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Liberian president says she hopes promised US anti Ebola aid spurs

world into further action

M O N R O V I A , Liberia _ Liberia’s president is w e l c o m i n g promised U.S. military aid to fi ght Ebola and says she hopes it spurs the international community into

further action.

President Barrack Obama announced Tuesday he will order 3,000 U.S. military personnel to West Africa to help contain the dreaded disease, which has killed at least 2,400 people. The U.S. is also planning 17 treatment centres of 100 beds each in Liberia.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Wednesday called that commitment signifi cant and said she hopes it will only be the beginning.

``We hope this decision by the United States will spur the rest of the international community into action,’’ she said in a statement read by a spokesman.

She said the world community has a stake in ending the outbreak that’s affected fi ve nations.

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Actress detained by police defi es calls to apologize for claiming racial

profi ling

LOS ANGELES _ An actress who was detained by Los Angeles police is refusing to apologize for claiming race played a role in the incident, despite calls from local civil rights leaders.

Daniele Watts issued a statement late Friday through her publicist after civil rights activists demanded she apologize for suggesting she was handcuffed for kissing her white boyfriend.

Watts and boyfriend Brian Lucas were questioned last week by offi cers investigating a report of lewd conduct in a parked car. Watts, who is black, refused to provide identifi cation. She was briefl y handcuffed until police identifi ed her.

The incident went viral after Watts and her boyfriend claimed on their Facebook pages that the detention refl ected racial profi ling. Audio later surfaced that indicated it was Watts who introduced race to the interaction with police

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Around the worldDominican Republic says mosquito borne virus sickens nearly 500,000,

including 109 infants

S A N T O D O M I N G O , D o m i n i c a n R e p u b l i c (AP) _ Health authorities in the Dominican Republic say a mosquito-borne virus has now sickened nearly 500,000 people

in the country, which is among the hardest hit by the outbreak in the Caribbean.

Health Ministry offi cial Carmen Adames says those infected with the chikungunya virus includes 109 newborns. Adames says the virus was transmitted because their mothers were infected when they gave birth.

The offi cial who is co-ordinating the government’s response to the outbreak told reporters Friday that none of the babies died.

Chikungunya has spread quickly in the region since the fi rst locally transmitted case in the Western Hemisphere was documented in late 2013.

The Pan American Health Organization says there have been nearly 1 million cases in the hemisphere. Symptoms include high fever, severe headaches and joint pain.

Jamaica signs 3 power purchase agreements to boost generating capacity from wind, solar energy

K I N G S T O N , Jamaica (AP)_ S u n - s p l a s h e d Jamaica is positioning itself to nearly double the amount of electricity it generates from renewable sources.

Three renewable power companies on Thursday signed power purchase agreements with Jamaica’s electricity distributor and received government licenses.

Two new wind installations and a solar energy project with 98,000 panels are expected to add 80MW of electricity to the Caribbean island’s grid. The total investments are worth roughly $200 million.

Albert Gordon is director of Jamaica’s utility regulator. He says the country should derive 11 per cent of its power from renewable sources when the projects come on line in 2016. Renewables make up 6 per cent now.

Soaring power costs and a dependence on imported fuel have long been major problems in Jamaica. Consumers pay a whopping 42 cents per kilowatt hour.

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NASSAU, Bahamas _ The Baha-mas’ government announced a measure Wednesday aimed at making it harder for migrants to work in the island chain and said it was considering additional restrictions as part of a plan that appeared mostly aimed at the large numbers of Haitians who have settled in the country in recent years.

Under a new rule that goes into effect immediately, no work per-mits will be issued to anyone who does not have legal status in the Bahamas, Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell told parliament. In addi-tion, anyone who applies without legal status will be arrested and

deported.

The Cabinet also is considering measures that include a perma-nent ban on giving legal status to anyone ever deported from the Bahamas. Other proposed restric-tions include a requirement that Haitians seeking work permits could be required to pay addition-al processing fees and apply in person at the Bahamas Embassy in Port-au-Prince.

Mitchell said government offi cials have discussed the proposed changes with the Haitian ambas-sador and plan to present them to other offi cials in Haiti, an im-poverished country to the south of the island chain.

