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South African Mickey Arthur named Australia coach Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:09 AM PST MELBOURNE, Nov 22 — Former South Africa cricket coach Mickey Arthur today became the first foreign head coach of the Australian team, completing a sweeping revamp of management following their disastrous Ashes campaign last year. The 43-year-old was in charge of the Proteas from 2005 until 2010 and had most recently been coaching Western Australia. His contract runs until after the 2015 World Cup, to be jointly held by Australia and New Zealand. Arthur (picture) was presented at a media conference at Cricket Australia's headquarters in Melbourne, just hours after his new charges completed a tense two-wicket victory over his old team in Johannesburg. He replaces former coach Tim Nielsen who resigned after the Australian tour of Sri Lanka in September. Troy Cooley had been in charge on an acting basis for the tour of South Africa. "I don't think it'll matter," Arthur told reporters about being the first foreigner to coach the side, before adding he would look to seek permanent residency status in Australia. "Ultimately, I guess you want a guy that is perceived to be the best for the job, irrespective of the nationality." Arthur beat out the challenge of former New Zealand coach Steve Rixon, who is the current fielding coach for the Australian side and was considered one of the favourites for the top job. His appointment was the latest in a restructuring of the outfit that included the appointment of former Australia rugby international Pat Howard as CA's general manager for team performance and a revamp of the selection panel. Former chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch and selector Greg Chappell were both ditched with John Inverarity named new full-time chairman of selectors, with former test players Rod Marsh and Andy Bichel as part-time selectors. Captain Michael Clarke and Arthur will also act as selectors, while Arthur also takes an overall strategic view of the national team and will work with state coaches to aid in player development and pathways to the top level. "I think it's a very exciting time," said Arthur. "Australian cricket is in a very exciting phase (but)... getting to the top of the test rankings is something that just doesn't happen, because you need sustainable success over a period of time. "We need a real good, strong squad system. I think young players need to be given quality opportunities to develop their games under pressure and hopefully we can create that environment for them to all perform." Arthur's first series in charge will be a two-test series against New Zealand, starting in Brisbane on December 1, before Australia host India for a four-test series starting on December 26. Questions have already turned to the future of senior players under Arthur's reign, with local media suggesting former captain Ricky Ponting's career could be ended at the conclusion of the series against India, if not sooner, though Arthur would not be drawn on the issue. "We'll meet with John Inverarity and Michael Clarke down the line so I'll defer that (decision) to John Inverarity and the selection panel," Arthur said. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Beckham leaves Premier League door open Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:35 AM PST LONDON, Nov 22 — David Beckham did not completely rule out a return to the Premier League today even though he said he could not see himself playing against his beloved Manchester United. The 36-year-old midfielder, whose five-year contract at Los Angeles Galaxy is about to expire, said he wanted to continue playing and was open-minded about what team he joined next. "When I was (on loan) at AC Milan I played against Man United. I'd not played there for seven years and it was special going back but it would be totally different going back there in a Premier League shirt," Beckham (picture) told Talksport radio. "It's a club I love and adore," added the former England captain two days after helping the Galaxy lift the Major League Soccer (MLS) title. "When I joined United I wanted to start and finish my career there but unfortunately that didn't happen. I could never see myself playing against United for another Premier League team but you never know ... stranger things have happened." Beckham has previously trained with Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur to keep fit during the MLS off-season and there were moves for him to sign for Spurs on loan in January which narrowly failed to materialise. He has since been linked with a transfer to Spurs and promoted Queens Park Rangers, as well as Ligue 1 side Paris St Germain. When asked about a move to France, Beckham said: "Whenever a big club