the war against Islamic State militants - and far would touch on the credibility of the American are not enough to stop the terrorists from seiz- waged against a Kurdish guerrilla group linked more of a strategic prize than the United States policy to contain and degrade the Islamic State,” ing Kobane,” Khalil said this week. “The US to the city’s defenders. The fighters in Kobane wants to admit. Perched on Turkey’s border, the said Ford, now at the Middle East Institute in airstrikes against the Islamic State group in are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, city of about 60,000 has been besieged for Washington. Kobane and Iraq should be accelerated more or PKK, which both Turkey and the US consider a weeks by IS fighters. Kobane is now a ghost Here is a look at why Kobane matters: and more” to avoid the extremists from reclaim- terrorist organization. town: The UN estimates that fewer than 700 of ing areas they were pushed from earlier this Turkey has openly said it is blocking Turkish its residents remain as its people flee to safety in A Kurdish Appeal summer, he said. Kurds from joining the fight in Kobane. And nei- Turkey. Despite the barrage of airstrikes, the US so far ther Turkey nor the Syrian Kurds are enthusiastic The Obama administration has declared has been unable to help Kurdish defenders Where’s Turkey? about joining ranks if Turkey sends army troops Kobane a humanitarian disaster, but not a factor break the siege. The US and its allies have said Kobane also has become a symbol of to Kobane. Further complicating the issue, the in the overall strategy to defeat the Islamic State that airstrikes alone will not be enough to beat Turkey’s reluctance to fight the Islamic State - US said it has begun talking directly to the group. “Kobane does not define the strategy of back the extremists. That requires ground even in a city right across its border. If Kobane Kurdish fighters’ political wing in Kobane - a the coalition with respect to Daesh,” Secretary of troops, both in Syria and Iraq. Since President falls, the Islamic extremists will have a border diplomatic move that is likely to anger Turkey. State John Kerry told reporters in Cairo earlier Barack Obama is adamant that American troops way-station for militants to slip in and out of this week, using an Arabic acronym for the will not join the fight on the ground, the US has Turkey. Already, Turkey is grappling with how to The Propaganda Battle for Kobane Islamic State group. “Kobane is one community, been working to help arm, equip and revamp tighten its borders against thousands of foreign The US isn’t sure why IS is fighting so hard for and it’s a tragedy what is happening there, and training programs for national and Kurdish fighters, mostly from Western and Eastern control of Kobane, a city with few resources and we don’t diminish that.” But, Kerry said, the pri- Peshmerga security forces in Iraq and moderate European nations, who have traveled through far removed from any capital. But like the US mary US military focus is in neighboring Iraq. rebel fighters in Syria. The Peshmerga and other Turkey to join the insurgency. with Kobane, a loss to a ragtag group of Kurdish But this week, the US dramatically upped its Kurdish forces have been key in containing - if The US has tried for months to coax Turkey fighters would be a propaganda loss for IS. air power strikes against IS in and around not defeating - IS across much of northern Iraq. into providing more assistance, including border Much of the daily fighting in Kobane is caught Kobane, including 53 strikes over the last three Making sure they keep up that front is a top pri- security, to the global coalition against the on camera, where TV crews and photographers days alone. Several hundred IS fighters were ority for the US Islamic State group. So far, Turkey has provided on the Turkish side of the border have captivat- killed, the Pentagon said. Now, the US cannot Irbil, the Kurdish capital in Iraq, asked the sanctuary to an estimated 200,000 Syrian and ed the world’s attention with searing pictures of afford to lose Kobane, said Robert Ford, the for- Obama administration to increase airstrikes in Iraqi refugees, and recently agreed to train and refugees, black plumes of smoke from explo- mer US ambassador to Syria. That means the Kobane, said Mahma Khalil, a Kurdish lawmaker equip moderate Syrian rebel fighters trying to sions, and the sounds of firefights on the city’s city’s fate is tied, in part at least, to the success of from northern Iraq. remove Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad from streets. In video after video, refugees just across the US-led strategy against the Islamic State. While there’s no formal link between the power. —AP the border can be seen and heard cheering as “The most important thing about Kobane now is government in Irbil and the Kurdish population But Turkey is not expected to send troops or US airstrikes pound the extremists. —AP

INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 London reigns as world divorce capital

LONDON: Las Vegas may be the best place for marriage but drawn fresh attention to a phenomenon which has made a after over 40 years of marriage should be heard in London, London is known as divorce capital of the world - and a handful of lawyers almost as rich as some of their clients. as the former Miss Malaysia wants, or in Malaysia, in line Malaysian beauty queen’s bid for a big money split in court “England has become very attractive for wives, in particular with her husband’s wishes. yesterday was only the latest in a long line of foreign because awards here are considerably higher than almost As Chai lives in England - in a £30 million mansion out- breakups. Thousands of wealthy Chinese, Russians, anywhere in the world,” said Sandra Davis, head of the fami- side London surrounded by 1,000 acres of parkland featur- Americans and Europeans, many of whom work in the City ly law department at Mishcon de Reya. ing a menagerie of animals - her lawyer, “Diva of Divorce” of London financial district or own property in Britain, now “By the same count, it’s a jurisdiction that the wealth cre- Ayesha Vardag, argues that the case should be heard here. If end their marriages before an English judge. Few are as rich ator generally wants to avoid,” added Davis, who represent- it is, it could set a new record for England’s biggest divorce as businessman Khoo Kay Peng, worth at least £400 million ed Diana, princess of Wales in her divorce from Prince payout due to the length of their union. That is currently ($640 million) and Pauline Chai, tales of whose 1,000 pairs of Charles and US model Jerry Hall in her split from Rolling held by late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who report- shoes and £22,000 monthly spending on a Rolls Royce plus Stones singer Mick Jagger. A judge at London’s High Court edly paid up to £220 million to his ex-wife Galina Besharova chauffeur has enthralled Britain’s press. But their case has was to decide yesterday whether Chai and Peng’s divorce in 2011.—AFP

Drones pledged to Ukraine ‘can’t fly in winter’

BERLIN: Germany may not send drones to help monitor the Ukraine-Russian border as prom- ised, in part because the surveillance aircraft cannot operate in extremely icy temperatures, a lawmaker said yesterday. The “Luna” unmanned aerial vehicle does not work at below minus 19 degrees Centigrade, Gernot Erler said, confirm- ing a Bild daily report. Germany, along with France and Austria, has offered drones to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor conflict-torn Ukraine’s eastern border for incursions by Russian fighters and arms. But Erler, coordinator for social cooperation with Russia and Central Asia, said he had “seri- ous doubts” Germany would be able to take part. “It’s a technical problem of the Luna sys- tem that it can’t be controlled reliably at tem- peratures below minus 19 degrees,” he told public radio Deutschlandfunk. Winter tempera- tures in the region would often plunge far lower at the operational heights of 3,000 m and MILAN: Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) meets Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (right), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (bottom above, Bild reported citing a military source. left) and French President Francois Hollande yesterday. — AP Erler said there were other “major legal and political problems”, including that a German Russia, Ukraine fail to make armed military team would have to accompany the drone for a mission under OSCE auspices. “This is difficult because Ukraine and Russia would of course have to agree, both are mem- progress in testy Milan talks bers of the OSCE,” said Erler. “I’ve got major doubts that this mission will actually take place,” he said. “We are quickly running out of Merkel reprimands Putin in front of leaders time. The hurdles we face have not yet been overcome.” A defence ministry spokesman said MILAN: Russia, Ukraine and European governments failed to make any EU relations with Russia, and she has taken the lead within Europe in trying to of the drone’s temperature limitation that “this progress towards solving the crisis in Ukraine yesterday in talks that the Kremlin persuade Putin to change tack over Ukraine. She had a rocky time in Milan, is not a defect, it’s physics”. said were “full of misunderstandings and disagreements”. Further discussions however, with one German official saying the Russian leader had not displayed Models used by other countries and the were scheduled later in the day, but there were few expectations of any imme- a “too constructive mood”. An initial meeting set for Thursday was delayed for OSCE faced similar issues, he told a press con- diate accord to strengthen a faltering ceasefire in eastern Ukraine or to end a hours because Putin flew into Italy well behind schedule. They then held more ference, adding that the Luna model had been row over blocked Russian gas supplies to Ukraine. “I cannot see a breakthrough than 2-1/2 hours of talks that ran well past midnight, with both sides acknowl- used in Kosovo, “on 5,000 flights in winter and here at all so far,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after top EU leaders edging discussions had been unproductive. summer”. The spokesman said that “it is theo- met Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Yesterday, Merkel reprimanded the former Soviet KGB spy in front of the retically possible to use it in the winter, you just Poroshenko on the sidelines of an EU-Asia (ASEM) summit in Milan. assembled leaders at a closed-door session of the ASEM, according to people have to watch every day what the weather con- “We will continue to talk. There was progress on some details, but the main present. After a speech in which Putin raised doubts about the sovereignty of ditions are like”. If the drone offer does flop, it issue is continued violations of the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” she added, Ukraine, Merkel reminded him of the 1994 Budapest agreement, in which would be the latest embarrassment for clearly pinning the blame for the impasse on Moscow. The West has clamped Russia recognised the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, including Germany, whose pledge to play a greater global sanctions on Russia in response to its annexation of Crimea in March and its Crimea. “Unfortunately, I am not very optimistic,” a glum Poroshenko was over- role has been hobbled by a string of technical support for pro-Russian separatists battling government troops in the east of heard telling Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann. hiccups with defence equipment. Aircraft prob- Ukraine. Kiev and its Western backers accuse Moscow of aiding the separatist lems delayed German arms shipments to revolt by providing troops and arms. Russia denies the charges but says it has a Gas Cut Off Peshmerga Kurdish fighters battling Islamic right to defend the interests of the region’s Russian-speaking majority. The crisis in relations with Kiev has led Russia to cut gas supplies because of State group jihadists in Iraq and slowed aid The European leaders urged Russia to do more to end constant, deadly vio- unpaid bills. The European Union fears this could threaten disruptions in the shipments to Ebola-hit West Africa. lations of a ceasefire that was agreed by Putin and Poroshenko last month in gas flow to the rest of the continent this winter, and is working hard to broker a News website Spiegel Online said last month Minsk, saying Russia must fulfil its commitments and withdraw forces from the deal. Russia is Europe’s biggest gas supplier, accounting for around a third of that just 41 out of 190 military helicopters were area. Officials said local elections in eastern Ukraine and the issue of using demand, and about half the Russian gas that the EU buys comes via Ukraine. fit for service and painted a similar picture for unmanned drone aircraft for surveillance of the borders between Russia and The stand-off over pricing is the third in a decade between Moscow and Kiev, fighter planes. Defence Minister Ursula von der Ukraine were particular sticking points, with Russia pushing to have its drones though this time tensions are higher because of the fighting in eastern Ukraine. Leyen acknowledged that Germany’s military flying alongside those already offered for the mission by France and Germany. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Russian, could not currently live up to all its NATO com- ‘Biased, Non-Diplomatic’ A smiling Putin emerged from the morning to tell Ukrainian and EU officials would meet in Brussels to try to resolve the gas mitments because of equipment problems. Von reporters: “It was good, it was positive.” However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry row. Putin had warned on Thursday that Russia would reduce gas supplies der Leyen, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Peskov later gave a very different readout, saying “certain participants” had tak- to Europe if Ukraine took gas from the transit pipeline to cover its own Steinmeier and President Joachim Gauck have en an “absolutely biased, non-flexible, non-diplomatic” approach to Ukraine. needs, although he added that he was “hopeful” it would not come to that. this year all called for Germany to take more “The talks are indeed difficult, full of misunderstandings, disagreements, but More than 3,600 people have died in eastern Ukraine since fighting broke responsibility in international crises, with arms if they are nevertheless ongoing, the exchange of opinion is in progress,” he said. out in mid-April when armed separatists declared they were setting up their necessary. — AFP Merkel’s position as German leader in effect means that she sets the tone of own state.—Reuters

INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 India launches index to measure air quality

NEW DELHI: The country’s top environment official unveiled a government program yesterday that will eventually measure air quality across India, home to some of the most polluted cities in the world. Over the next five years, the government will begin meas- uring eight major pollutants that affect respiratory health in cities with populations above 1 million, and then gradually expand the air quality index to the rest of the country, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters. The index will warn residents when pollution levels rise past dan- gerous levels. The World Health Organization said earlier this year that the Indian capital had the worst air quality in the world, sur- passing Beijing, a statement that New Delhi has vehemently disputed. Air monitoring sensors around the landlocked Indian capi- tal routinely register levels of small airborne particles at haz- ardous levels, especially in winter. The levels are three to four CHENNAI: A supporter holds a portrait of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu state Jayalalitha Jayaram to celebrate times New Delhi’s own sanctioned limit, rivaling Beijing. Like news of bail being granted to their leader, outside their party office in Chennai, Yesterday.—AP the Chinese capital, New Delhi has gone through rapid eco- nomic development, raising living standards but also spewing out loads of pollution. Decades of policies that favored economic growth over Former TN CM Jayalalitha environmental concerns have taken their toll. The numbers of cars on the roads of New Delhi have doubled in the last decade and years of booming construction has kicked up granted conditional bail countless clouds of dust. Javadekar said it wouldn’t be “business as usual anymore” and the government was committed to improving air quality Appeal against conviction to be heard before Dec 18 as part of a cleanliness drive Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched earlier this month. There are various ways to meas- NEW DELHI: India’s top court granted bail Jayalalitha, head of the AIADMK or All single day more,” the Supreme Court ure pollution, but comparisons have generally focused on the yesterday to a powerful south Indian film India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu microscopic particulate matter, sometimes called black car- star-turned-politician jailed last month for party, was obliged by law to step down as said. After receiving the documents in bon or soot, which can lodge in a person’s lungs and fester corruption, a ruling that sparked jubilation Tamil Nadu chief minister. December, Dattu said he would tell the over time. in her home state. Jayalalitha Jayaram, 66, She was replaced by a loyal follower at appeal court in the southern state of In New Delhi, levels of what is called PM 10 - or particulate an ex-film star and a longtime head of a swearing-in ceremony where many cabi- Karnataka to deal with the case within matter that is 10 micrometers in size - reached 400 micro- Tamil Nadu, was convicted last month of net members sobbed into handkerchiefs three months, saying the case, first filed in grams per cubic meter last winter. That is four times the city’s having land, gold and other assets vastly in an emotional display of fidelity. 1997, had dragged on too long. legal limit of 100, and well above the World Health exceeding her income in a case that had The Supreme Court insisted in At her sentencing last month, Organization’s recommended limit of 20. dragged on for nearly two decades, and exchange for granting Jayalalitha bail that Jayalalitha was also fined a massive one While the Chinese capital acts aggressively on high pollu- sentenced to four years in jail. the politician-nicknamed the “iron butter- billion rupees ($16 million) for illegally tion days - closing schools and factories and taking govern- The Supreme Court ruled that hugely fly” for her firm rule-appeal to her support- amassing wealth-including gold, proper- ment vehicles off the road - India doesn’t have a warning popular Jayalalitha, known as “Amma” or ers not to resort to violence over her case. ties, shoes and saris. mechanism and until a few years ago the matter was hardly “mother” to adoring supporters, could be Many of her supporters staged protests Politicians have been rarely convicted ever discussed. The index will measure levels of PM 10 and the freed on bail pending an appeal against and some even committed suicide in the of corruption in India despite widespread even tinier PM 2.5 as well six other indicators, including lead, her conviction. days after her conviction, Tamil Nadu public anger over endemic graft at every ammonia, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide, and then cal- “She’s been given conditional bail,” police say. level of life. The regional leader has gar- culate overall pollution. The warning levels will be color cod- senior lawyer Subramanian Swamy, a for- nered huge support with her state-run ed and come with specific and easily understood health warn- mer friend of Jayalalitha who filed the cor- Court orders swift hearing canteens serving nutritious food at low ings, Javadekar said. The plan will be up for review on the ruption case, told reporters. Jayalalithaa’s The court yesterday also ordered cost as well as election freebies including ministry’s website for 45 days to seek public opinion. The supporters danced joyously, waving their Jayalalitha’s case be heard swiftly, saying electric blenders, goats and small amounts advocacy and research group Center for Science and arms, flashing victory signs and shouting all her appeal papers must be lodged with of gold. Court officials said it may take Environment lauded the announcement, but said in a state- “Amma, Amma” in New Delhi and in her the Supreme Court by December 18. until Saturday for paperwork to be ready ment that the measures needed to be rolled out quickly to Tamil Nadu home state, after the court’s “If the paperwork is not filed within two for Jayalalitha’s release from jail in protect public health. — AP decision. Following her conviction, months, then we won’t give you even a Bangalore, capital of Karnataka. —AFP India test-fires first home-made cruise missile

NEW DELHI: India successfully test-fired its The surface-to-surface missile is fitted BrahMos missile which it developed jointly first domestically built nuclear-capable long- with a turbojet engine and is capable of fly- with Russia. range cruise missile yesterday, marking ing at low altitudes to avoid detection. It can India in 2012 successfully launched its another step in building up the country’s even hover near the target, striking from any nuclear-capable Agni V ballistic missile with a defense prowess. The “Nirbhay”, or “fearless”, direction without being seen on radar. With a range of more than 5,000 kilometers. The missile blasted off from a mobile launcher at range of up to 1,000 kilometers (600 miles), it Indian military views the Agni V missile as a the Integrated Missile Test Range in gives India the capability to strike “deep into key boost to its regional power aspirations Chandipur in the eastern state of Orissa, the enemy territory”, NDTV news network report- and one that narrows-albeit slightly-its huge Press Trust of India reported. ed. gap with China’s technologically advanced “The trial was totally successful,” a senior The Nirbhay is regarded by military missile systems. government official associated with the experts as India’s version of the US While the shorter-range Agni I and II were launch told the Press Trust of India national Tomahawk cruise missiles. Friday’s success mainly developed with India’s traditional news agency. “The outcome of the trial was comes after the subsonic missile’s first test rival Pakistan in mind, later versions with ascertained by analyzing the data retrieved launch in March 2013 had to be aborted mid- longer range reflect the shift in India’s mili- from radars and telemetry points,” the official way after it veered off course. India, which tary focus towards China. Just last month, said, speaking on condition of anonymity. shares borders with arch-rivals Pakistan and Indian government scientists were in the Unlike other ballistic missiles, Nirbhay has giant China, both of which are nuclear- news for winning Asia’s race to Mars when The Nirbhay sub-sonic cruise missile is a wing and tail fins. The missile is intended to armed, is developing the missile system to its unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft suc- launched at Balasore in the Indian state of cruise like an aircraft, helped by its small fins, strengthen its air-defense capabilities. India cessfully entered the Red Planet’s orbit after Odisha.— AFP and can be launched from land, sea and air. already has in its arsenal the supersonic a 10-month journey on a tiny budget.— AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Hikers rescued from After border row, India, China Himalayan pass days plan counter-terror drills

after deadly blizzard NEW DELHI: India will hold counter-ter- rorism exercises with China despite a KATHMANDU: Search teams in Nepal used shovels and recent face-off on their disputed border, ice axes yesterday to dig through thick snow and rescue officials said, in a sign the two govern- about 40 hikers trapped for days on a Himalayan pass after ments want to manage their deep differ- blizzards and avalanches killed at least 29 people in one of ences. India, which under Prime Minister the world’s worst mountain disasters. Narendra Modi has struck an assertive The Trekking Agencies’ Association of Nepal said 37 national security posture, also agreed to people were brought down from Thorong La pass, which China’s request to move next month’s is 5,416 metres (17,769 feet) high. Austrians, French, exercises away from the border with Germans, Indians and Nepalis were among the nationali- Pakistan with which China shares a close ties represented. Police said 48 people were rescued from relationship. different locations in the popular trekking region around The manoeuvres will come just weeks Annapurna, the world’s 10th highest peak, where some after thousands of Indian and Chinese sol- had sought shelter in a temple. diers confronted each other on their de “Some of the foreign tourists were sitting in a temple facto border in the western Himalayas, for the last two days,” said Surya Bahadur, a police officer accusing each other of building roads and from Dolpa, a district of glaciers and ravines. observations posts in disputed territory. “They had very little food to eat and they were sharing “The exercises are a confidence-building blankets. It is still snowing and our access is very limited.” measure, it is in everyone’s interest,” Thorong La is the highest point of a three-week loop NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (second right) poses with Jayadeva Ranade, the China specialist on Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha (left), Chief of Naval Staff, RK around the Annapurna peak. It is a wide, barren cleft India’s National Security Advisory Board, between some of the world’s highest mountains and Dhowan (second left), Defense Minister, Arun Jaitley (center) and Chief of told Reuters. Army Staff, General Dalbir Singh (right) during the Combined Commanders’ offers scant shelter. “It doesn’t mean anyone is conceding Conference in New Delhi. —AFP Authorities said they had little idea how many Nepalis anything.” The row in the Chumar sector were missing from remote villages near the Tibetan bor- of the Ladakh region erupted just as Pakistan border with the two sides western region of Xinjiang, some of whom der, and blamed failures in weather forecasting and lax China’s President Xi Jinping was visiting exchanging fire, killing civilians. it says have received training overseas, regulations that led to many trekkers being caught in the New Delhi for his first summit with Modi “China had agreed to it initially, but including in Pakistan and Afghanistan. open when the blizzard hit. since the Indian leader’s election in May. then they opted for a change because the But China remains a close ally of Trekkers battling the blizzard were left helpless after The leaders of the Asian giants aim to border got hot,” said an Indian military Pakistan and says it supports and appreci- porters fainted from the cold, one survivor said. “When we ramp up commercial ties. India sees the source, speaking on condition of anonymi- ates Islamabad’s efforts to fight terrorism. were coming down I saw several porters struggling with anti-terrorism collaboration with China as ty. The two armies will field 103 soldiers China declined a previous Indian proposal loads on their backs,” said Eitan, 31, an Israeli trekker who a way to highlight the threat they both each for the “hand-in-hand” manoeuvres to hold exercises in the Rajasthan desert, was descending from a teashop at a high altitude where face from Islamist militants in Pakistan. It in the western city of Pune that involve which also shares a border with Pakistan. he had taken refuge when the snowfall began. had arranged for the Chinese to practice scenarios such as recapturing a border The large armies of India and China, “Some of them fainted right in front of me and we mock assaults in Bhatinda, about 110 km post taken over by terrorists, the military who fought a brief war in 1962, have limit- could not help. They were cold and there was no one to (70 miles) from the Pakistan border. source said. ed interaction and the exercises them- help,” said Eitan, who declined to give his last name. India has long faced attacks that it selves are nowhere near the scale and Eitan, who was speaking at an army hospital in the cap- Hot border blames on Pakistan based militant groups sophistication of India’s annual war games ital, Kathmandu, had severe frostbite on his fingers, which But last week China sought a change in such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba which has with the United States involving thou- were swathed in bandages.— Reuters the location of only the second such exer- links with Pakistani security agents. China sands of naval, army and air force person- cises after tension rose on the India- says it faces a threat from Islamists in its far nel. — Reuters INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 Philippine militants free German hostages

MANILA: Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist “They are now safe and secure at The rebels had demanded a 250 envoy to the Philippines to negotiate militants in the Philippines released an army camp,” the police official, million pesos ($5.6 million) ransom a deal with the rebels. The envoy, two German hostages yesterday, a who was not authorized to speak to and for Germany to stop supporting Ruediger Koenig, arrived in Manila on senior police official said. The Abu the press, told Reuters. He said sol- US-led air strikes in Syria. They had Thursday evening. Sayyaf group had originally threat- diers and police officers had fetched threatened to kill one of the captives The rebels have a record of kidnap- ened to behead one of the captives the man and woman at a police on Friday afternoon. Rami said Abu pings, killings and bombings. Some earlier in the day. The hostages, cap- checkpoint. The official was confirm- Sayyaf had received the amount in Muslim groups in the southern tured by the militants in April from a ing a statement by Abu Rami, the full. His claim could not be immedi- Philippines have long been fighting yacht on the high seas, were being spokesman for the small but violent ately verified by Philippines officials. Manila’s rule, but Abu Sayyaf burst to held in the interior of the remote group, to a commercial radio station German government sources told prominence in 2000 after kidnapping island of Jolo, 600 miles (960 km) based in Zamboanga city in the south Reuters that Foreign Minister Frank- 21 tourists and workers from a dive south of Manila. that the hostages had been freed. Walter Steinmeier had sent a special resort in nearby Malaysia. — Reuters

