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Six ways to boost fertility through nutrition Posted: 19 Oct 2013 08:48 PM PDT October 20, 2013 For women hoping to conceive, experts advise watching your weight and following a Mediterranean-style diet to boost your odds of having a baby. As fertility experts shared their research at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Boston this week, Loyola University dietitian Brooke Schantz offered essential diet tips to increase your chances of having a baby. "Establishing a healthy eating pattern and weight is a good first step for women who are looking to conceive," she said. "Not only will a healthy diet and lifestyle potentially help with fertility, but it also may influence fetal well-being and reduce the risk of complications during pregnancy." Thirty percent of infertility is due to being either overweight or underweight, according to the National Infertility Association in the US. Reducing extra weight by even 5% can enhance fertility, experts say. For women looking to conceive, Schantz recommends the following: - Reduce intake of foods with trans and saturated fats while increasing intake of monounsaturated fats, such as avocados and olive oil. - Lower intake of animal protein and add more vegetable protein to your diet. - Add more fiber to your diet by consuming whole grains, vegetables, and fruit. - Incorporate more vegetarian sources of iron such as legumes, tofu, nuts, seeds and whole grains. - Consume high-fat dairy instead of low-fat dairy. A Harvard University study showed that women who ate more than two portions a day of low-fat dairy foods were 85 percent more likely to be infertile due to ovulatory disorders than those who only ate it less than once a week. - Take a regular women's multivitamin. But men aren't left out of the equation. "Men who are looking to have a baby also have a responsibility to maintain a healthy body weight and consume a balanced diet, because male obesity may affect fertility by altering testosterone and other hormone levels," Schantz said. Approximately 40% of infertility issues are attributed to men, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. - AFP Relaxnews, October 20, 2013.

Brazil fights flatulence, with garlic Posted: 19 Oct 2013 02:18 AM PDT October 19, 2013 A Brazilian company said Wednesday it was bringing to market a garlic capsule designed to tackle flatulence. "This garlic oil is rich in antioxidants and deodorants and combats intestinal dysbiosis, a colon malfunction that increases flatulence," Polias chemist Joseth Gimenes said. Garlic itself is renowned for giving off a pong of its own. But Gimenes insisted that the garlic capsule is mainly released in the intestine and does not rise back into the mouth, even though the digestion begins in the stomach. "Hence there is no risk of bad breath," she added. Gimenes said the company was targeting 15% of Brazil's 200 million inhabitants estimated to be suffering from intestinal dysbiosis. The company hopes eventually to eventually export the remedy, which costs US$20 (RM63.14) for 120 capsules. – AFP Relaxnews, October 19, 2013.

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Unbeaten Bayern Munich close in on Bundesliga record Posted: 19 Oct 2013 08:59 AM PDT October 19, 2013 Bayern's Croatian striker Mario Mandzukic (in red) leaps high against the Mainz defence to get a header in today's Bundesliga match. - AFP pic, October 19, 2013.Bayern Munich extended their unbeaten Bundesliga run to 34 games on Saturday by coming from behind for a 4-1 home win over Mainz to go back top of the Bundesliga. Having last lost in the German league back in October 2012, Bayern are now just two matches short of Hamburg's 30-year-old, 36-match streak. Bayern were punished for a poor first-half in Munich when Mainz striker Shawn Parker fired home after capitalising on a mistake by centre-back Jerome Boateng. But Bayern roared back when Germany midfielder Mario Goetze came off the bench for the second-half and played a key part in the hosts' first three second-half goals. His dream pass through to Arjen Robben allowed the winger to equalise on 50 minutes and two minutes later, Goetze combined with the Dutchman for Germany's Thomas Mueller to fire home to make it 2-0. With Bayern finally making their 80 percent possession pay off, Goetze fired in a cross for Mario Mandzukic to score their third on 69 minutes. And when Bayern vice-captain Bastian Schweinsteiger was fouled in the area, Mueller stepped up to drill home the penalty for his second of the game eight minutes from time to make it 4-1. Bayern's win put them back on top of the Bundesliga after Bayer Leverkusen had briefly gone top on Friday thanks to a controversial 'phantom' goal in their 2-1 win at Hoffenheim. The German Football Federation (DFB) are set to investigate while Hoffenheim have called for a replay after Stefan Kiessling's 70th-minute winner came in bizarre circumstances. Replays showed his header only ended in the back of the net after flying through a hole in the side netting and a DFB sports court is set to meet on Monday. Schalke, who host Chelsea in the Champions