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PAGE PAG GE 6 Junky rubbish sets to become a problem on Kuta Beach following the arrival of high wind phenomenon every year.

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Junky rubbish sets to stuff beaches

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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.

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 provided.

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 Badung Sanitation and Landscaping 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 rubbish cleanup efforts denoting the impact of seasonal winds, the Kuta Beach Task Force had made coordination with DKP Badung for help and to alert several trucks. (kmb25)

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

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In his prelude to the meeting, President Yudhoyono expressed his gratitude to the Australian delegation led by Premier Gillard to the 6th East Asia Summit for their contribution to the meeting.

“I think Her Excellency 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.

According to the President, the just-ended meeting of ASEAN leaders with their dialog partners in East Asia was designed to discuss a number of issues including 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 bilateral ties between Indonesia and Australia had been growing well without 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.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Gillard congratulated President Yudhoyono on the United States and Russia joining the 6th East Asia

Summit.

The President was during the meeting accompanied by Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Radjasa, Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung Laksono, Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Finance Minister Agus Martowardoyo, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan, Education and Culture Minister M Nuh, National Police Chief General Timur Pradopo, and National Defense Forces (TNI) Chief Admiral Agus Suhartono.

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Bali News Sexual assault on children increase every year Denpasar (Bali Post) –

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The residents of Batannyuh Village are making carving handicrafts

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Frequent crop failures drive residents to be carver Tabanan (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.

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%DQ\XSLQDUXK VHYHUDO EHDFKHV WKURQJHG E\ SHRSOH Semarapura (Bali Post)—

A number of beaches in Klungkung Regency were flocked by UHVLGHQWV RQ 6XQGD\ 1RY 6XFK thousands of people from all corners of Klungkung gathered on several beaches like Watu Klotok, Kusamba %HDFK DQG RWKHUV 6XFK D VSHFWDFOH posed a regular occurrence coming off every six months, namely during the celebration of Banyupinaruh or WKH GD\ DIWHU WKH 6DUDVYDWL 'D\ RQ 6DWXUGD\ 1RY

As observation made, Watu Klotok Beach had been visited E\ UHVLGHQWV IURP D P /RFDO 7LPH 6RPH UHVLGHQWV FDPH by bringing along some canang oblations and pejati, while some others did not. On average, they came in a group, family, relatives or friends. When arriving on the beach, those who carried canang oblation or pejati looked to presHQW LW RQ WKH EHDFK /DWHU LW ZDV resumed with bathing ritual on the beach as believed to be a form of VHOI SXULÂżFDWLRQ RU FOHDQVLQJ WKH spiritual impurities.

Partly, some visitors apparently engrossed in playing ball with their friends. Meanwhile, the others had

leisurely walk and then they took a shower on the beach. “We routinely come to Watu Klotok Beach when celebrating Banyupinaruh.

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Not only children, many teenage and adult visitors could not help being hungry after taking a bath in the sea. As a result, they ZRXOG ÀRFN D QXPEHU RI PHDWEDOO tofu and other hawkers who indeed took advantage of the moment to search for their fortune on the Watu Klotok Beach. (kmb20)

Bali craftsmen overwhelmed WR JHW TXDOL‍ۋ‏HG EDPERR shift to re-cycled crafts because the 6R IDU WKH VHOOLQJ SULFHV RI EDPERR overseas markets were getting more handicrafts of Bali in the export mar- sluggish. “Currently, the sales of bamket have been pretty good. Creation boo handicraft products decline up to of craftsmen satisfying the tastes of 50 percent. To respond the condition, consumers becomes one of the aspects we must make another breakthrough,â€? makingthepriceofbamboohandicrafts he said. According to him, the decline LQ WKH H[SRUW PDUNHW VXIÂżFLHQWO\ JRRG had occurred since six months ago. It As consequence, the acquisition of was triggered by many causes, ranging foreign exchange increases though the from tsunami disaster in Japan, crisis in volume of trading to foreign markets WKH 8QLWHG 6WDWHV DQG VR RQ ZKHUHDV WKH reduces. Unit price of the handicrafts bamboo handicrafts were sold at prices made them antique and unique got starting from IDR 800,000 to IDR 2.5 higher prices in the export markets dur- million or lower if compared to the LQJ WKH SHULRG RI VDLG 1JXUDK D previous price. “Although prices have been respecialbamboocraftentrepreneurfrom duced, it remains unable to increase the Gianyar, recently in Denpasar.

