SUNNY BRIGHT/CLOUDY RAIN For placing advertisment, please contact: Eka Wahyuni 0361-225764 HOTLINE PAGE 8 Friday, September 9, 2011 16 Pages Number 186 3 st Year e-mail: [email protected]online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- I N T E R N A T I O N A L CITY TEMPERATURE O C WEATHER FORECAST 21 - 30 24 - 32 17 - 25 19 - 31 19 - 31 DENPASAR JAKARTA BANDUNG YOGYAKARTA SURABAYA PAGE 12 Toronto film fest mixes stars, music, Oscar bait Depot 3.6.9 “Shanghai Dumpling and Noodle” restaurant open in Bali A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in Chicago finds that more Americans today say Sept. 11 had an impact on their lives than said so five years ago Impact from September 11 still felt a decade later AP Photo/Mark Lennihan A test of the Tribute in Light rises above lower Manhattan, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011 in New York. The memorial, sponsored by the Municipal Art Society, will light the sky on the evening of Sept. 11, 2011 in honor of those who died ten years before in the terror attacks on the United States. IBP/Eka Adhiyasa Bali Post Denpasar - The peak of the Mamukur (Maligia Punggel) cer- emony which was held by Bali Government was held on Matahari Terbit Beach on Thurs- day, September 9, 2011. Before, the Murwa Daksina procession was also being held on Puputan Renon field. The Pitra Yadnya Ritual was wit- nessed by the Vice Governor of Bali, A.A Puspayoga, the head of Bali House A.A Oka Ratmadi, Denpasar Associated Press WASHINGTON - The significance of Sept. 11 has not waned for many Americans, even a decade after the attacks. Continued on page 6 Mass Mamukur Procession ‘’Ngayut ke Segara’’ held on Matahari Terbit Beach Mayor I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Man- tra, and other officers. The ceremony was also filled with a mass Mepandes (tooth pealing) ceremony. The peak of the Mamukur ceremony was started by Mendak Lingga in Geria Tegal Denpasar and then it was being sent to the Puputan Margarana Renon Field. Then, the ceremony followed by pemlapasan Sangge and Lingga and 523 sekah took part in the ceremony. Continued on page 6 — 57 percent compared with 50 percent in 2006. As the nation prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of that haunt- ing day, the chilling events that unfolded in New York, Washing- ton and a field in Pennsylvania, still evoke a stir of emotions for every- day Americans — from anger and shock at so many innocent lives lost to patriotism and pride in the heroes who emerged on hijacked planes and in the rubble of fallen skyscrapers and a shattered Penta- gon. Ten years later, the United States is a nation changed — mov- ing on, but still changed. Lisa Schmidt, 48, thinks about Sept. 11 “just about every day” and almost every time she sees a plane. “The intensity of thinking about it, and confronting the thought of it, still is very uncomfortable and I didn’t know anyone who was killed or injured,” said Schmidt, owner of a marketing company. “It was a defining moment for how Americans define tragedy.”
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SUNNY BRIGHT/CLOUDY RAIN
For placing advertisment,please contact: Eka Wahyuni0361-225764
Depot 3.6.9“ShanghaiDumpling andNoodle” restaurantopen in Bali
A new poll by The AssociatedPress-NORC Center for PublicAffairs Research in Chicago findsthat more Americans today saySept. 11 had an impact on theirlives than said so five years ago
Impact from September11 still felt a decade later
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
A test of the Tribute in Light rises above lower Manhattan, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011 in New York. The memorial, sponsored bythe Municipal Art Society, will light the sky on the evening of Sept. 11, 2011 in honor of those who died ten years before inthe terror attacks on the United States.
IBP/Eka Adhiyasa
Bali Post
Denpasar - The peak of theMamukur (Maligia Punggel) cer-emony which was held by BaliGovernment was held onMatahari Terbit Beach on Thurs-day, September 9, 2011. Before,the Murwa Daksina processionwas also being held on PuputanRenon field.
The Pitra Yadnya Ritual was wit-nessed by the Vice Governor of Bali,A.A Puspayoga, the head of BaliHouse A.A Oka Ratmadi, Denpasar
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The significance of Sept. 11 has notwaned for many Americans, even a decade after theattacks.
Continued on page 6
Mass Mamukur Procession‘’Ngayut ke Segara’’ held on Matahari Terbit Beach
Mayor I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Man-tra, and other officers.
The ceremony was also filledwith a mass Mepandes (toothpealing) ceremony. The peak ofthe Mamukur ceremony wasstarted by Mendak Lingga inGeria Tegal Denpasar and then itwas being sent to the PuputanMargarana Renon Field.
Then, the ceremony followedby pemlapasan Sangge andLingga and 523 sekah took partin the ceremony.
Continued on page 6
— 57 percent compared with 50percent in 2006.
As the nation prepares to markthe 10th anniversary of that haunt-ing day, the chilling events thatunfolded in New York, Washing-
ton and a field in Pennsylvania, stillevoke a stir of emotions for every-day Americans — from anger andshock at so many innocent liveslost to patriotism and pride in theheroes who emerged on hijackedplanes and in the rubble of fallenskyscrapers and a shattered Penta-gon.
Ten years later, the UnitedStates is a nation changed — mov-ing on, but still changed.
Lisa Schmidt, 48, thinks aboutSept. 11 “just about every day” andalmost every time she sees a plane.
“The intensity of thinking aboutit, and confronting the thought ofit, still is very uncomfortable andI didn’t know anyone who waskilled or injured,” said Schmidt,owner of a marketing company. “Itwas a defining moment for howAmericans define tragedy.”
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CLIMATE of the BulelengRegent’s office looked peculiar onWednesday (Sep 7). On that week-day, the office was really quiet.Rooms of the office were only occu-pied by a number of staff, while thecourtyard and parking lot were empty.Other than the regent, regional sec-retary, assistant as well as divisionheads were not in the office then.
Based on information, almost allofficials in the Buleleng Regency at-tended the three-month ritual of hisgrandchild at the home of the Regent
It was said the two hectares landcan produce up to 2,500 coconutsper month where each sold IDR2,000 resulting IDR 5 million in-come per month. If its countedsince this land was free from co-conut trees times several years ofit, for sure the land owners haveloss billions of rupiah. It was alsosaid the market was to lessen pov-erty also to complete Tanah AmpoCruise Ship Harbour which stillhas not functioned either. “Theland manager is devastated andsuffering big loss due to the unsureart market. Can’t the market beused as traditional market first soit can be used by the people aroundfor trading and selling items?”Puspada clarified.
To answer this question,
Tabanan (Bali Post)The management to take out cat-
erpillars out of Banjar TegalBelodan, Dauh Peken Village,Tabanan, is being questioned as itis only being burnt to clear up itspopulation. It is worried that it willstill spread and it is hoped there willbe extra pesticide sprayed so it istotally destroyed as stated by oneresident nearby the pests attackarea, Nyoman Muja, last Wednes-day (7/9).
When it got to public, the PublicInstitute of Plant Illness Precentionin Tabanan came to location lastTuesday (6/9) where caterpillarsbeing on walls were all grouped and
Denpasar (Bali Post) –The Law No 28 year 2009 on
regional tax and retribution is be-ing felt by the people with proveplanned increased parking tariff andnow payment for treatment toHealth Community Centres(Puskesmas) also happening. Ironi-cally the increase reached 500 per-cent from the fee it has been up toIDR 15,000 from IDR 3,000. Headof Commision D Denpasar Houseof Representatives, I WayanSugiata, accompanied by Hilmun
Caterpillars Pandemic Only BurntIBP/File
A man is trying to kill the cetrpillar by burning it
burnt. The next morning anotherwas found and spread to the nextgardens where residents felt itcheverywhere including pupils.
Team from Bali Province Foodand Horticulture Plants ProtectionBoard have came down to locationon the afternoon where they did thesame as this is the mechanic andsimpler way according to theleader, Putu Oka Dharmawan inthe middle of researching. Even sothe workers will keep on observ-ing the development of its popula-tion where three has been filled byit, others only some and othersnormal. If this way is not maxi-mum, an insecticide contact will be
used which can be sprayed or in-jected to the affected trees. It isstated the kind of caterpillar at-tacking here is the same as the onesappeared at five cities last Aprildue to uncertain weather. Besidesbeing burnt workers have cut turiand lamtoro trees that arecaterpillar’s favourites. “Ratherthan having it spread worse betterits cut down,” Tabanan Sub Dis-trict Leader, IGA Supartiwi, statedand asked Cleanliness andGrounds Agency to help solvingthe situation. She also asked thepeople to observe their area and ifany caterpillar population wasfound it should be reported. (udi)
Health Community Centre Feesto Increase 500 Percent
Nabi in his office last Wednesdany(7/9) stated the draft of the plannedregulation has been sent to theHouse around two weeks ago wherethere will be increase on four kindsof health services such asPuskesmas fee, on the goPuskesmas and Puskesmas helpingbranch.
According to Sugiata they willdecline it remembering this is a sen-sitive fee to pay for the people. “Ingeneral we are burdened as this is toohigh especially we got JKBM that is
free but why is it increased as well.Very contradictive, public should besubsidised,” Nabi explained.
Even so his side does not knowabout the executives’ decision on itbut for sure if the city wants a RealRegional Income don’t get it fromretribution such as health servicesas it is a direct burden for the pub-lic just like education,” he ex-plained. Meanwhile Head ofDenpasar City Health Agency, LuhPutu Sri Armini, couldn’t be con-firmed yet. (kmb12)
Manggis origin House of Representatives member, GedeAgung Puspada, last Wednesday (7/9) in commission gather-ing meeting at Karangasem House of Representatives statedhis sadness of megaproject art market in front of a cemetery inManggis which hasn’t been functioning alias unused. For theused to be productive land of coconut and banana trees causedcomplains from the people as those who have let their land forthe market did not get the result.
Karangasem Regional Secretary,Drs. Nengah Sudarsa, who led theexecutives in the commission gath-ering meeting stated that his sideis devastated too of the situationas the funds from central govern-ment have gone first to those hitby disasters in Papua and MerapiMountain. “Central governmentwas intending to fund it but thendisasters happened so it went therefirst. We hope there will be helpsoon,” Sudarsa hoped.
Sudarsa agreed on researchingagain if Karangasem Budget allo-cation is suitable while waitingcentral government’s confirma-tion. Also in hardening the frontbuilding of the los should there bestairs to be used for selling, heagreed. (013)
Regent Office turnsquiet on work day
Bagiada at Celuk Buluh, Kalibukbuk,Lovina. A number of important offi-cials were even mentioned to be thecommittee of the ceremony so theirworks in the office were abandoned.