League on Tuesday, needed a 91st-minute winner from Roman Neustaedter to seal a 3-2 win at bottom side Eintracht Braunschweig. Having only picked up their first win of the season a fortnight ago against Wolfsburg, Braunschweig gave Schalke an almighty scare before Germany's Neustaedter hit the winner. Borussia Dortmund, who are at Arsenal on Tuesday in the Champions League, stayed second with a hard-fought 1-0 win at home to Hanover 96. Germany winger Marco Reus hit the winning penalty after just four minutes when Hanover's Japan defender Hiroki Sakai fouled left-back Erik Durm in the area. Sakai was shown a yellow card for the foul and Reus blasted home the spot kick as Dortmund picked up the three points. Borussia stay second and level on 22 points with third-placed Leverkusen, just a point behind Bayern. Second-from-bottom Freiburg picked up a point with a goalless draw at Werder Bremen, while Eintracht Frankfurt drew 1-1 at home to Nuremberg. Later Saturday, Hertha Berlin can go fourth if they beat Borussia Moenchengladbach at home, while on Sunday Hamburg host VfB Stuttgart and Augsburg are home to Wolfsburg. - AFP, October 19, 2013.

Sturridge helps Liverpool foil Newcastle United smash-and-grab Posted: 19 Oct 2013 07:31 AM PDT October 19, 2013 Sturridge heads in Liverpool's second equaliser against Newcastle United at St James Park today. - Reuters pic, October 19, 2013.Newcastle United played for an hour with only 10 men but still managed to hold visitors Liverpool to a 2-2 draw in an entertaining English Premier League encounter today. Yohan Cabaye put the home side ahead with a fine long-range strike, but Steven Gerrard claimed his 100th league goal from the penalty spot to equalise after Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa had been sent off for holding back Luis Suarez. Young defender Paul Dummett, sent on to shore up the home defence following Yanga-Mbiwa's dismissal, crowned his home league debut with a 57th-minute goal to restore Newcastle's lead. But Suarez crossed for Daniel Sturridge to head in an equaliser 18 minutes from time, taking the England striker's tally of league goals to seven and provisionally lifting Brendan Rodgers's side above Arsenal at the top of the table. Newcastle, beaten 6-0 in the corresponding fixture last season, climbed one place to ninth. Prior to kick-off, hundreds of Newcastle fans marched through the city centre protesting about owner Mike Ashley's management of the club. The supporters are disgruntled about the appointment of the unpopular Joe Kinnear as sporting director and the club's failure to significantly improve the squad during the close season. Kinnear defended himself in the match-day programme, writing that Newcastle "cannot compete commercially with the very biggest global brands in football because the hugely lucrative deals will go their way". As if to illustrate his point, Liverpool enjoyed the early running at St James' Park, with Suarez and Martin Skrtel both threatening from corners, only for the hosts to take the lead in the 23rd minute. Cabaye was given space to advance down the inside-right channel and from 30 yards he dispatched a vicious, dipping shot that flew past Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet into the bottom-left corner. An exchange of chances saw Mamadou Sakho and Suarez go close for Liverpool, with Cabaye shooting over and Mignolet saving from Moussa Sissoko in reply, before the visitors equalised three minutes before half-time. Yanga-Mbiwa was adjudged to have held back Suarez as he raced in on goal and from the resulting penalty, Gerrard steered a shot into the bottom-left corner. The goal saw Gerrard become the 24th player to have scored 100 goals in the Premier League era, following in the footsteps of his former Liverpool team-mates Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen, Robbie Keane, Nicolas Anelka and Emile Heskey. Yanga-Mbiwa's dismissal appeared to hand Liverpool the initiative and Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krul had to claw away a low strike from fit-again visiting right-back Glen Johnson early in the second period. However, it was Newcastle who struck next, with substitute Dummett ghosting in behind the Liverpool defence to volley a lofted free-kick from Cabaye past the exposed Mignolet. Dummett, 22, had never previously scored for Newcastle, where he has been since the age of nine. Krul saved from Suarez as Liverpool pushed for an equaliser, but the Uruguayan would not be discouraged and in the 72nd minute he crossed from the left for Sturridge to head in a close-range equaliser. Sturridge appeared to have squandered a glorious opportunity to put his side ahead moments later when he slid the ball wide of an open goal, only for an offside flag to spare his blushes. Still Liverpool came, Suarez clipping the bar with a powerful half-volley and Sturridge miscuing from 12 yards before volleying wide from a deep Gerrard cross. A foul on Suarez by Mathieu Debuchy gave the Liverpool number seven an opportunity to claim a dramatic winning goal deep into stoppage time, but his curling effort was palmed away by Krul. - AFP, October 19, 2013.

