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Four complaints were made to the
Immigration Advisers Authority against
Artika Archina Devi for her conduct as
an immigration advisor in 2009 and 2010.
Devi misled her clients into believing
they had secured work permits, student
visas and a teachers registration by
failing to provide them with the correct
information and documentation, the
Immigration Advisers Complaints and
Disciplinary Tribunal said.
She had told one couple that they had
secured jobs at a Marlborough vineyard
but when the couple arrived they
discovered the jobs didnt exist.
They looked for jobs elsewhere but
were told by a number of vineyards that
there was little work available and their
licenses to employ seasonal workers
under the relevant policy were about to
expire.
Brendon and Vanessa Barry and their
three dependent children were forced to
live in a tent. They were essentially put
into the position of being homeless, the
tribunals decision said.
The incident occurred in 2009 and a
decision was made by the tribunal on
September 5.
The complainants and their three
dependent children suffered financial
hardship as a result of relying on
the advisers conduct. That was the
result of relocating in reliance on the
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Immigration advisor ordered to pay $35,000
permits and work and having to meet
travel and accommodation costs, the
decision said.
The advisers conduct has been at best
reckless. She presented an employment
contract to vulnerable migrants, and had
her clients execute it.
The Manukau-based adviser was ordered
to pay $16,789 to the family, including
refunding $3,400 they had paid her in
fees, $1,076 in travel costs, $2,513 for
accommodation and $9,800 for income.
Devi was ordered to pay a total of $35,000
to four unrelated complainants.
The other complainants include Maureen
Raj Singh, who spent weeks waiting to
hear back from Devi after paying her more
than $2000 in fees. Singh complained
about the lack of communication,
documentation and management of her
case.
Rozina Rozmeen Nishas application
for residency was being handled by
Devi and the immigration adviser was
also contracted to apply to the Teachers
Council on Rozinas behalf. Devi failed
to tell Nisha that the application had been
declined.
Zaim Zamil Nabi also complained
about Devi after he discovered his visa
had expired while he was still in the
country. The Tribunal ruled that Devi had
failed to provide advice to Nabi on the
consequences of not having a visa.
The tribunal ruled that Devi caused
serious harm through incompetence
and failing to provide adequate advice,
failed to fulfill a professional engagement
and her behaviour was inexcusable and
delinquent.
Devi was the director at Universal
Immigration Services NZ Ltd, formerly
known as Fast Track Immigration
Services Limited and Sunita Immigration
and Employment Services Limited.
She has now had her license cancelled
and is banned from reapplying for a full
license for two years.
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Fiji will be introducing a race-free
electoral system to lead the country
forward towards 2014 general elections
says Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe
Bainimarama.
Speaking during the high-level meeting
of the General Assembly in New York to
commemorate the tenth anniversary of
the adoption of the Durban Declaration
and Programme of Action Commodore
Bainimarama said race based electoral
system have clearly divided the people
of Fiji over the years.
We are removing electoral provisions
that were based on race and Ior the frst
time our people will have common and
equal suffrage, he said.
Commodore Bainimarama said his
government has rejected special
measures based on race, particularly
those that suppress the rights and dignity
of the people.
In order to achieve our aspirations,
my government has now put in place
appropriate laws and policies that
reject racial discrimination in all its
manifestations, he said.
Commodore Bainimarama reiterated
electoral system and the education
system are two areas under which Fiji
has had reservations listed under the
Convention (ICERD).
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Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe
Bainimarama meets with the owners
of Gibson Guitars, David Berryman and
Henry Juskiewicz, in USA
The Prime Minister, Commodore Voreqe
Bainimarama heard frst-hand Irom the
management of Gibson Guitars that Fiji
mahogany is of the highest quality in the
world.
In recognition of this, its custom-made
guitars are made of 100 per cent Fiji
mahogany.
The Prime Minister visited Nashville,
Tennessee and toured the factory of Gibson
Guitar Corporation.
In his meeting with the management,
Gibson Guitars expressed its eagerness to
expand its import of Fiji mahogany to the
United States and to its factories around
Asia.
Commodore Bainimarama commended the
business that Gibson Guitars had provided
Fiji.
He assured the company of the
Governments readiness to increase its
export of mahogany in a way that ensures
sustainability especially for the Fijian
FIjI mAhogAny the beSt
landowners.
During the tour of the factory, he said
that he was fascinated by the way Gibson
Guitars have turned Fijian mahogany into
guitars that are serenading the whole world.
Gibson Guitars currently imports Fiji
mahogany from its milling operations in
Nakaulevu in the Navua district of Fiji.
The Prime Minister is seeking greater
value-added processing of mahogany in
Fiji prior to export.
Gibson Guitars, one of the worlds largest
and most prestigious producers of guitars
and pianos, sources mahogany for its
guitars from Fiji.
Commodore Bainimarama is in the United
States this week to attend the General
Debate at the United Nations 66th Session.
He is also undertaking visits to Tennessee,
Connecticut and Florida for meetings
with US corporations who have
expressed interest in trade and investment
opportunities in Fiji.
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Fiji has fnally opened its gateway to the
Asian market with the pure intention to attract
more Asian investment into the country.
And with Asian countries proving to
be Fijis best buddies, Investment Fiji
launched its website in Mandarin, Japanese
and Korean languages.
OIfciating at the launch Acting Prime
Minister and Minister for Trade Aiyaz
Sayed-Khaiyum said the Japanese, Chinese
and Korean economies offer enormous
opportunities to Fiji.
Sayed-Khaiyum said the launch of the
website in three different languages
shows increasing feasibility and removes
misinformation regarding investment
opportunities in Fiji.
The information translated in the
three languages provides information
opportunities available, steps of registering
businesses and export related information.
Investment Fiji deputy chairman Jitoko
Tikolevu said the launch of the website
in three different languages is a giant step
in building Fijis communication linkages
necessary to ensure Asian community
receives wanted information at the right
place, on time and in the language they
understand.
Our overreaching goal is to empower our
non-English speaking nations when it comes
to capturing investments into our country
by delivering to them an information base
on investment opportunities in Fiji as an
investment destination, he said.
Tikolevu said they are determined to make
a difference to potential Asian investors
and fervently believe it is possible for new
opportunities to integrate with the local
community.
Investment Fiji website currently has
218 approved investors and 66 approved
exporters registered.
From January 2011 till September 20 it
had 30,373 visitors from 169 countries
including 1,249 from China, 313 from
Japan and 147 from South Korea.
Given my governments priorities and
commitment on these issues, Fiji will be
closely examining these reservations with
a view to removing them.
He believes examining the reservations
would provide the institutional
commitment to ensure the recognition,
justice and development for victims of
racial discrimination.
As noted ten years ago in the
Durban Declaration, racism and racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance constitute a negation of the
purposes and principles of the United
Nations, and with national action by all, we
can contribute to eliminate the scourge,
Commodore Bainimarama said.
He also urged all states to exert concerted
efforts towards achieving this goal.
Fiji looks forward to working with the
international community through the
Convention and the Durban Declaration
in the efforts to eliminate racism,
Commodore Bainimarama said.
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DEFENCE Minister Joketani Cokanasiga
has met Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov, in the margins of the 66th
session of the UN General Assembly in
New York.
A statement said the meeting provided an
opportunity for Fiji to thank Azerbaijan for
the fnancial support given towards Fiji`s
UN Guard Unit (UNGU) in Iraq in May.
The Government of Azerbaijan gave
$US25,000 ($F44,964) to the Fiji
Government to cover the cost of R&R
facilities for Fijis UNGU personnel. The
ministers gave lengthy consideration to the
possibility of further Azerbaijan funding
assistance to UNGU.
Mr Cokanasiga was able to formally
advise the Azerbaijan minister that the
Government here had decided to support
the candidature of Azerbaijan for the
Eastern European seat on the UN Security
Council to be contested on October 13 in
the UN General Assembly.
Mr Cokanasiga was accompanied to the
meeting by Ambassador Peter Thomson,
Fijis permanent representative to the UN.
More than 700 students of three schools in the
Western and the Central division will have a
reason to smile as they will soon receive new
computers, furniture and walkways.
The Canada Fund in the Pacifc Program
has provided a total of $25,000 to address
the immediate needs of school and uplift
the standard educational services provided
to the children.
The project facilitated by Fiji Council of
Social Services National Volunteer Centre
will provide Balata High School, Nadi Special
School and Nakasi High School with fnancial
assistance for procurement of resources.
Project OIfcer, Neil Maharaj said that the
schools have very frm budget which does
not allow much development in such areas
and stepping in of Canada fund has solved
some of this challenges.
PRIMARY schoolchildren nationwide
have been invited by Save the Children
to participate in its 2012 calendar design
drawing competition.
Save the Children chief executive Chandra
Shekhar said a calendar is produced
annually and instead of using camera
photographs, the organisation would use
drawings done by children.
The 12-page calendar is distributed to
corporate, Government, international and
local community members.
Mr Shekhar has requested heads of schools
and teachers to encourage and guide their
students to submit their drawings on white
photocopy paper before October 21.
Each drawing used in the calendar design
will be awarded $25 as prize money, he
said. The theme for next years calendar
is Protect child from violence, corporal
punishment and all other forms of abuse.
AS many as 40 people of different
ethnicities and denominations rocked up
Ior the three-day Pasifka Voices open
audition which ended yesterday.
Head of Performing Arts at the University
oI the South Pacifc Igelese Ete said the
audition included a stream of interested
artists from Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa and
Germany.
There was a cross-section of those who
came from the Bahai and Hindu faiths
in what promises to be an all-embracing
choir.
And 70 per cent of participants said
they learnt about the auditions through
Facebook a social network website.
Pasifka Voices has secured an oIfce which
operates out of USP.
Government and the Vatukoula Gold
Mine (VGML) announced trustees
would be established to open an
account to receive the first payment of
the $6 million VGML commitment for
workers of the mine made redundant
in 2006.
Permanent Secretary for Lands and
Mineral Resources Filimone Kau said the
frst payment would be to the amount oI
$1.5million and would be made over the
next three months.
The balance of the $6 million dollars will
be paid annually over the next fve years,
said Kau.
He said the trustees committee would be
chaired by the Permanent Secretary for
Lands and Mineral Resources.
The trustees will be tasked with
identifying and implementing assistance
that will be sustainable and will have long
lasting impact on the redundant workers,
said Kau.
He said though the payment was good
news for the redundant workers, it
would still not be able to change the
circumstances of the past.
General Manager of VGML David
Whittle said the mine would work to
ensure a transparent outcome of the
payments.
The audition is an opportunity for those
with the passion to sing and the ability to
do the same, Ete said.
Auditions served the purpose of regrouping
Pasifka Voices Ior productions and
concerts in the year ahead, he said.
Its open to the community no longer
confned to just those at USP, Pasifka
Voices music director Eroni Dina said.
People between the ages of 1835 years old
turned up to try out their vocals, he said.
Some of them said they were so inspired
by our performance during the Malanga
Production last year that they wanted to
enter. For us, it means we have to be better
than our best this time, Dina said.
The Malanga Production will feature in
Suva in December.
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MEMBERS of the public have the
opportunity to invest in the teak industry by
buying Future Forests (Fiji) Ltd shares.
The initial public offering, which was launched
on Wednesday will close on October 28 and is
being managed by Kontiki Stockbroking Ltd.
A statement from KSB said the investment
opportunity allowed investors to choose
between two instruments shares at $0.80
and converting notes (Notes) at a $1.
Notes pay a 7.5 per cent per annum. Interest
rate Ior up to fve years beIore converting
into shares on a 1:1 basis, the statement said.
Note holders also have the option of
converting their notes into shares earlier
than fve years. Both oI the instruments
will be listed on the South Pacifc Stock
Exchange once the offer closes.
Fisheries and Forests permanent secretary
Commander Viliame Naupoto praised FFFs
perseverance in developing the project and
plantation forests over the last six years.
Plantation forests, he said, were potentially a
big step towards building a better Fiji for all.
FFF chairman Kaliopate Tavola, speaking in a
podcast from abroad, said that while FFF was
focused on maintaining world-class operations
and commercial success, the company also
saw a wider role in the community.
He emphasized how establishing teak in
rural areas gave rise to rural development,
employment and entrepreneurship, and
also brings cohesion to rural communities.
This, he said was a very direct way of
addressing poverty alleviation.
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A bilateral meeting was
held between the Republics
of Singapore and Fiji in
the margins of the United
Nations (UN) General
Assembly in New York.
Representing Singapore was
K Shanmugam, the Minister
for Foreign Affairs and Law,
while Fiji was represented
by the Minister for Defence
Joketani Cokanasiga.
Mr Cokanasiga expressed
Fijis desire to work closely
with the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) and in this regard
reiterated Fijis request for
observer status at ASEAN.
Mr Shanmugam welcomed Fijis greater
attention to ASEAN and reported that
the request for observer status was being
considered at official level along with
other applications for ASEAN observer
status.
The Ministers acknowledged the news
that the recently-opened Fiji Embassy
in Jakarta would be cross-accredited
to represent Fiji in Singapore. Fiji is
Former Fiji residents living in new zealand
are trying to improve relations between the
new zealand and Fijian government.
Known as the Friends of Fiji the group
has organised a dinner featuring New
Zealands ACT Party leader Dr Don Brash
as the key speaker.
Dr Brash recently aired his support of the
Peoples Charter saying Fijis roadmap
to democracy is legitimate and should be
supported.
A spokesperson for the group Surendra
Sharma says productive dialogue is the
way forward.
We feel that we should bring a little more
awareness of the importance of maintaining a
relationship with Fiji and the current impasse
that we have and the attitude of the current
government in New Zealand towards Fiji
in not engaging in a constructive way is
something that we feel we should bring to a
wider audience. So we had some discussion
with the ACT Party leader, Dr Don Brash. He
does feel that New Zealand should engage in
a more productive way with Fiji and this is an
area wed like to explore further.
Sharma says although they are now
residents of New Zealand they still have
strong ties to their country of birth.
Mobile phone retailer Valuefone opened
a new outlet in Suva, specifically for
Information Communication Technology
(ICT), complete with a mobile phone
repair-while-you-wait counter.
The outlet, adjacent to the new Valuefone
shop on Waimanu Road, will stock
some of the latest ICT must-haves and
accessories at affordable prices including
genuine Hewlett Packard (HP) and Acer
laptops. The new outlet also boasts a full
service mobile phone repair center which
includes an express service counter where
customers can wait while their phones are
being repaired.
Valuefone director Kevin Yuen said, One
of things which sets us apart is we will
have discounted prices on repairs and
servicing of phones in order to better serve
our customers.
Our new motto, Service First First
in Service will be our main objective;
satisfying every customer with the best
service levels, he said.
Valuefone first opened its doors in 2000
with a modest phone repair and sales shop
at the corner of Stewart and Mark Street
in Suva. The company has grown and now
has six outlets including one in Savusavu.
This new shop underscores our
understanding of the needs of the
consumer. Our initial vision has changed
with the times and now includes IT and
internet connectivity services.
We now have all of our services under
one roof in a bigger and better location and
we believe it also shows our commitment
and belief that the economy will keep on
improving and things will get better for Fiji
and its people, Mr Yuen said.
The new Valuefone outlet opened with
special giveaways which included free
Flashnets, laptop bags, mouse and gifts
upon purchase of a laptop computer.
currently represented in Singapore by
cross-accreditation from the Fiji High
Commission in Canberra.
Mr Cokanasiga thanked the Singaporean
Government for the leadership it provided
for small states at the United Nations by
its forming and administering the Forum
of Small States (FOSS).
The Fiji Mission to the UN is an active
member of FOSS.
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has raked in approximately $300 million
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Fiji chief executive Ravuni Uluilakeba.
He said the fgures are Irom the last seven
months up to July.
Uluilakeba said the government is targeting
more than $600 million for the remaining
of the year as Asian investors continue to
show interest in investing in Fiji.
And with Investment Fijis new website
launched in Korean, Japanese and Mandarin
languages, more investors are expected to
show interest meaning more money to the
coffers of the Fijian government.
Uluilakeba said for the Asian markets they
are targeting potential investors in areas of
tourism and agriculture.
He said Asian countries are not the only
countries they targeting but there are plans
to get investors focking in Irom India as
well.
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Australia and New Zealand should listen to
the opinions of the Fiji Government instead
of distancing themselves totally.
This is the belief of the Chinese government
in light of the two countries stand against
Fiji and her leadership.
Chinas Ministry of Foreign Affairs
deputy director general of the Information
Department Hong Lei said to the reporter
in Beijing.
He said dialogue was what was needed
between the countries.
The opinions of the Fiji Government
should also be considered by the two
countries, Mr Hong said.
More dialogue is needed instead of totally
shutting out Fiji.
Australia and New Zealand have tried to
isolate Fiji internationally and imposed
so-called smart sanctions. China,
however, has played an important assisting
role to the Fijian Government; directing
assistance after aid was withdrawn by
Australia and New Zealand.
Mr Hong said China stood ready to cater
for Fijis needs in the trade market.
He said the fast-growing economy of China
and her market value were something Fiji
should take advantage of and Fiji should
grasp these opportunities.
A Rarawai man is admitted at the Lautoka
Hospital Intensive Care Unit following an
accident in Ba early Tuesday morning.
Police spokesman Inspector Atunaisa
Sokomuri said the victim Parduman, 48,
was driving along Bas Main Street when
he collided with another private vehicle
driven from a side road by Agha Khan at
5.45 am.
Sokomuri said accidents could be avoided
if drivers were more careful and respectful
of other road users.
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Former Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji
and Airports Fiji Limited staff who worked
at the Nadi International Airport since its
inception in 1939 will have their three-day
reunion next week.
Planning committee member, Bobby
Tikaram said the reunion would be a great
place for those who had left our shores for
greener pastures to return and witness the
major developments that have taken shape
over the years at the airport.
The idea of the reunion for all former
Nadi Airport staff was brought about by
some former staff who currently resides in
Brisbane, Australia, Mr Tikaram said.
The members included Emmanuel
Yakub, who is now residing in
A fre that completely destroyed a 13-seater
minibus in Nabua was caused by a short
circuit in the battery terminal of the vehicle.
According to the National Fire Authority
(NFA), passengers in the minibus
saw smoke coming out of the battery
compartment and informed the driver
while en route to Suva from Nausori.
The driver then stopped the mini bus and
guided the passengers out of the vehicle.
A 39 year old woman of Suva who
allegedly stole over $29,000 from a trust
fund last year was told to surrender her
travel documents by the Suva Magistrates
Court.
Sela Saunikalou is charged with 104 counts
larceny, forgery, uttering forged documents
Auckland, New Zealand, Feroze Khan,
Vidya Sharma, Abdul Aziz, Ahmed,
Shaukat Ali and Praveen Singh from
Brisbane Australia and Bobby Tikaram
from Fiji.
Norman Yee, who held the chief executive
oIfcer post Ior CAAF and AFL, will be the
chief guest during the event, schedule for
September 30.
The welcoming cocktail will be held
on Friday, September 30 at the CAAF
headquarters, in Namaka, Nadi with the
grand gala night dinner taking place at the
Novotel Hotel on Saturday, October 1.
The farewell barbeque lunch will be held
at the Nadi Airport Golf Club in Wailoaloa,
Nadi, on Sunday, October 2.
koreA SIgnS deAl
THE Korean Government and the Pacific
Islands Forum Secretariat have signed
a Memorandum of Understanding for
the new Korea-PIF Co-operation Fund
(KPCF) Project.
According to a statement, the project will
be implemented with a grant of no less
than $US300,000 ($F539,568) annually
from 2011 to 2013 for the implementation
of primary health care training for Pacific
Island countries.
The project will be managed by the
Forum Secretariat and the primary health
care training will be implemented by the
College of Medicine, Nursing and Health
Sciences of the Fiji National University,
in co-operation with Seoul National
University Hospital.
The first training is expected to start next
month, focusing on non-communicable
diseases.
Korean Ambassador Cheong Hae-wook
reaffirmed his governments commitment
to an increase of annual contribution to
the project and to the continued support of
capacity-building activities of forum island
countries, especially in the areas of health
and education.
The Korean government has been annually
contributing $US300,000 ($F539,568.35)
to the KPCF for the capacity-building of
the PICs since 2009.
It has been announced, during the First
Korea-Pacific Islands foreign ministers
meeting held in Seoul on May 31, that the
Korean government would increase the
KPCF to $US1million ($F1.79m) annually
to expand the scope of project.
and obtaining money on false documents.
She allegedly committed the offence
while she was employed by a Chartered
Accountant frm.
Saunikalou has been released on $5,000
bail and ordered to report at Nasinu Police
station every Saturday.
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BANK of Baroda opened its 10th ATM at
Tappoo City in Suva.
Chief executive Pabitra Kumar Das said
the bank was aiming to have another five
automated teller machines by the end of
the year.
The latest ATM was launched by the Indian
High Commissioner Vinod Kumar.
Mr Das said the bank was now looking
forward to linking with other banks in the
country.
Soon, our customers would be able to use
BSP ATMs or EFTPOS machines across
the country.
Mr Das said their ATMs are expected to be
located in Savusavu, Ba and Lautoka.
Their Labasa ATM had been very
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THE Fiji regime says it is "bafed" by
claims by a former government minister
that he was tortured and forced to ee to
Australia.
Kenneth Zinck, Fiji's labour minister in the
deposed Qarase government, is in Brisbane
seeking protection.
The politician says he was beaten by
the military, and his car was chased by
balaclava-clad soldiers as he tried to leave
dressed in disguise.
But Fiji's Permanent Secretary of
Information, Sharon Smith Johns, says Mr
Zinck's claims are puzzling.
Mrs Mataikabara was until her new
appointment the Permanent Secretary
for Industry and Trade. She replaces Mr
Solo Mara who has been appointed Fijis
new High Commissioner to the United
Kingdom and Ireland which is accredited
to Denmark, Egypt, Israel, the Holy See
and Germany.
Mrs Mataikabara is no stranger to the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs having served in 2008
as the Director External Trade and Acting
Deputy Secretary/Ambassador at Large.
She has held other senior Government
positions including Chief Economic
Planning OIfcer (Policy Analysis Unit,
Prime Minister`s OIfce), Director
Development Services (Chief Economic
Planning OIfcer) in the Ministry oI
Provincial Development, Director Biofuel
(Ministry of Transport, Works & Energy),
Director Water Reform (Ministry of Works,
Transport and Public Utilities) etc.
Mrs Mataikabara was also the Senior
Economist (Domestic Economic Conditions)
at the Reserve Bank of Fiji in 1998.
She holds a Master of Science (MSc) in
International Trade and Finance from
Lancaster University in the United
Kingdom, a Postgraduate Diploma in
Management from Central Queensland
University, and a Bachelor of Arts
(BA)Double Majors Economics and
Management from USP.
Mrs Mataikabara has assumed her new
appointment as Permanent Secretary for
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
Meanwhile Mr Shaheen Ali is currently the
acting permanent secretary for the Ministry
of Industry and Trade.
the Investment Fiji website will now
have translations in the mandarin,
korean and japanese language.
Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says
the inclusion of the three new languages will
encourage more investment in the country.
