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They heldsmalldemonstrations atseverallocations, The internationalcommunitymeanwhile,pressedboth SUBSCRIPTION Islamist backersofEgypt’sdeposedpresident 150 Fils citing Qaedathreats AUDY UUT3 03 AAA 5 44A No:15889 1434 AH SATURDAY, RAMADAN25, AUGUST 3,2013 US issuesglobalalert, Washington closesembassiesinMuslimworld Continued onPage 10 in friendly Inter Milan Chelsea blank nents abroad, and thecollapseof made himaneasy targetforIran’soppo- caustic hardlineoutsider. they enduredforeightyearsunder the doubtless hopingforbettertimes than clerical establishment-toreplace him, mannered, moderatemember ofthe Iranians electedhisopposite - amild- few friendsandanuncertainfuture. Ahmadinejad leavesthepresidencywith groomed himforpower,Mahmoud lated fromthesupremeleaderwho home forIran’seconomicwoesandiso- attacks againsttheWest,blamedat DUBAI: 48 Ahmadinejad’s abrasiverhetoric US joblessratefalls Ahmadinejad stepsaside to afour-yearlow Vilified abroadforhisblistering victory thatrocked thenationtoitscore. pulling through adisputedre-election actor ontheIranian stage,ontheway obscurity tobecomethemost visible 2005, Ahmadinejadrosefromnear total scruffy beardandill-fittingsuits. deeper thanthesmallman with the may soonfindthatitsproblems go transparency inthewayIranisruled rapprochement withtheWestormore improvement inthequalityoflife,swift at home.Butthosehopingforarapid agement madehimamagnetforblame tional sanctionsanddomesticmisman- economy undertheweightofinterna- Since hisshockelectionvictory in PAGE cized theObamaadministrationoverembassysecurity,said threat,” Pelositoldreporters. threat. “Thereissomeunderstandingoftheseriousness said thatcongressionalleadersreceivedabriefingonthe Obama’s DemocraticPartyintheHouseofRepresentatives, after tomorrow.NancyPelosi,theleaderofPresidentBarack some embassiesorconsulatesmaydecidetoremainclosed their websitessayingthattheywouldbeclosedtomorrow. as US-runfacilitiesinIsrael.Themissionspostednoticeson Muslim non-Arabnations-AfghanistanandBangladesh-aswell Arab worldandalsoincludetwoembassiesinpredominantly many Islamiccountries.Themissionscovervirtuallyallofthe least 22USembassiesorconsulatestomorrow,aworkdayin structure.” to attackpublictransportationsystemsandothertouristinfra- for UScitizens.Thealertwarnedof“thepotentialterrorists August,” theStateDepartmentsaidinaworldwidetravelalert duct attacksintheperiodbetweennowandendof region andbeyond,thattheymayfocuseffortstocon- organizations continuetoplanterroristattacksbothinthe emanating fromtheArabianPeninsula.” Middle EastandNorthAfrica,possiblyoccurringinor Department saidattackswerepossible“particularlyinthe would beclosedtomorrowasaprecaution.TheState announcing thatsometwodozenembassiesorconsulates Department issuedthecautiontoUScitizensadayafter the MiddleEastorNorthAfricathismonth.TheState yesterday warningofplansbyAl-Qaedatolaunchanattackin WASHINGTON: Hotter temperatures ‘lead tohottempers’ Representative JasonChaffetz,aRepublicanwhohascriti- US StateDepartmentspokeswomanMarieHarfsaidthat As aprecaution,theStateDepartmentsaiditwasclosingat “Current informationsuggeststhatAl-Qaedaandaffiliated The UnitedStatesissuedaworldwidealert Eshaa: 20:04 Eshaa: 18:39 Maghreb: 15:30 Asr: 11:54 Dohr: 03:41 Fajer: 03:31 Emsak: Supreme Leader AyatollahAli search asthat of hisformersponsor, three timesasmanyresultsin a Google and populistbeliefs.Hisname gives through hischarisma,simple lifestyle tionalists andtheworking classes created acultfollowingamong tradi- Jerusalem. devoted toopposingIsraeliruleover declared onQudsDay,anannualevent and itwilluproottheZionistentity,”he God thataferociousstormiscoming was vintageAhmadinejad:“Iswearto His finalspeechaspresidentyesterday Mocked byprogressiveIranians, he Continued onPage10 Continued onPage10 Min Max PAGE 34º 48º LOCAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

NBK hosts Girgian for Zeina Friends Club members

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) recently held a Girgian event for Zeina Friends Club at KidZania at the Avenues mall. All Zeina Friends Club members were invited to celebrate Girgian at the kid-centric city KidZania. Children enjoyed many fun activities. The event also witnessed distributing hundreds of valuable prizes and gifts. Towards the end of the evening, each child was given a specially packed Girgian gift from NBK. Zeina account provides children until 14 years old with their first bank account, to learn about saving and banking with the help of their parents. Zeina Friends Club was the first club in Kuwait established in 1994 for young children. Zeina account holders can also partic- ipate in other fun events held year round, as well as benefit from many offers especially designed for them. For further information visit Kuwait. As the leading bank in Kuwait, NBK ing and financial responsibility. NBK’s branch at deposit and withdraw ‘KidZos’, the national www.nbk.com, or call Hala Watani at 1801801. provides all bank activities in the kid-centric Kidzania introduces children to a unique expe- currency which kids can earn, spend, save and NBK is the first to partner with KidZania city to teach children real life aspects of bank- rience in basic banking services so they can invest through the NBK branch and ATMs. Zain provides worshippers with prayer essentials at mosques

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications com- Ahmadi; and Abu Bakr mosque in Jahra. pany in Kuwait, announced yesterday that its dedi- The company made an extra effort to provide bev- cated team of volunteers distributed gifts to worship- erages and ice cream free of charge to those praying pers at mosques across the country on the occasion at the Grand Mosque (Masjid Al-Kabir) and Aqla Al- of the last 10 nights of Ramadan. The aim of the ges- Dhafeery mosque, allowing the undertaking of ture is to help the faithful to re-focus their thoughts prayers in more comfortable circumstances. and time while praying on the last remaining nights Zain has celebrated the month of Ramadan of Ramadan. through ongoing social activities that create a vibrant This initiative is one of many charitable and and uplifting religious experience for everyone humanitarian activities that Zain conducts annually involved. The company is committed to its Corporate to foster an even more spiritual environment during Social Responsibility activities that are based on help- the blessed month of Ramadan. During Ramadan the ing all members of society. It is worth mentioning company managed to provide comfort to worship- that this year Zain is providing an extensive array of pers performing their Qiyam prayers at: Al-Fares and programs during the holy month, including the dis- Al-Saddah mosques located in Kuwait City; Al- tribution of daily Iftar meals; the circulation of 2,000 Muzzaini and Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah mosques in the “Machla” boxes; visitations to an orphanage, elderly Hawalli district; Zabbin and Betlla mosques in care center, and special needs center; as well as the Farwaniya; Duaij Salman Al-Sabah mosque in hosting of Girgian events at 360 Mall. LOCAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 MPs agree to focus on ‘developmental issues’ Conflicts-free parliament

By A. Saleh constitution, which was made ment plans until the end of the year recently by constitutional law pro- or of the company’s privatization KUWAIT: A number of MPs agreed fessor at the Kuwait University Dr process has been finalized before during a recent gathering to focus Obaid Al-Wasmi. “We at the Salafist that. on ‘reinforcing’ the parliament’s leg- movement believe that the current The five directors had filed retire- islative and supervisory role through constitution has the minimum limits ment papers to go into effect by the steps that include avoiding post- [of constitutional rights], contains end of the month in protest against ponement of a grilling motion’s contradictory clauses, and with time what they believed was ‘release debate unless if necessary. The six- has become part of Kuwait’s political orders’ made against colleagues teen lawmakers gathered on an invi- problem after once being part of the who lost retirement benefits as a tation from MP Saadoun Al-Otaibi to solution”, member of the move- result. According to sources with his diwaniya in Surra, and agreed to ment’s political office Abdullah Al- knowledge of the meeting, board KUWAIT: The Envoy of His Highness the Amir of Kuwait focus on ‘developmental issues’ and Daie said in a statement. He members Nabila Al-Anjari, Jassar and Advisor to the Amiri Diwan Mohammad Abdullah that the upcoming cabinet should announced that the Salafist move- Al-Jassar and Mohammad Al- Abulhassan delivered yesterday an official invitation to include ministers with clear vision ment is ready to “discuss its own Khateeb met with the protesting the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn to and work programs plus being capa- vision on a new constitution in case officials and were able to convince attend the Arab-African Summit in Kuwait. The summit is ble of state management duties. political movements agreed to work them to put their plans on hold for scheduled to take place in Kuwait between Nov 18 and 20. And while they have reportedly seriously together to put the basis the time being. Chairman of the agreed to nominate ‘specialized’ for a way out of the political crisis Board Sami Al-Nisf and Chief MPs for membership of parliament’s through a new constitution”. Executive Officer Ahmad Al- committees, the MPs did not discuss Kraibani attended the meeting, said List of ministers any of the senior assembly post Visas on hold the sources who spoke on the con- which includes the speaker, deputy Nearly 320 complaints have been dition of anonymity. ‘almost ready’ speaker, secretary and supervisor. filed by companies with the Ministry KUWAIT: Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- “We are seeking a conflicts-free of Social Affairs and Labor regarding Valet parking Sabah met MPs Thursday as part of discussions that pre- parliament”, said MP Marzouq Al- visitor’s visa transactions which they The Ministry of Health signed a cedes selection of members of his cabinet that is set to Ghanim who competes for speaker- say are put on hold for no specified contract with a local company to swear in in front of the Amir on Monday before attending ship with MPs Ali Al-Rashid, Ali Al- reason despite meeting require- provide a valet parking at public the parliament’s inaugural session the following day. Omair and Roudhan Al-Roudhan. ments, said ministry insiders with hospitals, starting with the On that regard, sources familiar with the meetings said “We are committed to support who- knowledge of the case. Farwaniya Hospital in the very near that the premier made it clear that he “will not fall under ever gets elected to senior posts”. Minister of Social Affairs and future. This announcement was pressure” regarding certain names to be excluded from or Meanwhile, MP Essa Al-Kandari Labor Thekra Al-Rashidi announced made by Director of the Farwaniya included in the cabinet’s formation. And while adding that voiced his objection to statements last April a decision to suspend Medical Zone Dr Jamal Al-Sultan, the new formation is “almost ready”, the sources indicated of fellow lawmakers in which they issuance of visitor’s visa with excep- who indicated that the new service that the cabinet is likely to be announced tonight featur- rejected the reinstatement of cer- tion given to experts, consultants will be available for a KD1 fee, and ing five changes. The sources spoke to Al-Qabas on the tain ministers. “Selecting ministers is and people with high academic will be made easier with the pres- condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to the sole right of HH the Prime qualifications. But according to the ence of a multistory parking lot speak about discussions regarding the cabinet’s formation Minister, and a minister cannot be sources who spoke on the condition located near the outpatient clinics without permission. judged before his performance is of anonymity, 2,175 transactions with a 230 vehicles capacity. So far, Defense Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Khalid Al- assessed inside the parliament”, he that meet the specified condition Sabah has heavily been discussed to be leaving the cabi- said in a statement Thursday. have been put on hold for three Saudis in Kuwait net along with Health Minister Mohammad Al-Haifi “for Al-Kandari also revealed that he months pending the minister’s sig- There are at least 133,000 Saudi whom the prime minister is already looking for a succes- was not approached on a minister’s nature. “Hundreds of complaints nationals working in Kuwait; 70 per- sor” according to the sources. Meanwhile, Al-Qabas report- job as per the constitutional stipula- have been filed by companies cent of whom are employed in the ed yesterday that former minister Sheikh Mohammad Al- tion by which the premier is whose businesses have been nega- Interior Ministry and the military, a Sabah has turned down an invitation to take over the required to include at least one tively affected by the inactivity at senior official at the embassy of finance ministry in place of deputy premier Mustafa Al- elected member in his cabinet. the minister’s office”, the sources Saudi Arabia in Kuwait said recently. Shamali; who according to an Al-Rai report is likely to be Likewise, MP Dr Mansour Al-Thufairi said, adding that these complaints The Saudi workforce in Kuwait, retained only as the oil minister. urged lawmakers to ‘cooperate’ with are yet to be addressed as well. which also includes female teachers In the meantime, HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak could the government and wait to see the in public schools, is part of around also face a dilemma finding a replacement for Minister of government’s work program before KAC dilemma 140,000 in three Gulf states which Justice, Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Sharida Al- passing early judgment. A meeting led by board members are Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, said Maousharji who could not be returning to the cabinet In another news, the Islamic of the Kuwait Airways Corporation official at the Saudi nationals’ affairs according to reports. On that regard, government sources Salafist Movement welcomed a call was successful in convincing five division at the Saudi Embassy, Saied said that the ‘Awqaf’ minister’s post has always been for a public referendum on a new directors to postpone their retire- Al-Maliki. sought by Salafist and Muslim Brotherhood politicians in Kuwait given the large financial assets it operates. The sources who preferred to keep their identity anonymous CBK Braille Quran Campaign ‘huge success’ said that the position garner much importance now in light of the current development in Egypt and the financial KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait announced that support that the Muslim Brotherhood there requests. a campaign to collect donations to print copies of the Holy Meanwhile, Al-Rai quoted government sources who Quran in Braille during Ramadan was a huge success, reiterated that the cabinet formation is almost ready as the thanking the Kuwait Society for the Blind for their coopera- premier is currently mulling ruling family members to tion. appoint at the interior and defense ministers’ posts. “The campaign garnered a lot of praise since it was Regarding the elected minister, the sources who spoke on launched at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan the condition of anonymity said that the post is likely to benefit Muslims both inside and outside Kuwait”, going to be offered to MPs Essa Al-Kandari or former minis- Assistant General Manager - Public Relations and Media ter Dr. Maasouma Al-Mubarak. Al-Jarida reported in the Department Amani Al-Waraa said in a statement. meantime that MP Sultan Al-Shemmary refused an offer to The campaign is funded by donations the CBK makes join the cabinet, preferring work at the parliament where for each transaction done using its ATM services, without he is set to debut on Tuesday. In other news, lawyer any deductions made from the clients’ accounts. It comes Mubarak Al-Mutawa announced plans to challenge the as part of the CBK’s annual program of charity and humani- elections results in the near future, claiming to possess evi- Amani Al-Waraa tarian activities. dence for “vote buying operations.” LOCAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Thaw in Kuwait-Iraq ties 23rd anniversary of invasion

BAGHDAD: After 23 years of Saddam Hussein’s occupation sary of the disastrous war without the sanctions as per the Saddam Hussein’s regime,” Spokesman of the Iraqi Prime of Kuwait on Aug 2, 1990, the subsequent Kuwait liberation UN Security Council resolutions based on Chapter VII of the Minister Ali Al-Moussawi said on the occasion. Al-Moussawi war and years of post-war tension, relations between the two UN Charter. “The anniversary falls this year after the two cited His Highness the Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Arab neighbors are witnessing remarkable improvement. For countries have closed a lot of outstanding files due to their Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah’s recent visit to Iraq and the the first time since the occupation and after settling almost governments’ determination to restore good neighborly cooperation agreements signed during the visit as example all outstanding issues, the Iraqis observe the 23rd anniver- relations that were gravely damaged by the actions of of the remarkable progress the relations. “The Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations are excellent and a clear example of the ability of countries to overcome disputes if genuine will existed on both sides,” he said. Kuwait and Iraq signed on June 12, six agreements and memorandums of understanding following official talks between Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber and his Iraqi counterpart Nouri Al-Maliki. The agreements cover a wide array of domains, including education, scientific research, aviation, economy, culture, transport and environment. For his part, Iraqi Vice-President Khodair Al-Khuzai echoed a similar view. “Relations between the two countries are developing and bilateral cooperation are expanding to cover all domains,” he said. Al-Khuzai admitted that the tension was running high between the two Arab nations during the era of Saddam Hussein. “But since the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, the new Iraqi regime sought better relations with Kuwait and had taken several steps towards confidence- building.” “However, the most remarkable development of relations took place this year, when Kuwaiti government played an important role in ending Iraq Chapter VII status.” On June 27, The UN Security Council on voted unani- mously to get Iraq partially out of Chapter VII of the UN Charter, transfer the files of the missing Kuwaitis and proper- ty under the responsibility of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), and put an end to the 1999 post of the High- Level Coordinator for those files. The Council transferred those two humanitarian issues, under Chapter VI, to UNAMI’s attention, taking into consideration the Kuwaiti conditions aimed at having the files constantly under Council review. Meanwhile, Basra Provincial Council Member Ahmed Al-Sulaiti expressed hopes “Iraq and Kuwait would manage to reach final settlement to all pending issues” He also applauded the positive stances of both governments which show the reality of the new relationship between the two countries. MP and a member of Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Committee Hakim Al-Zamili told KUNA that “Iraq’s removal from Chapter VII is a good step towards complete restoration of its status and role in the region.” He went on to say that “Iraq only needs to pay the remaining part of the agreed upon compensations to Kuwait to close this chapter of its history and resolve the problems caused by the wrong policies of Saddam Hussein.” He described the Iraq’s relations with Kuwait as historical and deep-rooted. Zamili underlined the importance of dialogue and negotiations between the two neighbors to iron out dif- ferences. Ali Al-Shallah, senior leader of the ruling State of Law Coalition, said that “after Iraq’s exist from Chapter VII, relations with Kuwait had come back on the right track.” “The Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations are now better than before particularly after the recent reciprocal visits of the top officials for both nations.” — KUNA

Interior minister names security chiefs, assistants 25) The one who led Quraish at the battle of Uhud KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister was... Sheikh Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has appointed security chiefs and assistant in governorates of A) Abu Sufyan Farwaniya, Mubarak Al-Kabeer, Hawally and Ahmadi. The minister named the brigadiers Faraj Al-Shemmari B) Abu Lahab and Mohammad Al-Deyeen, respectively, as chiefs of securi- C) Abu Jahl ty directorate-general of Farwaniya and Mubarak Al-Kabeer. He also appointed Brig Ali Al-Enezi as Al-Farwaniya’s security assistant director-general. According to the Ministerial decision (No. 1187/2013), the colonels Nafea Al-Enezi, Abdullah Al-Ajmi and Ali Al-Merri were promoted to serve as security assistant director generals, respectively, in Mubarak Al-Kabeer, Hawally and Ahmadi. — KUNA LOCAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 No injuries in Salwa fire

By Hanaan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: A fire broke out at a Salwa apartment Thursday afternoon and was successfully tackled without any reported injuries. Firefighters were divided into two teams after arriving at the scene; one whose job was to evacuate residents of the 4-storey building while the other tackled the blaze. All residents were successfully evacuated without injuries including a person who was saved from flames inside the burning flat. A case was filed to investigate the circumstances behind the fire. Meanwhile, the firefighters’ report indicates that wooden ‘walls’ placed to separate apartments into rooms inside each flat had helped spread the fire as well as make firefighters’ mobility more difficult.

Drug dealer nabbed A taxi driver was arrested in Jahra Thursday examined the scene. A case was filed to investi- with possession of drugs. The man was gate the circumstances which led to the acci- ordered to pull over by two traffic patrol offi- dent. KUWAIT: The Salwa apartment in which fire broke out on Thursday. cers; who grew suspicious when they noticed that he was nervous. After checking the man’s Fake policeman ID, police noticed a plastic bag on the passen- A man was arrested Thursday on charges of ger’s seat. They investigated it and found mugging pedestrians while impersonating a One killed, three injured amounts of hashish and marijuana. The man police detective. An Asian man filed a case at who peaded guilty was referred to the proper the Saad Al-Abdullah police station, claiming authorities for further investigation. that a driver stopped him in the area and in Gulf Road hit-and-run demanded to see his identity card after identi- Road crash fying himself as a detective. The suspect Man disappears with KD 13,000 A motorist was killed in an accident report- reportedly drove the victim to the latter’s resi- ed at the Abdali Road late Thursday night. dence to get more identities that the man Police and paramedics rushed to a location demanded. He also ordered him to bring his KUWAIT: A man was killed and three others suspect to question him on domestic violence near a military camp where the accident was cell phone and all the cash he keeps in his were seriously injured in hit-and-run accident charges his wife reportedly pressed in reported. The Arab man was pronounced dead apartment. The pedestrian complied, only to reported on the Gulf Road recently. According Ferdous recently. In her statements to local on the scene and paramedics used the help of see the suspect drive away with his phone and to eyewitnesses’ report, the suspect was driving police, the female citizen said that her hus- firefighters to remove his body from the wreck- cash. Investigations eventually led police to the an American-made vehicle in high speed when band brutally assaulted her following a family age of his car. The body was taken to the foren- suspect’s whereabouts and he was put under he hit four pedestrians who were crossing the dispute. She provided a medical report from sic department after criminal investigators arrest. road, killing one and injuring three others. the hospital showing diagnoses for multiple Paramedics pronounced the victim dead on the bruises she said had suffered as a result of the scene and rushed the three to a nearby hospi- attack. A case was filed. tal, while the body was taken to the forensic department after crime scene investigators Escape plan examined the scene. A case was filed for inves- A fugitive thought that iftar time was her tigations to identify and arrest the suspect. best chance to escape the country while border officers would be too busy breaking their Khaitan fight fast, but the officers were too alert to let her A man was hospitalized in a critical condi- plans succeed. The incident took place at the tion following a fight with an armed person Nuwaiseeb checkpoint on the southern bor- who was put under arrest. Police were called to der where the Kuwaiti woman arrived with a location in Khaitan where two people had her family minutes before iftar. She was put engaged in a vicious fight. They found one under arrest after the identity check revealed man, a Bangladeshi national in his thirties, that she is wanted on battery charges. She bleeding from different stab wounds before he was taken to the proper authorities for further was taken in an ambulance to the hospital. His action. attacker, an Egyptian national, was put under arrest and was taken in custody for further No foul play action. Investigations on a man’s death reported at a private farm revealed that foul play could Money stolen not have been the cause of death. The Asian A local advertising company filed a case man was found dead last week in a pool against an employee who reportedly disap- located inside a farm that is adjacent to a farm peared after stealing KD 13,000 in profits. where he worked. The case was initially filed According to the case filed by a company rep- as homicide, but recent investigations con- resentative at the Sharq police station recently, cluded that the man had sneaked his way into the Egyptian man was assigned to collect pay- the farm and dived into the pool without real- ments from candidates for advertising cam- izing that it was five meters deep. paigns during the recent elections. The man was nowhere to be found on time he was sup- Costly picture posed to hand over the money, and police later A photographer was arrested for question- found out that he had already left for his home ing after he snapped photos of a plane while country. Further investigations revealed that landing at the Kuwait International Airport the man had approached his country’s recently. Police officers securing the airport’s embassy to issue a new passport in place for his premises noticed the man stopping his car passport that his company withholds and near the runway at the Sabhan road and tak- which he claimed to have been lost. ing a photo of a plane while landing. The Indian man said that he snapped photos as a Domestic violence souvenir. He was referred to the proper Police are looking to apprehend a male authorities for investigations.

LOCAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

Ramadan Kareem Victories in the month of Ramadan

By Sharafun-Nisa Mohammed Farouk pleasing Allah, it would be then logical that he would vanquish irresponsible, unpunctual, etc, otherwise, their fasting will be his enemy by the will of Allah. Fighting against one’s, desires like an empty shell without a kernel. God says: “...but to fast is amadan is not a month of laziness, irresponsibility and and whims is harder than engaging in a battle against an invet- best for you, if you only knew.” (2: 184) non-accountability as many people think. Those who erate enemy; thus the importance of Ramadan. It should be Rfast should understand that by depriving the body they noted that Islam does not neglect man’s desires and instincts. Question: Ramadan by depriving the body, Muslims actual- are actually enriching the soul. Therefore, fasting in the month Fasting should not be viewed as punishment but rather as a ly...... of Ramadan should be viewed as a blessing and not a punish- blessing from God. After reading some of the victories that a. Enrich the soul. ment. Muslims achieved in Ramadan, it becomes clear that fasting B. Punish themselves Reading about the victories that took place during Prophet should not be an excuse for people to be lazy, tardy, shabby, C. Constrain the devil. Muhammad’s golden era and the succeeding era of his rightly- guided companions as well as our rightly-guided ances- tors, will give us an overview of the way the month of Ramadan has to be treated and the wide range of benefits that accrue to those who fast according to the way Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) prescribed. The following are some of the victories that Muslims during the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and throughout the era of his rightly-guided companions and their followers - were able to achieve in Ramadan: 1- On the seventh of Ramadan of the second year of Hijra (Emigration of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to Medina), Makkanpolytheists assembled with the aim of attacking Muslims in Medina with the malicious aim of uprooting Islam. They numbered approximately one thousand (infantry and cavalry men). Moreover, they were armed to the teeth. They possessed all the means of victory and were confident that they would easily vanquish the Muslim army. As for Muslims, they numbered only three hundred and thirteen. However, a few of them had never been engaged in fighting before. The two sworn enemy armies confronted each other in the battle of Bader (the first decisive battle between Muslims and pagans/polytheists). Allah Almighty bestowed victory upon Muslims as explained in the following verse: “God surely suc- cored you (Muslims) at [the battle of] Bader when you were a contemptible little force; then fear Allah; thus you may show your gratitude.” (3: 123) 2- On the twentieth day of Ramadan of the eighth year of Hijra, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) completed the conquest of Makkah after a prolonged struggle in Medina. He entered Makkah with his companions as a liberator after its inhabitants had driven him away. 3- In the month of Ramadan on the ninth year of Hijra, the tribe of Thaqeef- then among the sworn enemies of Prophet Muhammad - who inhabited the city of Ta’if (about 90 kilometers north of Makkah) embraced Islam in multitudes after being obstinate and strong opponents of Islam and sworn enemies of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Fasting, a catalyst of victories It is very clear that God, the Omniscient, accustomed Muslims since the duty of fasting was prescribed upon them, that if they behaved sincerely with devotion, He would grant them decisive victories beyond imagination. If a Muslim fights against his desires and strives to curb them in that he suc- ceeds in defeating his instincts sincerely by the intention of

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MOSCOW: A street cafe visitor reads a fresh Russian newspaper “Izvestia” with a front page pictures of Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, center, and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, center left, taken on Thursday at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, yesterday. — AP Russia faces US ire over Snowden Whereabouts of Snowden remains a mystery

MOSCOW: Russia yesterday faced the wrath of the United of the airport north of Moscow since flying in from Hong Kong eration,” he added. Obama himself declined to comment when States after granting asylum to fugitive intelligence leaker on June 23. Kucherena said Snowden would eventually emerge pressed by reporters in an Oval Office briefing. Edward Snowden, who was settling into a safe house after over into public view and give interviews but that the fugitive first Putin has yet to comment on Snowden’s temporary asylum. five weeks marooned into a Moscow airport transit zone. required an “adaptation course” after so long in the transit He was due to meet youth supporters at an annual summer The whereabouts of Snowden-who is wanted by the United zone. “He has sorted out where he will live, everything is fine,” camp later yesterday. On Friday the news anchor of Channel States after leaking details of vast US surveillance programmes- Kucherena told the RIA Novosti news agency yesterday. One television, seen as a Kremlin mouthpiece, said it was an remained a mystery with his lawyer refusing to disclose the WikiLeaks said in a statement Snowden is now in a “secure, “open question whether the meeting of the two presidents will location for security reasons. confidential place”. The founder of Russia’s most popular social take place in Moscow in September”. By granting asylum to The White House said it was “extremely disappointed” by network VKontakte-28-year-old Pavel Durov-offered Snowden Snowden, Russia has further strained already tense relations Moscow’s decision to grant Snowden asylum, adding that it a job as a programmer but Kucherena said he was still deciding with the US, analysts said. “The decision to grant Snowden asy- would now review the need for a planned summit between what he would do. Snowden thanked Russia and slammed the lum will in the short-term have a negative influence on Russia- President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin in administration of US President Barack Obama for having “no US relations,” Foreign and Defence Policy Council think-tank September. Nicknamed “the invisible man” by journalists, the respect” for international or domestic law. “But in the end the chairman Fyodor Lukyanov told AFP. Obama is likely to skip a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor on Thursday law is winning,” he said in the WikiLeaks statement. Russia’s Moscow visit but contacts between Russia and the US are walked out of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport unnoticed and decision to award Snowden asylum status came two days after already so limited that any sanctions by Washington would be took a taxi to a secret location. He now has temporary asylum US soldier Bradley Manning was convicted of espionage for largely symbolic, Lukyanov said. Russian lawmakers backed in Russia for a year. On Friday, the pro-Kremlin Life News web- passing US secrets to WikiLeaks. Moscow’s decision, saying it had no alternative but to give site published a photograph showing Snowden smiling broad- The White House warned Russia’s decision could prompt Snowden asylum. “By cutting off the routes for him to fly out, ly as he walked through the airport arrivals area with a rucksack Obama to cancel a planned visit to Moscow for talks with Putin the US left Moscow with no choice,” tweeted Alexei Pushkov, on his back and carrying another bag. ahead of the Saint Petersburg G20 summit. who heads the lower house of parliament’s foreign affairs com- He was shown accompanied by his Russian lawyer Anatoly “We’re extremely disappointed,” White House spokesman mittee. “Any other decision would have been a loss of face for Kucherena and a staff member of WikiLeaks anti-secrecy web- Jay Carney told reporters. “We’re evaluating the utility of a Russia,” a lawmaker for ruling United Russia party, Vyacheslav site, Sarah Harrison, as well as an unidentified dark-haired summit in light of this.” “This move by the Russian government Nikonov, who visited Snowden in the airport last month, told woman. Snowden and Harrison had stayed in the transit zone undermines a long-standing record of law enforcement coop- Kommersant daily. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Iran’s Rouhani misquoted in remarks on Israel

DUBAI: Two days before his inauguration as Iran’s prompted international condemnation. new president, Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that The United States and its allies suspect Iran of Israeli occupation of Palestinian land had inflicted a seeking a nuclear weapons capability. Tehran says “wound” on the Muslim world, according to a seg- its nuclear programme is purely for peaceful pur- ment of his remarks broadcast on Iran’s state-run poses, but Israel regards it as a threat to its exis- Press TV. An earlier report by Iran’s student news tence and refuses to rule out military action. agency ISNA had quoted Rouhani as saying: “The With a more pragmatic president in Iran, Zionist regime is a wound that has sat on the body Western countries may see a better chance for of the Muslim world for years and needs to be diplomacy to lead to a deal to curb Tehran’s urani- removed.” That version echoed the fiercely anti- um enrichment programme and avoid any conflict. Israeli language of outgoing President Mahmoud “The true face of Rouhani has been revealed Ahmadinejad, but was swiftly repudiated by Iranian sooner than expected. Even if they hurry to deny state media, which said unidentified news agencies his words - this is what the man thinks and this is had distorted Rouhani’s remarks. the Iranian regime’s plan of action,” Netanyahu said Press TV then broadcast an excerpt from an in a statement. Rouhani’s words “must awaken the exchange between Rouhani and journalists at a ral- world from the illusion in which part of it is placed ly to mark Iran’s annual Al Qods Day in support of since the Iranian elections”, he declared, saying Iran the Palestinians. “After all, in our region there’s still aimed “to acquire nuclear weapons in order to been a wound for years on the body of the Muslim threaten Israel, the Middle East and world peace”. world under the shadow of the occupation of the “A nation that threatens to destroy the state of holy land of Palestine and the beloved al-Qods Israel must not be allowed to have weapons of (Jerusalem),” Rouhani said in the segment. mass destruction,” he said. Ahmadinejad TEHRAN: An Iranian woman holds an anti-Israeli placard during an annual pro-Palestinian ral- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Israel on Qods Day in his last speech as ly marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, yesterday. Ahead of his inauguration, seized on ISNA’s version of Rouhani’s comments, president. “You planted wind in our region and Iran’s new president yesterday called Israel an “old wound” that should be removed, while saying they showed the reputedly moderate you will reap the storm. I swear to God that a fero- tens of thousands of Iranians marched in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Iranian cleric was as hostile to Israel as cious storm is coming and it will uproot the Zionist Jerusalem. — AP Ahmadinejad, whose denial of the Holocaust and entity,” Iran’s state news agency IRNA quoted him description of Israel as a “cancerous tumour” as saying. — Reuters