Haitians have long used the Ba-hamas as both a transit point to reach the United States and as a place to settle, often taking low-wage jobs. The exact number of people from Haiti in the Bahamas is unknown but the International Organization for Migration esti-mated in 2009 that up to 50,000 Haitians were illegally in the Bahamas.


SAN JOSE, Costa Rica _ Costa Rica’s coast guard has recovered 1.5 tons of marijuana that offi -cials say was thrown into the sea by smugglers being chased in the Caribbean after a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

The country’s Public Security Min-istry says the incident happened early Friday and the suspect boat escaped its Costa Rican pursuers.

Security Minister Celso Gamboa said Saturday that the pot ap-

peared to have come from Jamai-ca and that the smugglers were headed for Panama. He says the DEA alerted Costa Rica to the suspicious vessel.

Costa Rica’s government says joint anti-drug efforts with the U.S. have led to the seizure of nearly 20 tons of cocaine and 3 tons of compressed marijuana so far this year. It says 17,216 people have been arrested.


Bahamas imposes new immigration limits and considers additional

measures aimed at Haitians

Costa Rica seizes 1.5 tons of pot thrown into sea by smuggling boat

during chase in Caribbean

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By David McFadden

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KINGSTON, Jamaica _ Taking a deep draw on a pipe that glows with burning marijuana, reggae luminary Bunny Wailer gives a satisfied grin through a haze of aromatic smoke in his concrete yard painted in the red, green, gold and black colours identi-fied with his Rastafarian faith.

These days, the baritone singer from the legendary Wailers, the group he formed in 1963 with late superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, has reason to feel good. There is unprec-edented traction building in Jamaica to decriminalize pot, meaning the dreadlocked Wailer and other ad-herents of Rastafari _ a homegrown spiritual movement that considers the drug divine _ may soon be able to smoke without fear of arrest.

"Rastas have treated marijuana as something legal all along, even though we have been sent to prison for using the herb in our prayer. But this is the time for all these pres-sures to stop. The world is catching up now,’’ the 67-year-old three-time Grammy winner said at his modest Kingston home.

Jamaica is known internationally for its marijuana. The hardy plant grows easily on the tropical Caribbean island, where its use is culturally entrenched despite being legally

banned for 100 years. Cultivation is kept hidden, with small patch-es tucked into mountainsides, in swamps and between rows of other crops. Wailer, himself, was convicted of possession in 1967 and did more than a year of hard labour.

Previous moves to decriminalize the drug failed to advance mainly because officials feared they would violate international treaties and bring sanctions from Washington. But now, with a number of U.S. states relaxing their marijuana laws _ Colorado and Washington even allow recreational use _ Jamaica is rethinking its position.

Justice Minister Mark Golding says Jamaica’s Cabinet has approved a plan to decriminalize marijuana, including for religious purposes, and legislators are expected to authorize it before the end of the year.

Freedom to use marijuana for religious worship is one of various amendments to Jamaica’s Danger-ous Drugs Act supported by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller’s administration. Her ministers also have proposed unclogging courts by decriminalizing small amounts of weed for personal use, making possession of 2 ounces or less a ticketable offence. The main hope is that a regulated medical marijuana and scientific research sector could help draw investments to the cash-

strapped island, which is labouring under its latest loan program with the International Monetary Fund.

"Ganja,’’ as marijuana is known locally, has a long history on the island. It was introduced to Jamai-ca in the 19th century by Indian indentured servants and it gained popularity as a medicinal herb. Use spread among the poor in the 1930s with the founding of Rastafari, a spiritual movement that melds Old Testament teachings and Pan-Afri-canism and whose followers worship the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie.

Rasta adherents say use of the "holy herb’’ induces a meditative state that brings them closer to the divine. The faithful smoke it as a sacrament in chalice pipes or cigarettes called "spliffs,’’ add it to vegetarian stews, and place it in fires as a burnt offering.

For years, Rastafarians were treated as second-class citizens and looked down upon by many Jamaicans as oddball, even dangerous drug-ad-dled cultists. Police shooting ranges once had images of dreadlocked Rastas as targets. The spiritual movement attracts only a small percentage of the country’s mostly Christian population of 2.7 million.

It wasn’t until the 1970s, when the Wailers and other Rasta musicians popularized the Rastafarian culture among better-off Jamaicans, that marijuana’s popularity began to filter through the island’s rigid class struc-ture and gain a wider acceptance. Marley’s worldwide popularity has made him Jamaica’s most famous and revered son.

