Octubre 04

Hacienda Digest










October 04th, 2018





















Thur Oct 04 Fri Oct 05 Sat Oct 06 Sun Oct 07 Mon Oct 08












Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny PM Thunderstorms Sunny Mostly Sunny


92º High 93ºHigh 93ºHigh 91ºHigh 90ºHigh



75°Low 75°Low 75°Low 73°Low 71°Low


Humidity: Humidity: Humidity: Humidity: Humidity:

65% 58% 58% 63% 58%

THE SPA LIFESTYLE OF HACIENDA



SPA RESERVATIONS EXTENSION 5600 Open Daily 7:00 am – 7:00 pm






A visit to the Spa at Hacienda Beach Club and Residences is a journey into a world of sensation, beauty and
balance. The Spa’s serene desert garden environment creates an atmosphere of luxury with a sense of place and invites guests to
relax while restoring a connection with the natural rhythms of life. Poised amid the historic architecture and traditional decor of
Hacienda, and the vibrant colors and textures of Cabo San Lucas, the Spa offers a peaceful haven for physical, mental, and emotional
renewal.


Sage and Stone Journey

This ritual honors the widsom and beauty of the ancient cultures and their
respect for the natural world. Stones are among the oldest materials on Earth and have
energy thorugh the ages. Inspired by shamanic traditions, this
accumulated healing
treatment includes a welcoming foot ritual, herbal energy cleansing, and therapeutic
stone massage. In this exquisite experience, warm and cool healing stones are applied

with specific massage techniques and aromatic oils to clear and invigorate, bringing a

new sense of power and vitality. A soothing neck and scalp massage complete the

journey.


2hrs. $270 USD + TAX

Hacienda Spa Café

Our Spa Cafe is open daily and serves a selection of healthy snacks, cold pressed juices,
freshly made smoothies and coffees. Stop by and order á la carte or let us create your
favorite smoothie or juice for you.
We also offer a relaxing sitting area including free Wi-Fi service and are located just right
next to the Hacienda SPA and the Gym.

Adjacent to the Spa Café you can practice and improve your golf game on the putting
green. Putters and golf balls are available at the Spa Café.

Open Daily 7:00 am – 3:00 pm

Hacienda Spa Boutique


Luxurious beach clothing , sunglasses, jewelry, hats and bags, sunscreen, sundries,
aromatherapy products and gifts are available at our exclusive boutique.
Check our Onda de Mar Clothing line reduced prices !!



HACIENDA SPA Rejuvenate your Body,
Daily 7:00 am – 7:00 pm Replenish your Soul!



Important news for important people
www.dedicatedpress.com Volume 3324 Thursday October 04, 2018
International Business Sports
A Peruvian court on Wednesday an- US online giant Amazon’s film stu- Chicago Cubs star Addison Russell Cabo San Lucas
nulled ex-president Alberto Fuji- dios subsidiary moved up a gear this has been suspended for 40 games for Sunny
mori’s pardon for crimes against hu- week by announcing in London a mul- violating Major League Baseball’s Sunrise: 7:12 AM
manity and ordered the 80-year-old’s titude of new series for its Amazon domestic violence policy. MLB com- Sunset: 7:05 PM
immediate arrest... P.2 Prime Video subscription... P.3 missioner Rob Manfred... P.5 Humidity: 68% 81-85 F

