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AntaraNUSA DUA - Indo-

nesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

held bilateral talks with Australian Prime Min-is ter Jul ia Gil lard at Ayodya Hotel here on

Sunday.In his prelude to the

meeting, President Yud-hoyono expressed his gratitude to the Austra-lian delegation led by Premier Gillard to the 6th East Asia Summit for their contribution to the meeting.

“I think Her Excel-lency Prime Minister Julia Gillard will agree if this meeting is very important to unite the steps taken by nations in this region, Greater Asia to resolve problems in the region,” he said.

A c c o r d i n g t o t h e President, the just-end-ed meeting of ASEAN leaders with their dialog partners in East Asia was designed to discuss a number of issues includ-ing sensitive problems.

“If we did not discuss them it would not be good. Our peoples knew that their leaders were gathering here and if we did not discuss our common problems there won`t be solution,” he said.

The President said bi-lateral ties between Indo-nesia and Australia had been growing well with-out any worrying and disrupting problems.

“Of course, there are bilateral issues we have to discuss well while at the same time seeking new opportunities,” he said.

Meanwhi le , Pr ime Minister Gillard con-gratulated President Yud-hoyono on the United States and Russia join-ing the 6th East Asia

Summit.The President was dur-

ing the meeting accom-panied by Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Af-fairs Djoko Suyanto, Co-ordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Radjasa, Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung Laksono, Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Foreign Minister Marty Natale-gawa, Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Finance Minister Agus Martowardoyo, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan, Education and Culture Minister M Nuh, Na-tional Police Chief Gen-eral Timur Pradopo, and National Defense Forces (TNI) Chief Admiral Agus Suhartono.

Junky rubbish sets to stuff beaches

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Junky rubbish sets to become a problem on Kuta Beach

following the arrival of high

wind phenome-non every year.

Chairman of the Kuta Beach Task Force, IGN Tresna, said on Sunday (Nov 20) that since the coming of west wind, Kuta Beach and the surrounding

areas began to be stuffed by junky rubbish from various sources. To cope with, the Task Force together with the community and beach hawkers did a clean-up

service manually. Rubbish that had been collected was then transported onto a truck that had been pro-vided.

Manual cleaning was

considered quite a hassle. Moreover, the Kuta Beach area was wide enough and having a very high intensity of tourist visit. The loader normally used to facilitate the work had been out of order since three months ago. Meanwhile, the Ba-dung Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency (DKP) had time to do repairs, but the loader was finally broken again.

“Indeed it had already been repaired, but was broken again. Now, we are asked to wait because its spare parts should be purchased to Surabaya,” he said. To address the rub-bish cleanup efforts denot-ing the impact of seasonal winds, the Kuta Beach Task Force had made coordina-tion with DKP Badung for help and to alert several trucks. (kmb25)

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Junky rubbish sets to become a problem on Kuta Beach following the arrival of high wind phenomenon every year. Rubbish clean-up endeavor is quite difficult to do because the loader usually used to transport the rubbish from the beach side to the highway has been out of order from three months ago.

Indonesia, Ausie hold bilateral talks

FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yud-hoyono held bilateral talks with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard at Ayodya Hotel here on Sunday.

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Top Khmer Rougeleaders’ trial opens

in Cambodia

Bali’s exportsto U.S. up 12 pct

Cameron hailsF1 as Britishsuccess story

InternationalTuesday, November 22, 20112

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Tabanan (Bali Post) –

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gas placed there and so it seemed

collapsing, doors and refrigerators

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one resident are let near. Tabanan

from the refrigerator. A forensic lab

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The residents of Batannyuh Village are making carving handicrafts

Batannyuh Village

Frequent crop failures drive residents to be carverTabanan (Bali Post)—

Frequent rice crop failure haunting the villagers of Batannyuh, Marga, makes them confused. They are also forced to work as wood carver. This new livelihood ultimately succeeds. Within the past 10 years, Batannyuh Village has been known as supplier of various types of Balinese style sill carvings. Almost throughout the year, the demand for carvings received by Batannyuh is never empty. As overwhelmed, local residents are forced to bring in wood carver from Buleleng and Karangasem.

Sexual assault on children increase every year

Gas explotion

3International Bali News Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

handicrafts of Bali in the export mar-ket have been pretty good. Creationof craftsmen satisfying the tastes ofconsumers becomes one of the aspectsmakingthepriceofbamboohandicrafts

As consequence, the acquisition offoreign exchange increases though thevolume of trading to foreign marketsreduces. Unit price of the handicraftsmade them antique and unique gothigherprices in theexportmarketsdur-

specialbamboocraftentrepreneurfromGianyar, recently in Denpasar.

Bamboo as raw materials used tomake various furniture, chairs, tablesand cabinets in Bali increasingly re-duced and turned scarcer. If it wasavailable, the price would certainlybe expensive. On that account, crafts-men always attempted to make newcreations.

“Bamboohandicraftcombinedwithrattansupportedbyalluringdesignwillproduce an antique and unique handi-craft. Of course, they are thoroughlysalable in the export markets. Theproduct usually consists of rice basket,lampshades and so forth needing littlerawmaterialbutcostsmoreexpensive,”he said.

Aside from the scarcity of raw ma-terials for the handicraft, on the otherside the bamboo craftsmen tended to

shift to re-cycled crafts because theoverseas markets were getting moresluggish. “Currently, the sales of bam-boo handicraft products decline up to50 percent. To respond the condition,we must make another breakthrough,”he said. According to him, the declinehad occurred since six months ago. Itwas triggeredbymanycauses, rangingfromtsunamidisaster inJapan,crisis in

bamboohandicraftsweresoldatpricesstarting from IDR 800,000 to IDR 2.5million or lower if compared to theprevious price.

“Although prices have been re-duced, it remainsunable to increase theinterest of tourists to buy handicraftsmade of bamboo,” he continued.

Meanwhile, based on the dataexposed by Bali Industry and TradeAgency, the foreign trade volume ofbamboo handicrafts seemed to declinein terms of volume, but the acquisitionof foreign exchange increased. It waslikely to have been caused by the unitprice of various bamboo handicraftsthatwasmoreexpensive.Even,during

Thesalesvalueincreasedto6.5percent

the shipping containing seven millionpieces. In other words, the volume oftrading fell by 32.6 percent. (bit)

The area of Penimbangan Beach,

it was crowded by residents whocame from dawn until noon. Mostof them were pupils and students.As usual, prior to executing self-

-ings on beach side to invoke safety

Moreover, Penimbangan Beachis located at the same area as the

they considered it a very good

“Every six months, I deliberatelycelebrate the Banyupinaruh onPenimbangan Beach because it’sso nice and belongs to the temple

area. On that account, it is appro-

On the beach of Banjar Village,-

from the early days. Just like on theother beaches, residents of Banjaralso said prayers before and after tak-ingabath. “Almost every sixmonths,we bathe in the sea while celebratingthe Banyupinaruh. Especially aftergetting the lesson about this ritual inschool, our children always request

-tion,” said Nyoman Raka, a residentof Temukus Village.

Aside from the beach, residents

also celebrated Banyupinaruh on-

Munduk Hamlet, Banjar Village,

local residents took a bath in thespring area of the river. Besides,

water coming out from the springscan cure skin diseases. Made Edi,one of the residents bathing in thespring said it was the right place

Banyupinaruh. In addition to pu-

water also served as a good remedyfor skin diseases. (kmb/ole)

Semarapura (Bali Post)—A number of beaches in Klung-

kung Regency were flocked by

thousands of people from all cornersof Klungkung gathered on severalbeaches like Watu Klotok, Kusamba

posed a regular occurrence comingoff every six months, namely duringthe celebration of Banyupinaruh or

As observation made, WatuKlotok Beach had been visited

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by bringing along some canangoblations and pejati, while someothers did not. On average, theycame in a group, family, relativesor friends. When arriving on thebeach, those who carried canangoblation or pejati looked to pres-

resumed with bathing ritual on thebeach as believed to be a form of

spiritual impurities.Partly, some visitors apparently

engrossed in playing ball with theirfriends. Meanwhile, the others had

leisurely walk and then they tooka shower on the beach. “We rou-tinely come to Watu Klotok Beachwhen celebrating Banyupinaruh.It is intended for conducting self-

came with his wife and child.

advantage by housewives with their

who had eating problem behavior.Cool atmosphere conditions of thesurrounding environments automat-

mother got the right reason to feedtheir children with food deliberatelybrought from home. “Perhaps, it is

is easier for me to feed my child.Athome, he is occasionally unwillingto eat,” said a mother bringing alongher 2.5-year-old son.

