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Shiarly: troika to arrive very soon Finance minister says Schaeuble comment signalling a delay was misunderstood

INANCE Minister Vassos Shiarly said yesterday he hoped international lenders would visit “very very soon” for a final round of talks on financial aid and conclude them before a meeting of eurozone finance ministers on November, 12. Shiarly also told state radio that he believed comments attributed to his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble on a delay in talks until 2013 on Wednesday were a “misunderstanding”. “I believe, and hope that very very soon there will be an announcement for the arrival of the troika,” said Shiarly, referring to the collective of lenders from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF. An IMF spokesman said yesterday they expected a follow-up mission soon but no date has been set yet. “..We would want it (a deal) very much to be discussed on November, 12,” Shiarly added, but implied that things were still fluid. He has said before that he wanted finance ministers to approve a deal at the November meeting. It would still need approval from national parliaments, which could take about six weeks. Schaeuble said on Wednesday that concrete negotiations between the troika and Cyprus had not started yet and his assumption was that they would start in the coming year. The German minister was responding to a question on whether lenders would

ask Cyprus to raise its low corporate tax in return for the aid. Schaeuble said he was not in a position to evaluate the negotiations but he knew that members of the monetary union have raised this demand emphatically. “And I believe the Cypriot government knows this.” The government has repeatedly said that the corporate tax, one of the lowest in the EU, was nonnegotiable. Cyprus sought aid from its EU partners and the IMF in June after its two largest banks were battered by a Greek sovereign debt write-down, further depressing an economy already struggling with public ﬁnance problems. Minutes of a conﬁdential meeting with party leaders on October 3, leaked to media this week, showed Shiarly expressing concern some EU partners would “butcher” the island in their austerity demands in return for aid if Cyprus’ case were to be discussed in isolation. The same minutes quote the minister as saying the government may struggle to pay public sector salaries in December unless a bailout deal is clinched by mid-November. Meeting December’s payroll commitments was contingent on the goodwill of bankers, the minister said according to the minutes. Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades meanwhile said “substantial progress” had been

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NICOSIA-LIMASSOL HIGHWAY SHUT FOR HOURS AFTER CRASH

A lorry driver was killed yesterday and his female passenger seriously injured when the vehicle crashed into, and ﬂipped over the highway barrier, splitting in two and scattering sand all over the road (CNA) FULL STORY PAGE 3

Scientists discover an elephant that speaks Korean SCIENTISTS have discovered an elephant that can speak Korean. But Koshik, who talks by putting his trunk in his mouth, has a vocabulary of just ﬁve words. He was recorded at a zoo in South Korea imitating human speech for words that translate into English as “hello”, “sit down”, “no”, “lie down” and “good”. But it is not believed he means what he says. Researchers reported in the journal Current Biology that Koshik’s language skills could provide important insights into the biology and evolution of vocal learning. Elephant communication expert Angela Stoeger, of the University of Vienna, Austria, said: “Human speech basically has

two important aspects: pitch and timbre. “Intriguingly, the elephant Koshik is capable of matching both pitch and timbre patterns. He accurately imitates human formants as well as the voice pitch of his trainers. “This is remarkable considering the huge size, the long vocal tract, and other anatomical differences between an elephant and a human.” Researchers played recordings of Koshik’s noises to native Korean speakers to conﬁrm their ﬁndings. “We found a high agreement concerning the overall meaning, and even the Korean spelling of Koshik’s imitations,” Stoeger said. It is not clear why Koshik adopted his

unusual vocal behaviour, but scientists have suggest that it could go back to his early days. He was the only elephant living at the Everland Zoo in South Korea for about ﬁve years during an important period for bonding and development. Humans were his only social contacts, so he could have adapted his vocals in a bid to strengthen social ties. There have been earlier reports of vocal mimicry in both African and Asian elephants, according to the scientists. African elephants have been known to imitate the sound of truck engines, and a male Asian elephant living in a zoo in Kazakhstan was said to produce utterances in both Russian and Kazakh, but that case was never scientiﬁcally investigated.

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(continued from front page) made in talks with the troika. “I can say there has been substantial progress - in the last few days particularly - in our negotiations with the troika,” Demetriades said yesterday. “I anticipate the troika will be in a position to come to Cyprus soon with the purpose of finalising the financial assistance programme.” The government has been accused of dragging its feet in preparing its response to the lenders who had submitted their proposals on July 25, after two fact-finding missions. The administration says it wanted to consult with parties and unions

before putting together its package. Demetriades said the reform programme currently being discussed as part of the island bailout, contained some of the most signiﬁcant changes since the inception of the Republic. “It is vital these reforms have the legitimacy they deserve to have,” he said. Main opposition leader Nicos Anastasiades signalled that Cyprus has already lost the November 12 deadline. “I am worried by the fact that valuable time has been lost and what is more worrying is that we overshot the November deadline,” Anastasia-

des said. “I don’t want to say more on the dangers stemming from the delay.” Anastasiades, who spoke after meeting President Demetris Christoﬁas, said time was of the essence as regards the conditions of the bailout so that they don’t become worse. Christoﬁas said Cyprus was not “begging the troika to come” but was “inviting” them. “Of course, we are guided by several positions and strategic principles that we have set,” he said. (see editorial page 11)

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No clue about ‘new’ loan from Moscow Finance minister responds to comment by AKEL leader By Elias Hazou FINANCE Minister Vassos Shiarly said yesterday he had no clue about a “new” Cypriot proposal for an interstate loan from Russia. “I am not aware of any new specific proposal by Nicosia to Moscow,” Shiarly told newsmen. He was responding to what AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou earlier told newsmen. Kyprianou said that Cyprus has submitted to Russia a “new” or “revised” proposal for a loan. The AKEL chief said President Christofias had personally briefed him on the government’s latest proposal for a loan before he [Kyprianou] flew out to Moscow last Sunday. While in Russia, Kyprianou met with the Chairman of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin, Deputy Foreign Minister Alex-

ander Grushko and the leader of the Russian Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov. He said he had the opportunity to discuss the matter of the loan request with the Russian officials. According to Kyprianou, President Christofias – realising that Russia was having difficulty responding to Nicosia’s initial demand for a loan – has submitted a new proposal, which was “now on the table.” But later in the day, and following the finance minister’s comment that he knew nothing of the kind, Kyprianou seemed to modify his earlier remarks: he said the proposal he had referred to was “essentially” the same proposal submitted to Moscow back in June. “It is a modified proposal, but the substance of the proposal remains the same,” he said. It is hardly the first time the Presidential Palace and the Finance Ministry appear

to be out of sync, be it on the progress of EU bailout talks or on the elusive Russian loan. Cyprus applied to Russia for a €5.0 billion loan on top of €2.5 billion it borrowed in 2011. On Wednesday, Moscow reiterated that any ﬁnancial assistance to Cyprus must be done through the EU. “Our Finance Ministry is considering this application. We don’t have special funds to support the European economy, but we’re willing to consider such an application. And of course it must be done in cooperation with the European Union. I don’t think in the current difﬁcult conditions these kinds of problems can be solved on a bilateral basis,” First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov told Euronews. Weighing in, presidential candidate Yiorgos Lillikas, who also was in Moscow recently, said the Russians had “certain concerns” about Cy-

prus’ request for a loan. One concern, he said, was that the troika insists that its own loan be repaid first before the Republic of Cyprus repays other loans. The prospect of Russia waiting in line [for its loan to be repaid] did not “appeal” to Moscow, Lillikas said. The Russians’ other worry, he added, is the prospect of a future haircut on any loan given to Cyprus, explaining that this was why Shuvalov said any financial assistance to Cyprus should be done through the EU. With Cyprus yet to conclude a bailout agreement with the troika, the question of a Russian loan has turned into a saga, re-emerging several times over the past couple of months. Despite clarifications such as Shuvalov’s, the government camp here has been striving to give the impression that the issue of the Russian loan is “alive.”

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CYPRUS TODAY Teenage father run over while crossing road A 17-YEAR-OLD Bulgarian national, the father of a two-year-old child, was killed in Limassol around 7am yesterday when he was struck by a car and thrown into a lamppost. Arpen Kurpanov was crossing Paphos Road in Limassol when he was struck by a car being driven by a 49-year-old Greek-Cypriot woman who was later taken into police custody for questioning. After being struck by the car Kurpanov was thrown head ﬁrst into a lamppost. Kurpanov was crossing the road and had not quite made it to the pavement when he was struck. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Limassol General Hospital. Limassol trafﬁc police are investigating.

Jeweller shot at close range INVESTIGATIONS are still ongoing into the case of the murdered jeweller Michalakis Demetriou, 67, from Larnaca who was found dead near Petra tou Romiou in the Paphos district on Wednesday. State pathologist Eleni Antoniou confirmed yesterday what her initial findings had indicated, that the victim was killed by two shots fired from close range, with the use of a hunting gun. Cartridges were found at the scene, which confirm the police and Antoniou’s findings, although Police Spokesman Andreas Angelides was unable to give exact details as to the model of the weapon used. Angelides told the Cyprus Mail that all possibilities were still being investigated although he could not divulge any further information.

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Lorry crash shuts down highway for five hours Driver killed, woman injured as truck splits in two, crosses barrier and leaves sand on Nicosia to Limassol highway By Peter Stevenson A LORRY carrying a load of sand flipped over on the Nicosia-Limassol highway yesterday, killing the driver, a Greek national, seriously injuring his passenger, and closing the highway for nearly five hours. The accident occurred around 11am in the area of Ayios Giorgios Alamanou. The lorry crossed over into oncoming traffic, after breaking through the separation barrier and overturning. It split in two and scattered its cargo of sand all over the highway. Driver Giorgos Chotzeas, 50, a Greek national, died instantly; his passenger, a 42-year-old woman was rushed to Limassol General Hospital where she is fighting for her life. Chotzeas died instantly after being thrown from the driver’s cab. He was not wearing a seatbelt. The reason he lost control has yet to

be ascertained, although according to Limassol traffic officer Emilios Kaffas the driver could have possibly lost control of the vehicle due to a mechanical fault or a burst tyre, or due to speeding. Witnesses have claimed the lorry was travelling at high speed when the driver lost control. “It is a miracle we are not mourning other victims,” said Kaffas. Online news website Sigmalive posted pictures clearly showing the heavy vehicle was travelling with at least one bald tyre. Sigmalive revealed also that the lorry had passed its MOT just two days earlier. The news site posted a photo of the MOT document, which is clearly dated October 30. It also posted a photo of a bald tyre it said was taken of the overturned lorry. Head of traffic police Demetris Demetriou who appeared on the Sigma broadcast said this was the second instance recently of a heavy vehi-

cle crossing into the opposite lane on a highway. Pressed at how the lorry could have passed an MOT and yet have worn-out tyres, Demetriou said police were looking into it. He said the investigation was underway to see if speed caused the accident or whether there were some other factors involved, and that responsibility would be apportioned if this was the case. After colliding with the separating barrier the lorry split in two; the loadcarrying container at the back was sprawled on the tarmac, on the Nicosia to Limassol lane of trafﬁc, while the engine compartment ended up in the Limassol to Nicosia lane. The sand that the lorry was carrying spilled over into all four lanes, forcing police to shut down the highway. Police were able to re-open the Nicosia to Limassol lane at around 3pm whilst full ﬂow was resumed half an hour later.

THE FORMER CEO of the Cyprus telecommunication authority (CyTA) Fotis Savvides who retired this week at the age of 63 said yesterday that he was given an added bonus of €60,000 as a reward for doing his job well. “It is not fair to insult CyTA, myself and my contribution to the company,” Savvides said referring to media criticism of the bonus – offered in addition to the expected lump-sum payment he received on retirement. CyTA chairman Stathis Kittis told state broadcaster CyBC last week that the board had “already undertaken an obligation” to pay the sum. The bonus was part of an out-of-contract agreement with the board to offer incentives for meeting annual performance targets “so we could be effective and helpful,” Savvides said, adding that the CyTA board could have ﬁred him if he had not met his targets.

JAGUAR These included retaining customers and meeting sales targets. CyTA said in its 2011 report that it had increased profit from services compared to 2010 by 2.9 per cent or €2.4 million despite the financial crisis. In 2010, CyTA increased profit compared to 2009 by €1.5 million. However, in 2009 profit from services fell by 34 per cent or €38 million because of a “reduction in CyTA’s work cycle… and an increase in operating expenses,” the company said in its annual report. So the profits in 2010 and 2011 have not made up for the loss of 2009. Savvides said yesterday that many companies had a system of rewards in place and it was common for bank executives to leave with millions of euros in bonuses. Under his contract, Savvides is entitled to pay off the residual value of a Jaguar he used as CEO, but it might not be worth paying given the drop in the prices of used cars he said.

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Sizopoulos accused of taking advantage of amnesty law By Stefanos Evripidou EDEK DEPUTY head and former MP Marinos Sizopoulos yesterday accused his detractors of ulterior motives, following revelations that he took advantage of a 2004 tax amnesty law that he himself played a lead role in preparing and passing through parliament. “It is a fact that some people were troubled unimaginably during my time in parliament, when I uncovered scandals and in many cases prevented cases of interwoven interests through my interventions.” Sizopoulos served as an EDEK MP between 2003 and 2011, bowing out last year after failing to win a third term in the last parliamentary elections. According to yesterday’s lead story in Politis, as a member of the House Finance Committee, Sizopoulos played a key role in preparing and voting through a 2004 tax amnesty law, which months later he took advantage of, writing off pending tax obligations from 2002. The paper accused Sizopoulos of violating Parliamentary Regulation 44 which states that a deputy with personal interest in legislation under review must declare that interest and exclude himself from voting. In this case, argues the paper, instead of informing his colleagues in the Finance Committee, he led the charge in compiling and voting through the law regulat-

ing undeclared income. Politis said it had documents proving that he declared around (CY) £60,000 (over €100,000) in four instalments in 2005 as part of the tax amnesty, thereby paying 5.0 per cent on the undeclared income from 2002 as opposed to 30 per cent, or more specifically, for the sum eventually declared he paid £2,980 instead of £17,800 in tax. Responding yesterday, the former MP all but confirmed the allegations, claiming that his actions were perfectly legal: “Since when is a legal procedure illegal and since when can you raise an ethical issue for a proposal that is open to all the public?” He reminded of the benefits of the 2004 tax amnesty, which raised £128m for the state, while bringing £2.5 billion back into the market. “It is obvious this was leaked from my tax file, so we are talking about people who belong or belonged to the Internal Revenue Department and the group of people who handle that specific file,” he said. His party issued a statement noting that making use of the tax amnesty was a legal act which every citizen was entitled to do regardless of their position. However, Chairman of the House Institutions Committee Demetris Syllouris said he would table the issue for discussion to examine the possibility of making public the details of those within the finance committee who used the law to benefit from the tax amnesty.

Search and Rescue Exercise ‘Hercules 2012’ took place yesterday on Makenzy Beach in Larnaca. The exercise scenario involved a passenger ﬂight carrying 110 passengers, which due to a mechanical failure is forced to

ditch into the sea off Larnaca airport. Different land, sea and air services were deployed during the exercise including police, army and forestry helicopters with ships and speed boats from the navy and the marine police

Former US diplomat calls on Turkey to strike ‘grand bargain’ with Cyprus By Stefanos Evripidou A FORMER US diplomat has called on Turkey to strike a “grand bargain” with Cyprus, lifting its claim on the island in exchange for transferring Cypriot gas to Europe via Turkey. The statement was made by former US diplomat Matthew Bryza, a familiar face in Cyprus in the last decade, during a roundtable discussion organised by Turkish Policy Quarterly. Bryza, who spent over ﬁve years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, was quoted by Turkish Hurriyet Daily News yesterday expressing his views at the roundtable discussion on

the possibility of transferring Cypriot natural gas to Europe via Turkey. According to the former US diplomat, transferring gas from Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone to Europe via Turkey makes sense economically yet striking a deal remains inconceivable in light of Turkey’s strained relations with Cyprus and Israel. It is “economically ridiculous” to run a pipeline from Cyprus to Greece via Crete, he said. It would be much more economically advantageous to collect gas from the Eastern Mediterranean at Limassol, transfer it to the north of Cyprus and from there on to Turkey via pipeline. “It’ll be a shame if politics gets in the way...But poli-

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tics will have to lead,” said Bryza. He added that Turkey’s relations with Israel also make it impossible to strike a deal. Bryza noted that convincing Greek Cypriots to put their economic future in the hands of Turkey was too much to ask of them. “A grand bargain, in which Turkey could lift its claim on Cyprus is necessary, but the deadlock between Turkey and Israel makes these types of projections difﬁcult to pursue,” he was quoted saying. Bryza ended his time as deputy assistant in 2011 when he was appointed US Ambassador to Azerbaijan. A year later, he left the diplomatic service altogether following the US Senate’s refusal to conﬁrm his nomination. He now lives and works with his family in Istanbul as a consultant as well as being director of the Tallinnbased International Centre for Defence Studies.

House extends town planning amnesty BY A majority vote parliament yesterday approved two items of legislation re-extending the Town Planning Amnesty to April 30, 2013. So far only some 14,000 Statements of Intent have been submitted under the provisions of the amnesty, which addresses planning and building violations. The amnesty, voted through in March last year, aims to sort out the problem of an estimated 130,000 pending title deeds. The amnesty allows one to legalise, for a fee, some irregularities carried out after building a property, such as closing up a balcony or building a garage. By legalising the property, people can receive a title deed and a ﬁnal certiﬁcate of approval, or a title deed listing the property’s irregularities. The amnesty only applies to “existing buildings” which, according to article 10D of the Streets and Building (Revised) Law 2011, are those that have a Planning and/or a Building Permit (although they may have expired). The building must have been completed before the above law came into force on April 7, 2011.

Road works due THE Public Works Department are planning to commence maintenance of the tunnels along the Limassol-Paphos motorway. As a result of these works, the east bound tunnel (PaphosLimassol) will be closed from Monday November 12 until Thursday November 15. The west bound tunnel (Limassol-Paphos) will be closed from Monday November 19 until Thursday November 22. The tunnels will be shut between 8am and 4pm each day.

Bases exercise A MILITARY exercise will be taking place until November 18 in the Eastern and Western Sovereign Base Areas. “There is likely to be minor disturbances on some of these days and possibly evenings. There will also be increased air movement activity during this period. Exact times cannot be provided, the base said yesterday. It said the public should not be concerned if explosions are heard in the local area on a few days during this period. Increased noise can happen when certain atmospheric conditions prevail, it said.

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Home New finds at the Vlou site ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a complex of new rooms at the site of Vlou, some 2.5 km northeast of Anogyra village in the Limassol district. The site is said to have functioned most likely as a small rural sanctuary, active from the end of the 2nd to the 4th century AD. The new complex was found in the northeastern corner, “leading to the partial rewriting of the history of this archaeological site”, the Antiquities Department said. The workshop was revealed at the lower level of a building’s cellar. Five rooms were investigated in the building’s remaining area. One of these rooms was most probably used as an animal shed for donkeys or mules, the department said. In the room’s corner-stone two holes were found which would have been used for tying up animals. Among the ﬁnds from the other rooms was a rectangular stone block bearing a large carved letter “A”, a bronze pin with a rounded head and two copper coins of Constantius II (337-361).

CYPRUS TODAY AKEL wants to double gambling fines RULING AKEL has tabled a legislative proposal calling for more severe penalties for illegal gambling. The proposal seeks to amend current punitive laws on gambling establishments, and concerns the owners or operators of such establishments. Under the AKEL proposal, persons found guilty of organizing/supervising/tolerating gambling will be subject to ﬁnes of up to €3,500 and/or a maximum prison sentence of three years; currently, the law provides for a ﬁne not exceeding €1,700 and/or a prison sentence of up to one year. Gambling for money, even in a private home game, is illegal in Cyprus. AKEL MP Aristos Damianou said the purpose of the bill was to crack down on card games hosted by establishments such as ‘social clubs’ or clubs associated with association sports. Authorities anticipate that gamblers will turn to traditional card games following a crackdown on electronic gambling outlets following the passing of a law banning online betting services.

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EOKA fighters to press ahead with Britain case Some concern that new UK bill will complicate matters By Poly Pantelides VETERAN EOKA fighters will push ahead with legal procedures despite a controversial UK bill to stop the public disclosure of evidence for “reasons of national security”, one of their lawyers said yesterday. Cypriots are determined to sue the British government for damages and an apology for torture during the fight against colonial rule, lawyer Christos Clerides said. A British court has already ruled on the right of three Kenyans to pursue damages for torture in the 1950s, which “has paved the path for us to carry on,” Clerides said. Because of the Kenya decision, two questions are answered: whether a law suit would be admissible in court and whether the court would admit a case dating back over fifty years, Clerides said. Top secret foreign office files

made available this year, have showed that EOKA fighters and civilians were brutally tortured between 1955 and 1959. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said it will make more documents available by September 2013 that will also need to be studied, Clerides said. “We are being careful to ensure the cases will be strong,” he said. Clerides confirmed that about 20 cases stood out, although about 60 individuals have detailed alleged abuses and said they are willing to go to court. The Kenyan claimants are looking for an apology and funding for welfare benefits for Kenyan torture victims. One of their lawyers said last month following the British court ruling that “from Malaya to the Yemen, from Cyprus to Palestine,” colonial torture victims would surely be reading the court judgement “with great care”.

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Clerides said that many of the Cyprus colonial administration ﬁles contain “admission of abuse” and could support a suit against the UK government. But to complicate matters, the UK’s Justice and Security Bill aims to extend closed procedures allowing for secret courts for reasons of national security in civil cases. Amnesty International said in a recent report that, “as currently drafted the bill could potentially affect a much broader range of cases” despite claims it aims to deal with cases involving spies and national intelligence. Cases it could affect could include negligence actions, civil actions against the police and torture claims by Cyprus and Kenya. Amnesty International said that because “national security” was not deﬁned, it could be broadly interpreted. The Guardian chimed in to question the motives behind

the bill suggesting that some intelligence and security agencies would regard information that damages their reputation to be a threat to national security. The bill is due to be discussed at the House of Lords for its ﬁnal stage at some point this month, the Guardian reported. Clerides said that given the legal precedent by the Kenyan case and human rights’ obligations towards the European Union, he thought it was unlikely Cyprus’ case would be jeopardised. “A state can’t decide whenever it wants that people can’t sue,” he said. But Thassos Sophocleous, an EOKA veteran who claims he was tortured for over two weeks, said the British government was trying to hide its history. “Let them apologise and admit they committed these atrocities,” Thassos Sophocleous said.

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NICOSIA municipality will be collecting tree trimmings and bulky items for free as part of a clean-up campaign between now and Christmas, an announcement said yesterday. The campaign will start on Monday and carry on through December 14, with set collection dates per district. Residents are asked to follow the schedule, separate trimmings from junk and placing them two days in advance in an orderly way outside their homes. Collection dates are as follows: Ayios Andreas: November 5-9; Trypiotis: November 12-15; Ayioi Omologities: November 16-29 (over two areas); Ayios Antonios: November 30-December 5; Pallouriotissa: November 29-December 12 (over two areas); old city within the walls: December 3-14 (over two areas); Constantinou and Eleni: December 6-12; Kaimakli: November 15-28 (over two areas); Taht-El-Kale Mosque: November 5-6; Omorphita: November 12-14. For more information please call 22-797007.