Meanwhile, a staff in the officesaid last Wednesday if his superiorwas at Celuk Buluh to attend thethree- month ritual of the RegentBagiada’s grandchild. According tohim, all staff was actually invitedto the ceremony, but they shouldcome in turn so the office would notbe vacant. (kmb15)
3International Bali News Friday, September 9, 2011
Mangupura (Bali Post)—Subak members of Babakan
Bengkel II and III, Carangsari Vil-lage, Petang Subdistrict, Wednesday(Sep 7), delivered a letter of rejec-tion against the solution given byBadung Regency in addressing thedrought experienced by local subakin the region. Farmers assessed thesolution given would not resolve theproblems and seemed to waste bud-get.
Rejection of subak members wasset forth in a letter addressed directlyto the Regent of Badung. In essence,the letter signed by the Chief ofSubak Babakan Bengkel II and IIIrespectively I Ketut Sandi Nata andI Wayan Sunantara rejected both so-lutions of Badung Regency to copewith the drought in the local subakin the form of irrigation improve-ment at the main Luwus dam andthe making of artesian well.
Improvement of irrigation canalat Luwus was considered fruitlessbecause the water source had beentaken up by Municipality Water-works (PDAM) and the water dis-charge was very small as it was trulyfar from the river upstream to subakterritory, namely 53 km. The mak-ing of artesian well was equally con-sidered superfluous, so the budgetspent will be useless.
After delivering the letter of re-jection to the office of Badung Re-gent, I Wayan Sunantara and KetutSandi Nata accompanied by subakmembers I Nyoman Artawa and INyoman Kraco, stated that BadungGovernment should take realisticsolutions to cope with the drought atboth subak territories. Artawa ex-plained, the solutions offered by
The data provided by DivisionHead of Program Preparation,Klungkung Education Agency, WayanSukrana, mentioned that during theacademic year 2010/2011, at least 51students dropped out of school. A to-tal of 19 children were students of pri-mary school, a student of junior highschool, 29 students of high school and2 students of vocational school. Ac-cording to Sukrana, the data weretaken by disseminating questionnaireto all schools in Klungkung Regency.Dissemination of the questionnairewas carried out with data counting dateas of August 31, 2010. “Those are thedata recorded in the Klungkung Edu-cation Agency,” said Sukrana.
When about to ask for confirma-tion related to dropout students, theHead of Klungkung EducationAgency, Nengah Wijana, was not inthe office. According to a number ofstaff in the agency, Wijana did not goto work because he was attending acontinued procession of mass crema-tion. Meanwhile, last Wednesday itwas resumed with tooth-filing andmekala-kalaan ceremony.
Meanwhile, one of the familieshaving difficulty to send their childrento school was at Jelantik KuribatuHamlet, Klungkung. It was one kilo-
Mangupura (Bali Post)—Compound wall and numerous
shrines of Ganda Natar SariTemple located at Nyelati Hamlet,Kuwum Village, Mengwi, washeavily damaged as toppled by afalling banyan tree on Sunday (Sep4). Due to such incident, the losseswere estimated to reach hundredsof millions of rupiahs. UntilWednesday (Sep 7), cleanup of thetrees and debris in the local templecould not be carried out maximallyas the location was difficult toreach.
A legislator of Badung House,who is also a local communityleader, I Wayan Regep, revealedthe damaged buildings in thetemple hit by the falling tree andits trunk with diameter of threemeters included the Pelik Sari pa-vilion, compound wall, Batu Meres
IBP/Bali Putra
Suardana and his three children in Klungkung Regency. Currently many poor people are notable to receive the proper education.
Klungkung has 51Klungkung has 51Klungkung has 51Klungkung has 51Klungkung has 51dropout students a yeardropout students a yeardropout students a yeardropout students a yeardropout students a year
SO far the government has claimed to have been very committed in the field of education.The budget allocated for education sector is considered to have been quite large compared tothe budget for other sectors. In reality, there are many educational problems that cannot beaddressed, included in Klungkung. One of the problems is the student dropping out of school orstudents who are unable to continue to higher education. Then, where has the budget allocatedfor education sector gone?
meter from the center town ofKlungkung. The couple WayanSuardana and Ni Kadek Widiani hadfive children and they were averagelyunder ten years old. Their first child,Wayan Yuliantari, was unable to con-tinue her study after graduating fromprimary school (SD) a few years ago.Currently, she was working in a laun-dry service. Two other children,namely Ni Made Sri Wahyuni and NiKomang Noviani, were in the thirdgrade in SDN 1 Tojan primary school(Ni Made Sri Wahyuni once did notpass grade—Ed). The other two chil-dren, Ketut Mariati, 4.5, and GedeDarmayasa, 3, had not attended school.
Suardana who worked as handy-man and masseur admitted that he waspossibly unable to continue the edu-cation of Wahyuni and Noviani whowere now still studying in primaryschool. It might also happen to his twoother children who had not attendedschool yet. “Indeed, school does notcharge any education fee. However, Iam unable to cover the uniforms,books and daily lunch for my children.Moreover, I should meet the needs offamily, ceremony and others. With amediocre income, I often lack ofmoney so I routinely borrow it everysix months,” said Suardana when met
at his home.As a handyman and masseur,
Suardana admitted to only workwhen people needed his services.Meanwhile, to help the family earn-ings, his wife, Ni Kadek Widiani,also worked as shallot picker andpeeler. His maximum earning wasIDR 15,000 per day and should workfrom 08:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. oreven until 18:00 p.m. “My earningis a little, while prices of goods con-tinue to rise,” said the 48-year oldman who actually felt ashamed ofholding a status as poor family.
Rice aid for the poor (raskin) regu-larly received every month had fal-tered lately. Within a month, he some-times got and sometimes not. He saidthe allocation of rice aid for the poorwas distributed in turn and it was alsoenjoyed by the haves. Suardana liv-ing within a single compound withfour family heads admitted to haveapplied for the toilet assistance orhouse refurbishment becoming thegovernment program. Unfortu-nately, the petition never material-ized. At the moment, Suardana oc-cupies an old relic house of his par-ents. The old building is divided intotwo rooms and occupied by sevenfamily members. (bal)
Considered redundant
Subak members rejectsolutions of Badung Regency
farmers were to take up the water ofBangkung River and then made a cul-vert along 512 meters for water irri-gation from Ngongkong andBangkung River flowing to GranaRiver. Furthermore, it should be fol-lowed by the making of dam in theeast of Puseh Temple of Telutug Ham-let.
“From the beginning, we havesuggested these solutions. But, thereis no real effort taken by government.Instead, the projects implementedseem redundant and inappropriatewith the needs,” said Artawa.
Though the rejection letter was justsent by subak members, reaction ofthe subak members was directly re-sponded by Badung Governmentthrough the Badung Highway Con-struction and Irrigation Services byorganizing a meeting with subakmembers at Carangsari. Head ofBadung Highways and Irrigation Ser-vices, IB Soerya, stated that proposalof the subak members would be fol-lowed up. However, the proposal hadto go through a comprehensive studybecause the dam construction onBangkung River belonged to the au-thority of Bali Government andshould get approval from the Minis-try of Public Works.
The dam construction should alsoconsider the land strength around thedam and canal that would be used todrain water to Subak BabakanBengkel II and III. For short andmedium term solutions, he said, hisparty would improve the existingwater irrigation. “Based on thestudy, the water discharge is rela-tively small. But, it is one of themeasures to take while looking forother solutions,” he said. (kmb25)
Kuwum Temple severelydamaged as toppled by huge tree
shrine, Batu Mujung shrine,Padmasana shrine, two-tiered Merushrine and Batu Ngaus representa-tive shrine. Badung Governmentthrough the Regional Disaster Man-agement Agency and the Head ofMengwi Subdistrict had inspectedthe scene. For a while, said Regep,local residents and government stillfound difficulty to clean them upbecause location of the temple wasquite difficult to reach, especiallyby large vehicles.
Furthermore, Regep said the cen-turies-old tree in the Natar SariTemple toppled last Sunday around4:00 p.m. Before the incident, the lo-cal area was flushed by heavy rainsfor two consecutive days. However,his party did not dare to ascertainwhether the falling tree in the templewas caused by the rains, old age orany other causes. (kmb25)
International4 Friday, September 9, 2011 News
The broadcast came amid con-flicting statements about the formerLibyan dictator’s whereabouts.Gadhafi, who ruled Libya for nearly42 years, hasn’t been seen in publicfor months, and has released onlyaudio messages, trying to rally hissupporters and lash out at opponents.
In Thursday’s five-minute-longaudio, aired on Syrian-based Al-RaiTV, a voice purportedly of Gadhafidenounced reports that he had fledto neighboring Niger and claimed heis still in Libya. He also blastedformer rebels who ousted him frompower as “a bunch of mercenaries,thugs and traitors” and urged his fol-lower to take up arms.
“We are ready to start the fight inTripoli and everywhere else, and riseup against them,” Gadhafi said. “Allof these germs, rats and scumbags,they are not Libyans, ask anyone.They have cooperated with NATO.”
“Gadhafi won’t leave the land ofhis ancestors,” he said, referring to
Agence France Presse
Climate change represents the greatest threatto the of the people of the Pacific region, a com-munique issued at the Pacific Islands Forum(PIF) in Auckland said.
The 16-nation grouping on Thursday said therewas a urgent need to look at financing for Pacificnations where people may need to abandon theirhomes due to the impact of global warming.
“Climate change remains the single great-est threat to the livelihoods, security and well-being of the peoples of the Pacific,” the com-munique said.
Villagers in some Pacific countries, such asKiribati, have already had to relocate due to
Agence France Presse
Sonia Gandhi, the key powerbroker ofIndian politics, has returned home afterundergoing surgery in the United Statesfive weeks ago for an undisclosed condi-tion.
Gandhi, president of the ruling Con-gress party, was absent during a difficultperiod for theg o v e r n m e n twith a deadlybombing in NewDelhi and thesudden emer-gence of a na-tionwide anti-corruption pro-test movement.
The 64-year-old widow offormer premierRajiv Gandhi isthe influentialpatron behindPrime MinisterM a n m o h a nSingh and she iswidely thoughtto lead the gov-ernment on dailyand strategic de-cisions.
“ S o n i aGandhi arrived
Sonia Gandhi returns toIndia after US surgery
New ZealandPrime MinisterJohn Key (L),seen here speak-ing to the press atthe leaders retreaton Waiheke Islandoutside Auckland,during the secondday of the annual16-nation PacificIslands Forum(PIF), on Septem-ber 8
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Climate change ‘greatestthreat’ to Pacific
rising sea levels and the forum said practicalsteps needed to be taken to look at the issue ofhelping displaced people.
It ordered the PIF secretariat to examine howrelocation options could be financed, takinginto account “the specific capacities and needsof respective countries”.