A month after Washington cut $300 million in military aid Christie’s said Wednesday
Pakistan urges US to resume aid, backs Taliban outreach Einstein’s ‘God letter’ to
go on sale for $1mn
Trump has accused Pakistan, A handwritten letter from Albert
where US commandos killed Al-Qae- Einstein about his thoughts on God,
da chief Osama bin Laden, of duplic- religion and his search for meaning
ity. Qureshi said Pakistan would act is to go on sale in New York, valued
“in good faith” to jumpstart diploma- at up to $1.5 million, Christie’s said
cy with the Taliban, whose represen- Wednesday.
tatives held a breakthrough meeting Written a year before the legend-
in July in Qatar with US representa- ary physicist died in 1955, his name
tives in a tentative bid to try to end synonymous with genius, Einstein
the longest-running US war. writes in German from Princeton,
“Pakistan is willing and Pakistan New Jersey to German philosopher
will use all its influence to do that. We Eric Gutkind.
feel that Afghanistan’s stability and “The word God is for me nothing
peace are linked to ours,” Qureshi but the expression and product of
said at the US Institute of Peace a day human weaknesses, the Bible a col-
after meeting Pompeo. lection of venerable but still rather
But he added: “Contrary to the primitive legends,” writes the physi-
largely held view here, our influence cist, best known for his theory of
on the Taliban is diminished.” relativity.
He said he believed that the Tali- “No interpretation, no matter how
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi meets with US Secretary of State ban’s shift to negotiations, as well as subtle, can (for me) change anything
Mike Pompeo at the US State Department in Washington (Photo AFP) an unprecedented if temporary cease- about this.”
Pakistan pledged Wednesday to sup- abad “slightly more hopeful” than fire, was based on the militants’ own The one-and-a-half-page letter will
port negotiations with the Taliban before. calculations. go on sale on December 4, estimated
to end Afghanistan’s 17-year war as Pakistan had been the main sup- “Even the Taliban recognize that by Christie’s to fetch between $1 mil-
it asked the United States to restore porter of the Taliban regime which things have changed in Afghanistan. lion and $1.5 million.
military aid and stop blaming Islam- imposed an austere brand of Islam They can at best maintain a stalemate The letter was previously offered
abad for the extremists’ strengths. on much of Afghanistan until a US but those days are gone when they at auction in 2008, bought by a pri-
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood military campaign launched after the will just go in and take over Kabul.” vate collector for $404,000, Christie’s
Qureshi visited Washington to ex- September 11, 2001 attacks. Qureshi said Pakistan “cannot and said.
plain the Afghanistan strategy of new The United States has pressed for should not be held responsible for the “It is one of the definitive state-
Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has years for Pakistan to crack down on failures in Afghanistan” as he pointed ments in the religion vs science de-
long advocated talks over military militant groups involved in Afghani- to disunity in the Kabul government bate,” says Peter Klarnet, senior spe-
action with the Taliban and other Is- stan as well as virulently anti-Indian as well as corruption. “I have seen or cialist in books and manuscripts at
lamist insurgents. groups that operate virtually openly. read a lot of criticism and think it’s the auction house.
A month after Washington cut It says the insurgents have safe ha- unfair not to recognize the contribu- The son of secular Ashkenazi Jews
$300 million in military aid, Qureshi vens in Pakistan’s border areas and tions Pakistan has made to the suc- and forced to flee Germany after Ad-
said he found Secretary of State Mike links to its shadowy military estab- cesses that you’ve had in Afghanistan olf Hitler took power, Einstein did not
Pompeo “ready to listen” to Pakistan lishment, accusations which Islam- -- and you’ve had successes despite exclude Judaism from his critique.
and said he was returning to Islam- abad has repeatedly denied. the challenges,” he said. “For me the unadulterated Jewish
religion is, like all other religions, an
Unveiled Wednesday a concept spacecraft able to land on the lunar surface incarnation of primitive superstition,”
he writes to Gutkind.
Lockheed Martin unveils its lunar lander concept vehicle “And the Jewish people to whom I
US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, Donald Trump. To achieve this goal, sented in August. Lockheed Martin’s gladly belong, and in whose mental-
responding to NASA’s plans to renew NASA has called on aerospace indus- concept lunar landing craft, designed ity I feel profoundly anchored, still
the exploration of the moon and Mars try producers to present plans to build to shuttle between the moon’s surface for me does not have any different
in the next decade, unveiled Wednes- a space station that orbits around the and the orbiting “Lunar Gateway,” kind of dignity from all other peoples.
day a concept spacecraft able to land moon, dubbed the “Lunar Gateway,” was unveiled at the World Astronau- “As far as my experience goes,
on the lunar surface. as well as spacecraft that land on the tical Congress in Bremen, Germany. they are in fact no better than other
The US space agency said it plans moon. The orbiting station is supposed The craft can accommodate four human groups, even if they are pro-
to send astronauts to the moon for the to be assembled, with the help of other people, carry one metric ton of equip- tected from the worst excesses by a
first time since 1972 as the initial stage countries, in the 2020s and be able to ment, and stay on the moon for up to lack of power. Otherwise I cannot
for a future trip to Mars -- part of an accommodate four people by 2026, two weeks without refueling before perceive anything ‘chosen’ about
official US policy set by President according to a NASA calendar pre- returning to the orbiting the station. them.”

International
Page 2 Thursday October 04, 2018
“I have reached 80 bearing the marks of the years, with all the shocks of political life”
Peru annuls ex-president Fujimori’s pardon, orders arrest


A Peruvian court on Wednesday an- Alejandro Aguinaga, Fujimori’s
nulled ex-president Alberto Fuji- doctor, expressed shock at the news.
mori’s pardon for crimes against hu- “We see that in Peru nothing is re-
manity and ordered the 80-year-old’s spected. The pardon of president Fu-
immediate arrest, officials said. jimori was a constitutional action,”
The South American country’s Aguinaga told Radio RPP.
justice department said in a state- Fujimori has had a number of oper-
ment that the Supreme Court had “is- ations as part of a long-running battle
sued the arrest and detention orders with tongue cancer. His most recent
against former president Fujimori so hospitalization was in August, for an
that he may be re-integrated into the irregular heartbeat.
prison establishment.” He has been working on a memoir
Fujimori was pardoned by presi- about his decade in power (1990-
dential decree last December. He was 2000), a period marked by corruption
12 years into a 25-year jail sentence but also by a fight against guerrillas
handed down for ordering two mas- and terrorism.
sacres by death squads between 1991 “I have reached 80 bearing the
and 1992. marks of the years, with all the shocks
“This decision is inhuman, it’s un- of political life, the enormous satis-
just,” said his daughter Keiko, leader factions and the profound regrets,” he
of the main opposition Popular Force wrote in a message to AFP around his
party and seen by many as the heir to (FILES) Ex-president Alberto Fujimori (Photo AFP) birthday in July.
Fujimori’s political dynasty. crackdown. Fujimori, a Peruvian of Kuczynski had justified the pardon “In the few years I have left,”
“Today is the saddest day of our Japanese descent, has been living in on humanitarian grounds, given Fu- Fujimori explained in his handwrit-
lives, it’s painful,” a tearful Keiko Lima but has been hospitalized four jimori’s well-documented ill-health. ten text, “I will dedicate myself to
told reporters, adding that she had yet times since his release last December. But the scandal-tainted president three objectives: bringing my fam-
to speak to her father since the court Victims of Fujimori’s crackdown had only days earlier survived an im- ily together, improving my health
decision. had petitioned the Inter-American peachment vote thanks to the absten- to the extent possible, and striking a
One of Fujimori’s lawyers, Miguel Court to demand a judicial review of tion of a group of lawmakers led by serene and balanced equilibrium in
Perez, said on Chile’s RPP radio the the process that led to the pardon. Fujimori’s son Kenji. my life.”
decision was subject to appeal. Carlos Rivera, a lawyer for the vic- Fujimori’s critics said the pardon However, Fujimori has been un-
The pardon, issued by then-presi- tims, said the decision to annul the was obviously a quid-pro-quo, the able to reconcile his daughter Keiko,
dent Pedro Pablo Kuczynski before pardon was justified. price Kuczynski paid for what proved 43, with her younger brother Kenji,
he was himself brought down by a “Kuczynski’s pardon to Alberto to be a temporary political survival. who leads a rival faction of her party,
corruption scandal, triggered a wave Fujimori has no legal value and there- “International standards in the to end a political schism which could
of protests by human rights organi- fore he has to return to prison for ir- humanitarian pardon were not met,” see the two face off in the 2021 presi-
zations and by victims of Fujimori’s regularities in the process,” he said. Rivera said. dential elections.