12 jihadists killed Tunisian forces launch air

BEIRUT: Fresh clashes between Kurdish fighters and jihadists erupted in the majority Kurdish province of strikes on Islamist militants Hasakeh in northern Syria early yesterday, a monitoring group said. At least 12 members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) were killed, said the Syrian Army encircles area, raids nearby towns Observatory for Human Rights, which added that 22 Kurdish fighters have been killed over the past few days. TUNIS: Tunisian forces launched air and ground strikes on throats. Tunisia’s elected ruling party Ennahda, a moderate Reports of the latest Kurdish-jihadist violence emerged Islamist militants near the Algerian border yesterday after fierce Islamist group, is grappling with both the rising instability and a a day after at least 31 civilians, among them five women overnight clashes in the area, which came amid increased insta- growing protest movement organised by the secular opposition and four children, were killed in army shelling and an bility and political turmoil in the North African country. that is demanding the government’s ouster. Opposition groups assault in the northwestern province of Idlib. Earlier this week, militants killed eight soldiers in the remote are angry about the assassination of one of their leaders last Meanwhile, Kurdish activists said there was heavy fight- Mount Chaambi region, in one of the deadliest attacks on week, the second in six months. Ennahda blames Salafist militants ing in villages between Cel Agha and Gerke Lage as radical Tunisian security forces in decades. Witnesses said yesterday they for the assassinations and for two improvised bombs that hit Islamists shelled Ras al-Ain. “There was fierce shelling of saw aircraft bombing caves in the area, where the military has Tunis in the past week, the first time the capital has suffered such been trying to track down Islamist militants since December. attacks. No one was hurt in the blasts. In the town of Kasserine, Ras al-Ain at dawn today (Friday),” said Syrian Kurd activist “A major military operation with the participation of air and near Mount Chaambi, security forces raided a mosque and arrest- Havidar, who also reported Islamists and Kurds fighting on ground units began at dawn on Friday,” army spokesman Taoufik ed 12 Salafists, a witness in the area said. the edges of the town. Rahmouni said, adding that the group of about 15 to 20 militants The border area is porous and is known for smuggling, a trade Kurds expelled jihadist groups from Ras al-Ain in mid- were surrounded by the military. that has grown in the wake of instability since Tunisians toppled July. Clashes have raged ever since in areas that are home “The army has now imposed a security ring around the area autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. The interior ministry said to sizeable Kurdish populations. The fate of some 200 and is searching nearby towns in the region. Until now there are on Friday its forces had also arrested a Salafist militant who had Kurds taken hostage by jihadists on Wednesday remains no casualties or arrests (in Mount Chaambi).” Rahmouni called the been preparing explosives in the town of Manzel Bourguiba, 50 unknown, the Observatory’s Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. group near the border a “terrorist group”. It is the same site where km (30 miles) north of the capital. Local media said the man was Elsewhere yesterday, forces loyal to President Bashar militants launched an ambush on Monday and shot dead eight captured when he blew off his hand experimenting with explo- al-Assad again shelled the rebel-held area of Jouret al- Tunisian soldiers. The gunmen then slit some of the victims’ sives. He was taken to a nearby hospital. — Reuters Shiyah in the central city of Homs, said the Observatory. The bombardment comes five days after the key rebel neighbourhood of Khaldiyeh fell out of rebel control and into army hands. Assad’s regime is pressing an offensive aimed at taking back remaining rebel areas in Homs, Syria’s third city and dubbed by activists as “the capital of the revolution”. Meanwhile, the air force staged several air strikes on rebel areas across Syria, including two on Al-Harra in the southern province of Daraa, where rebels have made significant progress in recent weeks, said the Observatory. Yesterday’s violence comes a day after at least 185 people were killed across Syria, the Britain-based watchdog said. Among them were at least 24 civilians killed in and around the town of Ariha, whose main souk (market) was shelled by regime forces on Thursday, according to the Observatory. Another seven civilians died in a subsequent army assault on a village near Ariha. The Observatory also said that at least 43 people were killed in a massive explosion in an ammunitions depot in Homs on Thursday. The blast was apparently triggered by rebel rocket fire. Most of those killed were members of the regime’s paramilitary National Defence Force, said the Observatory, without elaborating. More than 100,000 peo- MOUNT CHAAMBI: A picture taken on June 11, 2013 shows Tunisian soldiers patroling in the Mount Chaambi region where the ple have been killed in Syria’s raging war, the United Tunisian army has been tracking militants the government says are veterans of the Islamist rebellion in northern Mali with Nations says. — AFP links to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Tunisia’s army launched an offensive yesterday against “terrorists” near the border with Algeria, a military source said, as political leaders in Tunis battled a crisis sparked by an assassination. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

Brotherhood defies police US issues global alert, citing... Continued from Page 1 best of our judgment-so far. To run the coun- Continued from Page 1 ously. And it’s not, as the president cam- try, there’s a civilian government. In effect, paigned on, you know, Al-Qaeda’s on the run storm” the building, a security source said. they were restoring democracy,” he added. A he understood there was “a very real and... everything’s fine,” Chaffetz said. Earlier marches had passed off peacefully, spokesman for Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood worldwide threat.” “There are threats that are Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton with thousands waving Egyptian flags and denounced Kerry’s comments, accusing coming at us on a daily basis but this rises to a has accepted responsibility for the Benghazi posters of the deposed leader. Washington of being “complicit” in the coup. new level,” Chaffetz told CNN. The United attack but said that requests for more security “Our million-man march today is a counter “Is it the job of the army to restore democra- States has been especially cautious about were only seen by lower-ranking officials. move against the military intimidation to cy?” asked Gehad Al-Haddad in a statement. security since an attack on its consulate in Under Obama, US forces in 2011 killed Al- break up the sit-in,” said Ahmed Idriss, 27, a Morsi’s supporters have remained defiant Benghazi, Libya on September 11 last year. Qaeda’s fugitive leader Osama bin Laden in a lawyer from Egypt’s Nile Delta region. The in the face of mounting threats from the The assault blamed on Islamist militants secret raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, marches came a day after Kerry in an inter- army-installed interim government. On killed four Americans, including ambassador Pakistan. Bin Laden was originally from Saudi view with Pakistan’s Geo television appeared Thursday, the interior ministry urged those at Chris Stevens. Republicans have accused the Arabia and Al-Qaeda historically focused on to defend Morsi’s ouster. “The military was protest sites in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Nahda Obama administration of failing to ensure the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Qaeda in the asked to intervene by millions and millions of squares “to let reason and the national inter- adequate security at the Benghazi consulate. Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the global terror people, all of whom were afraid of chaos and est prevail, and to quickly leave”. The ministry Chaffetz said that the latest threat showed network’s Yemen-based franchise, has violence,” he said. pledged “a safe exit and full protection to the need for more counter-terrorism pro- launched a series of foiled attacks on the “And the military did not take over, to the whomever responds to this appeal”. — AFP grams. “We have to take this threat very seri- United States in recent years. — AFP Ahmadinejad steps aside

Qatar’s new Continued from Page 1 Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi put under house arrest and parliament made compliant. Those moves leave Khamenei Khamenei, Iran’s most powerful man.But history, whether controlling all levers of power. “There was a group who partici- Emir in Saudi written at home or abroad, is unlikely to be kind. Within hours pated in this ruination of the state and of course the chief bene- of the election victory of moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani, ficiary of the removal of accountability was Khamenei,” said Ali JEDDAH: Qatar’s new Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al- thousands of people gathered outside Rouhani’s headquarters Ansari, professor of history at St Andrew’s University in Thani yesterday landed in Saudi Arabia on his first for- and across the city to celebrate, shouting out “Ahmadi bye Scotland. eign foray since acceding to the throne in June, state bye”. “He is unlikely to exit the political scene gracefully, for ECONOMIC SHAMBLES news agency SPA said. Sheikh Tamim flew in to the port grace has hardly been a hallmark of his eight years in office and High oil prices meant that Iran enjoyed record revenues dur- city of Jeddah and will meet King Abdullah and perform is unlikely to be an adjective applied to the good doctor in the ing Ahmadinejad’s two terms. But the economy nevertheless the omra pilgrimage to nearby Makkah, Islam’s holiest future,” said New York-based Iranian-American author Hooman faltered because of mismanagement, and ultimately crumbled site, the agency said. Majd who has met Ahmadinejad on several occasions. under embargoes imposed in 2012 by the United States and The Saudi monarch is also currently in Makkah where On the international stage, he has shocked the Western European Union, which cut oil exports in half. Dependent on oil he will celebrate the Eid feast marking the end of world with his rhetoric, often during his annual appearances at to earn hard currency, Iran saw the rial fall and inflation soar, to the United Nations General Assembly, which have caused mass 35 percent according to official figures, by some estimates dou- Ramadan, the Muslim holy fasting month, SPA said. The walkouts and public demonstrations. Relishing the opportunity ble that. 33-year-old Sheikh Tamim came to power on June 25 fol- to discomfit Iran’s detractors, he has alleged the U.S. govern- In late 2010 he launched a program to withdraw generous lowing the abdication of his father, Sheikh Hamad bin ment was behind the 9/11 attacks, denied homosexuality exists subsidies in favor of cash handouts. A bold move to wean Iran Khalifa Al-Thani, an unprecedented event in the Arab in Iran and lambasted Western leaders for being played by off costly benefits, it led to soaring prices for food and fuel, world. “deceitful Zionists”. bringing hardship for many and deep criticism from rivals. Sheikh Tamim has good relations with Saudi Arabia, “The president’s irresponsible rhetoric on Israel, the “Ahmadinejad’s erratic stewardship has left the Iranian econo- despite Doha and Riyadh having had fall-outs in the past Holocaust and other issues has deepened Iran’s international my in a shambles. His courage in taking the bull of subsidies by during his own father’s reign. Ties have also been isolation,” said Shaul Bakhash, professor of history at George the horns will be lauded, while its poor implementation will be strained in the wake of the Arab Spring, notably in Syria Mason University in Virginia. “His embrace of the language of deplored,” said Yasmin Alem, of the Atlantic Council’s South and more recently in Egypt, as each Gulf nation seeks to Holocaust denial, his prediction that Israel will be erased from Asia Center. extend its regional influence. The two countries have dif- map of history ... made it far easier for many to depict Iran as a Arguably, in economic policy, he served as a scapegoat for a ferent approaches towards political Islam. — AFP radical state.” Ahmadinejad was groomed by Khamenei to take system that has deeper problems. The subsidies he cut would on the reformist movement - those advocating more social and have been even more expensive to maintain under sanctions. political freedoms. His devout religious views, his common The sanctions themselves were a result of a nuclear standoff touch, his accessibility to young Iranians and connections to with the West that remains a fundamental state policy of Mali’s presidential the military were assets. Khamenei, although Ahmadinejad’s deeply divisive hardline His fans glorified him as a humble servant who shunned the stance made negotiations tougher. poll goes to run-off trappings of power. Ahmadinejad, so the story goes, refused Ahmadinejad’s reformist predecessor Mohamed Khatami the presidential salary and went to work with a packed lunch. had suspended uranium enrichment, a chemical process that BAMAKO: Mali’s presidential election will go to a second With a poor background and a doctorate in engineering from a can be used to make material for an atomic bomb. Iran restart- round on August 11, the government said yesterday, after no technology university rather than a background studying the- ed enrichment within weeks of Ahmadinejad taking office in candidate secured a majority in the landmark poll. ology in Iran’s ancient schools of Shiite Islam, his down-to- 2005, and has since maintained a “no compromise” stance. Figures for Sunday’s ballot announced on live television earth image contrasted with that of the elite members of the Tehran says it wants the uranium solely for peaceful purposes; showed former prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in the clergy. UN Security Council members doubt it. lead with 39.2 percent of the vote, ahead of main rival He believed his popular mandate made him a counter- Washington has not ruled out military action over what it Soumaila Cisse with 19.4 percent. weight to the unelected clerics and members of powerful old believes are attempts to develop atomic weapons capability, The election is seen as key to Mali’s recovery after a coup in families. “He wants to leave a legacy where he was the guy although it continues to pursue a diplomatic resolution. Yet March last year overthrew Amadou Toumani Toure, plunging breaking the stranglehold of the mullahs,” said Majd. “He despite his confrontational rhetoric, Ahmadinejad also was one of the region’s most stable democracies into political cri- believes an elected president should be allowed to govern. accessible to the West. He made unprecedented and ultimately sis and leading to an Islamist insurgency. As hardline Al-Qaeda That’s quite a popular sentiment among Iranians.” He relied on unsuccessful attempts to establish direct contact with two US allies took control of the country’s vast desert north, and sharp wits, political courage and self-confidence: “He has a presidents, a move that was previously regarded as a taboo. huge ego. He believes he’s right and he is unafraid,” added Approaches included meetings between an Ahmadinejad advi- threatened to extend their often violent rule, former colonial Majd. sor and US officials during his first term and a high-level meet- power France launched a military offensive in January to drive But ultimately he overplayed the hand his mandate gave ing between deputy US Secretary of State William Burns and out the Islamist fighters. him, leading to a direct confrontation with Khamenei. The feud Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in 2009. “The new Mali is being built with patience, calm and seren- erupted in 2011 when Ahmadinejad sacked the intelligence He has happily engaged with US media, becoming a repeat ity for all Malians united around these challenges above ambi- minister but the supreme leader reinstated him. Khamenei loy- guest of talk show host Larry King, with whom he would banter tions and pretensions, and not in a climate of agitation and alists accused Ahmadinejad and his advisors of seeking to combatively in the studio. He seemed to relish the stir he would invective...” Keita tweeted in his latest campaign update erode clerical authority - activity denounced as a “deviant cur- cause visiting the “Great Satan” for his annual appearances at ahead of the announcement. Four former prime ministers and rent”. He was frozen out of decision-making and threatened UN headquarters in New York. Ahmadinejad advocated a 2009 an array of political heavyweights-but just one woman-fea- with impeachment. nuclear deal that came close to resolving the deadlock with the tured in a list of 27 presidential hopefuls, although analysts In March last year he became the first president in the histo- West through an agreement to swap fuel kept abroad. always characterised the election as a two-horse race between ry of the Islamic Republic to be summoned by parliament for a Ultimately it was shelved after criticism from both Iranian Keita and Cisse. grilling on his policies. To the benefit of the clerics, the ruling conservatives and reformists. Some wonder what comes next Dramane Dembele, the candidate for Mali’s largest political system he leaves behind has fewer checks and balances than for the man who defied Iran’s enemies but also its leader. party, the Alliance for Democracy in Mali, polled just 9.6 per- when he found it. To give himself more room to push through There is talk of him setting up a university but he may have to cent, taking third place. The result will be seen as something his policies, Ahmadinejad dissolved the “Plan and Budget face the music first. “There is some chatter his opponents will of a surprise after Keita took a comfortable early lead over Organization”, a government body tasked with drawing up move against him once he formally relinquishes the presiden- Cisse, a former finance minister and erstwhile chairman of the spending plans. cy,” said Ali Ansari. “But it would seem he is being protected Commission of the West African Economic and Monetary The electoral process was left bent and broken following the by the supreme leader. I find it difficult to believe that he will Union. —AFP 2009 election. Reformists were sidelined, opposition leaders fade away.” — Reuters

INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Human rights get worse in China: UN Beijing slams US criticism as ‘biased’

BEIJING: The United States is deeply con- reate Liu Xiabo, imprisoned since 2009 on religious freedom and freedom of cerned about what it sees as a deteriorat- on subversion charges after he cam- expression, assembly and association, ing human rights situation in China, with paigned for peaceful democratic change especially in ethnically Tibetan and relatives of activists increasingly being in China. Uighur areas. harassed and policies in ethnic areas Chen’s relatives have been harassed in She said the US urged the Chinese becoming more repressive, a senior US their rural hometown in Shandong government to engage in dialogue with diplomat said yesterday. Acting Assistant province. Liu’s wife has been placed the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual Secretary of State for Democracy, Human under house arrest in Beijing and her leader, or his representatives without Rights and Labor Uzra Zeya said that this brother recently was sentenced to 11 preconditions and that her team called week’s US-China Human Rights Dialogue years in prison over a business dispute, a into question the pattern of arrests and fell short of Washington’s expectations, stiff penalty for what supporters extralegal detentions of China’s public but that going forward with the continu- described as a vendetta against the fami- interest lawyers, Internet activists, jour- ing talks remained a “vital” part of US ly for Liu’s activism. Beijing has repeated- nalists, religious leaders and others who diplomacy. ly rejected US criticism of China’s human have challenged official policies and Zeya led the US delegation at the talks rights record, saying that Washington is actions in China. “We know that such Tuesday and Wednesday in the south- biased against China and distorts the sit- actions are contrary to China’s interna- western Chinese city of Kunming, where uation. “A real human rights dialogue tional obligation and indeed in most cas- she said US diplomats “conveyed our should be based on mutual trust and es China’s own laws and constitution,” deep concern about attempts to control respect, and only such human rights dia- Zeya said. and silence activists by targeting family logues would be meaningful and effec- The US also raised specific cases of THIMPU: In this file photo, President of the People’s members and associates of the activists.” tive,” said an editorial posted on a news individuals who are imprisoned, Democratic Party (PDP), Tshering Tobgay holds a press “This is a worrisome trend, and one which website run by the information office of detained or under house arrest, includ- conference at Changangkha in Thimpu. — AFP we have raised at senior levels with the China’s State Council during the US- ing activists Xu Zhiyong, Gao Zhisheng Chinese government,” she said. China Human Rights Dialogue. Zeya said and Ni Yulan, several Tibetan, Uighur Bhutan’s new PM is Rights watchers have been alarmed US diplomats highlighted the increasing and Mongolian activists, as well as Liu by Chinese officials’ targeting of relatives desire of the Chinese public to speak up and his wife. Zeya said the Americans ‘Happiness’ sceptic of high-profile dissidents including blind about issues such as corruption, environ- were able to get some information on lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who exposed mental degradation and the lack of rule these cases, but did not reveal details. NEW DELHI: Bhutan’s pursuit of “Gross National Happiness” has abuses in the enforcement of China’s of law, and that the Americans raised The dialogue “overall fell short of our brought it global fame as a model of alternative development, one-child policies, and Nobel Peace lau- concerns over China’s tight restrictions expectations,” she said. — AP but its new prime minister believes the doctrine has distracted from tackling the country’s problems. Tshering Tobgay, the new ‘lyonchhen’ of Bhutan as prime ministers are known in the Land of the Thunder Dragon, won elections last month and settled into Japan’s Aso refuses to his new office in the capital on Monday. Unquestioningly loyal like most Bhutanese to the royal family, he is prepared to voice views about GNH, another pillar of the Himalayan country, that quit over Nazi remark would once have been sacrilegious. The country’s pursuit of “happiness”-effectively economic TOKYO: Japanese Finance Minister Taro are uneasy over the party’s proposals for Korean Peninsula before the war, is the rea- development that takes into account the environment and peo- Aso refused yesterday to resign or apolo- revising the US-inspired postwar constitu- son its current constitution limits the role of ple’s psychological well-being was first proposed by Bhutan’s for- gize over remarks suggesting Japan should tion, in part to allow a higher profile for the military. According to a transcript of the mer king in the 1970s. While its promotion by prominent Western follow the Nazi example of how to change Japan’s military. Japan and Nazi Germany speech published by the newspaper Asahi backers like economist Jeffrey Sachs have helped give Bhutan a the country’s constitution stealthily and were allies in World War II, when Japan Shimbun, Aso decried the lack of support prominence not normally accorded to such small and remote without public debate. Following protests occupied much of Asia and Germany much for revising Japan’s pacifist constitution countries, the model faces increasing criticism at home. by neighboring countries and human rights of Europe, where the racial supremacist among older Japanese, saying the Liberal Tobgay, 47, backs the principles and the notion that “econom- activists, he “retracted” the comments on Nazis oversaw the killings of an estimated 6 Democrats had held quiet, extensive dis- ic growth is not the be all and end all of development”, but he Thursday but refused to go further. “I have million Jews before the war ended in 1945 cussions about its proposals. “I don’t want confesses to finding the complexities of modern-day GNH hard to no intention to step down” as Cabinet min- with their defeat. Japan’s history of military to see this done in the midst of an uproar,” grasp. After years of development by policymakers, academics ister or lawmaker, Aso, who is also deputy aggression, which included colonizing the Aso said, according to the transcript. —AP and consultants, it has become a fully fledged paradigm seeking prime minister, told reporters. The govern- to measure progress in nine distinct areas, with each of these ment also said it is not seeking Aso’s resig- appraised with 72 indices. “I’m sceptical on how it has been over- nation, which some opposition members used by some people and how they have been distracted from have demanded. the real business at hand,” he told AFP in an interview over the Aso, who is known for intemperate phone from the capital Thimphu. remarks, drew outrage for saying Japan In a speech last year, the charismatic former civil servant should learn from how the Nazi party called it “complicating stuff for me” and “very difficult”. The gov- stealthily changed Germany’s pre-World ernment of vanquished former prime minister Jigmi Thinley War II constitution before anyone realized spent enormous efforts advocating GNH at home and abroad, it. He also suggested that Japanese politi- and even sponsored a United Nations resolution promoting hap- cians should make visits to Tokyo’s piness. While campaigning for the election, often on foot through Yasukuni war shrine quietly to avoid con- remote villages, Tobgay focused on what he sees as “the business troversy. Such visits currently take place at hand” for Bhutan: chronic unemployment, poverty, corruption amid wide publicity and are a sore point for and a sense that politicians were too remote. other Asian nations that suffered under A balance of payments crisis last year has led to a severe Japanese occupation during World War II. shortage of Indian rupees, leading the government to tighten Aso said Thursday he was misunder- import controls that have sharply slowed the economy and stood and only meant to say that loud restricted foreign goods. “If the government of the day were to debate over whether Japan should change spend a disproportionate amount of time talking about GNH its postwar constitution, and other issues is rather than delivering basic services then it is a distraction,” not helpful. In retracting his comments, he Tobgay says. Some critics have taken to referring to GNH as said it was “very unfortunate and regret- “Government Needs Help”. “There are four issues that can com- table” that his comments were misinter- pound to make matters extremely bleak: our ballooning debt preted. Yesterday, Aso said he stands by all that if we’re not careful will not be sustainable; the big rupee his other remarks in the speech made earli- shortage; unemployment, in particular youth unemployment; er this week in Tokyo to an ultra-conserva- TOKYO: Japan’s jeweler Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry displays a pure gold Mount and a perception of growing corruption,” Tobgay explains. tive audience. Fuji at a press preview yesterday. The gold Mount Fuji was made in celebration “These four combined can make a lethal combination.” —AFP Critics of the ruling Liberal Democrats after it was added to the list of World Heritage sites by UNESCO in June. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 22 police, 76 Taleban die in Afghan battle

JALALABAD: More than 20 Afghan policemen strength, their attack was completely repelled and dozens of Taleban insurgents were killed yes- and 60 of their fighters were killed,” Hashemi terday when hundreds of fighters ambushed a said, adding that a further 16 insurgents were police and military convoy in eastern killed during the rescue of the politician. Afghanistan, officials said. The five-hour battle in The account was confirmed by provincial the Sherzad district of Nangarhar province was spokesman Ahmadzia Abdulzai. “The military described by provincial officials as “intense” after and police launched a successful operation in the convoy was attacked as it returned from an the district killing 16 Taleban. On their way back operation to rescue a politician being threatened they were ambushed in which 60 Taleban were by the Taleban. killed. Unfortunately 22 policemen were also “It was an intense battle and insurgents used martyred in the fighting,” he said. The Taleban, heavy and light weapons to attack the convoy of who have been waging a bloody decade-long our security forces in Sherzad district,” Nangarhar insurgency against the Western-backed Kabul deputy police chief Masoom Khan Hashemi told government, claimed only five of their fighters AFP. “We lost 22 of our brave policemen, but the and 84 government soldiers were killed in the KABUL: Afghan demonstrators burn a representation of the Israeli flag during a rally marking militants have been taught a lesson of our battle. — AFP Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day yesterday. — AP Lankan protestor Pak TV preacher defends shot dead at demonstration Ramadan baby give-away

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan security forces shot dead one protester ‘It’s not commercialization, it’s real Islam’ and wounded dozens more when they fired on villagers at a demonstration over contaminated drinking water, police and KARACHI: A charismatic Muslim preacher criticised for giving out a diploma from a medical college in Pakistan. Television was liber- residents said yesterday. Military spokesman Brigadier Ruwan babies to childless couples live on prime-time Pakistani television alised during Musharraf’s 1999-2008 rule and there is growing Wanigasooriya said the army had been called in on Thursday denies he is fighting a ratings war and insists he is spreading chari- debate within Pakistan about media ethics and the blurring of the night to assist the police when a mob threw petrol bombs and ty. Aamir Liaqat Hussain, one of the biggest stars on Pakistani TV, lines between entertainment and religion. tried to attack a police station near the capital Colombo. Locals spoke to AFP as a local foundation involved in the process said a Last year, a TV programme was criticised by minorities and in the village of Weliweriya, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) third baby is due to be given away in the coming days. Hussain rights activists for showing the live conversion of a Hindu man to northeast of Colombo, had been protesting against a rubber- broadcasts a marathon 12-hour show each day during the holy Islam on the grounds that it fanned religious intolerance. Tauseef glove making plant that they say has polluted their ground month of Ramadan, watched by millions across the country. Ahmed Khan, chairman of the mass communications department water supply. He mesmerises his audience with celebrity interviews, game at the Federal Urdu University, said the baby give-away had taken Police said one man was killed and 37 others were wounded shows, by providing in-studio meals to the needy-and, in two con- the controversy to a new level. “Unfortunately they have adopted in the night-time clashes in Weliweriya while the military said secutive weeks, handing out baby girls to childless couples. But the role of reformers whereas they are entertainers,” he told AFP. nine of their troops also received injuries from petrol bombs. international media coverage and public criticism of the baby give- “Giving away babies on the show sends negative signals to soci- “There is an investigation under way and let that decide if the aways has seen him vigorously deny that he is pulling out all the ety and should be very discreet. They also claim to reduce poverty army opened fire or not,” Wanigasooriya said when asked if stops to maximise ratings in a competitive Ramadan TV market. through giving away gifts but they are hurting the self respect of troops had fired live ammunition at the protesters. A local resi- “It is not like parents come in the show, and (we) deliver the poor people on their shows in the race for ratings and in the com- dent, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a large number baby like a prize. What prize? It is rubbish to say ‘who wants to win petition to attract more advertisements,” he added. But Hussain is of troops could be seen patrolling the area yesterday morning a baby?’” he told AFP on the sidelines of his chat show. He insists unrepentant. “People love me, that is why they watch me. Through while intermittent gunfire could also be heard. the two couples were pre-screened for their suitability as parents, television we spread the message of tolerance,” he told AFP. — AFP “Troops are roaming the area on motorcycles brandishing and says he is right to find good homes for abandoned babies in a automatic guns,” the resident said. “People are afraid and they country without official laws of adoption. “We are trying to create are keeping indoors. Shops are closed and the streets deserted.” an environment in the society for those people who are needy and He said the protest broke out Thursday as residents felt the want to adopt babies,” Hussain said. police were ignoring long-standing complaints that the glove “It is not commercialisation, it is not showbiz. It is real Islam. factory had been discharging chemical waste. The military Where are the actors? Where are actresses? I have not seen any spokesman said the protest had turned violent despite an actors or actresses here,” he added. A local charity told AFP it was agreement to provide residents with potable water until tests to involved in the screening process that took place before the babies determine the cause of ground water pollution. “The owners were handed over. agreed to provide drinking water in bowsers and even close It supported the show for discouraging women from abandon- down the factory if tests proved they were polluting ground ing unwanted babies and men from divorcing wives who cannot water,” Wanigasooriya said. “We can’t understand why there give birth. “We give adoption to those couples only on merit bass,” was violence even after this agreement.” —AFP said Ramzan Chhipa, head of the Chhipa Welfare Association. He said both couples had been screened and went on the show expecting to be given infants. A third baby is expected to be handed over in coming days, Chhipa told AFP. “It is not ‘you answer a Indian army kills 12 question on a show and you get a baby’. This is false.” he said. One of the couples said they married more than 15 years ago but have militants in Kashmir been unable to have their own child. They registered with Chhipa and told AFP they were inter- SRINAGAR: The Indian army said Friday it had killed 12 suspect- viewed earlier this month by the charity, before the TV show pro- ed militants in Kashmir in a forested area along the de facto bor- gramme rang them up the day before the show aired, asking them der that divides the territory between India and Pakistan. Five to appear. “I cannot express in words our happiness. There was a rebels were killed during a fierce gun battle with the army on great void in our life and that is filled by having this baby,” said the Thursday in Hafrada forests, 100 kilometres (60 miles) from father Said Zulfiqar Hussain, a policeman from Karachi. Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir. “The operation was “This child is the future of Pakistan,” said the mother Soreya launched on specific intelligence about the presence of a group Bilqees who dreams her daughter will grow up and join the army. of terrorists,” an officer told AFP, asking not to be named. Presenter Hussain is no stranger to controversy. In 2008, guests Further operations beginning on Monday saw another seven invited onto one of his shows said members of the Ahmadi minori- men killed around the border, known as the Line of Control, army ty should be killed. Two well-known Ahmadis were subsequently general Gurmit Singh told reporters. Singh said the militants murdered, although there was no evidence linking their killings to belonged to Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e- the TV show. Taiba groups. About a dozen militant groups have been fighting Under military ruler Pervez Musharraf, Hussain was forced to Indian forces in Kashmir since 1989 seeking independence for the resign as junior religious affairs minister because of his views on region or a merger with Pakistan. The violence has declined dur- controversial blasphemy laws, which carry the death penalty. He KARACHI: In this photograph, 2013, Pakistani man Riazuddin ing the last decade but the fighting has left tens of thousands of was also unable to authenticate an alleged degree in Islamic (right) looks on as his wife Tanzeem kisses their adopted daugh- people, mostly civilians dead. — AFP Studies from a college in Spain. Known as doctor, he claims to have ter Fatima at The Chhipa Welfare Association in Karachi. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

High-rise tragedy reawakens NY’s nighttime fears

NEW YORK CITY: It is every New her into the fatal plunge. ings in Manhattan being told to stop floor apartment following a dispute Yorker’s nightmare. A 35-year-old Television pictures showed the dam- using their balconies because the own- with neighbours over his ‘yappy’ woman fell to her death in the early aged corner section of the balcony on a ers had not carried out up-to-date risk French poodles miraculously survived hours of Thursday after the balcony building on East 57th Street in the assessments. after his fall was broken by awning on a railing of a 17th-floor apartment appar- prosperous mid-town business area. In the 2010 fatality, building inspec- lower floor. ently gave way as she chatted to a Police have ruled out foul play. The tors discovered that the building’s Days later several people had to be friend. The woman, identified by local tragedy highlighted one of the perma- management had not filed a safety treated for shock after a woman appar- media as advertising sales executive nent anxieties associated with living in inspection report in ten years. High-rise ently bent on suicide threw herself off Jennifer Rosoff, was reported to have New York’s forest of skyscrapers. A sim- dramas are a staple of life in Manhattan the top of her building and landed been smoking a cigarette and talking ilar incident in 2010 sparked a review of and Thursday’s was the third to make within just a few feet of fellow residents to her male friend when the railing she safety at all high-rise buildings which the news in recent days. A prominent eating lunch on a communal lower- was leaning against buckled, sending resulted in residents of a dozen build- banker who jumped out of his seventh- floor balcony. — AFP Ohio man who enslaved 3 women gets life in prison Ohio captive says she knew she’d escape