The communique also called for a return todemocracy in Fiji, which was expelled fromthe PIF in 2009 after its military regime re-neged on plans to hold elections in the wake ofa 2006 coup.
“(Forum countries) expressed their continu-ing deep concern at the deteriorating human rightssituation and serious political and economic chal-lenges facing the people of Fiji,” it said.
early this morning, she is doing fine,”Congress spokesman Janardan Dwiveditold AFP without giving further detailsabout her recovery.
Party officials announced on August4 that Gandhi had been operated on inthe US. Since then there has been a totalnews blackout on her condition and evenwhere she was admitted to hospital.
Italian-bornGandhi is oftensaid to be pre-paring theground for heronly son Rahulto become primeminister at somestage after pre-mier Singh, 78,steps down.
Rahul, 41,who sits in thelower house ofparliament, hashad joint chargeof the Congressparty while hismother has beenaway, but headopted a lowprofile during agovernment cri-sis over massanti-corruptionprotests.
In new audio, Gadhafi denies rumor he fled LibyaIn new audio, Gadhafi denies rumor he fled LibyaIn new audio, Gadhafi denies rumor he fled LibyaIn new audio, Gadhafi denies rumor he fled LibyaIn new audio, Gadhafi denies rumor he fled LibyaAssociated Press Writer
BENGHAZI, Libya — From hiding, Moammar Gadhafi deniedrumors that he fled Libya, vowed never to leave the land of his an-cestors and rallied followers to keep fighting, according to an audiomessage broadcast Thursday on a loyalist TV channel.
himself in the third person. The au-thenticity of the recording could notbe independently verified but thevoice and rhetoric strongly resembledGadhafi, who has used the TV chan-nel in the past.
Gadhafi went into hiding afteropposition fighters swept into Tripolion Aug. 21. The former rebels are stillbattling regime loyalists in threeGadhafi strongholds — Bani Walid,Sabha and Sirte. It took oppositionfighters more than six months todrive Gadhafi out of power. Libya’sinterim health minister, Naji Barakat,said Wednesday that at least 30,000people were killed and 50,000wounded in the civil war. The fig-ures, though incomplete, were basedon body counts from some areas andestimates from others, Barakat said.
Clashes broke out overnight nearthe town of Bani Walid, some 90miles (140 kilometers) southeast ofTripoli. Shootings and loud explo-sions lasted for several hours, com-
AP Photo/Gaia Anderson
Rebel fighters take control of a military vehicle, centre, positioned to defend what used to be Gadhafi’s32nd infantry regiment’s base at Mardun, some 10 kilometers from the outskirts of Ban Walid, Libya,Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011.
ing from Wadi Dinar, an area about12 miles (20 kilometers) outside thetown, but subsided by daybreak.
Thousands of fighters have con-verged on areas outside Bani Walidand have threatened to attack if resi-dents don’t surrender by Saturday.Officials have said the town emerged
as a focus because of the numberof prominent regime loyalists be-lieved to be inside.
A commander of the Libyan fight-ers, Daw Saleheen, said Gadhafi’sloyalists from inside Bani Walid triedto ambush the Libyan fighters’ posi-tions in Wadi Dinar early Thursday
and the fighters clashed with them.“They took advantage of our dead-
line and ongoing negotiations but theylost the chance when they tried to at-tack us,” Saleheen said. He said oneGadhafi follower was killed in theclashes and that one Libyan fighterwas wounded.
Activities Friday, September 9, 2011 5International
Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for August 31 through October 5, 2011
EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date forit annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 daysaccording to Balinese calendar, including the smallerancestral shrine which each family possesses. Becauseof this practically every few days a ceremony of festi-val of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali.There are also times when the entire island celebratedthe 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 onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless 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 dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade,sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimespainted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifullyarranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. Infront of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellasdepending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides theseumbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributesof Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”,long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments ofyoung 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 andcolored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires thegrace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese TempleCeremony
31 Aug Buda Umanis TambirSari Bankar Titih Temple Kapal
JIMBARAN - Singapore’s most celebrated chef JustinQuek will headline an inspiring calendar of events this
festive season at AYANA Resort and Spa Bali, present-ing a degustation menu of his signature dishes at Davarestaurant.
For three nights from 27-29 December, Chef Jus-tin will join Dava as guest chef, taking time out fromhis role heading up The Sky on 57, the pinnacledining destination at Singapore’s exclusive Ma-rina Bay Sands precinct. His degustation menufor Dava (scroll down to view) will feature sig-nature dishes from his Franco-Asian menu at TheSky on 57.
“These are some of the most popular dishesat Sky on 57, proven dishes such as the live lob-ster sautéed in Asian pepper sauce, which is avariation on the famous Singaporean dish, pep-
per crab,” said Chef Justin. “In one week, I sell200 live lobsters alone. People love it. In Bali, we
will recreate the same dish but using local ingredients.The degustation menu is about quality, subtlety and bal-ance of flavors.”
He will be hosted by Dava’s Chef de Cuisine JusmanSo, another renowned Singaporean who’s gained inter-
Ayana Resort and Spa Bali Present Chef Justin Queknational recognition for his distinctive style partnering classic Frenchtechnique and presentation with Asian flavors. Open to the public, thisculinary collaboration is part of an exciting festive program at Ayana,which sparks to life with Christmas tree lighting on 30 November.
Friday, September 9, 20116 News
The recorders could provide keyinformation explaining why the Yak-42 crashed just after takeoff Wednes-day from the Yaroslavl airport, 150miles (240 kilometers) northeast ofMoscow. The Interstate Aviation Com-mittee says the recorders are believedto be in the tail section of the jet, whichis partly submerged in the river.
The victims included 36 players,coaches and officials of YaroslavlLokomotiv, which had been headingto Minsk, Belarus to play its openinggame of the Kontinental HockeyLeague season.
On Thursday morning, hundreds oflocal residents gathered at the city’sRussian Orthodox cathedral to mournthe victims. Many of them wore teamscarves, some of the women usingthem to cover their heads as churchritual requires.
Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI — Indian authorities detained three men for questioningThursday as they scrambled for leads into a powerful briefcase bomb thattore through the crowds outside a New Delhi courthouse, killing 12. Inves-tigators were looking into an email sent to several TV news channels hoursafter Wednesday’s blast, allegedly by a Pakistan-linked Muslim extremistgroup. They were trying to determine the authenticity of the claim.
The email demanded that a Kashmiri man convicted in a 2001 attack onIndia’s Parliament have his death sentence commuted. It also threatened totarget other courts. Police in Indian Kashmir said investigators had tracedthe email to an internet cafe in the disputed Himalayan region’s Kishtwararea and had detained the owner and two other residents for questioning.
Authorities also were searching various locations in Kishtwar but policewould not provide more details. The bomb exploded at about 10:14 a.m.near a line of more than 100 people waiting at a reception counter for passesto enter the courthouse to have their cases heard.
The bomb’s impact left a deep crater on the road and shook the building,creating panic and sending lawyers and judges running outside. The blastkilled 12 people and wounded 80 others. The investigation was immedi-ately handed over to the National Investigation Agency, created after the2008 Mumbai siege to investigate and prevent terror attacks.
Police said they were combing the city for possible suspects and all roadsout of the city were under surveillance. Police also released two sketchesWednesday they said were based on descriptions by witnesses who saidthey saw someone waiting outside the building with a briefcase.
The court bombing was the first major attack in India since serial blastsin Mumbai killed 26 people on July 13. Suspicion then fell on the shadowyterrorist group Indian Mujahedeen, though no arrests have been made.
AP Photo/Misha Japaridze
Russian professional hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl fans grieve outside the ice hockeyarena in Yaroslavl, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011.
YAROSLAVL, Russia — Investigators on Thursday searched for flight recorders in the shat-tered remains of an airliner that crashed on the banks of the Volga River, killing 43 peopleincluding most of one of Russia’s premier hockey teams.
In recent years, Russia and someother former Soviet republics have hadsome of the world’s worst air trafficsafety records. Experts blame the ageof the aircraft, weak government con-trols, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.
The crashed jet was built in 1993and one of its three engines was re-placed a month ago, Deputy TransportMinister Valery Okulov told Russianmedia on Thursday. It is unclearwhether technical failure played a rolein the crash, but the plane apparentlystruggled to gain altitude and then hita signal tower before breaking apartalong the Volga.
Okulov said federal transportationauthorities are considering whether tohalt flights by Yak-42s, Okulov wasquoted as saying by the state newsagency RIA Novosti. There are 57 of
the planes in service in Russia, theagency said.
There were only two crash survi-vors and both were reported as beingin serious condition on Thursday.
Among the dead were Lokomotivcoach and NHL veteran BradMcCrimmon, a Canadian; assistantcoach Alexander Karpovtsev, one ofthe first Russians to have his nameetched on the Stanley Cup as a mem-ber of the New York Rangers; andPavol Demitra, who played for the St.Louis Blues and the VancouverCanucks and was the Slovakian na-tional team captain.
Other standouts killed were Czechplayers Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunekand Jan Marek, Swedish goalie StefanLiv, Latvian defenseman KarlisSkrastins and defenseman RuslanSalei of Belarus.
Police detain 3 as theyprobe deadly Delhi blast
According to Ida Bagus MadePutra, the member of offering com-mittee, the purpose of the ceremonyis to purify the sekah then followedby Murwa Daksina which is turningaround three times to the right.
For some people, like SusanGarrison, her fear of more attackskeeps her away from airports.
“I will not fly,” said the 54-year-old Garrison, even withstepped-up security. She said shehasn’t set foot inside a plane sinceSept. 11. “These people are thetypes of people who would getjobs in airports. If they want tokill people, they’re going to do it.”
Almost one-third, 32 percent,of those polled said they are con-cerned about becoming a victimof terrorism or having a familymember harmed in an attack.That’s down slightly, though,from 38 percent in 2004.
The poll also found Americansare less angry about having tofight a war on terrorism than theywere a few months after the at-tacks — 57 percent say so nowcompared with 67 percent then —and worries about how the war onterrorism might affect daily lifehave faded since the days afterSept 11.
In the AP-NORC poll, broadmajorities said Sept. 11 changedeverything from the policy andspending decisions of ourcountry’s leaders — 94 percentand 90 percent, respectively — tothe unity of the American people.Eighty-eight percent said itbrought us together.
Soon after the attacks, the U.S.government was transformedwith the creation of the HomelandSecurity Department, the Trans-portation Security Administra-
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tion, the NationalCounterterrorism Center and aslew of other centers and govern-ment committees dedicated tokeeping the country safe.
Sept. 11 also changed the waywe talk to our children.
