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Tournament balls need to be standardised, says Nadal Posted: 12 Oct 2011 08:58 AM PDT Nadal said today he would prefer to receive less prize money in return for less pressure from sponsors to use different balls. — Reuters pic SHANGHAI, Oct 12 — Tennis players risked injury because of the constant change of ball designs at tournaments, world number two Rafael Nadal said today. Nadal echoed Shanghai Masters defending champion Andy Murray in complaining that commercial pressure from tournament sponsors had resulted in three ball changes over the last three events in Asia. "You play in Bangkok with one ball, in Tokyo with another ball, here with another ball. That's too much in my opinion. (It) is dangerous and can cause injuries," said the 25-year-old Spaniard after his second-round win in Shanghai. "Something must change because is too dangerous for the shoulders. You cannot change the ball every week." Nadal said he would prefer to receive less prize money in return for less pressure from sponsors to use different balls. "I am very happy to win less money and have my health," he said. "If we compare the Tokyo ball with this one (in Shanghai), it was much bigger, slower. The ball is completely different. This ball is very fast, it goes small and doesn't stay on the racquet. It flies a lot and is tough," said Nadal after beating compatriot Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3 6-2 to reach the third round. "It is not necessary to have a standard ball for the whole season," said the Spaniard. "For example, when you start the clay-court season, you have the same ball for that period; when you have the American hard court season, you have the same ball. So that's positive. "But what cannot happen is to have one ball in Rome, one ball in Madrid, one ball in Barcelona ... That doesn't work." Murray, yesterday, also called for more consistency in the balls, saying: "If you asked a golfer to change balls every single week, they'd be hitting balls 20 yards too far and hitting shots all over the place." Nadal said other players were equally unhappy. "A lot of players believe this. That's something that, in my opinion, can change," he said. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Kaymer blames pressure, not swing change, for rankings slip Posted: 12 Oct 2011 08:41 AM PDT Kaymer said today it was time demanded of him by media and fans at home that caused him to lose ground in the rankings. — Reuters file pic VILAMOURA, Portugal, Oct 12 — The pressure of being world number one, rather than swing remodelling, took the edge off Martin Kaymer's season, the German said today. Kaymer, 26, has dropped from number one to number six globally since he reached top spot in late February, but it was time demanded of him by media and fans at home that caused him to lose ground in the rankings, he said. "It's true that I wanted to make some (swing) changes so I could play better at the (US) Masters," Kaymer told reporters on the eve of the Portugal Masters at the Victoria club. "But that is not why my results have not been quite as good as I wanted them to be this year. "To become number one in the world, if you are an American player, an English player, Spanish, it's probably a little easier than being a German. We only had Bernhard Langer, who was one of the best players in the world. "He was the first number one in the world, so when I became number one it became big in Germany again. There were a lot of requests from people 'do this, do that'. I got invited to a lot of events — some you want to do, some you don't. It's all a bit overwhelming. "After a few months, you realise why you became number one. It was because of what you did on a driving range, not in a studio. "But it was a learning process. If I become number one again then I know how to approach it." Kaymer said he had no regrets in tinkering with his swing. "I'm 26 and I want to improve. I didn't want to be playing for the next 25 years with the same swing," he said. "You don't go forward in your career if you just stay the same." The German, lying fifth on Europe's Race to Dubai (money-list), is keen to prove to himself that his season has been another fruitful one — even if he cannot repeat the feat of last year when he was European number one. "It may not be possible to catch Luke (Donald) in the Race to Dubai but there is always second or third," added Kaymer. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Indian village suffers for lack of women Posted: 12 Oct 2011 03:59 AM PDT Unmarried men stand in a group as they watch women dance during the Dussehra festival in the remote village of Siyani, where they also live and work in, about 140km west of Gujarat's capital Ahmedabad, October 4, 2011. Siyani is typical of many Indian villages and may be an indicator of things to come as India's male to female ratio declines. The village has some 350 unmarried men over the age of 35 – and hundreds more under 35 – because there aren't enough women to marry. Many women have also left to look elsewhere for grooms with more money and better prospects. – Reuters pic SIYANI, Oct 12 – Nearly two dozen men building a temple in this remote farming village lay down their tools at midday and walk through the dusty streets to a shed where they are joined by another group of men – and start eating a meal cooked by a man. They live, eat and sleep together, sharing mattresses on the bare floor of an empty room the way a married couple usually would. All but a handful are unmarried – a living example of India's rapidly worsening gender