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Meanwhile, based on the data and cabinets in Bali increasingly reduced and turned scarcer. If it was exposed by Bali Industry and Trade available, the price would certainly Agency, the foreign trade volume of be expensive. On that account, crafts- bamboo handicrafts seemed to decline men always attempted to make new in terms of volume, but the acquisition of foreign exchange increased. It was creations. “Bamboohandicraftcombinedwith likely to have been caused by the unit rattan supported by alluring design will price of various bamboo handicrafts produce an antique and unique handi- that was more expensive. Even, during craft. Of course, they are thoroughly WKH SHULRG IURP -DQXDU\ WR 6HSWHPEHU salable in the export markets. The WKH H[SRUW YROXPH UHDFKHG product usually consists of rice basket, PLOOLRQ SLHFHV ZRUWK 86' PLOOLRQ lampshades and so forth needing little The sales value increased to 6.5 percent rawmaterialbutcostsmoreexpensive,� IURP WKH VDPH SHULRG LQ ZKLFK ZDV RQO\ ZRUWK 86' PLOOLRQ IRU he said.

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

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People bathe on the beach and hot spring RESIDENTS of Buleleng remain to believe in the Banyupinaruh Day, a day after Sarasvati, IDOOLQJ RQ 6XQGD\ 1RY DV D KRO\ GD\ WR SHUIRUP VHOI SXULÂżFDWLRQ SK\VLFDOO\ DQG VSLULWXDOO\ Evidently, almost all beaches in Northern Bali were thronged by residents to cleanse themselves VROHPQO\ 2WKHU WKDQ FDUU\LQJ LW RXW RQ WKH ULYHU WKH\ DOVR JDWKHUHG FURZGHGO\ RQ FRQĂ€XHQFHV of rivers and water tourist attractions such as at Banjar Hot Spring.

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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.

As thousands of jubilant, cheering supporters waving red-andyellow Spanish flags and blue-andwhite 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, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.”

Other than promise tax cuts for

small- and medium-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 nightmare.

Rajoy faces the towering task of restoring investor confidence and lowering Spain’s soaring borrowing 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 prompted by the bursting of a real estate bubble.

With 97 percent of the votes from the election counted, the Popular 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 together and resurrect the economy.

No need to panic over US Asia return: China media 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 involvement 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 Hawaii. “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. “Facing a weak economic recovery, the US can do nothing but make some strategic mobilisation as selfconsolation.”

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

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

they increasingly squabble on currency, trade and maritime security.

During last week’s trip, the United States told China that as a “grownup” 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 meeting 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 editorial, 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 Englishlanguage 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’.

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.

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

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

Malaysia to legalise gatherings without permits 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 Minister 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 “peaceful 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 improve civil liberties after his government came under heavy criticism following police use of tear gas and water cannon to crush a July street rally calling for electoral reform.

However, critics say Najib had reneged on repealing the ISA following 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 coalition 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 growing condemnation by critics who call them inhumane and prone to government abuse to stifle legitimate dissent.

Activities

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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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 atmosphere 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 management of the hotel and enlivened by their family 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 Paradiso 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)

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Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for November 2 through 21, 2011 2 Nov Buda Wage Kelawu Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Melanting temple Camenggaon Sukawati Penataran Ped temple Nusa Penida Pasek Gelgel temple Pangembungan Bongkase Abiansemal Pasek Bendesa temple Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pasek Gelgel temple Br. Jawa Tengah Buleleng Gaduhan Jagat temple Singakerta Ubud Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan Kuta Goa di Besakih, Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh/Bukit Kiwa Tengen Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Pejeng Merajan Pasek Gelgel Songan Merajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan Sidemen Merajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari Sukasada Dadia Pasek Gelgel temple Sidemen Karangase Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli 8 Nov Anggar Kasih Dukut Dalem temple Batuyang Batubulan Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Desa/ Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar Merajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Sulahan Merajan Pasek Padang Rata Padang Puser Jagat Dalem Dukut Nusa Penida 9 Nov Buda Umanis Dukut Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja Abiansemal Dalem Samplangan Gianyar 10 Nov Purnama Kelima Batumadeg temple Besakih Kentel Gumi temple Batur Baangli Pedarman Agung Satria Denpasar Pemerajan Agung Pemecutan Denpasar