Conversations about “strangerdanger” or “stop, drop and roll”have now been expanded to in-clude delicate discussions about“people who don’t like us” andwhy we have to take our shoes offin those sometimes too-long air-port security lines.
Fifty-five percent of the peoplepolled who have children 10 andunder said they have talked withtheir sons and daughters aboutwhat happened on Sept. 11. Forthe other 45 percent, the subjecthad not come up.
Rhonda Weaver, a 42-year-oldattorney, said she first talked aboutit with her 11-year-old daughter afew years ago. The child had comehome from school asking aboutthe attacks and why people woulddo that.
“We just told her that there aresome people who don’t like theway we live,” said Weaver. “Theysee us as an enemy and they didthat as a way to kind of get backat us and make us feel weak.”
Weaver said she has not yettalked about the attacks with her8-year-old son.
Ken Kreitner, 64, was amongthe 89 percent in the poll whothought the attacks had an impacton the economy.
For Kreitner, a Vietnam vet-eran, Sept. 11 was a day thatchanged the country.
Ngayut ke Segara...From page 1 After Murwa Daksina, the sekah
is brought by their family memberand welcomed by holy sacrifice frombuffalo called Titi Manah as the sym-bol of the sole can climb up to heaven.“The purpose of the Mamukur is toguide the soul of the dead to heavenso they can unite with Ida Sang
Hyang Widi,” Made Putra said.During the ceremony, there
were some dance performancessuch as Rejang Dewa, Baris Gede,and Topeng Sidakarya. The pro-cession followed by nguyeg. All ofthem is the ceremonies to lead thesould to heaven.(kmb13)
Friday, September 9, 2011 7Indonesia TodayInternational
AFP PHOTO / FILES / Bay ISMOYO
The government had alwaystaken into account latest develop-ments in the indicators of globaland domestic economic perfor-mances as well as challenges to thedomestic economy in 2012, Fi-nance Minister Agus Martowardojosaid in his address to a House ofRepresentatives (DPR) plenarymeeting here on Wednesday.
While delivering the government‘sreply to House factions‘ general viewson the bill on 2012 state budget andits financial notes, the finance minis-
Antara
JAKARTA - The Judicial Commis-sion (KY) has deplored the SupremeCourt‘s (MA) decision to reject itsrecommendation to impose sanctionson judges in the case of former anti-graft chief Antasari Azhar.
“We deplore the MA`s rejectionbecause they arrived at the decision inway that was against existing regula-tions,” KY spokesman Asep RahmatFajar said here on Wednesday.
The KY recently recommendedthe suspension of several judgesfrom their duties as judges afterthey finding them guilty of violat-ing the judicial code of ethics whentrying former anti-graft chief
Antara
JAKARTA - Investors considerIndonesia‘s stock market to bemore attractive than the globalbourses so that the Jakarta jointshare price index continues to goup which indicates continued stockbuying activity, stock market ob-server Ifan Kurniawan said.
Worries about worsening globaleconomic conditions were havinga negative impacts on the New Yorkand regional stock markets but theprice index of the Indonesian StockExchange (BEI) strengthened 0.56percent, Ifan said here on Wednes-day.
Ifan Kurniawan who is an ana-lyst of PT First Asia Capital saidthe buying actions by market play-ers were relatively small as theyduring the past few days they hadbeen consolidating themselves.
The BEI index had earlierdropped to nearly 3,600 points asmarket players worried about theunstable global economy, he said.
The relatively-small increase ofthe index was because the agentswere still confident with the fun-damental factor of the Indonesianeconomy which is ameliorating andthe inflation rate was under fivepercent.
“We are optimistic that the in-flation rate in August reaches 0.93
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Antara
JAKARTA - The government is optimistic that the domesticeconomy will perform better in 2012 and will always be realistic insetting macro economic targets, a minister said.
ter said the risks of global economicdevelopments in 2012 would amongothers come from the fiscal and debtcrisis affecting the United States and anumber of European countries.
The fiscal and debt crisis couldthreaten the global economic recov-ery, he said.
In addition, the increase in theglobal prices of crude oil and foodcommodities and a sudden reversalof short-term funds would also posea challenge to the domesticeconomy, he said.
(FILES) This file photo taken on September 22, 2010 shows motor-ists stuck in the morning gridlock at one of Jakarta’s main roads.The government is optimistic that the domestic economy willperform better in 2012 and will always be realistic in setting macroeconomic targets, a minister said.
RI stock market moreattractive than global
percent making Bank Indonesia (BI,the central bank) maintain the re-ferred interest rate (BI rate) at 6.75percent,” he said.
According to him, BI rate untilthe end of the year was expected toremain on the position of 6.7 per-cent to make the national economykeep growing.
BI will maintain the referred in-terest rate till the end of this year atthe level of 6.75 percent, he said.
The US economy is also grow-ing better after the US service in-dex in August reached 53.3 fromearlier 52.7 over the expectationfrom the analyst who predicted itonly reached 51.
So, Europe is a negative marketthat gave pressure to the BEI indexso as to drop 300 points, although itslightly grew, he said.
Ifan said the Indonesian economytill the end of this year would stillgrow in accordance with the marketexpectation which reached 6.7 per-cent.
“We are optimistic that the Indo-nesian economy still grows as it issupported by the consumption sec-tor, foreign investment and exports,”he added.
Moreover, he said, the Indonesianexports to Europe and the US ac-counted only for 30 percent whilethe rest 70 percent to the Asian mar-ket.
Antara
BATAM - A fire has guttedaround 20 hectares of protected for-est in Bukit Tiban, Batuaji, Batam,Riau Islands Province.
“The fire occurs because of lackof supervision,” Deputy Mayor ofBatam Rudi said here on Wednes-day after visiting the location offorest fire.
The Batam protected forest cov-ering hundreds of hectares are su-pervised by a forest protection team
to 18 years in jail for his involve-ment in the murder of a business-man. Antasari had filed a requestfor a judicial review of his sentenceafter his appeal was turned downby MA.
Asep said MA‘s rejection wasnot in line with the joint decree onthe judicial code of ethics and thereference for judges‘ conduct stat-ing that a decision to suspend ajudge temporarily or permanentlymust be referred to the Judges‘Council of Ethics.
“The joint decree meanwhile isa joint agreement made followingand in reference to the judiciary
law package of 2009 including thaton MA,” he said.
Asep said KY would take an of-ficial stand after studying more thor-oughly the MA‘s decision.
“What is clear is that whateverofficial stand we will take will beaimed at clarifying the position andauthority of the institutions con-cerned so that in the future their per-formance will be more optimal withregard to supervision or sanctions,”he said.
Asep said some experts had sug-gested that the House of Represen-tatives (DPR) immediately enact therevised law on KY or bring the dis-pute to the Constitutional Court forsettlement.
Batam protected forest gutted by fireonly.
The deputy mayor said Batamshould have forest rangers to helppreserve the forest.
“We don`t have forest rangers,”Rudi said.
The local community‘s aware-ness of forest preservation is alsolow, according to him. The localgovernment would conduct a treereplanting program in the burnedforest location, he said.
“We will make coordinationwith the local offices of marine af-
fairs, agriculture, fisheries and for-estry of Batam,” he said.
Batam has only 25 officers of for-est supervision, according toBurkan, the head of the local forestsupervision and protection section.
To protect the whole forest inBatam, more officers are very muchneeded, he said.
The forest fire occurred on Tues-day (Sept 6) from 11.30 am localtime to 4 pm, Jabhari, the head ofRW 01 neighborhood of Kibing,said.
8 InternationalFriday, September 9, 2011
Bali Today
According to Firmansyah, re-cipients of the Cipta Award 2011for the category of nature tourist at-traction, cultural tourist attraction,and man-made tourist attractionmanaged by government agencies,regional government, state-ownedenterprises, non-governmental or-ganization (NGO), communitygroups and individuals had gonethrough the process of selection by
Denpasar (Bali Post) -The first Depot 3.6.9
was opened in Surabaya in1957 and now it open astore in Bali. The 3.6.9Group opened the 11th res-taurant with the capacity of130 people on Tuesday,September 6, 2011. Ac-cording to Nancy, the rep-resentative of 3.6.9 Group,said that the restaurant busi-ness is inherited from gen-eration to generation and itwas started by Soetojo.
Currently, the depot isoperated by the third gen-eration. The special dish inthe restaurant is ShanghaiDumpling. “Since openedfor the first time, we offera different kind of dish be-cause it is made from highquality material and natu-ral. The skin of the dump-ling is handmade so it is al-ways fresh,” Nancy said.
She also stated that thedepot in Surabaya andJakarta already have regu-lar customers who alwayscome and eat there. Forthat reason, the traditionalrecipe is passed down andstill maintained until now.
Meanwhile, the opera-tional Manager of Depot3.6.9, E Suprayogi, said
Hotels in Bali
Dominating Cipta Award recipientsJakarta (Bali Post)—
Dozens of star hotels and tourist destinations in Bali were nominated to receive the Citra PesonaWisata (Cipta Award) 2011 because they had nature tourist attraction, cultural tourism, and eco-friendly man-made tourist attraction. It was revealed by Director General of Destination Devel-opment, Firmansyah Rahim, in the press conference in Jakarta on Wednesday (Sep 7).
jury panel. The assessment appliedthree criteria consisting of the en-vironmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects.
Firmansyah said the presentationof Cipta Award aimed to encouragethe operators of nature tourist at-traction, cultural tourist attractionand man-made tourist attraction inthe country to progressively in-crease their concern for the envi-
ronment and communities aroundthe tourist objects in order to bemore prosperous.
He said the interest of govern-ment agency, regional government,state-owned enterprise, privatecompanies, NGOs, communitygroups and individuals to partici-pate in the Cipta Award 2011 washigh enough. It was indicated by131 participants of major tourist
destinations from 17 provincesacross Indonesia to sign up.“Among the 131 applicants, 57 des-tinations passed the verification.After selection by the jury, it wasobtained 23 finalists,” he said.
Among the finalists, saidFirmansyah, would be selected 9destinations as the best winners forthe category of nature tourist attrac-tion, cultural tourist attraction andman-made tourist attraction man-aged by government agencies, re-gional government, state-ownedenterprise, private companies,NGOs, community groups and theindividual.
Cipta Award, he said, was in-tended to encourage the manage-ment so they could improve thequality of tourist destination aswell as sustainable and eco-friendly management capacity. Inaddition, it also meant to imple-ment the four track strategies oftourism development namely eco-nomic growth (pro-growth), ex-tensive job opportunity creationfor the community (pro-job),identifying with the interests ofthe poor (pro-poor) and eco-friendly tourist development (pro-environment) including the pres-ervation of cultural values. (010)
Depot 3.6.9
“Shanghai Dumpling andNoodle” restaurant open in Bali
that the restaurant offermany dish with varioustaste. Not only dumplingsand noodles but other dishesare also available.