China, as you know is the fastest growing
economy in the world which will provide
"The Government is completely baIfed,"
she told the reporter.
"There is no truth to what Kenneth is
saying. Its alarming people are fabricating
this sort of story. He has a reason why he's
doing this and the reason is known only to
him."
Mr Zinck is sticking to his claims,
however, saying Ms Smith Johns can check
with police as his daughter has lodged a
complaint for harassment and trespassing.
He has been a vocal critic of the military-
backed regime that has been in power since
a 2006 coup.
He told the reporter after arriving in
Australia that he has been beaten several
times in recent years.
"I have already been taken up to the camp
three times and tortured."
He says he decided to leave the country
when soldiers came to detain him again. "I
said, no. I'll make my escape."
Mr Zinck is the second high-profle person
from Fiji to seek asylum this year. High-
ranking military oIfcer Lieutenant Colonel
Ratu Tevita Mara escaped by boat and was
given sanctuary in Tonga.
enormous opportunities for us. Japanese
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& Trade, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum on the
revision of the price control list.
Speaking at a press conference, Aiyaz
Sayed Khaiyum announced the various
items that would be removed from the price
control list including masala tea, imported
sheep meat, ghee and Rewa products in the
wholesale area.
Clarifying prices on Rewa Dairy products,
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said that the retail
prices on Rewa Dairy or Fiji Dairy products
such as milk will remain.
In order to encourage the suppliers of milk
in the dairy industry, the price control on
The Fiji government is targeting potential
overseas investors for our local food
industries, in a bid to reduce its reliance on
imported foods.
Fijis Trade Commissioner to North
America, Jiten Singh made the comments
at a trade seminar at Holiday Inn for a
delegation from the United States (US).
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a lot more domestic production of food
items like rice, potatoes a variety of meat
products including dairy products, to
replace imported goods, said Singh.
He said the government was targeting
the sizeable investment interests in North
America to increase domestic production.
We have very large scale investments in
the US. What we want to do is, we want to
bring these guys down to Fiji to see if they
can invest in some of these industries to
increase domestic production to meet the
domestic demand.
Accordingly, Fijis Attorney General Aiyaz
Sayed-Khaiyum announced the removal
of five products from governments price
control scheme.
The five products are masala tea, imported
sheep meat, locally produced coconut oil,
ghee and the wholesale price of Fiji Dairy
Limited products.
THE main theatre block in the east wing of
the Colonial War Memorial Hospital will
be operational again in a month.
The Health Ministry has confirmed the
theatre block is being renovated at a cost
of $2million.
Ministry spokeswoman Priscilla Govind
said the theatres were being renovated
to Australian standards with appropriate
technology.
The renovations do not mean that surgical
procedures have ground to a standstill.
The ministry clarified four other operating
theatres were still running to ensure
patients are treated.
Ms Govind said the renovations were near
completion and the theatres would be fully
operational by next month.
Meanwhile, there have been delays caused
by the renovation.
Rajesh Sami paid $10,000 to the Suva
Private Hospital for his mothers operation
two months ago after she was put on a
waiting list at the CWMH.
Mr Sami said he had the money and he
wanted his mothers surgical procedure to
be over as soon as possible.
He said he hoped the upgraded theatre
would provide relief to those who need
such procedures but could not afford to
have it done privately.
reAlIty Show dAncerS wIn FIjI trIp
Two dancers from the American TV
reality show Dancing with the Stars
will be in the country soon after winning
a trip to Fiji at the 63rd Prime Time Emmy
Awards.
The two celebrity dancers, Ron Artest and
Melissa Joan Hart, won the best Celebrity
Gift where they won an 8 nights, $20,000
trip to Fiji for two people.
The Emmy Awards was held at the Nokia
Theatre in Los Angeles.
In previous years, Pure Fiji products were
offered at award ceremonies such as the
Emmy and Grammy Awards.
wholesale factory will be removed but there
will still be price control on retailing so
consumers will still be protected and at the
same time we will have in place a system
whereby Fiji Dairy will be able to respond
to global fluctuating prices, he said.
The Minister relayed that while Fijians
consumed 77 million liters of milk every
year, the dairy industry only produced 11
million liters of milk.
If milk prices change within a few weeks,
we want Fiji Dairy to have a level of
flexibility to be able to respond to these
prices and also give the farmers the ability
to get better pricing for milk.
The rationale behind the removal of non
essential items from the price control list
also indicates a continuous review by the
Commerce Commission in the market,
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Interests have been shown by some
companies in Canada, Bangladesh and
Australia to take up the tender Ior the
setting up oI the Electronic Voting System
that is scheduled to be set up by October
next year in line Ior the 2014 Elections.
Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
revealed this in Suva while giving 18
members oI the diplomatic corps a special
general elections brieIing. Mr Sayed-
Khaiyum said Government hoped to have
the interested companies submit their
tenders within six months as they worked
on staging successIul general elections by
2014.
'The members oI the diplomatic corps will
get back to us with regards to electronic
voter registration, he said. This was
highlighted in recent announcement
where Government is looking Ior tenders
Ior the electronic voting system and
had received interest Irom companies
in Canada, Bangladesh and Australia.
'This is a healthy number oI credible
companies, he said.
'For example, electronic voter registration
process was carried out in Gambia and
in only six weeks was able to register
869,000 voters.
'II we Iollow the benchmark oI
proIessional work we will promote
and achieve transparent, independent
government systems.
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum voiced Government`s
commitment to ensuring a credible and
successIul general election in 2014 with
the use oI the electronic voter registration
system as an important element.
Earthquakes in Fiji and the region can now be
well monitored with the modern earthquake
monitoring satellite station equipment now
situated at Dawasamu, Tailevu.
Acting manager Mineral Resources
Waseroma O`Connor said that this
Earthquake Monitoring Satellite Station,
which picks and transmits inIormation,
would be oI great assistance in
disseminating data to the public.
Cartons oI library books, novels, school
stationery, uniIorms, blankets, jerseys,
cardigans and assorted school items were
handed over to rural Lautoka schools
earlier last week.
The items were donated by Rotary Tasmania
who has been regularly donating school
equipments and items in recent years.
Divisional senior education oIIicer West
Lorima Voravora said Rotary Tasmania
had been donating hundreds oI computers
and other electrical and school machinery
to schools in the Western Division.
Mr Voravora said many schools in Lautoka
now had hundreds oI donated Iurniture
also Irom Veena Tilly and her team, who
had also constructed classrooms, libraries
and had reIurnished specialist rooms.
"Mrs Veena Tilly has been instrumental
with her Iamily in organising the collection
oI such items Irom Australia Ior Iree
donations to Lautoka schools.
"This year they assisted Drasa Secondary
School, Ami Chandra Memorial School and
a Iew other Lautoka schools by donating
Iurniture, computers and machinery Ior
vocational and technical subjects. The
Koroipita Village children who live in a new
Iast growing settlement in rural Lautoka are
also being assisted by the Rotary Tasmania."
'Transparency will leave no room Ior
maneuvering in terms oI Iraud, he said.
'We hope to have chosen something by
six months time. We have given no time
Irame to the members oI the diplomatic
corps whereby we will await their
response. But we will continue to carry
out our arrangements.
'Meanwhile, the meeting concluded
was a positive one Ior us and a Iorward
step. We hope to have a list oI the names
oI companies by January next year to
begin the Iinal work and by October to
have chosen a company and begin actual
preparations.
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said understanding
the need Ior greater dialogue among all
stakeholders was important and that was
the reason Ior the special brieIing.
'This equipment was pursued by the
government with the assistance oI the
Japan International Co-operation Agency
(JICA), Mr O`Connor said.
'It cost around FJ$100,000.
'Its main objective was to prepare the
public Ior improvement oI saIety and
security in the country within increasing
occurrence oI earthquakes.
Mr O`Connor said the equipment, which
is linked to the global networking system,
picks the occurrence oI earthquake beIore
transmitting it to the main station at Nabua,
Suva.
The system was built in 2002 but was upgraded
to international standards this year with the
assistance Irom the Japanese Government
through JICA and the Fijian Government.
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Kadavu and Yasawa.
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The Republic oI Benin and the Republic
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ceremony at the oIfce oI the Fiji Mission
to the United Nations in New York.
Strengthening ties
Fijis Permanent Representative to
the United Nations, Ambassador Peter
Thomson, and his Benin counterpart,
Ambassador Jean-Francis Zinsou after
establishing diplomatic relations in
New York.
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Fiji`s Permanent Representative to
the United Nations, Ambassador Peter
Thomson, and his Benin counterpart,
Ambassador Jean-Francis Zinsou,
signed a joint communique establishing
diplomatic relations between the two
countries.
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The Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe
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the United Nations General Assembly on
the occasion oI the High Level Meeting
on the prevention and control oI non-
communicable diseases (NCDs).
In his address the Prime Minister
highlighted the urgent need Ior action by
the international community to curb this
global health epidemic.
Commodore Bainimarama said that in
the Pacifc Islands, NCDs have been
declared a crisis requiring urgent action
in view oI the development and economic
implications oI NCDs.
He elaborated on Fiji`s NCD Strategic Plan
20102014 which targets both prevention
and control.
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to tackle NCDs could be enhanced by support
Irom relevant international organisations and
partners in the Iorm oI technical assistance,
transIer oI technology, capacity building and
access to high quality generic medicine.
Also participating in the two-day UN
High Level Meeting is the Minister Ior
Health, Dr Neil Sharma, and Fiji's National
Advisor on NCDs, Dr Isimeli Tukana.
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5 itEms to BE
rEmovEd From pricE
control list
Five Iood items will be completely taken
oII the price control list Irom next Monday.
Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
announced that items including masala
tea, imported sheep meat, locally produced
coconut oil, ghee and Rewa products in the
wholesale area will be taken oII the price
control list.
This is aIter a submission by the Commerce
Commission aIter the revision oI price
control items and changes in the market
structure.
Sayed-Khaiyum said these items are not
deemed essential and the removal is to
encourage local producers and Iarmers in
meeting the local demand.
However, he stressed the retail prices oI
Rewa products such as milk will remain
under price control.
Sayed-Khaiyum urged all retailers and
supermarkets to display the list oI price
controlled items Ior customers.
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survEy to
dEtErminE national
oral hEalth status
Bank launchEs its 91st atm
BANK oI South Pacifc launched its
91st automated teller machine (ATM) at
the newly-renovated Fiji Broadcasting
Corporation Limited building in Suva.
The ATM had been operating Irom late
last month and has been "conveniently
situated, especially Ior civil servants based
at Government Buildings", a statement
Irom the bank said.
The bank also held its second draw oI
"Switch, Swipe and Win" promotion
giving away $10,000 cash to 10 customers.
"Our aim through "Switch, Swipe and
Win" is to promote usage oI our electronic
banking channels. Every time a customer
perIorms an eligible banking transaction
on any BSP ATM, BSP EFTPOS terminal
or BSP SMS banking, he/she goes into a
draw to win $100,000 in cash prizes," BSP
country manager Kevin McCarthy said.
"Not only are we rewarding our existing
clients by providing this opportunity to
win great cash prizes, but we are also
inviting clients oI other banks to switch to
BSP and experience the great service that
we oIIer. Many clients have heard about
BSP and seen our vivid green branches,
ATMs and EFTPOS machines, but we
now want to encourage them to switch to
BSP."
BSP will oIIer six months Iee-Iree banking
to those customers who switch their main
account to BSP. The Iree Iees will include
all electronic transactions Iees. However
Iees will still apply Ior over the counter
transactions and services.
"II you have a loan with another bank,
bring that with you as well. There will be
no establishment Iee and no monthly Iees
Ior six months.
"All that we ask is that you must bring
your main account to BSP. This means
that this account must receive your main
source oI income, such as your salary," Mr
McCarthy added.
AIter being the frst to introduce SMS
banking in Fiji, BSP is preparing to launch
its Internet banking.
"We want to be the bank oI choice and lead
the Fiji market in innovative solutions and
campaigns," said Mr McCarthy.
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sElling
ButtEr piEcEs
is illEgal:
consumEr
council
the consumer council of Fiji has
claried that selling pieces of butter is
illegal and those caught doing so will be
prosecuted.
The clarifcation comes Iollowing reports
that numerous retail outlets had begun
selling pieces oI margarine.
Council oIfcer Seini Lagilagi says all items
sold to consumers must have proper labeling.
'According to the Food and SaIety
regulation 2009 under par 5 labeling rules
and packaging it is clearly stated there that
all pre package Iood should have proper
labeling, now when the traders are cutting
into halI which means they are giving halI
us halI inIormation and this should not be
the case.
The Council started receiving reports oI
pieces oI margarine being sold to make up
Ior the shortage oI Rewa Butter.
A number oI outlets have been dealt with.
We are urging the public to report to the
council iI they fnd anyone selling pieces oI
margarine.
A month long survey beginning will
determine Fiji`s Oral Health status in the
country with more than 6,000 individuals
to be selected Irom various parts oI the
country chosen to participate.
ChieI Dental OIfcer Dr Joan Lal relayed
this at a press conIerence held in Suva.
The survey which is a partnership program
between the Ministry oI Health and the
Fiji National University will see teams
dispatched to various islands including
urban centers to conduct the survey.
'OIfcers oI the Ministry oI Health and
the academic staII and students oI the Fiji
National University (College oI Medicine,
Nursing and Health Sciences) will be
jointly doing the survey; doing dental
checks and asking relevant questions, Dr
Lal said.
'There will be three teams conducting the
survey in Kadavu, Lau Islands, Ovalau,
Yasawa Islands, and Central & Coastal Viti
Levu and Vanua Levu to determine our
oral health status in all age groups, Dr Lal
said.
Dr Lal said results Irom the survey will be
used to map out strategies and policies to
address oral health issues in Fiji.
'The survey results and fndings will help
the Ministry oI Health, private dental
practitioners and relevant stakeholders
to determine the kind oI interventions
and treatments needed Ior our people,
she said.
Meanwhile, the last Oral Health survey was
conducted 2004 in which dental diseases
and periodontal diseases were identifed as
the major dental problems in Fiji.
ag, aiyaz sayEd-khaiyum
warns against signing dEals
ATTORNEY General and Minister Ior
Industry and Trade Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
warned against Fiji ratiIying or signing up
to trade agreements that did not beneIit the
country.
Speaking at the opening oI the Top
Executives ConIerence held at the SoIitel
Fiji Resort and Spa in Nadi last week, Mr
Sayed-Khaiyum said past government`s
were quick to sign up to regional and
international trade agreements without
carrying out a thorough investigation on
the merits oI doing so.
'II you go back, even Fiji`s hurried
agreement to sign up to the World Trade
Organisation when many other advanced
economies did not because oI the provisos
in signing up with WTO. Perhaps
governments in the past have been prone
to looking good in Iront oI the public
and the media to please the international
community at the expense oI being able
to control your own destiny to an extent-
whether it be tariII control or whether
it be incentives to direct businesses in a
particular direction, he said.
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said this government`s
commitment to encouraging regional and
international trade with the interest oI the
country put Iirst and Ioremost had clearly
been outlined in recent times.
'From Monday, the international trade arm
that exists in Foreign AIIairs will move
to the Ministry oI Industry and Trade
to provide the synergy that is critical in
terms oI whenever we have our own trade
oIIicials negotiating trade agreements or
discussing trade internationally, they need
to be Iirst and Ioremost, mindIul oI what
will the impact be in Fiji-Ior business
houses, Ior employment, Ior our ability to
grow our businesses, the AG said.
As part oI the move to improve trade relation
negotiations, Iormer deputy permanent
secretary oI Foreign AIIairs and International
Trade, Shaheen Ali, replaces Saipora
Mataikabara as the new PS Ior Industry and
Trade. Ms Mataikabara will assume a post at
the Ministry oI Foreign AIIairs.
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Friday September 23, 2011 Fiji Sun-Times V5 No42 Fiji News
produce and have a longer shelI-liIe.
'Trans Iats can be Iound in many Ioods
especially in Iried Ioods like French Iries
and doughnuts and baked goods including
pastries, pie crusts, biscuits, pizza dough,
cookies, crackers, and stick margarines
and vegetable shortenings, Dr Sharma
said
Dr Sharma said people should limit the
amount oI Trans Iats to less than 1 percent
oI their total daily calories.
The National Food and Nutrition Centre
(NFNC) says they are Iocusing on the
more general message 'Choose and
Prepare Iood and drinks with less salt,
sugar, Iat and oil, which is one oI the
10 key messages in the Food and Health
Guidelines Ior Fiji.
Manager NFNC, Mrs Jimaima Schultz
said their goal is to frst reduce the total
amount oI Iat consumed by the population
in Fiji.
'Trans-Iat is generally present in
processed Iood and we are working with
the Food Industry Ior them to reduce the
Iat content (which include trans-Iat) in
Iood products made locally, Mrs Schultz
said.
hEalth ministry cautions
Food manuFacturing
and procEssing industriEs
The Ministry oI Health issued a stern
warning to those in the Iood manuIacturing
and processing industry to reduce the salt
and sugar content in processed Iood.
The Minister Ior Health Dr Neil
Sharma said that despite the numerous
communications between his ministry
and various Iood manuIacturing and
processing companies on reducing sugar
and salt content, no eIIort has been taken
by the latter to heed these warnings.
'We are working tirelessly to get
stakeholders to reduce the input oI salt
and sugar in processed Iood but the
companies are not listening and we have
advised them iI they do not, they will Iace
the penalty," Dr Sharma said.
Dr Sharma said they have approached the
Iood industry stakeholders to reIormulate
and re-label their products adding that the
health ministry is targeting Trans Iat (or
Trans Iatty acids) produced Iood items
which is a major contributor to non-
communicable diseases (NCDs) in the
country.
The Health Minister said companies like
using Trans Iats in their Ioods because
they`re easy to use, inexpensive to
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FugitivE to BE
ExtraditEd to usa
lt col sEruiratu
appointEd ps
For provincial
dEvElopmEnt
United States Iugitive, Aneal Maharaj will
Iace the Iull brunt oI a U.S court system
Ior his alleged crimes aIter the Suva High
Court ruled he be sent back to America.
Maharaj was captured by Fiji`s
Transnational Crime Unit in 2009 aIter
feeing the United States Ior allegedly
deIrauding the Nevada State oI some US$9
million over a span oI 13 years.
The ex-businessman is wanted by the US
government Ior those alleged Iraudulent
crimes he committed between 1995 and
2008.
In its decision to send the 63-year-old back
to America, the high court ruled that the
alleged oIIences were wholly committed in
the U.S and the charges are brought under
a valid statue.
The court said like in the United States, these
oIIences, iI committed in Fiji, are punishable
by fne or imprisonment and not by death.
Maharaj is wanted Ior tax evasion and iI
Iound guilty could Iace a 20 to 30 year jail
term in the United States.
The Public Service Commission has
appointed Lt Colonel Inia Seruiratu as
the Permanent Secretary Ior Provincial
Development and National Disaster
Management.
The position was leIt vacant Iollowing
the appointment oI Manasa Vaniqi as the
Permanent Secretary Ior Sugar.
Chairman Ior Public Service Commission
JoseIa Serulagilagi said, the role is crucial
to government given the Iocus on rural
development.
Lt Colonel Inia Seruiratu
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Take a memo, bosses pay packets aren't
everything when it comes to keeping the
troops happy.
That is the Iinding oI an employment study
which also reveals that almost halI oI us
are looking to quit our jobs within a year
and only a third would recommend their
employer to others.
The Dream Employers Survey, carried
out by Insync Surveys and workplace
consultants RedBalloon, compared
responses Irom more than 7100 New
Zealand and Australian workers.
It produced some quirky Iindings, including
a general desire among workers, especially
Generation Xers, to work Ior celebrities.
The top three were Sir Richard Branson,
Donald Trump and Oprah WinIrey.
For New Zealanders, the top Iive "Dream
Employers" were Google, being selI-
New Zealand News
swarm oF EarthquakEs
hit christchurch
FostEr's BrEwErs worry
aBout thEir joBs
tEEn chargEd ovEr intErnEt vidEo thrEats
halF oF kiwi workErs want
to quit survEy
Flurries oI small but shallow aItershocks
have hit Christchurch Wednesday morning,
according to GNS Science.
The Iirst oI the Iour jolts came at 6.09am, a
magnitude 3.3 10km west oI Christchurch,
at a depth oI 7km.
It was Iollowed eight minutes later by a
magnitude 3.1, 10km west oI Christchurch
Foster's beer makers are worried about
their job security aIter Iinding out through
the media that the iconic Australian
company will be taken over by British-
based brewer SABMiller.
Foster's Group has backed a $12.3 billion
takeover bid by the global brewing giant
and say it will be good Ior local jobs and
the company's branding overseas.
About 250 beer makers at Foster's
AbbotsIord brewery in Melbourne
were not notiIied about the takeover
by management, but Iound out about
it through the media, said Jess Walsh,
Victorian secretary oI the United Voice
union.
She said staII is concerned about Ioreign
ownership oI the company and whether
the new owners will understand the
cultural and historical signiIicance oI the
brewery.
"The most important thing is that whoever
owns the company understands the
signiIicance oI the AbbotsIord brewery in
production but also culturally," Ms Walsh
said.
"It's where brands like Victoria Bitter have
been made Ior 100 years so their concern
An 18-year-old South Auckland man
has been charged aIter threatening the
government on YouTube.
The threats, which were made in a video
posted on the social media site, included
claims that explosives had been hidden in
New Zealand government buildings.
He also said that government and media
websites would be hacked.
Police believe the threats were an apparent
protest against the new Copyright
employed, Air New Zealand, Apple and
Kiwibank.
Google had competitive base pay, equity
and bonuses and last year gave a 10 per
cent pay rise to all its employees.
But it wasn't just the money workers liked
the internet giant also oIIered unique
rewards including massages, Iun oII-site
events and even sleep pods.
While pay, beneIits and conditions were the
top Iactors that made a "dream employer",
most respondents valued a good work-liIe
balance and work culture over salary.
RedBalloon Iounding director Naomi
Simson said the Iinding should give a
warning to companies that Iocused on
Iatter pay packets.
"Paying people Iairly is an absolute must,
but cash rewards don't inspire employee
loyalty," she said.
Studies had shown that non-monetary
incentives were more highly valued, and
were much more powerIul than cash in
boosting perIormance.
"The employee Ieel good generated by a
pay rise only lasts as long as it takes Ior the
extra cash to be swallowed by the mortgage
or credit card payment," Ms Simson said.
"Those who put all their eggs in the salary
basket will pay the price with higher staII
turnover rates, and reduced productivity
Irom disengaged staII."
Pay was the biggest draw card Ior men,
while a good workplace culture was more
important to women.
Asked what they most wanted to improve
about their workplace, employees' top
gripes were "systems and processes" (41
per cent), communication (39 per cent),
and rewards and recognition (38 per cent).
Only 40 per cent were happy in their job,
45 per cent were planning to look Ior
another within the next year, and only 33
per cent would recommend their employer.
Human Resources Institute oI New
Zealand national president Catherine
Taylor was not surprised by the Iindings,
having seen similar Iigures in other recent
reports.
