Friday, September 13, 2013 16 Pages Number 181 5 th 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 DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST PAGE 6 PAGE 8 Thousands of teachers protest Mexico education law Real unlikely to overburden Bale at Villarreal PAGE 3 In New York, the US capital Washington and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, relatives of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the hijacked airliners and on the ground gathered for somber remembrance ceremonies. “Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been,” Obama said at the Pentagon, where 184 died when one of the planes struck the building. “They left this Earth. They slipped from our grasp.” US troops invaded Afghanistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks to oust the Taliban for giving refuge to Al-Qaeda, and Obama gave thanks to the American forces who served War-weary US marks 12th anniversary of 9/11 attacks REUTERS/Gary Hershorn The Tribute in Light is illuminated on the skyline of New York’s Lower Manhattan as people look across the Hudson River in Jersey City, New Jersey, September 11, 2013. Agence France-Presse NEW YORK CITY - War-weary Americans on Wednesday marked the 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, with President Barack Obama -- for now holding fire on Syria -- saying force alone cannot “build the world we seek.” there -- but noted the war was now coming to a close. He said the United States would remain vigilant in the face of future terror threats but said military might alone could not bring peace and security. “Let us have the wisdom to know that while force is at times necessary, force alone cannot build the world we seek,” he said. On Tuesday, Obama delivered an address to the nation in which he explained why he was for now holding off on punitive military strikes against Syria over its alleged chemical weapons use. “I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria. I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan,” he said. Polls show a majority of Americans -- weary of war after US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan -- oppose action in Syria. Obama has asked for Congressional approval of his plan for limited strikes, but he has yet to garner the support needed on Capitol Hill. Votes have been put off as US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Geneva for talks with Russia’s foreign minister about a Moscow-led plan to neutralize the chemical arsenal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In New York, 9/11-era mayor Rudolph Giuliani wiped away a tear at the Ground Zero event, which began with a moment of silence at 8:46 am (1246 GMT), marking the time when the first plane smashed into the World Trade Center. Continued on page 6 NASA launches drones from to study storms
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Following a grainy montage of news and surveillance video accompanied by traumatized 911 calls reporting shoot-ings in the D.C. area, the story opens amid the lush island vegetation of An-tigua in the Caribbean. A teenage boy, Lee (Richmond), watches in mute fury as his mother leaves their home to take work elsewhere, saying she’ll be back for him. But as her absence stretches on, Lee grows bored, frustrated and then desperate, seemingly attempting to drown himself in the rough surf.
He is rescued and taken in by John (Washington), a visiting American whose three young daughters have been removed from their country in violation of a custody agreement. With no word from Lee’s mother, John eventually takes him back to Tacoma, Wash.
From early in their relationship, John begins drilling his life-is-unfair views into Lee, whose absence of a father
AP Photo/IFC Films
This film image released by IFC Films shows Isaiah Washington as John Allen Muhammad, fore-ground, and Tequan Richmond as Lee Boyd Malvo in “Blue Caprice.”
Review: ‘Blue Caprice’ is mature and intelligentAssociated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — “Blue Caprice” is a disturbing, masterfully controlled thriller based on the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. The national discussion of mass shootings and gun con-trol stands to heighten the impact of director Alexandre Moors’ head-turning debut, which is driven by performances of brooding intensity from Isaiah Washington and Tequan Richmond.
figure renders him highly susceptible to the older man’s influence. The bot-tomless pit of John’s anger becomes steadily more apparent back in the U.S., as he takes Lee on a tour of the middle-class suburban neighborhood of his former life. He talks of the evil that lives there, the ghosts left behind, and the vampires like his ex-wife, who sucked him dry. Since their return from Antigua, she has taken out a restraining order against him and removed their children to parts unknown. This gnaws at him like a cancer.
When Lee is taken along with John and his Army buddy Ray (Tim Blake Nelson) to let off steam with some target practice in the woods, he reveals himself to be a natural with a gun. Watching the boy’s face the first time a semi-automatic “widow-maker” is placed in his hands is especially disquieting in light of recent events.
After John’s erratic behavior gets them kicked out by his girlfriend (Cassandra Freeman), they end up staying with Ray and his equally trashy partner Jamie (Joey Lauren Adams), providing access to Ray’s arsenal of firearms.
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Drummer Tico Torres’ emergency appendectomy in Mexico City has forced Bon Jovi to postpone concert dates.
The band postponed Tuesday’s show in Mexico City after Torres checked into the American British Cowdary Hospital. Jon Bon Jovi says in a Fa-cebook post the band is staying with Torres until he is released from the hospital.
Bon Jovi apologized to fans who might have been inconvenienced or were traveling to the concerts in Mex-ico City, Santiago, Chile, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The band’s website says concerts in those cities have been rescheduled for later this month.
Bon Jovi said Torres wanted to play Tuesday’s gig after the surgery “but the doctors prevailed.” The band is scheduled to return to the road Sept. 20 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Drummer’s appendectomy forces Bon Jovi tour change
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FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, American rock band Bon Jovi, from left, Richie Sambora, David Bryan, Jon Bon Jovi and Tico Torres pose for a portrait, in the Brooklyn Borough of New York.
In New York, the US capital Washington and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, relatives of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the hijacked airliners and on the ground gathered for somber remembrance ceremonies.
“Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been,” Obama said at the Pentagon, where 184 died when one of the planes struck the building.
“They left this Earth. They slipped from our grasp.”US troops invaded Afghanistan shortly after the 9/11
attacks to oust the Taliban for giving refuge to Al-Qaeda, and Obama gave thanks to the American forces who served
War-weary US marks 12th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
The Tribute in Light is illuminated on the skyline of New York’s Lower Manhattan as people look across the Hudson
River in Jersey City, New Jersey, September 11, 2013.
Agence France-Presse
NEW YORK CITY - War-weary Americans on Wednesday marked the 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, with President Barack Obama -- for now holding fire on Syria -- saying force alone cannot “build the world we seek.”
there -- but noted the war was now coming to a close.He said the United States would remain vigilant in the
face of future terror threats but said military might alone could not bring peace and security.
“Let us have the wisdom to know that while force is at times necessary, force alone cannot build the world we seek,” he said.
On Tuesday, Obama delivered an address to the nation in which he explained why he was for now holding off on punitive military strikes against Syria over its alleged chemical weapons use.
“I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria. I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan,” he said.
Polls show a majority of Americans -- weary of war after US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan -- oppose action in Syria.
Obama has asked for Congressional approval of his plan for limited strikes, but he has yet to garner the support needed on Capitol Hill.
Votes have been put off as US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Geneva for talks with Russia’s foreign minister about a Moscow-led plan to neutralize the chemical arsenal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In New York, 9/11-era mayor Rudolph Giuliani wiped away a tear at the Ground Zero event, which began with a moment of silence at 8:46 am (1246 GMT), marking the time when the first plane smashed into the World Trade Center.
Continued on page 6
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
Friday, September 13, 2013
Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013
24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar SelatanPura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler TabananPura Agung Pasek Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Tangkas Kediri TabananPura Kerta Banyuninng Barat BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Sin-gapaduPura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan SingarajaPura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcang-kring TabananPura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Bule-lengPura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean MengwiPura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja TegalalangPura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada BulelengPura Ida Ratu Pande BesakihPura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup GianyarPura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klung-kungPura Kumuda Saraswati UbudPamerajan Alit UbudPura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara TabananPura Dalem Majapahit B a n j a r Denuma Kukuh Marga TabananPura Dalem batur BangliPura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem
25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar
28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Be-sakihPura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian KutaPura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu BadungHyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari TegalPura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang BangliPura Dalem Peruncak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan BadungPura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi BadungPemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud
18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg TabananPura Puseh, Desa Guwang SukawatiPura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel
19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari LombokPura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu KarangasemPura Pedharman Arya Telabah Be-sakihPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamaniPura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar
28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Suka-watiPura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih
Boasting a successful history of meeting the increased demand for business, international and leisure travel, Archipelago International has once again seized an opportunity for a quality hotel development in Bali, this time at the tropical tourist enclave of Jimbaran, just 15 minutes south of the Ngurah Rai airport.
Aston Jimbaran Hotel will be lo-cated on a hilltop above Bali’s famed Jimbaran fishing village with unob-structed views of Jimbaran Bay and the spiritual Mount Agung. The hotel will host 268 guest rooms, 8 meeting rooms, and a grand ballroom that can accommodate up to 1750 guests. With so many convenient amenities in a picturesque location, the upscale hotel is set to attract savvy business travellers, as well as the discerning
leisure traveller looking for a classy getaway at the centre of Bali’s tour-ism district.
“We are confident that Aston Jimbaran Hotel will be an icon of Jimbaran’s most comprehensive and consistent upscale hotel network, bringing with it unrivalled interna-tional standards and sophisticated conference facilities; a perfect match for business and leisure travellers. By the end of this year, this hotel will be ready to accommodate any MICE and holiday requirements.” says Norbert Vas, Vice President of Sales & Marketing Archipelago International.
The development of the hotel it-self has reached 60%, with a comple-tion date expected to be the end of this year.
New MICE icon in JimbaranIBP
JIMBArAN – As one of the leading hotel operators in Indonesia with a portfolio of more than 60 hotels throughout Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, it may come as no surprise that Archipelago International is reaching the final development stages of an iconic MICE hotel at one of Bali’s most sought-after addresses.
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The most severe condition afflicted the area of Subak Aseman III at Megati village, Wednesday (Sep 11). Overly of the paddy fields had dried up. Land had cracked because there was no longer water supply. Due to severe condition, some paddy plants began to turn withered and be at risk of dying. “This paddy was planted 1.5 month ago. Unluckily, it only got water supply for two weeks. Seeing this condition, nothing can be harvested,” complained Ketut Sweden, 45, one of the local farmers. Not only his paddy field, had the others also gone through similar condition. Even, some other farmers were forced to neglect their rice fields as getting no water.
Due to drought, Sweden would suffer moderate loss. A total of 5,000 square meters of paddy plant could not
be harvested. Stems of rice grew dwarf and were turning yellow. “From the beginning, I hesitated to plant rice. In fact, there is absolutely no water today,” he added.
Farmers predicted the drought would continue until this yearend because the dry season shifted from schedule. As a result, the next planting season could just be done early next year. Moreover, it had also to wait auspicious day and comprehensive calculation. Further-more, farmers could only be waiting for a miracle of rain. In addition, the entire irrigation channels had dried up.
He added a total of six subak areas at Megati were hit by drought. They did not include the other subak areas at Tibubiu. “They take advantage of water from the same dam. So, if this area dries up, that area (Tibubiu) also definitely
goes dry,” he said. The irrigation water flowed from three dams namely the Yeh Le, Guniang and Unun Dam. Within the past month the water supply had gone sluggish.
Other than the newly planted paddy plants, the drought also hit the older paddy plants. Due to water crisis, extensive areas of paddy plant faced harvest failure. As a result, farmers preferred to harvest their rice early for fodder. “Rather than being neglected, I prefer to take it advantage for fod-der,” said Suparni, another farmer. This guy had 4,000 square meters of rice field. The entire paddy plants could not grow normally due to wa-ter crisis. All this time, farmers only utilized rainwater because the supply of water from the dam could not be relied upon. (kmb30)
Gianyar (Bali Post)—For the smooth implementation of the Asia-Pacific Eco-
nomic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, in October 2013 in Bali, the Gianyar public component consisting of mass organiza-tions, NGOs and community leaders declared themselves to support the APEC security, Wednesday (Sep 11) in the Office of the 1616/Gianyar District Military Command. “This dec-laration serves as a precaution in creating security, comfort and peace for the successful implementation of the APEC,” said the initiator of the declaration, Commander of the 1616/Gianyar District Military Command, Rachmad PS.
Declaration of the public components for the APEC secu-rity was also attended by the Regent, Gianyar Police Chief, Chief of Gianyar Attorney and the Regional Secretary of Gianyar. Signing of the declaration was very important as a commitment to maintain the common security. “Implemen-tation of the APEC is an opportunity to promote tourism, arts and culture and other potentials we have to improve the welfare of community,” said the Regent of Gianyar Anak Agung Bharata.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Unified Gianyar Mass Or-ganization, Ida Bagus Gaga Pujangga, said his party strongly supported the declaration. He also invited the mass organi-zations and NGOs in Gianyar and Bali in general to jointly maintain the security and orderliness of Bali. “We are already committed to realize the secure and conducive Gianyar,” said IB Gaga Pujangga.
The APEC Summit will take place in October 2013 and be attended by 21 member countries in the Asia-Pacific region and super power countries as well as involve at least 6,000 delegates along with 2,000 journalists from around the world. As planned, the schedule of commercial flights at the Ngurah Rai Airport will stop the operations temporarily for three days. Such temporary closure is done upon the arrival and departure of the heads of state and the delegates of the APEC country members. (kmb16)
Pemuteran is located at the west coastal area of the Island of Bali or approximately 55 km west of Singaraja and 30 km from Gilimanuk. It lies between the cluster of hills and sea causing this village to have a very exotic panorama. Pemuteran Beach is a perfect tourist attraction for travelers favoring a quiet place and being away from the hustles and bustles.
Sea coral professionally maintained and turtle breeding project can also be encountered at this village. Although it has developed into a tourist attraction, the beach stays to show off its authenticity. Coastal communities remain to use traditional equipment such as boats and nets to carry out their daily activities. At this village lies the Pemuteran Temple being famous for its hot springs. Meanwhile, many tourist facilities are also available ranging from budget hotels to five star hotels, restaurant and dive center can easily be found here.
To secure APEC Gianyar involves mass organizations, NGOs and community leaders
Pemuteran Village
IBP/File
The drought happen in Subak Aseman III at Megati Village, Tabanan
Irrigation sluggish, hundreds of hectares of rice field dryTabanan (Bali Post)—
Again, the drought affects Tabanan. Within the past month, at least 1,400 hectares of paddy fields at Megati village in East Selemadeg and Tibubiu in Kerambitan have been hit by drought. Irrigation canals are sluggish due to water crisis. As consequence, farmers are restless.
3Friday, September 13, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Friday, September 13, 2013
The unmanned Global Hawk aircraft were designed to perform high-altitude, long-endurance reconnaissance and intelligence missions for the Air Force. Two of the original Global Hawks built in the developmental process for the military have found new life as part of NASA’s research mis-sion, studying storms that form over the Atlantic Ocean. NASA planned to launch one of the drones from its Wallops Flight Facility on Wednesday to study Tropical Storm Gabrielle, which re-formed in the Atlantic on Tuesday.
“The biggest scientific ques-tion we’re trying to attack is why do some hurricanes intensify very rapidly and why do others not in-tensify at all? In the last 20 years, we’ve made terrific progress in forecasting where hurricane tracks will go,” said Paul Newman, deputy project scientist for the research mission. “But we’ve made almost
no progress in the past 20 years in forecasting intensity.”
More accurately predicting a storm’s intensity would help government officials and coastal residents decide whether an evacu-ation is needed, as well as avoid developing a false sense of security among residents who frequently cite failed storm expectations as a reason not to leave their homes when warned to do so.
There are two questions on which NASA scientists primarily want the drone research to focus. One is what role thunderstorms within a hurricane play in its inten-sification. Researchers aren’t sure if the thunderstorms are a driver of storm intensity or a symptom of it.