The third minister to step down in two months The Sudanese foreign ministry said
French interior minister quits in new headache for Macron Sudan protests at EU holding journalists meeting
French President Emmanuel Macron ing for his old fiefdom and pressured Sudan summoned the European ists. “The way the meeting was held
was left scrambling to fill another key him to quit immediately. Union ambassador to Khartoum on is against diplomatic behaviour and
cabinet post Wednesday after Interior The Liberation newspaper de- Wednesday to protest against an EU- the ministry rejects this,” it said.
Minister Gerard Collomb resigned, scribed the back-and-forth as “ex- organised meeting of journalists that A Tuesday statement issued jointly
the third minister to step down in two traordinary dilly-dallying which called for strengthening of press free- by European Union ambassadors and
months. seems more like something from a doms in the African country. US Charge D’Affaires Steven Kout-
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe music-hall than government politics”. The meeting held on Tuesday by sis said that journalists who attended
took temporary control of the top Collomb’s replacement will be ap- the EU at its office in Khartoum was the meeting briefed the diplomats
portfolio while Macron began search- pointed “within a few days”, accord- attended by representatives of sev- about the challenges faced by the me-
ing for a replacement for 71-year-old ing to government spokesman Benja- eral European embassies and the US dia industry in Sudan and the difficul-
Collomb, previously one of the presi- min Griveaux. charge d’affaires to Sudan. ties for journalists. “Furthermore, the
dent’s most loyal allies. At Wednesday’s regular cabinet “The ministry complained to the importance of strengthening the free-
The departure of Collomb, nick- meeting, Macron slammed opposi- EU ambassador that the meeting he dom of the press and the freedom of
named “France’s top cop” because tion and press comments suggesting organised was held in a way that only opinion and expression in all media
his ministry is in charge of security the resignation amounted to a “cri- a select group of journalists were outlets, including online media, was
and immigration, has thrown the gov- sis”, Griveaux told reporters. called,” the Sudanese foreign minis- stressed by all,” the statement said.
ernment into flux. Later, during a visit to the Paris try said in a statement. “In this regard, concern about the
His exit adds to the woes of Motor Show, Macron stressed that The ministry said it also protested constraints placed on these freedoms
40-year-old centrist Macron, who is the government remained at work as at the statement issued by the EU after in Sudan, particularly with regards
battling record low approval ratings usual, adding that “as for the rest it’s the meeting, which suggested that the the ongoing newspaper seizures was
after 17 months in power. just peripheral stuff”. meeting was for all Sudanese journal- also expressed.”
It comes just weeks after popular But opposition Socialist Party
environment minister Nicolas Hulot spokesman Boris Vallaud” described
resigned live on radio without warn- the situation as “a big mess at the top
ing Macron, saying he felt “all alone” of government”.
in the government on green issues Collomb, a former Socialist and
Macron initially refused Collomb’s political heavyweight, had previ-
resignation Monday but gave in late ously compared his relationship with
Tuesday to his request to be allowed Macron to that of a father and son,
to quit to campaign for his former job and wept during the new president’s
as mayor of the city of Lyon. inauguration in May 2017.
He had previously announced But their relationship is reported to
plans to step down next spring, but have soured this summer over a scan-
critics then complained that his prior- dal surrounding Macron’s former se-
ities had already turned to campaign- curity aide Alexandre Benalla.