All of the dishes are pro-duced by using natural ma-terials and without usingany chemical in it.Suprayogi added that theoffer to open the restaurantin Bali had come last yearbut because it is not a fran-chise so the new restaurantcan be opened this year.
“Currently, we have 11depots throughout Surabaya,Jakarta and Bali. All of therestaurants have the samestandard and the ingredientsare coming from the mainkitchen of depot 3.6.9 inSurabaya,” Suprayogi said.
There are four kinds ofdumplings in the restaurant,they are Xiao Long Bao,Guo Tie, Jiao Zi and frieddumpling. While for thenoodle, there are also fourchoices, which are yellow,white, vegetables noodle,and bihun. Other dish that isquite famous is ShanghaiSoup which made fromchicken boiled for 8 hours.It is very good for the per-son who is recovering fromtheir sickness. (kmb18/bns)
Balinese Culture
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International
BEBEK BETUTU(Roast Duck In Banana Leaf)
OVERVIEW:The rich flavor of duck is greatly enhanced by a host
of pungent roots, herbs and seasonings in this dish,which is invariably a great favorite with visitors to Bali.The Balinese have great admiration for the duck andconsider it to be a particularly strong animal as it is,like the turtle, the only one able to survive on land aswater.
INGREDIENTS:1 whole duck, weigh about 2 kg (4 ½ lb)18 shallots, peeled, cut in half, and sliced6 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half, & sliced3 stalks lemon grass, finely sliced5 fragrant lime leaves, finely sliced6 candlenuts, chopped5 cm (2 in), ginger, peeled and chopped8 cm (3in) fresh turmeric, peeled, chopped8 cm (3in) kencur root, peeled, chopped1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed5 bird’s-eye chilies, slices1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed2 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted and coarsely
crushed1½ tbsp salt3 tbsp oilBanana leaves, greaseproof paper or aluminum foil
for wrapping
PREPARATION:Wipe the duck dry and set aside. Combine all
ingredients except banana leafs in a bowl and mix well.Rub the duck outside with this mixture and fill thecenter of the duck with the remainder.
Close open duck with satay skewer. Wrap in severallayers of banana leaves, greaseproof paper or foil andsteam for 50 minutes. Transfer duck to a moderateoven and bake at 180o C (350o F) for 30 minutes.
Remove banana leaves, cut duck meat up in smallpieces and serve with stuffing. When cooked, the meatshould be so tender that it falls off the bones.(www.baliguide.com/balifood)
In the area of Ambengan Hamlet,Pesanggaran, lies in a haunted ancienttemple named Dalem PetinganTemple. The temple looks so classicaland has much inspired the art of life inBali. It includes in usadhic or tradi-tional healing practices and guidancehow to inhibit the Lapindo mudflows.Why?
To reach this temple, people shouldpass through a circular path towardBenoa Harbor. In the west of the roadlies a path leading to the swamp to getthrough the temple. The temple itselfhas no compound wall and is situatedin the middle of the swamp. Strangely,it has been securely protected by in-visible compound wall.
This temple is easily accessibleeven though located in the middle ofthe swamp. From the street, we canwalk along some five meters towardthe temple. Jero Mangku Tanggu isresponsible for overseeing and clean-ing up the temple area every day. Hereceives these tasks from his ancestors.During the period of temple anniver-sary, fifteen days before Galungan, itis always crowded by devotees.
The shrines existing in the templeconsist of a main chamber as the sanc-tum to venerate deity Ida Ayu Mashaving connection with PulakiTemple. She is believed to be thesource of life, so many traders andbusinessmen say prayers to thistemple. Additionally, this temple is alsothe place to invoke divine inspiration
Invoking Divine Inspiration ofArts in Dalem Petingan Temple
(taksu) in the field of arts. Many arttroupes invoked such divine inspira-tion in this temple, said NyomanSukayasa, one of the devotees whofrequently worshiped in this temple.
On the left front side of the cham-ber occurs the shrine used for meetinghall of deities. Meanwhile, in front ofthe meeting hall there is a gamelanpavilion. Then, in the north of cham-ber shrine, there are two shrines,namely the Panglurah and representa-tive shrine of Ida Bhatara Pulaki.
Interestingly, under a big tree lies ashrine for venerating Ida BhataraLingsir Sidi Ngucap. People havingprofession as traditional healer usuallyinvoke efficacy in this shrine. Then, atoutermost courtyard lies a guardianshrine. This temple does have a com-pound wall, so that a series of stoneare piled in such a way used as thewall, but its front wall is marked by apile of bricks.
According to I Nyoman Sukayasaand Ida Bagus Sudira serving as me-diator of the venerated deities in thistemple confirmed the existence of in-visible compound wall protecting thetemple. These two devotees were of-ten assigned as mediator to inform anyinstructions received in the temple.Even, Bagus Sudira often performeda healing service in the temple andmost people got their recovery withinrelatively a short time.
In the east of the temple, there isa pond without a shrine. It is believed
as the abode of Anantabhoga dragon.Though without shrine, at this loca-tion lies a small burrow that oftenappears used as an augury. Guard-ian animal of the deities abiding inthis temple are black tiger and ivorytiger. However, they have not beenrealized in the form of effigies.
Nyoman Sukayasa added that dei-ties abiding in the temple also hadties and linkages to Dalem WarungTemple located at Benoa landfill.The deity venerated in this templewas Ida Bhatara Manik Segara. Hisfather abided in the Dalem MuterTemple, Kesiman, having the title ofIda Bhatara Catur Pramana Lingga.In addition, it had relation toUluwatu Temple as the mother calledIda Sang Hyang Ibu Pertiwi with thetitle of Ida Bhatara Baruna and IdaBhatara Rudra. It was Ida BhataraRudra which endowed the cessationof Lapindo mudflows, said NyomanSukayasa.
In the meantime, Ida Ayu Mas inthe Dalem Petingan Temple was alsosaid to have a grandfather who wasworshiped in Pulaki Temple as IdaBhatara Lingsir. Meanwhile, his sib-ling was venerated in theRambutsiwi Temple with the title ofIda Bhatara Sakti. Another brotherwas worshiped in the DalemPerancak Temple at Canggu reveredas Ida Bhatara Tri Premana Linggaand had relation to Ida Bhatara SaktiPengadangan. (BTN/kmb)
Friday, September 9, 201110 InternationalDestinations
For those who love to go hiking or go to themountainous area, Bali is famous for its beautifulmountainous scenery. Kintamani for example.Kintamani is the most favorite tourist destinationsin Bali with the active volcano of mount Batur andbeautiful lake.
Kintamani is surrounded by the captivating na-ture and there are six ancient villages around caul-dron of Batur Lake which is often conceived byBali Age Village. The local people from these BaliAge villages own the unique cultures, houses andlife style. Kintamani Area is consisted of someVillages those are Kedisan Village , Buahan,Abang, Trunyan, Songan, South Batur, MiddleBatur, North Batur, Sukawana and Kintamani Vil-lage . The total of resident in these area are about15 thousand who are mostly working as farmer,merchant, or work at industrial tourism.
Mount Batur is located at Kintamani and it haserupted about 24 times since year 1800 and stillactive up to now. Since the mount erupting, it hasimpacted to the local society life around thismount, like removing altar (Temple), improve orrepairing the village and re-arrange the tradition.Lake Batur is the biggest lake in Bali and func-tioning as irrigation source to all farmers around
Kintamaniit and it is also for all Bali society generally.Kintamani area has been founded some lodging,hotels and restaurants which are located inKintamani and Penelokan Village. It is a famoustourist place because Kintamani area owns thebeautiful panorama and it is encircled by the coldatmosphere.
Kintamani is beautifully seen at the day timearound 10:00 am until 15:00 pm especially hav-ing fine weather where entire Kintamani area willbe able to be seen clearly. Generally, all touristswho pay a visit to this place will arrive in the daytime where they can enjoy the panorama or enjoythe lunch in the local restaurant with lake view.Mostly restaurants at Kintamani generally ownvery beautiful view where tourist merging into theirlunch in this restaurant and meanwhile enjoy thepanorama.
Kintamani is located in Kintamani sub district,Bangli Regency and about 50 km from DenpasarTown or about 2 hours by car. All roads are gener-ally in good condition to access to this place. Thefog will descend and blanket entire area ofKintamani with cold temperature in particular atlate afternoon until the whole of night. The mostamazing panorama at Kintamani can be seen inthe morning time, when the sunrise emerges onthe surface of earth precisely on the mount Batur.
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SHANGHAI - Forbes’ latestranking of China’s richest peoplepits stolid industrial muscleagainst high-tech, with the headof an earth-moving company pip-ping the co-founder of the nation’sbiggest Internet search engine forthe top spot.
Liang Wengen, the chairman ofSany Heavy Industry, came in atthe top of Forbes Asia magazine’sChina rich list released on Thurs-day, a day after the rival HurunRich List also gave the top spot tothe magnate, whose companymakes earth-movers, pile driversand concrete mixers powering thenation’s urban transformation.
Forbes estimated Liang’swealth at $9.3 billion.
“This is a remarkable story ofpeople growing up dirt poor inChangsha in Hunan Province, andfrom one group of people, gettingseven of them on the Forbes ChinaRich List, including four billion-aires,” said Russell Flannery, a se-nior editor at Forbes who oversawthe compilation of this year’s list.
Along with Liang, three otherentrepreneurs associated with Sanyare on the rich list: Tang Xiuguo,
Bernanke, who speaks at 1:30p.m. Eastern, no doubt will nod tothe drumbeat of disappointing newson the recovery, but he will likelyavoid getting out in front of what isshaping up to be an epic brawlamong Fed officials who differwidely over the need for furthermonetary easing.
“Given the level of oppositioncoming out of the woodwork, it willbe very difficult for the chairmanto pre-emptively announce any fur-ther moves for monetary policy,”said Eswar Prasad, an economist atCornell University.
Nor will the Fed chairman wantto trespass on President BarackObama’s speech on job creationlater on Thursday. If anything,Bernanke may renew his plea forfiscal authorities to do their bit tostimulate a more robust expansionby not choking off growth withoverzealous austerity measures.
“The context is very useful tothink about,” said Prasad. “SinceObama is going to speak, the chair-man saying that such (fiscal) mea-sures could be helpful could be asignificant one-two punch.”
The Fed cut benchmark rates tonear zero almost three years ago topull the economy out of a sharp re-cession. It bought $2.3 trillion worthof longer-term securities in two in-stallments ending in June to boostfaster growth.