Murder suspects plead not guilty TWO Greek nationals yesterday pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder charges relating to the killing of five men in Ayia Napa in June. Demetris Mamalikopoulos, 30 and 40-year-old Anastasios Tsehilides were formally charged yesterday for the murder of three Cypriot and two Romanian security guards in the popular holiday resort on June 23. The five, who worked for Famagusta businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis were gunned down while driving along a side street near the Red Square bar. In September, police said they had thwarted a murder plot against Kalopsidiotis. The two suspects also denied a firearm possession charge. The trial was set to start on February 6. Mamalikopoulos and Tsehilides will remain in custody until then.

Fire warning for hunting season THE FORESTRY department yesterday asked hunters to be vigilant with the onset of hunting season this Sunday, to avoid lighting fires or throwing lit cigarette butts in the forest. “The risk of causing and spreading fires remains very pronounced in several areas in Cyprus,” the department said in an announcement. Fires during November have destroyed brush and farming land, damaging nature, as well as hunting prospects, by destroying wildlife habitats, the announcement said. The public is asked to call 1407 or call authorities as soon as smoke or fire is detected.

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Britain Savile’s £4.3m estate frozen over abuse

‘Grow up,’ says Clegg to Labour Dismisses likelihood of EU budget cuts By James Tapsfield, Daniel Bentley and Joe Churcher NICK Clegg drew battle lines for a fresh Commons showdown over the EU budget yesterday, insisting Tory backbenchers and Labour had to “grow up” and act in the national interest. If the Government managed to agree a real-terms freeze in Brussels, MPs would face a stark choice between endorsing it or leaving the UK taxpayer with an even bigger bill, the Deputy PM said. The defiant comments came as Chancellor George Osborne tried to soothe the Conservative rank and file after a highly damaging parliamentary defeat on negotiation strategy Wednesday night.

Some 53 of the party’s MPs joined forces with the Opposition to pass an amendment demanding a cut in the EU’s seven-year funding package. Taking to the airwaves this morning, Osborne admitted their frustrations were “understandable”, and reiterated that David Cameron would strike a deal at the crunch European summit next month only if it was “good for the British taxpayer”. But Liberal Democrat leader Clegg sounded a tougher note, ﬂatly dismissing the possibility that a real-terms cut could be achieved. He said in an ideal world he would prefer a reduction in the EU budget, but the Government could not wave a “magic wand”. “I’m the Deputy Prime Min-

ister of a Government that’s unfortunately had to cut 20 per cent of the policing budget. Of course, I would like to see less money go to the EU budget,” he said in a question and answer session at Chatham House. “It’s what you think is the best possible deal rather than insist on an impossible deal.” Clegg insisted the Government’s position, calling for any rise to be inﬂation-only - currently around 2 per cent - was “by far the toughest negotiating stance of any other member state”. He suggested getting agreement on that from all 27 countries would be a major coup, and if that happened, Parliament would be asked to confront the “real hard choices”. Scuppering the deal in the

Tough note: Clegg said while he would prefer a reduction in the EU budget, London could not wave a ‘magic wand’ quest for a cut would merely result in annual budget-setting, which was likely to be more expensive and the UK could not veto it, he said. “Then I think it will be up to, particularly, the Labour Party to decide whether they are going to grow up, stop playing these play-

ground games in Parliament and show that they are capable of making mature decisions in the national interest,” he said. Clegg also indicated that he would support Cameron if he wielded the veto on a deal that was not in the country’s interests.

JIMMY Savile’s estate has been frozen in response to the mounting sexual abuse claims against the late television and radio star. NatWest Bank, which is acting as the Jim’ll Fix It presenter’s will executor and trustee, said the distribution of his assets had been put on hold because of the allegations. Savile’s estate is reportedly worth £4.3 million. NatWest said in a statement: “Given the claims raised, distribution of the estate has been put on hold.” Savile’s will was written in 2006 and bequeaths his savings and other assets to 26 separate beneﬁciaries, according to the Financial Times. A solicitor representing alleged victims of Savile said lawyers are also looking into the late presenter’s overseas assets, thought to be administered from tax haven the Channel Islands.

Veteran prison officer ambushed and murdered on the way to work by dissident Republicans in N. Ireland A PRISON ofﬁcer was killed in Northern Ireland yesterday when he drove into a hail of bullets and crashed off a motorway at high speed, in an attack blamed by politi-

cians on militant nationalists. It was the first murder of a prison officer since 1993 and the fifth fatal attack on a member of the security establishment since

the 1998 Good Friday peace deal, which largely ended three decades of sectarian conﬂict in Northern Ireland. The ofﬁcer worked at the top security Ma-

ghaberry Prison where militant nationalists have been protesting against their living conditions. Prison ofﬁcers had stepped up their personal security in recent months.

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World

China suggests new Syria truce initiatives Rescue workers survey the blast site yesterday

Riyadh blast kills at least 23 AT least 23 people were killed when a fuel truck crashed into a flyover in the Saudi capital Riyadh yesterday, triggering an explosion that brought down an industrial building and set fire to nearby vehicles. State-owned Ekhbariya television news channel reported that the death toll had risen to 23 and emergency workers were still searching the collapsed building for more victims or survivors. Health ministry spokesman Saad alQahtani said 135 people were injured, mostly men and including some foreigners. Although the incident took place near the headquarters of the Saudi Arabian National Guard and the Prince Nayef Arab University for Security Studies, officials speaking on state TV said it was an accident. Neither the guards’ complex nor the security university appeared to be damaged in the blast, which flattened a showroom for tractors, bulldozers and other industrial vehicles as well as damaging a busy flyover. US ally Saudi Arabia is seen as a prime target for the al Qaeda branch based in neighbouring Yemen, but the last successful attack inside the conservative Islamic kingdom was in 2006. Riyadh has cracked down on Islamist militants over the past decade, detaining thousands of suspects.

Steps involve phased truce, transitional government By Terril Yue Jones CHINA said yesterday it had proposed new initiatives to head off an escalation of violence in Syria, including a phased, region-by-region ceasefire and the establishment of a transitional governing body. China has been strongly criticised by some in the Arab world for failing to take a stronger stance on the violence in Syria and has subsequently been keen to show it is trying to take a more proactive role in resolving the crisis. The Chinese plan, proposed yesterday to Lakhdar Brahimi, the visiting UN-Arab League joint peace envoy on Syria, comes after the collapse of the latest ceasefire proposal to stop the fighting over the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. The 19-month-old conflict, in which rebels are trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad, has killed about 32,000 people. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular news briefing that under the “new proposal there are constructive new suggestions such as a ceasefire region by region and phase by phase, and establishing a transitional

A rebel ﬁghter keeps an eye out for Syrian regime forces in Aleppo on Wednesday (AFP) governing body”. He said it was “an extension of China’s effort to push for a political resolution of the Syrian issue”. Guo Xian’gang, a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, a government think tank, said the latest proposal did not herald a change in Beijing’s position, “but it makes it more concrete”. “China has always maintained the principle of peaceful resolution of the Syria problem, that anti-government forces should achieve peace through dialogue, without outside armed intervention,” Guo said. Brahimi met yesterday

with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, who said the world should act with greater urgency to support Brahimi’s mediation efforts. “More and more countries have come to realise that a military option offers no way out, and a political settlement has become an increasingly shared aspiration,” Hong said. “China’s new proposal is aimed at building international consensus and supporting Brahimi’s mediation efforts ... and push forward for relevant parties in Syria to realise an early ceaseﬁre and end of violence, and launch a political transition process led by the Syrian people at an early date.”

China and Russia, both permanent members of the UN Security Council, have vetoed three Western-backed UN draft resolutions condemning Assad’s government for the bloodshed. But China has been keen to show it is not taking sides and has urged the Syrian government to talk to the opposition and take steps to meet demands for political change. In the latest wave of violence, rebels killed 28 Syrian army soldiers yesterday in an attack on three checkpoints around the town of Saraqeb straddling the main northsouth highway, the Britishbased Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

‘Risk of death nearing in Turkey hunger strike’ JAILED Kurdish militants on hunger strike in Turkey may start to die within the next 10 days, Turkey’s main medical association warned yesterday, saying the prime minister’s dismissal of the protest as a “show” risked hardening their resolve. The hunger strike entered its 51st day yesterday, with some 700 prisoners refusing food in dozens of prisons across Turkey, demanding the government grant greater Kurdish minority rights and better conditions for their jailed leader.

But the inmates are consuming sugar, water and vitamins that would prolong their lives and the protest by weeks. The main demand of the protesters, mostly convicted members of the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, is improved jail conditions for PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned on an island in the Marmara Sea south of Istanbul. The protests follow a surge in violence between Turkey and the PKK, which took up arms 28 years ago to try to carve out a

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Kurdish homeland in Turkey’s southeast and which is designated a terrorist group by Ankara, the United States and European Union. “Our worry is that after around 40 days lasting damage begins to emerge and after 60 days deaths may begin,” Ozdemir Aktan, head of the Turkish Medical Association, said. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has played down the hunger strike, describing it as “a complete show” to reporters in Berlin yesterday.

Second Hashemi death sentence AN Iraqi court sentenced fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi to death for a second time yesterday on a charge of involvement in a plot to assassinate an interior ministry official, a judicial spokesman said. Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim who fled to Turkey earlier this year when Shi’ite-led Iraqi authorities sought his arrest, was subsequently sentenced to death in absentia on charges of running death squads, which he denies. “The central criminal court issued a death sentence against Tareq al-Hashemi and his son in law for incitement to attach a sticky bomb to the car of an interior ministry officer,” said Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council. Hashemi could not immediately be reached for comment on the latest sentence. Hashemi has said the first case was built on testimony extracted under torture and accuses Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi’ite Muslim, of conducting a political witch-hunt against Sunni opponents. Many Iraqi Sunnis say they see a sectarian hand behind Hashemi’s case, accusing Maliki of shoring up his position at their expense. The case has caused a crisis in the power-sharing government grouping Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish blocs.

WORLD TODAY Tsvangirai settlement ZIMBABWE’S Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has reached an outof-court settlement with a former lover to end a messy maintenance case that was damaging his reputation ahead of elections expected next year, a lawyer said yesterday. Locardia Karimatsenga had been demanding $15,000 a month in upkeep from Tsvangirai. Her claim was strengthened in September when a court stopped Tsvangirai from marrying another woman by ruling he was married to Karimatsenga under traditional law. “We have managed to settle the matter but my client is not at liberty to disclose the terms of the agreement,” her lawyer, Jonathan Samkange, said. Tsvangirai’s lawyers were not immediately available for comment.

Argentina voting age cut to 16 ARGENTINA lowered its voting age to 16 from 18 on Wednesday, a change that could help politically ailing President Cristina Fernandez court the youth vote ahead of 2013 midterm elections. Dozens of opposition members of the lower house of Congress walked out of the rancorous latenight session just before the measure won ﬁnal approval by a vote of 131 to 2. Fernandez, who polls well among younger voters, has not ruled out a bid by her supporters to change the constitution to allow her to run for a third term in 2015. Legions of youthful activists have joined the “Campora” movement, known for its rowdy demonstrations in favour of Fernandez’s heterodox policies.

Halloween party deaths THREE women were crushed to death in a stampede apparently caused by a firework at a Halloween party in Madrid early yesterday, the city’s vice-mayor said. Two other women were in critical condition. Thousands of revellers had packed into the Madrid Arena for the party, which featured electronic music. The stampede was believed to have been caused when someone lit a flare or firecracker in a corridor, creating a panic, vice-mayor Miguel Angel Villanueva told a news conference. The event had not been oversold, he said.

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Death toll rises, fuel lines grow in Sandy aftermath

President Barack Obama speaks after visiting a hurricane Sandy affected neighbourhood in Brigantine, New Jersey, on Wednesday

Obama’s ‘affirmative’ campaign closing push By Jeff Mason AFTER three days of focusing on superstorm Sandy, President Barack Obama was poised to return to the campaign trail yesterday with a more “afﬁrmative” message to win over undecided voters in the ﬁnal days of the race for the White House. With polls showing a tight contest between the Democratic incumbent and Republican challenger Mitt Romney before next Tuesday’s election, Obama will use trips to political battleground states to make a closing appeal for a second term. That argument will touch on points he has made for months about the choice between competing Republican and Democratic visions, Obama advisers said, but it will put more weight on

US president bidding to target undecided voters Obama’s ideas for the future and could resurrect some of the hopeful themes that helped him win election in 2008. “You’re going to see him lift up ... the vision of what we’re fighting for,” senior campaign strategist David Axelrod said in an interview last week before the storm, adding the construction of Obama’s “stump” speech would alter slightly in the final days. “We’ll still address what the choice is. You have to address the choice. But I think it’ll tilt toward the affirmative, toward the future.” Obama was to have started his closing argument on Mon-

Spacewalkers leave station to track leak A PAIR of spacewalking astronauts ﬂoated outside the International Space Station yesterday to attempt to bypass a leak in one of the outpost’s cooling systems. Engineers suspect a micrometeoroid or tiny piece of space debris may have punched a hole no bigger than the width of a hair into one of the station’s radiators. The devices dissipate heat from batteries and other equipment aboard the solar-powered station, a $100-billion laboratory for science experiments, now ﬂying about 410 km above Earth. The leak is small so it will take several weeks to determine if the radiator was the source, said space station programme manager Mike Suffredini.

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day during a rally in Florida, but he skipped that event to return to Washington to help coordinate storm relief. The massive storm pummeled New York City and other parts of the US Northeast. The president has not given a traditional campaign speech since last Saturday an unusually long period this close to Election Day - but has remained in the public eye with daily remarks in Washington and a trip to New Jersey to survey storm damage. Romney, who also cancelled some political rallies because of the storm, limited his attacks on the president while

campaigning on Wednesday in Florida. Obama won the 2008 election using the themes of “hope” and “change”, which resonated with voters disgruntled with the policies of Republican President George W. Bush. This year, Obama used “Forward” as his slogan, but his message - and that of his surrogates - has included stinging attacks on Romney, a former private equity executive and Massachusetts governor. Republicans charge that Obama’s message has been negative because his record on the economy is weak. Democrats counter that Romney, who has levelled his share of negative attacks at Obama, has twisted the truth about the president’s record and run away from his own.

NEW Yorkers awoke to the rumble of subway trains for the ﬁrst time in four days yesterday and the death toll continued to rise from the former hurricane Sandy, one of the biggest and most devastating storms ever to hit the United States. Lines formed at gas stations amid fuel shortages around the US Northeast and emergency utility crews struggled to reach the worst hit areas and restore power to millions of people. At least 82 people in North America died in the superstorm, which ravaged the northeastern United States on Monday night, and ofﬁcials said the count could climb higher as rescuers searched house-to-house through coastal towns. More deaths were recorded overnight as the extent of destruction became clearer in the New York City borough of Staten Island, where the storm lifted whole houses off their foundations. Authorities recovered 15 bodies from Staten Island. Among those still missing were two boys aged four and two who were swept from

their mother’s arms by the ﬂoodwaters, the New York Post reported. In all, 34 people died in New York City. In hard-hit New Jersey, where oceanside towns saw entire neighbourhoods swallowed by seawater and the Atlantic City boardwalk was destroyed, the death toll doubled to 12. New Jersey favourite son Bruce Springsteen, along with Jon Bon Jovi and Sting, will headline a beneﬁt concert for storm victims Friday night on NBC television, the network announced. Sandy started as a late-season hurricane in the Caribbean, where it killed 69 people, before smashing ashore in the United States with 80 mph (130 kph) winds. It stretched from the Carolinas to Connecticut and was the largest storm by area to hit the United States in decades. About 4.7 million homes and businesses in 15 US states were without power yesterday, down from a high of nearly 8.5 million, which surpassed the record 8.4 million customers who went dark from last year’s Hurricane Irene.

New York’s Queensborough bridge yesterday

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Business Sharp fears for survival STRUGGLING Japanese TV maker Sharp Corp warned it might not be able to survive on its own, as it almost doubled its full-year net loss forecast to $5.6 billion, and said it was considering alliances with other companies. Bigger Japanese rival Sony Corp, which blazed a trail in the early 1980s with its Walkman portable music players, made a small operating proﬁt in July-September and kept its forecast for a full-year proﬁt of $1.63 billion. But the maker of Bravia TVs, Vaio laptops and PlayStation game consoles said it expects to sell fewer of its hand-held PSP and Vita consoles this year - 10 million - than it previously estimated. It also cut its forecasts for sales of its TV sets - to 14.5 million - and compact digital cameras - to 16 million - but kept its PlayStation home console sales estimate at 16 million.

Rates These Bank of Cyprus rates for telegraphic transfer transactions (spot deals) apply to yesterday, but provide a good guide to today’s value against the euro.

Greek editor acquitted in bank list case

The weak labour market has dominated the US presidential campaign and today’s employment report will give the last jobless rate before next Tuesday’s election

US job figures signal labour market healing By Jason Lange

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U.S. COMPANIES added jobs in October at the fastest pace in eight months, a sign of modest healing in the labour market just days before a presidential election that could hinge on the economy. Other data yesterday showed a drop in new claims for jobless beneﬁts last week and a sharp improvement in consumer conﬁdence in October, while there were mixed signals regarding the health of the factory sector. Payrolls processor Automatic Data Processing said private employers added 158,000 workers last month. That was the biggest gain

NICOSIA FAMILY COURT Divorce Jurisdiction Appl. No. 722 / 2012 Before: G. Serghides, Pr. Fam. Ct. Chr. Demetriou, J.Fam. Ct. F. Constantinou, J. Fam.Ct. Between: JOSEPH CHUKWUKA EKEH, Nikis Aven. 30B, Flat 201, Nicosia. And Applicant YVONNE KLIM, unknown address in Cyprus Respondent Interim Application from Applicant dated 24.10.12 Upon the application of Mr Costas Loizou, Counsel for the Applicant, THIS COURT, after having read the application and the affidavit attached there to, and after hearing what was said by Mr. G. Loizou, DOTH HEREBY GRANT AN ORDER by which substituted service of the Application and of the present Order IS ALLOWED by publishing it in a daily English language Newspaper. In the publication mention should only be made of the remedy applied for and that the substantial facts which the Applicant invokes for the issue of the remedy applied for, are contained in the Application. The Respondent may file a Defence within 20 days from service on her of the application for termination of marriage as above. In case of failure to file a defence by the Respondent within the above period of time, any other subsequent notice shall be deemed as well served if same is appended on the Court’s notice-board for five consecutive days. The cost of the Application shall be cost in the cause. Given on 29.10.12. Drawn up on 30.10.12. (Sgd) G. Serghides, Pr. Fam. Ct. (Sgd) Chr. Demetriou, J.Fam. Ct. (Sgd) F. Constantinou, J. Fam.Ct. TRUE COPY REGISTRAR NN-722.12 NICOSIA FAMILY COURT Divorce Jurisdiction Appl. No. 722 / 2012 Between: JOSEPH CHUKWUKA EKEH, Nikis Aven. 30B, Flat 201, Nicosia. And Applicant YVONNE KLIM, unknown address in Cyprus Respondent REMEDY APPLIED FOR: A. Judgment of the Court and/or Order of the Court, dissolving the civil marriage of the Applicant with the Respondent, which was celebrate on 12.11.2008, at Lysis Municipality, Larnaca, for irretrievable breakdown of their conjugal relationship. The substantial facts which the applicant invokes for the remedy applied for, are mentioned in the application.

158,000 workers added to private payrolls in October since February. “There is some evidence of labour market improvement,” said David Sloan, an economist at 4Cast in New York. “It is not totally convincing yet but overall the message is positive.” The ADP reading was the ﬁrst under an overhaul of the report’s methodology that increased the number of ﬁrms sampled. The aim is to make the report a better predictor of the government’s payroll report. The government report, due today, is expected to show non-farm employers added 125,000 jobs in October, according to a Reuters poll taken before the ADP data was released. Some economists adjust their non-farm payroll forecasts for the ADP data, although analysts are treating ADP’s new methodology with caution. “We’re just going to have to learn over the coming months how accurate this new survey is,” said Nigel

Gault, an economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts. US stock prices rose following the improvement in consumer conﬁdence, while prices for US government debt slipped slightly. The weak labour market has dominated the presidential campaign and today’s employment report will give the last jobless rate before next Tuesday’s election. Polls show a very tight race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The US economy has recently shown some signs of health, with consumers spending more freely and home construction picking up. US consumer conﬁdence rose in October to its highest since February 2008, the Conference Board said. Another report by the Commerce Department showed private construction in the housing sector rose 2.8 per cent in September. Still, the economy faces

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF PAPHOS Application No. 287/2012 Probate Jurisdiction In the matter of Robert Hudson, of UK Notice is hereby given after the expiration of eight days from today application will be made in the Probate registry of Paphos for the grant of probate of the will of Robert Hudson, of U.K., deceased. -----------------------------------------------------Penelope Athinodorou-Mantis Advocate for Applicant

substantial headwinds, both from a cooling in global economic growth and uncertainty over plans to slash the US budget deficit in January. Business investment sank in the third quarter, a sign companies lack confidence in the strength of the economic recovery. A chill in the global economy, propagated by Europe’s ongoing debt crisis, is weighing on factories from China to Latin America and the United States. One measure of US manufacturing in October showed the slowest pace of growth in more than three years, suggesting the sector could drag on overall economic growth in the final months of 2012. Financial information firm Markit said its U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell to 51.0 in October, below September’s reading of 51.1. A reading above 50 indicates expansion. Another report by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) was more upbeat, showing the pace of growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector picked up modestly in October as new orders improved, though a measure of employment slowed.

A JOURNALIST who published the names of more than 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts was acquitted yesterday of breaking data privacy laws. Costas Vaxevanis had faced up to two years in jail if convicted of breaking data privacy laws. The case had touched a nerve in near-bankrupt Greece, where rampant tax evasion is undermining a struggle to cut public costs and raise revenue under an EU/IMF bailout deal. His speedy arrest and trial following publication at the weekend had enraged many, already furious over consecutive governments’ failure to crack down on a rich elite while years of recession have wiped out a fifth of economic output and hammered middle-class living standards. Vaxevanis, editor of the Hot Doc weekly, was surrounded by fellow journalists and other supporters who had packed the Athens courtroom as his lawyers began their defence. They argued the prosecution had charged him without any of those on the list having filed a complaint about privacy violation, a rare occurrence in a freedom of speech or defamation case in Greece. Vaxevanis called the trial “targeted and vengeful”. “There isn’t the slightest bit of evidence to support the charges,” he told Reuters during a recess. “Obviously there are political motives. You see most of the names on the list are friends of the political system.” He said an anonymous source gave him the socalled “Lagarde list”, which International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde handed to authorities in several EU countries in 2010 when she was French finance minister. Another newspaper, daily Ta Nea, devoted 10 pages to publishing the 2,059 names, which include several politicians as well as many businessmen, shipping magnates, doctors, lawyers and housewives. It said the accounts had held about 2 billion euros ($2.59 billion) until 2007, but also made clear that there was no evidence any of them had broken tax evasion laws.

