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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a long-anticipated cabinet reshuffle Tues-day in a bid to reform his graft-ridden government and improve investor confidence during his last term.

But analysts criticised the shake-up as a superficial move to boost the president’s approval rating, which slid to its lowest this month in Yudhoyono’s seven-year leadership.

“By and large the reshuffle is not going to make a huge impact on investment. The government has only three more years in its term, and having new ministers coming in is not necessarily going to be efficient,” Stan-dard Chartered economist Fauzi Ichsan told AFP.

The president announced changes in the leadership of 12 of the country’s 34 ministries, with trade min-ister Mari Elka Pangestu to become tourism minister, replaced by the country’s investment board chairman, Gita Wirjawan, a respected former investment banker likely to support bureaucratic reform.

“I would like to express once again that the purpose of the cabinet reshuffle is to improve the performance and effectiveness of the cabinet”, Yudhoyono said.

“The year coming poses more complex problems and challenges. The reshuffle is the result of a perfor-mance and integrity evaluation, so now I am calling for the right person to serve in the right place.”

The number of ministries remained 34 in accordance with law no.39/2008 regarding the state ministries, Yudhoyono said, adding that functions of two ministries are changed.

On the two ministries change of function, the previous National Education Ministry now becomes the Education and Culture ministry which is equipped with two vice ministries dealing with education and culture.

In addition, the previous Culture and Tourism ministry now becomes the Tourism and Creative Economy ministry.

1. Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security affairs Joko Suyanto2. Coordinating Minister for the Economy M Hatta Rajasa3. Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare R Agung Laksono4. Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi5. Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi6. Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa7. Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro8. Justice and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin9. Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo10. Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik11. Industry Minister MS. Hidayat12. Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan13. Agriculture Minister Suswono14. Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan15. Transportation Minister EE Mangindaan16. Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Cicip Syarief Sutardjo17. Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar18. Public Works Minister Joko Kirmanto19. Health Affairs Minister Endang Rahayu Setianingsih20. The Education and Culture Minister Muhammad Nuh21. Social Affairs Minister Salim Assegaf Aljufri22. Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali23. Minister for National Development Planning/National Development Planning Board chairman Armida Alisjahbana24. Tourism and Creative Economic Minister Mari Elka Pangestu25. Research and Techonology Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta26. Minister for Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enterprises Syarif Hasan27. Minister for Environment Prof. Dr. Berth Kambuaya28. Minister for Women Empowerment and Child Protection Linda Agum Gumelar29. Minister for State Apparatatus Control and Bureaucratic Reform Azwar Abubakar30. Minister for Disadvantaged Regions Helmi Faisal Zaini31. Minister for State Enterprises Dahlan Iskan32. Minister for Communication and Informatics Tifatul Sembiring33. Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng and Public Housing Minister Djan Farid

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Jakarta - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the creden-tial room of the Merdeka Palace here on Tuesday night announced the improvement of the 2nd Indonesian United Cabinet members as the result of the reshuffle process.

President announces

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—Criminal Detective Unit of

South Denpasar Police led by Chief Unit Nengah Sudiarta managed to uncover a theft case occurred on June 24, 2011. Last Sunday (Oct 16), the perpetrator could be captured in Tabanan. The suspect named Yamanti-kue, 29, from Lombok. He was proved to have stolen in the dorm room of Gusti Ayu Ketut Tantri, 28, on Jalan Tukad Badung, South Denpasar.

Chief of the South Denpasar Police, Leo Martin Pasaribu, ex-

plained on Tuesday (Oct 18) that disclosure of the case was due to hard work of his members. Al-though it had happened long time ago, the investigators did not just keep quiet. They consistently continued to conduct investiga-

the slightest information. “Even-tually, we managed to catch the perpetrator in Tabanan,” said Chief Leo Martin.

His party, said the former chief of criminal detective unit in Ta-

further information about the sus-

pect. So far, the suspect admitted to have stolen only once. Meanwhile, the theft action was carried out by the perpetrator at 05:00 a.m. Local Time. The suspect came into the victim’s dorm room by climbing the wall. Later on, he could easily take the victim’s belongings away because the door was not locked. The belongings taken away by the suspect consisted of a cellu-lar phone, BlackBerry and cash worth IDR 500,000. Now, the suspect is being arrested in the custody of the South Denpasar Police. (kmb21)

“Hopefully, there will be no longer cases as we found yesterday where the Internet cafe was made a

students. This happened because there is an access and opportunity deliberately provided by the café operator, such as the cubicles cov-ered with curtains. Well, do not let such a similar incident happen in

solution for this problem,” said a legislator of Denpasar House, AA Susruta Ngurah Putra in Denpasar, Tuesday (Oct 18).

According to the democratic politician, it was unreasonable if the executive did not dare to make a mayoral regulation or regional regulation if there was no higher legal reference. “It is a regional autonomy, right? We can govern the type of business. For instance, we can manage the business premises, business restrictions, including restriction to the operational hours, not 24 hours. During school hours, the students should be prohibited to

visit the cafe without recommenda-tion letter or permission from the teacher or school,” he suggested.

He affirmed the executive should not be afraid if it remained to act pursuant to the prevailing rules. Moreover, the rules had acquired approval from the House. “So, the executive is not solitary. It is the importance of sharing ideas to seek the right solution. As in the problem of Internet cafes, it has no legal protection. However, it has a great possibility of infringement, including the potential to attract rev-enue, too. In essence, the existence of Internet cafe should be found a solution and what type of business it should belong to,” he explained.

Susruta said the regulation was important to control the mis-used IT dissemination. His party stated that existence of IT in the midst of society was very good, including for students, because they could access information including science. But, it did not mean without negative im-

pacts. “Now, its negative impacts should be controlled, so it will not harm the mentality of young generation. Central government indeed has no rules about it, but it does not mean the regional government should keep quiet though the phenomenon has threatened,” he alluded.

Meanwhile, a different opin-ion was revealed by another legislator, such as Ketut Resmi-yasa. The politician of the Mar-haenism Indonesian National Party (PNIM) even suggested the municipality to propose the rules related to the Internet café and online gaming to central government. “Therefore, it is like a bottom-to-top suggestion or like children proposes to their parents. For instance, regional government

-ernment,” explained Resmiyasa while adding if it was allowed to continue, then regional govern-ment would seem less creative and innovative. (par)

Negara (Bali Post)—Huge waves hit the coastal areas

of Candikusuma, Melaya and Pebua-han, Negara, on Monday (Oct 17) at 11:00 p.m. Local Time. As a result, the Candikusuma pier denoting a tourist attraction completely dam-aged. Meanwhile, the Baitul Ma’mur mosque at Candikusuma was in dan-ger of collapse and the road to location of Melasti procession was cut off.

Additionally, the revetment of grilled seafood stall belonging to Maimunah/H Nasrun and his gazebo were destroyed by the waves. Similar incident also hit the revetment of the seafood stall of H Muzaki, the pioneer of seafood stall since 1997 at Pebua-han where his property was pulverized and eroded by the waves.

Uswati, one of the residents of Tirtakusuma Hamlet, Candikusuma, Melaya, said that local residents had been uneasy for three days because the waves were very huge. They crashed the pier, so it consequently shattered and c ut off last Monday night. Even, four anglers from Wanasari, Melaya, were trapped at the end of the pier and nearly drowned. Finally, they could be rescued by the National SAR Agency team. According to her, residents had fed up with the promises of govern-ment that would soon overcome the increasingly severe abrasion but no realization to date. Moreover, some houses had been destroyed and hun-dreds of residents were threatened by

In response to the incident, Chair-man of the Jembrana House, Ketut Sugiasa and Commission C of Jem-brana House consisting of IB Susrama and Made Suardana, Tuesday (Oct 18), had made a visit to location accom-panied by the Head of Candikusuma Village, Bagiayasa and representative of the Public Works and Environment Agency, Wayan Darwin.

According to Bagiayasa, the pier was built in 2006 and once collapsed. It was then renovated three months ago. Now, it was even damaged again and cut off. Various anticipative en-deavors had been undertaken such as installation of bamboo as breakwater. However, hundreds of residents re-mained anxious because of the great threat of waves or abrasion. Damage of the pier had reached 150 meters.

Chairman of Jembrana House, Ketut Sugiasa, said the problem

should be promptly addressed. “It is not just a matter of arrangement and tourism, but it is a matter of humanity. People are now threatened where they should be displaced. It is a shared re-sponsibility and poses an emergency,” he explained.

Sugiasa expected it could be re-solved immediately starting from the initial stage. He predicted if not addressed soon, the region could be entirely eroded within a year. “This has not been a year, but the impact is so severe like this,” he said.

He hoped at least the provincial and central government could see the existing real condition as it was not just a matter of measurement. “Please do not just be studied but without follow-up,” he observed.

