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BANGKOK - Thai Prime Minister Ying-luck Shinawatra, grappling with a devastat-ing flood crisis, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday with food poisoning, according to the government.

“She is in Praram 9 Hospital because she is suffering from diarrhoea due to food poisoning,” government spokeswoman

Titima Chaisang told reporters, adding that Yingluck had asked her deputy to chair a cabinet meeting in her place.

The 44-year-old leader, the younger sister of fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, was a political novice before taking office in August and has struggled to get a grip on Thailand’s worst floods in half a century.

The Dean of Faculty of Economics, Warmadewa University (Unwar), I Wayan Arjana, stated that government should introspect to see the condi-tion because implementation of the guidelines of Bali development in the field had deviated from what had been agreed. For instance, violations of green belt, radius annexation of temple sanctity and coastal borderline were

closely associated with policies issued by government.

“Government should make introspec-tion to see the development conditions in Bali. I believe investors will never dare to break the laws if no government officer personally intervenes by giving the opportunity through negotiations,” said Wayan Arjana.

Tourists walk along the beach as an Indonesian navy ship stands guard near the venue of the ASEAN Summit at Nusa Dua in Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011. The Dean of Faculty of Economics, Warmadewa University (Unwar), I Wayan Arjana, stated that government should introspect to see the condition because implementation of the guidelines of Bali development in the field had deviated from what had been agreed.

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DENPASAR - Development of Bali as elaborated in the form of Long Term Development Plan and Midterm Development Plan including the Regional Annual Development Plan is assessed by a number of people to have been filled with lobbies being insepa-rable from the personal intervention of government officers for the sake of their own interest.

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Mangupura (Bali Post) –Indonesia Government is targeting to increase raw palm oil production

to 40 Million tonnes by 2020 as Head of Threat Mitigation Initiative De-partment Sawit Watch, Norman Jiwa, stated, which 50 percent of it will be used for vegetable oil. “Besides economy side giving huge income, it also a potential to be an alternative to petrol which is biodiesel or vegetable oil,” Norman stated during HAM and Business Conference at Kuta last Monday (28/11).

Norman explained the high income as seen at 2010 around IDR 12 trillion will increase modal owners to get involve. Also Indonesia workers wages plus Indonesia’s lands are also cheaper compared to other countries. Yet it was stated this will cause a spreading or land expansion on palm plantation in the whole nation as note at 2011 around one million hectare of land have been added for palm plantation in 17 Indonesia’s Provinces. “This will threat

A number of hills in Klung-kung Regency are indeed prone to be dredged. Some of them are the hills in the southern of Dawan Village, the hill at Paksebali and Pundukdawa. Averagely the dredg-ing takes place without permis-sion and reaps protest from local residents. It then drives the public

down for taking action. However, the halt can only last temporarily.

on the hill of Pundukdawa does not have license, either. Besides, it is hazardous because it potentially results in landslides and hoards the road body,” said Nengah Dwija Wibawa, a resident of Pundukdawa Hamlet.

He said the dredging had been going on since Monday morning (Nov 28) at two locations employ-ing two heavy equipments. One location was located right on the edge of the road leading to the Pundukdawa Hamlet, Pesingga-han. Another location was situated

rather far from roadside, about 100 meters. “Formerly, the hill was reforested with some trees by the youth of Pundukdawa. Some of the trees planted consist of gliricidia, neem, leucaena and others. It will be a pity if now the green hill is sud-denly dredged. Moreover, the activ-ity is not completed with license,” added Dwija Wibawa.

Meanwhile, the land owner, Gede Arya, acknowledged if the dredging taking place on the hills of his land had been taking place since last Monday had no license. However, he admitted to have informed the Headman of Pesinggahan. “I was indeed advised by the Headman to report to the Klungkung Environment Agency,” said Arya.

The dredging was carried out on the area of 1,500 square meters and intended to re-arrange the land on the hill to be used for terraced farmland. To that end, Arya then made cooperation with the owner of heavy equipment through ex-

change system. In other words, Arya did not pay for the dredging services as requested, while the owner of heavy equipment got compensation to sell the soil ob-tained from the dredging activities. “I decided to use heavy equipment rather than manual dredging because of my previous experience. With a dredging area (the making of ter-race) of 400 square meters, I should pay the dredging service for IDR 10 million. Conversely, if working with the owner of heavy equipment, I should pay nothing,” he said.

Moreover, the dredging was carried out just for the arrange-ment. He would not let the hill look in tatters like the dredging at several other locations. “I want to change my land to be more economically valuable so that it will turn productive and I do not pay taxes in vain,” he said. Gede Arya claimed the dredging activity on his land was discon-tinued by Satpol PP because it had no license.”

Singaraja (Bali Post) –Buleleng Village residents last Monday (28/11) were busy in preparing

their mass cremation ceremony (Ngaben) at Puri Seni Sasana Budaya, Veteran Street, Singaraja. One of them is preparing ‘adegan’ (sculpture for the soul that’s going to be cremated) and ‘kampuh’ (black and white textile) guided by two priests Ida Bhagawan Dwija Warsa Nawa Sandhi from Tamansari Lingga Asrama and Sri Bhagawan Dwija Putra Yoga Wiswa from Gunung Batur Street, Singaraja.

The locals that joined seemed enthusiastic with this guidance and brought

November 2011. Also there will be a mungkah (taking the bones of those going to be cremated or only the soil from the grave) ceremony at Buleleng Grave held 1st December 2011 and its peak 4th December 2011. Committee

time done at Buleleng Village followed by 613 members.

Negara (Bali Post) –A simple building built at Satria Area, Kelurahan Pendem last Mon-

day (28/11) early morning was totally burnt out. Locals are still unsure what have caused the furniture reparation shop owned by Nurhuda (45) gone to ashes along with a number of sewing equipments, materials and serviced furniture as no electricity is used there and owner doesn’t live there.

Nurhuda who lives at Pendem Area just knew his place was burnt out

home the shop was still in one piece. The loss is predicted to be up to IDR 20 million. The land is stated to be a rented land and before it was a place for unused items. Owner is suspicious that his place was purposely burnt as a number of equipments made from iron like drill, sewing machine’s machine and furniture iron materials couldn’t be found between the ruins. Head of Jembrana Police Criminal Research, APC Ketut Suparta, admitted

place was being robbed before it was burnt.

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The dredging activity which could endanger the environment in the area.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—

3International Bali News Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Tabanan (Bali Post)—Farmers at Subak Empas Bua-

han, Buahan Village, Tabanan,were getting confused. They were

attacked by weeds. Sadly, it hap-pened when farmers planted therice seeds given by government.At

were under threat of crop failuredue to such weeds whereas theirrice had started to turn yellow andbeen ready for harvest.

The weeds had attack the plantssince they bore fruits. As theweeds were raging, the rice plantsultimately lost in the ‘competi-

lots, the rice seemed to have diedas surrounded by weeds. “Thefarmland attacked by the weeds isentirely cultivated with the seedsgiven by government. We do notknow why the rice is unable towithstand the weeds,” said Chiefof Subak Empas Buahan, WayanTantra, Monday (Nov 28). Theseeds belonged to sembada hybridvariety was provided free of chargeto farmers three months ago.

According to Tantra, the farmerswere originally eager to receivethe seeds. Even, he himself par-ticipated to plant the variety atthe area of 5,000 square meters.Farmers began to complain when

the rice grew up. In keeping withthe growth, the weeds were pro-gressively raging. “We are alsosurprised, it’s for the first time

he said. The farmland attacked bythe weeds was located sporadi-cally. The most severe conditionshappened at the corner of the vil-lage street. Two plots of paddyland had been run out due to theattack. Tantra added that farmers’harvest declined sharply becauseof the weeds. Even, some farmersexperienced total harvest failure.Because of the weeds, the yieldwas only 40 kg per 100 squaremeters, while in normal conditionfarmers could usually harvest upto 65 kg per 100 square meters.“My farmland is also affected bythe weeds,” he said. Farmers couldonly submit to their fate and hadreported the case to the TabananAgriculture Agency.