She agreed employers needed to look
beyond salary iI they wanted to reduce
staII turnover.
"These days, you can deIinitely see Iar
more legwork being put into making
working hours Ilexible around employees."
Employers Chamber oI Commerce HR
consultant Debbie Yates said movie tickets
and dinner vouchers could be all that was
needed to reward good workers and ensure
they Ielt valued.
is that whoever owns the
company understands that
historical link.
"It may not necessarily
matter where the ownership
oI the company is located
but it does matter obviously
to the workers but also to
Australians where the beer
is produced."
She said there was no
indication as yet regarding job losses but
said the union would meet with staII and
management in coming days to ensure
job security at the brewery.
"Workers are understandably worried but
at the same time they're very conIident
in the work that they do down there and
they're the heart and soul oI the company,"
she said.
"They've been making those iconic brands
oI beer Ior generations down there and
they expect that SABMiller is going to
respect the contribution that they make."
Foster's chieI executive John Pollaers said
he believed SABMiller was committed to
doing "what's right" to keep the Foster's
workIorce in Australia.
"All I can say is that I had a very personal,
warm conversation with Graham Mackay,
the CEO oI SABMiller, the day beIore
last and he believes, as I do, in the Iuture
oI this business and in the people and the
importance oI this business to Australia,"
Mr Pollaers told the reporter.
But he would not be drawn on the
possibility oI Iuture job cuts.
"There will always be changes with an
event like this," he said.
(InIringing File Sharing) Amendment Act.
Acting detective inspector Pete Jones oI
Counties Manukau said police drew on
the expertise oI the National Cyber Crime
Centre (NC3) and the Electronic Crime
Laboratory to locate the man.
"Such threats are taken very seriously by
police and this investigation demonstrates
police have the expertise and resources to
trace those who make such threats on the
internet."
at a depth oI 8km.
At 6.21am, a magnitude 3.2 struck at a
depth oI 8km, Iollowed by a magnitude
2.8 at 5km deep a minute later, both 10km
southwest oI the city.
The swarm oI small tremors did not go
unnoticed by Cantabrians, who shared their
thoughts on social networking website Twitter.
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somarE losEs
lEgal Fight
paciFic islands
inFlation rEmains high
ovn Tv.i{. )c..
Papua New Guinea's Iormer Prime
Minister, Sir Michael Somare, has lost a
legal challenge in his battle to regain his
seat in Parliament.
INFLATION remained high and rising in
most oI the PaciIic countries but declined
in Tonga and Vanuatu, the ANZ PaciIic
Monthly economic update said.
"Both Timor-Leste's and Fiji's inIlation
readings remained above 10 per cent.
Papua New Guinea's approached double-
digits driven by Iood and Iuel prices
combined with strong domestic demand,
while the Solomon Islands' and Tonga's
tracked above 6.5 per cent. InIlation in
Samoa moved closer to 5.0 per cent in July
and was led by Iood and non alcoholic
beverages prices. Vanuatu alone continued
to enjoy low inIlation.
"Papua New Guinea hiked its policy
interest rate; Fiji and Vanuatu held their
rates steady. InIlation concerns saw PNG
authorities hike interest rates to 7.75 per
cent in September, up 0.75 per cent so Iar
this year, while Fiji and Vanuatu held their
rates at 1.50 per cent and 6.00 per cent,
respectively. Samoa's rates Iell slightly to
0.15 per cent in June Irom 0.18 per cent,
previously," the report said.
The report said trade Ilows generally
deteriorated in the region. Fiji and Papua
New Guinea recorded export growth oI
6.2 per cent and 18.3 per cent in the Iirst
quarter oI this year, both lower than the
previous period.
pEacE day in paciFic
marianas to rEviEw
us rElationship
solomons asks
australia to rEturn
illEgal workErs
auckland announcEs paciFic plans
The United Nations' International Peace
Day is about to dawn across the PaciIic
region, with plans to commemorate eIIorts
to end conIlict.
In 2002 the UN General Assembly
set September 21 as the permanent
International Day oI Peace to give
advocacy groups a day to work Ior peace.
In Solomon Islands, the Ministry oI National
Unity, Reconciliation will hold a three-day
dialogue Ior national peace stakeholders to
map the country's peace eIIorts and discuss
the national peace policy.
A special ceremony was to mark
International Peace Day.
In the Philippines, government Iorces are
to observe a one-day ceaseIire in their Iight
with a band oI insurgents.
In Fiji, UNDP interns Irom the University
oI the South PaciIic have produced short
video clips Ior YouTube Irom a Paint Ior
Peace Party during last month's Hibiscus
Festival in Suva.
Other events scheduled to mark the day in
Fiji and elsewhere in the PaciIic included
FemLINK PACIFIC activities and a
Citizens' Constitutional Forum.
A Northern Marianas commission will
investigate iI the island nation's political
relationship with the United States is still
in its best interest.
A covenant was signed by the two nations 35
years ago, establishing the Northern Mariana
Islands in political union with the US.
The PaciIic nation's House oI
Representatives passed a bill to allow
a commission to investigate iI another
political status would better suit the
Northern Marianas's aspirations Ior selI-
government.
The Solomon Islands Government has
asked the Australian government to send
home, without penalty, Solomon Islanders
who have been illegally staying in Australia.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Danny
Phillip made the request to the Australia
Prime Minister Julia Gillard during the
recent PaciIic Islands Forum in Auckland.
Press secretary David Tuhanuku told the
media that his nation is worried Australia's
detention centers may Irighten those who
have overstayed visas Irom trying to
return home.
"The prime minister had seen a situation
where people maybe they went through
some Iormal or some legal arrangement,
but then ended up having to overstay in
Australia and because oI that, they are scared
to approach the authorities and try to return
home, because they would be caught and,
oI course, in that situation, normally people
would be prosecuted," Mr Tuhanuku said.
But Mr Tuhanuku said there is no data on
how many Solomon Islanders may be in
Australia illegally.
"According to the prime minister, the
Australian prime minister was keen to see
what she could do to assist in that sort oI
situation." he said.
"But there are very Iew details available to
us and possibly the prime minister hopes
that inIormation or source oI inIormation
may be because they have some legal
issues and legal questions in relation to it.
"So I am not privy to any details oI how
many people are out there, when did they
go over to Australia except to say that some
oI them have been in that situation Ior the
past ten years."
Auckland is planning to
remain the city with the
world's largest Pacific
community under its new 30-
year plan.
Mayor Len Brown told the
reporter that New Zealand's
largest city is going to retain a
strong PaciIic identity.
It is already working closely
with several PaciIic nations on
trade and cultural links.
"The biggest PaciIic city in the
world, it's Iabulous, getting
more so every day," Mr Brown
said.
They mayor said planners are expecting
about a million people over the next 30
years to move into Auckland to liIt the
population to about 2.5 million.
Big families
PaciIic Islander people will be helping boost
the numbers. "The PaciIic community tends
to have big Iamilies, they love the loving,
so we've got big growth," Mr Brown said.
"We have a PaciIic population in Auckland
something like about 230,000-240,000, with
a little under halI being Samoan heritage
and then about 30,000 Irom Tonga and the
Cook Islands, 15,000 Irom Niue and then
the rest spread around the diIIerent sort oI
Melanesian and Micronesian communities".
Exports in the remaining economies also
contracted. Exports in Samoa declined
18 per cent in June because oI lower
shipments oI miscellaneous items and noni
Iruit. Timor-Leste's exports declined 60 per
cent because oI base eIIects.
Import growth in Papua New Guinea and
Tonga were positive at 3.3 per cent in the
Iirst quarter oI this year and 9.7 per cent
in July 2011, respectively. A Iall in non-
petroleum imports saw total imports in
Samoa decline 13.0 per cent in June, while
Vanuatu's imports declined 11.3 per cent
led by machinery and transport equipment.
Tourism and remittances recorded mixed
results. Australia, New Zealand and the US
continued to be the main source oI overall
tourist arrivals in Fiji, though arrivals
gained only 5.6 per cent in June compared
with a 15.5 per cent rise in May, while
Vanuatu's rebounded to 3.5 per cent in
June Irom a 6.2 per cent contraction in the
previous month.
Samoa's tourist arrivals continued to
contract, Ialling 4.0 per cent in June Irom a
5.0 per cent decline in the previous month.
Remittances in Samoa expanded 23 per
cent in June compared with a 14.0 per cent
gain in May, while Tonga's continued Iall,
contacting 5.9 per cent in July Irom a 7.0
per cent decline previously.
Former Papua New Guinean
Prime Minister Michael Somare
Auckland aims to continue as the city
with the Iargest Pacic community.
A man working in Australia under the
Pacic Work Scheme. The SoIomon IsIands
is concerned about workers overstaying
their visas.
Mr Brown said the relationship between
Auckland and the PaciIic will only get
stronger.
"We have Iour MOUs memorandums
oI understanding with Samoa, Tonga,
Cook Islands and Niue reIlecting that very
close social community and economic
relationship.
"Next year I'm planning a trade delegation
and cultural and political delegation to go
to those Iour countries, probably early July
to really lead the development oI economic
relationships, but also to really Iormalize
the relationship with all oI Auckland,
our united Auckland with those Iour pre-
eminent PaciIic nations," he said.
Earlier this month the speaker oI parliament
unceremoniously disqualiIied Sir Michael
as an MP Ior missing three consecutive
sittings.
He went to the National Court seeking
an injunction against his disqualiIication
while he challenged its legality. But Justice
Allen David dismissed the application.
He said many oI the issues raised in Sir
Michael's challenge were similar to those
in another case beIore the Supreme Court.
That case is challenging the constitutionality
oI Sir Michael's removal Irom the Prime
Minister's oIIice last month.
Outside court, his lawyer, Kerenga Kua,
said Sir Michael will appeal against the
decision.
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President Barack Obama has laid out a $3
trillion plan to cut US deIicits by raising
taxes on the rich, but Republicans rejected
it as a political stunt and made clear the
proposal has little chance oI becoming law.
Vowing to veto any plan that relies solely
on cutting spending to reduce deIicits, Mr
Obama's recommendations set the stage
Ior an ideological Iight with Republicans
opposed to tax increases.
"I will not support any plan that puts all the
burden oI closing our deIicit on ordinary
Americans," Mr Obama said.
"We are not going to have a one-sided
deal that hurts the Iolks who are most
vulnerable.
"This is not class warIare," he continued.
"It's math. The money is going to have to
come Irom some place."
Mr Obama's plan, which will be sent to
the "super committee" oI six Republicans
and six Democrats considering deIicit
reduction, proposes $US3 trillion in
savings over the next decade.
Roughly halI oI those savings come Irom
higher tax revenues.
That would include allowing tax breaks Ior
upper income Americans to expire at the
end oI 2012, capping popular deductions
Ior things like mortgage interest and
tax hikEs For rich in oBama's
$3 TRILLION SAVINGS PLAN
charitable donations, and closing corporate
tax loopholes.
His call to overhaul the US tax code
includes a "BuIIett Rule," named aIter
billionaire investor Warren BuIIett that
would set a minimum tax rate Ior people
earning more than $1 million a year.
The tax would only apply to a tiny minority
oI the millions oI Americans who Iile tax
returns, but White House aides said it
would set a standard oI Iairness.
Aggressive defense
Mr Obama's speech reIlected a more
aggressive deIense oI Democratic
principles aIter he took a battering in two
previous budget battles with Republicans
this year.
Most Americans say they are unhappy with
Mr Obama's economic leadership, and
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West Valley City Council, the second
largest city in Utah (USA), had its first
Hindu opening prayer on September 20.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed delivered
invocation Irom ancient Sanskrit
scriptures beIore the Council. He then
read the English translation oI the prayer.
Sanskrit is considered a sacred language
in Hinduism and root language oI Indo-
European languages.
Zed, who is the president oI Universal
Society oI Hinduism, recited Irom Rig-
Veda, the oldest scripture oI the world still in
common use, besides lines Irom Upanishads
and Bhagavad-Gita (Song oI the Lord), both
ancient Hindu scriptures.
He planned to start and end the prayer with
"Om", the mystical syllable containing the
universe, which in Hinduism is used to
introduce and conclude religious work.
Reciting Irom Brahadaranyakopanishad,
Zed said "Asato ma sad gamaya, Tamaso ma
jyotir gamaya, Mrtyor mamrtam gamaya",
which he was then translated as "Lead me
Irom the unreal to the Real, Lead me Irom
darkness to Light, and Lead me Irom death
to Immortality." Reciting Irom Bhagavad-
Gita, he proposes to urge Council members
to keep the welIare oI others always in mind.
Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion
oI the world, has about one billion adherents
and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.
A Nevada hunter was mauled to death
by a wounded grizzly bear after shooting
it near the Idaho border in Montana's
northwest.
OIIicials said 39-year-old Steve Stevenson
mistook the grizzly Ior a black bear when
he shot it.
The mature, 400-pound (181kg) male
grizzly took oII aIter being shot, but
attacked Stevenson when he attempted to
chase it. A man hunting with Stevenson
was eventually able to shoot the bear dead,
oIIicials said.
"There's no right way oI telling someone
how to pursue a wounded animal,"
Montana Fish, WildliIe and Parks oIIicial
John Fraley said.
"It's just that it's very dangerous, and in the
case oI a grizzly bear, very, very dangerous.
It's just very unIortunate that they thought
this animal was a black bear, and it turned
out to be a mature grizzly bear."
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has
proposed bailing out the United States
Postal Service, urging that it be allowed
to cut mail delivery to five days a week
and raise the price of postage.
He also proposed allowing the service
to get a $US6.9 billion reIund Irom an
overIunded pension Iund.
"Bold action is needed," Mr Obama
said. "The administration recognizes
the enormous value oI the US Postal
Service to the nation's commerce and
communications, as well as the urgent
need Ior reIorm to ensure its Iuture
viability."
Unless the government acts quickly, he
said, the service will be insolvent by the
end oI the month, when it will have used
up its cash reserves, will have reached its
government mandated borrowing limit oI
$US15 billion and will be unable to make
a required $US5.5 billion payment to its
retiree health program.
Mr Obama also proposed restructuring
the Postal Service's pension plan and
allowing it to sell non-postal goods to
bring in more money.
Tucked into his broader proposal to cut
Iederal budget deIicits, Mr Obama's
plan said the Postal Service is beset by
long-term problems brought on by the
recession and the loss oI mail services to
email.
Mail delivery has plummeted, with 43
billion Iewer pieces sent this year than
just Iour years ago.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe
has proposed closing hundreds oI post
oIIices and mail Iacilities and eliminating
Saturday mail delivery to save costs.
wEst vallEy city
council in utah to havE
its First hindu prayEr
huntEr maulEd to
dEath aFtEr chasing
woundEd grizzly BEar
in montana
oBama proposEs
postal sErvicE Bailout
his re-election hopes could hinge on his
ability to convince voters that Republicans
represent the rich, not the middle class.
Mr Obama repeatedly said all Americans
must pay their "Iair share" oI taxes, and
he sharpened the diIIerence between his
vision Ior America and that oI Republicans
in a speech meant to regain support among
core supporters who have accused him oI
Iailing to stick to liberal principles.
Republicans have consistently opposed
any measures resembling tax hikes, saying
they will hurt the struggling economy by
increasing the burden on job-creating
businesses. Republican leaders stuck to
that position on Monday, quickly rejecting
Mr Obama's plan.
"Veto threats, a massive tax hike, phantom
savings, and punting on entitlement reIorm
is not a recipe Ior economic or job growth,"
said Republican Senate leader Mitch
McConnell.
John Boehner, speaker oI the House oI
Representatives and the top Republican in
Congress, said Mr Obama Iailed to oIIer a
"serious" recommendation to the special
bipartisan congressional committee tasked
with Iinding at least $1.2 trillion in savings.
"Pitting one group oI Americans against
another is not leadership," he said.
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slumped in the back along Ior the ride,
police say.
They then returned to Jarrett`s home, carried
him in and put him in bed, according to
court papers.
From there, police say, Rubinson and
Young went to get gas and made a stop at a
burrito joint, again using Jarrett`s card. The
two men then went to a strip club, where
authorities say they used Jarrett`s card to
take out $400 Irom an ATM.
As the men leIt the Shotgun Willie`s strip
club parking lot, one told the valet and a
police oIIicer standing nearby that 'they
were driving around with a dead guy and
they didn`t know what to do with it and
they were just going to go home really Iast,
general manager Matthew DunaIon said.
Police went to Jarrett`s home and Iound the
body.
Police say Young told them Jarrett was
obviously dead while they were at the Iirst
stop oI the night.
The Denver District Attorney`s OIIice
said Young posted a $2,500 bond and is
scheduled to appear in Denver County
Court Ior a preliminary hearing on Sept. 27.
Rubinson posted a $3,500 bond and is
scheduled to appear in Denver County
Court on Oct. 4.
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A tourist is hospitalized in critical condition
aIter he Iell oII a trolley and was hit by a
car near a Honolulu shopping center.
It happened Monday aIternoon near the
Ala Moana Center, Hawaii`s largest mall.
Investigators say the 58-year-old man was
standing in the trolley and not holding on to
anything. He Iell when the trolley turned.
The man was treated by paramedics at
the scene and then taken to The Queen`s
Medical Center.
Hawaii tourist falls off
trolley gets Hit by car
2 accused of running up
tab on corpses atM card
Two men are accused oI engaging in a
disturbing re-enactment oI the movie
'Weekend at Bernie`s aIter authorities
say they drove around town with a dead
Iriend in the car, running up a bar tab on his
account and eventually using his ATM card
to withdraw $400 at a strip club.
Robert Young, 43, and Mark Rubinson, 25,
have been charged with abusing a corpse,
identity theIt and criminal impersonation.
It`s unclear how JeIIrey Jarrett, 43, died, but
the men are not charged in his death. The
coroner said toxicology tests were pending.
Young and Rubinson are Iree on bond but
couldn`t be reached Ior comment last Friday.
In the 1989 Hollywood comedy, two ne`er-
do-wells Iind their boss dead at his ritzy
beachIront home and escort his body around
town, attempting to save the weekend oI
luxury they had planned.
In Denver last month, according to a police
aIIidavit that gives an account oI a story
Iirst reported by the Denver Post), Young
arrived at Jarrett`s home and Iound him
unresponsive.
But rather than call the authorities, police
say, Young went to Iind Rubinson.
The duo returned to Jarrett`s home and put
his liIeless body into Rubinson`s SUV and
headed to a nightspot where they spent
more than an hour drinking leaving
Jarrett`s body in the vehicle, according to
police documents. Police say the two men
used Jarrett`s card to pay Ior the drinks on
Aug. 27, noting 'they did not have Jarrett`s
consent.
Rubinson and Young then drove to another
restaurant to hang out, Jarrett`s body
A man who was stabbed and had his throat
cut by his wiIe`s lover has sobbed while
giving evidence in the Victorian Supreme
Court.
Chris Soteriou, 45, and his wiIe Vicky both
wept as their eyes met when he took the
stand to testiIy against her.
Vicky Soteriou is accused oI plotting to
kill her husband with Ari Dimitrakis, who
has already pleaded guilty to his part in the
crime.
Mr Soteriou sobbed as he recounted the
liIe they shared.
'I thought I had the perIect wiIe, the perIect
marriage, we were very happy, he said.
He was lucky to survive a brutal attack
which took place on his birthday in January
last year.
Thinking he was going to die he said to his
wiIe 'just look aIter the kids. I love you.
Mr Soteriou sobbed as he told the court
that she stood in the street watching him
get attacked.
The prosecution alleges the pair wanted
to claim Mr Soteriou`s million-dollar liIe
insurance policy.
A tearIul Mr Soteriou sobbed as he
recounted details oI luxury cars, clothes
and holidays he bought Ior his wiIe, who
sat with her head bowed in the dock.
Husband breaks down
testifying against wife
This combination made with photos provided by the Denver Police showing Mark Rubinson,
25, left, and Robert Young, 43. The men are accused of driving around with a dead friend,
using his ATM/debit card and visiting a strip club in a less-amusing real-life version of
the Im "Weekend at Bernie's." It is uncIear how the friend, Jeffery Jarrett, died, but the men
are not charged in his death.
You can now order a double-double in Dubai.
Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee chain opened a new store in the United Arab Emirates.
tiM Hortons double-double
coMes to dubai
prince williaM and
kate Middleton install
gbp 1Mn alarM systeM
at kensington palace
prince william and kate Middleton
have reportedly installed an alarm
system worth a million-pound in their
kensington palace home, in a bid to keep
intruders out and prevent eavesdroppers
snooping on their private lives.
'They want to live like a normal married
couple and this is the price they have to
pay, the media quoted a senior aide as
saying.
'At Kensington Palace they have the 24-
hour protection, armed guards and cameras
but Special Branch insisted they got this
system, the aide said.
'This is a state-oI-the-art security and
communications system to keep out all
types oI intruders. It brings security right
up to date, the aide added.
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A 65-year-old man was killed and his
wiIe was injured Sunday morning in a
mysterious shooting outside their Hayward
home, police said.
The shooting happened beIore 8 a.m. on Saint
Andrews Street, in a neighborhood tucked
between BART tracks and Mission Boulevard.
OIIicers responding to 911 calls about
gunIire Iound the man dead. His wiIe
was taken to a hospital with wounds that
were not considered liIe-threatening, said
Hayward police Lt. Roger Keener.
Neighbor Lindsay Gallinger said it
appeared the victims who were not
identiIied were shot while inside their
minivan, which was pierced by gunIire.
Police searched the area but could not the
Iind the assailant. A motive Ior the shooting
isn`t known, Keener said.
Neighbors expressed shock at the slaying,
which they said was unusual Ior the area.
'I`m scared and I`m concerned, and I hope
that whoever was responsible is caught -
and I hope I get notiIied, Gallinger said.
Another neighbor, Navneet Chagger, said oI
the slain man, 'He seemed pretty harmless
to me. It`s pretty scary to me. It could have
been us. We`re pretty overwhelmed.
the death toll in an earthquake that
ravaged sikkims border with nepal rose
to 42 Monday amid fears that the toll
could go up as rescuers searched for the
dead and survivors.
'There is the possibility oI the death toll
rising, Home Secretary R.K. Singh said,
reasoning that more reports oI destruction
and casualties were yet to come in Irom
remote hilly regions.
Thousands oI soldiers and paramilitary
Iorces battled unending rains and landslides
to carry out one oI the biggest rescue and
relieI operation in the hilly region.
In worst-hit Sikkim, which bore the worst oI
Sunday`s 6.8 magnitude temblor, 35 people
were reported killed and over 200 injured.
Also, 25 bridges developed cracks and
scores oI buildings were damaged.
Five people died in West Bengal and two in
Bihar, Singh said.
In Sikkim, rescuers searching through the
rubble discovered bodies oI 10 workers oI
the Teesta hydel project.
Nature`s Iury hampered rescue and relieI
operations, oIIicials said. Sikkim was
pounded by incessant rains while landslides
in Darjeeling hills in West Bengal slowed
down movement oI rescuers.
Landslides snapped Sikkim`s only road
link Ior hours, preventing disaster response
teams Irom reaching some oI the aIIected
sites.