comes in for you it's a temptation. At 36, to still have a big European club after me means a lot. "I've looked after myself and still feel fresh and that I can play at the top level. "At the moment I'm still a Galaxy player and I said I'd finish this season, respect the contract I signed, which I've always done, and then sit down with my family and see how I feel and what's going to be best. "None of the players at Galaxy want me to leave and, if I do leave, it will be sad. I've spent five years in the same team with the majority of these players and I've got to know them so well. It would be sad but we'll see," Beckham added. "I still love playing and want to play." He also re-iterated he would "love to play for the Great Britain team" at next year's London Olympics. "Being involved in the bid team that got the Olympics to London was really incredible," said Beckham. "For me, being from the East End of London, my granddad played football down there at Hackney Marshes, my dad played there, I did too, and to see what is going on there is great. To be part of the GB team would be a dream for me." — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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A pint of beer a day may boost your heart health Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:03 AM PST Cheers ... moderate daily consumption of beer may protect your heart. – shutterstock.com LOS ANGELES, Nov 22 – It's well known that red wine can benefit your heart but a new study announced last week touts the health benefits of beer. Published in the European Journal of Epidemiology, the study is an analysis of 16 studies involving more than 200,000 participants. Researchers found that people who drank about a pint of beer a day had a 31 per cent reduced risk of heart disease. For those who consumed more alcohol, either beer, wine, or liquor, their risk "surged," noted MyHealthNewsDaily. The study was conducted by Research Laboratories at the Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura "Giovanni Paolo I," in Campobasso, Italy. "Alcohol in moderation can increase your HDL, your good cholesterol," registered dietician Andrea Giancoli of the American Dietetic Association explained to MyHealthNewsDaily. "The higher your HDL is, the more protected you are against heart disease." Giancoli also noted that beer may have some benefits not found in wine. Beer contains more water, which is more filling and therefore makes it easier for some people to moderate their alcohol intake. While the findings reveal good news for beer drinkers, the researchers issue a strong word of caution. "What we are talking about is moderate and regular drinking," said lead researcher Augusto Di Castelnuovo. "I think we will never stress enough this concept. Wine or beer are part of a lifestyle. One glass can pair with healthy foods, eaten at proper time, maybe together with family of friends. There is no place for binge drinking or any other form of heavy consumption." – Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Keira Knightley details her hysteria in ‘Dangerous Method’ Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:17 AM PST NEW YORK, Nov 22 — In director David Cronenberg's new film about Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis, "A Dangerous Method", Keira Knightley plays Jung's formerly hysterical patient and lover Sabina Spielrein. The movie debuts in US theatres tomorrow, and Knightley told Reuters back in September at the Toronto film festival that she initially turned down the role due to its spanking sex scenes opposite actor Michael Fassbender, who portrays Jung. Knightley poses for photographers as she arrives for the premiere of 'A Dangerous Method' at Leicester Square in London on October 24, 2011. — Reuters pic But the 26-year-old British actress said the promise of such a dream role and working with Cronenberg, Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen (who portrays Freud) was too enticing to walk away. It also helped that Cronenberg promised the spanking scenes would be clinical, not "sexy." Q. Before the movie, what did you know of psychoanalysis? A. "Absolutely nothing. I mean I had obviously heard of Freud and Jung, and I knew vaguely that it was all meant to be based on sexuality and that your parents came into it somewhere. But apart from that, I really didn't know anything. So it was a question of starting from scratch." Q. You've said you read "a stack of books." A: "A Jung biography. And then 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' and the letters between Freud and Jung. It was Nietzsche, a little bit of papers by Freud, papers by Jung and then I found a book called 'Sabina Spielrein: A Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis.' That was Jung's notes on Sabina and then her dissertations