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RIO DE JANEIRO – Rio’s topsecurity official hailed the takingby authorities of what was long themost dangerous slum in the citythat will host the 2016 Olympics,as operations continued Monday tolocate drug gang members thoughtto be hiding inside.

Meanwhile authorities, jubilantat the sudden, dramatic shift thatsaw them take control of two gang

Analysts say information aboutIran’s nuclear activities is very valu-able for the United States and its al-lies, particularly ahead of the meet-ing. In the past months, Iran has ar-

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Riot Special Forces policemen load a helicopter with six tons ofmarijuana found in a bunker during a raid in the Morro do Alemaoshantytown on November 28, 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Continued on page 6

After taking key slum,Rio looks to next targets

strongholds long thought untouch-able, were already setting theirsites on the next targets.

Rio state public security direc-tor Jose Beltrame, who has beencriticized by human rights groupsin the past for tough policingmethods, was humble, emotionaland thrilled after police and sol-diers seized control of theAlemao complex of about adozen slums.

(FILES) Apicture takenon October 26,2010 showsthe reactorbuilding at theRussian-builtBushehrnuclear powerplant, 1200kms south ofTehran. Iran’sfirst nuclearpower plant inBushehr hasstarted opera-tions, thenation’satomic chiefsaid on No-vember 27,2010, mediareported.

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Iran blasts kill one nuclearscientist, wounds other

Continued on page 6

Reuters

TEHRAN – Two car bomb blasts killed one Iranian nuclearscientist and wounded another in Tehran on Monday, Iran’s alAlam Arabic language television reported. The bombings, rareattacks in the Iranian capital, occurred ahead of a possible meet-ing between Iran and major powers next month to discuss thecountry’s nuclear program.

rested a number of “nuclear spies,”warning citizens over leaking infor-mation to foreign secret services.

“Majid Shahriyari was martyredand his wife was injured ...

Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani and hiswife were both wounded,” state radiosaid. “The attackers planted a bombon each of the teachers’ vehicles.”

Iran’s atomic chief Ali AkbarSalehi warned “enemies” not to playwith fire by carrying out such at-tacks. “Our nation’s patience has alimit ... when it is over our enemieswill face a tedious fate,” Salehi said,the official IRNA news agency re-ported. “Dr. Shahriyari was my stu-dent for many years and he had goodcooperation with the Atomic Energy

Organization.”Iran’s English language Press

TV showed police and plain clothessecurity agents examining a silver-colored Peugeot 206 car with whatlooked like shrapnel holes in itsbonnet.

No group has claimed the re-sponsibility but Iranian officialsand media both blamed Israel,which Tehran calls “the Zionist re-gime,” and the United States for thekilling of the nuclear scientist.

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The monitoring was conducted byCandra together with the elements ofthe leadership and relevant legisla-tors accompanied by a number of re-gional apparatus units. Three venuesof the recruitment test raided wereSMAN 1 Semarapura senior highschool, SDN 1 Semarapura Tengahprimary school and SMKNSemarapura vocational high school.The number of applicants obtainingthe registration number reached1,469 people struggling for 204 po-sitions including teachers, health andtechnical officers. However, from anumber of rooms raided by the re-gents, averagely three to four appli-cants did not attend the test.

When asked about the issue ofbribery in order to pass in the recruit-ment test in Klungkung Regency,Candra mentioned such an issue al-

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The Regent of Klungkung, Wayan Candra, examine the civil ser-vant test.

Raid civil servant recruitment test in Klungkung:

Many brokers roam and hisMany brokers roam and hisMany brokers roam and hisMany brokers roam and hisMany brokers roam and hisname ripped off, Candra saysname ripped off, Candra saysname ripped off, Candra saysname ripped off, Candra saysname ripped off, Candra says

Having lasted for 10 days, onFriday (Nov 26) night the fourthBadung Cultural Festival (BCF)2010 was officially closed by theRegent of Badung AA GdeAgung. The closing ceremonywas attended by the Head of theBadung House I Made Sumer andhis wife, Secretary of BadungRegency Kompyang R. Swandikaand his wife, regional officials inthe ranks of the Badung Regency.The closure organized at the out-ermost courtyard of the LinggaBhuwana Temple in the BadungCivic Center was thronged bypeople as well as cultural envoyswinning the championship in thefestival.

Head of the Badung CulturalServices, Ida Bagus AnomBhasma, who was also served asChairman of the Organizing Com-mittee, reported that the BCF ac-

Semarapura (Bali Post)—The Regent of Klungkung, Wayan Candra, straightforwardly said there were many brokers

roaming around in the admission process of civil servant recruitment test (CPNS) in KlungkungRegency. Even, Candra did not hesitate to mention those brokers as ‘Devils’ that should be watchedout by the applicants or wider community. “People may say them as brokers. But, I feel moreconvenient to call them as devils of civil servant recruitment,” expressed Candra after commit-ting a monitoring to number of venues of the recruitment test in Klungkung on Sunday (Nov 28).

ways emerged every year. However,he asserted that he did not do so. Be-sides, the source of issues was unclearand hard to prove.

“Indeed, I received many com-plaints from victims of those devils(brokers—Ed) every year. Some resi-dents admitted to have deposited someamount of money, but did not qualifyfor the recruitment. The devils indeedexisted and so did the victims. How-ever, no one reported the case to po-lice station,” said Candra while men-tioning both brokers and the victimswere the person of surrounding region(from Klungkung—Ed).

“The devils are taking action andcheated my name along with theirsmartness to attract the interest of po-tential victims. Amount of the moneytaken varied from IDR 60 million toIDR 70 million,” he added.

Meanwhile, the number of appli-cants in Klungkung this year decreasedfrom 6,508 people struggling for 641vacancies. Head of Klungkung HumanResources (BKD), Nengah Sudiartha,estimated the decrease in the numberof applicants was caused by the reduc-ing quota in the Klungkung Regency.“Probably, the applicants may seek thegreater opportunity,” he said.

Sudiarta said, the allocated num-ber of civil servant prospect givenby the central government was basedon the proposed need by KlungkungRegency namely 881 people. He rea-soned that such a need was causedby the number of retired civil ser-vants reached more than a hundredpeople. “For now, the number of civilservants in Klungkung RegionalGovernment reached 5,700 people,”he added. (kmb20)

Regent Gde Agung closesBadung Cultural Festival

Dalung, DenPostBangsal War Monument at Dalung

now became an interest to the public.Generally public wants to know thefighters fight and activities in this monu-ment area where they fight for indepen-dence during the invasion.

Following the increasing visitors,Bangsal War Monument is now sug-gested to be a tourist object as it has avery high historic value. The sugges-tion was given by LPP RRI (IndonesiaRepublic Radio Public BroadcastingInstitute) Representative, SunrayaRuslan and Tias Anggor during theirvisit with Head of LPP RRI Educationand Practice Center and group to themonument last Sunday (28/11).

It was admitted this was the first timeSunarya came to this monument andstated this sort of monument is veryimportant and a very good thing be-cause with it, it gives away that fight-ing value to the next generation. More-over with foreign cultures and modern-ization coming in this monumentshould be one of the reminders to theyounger generation.

With that, Sunarya suggestedBangsal to be one of the access for the

tivities had proceeded smoothlyand accordingly. Sub districts win-ning the competition in the festi-val activities had been determined.

Competition held in the activi-ties consisted of the making ofpenjor, bleganjur gamelan music,decorating penjor, the making ofcanang sari oblation, coloring pic-ture for kindergarten students, Ba-linese pop song, Balinese dance forchildren and teenagers, as well asgong kebyar for children, womenand adult category. Explained, thefirst winner of the gong kebyarcompetition for children categoryacross Badung was the KumaraBhakti Budaya children gamelantroupe from Teba Hamlet, JimbaranVillage, South Kuta, for thewomen’s category, the first winnerwas achieved by the WanitaDharma Kerti gamelan troupe fromSelat Hamlet, Sobangan Village,

Mengwi, and for adult category wasachieved by Adnyana Sari gamelantroupe from Uma Hamlet, Tegal Vil-lage, Abiansemal subdistrict.

In his speech, the Regent GdeAgung said that the governmentstrongly supported the implementa-tion of Badung Arts Festivalcoupled with the first anniversaryof the capital of Badung Regency“Mangupura.” Cultural festival wasvery important in the effort to pre-serve the Balinese arts and culture.The cultural festival was expectedto improve the creativity of arts andculture of the artists. In addition, theevent was also able to motivate theyoung people to love their Balinesesuperb arts and culture.

At the closing ceremony, the Re-gent Gde Agung, accompanied bythe Head of the Badung house IMade Sumer handed over theprizes to the respective winners.

Bangsal Monument SuggestedBeing Tourist Object

tourists as this is part of Indonesia Re-public, “With it people from outsideBali will know there’s a fight done hereby these heroes including the foreign-ers that came to Bali.”

Meanwhile, Pemucuk of PuriPuncak Bangsal Family, Dr. BagusNgurah Putu Arthana, Sp. A(K), ex-plained that through this activity it ishoped that the new generation of Indo-nesia can continue the fight and dreamsof these heroes also understand the his-toric values to this monument. This isone of the important history during In-donesia fights for independence in Balialso to fill that independence is the newgeneration’s task.

It is also explained that this monu-ment was a secret underground head-quarters during the independence warin Bali. This historic place was the meet-ing place between young leaders in ar-ranging their strategies during Japanesand NICA invasion. The fighting spiritof Bangsal is to reach that independenceand right now is to fill in that indepen-dence and guard the four pillars whichare One Country Indonesia Republic,UUD (Foundation Law) 45, Pancasilaand Bhineka Tunggal Ika. (kmb)

3International Bali News Tuesday, November 30, 2010

NATURE is so kind to itsdwellers, namely plants, animaland human. It has provided allthings or sustenance required forthe survival around the clock. Allrequire the presence of one an-other. However, human being isthe most determining elementsamong the three because he is theonly creature bestowed with thecapability of thinking.

One of the basic principles inHinduism is the belief in the soul.All creatures are brought to life byvital energy or soul (atman). It rep-resents the fragment of God (Brah-man). Since material body bondsthem, they could not identify theirpure self. Human being endowedwith power, words and mind hasdominant role in maintaining the re-lations. He considers God dwells in-side all creatures. On that account,he respects them all as equal cre-ation.

Animal particularly cattle, for in-stance, has helped human being inliving their life. Cow has providedhim with the power to plough hissoil in the rice field or garden, milkfor children and adult, and its dungfor fertilizing the soil. Meanwhile,other cattle give human some eggsor fleshes.

As a means of thanksgiving,Hindu devotees in Bali celebrate aday in 210 days as special ceremony

According to Nuranta, this fil-tering and supervision will e doneon the four harbors of Bali Island.It is said this effort will be a joinwork with four region/city govern-ments where the harbors are, “TheBali Budget and Expenses(APBD) has been arranged suitingeach harbor’s activities.”

To secure those gates, Jembranagovernment has received aroundIDR 400 million which is used tosupport the supervision of comersfrom all over Indonesia goingthrough Gilimanuk Harbor.Karangasem government receivedIDR 300 Million for intensive su-pervision at Padangbai Harbor.While Buleleng Government re-ceived IDR 100 Million for secur-

Mangupura (Bali Post) –According to plan stated last Sun-

day (28/11), tomorrow Wednesday (30/11) Badung Regent AA Gde Agungwill produce the command letter forthe continuation of unpermitted (build-ing permit) telecommunication towersdemolition in Badung, “All the processin the Work Unit Area (SKPD) hasbeen completed. Now only the processat Regional Secretary needed then inthe end of November which is the 30th,I will produce the Regent’s commandletter. But for the number and whichtowers are going to be demolished,that’s our secret.”

According to the Regent, this demo-lition is a must and has to be done aswhen the case was legally processedin the court, the winner Badung Gov-ernment stated to demolition is as regu-lations and laws. Even though, BadungGovernment does not want to do itwithout any studying first and so theprocess went quite long with studiesfrom many aspects, “The process waslong and through many aspects suchas justice, administration and techni-cal ones. So it can’t be reckless, thatwill cause us to be the one reported not

As for robbery in Kawan MMAlleged to be a new robber group,a perpetrator captured by CCTVDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Now, police officers are workinghard to reveal the robbery case occurredin Kawan Minimarket (MM) on JalanJimbaran, South Kuta, Badung. One ofthe three robbery perpetrators armedwith gunfire was said to have been re-corded by CCTV. It means that policehave found a clue about the case. Ad-ditionally, police officers suspected therobbers belonged to a new ring. Fromthe way they acted, they were not theperpetrators of robbery occurred at theUdayana petrol station, Jimbaran.“They were far different. Perpetratorsat the petrol station were far more pro-fessional,” a police source said on Sun-day (Nov 28).