Ngusaba di Kehen Bangli Desa Pemenang Lombok Agung Pasek Gelgel Sumerta Denpasar Pasek Gobleg Kekeran Mengwi Suranadi temple Lombok Puncak Bukit Tampak Siring Dalem Puri Agung Kintamani Dalem Agung Nongan Karangasem Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-Tabanan Dalem temple Balingkang Kintamani Pr. Tampurhyang Pusat Songan Kintamani Dalem Pulasari Bantas Sudaji Buleleng Merajan Pasek Gelgel Lebih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tulamben Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa Selemadeg Tabanan Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi Karangasem Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak Kaja Suci Desa Tianyar temple Kubu Karangasem Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Batur Kintamani Narmada temple Lombok Segara temple Ampenan Lombok Ularan temple Seririt Buleleng 19 Nov Saraswati Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang Tabanan Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase Abiansemal Watugunung temple Bima Agung Jagatkarana Surabaya Aditya Jaya temple Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pemaksan temple Banyuning Timur Buleleng Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung Giri Jaya Natha temple Balikpapan Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia 21 Nov Some Ribek Jati temple Jembrana Kawitan Batugaing Bangli Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya

Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 considered 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, sailings, 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 “umbulumbul”, 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.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

International

Ex-Philippine leader to stay detained in hospitalBy Associated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines A Philippine court on Monday allowed former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to be detained temporarily in an upscale hospital suite on electoral fraud charges while her lawyers battle to get her released.

More than a dozen left-wing activists protested the ruling and demanded that the 64-year-old Arroyo be locked up like a common suspect in jail. A special air-conditioned cell complete with a living room and a small kitchen has been prepared for Arroyo at police headquarters.

President Benigno Aquino III’s administration has not opposed a hospital detention and has ordered Arroyo treated with respect. ArUR\RÂśV ODZ\HU )HUGLQDQG 7RSDFLR DFFXVHG WKH JRYHUQPHQW RI ÂżOLQJ WKH charges with “indecent hasteâ€? to ensure she would spend Christmas in jail.

Once described as one of Asia’s most powerful women, Arroyo, who denies any wrongdoing during her presidency, became the third ex-Philippine leader to fall into disgrace when she was arrested Friday for alleged involvement in the 2007 rigging of elections to favor her senatorial 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 Cambodia Associated Press Writer

HNOM ENH, Cambodia Three top hmer Rouge leaders accused of orchestrating &DPERGLDœV ³NLOOLQJ ¿HOGV´ ZHQW RQ WULDO 0RQGD\ EHIRUH D 8 1 EDFNHG WULEXQDO PRUH WKDQ WKUHH GHFDGHV DIWHU VRPH RI WKH WK FHQWXU\œV ZRUVW DWURFLWLHV -XGJH 1LO 1RQQ GHFODUHG WKH WULDO RSHQ 0RQGD\ DQG UHDG WKH QDPHV RI WKH WKUHH VHQLRU .KPHU 5RXJH OHDGHUV ZKR DUH GHIHQGDQWV LQ WKH WULEXQDO LQ WKH &DPERGLDQ FDSLWDO 3KQRP 3HQK The charges against the surviving inner circle of the communist movement all now in their 80s include crimes against humanity, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture stemming from their 75-7 reign of terror.

An estimated .7 million people died of execution, starvation, exhaustion or lack of medical care as a result of the Khmer Rouge’s radical policies, which essentially turned all of Cambodia into a forced labor camp as the movement attempted to create a pure agrarian socialist society. Intellectuals, entrepreneurs and anyone considered a threat were imprisoned, tortured and often executed.

Tribunal spokesman Huy Vannak called the proceedings beginning Monday “the most important trial in the world� because of the seniority of those involved.

“It sends a message that the trial, which survivors have been waiting PRUH WKHQ WKUHH GHFDGHV IRU ÂżQDOO\ begins,â€? he said. The defendants, who sat side by side with their lawyers, are 85-year-old Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge’s chief ideologist and the No. 2 leader behind the late Pol Pot 80-year-old Khieu amphan, an ex-head of state and 86-year-old Ieng ary, the former foreign minister.

A fourth defendant, 7 -yearROG ,HQJ 7KLULWK ZDV UXOHG XQ¿W to stand trial last week because she has Alzheimer’s disease. he is Ieng ary’s wife and served as the regime’s minister for social affairs.