Meanwhile, Made Suardana said his party had consulted with the De-partment of Public Works and it was said the central government would un-dertake a gradual arrangement starting from the Eastern region. “We expect the arrangement could be carried out from the west side because its condi-tion is very apprehensive and more severe,” explained Suardana who is also Chairman of Golkar Party’s Regional Executive Board (DPD) of Jembrana Regency while handing over donation to the Head of Candi-kusuma Village.

Then, Sugiasa said that his party would plan to join with the irrigation commission to discuss about the matter with the Bali-Penida Regional River Agency. Later, they would struggle the agenda to central government.

Seafood stall destroyedMeanwhile, last Tuesday H Muza-

ki looked so busy moving the gazebo of grilled seafood stall to avoid the brunt of the waves that could threat any times. Even, the revetment of his stall and large trees nearby were pulverized by the waves. “We suffered a loss worth IDR 10 million. We are forced to start putting up the wood and bamboo for revetment,” said Muzaki accompanied by his wife.

According to Muzaki within the past three days he could not sleep because of the big waves reaching 2-3 meters in height. Meanwhile, Masruah, an at-tendant of seafood stall said the gazebo’s wall, fences and revetment base in her workplace were also destroyed by the waves. (par)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—The circle of people’s representatives in the Denpasar House urges the executive to

cafes by the public order offers (Satpol PP) of Denpasar City.

After being struck by huge waves

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to minimize the bird flu virussince the early stage when enter-

the entire poultry getting intoTabanan will be sprayed,” said

Tabanan Livestock Agency, AyuRatningsih, in the midst of chair-

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ing the poultry passing throughTabanan were also sprayed thor-

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According to Ayu, if peoplewere unable to get such disin-fectant, she recommended to

entrance of Tabanan, Ayu said thespraying was also organized at

Some of them were the market,collectors as well as the chicken

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

more focused on the activities of comprehensive and integrated prevention

this October in which the program of the Rabies-Free Sanur is targeted to

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According to Ambara, his party had also made cooperation with the

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where prevention and eradication of rabies were properly conceived and

in Sanur tourist area namely the village of Sanur Kauh, Sanur Kaja and Sa-

wouldalsoprovidevaccinationforanimalshavingthepotential to transmit the

would be followed up by impounding the stray dogs or the dogs deliberately

“If possible, the vaccination administration will be performed up to 100

attention to animal welfare aspect, population control (preventing the pro-

said while adding the budget prepared was IDR 100 million taken from the

Agency, throughout 2011 there were eight positive cases of rabies in dogs

carrying out a disease control against rabies since the early emergence of

animals (dogs) amounted to 48 cases spreading throughout 23 villages,

(kmb13)

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The officer is spraying the poultry in Tabanan Market

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happened to pass were stopped and then sprayed.

Sanur targeted to be free from rabies

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A dog is given vaccination by the officer

International4 Thursday, October 20, 2011 News

The UN-backed tribunal will start hearing opening statements from all parties on November 21, followed by evidence presentation on November 28.

“This is obviously a moment that the Cambodian people have been waiting for,” said tribunal spokesman Lars Olsen.

The accused -- including “Broth-er Number Two” Nuon Chea and former head of state Khieu Sam-phan -- deny charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and geno-cide over the deaths of up to two million people in the late 1970s.

Amid fears that not all of the ailing defendants, aged 7 9 to 85, will live to see a verdict, the court last month divided their complex case into a series of smaller trials to speed up proceedings.

Next month’s first trial will focus on the forced movement of population and the related charges of crimes against humanity.

But the prosecution and the defence will be allowed to address all the charges in their opening statements.

The trial against the four offi-cially opened with an initial hearing in late June but has been held up by preliminary legal objections and health issues.

The court is expected to an-nounce in the coming weeks wheth-er defendant Ieng Thirith, a former social affairs minister, is fit to stand trial after a medical expert said she suffers from dementia.

Nuon Chea, seen as the regime’s chief ideologue, is also contesting his ability to be tried and has said he has trouble concentrating and sitting for long periods.

The trial comes as the tribunal, seen as vital to providing some justice for the traumatised nation, is mired in controversy following a judge’s shock resignation on Oc-tober 9 citing government interfer-ence at the court.

A senior UN legal official is travelling to Phnom Penh later this week to address those concerns.

In its historic first trial, the court sentenced former prison chief Kaing Guek Eav -- also known as Duch -- to 30 years in jail last year for overseeing the deaths of 15,000 people. The case is now under appeal.

Led by “Brother Number One” Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the Khmer Rouge wiped out nearly a quarter of the population through starvation, overwork or execu-tion in a bid to create an agrarian utopia.

AFP

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah, a senior member of the ruling family, has tendered his resignation, reportedly over a graft case, and it has been accepted, an official statement said on Tuesday.

“The resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah has been accepted,” State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Ali al-Rashed said in the statement carried by the official KUNA news agency.

No reason was given for the resignation of one of the most senior members of the cabinet but Kuwait media said he had quit over an alleged graft scandal involving several MPs and possibly government officials.

Rashed himself was appointed as acting foreign minister until a new minister is appointed.

Kuwaiti media said that Sheikh Mohammad, who has been foreign minister since 2003, submit-ted his resignation on Monday and did not attend the cabinet meeting.

Sheikh Mohammad is the second senior ruling family member to quit the cabinet since June when deputy premier Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Sabah resigned following an apparent power struggle with the prime minister.

The new resignation came as the opposition stepped up its campaign for Prime Minister Sheikh

Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, a nephew of the emir, to step down.

The public prosecutor last month opened a probe into the bank accounts of about 14 of the 50 members of parliament on allegations they received some $350 million in “political” bribes.

The resignation of the Harvard-educated minis-ter came as leading opposition lawmaker Mussal-lam al-Barrak threatened to make public classified documents about alleged overseas money transfers through Kuwaiti embassies.

The opposition has charged that some of the funds were transferred to bank accounts held by some MPs abroad, linking them to the graft scandal at home. Barrak, who sent a list of questions to Sheikh Mohammad over a month ago about the issue, threatened Monday that he would make the documents public at an opposition rally if he does not receive the answers by midday (0900 GMT) Wednesday .

The lawmaker however distanced Sheikh Mo-hammad from the allegations. Opposition MPs plan to file a request to question the prime minister on Thursday over allegations the government failed to deal appropriately with the corruption scandal.

Kuwait, OPEC’s third largest oil producer, has been rocked by almost continuous political disputes since Sheikh Nasser became premier in February 2006, stalling development despite abundant oil income.

AFP

This handout photo taken and released by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in August 2011 shows former Khmer Rouge leader “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea (R) in the courtroom at the ECCC in Phnom Penh.

AFP

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah, pictured in March 2011, a senior member of the ruling family, has tendered his resignation, reportedly over a graft case, and it has been accepted, an official statement said on Tuesday.

KRouge trial to hear evidence next monthAFP

Cambodia’s war crimes court said Tuesday that it would hear evidence next month in the long-awaited trial of four former Khmer Rouge leaders accused of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Kuwait foreign minister quits over graft case

Activities Thursday, October 20, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for October 11 through October 29, 2011

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

11 Ock Purnama Kapat Bhatara Tiga Sakti (Padmasana) Penataran Agung BesakihMeru Cakra LombokLempuyang Madya KarangasemPenerejon Temple KintamaniPulaki Temple BulelengTirta Emupul Tampak SiringPuseh, Village T, Penataran, Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Cemenggoan SukawatiTirta Temple Negari SingapaduPuseh-Pr. Desa. Penataran Tangsub SukawatiPenataran Agung TegalalangmDesa Denjalan BatubulanPuseh Temple Singakerta UbudNataran Sanding TampaksiringBakung Temple Ceningan Nusa PenidaPasek Getas Kawan Kedewatan UbudAgung Dukuh Sakti Pangku/Subamia BrabanPasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg TabananPasek Gelgel Klating Dukuh KerambitanPasek Bendesa Mas Gadungan SelemadengAgung Pasek Temple Tohjiwa Wanasari SelemadegPr. Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem KarangsemPuseh Werdi Agung emoga Bolang Mangondow SulutDukuh Segening Wangsiang KarangasemDalem Kahyangan Arya Gajahpare SukaluwihTejakula BulelengPasraman Suci Temple Renon DenpasarPenaratan Agung Kertabumi T. M. I. I. Jakarta TimurPuru Luwur Waisnawa, Asah Badung-Sepang BulelengUlun Danu Batur Songan KintamaniAgung Surya Bhuwana Skyline JayaPapuaDalem Bengkel Temple Ubung DenpasarMerajan Suci Geriya Penataran Gemeh DenpasarPejenggali Temple TegalalangPasek Bendesa Gadungan Selemadeg TabananPanti Pasek Gelgel Meliling KerambitanPajenengan Dukuh Ogan Sangkan Gunung Rendang KarangasemDadia Dukuh Segening Lampung Tengah