The resource person said that thering of robbers consisting of threepeople and riding a motorbike was be-lieved to be still in Bali. It was discern-ible from the movement of policeshortly after the incident took place.After receiving the report, police of-ficers of South Kuta directly coordi-nated with the Badung Police andSouth Kuta Police, including the offic-ers on duty at the borders. “It was notfound yet any people with the samecharacteristic as the alleged perpetra-tors going out of Bali. They are be-lieved to be still in Bali,” the sourcesaid on Sunday (Nov 28).

Related to the records of CCTV, saidthe source, it was unable to fully recordthe perpetrators. The shoot of surveil-lance camera was hindered by a board.However, a perpetrator could be re-

Non ResidentsNon ResidentsNon ResidentsNon ResidentsNon ResidentsSupervision BudgetSupervision BudgetSupervision BudgetSupervision BudgetSupervision BudgetNeeded IDR 850 MillionNeeded IDR 850 MillionNeeded IDR 850 MillionNeeded IDR 850 MillionNeeded IDR 850 MillionDenpasar (Bali Post) –

Bali province government has planned a budget as much as IDR 850 Million all along year2010 to filter and supervise non residents that came to Bali especially for those that did notcomplete itself with regulated identity and its unclear purpose coming to Bali. Head of Bali Sec-retary Population Bureau Government Planning Unit, Drs. Wayan Nuranta, MH, stated theselast Sunday (28/11).

ing Celkan Bawang Harbor andDenpasar government got IDR 50Million in supervising non resi-dents at Benoa Harbor and UbungTerminal, “The budget plotted byBali Province government was tosecure the main three gates to Baliwhich has been done these last sev-eral years. With tight security it ishoped they will come to Bali hav-ing the right identity and the rightpurpose.”

Nuranta added, officials thathave been tasked in each gates todo so. If there are non residentsthat did not bring its completeidentity documents also unclearpurpose, then officials can clearlyforbid these people to come in toBali including sending them back

to where they came from, “Everyyear, the number of new comers toBali and wanting to try get in-comes in Bali reaches 25 thousandpeople.”

According to Nuranta, the filter-ing and supervision to these nonresidents it important rememberingBali can only support 1,5 millionpeople. Yet right now Bali popula-tion reached 4,1 million people. Ifthe security on the gates of Bali isnot tighten, then new comers whoare coming to Bali especially thosewho have skills and certain purposecan’t be known, “This is definitelydangerous for Bali as new comerswill be not selected well which po-tentially cause any kind of socialthreats.” (kmb13)

Three Indigenous Wisdoms inHuman-Animal Relation

to their cattle. It is called TumpekKandang falling on Saturday KliwonWuku Uye. The upcoming one willfall on 6 June. On that day, the Hin-dus in Bali will celebrate it by pre-senting some oblations showing adeep gratitude for being given withthe energy assistance, healthy drinkor delicious food. The same respectis given to cultivated plants that arehonored through Tumpek Pengatagor Bubuh (Saturday Kliwon Wariga)and human itself has birthday(otonan) celebrated once in 210 dayson the same day as his birth, notbirthdate (on the same date). Fromthe morning, girls or householdmothers will be busy preparing ev-erything for the ritual. It would be agreat chance if you could see theBalinese perform the procession.

Since human being has a mind,there is an opportunity for him to getreunion with God because he canthink and learn about God. This de-notes another belief of Hinduism,namely moksha. Meanwhile, animaland plant do not have this opportu-nity. However, human being canprovide help for this purpose in or-der the soul of animal and plant canreach higher level in their next life.

Dharma Caruban manuscript de-scribes the correct way to slaughteranimals and to take plants for the useof rituals. Before slaughtering them,they are given particular mantra in

the hope they could reach higherlevel of life in the next reincarna-tion. This treatment is equally givento any plants, fish (ekapada), fowl(dwipada) and four-legged animals(catur pada).

Regarding to this human-animalrelation, there is another manuscript,namely Darmaning Pemaculan orShri Tattwa, describing about spiri-tual farming-related activities, rang-ing from how to build different sizesof dam, land cultivation and plant’sdisease eradication to rituals held ineach phase of the activity. In han-dling plant’s disease, local farmersremain to say prayers in order Godor His manifestation keeps the ani-mal properly, not disturb the plants.As the compensation for the ani-mals, devotees will present properfood (lelabaan). Otherwise, thefarmers will set up trap or naturalpoison.

When getting in touch with hu-man life, all animals are treatedas God’s creation and communi-cation maintained. Human offersthanksgiving oblation for the helpextended; invocation for betterlife when animals are in use forrituals ingredients; acknowledg-ment and repressive action toplant diseases if they attack hu-man plants. In short, he remainsto give proper treatment as equalGod’s creation. (BTN/punia)

Tower Demolition ContinuationTomorrow, Badung RegentProduces Command Letter

doing it thoroughly. And lastly wehaven’t continued the demolition be-cause the court’s decision has just beenreceived on Thursday (25/11) so weneed time to continue this.”

It was said, Badung Governmentdid not “flirt” with the tower owners.It is explained in the trial at DenpasarDistrict Court with SKP Companyright now still goes on and BadungGovernment is still demanding tocontinue it and no peace. Once more,this was based on Surabaya DistrictHigh Court’s decision that statedthere’s no law violation in producingBadung Regent Command letter onunpermitted towers demolition inBadung.

More over, the Regent and his col-leagues are still facing five cases con-necting to towers demolition. Threeof them was won during comparisonat Surabaya District High Court, oneReassess at Supreme Court connect-ing to a tower owned by UnitedTowerindo and one case at DenpasarDistrict Court. For the Reassess at theSupreme Court is still in process andGde Agung is optimistic that his sidecould win again. (kmb25)

corded and it could possibly help re-veal the robbery case. “Hopefully,armed with the tape, the perpetratorcould be captured,” he hoped.

Meanwhile, Chief of South KutaPolice, Nanang Prihasmoko, said that hisparty was still investigating the robberycase that increasingly made people rest-less. So far, his party was still busy withthe examination of witnesses. Until now,the investigators remained to examinefour witnesses. Unfortunately, there hadbeen no information leading to the per-petrators of robbery causing theminimarket to suffer a loss worth IDR 9million. “There have been four witnessesexamined. We are still continuing to in-vestigate them further,” said ChiefNanang Prihasmoko to reporters.

Related to the gunfire brought by thering of the robber, Chief NanangPrihasmoko did not dare to confirm itstype. Out of the four employees exam-ined, they did not know for sure aboutwhat kind of gunfire it was. “The wit-ness did not dare to turn back whenthreatened by the weapon. They pre-ferred to follow all instruction of theperpetrators,” he explained. As the pre-vious information, the robbery in theKawan MM happened at 04:00 LocalTime, Saturday (Nov 27). The threerobbers wearing a full face helmet andbringing gunfire managed to disablefour local employees. Even, the perpe-trators could take away a cash and mer-chandise worth IDR 9 million. The rob-bers acted quickly and it only took themabout four minutes. (kmb21)

International4 Tuesday, November 30, 2010 News

Former Prime Minister ChuanLeekpai delivered closing argumentsMonday defending his DemocratParty of charges it misused 29 mil-lion baht ($907,000) of a governmentfund allotted for political parties. Thecourt indicated it would deliver averdict later in the day.

If found guilty, the party couldbe disbanded and about 40 of itsexecutives — including Abhisit —banned from politics for five years.That would force the formation ofa new government.

The punishment is at the discre-tion of the court.

AP

SEOUL, South Korea – SouthKorea’s president on Monday tookresponsibility for failing to protecthis citizens from a deadly NorthKorean artillery attack last week,vowing tough consequences for anyfuture aggression and expressingoutrage over the “ruthlessness of theNorth Korean regime.”

Lee Myung-bak’s short speech tothe country came as a nuclear-pow-ered U.S. supercarrier and a SouthKorean destroyer participated in jointmilitary exercises, a united show offorce nearly a week after an artillerybarrage on Yeonpyeong island killedfour, including two civilians.

A South Korean county designatedthe front-line island Monday as “off-limits” to civilians. The decision couldpave the way for the evacuation ofabout 300 remaining residents, jour-nalists and officials. South Korea’sDefense Ministry said it would dis-cuss whether to evacuate.

Amid the heightened tension,classified U.S. State Departmentdocuments leaked Sunday by onlinewhistle-blower WikiLeaks showedthe United States and South Koreadiscussing possible scenarios for re-unification of the peninsula, andAmerican worry over Pyongyang’snuclear weapons program.

Under pressure to take strongeraction in dealing with the defiantNorth, Lee lashed out at Pyongyang.

“Only a few meters away fromwhere shells landed, there is aschool where classes were goingon,” Lee said. “I am outraged by theruthlessness of the North Koreanregime, which is even indifferent tothe lives of little children.”

Lee has come under withering criti-cism for what opponents have calledlapses in South Korea’s response to theattack. Lee has replaced his defenseminister, ordered reinforcements forthe 4,000 troops on Yeonpyeong andfour other Yellow Sea islands and up-graded rules of engagement.

“If the North commits any addi-tional provocations against theSouth, we will make sure that it paysa dear price without fail,” Lee said.

AFP

PARIS – King Abdullah of SaudiArabia urged the United States toattack Iran to destroy its nuclearprogramme, according to US docu-ments leaked by WikiLeaks andpublished Sunday by daily newspa-pers.

According to a leaked US cable,published by the New York Times,King Abdullah bin Abd al-Azizmade the call during an April 2008meeting with US Ambassador toIraq Ryan Crocker and US GeneralDavid Petraeus.

“He told you to ‘cut off the headof the snake’,” Saudi Arabia’s am-

Thailand’s Prime Minister andleader of the governing Demo-crat Party Abhisit Vejjajiva, left

Thai court set to ruleThai court set to ruleThai court set to ruleThai court set to ruleThai court set to ruleon fate of ruling partyon fate of ruling partyon fate of ruling partyon fate of ruling partyon fate of ruling partyAP

BANGKOK – Judges fromThailand’s Constitutional Courtare deciding whether to disbandthe ruling party of Prime Minis-ter Abhisit Vejjajiva over chargesit misused government funds.

AP

Saudi king urged US to attackIran: leaked documents

AFP/File

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

bassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir, told the US embassy inRiyadh two days after the high-leveltalks, according to the State Depart-ment memo.

“The King, Foreign Minister,Prince Muqrin, and Prince Nayif allagreed that the Kingdom needs tocooperate with the US on resisting androlling back Iranian influence andsubversion in Iraq,” the memo said.

“The King was particularly ada-mant on this point, and it was ech-oed by the senior princes as well.Al-Jubeir recalled the King’s fre-quent exhortations to the US to at-tack Iran and so put an end to itsnuclear weapons program.”

But the memo goes on to say otherSaudi officials were more cautiousabout the need for military action,with Foreign Minister Prince Saudal-Faisal and intelligence chiefPrince Muqrin bin Abd al-Aziz push-ing for sanctions.

“The Foreign Minister, on theother hand, called instead for muchmore severe US and internationalsanctions on Iran, including a travelban and further restrictions on banklending,” the memo said.

“Prince Muqrin echoed theseviews, emphasizing that some sanc-tions could be implemented withoutUN approval. The Foreign Ministeralso stated that the use of militarypressure against Iran should not beruled out.”

The leaked memo could proveembarrassing to Saudi Arabia, which,while known to be nervous of Iran’salleged nuclear weapons ambitions,has not publicly called for Westernmilitary action against its powerfulneighbour.

Reacting to the leaks, a Saudi gov-ernment advisor who asked not to beidentified told AFP: “The wholething is very negative. It’s not goodfor confidence-building.”

Riyadh had been warned byWashington that documents wouldbe leaked, but they had not known inadvance exactly what would comeout, he added.