In fact, not all local farmerswere willing to plant the rice seedgiven by the central government.One of the farmers, Wayan Mu-grek, admitted that his farmlandcould survive from the weed attackbecause he refused to plant such aseed. “I deliberately refused forfear of crop failure. In fact, it iscorrect the seeds given were at-tacked by weeds,” he said. The

former subak chief added thatfarmland area in his subak territoryreached 147 hectares. The amounthad reduced from 154 hectares.

Meanwhile, the Head of Ta-banan Food Crops and HorticultureAgency, I Gede Made Sukawijaya,asserted the weeds attacking thesembada hybrid given to farmershad passed through appropriatelygood research. Thus, the qualitywas well maintained. Related tothe weeds at Subak Empas Buahan,he asserted if it was possibly trig-gered by the condition of farmlandhaving potential weeds. As conse-quence, when farmers cleaned upthe weeds late, they were directlyraging and surpassed the growth ofrice plants. “Here is the importanceof farmers to clean up their rice

He explained the sembadahybrid seedling indeed had a fewsaplings. On that account, it waspotentially attacked by weeds.Sukawijaya expected that farmerscould pay attention to the growthof weeds. When the weeds beganto grow, they should be eradicatedquickly. Sukawijaya also addedthat such seeds were even favoredby farmers in Penebel area becauseit had short duration and could pro-duced abundant grains. (udi)

According to the Section Head ofSpecial MedicalTreatment Service ofSanglah Hospital, Dayu Miswarihati,when met on Monday (Nov 28) saidthatHIV/AIDSvirusattacked thecellsofhumanbody immunity todecline innumber until reaching a very drasticamount. Decline in the number ofbodily immunity cells or commonlyknown as CD4 (cluster of differentia-tion 4) made the body of HIV/AIDSsufferers vulnerable to disease. “Anyminor disease can be serious forpeople with HIV/AIDS,” she said.

In 2010, approximately 90 peoplelivingwithHIV/AIDSdied inSanglahHospital and in the past three monthsof 2011 was recorded that 13 peopleliving with HIV died. Most of themdied of tuberculosis. “People livingwithHIV/AIDSwhodiedhadbeen inserious condition,” said Dayu.

If detected and got antiretroviraltreatment early, theHIV/AIDSsuffer-ers could liveanormal life.AccordingtoDayu, thevoluntarycounselingandtesting (VCT) clinic of Sanglah Hos-pital recorded 800 people with HIVundergoing the antiretroviral therapyand some had been in the therapy for15-10 years. “The patients are under-going therapy for life. If implementedon a regular basis then they can livelike a normal person and not easilyfall ill,” explained Dayu.

Antiretroviral drug was given topatients if theirCD4reached250,000.For the administration, it was neededa counseling and assistance so thepatients could take themedicine regu-larly. Antiretroviral administration topeople living with HIV, added Dayu,was provided free of charge by thecentral government. (san)

Mangupura (Bali Post)—The employers in Kuta area must

haveahighconcern to thesurroundingenvironment. Employers in particularand society in general should not beindifferent to the development of in-frastructure and convoluted problemsfaced by the tourist area during thistime.

This matter was revealed by a leg-islator of Badung House from Kuta,I Gusti Anom Gumanti, Monday(Nov 28). Anom Gumanti exempli-fied the paving installation projecton Jalan Legian, Kuta that had nowbeen underway. According to him,the ideal execution of a project wasby sterilizing the area, mainly to getmaximum results.

However, with the tourism condi-tions and crowdedness in Kuta, tosterilize the Jalan Legian was some-thing impossible. For if it was done,there would be many losses perceivedby society and employers themselves.As consequence, protests would be

Therefore, he called on all partiesto come together and share a respon-sibility for the implementation ofinfrastructuredevelopment, especiallyin the Kuta area. In particular, he alsoasked the businessmen in Kuta area toparticipateandoverseeeverydevelop-ment, especially the infrastructure inwhich theoutputwouldbeenjoyedbya lot of parties, including the employ-ers themselves.

Similarly tootherproblems,AnomGumanti also asked the concern of

crowdedness in Kuta area. Not op-

should not be aggravated by thebehavior of irresponsible employers.“For example, car and motorcyclerental should not take advantage ofthe road body. Such an enterprise

-edness. We all should equally shareresponsibility for maintaining the

(kmb25)

ARV therapy improves quality of life of HIV/AIDS sufferersDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Currently, HIV/AIDS indeed has no a cure. So far there has been no drug that can kill this virus. However, it has been found a drug that can weaken the virus and suppress the amount in the body infected so that immunity of cells becoming the main target of the virus will not decrease in amount so that they re-main to protect the body from the disease. The drug is called Anti Retro Viral (ARV).

Employers must also care about problems in Kuta

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A farmer is walking through the rice field filled with weeds

Attacked by weeds, government aid seed faces crop failure

News International4 Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The historic election — which promises to be the fairest and clean-est in Egypt in living memory — will show whether the country that is one of America’s most important Middle East allies will remain secular or move down a more Islamic path as have other nations swept up in the Arab Spring.

The turnout Monday, the first vot-ing day, was massive despite security concerns and turmoil over a deadly spate of violence in the week before the balloting. It reflects the Egyptians’

determination to break away from the past after 10 months of frustra-tion over how the military rulers who took over from Mubarak have been handling the transition.

“I am voting for this country’s sake. We want a new beginning,” said Zeinab Saad, 50, who brought her young daughter to a polling station in Cairo. “Its a great thing to feel like your vote matters.”

The voting process, long and com-plicated, is staggered over the next six weeks across 27 provinces, divided into thirds with runoffs held a week after the first round in each location. Voters have to pick two individuals and one alliance or party slate — a mechanics that has left many among the 50 million eligible voters puzzled

and apparently still undecided.While the overwhelming majority

spoke with excitement over getting to cast their ballot, a few headed to the polls to avoid a 500 Egyptian pounds ($85) fee imposed by the ruling military on absent voters. In some of the coun-try’s populous districts, younger voters dragged their elders to make sure they would not have to pay the fine.

“I am voting here just because of the 500 Egyptian pounds,” said Walaa Mohammed, a 33-year-old office employee, adding she didn’t think the lines outside polling stations would not be so long if it were not for the fine.

In the Menshiya neighborhood in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, long separate lines of men and women waited patiently in front of polling stations, where the ground was lit-tered with Muslim Brotherhood fliers as activists campaigned into the last minute, whispering to voters to pick their candidates.

Agence France Presse

Prince Harry has flown home after a nearly two month military training mission in California, which also saw the fun-loving royal let his hair down in San Diego and Las Vegas.

The 27-year-old returned to Britain on Sunday from the Naval Air Facility in El Centro in southern California, where he ar-rived in early October to learn to fly Apache helicopter gunships in terrain similar to Afghanistan.

“He completed his training and he was sent back to the UK yester-day,” a base spokesman told AFP, declining to give further details but adding that Britain’s de-fense ministry would release a statement.

Harry, the third in line to the throne, returns to Britain a fully fledged Apache pilot, but British officials have declined to speculate on whether he might be allowed to return to Afghanistan.

The prince -- or Cap-tain Wales in his military role -- has made it clear he is determined to serve again in Afghanistan, where his deployment as a soldier in 2007-2008 had to be hastily cut short

after a media blackout was breached.Harry wasted no time getting into the spirit

of things on the first weekend of his stay in California. Within hours of his arrival he was spotted in a pub and watching rugby in a downtown hotel in San Diego, about two hours away from the base in El Centro where he was stationed.

He also spent a long weekend in Las Vegas earlier this month, arriving on a rented Harley Davidson and spending three nights partying, including with a mystery blonde woman, ac-cording to local reports.

Reuters

KINSHASA - Deadly violence, arson and widespread voter confusion marred Democratic Republic of Congo’s second post-war election on Monday, raising concerns of a protracted dispute over the outcome.