Dukuh Sakti Blatung Kuruh KerambitanGumang (bukit Juru) Bugbug KarangasemKawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon KapalPejenengan Pulasari Desa Dukuh Sidemen KarangasemSegara Penimbangan Bakti Segara BulelengPuseh Yeh Ulakan Suana Nusa PenidaPr. Mentik Ring Gunung Lebah Batur KintamaniPasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kuruh KerambitanPr. Penataran UbudLuhur Giri Kusuma Daun Peken Blahkiuh AbiansemalPemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang Busungbiu BulelengDalem Puri Temple Batuan SukawatiDalem Temple Kediri Silakarang SingapaduDalem Temple SukawatiDalem Temple Singakerta Ubud

19 Ock Buda Keliwon Ugu Dalem Tarukan Temple Peninjoan Tembuku - BangliPasek Gelgel Boading Kaba-kaba - TabananPemayun Temple Banyuning Tengah - BulelengDesa Kayangan Tiga Bubunan Seririt - BulelengAgung Gunung Raung Taro Kaja Taro - TegalalangMerajan Pasek Dangka Bungbungan

29 Ock Tumpek Wayang Majapahit Temple JembranaOdalan Betara ratu Gede Celuk SukawatiOdalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon SukawatiPanti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan DenpasarBetara Ratu Alit dan Ratu Lingsir Singakerta UbudPedarmaan Dalem Sukawati BesakihPedarmaan Mengwi BesakihPedarmaan Kaba-kaba BesakihPedarmaan dalem Bakas BesakihDadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel KlungkungMerajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung PengatepanPedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Temple Besakih (Dalem Klungkung)Penataran Giri Purwa & PesramanKendal Rejo Tegal Delimo BanyuangiPemrajan Agung Temple Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung

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KUTA - This year Hard Rock Hotel Bali will keep on running in its annual charity fun run event. The annual Rock ’n Run event this year aptly called “The 11th Chapter” will be held on 27 November 2011, start at 6.30am and mark our eleventh con-secutive 5 km charity run. Registration counter will open from 26 October 2011 to 26 November 2011, 11.00am – 6.00pm, in front of the Giant Surf Board, Hard Rock Hotel Bali. Registration fee for runner at Rp.100,000/person including Rock n’ Run t-shirt and refreshment during the event.

The proceeds of this year’s charity event will be donated to the Smile Foundation through Rotary Club of Bali – Seminyak with the funds being designated to help those in need of cleft lip and palate operations, to bring a smile to unfortunate children afflicted with this facial disfigurement to live a happier and normal life.

“Run forsomeone else’s life”

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Obi, a three-year-old GermanShepherd, and his handler PCPhil ells were bombarded withbottles, bricks and petrol bombswhile on the frontline in Tot-tenham, where the trouble firstflared before spreading acrossLondon

Obi was hit by a missile,thought to be a brick, but showedno immediate signs of injury ecarried on working for severalhours before blood was spottedtrickling from his left nostril

e was relieved from duty andtaken to a vet for an assessmentA scan revealed a fracture to hisskull above the left eye socket

Obi, who is based at estDrayton police station west ofLondon, was given time off to

recover e returned to work tocomplete light duties, but hasjust been given the all-clear toresume full service

The International Fund forAnimal elfare (IFA ) gaveObi his special animal braveryaward during their Animal Ac-tion Awards ceremony at the

ouse of Lords, the upper houseof parliament

Robbie arsland, UK Direc-tor of IFA , said: “ e are de-lighted to be able to highlight theamazing service given by policedogs such as Obi e is a trulyrewarding winner of our specialAnimal Bravery Award ”

hen off-duty, Obi lives withells and his family at their

home ells accompanied Obi

to Tuesday’s ceremony“It was uite humbling to

hear that Obi was to receive thisaward, in the same way that thepublic responded in the aftermathof the disorder and came out tothank us,” ells said

“It’s really nice to have thework recognised and while Obireceived a lot of attention, we arejust one of many dog teams whogo out on the streets every day

“Obi has been keen to get backto work he didn’t like being leftat home when I set off on myown, as he loves it ”

The other eight police dogsworking in Obi’s unit also re-ceived injuries on the same nightin Tottenham, including cut pawpads and broken teeth

AFP

Two men who attempted to use social networking site Facebookto incite riots during August’s unprecedented civil disorder both lostappeals against their four-year jail terms

Jordan Blackshaw, 20, from Cheshire and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan,22, from arrington, were imprisoned after setting up Facebook pagescalling for unrest in their home towns

owever, three men who were jailed after admitting handlingstolen goods during the riots had their sentences halved by the courtof appeal

Igor Judge, the lord chief justice, called the level of lawlessness“shocking and wholly ine cusable” and stressed that severe sentences“must follow” to serve as both punishment and deterrent

“The conte t hugely aggravates the seriousness of each individualoffence,” he added “The sheer numbers involved may have led someof the offenders to believe that they were untouchable and wouldescape detection ”

Judge, along with fellow ruling judges John Thomas and BrianLeveson, said it was therefore correct to hand out sentences “beyondthe range in the guidelines for conventional offending”

Blackshaw’s page, “Smash Down orthwich Town”, encouragedpeople to gather “behind maccies” -- believed to be the cDonald’srestaurant in orthwich town centre

Sutcliffe-Keenan’s creation, “Let’s ave a Riot in Latchford”, calledfor people to riot the following day

Judge highlighted technology’s power to enable “the rapid move-ment and congregation of disorderly groups in new and unpolicedareas,” calling it a “sinister aspect” of the riots

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A police dog called ‘Obi’ is pictured with his handler, PC Phil Wells, during a photocall in central London.

Hero police dog gets award for London riots dutyAFP

police dog who sustained a fractured skull while on duty during riots in London in ugust

Jail terms upheld for Facebook rioters

A riot policeman is seen here standing guard in front of a burning building and burnt out car in Croy-don, South London on August 8. Two men who attempted to use social networking site Facebook to incite riots during August’s unprecedented civil disorder, both lost

appeals against their four-year jail terms

Dahlan Iskan, former president of the state-owned electricity providerand a former journalist, was named minister for state-owned enterprises,many of which are undergoing a shaky process of privatisation

roads and unreliable transport

more about improving the capacity of municipal governments to build

udhoyono’s approval rating hit its lowest ever at 46 2 percent thismonth, down from 60 7 percent the year before, according to the Indo-nesian Survey Institute

In 2009, the president won a landslide election on the back of a fervent-

But udhoyono’s critics say the president has gone soft on corruptionin his second term, stymied by scandals implicating party members,including the vice president

Prominentpolitical analystArbiSanit said that thecabinet shake-upwasa “safe” move by the president, who was “too afraid to take real risks”

“ e’s a coward e’s tooafraidof offendingpolitical parties by sackingunderperforming ministers”, he said

The president appointed several non-politician deputy ministers “toappease the public who no longer trust ministers”

out there but he chose them because they are able to compromise to servehis interests”, Sanit said

AFP

Indonesia...

Thursday, October 20, 2011 7Indonesia Today International

Antara

BANJARMASIN - South Kalimantan`s steel factory built by PT Meratus Jaya Iron Steel is expected to begin production early in 2012 as its construction is now 95.2 percent completed.

The matter was discussed during a meeting between the monitor-ing team of the provincial government and the management of PT Meratus Jaya Iron Steel in Batu Licin, Batu Bambu district.

The monitoring team led by Hadi Susilo, expert staff of the South Kalimantan governor, made a visit to the project site to observe the development of the steel factory.

Hadi said the completion of the factory was actually behind sched-ule due to technical problems.

The technical problem included the late arrival of the power plant components such as broiler which was designed in Germany but produced in China.

“According to the company`s explanations the power plant con-struction has been 58.2 percent completed,” Hadi said.

Beckham and his LA Galaxy team are “80 percent” confirmed to stop off in Southeast Asia en route to their friendly game

in Melbourne in early December, a promoter told AFP.

“We are very close in the nego-tiations. It’s at quite an advanced stage,” the promoter said, referring to the Singapore leg.

“We’re negotiating for the whole team, including Beckham.

“We’re just sorting out sponsors. It’s about 80 percent (confirmed).”

She said tentative dates for Sin-gapore, where Galaxy would meet fans and run a football clinic for youngsters, are December 1-3, adding that the team is also plan-ning a friendly in Jakarta in late November.

Neither visit has been confirmed by Galaxy, who are scheduled to play Melbourne Victory at Etihad Stadium on December 6.

Galaxy’s stars include Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan as well as Beckham, who has recently been linked with a move to France’s Paris Saint-Germain.

Reuters

JAKARTA - Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever has resumed palm oil purchases from Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (SMART) after the planter adopted new green policies, the Indonesian palm oil firm.