The other is what role the Saharan Air Layer plays in the tropical storm development. The Saharan Air Layer is a dry, hot, dusty layer of air from Africa. Scientists have been at odds with
each other over whether it helps hurricanes strengthen or does the opposite. One school of thought is that the Saharan Air Layer pro-vides energy for storms to grow, while others have suggested it is a negative influence on storm growth because of the effect the dry air has on wet storms.
“There’s a bit of a debate in terms of how important it is, one way or the other,” said Scott Braun, a research meteorologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who is the drone project’s principal investigator.
This is the second year NASA has launched Global Hawks from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, a strategic location that allows drones to spend plenty of time studying storms shortly after they form off the coast of Africa or as they approach the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico.
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG — Richard Van As, a South African carpen-ter, lost four fingers from his right hand to a circular saw two years ago. He was unable to afford the tens of thousands of dollars to get a myoelectric hand, which detects a muscle’s electric impulses to activate an artificial limb.
“After my accident, I was in pain, but wouldn’t take painkillers. I barely slept, and the more pain I had the more ideas I got,” he told The Associated Press. “Sometimes you have to chop fingers off to start thinking.”
He decided to build his own hand. After seeing a video posted online of a mechanical hand made for a costume in a theater produc-tion, he reached out to its designer, Ivan Owen, in Seattle.
Enter Robohand — a device that Van As and Owen invented that is made from cables, screws, 3-D printing and thermoplastic. It uses the rotation of a joint to enable five plastic digits to grasp. The de-vice looks like a robot’s hand in a science fiction movie, costs about $500 to make and can be reproduced using plans on the Internet and a 3-D printer.
Van As is now on a mission to spread the mechanism to people without fingers or hands all over the world. The two gadget-lovers collaborated on developing a design for the device for a wide range of ages that could be used to grab objects, unlike most existing arm prostheses. Van As has fitted Robohands on about 170 people, from toddlers to adults, thanks to donations.
At first they used a milling machine, making Van As a metal robotic forefinger digit that helps him work in carpentry to this day. That’s when they perfected the shape for the robotic fingers. “Ivan was a gift to me,” Van As said.
“There are two simple solutions to address the competition of hotel room rates in Bali. Firstly, the govern-ment and tourism stakeholders must increase the number of tourist arrivals with vigorous campaign. Secondly, set the lowest hotel room rates for each hotel classification,” said Secretary of the Indonesian Hotels and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Denpasar, AA Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, in Denpasar.
He said the determination of the lowest room rates could be applied as long as it got the support from the Den-pasar municipality. It was in the form of government regulation as the legal instrument for determining the lowest hotel room rates. “The regulation must necessarily refer to the higher rule namely the Law,” he said.
According to him, discounted hotel room rates occurred in Bali was triggered by incomparable rate of the increase in the number of hotel rooms to the rate of increase in tourist arrivals. The slowing growth in the number of tourist arriv-als would result in unfair competition among the hoteliers in Bali.
“Supposed that the implementation of the lowest hotel room rates can have been accommodated properly,
it will be very ideal for hotels that are relying on quality. In the future, the implementation of the lowest hotel room rates will lead to quality tourism in Bali,” he said.
Secretary General of the Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Associa-tion (PHRI) of Badung, Gusti Kade Sutawa, previously revealed the uncontrolled development led to the cheapening of Bali tourism due to un-fair competition among the hoteliers. To that end, it was required standard hotel room rates.
“Such condition occurs due to the hotel growth in Southern Bali surpasses the growth of tourist ar-rivals. It is reflected in the declining hotel occupancy rates every year,” he explained.
He also explained that hotel oc-cupancy in Bali averagely reached 65-70 percent every year and this figure dropped due to excessive hotel rooms. Large number of hotel rooms also made the tourism cheaper because many hotels offered massive discounted room rates. “Meanwhile, no hotels overseas sell their rooms at USD 30-50 as made in Bali,” he said. (kmb27)
ASIDE from being known for its beautiful scenery, Bangli County also retains a unique tradition. It has Ngusaba Tagtag ritual, a tradi-tion believed to bring in prosperity and safety for the residents of Kedisan village, Kintamani. Uniqueness of the tradition having taken place for generations since hundreds of years lies in the number of facilities where each item amounts to twenty and is not allowed to use fried ingredients. When violating, the residents believe it will bring in distress.
At first glance, the Ngusabha Tagtag looks the same as Ngusabha Tegen. Both rituals equally apply thousands of offerings in the form of tegen-tegenan (a set of oblations usually carried on shoulder). Thousands of those offerings are borne by men of local residents.
Meanwhile, women carry the Gebogan offerings on their head. They walk hand in hand leading to Dalem Temple of local vil-lage to perform the ritual. With the ritual, the local community hopes to get prosper-ity and safety. More interestingly, all the tegenan ritual offerings must be presented by all men existing at the local village. In the meantime, the number of man at Kedisan
village reaches thousands of people.The other uniqueness lies in the offerings
used that may not contain fried cakes or fish. Instead, the residents must use the oblation ingredients processed by steaming, boiling or baking.
Not only that, each ingredient of the offer-ings presented in the form of snack, fruit and fish must amount to twenty pieces. Otherwise, people believe it will bring in distress. So far, there are no people who dare to break them. “Here, people are not allowed to use fried in-gredients. In the past, there were people using fried ingredients so they finally got distress. Many livestock such as pigs and chickens died without clear cause. On that account, since the founding of this village, it is not al-lowed to use fried ingredients,” said the local temple priest, Jro Penyarikan Datar.
At the end of the ceremony, all people do worship together and it is resumed with the provision of holy water. Such annual ritual is performed exactly in the sasih ketiga (around August-September) by presenting the harvest yields as an expression of gratitude of local people to the Almighty God, in this case is manifested as the goddess of fertility. (ina)
AP Photo/NASA
NASA’s Global Hawk 872 Takes off for HS3 Science Flight #5 on Tuesday Sept. 4, 2012 less than 5 hours after NASA 871 landed at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.
NASA launches drones from to study stormsAssociated Press Writer
ATLANTIC, Virginia — NASA scientists are using former military surveillance drones to help them understand more about how tropical storms intensify, which they say could ultimately save lives by improving forecast models that predict a hurricane’s strength.
AP Photo/Denis Farrell
In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 Dylan Laas shows how his Robohand works during an interview with the Associated Press in Johannesburg.
Robohand uses 3-D printing to replace lost digits
IBP/File Photo
Domestic tourists and foreign tourists packed at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali Island. The effort to create a standard hotel room rate in Bali got the support from the lineups of tour-ism industry. They hoped that by setting the lowest hotel room rates of each hotel classification could prevent Bali from becoming a gimcrack tourism.
Lowest standard of hotel room rates
Prevent Bali from being a gimcrack tourismBali Post
DENPASAR - The effort to create a standard hotel room rate in Bali got the support from the lineups of tourism indus-try. They hoped that by setting the lowest hotel room rates of each hotel classification could prevent Bali from becoming a gimcrack tourism.
Ngusabha Tagtag People banned from using fries
IBP/Ina
Thousands of offerings in the form of tegen-tegenan (a set of oblations usu-ally carried on shoulder). Thousands of those offerings are borne by men of local residents.
Bali News International4 Friday, September 13, 2013 Friday, September 13, 2013 13International RLDW
That day, fighter jets unleashed an attack on the La Moneda presi-dential palace, and tanks and sol-diers surrounded the building as it burst into flames. Allende, then the democratically elected presi-dent, committed suicide rather than surrender to the coup plotters led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
“After 40 years, the time has come not to forget but rather to overcome the traumas of the past,” said Pinera, Chile’s first right-of-center president since the country’s return to democracy in 1990.
Allende’s family, sympathiz-ers and former members of his
personal guard later held a min-ute of silence in his memory at a statue of the late Marxist leader outside the presidential palace, which is engraved with his last words: “I have faith in Chile and its destiny.”
“We remember this honorable man, this social fighter, who plant-ed hope and dreams in Chile,” his daughter, Sen. Isabel Allende, said at the event. “He taught us that deep changes were needed to achieve a different society and that we must work for the poor, for the workers, for the dignity of our people,” she added.
Allende launched what he
called “the Chilean path to social-ism,” nationalizing the copper industry that had been dominated by U.S. companies and using the money to fund land redistribu-tion while improving health care, education and literacy. U.S. offi-cials approved a covert campaign to foster a sense of economic chaos and provoke the military takeover.
The coup was initially backed by many Chileans fed up with hyperinflation, food shortages and factory takeovers. But it de-stroyed a system they had proudly described as Latin America’s strongest democracy.
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Allegations of US spying on Brazil’s president and on its state oil company raise “legitimate questions”, a US official said during talks with Brazil’s foreign minister.
Luiz Alberto Figueiredo met US National Security Adviser Susan Rice to discuss reports of the reported surveillance by the National Security Agency.
Rice told Figueiredo “the United States understands that recent disclo-sures in the press - some of which have distorted our activities and some of which raise legitimate questions for our friends and allies about how these capabilities are employed -- have created tensions...,” spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said after the talks.
“The United States is committed to working with Brazil to address these concerns...,” she added.
Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo has reported that the NSA eavesdropped on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, some of her aides and the state oil giant Petrobras.
They based their reports on information from Glenn Greenwald, a blogger and columnist for the Guardian newspaper, who got secret files from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
When the first allegations emerged at the beginning of the month, Bra-zil’s government summoned the US ambassador over the affair.
Rousseff has also halted preparations for a visit to the United States, scheduled for October 23, pending an explanation from Washington over the allegations.
The alleged US espionage targeting Petrobras however will not delay an oil field auction scheduled for next month, a Brazilian government official was quoted as saying this week. The discovery of the enormous so-called Libra field marked the largest oil discovery in Brazilian history.
It is believed to hold between eight and 12 billion barrels of recoverable oil, and covers an area of 1,500 square kilometers in ultra deep oil fields detected in 2007.
Figueiredo did not speak with reporters after the discussions, but a diplomatic source told AFP he would remain in Washington overnight Wednesday, and that the talks would continue.
Associated Press Writer
WARSAW, Poland - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met speakers of Poland’s parliament to discuss ways of building democracy that could help in reforming her own country.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is on a visit to Europe’s young democracies, which shed communism two decades ago, to learn about their experience in building civic society. She will also visit Hungary and the Czech Republic.
On Wednesday, she held talks with lower house speaker, Ewa Kopacz, and Senate Speaker Bogdan Borusewicz. On Thursday, she will meet President Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and address Warsaw University students. Poland has been supporting Myanmar’s pro-democracy drive.
Suu Kyi first came to Europe last year and visited Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, England and France.
Chile marks 40th anniversary of Pinochet’s coup
AP Photo / Luis HidalgoA woman attends a candlelight vigil in the dressing rooms of the National Stadium marking the events that launched a bloody 17-year dictatorship, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013.
Associated Press Writer
SANTIAGO, Chile - President Sebastian Pinera marked the 40th anniversary of the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende on Wednesday by urging Chileans to heal from - but never forget - the events of Sept. 11, 1973, that launched a bloody 17-year dictatorship.
Brazil spy claims raise ‘legitimate questions’: US
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi meets top Polish lawmakers
Amlapura (Bali Post)—Due to water pumps of spring pipeline of Jagrasatru,
Datah, Abang subdistrict, has been damaged since two months ago, the water supplies to the arid regions like Bidong and Saab Hill disconnected. Residents whose rainwater reservoir has dried up are difficult to get clean water.
A resident of Saab Hill, Mangku Ketut Sudiana, told reporters on Wednesday (Sep 11) that for two months the water pump of the Jagrasatru spring pipeline had been out of order at the bottom of the river next to the center of the village. Machine of the pump had not been repaired. Since the residents faced clean water crisis, his party asked for help to the government in order the residents could be provided with clean water. Last Wednesday, two tanks of water were supplied by the Karangasem Social Services.
Clean water was stored in the public water tank in the east of Mangku Sudiana’s house. Later on, local residents in need of clean water could collect there. Aside from the residents on the mountainous area of Datah, the residents at Tianyar Barat in Kubu also faced similar water crisis in this dry season.
Chairman of Commission B of the Karangasem House, Nyoman Oka Antara, delivered that residents on the mountainous area of Kubu, including the Peradi hamlet, Tianyar Barat, also faced clean water crisis. Oka Antara from Taman Sari hamlet, Tianyar Barat, delivered that his party in the House had bought around eight tanks of water. A tank of water was only enough for a week. At Taman Sari hamlet, the price of clean water reached IDR 120,000 per tank for consumers whose reservoir located near the road. However, at Peradi the price of water could reach IDR 150,000. Even, it could be higher depending on the distance and road conditions.
Meanwhile, the residents of Butus, Buana Giri vil-lage, Karangasem, also experienced water problems. One of the residents, Komang Cengked, expressed he had routinely purchased clean water at IDR 125,000 per fiber tank. “Our village is indeed rich in quarry C materials, but the residents at Butus and surrounding areas remain to face clean water crisis. Formerly, the official has promised the clean water pipeline project to our village, but there has been no realization so far,” he said. (013)
Implementation of the spiritual tourism visit was commenced by a group photo session for the 130 contestants in the temple outermost courtyard. Then, it was resumed with a formal reception in front of the Besakih Temple by the Regent of Karangasem and Chairman of the House. After that, 65 contestants came into the temple innermost courtyard or Penataran Agung to say prayers according to Hindu tradition in Bali. “The welcoming ceremony was performed by the Regent of Karangasem. Afterward, the contestants were divided into two groups, where the first group joined the prayers and the second enjoyed the beauty of the temple compound at Besakih,” said Arif Suditomo.
Further, the prayers performed by 65 beautiful angels took place
very solemnly. They could un-dertake each stage appropriately in accordance with the directives from the guide of prayers. It was officiated over by Jero Mangku Sueca as well as Gusti Mangku Jana as praying guide and Tony as interpreter, assisted by dozens of other participating temple priests.
Meanwhile, 65 other con-testants that did not attend the prayers at the Penataran Agung were invited to enjoy the beauty of panorama outside the Penat-aran Agung of Besakih. Besides, there were also taught to try Balinese dance by local girls in the Wantilan Suci, Besakih. “The contestants who did not partici-pate in the prayers will enjoy the culture and natural beauty of Besakih Temple and its surround-ings,” Arif added. (nik)
The contestants of Miss World Peagant pose after visiting Besakih Temple.
Miss World 2013 in Besakih Temple
Hundreds of angels back from heaven on the Island of the Gods Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Though getting no support from the Indonesian government, the visit of the beauty pageant contestant was still held in order the contestant from 130 countries could learn spiritual tourism on the Island of the Gods. A total of 130 contestants of Miss World were like angels returning to heaven where they visited Besakih Temple as the largest Hindu temple perched at the foot of Mount Agung, Karangasem, Wednesday (Sep 11).
Water pump out of order Residents of Bidong and Saab Hill in clean water crisis
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NEW YORK CITY - International Paper said Wednesday it would close an Alabama plant amid falling paper demand as US consumers switch to online alternatives.
IP, a leading US global paper and paper products company, said it had tried unsuccessfully to avoid closing its Courtland Mill, based in Courtland, Alabama.
The closure affects 1,100 employees.The mill will be shut down in stages to be com-
pleted by the end of the first quarter of 2014, the company said in a statement.
The move will reduce IP’s North American uncoated and coated paper for forms, envelopes, labels, copiers, printers and magazines by 950,000 tons.
“This decision to permanently close capacity is primarily being driven by demand decline for
uncoated freesheet paper products in the United States,” John Faraci, IP chairman and chief execu-tive, said in the statement.