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Fox bets on series set in ancient Egypt for next year Posted: 19 Oct 2013 09:11 AM PDT October 20, 2013 Ancient Egypt will be the focus in Fox's latest series, Hieroglyph.The channel has skipped the pilot and ordered a full 13-episode season of Hieroglyph, a new historical fantasy series. After coming close to getting the go-ahead two years ago, Hieroglyph will finally hit the airwaves in the 2014-2015 season on Fox. The series will explore life in ancient Egypt through the lens of an expert thief who comes out of prison to serve the Pharaoh. Travis Beacham, who contributed to the screenplays of Clash of the Titans and Pacific Rim, developed the premise on Hieroglyph. The series will span across different genres, combining drama within the Pharaoh's court with an exploration of the criminal underbelly of the ancient world, along with just a dash of mythology and fantasy, according to a description from Fox. The cast and crew of Hieroglyph will begin production in early next year. – AFP Relaxnews, October 19, 2013.

As body ages, Jackie Chan longs for Hollywood’s full embrace Posted: 19 Oct 2013 06:49 AM PDT October 19, 2013 Jackie Chan (pic) wasn't in the mood for proclamations. The Hong Kong martial arts film star, who declared last year at France's Cannes film festival that he was retiring from action films, now says that after more than a decade of contemplating quitting, he is going to let his body decide. "When I was 40-something the media would ask me and then I said another five years, and then five years and five years until now," the kung fu actor said in an interview promoting his 2012 Chinese action film Chinese Zodiac, which will be released in US cinemas on Friday. "Six more months and I'm going to be 60," Chan said. "And I (will) see how far I can go until my body tells me, 'Stop'." Chan, famous for performing all of his high-flying and physically punishing stunts, has appeared in more than 100 films and now writes, produces and directs his own films in Asia. "I get hurt," the actor said after 50 years of flips, kicks and punches. "It gets really tiring, not like it used to be." The only real outward sign of ageing in Chan are some crow's feet around the eyes. He is obviously in great shape still, but won't reveal his secrets for staying that way. But as Chan starts to enter his twilight years he laments how Hollywood typecasting may force him to begin using a stunt double for his acrobatic scenes as he believes Hollywood studios would never cast him in dramatic roles. "I hope the audience, after they say, 'Jackie, that's a double!', they forgive me," Chan said in his trademark broad-grinned and animated style. "Then I can continue (my career) because poor me, nobody in Hollywood hires me to make a Kramer vs. Kramer (or) like Sound of Music – actually I'm a pretty good singer – and nobody hires me to do this kind of film," Chan said, referring to the 1979 family drama and 1965 musical, both Oscar winners. "All we think about Jackie Chan: Chris Tucker, Rush Hour one, two, and three... always action-comedy, action-comedy," he said about the Rush Hour buddy-cop film series with comedian Chris Tucker that helped Chan cement his place in Hollywood 15 years ago. Chan has already added "dramatic actor" to his resume with the 2011 Chinese historical drama 1911 about the revolution that overthrew China's final imperial dynasty. "I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama," Chan said. "I (would) really appreciate it." But that is never going to happen, Chan believes. "Why?" he asks rhetorically with a sigh. "Because the audience is just not used to seeing Jackie Chan doing drama." Chan's ideal roles would be in films such as 1988 Oscar-winner Rain Man, which starred Dustin Hoffman as a savant and Tom Cruise as his yuppie brother together on a road trip, or 1982's Tootsie, also starring Hoffman as an actor who dresses as a woman to land acting roles. "It's just... my English is not that good," Chan explains. That also held him back from pursuing a role in The Interpreter, a 2005 thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. Chan said his manager thought the role would be good but told him the amount of dialogue was too tough. Chan said that although the part would have been difficult, he does regret turning it down because he lost an opportunity to work with Kidman and a chance to burnish his legacy. "I see so many action stars all those years come and go, and come and go," Chan said. "Action stars cannot live too long, unlike drama, true actors, like Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, they live forever." – Reuters, October 19, 2013.