New clashes as HK protesters try to retake protest camp

HONG KONG: Fresh clashes broke out in Hong Kong yester- day night as demonstrators attempted to retake a protest camp partially cleared by police earlier in the day jeopardizing talks to end weeks of mass democracy rallies Officers used pepper spray and batons to beat back activists as they tried to reoccupy a busy main road in the bustling Mongkok district that had been host to a protest camp for nearly three weeks, an AFP reporter on the scene saw. It is the third consecutive night violence has broken out after a fortnight of comparative calm in a development that risks sinking only recently resurrected plans to hold talks between student leaders and the city’s Beijing-backed authorities. The Asian financial hub has been rocked by demonstra- tions for nearly three weeks-some of which drew crowds tens of thousands strong-calling both for full democracy and the resignation of the city’s leader Leung Chun-ying. Protesters have held sit-ins at three major intersections causing signifi- cant disruption to a city usually known for its stability and pre- senting Beijing with one of the most significant challenges to its rule since the 1989 Tiananmen protests. YASUKUNI: Japanese lawmakers follow a Shinto priest (R) during a visit to the controversial Yasukuni shrine yesterday. China has insisted that Leung’s successor must be vetted More than 100 Japanese lawmakers yesterday visited a Tokyo shrine condemned by China and Korea as a symbol of by a loyalist committee before standing for election in 2017, a Japan’s militarist past. — AFP proposal protesters have dismissed as a “fake democracy”. Earlier in the day officers had significantly reduced the size of the Mongkok camp-the second largest after the main Japan PM sends offering to protest site opposite the government’s headquarters on the other side of Victoria Harbour-in a swift dawn raid that saw no resistance put up by protesters. The site had previously seen war shrine, angering China clashes between demonstrators and masked government loy- alists earlier in the month. Throughout yesterday demonstra- Sino-Japanese ties thawing on mutual concerns tors managed to hold on to one side of a multi-lane road where the camp had been located. Police then struggled to maintain order as crowds of pro-democracy supporters began TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo can China-Japan relations realise healthy impossible for Abe, whose conservative Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo’s and stable development,” Chinese Foreign agenda includes recasting Japan’s to swell during the evening. Yasukuni Shrine yesterday, prompting Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a wartime history in a less apologetic tone. Violence broke out around 8pm (1200 GMT) after several sharp rebukes from China and South statement. South Korea said it deplored Abe has said he visited the shrine not protesters tried to push through a police cordon around the Korea even as Abe seeks meetings with Abe’s offering to the shrine, which it called to glorify war, but to honour those who cleared protest camp which lay at a busy intersection in dis- their leaders to improve strained ties. The “the symbol of glorification of Japan’s fought and died for their country. But he trict that had seen frequent clashes between demonstrators shrine is seen by critics such as China, colonisation and invasive war”. has stayed away from the shrine since his and masked government loyalists. parts of which were occupied by Japan “Japan should move forward to a 2013 visit, instead sending offerings on before and during World War Two, and bright future based on serious reflection key dates, seeking to tread a fine line Pepper spray and batons South Korea, where bitter memories of on the past, not locking itself in the dark between his conservative convictions and Protesters unfurled umbrellas and pushed against police Japan’s 1910-1945 colonisation persist, as past,” South Korea’s foreign ministry the diplomatic imperative to improve ties lines prompting officers to respond with baton strikes and a symbol of Japan’s past militarism, spokesman said. with China. Koichi Hagiuda, a ruling pepper spray in an attempt to hold back the surging crowds. because it honours wartime leaders con- Expectations have been growing in Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) aide to An AFP reporter saw at least two protesters led away by victed by an Allied tribunal as war crimi- Japan that Abe, who outraged Beijing and Abe, told Reuters this month that the police, some of whom donned helmets and riot shields. nals along with millions of war dead. Seoul by visiting Yasukuni in person in prime minister could put off a visit if he On Thursday the government made a dramatic u-turn and A group of Japanese lawmakers paid December 2013, will be able to meet Xi for judged it was in Japan’s national interests. announced a resumption of talks with the Hong Kong their respects at the shrine on Friday, the ice-breaking talks next month at an Asia- Hagiuda also said Abe, now in Milan for a Federation of Students (HKFS), one of the groups leading the beginning of an autumn festival, while Pacific leaders’ summit in Beijing. meeting of Asian and European leaders, ongoing protests, after abruptly pulling out of discussions a Abe sent a small masakaki tree, Reuters Signs of a thaw have been growing as was likely to refrain from visiting in person week earlier. But questions were soon raised over whether witnesses said. both sides recognise that the chill was bad ahead of the November gathering in the talks could achieve a substantive breakthrough with the There was no sign of cabinet ministers, for business in the world’s second- and Beijing. In further signs of a possible thaw, government unwilling to cede to protesters’ core demands although NHK public television said third-biggest economies and raised the Abe and Chinese premier Li Keqiang and Leung adamant that police would continue to clear Health Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki sent an risk of an unintended clash that could shook hands and exchanged greetings at demonstrator-held barricades. In a statement released shortly offering. A ruling party lawmaker tweeted escalate militarily. Prospects for a leaders’ a dinner in Milan, the first time they have before renewed violence broke out in Mongkok, HKFS called that three ministers planned to visit today. meeting, however, are clouded by China’s spoken directly. on the government to stick to a timetable of talks slated for China expressed “serious concern” after demand for a signal that Abe not make China also wants Japan to acknowl- Wednesday. But it warned that the clearance of the camp ear- Abe’s offering. another pilgrimage to the shrine. edge the existence of a territorial dispute lier in the day had already “damaged the foundation of talks”. “China reiterates that only by Japan over tiny islands in the East China Sea con- The dawn raid began shortly before dawn as officers armed earnestly and squarely facing, deeply “AGREE TO DISAGREE”? trolled by Japan but claimed by Beijing, with boltcutters and saws descended on the camp, which reflecting upon its history of invasion and A public promise not to pay his according to Japanese lawmakers recently straddled a major arterial road. —AFP clearly distancing itself from militarism, respects at Yasukuni again would be in Beijing.—Reuters Mideast crude hits Latin America’s growing BoE may keep rates low multi-month highs middle classes are restless Business16 17for longer: Economist 19

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PANAMA CITY BEACH: A construction worker blows compressed air on a fellow worker atop a new home in Panama City Beach, Florida. The Commerce Department reported on US home con- struction in September yesterday.—AP Apartments push up US homebuilding Construction firms break ground after a lull

WASHINGTON: Construction firms broke ground on more ly-weighted to multi-family housing and any reading above 50 increasing at roughly 2 percent a year. Without wages rising apartment complexes in September, pushing up the pace of signals growth. more strongly, it becomes difficult to save for a down payment US homebuilding. Meanwhile, real estate sales have failed to get much traction and qualify for a mortgage. This has boosted the share of Housing starts rose 6.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted in recent months. Price growth is slowing, yet the surge in Americans who rent, which has sparked construction of apart- annual rate of 1.017 million homes, the Commerce Department home values through the middle of last year has made afford- ment complexes and simultaneously caused monthly rental said yesterday. Almost all of the gains came from apartment ability a challenge for many would-be buyers. Homebuilders costs to rise. construction - a volatile category - which increased 18.5 per- are also feeling slightly less optimistic. Online real estate firm Zillow estimates that it takes 29 per- cent after plunging in August. The recent turmoil in the financial markets caused the aver- cent of people’s household income to pay for rent, compared The sluggish recovery and meager wage growth has left age 30-year fixed mortgage rate to drop to a 52-week low of to 24 percent in 2000. The share of adults doubling-up with a more Americans renting instead of owning homes. Apartment 3.97 percent. That should help spur some additional buying, roommate to cover rent has also increased to 32 percent from construction has surged 30.3 percent over the past 12 months. but it’s unlikely to be enough to suddenly boost construction. 25 percent in 2000. And fewer buyers are searching for homes, Starts for single-family houses rose just 1.1 percent in “While the drop in mortgage rates likely will prompt causing homebuilders to become less confident in September. September, contributing to an 11 percent gain during the past stronger home sales by the turn of the year, we don’t expect a A sentiment index sponsored by the National Association of 12 months. Applications for building permits, a good sign of significant upward trend in construction to re-emerge until Homebuilders and Wells Fargo slipped to 54 in September future activity, increased 1.5 percent to an annual rate of 1.018 next spring,” said Ian compared to 59 in the prior month. Any reading above 50 rep- million. That also reflected the strength in apartment building. Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon resents growth. Permits for multi-family buildings rose 7 percent in September, Macroeconomics. Home prices rose 6.4 percent in August com- But the portion of the index dedicated to traffic from would- compared to a 0.5 percent drop in permits for single-family pared with a year ago, according to real estate data provider be buyers fell to 41 last month from 47. Though new homes houses. CoreLogic. This marks a substantial slowdown. Home values represent only a fraction of the housing market, they have an Other indicators reflect the continued to shift to rentals. The had chalked up annual gains of as much as 12 percent toward outsized impact on the economy. Each home built creates an residential component of the American Institute of Architects the end of last year. Those increases are substantially larger average of three jobs for a year and generates about $90,000 in billing index stood at 58.1 in August. That index is more heavi- than wage growth, which has barely exceeded inflation by tax revenue, according to data from the Home Builders. — AP BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Iran buyers buy corn as grain import spree gathers pace

LONDON/HAMBURG: Private importers in Iran bought low corn prices to get supply cover,” one trader said. “A market players questioned whether the deal was conclud- 95,000 to 120,000 tons of corn in the past few weeks, series of separate consignments were purchased as the ed, while others said it was done by private interests. adding to other recent large grain purchases as the coun- relaxed sanctions make more private buying possible.” “There is no doubt that Iran is on a bigger buying push at try builds up strategic stocks, trade sources said yester- Iran was never barred from buying food under sanc- the moment - the main purpose is to build stocks in the day. The sources said the corn, to be sourced from the tions imposed by the United States and the European country. There are private importers involved too,” a com- Black Sea region, was for shipment between October to Union over Tehran’s nuclear activities. modities trade source said. December. But the measures made trade more difficult over the In recent years, Iran has imported around five million Some of the cargoes were purchased at $169 per tonne past two years by hindering payments and ocean shipping, tons of wheat, but sources estimate the current require- on a free-on-board basis for November shipment, a price which has left the bulk of imports in the hands of state buy- ment at up to six million tons. “There has been a growing which the sources said indicated falling rates even for Iran, ers such as the GTC and SLAL. Iranian buyers have also number of cargoes circulating in recent days for grains which has carried a premium in recent years. “Private been stepping up purchases of wheat with 400,000 tons including corn. Iran still has more to buy,” another trade Iranian importers have been taking advantage of current snapped up earlier this month, trade sources said. Some source said.—Reuters

Europe rides rebound as global sell-off abates

LONDON: European stocks jumped the falls and for growth-dependent emerg- most in seven months and oil and south- ing markets it is six. MSCI’s all world index ern euro-zone bonds rebounded sharply which covers 45 countries, at its lowest yesterday as investors poured back into level since January. beaten-down markets as the week’s volatility frenzy continued. Nerviness Soothing sounds remained, but some reassuring words But for the day at least Europe was rid- from US and European policymakers, bet- ing the rebound, Greek bond yields were ter US data, and a sense there could be down a full percentage point in the debt bargains to be had after another big markets as the euro-zone’s other debt week of equity and commodity falls, strained Mediterranean member also saw drew buyers in off the sidelines. the pressure ease. Asia markets in con- US stock futures pointed to a 1-1.4 trast had stayed in the doldrums percent jump for Wall Street later, as overnight. Tokyo’s Nikkei led the losses, some forecast-topping premarket results falling 1.3 percent on the day and 5.0 per- from global giant General Electric and an cent on the week, its biggest weekly fall 87 percent jump in Morgan Stanley’s in six months. profits cemented the positive Mainland Chinese shares also posted mood.Bourses in London, Frankfurt and their biggest fall in four months on wor- Paris were up 1.1 to 2 percent while ries over the economy and as investors stocks in Athens soared 7 percent as brace for a landmark trading link Greek debt markets steadied after their between Hong Kong and Shanghai worst week since the height of the euro bourses. crisis. US markets though were already In the currency market the safe-haven digesting a flurry of upbeat company yen was off recent highs after another earnings from global giants General choppy session, while oil kicked clear of Electric, Honeywell and Morgan Stanley the four-year lows it has hit this week as they waited to here from the Federal amid global growth worries and fears of Reserve’s Yellen. Topping the list of topics JALALABAD: An Afghan vendor waits for customers at a produce market in Jalalabad yesterday. Afghanistan’s oil market oversupply.“It’s been a very markets are hoping she addresses is the economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 largely because of the infusion lively week, but it seems a bit calmer current market volatility. The so-called of international assistance. Despite significant improvement in the last decade the country is still extremely today,” said Alvin Tan, a FX market strate- fear gauge eased slightly on Friday but poor and remains highly dependent on foreign aid. — AFP gist at Societe Generale in London. has spiked to 2-1/2 year highs this week “People are hoping to hear some as markets have lurched lower. soothing words from policymakers and it Comments from James Bullard, the wouldn’t be surprising to hear some head of the St. Louis Federal Reserve dovish comments.. and that kind of rhet- Bank, had helped settle markets on Mideast crude hits oric would certainly help settle markets.” Thursday as he said the Fed may want to Central bankers from Europe had keep up its bond-buying stimulus for already been out in force and markets now, given a drop in inflation expecta- multi-month highs were waiting on a speech due from the tions. There was also a strong round of head of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, data. New unemployment benefit claims later in the day. fell to a 14-year low and September Chinaoil takes up 16.5m bbls sour crude One of the European Central Bank’s industrial output rebounded sharply, longest-serving members, Ewald suggesting the US economy remains Nowotny, said earlier it had more ammu- strong for now. SINGAPORE: Spot differentials for Middle Eastern months in backwardation. In a backdated market, the nition at its disposal while the Bank of crude loading in December have hit multi-month front-month price is higher than those in future months England’s chief economist said UK rates Commodity calm highs on robust demand from Chinaoil. Upper Zakum indicating strong demand for prompt supply. may need to remain low for longer than As the start of US trading approached, crude reached its highest for 11 months after Chinaoil “It’s a distorted market,” a trader with a North Asian previously thought. the dollar had steadied along with most bought a record volume of the Abu Dhabi crude and firm said, as lower refining margins could reduce crude “Put in rather plainer English, I am major currencies after the sharp sell-off its strong demand for Oman pushed the grade to the demand. Prices of oil products, such as diesel and naph- gloomier,” the BoE’s Andrew Haldane that has convulsed global markets this highest premium in more than 2-1/2 months. The tha, which are oversupplied in Asia, have lagged gains in added. The possible return to recession in week. US Treasury yields were up at 2.19 upward momentum has also lifted Qatari Al-Shaheen Dubai. Complex refining margins at a Singapore refinery the euro-zone, a floundering economy in percent. to a 4-month high. averaged at $4.41 a barrel in the last five days, down Japan, a slowing China and the Ebola cri- Sterling was the standout among the Chinaoil, trading arm of PetroChina has snapped up from $6.35 in September, Reuters data showed. sis have rattled investors already nervous major pairs, falling about a third of a per- 16.5 million barrels of crude so far this month on a trad- Outside the window, Upper Zakum has been traded about the end of years of US stimulus. cent following the cautious comments ing platform operated by pricing agency Platts, traders at a premium of $1 a barrel to its official selling price It has triggered the highest volatility from the BoE’s chief economist. said yesterday. A record 18 Upper Zakum cargoes were (OSP), traders said. This is the highest premium since and trading volumes since 2012’s peak in Commodities markets were also calmer, delivered in the window, in addition to 14 Oman car- November 2013, according to Reuters data. Qatar has the euro crisis, and with bond yields having been badly buffeted in many cas- goes and one cargo of Dubai crude, they said. sold six cargoes of Al-Shaheen crude via a tender at 56 already measly in the US and other tradi- es for a fourth week running. Brent crude “This record will never be beaten, not in my lifetime,” cents a barrel below Dubai quotes on average, the nar- tional safe ports like Germany and Japan, was up over a dollar near $87 a barrel but a trader with a Western firm said. The strong demand rowest discount in four months, according to traders investors are struggling for options. will end another week deep in the red, came on the back of a four-month slide in global oil and Reuters data. At least one cargo was sold at a premi- US and Europe stocks and oil markets while safe-haven favorite gold slipped prices which saw Brent touching a four-year low on um, they said. Buyers included TonenGeneral, are on track for a fourth straight week of back to 1,237.26 an ounce.—Reuters Thursday. Cash Dubai strengthened with the first three ExxonMobil, Chevron and Vitol, traders said. — Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Malaysia’s automation Latin America’s growing sops draw mixed feelings middle classes are restless KUALA LUMPUR: With the cost of hiring workers soaring in Malaysia as minimum wages kick in, the government is Millions feeling the pain of overstretched services offering tax benefits to labor-intensive sectors going the automation route, a tactic that analysts say may help lift MONTEVIDEO: “Juan Middle Class” may be a cartoon, but the prob- and Colombia, the anger was focused on expensive university tuition. profits by up to 20 percent. But some manufacturers, lems he faces-expensive schools, crummy healthcare, ballooning gro- In Venezuela, on crime. including Top Glove Corp Bhd, which produces one out of cery bills-are all too real for millions of newly middle-class Latin every four pairs of latex gloves in the world, say the incen- Americans. The Uruguayan cartoon character speaks to the frustra- Fragile gains tives are not enough. Smaller companies will benefit tions of more than 50 million Latin Americans who made a mass exo- “The members of the middle class are becoming demanding citi- more due to the way the benefits are structured, analysts dus from poverty during the region’s so-called “golden decade” but zens,” said Gabriel Kessler, a sociologist at Argentina’s National say. “The direction is there, although it is not enough,” are now feeling the pain of overstretched public services and an eco- University of La Plata. “Collective goods like education, healthcare, Chairman Lim Wee Chai said in a post-earnings confer- nomic slowdown. Created in the run-up to Uruguay’s October 26 public transport, haven’t improved as much as access to consump- ence in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. One of the processes elections by a fringe political party, the centrist Independent Party, tion.” Because of that, he said, “there’s mounting criticism in the that Top Glove is automating is the removal of gloves Juan Clasemedia lays out the woes of the region’s newly burgeoning region that there’s too much emphasis on consumption and not from moulds. This is now carried out by robotic arms, cut- middle class in online videos and on his own Twitter account. enough on improving infrastructure and public goods.” ting the number of workers per production line to four “He sends his kids to public school, but it’s still expensive. He waits The economic slowdown is adding to the malaise. Brazil, Latin from eight, a company official says, adding that some of three months to see a specialist at the clinic and still pays a lot of mon- America’s largest economy, is in recession, and the International the packing, counting, weighing and sorting has also ey. Every Sunday he pays more at the supermarket and, to make mat- Monetary Fund is predicting regional growth of 1.3 percent this year, been automated. ters worse, he risks getting mugged at any moment,” says one car- the worst since 2009. The automation comes as the cost of hiring rises in toon. The World Bank, which defines “middle class” as individual That is putting the fragile middle class at risk, said Olivier Dabene, a Southeast Asia. Countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam income of $10 to $50 a day, estimates that just over 30 percent of Latin America specialist at Sciences Po in Paris. “This group isn’t what have recently raised minimum wages. On Jan 1, 2013, Latin Americans now fall in that bracket, after a world commodities we’d call middle-class in Europe,” he said. Malaysia implemented minimum wages for the first time, boom brought the region a windfall in the 2000s. “They’re still in a vulnerable situation and could quickly fall back prompting concerns about higher operating expenses and The signs of the transformation are omnipresent, from the hike in into poverty if they lose their jobs.” And they are feeling the pinch of pressure on margins. Malaysian plastics packaging firms motor scooter sales in northeast Brazil to the rage for online English their recent consumption boom, he said. including Scientex Bhd have seen their production costs classes in Venezuela to the proliferation of refrigerators, TVs, cars, “We’ve seen a lot of reports on people who can suddenly afford to rise 11-19 percent annually over the past five years, mainly Internet access and smartphones across the region. buy a fridge or a moped. But what gets talked about less is that they due to labor, utility and transportation costs. Rubber glove But new money has also brought new frustrations. “Purchasing sign up to pay it off in 12 monthly installments, and sometimes by the makers such as Top Glove saw costs climb 6-16 percent a power has advanced faster than the quality of public services,” said time the 10th rolls around they have to take the merchandise back year on a compound basis, Thomson Reuters calculations Augusto de la Torre, the World Bank’s chief economist for the region. because they can’t pay anymore,” he said. De la Torre said the World based on corporate income statements show. “Our lives have gotten better, of course. But public health care, for Bank does not foresee a “backward slide” but is concerned about a In Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 2015 budget speech late example, is terrible,” said Cida Alves, a 46-year-old housewife, as she stagnation and the impact it could have in a region that has grown last week, he said labor-intensive industries such as rubber, browsed at the giant Itaquera Shopping Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s accustomed to fast gains. plastics, wood, furniture and textiles will receive automa- economic capital. In June last year, a million Brazilians took to the “We’re facing some difficult transition years. There’s going to be tion incentives. On the first 4 million ringgit ($1.2 million) streets demanding better public services, a surge of discontent that tension between social expectations and the capacity to respond to firms spend on automation between 2015 and 2017, they threatens to unseat leftist President Dilma Rousseff in a tight runoff them,” he said, saying investment in education and productivity will be entitled to tax savings of 2 million ringgit. election on October 26. Protests have erupted elsewhere, too. In Chile would be key to rebooting economic growth. — AFP While that is not enough, Top Glove’s chairman said, “sometimes small is also better than zero”. Top Glove post- ed an 8.3 percent drop in net profit to 180 million ringgit in the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Higher operating costs - from wages to power and transportation - dragged down earnings, Lim said. The automation benefits will translate into an annual 2 percent rise in net profit, he said.