China buys Heathrow operator stake THE Chinese government’s main sovereign wealth fund has said it has bought a 10 per cent stake in the operator of Heathrow airport, expanding its investments in British infrastructure. China Investment Corp (CIC) gave no ﬁnancial details but Ferrovial, the Spanish company which owns 49.99 per cent of Heathrow Airport Holdings, said the fund paid other shareholders a total of $725.8 million (£449.9 million) to acquire its stake. CIC was created in 2007 to manage a portion of China’s multitrillion-dollar foreign reserves in hopes of earning a higher return. Its early investments were mostly small stakes in publiclytraded companies to avoid stirring political opposition abroad, but the fund has begun making bigger direct investments.

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Opinion

Cyprus has been in no hurry to clinch a deal with the troika GERMANY’S Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s remark that he did not expect concrete negotiations on the Cyprus bailout to commence before 2013 came as a big shock to everyone in Cyprus. Even the government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou feigned surprise, saying he did not know what Shaeuble meant. Stefanou said: “What I can say with certainty is that we have been in consultation with the EU and the troika for some time now and we expect a date to be set for the arrival of the troika to negotiate, with the aim of concluding on a memorandum. This is called substantive discussions.” Perhaps the Christofias government’s idea of “substantive discussions,” is different from the troika’s. It is no secret, despite the assurances of the finance ministry, that the two sides were not very close to a deal, as there is a huge gulf separating the package suggested by the troika and the counter-proposals submitted by the government three months later. How there could be “substantive discussions” when there is no common ground and the government is refusing to discuss a range of issues (the infamous red lines), only Stefanou could say. The spokesman was honest enough to refuse to say whether we would make the November 12, Eurogoup meeting that would approve the bailout. If the bailout agreement was not ready by this deadline and we had to wait for the Group’s December meeting for approval, it would be 2013 before funds were released. Under the circumstances nobody should have been surprised by Schaeuble’s remark, which was based on his knowledge of the snail’s pace at which bailout talks were taking place. At the rate they have been taking place and the feet dragging by President Christofias it is perfectly plausible there would be no bailout deal in time for the November 12 meeting. With his counter-proposals and red lines Christofias went out of his way to avoid a deal, unless he was so stupendously foolish to believe he could impose his terms on our lenders. This is why the memorandum might not be ready by November 12 and no bailout funds would be received before next year. Schaeuble’s comment was based on a rational evaluation of the facts – the government has been dragging its feet, it submitted counter-proposals that ensure against a quick deal and has been stirring opposition to the troika. As far as Schaeuble was concerned “specific negotiations with Cyprus have not yet begun.” When they will begin and, more importantly, when they would finish is anyone’s guess.

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Another two wars down. How many more to go? M

ORE OR less at opposite ends of the world, two very long wars are coming to a negotiated end, with no victors and no vanquished. In the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino signed a peace agreement with the leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on 16 October after more than 40 years of war. In Norway the next day, Colombia’s government began talks with the FARC rebels to end a war that has lasted for over 50 years. Neither deal is yet complete, and in both wars there have been several previous peace deals that failed. But the omens are better this time, mainly because there is a lot more realism about what is possible and what is not. “You can’t just ask the FARC to kneel down, surrender and give us the arms,” said the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, as the talks in Oslo began. “They will not do that, so there has to be some way out, and this way out has to be that you are able to participate in the political arena. This is the way any conflict is settled, not only the Colombian conflict.” The Colombian war has gone on so long that neither side remotely resembles the adversaries of fifty years ago. The left-wing revolutionaries who once set out to win power through a guerilla war have become hereditary rebels who finance their operations through kidnapping and cocaine production. At the same time, the repressive right-wing governments of the 60s have given way to a more or less democratic system. The death squads are gone and the economy is growing fast. Time to stop, then. But how? There are two reasons why there is more hope for this peace initiative than for its predecessors. The first is that FARC can no longer hope for an eventual victory, although it will be a crippling nuisance for another generation if it is not brought back into the political system. The other is that the two sides are not trying to solve all the country’s problems in these talks; they are just trying to end the fighting.

Comment Gwynne Dyer The talks, which will move to Cuba for the next round, deal with only five topics: rural development, FARC’s participation in democratic politics, an end to the fighting, an end to the drug trafficking, and justice for the many civilian victims of the war. Colombia has dozens of other issues that demand attention, but if you put them all on the table there will never be agreement. Those other issues can and should be settled by the normal political process, in which FARC will play a legitimate part once the war is over. There will have to be an amnesty even for grave violations of human rights. Nor will the fighting stop during the negotiations: that is what provides the pressure for a deal. But this time, in the end, there will probably be a deal. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, the long war between the central government and the Muslim minority on the big island of Mindanao is also heading for a peaceful resolution. It has been clear for some time that MILF could never achieve its goal of an independent Muslim state in western Mindanao – and it is also clear that MILF could go on fighting for another generation unless there is a deal. So you might as well make a deal, and the only plausible one is that the Moros (Filipino Muslims) get a broad degree of self-government in the areas where they are the majority. There will be a referendum in 2015 to settle the size and shape of the new “Bangsamoro” region, but it will remain part of the Philippines, and Manila will retain control of defence, foreign policy, and the broad outlines of economic policy. This is a bitter pill for MILF to swallow, especially as it was created by leaders who broke away from the old Moro National Liberation Front when it accepted exactly the same deal in the 1980s. But thirty years and tens of thousands

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A rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC more deaths did not change the fact that the Moros were too weak to win their independence, but too strong for Manila to crush or ignore. The current leaders are just recognising that reality. So two wars down (probably), and how many more to go? No more than a dozen or so of comparable scale, most of them in Africa and the Middle East. And whether they are internal wars like Colombia and the Philippines or wars between local nationalists and foreign occupiers, they tend to end the same way. There are exceptions, of course, like the Sri Lankan government’s recent victory over the Tamil Tigers, but in most cases the wars get closed

down when both sides recognise that a decisive victory is impossible. Or rather, they get shut down when the participants ﬁnally recognise what has already been plain to most outsiders for decades. The extra time is required because the people directly involved have already paid such a price for that elusive victory that they just cannot bear to admit to themselves that their sacriﬁces were wasted. Does this have any relevance to the horrors that are now unfolding in Syria? A great deal, I’m sorry to say. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries

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1917

25 years ago Wednesday November 2, 1987

The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities”.

West German police mounted a massive manhunt yesterday after demonstrators killed two policemen and wounded six others during a protest against construction of a new runway at Frankfurt Airport. Police detained a man after ﬁnding at his home a nine-millimetre pistol of.

1936

35 years ago Friday November 2, 1977

The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world’s ﬁrst regular, high-deﬁnition service.

Rescue teams dug through mud debris today looking for bodies after a night of torrential rains and ﬂooding which killed at least 26 people in Athens and Piraeus. Athens and its port city were put under a state of emergency and troops called out to help police and ﬁremen in the massive rescue operation.

1959 Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case.

1988 The general election in Israel returns a hung parliament, prompting feverish negotiations between the right-wing Likud party and ultraorthodox religious groups.

45 years ago Saturday November 2, 1967 Many crimes tried by military courts since the Army take-over in Greece last April will now revert back to the civil courts because of a more ordered situation in the country, it was announced today. An order by the Greek Army General Staff said the crimes included premeditated murder, grievous bodily harm, robbery, blackmail and currency violations. The order stated that certain offences will not be tried by special military courts.

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Star Wars - dream come true, or cosmic yawn?

Skyfall gets five-star Vatican blessing

Disney promises to stay true to iconic films

By Philip Pullella

By Piya Sinha-Roy and Jill Serjeant FOR years, it seemed like another Star Wars movie was just a dream, stillborn in a galaxy far, far away. But down on Earth, the Walt Disney movie studio had different ideas, announcing on Tuesday that it planned not one but at least three new Star Wars movies, starting in three years’ time. Disney’s $4 billion acquisition of George Lucas’ Lucasfilm and the multibilliondollar franchise surprised investors and caused mixed reactions among movie fans, many of whom had little appetite for more Luke Skywalkers and Jedis. “The series had stagnated creatively. This could go well... Or not,” said Facebook user Chris Goodson. Lucas, whose imagination gave pop culture Princess Leia and her crazy cinnamon-bun hairstyle, the anti-hero Darth Vader and the catch phrase ‘May The Force Be With You,’ has insisted for years that he would make no more than the three original films and three prequels. Lucas has often expressed frustration with criticism from many avid Star Wars fans who have taken issue with his director’s cuts of the films.

Star Wars creator George Lucas poses with Storm Troopers, characters in his famous films “Why would I make any more,” Lucas told the New York Times in a January interview about the Star Wars movies, “when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?” But seven years after the last picture, Revenge of the Sith, Disney said it saw room for Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015, with Episodes 8 and 9 to follow at two or three year intervals. In addition to new films, characters like Yoda and ObiWan Kenobi may find a home on the Disney XD cable TV channel, targeted at young boys.

Furthermore, Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger told reporters on a conference call that there was “ample opportunity” to extend the franchise in Disney’s global theme parks, cementing the place of R2-D2 and Han Solo alongside Mickey Mouse and the Little Mermaid. “Cool for another Star Wars but not sure I like Disney backing it,” commented Janel Halstead on Facebook. The Star Wars franchise has earned some $4.4 billion at the global box office since the first film was released in 1977, making it the third most suc-

cessful movie property after Harry Potter and the James Bond series. Like the boy wizard and the suave British secret agent, Star Wars has also spawned an empire of books, games and toys so large that it is often dubbed the ‘Expanded Universe.’ It has also inspired a miniindustry dedicated to examining philosophical, spiritual and mythical themes, with many observers seeing Luke Skywalker as an embodiment of Jesus Christ and some seeing Yoda as inspired by a Mormon prophet.

Lucas, 68, said in a video posted on the StarWars.com website on Tuesday that he had story treatments for Episodes 7, 8 and 9 that he would hand over to producer Kathleen Kennedy to develop in partnership with Disney. In the same video, Kennedy said Disney was the “best company possible to take Star Wars into the future,” and assured Lucas that she would adhere to his creations. “The main thing is to protect these characters to make sure they continue to live in the way you created them,” Kennedy said.

Victoria Beckham took Adele offered parenting tips sons pumpkin carving VICTORIA Beckham got into the Halloween spirit by indulging in some festive activities with her three boys - Brooklyn, 13, Romeo, 10, and seven-year-old Cruz - and proudly displayed the fruits of their labour on her twitter account yesterday. Victoria shared a picture of six pumpkins lying on the grass along with the words: “Been carving pumpkins with the boys! Are you ready for #Halloweenfashion bunnies? X vb (sic)”. Her fans were quick to express their admiration for Victoria’s knife-wielding skills, but the most pressing question was whether 15-month-old Harper would get her own pumpkin. Hfdfgkvcsy tweeted: “How do you carve a pupinkin like that (sic)”, while empochou asked: “which one is for baby harper(sic)”.

CELEBRITY MOTHERS Victoria is thought to have been visiting Mr. Bones’ Pumpkin Patch, which has attracted a host of celebrity mothers including Christina Aguilera, Halle Berry and Jessica Alba in the run up to Halloween. The former Spice Girls singer made the most of her family outing to source some inspiration for her fashion line in the form of second-hand clothing. Victoria tweeted a picture of a frumpy outfit, saying: “Who knew you could find fashion at the pumpkin patch! X vb”. However, her followers were less impressed with her find and were left questioning her taste. daw1987 exclaimed: “Yuck”, before michy_artiga quipped: “Lol. That fashion is Dead”.

Singer Adele and partner Simon Konecki welcomed a son into the world earlier this month

THE ‘Someone Like You’ hitmaker and her partner Simon Konecki welcomed a son into the world earlier this month, just a few weeks after Take That star Robbie Williams’ wife Ayda Field gave birth to their daughter Theodora - affectionately known as ‘Teddy’ - and the ‘Candy’ singer is happy to help the new mother if he can. He is quoted by the Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: “My wife and Adele are friends and I think my wife will be offering advice. “Adele has a massive heart; she’ll be a great mum.” Robbie also revealed he has been more than happy to change his daughter’s nappies - as he believes it is the best way for them to form a bond. He added: “Mum’s doing breastfeeding, which means baby is with her for a good hour. Obviously I’ve got breasts but they don’t lactate! “I’m chief nappy changer. It’s the only way dads get to bond. It’s like a masala, or sometimes a Thai curry.”

IF anyone thinks the Vatican newspaper is still a staid broadsheet that publishes only religious news and harsh papal edicts, consider this: This week it ran not one but five articles about the new James Bond film. Skyfall gets a rave review in l’Osservatore Romano, which calls it one of the best of the 23 James Bond films made over the past 50 years. In the main article, titled ‘007 License to Cry,’ the newspaper says the latest incarnation of the world’s most famous spy is a rather good one because it makes him less of a cliché, and “more human, capable of being moved and of crying: in a word, more real”. A second article compares the different actors who have played James Bond, from the original Sean Connery to the current Daniel Craig. In an interview with the newspaper, Craig says he feels “very different” from the actors who have preceded him in playing Bond but does concede that Connery is “a point of reference”. Another article explains why author Ian Fleming chose the name James Bond for his hero (Fleming wanted an ordinary sounding name), and the fifth article analyses the various soundtracks composed for the 23 films. The Bond splash shows just how much the newspaper has changed. Since taking it over in 2007, editor-in-chief Gian Maria Vian has slowly transformed it from a newspaper critics said could compete with sleeping pills to one that follows current events, trends and show business as well as Church business. Pope Benedict gave Vian a mandate to rejuvenate the 151-year-old mouthpiece of the Holy See when he appointed him. Other changes have included more articles by women, more international cover, a reader-friendly layout and typeface. The newspaper has come a long way from the time its austere nature led some to call it the ‘Catholic Pravda,’ a reference to the communist party organ in the former Soviet Union. It’s a safe bet that when the second James Bond film, From Russia with Love, came out in 1963, the Catholic Church either ignored it or, more likely, condemned it as it did Federico Fellini’s classic La Dolce Vita in 1960. But James Bond has changed with the times and so has the Vatican newspaper. Its influence is disproportionate to its tiny print circulation of just 15,000, which is smaller than that of some American university dailies. An editorial reflecting the Vatican’s position on something quickly reverberates around the world when it is picked up by the mainstream media.

CYPRUS MAIL Friday, November 2, 2012

Health

bites

Smokers miss work more often SMOKERS miss an average of two or three more days of work each year than non-smokers, with this absenteeism costing the UK alone £1.4 billion - or $2.25 billion - last year, according to a UK study. The report, which appeared in the journal Addiction, analysed 29 separate studies conducted between 1960 and 2011 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the United States and Japan, with a total of over 71,000 public and private sector workers. Researchers asked the workers about their current and former smoking habits and used surveys or medical and employee records to track how often they were absent over an average of two years. Current smokers were 33 per cent more likely to miss work than non-smokers, and they were absent an average of 2.7 extra days per year, according to Jo Leonardi-Bee of the University of Nottingham, UK, and her colleagues. The researchers calculated that current smokers were still 19 per cent more likely to miss work than ex-smokers, so encouraging smokers to quit could help reverse some of the lost-work trends. “Quitting smoking appears to reduce absenteeism and

result in substantial cost-savings for employers,” wrote Leonardi-Bee and her colleagues.

Sugary drinks linked to stroke risk WOMEN who imbibe sugary soft drinks almost every day are 83 per cent more likely to have a certain type of stroke than women who rarely drink sodas and other sweetened beverages, according to a Japanese study. The results, which appeared in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, agree with a host of other studies tying sugary drinks to numerous untoward health effects, including heart attacks, obesity and diabetes, and prompting government moves, such as New York’s ban on super-sized sodas. Given the increased availability of soft drinks in Japan over the past several decades, researchers led by Hiroyasu Iso at Osaka University wanted to see if soda drinkers there had higher risks of heart disease and stroke. “Soft drink intake is associated with higher risk of ischemic stroke for women,” wrote Ito and his team, referring to a kind of stroke with plaque buildup in the arteries. Nearly 40,000 people answered a dietary, health and lifestyle questionnaire, ﬁrst in 1990 and then again in 1995 and 2000. They were split into four groups - those who rarely drank soft drinks, those who had one to two cups a week, those who had three to four cups a week and those who had a soft drink nearly every day. Out of 11,800 women who rarely had a soft drink, 205 -

or 1.7 per cent - went on to have an ischemic stroke. Of the 921 women who had a soft drink a day, 28, or 3 per cent, had such a stroke. The research team saw no link in men between soft drink consumption and stroke risk.

Many women stop asthma meds while pregnant ALMOST a third of women on asthma medications stop using them during the ﬁrst few months of pregnancy, despite advice that a mother’s uncontrolled asthma is more dangerous to the developing foetus than the drugs, according to a study from the Netherlands. A lack of oxygen during development, known as hypoxemia, is one of the dangers to a foetus when its mother has uncontrolled asthma. Researchers, whose ﬁndings appeared in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, used information on more than 25,000 pregnancies from a prescription database in the Netherlands. More than 2,000 of those pregnant women, about 8 per cent, received a prescription for an asthma medication at least once during the study period, from 1994 to 2009. Both the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) and the US National Asthma Education and Prevention Programme recommend that women continue taking asthma medications throughout pregnancy, because the risks of exacerbated asthma are greater than the risks of the medications.

Top medical innovations treat headaches, diabetes By Debra Sherman THE best medical innovations for next year include an almond-size device implanted in the mouth to relieve severe headaches and a handheld scanner resembling a blow dryer that detects skin cancer, the Cleveland Clinic said this week. The clinic’s annual list of the best medical innovations for 2013 includes better mammography technology and new drugs to treat advanced prostate cancer. Leading the 2013 list for innovations is an old procedure that has a new use due to ﬁndings in a recent study. Physicians and researchers at the clinic voted weight-loss surgery as the top medical innovation, not for its effectiveness in reducing obesity, but for its ability to control Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. Over the years, bariatric surgeons noticed that the procedure would often rid obese patients of Type 2 diabetes before they even left the hospital. Dr Philip Schauer, head of the Cleveland Clinic’s Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, led a study examining this phenomenon, and the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published the results earlier this year. The number of people affected by diabetes has tripled over the past 30 years to more than 20 million Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 90 per cent of those cases are Type 2, a condition in which the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin. Doctors and researchers at the Cleveland Clinic voted for what they thought were the biggest, most signiﬁcant in-

Cleveland Clinic compiles annual list of top innovations

Bariatric surgery has also been shown to reduce Type 2 diabetes. Right: headache sufferers will also benefit novations from the 250 ideas submitted from their colleagues. Cleveland Clinic Chief Wellness Officer, Dr Michael Roizen said one of the main criteria for getting on the list is the number of people that the product or procedure can potentially help. For that reason, a device that helps relieve headaches, the second-most common ailment after the cold, was second on the clinic’s list. The miniaturised device - invented at the Cleveland Clinic and spun off into a separate, private company called Autonomic Technologies Inc - is implanted in the upper gum above the second molar to treat cluster and migraine headaches. A lead tip of the implant is placed near specific nerves behind the bridge of

the nose. When the patient feels the headache coming on, a remote control device is placed on the outside of the cheek, and the device delivers stimulation to those nerves, blocking pain. The implant is available in Europe, but not in the United States. The company needs to do more studies to get approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. A handheld device used to detect melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, was also on the list. Also on the list is a new type of mammography, called breast tomosynthesis. This technology provides greater detail of the image than the standard mammography, which renders a two-dimensional image. For the patient, it may seem

fference. “You like there’s no difference. still have the squish,” said he Cleveland Dr Alice Rim, the Clinic’s section head of digy. But the agnostic radiology. ed by the images produced new technology show the breast in slices, for more visible detail. Other devicess that nclude made the list include ometry mass spectrometry that allows microbiries to ology laboratories e of identify the type ecbacteria in infecnd tions sooner and fwith more specifuicity, a new modular stent graft to ortreat complex aortic aneurysms, and ract a laser for cataract surgery. Novel drugs to treat

advanced prostate cancer were on the clinic’s list because of their ability to halt the progress of the disease by blocking testosterone receptors. A new technique to repair and regenerate lungs, called ex vivo lung perfusion, is on the list. Experts say as many as 40 per cent of previously rejected donor lungs may now be suitable for transplantation after undergoing this novel “lung washing.” The ﬁnal item on the list is neither a procedure, a drug nor a device, but healthcare programmes that use incentives to encourage people to take better care of themselves. For example, the Medicare Better Health Rewards Programme Act of 2012 provides incentive payments to Medicare participants who voluntarily establish and maintain better health. “We are seeing efforts to avoid rationing of healthcare and seeing programmes with incentives built in if people maintain their health, health,” Roizen said. “This can radically change the cost of care.

