WEATHER FORECAST Wednesday, October 31, 2012 16 Pages Number 217 4 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 PAGE 10 PAGE 8 DPS 23 - 32 PAGE 6 Uluwatu Temple Obama, Romney curtail campaign events Messi among 23 candidates for world player award Putra said his party was busy within the past few days because of paying devotional works related to the worship on the full moon in the fifth month of Balinese calendar. Be- ing busy, his party just saw the fire burning the forest on Monday after- noon. Wayan Putra said that position of fire was very worrying because the burning forests and scrubs were under the Kunyit Temple. On that account, his party imme- diately reported it to Headman of Tulamben, Nengah Pica. The report was then immediately forwarded to the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Karangasem. “If the fire is not immediately ad- dressed or extinguished, we worry it will reach the Kunyit Temple in the upper slope,” he said. The forest on Mount Agung had caught fire for several times in this month. The most severe fire had burned a quite extensive forest four weeks ago and last week. In the twice great fires, the protected forests in the northern, eastern to southern area were in flames at a total area of 300 hectares. Slope of the mountain catching fire four weeks ago had looked verdant because the grass began to grow. Meanwhile, the burned forest last week reaching hundreds of hectares above the Batudawa Kaja hamlet to the area above Kedampal hamlet, Datah village, Abang subdistrict, still looked black or charred. Last week, the forest on the high- est mountain in Bali could even be said to have been engulfed by fire. Since the fire occurred in the north- ern part, namely above the Daya hamlet and Pucang hamlet, Ban village. Meanwhile, on the eastern slope, the fire occurred right above the Dukuh hamlet, in the west of Batudawa Kaja and above the Ke- dampal hamlet. Even, the hotspots appeared in the frontier of Nangka village, Bebandem subdistrict. However, the fire at Nangka village did not expand because the forest in southeastern slope was quite dense and verdant as condition of the slope was more humid. Meanwhile, the fire in the protected forest within the area of Mount Abang-Mount Agung reached tens of hectares in the area of Puragae and Pule village. Forest on the eastern slopes of Mount Agung, precisely above the area of Perancak, Batudawa Kaja hamlet, Tulamben village, Kubu, caught fire again. IBP/File Photo Forest on slopes of Mt. Agung and Mt. Abang catch fire Bali Post amLaPura/BanGLI - Forest on the eastern slopes of mount agung, precisely above the area of Perancak, Batudawa Kaja hamlet, tulamben village, Kubu, monday afternoon (oct 29) caught fire again. Head of apadsari Farmer Group of Batudawa Kaja, I Wayan Putra, said the area of burned forest was located above Perancak. However, up to monday afternoon the fire was still under Kunyit temple. Continued on page 6
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Grammy-winning US punk band Green Day announced Monday it has canceled upcoming tour dates and post-poned shows in early 2013, as frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has treatment for substance abuse.
The band, founded in Berkeley, Cali-fornia in 1987, canceled nine dates be-tween now and December, and postponed 21 shows scheduled during January and February next year, it said in a statement. All the shows are in the United States.
“Obviously the timing for this isn’t ideal, but Billie Joe’s well-being is our
main concern,” said the band’s bassist and co-founder Mike Dirnt, without explicitly referring to the singer’s drug problems.
“We are happy to say that Billie Joe is doing well, and we want to thank you all for the outpouring of support and well wishes that we have received, and we can’t wait to see you all again soon,” he added.
Armstrong has checked in for rehab after an expletive-laden meltdown at a festival show in Las Vegas last month, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, which said he is being treated
for “substance abuse issues.”Earlier this year the band announced
a trilogy of albums, “Uno,” “Dos” and “Tre,” going on sale in September, No-vember and January, as follow-ups to their Grammy-winning 2009 hit album “21st Century Breakdown.”
The second album is still due out in November, but the release of “Tre” has been brought forward to December. Tickets for shows this year will be refunded, while new dates will be an-nounced for the January and February shows.
Swift, 22, who has won six Grammy awards, will join rapper-actor LL Cool J to announce nominees in some of the major categories dur-ing a one-hour live telecast on Dec. 5, featuring performances from country artist Luke Bryan and pop-rockers Maroon 5.
The singer is currently on a touring blitz to pro-mote her latest album, “Red”, and has become an awards show favorite, most recently premiering
her new single at the MTV Video Music Awards in September.
Swift`s addition to the roster is part of the Grammy organization`s celebration of country music this year, moving the nominations concert from Los Angeles to Nashville, home to the Grand Ole Opry and dozens of recording studios that have spawned artists such as Swift, Carrie Underwood and Lady Antebellum.
“Skyfall” has taken more in its opening weekend at the British box office than any previous James Bond film, its producers said on Monday.
Starring Daniel Craig as 007 for a third time, “Skyfall” has made £20.1 million ($32.2 million, 25.0 million euros) in Britain and Ireland since opening in both countries on Friday, according to a statement on its website.
“We are absolutely overwhelmed with the reaction to Skyfall this weekend,” said producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
“It is particularly thrilling as the
UK is home to James Bond and it being the 50th anniversary year.”
Critics have declared the 23rd Bond film, starring Spanish actor Javier Bardem as Bond’s latest nem-esis, to be one of the finest in the suave British spy’s 50 years on the screen.
Directed by Oscar winner Sam Mendes, it opens with a spectacular chase scene in an Istanbul market but returns to home ground with a terror attack in London.
Daniel Craig, left, and Beren-ice Marlohe
Taylor Swift to co-host Grammy nominations
Country-pop star taylor Swift will co-host the Grammy nominations live on television from nashville, the capital of country music, the recording academy said on monday.
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Uluwatu Temple
Obama, Romney curtail campaign events
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Putra said his party was busy within the past few days because of paying devotional works related to the worship on the full moon in the fifth month of Balinese calendar. Be-ing busy, his party just saw the fire
burning the forest on Monday after-noon. Wayan Putra said that position of fire was very worrying because the burning forests and scrubs were under the Kunyit Temple.
On that account, his party imme-
diately reported it to Headman of Tulamben, Nengah Pica. The report was then immediately forwarded to the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Karangasem. “If the fire is not immediately ad-dressed or extinguished, we worry it will reach the Kunyit Temple in the upper slope,” he said.
The forest on Mount Agung had caught fire for several times in this month. The most severe fire had burned a quite extensive forest four weeks ago and last week. In the twice great fires, the protected forests in the northern, eastern to southern area were in flames at a
total area of 300 hectares. Slope of the mountain catching fire four weeks ago had looked verdant because the grass began to grow. Meanwhile, the burned forest last week reaching hundreds of hectares above the Batudawa Kaja hamlet to the area above Kedampal hamlet, Datah village, Abang subdistrict, still looked black or charred.
Last week, the forest on the high-est mountain in Bali could even be said to have been engulfed by fire. Since the fire occurred in the north-ern part, namely above the Daya hamlet and Pucang hamlet, Ban village. Meanwhile, on the eastern
slope, the fire occurred right above the Dukuh hamlet, in the west of Batudawa Kaja and above the Ke-dampal hamlet. Even, the hotspots appeared in the frontier of Nangka village, Bebandem subdistrict. However, the fire at Nangka village did not expand because the forest in southeastern slope was quite dense and verdant as condition of the slope was more humid.
Meanwhile, the fire in the protected forest within the area of Mount Abang-Mount Agung reached tens of hectares in the area of Puragae and Pule village.
Forest on the eastern slopes of Mount Agung, precisely above the area of Perancak, Batudawa Kaja hamlet, Tulamben village, Kubu, caught fire again.
IBP/File Photo
Forest on slopes of Mt. Agung and Mt. Abang catch fireBali Post
amLaPura/BanGLI - Forest on the eastern slopes of mount agung, precisely above the area of Perancak, Batudawa Kaja hamlet, tulamben village, Kubu, monday afternoon (oct 29) caught fire again. Head of apadsari Farmer Group of Batudawa Kaja, I Wayan Putra, said the area of burned forest was located above Perancak. However, up to monday afternoon the fire was still under Kunyit temple.
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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
Calendar Event for October 23 through November 27, 2012
23 Oct Anggar Kasih Tambir Pura Dalem Puri Batuan SukawatiPura Dalem Kediri Silakarang SingapaduPura dalem Desa SukawatiPura Dalem Desa SingakertaPura dalem Lembeng Ketewel - SukawatiPura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan - UbudPura Puseh ngukuhin Keramas - GianyarPura Pemerajan Agung Ki Telabah, Tuakilang - TabananPura Karang Buncing BlahbatuhPura Dalem Bubunan Desa - Seririt BulelengPura Desa Badung Kota DenpasarMerajan Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa - Kayuputih - TurupinghePura Luwur Pedengenan Bedha Bongan - Ta-bananMr. Dukuh SebudiMr. Pasek Ngukuhin KeramasPura Pucak Payongan Banjar Lungsiakan - Desa KedewatanPura Tanah Kilap Gria Anyar DenpasarPura Selukat Desa Keramas Keramas - Blahbatuh - GianyarPura Dalem Tampuagan Desa Peninjoan - Tem-buku - BangliPura Waturenggong Desa TaroPura Dalem Bentuyung UbudPura Puseh Ubud UbudPura Dalem Peliatan Peliatan Ubud.
24 Oct Buda Umanis Tambir Pura Sari Bankar Titih Kapal Badung
29 Oct Purnama Kelima Aci-aci Penaung Bayu Pura Batumadeg di BesakihPura Kentel Gumi BangliPura Pedarman Agung Satria DenpasarPura Pemerajan Agung Pemecutan DenpasarNgusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli
Pura Desa Pemenang LombokPura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Gobleg Kekeran MengwiPura Suranadi LombokPura Puncak Bukit Tampak SiringPura Dalem Puri Agung KintamaniPura Dalem Agung Nongan KarangasemPura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-TabananPura Dalem Balingkang KintamaniPr. TampurhyangPusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak Songan KintamaniPura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Bule-lengMerajan Pasek Gelgel LebihMerajan Pasek Gelgel TulambenPura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa S e l e m a d e g TabananPura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak KajaPura Suci Desa Tianyar Kubu KarangasemPura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Desa Batur KintamaniPura Narmada LombokPura Segara Ampenan LombokPura Ularan Seririt Buleleng
7 Nov Buda Keliwon Matal Pura Desa Ds. SukawatiMerajan Agung Batuyang - batubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin - sawan - bulelengPura Maspahit Sesetan - Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran - TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gaduh SesetanMerajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya GedePura Pedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih
17 Nov Hari Tumpek Kandang
Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagenin Kediri - Tabanan
Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung
21 Nov Buda Wage Menail Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiMr. Pasek Dangke bambang - BangliPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja - Gi-anyarPura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - BangliMerajan Agung Blangsinga - BlahbatuhPura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh GianyarPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk, Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan, Kapal Mengwi.
27 Nov Anggar Kasih Perangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - KlungkungPura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - BulelengPura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - KlungkungPura Gunung engsong - LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Dalem Banyuning Timur - BulelengPura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas (Padang Entas) Titih DenpasarPura Tengah Padang TegalalangMerajan Pasek Gelgel Batu Dewa Kangin Banjar Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg di Desa Sande - Pupuan TabananPura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Adat Pagan DenpasarPura Hyangaluh Jenggala BesakihMerajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan GunaksaMr. Pasek Gelgel SelulungMerajan Pasek Subrata MedahanMerajan Pasek Munggu MungguPura Tengkulak Tulikup - GianyarPura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Previously PT. Paramount Propertindo, a prominent Indonesian real estate developer, and Aston International, Indonesia’s leading International hotel operator, worked as close partners on several Paramount owned hotel projects including the already well established and popular Aston Paramount Serpong Hotel which now will be rebranded and fully man-aged by the Paramount group by the end of this year.
Norbert Vas, Aston International’s VP of Sales & Marketing and Ervan Adi Nugroho, representing PT. Paramount Propertindo in the capacity of Director , said in a joint statement “We both have enthusiastic expansion plans and together a pipeline of far more than 200 new hotels in Indonesia. Given that Aston already is well established in many Indonesian cities and
wants to continue its growth as an independent hotel management company while Paramount has chosen the hotel industry to become their core business and wants to grow into many of these cities, it made perfectly sense for us to shake hands, stay close friends but continue to develop independently from each other. “
Spokespeople of both companies underlined their close ties and mutual respect for each other and reaffirmed their confidence in Indonesia’s economy and demand growth for quality hotel accommodations saying that splitting up will create a new and important hotel group under Paramount’s leadership, allow Aston to remain fully independent and flexible and bring much needed additional hotel inventory and enhanced competition to Indonesia’s lodging sector ben-efiting the economy and the end consumer.
IBP/Net
Aston and Paramount Serpong discontinued partnershipIBP
JAKArTA – Aston International and the Paramount Group recently an-nounced that in order to facilitate each other’s expansion the two companies have mutually elected to discontinue their partnership.Bali Post
DENPASAR - Certificate of excel-lence describing the freshness and safe-ty of food products for consumption by consumers will become a requirement in the market for the agricultural prod-ucts. In the future, this certificate shall be owned by businesspeople including farmers engaged in the marketing of agricultural products.
“Farmers and farmer groups should have a certificate of excellence regard-ing the production process carried out in eco-friendly manner which is assessed by the Regional Food Safety Authority Component (OKKPD),” said the Section Head of the Yield Qual-ity Standardization, Bali Agriculture Agency, Ida Ayu Pidada, in Denpasar.
He said the agricultural product on sale to shopping centers, hotels, inter-island or export should have a certifi-cate of excellence showing the quality and safety assurance for consumption. Thus, the organic farming became an excellence in the marketing of the ag-ricultural products.
He said the components of the Food Safety Authority would promptly conduct a field observation as soon as receiving requests from farmer and farmer group to assess the require-ment of obtaining the certificate of excellence. “Requirements to submit the certificate of excellence are indeed
quite strict because farmers should have a record of process ranging from land preparation, seeding, planting, fertiliza-tion, maintenance to harvest,” said Ida Ayu Pidada.
He judged that farmers or farmer groups engaged in the cultivation of vegetable and horticulture had not been taking notes about the process of production. Actually, the record data became a requirement to file a certificate of excellence that would be cross-checked in accordance with the reality in the field.