‘Better than nothing’ Scientex, Asia-Pacific’s largest stretch film producer by capacity, may see earnings improve by less than 5 percent from the benefits in the year ending July 31, 2015, Kuala Lumpur-based RHB Research wrote in a note to clients. Scientex was not immediately available to comment. Smaller plastic packaging players are set to gain more, with net profit going up as much as 20 percent next year due to their smaller earnings base, RHB Research said. Karex Bhd, the world’s largest condom manufacturer by volume, may see its net profit improve between 10 percent and 13 percent, according to RHB Research. “With the incentive, I think we can see more than 1 million ring- git flow to our bottom line,” Goh Miah Kiat, Karex’s chief executive officer, told Reuters. “Although the quantum is still considered small, it is better than nothing and it will entice companies to go for automation.” Shares of Top Glove ended 5.73 percent higher at 4.80 ringgit on Friday. Scientex and Karex closed at their intraday highs, up 6.22 HANOI: Women making bamboo flower baskets destined to export at a family workshop at Hong Van commune on the percent and 5.11 percent, respectively. The benchmark outskirts of Hanoi. Hong Van villagers like in other rural areas of Vietnam make handicraft for supplement their income stock index rose 1.16 percent. — Reuters along with growing rice. — AFP Schlumberger surprises with record profit

PARIS: The world leader in servicing oil industry installations, billion, from sales which rose by 13.6 percent to $12.6 billion. ery in the world economy is intact”. Schlumberger, surprised the markets with a record performance Despite the sanctions, the group said that activity had Referring to the latest cut in oil demand forecasts by the in the third quarter despite sanctions against oil giant Russia. increased in all geographical areas where it does business and International Energy Agency, the company said that although the And despite a big fall in the price of oil recently, the French-US across all sectors of the industry. Schlumberger chief executive oil demand outlook had been revised slightly downwards, it saw group said it was confident about the strength of its business and Paal Kibsgaard said: “Strong activity in North America and robust little reason to change its view that the oil supply-demand situa- markets although it did not risk making a forecast for perform- growth in international areas, led by Latin America and supported tion “is relatively well balanced”. This view reflected difficulties in ance for the rest of the year. In the three months to September, by Europe/Africa/CIS (group of former Soviet-dominated coun- maintaining production for producing countries outside the the company made a net profit of $1.9 billion (1.48 billion euros), tries) in spite of international sanctions in Russia, drove third- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and outside the an increase of 13.6 percent from the equivalent figure last year. quarter results to a new record high.” booming shale-oil sector in North America. Schlumberger said its The underlying figure for earnings per share, the figure closely He said: “At the same time, Middle East and Asia proved highly view also reflected “the lack of growth in OPEC sustainable pro- watched on Wall Street, was 3.0 cents higher than the market resilient in the face of significant headwinds in Northern Iraq.” The duction capacity ... and the continuing geopolitical risks in some expected at $1.49. Operating profit rose by 12.0 percent to $2.8 group said it remained confident “that the slow but steady recov- key producing regions”. — AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Gold set to post weekly gain on uncertain US rate outlook

LONDON: Gold edged lower yesterday ty that have prevailed in the years after as shares rebounded, but it was still set the 2008 financial crisis. On Thursday, the for a second straight weekly gain as con- head of the St. Louis Federal Reserve cerns over the global economy have Bank, James Bullard, said the central raised speculation the U.S. Federal bank may want to keep up its bond-buy- Reserve could keep interest rates low for ing stimulus for now, given a drop in longer. inflation expectations. Spot gold was down 0.1 percent at As a gauge of investor interest, SPDR $1,237.40 an ounce by 1145 GMT. The Gold Trust, the world’s largest gold- metal is up about 1.4 percent for the backed exchange-traded fund, said its week after reaching a one-month high of holdings rose 0.2 percent to 760.94 tons $1,249.30 on Wednesday. on Thursday. RIGA: Member of the European Central Bank Executive Board Benoit Coeure speaks during an US gold futures were down $3.50 an In top buyer China, premiums recov- international conference on the European financial crisis in Riga, Latvia, yesterday. — AFP ounce at $1,237.70. “There has been a ered slightly to $2-$3 an ounce from $1- move down in the dollar and equities $2 overnight, indicating higher demand this week, but in comparison the upside and supporting global prices. in gold has been relatively modest,” ABN Cuba’s black market thrives Amro analyst Georgette Boele said. Platinum, palladium rebound “People are still cautious on gold. They Among other precious metals, plat- amid US embargo threat buy it when there is some risk aversion, inum and palladium rebounded from but in the end when wider sentiment heavy losses on Thursday. Both metals HAVANA: From foreign DVDs to perfume, on police busting illegal rings producing fake improves you see the metal struggle.” have slid due to concerns about global rum and coffee, Cuba’s shelves are packed perfume, rum, beer, coffee or toiletries items European stocks clawed back some of growth and weak equity markets, HSBC with pirated and counterfeit goods, which are rarely found in supermarket aisles-but author- this week’s losses on Friday after solid US said in a note. But the lower prices could sold as authorities turn a blind eye-using the ities mostly ignore the contraband sales. data on Thursday calmed turbulence in also lead physical buyers to look for bar- longstanding US embargo as justification. The Authorities struggle to contain this Cuban global financial markets, though underly- gains. more than 50-year US trade freeze with com- “tradition,” which emerged during the dark ing worries about slowing world growth “Although we saw no evidence of munist-ruled Havana has bred a healthy days of severe shortages in the early 1990s kept investors on edge. The dollar was industrial or end-user buying on appetite for smuggled goods, including TV following the collapse of the Soviet Union, down 0.2 percent versus a basket of cur- Thursday’s price drop, we anticipate that series, films, music and software-all available one of Cuba’s staunchest Cold War-era allies. rencies and was on course for its biggest physical buying will materialize should at a low cost. “The new situation in the 1990s was so sud- two-week loss since September 2013 the market decline further,” it said. “Here, everything costs one CUC,” the den, so violent, so unexpected... that people after Fed officials warned at the weekend Platinum was up 1.2 percent at $1,252.30 Cuban convertible peso equivalent to one started, with the only means they had, to find dollar, explains 28-year-old vendor Jorge, ways to fulfill their needs,” said sociologist that if the global recovery stumbled, the an ounce. On Thursday, it fell below the standing before three bookcases packed with Mayra Espina in the online newspaper Cuba bank could delay an increase in US inter- price of gold for the first time since April CDs and DVDs. Contemporanea. est rates. 2013 before paring some losses to close In southern Havana’s October 10 neigh- “Certain activities, previously deemed Bets had been rising that the Federal down 1.3 percent. borhood, where Jorge peddles his wares, unacceptable or socially negative, started to Reserve would raise rates in mid-2015. Palladium rose 2.3 percent to $751.75 pirated DVDs featuring current American become legitimate.” This time of shortages The market will focus on a speech by Fed an ounce, after falling as much as 5 per- blockbuster films, children’s movies and Latin bred a social phenomenon called “la lucha,” chair Janet Yellen due later yesterday. cent to its lowest since Feb. 27 in the pre- music are all on sale to delighted crowds. For or “the struggle,” which has seen Cubans do Gold has benefited from the low interest vious session. Spot silver was down 0.1 Jorge, the cost of doing business is affordable. whatever is necessary to tackle the island rates and increased central banks’ liquidi- percent at $17.30 an ounce. — Reuters For 60 Cuban pesos ($2.50) a month, he can nation’s social and economic malaise, Espina buy a vendor’s license to sell his goods. said. He is one of half a million Cubans who work in the 200 or so independent jobs A complicit state authorized under President Raul Castro’s eco- Pirated programs have also crept into the GE Q3 profit rises on nomic reforms. Though buying and selling state’s sphere, with public media and govern- pirated goods is technically illegal in Cuba, the ment-owned cinemas running illegally- trade is widely known and mostly tolerated, obtained shows and films. Some television oil, aviation strength even by the Committee for the Defense of the networks lacking their own means to produce Revolution officers who rarely punish vendors. original programming have “resorted for “I pay for my license on time and no one years to carrying shows from American chan- NEW YORK: General Electric’s third quarter “volatile, but infrastructure growth opportu- interferes with my work,” said Jorge, who nels without paying for the rights,” Cuban TV profit rose 11 percent on strong perform- nities exist.” Profit at the company’s oil and declined to give his full name. Like many oth- director Juan Pin Vilar said. ance from its aviation and oil and gas divi- gas division, which makes and services er merchants, Jorge’s stock extends far Indeed, this is one of the fringe benefits of sions. GE reported yesterday net income of drilling equipment, rose 27 percent in the beyond entertainment DVDs. He also sells the US embargo-the Cuban TV channels and $3.54 billion for the quarter on quarter. Its transportation divi- “packages,” which feature hundreds of cinemas could act with virtual impunity, as sales of $36.17 billion. Last year sion also benefited from increas- megabytes of data obtained weekly from legal repercussions were unlikely. “There is a during the same period the ing oil and gas activity. overseas sources. kind of tactical willingness (in the US) not to company earned $3.19 billion Locomotive sales rose, in part The bundles include television series, bother Cuba because culture... is a very effec- on revenue of $35.66 billion. thanks to oil companies turning sports programs, films, anti-virus software tive means of communication,” said Jorge de The company, based in to railroads to ship oil to refiner- and up-to-date listings from the banned clas- Armas, a member of a group of Cuban exiles Fairfield, Connecticut, said it ies. sified sites “Revolico” and “Porlalivre.” calling for a rapprochement with Washington. earned 35 cents per share for The company’s aviation divi- But the flip side, according to Vilar, is that the quarter. GE’s operating sion, which sells and services air- Illegal perfume rings certain stations in Miami-home to most of the earnings, which is closely craft engines and accounts for The online classified listings, which are Cuban diaspora-air Cuban programs to satisfy watched by investors, rose 6 the biggest share of company both officially banned in Cuba, offer interest- their viewers, nostalgic for home. percent to 38 cents per share. profits, also performed well. ed buyers anything from air conditioners to On Miami’s “Calle Ocho,” or 8th Street, in The operating earnings exceed- Profit at the division rose 16 per- black market tires, and even empty perfume the heart of Little Havana, the Maraka shop ed Wall Street expectations. The cent to $1.16 billion in the quar- bottles to be secretly refilled in off-the-grid sells pirated music, films and television pro- Jeff Immelt factories. grams brought in from Cuba. On the other average estimate of analysts sur- ter. GE shares were up 60 cents, or With the help of complicit employees, side of the Florida Straits, the international veyed by Zacks Investment 2.5 percent, in trading two hours some of the black market fragrances and oth- Cuban television network Cubavision offers Research was for earnings of 37 cents per before the market open. GE shares have er items even find their way to the shelves of its signal to satellite suppliers around the share. dropped 13 percent since the beginning of government-owned stores. Every so often, world. The idea, said one Cubavision execu- GE CEO Jeff Immelt said in a statement the year, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 the heavily-censored state-run media report tive, is “to spread our image.”— AFP that the global economic environment was index has increased roughly 1 percent. — AP BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Britain’s battered BoE may keep rates low coal industry sees for longer: Economist glimmer of hope Markets see risk of long-term stagnation KNOTTINGLEY, England: A short drive across Britain’s gritty former industrial heartland of south Yorkshire separates the LONDON: Britain’s economic recovery might stall if interest rates ures had implied no increase in rates at all next year. By contrast, past and the possible future of its once mighty coal industry. rise too soon, the Bank of England’s chief economist said yester- just a couple of weeks ago markets expected a rate rise in early Kellingley colliery’s winding towers loom over modest streets of day as he offered the strongest signal yet that the bank is pre- 2015, and a Reuters poll published on Thursday still showed most row houses, lined with “For Sale” signs. The mine is likely to shut pared to delay increases in borrowing costs. Andrew Haldane said economists expected rates to rise before March due to rapid eco- soon because it is losing money - one of the last three working he was more downbeat about the outlook for the economy, given nomic growth. underground pits in the country. Down the road a new coal-fed weaker global growth, greater financial and political risks and the So far, two of the BoE’s nine policymakers have voted to start power station is planned, using cutting edge technology to danger that wages and productivity in Britain might continue to raising in interest rates. “Haldane’s comments have added to the pipe its harmful carbon emissions underground out to under fail to recover as forecast. “Put in rather plainer English, I am changing market expectations of a rate hike,” said Alvin Tan, cur- the seabed. “We’ve got coal plants around us but they’re clos- gloomier,” Haldane said in a speech to businesses in central rency strategist at Societe Generale. Haldane’s language marked a ing Kellingley because they can get it cheaper from God knows England. “This implies interest rates could remain lower for longer, sharp change of tone since his last major speech in June, when - in where,” said ex-coal miner Harry Malkin, 63, who worked in certainly than I had expected three months ago.” Haldane, who a cricketing analogy - he said he favoured being on the front foot Yorkshire pits for 20 years until the first closures under Margaret took over as chief economist at the BoE in June, gave an unusually rather than the back foot when it came to raising rates. Thatcher in the 1980s. specific steer to financial markets on when the BoE might start to Supporters of the industry are counting on the British gov- raise interest rates. In an interview with ITV television, he said mar- Agony and ecstasy ernment’s drive to support Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) ket expectations that rates might rise “somewhere in the middle Britain’s economy was now “writhing in both agony and ecsta- technology, which traps and buries underground polluting car- of next year” were possibly “not a bad bet” although the economic sy”, Haldane said on Friday. Growth was set to be the fastest bon. One of these planned CCS projects is the 2-billion pound outlook could change a lot before then. Sterling fell by around half among major nations this year and inflation and borrowing costs ($3.22 billion) White Rose plant proposed by Drax, Alstom and a cent against the dollar after Haldane’s speech was released. It were low. But real wages and productivity had endured their BOC, named after the emblem of deeply proud Yorkshire. also dipped against the euro. weakest run since the 19th century, apart from the aftermath of The White Rose power plant could “in principle” burn World War Two. BoE Governor Mark Carney said earlier this week domestic British coal, but the developers have not yet decided Unchanged since 2009 the central bank would need to take into account signs of a slow- on the project’s fuel procurement, a spokesman for Drax said. UK base rates have sat at a record low of 0.5 percent since the down in the euro zone when setting rates, and Haldane said that “The future for British coal is if we get on with carbon capture depths of the financial crisis more than five-and-a-half years ago. there was a risk Britain’s strong growth could prove temporary. and storage with coal,” said Tony Lodge, research fellow at the Market expectations of when they will finally rise have swung “What will be interesting is whether this represents the view of London-based Centre for Policy Studies, founded in 1974 by sharply in the past few days after the biggest global sell-off of the majority of the committee,” said ADM’s Ostwald. Although it Margaret Thatcher. “That means there is a future for the British shares in two years due to fears of slower growth and rising politi- was possible that wages and productivity would start to pick up as industry; it won’t be particularly massive but it will be the reten- cal risk. Marc Ostwald, a fixed income strategist at ADM Investor the recovery continued, past BoE forecasts of this had proven tion of perhaps 10 million tons a year of output.” Services International, said markets were currently betting on a wrong and financial markets were increasingly pricing in the dan- At its peak in 1913, Britain’s coal industry produced 292 mil- rate rise around September, though earlier this week some meas- ger that growth would falter, Haldane said.—Reuters lion tons per year. Last year it was just 13 million tons. Britain’s climate change commitments mean its polluting coal-fired power plants will shut down by the early 2020s but a govern- ment drive for cleaner fossil fuel plants by applying CCS tech- nology offers a glimmer of hope for coal producers. If CCS does take off, Britain’s deep mines will need to find a way to cut pro- duction costs. They are in fierce competition with cheaper sup- pliers from Colombia, Russia and the United States, where shale gas has displaced coal. Britain’s coal industry is urging the gov- ernment to require domestically-produced coal to be used in future CCS plants. Today, coal-fired power stations still produce nearly a third of Britain’s electricity. But it now imports 49.4 mil- lion tons of coal annually, or 82 percent of its annual coal needs, compared with 51 percent only 10 years ago. A growing share of imports comes from Russia.

Pit closures Mine owner UK Coal, in administration since last year, is negotiating a managed closure with the government and pri- vate lenders that will affect 1,300 workers. But Britain’s coal industry is hoping more private investors could step in to help running some of the remaining mines, and a cleaner future for coal could also keep the industry alive. The government will spend up to one billion pounds to carry out engineering stud- ies for White Rose and a second CCS project at a gas-fired pow- er station at Peterhead in Scotland, two of a handful of projects that still look viable. However, even a small glimmer of hope for Britain’s coal in the future energy mix will unlikely prevent the BEIJING: Visitors look at a cutaway of an electric prototype car at the Toyota booth during the 2014 Energy Saving and New loss of jobs at underground mines.—Reuters Energy Car expo in Beijing yesterday. Hybrid and electric cars still face an uphill struggle for acceptance due to higher price and lack of charging facilities despite growing general car sales in China. — AP Old Mutual’s wealth arm buys UK’s Quilter Cheviot

LONDON: Financial services group Old Mutual’s wealth arm said pounds. Rensburg Fund Management in 2011, which came in at more than yesterday it would buy money manager Quilter Cheviot from “What Quilter does is to take us into the high net worth 5 percent of AUM. European private equity house Bridgepoint, strengthening its (clients)”, Roberts said. “We are not at the mass market level.” Old “This is a smart, well-priced deal for Old Mutual,” said Eamonn focus on richer customers. Mutual paid for the company with the proceeds of the sale of Flanagan, analyst at Shore Capital, in a client note, reiterating his The 585 million pound ($941 million) purchase brings Old some European businesses and the US initial public offering of OM hold recommendation on the stock. Flanagan added Old Mutual Mutual Wealth’s assets under management to 92 billion pounds Asset Management, which closed this week. The deal price for “is starting to look very attractive once the current volatility in ($148 billion), a rise of more than 20 percent. The purchase will Quilter Cheviot includes 42 million pounds of deferred equity, con- investment and forex markets settles down”. The company’s increase Old Mutual’s exposure to the lucrative wealth manage- tingent on the performance of the business, the company said. shares rose 1.2 percent to 171.6 pence by 1040 GMT. ment market, which is forecast to grow by between 6 and 8 per- Old Mutual said it aimed to achieve annual cost savings of 15 Old Mutual said the deal likely represented an end to its acqui- cent a year. Britain’s affluent population represents around 55 per- million pounds by 2017. Bridgepoint achieved an internal rate of sition activity in Britain. But Roberts reiterated that the firm has cent, or 1.7 trillion pounds, of the country’s wealth market, the return of 55 percent from the sale of Quilter Cheviot, a source expansion plans in sub-Saharan Africa, where it has so far spent company said. The deal would enable Old Mutual to offer invest- familiar with the deal said. Analysts said the deal price, represent- 700 million rand ($63 million) of a 5 billion rand investment pro- ment management services to clients with more than 1 million ing 3.6 percent of Quilter Cheviot’s assets under management, gram. “We want to build our business in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana, pounds to invest, Old Mutual CEO Julian Roberts told Reuters, compared well with similar transactions such as US-owned we want to be a major player in those markets, both through adding to existing “affluent” customers, who have at least 50,000 Franklin Templeton Global Investors’ purchase of British firm organic and inorganic growth,” he said. — Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 Yellen: US experiencing widening inequality

WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said yester- She did talk about such factors as early childhood educa- day that the last several decades have seen the most sus- tion, affordable higher education, business ownership and tained rise in income inequality in a century. inheritances as “building blocks” that could be used by In a speech to a Boston conference on economic opportu- Americans to boost wealth. nity, Yellen said this problem is of great concern to her and “In focusing on these four building blocks, I do not mean to she pointed to increased education and ownership of small suggest that they account for all economic opportunity, but I businesses as two ways to deal with the problem. “It is no do believe they are all significant sources opportunity for indi- secret that the past few decades of widening inequality can be viduals and their families to improve their economic circum- summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those stances,” Yellen said. at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority,” In her Boston speech, Yellen made no comments on the cur- Yellen said in her remarks to a conference on economic oppor- rent state of the economy or on the future course of interest tunity sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. rates. The Fed next meets on Oct. 28-29 and many economists “Society faces difficult questions of how best to fairly and believe the recent financial market turbulence and down- justly promote equal opportunity,” Yellen said. But she said grades to economic prospects around the globe increase the BOSTON: Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen speaks dur- she did not plan to offer solutions to these “contentious ques- likelihood that the central bank will not start raising its key ing a conference on economic opportunity at the Federal tions” but instead used her remarks to describe the landscape short-term interest rate until next summer. That rate has been Reserve Bank in Boston yesterday. — AP of inequality as it exists today. at a record low near zero since December 2008. — AP US economy’s pulse is still strong: Survey Jobless claims drop to 14-year low

WASHINGTON: The number of Americans filing ever, said there were no unusual factors in the new claims for jobless benefits fell to a 14-year report, and a four-week moving average of low last week and industrial output rose sharply claims, which irons out weekly volatility, also fell in September, positive signals that helped ease to its lowest since 2000. fears over the economic outlook. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 23,000 to Oasis of prosperity? 264,000, the lowest level since 2000, the Labor A Reuters poll published on Thursday showed Department said on Thursday. economists still clinging to the view that the Fed A separate report from the Federal Reserve would raise benchmark borrowing costs from showed production at the nation’s factories, near zero in the second quarter of next year mines and utilities advanced a larger-than- despite mounting signs of weakness overseas. expected 1.0 percent last month, the biggest The poll, however, was largely completed gain since November 2012. The data offered before the latest stock market sell-off, which has evidence the economy remained on solid been accompanied by a big shift in investor NEW YORK: Trader Rob Stabile, center, works in a booth on the floor of the New York Stock ground, with the labor market gaining steam. expectations for the path of US monetary policy. Exchange. US stocks drifted between small gains and losses in late afternoon trading strug- Investors in recent days have come to the view Interest rate futures now point to a rate hike in gling to remain in positive territory after a steep slide early in the day. —AP that slowing growth overseas will weigh on the October 2015. St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank US economy and force the Fed to delay a hike President James Bullard said in a television inter- in interest rates, with weak retail sales data on view with Bloomberg that the US central bank Wednesday helping to fuel a global sell-off in might want to keep its bond-buying stimulus Jimmy Choo ticks up stock markets. program running for longer than anticipated to The jobless claims report, however, reinforced combat the risk of a drop in already low inflation, expectations that slack in the labor market was comments that eased investors’ nerves. on market debut being reduced and, combined with comments But with the US economy motoring ahead, from a top Fed official, put a brake on the selling many analysts said they expected Bullard’s advice LONDON: Jimmy Choo inched higher on its was also supposed to start trading in London on on Wall Street. “Have we achieved full employ- to fall by the wayside. Economists still expect London stock market debut, watched closely by Friday but withdrew after failing to cover the ment? Not yet. Are we getting closer? third-quarter growth to come in at around a 3 even the least fashion-conscious of bankers after a books. Absolutely,” said Stephen Stanley, an economist percent annual rate, a view buttressed by the flurry of cancelled listings across Europe. The recent turmoil has deterred investors from at Amherst Pierpont Securities. pickup in industrial output. The luxury shoemaker’s stock market perform- putting money into untried stocks, forcing many The Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed up The Fed pinned part of the gain on unusual ance is viewed by many as a test of whether companies to consider delaying their flotations marginally, while the blue chip Dow Jones indus- weather that boosted air-conditioning use but upcoming offerings can withstand the economic until next year. trials slipped a bit further. Yields on US govern- there was also a broad-based increase in factory weakness and attendant market turbulence that ment bonds moved higher. output, which grew a solid 0.5 percent. A third prompted French energy services business Spie ‘Unreceptive market’ Some of last week’s drop in claims may have report from the Fed’s Philadelphia branch and Italian cosmetics company Intercos to pull their “Investors are very focused on the outlook for been related to the Columbus Day holiday, econ- showed slowing growth in factory activity in the proposed listings last week. “All transactions are on growth, particularly in Europe,” said Marcus le omists at RBS told clients. The government, how- mid-Atlantic region. — Reuters a daily watch,” one senior banker involved in new Grice, of listings advisory firm STJ. “We see in these share issues said. “All eyes are on Jimmy Choo.” periods of volatility that many issuers are taking Shares in the brand opened at 141 pence when sensible decisions not to try to force their way into conditional trading began on the London Stock an unreceptive equity market.” Exchange on Friday, up 0.7 percent on the 140 Richard Branson’s Virgin Money, automotive Morgan Stanley’s pence offer price. dealer British Car Auctions and Spanish airports Owner JAB Luxury had priced the offering of operator Aena have all declared their intention to income nearly doubles 25.9 percent of the business at the bottom of the seek listings, but a number of other deals slated for original price range of between 140 and 180 pence this year could be postponed. Blackstone’s Dutch a share, valuing the company at 545.6 million corporate services firm Intertrust, Carlyle’s British NEW YORK: Investment bank Morgan $7.95 billion a year ago. Morgan Stanley had pounds ($876.5 million). Jimmy Choo is in one of dentistry chain Integrated Dental Holdings and Stanley said yesterday its third-quarter a large increase in pre-tax income for its insti- the strongest segments of the luxury goods indus- Scout24, a German online classifieds group owned income nearly doubled from a year earlier, tutional securities business, which includes try, prompting Singaporean sovereign wealth fund by Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman, now look helped by strength in its institutional securi- its prime brokerage, trading and investment GIC to take a 4.6 percent stake. more likely to launch their offerings in 2015, several ties and wealth management divisions. banking divisions. The segment earned $1.2 However, its growth potential has been pre- sources familiar with the deals have said. Morgan Stanley earned $1.71 billion, up billion in the quarter, versus $396 million in sented to investors as hinging partly on expansion Germany’s Hella and Tele Columbus could also from $889 million in the same period a year the same period a year earlier. in China, where rivals Prada and LVMH have been push back their listings. “ depends on whether this earlier. Earnings per share were 84 cents per Wealth management, which includes hit by weakening demand in recent months. is a correction or the start of a longer bear market, share, up from 45 cents a year earlier. Morgan Stanley’s Smith Barney franchise, Such concerns over global growth, including a and I don’t think anyone knows that yet,” said Chris Earnings per share, excluding items, were 77 reported a pre-tax profit of $836 million, up string of weak German data, have dragged down Searle, Capital Markets partner at business advisory cents. Analysts were expecting 54 cents per from $668 million a year ago. Morgan equity markets in recent weeks, with the firm BDO. “Fear and greed rule the markets, and share. Stanley’s stock jumped 5.4 percent in pre- FTSEurofirst 300 index down 10.5 percent since its right now we’re in a period of fear.” By 0931 GMT Net revenue totaled $8.9 billion, up from market trading. — AP Sept. 19 peak. Among the listings candidates to Jimmy Choo shares had lost their early gains and have taken fright is British bank Aldermore, which were trading flat at 140 pence. — Reuters SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