Slimmer future for heavy kids who get help early WEIGHT-loss programmes can help even very young children slim down, and it appears that acting early may improve the odds of success, according to two European studies. Excessive pounds in childhood often stay into adulthood, where they have been linked to heart disease, diabetes and other health problems. In one study, which appeared in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, scientists in the Netherlands found that heavy three to five-year-olds saw continued benefits from a weight-loss intervention at least several months after it ended. A report from Sweden showed that overweight and obese children under 10 were much more likely to have slower weight gain than were adolescents getting similar behavioural treatments. “What they are showing is a pretty consistent trend that if we were to intervene early, we could really have an effect on changing the trajectory of weight gain in children,” said Elsie Taveras, a pediatrician at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, who co-wrote an editorial on the findings. Taveras said there is mounting evidence that paying attention to young kids may be a promising way to stem the global obesity epidemic. In 2008, more than a third of US youths were either overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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What’s on

films

(K) All Audiences (12/15/18) No admittance to Under-12s/ 15s/ 18s (N/A) Not Available

NICOSIA Skyfall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5, 7.40 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5, 7.40 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11am and 2pm. Tel: 7777-8383 To Rome With Love (12) (in English and Italian, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.50 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Looper (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.45 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Paranormal Activity 4 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30 and 8.05pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Killer Joe (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 8.05 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) (in French, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Savages (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Watch (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383

CINEMA WEBSITES: K-Cineplex: http://kcineplex.com, Friends of the Cinema Society: http://www.ofk.org.cy

LIMASSOL Skyfall (12) Rio 2 at 5pm (weekends only), 7.45 and 10.30pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5, 7.40 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 To Rome With Love (12) (in English and Italian, with Greek subtitles) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends at 8.15 and 10.20pm; Rio 1, weekends only at 3 and 5.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 2) at 7.50 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 11.30am, 1.35pm and 3.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings (K) Rio 3 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends at 3, 4.45 and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Looper (15) Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends at 8.10 and 10.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Le Havre (in French, with Greek subtitles) Cine Studio, tonight at 9pm, Sunday at 8pm, Tuesday and Thursday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy

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Killer Joe (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) (in French, with Greek subtitles) Rio 3 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends at 8.15 and 10.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Watch (15) Rio 6 at 5.30pm (weekends only) and 7.45pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends only at 3.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 4 (in English, in 2D), weekends only at 3, 4.45 and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Paranormal Activity 4 (15) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30 and 8.05pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 5 (in Greek), weekends only at 3, 4.45 and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410

Savages (18) Rio 6 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Artist Rio 5, Monday at 8.30pm, presented by the Limassol Cine Club. www.cinelesxi.org

Skyfall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5, 7.40 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 To Rome With Love (12) (in English and Italian, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.50 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Looper (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.45 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Paranormal Activity 4 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Artist Larnaca Municipal Theatre, Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Film Society. Tel: 99-658831, www.lfcinema.org

PAPHOS Skyfall (12) Rio 1 at 5.30 and 8pm; Rio 7 at 9.45pm, weekends at 10pm. Tel: 26-207000

Killer Joe (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

To Rome With Love (12) (in English and Italian, with Greek subtitles) Rio 2 at 6, 8 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) (in French, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings (K) Rio 7 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends at 3, 4.45 and 6.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

Savages (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Looper (15) Rio 4 at 7.45pm (weekends at 7.30pm) and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Watch (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Paranormal Activity 4 (15) Rio 7 at 7.45pm, weekends at 8.15pm; Rio 1 at 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

listings Today Exhibitions 400 Years of Russian Icons Exhibition of Russian paintings and works of art. Opens November 2, 7pm until November 23. Nicos Ioannou Jewellery Boutique, Limassol. Open daily: 10am-7pm. Tel: 99380685. info@russiangreekart.com Life Boxes Solo art exhibition by Elena Georgalla. Opens November 2, 7.30pm until November 4. MS Viewpoint Studio, 86 Makarios Avenue, Nicosia. Open daily: 10am-1pm and 4pm-7pm. Tel: 99-595642/22-377815 Collective Drones Solo art exhibition by Maria Aristotelous. Opens November 2, 8pm until December 2. Penindaplinena Gallery, Limassol. Tuesday – Friday: 11am1pm and 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 3pm8pm. Tel: 99-522977/25-340727 Art, Emotion, Inspiration Art exhibition by Grammar School students. November 2, 8pm until November 3. European University Cyprus, Cultural Centre, Nicosia. Friday: 8am- 9.30pm. Saturday: 3pm-6pm. All proceeds from sales of works will be donated to the Cyprus Society for the protection of Spastic and Handicapped Children Anemone

Maro Neophytou Solo painting exhibition. Opens November 2, 7.30pm until November 4. Palia Elektriki, Vladimerou Herakleous, Paphos. Open: 10am-1.30 pm and 4pm-8pm

Music 20th Century Music Concert with Cyprus Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kypros Marcou and soloist Marios Nicolaou (percussion). November 2. Markideio Theatre, Paphos. 8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 22-463144/26-932571

Other Events Citizen Middle East Roundtable discussion curated by Aida Eltorie from Egypt within the framework of the Does Europe exist? exhibition. November 2. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Avenue, Nicosia. 7pm. Tel: 22-445455. www.artosfoundation.org Poetry Book Presentation Presentation of Andrea Demetriou’s book: The Mountains Couldn’t Walk Away, with guest speakers, poetry readings and artistic programme. November 2. Stegi Grammaton & Tehnon, 4 Makariou & Kalogreon, Larnaca. 7.30pm. In English. Tel: 99-264736

Cyprus Fashion Days Hope for Children UNCRC Policy Center and Yell It Fashion host charity event with 40 designers and boutiques taking part in the 14 fashion shows. November 2. CFD Factory, Kaimakli, Nicosia. 5.30pm-9pm. €20 per day (all shows per day including after party at Mamasitas). Tickets available at all participant stores and in Nicosia at Pralina Cafe Stasikratous, Limassol Chocolate Soup, Larnaca Livadhiotis City Hotel. Tel: 99-516537 Halloween Theme Quiz Night Come along, have fun - and be afraid, in aid of Pound Dogs for Adoption in Limassol. November 2. At Bar 107, 107 Georgioau, Limassol (on the seafront, near to McDonald’s) 8.30pm start. Tel: 99-624437. Pound Dogs for Adoption in Limassol Facebook Cyprus International Folk Festival Events include concerts, workshops, open sing around and tune sessions, a ceilidh, a small craft fair and more. November 2-4. In and around Erimi, Limassol Sunday sees the Festival move to Ayios Ermogenis, just off Curium Beach. Tel: 99-030185/99049317/ 99-995906. Email ciffest@ hotmail.com. www.ciffest.com

Tomorrow Exhibition Dhekelia Art Group Annual Exhibition Group art exhibition. Opens November 3, 6.30pm until November 15. Sun Hall Hotel Apartments, Finikoudes, Larnaca. Open daily. Tel: 24-645591

Music Female Metal Attack Cyprus Festival Festival featuring female metal bands. November 3. Franky’s Live, 39 Apollonos Street, old Nicosia. 7.30pm. €20/15. Tel: 99-215490/96-302945 Smirnoff Midnight Circus A modern interpretation of a circus is Smirnoff’s newest effort to support the brand’s mission to discover unique nightlife, includes DJs and mixologists, as well as unannounced performances by leading musical acts. November 3. Occhio Lounge Bar, 23 Alkeou Street, Engomi, Nicosia. 11pm. Tel: 22-255111 Opera Concert Music by classical and contemporary composers with the Bel Canto Ensamble. November 3. Holy Cross Church (near the Paphos Gate), Nicosia. 8pm Free entrance

Theatre The Life of Andreas Kordopatis Well-known play by Thanasis Valtinos, about a Greek immigrant. November 3-4. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €15/10. In Greek. Tel: 77-777745 Just Broken Up Act Theatre presents play by Vassilis Myrianthopoulos & Vangelis Hatzinikolaou. Cyprus Dialect Adaptation by Christiana Artemiou. November 4 until January 6. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue, Nicosia. On specific days at 8.30pm and 6pm on Sundays. €20. Tel: 77-777181

Dance Fourth No_Body Festival A dance and performance arts festival with a sole aim of the production of new works encouraging Cypriot artists to come together for the enrichment of the choreographic field in Cyprus. November 3-4. Pallas Theatre, old Nicosia. 8pm. €10. Tel: 70-007046/97-772264

Other Events Eighth Annual Book Fair The Moufflon Bookshop presents a selection of old and used books for all ages, covering a wide range of subjects. November 3-4. Holiday Inn, Nicosia. Saturday: 10am-8pm. Sunday: 10am-6pm. Tel: 22-665155/22-712712

For a full guide to the week’s events and regular meetings, make sure you get a copy of the Sunday Mail

Street Art for Peace in Action A Youth Power Small Grants project launches free workshops in graffiti, yard bombing, wheat pasting and more with the aim of providing Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot youths with an alternative means of expression and to raise public discussions. November 3. Gymnasium of Linopetra, Limassol. 12 midday-6pm. Tel: 22-662269/99875558. www.youthpowercyprus.org www.facebook.com/groups/streetartforpeace St Paul’s Car Boot Sale Sell your unwanted items in aid of St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Funds. November 3. Anglican Cathedral, Byron Avenue, in the Cathedral Car Park, Nicosia. 2pm-5pm. Car Spaces €13, individual tables on request (€3 per table). Refreshments available. Reservations and information: 99-823785/22466753/99-836405 LUX Film Days Screening of competition finalist: Tabu. November 3. Cine Studio, University of Nicosia. 8pm. In original language with Greek subtitles. Tel: 22-870500 Travel, Explore, Learn Wandering Milia’s inspirational workshop based on the theme of travel. November 3. Nicosia Municipality’s ‘Peace’ Venue. 11am-6.30pm. Language mainly English – translation on request. www. yeiamilia.wordpress.com. Email: yeia.milia@gmail.com

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From samba to favelas NOW ENTERING its ninth year, the Annual Brazilian Film Festival, which is an official event of the Pharos Arts Foundation’s Brazilian Culture Month, is back for another run with a selection of cutting edge Brazilian cinema. Brazil is a country steeped in traditions, among them is its cinematic tradition dating back to the 1920s, which has, in more recent times, brought the world award-nominated gems like Central Station and City of Gods. While we may not necessarily think of experimental cinema when we think of the land of bossa nova, bikinis and beach volley, there is an abundance of wonderfully unusual indie, alternative work coming out of Brazil today and the best of it will be featured in the upcoming festival next week. The festival will take place from Monday through Saturday at the Shoe Factory in Nicosia. Over the years, it has proven itself a fundamental and valuable resource for introducing Brazil’s finest new films to local audiences. There are a total of 12 films to be seen (two a day), which will be screened in their original language with English subtitles. First off is Broder, directed by Jefferson De. It centres on childhood friends Macu,, Jaiminho and Pibe,, who grew up together in the same working class São Paulo neighbourhood. Years later, the trio reconnect after being apart for some time. Macu, the

This Weekend Other Events Not averse to verse? THINK of Cyprus and say the words ‘tourist destination’ and long stretches of sandy beaches and endless sunshine might come to mind. However, there is already a plan in the works to combine Cyprus’ rich literary heritage with the visitor industry. Tourism in Cyprus is evolving with newer places, different tourists and varied interests bringing constant development within the industry, be it eco-tourism or sports tourism. Now a new genre of tourism has introduced itself to the island – literary tourism. Ideogramma, a non-proﬁt cultural organisation is hoping to use books and stories to bring people to Cyprus. On Wednesday, ﬁve world renowned writers; Miguel

Monday, November 5 7.30pm: Broder 9.30pm: Janela da Alma

Senna, inset Elite Squad and right As Melhores Coisas do Mundo

Tuesday, November 6 7.30pm: Bossa Nova 9.30pm: As Melhores Coisas do Mundo

outcast, still lives in the same neighbourhood; Jaiminho is now a famous soccer player in Europe; and Pibe has become a husband and father, living an unfulfilling life in another part of town. Its Macu’s birthday and they three young men attempt to rekindle their friendship, despite their divergent paths. As Melhores Coisas do Mundo delivers a fresh, moving coming-of-age tale set in Sao Paulo (with a great soundtrack). A 15-year-old boy’s carefree life is complicated by a shocking revelation; his parents are divorcing. His first love and other momentous events also b bring turbulence to his previously laid-back existence. Fans of car racing, espec especially the elite Formula One format, wil will get a rush from the documentary S Senna, a profile of Brazilian driver Ayrto Ayrton Senna. Told solely through the use of archival footage, Asif Kapadia’s documentary is a thrilling ride worthy of its daring subject. Adrenaline will b be pumping as cameras from inside S Senna’s car put you in the driver’s seat. Si Since winning the World Cinema Audien Audience Award at its Sundance premiere la last year, the film has continued to c collect accolades and broke documentary box-office recor records in the UK

Ángel Márquez Guerrero from Spain, Marcus Roloff from Germany, Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold from Norway, Ersi Sotiropoulos from Greece and Mindy Zhang from China / USA arrived in Cyprus, to be hosted and brought together with a kaleidoscope of Cyprus – its people, its culture, its history, its traditions. During their stay the writers will be invited to use their experience of the island as a stimulus for them write. On Sunday, a Literary Conference will take place titled Language and Translation as a means of retaining one’s Identity and a Harmonious Coexistence in a Uniﬁed Europe. The speakers are of course the ﬁve writers and Constantinos Mastoros, Head, Greek Translation Department, European Parliament; Stavros Karayianni, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, European University Cyprus; Niki Menelaou, Lecturer, Department of Journalism, Frederick University, Cyprus; Javier Diaz, Gervassini, Head, Aula Cervantes de Nicosia; Despina

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when it opened there. From sporting legends to tales of colonisation, Brave New Land (original title Brava Gente Brasileira) is a drama written and directed by Lúcia Murat in 2000. The film captures a series of brutal, harsh and violent historical events without flinching, and Murat challenges several preconceptions. The film, which is based on an actual incident, depicts the tragic encounter between Portuguese explorers and the Guaicuru indigenous peoples of Brazil. The narrative focuses on Diogo, a humanistic Portuguese cartographer who is sent to Brazil to chart the boundaries of a region claimed by both Portugal and Spain. The festival wraps on Saturday with Jose Padilha’s 2007 directorial debut, Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad), the story of a police captain assigned to clean up the slums of Rio de Janeiro prior to a visit by the pope. This film will be followed by Elite Squad: The Enemy Within. It picks up where the last one left off, this overthe-top cop drama, follows Rio ‘hero’ Captain Nascimento, who has been promoted from head of special ops to intelligence. Now he has to cope with corrupt government officials and the expanding powers of paramilitary gangs and that is

Wednesday, November 7 7.30pm: Senna 9.30pm: Pele Eterno Thursday, November 8 7.30pm: Brava Gente Brasileira 9.30pm: Secrets of the Tribe Friday, November 9 7.30pm: A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim 9.30pm: Jogo de Cena Saturday, November 10 7.30pm: Elite Squad 9.30pm: Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within

just for starters. This powerful film adds to the director’s strong and varied oeuvre and was 2010’s Brazilian Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film. Ninth Brazilian Film Festival With a whole range of top quality films delving into the life, culture and politics of Brazil. November 5-10. The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Street, Nicosia. 7.30pm and 9.30pm. Tel: 22663871. info@pharosartsfoundation.org By Ledha Socratous the evening there will be a Book Fair from the Publishing House Entipis. This year’s event is the second and final leg of the project launched last year, with the same title and the participation of four writers Homero Aridjis (Mexico) Caius Dobrescu (Rumania), Alicia Stallings (USA) and Dimitris Nollas (Greece). Keep in mind that the final texts from all nine writers will be published in an anthology (Greek and English) under the same title Cyprus – a Literary Destination in 2013.

Poets from left: Mindy Zhang and Miguel Angel Marquez Guerrero Pirketti, writer and translator. Following the conference an open literary event will take place in the evening. At the Open Literary Event the five writers will read their first impressions of the island which may or may not be part of their final texts. The reading will be in the original language and translations in Greek or English will be

projected on a screen. At the event the Ambassadors (Norway, Greece, Spain, and China) or representatives of them will also share with us their views on Cyprus. A respite from the literary showcase will be provided by singer and composer Demetris Makris accompanied on the piano by Philip Zilfo. At the venue in the morning and

Cyprus – A Literary Destination Open literary event with five writers reading their first impressions of the island. With music by singer/composer Demetris Makris accompanied on the piano by Philip Zilfo. At the venue there will also be a Book Fair, from the Publishing House Entipis. November 4. Offices of the Cyprus Culture Foundation, Nicosia. 7pm. The reading will be in the original language and translations in Greek or English will be projected on a screen. Tel: 99-678132 Literary Conference: 9.30am-1.30pm

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Looper In the near future, 2044, a group of hitmen called Loopers work for a crime syndicate in the further future. Their bosses send targets back in Time, and the Looper’s job is to shoot them and dispose of the body; the target vanishes from the future, 2074, and the Looper disposes of a corpse that technically doesn’t exist. When they want to ‘close the loop’ on Joe (Bruce Willis), they send him back as the target for his younger assassin self (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). But the older Joe has settled down to a happy life and doesn’t want to be terminated; he escapes execution and goes on the run, looking for the crime boss who sent him back in Time – and forcing the younger Joe into hiding with Sara (Emily Blunt) on her remote corn farm. Also starring Jeff Daniels and Paul Dano. Directed by Rian Johnson. (Sci-fi action, 119 mins.) Our rating:

Paranormal Activity 4 Five years after the events that led to the disappearance of Katie and baby Hunter (in Paranormal Activity 2), young Alice (Kathryn Newton) begins experiencing strange phenomena in her home – especially after a weird kid named Robbie moves in next door. When Robbie’s mum ends up in hospital, he starts living with Alice’s family while she’s convalescing. That’s when things go from creepy to paranormal. Also starring Katie Featherston and Matt Shively. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. (Horror thriller, 88 mins.) Our rating:

Killer Joe Finding himself in considerable debt, Texan drug dealer Chris (Emile Hirsch) decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Teaming up with his dad Ansel (Thomas Haden Church), the two decide to hire Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) a

contract killer who also happens to be a police detective. The plan is the money will go to Chris’ sister Dottie (Juno Temple). However, due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. Also starring Gina Gershon. Directed by William Friedkin. (Comedy-thriller, 102 mins.) Our rating:

Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia The Gallic heroes of the popular comic book series cum film franchise return, with Asterix (Edouard Baer) and oversized pal Obelix (Gerard Depardieu) crossing the channel to Britain circa 50 B.C., where their mission is to save Queen Cordelia (Catherine Deneuve) from the conquering military might of Julius Caesar (Fabrice Luchini). Directed by Laurent Tirard. In French, with Greek subtitles. In 3D. (Adventure comedy, 100 mins.) Our rating:

Savages Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and his closest friend Chon (Taylor Kitsch) run a lucrative, homegrown industry - raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia (Blake Lively). Life is idyllic in their Southern California town, until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the Cartel head Elena (Salma Hayek) and her enforcer Lado (Benicio Del Toro) underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. Also starring John Travolta. Directed by Oliver Stone. (Dramatic thriller, 131 mins.) Our rating:

The Watch Four everyday suburban guys – Evan (Ben Stiller), Bob (Vince Vaughn), Franklin (Jonah Hill) and Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade) – come together to form a neighbourhood watch team, primarily as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their suburb has been secretly overrun by aliens inside ordinary human suburbanites, they have no choice but to try and save their neighbourhood – and the planet – from total extermination. Directed by Akiva Schaffer. (Comedy-sci-fi, 102 mins.) Our rating: Killer Joe

God Loves Caviar The story of 19th-century magnate Ioannis Varvakis (Sebastian Koch), and his journey from lowly Greek pirate to international caviar millionaire with the ear of Catherine the Great of Russia. His wealth and power, however, do not give him contentment, and his boundless ambition only brings suffering, until he gives everything away – including himself – in the name of love. Also starring Evgeny Stychkin and Catherine Deneuve. Directed by Yannis Smaragdis. In Greek, Russian and English. (Historical adventure, 99 mins.) Our rating: N/A

Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar Barbie stars as Tory, the kindhearted princess of Meribella who would rather sing and dance than perform her royal duties. When her favourite pop star Keira visits the Kingdom, the girls discover they have much in common, including a magical secret that lets them look like one another. At first, swapping places seems like a great idea, at least till each girl realises that the other’s life isn’t as easy as it seems! But Meribella also has a magical secret, and when it’s stolen, the whole kingdom is put in danger. Will true friendship save the day? Directed by Ezekiel Norton. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 86 mins.) Our rating: N/A

Brave In ancient and rugged Scotland, the impetuous, independent princess Merida is a young aspiring archer, having been encouraged from a young age by her loving, larger-than-life father King Fergus. Her mother Queen Elinor has conscientiously schooled her daughter to be proficient in all things as the future Queen, but Merida

rebels. When the King and Queen invite the surrounding clans to present their sons as suitors, Merida is desperate and finds a witch, who grants her a spell – with devastating results. Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman. In 3D. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 100 mins.) Our rating:

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) are still trying to get back to New York and their beloved Central Park zoo, but first they need to find the penguins. When they travel to Monte Carlo, they attract the attention of obsessive animalhunter Chantal Dubois of Animal Control after gate-crashing a party, and are joined by the penguins, the monkeys, King Julian (Sacha Baron Cohen) and the rest of the crew. How does such a crazy menagerie travel through Europe without attracting attention? Simple. They join a travelling circus. Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon. In 3D. (Kids’ cartoon comedy, 93 mins.) Our rating:

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift Scrat’s nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he’s been after since the dawn of time, has worldchanging consequences – causing a continental cataclysm that creates the Earth as we know it and triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny the mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), Diego the sabertoothed tiger (voiced by Denis Leary) and Sid the sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo). In the wake of these upheavals, Sid reunites with his cantankerous Granny, and the herd encounters a ragtag menagerie

of seafaring pirates determined to stop them from returning home. Also with the voices of Peter Dinklage and Nick Frost. Directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier. In 3D. (Kids’ cartoon, 94 mins.) Our rating:

The Artist Hollywood, 1927: outside a movie premiere, enthusiastic fan Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo) literally bumps into silent-movie star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin). The star reacts graciously and Peppy plants a kiss on his cheek as they are surrounded by photographers. The headlines demand: ‘Who’s That Girl?’ and Peppy is inspired to audition for a dancing bit-part at the studio. However as Peppy slowly rises through the industry, the introduction of talking-pictures turns Valentin’s world upsidedown. As his career dims with the arrival of talkies, her star rises. Also starring John Goodman and James Cromwell. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius. (Comedy-drama, 100 mins.) Our rating:

Le Havre Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a former author and evident bohemian, has retreated into voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre and has become a shoeshiner, to reach a closer rapport with people. He lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his beloved wife Arletty (Kati Outinen), who falls seriously ill. Marx’s life takes an interesting turn when fate throws Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) in his path, an underage refugee from Africa, sought by the police. Directed by Aki Kaurismaki. In French, with Greek subtitles. (Comedy-drama, 93 mins.) Our rating:

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NEW FILMS Skyfall Directed by: Sam Mendes Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Naomie Harris US/UK 2012, 143 mins. Showing from today at the K-Cineplex and K-Cineplex (Mall of Cyprus) in Nicosia, the Rio and K-Cineplex in Limassol, the K-Cineplex in Larnaca and the Rio in Paphos.

THE PLOT A hard-drive listing all NATO operatives undercover in terrorist organisations is stolen, and used to make M (Judi Dench), the head of British Intelligence, look bad. Though not in peak condition after a near-death experience, secret agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) sets out to recover the drive, which leads him to mystery man Silva (Javier Bardem) – a psycho who who’s s nursing a grudge, and has a revenge scheme in mind.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Pro: “‘You know the rules of the game,’ M tells Bond near the start of Skyfall, f ll, ‘You’ve fa been playing it

long enough!’ Fifty years to be exact, an anniversary that makes the 23rd entry in the world’s most durable franchise both a cue for nostalgia and a chance to reassess. “It would have been easy for director Sam Mendes to wallow in the former, tick all the right boxes and play to the gallery. Instead he poses questions. Who is Bond? What is his role? Is he a man with a future, or an irrelevant relic trapped in the past? “It’s a daring move to reintroduce Bond after a four-year hiatus as a man whose best days may be all behind him. But then Skyfall is nothing if not audacious, deconstructing 007 and the iconography he comes with in a way that is constantly, consistently surprising… “A floating Macau casino, complete with firework display komodo dragons, supplies and kom a perfect setting for cocktails, fisticuffs and Live And Let Die in-jokes … A splendid midsection in London, meanwhile, the city’s over-exposed spurns th architecture for a chase bearchitect neath its surface, Bond pursuing Silva via sewer, tunnel and while still finding time to Tube wh crack the odd funny. “Indeed, for all its intima“Indeed tions of mortality and harpobsolescence, Skyfall ing on o often than not a hoot, is more o having the confidence at Craig hav lace his Bond’s killer inlast to la with a bone-dry wit and stinct wi nonchalance… wry nonc “It all adds up to the 007 adventure we’ve been waitadventur ing for: a flawlessly assembled thrill ride with a cast to die for nakedly emotional unand a na dertow. Happy birthday, Mr Bond.” Smith, Total Film (UK) Neil Sm

To Rome Rom With Love Directed by: Woody Allen Directed D Starring: Starring Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Baldwin Roberto Benigni, Penelope Penelop Cruz US 2012, 2012 112 mins. English and Italian, with In Engli subtitles. Greek su Showing from today at the KCineplex in Nicosia, the Rio K-Cineplex in Limassol, and K-C K-Cineplex in Larnaca the K-C Rio in Paphos. and the R

THE PLO PLOT Four se separate stories, set in the Eternal City. On holiday Eter in Rome, Rome successful architect John (Alec Baldwin) meets (A student architect Jack (Jesse Eisenberg) and becomes inEisenber volved in Jack’s love life: his girlfriend Sally (Greta Gerwig) and ﬂirtatious friend Monica irt (Ellen Page). At the same P time, retired opera director re Jerry (Woody Allen) arrives (W in Rome with his psychiatrist wife Phyllis (Judy Davis) to Phy meet their the daughter’s future

husband Michelangelo – and, when Jerry hears Michelangelo’s father Giancarlo (Fabio Armiliato) singing in the shower, he wants to make him an opera star. In other unrelated stories, Leopoldo Pisanello (Roberto Benigni), a rather dull man, wakes one day to ﬁnd himself a celebrity with the paparazzi on his tail, while newlywed Antonio (Alessandro Tiberi) is forced to introduce a prostitute (Penelope Cruz) as his wife.