CLEVELAND: Standing before the man who enslaved and raped her for a decade, Michelle Knight described how the world had changed in the three months since they last saw each other: The captive, she said, was now free and the oppressor would be locked away forever to “die a little every day.” Ariel Castro’s fate had been determined long before he was sentenced Thursday to life in prison plus 1,000 years. But WISCONSIN: In this August 6, 2012 file photo, Fire Chief Knight’s words in a crowded courtroom put a final seal on the Tom Rosandich speaks at a press conference at Oak Creek, kidnapping case that horrified the nation and subjected three Wisconsin about the shootings at the Sikh Temple of young women to years of torment in Castro’s ramshackle Wisconsin. — AFP house. “You took 11 years of my life away and I have got it Year after US massacre, back,” Knight said. “I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning.” A short time later, the 53-year-old former threat persists for Sikhs school bus driver apologized to his victims briefly in a ram- bling, defiant statement. He repeatedly blamed his sex addic- MILWAUKEE: When they spotted a stranger parked near their tion, his former wife and others while claiming most of the sex temple, two Sikh men came out and asked if he would like tea. was consensual and that the women were never tortured. He responded by shooting them both dead and walking inside. “These people are trying to paint me as a monster,” he said. Satwant Singh Kaleka, an immigrant from India who worked long “I’m not a monster. I’m sick.” The sentence was a foregone hours at a gas station before saving enough money to build the conclusion after Castro pleaded guilty last week to 937 counts, temple, quickly sensed danger and rushed worshipers into hid- including aggravated murder, kidnapping, rape and assault. A ing, likely saving many lives. Armed with only a fruit knife, the 65- deal struck with prosecutors spared him from a possible death year-old Kaleka lunged as the assailant-white supremacist US sentence for beating and starving Knight until she miscarried. Army veteran Wade Michael Page-changed bullet clips. During her statement, Knight was just a few feet from Castro, “My dad took five gunshot wounds, all in sporadic places- seeing him for the first time since her rescue in May from the under the armpit, in the inner thigh,” said his son Amardeep house that Castro turned into a prison with a makeshift alarm Kaleka, who keeps the fruit knife and his father’s bloodied turban system and heavy wooden doors covering the windows. as mementos. “My dad had a bunch of blood and skin and hair “I will live on,” she said. “You will die a little every day.” The under his nails when we saw his body, so they fought rigorously,” three women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, he added. Then Page simply walked back out. By then, police had when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. Each had accepted a arrived, and Page shot an officer multiple times before taking his ride from Castro. CLEVELAND: Ariel Castro rubs his nose in the courtroom own life. The massacre on August 5, 2012 in the Milwaukee sub- They escaped May 6 when Amanda Berry, now 27, broke during the sentencing phase Thursday, Aug 1, 2013.— AP urb of Oak Creek left six members of the temple dead, with part of a door to Castro’s house in a tough Cleveland neigh- filing that one of the women kept a diary. “The entries speak of another critically injured. The officer, Lieutenant Brian Murphy, borhood and yelled for help. Castro was arrested that forced sexual conduct, of being locked in a dark room, of was seriously hurt but was wearing a bulletproof vest and sur- evening. The escape electrified Cleveland, where photos of anticipating the next session of abuse, of the dreams of some- vived. The attack was the deadliest against the US Sikh communi- the missing women still hung on utility posts. Elation turn to day escaping and being reunited with family, of being chained ty, but it was not the first or the last. Days ahead of the massacre despair as details of their ordeal emerged. to a wall, of being held like a prisoner of war ... of being treat- anniversary, another Sikh temple, known as a gurdwara, found Prosecutors on Thursday detailed Castro’s repeated sexual ed like an animal,” the filing said. Knight, 32, was the first the word “terrorist”-in one instance misspelled-spray-painted on assaults, how he chained the women and denied them food or woman abducted after Castro lured her into his house with the walls. That vandalism took place in California, where an 81- fresh air. They displayed photos that gave a first glimpse the promise of a puppy for her son. She said she cried every year-old Sikh man was severely beaten with a steel pipe near his inside the rooms where the women lived. Stuffed animals night and that her years in captivity “turned into eternity.” gurdwara in May. In 2011, two other elderly Sikhs were shot and lined the bed and crayon drawings were taped to the wall “He tormented me constantly, especially on holidays,” killed as they strolled near California’s capital Sacramento. where Berry lived with her young daughter who was fathered Knight said. “Christmas was the most traumatic day because I Sikh men are easily visible as their faith, founded five centuries by Castro. One of the drawings on a shelf said “Happy didn’t get to spend it with my son.” She sat quietly as Castro ago in South Asia, requires them to wear turbans and keep Birthday.” claimed the women lived a happy life with him. “We had a lot beards. Anti-Sikh violence spiked following the September 11, But in the same room, the window was boarded shut and of harmony that went on in that home,” he said. Castro called 2001 attacks as some assailants appeared to incorrectly link Sikhs door knobs had been removed and replaced with multiple his daughter with Berry a “miracle child” and argued with the with radical Islam. One man, who shot dead a Sikh gas station locks. Another room shared by Knight and Gina DeJesus had a judge that he didn’t commit a violent crime. He pointed out owner in Arizona days after the attacks, boasted of being a US portable toilet and a clock radio and several chains. that the FBI was once close to him when agents talked with his “patriot.” Since the Oak Creek massacre, a panel has recommend- Prosecutors said the women were chained to a pole in the daughter, who was walking home with DeJesus on the day ed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation begin compiling sta- basement and a bedroom heater. One woman had a motorcy- she disappeared. tistics on hate crimes specifically against Sikhs as well as several cle helmet placed on her head while in the basement. Later, “The FBI let these girls down when they questioned my other groups. US Representative Joe Crowley, a Democrat from when she tried to escape, she had a vacuum cleaner cord daughter,” he said. “They failed to question me.” He also said New York City who pushed for the change, called the move “sig- wrapped around her neck. FBI agent Andrew Burke said Castro he was never abusive until he met his former wife, who is now nificant progress” and hoped that the Oak Creek massacre would would occasionally pay his victims after raping them. Then he dead. Once Castro finished, Judge Michael Russo thanked increase awareness for Sikhs. would require them to pay him if they wanted something spe- Knight for showing “remarkable restraint” during his state- Crowley embraced the cause of Sikh civil rights in the after- cial from the store. A letter written by Castro was found in the ment. The judge then dismissed Castro’s claims that the math of September 11 attacks, in which his cousin died. “I saw home days after his arrest and shown in court. It was titled women lived a happy life with him. “I’m not sure there’s any- Sikh American gentlemen on the street, in suit and tie with over- “Confession and Details.” He also wrote “I am a sexual preda- one in America that would agree with you,” he said. None of sized handheld American flags in their lapels,” Crowley told AFP. tor.” Castro’s relatives were in the courtroom. Berry and DeJesus “And I thought, that’s so sad. —AFP Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said in a court also stayed away. —AP Boeing to introduce new16 RBS names new CEO to17 Toyota profit up 18 Businessversions of 787 Dreamliner replace Stephen Hester on cheap yen SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Mumbai’s venerable ‘Fiat taxis’ begin to disappear19

WASHINGTON: A worker prepares a carry out lunch made at the “Eye Street Grill”, a local delicatessen in this June 19, 2013 photo in Washington, DC. The US unemployment rate fell to a better-than-expected 7.4 percent in July but jobs growth slowed sharply, official data released yesterday showed. — AFP US employers add 162K jobs Jobless rate falls to 4-year low

WASHINGTON: US employers added 162,000 175,000. Friday’s jobs report “reveals a mixed Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital tories since February. Jobs in professional servic- jobs in July, a modest increase and the fewest labor market picture of continued improvement, Economics. “On that score, the unemployment es, such as finance, accounting and information since March. Still, the unemployment rate fell to but at a still frustratingly slow pace,” said Scott rate has fallen from 8.1 percent last August to technology, also rose. Governments added jobs a 41/2-year low of 7.4 percent, a hopeful sign. Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West. 7.4 percent this July, which is a significant for the first time since April. All of it was driven Unemployment declined from 7.6 percent in The reaction from investors was slightly improvement.” by a fifth straight month of hiring by local gov- June because more Americans found jobs, and downbeat. The Dow Jones industrial average But Beth Ann Bovino, senior economist at ernments. Still, many of the jobs that employers others stopped looking and were no longer dropped 22 points in early-afternoon trading, Standard & Poor’s, said she thinks yesterday’s added in July are only part time. The number of counted as unemployed. Still, yesterday’s report and broader stock indexes also declined. The report will make the Fed delay any slowdown in Americans who said they were working part from the Commerce Department pointed to a yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.62 its bond purchases. time but would prefer full-time work stands at less-than-robust job market. It suggested that percent from 2.71 percent. “September seems very unlikely now,” she 8.2 million - the highest since last fall. the economy’s subpar growth and modest con- The Federal Reserve will review the July says. “I’m wondering if December is still in the And the percentage of Americans either sumer spending are making many businesses employment data in deciding whether to slow cards.” The decline in unemployment to 7.4 per- working or actively looking for work dipped in cautious about hiring. its $85 billion a month in bond purchases in cent was derived from a survey of households, July to 63.4 percent. This is called the “labor The government said employers added a September, as many economists have predicted which found that 227,000 more people said they force participation rate.” The participation rate combined 26,000 fewer jobs in May and June it will do. Weaker hiring could make the Fed were employed last month. And 37,000 people has been generally declining since peaking at than it previously estimated. Americans worked hold off on any pullback in its bond buying, stopped looking for work and were no longer 67.3 percent in 2000. That’s partly the result of fewer hours in July, and their average pay which has helped keep long-term borrowing counted as unemployed. baby boomers retiring and leaving the work- dipped. And many of the jobs employers added costs down. The job gain for the month was calculated force. Job gains are being slowed by the econo- last month were for lower-paying work at stores, Yet it’s possible that the lower unemploy- from a separate survey of employers. Though my’s tepid growth. It grew at an annual rate of bars and restaurants. ment rate, along with the hiring gains over the much of July’s job growth was in lower-paying just 1.7 percent in the April-June quarter, the For the year, job growth has remained past year, could convince the Fed that the job industries, manufacturing, a generally government said this week. That was an steady. The economy has added an average market is strengthening consistently. “While July good-paying sector, added 6,000 jobs. That improvement over the previous two quarters, 200,000 jobs a month since January, though the itself was a bit disappointing, the Fed will be increase was driven by job growth at auto but it’s still far too weak to rapidly lower unem- pace has slowed in the past three months to looking at the cumulative improvement,” said plants. Those were the first such gains at US fac- ployment. —AP BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

France clips Rafale’s wings, hopes for first export order

PARIS: France will about halve its pur- ing spending on defence. which a total of 120 will have been the capacity for rapid reaction in a chases of Dassault Rafale jet fighter Under the draft defence estimates delivered within the next few months, world where proliferation (of nuclear planes over the next six years, under put before the cabinet yesterday, the and it could place another slice of capability) is continuing and in which defence estimates yesterday, and is left-wing government will acquire only orders. France must keep this ultimate securi- counting on at last clinching the first 26 of the planes during the next six During the period covered by the ty, this fundamental guarantee which sales abroad to keep production lines years. Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le estimates, Dassault would receive hun- is deterrence.” going. Drian had said on June 11, that from dreds of millions of euros to design a The minister criticised the defence French officials say that among 2016 Dassault Aviation would have to pilotless combat drone by 2030 in minister in the previous right-wing potential clients are India, Qatar, count on exports to underpin produc- cooperation with British aerospace government, Herve Morin, for suggest- Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and tion of the plane which is able to fulfil group BAE Systems, and also to devel- ing that one of the two components Brazil. The government, struggling to several types of mission. Yesterday, the op the Rafale to meet new standards, could be axed to save money. curb public spending, also made clear minister said on Europe 1 radio: “There under a programme called F3-R. The However, Morin repeated his criti- that there will be no change to the are countries which today are really ministry’s objective is to underpin nine cism in a statement yesterday, saying French independent nuclear deterrent interested in buying the Rafale, I am big defence industry activities, ranging that the government was “fooling the which successive governments have thinking particularly of India, Qatar, of from aerospace to communications defence forces and French people that treated as a vital issue of national other countries, and I am very confi- and submarines. In order to achieve France is still one of the four global mil- defence. Dassault Aviation, which dent of the chances of exporting the this, orders are being stretched out itary forces on the planet when in reali- builds the Rafale fighters, used to high- Rafale in coming months.” over time. Le Drian, in separate ty it no longer has the means, unfortu- profile effect in fighting in Libya and France has been in exclusive negoti- remarks to broadcaster France 2, said nately.” Mali, was to supply 11 planes a year to ations to sell 126 Rafale planes to India that there would be no changes to the Last week Dassault Aviation report- the French defence forces. “and I have high hopes that this will be French nuclear deterrence capability. ed a 20.0-percent fall in net profit for This was intended to ensure an successful,” he said. Sources close to The two components of the French the first half of the year but held to its essential minimum amount of work for the minister said that the estimates independent deterrence, based on target for raising sales in the whole of production lines while France tries to were based in part on a hypothesis submarines and airborne, would be 2013. Net profit for the first half achieve the first sales of the aircraft that at least one country among other maintained. amounted to 165 million euros ($218 abroad. potential buyers would place an order “The President of the Republic million). Sales fell by 5.0 percent from But the government, which is before the end of 2019. (Francois Hollande) has decided to the equivalent figure last year to 1.82 struggling to meet commitments to These countries are Malaysia, Qatar, maintain the two components and billion euros. the European Union and to retain the United Arab Emirates and Brazil. An they will be maintained,” he said. Orders taken amounted to 1.41 bil- investor confidence by getting its adviser to the minister said that the The minister said that they were lion euros, little changed from a figure public deficit under control, is government was not changing its “indispensable because the second of 1.42 billion euros in the first half of crimping public expenditure includ- overall order for 180 Rafale planes, of component (airborne) provides agility, 2012. —AFP Boeing to introduce new versions of 787 Dreamliner Fancher declines to discuss current problems

TOKYO: A Boeing executive yesterday July 22, an industry source told AFP. The Dreamliner as well as the long-range declined to answer questions about fuel-efficient plane has suffered a string 777 and smaller 737. Dreamliner’s growing list of problems of woes largely tied to its lithium-ion The company was planning a test less than two weeks after another batteries, including a four-month flight of its larger and more energy effi- grounding, as he touted the troubled worldwide grounding at the start of the cient 787-9, due to come into service aircraft’s new models. year and a fire onboard an empty next year, he said, adding that its suc- A Qatar Airways 787 Dreamliner Ethiopian Airlines plane at London’s cessor would likely be in the air by 2018. ACROPOLIS: Greek Ministry of Culture employees resumed flights on Wednesday after Heathrow airport last month. But Fancher declined to discuss the stage a protest at the entrance to the Acropolis archae- being grounded due to what the US Yesterday, Scott Fancher, vice presi- current Dreamliner’s problems or the plane manufacturer said was the dent and general manager of airplane battery system on its revamped model. ological site yesterday against the layoffs in their sec- replacement of “technical compo- development at Boeing, told a Tokyo Japanese battery maker GS Yuasa has tor. Greece must axe 4,000 state jobs by the end of the nents”. press briefing that the firm was prepar- been the global supplier for power- year and relocate 25,000 civil servants to support The plane was out of action from ing to introduce new versions of its 787 packs in Boeing’s Dreamliner. understaffed parts of its vast bureaucracy. —AFP “It is a detailed design question, not the sort of thing we are talking about,” Greek protesters take Fancher said in a response to a reporter’s question about the campaign to Acropolis Dreamliner battery. “I’m not going into a lot of detail on ATHENS: Greek civil servants protesting mass staff cuts took their design details,” he added. Despite a campaign to the gates of the ancient Acropolis on Friday, after the lengthy investigation, Boeing has not government announced that 500 workers at the culture ministry identified the root cause of the would be suspended next month. Dreamliner’s battery problems, but said State archaeologists gathered in front of the ancient site, but did it put safeguards in place to prevent not block the entrance. Several museums around the country, includ- future incidents. ing the popular Archaeological Museum on the island of Santorini, Japan’s two biggest airlines, All were closed in protest. Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines, Elsewhere, civil servants continued a second day of work stop- were sideswiped by the grounding of pages and held a protest rally in central Athens. The government has Boeing’s new aircraft that began in promised its international rescue lenders it will suspend 25,000 public January, forcing them to cancel hun- sector workers by the end of the year, with about a third of them likely dreds of flights until the plane was to be fired. allowed to resume flying in June. Despina Koutsoumba, head of the Association of Greek The pair, which have been the Archaeologists at the ministry, said employees were preparing to step Dreamliner’s biggest customers, have up protests, and were to hold a meeting Monday to decide on strikes. TOKYO: Boeing vice president and general manager of airplane so far stuck with the plane, saying it was “As things stand, we don’t have enough people to function prop- development, Scott Francher (R) speaks about the company’s future key to their expansion drive. But the erly. We have to cover 19,000 archaeological sites and 210 museums airplanes during a press briefing at the Boeing Tokyo office yester- carriers are in talks over compensation nationwide, as well as several hundred archaeological excavations in for what they said was more than $200 progress all over the country,” Koutsoumba told the AP, as col- day. Francher announced the company’s next generation Dreamliner million in combined lost revenue from leagues held up a Styrofoam cut of a temple, with “for sale” signs line-ups. —AFP the grounding. —AFP stuck on it. —AP business SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 RBS names new CEO to replace Stephen Hester Records first-half profit of 535 million pounds

LONDON: Stephen Hester reported results, coming just a day after Lloyds, been pushed out of the top job at RBS his last set of results for bailed-out another state-rescued bank, revealed amid a tense relationship with Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday as buoyant earnings that put its recovery Treasury chief George Osborne. The he prepares to hand over the reins to ahead of schedule. government has been pushing for the New Zealander Ross McEwan. But analysts say it’s important that banks to be returned to the private The state-controlled bank recorded RBS has ended the uncertainty over sector as soon as possible - or perhaps MADRID: A man leaves as others enter an unemploy- a first-half profit of 535 million pounds who would replace Hester, who was a least before it faces re-election in ment registry office in Madrid, Spain, yesterday. ($811 million), compared with a loss of widely admired for rising to the chal- 2015. Spain’s Labor Ministry said yesterday the number of 2.03 billion pounds in the same period lenge of steering the institution McEwan, who heads the bank’s people registered as unemployed dropped for a fifth of last year. RBS yesterday named through the mess left behind by retail division, will receive an annual consecutive month in July as the busy summer tourist McEwan, a 56-year-old native of New Goodwin, aka “Fred The Shred.” salary of 1 million pounds and said he season continued to create jobs. — AP Zealand, as CEO effective Oct. 1. Hester’s resignation in June had been did not wish to be considered for an Hester, 52, became CEO in October a surprise, and critics wondered annual bonus this year or next. He 2008, after the government rescued whether a banker of some stature also asked that any award for his work Spaniards take budget the bank with a 45 billion-pound ($71 could be found to lead the institution this year be deferred until 2017. Even holidays in crisis billion) capital injection. Fred through the difficult years to come. then, taxpayers must gain value first. Goodwin, Hester’s predecessor, Hester is widely believed to have “We are a bank that millions of EL ESCORIAL: Jose Lazaro’s unemployment benefits have brought the bank to near-collapse British families have entrusted with run out, but that hasn’t stopped his family taking their after an aggressive global expansion, their finances,” McEwan said in a yearly camping trip. This summer the campsite is letting which included the ill-fated purchase statement. “We support more compa- them stay for free. of Dutch lender ABN Amro. RBS is cur- nies - from the very smallest to the It is just one of the ways Spaniards are finding to hang rently 80 percent owned by the British very biggest - than any other bank in onto their cherished summer holidays despite the reces- taxpayer. the UK.... It will be a privilege to lead a sion. The El Escorial campsite, northwest of Madrid, has “RBS’s journey from ‘bust bank’ to bank that matters to so many and I joined others across Spain in agreeing to provide a few ‘normal bank’ is largely done,” Hester thank the board for their confidence days in one of its bungalows for unemployed families with said in a statement. “But no small task in me.” children. “It is wonderful,” says Jose’s wife Pilar, fresh from remains - to harness the energies and Analysts Ian Gordon of Investec an “aqua gym” class in one of the campsite’s open-air strengths that have driven the bank’s said that picking an RBS insider should swimming pools.If it weren’t for this, “we’d have just gone recovery, and to take RBS towards the help the process. to our parents’ village, or stayed at home”, she says, hold- target of being a ‘really good bank’ for “We believe the importance ing a list of camp activities she can enjoy for free-pilates customers, shareholders and society extends well beyond Ross’ own per- and dance classes, plus hockey and basketball for their as a whole.” sonal credentials,” Gordon said. “It sons, aged 11 and eight. RBS’s earnings failed to wow ana- should signify a degree of strategic Jose, 44, formerly a construction worker, was thrown lysts waiting for the UK government continuity and (we hope) help to head out of work two years ago. With little cash, he and many to start selling off its stake. The bank off the threat of fresh government-ini- like him are making what they can of what is on their also suffered from the timing of its Ross McEwan tiated value-destruction.” — AP doorstep: Spain’s campsites, countryside and beaches. While Spain welcomed 58 million foreign visitors last year, trips abroad by Spaniards have fallen heavily, the tourism ministry says. Nine out of 10 Spaniards took their Unions get creative to halt holidays within Spain last year, according to its latest figures. Several hours’ drive east of Madrid, sunbathers are out tanning on the beach in the sweltering resort town of decline in membership Benicassim. Popular with holidaymakers from cities around Spain, the town’s population is swelled in late July by WASHINGTON: US labor leaders are getting more cre- organizations made up of unions, clergy and other advo- thousands of foreigners who come for a big music festival. ative - and some say more desperate - to boost sagging cacy groups. While not technically labor groups, they That offers young locals like Juan Martorell, 18, a chance numbers and rebuild their waning clout. receive generous financial support and training staff from to have a mini-break for no charge: he has worked empty- Unions are helping non-union fast food workers the Service Employees International Union and other ing the bins in the festival campsite in return for a pass to around the US hold strikes to protest low wages and poor unions. “Our primary goal is to help workers boost wages,” concerts by some of his favourite DJs. working conditions. They are trying to organize home day SEIU President Mary Kay Henry said. “We think a key part “This is a holiday for me,” he says. “I am working so that I care workers, university graduate students and even new- of that is helping workers form organizations where they can go out and party a bit. The tickets are too expensive ly legalized marijuana dealers. Members of a “shadow can directly bargain for wages with their employers.” otherwise.” He is not the only one to prioritise work over union” at Wal -Mart hold regular protests at the giant Labor strategists say the fast food campaign has long- leisure in a country where the unemployment rate stands retailer, which long has been resistant to organizing. term potential for unions. If unions can’t at 26.26 percent. Javier, 28, came up the coast from Labor leaders say unions must create new models and organize through traditional methods, they see the Valencia to stay at a friend’s apartment in Benicassim and new ways to represent workers to reverse the steady slide smaller mobilizations through worker centers as a way to work at one of the festival’s information desks. in the union ranks. Those efforts have taken on greater show low-wage workers how coordinated action can win “Maybe we’ll just take the car and go away for a week urgency since the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported earli- some concessions from employers. That might make and sleep on the beach,” says Javier, declining to give his er this year that union membership has declined to just workers in the rapidly growing fast food industry more second name. “What I’m not going to do is catch a plane 11.3 percent of the workforce - its lowest point in nearly a sympathetic to the idea of joining a union later on. and go for a holiday far away.” century. “The fast food and Wal-Mart strikes are exciting exam- While foreigners throng the beachside cafes and restau- “To be blunt, our basic system of workplace representa- ples of workers reinventing the strike, going on offense rants, Spaniards are adjusting their habits. “We don’t go tion is failing to meet the needs of America’s workers by and challenging inequality,” said Stephen Lerner, a labor out as much. We have just a sandwich or a meal at home. every critical measure,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and community organizer and architect of the Justice for My mum gets the bus to the beach instead of renting a said in a recent speech. Janitors campaign in the late 1980s and early 1990s. beachside apartment,” says Rocio Agost, 17, sitting with a The most high-profile tactic has seen hundreds of low- But the tactic has raised the concern of business friend a few metres from the blue Mediterranean waves. wage workers at McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast groups, which say these organizations are merely “union “You have to make an effort to find cheaper options. food chains walk off their jobs this week in a series of one- fronts” designed to operate outside labor laws so they Holidays are sacred for the Spanish.” In a country with a day strikes to demand better pay and the right to union- don’t have to follow restrictions on secondary picketing, tradition of owning holiday homes and of visiting relatives ize. Workers are demanding wages of $15 an hour, more boycotts or file reports with the Labor Department. House in country villages in the summer, Spaniards are saving than double the current federal minimum wage of $7.25. Republicans wrote a letter to the Labor Department last money by spending less time in hotels. “We have noticed The actions in New York, Chicago, Detroit and other cities week asking officials whether the groups need to abide by that they are making shorter stays-three or four days instead are being coordinated by local worker centers, nonprofit labor laws. —AP of one or two weeks,” says Carlos Perez, marketing manager at El Palasiet, a big spa hotel in Benicassim. —AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

Dell vote delayed on sweetened offer by founder

NEW YORK CITY: Voting on a proposal to which only those ballots which are sub- The committee also postponed the of breaching its fiduciary duty. take computer-maker Dell private was mitted will be counted. vote for a third time, to September 12, giv- Icahn has proposed an alternate plan delayed for a third time yesterday after The previous system had put the ing “abundant” notice to shareholders, that would pay $14 per share for up to 71 founder Michael Dell agreed to boost the Michael Dell-led consortium at a disad- Mandl said. “We urge all shareholders to percent of Dell stock, and recently sweet- price of the transaction. vantage. “We believe modifying the vot- support this transaction.” Dell shares ened the deal by adding one warrant for The takeover proposal accepted yes- ing standard is in the best interests of Dell gained 5.3 percent to $13.64 at mid- every four Dell shares, entitling the holder terday by Dell’s special committee shareholders, both because it has enabled morning. Yesterday’s deal marks the latest to one share of Dell at $20. ensures shareholders at least $350 million us to secure substantial additional value twist in an increasingly acrimonious battle Earlier this week, the Dell special com- more, according to a Dell statement, and and because it provides a level playing for control of Dell, an iconic personal committee rejected a proposal from the changes the vote-counting system to field for the decision facing shareholders,” puter firm that is struggling to navigate Michael Dell consortium that modified improve the chances of shareholder said Alex Mandl, chairman of the Dell spe- the shift towards mobile technology. The the vote-counting system and included approval. cial committee. Mandl said the modified Dell consortium includes private equity terms that were more generous than the The amended deal from the Michael vote-counting system made sense in light firm Silver Lake Partners. Michael Dell, original offer, but not as robust as yester- Dell-led consortium raises the purchase of an “alternative” proposal from other who founded the company from his col- day’s deal. price from $13.65 per share to $13.75, pro- Dell shareholders, a reference to a deal lege dorm room, believes moving it out of The committee did not elaborate on vides for a special dividend of 13 cents offered by Carl Icahn, a strong critic of the glare of public markets and quarterly- its reasons for rejecting the prior deal. and guarantees that the third-quarter divi- Michael Dell. reporting deadlines is the best hope for Dell postponed the vote twice last dend of 8 cents will be paid at or before Given that backdrop, the “committee the firm’s long-term survival. month, fearing insufficient shareholder closing. does not believe it is appropriate to count Icahn, who has led the opposition to support. A recent survey showed world- The voting system will be changed shares that have not been voted as having Michael Dell, filed suit Thursday to block wide sales of personal computers fell for from one in which non-voting shares been voted in support of any particular Dell from changing the terms for share- a fifth consecutive quarter in the April- were counted as “no” votes to one in alternative,” Mandl said. holder voting and accused the Dell board June period. —AFP Asian shares rally after string of upbeat data Investor confidence help dollar push higher

HONG KONG: Asian markets climbed for a after a survey showed eurozone manufactur- on Thursday European Central Bank chief second straight session yesterday following ing activity last month was growing for the Mario Draghi provided more support when another record close on Wall Street and a first time since July 2011. he pledged to keep interest rates low-or even string of positive economic data from China, Soon afterwards, the US Institute for lower them. Europe and the United States. Supply Management index of activity also “Recent confidence indicators based on Buying sentiment was also helped by surged to its highest level since July two survey data have shown some further much welcomed earnings results, while years ago, well above market estimates. The improvement from low levels and tentatively investor confidence helped the dollar push news was a shot in the arm for Wall Street, confirm the expectation of a stabilisation in higher. Tokyo surged 3.29 percent, or 460.39 where the S&P 500 surged 1.25 percent to a economic activity,” Draghi said. points, to 14,466.16 as the yen slipped, while record close, while the Dow climbed 0.83 However, “the risks surrounding the eco- TOKYO: Toyota Motors managing officer Takuo Seoul added 0.14 percent, or 2.64 points, to percent and the Nasdaq rallied 1.36 percent. nomic outlook for the euro area continue to Sasaki announces the company’s first-quarter finan- 1,923.38. Sydney rose 1.09 percent, or 55.3 It also fuelled buying on currency mar- be on the downside,” he warned at a news cial results during a press conference in Tokyo yes- points, to 5,116.8. Hong Kong closed 0.46 kets, with the dollar jumping to 99.52 yen in conference after the ECB’s latest policy terday. Toyota said net profit almost doubled to a percent higher, adding 102.18 points, to New York on Thursday from 98.63 earlier in meeting. record 5.64 billion USD for the three months to 22,190.97 and Shanghai ended flat, edging Tokyo. Yesterday the greenback climbed fur- On the corporate front Sony and Sharp June, and said it was on track to produce over 10 up 0.35 points, to 2,029.42. ther, fetching 99.61 yen. The euro bought surprised on the upside thanks to cost-cut- million vehicles worldwide this year. —AFP Regional shares rallied on Thursday as $1.3215 and 131.66 yen against $1.3208 and ting measures and a weaker yen. The elec- traders welcomed the prospect the US 131.45 yen. tronics giants enjoyed an uptick yesterday, a Federal Reserve will keep its stimulus in place The eurozone results added to optimism day after Sony said it had swung to a profit in Toyota profit up as well as strong US growth data and better- for the region’s future after a slew of releases the three months to June, while Sharp man- than-expected Chinese manufacturing. that have pointed to a pick-up in the econo- aged to shrink its year earlier net loss. TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp. said its profit for the first quarter of They were given another boost yesterday my and a possible exit from recession. And Eyes will now be on Washington later yes- the fiscal year nearly doubled from a year ago, and set an ambi- terday, when the government releases non- tious, worldwide production goal that would break industry farm payrolls data, which will give an idea records if reached. about the strength of the world’s number The Tokyo-based maker of the Prius hybrid and Camry sedan one economy. On oil markets New York’s said profit for the April-June quarter rose to 562.1 billion yen ($5.6 main contract, West Texas Intermediate for billion) after getting a big boost from a weak yen. delivery in September, climbed 11 cents to The company also set a worldwide production goal for the $108.00 and Brent North Sea crude for 2013 calendar year at 10.1 million vehicles, which would be an September rose six cents to $110.60. industry record, while it stuck to its global vehicle sales goal for Gold cost $1,289.00 per ounce at 1050 the year at 9.96 million vehicles. That puts it in a neck-and-neck GMT, compared with $1,323.90 late race with US rival General Motors Co. for the crown of world’s top Thursday. automaker. The company also raised its full-year earnings forecast to 1.48 In other markets: trillion yen ($14.8 billion), up nearly 54 percent from the previous Taipei rose 0.54 percent, or 43.66 points, year. Quarterly sales jumped 14 percent to 6.25 trillion yen ($62.6 to 8,099.88. Hon Hai rose 0.39 percent to billion). Tw$76.9 while smartphone maker HTC fell Toyota’s fiscal first quarter profit and sales results both beat 3.7 percent to Tw$143.0. estimates by analysts surveyed by FactSet. Toyota is expecting 24 Wellington added 0.82 percent, or 37.12 trillion yen ($240 billion) in sales for the fiscal year through March points, to 4,582.89. Chorus was up 2.59 per- 2014, up 9 percent from the previous year. It had previously fore- cent at NZ$2.77, Contact Energy gained 1.11 cast 23.5 trillion ($235 billion) yen in sales. percent to NZ$5,47 and Air New Zealand was Toyota marked strong sales in the key US market while grow- steady at NZ$1.43. ing in some emerging markets. Although its vehicle sales lagged Manila closed 1.91 percent lower, shed- in stagnant Japan and Europe, it managed to boost revenue sales ding 127.49 points to 6,533.95. SM TOKYO: A woman with a parasol walks by an electronic stock board of and operating profitability in both regions, thanks to cost cuts. Investments plunged 8.58 percent to 879 Last year, Toyota again snatched the title of the world’s top a securities firm in Tokyo, yesterday as Japan’s Nikkei 225 index pesos and SM Prime Holdings fell 5.57 per- automaker in global vehicle sales from GM. It has held up for the surged 3.3 percent to 14,466.16, with export shares boosted by a cent to 16.62, while Alliance Global dropped first half of 2013, but the race is close. GM boasted such bragging weakening yen. —AP 3.11 percent to 26.45 pesos. —AFP rights for seven decades until 2008. —AP BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

Australia unveils deposits tax, budget deficit blows out

SYDNEY: Australia unveiled yesterday a plus in 2016-17. Bowen said the fall in Aus$733 million in its first 18 months. already a very stable and safe system,” he pre-election mini-budget that includes a commodities prices sparked by weaken- Bowen said the cash would go into a new said, indicating the extra costs borne by controversial plan to tax bank deposits, ing growth in key export market China Financial Stability Fund, but will be banks would most likely be passed onto warning the budget deficit had blown meant Australia’s economy would grow counted as revenue in the budget, to customers. Bowen insisted the govern- out to Aus$30 billion and revenues were 2.5 percent in July-June, slower than the protect savings in the event of a bank ment had struck the right balance shrinking. The government also cut its 2.75 percent forecast in May. However, it collapse. “It’ll be quarantined from the between savings and spending. “The task growth outlook for the fiscal year to June is expected to rise to 3.0 percent in rest of the budget and just put aside in of government continues to be to drive as the mining-driven economy struggles 2014/15. “The transition in the resources case there’s ever a need with a bank get- efficiencies and to find savings which are to cope with a slowdown in China that sector from a record investment boom to ting into trouble in Australia,” he said. “It real and sustainable,” he said. has seen commodities prices tumble. strong growth in production and exports hasn’t happened in Australia for quite a “We’ve made revenue decisions and With national polls approaching, is currently underway,” he said. “This will while, but we can’t be complacent.” we’ve made spending decisions ... we’ve Treasurer Chris Bowen said tough condi- mean that non-mining sectors of the He said the levy had been recom- struck the right a balance.” Yesterday’s tions had seen a further Aus$33.3 billion economy will need to lead growth in the mended by the Reserve Bank of Australia, statement has added to speculation that wiped off revenue estimates over the future. This transition poses challenges the International Monetary Fund and the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could call an next four years. This, he said had forced for the economy.” Australian Prudential Regulation election this weekend for September 7, the ruling Labor party into $17.4 billion of In a bid to plug the hole being left by Authority, but the banking industry said having now outlined fresh budget num- “responsible savings”. its huge revenue shortfall Bowen this it was not necessary. bers as well as new polices on key issues The government also upped its fore- week the government announced a plan Australian Bankers Association chief including asylum-seekers and Labor par- cast unemployment rate in 2013/14 by to hike tobacco taxes by 12.5 percent per Steven Munchenberg said Australians’ ty reform. Polls must be held before the 50 basis points to 6.25 percent. However, year over the next four years, which is set savings were already well protected by end of November. “We are in election while the budget deficit for this fiscal to raise more than Aus$5.0 billion. the country’s robust and secure banking season. The election is due. It’ll be called year had ballooned from the Aus$18 bil- And yesterday he said he will also tax system. “This is simply a cost on soon enough,” said Bowen when ques- lion forecast in the May budget, he stuck bank deposits up to Aus$250,000 at 0.05 Australians that is not really going to tioned on a date ahead of the state- to the government’s plan to return a sur- percent from 2016, raising a forecast deliver any benefits in terms of what is ment’s release. — AFP Mumbai’s venerable ‘Fiat taxis’ begin to disappear Along with them go a piece of India’s history