Not only children, many teen-age and adult visitors could nothelp being hungry after taking abath in the sea. As a result, they

tofu and other hawkers who indeedtook advantage of the moment tosearch for their fortune on the WatuKlotok Beach. (kmb20)

IBP/file

People are crowded on Penimbangan Beach, Buleleng during the Banyupinaruh day

Banyupinaruh

People bathe on the beach and hot spring

RESIDENTS of Buleleng remain to believe in the Banyupinaruh Day, a day after Sarasvati,

Evidently, almost all beaches in Northern Bali were thronged by residents to cleanse themselves

of rivers and water tourist attractions such as at Banjar Hot Spring.

Bali craftsmen overwhelmed

International4 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 News

As thousands of jubilant, cheer-ing supporters waving red-and-yellow Spanish flags and blue-and-white party ones gathered outside Popular Party headquarters, their leader and future Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy thanked Spaniards for their support, then sounded a somber note of warning.

“It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years,” he said. “For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, exces-sive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circum-stances.”

Other than promise tax cuts for

small- andmedium-size companies that

make up more than 90 percent of all firms in

Spain, the 56-year-old Rajoy has not specified how he will tackle

Spain’s unemployment night-mare.

Rajoy faces the towering task of restoring investor confidence and lowering Spain’s soaring bor-rowing costs with deficit-reducing measures, while not dragging an already moribund economy into a double-dip recession. It only just climbed out

of one last year that was prompt-ed by the bursting of a real estate bubble.

With 97 percent of the votes from the election counted, the Pop-ular Party won 186 seats compared to 154 in the last legislature. The Socialists plummeted from 169 to 110, their worst performance ever. The PP thus won an absolute majority and resounding mandate from a deeply troubled electorate. It needed 176 votes for such a cushion in the lower chamber of Parliament, the main one.

Rajoy said he has not promised miracles and there will be none, but that the PP has shown in the past — it ruled from 1996 to 2004 and got Spain into the euro along the way — it gets things done. He appealed to Spaniards to join to-gether and resurrect the economy.

“We stand before one of those crossroads that will determine the future of our country, not just in

the next few years but for de-cades,” said Rajoy, loser of the previous two elections.

Agence France Presse

Chinese state media on Monday played down the impact of greater US involvement in Asia-Pacific after US President Barack Obama’s week-long trip in the region, saying there was “no need to panic”.

Obama flew back to the United States on Saturday after taking part in a trio of summits, where heannounced greater military in-volvement in the region with a new US Marines force in Australia and vowed to push for reform in Myanmar.

His journey to Australia and Indonesia highlighted a US power

shift towards dynamic Asia, amid growing US rivalry with China. That came after an APEC summit in Ha-waii. “China does not need to panic about the US return to Asia,” the

state-run, nationalistic Global Times said in its English and Chinese-language versions. “Fac-ing a weak economic recovery, the US can do nothing but make some strategic mobilisation as self-consolation.”

The daily newspaper added in an editorial that China “has the upper hand in the Sino-US competition and the US return to Asia cannot change the situation.” The two countries are economically interdependent, but

they increasingly squabble on cur-rency, trade and maritime security.

During last week’s trip, the United States told China that as a “grown-up” economy it must obey the “rules of the road”, and Obama insisted the United States does not “fear” China and does not want to

contain it.His trip came ahead of the start

of an annual China-US trade meet-ing on Sunday in the Asian nation, which is expected to be frosty as the US blames Chinese trade policies for its economic woes. In an edito-rial, the official China Daily said Beijing broadly welcomed greater US presence in Asia, pointing out that Obama’s trip was also geared towards US voters ahead of elections next year.

“Constructive US engagement with the local economies and more direct interaction will create jobs not only for Americans,” the English-language daily said. But it accused Obama of trying to “scare-monger by exaggerating ‘security concerns’” in the South China Sea, which is at the heart of territorial disputes between Beijing and many of its neighbours.

“He is obviously worrying too much... Just as Premier Wen Jiabao told Obama, China and its Asian neighbours are doing fine, and the shipping lanes in the South China Sea are ‘safe and free’.

Agence France Presse

Malaysia’s prime minister is to table a law allowing peaceful gatherings without police permits, in an apparent pre-election move to improve civil liberties after street protests, a minister said Monday. Nazri Aziz, who is in charge of law, told state media premier Najib Razak will propose the Peaceful Assembly Bill to replace one of a slew of old draconian laws that he promised to scrap in a surprise move in September.

“It will be tabled by Prime Min-ister Najib Razak (this) week, but we have yet to confirm the date,” Nazri said. The New Straits Times, in a front-page headline, said the new bill would allow “peace-ful gatherings without permits”, quoting government sources and adding that the dispensation would apply to specific venues such as stadiums.

Under Malaysia’s strict security laws, a police permit is required if three or more people gather to demonstrate. Last month, Najib introduced legislation to repeal two security laws and set free 125 people held under them, marking the first steps in his vow to repeal

or soften authoritarian laws such as the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows detention without trial and has been used against government opponents.

The premier is pushing to im-prove civil liberties after his gov-ernment came under heavy criti-cism following police use of tear gas and water cannon to crush a July street rally calling for elec-toral reform.

However, critics say Najib had reneged on repealing the ISA fol-lowing last week’s arrest of 13 people including six foreigners under the act for allegedly trying to revive a militant group.

Ministers counter that there is no other law to hold militants on until the ISA replacement laws are tabled next year. The ethnic Malay-dominated governing co-alition now headed by Najib that has ruled Malaysia since its 1957 independence has employed a range of tough laws to maintain order in the Muslim-majority but multi-racial country.

But the laws have sparked grow-ing condemnation by critics who call them inhumane and prone to government abuse to stifle legiti-mate dissent.

Spanish conservatives win general elections

Associated Press Writer

MADRID — Spain’s opposition conservatives swept commandingly into power and into the hot seat Sunday as voters enduring a 21.5 percent jobless rate and stagnant economy dumped the Socialists — the third time in as many weeks Europe’s debt crisis has claimed a government.

AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti

Conservative Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy is seen on a TV screen as supporters celebrate after winning the general elections at the party headquarter in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011.

No need to panic over US Asia return: China media

AP Photo

In this photo taken Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, newly-recruited military soldiers prepare to board a plane after attending a departure cer-emony in Beijing, China.

Malaysia to legalise gatherings

without permits

Activities Tuesday, November 22, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for November 2 through 21, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sail-ings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

2 Nov Buda Wage KelawuPenataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemMelanting temple Camenggaon SukawatiPenataran Ped temple Nusa PenidaPasek Gelgel temple Pangembungan Bongkase AbiansemalPasek Bendesa temple Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPasek Gelgel temple Br. Jawa Tengah BulelengGaduhan Jagat temple Singakerta UbudMasceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding TampaksiringPenataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPaibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan KutaGoa di Besakih, Basukian BesakihOdalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh/Bukit Kiwa Tengen Pe-nataran Agung BesakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PejengMerajan Pasek Gelgel SonganMerajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan SidemenMerajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari SukasadaDadia Pasek Gelgel temple Sidemen KarangaseMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli

8 Nov Anggar Kasih Dukut Dalem temple Batuyang BatubulanPasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan TabananDesa/ Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu GianyarMerajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung SulahanMerajan Pasek Padang Rata PadangPuser Jagat Dalem Dukut Nusa Penida

9 Nov Buda Umanis Dukut Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja AbiansemalDalem Samplangan Gianyar

10 Nov Purnama Kelima Batumadeg temple BesakihKentel Gumi temple Batur BaangliPedarman Agung Satria DenpasarPemerajan Agung Pemecutan Denpasar

