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Yoghurt consumption linked to lower diabetes risk Posted: 06 Feb 2014 05:05 PM PST February 07, 2014 Those who ate low-fat fermented dairy products were 24% less likely to develop diabetes compared to counterparts who ate none of these products. – AFP/Relaxnews pic, February 7, 2014.Eating yoghurt and low-fat cheese can cut the risk of developing diabetes by around a quarter compared with consuming none, according to a study of 3,500 Britons published on Wednesday. The evidence comes from a long-term health survey of men and women living in the eastern county of Norfolk, whose eating and drinking habits were detailed at the start of the investigation. During the study's 11-year span, 753 people in the group developed adult-onset, also called Type 2, diabetes. Those who ate low-fat fermented dairy products – a category that includes yoghurts, fromage frais and low-fat cottage cheese – were 24% less likely to develop the disease compared to counterparts who ate none of these products. When examined separately from the other low-fat dairy products, yoghurt by itself was associated with a 28% reduced risk. People in this category ate on average four and a half standard 125-gramme pots of yoghurt each week. Those who ate a yoghurt for a snack, instead of a packet of crisps, had a whopping 47% reduction in the probability of developing diabetes. Only low-fat, fermented dairy products were associated with the fall in risk. Consumption of high-fat fermented products, and of milk, had no impact. The research, published in the specialist journal Diabetologia, was not designed to probe why eating low-fat fermented dairy products appears to be so beneficial. One future line of inquiry is whether the impact comes from probiotic bacteria and a special form of Vitamin K they contain, according to the paper, headed by Nita Forouhi, an epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge. "At a time when we have a lot of other evidence that consuming high amounts of certain foods, such as added sugars and sugary drinks, is bad for our health, it is very reassuring to have messages about other foods like yoghurt and low-fat fermented dairy products that could be good for our health," said Forouhi. The study took into account factors such as obesity and a family history of diabetes that could potentially skew the results. But, its authors acknowledged, it also had a limitation. Volunteers' eating habits were recorded in exacting detail at the start of the study but this information was not updated during the ensuing 11 years. So it was unknown if or how they changed their diet over this time. – AFP/Relaxnews, February 7, 2014.

World’s most expensive Valentine’s Day dinner Posted: 06 Feb 2014 04:40 PM PST February 07, 2014 Have £61,000 (RM330,851) kicking around and want to impress your Valentine this year? A luxury retail website has designed a Valentine's Day dinner featuring some of the rarest and most decadent ingredients on the planet like Almus white caviar, Amethyst Bamboo salt, and a Michelin-starred chef. Created by the same folks who put together around-the-world trips to all 962 Unesco World Heritage Sites and a culinary odyssey to Michelin-starred restaurants in the world, the latest outrageously extravagant package from VeryFirstTo is an eight-course meal prepared in the home by Michelin-starred British chef Adam Simmonds (pic). Predictably, the menu is designed as an aphrodisiacal experience that starts with oysters and Almus white caviar – a symbol of fertility – along with Pacific Bluefin tuna, foie gras, truffle salad and Wagyu beef. Dishes are also paired with some of the finest wines in the world. Saffron risotto, for instance, is accompanied by a 1990 La Romanee-Conti, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, valued at £17,000. To wash down the oysters, guests will sip on a £3,600 bottle of 1959 Salon Blanc de Blancs, that also comes with South Sea pearls. To cap off the meal, guests will tuck into bowls of vanilla and smoke chocolate Kopi Luwak ice cream. Kopi Luwak –  known as the most expensive coffee in the world – is actually coffee berries extracted from the feces of the Asian civet cat. Simmonds earned his first Michelin star while at Ynyshir Hall in Wales in 2006. The deal, which was also created in collaboration with GreatBritishChefs.com, expires February 11. – AFP/Relaxnews, February 7, 2014.