SMART, which runs the Indonesia palm oil operations of its Singapore-listed parent Golden Agri-Resources , was given a mixed score card last year in an independent environmental audit after Greenpeace accused the firm of clearing peat land and forests that sheltered endangered species.

Major palm oil consumers such as Unilever, Nestle and Burger King stopped buying from SMART because of environmental concerns.

The palm oil firm said in February it would work with the government and a non-profit body, and Golden Agri then developed a Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) in collaboration with The Forest Trust (TFT), a non-profit organisation that seeks to promote green business methods.

“SMART has received a purchase order from Unilever today, a decision which SMART views as an acknowl-

edgement of its sustainability commitments including Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certifica-tion,” the firm said in a statement.

The RSPO is an industry body of consumers, green groups and plantation firms that aims to promote use of sustainable palm oil products.

This month, Nestle, the world’s biggest food group, also resumed palm oil purchases from SMART.

The palm oil industry has come under increasing pres-sure to improve practices and halt deforestation blamed for speeding up climate change, ruining watersheds and destroying wildlife.

A moratorium on new permits to clear forests in Indo-nesia, the world’s top palm oil producer, came into force in May for an initial two years.

Late last month however, the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) withdrew its membership from the RSPO, instead giving its full backing to an Indonesian sustainability scheme.

Many major European palm oil buyers say the RSPO will remain the international sustainability marker.

SMART President Director Daud Dharsono also said the firm was supportive of the RSPO and would also continue to work with Gapki.

Antara

LOMBOK BARAT - Indonesia continues expanding its sea conservation areas to increase water productivity and develop marine potentials with a clear direction in line with international expectations, an official from the fisheries and marine resource ministry said.

“The sea conservation areas are continuously ex-panded and until 2014 minimally five percent of our sea ecosystem will have been designated as conservation areas,” the director general for coastal marine resources and small islands, Sudirman Saad, said at the opening of a discussion on small islands` adaptation to climate change.

He said theoretically 30 percent of the sea ecosystem must be prepared for conservation in order to increase productivity of waters and develop their potential.

But due to various shortcomings and limits faced by the government and the Indonesian community so far the conservation area has remained relatively limited, he said.

“Certainly efforts must be continued to expand the

area to reach the ideal level,” he said.Sudirman said Indonesia is a country with a lot of

islands and therefore also has vast waters and so efforts to expand the conservation area could still be done.

Indonesia has also been encouraged to produce the world`s biggest marine and fisheries products and there-fore real efforts must be continued especially to optimize its marine potentials.

As an archipelago with more than 17,000 islands and a coastline of 81,000 kilometer long Indonesia meanwhile is also vulnerable to the impact of climate change.

In view of that he said the ministry of fisheries and marine resources is also developing fishery development centers based on small islands especially in the eastern regions which have a large potential to produce fish and other biota products.

“As an illustration a small island in Kepulauan Seribu which is managed sustainably is able to produce around 30,000 tons of fish a year. If that potential is developed using models that have been tested environmental friendly the small islands could become sustainable centers of economic growth,” he said.

Singapore, Indonesia bid to lure BeckhamAgence France-Presse

Football superstar David Beckham looks set to visit Singapore and Indonesia on a promotional tour in the coming weeks, organisers said.

South kalimantan steel factory to begin production in 2012

Indonesia’s SMART says Unilever resumes palm oil buys

Indonesia continues expanding sea conservation areas

8 InternationalThursday, October 20, 2011

Bali Today

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Al-Qaida-linked militant Umar Patek is escorted by Indonesian anti-terror police upon ar-rival at the Bali police headquarters in Denpasar, from Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Umar Patek, a key suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, was captured on Jan. 25 in Abbottabad, the same town in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed months later. He is under tight security to stand trial.

With the increase in investment,the Indonesian economic growthwould remain stable, BKP ChiefGita irjawan said after addressinga seminar on ew Asia Rising

“ e are optimistic that the do-mestic economy will continue togrow well and will not be affectedby the global crisis triggered by thesovereign debt crisis in the US andEurope,” he said

Asked about security conditionsand natural disasters in Indonesia, hesaid the matter was one of the factorsthat investors needed to consider

“ et security conditions andnatural disasters do not very much

investment plans in Indonesia,”he said

Indonesian permanent represen-tative to ASEA gurah Swajayasaid on Thursday investment in theSoutheastAsian region almost dou-bled to US 70 8 billion in 2010 fromUS 37 8 billion the year before

The investment mostly went tothe industrial sector in line withthe aim of forming an ASEAcommunity by 2015 to turn theregion into a competitive industrialhub for the world s industrializedcountries such as Japan and Ger-many, he said

Archeological protection throughmaintenance,preservationandconser-vation,even throughreconstructionaswell, has turned to be an internationalproblem not only today, but actuallyin the future Such matters were indi-cated by the activities of U ESCOas an international institution, whoconcerned with the most importantof world cultural heritage e g archeo-logical remains U ESCOhavedonea lot of e cellent work, which need areasonablebudgets,e pert,e uipmentetc and the best e ample is the safe-guarding of Brobudur temple As theU ESCO member, our governmentsare concerned and responsible to pro-tect our monuments for our nationalinterest, such as Brobudur temple

Based on the development ofarchaeological studies and the related

-logicalprotection,nowsuchproblemsis a technical matter and besed on

problem , Indonesian governmenthave done a number of works e g thesafeguarding of borobudur tamplein cooperation with U ESCO ,

Prambanan tample ,Demak mos ue,and other tamples in Bali namelyPura Besakih ,Pura engening ,Pura Pegulingan , Pura Taman Sarietc In this case, our government asone of the ASEA countries havecarried out a coordinate program-

the effective ways and means dealingwith the problems of archaeologicalprotection

Discussing the archaeologicalprotection in Bali, it should be re-membered thatBali, evenaverysmallisland, but has a lot of archaeologicalmonuments, which most of them be-longed to living monuments Amongthem are a number of indu tample,spreated nearly in the whole island,as well as indu stastues , inscrip-tion etc As the holy monuments forBalinese society, so theBalinesehavethe responsibility to take care theirmonumentsas their religious function

-vationofarchaeologicaland istorical

in coordialnation and corporationwith the local government and local

a lot of archaeological reconstruction,butnotyet covered thewholeof them,because of the limited budgets etc

In case of protecting the archaeo-

forPreservationofarchaeological andistorical eritagehasgivena techni-

cal guidance to the local people forreconstructing their monuments and

-ernments have a very limited budgetfor these works, and as the owner of

the livingmonuments, so theBalinesepeople have their religious tasks andresponsibility toprotect sacredmonu-ments In Bali generally each villagehave threevillage templesnamedPuraKyayangan Tiga e g Pura Puseh,Pura

them are belonged to archaeologicalmonuments and fre uently in thesetemple a number of archaeologicalmonuments are preserved such asstatues, inscription etc It is impor-tant to note here that the unity of theBalinese society is tightly boundedby the village temples and socialorganization

Based on religious reasons, ac-tuality Balinese society has a strongspirit to keep their monuments in awell condition as holy monumentsSince a very long time the Balinesepeople have maintained and restoredtheir monuments in a very traditionalways, based on their own religiouswill and spirit, and for this purposethey collected the materials, evenreasonable money from the villagemembers The village members,

-

led by the village leader, without any

mutual model of works named go-tong royong is one of the Indonesianspirits, which has been developedsince the early time until today

FOTO ANTARA/Widodo S. Jusuf

The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) has predicted investment in Indonesia will grow by 16.6 percent to Rp280 trillion next year from Rp240 trillion this year. With the increase in investment, the Indonesian economic growth would remain stable, Former BKPM Chief Gita Wirjawan said after addressing a seminar on New Asia Rising.

Investmentin RI to grow 16.6 percent next yearAntara

- The nvestment Coordinating oard ( )has predicted investment in ndonesia will grow by 1 . percentto Rp2 0 trillion ne t year from Rp2 0 trillion this year.

Archeological protection in Bali and the role of the society

Balinese Culture

9International Thursday, October 20, 2011

TAMBUSAN BE PASIH(Diced Fish Roasted in Banana Leaf)

OVERVIEW:The spicy fish dish is excellent for barbeques.

INGREDIENTS:600 gr (1¼ 1lb) boned mackerel fillets, skin removed

and cut in 2.5 cm (1in) cubes½ cup basic marinade1 heaped tbsp tamarind pulp, soaked in¼ cup warm water and juice extracted1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed1 ½ tsp salt3 lemon leaves, cut in hair like shreds3 tbsp oil2 salam leaves2 square of banana leaf 30x30cm(10x10 in)

PREPARATION:In deep bowl combine mackerel cubes, spice paste,

tamarind juice, crushed black pepper, salt, lime leaf and oil, and mix very well in order to coat fish evenly. Cover and marinate in cool place for 2 hours. Place one salam leaf in center of each piece of banana leaf. Top with half of seafood mix and fold the same way as for Tum Bebek. Place parcels directly onto moderately hot charcoal and roast very slowly for one hour. Alternatively, bake on rack in a moderate oven or under a grill for about 30 minutes. Serve with Sambal Matah, Sambel Tomat, wedges of lime and steamed rice.