“In planting process, farmers and members of farmer groups generally note it in the calendar, not in a par-ticular book. Therefore, it is difficult to find it when needed,” said Ida Ayu Pidada. He considered that many things should be improved in direct-ing farmers in order they had detailed notes as the basis for applying for the certificate of excellence.
Three farmer groups in Bali that had got a certificate of excellence from the Food Safety Authority, Bali Agriculture Agency were expected to become a model for other farmer groups. “Certificate of excellence has become one of the needs of farmers and farmer groups in the face of increasing competition in the present and in the future,” he explained. (kmb)
“There will be a full support for the farmer to focus on the four commodities even though there are others,” he stated.
He added, the government will maximally giving attention on this as its sector has positive affect on the people’s prosperity. To reach the target, programs of agribusiness is being implement-ed to increase farmers’ income and prosperity.
According to Buana, Bali has unique Arabica coffee product with brand “Kopi Arabika Kin-tamani Bali”. He stated that the product has distinctive character-istic of taste and aroma. In fact,
this product has reached third place in a contest of Indonesia Coffee a while ago.
Recently, Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Syarifuddin Hasan said Indonesia could easily become the world`s second largest pro-ducer of coffee as the country has large coffee plantations.
Currently Indonesia is the third largest producer after Brazil and Vietnam.
Indonesia, however, needs to promote its coffee as the quality of Indonesian coffee is com-petitive facing coffee from other producing countries, Syarifuddin
said in Nusa Dua, Bali on Tues-day night.
Development of Indonesia`s coffee industry will concern the interest of large number of people as the industry involves many small businesses and co-operatives, he said.
He said Indonesia needs to at least maintain its positions as the third largest producers of coffee in the world. The country is the second largest producer of robusta coffee after Vietnam.
“If necessary our position could be raised to become the second largest after Brazil,” he said. (kmb28/ant)
IBP/Net
Coffee is one of commodities that will be pursue by Bali’s Plantantion Department in next year program. Bali has unique Arabica coffee product with brand “Kopi Arabika Kintamani Bali” that have distinctive characteristic and aroma.
Plantation department to prioritize four main comoditiesBali Post
DENPASAr - Plantation department of Bali, in 2013 will prioritise four main com-modities such as arabica coffee, robusta coffee, cacao and cashewnut in its improvement. The commodities will be improved in all aspects, such as its cultivation, production and marketing. Head of Bali Plantation Agency, Ir. I Dewa Made Buana Duwuran, MP, stated when asked about the plan for next year program.
IBP/File Photo
The photo shows vendors arrange their products in one of traditional markets on Bali Island. Certificate of excellence describing the fresh-ness and safety of food products for consumption by consumers will become a requirement in the market for the agricultural products.
Marketing of agricultural products
Certificate of excellence should be attached
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Reuters
LONDON - Acupuncture may help relieve fatigue in women who have had breast cancer, as well as easing anxiety, depression and quality of life, according to a UK study.
Cancer and cancer treatments can cause chronic pain, psychological stress and anemia, all of which contribute to fatigue. In addition, people who are nauseated after chemo might not be getting the most nutritious diet for maintaining energy levels.
For the research, which appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Alexander Molassiotis from the University of Manchester and his colleagues tracked 227 women with moderate or severe cancer-related fatigue treated with six weekly acupuncture sessions and another 75 fatigued women who didn’t get acupuncture.
The women had all received chemotherapy for breast cancer in the five years before the study, and most had felt chronically tired for a year or more. Participants were given a booklet about cancer-related fatigue when they started the study.
After six weeks, general fatigue had dropped by
almost four point on a 0-20 scale among women who had acupuncture, compared to a less than one point decline in the comparison group.
“Acupuncture is an effective intervention for managing the symptom of chemo-related fatigue and improving patients’ quality of life,” wrote Molassiotis and his colleagues.
The improvement was “mild to moderate,” according to Amit OVRSood at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota - not enough to allow someone who is stuck in bed to start walking, but maybe enough to get people who are too tired to exercise to start doing some activity.
Anxiety and depression scores, measured from 0 to 21, dropped by two additional points post-acupuncture, compared to scores in women given educational materials only. Emotional and physical well-being got a greater boost with acupuncture therapy as well, Malassiotis and his team found.
The study did not prove it was the needles themselves that boosted the women’s energy levels, and researchers couldn’t tell how much of the benefit might have been due to the “placebo effect” - feeling better because they expected to.
AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Maggie Wilcox, breast cancer survivor poses for a photograph at a news conference on breast cancer screening, in London, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.
GSK raises bet on AIDS drug with new Shionogi dealReuters
LONDON/TOKYO - GlaxoSmithKline has raised its bet on a promising drug for HIV/AIDS by redrawing a deal with Japan’s Shionogi which gives it a much bigger eco-nomic interest in the new product.
Dolutegravir, a once-daily drug that has performed strongly in clinical trials, is seen by analysts as a potential multi-billion-dollar-a-year seller and a strong competitor to treatments from market leader Gilead Sciences.
The drug belongs to a novel class known as integrase inhibitors that block the virus causing AIDS from entering cells.
Under the new agreement Shionogi will take a 10 percent stake in Viiv Healthcare - an HIV drug joint venture set up in 2009 between Britain’s biggest drugmaker and Pfizer - in exchange for its rights to dolute-gravir.
Previously income from the medicine would have been shared 50:50 between ViiV and Shionogi, which analysts calculate would have given GSK only around a 40 percent interest in the drug, after taking ac-count of Pfizer’s minority stake in ViiV.
Now GSK’s economic interest will be between 60 and 66 percent, its chief strategy officer David Redfern told Reuters.
“It’s an affirmation of our belief in dolute-gravir as a potential important medicine in
HIV,” he said in an interview on Monday. “We’re taking in house, in this case through ViiV, what we deem to be an important growth asset.”
Dolutegravir is scheduled to be submitted for regulatory approval in the United States and Europe by end of this year. Industry ana-lysts expect a launch by late 2013, with sales ramping up to around $1 billion by 2016, according to consensus estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters Pharma.
Redfern said the new arrangement was expected to dilute GSK’s earnings by around 1 pence a share in 2013 and 2014 but should boost earnings thereafter. Analysts currently expect earnings of just over 120p a share in 2013.
The decision fits with the group’s strategy of increasing investment in its new drug pipeline and echoes a move made in July to take full control of new lupus drug Benlysta by buying Human Genome Sciences for $3 billion.
GSK, like its rivals, has suffered a string of patent expiries in recent years. Despite coming through this so-called “patent cliff” earlier than most other drug firms, it is still struggling to grow sales.
Results for the third quarter, due on Wednesday, are expected to show another difficult period of trading, weighed on by price cuts in Europe and weak vac-cine sales.
Acupuncture may help ease cancer-related fatigue
Peak of the ceremony took place from 3:00 p.m. and was officiated over by Ida Pandita Siwa Sidemen Tembuku from Griya Pande Bangli, Ida Pandita Rai Keramas from Griya Bukit Bangli, Ida Pandita Buda Alang Kajeng from Griya Nongan and Ida Pandita Manuaba from Griya Selat.
After the peak of the ceremony, the penganyar procession would started to be held in turns by the gebog domas com-munity in Bangli and Susut subdistrict.
The deities would be ready to receive worship (nyejer) until Tuesday (Nov 6). The Perantihan deities of Kehen Temple venerated by the gebog domas community would be back to their respective abid-ing temple throughout the gebog domas hamlets simultaneously at 08:00 a.m. on Wednesday (Nov 7).
Uniquely, before the peak of the cer-emony, a procession of picking up the sanganan lanlanan (pingit) was carried out in the Bukit Bangli Palace. One of
the ritual committee of Kehen Temple, Wayan Suda, said the sanganan pingit was prepared by guru dangka istri. After picking up the sanganan pingit, it was then weighed by using ancient scale originating from hundreds of years belonging to the Kehen temple. The weight was weighed by symbolic stone of the deity in the Kehen Temple. If the weight of sanganan pingit was equal to symbolic stone, it meant that within the next three years the Bangli community would be in safe condition. (kmb17)
Thousands of devotees attend the peak of Ngusaba ceremony at Kehen Temple
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The photo shows Kehen Temple that located in Bangli Province. Thousands of Hindu devotees thronged the peak of Ida Bathara Turun Kabeh ceremony in the Kehen Temple, Bangli, Monday (Oct 29). Such ceremony was held every three years on the full moon of the fifth month in Balinese calendar.
Bali Post
BANGLI - Thousands of Hindu devotees thronged the peak of Ida Bathara Turun Kabeh ceremony in the Kehen Temple, Bangli, Monday (Oct 29). Such ceremony was held every three years on the full moon of the fifth month in Balinese calendar.
AntaraDENPASAR - Bali Police department will
deploy at least 1,300 personnel to ensure security at the 5th Annual Meeting of Bali Democracy Forum (BDF), to be held in Nusa Dua, Bali on November 8-9.
“We will cooperate with the National Police and deploy about 1,300 personnel to secure the event,” the Head of Bali Police Public Relations, Police Commissioner Hari-adi, said.
He stated that the event will be attended by 15 Asian countries. However, the police are still not sure how many heads of state will attend the annual forum.
“Bali police is also ready to step up security if necessary,” Hariadi said.
“We are optimistic that we can guarantee security at this event, since we managed to do a good job at the Bali bombing commemora-tion event in October,” he added.
Hariadi stated that the bombing incident in Poso, Central Sulawesi, on October 22, will not affect the security of Bali because both places have different social conditions.
AntaraDENPASAR - The government has to focus
on local production and take steps to reduce the nation’s dependence on imported products in order to achieve food security, according to an expert.
“By passing the Law of Food, the Board of Food Security is expected to help the nation achieve food security soon, because the board is responsible for tackling Indonesia’s food problems as stated in the law,” an agricultural expert from Udayana Univer-sity, Dewa Ngurah Suprapta said.
The President has granted the authority to the board to implement measures necessary for han-dling the nation’s food problems. Besides, the board is also supported by several ministries.
“With this authority, the national food board will be able to develop strategies to achieve food secu-rity based on local production,” Suprapta stated.
“Agricultural policies in Indonesia have so far not focused on the abilities and skills of farmers,” he continued.
“The government tends to be concerned with achieving food security targets by importing the products instead of increasing local production,” Suprapta pointed out.
He said Indonesia has the potential to produce sufficient agricultural products to ensure its food security.
“In order to fulfil Indonesia’s potential, the cen-tral government and local administrations have to make joint efforts to protect the nation’s agricultural land,” Suprapta added.
He also expressed hope that Indonesia would soon stop depending heavily on imported agricul-tural products and achieve food security.
Food security must based on local production
To ensure security BDF
1,300 police officers to be deployed
But that screening comes with a cost: The review found that for every life saved, roughly three other women were overdiagnosed, meaning they were unnecessarily treated for a can-cer that would never have threatened their lives.
The expert panel was commis-sioned by Cancer Research U.K. and Britain’s department of health and analyzed evidence from 11 trials in Canada, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S.
In Britain, mammograms are usually offered to women aged 50 to 70 every three years as part of the state-funded breast cancer screening program.
Scientists said the British program saves about 1,300 women every year from dying of breast cancer while about 4,000 women are overdiag-nosed. By that term, experts mean women treated for cancers that grow too slowly to ever put their lives at risk. This is different from another screen-ing problem: false alarms, which occur when suspicious mammograms lead
to biopsies and follow-up tests to rule out cancers that were not present. The study did not look at the false alarm rate.
“It’s clear that screening saves lives,” said Harpal Kumar, chief executive of Cancer Research U.K. “But some cancers will be treated that would never have caused any harm and unfortunately, we can’t yet tell which cancers are harmful and which are not.”
Each year, more than 300,000 women aged 50 to 52 are offered a mammogram through the British program. During the next 20 years of screening every three years, 1 percent of them will get unnecessary treat-ment such as chemotherapy, surgery or radiation for a breast cancer that wouldn’t ever be dangerous. The review was published online Tuesday in the Lancet journal.
Some critics said the review was a step in the right direction.
“Cancer charities and public health authorities have been misleading women for the past two decades
by giving too rosy a picture of the benefits,” said Karsten Jorgensen, a researcher at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen who has previously published papers on over-diagnosis.
“It’s important they have at least acknowledged screening causes sub-stantial harms,” he said, adding that countries should now re-evaluate their own breast cancer programs.
In the U.S., a government-appoint-ed task force of experts recommends women at average risk of cancer get mammograms every two years start-ing at age 50. But the American Can-cer Society and other groups advise women to get annual mammograms starting at age 40.
In recent years, the British breast screening program has been slammed for focusing on the benefits of mam-mograms and downplaying the risks.
Maggie Wilcox, a breast cancer survivor and member of the expert panel, said the current information on mammograms given to British women was inadequate.
Mammograms: For 1 life saved, 3 women overtreatedAssociated Press
LONDON — Breast cancer screening for women over 50 saves lives, an independent panel in Britain has concluded, confirming findings in U.S. and other studies.
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Associated Press
TOKYO — A major airport in northern Japan was closed Tuesday after construction workers found an unexploded bomb believed to be from World War II.
All 92 flights in and out of Sendai airport were cancelled after the 250-kilogram (550-pound) bomb was uncovered during con-struction near a runway, local police official Hiroshi Ouchi said. The bomb was identified as American-made and is believed to be a dud from World War II.
It appeared to have a working detonator, and a military bomb squad was considering whether to move the bomb or explode it on the spot. Evacuations of nearby homes were being considered, Ouchi said.
The Sendai airport, a major hub for travel into northern Japan, was closed for months due to severe damage from last year’s tsunami. It is still undergoing reconstruction.
The United States heavily bombed Japa-nese cities during World War II, and finding unexploded bombs is not unusual, 67 years after Japan’s surrender. Dozens of duds are
uncovered in Tokyo each year, and even more are found on the southern island of Okinawa, which was the site of the most intense fighting during the war.
Many of them are found at construction sites. The rusty condition of the bombs can make them prone to detonate when moved, but injuries are rare. Experts say it could take sev-eral decades to remove all of the unexploded ordnance. Last week, hundreds of residents in central Tokyo were evacuated so that bomb squads could remove a 220-kilogram dud buried there.
Sandy knocked out power to at least 5.7 mil-lion people, and New York’s main utility said large sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 cus-tomers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads.