MUMBAI: To anyone who’s ever visited Mumbai, they are as evocative a symbol as the Gateway to India. The boxy, black- and-yellow Premier Padmini taxis have plied the city’s streets for nearly half a century, defying their old age to SHANGHAI: Journalists look at the view from the top of the become a part of the fabric of this under construction Shanghai Tower in Shanghai yesterday. chaotic metropolis. The Shanghai Tower at 632m will be the tallest building in Now, a new city regulation is begin- Asia and the second tallest building in the world. — AFP ning to send the venerable Padmini - known as “Fiat taxis” after the Italian model they were based on - to scrap heaps. Along with them will go a piece Central bank of India’s history - and the taxis’ colorful personalized upholstery that has daz- ‘intervened to zled so many passengers that websites have sprung up to celebrate them as an rescue rupee’ art form. A government order that all vehicles MUMBAI: India’s central Reserve Bank of India was believed more than 20 years old be taken off the to have intervened in the foreign exchange market yesterday streets took effect this week, and that to rescue the rupee from near-record low levels, dealers said. will take some 4,500 of the remaining “The RBI is believed to have sold dollars at around 61.12 9,500 Fiat taxis out of commission as MUMBAI: In this Wednesday, July 31, 2013, a Mumbai Premier Padmini taxi seen levels,” said a dealer at a Mumbai forex outfit, asking not to be their licenses expire and are not on a road, in Mumbai, India. More than 4,500 Premier Padmini taxis are expected named. The currency recovered briefly to 60.89 levels but renewed, said A.L. Quadros, head of the to be banned from the roads in Mumbai this year, starting this month, in line slipped again to end at its lowest-ever closing of 61.10, deal- Mumbai taxi drivers’ union. The rest will with a government order that bans cabs that are more than 20 years old. — AP ers said. be phased out each year they reach the The rupee, Asia’s worst performing major currency this 20-year mark. interiors when they wore out. “The main issue is of the pollution,” year, hit a lifetime low of 61.21 to the dollar last month in For Quadros and many others, the And so was born the other distinctive says Ramesh Sarnaik, an inspector in the intraday trade. Slackening domestic growth, weak exports, ris- new regulation represents the end of an trait of Mumbai’s taxis - the colorful, per- Road Transport Office. He said newer ing foreign fund outflows and India’s high current account era. “This Premier Padmini is iconic,” he sonalized, sometimes mind-bending cars have fewer harmful emissions and deficit have battered the rupee. said, adding that people worldwide upholstery inside. will also give passengers a more com- Demand for the dollar has also increased amid expecta- identify it with Mumbai. Flickr and Tumblr each have at least fortable ride, since new models have air- tions of a sooner-than-expected scaling back of US stimulus The car harkens back to when India’s one site dedicated to celebrating the conditioning, which most Fiat taxis lack. as the American economy recovers, analysts said. policy of economic self-sufficiency most outrageous Mumbai taxi interiors. But for the thousands of taxi owners “The rupee remains in a very bearish state. Until the gov- meant domestically produced cars were Contributors post photos of upholstery who can’t afford to upgrade their vehi- ernment takes steps to boost capital flows into India, the situ- the norm. For most, the only options ranging from the rustic (autumn leaves, cles, the new regulation will hurt. ation will not improve,” said Param Sarma, chief executive of were the Padmini and the Ambassador, sunflowers) to the psychedelic (hypnotic Taxi driver Dashrath Sawant, 60, has NSP Forex. Analysts fear that the currency could fall to the 62 made by Kolkata-based Hindustan swirls of pink and fuschia) to the classic had his Padmini for 26 years and says he rupee to the dollar level or lower in coming months if the US Motors. (tiger stripes and leopard print, in every thinks that with good care it has at least Fed starts to taper off its stimulus. The first Padminis rolled off assembly imaginable hue). Bonus points for vio- five years left in it. RBI governor Duvvuri Subbarao, in a speech in southern lines in 1964 at a factory in Mumbai lent pattern clashes between the seats “If a person gets old, would you just city of Hyderabad on Friday, said that the bank will roll back (then called Bombay) under a license and vinyl ceiling covers. throw them out on the street?” Sawant recently announced tightening measures “only after stability from Fiat. Within a few years, there were Determined engine and upholstery said. “He should be cared and looked has been restored to the foreign exchange market”. 62,000 of them in the Bombay’s taxi refurbishing has kept Fiat taxis a staple after.” Taxi union chief Quadros esti- Last month the RBI brought in a range of measures to prop fleet alone, Quadros said. of the city’s taxi fleet. But the city gov- mates that about 10 percent of the up the rupee, including raising short-term interest rates and Production stopped in 2000, but the ernment says those ancient engines are drivers who lose their cars under the lowering the amount banks can borrow or lend under its liq- Fiat taxi never disappeared with owners a hazard to the city’s air quality and so regulation will retire rather than uidity limits. — AFP repairing the engines and replacing the older cars must go. replace them. — AP BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

Etihad Airways, Serbia unveil strategic partnership

tihad Airways, the national airline of the ment for the newly created Air Serbia. Prime Minister of the Serbian Government, in Serbia and the UAE and provides a new look EUnited Arab Emirates (UAE) has unveiled James Hogan, Etihad Airways’ President said: “Etihad Airways’ reputation, financial and feel for the national airline. The aim was to plans to acquire 49 per cent of and Chief Executive Officer, said: “We are strength and stability will be of significant ben- make a break with past practice, but not with JatAirways. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier has delighted to welcome Air Serbia to our equity efit to Air Serbia and we are delighted to Serbian heritage and also offer an unmistake- also been awarded a five year management alliance and look forward to working construc- launch this strategic partnership. Air travellers able national identity. Among other planned contract for the Serbian national airline. These tively with them and their stakeholders to to and from Serbia will soon benefit from an developments will be an enhanced flight net- are two of the key components of a wide-rang- build a sustainable, competitive, and profitable incredible range of new products and services. work, codesharing with Etihad Airways and air- ing strategic partnership agreement, signed by airline. “In addition to creating scale, our “The partnership will provide passengers with berlin, adding to Air Serbia’s current network Etihad Airways and the Government of Serbia, renowned business model provides a unique an extensive route network and smooth flight of 33 cities another 12 destinations in Africa, which includes a fleet of new aircraft, and a common platform to drive synergies and cost connections. It will also consolidate and Europe and the Middle East. new integrated network of international desti- The new destinations are Abu Dhabi (com- nations enabling greater access for business plementing Etihad Airways’ daily service), as and leisure travellers to Serbia. well as Banja Luka, Beirut, Bucharest, Budapest, The historic agreement follows the launch Cairo, Kiev, Ljubljana, Prague, Sofia, Varna, and of Etihad Airways flights between Abu Dhabi Warsaw. and Belgrade in June and will significantly Among the first new destinations to be enhance trade and investment relations launched by Air Serbia will be a four flights a between the United Arab Emirates and Serbia week service between Belgrade and Abu as well as boosting the tourism sector in both Dhabi. Complementing Etihad Airways’ cur- countries. rent daily flights, the new Air Serbia service will Economic ties between the two countries, start in October 2013 and will move to daily valued at EUR 23.3 million in 2012, three times when the new fleet grows to facilitate an greater than in 2011, continue to expand with increased service. a number of key government agreements The new A319 aircraft will be in Air Serbia signed in recent months which will see invest- livery, with a stylish cabin trim and product of a ments in agriculture, defence, technology, and standard never seen before operating out of tourism. Belgrade. The current JatAirways fleet of 10 The strategic partnership agreement was Boeing 737-300 aircraft will be retired from announced by James Hogan, President and scheduled operations, and in the short term Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways and will be replaced by leased narrow body aircraft. Aleksandar Vucic, Deputy Prime Minister of the In the longer term, an Air Serbia order will be Serbian Government, at a media conference in made for 10 new narrow body aircraft. Belgrade, Thursday 1 August, 2013. The strategic partnership agreement will Within the agreement Etihad Airways will also offer unprecedented career development make available a USD 40 million loan facility opportunities for Air Serbia cabin and flight which will be converted into equity on 1 savings which will be of considerable benefit enhance both airlines’ market competitiveness deck crew, who will have access to Etihad January 2014, subject to regulatory approval. to Air Serbia as the new airline evolves. as the relationship deepens over the coming Airways’ world class Training Academy and This will be matched by an equal funding “We will have tough decisions to make but months.” The rebranding and renaming of facilities in Abu Dhabi. injection by the Government of Serbia. Etihad the financial investment by Etihad Airways and JatAirways to Air Serbia is a significant Air Serbia will become Etihad Airways’ sixth Airways and the Government of Serbia will also the Government of Serbia, together with the moment in the history of the Serbian carrier equity partner following investments in airber- each provide further funding through share- positive impact of our joint management which is more than 80 years old. Tail fins on Air lin (29.21 per cent), Air Seychelles (40 per cent), holder loans and other funding mechanisms of expertise and experience, will help ensure this Serbia aircraft will feature the Serbian coat of Virgin Australia (10.5 per cent), Aer Lingus (2.99 up to USD 60 million to meet working capital airline, with its proud history, now has an even arms and the country’s state colours on both per cent) and most recently Jet Airways (24 per requirements and support network develop- brighter future.” Aleksandar Vucic, Deputy sides. 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Kelly Rowland says Simon Cowell will be a great dad

he 53-year-old music mogul is having a child with his friend Andrew Silverman’s estranged wife, New York Tsocialite Lauren Silverman, who is 10 weeks pregnant, and Kelly, who co-stars with Simon on ‘X Factor’ USA is thrilled for him. She told E! News: “I think Simon will be a wonderful father. It’s not my news to share, but I do know about Simon and his character. He’s going to be a great dad. “I think that he is always respectful. Always classy. And I think that he will be like that as a father. He will be a classic father figure.” Fellow judge Paulina Rubio added: “I believe he is very much like a leader, so I believe because of that he will be a very good father.” While ‘X Factor’ USA’s Demi Lovato is happy for Simon, the 20-year-old singer insists she doesn’t have any advice for him because he is so much older than she is. Demi said: “I don’t have any advice to give to someone who has lived like a hundred more years than I have. “I mean, I might be off by a few, so maybe 110. But I have a lot of fun with him and he’s a great guy. He’ll be good.”

Megan Fox Lea Michele is pregnant returns to ‘Glee’ set he 27-year-old actress and her husband Brian Austin - who already have 10-month-old son Noah -are he 26-year-old actress started Texpecting their second child together and are “very work on the fifth season of the happy” with the news. Leslie Sloane Zelnick, a representa- Tshow), just two weeks after her tive for Megan told the New York Post newspaper: “I can boyfriend and co-star, Cory Monteith, confirm Megan is expecting her second child with her hus- died from a heroin and alcohol over- band Brian, they are both very happy.” The brunette dose at the Fairview Pacific Hotel in beauty is currently filming ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Vancouver. She tweeted: “First day of and although she’s in the early stages of her pregnancy, glee today..And at my first wardrobe she remained tight-lipped about the news so that it didn’t fitting for Rachel Berry for Season Five! interfere with her work. The couple - who first started dat- I’ve missed her so much (sic).” ing in 2004 and later tied the knot in 2010 - kept the birth Meanwhile, it was recently revealed of Noah under wraps for two weeks before Megan eventu- that Emmy producers are currently ally took to her Facebook page to confirm the rumours. planning the best way to pay tribute to She wrote: “We are humbled to have the opportunity to Cory at the awards ceremony, which call ourselves the parents of this beautiful soul and I am will take place at the Nokia Theatre in forever grateful to God for allowing me to know this kind Los Angeles on September 22. of boundless, immaculate love. “Thanks to those of you Executive producer, Ken Ehrlich, said: who wish to send your positive energy and well wishes.” “Something that reflects an homage [is Megan and Brian - who is already a father to Kassius, 11, being planned, but] what the extent of from his previous relationship with Vanessa Marcil that is, or how we’re going to approach Giovinazzo - have recently expressed their desire to give it... well, it’s too early to tell. “If Cory had Noah a sibling to play with. Speaking to Marie Claire earli- passed away in March, we’d have had er this year, Megan said: “All I wanted to do my whole, four months to look at this with a little whole life was have a baby and, now, I’ve finally done it. “I more perspective. The reason we’re just want to give Noah as much of myself as I can. And I getting all of this discussion now is want to have more kids. That is where my heart is.” because he passed away two weeks ago. But we are going to deal with it.” Jodie Foster rescued Jamie Lee Curtis from a car crash he ‘Panic Room’ star lived up to her from hospital, but the other victim is report- action heroine status, rushing to help ed to be suffering more serious injuries. Ther close friend when she called her Jodie earned a reputation for her bravery ear- from the scene of the accident in Las Vegas, lier this year when she became one of the California. Jamie and one other person were first female celebrities to openly come out as taken to hospital in the back of two separate lesbian. The star gave a candid speech upon ambulances after the black Yukon SUV the accepting the Cecile B. DeMille award for out- 54-year-old star was travelling in crashed into standing achievement in film at February’s a BMW vehicle. According to TMZ, a witness Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles. She to the incident saw the stricken ‘Freaky praised her former partner Cydney Bernard, Friday’ star call Jodie, 50, who arrived within with whom she raises children Charlie, 15, minutes to comfort her pal. Jamie’s injuries and 11-year-old Kit, saying, “I am so proud of were minor and she has since been released our modern family.” SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Kate Bosworth felt ‘confused’ during her twenties he 30-year-old actress has confessed she found the decade tougher than her teens because she was Tunsure about what direction to go in. She said: “There’s not one female I’ve spoken to who has told me their twenties were easy. Everyone talks of how difficult your teens can be, but the rough and tumble of your twenties is a bit of a secret. “In one sense it’s a whole lot of fun - I had a crazy time - but I felt confused and like I was going through growing pains a lot, and like I was trying to find my legs. I wasn’t prepared for that.” Kate lamented trying to make her “roller- coaster” past relationships with the likes of Orlando Bloom and Alexander Skarsgard work, revealing things have always been effortless with her now-fiance Michael Polish. She explained: “I’ve since learned things really shouldn’t be that hard. I guess when I was younger there was something interesting in the discovery of something foreign. But that’s just the wrapping.” The ‘Win a Date with Tad Hamilton’ star admitted the stress of her twenties took its toll on her body, but refuted media rumours she was suffering from an eating disorder. She told InStyle magazine: “When I’m under a lot of emotional stress I can lose weight quickly. I was going through a rough time and trying to ignore it. “I lost too Christina Applegate much weight because I was heartsick. I was going through my first difficult break-up.” wants more kids he 41-year-old actress and her husband Martyn LeNoble have a two-year-old daughter Sadie Grace Ttogether and although they would love to expand Jimmy Fallon besotted their family, Christina doesn’t know if she has the energy for sleepless nights with a newborn. She told ‘Access Hollywood’: “I think we both want to make another with his new baby daughter Sadie. watch this little person and she’s so perfect and she enhances our life so much that you go, ‘God - how he ‘Late Night’ host and his wife Nancy welcomed could we not produce more of these?’ “We’re both kind Winnie Rose last month and Jimmy can’t stop gushing of like, ‘Eh, we’re a little old’ - we don’t know. “I’m 41 Tabout the tot. In his ‘Ask Jimmy: Baby Edition’ years old and I don’t know if I could do the whole not YouTube video, he said: “I’m pretty tired. But basically it’s a sleeping thing again. If I was 35, then maybe I’d have the weird type of tired, where it’s like you’re so tired but you energy. “When I get up it hurts. Some people can do it don’t feel exhausted, you feel like, ‘I just have to do this, so and I say, ‘Hats off to you.’ That’s just how I feel right I’m gonna keep moving through this pace.’ It’s fun, it’s fun now.” Christina recently revealed she loves hanging out tired because you’re just excited to what she does next. It’s with Sadie, who she calls her “little best friend”. She said: exciting. “Last night we were giving her a sponge bath and “Her language skills are incredible. Sadie and I talk about she loves it when you put the water on her head, her little what she dreamt about, we talk about what we’re going head, she has a tiny little round head...She’s a great baby. to do that day, we talk about what we did the day Doesn’t cry.” Jimmy isn’t the only one who is can’t get before, and we talk extensively about these things. “It’s enough of Winnie, his dog Gary also can’t resist the tot. The really a fun part of her development. Now she’s my little 38-year-old presenter added: “The real Gary is super cute, person, she’s my little best friend. “I’m watching what totally protective. Loves her. “This morning we were feed- she finds funny now. If she sees something that she real- ing her, and Gary walked up and she was like, ‘I’m cool, ly thinks is funny, she does this crack-up on her own. It’s don’t worry about me.’ And quickly looked over and licked really awesome to see, ‘Oh wow, you’re learning what her head. It was really cute. Because she smells so good and tickles you.’ It’s not influenced by anybody else, which is everyone would like to lick her head, but Gary gets away really a cool, new thing.” with it ‘cause she’s a dog.” — Bangshowbiz

Stacy Keibler is going on a European vacation he ‘Supermarket Superstar’ host is ished. She said: “I love to go out and go going travelling with a group of dancing but I also love to have my relaxing Tfriends as planned following her split yoga and meditation times,” Stacy report- from George Clooney in June after just over edly separated with George due to conflict- two years of dating. However, she will no ing work schedules, with her based in longer stay at George’s villa on Lake Como Hollywood and the 52-year-old actor in Italy. Stacy told E! News: “I’m going and spending most of the summer in Europe winging it as I go, I’m going with a bunch filming. The blonde beauty is said to be friends. I have friends all over and I’ll just ready for a break on the continent. A see where life takes me before I have to source revealed: “She spent a ton of time in come back and get back to work again.” Europe last summer and is still is hoping to The 33 year-old former WWE wrestler do the same this summer. “Stacy loves liv- intends to indulge in some of her favourite ing in the moment and living her life to the pastimes now the cooking reality TV show - fullest that she can, so travelling and which gives contestants the chance to have exploring is very important to her and she their food products sold in stores - has fin- does it as much as she can.” SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Tiny French ‘oasis’ for ageing British gays alleles-d’Aude is a picturesque village like so Smany in France, with vines, a tree-lined canal, a church... and soon, a “private oasis” for ageing British gay people-reportedly a first in the country. The brainchild of 66-year-old Danny Silver, the luxury community for gay, lesbian, bi- and transsexual British people will be located just outside the small Gordon Ramsay (far right) judge/executive producer of the FOX show “Master Chef Junior,” takes part in a rural village, whose residents have raised a surprised panel discussion with contestants, left to right, Gavin, Dara, Troy and Sarah during the FOX 2013 Summer eyebrow at the news. TCA press tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday, Aug 1, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif. —AP “It’s for people who want to live, it’s not a place to come to die,” said Silver, a Brit whose real-estate company The Villages Group builds “active retire- Ramsay ment communities” in France for the over-50s. These holds his tongue types of communities-where people aged over 50 can either retire or just go on holiday-are popular in the United States and Australia but are little known working with kid chefs in France. Complete with 107 homes, a hotel, tennis courts, saunas, jacuzzis, golf and horse-riding, it will ordon Ramsay’s, dare we say it, reputation as a demanding taskmaster, panel said they hope to pursue careers be an eco-friendly and low-energy compound with softer side comes out when the but 9-year-old Sarah from Pacific in food when they grow up. Ramsay G “English and multilingual staff”, the group’s website formidable chef presides over Palisades, California, said, “He can’t be said he enjoyed mentoring the kids and aspiring kid cooks on a new reality really mean because we’re kids.” teaching them life-long skills about eat- states. show. Kids between 8 and 13 who love Ramsay, a father of three daughters ing healthy foods. Silver says it will be the first such village for age- to work in the kitchen will face off on and a son, told the budding chefs when “Learning to cook for yourself is so ing gays and lesbians in France, where a bill allowing “MasterChef Junior” debuting Sept 27 their food wasn’t good enough. “I’m important to set them up for the rest of same-sex marriage and adoption stirred up some- on Fox. Ramsay is the expletive-spew- brutally honest and I think the kids their lives,” he said. Joining Ramsay on times violent protests, before finally being adopted ing restaurateur and star of such Fox appreciate that,” Ramsay said. “Being the judging panel are restaurateur Joe in May. But the 2,500-strong Salleles-d’Aude village, shows as “Kitchen Nightmares” and firm and fair isn’t anything we can be Bastianich and chef Graham Elliot. The “Hell’s Kitchen.” The new show is based short on.” To soften the blow, they first audition round features 24 kids nestled in the rural southwest, appears far from any on a popular British series. were sent home in pairs during elimi- split into three groups of eight to cre- such controversy and the news has been cautiously “I don’t think I swore once,” Ramsay nations. “We hate saying goodbye,” ate seafood, pasta or desserts. welcomed-if not with open arms, then with a touch told the Television Critics Association Ramsay said. “We let them down gen- The top 12 finalists earn a white of pragmatism. on Thursday. “Twice,” corrected Gavin, a tly.” apron and advance to a series of chal- “It doesn’t bother me as long as they stay at home 10-year-old contestant from San Tommy, an 11-year-old contestant lenges and cook-offs, including prepar- and don’t come for a stroll hand-in-hand or kiss each Francisco, adding that Ramsay’s cursing from Palos Verdes Estates, California, ing Beef Wellington as a tag-team. The other in front of children,” a wary Herve Garcia, the was directed at servers during a restau- said, “He was giving us tips on making kids take over a fine dining restaurant rant challenge, not the kids. “We know it better.” Added Gavin, “He taught you in Los Angeles to prepare a three- owner of a pizzeria, told AFP. “But for village busi- the F-word means food,” Ramsay said. not to give up and keep on trying.” course meal. The eventual winner earns ness, it can only be a good thing. This year, we’ve The contestants knew of Ramsay’s fiery Several of the seven kids at the TCA $100,000. —AP had 30 percent less tourists (than other years).” Serge Core, another village resident, pointed out that homosexuality had now become part of every- Fox sitcom ‘Dads’ blasted weeks before its debut day life. “They can marry now. So I don’t see why they couldn’t come and settle down here,” he said. Even the mayor Yves Bastie-who will soon be offici- t doesn’t debut until next ating a gay marriage was caught unawares by the month, but the Fox sitcom I project, having sold the group a construction permit “Dads” is already taking heat in early reviews for being crass, sexist thinking a more mainstream holiday village would and racially insensitive. The stars be built. That had been Silver’s idea too, but a slug- and producers of “Dads” faced gish crisis-hit market subsequently convinced him to reporters Thursday and defended change tack, and try and target the homosexual the show as focusing on human community. frailties for the sake of laughs and “The reaction has been absolutely wonderful,” he enlightenment. At the Television said, adding building was due to start in early 2014, Critics Association meeting, they with a planned opening of the village a year later. But vowed to tweak the tone of the series as appropriate as the season for Michel Teychenne, a politician who was in charge unfolds. The comedy stars two of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual) issues friends, played by Seth Green and during President Francois Hollande’s election cam- Giovanni Ribisi, whose politically paign, the village may not be such a good idea. incorrect fathers re-enter their lives “The government is currently discussing the issue and disrupt them. The dads are of old age and LGBT,” he said, confirming that as far played by Martin Mull and Peter as he knew, the community in Salleles-d’Aude would Riegert. A producer of the series is be the first of its kind in France. But he warned such Seth MacFarlane, whose animated comedies, including “Family Guy,” Brenda Song (left) and Vanessa Lachey, cast members in the FOX series gay communities, which are popular in the United have won him popularity as well as “dads,” laugh during a panel discussion on the show at the FOX 2013 States, could lead to a “form of ghettoisation of the criticism for their rawness. “Dads” Summer TCA press tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday, Aug 1, homosexual community”. —AFP premieres Sept 17. —AP 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif. —AP SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

Hot air balloon launch in France soars past record

Over 400 hot-air balloons take off in Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in an attempt to set a world record for collective taking-off during the event “Lorraine Mondial air ballons”, an international hot-air balloon meeting. —AP photos

hot air balloon festival at a former NATO airfield in eastern France broke two records in as many days this week - first by sending up 408 piloted balloons in an hour, then by lining up 391 Aballoons on the runways and sending them up together. The sound of hundreds of gas burners blasting simultaneously is extraordinary, said Denis Martignon, a pilot who flew both days. “It was an impressive wall of balloons,” Martignon said. The annual Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons is organized by a descendent of the 18th century aeronautics pioneer Jean- Francois Pilatre de Rozier who took up the family hobby. Philippe Buron Pilatre has been piloting balloons since 1979. “My father flew. My son flies. My brother flies. Someday my grandson might fly,” he said yesterday. —AP Lawsuit against Shakira Cowell says ‘X Factor’ by ex-boyfriend dismissed female judges reflect music lawsuit by Shakira’s ex-boyfriend seek- he mostly female judges’ panel for “The “The banter between me and Simon will Aing tens of millions of dollars from the TX Factor” reflects the “girls’ world” of be times three,” she said. Amid reports that singer was dismissed Thursday by a today’s music business, Simon Cowell Cowell and a married New York socialite are judge who determined the case should not be said Thursday. When “X Factor” returns next expecting a baby, he was asked if his sched- heard in California. Los Angeles Superior Court month for its third season, Cowell will share ule would be affected by being a father. “I Judge Abraham Khan’s ruling sided with judging duties on his show with returning really haven’t read the newspapers. Did I miss lawyers for the pop star who argued that the panelist Demi Lovato, along with two new- anything?” Cowell replied. “Unfortunately, I case should be filed in her native Colombia or comers: former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly have to keep this, for the moment, private. It’s the Bahamas, where she currently claims resi- Rowland and Latin artist Paulina Rubio. The just of those things. Thank you very much dency. Antonio de la Rua sued his ex-girlfriend music charts are dominated by women, anyway.” The pregnancy hasn’t been con- in April stating he was instrumental in her Cowell said during a Television Critics firmed by either party. At one point, Lovato transformation into a global star. His lawsuit Association session. interjected that Cowell didn’t have to seeking more than $100 million claimed that He compared last season’s judging panel, respond to the reporter’s question. —AP Shakira has not paid him according to their with record producer Antonio “LA” Reid and business contracts since 2010. The pair broke Britney Spears, to a dinner party that wasn’t up in 2011. De la Rua has pursued his claims in as fun as expected. The revamped panel rep- courts in Switzerland and New York, but those resents Cowell’s third try to make “X Factor” actions have been dismissed. into the major hit he predicted it would be “I am very grateful that the courts are not before its 2011 debut. The show, based on his allowing these groundless lawsuits to proceed,” British hit, has gotten respectable but not Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel stellar ratings. Mebarak Ripoll, wrote in a statement Thursday. “You have to be competitive. You have to “I have moved on in my life and could not be In this file photo, Colombian pop make changes,” Cowell said. Mario Lopez, happier now. I hope this harassment will now singer Shakira (left) walks with Antonio returning as the show’s host, said the women come to an end.” Khan’s ruling does not on the panel have an obvious chemistry that address the merits of the case, but he deter- de la Rua at her farm “La Colorada” in he predicted will resonate with viewers. Rubio mined that the case should not be heard in Los Jose Ignacio, Uruguay. —AP agreed that the three of them “bonded imme- Angeles. Rachel Fleishman, an attorney for de la diately.” Rowland, who was a contestant on Rua, argued during a hearing Wednesday that judge rejected that effort in June. He also sued “Star Search,” was asked how she’s approach- the case should be heard in Los Angeles the singer in New York, but the case was ing judging. because its judges were experienced in the dropped. “When Switzerland didn’t work out “Definitely constructive when it comes to complexity of entertainment contracts and and New York didn’t work out, they filed this criticism because you know what ‘no’ feels Shakira frequently travels to the city to serve as case in Los Angeles,” Wall said. “This is a classic like,” she said. Rubio, noting that she started a judge on the competition show “The Voice.” case of, ‘you can run, but you can’t hide,’” de la with a recording deal as a youngster, said she She also argued that many of the witnesses in Rua’s attorney William T. Reid IV wrote in a had a perspective that she wants to share the case live and work in Los Angeles. statement. “Eventually, Ms. Mebarak will have with young singers. Lovato, 20, who proved Shakira’s attorney Daniel Wall argued that to respond to his claims because she will run that she could hold her own on the show with de la Rua was scouring courts to try to get their out of procedural arguments and delay tactics.” the caustic Cowell, said her age gave her “a case heard, but that it should be handled by De La Rua dated Shakira, whose songs include naive sense of confidence” that prevented her judges in other countries. De la Rua sought “Hips Don’t Lie,” for more than a decade and from being intimidated. She suggested he’s Simon Cowell access to Shakira’s Swiss bank accounts, but a worked on some of her business deals. —AP going to meet his match with the new panel. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

This Feb 11, 1964 image shows a photograph of John Lennon and Paul McCartney taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during the Beatles first live US concert at the Washington Coliseum. — AP photos

now and frigid temperatures didn’t stop backs to the camera with a thin ribbon of light Sthousands of screaming teenagers from outlining their silhouettes. When he first saw it, crowding into the Washington Coliseum in he said he teared up. He knew he had to find a the nation’s capital for the Beatles first live con- way to share it with others. cert on American soil. And not having a flash “It brought back memories of that time. I was didn’t stop photographer Mike Mitchell, then a teenager and it was so much about love and just 18 years old, from using his unrestricted everything was optimistic feeling,” he said. It access to document that historic February night didn’t take long from the time the Beatles in 1964 using only the dim light in the arena. released their debut album in 1963 to go from a Ghostly shadows and streams of light filled little British bar band to an international sensa- some negatives. With the help of modern tech- tion. The Beatles’ reach eventually stretched nology and close to 1,000 hours in front of the beyond music and haircuts to religion and poli- computer screen, Mitchell was able to peel back tics. decades of grunge and transform those old neg- “The Beatles came to represent some of the atives into a rare, artful look at one of pop cul- yearnings for peace and hope and equality and ture’s defining moments. a larger social justice. In the United States and Mitchell’s portraits of the Beatles are the cen- throughout the world, their personalities terpiece of a monthlong exhibition at the David became as important as the music,” said Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos - the first time Norman Markowitz, a history professor at the prints have been exhibited since being Rutgers University. For Paul Vance, who teaches unveiled in 2011 at a Christie’s auction in New a class on the Beatles at Winona State University York City. The gallery started hanging the first of in Minnesota, the band was the reason he pur- the framed prints a week ago in preparation for sued music. He was 11 years old when the Friday’s opening. “Just amazing,” gallery owner Beatles first came to the US. David Mapes said as he looked around the room The Beatles had good timing, he said, having at the large black and white prints and won- arrived at a time when America was still heart- This July 27, 2013 image shows a photograph of George Harrison taken by photographer dered aloud what it must have been like to be in broken over the assassination of then-President Mike Mitchell during the Beatles first live US concert hanging on the wall at the David Mitchell’s shoes that night. Mapes pointed to a John F. Kennedy and young people were look- Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, NM. photograph of the four band members, their ing for meaning in their lives. “Much has been

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This Feb 11, 1964 image shows a photograph of Ringo Starr taken by photographer Mike Mitchell at a news conference before the Beatles first live US concert at the Washington Coliseum.

said and written about it,” Vance said of a little more about who they really were. With no the Beatles’ influence. “It’s a very signifi- flash, he was forced to wait for the perfect time to cant point that the world after the snap that shutter. His photographs immortalized the Beatles was a radically different place important details of the moment in a bath of light than the world before the Beatles, and while the rest faded into darkness. It was the concert they did influence and change so many that marked the beginning of his fascination with aspects of not just American life, but life light. “I think that was the first time in my life that I everywhere.” had to really look more deeply at light and take my Mitchell can’t predict what role his queues from what the light was doing,” he said. “I photographs will play as historians and music fans learned to sort of feel from the light.” — AP This Feb 11, 1964 image shows a photograph of George continue to examine the evolution of American pop Harrison. culture. Still, those moments captured by his camera that February night tell a grainy story of four young men who seemed to be having the time of their lives. Mitchell remembers how hot it was inside the coliseum. The crowd was deafening but the resonat- ing bass beats were unmistakable. He said the Beatles were “on fire” that night. “They were really juiced. It was obvious at the time that they were really, really, really into it and I think the pictures really benefit from that,” he said. Mitchell said his goal was simple. He wanted to make great portraits of the Beatles while discovering

This Feb 11, 1964 image shows a photograph of Ringo Starr. This Feb 11, 1964 image shows a photograph of the Beatles taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during a news conference. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Modern luxury meets Soviet retro chic as