Genggong, a rare traditional artwith a uni ue musical instrumentdevelops at Penyaringan illage,

endoyo Subdistrict Up to this mo-ment, several hamlets at the villageremain to preserve this simple musi-cal instrument made of bamboo

Unfortunately, thedestinyofgeng-gong is increasinglymarginalizedandless popular than modern musical in-struments Penyaringan illage seeksto raise this traditional art by provid-ing opportunities for the artists to becreative in a number of events

“Aside from kendang mebarungand jegog, the village also has geng-gong troupe, but it only has a fewmembers,” e plained the illageChiefofPenyaringan,Ketut inaryaAs in the Jembrana Cultural Paraderecently, this instrument served asthe representative of Penyaringan

illage and endoyo SubdistrictThis agrarian art is progressivelymarginalized in linewith thegrowingolder of many players and lacks ofregeneration Only a few people haveinterest in playing this traditionalinstrument

One of the players is Gede Sumar-wan, a resident of Penyaringan am-let, Penyaringan illage This farmerwho is also a chief of the local subakorganization has deeply involved inthis traditional music since he was inelementary school is father, the late

ayanRunjen,was agenggongartisttogether with other artists coalescedinto a troupe

ot everyone could play this tra-

URUTAN CELENG(Fried Pork Sausages)

OVERVIEW:This is always found in stalls selling roasted whole

pig. Be Celeng, better known to visitors to Bali by its Indonesian name, Babi Guling. Not one part of the pig is wasted, and even the skin is deep fried as a crisp garnish. In Bali, this sausage is usually hung in a tree to dry to keep it away from the dogs and chickens.

INGREDIENTS:600 gr (1¼ lb) boneless pork leg or shoulder, cut in

1 cm (1/2in) cubes½ cup basic spice paste1 tsp salt1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed2 tbsp tamarind pulp, seeds and fibresremoved vegetable oil for frying1 meter (3ft) pork intestine or sausage casings

PREPARATION:Combine pork meat with basic spice paste, salt,

pepper and tamarind paste. Mix well for 5 minutes. Tie one end of pork intestines with string. Insert large round nozzle into pastry piping bag and fill it with the meat mixture. Place open end of intestine over nozzle of piping bag and fill intestine tightly. Tie end with string. Dry sausage for 8 hours on wire rack in oven at very low heat. Deep fry in oil over medium heat until golden brown.

This dish is traditionally served with lawar (Vegetable Salad made from green beans) or with young jackfruits.

Genggong of Penyaringan, Now Getting Scarcer

ditional musical instrument Otherthan having a long breath, the playershould have capability of looking forthe tone as e pected Similarly, therhythm played should be in harmonywith the Jegog gamelan music “Ide-ally, there are 10 players, including a

leave behind today,” he saidAccording to the stories of elder

-ment was derived from an agrariansociety imitating the sound a frog in

of nature, farmers got inspirationto make an instrument from areca

palm midrib or bamboo that wasperforated in such a way to producesound where it was drawn by usinga rope Combination of the space inthe hole of bamboo palm midribblade with a slit of mouth resultedin a loud sound like a frog in the rice

lay a coconut shell used to shut theplayers’ mouth

Artists of this traditional musicinstrument hoped there was con-cern from local government in or-der the culture of agrarian societywould not be marginalized Even,it was not impossible to come toe tinction ( T kmb)

Thursday, October 20, 201110 InternationalDestinations

IBP

Luhur Watukaru temple or Pura Batukaru is one of the biggest Hindu Temples in Bali (Sad Kahyangan) with Catur Lokapala Temple and Padmabhuwana Temple status. It is set in the plateau area with lush tropical rain forest sur-round it. It is situated in the peaceful area which is far from the local resident that is ideally for worship. There are some temple building spread out through the tranquility of rain forest and the big mountain of Batukaru as a back drop.

Watukaru or Batukaru Temple is located at Wangaya Gede countryside, Penebel District and Tabanan regency, and west part of Bali Island. It is located right on the foot of Mount Batukaru and about 1.30 hours from Denpasar Airport.

The history of this temple is difficult to be found out even in the ancient omission ex-ists in this temple. For example some profile area like harpoon own the Ancient Bali type, but no written data found it. The effort study and research of this temple history remain to find difficulties. The temple festival at Luwur Watukaru or Batukaru Temple is executed every six-month or 210 days which is every Thursday

Umanis Wara Dungulan (Balinese Calendar), just the day after Galungan Day (the biggest Balinese Hindu Holidays). The extension day of temple festival is executed during eleven day, to give the opportunity for Hindu public society especially in Bali to come for praying. Pengempon (the society who take care of the temple) has the obligation to take care of the temple inclusive of ceremony execution. This fact is one of characteristic power outside of physical of Watu Karu Temple.

Kubayan is commissioned holy occupation lead the temple ceremony and his status higher than all priests in Pretending pertinent Ancient. In the execution of praying during the temple festival or the certain day ceremony, it has to be preceded by doing pray in Beji Temple which is located in eastside of Watu Karu Temple or inside of Madya Mandala (middle area) and Nista Mandala (outside area). After doing pray in Beji Temple, then the praying is continued in the main temple building located in the cen-ter of temple area. This is also not need again clean the hand and gargle because, it has been conducted the hallowing of body by conducting pray in Beji Temple. This is specification of praying procession in Watukaru Temple.

Watukaru or Batukaru Temple

Thursday, October 20, 2011 11

BUSINESSInternational

Associated Press

O L The leaders ofSouth Korea and Japan agreed

ednesday to e pand the sizeof a currency swap deal andpush to resume stalled free tradenegotiations, as Tokyo returnedlooted Korean royal documentsin a goodwill gesture

Seoul and Tokyo have closeeconomic ties and are key U Sallies in Asia, but many olderKoreans still harbor deep resent-ment against Japan over its 35-year colonial occupation of Koreathat ended in 1945 Ties sufferedthis year because of a territorialdispute and differences over theoccupation

On ednesday, the leadersof the two countries agreed in ameeting in Seoul that they woulde pand the size of their SouthKorean won and Japanese yencurrency swap scheme to 70billion from the current 13 bil-lion as a backstop against globaleconomic turmoil

Swaps allow one central bankto borrow a currency from anoth-er, offering an e uivalent amountof its own as collateral

“ e reached the agreementbased on a belief that we should

-rency cooperation to preemptively

the world’s economic uncertaintyis deepening,” South KoreanPresident Lee yung-bak said ata news conference with JapanesePrime inister oshihiko oda

Lee said South Korea and Ja-pan also agreed to bolster effortsto resume stalled negotiations onsigning a free trade agreement

The two countries began freetrade talks in 2003, but the nego-tiations remain stalled over trade

The South Korea-Japan deal drewrenewed attention after the U S

-cord with South Korea this monthThat deal still needs approvalfrom South Korea’s parliament

In an effort to improve ties,

Korean royal documents that hiscountry took away during its rule

“The return should be seen asa gift with a political intention,”Seoul ational University inter-national relations professor ParkCheol-hee said

The documents are part of1,205 historical volumes that Ja-pan agreed to give back to SouthKorea when oda’s predecessor,

aoto Kan, met with Lee last yearoda told Lee that he would seek

to return the remanning books atan appropriate time, accordingto South Korea’s presidential

The books’ return came twomonths after South Korea bannedthree conservative Japanese law-makers from entering the countryafter they arrived at a Seoul airportwith a plan to travel near isletsat the center of territorial andhistorical disputes between thecountries

The two countries are also atodds over Seoul’s offer to holdtalks on Japan’s compensationof Korean women forced intose ual slavery for Japan duringits colonial rule Japan declined,saying the matter was settled bya 1965 treaty that normalized tiesbetween Japan and South Korea

“I stated several times thatmoving toward the future withoutforgetting history is the basis ofSouth Korea-Japan relations,”Lee said

A senior euro zone source toldReuters there had been no men-tion of such a deal

Earlier, German ChancellorAngela erkel warned that lead-ers would not solve the debt crisisat one summit meeting

The Guardian, citing seniorEuropean Union diplomats, saidthe euro zone would endorse afive-fold increase in the 440-billion-euro bailout fund, givingit some two trillion euros to helptroubled governments and bankssurvive should Greece or anyother troubled euro zone country

Associated Press

G OR Oil prices hov-ered above 88 a barrel ednesdayin Asia after a report showed U Scrude supplies une pectedly fell lastweek, suggesting demand could beimproving