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Gallagher reveals Ferguson’s cheeky tactics Posted: 06 Feb 2014 02:48 PM PST February 07, 2014 Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher has revealed how Alex Ferguson (pic) once tried to get him to postpone a Manchester United match because it would give his side a better chance of winning the title. Ferguson was renowned for trying to exert pressure on referees during his long reign as United manager and could often be seen pointing at his watch, hinting that there should be a long period of stoppage time towards the end of games when United needed a goal. The Scot, who retired at the end of last season, wrote in his autobiography that the gesture was intended to create tension for the opposition, but Gallagher has revealed there was more to Ferguson's cheeky tactics than that. Gallagher, who refereed in the English top-flight from 1992 to 2007, recalled a match at Old Trafford in 1997 when United faced Middlesbrough in a game they desperately needed to win during a tense battle with Arsenal for the title. "I remember going to Old Trafford at the end of the season. Manchester United had three games that week and I was given the game on the bank holiday Monday," Gallagher told Sportlobster TV. "It was chucking it down with rain and Fergie pulled me aside and said 'do me a favour, call the game off'. "I asked why and he said 'There's nowhere else to fit this game in and the Premier League will have to extend the season. We'll have a better chance of winning the match and we'll win the league at Old Trafford'. "At half time United were losing and the pitch was like a swimming pool. As we came off he said 'I know we're 3-1 down but please call it off, we could do with a hand here'. "They managed to pull it back to 3-3 and in the last minute Dennis Irwin ran into the box and went down in front of the Stretford End and I only gave a goal kick. "At full time Fergie sprinted across the pitch and shouted at me furiously. My wife said, 'Fergie had a right go at you about that penalty didn't he'. I told her he hadn't mentioned the penalty. "She asked why he came tearing across the pitch at me then. The truth is he ran over and asked me if I was going out to dinner that night. I said 'no' and he asked 'why are we leaving so early then?'." Ferguson's ability to squeeze every last second out of officials when his side were losing has since been highlighted. With United trailing at Old Trafford under their former boss, an average of 79 seconds extra was played in stoppage-time. However, this compares to just 40 seconds extra under his successor David Moyes. – AFP, February 7, 2014.

Sizzling Swede Chopra takes early control at Pebble Beach Posted: 06 Feb 2014 02:40 PM PST February 07, 2014 A Pebble Beach Golf Links greens keeper clears standing water from the 18th green during a rain deplay of the AT&T National Pro-Am golf tournament, yesterday. – Reuters pic, February 7, 2014.Red-hot Swede Daniel Chopra birdied six of his first seven holes to charge into an early two-stroke lead in the rain-delayed opening round of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am yesterday. Chopra picked up shots at the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th after setting off on the back nine at Monterey Peninsula Country Club, one of three venues being used for this week's PGA Tour event. The 40-year-old, a double winner on the PGA Tour who has missed the cut in his first three starts on the circuit this season, then parred the 17th and 18th to reach the turn in six-under 31. That left Chopra two ahead of Australian world number 10 Jason Day and Americans Dustin Johnson and Robert Streb. Day, also playing at Monterey Peninsula, had completed nine holes while Johnson had finished 11 and Streb nine. Long-hitting Johnson, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am champion in 2009 and 2010, played Spyglass Hill and Streb the hosting Pebble Beach Golf Links. Tournament favourite and four-times winner Phil Mickelson was one under after four holes on the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula. Yesterday's opening round was certain to spill over into today after heavy rain on the picturesque Monterey Peninsula had forced play to be suspended for just under three hours earlier in the day. With puddles of water forming on many of the greens, the action was halted after just 39 minutes of play before resuming at 1930 GMT (3.30am today MYT). Because of the forecast for poor weather, officials had already implemented 'lift, clean and place' for the players during the first round. Conditions today are expected to be better with just a 20% chance of showers but more rain has been forecast for both tomorrow and Sunday. – Reuters, February 7, 2014.

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United Nations thanks Hollywood amid fight to save Syria’s heritage Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:55 PM PST Appolonio di Giovanni's 'Triumph of Marcus Furius Cammillus, A Cassone Panel' on display at Sotheby's auction house in New York. Paintings looted by the Nazis during World War Two and retrieved by the Monuments Men, were among the tens of thousands of works recovered by the art experts. – Reuters pic, February 6, 2014. The United Nations thanked Hollywood yesterday for raising awareness of cultural crimes during conflict with the movie "The Monuments Men" as the world body tries to stop the pillaging of Syria's heritage during the country's three-year civil war. Unesco, the UN cultural, education and science arm, has in the past month started to train customs officials and police in neighbouring Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan to look for the trafficking of cultural objects out of Syria, said Francesco Bandarin, assistant director-general for culture at the agency. Bandarin said the new Hollywood film - which tells the story of experts tasked with retrieving artistic treasure stolen by the Nazis during World War Two - would raise global awareness of the illegal trade in artifacts stolen during more recent conflicts, such as Syria, Mali and Libya. "I would like to thank Hollywood for bringing this issue to global attention because sometimes Hollywood is more powerful than all the UN system put together," Bandarin said of the film, which opens in North America tomorrow and stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray and Cate Blanchett. "This issue of heritage protection will be on everybody's mind and for us this is a tremendous opportunity," he told reporters at the United Nations in New York. The European Union gave Unesco 2.5 million euros (RM 11.2 million) this week to establish a team in Beirut to gather better information on the situation in Syria, to fight the trafficking of artifacts and to raise awareness internationally and locally, he said. Statues, coins Syria's history stretches back through the great empires of the Middle East to the dawn of human civilization, but cultural sites and buildings around the country, such as Aleppo's Umayyad Mosque, have been looted, damaged or destroyed in the conflict. Bandarin said some objects had already been recovered in Beirut, including statues that had been illegally excavated in the desert town of Palmyra. Illegal archeological excavations across the country pose a great cultural threat, he said. "Most of the objects that we saw are essentially statues or parts of statues. We know also that other objects that are more difficult to retrieve, like coins and metal objects, are circulating," he said of what was found in Beirut. The Syrian government has told Unesco it had emptied the country's 34 museums and moved the contents to safer places. Maamoun Abdulkarim, head of Syria's antiquities and museums told Reuters last year that tens of thousands of artifacts spanning 10,000 years of history were removed to specialist warehouses to avoid a repeat of the storming of Baghdad's museum by looters following the 2003 U.S. invasion and overthrow of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, which began in March 2011 with popular protests against President Bashar al-Assad and spiraled into civil war after a crackdown by security forces. – Reuters, February 6, 2014.