Masked gunmen attacked a polling station in the southern mining province of Katanga before three of them were killed by secu-rity forces, and locals burned down three polling stations in the neighboring opposi-tion heartland of West Kasai. Many voters trekked between voting stations confused over where to cast their ballots, and scuffles broke out over shortages of voting materials and allegations of fraud.

“I voted. I left at 7 in the morning. I have been to five schools,” said Bercam Nzangi, a Kinshasa resident. “I was able to do this

but what about those mammas who can’t read and write or don’t have transport. This is organized chaos.” Election commission official Matthieu Mpita told reporters polling stations would remain open as long as it takes to complete voting, describing operations so far as “satisfactory.” Election workers began counting at some stations by nightfall.

Congo’s election, pitting incumbent President Joseph Kabila against main chal-lenger Etienne Tshisekedi and nine other rivals, is meant to gauge progress since a 1998-2003 war that killed more than five million people.

But concerns are mounting that a chaotic poll will pave the way for dispute between Kabila and Tshisekedi over the eventual results.

A contested election in Ivory Coast, in West Africa, rekindled a civil war there earlier this year.

2nd day of Egypt’s landmark parliamentary electionAssociated Press Writer

CAIRO — Polls opened Tuesday for a second day of voting in Egypt’s landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year.

Egyptian men line up to vote in the country’s parliamentary election at a polling center in the Shubra neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011.

AP Photo/David Sperry

Opposi-tion UDPS

supporters run through

a cloud of teargas out-

side N’Djili airport in

Kinshasa, November

26, 2011.

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Chaos, arson, violence mar Congo election

Prince Harry heads home after US training, partying

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Prince Harry, pictured in June 2011, has flown home after a nearly two month military training mission in California, which also saw the fun-loving royal let his hair down in San Diego and Las Vegas

Activities Wednesday, November 30, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for December 3 through 28, 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

3 Dec Tumpek Landep Pasek Gelgel Temple Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Agung Pasek Temple Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Agung Pasek Temple Silamadeg Tabanan Pasek Tangkas Temple Kediri Tabanan Kerta Temple Banyuning Barat Buleleng Dalem Tenggaling Temple Sengguan Singapadu Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan

Singaraja Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana Taman Desa Temple Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Penataran Pande Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Dalem Pingit Temple Taro Kaje Tegalalang dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada

Buleleng Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Ida ratu Pande Temple Besakih Mr. Pasek Temple Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Penataran Pande Temple Kusamba Klungkung Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Gianyar

4 Dec Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

7 Dec Buda Wage Uki Pasar Agung Temple Besakih Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Ibuwanasari Tegal Puseh/ Desa Temple Bebalang Bangli Dalem Temple Perancak Badung Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi

10 Dec Purnama Kenam Kiduling Kereteg Besakih Lingsar Temple Lombok Bebengan Tanjung Lombok Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Mengwi Dalem Putra Belingkang Benawah Gianyar Prajapati Temple Balikpapan

13 Dec Anggar Kasih Kulantir Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Dalem Lagan Temple Bebalang Bangli Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Gaduh Temple Sanding Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang

14 Dec Buda Umanis Kulantir Pasek Tangkas Temple kaler Tabanan Gaduh Benoh Temple Ubung Denpasar

18 Dec Redite Keliwon Tolu Dalem Alas Harum Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan.

19 Dec Soma Umanis Tolu Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Kawitan Sakula Gotra Tegal Kepuh Kaba-kaba Kediri

Tabanan Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Lembongan Nusa Penida Batu Madeg Temple Besakih Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih

21 Dec Buda Pon Tolu Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring

22 Dec Wraspati Wage Tolu Peninjoan Temple Besakih

28 Dec Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Puseh/ Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan

Sading Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana

Nusa Penida

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Physically, Dewi Sinta Hotel, Restaurant & Spa is not as grandiose as the hotels located in the premier tourist resorts of Nusa Dua, Sanur or Kuta. However, never misunder-stand! The budget hotel located in the Tanah Lot tourist destination has its own unique-ness, both in terms of panorama or services extended. “Though it is a budget hotel, we provide services based on the standard of star-rated hotels,” said I Gusti Gde Aryadi, the owner of the hotel.

Most importantly, continued Aryadi, he provided services for guests with friendli-ness, honesty and professionalism, so as to create impressive images for the only hotel in the favorite tourist area in Bali. Familiar and familial atmosphere was not only intended for the staff, but also became a priority for every single traveler. “We also give awards for the best employees as a way to encourage the morale of our workers in providing the

best services,” added the pioneer of Tanah Lot tourist object calmly.

Dewi Sinta is the oldest hotel since the Tanah Lot was visited by many tourists. The entire building is designed by perfectly combining the traditional elements and stylish architecture to engender a convenient tourism sanctuary to un-wind. Aura of the sanctity exuded by the Tanah Lot Temple, Enjung Galuh Temple and Pakend-ungan Temple give more profound tranquility. Meanwhile, the existing lush tropical gardens confer a typical countryside nuance.

There are 20 rooms consisting of 2 types on offer, namely standard and deluxe room with air conditioning, private bathroom with hot and cold water, IDD telephone, TV, and mini bar. In front of the hotel rooms stretches an enchanting terraced rice fields in combina-tion with the verdant fairways of golf course and swimming pool. These added-value backdrops made this accommodation close to nature. Additionally, it is also equipped with spa treatment facilities featuring with

Balinese therapies to blissfully pamper guests with freshness and fitness.

In the meantime, Dewi Sinta is also equipped with restaurant offering a variety of menu choices such as Balinese, Indonesian, Chinese, Seafood and European cuisine. All delicacies are carefully prepared by well-experienced cooks. Interestingly, breakfast, lunch and dinner are optionally served in a la carte or buffet style.

Other amenities equipping the hotel prop-erty are an open stage and a conference room with a capacity of 300 people. Such facilities offer a dinner party with traditional cultural performances such as Kecak, Tektekan, Le-gong and shadow puppets. Best services, guaranteed security and good relationship with the surrounding communities led the hotel to achieve some outstanding achieve-ments such as the Security Certificate from the Bali Police with gold predicate, bronze medal in THK Awards and the best taxpayer in Tabanan Regency.

Dewi Sinta Hotel

Relishing Sea View in Fusion with Terraced Rice Fields

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6 News

From page 1

International

From page 1The U.S. had offered a $5 million

reward for information leading tothe arrest of Maximiliano Bonilla

who was also on Colombia’s most-wanted list.

The arrest was announced byColombian President Juan ManuelSantos as he met with Venezuela

U.S. officials say Bonilla hassent tons of cocaine to the UnitedStates through CentralAmerica andMexico, dealing extensively withMexico’s Zetas drug cartel.

Bonilla will be deported andturned over to U.S. authorities toface charges, Venezuelan JusticeMinister Tareck El Aissami said.

Sunday at a home in the central cityof Maracay and had the equivalentof about $180,000 in Venezuelancurrency.

Santos said Colombian authori-ties had provided intelligence toVenezuelan authorities, who trackeddown Bonilla.

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capture was “truly a very high-

authorities.“We know that your people, your

authorities ... were after this indi-

at the presidential palace. “This is

The Venezuelan leader called the

Both presidents said it was anexample of increased cooperationbetween their authorities.

Venezuelan authorities ap-pointed a team to try to trackdown Bonilla in March becausethey had information he had beentraveling back and forth betweenthe neighboring countries, El Ais-sami said. It wasn’t immediatelyclear how authorities eventuallytracked him down.

U.S. authorities make arrangements

to pick him up, El Aissami said.The U.S. government has ac-

cused Venezuela of failing to take-

ing. El Aissami said that while theUnited States “attacks Venezuela’santi-drug policies, we respond with

Bonilla, 39, allegedly headeda Medellin-based criminal orga-nization dating back to the 1980sthat once recruited hit men forthe late cocaine kingpin PabloEscobar.