and several papers, essays about her and then diary entries. So it was quite a stack." Q. Did you ever think about studying psychology? A. "No ... there are a lot of parallels in acting. You are trying to understand the world from a different point of view without judging it. Looking at it from a psychological point of view is something you do naturally as an actor anyway." Q. Your depiction of hysteria in the film has drawn mixed criticism. How did you come up with, say, your jaw movement? A. "That's the tricky thing, when you are reading a script that says, 'has a hysterical fit, ravished by tics'. And you go, 'OK, what does that mean? And what do you mean a tic?' So really, a lot of the reading was based on trying to get descriptions of tics and trying to understand what that was. "I wanted it to be shocking, because what was going on internally (for Sabina) was shocking. I just thought, I wanted to reflect that externally as much as possible, so I literally sat in my bathroom pulling faces at myself until I came up with this jaw thing. And I thought, 'Well that looks vaguely demonic,' and then I got on Skype with David (Cronenberg) and I had about two or three ideas and he went, 'That one.' Q. Is this your most difficult character yet? A. "As far as a role, every actor wants a role like this. It sounds perverse to say it's fun, but it's so interesting. Trying to understand that, to get into that point of view. Particularly if it's a filmmaker like David Cronenberg. I would have had serious reservations playing an hysteric with a director whose work I didn't admire as much has him." Q. Every actor says sex scenes can be difficult. These seemed particularly so. Would you agree? A. "They are always difficult and they are always exposed. This one was, sort of, something quite different... There were these two scenes, and I didn't know that I could do those two scenes. In the age of Internet and all the rest of it, I didn't know that that is what I want particularly to be out there. "I phoned him up initially to turn it down because I thought they were incredibly important for the piece. So it wasn't a question of trying to negotiate them out of the film because I thought they were very necessary for the film. But I just thought, 'I don't think I can do that.' "So, I phoned up David and said, 'I love you, I love your work, but I really don't think that I want to do this.' And he said, 'Well it would be a tragedy if you turned the role down because of that, so if necessary we can take them out.' And I said, 'No, because I understand why they are there'. He said, 'Well look, I don't want it to be sexy, and I don't want it to be voyeuristic. I want it to be clinical.' "We talked for quite a long time about exactly what it was and trying to understand it psychologically. Once we discussed, I said 'All right, fine, as long as it is not sexy. That brutal horrible aspect is kept, and it isn't a sexy spanking scene.'" Q. Do you ever look back to learn from any performances? A. "I don't watch any of them. I haven't seen 'Bend It Like Beckham' in nine years. It's all a learning curve. There are going to be good performances and there are going to be bad performances. There are going to be experiences where you click with people and experiences where you don't. There are performances that I know just from having been there where I haven't done well, just because I couldn't, for one reason or another. And then there are performances that I know on the day, actually that was pretty good." — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

UK wins five International Emmys as Gaga drops in Posted: 21 Nov 2011 09:15 PM PST Lady Gaga (left) and Lythgoe pose for photographers at the International Emmy Awards in New York November 21, 2011. — Reuters pic NEW YORK, Nov 22 — The United Kingdom won five International Emmy Awards yesterday as "American Idol" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe received an honorary prize presented by Lady Gaga, who made a surprise appearance. The Emmys, which honour television produced outside the United States, extended their reach at its 39th annual awards. While the United Kingdom dominated, winning five of 10 competitive categories including best actress for Julie Walters and best actor for Christopher Eccleston, it was not a sweep as in recent years when it won as many as eight awards. Belgium, Chile, Portugal, Canada and Sweden each won one award, with Chile winning its first-ever Emmy, for children's programming for "What Is Your Dream?" Belgium won best comedy series for "Benidorm Bastards," a hidden camera show in which elderly people play tricks on younger folk. The UK series "Accused," which chronicles the stories of suspects awaiting trial verdicts, was named best drama. Eccleston won for his role on "Accused" while Walters