The Khmer Rouge’s supreme leader, Pol Pot, died in 8 in Cambodia’s jungles while a prisoner of his own comrades, who after being toppled from power

fought a guerrilla war that did not fully end until the late 0s.

There is serious concern that justice may not be done if any of WKH DJLQJ DQG LQÂżUP GHIHQGDQWV GLHV EHIRUH D WULDO LV ÂżQLVKHG In eptember, the tribunal announced it would split up the indictments according to charge into separate trials in order to expedite the proceedings. The current trial is considering charges involving the forced movement of people and crimes against humanity. “It’s the first time the senior leadership of the Khmer Rouge is being tried by a court with interQDWLRQDO EDFNLQJ ,WÂśV WKH ÂżUVW WLPH thousands of victims have had a forum to tell their stories, and demand reparations for their suffering,â€? said Clair Duffy of the Open ociety Justice Initiative, which has been monitoring the tribunal’s work.

Chinese strip down for Ai Weiwei amid porn investigation Reuters

%(,-,1* First it was money folded into paper planes that were Ă€RZQ RYHU WKH ZDOOV RI GLVVLGHQW DUWLVW $L :HLZHLÂśV KRPH 1RZ Chinese Internet users’ latest show of solidarity with Ai has taken the unlikeliest form of protest mass nudity. By Monday afternoon, seventy people had posted nude photos of themselves on a website called “Ai Wei Fans’ Nudity -- isten, Chinese Government Nudity is not Pornographyâ€? -- a rare form of protest in a country where public nudity is still taboo.

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

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

Ai paid a bond of 8.45 million yuan ( .3 million) last Tuesday, SDYLQJ WKH ZD\ WR ÂżOH ZKDW KH IHDUV PD\ EH DQ XOWLPDWHO\ IXWLOH appeal on a tax evasion charge that his supporters have said is a political vendetta. The money was raised from contributions from his supporters.

Wen unchao, who posted two nude photographs of himself on the website, said he believed the investigation against Ai’s assistant was 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’s naked bodies in itself is an individual freedom and a form of creative freedom. Also, we don’t see any pornographic elements in (Ai’s) photographs. o we are using this extreme method to express our protest.� Many of the photos posted on the website were accompanied with politically tinged commentaries. “Grandpa, is this pornography � wrote a user, who was photographed bare-bottomed and writing on a wall with the words “’8 political turmoil,� referring to the June 4, 8 , armed crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen quare.

'XULQJ $LÂśV FRQÂżQHPHQW SROLFH KDG DOVR TXHVWLRQHG KLP DERXW the nude photographs that were taken in August last year, Ai told Reuters.

Indonesia Today

International

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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Number of Indonesians ending life during hajj reaches 370 Antara

MECCA - The number of Indonesians 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.

Indonesia needs to make improvement Antara

NUSA DUA - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said Indonesia 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 present was the target of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which

PLN to receive additional gas supply Antara

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 electricity 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 additional gas supply would result from a swap with Jambi Merang field operated by JOB PHE-Talisman which had so far supplied gas to state gas company PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (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 operated 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 ConocoPhillips` gas supplies to PT Chevron Pacific 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 ConocoPhillips` gas supplies to Chevron or to Singapore, he said.

among others related to health insurance, 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 between ASEAN and UN to enhance comprehensive cooperation in various fields.

Indonesia`s team emerges champion in shooting competition in Lebanon Antara

SURABAYA - The Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) grouped in the country`s Garuda contingent-23 -E/UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon) won the intercontingent 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, participated 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 military 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 antiretroviral 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.

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International

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Bali Today Bali’s exports to U.S. up 12 pct Antara

DEN ASAR - Bali s non-oil/non-gas exports to the nited 6WDWHV LQ WKH ÂżUVW QLQH PRQWKV RI URVH SHUFHQW WR 86 PLOOLRQ IURP 86 PLOOLRQ LQ WKH VDPH SHULRG ODVW \HDU The U. . remained the biggest buyer of Bali s export commodities although the country s economy grew only 2. percent last year and its economy slowed down this year, the head of the export section at the Bali provincial industry and trade RIÂżFH 3XWX %DJLDGD VDLG Bali s exports to the U mainly consisted of non-knitted garments,

wooden handicraft,and processed ÂżVK KH VDLG In August 20 , Bali s non-oil non-gas exports were valued at U 5 . million of which U 0.2 million came from exports to the U , he said.