Power returned to Sikkim only Monday
aIternoon, aIter electricity lines snapped
because oI the earthquake Sunday evening.
'I saw at least six vehicles hit by landslides,
with boulders smashing them on the
highway, said Ravi Lepcha, a teacher in
Gangtok.
Ten teams oI the National Disaster Response
Force (NDRF), including rescue and medical
Hayward sHooting
leaves Man dead,
wife wounded
42 die in indian quake,
rains HaMper relief work
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a leading german winemaker
awoke to find his prized grape harvest
had been swiped overnight by thieves.
The crooks crept into the celebrated Von
Winning vineyard under cover oI darkness
equipped with industrial harvesting machines.
They were able to pluck 2500kg oI the
premium Iruit, worth around t100,000
($US137,000), beIore making oII undetected.
Winemaker Stephen Attmann only learned
oI the crushing crime when he inspected
his crop and came across row aIter row
oI bare Pinot noir vines. The theIt has
imperiled production oI his award-winning
red that sells at t32 a bottle.
Fans oI Attmann`s wine include German
President Christian WulII, who visited
the vineyard in Deidesheim, southwestern
Germany, with 180 diplomats earlier this
summer Ior a tasting.
'We are suIIering spiritually, not just
Iinancially, Mr Attmann told German
news agency.
Industry experts say the theIt was the latest in
a spate oI grape-rustling incidents, most likely
orchestrated by a desperate competitor.
'There were proIessionals at work, probably a
winegrower whose grapes were destroyed by
Irost or hail, said Ernst Buscher, spokesman
Ior the German Wine Institute.
Police are investigating but Mr Attmann
hopes his superior palate will lead him to
the perpetrator, the reporter said. He`s on
the hunt Ior a 'super wine produced by a
winemaker 'who is otherwise not known
Ior such high quality.
JoHn travoltas 1970
vintage Mercedes stolen
outside Jaguar sHop
bob Hopes widow
dolores dies at age 102
cHina flood
deatHs rise to 57,
one Million evacuated
tHieves swipe
award-winning
grape Harvest
John travoltas 1970 Mercedes-benz 280
sl was reportedly stolen from outside of
a santa Monica car dealership when he
was checking out Jaguars on sale inside.
Santa Monica P.D. conIirmed that the car
was registered to Travolta.
They also claimed that they had no leads
in the case.
Travolta`s representatives are yet to
comment on the incident.
dolores Hope, the widow of comedian
bob Hope, died at the age of 102.
Hope was a proIessional singer who
married the celebrated comedian in 1934.
She Irequently travelled with her husband to
entertain US troops overseas with the USO.
The couple had been married 69 years when
Bob Hope died in 2003 at the age oI 100.
They had Iour children together, Eleanora,
Linda, Kelly and Anthony. Anthony died
in 2004.
baby booM at san diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo has been part oI an international campaign to save the endangered
Grand Cayman blue iguana. In the past week, nine hatchlings were reported at the zoo`s
reptile conservation center.
Heavy rains and floods across china
have left 57 people dead with dozens of
others missing and hundreds injured,
while more than a million residents were
evacuated from their homes.
Unprecedented rains over the past week
have swamped provinces in northern,
central and southwest China, and although
the aIIected region is breathing a tentative
sigh oI relieI as the downpours pause, rivers
continue to swell.
The Ministry oI Civil AIIairs said in a
statement that the rain had Iorced authorities
to evacuate more than 1.2 million people
Irom their homes.
'Constant strong rainIall has caused
serious Ilood disasters in Sichuan
|southwest|, Shaanxi |north| and Henan
|central| 12.3 million people were
aIIected, 57 died and 29 are missing,
it said.
One area oI the southwestern province oI
Sichuan, Bazhong, was severely aIIected,
with 13 people killed, 10 missing and
156 injured, a spokesman Ior the local
government told the oIIicial newspaper.
The Jialing River, a tributary oI the Yangtze,
China`s longest river, was recorded nearly
seven meters above alert levels and waters
were expected to rise to their highest levels
since record-keeping began in 1847.
Last year saw China`s worst Ilooding in
a decade, leaving more than 4300 people
dead or missing.
oIIicers, waited Ior hours to reach quake-hit
areas.
Apart Irom Iive Indian Air Force planes that
carried relieI material and NDRF personnel
to Baghdogra in West Bengal, the army
deployed 7,500 troops in Gangtok, including
2,000 Irom West Bengal, on 'a war Iooting.
Five Cheetah and Iour Dhruv helicopters
were pressed into service. The army erected
tents Ior those whose homes were damaged
and ran 10 kitchens.
Another 4,000 Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
personnel joined the soldiers.
More than 400 people, including 26 tourists,
were rescued by security Iorces despite
the rough weather and tough terrain, ITBP
Director General Ranjit Sinha said.
Home Secretary Singh said that Iortunately
earth moving equipment and other
machinery were already available locally.
At least 1,000 people moved into relieI
camps.
'It is death and destruction in Sikkim. People
are still in shock. Most houses in Gangtok
have suIIered wide cracks, even gaping
cracks are seen on the main roads, said
Arun Gurung, a businessman in Gangtok.
C.B. Karki, Sikkim`s inIormation minister,
told IANS: 'The casualty Iigure might
go up as we are still getting reports oI
deaths and injuries Irom remote areas.
Telecommunication Iacilities are down, and
hence inIormation is hard to come by.
Besides the Rs.5 lakh each given to Iamilies
oI the killed, Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh has sanctioned Rs.2 lakh each Ior the
next oI kin oI those killed.
The quake shook large parts oI India, Irom
New Delhi to Mizoram. It also jostled
Nepal, Tibet and Bangladesh. Nine people
were killed in Nepal and seven in Tibet.
Two newly hatched Grand Cayman blue iguanas check each other out at the
Anne and Kenneth Grifn ReptiIe Conservation Center at the San Diego Zoo. Since 2007,
the zoo has been involved in an international effort to save the critically endangered reptile.
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blood pressure would cause neurological
damage.
So Iar, the girls are reacting in the same
ways to tests and stimuli as they did
beIore surgery which suggests they have
not suIIered neurological side-eIIects.
However, their young age makes it
diIIicult to determine whether this is
deIinitely the case.
The children were born by caesarean
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after australia,
uk to Have sex-free
category passports
for transgenders
navigator in fatal russian
plane crasH was drunk
afgHan ex-president
assassinated
uk is considering plans to allow
transgenders to opt out of the gender
category in their passports.
The British Home OIIice`s new proposal
comes under pressure Irom the Liberal
Democrats.
Though the current system allows a
transgender person to alter the sex iI they
undergo sex change, intersex people, who
possess both male and Iemale reproductive
organs, are Iorced to make a choice.
Under the new proposal, the passport
would have a single box marked sex`, and
citizens would have a choice to strike it
out, The Telegraph reports.
Supporters oI the new move argue it would
avoid problems encountered by people
whose appearance does not match the sex
stated on their passport.
But some Home OIIice oIIicials said it
could create more diIIiculties.
'We are exploring with international
partners and relevant stakeholders the
security implications oI gender not being
displayed on the passport, a Home OIIice
spokesperson said.
'The UK Government is totally committed
to creating a society that is Iair to everyone.
We are committed to tackling prejudice
and discrimination against transgender
people at home and around the world,
Liberal Democrat Home OIIice Minister
Lynne Featherstone said.
'We need concerted government action to
tear down barriers and help to build a Iairer
society Ior transgender people, he added.
The decision comes in the wake oI the
introduction oI new passport rules in Australia,
which allow citizens to indicate their gender
as male, Iemale or indeterminate, without
undergoing surgery as prooI oI a sex change.
tHe navigator of a russian plane that
crashed onto a highway in June, killing
47 people, was drunk.
The navigator 'was in a light state oI
alcoholic intoxication with a blood
alcohol concentration oI 0.81, as the
crew attempted to land the plane during
bad weather, the Interstate Aviation
Committee said in a report posted.
The RusAir Tu-134 was trying to land
at its destination oI Petrozavodsk in the
north-western Karelia region near Finland
close to midnight on June 20, but Iailed to
make the runway and instead hurtled onto
a highway and caught Iire.
The report said the experienced navigator,
50, was 'excessively active, with data
recorders showing he had told the chieI
pilot several times to
speed up the landing.
At one point, he told
the pilot, 'Sasha, turn
quicker, come on!
The navigator`s body
was Iound to have
0.81 grams oI alcohol
per liter oI blood,
which would have
caused a 'light level
oI drunkenness, likely
to make a person less
selI-critical, the report
said.
It said the navigator`s
behaviour was a
contributing Iactor in
afgHanistans former president
tasked with leading peace efforts in the
war-torn country has been assassinated
in a suicide attack at his kabul home.
Two oI his close political allies reported
oI Burhanuddin Rabbani`s assassination
aIter police conIirmed a suicide explosion
in his street.
'Yes, he is dead, said one oI the two
sources, both oI whom wept as they
conIirmed the news by telephone.
Rabbani was the chieI oI President Hamid
Karzai`s High Council Ior Peace, which is
tasked with negotiating with the Taliban,
so Iar unsuccessIully.
The blast, which happened close to the
US embassy, is the second attack within a
week to strike within Kabul`s supposedly
secure diplomatic zone.
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TWINS who were born with the tops
oI their heads Iused together have been
separated successIully by a team oI British
doctors Iollowing Iour highly complex
operations.
Rital and Ritag Gaboura, who are almost a
year old, were Iinally separated on August
15 at Great Ormond St Hospital aIter being
brought over by a charity Irom their native
Sudan.
The baby girls were craniopagus, meaning
that they were Iused at the cranium a
condition which aIIects only about two per
cent oI cases oI conjoined twins.
The nature oI their condition meant
signiIicant blood Ilowed between their
brains, with Ritag supplying halI the blood
to her sister`s brain, while draining most oI
it back to her heart. While the twins did not
share brain tissue, they remained at very
signiIicant risk because a drop in brain
conJoined twins successfully
separated in londons great
orMond street Hospital
section last September in Khartoum, Sudan.
Both their parents are doctors. Their Iather,
Abdelmajeed Gaboura, 31, is a specialist
in obstetrics and gynecology, and their
mother, Enas, 27, is still in training.
In a statement the girls` parents expressed
their gratitude to the work oI the medical
team and the charity Ior its Iunding. 'We
are very thankIul to be able to look Iorward
to going home with two separate, healthy
girls. We Ieel very lucky that our girls have
been able to have the surgery that they
needed, but we also know oI other children
who need complete sponsorship and
Iamilies who are searching Ior someone to
help them.
About 40 per cent oI twins Iused at the
head are stillborn or die during labor and
a third die within 24 hours. The survival
rate Ior separations involving the brain
is low.
the crash, but Iound that the main cause
was the incorrect decision not to abort the
landing as the plane descended into thick
Iog with no sight oI the runway.
It blamed a 'lack oI discipline and
excessive selI-assurance oI the crew
members.
The question remained why the navigator
had been permitted to Ily.
A pre-Ilight medical examination oI the
crew appeared to have been done 'as a
Iormality, the report said in a shocking
Iinding, with all oI the crew recorded as
having exactly the same pulse rate.
Forty-Iour people died on the scene oI the
crash and three died later in the hospital.
Among the dead were a citizen oI the
Netherlands, a Swede and two Ukrainians.
Five people, including a stewardess,
survived the crash with serious injuries.
The report`s Iindings come as an
investigation continues into the crash oI
a plane carrying a top ice hockey team
earlier this month the latest in a string oI
air disasters in Russia, where many smaller
airlines use outdated Soviet-era planes.
The interstate aviation committee said that
initial Iindings showed the plane, a Yak-
42, had too much braking power as it took
oII but said it was still determining the
cause.
The latest crash prompted Russia`s
President Dmitry Medvedev to order
his government to shut down unreliable
airlines and raise penalties Ior air saIety
violations.
a two-year-old boy has died after
suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound
to the head in his family's home, us
police said.
The shooting occurred in Oxon Hill,
Washington, D.C, inside the Iamily's
second-Iloor apartment.
The child was at home with an adult
relative at the time oI the shooting, but was
not in the same room. It was unknown how
the boy got the gun, police added.
"Investigators need to determine whose
gun it is, why it was in the house. That's
going to play a big part in where they
proceed Irom there," Corporal Evan Baxter
oI Prince George's County Police said.
The boy was pronounced dead at the
hospital.
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For kids:
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to you. Never forget how
much you are loved.
Always loved by mum, dad,
brothers tayden & kailan,
nana, nani, aaji, kaka, mausi,
tobi, coco, Iamily and Iriends.
From kid to teen,
you`re fnally 13!
Welcome to
the teenage years.
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This information is provided for knowledge and education purposes only. Individuals should visit their physicians for more information on their health.
A positive attitude is a great starting point,
not only Ior a healthy liIestyle but also to
help you Iace all liIe`s challenges.
a healthy diet will keep your body well
on the inside and show on the outside
in your skin, hair, nails and smile.
Improve your cooking skills
try new recipes, make your meals
interesting and Iun.
Eating as many diIIerent colored
Iruits and vegetables every day is
an easy way to make sure you get a
variety oI vitamins, minerals etc.
Avoid junk Iood prepare some
quick healthy snacks to have at hand
when you need to nibble.
Drink more water and plump up your
skin! Tiredness, headaches and loss oI
appetite are also signs oI dehydration
drink around 8 glasses oI water a day,
more iI you are very active.
Increased energy, stamina and strength
everyday challenges become easier, chores
non-existent!
Longevity physically active people
have a greater liIe expectancy.
Weight loss/management burn more
calories than you take in and you will lose
weight simple!
Reduced risk oI stroke or heart disease.
There are oIten no signs oI high blood
pressure, exercise strengthens your heart
muscles enabling it to Iunction more
eIfciently and so reduces the risks.
Type II Diabetes exercise can help
prevent or control this disease.
Stronger bones will help with preventing
osteoporosis walking, jogging, using
weights, any weight bearing exercise will
improve your bone Iormation.
Exercise reduces stress regular exercise
reduces the production oI the stress
hormone, cortisol, and increases the Ieel
good` endorphins.
Increased selI-esteem the body releases
chemicals while you are exercising that liIt
your mood.
Managing Depression exercise, and
depression can sometimes be relieved
without the need Ior medication.
Sleep better restIul sleep is a result oI
Ieeling less stressed and more relaxed.
Reduced risk oI certain cancers you can
reduce the risk oI breast and bowel cancer
by being physically active.
Improved appearance toned muscles,
better posture, a healthy glow.
It`s good Ior the brain increased blood
and oxygen fow to the brain and also
certain chemicals may be responsible Ior
improved cognitive Iunction.
daily Health tips
enjoy your food!
reasons to exercise
in no particular order
Relax Ok, you think you`re too busy
taking time out to relax quietly Ior even
just Iew minutes will reIresh your mind
and body. You`ll have renewed energy and
enthusiasm to tackle work or the Iamily.
follow these tips for reducing stress
if you need some ideas.
Sleep my Mum used to say 'no-one
ever died through lack oI sleep. Well
maybe they don`t, but iI I don`t get enough
I surely Ieel halI dead and perhaps you do
too. Getting enough sleep means we can
Iunction properly in all aspects oI our liIe.
Smile Oh, it Ieels so good to smile. II
you are Ieeling down, think oI something
or someone special I bet you`ll smile and
a big weight will liIt oII your shoulders.
Take a look at the depression checklist in
case it`s more than just Ieeling down.
Cut the CaIIeine iI you are sometimes
anxious, restless and irritable, or have trouble
sleeping, it could be due to drinking too many
cups oI coIIee. Look out Ior the warning
signs and iI you are experiencing any oI these
just check how much you have drunk.
Alcohol many oI us believe a glass oI
wine when we come home Irom work is
the perIect antidote to a stressIul day. Be
aware that when we Ieel we can`t relax
without it then it`s time to take stock.
Dance like no one is watching. Sing
like no one is listening. Love like youve
never been hurt and live like its heaven on
Earth.
In other words live your liIe boldly and
make the most oI every day.
Living a healthy liIestyle is about balance,
keep everything in perspective and don`t
sweat the minor points. Make it Iun not a
chore this way you will keep on course.
Follow healthy eating guidelines keep
your body well on the inside and it will
show on the outside too.
A home exercise routine is a great way to
get some exercise every day. Set achievable
goals and choose an exercise you enjoy.
Aim Ior around 30 minutes every other
day.
Laugh fnd something to laugh about
everyday and cut your stress levels. High
stress levels are harmIul and can put you
at risk. There aren`t obvious signs oI high
blood pressure, but you can still be at risk.
daily health tips keep you feeling
great and looking good!
Quit smoking no need to explain why,
you know it`s bad Ior you, your Iamily
around you, your pets, everyone.
These reasons to exercise emphasize the
benefts oI getting physical in midliIe.
Each one oI these is individually a great
incentive Ior making sure you include
some regular exercise in your daily liIe.
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try this practice test
discover canada
ingredients
1 tablespoon grated ginger
5 cloves garlic fnely chopped
1/4 cup fnely chopped shallots
Peanut oil Ior Irying
2 cups Asian long beans or green
beans, blanched and chopped into
inch long pieces
1620 large prawns, peeled, tail oII
1 teaspoon Thai red curry paste
4 tablespoons coconut cream
1/2 cup macadamia nuts
1 teaspoon fsh sauce
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
directions
Stir-Iry frst 4 ingredients in 2
tablespoons peanut oil.
Add blanched beans and Iry an
additional 2 minutes.
Remove Irom pan and set aside.
Reheat pan on high and add peanut
oil.
Saute prawns Ior 2 minutes until
almost cooked through and set aside.
Reheat pan on high and cook curry
paste Ior one minute on high.
Add the coconut milk to the curry
paste, mixing well and bring to a boil.
Toss in bean mixture, prawns,
macadamia nuts and fsh sauce
and stir Iry
1 minute.
Sprinkle
with
cilantro
and
serve.
aries (March 21april 19):
Be on the lookout Ior romantic signals in
unlikely places this week; you might meet
an extra-special someone in such places
as the elevator to the dentist`s oIfce or in
line at a department store while waiting
to make an exchange. Especially when
it comes to matters where you are better
inIormed than your associates, do not let
others do your thinking Ior you. Trust your
knowledge. Your Iortunate astrological
number Ior this week is 780. Your fnancial
outlook Ior week is poor. Your compatible
sign Ior week is Libra.
taurus (april 20May 20):
The morning aspects recommend
cementing ties oI aIIection and dealing
with people whose good opinions you
desire. Your health is frst-rate, and
work is accomplished in record Iashion.
The aspects rise to make romantic
developments more Iascinating. It won`t
be luck that brings about the possibilities
Ior personal gain this week; compensation
will be likely only when you make a
worthy contribution towards those ends.
Your Iortunate astrological number is 079.
Your fnancial outlook is very good. Your
compatible sign is Gemini.
gemini (May 21June 20):
A disagreement between lovers may express
itselI now in small, petty ways. Don`t let
your temper start to boil because oI such
trivialities. A business trip begun now
should turn out well, but be prepared Ior
delays created by less responsible people.
Even though you`re likely to chalk up many
accomplishments this week, you could still
do better iI you are more industrious and
less vocal. Keep your mind on the tasks at
hand. Your Iortunate astrological number
is 134. Your fnancial outlook is excellent.
Your compatible sign is Leo.
cancer (June 21July 22):
The aspects are exciting Ior accomplishing
a great deal oI work this week. Gardening,
painting, and paper-hanging chores, clean-
ups, Iurniture refnishing, and reupholstering
are Iavored. Your health is fne, with much
stamina and energy available to serve
your purposes. Although you won`t have
any problems this week recognizing your
opportunities and what they could mean
to you, nevertheless you may Iall short
on taking maximum advantage oI them.
Your fnancial outlook is excellent. Your
compatible sign is Leo.
leo (July 23august 22):
Love may have made you absent-minded
this week, and the reservations Ior a special
event or show that you were supposed to
handle may have never been made. A phone
call Irom a work associate in the early
evenings may be a request Ior a liIt to work
next day. Be ready and willing to make some
concession or compromises this week and
you should be able to amicably work out
an agreement with another that is important
to your cause. Your Iortunate astrological
number is 476. Your fnancial outlook is
very good. Your compatible sign is Aries.
virgo (august 23 to september 21):
You may hear some loud and enthusiastic
cheers Ior new stocks or bonds, but
remember these might not be necessary iI
the investment is as 'hot as proclaimed.
Co-workers may request your assistance
during lunchtime shopping. A musical event
is likely to be exciting now. Advancement
and/or an increase in earnings where your
work or career is concerned are possible
this week iI you properly handle something
propitious that develops Ior you. Your
Iortunate astrological number is 576. Your
fnancial outlook is weak. Your compatible
sign is Aries.
libra (september 22october 23):
With the moon leaving your solar eighth
house oI other people`s money and
investments, you might want to be extra-
cautious and on the alert Ior missing the
boat or making mistakes regarding these
matters, especially during the mornings
hours. Marital harmony is high at bedtime.
What makes you so popular with your
peers this week will be your humor and
charm. This could prove true especially
with members oI the opposite gender.
compatible sign is Sagittarius.
scorpio (october 24november 21):
Be cautious in all you do. People, especially
Iamily members, may be uptight. Business
questions may stump you this morning.
Strangers make romantic overtures during
the aIternoons and early evenings. The
days ahead could hold many chances to
Iurther your personal interests, but your best
opportunity might come through some type
oI inside inIormation relayed to you by a
reliable source. Your Iortunate astrological
good. Your compatible sign is Leo.
sagittarius (november 22december 21):
Guard your credit by keeping up payments
and obligations. You can awaken tired, but
a good breakIast is upliIting. Your spouse
or an older loved one may set the pace Ior a
busy week, which can be annoying prior to
noon. Shopping is tedious, the atmosphere
crowded. Talk out your problems today
with an intimate you can trust. The more
candid you can be the better chances you`ll
have oI fnding solutions to your dilemmas.
compatible sign is Virgo.
capricorn (december 22January 19):
This week can prove to be very interesting
iI it`s not too active. The planets have
lined up to create a fxed cross by sign in
your horoscope. They tell oI relationship
happenings and problem solving on your
part. Stay cool and detached and try not
to boss anyone around. Although you can
walk with crowds this week and Ieel at ease,
your best communications will take place
in small groups with whom you can enjoy
more intimacy. Your Iortunate astrological
poor. Your compatible sign is Libra.
aquarius (January 20february 18):
Work associates may be cooperative in the
mornings. and then extremely uncooperative
aIter lunch. Plan your work accordingly. It
won`t be easy to avoid a lover`s spat these
evenings, especially iI there has been a recent
stress on expenses Ior entertainment. Use
your head this week and you`ll stand a good
chance oI turning a proft which you`ll enjoy,
but your real pride oI achievement will come
more Irom the Iact that you fgured out how
to do so. Your Iortunate astrological number
is 309. Your fnancial outlook is very good.
Your compatible sign is Scorpio.
pisces (february 19March 20):
Easier conditions prevail in all emotional
matters, including marriage, this week.