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Record-breaking Chinese artist Zeng lifts the mask Posted: 19 Oct 2013 05:37 AM PDT October 19, 2013 A woman walks by a painting by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi entitled The Last Supper as she visits an exhibition dedicated to his work at the Museum for Modern Art in Paris. - AFP pic, October 19, 2013.His 2001 painting The Last Supper has just sold for US$23 million (RM72.6 million), but growing up in a working class family during China's Cultural Revolution, Zeng Fanzhi could never have anticipated the path his life would take. "The notion of the artist didn't exist," he said of his art school days in the central Hubei province. "We were art workers. We didn't know that we could be free and independent," Zeng, in Paris for a retrospective of his works, told AFP. Based on Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, Zeng's Last Supper - part of the Paris show - set a new record for a contemporary Chinese artist when it was sold at auction in Hong Kong on October 5. The work, which depicts Christ and the disciples wearing masks and communist Young Pioneers uniforms, was purchased by an anonymous private buyer following a 10-minute telephone bidding war. Born in 1964 in Wuhan in Hubei province, Zeng is currently the subject of a show at Paris' Museum of Modern Art featuring around 40 of his works dating back to 1990. "It's the first time in my life that so many of my works have been brought together... It's very important to me," he told AFP, speaking through an interpreter. Currently ranked the fourth highest-selling contemporary artist - in terms of auction turnover - according to art data firm Artprice, his sales in 2012/13 reached US$34.3 million (RM108.3 million). Such success is a far cry from his days as a student at the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts. "In the place where I was living, there were no toilets so I had to go to the neighbouring hospital several times a day," he said. This inspired a series of works based on what he had witnessed on his visits. For his graduation painting he presented the expressionistic Hospital Triptych No.1 which attracted the attention of the Chinese art world. In 1993, Zeng moved to Beijing and began working on his masks series. "Behind most of these masks, it's me. I had very few friends because I had just arrived in Beijing," he said. His works have always drawn on his own life and emotions including his childhood, which was indelibly marked by the Cultural Revolution. From its start in 1966 until Mao's death in 1976, this saw the rejection of traditional forms of Chinese culture. In The Last Supper, the disciples' Young Pioneers uniforms feature the red scarves that were a symbol of achievement in Communist China - something Zeng said always eluded him. And the Judas figure "wears a gold scarf which evokes the power of money and capitalism". "I never had the red scarf," he said. "I was excluded from collectivity. It was like a badge of shame for my parents. It was a shadow over my childhood," he added. Zeng is now collaborating on a museum project that he believes will enable him to express his artistic vision. His current work uses a technique which he adopted in the middle of the last decade in which blurred lines are employed to depict landscapes. "Before painting a big canvas, I prepare for several days in order to attain a state of calm and serenity. Then I paint fast, in an intense way," he said. - AFP, October 19,2013

Titanic violin set to fetch record price Posted: 19 Oct 2013 05:13 AM PDT October 19, 2013 Latest Update: October 19, 2013 11:35 pm The violin played by bandmaster Wallace Hartley during the final moments before the sinking of the Titanic is displayed with a leather carrying case initialled W.H.H. at a conservation studio in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, last month. – AFP pic.The violin played by the bandmaster of the Titanic as it sank beneath the waves fetched a whopping £900,000 (RM4.59 million) when it went on sale today. The instrument belonging to Wallace Hartley was found strapped to his body after he drowned with his seven bandmates and some 1,500 others on board the supposedly unsinkable ship in 1912. The violin had a reserve price of £200,000 (RM1.02 million) to £300,000 (RM1.53 million) but was expected to fetch as much as £400,000 (RM2.04 million) when it went on sale at Titanic specialist auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, southwest England. The instrument carries an inscription from the 33-year-old's fiancee Maria Robinson to mark their engagement. It is on sale with its leather luggage case initialed W.H.H. For decades the violin was believed lost but it was found in the attic of a house in northwest England in 2006, prompting a debate about its authenticity which experts only recently resolved. Andrew Aldridge, a valuer with the auctioneer, said worldwide interest in the instrument meant it was likely to break the world record fee for a single piece of memorabilia from the Titanic. "It symbolises love, with a young man strapping it to his body because it was an engagement present from his fiancee," he said. "It also epitomises bravery. He knew there would be no lifeboats. It