Official Saudi governmentspokesmen were not immediatelyavailable.

AP

South Korean soldiers take part in a military drill on the beach inMalipo, north western South Korea

SKorea leader vowsconsequences forNKorean attack

“The South Korean people nowunequivocally understand thatprolonged endurance and toler-ance will spawn nothing but moreserious provocations.”

He didn’t offer specifics aboutwhat consequences the Northwould face, and he offered fewdetails on what actions SouthKorea will take in response to lastweek’s attack, other than prom-ising to strengthen the military.

“I feel deeply responsible forfailing to protect my people’s livesand property,” Lee said. In SouthKorea, it is not rare for top offi-cials to resign, apologize or ex-press responsibility when theirgovernment faces public criticism.

Minutes after Lee finished hisspeech, North Korea issued a freshthreat to attack South Korea andthe United States, calling the al-lies’ joint war drills “yet anothergrave military provocation.”

China, the North’s only majorally, has belatedly jumped intothe fray. Beijing’s top nuclearenvoy, Wu Dawei, called for anemergency meeting in early De-cember among regional powersinvolved in nuclear disarmamenttalks, including North Korea.

Seoul gave a cool response toBeijing’s proposal, saying itshould be “reviewed very care-fully” in light of North Korea’srecent revelation of a new ura-nium-enrichment facility.

The troubled relations betweenthe two Koreas, which fought athree-year war in the 1950s, havesteadily deteriorated since Lee’sconservative government tookpower in 2008 with a tough newpolicy toward the North.

Eight months ago, a South Ko-rean warship went down in thewestern waters, killing 46 sailorsin the worst attack on the SouthKorean military since the KoreanWar. Then, last Tuesday, NorthKorean troops showered artilleryon Yeonpyeong, a South Korean-held island that houses militarybases as well as a civilian popu-lation — an attack that marked anew level of hostility.

Hotel Activities Tuesday, November 30, 2010 5International

Temple Ceremony

December 1stTemple anniversary celebrations and full moon cer-emony at :- Pura Bhatara Kawitan Pura Agung Bangli,

downtown of Bangli- Pura Pasek Gelgel, Pedungan village, south of

Denpasar- Pura Kertha, Banyuning village, downtown of

Singaraja ( north Bali)- Pura Taman, Bubunan village, district of Seririt,

Buleleng regency ( north Bali)

December 2ndTemple anniversary celebrations and full moon cer-emony at :- Pura Puseh and Desa Silakarang village district of

Sukawati village, Gianyar regency- Pura Dalem Pulasari Samprangan village, district

of Blahbatuh, Gianyar regency- Pura Natih, banjar kaloh batuan village- Pura Dalem petitenget, Kerobokan village, district

of Kuta, Badung regency

December 3rdTemple anniversary celebrations and full moon cer-emony at :- Pura Dalem Puri, Besakih village, Karangasem

regency- Pura Dalem Puri, Batuan village, Gianyar regency- Pura Dalem, Singakertha village, district of Ubud,

Gianyar regency- Pura Dalem Agung, downtown of Bangli- Pura Dalem, Ketewel village, district of Sukawati,

Gianyar regency- Pura Desa, Downtown of Denpasar- Pura Puncak Payogan, Kedewatan village, district

of Ubud, Gianyar regency

December 8thTemple anniversary celebrations and full moon cer-emony at :- Pura Merajan Agung, Batuyang village, district of

Calendar Event for December 1st through December 13th 2010

Sukawati, Gianyar regency- Pura Tanjungsari, Padangbai village, Karangasem

regency.

December 8thGalunganThis is the most important holiday symbolizing thevictory of Virtue (Dharma) upon Evil (Adharma). Theholiday is specialized by the fitting of ‘penjor’, a tallbamboo pole splendidly decorated with woven youngcoconut leaves, fruit, cakes and flowers, on the rightside of every house entrance. People are attired in theirfinest clothes and jewels this day.

December 11th Temple ceremony on this day:- Segara Temple, Jembrana Regency- Dalem Gede Temple, Losan – Klungkung Regency

December 12th- Redite Wage Kuningan, Ulihan. Balinese do

believe, this day is the return of all mighty spiritback to heaven after leaved a prosperity andlongevity to the worshipers.

Temple ceremony on this day:- Dalem Tegal Tamu Temple, Sekarmukti, Batubulan- Gianyar Regency- Kubayan Umagunung Temple, Sempidi – Badung

Regency

December 13thTemple ceremony on this day:- Dasar Gelgel Temple, Gelgel – Klungkung Regency- Pasek Tohjiwa Temple, Sawah, Selemadeg –

Tabanan Regency- Pemerajan Agung Temple, Benawah Kangin –

Gianyar Regency- Panti Pasek Gelgel Temple, Pelapuhan, Busungbiu- Buleleng Regency- Kahyangan Tulus Temple, Apuan – Tabanan

Regency

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annualCeremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Ba-linese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine whicheach family possesses. Because of this practically every fewdays a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in someVillage in Bali. There are also times when the entire islandcelebrated 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 consid-ered its birth day and celebration always takes place on thesame day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When newmoon is used then the celebration always happens on new moonor full moon. The day of course can differ the religious cel-ebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some templecelebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakihtemple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and mostof the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importanceof the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed withpieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold andChinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the fourcorners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, whiteor black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped inthe shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, longflags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. Infront of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles,decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, riceand other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are thegirls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangementsof all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Everyvisitor admires the grace with which the carry their load ontheir heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

As one of the form of corporatesocial responsibility (CSR), RamadaBintang Bali Resort held Visit Char-ity Program in Juuk Manis,Karangasem on Thursday, Novem-ber 15, 2010. The social act was thethird times carried out by the fivestars hotel which is located in Kuta.

The general Manager of RamadaBintang Bali Resort, Jeryy Lee, infront of the officers and inhabitantsof Juuk Manis, said that there is greathope that the CSR activity could helpthe local people in the area. Accord-ing to the Gm who come fromSingapore, the social act will con-tinue and will be done regularly.

“I hope that the cows given bythe hotel will be taken care so it canhelp to improve the condition of thelocals in the area,” Lee added. Thefund gathered for the charity pro-gram is 55,158,220 rupiah. Thefund was gathered from bipartite,Hindu Association, Moslem Asso-ciation, Christian Association man-agement, and the Charity Box.

The donation which is 16 cows

Ramada Bintang Bali ResortHeld “Visit Charity Program” in Karangasem

was given to eight groups in the areathrough Karangasem Social Depart-ment. The groups are spread in sev-eral villages such as KarangasemDistrict (Juuk manis, belong, DukuhBukit Ngandang), middle SerayaVillage (Dusun Ijo gading, DusunTaman), estaren Seraya Village(Dusun Tukad Item) and in easternTianyar (Dusun Tukad Item).

In addition to the cows, the hotelwas also donating 50 food parcelswhich worth approximately 100,000rupiah. Ramada Hotel was also co-operated with Kuta Clinic, SuryaHusada Hospital Club andKarangasem Health Department inorder to give health assistance to thepeople.

The hotel employee was also singalong with locals so they bond be-tween them is really tight. Accord-ing to Tia Virlana, the Public Rela-tions Manager of Ramada BintangBali Resort, said that the social actwas successfully carried out becausethe support of the owner, manage-ment and hotel staffs.(055)

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McClelland told reporters on Monday he was not aware of arequest from the United States to cancel WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange’s Australian passport. He says a range of op-tions are under consideration by Australian government agen-cies in response to the latest disclosure of classified U.S. mate-rial.

McClelland says there are “potentially a number of criminallaws” that could have been breached.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard last week condemnedthe planned leaks as reckless and potentially harmful to nationalsecurity interests.

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PHNOM PENH – Cambodia’s pre-mier said Monday that nobody will bebrought to justice over a festival stam-pede last week that left more than 350people dead, but admitted the govern-ment was at fault.

“Nobody will be punished for theincident,” Prime Minister Hun Sen saidafter the worst tragedy in Cambodia fordecades.

“The incident that happened was theresponsibility of the government,” hesaid, describing it as “a historical les-son that we must remember”.

Cambodia’s annual water festivalended in tragedy last Monday aftercrowds panicked on an overcrowdedbridge leading to an island that was one

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of the main event sites.“They have accused us of inability.

We must accept this because of thedeaths,” Hun Sen said at the inaugura-tion of a new government building inthe capital.

“We were careless,” he added. “Thiswas a joint mistake that nobody ex-pected.”

A total of 351 people lost their lives,the majority of them women, and ques-tions have been raised over who is toblame for the tragedy.

Authorities have said a full reporton the incident would be released inthe coming days.

Initial findings from the investigat-ing committee suggest the stampedeoccurred after rumours rippled throughthe crowd that the suspension bridge to

Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island wasabout to collapse.

“The tragedy started with our wrongassessment of the situation,” said thepremier, who has described the stam-pede as Cambodia’s worst tragedy sincethe Khmer Rouge’s 1975-1979 reignof terror, which killed up to a quarter ofthe population.

The three-day festival, which marksthe reversal of the flow between theTonle Sap and Mekong rivers, usuallydraws millions of visitors to the capitalto enjoy dragon boat races, fireworksand concerts.

A national day of mourning was heldon Thursday, led by an emotional HunSen who wiped away tears as he lit in-cense and laid flowers at the foot of thebridge.

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Cambodians pray with offerings near the Diamond Gate bridge, site of a stampede at the annualwater festival

For decades, it had been the key ter-ritory of Rio’s biggest drug gang, theRed Command. “The Alemao was theheart of evil,” Beltrame said at a lateSunday news conference.

But he emphasized that his two-year-old program to push gangs out ofthe city’s sprawling shantytowns andreplace them with permanent policeposts was only beginning, that he wasnow looking ahead to the next hugeslum that police will go after —Rocinha, a sprawl of shanties and nar-row alleys that is one of Latin America’slargest slums.

He did not detail when police mightattempt to wrestle Rocinha from thedrug gang that controls it, but he wasresolute and confident in saying that itwould definitely fall.

“Criminals without a house, crimi-nals without a weapon, criminals with-out territory, criminals without moneyare far less criminal than they were be-fore,” said Beltrame, on the verge oftears, voice cracking. “We have not wonthe war, but we’ve won a difficult andimportant battle.”

He spoke hours after 2,600 policeand soldiers poured into Alemao at sun-rise, supported by armored personnelcarriers, low-flying helicopters buzzingthe slum and even a few tanks. Theyclaimed victory within two hours, say-ing they had taken control with littlefighting in the district of 85,000 resi-dents.

It was the biggest advance yet in thetwo-year effort to drive gangs from theirstrongholds in the hundreds ofshantytowns, many draped across thehills that look down on Rio’s fabledbeaches. The crusade is driven in partby the need to make foreign visitors feelsecure for the final matches of the 2014World Cup and for the 2016 Olympicsthat are meant to be showpieces ofBrazil’s emergence as growing worldforce.

Alemao was a key target because itsits near a highway that connects mostof Rio to the international airport.Rocinha, the next target, lies on a roadthat will connect the main 2016 Olym-pic venues to the rest of the city.

Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabralsaid the campaign against gangs willgo forward. “We will continue to con-quer more territories and give peace toour citizens and the foreign visitors whocome here,” he told Globo TV.

Officials have already imposed or-

Another nuclear scientist,Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, waskilled by a remote controlled bombin Tehran in January. Some opposi-tion websites said he backed mod-erate candidate MirhosseinMousavi in the 2009 disputed presi-dential vote that secured PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-elec-tion.

Western sources said in Januarythat Mohammadi worked closelywith Fereydoun Abbassi-Davani,who was subjected to U.N. sanc-tions because of his work on sus-pected nuclear weapons develop-

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ment. “Abbasi-Davani has not beenseriously injured in the blast,” thesemi-official Mehr news agencysaid.

Salehi said one of the country’sbiggest nuclear projects was on thekilled scientist’s agenda, withoutgiving further details, IRNA re-ported.

Iran says its atomic program ispurely peaceful, but suspicions thatit is seeking nuclear weapons haveled to the imposition of severalrounds of international sanctions bythe United Nations, the EuropeanUnion and the United States.

After taking key slum...

der on more than a dozen other formergang strongholds, even encouragingtourism along streets once echoing withgunfire. The gangs reacted violently tothe campaign a week ago, staging massrobberies of motorists on key highways,burning more than 100 buses and cars,and shooting up police outposts.