Santos said Bonilla was the boss-

town of Envigado near Medellin.The U.S. State Department

listed Bonilla among its eight most-

after leftist rebels.Wanted on a 2008 federal indict-

ment from New York’s eastern dis--

ceived cocaine from various sourcesin Colombia, including the rebels,

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Wayan Arjana also assessed that negotiations between gov-ernment and investors posed a result of regional autonomy.It allowed the regency/municipality to make its own policies.As a result, many policies issued ultimately deviated from thepolicy defined by provincial government.

“If wishing a development free from negotiations, gov-ernment must commit to the agreed rules. Do not even giveopportunity to mischievous investors to ignore the bhisama

-losophy in Bali over the years. Even, other countries adopted

Meanwhile, the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Udayana Uni-versity, Prof. Dr. IGN Wairocana, earlier also said that viola-tions occurred due to weak law enforcement in Bali. Govern-ment’s commitment seeming half-hearted in carrying out themandate of the Regional Regulations as well as the legislationprovided an opportunity for mischievous investors.

“If wishing to commit in the enforcement of the rules, gov-ernment must safeguard the investors from the initial licensingprocess until the project is executed. By doing so, any fraud

Weak government oversight in upholding the rules hadcaused almost all regencies/municipality to commit spatialviolations. It included the violation of coastal borderlines,river borderlines, wetlands encroachment, sacred area andthe emergence of various buildings being inappropriate withthe area designation such as hotels, villas, settlements, or anybuildings for business activities.

“Regional Regulation (Perda) and other rules concerningthe sustainability of Bali so far still seem powerless due to

that government should dare to take decisive action against allexisting violations in order to create a deterrent effect ratherthan giving an opportunity. (par)

The government has faced criticism for its slow response andconfusing public advice about the disaster, which has left morethan 600 people dead.

At times the mother-of-one has showed signs of strain, ap-pearing teary-eyed at news conferences and describing the crisisas overwhelming, while her political enemies have sought to usethe occasion to undermine her popularity.

The floods have taken a heavy toll on the economy and thevital tourism sector, still recovering from deadly political unrestlast year.

Yingluck has said that central Bangkok is now safe from thefloodwaters, which caused widespread damage in areas north ofthe capital and seeped into the northern outskirts of the sprawl-ing metropolis.

figure in Thailand. The former telecoms tycoon was ousted ina 2006 coup and lives abroad to avoid a two-year jail sentencefor corruption.

Yingluck has faced criticism over reports -- denied by hergovernment -- of plans for a royal pardon that could allowThaksin to return without serving time.

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JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Clima-tology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has predicted that heavy rains will fall in Jakarta during the next one week starting Tuesday.

The heavy rains would have the poten-tial of causing floods, the agency said on Monday.

Four areas that would be flooded on Tuesday were Kalideres, Cengkareng, Kembangan and Penjaringan, it said.

Head of the BMKG`s Information Service Hari Tirto said the agency had is-sued a notification about the flood-prone areas in the capital and potential rains on Tuesday (Nov 29).

“Yet Jakarta will remain safe from large flood because the rainfall will not be too high,” he said.

He said the agency had analyzed rain-fall that would happen in Jakarta on Tues-day. Light rains would fall in some parts of North Jakarta, West Jakarta, South Jakarta and East Jakarta, while mild rains would fall in some parts of West Jakarta, South Jakarta, East Jakarta and North Jakarta.

“Based on the results of the rainfall analysis, BMKG predicts that four areas have the potential of being flooded tomor-row (Tuesday). BMKG also has analyzed among the areas that have the low potential of being flooded will be small parts of Kalideres, Cengkareng, Kembangan and Penjaringan,” he said.

“Tonight two dead victims had been identified by a team of doctors at Parikesit hospital in Tenggarong,” a command post member at the hospital, Nurhayati, said Monday night..

The two identified victims were Robiansyah (13) of Teluk Dalam, and Rusmini (30) a mother of two

who had already been identified, namely Alisyah (six months) and Alisha (9) of Jalan Jenderal Ahmad Yani, Loa Kulu sub-district.

“The remaining female dead victim had not been identified,” Nurhayati said.

On Monday, Nurhayati said eight dead victims had been found.

“This morning six bodies had been found, and this afternoon another was found at 5.05 pm, and a male body was also found under the collapsed Kartanegara bridg,” Nurhayati said.

The ten dead victims who had been identified were M. Fairuz (22) of Jalan Danau Aji Tenggarong, Agus (25) of Gang Wakab, Teng-garong, Alisyah (six months) of oa Kulu, Fadlan (17) of Jongkang village,

M. Iskandar (35) of Timbau vil-lage, Tenggarong, Samsul (24) of

Tenggarong Seberang, Supriyadi (31) of Loa Kulu, Kutai Kartaneg-ara, M. Huzairi (40) of Puri housing complex, Sungai Kapih, Sambutan Kota Samarinda, Erli Erlianah (39) of Jalan Seluang Tenggarong, and Alisha (9) of Jalan Jenderal Ahmad Yani, Loa Kulu, elder brother of Alisyah, a six months old baby also already identified.

“The bodies of Samsul, Supri-yadi and M. Hazairi had been found on Monday morning along with three others, while M. Iskandar was found Sunday night. The six bodies

still unidentified are at Parikesit,” Nurhayati said.

In the meantime, there are four injured people still being treated at Parikesit hospital, Nurhayati said. They are Muhidi (28) of Kota Bangun, Yahya Harina (42) of Teng-garong Seberang, Nursiana (34) of Bukit Raya and Titin Raswita (34) of alan Kartini Kota Tenggarong.

“Another victim Suriono (25) of Jalan Panjaitan, Tenggarong, was still being treated at Dirgahayu hospital in Samarinda,” Nurhayati said.

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JAKARTA - The Jakarta Met-ropolitan Police will deploy 2,819 personnel to ensure security during a friendly match between the U-23 national team and LA Galaxy on Wednesday (Nov 30).

“Police officers will check every spectator`s belongings,” operations chief Senior Commissioner Agung Budi Maryoto said here on Monday.

He said he would station 15 police personnel in addition to five person-nel from the committee at every en-trance gate.He said the police would also send personnel to secure the teams and also to control traffic.

He said however that the Jakarta police would not provide secu-rity personnel to guard LA Galaxy players including David Beckham because they have carried their own security guards.

“The organizing committee may ask for a special security (for them) but so far no request has made to

us,” he said.Agung said he hoped the commit-

tee would be transparent in selling tickets to prevent possible chaos in the stadium. He said the organizing committee must inform the police about the number of tickets to be sold and the time of ticket sales in each counter so that the police could monitor to assure security.

The committee predicts the number of spectators may reach 40,000 but the police have urged the committee to also provide some large screen tvs outside the stadium in case more people would come to see the match and the stadium could not accomodate them all.

The police and the commit-tee had coordinated to prevent distribution of fake tickets. The Indonesian national joint team of under-23 years old and senior players would meet LA Galaxy led by David Beckham in a friendly match at the Bung Karno Stadium on Wednesday.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian banks will be quite able to withstand the impact of the financial crisis in Europe and the United States because of their good performance, a central bank official said.

“The European financial crisis will not affect the performance of national banks. In liquidity terms, national banks` liquidity exposure to European and United States banks amounts to only about Rp100 trillion which is not too big compared with their overall assets,” Bank Indonesia (BI/central bank)`s Deputy Governor Muliaman D Hadad said here on Monday.

He said that the results of a stress test carried out by BI showed that the impact of the finan-cial crisis in Europe and the United States on national banks was very small. After all, banks`

assets, capital and credit commitment were still running well.

“We have carries out a test to see what will happen if the crisis spreads to all European countries. It turned out the impact on national banks` capital will be small,” he said.

However, he said, Indonesia had to remain alert to the crisis` psychological aspect because if it dragged on , it could affect national eco-nomic growth.

Muliaman said that what needed to be moni-tored was the condition of individual banks if they experienced internal problems when the global economic crisis had not yet improved like nowadays.

“We have to systematically monitor banks one by one to ensure assure that it would not create a problem for the industry,” he said.