While Rastafari followers tend to disdain government initiatives, for many, Jamaica’s decriminalization plans signal a crucial victory after decades of struggle.

The momentum building "presents a major step forward for the rec-ognition of the religious rights and expression of Rastafari,’’ said Anta Anthony Merritt, a Rastafarian priest who is a faculty member at San Diego State University.

Even if the current proposals fall

short of the full legalization Rastas long have sought, they are welcomed by many, said Priest Dermot Fagan, leader of a small sect in an isolated commune in the Blue Mountains that tower over Kingston.

"We are thankful for the coming changes and, yes, some of the pres-sures will be eased. But we can’t forget the destruction, the mayhem that has been caused by the perse-cution of this divine herb,’’ said Fa-gan, waving his hands for emphasis on a balcony overlooking the School of Vision retreat, a place where Rasta mysticism brushes against the realities of modern life.

Researchers who study the move-ment are curious about how de-criminalization for Rastafari will play out. For now, there are a lot of unanswered questions. Ennis Edmonds, an associate professor of religious studies at Ohio’s Kenyon College whose publications focus on Rastafari, said determining what is religious use in Jamaica will not be easy. There’s essentially no formal church, organized conversion process and few places of commu-nal gathering. An individual Rasta’s personal relationship with "Jah,’’ or God, is considered central to the faith.

"Most ritual smoking does not take place in official places of worship, but in people’s yards and on street corners. Can a single Rasta smoking a spliff in any location claim religious use privileges?’’ Edmonds asked.

But for Wailer, the time is clearly ripe for change in "Babylon,’’ the un-flattering Rasta term for the Western world.

"Rastas have gone through a lot of hassles for years, getting crimi-nalized and locked up for using the herb. But things are changing be-cause ganja is what the world needs now,’’ Wailer said, before taking another appreciative toke from his pipe.

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Rastafarians prepare to light up without fear as Jamaica advances pot decriminalization plans

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana _ O� -cials in the South American coun-try of Guyana say they are stepping up e� orts to � ght the spread of the chikungunya virus amid an in-crease in cases.

Chief Medical O� cer Shamdeo Persaud said Saturday that the health ministry is spraying the capital of Georgetown and other populated areas as he urged peo-ple to destroy mosquito-breeding grounds.

Guyana has registered more than 1,000 cases, with several clinics re-porting about 60 new cases a day.

Across the Caribbean, the Pan American Health Organization has recorded nearly 700,000 suspected and con� rmed cases as of Sept. 12. � e bulk of those cases have been reported in the Dominican Repub-lic.

� e mosquito-borne virus causes fever and severe joint pain, but is rarely fatal. � ere is no vaccine, and it mainly is treated with pain medication

� e Associated Press

Guyana officials warn of increase in chikungunya

cases

MIAMI _ A book fair in Miami's Little Haiti neighbourhood is showcasing Haitian culture and literature.

� e Haitian-Caribbean Book Fair opens Saturday evening at the Little Haiti Cultural Center with pre-sentations by Haitian novelist and playwright Gary Victor and Hai-tian-American novelist and Miami resident Edwidge Danticat.

� e fair continues Sunday with a daylong street fair and traditional Haitian music and dancing along colorful N.E. 2nd Ave.

Libreri Mapou bookstore owner Jan Mapou tells � e Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/1pcWIm2 ) that the fair aims to promote local Haitian writers to a wider audience. He says many of the writers are self-pub-lishing their books and struggling to � nd a broader readership.

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Haitian Caribbean Book Fair in

Miami's Little Haiti

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands _ � e Cayman Islands is consid-ering a switch to daylight savings time, citing potential bene� ts to its � nancial services and tourism sectors.

Commerce Minister Wayne Panton says adopting the spring-ahead, fall-back clock adjustments would put the Caribbean o� shore � nan-cial centre more in sync with its ``large client base in New York'' and simplify business travel.

He also said Monday that the adjustments would also likely increase the number of hours that cruise ships are in Cayman ports.

� e government of the three-island British territory is asking the pub-lic to take a survey on the possi-bility of adopting daylight savings time. A public consultation period runs through Oct. 30.

Daylight savings achieves its clock adjustments by making one day of the year 23 hours long and another 25 hours long


Cayman Islands considers

adopting daylight savings time

BRADES, Montserrat _ A new po-litical party has swept an election held in the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat.