Persons in entertainment, advertising,
sales, and public relations get a big boost.
Your health shows benefts oI a recently
introduced preventive-medicine routine.
Your words will carry more weight
than you may realize this week and the
infuence you`ll have on others could be
considerable. Two admirers may carry
out your suggestions to the letter. Your
Iortunate astrological number is 873.
Your fnancial outlook is excellent. Your
compatible sign is Sagittarius.
Chai Time
thai red curry prawns
ingredients
Bhature
2 cups All purpose four
1 pouch Yeast
1 cup Yogurt
2 tbsp Vegetable Oil
Salt to taste
Choley
1 small can Chana
1/2 tsp Ginger paste
1/2 tsp Garlic powder
1 tsp Cumin seeds
2 tbsp Oil
2 tbsp Cilantro
67 Mint leaves
1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
1/2 tsp Chilly Powder
23 Bay Leaves
23 Cloves
1/2 tsp Garam Masala
1 Medium-sized fnely chopped onion
1 Big tomato
1 1/2 cup Water
Salt to taste
How to make chhole bhature
Bhature
Take yeast and soak in lukewarm water
Ior 510 minutes

Take all other ingredients and mix well.
To this add the yeast and make a soIt
dough like Ior chappatis. II need be
add a little water and keep aside Ior 4-5
hours, the longer kept, the better it is.
Roll like puri but this needs to be kept
thicker than poori. Fry like poori till
both sides are golden brown.
Chole
Take 2 tablespoons oI oil in a non stick
pan and heat it.
Add garlic powder and make it dark
brown. Then add cumin seeds Iry till
they start spluttering.
Now add bay leaves and cloves. Add
diced onions. Fry then till they are light
brown.
Now add the rest oI ingredients
including water except the cilantro and
mint leaves.
Cover and cook Ior about 10 minutes
over medium heat.
Add cilantro and mint leaves.
Garnish choley with thinly sliced long
pieces oI onion and a piece oI lemon
split up into 4 pieces.
choley bhature
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tHinking of
becoMing
a canadian
citiZen?
try this practice test
discover canada
answers
1. D
2. D
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. C
7. C
8. A
9. D
10. C
2. types of caulking
Latex (3 to 10 yr. life) Used mostly
indoors. Goes on easily. Low elasticity.
Sticks to porous surIaces only. Easy water
cleanup. Low in cost. Paintable.
Butyl Rubber (3 to 10 yr. life) High
elasticity. Sticks to most surIaces. High
moisture resistance. Flexible when cured.
Most diIfcult to work with as it is very sticky.
Acrylic Latex (10 yr. life) Good
elasticity. Sticks to most surIaces.
Reasonable moisture resistance. Paintable.
Good Ior around doors and windows. May
not be used below Ireezing.
Silicon-Latex Blend (20+ yr. life) Good
elasticity. Excellent weathering ability.
Medium shrinkage. Adheres to most
surIaces. Some cannot be painted. May not
be used below Ireezing.
Silicone (20 to 50 yr. life) Excellent
elasticity. Sticks very well. Excellent
moisture resistance. Needs solvent to
clean. Strong odor possible while curing.
Low shrinkage. Generally not paintable,
but available in many colors. May not be
When penny pinching around the house,
there are lots oI diIIerent things you can
do. Just think about saving money and it
soon becomes natural to do. I am giving
you some tips and iI you think long and
hard enough about your house, you can
probably come up with a lot more than
I have here. First and Ioremost think
'How can I pinch those pennies?
laundry
Wash in cold water whenever possible.
Laundry detergents today work just as
well in cold or hot. Running the water
heater less saves quite a Iew pennies.
Save even more pennies by using less
detergent. I know, the label says use a
Iull cup; but I use only halI a cup and
my clothes come out clean.
Change brands oI your detergent
Irequently. Why? It can build up in your
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D. Prairies.
7) what do you call a law before it is
passed?
A. A proposed law.
B. A new law.
C. A bill.
D. A proposal oI a law.
8) who were the group of seven in
modern canada?
A. A group oI Canadian landscape
painters in the 1920s.
B. Seven Canadian soldiers in World
War I.
C. A group oI Aboriginal peoples.
D. Seven athletes who won Olympic
gold medals.
9) How can you contact your Member
of parliament?
A. Write a letter to the Prime Minister.
B. Call the oIfce oI the party in power.
C. Write a letter to the Premier oI your
province.
D. Write a letter to the House oI
Commons.
10) Who was the rst Prime Minister
of canada?
A. Simon Fraser.
B. Queen Victoria.
C. Sir John A. Macdonald.
D. Lester Bowles Pearson.
1) what is the name of the
governor general?
A. Paul Martin.
B. Adrienne Clarkson.
C. Stephen Harper
D. David Johnston
2) which two provinces are on the
atlantic coast of canada?
A. British Columbia and Yukon.
B. Prince Edward Island and Ontario.
C. NewIoundland and British
Columbia.
D. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
3) which province in canada is the
smallest in land size?
A. New Brunswick.
B. Prince Edward Island.
C. NewIoundland and Labrador.
D. Nova Scotia.
4) How are senators chosen?
A. Appointed by the Prime Minister.
B. Appointed by the Queen.
C. By the Premiers oI all provinces.
D. By the Governor General oI Canada.
5) which legal document recognizes
the cultural diversity of canadians?
A. The Multicultural Act oI the United
Nations.
B. British Charter oI Freedoms.
C. Canada Charter oI Rights and
Freedoms.
D. Canadian Multiculturalism Act.
6) where do more than half of the
people in canada live?
A. Coastal Pacifc.
B. Atlantic Canada.
C. Central Canada.
Weatherproong your home
used below Ireezing.
May be applied to
wood, asphalt or
metal, but not vinyl
or masonry.
Urethane (20 to
50 yr. life) Excellent elasticity and
adhesion. Excellent moisture resistance.
Easy cleanup. Strong odor possible while
curing. Low shrinkage. May not be used
below Ireezing. May be applied to wood,
brick, asphalt, metal, vinyl or concrete.
Elastomeric Copolymers (50+ yr. life)
Excellent elasticity and adhesion. Will
stick to damp surIaces. Can be applied
below Ireezing. Cleanup with lacquer
thinner. May be applied to wood, brick,
asphalt, metal, vinyl or concrete.
Polyurethane Foam Sealant (in aerosol
can) A specialized expanding Ioam
product useIul Ior flling large gaps.
Expanding Ioam may be tricky to apply
because oI the amount oI expansion,
but has excellent sealing and insulation
qualities.
clothes and cause them to dull. A diIIerent
detergent will wash out the last one.
Buy the least expensive brands, your
clothes or your washing machine won`t
know the diIIerence.
Don`t buy brand name additives;
pick up a box oI good old borax. It is
inexpensive and does the same job that
Borateem will do. Don`t buy Clorox,
head Ior the dollar store and pick up their
brand, same product, much cheaper.
water Heater
Speaking oI the water heater; iI you ever
need to replace yours, check into an 'on
demand or 'in line water heater.
They will save you up to 50 on your
energy cost with either gas or electric,
they usually are guaranteed Ior a lot
longer and take up a lot less room.
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Visitors outside of the caves
Getting There
By Road (to Aurangabad and Ajanta):
Taxis and auto-rickshaws are widely
available at Aurangabad airport and
Jalgaon train station. A taxi Irom the
airport into the city should cost about Rs
100. In the airport`s arrivals area is the
MTDC Holiday Resort, which provides
brochures and tour bookings Ior the
caves. Also located there is Classic Travel
Related Services, which will arrange any
kind oI transport Ior Aurangabad and
surrounding areas, including the Ajanta
and Ellora caves. A Iull day with car and
driver costs about Rs 1,200 ($26).
The drive Irom Aurangabad to Ajanta
takes 2 to 3 hours, so start early to
beat the midday heat. Most visitors are
dropped oII in the Ajanta caves` parking
lot, where you`ll Iind plenty oI tacky
souvenirs Ior sale and eco-Iriendly
Ajanta Caves, Maharashtra
buses waiting to take you the short way up
to the Ajanta Caves ticket oIIice.
Alternatively, you can be dropped oII at
the viewpoint across the river, reached via
a turnoII slightly beIore the parking lot. II
you`re in good shape and steady on your
Ieet, this option is worth the trouble. From
the viewing platIorm, make your way
down the diIIicult Iootpath and across the
Iootbridge spanning the Waghora River.
Arrange to have your driver pick you up at
the parking lot when you`re done.
Travel Resources
Most visitors to Ajanta make the day trip
Irom Aurangabad, where there are some
good hotel choices:
Lemon Tree Hotel
New, clean and Iriendly. Currently rated #1
by travelers on TripAdvisor.
Taj Residency Aurangabad
'This is the best hotel in town, catering
to Aurangabad`s high society crowd as
well as to business and leisure travelers
(Frommer`s). Currently rated #2 by
travelers on TripAdvisor.
The Ambassador Ajanta
'Set amid lovely lawns with Iountains and
well-maintained Ilower beds, the Ambassador
oIIers good Iacilities and a comIortable
environment ideal Ior relaxing aIter a
hectic day oI cave exploration. (Frommer`s)
Currently rated #6 by travelers on TripAdvisor.
Quality Inn The Meadows
'Surrounded by 5.2 hectares (13 acres)
oI pleasant gardens, this small resort
built in 1996 is great iI you`d rather
stay out oI town. Ask Ior superior, not
deluxe, especially G1. Has a petting
zoo. (Frommer`s) Gets mixed reviews
on TripAdvisor.
MTDC Holiday Resort
'II you want ultra-cheap and Iunctional
and intend on eating out, then by
all means endure a night or two.
Government-run. (Frommer`s)
A parting view of the Ajanta Caves
Mangalya Dharanam/Ring Exchange
The groom gives the bride a mangala
sutra, a necklace made oI gold
that includes two talis or emblems
representing each Iamily. The mangala
sutra identifes a lady as a married
woman. The mangala sutra is the
equivalent oI the wedding rings, which
may also be exchanged at this time.
The bride and groom take seven steps
together, symbolizing the beginning oI
their journey through liIe as partners.
These seven steps refect their guiding
principles in liIe. As they take each
step, the bride and groom exchange the
Iollowing vows:
Together we will:
Share in the responsibility of the home
Fill our hearts with strength and courage
Prosper and share our worldly goods
Fill our hearts with love, peace, happiness,
and spiritual values
Be blessed with loving children
Attain self-restraint and longevity
Be best friends and eternal partners
Declaration
The bride and groom make an oath to each
other declaring that they love each other
and will remain devoted to each other
through all times.
Upon the completion oI the seven steps
and the declaration, the bride and groom
are oIfcially considered husband and
wiIe.
Purusha Sukta Homam
The priest chants an ancient hymn oI
praise to God while the couple places
oIIerings oI rice and ghee into the fre.
This act oI worship is the couple`s frst
act oI dharma as husband and wiIe.
Talambralu
The bride and groom pour rice
over each other`s head symbolizing
prosperity.
Prasadam
The newly married couple Ieed each
other sweets representing their frst
meal together.
Ashirvad
The priest gives blessings to the couple.
The newly married couple then seeks
the blessings oI the priest, Iamily and
Iriends. The Iamily and Iriends bestow
their blessings by showering them with
rice and fower petals.
South Indian Wedding
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK Saptapadi
31
Just for Kids
Which Word?
Circle the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.
1) It is ______ to rain in June as in July.
A. graph B. equally likely C. table D. input
2) Its ______ to rain because it is so sunny.
A. tally B. table C. impossible D. unlikely
3) The numbers in the ______ helped us make a bar graph.
A. equally likely B. table C. certain D. tally
4) It is ______ for pigs to y.
A. chart B. certain C. equally likely D. impossible
5) We will ______, or count, the total points.
A. table B. tally C. likely D. impossible
6) It is ______ to snow in May than in December.
A. tally B. less likely C. likely D. graph
7) To be ______ means to be absolutely sure.
A. graph B. certain C. less likely D. picture graph
8) A ______ shows information using pictures, lines or bars.
A. certain B. graph C. unlikely D. table
9) Also called a pictograph, a ______ uses images.
A. less likely B. impossible C. certain D. picture graph
10) The ______ told us how many students liked chocolate.
A. input B. bar graph C. picture graph D. less likely
11) Dark clouds mean it will ______ rain.
A. likely B. table C. less likely D. input
12) If we know the ______, we can nd the output.
A. certain B. less likely C. graph D. input
13) We made a pie ______ to organize the data.
A. chart B. picture graph C. likely D. impossible
Understanding consequences of a single parent
Teach your kids to get along
Top tips for a single parent
You are a one parent Iamily, don`t try
to be two parents.
Don`t Iorce your child into playing the
role oI departed parent.
Don`t try to be big brother/sister, or a
Iriend, just be the parent you are.
Don`t put your ex partner down in
Iront oI your child.
Be honest with your child.
A day in a pediatrician`s oIfce is never quiet
but last Monday was a particularly noisy
one Ior me. The more one child cried, the
more they all sobbed. A toddler was upset
because he didn`t want a throat swab, a
newborn Iussed because she didn`t like being
undressed and a Iour-year-old was in tears
because she was getting a needle. But it was
big sister Sonia who was crying the loudest.
'What`s the matter, sweetheart? You`re not
getting a needle, the nurse asked Sonia.
'I know, but I don`t want you to hurt my
sister, Sonia replied.
Every parent I know wants her kids
to get along and care about each other.
Not only because it would mean Iewer
nasty sibling spats, petty jealousies, teasing
and Iriction but also because oI the sense
oI pride she would enjoy. Another equally
meaningIul incentive, which many oI us
have learned Irom our own experience, is
that the world can be a big, lonely place
without a sibling by your side.
Siblings teach each other
Sisters teach brothers about puzzling girl
stuII, while brothers teach their sisters about
the Iorbidden world oI boys. AIter growing
up surrounded by sisters, Mark, 15, has
the giIt oI gab and is comIortable talking
to girls. And Sara, 12, isn`t intimidated to
voice an opinion in Iront oI boys because
with three big brothers, she`s been doing so
her whole liIe.
Siblings also teach each other about
loyalty, confict resolution, Iriendships
and compromise. And researchers are
discovering that siblings also steer each
other into, and away Irom, risky behaviours.
Sibling harmony
Not long ago, a mother whose children are
under my care c said to me: 'I`m worried
sick. It`s bad enough that my older daughter
is smoking, staying out late, giving me
attitude and wearing too much makeup, but
now her younger sister is Iollowing in her
Iootsteps. Carolyn has good reason to be
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
Don`t quiz your children to fnd out
what your ex partner is doing.
Share your romantic liIe and social
interests with your children.
Help your child to keep good memories
with their other parent.
Try and sort out a workable situation
with your ex-partner regarding visits
and sleepovers.
II possible try not to disrupt areas in your
child`s liIe that oIIer saIety and security.
concerned, according to researchers whose
recent studies prove that iI an older sibling
smokes or drinks, a younger sibling is three
to fve times more likely to pick up these
bad habits.
Sibling harmony is important Ior other
reasons, too. Whether sibs grow up to
become best Iriends or worst enemies
depends on childhood experiences. Early
jealousies, grudges and resentments can
Iester and reduce us to kids whether we`re
fve or 55 years old.
So, given the potential impact oI sibling
relationships, how can you encourage
your kids to love each other, become
supportive and sensitive Iriends and
collaborative partners and, ultimately, exert
a positive infuence on each other`s budding
personalities? Let`s begin by examining
some oI the Iactors that shape, both positively
and negatively, sibling relationships.
More time, more friction
It was still dark outside when Maddy, 7,
and Trevor, 9, got up to play. For the next
14 hours they would race Irom one activity
to another a hockey game, swimming
lessons, a visit to Grandma`s, haircuts
and grocery shopping. By breakIast the
kids were squabbling. By lunch they were
throwing punches, and by bedtime they
were no longer talking.
Sometimes we tend to Iorget just how
much time siblings spend together. Indeed,
siblings oIten have more time together than
with any other person, including teachers,
parents, Iriends even by themselves. And
with all that togetherness comes Iriction.
Favouritism
Never mind the time mom and dad spent
chauIIeuring their talented 11-year-
old daughter to tennis lessons and
tournaments, the fnancial expense was
equally impressive. But the real price they
paid was the unspoken resentment the
older siblings Ielt toward their little sister.
Guide Zachary through the maze to fnd a new zipper
How to raise children who care for one another
32
A handful of lifestyle changes like
exercise and a healthy diet are key to
beating heart disease, experts have said.
Taking more exercise, eating more Iruit
and vegetables, reducing alcohol intake
and slashing the amount oI saturated Iat in
our diet could drastically reduce the rate oI
deaths caused by the disease.
The healthy living plan, devised by charity
Heart UK, could slash the amount oI bad
cholesterol in the blood that triggers
heart attacks and strokes - by up to a third.
The frst step in the Ultimate Cholesterol
Lowering Plan is to cut out unhealthy
Ioods that are high in Iat and sugar.
Reducing intake oI saturated animal Iats to
around 20g a day has been shown to cut
cholesterol by up to 10 per cent.
Eating more Iruit and vegetables can also
lower cholesterol, while eating oily fsh
will help prevent blood clots Irom Iorming.
The plan also oIIers a 'pick `n` mix choice
oI Iour cholesterol-busting Ioods to add to
your daily diet.
These are Ioods made Irom soya, such
as soya milk; Ioods containing health-
boosting plant sterols, such as vegetable
spreads; nuts; and soluble fber Irom oats,
whole grains, beans and pulses.
Each oI these Iour Ioods will lower
cholesterol by an average oI fve per cent
and the more Ioods added to the diet, the
bigger the cholesterol reduction.
This information is provided for knowledge and education purposes only. Individuals should visit their physicians for more information on their health.
A new study has suggested that teens
who drink milk are 43 percent less likely
to suffer from type 2 diabetes as adults.
Researchers Iound that milk-drinking teens
were also likely to be milk-drinking adults
a liIelong habit that helps them fght the
disease better than non-milk drinkers.
The Harvard University study studied
Drinking three to four cups of coffee a
day can make us 17 percent less likely
to suffer a stroke, a new research has
found.
Antioxidants in the drink stop blood
clots on the brain as they protect against
cholesterol build-up, the report said.
Scientists came to this conclusion aIter
looking at data Irom eight studies on
consumption Irom the past 45 years.
Meanwhile, researchers Iound those
drinking two cups a day were 14 per cent
less likely to suIIer a clot on the brain than
non-drinkers.
CaIIeine addicts who get through six or
more cups a day only see a reduction in
risk oI around 7 per cent.
But the Swedish study admitted coIIee
'may have both benefcial and harmIul
eIIects.
A new study has revealed that mixing
alcohol with energy drinks could put
drinkers at risk, leaving them badly
dehydrated and possibly leading to
vomiting, nausea, and other health
problems in the long term.
'Both caIIeine and alcohol are diuretics,
they cause the body to pass water, so mixing
energy drinks with alcohol can leave
drinkers badly dehydrated, possibly leading
to vomiting, nausea, and other health
problems in the long term, as quoted.
'What`s more dangerous, perhaps, is that
the stimulant eIIect oI so much caIIeine can
mask the depressant eIIect oI the alcohol.
'People drinking energy drinks with alcohol
may Ieel very alert and not realize how
drunk they are. One possible result oI this is
that drinkers will take more risks, he stated.
People who get up early in the morning are
likely to be happier, healthier and slimmer
than those who do not, says a study.
The researchers Irom London`s
Roehampton University have Iound those
who watch more TV are more likely to skip
breakIast. It could be since they snack in
the evening when watching TV, making
them less hungry when they wake up in the
morning.
In the study, experts quizzed 1,068 adults
An apple or pear a day
keeps strokes at bay
Families that exercise
together grow healthy in
mind and body together too
Milk-drinking teens less prone to type 2 diabetes than non-milk drinkers
The handful of lifestyle
changes that drastically
lower heart disease risk
34 cups of coffee a day
can cut stroke risk by 17pc
Mixing alcohol with energy drinks
puts drinkers health at risk
Early risers are slim, healthy and happy
and vegetables.
Linda Oude Griep, lead author oI the study
and postdoctoral Iellow in human nutrition at
Wageningen University in The Netherlands,
said more research was needed to fnd out
why white fesh was important.
'It is diIfcult to say which nutrients are
responsible in white Iruits and vegetables.
We know that apples and pears are high
in dietary fber, but there may be other
explanations.
She said it might be useIul to consume
considerable amounts oI white-fesh Iruit
and vegetable to prevent strokes.
'Eating one apple a day is an easy way to
increase white Iruits and vegetable intake.
Dr Sharlin Ahmed Irom The Stroke
Association said the fndings should not
deter people Irom eating other colours oI
Iruit and vegetables.
'All Iruit and vegetables have health benefts
and remain an important part oI a stable diet.
'A lot more research is needed beIore the
colour oI our groceries alone is used to
determine what health benefts they may
have.
'Everyone can reduce their risk oI stroke by
eating a healthy balanced diet that is low in
saturated Iat and salt, exercising regularly
and ensuring that your blood pressure is
checked and kept under control.
Eating lots oI Iruit and vegetables with
white fesh may help to protect against
strokes, says a study in the journal Stroke.
But Dutch researchers say they do not know
why people with a high intake oI apples,
pears, bananas or caulifower reduce their
risk oI stroke by 52.
The study Iollowed more than 20,000
adults over 10 years.
Stroke experts said people should not be
put oII eating other colours oI Iruit and
vegetables.
At the start oI the study, carried out in The
Netherlands, participants were asked to
fll in a detailed questionnaire on diet and
liIestyle Ior the previous year.
By using this inIormation and tracking the
health oI participants over the next decade,
researchers were able to examine the link
between the colour oI Iruit and vegetables
consumed and stroke risk.
The study Iound that a 25g per day increase
in white Iruits and vegetables was linked to
a 9 lower risk oI stroke.
OI the white Iruit and vegetable eaten,
over halI was apples and pears. An average
apple weighs 120g.
But no link was Iound between stroke
incidence and green (dark leaIy vegetables,
cabbages and lettuces) orange/yellow
(mostly citrus Iruits) or red/purple Iruits
Exercising as a family not only promotes
good health but also helps strengthen
the emotional bonds between members,
according to a new study.
According to results Irom the Centers Ior
Disease Control and Prevention`s most
recent Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance,
81.6 percent oI high school students in the
US were not physically active Ior at least
60 minutes per day on all 7 days.
'II parents and teachers could recognize
the diIIerence it would make in their kids,
they`d have kids exercising constantly!
said Joann Donnelly, Director oI Total
Health Ior the YMCA oI Greater Houston.
Setting ftness goals as a Iamily is a
great place to start, according to Robbie
Spector, MPT, who runs a physical
therapy practice in Norwalk, CT.
'Consider the benefts oI grabbing a
Irisbee and heading to the park: less
driving, and a great way to infuence
our children`s positive attitudes about
exercise, ftness and the love oI Iamily,
he said.
Other ideas to get the Iamily moving and
heart rates up is to take a Iamily walk
aIter dinner, or dividing into teams and
having an athletic competition, holding a
dance party could also be a great option.