Berlin film fest to open with Wes Anderson world premiere Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:34 PM PST February 06, 2014 The world premiere of Wes Anderson's latest movie The world premiere of Wes Anderson's keenly awaited caper "The Grand Budapest Hotel" will open the 64th Berlin film festival as it joins the race for the Golden Bear top prize. The high-profile opening movie with an all-star cast led by British actor Ralph Fiennes marks a coup for the Berlinale, Europe's first major cinema showcase of the year. The 11-day festival will screen more than 400 productions from around the world in its various sections before a jury led by US producer James Schamus ("Brokeback Mountain") hands out the main awards among 20 contenders. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is Anderson's eighth feature and follows his bittersweet first-love story "Moonrise Kingdom", which launched the Cannes film festival in 2012 to become a critical and box office hit. It will be the third time in the Berlinale competition for Anderson, who has strived to maintain quirky indie sensibilities while filming with bigger and bigger budgets, following "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" and "The Royal Tenenbaums". Anderson has lined up another stellar ensemble cast including Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel, Lea Seydoux, Jeff Goldblum, Tilda Swinton along with Edward Norton, Mathieu Amalric and Owen Wilson to light up Berlin's red carpet. Online buzz from industry types given a sneak preview of "Grand Budapest" indicated that the picture is one of the strongest by Anderson, a three-time Oscar nominee. The Texas-born director, 44, said he took inspiration from film classics by Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder while tracking the escapades of an early 20th-century concierge of the old school, Gustave H, against the backdrop of a continent in turmoil. "When the adventures of the main character begin, I decided to take some orientation from German and Austrian directors who emigrated to Hollywood in the '30s," he told Berlin magazine Tip ahead of the festival. A lost world The story revolves around the theft of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune left by dowager countess Madame D, played by Swinton who in a film trailer is seen aged with makeup beyond recognition. Fiennes, who reportedly took the lead role when Johnny Depp bowed out, appears as Gustave, who is accused of Madame D's murder by her scheming son (Brody). Murray, who has appeared in all of Anderson's feature films apart from his debut, plays a member of a secret order of concierges which comes to Gustave's rescue. Although set in an imaginary Central European country called Zubrowka, the action in "Grand Budapest" traces a familiarly tragic historical arc from the Belle Epoque to fascism and then communist dictatorship. The film was based in part on the stories and memoirs of Austrian author Stefan Zweig mourning the lost world of his youth, Anderson said. Festival director Dieter Kosslick told reporters last week that apart from being a major new work from a popular director, the movie was the right choice in a year in which Europe marks the 100th anniversary of World War I as well as 25 years since the Berlin Wall fell. "There is a lot of German history in this movie, and that goes for many of the films to be shown here, regardless of where they are from," he said. Murray also stars in George Clooney's "The Monuments Men" about an elite unit of Allied soldiers fighting to rescue precious artworks from the Nazis, which will screen Saturday out of competition at the Berlinale. Both pictures were shot in Germany with themes that resonate deeply in the country, Kosslick noted, pointing to the recent discovery of hundreds of priceless artworks stashed in a Munich flat, many of them believed to have been looted by the Germans during World War II. Another hot ticket outside the race for the main prizes is the extended director's cut of Danish provocateur Lars von Trier's no-holds-barred study of sex addiction, "Nymphomaniac Volume I". Schamus will be joined on the jury by two-time Oscar-winning Austrian actor Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained"), US actress Greta Gerwig ("Frances Ha") and Hong Kong star Tony Leung ("In the Mood for Love"). Last year the drama "Child's Pose", set among the monied class of post-communist Romania, captured the Golden Bear. – AFP, February 6, 2014.