imbalance. Census data released earlier this year revealed there are 914 girls for every 1,000 boys born – a sharp fall since 2001 when the ratio was 933 girls for every 1000 boys. "I have been looking to marry since I was 15," said Vinodbhai Mehtaliya, a 23-year-old Siyani farmer. A decades-old Indian preference for male children, who are seen as breadwinners, has led to the skewed ratio, aided by cheap ultrasound tests that assist in sex-selective abortions and female infanticide. Siyani, in the western state of Gujarat, shows the decline. Here, some 350 men over the age of 35 are simply unable to get married – out of a total population of roughly 8,000. "I'm lucky I got married 20 years ago" said 42-year-old Laljibhai Makwana, who works as a diamond polisher in one of the village's small workshops. "If I was young here today I would never get married." The absence of women is obvious in the village's bumpy, tiny lanes, where cows wander freely, especially in the evenings. "There is little industrial development or infrastructure here, so people are poor and uneducated," said Prashant Dave, the 41-year-old owner of a small flour mill who said he was lucky to be married. "There are too few women and they leave for better prospects." Among the group of men living together, men perform all the tasks which are traditionally the domain of women: sweeping, cooking and cleaning. The situation has also led to another reversal in custom, with some women and their parents asking for a lot of money from men to allow men to marry them, an inversion of the usual dowry system in which the woman's family has to pay the man's. At sunset, as the day's work ends, groups of unmarried men gather around the village tea stalls and tobacco shops, lacking wives and families to go home to. "I've given up looking," said Bharatbhai Khair, who is single at 45 and has been trying to marry for 25 years. "The women want more money for marriage than I can afford." – Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Festival cheer rings diabetes alarm for Indians Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:22 AM PDT NEW DELHI, Oct 12 — It's festival season in India, with the celebrations providing a perfect opportunity for family outings, late-night parties and customary feasting on sweets. But health experts warn that the festivities, coupled with genetic predisposition and lifestyle changes brought about by the increasing prosperity of the middle class, is contributing to the country being called the world's "diabetes capital", with the highest number of diabetics in any nation. Bingeing on sweets — from Durga Puja and Dussehra to Diwali on October 26. — Reuters pic The string of festivals, starting with Durga Puja and Dussehra and ending with Diwali, take place in accordance with the Hindu calendar and the dates change every year. The first two were on October 6 and Diwali falls on October 26 this year. "For the next one month or so, it is all either festivals or outings," says Anoop Misra, chairman at New Delhi's Fortis-C-DOC, Centre of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology. "During this time, the rate of obesity goes up, sugar control of established diabetics goes down and those who are predisposed to develop diabetes also show diabetes." Festivals in India are synonymous with eating and gifting sweets, and most food and confectionery shops are decked with an assortment of goodies in colourful wrappings meant for traditional presents. Two all-time favourites are rasgullas, a soft, spongy ball made from cottage cheese, and the conch-shaped samdesh, made from jaggery. A popular holiday treat is milk-based kaju barfi. But experts warn the festival fun — and, not least, the culture of sweet-eating that peaks then — can help trigger long-term health problems, with diabetes only the start. The disease is characterised by high levels of sugar in the blood and can lead to more serious complications such as heart disease and stroke, damage to the kidneys or nerves, and blindness. But the culture of consuming sweets is hard to shake off, especially during festivals. "Everybody (in India) has a sweet tooth, including me," said Ramachandran, a man in his 50s polishing off a plate of sweets at a New Delhi restaurant. "(Diabetes) is not because of sweets. It's because people are too lazy (to exercise)," he added. Middle-class disease? The majority of those with diabetes have Type 2, which is linked to obesity and lack of exercise. India, with 62.4 million cases, has the world's highest number of diabetics. Misra said numbers were rising at an alarming rate because of a newly rich middle class that increasingly consumed junk food while adopting more sedentary lifestyles. "Their awareness about healthy eating is very low," he said. Recent studies have shown the numbers of diabetics is also rising fast in villages, where people are traditionally more active and have not previously been exposed to fast-food restaurants and refined snacks. Nutritionist Uma Gupta attributes it to increasing stress and people adopting city culture, among other causes. A recent study commissioned by the Indian Council for Medical Research found that in the past one year, the number of diabetics in India increased by 11.6 million, while another 77.2 million are pre-diabetics — a precursor to Type 2 diabetes where a person's blood sugar levels are higher than normal. Experts warn that the country's health infrastructure could soon be unable to deal with the burden. "(Diabetes) is a forerunner of multiple diseases including heart disease and cancer . . . I don't think our