Washing the car or trying a yoga class
together should also be considered.
to see iI they were morning or evening
people. They Iound that morning people
tend to be happier, thinner and more
conscientious than evening people. They
are also more likely to eat breakIast.
Joerg Huber, the researcher, said: 'These
fndings bear out the consensus that there
are morning people and evening people,
and that morning people tend to be healthier
and happier, as well as having lower body
mass indices.
teenage and adult Iood intake patterns
(including milk and milk products) and
health risk in more than 37,000 women.
Researchers Iound the women, who drank
the most milk as adults and consumed the
most milk products in their teen years, had
a lower risk oI type 2 diabetes than those
who consistently had a low dairy intake.
33
The Australian Government will push
ahead with its plan to change Australia`s
asylum seeker laws despite a continuing
stalemate with the Opposition on the
issue.
The legislative changes to allow oIIshore
processing will be introduced into
parliament but are doomed to Iail because
they do not have the backing oI either the
Coalition or the Greens.
The Opposition says it will only support
the government`s legislation iI Labor
agrees to amendments, but both sides are
reIusing to budge.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott told
the media he would only back oIIshore
processing 'in the national interest.
'The right sort oI oIIshore processing is in
the national interest, and the right sort oI
A MAN is recovering in Darwin after
his nose was bitten off during an early-
morning fight.
The 23-year-old was taken to the Royal
Darwin Hospital about 5am (CST) aIter
police were called to Smith Street in
central Darwin.
When oIIicers arrived they Iound the man
holding his head in his hands with his nose
lying on the ground nearby.
A police spokesman said it was
'unIortunately not uncommon Ior early-
morning Iights to occur aIter people had
been out drinking.
'Alcohol was a Iactor, he said.
He said he understood the man was due to
undergo surgery to reattach the nose.
A spokeswoman Ior the hospital said the
man was in a stable condition.
A 43-year-old man was arrested and is in
police custody, Iacing a possible charge
oI aggravated assault in relation to the
incident.
A PERTH martial artist who punched
his wife in front of their children, then
left her body to rot in a bedroom for two
weeks after finding her dead, has been
jailed for five years.
Bradley Wayne Jones, 34, will serve a
minimum oI three years Ior the manslaughter
oI Saori Jone, 31, in December last year.
Jones, who pleaded guilty to assault
causing death, was sentenced in the WA
Supreme Court.
The court was told a drunken Jones punched
his estranged wiIe in the head in Iront oI
their two children, aged Iour and 10 months,
aIter she admitted she was having an aIIair
with the best man Irom their wedding.
Jones had then taken his wiIe to a bedroom
and put a blanket over her, Iailing to seek
medical help even though she was bleeding
and vomiting.
He Iound her dead the next day, but leIt the
body in the bedroom Ior two weeks beIore
police Iound it Iollowing a search oI the
Yokine house.
In sentencing, Supreme Court judge Lindy
Jenkins said Jones had been 'trained in the
use oI physical violence.
Justice Jenkins said that allowing his wiIe`s
body to decompose Ior two weeks while
Jones ignored it, 'Iorcing the children to live
with the body, was a 'degrading action.
She accepted that alcohol had contributed
to the oIIence.
Jones will be eligible Ior parole in
December 2013.
AUSTRAlIAN GovERNMENT
PERSISTS WITH ASylUM lAW PlAN
NoSE bITTEN oFF
IN DARWIN FIGHT
WA WIFE kIllER
bRADlEy WAyNE
JoNES GETS FIvE
yEARS IN JAIl
Australia News
The management oI the main Australian
airline, Qantas, says its Ilight schedule
is returning to normal aIter a part-
day nationwide strike by some oI its
employees.
FiIty-Iive Qantas Ilights were either
delayed or cancelled on Tuesday aIter
4,000 baggage handlers, caterers and
Ireight workers walked oII the job.
The Iour-hour strike caused delays Ior
6,000 passengers.
Intent
Transport Workers Union national
secretary Tony Sheldon says Qantas was
The Australian Immigration Department
says three Vietnamese detainees have
escaped while attending a church service
in Darwin.
The men were among 50 inmates Irom the
Northern Immigration Detention Centre
attending a mass at a church outside the
centre when they evaded oIIicers Irom
security company Serco.
Retired Catholic priest Father Paul Webb
was at the church when the men escaped.
'We were outside talking and then I saw
these Serco oIIicers rushing around,
he said.
'Then somebody said, Oh, there`s a
Vietnamese detainee who has gone
missing`.
'Then a little while later they said, No,
there`s three who have gone missing`.
The department says the men are not a
danger to the public and says it has asked
Serco, which runs and staIIs the detention
centre, Ior a Iull report into the escape.
It says it takes any escape attempt
'extremely seriously.
Australian Federal Police have joined the
search Ior the men.
NEW TREATMENT To
REPlACE SkIN GRAFTS
QANTAS FlIGHTS bACk oN TRACk AFTER STRIkE
vIETNAMESE DETAINEES
ESCAPE AUSTRAlIAN
DETENTIoN
bURNS patients may no longer need to
undergo painful skin grafts if trials of a
new wound-healing technique developed
in Australia prove a success.
The technique is much cheaper than similar
treatments, giving it the potential to be used
extensively in third-world countries.
Burns patients traditionally undergo
multiple skin graIts that leave nasty scars
and cause pain.
A number oI new treatments have sprung up
in the past decade, including the spray-on
skin used on the Bali bombing patients.
However, cost and varying success rates
mean skin graIts remain the main option Ior
many patients.
Developer oI the new technique, Royal
Adelaide Hospital burns surgeon Dr John
Greenwood, said the seal was cheaper than
existing devices, which can cost about
$250,000.
'II we can get the price low enough you
can use it anywhere and that`s what I want
to leave behind, a legacy oI treating burns
patients in poor nations, he said.
The new two-stage technique involves a
biodegradable synthetic seal being inserted
into the wound while new skin is grown in
a laboratory.
Unlike traditional skin graIts which
require large strips oI skin to be taken Irom
unharmed areas oI the body and placed
over the wound, Dr Greenwood`s technique
requires only a 10cm square sample.
The cells are grown in the lab over about
three weeks to create a composite skin.
In the meantime, the biodegradable seal
lying inside the wound helps protect against
inIection and ensures the area remains open
until the composite skin can be laid on top.
Dr Greenwood is currently trialing the
saIety oI the seal in pigs and hopes to start
clinical trials in burns patients soon.
Existing seals are less resistant to inIection
and wound contraction.
Farmer David Mickan, who suIIered third-
oIIshore processing is oIIshore processing
with appropriate protections, and that`s
what the Howard government provided at
Nauru, he said.
He said those 'appropriate protections
included 'processing by Australians under
Australian conditions and people being
in centers that are run by Australians in
accordance with Australian standards.
Independent MP Tony Windsor says the
result oI the stand-oII will be onshore
processing even though both the major
parties want to process reIugee claims
oIIshore.
'I, like most oI the people that have been
watching this debate Ior the past Iew
months, am very disappointed that the
major parties aren`t able to sit down and
work out a resolution, he said.
degree burns to 55 per cent oI his body in
2002, said removing the need Ior skin graIts
would be welcome.
'The skin graIts were probably one oI the
most painIul things that anyone could put
up with, said the 64-year-old, who was
engulIed by Ilames during a burn-oII on his
South Australian Iarm.
'My graIted skin is still tight and itchy. It`s
not painIul but is uncomIortable.
'This new skin Dr Greenwood is working
on will be more like your old skin and able
to sweat and breathe.
Wound management expert ProIessor
Stephen Prowse said there was huge
potential Ior Dr Greenwood`s technique to
treat the hundreds oI thousands oI people
with major open wounds such as leg ulcers.
'The big area in wound treatment is the
treatment oI complex wounds or chronic
ulcers that come Irom complications with
diabetes and vascular problems, said
ProIessor Prowse.
intent on prolonging the strike.
'Qantas reIused to allow employees to
work prior to the protected action period
and locked them out, he claimed.
The Transport Workers Union has labeled
the strike a success but it condemned
Qantas, claiming the airline used 'thugs
to deliver threatening letters to employees
in the middle oI the night.
The airline says the claims are incorrect.
Qantas says it had a legal obligation to
inIorm employees oI how it would respond
to the strike and the letters were delivered
to employees while they worked.
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34
Indian Cinema
Sharmila Tagores
husband, Tiger Pataudi
passes away
AIter remaining in the ICU oI Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi
Ior Iew weeks, Iormer captain oI
Indian cricket team Mansur Ali
Khan Pataudi took his last breath.
He was 70. For the last Iew days,
his health was a big concern. He
was in the ICU under 'very high
level oI oxygen support.
He was suIIering Irom lung
inIection and was admitted twice
last month. His condition had
deteriorated since Wednesday. He
was suIIering Irom interstitial lung
disease (interstitial pneumonitis)
which worsens rapidly in spite
oI the best treatment available,
inIorms Dr S.P. Byotra,
Department oI medicine oI Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital.
He leIt behind his wiIe actress
Sharmila Tagore and three
children, actor and son SaiI Ali
Khan and two daughters actress
Soha Ali Khan and daughter
Saba Ali Khan who is a jewellery
designer.
Nawab Pataudi was one oI the
fnest cricketers oI our country. He
was called the Tiger. It was a sad
day Ior cricket and Ior all.
kajal Agarwal poses
topless for Filmfare
I am a big fan of Aishwarya Rai,
says Playboy model Candice
Singham` actress Kajal Agarwal
aIter posing backless Ior FHM`
magazine posed topless Ior
FilmIare. Kajal who reportedly
denied posing topless Ior FHM`
magazine has no words to deIend
herselI this time. When her topless
picture hit the net, Kajal denied and
said that her picture was morphed
and she has never posed backless
Ior the magazine.
The picture on FilmIare cover page
shows Kajal covering her asset
with a net. The picture oI Kajal was
posted by FHM to prove that the
image that they have clicked Ior
their magazine was not morphed
and whatever Kajal has claimed was
totally baseless.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has added
another name in her Ians list and this
time an international name. Famous
Playboy model Candice who is
making her Bollywood debut with
Aazaan` said that she is a big Ian oI
Aishwarya Rai.
I did know about Bollywood beIore
doing this flm because while growing
up in South AIrica, we did have a
Iew Indian movies showcased on the
TV. I was aware a little bit about the
industry that it`s very colourIul and
has a lot oI music and dance,` Candice
told reporters in an interview.
'I don`t remember the names oI
the flm right now, but as Iar as the
Gulzar to get lifetime award at Mumbai lm fest
veteran poet-lyricist Gulzar will
be honoured with the lifetime
achievement award at the 13th
Mumbai Film Festival, says
Shyam benegal.
'This year we are giving the award
to Gulzar. He is a poet, lyricist,
flmmaker and a hugely talented
person in the Hindi flm industry,
Benegal, who is the Iestival
chairman, told reporters.
Brad Pitt-starrer 'Moneyball opens
the Mumbai Academy oI Moving
Image`s (MAMI) October 13th.
Mumbai Film Festival, a Reliance
Entertainment initiative will be
Iollowed by screening oI about 200
flms during the eight-day gala.
Morgan Freeman-starrer 'Dolphin
Tale will be the closing flm.
'A Ieast oI flms awaits you at the
13th Mumbai Film Festival. We
are extremely proud oI the Iact
that Mumbai Film Festival is Iast
getting recognized to be the best
international flm Iestival in the
country, said Benegal, who is
known Ior flms like 'Manthan,
'Ankur, 'Zubeidaa, 'Hari Bhari
and 'Welcome To Sajjanpur.
The Iestival will also pay tribute
to legends Shammi Kapoor, M.F.
Hussain and Mani Kaul with a
special screening oI their works.
Its not as if people would want
to watch only one lm during
Diwali, says Hema Malini who has
decided to release her daughter
Esha Deols relaunch Tell Me o
khuda with Shah Rukh khans
sci- ~RA.One.
'We had a meeting with the
distributors and exhibitors and
we all decided to go Ior a Diwali
release. I was advised against it
since RA.One` is also releasing
Ior Diwali. But it`s not as iI people
would want to watch only one flm
during Diwali, said Hema.
'II they like both they`ll see them
both. I personally think Diwali
is a wonderIul window Ior any
auspicious flm. Some oI the biggest
successes have happened during the
Iestive season. So why not go Ior it?
Hema isn`t aIraid oI the competition.
'We`ve made an emotional Iather-
daughter story. I don`t think we need
to Iear competition Irom anyone.
Apparently SRK has welcomed
'Tell Me O Khuda with open arms
into the Diwali release schedule.
Shah Rukh and Hemaji go back a
long way. In Iact, Hemaji was the
frst producer to sign Shah Rukh Ior
Dil Aashna Hai` which she directed.
Ever since then Shah Rukh has had
the highest regard Ior Hemaji, said
a source.
Tell Me o khuda
set for Diwali release,
Hema unperturbed
actors are concerned, I am a big Ian
oI Aishwarya Rai. She is gorgeous
and a great actress too. The Iact
that she has made a mark not only
in Bollywood but also Hollywood,
speaks a lot about her. She is
beautiIul,` added the model who
visited India six times.
Aazaan` has been directed by
Prashant Chadha and has Sachin
Joshi as the male lead. In the movie,
Candice plays Prashant`s love
interest.
The 27 year old Candice Bouncer is
really excited about her Bollywood
debut describing it as an opportunity
oI a liIetime.
LaIangey Parindey
Bachna Ae Haseeno
HouseIull
Break Ke Baad
Guess the Movie
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Indian Cinema
The best teachers in bollywood
While we all look back and Iondly
remember our Iavourite teachers this
Teacher`s Day, wishing them well and
recounting our Iavourite memories oI
them, we decided to take a look at
some oI the popular teachers that we
have seen onscreen so Iar.
And you, dear readers, certainly
have some Iavourites in there.
Saif Ali khan in Aarakshan
Kareena plays the breathtakingly
beautiIully Avantika Ahuja, a
Psychology proIessor in New York
who irrevocably Ialls in love with
Ehsaan, a terrorist.
But the seemingly Iragile Avantika
decides to do what`s right once she
comes to know oI her lover`s true
identity, showing great courage and
unfinching ideals.
Aamir khan in Taare Zameen Par
Esha Deol in yuva Shah Rukh khan in Mohabbatein
SaiI plays the charismatic Deepak
Kumar whose lower caste
background comes in the way oI his
aspiration oI living a respectIul and
dignifed liIe.
He`s courageous and morally upright
and so he takes on the system alone
to fght casteism, setting a precedent
Ior his students.
kareena kapoor in kurbaan
Aamir`s heartwarming directorial
debut Taare Zameen Par saw him
play the empathetic teacher Ram
Shankar Nikumbh who encourages
Ishaan to pursue what he loves the
most.
While we see the adorable Ishaan
come out oI his shell and be truly
happy with who he is, we can`t
help beaming. It`s the power oI the
teacher.
boman Irani in Munnabhai MbbS
Dr. Asthana could have been an
ordinary tyrannical character in
Munnabhai MBBS but Ior Boman
Irani.
The talented actor put the right spin
on it and voila! The hilarious Dr
Asthana became one oI the most
popular things about the flm.
The oddball does everything to
make himselI the most hated person
on the college campus but we end
up loving him as the ever-anxious
dad, the authoritarian head oI an
institution and his digs.
There was something about Esha in
Yuva. The actress was striking in the
flm as the spunky and Iree-spirited
Radhika who`s a teacher.
We love her even more when she
Ialls Ior Michael`s (Ajay Devgan)
idealism and ambition.
Sushmita Sen in Main Hoon Na
While Shah Rukh Khan said Main
Hoon Na, bong-shell Sushmita Sen
graced every Irame with her slender
fgure and those sizzling retro saris.
Aishwarya Rai bachchan in Shabd
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan took the
bombshell route with this flm. The
flm may have tanked but images
oI Ash with that nose-ring, wearing
halter-neck blouses and sheer
saris has stayed with Ians. Playing
a Iashion teacher, Ash certainly
looked very Iashionable.
Shah Rukh enters the Gurukul in the
flm with a mission and with Iallen
autumn leaves too!
With love on his side, the music
teacher takes on the might oI the
head oI the institution Narayan
Shankar (Amitabh Bachchan) and
succeeds in the end.
Pooja bhatt, Naseeruddin Shah
and Atul Agnihotri in Sir
ProIessor Amar Verma lives in a
restive, gangwar-ridden Mumbai and
has even lost his only son because oI
it. But instead oI turning cynical or
vengeIul, he tries to set things right
so that peace can prevail.
It`s especially endearing to see
him bond with his students and
how popular he is among them. A
memorable flm Irom the Bhatt camp.
Simi Garewal in Mera Naam Joker
The exotic and delicate Simi
Garewal plays Mary, a teacher that
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Indian Cinema
Saif, kareenas
marriage next year,
conrms Soha
Madhuri Dixit
relocating to India
Akshay back with karate
tournament in october
Rajpal, Raghubir to host
bIG Indian Comedy Awards
Finally, the secret is out oI the bag.
The royal wedding which was not
yet declared by the royal couple,
SaiI Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor
has fnally been confrmed by one
oI the important members oI the
Pataudi Iamily, Soha Ali Khan.
'They (SaiI and Kareena) have been
together Ior quite some time now
and their relationship has grown.
I can hardly wait Ior the wedding
next year. There will be a number
oI Iunctions and I am very excited
about what to wear, said the
younger sister.
The update about their wedding
is that designer Ritu Kumar is
working on Kareena`s wedding
outft and the groom has already
got the wedding ring Ior his bride.
SaiI who is busy with his sci-f
Agent Vinod` said, 'Something
big is defnitely happening next
year. This year we are going to
Iocus on our flm Agent Vinod and
next year, we are talking about
marriage.
Raju (Rish Kapoor) is besotted
with.
She knows oI Raju`s Ieelings
and tells him oII gently.
Amitabh bachchan
in Chupke Chupke
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The best teachers
in bollywood
Amitabh Bachchan played
the slightly gooIy and genial
Sukumar Sinha who`s an
English proIessor and is coaxed
into posing as Parimal Tripathi
(Dharmendra), his longtime
Iriend who`s trying to pull a Iast
one on his in-laws.
Sukumar obliges reluctantly but
gets in trouble when he meets
the girl oI his dreams. Amitabh`s
comic timing is great in the flm.
Here is good news Ior Madhuri
Dixit`s Ians. The Dhak Dhak diva
will be relocating to India aIter a
decade. Married to Dr. Sriram Nene
in 1999, Madhuri tweeted: 'For all
my Ians, we are relocating to India!
It will be good to be back home.
She will be relocating along with
her husband and two children. Her
business manager, however, said:
'Her husband Dr Sriram Nene will
also be coming back to India with
her. There are enough opportunities
Ior him and he has been talks Ior the
same.
Madhuri Dixit Nene was recently in
India Ior judging dance reality show,
Jhalak Dikhla Ja` and was last seen
in Yash Chopra`s flm Aajaa Nach
Action hero Akshay kumar, who is
in the midst of promoting his Indo-
Canadian venture Speedy Singh,
announced the third edition of his
karate tournament, to be held oct
1922. The actor promises it will be
bigger and better.
'For all karate enthusiasts, I`m back
with my yearly karate tournament,
bigger and better than ever beIore
Irom 19th to 22nd Oct, 2011, Akshay
posted on micro-blogging site Twitter.
The event Akshay Kumar
International Invitational Karate-do
Championship 2011 will be held at
Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai.
Akshay, a black belt in Taekwondo, had
launched the event in 2009, and also plans
to open a martial arts school in Mumbai.
The 44-year-old also started learning
traditional combat karate Ior his role
in upcoming flm 'Rowdy Rathore,
directed by Prabhudeva.
If grapevine is to be believed, actors
Rajpal yadav and Raghubir yadav
have been approached to host the
rst edition of BIG Indian Comedy
Awards to be held in october.
Both the actors are known Ior their
distinct style Rajpal is popular Ior
his comic timing, while Raghubir
has essayed a wide range oI roles in
his acting career. So one hopes that
the duo will add zing to the event.
The BIG Indian Comedy Awards, a
property oI Reliance Broadcast`s Big
Live, is aimed at Ielicitating the comic
artists across Bollywood and TV.
Le. She was also approached Ior
remake oI Satte Pe Satta.
At the peak oI her career, Madhuri
got married to Dr. Sriram Nene and
leIt Bollywood.
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Well, the shows over for another
year folks. It was a night of glitz,
glamour and I love you mom
speeches as Hollywood celebrated
the best of Tv at the 63rd
Primetime Emmy Awards, and
while some shows won big, others
walked away empty-handed.
THE WINNERS
Modern Family
Entertainment
Emmy awards
Guy Pearce, Charlie Sheen and
Modern Family the big winners of the night
Drive (PG) * * * *
Burn Rubber!
By ROBERT WALDMAN
A man on a mission runs into inner
turmoil in Drive, a pedal to the
metal thriller Irom Alliance Films
now peaking at the FiIth Avenue
Cinemas, Empire Studio 12,
Colossus and Famous Players Silver
City cites around B.C.
Better hold onto your seats as Drive,
a new thriller Irom Alliance Films,
revs up. Very busy Canadian actor
Ryan Gosling (The Notebook) is
Iront and centre as the flm`s chieI
character, simply known as Driver.
Heck, that`s all you need to know
about this guy who`s pretty good
behind the wheel. Job-wise, this
man drives cars in the movies Ior a
living. You could say he`s a glorifed
stuntman. Behind the scenes,
however, he also moonlights as a
driver Ior the odd thug or two.
LiIe in the Iast lane can be pretty
unpredictable. Being noble can also
has it`s downIall. Ever chivalrous,
when Driver accidentally meets a
new girl things slowly get a bit out
oI control. Cast in the part or Irene
is Carey Mulligan (Never Let Me
Go), a new Iriend to this loner oI a
guy who also comes with her own
set oI baggage. One things leads
to another and beIore you know it
Driver gets caught not only in a love
trap but Iurther problems related to
the CaliIornia underworld.
Intense is the best way to describe
Ryan Gosling`s perIormance here.
Consider this driver to be a bit like
a more calm Taxi Driver Robert De
Niro but no less compelling. Don`t
let the mild-manner oI this man Iool
you. Deep down inside there`s a
rage just ready to explode. And it`s
a girl that provides the spark.
More heat comes by the way oI the
murky characters Driver meets up
with. Going against criminals is
nothing new Ior this man only he
gets a bit more than he bargained Ior
when he encounters Bernie Rose and
Nino. Veteran actors Albert Brooks
(Taxi Driver) and Ron Perlman
(Hellboy) provide the gravitas as two
mobsters who make Driver`s liIe a
bit diIfcult. Once he gets wound up,
however, the tables turn quickly in
this outstanding 100 minute suspense
drama that never lets up.
Better Iasten your seatbelts, buckle
up and enjoy the ride as director
Nicolas Winding ReIn (Valhalla
Rising) unleashes a gutsy tale oI
power struggles, love and emotions
gone wild that will hardly leave you
time to catch your breath. Smart
stylish violence that`s graphic and
brutal truly captures the essence oI
some very bad people out to rule the
day but wind up taking on a very
Iormidable Ioe.