The demand for uncoated freesheet in North America has been in decline since 1999, the com-pany said, and has recently accelerated “as consum-ers continue to switch to electronic alternatives such as online publications and electronic billing and filing.”
“We explored numerous business and re-purpos-ing options for the Courtland Mill, but concluded that permanently closing the mill best positions the business for the future,” said Tim Nicholls, senior vice president of Printing and Communications Papers.
IP employs about 70,000 people worldwide.The Memphis, Tennessee-based company said
the closure would result in write-off and deprecia-tion charges of about $550 million and other charges of $125 million to be taken this year and in 2014.
After just barely pulling back from the precipice, industry is picking up, home prices are gain-ing, banks are stable and American consumers have started spending -- albeit still with great caution.
But the millions still jobless, and an economy still needing stimulus, shows the scars have yet to heal.
“I wouldn’t say we’re anywhere near having a fantastic situation again,” says Harvard economics professor Kenneth Rogoff.
“But at least the economy has stabilized and is now moderately robust.”
The economy was already strug-gling under the housing market collapse when on September 15, 2008, Lehman crumbled and the government’s decision not to save it sent a shock down Wall Street.
The fall of the century-old US investment banking stalwart deto-nated an implosion in the US finan-cial sector that reverberated around the globe.
The government quickly mo-
bilized more than $420 billion to prop up other banks and automak-ers General Motors and Chrysler, whose collapse would have meant hundreds of thousands more jobs lost.
But that was not enough to con-tain the hemorrhage.
In the 12 months from Septem-ber 2008, unemployment rocketed from 6.1 percent to 9.8 percent. The economy melted down, contracting at an 8.3 percent annual rate in the final quarter of 2008.
With receipts sinking and inter-vention costs rising, the govern-ment deficit soared to $1.4 trillion, from 3.2 percent of gross domestic product to 10.1 percent by 2009.
“It was a very risky period, we could have had a new Great Depres-sion,” said Rogoff.
Five years later, that nightmare has passed. With the exception of a mild relapse in early 2011, the economy has been growing steadily, if slowly, since the au-tumn of 2009.
US still on the mend, 5 years after Lehman collapse
In this Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013, file photo, a home is for sale in San Diego. It is an anniver-
sary without celebration: five years after the implosion of banking giant Lehman Brothers
sparked the worst crisis in generations, the US can say it avoided catastrophe.
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WASHINGTON - It is an anniversary without celebration: five years after the implosion of banking giant Lehman Brothers sparked the worst crisis in generations, the US can say it avoided catastrophe.
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AntaraDENPASAR - The Udayana University in Denpasar,
Bali, is set to host the 10th World Education Congress, a meeting for private universities around the world, on Sept. 23 and 24.
Udayana University’s Rector Prof Dr I Ketut Suastika noted in Denpasar on Wednesday that education issues faced recently by private universities would be on the agenda, and the congress would operate under the theme of “teaching to build peace.”
“The congress was supposed to be held in Argentina, but the venue was changed to Bali,” he said.
According to Suastika, Bali will be the first Asian country to hold the event.
Bali was selected as a venue because many interna-tional events have been held successfully on the Hindu-majority island, which is home to a significant number of private universities, he added.
The congress expects attendance from 130 partici-
pants from 17 countries. Prominent persons, such as Indonesia’s Education and Cultural Minister M Nuh and the UNESCO envoy, are scheduled to deliver speeches at the event.
Initiated by the World Confederation of Private Edu-cation (COMEP), the first World Education Congress was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1990. Last year’s congress was hosted in Madrid, Spain.
The COMEP was established to promote the right to education that respects pluralism, to foster the devel-opment of education around the world, and to uphold and defend the human right to education in general and cultural expression.
The confederation also aims to encourage the forma-tion of federations and associations of private entities around the world, to support the establishment and maintenance of private educational institutes, and to foster the professionalism and career development of teachers working in the private sector.
“We hope the visit will boost Karangasem’s tourism potential. I am quite sure of that,” Karangasem Regent Wayan Geredeg said here on Wednesday, noting that the district had not yet been promoted properly as a tourist destination.
The arrival of Miss World contestants from a total of 130 countries, he continued, would provide the momentum needed to promote Karangasem as a global tourism destination.
“We gave them brochures and videos that provide information about the various tourist spots here,” Wayan stated, adding that he had expressed his ap-preciation to the Miss World organizing committee for ensuring the visit of Miss World contestants to the district.
Before arriving at Pura Besakih, the Miss World contestants had visited many tourist spots, such as the Tanah Lot in Tabanan, Garuda Wisnu Kencana in Badung district, as well as Museum Rudana and Bali Safari in Gianyar.
Previously, the Indonesian government had an-nounced that the international beauty pageant would be held only in Bali.
“We have revised the security permit and have al-lowed the event to be held entirely in Bali. Changes have been made to the Miss World activity schedule, in line with public demand and the interests of Indonesian tourism. So the event will be held, but only in Bali,” Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Lak-sono said during a press conference at the residence of vice president Boediono in Jakarta on September 7.
Initially, the contest was scheduled to be held in Bali on September 8, with its final round being in Sentul, Bogor, West Java.
Several Islamic organizations, however, expressed their opposition to the hosting of the event in Indonesia.
Agung said although the participants of the event would not be prevented from visiting other regions in the country, the contest could be held only in Bali.
“Of course, participants of the Miss World contest can visit other tourist destinations, such as Borobudur Temple or Yogya, during their stay in the country,” he stated.
Agung expressed hope that all parties would un-derstand and appreciate the government’s decision, because it was made in the interests of the Indonesian public.
He noted that the government banned the bikini contest - traditionally an integral part of the beauty pageant - because it was considered offensive to In-donesian culture and values.
National police chief General Timur Pradopo stated that local police had been ordered to make the neces-sary security arrangements for the event.
Meanwhile, deputy minister of tourism and creative economy Sapta Nirwandar said the contest organizers had agreed to do away with the bikini contest and make other necessary adjustments in light of protests from many quarters.
“Miss World participants across the world are re-quired to wear two-piece swimsuits during the bikini contest. That was the main reason behind the protests here. But now the contest has been scrapped by the committee. Participants will even be asked to wear local costumes,” he added.
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AMLAPURA - The Miss World 2013 beauty pageant is expected to promote tourism in Karangasem district, Bali province, after the contestants visited the “Pura Besakih” temple there.
AP Photo/Firdia LisnawatiMiss India Navneet Dhillon, center, and other Miss World Pageant contestants are greeted by a Balinese girl during their visit to a Hindu temple in Besakih, Karangasem, Bali on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. The Miss World 2013 beauty pageant is expected to promote tourism in Karangasem district, Bali province, after the contestants visited the “Pura Besakih” temple.
Bali to host 10th world education congress
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Anti-riot police fortified the area around the Los Pinos resi-dence with metal barriers and trucks to keep protesters at bay, with police saying some 12,000 teachers caused huge traffic jams as they marched across the megalopolis.
Some 80 officers used their shields to block advancing pro-testers, raising tensions with both sides pushing one another and coming to blows.
A delegation from a dissident teachers’ union was invited into Los Pinos and were given a meeting with Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong on Thursday.
Striking teachers have camped out in the central Zocalo square for the past three weeks and held several protests that have angered residents frustrated by the extra traffic jams they have caused in the already congested city.
But the teachers failed to stop
Congress from passing Pena Nieto’s reform, which he signed into law on Tuesday.
Smaller protests were held in several other states with thou-sands of teachers blocking a highway connecting Mexico City to the Pacific resort of Acapulco for several hours in the state of Guerrero.
Some 2,000 teachers marched in Oaxaca, where a strike has left 1.3 million children without class since school started last month. Their anger is directed at a reform that strips the power of unions over education and re-quires teachers to undergo man-datory performance evaluations to get jobs and promotions.
The teachers, however, argue that the national test fails to take into account the fact that many work in rural and mountain class-rooms in indigenous villages where standards must adapt to children who learn native lan-guages before Spanish.
Juan Garcia, a leader of the National Education Workers Coordinator (CNTE) union, said the teachers want “the population to join the struggle” against the reform.
The union has not indicated whether it would vacate the Zocalo before Mexico’s inde-pendence day celebration this weekend. City authorities have refrained from using force to remove the teachers.
The president traditionally de-livers the “Cry of Independence” on the night of September 15 from the balcony of the National Palace, facing the Zocalo. A mili-tary parade is held at the square the next day.
Garcia said that “the next hours will be decisive to deter-mine the action (the teachers take) on September 16.”
Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong insisted Tuesday that the independence celebration will take place at the Zocalo.
Associated Press Writer
TOKYO - Japan on Thursday hanged a 73-year-old man convicted of murder and robbery, the country’s sixth execution of the year. The Justice Ministry said the hanging was carried out in Tokyo. The man had shot to death a restaurant owner in 2004, stealing his bag containing 400,000 yen ($4,000) in cash.
Japan executed three inmates in February and two in April. There are 132 inmates currently on death row.
All executions in the country are done by hanging. Human rights groups have widely criticized Japan for continuing capital punish-ment, but polls show the public supports the system.
Japan’s government releases few details about executions, and in-mates are not informed of their pending execution until immediately before it is carried out.
Associated Press Writer
LONDON - Prince Harry says he loves being an uncle, telling children at an awards ceremony that he’d just witnessed the baby who may one day be king crack a smile.
Harry, who was pushed back to fourth-in-line to the British throne fol-lowing the birth of his brother’s son, Prince George, said Wednesday he’d just visited the 1 ½-month-old royal, who was taking a bath.
Harry told 9-year-old Nikki Christou that it was the “first time I’ve seen him smile.” The prince seems to have warmed to his new family role, telling Mary Kirk, the mother of another child, that being an uncle was “fantastic.”
The ceremony was hosted by the WellChild charity, which is dedi-cated to the needs of sick children and their families.
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Striking teachers intending to block a main avenue, try to get past a wall of riot police, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013.
Thousands of teachers protest Mexico education law
Thousands of teachers demonstrated in Mexico City, some clashing with police keeping them away from President Enrique Pena Nieto’s residence, one day after he signed a controversial education reform.
Japan hangs murder convict; 6th execution of year
Prince Harry loves being uncle, sees nephew smile
As children of some of the men who were massacred without trial looked on, Dutch ambassador to Indonesia Tjeerd De Zwaan offered a state apology during a ceremony at the Dutch embassy in Jakarta.
“On behalf of the Dutch gov-ernment, I apologise for these excesses,” said the ambassador.
“The Dutch government hopes that this apology will help close a difficult chapter for those whose lives were impacted so directly by the violent excesses that took place between 1945 and 1949.”
He was referring to the years of the Indonesian war of indepen-dence, when the sprawling archi-pelago nation sought to shake off Dutch colonial rule.
The Hague had previously said sorry to the relatives of those in
particular cases but it has before never offered a general apology for all summary executions.
Last month the Dutch govern-ment also announced that it would pay 20,000 euros ($26,600) to the widows of those killed.
Special attention was given at Thursday’s ceremony to the wid-ows of men killed during a brutal campaign on Sulawesi island in central Indonesia.
The Dutch government in August compensated 10 women whose husbands were executed by its army in the “South Su-lawesi Campaign” of 1946 and 1947, and their children were those present at the Jakarta cer-emony.
The ambassado r s a id he planned to fly next week to Makassar, the capital of South
Sulawesi province, to meet the widows, who are aged between 90 and 100.
One of the worst atrocities committed by the Netherlands in Indonesia, the campaign saw Dutch troops carry out summary executions in a series of villages over three months in a bid to wipe out resistance to colonisation.
Some in Indones i a have claimed the death toll was as high as 40,000 but historical studies have put it at several thousand.
In 2011 the Dutch government also offered a public apology and compensation for victims of summary executions which took place at Rawagede, on the main island of Java.
Thousands of Indonesians were killed in the war of indepen-dence, which ended in 1949.
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JAKARTA - Indonesian farmers in a province at the centre of South-east Asia’s worst smog outbreak for years have filed a lawsuit against the president in response to the haze crisis, activists said Wednesday.
Environmental groups Tuesday filed the class-action lawsuit at the Ja-karta High Court on behalf of farmers from five villages in Riau province on Sumatra island.
They argue President Susilo Bam-bang Yudhoyono has not done enough to curb activities, such as slash-and-burn land clearance and logging, that lead to climate change, and their lives are being deeply affected.
In June, raging fires set to clear land in Riau cloaked the province and neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore in smog, with the haze hitting the worst levels for more than a decade.
Riau is at the centre of Indone-sia’s booming palm oil industry, and illegal slash-and-burn clearance is common, as it is the quickest and cheapest method for land to be con-verted for use as plantations.
A coalition of green groups filed the lawsuit, including forest protec-tion group Jikalahari, which said the severe haze this year had prompted the action and had “deeply affected the communities”.
“This haze affects all activities -- work, school, and even leads to flights being cancelled,” Muslim Rasyid, head of the Riau-based group, told AFP.
As well as Yudhoyono, the for-estry and environment ministers and the Riau governor are accused in the lawsuit.
“The president and his ministers have done little to protect commu-nities from the effects of climate change,” added Riko Kurniawan, director of Friends of the Earth in Riau.
Yudhoyono vowed in 2009 to reduce Indonesia’s carbon emissions by at least 26 percent by 2020. To achieve this goal, the government has suspended the issuance of new land-clearing permits.
But activists say the moves have been ineffective with land clear-ance, both legal and illegal, still rampant, and fires often the method of choice.
Indonesia, home to around 10 percent of the world’s tropical for-est, has rapidly lost masses of its biodiverse jungle in recent decades to make way for paper and palm oil plantations.
The country is the world’s big-gest supplier of palm oil, the most commonly used vegetable oil found in everyday grocery items, like biscuits and shampoo.
AntaraLEBAK - The Masterplan for
Acceleration and Expansion of In-donesia’s Economic Development (MP3EI) is aimed at regulating economic development across In-donesia, a minister has said.
“With the extraordinary MP3EI program, disadvantaged regions will be a thing of the past in Indone-sia by 2025,” Coordinating Minister for Economy Hatta Rajasa stated here on Thursday.
Speaking at the dedication and ground-breaking ceremony of the PT Cemendo Gemilang’s Merah Putih cement plant project, the minister explained that the MP3EI was extraordinary because of the involvement of both private and state-owned companies.
He noted that the government was no longer financing the devel-
opment of Indonesia’s infrastruc-ture, which is necessary to improve the nation’s economy.
Rajasa said there were 146 MP3EI projects under develop-ment, including toll roads, bridges, airports, and seaports, which are being completed with a total invest-ment of some Rp300 trillion.
He pointed out that 35.08 percent of the funds for these projects was provided by private parties, 26.08 percent by state-owned companies (BUMN), and 15.03 percent by the government.
“Therefore, we encourage the private companies and BUMN to fund the development of the coun-try’s infrastructure,” Rajasa stated, adding that investment in these projects has reached only Rp647 trillion, whereas it was projected to reach Rp4,000 trillion in 2014.
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Indonesian workers hold the iron beam at an apartment construction site in Jakarta, In-donesia, Tuesday, Sept 10. 2013.
Netherlands apologises for Indonesian colonial killingsAgence France-Presse
JAKARTA - The Netherlands sought to “close a difficult chapter” with its former colony In-donesia on Thursday by publicly apologising for summary executions carried out by the Dutch army in the 1940s.
MPE3I to regulate economic development
Farmers take legal action against president over haze
Moments of silence were observed at 9:03 am, the time when the second tower was hit; 9:37 am, the time of the Pentagon attack; and 10:03 am, when a fourth airliner crashed in Pennsylvania after pas-sengers intervened.