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Back to the future with natural building Posted: 05 Feb 2014 05:56 PM PST BY MURRAY HUNTER February 06, 2014 Modern houses are not built to withstand earthquakes unlike those made of adobe. – Reuters file pic, February 6, 2014.Even though many buildings constructed of natural materials, particularly earth, have stood the test of time, the construction of buildings out of these materials has almost disappeared in the 21st century. This occurred because of the development of commercial building materials and labour-saving methods which took on status and prestige connotations, even in Asia and Africa. The skills and craft of natural building by artisans, who were most often handed down specific situational knowledge by their forefathers, almost disappeared, except for pockets of people scattered around the globe. Consequently, buildings constructed out of natural materials and methods are now rare and far between around the world. Buildings constructed out of mud and other natural materials were until recently considered primitive, where images of African and Indian mud houses would arise in the mind of most when the subject is brought up as a building option. However, small groups of people from the "hippy" generation moved out into some of the scenic rural areas around Canada and the United States during the 1980s and 1990s and built houses constructed through rammed earth, cob, bale, and adobe brick methods. Designer builders like Meror Krayenhoff have assisted many notable people like Randy Bachman of the former bands The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive build beautiful rammed earth homes. Likewise, in Australia, even with flawed regulations biased towards conventional dwellings, many owner builders flocked out to the outer Melbourne semi-rural suburb of Eltham, building mud-brick homes inspired by architect Alistair Knox's designs and methods. The term "earthen building" incorporates a number of well-known methods, including rammed earth, which involves developing a mixture of sand and clay, and compressing it within a mould to shape the walls, etc. Usually some form of insulation, like polystyrene, polyurethane, or even old newspaper is used in the middle of the wall, which may also be reinforced with steel rods. Cob involves developing a loamy clay-like mud compound and mixing straw or rice paddy husks into it to build strength. Mud or adobe bricks which are fundamentally made by moulding cob into bricks are used in the construction on a dwelling and mud-based ferro cement, invented by Dr Kamarudin Mohd Nor of Universiti Kuala Lumpur, incorporates a mixture of cement, sand and clay, which is rendered onto a steel or wooden frame sown through some form of insulation  like conventional ferro cement. Other methods important in the construction of natural buildings include straw bale dwellings usually rendered with a mud-based mixture and bamboo and thatches for the ceilings and roofs of mud-based dwellings. Building mud houses is more art than science. Learning the right mixtures to use based on the soil you have available is more a matter trial and error than calculation and thus requires a certain amount of experimentation. Making an earth house is more similar to baking a cake than building a conventional form of house. The material cost of building earth-based dwellings is only a fraction of the cost of building a conventional house with commercial materials. However, labour is the major cost. Earth-based houses are naturally insulated, so they will be cool in summers and warm in winters. They are extremely strong if constructed correctly and proponents of earth houses claim they are resistant to earthquakes. Other advocates of earth houses claim that are healthy with no irritant chemicals incorporated within the mixture to cause any allergies, etc. There has been a small revival of earth-house building in Asia in the last decade, however this revival is driven by a small number of champions like Ajarn (teacher) Smith, as he likes to be called, of Sakaeo, about 300km northeast of Bangkok. As an entrepreneur, Ajarn Smith runs a special type of business that is orientated towards empowering others to build earth brick houses, rather than for profit. As he says: "Mud houses must be made with your heart", and it requires community collaboration. Thus, the business of mud house construction in Asia is a social enterprise, which is about helping communities to organise themselves and acquire the skills to build their own dwellings. The concept, at least at the village level, will not work through the engagement of direct contractors. It's more a consulting arrangement. And this is where the benefits come in. Earth houses are best seen as a community project and, as such, are a potential game changer for a village. Building earth houses is about developing self-reliance. And self-reliance brings on many other benefits. Earth housing as a cluster can be a source of value for a local community. First, it helps the youth of any village build up self-discipline, new skills, and even more importantly enshrines them with the ability to learn through trial and error. Second, such community projects build up great amounts of personal self-esteem, which according to many academics is important in developing any form of entrepreneurship culture. Community earth-house construction can be a catalyst for regenerating a cooperative spirit in a village. Communal work brings back the old values of cooperation, once one of the cornerstones of village life. It's through this cooperation where new sources of community opportunity can be created, and provide the basis for a small entrepreneurial economy. This is so important to keep the youth in any village today. Many earth-building village clusters in Thailand have become the basis for home-stay projects, which act as a platform for other income making activities like handicraft production, expanding the potential income base of the community. Natural building is a potential tool in poverty eradication as well. It prevents the need to borrow money to purchase conventional building materials, thus reduces debt and reliance on high interest micro-financing in any