The People’s Democratic Move-ment won seven of nine seats in the Legislative Assembly. Artist and former journalist Donaldson Romeo was being sworn in as the new premier on Friday. He’s called for more jobs, housing and transparency, and exploration of geothermal power.

Government-run ZJB-Radio Mont-serrat said preliminary results show Romeo’s party secured 50 per cent of votes compared with 35 per cent obtained by the for-mer ruling Movement for Change and Prosperity.

The Elections Commission says 71 per cent of the 3,866 reg-istered voters participated in Thursday’s election.

Montserrat saw about half of its 12,000 inhabitants leave after the Soufriere Hills volcano erupt-ed in 1997 and killed 19 people, burying much of the British terri-tory in ash.


New political party sweeps Montserrat’s

general election

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LOS ANGELES _ Lonnie Lynn, known to hip-hop fans for his soulful spoken-word poems on rapper son Common’s albums, has died.

Lynn died at age 71 on Friday, Common said in an interview Monday in Los Angeles. He gave no further details.

Lynn was a star high school basketball player in Chicago and played in the 1969-1970 season in the American Basketball Asso-ciation. He struggled with drug addiction and with being a father to six children, topics he ad-dressed in poignant, sometimes regretful poems that concluded many of Common’s albums.

"He was truly a natural poet and master of words. His per-

sonality and soul shined through his work,’’ Common, whose real name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., said in the interview Monday.

"The way he said things made me look at life and the world in a new way, in a different way. They always sparked a thought in my head. His words would always make me strive to achieve higher, to write better, to be more truthful with my words.’’

Common is also an actor, appear-ing in fi lms including "Termina-tor: Salvation’’ and ``LUV’’ and as a regular on the AMC series ``Hell on Wheels.’’

Lynn, known as "Pops’’ on Common’s albums, recorded his last poem for the rapper’s 2011 release, ``The Dreamer/The Believer.’’

"For those of us who come from less than enviable circumstances, dreams _ good dreams, sweet dreams _ dreams come true. Truthful dreams, truthful dreams become life,’’ he intoned in the song, called ``Pops Belief.’’

"Live the life you believe. The American dream, the black Ameri-can dream, the universal dream. For the sake of the unwritten laws of humanity, I believe in God. I believe in my ancestors, I believe in my offsprings ... I believe in the truth, truth. See you next life-time.’’

Rapper actor Common’s father, Lonnie ‘Pops’ Lynn, known for spoken word

poems, dies at 71

By Jonathan Landrum Jr.


ATLANTA _ Kendrick Lamar appreci-ated Taylor Swift for paying homage to his music in a recent interview.

Lamar was grateful to hear about Swift knowing the words to his lyr-ics and putting her in a great mood. The rapper praised the country mu-sic star for speaking highly of his music, saying her admiring remarks show hip-hop shouldn't be catego-rized for one listener.

"Some people always try to lock it down and categorize it for one particular listener,'' Lamar said at the fi fth annual ONE Musicfest in Atlanta on Saturday night. ``But it moves all, even people from other genres.''

In a recent interview with Roll-ing Stone, Swift said listening to Lamar's music helps change her

mood from feeling ``victimized'' to "awesome.'' She said her "go-to'' song is Lamar's "Backseat Freestyle,'' a record featured on his Grammy-nominated album, "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.''

"I appreciate Taylor Swift for supporting not only my music but just the hip-hop culture,'' he said. "There's really no gap. It's music and it feels good.''

Lamar spoke backstage with The Associated Press after his 90-min-ute performance at the Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood. He was one of the headliners with rapper Nas of the one-day festival, which also featured Jhene Aiko, Method Man & Redman and Bilal.

During his set, Lamar often squatted with the microphone in his right hand, thanking fans for helping his rise to fame. The Los Angeles-based rapper spoke about when he used to visit Atlanta to perform in front of small crowds.

Lamar didn't perform any new songs. But it didn't seem to matter to many in attendance, who recit-ed the lyrics from several of his hit songs from "Swimming Pools (Drank)'' to "Poetic Justice.''

"I remember when I used to per-form in front of 200 people,'' Lamar told several thousand attendees. "Now, it's a sea of people. I'm glad to see the growth here. It speaks volumes about the hip-hop culture.