The government counterattackedwith hundreds of soldiers and thousandsof police in armored vehicles, first driv-ing gangsters from the Vila Cruzeiroslum Thursday, then moving on toneighboring Alemao — their mostambitious target yet.

At least 36 people, mostly suspecteddrug traffickers, died in the gang vio-lence and resulting police raids over thepast week. Officials earlier warned thatas many as 600 gang members wereholed up in Alemao, but by Mondaypolice had made just 20 arrests, includ-ing a few of the slum’s reputed top gangleaders.

Police estimated at least 200 gang-sters remained hidden in the slum andwarned that sporadic shootouts werelikely in the coming days as securityforces searched the zone. At least onesuspected trafficker was killed in theinvasion and at least two people wereinjured. “We won,” said Mario SergioDuarte, head of Rio state’s military po-lice. “We brought freedom to the resi-dents of Alemao.”

Inside the slum, big piles of trashdotted a main dirt road that ran withraw sewage. The iron gates of store-fronts were drawn down, their sur-faces pocked with bullet holes. Spentrifle casings littered streets. Slum resi-dents, under siege for days, took ad-vantage of the calm to buy food. Oldwomen, young boys and teenagersleaned against their squat shacks sur-veying the new scene, but often hur-ried inside when a police contingentwalked by.

Some residents said the governmentwas a negligible presence in the areafor at least a decade and expressed fearthe police hold would not last.

A young pregnant woman voicedher doubts in a whisper and declined togive her name in fear of both the gangsand the police officers standing guarda few feet away. “The gangs will beback. I have no doubt they escaped andwill return after the police leave,” shesaid. “How big a police post will theyneed to secure this whole place? I don’tthink they can do it.”

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In addition to opening the na-tional jamboree, the head of stateis also scheduled to lead a cer-emony marking the launching ofa trembesi tree planting movementand hand 120,000 trembesi seed-lings to Aceh Governor IrwandiYusuf.

On the occasion, GovernorIrwandi would present the presi-dent with a traditionally craftedchair symbolizing peace.

Meanwhile, Aceh Scout Re-gional Quarter chairmanMuhammad Nazar said earlier thatthe National Wirakarya ScoutJamboree would be participated inby around 10,000 scouts from allprovinces across the country, andfrom a number of Asean and

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Jakarta - Sumiati binti SalanMustafa who was recently torturedby her Saudi Arabian employerwould have a lung surgery, an Indo-nesian government official said.“Sumiati has undergone plastic sur-gery, and she is now prepared for alung surgery,” Director of theWorkforce and TransmigrationMinistry`s Migrant Worker Place-ment Rostiawati said on Sunday.

Speaking in a press conferencefor the launching of ASEAN Em-ployee Services Trade Union Coun-cil (ASETUC) here, she said herministry would try to enableSumiati‘s father to go to SaudiArabia. During his visit, he wouldaccompany her daughter during thelung surgery process as the 24-year-old Sumiati wanted, Rostiawati said.

“We are doing our best to handleall things needed for the trip ofSumiati`s father so that he can takecare of her daughter during her lungsurgery process and medical treat-ment,” she said. With the soundmedical treatment, Sumiati was ex-pected to recover from her ailingcondition soon so that she could tes-tify as the key witness for heremployer`s alleged brutality case,she said.

“This case must be tried by the

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Ambon, Maluku - Tectonic earth-quakes have jolted Maluku provincefor three consecutive days since Sat-urday, November 27, 2010. AmbonMeteorology, Climatology and Geo-physics Agency (BMKG) spokesmanIrwan Slamet said the latest earth-quake measuring 5.4 on the Richterscale rocked West Southeast Maluku(MTB) district town of Saumlaki at4.45 local time on Monday morning.

Irwan said the epicenter of the

This picture taken onNovember 5, 2010and received onNovember 26, 2010shows a newlydiscovered eyelessfish, the Cavernicole,released by theExpedition ofLengguru-Kaimana2010. Eyeless cavefish and a frog thatcarry its offspring onits back are amongthe new species ateam of French alongwith Indonesianscientists havediscovered inIndonesia’s easternPapua region.

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Jakarta - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is on a two-day work-ing visit in Aceh province from November 29-30, 2010. The president andhis entourage arrived aboard a presidential aircraft at Sultan IskandarMuda airbase in Banda Aceh at 12.45 pm on Monday to open a NationalWirakarya Scout Jamboree in Pidie District‘s Seulawah region.

Middle East countries. He said theJamboree would take place on the52.2-hectare Seulawah campingground, some 75 kilometers east ofBanda Aceh.

Aceh Police spokesman SeniorCommissioner Farid AS said secu-rity in Banda Aceh and the Sulawaharea had been tightened for thepresident‘s working visit.

“We are ready to ensure secu-rity for the head of state during hisworking visit to Aceh, especiallyalong the way from Banda Aceh tothe location of the Jamboree in theSeulawah area,” Farid said, addingthat at least 871 policemen weredeployed to ensure security alongthe routes President Yudhoyono`smotorcade would take.

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Maluku jolted by successive earthquakesquake was located at 6.60 degreessouthern latitude and 130.73 degreeseastern longitude at a depth of 35 ki-lometers under the sea level, or some93 kilometers northwest of Saumlaki.

Earlier on Sunday, Seram Timurdistrict town of Bula was also rockedwith another temblor measuring 4.1on the Richter scale with its epicen-ter located at 2.24 degrees southernlatitude and 129.34 degrees easternlongitude at a depth of 26 kilome-ters under the sea level, or 160 kilo-meters northwest of Bula.

According to Irwan Slamet, astronger one measuring 5.2 on theRichter scale jolted the province at5.12 local time on Saturday morn-ing. The epicenter of Saturday‘squake was located located 167 kilo-meters northeast of Ambon at adepth of 10 kilometers under sealevel.

Irwan Slamet said the epicenterwas located 2.53 degrees southernlatitude and 129.19 degrees easternlongitude, 284 kilometers southeastof Labuha in North Maluku, 298 ki-

lometers southwest of Sorong inPapua, and 349 kilometers northwestof Fakfak.

“We intensively monitor possibleaftershocks and therefore we hope thepeople will remain calm but alert,”Irwan Slamet said, adding that fourhours earlier on Saturday anotherearthquake measuring 5.5 on theRichter scale also jolted Fakfak inWest Papua.

He said its epicenter was located3.38 degrees southern latitude and131.06 degrees eastern longitude at a

depth of 25 kilometers under thesea level, or 144 kilometers south-east of Fakfak.

Irwan admitted that Maluku,especially southeaster part of theprovince was quake prone andtherefore BMKG continues tomonitor it.

“The area of West SoutheastMaluku (MTB) district town ofSaumlaki is almost every day joltedby tremors but at low intensity sothe people sometimes does not feelit,” he said.

Tortured Indonesian Housemaidto Have Lung Surgery

local court with which Sumiati`semployer gets punishment for whatshe has done to Sumiati,” she said.

At the press briefing, Rieke DiahPitaloka, member of the House ofRepresentatives‘ (DPR) Commis-sion IX overseeing manpower,called on the government not to ig-nore violence cases that other Indo-nesian migrant workers still faced.Among the cases that the Indonesiangovernment needs to pay serious at-tention to were the ones that SitiHajar and three other Indonesianworkers in Malaysia had undergone,she said.

Siti Hajar was the victim of heremployer‘s brutality but Michel, herMalaysian employer, remained freeafter appealing to the country‘shigher court for her eight-year-in-jailpunishment. Three other Indonesianworkers were also shot dead by theMalaysian police last March. “Don‘tlet new violence cases happen butold cases should neither be ignored,”said the legislator of the IndonesianDemocratic Party-Struggle (PDIP)faction.

Sumiati herself had reportedlybeen allowed to leave King Fahd‘shospital in Medina.

Okaz Daily reported on Sundaythat Sumiati‘s lawyer was waitingfor the result of Saudi Arabianpolice‘s investigation over his client.

Spokesman of the Saudi Arabianworkforce ministry, Hatab binSoleh, has asked the Sumiati casenot to be generalized because it wasonly a case, which could not repre-sent the whole situation. The SaudiArabian workforce ministry re-corded that there were at least270,000 foreign domestic workersin the country at the moment.

They were legal workers. Major-ity of them had been treated well bytheir employers and protected by thememorandum of understanding andthe Saudi Arabian workforce minis-terial regulations.

According to the workforceminister‘s regulation number 1/738dated on 16/5/1425 H, all sorts ofhuman trafficking, working contractviolation, and inhuman and immoraltreatment were prohibited.

The foreign workers‘ employerswho ignored all existing regulationswould get sanctioned, such as not al-lowing to employ migrant workersfor five years.

If the same employers repeatedlyviolated the regulations, they wouldno longer be allowed to employ for-eign workers, Hatab bin Soleh said.

Saudi Arabia currently employs927,500 Indonesian migrant work-ers. making it the second biggestuser of Indonesian manpower afterMalaysia.

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Bali Today

Putu Bagiada, the head of Ex-port Division in Bali Industrialand Trade, said that the revenuegained from leather export to Ja-pan was $7.9 million duringJanuary through September 2010period.

The revenue gained from 3.1million pieces of shipment. Thenumber of shipments increased60% compare to the same periodlast year which was 1.7 millionpieces worth $4.9 million.

Bagiada said that the handi-crafts made from leather such asbags, clothes, hat, and other ac-cessories often combined withother material such as silver. Thismade the products is very beau-tiful and unique so it attracts theinterest of the customers espe-cially from Japan.

30% from the total productionin Bali is exported to Japan.Around 17% is exported to

Bali’s export to Japan increase 16%

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The bags which are produced by the crafstmen in Bali. The leather exports from Bali attract thecustomers from Japan. This made leather exports to Japan keep increasing from time to time.

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Denpasar – The leather exports from Bali attract the cus-tomers from Japan. This made leather exports to Japan keepincreasing from time to time. In 2010, the export to Japan in-crease 16% compare to the previous year.

Singapore and 10% to Italy.Bagiada stated that Japan is the

biggest importer of Bali’s non-oiland gas products which worth $69million in the nine months periodof 2010. The number increase16% compare to the same periodlast year.

In addition to leather products,fish is also one of the main prod-ucts exported to Japan. Bagiadasaid that Balinese craftsmen arevery creative in creating new de-sign so the demand from Japanesecustomers still very high.

Meanwhile, Made Sudiada, abusinessman who exports hisproduct to Japan, said “the cus-tomers in Japan emphasize on thequality of the products, they don’tmind with the price,” he added.Made said that most of the cus-tomers in Japan requested smallitems which they can carry withthem anytime.

POET I GustiPutu Bawa SamarGantang fulfilledthe invitation as acandidate of an art,installation art, per-formance art exhibi-tion at Galeri SeniRupa Indonesian In-stitute of the Arts(ISI) Surakarta for amonth. He will bejoined by other 44artists, actors, musi-cians, writers fromoutside and insidethe country. The “Sisi Lain” themed exhibition will go on from 27th No-vember until 11th December and besides showing his paintings, the mysti-cal Tabanan poet will also show his poetries.

When met at his house, Kenanga Street No 7, Dauh Peken, Tabanan,Samar Gantang admitted will attend it with musicians Iwan Fals, SawongJabo, also other top names like Putu Wijaya, Wayan Sadra, Ayu Utami,Andrik Purwasito, Ardus M Sawega, Djaduk Feriyanto, Mathias Muchus,Adi Kurdi, Leo Kristi and Sam Bimbo, “Besides that there are five foreignartists such as from Germany, America and Netherlands.”

The leader of Indonesia Youth Literature Group (SSRI) Bali which is aknown guider to literature magazines in Indonesia admitted did not do anyspecial preparation. Samar Gantang will bring his 70s paintings, simpleones just using watercolors, “I also have paintings on canvas with acrylicpaint, but the committee who came to my house prefer the watercolor ones.”

Meanwhile the poetry that will be read, besides Indonesian languageones that won writing and reading poetry there’ll be also his great onessuch as the mantra poetry Leak Lanang Leak Wadon Leak Kedi that havebrought him around ASEAN. (gap)

A Journey into the History and Mystery of BaliUNDINEABLY BLISS or hap-

piness has become a dream and des-tination of most people. Career andmaterial achievement are the bridgeto reach it. However, when arrivingat the height of these, sometimespeople encounters there is somethinglost. Ultimately, they travel to sev-eral parts of the world to look for asatisfying answer of this matter.