community. Community earth-house projects can help change a village paradigm where there is an emphasis on developing self-sufficiency, which without any village will most likely remain within the poverty trap. Mud-housing projects coupled with solar panels and mini-hydro systems to produce a source of electricity allow a village to improve its standard of living with the need to be connected to the main electricity grid. Water can also be harvested from the roofs of buildings to assist in water self-reliance as well. Combined with organic farming, the indigenous manufacture of enzymes for cleaning and cosmetic products, and the use of natural ways of cooking create a completely new community paradigm. In this way, earth houses have an almost spiritual value, where it combines the inner person through their passion and skills, and hard work to the very environment the community live in. Natural buildings have an important role to play in rural Asia, particularly in regards to developing communities within new paradigms outside the old industrialisation frame. Community building workshops are becoming more popular where skills are being shared between both the "new and old" worlds. It connects communities to the world, devout of any middle people. Earth house development projects can become a new tool in poverty alleviation and as a catalyst in developing alternative economy, which may be important with forecast world economic slowdown over the coming years. However, this requires new cooperative business models and based on labour and skills, rather than technology. Social evolution may be about going back to the future. – February 6, 2014.

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Leadership in the world’s most extreme workplace Posted: 05 Feb 2014 08:29 PM PST February 06, 2014 At age 34, Rachael Robertson accepted the biggest challenge of her life: to lead a large, 12-month expedition in Antarctica. Two months on, she found herself having to ask the team of 120 how they managed to get through a year's supply of condoms in just eight weeks. Robertson, a former chief ranger for the national parks service in Australia's Victoria state, spoke to Reuters about her book "Leading on the Edge" and how she developed a unique style of leadership using a technique called "no triangles". She also recounted some of the funnier moments in Antarctica, including an elephant seal breaking wind during a minute's silence on Anzac Day, a solemn time to remember Australians and New Zealanders who died in wars and conflicts. Q: Many people have written about their experience in the frozen south - what's different about your story? A: Mine is a leadership book, it's not a memoir. It's based on my journals. I've taken what I learned and applied it to any workplace anywhere in the world. Antarctica is traditionally a very "blokey" - almost a "command and control" and military - style where what happens on station stays on station. I went down with a different mindset, i.e. I'm going to take a corporate leadership mindset, like zero tolerance for bullying or harassing and coaching my people on how to communicate with each other. Q: Is leading a team in Antarctica any different to leading a team in the corporate world? A: You've got to deal with it immediately and you've got to do it on your own. You can't have a meeting with Human Resources and talk about it for a few days. It's such a pressure cooker environment, you can't ignore things. That's the main difference. That's where I implemented "no triangles" - a two-way system of confronting an issue respectfully. I think corporate life could learn from this. Respect is more important than harmony. Q: You refer to being aware not to challenge the Australian Antarctic Division by implementing a new leadership style. How did you manage this? A: It was tough because they knew my style of leadership was collaborative. They actually said you're not running a democracy down there. I said if I don't use the knowledge and experience of the people around me someone could get killed. Q: In one of the manuals you found instructions on how to cook a penguin. Were you ever tempted to cook one? A: It's still in the current survival guidebook. No, I wasn't tempted to cook a penguin. We had the opposite problem as we had a fantastic chef. Weight gain is a big issue because you can't just go down to the shop and buy a bigger size. Q: What are some of your funnier memories? A: We went through 2,000 condoms with 120 people in eight weeks. Falling pregnant down there is pretty drastic. My take on it is we had a lot of students there for the summer and they saw the opportunity to take a few back home to Australia. Having to stand up and talk to my staff about condoms was one of those surreal moments in my career. When I pointed out that out that we'd gone through an extraordinary supply of condoms - an entire year's supply - most were returned. It was only when I pointed out whatever we use over summer means we don't have any in winter. Q: You celebrated momentous occasions, like Anzac Day. What was different about that day? A: Anzac Day was fantastic because sunrise is at 10 a.m. I think it's very civilised to have our "dawn service" at 10. We wandered out to the flagpole, read some poetry and played "The Last Post". Right in the middle of our minute's silence, an elephant seal farted. You just think "Ah, it's Antarctica". Q: You are faced with many dangers on a daily basis. What is one of the more unusual ones? A: Fire. If a fire started and we lost our shelter, you are dead ... Also, water is such a precious resource that even a little fire is a real threat because you can't get water in winter, so whatever we get in summer has to last us. It takes a lot of diesel fuel to melt ice. Q: Did you ever feel you were intruding on nature? A: Yes, there was a classic moment when the most beautiful penguin I had ever seen blocked my pathway. His feathers were silken and shiny and his colours shone in the low sun. I looked at him and said "Dude, you are in my way". I'm sure I heard him say "Dude, you're in my home, I was here first". "Leading on the Edge" is published by Wiley. Robertson's website is www.rachaelrobertson.com.au – Reuters, February 6, 2014.