present health system can counter this pressure," Misra said. The situation is made worse by a tendency for people to wait until they have a real health problem before doing anything, said Gupta. "Take measures now, improve your lifestyle. Otherwise, hospitals will not have space for you, doctors will not have time to treat you," she added. "Treatment should start from your plate itself." — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Hungarian police seize weapons from Brad Pitt film Posted: 12 Oct 2011 06:20 AM PDT Brad Pitt has been filming zombie movie "World War Z" in various European cities over the past few months. — Reuters pic BUDAPEST, Oct 12 — Hungarian police have seized a stockpile of weapons that was shipped to the Hungarian capital for the production of a film about zombies starring Brad Pitt, a film crewmember said yesterday. Weapons expert Bela Gajdos, who has worked on the filming of zombie movie "World War Z" to ensure the safe handling of the weapons used, told national news agency MTI that each firearm had been converted to restrict its use to blank ammunition. Gajdos added that the weapons were completely harmless and had already been used on a shoot in London. "World War Z," a big-budget horror film directed by Marc Forster and slated for release in 2012, recently shifted filming to Hungary from Britain. "We had a police permit to bring these guns into the country," Gajdos told MTI, adding that the production had contracted arms experts to establish whether the guns complied with Hungarian laws. But the guns were seized before experts could inspect them. Adam Goodman, the producer of the film, was not immediately available for comment. Janos Hajdu, the chief of the Hungarian Anti-Terrorism Centre on Monday said the agency seized a large stockpile of weapons, which arrived from England on a chartered plane. He could not confirm whether the weapons were intended for the "World War Z" shoot. The National Bureau for Investigation, which took over the case, said in an emailed reply to Reuters questions that it was conducting an investigation for abuse of arms and ammunition, but would not release any further details. The weapons included hand guns, machine guns, high-precision sniper rifles, hand grenades and a large quantity of high-calibre ammunition, according to photos and a video released by the Anti-Terrorism centre. According to the video, some weapons could be re-converted to use live ammunition by removing a single screw. Hajdu said the firearms had not been properly disabled and could not be allowed into the country less than two weeks before a national holiday commemorating the 1956 uprising, MTI reported. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Winehouse father plans memoir for summer 2012 Posted: 12 Oct 2011 05:05 AM PDT Mitch Winehouse (left) with his daughter Amy. — AFP/Relaxnews file pic LONDON, Oct 12 — The father of Amy Winehouse will write a memoir about the late British soul star to be released in the summer of 2012, with all proceeds going to charity, according to the publisher. In the memoir, to be entitled "Amy: My Daughter," Mitch Winehouse will "tell the incredible story of the Amy the public never got to know and understand" prior to her death in July at the age of 27, HarperCollins said yesterday. The proceeds will go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which aims to help young people in Britain and abroad who struggle with addiction, ill health, disability or financial disadvantage. "I feel that I need to write this book to tell the true story of Amy and to help with my personal recovery," Winehouse said. "I also want to raise as much money as possible for Amy's foundation, so all proceeds from the book will go directly to help children who are disadvantaged through illness and substance addiction." The British soul star was found dead in her London home in July following a lengthy battle with alcohol and drugs. Toxicology tests found no evidence of any illegal substances in her body, according to her family. Her father believes bouts of heavy drinking followed by short-lived attempts to give up alcohol may have prompted a fatal seizure. A full inquest is due to be held on October 26. Winehouse rocketed to fame after winning five Grammy awards off the back of her 2006 second album "Back to Black" and famously sang about her refusal to seek treatment for her addiction in "Rehab". — AFP/Relaxnews Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Skandal telekom: India minta bantuan Malaysia siasat Ananda Krishnan, Marshall Posted: 12 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]KUALA LUMPUR, 12 Okt – Agensi yang menguruskan tukaran asing India mahu mendapatkan bantuan Malaysia untuk menyoal siasat orang kaya T. Ananda Krishnan dan ketua pegawai kanannya Ralph Marshall berhubung skandal telekomunikasi Maxis-Aircel. Akhbar dari Mumbai, The Indian Express berkata Enforcement Directorate (ED) negara itu mula meningkatkan ...