Many favorite destinations of theworld now offer the combination ofleisure and spirituality as if thesetwo words had become new man-tra in travel trend. Traveling for thispurpose is focused on the experi-ence and journey. It digs out self-potential and human achievementin the past, chiefly on self-realiza-tion and his relation to nature andthe Creator. This kind of tourism isappropriate for those wishing topursue the answer above.

In the journey of time, local his-tory records that the Balinese com-munity has a bright achievement inspiritual development. Some foot-prints can be encountered throughthe heritage at favorite destinations.Gunung Kawi sanctuary, for in-stance, becomes a proof of spiritualactivity established during the ad-ministration of the King AnakWungsu (11th century). Next to thecave temples occurs a series ofmeditation cells. The rock was cut

to make some cloisters and medita-tion cells. At this location, ancientpeople can practice their meditation.It is a truly tranquil place situated atthe Petanu riverside.

Another important location isnestled at the Elephant Cave or GoaGajah, Gianyar. It is estimated tohave been founded during the reignof Warmadeva Dynasty (10th cen-tury). The sanctuary is known asKunjarapada where Kunjara (San-skrit) means elephant and padameans location. In the mass, thisname represents that it became thelast destination of Maharishi Agastyain providing his spiritual enlighten-ment in Bali.

Today, visitors can trace back andenjoy a variety of experiences inspiritual travel, ranging from visit-ing great temples to ancient sanctu-aries used to practice yoga. Even,yoga class has now been offered atseveral hotels, villas and yoga cen-ters at main destinations of Bali.Meanwhile, for relaxation and reju-venation visitors can try some spatreatments in the combination of tra-ditional method and ingredients withmodern technique. These are oftenpromoted through illustriouscatchphrases mentioning as productof mind, body and soul. To sum up,by visiting Bali you can enrich yourexperience related to spiritual and

wellness. Though the tradition hasbeen created hundreds of years ago,its practice and benefits remain rel-evant to modern life today.

More than that, Bali as a touristdestination also implements the con-cept of indigenous wisdom called TriHita Karana (THK). It stands for anintegrated application of social, en-vironmental and spiritual aspect intourism development and practices.Approximately one hundred hotels orvillas and tourist objects throughoutBali participate in the annual compe-tition of THK Awards. It is intendedto implement and preserve this sub-lime concept in their business prac-tices. By doing so, it is expected theycould give the best satisfaction to cus-tomer, surrounding community andthe operator going hand in hand withthe conservation of nature.

Ultimately, inspired by Hinduism,indigenous wisdom and local tradi-tion, the island has a variety of trea-sures, endless activities and ‘mys-tery’ to explore. They have becomeintegrated part of Balinese life. Manyvisitors come and go. Some get in-terested to join the ceremony, toroam pristine villages, or even to stayat ashrams for weeks. Hopefully, oneof the activities above can becomean answer for those wishing to bal-ance their life with any achievementat hand.(BTN/punia)

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Negara, DenPost—Hundreds of Gilimanuk residents

caused a commotion due to the dis-covery of whale on Gilimanuk Beachon Saturday (Nov 27) evening. Thewhale carcass was encountered byfishermen of Gilimanuk when drift-ing near the landing fuel jetty ofGilimanuk power plant. The whalecarcass that has kicked off to decaywas floating in the Bali Strait. Man,one of the fishermen, said that hecame across the whale when goinghome from fishing.

“At first, I think it was an upsidedown boat. Driven by my curiosity, Ithen approached it and in fact, it wasa whale carcass starting to rot,” saidMan.

At that time, Man said, near thewhale carcass with the length of about

OVERVIEW:Don’t be misled by the rather uninteresting

appearance and name of this beef dish. It is wonderfullyflavored and generally so popular that it’s worth makinga large amount. Cook as directed below, then if youhave leftovers after a meal, deep fry the beef until verycrisp. Drain thoroughly and store in an airtight container.This crisp beef is excellent as a finger food withcocktails, and also makes a tasty accompaniment torice-based meals.

INGREDIENTS:1 kg beef topside, cut in 4 steaks 250g each8 cloves garlic, peeled2 tsp coriander seeds, crushed1 tbsp chopped palm sugar2 large red chilies, seeded2 tbsp laos peeled and sliced2 tsp dried shrimp paste2 cloves ground1 tsp salt1 tsp black peppercorns, coarsely ground2 tbsp oil2 tsp freshly squeezed limejuice

PREPARATION:Bring 5 liters (20 cups) of lightly salted water to the

boil in stockpot. Add beef and boil for approximately 1hour, until very tender. Remove from stock. Meat mustbe so tender that its fibers separate very easily. Keepstock. Pound meat until flat and shred by hand into finefibers.

Place garlic, coriander, palm sugar, red chilies, Laos,dried shrimp paste, cloves, salt and peppercorns in foodprocessor and puree coarsely, or grind in a stonemortar. Heat oil heavy saucepan and sauté themarinade for 2 minutes over medium heat.

Add shredded beef, mix well and sauté until dry.Season with limejuice.

Remove from heat and allow cooling. Serve at roomtemperature with steamed rice.

Helpful hint: Do not tempted to use a food processorto shred the meat; you will obtain the correct texture onlyby shredding the meat with your fingers or a fork.

BE SAMPI MESITSIT(Dry Spiced Beef)

Hundreds of residents throngwhale carcass at Gilimanuk

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The stranded whale is surrounded by the people in Gilimanuk.

10 meters and weight estimated toreach more than two tons was seen twowhales of almost the same size swim-ming like keeping their dead friend.Castaway of the whale carcass wasthen reported to the Marine Police andNavy of Gilimanuk. Since it couldharm the fishermen if left adrift at sea,the whale carcass was later on with-drawn to the beach.

Allegedly, the whale was dead ascrashed by freight ship or landing crafttank (LCT) when crossing the Straitof Bali on Wednesday (Nov 24).

Such a castaway whale madeGilimanuk residents curious. Even,from Sunday morning to evening theythronged the location. Some peoplefrom outside Gilimanuk kept on com-ing to see the whale carcass. Since theycould not help smelling the stench, a

few people also seemed to vomit.Meanwhile, other residents took ad-vantage by taking the oil of the whale’sskin turning to peel.

Despite the stench exuded was be-ginning to spread out to wide area andthe residents living nearby began tofret, but the whale carcass had not beenburied yet.

The Head of Gilimanuk Village,IGN Rai Budi, who was asked for hisconfirmation separately, said his partyhad coordinated with the localJembrana Regency Government toborrow heavy equipment. It was im-possible to bury it manually. Accord-ing to him, the castaway whale wasthe second time occurred atGilimanuk. The first one ensued in2000 where a larger whale was foundstranded at Gilimanuk Bay. (120)

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TANAH Lot Temple is located in coastalside of Beraban countryside, Kediri sub dis-trict and Tabanan Regency. It is situated in 30Km in west side of Denpasar town and about11 Km in south side of Tabanan town. Thetemple is built on the rock with 3 acre size andreachable in a few minute by walk, because itis just 20 meters from the coastal lip. Thistemple is very famous among tourist destina-tions in Bali with spectacular view of sunset.At some nooks of coral reef around Tanah LotTemple there are holy tame snake in black andwhite color where according to the local soci-ety believe that it as a deity property and as theguard of the temple from the bad influence.

The word of Tanah Lot is consisted of twowords that are Tanah word interpreted as a reeflooking like gili or isle. Lot or Lod word hasmeaning the sea. So Tanah Lot is meaning thesmall island floating on the sea. The locationis now called as Tanah Lot has been used at aMegalithic period as a place that looked intoholy, proven from the existence of menhir. Pur-suant to environmental condition, hence thestructure of Tanah Lot Temple is built at ir-regular reef plain of its angle which is onlyconsisted of one plain yard as Jeroan.

FunctionThe function of this temple can be realized

from the function of the main temple buildingwhich is located in the temple main area. In

Tanah Lot Templethis place, there is a main temple to worshipthe god in form of Dewa Baruna or BhataraSegara, the sea power. The media of wor-ship to this god is the temple building with 5storied meanwhile the 3 storied temple build-ing in north part of this area is purposing toworship to Dang Hyang Nirartha.

Places to visit in Bali, Tanah Lot SunsetInorder to know the status of Tanah LotTemple can be realized from the temple his-tory, function and also incoming devoteeexistence pray when temple ceremony isheld. In this case can be realized as follows:

Tanah Lot Temple as dangKahyangan(the big Holy Temples in Bali ),because the history and the Penyiwi (Thepeople taking care of the temple) are fromthe local people from Tabanan regency andsurrounding area.

Tanah Lot temple as Segara Temple, be-cause its function as sanctum to worship theBhatara Segara, the God with manifestationas the ocean Power Deity

The unique animal can be seen in thistemple area is the snake which are gener-ally can be met in the coast. Part of its stom-ach there are no athwart skin, there is onlysmall skin, but this sea water snake verynoxious but snakebite case are very seldomhappened, because the sea water snake gen-erally very passive.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11

BUSINESS

Associated Press Writer

WEST QURNA, Iraq – Production from Iraq’s prizedWest Qurna Stage 1 oil field should more than triple to750,000 barrels a day in three years time, an oil official saidSunday.

The 8.6 billion barrel field, which is being developed bya consortium grouping Exxon Mobil and Shell, was amongthose awarded by Iraq during one its first international oillicensing rounds last year and is seen as a key part of thecountry’s drive to boost overall output of a resource on whichit relies for 95 percent of its foreign revenues.

West Qurna Stage 1 currently produces 234,000 barrelsper day, Madhi Swadi, the head of the joint managementcommission that runs the field, told The Associated Press.Output is set to climb to 270,000 barrels per day by May, hesaid.

Although Iraq sits on the world’s fourth largest oil re-serves, with 143.1 billion barrels according to thegovernment’s latest estimates, it is producing and exportingfar below its potential. Foreign companies are seen as keyto reviving the sector and ramping up output.

Under the agreement between Iraq and the companies,production from the West Qurna Stage I field should reach2.825 million barrels a day after 6 to 7 years. The consor-tium will be paid $1.9 per barrel for each barrel produced.That production target is up from the 2.325 million barrels aday target when the deal was announced last fall.

The consortium was originally only allowed to pump oilfrom one reservoir, but five more reservoirs were added tothe field over the summer.

Swadi said this year’s budget to develop the field stoodat $306 million, and next year’s budget is expected to be

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO – Early dis-counts may have taken some of theshine off Cyber Monday but the keyonline holiday shopping day is stillexpected to attract bargain hunterswho may not have had their fill overthe weekend.

Cyber Monday — a term coinedfive years ago for the day manypeople return to work after Thanks-giving and make online gift pur-chases on their computers — re-mains a prime shopping day online.But its novelty has now been par-tially eclipsed by e-commerce pro-motions earlier in the season, includ-ing on Thanksgiving itself.

Retailers from BestBuy.com toWalmart.com and Staples.com haveeven opted to offer Cyber Mondaydeals one day early, on newly coined“Cyber Sunday.”

The key is versatility, online ex-perts say, as well as making sureshoppers heading to the Web alwaysfind something to inspire them toclick on a sale.

John Thompson, senior vicepresident and general manager ofBestBuy.com, said Cyber Mondayremains a “really viable marketingconcept,” but smart retailers mustoffer choice.

Even though European authoritiesagreed to lend Ireland 85 billion eu-ros ($115 billion) on Sunday in thehope it would assure investors that allEuropean nations can repay theirdebts, markets were skeptical that thedeal would stave off further contagion.

Asian stocks struggled most of theday but drew some comfort from afirmer start in Europe, where leadingEuropean shares (.FTEU3) rose 0.8percent in early trade. The euro fell aslow as $1.3183 in Asia as investorsworried European authorities mightnot have the means to rescue all fis-cally-poor European nations includ-ing Portugal and especially Spain,whose economy is much bigger thanIreland’s.

“There are still lingering worriesabout the rest of the countries, in-cluding Portugal and Spain,” saidLorraine Tan, the director of Asianequity research at Standard &Poor’s. “It does raise risk worriesand there are less people willing totake risk at this stage.”