Relatives gathered at the 9/11 Memorial around the two huge black fountains that mark the footprints of the Twin Towers -- which collapsed in the attacks -- for the ritual reading of the names of the dead.
That list has 2,983 names in all: the 9/11 victims, plus those killed in the precursor to those attacks, the 1993 car bombing of the World Trade Center.
Some relatives brought photos of the dead, while others left roses near the spot where their loved ones’ names are etched into the memorial.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and state Governor Andrew Cuo-mo attended the ceremony, as did New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
At the Pentagon, Obama remembered American soldiers, diplomats and intelligence agents who had died since 2001, and said the long ground war in Afghanistan is entering its final chapter, as most US troops withdraw next year.
The president also paid tribute to the four Americans killed in a 9/11 attack last year on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya -- which sparked a political furor over White House explanations about who was to blame.
An explosion, meanwhile, caused serious damage to a Libyan foreign ministry building in Benghazi on Wednesday.
Following the Pentagon ceremony, Obama volunteered at a food bank that offers meals to people with serious illnesses, saying remem-brances of the attacks should also include “the incredible outpouring of neighbors helping neighbors.”
And at the US Capitol, hundreds of lawmakers marked the anniver-sary singing “God Bless America,” -- which members of the House and Senate had sung 12 years ago shortly after the attacks.
Annyversary of 9/11...
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There’s the fleet of exotic cars in three different cities, and the mansion where Mayweather and his entourage hang out. Rappers and other boxers drop in occasion-ally, and on payday Mayweather hands out stacks of $100 bills to the considerable number of people in his employ.
It’s big, flashy, and about as real as reality TV gets. But as Mayweather prepares for Saturday night’s fight against undefeated Mexican star Canelo Alvarez, we’ve learned even more. So here’s a few tidbits about Mayweather you may not have known:
- He likes cheeseburgers. At 3 in the morning on the Las Vegas Strip, he and the posse can often be found throwing a few down at Fatburger.
- He gets sad sometimes watch-ing kids box in his gym when his sons have no interest in the sport. “Does that hurt me?” he asks. “Ab-solutely.”
- He can lose at the sports book. Mayweather loves to post pictures on Twitter with six-figure wins on
his bets, but acknowledged this week he lost a big bet Monday night on the Houston Texans.
- He can name every car on du-Pont Registry, his favorite online shopping site. He owns many of them, almost all in white and in fleets at homes in Las Vegas, Miami and Los Angeles.
- He spends big money, some-times as much as $200,000, for handbags for his female friends. Then he buys them something called Baginizers to make sure ev-erything inside is organized.
- He’s in business with a Chinese company that manufactures his The Money Team apparel. His busi-ness partner is named China Mike “because everybody’s got to have a nickname.”
Mayweather has a nickname, too, though it’s different than the one he had when he first started boxing professionally 17 years ago. He was Pretty Boy Floyd then, before America discovered him as the villain they would pay to watch and before he had the cars and the
mansion on a golf course.He’s Money May now, and he’s
the highest paid athlete in the coun-try. On Saturday night he’ll make at least $41 million to fight Alvarez, bringing his take for the year in two fights to a whopping $73 million.
That’s a lot of cheeseburgers, and a lot of handbags. But Mayweather earns it because he has delivered wins in all 44 of his fights. People who don’t like him will pay to see if he’ll lose, and his fans will reach into their pock-ets to cheer him on for another win.
The pay-per-view will cost a record $75 this time, leading pro-moters to boast that this could be the richest fight ever, surpassing the 2007 bout between Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya. That may or may not happen, but the idea that Alvarez might be the one fighter with the stuff to finally beat May-weather has made this one of the most anticipated fights in years.
Mayweather was a less-than-fashionable 37 minutes late to the final prefight press conference Wednesday at the MGM Grand hotel casino, not that it mattered. It was such a low-key affair that even those on the dais seemed to want to be somewhere else.
Associated Press Writer
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Forward Renaldas Seibutis scored 15 points and Lithuania shut down Tony Parker to beat France 76-62 at the start of the second round of the European basketball championships.
Serbia beat Belgium 76-69 and Latvia routed Ukraine 85-51 in earlier matches on Wednesday. France, although loaded with NBA players, could not cope with Lithuania’s speed and fell behind by 10 midway through the third quarter.
Center Jonas Valanciunas of the Toronto Raptors added 13 points on 6-for-6 shooting from the field to go with six rebounds. He had a dunk, then grabbed an offensive rebound and put in the tip-in to give Lithuania a 14-point lead with less than three minutes to go. Seibutis made four straight free throws and France could not come back.
Nando de Colo, who plays for the San Antonio Spurs with Parker, led France with 12 points, including five late in the game. Parker struggled in finishing with 11 points, including just three after half time.
“The plan was to do everything to stop him. Not only his scoring but his ability to create movement,” Valanciunas said.
France finished the first round as the tournament’s top scoring team but was held well below its 80.6 points-per-game average. Lithuania played tough perimeter defense, holding France to just 24 percent shooting from three-point range.
“We tried to get the ball inside but they closed down everything and when you don’t make shots from the perimeter it gets to be difficult,” France forward Boris Diaw said. Guard Stefan Markovic scored five straight points to secure Serbia an unexpectedly tough victory over Belgium.
With Serbia up by two, Markovic nailed a 3-pointer and then sank two free throws to give his team a seven-point lead with less than two minutes remaining.
Serbia held on to win over a team considered an underdog and took a big step toward securing a slot in the quarterfinals.
“Maybe we were a little relaxed going into the match because we knew that we already had four points (in the standings),” said Serbia’s captain Nenad Krstic, who led Serbia with 17 points.
Belgium opened the game with an 8-0 run and the Serbs had to work hard to catch up. “Maybe we didn’t expect them to start in such a way,” Serbia coach Dusan Ivkovic said.
AP Photo/Darko VojinovicBosnia’s Marko Sutalo, center challenges for the ball with Montenegro’s Sead Sehovic, left, Suad Sehovic, top and Bojan Dubljevic, during their EuroBasket European Basketball Cham-pionship Group B match in Podmezakla Arena , in Jesenice, Slovenia, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013.
Lithuania beats France; Serbia, Latvia notch wins
AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John LocherBoxers Floyd Mayweather, left, and Canelo Alvarez pose during a press conference in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013.
Mayweather lives the life with $41 million paydayAssociated Press Writer
LAS VEGAS - By now, most people who care know as much about Floyd Mayweather Jr. as they’ll ever need to know, thanks to the reality TV shows he stars in for every big fight.
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Dasar Temple is located in Gelgel village which belongs to Klungkung District. It is located about 3 kilo-meters to the South of Semarapura town. This temple is an important temple in Bali because it is one of Kahyangan Jagat Temples ( Kahyan-gan Jagat means a general temple where all layers of populated clans may worship there ). The Hindu fol-lower of all stratum and origins come to worship to this antique and artistic architecture temple.
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Soccer’s richest club by in-come, who like champions Barca have a perfect nine points from three matches, splashed a record 100 million euros ($133 million) to secure Bale’s services and he could make his debut at promoted Villarreal in Saturday’s late kick-off (2000 GMT).
The 24-year-old winger played the final half hour of Wales’s 3-0 World Cup qualification defeat at home to Serbia on Tuesday, his first competitive action since July, and coach Chris Coleman warned afterwards it would be unwise for him to play a full match this weekend considering
Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea — Shinji Kagawa had little choice but to make his frustration public, knowing that a lack of game time at Manchester United could have ramifications for his World Cup aspirations with Japan.
With the countdown on to Brazil 2014 and competition for places increasing, even the big-gest names from the Asian region know that they can’t afford to be sitting on the bench for their clubs. And Kagawa is the highest-profile of the benchwarmers.
The fact that he is yet to play a single minute of Manchester United’s three games this English Premier League season has been debated at length in England and Japan.
The midfielder sat on the bench for 90 minutes against Swansea City and Chelsea and failed to even make the first-team squad against Liverpool on Sept. 1. Kagawa is expected to feature for Manchester United soon as club coach David Moyes has hinted that the midfielder is not fully fit — although Kagawa scored for his country against Uruguay on Aug. 14, contributed to a goal in the 3-0 win over Guatemala on Sept. 6 and then scored against Ghana four days later.
“ I t ’ s been frustrat-ing not playing but there is a lot of time left and to score a goal like that gives me confidence,” Kagawa, who will be hoping to face Crystal Palace on Saturday in England, told reporters after the 3-1 win over Ghana on Tuesday.
Kagawa is not the only Asian star desperate for game time in the European leagues. Japan captain left German club Wolfsburg to join Nuremburg just before European transfer deadline on Sept. 2 in a bid to play more. Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni admitted that he selected Hasebe and Kagawa against Guatemala and Ghana, at least in part, to give them a chance to play.
Also in England, Japan defender Maya Yoshida is yet to play this season in the Premier League with Southampton.
“Of course my situation and Shinji’s situation is not the same because Manchester United is a bigger team and I think it’s harder” Yoshida said. “They have many games so he has more opportu-nities to play from now on — like the Champions League, FA Cup, and Capital One Cup.”
Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY — To Mexicans, it’s just unthink-
able: Their soccer-crazed country stands a chance
of not qualifying for the World Cup.
Worse yet, it was a 2-0 loss Tuesday night to their bitter northern rival — the U.S. — that has left Mexico out of position for a spot in next year’s 32-nation tournament. The team known as the Tri has only two games left to make up ground.
It’s a front-page disaster. One newspaper calls it the “Tritanic.” A sample of other headlines: “Fiasco,” ‘’Crisis,” ‘’Dreadful.”
“People see this as the country failing them, especially when it means it may not qualify for the World Cup,” said Miguel Angel Lara, an academic who studies sports and society at the Ibero-American University. “Seeing the national team losing like that, two times in a row, really generates hopelessness and disappointment.”
Lara says it hurts Mexicans even more because the losing streak comes only a year after Mexico won the gold medal after beating Brazil 2-1 in the London Olympics, an under-23 tournament. They lost their grip with one disappointing draw
after the next at the supposedly imposing Azteca Stadium, without scoring goals.
“Our frustration is worse. Take away food from a poor man who you’ve been feeding for eight days. Just see what happens,” he said.
Mexico has not missed a World Cup since 1990. But even then it wasn’t because the team lost in their qualifying group, but because FIFA punished it for lying about players’ ages.
Altogether, Mexico has scored only four goals in the North and Central American and Carib-bean finals this year, dropping into fifth place in the group of six countries. The most likely, and even upbeat, scenario is that the team heads to a playoff against New Zealand to qualify for the world tournament.
Fears are also escalating that if Mexico doesn’t go to Brazil for the World Cup, companies that have invested tens of millions for marketing and broadcast rights won’t reap the expected revenue.
Rogelio Roa, commercial director of the sports marketing firm DreaMatch Solutions, says his company estimates that consumer brands and TV stations won’t make about $600 million in selling products and services if Mexico stays home.
“It is worrying all of us involved in the indus-try,” he said. “I am confident that Mexico can overcome this.”
Reuters
LONDON - Arsenal fans waited a long time for a big summer signing and when the club smashed its transfer record on Mesut Ozil on deadline day the international break meant another delay before they could feast their eyes on him in club colours.
The Germany international, signed from Real Madrid for 42 million pounds ($66.03 million), was a huge coup for manager Arsene Wenger and after scor-ing in a World Cup qualifier in the Faroe Islands in midweek Ozil is set for his debut at Sunderland on Saturday.
England’s north east coast is a little more hospitable than windswept Torshavn but nevertheless Ozil will quickly learn about the physical demands of English football against a Sunderland side desper-ate to kickstart their season.
Ozil is not the only player anxious to make an instant impression for a new club as the domestic season swings back into action after World Cup distractions. Marouane Fellaini will be eager to pull on a Manchester United shirt for the first time after his 27.5 million pounds deadline day move from Everton.
Like Arsenal, United were quiet in the transfer window but the introduction of Belgian midfielder Fellaini will give David Moyes’ side some added venom as they host newcomers Crystal Palace at Old Trafford, having managed only one win from their opening three Premier League games.
Everton will have Gareth Barry (on loan from Manchester City) in their ranks
as they take on Chelsea although striker Romelu Lukaku will not make his debut because of Premier League rules on loaned players playing against their mother club.
RAISED EYEBROWS
Ozil’s departure from Real Madrid in the wake of the Spanish giants’ world record signing of Gareth Bale for 100 million euros ($132.66 million) raised plenty of eyebrows across Europe and even Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla admitted being surprised he had been allowed to leave.
“I am very happy that Ozil is here. He is a spectacular player and we are very lucky that we are going to learn alongside him,” Cazorla told Spanish newspaper Marca this week.
“I don’t understand that (why Real Madrid sold him), he is a unique player. You will have to ask the club for reasons why they sold them, but at the same time he didn’t think he was getting the op-portunities he deserved. “Luckily he has come to us.”
Ozil had more assists than any other player in Europe last season and is regarded as a magician capable of unlocking the meanest defences, yet it remains to be seen whether Arsenal have the forwards to capitalise.
“I want to improve myself further and I’m looking forward to the style of play,” Ozil said of his new team.
“Arsenal are well known for the strength of their technical game and their desire to play attacking football. “I think I will fit perfectly into that.”
Reuters LONDON - England manager Roy
Hodgson has launched a staunch defence of his team after his side’s performance in the 0-0 draw in Ukraine on Tuesday drew widespread criticism. A point from a forgettable match in Kiev kept England on course for next year’s World Cup finals but the negative tactics and lack of flair were seen as further evidence that Hodgson’s side are falling behind the world’s best.
Former England striker Gary Lineker and now BBC presenter described the performance as “woeful”.
However, Hodgson seemed baffled by the reaction and took Lineker to task. “I’m sur-prised anyone who has played for England, captained England and played in games of this nature can be that critical,” Hodgson was quoted in British newspapers.
“This is the second time. My disap-
pointment would be that I saw Gary Lineker play, I remember him captaining the team and playing some great games for England but I’m also pretty sure he played in some games when it wasn’t easy and I don’t think every game he played for England was a total success.
“I try to placate most people but I’m afraid I’ve just seen a group of players missing seven first-team members beat Moldova 4-0 and come to Ukraine and draw 0-0. “You can criticise us or praise us or do whatever you want to do but don’t think you’re going to put words into my mouth or get me agreeing with these opinions.” Hodgson said Lineker was out of step with the public.
“I will be surprised if I’m walking down the street in the next few weeks and people aren’t actually saying ‘You did well in those two games.’ I’d be surprised. But we’ll see.”
Real unlikely to overburden Bale at VillarrealReuters
MADRID - Barcelona have been careful to break new recruit Neymar in gently during the opening weeks of the La Liga sea-son and Real Madrid are likely to follow a similar policy with Gareth Bale, even with several key players carrying injuries.
AP Photo/Matt Dunham
Wales’ Gareth Bale controls the ball during
their World Cup Group A qualifying soccer match
against Serbia at Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff,
Wales, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013.
Benched Kagawa’s concerns valid ahead of World Cup
AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File
FILE - In this July 22, 2013 file photo, Manchester United’s Shinji Kagawa listens to a reporter’s question during a news conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo.
Despair, frustration follow Mexico’s loss to US Stage set for Ozil to
launch his Arsenal career
Hodgson launches defence of England tactics
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his relative lack of fitness.After arriving in the Spanish
capital on Wednesday, Bale had his first workout with his new team mates and although Real have a number of players injured, coach Carlo Ancelotti is unlikely to deploy him from the start at the Madrigal.
Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo, Spain playmaker Isco and Brazil fullback Marcelo all returned from international duty with problems of varying degrees of seriousness. Ronaldo and Isco trained apart from the rest of the squad on Wednesday, while Mar-celo had treatment from medical
staff along with long-term absen-tee Xabi Alonso.
Villarreal, along with Atletico Madrid the only other team to win their opening three games, are eager to test themselves against opponents of Real’s calibre after spending a year in the second division last term.
Under coach Marcelino they have shown real attacking flair and their performances so far this term suggest they are more likely to be challenging for a place in Europe than flirting with relegation come the end of the campaign.
“It’s a chance to show that we can compete with anyone and that we can fight against a team like Madrid,” captain Bruno So-riano told a news conference on Wednesday.
“Last year, we were dreaming about playing these teams and now the opportunity has arrived
and we want to put in a great performance,” the midfielder added. “Person-ally I prefer it if an opponent is at full strength and that the best come so we can take them on.
“Although even if Madrid has some players out, I am sure they will have the same level of quality.”
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Soccer’s richest club by in-come, who like champions Barca have a perfect nine points from three matches, splashed a record 100 million euros ($133 million) to secure Bale’s services and he could make his debut at promoted Villarreal in Saturday’s late kick-off (2000 GMT).
The 24-year-old winger played the final half hour of Wales’s 3-0 World Cup qualification defeat at home to Serbia on Tuesday, his first competitive action since July, and coach Chris Coleman warned afterwards it would be unwise for him to play a full match this weekend considering
Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea — Shinji Kagawa had little choice but to make his frustration public, knowing that a lack of game time at Manchester United could have ramifications for his World Cup aspirations with Japan.
With the countdown on to Brazil 2014 and competition for places increasing, even the big-gest names from the Asian region know that they can’t afford to be sitting on the bench for their clubs. And Kagawa is the highest-profile of the benchwarmers.
The fact that he is yet to play a single minute of Manchester United’s three games this English Premier League season has been debated at length in England and Japan.
The midfielder sat on the bench for 90 minutes against Swansea City and Chelsea and failed to even make the first-team squad against Liverpool on Sept. 1. Kagawa is expected to feature for Manchester United soon as club coach David Moyes has hinted that the midfielder is not fully fit — although Kagawa scored for his country against Uruguay on Aug. 14, contributed to a goal in the 3-0 win over Guatemala on Sept. 6 and then scored against Ghana four days later.
“ I t ’ s been frustrat-ing not playing but there is a lot of time left and to score a goal like that gives me confidence,” Kagawa, who will be hoping to face Crystal Palace on Saturday in England, told reporters after the 3-1 win over Ghana on Tuesday.
Kagawa is not the only Asian star desperate for game time in the European leagues. Japan captain left German club Wolfsburg to join Nuremburg just before European transfer deadline on Sept. 2 in a bid to play more. Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni admitted that he selected Hasebe and Kagawa against Guatemala and Ghana, at least in part, to give them a chance to play.
Also in England, Japan defender Maya Yoshida is yet to play this season in the Premier League with Southampton.
“Of course my situation and Shinji’s situation is not the same because Manchester United is a bigger team and I think it’s harder” Yoshida said. “They have many games so he has more opportu-nities to play from now on — like the Champions League, FA Cup, and Capital One Cup.”
Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY — To Mexicans, it’s just unthink-
able: Their soccer-crazed country stands a chance
of not qualifying for the World Cup.
Worse yet, it was a 2-0 loss Tuesday night to their bitter northern rival — the U.S. — that has left Mexico out of position for a spot in next year’s 32-nation tournament. The team known as the Tri has only two games left to make up ground.
It’s a front-page disaster. One newspaper calls it the “Tritanic.” A sample of other headlines: “Fiasco,” ‘’Crisis,” ‘’Dreadful.”
“People see this as the country failing them, especially when it means it may not qualify for the World Cup,” said Miguel Angel Lara, an academic who studies sports and society at the Ibero-American University. “Seeing the national team losing like that, two times in a row, really generates hopelessness and disappointment.”
Lara says it hurts Mexicans even more because the losing streak comes only a year after Mexico won the gold medal after beating Brazil 2-1 in the London Olympics, an under-23 tournament. They lost their grip with one disappointing draw
after the next at the supposedly imposing Azteca Stadium, without scoring goals.
“Our frustration is worse. Take away food from a poor man who you’ve been feeding for eight days. Just see what happens,” he said.
Mexico has not missed a World Cup since 1990. But even then it wasn’t because the team lost in their qualifying group, but because FIFA punished it for lying about players’ ages.
Altogether, Mexico has scored only four goals in the North and Central American and Carib-bean finals this year, dropping into fifth place in the group of six countries. The most likely, and even upbeat, scenario is that the team heads to a playoff against New Zealand to qualify for the world tournament.
Fears are also escalating that if Mexico doesn’t go to Brazil for the World Cup, companies that have invested tens of millions for marketing and broadcast rights won’t reap the expected revenue.
Rogelio Roa, commercial director of the sports marketing firm DreaMatch Solutions, says his company estimates that consumer brands and TV stations won’t make about $600 million in selling products and services if Mexico stays home.
“It is worrying all of us involved in the indus-try,” he said. “I am confident that Mexico can overcome this.”
Reuters
LONDON - Arsenal fans waited a long time for a big summer signing and when the club smashed its transfer record on Mesut Ozil on deadline day the international break meant another delay before they could feast their eyes on him in club colours.
The Germany international, signed from Real Madrid for 42 million pounds ($66.03 million), was a huge coup for manager Arsene Wenger and after scor-ing in a World Cup qualifier in the Faroe Islands in midweek Ozil is set for his debut at Sunderland on Saturday.
England’s north east coast is a little more hospitable than windswept Torshavn but nevertheless Ozil will quickly learn about the physical demands of English football against a Sunderland side desper-ate to kickstart their season.
Ozil is not the only player anxious to make an instant impression for a new club as the domestic season swings back into action after World Cup distractions. Marouane Fellaini will be eager to pull on a Manchester United shirt for the first time after his 27.5 million pounds deadline day move from Everton.
Like Arsenal, United were quiet in the transfer window but the introduction of Belgian midfielder Fellaini will give David Moyes’ side some added venom as they host newcomers Crystal Palace at Old Trafford, having managed only one win from their opening three Premier League games.
Everton will have Gareth Barry (on loan from Manchester City) in their ranks
as they take on Chelsea although striker Romelu Lukaku will not make his debut because of Premier League rules on loaned players playing against their mother club.
RAISED EYEBROWS
Ozil’s departure from Real Madrid in the wake of the Spanish giants’ world record signing of Gareth Bale for 100 million euros ($132.66 million) raised plenty of eyebrows across Europe and even Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla admitted being surprised he had been allowed to leave.
“I am very happy that Ozil is here. He is a spectacular player and we are very lucky that we are going to learn alongside him,” Cazorla told Spanish newspaper Marca this week.
“I don’t understand that (why Real Madrid sold him), he is a unique player. You will have to ask the club for reasons why they sold them, but at the same time he didn’t think he was getting the op-portunities he deserved. “Luckily he has come to us.”
Ozil had more assists than any other player in Europe last season and is regarded as a magician capable of unlocking the meanest defences, yet it remains to be seen whether Arsenal have the forwards to capitalise.
“I want to improve myself further and I’m looking forward to the style of play,” Ozil said of his new team.
“Arsenal are well known for the strength of their technical game and their desire to play attacking football. “I think I will fit perfectly into that.”
Reuters LONDON - England manager Roy
Hodgson has launched a staunch defence of his team after his side’s performance in the 0-0 draw in Ukraine on Tuesday drew widespread criticism. A point from a forgettable match in Kiev kept England on course for next year’s World Cup finals but the negative tactics and lack of flair were seen as further evidence that Hodgson’s side are falling behind the world’s best.
Former England striker Gary Lineker and now BBC presenter described the performance as “woeful”.
However, Hodgson seemed baffled by the reaction and took Lineker to task. “I’m sur-prised anyone who has played for England, captained England and played in games of this nature can be that critical,” Hodgson was quoted in British newspapers.
“This is the second time. My disap-
pointment would be that I saw Gary Lineker play, I remember him captaining the team and playing some great games for England but I’m also pretty sure he played in some games when it wasn’t easy and I don’t think every game he played for England was a total success.
“I try to placate most people but I’m afraid I’ve just seen a group of players missing seven first-team members beat Moldova 4-0 and come to Ukraine and draw 0-0. “You can criticise us or praise us or do whatever you want to do but don’t think you’re going to put words into my mouth or get me agreeing with these opinions.” Hodgson said Lineker was out of step with the public.
“I will be surprised if I’m walking down the street in the next few weeks and people aren’t actually saying ‘You did well in those two games.’ I’d be surprised. But we’ll see.”
Real unlikely to overburden Bale at VillarrealReuters
MADRID - Barcelona have been careful to break new recruit Neymar in gently during the opening weeks of the La Liga sea-son and Real Madrid are likely to follow a similar policy with Gareth Bale, even with several key players carrying injuries.
AP Photo/Matt Dunham
Wales’ Gareth Bale controls the ball during
their World Cup Group A qualifying soccer match
against Serbia at Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff,
Wales, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013.
Benched Kagawa’s concerns valid ahead of World Cup
AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File
FILE - In this July 22, 2013 file photo, Manchester United’s Shinji Kagawa listens to a reporter’s question during a news conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo.
Despair, frustration follow Mexico’s loss to US Stage set for Ozil to
launch his Arsenal career
Hodgson launches defence of England tactics
Mexico’s
Hector
Herrera
walks off
the field
after the
team’s
2-0 loss
to the
United
States in
a World
Cup qual-
ifying
soccer
match
Tuesday,
Sept. 10,
2013,
in Co-
lumbus,
Ohio. AP Photo/Jay LaPrete
his relative lack of fitness.After arriving in the Spanish
capital on Wednesday, Bale had his first workout with his new team mates and although Real have a number of players injured, coach Carlo Ancelotti is unlikely to deploy him from the start at the Madrigal.
Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo, Spain playmaker Isco and Brazil fullback Marcelo all returned from international duty with problems of varying degrees of seriousness. Ronaldo and Isco trained apart from the rest of the squad on Wednesday, while Mar-celo had treatment from medical
staff along with long-term absen-tee Xabi Alonso.
Villarreal, along with Atletico Madrid the only other team to win their opening three games, are eager to test themselves against opponents of Real’s calibre after spending a year in the second division last term.
Under coach Marcelino they have shown real attacking flair and their performances so far this term suggest they are more likely to be challenging for a place in Europe than flirting with relegation come the end of the campaign.
“It’s a chance to show that we can compete with anyone and that we can fight against a team like Madrid,” captain Bruno So-riano told a news conference on Wednesday.
“Last year, we were dreaming about playing these teams and now the opportunity has arrived
and we want to put in a great performance,” the midfielder added. “Person-ally I prefer it if an opponent is at full strength and that the best come so we can take them on.
“Although even if Madrid has some players out, I am sure they will have the same level of quality.”
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There’s the fleet of exotic cars in three different cities, and the mansion where Mayweather and his entourage hang out. Rappers and other boxers drop in occasion-ally, and on payday Mayweather hands out stacks of $100 bills to the considerable number of people in his employ.
It’s big, flashy, and about as real as reality TV gets. But as Mayweather prepares for Saturday night’s fight against undefeated Mexican star Canelo Alvarez, we’ve learned even more. So here’s a few tidbits about Mayweather you may not have known:
- He likes cheeseburgers. At 3 in the morning on the Las Vegas Strip, he and the posse can often be found throwing a few down at Fatburger.
- He gets sad sometimes watch-ing kids box in his gym when his sons have no interest in the sport. “Does that hurt me?” he asks. “Ab-solutely.”
- He can lose at the sports book. Mayweather loves to post pictures on Twitter with six-figure wins on
his bets, but acknowledged this week he lost a big bet Monday night on the Houston Texans.
- He can name every car on du-Pont Registry, his favorite online shopping site. He owns many of them, almost all in white and in fleets at homes in Las Vegas, Miami and Los Angeles.
- He spends big money, some-times as much as $200,000, for handbags for his female friends. Then he buys them something called Baginizers to make sure ev-erything inside is organized.
- He’s in business with a Chinese company that manufactures his The Money Team apparel. His busi-ness partner is named China Mike “because everybody’s got to have a nickname.”
Mayweather has a nickname, too, though it’s different than the one he had when he first started boxing professionally 17 years ago. He was Pretty Boy Floyd then, before America discovered him as the villain they would pay to watch and before he had the cars and the
mansion on a golf course.He’s Money May now, and he’s
the highest paid athlete in the coun-try. On Saturday night he’ll make at least $41 million to fight Alvarez, bringing his take for the year in two fights to a whopping $73 million.
That’s a lot of cheeseburgers, and a lot of handbags. But Mayweather earns it because he has delivered wins in all 44 of his fights. People who don’t like him will pay to see if he’ll lose, and his fans will reach into their pock-ets to cheer him on for another win.
The pay-per-view will cost a record $75 this time, leading pro-moters to boast that this could be the richest fight ever, surpassing the 2007 bout between Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya. That may or may not happen, but the idea that Alvarez might be the one fighter with the stuff to finally beat May-weather has made this one of the most anticipated fights in years.
Mayweather was a less-than-fashionable 37 minutes late to the final prefight press conference Wednesday at the MGM Grand hotel casino, not that it mattered. It was such a low-key affair that even those on the dais seemed to want to be somewhere else.
Associated Press Writer
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Forward Renaldas Seibutis scored 15 points and Lithuania shut down Tony Parker to beat France 76-62 at the start of the second round of the European basketball championships.
Serbia beat Belgium 76-69 and Latvia routed Ukraine 85-51 in earlier matches on Wednesday. France, although loaded with NBA players, could not cope with Lithuania’s speed and fell behind by 10 midway through the third quarter.
Center Jonas Valanciunas of the Toronto Raptors added 13 points on 6-for-6 shooting from the field to go with six rebounds. He had a dunk, then grabbed an offensive rebound and put in the tip-in to give Lithuania a 14-point lead with less than three minutes to go. Seibutis made four straight free throws and France could not come back.
Nando de Colo, who plays for the San Antonio Spurs with Parker, led France with 12 points, including five late in the game. Parker struggled in finishing with 11 points, including just three after half time.
“The plan was to do everything to stop him. Not only his scoring but his ability to create movement,” Valanciunas said.
France finished the first round as the tournament’s top scoring team but was held well below its 80.6 points-per-game average. Lithuania played tough perimeter defense, holding France to just 24 percent shooting from three-point range.
“We tried to get the ball inside but they closed down everything and when you don’t make shots from the perimeter it gets to be difficult,” France forward Boris Diaw said. Guard Stefan Markovic scored five straight points to secure Serbia an unexpectedly tough victory over Belgium.
With Serbia up by two, Markovic nailed a 3-pointer and then sank two free throws to give his team a seven-point lead with less than two minutes remaining.
Serbia held on to win over a team considered an underdog and took a big step toward securing a slot in the quarterfinals.
“Maybe we were a little relaxed going into the match because we knew that we already had four points (in the standings),” said Serbia’s captain Nenad Krstic, who led Serbia with 17 points.
Belgium opened the game with an 8-0 run and the Serbs had to work hard to catch up. “Maybe we didn’t expect them to start in such a way,” Serbia coach Dusan Ivkovic said.