Ngusaba di Kehen BangliDesa Pemenang LombokAgung Pasek Gelgel Sumerta DenpasarPasek Gobleg Kekeran MengwiSuranadi temple LombokPuncak Bukit Tampak SiringDalem Puri Agung KintamaniDalem Agung Nongan KarangasemDalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-TabananDalem temple Balingkang KintamaniPr. Tampurhyang Pusat Songan KintamaniDalem Pulasari Bantas Sudaji BulelengMerajan Pasek Gelgel LebihMerajan Pasek Gelgel TulambenPenyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa Selemadeg TabananPasar Agung Besakih Sebudi KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak KajaSuci Desa Tianyar temple Kubu KarangasemBukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Batur KintamaniNarmada temple LombokSegara temple Ampenan LombokUlaran temple Seririt Buleleng19 Nov Saraswati Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang TabananPasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase AbiansemalWatugunung temple BimaAgung Jagatkarana SurabayaAditya Jaya temple Rawamangun Jakarta TimurPemaksan temple Banyuning Timur BulelengAgung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa BaratDadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal BadungGiri Jaya Natha temple BalikpapanAgung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia

21 Nov Some RibekJati temple JembranaKawitan Batugaing BangliTirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya

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IBP

A sense of brotherhood was so intimate, though in a competition. Laughing merrily, doing activities hand in hand, relaxing, at times taunting each other and expressing friendly smile were scarce atmosphere to be encountered. Verdant nature, cool air and vivacity of Wangaya hills spiced up their excitement. What an exciting occasion it was that could really release the tension from the shackles of stress due to regular hustles and bustles.

It was a brief description about the atmo-sphere representing the outbound activities in connection with the 15th anniversary of Kuta Paradiso Hotel on Saturday (Nov 13) at Bali Outbound & Farmstay, Bukit Melingkuh Tourist Park, Baturiti Village, Tabanan. The

happening was attended by approximately 600 people involving employees and manage-ment of the hotel and enlivened by their fam-ily members. Also present on that occasion was the owner of Kuta Paradiso Hotel, Ms. Shellisa Kiky Karjadi and Mr. Max Reyner Karjadi who were giving a great support.

Human Resources Manager of Kuta Parad-iso Hotel, Gusti Ngurah Adi Putra, said such an activity was routinely organized every year in relation to the anniversary of the hotel. The even engaging the employees and family was deliberately held to inspire the team to work as well as to foster the sense of togetherness. “This celebration event is held for two times and participants are also divided into two groups. By doing so, it will not interfere with daily operations in the hotel,” he said while smiling pleasantly. (BTN/015)

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 6 News International

The charges against the surviv-ing inner circle of the communistmovement all now in their 80s

include crimes against human-ity, genocide, religious persecution,homicide and torture stemmingfrom their 75-7 reign of terror.An estimated .7 million peopledied of execution, starvation, ex-haustion or lack of medical care as aresult of the Khmer Rouge’s radicalpolicies, which essentially turnedall of Cambodia into a forced laborcamp as the movement attemptedto create a pure agrarian socialistsociety. Intellectuals, entrepreneursand anyone considered a threatwere imprisoned, tortured and oftenexecuted.

Tribunal spokesman Huy Van-nak called the proceedings begin-ning Monday “the most importanttrial in the world” because of theseniority of those involved.

“It sends a message that the trial,which survivors have been waiting

begins,” he said. The defendants,who sat side by side with their law-yers, are 85-year-old Nuon Chea,the Khmer Rouge’s chief ideolo-gist and the No. 2 leader behindthe late Pol Pot 80-year-old Khieu

amphan, an ex-head of state and86-year-old Ieng ary, the formerforeign minister.

A fourth defendant, 7 -year-

to stand trial last week becauseshe has Alzheimer’s disease. heis Ieng ary’s wife and served asthe regime’s minister for socialaffairs.

The Khmer Rouge’s supremeleader, Pol Pot, died in 8 inCambodia’s jungles while a pris-oner of his own comrades, whoafter being toppled from power

fought a guerrilla war that did notfully end until the late 0s.

There is serious concern thatjustice may not be done if any of

In eptember, the tribunal an-nounced it would split up the in-dictments according to charge intoseparate trials in order to expeditethe proceedings. The current trialis considering charges involvingthe forced movement of people andcrimes against humanity.

“It’s the first time the seniorleadership of the Khmer Rouge isbeing tried by a court with inter-

thousands of victims have had a fo-rum to tell their stories, and demandreparations for their suffering,” saidClair Duffy of the Open ocietyJustice Initiative, which has beenmonitoring the tribunal’s work.

Associated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines A Philippine court on Monday allowedformer President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to be detained temporar-ily in an upscale hospital suite on electoral fraud charges while herlawyers battle to get her released.

More than a dozen left-wing activists protested the ruling anddemanded that the 64-year-old Arroyo be locked up like a commonsuspect in jail. A special air-conditioned cell complete with a livingroom and a small kitchen has been prepared for Arroyo at policeheadquarters.

President Benigno Aquino III’s administration has not opposed ahospital detention and has ordered Arroyo treated with respect. Ar-

charges with “indecent haste” to ensure she would spend Christmasin jail.

Once described as one of Asia’s most powerful women, Arroyo,who denies any wrongdoing during her presidency, became the thirdex-Philippine leader to fall into disgrace when she was arrested Fridayfor alleged involvement in the 2007 rigging of elections to favor hersenatorial candidates.

AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Mark Peters

In this photo released by Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Ieng Sary, left, former Khmer Rouge foreign minister, is helped by court security personnel during a trial for former Khmer Rouge top leaders, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011.

Top Khmer Rouge leaders’ trial opens in CambodiaAssociated Press Writer

HNOM ENH, Cambodia Three top hmer Rouge leaders accused of orchestrating

Ex-Philippineleader to stay detained in hospitalBy

Reuters

First it was money folded into paper planes that were

Chinese Internet users’ latest show of solidarity with Ai has takenthe unlikeliest form of protest mass nudity. By Monday afternoon,seventy people had posted nude photos of themselves on a websitecalled “Ai Wei Fans’ Nudity -- isten, Chinese Government Nudityis not Pornography” -- a rare form of protest in a country where publicnudity is still taboo.

They uploaded the photos after Beijing police questioned Ai’svideographer on Thursday for allegedly spreading pornography onlineby taking nude photographs of Ai and four women. upporters of Ai,whose 8 -day secret detention earlier this year sparked an internationaloutcry, say that the questioning over the nude photographs is China’slatest effort to intimidate its most famous social critic.

The videographer, hao hao, said Beijing police interrogated himfor about four hours on the motives behind the photographs. “Theysaid ‘Don’t you know that the photos that you’ve taken are obscenephotos ’” hao told Reuters by telephone. “I said ‘I didn’t know that’and said ‘how can they be considered obscene ’ They said they’vecharacterized them as such.”

Ai paid a bond of 8.45 million yuan ( .3 million) last Tuesday,

appeal on a tax evasion charge that his supporters have said is apolitical vendetta. The money was raised from contributions fromhis supporters.

Wen unchao, who posted two nude photographs of himself onthe website, said he believed the investigation against Ai’s assistantwas the latest form of “persecution” against Ai.

“This is a matter that has made many people very indignant,”Hong Kong-based Wen said. “Because the interpretation of people’snaked bodies in itself is an individual freedom and a form of creativefreedom. Also, we don’t see any pornographic elements in (Ai’s)photographs. o we are using this extreme method to express ourprotest.” Many of the photos posted on the website were accompaniedwith politically tinged commentaries.

“Grandpa, is this pornography ” wrote a user, who was photo-graphed bare-bottomed and writing on a wall with the words “’8political turmoil,” referring to the June 4, 8 , armed crackdown inBeijing’s Tiananmen quare.

the nude photographs that were taken in August last year, Ai toldReuters.

Chinese strip down for Ai Weiwei amid porn investigation

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 7Indonesia Today International

AntaraSURABAYA - The Indonesian

Defense Forces (TNI) grouped in the country`s Garuda contingent-23-E/UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon) won the inter-contingent shooting competition, a Garuda spokesman said on Sunday.

The shooting competition took place at the eastern sector of UNIFIL firing range, Ebel Al Saqi, South Lebanon on Saturday (Nov 19), the

Indonesian battalion information (Indobatt) officer Banu Kusworo told Antara through his e-mail.