Goliath story, it seems perIectly
extraordinary that we`ve won.
Guy Pearce
The Aussie actor won Best
Supporting Actor in a Miniseries
or Movie Ior drama Mildred Pierce
and, in our opinion, had the best
acceptance speech. He said the
best part oI his award-winning role
was having sex with co-star Kate
Winslet every day and telling his
wiIe about it.
Charlie Sheen
Julie Bowen wins Best
Supporting Actress in a Comedy
for Modern Family.
Ashton Kutcher, presenting an award
with Jon Cryer: I want to tell you
something, I do not think you are
a troll.
The sitcom winning fve gongs,
including Outstanding Comedy
Series, Outstanding Supporting
Actor in a Comedy Series Ior Ty
Burrell and Outstanding Supporting
Actress Ior Julie Bowen.
Host Jane Lynch put it best:
'Welcome back to the Modern
Family awards.we`ve decided to
throw them into the drama category
to see what happens.
Melissa McCarthy
The Mike & Molly actress
overcame some serious competition
in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a
Comedy Series feld, including Tina
Fey and Amy Poehler.
Within minutes oI the win, the
Oscar buzz started, with predictions
McCarthy will pick up a Best
Supporting Actress statue Ior her
scene-stealing role in Bridesmaids.
Downton Abbey
It was up Ior 11 gongs, but only got to
take home Iour. Still, it`s an impressive
win Ior a British period drama.
Writer and creator Julian Fellowes
said: 'This is really a David and
He might not actually have a TV
credit to his name right now, but the
Iormer Two and A HalI Men star
still managed to came away as one
oI the night`s big winners.
Sheen, on his best behaviour, took
to the stage to present the award
Ior Outstanding Lead Actor in
a Comedy Series and took the
opportunity to reach out to his
Iormer sitcom co-stars:
'From the bottom oI my heart, I
wish you nothing but the best Ior
this upcoming season. We spent
eight wonderIul years together and
I know you will continue to make
great television.
Charlie Sheen famously called Cryer
a troll during his very public
meltdown earlier this year.
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day oI puja. The shoots, when grown, are
given to the attendees, as a blessing Irom
Goddess, aIter the puja ceremony.
Fourth, fIth and sixth days oI Navratri
are dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi, the
Goddess oI Wealth & Prosperity. Goddess
Saraswati is also prayed to, on the fIth
day, which is known as Lalita Panchami.
The seventh day is dedicated to Goddess
Saraswati, while the Goddess oI Art and
Knowledge is worshipped on the eight day
and a yagna is also perIormed.
The ninth day is the fnal day oI Navratri
celebrations, which is also known as
Mahanavami`. On this day, Kanya puja
is perIormed, where nine young, who
have not yet reached the stage oI puberty,
are worshipped. Each oI these nine girls
symbolizes one oI the nine Iorms oI
Goddess Durga. The Ieet oI the girls are
washed, to welcome the goddess and show
respect to her. ThereaIter, the girls are
oIIered Iood and a set oI new clothes, as a
giIt Irom the devotees.
has its origins in the Vedas. Durga is also
considered to be a combination oI the
Trinity oI goddesses. They are Saraswati,
Parvati, and Lakshmi. During Navratri,
these three main goddesses are worshipped
as well. The central theme oI Navratri
though is the triumph oI good over evil.
Customs & Rituals of Navratri
The main ritual oI Navratri, celebrated
on September-October, consists oI placing
images oI Goddess Durga, in homes and
Navratri is the nine day period of
worship before the festival of Dassera.
Navratri is a combination oI two words.
Nav` means nine while ratri` means
night. ThereIore, this celebration is
literally translated as nine nights`. The
celebrations begin on the frst day oI the
month oI Ashvin according to the Hindu
calendar. They culminate in the Iestival oI
Dassera, on the tenth day oI the month. As
per the Gregorian calendar, Navratri Ialls
in the month oI October. The exact date
diIIers Irom year to year though.
Why Navratri is Celebrated
The Iestival oI Dassera is celebrated to
worship the goddess Durga. She is the
embodiment oI Devi, or the supreme goddess.
The Iorm oI the goddess Durga is said to
symbolise creative energy and the Ieminine
body. This Iorm oI the goddess has nine
aspects. Navratri thereIore is dedicated to the
worship oI these aspects. Each Iorm or aspect
oI the goddess has its own day dedicated to it.
The Navratri celebrations are devoted to
the worship oI the Eternal mother, which
temples. The devotees oIIer Iruits and
fowers to the Goddess. They also sing
bhajans in her honor.
The frst three days oI Navratri are
devoted exclusively to the worship oI
Goddess Durga, when her energy and
power are worshipped. Each day is
dedicated to a diIIerent appearance oI
Durga, namely Kumari, Parvati and Kali.
There is also a custom oI planting barley
seeds in a small bed oI mud on the frst
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Friday September 23, 2011 Fiji Sun-Times V5 No42 Canada News Canada News
bAN SMokING AT
EDMoNToN PARkS AND
PlAyGRoUNDS: SURvEy
CRTC lAyS NEW GRoUND RUlES IN MEDIA MARkET
DRIvERS bEHIND WHEElS IN SCHool ZoNES
NIvEA MUST CoRRECT FAlSE SlIMMING CREAM ClAIMS
Majority oI Edmonton residents want the
city to regulate smoking at playgrounds
and sports Iields, concludes a city survey.
The survey indicates 80 per cent oI
people would like the city to step in
and restrict smoking at playgrounds and
spray parks.
Seven oI 10 people would like to see
smoking banned on outdoor sport Iields
and skating rinks when children are
playing.
HalI oI the survey respondents would
like to see smoking banned altogether on
city Iields, trails and parks.
Nevertheless the survey results don`t
mean a bylaw is necessary, said Coun.
Kerry Diotte.
About 40 per cent oI respondents
indicated they would preIer an
educational approach to keep parks
smoke-Iree rather than enIorcing a bylaw
through Iines, he said.
'I think everybody realizes they don`t
want to see adults smoking around
children and it doesn`t happen very
much, he said. 'But we don`t need a
nanny state bylaw to say thou shalt not,
it`s just not necessary at this time.
The survey consisted oI 400 telephone
interviews conducted Irom July 29 to
August 9 and has a margin oI error oI
plus or minus 4.9 at a conIidence level
oI 95.
The report will go to city council
September 27th.
Media giants have to play Iair, share and
listen to customers under new guidelines
laid out Wednesday by Canada`s broadcast
regulator.
The Canadian Radio-television
Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
released the ground rules Ior a broadcast
industry grappling with new platIorms and
vertically integrated companies.
Vertically integrated companies include,
Ior example, cable or satellite companies
that also own the TV channels they sell to
Canadians.
CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein
said the new rules strike a balance between
independent companies that were seeking
stricter rules, and the major market players
that balked at any regulatory Iixes.
'We clearly wanted to make sure the
big players can enjoy the beneIits oI
consolidation, he said. 'At the same time,
we want to make sure the small players
don`t get squashed.
Under the new rules, companies must
share their TV programming with other
companies interested in making it available
to their mobile or Internet customers.
But media giants can still develop exclusive
A woman waxing her eyebrows. A man
shaving. Someone else reading a book.
All three were driving near schools at height
oI the morning commute, according to a team
Irom CAA Manitoba that set out Wednesday
to look Ior dangerous drivers in school zones.
The driver spotted grooming her brows
behind the wheel was close to Hastings
School in St. Vital.
'She was stopped at a stop sign, but really,
that`s only a three-second stop. I don`t think
that`s enough time to pull your wax strip oII,
said Angele Faucher, public and government
aIIairs co-ordinator Ior CAA Manitoba. 'It`s
very disturbing. Why don`t you take the Iive
extra minutes beIore you leave home, so
you`re not having to distracted drive?
The automobile club sent out a team that
included three police oIIicers to conduct
Canada`s Competition Bureau is
ordering the manuIacturer oI Nivea to
stop making inaccurate claims about one
oI its products.
Nivea advertised that regular use oI
its My Silhouette product slims and
reshapes the body, and in some cases,
helps take oII up to the three centimeters
on targeted areas such as thighs, hips,
waist and belly.
The Competition Bureau said the claims
are not backed up by adequate and proper
testing, contrary to the Competition Act.
As part oI an agreement announced two
weeks ago, BeiersdorI, Nivea`s Canadian
and original content to be delivered to their
customers solely through their own devices.
The regulator has also developed a code
oI conduct to prevent anti-competitive
behaviour and ensure companies negotiate
deals in good Iaith.
Head of the CRTC Konrad Von Finckenstein
Finally, it dictated that 25 oI all specialty
services distributed by the big industry
players must be owned by an independent
broadcaster.
But the regulator tossed the ball back to
the broadcasters on two key issues: What`s
called 'skinny basic cable and pick-and-
pay packages. Both would give consumers
more Ilexibility in the cable packages they
purchase.
The CRTC is asking Bell Canada, Quebecor
Media, Rogers Communications, and
Shaw Communications to submit a report
by April 1, 2012, detailing what each has
done to meet consumer demands.
Mirko Bibic, senior vice-president
with regulatory and government aIIairs
with Bell Canada, called the guidelines
disappointing and argued they would stiIle
innovation.
He also slammed the commission Ior
saying it will arbitrate price disputes
between media players iI necessary.
'That is price regulation and that is the most
heavy-handed Iorm oI price regulation you
can have.
But it`s a victory Ior the little guys, said
Canadian Network Broadcast Consortium`s
William SandiIord.
'We`re Iairly comIortable the CRTC has
put measures in place that will allow the
small, independent or new upstarts to
compete in this space in the Iuture, he
said.
saIety assessments, watching and counting
driving inIractions outside three Winnipeg
elementary schools Hastings, Ecole Tuxedo
Park and Inkster.
There was no shortage oI examples oI risky
driving. Besides speeding, Iailing to signal
Ior lane changes and distracted driving were
the biggest problems, CAA said.
In all, the crew recoded 84 instances that
could be considered 'distracted driving, and
it wasn`t just people talking on cell phones
or texting.
'Everything Irom drinking, eating, smoking
and putting on makeup. One motorist
was seen reading a book and another was
spotted shaving, said Liz Peters, public
and government aIIairs manager Ior CAA
Manitoba.
One driver could be seen smoking in the car
distributor, agreed it did not contest this
conclusion.
But the Bureau said Thursday that in
statements to the media, in a news release
and on the Nivea.ca website, the company
said the perIormance claims and testing
were supported by independent research.
'BeiersdorI Canada Inc. is required
to take immediate action to ensure
compliance with the Consent Agreement
to ensure that no Iuture violations
occur, Melanie Aitken, Commissioner
oI Competition, said in a statement.
BeiersdorI agreed to remove the
oIIending statement.
with a kid inside, which is illegal in Manitoba.
The smoking scoIIlaw was the only one
pulled over and warned during Wednesday`s
campaign, Peters said.
The goal oI CAA`s campaign, Peters said,
was raising awareness about bad driving in
school zones.
'Here our priority was not writing tickets, but
sending a message that there are problems
and we`ll continue to address them, she said.
Police were apparently itching to stop
scoIIlaws on Wednesday but opted Ior trying
to educate drivers instead.
'It`s actually quite diIIicult Ior my oIIicers
to observe the oIIences and not give out
tickets. But it`s important to participate, said
Sgt. Doug SaIioles. 'People need to know
they are putting their lives and other lives in
danger by ... distracted driving.
The bureau said it will continue to
monitor compliance with the agreement.
Under its terms, BeiersdorI was required
to:
ReIund the purchase price and shipping
costs to Canadian customers.
Immediately remove the products Irom
Canadian shelves.
Pay an administrative penalty oI
$300,000.
Publish a corrective notice on Nivea`s
Canadian website and in major Canadian
newspapers.
Pay $80,000 to cover costs associated
with the Bureau`s investigation.
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Clifford olson dying of CanCer
south asian women enter VanCouVers muniCipal eleCtion
municipal elections 2011
python found in
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park
Child killers impending death celebrated
CliIIord Olson, the selI-described Beast
oI B.C.` is dying oI cancer, a painIul end
many Canadians can`t help but rejoice.
'I`ve waited 30 years Ior this, said mother
Terry Bizeau, whose daughter Terri Lyn
Carson, 15, was strangled by the notorious
child killer during his reign oI terror across
southern British Columbia three decades
ago. 'Once he is dead, justice will be
done.
Other Iamilies oI the 11 slain children
expressed similar sentiments aIter learning
earlier this week Irom corrections oIIicials
that Olson is on his deathbed.
Dee Johnston, whose 13-year-old step-
daughter Colleen Daignault was also killed
added: 'You raise (children) believing that
you don`t wish him any harm, you don`t
wish him dead, but deep down in our guts
we do want him dead.
Sharon RosenIeldt, whose 16-year-old son
Daryn Johnsrude was Olson`s third victim,
said she was told he had been moved to a
hospital in Laval, Que. near his prison in
Sainte-Anne-Des-Plaines, where he has
been serving a liIe sentence Ior the child
sex murders.
'Once the cancer has metastasized. It could
be in the brain, it could be in the bones,
The boys have all packed up and leIt,
but two women in Vancouver`s second-
largest minority group are stepping up to
the plate.
Niki Sharma and Sandy Sharma are
running in this year`s municipal election,
one in which no South Asian male
politicians wanted to participate.
Vancouver hasn`t been a kind place Ior
municipal politicians oI South Asian
heritage.
No woman Irom that community has
been elected so Iar. Tracey Jastinder
Mann was the last who tried Ior any oI
the larger parties, as a Green candidate
Ior park board in 2005. She Iinished IiIth
Irom last.
In Iour decades since the 1970s, only three
male South Asians have been elected to
civic positions in the city. These are Setty
Pendakur, a city councilor in the 1970s;
Harkirpal Sara, a school-board trustee
in the 1980s; and Raj Hundal, who was
elected as a park commissioner in 2008.
Niki Sharma is a last-minute recruit oI
Vision Vancouver as the ruling party
needed a IiIth candidate Ior park board.
Born to immigrant parents Irom India,
the University oI Albertaschooled
lawyer grew up in B.C.`s interior town oI
Sparwood. She says she`s very proud oI
her heritage.
it could be in the pancreas but once it
has metastasized that`s the Iinal stages,
RosenIeldt said Wednesday.
Olson went on trial in 1982 Ior killing eight
girls and three boys between the ages oI
nine and 18 in B.C.
He`s never expressed regret Ior the murders
and said he actually killed more than 100.
He dubbed himselI the Beast oI B.C.` and
has continued to torment the Iamilies oI
victims, once trying to sell memorabilia oI
his crimes on a website.
Quotes by Clifford olson
II it wasn`t enough that he raped and
murdered kids, CliIIord Olson`s words
over the years continued to raise the bile
'But I`m also proud to be Canadian
and, most importantly, proud to be a
Vancouverite, and I think that`s not unlike
many residents Irom a range oI backgrounds
that call Vancouver home, Sharma told
the Georgia Straight in a phone interview.
'The Iocus on this campaign will be less
on my cultural background and more on the
issues.
Sandy Sharma was also recently draIted as
a candidate. She`s running Ior school board
oI the Canadian public. Here are a Iew oI
the lowlights:
'My remorse was when I pleaded guilty,
Olson said in Nov. 2010 interview. 'All
these parents whining and crying and using
my parole as a platIorm ... I--- em. Get
over it.
'What good is money to me? I got no use
Ior it, iI you get what I`m getting at. I guess
I gotta make a will in case I get a heart
attack or something.
Don`t want these bastards getting my
money, Olson said in a March 2010
interview about receiving Old Age
Security.
'Most serial killers I know should never
be paroled. That`s just my opinion, Olson
said in 2006.
'John, you`re (sic) a little late in
reintroducing your private member`s bill
the Iaint hope clause. Soory (sic) sucker:
Smile now, Olson wrote in a April 1996
letter to Toronto MP John Nunziata, who
tried to repeal Section 745 oI the Criminal
Code, which allows convicted murderers
to apply Ior Ireedom aIter 15 years oI a liIe
sentence. 'The Beast oI British Columbia
I`m (sic) coming back home August 12,
1996 and Not a I---ing thing you can do.
with the Non-Partisan Association but
didn`t respond to calls made by the Straight
to the number provided by the party.
According to Ken Denike, the longest-
serving school-board trustee with the NPA,
Sandy Sharma has a good shot because oI
her experience as a member oI the executive
oI the district parent advisory council.
In 2008, six South Asian male politicians
ran Ior various municipal positions
with Vision, NPA, and the Coalition oI
Progressive Electors. All oI them ended
at the bottom oI their respective slates Ior
council, school board, and park board,
although Hundal managed a squeaker oI
a win.
Hundal isn`t running Ior reelection, but he
has been nominated as a candidate Ior the
B.C. NDP. The Iive other Iormer candidates
in the last election aren`t running this year.
'The City oI Vancouver does need to
represent, be representative oI, its ethnic
makeup, Hundal told the Straight in a
phone interview.
OI Vancouver`s 571,600 people counted in
the 2006 census, 32,515 are oI South Asian
descent. They are a distant second to the
Chinese as a visible minority, who number
168,215, and only slightly larger a group
than the Filipino community`s 28,605.
The lack oI South Asian representation in
Vancouver`s political liIe may be serving
Last month, a Iour Ioot corn snake was
discovered in Queen`s Park. On Friday,
someone abandoned a young ball python.
15-inch 'Ayo is about eight weeks old,
according to Val LoIvendahl with the
Reptile Rescue, Adoption, and Education
Society in Richmond. She`s helping to
nurse the snake back to health.
'He`s moving around, and he`s drinking
water, and he`s looking okay. He`s thin.
The day we got him, he pooped out an
undigested mouse. That could have been
Irom the stress oI the day.
She believes Ayo`s owner dumped him in
Queen`s Park.
'People don`t want them. I guess
occasionally, they can actually escape and
then just be Iound. But more oIten than not,
somebody doesn`t want it anymore and
they just let it go.
New Westminster by-laws prohibit people
Irom owning pythons.
Since ball pythons are native to AIrica, Ayo
probably wouldn`t have made it through
the winter.
this is the second unusual snake
found in Queens park in
new westminster in a month
as a great motivation Ior women to run
Ior oIIice, according to Indira Prahst,
who was recently appointed as chair oI
Langara`s department oI sociology and
anthropology.
'The question Iirst that comes to mind
is, Are these women entering a race
not aware oI the challenges that exist
Ior South Asians in politics?` Prahst
said in a phone interview. 'Or is it that
these women, in Iact, are believing in
themselves, believing in their credentials,
having done grassroots activism.
and Ieel conIident that they`re able to
address community issues?
Vision park-board chair Aaron Jasper is
aware oI the Irustrations with the city`s
at-large system oI electing candidates,
which is seen by some as discriminatory
against ethnic-minority candidates.
'I think there is validity to that concern,
Jasper told the Straight by phone. 'Is
a ward system the answer? I don`t
think so. But perhaps we should have
a conversation. Perhaps there is some
proportional system, a mixed system,
some way to address that.
As Ior the park-board candidacy oI
Vision`s Niki Sharma, Jasper said that
the party saw her not as a South Asian
candidate but simply as a valuable
member oI the team.
Niki Sharma is a Vision Vancouver
candidate for the citys park board
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your first trip to hawaii
Travel
Continued neXt week
Today, the people oI Molokai continue
to Ioster a strong connection to the
land, a responsibility to perpetuate the
Hawaiian culture, and a love Ior country
living that sets them apart Irom the other
Islands oI Aloha.
molokai faQs
what is the time difference from the
continental uS?
Hawaii Iollows Hawaii Standard Time
(GMT-10 hours), which is 5 hours behind
Eastern Standard Time and 2 hours
behind Pacifc Standard Time. Hawaii
does not observe Daylight Savings
Time so add one extra hour to the time
diIIerence during this period (March
through November).
where is the main airport on Molokai?
The main airport on Molokai is Molokai
Airport (MKK). There is no direct
service to Molokai Irom the continental
US. Instead, fy to Oahu`s Honolulu
International Airport (HNL), where you
can connect to local airlines with service
to Molokai Airport. You can also take
day trips between Kaunakakai Harbor
and Lahaina Harbor in Maui on an inter-
island Ierry service. The Molokai Princess
crosses the Kalohi Channel twice a day,
once in the morning, once in the late
aIternoon. Travel time is approximately
90 minutes. For more inIormation visit
www.molokaiIerry.com.
Blitz teaches endangered road users to tread carefully
About 1,000 pedestrians, 500 drivers
and 400 cyclists received timely
reminders about crossing some oI
the city`s most dangerous corridors
without a trip to the hospital, during
a three-week saIety blitz Iunded by
the Province and led by Vancouver
Police.
A spike in local pedestrian deaths
nine to date this year, compared with
fve in all oI 2010 led the Province
and Vancouver Police Department
to collaborate on a pedestrian saIety
campaign. The Province provided
$30,000 through its Enhanced TraIfc
EnIorcement Program Ior extra
police enIorcement on high-traIfc
corridors. The resulting Pedestrian
EnIorcement Initiative Iocused on
raising awareness about pedestrian
saIety and high-risk behaviours that
jeopardize it.
The initiative ran during peak traIfc
for school age children, teach them to:
Stop at the curb or edge oI the road beIore
crossing, and to never run into the street.
Look and listen Ior traIfc to the leIt, then
to the right and then to the leIt again.
Cross at the street corner and walk in
crosswalks. Obey the traIfc signals and
signs. Keep looking while crossing the
street.
Always watch out Ior cars. The drivers
may not see pedestrians or yield right oI
way.
Never go between parked cars to cross
the street.
East Broadway Irom Ontario to
Commercial.
Quotes:
JPD Trafhc Unit, Inspector Ted
Schinbein
'Our oIfcers would rather issue
warnings and tickets than try to
explain a completely avoidable death
to a grieving Iamily. Going Iorward,
we truly hope these corridors will be
saIer Ior everyone who`s using them.
Quick facts:
Over the past fve years, more than
Iour out oI fve crashes involving
pedestrians in Vancouver occurred at
intersections.
Two-thirds oI the road deaths in
Vancouver since Jan. 1, 2011 were oI
pedestrians nine oI 14.
In all oI 2010, fve oI the city`s nine
motor-vehicle-related Iatalities were
pedestrians.
In 2009, 10 oI 16 were pedestrians.
periods Irom Aug. 22 to Sept. 12, with:
OIfcers speaking to an estimated
1,002 pedestrians, 525 drivers and 385
cyclists, to whom they issued 870 verbal
warnings, 792 tickets and 750 pamphlets.
142 pedestrians cited Ior disobeying
traIfc signals, unsaIe use oI crosswalks,
jaywalking and other oIIences.
414 drivers ticketed Ior running red
or yellow lights, not wearing seatbelts,
using hand-held electronic devices,
speeding, Iailing to yield to pedestrians,
and other oIIences.
236 cyclists halted 174 oI them Ior
riding without helmets, and most others
Ior running red lights or riding on the
sidewalk.