symbolises everything that's good about people, not just Wallace Hartley and his band, but all the men, women and children who lost their lives." The Titanic was built in Belfast and set sail from Southampton, southern England, for New York on April 10, 1912. The band played the hymn Nearer, My God, To Thee to try to calm passengers while they climbed into lifeboats as the Titanic sank beneath the icy waves in the North Atlantic on April 15 after hitting an iceberg. Hartley and his seven fellow band members all died after choosing to play on. He was given the maple, spruce and ebony violin by his fiancee in 1910. She had a silver plaque fixed to the instrument engraved with the words: "For Wallace, on the occasion of our engagement. From Maria." It is now thought that the instrument was inside a leather bag that was found strapped to his body 10 days after the sinking, and was then passed to Robinson. Robinson never married and after her death in 1939, her sister donated the violin to her local Salvation Army band, where it passed to a music teacher and then the unnamed owner in whose house it was discovered in Lancashire, northwest England. After seven years of testing including MRI scans, researchers said in March this year that the instrument was genuine. – AFP, October 19, 2013.

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Morrissey turns bigmouth as memoir reveals relationships Posted: 18 Oct 2013 07:53 PM PDT October 19, 2013 British singer and former Smiths frontman Morrissey has revealed in his autobiography that his first full relationship came with a man when he was 35, and that he later considered having a child with a woman. The star's 457-page memoir, titled simply Autobiography, also takes aim at the British legal system, the former drummer and bassist from the Smiths and the music business with a series of typically acid quips. Morrissey, 54, who famously made a virtue out of his celibacy and has long kept his private life veiled, said in the book that he fell into a two-year relationship with photographer Jake Owen Walters in 1994. Walters followed the star home from a London restaurant one night after vegetarian Morrissey walked out in protest at the fact that it was serving meat. "Once inside the house the doorbell rings. It is Jake," writes Morrissey, whose hits with The Smiths included "Bigmouth Strikes Again". "He obviously understood my sudden exit, and he had been curious enough to follow me home. He steps inside and he stays for two years. "Conversation is the bond of companionship (according to the Wildean scripture), and Jake and I neither sought nor needed company other than our own for the whirlwind stretch to come, and for the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone." The relationship ends after the dour English playwright Alan Bennett visits their house, notes that the couple are not speaking and says "Something's happened, hasn't it?". Installed in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, Morrissey then says he fell in love with an Iranian-born US woman, Tina Deghani, who becomes a "lifetime constant". "Tina and I discuss the unthinkable act of producing a mewling miniature monster. Had I ever previously known such a thought?" writes the star, once known for waving a bunch of gladioli and wearing a hearing aid during his performances on British television. The book starts with a lyrical, four-and-a-half-page paragraph description of Stephen Patrick Morrissey's childhood in the industrial town of Manchester, northwest England, including the line: "Naturally my birth almost kills my mother, for my head is too big." His tales of his grim school days describe how one teacher at school inappropriately rubbed anti-inflammatory cream into his wrist, while another "stands and stares" at boys in the shower. It charts the rise of The Smiths, who from 1982 to 1987 set the template for independent music in Britain with hits like Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now that mixed Morrissey's depressively witty lyrics with Johnny Marr's jangly guitars. Marr, whose creative friendship with Morrissey was at the heart of the band, emerges mostly positively from the book, but the same cannot be said of drummer Mike Joyce and bassist Andy Rourke. Morrissey devotes a full 50 pages to his bitter legal battle with Joyce - whom he calls a "flea in search of a dog" over royalties from the band - while Judge John Weeks is described as "resembling a pile of untouched sandwiches". The release of the long-awaited book made the front pages of many British newspapers, but reviews were mixed. Many commentators focused on the risk of hubris in the fact that Autobiography was published under the Penguin Classics label, normally reserved for the likes of Dickens, Tolstoy and Homer. "It's self-absorbed, overlong and essential reading," said The Times. The Independent said it was a "predictable whine of self-pity and self-justification... droning narcissism." The Guardian said that "for its first 150 pages, 'Autobiography' comes close to being a triumph" but then goes "badly wrong" with the bitterness over the legal battle." But the Telegraph said it was the "best written musical autobiography since Bob Dylan's Chronicles". - AFP Relaxnews, October 19, 2013.