Business
Page 3 Thursday October 04, 2018
Each of the eight 80-minute episodes is a self-contained story Wall Street Indexes
Roberts, Huppert star in new Amazon Prime Video series line-up Dow Jones 26828.39 + 0.2%
+ 0.32%
Nasdaq
8025.086
S&P 2925.51 + 0.07%
US online giant Amazon’s film stu- The 10 half-hour episodes are It will be aired in 2019. The Fran- International Stock Indexes
dios subsidiary moved up a gear this adapted from the hit podcast of the co-German comedy, comprising 10 Australia 6146.07 + 0.32%
week by announcing in London a same name, created by Eli Horowitz episodes, is the first Amazon series Frankfurt 12287.58 - 0.42%
multitude of new series for its Ama- and Micah Bloomberg. produced in France, scheduled for re- Italy 20736.01 + 0.84%
zon Prime Video subscription video The story follows Heidi Bergman, lease in late 2018. Marie-Anne-Cha- London 7510.28 + 0.48%
platform. played by Roberts, four years after zel, Roxane Duran, Sylvie Testud and Madrid 9361.1 + 0.6%
The new anthology series from she has left the “Homecoming” sup- Christopher Maria Herbst star in the Paris 5491.4 + 0.43%
US director Matthew Weiner, whose port and transition centre for reinte- production, which is set in Jiscalosse, Tokyo 24110.96 - 0.66%
previous creation “Mad Men” earned grating of ex-combatants. an idyllic but heavily indebted village Toronto 16072.05 + 0.34%
him several Emmy Awards, explores Her life is blown apart by a visit in the Landes department. Latin-American Stock Indexes
the theme of identity. from a Department of Defense audi- The mayor decides to sell part of Bogota 1524.86 + 0.85%
The series, which will air from tor, who questions her over her time the town to an eccentric Bavarian Buenos Aires 32201.47 - 1.62%
October 12, revolves around contem- at the facility. An angel and a demon industrialist, who relocates his entire Lima 19823.44 + 0.66%
porary characters who believe they join forces to prevent the coming birth company and employees to southwest Mexico 49005.35 - 0.75%
are descended from the House of Ro- of the son of Satan in this adaptation France. The sequel to 2015 series Panama 458.1 - 0.19%
manov, the Russian imperial dynasty of an English comic fantasy novel Deutschland 83, the German drama, Santiago 5342.89 + 0.36%
dethroned in 1917 by the Bolshevik by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. created by Joerg Winger and his US Sao Paulo 83273.38 + 2.04%
revolution. David Tennant and Michael Sheen novelist wife Anna, again follows the Venezuela 371979.031 - 1.31%
Each of the eight 80-minute epi- play the lead roles, while John Hamm adventures of Martin Rauch, a young Most Active Stocks
sodes is a self-contained story, set in of “Mad Men” fame plays the arch- Stasi spy who infiltrated West Ger- 3D Systems Corp 18.02 + 2.5%
a different city. angel Gabriel, a character specially many at the height of the Cold War. 3M Co 215.76 + 0.02%
Filming spanned seven countries created for the six-part series, to be The new instalment, released on Alcoa 42.89 + 3.2%
and three continents and boasts a broadcast in 2019. October 19, is set in South Africa Amex 108.45 + 0.06%
leading cast of Isabelle Huppert, Immigration forms the central with another series also in the pipe- AT&T 33.92 + 0%
Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, theme of this fantastical series, cre- line. B. of America 30 + 1.42%
Amanda Peet, Marthe Keller and ated by Cuban and US screenwriters The famous animated German Boeing 392.3 + 1.53%
Aaron Eckhart, among others. Rene Echevarria and Travis Beacham youth saga is to be adapted into a Caterpillar 158.22 + 2.2%
Weiner said the series was “ques- and starring British actors Orlando live-action television series, with Chevron 125.31 + 0.46%
tioning who we are and who we say Bloom and Cara Delevingne. shooting scheduled to begin in 2019. Cisco Systems 49.14 + 0.27%
we are”. The drama unfolds in a neo-Victo- The series revolves around Bibi, a Coca Cola 45.87 - 1.38%
The US psychological thriller star- rian city to where mythical creatures young witch in her teens, and her best Exxon Mobil 86.15 - 0.36%
ring Julia Roberts and Sissy Spacek, have fled, and where Inspector Ry- friend Tina -- addressing themes such General Electric 12.48 + 1.3%
directed by “Mr. Robot” creator Sam croft Philostratus leads investigations as friendship, family, trust, tolerance H.P. 26.06 - 0.08%
Esmail, launches on November 2. into a series of mysterious murders. and ecology. Home Depot 203.74 - 0.49%
153.22
IBM
- 0.34%
Intel 48.76 + 1.37%
“But, the keys to the data are ours”
Johnson & Johnson 139.03 - 1.03%
Apple chief says firm guards data privacy in China JPMorgan 115.04 + 0.94%
Apple chief executive Tim Cook on stored in that country. “We worked get access. China is known for tight Kraft Heinz Co 55.6 - 0.59%
Tuesday said the company is devoted with a Chinese company to provide internet controls, prompting worries McDonalds 164.66 - 0.31%
to protecting people’s privacy, with iCloud,” Cook said, referring to Ap- about the privacy of data stored there Merck & Co 71.37 - 0.53%
data encrypted and locked away on ple’s service for storing digital con- by Apple. Microsoft 115.17 + 0.02%
servers even in China. tent in the internet cloud during an When asked about a recent security Pfizer 44.81 + 1.33%
Cook called privacy as one of the interview with Vice News. breach revealed by Facebook, Cook Procter & Gamble 83.03 - 1.58%
most important issues of this century, “But, the keys to the data are ours.” once again championed the impor- Travelers Cos 129.54 + 0.02%
and maintained that the US-based Cook said Apple hosts data on tance of protecting people’s informa- United Tech. 141.02 - 0.3%
technology colossus even safeguards servers in an array of countries, but tion in a time when smartphones can Verizon 54.29 - 0.24%
data Chinese law requires it to keep it is not easy for local authorities to reveal so much about them. Wal-Mart 94.07 - 1.14%
Walt Disney 116.91 - 0.64%
The company maintains a research-and-development facility in San Francisco
Honda joins forces with GM’s Cruise to develop autonomous vehicles
Japanese carmaker Honda has joined dustries see as the next frontier in or other manual controls when de- Michigan, “navigating some of the
forces with the General Motors tech personal mobility. ployed, according to GM. most challenging and unpredictable
startup Cruise to develop autono- Honda’s announcement comes on With Softbank’s $2.25 billion in- driving environments.” The compa-
mous vehicles as the race to market the heels of Toyota’s move in August vestment announced in May, Cruise ny maintains a research-and-develop-
self-driving cars heats up, the compa- to invest $500 million in the ride- is now valued at more than $14 bil- ment facility in San Francisco.
nies announced Wednesday. hailing service Uber to collaborate lion, according to GM. Sandy Schwartz, president of Cox
Honda’s investment promises on a similar venture to mass-produce The company, in which GM now Automotive, said the battle to be the
broader market access for the new self-driving vehicles. holds an 85 percent stake, says it is first with a driverless product was
cars once they are ready for the pub- “As is becoming increasingly ap- currently testing driverless cars on likely to produce more unexpected
lic. The Japanese government hopes parent, this is an effort that requires open roads in Arizona, California and partnerships in the coming months.
to showcase self-driving cars when very, very significant resources to
Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympics pull off and we’re thrilled to have
in 2020. Honda join forces with us,” GM Foreign Exchange
With a $2.75 billion commitment President Dan Ammann said during
in equity and shared development an investor call. EURO USA CAN UK AUS SWISS H.KONG JAP
costs over 12 years, Honda joins Ammann said developers were EURO - 1.15 1.47 .89 1.61 1.14 9.10 131.00
Japanese conglomerate Softbank in working “as quickly as we can” to USA .87 - 1.28 .77 1.39 .99 7.81 113.64
backing the GM venture to create a deploy the new technology but did CAN .68 .78 - .60 1.09 .75 6.10 89.00
multi-purpose vehicle that can be not say when this could occur. UK 1.12 1.30 1.67 - 1.82 1.28 10.20 147.00
manufactured in high volume for use “What we’re giving you here is just AUS .62 .72 .92 .55 - .70 5.60 82.00
worldwide, the US auto giant said. an early glimpse of what we think the SWISS .88 1.01 1.33 .78 1.43 - 7.90 115.00
Major automakers, start-ups and future looks like,” he said. H.KONG .11 .13 .16 .10 .18 .13 - 14.50
tech firms are racing to develop truly The vehicle to be developed with JAP .01 .01 .01 .01 .01 .01 .07 -
autonomous vehicles, which the in- Honda will have no steering wheel