But the recovery has faltered.The economy expanded at less thana 1 percent annual rate in the firsthalf of the year, and looks to bedoing no better now. A report onFriday showed job growth hadstalled for first time in nearly a year.
With the confidence crumbling,the Fed on August 9 expanded onan earlier promise to hold short-term rates at rock-bottom levels foran extended period, saying it ex-pected to keep them low at leastthrough mid-2013.
Since then, evidence that al-ready tepid economic growth maybe giving out altogether has piledup. Employers added no new jobson net in August, and the unem-ployment rate remained stuck at a9.1 percent. Surveys of regionalmanufacturing, consumer confi-dence and housing activity showeddisappointing softness.
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WASHINGTON - Anyone expecting Federal ReserveChairman Ben Bernanke to outline bold new measures toboost flagging U.S. growth on Thursday is likely to come awaydisappointed.
So bleak are prospects that ana-lysts at BNP Paribas now project theeconomy will contract by an annu-alized 2 percent in the last threemonths of the year.
“We never moved out of recov-ery into expansion,” said BNPParibas economist YelenaShulyatyeva.
In a speech on August 26,Bernanke said the Fed would con-sider at its next meeting what moreit could do to help the economy, al-though he offered no details on histhinking.
The most likely next step for theU.S. central bank would be to re-balance its bond portfolio to weightit more heavily toward longer-termsecurities, thus pushing downlonger-term interest rates.
To do so, however, Bernankewould have to bridge the chasmbetween the views of policymakersat the central bank.
Richmond Federal Reserve BankJeffrey Lacker said in an interviewpublished on Monday that morestimulus would only fuel higher in-flation and do little to boost growth.
On the other end of the spectrum,Chicago Fed leader Charles Evanshas called for further easing untilunemployment drops to 7.5 percentor inflation threatens to hit 3 per-cent. He said on Wednesday a job-less rate of 9 percent should setpolicymakers’ “hair on fire.”
The Fed’s August decision toexpand on its forward interest-rateguidance drew three dissentingvotes, and a decision to ease furtherwould likely do the same.
While Bernanke may well goforward with fresh easing in spiteof dissents, he may want to treadlightly.
Bernanke is mindful that a bruis-ing battle in Congress over raisingthe U.S. debt ceiling impasse in Julycontributed to the uncertaintyplaguing businesses and consumers.A desire to provide as much policyclarity as possible suggests he willwork hard to get the strongest showof support he can.
“He really can’t break newground given a divided Federal Re-serve,” said Allen Sinai of DecisionEconomics. “What is loud and clearis that some new measures will betaken on a downgraded outlook.”
Earth-moving magnateTops yet another China rich list
Mao Zhongwu of Xiang Wenbo.Liang, Mao and Tang were allfounders of the company.
But Flannery said growing num-bers of China’s newly rich asked tobe kept off the list, reflecting fearsabout the public jealousy and officialscrutiny that wealth can bring in thiscountry that is still run by a Commu-nist Party.
Several once high-flying membersof earlier rich lists have ended up injail, including Huang Guangyu, thefounder of Gome Electrical ApplianceHolding Ltd, and Shanghai propertytycoon Zhou Zhengyi.
“More people asked to be left offthe list this year than in the last fewyears and I think it’s a reflection in abit of a sea change in Chinese societyright now,” said Flannery.
Other members of the Forbes topten included Liu Yonghao, anagribusiness magnate, and severalreal estate investors.
Sany’s success partly reflects therapid growth of China’s high-valueadded manufacturing sector over thepast decade, with exports from mak-ers of pricey machinery and construc-tion equipment advancing faster thanlow-value goods like toys. Sany isbased in Changsha, the capital ofHunan in southern China.
“We’ve seen a structural changein Chinese exports that started sev-eral years ago. If you look at theexport compound annual growthrate from 2003-2008, you can seethat low value goods are not grow-ing fast — usually single digit orat most low teens. High value aregrowing at 40-50 percent,” saidDavid Lee, a China-based partnerwith Boston Consulting Group,who specializes in industrial goods.
The company says it has over60,000 employees and sales rev-enue of 50 billion yuan last year.Despite the gritty image of earth-moving equipment, the companyalso says it channels at least 5 per-cent of that revenue into researchand development and has produc-tion plants in the United States,Germany, India and Brazil.
Forbes gave the second place toRobin Li, a founder of Baidu,China’s dominant Internet searchengine, who the magazine said hadpersonal wealth of about $9.2 bil-lion. Li could have snatched the topspot if it wasn’t for the volatility ofshare markets in the United States,where Baidu is listed.
All in all, Forbes estimated thatChina’s crop of billionaires grewfrom 126 last year to 146 now.
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This photo taken on April 5, 2011 shows Liang Wengen (R), the co-founder of Chinesemachinery company Sany, taking part in a donation ceremony for a school in Lianyuan,central China’s Hunan province.
Entertainment InternationalFriday, September 9, 201112
Pitt is on hand for the premiereof “Moneyball,” a film he has beentrying to bring to the screen for yearsas both star and producer. Directedby Bennett Miller (“Capote”),“Moneyball” casts Pitt as OaklandA’s general manager Billy Beane,who rebuilt his team on a shoestringbudget applying a fresh statisticalapproach to find under-appreciatedplayers.
“Baseball had relied on a formof statistics that just hadn’t beenquestioned, and this discovery thathad been around for 30 years but hadbeen dismissed showed that there’smuch more to it,” Pitt said. “There’sa lot of talented people out there whoaren’t being used.”
Pitt’s “Ocean’s Eleven” palClooney stars in two Toronto films,
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NEW YORK — Rocker Jon Bon Jovireturned to a Manhattan fire houseWednesday to pay tribute to firefightersmarking the 10-year anniversary of theSept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The New Jersey native was filmed sing-ing “America The Beautiful” by an NBCtelevision crew preparing for a special “NFLKickoff 2011: Back to Football” show Sat-urday. The joint NFL Network/NBC Sportsproduction features football, music, and atribute to 9/11 first responders.
He sang the same song for a performancethat aired nationally on Sept. 23, 2001 prior
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NEW YORK — Producers looking forsomeone to replace Daniel Radcliffe on Broad-way have landed their prize — a Jonas. NickJonas will step into the role of J. PierrepontFinch next year in “How to Succeed in Busi-ness Without Really Trying.” He begins Jan.24 and will play the role until July 1.
“This is going to be an exciting journey,”the 19-year-old singer and actor said during hisunveiling Wednesday at the venerable theater-district hangout Sardi’s. Radcliffe’s final per-formance is set for Jan. 1. Darren Criss of Fox’shit show “Glee” will make his Broadway de-but in the role for three weeks, from Jan. 3 toJan. 22. Then Jonas, the youngest of the threeheartthrob siblings, begins.
He’s a veteran of the stage, appearing asLittle Jake in “Annie Get Your Gun” in 2001and Chip in “Beauty and the Beast” the fol-lowing year before playing the young streeturchin Gavroche in “Les Miserables” duringits final months in 2003, his last time on Broad-way. He also played the role of Marius in “LesMiserables” in London last year.
He made his stage debut in 2000 when hewas cast in a production of “A ChristmasCarol,” playing Tiny Tim opposite FrankLangella’s Scrooge at Madison Square Garden.His other credits include playing Kurt in “TheSound of Music” at the Paper Mill Playhousein New Jersey. Earlier this year, he was in“Hairspray” at the Hollywood Bowl. “It’s great
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TORONTO — There’s a broader vibe than the usual Hollywood A-listers this year at the TorontoInternational Film Festival, one of the world’s top cinema showcases and a prelude for contenders atthe Academy Awards. Stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, GlennClose, Robert De Niro and Viggo Mortensen are on the guest list for the 11-day festival that opensThursday with an unusually heavy emphasis on music and documentaries.
the family drama “The Descen-dants” from director AlexanderPayne (“Sideways”) and his own lat-est directing effort, the political saga“The Ides of March,” in which heplays a presidential candidate oppo-site Ryan Gosling as an ambitiouspress secretary.
Weisz has three films playingToronto: the 1950s drama “TheDeep Blue Sea”; the sexual thriller“360,” co-starring Anthony Hopkinsand Jude Law; and the British spytale “Page Eight,” the festival’s clos-ing-night premiere that co-stars BillNighy and Ralph Fiennes.
Fiennes has a second film atToronto, too. He directed and starswith Vanessa Redgrave and GerardButler in the Shakespeare adaptation“Coriolanus.” Redgrave also has
another Shakespeare film at the fes-tival, playing Queen Elizabeth I in“Anonymous,” which stars RhysIfans as an aristocrat some schol-ars believe is the actual author ofthe Bard’s work.
Other highlights among the 260feature films playing Toronto: Wil-liams and Seth Rogen in actressSarah Polley’s latest directing ef-fort, the marital tale “Take ThisWaltz’; Close in the cross-dressingstory “Albert Nobbs,” about a 19thcentury Irishwoman who disguisesherself as a male butler; De Niro,Jason Statham and Clive Owen inthe action thriller “Killer Elite”; andMortensen, Keira Knightley andMichael Fassbender in theSigmund Freud-Carl Jung drama“A Dangerous Method.”
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In this image released by the Toronto Film festival, the Irish rock bandU2 are shown during the filming of the documentary “From the SkyDown,” which will premiere opening night at the Toronto Film Festival.
Bon Jovi shares alight moment withFDNY firefighterDominic Mele ashe performs arendition ofAmerica TheBeautiful at theNYFD Battalion 8,Engine 8, Ladder 2fire houseWednesday, Sept.7, 2011 in NewYork to pay tributeto 9/11 firstresponders.
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Bon Jovi in 9/11 encoresings for NY firefighters
to the kickoff of the first NFL games after9/11. Bon Jovi said in an interview afterWednesday’s performance that it was “asmoving this time as it was then.” Bon Jovisaid firefighters who were there a decadeago, as well as police officers from a nearbyprecinct, came to the taping at Engine Co.8, Ladder 2. He said he felt some of thesame camaraderie that he felt in 2001.
Bon Jovi said he was in his New Jer-sey home’s gym on Sept. 11, 2001 watch-ing the news with his wife when the tow-ers were hit by hijacked planes. He saidlater that day he joined others at the shorein Seabright, N.J. in Monmouth County,home to many of the victims.
Nick Jonas to replace DanielRadcliffe on Broadway
to come back to Broadway,” Jonas said. “I al-ways said my return to Broadway would haveto feel right — the right role at the right time.This felt right.”
Tony and Emmy awards winner RobAshford, the director and choreographer of“How to Succeed,” suspects that Jonas prob-ably has more experience on stage than manyactors in the cast. “He understands the eight-show-a-week idea, he understands the commit-ment that it takes, he understands the family,he understands the support everyone gives toeach other. It’s thrilling for us to have him.”