Microsoft bringing e-books direct to Windows Posted: 18 Oct 2013 07:44 PM PDT October 19, 2013 Microsoft has confirmed it is working on new e-books functionality for Windows. - AFP Relaxnews pic, October 19, 2013.The company is developing a Windows equivalent to Apple's news stand for digital magazines and books. Although light on details, Microsoft engineers revealed that offering Windows users the ability to buy e-books and to subscribe to digital publications via their Microsoft accounts, rather than having to rely on services from companies like Amazon, is "definitely on the radar and something we're working on!" Windows users currently have to use Amazon's Kindle app or the Nook app to buy and read e-books on their desktops, notebooks and Windows tablets. The announcement was made during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session, organised to promote the official release of the Windows 8.1 desktop operating system update. The Microsoft engineers who took part in the Q&A session also revealed that work on said update started more than a year ago. "The work never stops — we've been working on 8.1 since right after we shipped 8 last year — we've been making improvements right up until recently." When asked if users could expect Windows 8.2 the same time next year, the engineers said that the plan going forward was to release regular updates "to respond to customer feedback and improve and enrich the Windows experience." In the past, Microsoft has been accused of not listening to customer needs and of being slow to respond to bug fixes and updates. However, outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer has pledged that the company has now developed a more sensitive ear and will be more proactive in listening to users. A perfect example of this is the reintroduction of the Start button in Windows 8.1, something that was controversially omitted from Windows 8. As well as reinstating the Start button, Windows 8.1 also features better search and personalisation settings, the ability to boot in desktop mode and much improved integration with SkyDrive and synchronisation across devices on the same network. The update is free to download for consumers who already have a computer running Windows 8 and is available from the Windows Store. - AFP Relaxnews, October 19, 2013.

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Hishammuddin kesal ada pihak melabelnya pemimpin lembik Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:01 AM PDT October 19, 2013 Menteri Pertahanan, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein (gambar) yang bertanding mempertahan jawatan Naib Presiden Umno pada pemilihan hari ini melahirkan rasa kesal terhadap sesetengah pihak yang berterusan melabelnya sebagai pemimpin lembik terutama ketika menerajui Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN).     Hishammuddin yang juga pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan berkata tuduhan yang dilempar terhadap beliau itu jelas tidak berasas dan berkemungkinan mempunyai sebab tertentu sehingga menimbulkan rasa tidak adil terhadap dirinya.     "Jauh sekali saya lembik. Kalau lembik, negara sudah huru-hara. Kalau lembik, tidak mungkin saya bawa pindaan perlembagaan kepada parti.     "Kalau lembik, tidak mungkin saya dapat bertahan selama lima tahun bersama KDN, melalui Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 lepas dalam keadaan aman dan selamat, dan tidak mungkin dapat melalui pemilihan parti pada hari ini," katanya ketika berucap pada mesyuarat perwakilan Umno Bahagian Sembrong, di Sekolah Menengah Sains Sembrong, di sini hari ini.     Sebanyak 481 anggota perwakilan bahagian itu menghadiri mesyuarat berkenaan.     