The shooting competition which was conducted prior to the end of the UNIFIL peace keeping mission, par-ticipated in by six teams of battalions of the UNIFIL east sector namely the Indobatt, Indbatt, Spainbatt, Nepbatt, Malcoy and the Lebanese (LAF) personnel.

“The Indonesian military person-

nel, who competed in a rainy and foggy day with the temperature of eight degrees Celsius, emerged as the first champion with the score 342,” Kusworo said.

In the meantime, the Indian mili-tary personnel who also acted as the competition`s organizing committee emerged as the runner-up with 329 score, and followed by the Spanish team at the third place with the score 281 points, the spokesman cited.

AFP PHOTO/ROMEO GACAD

This file picture taken on August 4, 2009 shows a supply of an-tiretroviral drugs prepared for free distribution to HIV patients visiting for treatment and consultation at the Integrated HIV Service Unit at the Cipto Mangunkusumo government hospital in Jakarta. A significant expansion in access to treatment helped slash the number of AIDS-related deaths in 2010, bringing the number of people living with HIV to a record 34 million, the United Nations said on November 21, 2011.

Number of Indonesians ending life during hajj reaches 370

AntaraMECCA - The number of Indo-

nesians who died in the Holy Land while making the hajj pilgrimage this year by 4.16 pm local time Friday or 8.15 pm West Indonesia Standard Time (WIB) on Sunday reached 370, official data showed.

A total of 352 of the deceased were performing hajj under the regular hajj pilgrimage services while 18 others under the first-class pilgrimage services (ONH-Plus).

“The pilgrims who died were pre-

dominantly men reaching 244 while the number of women pilgrims who ended their lives in the Holy Land was 126,” Evi Al Hudhori of the computerized data at the Integrated Hajj Services office of the Religious Affairs Ministry in Saudi Arabia, said here on Sunday.

She said that the biggest number of the deceased reaching 71 came from the SUB (Surabaya, East Java) embarkation point, followed by that from the Solo or SOC embarkation (65).

FOTO ANTARA/Prasetyo Utomo

Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca.

AntaraNUSA DUA - UN Secretary

General Ban Ki-moon has said In-donesia had to do improvement in various fields, although it has made

a lot of progress in reducing natural disaster risk.

“Indonesia still has to improve a lot of things,” the UN chief said in the sidelines of his participation

in the 4th ASEAN-UN Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Saturday.

Ban said that main focus at pres-ent was the target of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which

among others related to health in-surance, especially for women and children.

The UN chief has visited Central Kalimantan hinterland to inspect a number of public health clinics before coming to Bali to attend the ASEAN-UN Summit. According to him, a country should not wait until it was prosperous because its people`s welfare would only be reached through various efforts.

In particular the UN secretary general appreciated the success of Indonesia in reducing the risk of natural disaster through a good will

and leadership. Ban Ki-Mon also said Indonesia has made various efforts to reduce poverty.

He asserted that ASEAN region including Indonesia were new economic development areas, and therefore ASEAN should continue to cooperate to step up the resilience of the region.

Ban said the United Nations was ready to build a cooperation with ASEAN which was marked with the signing of a joint statement be-tween ASEAN and UN to enhance comprehensive cooperation in vari-ous fields.

Indonesia needs to make improvement

PLN to receive additional gas supplyAntara

JAKARTA - State electricity company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) looks set to receive an additional gas supply of 105 british thermal unit per day (BBTUD) as of early 2012, the Upstream Oil and Gas Executive Body (BP Migas) said.

The additional gas supply would enable the country to reduce electric-ity subsidy by Rp5 trillion in 2012, deputy for operations control to BP Migas chief Rudi Rubiandini said here on Sunday.

“The gas supply of 105 BBTUD is equal to an electrical power of 400-500 megawatts so it can reduce

electricity subsidy by around Rp5 trillion in 2012,” he said.

He said 20 BBUTD of the addi-tional gas supply would result from a swap with Jambi Merang field oper-ated by JOB PHE-Talisman which had so far supplied gas to state gas company PT Perusahaan Gas Neg-ara (PGN) Tbk. He said 40 BBUTD would come from ConocoPhillips as a result of swap with Gajah Baru field operated by Premier Oil and 45 BBUTD from the Suban field oper-ated by ConocoPhillips.

Rudi said the scenario was made to allow PLN to get gas supplies without disrupting supplies to PGN

for industries.Earlier, Head of PLN Fuel Oil

and Gas Division Suryadi Mardjoeki said he was worried about gas supply from Jambi Merang Field under a swap scheme.

He said the additional gas supply under a swap scheme would not come from the reduction of ConocoPhil-lips` gas supplies to PT Chevron Pa-cific Indonesia but from PGN. “This has never been disclosed at discussion on the swap,” he said.

PLN had written to BP Migas asking for the reduction of Conoco-Phillips` gas supplies to Chevron or to Singapore, he said.

Indonesia`s team emerges champion in shooting competition in Lebanon

8 InternationalTuesday, November 22, 2011

Bali Today

The U. . remained the biggestbuyer of Bali s export commoditiesalthough the country s economygrew only 2. percent last year andits economy slowed down this year,the head of the export section at theBali provincial industry and trade

Bali s exports to the U mainlyconsisted of non-knitted garments,

wooden handicraft,and processed

In August 20 , Bali s non-oilnon-gas exports were valued atU 5 . million of which U 0.2million came from exports to theU , he said.

place among the buyers of Bali sexport commodities, he said.

IBP

DEN ASAR - Helping conserve sea turtles,Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia (CCAI) once againgiving donation to Kuta Village. This time thedonation is All-Terain Vehicle (ATV) that willhelp Kuta Beach guards monitoring turtle eggsin the Kuta beach area. CCAI also donate urfboard to Kuta lifeguard and helping the villagerepairing road.

According to Managing Director Coca-ColaAmatil Group Terry Davis this help was part ofCoca-Cola corporate social responsibility (C R)to community. He stated that the company keepsits support to Balinese people, especially Kutapeople in conserving sea turtles.

‘’We started our support to community bygiving donation to build Kuta Beach ea TurtleConservation (KB TC) about 3 years ago. Nowthe progress is very promising because sea

turtles that being released are increasing 00percent than when we first started the project,’’he explained.

Besides, helping to make KB TC, Davis add-ed that Coca-Cola also giving support on beachcleaning program. o far, there are 5 beachesin Badung regency that had been cleaned andstill getting support from CCAI and uicksilverIndonesia. ‘’We see many progresses since welaunched the beach cleaning program. The beachnow cleaner and KB TC also becomes touristsattraction because of its unique form and itsfunction,’’ said Davis.

According to I Made Nerta, representative ofKuta Village, CCAI not only supporting beachcleaning program, there are many donations thathad been given to Kuta people, especially for thosewho selling cold drink in the beach. CCAI supportedthem with the refrigerator to make the environmentcleaner and the average sales increase. (iah)

Antara

DEN ASAR Through manyprogrammes and events, Bali afari

our 4th anniversary on the 3th ofNovember 20 .

According to press realease,spokemansaid, as Indonesia’s ead-

and Best Conservation Institution

have demonstrated our achieve-ments by holding Corporate ocialResponsibility (C R) activities tocelebrate our anniversary.

“The activities started on the 5thof November 20 with the open-

the Elephant Village area, wherechildren planted trees as ‘Trees of

Ririn ow said here, undayThey symbolise trees as a mes-

sage of hope for the protection ofthe environment, parallel to Bali

natural education and conserva-tion.

At 6.30 pm on the same day, aBalinese spiritual event, DharmaWacana, was conducted by revered

Gunung at our impressive BaliTheatre.

This event was inspiring becauseMr. Made Gunung, as a Hindupriest, articulated insightful con-templations which can be appreci-ated by followers of all religions.The last C R activity of Bali afari

was a blood donation drive carriedout by the Indonesian Red Cross

ociety on the th of November

20 .All of these activities are in har-

mony with Balinese’s philosophy,Tri Hita Karana (derived from an-skrit, meaning ‘Three ources of

relationship between human s andGod (the Dharma Wacana event),human beings between each other(the Blood Donation event), as wellas humans and the environment

-opted this philosophy to generatea holistic relationship betweenour staff, guests and the naturalworld.