Kendrick Lamar says Taylor Swift's admiring remarks about his music

help him, hip hop culture

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KEYSHIA COLE arrested

CHRIS BROWN ready to

calm down

ZJ WAH WA to plea guilty at next appearance

FREDDIE MCGREGORpromoter of Long Beach Jerk Fest

JERK festivals seem to be a hot item -- as far as Jamaican culture is concerned -- in

the United States these days.Several major cities including Atlanta, New York, Fort Lauderdale and Philadelphia have events showcasing spicy productS. Long Beach in southern California has joined the mix. The Long Beach Reggae Music Jerk and Food Festival is scheduled for September 28 and it is the brainchild of singer Freddie McGregor whose Big Ship

Music label are promoters.Jamaica Observer

Music

PARIS -- (AP) Beyonce’ and Jay Z did not give any support to those rumours that they would split up once their concert tour was over.

They wrapped up their "On The Run" stadium tour Saturday in Paris.

Beyonce’ told the audience Paris was where she and Jay Z got engaged and where their daughter, Blue Ivy, was conceived.

Beyonce’ got misty when she told Jay Z, "I’m your biggest fan. I love you."

He replied, "Greatest entertainer in the world. I love her. She’s my wife.’’

The show was fi lmed for an H-B-O special later this month.

BEYONCE’ AND JAY Z end "ON THE RUN" tour

LOS ANGELES -- (AP) Keyshia Cole has been arrested on suspicion of battery after an altercation Friday in Los Angeles.

Police say Cole was arrested around 5 a.m. after someone ini-tiated a private person’s arrest.

No other details were given.

Cole was released from custody Friday afternoon.

BEVERLY HILLS _ (AP) Chris Brown celebrated his 25th birth-day in jail last May by making his own "spread cake’’: chocolate, peanut butter, bread and milk"-Mix it up in a little cereal bowl and let it sit for a little while. It comes out and you’ve got a nice little cake,’’ Brown said, laughing. "A couple of the homies taught me how to do it.

Popular ZIP FM radio personality ZJ Wah Wa, has entered into a plea agreement with American federal prosecutors changing his plea from

not guilty to guilty.The 24-year-old, whose given name is Deon-Ville O’Hara, has been charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, wire fraud, money laun-dering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 30

years per count.

VAFOMBA Donzo, director of Jamaican Ma-fi a, said he is encouraged by the audience turnout to his movie and hopes for a similar response for his Jamaican premiere.

“Once we fi nalise the date, we will let the public know. But I’m hoping for a big pre-miere,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

Filmed entirely in New York City last year, the movie had its American premiere at Sunrise Multiplex Cinemas in Valley Stream, Queens, New York.

Jamaican Mafi a stars Paul Campbell, whose credits include Dancehall Queen and Third World Cop. Mykal Fax and D’Angel are also listed among the credits.

Donzo said the turnout was encouraging as the theatres were sold out. He said the fi lm has also made stops in Altanta and North Carolina.

“We had two showings in Atlanta, and one screening in North Carolina. The response was very positive,” he said.

Originally scheduled for August 27, the pre-miere was postponed as Donzo, who had the only copy of the fi lm, suffered a stroke and had to be rushed to the hospital.

“I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the people who wished me speedy recovery,” he said.

-- Cecelia Campbell-LivingstonJamaica Observer

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ISHAWNA in an abusive relationship

Ishawna fi nally got the courage to leave after nine years. She hopes that she can inspire other women

not to stay in abusive relationships. “He is the reason that ten years from now, my son will have to see the terrible things that he is saying about his mom. He is not thinking about his child when he is beating me in front of his son. I don’t want

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XChris Brown

X is the upcoming sixth studio album by American

recording artist Chris Brown, scheduled to be released on September 15, 2014, through RCA Records. In September 2013, Brown

stated that X will be a double disc album, with ten

songs on each disc.

Reggae EuphoriaMr Vegas

Fresh off the success of his big hit “Bruck it Down” reggae superstar Mr Vegas

is set to release his new album titled “Reggae

Euphoria”

“Reggae Euphoria” Will Be The 10th Studio Album By The Seasoned Veteran and

is Defi nitely One To Look Out For.