Business
Page 4 Thursday October 04, 2018
ISM According to monthly survey released Wednesday Forecast
US service sector growth hits US private sector hiring jumps in September Tariffs won’t dent US Santa
all-time high in September Hiring by US companies rebounded and business services gained 70,000, spending this year
unexpectedly in September, hitting
while health services jumped 37,000,
The dominant US services sector saw a seven-month high on the back of and trade, transportation and utilities Tariffs won’t play the Grinch this
growth surge in September, shrug- strong job creation in the service sec- added another 30,000. Christmas, as US stores should have
ging off concerns about trade dis- tor, according to monthly survey re- “The job market continues to pow- a solid holiday shopping season amid
putes to reach a record rate of expan- leased Wednesday. er forward,” Mark Zandi, chief econ- a strong economy, the National Retail
sion, according to an industry survey The jobs report from the payrolls omist of Moody’s Analytics, which Federation said Thursday.
Wednesday. firm ADP overshot estimates, as helped produce the report,, said in the The retailer group highlighted ro-
The Institute for Supply Manage- many economists expected the gain statement. “At the current pace of job bust US job growth and healthy con-
ment said its monthly survey showed to be tamped down by the impact of creation, unemployment will fall into sumer confidence, as elements that
the non-manufacturing index jumped Hurricane Florence on the US mid- the low 3%’s by this time next year.” will help drive a 4.3-4.8 percent rise
to 61.6 percent, a 3.1 point gain from Atlantic states. Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Mac- in holiday sales compared with last
August, far outstripping expectations The gain was boosted by a 184,000 roeconomics said he was surprised year, for a total of as much as $721
and well above the average for the increase in jobs in the services sector, not to see more of a slowdown from billion.
past 12 months. but the goods sector jumped 46,000 the impact of the hurricane that hit The group has repeatedly warned
While surprising, the pace of orders -- double the gain in the prior month in mid-September and caused wide- that President Donald Trump’s trade
for the sector shows there is unlikely -- almost all concentrated in con- spread damage and flooding in North wars with China and other nations
to be a slowdown anytime soon, An- struction, the survey showed. Carolina. However, he noted that the could result in higher prices for con-
thony Nieves, chair of ISM’s survey The report is scrutinized ahead of ADP survey captures anyone listed sumers. But there has been little di-
committee for the non-manufacturing the government’s official employ- on a company payroll, even if they rect pain thus far from conflicts.
sector, told reporters. ment report, which is due Friday and were not paid, while the government NRF officials said they remain
“I thought we might slowdown which economists project will show a data report anyone who was paid any- optimistic that serious impacts from
and move a little sideways from last gain of 184,000 non-farm jobs and a thing during the survey week. trade could still be averted. And other
month,” Nieves said. But “all indi- drop in the unemployment rate to 3.8 “So part-time hourly paid people industry surveys indicate firms have
cations are we will continue to see percent from the current 3.9 percent. who were kept away from work by accelerated their imports to try to get
growth in this sector.” However, the two surveys are fre- the storm and, hence, did no paid product in ahead of the tariffs.
He highlighted the business activ- quently out of step. work in the survey week, will tempo- “We’re hopeful with the progress
ity index, which jumped 4.5 points to “The labor market continues to rarily drop out of the official numbers we’ve seen on trade deals that we’ll
65.2 percent, the highest reading in impress,” said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice but continue to be counted by ADP,” resolve the issues that exist with our
nearly 15 years. president and co-head of the ADP he said in a research note. trade partners in China,” said NRF
Any reading above 50 percent indi- Research Institute. “Both the goods “In months hit by both severe win- chief executive Matthew Shay.
cates growth, but the higher the num- and services sectors soared.” ter storms or hurricanes, ADP con- “We have seen sufficient momen-
ber the faster the rate. In the services sector -- a key driv- sistently is stronger than the official tum of the economy this year that
New orders increased 1.2 points er of the US economy -- professional number.” we’re confident we’ll get through the
overall, with 17 of 18 industries re- third and fourth quarter with contin-
porting increases and none showing a Hackers took advantage of a “complex interaction” ued strong growth,” he added in a
decline, demonstrating “we still have briefing with analysts.
things in the pipeline,” Nieves said. Security failure at Facebook - what we know Trump this week reached agree-
And despite months of concerns The security breach revealed on Sep- advantage of the flaw, saying the in- ment with Canada to cement a new
by firms that were struggling to find tember 28 by Facebook affected tens vestigation was early. North American free trade deal that
enough workers to fill open positions, of millions of accounts at the social Information hackers appeared in- includes Mexico. But relations be-
employment also surged 5.7 points, network, which boasts more than 2.2 terested in included names, genders, tween the US and China remain brit-
to the highest level since 1997. billion monthly users. and home towns, but it was not clear tle after several back-and-forth trade
Meanwhile, while many compa- On Wednesday, the Irish data au- for what purposes, the executives tariff announcements. The US also
nies continue to complain about ris- thority said it was opening up a for- said in a telephone briefing. still has plenty of unresolved issues
ing prices for some goods, due to lack mal investigation into whether the Facebook said it was still trying to with the European Union.
of workers and tariffs, price increases world’s biggest social network com- figure out what, if anything, hackers Trade is not the only growing wor-
have been mild. plied with tough new EU privacy did in violated accounts. It did not ry facing retailers, however. Compa-
Businesses have been unnerved by regulations. seem at the outset that messages or nies also are stretched to find enough
President Donald Trump’s confronta- Hackers took advantage of a “com- posts were tampered with, and there seasonal workers in the tightening
tional trade policy and high tariffs on plex interaction” between three soft- was no access to banking or password labor market. And higher pay to at-
goods from key trading partners, and ware bugs, which required a degree information, according to the social tract workers -- most recently with
Nieves said companies reported ac- of sophistication. network. Amazon’s announcement Tuesday
celerating exports and imports ahead The vulnerability was created by a Given that digital keys opened that it was lifting US wages to $15 a
of anticipated tariffs. change to a video uploading feature Facebook doors wide to hackers, they hour -- will pressure stores to weigh
That may have boosted some of in July of 2017. would have had the ability to reach whether to pass on the higher costs to
the figures, as did a flurry of orders It involved a flaw in a “See As” into third party applications linked to consumers or accept lower profits.
from government agencies ahead of feature that showed Facebook what social network accounts. But trade is the biggest wild-
the end of the fiscal year on Septem- their profiles look like to other people They would have been able to get card, NRF officials said, although
ber 30. at the social network. into linked accounts including Mes- they suggested the holiday shopping
But with an agreement this week Using the feature generated digital senger or Instagram, both owned by season would not be seriously affect-
on revising the free trade deal with keys, called “access tokens,” which Facebook, but not into the social net- ed. “Until we start to see really a man-
Canada and Mexico ending one let users stay connected to their ac- work’s WhatsApp service. ifestation (of trouble) we don’t see
source of uncertainty, “now the focus counts without having to enter pass- An analysis of logs of third-party the spending change right away,” said
is on China,” he said. words anew. Hackers were able to applications turned up no sign they NRF chief economist Jack Kleinhenz.
Trump has imposed steep tariffs on steal copies of the digital keys, giving were meddled with by the hackers, “Consumer attitudes stay aloft un-
half of all goods imported from Chi- them the same access and control of Facebook said on October 2. til we start seeing more headlines and
na, on top of duties on steel and alu- accounts as their legitimate owners. Facebook said that “up to 50 mil- the first one would be the impact on
minum imports from most countries, On September 16, Facebook no- lion accounts” were directly affected, employment.”
including Canada and Mexico. But ticed a spike in activity that prompted meaning hackers swiped digital keys. NRF’s projections imply slower
there have been no further discus- it to investigate. According to the Data Protection sales growth this year, after the 5.3
sions to try to resolve a bitter dispute On September 25, Facebook en- Commission in Ireland, five million percent gain in the 2017 holiday
with Beijing. gineers determined hackers had or fewer European users were among shopping season compared to the
Still Nieves said high consumer launched a sophisticated attack ex- those affected. prior year for a total of $687.9 billion.
confidence, commercial confidence ploiting the vulnerability. A fix was An additional 40 million accounts But the estimate was consistent
and the feeling “this administration is in place two days later and stolen to- that used the “View As” feature had with the outlook of IHS Markit ear-
more corporate friendly” have helped kens rendered useless. Facebook did tokens reset although it didn’t appear lier this week which forecast growth
buoy the sector. not disclose when hackers first took they were targeted by hackers. of 5.0 percent this year.