Euro struggles despite Irish deal, doubts aboundEuro struggles despite Irish deal, doubts aboundEuro struggles despite Irish deal, doubts aboundEuro struggles despite Irish deal, doubts aboundEuro struggles despite Irish deal, doubts aboundReuters

SYDNEY – Doubts over whether a rescue deal for debt-soaked Ireland can plug Europe’s debtcrisis drove the euro to two-month lows on Monday, though shares in Europe and Asia managedto move higher.

Indeed, many Asian investors saidthey wanted to wait and see how U.S.and European markets take to the res-cue deal before making any bigmoves.

A late 1.3 percent spurt in HongKong’s share index (.HSI) (.HK)helped to lift the MSCI Asian stockindex outside Japan(.MIAPJ0000PUS) 0.9 percent higherby late afternoon. Japan’s Nikkei(.N225) also rose 0.9 percent to a five-month high. (.T) But traders noted theTokyo market was thin, suggestingbuyers were prudent nonetheless, es-pecially with tensions between the twoKoreas still bubbling.

U.S. stock futures were buoyant,with S&P 500 futures up 0.9 percent,driven higher in part by a healthy startto the Christmas shopping season. (.N)

EURO UNDER PRESSURE,FLIGHT TO DOLLARS

The euro recouped some lossesby late trade in Asia to stand at$1.3280, but was still some way be-

low a high of $1.3345 struck afterthe Irish aid was announced. TheU.S. dollar, considered a safer assetbecause it is widely traded, initiallybenefited from the shift from risk.

The dollar index (.DXY) hit atwo-month high of 80.652 beforepulling back in late trade to 80.101.On the yen, the U.S. currency heldnear a two-month peak. The reac-tion in the commodity markets weremore mixed.

Oil brushed aside the firmer dol-lar to rise past $84 per barrel assome thought the Irish deal bodewell for energy demand.

Copper prices, an essential in-gredient for industrial work, weresteady while iron ore prices hov-ered at 6-1/2-month peaks. Iron oreis needed to make steel and is con-sidered a barometer for the state ofeconomic activity. Gold, on theother hand, which tends to be indemand when investors shy awayfrom risk, was a shade firmer at$1,363.19.

REUTERS/Thierry Roge

Luxembourg’s Prime Minister and Eurogroup Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker, Belgium’s Finance Minister Didier Reynders (C)and European Economic and Monetary Affairs CommissionerOlli Rehn (R) address a news conference at the end of a Euro-pean Union finance ministers meeting at the European UnionCouncil in Brussels November 28, 2010.

Online bargain-huntingspreads beyond CyberMonday

“There’s demand out there, but youhave consumers spending their timedifferently,” he said. “If you don’thave one group that shops early,you’ll have those who say ‘I’ll enjoymy Thanksgiving and those samedeals or as-good deals will be thereCyber Monday.’”

Marketing firms say tactics havechanged in luring consumers to buyonline. Whereas in prior years a fullemail inbox of online deals awaitedthose back at work on Monday, theoffers now increasingly come on BlackFriday if not before. Disneystore.com,for one, had a “record sales day” onThanksgiving, according to Jim Field-ing, president of Disney Stores.

U.S. online sales were up 33 per-cent on Thanksgiving this year, ac-cording to web analytics firm IBMCoremetrics.

Just as many promotions are sent viaemail on Black Friday, the day afterThanksgiving, as on Cyber Monday,according to Responsys. And half ofretailers planned to send email on CyberSunday as well as on Thanksgiving, theinteractive marketing firm found.

PayPal, the online payments unitof eBay, said its first holiday spike inpayment volume came on November15. On Black Friday, total paymentvolume, or the total value of goodssold, rose 27 percent versus last year.

Iraq West Qurna to hit 750Kbarrels per day

AP Photo/Nabil al-Jourani

A western Oil man, wearing a flack jacket, worksat the West Qurna Phase 2 field in the Basraregion, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast ofBaghdad, Iraq, Sunday Nov. 28, 2010.

about $1.1 billion.There are currently 360 wells at the field, and the consor-

tium is planning to start up about 2,000 more over theircontract’s 20-year duration.

Entertainment InternationalTuesday, November 30, 201012

“I am serious,” Nielsen replies. “And don’t call me Shirley.”The line was probably his most famous — and a perfect distil-lation of his career.

Nielsen, the dramatic lead in “Forbidden Planet” and “ThePoseidon Adventure” and the bumbling detective Frank Drebinin “The Naked Gun” comedies, died on Sunday in Fort Lauder-dale, Fla. He was 84. The Canada native died from complicationsfrom pneumonia at a hospital near his home, surrounded by hiswife, Barbaree, and friends, his agent John S. Kelly said in astatement. Critics argued that when Nielsen went into comedy hewas being cast against type, but Nielsen disagreed, saying com-edy was his . “I’ve finally found my home — as Lt. Frank Drebin,”he told The Associated Press in a 1988 interview.

Comic actor Russell Brand took to Twitter to pay tribute toNielsen, playing off his famous line: “RIP Leslie Nielsen.Shirley, he will be missed.” Nielsen came to Hollywood in themid-1950s after performing in 150 live television dramas in NewYork. With a craggily handsome face, blond hair and 6-foot-2height, he seemed ideal for a movie leading man.

Nielsen first performed as the king of France in the Para-mount operetta “The Vagabond King” with Kathryn Grayson.The film — he called it “The Vagabond Turkey” — flopped, butMGM signed him to a seven-year contract.

His first film for that studio was auspicious — as the spaceship commander in the science fiction classic “Forbidden

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – A fairy-tale princessgave young wizard Harry Potter a run forhis money at the weekend box office. “HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” re-mained the No. 1 movie with $50.3 millionover Thanksgiving weekend, closely fol-lowed by the animated musical “Tangled”with $49.1 million, according to studio es-timates Sunday.

The next-to-last “Harry Potter” movieraised its domestic total to $220.4 millionafter just 10 days in theaters, according todistributor Warner Bros. The film also hastaken in $389.2 million overseas, giving ita worldwide total of $609.6 million.

“Tangled” is the latest Disney cartoonmusical, with Mandy Moore providing thevoice of fairy-tale princess Rapunzel. Themovie raised its five-day total to $69 mil-lion since opening the day before Thanks-giving. While “Deathly Hallows” continued

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Pop diva Cher has returnedto the big screen after a seven-year gap, show-ing her talents in the musical “Burlesque,” —and helping Christina Aguilera make her featurefilm debut. And the well-preserved singer-actressmakes no bones about why she did the movie.

“I accepted this role because I was beggedto do it,” the 64-year-old said on the eve of thefilm’s opening for the Thanksgiving holidayweekend in the US. “Most of the girls werehalf my age, beautiful, talented, and a blast towork with,” she told reporters gathered withsome of the film’s actors in Beverly Hills.

Dressed in black and sipping soda, a relaxedCher cracked jokes alongside actor StanleyTucci, while 29-year-old Aguilera appearedmore cautious, wearing heavymake-up and with pet dog“Stinky” in her arms. Cher’stalents were praised by her co-stars including Aguilera, whohas separated from her husbandof five years Jordan Bratmanand said Cher has counseledher.

“She gave me so much ad-vice, both personally and pro-fessionally. She didn’t evenhave to open her mouth. She isjust such an incredible presenceand person,” said the four-timeGrammy winner. Aguileraplays a small-town girl whowants to make it big in Holly-wood where she falls under theguidance of Cher, a burlesqueclub owner. Aguilera also wroteand recorded four new songsfor the musical’s soundtrack.

Describing Cher as hermovie mentor, Aguilera said she

‘Airplane!’, ‘Forbidden Planet’ actor Nielsen dies‘Airplane!’, ‘Forbidden Planet’ actor Nielsen dies‘Airplane!’, ‘Forbidden Planet’ actor Nielsen dies‘Airplane!’, ‘Forbidden Planet’ actor Nielsen dies‘Airplane!’, ‘Forbidden Planet’ actor Nielsen diesAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Despite decades spent playing sobercommanders and serious captains, Leslie Nielsen insisted thathe was always made for comedy. He proved it in his career’ssecond act. “Surely you can’t be serious,” an airline passen-ger says to Nielsen in “Airplane!” the 1980 hit that turned theactor from dramatic leading man to comic star.

Planet.” He found his best dramatic role as the captain of anoverturned ocean liner in the 1972 disaster movie, “The PoseidonAdventure.” Behind the camera, the serious actor was a well-known prankster. That was an aspect of his personality neverexploited, however, until “Airplane!” was released in 1980 andbecame a huge hit.

As the doctor aboard a plane in which the pilots, and some ofthe passengers, become violently ill, Nielsen says they must getto a hospital right away. “A hospital? What is it?” a flight atten-dant asks, inquiring about the illness.

“It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not importantright now,” Nielsen deadpans. It was the beginning of a wholenew career in comedy. Nielsen would go on to appear in suchcomedies as “Repossessed” — a takeoff on “The Exorcist” —and “Mr. Magoo,” in which he played the title role of the good-natured bumbler.

But it took years before he got there. He played DebbieReynolds’ sweetheart in 1957’s popular “Tammy and the Bach-elor,” and he became well known to baby boomers for his roleas the Revolutionary War fighter Francis Marion in the DisneyTV adventure series “The Swamp Fox.”

He asked to be released from his contract at MGM, and as afreelancer, he appeared in a series of undistinguished movies.“I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was myCanadian accent,” he said.

(FILES) Dated October 20, 2009 filed photo shows castmember Leslie Nielsen arrives at the premiere of the

horror film parody “Stan Helsing” in the Hollywoodsection of Los Angeles. Veteran comedy actor Leslie

Nielsen, star of the hit movies “Airplane” and “Naked Gun”has died November 28, 2010, a Canadian radio station

reported, quoting his nephew. He was 84. AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck / FILES

In this filmpublcityimagereleased byWarnerBros.Pictures,RalphFiennes isshown in ascene from‘HarryPotter andthe DeathlyHallows:Part 1.’

AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures

‘Harry Potter’ leads holidayweekend with $50.3M

to work box-office magic, Disney’s“Tangled” far exceeded industry expecta-tions, delivering the second-biggest Thanks-giving debut ever behind “Toy Story 2,”which had a $57.4 million opening.

Disney head of distribution Chuck Vianesaid the studio would have been happy if“Tangled” had matched the $34 million de-but of its hit “Enchanted” over Thanksgiv-ing 2007. “Tangled” not only shot past thatmark but also challenged “Harry Potter” forthe No. 1 spot.

“That was the last thing we were think-ing of, but it sure is nice to be eventhought of in that situation,” Viane said.“‘Potter’ is such a huge hit. To be thatclose, it was amazing.” Three other newwide releases had so-so openings, led byChristina Aguilera and Cher’s song-and-dance tale “Burlesque” at No. 4 with$11.8 million for the weekend and a five-day total of $17.2 million since premier-ing Wednesday.

Cher a natural diva in ‘Burlesque’has “been there and done everything before anyof us came along. I admire and respect thattruly.” Cher and Tucci — who plays Cher’sstage manager and gay boyfriend — acknowl-edged their huge popularity among the gay com-munity. But mockingly defending her diva sta-tus, Cher asked Tucci: “You have a gay fan basetoo?”

“Since ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’” (2006)answered the 50-year-old Tucci, who is also afilm director. “Yeah, so now they’re wonder-ing...” he added in jest. “I don’t know, we’llsee what they say.”

“Yeah!” quipped Cher. “Someone told meafter they saw the film that it was (Tucci andCher join in) a ‘Gay-Fantasia.’” Writer-direc-tor Steve Antin said “Burlesque” tries to be“risque, always sexy but never sexual.

AFP/File/Mark Ralston

Singer and actress Cher shows her hands covered in wetcement as she is immortalized outside the historicGrauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Cher has re-turned to the big screen after a seven-year gap, showingher talents in the musical “Burlesque,” — and helpingChristina Aguilera make her feature film debut.

International Tuesday, November 30, 2010 13Life Style

Such a rapid rise, within the life-times of many young people today,is double the 2 degrees C (3.6 de-grees Fahrenheit) ceiling set by 140governments at a U.N. climate sum-mit in Copenhagen last year andwould disrupt food and water sup-plies in many parts of the globe.