Bantuan RM500 disalur mlai Januari 2012 Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:57 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, 12 Okt — Kerajaan menimbang mengagihkan pemberian bantuan rakyat sebanyak RM500 kepada isi rumah yang berpendapatan bulanan RM3,000 dan ke bawah, mulai Januari 2012. Timbalan Menteri Kewanan Datuk Dr Awang Adek Hussin berkata pengagihan bantuan wang tunai itu yang boleh dilakukan secara berperingkat-peringkat, tanpa penetapan masa, akan dilakukan secepat mungkin mulai Januari depan. Bantuan "one off" atau sekali sahaja itu diumumkan oleh Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak semasa membentangkan Belanjawan 2012 minggu lepas. Dipetik Bernama Online, Awang Adek berkata kerajaan mengenal pasti Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN) sebagai agensi utama pelaksanakan bantuan ini memandangkan agensi berkenaan mempunyai fail-fail cukai bagi pembayar cukai yang aktif mahupun tidak aktif Antara agensi lain yang turut terlibat dalam pengagihan bantuan itu ialah Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN), Bank Negara serta POS Malaysia," katanya pada sidang media selepas merasmikan Seminar Percukaian Kebangsaan 2011, di sini hari ini. Awang Adek berkata LHDN difahamkan turut mengguna pakai sistem pangkalan data e-Kasih Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat (JKM) bagi mendapatkan maklumat rakyat yang benar-benar layak menerima bantuan terbabit. Sementara itu, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif LHDN Datuk Dr Mohd Shukor Mahfar berkata rakyat yang masih belum mendaftar dengan e-Kasih, boleh mendapatkan borang pendaftaran melalui laman sesawang LHDN. Di samping itu, borang tersebut akan dicetak dan diedarkan di cawangan LHDN serta kawasan lain yang bakal dikenal pasti di seluruh negeri. "Mereka (masyarakat) akan dimaklumkan mengenai pengagihan borang dari semasa ke semasa," katanya. Mengenai syarat kelayakan, beliau berkata pengiraan pendapatan RM3,000 itu ialah seisi rumah dan bukan individu dan oleh itu mekanisme siasatan akan dilakukan. Awang Adek pula berkata pendapatan isi rumah akan diambil kira, dengan mencampurkan pendapatan suami, isteri dan anak-anak yang tinggal bersama. Namun, persoalan bagi anak yang tinggal berasingan, masih dibincangkan. "Soal isi rumah...seorang, tetapi sudah bekerja dan bayar zakat sendiri, saya rasa dia layak. Namun, ini kita akan pastikan kemudian dan masukkan dalam isu-isu yang perlu diperjelaskan," katanya. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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My silat adventures (Part 2) Posted: 11 Oct 2011 04:57 PM PDT OCT 12 — My silat classes began in, of all places, an office room. A spacious one but still an office room. I would only attend training at the gelanggang once the Tok Guru was ready to accept me. My friend told me that I had to do the opening and closing sequences the first thing in the morning, and the last at night. And, from now on, I'd have to shake her hands in such a way that only the group would know, and I'd have to kiss her hand. She was now my pemimpin. "Even before Subuh prayers?" I asked. "Yes. And you're to recite Al Fatihah and Surah Al Ikhlas three times before you begin the pembuka and penutup." I was to ape her movements as she performed the opening and closing rituals, and when I performed silat, I was not to wear my spectacles. I was to rely on my senses. This was interesting, I mused, as my eyesight was rather bad, and anything a foot away from me was a blur. My attempts at aping silat in the beginning were rather clumsy – I kept banging into everything. "Can I wear my glasses and look at you while you're doing all this?" "No, you can't." Apart from practising the sequences at home, I also had to bathe, after every silat class, using seven limes. Initially, I found it refreshing. After a week of bathing everyday with limes, I complained. "Ah. My hair and scalp are getting really dry from the limes. Do I have to do this every day?" "Yes." I decided to stop complaining. Maybe, all these were tests to see if I could make it. I had seen this all before in Pendekar Bujang Lapok. "Dugaan", P. Ramlee and his band of silat warriors said whenever they faced a challenge. My Achilles' heel was vanity. I was also to greet my pemimpin and superiors with a kiss on the hand. I was never comfortable with the ritual — I only kissed my parents' and my older relatives' hands when I greeted them with a salam. But could this also be an exercise in ego? I learned, too, that limes had gender. "Ni, nampak tak punat ni?" "Yes…" "Hah, tu [kemaluan] dia. Limau ni ada jantan, betina. If ada punat, it's male. If takde punat, it's female." I looked at the limes with greater interest. That particular one did have a big punat. "What's this kawalan you always talk about?" I asked. Ah, she said. They were the guardians of the universe. They took care of everything, and each silat practitioner had one. A female guardian would be assigned to a female silat practitioner, and a male to a male silat master. Hers was an old woman who was her best friend. And when they appeared, they came in many forms, to warn them of doom, black magic, or some misfortune. They also helped the person with great wealth. My friend had more than her share of financial troubles, but found her life changing for the better when silat and her guardian became her flesh and blood. I was stumped. I didn't like the idea of anything spirit-like controlling my life, and that I'd have to refer to it for anything I did. I preferred the way I had been doing things my whole life: Talking to God directly. I make bargains with God a lot. I didn't like spooks, in real life or in films. I thought to myself, if I was ever assigned a kawalan, it was to stay far away from me. "The kawalan is the best friend ever. You won't want any other," my friend said. I frowned. I like my best friends to be human, or a feline. This (silat) was going to be a lot of work for me. *************************************************** How do I write all this down? So many things have happened. The trip to Memali that had two odd incidents. My visits to the gelanggang. The "obstacle" course I was put through, to be… reborn. I