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The discovery, announced onWednesday, was made in what wasbelieved to be the first hours of therare cosmic explosion using a specialtelescope at the Palomar Observatorynear San Diego and powerfulsupercomputers at a governmentlaboratory in Berkeley.
The detection so early of a super-nova so near has created a worldwidestir among astronomers, who areclamoring to observe it with everytelescope at their disposal, includingthe giant Hubble Space Telescope.
Scientists behind the discovery at
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PHILADELPHIA — Sgt. Rock was agruff, hard-charging Army soldier whofought his way across Africa and Europeduring World War II. Blackhawk was anaerial daredevil who led a team of interna-tional aviators fighting Axis powers. Thatwas then. Now, the characters havebeen revitalized and given a mod-ern flair more amenable to readerswho’ve spent the better part of 10years exposed to real stories aboutfighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It’s part of DC Comics’ relaunchthat this month sees 52 new seriesfocusing on familiar — but decid-edly different — characters rangingfrom Superman to Jonah Hex.Dubbed “The New 52,” the relaunchis part of the 76-year-old publisher’sefforts to stoke new readership.
“Men of War” and “Blackhawks”are hard restarts of DC’s famed warcomics that, in their heyday in the1960s and ’70s, included tales aboutSgt. Rock, the Haunted Tank,Blackhawks and others in comicslike “GI Combat” and “Our ArmyAt War.” Those books, said IvanBrandon and Mike Costa, the writ-ers of “Men of War” and“Blackhawks,” are nothing like thenew breed. For one thing, the newseries will see a tacit involvementwith superheroes, something thatwas not done in the past.
“It’s been interesting for me toplay with,” Brandon told The Asso-ciated Press. “If you exist in this realarmy and try to keep all of that real
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Adults referred to the commercial weightloss programme Weight Watchers shed twiceas much weight as people who received stan-dard care over a 12-month period, accordingto a study published Thursday. In clinical tri-als, researchers led by Susan Jebb of the UKMedical Research Council assessed 772overweight and obese adults in Australia,Germany, and Britain.
About half the patients received a year’sstandard care, while the other half were givena 12-month free membership for a WeightWatchers group near their homes. Sixty-onepercent of the participants assigned to thecommercial programme completed it, while51 percent of the “standard care” group fin-ished their programme.
Overall, individuals in Weight Watcherslost around twice as much weight as did thosein the other group, a mean loss of 5.1 kilo-
LOS ANGELES - California astronomers have found the closest,brightest supernova of its kind in 25 years, catching the glimmer of atiny self-destructing star a mere 21 million light years from Earth andsoon visible to amateur skywatchers.
the Lawrence Berkeley National Labo-ratory and the University of Californiaat Berkeley say the extraordinary phe-nomenon — labeled by the rather ob-scure designation PTF 11kly — willlikely become the most-studied super-nova in history.
“It is an instant cosmic classic,” saidPeter Nugent, the senior scientist at UCBerkeley who first spotted it. PTF 11klyoccurred in the Pinwheel Galaxy, locatedin the Ursa Major constellation, betterknown as the Big Dipper. At a distanceof roughly 21 million light years, thatputs it, on a cosmic scale, practically “in
our backyard,” Nugent said. By com-parison, most supernova found withthe 48-inch Palomar telescope areabout 1 billion light years away andfar too faint for the general public tosee, Nugent said.
Initially detected on August 24,the PTF 11kly has literally grownbrighter by the minute and was al-ready 20 times more luminous injust one day.
It is expected to reach its peaksometime between September 9 and12, when it will become visible tostargazers using a good pair of bin-oculars or small telescope. It willappear, blueish-white, just aboveand to the left of the last two stars inthe Big Dipper handle. “There arebillions of stars in a galaxy. Thissupernova will outshine them all thisweekend,” Nugent told Reuters.
Weight Watchers works, study findsgrams versus 2.2. Among those who stuckwith either programme to the end, the fig-ures were 6.7 against 3.3 kg, respectively.
Participants randomised to Weight Watch-ers were also more than three times as likelyto lose at least five percent of theirbodyweight, said the study, published in TheLancet. Weight Watchers offers weeklyweighing and group support. It also promotesa balanced, reduced-energy diet along withincreased physical activity.
Primary care providers — sometimes nurses,sometimes doctors — generally offer weight-loss treatment in line with national guidelines,but vary in the level of supervision.
“The similar weight losses achieved inAustralia, Germany, and the UK implies thatthis commercial programme, in partnershipwith primary care providers, is a robust in-tervention that is generalisable to other eco-nomically developed countries,” the research-ers concluded.
A customer is seenhere at a WeightWatchers meetinglocation in Arling-ton Heights, Illinois.Adults referred tothe commercialweight lossprogramme shedtwice as muchweight as peoplewho receivedstandard care overa 12-month period,according to a newstudy
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Amid DC’s launch, 2 titleslook at war, military
as possible, what, realistically, would theaddition of superheroes to that world, whatwould that mean? How would you react tothat?” he asked.
“The answer, in a lot of cases, is not in apositive way,” Brandon said. “Blackhawks”is a makeover, with a new cast and charac-ters, said Costa.
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In this comic book cover released by DC Com-ics, the cover of “Men of War,” is shown.
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Ibrahimovic is attempting to winthe eighth league title of his career andthe sixth in a row. He has alreadyclaimed two Dutch titles with AjaxAmsterdam, one La Liga withBarcelona, three Serie A titles withInter and another one, last season, withhis current side.
“We are still the favourites. Westrengthened our squad in the summerand we are stronger than last season, Ilike all our new signings,” said theSwede, adding that he was baffledabout the strike which delayed the startof the championship. “To tell the truth,I don’t know why we stopped. I’mhappy that we can finally get going.”
AC Milan have signed midfieldersAlberto Aquilani from Liverpool andAntonio Nocerino from Palermo, de-fender Philippe Mexes and left backTaye Taiwo. However, they will playthe first third of the season withoutMathieu Flamini after a knee opera-tion and have lost Andrea Pirlo afterhe joined Juventus, while bruisingmidfielder Mark van Bommel is alsoinjured.
RED-FACED INTERLast season’s runners-up Inter, who
visit Palermo on Sunday (1845), were
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BERLIN - Bayern Munich top striker Mario Gomezshould have recovered from a muscle injury by Satur-day when the league leaders host Freiburg, the start ofa string of games that will shape their season, butDutchman Arjen Robben is still doubtful. Gomez, whohas already struck four times in the league, willgive Bayern a big lift but winger Robbenlooks unlikely to have overcome his groininjury in time for their defence of the topspot against offensive Freiburg.
“The break (because of internationalmatches) did Robben a lot of good. But whether that isenough for him to play on Saturday still remains to beseen,” said Bayern sports director Christian Nerlinger.Robben only resumed training a few days ago.
The Bavarians could do with their speedy winger atthis stage of the season with tough Champions Leaguegroup matches ahead of them against Villarreal andManchester City in September. They also face Schalke04 and Bayer Leverkusen in successive league gamesthis month. “We have a block of games in front of uswhich will challenge us but could also see us lay thefoundations for a successful season,” Nerlinger said.
Their start to the season, despite an opening defeatto Borussia Moenchengladbach, has seen them go top
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Manchester United manager SirAlex Ferguson has backed newgoalkeeper David de Gea to comegood despite the Spaniard’s shakystart to his career at Old Trafford.The highly rated £18 million sign-ing has been at fault for goals con-ceded against Manchester City andWest Bromwich Albion so far thisseason, suggesting the formerAtletico Madrid guardian may taketime to settle in England.
However Ferguson is in no doubtthat United have acquired a goal-keeper of the highest quality as theyattempt to fill the vacancy createdby Edwin van der Sar’s retirementat the end of last season. “Davidmade a couple of mistakes in hisfirst games, which we didn’t expectand nor did he,” Ferguson told In-side United.
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Sweden’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic plays with the ball during histeam’s training in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.Sweden plays a Euro 2012 Group E qualifying soccer matchagainst Hungary on Friday.
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MILAN - Juventus have a new stadium, AS Roma harbour ambitious plans to play the sameway as Barcelona, but AC Milan are still the favourites to retain the Serie A title, according tostriker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Milan and Lazio, who meet at San Siro on Friday (1845 GMT), arethe first teams in action as Serie A kicks off with what was initially scheduled as the secondmatch day, the first round having been postponed by a players’ strike.
left red-faced this week after itemerged that Uruguay striker DiegoForlan, signed along with ArgentinaMauro Zarate to replace the departingSamuel Eto’o, could not play in theChampions League group stage.
UEFA said 32-year-old Forlan wasineligible as he had played for AtleticoMadrid in a Europa League qualifier.Forlan said in an interview with Span-ish radio on Wednesday that he did notknow the intricacies of the rules. De-spite this mix-up, Inter, who have anumber of the old guard still at the clubincluding goalkeeper Julio Cesar anddefenders Maicon, Lucio and JavierZanetti, are seen as Milan’s biggestchallengers.
Napoli, who start at Cesena on Sat-urday (1845), believe they can at leastequal last season’s third place, al-though, with little strength in depth,their chances could slip dramaticallyif any of their top players are injured.“The sky is the limit for Napoli, wewill do our utmost in all competitions,”said Edinson Cavani, who promisednot to relax after winning the CopaAmerica with Uruguay in July.
“We have everything it takes tohave a successful season,” addedCavani, second topscorer last season
with 26 goals. “It’s impossible not todo well with such fantastic fans. Weare very optimistic.” Their first task isto get to grips with the newly-laid arti-ficial pitch at Cesena, and the SeaHorses’ new signing Adrian Mutu.
Ambitious AS Roma host Cagliarion Sunday (1300) with Francesco Totticalling on fans to back new coach LuisEnrique — jeered during a EuropaLeague qualifier for substituting thetalismanic one-club striker. Cagliari areone of two teams who fired theircoaches last month and MassimoFiccadenti will make his debut afterreplacing Roberto Donadoni. Theother is Palermo where Stefano Poliwas dismissed for the second time thisyear and replaced by Devis Mangia.Juventus, whose new stadium wasbeing officially opened later on Thurs-day with a friendly against Englishthird-tier side Notts Country, play theirfirst competitive match at the samearena on Sunday against Parma (1030).
Having finished seventh in each ofthe last two seasons, Juventus havebrought in former midfielder AntonioConte as coach and made a flurry ofnew signings, including Chilemidfielder Arturo Vidal andMontenegro striker Mirko Vucinic.
Fergie backing deGea to succeed
“It was unusual because his format Atletico Madrid as an 18-year-old was sensational.” De Gea’s nexttest comes against Bolton on Sat-urday, with the physical approachfavoured by Wanderers strikerKevin Davies likely to mean theUnited keeper is in for another tur-bulent afternoon.