Sports
Page 5 Thursday October 04, 2018
That prompted MLB to place Russell on administrative leave NBA
Cubs’ Russell banned 40 games for domestic violence LeBron, Warriors top key
rankings in GMs survey
LeBron James is tipped to win the
NBA’s MVP award in his first season
with the Los Angeles Lakers while
the Golden State Warriors are fa-
vourites to clinch a third consecutive
championship, the league’s annual
survey of general managers revealed
Wednesday.
While James has cautioned that it
will take time to transform the Lak-
ers into a team capable of challeng-
ing for silverware, the 33-year-old
remains the most popular pick to
win MVP amongst the league’s 30
general managers. James, who made
his Staples Center debut for the Lak-
ers in a pre-season game on Tuesday,
was the pick of 30% of GMs while
Golden State’s Kevin Durant polled
second with 27%.
The Warriors meanwhile remain
Addison Russell of the Chicago Cubs bats against the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field in Chicago (Photo AFP) the overwhelming favourites to win
Chicago Cubs star Addison Russell agreed not to appeal the suspension, Allegations of domestic violence a fourth title in five seasons. Eighty-
has been suspended for 40 games for MLB said. against Russell were posted by a seven percent of GMs backed the
violating Major League Baseball’s “My office has completed its in- third party on social media in 2017, Oakland outfit to retain their title,
domestic violence policy. vestigation into the allegations that but Reidy-Russell declined to talk to with the Boston Celtics and Houston
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred Addison Russell violated Major MLB at the time. Rockets earning seven percent each.
announced the suspension in a state- League Baseball’s Joint Domestic That prompted MLB to place Rus- The Celtics are most executives’
ment issued Wednesday. Violence, Sexual Assault and Child sell on administrative leave. Russell, favourites to face the Warriors in the
Addison had been on administra- Abuse Policy,” Manfred said. who was hampered by right shoul- NBA Finals, with 90% ranking Bos-
tive leave as MLB investigated alle- “Having reviewed all of the avail- der trouble and a swollen finger on ton as the best team in the Eastern
gations of domestic abuse made by able evidence, I have concluded that his left hand as he batted .250 with Conference. James meanwhile was
his former wife, Melisa Reidy Rus- Mr. Russell violated the Policy and five homers this season, was on also given high marks for his overall
sell. should be subject to discipline in the leave when the Cubs were eliminated ability, topping the rankings as the
Russell’s unpaid suspension is ret- form of an unpaid suspension that the wild card game of the National most versatile player and the player
roactive to September 21 and he has will cover 40 games.” League playoffs on Tuesday. with the best “basketball IQ”.