Just before its centre reached land, the storm was stripped of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based
on its shape and internal temperature. It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it remained every bit as dangerous to the 50 million people in its path. By late night, the centre of the storm was over southern New Jersey.
The National Hurricane Center an-nounced at 8 p.m. that Sandy had come ashore near Atlantic City. It smacked the boarded-up big cities of the Northeast cor-
ridor, from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia, New York and Boston, with stinging rain and gusts of more than 85 135 kilometres per hour. The sea surged a record of nearly four metres at the foot of Manhattan, flooding the financial district and subway tunnels.
The 13 deaths were reported in New Jer-sey, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Some of the victims were killed by falling trees. Police in Toronto said a woman was killed by a falling sign as high winds closed in on Canada’s largest city.
Storm damage was projected at $10 billion to $20 billion, meaning it could prove to be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Reuters
NEW YORK - Exelon Corp de-clared an “alert” at its New Jersey Oyster Creek nuclear power plant due to a record storm surge, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said, warning that a further water rise could force the country’s oldest working plant to use emergency water supplies to cool spent uranium fuel rods.
The alert -- the second lowest of four NRC action levels -- came after water levels at the plant rose by more than 6.5 feet, potentially affecting the pumps that circulate water through the plant, an NRC spokesman said late on Monday.
Those pumps are not essential since the 43-year-old plant was shut for planned refueling since October 22. However, a further rise to 7 feet could submerge the service water pump mo-tor that is used to cool the water in the spent fuel pool.
Exelon said in a statement that there was no danger to equipment and no threat to public health or safety.
The incident at Oyster Creek, which is about 60 miles east of Phila-delphia on the New Jersey Coast, came as Sandy made landfall as the largest Atlantic storm ever, bringing up to 90 mile per hour (mph) winds and 13-foot storm surges in the biggest test of the industry’s emergency preparedness since the Fukushima disaster in Japan a year and a half ago.
Although such alerts are considered serious events in the industry -- with only about a dozen such instances in the past four years, according to NRC press releases -- flood waters should be receding at the plant following high tide, reducing the risk of emergency action.
Sandy had been expected to force the closure of at least two other nuclear plants in New Jersey, although the NRC said none of the country’s other nuclear reactors had been shut by the storm.
The NRC spokesman said the company could use water from a fire suppression system to cool the pool if necessary. The used uranium rods in the pool could cause the water to boil within 25 hours without ad-ditional coolant; in an extreme sce-nario the rods could overheat, risking the eventual release of radiation.
Exelon spokesman David Tillman said the plant has “multiple and redun-dant” sources of cooling for the spent fuel pool. He said he did not know whether the service water system was operational at the moment.
After Sandy storm surgeU.S. nuclear plant declares “alert”
Japanese airport closed after WWII bomb found
AP Photo/6abc Action News, Dann Cuellar
This photo provided by 6abc Action News shows the Inlet section of Atlantic City, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy makes it approach, Monday Oct. 29, 2012. Sandy made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, which was already mostly under water and saw a piece of its world-famous Boardwalk washed away earlier in the day.
Sandy slams into Atlantic coastAssociated Press
NEW YORK - Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline and hurled a record-breaking four-metre surge of seawater at New York City on Monday, roaring ashore and putting the presidential campaign on hold a week before election day At least 13 deaths were blamed on the storm.WhEN penjors paraphernalia are erected
throughout the island, they epitomize that Galungan festivity has come. Every single devotee is in blooming heart welcoming it with joy. This six monthly celebration in Ba-linese calendar encourages people to make earnest preparation whole day and night. It’s time to glorify God and ancestors.
Based on the mythology, Galungan delineates the triumph of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth). According to Tatwa Mayadanawa transliterated by Made Gambar said that Bedaulu kingdom in Bali was once ruled by Mayadanawa. He was very powerful and proud of his power and feels to have more sovereign power than that of gods.
This arrogance until forbids all subjects to worship God together with the celebration to glorify all God’s manifestations. The non-existence of freedom to worship and other religious activities caused many subjects greatly suffered where diseases spread and harvests failed. Seeing this condition, Lord Mahadeva in heaven feels disappointed. Having organized an assembly session with other gods, it is decided to attack Mayadana-wa. Under the leadership of Lord Indra, the target can be timely destroyed. In short, the troops of the gods won the battle. This does
not only stand for the triumph of the gods, but also of the whole mankind on earth.
Afterwards, Galungan then can be re-celebrated after the triumph of Indra. Many subjects felt to regain their enlightenment as they were able to practice their religious life. This festivity lasts for ten days and ends in the day called Kuningan. Aside from paying homage at village temple, it is also intended to appreciate the ancestors at family shrine. Similarly, devotees thank for the prosperity bestowed and maintain the relationship with their ancestors. Though they have left for the beyond, hopefully they could illuminate their descendants.
Another version about Galungan is men-tioned by the manuscript Jaya Kasunu. It is said that the king Jaya Kasunu (AD 1204), meditated (held dewa sraya) to invoke guid-ance. His problem was that not one of his predecessors could rule longer. Through his solemn meditation he was inspired that he should re-organize religious activities, such as Galungan.
No matter what the version is, the essence of these mythologies implies that a devotee or creation should maintain their persistent contact to his Creator. The âtman dwelling within the human self should maintain his contact to Brahman, the Creator. By doing
so, humans can continuously obtain the il-lumination to walk in the path of dharma.
As manifestation of gratitude, devotees express it through worship at temples, garden, rice field and so forth. Everything that has given prosperity is also offered an oblation, including the means of transporta-tion. If you happen to take an excursion on that day you of course will rub up against many cars affixed with young coconut paraphernalia.
Hopefully, the festivity does not come to an end at the vibrant fiesta marked with grandiose oblation, assorted delicious food or luxurious paraphernalia. All the times it should help the spiritual development. Anything achieved in this life either tangible or intangible entities, should not make us ar-rogant. Sometimes, when having abundance of wealth or higher educational background, a human feels superior or more powerful than others. Even, it is not employed as a milestone to improve his devotion to God. It’s here where the achievement drags human to sluggish condition or gorge of destruction. Like Mayadanawa, he forgot that there is a vast sky above him. His power has led him to his dissolution. If we do not want to become the next Mayadanawa, consistent devotion must be established. (BTN/punia)
“Revenue in the tourism sec-tor should also be contributed to preserve the existence of subak, because so far the subak has be-come one of the tourist objects. Moreover, the people who preserve the subak are small community whose economic level has not been established. Meanwhile, they are imposed with an obligation to pre-serve the subak,” said Chairman of INCCA Bali, IB Surakusuma.
He said the recognition of UNESCO to subak in Bali as a world cultural heritage should provide benefits to the community. On that account, the government’s revenues obtained from the tour-ism sector such as the income tax should be returned to farmers. “The government should be keen to see the revenues in the tourism sector, including tax revenues,” he said.
The recognition of UNESCO to subak in Bali had consequences on the farmers where the subak that received the world’s recognition and was included in the concept
of cultural heritage required the farmers not to sell their farmland. So far, the farmers were forced to sell the farmland to meet the needs of ceremony, school fees and other necessities of life.
“When charged with the pres-ervation of subak, the government should assist the community in meeting the needs of life because when farmers are in desperate economic problems, they will not optimally help the tourism sector,” he said.
He mentioned the government should examine the land conver-sion and struggle for the airport tax, including income tax to provide subsidy for farmers because the community expected the govern-ment assistance for the preservation of culture and agriculture.
The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO had agreed to put the subak system as a world site under the name of Cultural Landscape of Bali. Subak system was referred to as a manifestation of the Tri Hita
Karana philosophy into the World Heritage on June 29, 2012.
The Cultural Landscape of Bali
includes the sites like the Ulun Danu Batur and Lake Batur, Pak-erisan Watershed, area of Catur
Angga Batukaru and Taman Ayun Temple. The sites have a total area of 20,974.70 hectares. (kmb27)
Tourism businesspeople should support Subak conservationBali Post
DENPASAR - Inclusion of the subak or Balinese traditional ir-rigation system as a world heritage site by UNESCO should get the attention from tourism businesspeople. So far, the sector has been getting a lot of benefits displayed by the agricultural sector, including the appeal of subak.
Mayadanawa: Feeling Superiority Results in Destruction
The photo shows line up of penjors that being erected during Galungan festivity in Bali Is-land. When penjors paraphernalia are erected throughout the island, they epitomize that Galungan festivity has come. Every single devotee is in blooming heart welcoming it with joy. This six monthly celebration in Balinese calendar encourages people to make earnest preparation whole day and night.
IBP/File Photo
The photo shows a farmer working at his ricefield. Inclusion of the subak or Balinese traditional irriga-tion system as a world heritage site by UNESCO should get the attention from tourism businesspeople. So far, the sector has been getting a lot of benefits displayed by the agricultural sector, including the appeal of subak.
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Associated Press
GENEVA — Swiss banking giant UBS AG announced massive layoffs Tuesday along with huge losses in its third-quarter results, saying it aims to trim as many as 10,000 em-ployees, or some 15 percent of its staff, to drastically shrink its ailing investment bank.
Switzerland’s biggest bank said that as part of the cost-cutting drive to boost profitability it “is likely to have a headcount of around 54,000” by 2015, down from its current 64,000 employees among 57 coun-tries.
The bank posted a net profit loss of 2.17 billion Swiss francs ($2.31 billion), compared with a profit of 1.02 billion Swiss francs ($1.13 bil-lion) during the same three-month period through September 2011.
In what it called “a significant acceleration” in its transformation, the Zurich-based bank said it would sharpen its focus on the investment bank and appoint a new executive, Andrea Orcel, formerly of Bank of America Corp., to lead it. The cur-rent co-head of the investment bank, Carsten Kengeter, is stepping down from the group’s executive board to
unwind the non-core assets.UBS said it also plans to save 3.4
billion francs ($3.6 billion) in ad-ditional costs through 2015, but that the reorganization also will result in restructuring charges of 3.3 bil-lion francs over the next three years including about a half-billion francs in the fourth quarter.
UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti said the investment unit, which has been hit by a series of costly blunders in recent years, will “continue to be a significant global player in its core businesses.” But tighter industry-wide requirements for banks to increase their capital cushion also have hurt profitability as banks have less cash to invest. “It can’t get better than this point for us to act,” he told reporters.
The bank attributed the declining profit to a pretax impairment charge of 3.1 billion francs from goodwill and other non-financial assets with the investment bank along with a pretax charge of 863 million francs ($920 million) linked to an account-ing rule on how banks must value their debt. Banks can post gains if the value of their debt falls, be-cause it would theoretically become cheaper for the bank to repurchase that debt.
The Bank of Japan’s policy board voted unanimously to increase the asset purchasing program by 11 trillion yen ($139 billion) to 91 trillion yen ($1.15 trillion).
The central bank decided against any change in its key interest rate, which remains at 0 percent to 0.1 percent.
The bond-buying program is intended to encourage borrowing and spending and help make Ja-pan’s exports more competitive.
A fresh barrage of negative data on Japan’s failing recovery pumped up pressure for the cen-tral bank to act to help revive the world’s third-largest economy.
Japan’s industrial output con-tracted by 4.1 percent in Septem-ber from August and 8.1 percent from a year earlier as automakers and steel mills cut production due
to shrinking demand and antago-nisms with China, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
The economic recovery that followed Japan’s March 2011 disasters has been doused by slowing global growth. Flaring tensions with China over disput-ed islands in the East China Sea have further crimped demand, es-pecially for big-ticket items like cars. Slowing growth in China, meanwhile, has hit demand for industrial inputs like steel and machinery.
“Industrial production is on a downward trend,” the ministry said, forecasting a further de-cline in October, followed by a rebound in November.
Embattled Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda convened an ex-traordinary session of the legisla-
ture on Monday, appealing to the opposition Liberal Democratic Party to cooperate in passing a bill authorizing bond sales to finance the growing deficit.
Japan’s Cabinet approved a 423 billion yen ($5.3 billion) emergency stimulus package on Friday, double the size originally expected. The government was obliged to dip into reserves to pay for the new stimulus, since its leeway to boost spending is limited by a legislative standoff preventing issuance of some 38.3 trillion yen ($480 billion) in deficit financing.
As it confronts that “fiscal cliff,” which could raise the country’s borrowing costs, Japan already leads industrial nations with government debt amounting to more than twice the country’s gross domestic product.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Apple Inc. shook up its executive ranks Monday, say-ing the head of its store operations is leaving after just six months on the job and the long-serving head of its iPhone software development operations is exiting next year.
Apple didn’t say why retail se-nior vice president John Browett and iOS software SVP Scott Forstall were leaving, but both have presided over missteps this year.
Browett cut staffing hours at Ap-ple’s retail stores, a move the com-pany reversed and acknowledged as a mistake. Forstall’s division launched a software update in Sep-tember that replaced Google Maps with Apple’s first mapping applica-tion. It quickly drew unfavorable comparisons to the software it was replacing, and Apple apologized.
Browett’s departure is immedi-ate, and the company is looking for a replacement. Forstall will act as
an advisor to CEO Tim Cook until he leaves, Apple said. His responsi-bilities will be divided among other Apple veterans.
Forstall joined Apple in 1997 with the company’s purchase of Steve Jobs’ NeXT startup. Apple credits him as one of the original architects of Mac OS X.
Craig Federighi, who is now in charge of the Mac OS, will add iOS development to his responsibilities, Apple said, but Jony Ive, the chief designer behind the distinctive look of Apple hardware, will take responsibility for the look and feel of Apple’s software. Eddy Cue, head of Apple’s online services and iTunes, will assume responsibility for Maps and Siri, the “virtual as-sistant” application on the iPhone and iPad.
Browett took over the store op-erations after Ron Johnson, who helped create the Apple stores, left to become CEO at J.C. Penney Co. in November.
AP Photo/Koji Sasahara
A man inspects a refrigerator at a discount electric store in Tokyo Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Japan’s central bank expanded a government bond-buying program Tuesday, acting to spur growth fol-lowing news of a further decline in industrial production.
Japan central bank ups asset buys to aid economyAssociated Press
TOKYO — Japan’s central bank expanded a government bond-buying program Tuesday, acting to spur growth following news of a further decline in industrial production.
2 top executives leaving Apple
UBS announces massive layoffs of 10,000
Bali PostTABANAN - Ratification of the
Regional Bylaw on Spatial Plan-ning (RTRW) in Tabanan leaves a problem. Since there is no a Regent Regulation setting it, the Regional Bylaw passed last week is feared to be ineffective or having no power. The regulation itself has not set the relevant technical implementation. As consequence, the violation of building will still possibly happen.