An undated handout picture shows the GUM shopping mall on the Red Square in Moscow. —AFP photos n Soviet days, people queued here to buy Romanian boots or IEast German bras, but Moscow’s vast GUM shopping arcade, which turns 120 this year, is now a luxury emporium that plays on Soviet nostalgia. The official 120th birthday celebrations will take place in several months at the Gosudarstvenny Universalny Magazin (GUM), or State Universal Store, whose three cream- walled arcades topped with a 16,000-square metre (172,220- square feet) glass roof opened opposite the Kremlin in the Tsarist era on December 2, 1893. But the celebrations began in early July with a Christian Dior catwalk show in a Futurist-style pavilion erected for the occasion on Red Square, next to the Lenin Mausoleum. The Paris fashion A handout picture taken in 2011 shows the interior of the GUM shopping mall on the Red Square in Moscow. house has historic connections with GUM. As an advertising stunt, it photographed its models here back in 1959 wearing long two,” said Guguberidze. “When the weather is bad, it becomes newsreader, Yury Levitan, broadcast his famous announcement designer dresses and hats, as curious shoppers gazed on. Over tourist spot number one,” he added. from inside the building. It was not until after Stalin’s death in time, the austere facades of the state-owned stores have been 1953 that the Soviet government decided to revive the store. In replaced by the logos of Burberry, Calvin Klein and Gucci and the Reflecting the history of Russia record time, GUM was refitted and reopened its doors on red-brick Kremlin walls are reflected in the windows of a Louis Without publishing exact figures, Bosco di Ciliegi, the Russian December 24, 1953. “In 50 days they had to gut the building. It Vuitton boutique. company that has been granted a lease of the shopping arcade was very difficult because over 40 years everything had been “Our main partners are luxury brands,” said Timur until 2042 by the state, says that GUM is very financially viable. altered and they had to start again from zero,” said Romodin. Guguberidze, the store’s managing director. “But GUM was Beyond its commercial success, “GUM has always reflected the The day before, Lavrenty Beria, one of the most murderous reconstructed in the Soviet era and we are trying not to forget history of Russia, the technological progress since the end of the heads of the Soviet secret service whose offices were in GUM, had this period.” Symbolic of this desire was the 2008 reopening of 19th century and the transformations of the last 20 years”, said been shot, marking the start of the de-Stalinisation orchestrated the fine foods store Grocery No. 1. The 24-hour food store sells Romodin. Opened in 1893, the store was designed by architect by Nikita Khrushchev. GUM regained its cachet, becoming a pop- Italian cold meat. But it is also possible to buy goods popular in Alexander Pomerantsev to imitate the Parisian arcades and the ular place for Muscovites to stroll as well as to stand in line for the Soviet era: pear-flavoured lemonade sold by the glass, birch Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. hours to buy imported goods that were otherwise hard to find in juice in three-litre jars and ice cream in wafer cups. The new store, then known as the Upper Trading Rows, was the Soviet capital, such as more attractive underwear or cosmet- “The current management has decided to revive the traditions unequalled in Tsarist Russia and even in Europe and gained a rep- ics. of the flagship stores of the 1950s and plays on nostalgia for the utation for its stores selling silks, perfumes and gourmet food. Yelena Titova, a saleswoman in the GUM grocery store, Soviet period,” said architectural historian Denis Romodin. The Lenin revived the store as part of his New Economic Policy (NEP) remembered the late Soviet period when people would queue to recipe works: GUM today attracts around 15 million visitors per in the early 1920s, a concession to capitalist values to lift the buy sausage or bananas. “Here you could find things you couldn’t year to its more than 400 stores, cafes and cinema, laid out over country out of dire economic straits. He also came up with the get in the other shops and also some goods that people from three floors. name and the snappy abbreviation GUM. But Stalin closed the other parts of the Soviet Union did not even recognise.” When The store’s location next to Red Square helps pull in the store in the 1930s and used the building for offices and accom- the Soviet Union fell, people came and queued again, but this crowds, said Guguberidze. “Given that GUM is situated in the modation for bureaucrats. The government several times decided time for the openings of Western stores such as Yves Rocher or country’s main sightseeing area and has unique architecture and to demolish the building but never got round to it. Galeries Lafayette. Such mid-range stores are long gone now, important historic value, it is automatically tourist spot number When the Nazis surrendered at the end of World War II, a radio replaced by the highest-end luxury brands. —AFP BBC to reveal new ‘Doctor Who’ Jackson’s security chief ritish public broadcaster the BBC will about who might take over, with actors Peter reveal the 12th actor to play the lead role Capaldi, Ben Daniels, Rory Kinnear and Ben Bin its long-running “Doctor Who” sci- Whishaw among the bookies’ favourites. details drug concerns ence-fiction television series in a special live “Amongst all the speculation and betting, there broadcast tomorrow. The half-hour show will has been lots of fun and intrigue at work as former security worker for Michael Jackson he found Jackson unconscious, revived him feature an interview with the next Time Lord, we’ve been using the codename Houdini as a Atold a jury Thursday that he was con- before paramedics arrived and never saw any who travels through space and time battling all decoy,” said BBC drama controller Ben cerned the singer would overdose on pre- signs of drugs or alcohol that the singer may manner of malevolent monsters, ranging from Stephenson. scription medications in the early 2000s but have taken. new computer-enhanced horrors to the now “It’s the biggest secret in showbiz - even didn’t see signs of impairment later that decade. Paramedics checked out the singer and decidedly creaky-looking Daleks, survivors of those working with the new Doctor on other Michael La Perruque said he occasionally went determined he didn’t need further medical the early shows from nearly half a century ago. projects at the moment have no idea they into the singer’s hotel room to make sure he was attention, La Perruque said. Deborah Chang, an “The decision is made and the time has are in the presence of the 12th incarnation.” breathing and would often find doctors to treat attorney for Jackson’s mother said there was no come to reveal who’s taking over the Tardis,” The series will mark its 50th anniversary in the pop superstar when he traveled. La Perruque evidence that the incident was drug-related. He executive producer of the TV series, Steven November with a special episode that will retired from his job as a sheriff’s deputy in 2001 told jurors that his testimony Thursday was only Moffat, said in a BBC statement yesterday. Actor see the return of some old faces, including to work as the head of Jackson’s security detail the second time he had told the story. The first Matt Smith, who has played the role since 2010, David Tennant and Billie Piper. “Doctor Who and frequently traveled with him until 2004. came in a deposition with lawyers for AEG Live said in June he would be bowing out in this Live: The Next Doctor” will be on BBC One at La Perruque said the singer’s children called LLC, which is being sued by Jackson’s mother year’s Christmas special. 1800 GMT on Aug. 4 and simulcast on BBC emergency services during a trip to Florida in claiming the company negligently hired the doc- His announcement sparked speculation America. —Reuters 2001 or 2002 after their father collapsed in a hall- tor convicted of giving her son a fatal overdose way in a hotel suite at Walt Disney World. He said of the anesthetic propofol. —AP SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Exhibit recalls Bob Hope, who made troops laugh

ob Hope entertained 11 presi- the US Blind Golf Association Hall of Bdents at the White House, Fame and his name tag proclaiming hosted the Academy Awards him an “active member.” “When I 19 times and told thousands of miss a shot, I just think what a beau- jokes to some 10 million US troops tiful day it is ... then I take a deep over the course of four wars. Now breath. I have to do that. That’s the long life and legacy of the what gives me the strength to break beloved actor and comedian, who the club,” Hope is quoted as saying. died 10 years ago at age 100, is Jokes aside, the exhibit also cap- being celebrated at the National tures Hope’s appreciation for mili- World War II Museum in New tary service. There are pictures of Orleans, where the World Golf Hall him shaking hands with injured of Fame & Museum has brought the troops, some who had lost limbs “Bob Hope: An American Treasure” but had smiles on their faces. There traveling exhibition. are pictures and video of Hope More than 160 mementos from entertaining on stage during World Hope’s life capture his passion for War II, Vietnam and other wars. golf, relationships with presidents, “This brings another aspect of pride in his country and apprecia- the war that we’re not always able tion for military service. The exhibit to tell through our permanent officially opens to the public today, exhibits,” said Toni Kiser, the though a soft opening was held yes- National WWII Museum’s curator terday during regular museum who put the exhibit together. “It hours. The exhibit includes vintage was really important to the troops photographs of Hope entertaining to get rest and relaxation, and not troops at USO shows overseas, an only did they love to be entertained honorary Oscar statuette and PGA with music and comedy, it was nec- of America money clip. But the essary for them to have that down highlight is Hope’s jokes, which are time, to not be in fight mode the printed on displays and included in Comedian Bob Hope entertains sailors of the US 6th Fleet Saratoga at the flagship’s anchorage in entire time.” video clips throughout the exhibit. the southern Italian port of Gaeta, in this Dec 19, 1970 file photo. —AP Hope, it seemed, knew that. “I “It was important to make it fun- have seen what a laugh can do,” he ny,” said Jack Peter, senior vice pres- Hope quote in the section of the he wanted to give something back,” ing golf with presidents Dwight is quoted as saying, in the exhibit ident of the World Golf Hall of Fame exhibit about his immigration to said Anthony “Tony” Montalto, Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald space with pictures of him with and Museum, who was in New America from England as a young Hope’s longtime accountant, who Reagan, Richard Nixon and others. wounded troops. “It can transform Orleans for the opening. “That was boy. over the decades became a good “He’s played golf with more pres- almost unbearable tears into someone of the requests of the family.” “He was very proud to be an friend and remains a trustee of idents than just about anybody,” thing bearable, even hopeful.” The And funny it is. “I left England when American immigrant, that he was Hope’s estate. There are pictures Peter said.The exhibit also includes exhibit will remain on display in I found out I couldn’t be king” is the able to come here and succeed, and and jokes of Hope’s time spent play- a plaque of Hope’s induction into New Orleans through Oct 31. —AP Cameron to release three ‘Avatar’ sequels anadian director James Cameron is making three is coveted for its natural resources. The three sequels will be Csequels to his film “Avatar,” which will be released filmed simultaneously beginning in 2014, Fox said in a between 2016 and 2018, Fox Studios announced statement. They will be released in December of 2016, 2017 Thursday. The 2009 film is the highest-grossing movie on and 2018, respectively. record, having netted $2.8 billion at the box office world- Cameron, who wrote “Titanic” and “Avatar” by himself, has wide. Cameron had originally planned for only two sequels. taken on four screenwriters for the project. Josh Friedman “In writing the new films, I’ve come to realize that ‘Avatar’s’ (“War of the World”), Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (“Dawn of world, story and characters have become even richer than I the Planet of the Apes”) and Shane Salerno (“Armageddon” anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would and “Savages”) will work on the sequels. “We at the studio not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on have no higher priority, and can feel no greater joy, than screen,” Cameron said in a statement. enabling Jim to continue and expand his vision of the world The movie featured Sigourney Weaver, Sam of ‘Avatar,’” said Fox Film chief Jim Gianopulos in a state- This file photo shows Keith Urban at the “American Worthington and Zoe Saldana and told the story of a para- ment. According to trade magazine Variety, the budget for Idol” finale in Los Angeles. —AP plegic soldier sent to the fictitious planet of Pandora, which the three films could reach $1 billion. —AFP Keith Urban returning as ‘American Idol’ judge eith Urban is coming back to “American Idol.” Fox chair- Kman Kevin Reilly on Thursday confirmed the return of the country music star, settling the fate of the only judge left from last season on the talent competition. “He did a really good job last year,” Reilly said to a gathering of the Television Critics Association. “The fans really like him.” Reilly said Urban didn’t have a chance to show his personality. The executive didn’t say why, but the country singer was routinely overshadowed by bickering between fellow judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey. Their departures, along with that of Randy Jackson, were announced weeks ago, a response to the show’s sagging ratings. But Reilly was mum on who would sit beside Urban at the judges’ table next season, which begins in January. Reilly said there have been discussions with Jennifer Lopez, a former Indian Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha (left) and Indian Bollywood film actors Shah Rukh Khan (left) judge, “but there is no deal with her or with anyone else.” actor Akshay Kumar attend a function for Oman and Deepika Padukone pose for pictures on the red “Idol” is looking for judges who make it comfortable for viewers, Reilly said. Whoever is on the panel, there will be a Tourism campaign which was launched with the carpet at a promotional event for the Hindi film renewed emphasis on the contestants. “The show always has forthcoming Hindi film ‘Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Chennai Express in Feltham, west London. —AFP been about the contestants,” he said. —AP Dobaara’ in Mumbai yesterday. —AFP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Chromecast streams media at a nice price

ATLANTA: A new device from Google makes it services I’d already signed up and paid for. Even Google Play and YouTube. More apps are com- content that Google can’t be certain you have easy to stream video from several popular serv- though I already have a Netflix app on my ing. For Hulu Plus, HBO Go and other services legally purchased and have the rights to con- ices to a high-definition TV. Chromecast is tiny smartphone, I had to download a Chromecast without apps yet, it’s possible to simply stream sume. If I had gotten the Chrome browser enough to dangle from a keychain when not in version of it, as well as the main Chromecast app that content on Google’s Chrome Web browser, method to work, I could have used that to view use, but it packs a big punch for a low price. At from Google. That’s a one-time affair, and it’s a assuming you have accounts with them. You them on the big screen. But it’s easier said than merely $35, Chromecast is irresistible. Using snap to get them up and running after the initial can then have whatever is showing on the done. your home Wi-Fi network, it streams some of installation. browser project onto the TV. In practice, though, Plenty of devices allow much easier local your favorite shows from some of your favorite To watch a movie, I simply choose it from the I was never able to successfully connect a desk- content streaming. Chromecast isn’t one of services, including Netflix and Google’s Chromecast Netflix app. Once it’s playing on the top or a laptop computer, each running the lat- them. It’s not a deal-breaker for me, though. I YouTube. It takes only a few minutes to set up, big screen, I was able to easily pause, play and est version of the Chrome browser, to the suspect many people already have devices that and the device worked flawlessly. forward through my content with a swipe of the Chromecast device. can stream these popular services to an HD dis- Chromecast joins Roku, Apple TV and several finger. “House of Cards” continues to play even There are apps and browser extensions and play. If you have an Xbox 360 or a PlayStation 3, other devices meant to project Internet content after I power off my phone completely, as the not-fully supported operating systems that all you’re already good to go. The same goes for onto TVs. In the early days of online video, peo- video passes through my Wi-Fi network, which need to be in sync to pull it off. In my tests, using the Roku streaming box that handles some of ple were content watching movies and shows remains on. I do have to turn my phone back on two different Macs and a Windows computer, the same streaming apps as Chromecast, and on their desktop or laptop computers. But as to regain remote control over the viewing expe- they never were. Also, Chromecast doesn’t allow many more. Heck, even a laptop with an HDMI these services become more popular and even rience. so-called “sideloaded” content to be streamed output can deliver the content to an HDTV. replace cable TV in some households, there’s a It works similarly with Chromecast app for on it. “Sideloaded” is essentially shorthand for Unlike many of the other streaming devices, greater desire to get them playing on television you still need a phone, tablet or regular comput- sets, which tend to be the largest screens in liv- er to control your viewing with Chromecast. ing rooms. Roku’s streaming box, for instance, lets you sign That’s especially true when your computer is into accounts, choose content and rewind video a phone or tablet and has a smaller screen. with an included remote. Roku does make a sep- Chromecast, which is about the size of a thumb arate streaming stick, similar to Chromecast, but drive, plugs directly into the HDMI port of an that works only with TVs that have a technology HDTV. A USB cable must be inserted at the other known as mobile high-definition links, or MHL. end of the Chromecast and connected to a pow- For now, there are only a handful of apps cur- er source, either a wall outlet or a USB port on rently available to use with Chromecast. the TV. It was easy to sync Chromecast with my But they are among the most popular Android phone, and it was an even nicer experi- Internet video services. Video from Apple’s ence with Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet. There’s iTunes isn’t likely to come to Chromecast any something to be said for turning my touch- time soon, but you can expect many more to be screen device into a remote control for Netflix. added if the device takes off. (If you really need I watched an episode of Netflix’s original iTunes, you’ll need an Apple TV. Roku doesn’t series “House of Cards” in high definition with- have it, either.) At $35, Chromecast is cheaper out a glitch. Same goes for watching the BBC’s than other streaming devices, which run about “Empire of the Sun,” a free offering from $100 each. I can think of a lot of worse ways to Google’s online Play store. But other titles there ATLANTA: Google’s Chromecast, a small device that works wirelessly to stream video and fork over $35. If you don’t already have a device cost money, as does a Netflix subscription. music to a high-definition TV, is displayed in Atlanta. — AP that can stream Netflix to your HDTV, Chromecast is merely a physical conduit to the Chromecast hits the sweet spot. — AP

YouTube star pushes high Deathbed tweets test way the Americans frame rate format online confront mortality

Major networks target young audiences WASHINGTON: For several days now, US public radio personality Scott Simon has been live-tweeting from the deathbed of his BURBANK: Movie fans who were intrigued by director Peter premiere, but last season’s episodes were released on 84-year-old mother-and in the process, challenging a great Jackson’s use of high frame rates in “The Hobbit” are now getting RocketJump.com a week early. American taboo. Conventional wisdom in the United States a chance to see the super-clear format online. The second season The fact that the split remains suggests that the special format holds that process of dying is an intensely private affair, not for of the YouTube Web series “Video Game High School” is being is attracting a unique crowd. “The idea is that both versions exist public view, but Simon chose to freely share his thoughts and released online at 48 frames per second (fps), double the 24 fps to serve a certain kind of audience,” Wong says. “VGHS” uses 48 emotions with his 1.26 million Twitter followers and indeed the that has been standard in movie theaters for the past century. The fps for scenes that are depicted in the video game world, since entire world. In bursts of 140 characters or less, the prolific host season’s second episode debuts Thursday after the premiere many video games are displayed at high frame rates anyway. For of National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” praised episode attracted nearly 2 million viewers. “real life” scenes, “VGHS” uses 24 fps footage by showing two the nurses caring for his mother Patricia Lyons Simon Newman Online video programming is growing fast as major networks identical frames in a row. in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital. and small upstarts go after young audiences who increasingly The format has some quirks. Some movie critics who saw “The He relayed his mother’s last witticisms. He put up mobile watch shows on laptops, tablet computers and mobile phones. Hobbit” said the format revealed too many details, exposing the phone photos of her hospital room and the cityscape beyond Laying claim to the high-frame-rate niche could help “Video fakery of costumes, makeup and props. Actors can appear to its window. And as life inevitably gave way to death Monday, Game High School” stand out in a crowded field. By capturing move at high speed unintentionally in what co-creator Matt Simon, 61, duly recorded the moment. “Heart rate dropping. moving objects on camera at higher frame rates, filmmakers are Arnold calls the “Benny Hill” effect, referring to the sped-up Heart dropping,” he wrote at @nprscottsimon. And then: “The able to cut down on blurriness because the camera’s shutter scenes common to the British comedy TV show. heavens over Chicago have opened and Patricia Lyons Simon opens and closes much faster. That reduces the amount of time To address these issues, the creators of “VGHS” added back Newman has stepped onstage... She will make the face of heav- that an object moves across an open lens and gives each image, some blurriness that high frame rate recording had eliminated in en shine so fine that all the world will be in love with night.” or frame, more clarity. some scenes. “VGHS” actors also wore less makeup than actors in Less melodramatic was the morning after: “You wake up and The experiment is partly a way to explore how to use high “The Hobbit,” so there’s less chance that the format’s extra detail realize: you weren’t dreaming. It happened. Cry like you frame rates creatively while pioneering a new business model will be distracting, Arnold says. Still, viewers who choose to watch couldn’t last night. “Worst: telling our daughters. Oldest was online. Seeing the format online requires a special video player the series at high frame rates will need excellent Internet connec- flinty, youngest sobbed. But guess which one cried long into that exists only on RocketJump.com, which is owned by the tion speeds and computers with powerful graphics capabilities to the night.”The tweets kept coming as the week went on, with show’s creators. Pulling viewers onto their own site improves play the video without delays. The format isn’t available on Simon musing about the crematorium staff (“delightful company!”), his mother’s wigs (“Any idea of a cancer group that could their cut of advertising revenue compared to views on YouTube. mobile devices. use them?”) and how to tell the post office to cease delivering For now, YouTube has no plans to introduce a high frame rate Reza Izad, chief executive of project partner Collective Digital her mail. “So much flotsam in the wake of a life,” he sighed. player of its own. Studio, said using high frame rates was more of a creative deci- Reaction to Simon’s online stream of consciousness in the face “There’ll be a reason to come to our site,” says Freddie Wong, sion than a financial one. Sponsors such as Dodge, whose cars are of mortality ran from glowing praise to downright outrage. “I 27, one of the owners of Rocket Jump and the co-creator of integral to racing scenes in the show’s second season, will benefit think what Scott Simon shared is wonderful and personal,” read “VGHS.” “What 48 (frames per second) brings is a gritty realism to from the exposure no matter where the video is played. And still, one online comment under a Washington Post story about it. It feels hyper-real.” So far, the plan seems to be working. Within YouTube is expected to generate the lion’s share of views. “There Simon’s Twitter vigil. “Maybe not for everyone, but neither is three days of the first episode’s debut, about 300,000 viewers had needs to be a lot more adoption of it as a format before it takes any art.”“Ghoulish and disrespectful,” stated another comment, seen it on RocketJump.com compared with 1 million who saw it hold,” he says. “This is just a really unique way to display this con- this time in the Los Angeles Times. —AFP on YouTube. That’s about the same split as for the first season tent and it’s in line with the vision of Freddie and Matt.”— AP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

Motorola unveils its Android smartphone

SAN FRANCISCO: Motorola has introduced a keenly- anticipated Moto X smartphone in a move aimed at reviv- ing the withered mobile device maker bought by Google for $12.5 billion. The Android-powered phone is the first Motorola smartphone created in collaboration with Google since the Internet titan completed its purchase of Motorola Mobility in May of last year. The Moto X, due for US release in late August, could be a formidable foe in a global market dominated by Samsung, the leading maker of smartphones built with the Google-backed software. It will also be available at that time in Canada and Latin America. “This was the kind of thing I think Samsung was most worried about,” said independent Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group. “On paper, this is arguably the best Android phone on the NEW YORK: A Motorola employee demonstrates Motorola’s Moto X as the American-manufactured smartphone is unveiled on market,” he added. “This is going to upset Samsung and August 1, 2013 at a news conference in New York. — AFP the other licensees quite a bit.” IDC research firm figures for the April-June period showed Samsung on top of the global smartphone market with 30.4 percent to 13.1 per- Review: Motorola phone cent for Apple, with LG third at 5.1 percent, followed by Lenovo (4.7 percent) and ZTE (4.2 percent). “Google did not like the fact that Samsung had become so powerful; it basically owns the market,” notable for customization Enderle said of the South Korean consumer electronics giant that has flourished with help from Android soft- NEW YORK: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? ware. “Google was working for Samsung,” he continued. In the four decades since Motorola first showed off a proto- “Moto X will challenge that ownership and, if it is as good type of the world’s first cellphone, the company has watched Apple, At first, I thought of it as a gimmick. But then I thought more about as it looks, will give control back to Google.” Samsung and other innovators surpass it in sales. With Google as its new how phones are among our most personal possessions. Your phone Moto X will have a starting price of $199 in the United owner, Motorola is introducing the Moto X, a phone notable for innova- contains your private thoughts in email, contact information for your States if bought along with a two-year service contract tions in manufacturing, as part of an attempt to regain its stature. loved ones and precious memories in the form of photos. So I can under- with a telecom service company. “At Motorola our roots Yes, there’s plenty the Moto X offers in terms of software, including stand the desire to add a personal touch to the look of your phone, espe- are deep in mobile hardware-we invented mobile com- the ability to get directions, seek trivia answers or set the alarm without cially if you don’t have to pay more. Keep in mind that your customiza- munications,” Motorola Mobility Canada general manag- ever touching the phone. There’s good hardware, too, including a body tions might make the phone harder to resell when you’re ready to trade er Odile Guinot said in a release. “Now, as a Google com- that’s nearly as slim as the iPhone 5, but with the larger, 4.7-inch screen up for a new model. pany, we’ve become the kind of company that can build that is comparable to those found in rival Android phones. In many ways, it’s similar to the way desktops and laptops have been a smartphone like Moto X,” Guinot added. “It fuses our But what’s really special about the Moto X has nothing to do with sold. You can go to Dell’s or Apple’s website and order any number of history of mobile innovation with the best of Google making calls, checking Facebook or holding it in your hands. Rather, it configurations. The difference is those configurations typically have to mobile services.” breaks from the pack by allowing for a lot of customization. You can do with the amount of storage, the speed of the processor, the size of People can visit an online Moto Maker studio to cus- choose everything from the color of the power button to a personalized the screen and the software that comes with the machine. With Moto X, tomize colors, accents, memory capacity and other message on the back cover. To make those special orders possible, you’re getting the same storage choices that other phones offer, but all aspects of handsets, which will be assembled in the Motorola is assembling the Moto X in Texas, making it the first smart- the other options are cosmetic. United States and delivered free of charge within four phone to be put together in the US Motorola promises to ship custom Meanwhile, the Moto X advances hands-free phone use. Although days, according to Motorola. Moto X smartphones are designs within four days, faster than it would be able to if the company hands-free options are available elsewhere to make a call or send a text, powered by Google’s Android software and features had chosen to make the Moto X halfway around the world in Asia, as Moto X opens the door to the entire Web. It relies on Google Now, the include sophisticated voice controls and anticipating other phones typically are. (Phones for overseas markets will be made virtual assistant that retrieves information when you speak into the what users might want from the Internet at any given overseas.) phone. Normally, you press something to activate Google Now. That’s moment. Motorola also streamlined the ease with which You can still buy the phone the traditional way, in black or white. how Siri works on iPhones as well. With Moto X, you simply say, “OK, smartphone pictures can be taken. Walk into a store, pay about $200, sign a two-year service agreement (or Google Now.” “Moto X promises to be unlike any device we’ve installment plan with T-Mobile), and off you go with a brand new phone. That command is specific to your voice. I asked three colleagues to offered before,” said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president of But that’s boring. Just as Apple’s colorful iMacs showed more than a speak “OK, Google Now” into a phone I trained by repeating the phrase devices at US telecom giant AT&T. Moto X will work on an decade ago that personal computers don’t have to be beige or black, three times. The phone ignored my colleagues, but responded to me array of telecom networks, according to Motorola. “This is Motorola is moving away from traditional black and white. You’re still instantly once I spoke from the same distance. Sorry, pranksters: You a stunning phone to look at,” Enderle said. “The long- limited to black or white as your front color, but you can choose any won’t be able use this feature to set 3 a.m. alarms on your friend’s Moto term fallout of having the best phone be your phone will combination of 18 back cover colors and seven “accent” colors, which X. I was able to get the phone to recognize my command from about 10 make other Android licensees think twice.” When the highlight the power button, volume control and the rim of the camera feet away, as well as close by with an episode of “The Walking Dead” Motorola purchase was completed, the Internet giant lens. playing at full blast on a laptop inches away. But under those conditions, said it would “enable Google to supercharge the Android There’s more coming: Motorola is testing back covers made of wood, the service was more prone to make mistakes. For instance, the phone ecosystem and will enhance competition in mobile com- for instance, and it plans to let people vote on Facebook on future pat- misheard a request for directions to Boston as “directions to fall.” Even in puting.” terns, colors and designs. You can choose a custom message for the a quiet room, Google Now made a lot of mistakes responding to Regulators in the US and elsewhere have stressed that back of the phone - with limits. I tried to enter profanity and trademarked requests to call specific people. When I asked Google Now to “call Bob,” it they will be watching to make sure that the Mountain names and was told, “We’d rather you not say that.” You can use the offered me “Emily,” “Dave” and “Super” - for the superintendent of my View, California-based company does not use Motorola space to display your email address, in case you lose the phone, for apartment building, who’s not named Bob. Mobility to obtain an unfair advantage in the market. instance. In addition, you can choose one of 16 wallpapers in advance I can see this feature being useful to motorists, but it’s imperfect. And Conditions from China’s commerce ministry included and enter your Google ID so your phone is all set up the first time you if you protect your phone with a PIN code, you’ll need to type it in to Google keeping its Android software for smartphones turn it on. You can select a different custom message to appear on your unlock the phone, except to make a call. Motorola says it tried voice and tablet computers free and open for at least five years. screen when you turn the phone on. You can even choose the color of recognition for passwords, but couldn’t get it to work properly. There are Google’s main reason for buying Motorola was believed your charger, white or black. two things that will work without entering your PIN: You can get a peek by analysts to be getting hold of thousands of patents Choose carefully, as you won’t be able to make changes after a 14- at text messages and other notifications by pressing the center of the held by the pioneering smartphone company. Those day return window. These aren’t parts that you can simply pop out and screen for a second. If you want to respond or see more, then you’ll need patents have yet to prove their value. swap. With the exception of $50 more for a phone with 32 gigabytes of the PIN. You can also access your camera by twisting the phone like Motorola Mobility has been laying off workers and storage rather than 16 gigabytes, there’s no cost for the customization. opening a doorknob. You can browse through shots you have just tak- selling assets in moves aimed at improving profitability They will be available at about the same time the standard white and en, but you’ll need the PIN for older ones. and recovering some of the purchase price. Motorola black phones come out in late August or early September. Wood back Speaking of the camera, Motorola did a good job of keeping it sim- Mobility was created in 2011 when US-based Motorola covers aren’t expected until later in the year, however. ple. With Samsung’s Galaxy S4 and HTC’s One, I’ve often hit the wrong Inc split the company into a mobile devices unit and a In the beginning, you can get custom versions only with AT&T as buttons for gimmicky features I don’t want. With the Moto X, you have to government and public safety division known as your service provider, but other carriers are coming. Standard versions swipe the screen from the left to access the settings. That way, the but- Motorola Solutions. “There are plenty of Motorola fans will also be available through Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and U.S. Cellular tons aren’t there to hit accidently. To access your gallery of photos, you and the Moto X should be strong with them,” said tech- at launch. You do the ordering through Motorola’s Moto Maker website, swipe from the right. Again, you won’t be getting old images accidently nology industry analyst Jeff Kagan. “Whether it can which will cover service plan options with AT&T when you order the and miss the chance to snap a new one. The camera also lacks a shutter spread beyond that is the key question and we’ll just phone. If you walk into an AT&T store, you can pay for it there, just like a button. Instead, you tap anywhere on the screen to take a photo. Keep have to wait and see.”— AFP gift card, but you’ll then have to visit the Moto Maker site and enter a pressing on the screen, and the camera will take a series of shots in suc- scratch-off code. cession.—AP TV listings SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