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Woodland Park Zoo’s Pumpkin Bash - Seattle, Washington Meer- kats chomp and romp with Hal- loween spirit during Woodland Park Zoo’s annual Pumpkin Bash Thursday at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington.—AP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 French legend Bruel returns to New York for inspiration atrick Bruel has long been a face of French popular culture and one of his country’s most successful musicians. But he Psays his career wouldn’t have happened without New York, where he arrived as a young man in 1979. “I think I built every- thing in my career because of this two-year trip in New York,” said the singer and actor, who is now 55. “It was the cultural crossroads of the world and this energy-in terms of the music, dance, movies and the arts-was just fantastic.” Bruel is returning to New York for a concert on November 1 at the historic Beacon Theatre, part of a six-city tour that is his first of the United States in seven years. Bruel described his 2007 show at the 3,000-capacity Beacon Theatre as having one of the greatest atmospheres in his career. He said that his return to the Beacon-after a year and a half on the road that included two dates at Lille’s Grand Stade stadium and a show at London’s Royal Albert Hall-would be the “last cherry” on the cake of a “beautiful tour.” “New York for me is very emotional and very important,” he told AFP in a telephone interview. Bruel was 20 years old when he arrived in New York, a city that has long attracted many French people, and said he was startled by the cultural innovation. “In 1979, New York was 15 years in advance of everywhere,” he said. “For me, there was this feeling that you are somewhere and everything is possible.” One of Bruel’s discoveries was hip hop, which was born in the Bronx in the late 1970s. France now has a vibrant hip hop scene, but Bruel recalled that he produced what is considered the first French rap song: “Chacun fait (c’qui lui plait)” by the duo Chagrin d’amour, in This August 28, 2014 file photo shows US actor Brad Pitt posing for pictures before Sherman tank during a media event 1982. to promote his latest film ‘Fury’ at Bovington tank museum in Dorset, southern England. — AFP Preserving French identity Bruel returned to New York to record part of 1989’s “Alors Regarde,” a more introspective pop album that, with some three ‘Fury’ drives a tank through image of war million copies sold, is the fourth best-selling album ever in France. “It was not totally done in New York, but all of the energy rad Pitt’s new war movie “Fury” offers a no-holds-barred view of sus evil, and because the outcome of liberating Europe from slavery is of this album was from New York,” he said. Bruel, a major figure in warfare which some may find hard to stomach-but its director such a positive outcome ... we reverse engineered the fighting itself French film, also started as an actor in New York. He recently Bjustifies the gore as straightforward realism. A stuntman was into some sort of idea (that it) was cleaner, or black and white,” he played in Sophie Lellouche’s “Paris-Manhattan” in which Woody injured by a bayonet during the making of the film, which includes said. To get the cast-also including Michael Pena, Logan Lerman and Allen-a quintessential New Yorker who enjoys a wide French fol- multiple close-up scenes of slaughter, and which has already been Jon Berthal-into the spirit the filmmaker put them through a military- lowing-appears as himself.—AFP turned into a video game. “War is violent. It’s all incredibly realistic,” style “boot camp” run by US Navy Seals, before starting the shoot. director David Ayer told AFP, adding that a lot of the movie’s scenes And even while on set, Ayer made Pitt and the other actors have fist- are based on actual military after-action reports. fights in between takes, to build team spirit. “The sad truth is that the US military in World War II in Europe exe- “It bonded us,” said Leouf told Jimmy Kimmel. “You can only get cuted a lot of prisoners. It was kind of endemic,” he added. The movie so much out in a conversation, with a bunch of boys in that kind of follows a five-strong Sherman tank crew, led by Pitt as battle-hard- setting, fighting was really intimate,” he said. Ayer explained: “These ened army sergeant “Wardaddy,” pushing behind enemy lines in the are people who are mad scientists when it comes to breaking down a dying days of the war in Germany in 1945. Hollywood A-lister Pitt last team and creating a team, and that was the exact purpose of it. led a cinematic Nazi-killing team in Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 “The cast was fed into that process and the cast that came out of “Inglorious Basterds,” and like that film “Fury” includes its fair share of that, they were absolutely transformed individuals and it bonded gory SS officer deaths. The bloodletting starts from the opening them in a way that you really feel on the screen.” The stuntman acci- scene, when Pitt’s character stabs a German through the eye, and dent happened while filming a scene in which bodies were piled on includes a summary execution which tests the scruples of the team’s the battlefield. “They had rehearsed it and one guy was basically stab- young rooky “Bible,” played by Shia LeBeouf. “The movie is about the bing dummies, and accidentally stabbed his mate with a bayonet,” moral toxicity of war, and how that violence impacts what’s effectively said Ayer, adding that there were no permanent injuries. The film’s this family, this ad hoc family of men trying to survive,” said Ayer. violence has been likened by some reviewers to shoot-em-up video The director-whose past writing credits include 2001’s Oscar-win- games-and in fact a “Fury” tie-in has been included in online gaming ning “Training Day”-said history has tended to ignore the savagery website wargaming.com’s “World of Tanks” series.—AFP This July 22, 2014 file photo shows French singer Patrick Bruel on and randomness of warfare in the narrative of victorious Allies defeat- stage during the Monte Carlo Summer Festival in Monaco. — AFP ing ruthless Nazis. Because World War II was such a battle of good ver- Film Review: ‘John Wick’ here are no good guys in “John Wick,” but there are some great short-fuse antihero whose ridiculous moniker (borrowed from screen- actors working alongside Keanu Reeves in his darkest and most writer Derek Kolstad’s grandfather) clumsily conveys his explosive Ttormented role yet: a stunningly lethal contract killer who goes temper. There’s nothing clumsy about the actor who plays Wick, how- on a rampage after a Russian thug murders his dog. Yes, his dog. If ever, as Reeves’ lithe physicality enables extended sequences in you can stomach the setup, then the rest is pure revenge-movie gold, which he moves athletically through an environment full of adver- as Reeves reminds what a compelling action star he can be, while the saries, shooting, stabbing or otherwise immobilizing them one at a guy who served as his stunt double in “The Matrix” makes a remark- time. ably satisfying directorial debut, delivering a clean, efficient and incredibly assured thriller with serious breakout potential, thanks in Killing a dog part to Summit’s simultaneous Imax release. Since brutally efficient action sequences are in such short supply That unsung hero is Chad Stahelski, the stunt guru who stepped these days, the fact that “John Wick” delivers no fewer than half a into Brandon Lee’s shoes on “The Crow” and spent the next two dozen-home invasion, hotel room, Red Circle club, church parking lot, decades absorbing all the behind-the-scenes filming lessons that Brooklyn safehouse, grand finale-more than excuses Kolstad’s lame- make “John Wick” such a technically impeccable actioner. (Stahelski brained script. Basically, the idea is to mislead audiences into believ- and longtime stunt collaborator David Leitch approached the project ing that Reeves’ character is a mild-mannered family man, compress- as a team, but only Stahelski ultimately received directing credit from ing the preceding few months of personal tragedy into a montage in the DGA, while Leitch is credited as a producer.) Whereas the tenden- which Wick visits his wife (Bridget Moynahan) in hospital, attends her cy among many other helmers is to jostle the camera and cut freneti- rain-drenched funeral (where former colleague Marcus, played by cally in the misguided belief that visual confusion generates excite- Willem Dafoe, makes an ominous appearance), and weeps upon ment, the duo understand what a thrill well-choreographed action receiving her final gift: a pre-trained puppy named Daisy.—Reuters can be when we’re actually able to make out what’s happening. This photo released by Lionsgate shows Keanu Reeves as John And that’s why Reeves serves as just the right star to play Wick, a Wick in a scene from the film, ‘John Wick.’ — AP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 Arabs from Israel risk arrest for ‘Arab Idol’ show

heir goal is to win Arab Idol, the Arab world’s cess has been confined to Israel. By contrast, when premiere television song competition. But the Mohammed Assaf, a Palestinian from Gaza, won Tjourney Manal Mousa, 25, and Haitham Arab Idol last year, he catapulted to fame, and he Khalaily, 24, have taken from their villages in Israel continues to perform before Arab audiences to the competition in Lebanon could comprise a tel- throughout the Middle East, the United States and evision drama of its own - featuring travel to an Europe. enemy country, Israeli security interrogations, and It is unclear whether the two contestants’ Israeli the complicated identity crisis of Israel’s Arabs. The connection will affect their chances. Some in the two singers are competing for more than just fame: Arab world perceive Arabs in Israel as traitors. they want to be a part of the cultural world that has Others sympathetically view Israel’s Arabs as those been largely off limits to them because of the who remained while others fled or were driven out decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict. in the 1948 war surrounding the end of the British “This is a chance for Haitham,” said Waheeb Mandate of Palestine and the establishment of the Khalaily, Haitham’s father, in his home in Majd Al- Jewish state. Mousa’s sister, Sabren, said her family Krum, a village in the Galilee, in northern Israel. “For feels “100 percent” Palestinian. “We live in Israel that the Arab world and the whole world to hear him was originally Palestine. I feel very proud ... that we and say that he represents a Palestinian people that did not give up our lands,” she said from their home clings to its land.” In the bitter conflict between in the Galilee village of Deir Al-Assad in Israel’s Israel and its Arab neighbors, Arab-Israelis are stuck north. in the middle. Though citizens of the Jewish state, they share the ethnicity, language and culture of Hailing from Palestine the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In this image made from AP video filmed on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2014, Manal Mousa, 25, Though some fans in the contestants’ home Arabs who remained in Israel after its creation in speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at her family home in the Galilee base know by word of mouth that they live in Israel, 1948, and their descendants, today make up 20 per- village of Deir Al-Assad, northern Palestine. — AP viewers wouldn’t know by watching the show. cent of the population. Many identify as Banners on the screen label them as hailing from Palestinians rather than Israelis, watch Arab satellite they passed all three rounds of auditions and were thought he was recruited by militants but later Palestine, and the show makes no reference to their television and dream of traveling throughout the chosen to be among the 26 final contestants from dropped the suspicion. connections to Israel. In a recent episode, Mousa Middle East. But their Israeli citizenship bars them around the Arab world - the first time Arabs from Travel to Lebanon is punishable under Israeli law sang a Palestinian ballad wearing dark red lipstick, a from most Arab countries because Israeli passport Israel have ever been selected for the show. by four years in jail or paying a fine, said Aram traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, and a holders are prohibited entry. That includes the After Mousa and Khalaily returned to Israel in Mahameed, a lawyer from the Arab-Israeli rights headband of dangling coins. “I salute the Palestine Lebanese capital of Beirut, where many Arab stars May to wait for the show’s taping, Israel’s Shin Bet group Adalah, whom Khalaily’s family consulted inside you,” said Lebanese singing heartthrob Wael are born. intelligence service summoned them for interroga- after the contestant was interrogated. “It is a law Kfouri, one of the judges. When the show held its first-ever auditions in tions about their travel, their families said. Their against the Arabs in Israel to disconnect them from “You’re telling people that the voice of Palestine the West Bank in March, the lure of making it big Israeli passports were confiscated and they were other Arabs in the Arab countries,” said Mahameed. will reach the whole world,” said another judge, was too tempting for Mousa and Khalaily to worry told the passports would be revoked for up to three Though Jewish and Arab Israelis have faced Egyptian composer Hassan El Shafei, as the studio about borders. They, and other young Arab singers months, the families said. Through the help of indictment for traveling to Lebanon, their trials gen- audience applauded and Mousa’s eyes filled with in Israel, drove past Israeli military checkpoints to rights groups, their passports were returned within erally do not proceed unless they are accused of tears. Arab Idol is largely cut off from the singers’ stand in line with hundreds of Palestinians for days, Mousa’s family said. other crimes, he said, adding that Jewish Israeli fan base in Israel. The show provides no local phone videotaped auditions. Mousa, Khalaily and two journalists who have gone to Lebanon have not numbers for Arabs in Israel to dial to vote for con- dozen others advanced to the next round in Beirut Recruited by militants been questioned upon their return. Mousa and testants, so every week their families drive to the the following month. The Shin Bet did not immediately respond to a Khalaily are now in Beirut taping the show, which is West Bank and use a Palestinian cellphone provider The Israeli-Lebanese border is sealed, so the two request for comment. Israel has sentenced Arab- airing weekly on the Arab satellite channel MBC. to cast their votes. Khalaily’s sister says she worries used their Israeli passports to cross into neighbor- Israelis in the past on charges of traveling abroad to Show producers said in a statement that contest- about her brother being charged for breaking Israeli ing Jordan where they boarded a plane for Beirut. conspire with militant groups for attacks against ants were unavailable for media interviews due to law when he returns from Beirut. “We hope he At the Lebanese airport, they presented travel doc- Israel or to fight alongside rebels in Syria. The same “exhausting preparations and tight production won’t face problems, but if he does, he has nothing uments that the Palestinian Authority in the West month the two singers traveled to Lebanon, Israel deadlines.” to fear,” said Eman Khalaily. “He went to sing and Bank issued them especially for the trip, a arrested a 23-year-old Arab-Israeli journalist return- Last year, Lina Makhoul, an Arab-Israeli, won on that’s what he loves to do ... He wants his voice to Palestinian interior ministry official said. In Beirut, ing from a conference there. Officials initially the Israeli TV singing show The Voice, but her suc- reach everywhere.” — AP Bono reveals glaucoma Hendrix heirs clash with forces him to wear sunglasses producer over film project 2 frontman Bono revealed yester- the eyeball causing gradual loss of sight- imi Hendrix’s heirs clashed in court Thursday with a film’s print, advertizing and distribution costs, and day that the real reason he wears for around two decades. Glaucoma can producer they alleged reneged on a deal for a concert Hendrix’s estate contributed more than half of that Usunglasses is because he suffers make the eyes more sensitive to light Jmovie about the iconic guitarist. Lawyers for the amount. from glaucoma. The 54-year-old singer and sufferers wear sunglasses to ease Hendrix family and producer Gerald Goldstein took verbal But the producer allegedly pulled out of the deal when said he has lived with the condition- the condition. Commentators have long swings at each other at the Los Angeles trial over rights to he realized the limited release that was planned for the which is caused by increased pressure in assumed Bono’s trademark shades-over- the movie, based on a series of concerts in Europe in 1969. movie, which was to feature footage from concerts in Goldstein originally wanted a $2 million budget to cover Austria, France, Germany and at the Royal Albert Hall in size and in different tints-were part of his London. “They pulled the rug out from under Mr rock star image. Goldstein and destroyed his ability to present his vision of “This is a good place to explain to what he thought the film would be like,” Goldstein’s people that I’ve had glaucoma for the lawyer Brent Blakely told LA Superior Court Judge Mark last 20 years,” the Irishman told BBC tele- Mooney. But Hendrix family attorney Edwin McPherson vision. “I have good treatments and I am said the Hendrix Experience, the business arm of the going to be fine,” he said, adding: “You’re musician’s estate, could not agree to Goldstein’s demands not going to get this out of your head for the project. They are asking the producer to return now and you will be saying ‘Ah, poor old their contribution to the movie. blind Bono’.” Bono also addressed the “This is a great little film, but it’s not Michael Jackson controversy over the decision to give and it’s not ‘Titanic,’” he said, referring to Jackson’s away U2’s new album, “Songs of posthumous film “This is It” and the Oscar-winning 1997 Innocence”, for free through iTunes, say- movie starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. ing: “We wanted to do something fresh Hendrix’s 43-year-old sister Janie-the CEO of Experience but it seems some people don’t believe Hendrix-was present in court Thursday, and may testify on in Father Christmas.” — AFP Monday, lawyers said. Hendrix died of an accidental drug Jimi Hendrix overdose aged 27 in September 1970. — AFP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Jacek Marczewski and helpers load a wooden boat on a trailer for transport to Jacek Marczewski baptizes ‘Slawka’ his wooden boat on the banks of the the Vistula river in Warsaw. — AFP photos Vistula river. Old-school sailboats return to Poland’s mighty Vistula

liding down the river on a sleek wooden hull, its white sail gleaming as it catches the Gbreeze, the vessel could easily be mistaken for a traditional Egyptian felucca sailing down the Nile. But this mighty river, the Vistula, runs through Poland and in its capital Warsaw, rigged skiffs first built centuries ago for trade on the wild waterway are making a comeback thanks to a new breed of sailing buff. “Our boats look a little like feluccas. They have what Egyptians call a ‘crab claw’ sail with one spar along the lower edge,” pho- tographer Jacek Marczewski, who built his own boat from scratch, told AFP. “In other ways, our boats are quite unique, just like the Vistula is special,” he says of the traditional “pychowka” or “push-boat” in Polish, named for its long pole reaching the river bottom that is used for navigation, much like on the famous gondolas of Venice. To avoid any accidents, police escorted his 8.5 metre-long (29 foot) vessel through the streets of the capital to its launch site near the impressive national stadium built for the Euro 2012 football championships. Marczewski waded waist-deep into the river on his 55th birthday to launch his boat, named A wooden boat is being transported through the streets of Warsaw. “Slawka” after his late mother. It’s a sleek but sturdy ways in the late 19th century. Marczewski is capti- shop in Warsaw just a stone’s throw from the southern Tatra mountains to its northern delta on design and the 12-square metre (129 square feet) vated by the Vistula, which he dubs “wild and Vistula to feed his passion for building boats. He the Baltic coast, but unlike centuries gone by, sail is fixed to a five metre high mast. He used three changable.”“Areas that are deep can become shal- honed his skills while refurbishing a traditional there is little traffic on the Vistula today. The different types of wood to build it: acacia for the low from day to day and islets of white sand appear skiff he acquired from the police, who had confis- real attraction of the “pychowka” for weary city frame; oak for the bow and larch for the hull. “We and disappear with the seasons,” he told AFP. He cated it from poachers. “Because these boats folk is the quick escape it offers from the hustle built it based on the design of traditional skiffs dreams of sailing the Vistula and its tributary the have flat bottoms, they are very stable and noth- and bustle of metropolitan life. used for centuries on the Vistula to transport goods Bug, on Poland’s eastern border with Ukraine, as ing dangerous can really happen,” says Perkowski “All you need to do is get in the boat and push or for fishing. well as the Oder on its western border with of the traditional “pychowka”. off the river bank,” says Perkowski. “You’re still in “Larger boats were used to dredge sand from Germany. He and fellow “pychowka” fan Lukasz “There’s no keel or centerboard and you can the centre of a city of well over a million people, the river bottom used in building, or to ferry goods Perkowski, who helped Marczewski build his boat, easily come ashore in sandy or rocky areas,” he but you’re in a completely different world and up the river from Krakow in the south to Gdansk, want to sail it at the “Festival de Loire”, an annual explains. “That’s also why the boat can only use a you see the city differently,” he says. “An hour on the Baltic coast,” the tall, husky Marczewski told event in Orleans, central France, drawing river boat back or side wind. downstream from Warsaw, you discover the AFP. Pychowki boats moved everything from enthusiasts from across Europe. “The Vistula has the reputation of being a very peace and quiet of the wilderness, of nature,” wheat to potatoes and textiles up and down the dangerous river and people are afraid to navigate Perkowski told AFP. “It means you can be in the Vistula as far back as the 17th century, but river A quick getaway it,” he adds. Over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) city and quickly step out for a little vacation any transport fell out of favor with the advent of rail- A ceramics artist, Perkowski uses a carpenter’s long, the river spans Poland from its source in the time you wish.” — AFP

Jacek Marczewski launches his wooden boat to the Vistula river. A wooden boat is being transported through the streets of Warsaw. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 History under your feet - 3000 years of shoes’ exhibition

‘Mojito shoe’ (2014) by British designer Julian Hakes.

‘Brooms’ (2012) by Uruguayan designer Sol Alonso.

‘Parisian Yellow’ (2012) by US designer Ivanka Ska pic- “Blond ambition” (2010) by Israeli artist Kobi Levi. tured in the exhibition ‘History under your feet - 3,000 years of shoes’ at the Toy Worlds Museum in Basel, Switzerland, yesterday. The exhibition in collaboration with the Northampton Museums and Art Gallery in England, home to the world’ s largest collection of histori- cal shoes, shows more than 220 pairs of shoes of the last “Mardi Gras” (2013) by Italian artist Gianluca Tamburini 3,000 years. — AP photos for Conspiracy.

“Hommage to Egbert” (2014) by Dutch artist Linda van Reenen.

“Domestic Torture” (2010) by US artist May Y. Cheung Hoffman.

“Nova” (2013) by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

This undated image released by Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland shows a Halloween-themed tree displayed at Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland, a large Christmas store in Frankenmuth, Mich. Trick or Peeps! Holiday creep extends to Halloween oliday creep, it seems, is here to stay, and severe milk protein allergy. Candy isn’t all that it’s spookier than it used to be. The fun, but Halloween is just as magical as Hblending of holiday traditions - think Christmas, she said. “There are no strict rules,” Hanukkah bush - now kicks off with Halloween she said of the witch. “The Switch Witch goes to in a variety of ways. Here’s a peek at the holiday the grocery store and takes the kids to school bleed: and sits in our kitchen. My boys play with her and hang her from the light fixtures and wrap Elf on the shelf her onto my dog’s collar. It’s supposed to be That little guy in the Santa suit comes with a more interactive.” rhyming book. He’s a stuffed “scout elf” that mysteriously moves around the house and can’t Ugly sweaters be touched as he reports on who’s naughty and The folks at Festified.com are thinking, hey, who’s nice between Thanksgiving and why not Halloween? There’s a sweater dress Christmas Eve. Kids are encouraged to name This product image released by there, a vest and leggings in orange stripes with their elves. Uglysweaterstore.com shows a Halloween- Well, meet the new Switch Witches of themed sweater vest. Halloween. This product image They’ve got their own kit with a rhyming released by book and a black-hatted witch doll. Not-so-odd- Switchcrafted shows the ly, the rhyming structure is a la “‘Twas the Night hard cover keepsake box Before Christmas,” and kids have a little space in set for ‘Switchcrafted: the back where they can name their witch. The Story of The Switch The book, “Switchcrafted: The Story of the Witches of Halloween Switch Witches of Halloween,” instructs kids to Book,’ complete with leave the witch their candy hauls in exchange book, witch doll and a for a healthier toy. Unlike the elf, Switch Witches trick-or-treat bag. can be touched - and they’re not spies, said co- creator Audrey Kinsman, a mom of two boys in Denver. “Absolutely,” she said when asked if the elf inspired the Halloween newcomer, which costs $29.99 and was launched a month ago. “We In this image released by Martha Stewart have the elf and we love our elf.” Kinsman has Living shows eggs decorated in a Halloween Celiac disease, and she has a 4-year-old with a skull-theme. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

pumpkin egg project that landed on a 2004 cover of Martha Stewart Living magazine: A centuries-old Ukrainian dying tech- nique called pysanka was used to draw a design with wax. The eggs were then dipped in dye and held close to a flickering flame so the wax melts away to reveal the decoration. The little pump- kins were placed in a cozy nest of hay and twigs. Decorating eggs is most definitely not just for Easter anymore, said Hannah Milman, the editorial director of crafts and holidays at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. “Iconic imagery like an egg, a tree, things that are very familiar to people, are very easy to translate into another holiday by changing the color,” she said. “The egg is an everyday object that everyone has. Everyone can buy one. I think it’s a love of the shape of natural things.”