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FA Cup drama filled with surprises, shocks and shame Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:43 PM PST February 06, 2014 As a player, Shebby Singh won everything there was to win in Malaysia football, and represented the country on the international stage. There was a flurry of FA Cup fixtures in Malaysian football over the past five days, with the added excitement of some unwanted drama that was given much coverage. Let us run through some of the action that mattered, both the expected and unexpected. The classic The game of the round was obviously Singapore's Lions XII hosting Pahang. The final result was a 2-1 win in favour of the east coast giants. We did say that a certain Hafiz Kamal is one to watch and he duly delivered, opening the scoring as Pahang stunned Lions XII at the Jalan Besar Stadium in Kallang, Singapore on Saturday. A late consolation from Safuwan Baharudin (classified as a Mohd Khairul Mohd Khalid own goal) was all Fandi Ahmad's men could muster. The Singaporeans will need to put this blip in a cup tie behind them and look to bounce back immediately with a home Super League tie against Terengganu on Saturday. Unbeaten at home since 2012, this could very well prove to be a blessing in disguise for Fandi's men as they can regroup and plan for Terengganu's visit without the added pressure of having to maintain a streak indefinitely. On the other hand, a defeat to Terengganu could spell further doom and whispers of collapse for the LionsXII. However, it quite probably was a physical problem for the Lions as in their last two league games, they had worked extremely hard. The injury time winner at home to Selangor and coming back from two down to win a point against JDT 1 seems to have caught up with them. Regardless, Lions XII will be welcoming a visit from the Turtles, who themselves were unceremoniously dumped out of the cup by PKNS 2-1. The defeat at the hands of Wan Jamak Wan Hassan's boys (PKNS) makes it a second loss in three matches for coach Abdul Rahman Ibrahim (Terengganu) and both coaches find themselves under a slight tinge of pressure early on this season. Victory would be essential, though leaving Singapore even with a point would be a victory in itself for Terengganu – no reason to charge towards wounded lions carelessly. The drama Across the causeway, there was more than anticipated action and drama as Johor Darul Takzim took on T-Team. With the match poised tantalisingly at 2-1 going into half-time at the Darul Takzim stadium, it would not be so far-fetched to have expected some drama as both teams kick-off for the start of the second half. Things kicked off, alright, but neither on the pitch or during the second half. Half-time indeed felt like primetime… a spat occurring in the tunnel as both teams streamed towards their respective dressing rooms for a breather; police reports being lodged by both sides, as both players and officials participated in this scuffle. It is such a shame for the match to have turned out this way, after the mostly entertaining football in the first half giving the fans at the stadium and at home their money's worth. Very little is known for sure of what transpired until a decision is made by the Football Association of Malaysia – be it rendering this result mute (replay), settling on the result (bad for T-Team), or forfeiting the result to T-Team if the FA can find evidence suggesting so (bad for JDT). Regardless, all we can do is wait and see. A situation that happens all over the world, tunnel skirmishes and fracas that only last 10 seconds and at best described as "handbags" to use a popular English term, has been given so much column inches, one would think there was a sighting of Elvis Presley. It's a man's game, get on with it instead of whinging. The derby The northern derby of Kedah v Perlis turned out as expected given the league form of the two sides. A 4-0 thrashing by the Kedahans meant our prediction was spot on once again. Four different players getting their names on the scoresheet and a clean sheet made this outing one to remember in Alor Star for Dave Mitchell. Reduan Abdullah's boys? Not so memorable. Bottom of the Malaysian Premier League after two rounds of play, out of the FA Cup and conceding 10 goals in their previous four matches is a depressing sight – more so if you happen to be the manager of said squad. Perlis need to find their feet fast, as a trip to Johor in the Premier League will provide a tricky but winnable fixture which Perlis need desperately. Plantation boys The shock result of the FA Cup was Super League's Sime Darby losing 1-0 to Premier League side Felda United. Coming off a 3-0 drubbing in Kuching by a very assured Sarawak side, the home defeat for Sime Darby against Felda United in the FA Cup is a painful blow for Ismail Zakaria and a brilliant result for Felda's Irfan Bakti. Still early days, but being second from bottom in the Super League surely isn't the most this Sime Darby team can offer and a visit from Selangor (themselves also reeling from a home defeat at the hands of Robert Alberts' Sarawak in the FA Cup) hopefully brings about a must-win atmosphere from both sides as they look to get their Super League campaigns back on track. – February 6, 2014. * This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of The Malaysian Insider.