don't even know where to begin. Perhaps I could, by telling you about the people I met at the gelanggang. I would like to think I am an open person, that I am willing enough to meet people halfway. One does not work in the media for over 18 years, and behave like a hermit or a snob. Still, working in this industry does develop one's sense of self. I do not think media professionals are suspicious of everyone, but we do have a highly developed sense of character. Of course, we are not correct all the time. Another thing about being in the media is that one tends to dissect the person and place them into demographics. Each person is a statistic. This does not make for great dates, but that is what we do: We profile people. What struck me when I first met my soon-to-be silat colleagues was this thought: I didn't think I'd be friends with these people outside of the gelanggang. Most of them were pleasant enough, but there was just something about them I could not place. Perhaps one was the lack of eye contact. The second was that even though it was multi-racial, a good number of them were Indian, young and from working to working-middle class backgrounds. Basic local college education, worked in technical or administrative professions. There was nothing wrong with that: One's class shouldn't have anything to do with anything and everything at all in an ideal world. However, they were a far cry from the Bangsar Indian professional. Actually, they were also not like Guna the taxi driver I befriended and was now part of my research and travels. So was this me being overly analytical? Was I guilty of profiling cynically? I could tell you some of the funny bits, which I had written in a very private Facebook note that was only read by my incredulous close friends. There was that first time I had to throw the limes in running water. I had spent the weekend at my parents'. Where on earth would I find a river, even though they lived in a semi urban setting? But there was a huge drain outside of the house. Now if I had just thrown the limes, they would not float in the water. They had to be "carried away" by running water. So I jumped down to do what I had to do, and found out that I could not get out. I hopped and jumped and scrabbled in the drain. I panicked — what if the neighbours saw me stuck in the drain? Whenever I get myself in a pickle, I have all sorts of epiphanies, which came to me one after the other, as I tried to get out. I tucked in my sarong around my waist, clambered out of the drain somehow, and to my great embarrassment, saw my grandmother, who was holding her tasbih in the garden, staring at me. Because I was always tired from practising silat — and I didn't know how to tell my friends what I got up to, and that I was not to tell anyone anyway — I began standing my friends up. A make-up artist friend gave me an earful, when I stood him up. I once amazed the apartment security guard when I came back at three in the morning, drenched in sweat and rice flour. Perhaps, I can tell you of the following next: what happened in Memali when I visited there for research; the exorcism of saka; attending silat sessions at the gelanggang, and the search for three types of waters, and mud. And then, maybe much later, I can tell you of broken friendships and the friends who had participated in the healing, and were progressively ill after "treatment". And how old friends, like The Cowboy who appeared in my first book, and Cikgu — proper silat exponents who came to my rescue, in utter disbelief. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Be Malaysian, embrace hypocrisy Posted: 11 Oct 2011 04:41 PM PDT OCT 12 — Showboating. Grandstanding. Both required skills for our politicians but, for once, I'll give the poor chaps (and chap-ettes) a break. We are a nation rather in love with substance over style, with keeping up appearances. That's the reality behind the recent decision to exonerate the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) for the Damansara Utama Methodist Church raid. Behind the Budget that doesn't balance the books. And the farce that is Sodomy 2. And the hiring of APCO Worldwide and FBC Media. We complain about the wayang. But we love the wayang. Malaysians are shallow like that. That is why our headlines are so full of politician A says this, politician B says that. Haven't we learned by now that the measure of a man is not his word, but his actions? Remember the last Budget? Remember the creative fund that was mooted but suddenly disappeared? Remember that tower, the redevelopment happening in Karambunai? How easily Malaysians forget. Remember someone's promises of a massive exodus happening on September 16? We are so easily sated by sweet words, by prolific announcements and great shows of love and care "for the people." Instead of moving forwards, we keep going round and round. Saying and doing the same things. Always championing race and religion; always defending our "rights". This siege mentality gets us nowhere. It makes one wonder if it's all a big conspiracy. Don't improve our education system. We don't want our kids too smart. Smart kids become smart citizens. Who question and not obey, like sheep. The wolves croon to the sheep, dressed in fine wool. And the sheep see the wolves and think, they must be one of us. When sheep believes the wolves know best, it's all over. Terry Pratchett wrote: "For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led." The goats, I fear, have long left the pasture. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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