22:00 Saturday Night Live Syndicated 07:35 Jessie 00:00 Stitch 10:45 Tyler’s Ultimate 23:30 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 07:55 That’s So Raven 00:20 Stitch 11:10 Tyler’s Ultimate 00:30 The Daily Show 08:20 That’s So Raven 00:45 A Kind Of Magic 11:35 Tyler’s Ultimate 03:00 Friends 01:00 The Colbert Report 08:45 Dog With A Blog 01:05 A Kind Of Magic 12:00 Staten Island Cakes 14:10 Robson’s New Extreme Fishing 03:30 How I Met Your Mother 01:30 Seinfeld 09:05 Shake It Up 01:30 Emperor’s New School 12:50 Barefoot Contessa Challenge 04:00 Seinfeld 02:00 Seinfeld 09:30 Jessie 01:50 Emperor’s New School 13:15 Barefoot Contessa 15:05 Robson’s New Extreme Fishing 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 02:30 Friends 09:55 Austin And Ally 02:15 Replacements 13:40 Barefoot Contessa Challenge Leno 10:15 A.N.T Farm 02:35 Replacements 14:05 Unique Sweets 16:00 Robson’s New Extreme Fishing 06:00 All Of Us 10:40 Good Luck Charlie 14:30 Unique Sweets Challenge 06:30 Arrested Development 11:05 Starstruck 14:55 Unique Sweets 16:55 Robson’s New Extreme Fishing 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 12:35 Good Luck Charlie 15:20 Unique Sweets Challenge 08:00 Seinfeld 13:00 Dog With A Blog 15:45 Charly’s Cake Angels 17:50 Overhaulin’ 2012 09:00 How I Met Your Mother 13:00 Coach Trip 13:25 Austin And Ally 16:10 Charly’s Cake Angels 18:45 Gold Divers 09:30 Go On 13:30 Come Dine With Me Ireland 13:45 That’s So Raven 14:05 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 16:35 Reza’s African Kitchen 19:40 Alaska: The Last Frontier 10:00 2 Broke Girls 14:00 The Hungry Sailors 14:10 That’s So Raven 14:30 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 17:00 Reza’s African Kitchen 20:35 Sons Of Guns 10:30 Arrested Development 15:00 The Jonathan Ross Show 14:35 Jessie 15:00 E!es 17:25 Ultimate Recipe Showdown 21:30 How It’s Made 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 16:00 Paul McCartney & Wings: Band 15:00 A.N.T. Farm 15:30 Married To Jonas 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 21:55 How It’s Made Leno On 15:25 Austin And Ally 16:00 Married To Jonas 18:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:25 How It’s Made 12:00 All Of Us 17:00 Celebrity Fit Club USA 15:50 Shake It Up 16:30 Married To Jonas 19:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:50 How It’s Made 12:30 Seinfeld 18:05 The Chase 16:10 Dog With A Blog 17:00 Married To Jonas 19:30 Chopped 23:20 How It’s Made 13:00 Seinfeld 19:00 May The Best House Win 16:35 A.N.T Farm 17:30 Married To Jonas 20:20 Chopped 23:45 Extreme Smuggling 13:30 Arrested Development 20:00 Come Dine With Me Ireland 17:00 High School Musical 3: Senior 18:00 E! News 21:10 Amazing Wedding Cakes 00:40 Kidnap And Rescue 14:00 How I Met Your Mother 22:30 Popstar To Operastar Year 19:00 THS 22:00 Food Wars 01:35 Ultimate Cops 14:30 2 Broke Girls 00:00 Marco’s Kitchen Burnout 18:45 Cars Toons 20:00 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 22:25 Food Wars 15:00 Go On 01:00 Celebrity Fit Club USA 18:55 Jessie 20:30 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 22:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 15:30 The Daily Show 19:20 Good Luck Charlie 21:00 Chasing The Saturdays 23:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 16:00 The Colbert Report 19:40 Dog With A Blog 21:30 Fashion Police 23:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 16:30 All Of Us 20:05 Shake It Up 22:30 E! News 00:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 20:30 Austin And Ally 23:30 Chelsea Lately 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 14:20 Gadget Show - World Tour 18:00 Wilfred 20:50 A.N.T Farm 00:00 Scouted 00:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 14:45 Tech Toys 360 18:30 Happy Endings 05:15 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 21:15 That’s So Raven 00:55 Style Star 01:20 Unwrapped 15:10 What’s That About? 19:00 Community 05:35 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 21:40 Good Luck Charlie 01:25 THS 01:45 Food Wars 16:00 X-Machines 19:30 2 Broke Girls 06:00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 22:00 Shake It Up 16:55 Scrapheap Challenge 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 06:25 Minnie’s Bow-Toons 22:25 A.N.T Farm 17:45 Moon Machines Leno 06:35 Jake & The Neverland Pirates 22:50 Austin And Ally 18:35 Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger 21:00 The Daily Show 06:45 Suite Life On Deck 23:10 Wizards Of Waverly Place 19:00 Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger 21:30 The Colbert Report 04:00 Superman vs. The Elite-PG15 07:10 A.N.T Farm 23:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 19:30 What’s That About? 05:15 Puss In Boots-PG 03:10 Cooked 20:20 Human Body: Ultimate Machine 07:00 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva 03:35 Cash In The Attic 21:10 Gadget Show - World Tour LA Fiesta!-PG 04:05 Cash In The Attic 21:35 How Tech Works 09:00 A View From Here-PG15 04:30 Bargain Hunt 22:00 What’s That About? 10:45 Mission: Impossible - Ghost 05:15 Daily Cooks Challenge 22:50 Human Body: Ultimate Machine Protocol-PG15 05:45 How Not To Decorate 23:40 Gadget Show - World Tour 13:00 The Makeover-PG15 06:30 Cooked 00:05 How Tech Works 15:00 Arrietty-FAM 07:00 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 00:30 Weird Connections 16:45 A View From Here-PG15 07:50 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 01:00 Prophets Of Science Fiction 18:30 I Don’t Know How She Does It- 08:45 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 01:50 Prophets Of Science Fiction PG15 09:35 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 20:00 Bernie-PG15 10:30 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 22:00 The Ides Of March-PG15 11:20 Cash In The Attic 00:00 Summer Coda-PG15 11:45 Cash In The Attic 02:00 A View From Here-PG15 12:15 Come Dine With Me 00:30 Born To Kill 13:05 The Good Cook 01:30 Private Crimes 13:35 Planet Cake 02:00 Private Crimes 14:00 Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery 03:00 Haunted Encounters: Face To 14:25 Hairy Bikers’ Bake-ation 07:00 Warbirds-PG15 Face 15:15 Bargain Hunt 09:00 My Afternoons With 16:00 Antiques Roadshow Margueritte-PG15 04:00 Carlos The Jackal 17:00 Extreme Makeover: Home 10:30 Separate Lies-PG15 05:00 Crime Stories Edition 12:15 Boy-PG15 06:00 The FBI Files 18:20 Extreme Makeover: Home 14:00 Neverland-PG15 07:00 Psychic Detectives Edition 17:00 Dangerous Flowers-PG15 07:30 Psychic Detectives 19:00 Masterchef: The Professionals 19:00 Like Crazy-PG15 08:00 Psychic Detectives 19:30 Masterchef: The Professionals 21:00 Leaves Of Grass-PG15 08:30 Psychic Detectives 20:25 Come Dine With Me 23:00 Contraband-18 09:00 Curious & Unusual Deaths 21:15 Antiques Roadshow 01:00 Dangerous Flowers-PG15 09:30 Private Crimes 22:15 Bargain Hunt 10:00 The FBI Files 23:00 Extreme Makeover: Home 11:00 The FBI Files Edition 12:00 The FBI Files 23:45 Masterchef: The Professionals 04:00 I Don’t Know How She Does It- 13:00 The FBI Files 00:15 Masterchef: The Professionals PG15 14:00 Curious & Unusual Deaths 01:10 Superhomes 06:00 A View From Here-PG15 14:30 Private Crimes 02:00 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 08:00 Another Harvest Moon-PG15 15:00 Born To Kill 02:50 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 10:00 I Don’t Know How She Does It- 16:00 Born To Kill PG15 17:00 Born To Kill 12:00 Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of 18:00 Born To Kill Shadows-PG15 19:00 The FBI Files 14:15 Tinker Bell And The Secret Of 20:00 Snapped: Women Who Kill The Wings-FAM 16:00 Another Harvest Moon-PG15 20:30 Snapped 03:00 Food Wars 21:00 Cold Case Files 18:00 The Three Stooges-PG15 03:25 Food Wars 20:00 Damsels In Distress-PG15 22:00 My Ghost Story 03:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 23:00 Mobsters 22:00 13-PG15 04:15 Unique Eats 00:00 Failure To Launch-PG15 04:40 Chopped 02:00 Another Harvest Moon-PG15 05:30 Iron Chef America 06:10 Food Network Challenge 14:00 The Glades 07:00 Healthy Appetite With Ellie Krieger 15:00 Drop Dead Diva 04:00 True Justice: Violence Of Action- 16:00 Smallville 07:25 Healthy Appetite With Ellie Krieger PG15 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 06:00 The New Daughter-PG15 18:00 The Glades 07:50 Healthy Appetite With Ellie Krieger 08:00 Battlestar Galactica: Blood & 19:00 Body Of Proof Chrome-PG15 20:00 C.S.I. New York 08:15 Healthy Appetite With Ellie Krieger 10:00 Romancing The Stone-PG15 21:00 White Collar 12:00 Mission To Mars-PG15 22:00 Downton Abbey 08:40 Cooking For Real 09:05 Cooking For Real 14:00 Battlestar Galactica: Blood & 23:00 Smallville Chrome-PG15 00:00 Drop Dead Diva 09:30 Cooking For Real 09:55 Cooking For Real 16:00 The Speed Of Thought-PG15 01:00 White Collar 18:00 Mission To Mars-PG15 02:00 Downton Abbey MISSION : IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL ON OSN MOVIES HD 10:20 Tyler’s Ultimate TV listings SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

20:00 Darkman-PG15 09:00 Futbol Mundial 13:00 Live Cricket Test Match 22:00 Beverly Hills Cop 3-PG15 09:30 Super Rugby 21:00 Live Darts 00:00 Imago Mortis-PG15 11:30 The Open Championship 02:00 Beverly Hills Cop 3-PG15 Highlights 12:00 Live The Open Championship 21:30 Inside The PGA Tour 22:00 Super Rugby 00:00 AFL Premiership 02:30 Super League OSN SPORT 2 04:30 NRL Premiership 08:00 Barnyard-PG 00:00 Cricket Test Match 10:00 Mr. Destiny-PG 06:30 Total Rugby 07:00 Live AFL Premiership 12:00 The First Wives Club-PG 07:00 Super League 10:00 The Open Championship 14:00 Beethoven-FAM 09:00 NRL Full Time 16:00 Mr. Destiny-PG Highlights 09:30 Live AFL Premiership 18:00 Problem Child-PG 10:30 Live NRL Premiership 12:30 Live Super Rugby 20:00 Back To The Future-PG15 12:30 ICC Cricket 360 14:30 Super Rugby 22:00 Tin Cup-PG15 13:00 Live Cricket Test Match 16:30 Live ITU World Triathlon Series 00:15 Hit List-PG15 21:00 Live Darts 19:00 Live ITU World Triathlon Series 02:00 Back To The Future-PG15 21:30 AFL Premiership

00:30 PGA European Tour Weekly Robin Meade’s heart beats 09:00 The Conspirator-PG15 00:00 NHL 01:00 The Open Championship 11:00 Dreamgirls-PG15 02:00 UAE National Race Day Series 09:00 Futbol Mundial 13:15 An Inconvenient Truth-PG 03:00 Mass Participation for music as well as news 09:30 Super Rugby 15:00 The Conspirator-PG15 04:30 Adventure Sports 11:30 The Open Championship 17:00 Glee: The Concert Movie-PG15 05:00 NHL Highlights ATLANTA: When Robin Meade was 4 years I don’t know what possessed her, but she 19:00 Love And Other Impossible 07:00 WWE Smackdown 12:00 Live The Open Championship old, she proudly approached her preacher said yes,” Meade said with her familiar Pursuits-PG15 09:00 WWE Bottom Line 21:30 Inside The PGA Tour father and told him that she had learned throaty laugh. Working on “Count on Me” 21:00 The Last Samurai-PG15 10:00 WWE Vintage Collection 22:00 Super Rugby her first song - the hymn “Kneel at the required Meade to take a little bit of time 23:30 The Last Gamble-18 11:00 Porsche GT 3 Cup OSN SPORT 2 01:30 The Wild Hunt-PG15 12:00 NRL Full Time Cross.” A couple of years later, neighbors off from her news duties and travel to 00:00 Cricket Test Match 12:30 Live NRL Premiership would watch with amusement as Meade Nashville, Tenn., to write and record. 07:00 Live AFL Premiership 14:30 WWE Smackdown 10:00 The Open Championship stood by herself in the yard in her Ohio Her bosses at CNN / HLN have fully sup- 16:30 WWE Bottom Line hometown, singing “The Star-Spangled ported her moonlighting - an album launch Highlights 17:30 Prizefighter 00:30 PGA European Tour Weekly 10:30 Live NRL Premiership 20:30 UFC Banner” to the flagpole. “I probably looked party held at the Cutting Room in New York 01:00 The Open Championship 12:30 ICC Cricket 360 23:30 UFC The Ultimate Fighter like this insane little kid, but I remember City last month included sightings of Don always feeling drawn to music,” Meade said Lemon, Kate Bolduan and head honcho Jeff recently from her cozy office at CNN head- Zucker - and HLN has used her song “Here quarters in downtown Atlanta. for You” for a promotional campaign on the Right, it’s that Robin Meade we’re talking network. about. The attractive and effervescent host “From the time I started here (in 2001), of “Morning Express With Robin Meade” on my bosses didn’t discount the value of HLN who two years ago decided to finally being known as something else as well. I unearth the musical passion she had was given the go-ahead, but I was already repressed for years and recorded her debut going back and forth to Nashville to learn to album, the country-tinged “Brand New write songs. That’s where the music con- Day.” She gained some notice for her nection was for me,” Meade, 44, said. twangy cover of Don Henley’s “Dirty “Count on Me” was recorded in Nashville in Laundry” - a cheeky choice for a news two long weekend sessions (side note, anchor - and relished the experience of Meade’s band members when she per- songwriting and recording. forms live are from the group Sixwire, who Last month - almost exactly two years play some of the real musicians on ABC’s since her debut - Meade unveiled her soph- “Nashville”). Songwriting was done “the omore outing, “Count on Me,” a collection Nashville way,” Meade joked, with sched- of a dozen country-pop-bluegrass songs uled morning and afternoon meetings. that includes four covers (Cyndi Lauper and She did write one song in Atlanta -”Your Tom Petty among them) and features the Glory Days” - with Sugarland’s Bush in his handiwork of artists such as Kristian Bush of Decatur, Ga., studio. The pair met at a TJ Sugarland (with whom she wrote the song Martell Foundation benefit, and Meade is “Your Glory Days”), Keb’ Mo’ (who plays on still slightly incredulous that he agreed to “Slow It Up”) and Kenny Loggins’ Blue Sky work with her. Bush, meanwhile, has high Riders (who assist on the opening track, praise for the burgeoning songwriter. “Here for You”). “Robin is passionate about telling the The album, distributed by Canada’s stories of the things she sees,” Bush said in Mood Media Entertainment, is currently a an email. “It comes through in the choices Target exclusive until it moves to Wal-Mart she makes, whether those are words or in the next few months (it’s also available melodies. I work with a lot of singers and a on iTunes). Meade again worked with coun- lot of songwriters. She seems like she’s on try singer-songwriter Victoria Shaw - her way. But she’s gonna have to change regarded in the industry for penning Garth her hours. No self-respecting rock star gets Brooks’ “The River” - who produced both up that early!” albums. While Meade has done a few promotion- “About the time that Lady Antebellum al appearances for the album, such as first came out (in 2008), I had their CD and singing the national anthem at the was reading the liner notes - because I still Charlotte NASCAR race in May and perform- do that,” she added with a smile, “and I ing at the CMA Music Festival last month in loved their sound. So I read who produced Nashville, she doesn’t have any official it and it was a lady’s name, which is rare. It upcoming gigs. She would, however, “love was Victoria. I looked at my husband (Tim) to play two weekends a month, even and said, ‘I’m going to work with her some- though it would be exhausting” consider- day.’” Their paths fortuitously intertwined ing her 2 a.m. wake-up call during the week. shortly afterward when Meade was tapped Throughout an hourlong sit-down, to host the “Next GAC Star” competition on Meade is consistently warm, funny and the Great American Country network. Shaw engaging. But she projects a different air of was one of the judges. purposefulness when talk turns to the goal “I waited until after the broadcast to say, of her music career. “This is not a one-off,” ‘I’m such an admirer of yours,’ and then the she said. “I don’t intend it to be something zinger ... ‘Will you teach me to write songs?’ that was a phase.” —MCT LEAVES OF GRASS ON OSN CINEMA WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

What to do in Kuwait this summer?

Visit the Sadu House Discovery Place and IMAX Cinema. The Aquarium presents an The Kuwait National Museum hosts a range of items such as fos- Al-Sadu Society is dedicated to preserving, documenting and pro- ecosystem of desert, sea, and coastal edge. Visitors of the sils, bones, Islamic artifacts, and pottery tools that reflect the cul- moting the rich and diverse textile heritage of the Kuwaiti Bedouin, Aquarium explore the lives of beings and animals in their environ- ture, history and heritage of the Kuwaiti society and the Islamic from the nomadic weaving of the desert to the urban weaving of ments. When entering the Discovery Place, visitors gain scientific world. The relics on display presents Kuwait’s ancient past, the the town. Sadu is a traditional Bedouin art that involves weaving experience through educational games. Highly specialized trainers development of the Islamic nations and the impact of the discov- geometric designs on dyed and colored wool that is spun by hand are assigned to guide visitors through hand-on playful training. On ery of oil. Part of the Dar-Al-Athar-Al-Islamiyah collection is also on to create magnificent carpets, rugs, and Bedouin tent screens. entering the IMAX Cinema, one can watch 3D movies played on display, and a replica of the Muhallab II that graces the entrance Inside the Sadu House, visitors have the opportunity to see the giant screen. Visitors can enjoy watching educational and doc- has also recently been restored as a reminder of Kuwait’s seafaring Bedouin women weaving. Sadu House is located near the National umentary presentations and get engaged into a highly imaginative past. There is also a modern Planetarium, built by Carl Zeiss which Museum. It is considered to be the center of Bedouin art aiming at experience. is a pleasant educational experience for both adults and children. presenting Kuwait’s roots and protecting Bedouin crafts from erad- Address: The Scientific Center, Gulf Road The three major attractions in the museum are the heritage muse- ication. Contact: 1848888 um, the planetarium and the wooden ship. Address: Arabian Gulf Street, Next to the National Museum of E-mail: [email protected] Address: Behind Sadu House, Arabian Gulf Street Kuwait, Kuwait City Website: www.tsck.org.kw Contact No.: 22451195 Opening Hours: Saturdays to Thursdays: Mornings from 08 am Opening Hours: 8:30am to 12:30pm and 4:30pm to 8:30pm to 1 pm. Evenings from 4 pm to 8 pm. Visit Dar Al-Funoon gallery (Summers); and 8 am to 4 pm (Winters). The Museum is closed on Contact: 22432395 Dar Al-Funoon, which was established in 1993, focuses on con- Sundays, Friday mornings and Saturday afternoons. E-mail: [email protected] temporary Arab art as well as Arabic calligraphy. Exhibitions are Website: www.alsadu.org.kw held monthly from October to May, and a special silk exhibition of Stop to view AL M. Gallery arts and crafts is held in December. Between temporary exhibi- AL M. Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in the View Boushahri Gallery tions, items from the private collection are on display, which can be heart of Kuwait City in Salhia Complex. Gallery organizes exhibi- The Boushahri Art Gallery was established in 1982 by Jawad bought. The gallery is located between the Sheraton Hotel and the tions of Kuwaiti, Middle Eastern and International artists. Boushahri, the Chairman of the Boushahri group who is also an Arabian Gulf Street. The area itself is interesting thanks to its old Address: Salhia Complex, Gate 4, Mezzanine 2, Place 16. acclaimed Kuwaiti sculptor. It is one of the oldest private art gal- Kuwaiti-style houses and a large courtyard which includes a num- Opening Hours: Sundays to Thursdays 10 am to 3 pm and leries in the Middle East. This long established gallery showcases ber of excellent restaurants. Evenings: 5 pm to 9 pm contemporary regional work. In order to create an awareness Address: Behbehani compound, Salhiya, House No. 28, Al- Contact No.: 22996447 toward art in Kuwait as a community service, the Boushahri Art Watiah, Kuwait City E-mail: [email protected] Gallery educates, supports and sponsors local and international Opening Hours: Sundays to Thursdays: 10 am to 1 pm Evenings: Website: www.al-m-gallery.com artists, displaying their paintings, potteries, ceramic portraitures, 4 pm to 8 pm designs, photographers, sculptures and much more. To encourage Contact: 22433138 Go to Kuwait Zoo the Art lovers and educate society, Boushahri Art Gallery offers E-mail: [email protected] Since its establishment years ago, the Kuwait Zoo is an enter- many courses, seminars and lectures about Art. Website: www.daralfunoon-kw.com taining place to visit and a ‘fun’ place to be with family. It includes Address: Salmiya, Baghdad St., Building Number: 36, in front of many species of animals and a train that goes around the entire Al- Laheeb Mosque Bayt - Lothan zoo. The zoo also offers camel and horse rides. The zoo suffered Opening Hours: 10 am to 1 pm and 5 pm to 9 pm. The museum Bayt Lothan is dedicated to the promotion of arts and crafts and extensive damages during the 1990 Iraqi Invasion. Nevertheless, is closed on Friday and Thursday afternoons. is host to various exhibitions and displays throughout the year. It most of the maintenance work has been finished, and the zoo Contact: 25621119/99770607 covers an area of 4,000 square meters on the Arabian Gulf Street reopened after the modification and renovation work was com- Website: www.boushahrigroup.com/client/PhotoandArt.aspx and caters to all tastes and themes, including sculpture, ceramic pleted. Part of these renovations in early 1993 included the addi- arts, jewelry and photography, as well as contemporary art and cal- tion of new animals. Take a break at Al-Khiran Resort ligraphy. Watch out in the local press for details of current and Address: Airport Road, Omariya, off the fifth ring road, (Route The Al-Khiran resort is a relaxing “get-away” from the mayhem forthcoming exhibitions or seminars. There is also a small coffee 55), Farwaniya of stressful city life. The resort provides a soothing tranquil environ- shop for basic refreshments and for theatre lovers they also hold Opening Hours: Mondays to Saturdays: 8 am to 12pm and ment that includes beautiful green lawns, wide, well-defined roads, drama classes throughout the year. Evenings: 4pm to 8pm ample parking spaces, and clean well-maintained beaches. It has Address: Gulf Street, beside Marina Mall, in front of Corniche E-mail: [email protected] many chalets that are beautifully furnished and air-conditioned. Hotel Website: www.raisaquaculture.net/drupal-5.7 The resort also offers a variety of other facilities such as football and Contact: 25755866 / 25727388 basketball courts, luxurious restaurants, yacht clubs, an amuse- E-Mail: [email protected] Skate at the Ice Skating Rink ment park for children, electronic computer arcade and the ‘Duza’ Opening Hours: Sundays to Thursdays: 9 am to 1 pm; Evenings: The Ice Skating Rink in Kuwait is a major landmark and a great ballroom. The resort also provides variety in food as it includes a 5 pm to 9 pm sport facility and is the first of its kind in the Gulf region and the fast-food counter, and a counter that offers seafood, Italian and ori- Website: http://www.baytlothan.org middle East. The rink consists of two main rinks - the first is an ental food. Olympic rink that is bigger and can accommodate around 1600 Address: Gulf Street, Al-Khiran district Visit Ghadir Gallery, Kuwait viewers and also provides shoe-changing rooms, a skating equip- Contact: 23951122 The Al-Ghadir Gallery Kuwait is dedicated to promote the ment store and a first-aid facility. The second is a smaller rink E-mail: [email protected] Kuwaiti formative artist and writer Thuraya Al-Baqsami and suc- accommodating nearly 600 visitors. Both arenas have a cafeteria Website: www.khiranresort.com cessfully accomplished 120 national and international solo art exhi- serving light snacks and drinks. The rink occasionally organizes dif- bitions, literary and poetry readings and musical events. It also par- ferent music festivals, kids’ shows and award ceremonies. The rink Stop at the Tareq Rajab Museum ticipates in charity activities worldwide. The gallery offers varieties offers viewers a great chance to get a glimpse of an Olympic-sized The Tareq Rajab Museum houses an anthology of over thirty of art including paintings, frames, handcrafts, art materials and rink. thousand items collected over the last fifty years, of which approxi- antiques. Address: Al - Soor Street, First Ring Road, Shamiya, near mately ten thousand are on permanent display. Tareq Sayed Rajab Address: Block 6, Street 5, Villa 40, Mishref, Kuwait Discovery Mall was the first Kuwaiti to be sent abroad to study art and archaeolo- Contact: 22435101, 22426240 Opening Hours: 8:30 am to 10 pm gy and his collection includes Islamic arts, ceramic, gold and silver E-mail: [email protected] Contact No.: 22411151 / 22411152 jewelry, English manuscripts, metal and glass works, old English Website: www.ghadirgallerykuwait.com costumes, and musical instruments. His personal collection Tour the Entertainment City includes over thirty thousand Islamic treasures that were gathered Take the kids to Al-Shaab Leisure Park The Entertainment City is located 20 km from Kuwait City and over the years. The Museum is divided into two parts: in Area A, cal- Al-Sha’ab Leisure Park is located on the southern coast of provides complete entertainment for all members of the family. ligraphy, manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, glass, jade, wood and Kuwait City. It combines more than 70 special rides on the level of The city is divided into three theme parks: The Arab world, the stone carvings are exhibited. Area B contains objects such as cos- the Middle East. It also provides integrated services, including International World and the Future World. The park offers more tumes, textiles, jewellery and musical instruments produced in the restaurants, a mall, and rides and games that meet the interests of than 40 different rides, lots of games to play, and stage show Islamic world. all age groups. The park also offers indoor games as well as out- unique to the Middle East. The major attractions to look out for in Address: Jabriya, near the intersection of the Fifth Ring door sports like bungee jumping, pony rides and ice-skating. the park include the City of Dreams, the City of Sinbad and Ali Baba, Motorway and the Abdulaziz Bin Abdilrahman al-Saud Expressway Families can also access facilities such as the movies and the deli- the City of Thunder and Hurricanes, the African boat, Grand Pix, (Fahaheel Expressway); Street 5; Block12; House 16 cious meals at the restaurants. At Al-Sha’ab Leisure Park, all these Arabian Carousel and the Fantasy Cinema. The place is fully Opening Hours: Weekdays from 9 am to 12 pm; Evenings: From facilities are maintained according to international standards. equipped with a police station of its own and ambulance service, 4 pm to 7 pm; Fridays: From 9 am to 12 pm. Address: Baghdad Street, Block 11, Salmiya shops where souvenirs and other merchandise can be purchased, Contact: 25317358/25354916 Opening Hours: All days from 5 pm to 1 am (Summer) and 10 and a parking lot that can accommodate around 3000 vehicles. Website: www.trmkt.com am - 12 Midnight on weekends. Address: Al-Madina Al-Tarfihiya, Al - Doha Contact: 25613777 Opening Hours: Sundays - Fridays: 5 pm to 1 am (Summers) and The Scientific Center, Kuwait E-mail: [email protected] 3 pm to 11 pm (Winters) It is important to note that Mondays are The Scientific Center is designed to reflect the Islamic arts and Website: www.shaabpark.com allocated only for women and men are not allowed on Mondays. culture. It has three main fascinating attractions: Aquarium, Kuwait National Museum Contact No.: 24879455 WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Eid Open House at TIES Center

KUWAIT: The TIES Center cordially invites those who are interest- 11. TIES presents Cultural Awareness Orientation Aug 28, 29 and TIES Center will offer cultural orientation to schools and ed in joining us as we celebrate Eid Al-Fitr. Eid is an Arabic term Sept 2, 5 and 9 from 7 to 8:30 pm embassies on Aug 28 and 29, and Sept 2, 5 and 9. The program that can refer to any holiday or festival. Eid Al-Fitr, more specifical- Who are the Arabs? What is their culture? To share information will include: a 15- minute presentation on TIES activities, a 40 ly, is the festival that marks the end of Ramadan and the breaking about the culture of the Arabs and Muslims, TIES Center has minute PowerPoint presentation on the culture of Kuwait and a of the fast. The atmosphere will be friendly, fun, and festive. designed a Cultural Awareness Orientation designed with the 20-minute presentation on how to learn Arabic at TIES. Questions Options for Henna hand-painting and calligraphy will also be avail- expat in mind that offers the best guidelines for effectively dealing and answers will then follow, after which attendees will be invited able to our guests. We sincerely hope you will join us in this festive with local citizens and residents of Kuwait, especially for those vis- to a hot buffet. The program will begin at 7:00 pm on the above Eid celebration to experience the Arab and Islamic culture with our iting Kuwait for the first time. Understanding the local culture has determined days and dates. For those who would like more infor- staff and other Arab and Western friends of the TIES Center. The proven effective for settling more comfortably in a foreign coun- mation, we will offer a six-week, 12-hour cultural orientation celebration will take place from 5 pm until 8 pm on Sunday, Aug try, and is a gateway to success in business and social relations. course.

KUWAIT: The Premier Goal Academy sponsored by Porsche Centre Kuwait, Behbehani Motors Company, concluded their busy Ramadan soccer programme with a friendly game against the Arsenal Academy at Bayan. The game was played in a very sporting and competitive spirit, involving all the teenage players who have participated in the Ramadan training camp. There is a short break in the football calendar now until the new 2013-14 season begins on 15th September. Further details are available from http://www.pga-kuwait.com.kw/

Culinary extravaganzas for all family at the Regency

KUWAIT: The Regency celebrates Eid Al-Fitr with its For a limited period only during Eid the Regency famously extravagant daily buffets at the elegant Silk will offer local and GCC residents spectacular savings Road boasting an endless range of delicacies includ- on guestrooms and suites. This year rates start from ing a special fresh seafood bar with sushi, to numer- only KD75 per room per night based on a Superior ous live stations where guests can relish home-cooked Room with a host of inclusions from a huge buffet dishes made to order. breakfast for two, to access to the private women-only There is, of course, a heady selection of quality beach, cafe and pools known as Ladies’ Lounge, as international and Arabic main dishes, which can be well as complimentary mini-fridge goodies daily and a paired with mouthwatering mezze, salads and the free shuttle transfer to Marina and Avenues Malls to hotel’s spectacular breads and cheeses; not forgetting catch those sales. an entire range of unbeatable home-made desserts Furthermore unbeatable rates for The Regency’s created by Italian Executive Pastry Chef, Raffaele Suites will be offered for a restricted period to allow Grasso and his team. guests to enjoy the height of luxury whether relaxing For the younger guests, there will be plenty of bite- in a Jacuzzi, or enjoying a sumptuous breakfast gazing sized snacks to suit junior palates, and a dazzling out at the unlimited sea views. choice of appealing sweets! In addition, the Regency “We are looking forward to an outstanding Eid-al- is delighted to offer complimentary kids’ entertain- Fitr” stated Aurelio Giraudo.”The Regency makes fami- ment during lunch and supper. Guests may also take ly gatherings a real pleasure. Moreover anyone can the opportunity to capture their magical Eid get- enjoy unlimited access to the stunning private beach togethers courtesy of a professional photographer, with its kids’ play area, or to the gardensand foun- provided by the hotel just for the occasion, ensuring tains”. each guest leaves with memorable souvenirs of Eid Al- For information on the Regency’s Eid Al-Fitr offers Fitr at the Regency! and spectacular dining please call 2576 6666. HEALTH SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

Hotter temperatures lead to hotter tempers

WASHINGTON: As the world gets warmer, people are that predicts how much the risk of different types of vio- Change updates its report next year on the impacts of more likely to get hot under the collar, scientists say. A lence should increase with extreme weather. In war-torn global warming, it will address the issue of impacts on massive new study finds that aggressive acts like com- parts of equatorial Africa, it says, every added degree war for the first time, said Carnegie Institution scientist mitting violent crimes and waging war become more Fahrenheit or so increases the chance of conflict Chris Field, who heads that worldwide study group. The likely with each added degree. Researchers analyzed 60 between groups- rebellion, war, civil unrest - by 11 per- new study is likely to play a big role, he said. Hsiang said studies on historic empire collapses, recent wars, vio- cent to 14 percent. For the United States, the formula that whenever the analyzed studies looked at tempera- lent crime rates in the United States, lab simulations says that for every increase of 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit, ture and conflict, the link was clear, no matter where or that tested police decisions on when to shoot and even the likelihood of violent crime goes up 2 percent to 4 when. His analysis examines about a dozen studies on cases where pitchers threw deliberately at batters in percent. collapses of empires or dynasties, about 15 studies on baseball. They found a common thread over centuries: Temperatures in much of North America and Eurasia crime and aggression and more than 30 studies on wars, Extreme weather - very hot or dry - means more vio- are likely to go up by that 5.4 degrees by about 2065 civil strife or intergroup conflicts. lence. because of increases in carbon dioxide pollution, accord- In one study, police officers in a psychology experi- The authors say the results show strong evidence ing to a separate paper published in Science on ment were more likely to choose to shoot someone in a that climate can promote conflict. “When the weather Thursday. The same paper sees global averages increas- lab simulation when the room temperature was hotter, gets bad we tend to be more willing to hurt other peo- ing by about 3.6 degrees in the next half-century. So that Hsiang said. In another study, baseball pitchers were ple,” said economist Solomon Hsiang of the University of implies essentially about 40 percent to 50 percent more more likely to retaliate against their opponents when a California, Berkeley. He is the lead author of the study, chance for African wars than it would be without global teammate was hit by a pitch on hotter days. Hsiang published online Thursday by the journal Science. warming, said Edward Miguel, another Berkeley econo- pointed to the collapse of the Mayan civilization that Experts in the causes of war gave it a mixed reception. mist and study co-author. coincided with periods of historic drought about 1,200 The team of economists even came up with a formula When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate years ago.—AP