Halloween trees These days, Christmas trees aren’t just for Christmas, or even Hanukkah for that matter. Look no further than the Halloween display at Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland, which touts itself as the world’s largest Christmas store. Founded by Wally Bronner in 1945, Halloween and the fall harvest mark the official start of the In this image released by Martha Stewart Living shows eggs holiday season at the store in Frankenmuth, Michigan. The store decorated in a Halloween theme. The blending of holiday tra- has a 98,000-square-foot sales floor nestled on 27 acres in the ditions think Hanukkah bush now kicks off with Halloween state’s Little Bavaria region. in a variety of ways. A religious man, Bronner wasn’t one for ghouls and goblins, but Halloween is hard to get around these days. “In the past few pumpkins and bats. Mike Golomb, owner of years we’ve gotten more and more Halloween ornaments and Uglysweaterstore.com, is not only all about ugly sweaters for trims. People love Halloween. It’s a tremendous holiday,” said Christmas, Halloween and just about every other occasion but he Sarah Schlegel, Bronner’s decorating coordinator. sells only VINTAGE ugly sweaters that he buys by the 1,000-pound Her staff decorated a 4-and-a-half-foot tree with round orange bale. For Halloween, there’s a black sweatshirt that has a pumpkin pumpkin and white spiderweb ornaments. So is the calendar just exploding with fireworks, and a vest with smiley pumpkins and one big holiday now? “You know it really is,” Schlegel laughed. candy corn. “Christmas is still our biggest holiday, but we have “People will take a tree that size and decorate it all year round for Easter sweaters, Halloween sweaters, sweaters for teachers with the seasons and different holidays.” apples and pencils on them,” said Golomb, in St Louis. “We’ve seen increased sales in all the sweaters, especially any holiday.” Peeps This undated image released by Bronner’s Christmas Golomb sells his ugly sweaters for $30 to $300 each. “To us, the Trick or Peeps! Wonderland shows a Halloween-themed tree displayed at tackier the better,” he said. “Sometimes I think Halloween The sugary, marshmallow chicks - once the delight of Easter Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland, a large Christmas store in sweaters are more tacky than the Christmas sweaters, with the alone - have been reinvented for just about every occasion, Frankenmuth, Mich. candy corn and bats and everything.” including Halloween. One box of five green chicks comes with a president of corporate affairs for Just Born, the company that plush, five-inch “witch chick” with a black hat. Orange pumpkin owns Peeps and is based, where else, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Halloween eggs Peeps can be had as singles or in a 24-count tray, along with Halloween Peeps account for 8 to 10 percent of sales, he said, The Easter tradition of decorating eggs in pretty pastels has white ghost-shaped Peeps. There are chocolate-covered Peeps behind No. 1 Easter and No. 2 Christmas. “It’s a small part of the morphed into spooky or playful takes for Halloween. Consider this and cats in the flavor of chocolate mousse, said Matt Pye, vice business, but it’s growing,” Pye said. — AP

10 ways to make Halloween luminaries his Halloween, lighten things up with luminaries. There are lots of quick, do-it-yourself projects to make the flickering lights that Twelcome partyers or trick-or-treaters. Besides their welcoming glow, luminaries can add sophistication or fun to a sidewalk, staircase, fireplace mantel or front stoop, says Eddie Ross, East Coast design editor for Better Homes and Gardens. And you can make them from a variety of everyday objects, from milk jugs to glass jars to paper bags. Just insert one or more battery-operated votives or a string of 25 In this Friday, Oct 10, 2014 photo, lighten up Halloween night holiday lights into any of these DIY projects: with easy to make luminaries. Do-it-yourself projects include these milk jug ghosts, which are fast to craft. Detailed Sophisticated instructions are at the blog iSaveAtoZ. 1- Drill holes any size into a real or fabricated gourd or pumpkin. Use vellum or masking tape for a similar look. patterns or lines, or try monogramming your initial. For a pumpkin, cut 7- Using an orange paper bag (similar in size to paper lunch bags an access hole at the bottom and clean out the goo from there. Ross and available at most discount stores), cut out a pumpkin face from one recommends using a white or sugar pumpkin. The latter are used for side. Insert a smaller yellow or white paper bag with the votives inside. baking; grocery stores sell them. 8- From the blog Family Corner: Paint the outside of a glass jar with 2- Drizzle fake blood down the outside of a clear-glass cylinder, then white acrylic paint, let it dry completely, and then draw on a ghostly wrap it with parchment paper and secure with double-stick tape. “It face using a permanent black marker. Fill it in using black acrylic paint. looks like something you see when you’re putting slides under a micro- Use different base colors - orange, red, green, purple - to create mon- scope,” says Ross. “It’s sophisticated and pretty but creepy, too.” sters. 3- Remove labels from empty steel cans and punch holes in them 9- From iSaveAtoZ blog: Rinse several gallon-size plastic milk jugs. with an awl and hammer, either randomly or with a design. Cut a small opening near the bottom of each jug for inserting individ- 4- From the blog Making Lemonade: Wrap a glass vase in vellum or ual strings of white holiday lights, or connect three or four jugs with freezer paper, both of which are translucent; cut the paper to fit the one long string of lights. On a flat, clean side of each jug, draw a ghost vase. Add stickers to the unpatterned side of the vellum or the waxy face. side of the freezer paper, then rewrap and tape the paper - sticker side 10- Take discount-store glow sticks to a party-supplies store and on the inside - to the vase with clear tape. ask the clerk to insert them into yellow or white balloons before Fun inflating the balloons with helium. Or buy a small helium tank; they 5- Decoupage the outside of any glass jar in orange tissue paper range from $40 to $50 at party stores. Use a permanent black marker and add a pumpkin face using whatever is on hand - a permanent black Do-it-yourself projects include drilling gourds and pumpkins to draw spooky faces on the balloons. Stop there or go one step fur- marker, stickers or googly eyes. with random holes or in a pattern then inserting battery- ther and cover each balloon with cheesecloth. “It will make them 6- For a mummy look, wrap a glass jar with gauze bandages and operated votives. Cut a pumpkin’s access hole at the bottom glow,” says Ross, who recommends lining a sidewalk or front porch glue on two googly eyes, or wrap black-paper facial features beneath and clean it out from there. with these. — AP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Models display creations by Japanese designer Yukiko Hanai at the 2015 spring/summer collection during the Tokyo Fashion Week. — AFP photos A niche for edgy young designers

hile it may not boast the big names spotlight. In many ways Tokyo seems happy tion at home and a smaller domestic market that draw the international press to with the niche it has carved out for itself a every year, overseas shows offer the exposure WMilan, Paris, New York and London, showcase for young, relatively unknown and needed to reach foreign buyers, explains Tokyo Fashion Week has long enjoyed a repu- edgy designers-even if others would like to Shinoda. With the big names absent, Toyko’s tation as a springboard for up-and-coming see it expand its scope. shows feature collections from around 50 young designers. But 10 years after it first Top-flight Japanese designers such as smaller designers-most of them Japanese. stepped out onto the international catwalk, Kenzo, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Tokyo is facing two serious challenges: a Comme des Garcons have for years shown Long tradition declining domestic market and the emer- their collections in Paris not Tokyo, and more With looks inspired by manga or Hello gence of regional rivals wanting to steal the recent success stories have followed suit, Kitty and clothes that range from the tradi- such as Sacai and conceptual label Anrealage, tional to the avant-garde, Tokyo prides itself which made its maiden foray in Paris last on its creativity, its street style, trendy shops month. The French capital offers them more and global reputation for design. But it is also visibility with buyers and the fashion press aware that cities such as Seoul and Shanghai from around the world, who do the rounds are piling resources into their own fashion between New York, London, Milan and Paris weeks and could threaten Japan’s leading but rarely make the long trip to Tokyo. position in Asia, Shinoda explains. “At this Fashion Week For some, that is a missed opportunity. moment Tokyo is top, top, top, there is no “It’s a shame because this city is so inspiring,” comparison. But we have to watch always says Anna Dello Russo, editor at large with that Thailand, Indonesia, Seoul, all the gov- the Japanese edition of Vogue, adding that ernments are investing a lot of money to she thinks the young and creative designers encourage their own fashion week to devel- showing in Europe should also show in op.” Tokyo.”I...(would like to) come here to see all “We’ll be very careful.” Japanese designer the up-and-coming Japanese designers, on Yu Amatsu, who was behind the latest collec- the catwalk.” But for the organizers of Tokyo tion for Hanae Mori, the grande dame of Fashion Week, the fact that the big names still Japanese haute couture, as well as presenting prefer Paris is not an issue. his own label “A Degree Farhenheit” at this “I think it is rather natural to prepare here year’s fashion week, says that Tokyo is a gath- in Japan and then go to Paris to try the world ering of “brilliant craftsmen”. market. We like to rather encourage the peo- “But the problem is that we are sometimes ple who go (on to) try the overseas markets a little reserved. We struggle to open our-

Tokyo like Paris,” says Akiko Shinoda, director of selves up to the rest of the world,” he says. international affairs at Japan Fashion Week. The Japanese government has been keen to One reason why designers choose to show support a textile industry that enjoys a solid abroad is that faced with a shrinking popula- reputation for quality but has been in decline SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 Yuma Koshino for years. For Geraldine Florin, a buyer with Hirayama says the key to the future of Japanese French department store Galeries Lafayette, the designers is their originality, their vision and “made in Japan” label is a sign of high quality, their experience in selling in the current chal- but one that inevitably pushes up prices. lenging economic environment. And she is opti- “That positions Japanese fashion at the high- mistic about the future, regardless of the chal- end. That’s why we want products that are that lenges posed by regional rivals and shrinking much more creative and bring something differ- markets. “We have the longest tradition of fash- ent to the table, to justify the higher price,” she ion in Asia, and the Japanese are passionate explains. Japanese fashion journalist Keiko enough to make it endure.” — AFP

Models display creations by Japanese designer Sansai Saito and Jotaro Saito. Fashion Week Tokyo TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Facebook creates ‘Safety Check’ tool for natural disaster survivors

NEW YORK: Nowadays, when natural disasters strike, media to stay connected with those they cared about. the story for your friends and family to see. On the flip Facebook users often take to the social network to alert Following the earthquake, Facebook’s engineers in side, if your friends and family are the ones located near their loved ones that they’re okay. To facilitate this type Japan created the Disaster Message Board “to improve a natural disaster, you’ll receive notifications when of communication, Facebook has created Safety Check, the experience of reconnecting after a disaster,” the those people declare themselves safe. As the Wall Street a tool that lets users alert their friends and family of post says. A test launch of the tool yielded “overwhelm- Journal notes, there’s one glaring problem with Safety their status in the wake of earthquakes, hurricanes, and ing” results, and the Disaster Message Board was even- Check. Sure, it’s great for people who’ve survived disas- other natural emergencies. The company announced tually developed into Safety Check. The post went on to ters, but what about people who actually need help? the new service in a blog post yesterday. Facebook outline how Safety Check works. “Safety Check was designed for people to let others explained, in the post, how Safety Check was inspired When a natural disaster occurs, Facebook will deter- know they are safe after a major natural disaster,” a by the 2011 earthquake in Japan. mine your location by looking at the city listed in your Facebook spokesperson told the WSJ. “We recognize it The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan was dev- profile, the city where you’re using the Internet, and - will not be helpful to everyone in every situation, and astating. According to the Japanese Red Cross, more for users of the Nearby Friends service - your last loca- hope that if people are not safe, they contact local than 12.5 million people were affected nationwide, and tion. If they determine you’re near the natural disaster, emergency services as soon as possible.” Facebook says more than 400,000 people were evacuated. During that they’ll send you a notification asking if you’re safe. Safety Check “will be available globally on Android, iOS, crisis we saw how people used technology and social Once you mark that you’re safe, Facebook will share feature phones and desktop.”— AP Review: Music player learns your tastes over time

NEW YORK: Some things get better with time: drinks, jeans and this “smart” music player I’ve been using on and off for a few months. The idea behind the $399 Aether Cone is that over time, it learns your listening habits and weighs such factors as whether it’s a lazy LOS ANGELES : This photo provided by Activision Blizzard Sunday morning. It then plays what it Inc shows Manuel Noriega as depicted in the game publish- thinks you’re in the mood for. er’s 2012 game, “Call of Duty: Black Ops II.”— AP photos I was skeptical because my music tastes vary depending on how I’m feel- ing at any particular moment. But I’ve Arguments made come to enjoy its sometimes-surprising musical tours. I also appreciate its light- in ex-dictator’s suit weight simplicity. At 2.9 pounds and not much bigger than half a football, the against game cone-shaped device packs a decent stereo system into something I can easi- LOS ANGELES: A judge has heard arguments from lawyer and ly carry around or pack into my carry-on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani calling for the dis- luggage. missal of a lawsuit filed against video game giant Activision by NEW YORK: This Friday, June 20, 2014 photo shows an Aether Cone music former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. The lawsuit The basics player. — AP involves the use of Noriega’s image in Activision’s 2012 “Call The Cone needs to be on the same song is currently playing, as the Cone but I decided I was ready for something of Duty” game. Wi-Fi network as your iPhone, iPad or has no display screen. mellow. A couple of big spins of the dial Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William F Fahey did not Mac computer. Sorry, Android and sent us on a nostalgic turn. The Cone signal during an hour long hearing Thursday how he might Windows users. The Cone can stream Hey mister DJ started with “Comin’ Home Baby” by rule. He asked questions about whether the former general’s music from $10-a-month Rdio Unlimited When friends came over for wine and Mel Torme, followed by “Manana” by inclusion in the game was protected by the First Amendment. accounts and free podcasts and radio cheese, I introduced the Cone the way I Peggy Lee (from 1950). Next up was Noriega claims his likeness was used without permission in shows through Stitcher. More services would a pet or a robot roommate. “Fever” by Sarah Vaughan, now perhaps “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” and he was portrayed as a murderer will be added in the coming months. If Intrigued, my friend requested The better known for Madonna’s version. I and enemy of the state. Activision attorneys said allowing the you already have an Rdio account, the Monkees. Once the music started play- later got “Mambo Italiano” by Rosemary case to proceed would make it difficult to include historical Cone will use your streaming history to ing, though, my friend remarked that Clooney, a song I’ve heard many times figures in games, books and other creative works. — AP play music that appeals to your tastes. I “this isn’t The Monkees; this is some in Italian restaurants but never thought hadn’t been using Rdio, so my Cone third-wave ska.” I am not sure what to listen to at home. I felt like dancing in started out with generic ‘90s grunge third-wave ska sounds like, but it defi- an old-timey movie. music. nitely wasn’t the Monkees. A few more enunciated attempts got the desired Learning Picking music result. The Cone learns what you like and To skip a song and play one that’s Later that afternoon, we graduated dislike by keeping track of the songs you similar, turn the Cone’s dial one click. A to Van Morrison before I requested skip or play all the way through and longer spin will take you in an entirely “What Do I Get?” by the Buzzcocks. After even whether you turn the volume up new direction, such as from heavy metal playing that, the Cone chose other and down. This is more sophisticated to classical, electronica or even news. Buzzcocks songs and similarly fast- than the Pandora music service, for Hold down the button in the middle of paced punk rock acts. But in a pleasant example, as that lets you like and dislike the Cone’s speaker to request specific twist, the Cone went in a different direc- songs but doesn’t get smarter over time. songs, artists or albums through voice tion after a while. It slowed down, just as controls. This worked - for the most part. the party did, and played ephemeral Wish list I told the Cone I wanted to hear NPR sounds by Iceland’s Sigur Ros and elec- It would be nice if I could tell it what radio, but it played a song called “NPR” tronic music by Neon Indian and I’m doing or how I’m feeling, as in “I’m by Carter Hulsey instead. I had to be Washed Out. My indie-music-loving cleaning the bathroom” or “I ran into my specific and request my local public guests loved that. ex today; cheer me up.” If the Cone radio station, WNYC, which the Cone could tell the weather, it might also played live. Asking for Dr Dre’s A typical weekday adjust tunes for a sad rainy day or a crisp “California Love” kept playing an instru- My weekday mornings usually start winter morning, perhaps motivating me mental version for some reason, which with WNYC. After a while, the Cone to get out of bed when it’s still dark out- was unsatisfying. knew to play that as soon as I pressed side. I also wish I could share the Cone People queue up at midnight to get their iPhones outside If you’re tired of voice control, you a business hall of China Telecom in Shanghai yesterday. “play” in the mornings. After work one with roommates, perhaps through voice can type in a song title, artist, album or day, I again put on “What Do I Get?” by recognition or separate profiles. Apple began selling its latest iPhone in China, nearly a radio station into the Aether app on month after other major territories due to a license delay the Buzzcocks. The Cone then launched Nonetheless, the Cone has grown on your mobile device or Mac computer. into fiery “riot grrrl” legends Bikini Kill me. After some initial misunderstand- by regulators, but it faces a tough battle with rivals led by The app is also where you can see what Samsung in the crucial market. — AFP and would have probably kept going, ings, we’ve become good friends. — AP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

CALIFORNIA: The iPad Air 2, left, and iPad Mini 3 are posed side by side at Apple head- CALIFORNIA: The iPad Air 2 is demonstrated at Apple headquarters. quarters on Thursday. — AP photos Apple live: iPad Air 2, Apple Pay, new Macs debut

CUPERTINO: Apple unveiled a thinner iPad Thursday pany says the new iMacs have seven times the pixels with a faster processor and a better camera as it tries found on standard high-definition television sets. to drive excitement for tablets amid slowing Apple also released its new Yosemite operating sys- demand. The iPad Air 2, at 6.1 millimeters “thin,” also tem for Macs as a free download. The Mac update adds many of the features previously available on includes aesthetic changes as well as new function- iPhones. That includes the ability to take burst shots ality, such as the ability to make phone calls with an and slow-motion video and the inclusion of a finger- iPhone nearby and a one-stop search tool for both print ID sensor for use instead of a passcode. It also locally stored documents and online resources. has an anti-reflective coating, a first for a tablet, Apple has been releasing Mac updates more fre- which makes it 56 percent less reflective, said Philip quently, in part to time them with annual changes to Schiller, senior vice president of marketing, on stage the iOS system for iPhones and iPads. Many of the at the event at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, new Mac features will complement what’s found in California. iOS 8, including the ability to start tasks such as The iPad Air 2 will start at $499. Apple also updat- email on one device and finish on another. During a ed its iPad Mini device, with a starting price of $399. demo, Apple executive Craig Federighi made a The new devices will begin shipping next week, with phone call to Stephen Colbert from his Mac and con- advance orders starting Friday. Meanwhile, Apple nected with the comedian. The call was actually made its new Mac operating system, Yosemite, avail- being made through a nearby iPhone. He also used able as a free download starting Thursday. Apple Pay, Apple’s upcoming Apple Watch as a remote control the company’s new system for using iPhones to to control a Mac presentation being projected onto make credit and debit card payments at retail stores, a big-screen set via Apple TV. will launch on Monday. CEO Tim Cook opened Thursday’s product-launch event by touting strong Apple pay reception to the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, released Apple has already announced its new payments last month. “It’s been an incredible year and tremen- system, Apple Pay, but the iPhone feature wasn’t dously busy already,” he said, adding that the new made available right away. In announcing a Monday iPhones have been the fastest-selling in Apple’s his- launch date, Cook also said deals have been made tory. He reiterated that the iPhones will launch in CALIFORNIA: Apple CEO Tim Cook displays the new iPad Air 2 at Apple headquarters on with hundreds of additional credit card issuers since China in just a few hours and said the launch is Thursday. the service was announced last month. Cook also aligned with a rollout of 4G cellular networks there. said additional merchants plan to accept Apple Pay Apple plans to issue results for the latest quarter on compared with 2013, it’s far less than the 55 percent by the end of the year. New iPads: Monday. Apple has been facing competition from growth seen last year and the more than doubling in With Apple Pay, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners will It’s been a year since Apple came out with a cheaper tablets running Google’s Android operating sales in 2012. Cook sought to address that by point- be able to make payments at brick-and-mortar lighter, thinner full-size model called the iPad Air. system. Ahead of Apple’s event, Google announced ing out that the 225 million iPads sold cumulatively stores by holding their phone near a card reader. Apple refreshed that with a device that is even thin- Wednesday that an 8.9-inch Nexus 9 tablet is coming since 2010 is more than any other product Apple has The new iPhones have a wireless chip to transmit ner, by 18 percent at 6.1 millimeters. next month at a starting price of $399, $100 less than sold in the first four years. He also said Apple sold the information needed to complete the transac- The rear camera is boosted to 8 megapixels, the 9.7-inch iPad Air. It will run a new version of more iPads over the past year than many manufac- tion. Owners of older models won’t be able to use matching what’s found in iPhones. Previous iPads Android, dubbed Lollipop. turers have for personal computers. Apple Pay, even with the software update. had a 5 megapixel camera. Thursday’s event comes Besides competition, there’s been an overall Mac updates Consumers aren’t likely to abandon plastic credit as sales of Apple’s iPads have dropped. Through the slowdown in tablet demand. This week, research firm The company unveiled new iMacs with a sharper cards until a majority of retailers, especially smaller first half of this year, Apple had shipped 29.6 million Gartner projected worldwide shipments of 229 mil- display, following what Apple has already done on merchants, accept contactless payments such as iPads, a 13 percent drop from the same time last year. lion tablets this year. Although that’s up 11 percent its mobile devices and MacBook laptops. The com- Apple Pay. —AP

CALIFORNIA: The thinness of the new iPad Air 2 is demonstrated at Apple headquarters. CALIFORNIA: The iPad Air 2 is on display at Apple headquarters. TV listings SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

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Catch Up 21:30 The Colbert Report 15:00 Someday This Pain Will Be 03:00 World Match Racing Tour 10:00 Emmerdale 08:00 Badges Of Fury-PG15 Marathon 22:00 Mixology Useful To You-PG15 04:00 World Match Racing Tour 12:00 Chicago Fire 10:00 Europa Report-PG15 17:00 Darling Companion-PG15 05:00 V8 Supercars Highlights 17:30 The Simpsons - Catch Up 22:30 Sean Saves The World 13:00 Bones 11:45 F/X-PG15 18:45 Silver Linings Playbook-PG15 06:00 V8 Supercars Highlights Marathon 23:00 The League 14:00 Live Good Morning America 13:45 Olympus Has Fallen-PG15 21:00 End Of Watch-18 07:00 Super League 20:00 Happy Endings 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 16:00 Once Upon A Time In 15:45 Live Free Or Die Hard-PG15 23:00 Hick-PG15 09:00 ICC Cricket 360 20:25 Happy Endings 09:30 TOP 14 21:00 Scrubs 10:00 Total Rugby 21:25 Scrubs 10:30 Live ITM Cup 22:00 Cops 12:30 Live NRL Premiership 22:30 Cops 00:00 Passion Fish-18 23:00 According To Jim 02:30 Cocktail-PG15 23:25 According To Jim 04:30 Emperor-PG15 06:30 Mud-PG15 09:00 Blackfish-PG15 10:30 Meet Joe Black-PG15 13:30 Mud-PG15 00:30 Champions League T20 15:45 Veronica Guerin-PG15 Highlights 00:10 Hoarding: Buried Alive 17:30 Blackfish-PG15 01:30 ICC Cricket 360 01:00 Oprah’s Master Class 19:00 Wrecked-PG15 02:00 England Women v South African 01:50 Oprah’s Next Chapter 20:45 The Firm-PG15 Women T20I Highlights 23:30 Prisoners-PG15 03:00 England Women v South African 02:40 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant Women T20I Highlights 03:05 Secretly Pregnant 04:00 England Women v South African 03:55 Long Island Medium Women T20I Highlights 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 05:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress 01:30 The Colony-PG15 Highlights 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 03:15 G.I. 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Joe: Retaliation-PG15 08:15 Cake Boss 08:00 Champions League T20 12:45 The Wolverine-PG15 08:40 Cake Boss Highlights 15:00 Battle Of The Year-PG15 09:00 Champions League T20 09:05 Cake Boss 17:00 Superman: Unbound-PG Highlights 09:30 Hoarding: Buried Alive 18:30 The Lone Ranger-PG15 10:00 ICC Cricket 360 10:20 Secret Eaters 21:00 Frozen-PG 10:30 Champions League T20 11:10 Brides Of Beverly Hills 22:45 About Time-PG15 Highlights 11:35 Brides Of Beverly Hills 11:30 Champions League T20 12:00 Brides Of Beverly Hills Highlights 12:25 Brides Of Beverly Hills 12:30 Champions League T20 12:50 Brides Of Beverly Hills Highlights 01:15 Cher Ami 13:15 Oprah’s Master Class 13:30 Live Champions League T20 02:45 Marvel’s Ultimate Avengers II 14:05 Oprah’s Next Chapter 17:00 ICC Cricket 360 04:15 The Missing Lynx 14:55 Little People, Big World 17:30 Live Champions League T20 06:00 Shark Bait 15:20 Little People, Big World 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 08:00 Barbie As The Island Princess 21:30 Champions League T20 15:45 Little People, Big World 10:00 Madagascar Highlights 16:10 Little People, Big World 11:30 Lego Batman: The Movie - DC 22:30 Champions League T20 16:35 Little People, Big World Super Heroes Unite Highlights 17:00 The Next Great Baker 12:45 Back To The Sea 23:30 Champions League T20 17:50 17 Kids And Counting 14:30 The Ugly Duckling And Me Highlights 18:15 17 Kids And Counting 16:00 Open Season 18:00 Madagascar 18:40 17 Kids And Counting 20:00 Home Alone: The Holiday Heist 19:10 17 Kids And Counting 22:00 The Ugly Duckling And Me 19:40 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 23:30 Open Season 21:00 Little People, Big World: Big Changes 21:55 Alaskan Women Looking For 00:30 Masked And Anonymous Love 02:15 Struck By Lightning 22:50 Long Island Medium 00:15 Phantom-PG15 03:45 The Whole Ten Yards 23:15 Secretly Pregnant SERVITUDE ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY HD 02:00 Gambit-PG15 05:30 Masked And Anonymous WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

ICSK Amman celebrates Gandhi Jayanti

n 2nd October, India celebrates Gandhi ‘Yeh Watan’ by Karen Ann Toby mesmer- Jayanti, the birthday of Mahatma ized the audience. OGandhi, Father of the Nation who gave In the assembly conducted by the primary the world the invincible weapons of truth, non- wing, a skit was staged by the students of Class violence and compassion. The pre-primary and II which portrayed Mahatma Gandhi’s contri- the primary section of the Indian Community bution to the freedom struggle and his teach- School, Amman branch held special assembly ings. Honesty, non-violence, simplicity, for- to mark the occasion. giveness were among a few values which were The pre-primary assembly started with showcased through the skit. It was a wonder- special prayer, thought for the day depict- ful display of the talent of the kids which ing the theme and a patriotic group song instilled a sense of pride and honor in each one by the UKG students. The pre-primary stu- present in the gathering. The Principal of the dents were dressed up as great leaders school, Rajesh Nair addressed the students and and personalities of our country like gave a brief talk on Mahatma Gandhi’s life Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and the importance of his teachings in our dai- Subhash Chandra Bose, Indira Gandhi, Rani ly life. The programs left a positive impact on Lakshmi Bhai, Mother Teresa, Sarojini the students and the staff as these inspired Naidu etc and spoke a few words about each one to imbibe Gandhiji’s principles and the same. The solo melodious rendition teachings in their lives.

he Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi (KSNA) will con- mit their scripts before October 31, 2014. The duration of KSNA Kuwait duct Gulf Malayali Pravasi Theatre competition in the play must be less than two hours and not less than one TFebruary 2015 across the GCC countries as scheduled. hour. The troupes may submit the scripts-three typewritten According to KSNA officials, theatre troupes wishing to par- copies mentioning only the title of the play and the name of theatre festival ticipate in the competition in Kuwait are requested to sub- the troupe-to KSNA Kuwait Chapter Ad-Hoc Committee. WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

TEC organizes beach cleaning campaign

KUWAIT: The Touristic Enterprises Company paign started October 14, 2014 and includes organized a beach cleaning campaign in cleaning campaigns at different Kuwaiti cooperation with the Environmental beaches every Tuesday morning, featuring Voluntary Foundation. The four-months cam- students and participating companies. HEALTH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Ebola vaccine not before late 2016

LONDON: An Ebola vaccine by British pharmaceuticals “I don’t think this vaccine should be seen as the pri- be available before the end of 2015,” he said. He added giant GlaxoSmithKline may not be ready for commer- mary answer to this particular outbreak but we certainly that the whole process was “incredibly accelerated” as cial use until late 2016 and should therefore not be hope that this vaccine could be used to prevent future vaccine development would normally take seven to 10 seen as the “primary answer” to the current outbreak, outbreaks. “Unfortunately it’s not going to be as quickly years. GSK’s is one of two vaccines along with one by US a company researcher said. “We have to be able to as we would like,” he said, adding: “In retrospect we group NewLink Genetics that the World Health manufacture the vaccine at doses that would be con- should have pulled the trigger earlier.”Ballou said data Organization has been focusing on and it has helped sistent with general use and that’s going to take well on the vaccine’s efficacy and safety would not be avail- accelerate clinical trials. Some clinical trials of the GSK into 2016,” Doctor Ripley Ballou, head of GSK’s Ebola able before the end of 2015. vaccine have begun in the United States and Britain and vaccine research unit, told BBC radio in an interview “In order for the vaccine to be used we have to have the WHO has said that around 10,000 doses of the vac- aired yesterday. data on its safety and its efficacy and those data will not cine should be available by early 2015. — AFP

Ebola survivors ‘shunned’ as lepers, they tell S Leone meeting

KENEMA: They beat Ebola but they lost loved ones, work, belongings and former lives. Survivors of the deadly disease who met up in Sierra Leone say they are struggling to reintegrate into society. Thirty-five former Ebola patients, now immune to the dis- ease, met Thursday and yesterday in Sierra Leone’s eastern city of Kenema to see how they could help tackle the epidemic. “We sur- vivors are being treated as lepers to be shunned by the commu- nity in which we have grown up,” said Senessieh Momoh, a driver taking part in the meeting organized by state authorities, the UN children’s agency UNICEF and the US Centers for Disease Control. “People who had been our friends and whom we had shared palm wine with no longer wanted to be with us. “Even when I showed the community elders my Ebola-free certificate, they just shook their heads,” said Momoh, who thought he caught Ebola from an infected passenger. “I am happy that the conference is taking place as it will help to change people’s thinking about us.” The death toll from the Ebola outbreak was set to pass 4,500 this week, with Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea the main countries hit by the virus. A recent UNICEF survey of 1,400 households across Sierra Leone found that Ebola survivors suffered high levels of stigma, shame and discrimination. Farmer James Gebbeh said his initial reaction to Ebola was disbelief. “One of my cousins came one night from a nearby village complaining that he was sick. The WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama speaks to the media about the governmentís Ebola response, in the Oval Office of the next morning, he could hardly walk as he had vomited through- White House Thursday in Washington. From left are Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and out the night. The next day, I also caught the fever.” Counterterrorism, Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, the President, and Dr Thomas Frieden, Director of the Gebbeh said he was well treated in a clinic in Kailahun, about Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. —AP 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Kenema, and discharged two months later. “But when I returned to the community, I was rejected by people I had known for far too long.” Gebbeh’s neigh- Obama names Ebola czar Texas bors shut their doors when they saw him coming and threw stones at his dog. “I am no longer allowed to fetch water from the well and I solely depend on food from charitable agencies,” he health worker isolated on ship added.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama appointed an Ebola czar for the company’s website. Carnival is owned by Carnival Corp. The State Widowed but ‘lucky’ the United States yesterday, and the government said a Texas health Department said the worker may have processed samples from Business woman Isata Yillah recalled being infected in worker who may have had contact with specimens from an Ebola Duncan 19 days ago. The maximum incubation window for the dis- Kailahun, one of the five quarantined districts, when she went to patient was isolated on a cruise ship. ease is 21 days, according to the CDC. collect a debt from an Ebola-infected fishmonger. “Within a cou- Obama, who has faced sharp criticism from some lawmakers over The worker and a companion voluntarily isolated themselves in ple of days, I began having a high fever,” Yillah said. Her sister, efforts to contain the deadly virus, appointed Ron Klain, a lawyer their cabin. “We are working with the cruise line to safely bring them fearing she would be rejected, told her to hide when officials who previously served as chief of staff to Vice Presidents Joe Biden back to the United States out of an abundance of caution,” Psaki said came to the house to check for potential cases. and Al Gore, the White House said. The cruise ship incident added to in the statement. The government of Belize said in a statement that it “When I could no longer stand the ordeal, I went to the hold- growing concerns about the possible spread of Ebola after two nurs- had denied a request by US officials to use a Belizean airport to trans- ing centre where I was diagnosed as Ebola positive and taken to es who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed port a cruise ship passenger who was considered very low risk for the treatment centre.” But when she discharged, Ebola-free, a few with Ebola in the United States, contracted the virus, which has killed Ebola. weeks later, she was told that she had infected her husband who nearly 4,500 people, mostly in West Africa. “The passenger never set foot in Belize,” the statement said. had died leaving her with their four children. “Oh, how I wished The worst hit countries have been Guinea, Liberia and Sierra “When even the smallest doubt remains, we will ensure the health he had also reported to the clinic early to have a chance of sur- Leone, and the World Food Program said on Friday that food prices and safety of the Belizean people.” vival,” she said. “I, however, thank God that one of us is alive to in those countries has risen by an average of 24 percent, forcing US lawmakers held a congressional hearing about the administra- take care of the children.” some families to reduce their intake to one meal a day. tion’s handling of the Ebola outbreak in the United States, and some Unlike other survivors, her community did not discriminate The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital worker aboard the cruise called for a ban on travel from West Africa, as other politicians have in against her when she returned. “I think that I am lucky,” she said. ship, who did not have direct contact with the now-deceased recent weeks. The Ebola survivors met with psychologists to discuss how to Liberian patient but could have processed his bodily fluids, left Obama said he had no philosophical objection to a travel ban but overcome shock and stigmatization and learned how to help Sunday on a cruise from Galveston, Texas, State Department spokes- that some travelers might attempt to enter the United States by health workers and communities care for people in isolation woman Jen Psaki said in a statement. avoiding screening measures, which could lead to more Ebola cases, wards. UNICEF plans to hold similar meetings across the country The health worker has been self-monitoring since Oct. 6 and has not fewer. On Thursday, he authorized calling up military reservists in the next six months. “People who have survived Ebola give not developed a fever or other symptoms of Ebola, the State for the US fight against Ebola in West Africa. hope to others who are still fighting the disease,” said Sierra Department said. Carnival Cruise Lines said yesterday it had been US Federal Aviation Administration chief Michael Huerta told Leone’s Social Welfare Minister Moijue Kaikai in a Unicef press notified by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporters separately that the government was assessing whether to release. “We need to accept survivors and welcome them back to (CDC) that a passenger on the Carnival Magic was a lab supervisor issue a travel ban “on a day-to-day basis.” In a sign the disease can be our families and communities.” Thousands of Ebola survivors in at Texas Health Presbyterian. It said she was deemed to be “very beaten, the World Health Organization said yesterday that the West west Africa are immune to the so-called Zaire species of Ebola low risk.” African country of Senegal was now Ebola-free, although the country virus, according to the WHO. More than 650 have survived in The ship can carry 3,690 passengers and 1,367 crew, according to was still vulnerable to further cases. — Reuters Sierra Leone, UNICEF said.—AFP HEALTH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 All in a flap: Seychelles fears foreign bird invader

VICTORIA: It was just a feather: but in the tropical paradise of threatening the parrot too. As well as munching the same the Seychelles, the discovery of parakeet plumage has put food as the parrots, the parakeets could bring with them dis- environmentalists in a flutter, with a foreign invading bird eases. “The biggest danger posed by the arrival of the ring- threatening the national parrot. In the steamy and thick jun- necked parakeet on Praslin is that it could carry beak and gles of Praslin, one of 115 islands in the feather disease, and spread them to the black parrot,” said Indian Ocean archipelago of white sand beaches ringed by Accouche. For the tropical islands, where tourism is the main- palms, the authorities are worried after the warning sign of a stay of the economy, preserving its unique nature is vital. green feather from a ring-necked parakeet was discovered. If not stopped, it threatens to wipe out the country’s endan- Less than 900 left gered black parrot, listed as “vulnerable to extinction” on the The small black parrots, isolated on the Indian Ocean Island Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature from competing species, could “disappear” if exposed to dis- (IUCN). “Based on the characteristics that I could see, the size ease, she added. There are only between 500-900 black par- and specifics... it is indeed a feather from the ring-necked rots, according to SIF estimates, most living in the “primeval parakeet,” said Vilna Accouche, a scientist with the Seychelles palm forest” in the Vallee de Mai, with endemic trees includ- Islands Foundation (SIF), which helps conserve the palm-filled ing the famous Coco de Mer palm, that produces a giant bot- Vallee de Mai national park, a UNESCO-listed World Heritage tom shaped nut, the world’s largest.”The ring-necked para- Site and main home to the parrots. keet will be in direct competition with the local population of The vivid green parakeet with a bright red beak, originally a the black parrot, as they have similar foliage environment, domestic bird from India but which escaped its cages in the nesting habits and feeds on the same type of food,” SIF ranger 1970s and now breeds in the wild on the main island of Mahe, Terrence Payet told Seychelles News Agency. may appear harmless. But it is a direct rival to the endemic The authorities have tried to stop the green bird before. In black parrot, the “most noteworthy species” in the park and the last campaign, in 2011, 327 birds were culled. Authorities which is “totally dependent” on the palm forest there, accord- have issued “wanted” posters with images of the small green ing to UNESCO. parakeet, titled: “have you seen this bird?” Seychelles News agency calls the parakeet an “innocent ‘Innocent looking - but destructive’ looking but destructive bird”, that has left the black parrot The black parrots live on Praslin, some 45 kilometers (27 fate “hanging in the balance.” Environmentalists are on miles) northeast of Mahe, and previously hoped too far to fly alert. Three years ago a parakeet was spotted on the small for the parakeet. That isolation has left the parrots unused to island, but it was killed by a resident who shot it. SIF direc- competition, and vulnerable to infections from outside. Rats, a tor Frauke Dogley cautions that at present, the only evi- major pest, as well as cats have until now been its main threat, dence still just remains the single green feather. But it is VICTORIA: A handout photo obtained on October 9, 2014 with some nest boxes protected by rat traps. But now the enough to keep the environmentalists hunting. “We must from the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) shows a Black green parakeet appears to have flown the island divide and is find the bird,” he said. — AFP parrot feeding on Nephrosperma. — AFP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

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Hooper sees a ray of hope against the All Blacks

BRISBANE: Michael Hooper and his embattled injuries that the Wallabies refer to as the “cap- fallout from that is lingering. on McKenzie. “This is a chance for us to draw Wallabies teammates have been given barely tain’s curse” - has never beaten the All Blacks. There’s been reports of a split in the team - the series - it’s something that some of the any chance in the last Bledisloe Cup match of He has lost five and drawn two of his seven something Hooper adamantly denies - and of guys are starting to lick their lips to think that the season, so tumultuous has their prepara- Bledisloe Cup tests and has never played them conflict between the players and coach Ewen you could be sitting in the change room on the tion been for a test against a New Zealand coming off a loss. But he has played them McKenzie - also denied by coach and players. weekend of one of Australia’s greatest players team that so rarely loses. Motivation for both coming off a draw, and the memories of the Two things are almost certain: Beale is likely to playing 100 games with a win and drawing the teams has been stirred by New Zealand’s last- backlash still hurt him. Australia held the All be cast aside permanently, and McKenzie could series,” Hooper said. “They’re the pinnacle. minute, 27-25 loss in South Africa two weeks Blacks 12-12 in Sydney to open the 2014 go, too, if the Wallabies don’t start winning. We’re chasing them.” ago - the first defeat in 23 tests for the No 1- Bledisloe Cup, but were smashed 51-20 at Eden “With distractions going on, I’ve been Australia drafted in Christian Leali’ifano in ranked All Blacks. What are the chances of Park in Auckland the following week. impressed with how the guys have reacted this the absence of Beale. Quade Cooper recovered back-to-back defeats? Almost unheard of: only The Wallabies had narrow home wins over week,” Hooper said Friday. “Big point to prove. from shoulder surgery to take a spot on the three times has it happened in the last decade. the Springboks and Pumas to stay in touch in It could be a galvanizing moment for us. “In the bench for his first test of the season, and offer Yet it’s given Hooper a smidgeon of hope for the Rugby Championship, but then lost in team room, there’s positivity. Yes, there’ve been something unique from the bench. When Saturday’s game in Brisbane, scene of the last South Africa and Argentina to slip down to No a few backward steps in the past couple of announcing the five changes to his All Blacks time it occurred. 4 in the world rankings. On a flight between weeks, but we’re learning ... staff and players.” team, including the retention of Beauden The All Blacks lost in Port Elizabeth, South those away losses, an off-field saga unraveled New Zealand may have wrapped up the Barrett ahead of Aaron Cruden at No 10, New Africa and Brisbane in consecutive weeks in after utility back Kurtley Beale got into a heat- Bledisloe Cup for the 12th year with the com- Zealand coach Steve Hansen noted the pres- August 2011 to surrender the then Tri-Nations ed argument with the team’s business manag- prehensive win in Auckland, but there’s always ence of Cooper, who was instrumental in title to Australia, but shrugged that off quickly er, Di Patston. She quit, and Beale was sus- something on the line when the Tasman rivals Australia two most recent Bledisloe test wins in to win the World Cup at home a couple of pended, pending an investigation. It was later meet. The Australians have said this week 2010 and ‘11. “Coming off the bench he’ll be months later. Hooper - the 22-year-old flanker revealed that he’d sent offensive text messages they’re desperate to win in Adam Ashley- really energetic and when he’s on he’s a super thrust in as skipper after a succession of around in June, including to Patston, and the Cooper’s 100th test, and to ease some pressure player - he’s magical,” Hansen said. —AP

Lorenzo tops opening practice for MotoGP

PHILLIP ISLAND: Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo clocked the fastest time in opening practice yesterday, setting up a battle with newly-crowned world champion Marc Marquez in this weekend’s Australian MotoGP. The two-time world champion topped the time charts with a fastest lap of one minute 29.909 seconds around the sweeping Phillip Island circuit as he looks for his third consecutive MotoGP race victory. Lorenzo, who is battling his Movistar Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi and fellow Spaniard Dani Pedrosa for second overall in the world champi- onship, was the quickest rider despite coming off his bike unharmed on the hairpin turn four in the second SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Giants’ Travis Ishikawa (45) heads for home on a walk-off three-run home run against the session. The trio are separated by just three points, St Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of baseball’s NL Championship Series, Thursday, Oct 16, 2014. — AP with Rossi (5th) and Pedrosa (10th) within a second of Lorenzo’s best practice time. Lorenzo was 0.147sec quicker than Forward Yamaha racer Aleix Espargaro’s best time of 1:29.729 from the first practice session Ishikawa’s blast sends and Marquez’s best lap of 1:29.752 in second practice. Lorenzo, who won last year’s MotoGP at Phillip Island on the way to losing the world championship Giants to World Series by four points to Marquez, is coming off two wins and is hitting form at the right time. “We are competitive SAN FRANCISCO: Travis Ishikawa’s walk-off the inning. San Francisco slugger Pablo describe it.” Joe Panik had put the Giants now and strong,” Lorenzo said. “It is not going to be ninth-inning blast lifted the San Francisco Sandoval then singled to open the bottom up 2-1 with a two-run home run in the bot- easy to keep winning races, because there are four Giants to a 6-3 win over St Louis on of the ninth against Cardinals hurler tom of the third inning. That was San riders in very good shape. But our level is high.” The Thursday and into baseball’s World Series. Michael Wacha, who hadn’t pitched in 20 Francisco’s first home run since Belt’s 18th- pressure is off Marquez this weekend after he secured Ishikawa’s three-run homer gave San days because of shoulder trouble. With one inning homer in the marathon game two of this year’s world title last weekend in Japan but he Francisco the victory in the best-of-seven out Brandon Belt walked to bring Ishikawa the division series at Washington on National League final four games to one. to the plate. After taking two balls from October 4. Panik’s homer came off St. Louis has yet to win at Phillip Island in the premier class The Giants will face American League Wacha, Ishikawa powered a 96 mph (154 starting pitcher Adam Wainwright, but San after winning in the 125 race in 2010. “Today we champions Kansas City for Major League kph) fastball into the seats above the right Francisco’s other two came after the focused on working with the new tyres that Baseball’s World Series crown, with the field wall. The Giants were already celebrat- Cardinals lifted their ace, even though he Bridgestone have brought for this circuit, which are Royals hosting game one on Tuesday. ing as Ishikawa rounded the bases, and he retired the last 10 batters he faced. totally different from what we have used for the rest San Francisco are back in baseball’s was greeted at home plate by a celebratory Morse, batting for pitcher Madison of the year,” Marquez said. championship showcase for the third time mob of team-mates. Bumgarner, led off the eighth with his “This is also a circuit that requires a very exact set- in five years. They won the title in 2010 and game-tying homer off reliever Pat Neshek. up, because it has some very fast corners. “In the 2012 and will be gunning for the eighth Ishikawa atones Bumgarner, who was named most valuable afternoon practice session we took a step forward and championship in club history. “It doesn’t It was redemption for Ishikawa, who had player of the series, retired the last 13 bat- get any better,” Giants manager Bruce misjudged Jon Jay’s drive in the third ters he faced after giving up home runs to I felt much better on the bike, but I think we have to Bochy said after his players won their third inning, making a vain leap for the ball that Matt Adams and Tony Cruz in the fourth keep working because there are still things that we straight game. “What a group. No one has sailed over his head for a double that inning, which gave the Cardinals a 3-2 lead can improve.” Italian Ducati rider Andrea Iannone was any will stronger than us.” Ishikawa’s hero- scored a run and put the Cardinals up 1-0. “I that held up through seven innings. “I was 0.2s down on Lorenzo in fourth and he was also flung ics followed an eighth-inning solo shot by was trying to be short to the ball,” Ishikawa just making pitches with conviction,” off his bike in the afternoon session. Andrea Dovizioso Giants pinch-hitter Michael Morse that tied said. “I knew he (Wacha) threw hard. I’d Bumgarner said. “I knew it would be a dog- (Ducati Team) and nine-time world champion Rossi the game 3-3. never seen him before, but I knew he had a fight. We did a great job of battling back.” (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) both finished the day St Louis threatened in the top of the good fastball and changeup. It was a good Wainwright had seven strikeouts, including inside the top six, while Marquez’s Repsol Honda ninth, but with the bases loaded Giants pitch after taking two in. I was just short to three in the sixth inning when he retired relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt induced pinch- the ball and let the rest happen. “This is a Buster Posey, Sandoval and Hunter Pence teammate Pedrosa was 10th.—AFP hitter Oscar Taveras to ground out to end great feeling,” Ishikawa added. “I can’t even on 13 pitches.—AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 Golovkin trying to keep KO streak alive v Rubio LOS ANGELES: Gennady Golovkin puts his time for GGG and will lead to the winner of Angeles. The bout with Rubio at the StubHub Association featherweight world title against unbeaten record and World Boxing Cotto/Canelo fighting him or vacating the Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson- Jamaican Nicholas Walters. Donaire, who has Association middleweight world title on the WBC title,” he said. “How some people rate home of Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles won titles at 112, 118 and 122 pounds, has line today against resilient Mexican Marco Cotto over GGG at 160 is beyond me. Galaxy-sold out quickly. Extra seats and a recently lacked the dominance he enjoyed in Antonio Rubio-with an eye toward even big- “Nobody that I have spoken to thinks he standing-room section were added-a sign an outstanding 2012 - when he went 4-0 ger things ahead. A victory for the hard-hit- would have a chance against GGG.” not only of Rubio’s ability to draw a large fol- with two knock-outs in world title fights. He’ll ting Kazakh star, 30-0 with 27 of those victo- Although Golovkin offers plenty of fireworks lowing of Mexican-American fans but also of be making his first defense of the feather- ries coming by knock-out, could get him in in the ring, he eschews the pre-bout baiting Golovkin’s growing popularity. Rubio, 34, weight title he won in Macau in May, when line to face the winner of the projected fight and trash-talking beloved of many fight fans. brings a 59-6-1 record to the bout. Since a he defeated South African Simpiwe Vetyeka between World Boxing Council champion Trainer Abel Sanchez told the Los Angeles 2012 loss to Julio Cesar Chavez jnr he’s 6-0, in a fight that ended in an anti-climactic Miguel Cotto and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in Times that when he first met Golovkin, he although none of those fights were against technical decision. In Walters he’ll be taking Las Vegas in May. Golovkin’s brutal three- didn’t believe he could be vicious in the ring. top-flight middleweights. “He’s got power. on a hard-hitting fighter hungry for success round demolition of former champion Daniel “He’s too well-mannered,” Sanchez said, He’s got a very good left hand,” Golovkin in his first world title fight. Donaire brings a Geale of Australia at Madison Square Garden although that assessment changed when he said. “He does a great job in his fights and record of 33-2 with 21 knock-outs to the in July was his 17th successive knock-out-a began training Golovkin in California. “When he’s got a good record. I know it’s not an easy fight, while Walters, fighting for the second streak stretching back to 2008. he hit the mitts, I felt it all over, down to my fight for him or for me. But the fans will really time in the United States, is 24-0 with 20 But he has yet to fight on a major money- toes,” Sanchez said. Golovkin, who launched enjoy it.” knock-outs. “He’s a very powerful puncher,” spinning pay-per-view television card, and at his professional career in Germany after win- Donaire acknowledged. “Anybody can see 32 he’s eager make that leap. Promoter Tom ning a silver medal at the Athens Olympics, Tough defense for Donaire that. And that’s what we’re looking out for Loeffler certainly believes Golovkin should be spent much of 2013 training with Sanchez at On the same card, Nonito Donaire of the is his power. I mean, I have the same there. “Rubio is clearly the best move at this Big Bear, in the mountains east of Los Philippines defends his World Boxing thing.”—AFP Manning closing Laird, Cink share PGA in on TD record LOS ANGELES: Peyton Manning has one of the NFL’s most Tour Las Vegas lead revered records in his sights tomorrow, but the Denver Broncos quarterback insists the only number that interests him is a win- ning score against San Francisco. Manning needs three touch- Golf-Birthday boy Els grabs lead in Hong Kong down passes to break Brett Favre’s career record of 508. “It’s not something we talk about as an offense,” says Broncos tight LAS VEGAS: Scotland’s Martin Laird got off to a hot start and Smith matched Els’ 65 while the big-hitting Hend helped end Julius Thomas. “Peyton doesn’t talk about it. We just keep held on to share the first-round lead with Stewart Cink on his cause with a bogey-free 66 that included two birdies on playing football.” Thursday in the US PGA Tour’s Shriners Hospitals Open. Laird each nine of the Fanling course being used for the co-sanc- The 49ers, who boast the league’s second-ranked pass and Cink both carded seven-under par 64s and were one tioned European and Asian Tour event. “It’s one of those golf defense in terms of yards allowed, are keen to make sure stroke in front of Scotland’s Russell Knox. It was a further courses where you can’t overpower the golf course,” he said. Manning’s latest milestone doesn’t come against them. “Big stroke back to a group of six players on 66: Australian Jarrod “You just have to take your ticket and wait for your number challenge. Huge task. A tremendous offense. Great quarter- Lyle, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and Americans Bo Van Pelt, to come around before you make a birdie and that’s how you back. That competitive challenge is something that I think our Brian Stuard, Andrew Svoboda and Sam Saunders. have to look at it.” India’s Randhawa, who opened with a 64, team, our defense, will be up for,” 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh The second tournament of the US tour’s 2014-15 season struggled to a 70 to fall into a share of fifth place with 10 oth- said, although injuries have taken a toll on San Francisco. sees Lyle in action for the second straight week-his first starts er players. Defending champion Miguel Angel Jimenez, bat- Already without linebacker NaVorro Bowman, pass rusher since twice receiving treatment for leukemia. He finished tied tling a stomach bug, fired 70 to miss the cut on two-over. Aldon Smith and nose tackle Glenn Dorsey, San Francisco’s for 31st last week after qualifying for the season-opener, and is “These two days, I walk the golf course like a phantom,” the defensive unit trained Wednesday without linebackers Patrick playing this week on a sponsor’s exemption. Organizers didn’t four-time champion admitted. “My condition is not 100 per- Willis and Jimmie Ward because of injuries. quite squeeze in the entire first round at TPC Summerlin, cent. Of course, I will come back next year. I love this Injuries limited cornerbacks Perrish Cox, Chris Culliver and where darkness halted play with three players still to finish. place.”— Agencies Chris Cook in practice. “I still see a well-coached team, a disrup- Laird, who held the halfway lead in Napa, California, last week, tive front and guys making plays in the secondary,” said birdied three of his first four holes. Manning, who threw three touchdown passes in a 31-17 victo- ry over the New York Jets last week. The 49ers have allowed He added back-to-back birdies at eight and nine, and nine touchdown passes so far this season-four of them in a 28- capped a bogey-free round with birdies at 15 and 18. Laird, 20 loss to Chicago. But Manning has only once been held who claimed his last US Tour title at the 2013 Texas Open, under 200 yards since joining the Broncos in 2012, and perhaps capped his round with a 40-foot birdie bomb at the final hole. more impressively, he’s thrown at least one touchdown pass in “It was nice to see that one go in,” Laird said. “I missed a bunch every single game with them. That 37-game touchdown streak of opportunities on the back nine, putted great on the front is the longest of his career, one that was shrouded in doubt and hit it actually better on the back than I did the front nine, after multiple neck surgeries sidelined him all of 2011. That he is just kept missing eight-, 10-footers.” Cink also played without now closing in Favre’s record “just speaks to the work ethic and a bogey, nabbing five of his seven birdies on the back nine. attention to detail he’s had his entire career,” Thomas said. “Well, 64 is good for anybody, I think, but on the first day of Manning’s opposite number, Colin Kaepernick, will try to keep the year, you don’t really ever know what’s going to come out, the 49ers rolling after a Monday night win over St Louis. the first day of the season,” said Cink, whose last victory came Kaepernick has passed for 10 touchdowns with four intercep- at the 2009 British Open. “I just kind of was patient and waited tions this season and added 242 yards on the ground. He knows for a good stretch, and a good stretch happened.” the game will put him in the spotlight with Manning. “I think we’re two people trying to lead our team to victories,” he said. Els grabs lead in HK “At the end of the day, that’s what we do.” In another development, four-times major winner Ernie Els celebrated his 45th birthday in style, firing a five-under-par 65 Streaking Cowboys to grab a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Hong Kong The streaking Dallas Cowboys, coming off a stunning tri- Open yesterday. The South African started the day two shots umph over the Super Bowl champion Seahawks in Seattle, take behind overnight leader Jyoti Randhawa before sinking four on NFC East division rivals the New York Giants, who are aim- birdies in five holes from the 13th to reach nine under for the ing to bounce back from a humbling loss to Philadelphia. The tournament, two shots ahead Raphael Jacquelin, Scott Hend Eagles trounced the Giants 27-0, New York’s offense, guided by and Cameron Smith. Eli Manning, produced 254 yards to the Eagles’ 448. Manning, “I played quite nicely and 65 is what I needed to do,” said younger brother of Peyton, said it’s crucial that the Giants Els, who had two more birdies to offset a lone bogey on the bounce back before going into their bye week. “We are playing par-four fourth, something he blamed on a lapse of concentra- in Dallas,” the Giants quarterback said. “They are playing great tion. “The fourth hole was a bit of a bummer but, you know, I football. It is in the division. This is a big one for us.” In other feel like my game’s right there. “I’m looking forward to the rest division match-ups in week seven, San Diego host Kansas City of the week and obviously in a good position,” Els said as he LAS VEGAS: Martin Laird reacts after sinking a birdie putt and Seattle try to bounce back from the loss to Dallas when prepared for a quiet birthday celebration. “I won’t have any on the 18th green during the first round of the Shriners they visit St Louis.—AFP alcohol to celebrate but I’ll have a bit of cake and relax back at Hospitals for Children Open golf tournament on Thursday, the hotel and see what we do for dinner tonight.” Oct 16, 2014. — AP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 Pistorius should serve at least ‘ten years in prison’