AP Photo/Darko VojinovicBosnia’s Marko Sutalo, center challenges for the ball with Montenegro’s Sead Sehovic, left, Suad Sehovic, top and Bojan Dubljevic, during their EuroBasket European Basketball Cham-pionship Group B match in Podmezakla Arena , in Jesenice, Slovenia, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013.
Lithuania beats France; Serbia, Latvia notch wins
AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John LocherBoxers Floyd Mayweather, left, and Canelo Alvarez pose during a press conference in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013.
Mayweather lives the life with $41 million paydayAssociated Press Writer
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Dasar Temple is located in Gelgel village which belongs to Klungkung District. It is located about 3 kilo-meters to the South of Semarapura town. This temple is an important temple in Bali because it is one of Kahyangan Jagat Temples ( Kahyan-gan Jagat means a general temple where all layers of populated clans may worship there ). The Hindu fol-lower of all stratum and origins come to worship to this antique and artistic architecture temple.
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Anti-riot police fortified the area around the Los Pinos resi-dence with metal barriers and trucks to keep protesters at bay, with police saying some 12,000 teachers caused huge traffic jams as they marched across the megalopolis.
Some 80 officers used their shields to block advancing pro-testers, raising tensions with both sides pushing one another and coming to blows.
A delegation from a dissident teachers’ union was invited into Los Pinos and were given a meeting with Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong on Thursday.
Striking teachers have camped out in the central Zocalo square for the past three weeks and held several protests that have angered residents frustrated by the extra traffic jams they have caused in the already congested city.
But the teachers failed to stop
Congress from passing Pena Nieto’s reform, which he signed into law on Tuesday.
Smaller protests were held in several other states with thou-sands of teachers blocking a highway connecting Mexico City to the Pacific resort of Acapulco for several hours in the state of Guerrero.
Some 2,000 teachers marched in Oaxaca, where a strike has left 1.3 million children without class since school started last month. Their anger is directed at a reform that strips the power of unions over education and re-quires teachers to undergo man-datory performance evaluations to get jobs and promotions.
The teachers, however, argue that the national test fails to take into account the fact that many work in rural and mountain class-rooms in indigenous villages where standards must adapt to children who learn native lan-guages before Spanish.
Juan Garcia, a leader of the National Education Workers Coordinator (CNTE) union, said the teachers want “the population to join the struggle” against the reform.
The union has not indicated whether it would vacate the Zocalo before Mexico’s inde-pendence day celebration this weekend. City authorities have refrained from using force to remove the teachers.
The president traditionally de-livers the “Cry of Independence” on the night of September 15 from the balcony of the National Palace, facing the Zocalo. A mili-tary parade is held at the square the next day.
Garcia said that “the next hours will be decisive to deter-mine the action (the teachers take) on September 16.”
Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong insisted Tuesday that the independence celebration will take place at the Zocalo.
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TOKYO - Japan on Thursday hanged a 73-year-old man convicted of murder and robbery, the country’s sixth execution of the year. The Justice Ministry said the hanging was carried out in Tokyo. The man had shot to death a restaurant owner in 2004, stealing his bag containing 400,000 yen ($4,000) in cash.
Japan executed three inmates in February and two in April. There are 132 inmates currently on death row.
All executions in the country are done by hanging. Human rights groups have widely criticized Japan for continuing capital punish-ment, but polls show the public supports the system.
Japan’s government releases few details about executions, and in-mates are not informed of their pending execution until immediately before it is carried out.
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LONDON - Prince Harry says he loves being an uncle, telling children at an awards ceremony that he’d just witnessed the baby who may one day be king crack a smile.
Harry, who was pushed back to fourth-in-line to the British throne fol-lowing the birth of his brother’s son, Prince George, said Wednesday he’d just visited the 1 ½-month-old royal, who was taking a bath.
Harry told 9-year-old Nikki Christou that it was the “first time I’ve seen him smile.” The prince seems to have warmed to his new family role, telling Mary Kirk, the mother of another child, that being an uncle was “fantastic.”
The ceremony was hosted by the WellChild charity, which is dedi-cated to the needs of sick children and their families.
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Striking teachers intending to block a main avenue, try to get past a wall of riot police, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013.
Thousands of teachers protest Mexico education law
Thousands of teachers demonstrated in Mexico City, some clashing with police keeping them away from President Enrique Pena Nieto’s residence, one day after he signed a controversial education reform.
Japan hangs murder convict; 6th execution of year
Prince Harry loves being uncle, sees nephew smile
As children of some of the men who were massacred without trial looked on, Dutch ambassador to Indonesia Tjeerd De Zwaan offered a state apology during a ceremony at the Dutch embassy in Jakarta.
“On behalf of the Dutch gov-ernment, I apologise for these excesses,” said the ambassador.
“The Dutch government hopes that this apology will help close a difficult chapter for those whose lives were impacted so directly by the violent excesses that took place between 1945 and 1949.”
He was referring to the years of the Indonesian war of indepen-dence, when the sprawling archi-pelago nation sought to shake off Dutch colonial rule.
The Hague had previously said sorry to the relatives of those in
particular cases but it has before never offered a general apology for all summary executions.
Last month the Dutch govern-ment also announced that it would pay 20,000 euros ($26,600) to the widows of those killed.
Special attention was given at Thursday’s ceremony to the wid-ows of men killed during a brutal campaign on Sulawesi island in central Indonesia.
The Dutch government in August compensated 10 women whose husbands were executed by its army in the “South Su-lawesi Campaign” of 1946 and 1947, and their children were those present at the Jakarta cer-emony.
The ambassado r s a id he planned to fly next week to Makassar, the capital of South
Sulawesi province, to meet the widows, who are aged between 90 and 100.
One of the worst atrocities committed by the Netherlands in Indonesia, the campaign saw Dutch troops carry out summary executions in a series of villages over three months in a bid to wipe out resistance to colonisation.
Some in Indones i a have claimed the death toll was as high as 40,000 but historical studies have put it at several thousand.
In 2011 the Dutch government also offered a public apology and compensation for victims of summary executions which took place at Rawagede, on the main island of Java.
Thousands of Indonesians were killed in the war of indepen-dence, which ended in 1949.
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JAKARTA - Indonesian farmers in a province at the centre of South-east Asia’s worst smog outbreak for years have filed a lawsuit against the president in response to the haze crisis, activists said Wednesday.
Environmental groups Tuesday filed the class-action lawsuit at the Ja-karta High Court on behalf of farmers from five villages in Riau province on Sumatra island.
They argue President Susilo Bam-bang Yudhoyono has not done enough to curb activities, such as slash-and-burn land clearance and logging, that lead to climate change, and their lives are being deeply affected.
In June, raging fires set to clear land in Riau cloaked the province and neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore in smog, with the haze hitting the worst levels for more than a decade.
Riau is at the centre of Indone-sia’s booming palm oil industry, and illegal slash-and-burn clearance is common, as it is the quickest and cheapest method for land to be con-verted for use as plantations.
A coalition of green groups filed the lawsuit, including forest protec-tion group Jikalahari, which said the severe haze this year had prompted the action and had “deeply affected the communities”.
“This haze affects all activities -- work, school, and even leads to flights being cancelled,” Muslim Rasyid, head of the Riau-based group, told AFP.
As well as Yudhoyono, the for-estry and environment ministers and the Riau governor are accused in the lawsuit.
“The president and his ministers have done little to protect commu-nities from the effects of climate change,” added Riko Kurniawan, director of Friends of the Earth in Riau.
Yudhoyono vowed in 2009 to reduce Indonesia’s carbon emissions by at least 26 percent by 2020. To achieve this goal, the government has suspended the issuance of new land-clearing permits.
But activists say the moves have been ineffective with land clear-ance, both legal and illegal, still rampant, and fires often the method of choice.
Indonesia, home to around 10 percent of the world’s tropical for-est, has rapidly lost masses of its biodiverse jungle in recent decades to make way for paper and palm oil plantations.
The country is the world’s big-gest supplier of palm oil, the most commonly used vegetable oil found in everyday grocery items, like biscuits and shampoo.
AntaraLEBAK - The Masterplan for
Acceleration and Expansion of In-donesia’s Economic Development (MP3EI) is aimed at regulating economic development across In-donesia, a minister has said.
“With the extraordinary MP3EI program, disadvantaged regions will be a thing of the past in Indone-sia by 2025,” Coordinating Minister for Economy Hatta Rajasa stated here on Thursday.
Speaking at the dedication and ground-breaking ceremony of the PT Cemendo Gemilang’s Merah Putih cement plant project, the minister explained that the MP3EI was extraordinary because of the involvement of both private and state-owned companies.
He noted that the government was no longer financing the devel-
opment of Indonesia’s infrastruc-ture, which is necessary to improve the nation’s economy.
Rajasa said there were 146 MP3EI projects under develop-ment, including toll roads, bridges, airports, and seaports, which are being completed with a total invest-ment of some Rp300 trillion.
He pointed out that 35.08 percent of the funds for these projects was provided by private parties, 26.08 percent by state-owned companies (BUMN), and 15.03 percent by the government.
“Therefore, we encourage the private companies and BUMN to fund the development of the coun-try’s infrastructure,” Rajasa stated, adding that investment in these projects has reached only Rp647 trillion, whereas it was projected to reach Rp4,000 trillion in 2014.
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Indonesian workers hold the iron beam at an apartment construction site in Jakarta, In-donesia, Tuesday, Sept 10. 2013.
Netherlands apologises for Indonesian colonial killingsAgence France-Presse
JAKARTA - The Netherlands sought to “close a difficult chapter” with its former colony In-donesia on Thursday by publicly apologising for summary executions carried out by the Dutch army in the 1940s.
MPE3I to regulate economic development
Farmers take legal action against president over haze
Moments of silence were observed at 9:03 am, the time when the second tower was hit; 9:37 am, the time of the Pentagon attack; and 10:03 am, when a fourth airliner crashed in Pennsylvania after pas-sengers intervened.
Relatives gathered at the 9/11 Memorial around the two huge black fountains that mark the footprints of the Twin Towers -- which collapsed in the attacks -- for the ritual reading of the names of the dead.
That list has 2,983 names in all: the 9/11 victims, plus those killed in the precursor to those attacks, the 1993 car bombing of the World Trade Center.
Some relatives brought photos of the dead, while others left roses near the spot where their loved ones’ names are etched into the memorial.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and state Governor Andrew Cuo-mo attended the ceremony, as did New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
At the Pentagon, Obama remembered American soldiers, diplomats and intelligence agents who had died since 2001, and said the long ground war in Afghanistan is entering its final chapter, as most US troops withdraw next year.
The president also paid tribute to the four Americans killed in a 9/11 attack last year on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya -- which sparked a political furor over White House explanations about who was to blame.
An explosion, meanwhile, caused serious damage to a Libyan foreign ministry building in Benghazi on Wednesday.
Following the Pentagon ceremony, Obama volunteered at a food bank that offers meals to people with serious illnesses, saying remem-brances of the attacks should also include “the incredible outpouring of neighbors helping neighbors.”
And at the US Capitol, hundreds of lawmakers marked the anniver-sary singing “God Bless America,” -- which members of the House and Senate had sung 12 years ago shortly after the attacks.
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NEW YORK CITY - International Paper said Wednesday it would close an Alabama plant amid falling paper demand as US consumers switch to online alternatives.
IP, a leading US global paper and paper products company, said it had tried unsuccessfully to avoid closing its Courtland Mill, based in Courtland, Alabama.
The closure affects 1,100 employees.The mill will be shut down in stages to be com-
pleted by the end of the first quarter of 2014, the company said in a statement.
The move will reduce IP’s North American uncoated and coated paper for forms, envelopes, labels, copiers, printers and magazines by 950,000 tons.
“This decision to permanently close capacity is primarily being driven by demand decline for
uncoated freesheet paper products in the United States,” John Faraci, IP chairman and chief execu-tive, said in the statement.
The demand for uncoated freesheet in North America has been in decline since 1999, the com-pany said, and has recently accelerated “as consum-ers continue to switch to electronic alternatives such as online publications and electronic billing and filing.”
“We explored numerous business and re-purpos-ing options for the Courtland Mill, but concluded that permanently closing the mill best positions the business for the future,” said Tim Nicholls, senior vice president of Printing and Communications Papers.
IP employs about 70,000 people worldwide.The Memphis, Tennessee-based company said
the closure would result in write-off and deprecia-tion charges of about $550 million and other charges of $125 million to be taken this year and in 2014.
After just barely pulling back from the precipice, industry is picking up, home prices are gain-ing, banks are stable and American consumers have started spending -- albeit still with great caution.
But the millions still jobless, and an economy still needing stimulus, shows the scars have yet to heal.
“I wouldn’t say we’re anywhere near having a fantastic situation again,” says Harvard economics professor Kenneth Rogoff.
“But at least the economy has stabilized and is now moderately robust.”
The economy was already strug-gling under the housing market collapse when on September 15, 2008, Lehman crumbled and the government’s decision not to save it sent a shock down Wall Street.
The fall of the century-old US investment banking stalwart deto-nated an implosion in the US finan-cial sector that reverberated around the globe.
The government quickly mo-
bilized more than $420 billion to prop up other banks and automak-ers General Motors and Chrysler, whose collapse would have meant hundreds of thousands more jobs lost.
But that was not enough to con-tain the hemorrhage.
In the 12 months from Septem-ber 2008, unemployment rocketed from 6.1 percent to 9.8 percent. The economy melted down, contracting at an 8.3 percent annual rate in the final quarter of 2008.
With receipts sinking and inter-vention costs rising, the govern-ment deficit soared to $1.4 trillion, from 3.2 percent of gross domestic product to 10.1 percent by 2009.
“It was a very risky period, we could have had a new Great Depres-sion,” said Rogoff.
Five years later, that nightmare has passed. With the exception of a mild relapse in early 2011, the economy has been growing steadily, if slowly, since the au-tumn of 2009.
US still on the mend, 5 years after Lehman collapse
In this Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013, file photo, a home is for sale in San Diego. It is an anniver-
sary without celebration: five years after the implosion of banking giant Lehman Brothers
sparked the worst crisis in generations, the US can say it avoided catastrophe.
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WASHINGTON - It is an anniversary without celebration: five years after the implosion of banking giant Lehman Brothers sparked the worst crisis in generations, the US can say it avoided catastrophe.
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AntaraDENPASAR - The Udayana University in Denpasar,
Bali, is set to host the 10th World Education Congress, a meeting for private universities around the world, on Sept. 23 and 24.
Udayana University’s Rector Prof Dr I Ketut Suastika noted in Denpasar on Wednesday that education issues faced recently by private universities would be on the agenda, and the congress would operate under the theme of “teaching to build peace.”
“The congress was supposed to be held in Argentina, but the venue was changed to Bali,” he said.
According to Suastika, Bali will be the first Asian country to hold the event.
Bali was selected as a venue because many interna-tional events have been held successfully on the Hindu-majority island, which is home to a significant number of private universities, he added.
The congress expects attendance from 130 partici-
pants from 17 countries. Prominent persons, such as Indonesia’s Education and Cultural Minister M Nuh and the UNESCO envoy, are scheduled to deliver speeches at the event.
Initiated by the World Confederation of Private Edu-cation (COMEP), the first World Education Congress was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1990. Last year’s congress was hosted in Madrid, Spain.
The COMEP was established to promote the right to education that respects pluralism, to foster the devel-opment of education around the world, and to uphold and defend the human right to education in general and cultural expression.