A member of Commission II of the Tabanan House, Ida Bagus Kade Adnyana Suryawan, explained the regent ideally arranged a Regent Regulation to technically govern the implementation of the Regional Bylaw on Spatial Planning. Thus, the regulation drafted and ratified by the House could be immediately enforced. “If the Regional Bylaw is not accompanied with the Regent Regulation, the spatial violation will continue to happen. Therefore, the regent shall immediately make a Regent Regulation to set the tech-
nical implementation in the field,” affirmed this Democrat.
According to Suryawan, the regulation made ideally should not just become a formality to pursue the General Allocation Fund (DAU) from central government. “If the making of regulation is just to es-tablish the correlation between the central and local government, then the enforcement will not be on tar-get. Many buildings will be getting disordered and inappropriate with the regulations,” he criticized.
This legislator from Wanasari village, Tabanan, urged the regent and her team to immediately issue the Regent Regulation. Accordingly, there would be clear rule related to building violations. He said the Regional Bylaw on the Spatial Planning just set the spatial order in general. On that account, it would be unable to prevent the project of villa buildings and residential annexing the productive farmland.
Suryawan added, when the rules
were not resolute, the investors were worried to act uncontrollably. More-over, there were no definite rules to impose any sanction. “Without rules, the coastal and river border-line will be violated by investors,” he explained. He said the birth of Regional Bylaw was intentionally made to stem the proliferation of buildings and villas violating the productive area and the like.
Aside from urging the making of the Regent Regulation, Suryawan also asked the regency government to act decisively when an investor infringed the laws. “Simply have a look, the housing has mushroomed everywhere. It needs making a strict rule, which areas can be utilized for housing need,” he said. Likewise, the regency government was also asked to impose a decisive sanction on investors that were found breaking the laws. According to Suryawan, the Regent Regulation should not be made for the benefit of the improper party. (kmb30)
When giving a speech, the regent frankly stated if he did not want to do the groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel construction in the north of store complex. He called for the investor to delay the hotel construction located in the vicinity of the beach.
Although the hotel construction had owned a complete permit, there were some things that should be discussed with various parties, especially regarding the coastal borderline. “It is for the common interests, especially for the development of Buleleng and security of investment,” he said.
Though unwilling to do the groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel project, the regent persisted on officially inaugurating the store complex marked with the signing of inscription and ribbon cutting. According to the regent, other than having owned a complete per-mit, the store complex was a positive investment for the economic development of Buleleng.
Moreover, the investor had arranged the environment around the area so that it looked clean and green. “We also requested in order the investor could hire local labor force, and do not bring in labor force from outside,” he said.
Gede Agus Hardiawan of PT Hardys Retailindo was in fact not disappointed with the attitude of the regent who rejected to perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel construction in the region. Even, he expressed his gratitude for the response of the regent that it was not only for himself as investor in the region, but for the common interests. “I believe what the regent said is a right thing,” he said.
Construction of the store complex and hotel in the area of Kam-pung Baru, precisely on the beach in the east of the former harbor of Buleleng was started in August 2012. At the location was estab-lished a total of 44 units of store named the Singaraja Square and a hotel named Pop Hotel. Construction of the store complex had been complete. As scheduled, the hotel construction was begun on Monday marked with the groundbreaking ceremony.
Construction of the store and hotel had drawn a polemic among the Commission B of the Buleleng House because it was considered to have violated the coastal borderline. The distance of coastline and hotel development was only 18.5 meters. However, during the reign of the Regent Bagiada, all the permits for the store complex and hotel construction had been issued. As a result, the development constantly continued.
Before the Regent Agus Suradnyana was invited to attend the store inauguration, Chairman of Commission B of the Buleleng House, Putu Mangku Budiasa, had even requested the regent not to attend the invitation because the hotel build-ing violated the coastal borderline. However, the Regent Agus Suradnyana constantly attended it last Monday. He still chose to inaugurate the store complex but delayed the groundbreak-ing ceremony.
After the inauguration, the Regent Agus Suradnyana said that PT Hardys actually had owned all the permits of the store complex and hotel. However, for the hotel construction, his party still asked the investor Hardiawan to discuss further with various stakeholders, including the Minister of Home Affairs.
So far the investor carried out the development by referring to the road borderline located on the beach side. On the other hand, next to the beach lay a road. On that account, it should be discussed again, whether the construction referred to the road or coastal borderline. “If the use of road borderline will be justified, I will inaugurate the hotel construction,” he said. (kmb15)
Violating coastal borderline
Regent refuses groundbreaking ceremony of hotel developmentBali Post
SINGARAJA - There was an exciting incident when the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, attended the invita-tion of PT Hardys Retailindo to inaugurate the store complex and do groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel construction at Kampung Baru Singaraja. The regent was willing to inaugurate the Singaraja Square store complex, but refused to carry out the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Pop Hotel.
IBP/File Photo
The photo shows farmland at Tabanan Regency. The Regional Bylaw on the Spatial Planning just set the spatial order in general. It should be accompanied by Regent Regulation so it would be unable to prevent the project of villa buildings and residential annexing the productive farmland.
Without Regent Regulation
Regional Bylaw on Spatial Planning feared to be ineffective
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ELIZABETH CITY, North Carolina — When the Bounty set sail last week, the captain running the ship made famous in Hollywood adventure films believed he could navigate around Hurricane Sandy and weather the storm. After two days in rough seas, he realized his journey would be far more difficult.
“I think we are going to be into this for several days,” Robin Walbridge said in a message posted Sunday on the vessel’s Facebook site, which reads like a ship’s log of her activities. “We are just going to keep trying to go fast.” By Monday morning, the vessel had started taking on water, its engines failed and the crew of the stately craft had to abandon ship as it went down in the immense waves. One crew member died and Walbridge was still missing.
Most of the sailors were plucked from life rafts shortly after the ship went down, but Claudene Christian was found hours later, unresponsive and floating in the water. She was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital, Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert said.
The rest of the crew was in good condition.By the time the first rescue helicopter arrived, all that was visible of the
replica 18th-century sailing vessel was a strobe light atop the mighty ship’s submerged masts. The roiling Atlantic Ocean had claimed the rest.
The final hours of the HMS Bounty, as it was officially named, were as dramatic as the movies she starred in. “When a crew decides it’s safer in an inflatable than it is on deck, then you know she’s in peril,” said Bill Foster, mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, a frequent winter port for the ship and where it had been expected to arrive in November.
The ship was originally built for the 1962 film “Mutiny on the Bounty” starring Marlon Brando, and it was featured in several other films over the years, including one of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.
Rochelle Smith, 44, met Christian this summer when they sailed the HMS Bounty in Nova Scotia.
“She loved the Bounty. She absolutely loved it. She was so happy to be on it and doing something that she found that she loved to do,” said Smith, a medical transcriptionist who lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
The vessel left Connecticut on Thursday with a crew of 11 men and five women, ranging in age from 20 to 66. Everyone aboard knew the journey could be treacherous.
As the storm cuts into the final week of campaigning in an es-pecially close race for the White House, both men are trying to avoid coming across as overtly political while millions of people are imperiled by Sandy’s fierce winds and driving rain.
Obama and Romney are vir-tually tied in the presidential contest, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Monday. It showed the Democrat leading by a single percentage point eight days before Election Day.
With the hurricane dominating headlines, Obama used the bully pulpit of the White House brief-ing room to show he was on top of the storm response effort.
He warned Americans in San-dy’s path that it could take a long time before power was restored and transportation systems were
running again, and he dismissed concerns of the storm’s effects on the election.
“I am not worried at this point about the impact on the election. I’m worried about the impact on families, and I’m worried about the impact on our first respond-ers. I’m worried about the impact on our economy and on transpor-tation,” Obama told reporters.
“The election will take care of itself next week. Right now our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives.”
Obama returned to Washing-ton after cutting short a trip to Orlando, Florida, where he had been due to appear at a rally with former President Bill Clinton.
Romney said he was in touch with federal emergency manage-ment workers about the storm.
“The damage will probably be significant and, of course, a lot of
people will be out of power for a long time,” he said in Daven-port, Iowa. “So hopefully your thoughts and prayers will join with mine and people across the country as you think about those folks that are in harm’s way,” he said, urging supporters to donate to the American Red Cross.
Romney canceled fur ther events in Wisconsin on Monday night and in Iowa and Florida on Tuesday. Those states are out of Sandy’s path, but the former Massachusetts governor does not want to be seen to be focusing only on the campaign in the midst of potential national disaster.
“Governor Romney believes this is a time for the nation and its leaders to come together to focus on those Americans who are in harm’s way,” said Romney communications director Gail Gitcho.
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
After canceling his appearance at a morning campaign rally in Orlando, Fla., President Barack Obama walks toward the White House in a driving rain after returning to Washington to monitor preparations for early response to Hurricane Sandy, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.
In face of hurricane
Obama, Romney curtail campaign events Reuters
WASHINGTON/DAVENPORT - President Barack Obama suspended campaigning and returned to Washington on Monday to oversee the response to Hurricane Sandy, while his Republican rival Mitt Romney curtailed political events to show respect for the storm’s potential victims.
1 dead, captain missing after Sandy claims ship
AntaraPALU - Sports and Youth Affairs Min-
ister Andi Mallarangeng has stated that he is ready to take moral responsibility for the alleged misappropriation of funds in connection with the construction of Hambalang sports training and education centre in Sentul, West Java.
“I am ready to be morally responsible,” he said during a lecture at the Tadulalo University here on Monday, in response to a student`s question about alleged cor-ruption in the Hambalang project.
Andi urged all Indonesians wait pa-tiently for the results of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)`s inves-tigation.
“Indonesia needs a world-class sports education center because the current one in Ragunan, East Jakarta, is no longer good enough to accommodate and train athletes,” he explained.
When asked about the alleged misappro-priation of funds allocated to the project, Andi said he was ready to cooperate with the KPK “in finding out the truth”.
The project, involving the development of a national sports education center, is also facing legal problems because the funds for its construction are alleged to have been inflated.
The KPK has asked the State Audit Board (BPK) to conduct an investigation into the case.
In 2009, the Ministry of Youth and Sports
Affairs proposed a budget of Rp1.025 tril-lion for the construction of the project, but the budget was raised to Rp1.175 trillion by the Ministry of Finance.
Of the proposed budget of Rp1.175 tril-lion, only Rp275 billion got the required approval and Rp125 billion of the ap-proved budget was expected to be allocated in the 2012 state budget while another Rp150 billion was to be allocated through the revised 2012 state budget.
The Hambalang issue came to the fore thanks to M. Nazaruddin, a former Demo-crat Party treasurer and a fugitive in con-nection with the alleged corruption in the construction of an ASEAN athlete housing complex in South Sumatra.
In a telephone conversation with a pri-vate TV station in July 2011, Nazaruddin said: “The tender winners for the Hambal-ang athlete training center project had been decided even before they were called.”
Nazaruddin added that PT Adhi Karya and PT Wijaya Karya paid Rp100 billion in bribes to win the tenders for the project worth Rp1.5 trillion.
The total cost of the project is estimated at Rp2.5 trillion, if the procurement of various sports equipment and facilities is taken into account.
The athlete training center will consist of several buildings, such as dormitories and training halls. Spread over an area of 32 hectares, the center was initially ex-pected to be ready for use by 2013.
“Families across the country should guard their sons and daughters and prevent them from committing terrorism as it would be them who would become victims in the crime,” he said at a press conference before leaving for Britain and Laos for a working visit until November 6.
President Yudhoyono, flanked by First Lady Any Yudhoyono and also several cabinet ministers, is scheduled to be in Britain for three days upon the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II.
During the visit he would meet with the Queen, prime minister David Cameron and other officials.
He is also scheduled to meet with Prince Charles, chairman of the Liberal Democrat
Party Nick Clegg and opposition leader Ed Miliband.
President Yudhoyono would also deliver speeches in several forums including the All-Parliamentary Group on Indonesia, the Royal College for Defense Studies and Wil-ton Park.
From Britain President Yudhoyono would later go to Laos where he would attend the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).
House speaker Marzuki Alie and chairman of the Regional Representatives Council, Ir-man Gusman and chairman of the National Economic Committee, Chairul Tanjung are also in the presidential entourage.
President Yudhoyono is scheduled to arrive home on November 6.
Associated Press
JAKARTA — Indonesian police said Monday anger at a U.S.-made anti-Islam film was among the motives behind failed terror attacks against foreign targets.
Last week, the anti-terror squad ar-rested 11 people suspected of planning attacks on domestic and foreign targets, including the U.S. Embassy and a site near the Australian Embassy.
National police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said based on seized documents and other information, anger at the American-made movie denigrating Islam’s Prophet Muhammad was one of the reasons behind the planned attacks. The movie caused deadly outrage across the Middle East when it went online in September.
Police seized a number of bombs, explosive materials, a bomb-making manual and ammunition, along with a small gas cylinder filled with highly explosive material during the Friday and Saturday raids in four cities, including the
capital Jakarta.The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta has urged
U.S. citizens in Indonesia to avoid large crowds and other gatherings that might turn violent.
“At first, they wanted to attack (secu-rity) officers ... and based on documents and other information, the foreign targets were linked with the film which insulted Islam,” Amar told a news conference.
He was referring to “Innocence of Muslims,” that denigrates the Prophet Mu-hammad. At least 49 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, were killed last month in violence linked to the film.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, has been bat-tling terrorists since the 2002 bombings in Bali, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Subsequent attacks have claimed more than 50 people, mostly Indone-sians. The government has arrested more than 700 suspected terrorists and killed dozens more in an attempt to root out the militants.
President urges prevention of terrorist ideology in wake of arrests
AntaraJAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono renewed calls on the
importance of preventing terrorist ideology from spreading here on Tuesday following the arrests of 11 terrorist suspects in the country recently.