Released: September 23, 2014

Dangerously RootsDuane Stephenson

Duane Stephenson’s new album ‘Dangerously Roots - Journey From August Town’ is in stores on September

23rd 2014 from Kong Star/ Greensleeves Records.

The single and video “Cool Runnings” is climbing

airplay charts in Europe and the Caribbean.

Art Offi cial AgePrince

Prince is set to release two new albums on the same

day, One with girl group 3rd Eye Girl and another solo

record.The “Kiss” singer will

drop his own new effort Art Offi cial Age on

29 September while simultaneously releasing

Plectrum Electrum.

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NEW YORK _ The Rev. Jesse Jackson criticized the NFL on Tuesday for not including any African-American women when it brought on three domestic vio-lence experts as consultants.

The league said Monday that Lisa Friel, Jane Randel and Rita Smith would serve as ``senior advisers.'' NFL director of play-er engagement and education Deana Garner, who helps lead the league's domestic violence programs, is African-American.

About two-thirds of NFL players

are African-American, according to The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.

"Where is the jury of your peers?'' Jackson said.

The civil rights leader called the lack of diversity among the senior advisers a "shameful insensitiv-ity'' that "compounds the credi-bility crisis.''

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been under heavy criticism for his handling of the domestic abuse case involving star running back Ray Rice.

The league declined comment Tuesday on Jackson's remarks.


Jesse Jackson slams NFL for not including African American women as

domestic violence advisers

ZURICH, Switzerland _ World Cup winner Germany is still No. 1 in the FIFA rankings despite losing to second-place Argentina in a friendly rematch of their fi nal this month.

Colombia climbs one place to No. 3 even though it lost to Brazil in a friendly, and trades places with the Netherlands which lost both its matches this month.

Belgium stays at No. 5 and Brazil climbs one spot to No. 6. Uruguay is No. 7, followed by Spain.

France and Switzerland, which lost to England in a European Champion-ship qualifi er, trade places to com-plete the top 10.

Costa Rica is ahead of Mexico and the United States, with the three CONCACAF nations grouped from Nos. 15-17.

Canada, which beat Jamaica earlier this month, moved up two spots to No. 120 but still fell to 15th spot overall in CONCACAF as others leap-frogged it. The Canadian men were ranked ninth in North and Central America and the Caribbean last month at No. 122.

England climbs two spots to No. 18.

Algeria leads African nations at No. 20, up four. Iran also rises four as the top Asian nation at No. 44.


Germany still ahead of Argentina in FIFA rankings; Colombia, Brazil,

France all rise in top 10

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Star striker Jermain Defoe will return to Toronto F-C on Monday. Defoe sent out a tweet saying his rehab has gone well and he will be back with the M-L-S club next week. Defoe has been back in England nursing a groin injury. Manager Greg Vanney says the October 4th game in Los Angeles against the Galaxy may be the most realistic target for Defoe’s return to action


JUPITER, Fla. _ The next swing coach for Tiger Woods might be Tiger Woods.

Woods posted a blog on his web-site Thursday saying there was no “hard-and-set” rule on fi nding a new swing coach.

He parted way with Sean Fo-ley last month after two years. Woods only completed 25 founds this year because of a back injury that required surgery. He is not playing until the Hero World Challenge in December. He says he needs to get healthy before he fi gures out where to go with his game.

He says he is keeping his options “very, very open.”

Woods says he has bounced some ideas off Notah Begay, a former teammate at Stanford and a longtime friend. He says they have discussed what direction Woods should go with his game.


As training camps open around the NHL, the San Jose Sharks have two former captains but neither one wearing the C and six teams have new head coaches, while the Toronto Maple Leafs have the same one amid vows of a changing culture.The Boston Bruins are up against the sala-ry cap even after losing winger Jarome Iginla, and the Stanley Cup-champion Los Angeles Kings don’t know when goaltender Jon-athan Quick will be 100 per cent healthy after off-season wrist surgery.


Plenty of questions as NHL

camps open

Tiger Woods not set on new coach - might do it himself

Star striker Jermain Defoe ready to return

to Toronto F-C

RIETI, Italy _ American sprinter Justin Gatlin fi nished the season undefeated by winning the 100 metres in 9.83 seconds at the IAAF world challenge meeting Sunday.

Gatlin won all 18 races he en-tered this year.

"My season ends now. I need to rest,'' Gatlin said. "The crowd gave me a lot of energy.''