7KH ÂżJXUH SXW WKH 86 LQ WKH ÂżUVW place among the buyers of Bali s export commodities, he said.

Bali Safari celebrated 4th anniversary Antara

DEN ASAR Through many programmes and events, Bali afari 0DULQH 3DUN %603 FHOHEUDWHG our 4th anniversary on the 3th of November 20 .

According to press realease, spokeman said, as Indonesia’s eadLQJ $PXVHPHQW 3DUN and Best Conservation Institution %DOL 6DIDUL 0DULQH 3DUN have demonstrated our achievements by holding Corporate ocial Responsibility (C R) activities to celebrate our anniversary. “The activities started on the 5th of November 20 with the openLQJ RI 6DIDUL 3RR 3DSHU )DFWRU\ LQ the Elephant Village area, where children planted trees as ‘Trees of +RSHÂś ´ +HDG RI 0DUNHWLQJ %603 Ririn ow said here, unday They symbolise trees as a message of hope for the protection of the environment, parallel to Bali 6DIDUL 0DULQH 3DUNÂśV YLVLRQ IRU natural education and conservation.

At 6.30 pm on the same day, a Balinese spiritual event, Dharma Wacana, was conducted by revered %DOLQHVH 3ULHVW ,GD 3HGDQGD 0DGH Gunung at our impressive Bali Theatre.

This event was inspiring because Mr. Made Gunung, as a Hindu priest, articulated insightful contemplations which can be appreciated by followers of all religions.

The last C R activity of Bali afari 0DULQH 3DUNÂśV WK DQQLYHUVDU\ was a blood donation drive carried out by the Indonesian Red Cross ociety on the th of November

20 .

All of these activities are in harmony with Balinese’s philosophy, Tri Hita Karana (derived from anskrit, meaning ‘Three ources of /LIHÂś WKDW VLJQLÂżHV WKH KDUPRQLRXV relationship between human s and God (the Dharma Wacana event), human beings between each other (the Blood Donation event), as well as humans and the environment RSHQLQJ RI WKH 6DIDUL 3RR 3DSHU )DFWRU\

%DOL 6DIDUL 0DULQH 3DUN DGopted this philosophy to generate a holistic relationship between our staff, guests and the natural world.

7KH ÂżQDO RFFDVLRQ ZDV RXU $Qniversary Night on the 3th of November 20 , at the Tumbler Ridge $UHD LQ WKH )XQ =RQH DW %DOL 6DIDUL 0DULQH 3DUN DQG ZDV DWWHQGHG E\ all the staff, Department Heads, our General Manager Hans Manansang and several invited sponsors.

The party was the occasion to announce the Best Employee 20 from all departments and to enjoy the performances from the winners of the‘ inging Idol’ and ‘ afari’s Got Talent’ competitions. %DOL 6DIDUL 0DULQH 3DUN always endeavors to be at the forefront of the amusement park industry in Indonesia by continuously updating our programmes and marketing strategies. “As we advance, we will continue with our innovative contributions to the development of travel and tourism in Indonesia and the conservation of the diverse wildlife in this beautiful country, especially in Bali,� her said.

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

Helping conserve sea turtles

Kuta village get ATV IBP

DEN ASAR - Helping conserve sea turtles, Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia (CCAI) once again giving donation to Kuta Village. This time the donation is All-Terain Vehicle (ATV) that will help Kuta Beach guards monitoring turtle eggs in the Kuta beach area. CCAI also donate urf board to Kuta lifeguard and helping the village repairing road.

According to Managing Director Coca-Cola Amatil Group Terry Davis this help was part of Coca-Cola corporate social responsibility (C R) to community. He stated that the company keeps its support to Balinese people, especially Kuta people in conserving sea turtles. ‘’We started our support to community by giving donation to build Kuta Beach ea Turtle Conservation (KB TC) about 3 years ago. Now the progress is very promising because sea

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

Besides, helping to make KB TC, Davis added that Coca-Cola also giving support on beach cleaning program. o far, there are 5 beaches in Badung regency that had been cleaned and still getting support from CCAI and uicksilver Indonesia. ‘’We see many progresses since we launched the beach cleaning program. The beach now cleaner and KB TC also becomes tourists attraction because of its unique form and its function,’’ said Davis.