FA Cup drama filled with surprises, shocks and shame Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:43 PM PST February 06, 2014 As a player, Shebby Singh won everything there was to win in Malaysia football, and represented the country on the international stage. There was a flurry of FA Cup fixtures in Malaysian football over the past five days, with the added excitement of some unwanted drama that was given much coverage. Let us run through some of the action that mattered, both the expected and unexpected. The classic The game of the round was obviously Singapore's Lions XII hosting Pahang. The final result was a 2-1 win in favour of the east coast giants. We did say that a certain Hafiz Kamal is one to watch and he duly delivered, opening the scoring as Pahang stunned Lions XII at the Jalan Besar Stadium in Kallang, Singapore on Saturday. A late consolation from Safuwan Baharudin (classified as a Mohd Khairul Mohd Khalid own goal) was all Fandi Ahmad's men could muster. The Singaporeans will need to put this blip in a cup tie behind them and look to bounce back immediately with a home Super League tie against Terengganu on Saturday. Unbeaten at home since 2012, this could very well prove to be a blessing in disguise for Fandi's men as they can regroup and plan for Terengganu's visit without the added pressure of having to maintain a streak indefinitely. On the other hand, a defeat to Terengganu could spell further doom and whispers of collapse for the LionsXII. However, it quite probably was a physical problem for the Lions as in their last two league games, they had worked extremely hard. The injury time winner at home to Selangor and coming back from two down to win a point against JDT 1 seems to have caught up with them. Regardless, Lions XII will be welcoming a visit from the Turtles, who themselves were unceremoniously dumped out of the cup by PKNS 2-1. The defeat at the hands of Wan Jamak Wan Hassan's boys (PKNS) makes it a second loss in three matches for coach Abdul Rahman Ibrahim (Terengganu) and both coaches find themselves under a slight tinge of pressure early on this season. Victory would be essential, though leaving Singapore even with a point would be a victory in itself for Terengganu – no reason to charge towards wounded lions carelessly. The drama Across the causeway, there was more than anticipated action and drama as Johor Darul Takzim took on T-Team. With the match poised tantalisingly at 2-1 going into half-time at the Darul Takzim stadium, it would not be so far-fetched to have expected some drama as both teams kick-off for the start of the second half. Things kicked off, alright, but neither on the pitch or during the second half. Half-time indeed felt like primetime… a spat occurring in the tunnel as both teams streamed towards their respective dressing rooms for a breather; police reports being lodged by both sides, as both players and officials participated in this scuffle. It is such a shame for the match to have turned out this way, after the mostly entertaining football in the first half giving the fans at the stadium and at home their money's worth. Very little is known for sure of what transpired until a decision is made by the Football Association of Malaysia – be it rendering this result mute (replay), settling on the result (bad for T-Team), or forfeiting the result to T-Team if the FA can find evidence suggesting so (bad for JDT). Regardless, all we can do is wait and see. A situation that happens all over the world, tunnel skirmishes and fracas that only last 10 seconds and at best described as "handbags" to use a popular English term, has been given so much column inches, one would think there was a sighting of Elvis Presley. It's a man's game, get on with it instead of whinging. The derby The northern derby of Kedah v Perlis turned out as expected given the league form of the two sides. A 4-0 thrashing by the Kedahans meant our prediction was spot on once again. Four different players getting their names on the scoresheet and a clean sheet made this outing one to remember in Alor Star for Dave Mitchell. Reduan Abdullah's boys? Not so memorable. Bottom of the Malaysian Premier League after two rounds of play, out of the FA Cup and conceding 10 goals in their previous four matches is a depressing sight – more so if you happen to be the manager of said squad. Perlis need to find their feet fast, as a trip to Johor in the Premier League will provide a tricky but winnable fixture which Perlis need desperately. Plantation boys The shock result of the FA Cup was Super League's Sime Darby losing 1-0 to Premier League side Felda United. Coming off a 3-0 drubbing in Kuching by a very assured Sarawak side, the home defeat for Sime Darby against Felda United in the FA Cup is a painful blow for Ismail Zakaria and a brilliant result for Felda's Irfan Bakti. Still early days, but being second from bottom in the Super League surely isn't the most this Sime Darby team can offer and a visit from Selangor (themselves also reeling from a home defeat at the hands of Robert Alberts' Sarawak in the FA Cup) hopefully brings about a must-win atmosphere from both sides as they look to get their Super League campaigns back on track. – February 6, 2014. * This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of The Malaysian Insider.