Benchmark crude for ovem-ber delivery was down 7 cents at88 27 a barrel at midday Sin-

gapore time in electronic tradingon the ew ork ercantile E -change The contract rose 1 96to settle at 88 34 in ew ork onTuesday

Brent crude for December de-livery was up 15 cents at 111 30a barrel on the ICE Futures E -change in London

The American Petroleum Insti-tute said late Tuesday that crudeinventories fell 3 1 million barrelslast week while analysts surveyedby Platts, the energy informationarm of cGraw- ill Cos , hadpredicted an increase of 1 8 mil-lion barrels

Inventories of gasoline dropped1 6 million barrels last week whiledistillates slid 2 2 million barrels,the API said

The Energy Department’s En-ergy Information Administration

reports its weekly supply data laterednesdayCrude has jumped 17 percent

from 75 two weeks ago as inves-tor optimism was bolstered bysigns European leaders will soonannounce a plan to contain theregion’s sovereign debt crisis

Oil traders have also been en-couraged by gains in global stockmarkets after a period of sustainedlosses The Dow Jones industrialaverage rose 1 6 percent Tuesdayand most Asian stock markets ad-vanced ednesday

owever, some analysts areforecasting commodities such asoil will drop ne t year amid weakglobal economic growth and astronger U S dollar, which makescrude more e pensive for investorswith other currencies

“ e would still e pect freshfalls in 2012 as global economicactivity remains sluggish, risk ap-petite stays fragile and the dollarrecovers more ground,” CapitalEconomics said in a report

In other yme trading, heatingoil fell 0 5 cent to 3 02 per gallonand gasoline futures gained 0 9cent to 2 73 per gallon aturalgas added 0 9 cent to 3 56 per1,000 cubic feet

France, Germany near rescue fund deal: paperReuters

defaultThe paper said confidence that

the plan would be approved atSunday’s crisis summit was onthe rise after oody’s warnedit might put France’s top AAAcredit rating on review, citingthe cost of bailing out troubledbanks or other members of theeuro zone

U S stocks and the euro roseon the report, though traders saidthey were taking a wait-and-seeapproach

If true, the news “would bewhat the market’s been looking

for, and two trillion seems to bein the right neighborhood,” saidBrian Dolan, chief strategist atFore com in Bedminster, ewJersey,

But, he added, “I have to takeit with a grain of salt e’ve seena lot of these European reportsthat something was imminentonly to be disappointed the ne tmorning ”

arkets have been on edgefor fear European leaders wouldnot agree on a plan to address thecrisis, which has already forcedGreece, Ireland and Portugal

to seek bailouts and has drivenup borrowing costs in Italy andSpain

oody’s Investors Service onTuesday cut Spain’s sovereignratings by two notches, sayinghigh levels of debt in the bankingand corporate sectors leave thecountry vulnerable to fundingstress

European banks with heavye posure to troubled sovereigndebt have also found it harder tofund operations, sparking fearthat governments may have tobail them out

According to the Guardianreport , France and Germanyagreed tha t Europe’s banksshould be recapitalized to meetthe 9 percent ratio the EuropeanBank Authority is demandingafter having e amined the e -

posure levels of between 60 and70 “systemic” banks

hile French and Germanbanks are said capable of meet-ing the new capital ratio on theirown, other countries’ banksmay need help from the stateor the e panded bailout fund,known as the European Finan-cial Stability Fund, the paperreported

Berl in and Paris are alsosaid to be closer to agreementon increasing private sectorinvolvement in a second 109-billion-euro rescue for GreeceThe voluntary “haircut” forbond holders was set a t 21percent in July but worsen-ing financial conditions havespurred Germany to push forprivate creditor losses of up to50 percent

South Korea, Japan agree to expand currency swap deal

Oil hovers above $88 after US crude supplies drop

Entertainment InternationalThursday, October 20, 201112

The documentary “Inside Job” did an excellent job of spelling out what happened in a clear, concise way without ever condescending to its audience, and it earned an Academy Award in the process. Several feature films, including the hit-and-miss “The Company Men” and the operatic “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” have tried to put a human face on the subject with mixed results.

Now we have “Margin Call,” which recreates the earliest mo-ments of the crisis with the tight time frame and claustrophobic setting of a play — a David Mamet play, to be specific. First-time writer-director J.C. Chandor depicts this devastating moment of volatil-ity with a patter that’s reminiscent of Mamet: profane and masculine, with rhythmic repetition of certain key phrases that we, unfortunately, can’t repeat here ourselves. It’s a fitting approach given the swagger of the characters in this cruel and competitive world, as well as the pressure they feel once they realize how much trouble they, and the rest of the world, are in.

Chandor’s father worked for Merrill Lynch for nearly 40 years, so this is a realm — and a personal-ity type — he knows well. He also

knows well enough to stand back and let the excellent cast of actors he’s amassed do what they do best. He depicts these dramatic develop-ments without any melodrama, but rather offers a steady drumbeat as one person after another comes to the chilling realization that we’re all screwed.

“Margin Call” takes place over a 24-hour period, beginning with some slash-and-burn layoffs at a major financial firm. Among the casualties is risk analyst Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci), who passes along to one of his underlings, Peter Sul-livan (Zachary Quinto, who’s also a producer), some figures he was studying on his way out the door. His warning: “Be careful.”

Peter — who literally is a rocket scientist with a doctorate from MIT — digs a little deeper later that night while the firm’s bad boys are out partying. His realization that Eric was onto something, that the firm is in way over its head and is about to find out its assets are essentially worthless, spreads across his face with a quiet horror. It’s a reaction that we’ll see again and again as this discovery gets kicked up the chain of command.

Next up is Peter’s new boss, the charismatic Will Emerson

(Paul Bettany), and then his boss, the 34-year veteran Sam Rogers (Kevin Spacey). Then come the people who run the risk manage-ment department (Demi Moore and Aasif Mandvi) — whose warnings of trouble a month earlier went unheeded — and then the firm’s young, soulless head honcho (Si-

mon Baker), until finally the creep-ily calm CEO (Jeremy Irons) drops down from the sky in his helicopter in the middle of the night.

“Margin Call” unfolds in a series of quietly intense and increas-ingly distressing meetings between the various figures— Quinto and Spacey, Spacey and Irons, Irons

and Moore, Moore and Tucci, and so on. There are no histrionics, just the intermittent hum of Nathan Lar-son’s score to keep us on edge, and the lights of the Manhattan skyline glittering throughout this all-nighter to remind us of the wealth and power that drove these people in the first place.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Another court date, another jail threat for Lindsay Lohan. A city prosecutor will recommend Wednesday that the troubled starlet be sent back to jail because she had been ousted from a community service assign-ment at a women’s shelter.

Lohan had been ordered in April to serve 360 hours at the Downtown Women’s Center, an agency that helps homeless women. It is unclear how many hours she completed there, but she was terminated by the center and has been serving hours lately with the American Red Cross.

Deputy City Attorney Melanie Chavira will ask that Lohan be found in violation of her probation and be sentenced to jail, city attor-ney’s spokesman Frank Mateljan said Tuesday.

It will ultimately be up to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge

Stephanie Sautner to decide wheth-er Lohan warrants another proba-tion revocation hearing and a return to jail, where she has been sent four previous times only to be released early due to jail overcrowding. If the judge determines Lohan has vio-lated her probation, she will have to schedule an evidentiary hearing for a later date, after which any punish-ment would be determined.

The judge has said she thought the women’s shelter assignment would do Lohan some good. Lohan’s spokesman Steve Honig said the actress is now doing her service with the American Red Cross. He declined comment on the recommendation that Lohan be sent back to jail.

He said the “Mean Girls” star has been working hard to satisfy the terms of her release, includ-ing psychological counseling and completing a Shoplifters Anonymous course. “She’s really pounding away,” Honig said.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Muscleman-turned movie star-turned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to the movies. He’s on the New Mexico set of “The Last Stand,” playing the starring role as a small town border sheriff.

The actor posted a message on his Twitter account late Monday saying, “Fantastic first day on the set of The Last Stand. Big thanks to the crew - keep up the great work.”

The Lionsgate studio says Schwarzenegger plays a former Los Angeles police officer who ends up sheriff of a small border town after a botched operation.

The movie is a modern day West-ern about convicts making their way to the Mexico border through New Mexico after escaping from a Las Vegas prison. “The Last Stand” is being directed by Kim Jee-Woon.

Review: ‘Margin’ depicts collapse with intensityAssociated Press Writer

Several movies in the past year or so have tried to get their arms around the unwieldy topic of the 2008 economic collapse. It’s a subject that’s incredibly complicated and, even more challenging for filmmak-ers, not one that’s inherently cinematic.