Minister ready to account for Hambalang scandal
AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD
A police cordon is seen outside the sealed house of two suspected terrorists in Jakarta on October 30, 2012 a few days after the pair was arrest with nine others. Indonesian police said Monday anger at a U.S.-made anti-Islam film was among the motives behind failed terror attacks against foreign targets
Anti-Islam film said to fuel Indonesia terror plan
Meanwhile, the slope of Mount Abang in Kintamani located on steep area in the border between Puncak Sari Songan and Trunyan village also caught fire on Sunday night (Oct 28). Due to steep ter-rain, the disaster officials could only put out the fire on the accessible slope. Then on a steep slope, the fire could not be extinguished. Chief Executive of the Regional Disaster Management of Bangli, Wayan Sugiarta, confirmed the incident on Monday (Oct 29).
Difficult terrain had forced the management team to take two paths. A team walked through the Pucak Sari, Songan hamlet at the border of Trunyan. Another team departed via Lake Batur. In the team taking the Songan route, his party involved about 50 residents of Songan. While the team passing through the lake involved five personnel from disaster management agency. Three hotspots had been extinguished by traditional tools, while the hotspots on steep slopes were still left because they were difficult to be reached.
On Monday morning, his party also assigned some personnel. “The hotspots situated on steep terrain were hard to be reached. Therefore, we left and could only watch them from a distance,” he said. To antici-pate the subsequent fire, his party had alerted monitoring personnel. Allegedly, the hotspots originated from the frictions of dry twigs that were easily on fire due to dry season. (013/kmb17)
Condition of the barren forest reaching hundreds of hectares, cleared and planted with elephant grass by surrounding residents caught fire for few days and the flames were difficult to be extinguished because the burning areas located in inaccessible ravine. Ultimately, the fire could be controlled by involving hundreds of residents.
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One of the famous sites that always visit by tourists when holi-daying to Bali is Uluwatu. Ulu-watu Temple is a Hindu temple set on the cliff bank in south part of Bali Peninsula. It is one of Sad Kahyangan Temple in Bali (six big groups of Bali Temples), located in Pecatu Village, Sub district of South Kuta, and Badung Regency or about 25 Km southerly part of Denpasar town. It is situated on the coral reef sordid to sea about 80 meters above the sea level. It is featured by a small dry forest which is mostly called by Alas Kekeran (interdict forest) which is belong to the temple and dwelt by a lot of monkeys and other animal. Name of Uluwatu was come from the word Ulu meaning the head and Watu meaning stone. Therefore Uluwatu Temple mean the temple built in tip of coral reef.
In the right and left of temple building or Pelinggih Ida Bagus Ratu Jurit located in complex of Uluwatu Temple, there are two stone mangers that look like a boat. When both of it are united, hence it’s look similar to sarcophagus, the famous stone from megalithic era culture. There is archaeology omission coming from 16 centuries in firm of arch or winged entrance gate. Winged entrance gate is one of the scarce archaeology omis-sions. Winged entrance gate that is existing in Uluwatu Temple (a period of its making) can be com-
pared with the same one located in mosque complex in Sendangduwur Village, Lamongan, East Java. The period of its making is relevant with the year Candrasengkala found at this inscription. Candrasengkala founded in the mosque is written by the wording Gunaning Salira Tirta Hayu meaning year 1483 Saka or 1561 Masehi.
If the sarcophagus that existing in Dalem Jurit complex area rep-resents the artifact, hence Uluwatu Temple represents the place sancti-fied since era of megalithic culture (About 500 S.M). In papyrus of Usana Bali mentioned that Mpu Kuturan (The Hindu Priest who spread out the Hinduism in Bali) had built a lot of temple in this island and one of them Uluwatu Temple.
Implicit at papyrus Padma Bhu-wana that Uluwatu Temple draw in the direction that is located in Southwest functioning to worship the Rudra God, one of the god in nine god (Dewata Nawa Sanga). Rudra God is the Deity Siwa as Pemralina or return to prov-enance.
In this papyrus also mention that Uluwatu Temple is the Kahyangan World worshiped by entire Hindu people. Since this area is opened for public, it is visited by many people from all over the world because it has beautiful panorama with spectacular sunset and stunning view of Indian Ocean and deep the cliff bank. It is the perfect to visit in Bali.
Uluwatu Temple
Reuters
After again narrowly missing out on their first Olympic gold medal in London earlier this year, Malaysia plans to spend 187.2 million ringgit ($61.24 million) in 2013 to boost the country’s sporting per-formance.
“The challenge for us here is simply that that we don’t just spend money, but to make sure that the money will generate sporting success,” the Star daily reported youth and sports minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek as saying on Tuesday.
The figure is higher than spending in previ-ous years and 8.5 million ringgit of the amount has been set aside for the biennial Malaysia Games, for under-21 athletes, to be held in Kuala Lumpur in June and July next year.
The heavy spending comes with the gov-ernment hoping to shore up support among younger voters ahead of an election which it must call by April.
Malaysia won their first medal outside of badminton at the London Olympics this year, with Pandelela Rinong taking bronze in the women’s 10 metre diving event.
“Although we didn’t win gold this time, it was by far our best performance to date. And we know we can excel in different sports,” Ahmad Shabery said.
In addition to the Tour de France, Wiggins also won the Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie, Criterium du Dauphine and the Olympic time trial titles.
Doping confessionTeam Sky sports director Steven
de Jongh has quit after three years
following his admission that he took a banned substance earlier in his career, the British team said on Monday.
“Steven deserves our respect for the courage he’s shown in being honest about the past and it’s right that we do our best to support him,” team head Dave
Brailsford said in a statement.“There’s no doubt about Ste-
ven’s work with us or his ap-proach. He’s been a highly valued Sports Director and colleague over three seasons,” Brailsford added of the Dutchman, who retired in 2009.
As a result of the Lance Arm-strong doping scandal, Team Sky asked every member of the team to sign up to a written policy say-ing they had no past or present involvement with drugs.
Armstrong was stripped this month of his seven Tour de France titles from 1999-2005 for doping.
Sky race coach Bobby Julich left the team on Thursday after admitting he took a banned sub-stance during his riding career.
Another sports director Sean Yates left Sky on Sunday, al-though the team said his depar-ture was not a result of their zero-tolerance anti-doping stance.
Reuters
Manu Ginobili will miss the NBA season opener for the San Antonio Spurs due to a back ailment, the team said on Monday
The Spurs kick off their campaign on Wednesday at the New Orleans Hornets but they will do so without Argentine guard Ginobili.
The 35-year-old Ginobili, a three-times NBA champion and two-times All Star, will be re-evaluated in advance of Thursday’s game against Oklahoma City.
San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich has never hesitated to rest ailing players and team mate Tim Duncan was unperturbed by Ginobili’s injury.
“He’ll be fine. It’s a long season, there are way too many games between now and when it really matters,” Duncan told the team’s website (nba.com/spurs).
“We’re going to get him back to 100 per-cent and get him back on the floor.”
Ginobili missed his share of games with injury last season, when he averaged 12.9 points and 4.4 assists.
The Spurs captured the top seed in the Western Conference in 2011-2012 but lost to the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals.
Wiggins scoops Velo d’Or awardReuters
PARIS - Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins won the prestigous Velo d’Or award as the best rider of 2012. Briton Wiggins beat Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders winner Tom Boonen and Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez in a poll of cycling journalists set up by French publication, Velo Magazine.
British cyclist Bradley Wiggins listens, at the presentation of the hundredth edition of the Tour de France cycling race, in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, The race will starts on June, 29, 2013 and arrive in Paris on July, 21. Cyclists in the 100th edition of the Tour de France will face an unprecedented double ascent of the iconic l’Alpe d’Huez as the race tries to move past the downfall of seven-time champion Lance Armstrong. AP Photo/Christophe Ena
Malaysia counts on big spending to boost sporting success
Ginobili to miss San Antonio season opener
AP Photo/Eric Kayne
San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Gino-bili (20) drives for a layup against the Houston Rockets during the second
half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in Houston. The
Spurs won 116-107.
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The 25-year-old Messi scored a Spanish-league record 50 goals for Barcelona, edging out fellow Spanish league star Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid by four goals.
Messi dedicated the award to his teammates, with Xavi Her-nandez and Carles Puyol present for the ceremony in Barcelona.
“It is a prize for scoring goals, but without my teammates I couldn’t have scored them,” Messi said. “I share this award with them as I always do.
“I don’t fight for individual awards, I fight for titles. My goals are reclaiming the league crown, winning the Copa del Rey and the winning the Champions League again. Those are my goals, team goals.”
The Argentina international won his first Golden Boot in 2010 for his 34 goals that helped Barcelona win the league title.
Messi is among the favorites to win the 2012 Ballon d’Or for the world’s best player.
“We won’t see another player
like him, and if we do, it won’t be for a very long time,” said Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova. “It’s not just for the goals he scores, but for how he sees and understands the game, that is what makes him so great. On Saturday, he ran 50 meters to de-fend a corner in the 89th minute with a 5-0 lead. Not many players would have done that.”
Luis Suarez Miramontes, the former Spain international and 1960 Ballon d’Or winner, pre-sented the award.
Messi, nicknamed “The Flea” for his uncanny ability to dribble through defenders, has shattered a number of records over the past year.
He scored an unprecedented 73 goals in all competitions for Barcelona last season, break-ing the previous European club record of 67 goals set by Bay-ern Munich’s Gerd Mueller in 1972-73 and the prior world club mark of 70 established by Archie Stark of Bethlehem Steel in the American Soccer League
in 1924-25.In March, Messi passed Ce-
sar Rodriguez’s 57-year-old milestone of 232 goals to be-come Barcelona all-time leading scorer. He also scored a European Cup-record-tying 14 goals in the Champions League, where he netted a record five goals in one game.
Messi has scored 17 goals in all competitions to start this season, and has his sights set on yet another milestone he is sure to reach very soon. He is just two goals away from equaling Brazil great Pele’s feat of 75 goals for club and country in one calendar year, set in 1958.
“Obviously, it’s an honor to be close to the numbers of a person who is so important to football,” Messi said. “But, again, they are only statistics.
“My goal is to win as many titles as I can before the end of my career. I have always been like that. Then I can look back at what I have won and take stock of my career.”
Associated Press
ZURICH — Lionel Messi is in the running for a fourth consecutive FIFA world player of the year award after being selected Monday among the 23 candidates for the 2012 prize.
Messi and Barcelona team-mates Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta, Gerard Pique and Xavi Hernandez are on the Ballon d’Or shortlist, while archrivals Real Madrid lead the way with six nominees, including last year ’s runner-up Crist iano Ronaldo.
Earlier on Monday, Messi was presented with his second Golden Boot award in recogni-tion for scoring the most goals in Europe’s domestic leagues last season.
A total of seven Spain inter-nationals are in contention after the national team retained its European Championship title
in July.Manchester United striker
Wayne Rooney is again the only England player on the list. United teammate Robin van Persie is also included after being the Premier League’s leading scorer last season for Arsenal.
Italian players feature for the first time in three years as Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli and Juventus duo An-drea Pirlo and Gianluigi Buffon have been nominated.
Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque will be favored to win the world coach of the year award, while Roberto Di Mat-teo — who was only an assis-tant at the beginning of the year — is also on the 10-candidate list after leading Chelsea to the Champions League and FA Cup trophies.
No current Chelsea player was on the list, although for-
mer striker Didier Drogba was included.
Roberto Mancini has been included among the managers after steering Manchester City to the Premier League title. Ce-sare Prandelli, whose Italy team lost to Spain in the Euro 2012 final, is also in the running.
Long-serving Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has been nominated despite failing to win a trophy last season. The 2011 winner Pep Guardiola — who left Barce-lona at the end of last season — is also on the list.
The leading three candidates from each list will be announced Nov. 29 in Brazil, with the win-ners presented at a televised ceremony in Zurich on Jan. 7.
Voting is by national team coaches and captains, and journalists invited by joint organizer “France Football” magazine.
Player of the year candidates: Sergio Aguero (Argentina), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Mario Balotelli
Jose Mourinho (Real Madrid), Cesare Prandelli (Italy).
AP Photo/Manu Fernandez
FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi from Argentina smiles during a news conference after receiving his Golden Boot award in recognition for scoring the most goals in Europe’s domestic leagues last season, in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The 25-year-old Messi scored a Spanish-league record 50 goals for Barcelona, edging out fellow Spanish league star Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid by four goals.
Messi receives Golden Boot as Europe’s top scorerThe Associated Press
BARCELONA — Barcelona forward Lionel Messi was presented with his second Golden Boot award on Monday in recognition for scoring the most goals in Europe’s domestic leagues last season.
Messi among 23 candidates for world player award
Reuters
MONTEVIDEO - A 3-3 draw between Wanderers and Juventud in the Uruguayan first division ended in chaos as the referee, who had already sent off one player, brandished 16 more red cards when fighting broke out after the final whistle.
Tempers became frayed when Wanderers believed they should have been awarded a penalty for a foul on midfielder Gaston Rodriguez near the end of Sunday’s encounter in Montevideo, according to media reports.
Punching and kicking ensued among the two teams after the final whistle and the referee, Leodan Gonzalez, red carded eight players from each team.
As violence broke out on the pitch, the trouble spread to the stands at Parque Viera where a fan suffered a cut to the head after being hit by a stone.
The total sent off was 17 after Wanderers had midfielder Diego de Souza dismissed at the end of the first half.
During play, a team can have no more than four players sent off before the match is abandoned.
Juventud president Yamandu Costa said the club’s board were looking at sanctioning the team’s players who took part in the fighting, Uruguayan daily El Pais reported on Monday.
“Two very different things happened,” Costa was quoted as saying in El Pais.
“One is how the match developed which, from a sporting point of view was very good with three goals for each side, and another, after the match was over, when an argument among players finished in a general free-for-all.”
Wanderers vice-president Gaston Inda said: “Something got out of hand because during the match nothing had happened, but these are situations we can’t allow and we’re sorry for what happened.”
Midfielder Maximiliano Rodriguez scored twice for home side Wanderers including a late equaliser.
Wanderers have 12 points from nine matches and Juventud 10. Penarol lead the Apertura championship with 20 points.
Reuters
MILAN - Italian referees and linesmen will be under more scrutiny than ever during this week’s fixtures after a series of mishaps at the weekend.
Serie A is the only major European league to use two extra linesmen but the system, heavily favoured by UEFA president Michel Platini, was unable to prevent controversies which left Cata-nia, Lazio and AS Roma all fuming and leaders Juventus on the defensive.
Catania president Antonio Pulvirenti was still angry after replays showed his team had a first-half goal wrongly disallowed at home to Juventus, who went on to win 1-0 with an Arturo Vidal goal after halftime.