The confederation also aims to encourage the forma-tion of federations and associations of private entities around the world, to support the establishment and maintenance of private educational institutes, and to foster the professionalism and career development of teachers working in the private sector.
“We hope the visit will boost Karangasem’s tourism potential. I am quite sure of that,” Karangasem Regent Wayan Geredeg said here on Wednesday, noting that the district had not yet been promoted properly as a tourist destination.
The arrival of Miss World contestants from a total of 130 countries, he continued, would provide the momentum needed to promote Karangasem as a global tourism destination.
“We gave them brochures and videos that provide information about the various tourist spots here,” Wayan stated, adding that he had expressed his ap-preciation to the Miss World organizing committee for ensuring the visit of Miss World contestants to the district.
Before arriving at Pura Besakih, the Miss World contestants had visited many tourist spots, such as the Tanah Lot in Tabanan, Garuda Wisnu Kencana in Badung district, as well as Museum Rudana and Bali Safari in Gianyar.
Previously, the Indonesian government had an-nounced that the international beauty pageant would be held only in Bali.
“We have revised the security permit and have al-lowed the event to be held entirely in Bali. Changes have been made to the Miss World activity schedule, in line with public demand and the interests of Indonesian tourism. So the event will be held, but only in Bali,” Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Lak-sono said during a press conference at the residence of vice president Boediono in Jakarta on September 7.
Initially, the contest was scheduled to be held in Bali on September 8, with its final round being in Sentul, Bogor, West Java.
Several Islamic organizations, however, expressed their opposition to the hosting of the event in Indonesia.
Agung said although the participants of the event would not be prevented from visiting other regions in the country, the contest could be held only in Bali.
“Of course, participants of the Miss World contest can visit other tourist destinations, such as Borobudur Temple or Yogya, during their stay in the country,” he stated.
Agung expressed hope that all parties would un-derstand and appreciate the government’s decision, because it was made in the interests of the Indonesian public.
He noted that the government banned the bikini contest - traditionally an integral part of the beauty pageant - because it was considered offensive to In-donesian culture and values.
National police chief General Timur Pradopo stated that local police had been ordered to make the neces-sary security arrangements for the event.
Meanwhile, deputy minister of tourism and creative economy Sapta Nirwandar said the contest organizers had agreed to do away with the bikini contest and make other necessary adjustments in light of protests from many quarters.
“Miss World participants across the world are re-quired to wear two-piece swimsuits during the bikini contest. That was the main reason behind the protests here. But now the contest has been scrapped by the committee. Participants will even be asked to wear local costumes,” he added.
Miss world event expected to boost tourism in KarangasemAntara
AMLAPURA - The Miss World 2013 beauty pageant is expected to promote tourism in Karangasem district, Bali province, after the contestants visited the “Pura Besakih” temple there.
AP Photo/Firdia LisnawatiMiss India Navneet Dhillon, center, and other Miss World Pageant contestants are greeted by a Balinese girl during their visit to a Hindu temple in Besakih, Karangasem, Bali on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. The Miss World 2013 beauty pageant is expected to promote tourism in Karangasem district, Bali province, after the contestants visited the “Pura Besakih” temple.
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That day, fighter jets unleashed an attack on the La Moneda presi-dential palace, and tanks and sol-diers surrounded the building as it burst into flames. Allende, then the democratically elected presi-dent, committed suicide rather than surrender to the coup plotters led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
“After 40 years, the time has come not to forget but rather to overcome the traumas of the past,” said Pinera, Chile’s first right-of-center president since the country’s return to democracy in 1990.
Allende’s family, sympathiz-ers and former members of his
personal guard later held a min-ute of silence in his memory at a statue of the late Marxist leader outside the presidential palace, which is engraved with his last words: “I have faith in Chile and its destiny.”
“We remember this honorable man, this social fighter, who plant-ed hope and dreams in Chile,” his daughter, Sen. Isabel Allende, said at the event. “He taught us that deep changes were needed to achieve a different society and that we must work for the poor, for the workers, for the dignity of our people,” she added.
Allende launched what he
called “the Chilean path to social-ism,” nationalizing the copper industry that had been dominated by U.S. companies and using the money to fund land redistribu-tion while improving health care, education and literacy. U.S. offi-cials approved a covert campaign to foster a sense of economic chaos and provoke the military takeover.
The coup was initially backed by many Chileans fed up with hyperinflation, food shortages and factory takeovers. But it de-stroyed a system they had proudly described as Latin America’s strongest democracy.
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Allegations of US spying on Brazil’s president and on its state oil company raise “legitimate questions”, a US official said during talks with Brazil’s foreign minister.
Luiz Alberto Figueiredo met US National Security Adviser Susan Rice to discuss reports of the reported surveillance by the National Security Agency.
Rice told Figueiredo “the United States understands that recent disclo-sures in the press - some of which have distorted our activities and some of which raise legitimate questions for our friends and allies about how these capabilities are employed -- have created tensions...,” spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said after the talks.
“The United States is committed to working with Brazil to address these concerns...,” she added.
Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo has reported that the NSA eavesdropped on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, some of her aides and the state oil giant Petrobras.
They based their reports on information from Glenn Greenwald, a blogger and columnist for the Guardian newspaper, who got secret files from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
When the first allegations emerged at the beginning of the month, Bra-zil’s government summoned the US ambassador over the affair.
Rousseff has also halted preparations for a visit to the United States, scheduled for October 23, pending an explanation from Washington over the allegations.
The alleged US espionage targeting Petrobras however will not delay an oil field auction scheduled for next month, a Brazilian government official was quoted as saying this week. The discovery of the enormous so-called Libra field marked the largest oil discovery in Brazilian history.
It is believed to hold between eight and 12 billion barrels of recoverable oil, and covers an area of 1,500 square kilometers in ultra deep oil fields detected in 2007.
Figueiredo did not speak with reporters after the discussions, but a diplomatic source told AFP he would remain in Washington overnight Wednesday, and that the talks would continue.
Associated Press Writer
WARSAW, Poland - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met speakers of Poland’s parliament to discuss ways of building democracy that could help in reforming her own country.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is on a visit to Europe’s young democracies, which shed communism two decades ago, to learn about their experience in building civic society. She will also visit Hungary and the Czech Republic.
On Wednesday, she held talks with lower house speaker, Ewa Kopacz, and Senate Speaker Bogdan Borusewicz. On Thursday, she will meet President Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and address Warsaw University students. Poland has been supporting Myanmar’s pro-democracy drive.
Suu Kyi first came to Europe last year and visited Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, England and France.
Chile marks 40th anniversary of Pinochet’s coup
AP Photo / Luis HidalgoA woman attends a candlelight vigil in the dressing rooms of the National Stadium marking the events that launched a bloody 17-year dictatorship, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013.
Associated Press Writer
SANTIAGO, Chile - President Sebastian Pinera marked the 40th anniversary of the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende on Wednesday by urging Chileans to heal from - but never forget - the events of Sept. 11, 1973, that launched a bloody 17-year dictatorship.
Brazil spy claims raise ‘legitimate questions’: US
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi meets top Polish lawmakers
Amlapura (Bali Post)—Due to water pumps of spring pipeline of Jagrasatru,
Datah, Abang subdistrict, has been damaged since two months ago, the water supplies to the arid regions like Bidong and Saab Hill disconnected. Residents whose rainwater reservoir has dried up are difficult to get clean water.
A resident of Saab Hill, Mangku Ketut Sudiana, told reporters on Wednesday (Sep 11) that for two months the water pump of the Jagrasatru spring pipeline had been out of order at the bottom of the river next to the center of the village. Machine of the pump had not been repaired. Since the residents faced clean water crisis, his party asked for help to the government in order the residents could be provided with clean water. Last Wednesday, two tanks of water were supplied by the Karangasem Social Services.
Clean water was stored in the public water tank in the east of Mangku Sudiana’s house. Later on, local residents in need of clean water could collect there. Aside from the residents on the mountainous area of Datah, the residents at Tianyar Barat in Kubu also faced similar water crisis in this dry season.
Chairman of Commission B of the Karangasem House, Nyoman Oka Antara, delivered that residents on the mountainous area of Kubu, including the Peradi hamlet, Tianyar Barat, also faced clean water crisis. Oka Antara from Taman Sari hamlet, Tianyar Barat, delivered that his party in the House had bought around eight tanks of water. A tank of water was only enough for a week. At Taman Sari hamlet, the price of clean water reached IDR 120,000 per tank for consumers whose reservoir located near the road. However, at Peradi the price of water could reach IDR 150,000. Even, it could be higher depending on the distance and road conditions.
Meanwhile, the residents of Butus, Buana Giri vil-lage, Karangasem, also experienced water problems. One of the residents, Komang Cengked, expressed he had routinely purchased clean water at IDR 125,000 per fiber tank. “Our village is indeed rich in quarry C materials, but the residents at Butus and surrounding areas remain to face clean water crisis. Formerly, the official has promised the clean water pipeline project to our village, but there has been no realization so far,” he said. (013)
Implementation of the spiritual tourism visit was commenced by a group photo session for the 130 contestants in the temple outermost courtyard. Then, it was resumed with a formal reception in front of the Besakih Temple by the Regent of Karangasem and Chairman of the House. After that, 65 contestants came into the temple innermost courtyard or Penataran Agung to say prayers according to Hindu tradition in Bali. “The welcoming ceremony was performed by the Regent of Karangasem. Afterward, the contestants were divided into two groups, where the first group joined the prayers and the second enjoyed the beauty of the temple compound at Besakih,” said Arif Suditomo.
Further, the prayers performed by 65 beautiful angels took place
very solemnly. They could un-dertake each stage appropriately in accordance with the directives from the guide of prayers. It was officiated over by Jero Mangku Sueca as well as Gusti Mangku Jana as praying guide and Tony as interpreter, assisted by dozens of other participating temple priests.
Meanwhile, 65 other con-testants that did not attend the prayers at the Penataran Agung were invited to enjoy the beauty of panorama outside the Penat-aran Agung of Besakih. Besides, there were also taught to try Balinese dance by local girls in the Wantilan Suci, Besakih. “The contestants who did not partici-pate in the prayers will enjoy the culture and natural beauty of Besakih Temple and its surround-ings,” Arif added. (nik)
The contestants of Miss World Peagant pose after visiting Besakih Temple.
Miss World 2013 in Besakih Temple
Hundreds of angels back from heaven on the Island of the Gods Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Though getting no support from the Indonesian government, the visit of the beauty pageant contestant was still held in order the contestant from 130 countries could learn spiritual tourism on the Island of the Gods. A total of 130 contestants of Miss World were like angels returning to heaven where they visited Besakih Temple as the largest Hindu temple perched at the foot of Mount Agung, Karangasem, Wednesday (Sep 11).
Water pump out of order Residents of Bidong and Saab Hill in clean water crisis
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The unmanned Global Hawk aircraft were designed to perform high-altitude, long-endurance reconnaissance and intelligence missions for the Air Force. Two of the original Global Hawks built in the developmental process for the military have found new life as part of NASA’s research mis-sion, studying storms that form over the Atlantic Ocean. NASA planned to launch one of the drones from its Wallops Flight Facility on Wednesday to study Tropical Storm Gabrielle, which re-formed in the Atlantic on Tuesday.
“The biggest scientific ques-tion we’re trying to attack is why do some hurricanes intensify very rapidly and why do others not in-tensify at all? In the last 20 years, we’ve made terrific progress in forecasting where hurricane tracks will go,” said Paul Newman, deputy project scientist for the research mission. “But we’ve made almost
no progress in the past 20 years in forecasting intensity.”
More accurately predicting a storm’s intensity would help government officials and coastal residents decide whether an evacu-ation is needed, as well as avoid developing a false sense of security among residents who frequently cite failed storm expectations as a reason not to leave their homes when warned to do so.
There are two questions on which NASA scientists primarily want the drone research to focus. One is what role thunderstorms within a hurricane play in its inten-sification. Researchers aren’t sure if the thunderstorms are a driver of storm intensity or a symptom of it.
The other is what role the Saharan Air Layer plays in the tropical storm development. The Saharan Air Layer is a dry, hot, dusty layer of air from Africa. Scientists have been at odds with
each other over whether it helps hurricanes strengthen or does the opposite. One school of thought is that the Saharan Air Layer pro-vides energy for storms to grow, while others have suggested it is a negative influence on storm growth because of the effect the dry air has on wet storms.
“There’s a bit of a debate in terms of how important it is, one way or the other,” said Scott Braun, a research meteorologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who is the drone project’s principal investigator.
This is the second year NASA has launched Global Hawks from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, a strategic location that allows drones to spend plenty of time studying storms shortly after they form off the coast of Africa or as they approach the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico.
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG — Richard Van As, a South African carpen-ter, lost four fingers from his right hand to a circular saw two years ago. He was unable to afford the tens of thousands of dollars to get a myoelectric hand, which detects a muscle’s electric impulses to activate an artificial limb.
“After my accident, I was in pain, but wouldn’t take painkillers. I barely slept, and the more pain I had the more ideas I got,” he told The Associated Press. “Sometimes you have to chop fingers off to start thinking.”
He decided to build his own hand. After seeing a video posted online of a mechanical hand made for a costume in a theater produc-tion, he reached out to its designer, Ivan Owen, in Seattle.
Enter Robohand — a device that Van As and Owen invented that is made from cables, screws, 3-D printing and thermoplastic. It uses the rotation of a joint to enable five plastic digits to grasp. The de-vice looks like a robot’s hand in a science fiction movie, costs about $500 to make and can be reproduced using plans on the Internet and a 3-D printer.
Van As is now on a mission to spread the mechanism to people without fingers or hands all over the world. The two gadget-lovers collaborated on developing a design for the device for a wide range of ages that could be used to grab objects, unlike most existing arm prostheses. Van As has fitted Robohands on about 170 people, from toddlers to adults, thanks to donations.
At first they used a milling machine, making Van As a metal robotic forefinger digit that helps him work in carpentry to this day. That’s when they perfected the shape for the robotic fingers. “Ivan was a gift to me,” Van As said.
“There are two simple solutions to address the competition of hotel room rates in Bali. Firstly, the govern-ment and tourism stakeholders must increase the number of tourist arrivals with vigorous campaign. Secondly, set the lowest hotel room rates for each hotel classification,” said Secretary of the Indonesian Hotels and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Denpasar, AA Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, in Denpasar.
He said the determination of the lowest room rates could be applied as long as it got the support from the Den-pasar municipality. It was in the form of government regulation as the legal instrument for determining the lowest hotel room rates. “The regulation must necessarily refer to the higher rule namely the Law,” he said.
According to him, discounted hotel room rates occurred in Bali was triggered by incomparable rate of the increase in the number of hotel rooms to the rate of increase in tourist arrivals. The slowing growth in the number of tourist arriv-als would result in unfair competition among the hoteliers in Bali.
“Supposed that the implementation of the lowest hotel room rates can have been accommodated properly,
it will be very ideal for hotels that are relying on quality. In the future, the implementation of the lowest hotel room rates will lead to quality tourism in Bali,” he said.
Secretary General of the Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Associa-tion (PHRI) of Badung, Gusti Kade Sutawa, previously revealed the uncontrolled development led to the cheapening of Bali tourism due to un-fair competition among the hoteliers. To that end, it was required standard hotel room rates.
“Such condition occurs due to the hotel growth in Southern Bali surpasses the growth of tourist ar-rivals. It is reflected in the declining hotel occupancy rates every year,” he explained.