Schwarzenegger back on movie set

Lohan returns to court amid call for jail sentence

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

U.S actress Lindsay Lohan ar-rives at the rap singer Kanye West’s spring-summer 2012 ready-to-wear collection pre-sented Saturday, Oct.1, 2011 in Paris.

(AP Photo/Roadside Attractions, JoJo Whilden)

In this image released by Roadside Attractions, Zachary Quinto, left, and Penn Badgley are shown in a scene from “Margin Call.”

International Thursday, October 20, 2011 13Science

At a glitzy unveiling in Hong Kong, Google executive Andy Rubin said Android’s latest “Ice Cream Sandwich” operating sys-tem demonstrates innovation “that works on phones and tablets and everything in between.” Rubin said features like Android Beam and Face Unlock showcased Ice Cream Sandwich’s capabilities.

Android Beam allows transfer

of data between two smartphones by holding them together, while Face Unlock uses facial recogni-tion technology to activate smart-phones, rather than conventional passwords.

However, during a demonstra-tion at the Hong Kong unveiling, the Face Unlock feature failed to activate the Galaxy Nexus. Ex-ecutives of South Korea’s Samsung

said the Galaxy Nexus will go on sale in November in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including China and Japan. They did not reveal the new smartphone’s price or its sales volume targets.

Samsung and Taiwan’s HTC Corp. are the biggest users of the Android platform, which is en-gaged in a furious competition with Apple’s own operating system for market share in the rapidly expand-ing smartphone sector.

The U.S. International Trade Commission issued an initial rul-ing Tuesday that Apple’s iPhone does not violate four patents owned by HTC, a blow to the Taiwanese company.

Associated Press Writer

Russia’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday blamed a recent spate of disasters threatening the future of the International Space Station (ISS) on negligence by the country’s under-paid rocket scientists. A probe into the August 24 crash of the unmanned Progress cargo ship and an August 18 error that put Russia’s biggest sat-ellite in the wrong orbit blamed both mishaps on the state-run Roskosmos space agency and its workers.

The decision said the Pros-ecutor General’s office would be pressing for disciplinary measures and fines against “those who caused the accidents” and singled out the agency’s executive for separate blame.

The prosecutor’s statement pointed to “a lack of proper control on the part of Roskosmos officials over the adoption of correspond-ing decisions.” The once-vaunted

Russian space agency was already rocked by a reshuffle in April when its chief Anatoly Perminov got the sack during celebrations for the 50th anniversary year of Yuri Ga-garin’s first manned space flight.

Roskosmos has acknowledged the criticism but complains of being underfunded and unable to compete for top talent with Western firms that draw the young away from its Soviet-era institutions with spartan conditions. Perminov’s dismissal followed Russia’s loss of three navigation satellites that the prime minister and likely future president Vladimir Putin has promoted as a rival to the US-made Global Posi-tioning System (GPS).

Roskosmos has since been forced to temporarily ground its main rockets -- the longer-range Soyuz and the lucrative Proton-M -- and left question marks hang-ing over Russia’s ability to safely deliver humans to space.

Agence France Presse

The search for the world’s first malaria vaccine received a boost with the release of early results from a major clinical trial showing it cut risk by about half in African chil-dren. The vaccine known as RTS,S is made by the British pharmaceuti-cal giant GlaxoSmithKline’s lab in Belgium, and is the first of its kind to attempt to block a parasite, rather than bacteria or viruses.

Experts hailed the phase III trial under way at 11 sites in sub-Saharan Africa as a promising step toward eradicating the ancient mosquito-borne disease that kills almost 800,000 people yearly, most of them children. The results are published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, and

were simultaneously announced at the Malaria Forum hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington.

In a statement, philanthropist and Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates described the findings as a “huge milestone” in the fight against malaria, that “has the potential to protect millions of children and save thousands of lives.” Children aged five to 17 months who received three doses of the vaccine saw a 56 percent lower risk of develop-ing clinical malaria, which causes high fever and chills, according to the study.

When it came to severe malaria -- the stage of the illness that can be fatal and reaches the blood, brain or kidneys -- those who received the vaccine showed a 47 percent

lower risk.“This is remarkable when you

consider that there has never been a successful vaccine against a human parasite,” said Tsiri Agbenyega, who chairs the RTS,S Clinical Trials Partnership and heads malaria re-search at Komfo-Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana.

“While these results are encour-aging, we still have a ways to go,” he told reporters. The analysis was done with data from 6,000 children in the trial over a 12-month follow up after vaccination.

More data is needed from the younger age group -- infants aged six to 12 weeks -- to better assess how well it works in this particu-larly vulnerable group, experts said. Additional results from the younger set are due next year.

AFP Photo/Tony Karumba

A mother and her child sit on a bed covered with a mosquito net near Bagamoyo, 70 kms north of Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam 2009.

Russia blames scientists for rocket crashes

AFP Photo

A Russian Progress-M-12M cargo ship carrying supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonour cosmodrome in August 2011.

Google’s top mobile executive Andy Rubin, left and J.K. Shin, president and head of mobile com-munications busi-ness from Samsung, hold the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Samsung and Google unveil Galaxy Nexus smartphoneAssociated Press Writers

HONG KONG — Samsung Electronics unveiled its newest Galaxy Nexus smartphone Wednesday, the first to use the latest version of Google’s Android operating system. The new phone is seen as the Sam-sung-Google partnership’s answer to Apple’s iPhone 4S, which in less than a week on the market has already sold more than 4 million units.

Thursday, October 20, 201114 InternationalSport

Rooney coolly stroked home a64th-minute penalty and a furtherspot-kick in injury time to give theEnglish giants a vital three points inGroup C after draws with FC Baseland Benfica in their opening two

The result left United second inthe standings with three matches still

The Portuguese side, who stillhave to travel to Old Trafford, werecomfortable victors at Basel in the

But victory came at a cost for

since the opening game of the season

“I thinkwith theseawaygamesyoualways have to work hard,” Ferguson

be patient and work our way into the

card as harsh but said United were

interpretation you can see why he’s

Asked if United would seek tooverturn the decision Ferguson re-

A lacklustre first half finishedgoal-less, with United controllingpossession but failing to make their

Galati by contrast were forced toliveoff scraps,althoughtheRomanian

United defence on 27 minutes, em-barking on a mazy gallop into thepenalty area before sending a rasping

At the other end, United’s bestchance came from a 30th minutefree-kick from Rooney, the Englandinternational’s 25-yard curler beingparriedawaybyGalati keeperBranko

foropeningshoweverandLiviuAntalprobablyshouldhavedonebetter thandirect his header over on 44 minutesafter out-jumping Patrice Evra in the

Unitedcameout for thesecondhalfwith a renewed sense of purpose, andalmost got their breakthrough when

area only for the striker to screw his

The United fans did not have longto wait for the opener however, and itcame on 64 minutes from the penalty

Galati captain Sergiu Costin need-lessly slapped at a cross from Rooneyinside the area, leaving German

Rooney duly stepped up to makeit 1-0 and calm United’s nerves, butFerguson’smenwere forced toendure

was dismissed for a late tackle on

late and high but the Serbian seemedstunnedasBrychbrandishedastraightred when most observers in Bucha-

Galati however were unable tomaketheirnumericaladvantagecount,and were themselves reduced to 10men in the closing minutes when

The coup de grace came in injury

from Antal inside the area to earn asecond penalty which he calmly slot-

AFP

evidence suggesting football wasplayed 300 years before the sportwas commonly believed to havebeen invented

-dence suggesting football wasplayed 300 years before the sportwas commonly believed to havebeen invented, The Times reported

football match took place betweenEngland and Scotland in 1872, newevidence indicates an organisedform of the game was being playedby royalty from as early as the 15th

Players used a leather-boundpig’s bladder as the ball and were

only allowed to use their feet in

Glasgow, has also uncovered amanuscript of accounts from King

paid two shillings for a bag of “fut

“Football was more of an evo-lution than a 19th-century revolu-

his discovery as he re-catalogued-

tional Library of Scotland, told the

One record reports a match in-volving 20 players taking place infront of on Elizabeth I in 1569 inwhich players kicked a ball arounda 50-metre pitch where trees were

AFP-

Wayne Rooney of Manchester United controls the ball against Otelul Galati during their UEFA Champions League football match at the National Arena stadium in Bucharest.

Rooney makes Galati pay the penalty in Champions LeagueAFP

win of this year’s Champions League here Tuesday with a 2-0 victory over Romanian minnowsOtelul Galati.

Football played 300 years earlier than thought

Seattle

Sounders FC

goalkeeper

Kasey Keller,

left, stands

by the bench

in the sec-

ond half of a

CONCACAF

Champions

League soc-

cer match

against CF

Monterrey,

Tuesday, Oct.