He suggested that Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, who on Friday said that Italian football was in need of reform, should hand Catania the three points as an example of fair play and transparency.
“If Agnelli wants to reform football, he can start in the simplest of ways, by suggesting that his team forfeit the match 0-3,” Pulvirenti, who on Sunday said the referee had been harassed by the Juventus bench, said in a radio interview.
Juventus sporting director Giuseppe Marotta agreed that Catania’s goal should have been al-lowed, but denied his club pressured referees.
“Juventus is a serious club and even if that goal had stood, nobody can say the game would have finished in that way,” he said in a radio interview.
“I deny that it was our players who tempted the referee to reconsider. The linesman’s flag was raised at the time of the goal to indicate an offside.
“I can only share the judgement about the mistake. They happen, just as they happened in other games yesterday, in the previous round of matches and last season, where Juventus were on the receiving end.
“But if we suggest that Juventus had influ-enced the referee, then I deny that completely.”
Juventus were demoted in 2006 for corruption involving referees.
Roma, beaten 3-2 at home by Udinese, were also upset about the penalty from which Antonio Di Natale scored the winning goal.
“It was a bad day for referees,” Roma coach Zdenek Zeman told reporters. “They say referees can’t decide a championship, but I think they can.”
“In the case of Catania, the result was changed from 1-0 to 0-1.”
Lazio were seething after Stefano Mauri had what appeared to be a perfectly good goal disal-lowed against Fiorentina, who were winning 1-0 at the time.
“In the second half we dominated until the decisions went against us. The goal was clearly not offside,” said coach Vladimir Petkovic.
Fiorentina went on to win 2-0 and Lazio had two players sent off in the last 15 minutes.
AC Milan, eleventh with 10 points from nine games, kick off the midweek fixtures with a visit to Palermo on Tuesday.
Coach Massimiliano Allegri has enjoyed some respite after his team beat Genoa on Saturday, but it could be short-lived if they lose in Sicily.
Titleholders and leaders Juventus, who have 25 points from a possible 27 and are unbeaten in 48 Serie A games, should take three more points at home to struggling Bologna on Wednesday .
Napoli, three points behind in second place, visit 15th placed Atalanta and third-placed Inter host fading Sampdoria.
Referees, linesman under fire in Italy
AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi
Juventus players Arturo Vidal, of Chile, right, Andrea Barzagli, second from left, and Giorgio Chiellini, argue with referee Gervasoni after Catania’s Gonzalo Bergessio, of Argentina, not pictured, scored a goal (which was then disallowed) during the Serie A soccer match between Catania and Juventus at the Angelo Massimino stadium in Catania, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Juventus won 1-0.
Uruguayan referee issues 17 red cards
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The 25-year-old Messi scored a Spanish-league record 50 goals for Barcelona, edging out fellow Spanish league star Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid by four goals.
Messi dedicated the award to his teammates, with Xavi Her-nandez and Carles Puyol present for the ceremony in Barcelona.
“It is a prize for scoring goals, but without my teammates I couldn’t have scored them,” Messi said. “I share this award with them as I always do.
“I don’t fight for individual awards, I fight for titles. My goals are reclaiming the league crown, winning the Copa del Rey and the winning the Champions League again. Those are my goals, team goals.”
The Argentina international won his first Golden Boot in 2010 for his 34 goals that helped Barcelona win the league title.
Messi is among the favorites to win the 2012 Ballon d’Or for the world’s best player.
“We won’t see another player
like him, and if we do, it won’t be for a very long time,” said Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova. “It’s not just for the goals he scores, but for how he sees and understands the game, that is what makes him so great. On Saturday, he ran 50 meters to de-fend a corner in the 89th minute with a 5-0 lead. Not many players would have done that.”
Luis Suarez Miramontes, the former Spain international and 1960 Ballon d’Or winner, pre-sented the award.
Messi, nicknamed “The Flea” for his uncanny ability to dribble through defenders, has shattered a number of records over the past year.
He scored an unprecedented 73 goals in all competitions for Barcelona last season, break-ing the previous European club record of 67 goals set by Bay-ern Munich’s Gerd Mueller in 1972-73 and the prior world club mark of 70 established by Archie Stark of Bethlehem Steel in the American Soccer League
in 1924-25.In March, Messi passed Ce-
sar Rodriguez’s 57-year-old milestone of 232 goals to be-come Barcelona all-time leading scorer. He also scored a European Cup-record-tying 14 goals in the Champions League, where he netted a record five goals in one game.
Messi has scored 17 goals in all competitions to start this season, and has his sights set on yet another milestone he is sure to reach very soon. He is just two goals away from equaling Brazil great Pele’s feat of 75 goals for club and country in one calendar year, set in 1958.
“Obviously, it’s an honor to be close to the numbers of a person who is so important to football,” Messi said. “But, again, they are only statistics.
“My goal is to win as many titles as I can before the end of my career. I have always been like that. Then I can look back at what I have won and take stock of my career.”
Associated Press
ZURICH — Lionel Messi is in the running for a fourth consecutive FIFA world player of the year award after being selected Monday among the 23 candidates for the 2012 prize.
Messi and Barcelona team-mates Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta, Gerard Pique and Xavi Hernandez are on the Ballon d’Or shortlist, while archrivals Real Madrid lead the way with six nominees, including last year ’s runner-up Crist iano Ronaldo.
Earlier on Monday, Messi was presented with his second Golden Boot award in recogni-tion for scoring the most goals in Europe’s domestic leagues last season.
A total of seven Spain inter-nationals are in contention after the national team retained its European Championship title
in July.Manchester United striker
Wayne Rooney is again the only England player on the list. United teammate Robin van Persie is also included after being the Premier League’s leading scorer last season for Arsenal.
Italian players feature for the first time in three years as Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli and Juventus duo An-drea Pirlo and Gianluigi Buffon have been nominated.
Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque will be favored to win the world coach of the year award, while Roberto Di Mat-teo — who was only an assis-tant at the beginning of the year — is also on the 10-candidate list after leading Chelsea to the Champions League and FA Cup trophies.
No current Chelsea player was on the list, although for-
mer striker Didier Drogba was included.
Roberto Mancini has been included among the managers after steering Manchester City to the Premier League title. Ce-sare Prandelli, whose Italy team lost to Spain in the Euro 2012 final, is also in the running.
Long-serving Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has been nominated despite failing to win a trophy last season. The 2011 winner Pep Guardiola — who left Barce-lona at the end of last season — is also on the list.
The leading three candidates from each list will be announced Nov. 29 in Brazil, with the win-ners presented at a televised ceremony in Zurich on Jan. 7.
Voting is by national team coaches and captains, and journalists invited by joint organizer “France Football” magazine.
Player of the year candidates: Sergio Aguero (Argentina), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Mario Balotelli
Jose Mourinho (Real Madrid), Cesare Prandelli (Italy).
AP Photo/Manu Fernandez
FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi from Argentina smiles during a news conference after receiving his Golden Boot award in recognition for scoring the most goals in Europe’s domestic leagues last season, in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The 25-year-old Messi scored a Spanish-league record 50 goals for Barcelona, edging out fellow Spanish league star Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid by four goals.
Messi receives Golden Boot as Europe’s top scorerThe Associated Press
BARCELONA — Barcelona forward Lionel Messi was presented with his second Golden Boot award on Monday in recognition for scoring the most goals in Europe’s domestic leagues last season.
Messi among 23 candidates for world player award
Reuters
MONTEVIDEO - A 3-3 draw between Wanderers and Juventud in the Uruguayan first division ended in chaos as the referee, who had already sent off one player, brandished 16 more red cards when fighting broke out after the final whistle.
Tempers became frayed when Wanderers believed they should have been awarded a penalty for a foul on midfielder Gaston Rodriguez near the end of Sunday’s encounter in Montevideo, according to media reports.
Punching and kicking ensued among the two teams after the final whistle and the referee, Leodan Gonzalez, red carded eight players from each team.
As violence broke out on the pitch, the trouble spread to the stands at Parque Viera where a fan suffered a cut to the head after being hit by a stone.
The total sent off was 17 after Wanderers had midfielder Diego de Souza dismissed at the end of the first half.
During play, a team can have no more than four players sent off before the match is abandoned.
Juventud president Yamandu Costa said the club’s board were looking at sanctioning the team’s players who took part in the fighting, Uruguayan daily El Pais reported on Monday.
“Two very different things happened,” Costa was quoted as saying in El Pais.
“One is how the match developed which, from a sporting point of view was very good with three goals for each side, and another, after the match was over, when an argument among players finished in a general free-for-all.”
Wanderers vice-president Gaston Inda said: “Something got out of hand because during the match nothing had happened, but these are situations we can’t allow and we’re sorry for what happened.”
Midfielder Maximiliano Rodriguez scored twice for home side Wanderers including a late equaliser.
Wanderers have 12 points from nine matches and Juventud 10. Penarol lead the Apertura championship with 20 points.
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MILAN - Italian referees and linesmen will be under more scrutiny than ever during this week’s fixtures after a series of mishaps at the weekend.
Serie A is the only major European league to use two extra linesmen but the system, heavily favoured by UEFA president Michel Platini, was unable to prevent controversies which left Cata-nia, Lazio and AS Roma all fuming and leaders Juventus on the defensive.
Catania president Antonio Pulvirenti was still angry after replays showed his team had a first-half goal wrongly disallowed at home to Juventus, who went on to win 1-0 with an Arturo Vidal goal after halftime.
He suggested that Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, who on Friday said that Italian football was in need of reform, should hand Catania the three points as an example of fair play and transparency.
“If Agnelli wants to reform football, he can start in the simplest of ways, by suggesting that his team forfeit the match 0-3,” Pulvirenti, who on Sunday said the referee had been harassed by the Juventus bench, said in a radio interview.
Juventus sporting director Giuseppe Marotta agreed that Catania’s goal should have been al-lowed, but denied his club pressured referees.
“Juventus is a serious club and even if that goal had stood, nobody can say the game would have finished in that way,” he said in a radio interview.
“I deny that it was our players who tempted the referee to reconsider. The linesman’s flag was raised at the time of the goal to indicate an offside.
“I can only share the judgement about the mistake. They happen, just as they happened in other games yesterday, in the previous round of matches and last season, where Juventus were on the receiving end.
“But if we suggest that Juventus had influ-enced the referee, then I deny that completely.”
Juventus were demoted in 2006 for corruption involving referees.
Roma, beaten 3-2 at home by Udinese, were also upset about the penalty from which Antonio Di Natale scored the winning goal.
“It was a bad day for referees,” Roma coach Zdenek Zeman told reporters. “They say referees can’t decide a championship, but I think they can.”
“In the case of Catania, the result was changed from 1-0 to 0-1.”
Lazio were seething after Stefano Mauri had what appeared to be a perfectly good goal disal-lowed against Fiorentina, who were winning 1-0 at the time.
“In the second half we dominated until the decisions went against us. The goal was clearly not offside,” said coach Vladimir Petkovic.
Fiorentina went on to win 2-0 and Lazio had two players sent off in the last 15 minutes.
AC Milan, eleventh with 10 points from nine games, kick off the midweek fixtures with a visit to Palermo on Tuesday.
Coach Massimiliano Allegri has enjoyed some respite after his team beat Genoa on Saturday, but it could be short-lived if they lose in Sicily.
Titleholders and leaders Juventus, who have 25 points from a possible 27 and are unbeaten in 48 Serie A games, should take three more points at home to struggling Bologna on Wednesday .
Napoli, three points behind in second place, visit 15th placed Atalanta and third-placed Inter host fading Sampdoria.
Referees, linesman under fire in Italy
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Juventus players Arturo Vidal, of Chile, right, Andrea Barzagli, second from left, and Giorgio Chiellini, argue with referee Gervasoni after Catania’s Gonzalo Bergessio, of Argentina, not pictured, scored a goal (which was then disallowed) during the Serie A soccer match between Catania and Juventus at the Angelo Massimino stadium in Catania, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Juventus won 1-0.
Uruguayan referee issues 17 red cards
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One of the famous sites that always visit by tourists when holi-daying to Bali is Uluwatu. Ulu-watu Temple is a Hindu temple set on the cliff bank in south part of Bali Peninsula. It is one of Sad Kahyangan Temple in Bali (six big groups of Bali Temples), located in Pecatu Village, Sub district of South Kuta, and Badung Regency or about 25 Km southerly part of Denpasar town. It is situated on the coral reef sordid to sea about 80 meters above the sea level. It is featured by a small dry forest which is mostly called by Alas Kekeran (interdict forest) which is belong to the temple and dwelt by a lot of monkeys and other animal. Name of Uluwatu was come from the word Ulu meaning the head and Watu meaning stone. Therefore Uluwatu Temple mean the temple built in tip of coral reef.
In the right and left of temple building or Pelinggih Ida Bagus Ratu Jurit located in complex of Uluwatu Temple, there are two stone mangers that look like a boat. When both of it are united, hence it’s look similar to sarcophagus, the famous stone from megalithic era culture. There is archaeology omission coming from 16 centuries in firm of arch or winged entrance gate. Winged entrance gate is one of the scarce archaeology omis-sions. Winged entrance gate that is existing in Uluwatu Temple (a period of its making) can be com-
pared with the same one located in mosque complex in Sendangduwur Village, Lamongan, East Java. The period of its making is relevant with the year Candrasengkala found at this inscription. Candrasengkala founded in the mosque is written by the wording Gunaning Salira Tirta Hayu meaning year 1483 Saka or 1561 Masehi.
If the sarcophagus that existing in Dalem Jurit complex area rep-resents the artifact, hence Uluwatu Temple represents the place sancti-fied since era of megalithic culture (About 500 S.M). In papyrus of Usana Bali mentioned that Mpu Kuturan (The Hindu Priest who spread out the Hinduism in Bali) had built a lot of temple in this island and one of them Uluwatu Temple.
Implicit at papyrus Padma Bhu-wana that Uluwatu Temple draw in the direction that is located in Southwest functioning to worship the Rudra God, one of the god in nine god (Dewata Nawa Sanga). Rudra God is the Deity Siwa as Pemralina or return to prov-enance.
In this papyrus also mention that Uluwatu Temple is the Kahyangan World worshiped by entire Hindu people. Since this area is opened for public, it is visited by many people from all over the world because it has beautiful panorama with spectacular sunset and stunning view of Indian Ocean and deep the cliff bank. It is the perfect to visit in Bali.