PRETORIA: Prosecutors called yester- 20 years after the end of white-minor- sponsors. He lost all his money. He day for South African Olympic and ity apartheid rule, wealthy whites can has nothing. There is nothing left of Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius to be still secure preferential justice. Masipa this man,” Roux said. “He wants to jailed for at least 10 years for killing is only the second black female judge make good as far as possible. Serious his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day last in South Africa. “We shouldn’t fail the regard should be given to a commu- year, and sentencing in his sensation- parents. We shouldn’t fail society. nity-based sentence so something al trial was set for Tuesday. Pistorius, Society may lose its trust in the good can come out of this.” whose lower legs were amputated as court,” Nel said. Nel said that house arrest or com- a baby and who was long admired as The trial has been one of the most munity service would be “shockingly an inspiration for disabled people, closely watched of its kind in history disproportionate” with the crime. was convicted of culpable homicide with viewers gripped by the dramatic Pistorius, known as “Blade Runner” last month for the shooting of Reeva fall of a man widely admired as a sym- because of the carbon-fibre prosthet- Steenkamp, a 29-year-old law gradu- bol of triumph over adversity. ics he uses on the track, escaped the ate and model, at his luxury home. Steenkamp’s parents said after last murder charge when Masipa ruled Pistorius said he mistook Steenkamp month’s verdict that “justice was not the state failed to prove he intended for an intruder. served” when Pistorius avoided the to kill when he fired four 9mm rounds “The minimum term that society more serious murder charge, which into the toilet cubicle. Pistorius wiped will be happy with will be 10 years would have meant a compulsory jail tears from his eyes as Roux con- imprisonment,” chief state prosecutor term. demned the media for “attacking” the Gerrie Nel said at the close of a five- Pistorius offered the Steenkamps double-amputee athlete with “lies” day sentencing hearing in Pretoria. $34,000 from the sale of his car in what about the night of the shooting as “This is a serious matter. The negli- his defence team said was a sign of his they encouraged the public to gence borders on intent. Ten years is sorrow at the pain he had caused believe he deliberately murdered the minimum,” Nel told the court. them. Reeva’s mother, June, rejected Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa is to sen- what she called “blood money”, the “He was denigrated. It must be tence the 27-year-old Pistorius on court heard this week. Nel said this punishment in itself to be called a Tuesday, ending a six-month trial that was not a genuine display of remorse. ‘cold blooded murderer’,” Roux said, has been televised from start to finish, “The offer is nothing but an attempt to referring to one newspaper headline Afrah Adel captivating millions around the influence sentence,” he said. written before the verdict. Nel coun- world. tered by saying Pistorius “loved” the The defense and prosecution Community service media when they covered his athletic Crown Prince teams spent much of the hearing Defense attorney Barry Roux earli- triumphs and he could “never be a arguing over whether Pistorius er said the double-amputee sprinter victim” because he was responsible tournament should go to jail or be punished with should be given community service for his own downfall. The head of the a suspended sentence, house arrest because he had shown remorse and prison service Zach Modise told the ends in style or community service. Legal experts been punished enough since he shot court on Thursday that Pistorius are split on the likely outcome. A non- dead Steenkamp through a toilet would be committed to the hospital custodial sentence would be likely to door in his Pretoria apartment. “He wing of one of South Africa’s tough- By Abdellatif Sharaa spark public anger, fuelling a percep- was an icon for what he has achieved. est prisons if he is sentenced to jail tion among black South Africans that, He’s lost everything. He lost all his term. —Reuters KUWAIT: Kuwait Shooting Sports Club will celebrate the conclusion of HH the Crown Prince FIFA controversial report Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Tournament today at Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad can’t be published in full Olympic Shooting Complex, in the presence BERNE: The report into the turbulent as FIFA presidential candidate Jerome indeed a combination of these possi- of Hawally Governor Lt bidding process for the rights to host Champagne, a decision which Eckert bilities,” he said. “This decision is General (Rt) Sheikh the next two World Cups cannot be said fell exclusively to him and his exclusively a matter for the adjudica- Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al- made fully public for legal reasons, deputy Alan Sullivan. Speaking in tory chamber (of the ethics commit- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. though excerpts of it may be, FIFA’s London on Monday, Garcia criticized tee) — neither the investigatory President of the Arab and ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert FIFA for not conducting its ethics chamber nor the FIFA Executive said yesterday. Eckert is still studying investigations in an open manner and Committee can decide. The main Kuwait Shooting the report produced by his counter- called for the report to be made pub- requirement is that personal rights Federations has praised part Michael Garcia into whether lic in line with “the goals of the must not be damaged.” HH the Crown Prince on Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf there was corruption in the process reform process”. Eckert added: “Publishing the behalf of the Shooting Al-Ahmad which led to the 2018 tournament report in full would actually put the Community for his major being awarded to Russia and the Garcia findings FIFA ethics committee and FIFA itself contributions and contin- 2022 event to Qatar, and expects to However, Eckert said that Garcia in a very difficult situation legally. ued support. issue a statement on his findings by had not called for full publication of “What is more, we have to respect the Al-Otaibi said that the Crown Prince tournament that mid-November. “The statement will the findings. “Michael Garcia has nev- personal rights of the people men- lasted three days covered all Olympic disciplines in the contain an overview of the investiga- er said that the report should be 100 tioned in the report, which in the case Clay target, Rifle and Pistol and Olympic Archery. He said a tion report, a summary of the main percent published. He merely said of full publication of the report would large number of shooters from the club, sports, police fed- findings, conclusions and recommen- that the ‘appropriate’ publication of in all likelihood not be possible.” FIFA erations and UAE shooting association participated in the dations of the report, as well as a brief his report should be authorized,” and Qatar World Cup organizers have tournament, as the number of shooters reached 250. He evaluation of the same,” Eckert said in Eckert said. “The deputy chairman of been fending off allegations of cor- added that “the results of the tournament were satisfacto- an interview published on FIFA’s the adjudicatory chamber and I now ruption ever since the Gulf state was ry and will enable the technical departments to prepare a website. have the task of drawing up this awarded the 2022 tournament nearly suitable plan for upcoming events.” One of his tasks would be to appropriate form for publication. four years ago. Qatar, which has Al-Otaibi invited shooting fans to attend the activities at decide which parts of the report “Part of my current examination repeatedly denied the allegations, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex, as could be made public, he added. involves deciding what form this has also been criticized over its treat- doors will be open from 9 am and 2 pm. Results of the first Eckert cannot strip either Russia or appropriate publication should take, ment of migrant workers who work in day were as follows: Double Trap Men: Hamad Al-Afasi, Qatar from hosting their tournaments whether this means issuing a state- the construction industry. The 2018 but can press charges against individ- ment regarding the investigation tournament was awarded to Russia as Hamad Al-Mijrin, Saad Lafi Al-Mutairi; Rifle 10m Men: uals. Several members of FIFA’s own report or whether certain parts of the part of the same bidding process Mohammad Adel, Khalid Al-Subaie, Abdullah Al-Harby; executive committee have called for investigation report will be published which culminated in December Pistol 10m Men: Hamad Al-Namshan, Saad Nuhaiqan, the report to be made public, as well while maintaining anonymity, or 2010.— Reuters Hassan Al-Mulla. SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 Record-breaker Messi defines Barca’s golden era

BARCELONA: Lionel Messi may lack a World friendly against Juventus at the Nou Camp, the has a breathtaking scoring record. It includes Germany but he has started this season with Cup for Argentina but his 10 years with Italian coach Fabio Capello remarked: “Bring me hitting 73 goals in the 2011-12 season, over 400 renewed vigor and he has a new target in his Barcelona have seen him rewrite the history this little devil, I’ve never seen a kid of his age be goals for club and country in all competitions, sights as he aims to beat Telmo Zarra’s La Liga books and become symbolic with the club’s so tricky, he looks like Maradona.” and he is now closing in on the all-time Spanish scoring record of 251 goals established during golden era. Long before Messi made his debut scoring record. Last season under coach Tata his 15 years at Atletico Madrid in the 1940s and for the Catalan club, coming on as a late substi- Team leader Martino all the major trophies escaped Barca 1950s. Messi has scored 249 league goals and tute in the local derby with Espanyol on Oct 16, Initially he was in the shadow of Ronaldinho and Messi was not at his best and a disappoint- could break the record on Saturday when Barca 2004, aged 17, news had spread that Barca had a but he quickly established himself as a leader of ing domestic season was followed by even play Eibar. If he doesn’t do it then, it won’t be player in their renowned La Masia youth acade- the team as the Brazilian’s career at Barca ended greater disappointment at the World Cup. long before he does it somewhere else because my that was out of the ordinary. Sports newspa- prematurely due to a lack of discipline and his Seeking to emulate Maradona’s 1986 World the incredible career of one of football’s all-time pers in Spain had reported that there was an enjoyment of the city’s night life. Messi’s most Cup success, Argentina fell at the final hurdle to greats is far from over.— Reuters Argentine youngster who could be the new memorable goal is that against Getafe in 2007, Maradona and take the world by storm but few which again sparked comparisons with would have imagined what an impact he was Maradona as it was very similar to the latter’s Spanish league table going to make in the game and for Barcelona in mazy dribble against England in the World Cup particular. in 1986. MADRID: Spanish league table ahead of this weekend’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals The fact he arrived in Barcelona at all is Starting on the right of midfield he left a suc- against, points): thanks to the perseverance of his father Jorge, cession of Getafe players in his wake before who having exhausted the options of clubs in rounding the keeper and scoring. It was follow- Barcelona 7 6 1 0 19 0 19 Valencia 7 5 2 0 17 4 17 Argentina, that would not pay or could not ing the arrival of Pep Guardiola as coach in 2008 Sevilla 7 5 1 1 13 8 16 afford the growth hormone treatment the that Messi really came to the fore as the talisman Real Madrid 7 5 0 2 25 9 15 diminutive Lionel needed, looked overseas to for the most successful period in Barca’s history. Atletico Madrid 7 4 2 1 12 7 14 Spain. Barcelona’s then technical director Carles With Guardiola introducing the discipline that Celta Vigo 7 3 3 1 12 10 12 Villarreal 7 3 2 2 10 7 11 Rexach needed little time to be convinced by had been lacking under the laid-back Frank Espanyol 7 2 3 2 9 8 9 the 13-year-old’s potential and famously scrib- Rijkaard, Barca went on to win three successive Eibar 7 2 3 2 8 7 9 bled a quick contract on a serviette at the league titles as well as the Champions League in Almeria 7 2 3 2 7 7 9 Malaga 7 2 3 2 5 7 9 Pompeia tennis club with the player’s agents. 2009 and 2011 - as well as plenty of other silver- Rayo Vallecano 7 2 2 3 10 12 8 From there Messi, now 27, quickly passed ware. “Messi is a competitive being, one day I Granada 7 2 2 3 5 11 8 through the youth ranks before he made his will be able to look back and say that I trained Getafe 7 2 1 4 4 11 7 Real Sociedad 7 1 2 4 8 11 5 first-team debut. His first goal came with a deli- Leo. He will break all the records,” said Guardiola Elche 7 1 2 4 7 16 5 cate chip in his sixth appearance in the final when he was Barca coach. Levante 7 1 2 4 4 15 5 game of the season against Albacete. He went Athletic Bilbao 7 1 1 5 4 11 4 Cordoba 7 0 4 3 4 11 4 on to be named player of the tournament as Scoring records Deportivo La Coruna 7 1 1 5 8 19 4 Argentina won the 2005 Uunder-20 World On a personal level Messi has been voted Championship and ahead of the new season in a World Player of the Year on four occasions and

Spain coach plans to quit No let-up for Pardew after Euro 2016 as Leicester await BARCELONA: Spain coach Vicente del Bosque has confirmed that he plans to stand NEWCASTLE: Alan Pardew has ‘Euphoria and dark days’ down after La Roja bid for a third successive said there’s no respite from the Pardew’s rollercoaster reign triumph at Euro 2016. “In life you cannot be pressure he is under at has seen a fifth-place finish fol- absolutely sure about anything but it is my Newcastle United despite the lowed by a grim battle for intention to continue until France 2016 and recent international break. Premier League survival in the then leave,” Del Bosque told Spanish news- Pardew is set to celebrate his space of 12 months in what has paper As. “In my case, the federation will 700th game in permanent man- been an at-times turbulent four make a smooth transition and my plan is to agement today but said the mile- years. He has come under remain involved in football and with the fed- increasing fire from supporters stone will count for little if he is eration.” Del Bosque is in the process of for a run that has seen just five left with the more unwanted sta- rebuilding the Spain team following their league victories since the end of tistic of leading the north-east World Cup disappointment in Brazil. The December, that despite securing reigning champions failed to progress from club to its worst start in Premier a top-10 finish in May. “I’ve man- the group stage and it led to veterans Xabi League history. Failure to beat aged in three tiers of English Alonso, Xavi and David Villa all announcing Leicester City will post an eighth football, and as a manager you their international retirements. They have game without a victory at the have real ups and downs,” begun qualifying for Euro 2016 with a new outset of the campaign, one Pardew added. “There’s euphoria youthful side that has registered two victo- more than the current low in and some real dark days, which Alan Pardew ries and a loss so far from qualifying Group C. 1999. I’ve had recently here. “You have Spain won their first game against Pardew has enjoyed a spell to try to show a consistency in international duty. Gabriel Robson had left and did not Macedonia before slumping to defeat at the out of the limelight during the what you do. It’s not really a time Obertan will start back-to-back expect to be in work so quickly. It hands of Slovakia but they then beat recent top-flight hiatus due to for reflection for me this week, Premier League games for the was a great experience for me. Luxembourg, where Chelsea’s Diego Costa internationals, but the 53-year- because Leicester is so important first time since January 2013 “It’s a big club and there were a hit the back of the net for the first time for his old conceded the pressure was for this football club. after Pardew confirmed the lot of good things about them. It country. The Brazil-born player had been in already starting to build again “All I’m focused on is getting French winger will retain his was unfortunate that I worked rich form for his club where he had nine from ahead of the sell-out clash with the win we need for this city and place from the side that drew 2-2 for three managers so it goes to nine games but it took seven matches for the Foxes at St James’ Park. “I the club.” Goalkeeper Tim Krul is at Swansea City last time out. show the expectation of the club. him to register a goal for Del Bosque’s side. don’t think it’s about things set to retain his ever-present For Leicester manager Nigel I still know a lot of people that Spain won the European Championships in calming down,” Pardew said. “We Premier League status this sea- Pearson this is a return to the worked for the club and look for- 2008 and 2012 playing a quick-passing game haven’t won a game yet and son after recovering from an club where he was on the coach- ward to seeing them.” Leicester and Del Bosque still fully believes it is the that’s exactly what we need to elbow injury. Pardew will moni- ing staff from 2006 to 2008 and have a near fully fit squad with best way. “Experiments with the national do. We’re paid to win games, not tor Senegal forward Papiss Cisse had two spells as caretaker man- only Matt Upson missing. team are almost impossible as there is no to draw them or to be honorable and Ivory Coast midfielder ager. “I look back at my two years However, Riyad Mahrez and margin for error,” said Del Bosque. “We are losers, so we need a victory. Cheick Tiote with the duo sched- at Newcastle with good memo- Jeffrey Schlupp may be rested helped by the players that we have but we “That being the case, the pres- uled to return to training a little ries,” he said. “It was an appoint- following late returns from inter- are looking for more depth without losing sure is very much on me and the over 24 hours before kick-off fol- ment that came out of the blue. I national duty with Algeria and defensive solidity.”— Reuters team. We shouldn’t shirk that.” lowing their arrival back from had left West Brom as Bryan Ghana respectively.— AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