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TENGGARONG - Twelve of 13 bodies found following the col-lapse of Kartanegara bridge in Kutai Kartanegara sub-district, East Kaimantan, had been identified.

Jakarta to experience rainy week RI banks considered able to withstand crisis

Police deploy 2,819 personnel for Indonesia-LA Galaxy match

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Los Angeles Galaxy players, from left, Robbie Keane, David Beckham, Landon Donovan and head coach Bruce Arena pose to photographer after a press conference in Jakarta, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. The Galaxy is schedule to play against the Indonesian national team as part of their Asia Pacific Tour on Wednesday Nov. 30.

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KUTA - The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) his proposing theformation of a special body to resolve land disputes between local communities and palm oilplantation companies, its chief said.

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Penglipuran Village is a tradi-tional countryside owning unique characteristic life, socializing and culture. It is located in Kubu Vil-lage , Bangli Sub district and Bangli Regency. The natural nature and environments of countryside is designating the pittance touch of modernization influence. This countryside is supported by cool atmosphere because it is located on the height land about 700 m above sea level and according to history of all old doyens that this countryside is taken away from the word Pengeling Pura what its meaning remember to ancestor, but there is also telling that the word of Penglipur mean the entertainer. It is said that at former empire era, all king often use this area as a place to amuse themselves, because its nature is beautiful and can give the peacefulness and inspiration at the time of experiencing a problem.

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tryside from north to the south is look very beautiful in particular the Balinese traditional entrance gate which are made similar each other. When we step down to this village, we will meet the Balinese houses are oriented northeastwards to Mount Agung which is located in north-east of Bali Island . The structure of house building between one house and others are equal in particular to condition, form, size and function from the building except building of family bed room is freeform. The family temple building is places the same direction to the Agung Mount, kitchen is located in upstate from the lawn and the building of Bale Sakaen-em is the six beamed building which its function for ceremony place. The place for look after the livestock and the place to plant assorted vegetable are referred as non irrigated dry field which is called Teba. Its Construction material is made from wood except family residence. It is predominated by substance from bamboo because around this countryside is bamboo

producer.The countryside is lead by a

leader which is Bendesa or Kelian or Penyarikan or Patengan and he/she is assisted by Sinoman. The so-cial system is recognized by the 12 group terms that are number 1 until 12 as member of Pemerincik that is commissioned member converse the problem or plan and its result is submitted to the member. They are very trusting of 12 groups and have represented the tradition in heritage away back. The Consanguinity Sys-tem in this countryside is Patrilinial system that is according to father lineage. This countryside religion leader is called as Jero Bayan which is consisted of 3 Jero Bayans that is a Jero Bayan Mucuk and 2 people of Jero Bayan Nyoman. The specific cultural potential like pattern of building architecture remains to be traditional, the beautiful nature and environment with cool atmosphere, hence this countryside is the ideal place to visit during your vacation in Bali.

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BUSINESSInternational

One proposal gaining prominencewould have countries cede somecontrol over their budgets to a centralEuropean authority. In a measure ofhow rapidly the peril has grown, thatidea would have been unthinkableeven three months ago.

World stock markets, glimpsinghope that Europe might finally beshocked into stronger action, stageda big rally. The Dow Jones industrialaverage in New York rose almost 300points. InFrance, stocksrose5percent,the most in a month.

More relevant to the crisis, bor-rowing costs for European nationsstabilized. They had risen alarminglyin recent weeks — in Greece, thenin Italy and Spain, then across thecontinent, including in Germany, thestrongest economy in Europe.

The yields on benchmark bondsissued by Italy and Germany rose, butonly by hundredths of a percentagepoint. The yield fell 0.1 percentagepoint on bonds of France, 0.14 pointsfor those of Spain and 0.22 points forBelgium.

Allowing a central European au-thority to have some control over thebudgets of sovereign nations wouldcreate a fiscal union in Europe inaddition to the monetary union ofthe 17 countries that share the eurocurrency.

Someanalystshavesaid thatwouldbe a leap toward creating a UnitedStates of Europe. More delicately, itwould force the nations of Europe toswallowtheirnationalpride,cedesomesovereigntyandagree tostrengthenties

the euro union during the crisis.“The common currency has the

problem that the monetary policy

Schaeuble, said in a meeting withforeign reporters in Berlin.

The monetary union has existedsince theeurowascreated in1999,butthe European Union, which includesthe 17 euro nations and 10 others thatuse theirowncurrencies,hasnocentralauthority over taxing and spending.

Countries like Ireland, Portugal,Spain, Greece and Italy overspentwildly for years and racked up annual

monstrousdebt. Italyholds€1.9 trillionin debt, or 120 percent of the size ofits economy.

-cessive spending in the future. More

Euro in danger, Europe races for debt solutionAssociate Press

PARIS European leaders rushed Monday to stop a ram-paging debt crisis that threatened to shatter their 1 -year-olde periment in a common currency and devastate the worldeconomy as a result.

important, it would be a step towardaddressing today’sdebtcrisis: It couldprovide cover for the European Cen-tral Bank to stage a massive interven-tion in the European bond market todrivedownborrowingcosts andkeepthe debt crisis under control.

So far, the ECB has resisted, inpart because of concerns that bailingout free-spending countries wouldonly encourage them to do it again,a concept known as moral hazard.Enforced budget discipline wouldease those concerns.

practical problem — how to makesuch a body democratically account-able.

Another option is for the 17 na-tions in the euro group to sell bondstogether,knownaseurobonds, tohelpthe countries in the deepest troublebecauseofdebt.Germanyhas resistedsuch a plan, because it would raiseborrowing costs for it and other na-tions that have good credit ratings.

While Europe buzzed over the

of the euro nations prepared for asummit beginning Tuesday eveninginBrussels, tobe joined the followingday by ministers from the rest of theEuropean Union.

Italy readied an auction of bondsdesigned to raise €8 billion, or about$10.6billion, and steeled itself for thehigh interest rates it will have to pay.

In Washington, President BarackObamahuddledwithEuropeanUnion

-ing its debt problems.

Obama said failing to resolve thedebt crisis could damage the U.S.economy, which has grown slowlysince the end of the recession in June2009 and still has 9 percent unem-ployment.

“If Europe is contracting, or if

at an annual meeting between U.S.

Despite signs of possible progresson the debt crisis Monday, the eurohas appeared to be in increasing dan-ger the past few weeks. Experts saidthe currency could fall apart withindays without drastic action, with con-sequences rivaling those of the 2008

“Everyone knows that if the euro-zonecrashes theconsequenceswould

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos

Fidel, 80, a Spanish pensioner, protects himself of the wind cold as he rests under a bridge next the to old city, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Friday Nov. 25 , 2011.

be very dramatic and in the race afterthat there would no winners, just los-

Jutta Urpilainen.For countries that decided to leave

the euro group and return to their ownsovereign currency, the conversionwould be wrenching.

If Germany broke away, for ex-ample, its national currency couldrise in value quickly because theGerman economy is stronger thanthe European economy as a whole.But a stronger German mark woulddamagetheGermaneconomybecauseGermanydependsheavilyonexports,and it would cost more for everyoneelse to buy German goods.

As for weaker countries that de-cided to leave,depositorswouldprob-ably yank money out of their banks,fearingaplummetingcurrency.Saversin Greece would not want their eurosreplaced with, say, feeble drachmas.

If countries tried to repay their oldeuro debts with their own currencies,they’d be considered in default andwould struggle to sell bonds in global

face the same squeeze.Overall, economists at UBS esti-

mate, a weak country that left the eu-rozone would see its economy shrinkby 50 percent.

Currency chaos and defaults bygovernments and companies wouldweaken European banks and alsocause them to stop lending to eachother. Because banks are connectedglobally, a credit freeze in Europewouldspread.Asitdid in2008,acred-

it freeze would cause stock markets tosell off worldwide, and another deeprecession would probably follow.

Wolfgang Munchau, a columnistfor the influential Financial Timesnewspaper, wrote Monday that thecommon currency “has 10 days at

the creation of a powerful commontreasury.