Uluwatu Temple
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After again narrowly missing out on their first Olympic gold medal in London earlier this year, Malaysia plans to spend 187.2 million ringgit ($61.24 million) in 2013 to boost the country’s sporting per-formance.
“The challenge for us here is simply that that we don’t just spend money, but to make sure that the money will generate sporting success,” the Star daily reported youth and sports minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek as saying on Tuesday.
The figure is higher than spending in previ-ous years and 8.5 million ringgit of the amount has been set aside for the biennial Malaysia Games, for under-21 athletes, to be held in Kuala Lumpur in June and July next year.
The heavy spending comes with the gov-ernment hoping to shore up support among younger voters ahead of an election which it must call by April.
Malaysia won their first medal outside of badminton at the London Olympics this year, with Pandelela Rinong taking bronze in the women’s 10 metre diving event.
“Although we didn’t win gold this time, it was by far our best performance to date. And we know we can excel in different sports,” Ahmad Shabery said.
In addition to the Tour de France, Wiggins also won the Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie, Criterium du Dauphine and the Olympic time trial titles.
Doping confessionTeam Sky sports director Steven
de Jongh has quit after three years
following his admission that he took a banned substance earlier in his career, the British team said on Monday.
“Steven deserves our respect for the courage he’s shown in being honest about the past and it’s right that we do our best to support him,” team head Dave
Brailsford said in a statement.“There’s no doubt about Ste-
ven’s work with us or his ap-proach. He’s been a highly valued Sports Director and colleague over three seasons,” Brailsford added of the Dutchman, who retired in 2009.
As a result of the Lance Arm-strong doping scandal, Team Sky asked every member of the team to sign up to a written policy say-ing they had no past or present involvement with drugs.
Armstrong was stripped this month of his seven Tour de France titles from 1999-2005 for doping.
Sky race coach Bobby Julich left the team on Thursday after admitting he took a banned sub-stance during his riding career.
Another sports director Sean Yates left Sky on Sunday, al-though the team said his depar-ture was not a result of their zero-tolerance anti-doping stance.
Reuters
Manu Ginobili will miss the NBA season opener for the San Antonio Spurs due to a back ailment, the team said on Monday
The Spurs kick off their campaign on Wednesday at the New Orleans Hornets but they will do so without Argentine guard Ginobili.
The 35-year-old Ginobili, a three-times NBA champion and two-times All Star, will be re-evaluated in advance of Thursday’s game against Oklahoma City.
San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich has never hesitated to rest ailing players and team mate Tim Duncan was unperturbed by Ginobili’s injury.
“He’ll be fine. It’s a long season, there are way too many games between now and when it really matters,” Duncan told the team’s website (nba.com/spurs).
“We’re going to get him back to 100 per-cent and get him back on the floor.”
Ginobili missed his share of games with injury last season, when he averaged 12.9 points and 4.4 assists.
The Spurs captured the top seed in the Western Conference in 2011-2012 but lost to the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals.
Wiggins scoops Velo d’Or awardReuters
PARIS - Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins won the prestigous Velo d’Or award as the best rider of 2012. Briton Wiggins beat Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders winner Tom Boonen and Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez in a poll of cycling journalists set up by French publication, Velo Magazine.
British cyclist Bradley Wiggins listens, at the presentation of the hundredth edition of the Tour de France cycling race, in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, The race will starts on June, 29, 2013 and arrive in Paris on July, 21. Cyclists in the 100th edition of the Tour de France will face an unprecedented double ascent of the iconic l’Alpe d’Huez as the race tries to move past the downfall of seven-time champion Lance Armstrong. AP Photo/Christophe Ena
Malaysia counts on big spending to boost sporting success
Ginobili to miss San Antonio season opener
AP Photo/Eric Kayne
San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Gino-bili (20) drives for a layup against the Houston Rockets during the second
half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in Houston. The
Spurs won 116-107.
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ELIZABETH CITY, North Carolina — When the Bounty set sail last week, the captain running the ship made famous in Hollywood adventure films believed he could navigate around Hurricane Sandy and weather the storm. After two days in rough seas, he realized his journey would be far more difficult.
“I think we are going to be into this for several days,” Robin Walbridge said in a message posted Sunday on the vessel’s Facebook site, which reads like a ship’s log of her activities. “We are just going to keep trying to go fast.” By Monday morning, the vessel had started taking on water, its engines failed and the crew of the stately craft had to abandon ship as it went down in the immense waves. One crew member died and Walbridge was still missing.
Most of the sailors were plucked from life rafts shortly after the ship went down, but Claudene Christian was found hours later, unresponsive and floating in the water. She was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital, Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert said.
The rest of the crew was in good condition.By the time the first rescue helicopter arrived, all that was visible of the
replica 18th-century sailing vessel was a strobe light atop the mighty ship’s submerged masts. The roiling Atlantic Ocean had claimed the rest.
The final hours of the HMS Bounty, as it was officially named, were as dramatic as the movies she starred in. “When a crew decides it’s safer in an inflatable than it is on deck, then you know she’s in peril,” said Bill Foster, mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, a frequent winter port for the ship and where it had been expected to arrive in November.
The ship was originally built for the 1962 film “Mutiny on the Bounty” starring Marlon Brando, and it was featured in several other films over the years, including one of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.
Rochelle Smith, 44, met Christian this summer when they sailed the HMS Bounty in Nova Scotia.
“She loved the Bounty. She absolutely loved it. She was so happy to be on it and doing something that she found that she loved to do,” said Smith, a medical transcriptionist who lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
The vessel left Connecticut on Thursday with a crew of 11 men and five women, ranging in age from 20 to 66. Everyone aboard knew the journey could be treacherous.
As the storm cuts into the final week of campaigning in an es-pecially close race for the White House, both men are trying to avoid coming across as overtly political while millions of people are imperiled by Sandy’s fierce winds and driving rain.
Obama and Romney are vir-tually tied in the presidential contest, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Monday. It showed the Democrat leading by a single percentage point eight days before Election Day.
With the hurricane dominating headlines, Obama used the bully pulpit of the White House brief-ing room to show he was on top of the storm response effort.
He warned Americans in San-dy’s path that it could take a long time before power was restored and transportation systems were
running again, and he dismissed concerns of the storm’s effects on the election.
“I am not worried at this point about the impact on the election. I’m worried about the impact on families, and I’m worried about the impact on our first respond-ers. I’m worried about the impact on our economy and on transpor-tation,” Obama told reporters.
“The election will take care of itself next week. Right now our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives.”
Obama returned to Washing-ton after cutting short a trip to Orlando, Florida, where he had been due to appear at a rally with former President Bill Clinton.
Romney said he was in touch with federal emergency manage-ment workers about the storm.
“The damage will probably be significant and, of course, a lot of
people will be out of power for a long time,” he said in Daven-port, Iowa. “So hopefully your thoughts and prayers will join with mine and people across the country as you think about those folks that are in harm’s way,” he said, urging supporters to donate to the American Red Cross.
Romney canceled fur ther events in Wisconsin on Monday night and in Iowa and Florida on Tuesday. Those states are out of Sandy’s path, but the former Massachusetts governor does not want to be seen to be focusing only on the campaign in the midst of potential national disaster.
“Governor Romney believes this is a time for the nation and its leaders to come together to focus on those Americans who are in harm’s way,” said Romney communications director Gail Gitcho.
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After canceling his appearance at a morning campaign rally in Orlando, Fla., President Barack Obama walks toward the White House in a driving rain after returning to Washington to monitor preparations for early response to Hurricane Sandy, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.
In face of hurricane
Obama, Romney curtail campaign events Reuters
WASHINGTON/DAVENPORT - President Barack Obama suspended campaigning and returned to Washington on Monday to oversee the response to Hurricane Sandy, while his Republican rival Mitt Romney curtailed political events to show respect for the storm’s potential victims.
1 dead, captain missing after Sandy claims ship
AntaraPALU - Sports and Youth Affairs Min-
ister Andi Mallarangeng has stated that he is ready to take moral responsibility for the alleged misappropriation of funds in connection with the construction of Hambalang sports training and education centre in Sentul, West Java.
“I am ready to be morally responsible,” he said during a lecture at the Tadulalo University here on Monday, in response to a student`s question about alleged cor-ruption in the Hambalang project.
Andi urged all Indonesians wait pa-tiently for the results of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)`s inves-tigation.
“Indonesia needs a world-class sports education center because the current one in Ragunan, East Jakarta, is no longer good enough to accommodate and train athletes,” he explained.
When asked about the alleged misappro-priation of funds allocated to the project, Andi said he was ready to cooperate with the KPK “in finding out the truth”.
The project, involving the development of a national sports education center, is also facing legal problems because the funds for its construction are alleged to have been inflated.
The KPK has asked the State Audit Board (BPK) to conduct an investigation into the case.
In 2009, the Ministry of Youth and Sports
Affairs proposed a budget of Rp1.025 tril-lion for the construction of the project, but the budget was raised to Rp1.175 trillion by the Ministry of Finance.
Of the proposed budget of Rp1.175 tril-lion, only Rp275 billion got the required approval and Rp125 billion of the ap-proved budget was expected to be allocated in the 2012 state budget while another Rp150 billion was to be allocated through the revised 2012 state budget.
The Hambalang issue came to the fore thanks to M. Nazaruddin, a former Demo-crat Party treasurer and a fugitive in con-nection with the alleged corruption in the construction of an ASEAN athlete housing complex in South Sumatra.
In a telephone conversation with a pri-vate TV station in July 2011, Nazaruddin said: “The tender winners for the Hambal-ang athlete training center project had been decided even before they were called.”
Nazaruddin added that PT Adhi Karya and PT Wijaya Karya paid Rp100 billion in bribes to win the tenders for the project worth Rp1.5 trillion.
The total cost of the project is estimated at Rp2.5 trillion, if the procurement of various sports equipment and facilities is taken into account.
The athlete training center will consist of several buildings, such as dormitories and training halls. Spread over an area of 32 hectares, the center was initially ex-pected to be ready for use by 2013.
“Families across the country should guard their sons and daughters and prevent them from committing terrorism as it would be them who would become victims in the crime,” he said at a press conference before leaving for Britain and Laos for a working visit until November 6.
President Yudhoyono, flanked by First Lady Any Yudhoyono and also several cabinet ministers, is scheduled to be in Britain for three days upon the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II.
During the visit he would meet with the Queen, prime minister David Cameron and other officials.
He is also scheduled to meet with Prince Charles, chairman of the Liberal Democrat
Party Nick Clegg and opposition leader Ed Miliband.
President Yudhoyono would also deliver speeches in several forums including the All-Parliamentary Group on Indonesia, the Royal College for Defense Studies and Wil-ton Park.
From Britain President Yudhoyono would later go to Laos where he would attend the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).
House speaker Marzuki Alie and chairman of the Regional Representatives Council, Ir-man Gusman and chairman of the National Economic Committee, Chairul Tanjung are also in the presidential entourage.
President Yudhoyono is scheduled to arrive home on November 6.
Associated Press
JAKARTA — Indonesian police said Monday anger at a U.S.-made anti-Islam film was among the motives behind failed terror attacks against foreign targets.
Last week, the anti-terror squad ar-rested 11 people suspected of planning attacks on domestic and foreign targets, including the U.S. Embassy and a site near the Australian Embassy.
National police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said based on seized documents and other information, anger at the American-made movie denigrating Islam’s Prophet Muhammad was one of the reasons behind the planned attacks. The movie caused deadly outrage across the Middle East when it went online in September.
Police seized a number of bombs, explosive materials, a bomb-making manual and ammunition, along with a small gas cylinder filled with highly explosive material during the Friday and Saturday raids in four cities, including the
capital Jakarta.The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta has urged
U.S. citizens in Indonesia to avoid large crowds and other gatherings that might turn violent.
“At first, they wanted to attack (secu-rity) officers ... and based on documents and other information, the foreign targets were linked with the film which insulted Islam,” Amar told a news conference.
He was referring to “Innocence of Muslims,” that denigrates the Prophet Mu-hammad. At least 49 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, were killed last month in violence linked to the film.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, has been bat-tling terrorists since the 2002 bombings in Bali, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Subsequent attacks have claimed more than 50 people, mostly Indone-sians. The government has arrested more than 700 suspected terrorists and killed dozens more in an attempt to root out the militants.
President urges prevention of terrorist ideology in wake of arrests
AntaraJAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono renewed calls on the
importance of preventing terrorist ideology from spreading here on Tuesday following the arrests of 11 terrorist suspects in the country recently.
Minister ready to account for Hambalang scandal
AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD
A police cordon is seen outside the sealed house of two suspected terrorists in Jakarta on October 30, 2012 a few days after the pair was arrest with nine others. Indonesian police said Monday anger at a U.S.-made anti-Islam film was among the motives behind failed terror attacks against foreign targets
Anti-Islam film said to fuel Indonesia terror plan
Meanwhile, the slope of Mount Abang in Kintamani located on steep area in the border between Puncak Sari Songan and Trunyan village also caught fire on Sunday night (Oct 28). Due to steep ter-rain, the disaster officials could only put out the fire on the accessible slope. Then on a steep slope, the fire could not be extinguished. Chief Executive of the Regional Disaster Management of Bangli, Wayan Sugiarta, confirmed the incident on Monday (Oct 29).
Difficult terrain had forced the management team to take two paths. A team walked through the Pucak Sari, Songan hamlet at the border of Trunyan. Another team departed via Lake Batur. In the team taking the Songan route, his party involved about 50 residents of Songan. While the team passing through the lake involved five personnel from disaster management agency. Three hotspots had been extinguished by traditional tools, while the hotspots on steep slopes were still left because they were difficult to be reached.
On Monday morning, his party also assigned some personnel. “The hotspots situated on steep terrain were hard to be reached. Therefore, we left and could only watch them from a distance,” he said. To antici-pate the subsequent fire, his party had alerted monitoring personnel. Allegedly, the hotspots originated from the frictions of dry twigs that were easily on fire due to dry season. (013/kmb17)
Condition of the barren forest reaching hundreds of hectares, cleared and planted with elephant grass by surrounding residents caught fire for few days and the flames were difficult to be extinguished because the burning areas located in inaccessible ravine. Ultimately, the fire could be controlled by involving hundreds of residents.