Turut hadir tanda memberi sokongan kepada beliau ialah isterinya, Datin Seri Tengku Marsilla Tengku Abdullah; anak sulung beliau yang sarat mengandung, Nasya Alyssa; dan suami Muhd Anas Zawawi Khalid; serta adik beliau Faris Tun Hussein. Hishammuddin berkata memang mudah bagi pihak tertentu menuding jari terhadapnya, namun beliau lebih suka mengambil pendekatan menangani ujian dan cabaran ini dengan memberikan penjelasan kepada para perwakilan bagi membolehkan mereka menilai rekod perkhidmatannya.     Beliau berkata sebagai orang yang berada di landasan yang benar, beliau yakin para perwakilan terutama anggota perwakilan Sembrong memberikan sokongan yang tidak berbelah bahagi terhadapnya.     "Ketika berlaku pencerobohan di Lahad Datu, Sabah, saya sekeluarga berkampung di sana selama tiga minggu bagi memastikan keadaan selamat. Itu pun orang kata saya lembik lagi ke?" katanya.     Dalam pada itu, Hishammuddin sebagai Ketua Umno Bahagian Sembrong, mengingatkan anggota perwakilan bahagian itu supaya sentiasa bersatu dan beliau turut menyatakan rasa puas hati proses pemilihan parti di bahagian itu berjalan lancar.     Beliau turut mengingatkan Ketua Wanita dan Ketua Pemuda bahagian itu, Noraslina Zainal Abidin dan Onn Hafiz Ghazi yang memenangi jawatan masing-masing pada pemilihan sayap parti minggu lepas, supaya sentiasa bersedia berdepan dengan kritikan.   Ketika ditemui pemberita, Nasya Alyssa berkata beliau hadir untuk memberikan suntikan semangat kepada bapanya.     "Memang penat tetapi tidak mengapa kerana saya pun jarang mengikuti majlis politik sebegini," katanya yang hamil tujuh bulan.     Nasya Alysaa dan Muhd Anas Zawawi, anak sulung Datuk Seri Khalid Mohamad Jiwa, suami Datuk Siti Nurhaliza, bernikah pada November tahun lepas semasa berlangsungnya Perhimpunan Agung Umno.     Hishammuddin sebelum itu berseloroh dengan para perwakilan bahawa beliau   tidak sabar mahu menjadi 'datuk', menunggu kelahiran cucu sulungnya. – Bernama, 19 Oktober, 2013.

Agihan kad, promosi calon saat akhir Posted: 19 Oct 2013 02:49 AM PDT October 19, 2013 Ejen-ejen calon melakukan promosi di saat-saat akhir dengan mengedarkan kad bersertakan nombor calon kepada para perwakilan pada pemilihan peringkat Bahagian Umno Wilayah Persekutuan hari ini.     Berpakaian kemeja-t pelbagai warna yang tertera nombor dan gambar calon, para ejen hadir seawal 7.30 pagi untuk mengagihkan maklumat kepada anggota-aggota perwakilan.     Tinjauan Bernama mendapati gelagat mereka menjadi tarikan dengan menegur dan memberikan senyuman tanpa henti kepada anggota perwakilan, yang mula mendaftarkan diri untuk bermesyuarat seawal 8 pagi.     Izat Adam, 23, penuntut institusi pengajian tinggi swasta berkata beliau  menjadi wakil ejen bagi calon Naib Presiden, Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal.     "Saya bersemangat edarkan kad-kad ini kerana pada masa akan datang mungkin giliran saya pula bertanding," katanya. Selain Izat, rakannya Mohd Alfifi Arshad, 23, yang juga anggota Umno Cawangan Jalan Raja Muda Musa, Kampung Baru, juga menjadi ejen calon.     "Banyak perubahan telah berlaku dan pemilihan kali ini lebih terbuka menggunakan sistem baru 'electoral college' menjadikan saya tertarik untuk terlibat mempromosikan calon," katanya.     Senario ejen itu dapat dilihat di beberapa mesyuarat perwakilan Umno termasuk Bahagian Bandar Tun Razak, Bahagian Bukit Bintang, Bahagian Titiwangsa dan Bahagian Setiawangsa.    Setiausaha Badan Perhubungan Umno Wilayah Persekutuan, Datuk Wira Syed Ali Syed Abbas Alhabshee ketika dihubungi berkata mesyuarat kesemua 13 Umno Bahagian dalam Badan Perhubungan Umno Wilayah Persekutuan berjalan lancar.     Tiga belas Bahagian itu ialah, Titiwangsa, Batu, Lembah Pantai, Kepong, Putrajaya, Bandar Tun Razak, Bukit Bintang, Segambut, Wangsa Maju, Seputeh, Cheras, Setiawangsa dan Labuan. – Bernama, 19 Oktober, 2013.

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