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WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Pro/Mixed: “One of the most delightful things about To Rome With Love is how casually it blends the plausible and the surreal, and how unabashedly it revels in pure silliness. The plots, which are cut together in no special order, obey different time schemes: Antonio and Milly’s marital drama (which involves a prostitute played by Penelope Cruz, and a movie star played by Antonio Albanese) seems to occupy a single afternoon, while other strands stretch over weeks and months. They rarely intersect, forming a shuffled, syncopated anthology, a variation on the multi-director omnibus films that were a staple of Italian cinema in the 1950s and ’60s… “To Rome With Love – a fairly generic title that reportedly replaced the more evocative ‘Bop Decameron’ and ‘Nero Fiddled’ – is full of affection for the motley patchwork of Italian culture. The soundtrack includes famous operatic passages and old-style romantic ballads, but also the kind of cheesy, synthetic pop that can, like some of the nation’s television productions, make a visitor wonder about Italy’s reputation for impeccable aesthetic judgment. And while we’re on that subject, Mr. Allen makes room for Roberto Benigni, who some of us might have hoped would vanish forever after the 1999 Academy Awards broadcast… “His adventures are a blithe, surreal fable, a riff on themes Mr. Allen pursued with more aggression in Celebrity. Here Mr. Allen is happy to dabble in ridiculousness, which he pushes to a nearly sublime level in the tale of Giancarlo (Fabio Armiliato), Hayley’s prospective father-in-law, who possesses a marvellous singing voice (Mr. Armiliato is a world-famous operatic tenor in real life) that is subject to certain limitations. “The limitations of To Rome With Love, as frothy as the milk atop a cappuccino, are finally inseparable from its delights.” A.O. Scott, New York Times (US)

To Rome with Love Anti: “Funny in fragments, Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love is crammed with enough unrelated incidents to fill one of his short-story collections and has the same lack of cohesion … As usual from Allen, the firstrate cast – a much larger collection of international faces than his last few ventures – relishes the opportunity to dig into Allen’s frantic oneliners and self-deprecating wit. But even Allen himself, appearing in front of the camera for his first role since 2005’s Scoop, looks a little lost in the mess… “Allen’s loose approach relies on a kind of magic realism to prop up many of its unlikely events … But while the movie may aim for the same fantasy of a distant land that Allen created with Midnight in Paris, it lacks a lucid concept. “More than any noted comedy director, Allen’s flaws as a filmmaker can be easily excused if he manages to land enough jokes. In To Rome With Love, he repeatedly tries and mostly fails to land them. There’s nothing wrong with an old-fashioned Allen yukfest, but there’s

certainly such a thing as too much of a bad one.” Eric Kohn, Indiewire (Internet)

Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings Directed by: Roberts Gannaway & Peggy Holmes DUBBED INTO GREEK In 3D. US 2012, 92 mins. Showing from today at the K-Cineplex and K-Cineplex (Mall of Cyprus) in Nicosia, the Rio and K-Cineplex in Limassol, the K-Cineplex in Larnaca and the Rio in Paphos.

THE PLOT The little fairy Tinker Bell

Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings

meets Periwinkle and ventures into the winter woods with her and Tinker Bell’s other friends to ﬁnd the secret of fairy wings.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Anti: “Secret of the Wings, the latest in the Disney Fairies series, is the movie-length definition of the word ‘innocuous’. It’s hard to imagine that anyone would be truly offended by the film, and that any children would be too scared or frightened by the extremely friendly, candy-coloured world of Pixie Hollow and the neighbouring Winter Woods. But you (or your kids) would have to be a die-hard fan of Tinker Bell and her fairy friends to buy this new entry. The Walt Disney Company has made far worse films, more obnoxious, more annoying than Secret of the Wings; still, those movies are almost worth watching because, hey, at least, they make you feel something. Secret of the Wings is 75 minutes of cinematic tofu. It has no taste, no bite, aside from whatever you ascribe to it.” Josh Spiegel, Sound on Sight (Internet)

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTRE PRIVATE INSTITUTE NICOSIA - requires substitute ESL teacher from 3rd December to 1st March for four afternoons a week. Prior experience an advantage and must hold an English Language Degree. Email CV and cover letter to: alexiast1@yahoo.com LEGAL ASSISTANT Our company is looking for an experienced legal assistant. The position involves: communication with the Company’s Registrar, ﬁlling up the forms for the Company Registrar, draft and assistance with corporate documents, dealing with correspondence where applicable, keeping databases up to date. Knowledge of legal terminology, documentation, legal processes etc. Good communication, organisational and team skills, able to take the initiative and work to tight deadlines. Languages: Knowledge of Greek and English necessary. Please send your CV. Contact Person: Rojina. Telephone 22 460 811 Email: Tollarovicova@jtfg.com and Joshi@jtfg.com

JOB WANTED I AM 35 years old boy from Sri Lanka looking of a job. I have necessary papers to work in Cyprus. Good knowledge of English and Greek. Please call 96543838. I AM FROM SRI LANKA I am looking for a job: cleaning. Living out, all areas. Tel: 97620247 INTERPRETER AND TRANSLATOR in Arabic, English and Greek. Ready for employment. Mobil 99827623

MISCELLANEOUS NOTICE is hereby given that, Isam Hasan Ahmed AbuTawahineh of 8 Leonidou, Acropolis, 2007 Nicosia, has applied to the Minister of the Interior for naturalisation, and any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted is hereby invited to send a written

and signed statement of the facts to the Minister of Interior, Nicosia. NOTICE is hereby given that, Ahmad Esam Hassan Abotawaheeneh of 8 Leonidou, Acropolis, 2007 Nicosia, has applied to the Minister of the Interior for naturalisation, and any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted is hereby invited to send a written and signed statement of the facts to the Minister of Interior, Nicosia. ***************************** STAGE ONE THEATRE, Paphos, is holding AUDITIONS at 7.30 pm on 27 & 29 November for LOVE OF FOUR COLONELS. Director Mike Crawshaw, performances 1418 May 2013. Audition pieces from Peter Sandwith on 99984035. Auditionees must advise their intention to audition in advance. ***************************** I AM NISHA D/O RADHA rani/ Late.Pardeep Kumar. Basic residence housing board colony Ferozepur city in India. Current residence - working in Cyprus (Eirini Konstantinou 50 Arch.Kyprianou Str. 6015 Larnaca) as a nanny in house My passp.No G 6065890. Have changed my name Nisha to Nisha Thakur. All concerned may note. ***************************** I AM JYOTI D/O RADHA rani/ Late.Pardeep Kumar basic residence housing board colony Ferozepur city in India current residence.Working in Cyprus (Irene Christoforou 10 Ayiou Meletiou syn. Makariou III, 6040 Larnaca) as a nanny house, my passp.No G 6065870. Have changed my name Jyoti to Jyoti Thakur. All concerned may note. ***************************** WHOEVER HAS UNWANTED CD/DVD, books, decorative items and homeware in good condition can donate it to the Hiv Cyprus Foundation so we can re-sell them at the Gynaikopazaro in Nicosia every ﬁrst Saturday of the month in support of these families. We can even collect them from your house or if you dont live in Nicosia you can send them via Akis/Travel Express and we can pay the fare. For further info please contact 99 55 95 94. Thank you! ***************************** TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE GREEK ORTHODOX: The European Union Parliament is pressuring the Turkish Government to restore Saint Sophia Cathedral from a museum into a Greek Orthodox

Nicosia - tel: 22 818583 fax: 22 676385 Church. However the Parliament has set a requirement of 1, 000, 000 signatures on a petition before it makes this conversation a prerequisite for Turkey’s admission into the European Union. You are requested to cast your vote by logging on to a link at www.hagiasophiablog.com. This is an opportunity for each of you to have an impact on world events. Get as many Greek Orthodox, other Orthodox and Christian friends of yours to sign the petition and make history. ***************************** ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS CYPRUS Is drink costing you more than just money? AA could be the answer.

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MAN AGED 59 YEARS GOOD LOOKING, resident America, future stay in Cyprus, would like to meet women aged 40 to 50 years for a serious relationship. Serious proposal accepted by divorced or widowed. Tel 001917 3800371 Loucas Eracleous 89 - 01 118 Street Richmond Hill NY 11418

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HEALTH & FITNESS PREMIER MASSAGE with English lady for stress, body pains & relaxation. Tel: 99736426 for appointments – Paphos area ***************************** CHINESE ACUPUNCTURE, cupping, skin honing, massage. For alleviation of aches, pains, stress and improvement of body tone. Pafos area - call 9922 1851 for appointment ***************************** CLINICAL PILATES. Personalised Clinical Pilates by Physiotherapists in Nicosia. Individual assessment and supervision of exercises. “Clinical pilates” is a modiﬁed form of therapeutic exercise used by physiotherapists to

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EMMA, a mix breed large type of dog. She is a large dog between 1 and 2 years old. She has a wonderful temperament. Throughout the treatment she stayed calm even though she was suffering and even managed to wag her tail as if to thanks us for helping. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact Elena on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. *****************************

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Employment Opportunities pg 18 Employment Miscellaneous 18 Pets 18 Lessons 18 Health & Fitness 18 Personal 18 Services 18 For Sale Miscellaneous 19 For Sale Land/ Property Business 19 For Sale Motor vehicles 20 Wanted 20 To Let Nicosia 20 To Let Limassol 22 To Let Larnaca 22 To Let Paphos 22 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -To Let Athens -Land For Sale Bulgaria -For Sale Nicosia 24 For Sale Limassol 24 For Sale Larnaca 24 For Sale Paphos 24 For Sale Ayia Napa 24 For Sale Famagusta Protaras -For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads 25

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Advertiser SERVICES LOOKING FLOOR? Full repair & restoration of chipped, scratched, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled floors and surfaces. Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines. For a free professional consultation & demonstration contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 or 96333961 All areas LOGS FOR SALE olive, carrob and eucalyptus. Delivered to your door free 12 euro per 20 kilo bag tel 99682243 or 99588114 By the Tom the log man. KEEP YOUR HOME COOLER IN SUMMER AND WARMER IN THE WINTER by having Windowfilm professionaly fitted. Stops up to 86% of heat from entering/leaving your home! Windowfilm increases privacy, blocks harmful uvrays which cause fading, reduces glare and saves energy costs on air-con/heating. Call Ian on 99979671

FOR SALE Two houses one is preserved erected on land 658 sq m Medolonginou Street, Agios Andreas, Nicosia. Opportunity for an investment also. No agents accepted. Tel: 99473668

SERVICES SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and fit air-cons VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol COMPUTER ASSISTANCE. PC repairs &servicing. Fully qualified engineer over 35 years experience. Island wide coverage. Call Bill 99114617. email:bill@computass.comadmail K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com WE UNDERTAKE REFURBISHING of houses or holiday homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing, house painting, garden work. For information call JIMMYS: 96587137, MELIS: 96547879

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FOR SALE B.P./LAND tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre. com/listing-lim-0170 RESIDENTIAL PIECE OF LAND of 985sqm in the village of Pareklisia. Partial sea views, near to electricity and water supplies. €135.000 D.C. (Cyprus) Real Estate Tel: 99 330 908 FOR SALE PLOT IN THE CENTER OF LEFKARA Village 670sqm, high build factor, near all shops, and amenities €210.000 negotiable Tel: 99 330 908 FOR SALE PLOT of 528sqm located in Paphos Municipality in the Agios Paulos area. It offers a large 100% build factor, and is suitable for the construction of a large house or apartment building. Price € 260.000 tel. 99 330 908 www. cyprusre.com/listing-paf-0007 SALE OF FIVE ADJACENT PLOTS in Paphos.Considered a signiﬁcant investment opportunity because the plots are located in a central area

FOR SALE B.P./LAND of Paphos(very close to the central public market).Sale of either all together or independently. Prices: €220000 – 250000 each. Call 99494753 TREMITHOUSA, plots for sale in a very quiet area, unobstructed sea and mountain views, 600 – 700 sqm, prices from €170.000 Tel: 99510420 PRIME LAND IS AVAILABLE FOR LONG LEASE IN LIMASSOL. 40, 000 sq.m., zoning Ka7 (80% -45% - 3 stories). Regular amphitheatrical shape overlooking Ladies Mile. Close to New Limassol Hospital with direct access to Limassol – Paphos Highway. Water supply, electricity and telephones are readily available. Suitable for immediate development. Ideal for various health facilities and resorts, holiday centres, commercial and shopping centres, entertainment enterprises etc. Information: Tel. 22 674338, 99621554

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Advertiser FOR SALE B.P./LAND FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupoli (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554.

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES FOR SALE: Audi A5 3.2 Quattro Triptronic. 33,000klm. Black with Cinnamon Brown leather interior. Full service history. Left - Hand Drive. 22,000 Euro Duty Free. Tel 99485763

WANTED TO RENT FLAT OR HOUSE TO RENT, 2-3 bedrooms, veranda/terrace or garden, prefer furnished, SW of Nicosia (in approx area Lakadamia to Kapedes and Kalo Chorio) alan.tye@birdlifecyprus.org.cy, 22455072, 99089083.

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA FOR RENT Acropolis luxury ﬂat; three bedrooms; bath-

TO LET NICOSIA room; laundry room; fully fitted kitchen; large sitting and dining room; everyday room; two verandas; guest WC; central heating, air-conditioning, Broadband internet, Satellite TV; Covered parking. Furnished €1200, unfurnished €1000, Tel 22312255, 99557457. FOR RENT 3 bedroom flat completely renovated in Strovolos. 135sqm, quite family owned building recently painted. c/h, a/c, storage room. Stainless steel appliances, washing machine. Sky satellite tv. €650/ month Call 99 330 908. FOR RENT 3 B/R apartment fully furnished close to Central Bank. 3 W.C., fully airconditioned extra storeroom, owned covered parking. Excellent condition. Information: Tel. 99621554 FOR RENT studio Nikis Ave. 430, Ag. Andreas 295, 1 bdrm Platy 480 furnished, Kennedy Ave. furnished 440, 2 bdrm Lykavito furnished 575, Nikis Ave. furnished 500, Acropolis brand new furnished 550, Ag. Dometios ground floor with garden 600, 3 bdrm Ag. Omologites house ideal for cultural centre/spa 850, Strovolos 600, 4 bdrm Acropolis ground floor 800, Dasoupolis new independent house 1200. 21 PROPERTY FINDER LTD. A.M. 627, A.A. 108/E 99474839, 99646822 WHOLE FLOOR OFFICE FOR

TO LET NICOSIA RENT in Ayios Andreas, Nicosia, 240 m2, 8 offices plus conference room, reception area, kitchen and WC, structured cabling, hot and cold aircon, 1800 euros pcm, tel. 99 895649 FOR RENT – three-bedroom flat in Lykavitos, Nicosia. Open plan fully-equipped kitchen and living area, two bathrooms, air conditioning and central heating. Big veranda. Near the town centre and University of Cyprus. Contact 99721911 / 99-454141 3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required). Tel: 97773358. ***************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th

TO LET NICOSIA bedroom - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website). 2. H3ST10010-R, 2 Bedroom plus office semi-detached house 180sq.m with central heating, fully a/c, covered parking in a quiet area off Tseriou avenue. Strovolos, €600 (photos in website). 3. 2 bedr fully renovated semi detached house 120 sq. m, a/c for hot and cold, small yard, FULLY FURNSIHED or not, double glazed windows with aluminum shutters, in a quiet area off Nikis behind Burger King - ACROPOLIS €650 (H2ACS0001-R), (photos in the website). 4. H3ST10012-R, 3 bedr luxury semi detached house with central heating independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet floor, fire place, electrical appliances in the kitchen, curtains, SHARED SWIMMING POOL, in a very quiet neighborhood in the area near Falcon school. Strovolos € 1200, (photos in website). 5. 4 bedr new luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, central heating, full Ac, 260sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all the windows, 4wc, 2 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 covered parking, big garden with grass in a quiet neighbourhood in a dead end near French Ambassador house - Strovolos €1400

TO LET NICOSIA (H4ST10045-R), (photos in the website). 6. 3 bedr+big attic room with shower and wc luxury new house, 210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 4wc, blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, small garden, covered parking near Alpha Mega supermarket - STROVOLOS €1200 (H4ST10007-R), (photos in the website). 7. 3 bedr upstairs and one downstairs luxury detached house built in 2 plots of land with big garden and big over floor swimming pool 4 X 10, central heating, full a/c, 2 covered parking, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, double glazed windows(PVC), electric shutters on all windows, in a very quiet neighbourhood, in the centre of Latsia near Carrefour - LATSIA €2700 (H4LAT0010-R), (photos in the website). 8. 4 bedr luxury detached house + big separate maid’s room, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area, big separate family room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area, 4wc, parquet floor all the house, mature garden on the front and back of the house, 3 covered parking, in a quiet area - PARISSINOS €2300 (H4PA20006-R), (photos in the website). 9. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedroom in the basement luxury detached house(all the

TO LET NICOSIA bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which has also separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor all the house, big sitting and dining room with fire place, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big overfloor, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar(bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker), mature garden around the house, 2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference Centre- PLATY AGLANTZIAS €3500 (H5PAG0002-R), (photos in the website). 10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €900 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website). 11. 4 bedr luxury semi detached house with good size garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, central heating, a/c units, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking, FULLY FURNISHED AND EQUIPPED, in a quiet area in a dead end close to all amenities and schools. ANTHOUPOLIS €1300 (H4ANT0002-R), (photos in the website). 12. 2 bedr + attic room luxury

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA house with central heating, full expensive air conditions Daikin, blinds, cooker and oven in the kitchen, in a quiet area near Sampson farm - STROVOLOS €700 (H3ST10013-R), (photos in the website). 13. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office, 250sq.m, central heating independent, 4a/c, big renovated, kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fire place, 1bathroom, 1 shower, 2wc, 2 covered parking, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street - Makedonitissa €1300 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website). 14. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC, 450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven, 6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big yard with tiles and garden with grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website). 15. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full

TO LET NICOSIA a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3000 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website). For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225/96422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 3 bedr furnished apartment, 140sq.m, near Cyprus Hilton, kitchen, bathroom and extra guests toilet, large sitting room, opposite a small park, recently renovated independent oil central heating, air conditions, solar heater, covered parking – Acropolis €630 (A3ACS0040-R), (photos in the website). 2. AINIC0006- R, 1 bedr., fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2AC for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, nice view, off Makarios avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop. Nicosia centre, € 450 (photos in website). 3. 2 bedrs luxury big apartment in a small building with

TO LET NICOSIA 4 apartments only, very big bedrooms with parquet ﬂoor, 125sq.m, central heating independent, 3ac, Fully nicely furnished separate kitchen, big sitting and dining area, 2wc, covered parking behind Hilton hotel off Kennedy and Makarios close to the centre.– NICOSIA CENTRE €600 (A2NIC0026-R), (photos in the website). 4. A1DAS0010-R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, big bathroom, big bedroom with shutters, covered veranda, storage heaters, 2a/c, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking in a quiet area in a small modern building near Acropolis Park. Dasoupolis €400 (photos in website).

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(A1ST10009-R), (photos in the website). 7. New 2 bedr luxury apartment, 90sq.m, storage heaters, 3 a/c, cooker and oven, covered verandah, 2 wc, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking and storage room of Kyriakou Matsi street near the centre – Agioi Omologites €650 (A2AOM0008-R), (photos in the website). 8. A1ACS0007- R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with 2 a/c

for hot and cold, electrical appliances in the kitchen, big bedroom, covered veranda, blinds, covered parking, in a quiet area near Acropolis park. NICELY FURNISHED. Acropolis €450 (photos in website). 9. 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building, 200sq.m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and

blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with ﬁre place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/ bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder, 2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – ENGOMI €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website).