Rising greenhouse gas emissionsthis decade meant the 2 degree goalwas “extremely difficult, arguablyimpossible, raising the likelihood ofglobal temperature rises of 3 or 4degrees C within this century,” aninternational team wrote.

The studies, published to coin-cide with annual U.N. climate talksin Mexico starting on Monday, saidfew researchers had examined indetail the possible impact of a 4

Agence France Presse

NAGI, Nepal – It used to taketeacher Mahabir Pun more than twodays to check his email from his homein the remote Himalayan village ofNagi in western Nepal. The 55-year-old would walk for seven hours to thenearest road before taking a three-hour bus ride along precarious moun-tain tracks to the only town in the areawith an Internet connection.

Today, all Pun has to do is log onto the wireless network he has set upover the past few years, catapultingmore than 100 impoverished villagesin Nepal into the 21st century. Thetechnology has transformed lives insome of the most inhospitable placeson earth, where there are no roads orhospitals and where most peoplescratch out a meagre living as sub-sistence farmers.

It allows communities to accessvital medical expertise via videolink,stay in touch with loved-ones abroad,and even sell their yaks, goats andchickens online onwww.nepalwireless.com — a sort ofe-Bay for local farmers. “We choseareas where no commercial Internetservice provider would ever go,” saysPun, who estimates that around70,000 people can access the network.

“When we started, almost no

Reuters

SAN DIEGO – It’s a Thursdayafternoon at the Live Well center inSan Diego and a group of seniors areskipping, clapping and hooting in therecreation room. That’s preciselywhat Dr. Caroline Meeks, aka “Dr.Funshine” ordered. As part of herholistic practice, Meeks, a physicianand author, visits senior centers andhospitals aiming to treat chronic se-riousness.

“Dr. Funshine” prescribes laughter yoga for seniorsHer prescription: Frequent doses of

“laughter yoga,” — an hour-long,mind-body exercise class that com-bines yogic breathing with simulatedphysical laughter and silly banter.

The exercises, combined withplayfulness, singing, dancing and eyecontact, usually induce authenticcackling, which Meeks and othersbelieve is good medicine for every-body from cancer patients to peoplewith dementia and depression.

“It’s hard to laugh and worry at the

same time, or be angry or be pro-foundly sad, or in pain at that mo-ment. Laughter makes you shifttoward ... feeling more connected,grateful, positive,” said Meeks.

There is very little research intothe connection between laughterand disease remission but someclinical studies have shown that itraises oxygen levels in the lungs,lowers blood pressure and reducesthe stress hormone, cortisol.

A study a decade ago at theUniversity of Maryland showedthat laughter relaxes arteries andboosts blood vessel function, ac-cording to the website of LaughterYoga founder Dr. Madan Katariaof India (www.laughteryoga.org).

Dr. Funshine, aka Caroline Meeks, M.D. (C) leads a laughter therapysession with Wanda Boyce (L) and Richard Trask along with a groupof seniors at the Clairmont Friendship Center in San Diego, CaliforniaNovember 17, 2010.REUTERS/Mike Blake

AFP/File/Prakash Mathema

Teacher and IT specialist Mahabir Pun walks in the village of Nagi,some 200 kms west of Kathmandu. Pun began providing Internetaccess to rural Nepal in 2002, using home made computers as-sembled in wooden boxes.

Wi-Fi lifeline reachesremote Himalayas

one in rural Nepal was using theInternet. Now we have connectedmore than 100 villages. But that isnothing, there are thousands morevillages like these in Nepal.” It allstarted when Pun travelled to theUnited States in the 1990s to studyfor a masters degree. The Internetwas just becoming popular, and oneof his professors suggested they setup a web site for his home village.

It was one of the first Internet sitesto mention Nepal, and by the timehe returned home, Pun was beingbombarded by messages from peoplearound the world who wanted to visitthe 800-strong mountain community.

“At that time, not even businessesin (the capital) Kathmandu hadwebsites, but Nagi did,” he told AFPin his native village, 2,200 metres(7,200 feet) up in the Himalayas. “Iwas getting emails from all sorts ofpeople including doctors and col-lege professors, and they all wantedto know what they could do to helpour village. So I invited them tocome and volunteer.”

Pun decided his students shouldlearn about this emerging new tech-nology, but the school could notafford to buy a computer. So heasked everyone who came to bringa component, and set about teach-ing himself to build one.

REUTERS/Shaun Best

A young boy plays at a water fountain in Montreal August 31, 2010.

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CANCUN, Mexico – World temperatures could soar by 4 degreesCelsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the 2060s in the worst case of glo-bal climate change and require an annual investment of $270 billionjust to contain rising sea levels, studies suggested on Sunday.

degrees C rise above pre-industriallevels. “Across many sectors —coastal cities, farming, water stress,ecosystems or migration, the impactswill be greater,” than at 2 degrees,wrote Mark New of Oxford Univer-sity in England, who led the inter-national team.

One study, published in the Brit-ish journal Philosophical Transac-tions of the Royal Society A, said tem-peratures could rise by 4 degrees Cin the worst case by the early 2060s.

Other scenarios showed thethreshold breached later in the cen-tury or not at all by 2100, raisingrisks of abrupt changes such as a lossof Arctic sea ice in summer, a thawin permafrost or a drying out of theAmazon rainforest.

MIGRATIONOne of the papers gave what it

called a “pragmatic estimate” that sealevels might rise by between 0.5 and 2meters (1.64 to 6.56 feet) by 2100 iftemperatures rose 4 degrees Celsius.

Containing a sea level rise of 2meters, mostly building Dutch-stylesea walls, would require annual in-vestments of up to $270 billion ayear by 2100.

That sum might limit migration toperhaps 305,000 people from the mostvulnerable areas, wrote RobertNicholls of the University ofSouthampton. Lack of protective mea-sures could mean the forced resettle-ment of 187 million people. Peopleliving on small islands, in Asia, Africaor river deltas were most at risk.

The studies concluded that gov-ernments should do more both to cutgreenhouse gas emissions and re-search back-up methods such as“geo-engineering” programs thatcould dim sunlight or seek to suckgreenhouse gases from the air.

Tuesday, November 30, 201014 InternationalSport

However, Stankovic’s trebleand goals from ArgentinianEsteban Cambiasso - who hadscored the only goal againstTwente - and Thiago Motta sawthem to the three points againstParma, for whom veteran HernanCrespo bagged a brace.

“It was a crazy match and weshowed that we were a bit cra-zier,” joked Benitez. “The teamplayed very well and proved itscharacter. I’m happy. “We stillbelieve in the title. The season isstill long.”

Inter are still seven points adriftof bitter city rivals and leagueleaders AC Milan, who drew 1-1at Sampdoria on Saturday. Formerleaders Lazio could have movedto within a point of Milan withvictory at home to Catania, butthey were held to a 1-1 draw.

Matias Silvestre gave the visi-tors the lead in the 44th minute,but Lazio’s Brazilian summersigning Hernanes levelled withina minute as the Rome club ex-tended their lead over third-placedJuventus to three points. A superb

Agence France Presse

LONDON – Harry Redknappbelieves Tottenham Hotspur’scomeback to claim a narrow 2-1victory over Liverpool providesfurther evidence of his side’sclaims to be Premier League titlecontenders. Spurs recovered af-ter falling behind to a MartinSkrtel first-half goal, eventuallysecuring the win with AaronLennon’s added time effort thatdelighted the home crowd atWhite Hart Lane here on Sunday.

The victory came at the costof injuries to Rafael van der Vaartand Younes Kaboul who bothface spells out of action with tornmuscles.

But having seen his side claimthree points eight days after theyfought back to win at north Lon-don rivals Arsenal after fallingtwo goals behind, Redknapp in-sists he has no reason to alter hisview that the title race is the mostcompetitive for several seasons.

“It’s wide open,” saidRedknapp, whose side lie fifth,six points behind leadersManchester United. “Of coursewe’ve got a chance. How can Isit here and say we can’t whenwe’ve beaten Liverpool and wonat Arsenal? If it’s only Chelseaor United who can win it, whyare we bothering?

“Chelsea, a month ago, lookedabsolute certainties but they’restruggling to get results. They’llget stronger when they get somekey players back, but so will we.”Now all Redknapp has to do isconvince his squad.

“I don’t know if the players be-lieve it,” he added. “I’ve said:‘Listen, there’s no reason why wecan’t have a go’. I said last yearwe should target the top four. “I’mnot going to say we’ll win thechampionship now, but we’ve gota chance. Arsenal and Manches-ter City have a chance, too.“Chelsea and United arefavourites, but nothing’s impos-sible.”

Redknapp’s side appear to

Redknapp says Spurscan press for title

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Liverpool’s Martin Skrtel (L,C) scores an own goal forTottenham Hotspurs during their Premier League footballmatch at White Hart Lane, North London in England on No-vember 28, 2010.

have developed a greater resil-ience than some previous Spursteams and recovered on this oc-casion despite Jermain Defoemissing a penalty shortly before aSkrtel own-goal made the scoreslevel. “We just have that beliefthat we can come from behind,”Redknapp said. “When we missedthe penalty, I did wonder whetherit was our day or not.”

Dutch international van derVaart’s latest injury came as ablow to Redknapp, who added:“Rafa’s torn a hamstring — he feltit tear — so that doesn’t look toogood. “He’s missed a pre-seasonor was away at the World Cup andnot played many games. Whenyou’re fitness is a bit low, it’s hardto get up to speed. He’s going tobe out. He’ll have a scan.”

Kaboul will also undergo a scanalthough his loss will be temperedby the return of Michael Dawsonnext week. “Younes felt he mighthave torn a muscle in his hip,” saidRedknapp. “He felt that go.Michael’s on his way back, whichis important because we’ve only gottwo central defenders now.”Liverpool manager Roy Hodgsonwas frustrated with a defeat com-pounded by the loss of centre-backJamie Carragher. “We think it’s adislocated shoulder,” said Hodgson.“I don’t know how long he’d be out,but it’s a serious injury.

“We’ll miss his leadershipskills, and we’ve got Daniel Ag-ger still injured and we’re notoverly blessed with centre-halves.”

Hodgson added: “We’ve beenpretty lucky with injuries up tonow with very few soft tissue in-juries but the injury to (Liverpoolcaptain) Steven Gerrard came atthe wrong time.”

Midfield dynamo Gerrard re-mains sidelined after damaginghis hamstring playing for Englandbut Hodgson expects theLiverpool hero to return soon.“They’re two big losses, Jamieand Steve. But it’s happened.Steven is making big strides.Jamie we’ll have to wait and see.”

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Parma’s Brazilian defender Mariano de Almeida Angelo (R) challenges Inter Milan’s Serbianmidfielder Dejan Stankovic during the Serie A football match between Inter Milan and Parma atSan Siro stadium in Milan, on November 28, 2010 .

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ROME – A hat-trick by Inter Milan’s veteran Serbian midfielder Dejan Stankovic saw thechampions to a welcome 5-2 victory over Parma on Sunday and ended a run of four Serie Amatches without a win. Inter had given Rafael Benitez some breathing space by squeezing throughto the last 16 of the Champions League in mid-week when, had they been defeated by Dutch sideTwente, many believed the Spanish coach would have been sacked.

late free-kick from substitute SimonePepe had earned Juventus a 1-1 drawat home to Fiorentina on Saturday,keeping Juve ahead of Napoli ongoal difference.

In the late game, Roma missed achance to go third after they lost forthe first time in eight games, 3-1 atPalermo, who leapfrogged them intosixth place on 23 points - one aheadof the capital club and more notablylevel on points with Inter. FrancescoTotti netted a last-gasp consolationas Palermo took the points withFabrizio Miccoli on target in theopening period and further goalsfrom Josip Ilicic and AntonioNocerino.

Also Sunday, Italy internationalstriker Antonio di Natale claimed ahat-trick as improving Udinese in-flicted a 3-1 on defeat on Napoli.Brescia drew 0-0 with Genoa,Cagliari saw off a late fightback towin 3-2 at home to second-bottomLecce and bottom side Bari drew 1-1 at home to fellow relegation can-didates Cesena.