Unlike theUnitedStates,whichhascentralized institutions in Washingtonfor raising taxes and spending money,the euro nations have 17 independenttreasuries with little oversight fromBrussels, the headquarters of the EU.

-cal union proposal being aired aheadof another summit of EU leaders thatbegins Dec. 9. Ten nations in the EUdo not use the euro currency, mostnotably Britain.

-cal union, Germany and France havepromised to propose measures thatwill make the 17 euro countries oper-ate under strict and enforceable rules,so that no single country can wreakcontinent-wide damage.

Already, the Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Develop-ment, an international group devotedto economic progress, warned that theglobal economy would be rocky incoming months.

In its six-month report Monday,it said the continued failure by EUleaders to stem the debt crisis “couldmassively escalate economic disrup-

The latest turmoil came last week,after Germany tried to auction $8 bil-lion worth of its national bonds andcould persuade investors to buy only$5.2 billion. It was a sign that evenmighty Germany was not immunefrom the debt crisis.

Investors around the world willwatch the Italian bond auctionTuesday. If it receives a similarlypoor reception, more Europeancountries will be in danger of be-ing locked out of the internationalbond market.

take shape in Europe is an open ques-tion.

minister, said the proposal would re-quirepassageonlyby the17countriesthat use the euro currency. The other10countries in theEU,suchasBritain,Poland and Sweden, could adopt it ifthey wanted to.

But analysts said such a movewould take a long time to come tofruition.

“We do seem to be moving slowly

at a pace that may result in all thecomponents being put in place after

-mist with Evolution Securities.

Many think the ECB is the onlyinstitution capable of calming frayedmarket nerves. But Merkel, the Ger-man chancellor, has continually dis-missed the prospect of a bigger rolefor the ECB.

Entertainment InternationalWednesday, November 30, 201112

Presenter Tilda Swinton introduced the nominees, but before opening the envelope, deferred to a prerecorded message on the venue’s large video screens. The unprec-edented ruling was then announced by jury member Natalie Portman who explained her peers were faced with the extraordinary dilemma of being “stuck” when it came to selecting a winner, so they “made a bold and independent decision” and “chose to honor both.” Swinton then read off the winner’s names live, and presented the award.

“The Tree of Life” starred Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, and also won the Palm d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. “Beginners” was released last year and stars Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer.

Some of the evening’s other winners included Felicity Jones for Breakthrough Actor in “Like Crazy”; the cast of “Begin-ners” for Ensemble Cast; and “Scenes of a Crime” won for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You. The Audience Award went

to “Girlfriend,” a film about a young man with Down syndrome who has a crush on a troubled single mother.

Hosted by Edie Falco and Oliver Platt, the presenters were mostly darlings of the independent film world like Stanley Tucci, Melisa Leo, and actress, directorial nominee Vera Famiga, and Swinton. “Independent film is my amniotic fluid. It’s like the sea I swim in,” Swinton said when she arrived.

This year’s Gotham Tributes went to direc-tor David Cronenberg; film executive Tom Rothman, actor Gary Oldman, and actress Charlize Theron. Actor-comedian Patton Oswalt introduced Theron, and then made self-deprecating jokes while standing stood next to her at the podium. “I’m only here because I’m armpit height,” the much shorter Oswalt said. Later he said: “I feel like you’re accepting me for the award.”

“The irony is that you are the award,” Theron joked. The pair star in the upcom-ing dark comedy “Young Adult,” written by

Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman. Theron called Reitman “one the best directors” she ever worked with, and her mother, who was sitting next to him, “for giving me the character and the strength to be who I am.”

Before the ceremony, Theron said the best award she ever got was that she “never had to get a second job to pay the bills.” The Gotham Independent Film Awards are presented by the Independent Feature Project, the largest organization in the United States committed to indepen-dent film. This year’s ceremony was sponsored by Euphoria Calvin Klein, RBC, The New York Times, Russian Standard Vodka, and others.

Since its inception in 1991, Gotham Independent Film Awards has honored many Oscar-nominated films, including the 2008 winner for best Picture, “The Hurt Locker.” Next week, nominees for the Film Independent Spirit Wards will be announced in Los Angeles.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — She was just 13 when Rupert Mur-doch asked her to sing at his wedding. Charlotte Church was given a choice: a 100,000 pound fee, or a chance to generate good will with the media magnate by performing for free. She wanted the cash, but her record company and manager said no, it was better to make friends with Murdoch, head of a global news and entertainment empire.

“Despite my teenage business head screaming ‘Think how many tamagotchies you could buy!’ I was pressured into taking the latter option,” she told Britain’s press ethics committee. “This strategy failed ... for me.” Church, 25, told Britain’s media ethics inquiry Monday that the Murdoch press, and other British tabloids, had ruthlessly tormented her since she was a child singing sensation, blowing her credibility “to bits” and badly damaging her career.

She said press intrusion had a devastating impact on her family life and particularly on her mother. Church said her mother had tried to kill herself in part because she knew a newspaper was planning to expose her husband’s extramarital affair.

The former teenage singing sensation told the in-quiry in calm, measured tones how cameramen tried to take photos up her skirt and down her blouse and published “intimate” details about her sex life when she was just 17. “I couldn’t get my head around that,” said Church, 25, who blamed tabloid phone hacking for much of her lost privacy.

“I’ve been made a caricature for so long, and this person portrayed in the tabloids really isn’t me,” she said. “It’s not the person I am, and it’s had a massive impact on my career.

Reuters

LONDON - “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe on Tuesday topped a Heat Magazine list of the richest, young British entertainers, retaining his No. 1 position in the ranking of people under 30-years-old.

Robert Pattinson, lead actor of the rival fantasy film franchise “Twilight,” moved up to third from fifth and leapfrogged two of Radcliffe’s Potter co-stars, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, according to the celebrity magazine.

Actress Keira Knightley, who starred in several of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, remained second on the chart, while singer Adele was the highest new entry at 16.

Radcliffe, 22, who played the boy wizard in the movie adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s bestselling novels, earned 51.8 million pounds ($80 million) over his career, according to Heat estimates. The actor’s earnings for 2011 were 6.1 million pounds higher than in 2010.

Knightley’s earnings totaled 30.9 million pounds ($47.8 million, ahead of Pattinson on

24.9 million ($38.5 million), Watson on 23.9 million and Grint on 21.7 million. Adele, whose second album “21” is set to be the biggest selling album in the world this year, entered the list at No. 16 with a fortune of 7.7 million pounds.

Three stars dropped out of this year’s list -- opera star Katherine Jenkins and model Kelly Brook both exceeded the 30-year-old threshhold and singer Amy Winehouse, ranked 15th last year, died in July.

‘Tree,’ ‘Beginners’ tie at Gotham Film AwardsAssociated Press Writer

New York — Award season kicked off with a tie for Best feature at the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards as Terrence Malick’s highly imaginative “The Tree of Life” shared the night’s high honor with Mike Mills’s flashback comedy, “Beginners.”

Actress Charlize Theron attends the IFP’s 21st Annual Gotham Independent

Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, Nov. 28, 2011 in New York.

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Singer Charlotte Church: Press destroyed my career

Potter star tops UK under-30 entertainer rich list

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Cast member Daniel Radcliffe arrives for the premiere of the film “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” in New York July 11, 2011.

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Last month, the most populous US state, California, approved rules for a carbon market that would start in 2013, with the goal of cutting emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Previous attempts to cre-ate a cap and trade system to stem pollution at the federal level have failed due to concerns it would cause skyrocketing energy costs, a particularly bruising prospect in an already wobbly economy.

Also in October, a prominent climate skeptic whose research was funded in part by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers’ founda-tion announced he had found that mainstream projections of climate change were correct and unbiased.

“We confirm that over the last 50 years, temperature has risen 0.9 degrees Celsius, or 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the same number that the IPCC (UN Intergovernmen-

tal Panel on Climate Change) says,” physicist Richard Muller, director of the Berkeley Earth Surface Tem-perature Project, told lawmakers.