According to I Made Nerta, representative of Kuta Village, CCAI not only supporting beach cleaning program, there are many donations that had been given to Kuta people, especially for those who selling cold drink in the beach. CCAI supported them with the refrigerator to make the environment cleaner and the average sales increase. (iah)

International

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Balinese Culture

Thailand Remains Exporting Rice To Indonesia Antara

NUSA DUA - Thailand and Vietnam have signed a new agreement to export rice to Indonesia, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said in the sidelines of the 19th ASEAN Summit at Bali International Convention Center. “Thailand will remain exporting 300,000 tons of rice to Indonesia this year,� Gita said, adding that the agreement of Thailand and Vietnam to export rice to Indonesia

was stipulated in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) as part of a bilateral meeting during the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit.

Gita explained that although Thailand was hit by devastating ÀRRG UHFHQWO\ WKH FRXQWU\ ZRXOG supply rice to Indonesia, and committed to supplying 1 million tons of rice per year from 2012 to 2016.

While Vietnam only to amend the memorandum of understanding

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

Meanwhile, Deputy Trade Minister Bayu Krisnamurti said Indonesia was also exploring a possibility to import rice from Myanmar and Cambodia to meet its domestic need. “We open up communication with and approach to Myanmar and Cambodia, and Myanmar said its rice production was improving,�

Bayu said.

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OVERVIEW: The whiskered catďŹ sh, though not an attractive looking creature, tastes excellent when cooked in this fashion.

INGREDIENTS: 1 catďŹ sh weighing 350g 1 tsp salt 1tsp black peppercorn crushed 2 tbsp freshly squeezed limejuice 1-cup spice paste for seafood 2 cups coconut milk 1 stalk lemon grass, bruised PREPARATION: Season catďŹ sh with salt, pepper and limejuice and marinate for 30 minutes. Deep fry ďŹ sh over medium heat for 10 minutes until crispy.

Thailand and Vietnam have signed a new agreement to export rice to Indonesia, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said in the sidelines of the 19th ASEAN Summit at Bali International Convention Center.

While the ďŹ sh 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 ďŹ sh and serve.

Helpful hint: If catďŹ sh is not available, replace with any fresh whole ďŹ sh or follow the same method with any boneless ďŹ sh ďŹ llet.

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BASE JUKUT Spice Paste For egetables INGREDIENTS: 175 gr shallots, peeled and chopped 150 gr cloves garlic, peeled & chopped 450 gr laos, peeled and thinly sliced 4 tsp coriander seeds 175 gr fresh turmeric, peeled and sliced 250 gr large red chilies, seeded & chopped 40 gr bird’s-eye chilies 100 gr kencur roots, peeled and chopped 5 tsp dried shrimp paste 150 ml Coconut oil 1 tsp salt 1Ÿ tsp black pepper ground 4 ea salam leaf, whole 3 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.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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Banyuwedang hot spring IBP Located in Pajarakan Village, Gerokgak District Buleleng Regency, 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 dominated 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”.

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International

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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BUSINESS Japan October exports disappoint as yen, global slowdown Reuters

Retailers adapt as mobile holiday shopping booms

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6HYHUH Ă&#x20AC;RRGV LQ 7KDLODQG D PDjor manufacturing base for many Japanese exporters, are expected to add to global headwinds faced by the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third-biggest economy.

Exports fell 3.7 percent last month from a year earlier, far more than a 0.3 percent dip forecast by economists and the data follows the central bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warning that government debt woes in Europe were already hurting Japan and emerging economies.

The October fall follows a 2.3 percent rise in eptember and was the biggest drop since a 0.3 percent fall in May, with shipments of semiconductors and other electronic goods falling due to strength in the yen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The global slowdown stemming from Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debt crisis, sluggish IT-related demand and the yenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rise which is driving production abroad were among the factors behind the decline,â&#x20AC;? a ÂżQDQFH PLQLVWU\ RIÂżFLDO VDLG He added that the impact of 7KDL Ă&#x20AC;RRGLQJ PD\ IXUWKHU KXUW Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exports in the coming months.

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VWHSV ZLWKLQ WKLV ÂżVFDO \HDU ,W LV not yet a real crisis situation but the impact from Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debt woes is gradually affecting other economic regions.â&#x20AC;?

One of the triggers of the October 27 monetary easing was the yenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rally to record highs against the dollar driven by investors shifting funds away from Europe and other riskier markets into highly liquid and relatively stable Japanese debt. ome BOJ board members have argued that purchases of government bonds with short maturities worked to stabilize the foreign exchange market, BOJ minutes showed on Monday.