Two fi nals were held and former world record holder Asafa Powell won the fi rst in 9.90.

Powell, who is returning from a doping ban, set a then world record of 9.74 seconds in Rieti in 2007.

In Gatlin's fi nal, Jamaica's Nes-ta Carter was the runner-up in 10.07 and Christophe Lemaitre of France took third in 10.15.

In the high jump, Bohdan Bond-arenko edged fellow Ukrainian Andriy Protsenko, 2.36 metres to 2.25, for the 10th consecutive time.


US sprinter Justin Gatlin clocks 9.83

seconds to end season undefeated

Vision/ Summer 201412 FILM

By Jake Coyle


TORONTO _ It’s been a dozen years since Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua rode the corrupt Det. Alonzo Harris and their Los Angeles crime odys-sey “Training Day” to Oscar glory (for Washington) and a Hollywood breakthrough (for Fuqua).

“You look up, I didn’t realize it was 12 years,” says Washington. “That’s quick. That’s too fast.”

In “The Equalizer,” a very loose adaptation of the 1980s private eye TV series, Washington and Fuqua have finally reteamed, resuming a potent actor-director tandem. The film, which opens Sept. 26, has also kick-started further collaborations. They are planning a “Magnificent Seven” remake (“You don’t get many shots at a Western,” says Wash-ington, grinning) and could return for a potential sequel to “The Equalizer.”

You might expect the two to have an easygoing congeniality to-gether, ready to expound on the success of their partnership. You would be wrong.

“You don’t overthink it,” says Washington, who is not prone to brooding or rumination. “You just do. It does, so do.”

In ‘The Equalizer,“ Washington plays a bald widower living a Spartan life in Boston. He works at a hardware store and every

night fastidiously drinks his tea at a local diner. But when a diner acquaintance (a prostitute played by Chloe Grace Moretz) gets involved with the Russian mafia, his proficiency with violence (not unlike it often is with Liam Nee-son) is reawakened.

Washington’s intensity, perhaps as it would be in any pairing with the veteran actor, is the dominate force between him and his direc-tor. Asked what appeals to Fuqua about working with Washington, the actor chuckles: “You want me to leave the room?”

“You work with somebody who’s always challenging you and himself, and just wants you to be the best,” answers Fuqua, whose credits since “Training Day” include the White House action flick “Olympus Has Fallen,” the vigilante thriller “Shooter” and the period adventure “King Arthur.” ”Even if it’s challenging, that’s what brings the best out of you.“

It’s that pressurized tension that seems to most fuel Washington and Fuqua. They are, tellingly, both amateur boxers and share the same trainer. Greeted on a recent morning at the Toronto Film Festival where “The Equaliz-er” premiered, they were eagerly discussing the previous night’s fight. Boxing metaphors peppered their conversation.

“You go into the ring, you’re going in to get it in,” says Fuqua, whose next film is a boxing drama, “Southpaw,” starring Jake Gyl-

lenhaal. “It’s the same thing with making a movie. You’re going in there to put the work in, do some-thing with some intensity _ a little grit.”

Washington, then, is like a prize-fighter emerging from his trailer, ready to spar.

“You say you’re ready, then I’m coming out and here we go,” says Washington of his mindset going into a scene. “Walk in the ring and start throwing punches.”

Washington and Fuqua had been set to reunite once before in “American Gangster,” the saga about the Harlem drug dealer and smuggler Frank Lucas. But Universal Studios fired Fuqua weeks before the movie was to begin shooting and, days later, the film was cancelled altogether. The project was eventually rekin-dled with Ridley Scott directing.

But Fuqua and Washington continued to look to team up. Washington called Fuqua about helming “The Equalizer,” and the director later approached Wash-ington about “The Magnificent Seven.” (The basis of the West-ern, Kurosawa’s “Seven Samu-rai,” Fuqua says, is what inspired him to be a filmmaker.)

Their work together is predicated on leaving the other enough room to operate in.

“I’m not looking over his shoul-der,” says Washington. “We collaborate all the time but we spend a lot more time in the

preparation phase. Once we start shooting, he’s got stuff to do, and if I’m not doing what I need to do on a set, I’m off the set. I’m in my trailer.”

Washington says he needs his own space to focus, to hold on to his character. He’s there to work, not make friends: “Nobody ever said ‘Man, he sucked (in the movie), but I bet he was nice to everybody on set,”’ he says.