Ferguson is confident the Span-iard will rise to the challenge how-ever. “There is no doubt we have aplayer of great potential. Our job atthis club is to realise that potentialand make sure he becomes a topgoalkeeper,” Ferguson added.“He’ll do that once he gains expe-rience and adapt to the physical na-ture of the league.”
“It is a different game here com-pared to Spain - there are morecrosses to deal with and there ismore contact. Bit by bit, we will getthere with him.”
Bayern’s Gomez fit, Robben doubtful for ‘hot September’
of the Bundesliga with a three match-winning streakwithout conceding a goal and scoring nine. They havealso kept a clean sheet in their two Champions Leaguequalifiers against FC Zurich.
“These are the weeks for which we love playingfootball,” said captain Philipp Lahm. “We are on a goodrun but we have not yet reached the point where wewant to be.”
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Pistorius, the first amputee to com-pete at the biennial world champion-ships, ran the first leg when the SouthAfrican quartet set a national recordin the semi-finals. He was replacedby 400 metres hurdles bronze medal-list LJ van Zyl in the final. “After thefinal I looked at it in two respects,”Pistorius told Britain’s former worldhigh hurdles champion Colin Jacksonduring a question-and-answer sessionat a London hotel.
“I was surprised I didn’t get to run,I really felt I deserved to according tothe times I ran in the semi-final. ButI’m really happy for my team, they’rephenomenal guys.” Pistorius, whofinished last in his 400 metres semi-final in Daegu, was cleared to run atthe championships after the Court ofArbitration for Sport (CAS) over-ruled an International Association ofAthletics Federations (IAAF) ban.
He now plans to compete in nextyear’s London Olympics as well asrunning in the 100, 200, 400 and4x100 relay in the Paralympics.
The 24-year-old South African has
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FILE - The Sept. 1, 2011 file photo shows South Africa’s OscarPistorius, right, passing the baton to South Africa’s OfentseMogawane in a qualification round for the Men’s 4x400m Re-lay at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, SouthKorea. South Africa said Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 Oscar Pistoriushas been left off 4x400-meter relay team for Friday’s final.
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LONDON - Double amputee Oscar Pistorius expressed surprise on Wednesday that he hadbeen left out of the South African 4x400 metres relay team who won silver at the world champi-onships in Daegu last week after he had run in the first round.
polarised opinion with some criticssaying his prosthetic blades give himan unfair advantage. He had both legsamputated below the knee when hewas 11 months old after he was bornwithout a fibula in either limb.
“As far as I’m concerned the ones(blades) that I am using have beentested and proved to have no advan-tage,” he said. “Some of the top sci-entists in the world have tested theprosthetic legs and these are the guyswho have come back and said thereis no way a prosthetic leg can pro-vide an advantage. “I’m used to itnow, for every five percent of peoplethat criticise me 95 percent of peoplesupport me.”
GOOD RELATIONSHIPPistorius said it was a misconcep-
tion to think he had a bad relation-ship with the IAAF. “I believe theyweren’t out to get me, they have aresponsibility when it comes to thesport,” he said.
“I think unfortunately due to thelimited amount of data they received
they made a decision that was ill-in-formed and when we came back withall the testing that we’d done and pre-sented it to the Court of Arbitrationfor Sport the right decision wasmade.
“They (IAAF) have accepted thatdecision so we have moved on fromthat and I have a very good relation-ship with them.” Now Pistorius willconcentrate on getting the qualifica-tion time that will allow him to com-plete in London after he failed toqualify for the final in Daegu. “Therewill definitely be a huge sense of re-lief if I can get that qualificationtime,” he said.
Pistorius attributed his successthis year in reaching a qualifyingtime for Daegu to losing weight andrunning the first part of the racefaster. “This season I have done itlike most of the other guys do andrun it hard on the first 200 and thendied in the last 100,” he said. “I thinkultimately if you want to move from46 seconds to 45, you can’t be scaredof the race.”
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NEW YORK — Unhappyabout being sent out to play at therain-soaked U.S. Open, a trio oftennis stars — Rafael Nadal, AndyRoddick and Andy Murray —marched from their courts to thetournament referee’s office to voicetheir complaints. A second con-secutive morning-to-evening dampday at Flushing Meadows washedout all but about 15 minutes of ac-tion Wednesday, leaving nervesfrayed and the schedule in disar-ray.
“If you know you’re going to goon court only for 10 minutes, youdon’t have to lie to the fans at thatpoint, and you don’t have to lie tothe players, too,” Nadal told The
US Open hit by 2nd consecutive day of rain
Rafael Nadal of Spain sitsunderneath an umbrelladuring his match againstGilles Muller of Luxem-bourg at the U.S. Opentennis tournament in NewYork, Wednesday, Sept. 7,2011. Play was suspendeddue to rain.
Associated Press. “The playersknew when we (went) on court thatit was still raining, so it was a verystrange decision, and we were up-set about that.”
Added Nadal, the defendingchampion, who trailed unseededGilles Muller 3-0 when they wereushered out of Arthur Ashe Sta-dium: “The court is dangerous. Icannot imagine what happens ifsomebody gets injured from that.... We need to be more respected.”
The U.S. Tennis Associationstill was holding out hope of wrap-ping up the tournament on timewith a men’s final Sunday, some-thing that, because of rain in thepast, last happened in 2007. Buttournament director Jim Curleyacknowledged that a Monday fin-ish is possible only if the four in-complete men’s fourth-roundmatches — including Nadal’s —get done Thursday, when play wasscheduled to begin at 11 a.m., de-spite a forecast predicting morerain. And Friday and Saturdaycould be wet, too.
As it is, even if the weather isactually good enough to permitplay the rest of the week, thiswould be a highly unusual Grand
Slam tournament. Instead of get-ting days off, a man on the bottomhalf of the draw — Nadal, Roddickor Murray, for example — wouldneed to win four best-of-five-setmatches in a span of four days totake the title. Nadal called that a“big disadvantage.”
“Thursday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday would seem like a tall ask.It’s tough,” 2003 U.S. Open cham-pion Roddick said. “It almost putsit into who finishes a match quickerand is fresher.” Not everyone wasall that sympathetic.
Jimmy Connors, a five-timeU.S. Open champion, said playingback-to-back-to-back-to-back cer-tainly would be a physical andmental test. But he also said that’sthe sort of thing that makes the U.S.Open special.
“That’s why this is the toughesttennis in town, right here. You haveto put up with not only the playingof the tennis but ... the waiting toplay and everything else,” Connorssaid. “If they play four matches infour days, they’re going to like get-ting that check for $1.8 million atthe end of the tournament, so it’sstill worth fighting for, I wouldthink.”AP Photo/Mike Groll
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“[Jean] Todt won a lot, but he had time to builda winning team with extraordinary balance. I aimto do the same and am optimistic about the future.“With this Red Bull... I may sound crazy, but I’mconvinced we are building the basis to have anunbeatable structure. With a warning though: nolone men at the helm, like Red Bull with Newey,but a team.
“Alonso believes in it [the project]. He’s signeduntil 2016, he is in the middle of his career. A win-
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MONZA, Italy - Red Bull will need to be quicker thanever at Monza this weekend if Formula One’s runaway leader
Red Bull face tough test at MonzaSebastian Vettel is to get on the podium at Ferrari’s homecircuit.
The champion, winner of seven of the 12 races to date thisseason, has little to worry about given that he is 92 pointsclear at the top after leading Australian team mate and closestrival Mark Webber to a one-two at Spa in Belgium.
But Monza, the fastest circuit on the calendar as well as atemple of Italian motorsport, has played more to the strengthsof Ferrari and McLaren in recent years.
Since Red Bull Racing appeared on the scene in 2005, theteam has yet to finish on the podium at the circuit outsideMilan while Ferrari have won eight of the last 15 there.
Vettel triumphed with Red Bull’s Italian-based sister teamToro Rosso in 2008, when he celebrated his first win, but theMonza fans are not alone in expecting Ferrari and FernandoAlonso to repeat last year’s success in Sunday’s final Euro-pean race of the season.
“Of course this is our target, our objective but it will bevery difficult,” Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali toldReuters at a fan event at Pirelli headquarters on Wednesday.“I am expecting, I hope, that during the race we will be verycompetitive.
“This year in qualifying we have seen that we did not havethe package to be quick on the single lap and I would say it ismore difficult to be on pole,” he added.
“But this year with the two sectors of DRS (adjustable rearwing) and this new situation with the tyres, I think everythingis possible.”
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Red Bull driver Mark Webber of Australia, back-ground, chases Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel ofGermany during the Belgian Formula One GrandPrix in Spa-Francorchamps, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011.
Ferrari is building an ‘unbeatable structure’Ferrari building ‘unbeatable
structure’Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicaliis adamant 2011 will be the “last disap-
pointing season” for the Maranello squad,the Italian confident the team is building
“an unbeatable structure”. “We areconvinced this is the last disappointing
season,” Domenicali told Repubblicanewspaper in an interview.
ner like him wouldn’t throw it down thedrain, if he was not more than convincedabout the project.” He added: “Ferrari iscondemned to win: in our history we’llnever be allowed to smile for a secondplace.”
Ferrari has won just one race this year,and its drivers are all but out of conten-tion for the title, with Fernando Alonsoover 100 points behind championshipleader Sebastian Vettel. Despite its titlechances nearly gone, Domenicali saysFerrari will not make the mistake of shift-ing focus to 2012 early again.
“It’s a mistake we’ve already done inthe past and we must not repeat it. Someof the current developments can be animportant basis for next year,” he added.“The crucial point is to learn how tomake full use of the tyres in every con-dition. From here to November we canexperiment with peculiar set-ups and goforward with the work. Keep an aggres-sive approach, even though the champi-
onship is gone.The Italian, whose team enjoyed a
strong winter of testing, conceded see-ing the huge gap to the front in the sea-son-opening race was “shocking”. “Ar-riving at the first race in Australia andrealizing we were 1.4 seconds off thepace,” he said when asked what was thehardest part to accept about the season.
“Unacceptable and shocking. Hear-ing during the February test that every-thing was alright and then finding outin March that it wasn’t. We were su-perficial about the exhausts, it was atool for a jump forward and we under-estimated it.
“The areas that can make a differ-ence must be identified, if possible,even before our rivals do. While Alonsohas scored 41 points more than last yearin the first 12 races, it’s not his fault ifVettel has killed the championship. Wehave made our mistakes, but he’s beenphenomenal.”
From left, Ferraridrriver FernandoAlonso of Spain,Ferrari teamprincipal StefanoDomenicali ofItaly and Ferraridriver FelipeMassa of Brazilpose at pit with aFerrari car.