Just days after the central bank move, the finance ministry ordered its biggest ever single-day intervention, selling an estimated 7.7 trillion yen on October 3 .

Exports to China, Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest trading partner, slumped an annual 7.7 percent, posting their biggest decline since May. hipments to the United tates fell 2.3 percent, while those to European Union dropped 2.

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Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trade balance has swung to a deficit a few times since the March disaster as exports slumped due to damaged supply chains while imports continued to increase on rising demand for crude oil and natural gas to make up for a loss of nuclear energy as well as higher oil prices.

most retailers were still in denial about this trend, according to research When it comes to holiday shop- ÂżUP 565 The mobile shopping boom is putping, more people are phoning it in, forcing retailers to embrace ting billions of dollars in sales up for new ways to connect or else lose grabs in an industry that is being pummeled by lackluster economic growth sales. oweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Companies, Best Buy DQG ZHDN FRQVXPHU FRQÂżGHQFH U. . retail e-commerce holiday and Toys R Us are among retailers making big changes to prepare for sales will rise 7 percent to 46.7 a wave of holiday shoppers who billion in 20 , while total retail sales will use smart phones to research will grow about 3 percent this season, products, check rivalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; prices and eMarketer forecast on Thursday.

But mobile commerce is growing make purchases. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The shopping experience is even faster.

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When shoppers are in owes or make a purchase this holiday.

The peak day for mobile holiday stores scanning bar codes with their phones, reading product shopping is expected to be the second unday in December (December reviews and checking prices, employees can engage them better us- this year), according to PayPal, the ing iPhones to track down similar online payments business owned by eBay Inc. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the last non-work information. taff can also check quickly if day when orders will be shipped in products are in stock or if items time for Christmas. ast year on that day, total payare available on owesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; website or another store nearby, and can ment volume, or TPV, transmitted often match or beat a price a con- by mobile devices through PayPalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s VXPHU ÂżQGV HOVHZKHUH YLD D VPDUW system was 4.7 million. This year PayPal expects more than 0 million phone.

Best Buy has 63 so-called con- of TPV on that shopping day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Retailers are waking up to nected stores in which employees have been given mobile devices the fact that shopping is changand are encouraged to use their ing very rapidly. ome wish that own smart phones to help shop- werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t true -- they would like to pers research products and check ban smart phones in their stores,â&#x20AC;? said John Donahoe, chief execuinventory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Employees are empowered to tive of eBay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But others are emmake the decision to match a com- bracing it. They have got to get to petitor price on the spot,â&#x20AC;? a spokes- where consumers are making their decisions.â&#x20AC;? woman for Best Buy added.

Amazon, eBay and J.C. Penney More than 40 percent of retailers this year have a policy of at least are among potential winners from the competing with lower online prices mobile shopping boom, according to found through mobile comparisons. Paula Rosenblum, managing partner Ahead of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holiday season, at R R. Reuters

J.C. Penney launched a mobile version of its website earlier than many traditional retailers and included easy-to-use features such as wish lists that can be shared with friends, Rosenblum said.

J.C. Penney has seen weak sales recently, but Rosenblum said the long-term result of having a strong mobile offering should be increased same-store sales growth. â&#x20AC;&#x153; ome retailers may have done nothing in mobile and still have rising year-over-year sales, but long-term that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last,â&#x20AC;? Rosenblum added.

EBay recently launched a new version of its Red aser app, which lets shoppers scan bar codes and check prices at other retailers with their smart phones.Amazon also unveiled a new version of its Price Check app this week.

Red aser now includes local inventory data from Milo, a business eBay bought last year, and a PayPal mobile checkout button. There is also a button smart phone users can tap to pick up their holiday items at physical store locations.

Retailers including Toys R Us, the largest toy retailer in the United tates, and Best Buy have shared local inventory data with Milo. That means shoppers using the Red aser smart phone app may buy something from them and end up at their physical stores.

Unlike the Internet alone -- which has pulled more sales out of stores -mobile commerce can actually help brick-and-mortar retailers get a sale, E\ WHOOLQJ VKRSSHUV ZKHUH WR ÂżQG WKH deals and items they want while they are actually out shopping. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big deal for retailers, after so many years when the Internet has been driving consumers away from stores,â&#x20AC;? said Cyriac Roeding, chief executive of hopkick, which has a location-based mobile shopping app. hopkickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s app encourages its 2.5 million users to visit stores by sending discounts and rewards to their smart phones when they scan product bar codes.