-niversary Night on the 3th of No-vember 20 , at the Tumbler Ridge

all the staff, Department Heads, ourGeneral Manager Hans Manansangand several invited sponsors.

The party was the occasion toannounce the Best Employee 20from all departments and to enjoythe performances from the winnersof the‘ inging Idol’ and ‘ afari’sGot Talent’ competitions.

always endeavors to be at theforefront of the amusement parkindustry in Indonesia by continu-ously updating our programmesand marketing strategies.

“As we advance, we will con-tinue with our innovative contribu-tions to the development of traveland tourism in Indonesia and theconservation of the diverse wildlifein this beautiful country, especiallyin Bali,” her said.

Bali’s exports to U.S. up 12 pctAntara

DEN ASAR - Bali s non-oil/non-gas exports to the nited

Bali Safari celebrated 4th anniversary

KBSTC.JPG

Managing Director Coca-Cola Amatil Group Terry Davis handing the ATV to Kuta beach guard.

Helping conserve sea turtles

Kuta village get ATV

Balinese Culture

9International Tuesday, November 22, 2011

BASE JUKUTSpice Paste For egetables

INGREDIENTS:175 gr shallots, peeled and chopped150 gr cloves garlic, peeled & chopped450 gr laos, peeled and thinly sliced4 tsp coriander seeds175 gr fresh turmeric, peeled and sliced250 gr large red chilies, seeded & chopped40 gr bird’s-eye chilies100 gr kencur roots, peeled and chopped5 tsp dried shrimp paste150 ml Coconut oil1 tsp salt1¼ tsp black pepper ground4 ea salam leaf, whole3 ea stalk lemon grass, bruised

PREPARATION:1. Combine all ingredients except salam leafs and

Lemon grass, salt and water in food processor and grind coarsely.

2. Place ground ingredients in heavy saucepan, add remaining ingredients and simmer over medium heat for approximately 60 minutes or until water is evaporated and marinade changes to golden color.

Antara

NUSA DUA - Thailand andVietnam have signed a new agree-ment to export rice to Indonesia,Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan saidin the sidelines of the 19th ASEANSummit at Bali International Con-vention Center.

“Thailand will remain exporting300,000 tons of rice to Indonesiathis year,” Gita said, adding thatthe agreement of Thailand andVietnam to export rice to Indonesia

was stipulated in a memorandumof understanding (MoU) as partof a bilateral meeting during theASEAN Business and InvestmentSummit.

Gita explained that althoughThailand was hit by devastating

supply rice to Indonesia, and com-mitted to supplying 1 milliontons of rice per year from 2012 to2016.

While Vietnam only to amendthe memorandum of understanding

about export quota of 2010-2012period from 1 million tons to 1.5million tons per year.

Meanwhile, Deputy Trade Min-ister Bayu Krisnamurti said Indone-sia was also exploring a possibilityto import rice from Myanmar andCambodia to meet its domesticneed.

“We open up communicationwith and approach to Myanmarand Cambodia, and Myanmar saidits rice production was improving,”Bayu said.

Thailandand Vietnam have signed a new agree-

ment to export rice

to Indonesia, Trade Minis-ter Gita Wir-

jawan said in the sidelines

of the 19th ASEAN Sum-

mit at Bali InternationalConvention

Center.

Thailand Remains Exporting Rice To Indonesia

IBP/Net

IKAN LELE

OVERVIEW:The whiskered

catfish, though not an attractive looking creature, tastes excellent when cooked in this fashion.

INGREDIENTS:1 catfish weighing

350g1 tsp salt1tsp black

peppercorn crushed2 tbsp freshly squeezed limejuice1-cup spice paste for seafood2 cups coconut milk1 stalk lemon grass, bruised

PREPARATION:Season catfish with salt, pepper and limejuice and

marinate for 30 minutes. Deep fry fish over medium heat for 10 minutes until crispy.

While the fish is marinating, combine all remaining ingredients in saucepan and bring to the boil over medium heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes, until coconut milk breaks apart and sauce becomes oily and clear rather than creamy.

Pour the sauce over the fried fish and serve.

Helpful hint:If catfish is not available, replace with any fresh

whole fish or follow the same method with any boneless fish fillet.

Tuesday, November 22, 201110 InternationalDestinations

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IBP

Located in Pajarakan Village, Gerokgak District Buleleng Re-gency, it’s about 60 kms from Singaraja, it’s located near the West Bali National park. This beach area also near the Menjangan beach that usually used for Snorkeling or Diving Banyuwedang Hot spring come from the hot spring in the beach area, this hot spring is the largest hot spring in Bali. This hot spring contain a little of Sulfur, the average temperature is around 40 C. Because of its sulfur, this hots ping believed able to cure a lot of disease. There is a lot of people come to this place with a hope to

cure their sickness.In the beach area of the hot

spring, there is a lot of mangrove (actually this hot spring located in the middle of mangrove forest), so this area was free from abrasion. There also a creek with a white shore in this hot spring area, this makes banyuwedang hot spring even more beautiful than what you have been thinking.

The domestic tourist was domi-nated the visit to this area, they come with a hope to cure their sickness, lot of domestic tourist come from Banyuwangi, Java. This makes government of the Bali regency planning to make this area as a “Health Tourism”.

Banyuwedang hot spring

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11

BUSINESSInternational

Reuters

When it comes to holiday shop-ping, more people are phoning itin, forcing retailers to embracenew ways to connect or else losesales.

owe’s Companies, Best Buyand Toys R Us are among retailersmaking big changes to prepare fora wave of holiday shoppers whowill use smart phones to researchproducts, check rivals’ prices andmake purchases.

“The shopping experience isin the consumer’s hands and you

said Gihad Jawhar, vice presidentof owes.com, the website of thesecond-largest home-improvementcompany. “Retailers can either hopon the bus or get left behind. We

owe’s is issuing more than42,000 Apple iPhones to employ-ees in more than ,700 stores.

When shoppers are in owesstores scanning bar codes withtheir phones, reading productreviews and checking prices, em-ployees can engage them better us-ing iPhones to track down similarinformation.

taff can also check quickly ifproducts are in stock or if itemsare available on owes’ websiteor another store nearby, and canoften match or beat a price a con-

phone.Best Buy has 63 so-called con-

nected stores in which employeeshave been given mobile devicesand are encouraged to use theirown smart phones to help shop-pers research products and checkinventory.

“Employees are empowered tomake the decision to match a com-petitor price on the spot,” a spokes-woman for Best Buy added.

More than 40 percent of retailersthis year have a policy of at leastcompeting with lower online pricesfound through mobile comparisons.Ahead of last year’s holiday season,

most retailers were still in denialabout this trend,according toresearch

Themobile shoppingboomisput-ting billions of dollars in sales up forgrabs inan industry that isbeingpum-meledbylacklustereconomicgrowth

U. . retail e-commerce holidaysales will rise 7 percent to 46.7billion in20 ,while total retail saleswill growabout3percent this season,eMarketer forecast on Thursday.

But mobile commerce is growingeven faster.

The 300 largest U. . mobile mer-chants, led byAmazon.com Inc, willgenerate 5.37billion insales throughmobile devices this year, more thandouble 20 0, according to a recentsurvey by Internet Retailer.

Arecent surveyof shoppersby theNationalRetailFederation found that40 percent own a smart phone andmore thanhalfof thosepeopleplan touse their device to research productsor make a purchase this holiday.

The peak day for mobile holidayshopping isexpected tobe thesecondunday in December (December

this year), according to PayPal, theonline payments business owned byeBay Inc. That’s the last non-workday when orders will be shipped intime for Christmas.

ast year on that day, total pay-ment volume, or TPV, transmittedby mobile devices through PayPal’ssystem was 4.7 million. This yearPayPalexpectsmore than 0millionof TPV on that shopping day.

“Retailers are waking up tothe fact that shopping is chang-ing very rapidly. ome wish thatweren’t true -- they would like toban smart phones in their stores,”said John Donahoe, chief execu-tive of eBay. “But others are em-bracing it. They have got to get towhere consumers are making theirdecisions.”