NHL “I was afraid of being trampled by Tiger Woods” Tennis
Capitals Wilson gets 20 Fan blinded at Ryder Cup feared being trampled Nishikori squashes Paire
games for brutal hit The spectator who was blinded in incident, no one from the Ryder Cup to reach Tokyo quarters
visited her or reached out to her. “We
one eye after being struck by a way-
Washington Capitals forward Tom ward Brooks Koepka tee shot at the have now filed a complaint in order Local hero Kei Nishikori put down a
Wilson was hit with a 20-game sus- Ryder Cup said on Wednesday that to have answers to our questions, to marker in his quest for a third Japan
pension on Wednesday for a head she feared being trampled by crowds challenge all the organisers on behalf Open title as he outgunned France’s
shot on St. Louis Blues player Oskar while lying stricken on the ground. of the safety of the public.” Benoit Paire on Wednesday to reach
Sundqvist, the NHL confirmed in a Frenchwoman Corine Remande, Remade will stay in Lyon, where the last eight.
statement. 49, was hit by Koepka’s drive on the her parents live, for a few more The third seed, who lifted the tro-
Wilson was thrown out of Sun- short par-four sixth hole on Friday’s weeks because she cannot return to phy in 2012 and 2014, completed a
day’s pre-season game between the opening day of the event at Le Golf her home in Egypt. 6-3, 7-5 victory despite late resis-
Stanley Cup holders and the Blues National, near Paris. She had told AFP on Monday at a tance from Paire to avenge a semi-
after a brutal hit on Sundqvist which “Before being moved, in a big Lyon hospital that the loss of sight in final defeat inflicted by the hulking
left the Swede lying motionless on mess, I was afraid of being trampled her right eye had been confirmed and Frenchman in Tokyo three years ago.
the ice. It was the latest in a long line because Tiger Woods was coming that she had suffered a fractured eye Meanwhile, former champion Nick
of sanctions for foul play levelled and the crowd was growing around socket and damaged eyeball. Kyrgios flickered into life for just
against Wilson, who was suspended us,” she told AFP on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, world num- long enough to dispatch Japan’s Yo-
three times last season alone. “What shocked me too was that the ber three Koepka had said that his shihito Nishioka 7-5, 7-6 (7/3) in the
“This is Wilson’s fourth suspen- spectators were taking pictures of me, “stomach sank” when finding out first round. Nishikori tore out of the
sion in his last 105 games, an unprec- but no one was calling for help.” about the extent of Remande’s inju- blocks, winning the first five games
edented frequency of suspensions She is taking legal action, and said ries. before Paire finally got on the score-
in the history of the department of that was because fans by the green “Yesterday was probably one of board. Paire tugged at his beard in de-
player safety,” the NHL’s department were not warned that the ball was the worst days of my life,” Koepka spair after Nishikori snaffled the open-
of player safety said. heading in their direction. told a press conference in Scotland ing set but raced to a 3-0 lead in the
Wilson’s hit came in the second Ryder Cup organisers have stated ahead of this week’s Alfred Dunhill second set before the Japanese num-
period of Sunday’s game, where he that “fore” was “shouted several Links Championship. ber one rattled off five straight games.
tracked back and smashed into the times” and that they had been in con- “I haven’t had too many tragedies An increasingly prickly Paire
unsuspecting Swede as he moved tact with Remande and her family. in my personal family where there’s pulled off an outrageous between-
forward in attack. “They did not do it. To make a been a loss or any kind of tragic acci- the-legs volley and subsequently lev-
Last season Wilson was sanctioned show, the organisers moved the tees dent so I’ve been lucky in that sense. elled with a backhand rocket, letting
for a hit on Pittsburgh Penguins play- forward on the sixth hole to allow the “I wasn’t told until I got to the course out a guttural roar as Nishikori shook
er Zach Aston-Reese, who was left big hitters to reach the green in one -- I’m not the biggest person on so- his head in disbelief. But the world
nursing a concussion and a broken shot. “Without warning the specta- cial media -- so when I got here and number 12 almost took Paire’s head
jaw. tors, the public cannot see the play- had about seven missed calls and 25 off to break again for 6-5, further ir-
He was also suspended for hits on ers and anticipate and protect them- text messages I was like, ‘What’s go- ritating the Frenchman, who flirted
Blues forward Robert Thomas and selves. That’s why I’m angry.” She ing on?’ Then I was told the news and with a penalty point after kicking his
defenseman Sammy Blais. added that for three days after the obviously I am really heartbroken. racquet into his chair.