Health risks higher from packaged greens

DES MOINES: The outbreak of a stomach bug two states have linked to bagged salad came as little surprise to food safety experts, who say the process of harvesting, washing and packaging leafy greens provides numerous opportunities for contamination. Although nutritionists stress the chances of getting sick from vegetables are low compared to the dangers of a diet without them, packaged salads heighten the risk because leaves from several batches often are mixed together. “The washing and comingling of different batches of lettuce means a hazard that may appear in one field can show up in lots of bags of lettuce because of the common bath,” said Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of the food safety program for the Center for This combination picture of two photographs show a file photograph (left) taken of Fatima Khatun, 25, feeding her-then 18- Science in the Public Interest, a consumer health advocacy organi- month-old daughter Roona Begum, suffering from Hydrocephalus, in which cerebrospinal fluid builds up in the brain at their zation based in Washington. Officials in Iowa and Nebraska say a home in Jirania in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura, and another photograph (right) showing Fatima Khatun tending to packaged salad mix containing iceberg and romaine lettuce, car- the now 21-month-old Roona following their return home yesterday. — AFP rots and red cabbage was infected with cyclospora, a parasite blamed for sickening 397 people in 16 states. It’s not clear whether the produce also was to blame for the outbreak in the other states. India’s baby discharged Last year the Food and Drug Administration issued more than 20 recalls for packaged salads, romaine lettuce or spinach. Most were due to tests finding listeria or E. coli bacteria, both of which can cause serious illness. However, of the 693 food product recalls after surgeons shrink skull between October 2011 and September 2012 - the last available year of records - only about 15 pertained to bagged lettuce or salads, according to FDA data. Online campaign for Roona raises $58,000 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimat- NEW DELHI: Doctors allowed a one-year-old Indian baby to go Although Roona’s skull is likely to remain large compared with ed that one in six Americans - 48 million people - get sick from home yesterday after nearly four months of treatment to correct a other children, she has a good chance of developing normally, foodborne illnesses each year. About 128,000 are hospitalized and rare disorder that caused her head to double in size. Roona provided her neck muscles can grow strong enough to support 3,000 die. In March the CDC released a study that looked at more Begum and her parents left New Delhi and headed home to a her head, he explained. “Except for the size of her head, she is an than 4,500 food-related outbreaks between 1998 and 2008 and remote region of India’s northeast after surgeons declared that absolutely normal baby. She eats without a problem and moves found more illnesses attributed to leafy vegetables - 22 percent - her health had significantly improved. Roona, whose plight cap- her arms and legs easily,” he said. than to any other food. The agency didn’t say what percentage of tured international sympathy, has battled through several life- Her 25-year-old mother, Fatema Khatun, said she was looking those was packaged.—AP saving surgical procedures which saw doctors drain fluid from her forward to taking the baby home to their village in the remote head and dramatically reduce the size of her skull. “Roona’s northeastern state of Tripura. “Everyone at home is eagerly wait- health has improved significantly.... We have discharged the baby ing to see Roona. Her grandparents were so happy when they this morning and she is fit to travel,” neurosurgeon Sandeep heard we were coming home,” Khatun told AFP ahead of their Vaishya said as the child left the private hospital on the outskirts departure. of Delhi where she has been since April. Roona’s father, Abdul Rahman, 18, called her an “extraordi- A drowsy-looking Roona was then driven with her smiling par- nary” child. “She is so strong, she has gone through so many sur- ents to Delhi airport, her first time out of a hospital gown in nearly geries and she is still here and she’s in good spirits,” Rahman told four months. Roona was born with hydrocephalus, a potentially AFP. Roona’s parents were too poor to pay for treatment, but fatal condition that causes cerebrospinal fluid to build up on the publication of pictures taken by an AFP photographer prompted brain. Her condition had caused her head to swell to a circumfer- the hospital to offer to treat her for free. The photographs also ence of 94 centimetres (37 inches), putting pressure on her brain triggered an outpouring of support worldwide, with prospective and making it impossible for her to sit upright or crawl. donors contacting AFP and other news organisations to enquire Her head shrank to 58 centimetres after procedures conduct- how they could contribute to a fund for her treatment. Two ed between April and July at the hospital run by the private Fortis Norwegian college students, Jonas Borchgrevink and Nathalie Healthcare group. Vaishya, who heads the hospital’s neuro- Krantz, started an online campaign that has raised $58,000.The surgery unit, said he expected her head to shrink further after campaign has paid around $30,000 to the charitable arm of Fortis conducting a final surgery in about six months’ time. hospital, as the initially estimated cost of Roona’s treatment mul- In this image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and “When she came here, she was almost immobile. Now, she is tiplied by more than 30 times, Borchgrevink told AFP. The dona- Prevention, a photomicrograph of a fresh stool sample, moving her head from side to side easily, it shows that her neck tions have covered about half the total cost of treatment so far, which had been prepared using a 10 percent formalin solu- muscles are already getting stronger,” he said. “The next big step with the rest paid by the hospital’s charitable foundation. “We tion, and stained with modified acid-fast stain, reveals the will be for her to sit up. “Neurologically as well the baby shows still have around $28,000 left, which we want to send to the fami- presence of four Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts in the field several signs of improvement. She can see better, her limb move- ly for her aftercare,” Borchgrevink said. “This is not a short-term of view. — AP ments are much better,” he added. project for us. —AFP HEALTH SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 FDA defines what ‘gluten free’ means on packages

WASHINGTON: Consumers are going to know exactly what than gluten sensitivity, which some people self-diagnose. Only a even if they are cross-contaminated from other products made they are getting when they buy foods labeled “gluten free.” The very small number of people wouldn’t be able to ingest the in the same manufacturing facility. Food and Drug Administration is at last defining what a “gluten amount of gluten that will be allowed under the new rule, FDA “Without clear ingredient information and a definitive label- free” label on a food package really means after more than six officials said. ing standard, celiac consumers are playing Russian roulette years of consideration. Until now, manufacturers have been able “Adherence to a gluten-free diet is the key to treating celiac when it comes to making safe food choices,” said Levario. “This to use their own discretion as to how much gluten they include. disease, which can be very disruptive to everyday life,” FDA will eliminate confusion for the consumer and will cut down on Under an FDA rule announced yesterday, products labeled Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg said. “The FDA’s new calls to companies to try and determine whether their products “gluten free” still won’t have to be technically free of wheat, rye ‘gluten-free’ definition will help people with this condition are safe and gluten free.” and barley and their derivatives. But they almost will: “Gluten- make food choices with confidence and allow them to better Michael Taylor, FDA deputy commissioner for foods, said the free” products will have to contain less than 20 parts per million manage their health.” The rule would also ensure that foods rule originally proposed during the George W. Bush administra- of gluten. with the labels “no gluten,” “free of gluten,” and “without tion was delayed because the agency was evaluating whether That amount is generally recognized by the medical commu- gluten” meet the definition. Manufacturers will have a year to standard was correct. “We wanted to do a careful scientific nity to be low enough that most people who have celiac disease comply, but the FDA urged companies to meet the definition assessment of the data and the range of sensitivities,” Taylor won’t get sick if they eat it. People who suffer from celiac dis- sooner. said. Since the rule was first proposed, gluten-free foods have ease don’t absorb nutrients well and can get sick from the Many companies that market gluten-free foods already meet become big business. Millions of people are buying the foods gluten found in wheat and other cereal grains. Other countries the standard. But Andrea Levario of the American Celiac Disease because they say they make them feel better, even if they don’t already have similar standards. Alliance said the federal guidelines will cut down on painstaking have celiac disease. Americans spent more than $4 billion on Celiac disease affects up to 3 million Americans. It causes shopping for those who suffer from celiac disease. Levario said gluten-free foods last year, according to the American Celiac abdominal pain, bloating and diarrhea, and people who have it that wheat must be labeled on food packages but that barley Disease Alliance, and a major manufacturing survey issued this can suffer weight loss, fatigue, rashes and other long-term med- and rye are often hidden ingredients in food. The standard will week suggested that the niche industry is giving an economic ical problems. Celiac is a diagnosed illness that is more severe also ensure that companies can’t label products “gluten-free” boost to the food industry overall. — AP SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

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BOSTON: Daniel Nava’s long single four hits, walked two, and his sea- Justin Morneau homered and dou- from Tampa Bay to Boston, to make to center field capped a six-run rally son-high eight strikeouts included bled for the Twins. up the game postponed on May 29 in the bottom of the ninth inning as three by cleanup hitter Chris Carter. because of unplayable field condi- the Boston Red Sox stung the Seattle Jim Johnson worked the ninth for his INDIANS 6, WHITE SOX 1 tions. Mariners 8-7 Thursday night for a 37th save. Davis hit his major league- Ryan Raburn homered twice and three-game sweep. One night after leading 39th home run in the sev- drove in four runs and the Cleveland ANGELS 8, BLUE JAYS 2 winning in 15 innings for their major enth, a solo shot that gave him 100 Indians won their eighth consecutive Mark Trumbo homered in the league-leading 10th walkoff victory, RBIs for the season. He is the 39th game, topping the Chicago White Angels’ four-run first inning, Garrett the Red Sox did it again to open a player in club history to reach the Sox. The Indians have won 13 of 17 Richards allowed four hits over sev- one-game lead in the AL East over 100-RBI mark and the first since Nick and completed a four-game sweep en strong innings, and Los Angeles idle Tampa Bay. Henry Blanco hit a Markakis in 2009. Jordan Lyles (4-5) of the reeling White Sox, who have snapped its six-game losing streak. grand slam and Felix Hernandez took the loss. dropped seven in a row and are 26 JB Shuck drove in three runs for the pitched seven innings of six-hit ball games under .500 for the first time Angels, who avoided their longest to help Seattle take a 7-1 lead after ROYALS 7, TWINS 2 since 1980. Justin Masterson (13-7) skid in more than three years by five innings. But Boston scored once The Kansas City Royals won their outpitched Chris Sale (6-11) in a pounding Toronto starter Josh in the eighth and six more in the ninth straight game, stretching their matchup of All-Stars. Johnson for 10 hits in the opener of ninth against three relievers who longest winning streak in more than a four-game series between under- recorded just one out. Steven Wright a decade by beating Minnesota RANGERS 7, DIAMONDBACKS 1 achieving clubs expected to be AL (2-0) pitched three scoreless innings behind Billy Butler’s hitting and Yu Darvish struck out 14, match- contenders. With plenty of offensive in relief of Ryan Dempster. Oliver Lorenzo Cain’s highlight reel catch in ing the most in his 50 major league support, Richards (3-4) was domi- Perez (2-3), who blew a seventh- center field. The Royals last won nine starts, and the Texas Rangers hit nant in his first home start since inning lead on Wednesday, took the straight when they opened the 2003 three solo homers and beat Arizona April 20 and his second start since loss. season at 9-0. The last time Kansas in a makeup game. Darvish (10-5) rejoining the Angels’ rotation, allow- City won more in a row was a 10- had no walks and scattered five hits ing two runs and striking out four. ORIOLES 6, ASTROS 3 game string in 1994, STATS said. over seven scoreless innings. It was Colby Rasmus had two hits and One day after being acquired Butler had two hits and drove in two his major league-leading eighth scored a run for Toronto, which had from Houston, Bud Norris dominat- runs. Justin Maxwell had a hit and an game this season with at least 10 won five of seven. Trumbo hit his ed his former teammates over six RBI a day after being acquired in a strikeouts. Darvish struck out 10 of 24th homer off Johnson (1-8), innings in his Orioles debut, and trade with Houston. James Shields the first 13 batters. AJ Pierzynski, whose first career start against the Baltimore got a home run from Chris (6-7) gave up two runs on five hits Mitch Moreland and David Murphy Angels was a disaster. After allowing Davis to beat Houston. The only runs and five walks in six innings for the all homered off Zeke Spruill (0-1), seven runs, Johnson was chased in Norris (7-9) allowed were on solo Royals. Scott Diamond (5-10) gave who went four innings in his first the third inning with the bases homers by Brett Wallace and Mark up seven runs and nine hits in five major league start. Arizona had to loaded. His career-worst losing Krauss. The right-hander gave up innings and was sent to Triple A. make a side trip to Texas, on the way streak stretched to six starts. — AP Cardinals rout Pirates, avoid 5-game sweep

PITTSBURGH: Joe Kelly and the St Louis Cardinals averted the 2012 All-Star closer. He started the season 13 for 13 in a five-game sweep at Pittsburgh, ending a season-worst save opportunities, but is 7 for 13 since. He heard loud seven-game losing streak by routing the Pirates 13-0 boos throughout the inning and when he walked to the Thursday night in a matchup between the NL’s top two dugout. The Phillies are 2-10 since the All-Star break and teams. St Louis began the series with a 21/2-game lead in have dropped to 91/2 games behind Cincinnati for the sec- the NL Central but left with the Pirates ahead by 11/2 ond wild-card spot in the NL. games. The Cardinals avoided their first sweep in a set of at least five games since 1916, when the New York Giants MARLINS 3, METS 0 took all six games. Pittsburgh had won the previous four Tom Koehler pitched six effective innings, and Miami games at PNC Park by a combined score of 36-10. Kelly (2- stalled Matt Harvey once again, beating the New York 3) pitched six scoreless innings and had two hits. Tony Cruz Mets. Logan Morrison’s two-out single broke a scoreless tie added three hits, including a two-run double during an in the sixth. Donovan Solano added a two-run single later eight-run seventh inning. Charlie Morton (3-3) gave up five in the inning. Harvey (8-3) allowed three runs and five hits runs and 10 hits in six innings. He is 2-8 in his career against in 5 2-3 innings. The NL’s All-Star starter struck out eight. St Louis. Harvey’s three shortest outings this season have come at Marlins Park. The All-Star is 0-1 with a 3.52 ERA in four starts BRAVES 11, ROCKIES 2 against the Marlins this season while going 8-2 with a 1.97 Justin Upton drove in five runs with two homers, Julio ERA against the rest of the majors. The Marlins are the low- Teheran matched his career high with 11 strikeouts, and est-scoring team in the majors and have the worst record Atlanta beat Colorado for its seventh straight win. Jason in the NL. Koehler (3-6) gave up five hits, walked five and Heyward added a two-run homer, and Chris Johnson had struck out five. AJ Ramos pitched two innings, and Steve three hits as the Braves completed a four-game sweep of Cishek worked the ninth for his 23rd save in 25 chances. It the Rockies. The Braves outscored the Rockies 31-5 in the was the first time the Mets had been shut out since May 25 last three games of the series. Atlanta’s 7-0 homestand also against Atlanta. included three wins over St Louis. The NL East-leading Braves stretched their lead over Washington to 111/2 DODGERS 6, CUBS 4 games. Teheran (8-5) struck out the side in the third and Yasiel Puig hit a long home run and scored two runs to fifth innings. He lasted only five innings, allowing one run lead the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Chicago Cubs. and five hits and two walks, in his third straight start of Hanley Ramirez and Jerry Hairston each drove in two runs allowing no more than one run. Colorado’s Chad Bettis (0- for the Dodgers, who got a win a night after having a four- 1), called up from Double-A Tulsa for his major league game winning streak snapped. Los Angeles is 11-2 since debut, allowed five runs and six hits and five walks in five the All-Star break. Junior Lake and Anthony Rizzo each innings. PITTSBURGH: St Louis Cardinals’ Carlos Beltran leaps to homered twice for the Cubs, who lost for the fourth time in avoid a ground ball during the sixth inning of a baseball five games. Chicago had only five hits. Dodgers starter GIANTS 2, PHILLIES 1 game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh on Ricky Nolasco (7-9) allowed three solo home runs and last- Joaquin Arias and pinch-hitter Roger Kieschnick had RBI Thursday, Aug 1, 2013. — AP ed just five innings, but earned the win. Kenley Jansen singles off Jonathan Papelbon in the top of the ninth struggling ace lowered his ERA to 4.57. Cole Hamels pitched a perfect ninth to earn his 15th save. Cubs starter inning, then Sergio Romo escaped a bases-loaded jam in allowed seven hits and struck out five in eight scoreless Chris Rusin (1-1) was sharp in the fourth and fifth innings, the bottom half as San Francisco beat Philadelphia. Matt innings. He left with a 10 lead that he gave himself with an but appeared to get tired in the sixth. He was pulled after Cain (7-6) gave up one run and six hits in eight innings. The RBI single. Then Papelbon (2-1) blew it - a familiar scene for allowing a single and a walk to the first two batters. — AP SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Chiefs, Brumbies set for Super Rugby final WELLINGTON: The Chiefs will try to win the Super Rugby title for the second-straight season and the ACT Brumbies for the first time in nine years in a final today which brings together two of the tournament’s low-key achievers. In order to reach the championship match the Chiefs and Brumbies had to beat the competition’s two most successful teams in semifinals: the Chiefs edged the seven-time champion Crusaders 20-19 and the Brumbies finished over the top of the three- time champion Bulls 26-23. Both now have the chance to establish themselves more firmly among the best teams in the southern hemisphere tournament. The Brumbies can join the Bulls as winners of three Super Rugby titles. The Chiefs can join the Crusaders, Bulls, Brumbies and Auckland Blues as multiple winners. The success of the Chiefs this season has brought the tournament final to the modest 25,000 seat Waikato Stadium in their home town of Hamilton about 12 months after they sealed the 2012 title there. Tickets sold out more quickly than for last year’s final when, after their most successful season, the Chiefs beat the Durban-based Sharks 36-7 to win the title for the first time in 17 years. Dave Rennie, helped by former All Blacks assistant coach Wayne Smith, guided the Chiefs to their inaugural title in his first year as their head coach and now hopes to have them emulate the Blues, Bulls and Crusaders by winning back-to-back championships. He said the experience from last year was already an advantage. “What we did learn was that you’ve got to enjoy what you’re doing, rather than build up all the pressure on yourselves,” Rennie said. “But we know that we’ve got a high-quality opposition and we need to be at our best again.” Because of the construction of the tournament draw, the Chiefs and Brumbies haven’t met this year. They last faced each other in the fourth round of the 2012 season when the Chiefs, at home, won 29-22. For that reason, their respective form is hard to SOWETO: South African Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula (2nd left) and organizers reveal in measure other than by statistical comparison: the Chiefs won 12 of Soweto the trophies for the inaugural ‘Nelson Mandela Sport and Culture’ day to be held on August 17, 2013 their 16 regular season matches to finish in first place while the at the Soccer City Stadium in Soweto. This event will see the South African national rugby and soccer teams Brumbies won 10 of 16 and finished third. The Chiefs scored 458 points play at the same stadium on the same day, to be followed by an international music concert. The aim of the in those 16 matches and conceded 364 while the Brumbies scored 430 event is to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s vision of building national unity through sport. —AFP but conceded only 295, the second-best defensive record in the tournament. The Brumbies’ Christian Lealiifano was the third-highest points-scorer in the regular season with 183 while Chiefs fullback Gareth Anscombe was fifth-highest with 166, though he missed matches with injury and shared the kicking duties late in the season Desperation fuelling with Aaron Cruden. —AP

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fume at DRS decision WELLINGTON: One word summed ing there was the same sort of des- Andrew Horrell is a smart footy play- up coach Dave Rennie’s approach to peration leading into this season other,” Rennie said. SYDNEY: Australia’s press yesterday acclaimed Michael ensuring the Waikato Chiefs offered erwise it’s quite easy to think you “He may be not as quick or evasive Clarke’s captain’s knock in the third Ashes Test but raged at more than a token defense of their have climbed a mountain and then as others but he is smart and has the a controversial umpiring decision that even Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called “one of the worst” he had seen. Skipper Super Rugby title this year. not work as hard and achieve the ability to get the ball out of his hands Clarke led from the front with an unbeaten century on the Desperation. Desperation not to rest same sort of success. “It’s a tough or put the right sort of kick in, based opening day of the Test where yet more Decision Review on their laurels. Desperation to work competition. Lot of travel and you’re on what he sees, and I think that will System (DRS) controversy dogged the series with England. hard. Desperation to succeed. playing against some of the best be important at the weekend.” The Clarke’s 125 not out, the first hundred by an Australian Desperation to retain the Super sides in the world. “We’re just rapt to Chiefs shook off the losses to the this series, helped the tourists to 303 for three at Thursday’s Rugby title. That desperation was still be here and preparing for anoth- Australian sides with six successive close in a match his side, 2-0 down with three to play, must never more evident than when fly- er game.” Shorn of major drawcard victories before the international win to have any hope of regaining the Ashes. Australia’s half Aaron Cruden, the smallest man Sonny Bill Williams and injured All break in June, although when they newspapers praised Clarke’s much-awaited ton as his team on the field, tracked back and made a Blacks centre Richard Kahui, the returned they were hammered by enjoyed their best day of the Ashes after a humiliating 347- try-saving tackle in their semi-final Chiefs started the competition with a the Crusaders 43-15. Assistant coach run defeat in the second Lord’s Test. victory over the Canterbury 41-27 demolition of the Otago Wayne Smith called it the most pres- “Somewhere if any Australian batsman was going to Crusaders last week. Highlanders, a team that many had sure the team had been under in the score a century in this Ashes series it was always going to be Nor than in the way All Blacks lock predicted would be title challengers. 18 months of Rennie’s tenure and it the captain, Michael Clarke,” The Australian’s Wayne Smith Brodie Retallick cleaned out Corey Rennie’s side suffered a mid-sea- shook them out of complacency. wrote. The Daily Telegraph’s Malcolm Conn said Clarke was Flynn during a ruck, driving the son blip with losses to the They responded in the semi-final now in the same position as Allan Border almost 30 years Crusaders hooker back two meters. Queensland Reds and New South last Saturday. While the Chiefs had ago when he was forced to single-handedly carry a strug- Nor than when hooker Hika Elliott Wales Waratahs which coincided more recent experience than Jake gling Australian side until the next generation came lasted the entire 80 minutes of test- with an injury crisis in midfield that White’s side in the playoffs - the through. intensity rugby against the seven- had the coach seeking a short-term Brumbies last played in a final in “Such a challenge highlights the substance of the indi- times champions despite having contract for former Crusaders centre 2004 - Rennie saw danger in the vidual,” Conn said. “Border was always a fighter. Those who been on a drip as late as Thursday Casey Laulala. Fortunately, that crisis Canberra-based side in their victory mistook Clarke as more style than substance are now aware after suffering food poisoning during has now passed and Andrew Horrell at Loftus Versfeld last week. “They that he is one too.”But the media came down hard on yet the week. “The boys have worked is back at inside centre to offer play a lot of territory and don’t tend another DRS controversy which some said may have “com- really hard and they have an under- another kicking option against the to play too much footy down their promised” batsman Usman Khawaja’s struggling Test standing of how hard it is to win a Brumbies alongside that of the end of the field,” Rennie said. “Then career. Khawaja was given out by on-field umpire Tony Hill championship,” Rennie told Reuters increasingly influential Cruden. “We they really strangle you down your for just one having been adjudged to have edged spinner by telephone this week. can bring guys off the bench if we end of the field and that’s where Graeme Swann to wicketkeeper Matt Prior. —AFP “We were really focused on ensur- need to change the game but they’re pretty lethal.”—Reuters SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

I still have 2 to 3 years more to fight: Pacquiao

SINGAPORE: Eight-weight world champion very good to fight each other, we can create strong and I can still fight.” what I think are more important things to Manny Pacquiao believes he has two or a lot of action in the ring.” The 27-year-old accomplish.” For now though, fighting in three years of fighting left before he quits Rios, an aggressive former lightweight world PACQUIAO-MAYWEATHER Asia and putting on an entertaining show for the sport and still retains the hope of secur- champion known as ‘Bam Bam’, will provide Pacquiao, whose power punching from the high number of Filipino fans expected to ing a bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Two a stern test for Pacquiao although he lacks both hands and lightning speed helped him take the two-hour flight to Macao is straight defeats, the second a brutal sixth the box office numbers that a fifth bout with win titles from flyweight through to light Pacquiao’s focus. China’s gambling enclave round knockout by old foe Juan Manuel Marquez or a first with Mayweather could middleweight, said he had trained every day also means no long haul flying to America Marquez in December, prompted pundits bring. since the Marquez defeat and that his body for training, but Pacquiao acknowledged the and fans to suggest retirement for the 34- Pacquiao, who said three years ago his was ‘addicted to exercise’. But having 1130 am local fight time to cater for the US year-old Filipino. mother had given her blessing for him to achieved so much already and with the television audience would be slightly prob- But he will step back in the ring after an fight once more, remains open to both lucrative Mayweather clash appearing des- lematic and require 0400 wake up calls. extended break on Nov 24 to take on options and has no plans to call it quits any tined to never happen, talk returns to retire- Pacquiao, though, made strong hints American Brandon Rios for a first fight in time soon. “I’m not really sure (how many ment. His Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, about future fights in the region instead of Macau, keen to re-establish himself as the fights left) as long as I can still fight I can who also represents Rios, acknowledged America, with Arum touting the Philippines number one pound-for-pound fighter in the fight. In my mind right now, maybe I can still politics and not boxing was Pacquiao’s main and Singapore as possible venues. A move sport. “Great opportunity for me to give a fight maybe two to three years from now,” focus. “What is the end game with Manny? that Arum hoped might finally lead to good show for the people, to get back my said Pacquiao, who has amassed a 54-5-2 The end game is to run and win for the high- Mayweather, one of the true greats of the name into the top of boxing,” the Filipino record with 38 knockouts. “I tell you frankly, est possible office in the Philippines, boxing sport, getting in the ring with Pacquiao. congressman told reporters in Singapore on honestly in myself I can still fight and I feel is just a way-station for Manny Pacquiao,” “Never say never,” Arum said of the possible Friday on the latest leg of the promotional strong. If there is something wrong in my the veteran promoter told reporters. “I think match up. “I think when Floyd realizes the eco- tour for the bout. body or something wrong in my boxing skill he has much to offer his country. nomic benefits of doing a fight in Asia, maybe “Brandon Rios is a good boxer, tough I have to think about that and think about “He will know when to call it quits in box- at the new Singapore stadium ... maybe that opponent and I believe we can give a good retirement. “But since I lost the last fight, I ing and it may very well be before a normal will open up a dialogue for a Pacquiao- fight. Especially his style and my style it is never feel something in my body, I still feel fighter would call it quits because he has Mayweather fight in Asia.” — Reuters

Gatlin aiming to block out doping scandals LINZ: American sprinter Justin Gatlin says he is concentrating on himself and not thinking about recent doping scandals ahead of the world championships, which start next week in Moscow. The 2004 Athens Olympic champion will be one of the main favorites for 100m gold in Russia as many of his main rivals will be missing. Fellow American Tyson Gay and Jamaican Asafa Powell will be absent after failing drug tests, although the latter had not made the Jamaican team anyway. The reigning world champion Yohan Blake, another Jamaican, is also out with Ordonez, Krumm to test injury. It means Gatlin will start the competition as the main rival to twice triple Olympic gold medalist and world record the Nissan V8 supercars holder Usain Bolt. While he was himself twice banned for doping, Gatlin has refused to get DUBAI: In a week that saw the launch of the know from driver colleagues that have driven the with Nissan entering in the championship, it’s involved in the current debate. Nismo Global Driver Exchange and subsequently car, it will be a big challenge. It’s good for the amazing to hear the news that I’m testing the “I have to stay concentrated Lucas Ordonez’ first test in a Super GT car, Nissan driver, apparently, because you have to have a Altima V8 Supercar. I really can’t wait for it. I and get ready for the worlds,” announced that he (Ordonez) along with Michael lot of different techniques. The driver plays a big- know it’s a tough car to drive with no electronic he said in an interview with Krumm will test the Nissan Altima V8 Supercars ger role in the speed of the car. systems, no traction control, but it’s a proper rac- Austrian press agency APA. at Winton Motor Raceway in Australia on 12 “This is just a test, and this is a Nissan engine,” ing car with a lot of power. “The show must go on. I August. Krumm and Ordonez will fly to Australia he continued. “I’ve driven many Nissan engines I have spoken to some guys who have driven think a lot of athletes think like for their debut V8 Supercar test, then head before, so this is a chance for me to see how it the cars before, and they’ve told me that the cars that. Staying concentrated and straight to Japan for the Suzuka 1000kms on 17- compares to the other engines worldwide. I are tricky to drive and tricky to make fast. They winning for your country, that’s 18 August, Round Five of the 2013 SUPER GT haven’t driven a race car in Australia, so I’m really say you can drive them over the kerbs quite what counts.” Championship, where Krumm will drive his regu- looking forward to that. The Bathurst 1000 is a aggressively, and the way you enter the corner Gatlin’s second failed dope lar #24 Nissan GT-R in the GT500 class for the fac- big race. Something that everyone wants to do at has to change to make less wheel spin, because test in 2006 saw him banned tory Nismo squad, and Ordonez for the NDDP least once in their lifetime. It would be nice, but the car has a lot of power. for four years but he has since outfit in the GT300 class. first of all, I have to drive the Altima V8 Supercar This is a great chance of me to learn, have fun, made a comeback. And at 31- The ‘Nismo Global Driver Exchange’ and see if I feel comfortable.” Lucas Ordonez has and hopefully one day compete in the Bathurst years-old he will go into the announcement also included news that Nismo one of the busiest schedules he has ever known 1000.” “Part of our program to continue to glob- Moscow worlds as the fastest will enter a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 in the 2014 at the moment. Just back from Japan, he is about alize Nissan Motorsport is to get some of our man this year in the field - Bathurst 12 Hour on 7-9 February 2014, with to compete in the Spa 24 Hours before the next international drivers to sample the brand-new faster still than Bolt. He and his Nissan Motorsport V8 Supercar driver to lead the chapter of his incredible racing career takes him Altima V8,” explained Nissan’s Director of Global American teammates are train- outfit that will be entered as the ‘Nismo Athlete to Australia and then back again to Japan. Motorsport, Darren Cox. “It’s a great opportunity ing in Linz until August 5 Global Team’. “I’m very much looking forward to “Most of my racing has been in Europe, so to for these drivers to try a different form of motor before heading to Moscow, the V8 test,’ commented Krumm. “I’ve always have the chance to drive a V8 Supercar is amaz- racing, but also for us to shine a light on the where the worlds start on watched it on TV, and I like the cars. They have a ing,” said Ordonez. “It’s another step in my excellent work that is being done by Nissan August 10. — AFP lot of power and not very big tyres. From what I career. I have followed the V8s from Europe, and Motorsport in Australia.” SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013

Cosmos’ emotional return sets off NY soccer war NEW YORK: The legendary New York Cosmos return to com- World Sports Group, a major sports promotion firm behind each other,” said O’Brien. Coach Giovanni Savarese “has got petitive action for the first time in nearly three decades on football, golf and cricket events across Asia. O’Brien admitted what it takes and he’s got a budget and he is assembling a Saturday, throwing down the gauntlet in a new American soc- he broke his own rules when he agreed in 2011 to pick up the team.” Savarese told how the Cosmos signed their first player, cer war. The side that set the soccer world alight when it boast- Cosmos challenge. “I have always said that if anybody ever Carlos Mendes, in December. “Right now we are very satisfied. ed the likes of Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Neeskens is hears that I am going to buy a sports team, take me outside, It is a group of players that understand very well the history of making a more humble bid to get back into the sporting lime- whip me, beat me, threaten to shoot me, bring me back in and the club and they are committed to the first match,” he said. light now. say: ‘do you want to think about that again,’” he told AFP. But O’Brien insists that he and Saudi Arabian partner Mohiedin A Cosmos team featuring World Cup heros Pele and The Cosmos had been defunct since 1984 when the old Kamel are not injecting $100 million into the Cosmos for “an Beckenbauer once drew 77,691 people-a record for a North North American Soccer League collapsed. It has been at the ego trip.” American club game-to a 1977 playoff clash against the Fort centre of a series of financial soap opera bids to get the team “Are we going to throw stupid money at stuff? No, absolute- Lauderdale Strikers. In a twist of fate, the Strikers will again be running again. But O’Brien agreed and the Cosmos will be play- ly not. Will we push the boat out if we think it is going to help the opponents Saturday and Pele is in town and says he feels ing again in the reborn North American Soccer League, which our business at the right time? Absolutely yes. We are not inter- “emotional” about the Cosmos’ return. But this time a crowd of currently lives in the shadow of Major League Soccer, the head- ested in losing hundreds of millions in a sort of vanity chase to 10,000 at the Hofstra University stadium in the New York sub- line US championship. The chairman says he has a five-to-10 win something,” he declared. Today, Pele will be Cosmos hon- urbs will be considered a good start by Seamus O’Brien who is year plan to make the Cosmos successful, but do not expect orary president but on the pitch, the Cosmos star draw will be masterminding the Cosmos’ rise from the ashes. immediate miracles. Marcos Senna, now 37, who played for Spain in the 2006 World The Cosmos chairman was founder of Singapore-based “We have 28 guys who three months ago had never met Cup finals. —AFP Harlequins sailing Severe NFL injuries DENVER: Philadelphia Eagles receiver Jeremy Maclin, Baltimore Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta, Denver Broncos center Dan Koppen, to but a few have suffered some significant through pre season injuries at NFL training camps. Immediately, some theories developed: Too much offseason work. Not enough. New labor- contract rules limiting padded practices to one per day, ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways yesterday water between Hampshire and the Isle of they won in 2012. while generally seen as helpful, are hardly a cure-all. brought together two elite sporting Wight - by Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing skip- “It is also a great time to be associated Washington Redskins linebacker London Fletcher thinks some forces at Endeavour Quay in Gosport in per and double British Olympic medallist, with the Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing team in guys get hurt in camp because players are trying so hard to the south of England, as five of the Ian Walker. the build-up to the Volvo Ocean Race next impress coaches and earn a roster spot or a starting job. Harlequins team including England and The two high-performance teams were year, which will call into our home city of “You know now coaches are really evaluating you,” said Harlequins captain Chris Robshaw brought together by United Arab Abu Dhabi in December 2014.” Chris Fletcher, whose teammate, second-year linebacker Keenan swapped tackles for tacking, to throw Emirates’ (UAE) flag carrier Etihad Airways, Robshaw revealed his troops were keen to Robinson, tore his left pectoral muscle on Day 1 of training their considerable weight behind Volvo a partner of both Harlequins and Abu swap tips and tactics with Walker, who camp. “You’ve got guys with a competitive spirit and they’re Ocean Race contenders, Abu Dhabi Ocean Dhabi Ocean Racing. Etihad Airways’ Chief has two global Volvo Ocean Race circum- looking at it, like, ‘My job’s on the line. I need to make a play’ Racing. More familiar with the expansive Commercial Officer, Peter Baumgartner navigations under his belt and is prepar- and not realizing there’s going to be times to show that turf of the Twickenham Stoop than the commented: “It is fantastic to be able to ing for a third attempt in the nine-month, coaches that you can hit, you can make plays in preseason cramped quarters of Abu Dhabi Ocean bring together two teams of outstanding round-the-world sailing odyssey when it games, but you don’t want to have a guy go down because of Racing’s yacht, Azzam (Arabic for sporting pedigree, both of whom we are starts in Alicante, Spain, in October 2014. something that happened in practice.” “Determination”), Harlequins players hugely proud to support. “Harlequins are “There are strong similarities between Whatever the cause, severe injuries are increasing in the Robshaw, Nick Easter; George Lowe, Nick in the middle of their pre-season training our two sports. Determination, focus, phys- NFL lately. The number of injuries that forced a player to miss Evans and Ben Botica, had their sailing as they prepare to launch their campaign ical and mental strength - these are hall- at least eight days jumped every year from 2009 to 2012, skills tested on the Solent - a stretch of to reclaim the AVIVA Premiership Trophy marks of any great team. Whether you are according to an analysis of NFL injury data released out on the pitch or sailing in some of the Wednesday. The study by Edgeworth Economics, based on roughest waters, you have to know that information collected by the league, also shows that players the guys around you will support you no with concussions missed an average of 16 days last season, up matter what. “Saying that, these sailors from only four days in 2005, while the length of time out for have to perform at 100 per cent for up to other types of injuries has been steadier. 30 days at a time, their lives depend on it. “Severe injuries are increasing in frequency,” Jesse David, That takes a special type of athlete,” said the economist overseeing the study, said in a telephone inter- Robshaw, who led Harlequins to the 2011- view from Pasadena, Calif. “I know that’s a very important 12 Aviva Premiership title. issue for both the players’ association and the league - trying Sailing off the UK’s South Coast in to tweak the rules and the equipment to deal with that. But preparation for a fortnight of crew selec- despite everything they’ve been doing, it’s still going on.” tion and high-profile races, Walker said David said his company has done consulting for the NFL that the Harlequins players would be wel- Players Association in the past and received the data for this come additions to Abu Dhabi Ocean study from the union, but wasn’t paid by it. Racing any time they fancy trading grass The study says there were 1,095 instances of injuries for waves. “These guys have a winning sidelining a player for eight or more days in 2009 - including mentality and certainly have the brute practices and games in the preseason, regular season and strength to deal with the extreme rigors on postseason - and that climbed to 1,272 in 2010, 1,380 in 2011, board. If they can get their sea legs, there’ll and 1,496 in 2012. That’s an increase of 37 percent. “The way I always be a place for them with us - look at it, really, is that injuries are part of the game,” said cor- although we might have to get some big- nerback Kyle Wilson of the New York Jets, who lost another ger kit made up to fit them,” said Walker, cornerback, Aaron Berry, for the season when he tore a knee who skippers the Abu Dhabi Tourism & ligament on the first day of practice last week. Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi)-backed “Injuries happen sometimes. They’re unfortunate, but it outfit. really is just part of the game.” Concussions have become a Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital and home far-more-noticed part of football in recent years, with more of Etihad Airways, will host the third 2014- discussion of the links between head injuries and brain dis- 15 Volvo Ocean Race stopover from mid- ease, hundreds of lawsuits brought by thousands of former December 2014 until 3rd January 2015. players, and rules changes made by the NFL to try to better Abu Dhabi will welcome the fleet from protect players. Recife, Brazil after one of the longest and During the nine years examined in David’s study, the aver- potentially most-gruelling legs in the 40- age number of days missed because of head injuries by play- year race history (9,707 nautical miles). The ers in the league went from 4.8 in 2004, four in 2005, and 4.1 in Abu Dhabi Etihad Airways In-Port Race, 2006, to 10.9 in 2010, 12 in 2011, and 16 last season. “We have which the home favourites won in the experts at practice every day to let you know, as a coach, if globe-spanning race’s last edition, will someone does have a concussion, so that makes it pretty easy. take place on January 2nd 2015, with the They leave it out of our hands; they put in the experts’ hands,” fleet departing for Sanya, China, the fol- Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said. —AP lowing day. SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 , 2013