Former Inter star Crespo gaveParma a fourth-minute lead but In-

ter levelled and then went aheadthrough two deflected shots from 32-year-old Stankovic, both of whichwere set up by Frenchman JonathanBiabiany. Cambiasso scored the thirdfrom a corner before his compatriotCrespo reduced the deficit followinga poor clearance by Italian centraldefender Marco Materazzi, who isdeputising for long-term injury vic-tim Walter Samuel.

Motta and Stankovic rammedhome Inter’s superiority with furthergoals in the second half to leaveParma just four points above the dropzone. Looking ahead to his side’sforthcoming matches, Benitez calledon Inter to build on their momentum.

“Now, Lazio (in the league nextFriday), Werder Bremen (in theChampions League on December 7)and the Club World Cup (on Decem-ber 15-18). This match againstParma needs to be our springboard.”

The match between Bologna andChievo was postponed by refereeMarco Guida after heavy snowfall inBologna, with a decision on whenthe match will now be played yet tobe taken.

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Although Federer is publicly ada-mant he has nothing to be disappointedabout over the last 12 months, privatelyhe will feel a nagging sense of regretat the loss of the world number oneranking to Nadal, who also took theFrench Open and Wimbledon titlesfrom the Swiss star. That was whatmade the 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory overNadal in the final at London’s O2Arena on Sunday so significant for theworld number two.

In Federer’s mind, his record-equalling fifth title in the prestigiousend-of-year event was secondary tothe message the win sent to Nadal andhis other rivals at the top of therankings. “I’m happy I made my ninthfinal this season. I’ve won five titles,won a slam. That obviously makes mebe very positive for next year. I be-lieve I can have another great seasonin 2011,” he said.

“I’m just really happy the way Iwas able to finish the season in style,playing some of my best tennis, re-ally saving the best for last. “Obvi-ously, beating Rafa in the finalsmakes it extra special because of theyear he had.

“I’ve had a good season. I don’t

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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana –San Antonio rallied from a 17-pointthird-quarter deficit to hand NewOrleans their first home defeat of theNBA season on Sunday, beating theHornets 109-95. Argentina’s ManuGinobili scored 15 of his 23 pointsin the second half for the Spurs, whohad 21 points from Tim Duncan and19 from Richard Jefferson as theymatched a franchise-best 7-0 start onthe road.

San Antonio last won their firstseven away games in the 2006-07season. David West scored 23 pointsfor the Hornets, but only five in thesecond half when New Orleans wereoutscored 65-34. New Orleans lostfor the first time in eight homegames.

“It’s hard to believe that we wereup by 30" Ginobili said of the lop-sided scoring in the second half. “Wewere kind of shocked, but we playedvery well. We hustled a lot and de-fensively we were much, much bet-ter.” San Antonio improved to 14-2overall and stretched their lead in theSouthwest Division to two gamesover New Orleans and Dallas.

San Antonio shot 60.5 percent,making 23 of 38 and seven 3-point-ers in the second half. Coach Gregg

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BERLIN – Disgraced cyclist FloydLandis has placed doubt on reigningTour de France champion AlbertoContador’s claims that a positive testfor clenbuterol was down to contami-nated meat. And the American, speak-ing on German television on Sunday,claimed that world cycling chiefs haveprotected top riders from the scandalof positive doping tests for the past 20years.

Contador, who has won the race’syellow jersey three times, is facing anuncertain future. He is currently sus-pended provisionally as anti-dopingexperts decide whether a positive testfor trace amounts of the banned weightloss/muscle building drug at the 2010race merits a lengthy ban.

Landis knows a thing or two aboutdoping practices. He was stripped ofthe 2006 Tour de France crown after apositive test for testosterone, and de-spite denying doping for four years hefinally confessed several months ago.

In making his confession, he allegedthat former team-mate LanceArmstrong was involved in systematicdoping during his spectacular Tour deFrance career. Those claims have sinceprompted a federal investigation intothe superstar American. Landis saidthat despite even tighter controls be-ing put in place by the sport’s govern-ing body the UCI (International Cy-cling Union), clenbuterol is still used

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Switzerland’s Roger Federercelebrates as he holds the

trophy after beating Spain’sRafael Nadal to win the

singles final tennis match atthe ATP World Tour Finals at

the O2 Arena in London,Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010.

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LONDON – Roger Federer believes his ATP World Tour Finals triumph against Rafael Nadalwill provide him with the perfect springboard to return to the top in 2011.

see how someone can say it’s been abad season. I had some tough losses,sure but you’re not going to win ev-ery tournament you play. “After hav-ing somewhat of a disappointing clay,Halle, Wimbledon stretch, where Iwasn’t able to win any tournaments,maybe didn’t play some of my besttennis, played a bit passive, it wasimportant that I was able to pick upmy game.”

The 29-year-old will take a shortvacation now before starting his prepa-rations for the new campaign, whichhe begins by defending the AustralianOpen in January. But the 16-time GrandSlam champion is well aware thatNadal would love to repeat his remark-able year, which included successiveGrand Slam triumphs at the FrenchOpen, Wimbledon and the US Open.

Nadal leads their career head-to-head 14-8 and Federer admits everymatch between them seems to carryan historic edge. “I think the men’sgame is at an absolute high right now,with a lot of exciting games beingplayed, with a lot of respect. Also Ithink having had me and Rafa bothmade the career Grand Slam alreadyat a young age I think is great for the

game,” he said.“We’re obviously playing not only

for ourselves and beating the otherguys, but also for history. I think there’sa lot at stake always in all our matcheswe play in the future. I think it’s won-derful.”

Nadal was happy to credit Federerfor his impressive display but he hintedtiredness after his epic three-set winover Andy Murray in the semi-finalson Saturday had taken its’ toll on him.

“He played unbelievable. He wasunplayable in the first set. I still hadchances in the second and the begin-ning of the third, but he played betterthan me,” Nadal said. “The thing iseverybody saw the match on Saturday,so everybody’s free to make his ownopinion.

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Spurs rally to handHornets first NBAhome defeat

Popovic tweaked the defense, goingwith a smaller, quicker lineup, andthe Spurs held the Hornets to 35.5percent shooting and forced nineturnovers after the interval.

“I saw a 17-point deficit, so wechanged up the defense and it helpedus,” Popovich said. “We made shotsand got more aggressive, got a littlemore physical and just competedbetter in the second half.” The Spurswent into the final period trailing 77-72. They hit their first nine shots ofthe quarter and seized the lead forgood.

“We’ve got to execute better onoffense and push the tempo. That’smy fault,” said Hornets star ChrisPaul. “I pushed it in the first half andI guess I didn’t in the second halfand they were able to get their de-fense set. I’ve got to pick up thepace.”

Hornets first-year coach MontyWilliams, who started his coachingcareer as an intern under Popovich,also shouldered some blame.

“The bottom line is I gotoutcoached,” he said. “CoachPopovich made a great move, goingsmall, and I didn’t make the imme-diate adjustments to put us in posi-tion to hang on. “It was just an old-school whipping from a coachingstandpoint.”

Cyclist Landis doubts Contador,says riders ‘protected’

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Cyclist Floyd Landi, pictured during the 2010 Tour of California,has placed doubt on reigning Tour de France champion AlbertoContador’s claims that a positive test for clenbuterol was downto contaminated meat.

in the peloton. “I know of riders takingclenbuterol. The chances of gettingcaught are higher than they used to be,but they’re still quite small because thedrug usually disappears before the test,”said Landis on ARD.

Contador claimed his result wasdown to contaminated meat whichsomeone from his Astana team boughtin Spain, and which he ate on the race’ssecond rest day.

Landis meanwhile reiterated claimsagainst Armstrong, alleging the seven-

time Tour de France champion and can-cer survivor doped during his career.But he also claimed that world cyclingchiefs, in particular UCI chief PatMcQuaid and his predecessor HeinVerbruggen, “protected” the top ridersin the peloton.

“In the peloton, everyone knows thatPat McQuaid, Hein Verbruggen andother UCI officials have protected someriders, and not others, for the past 20years,” added Landis. “It was manipu-lation, and their way of creating stars.”

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There had been speculation in Italy that some of Ferrari’s leading staffmight be in the firing line as a consequence, but company president Lucadi Montezemolo insisted that this would not happen.

“Changes within the team? That is not our philosophy, because for yearsnow we have adopted a policy based on dynamic stability,” he said atValencia today. “A few minor adjustments are possible, but no major up-heaval.

“And after all, it has to be said that if we had not got it wrong with that‘penalty kick’ in Abu Dhabi, today the discussion would be completelydifferent.” Di Montezemolo also gave team boss Stefano Domenicali hisfull backing. “I am very happy with the work with which StefanoDomenicali is moving us forward, with great ability, spirit and a sense ofbalance,” said the Ferrari president.

Alonso agreed that the outcome in Abu Dhabi should not be allowed toovershadow everything else that Ferrari had achieved. “The comeback wemounted from the mid-point of the season onwards, the way in which we allpulled together, more united than ever, is much more important,” he said.

“There were races where we lost points, just as there were some wherethe others lost more, otherwise they would have won much earlier.

“So much has been said about Abu Dhabi, but it’s easy to talk withhindsight. But I think that at Red Bull they would have made other choicesafter Korea for example.

“The team was very disappointed with the missed opportunity butFerrari’s great strength is that does not sink into depression because of onemistake, on the contrary, it reacts to be even more determined the follow-ing year.”

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Ferrari’s Spanish driver Fernando Alonso drives a vintage Ferrari during the second annualFerrari World Finals festival at the Ricardo Tormo racetrack in Cheste, on November 28, 2010.

Ferrari rules outkneejerk changes

FERRARI has ruled out making any major changes to itsteam management in response to its defeat in this year’s worldchampionship, though it left the door open to ‘minor adjust-ments’. Fernando Alonso had led the standings going into theAbu Dhabi finale, but lost out to Sebastian Vettel after a disas-trous strategy decision left Alonso stuck in traffic for most ofthe race and down in seventh at the flag.

Marquez ready for Round 3 with PacquiaoAssociated Press Writer

Juan Manuel Marquez didn’t waste any time afterdefending his lightweight title before setting his sightson Round 3 with Manny Pacquiao.

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Juan Manuel Marquez, of Mexico, celebrateshis victory over Michael Katsidis, of Australia,in a WBA/WBO championship boxing matchSaturday, Nov. 27, 2010, in Las Vegas.

Marquez stopped Michael Katsidis in the ninth roundSaturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, win-ning an all-action battle and certain candidate for Fightof the Year. Moments later, he turned his attention tosettling the score with the man considered the best inthe world.

“Obviously, Pacquiao is my priority. I’ll go up to140 (pounds), it’s no problem,” Marquez said througha translator. “Stop making excuses, Manny. Fight me.”

The two have met twice before, and both of the boutswere thrilling. They fought to a 12-round draw in 2004,and Pacquiao won a close split decision in March 2008.

Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said in a phone inter-view with The Associated Press on Sunday that a thirdfight with Marquez is a distinct possibility, althoughjust like everyone else, he’s waiting to see whether FloydMayweather Jr. steps into the ring against Pacquiao inwhat could be the richest fight in boxing history.

Other candidates include Shane Mosley, who hasalready put financial numbers on the table for a fight,and welterweight titleholder Andre Berto, who lookedsensational in a first-round knockout of FreddyHernandez on the Marquez undercard Saturday night.

“Mayweather is the priority, but if he doesn’t wantthe fight for whatever reason, then there are three pos-sibilities: Mosley, Berto and Marquez,” Arum said. “AllI need is two numbers at this stage to go to Pacquiaoon: what guarantee they’re looking for and how muchper home above a certain number (on the pay-per-view).”

Arum wouldn’t say what he’s been offered byMosley, but Antonio Margarito received $3 million plus$3 per home over 700,000 buys for his loss to Pacquiaoearlier this month. Marquez received $4 million plus$1 per home over a million when he lost to Mayweatherlast year.

The Top Rank boss plans to discuss a fight with Bertopromoter Lou DiBella on Monday, and hopes to touchbase with Marquez’s people later in the week. Arum’sflying to the Philippines on Dec. 12 to celebratePacquiao’s birthday, and will present the offers then.

“My phone is on,” said Richard Schaefer of GoldenBoy Promotions, which represents Marquez. “If thePacquiao vs. Marquez III fight isn’t happening, it’s notbecause of Golden Boy.”