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Entertainment

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

International

Taylor Swift wins 3 trophies at AMAs Associated 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.

“I ended up writing the record 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 favorite 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 posterior and was later honored as favorite rap/hip-hop artist, besting a group that included mentor Lil Wayne, and won favorite rap/hip-hop album for “Pink Friday.” “There’s so much love in this room,” beamed the pinkhaired 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 Maroon 5 as favorite pop-rock band/duo/group, Blake Shelton as favorite country male artist, Lady Antebellum as favorite country band/duo/group, Beyonce as favorite soul/R&B female artist, Rihanna for favorite soul/R&B album for “Loud” and Hot Chelle Rae as new artist 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 “American 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 onstage — 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 platinumblonde Chris Brown simply sang “All Back” before being joined by a troop of helmetclad back-up dancers for a flashy interpretation of “Say I t With Me.”

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

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Reuters

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.

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 tribute to late choreographer Pina Bausch; “Project Nim,” the story of a 1970s behavioral project involving a chimpanzee; 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 documentaries that didn’t make the shortlist are Werner Herzog’s look at capital punishment, “Into the Abyss,” and Steve James’s “The Interrupters,” an exploration 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 15title shortlist. Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards will be announced on January 24. The awards ceremony is scheduled for February 26.

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 January 21, 2011.

Science

International

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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Study rejects ”faster than light” SDUWLFOH ‫ۋ‬QGLQJ Reuters

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 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 experiment at Gran Sasso -- which is deep under mountains and run by Italy’s National Institute of National Physics -- now argues that their measurements 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 recently published studies by two top U.S. physicists, that the neutrinos pumped down from CERN, near Geneva, should have lost most of their energy if they had travelled at even a tiny fraction faster than light.

But in fact, the ICARUS scientists say, the neutrino beam as tested in their equipment registered an energy spectrum fully corresponding with what it should be for particles 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 difference 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 compatible 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 science of the cosmos and of how the vast variety of particles that make it up behave.

'DQFH ‫ۋ‬WQHVV FODVVHV VWHS XS the cardio fun 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 Bollywood 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 dripping with sweat, which is what everybody wants when they come

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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.

to a gym.”

The dance fitness class is not the dancer’s dance class, according to Nath, a professional actor and dancer. He draws a careful distinction between the techniquebased dance classes of performers and his fitness class, where the workout commands center stage.

“Fitness is the main key, to simplify the moves and get more aerobic elements in there” he said. “It’s easy. To learn the art is another avenue.” 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 generally classified as dancing to the soundtracks of East Indian movies, such as “Slumdog Millionaire, 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.”

REUTERS/CERN-INFS/Handout

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

Giant mound of tires in SC visible from space Associated Press Writer

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The sprawling pile of hundreds of thousands 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 dumping the tires. But the worst possible penalty that could be imposed locally? A single $475 ticket for littering. 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 Control’s case, a state grand jury issued indictments against George Fontella Brown, 39, of Easley, on three charges of violating the state’s solid waste act, according to DHEC spokesman Adam Myrick. Those state charges carry much heftier possible penalties, 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 General 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 shredding those used tires.

AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt

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

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Sport

International

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LOS ANGELES - David Beckhamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LA Galaxy captured the MLS Cup championship with a 1-0 triumph over the Houston Dynamo in front of a celebratory home crowd on Sunday.

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namo, who overcame a slow start to the season and made a convincing playoff charge before running into the overpowering Galaxy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been the best

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Chelsea title hopes take another hit Reuters

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Cameron hails F1 as British success story Reuters

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.

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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 hailed the Woking company as “a powerful rebuke” to the view that Britain’s engineering and manufacturing 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 Chancellor 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, including Germany’s seven-times world champion Schumacher’s Mercedes GP and compatriot

Rosberg targets big three teams in Brazil 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

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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.

get on terms with the front running cars of Red Bull, Mclaren and Ferrari, however 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. Rosberg and Mercedes have yet to score a single podium in

2011, and this will be weighing 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 forward to going to Brazil next week,” he said. “The Interlagos track is amazing to drive, and in the last weeks we have made some steps forward without having any big updates on the car, so it should be a good weekend.”

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.