Though he looks nearly two decades younger, Washington will turn 60 this December. But it’s now clear that his movies with Fuqua will be a definite _ if once interrupted _ chapter in his career.

“I’ve worked with Jonathan Demme twice, Ed Zwick three times, Spike (Lee), I think, four times and (the late) Tony Scott five times,” says Washington. “There are people I’m comfort-able with that know what they’re doing. So it makes my job easier. It’s a good collaboration and we’ve had good results.”

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12 years after ‘Training Day,’ Washington and Fuqua ride again in ‘The Equalizer’

Vision/ Summer 2014 13 Fashion & Lifestyle

NEW YORK FASHION WEEK - HIGHLIGHTS

NEW YORK _ The weather never seems to co-operate with New York Fashion Week. In February it’s freezing and icy, and in September it seems to get even hotter than the summer that just ended. On this steamy day in Manhat-tan, Prabal Gurung took his guests on a cool Himalayan trek, evoking snow-capped mountains and mossy hills in his Nepal-inspired designs.

Alexander Wang packed a huge crowd into a pier along the Hudson River, in-cluding A-list celebs like Nicki Minaj and Rihanna. Wang’s spring collection was a whimsical deconstruction of the sneak-er, in all its patterning and variety.

A night earlier, Lady Gaga had to stop singing to admonish a crowd that was being too noisy. And Gaga wasn’t the only prominent singer to grace a Fashion Week event: Pharrell was there too, in his signature hat of course, leading a dozen models as he displayed his RAW for the Oceans spring-summer collec-tion.PRABAL GURUNG

Some of the offerings at Prabal Gurung’s

show, intended to evoke a Himalayan trek, seemed to come straight from nature _ for example, a strapless dress with a rhododendron print, ostrich feath-ers and hand-cut organza fl owers on the skirt.

On the sportier side, there were moun-tain jackets and expedition vests; on the daintier side, there were silky ruffl ed dresses. As for colours, Gurung looked to mirror the changing Himalayan sky, from dawn to sunset.

“Up in the mountains are colours that you don’t even know or see ’til you go up there,” said Gurung, who was born and raised in Nepal, in a backstage interview. “It’s this beautiful amethyst to this coral, ivory, white and then teal and turquoise, and this opal. It’s a visual feast. I wanted to bring it here.”

Gurung has dressed a host of famous women, including fi rst lady Michelle Obama, who’s worn his designs a num-ber of times, most recently last month at a White House dinner for African lead-ers. Kate Middleton also surprised the designer by wearing one of his dresses

on an offi cial trip to Asia.Also notable in Gurung’s new collection: His fi rst complete footwear line under his own label. The multi-colored, strappy stilettos were inspired, he said, by artists he loves, including Georgia O’Keefe, Frida Kahlo, and Cindy Sherman.

_Jocelyn Noveck

ALEXANDER WANG

Looking for inspiration for his spring col-lection, Alexander Wang had to search no further than, well, his feet.

“Sneakers!” Wang said when asked, in a backstage interview, what his overarch-ing design theme had been.

Wang is always a big Fashion Week draw, and this show, held in a huge pier by the Hudson River, was no exception _ the designer had Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and model Lauren Hutton all sitting together in the front row.

“He doesn’t necessarily have a colorful, crazy style, but it’s his own thing and he kind of coins his own sort of image and I

love it,” Minaj said.

But back to those sneakers: Wang said he takes no stock in trend reports he’s seen saying there’s a backlash against the sneaker.

“Sneakers for me have always been part of my uniform,” Wang said. “It’s some-thing that’s iconic in my generation _ you know, a cult of sneakers.”

Wang sought to display the variety in sneakers. Some outfi ts looked futuris-tic, like tight black or brightly colored mini-dresses with mesh cutouts and stripes around the waist that looked like the bottom part of a sneaker. Other ensembles _ in grey knit, for example _ looked subtler, more classic.

Rihanna, too, expressed admiration for Wang.“He designs stuff that’s cool, young, edgy, easy to wear,” she said. “It’s everything that I believe in.”

_Jocelyn Noveck and Nicole Evatt


From sneakers to strapless, designers lay out spring trends at New York Fashion Week

Vision/ Summer 201414 Picture Page

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