5. 2 bedrs big luxury flat, 110sq. m+big covered veranda, CH ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, parquet and granite floor, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, covered parking, intercom, on a small building with 6 flats only near Coca Cola factory 2 km from McDonalds in Egomi – Agios Dometios €550 (A2ADO0013-R), (photos in the website). 6. 1 bedr new modern luxury apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, nicely modern furnished, 3rd floor, covered parking, 6 year old in a quiet neighborhood off Kantaras street. - STROVOLOS €400

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS of Paphos, communal pool, and sea view. €350 p/m Tel: 96637054 – no agents ARMOU – large detached 4 bed villa – 1 x ensuite – u/f, a/c, fire place, private pool, large kitchen with extra utility room, private parking, sea and mountain views, quiet location. €650. For more information call - 99774314 or 99621875 A DELIGHTFUL AND SPACIOUS 2 bedroom apartment, F/F, top floor, new, located at a peaceful location just 500 from St. George hotel in Choraka, with breathtaking sea views. A+ quality apt, With walking distance to amenities, part of a beautiful building with swimming pool, list and other amenities. Only €350pm Other apts also available. Call 99403261, 26934650 ***************************** PAPHOS- Large 3 Bedroom F/F Apt, Central Heating, 2 Bathrooms, Laundry, €350 KATO PAPHOS- 1 bedroom Town-House, Newly fitted kitchen, Enclosed Rear Garden, Cloakroom, €200 EMBA-Traditional Detached 3 bed room, F/F, very spacious property, large garden with a variety of fruit trees, fabulous kitchen, €450 TREMITHOUSA- 2 Bedroom, Traditional Village Bungalow, Very Large Courtyard, Parking. €280

TO LET PAPHOS FULLY FURNISHED PROPERTIES WANTED MORE PROPETIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ***************************** 1. 1 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex in a very quiet area, air condition throughout, spectacular sea and mountain views and communal pool, pets allowed Price: €270 o.n.o 2. 2 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex in a very quiet area, 1 bathroom, air condition throughout, spectacular sea and mountain views and communal pool, close to all amenities, pets allowed Price: €320 o.n.o 3. 2 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex, quiet area, 1 W/C downstairs, 1 bathroom, air condition throughout, communal pool, balcony, lovely sea and mountain views, close to all amenities, satellite dish, pets allowed, Price: €370 o.n.o 4. 4 bedroom fully furnished detached Villa in Peyia in small complex, private swimming pool, BBQ area and small garden, 1 en-suite bathroom in master bedroom, downstairs bedroom and bathroom, air condition throughout, 2 balconies, very spacious rooms, with additional storage space, lovely sea and mountain

TO LET PAPHOS views, close to all amenities, satellite dish, pets allowed. Price: €750 o.n.o ALL THE ABOVE PROPERTIES ARE PRIVATELY OWNED PLEASE CALL: 99351008/99563020 ***************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY SERVICES LTD: PROVIDING AN EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE FOR TENANTS AND LANDLORDS: PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR RENT LONG TERM RENTAL. PROPERTIES WANTED: FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WITH KEY HOLDING AND RENT COLLECTIONS OFFERED 1 Mandria: 3 bed unfurnished apartment on a quiet complex with communal pool, off street allocated parking, white goods, blinds Ref: 969 Price 350 2 Konia: 3 bedroom unfurnished town house with communal pool in nice residential area, near to all local amenities: Ref: 1027 Price 500 3 Yeroskipou: 2 bed furnished Town house, downstairs wc, kitchen, dining/sitting room, upstairs 2 bedroom, family bathroom: Ref: 1169 Price 350 4 Mesogi: Luxury 4 bed unfurnished villa with large living areas, downstairs bedroom with en suite, 3 bedrooms upstairs, Fire place, Modern villa, residential area Private pool: fully fenced off: pets welcome Ref: 783 Price 750 5 Secret Valley: fully furnished, modern style, easy maintenance gardens, Private heated pool, quiet residential area, near golf area: Ref: 1186 Price

TO LET PAPHOS 800 6 Kissonergra: 4 bedroom villa offered furnished, downstairs bedroom, 3 upstairs, en suite, family bathroom, closed garage, private pool, on its own very private no near by villas: Ref 0003 Price 900 7 Tala: 3 bedroom villa offered part furnished with private pool, stunning sea views, property is a family home, central heating, residential Ref: 988 Price 700 8 Coral Bay/Peyia: large luxury villa with central heating, large gardens, AC, off street parking, stunning views, quality fittings and furniture’s: Ref: 1176 Price 3500 OFFICE: 120 MARKARIOS AVENUE, PAPHOS. OFFICE: 26600450 MOBILE: 97614070 many properties available on WEB: www. flowron.com Email info@ flowron.com ***************************** LONG TERM RENTALS 1. CHLORAKAS 1 bed ground floor furnished apartment with central heating, communal pool and parking, sky TV. €350 pcm including all bills 2. KISSONERGA 2 bed town house, small garden, off street parking, close to bus and shops. NO POOL €350 pcm 3. SEA FRONT 200 sq-m plus detached villa, large plot, ample parking, cul-de-sac, stunning sea views, loads of room and storage. Must be viewed. €999 pcm open to offers. 4. PEYIA 2 bed 2 bathroom house, a/c, ceiling fans, fly

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TO LET PAPHOS LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. UNIVERSAL AREA €450 spacious 3 bedroom first floor apartment, master with ensuite. Situated on small complex with no pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture, fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher. Balcony leads to a large private roof terrace with shaded barbeque area offering views of the sea, storage & sunbathing deck. 2. SEA CAVES €500 we are delighted to offer this detached 2 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a quiet residential area offering sea views. Gated drive for off street parking. Fully enclosed good sized low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy and shaded areas. Available unfurnished or part furnished. Pets allowed at owners’ discretion. website reference number: RTL_482 3. KAMARES €625 we are delighted to offer this 2 bedroom 2 bathroom bungalow offering magnificent sea views. Lovely enclosed garden & private pool. Available unfurnished though includes central heating throughout plus modern gas fire for those winter

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS months. Outdoor storage facilities, shaded patio area, fly screens & shutters. website reference number: RTL_386 4. PEYIA €700 price includes pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite TV. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. a spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning views. off street parking. website reference number: RTL_401 5. TALA €725 modern 3 bedroom detached villa located in a peaceful residential area between Tala & Kamaras offering sea & mountain views. Separate kitchen with top brand appliances inc dishwasher. Includes central heating, flyscreens & sky satellite. Private pool & enclosed garden with storage. Available unfurnished or furnished. website reference number: RTL_566 6. MANDRIA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Fully enclosed low maintenance garden offering private pool. Available unfurnished to include white goods, blackout blinds, curtains, ceiling fans & log burner for those winter months. Immaculate condition. Pets allowed at owners’ discretion. Website reference number: RTL_633 offers considered. 7. KATO PAPHOS €800 large 4 bedroom detached villa situated in the sought after residential area of Limnaria. Walking distance to the beach and the many amenities of Kato Paphos. Spacious living accommodation offering an enclosed garden with c/pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture & solar panels. website reference number: RTL_442 8. TSADA €2000 fantastic 4 bedroom 4 bathroom villa offering breathtaking sea & mountain views from every

TO LET PAPHOS aspect. Spacious living areas with central heating and real fireplace. Covered verandas leading to private pool with Jacuzzi and large stone built bbq area. Separate storage rooms, utility room & garage. Available fully furnished or unfurnished. Offers considered. website reference number: RTL_639 Tel: 97790883 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www. mrrent-paphos.net email: info@mrrent-paphos.net ***************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97648440 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!! 1. MESA CHORIO – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground floor apartment set on an elevated position on this prestigious development. Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen. 2 double, bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room. Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates.. Comm swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. Euros 425.00 a month. 2 bed apartment same complex Euros 400.00 a month. 2 MESOGI 3 bed 3 bath furnished apartment in handy location close to the shopping areas. Large open plan living area and dining area.. Fully fitted dining/kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. Utilty room. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Balcony & and parking. Euros 500.00 a month. Suit non-drivers! 3. TOMB OF THE KINGS – 3 bed fully furnished apartment in established block. Own en-

TO LET PAPHOS trance via stairway. Open plan living area. Dining kitchen. 3 bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, sat TV. Internet available. Large balcony area. Parking. Euros 350.00 per month 4. KISSONEGA - 3 bed 2 bath unfurnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area. Full itted kitchen. Small utility area. Conservatory room. Ground floor bed room with en-suite. Stairs to two double bedrooms and family bathroom. Pool and off street parking. Euros 600.00 per month 5. STROUMBI – 2 bed fully furnished stone bungalow set in quiet location. Open plan living area with working fireplace. Spacious dining kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom with corner bath. Landscaped gardens, swimming pool and covered parking. Realistically priced Euros 500.00 per month or close offers only 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, Enclosed garden area, comm. Pool and parking. Euros 375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at 250 euros per month. 7. CORAL BAY - 3 bed, 3.5 bath furnished/unfurnished villa situated very near to the centre and within easy walking of beaches and restaurants. Open plan living area with fully fitted kitchen. Doors out to garden and pool. Ground floor bedroom with ensuite. Separate guest WC. Stairs to 2 double bedroom both with en-suite and balcony areas. Private pool, gardens, BBQ area and covered verandahs. Central location.Euros 650.00 per month or close offers. 8. STROUMBI– 3 bed 2.5 bath large unfurnished villa in quiet village area. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Good sized fitted kitchen and breakfast area. Guest WC with storage area.3 double bedrooms. Master with en-suite bathroom. Family bathroom.

TO LET PAPHOS Enclosed gardens, pool and off street parking. Realistically priced Euros 550.00 per month. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF A PA R T M E N T S / T O W N HOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol.com ***************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt ﬁreplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610. *****************************

PROPERTY FOR SALE LIMASSOL ***************************** 2 BED FLAT on the beach 70sq m €375,000 – title deeds 99337415 ***************************** COUNTRY VILLA 7 miles Limassol centre, 5 beds 4 baths + ofﬁce, €480.000-title deeds, rented for €13.000-p.a. 99672602 ***************************** FOR SALE AGIOS TYCHONAS detached 2 bedroom house with deeds. Sea/mountain views. Retiled, replastered, rewired, replumbed. Fans. A/C. Handmade solid wood kitchen. Large lounge/dining area. 2 mins from highway. Email janmurr1@yahoo.co.uk for photos and info. Price €235, 000. ***************************** BARGAIN PRICE DETACHED HOME FOR QUICK SALE with title deeds. Located on a quite cul de sac in Germasoyia within a short 2 minute drive to the beach and tourist area. 3 bedroom. 325sqm plot, 160sqm house. Price € 385.000 tel. 99

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Nicosia General .............22-801400 Nicosia Makarios ...........22-405000 Limassol Old ................25-305333 Limassol New ................25-801100 Larnaca Old...................24-630312 Larnaca New .................24-630300 Paphos ..........................26-821800 Famagusta ....................23-821211

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LARNACA DUPLEX PENTHOUSE OROKLINI, zen, 110 m2, 75 m2 private roof garden, 2 covered 25 m2 verandas, 3 bed, furnished and equipped, 2 bath, private covered parking, storage, shared pool, gym, sauna, Hassapis 2006. 225.000 €, 99073975.

NICOSIA HOUSE FOR SALE AT ARCHANGELOS AREA (Nicosia) WITH SEMI-DETACHED STUDIO FOR HOUSEKEEPER AND GARDEN 300 sq.m - with Title. 3 bedrooms (one big with dressing room and bathroom). Open big space Kitchen with Dining and Living Room. Two Bathrooms and one WC for Guests. Fully Air-conditioned, Central Heating €390.000 TEL 99668822/99680700 ***************************** NICOSIA, FLAT FOR SALE: 2 bdrm flat with title deeds, 110 sq.m., fully renovated, best central area, 800m from the European University, excellent view, €99.000. Tel. 99621914. ***************************** FOR SALE is a building with 4 flats, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely renovated. Located in quite area. Building recently plastered and painted. €850, 000. Negotiable Call: 99 330 908 ***************************** FOR SALE PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, fireplace, large verandas. For more information please call: 99467596.

PAPHOS LOFOS – TALA, 3 bedroom bungalow for sale, living room, kitchen, bathroom, shower room, central heating, air con, private pool, landscaped gardens, lovely views. Call: 99342913 – no agents ***************************** 1. PAPHOS, FLATS FOR SALE OR RENT: Kissonerga, 3 bdrm ﬂat with title deeds, in a block of 4 ﬂats only, fully renovated, 2 baths, 146 sq.m closed area, c/h, a/c, covered parking, excelent view of sea and mountains, half registration fees titll 31.12.12 reduced to €135.000 or rent €450 per month. Tel. 99621914. ***************************** FOR SALE- PAPHOS 1. REGINA GDNS- 2 Bedroom Townhouse set on a luxury complex with 3 communal pools, private parking, private driveway, rear patio, solar panels, TITLE DEEDS. Covered area 92sq. mtrs. Priced to sell at €115, 000. 2. FAROS BEACH- 2 Bedroom fully furnished apartment, situated 120m from a popular beach off Tombs of The Kings. Sea views, solar panels, private parking, spacious bal-

FOR SALE PAPHOS cony, large family bathroom, TITLE DEEDS AVAILABLE. Priced to sell at €138, 000. 3. ATHENA GARDENS- Beautiful 2 Bedroom fully furnished ground floor apartment in Geroskipou with communal pools, gardens, large patio with roll down canvas sidings (low electricity bills). This property comes with many many extras and it is priced at 25% below value at €140, 000. Covered area 96sq. mtrs. 4. UNIVERSAL- 2 Bedroom end of terrace Townhouse, situated close to the new school and bus route, with front garden, rear patio area, and communal pool, this property comes fully furnished and is priced for a quick sale at €98, 000. TITLE DEEDS IMMINENT. 5. LIMNARIA GARDENS- 1 Bedroom fully furnished spacious top floor apartment with lounge leading to patio overlooking communal pools on a luxury complex. Shutters all round, heated pool with Jacuzzi, 200m from beach. Priced to sell at €135, 000. 6. SECRET VALLEY- Splendid 3 Bedroom detached villa with master bedroom en-suite, enclosed gardens, private pool next to Secret Valley Golf Course and set in a quiet cul-de-sac. This beautiful villa comes furnished with high quality furnishings and a covered area of 154sq. mtrs. Set on a plot of 408sq. mtrs. Very reasonably priced at €370, 000. 7. LOWER PEGIA- 3 Bedroom 2 Bathroom detached villa with totally enclosed gardens, workshop and storage units. Master bedroom en-suite, downstairs bathroom, private 8mx4m pool, to be sold including quality furniture. Covered area 132sq. mtrs on a plot 378sq. mtrs. TITLE DEEDS. Priced to sell at €295, 000. 8. MARATHOUNDA- Superb 4 Bedroom detached villa with a covered area 310sq. mtrs on a beautiful plot of 928sq. mtrs. Set in an unspoilt area offering marvellous views. All bedrooms en-suite, large lounge with stone carved fire surround and wood burning fire, black granite work surfaces, traditional stone arches, private 8mx4m pool, outbuildings, garage. Many many extras. Price includes all furniture and white goods. TITLE DEEDS. Priced well below the market value at €475, 000. For further details please contact 99874804 or E-mail: rocpropertiescyp@gmail.com ***************************** FOR SALE special offer, €79, 000 first floor apartment in Protaras, fully furnished with 2 bedrooms and a swimming pool. Walking distance to the beach of Ayia Triada and all amenities. Tel: 97 608941. *****************************

AYIA NAPA ***************************** 1.AYIA NAPA, Studio for sale, 38 sqm, furnished and fully renovated, with title deed, in licensed complex, 5030m from Nissi Beach €49.000. Tel. 99621914. LARNACA *****************************

CYPRUS MAIL Friday, November 2, 2012

Advertiser FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581 CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS! PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods! NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!! PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600. FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 WORLD ANIMAL DAY. On Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be micro chipping pets for only €20 including all the paperwork. For further information telephone 26953496. To celebrate World Animal Day on Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be offering free spaying/neutering for all feral and unwanted animals as they do throughout the year. Contact 26953496 for further details. PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives. Entrance is €2 CHARITY HAIR CUT. On Thursday 4th October 09.30-17.30 without an appointment Andri at Atlantic Bay Hotel (2nd Floor) will be charging €5 for a haircut with all proceeds going to Paphiakos. Telephone Suzanne on 99151996 or Andri on 99604783. PAPHIAKOS CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. Saturday November 24th 9am – 3pm at the Crazy Spoon Restaurant. For further details contact 99151996. Stalls, Santa’s Grotto, Donkey Rides, Pirate Pat and many more.

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Television CYBC 2

CYBC 1 06.45 Proti Enimerosi 08.15 Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more. 11.00 Kaftes Piperies (rpt) 11.30 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV. 12.00 Apo Mera Se Mera Current affairs programme. 15.30 Mazi Sto CyBC Talk-show with former Sigma icon Elita Michaelidou, discussing health, work, relationships and much more. 17.30 Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) 18.00 News 18.15 Kaftes Piperies Live cookery show. 18.45 Paizoume Kypriaka New season of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect. 19.20 Moiraia Fengaria New local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’. 20.00 News 21.15 Patates 8 Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians. 22.00 Greek FILM: Mia Melissa Ton Avgousto Comedy. 2007. 23.30 News 23.45 Repeats

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NRG Zone Kids’ TV Euromaxx EURO 2012 Symphony - The Score Football Heroes Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish NRG Zone A Touch of Frost: Mind Games Inspector Jack Frost reopens an unsolved murder case when the remains of a 14year-old girl, who went missing 20 years previously, are discovered on a nearby housing development. Meanwhile, the detectives investigate when a late-night prank results in the death of a local businessman. Drama, starring David Jason. 2008. Top Gear Seventeenth season. Episode: 5. For this week’s challenge, the trio employ all manner of second-hand military equipment to knock down a row of derelict houses, aiming to complete the job in less time than a team of demolition experts Ghost Whisperer Fifth season. ‘On Thin Ice’. A graphic novelist discovers he is being haunted by the ghost of a teenage boy, and a series of unusual incidents occurs when he begins work on his new book. Repeats

06.20 Proini Enimerosi 06.50 Kai oi Pantremeni Ehoun Psihi (rpt) 08.20 Englimata (rpt) 09.10 Oi Men kai oi Den (rpt) 09.30 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Greek comedy series. 10.20 O Polemos Ton Astron (rpt) 12.10 Niose Me (rpt) 13.00 News 13.20 Mera Mesimeri 14.00 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) Greek comedy series. 14.50 Tin Patisa (rpt) Local comedy series. 16.00 Tihi Vouno (rpt) 16.50 Eva Luna Latin American telenovela. 17.45 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Smash-hit comedy, with village setting. Interrupted by News at 18.00. 19.20 Niose Me 20.20 News 21.20 Cyprus Barometer October 23.00 FILM: Flightplan Thriller, with Jodie Foster and Peter Sarsgaard. 2005. See Film Picks. 00.30 News 00.35 Sports News 00.50 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi (rpt) 02.30 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 03.20 News 04.00 To Kafeneio (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 I Dipsa (rpt) 06.30 Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) 07.00 Koinonia Ora Mega 08.00 Nea Mera 10.00 Proino Mou (rpt) 12.00 Enimerosi Tora 14.00 Sto Para Pente (rpt) 15.00 Eheis Meson Local investigative show. 16.00 Yia Sena 18.00 News 18.20 Eisai To Tairi Mou (rpt) Greek comedy series. 19.20 Sto Para Pente (rpt) Greek comedy series. 20.15 News 21.20 Mousiko Kouti Game show testing contestants musical knowledge. 23.00 FILM: The Contract A retired cop and his son stumble across a fugitive in the woods and try to take him back to prison, but his henchmen intervene. Thriller, starring John Cusack and Morgan Freeman. 2006. With News at 00.00. 01.15 Yia Sena (rpt) 03.00 Enimerosi Tora (rpt) 04.30 Proino Mou (rpt)

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PLUS TV

06.10 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Protoselido 08.20 Eleni 10.00 Vasiliki (rpt) 10.50 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) 12.00 Mesimeri Kai Kati 14.20 Aspra Balonia (rpt) 15.20 Magazino 18.00 News 18.05 Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama 18.30 The Del Monte Heirs 19.20 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites 20.20 News 21.20 Oikogeniakes Istories 22.20 FILM: Fatal Love A woman contracts HIV after a onenight stand, and vows to be an inspiration to others with the condition. Drama, starring Molly Ringwald. 1992. 00.00 News 00.05 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation An elite team of forensic evidence experts work their cases in Las Vegas.

06.45 Star News 07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.15 Fotis - Maria Live Best Of 10.30 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 11.00 I Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Cookery show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition. 11.50 Mila - Best Of 12.30 Star News 13.00 Mesimeriani Meleti Showbiz news and gossip show hosted by Eleonora Meleti. 15.30 Kids’ TV 17.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 17.50 Fotis Maria Live Entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, health, fashion, lifestyle issues and more. 19.40 Mila Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life. 21.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 22.00 FILM: Fairﬁeld Road A political adviser moves to a small town in search of a fresh start after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day. Drama, starring Jesse Metcalfe and Natalie Lisinska. 2010. 23.30 LTV Sports News 00.15 Diet Please 01.00 Star News 02.00 Repeats

01.30 24 Ground-breaking real-time drama series, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a government agent out to stop terrorists wreaking havoc across America. 02.00 Epistroﬁ (rpt) 02.30 Mono Mia Fora (rpt) 03.30 Eleni (rpt) 05.20 Tropico (rpt)

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Kids’ TV Magikos Kosmos S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras 11.00 Kouzina Me Apopsi 11.30 Tropical Heat (rpt) 12.30 Milagros 13.20 15.05 15.55 16.45 17.35 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

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Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Melrose Place With News at 18.30. News Sports Time Rubi FILM: 2012: Supernova A scientist assembles a crack team to construct a shield to protect Earth from a burst of solar radiation. Sci-ﬁ adventure, starring Brian Krause. 2009. FILM: Desperation When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must ﬁght for their lives. Drama, starring Tom Skerritt. 2006. FILM: Deadly Encounter A hard-working mother angers another driver when she cuts him up on her way home from work, prompting him to terrorise her. Thriller, starring Laura Leighton. 2004.

Radio BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 Assignment 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Science In Action 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness 04:01 BBC News 04:06 HARDtalk 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 World Football 05:01 BBC News 05:06 Newsday 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 Newsday 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Newsday 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Science In Action 06:50 From Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 Newsday 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Strand 07:50 Witness 08:01 BBC News 08:06 Newsday 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 Newsday 09:01 BBC News 09:06 Newsday 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 Newsday 10:01 BBC News 10:06 World Football 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 HARDtalk 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Science In Action 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 The Strand 13:50 Witness 14:01 BBC News 14:06

World Have Your Say 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Business Daily 14:50 Sports News 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 HARDtalk 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 World Football 17:01 BBC News 17:06 World Briefing 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32 Science In Action 17:50 From Our Own Correspondent 18:01 BBC News 18:06 World Briefing 18:30 BBC News Summary 18:32 Sport Today 18:50 Witness 19:01 BBC News 19:06 World Briefing 19:30 BBC News Summary 19:32 World Business Report 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Have Your Say 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 World Have Your Say 21:01 BBC News 21:06 World Briefing 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Business Daily 21:50 From Our Own Correspondent 22:01 BBC News 22:06 World Football 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 The Strand 22:50 Witness 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

BFBS 1 (N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 Groove Collective 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast 09.00 Wez Thompson 10.00 Cyprus Morning 12.00 Total Ops Chris Pearson 15.00 Cyprus Afternoon 18.00 Charlene Guy 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 The Vibe

BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 Gareth John 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Marlow 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’Clock News 20.30 Five Live Drive 21.00Five Live Sport 00.30 Five Night Live LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-07.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhamba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.0018.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunch-

time Classics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box

98.5 Rock FM The Breakfast Show - Tony Newell - 07:00-10:00 2 Hours With Bejay Browne 10:00-12:00 Rock Fm’s Lunch Box - Jason Collins 12:00-14:00 Non Stop Music 14:00-15:00 Valentina 15:00-18:00 Monday - Tuesday - Thursday - Friday Liquid Radio Show - Pavlos - 15:00-18:00 Wednesday Drive Time - Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Monday - Tuesday Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Wednesday (Mix @ 6) The Cocktail Show - Antonis - 18:00-20:00 Thursday - Friday Panic In The Year Zero - 20:00-22:00 Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday Radioactive Metal - 20:00-22:00 - Thursday Live Dj Set- Dj Allen D 20:00-22:00 - Friday 22:00-24:00 The Gathering - With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svennyb – Live Wednesday & Friday Night Train 24:00-07:00 Monday To Friday Oldies Digital (Hotbird SAT / (www.oldies-digital.com) MONDAY-FRIDAY 05:00 That Was The Year 06:00 Easy Going Gold 10:00 The Juke Box 17:00 That Was The Year 18:00 Oldies Overnights - Hear the greatest hits of all time playing non stop during the darkest hours.

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Television PICK OF THE DAY The Tree of Life (Novacinema1, 22.00) It had to happen. For months I’ve been skating around The Tree of Life, pretending not to see it on the schedules so I wouldn’t have to Pick it or write about it; not because I don’t like it (quite the opposite), but because I don’t think I can talk about it rationally. I hear and understand all the criticisms made by those who hate it - pretentious, self-indulgent, etc - but I’m like those comic-book fanboys who listen to you complain about Thor or The Avengers but can’t do much except nod sympathetically, because they’ve spent their whole lives dreaming about a big-screen version of Thor or The Avengers. Not that I’ve been dreaming about a fi lm based on director Terrence Malick’s childhood, specifically - but Tree of Life affects me in a way I can’t explain. If I try and watch the whole 139 minutes, I tend to drift off - but any random 10 minutes (especially from the middle section) literally moves me to tears. It’s like this fi lm fi lls a deep, subconscious need I never even knew I had. Anyway. It’s a slow Friday night, The Party got cancelled on Sigma (why, Sigma, why?), here’s The Tree of Life in a good slot - and obviously I can’t put if off any longer: I need to write about this fi lm as rationally as possible. An “American drama fi lm with experimental elements,” says

Wikipedia, which I guess is accurate - but if you buy the UK DVD you’ll also notice a rather unusual opening caption. For best results, it says, “the producers of this DVD recommend that you play it loud” - and that’s even more accurate, because this near-plotless drama works as an immersive experience more than a movie. It’s poetry, whereas most fi lms are prose. You have to lose yourself in it. Brad Pitt is Dad, Jessica Chastain is Mum. “Father, Mother, always you wrestle inside me,” sighs the narrator - but it’s not as simplistic as Dad being strict and Mum being tender, more that Dad is the “Way of Grace” (a strong, demanding God) while Mum is the “Way of Nature”. “The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will fl ash by,” she advises - and the wording is significant, not ‘your life will be miserable’ but ‘your life will flash by’, happiness being a case of taking time to savour everything. The result is sublimely edited, the shots following each other like music, though it does get a bit repetitive and those dinosaurs (yes, dinosaurs) do seem a bit much. When Mum says “That’s where God lives”, however, and the main melody to Smetana’s ‘Vltava’ kicks in ... well, you should play it loud. Made in 2011.