Muller said he hoped other climate skeptics would agree with his work, but his newfound stance -- accepted by the vast majority of scientists -- remains rogue, particu-larly among Republicans seeking to replace President Barack Obama in 2012. Standout Republican Jon Huntsman -- who ranks lowest in the polls -- may have summed up the differences best when he tweeted earlier this year: “To be clear, I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces. It’s the latest prototype in the growing field of soft-bodied ro-bots. Researchers are increasingly drawing inspiration from nature to create machines that are more bendable and versatile than those made of metal.

The Harvard team, led by chemist George M. Whitesides, borrowed from squids, starfish and other animals without hard skeletons to fashion a small, four-legged rubber robot that calls to mind the clay animation character Gumby. In recent years, scientists have been tinkering with squishy — sometimes odd-looking — robots designed to squeeze through hard-to-reach cracks after a disaster like an earthquake or navigate rough terrain in the battlefield.

“The unique ability for soft robots to deform allows them to go places that traditional rigid-body robots cannot,” Matthew Walter, a roboticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in an email. A team from Tufts University earlier this year showed off a 4-inch (10-centimeter) caterpillar-shaped robot made of silicone rubber that can curl into a ball and propel itself forward.

The Harvard project, funded by the Pentagon’s research arm, was de-scribed online Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The new robot, which took two months to con-struct, is 5 inches (12.7 centimeters) long. Its four legs can be separately con-trolled by pumping air into the limbs, either manually or via computer. This gives the robot a range of mo-tions including crawling and slithering.

The researchers tested the robot’s flexibility by having it squirm under-neath a pane of glass just three-quarters of an inch from the surface. Scien-tists maneuvered the robot through the tiny gap 15 times using a combina-tion of movements. In most cases, it took less than a minute to get from side to side.

Agence France Presse

A $1.6-billion (1.2-billion-euro) cut in funding for AIDS treatment could affect millions of people as donors failed to meet commitments to the Global Fund, campaigners said Monday. The Global Fund last week said it would not bankroll new AIDS treatment projects until 2014 because the world financial crisis forced donor countries to cut spending.

A civil society coalition includ-ing groups like aid agency Me-decins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and

South Africa’s Treatment Action Campaign accused rich nations of using the crisis as an excuse. “This is not an issue of funding. It comes down to broken promises,” said Daygan Eager, of the Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum, which campaigns for AIDS funding in southern Africa.

“In a crisis, donating to the Global Fund is not good politics,” Eager told a press conference in Johannesburg. The Global Fund is the world’s largest multilateral funder of AIDS, tuberculosis and

malaria programmes, and says its programmes have saved 7.7 mil-lion lives.

It has financed 70 percent of anti-retroviral drugs in the develop-ing world and is one of the major funders of medicine in sub-Saharan Africa, home to two thirds of all people living with AIDS.

The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy and the European Commis-sion reneged on funding commit-ments, while Germany is delaying disbursements, according to cam-paigners.

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While a binding deal on harmful carbon output remains elusive by the world’s second biggest polluter after China, some small signs of progress in the United States have emerged at the state and individual levels.

Climate change denial still runs strong in US

On the US political stage, skepticism and denial of climate change are as popular as ever, and experts say that world talks which opened Monday in Durban, South Africa are unlikely to turn the tide. But while a binding deal on harmful carbon output remains elusive by the world’s second biggest polluter after China, some small signs of progress have emerged at the state and individual levels.

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Chinese students show a handmade red ribbon in Hanshan, China in 2009. A $1.6-billion (1.2-billion-euro) cut in funding for AIDS treatment could affect millions of people as donors failed to meet commitments to the Global Fund, campaigners said Monday.

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With the great rivals due tomeet for the opening ‘Clasico’ ofthe campaign on Dec. 10 at Real’sBernabeu stadium, Guardiola con-ceded the Madrid side had beenthe more impressive so far thisseason.

“As a sportsman this is not thefirst time I see myself trailing arival,” he told a news conferenceahead of Barca’s game at hometo Rayo Vallecano on Tuesday, amatch brought forward becauseof Barca’s participation in nextmonth’s Club World Cup inJapan.

“Real Madrid are six pointsclear because up to now they havebeen better than us,” Guardiolaadded. “We know that Real Madridare very strong and we know we’llhave to lift our game or we won’tget there. “We will try to raise ourlevel because our current one isnot good enough to be top of theleague.

“We’ll try and if we don’t suc-ceed we will congratulate ouropponent for having been supe-rior.” Barca’s form at home hasbeen almost impeccable, with sixwins and a draw in seven games

and 30 goals scored against noneconceded.

However, they have won onlytwo of six away matches, drawingthree and losing one, and havemanaged only eight goals for andseven against. “At home we aremore consistent and away we are

been worse than our opponentsin a single one of those games,”Guardiola said. “We have createdmore chances in all of them butit has not been possible to winmatches and that is what we arelooking at.”

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Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola gestures during a Champions League, Group H soccer match between AC Milan and Barcelona at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Nov.23, 2011.

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MADRID - Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has told his players they need to lift their game if they hope tocatch La Liga leaders Real Madrid and secure a fourth straight Spanish title. Barca slipped to a shock 1-0 loss

Real after 13 matches.

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ONDON - England soc-cer captain John Terry has beenquestioned by police investigat-ing allegations he racially abusedQueens Park Rangers defenderAnton Ferdinand during a matchlast month.

The Chelsea defender, 30, hasstrongly denied allegations hehad aimed abuse at Ferdinand, theyounger brother of his long-timeinternational team mate Rio, duringa ill-tempered west London derby.

“A 30-year-old man was inter-viewed under caution on Friday,Nov. 25, he was not arrested,”said a spokesman for London’sMetropolitan Police. “It relates toan inquiry (into an incident) thatallegedly took place on Sunday,Oct 23. involving alleged racialabuse.”

An incident involving the twoplayers was widely publicisedafter footage was shown on theInternet and an anonymous com-plaint was made to the police.The Football Association (FA)is also looking into the claims.Terry has said the incident, whichcame during QPR’s 1-0 win, wasa misunderstanding.

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DUB IN - Giovanni Trap-attoni has agreed a new con-tract with Ireland to coachthem through the 2014 WorldCup qualifying campaign, theFootball Association of Ire-land (FAI) said on Tuesday.The 72-year-old Italian endedIreland’s 10-year wait to reacha major tournament when heguided them to the Euro 2012

5-1 aggregate play-off victoryover Estonia.

“He’s achieved, it’s as simpleas that,” FAI chief executiveJohn Delaney told state broad-caster RTE. “It’s right andproper that he should manageus for the next two years.” Aftertaking over the Ireland job in2008, his contract had been dueto expire at the end of the Euro-pean Championship campaign.Assistants Marco Tardelli andFausto Rossi have also agreed

to contract extensions.“It is a huge honour and a

privilege,” Trapattoni said in astatement. Trapattoni said he hadno fear of Europe’s big nameswhen the draw is made for the

Poland and Ukraine, on Friday.But he said he would ratheravoid his native Italy, who hemanaged from 2000-2004.

“With our mentality we cando well,” he told Newstalkradio. Delaney declined to saywhat the FAI would pay Trapat-toni, but said he had agreed totake a pay cut to take account ofIreland’s economic problems.“They are very much aware

Ireland,” Delaney said.Irish media reported that

Trapattoni would be paid 1.5million euros ($2 million) peryear, down from 1.8 millioneuros. The FAI confirmed busi-nessman Denis O’Brien wouldagain subsidise the cost.

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“If I train hard and keep trainingthe way I do, I don’t think there’sanybody out there who can beatme,” Khan said on Monday.

Khan, 26-1 with 18 knockouts,will defend his World Boxing As-sociation and International Box-ing Federation light-welterweighttitles on December 10 at Wash-ington against hometown heroLamont Peterson, 29-1-1 with 15knockouts.

“Our job is to beat him and moveon to bigger and better things,”Khan said. “This is going to takeme from being a good fighter to asuperstar. Beating Lamont Peter-son will hopefully make me one ofthe best fighters in the world.”