Amazon, eBay and J.C. Penneyareamongpotentialwinners fromthemobile shopping boom, according toPaula Rosenblum, managing partnerat R R.

J.C. Penney launched a mobileversion of its website earlier thanmany traditional retailers and in-cluded easy-to-use features such aswish lists that can be shared withfriends, Rosenblum said.

J.C. Penney has seen weak salesrecently, but Rosenblum said thelong-term result of having a strongmobile offering should be increasedsame-store sales growth.

“ ome retailers may have donenothing inmobileandstill have risingyear-over-year sales, but long-termthat won’t last,” Rosenblum added.

EBayrecently launchedanewver-sion of its Red aser app, which letsshoppers scan bar codes and checkprices at other retailers with theirsmart phones.Amazon also unveileda new version of its Price Check appthis week.

Red aser now includes localinventory data from Milo, a businesseBay bought last year, and a PayPalmobilecheckoutbutton.There is alsoa button smart phone users can tap topickup theirholiday itemsatphysicalstore locations.

Retailers including Toys R Us,the largest toy retailer in the Unitedtates, and Best Buy have shared

local inventory data with Milo. Thatmeans shoppers using the Red asersmart phone app may buy somethingfrom them and end up at their physi-cal stores.

Unlike the Internet alone -- whichhas pulled more sales out of stores --mobile commerce can actually helpbrick-and-mortar retailers get a sale,

deals and items they want while theyare actually out shopping.

“That’s a big deal for retailers,after somanyyearswhen the Internethas been driving consumers awayfrom stores,” said Cyriac Roeding,chief executive of hopkick, whichhas a location-based mobile shop-ping app.

hopkick’s app encourages its2.5 million users to visit stores bysending discounts and rewards totheir smart phones when they scanproduct bar codes.

Although Japan’s economyexpanded .5 percent in the pre-vious quarter, rebounding fromrecession triggered by Marchearthquake and subsequent nu-clear crisis, it is expected to slowsharply in October-December.

-jor manufacturing base for manyJapanese exporters, are expectedto add to global headwinds facedby the world’s third-biggesteconomy.

Exports fell 3.7 percent lastmonth from a year earlier, farmore than a 0.3 percent dipforecast by economists and thedata follows the central bank’swarning that government debtwoes in Europe were alreadyhurting Japan and emergingeconomies.

The October fall follows a 2.3percent rise in eptember andwas the biggest drop since a 0.3percent fall in May, with ship-ments of semiconductors andother electronic goods fallingdue to strength in the yen.

“The global slowdown stem-ming from Europe’s debt crisis,sluggish IT-related demand andthe yen’s rise which is drivingproduction abroad were amongthe factors behind the decline,” a

He added that the impact of

Japan’s exports in the comingmonths.

Thai-bound exports fell 5.

in three months.

last week after easing policy byboosting its asset buying schemein October, but economists saysigns of more weakness mayput it under pressure to loosenmonetary reins further.

“Exports will likely continueto fall for the next few months,”said Takeshi Minami, chiefeconomist at Norinchukin Re-search Institute.

“There is a chance that theBOJ will adopt further easing

not yet a real crisis situation butthe impact from Europe’s debtwoes is gradually affecting othereconomic regions.”

One of the triggers of theOctober 27 monetary easing wasthe yen’s rally to record highsagainst the dollar driven by in-vestors shifting funds away fromEurope and other riskier marketsinto highly liquid and relativelystable Japanese debt.

ome BOJ board membershave argued that purchases ofgovernment bonds with shortmaturities worked to stabilizethe foreign exchange market,BOJ minutes showed on Mon-day.

Just days after the centralbank move, the finance min-istry ordered its biggest eversingle-day intervention, sellingan estimated 7.7 trillion yen onOctober 3 .

Exports to China, Japan’s larg-est trading partner, slumped anannual 7.7 percent, posting theirbiggest decline since May.

hipments to the United tatesfell 2.3 percent, while those toEuropean Union dropped 2.

trade surplus with the region toits smallest since 7 for themonth of October.

Imports were up 7. percentin October from a year earlier,against an expected 5.2 percentgain, bringing the trade balance

( 3.6 billion). That marked the

compared with a median forecastof a 3 . billion yen surplus.

Japan’s trade balance hasswung to a deficit a few timessince the March disaster as ex-ports slumped due to damagedsupply chains while importscontinued to increase on ris-ing demand for crude oil andnatural gas to make up for aloss of nuclear energy as wellas higher oil prices.

Japan October exports disappoint as yen, global slowdownReuters

Retailers adapt as mobile holiday shopping booms

Entertainment InternationalTuesday, November 22, 201112

“I ended up writing the re-cord by myself, so the fact that you would honor it this way, you have no idea what this means to me,” said Swift after winning the trophy for favor-ite country album for “Speak Now.” She was also awarded the prize for favorite country female artist.

Nicki Minaj, the pink-loving hip-hop diva, won two awards Sunday. She kicked off the 39th annual fan-favorite ceremony by sporting a pair of speakers on her much-talked about pos-terior and was later honored as favorite rap/hip-hop artist, best-ing a group that included men-tor Lil Wayne, and won favorite rap/hip-hop album for “Pink Friday.” “There’s so much love in this room,” beamed the pink-haired Minaj.

Adele had been the night’s leading nominee with four nods, but didn’t have much of a presence at the show: She was absent from the ceremony

because she is recovering from recent throat surgery. Adele tied Swift with three awards: favorite pop/rock female artist, adult contemporary artist and pop/rock album for “21.”

Other winners included Ma-roon 5 as favorite pop-rock band/duo/group, Blake Shelton as favorite country male artist, Lady Antebellum as favorite country band/duo/group, Be-yonce as favorite soul/R&B fe-male artist, Rihanna for favorite soul/R&B album for “Loud” and Hot Chelle Rae as new art-ist of the year. The ceremony inside the Nokia Theatre in an unusually rainy Los Angeles was drenched with 17 musical performances.

Justin Bieber got in the holiday spirit among a forest of neon lights with “Under the Mistletoe,” and Kelly Clarkson, wearing a glittery red gown with her hair swept to the side, delivered a swinging rendition of her hit “Mr. Know It All”

as back-up dancers dressed as 1930s-era photographers snapped the first-ever “Ameri-can Idol” champion.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony shared custody of rapper Pitbull, who joined the former couple in a pair of separate performances. Lopez performed essentially a live version of a car commercial starring the “Idol” judge set to “Papi” — with the car on-stage — before launching into her hit “On the Floor.” Pitbull later returned to the stage and joined Anthony for “Rain Over Me.” Lopez expressed surprise when she won the favorite Latin music artist award. “It’s been up and down and just exciting and overwhelming and so many things,” Lopez said of the last year.

Several artists delivered stripped-down performances: The Band Perry crooned an emotional “If I Die Young,” a pink-haired Perry accompanied

herself on guitar for “The One That Got Away” and a platinum-blonde Chris Brown simply sang “All Back” before being joined by a troop of helmet-c l a d b a c k - u p dancers for a flashy inter-pretation of “Say I t With Me.”

Reuters

LOS ANGELES - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected its shortlist of documentary features that will vie for an Oscar.

The 15 titles announced on Friday include “Pina,” Wim Wenders’ 3D trib-ute to late choreographer Pina Bausch; “Project Nim,” the story of a 1970s behavioral project involving a chimpan-zee; AIDS-themed chronicle “We Were Here” and “Buck,” a portrait of the man who inspired “The Horse Whisperer.”

A couple of war-themed films made the cut: “Hell and Back Again” and “Under Fire: Journalists in Combat,” while “Semper Fi: Always Faithful” centers on a career military man who exposes a Marine Corps cover-up of an environmental crisis.

Among The highly regarded docu-mentaries that didn’t make the shortlist are Werner Herzog’s look at capital punishment, “Into the Abyss,” and Steve James’s “The Interrupters,” an explora-tion of grassroots attempts to curb urban violence.