Preston Wilder

FILM PICKS

SATELLITE

Greetings From the Shore (LTV3, 20.00) “Every summer at the Jersey shore is an adventure,” claims Mr. Trailer Man - and he doesn’t mean the one with Snooki and ‘The Situation’, he means the pleasant (if slightly rundown) place where fresh-faced youngster Kim Shaw decides to spend one last summer before heading off to college. Kim is still dealing with the death of her father, and plans to spend the summer working in a pizza parlour - but instead she falls into adventure, teaching English to the scruffy immigrant waiters at the local yacht club and falling in love with one such scruff, playing darts and hanging out and doing all the things young couples do in sweet (if hackneyed) coming-of-age dramas. Wide-eyed Kim is an appealing presence - yet the ﬁ lm barely opened in cinemas, and critics were mostly dismissive. Don’t they know every summer at the Jersey shore is an adventure? Made in 2007.

Flightplan (Antenna, 23.00) If you’ve seen The Lady Vanishes (and if you haven’t, please go see it immediately) you’ll recognise the contours of the plot in this superior thriller, in which griefstricken Jodie Foster is flying from Berlin to New York with her husband’s coffi n and her six-year-old daughter. Jodie goes to sleep - then wakes up to fi nd that the child has disappeared, and everyone on the plane acts like she never existed! Is Jodie going mad? Is her grief making her delusional? Or is the whole thing a big conspiracy? The fi lm, it must be said, loses its way in the second half (and the actual solution is implausible), which didn’t happen with The Lady Vanishes - but it’s stylish, and Foster uses her ice-cold, ferocious intelligence to create a vivid sense of a woman on the edge. Made in 2005.

Shark Night (Novacinema3, 23.00) “You’re sick!” says our horriﬁed hero, as the villain is revealed. “There’s no such thing as sickness anymore, it’s all moral relativism,” comes the reply - and for a moment you wonder if this is a stupid shark movie (Shark Night 3D at the cinema) or a more profound ﬁ lm in cunning disguise. Alas, it’s a stupid shark movie - and not even really ‘Shark Night’, more like ‘Homicidal Redneck Night With a Few Sharks Thrown In’. I won’t say more, so as not to spoil the twists (such as they are), but the set-up is exactly as expected, with the usual gang of teenage twits going to a lake house for a weekend of fun only to discover there are sharks lurking in the placid waters. There’s some violence (though nowhere near as gory as Piranha), some suspense as a speedboat tries to outrun a shark (“Faster!”), and a lot of salacious innuendo though no actual sex. There’s no such thing as sex anymore, it’s all moral relativism. Made in 2011.

Shark Night (Novacinema3, 23.00)

The Back-Up Plan (Novacinema4, 22.50) 01:20 The Weakest Link 02:05 Monarch Of The Glen 02:55 EastEnders 03:25 Doctors The Memory of Water 03:55 Richard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel 04:45 Sunshine 05:45 Him & Her The Fancy Dress Party 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 The Large Family Queen Of The Castle 07:10 Jackanory Junior The King Of Capri 07:25 Teletubbies Urban Birds 07:50 Balamory Island In The Sun 08:10 The Large Family Queen Of The Castle 08:20 Jackanory Junior The King Of Capri 08:35 Teletubbies Urban Birds 09:00 Balamory Island In The Sun 09:20 Little Robots Beautiful And New 09:30 Spot’s Musical Adventures Spot’s Umbrella 09:35 Fawlty Towers The Kipper And The Corpse 10:05 Mastermind 10:35 The Weakest Link 11:20 EastEnders 11:50 Doctors The Memory of Water 12:20 Monarch Of The Glen 13:10 The Planets Life 14:00 Fawlty Towers The Kipper And The Corpse 14:30 Mastermind 15:00 The Weakest Link 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors The Memory of Water 16:45 Monarch Of The Glen 17:35 The Planets Life 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 Big Bear Diary 19:40 Doctors The Comeback Kid 20:10 Robin Hood Too Hot To Handle 21:00 Lead Balloon Spikey 21:30 Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Goblins 22:00 Lee Evans: Big Live at the O2 22:50 ‘Allo ‘Allo! The Duel 23:20 Live At The Apollo 00:05 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:50 Being Erica Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Fifth Gear 14:05 Fifth Gear 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 20:30 How It’s Made 21:00 Penn & Teller Tell A Lie 22:00 Deception With Keith Barry 23:00 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 01:00 Nothing Personal 01:55 Penn & Teller Tell A Lie 02:50 Deception With Keith Barry 03:50 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Snooker: International Championship China 10:30 Fia World Touring Car Championship-Magazin: Inside Wtcc 11:00 Football: Uefa Women’s Champions League 12:30 Snooker: International Championship China 16:30 Futsal: World Cup Thailand 18:30 All Sports: Eurosport Top 10 19:00 Bowling: Pba Tour Usa 20:00 Strongest Man: European Champions League Gibraltar 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Snooker: International Championship China 23:45 Equestrian: Horse Racing Time 00:00 Rally: Intercontinental Rally Challenge Cyprus 00:30 Motorsports: Gta Road To Dubai 00:45 Futsal: World Cup Thailand 01:45 All Sports: Watts

05:40 Private Practice 06:25 Castle 07:10 Friends With Beneﬁts 07:35 Happy Endings 08:00 Revenge 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 09:40 Private Practice 10:25 Castle 11:10 Friends With Beneﬁts 11:35 Happy Endings 12:00 New Girl 12:50 Happy Endings 13:40 Revenge 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reserva-

10:55 Gnomeo & Juliet 12:25 Footloose 14:20 Mad On Novacinema 15:00 Love Stories 17:10 Biloba 18:55 The Conspirator 21:00 Ncis X 22:00 The Tree Of Life 00:25 Elephant White 02:00 Cine News 02:30 Colombiana 04:20 Birth

05:00 Love And Other Drugs 06:55 Nicostratos: Le Pelican 08:30 Cine News 09:25 Cowboys & Aliens 11:25 Just Friends 13:10 Cine News 14:00 Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The Word 3d 15:35 The Sweetest Thing 17:10 Spotlight On 17:50 Bedazzled 19:30 The Portrait Of A Lady 22:00 Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 00:20 The Eagle 03:55 Cine News 04:30 True Grit 2010

tions 15:20 Private Practice 16:05 Castle 16:50 Friends With Benefits 17:15 Happy Endings 17:40 Once Upon A Time 18:30 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 19:20 Private Practice 20:10 Castle 21:00 New Girl 21:50 Glee 22:40 Friends With Benefits 23:05 Happy Endings 23:30 New Girl 00:20 Glee 01:10 Castle 02:00 Private Practice 02:45 Friends With Benefits 03:10 Happy Endings 03:35 Rita Rocks 04:00 Once Upon A Time 04:50 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple

07:00 Pawn Stars 5 07:30 Storage Wars 2 08:00 The Universe 5 09:00 Lock N’ Load 10:00 Pawn Stars 5 10:30 Storage Wars 2 11:00 Ancient Aliens 2 12:00 Ice Road Truckers 6 13:00 Ax Men 14:00 Lock N’ Load 15:00 The Universe 5 16:00 Ice Road Truckers 6 17:00 Ax Men 18:00 Lock N’ Load 19:00 The Universe 5 20:00 Pawn Stars 5 20:30 Storage Wars 2 21:00 Ancient Aliens 2 22:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 2 23:00 WWII : Europe’s Secret Army 00:00 Pawn Stars 5 00:30 Storage Wars 2 01:00 Ancient Aliens 2 02:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 2 03:00 WWII : Europe’s Secret Army 04:00 The Universe 5 05:00 Lock N’ Load 06:00 Ancient Aliens 2

07:30 The Trouble With Dee Dee 09:00 The Bachelor 10:40 Blindness 12:40 Beetle Juice 14:15 Adam 15:55 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore 17:20 V For Vendetta 19:30 Hollywood Buzz 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Centurion 23:00 The Expendables 00:50 Hustler TV 02:30 Solitary Man 04:10 Hollywood Buzz 04:45 Cinema Verite 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Chowder 07:25 The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack 07:50 The Tom & Jerry Show 08:15 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 The Looney Tunes Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 The X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, KaiLan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 The Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 ICarly 15:20 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 K9 Nation 17:30 Planet Speed 18:00 Barclays Premier

League World 18:30 NBA Action 19:00 La Liga World 19:30 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 21:30 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 23:30 Barclays Premier League Preview 00:00 La Liga Show 2012-13 01:00 Barclays Premier League Review 02:00 NBA 2012-13 04:30 La Liga Review 2012-13 05:30 Friday Night Fights 06:30 Planet Speed

07:15 Aliens In America 08:00 Two And A Half Men 08:30 Luck 09:30 Harry’s Law 10:30 Chuck 11:15 Supernatural 12:45 Hawaii Five-0 13:30 Aliens In America 14:15 Luck 15:15 Harry’s Law 16:05 The Big Bang Theory 16:30 According To Jim 17:15 Southland 18:00 C.S.I. New York 19:00 Hawaii Five-0 19:45 Gossip Girl 20:30 Friends 21:00 NCIS: Los Angeles 22:30 The Cult 23:20 The Mentalist 00:10 Ladyhawke 02:15 Pearl Diver 03:50 The Big Bang Theory 04:15 According To Jim 05:00 Southland 05:45 C.S.I. New York 06:30 Hawaii Five-0

08:00 Up In The Air 10:00 1408 12:00 The Indian 13:45 Flirting With Flamenco 15:30 Bird 18:15 Horrible Bosses 20:00 Greetings From The Shore 22:00 The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 23:30 Action Zone 00:00 Daring! TV 03:45 Buried 05:30 Action Zone 06:00 Twilight Saga: Eclipse

07:00 The Living Edens 08:00 Blowdown 09:00 Air Crash Investigation 10:00 Earth: Making Of A Planet 12:00 Seconds From Disaster 13:00 The Fabric Of The Cosmos 14:00 Monster Fish 15:00 Narco Bling 16:00 Classiﬁed 17:00 America’s Hardest Prisons 18:00 Banged Up Abroad 19:00 Dog Whisperer 20:00 Strippers: Cars For Cash 21:00 Scam City 22:00 Banged Up Abroad 23:00 Air Crash Investigation 00:00 Scam City 01:00 Banged Up Abroad 02:00 Air Crash Investigation 03:00 Strippers: Cars For Cash 04:00 Scam City 05:00 Banged Up Abroad 06:00 Dog Whisperer

05:25 Oranges And Sunshine 07:10 Bad Teacher 08:45 Ceremony 10:15 Cine News

19:00 Flight Of The Phoenix 21:00 Crimson Tide 23:00 Shark Night 00:40 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:00 The Boxer 04:55 Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

18:50 Music Of The Heart 21:00 The Grace Card 22:50 The Back-Up Plan 00:40 La Fille De Monaco 02:15 Never Let Me Go 04:00 There Will Be Blood

01:00 Inside The PGA Tour 01:30 MLB: World Series Game 7 If Necessary: TBA At TBA Date And Time Tentative 04:30 NHL Teams TBA 12:30 Rip To The Tip 2011 A Band Of Brothers 13:00 Car Warriors 2 Mustang 14:0 Nfl Game Day 14:3 Nfl Replay 16:00 Big Ten Women’s Soccer Big Ten Championship Semifinal #1 18:00 MLB: World Series Game 7 If Necessary: TBA At TBA Date And Time Tentative 19:00 Pre Game 19:45 Championship 2012-13: Aep Vs Ethnikos Axnas 21:45 Post Game 22:45 Cyprus Football Highlights23:00 NHL Teams TBA 23:30 Nfl Game Day 00:00 Fox College Football Preview Show

07:00 Globe Trekker 09:00 Julian And Camilla’s World Odyssey 10:00 Departures 11:00 Off Limits 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 14:00 Planet Sports 15:00 Nomad’s Land 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 Departures 18:00 Off Limits 19:00 Globe Trekker Round The World Marathon 20:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Essential 00:30 Bert The Conqueror 01:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Departures 06:00 Off Limits

07:00 A Day At The Races 08:50 Boys’ Night Out 10:40 Green Fire 12:20 Go West 13:40 Lili 15:00 Doctor Zhivago 18:05 Ada 19:50 Ziegfeld Girl 22:00 Viva Las Vegas 23:25 Escape From Fort Bravo 01:05 Key Largo 02:45 Love Me Or Leave Me 04:45 The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm

Friday, November 2, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

CRYPTIC 2226

6 PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS

Across 5 Chapter head remains with the money (4)

7 At home choice food contains coarseness (10)

8 Puffer inside the carriage!

(6)

10 Handy book? (6) 11 Moderately content on the river (4)

12 True, short remnant in

retort (8)

14 Prepared to use the needle (8)

16 One has no cover at all (4) 17 99 hurried round as it was

highly ﬂavoured (6)

19 Favourite has a way with

an explosive device! (6)

22 or the stern? (10)

3 4 5 6 9

instrument (6) Reflected another error in the middle (8) Getting close – near the fire? (4) Another gent to take it out of the city first for a young bird (6) Sarah and Mandy, say, have an amphibian (10) Naval officer not at the bow

16 across to hide (4)

20 Rabbits sleep soundly (4)

Answers to crossword 2225 CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Rebirth; 5 Debar; 8 Calcium; 9 Titlark; 10 Leander; 11 Dwindle; 14 Parsnip; 16 Apparel; 18 Affable; 19 Hepatic; 20 Dirty; 21 Doleful. Down – 1 Routed; 2 Blotting-paper; 3 Retards; 4 Heckle; 5 Delia; 6 Blindman’s-buff; 7 Remark; 12 Trefoil; 13 Dashed; 14 Placid; 15 Phenol; 17 Ratty. QUICK: Across – 1 Vacated; 5 Bidet; 8 Flotsam; 9 Revolve; 10 Compare; 11 Delight; 14 Brought; 16 Fuchsia; 18 Totemic; 19 Singlet; 20 Tweak; 21 Remoter. Down – 1 Veered; 2 Convalescence; 3 Trilogy; 4 Defect; 5 Broom; 6 Disparagement; 7 Tamper; 12 Rostrum; 13 Offset; 14 Batter; 15 Ticker; 17 Salop.

Rating EASY

1 We are told it is equivalent to 1,760 yards (4) 2 One looking for a probing

disposition (6)

18 One place for distraught

Rating HARD

Down

HARD

16 True, an extraordinary

13 But spade was exchanged in the capital (8) 15 What pitchers do in a ﬁeld (6)

MEDIUM

Rating MEDIUM

soup (10) 22 Reach breaking-point in a game (4)

EASY

Rating MEDIUM

21 Re-mentions variety of

HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

QUICK Across

Down

5 Arched recess (4) 7 Reﬁned in speech

1 Rock (4) 2 Dive (6) 3 Superb (8) 4 Leave out (4) 5 Pineapple (6) 6 Overseer (10) 9 Range of words (10) 13 Lessening (8) 15 Become exhausted

(4-6)

8 Girl’s name (6) 10 Consider (6) 11 Peak (4) 12 Scornful (8) 14 Thrust oneself on others (8)

16 Pinkish table wine

HOROSCOPE

17 19 21 22

(4) Close tightly (6) Hidden (6) Incomplete (10) Sac (4)

(3,3)

16 Give great delight (6)

18 Handle (4) 20 Ocean phase (4)

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Venus in your opposite sign and Uranus in your zodiac sign, continue their face to face. This can be an enlivening inﬂuence, helping to spice up an existing bond, or it can see you making a surprise move on the dating front. If you do meet someone now, it could be an exciting connection. Will it be a lasting one, ah, that’s something else.

You can find yourself itching to do something more uncharacteristic. Much as you like to promote an aura of certainty and confidence, you can be more inclined to stick to what you know than people might imagine. However, you might find yourself wanting to rebel, even if in a relatively safe way. A larger than life character can be the catalyst for this.

You may be asked to put your hand in your pocket today, and may take this in your stride, especially if it’s for a good cause. However, if there is someone you have been friendly with in the past, don’t necessarily expect this tie to run on without any complications in the future. Any incompatibility about values, as much as cash, can see you start to grow apart.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

The stern responses that have characterised the earlier part of this week can seem less prevalent now, or was it you banging the drum for the things you have been unhappy about? Yet with your ruler opposed still by the erratic energies of Uranus, there can still be a sense that even if you bend over backwards to please, someone will still ﬁnd fault.

If your love life is hunky dory, you might want to indulge in some full on extravagance this weekend, a time when that old maxim of everything in moderation can seem profoundly misplaced. And yet if things are less rosy, or money matters in general have been unpredictable, the important thing is not to fall into the trap of comparing yourself to others.

If you have a more conservative attitude to life, but need to interact with someone who doesn’t, it may prove tricky just now. This could point towards a generational gap in a family tie, or it may be at work or in a life situation where you feel someone is failing to take responsibility. But then your experience and wisdom can be such an asset.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You may have found yourself under a greater amount of expectation earlier this week, particularly around work. It may be hard to pin point exactly why, but a more exacting atmosphere has kicked in. Either way, this is now the time to embrace your rewards. Look to do something lively, fun and sociable. There can even be a hint of romance in the air.

Your love life may be throwing up quite a few possibilities, but it all may seem very unpredictable, and therefore unsettling. One thing you will not appreciate is the sense that someone you like is making up the rules as they go along. Yet remember, however alluring someone is, you still have the right to set your ground rules, and stick ﬁrmly to them.

It’s going to be really important to understand your deeper needs around close involvements, your love life and intimacy. These are areas you can often be rather detached around, but the stars are conspiring to ask you to become much more mindful of what’s what. You can charm, and beguile, but someone may get hurt. Try to be open.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Marshalling creativity with productivity is important as you ﬁnd your way in this new month. And with Venus also in a T Square with Uranus and Pluto, picking a way between the needs of different people, be it those at home or in the workplace, may require a deft touch. You may hope that someone would be more sensitive, but might this be wishful thinking?

Perhaps you are ﬁnding it hard not to say how you feel. Despite your reputation for secrecy, many Scorpio’s can be almost painfully blunt, at least in expressing an opinion about others. More sensitive personal issues are likely to be kept more closely to your chest, but now you may experience someone surprising you with force of their views - about you!

Sudden compulsions can see you want to comfort eat, hit the shopping mall in earnest, or gorge yourself on your most loved confectionary. Or will the need for security see you drawn towards the wrong kind of relationship or romantic diversion? Hard as it may be, this is a time not to get deﬂected from the longer term plans you have already laid.

CYPRUS MAIL Friday, November 2, 2012

Sport Murray falls apart in Paris By Julien Pretot

The US Open champ failed to put up a ﬁght in the decider

ANDY Murray wasted a match point before being knocked out 5-7 7-6 6-2 by Polish qualiﬁer Jerzy Janowicz in the third round of the Paris Masters yesterday. Scot Murray lost focus as he served for the match in the second set and was then battered by the hard hitting Janowicz, who ended the contest with a forehand winner and collapsed in joy. World number three Murray’s defeat means that for the ﬁrst time since the 2010 Paris Masters was won by Swede Robin Soderling, a Masters title will be claimed by a player outside of the Big Four. As another energy-sapping season draws to an end, world number four Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer opted not to play in the French capital while Serb Novak Djokovic was dumped out of the tournament by American Sam Querrey in the second round on Wednesday. Janowicz now faces Serb Janko Tipsarevic who defeated Argentine Juan Monaco 6-3 3-6 6-3.

The 21-year-old Pole, who stands at 2.03 metres had not faced a break point in his first two Paris matches. But that run was unlikely to stay intact against a grand slam champion and he fell 15-40 behind in the 11th game. He saw off the first break point by following a big first serve at the net, only to double fault on the second. Murray, who mixed his game with drop shots to break Janowicz’s rhythm, claimed the set when his opponent sent a forehand long. The Pole, who was playing in a challenger tournament in Belgium last month, refused to give up, but in the seventh game of the second set, a sizzling Murray return gave the Scot a break. Murray lost focus when serving for the match, however, netting a routine forehand on match point, and dropped serve when he sent a backhand wide as the set went into a tiebreak. Janowicz levelled the contest with a jawdropping drop shot on set point, and quickly opened a 4-1 lead as Murray, who had showed signs of nerves in the second set, failed to regain his composure.

Alonso ready to bare his teeth Ferrari aim to slow Red Bull’s momentum

Fernando Alonso has been consistent and relentless, getting the absolute utmost out of a Ferrari that is not the fastest car on the grid

seemingly unstoppable and have a chance of taking his own title. There have been reports, swiftly denied, of the driver losing his temper with the team after he ﬁnished second behind Vettel last weekend in a race that earned him considerable praise. What has become noticeable, with Vettel stringing together four wins in a row and chasing a ﬁfth at Yas Marina, is the Spaniard’s increasing use of oriental philosophy in the latter half of the season to express his state of mind. “If the enemy thinks in the mountains, attack by sea. If they think in the sea, attack by the mountains,” he declared after seeing his lead over Vettel shrink at this month’s Japanese Grand Prix. “Only a warrior can handle the road to become unbeatable,” he had Tweeted after

Singapore last month. “His life is a challenge, and challenges are not good or bad, are simply challenges.” “There are no victories in the war without a scar, no rainbow without the rain,” Alonso said after Frenchman Romain Grosjean shunted him out of the Belgian Grand Prix in September. If Alonso can overturn the deﬁcit and deny Vettel a title hat-trick by taking his own third, the Ferrari driver will have shown his true warrior credentials. The alternative is to end up sounding more like the Black Knight in the comedy ﬁlm Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a man refusing to accept he is beaten until no more than a limbless torso - he can only impotently threaten to bite his tormentor’s legs off. It will not be for want of trying but Alonso, one of the

ADAM Scott and Louis Oosthuizen share the lead after the ﬁrst round of the WGC Champions in Shenzhen, China. Australian Scott ﬁnished birdie-birdie-eagle for a seven-under-par 65 after South Africa’s 2010 Open champion Oosthuizen set the clubhouse target. American pair Bubba Watson and Phil Mickelson are in a tie for third. Thirteen of the world’s top 20 players are competing, although world numbers one and two, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, are absent. World number three Luke Donald is the highestplaced British player on four under par, one ahead of fellow Englishman and world number four Lee Westwood. Justin Rose, third on the European Tour money list and who also has an opportunity to take top spot, had to be content with a 72.