Entertainment
Page 6 Thursday October 04, 2018

Sudokumania
The aim of the game is to fill a 9x9 grid (81 squares) that is subdivided into 3x3 “sub-squares, with each of the numbers one through nine, besides
the ones that are already filled with numbers.
The rule is that each number appear only once per row, once per column, and only once per sub-square. It is rather easy to solve, in fact no math-
ematical knowledge is required. The solutions are indicated below.
Have fun!

Beginners Advanced
6 1 9 4 7 2 5 1


7 4 5 2 3 8 7 2

3 6 1 7 9 6

4 8 1 9 9 3


3 8 6 2 8 1 2 3 6 4 5 6 7 4 8
9 10 11
2 9 1 4 12 13 14 3 15 16 6
17 18 19
9 1 2 4 20 8 2 21
22 23 24 25
4 8 6 5 9 3 1 26 27 9 28

29 30 31
5 6 2 4 8 5 4 1
32 33 34 35
36 37
Crossword www.CrosswordWeaver.com

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ACROSS DOWN

1 First woman 2 Locale
9 10 11
4 Extras 3 Railway
9 Tree 5 Pummeled
12 13 14 15 16 11 Chances of winning 6 Mud brick
12 Not (prefix) 7 Road (abbr.)
17 18 19 13 Bullets 8 Sports channel
15 Philly locale 10 IBM Competitor
20 21 17 Yielding 12 Usable
20 Conger 14 Turbulent
21 Adolescent 16 Discrimination based on age
22 23 24 25
22 Malicious 18 Horsefly
24 Federal Bureau of Investigation 19 Information
26 27 28
26 Stingy 23 Famous composer
29 Loudness unit (abbr.) 25 Runs into gently
29 30 31 30 Traveled by horse 27 Bomb
31 Millimeter 28 Scarlet
32 33 34 35 32 Antelope 33 United States (abbr.)
34 Sink 35 Caesarʼs 49
36 Stop
36 37
37 Acid drug
Fold Fold
www.CrosswordWeaver.com
7
2
3
6
5
1
9
8
4
4
9
7
3
1
5
2
8
6
DEDICATED PRESS sales
D E S I S T
L S D
ACROSS 9 5 6 8 3 4 7 1 2 DOWN 6 5 9 1 3 8 D I P K U D U (52)8183105037
2
4
7
[email protected]
5
2
4
8
9
6
3
1
7
1
9
4
2
3
7
5
6
8
DEDICATED PRESS editorial
L U
M M
R O D E
(52)5555726129
4
3
1
7
2
9
5
8
6
6
3
7
9
1
8
5
2
4
U N G E N E R O U S
1 First woman 7 2 5 6 4 8 9 3 1 2 Locale 6 3 8 1 5 F B I E V I L F [email protected]
2
4
7
9
Information Source:
4 Extras 6 9 3 2 5 1 8 7 4 3 Railway 4 3 6 9 Agence France-Presse (AFP)
E
T E E N
E E L
2
8
1
5
7
Printed and distributed locally in each hotel.
All rights reserved.
S U C C U M B I N G
5
4
3
3
9
1
8
6
2
7
6
1
4
9
8
7
2
5
9 Tree 1 6 9 3 8 2 5 4 7 4 5 Pummeled 5 9 3 P A O D D S A M M O E L M U N Reproduction in whole or in part by any printed
or electronic without permission of the publisher.
1
2
7
8
6
11 Chances of winning 7 2 4 9 5 1 8 6 6 Mud brick 5 6 7 2 S P A R E S E V E
3
3
9
8
1
4
12 Not (prefix) 7 Road (abbr.) Solution:
13 Bullets 8 Sports channel
15 Philly locale 10 IBM Competitor
17 Yielding 12 Usable
20 Conger 14 Turbulent
21 Adolescent 16 Discrimination based on age
22 Malicious 18 Horsefly
24 Federal Bureau of Investigation 19 Information
26 Stingy 23 Famous composer
29 Loudness unit (abbr.) 25 Runs into gently
30 Traveled by horse 27 Bomb
31 Millimeter 28 Scarlet
32 Antelope 33 United States (abbr.)
34 Sink 35 Caesarʼs 49
36 Stop
37 Acid drug

QUESTRO HOTEL RATES

st
st
July 1 , – October 31 , 2018
Preferred Rates USD Cabo Real Campestre San José Puerto Los Cabos
Individual Rounds Public Public Public

18 Holes $180.00 $145.00 $140.00 $115.00 $210.00 $170.00
Twilight 12:30 pm $125.00 $100.00 $100.00 $80.00 $150.00 $120.00
Includes Food & Beverages
FORE FOR 4 PROMO
Rates per foursome $480.00 $420.00 $580.00
(*No time restriction) Includes Food & Beverages




2 ROUND PASS 3 ROUND PASS 5 ROUND PASS



$260.00 USD $345.00 USD $525.00 USD


• Rounds may be played at any of our three golf courses
• Each pass used at Puerto Los Cabos will incur a $20 USD surcharge due to all- inclusive food and beverage
palapas.
• Golf pass is personal, non-transferable.
• Golf Pass is valid for 14 days, once initial round is played













All rates and promos are valid up to 12 golfers. Group service fee will apply to all groups larger than 12.