A victory by Khan, who has wonhis past eight fights, likely wouldlaunch the 24-year-old English-man into the welterweight divisionagainst such foes as Mayweather,who has yet to name an opponentfor his planned fight on May 5.

“We need a little more timeto think about it, to look into it,”Khan said. “I never shy away

from any fight. If they put FloydMayweather in front of me, I’ll bemore than ready, but first I’ve gotLamont Peterson to take care of.”

Mayweather’s insistence upontougher blood anti-doping tests,which helped scuttle a showdownwith Pacquiao, is no worry for Khan,who faces random tests in Britain andknows them from his 2004 Olympiclightweight silver medal days.

“If that fight did come off, I’mhappy to give them a test,” Khansaid. “I’m a clean fighter. I’m usedto it.”

One fight Khan has no planson making is against Filipino iconPacquiao, who like Khan trainswith Freddie Roach in Los Ange-les, where the English pugilist hasworked for almost two months and“Pac-Man” trained for his victoryearlier this month over Mexico’sJuan Manuel Marquez.

have too much respect for eachother,” Khan said. “Me and Manny,we’re cool. I was in his room the daybefore he fought Marquez.”

As for talk they might one daymeet in the ring, Khan says: “We justlaugh about it mainly.”

Roach sees many similarities inworking with Pacquiao and Khan and

each other.“They have speed and power.

They have good work ethic,” Roachsaid. “They are great role models foreverybody in the world. They aregreat at what they do because theywork at it.

“They are friends and they respecteach other. I don’t see it happening.

and we will look forward to them.”The fight that might motivate

Khan to stay in the 140-pound divi-sion would be rival champion Brad-

showdown.Khan taunted Bradley after his

weigh-in for a Pacquiao undercard-

ley took after saying no to facingKhan. “I just wanted to make himrealize I’m not scared. I want to makethe fight,” Khan said.

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Unified Super Lightweight Boxing World Champion Amir Khan (L) of Britain works out with his trainer Freddie Roach at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood November 15, 2011, in preparation for his world title defense against Lamont Peterson of the U.S. on December 10.

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Former England captain Alan Shearer admitted to the BBCon Monday he was numb and in shock following the death onSunday of Wales manager Gary Speed.

Shearer, who played with Speed at Newcastle United, was

was found hanged in his garage early on Sunday.Shearer revealed that after both had appeared on the BBC’s

Football Focus on Saturday they had discussed their summerholidays in Portugal next year.

“I was with him and he was happy and joking and we werehaving a normal mickey-take like we do out of each other,” saidShearer.

“We were having a laugh and a joke about our golf trips andholidays that we went on together last year, and planning our nextholiday in Portugal next summer with our families and kids.”

Shearer added that they were due to see each other as earlyas this Friday.

“We were arranging next weekend. He was coming up tostay at my house with his wife and we were going up to variouscharity dinners on Friday and Saturday.

“We left the studio at half past two and I walked over to OldTrafford to go and watch Newcastle. I shook his hand and said,‘see you next weekend’ - and unfortunately I won’t.

“It’s incredible. I’m still numb and still shocked like everyoneelse. You read things in the newspaper and it doesn’t happen toone of your best mates. I’m just so sad and shocked and feel for(Speed’s wife) Louise and his two boys and mum and dad.”

Shearer - who at Newcastle regularly played golf with Speed,Shay Given and Steve Harper - said that Speed was one of thoserare breeds in competitive sport who had no enemies.

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Roger Federer says he is “very excited” about

optimism and with the mental scars of some painful defeats ap-parently healed.

The Swiss won his last grand slam title at the 2010 AustralianOpen and was overshadowed by Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal andto a lesser degreeAndy Murray this year but after winning a recordsixth ATP World Tour Finals title on Sunday, he looks primed fora new assault on major silverware.

Despite being the elder statesman of the “Big Four” at 30,Federer ended 2011 on a roll. He was unbeaten since the U.S. Open,claimed a hat-trick of indoor titles and stretched his winning streakto 17 matches. His resurgence, he said, comes after having a long,hard look at himself in the wake of a series of shattering defeats.

Nadal, squandered a two-set advantage against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

“I think it was a mental thing,” Federer told reporters after fend-

on Sunday. “Sometimes it’s about the other player. “Jo playedbetter than me at Wimbledon. Maybe not much, but enough just

Novak in the semis of the U.S. Open.

often, I do have to question myself that maybe I did somethingwrong.

“For me it was important to step back and sort of have thatbird’s eye view from up top and say, ‘where am I right now in myyear? It’s been a good year. I know I’ve been playing well, I’vebeen healthy. When is all this hard work going to pay off?’“I thinkI’m mentally good right now. There are a lot of times that goes byout on tour, during a match, you’re just trying to stay positive, butyou can’t always be positive.

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Hamilton’s current deal with McLaren runs out at the end of next season, and there has been speculation he could then be in the frame for a switch to Red Bull Racing ever since he held secret talks with its team principal Christian Horner at the Canadian Grand Prix.

But even though McLaren has already tied down Jenson Button’s long-term future, it appears that a decision on Hamilton’s plight will now wait until the 2012 campaign is under way.

When asked by AUTOSPORT about

the Hamilton contract situation going forward, Whitmarsh said: “We will see. Lewis and ourselves are in a really good place, and he is in a good place. He loves the team, we know him well, so we are not putting any timeframe on it. “We will see what happens in the course of the next year. There is plenty of time.”

Hamilton was widely quoted by the British media on Tuesday as saying that he was happy to wait too - so both parties would have a better idea of how much they have recovered from the trials of

this season.“I am in no rush,” he said. “I don’t think

there is any real pressure about my com-mitment to the team so there is no rush to have to do anything. Just focus on the next stage. “Martin [Whitmarsh, McLaren’s team principal] has spoken to me about re-signing already. I know it is there. At some stage, when we have time, we will sit down and discuss it. Again, the most important thing is to focus on the season ahead.

“I feel positive about it. I feel for-tunate to be in the position I am in. I still feel very, very fortunate about the opportunities I have ahead of me and I feel fortunate I have still got a year left on my contract.”

RENAULT has announced that Kimi Raikkonen will return to For-mula 1 racing next year, after securing a two-year deal to compete with the squad. Raikkonen, who had left For-mula 1 at the end of the 2009 season after being dropped by Ferrari, had been in talks with the Williams team about a possible return next year, but the deal fell through.

That promted speculation of a Renault tie-up, with team principal Eric Boullier confirming in Brazil last weekend that the Finn was on the shortlist of candidates for 2012 - when his outfit will be renamed Lotus.

Speaking about his return, Raik-konen said: “I’m delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-

year break, and I’m grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this op-portunity. My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career as a driver, but I can’t deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

“It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team’s ambition. Now I’m looking forward to playing an important role in pushing the team to the very front of the grid.”

Team owner Gerard Lopez added: “All year long, we kept saying that our team was at the start of a brand new cycle. Backstage we’ve been work-ing hard to build the foundations of a successful structure and to ensure that

we would soon be able to fight at the highest level.

“Kimi’s decision to come back to Formula 1 with us is the first step of several announcements which should turn us into an even more serious contender in the future. Of course, we are all looking forward to working with a world champion. On behalf of our staff, I’d like to welcome Kimi to Enstone, a setting that has always been known for its human approach to Formula 1.”

Raikkonen, 32, moved from For-mula 1 to the World Rally Champion-ship in 2010, where he spent the last two seasons while also competing in one race of the NASCAR Truck series and one Nationwide event.

McLaren is in no rush to sort out a fresh contract extension with Lewis Hamilton, despite suggestions the former world champion is ready to commit his future to the Woking-based outfit.

McLaren Mer-cedes driver Lewis Hamil-

ton of Britain, right, talks to a mechanic, left,

before the third free practice at

the Interlagos race track in Sao

Paulo, Brazil, Saturday Nov.

26, 2011.

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