18, 2011, in

Seattle. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Thursday, October 20, 2011 15International Sport

enger has endured the darkestdays of his 15-year Arsenal tenurein the early stages of the 2011-12season, with the sales of Cesc Fab-regas and Samir asri followed by ahugely damaging 8-2 humiliation at

anchester UnitedThe Gunners’ problems have

called enger’s authority into ues-tion as never before and Arsenal

top four after winning just three oftheir opening eight league games

owever, despite a 2-1 defeatat north London rivals Tottenham

otspur at the beginning of themonth, Arsenal are currently on a

enger believes they have turned acorner

“ e’re getting better graduallyin the league,” said enger, whoseside face arseille in the ChampionsLeague here on ednesday

“ e lost at Tottenham but we’vewon our matches recently, including

and hopefully that will come back“Of course we’re not giving up

on the championship ot being inthe Champions League would bea disaster e’ve been here for 14

seasons in a row -- only Real adrid,anchester United andArsenal have

done that“So that shows how important the

championship is ”enger confirmed that elsh

midfielder Aaron Ramsey was inthe s uad for the game at arseille,despite having sat out Sunday’s 2-1home win over Sunderland with ahamstring complaint

Kieran Gibbs misses out, however,after being withdrawn against theBlack Cats with a stomach strain,meaning Brazilian international An-dre Santos will come into the side atleft-back

Despite their travails in domesticcompetition, Arsenal have startedtheir Champions League campaignin positive fashion and approach

ednesday’s game two points behindleaders arseille in Group F after a1-1 draw at Borussia Dortmund and a2-1 win at home to Olympiakos

Like Arsenal, Didier Deschamps’side have also found solace in theirEuropean forays

A wretched start to the Ligue 1season has seen them pick up onewin in 10 matches but they have im-pressive in the Champions League,winning 1-0 at Olympiakos before

an eye-catching 3-0 defeat of Dort-mund

“ ou know as well as I do thatarseille are not in their right place

in the championship and they won’tstay there,” said enger

“Didier Deschamps is a true pro-fessional e is strong mentally andhe has a good team

goes uickly and takes a long time tocome back ”

O ’s victory against Germanchampions Dortmund last month

and enger e pects Deschamps toset his team up in similar fashion for

ednesday’s showdown at Stadeelodrome“Dortmund are a good team ar-

seille impressed me by the way theyplayed against them

“ arseille know how to keepthings tight at the back and thencounter-attack They have a goodratio in terms of shots to goals, which

“They have speed with (Loic)Remy and ( athieu) albuena anda skilful passer in Lucho (Gonza-lez) They have a lot of ways tohurt you ”

AFP-

Arsenal’s French coach Arsene Wenger gives a press conference at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille.

AFP

Arsene Wenger insisted on Tuesday that Arsenal have not abandoned all hope in the Pre-mier League, and the desire to keep competing in the Champions League was their primarymotivation.

AFP

Tennis chiefs have played down fears that theAsian swing will be-come theperennialvictimofplayerpull-outsat theendof thegruelling

The uestion of burnout was bubbling away again in Shanghai,missing a clutch of top 20 players including mar uee names ovakDjokovic and Roger Federer, taking some of the shine off the high-

America’s Andy Roddick said the no-shows from world numberone Djokovic and 16-time Grand Slam champion Federer were starkevidence of the toll put on players by heavy playing commitments

Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Tokyo, and ShanghaiAndy urray, the winner in Shanghai, made clear last month that

strike, although he sought to play down the issue last week

of theATP’s (AssociationofTennisProfessionals) InternationalGroup,remainsunperturbedandisconvincedthatplayersarestillkeentocometoAsia even towards the end of a long, arduous season

“Events in Asia are some of the most prestigious of the year and

Asian swing events have been very, very strong,” he toldAFP“Top players consistently say how much they enjoy playing here

and they mean it Players are very well treated here and that’s part ofwhat makes playing these events so attractive,” he added

Drewett saidwithdrawalswerenotuni ue toAsiaand itwas impor-tant not to draw sweeping conclusions from just one tournament

“Just last year, eight of the top 10 players played in Beijing andTokyo (held simultaneously), and Shanghai had 19 of the top 20competing ou can’t look at playing patterns based on one yearalone,” he said

The vast majority of the top players remain based in the UnitedStates and Europe but while Drewett concedes local stars would helpdrive the tennis boom in Asia, he said the game was neverthelessmaking major strides

“TheATP orld Tour has made huge advancements in this region

events over three weeks with prize money nearing 8 million, and astrong roster of corporate sponsors supporting them

always help to drive interest and I believe it’s really just a matter ofwhen, not if, China will have a top player on the circuit

“ ou lookat (Kei) ishikori’sachievements and it’s just fantastic

Drewett playsdown thechancesofAsia everhaving its ownGrandSlam but nevertheless sees the region as a crucial growth area forthe game

the ATP orld Tour by having fantastic facilities, strong supportfrom their governments and commercially from their sponsors andtelevision,” he said

“The opportunities are endless in this region ”The 2011 schedule started with the Brisbane International on

-ber 28

But despite mutterings of discussions over the heavy scheduleamong players in Shanghai, it was more a matter of talks about talks

urray made it clear that none of the players he knew wantedto strike and he had only said it was a possibility, adding that theywould try to meet before the end of the year

e said it was not a matter of root and branch reform, adding:“It’s basically just a matter of like two or three weeks in the year thatreally I think need to change ”

orld number two Rafael adal said the players were generallyof one mind “There is something there but it is not the right momentto talk about it,” he said

But despite the persistent rumblings Drewett is adamant that theplayers’ views have been taken on board

“The calendar has long been a topic of conversation and just lastyear we announced that we would be lengthening our off-seasonby two weeks beginning in 2012, meaning players will have sevenweeks in between ATP orld Tour seasons,” he said

Thursday, October 20, 201116 SportI N T E R N A T I O N A L

With Williams enduring its worst ever season in F1, Barrichello thinks the target for the remainder of the cam-paign is not in improving the current car but in getting to grips on what went wrong last winter. “The car was born bad and there is no way of turning that back,” said Barrichello.

“There are ways of mas-saging and improving it - but the most important thing is not to improve this car, it is to understand what went wrong

and to make the next one bet-ter. Otherwise, the next one will be born the same way. It needs addressing.

“There are two or three causes of the problem, and that is what makes it an un-known situation. With a dif-ferent engine and a different guy building it, the car will have a different characteris-tic anyway. But if they solve the problems of this year in full, the chances of building a much better car next year

are greater.”When asked if one of the

biggest problems this year has been the inconsistency of the downforce, Barrichello said: “It is more than that. We have been having problems with the quality of parts, because one day the car could be okay, and the other car with the same wing will not perform in the same way. So we need to address that as well.”

Barrichello is encouraged that the arrival of new chief operations engineer Mark Gillan is helping matters - and think communication between factory and track is being improved. “The whole

situation of Mark is for the communication to be fully ad-dressed back to the factory,” he explained.

“F1 is such a difficult busi-ness. You could say that I had a good car, but I am in Japan, it gets to England and it is like, ‘Rubens sort of said he had a good car’ but the phrase could get longer or shorter. It is never straight to the point. And that is the thing that is so difficult to address.

“So to have Mark as a brand new guy, actually ad-dressing the problems to Jason [Somerville] and Mike [Coughlan], back at the fac-tory, that is a good thing.”

DOUBLE world champion Carlos Sainz believes Citroen should be capable of manag-ing Sebastien Loeb and Sebastien Ogier in the same team.

The French firm’s efforts to manage two front-line drivers in Loeb and Ogier has been well chronicled through the season, but the Spaniard, who ended his career in a factory Xsara WRC in 2005, said there was no reason for the troubles.

“In rally teams all the way through history it is normal that the best teams will always have good team-mates,” said Sainz.

“There is nothing new in these situations, look at Toyota, Lancia, Subaru even Citroen in the past - it was always normal to have strong drivers in the same team at the same time.

“For me it is possible to manage two very good drivers and I don’t see why it can’t be done in the future.”

Loeb is tied in the lead of the World Rally Championship, with Ogier just three points behind. Citroen and Ogier have publicly stated their support for Loeb in his pursuit of an eighth consecutive drivers’ title. Ogier’s future at Cit-roen remains the focus of intense speculation, however.

Rubens Barrichello thinks it is vital that Williams gets an understanding of why this year’s car did not perform if it is to ensure that its 2012 challenger is a big step forward.

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

The cars of Williams driver Pastor Maldonado, forward, and Rubens Barrichello of Brazil, back, are moved away from the track as marshals stand near during a practice session on the Suzuka Circuit at the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix in Suzuka, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011.

Sainz : Loeb and Ogier

Citroen team driver Sebastien Loeb of France (L), talks to the media at his stand after an engine failure forced him to quit in the 3rd stage of the WRC Rally of France, in Strasbourg, September 30, 2011.

REUTERS/Vincent Kessler