For the preliminary round of voting, the Documentary Branch Screening Committee viewed 124 feature-length nonfiction films that qualified in the cat-

egory. Documentary Branch members will select five nominees from the 15-title shortlist. Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards will be announced on January 24. The awards ceremony is scheduled for February 26.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — It’s tough to keep a pregnancy a secret when you’re in the public eye, and for a while, Beyonce thought the jig was up. “The whole time I definitely was thinking, ‘Everyone knows, everyone can see,’” said the singer before the screening of her new concert DVD Sunday in New York.

It became particularly difficult for her to hide the growing baby bump when the Grammy-winner performed for four nights to sold-out crowds at New York’s Roseland Theater in August.

“When you’re pregnant, it’s a little bit harder to breathe, so it was hard doing all the choreography and singing at the same time,” said the 30-year-old singer in an onstage interview.

Fans who didn’t get a chance to catch “The Intimate Nights” shows — what Beyonce said was her last concert performance of the year — can get a behind-the-scenes look in her new “Live at Roseland” DVD, available exclusively at Walmart this week. The deluxe two-DVD set is available everywhere on 11/29.

Along with classics from her Destiny’s Child days and major hits from her solo career, the DVD includes interviews with the singer, home footage of rehearsals and special family moments — even shots of Beyonce in a wedding gown.

She’s also hoping the film will serve as a time capsule for her unborn child, a chance for him or her to say, “I can’t believe I was in that belly,” she said.

Taylor Swift wins 3 trophies at AMAsAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift was crowned artist of the year at the American Music Awards for a second time. “This is so crazy!” the country superstar said after beat such contenders as Adele, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry to capture all three awards that she was nominated for at Sunday’s ceremony, including artist of the year, the show’s highest accolade that she previously claimed in 2009.

Taylor Swift ac-cepts the award for artist of the year at the 39th Annual American Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011 in Los Angeles.

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Director James Marsh poses for a portrait while promoting the film “Project Nim” during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah Janu-ary 21, 2011.

International Tuesday, November 22, 2011 13Science

The first team, members of the OPERA experiment at the Gran Sasso laboratory south of Rome, said they recorded neutrinos beamed to them from the CERN research center in Switzerland as arriving 60 nanoseconds before light would have done.

But ICARUS, another experi-ment at Gran Sasso -- which is deep under mountains and run by Italy’s National Institute of National Phys-ics -- now argues that their mea-surements of the neutrinos energy on arrival contradict that reading. In a paper posted Saturday on the same website as the OPERA results, http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3763v2, the ICARUS team says their find-

ings “refute a superluminal (faster than light) interpretation of the OPERA result.”

They argue, on the basis of re-cently published studies by two top U.S. physicists, that the neutrinos pumped down from CERN, near Ge-neva, should have lost most of their energy if they had travelled at even a tiny fraction faster than light.

But in fact, the ICARUS scien-tists say, the neutrino beam as tested in their equipment registered an energy spectrum fully correspond-ing with what it should be for par-ticles traveling at the speed of light and no more. Physicist Tomasso Dorigo, who works at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear

Research, and the U.S. Fermilab near Chicago, said in a post on the website Scientific Blogging that the ICARUS paper was “very simple and definitive.”

It says, he wrote, “that the differ-ence between the speed of neutrinos and the speed of light cannot be as large as that seen by OPERA, and is certainly smaller than that by three orders of magnitude, and compat-ible with zero.”

Under Einstein’s 1905 theory of special relativity, nothing can travel faster than light. That idea lies at the heart of all current sci-ence of the cosmos and of how the vast variety of particles that make it up behave.

Reuters

NEW YORK - Exercise loves company and adores rhythm, so why pound a treadmill when you can dance your cardio workout away? Experts say dance-based workouts, from Zumba to Bol-lywood aerobics to flexes at the ballet barre, can take your fitness from grind to gladness, with an international flair.

“It’s killing two birds with one stone,” said instructor Rahul Nath, of the Bollywood-inflected aerobics class he developed and teaches at a 24 Hour Fitness center in California. “You’re learning the basics of a world dance while burning calories and building up the cardio,” he said. “You come out of the class drip-ping with sweat, which is what everybody wants when they come

to a gym.”The dance fitness class is not

the dancer’s dance class, accord-ing to Nath, a professional actor and dancer. He draws a careful distinction between the technique-based dance classes of performers and his fitness class, where the workout commands center stage.

“Fitness is the main key, to sim-plify the moves and get more aero-bic elements in there” he said. “It’s easy. To learn the art is another av-enue.” A performance-based class could involve five or six moves in a 10-second routine, he said. But the fitness class repeats the same moves for up to 30 seconds. “So people are comfortable in that move. Then I move on to another move within that format.”

Bollywood dancing is gen-erally classified as dancing to the soundtracks of East Indian movies, such as “Slumdog Mil-lionaire, but Nath said the genre has absorbed so many Western influences, from hip-hop to rhythm and blues, that it has become accessible to all fitness levels and ages.

“(Choosing the) music is half the battle,” Nath said. “Most people in my class are neither dancers nor Indian, so that’s what makes the class so attractive. When you hear it you want to break out.”

Associated Press Writer

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The sprawling pile of hundreds of thou-sands of tires isn’t easy to spot from the ground, sitting in a rural South Carolina clearing accessible by only a circuitous dirt path that winds through thick patches of trees. No one knows how all those tires got there, or when.

But, Calhoun County Council Chairman David Summers says of this giant rubber menace, “You can see it from space.” Authorities have charged one person in connection with the mess of roughly 250,000 tires, which covers more than 50 acres on satellite images. And now a Florida company is helping haul it all away.

Litter control officer Boyce Till said he contacted the local sheriff and state health department, which is investigating who had been dump-ing the tires. But the worst possible penalty that could be imposed lo-cally? A single $475 ticket for lit-tering. Records show the property is owned by Michael Keitt Jr. of Far Rockaway, N.Y.

A phone number for Keitt could not be found, but local officials said the man was one of several heirs to

the property, all of whom live out of state.

As part of the state Department of Health and Environmental Con-trol’s case, a state grand jury issued indictments against George Fontella Brown, 39, of Easley, on three charg-es of violating the state’s solid waste act, according to DHEC spokesman Adam Myrick. Those state charges carry much heftier possible penal-ties, including thousands of dollars in fines and up to a year in jail.

Myrick would not discuss details of the case against Brown, and a spokesman for state Attorney Gen-eral Alan Wilson did not respond to messages. No working phone listing could be found for Brown, who also faces similar charges in Greenville and Orangeburg counties, and court records did not list an attorney for him.

Tire dumping has historically been a problem in Calhoun County and other rural areas, said Summers, who recalled another giant tire pile in the 1990s that would dwarf the current monstrosity.

“This tire pile here is a baby compared to what that one was,” said Summers, who previously worked for a company that ended up shred-ding those used tires.

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Dumped tires are seen piled in a wooded area near Elloree, S.C. on Nov. 17, 2011.

Giant mound of tires in SC visible from space

Study rejects ”faster than light”

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The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) tunnel, located at the CERN particle research centre near Geneva, is seen in this undated handout photograph.

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GENEVA - An international team of scientists in Italy studying the same neutrino particles colleagues say appear to have travelled faster than light rejected the startling finding this weekend, saying their tests had shown it must be wrong. The September announcement of the finding, backed up last week after new studies, caused a furor in the scientific world as it seemed to suggest Albert Einstein’s ideas on relativity, and much of modern physics, were based on a mistaken premise.

the cardio fun

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Women participate in exercises during a fitness class at The Bar Method in New York, in this picture taken March 28, 2011.

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“It’s a sense of elation,” Dono-van told a news conference afterbeing named the match’s MostValuable Player (MVP). “I’vebeen so determined to win thisand I just wanted the ball to goin, it didn’t matter who scored.It’s been a trying year

“Winning feels so good.”The Galaxy deserved the vic-

tory after dominating the contestto secure a title victory thatvalidates the franchise’s lucrativeinvestment in a star-studded line-up. With Beckham, who arrived in2007, Irish striker Robbie Keaneand Donovan in the squad, theside has three ‘designated players’paid above salary cap restrictionsand anything less than a title vic-tory would have been deemed afailure.