Surrey sign SA captain

By Alan Baldwin LIKE the Samurai warrior that he has tattooed across his back, Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso goes into Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix refusing to give up and ready to ﬁght tooth and nail for victory. “If the sword breaks, attack with the hands,” the Spaniard declared on his Twitter feed after last Sunday’s race in India left him 13 points behind Red Bull’s Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel with three rounds remaining. “If they cut off your hands, push the enemy with your shoulders, even with the teeth.” The Spaniard, who has long been an admirer of Japanese culture, has not won a race since Vettel’s home German Grand Prix in July but has been the driver of the season for some paddock insiders. Consistent and relentless, getting the absolute utmost out of a Ferrari that is not the fastest car on the grid, he has said he feels he is battling the genius of Red Bull designer Adrian Newey as much as Vettel. That may be partly mind games, belittling his rival, but Red Bull can win the constructors’ title on Sunday and become only the fourth team to do it three years in a row. Alonso needs more from Ferrari if he is to halt the

IN BRIEF Scott and Oosthuizen lead in China

toughest and most talented drivers in the sport, needs more than luck on his side. Memories of 2010 are still painful. Alonso led the championship into the final race in Abu Dhabi only for Vettel, who had been 15 points behind, to win the race and seize his first title after a strategic error by Ferrari. Vettel has triumphed in two of the three Abu Dhabi Grands Prix to date and only he and McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton have won there - as well as being the only ones to have started on the front row. The German was on pole last year, after he had already clinched his second title, but his hopes of a third Abu Dhabi win in a row ended when he had a first lap puncture that forced his first retirement in more than a year. He has a similarly remorse-

less momentum now that he is going for a third title but Ferrari believe they can still be the last ones standing. “We’re ready to give it 120 per cent, just like Alonso. We’ll ﬁght for the Championship right to the last kilometre. I’m very conﬁdent,” team president Luca Di Montezemolo told the Ferrari website this week. Red Bull know what they are up against. “Fernando is a quality driver and Ferrari are a quality team,” team principal Christian Horner told reporters. “They are doing a strong job, he’s remarkably consistent and we are going to have to perform at our very best if we are going to maintain our lead ahead of him. “We’ve worked hard to get into this position and there’s a real determination within the team to carry this momentum into the remaining three races.”

SURREY have signed South Africa’s cricket Test skipper Graeme Smith on a three-year deal as club captain. The 31-year-old, who is currently with the Proteas in Australia, has led his country in 94 Test matches since being appointed captain in 2003. Smith said: “I am excited to be joining such a professional and talented team, during what will hopefully prove to be a rewarding and successful period. “I will balance my new role alongside my commitments to the Proteas.”

Clippers tame Grizzlies THE Los Angeles Clippers picked up where they left off in their budding rivalry with the Memphis Grizzlies, claiming a 101-92 home triumph in the seasonopener for both teams on Wednesday. Facing a Grizzlies side they edged out over seven games in the Western Conference ﬁrst-round playoffs last season, the Clippers prevailed in a scrappy and sometimes ill-tempered contest courtesy of a strong fourth quarter.

Friday, November 2, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

Sport Benzema and Kaka steer Real to King’s Cup win

Neymar says it’s not the right time to leave Brazil

By Mark Elkington

Euro giants desperate to sign superstar By Tatiana Ramil EUROPEAN clubs are falling over themselves to get their hands on Brazilian prodigy Neymar but the 20-year-old said on Wednesday he was still not ready to leave his homeland. “I’m happy here in Brazil, I’m happy at Santos. I have a dream of playing in Europe, but it’s still not the right moment,” the Santos forward told Reuters in an interview. The timing of a move to Europe can be critical for Brazilian players. Many leave too soon, struggle to adapt abroad, are pushed into reserve teams and then see their careers go downhill as they are shunted around clubs on loan. The biggest worry for Neymar, on the other hand, is that he could stay too long in Brazil where defences are generous in the amounts of space they offer and referees award free kicks for the slightest of brushes. Neymar struggled in arguably the two biggest games of his career, last year’s Club World Cup ﬁnal where Santos lost 4-0 to Barcelona and the Olympic Games ﬁnal in August where Brazil were beaten 2-1 by Mexico. He also had an unhappy experience at last year’s Copa

America where Brazil were knocked out in the quarterﬁnals by Paraguay. “We were very upset about the Copa America,” he said. “A lot of people were upset about the Olympic Games, but none more so than us. I am very proud to have taken part in the Olympics and won a medal.” Financially, there is little need for him to go abroad. Although he could earn higher wages in Europe, in Brazil he has 11 sponsorship contracts and a Neymar shop selling licensed products ranging from mouse pads to cushions and toys. Children copy his distinctive Mohican hairstyle and he has 5.5 million followers on Twitter. “I know they copy my hair, my way of doing things, almost everything, but I don’t feel like a pop star,” he said. “I’m happy with the affection because I was a fan, I’m still a fan today and I know what it’s like to have an idol.” Neymar has made a big effort to calm his temper after being involved in an episode which resulted in Dorival Junior being ﬁred as Santos coach two years ago. Neymar, then 18, enraged the coach by questioning why he was not chosen to take a penalty. He was banned for the next match but when

Dorival tried to extend the suspension, the Santos board fired the coach. Often accused of being too individualistic and going to ground too easily, Neymar said he was a team player. “I don’t feel like the big star,” he said. “Everyone plays their part. If they play the ball to me but nobody else moves, I’m not going to be able to dribble past my marker. It’s a collective sport.” “Responsibility is always divided,” he added. “Everybody does their part on the pitch. One man can’t do it alone. In the World Cup there will be 23 determined players, looking for the win. I will be just one more Brazilian, chasing after the title.” After two years of experimenting, often with unconvincing results, Neymar believes Brazil are managing to move away from the physical, counter-attacking game they played at the 2010 World Cup and find their own style. “The national team is on a very good upwards curve,” he said. “We are creating our identity and the team is getting more confident and tighter knit. In a short time, it will suit us, our Brazilian way of doing things and things will happen.”

The 20-year-old Santos prodigy needs to time his departure to Europe carefully

Pogba grabs late Juve winner By Brian Homewood

Former Man United midﬁelder Paul Pogba scored in stoppage time to extend Juventus’ unbeaten run to 49 games

PAUL Pogba scored with a stoppage time header to give Serie A leaders and titleholders Juventus a 2-1 win over Bologna on Wednesday and extend their unbeaten league run to 49 games. AS Roma, involved in a row on Tuesday after a train was diverted from its normal route to drop the team off at Parma, lost 3-2 in heavy rain as they continued their topsy-turvy season. Zdenek Zeman’s side have the best attacking and worst defensive record in the league with 22 goals scored and 19 against in 10 games. Inter Milan moved into second place after secondhalf goals from Diego Milito (penalty), Rodrigo Palacio and Fredy Guarin gave them a 3-2 win at home to Sampdoria while Napoli lost 1-0 at Atalanta and dropped to third. A spectacular volley by Chile midﬁelder Carlos Carmona was enough for Atalanta to beat Napoli, who were missing Uruguay striker

Edinson Cavani through injury and again suffered away from home. Napoli have a 100 per cent home record but have managed only two wins in five games on their travels. Irrepressible 35-year-old Antonio Di Natale scored twice for Udinese, a penalty and a last-gasp equaliser, in a 2-2 draw with Catania, taking his tally to six in the league. Juventus have taken 28 points from a possible 30 and are four ahead of Inter, with Napoli on 22. Far from convincing, Juventus went ahead early in the second half when Pogba chipped the ball into the area and Emanuele Giaccherini headed the ball into the path of Fabio Quagliarella to score from close range. Bologna equalised when an attempted clearance by Paolo De Ceglie landed at the feet of Saphir Taider who fired a low shot past Gianluigi Buffon from just outside the area. Nineteen-year-old former Manchester United midfielder Pogba maintained Juventus’ 100 per cent home

record when he stooped to head in Sebastian Giovinco’s inswinging cross in the second minute of injury-time. Roma, who came from two goals down to beat Genoa 4-2 10 days ago and did the opposite in a 3-2 defeat to Bologna at the weekend, this time scored ﬁrst through Argentine Erik Lamela. On a barely-playable pitch, Parma replied through Ishak Belfodil, later sent off in the 85th minute, and Marco Parolo in a three-minute spell before halftime and Cristian Zaccardo extended their lead in the 65th minute. Francesco Totti pulled one back, scoring at the second attempt after his penalty was saved by Antonio Mirante. Roma travelled by train to the match but other passengers were not amused when it made a diversion to Parma on its way to Milan, causing a 40-minute delay. Consumer watchdog Codacons lodged a complaint and operator Trenitalia, who said that it had announced the change of route beforehand, offered passengers a partial refund.

KARIM Benzema and Kaka guided a weakened Real Madrid to a 4-1 win at thirdtier Alcoyano in a King’s Cup last-32 first leg on Wednesday. The small town of Alcoy just north of Alicante, whose entire population of around 60,000 would fit inside Real’s Bernabeu stadium, were out in force to watch their side take on the nine-time European champions. The hosts survived until the 20th-minute when Benzema headed the opener and the France striker set up Brazil midfielder and captain for the day Kaka to score the second with a low shot across the goal. Real youth team player Jose Rodriguez curled in the third in the 66th minute, and after Alcoyano’s Javi Lara had beaten Antonio Adan at his near post with a free kick, Kaka set up Benzema for the fourth near the end. Atletico Madrid, Malaga and Real Zaragoza all won while Rayo Vallecano and Celta Vigo fell to lower league opposition. The second legs are scheduled for November 28. Europa League winners Atletico extended their unbeaten run to 23 games in all competitions with a 3-0 victory at Segunda B side Jaen. The hosts had defender Dani Torres sent off for handball in the area after 27 minutes after which Diego Costa netted from the spot. Substitute Adrian Lopez bagged the second with a fine run and shot, and Raul Garcia nodded in a third at the end. Malaga had a tougher time beating third-tier Cacereno 4-3 needing a double from Roque Santa Cruz to see them through after the hosts came back from two goals down to level at 2-2 just before halftime. Cacereno had their goalkeeper sent off just after the re-start but a late strike from Esteve kept their hopes alive for the return leg. Second division Almeria upset promoted Celta Vigo 2-0 at home, the visitors having to play the last half hour with 10 men following a red card for Jonathan Vila. Another second division side La Palmas also sprung a surprise with a 1-0 win at home to Rayo, who had goalkeeper Dani Gimenez sent off after only five minutes for handling the ball outside the area. In the only all-La Liga tie of the night Zaragoza made the most of home advantage to beat Granada 1-0 with a late goal from Carlos Aranda. The defeat piled the pressure on beleaguered new Granada coach Juan Antonio Anquela who has only managed two wins in 10 games so far this season.

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Sport

Swansea deserved their win, admits disappointed Rodgers

Happy Hughton dreaming of Wembley

Liverpool’s Capital One Cup defence over as Swans pile on pressure

By Paul Hirst

By Carl Markham LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers admitted former club Swansea fully deserved the 3-1 victory which ended his side’s defence of the Capital One Cup. The Reds were well off the pace in the first half and trailed to Chico Flores’ 33rdminute header. Even the introduction of Luis Suarez and Steven Gerrard at the interval could not prevent Swansea scoring a second on the counterattack through Nathan Dyer and although Suarez pulled one back quickly Jonathan de Guzman scored an added-time breakaway. “I thought the best team won. We were too slow, there was no tempo in the first half,” admitted Rodgers, who left Swansea to take over from Kenny Dalglish at Anfield in June. “It is disappointing. You can only hurt if you are the better team and I thought they were the better team. “Swansea were bright and creative and were very good and it took the introduction of Luis and Steven to up the tempo in the second half. “Then we looked like we could score and create chances but we couldn’t get the goal. “We got done on two breakaways but the best team won, that was clear. They took their chances very well. “I am disappointed to be out of the competition but I don’t think we can have any complaints.” Dalglish won this competition in February but even that was not enough to save him from the sack after a disappointing eighth-place

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers (left) is not a happy man as former club Swansea celebrate a famous win at Anﬁeld

CHRIS Hughton was contemplating the prospect of a trip down Wembley Way after his Norwich team dumped Tottenham out of the Capital One Cup on Wednesday night. Spurs seemed on course for a narrow win at Carrow Road thanks to Gareth Bale’s opener, but two goals in five frenetic minutes at the death gave the hosts an unlikely 2-1 win. The Canaries, who last made the quarter-finals of the competition 17 years ago, will now play Paul Lambert’s Aston Villa and Hughton thinks his team have a chance of making the final. “If you are in the quarter-finals you are not so far away from a final,” Hughton said. “It’s a competition that some clubs will choose to rotate squads so I think this competition is suited to teams like us.” A rather dull game was being played out at Carrow Road until Alex Tettey’s shot flew in off Jan Vertonghen and Simeon Jackson pounced on an error by Hugo Lloris to put Norwich 2-1 ahead with three minutes left.

TWIST IN THE TALE league ﬁnish. Rodgers, who made nine changes and included only three players over the age of 24, said he would use the result as experience for the future. “I know the size of the job here so that again is another lesson for me in terms of where we are at, giving players the opportunity to come in,” he added. “We have a small squad playing in what was three competitions and I did what I have done in other games: rotated players, used fringe

players and given younger players opportunity. “That is all you can do as a manager.” Of the more experienced players on show Joe Cole, on his first start since a Europa League qualifier on August 2, was the most disappointing - being withdrawn at half-time. “The club have invested an astronomical amount of money on a talented player and Joe had the opportunity,” said Rodgers. “He has been back fit a couple of weeks and his op-

portunities have been limited but you have to see. “I thought it was difficult for him, it was too slow and it wasn’t what I would expect from a team I tried to set up to be dynamic.” Swansea boss Michael Laudrup, having succeeded Rodgers, hailed the club’s achievement of reaching the quarter-finals of the competition for the first time. “I think we deserved the win and it is not very often you can say that as a manager playing at Anfield against Liverpool,” he said.

“To win at Anﬁeld is great so maybe it is (the best performance of his short reign). “For 80 minutes we played a really good game with some fantastic counter-attacks and it was nice to watch. “It is the ﬁrst time the club has gone so far in the competition and to be in the last eight is great. “It is a great achievement for the squad and the fans and now we can enjoy it but not for too long because we have another big game at Chelsea.”

Wenger keen to quickly resolve Walcott wrangle By Jim van Wijk

Arsenal face losing Theo Walcott as contract negotiations have stalled over the England forward’s wages

ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger admits there is an “urgency” to conclude Theo Walcott’s contract negotiations one way or another. The England forward, ﬁt again from a chest injury suffered on international duty against San Marino, netted a hat-trick in the Gunners’ stunning 7-5 Capital One Cup win at Reading in midweek It was a rare start for the 23-year-old, who has been restricted to mainly substitute appearances this season. Walcott’s current deal expires in the summer, and as yet there has been no positive conclusion as negotiations continue with the parties still some distance apart over wages.

Wenger has always stressed the club’s desire to keep the player and would prefer a swift conclusion. Speaking ahead of tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League trip to Manchester United, he said: “There is urgency, how much I don’t know, but there is urgency. “We want to sort it out before Christmas, one way or the other.” Should an agreement not be reached by January, Walcott would be free to open negotiations with overseas clubs to potentially sign a lucrative pre-contract agreement on a Bosman transfer. Asked by Press Association Sport if Arsenal would have to sell Walcott if no deal was signed by the start of 2013, Wenger said: I would not like to. “I have not even thought

about that, because at the moment I think we will still manage to make a deal with him.” Another issue of contention with Walcott is understood to be his desire to play as a central striker, rather than being utilised down the ﬂank. Wenger feels Walcott will eventually be deployed in his preferred attacking role, as he was to devastating impact at Reading, but called for patience. “I always said it is important that he plays in the right position and that certainly would be through the middle in the future, he showed that again on Tuesday night,” Wenger said. “The positions on the ﬂanks are changing, you need to do a lot of defending. He should be dedicated more to offensive work.”

There was to be another twist in the tale, however, as Kyle Walker went down under Marc Tierney’s challenge to earn Spurs a penalty. But Mark Bunn, making his second start of the season, was equal to Clint Dempsey’s spot-kick. Afterwards Hughton said the England right-back may have gone down too easily. “I thought Walker certainly made a meal of it,” Hughton said. “Marc Tierney said he didn’t touch him. On the angle I have seen you can’t tell if there is any (contact).” While the Capital One Cup is not top of Andre VillasBoas’ list of priorities, he will have seen this as a good opportunity to make his first trip to Wembley with Spurs. Instead, he was left to reflect on yet another game in which Tottenham’s defence crumbled in the dying minutes under pressure. “It is something that is in our mind at the moment,” Villas-Boas said. “It is difficult but the further you train for these situations, sometimes the worse it becomes. “You cannot match the emotion and concentration players face during the game. “We obviously have to do better and try to improve things for the next game. “It’s a pity to see the game slip from our hands. We had a good performance.”

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C Pedal to the metal: Defending IRC champion Andreas Mikkelsen of Norway won on the island last year in his Skoda Fabia S2000 and comes into the event with an unassailable lead in this year’s standings

Stage is set for eagerly anticipated Cyprus Rally WITH this year’s much-anticipated Cyprus Rally getting underway this evening, the organisers have been putting the ﬁnal touches to what promises to be a terriﬁc weekend of fast and furious action. As both the season closer of the 2012 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC), and the penultimate round of the 2012 FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC), this year’s Cyprus Rally has attracted an impressive line-up of international, regional and national drivers, including defending IRC champion Andreas Mikkelsen of Norway, and 2010 Cyprus Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar. Crews have been busy testing set-ups this week on stages similar to those that will feature in this weekend’s rally. Monday saw Al-Attiyah putting his Ford Fiesta RRC through its pre-event paces at Anadiou, while Tuesday saw Mikkelsen and Sepp Wiegand get a feel for the Cyprus conditions in their Skodas. Andreas Aignier will be tackling the event in a Subaru Impreza with an eye on Production Car success, and other drivers spotted in the Cyprus countryside in preparation for the weekend have included Yazeed Al-Rajhi of Saudi Arabia (testing at Panagia) and Russia’s Vasily Gryazin (checking out his Ford Fiesta S2000 at Pomos), as well as acclaimed drivers such as Toshi Arai and Jarko Nikara. Reconnaissance for Day 2 special stages took place on Wednesday, while yesterday saw crews conduct reconnaissance of the Day 1 stages and the LTV Special Stage in Paphos, which gets the event underway. Mikkelsen currently leads the IRC in his Fabia S2000 with an unassailable 136 points, which means that he will essentially enjoy a three-day victory lap here this weekend. He has no plans to take it easy though.

Speaking to the Cyprus Rally press office ahead of the event, Mikkelsen said: “For sure I want to win in Cyprus and that’s what we’ll be trying to do. That’s the only reason we come to do a rally, to win, and we’ll all be trying one hundred per cent to finish the IRC season off with another win.” Mikkelsen went on to admit that he will face tough competition from Al-Attiyah, who has enjoyed a string of Cyprus victories: “Nasser is a very good driver and I think he’ll have an advantage with the turbo-charged Fiesta RRC. It should be a good fight and I’m looking forward to it.” Al-Attiyah currently sits joint second on the MERC leaderboard, alongside Lebanon’s Roger Feghali. The pair are nine points behind championship leader Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari of Qatar (also here this weekend with a MINI JCW), so fans can expect a no-holds-barred battle for points among the MERC drivers. With the Cyprus event also counting towards this year’s IRC Production Cup, and the IRC 2WD Cup, fans can be sure there’ll be plenty of blisteringly fast rally action. The Cyprus Rally gets off to a flying start at 7pm this evening with Special Stage 1 - the 3.2km all-tarmac LTV Super Special Stage - which will see competitors race through the narrow streets of Paphos. The mixed-surface event will play out over the next two days and will take in some of the island’s most breathtaking scenery. The finish will take place outside Paphos Town Hall at 5.30pm on Sunday. The Rally will see crews cover a total of 694.76km, of which 237.14km will be special stages. 30.97% of the stages will be tarmac, and 69.03% gravel. For further information, visit the official event website at www.cyprusrally.com.cy

HELSEA boss Roberto Di Matteo said his team’s 5-4 League Cup win against Manchester United emphasised his view that Sunday’s result was unjust. The nine-man Blues lost 3-2 to United at the weekend with Javier Hernandez’s winner coming from an offside position. “We wanted to show that Sunday’s game was really heavily influenced by the officials,” Di Matteo told BBC Sport. United boss Sir Alex Ferguson fielded an inexperienced defence on Wednesday night, which he conceded “were just too young”. Di Matteo was furious with referee Mark Clattenburg on Sunday after he booked Fernando Torres for diving, leading to the Spanish striker’s dismissal. Clattenburg has since been accused of allegedly using “inappropriate language” towards Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel. But Di Matteo had only one complaint with the referee in this Capital One Cup tie - Lee Mason waved away a Juan Mata penalty claim. Other than that, the official handled the game in a distinguished manner despite several big decisions. He rightly awarded three penalties in a thrilling contest and his assistant correctly judged Gary Cahill’s header to have crossed the line. Mason also calmly and decisively broke up a scuffle between Oscar and Nani, awarding yellow cards to both players. Chelsea, who now face Leeds in the quarter-finals, twice came from behind with David Luiz scoring from the spot either side of goals from Ryan Giggs and Javier Hernandez. Cahill made it 2-2 and it looked like Nani’s finish would win it before Eden Hazard’s injury-time penalty took the game to extra-time. Daniel Sturridge and Ramires then made it 5-3 with Ryan Giggs adding another spot kick in added time. “We deservedly won the game,” Di Matteo added. “We had so many chances and we had to come back so many times as well and we showed great character to do so. “We are trying to play differently but we all like to win as well. We are playing very well

Chelsea trailed Man United three times before sealing a thrilling 5-4 win to avenge their Premier League defeat and sometimes you make a step back to do one forwards. “It was a typical cup game because of all the young players in the team, and we had to chase the game. It was a bit more open than usual.” Ferguson, meanwhile, said his team let slip a great chance to progress and admitted they paid for ﬁelding a young defence.

CULPABLE Centre-back Scott Wootton, 21, was culpable for Hazard’s injury-time penalty to make it 3-3, when he bundled over Ramires, and the youngster also misjudged a header in extra-time leading to Sturridge’s strike. “We have done fantastically well and I think we have thrown the game away really,” Ferguson told BBC Sport. “With the game ﬁnished, we had possession of the ball around about the corner ﬂag and Nani decides to beat a player and we’ve lost a penalty kick. “We didn’t deserve it but in extra-time I think they found it too much in terms of the young players. “You can always play young forwards because they don’t cost you the game but young

centre-backs have to be really top drawer at this level of football. “Wootton is 21 years of age, Michael Keane is 19 years of age, obviously they will learn. It’s a sore lesson for them in that respect - getting knocked out of the cup. Ferguson added: “We have good options in attack, but obviously losing ﬁve goals in a game of football, then you have to be worried about that.” Chelsea meanwhile are investigating after reports a fan made a racist gesture during the match. Pictures appear to show the man making a ‘monkey’ gesture. United striker Danny Welbeck was in the picture but it is not known if the apparent abuse was directed at him. “If we have sufﬁcient evidence we will take the strongest possible action, including supporting criminal prosecution,” said a Chelsea spokesman.