triumphed for her performance as British Labour MP Mo Mowlam. Neither was on hand to accept their awards. But the show got an injection of Hollywood glamour when Gaga took to the stage in an unannounced appearance to present the Founders Award to Lythgoe, who also executive produces "So You Think You Can Dance," calling him her favourite executive in the business. Lythgoe returned the warmth, saying that Gaga, who wore a relatively understated black gown and sported a long blond wig and dark glasses, "certainly is, for my money, the most creatively talented woman in show business right now." Among other honours, Sweden's "Millennium," a crime-solving drama that pairs an investigative journalist with an anti-social female computer hacker, won best TV movie or miniseries, while Canada won for its documentary, "Life With Murder," about a man accused of murdering his sister. The arts programming and non-scripted, or reality, Emmys were both won by the UK's Twenty Twenty Television for the opera-world set "Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne," and "The World's Strictest Parents," in which wild teenagers are sent to live with families run by strict parents. Subhash Chandra, the media magnate behind India's Essel Group of companies and Founder of ZEE TV, India's first Hindi satellite channel, received the Directorate Award. Portugal won its second consecutive Emmy for telenovela, winning for revenge drama "Blood Ties," about two sisters, one long presumed drowned in an accident survived by the other. Other presenters at the ceremony, hosted by actor Jason Priestley, included Ally Sheedy, journalist Dan Rather and Tony award winner John Larroquette. — Reuter Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Akta Perhimpunan Aman perlekeh hak rakyat Malaysia, kata Ambiga Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:58 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR, 22 Nov – Pengerusi Bersih 2.0 Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan membidas undang-undang perhimpunan aman yang dibacakan kali pertama hari ini atas alasan ia memberi kuasa yang luas kepada Menteri Dalam Negeri dan polis selain menghakis hak dan kebebasan diperuntukkan oleh Perlembagaan Persekutuan selama ini. Bekas presiden Majlis Peguam ini (gambar) mendakwa kerajaan telah gagal dalam menerima pakai standard antarabangsa, sebaliknya mengehadkan kebebasan yang diberikan oleh undang-undang tertinggi negara ini. "Rang undang-undang ini (Perhimpunan Aman) membataskan hak kita seluas yang mungkin," kata beliau dalam satu kenyataan hari ini. MENYUSUL LAGI Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Bersih: Inkuiri Suhakam lawat lokasi Mat Sabu dakwa dilanggar Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:43 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR, 22 Nov – Jawatankuasa Inkuiri Suruhanjaya Awam Suhakam hari ini melawat kawasan Bukit Persekutuan bagi melihat sendiri lokasi kejadian Timbalan Presiden PAS, Mohamad Sabu yang mendakwa beliau dilanggar oleh kereta anggota polis semasa perhimpunan Bersih 2.0. Lawatan lebih kurang 15 minit berkenaan turut disertai oleh kesemua panel jawatankuasa inkuiri termasuk Pengerusinya Prof Datuk Dr Khaw Lake Tee. Pengerusi Jawatankuasa tersebut membuat keputusan pada 16 November lalu untuk melawat lokasi terbabit untuk mendapatkan gambaran sebenar keadaan persekitaran lokasi insiden. Turut hadir dalam lawatan berkenaan, Mohd Zulkifli Abd Halim, penunggang motosikal yang dibonceng Mohamad dan merupakan saksi inkuiri. Dalam lawatan itu juga, Khaw diberi penerangan lanjut oleh Zulkifli berkenaan situasi dan keadaan sebenar yang berlaku ketika insiden pelanggaran 9 Julai. Sementara itu, inkuiri ketiga hari ini menyaksikan dua orang saksi dari PDRM, Lans Koperal Mohd Fauzi Mustafa, pemandu kereta yang didakwa melanggar Mohamad dan juga ASP Che Aziz Mohd Isa, pegawai penyiasat yang menyiasat aduan dakwa dilanggar memberikan keterangan. Menjawab pertanyaan panel, Fauzi yang merupakan saksi kesembilan inkuiri menjelaskan, motosikal yang dinaiki Mohamd ketika kejadian hilang kawalan selepas terlanggar bahu jalan dan kemudiannya terjatuh mengenai kereta yang dipandunya. Kenyataan itu disokong oleh saksi kedua inkuiri, ASP Che Aziz Mohd Isa, pegawai penyiasat yang menyiasat laporan polis yang dibuat Mohamad. Inkuiri bersambung esok. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Homeless at Thanksgiving Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:03 PM PST NOV 22 — New York is gearing up for Thanksgiving Day this Thursday, one of the largest and oldest non-religious holidays celebrated in the United States. Plans are underway for a day of feasting, thus continuing a tradition dating back to 1621, when the British settlers of Plymouth Colony (in present-day Massachusetts) marked that year's bountiful harvest with a jolly good knees up. But not everyone will give thanks around a table laden with roast turkey, pecan-crusted sweet potato and pumpkin pie. I'm thinking about NYC's homeless. More than 3,000 people live on the streets and in the sprawling subway system. These people prefer, for whatever reason, not to use the city's shelters that help close to 40,000 homeless (recorded in November's Department of Homeless Services NYC shelter census). CJ Phillips with his "message cart" at Occupy Wall Street Movement in Zuccotti Park early this month. — Pictures by Helen Hickey Plenty live in my Upper East neighbourhood: From the well-dressed Russian gentleman who rummages through the rubbish bins outside Bed, Bath and Beyond to the weathered-looking man called Michael, who sits all day outside a 60th Street car park with his trademark red suitcase, seemingly oblivious to the passing stream of traffic exiting Queensboro Bridge.  "I got no plans for Thanksgiving," he told me; the best he hopes for is that he'll be given a plate of something hot from the kind-hearted people in the area. There are many like him for whom Thanksgiving will be just another day to get through. There is a soup kitchen on 59th Street and First Avenue, but for people like 61-year-old chronically diabetic James this isn't an option. I met James, a statuesque African-American with seven years in the US Marine Corps under his belt, at a local recycling depot with a shopping trolley full of cans and bottles he had spent the entire night collecting from street bins. He inserted a can into one of the giant vending machines in the depot and a nickel popped out. The five cents-a-can return on the 300 empties salvaged would earn him US$15 (RM47) in weighty coins. The recycling money buys him diabetic-friendly meals, "but it's not enough to survive in the city." You have to wonder how some of these people ended up homeless. There are the more extreme homeless cases — persons with a dishevelled appearance, invariably suffering from a mental disorder or addiction — but the majority in my area look pretty presentable. One wet Friday I met Christopher James Phillips, or CJ for short — unlike others he was comfortable disclosing his full name. He sat on an upturned crate, sheltering under Queensboro Bridge, with a shopping cart stuffed with black bin liners bursting with his belongings — the trappings of a homeless person — except for the Dell laptop he was feverishly tapping away on. "I spent every dime I had to get the computer, the wait in the library [for computers] was just getting too long," the 51-year-old explained. He was composing an email to a local church seeking a foster home for his two cats he had tethered to the cart — "his children" as he calls them having no family of his own. CJ, originally from New Jersey, has been homeless for close to a year after the government stopped paying his housing subsidy for his apartment in the Bronx, an area he has lived and worked in for 20 years. He sleeps on a wooden bench in a dog run by the East River, a stone's throw away from our glass-panelled high-rise, preferring this to NYC's shelters, which he says are "too dangerous." He worked his way up from a kitchen hand to an "executive" chef, and later ran both a pizza restaurant and an office cleaning business. His résumé also records a fledgling acting career on the side. "I was doing ok before I became ill, earning between US$20,000 to US$30,000 a year." An all too common sight on NYC's streets... CJ was diagnosed with diabetes, liver disease and chronic arthritis 10 years ago, at which point his life started to unravel. Unable to afford health insurance — as is the case now for one-in-six Americans — the doctors' bills mounted, and with bad health came the loss of his livelihood. He became reliant on social welfare programmes, like Medicaid and housing subsidies, whose operation he says is "whimsical" at the best of times. Since he lost his one-day-a-week job last month waiting tables at a pizzeria he has been recycling cans for money. On occasion, he is forced to beg: "I don't like panhandling. Never done it in my life until now... but what can I do... I can't drop dead either." "My current initiative is to get the heck off these streets. But it is a very daunting task." He's pinned his hopes on the Occupy Wall Street movement, which he has been deeply involved with these past two months up until the occupiers' eviction from Zuccotti Park last Tuesday. He intends to publicise his struggle by pushing his "message cart" along with other OWS occupiers joining the 85th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this Thursday. I'm told this televised parade is one of those NYC events not to be missed. But given a three-hour line-up of Miss America 2011, the likes of "Tom Turkey" and "Santa Claus" float themes and guest appearances by pop divas Avril Lavigne and Mary J. Blige — I fear his Thanksgiving message may not receive the attention it so deserves. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Super Spurs continue ascent Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:57 PM PST NOV 22 — OK, then — let's do it for one last time (I promise)... Let's continue my recent obsession with Tottenham Hotspur by drooling over their performance in last night's extremely comfortable 2-0 victory over Aston Villa, which took Harry Redknapp's team into third place in the English Premier League table and extended their unbeaten league run to nine games. Redknapp was back on the bench last night after a brief spell of convalescence following heart surgery last month, and the recovery of the Spurs manager must have been eased by another sparkling display of attacking verve, pace, purpose and creativity. It only took 13 minutes for Emmanuel Adebayor to open the scoring with an acrobatic overhead kick after Villa failed to clear their lines from a corner. It was the fourth league goal of the season for the Togolese striker, who has given his new team an additional sharpness in attack since his arrival on loan from Manchester City at the start of the campaign. Bearing in mind the fact that Spurs could have already scored twice before that opener — Adebayor had headed wide from Aaron Lennon's sumptuous cross and Younes Kaboul had seen a shot deflected narrowly wide — and it appeared that Villa were in for a very long night. And so it transpired. The visitors kept it down to a one-goal deficit for the next half hour, without ever really threatening to get back on level terms, but then Adebayor got his second of the night to effectively end the game two minutes before the interval. Again, Villa's defence was at fault as they failed to deal with a left-wing cross from Bale to leave Adebayor with a simple tap-in, but the quality of Bale's cross — delivered into the perfect area between defence and goalkeeper — should be given some credit. Going into the second half, the only real question was whether Adebayor would complete his hat-trick. And he should have done so less than ten minutes into the period when he was sent clean through on goal by Luka Modric's perfectly timed pass, only to slide his shot wide of the right hand post. Five minutes later, Adebayor came close again when he latched onto a loose ball after another scintillating run by Bale and curled a right-footed effort narrowly wide from 20 yards. But the home side then took their foot off the gas, enjoying the opportunity to relax and save some energy against a lacklustre Villa side that appeared to have travelled south with a purely defensive mindset. Adebayor came close — again — and Scott Parker blasted a couple of long-range efforts well wide, but on the whole Tottenham were playing well within themselves as the game meandered towards its inevitable conclusion. Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal fans may disagree but, with the sole exception of Manchester City, the front six fielded by Tottenham last night is, I believe, as good as anyone's in the Premier League right now — especially with the added confidence they seem to possess at home. With Parker providing a firm anchor, Bale and Lennon rampaging down the wings, Modric prompting from midfield and Rafael van der Vaart's clever creativity supporting Adebayor, it's a pretty formidable proposition for any opposing defence to contain. I don't think they'll possess enough defensive solidity or overall strength in depth to challenge either of the Manchester clubs for the title this season, but I'd be surprised if Spurs don't cement their place in the top four to secure a return to the Champions' League. Chelsea are clearly in transition, Arsenal — despite their excellent recent run of form — are defensively vulnerable, Liverpool are struggling to find consistency and Newcastle's impressive start to the season is unlikely to be sustained. Third place is there for Tottenham's taking. Beyond this season, the future might not be so bright: Redknapp is widely expected to succeed Fabio Capello as England manager; Bale is repeatedly being linked to Barcelona and Inter Milan; Modric may continue to be pursued by Chelsea and there's no certainty that Adebayor's loan move from Manchester City will be made permanent. If that quartet were all to depart White Hart Lane, they would have a lot of big gaps to fill. However, I'm sure Spurs fans won't be concerning themselves too much about those possibilities at this stage. They'll just be enjoying the moment — and why not, because their team is one of the most watchable sides in the world right now. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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