Matches on TV Chelsea seek Palace coup (Local Timings) LONDON: Chelsea head to London rivals ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Crystal Palace today eager to maintain or English Premier League table even extend their five-point lead at the Man City v Tottenham 14:45 top of the Premier League table as domes- LONDON: English Premier League table ahead of this weekend’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): beIN SPORTS 1 HD tic action resumes after the international beIN SPORTS 11 HD break. Palace surprised Chelsea, and the Chelsea 7 6 1 0 21 7 19 rest of the league, by winning last season’s Man City 7 4 2 1 14 7 14 SPANISH LEAGUE corresponding clash and Blues captain Southampton 7 4 1 2 11 5 13 John Terry has dismissed talk that this sea- Man Utd 7 3 2 2 13 10 11 Levante v Real Madrid 17:00 son’s title-race is already done and dusted. Swansea 7 3 2 2 10 8 11 beIN SPORTS 2 HD Tottenham 7 3 2 2 9 7 11 “Clearly it (the title race) is not over,” he West Ham 7 3 1 3 12 10 10 beIN SPORTS 14 HD said. “Other teams have been in this posi- Arsenal 7 2 4 1 11 9 10 Barcelona v SD Eibar 21:00 tion. It’s nice to have the lead but when Liverpool 7 3 1 3 10 10 10 you’re at the top everyone wants to shoot beIN SPORTS 2 HD Aston Villa 7 3 1 3 4 9 10 you down. Hull 7 2 3 2 11 11 9 beIN SPORTS 14 HD “That’s the good thing about the Leicester 7 2 3 2 11 12 9 Cordoba v Malaga 23:00 Premier League and why everyone loves it. Sunderland 7 1 5 1 8 7 8 beIN SPORTS 6 HD Teams are out to get us because we are at West Brom 7 2 2 3 8 9 8 the top and playing well.” Defending Crystal Palace 7 2 2 3 10 12 8 Stoke 7 2 2 3 6 8 8 ITALIAN LEAGUE champions Manchester City, currently sec- Everton 7 1 3 3 13 16 6 ond, are at home to Tottenham Hotspur Newcastle 7 0 4 3 7 14 4 Roma v Chievo Verona 19:00 and on-loan midfielder Frank Lampard has Burnley 7 0 4 3 3 10 4 beIN SPORTS 3 HD told his team-mates to be wary of a revital- QPR 7 1 1 5 4 15 4 Sassuolo Calcio v Juventus 21:45 ized Spurs. “They may go through a slight beIN SPORTS 3 HD transitional period but I was very as far as Koeman is concerned, his country today. Yet it is Queens Park Rangers, who impressed with their manager (Mauricio missed their chance to install him as man- welcome Liverpool to Loftus Road tomor- Pochettino) when he was at Southampton GERMAN LEAGUE ager when they opted for Guus Hiddink row, who are bottom of the table. and if he can bring the same imprint on following Louis van Gaal’s post-World Cup There has been growing speculation Bayern v Werder Bremen 16:30 Tottenham, who arguably have more departure to Manchester United. “I hope that QPR’s owner, Malaysian businessman beIN SPORTS 4 HD quality within their squad, they’ll do really to stay here for my whole contract, but it’s Tony Fernandes, could sack veteran man- well. They are a good side.” Hannover 96 v Borussia M 16:30 football,” said Koeman, who signed a ager Harry Redknapp. But QPR centre-half Yet one of the success stories of the beIN SPORTS 7 HD three-year deal with the Saints. “There’s Rio Ferdinand, who made his name at season so far has been the way in which certainly no chance to move now out of West Ham under Redknapp, urged Stuttgart v Bayer 04 16:30 south coast side Southampton, despite Southampton. “I was interested in that job, Fernandes to remain patient. “We are not beIN SPORTS 6 HD losing their manager and several key play- because when I left Feyenoord I was nomi- even in double figures for the amount of FC Koln v Borussia Dortmund 16:30 ers to top-flight rivals, have nevertheless nated to be the national coach but the games played yet,” former Manchester flourished under new manager Ronald beIN SPORTS 3 HD federation chose Hiddink.” United and England star Ferdinand said. Koeman to be third in the table ahead of Schalke 04 v Hertha Berlin 19:30 Arsenal face Hull in a repeat of last sea- “To push the panic button now would be their match at home to Sunderland today. son’s thrilling FA Cup final where the crazy in my eyes. Harry still comes across beIN SPORTS 4 HD Such has been the impact the former Gunners came from 2-0 down to win 3-2 to me as a fighter and a man with a lot of Dutch international has made at St Mary’s and so claim their first major trophy in fight left in him.” After a shaky start, FRENCH LEAGUE there have been calls for him to take nine years. Both newly-promoted Burnley Manchester United under van Gaal are charge of the Netherlands national side, and struggling Newcastle have yet to win now fourth and amongst the Champions Lorient v Saint Etienne 18:00 who have lost two of their opening three beIN SPORTS 5 HD in the Premier League this season but they League places. They will look to hold on to Euro 2016 qualifiers after finishing third at will each look to put that right at home to that position when they travel to West beIN SPORTS 14 HD this year’s World Cup in Brazil. West Ham and Leicester respectively Bromwich Albion on Monday.— AFP Lille OSC v Guingamp 21:00 Koeman vows to stick with Saints - But beIN SPORTS 6 HD Monaco v Evian Thonon 21:00 Lampard eager to face Tottenham again beIN SPORTS 5 HD Nantes v Stade de Reims 21:00 MANCHESTER: Manchester City mid- good side. said: “The reality is I don’t remember the beIN SPORTS 1 HD fielder Frank Lampard believes “I’m sure their aim is to get into the results. “This is another season, another Tottenham Hotspur are a much tougher Champions League, but it won’t be easy philosophy, another game and we need proposition since Mauricio Pochettino and there is a lot of competition and to arrive today with the idea to believe took over as manager. Premier League there are a lot of teams all trying to in our philosophy and style and try to Wenger hopes champions City welcome the perennial achieve the same goal.” Lampard, who get the points,” the Argentinean added. ‘nearly men’ to Eastlands today with revealed earlier this week he will not “It’s history and it’s a different game, dif- retired England international Lampard seek to extend his loan spell from New ferent players. It’s not important now to for Hull repeat looking to add to the eight goals he York City FC beyond January, was think in the past. It’s important to look scored against Tottenham during 13 named City’s player of the month for forward. I don’t have any concerns LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is looking forward to years at London rivals Chelsea. However, September earlier this week. And he about these results.” rekindling the memory of one of the Gunners’ greatest days in the 36-year-old former England interna- said he can scarcely believe how well life Tottenham have struggled for consis- their recent history when they face Hull at the Emirates Stadium tional claims City’s opponents today are has gone for him at City so far. “If some- tency in during the current campaign today. Wenger’s side came from two goals down to beat Hull 3-2 more formidable since former body had said I would be voted player but they head to Manchester unbeaten in last season’s FA Cup final as the north London club won their Southampton boss Pochettino became of the month by the fans in my first full away from home this season and boost- first trophy in nine years. Tottenham’s head coach during the month playing I would have had difficul- ed by the victory over Southampton last The veteran French boss is convinced that after strengthening close season. ty believing them,” added Lampard, time out. “We arrive in a good moment,” his squad in pre-season with the arrival of Alexis Sanchez, Danny “I’ve done well against Spurs over the who has scored four goals in his last five said Pochettino. “After our victory Welbeck, Mathieu Debuchy and Calum Chambers, his team is years and playing them was always a big appearances for City. against Southampton we need to keep now better equipped to challenge for more silverware. Defeat at game at Chelsea,” Lampard said. “Even the momentum, to reproduce the same Chelsea immediately before the international break brought an when I was at West Ham, Tottenham Heavy defeats actions and to try to get the three end to Arsenal’s unbeaten start to the Premier League campaign were big rivals so I’ve always seen it is a Manuel Pellegrini, the City manager, points.” Tottenham will give late fitness and left them in eighth position, nine points behind Jose big game and something to mark on the is set to be without French star Samir tests to winger Nacer Chadli (hip) and Mourinho’s side who head the table. But Wenger said: “We won calendar and that doesn’t change now Nasri as he continues his recovery from goalkeeper Hugo Lloris (groin) while the FA Cup with a difficult run, but we managed to deliver the I’m at City. “I think they’ll be up and a groin injury and he will also check on Emmanuel Adebayor will start against trophy and it makes us stronger, more confident and I believe we around the top six this season. “They the fitness of midfielder Fernandinho, his former club despite struggling for will have a strong season.” may go through a slight transitional who has a hamstring problem. goals this season. The Togo striker has The international break brought more injury problems for period but I was very impressed with Pochettino has dismissed concerns scored just once in the Premier League Wenger with France defender Laurent Koscielny aggravating an their manager when he was at Spurs could be carrying the scars of two this term but Pochettino said: “I am Achilles problem and Mesut Ozil ruled out for around six weeks Southampton and if he can bring the heavy defeats by City last season. Spurs very happy with his performances. “It’s with knee ligament damage. Germany international suffered the same imprint on Tottenham, who were beaten 6-0 in the corresponding difficult for when the striker doesn’t injury during the Chelsea game but Wenger denied any misman- arguably have more quality within their fixture last while the 5-1 home loss was score, but we have full confidence in agement of the playmaker’s condition. —AFP squad, they’ll do really well. They are a no less embarrassing. But Pochettino him.”—AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

GERMAN LEAGUE PREVIEW Di Matteo begins Schalke reign

BERLIN: Roberto di Matteo begins his reign as Bundesliga’s top three to guarantee their December. They have leaked 15 goals in their result left Bayern four points clear and they are Schalke 04’s coach today by attempting to Champions League place next season. The last three visits to Munich. Bayern had some hunting a fifth-straight win before next week’s turn around the Royal Blues’ fortunes when Swiss-born Italian says there are “no miracles bad news in mid-week as Spain midfielder Champions League trip to play AS Roma away. they host Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga. in football” but he is Schalke’s fifth coach in Thiago Alcantara faces a fresh operation after In contrast, Borussia Dortmund badly need to Despite having qualified for the Champions five years and is under pressure to get results re-injuring the medial ligament in his right get their Bundesliga campaign back on track League, Schalke are 11th in the table and quickly. knee. Even with the likes of Bastian when they play Cologne away today with brought in former Azzurri star di Matteo to At the top of the table, Bayern Munich are Schweinsteiger, Franck Ribery and Javi Jurgen Klopp demanding a fresh start from his replace the sacked Jens Keller. Keller’s 22- out to add to their four-point lead when they Martinez on the long-term injury list, Bayern squad. “For us, the rest of the season starts month tenure ended last week after his side host bottom side Werder Bremen at the coach Pep Guardiola has plenty of strength in now,” he said in Thursday’s press conference. took eight points from their first seven games Allianz Arena today. Bremen have taken heavy depth. Poland striker Robert Lewandowski and Dortmund have won both of their opening and their 2-0 defeat to Hoffenheim was the beatings at the hands of the Bavarians in their Netherlands winger Arjen Robben both scored Champions League matches to top their final straw. Having won the Champions last three games having been trounced 5-2 in two goals each as the Bavarians trounced group, but their Bundesliga form has deserted League title with Chelsea in 2012, di Matteo Munich last April and 7-0 in Bremen last Hanover 96 4-0 in Munich two weeks ago. The them. They are winless in their last four league has trained Schalke behind closed doors and matches to drop to 13th-their worst start to wants a good start against Hertha, who are the domestic season for five years-and need a 12th in the table. “We want to play a well- German Bundesliga table booster before playing Galatasaray away on organized game in defense and attack,” said Wednesday in Europe. “We clearly have too Di Matteo. “We have a lot of attacking poten- BERLIN: German Bundesliga table ahead of this weekend’s matches (played, won, drawn, few points and not enough positive results, tial, but we have to improve our organization. lost, goals for, goals against, points): everyone is hoping the boys will give 100 per- “I am really looking forward to the game, Bayern Munich 7 5 2 0 15 2 17 Augsburg 7 3 0 4 8 9 9 cent on the pitch,” said Klopp. “But we mustn’t the stadium is amazing and the atmosphere Hoffenheim 7 3 4 0 11 6 13 Schalke 04 7 2 2 3 11 12 8 believe that we’ll automatically win every will be unbelievable but it’s important to get a B M’dbach 7 3 4 0 9 4 13 Hertha Berlin 7 2 2 3 11 14 8 game now.” Germany midfielders Marco Reus good start after the international break.” The B Leverkusen 7 3 3 1 13 11 12 B Dortmund 7 2 1 4 9 12 7 and Ilkay Gundogan, plus Arminia’s Henrikh 44-year-old has two home games in quick suc- E Frankfurt 7 3 3 1 12 10 12 Cologne 7 1 3 3 4 6 6 Mkhitaryan are working their way back to fit- cession as Schalke host Sporting Lisbon in Mainz 05 7 2 5 0 10 6 11 Freiburg 7 0 5 2 7 10 5 ness with Gundogan having last played for their Champions League group on Tuesday VfL Wolfsburg 7 3 2 2 11 8 11 VfB Stuttgart 7 1 2 4 6 12 5 Dortmund 14 months ago after a back injury. with Schalke are third in the table. Di Matteo Hanover 96 7 3 1 3 5 8 10 Hamburg 7 1 2 4 2 8 5 “It looks really good, they are all available and has set the goal of progressing to the knock- Paderborn 7 2 3 2 10 10 9 Werder Bremen 7 0 4 3 10 16 4 it looks like they will all be able to play again out stage in Europe and finishing in the soon,” added Klopp. — AFP

SPL PREVIEW ITALIAN LEAGUE PREVIEW Juve go to Sassuolo as Celtic need to be braver

Roma remain defiant GLASGOW: Celtic captain Scott Brown has called got to come out and it is not always the best on his Celtic teammates to be braver as they bid thing.” With two defeats and two draws from their MILAN: Champions Juventus travel to transfer market with a view to the to bounce back from their disappointing start to opening eight fixtures, this has been the worst struggling Sassuolo today looking to Champions League.” Both Roma and the season. The Hoops lost to newly-promoted start to a season Celtic have suffered since 1998. maintain their lead at the top of Serie Juve are expected to rest key players Hamilton Academical in their previous match Celtic’s poor form has heaped pressure on man- A, while nearest challengers Roma whenever possible this weekend before the international break to leave the ager Ronny Deila, who only replaced Neil Lennon insist the fight for the title has just ahead of midweek Champions League begun. Juventus moved three points clashes against Bayern Munich and Scottish champions in sixth place in the table. in the summer, but he has backed his players to clear at the summit two weeks ago Olympiakos respectively. Next up for the Scottish champions is a trip north bounce back against Ross County today. after a bad-tempered 3-2 win over to face bottom side Ross County today and mid- “The Ross County game is very important. We Roma in Turin which saw the Mazzarri in spotlight fielder Brown says the Celtic players must work want to bounce back at once and it’s going to be a Bianconeri concede their first goals of Inter host Napoli in the pick of harder to produce better results. “We’ve got faith hard match but I feel we are improving all the the campaign. Despite their defeat, tomorrow’s fixtures when home coach that we can go up to Dingwall today and win,” time,” Deila said. “I saw their game against Roma goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis Walter Mazzarri will be firmly in the the Celtic skipper said. “We’ve got to start well, Inverness and they were very good in the first half. insists the top-of-the-table clash spotlight. Mazzarri steered Napoli to a we’ve got to take our chances and we’ve got to They had a lot of chances and were pressing them showed Massimiliano Allegri’s men the runners-up spot in 2013 but has strug- believe that we can do it. very hard and with good intensity. “It will be an capital club are a force to be reckoned gled to work his magic with the “There are a lot of good players in the dressing intense game and we need to get the ball down with as they prepare to host Chievo Nerazzurri, who recently dropped to room and we do believe that we’re a good team, and get the tempo up, create chances and defend today. 10th place following consecutive and we’ve got to back ourselves and believe. well at all times.” Celtic have been boosted ahead “We don’t want to finish second, we defeats to Cagliari (4-1) and Fiorentina “We’ve got to be braver on the ball, we’ve got to of the match by the return from injury of Charlie want to win (the league). We can do it, (3-0). Inter’s recent woes prompted work harder as a group and we’ve got to know Mulgrew, Mikel Lustig, Adam Matthews and we realised that after seeing their reac- club president Erick Thohir to demand when to close down or when to sit off as well. We Callum McGregor. Leaders Hamilton could move tion,” De Sanctis said in an interview affirmative action, and French mid- can’t go running about here and there for 90 min- provisionally nine points clear of Celtic if they beat with Gazzetta dello Sport on Thursday. fielder Yann M’Vila said the Indonesian utes because it’s hard. “We’ve got to press teams Aberdeen, while Dundee United, in second, enter- Almost a fortnight after an explosive tycoon’s message had been loud and better but we’ve been working on that on the tain Partick Thistle today. — AFP encounter that saw five goals, three clear. training ground and we’ve just got to look for- penalties and two red cards as well as “Yes, we certainly got the presi- ward now and be as positive as possible.” The the sending-off of Roma coach Rudi dent’s message,” M’Vila told Sky Sport Scottish Premiership table Garcia, the dust has yet to settle. De during the international break last defeat to Hamilton was their first to the Sanctis on Thursday repeated allega- week. “The mental approach is some- Lanarkshire club since 1938 and ended a two-year tions, notably by Giallorossi captain thing we have to work out between us, unbeaten run at home in the league. GLASGOW: Scottish Premiership table ahead of Francesco Totti, that Juventus benefit within the team. Next we’ll play against Brown was scathing of his teammates after the this weekend’s matches (played, won, drawn, from favourable refereeing decisions. Napoli at home and we absolutely defeat, accusing them of “hiding”. And after lost, goals for, goals against, points): “You have to know how to lose, but have to win; for ourselves, for our returning from two weeks away on international Hamilton 9 6 2 1 16 5 20 it is hard to accept certain decisions morale, and to stay on course this sea- duty with Scotland the midfielder is adamant he Dundee Utd 9 6 1 2 18 12 19 when you have the feeling you’re not son.” Rafael Benitez’s Napoli will feel was right to hit out at his fellow players. “I have Inverness CT 9 5 2 2 13 8 17 playing on an equal footing,” said the confident of causing an upset at the definitely calmed down but I still believe what I Kilmarnock 9 5 2 2 12 7 17 ‘keeper, who played for Juve at the San Siro tomorrow having strung two said was right,” the Celtic captain said. “I am not Aberdeen 9 5 1 3 16 12 16 start of his career. While the champions consecutive wins together following a going to change my thoughts on getting beat Celtic 8 4 2 2 15 7 14 have steadfastly rejected the accusa- three-game winless run. The visitors’ and being angry. “I said everyone was hiding, not Partick 8 3 1 4 13 12 10 tions, Juve defender Angelo Ogbonna cause will not be harmed by Inter’s just some. Dundee 9 2 4 3 9 12 10 went on the charm offensive when he growing injury list. Striker Pablo Daniel “You have to be disappointed and have it in St Johnstone 9 3 0 6 6 12 9 told Sky Sport: “We don’t underesti- Osvaldo is out for a month, joining a the back of the head that you could have done St Mirren 9 2 1 6 8 15 7 mate any of our opponents. “Roma are casualty list that already includes something better and as a team we should have Motherwell 9 2 1 6 5 15 7 a top side, they’ve done well in the defender Danilo D’Ambrosio. —AFP done something better. “Sometimes the truth has Ross County 9 1 1 7 7 21 4 SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014

MMA’s striking and ground techniques Aikido’s techniques joint locks and throws Kuwait Martial arts: Traditional, Competitive

KUWAIT: When asking someone about martial arts, there is a high probability that their answer would describe individuals wearing special clothing, performing acts ranging from breaking objects to executing some sort of peculiar movements more akin to a dance than to an actual set of “killer” skills. However, a deeper observation would unveil more about martial arts than what meets the eyes. Some systems focus on traditional training without competition while others do the opposite. Martial arts was propelled to the mainstream in the 70s and 80s of the last century through movies like “enter the dragon” starring famous martial artists Bruce Lee. Like the rest of the world, Kuwait caught up with the global martial arts boom with many people seeking to train in various styles. One of the traditional approaches to martial arts could be found in Aikido. Developed by Japanese Morihei Ueshiba early in the twentieth century, Aikido was con- ceived as a method to carry on the tradition of the Samurai warrior tial arts until I met Sensei Izumi,” Al-Zaidi said. Al-Zaidi added that Bossairy told KUNA that he began his involvement in MMA through and also to protect oneself and assailants from harm using joint Sensei Izumi treated him like any other individual, a thing that his original martial art of Jeet Kune Do developed by the late Bruce locks and throws. encouraged him to carry on learning Aikido. Lee in 1967. Reflective of the peaceful ethos of Aikido, the Jin Yuu Gi Kuwaiti- On competitive martial arts, Al-Zaidi argued that competition “Jeet Kune Do was conceived as a martial art that uses all that is affiliated Dojo (training hall) was established by late Sensei (instruc- was a means to preserve tradition of some martial, adding that “A effective,” Al-Bossairy explained his MMA transition, indicating that tor) Hiroaki Izumi (1954-2013) on the principle of promoting this martial art like Kendo Japanese fencing-came to existence as a way unlike traditional marital arts, MMA encouraged an endless art. “Aikido is the art of peace,” said senior practitioner and instruc- to preserve some aspects of Kenjutsu-the art of swordsmanship.” improvement on part of the practitioner rather than sticking to spe- tor Ahmed Zakzouk during an interview. On the reason why he Aikido is not only for those with no martial arts background, it also cific molds of a certain martial arts discipline. “Considering that chose Aikido, Zakzouk said that Aikido was not founded on the attracts people seeking a more traditional approach. Hilmi Emad modern MMA events are sanctioned and rules-based, I don’t see it concept of winning as in the case of competitive martial arts. “At Ayyash, a former Taekwondo and Kick-boxing practitioner, said as brutal as others might say,” said Al-Bossairy, adding that the this moment, we need to stop fighting and Aikido is perfect to that he began studying Aikido due to his desire to step away from amount of injury in MMA was the same as any other competitive achieve such goal,” Zakzouk said, adding that this particular martial competitive martial arts. Ayyash said that he started Aikido with sport or even less. art allowed people from all backgrounds and abilities to train. Sensei Izumi and he had a conflict when he began due to the sud- Sharing the same enthusiasm, mixed martial artist and team On his part, senior student Saud Al-Zaidi said that he gravitated den transition to traditional training. member Mohammad Al-Otaibi said that he began his involvement to Aikido through late Sensei Izumi. “I had difficulties in doing phys- In contrast with Aikido’s traditional approach, the ever-growing in martial arts through practicing Karate and Kung Fu. In 2008, Al- ical activities which prevented me from continuing any sort of mar- competitive style of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) was established Otaibi started his MMA career. He said that this new path he had through the idea that techniques that work in the ring or the street chosen was coinciding with what he deemed as a “revolution in should be practiced. To loosely explain MMA, imagine a martial art martial arts”. “Like my partner Al-Bossairy, I’ve started my MMA that incorporates some skills in boxing, Karate, Muay Thai (Thai career with Jeet Kune Do, but then we sought more experience in a Boxing), Judo, Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ), and so on. MMA more open method,” said Al-Otaibi who indicated that MMA was was brought to the attention of the mainstream masses with the truly a unique take on the concept of martial arts. first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a martial arts tourna- When asked if MMA was ultra-violent, Al-Otaibi said that box- ment which was held November 12, 1993 in Denver, Colorado, as a ing, sometimes called the “noble art”, had caused more cerebel- platform to pit disciplines against each other. lar damage and head injuries due to the fact that most strikes are The UFC’s beginning was brutal with fewer rules, causing some targeting the head; therefore, MMA should not be accused of US politicians such as John McCain to deem it as “human cockfight- being brutal. He also affirmed that MMA was not competition ing”. Despite the initial stigma, MMA has grown worldwide and is centric as many believe, there are people who are practicing this now, a sanctioned martial art sport which attracts millions of fans art for their own pleasure and to gain more experience. With all and practitioners. In Kuwait, MMA found its’ footing in the martial that have been said, the fact remains that martial arts will contin- arts scene with many gyms dedicated to the art opening as well as ue to evolve in the future and whether traditional or competitive, events being held locally for its enthusiast. One of the rising stars of it will always be a means to refine humans through spiritual and MMA in Kuwait and head coach of (Team Be Water) Ahmed Al- physical training. — KUNA Pistorius should serve at least ‘10 years in prison’ 43 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 OCTOBER SATURDAY, SportsSports

FOXBOROUGH: New York Jets running back Chris Ivory (33) goes over the top for a touchdown in the third quarter of an NFL football game against the New England Patriots on Thursday, Oct 16, 2014. —AP Pats stave off Jets to a record win

FOXBOROUGH: After New England held off the said, “but at this point we need a win, period.” plays to 53 for the Patriots. But New York set- Shane Vereen, a 49-yarder far behind the sec- struggling New York Jets, usually reserved The Jets (1-6) dropped their sixth straight tled for four field goals by Folk when they got ondary on the Patriots’ fourth offensive play Patriots coach Bill Belichick praised two of his game, the longest losing streak in Rex Ryan’s six inside the Patriots 30-yard line on each of and a 3-yarder. players who have dealt with some tough times. years as coach. “We’re not going to sit here and their first four possessions. “We had a couple Then he connected with Amendola for the Chris Jones blocked Nick Folk’s 58-yard field goal sulk about losing the games because that’s of big penalties in the red zone that hurt us,” 19-yard score with 7:49 left. “That was a great attempt on the final play of the Patriots’ 27-25 going to make things worse,” Smith said. The Ryan said. “It looks like we are good enough kind of ad lib,” Brady said of the Amendola win over the Jets on Thursday night. This time, Patriots (5-2) have a 1 1/2-game lead in the AFC to win and then we make too many mistakes.” play. “He ran a little return route and then the defensive tackle didn’t commit a penalty as East over Buffalo. “We started off the year 0-1 so when he saw me scramble (he) broke it up he did last season on Folk’s failed 56-yard try in 5-1 since is not bad,” said Tom Brady, who threw Rushing advantage field like we talk about all the time and he overtime that gave the kicker another chance - a three touchdown passes and has nine with no The Jets also had a big advantage in the made a great catch.” 42-yarder that gave the Jets a 30-27 win. interceptions in his last three games. “Hopefully, ground game, running 43 times for 218 yards “It was so fitting that he made that play” we can be a lot better.” Some more things to compared to 15 carries for 63 yards for the Time to rest Thursday, Belichick said. “That was awesome.” know from the Patriots’ win: Patriots, who lost Stevan Ridley for the season The Patriots wasted little time getting on a Danny Amendola hasn’t lived up to the $28.5 last Sunday with a knee injury. Chris Ivory led roll with three wins in 12 days after a 41-14 million, five-year contract he signed before last Top kickers New York with 107 yards on 21 carries and a 1- loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Now they have season but caught a 19-yard touchdown pass - Folk’s miss, two yards further than the longest yard touchdown run that gave them a 19-17 the weekend off before preparing for the sec- just his fifth reception this season - that gave the field goal of his career, was his first of the season lead six minutes into the fourth quarter. “The ond of three straight home games, against the Patriots a 27-19 lead. “Nobody works harder than after making 13 straight. “It felt pretty good off offensive line did a great job pushing those Chicago Bears. “We’re ready for a little break,” Danny,” Belichick said. “He’s a really competitive my foot,” he said. “I did kick it low, in order to guys back and giving us lanes to run,” Ivory safety Devin McCourty said. “We can go into kid, tough.” That the outcome wasn’t decided give it enough to get it there.” Stephen said. Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork this long weekend and be happy.” The Jets until the final play was a surprise. The Jets hadn’t Gostkowski made both his field-goal attempts expected the Jets to rely on the running also have a somewhat brighter outlook after won since their opener and Geno Smith was last for the Patriots and is 18 for 19 this season. attack. “You run the ball 30 or 40 times, you consecutive games against top teams and star in passer rating in the NFL. But he completed 20 are going to have a little success,” he said. quarterbacks. Thursday’s loss followed a 31-17 of 34 passes for 226 yards, one touchdown and Wasting time setback to Peyton Manning and the Denver no interceptions. “We can take a lot of positives The Jets had a nearly 2-to-1 advantage in Brady’s touchdowns Broncos. None of New York’s next seven from this,” New York wide receiver Eric Decker time of possession, 40:54 to 19:06, and ran 80 Brady completed two touchdown passes to opponents has a winning record.— AP