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Tawaran tampar Teresa Kok dinaikkan sehingga RM1,200 kata NGO Islam Posted: 06 Feb 2014 02:33 AM PST OLEH DIYANA IBRAHIM February 06, 2014 Penunjuk perasaan menunjukkan bunting yang memaparkan gambar Teresa Kok dengan ganjaran sebanyak RM500 kepada sesiapa sahaja yang berjaya menamparnya semasa demontrasi terhadap penghinaan kepada kepimpinan Melayu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong dan Islam oleh pemimpin DAP dan PKR di Kuala Lumpur. – Gambar The Malaysian Insider oleh Najjua Zulkefli, 6 Februari, 2014. Majlis Jemaah NGO Islam Malaysia berkata, tawaran bagi menampar Ahli Parlimen Seputeh Teresa Kok kini dinaikkan daripada RM500 ke RM1,200 kerana pemimpin DAP itu dikatakan kurang ajar dan mencabar kedudukan orang Melayu. Menurut Presiden Seketariat Majlis Permuafakatan Ummah Malaysia Zulkfli Sharif, tawaran dibuat itu terbuka kepada semua warganegara Malaysia agar penghinaan yang seringkali dibuat Kok menerima pembalasan. "Tawaran ini terbuka kepada semua. Maksudnya, siapa sahaja yang dapat menampar Teresa Kok dengan disertakan gambar sebagai bukti, kita akan beri ganjaran sebanyak RM1,200," kata Zulkifli kepada The Malaysian Insider apabila dihubungi di Kuala Lumpur. "Pada mulanya memang kita hanya tawarkan RM500, namun ganjaran itu dinaikkan sebanyak RM1200 hasil sumbangan ahli kita." Beliau juga tidak menolak kemungkinan jumlah ganjaran tersebut akan meningkat sekiranya ada lagi individu menampilkan diri memberi sumbangan. – 6 Februari, 2014. MENYUSUL LAGI

Pelajar 14 tahun tertelan jarum peniti Posted: 06 Feb 2014 02:16 AM PST February 06, 2014 Seorang pelajar Tingkatan Dua Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Bukit Payong, Hulu Besut tertelan jarum peniti ketika sedang mencungkil makanan di celah-celah gigi di kantin sekolahnya, semalam. Mangsa yang dikenali sebagai Mohd Alif Aiman Zulkifli tertelan jarum itu selepas makan di kantin sekolahnya kira-kira 1 tengah hari. Ketika ditemui di Hospital Besut hari ini, ibunya Zawahir Mustafa, 40, berkata dalam kejadian itu anaknya menggunakan jarum peniti yang dijumpai di sekolah untuk mencungkil sisa makanan selepas makan di kantin. Katanya ketika dia sedang leka mencungkil giginya tiba-tiba datang seorang rakannya berbual-bual dengannya apabila dengan tiba-tiba jarum peniti yang dipegangnya itu terlepas dan masuk ke dalam tekaknya. "Anak saya berasa sakit dan suaranya mula hilang hingga menyebabkan rakannya memberitahu kepada gurunya yang kemudiannya membawanya ke hospital," katanya. Menurut Zawahir selepas dirawat selama sejam keadaan anaknya mula stabil dan boleh bercakap tetapi jarum peniti itu masih belum dapat dikeluarkan. Menurut doktor sekiranya jarum peniti itu masih tidak dapat dikeluarkan sehingga Sabtu ini, anaknya akan dirujuk ke Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Kuala Terengganu. Dua minggu lepas, pelajar Tingkatan Satu SMK Bukit Payong tertelan jarum peniti tetapi pulih apabila jarum itu dapat dikeluarkan selepas dua hari beliau menerima rawatan di Hospital Besut. - Bernama, 6 Februari, 2014.

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