OIfcers involved monitored three
corridors containing the highest
concentrations oI pedestrian injuries
and Iatalities: Hastings Street between
Abbott and Nanaimo, Burrard Street
between Dunsmuir and Davie, and
Continued FRoM LASt week round. The Hawaiian games oI the Ka
Molokai Makahiki Festival are held in
January and the Molokai Ka Hula Piko in
May is a popular event at Papohaku Beach
celebrating the birth oI the hula. Whale
watching season begins in December and
ends in May. Peak whale watching months
are between January and early April.
How far is it from Molokai Airport
(Mkk) to:
Halawa Valley: 2 hours
Kaunakakai: 15 minutes
Maunaloa: 40 minutes
what is the area code for Molokai?
The area code Ior the state oI Hawaii
is (808).
do i need a car to get around Molokai?
There is no public transportation on
Molokai so it`s best to rent a car. Quantities
are limited so make reservations in
advance. Taxi services are limited. II you`re
planning on heading up to the Kamakou
Preserve or the Molokai highlands, a
4-wheel drive vehicle is required.
where are the major accommodations
areas on Molokai?
Accommodations on Molokai vary Irom
the oceanIront Aqua Hotel Molokai to
rental condos, cottages, and bed and
breakIasts in Kaunakakai and Maunaloa.
do i need my passport to get to Molokai?
Since Hawaii is the 50th state, you won`t
need to bring your passport unless you`re
visiting Irom outside the United States or
traveling to another country aIter Hawaii.
what should i pack on my trip to Molokai?
Year round temperatures average around
75 F (23.9 C) so bring your casual
clothes. At Molokai`s higher elevations,
it can get a bit cooler and wetter so pack
a light jacket or sweater Ior the evenings.
II you plan on taking a mule or horseback
ride, pack a pair oI jeans and sturdy shoes.
While traveler`s checks aren`t necessary, it
is recommended that you carry some cash
while visiting Molokai since not every
storeIront takes credit and/or debit cards
and ATM`s may not be readily available.
when is a good time to visit Molokai?
The weather in Molokai is pleasant year
molokai highlights:
Kalaupapa National Historical Park:
Take a mule ride Irom 1,700 Ieet to one
oI Hawaii`s most remote settlements.
molokai Quick facts
Halawa Valley: Sacred Hawaiian
cathedral valley, blessed with beautiIul
vistas and two towering waterIalls.
Papohaku Beach: At three miles long,
this is one oI the largest white sand
beaches in Hawaii.
airports:
Molokai`s main airport is Molokai
Airport (MKK). Kalaupapa Airport
(LUP) is a small commuter airport
serving this isolated peninsula.
street safety
Kaunakakai: Molokai`s main town
Ieatures historic landmarks, the state`s
longest pier, and unique shops and eateries.
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It is a lovely Saturday morning; the sun
is shining bright, the sky is blue and
cloudless, the birds are twittering and
you are sipping your hot cup oI coIIee.
Suddenly, you sense a jolt and Ieel your
comIortable soIa swinging Irom side
to side like a cradle. BeIore you can
even realize what is happening, you
Ieel the tremors getting stronger and
fnd yourselI being gripped by Iear. A
strong earthquake is jolting the senses
right out oI you! In a panicky situation,
usually your mind races as to what to
do, though you don`t really seem to
come to a conclusion. Given here are
a Iew earthquake saIety tips, which,
when kept in mind can help you be saIe
during an earthquake.
what to do in Case of earthquake
Earthquakes can be very scary and
can make any relaxed person tensed
immensely. But you need to keep your
mind stable in order to make sure you
are saIe. Be calm and try not to run here
and there.
Take time to move out in the open
away Irom buildings and electric wires,
iI you are outside. II you manage to
come out oI your house, go to an open
space like a garden or a park where you
will be a lot saIer.
II you live quite some foors above in
your building, try to seek shelter near
a bulky object such as a soIa. Curl up
and sit on the foor and make sure you
are not near a window, mirror, freplace,
gas stove or have heavy paintings or
wall hangings above you. Avoid using
the liIt or escalators.
Some people say you should stand
on a doorway. That is just not the
case. Heavens Iorbid, iI the doorway
jambs are weak, they might Iall on
you, crushing and killing you almost
instantly. Also, iI people want to pass
through that door, you may trap them
and yourselI by standing there. Leave
all doorways Iree.
Another important thing to keep in
mind is that you must not climb down
the stairs during an earthquake. Stairs
can swing wildly, due to Iact they don`t
have beams or pillars supporting them.
They have the maximum chances oI
collapsing even iI the building remains
intact. In case the tremors stop, aIter a
Iew seconds, just climb down the stairs
at a rapid pace and move out oI the
building, but don`t run.
Earthquakes usually crack gas pipes
and snap electrical wires. II you smell
gas at your place, open all windows and
let it out. Turn oII the main gas valve to
stop any more gas leakage. Don`t light
candles or lighters and create an even
bigger disaster.
II you are driving and Ieel a jolt, stop
your car at the side oI the road and get
out. Make sure you are not on a bridge,
under an overpass or near electric
cables. Bridges and overhead roads
have the maximum dangers oI Ialling.
Safety Tips
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Answer to a Pacic`s problem comes from Fiji
thakur Ranjit Singh
Nations and UNDP, who was in Auckland
to attend PIF meeting. On the historical
day oI 2011 Rugby World Cup in Auckland
on 9 September, Ratuniyarawa sent
money via text message Irom Auckland
city`s Lotus Foreign Exchange outlet to
Mr Bai`s general store in rural Vunidawa,
in the heart oI Naitasiri Province in Fiji.
Attorney General oI Fiji Sayed-Khaiyum,
was present during this launch in rural
Naitasiri with representatives oI VodaIone,
UNDP and Lotus Foreign Exchange. As
gesture oI goodwill, money transIerred
was donated to Vunidawa District School
and Vunidawa Indian School.
Ratuniyarawa who had specially Ilown
Irom Gisborne Ior this launch was
overjoyed that this was a great service
that he could use to send money to his
village by using his mobile phone, very
easily, saIely as well as cheaply. 'Many
Fijians like me who live and work abroad
will now beneIit Irom this service, and
this opportunity will see many more
people sending money home without
hassles. Similarly, people in rural areas
in Fiji will not have to travel Iar to cash,
'Ratuniyarawa told the audience in the
Auckland launch. He was grateIul to the
PaciIic Financial Inclusion Programme
and UNDP Ior spread oI this innovation
to New Zealand.
Knut Ostby oI UNDP told the guests
that through PaciIic Financial Inclusion
Programme (PFIP), UNDP, UN Capital
Development Fund, AusAid and the
European Union worked together, among
others, on projects involving access to
Iinancial services and development. 'We
are committed to helping PaciIic Islanders
have access to more aIIordable, saIe and
convenient Iinancial services and help
save Ior a rainy day, Knut said during the
launch.
He explained that the success oI sending
money through mobile phones required
three prerequisites to be IulIilled. These
needed successIul marriage oI technology,
with international Iinancial
mechanism within telecom
companies which has to be
enabled by the regulatory
part which allowed such
transactions to operate
legally across the borders.
The latter concern was
alleviated by assurance
Irom the ChieI Guest in the
simultaneous launch at the
recipient end in Naitasiri,
Fiji. Attorney General
Aiyaz Saiyed-Khaiyum
said that the system was
compliant. 'I would like
to report and assure you
that the Central Bank has
Iully evaluated and tested
this service against the
backdrop oI its payments
systems and Iorex market
rules and objectives, 'Khaiyum told the
guests in Fiji.
Knut`s concern in New Zealand was the
high cost oI remittance. 'In the PaciIic,
the average cost oI sending $200 is close
to 20 percent and that does not include the
cost oI getting into town to pick up your
Iunds, 'he said. However the solution to
this has been provided by Lotus Foreign
Exchange, which according to its Fiji-born
managing Director Pravin Kumar, remains
one oI, iI not the cheapest in New Zealand.
He assured that at Lotus Forex rate oI any
value transactions at $10 each, a $200
transIer would incur only 5 percent cost,
while a $1000 transIer will incur only 1 per
cent in remittance Iee.
While Auckland City was teeming to
launch the opening ceremony oI Rugby
World Cup, a small event in the heart oI
the city was destined to make history in
bringing joy not only to rural population
in Fiji like Vunidawa, but was going to be
a Iorerunner Ior such innovative cheaper
Iacilities in other PaciIic countries. Indeed
the launch oI UNDP-VodaIone- Lotus
Forex partnered M-PAISA in Auckland
on 9 September 2011 would be Iondly
recalled like the opening ceremony oI the
2011 Rugby World Cup on the same day
in the same city. Except, that NZ Foreign
Minister, Murray Mc Cully will also be
remembered Ior executing a coup- an act
Ior which he was very critical oI Fiji`s
Bainimarama.
thakur Ranjit Singh is a media
commentator based in Auckland
New Zealand`s Foreign AIIairs Minister,
Murray McCully continued with his hard-
stance on Fiji during the recent PaciIic
Islands Forum (PIF) meeting in Auckland
that coincided with the opening oI the
Rugby World Cup (RWC) that has brought
some notoriety to this minister. What
was pleasing was that some thawing was
noticed in the PIF communique which said
that no preconditions would be placed on
Fiji as it prepares towards the promised
2014 election. Well done minister, but your
troubles are Iar Irom over.
The Iiasco oI a NZ Rail train to nowhere,
Ians stranded on inhospitable railway
tracks and gross overcrowding in the city
on RWC opening night brought instant
Iame to McCully who also happens to be
the Rugby World Cup Minister. In a rash
reaction to the apparent Iailure oI the so-
called super city oI Auckland to deliver
a well-oiled organisation, the Minister
blew the whistle and red-carded Auckland
Council (AC). In what some consider
as a knee-jerk reaction and a National
Government punishing a Labour mayor,
McCully sent AC to sin bin Ior dropping
the ball. The minister eIIectively wrested
control oI the RWC Irom the Council.
One radio commentator was quick to
quip that while McCully had been slating
Bainimarama Ior executing a coup in Fiji,
he had done exactly that by dumping AC.
It was likened to a coup, seizing control oI
the responsibilities oI Auckland Council
in being the organizers and host Ior RWC.
The only diIIerence was that McCully did
not use the military in executing this so-
called gentleman`s (some say white man`s)
coup. But that is not today`s discussion
which has greater implications Ior the
PaciIic nations.
While the PIF leaders as guests oI New
Zealand government was having a picnic
on Auckland`s picturesque Waiheke
Island, a small yet highly signiIicant
launch was taking place in the centre oI
Auckland which was already teeming
with crowd that was going to be nemesis
to Auckland Council`s RWC opening
ceremony. This was a launch with very
high implication Ior the PaciIic Islands
which heavily depended on remittances
Irom New Zealand and their combined
concerns about security and high charges
oI such transactions. Even New Zealand
government shared their concern about the
high cost oI remittances Irom New Zealand
and had been a strong advocate oI a website
that shed light on the high costs oI such
transIers. The answer to this was provided
by Fiji, a Fiji-based company and a Fiji-
born entrepreneur. What a coincidence.
Despite John key and McCully declaring
that Fiji will not be on the agenda oI PIF, it
appears all they spoke was about Fiji, Fiji
and Fiji. In a similar Iashion, Fiji again
stood tall in introducing an innovation that
had hitherto been Ioreign to New Zealand.
A partnership between VodaIone Fiji
and Lotus Foreign Exchange saw the
expansion oI the popular locally Fiji-
based M-PAISA money transIer across
the borders. The subdued beep oI mobile
phone`s text message sent Irom the heart
oI Auckland city to a remote village
in Fiji created history and aims to be a
milestone on money transIer to other
countries. This was history in making Ior
international money transIer in the PaciIic
and developing nations across the globe.
That is exactly what happened when a
New Zealand based Fiji rugby player
Irom Gisborne, Apisalome Ratuniyarawa
sent money via innovative money transIer
M-PAISA text message through mobile
phone to his village in Fiji. On hand to
help Ratuniyarawa launch this innovative
across the border service was Knut Ostby,
Fiji-based Resident Coordinator Ior United
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from where he sent money home to Fiji. He receives
conrmation caII that money he sent via his mobiIe phone
was received in rural Vunidawa, Naitasiri in Fiji while Knut
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5600 DORSET STREET, BURNABY BC
PH: 604-254-2624
ramayan katha
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Sunday 10am to 3pm
Monday 10am to 1pm, 5pm to 8pm
Tuesday 10am to 1pm, 5pm to 9pm
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COLEBROOK UNITED CHURCH
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Affliated with Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
GOOD NEWS ASSEMBLY FOR JESUS
James Kumar 604-581-3191 (res) 604-599-9518 (work) Cecil Labon 604-572-4854
Serving the community since 1972
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Sunday Service 10:30 am12:00 noon
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We pray Ior sickness, demon possessed & Iamily problems.
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Sunday Service 5.30 p.m. (Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi & English)
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467 E 11th Avenue, Vancouver, V5T 2C8
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NAYA JEEWAN CHURCH
38868 - 128th Street, Surrey BC
Service Sundays 2:00pm
Bible Study (Hindi & English) Wednesdays 7:30pm
Prayer, Counselling & Visitations Available
Pastor Eileen Reddy 604.842.2189
GLOBAL FIJIAN ASSEMBLIES
Pastor simeli Lesi Korobasaga
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Phone: 604.592.9001 CeII: 778.938.2734 EmaiI: Iesi1968@yahoo.ca
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Every Sunday 25PM
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Services are in Hindi and English
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Vancouver sunday worship service: 1:45pm
6075 Inverness St 45th Ave
(Pilgrim Baptist Ch Bldg)
Contact Pastor Silas Naidu (604) 517-4490
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Monday to Sunday Morning 8:00am10:00am
Evening 6:00pm8:00pm
Daily Aarthi 7:00pm
Ramayan Katha Friday 6:00pm10:00pm
Pooja/Special Prayer Sessions/Temple/Hall
PT. Shiu Madri 604.582.4899
PUJARI Soma Sundaran 604.363.7180
President: H.C. Gopal 604.290.1114
Then India Sanmarga Ikya Sangam Educational and Cultural Society, BC, Canada (EST. 1982 Incorporated S176969)
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Maathar Sangam Activities & Volunteers
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9326 - 116th Street, Delta, BC
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8840 - No.5 Road. Richmond, B.C. V6Y 2V4 604 274 7906
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ALL WELCOME
holds Hawan, Pravachan and Satsangh followed bv Preetibhof
everv Sundav 10.00 a.m.12.00 noon at the Arva Samaf Centre, 6884 Jubilee Ave., Burnabv, B.C.
Yoga, Pranaavaam and Meditation classes held everv Wednesdav 7.00 p.m.8.30 p.m.
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For further information call 604.874.9856
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at Shiv Mandir
From Tuesday September 27th to Wednesday October 5th, 2011
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Shree Durga Mata Pooja on Tuesday October 4th at 10:00 a.m.
Kirtan, Bhajan, Devi Bhagwat Katha, Aarti & Shantipath
Everyone is cordially invited. Pritibhoj every night after pooja.
For more information: Pt. Shiv N. Mishra 604.253.5109 or call Shiv Mandir 604.254.2624
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weekly sport
The Fiji Times
The most trusted name in news and sports
The return of Josh Koscheck could
coincide with the exit of Matt Hughes
Josh Koscheck is receiving a sabbatical
Irom his token role as a UFC card`s mouthy
villain Ior once.
The 33-year old welterweight regularly
instigates his opponents with pre-fght talk,
but he`s stayed relatively quiet entering his
UFC 135 co-main event against Matt Hughes.
That`s partly because the ongoing war oI
words between main event participants Jon
Jones and Quinton 'Rampage Jackson has
hogged all the attention.
'I`m a little antsy up here because usually
my fghts have all the drama, Koscheck
said Wednesday at a press conIerence at the
Pepsi Center. 'This fght doesn`t have as
much drama as these two guys over here, so
it`s a little diIIerent scene Ior me.
Koscheck (15-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) and
Hughes (45-8 MMA, 18-6 UFC) have more
pressing concerns surrounding their bout.
Koscheck is returning Irom a 10-month
injury layoII aIter suIIering a shattered
orbital bone against Georges St. Pierre in
their UFC 124 title fght.
The 37-year old Hughes, a UFC Hall oI
Famer and the promotion`s all-time wins
leader, has reached the end oI his current
contract. He could opt to retire aIter
Saturday`s bout.
'AIter this fght, win or lose doesn`t matter,
I`ll talk to the UFC and we`ll see what we`re
going to do, Hughes said. 'My wiIe says
I`m done fghting.
Hughes` wiIe hoped he`d walk away Irom
his storied career aIter B.J. Penn knocked
him out in the frst round oI their UFC 123
meeting. But Hughes, who was on a three-
fght win streak beIore Iacing Penn, Ielt he
had enough Iuel leIt to keep going.
He still had a thirst Ior the one-on-one nature
oI fghting that nothing else could satisIy.
'Competition is what drives you to be a top
athlete in the UFC, Hughes said. 'I love
getting in there against one other person
and mixing it up. I don`t have to rely on
Iour other basketball teammates to score or
anything. I`ve just to rely on myselI.
Diego Sanchez, broke his hand less than
three weeks ago.
Koscheck was quick to accept the
replacement role, but mainly because it
was against Hughes. Koscheck has asked to
fght Hughes Ior years and even accused the
Iormer champion oI ducking him.
'We get to settle the score and fgure out
where my place is going to be and where his
place is going to be, Koscheck said.
The severity oI Koscheck`s injury can`t be
overstated. He won`t even sugarcoat how
much it hurt.
It was the worst pain oI his liIe. That means
something Ior Koscheck, who has endured a
neck surgery and accidentally chopped oII
one oI his toes with a hatchet as a child.
UFC President Dana White said he didn`t
believe Hughes` assertion that the outcome
oI Saturday`s fght wouldn`t play a role in his
retirement decision.
'There is no way in hell he will retire iI he
beats Koscheck, White said.
And, despite Koscheck`s status as an
overwhelming Iavorite, Hughes has some
advantages. Koscheck is adamant he`s
100 percent aIter his surgery, but he`s
also coming back two months earlier than
expected.
Koscheck was going to appear on
November`s UFC 139 card, which will
take place miles Irom his home gym in San
Jose, CaliI. The UFC 135 pairing became
available aIter Hughes` scheduled opponent,
'The pain I experienced in both oI those
surgeries didn`t compare to the eye injury,
he said. 'I had a lot oI nerve damage done
in the Iace. Faces are very sensitive and the
nerve damage you have in the Iace magnifes
the pain you have in your body.
But Koscheck got through it. He said he had
trained to move his head more Ior this fght
so he doesn`t take as much punishment.
Hughes is more oI a wrestler anyway, just
like Koscheck. They have similar styles
and backgrounds, which might be another
explanation Ior Koscheck`s zipped lips this
time around.
'I`m not trying to disrespect Matt Hughes,
Koscheck said. 'He`s been a good
representation oI the UFC and this sport.
Georges St-Pierre, right, from Montreal, lands a left to the chin of Josh Koscheck, from Waynesburg, Pa.,
during their welterweight title bout at UFC 124 in Montreal. St. Pierre won a unanimous decision to retain his title.
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Friday September 23, 2011 Fiji Sun-Times V5 No42 Sports
Former FIFA presidential candidate
Mohamed Bin Hammam lost his appeal
against a liIe ban Ior corruption, soccer`s
world governing body said on Thursday.
'The appeal made by Mohammed Bin
Hammam has been rejected and the
decision oI the FIFA ethics committee
confrmed, said FIFA in a statement.
'The sanction oI being banned Irom taking
part in any kind oI Iootball-related activity
(administrative, sports or any other) at
national and international level Ior liIe has
thereIore been maintained.
Ireland striker Robbie Keane has jumped
straight on to the list oI top fve earners in
Major League Soccer (MLS) headed by his
LA Galaxy team-mate David Beckham,
according to fgures released by the league`s
players` union.
Keane joined the Galaxy Irom England
Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur
in August and has an annual salary oI $2.9
million, instantly putting him in Iourth spot
in the MLS, above the best-paid American,
his team-mate Landon Donovan, who earns
$2.3 million.
Beckham, in the fnal year oI his fve-season
deal, tops the list with a basic salary oI $5.5
million, although he is guaranteed at least
$6.5 million with the addition oI bonuses
and other payments.
Former France, Arsenal and Barcelona
striker Thierry Henry, who plays Ior the
New York Red Bulls, is the second top
earner with a $5.0 million basic salary and
$600,000 extra guaranteed payments.
Another Red Bulls player, Mexican deIender
RaIa Marquez, earns $4.6 million, making
him the third best paid player in the league.
All the top earners are classifed as
designated players` with the bulk oI their
salary not counting against the team`s salary
Bin Hammam loses
FIFA appeal against life ban
Fiji slips to fourth place in FIFA ranking
Robbie Keane joins David Beckham
in MLS elite earners club
Irelands Robbie Keane
cap. Donovan and Henry are currently the
league`s joint top scorers with ten goals each.
The bulk oI MLS`s salaries are well below
the amounts paid in top European leagues
such as in England, Italy and Spain however
and are just a Iraction oI the amounts paid
in North America`s top Iour traditional pro
sports.
U.S. international midfelder Brek Shea,
who has 10 goals this season Ior Dallas, has
a basic salary oI just $100,000 with only
$28,000 add-ons.
Beckham and Keane`s L.A Galaxy team-
mate, the 37-year-old Frankie Hejduk, who
has been capped 85 times by the U.S., earns
$96,000 this year.
The dismal perIormance oI the Fiji Men`s
team in the 2011 Pacifc Games has seen
them drop Iour places in the latest FIFA
World Ranking.
In the ranking Fiji is placed 146 compared
to its August ranking on 141.
The Gurjit Singh coached side Iailed to
bag a medal in Noumea aIter losing the
semifnal and the 3rd and 4th playoII
matches to Solomon Islands and Tahiti
respectively.
New Zealand still remains the top team in
the Oceania region.
The All Whites are ranked 89th aIter
jumping 5 places up on the ladder.
But despite the Iall, Fiji still remains the
top nation in the Pacifc.
Pacifc Games winners New Caledonia
are second with a ranking oI 154 aIter
jumping 11 places this month. Vanuatu
remains third with a ranking oI 173 despite
Ialling 11 places.
Meanwhile, world champs Spain has once
again reclaimed the top spot. Netherlands
has slipped to second while England has
slipped Irom top Iour and is ranked 8th.
Oceania ranking: New Zealand 89 (5),
Fiji 146 (-5), New Caledonia 154 (11),
Vanuatu 173 (-11), Solomon Islands 179
(-2), Tahiti 184 (-1), PNG 187 (0), Cook
Islands 197 (0), Tonga 201 (0), American
Samoa 203 (0), Samoa 203 (0).
World top 10: Spain (1), Netherlands (-1),
Germany (0), Uruguay (1), Portugal (3),
Italy (1), Brazil (-1), England (-4), Croatia
(1), Argentina (-1).
Defending champions South Africa
broke their own Rugby World Cup points
record with an 87-0 bIitz of doughty
Namibia to all but seal a place in the
quarter-naIs at North Harbour
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