He also explained that hotel oc-cupancy in Bali averagely reached 65-70 percent every year and this figure dropped due to excessive hotel rooms. Large number of hotel rooms also made the tourism cheaper because many hotels offered massive discounted room rates. “Meanwhile, no hotels overseas sell their rooms at USD 30-50 as made in Bali,” he said. (kmb27)
ASIDE from being known for its beautiful scenery, Bangli County also retains a unique tradition. It has Ngusaba Tagtag ritual, a tradi-tion believed to bring in prosperity and safety for the residents of Kedisan village, Kintamani. Uniqueness of the tradition having taken place for generations since hundreds of years lies in the number of facilities where each item amounts to twenty and is not allowed to use fried ingredients. When violating, the residents believe it will bring in distress.
At first glance, the Ngusabha Tagtag looks the same as Ngusabha Tegen. Both rituals equally apply thousands of offerings in the form of tegen-tegenan (a set of oblations usually carried on shoulder). Thousands of those offerings are borne by men of local residents.
Meanwhile, women carry the Gebogan offerings on their head. They walk hand in hand leading to Dalem Temple of local vil-lage to perform the ritual. With the ritual, the local community hopes to get prosper-ity and safety. More interestingly, all the tegenan ritual offerings must be presented by all men existing at the local village. In the meantime, the number of man at Kedisan
village reaches thousands of people.The other uniqueness lies in the offerings
used that may not contain fried cakes or fish. Instead, the residents must use the oblation ingredients processed by steaming, boiling or baking.
Not only that, each ingredient of the offer-ings presented in the form of snack, fruit and fish must amount to twenty pieces. Otherwise, people believe it will bring in distress. So far, there are no people who dare to break them. “Here, people are not allowed to use fried in-gredients. In the past, there were people using fried ingredients so they finally got distress. Many livestock such as pigs and chickens died without clear cause. On that account, since the founding of this village, it is not al-lowed to use fried ingredients,” said the local temple priest, Jro Penyarikan Datar.
At the end of the ceremony, all people do worship together and it is resumed with the provision of holy water. Such annual ritual is performed exactly in the sasih ketiga (around August-September) by presenting the harvest yields as an expression of gratitude of local people to the Almighty God, in this case is manifested as the goddess of fertility. (ina)
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NASA’s Global Hawk 872 Takes off for HS3 Science Flight #5 on Tuesday Sept. 4, 2012 less than 5 hours after NASA 871 landed at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.
NASA launches drones from to study stormsAssociated Press Writer
ATLANTIC, Virginia — NASA scientists are using former military surveillance drones to help them understand more about how tropical storms intensify, which they say could ultimately save lives by improving forecast models that predict a hurricane’s strength.
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In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 Dylan Laas shows how his Robohand works during an interview with the Associated Press in Johannesburg.
Robohand uses 3-D printing to replace lost digits
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Domestic tourists and foreign tourists packed at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali Island. The effort to create a standard hotel room rate in Bali got the support from the lineups of tour-ism industry. They hoped that by setting the lowest hotel room rates of each hotel classification could prevent Bali from becoming a gimcrack tourism.
Lowest standard of hotel room rates
Prevent Bali from being a gimcrack tourismBali Post
DENPASAR - The effort to create a standard hotel room rate in Bali got the support from the lineups of tourism indus-try. They hoped that by setting the lowest hotel room rates of each hotel classification could prevent Bali from becoming a gimcrack tourism.
Ngusabha Tagtag People banned from using fries
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Thousands of offerings in the form of tegen-tegenan (a set of oblations usu-ally carried on shoulder). Thousands of those offerings are borne by men of local residents.
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
Friday, September 13, 2013
Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013
24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar SelatanPura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler TabananPura Agung Pasek Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Tangkas Kediri TabananPura Kerta Banyuninng Barat BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Sin-gapaduPura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan SingarajaPura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcang-kring TabananPura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Bule-lengPura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean MengwiPura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja TegalalangPura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada BulelengPura Ida Ratu Pande BesakihPura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup GianyarPura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klung-kungPura Kumuda Saraswati UbudPamerajan Alit UbudPura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara TabananPura Dalem Majapahit B a n j a r Denuma Kukuh Marga TabananPura Dalem batur BangliPura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem
25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar
28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Be-sakihPura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian KutaPura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu BadungHyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari TegalPura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang BangliPura Dalem Peruncak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan BadungPura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi BadungPemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud
18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg TabananPura Puseh, Desa Guwang SukawatiPura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel
19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari LombokPura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu KarangasemPura Pedharman Arya Telabah Be-sakihPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamaniPura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar
28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Suka-watiPura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih
Boasting a successful history of meeting the increased demand for business, international and leisure travel, Archipelago International has once again seized an opportunity for a quality hotel development in Bali, this time at the tropical tourist enclave of Jimbaran, just 15 minutes south of the Ngurah Rai airport.
Aston Jimbaran Hotel will be lo-cated on a hilltop above Bali’s famed Jimbaran fishing village with unob-structed views of Jimbaran Bay and the spiritual Mount Agung. The hotel will host 268 guest rooms, 8 meeting rooms, and a grand ballroom that can accommodate up to 1750 guests. With so many convenient amenities in a picturesque location, the upscale hotel is set to attract savvy business travellers, as well as the discerning
leisure traveller looking for a classy getaway at the centre of Bali’s tour-ism district.
“We are confident that Aston Jimbaran Hotel will be an icon of Jimbaran’s most comprehensive and consistent upscale hotel network, bringing with it unrivalled interna-tional standards and sophisticated conference facilities; a perfect match for business and leisure travellers. By the end of this year, this hotel will be ready to accommodate any MICE and holiday requirements.” says Norbert Vas, Vice President of Sales & Marketing Archipelago International.
The development of the hotel it-self has reached 60%, with a comple-tion date expected to be the end of this year.
New MICE icon in JimbaranIBP
JIMBArAN – As one of the leading hotel operators in Indonesia with a portfolio of more than 60 hotels throughout Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, it may come as no surprise that Archipelago International is reaching the final development stages of an iconic MICE hotel at one of Bali’s most sought-after addresses.
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The most severe condition afflicted the area of Subak Aseman III at Megati village, Wednesday (Sep 11). Overly of the paddy fields had dried up. Land had cracked because there was no longer water supply. Due to severe condition, some paddy plants began to turn withered and be at risk of dying. “This paddy was planted 1.5 month ago. Unluckily, it only got water supply for two weeks. Seeing this condition, nothing can be harvested,” complained Ketut Sweden, 45, one of the local farmers. Not only his paddy field, had the others also gone through similar condition. Even, some other farmers were forced to neglect their rice fields as getting no water.
Due to drought, Sweden would suffer moderate loss. A total of 5,000 square meters of paddy plant could not
be harvested. Stems of rice grew dwarf and were turning yellow. “From the beginning, I hesitated to plant rice. In fact, there is absolutely no water today,” he added.
Farmers predicted the drought would continue until this yearend because the dry season shifted from schedule. As a result, the next planting season could just be done early next year. Moreover, it had also to wait auspicious day and comprehensive calculation. Further-more, farmers could only be waiting for a miracle of rain. In addition, the entire irrigation channels had dried up.
He added a total of six subak areas at Megati were hit by drought. They did not include the other subak areas at Tibubiu. “They take advantage of water from the same dam. So, if this area dries up, that area (Tibubiu) also definitely
goes dry,” he said. The irrigation water flowed from three dams namely the Yeh Le, Guniang and Unun Dam. Within the past month the water supply had gone sluggish.
Other than the newly planted paddy plants, the drought also hit the older paddy plants. Due to water crisis, extensive areas of paddy plant faced harvest failure. As a result, farmers preferred to harvest their rice early for fodder. “Rather than being neglected, I prefer to take it advantage for fod-der,” said Suparni, another farmer. This guy had 4,000 square meters of rice field. The entire paddy plants could not grow normally due to wa-ter crisis. All this time, farmers only utilized rainwater because the supply of water from the dam could not be relied upon. (kmb30)
Gianyar (Bali Post)—For the smooth implementation of the Asia-Pacific Eco-
nomic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, in October 2013 in Bali, the Gianyar public component consisting of mass organiza-tions, NGOs and community leaders declared themselves to support the APEC security, Wednesday (Sep 11) in the Office of the 1616/Gianyar District Military Command. “This dec-laration serves as a precaution in creating security, comfort and peace for the successful implementation of the APEC,” said the initiator of the declaration, Commander of the 1616/Gianyar District Military Command, Rachmad PS.
Declaration of the public components for the APEC secu-rity was also attended by the Regent, Gianyar Police Chief, Chief of Gianyar Attorney and the Regional Secretary of Gianyar. Signing of the declaration was very important as a commitment to maintain the common security. “Implemen-tation of the APEC is an opportunity to promote tourism, arts and culture and other potentials we have to improve the welfare of community,” said the Regent of Gianyar Anak Agung Bharata.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Unified Gianyar Mass Or-ganization, Ida Bagus Gaga Pujangga, said his party strongly supported the declaration. He also invited the mass organi-zations and NGOs in Gianyar and Bali in general to jointly maintain the security and orderliness of Bali. “We are already committed to realize the secure and conducive Gianyar,” said IB Gaga Pujangga.
The APEC Summit will take place in October 2013 and be attended by 21 member countries in the Asia-Pacific region and super power countries as well as involve at least 6,000 delegates along with 2,000 journalists from around the world. As planned, the schedule of commercial flights at the Ngurah Rai Airport will stop the operations temporarily for three days. Such temporary closure is done upon the arrival and departure of the heads of state and the delegates of the APEC country members. (kmb16)
Pemuteran is located at the west coastal area of the Island of Bali or approximately 55 km west of Singaraja and 30 km from Gilimanuk. It lies between the cluster of hills and sea causing this village to have a very exotic panorama. Pemuteran Beach is a perfect tourist attraction for travelers favoring a quiet place and being away from the hustles and bustles.
Sea coral professionally maintained and turtle breeding project can also be encountered at this village. Although it has developed into a tourist attraction, the beach stays to show off its authenticity. Coastal communities remain to use traditional equipment such as boats and nets to carry out their daily activities. At this village lies the Pemuteran Temple being famous for its hot springs. Meanwhile, many tourist facilities are also available ranging from budget hotels to five star hotels, restaurant and dive center can easily be found here.
To secure APEC Gianyar involves mass organizations, NGOs and community leaders
Pemuteran Village
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The drought happen in Subak Aseman III at Megati Village, Tabanan
Irrigation sluggish, hundreds of hectares of rice field dryTabanan (Bali Post)—
Again, the drought affects Tabanan. Within the past month, at least 1,400 hectares of paddy fields at Megati village in East Selemadeg and Tibubiu in Kerambitan have been hit by drought. Irrigation canals are sluggish due to water crisis. As consequence, farmers are restless.
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Following a grainy montage of news and surveillance video accompanied by traumatized 911 calls reporting shoot-ings in the D.C. area, the story opens amid the lush island vegetation of An-tigua in the Caribbean. A teenage boy, Lee (Richmond), watches in mute fury as his mother leaves their home to take work elsewhere, saying she’ll be back for him. But as her absence stretches on, Lee grows bored, frustrated and then desperate, seemingly attempting to drown himself in the rough surf.
He is rescued and taken in by John (Washington), a visiting American whose three young daughters have been removed from their country in violation of a custody agreement. With no word from Lee’s mother, John eventually takes him back to Tacoma, Wash.
From early in their relationship, John begins drilling his life-is-unfair views into Lee, whose absence of a father
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This film image released by IFC Films shows Isaiah Washington as John Allen Muhammad, fore-ground, and Tequan Richmond as Lee Boyd Malvo in “Blue Caprice.”
Review: ‘Blue Caprice’ is mature and intelligentAssociated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — “Blue Caprice” is a disturbing, masterfully controlled thriller based on the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. The national discussion of mass shootings and gun con-trol stands to heighten the impact of director Alexandre Moors’ head-turning debut, which is driven by performances of brooding intensity from Isaiah Washington and Tequan Richmond.
figure renders him highly susceptible to the older man’s influence. The bot-tomless pit of John’s anger becomes steadily more apparent back in the U.S., as he takes Lee on a tour of the middle-class suburban neighborhood of his former life. He talks of the evil that lives there, the ghosts left behind, and the vampires like his ex-wife, who sucked him dry. Since their return from Antigua, she has taken out a restraining order against him and removed their children to parts unknown. This gnaws at him like a cancer.
When Lee is taken along with John and his Army buddy Ray (Tim Blake Nelson) to let off steam with some target practice in the woods, he reveals himself to be a natural with a gun. Watching the boy’s face the first time a semi-automatic “widow-maker” is placed in his hands is especially disquieting in light of recent events.
After John’s erratic behavior gets them kicked out by his girlfriend (Cassandra Freeman), they end up staying with Ray and his equally trashy partner Jamie (Joey Lauren Adams), providing access to Ray’s arsenal of firearms.
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Drummer Tico Torres’ emergency appendectomy in Mexico City has forced Bon Jovi to postpone concert dates.
The band postponed Tuesday’s show in Mexico City after Torres checked into the American British Cowdary Hospital. Jon Bon Jovi says in a Fa-cebook post the band is staying with Torres until he is released from the hospital.
Bon Jovi apologized to fans who might have been inconvenienced or were traveling to the concerts in Mex-ico City, Santiago, Chile, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The band’s website says concerts in those cities have been rescheduled for later this month.
Bon Jovi said Torres wanted to play Tuesday’s gig after the surgery “but the doctors prevailed.” The band is scheduled to return to the road Sept. 20 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Drummer’s appendectomy forces Bon Jovi tour change
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FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, American rock band Bon Jovi, from left, Richie Sambora, David Bryan, Jon Bon Jovi and Tico Torres pose for a portrait, in the Brooklyn Borough of New York.
In New York, the US capital Washington and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, relatives of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the hijacked airliners and on the ground gathered for somber remembrance ceremonies.
“Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been,” Obama said at the Pentagon, where 184 died when one of the planes struck the building.
“They left this Earth. They slipped from our grasp.”US troops invaded Afghanistan shortly after the 9/11
attacks to oust the Taliban for giving refuge to Al-Qaeda, and Obama gave thanks to the American forces who served
War-weary US marks 12th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
The Tribute in Light is illuminated on the skyline of New York’s Lower Manhattan as people look across the Hudson
River in Jersey City, New Jersey, September 11, 2013.
Agence France-Presse
NEW YORK CITY - War-weary Americans on Wednesday marked the 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, with President Barack Obama -- for now holding fire on Syria -- saying force alone cannot “build the world we seek.”
there -- but noted the war was now coming to a close.He said the United States would remain vigilant in the
face of future terror threats but said military might alone could not bring peace and security.
“Let us have the wisdom to know that while force is at times necessary, force alone cannot build the world we seek,” he said.
On Tuesday, Obama delivered an address to the nation in which he explained why he was for now holding off on punitive military strikes against Syria over its alleged chemical weapons use.
“I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria. I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan,” he said.
Polls show a majority of Americans -- weary of war after US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan -- oppose action in Syria.
Obama has asked for Congressional approval of his plan for limited strikes, but he has yet to garner the support needed on Capitol Hill.
Votes have been put off as US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Geneva for talks with Russia’s foreign minister about a Moscow-led plan to neutralize the chemical arsenal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In New York, 9/11-era mayor Rudolph Giuliani wiped away a tear at the Ground Zero event, which began with a moment of silence at 8:46 am (1246 GMT), marking the time when the first plane smashed into the World Trade Center.