Double duty for Del Potro to reach last 8

WASHINGTON: Top seed Juan Martin Del Potro, playing world number seven Del Potro’s double would have any kept alive his hopes for back-to-back titles with a 7-5, 7-5 twice in one day for the first time in his career, reached the impact. “I would be very surprised if two matches today victory over Somdev Devvarman in their first meeting quarter-finals of the Washington Open with two straight- would affect him for a match tomorrow,” Anderson said. since Isner lost to the Indian in the 2007 US college final. “I set triumphs Thursday. The 2009 US Open winner, a two- “Somebody with the level of fitness of the players out here, remember that match like it was yesterday,” Isner said. “It time Washington champion, dispatched American Ryan it won’t be a problem.” was a very good win. Somdev is a very tough opponent. Harrison 6-1, 7-5 in 70 minutes, then returned five hours Del Potro has won all four prior matches with I’m happy to get through and move on.” Australian later to eliminate Australian 14th seed Bernard Tomic 6-3, Anderson, the most recent last year at Basel. “I will have to Marinko Matosevic withstood a 19-ace barrage to defeat 6-3 in 69 minutes and advance at the combined ATP and play better than today,” Del Potro said. “Kevin is a very Canada’s Milos Raonic 7-5, 7-6 (9/7) and book a matchup WTA event. “I feel good,” Del Potro said. “I was training good server. I will have to find a way to return his serves. with Russian Dimitry Tursunov, only the Aussie’s fourth hard before I came here. During the night you feel much The court will help me. I like a fast court.” Del Potro fired six career ATP quarter-final. better. In the first match the sun was harder for me. In the aces and 16 winners to beat Tomic, who committed 26 “It was a big win for me,” Matosevic said. “I’m on a good night I move much better.” Despite double duty on his first unforced errors, the last by netting a backhand on match roll.” German third seed Tommy Haas won the last set of a match day since losing the longest semi-final in point. “I served really well,” Del Potro said. “I played rain-halted match to beat US qualifier Tim Smyczek 3-6, 7- Wimbledon history to Novak Djokovic after four hours and focused all the time.” Del Potro and Japanese second seed 5, 6-3, then beat Croatian 13th seed Ivan Dodig 6-4, 4-6, 7- 43 minutes, the 24-year-old Argentine advanced to a last- Kei Nishikori both had their second-round matches post- 5 for a quarter-final berth against Bulgarian Gigor Dimitrov. eight meeting with South Africa’s 21st-ranked Kevin poned Wednesday by rain with two other matches sus- On the women’s side, Russia’s Olga Puchkova struck a ball Anderson, who ousted American Mardy Fish 7-6 (7/2), 6-1. pended by showers, but Nishikori-ranked a career-best in anger and wound up defaulting away the match with “For the first day of the hardcourt season, I had a very 11th-could not pull off twin wins at the $1.76 million event. Argentina’s Paula Ormaechea after the ball struck a line good day,” Del Potro said. “I beat two young players with After opening with a 7-5, 6-2 triumph over US wildcard judge in the knee, sending him to the court writhing in good potential. I should play better all the matches.” Jack Sock, Nishikori was thrashed by 16th-seeded Cypriot pain. “I’m very sorry that I accidently hit the line umpire in Anderson, ranked 21st, broke Aussie James Duckworth in Marcos Baghdatis 6-1, 6-2 in only 58 minutes. his knee,” Puchkova said. “I wasn’t looking where the ten- the only extra game he needed to win their rain-halted Baghdatis booked a quarter-final berth against US nis ball would go and I had apologized to the line second-round match 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, and said he doubted eighth seed John Isner, who won last week in Atlanta and umpire.”— AFP

Photo of the day Radwanska sisters reach Carlsbad quarter-finals

CARLSBAD: Second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska set up a quarter-final clash with former US Open champion Samanth Stosur at the WTA Southern California Open Thursday with a straight-sets win over Daniela Hantuchova.Poland’s Radwanska, the 2010 runner-up and 2011 champion on the hardcourts of Carlsbad, defeated Hantuchova 6-3, 6-3, her sixth victory over the Slovakian in eight career meetings. She was joined in the quarter-finals of the $795,707 US Open tuneup event by younger sister Urszula, a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 winner over sixth-seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic. Urszula Radwanska’s victory was just one of the upsets of the day, with French wild card Virginie Razzano ousting eighth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 6-1, 6-4. Razzano next faces third- seeded Czech Petra Kvitova, a former Wimbledon champion. From 2-2 in the third set, Radwanska won four of the next five games from former world number one Jankovic as she booked her fourth WTA quarter-final appearance of the season. “I’m very happy that I won this match today,” she said after earning a shot at top- Adam Malysz prepares for his ride at the Start of Silk Way Rally, Russia seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. “This on July 11, 2013. — www.redbullcontentpool.com is a huge step for me because she was No.1 in the past, and I was playing her for the first time. “I knew I had to fight for every Monfils and Fish withdraw point and be focused. I think the key is when I was up 3-2 in the third set and then from ATP Montreal event I won two games pretty easily.” Radwanska talked about how her older sister’s success has motivated her. MONTREAL: France’s Gael Monfils, ranked 49th in the world, withdrew from next week’s ATP event in Montreal on Thursday after suffering an ankle injury in prac- “When I see she’s winning, I want to tice. Also withdrawing from the Canadian hardcourt tuneup event for the US Open do the same,” she said. “I want to be as was American Mardy Fish, who cited personal reasons. Fish reached the third good as she is. She’s been at the top lev- round at Washington this week before losing to South African Kevin Anderson. el for a few years. I’m still getting there. Monfils was to have been a wildcard entry at Montreal. He had previously with- On the court, we are a little bit different. drawn from this week’s ATP event in Washington. She’s a little bit quiet. I’m more emotion- “I am frustrated and disappointed,” Monfils said. “I sprained my ankle in practice al. I hope one day I’ll be in the spot this morning and received treatment before returning to the court to find that it where she is now.” Another former world was too painful. “My doctor strongly advised me to be careful and take 10 days of number one from Serbia, Ana Ivanovic, CARLSBAD: Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland hits a serve to rest. I am sincerely sorry that I will not be able to play in Montreal.” Canadian teen made it safely through to the quarters, Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia during their third round match Filip Peliwo of Vancouver was awarded the final wildcard spot in the field with defeating US qualifier Coco Vandeweghe at the Southern California Open - Day Four at La Costa Resort & Monfils’ exit, with 65th-ranked Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan replacing Fish.— AFP 7-6 (7/5), 6-3. — AFP Spa in Carlsbad, California. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Hungry Tiger Mentally fatigued Mickelson roars at PGA battles to a 72 at Firestone AKRON: Euphoric after winning his fifth major crown at the British “I just need to get a little bit of rest tonight and see if I can come out ROCHESTER: Phil Mickelson is buoyed by a British Open Open last month, Phil Mickelson had a tough time mentally re- tomorrow a little bit more focused and start to see a little bit clearer win, Tiger Woods is hungry after a five-year major drought adapting to the rigors of the PGA Tour at the WGC-Bridgestone what I’m trying to do,” said the Californian, a 42-time winner on the and Rory McIlroy is trying to defend his title at the PGA Invitational on Thursday. The American world number two, who by PGA Tour. Championship. Golf’s top stars gather next week at Oak Hill his own admission has been playing some of the best golf of his life “Like I said, I’m not overly concerned. I’m disappointed in the Country Club for the 95th edition of the final major tourna- in recent weeks, carded a two-over-par 72 in the opening round at round. I certainly didn’t want to shoot over par and leave myself this ment of the year after a season that has brought disap- Firestone Country Club, a stroke worse than the day’s average score. far back after the first day.” Mickelson trails the pacesetting Webb pointment, a measure of success and more than a few sur- Mickelson said he had lacked the necessary mental precision and Simpson by eight shots heading into the second round. “But my prises. lipped out from short range to bogey consecutive holes, the sixth game feels sharp,” Mickelson said. “I feel like I’m rolling the ball well. Mickelson captured his fifth career major title two weeks and seventh, before ending the round in a tie for 41st place in the I know I’m swinging the ball well, and tomorrow if I can just mental- ago at Muirfield and the 43-year-old American left-hander elite field of 73. “I’ve been hitting the ball really well, and today I had ly see it a little clearer, I should have a good day.” Asked to explain says he is playing well enough to add another Wanamaker a hard time focusing,” the American left-hander told reporters after his lipouts for bogey from five feet at the par-four six and par-three Trophy to the one he captured in 2005. “I’m playing as well mixing three birdies with five bogeys on a Firestone layout softened seventh, he replied: “I hit them well, I rolled them well, right on my as I ever have and want to make sure I stay focused by overnight rain. “Mentally I wasn’t sharp. I could tell I was a little line, but the speed was bad. because I think there’s an opportunity to add to this year bit tired or I just wasn’t able to see the shot clearly. I wasn’t able to “I just didn’t quite get into the feel of the putt to be able to make and make this year every bit as special as it can be,” see the putt roll clearly. it. I had that theme throughout the day on just about every shot.” Mickelson said. “I had trouble seeing the shot chipping, and I just had a hard Having already claimed five major titles in a Hall of Fame career, “I want to make sure I give myself every chance to play time mentally visualizing. But I’m not concerned. I mean, my swing Mickelson is well aware of the danger of a possible mental let-down well because I’ve been playing some of my best golf the and game still feels very sharp.” Mickelson, who won his second when competing soon after a big win. “I am aware of it and I’ll try to last few months, as you’ve seen and as the results have PGA Tour title of the year by three shots in the British Open at make sure I’m a little bit more rested and sharp heading into the shown. And I’m excited about these upcoming events.” Muirfield after closing with a brilliant five-under-par 66, aimed to weekend. But it does happen, it’s a good problem to have,” he Woods, a 14-time major champion chasing the all-time come out guns blazing and refreshed for second round at Firestone. smiled.- Reuters record of 18 majors won by Jack Nicklaus, is trying to end a five-year span without a major. His last major title came at the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines. “In that spell where I haven’t won since Torrey, I’ve been in there,” Woods said. “It’s not like I’ve lost my card and not been playing out here. “I’ve won some tournaments in that stretch and I’ve been in probably about half the majors on the back nine on Sunday with a chance to win during that stretch. I just haven’t done it yet.” Woods has finished in the top six in nine of his 17 major starts since that US Open victory, but this major is on a course where he produced his second-worst 72-hole pro major result, a share of 39th at the 2005 PGA Championship that was won by Shaun Micheel. And Woods found Oak Hill’s greens relatively slow during an early practice round, the same sort of greens that foiled his final-round British Open bid. “The greens are spotty,” Woods said. “They just don’t have a lot of grass on them. It’ll be interesting to see what they do for the tournament and how much they’re able to speed them up with BARCELONA: Missy Franklin of the United States competes in a Women’s 200m backstroke heat at the FINA Swimming World kind of a lack of grass.” A severe storm last month damaged Championships in Barcelona yesterday. — AP some bunkers, toppled a tree and flooded seven holes at Oak Hill, which has seen several holes lengthened since its last major eight years ago. Franklin’s tough test McIlroy, who won last year at Kiawah Island for his second major title in as many seasons after his win at the 2011 US Open, has struggled for much of 2013 but is trying to relax and not be so emotional about a round or every shot. for fifth worlds gold “I’ve become a little bit too emotionally involved with my golf over the past few months,” McIlroy said. “I’ve let it BARCELONA: Missy Franklin faced a tough fight for a fifth worlds “I was really excited and it took a little bit of time to get to sleep, either get me excited or get me down, where I should real- gold in yesterday’s 100m freestyle final with Australia’s Cate Campbell but it’s just a matter of recovering well.” South Africa’s Chad le Clos ly just not get too high or too low about it at all.” and Swedish teenager Sarah Sjostrom leading the charge. Campbell and Russia’s Evgeny Korotyshkin, who shared Olympic silver behind The change in attitude comes two weeks after calling dubbed US teen star Franklin swimming’s “Wonder Woman” on Michael Phelps in the 100m butterfly final last year, were the fastest himself “brain dead” and “unconscious” after an opening- Thursday after the 18-year-old picked up her fourth of a possible sev- into Friday’s semi-finals. Le Clos, who won the 200m butterfly world round 79 on his way to missing the cut at the British Open. en gold medals at Barcelona’s world championships in the 4x200m title on Wednesday, was just 0.33secs behind Korotyshkin’s time of When it comes to who needs a major win more, McIlroy or freestyle relay. Franklin, fifth fastest into the final, battles a strong field 51.55. “It’s great to already have the gold that I needed to take the Woods, the 24-year-old Northern Irishman opted for him- in the Palau Sant Jordi pool with Sjostrom, who won gold on Monday pressure off,” said Le Clos. self. “I’ve won two in the last two years. It would be great to in the 100m butterfly, fastest into the freestyle final in 52.87secs with “I still want to win it, but if I don’t, it’s not the end of the world.” continue that trend,” McIlroy said. “He has got 14. I’ve got Campbell just behind her. Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo Lochte was 13th of the 16 semi-final qualifiers as he made his interna- two, so I’d better try and catch up. So I think I need one and Germany’s Britta Steffen, the world-record holder, are also vying tional debut in the event. “This is the first time I have done this event more than he does.” for medals. “I’m not expecting anything, it is a really tough field. I’d at an international meet, so I am still learning, but anytime I get on the Plenty of rivals seek their first major title and hope for just love to get another best time,” said Franklin. blocks, I feel like I can get a medal,” said the 28-year-old. Olympic the same breakthrough that US Open winner Justin Rose of The teenager has a punishing evening schedule with the 200m champion Florent Manaudou was the fastest into Friday’s evenings England and Masters champion Adam Scott of Australia backstroke semi-finals, for which she qualified fastest, coming a quar- semi-finals of the men’s 50m freestyle as he blasted out in 21.72secs. made earlier this year. Among those are Lee Westwood, ter of an hour after the freestyle final. “It will be my toughest turn- Brazil’s world-record holder Cesar Cielo was just four hundredths who let a two-shot lead slip away in the final round of the around, but at least the 200m back is one of my favorite events,” said of a second behind, while newly-crowned world 100m champion British Open. The 40-year-old Englishman has 16 top-10 fin- Franklin, with the USA men the favorites for the 4x200m freestyle final James Magnussen was 11th fastest. “I am going to have to be really ishes in majors without a triumph, twice as a runner-up and after qualifying fastest. Having broken the women’s 200m breast- on my game tonight to even get to the final, but if I can get there, any- in third six times. stroke world record in Thursday’s semi-finals, Denmark’s Rikke Moller thing can happen,” said Magnussen. USA pair Nathan Adrian, the “Obviously, I was a little bit disappointed, but as a golfer, Pedersen goes into Friday’s final with Russia’s Olympic silver medallist 100m freestyle Olympic champion, and Anthony Ervin went through you have to take the positives out whenever you can,” Yuliya Efimova as her main rival. fifth and sixth fastest respectively, with just over half a second separat- Westwood said. “I didn’t feel like I had my best game, but I US star Ryan Lochte, who won his 13th world championships gold ing the 16 semi-finalists. Holland’s defending world champion Inge still had a two-shot lead going into the final round, so that’s medal on Thursday in the 200m individual medley, will be battling Dekker was sixth fastest into Thursday’s semi-final for the women’s a positive.” Also seeking a major breakthrough is Hunter compatriot Tyler Clary in Friday’s 200m backstroke final, before dou- 50m butterfly with Britain’s Fran Halsall clocking the quickest time of Mahan, who had his best major finish sharing fourth at the bling up in the 100m butterfly semis. Teenage long-distance expert 25.69secs, just ahead of Denmark’s Jeanette Ottesen Gray, the event’s US Open and shared ninth at the British Open. Mahan led Katie Ledecky, who shaved nearly six seconds off the women’s 1500m world leader. Australia’s Alicia Coutts, who won silver in the 100m but- the Canadian Open after 36 holes when his wife Kandi freestyle record on Tuesday, was the fastest into the 800m final, terfly at the Olympics, failed to qualify as 18th fastest. “I’d have liked to went into labor and he withdrew to be with her for the where the world record is under threat, from Thursday’s heats. “It was have made the semis, but it’s only the 50m, it would have been worse birth of daughter Zoe. — AFP a little bit tough to come down the high of last night,” she admitted in the longer events,” said the 25-year-old, who has won four silver after winning her second gold on Thursday in the freestyle relay. medals at the championships, which finish Sunday.— AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 Surprise side Leopards seek scalp of Zamalek

JOHANNESBURG: Surprise side AC Leopards want to “We did okay in South Africa to force a draw, but my ousting of President Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian authorities build on a good start to the CAF Champions League side is capable of much better,” warned the experienced are not prepared to stage football games in the capital group stage when they host Zamalek this weekend. A handler. At home, they will look to captain Rudy Guelord city for security reasons. Ahly failed in a bid to have the fix- mix of defensive resilience and some luck enabled the Bhebey Ndey for goals and much is also expected of two- ture delayed five days to August 9, when the dawn-to- Congo-Brazzaville club to leave Soweto with a 0-0 draw meter Malian Arouna Drame. Zamalek have lifted the dusk fasting of Muslim holy period Ramadan will be over. against Orlando Pirates two weeks ago. Champions League trophy five times-a record bettered The ‘Red Devils’ also wanted a night kick-off to avoid a Zamalek also opened with a draw in Group A, Ahmed only by Cairo neighbors and fierce rivals Ahly. The ‘White heatwave gripping the country, but must tackle the Gaafar giving them the lead in a 1-1 stalemate against fel- Knights’ are looking to improve on a disastrous group Pirates in late afternoon because the floodlights are inade- low Egyptians Al-Ahly. David-versus-Goliath clashes do showing last year when they failed to win in six outings. quate. Pirates’ old failing of poor finishing cost them two not come more appealing than this pairing at the Stade However, long-serving goalkeeper Abdel Wahed El- precious points against Leopards with new signing Denis Sassou N’Gessou in western city Dolisie. Leopards Sayed, 36, acknowledges the threat posed by Leopards at Lennox Bacela the chief culprit. They are unlikely to get are competing in the leading African club football com- their compact 20,000-seat fortress. “This is not going to many chances against an Ahly rearguard marshaled by petition for the first time this year, and ousted some big be an easy game with Leopards playing at home and veteran centre-back Wael Gomaa. It is hard to foresee any names en route to the last eight. backed by a capacity, partisan crowd,” he told reporters. result other than an Ahly victory as they boast a 23-match The Congolese, who were playing second division “Qualifying for the group stage at the first attempt is a unbeaten home run in the group phase. domestic football just four years ago, edged Kano Pillars great achievement and we must not underestimate Group B favorites Esperance of Tunisia, winners once of Nigeria despite a 4-1 away loss. And they held their them.” A blow to Zamalek was the recent departure of and runners-up twice in the previous three finals, host nerve in Algeria to pip former champions Entente Setif on Burkinabe striker Ahmed Cisse, leaving four-goal Gaafar Coton Sport of Cameroon. The Tunis club are hoping to penalties after another 4-4 aggregate deadlock. Leopards to spearhead the pursuit of goals. bounce back after conceding a stoppage-time goal to turned the form book on its head last year to win the sec- Tradition favours Leopards with 14 victories from 16 lose 1-0 at Recreativo Libolo of Angola. Esperance are suf- ond-tier CAF Confederation Cup without a big-name home CAF games while Zamalek last won a group game fering a goal shortage-just three in five matches-and two player. But as Pirates discovered on a freezing night, on the road eight years ago. Unhappy defending champi- of those came from Khalil Chamman penalties. A match Cameroon coach Joseph Omog has developed Leopards ons Ahly must face Pirates in El-Gouna, a Red Sea resort between Sewe San Pedro of Ivory Coast and Libolo in into a fit, well-drilled outfit. 450 kilometers from their Cairo base. After the recent Abidjan completes the weekend schedule. — AFP

Coventry on brink of liquidation QPR under pressure for LONDON: Coventry City said yesterday immediate promotion they were on the verge of liquidation, which will trigger a 15-point deduction LONDON: QPR manager Harry Redknapp admits the pressure for just 24 hours before their 2013-2014 promotion from the Championship is more intense than ever as League One season begins. The Sky the Football League’s 125th season kicks off this weekend. Blues’ already unfavorable financial posi- Redknapp is one of 24 second tier managers heading into the tion took a turn for the worse when the new campaign with the aim of clinching a golden ticket to lucra- owners of the 32,600-seater Ricoh Arena tive Premier League. But unlike many of his peers in the rejected a Company Voluntary Championship, Redknapp is well aware he has no margin for Agreement (CVA) at a creditors’ meeting error as his troubled west London club try to make amends for a on Friday morning. The CVA would have dismal season that ended in relegation from the top-flight just secured payment to creditors enabling three months ago. the hard-up English Midlands club to exit The Hoops, who kick-off their promotion challenge at home to Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, have been installed as pre- administration. season promotion favorites by bookmakers impressed by the Ricoh Arena owners Arena Coventry qualities of the likes of Loic Remy, Julio Cesar and Junior Hoilett. Limited, which includes the local authori- Yet that verdict fails to take into account the behind-the-scenes ty Coventry City Council, have been chaos at Loftus Road. QPR lost £23 million last year after embroiled in a bitter rent row with the Malaysian owner Tony Fernandes sanctioned a massive spending 1987 FA Cup winners. This has resulted in spree by both Redknapp and his predecessor Mark Hughes that City agreeing a groundshare with backfired when many of the big-name arrivals failed to live up to Northampton Town 33 miles away for CONVENTRY: A worker cleans the seats at the city of Coventry stadium, in their lofty reputations. the 2013-14 season. The move was not Coventry, England, ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics. — AP Even taking into account the parachute payments due to well received by fans, as only about 200 clubs relegated from the Premier League, QPR can ill-afford to have reportedly bought season tickets. In Agreement has been rejected by Arena to go through the next steps for the spend long outside the top-flight. It would help Redknapp’s the wake of the failure to reach a deal on Coventry Limited. “It means CCFC Ltd is football club.” Coventry, relegated to cause if he could off-load disaffected flops like Joey Barton, Adel a CVA, Coventry City will now meet the likely to be put into liquidation which is third-tier League 1 for the first time in Taarabt, Luke Young and Samba Diakite, as well as wantaway Football League to discuss their future. expected to result in a points penalty for almost half a century in 2012, finished in duo Remy and Cesar. A statement on the club’s website the club going into the new season. mid-table last season. They open the “We need to make changes and shift some players,” said Redknapp, who bolstered his squad by signing prolific striker ccfc.co.uk said: “It is with great regret “The club will hold urgent meetings 2013-2014 campaign against Crawley that a proposed Company Voluntary Charlie Austin from Burnley in midweek. “We need to change the with the Football League this afternoon Town today. — AFP whole attitude, really, at the club, and the only way we can do that is to bring in some new players, the right type of lads who CAF CONFEDERATION CUP PREVIEW will appreciate being at QPR. “There are a few here who have got the wrong attitude and that’s the problem. If they want to move Mazembe’s Samata targets more goals I’m happy to move any of them.” Nostalgia is to the fore in the opening round of fixtures in the Championship and League One and Two as the Football League celebrate 125 years. JOHANNESBURG: TP Mazembe striker Mbwana Samata hopes to can also call on stars from Ghana, Mali, Uganda and Zambia as well Burnley’s lunchtime kick-off against Bolton on Saturday is one continue his goal-a-game CAF Confederation Cup run this week- as many from DR Congo. Among the Zambians are 2012 Africa of six fixtures given ‘anniversary status’ as they are both founder end. The Democratic Republic of Congo club, favorites to win the Cup of Nations winners Stoppila Sunzu, Rainford Kalaba and members of the Football League from way back in 1888. The second-tier African club championship, host Moroccans FUS Rabat Nathan Sinkala. The match is a repeat of the 2011 African Super anniversary celebrations start on Friday when Sheffield United, in Lubumbashi. And the Group B matchday 2 fixture offers Cup game, a one-off between the Champions League and whose Bramall Lane stadium is the league’s oldest ground, host Tanzania-born Samata, 21, a chance to increase his three-goal haul Confederation Cup title-holders. Mazembe were taken to the wire Notts County, England’s oldest professional club, in League One. He scored in both legs of a play-off triumph over Liga Muculmana at home in that encounter, winning 9-8 on penalties after 120 goal- Back in the Championship, Wigan are under new management as of Mozambique after Mazembe dropped down following a CAF less minutes. But the Congolese are expected to do better at their they look to beat QPR in the race for an immediate return to the Champions League loss. new stadium in the southern mining city-a 25,000 seater with an Premier League. Samata was on target again away to Entente Setif of Algeria in artificial pitch. Home advantage makes Bizertin slight favorites Wigan finished last term in bittersweet fashion, winning the matchday 1 two weeks ago, but it was not enough to deliver maxi- over Setif in a clash of clubs who conquered Africa 25 years ago. FA Cup with a shock 1-0 win over Manchester City and then mum points. Setif levelled almost immediately for a 1-1 draw, and Setif recovered from a first-leg loss to crush Iwuanyanwu slumping to relegation just days later after a defeat at Arsenal. the other group game between FUS and Tunisian visitors CA Nationale-now Heartland — 4-1 overall and lift the African However, Owen Coyle, appointed as manager after Roberto Martinez departed for Everton at the end of the season, led Bizertin produced an identical score. The results earned each club Champions Cup. Bizertin also faced Nigerian opposition, edging Burnley to promotion from the Championship in 2009 and he one point ahead of the second series of fixtures with Bizertin at Ranchers Bees 1-0 over two legs in the African Cup Winners Cup expects a concerted challenge with the Latics. “It was a blow to home to Setif in the other. decider. Saint George of Ethiopia and CS Sfaxien of Tunisia are lose their Premier League status last year but we’ve got to do is Samata is part of a large foreign contingent with the Congolese away in Group A after making winning starts two weeks ago.Omod take them back as quickly as possible,” said Coyle ahead of ‘Ravens’ that includes fellow Tanzanian goal poacher Thomas Okury and Fitsum Gebrmariam scored the early and late goals as today’s opener at Barnsley. —AFP Ulimwengu. Recently appointed French coach Patrice Carteron George defeated Stade Malien of Mali 2-0 in Addis Ababa. —AFP Hungry Tiger roars at PGA SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 SATURDAY, SportsSports 46

GLENDALE: Angel Di Maria #22 of Real Madrid scores a first half goal past Todd Dunivant #2 and Leonardo #2 of the Los Angeles Galaxy during the International Champions Cup match at University of Phoenix Stadium on August 1, 2013 in Arizona. — AFP Real Madrid down Galaxy 3-1 Chelsea blank Inter in friendly

PHOENIX: French striker Karim Benzema scored twice in the sec- deliver it to Di Maria who slotted it past Rowe. Although he contin- from Oscar and Eden Hazard in the first half-hour, saw Chelsea ond half and Real Madrid coasted past the Los Angeles Galaxy 3-1 ued to test the Galaxy keeper, Ronaldo didn’t score. He departed book a meeting with AC Milan on Sunday in New York in the Thursday in the International Champions Cup friendly tourna- in the flurry of halftime substitutions that brought on Benzema, International Champions Cup friendly tournament. ment. Angel Di Maria also scored for Real, his 15th-minute goal who scored just six minutes after coming on. The event, which also features Everton, Juventus, Real Madrid, putting the Spanish giants on the path to a fourth win in as many Los Angeles were without Landon Donovan and Omar Valencia and the Los Angeles Galaxy, concludes in Miami on years over the two-time defending Major League Soccer champi- Gonzalez, who played on Wednesday in the MLS All-Star Game August 7. Chelsea had comfortably won all three of their matches ons. With the win, Real booked a clash with English Premiership against Italian club Roma, and without injured Robbie Keane. in a tour of Asia before arriving Stateside, but it was Inter who had club Everton in the winners’ bracket of the tournament on However, they managed to pull back a goal in the 63rd minute the first real chance on Thursday when Fredy Guarin unleashed a Saturday at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. when Villarreal settled an attempted clearance from Madrid’s volley on goal after 10 minutes only to see it sail just wide of the On the undercard at the home of baseball’s Dodgers, the penalty area, turned and fired a curling left-footed shot inside the post. However, the crowd of 41,983 at Lucas Oil Stadium, home of Galaxy-who had a spectacular goal from Jose Villarreal-will take on right post. Benzema restored Real’s two-goal edge in the 74th, the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, didn’t have to wait long for the first Italian side Juventus in the consolation bracket. The tournament, heading in a cross from Di Maria. goal. Chelsea took the lead in the 12th minute as Nigeria’s Victor which also features Chelsea, Inter Milan, AC Milan and Valencia Moses broke through to the edge of the penalty area and passed concludes in Miami on August 7. Real Madrid took charge from the CHELSEA TOP INTER to Oscar, who curled a superb shot past Samir Handanovic and start, and the Galaxy couldn’t match their speed and skill. In another development, Chelsea passed their toughest test into the upper corner of the net. Cristiano Ronaldo hit the crossbar with a header in the sixth since Jose Mourinho returned as manager, posting a 2-0 friendly Rodrigo Palacio tried to level things with a long-range shot minute, and less than two minutes later Denis Cheryshev’s shot win Thursday over Inter Milan, the team Mourhinho guided to the deflected off John Terry, forcing Petr Cech to make a one-handed was saved by Galaxy keeper Brian Rowe. Real Madrid went ahead 2010 Champions League crown. Mourinho, who managed Chelsea grab. However, Inter would get no closer the rest of the night. in the 15th when Francisco Alcaron launched a ball from deep in from 2004-07, returned to Chelsea in June after managing Spain’s Chelsea doubled their advantage in controversial circumstances in his own half and found Ronaldo, who eluded three defenders to Real Madrid the past two seasons. The victory, courtesy of goals the 28th minute. —Agencies