The Galaxy’s win marks the

designated player and may signala new era of star power for the

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LONDON - Chelsea’s faltering Premier

followingalatewinnerbydefenderGlenJohnson.Asecondsuccessivehomedefeat forChelsea fol-

of the season.Chelsea fell behind when Maxi Rodriguez

struck after 34 minutes but equalised when sub-

-ford Bridge appeared to be heading for a drawuntil former Chelsea full back Johnson foundhimself in space on the right and burst into thepenalty areabeforeunleashing a lowshot into thecorner of the net.

competitions, climbed to sixth in the table, levelon points with fourth-placed Chelsea, TottenhamHotspur andArsenal. “It is not good to be so lowin the table in relation to the leadersat this stageofthe season but there is no running away from ourresponsibilities,” Chelsea managerAndre Villas-Boas told a news conference.

“There isnocalling this ayearof transition,nocalling for time to do our work. Our responsibil-ity is to win the most amount of trophies we canand at the moment we are in four competitions.”

manager.

“It is not the brightest of starts in the Premier

belief is there from the team and that is what we

Kenny Dalglish was delighted with his team.

came back in the second half and put us under abit of pressure, but we hung on in there and theresultmatchedourambitionofwanting towinthegame,” he said.

“Glen Johnson ran into their box in the 86thminute to score the goal to win the game, I don’tknow what he was doing up there, but it’s anindication of how much we wanted to win whenyour right full-back is up there.”

BREAKNECK PACE

Chelsea striker Fernando Torres, signed from

January, and Andy Carroll who replaced him at

start to the match.CharlieAdamdispossessedJohnObiMikelon

the edge of the Chelsea penalty area to set up anexchange of passes between Craig Bellamy and

over a diving Petr Cech and into the far corner.Bellamy, making only his second league start

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and Chelsea captain John Terry, both the subjectof investigations into allegations of racism, had

problems and Terry looking far from his old as-sured self.

Chelsea, though, lookedlivelierafter thebreak

pace to their attack and he equalised from closerange following a surging run and cross fromFlorent Malouda.

Moments later Chelsea went close to a sec-

his side level with a brilliant point-blank save

Drogba free kick.Malouda twice went close for Chelsea as

suddenly found inspiration in the shape of themarauding Johnson who surged into the penaltyarea and stroked the ball past the despairingTerryinto the corner of the net.

league defeats since 2002 and will head for a

in Germany on Wednesday having lost three oftheir last four league games.

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Los Angeles Galaxy forward Landon Donovan holds up the MLS Cup after they won their championship soccer match against the Houston Dynamo, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, in Carson, Calif. The Galaxy won 1-0.

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LOSANGELES - David Beckham’s LAGalaxy captured theMLS Cup championship with a 1-0 triumph over the HoustonDynamo in front of a celebratory home crowd on Sunday.Captain Landon Donovan scored the only goal of the matchin the 72nd minute, cleverly lifting the ball over an advancing

2005 and third in the past decade.in the regular season, it was per-

big-name players rose to the occa-sion by combining for Donovan’swell-taken goal.

The winning attack started withBeckham winning an aerial battleby heading forward to Keane,whose defence-splitting pass putDonovan through on goal and the

the ball past an advancing Dy-namo keeper Tally Hall. It wasthe kind of sequence the Galaxyhad envisioned when they signedKeane in August to combine withthe team’s other leading lights.

Captain Brian Ching did hisbest to create chances for the visi-tors, who were playing withoutinjured striker Brad Davis, and

to hold the Galaxy at bay for long

had scored the opening goal a fewminutes before Donovan’s winnerwhen Keane completed a sweep-

with television replays suggestingthe Irishman was level with the

Despite the defeat, it was astrong campaign for the Dy-

namo, who overcame a slowstart to the season and made aconvincing playoff charge beforerunning into the overpoweringGalaxy. “They’ve been the best

day until now,” said Dynamocoach Dominic Kinnear of theGalaxy. “They’re a deservingchampion.”

Chelsea title hopes take another hit

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Chelsea’s Ashley Cole, left, vies for the ball with Liverpool’s Dirk Kuyt of The Netherlands during the Eng-lish Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge Stadium in London, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011.

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Federer began the season-endingchampionships, being held in Lon-don’s dazzling O2 Arena for the

hitting.

Federer, bidding for a record sixth title

and Tsonga threatened a repeat of his

16-timesgrand slamchampionFederer

-back, cracking in the 10th game of the

points.

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Switzerland’s Roger Federer plays a return to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga during a round robin single tennis match at the ATP World Tour Finals at O2 Arena in London, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011.

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LONDON - A sickly Rafa Nadal was pushed to the limit by Mardy ish in his opening match atthe AT orld Tour inals on Sunday before joining great rival and defending champion Roger

lay-off, needed nearly three hours and a rush to the toilet because of a terrible stomach to subduethe American tournament debutant, winning a late-night thriller -2 - 7- .

Woods pays back Couples with a winning point

BOA doping policy found to be ‘non-compliant’

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Cameron hailed the Woking company as “a powerful rebuke” to the view that Britain’s engineering and manufac-turing power was in decline with its future more in buying from others than selling to them. Formula One, with the emphasis on cutting-edge and ground-breaking technology, had shown how successful it could be.

“There is something that doesn’t get said often enough which is that Formula One is an incredible British success story,” declared Cameron. “It’s not just every time Jenson (Button) or Lewis (Hamilton) crosses the winning line,” he said in a speech delivered to an audience including both the team’s world champion drivers.

“It’s actually that every time (Michael) Schumacher or (Rubens) Barrichello roars off the starting grid, they are doing so in cars built right here in Britain.

“Perhaps this is a point I’ll make to Chancel-lor Merkel when I see her tomorrow, something to break the ice,” joked Cameron, who will meet his German counterpart in Berlin on Friday to discuss the Euro zone debt crisis. A majority of the 12 F1 teams are based in Britain, includ-ing Germany’s seven-times world champion Schumacher’s Mercedes GP and compatriot

and current champion Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull.McLaren are the second most successful team in Formula

One, with 20 drivers and constructors’ titles and 175 race wins after Ferrari.

The sportscar factory, with its gleaming white tiles and pristine surfaces, puts McLaren on a level with Ferrari whose sportscar assembly line shares the same premises at Maranello as their Formula One team.

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McLaren Mercedes driver Jenson Button of Britain leaves pits after a pit service during the Emirates Formula One Grand Prix at the Yas Marina racetrack, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011.

Cameron hails F1 as British success story

Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg believes that he can get amongst the leading three teams for a strong end to the year in the final round

of the F1 2011 season in Brazil.

Over the course of the F1 2011 world Championship, Mercedes have struggled to

get on terms with the front running cars of Red Bull, Mclaren and Ferrari, how-ever Rosberg is convinced that the Silver Arrows will have the speed to upset the status quo at Interlagos.

“The stronger qualifying and race pace in Abu Dhabi makes me confident that we can push and try to catch one of the cars from the top three teams at Interlagos,” he said. “Our Mercedes engine power and the top speed in the car will be good for getting up the hill on the long start-finish straight.”

The Mercedes power has been arguably the car’s greatest strength this year, helping the team post good performances at Spa and Monza in particular. Ros-berg and Mercedes have yet to score a single podium in

2011, and this will be weigh-ing on the young German’s mind as he looks to end the year on a good note.

“I would love to give the season a nice ending,” he said. “Our engineers, the boys in the garage and everybody at our factories in Brackley and Brixworth deserve a good result at our last race”

Rosberg’s optimism is backed up by a track he enjoys, and some important steps forward for the car he will be tackling it in.

“I’m really looking for-ward to going to Brazil next week,” he said. “The Interlagos track is amaz-ing to drive, and in the last weeks we have made some steps forward without hav-ing any big updates on the car, so it should be a good weekend.”

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Mercedes Grand Prix driver Nico Rosberg of Germany arrives at the Yas Marina racetrack, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011.

Rosberg targets big three teams in Brazil

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WOKING, England - Prime Minister David Cameron held up Formula One as “an incredible British success story” on Thursday after formally opening McLaren’s new sportscar factory next to the grand prix team’s headquarters. Accompanied by McLaren Group executive chairman Ron Dennis, Cameron toured a facility currently producing 10 to 12 of the exotic MP4-12C cars a week but which will eventually rise to 1,000 a year.