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GENEVA — Swiss banking giant UBS AG announced massive layoffs Tuesday along with huge losses in its third-quarter results, saying it aims to trim as many as 10,000 em-ployees, or some 15 percent of its staff, to drastically shrink its ailing investment bank.
Switzerland’s biggest bank said that as part of the cost-cutting drive to boost profitability it “is likely to have a headcount of around 54,000” by 2015, down from its current 64,000 employees among 57 coun-tries.
The bank posted a net profit loss of 2.17 billion Swiss francs ($2.31 billion), compared with a profit of 1.02 billion Swiss francs ($1.13 bil-lion) during the same three-month period through September 2011.
In what it called “a significant acceleration” in its transformation, the Zurich-based bank said it would sharpen its focus on the investment bank and appoint a new executive, Andrea Orcel, formerly of Bank of America Corp., to lead it. The cur-rent co-head of the investment bank, Carsten Kengeter, is stepping down from the group’s executive board to
unwind the non-core assets.UBS said it also plans to save 3.4
billion francs ($3.6 billion) in ad-ditional costs through 2015, but that the reorganization also will result in restructuring charges of 3.3 bil-lion francs over the next three years including about a half-billion francs in the fourth quarter.
UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti said the investment unit, which has been hit by a series of costly blunders in recent years, will “continue to be a significant global player in its core businesses.” But tighter industry-wide requirements for banks to increase their capital cushion also have hurt profitability as banks have less cash to invest. “It can’t get better than this point for us to act,” he told reporters.
The bank attributed the declining profit to a pretax impairment charge of 3.1 billion francs from goodwill and other non-financial assets with the investment bank along with a pretax charge of 863 million francs ($920 million) linked to an account-ing rule on how banks must value their debt. Banks can post gains if the value of their debt falls, be-cause it would theoretically become cheaper for the bank to repurchase that debt.
The Bank of Japan’s policy board voted unanimously to increase the asset purchasing program by 11 trillion yen ($139 billion) to 91 trillion yen ($1.15 trillion).
The central bank decided against any change in its key interest rate, which remains at 0 percent to 0.1 percent.
The bond-buying program is intended to encourage borrowing and spending and help make Ja-pan’s exports more competitive.
A fresh barrage of negative data on Japan’s failing recovery pumped up pressure for the cen-tral bank to act to help revive the world’s third-largest economy.
Japan’s industrial output con-tracted by 4.1 percent in Septem-ber from August and 8.1 percent from a year earlier as automakers and steel mills cut production due
to shrinking demand and antago-nisms with China, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
The economic recovery that followed Japan’s March 2011 disasters has been doused by slowing global growth. Flaring tensions with China over disput-ed islands in the East China Sea have further crimped demand, es-pecially for big-ticket items like cars. Slowing growth in China, meanwhile, has hit demand for industrial inputs like steel and machinery.
“Industrial production is on a downward trend,” the ministry said, forecasting a further de-cline in October, followed by a rebound in November.
Embattled Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda convened an ex-traordinary session of the legisla-
ture on Monday, appealing to the opposition Liberal Democratic Party to cooperate in passing a bill authorizing bond sales to finance the growing deficit.
Japan’s Cabinet approved a 423 billion yen ($5.3 billion) emergency stimulus package on Friday, double the size originally expected. The government was obliged to dip into reserves to pay for the new stimulus, since its leeway to boost spending is limited by a legislative standoff preventing issuance of some 38.3 trillion yen ($480 billion) in deficit financing.
As it confronts that “fiscal cliff,” which could raise the country’s borrowing costs, Japan already leads industrial nations with government debt amounting to more than twice the country’s gross domestic product.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Apple Inc. shook up its executive ranks Monday, say-ing the head of its store operations is leaving after just six months on the job and the long-serving head of its iPhone software development operations is exiting next year.
Apple didn’t say why retail se-nior vice president John Browett and iOS software SVP Scott Forstall were leaving, but both have presided over missteps this year.
Browett cut staffing hours at Ap-ple’s retail stores, a move the com-pany reversed and acknowledged as a mistake. Forstall’s division launched a software update in Sep-tember that replaced Google Maps with Apple’s first mapping applica-tion. It quickly drew unfavorable comparisons to the software it was replacing, and Apple apologized.
Browett’s departure is immedi-ate, and the company is looking for a replacement. Forstall will act as
an advisor to CEO Tim Cook until he leaves, Apple said. His responsi-bilities will be divided among other Apple veterans.
Forstall joined Apple in 1997 with the company’s purchase of Steve Jobs’ NeXT startup. Apple credits him as one of the original architects of Mac OS X.
Craig Federighi, who is now in charge of the Mac OS, will add iOS development to his responsibilities, Apple said, but Jony Ive, the chief designer behind the distinctive look of Apple hardware, will take responsibility for the look and feel of Apple’s software. Eddy Cue, head of Apple’s online services and iTunes, will assume responsibility for Maps and Siri, the “virtual as-sistant” application on the iPhone and iPad.
Browett took over the store op-erations after Ron Johnson, who helped create the Apple stores, left to become CEO at J.C. Penney Co. in November.
AP Photo/Koji Sasahara
A man inspects a refrigerator at a discount electric store in Tokyo Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Japan’s central bank expanded a government bond-buying program Tuesday, acting to spur growth fol-lowing news of a further decline in industrial production.
Japan central bank ups asset buys to aid economyAssociated Press
TOKYO — Japan’s central bank expanded a government bond-buying program Tuesday, acting to spur growth following news of a further decline in industrial production.
2 top executives leaving Apple
UBS announces massive layoffs of 10,000
Bali PostTABANAN - Ratification of the
Regional Bylaw on Spatial Plan-ning (RTRW) in Tabanan leaves a problem. Since there is no a Regent Regulation setting it, the Regional Bylaw passed last week is feared to be ineffective or having no power. The regulation itself has not set the relevant technical implementation. As consequence, the violation of building will still possibly happen.
A member of Commission II of the Tabanan House, Ida Bagus Kade Adnyana Suryawan, explained the regent ideally arranged a Regent Regulation to technically govern the implementation of the Regional Bylaw on Spatial Planning. Thus, the regulation drafted and ratified by the House could be immediately enforced. “If the Regional Bylaw is not accompanied with the Regent Regulation, the spatial violation will continue to happen. Therefore, the regent shall immediately make a Regent Regulation to set the tech-
nical implementation in the field,” affirmed this Democrat.
According to Suryawan, the regulation made ideally should not just become a formality to pursue the General Allocation Fund (DAU) from central government. “If the making of regulation is just to es-tablish the correlation between the central and local government, then the enforcement will not be on tar-get. Many buildings will be getting disordered and inappropriate with the regulations,” he criticized.
This legislator from Wanasari village, Tabanan, urged the regent and her team to immediately issue the Regent Regulation. Accordingly, there would be clear rule related to building violations. He said the Regional Bylaw on the Spatial Planning just set the spatial order in general. On that account, it would be unable to prevent the project of villa buildings and residential annexing the productive farmland.
Suryawan added, when the rules
were not resolute, the investors were worried to act uncontrollably. More-over, there were no definite rules to impose any sanction. “Without rules, the coastal and river border-line will be violated by investors,” he explained. He said the birth of Regional Bylaw was intentionally made to stem the proliferation of buildings and villas violating the productive area and the like.
Aside from urging the making of the Regent Regulation, Suryawan also asked the regency government to act decisively when an investor infringed the laws. “Simply have a look, the housing has mushroomed everywhere. It needs making a strict rule, which areas can be utilized for housing need,” he said. Likewise, the regency government was also asked to impose a decisive sanction on investors that were found breaking the laws. According to Suryawan, the Regent Regulation should not be made for the benefit of the improper party. (kmb30)
When giving a speech, the regent frankly stated if he did not want to do the groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel construction in the north of store complex. He called for the investor to delay the hotel construction located in the vicinity of the beach.
Although the hotel construction had owned a complete permit, there were some things that should be discussed with various parties, especially regarding the coastal borderline. “It is for the common interests, especially for the development of Buleleng and security of investment,” he said.
Though unwilling to do the groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel project, the regent persisted on officially inaugurating the store complex marked with the signing of inscription and ribbon cutting. According to the regent, other than having owned a complete per-mit, the store complex was a positive investment for the economic development of Buleleng.
Moreover, the investor had arranged the environment around the area so that it looked clean and green. “We also requested in order the investor could hire local labor force, and do not bring in labor force from outside,” he said.
Gede Agus Hardiawan of PT Hardys Retailindo was in fact not disappointed with the attitude of the regent who rejected to perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel construction in the region. Even, he expressed his gratitude for the response of the regent that it was not only for himself as investor in the region, but for the common interests. “I believe what the regent said is a right thing,” he said.
Construction of the store complex and hotel in the area of Kam-pung Baru, precisely on the beach in the east of the former harbor of Buleleng was started in August 2012. At the location was estab-lished a total of 44 units of store named the Singaraja Square and a hotel named Pop Hotel. Construction of the store complex had been complete. As scheduled, the hotel construction was begun on Monday marked with the groundbreaking ceremony.
Construction of the store and hotel had drawn a polemic among the Commission B of the Buleleng House because it was considered to have violated the coastal borderline. The distance of coastline and hotel development was only 18.5 meters. However, during the reign of the Regent Bagiada, all the permits for the store complex and hotel construction had been issued. As a result, the development constantly continued.
Before the Regent Agus Suradnyana was invited to attend the store inauguration, Chairman of Commission B of the Buleleng House, Putu Mangku Budiasa, had even requested the regent not to attend the invitation because the hotel build-ing violated the coastal borderline. However, the Regent Agus Suradnyana constantly attended it last Monday. He still chose to inaugurate the store complex but delayed the groundbreak-ing ceremony.
After the inauguration, the Regent Agus Suradnyana said that PT Hardys actually had owned all the permits of the store complex and hotel. However, for the hotel construction, his party still asked the investor Hardiawan to discuss further with various stakeholders, including the Minister of Home Affairs.
So far the investor carried out the development by referring to the road borderline located on the beach side. On the other hand, next to the beach lay a road. On that account, it should be discussed again, whether the construction referred to the road or coastal borderline. “If the use of road borderline will be justified, I will inaugurate the hotel construction,” he said. (kmb15)
Violating coastal borderline
Regent refuses groundbreaking ceremony of hotel developmentBali Post
SINGARAJA - There was an exciting incident when the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, attended the invita-tion of PT Hardys Retailindo to inaugurate the store complex and do groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel construction at Kampung Baru Singaraja. The regent was willing to inaugurate the Singaraja Square store complex, but refused to carry out the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Pop Hotel.
IBP/File Photo
The photo shows farmland at Tabanan Regency. The Regional Bylaw on the Spatial Planning just set the spatial order in general. It should be accompanied by Regent Regulation so it would be unable to prevent the project of villa buildings and residential annexing the productive farmland.
Without Regent Regulation
Regional Bylaw on Spatial Planning feared to be ineffective
BUSINESS
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Associated Press
TOKYO — A major airport in northern Japan was closed Tuesday after construction workers found an unexploded bomb believed to be from World War II.
All 92 flights in and out of Sendai airport were cancelled after the 250-kilogram (550-pound) bomb was uncovered during con-struction near a runway, local police official Hiroshi Ouchi said. The bomb was identified as American-made and is believed to be a dud from World War II.
It appeared to have a working detonator, and a military bomb squad was considering whether to move the bomb or explode it on the spot. Evacuations of nearby homes were being considered, Ouchi said.
The Sendai airport, a major hub for travel into northern Japan, was closed for months due to severe damage from last year’s tsunami. It is still undergoing reconstruction.
The United States heavily bombed Japa-nese cities during World War II, and finding unexploded bombs is not unusual, 67 years after Japan’s surrender. Dozens of duds are
uncovered in Tokyo each year, and even more are found on the southern island of Okinawa, which was the site of the most intense fighting during the war.
Many of them are found at construction sites. The rusty condition of the bombs can make them prone to detonate when moved, but injuries are rare. Experts say it could take sev-eral decades to remove all of the unexploded ordnance. Last week, hundreds of residents in central Tokyo were evacuated so that bomb squads could remove a 220-kilogram dud buried there.
Sandy knocked out power to at least 5.7 mil-lion people, and New York’s main utility said large sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 cus-tomers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads.
Just before its centre reached land, the storm was stripped of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based
on its shape and internal temperature. It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it remained every bit as dangerous to the 50 million people in its path. By late night, the centre of the storm was over southern New Jersey.
The National Hurricane Center an-nounced at 8 p.m. that Sandy had come ashore near Atlantic City. It smacked the boarded-up big cities of the Northeast cor-
ridor, from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia, New York and Boston, with stinging rain and gusts of more than 85 135 kilometres per hour. The sea surged a record of nearly four metres at the foot of Manhattan, flooding the financial district and subway tunnels.
The 13 deaths were reported in New Jer-sey, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Some of the victims were killed by falling trees. Police in Toronto said a woman was killed by a falling sign as high winds closed in on Canada’s largest city.
Storm damage was projected at $10 billion to $20 billion, meaning it could prove to be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Reuters
NEW YORK - Exelon Corp de-clared an “alert” at its New Jersey Oyster Creek nuclear power plant due to a record storm surge, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said, warning that a further water rise could force the country’s oldest working plant to use emergency water supplies to cool spent uranium fuel rods.
The alert -- the second lowest of four NRC action levels -- came after water levels at the plant rose by more than 6.5 feet, potentially affecting the pumps that circulate water through the plant, an NRC spokesman said late on Monday.
Those pumps are not essential since the 43-year-old plant was shut for planned refueling since October 22. However, a further rise to 7 feet could submerge the service water pump mo-tor that is used to cool the water in the spent fuel pool.
Exelon said in a statement that there was no danger to equipment and no threat to public health or safety.
The incident at Oyster Creek, which is about 60 miles east of Phila-delphia on the New Jersey Coast, came as Sandy made landfall as the largest Atlantic storm ever, bringing up to 90 mile per hour (mph) winds and 13-foot storm surges in the biggest test of the industry’s emergency preparedness since the Fukushima disaster in Japan a year and a half ago.
Although such alerts are considered serious events in the industry -- with only about a dozen such instances in the past four years, according to NRC press releases -- flood waters should be receding at the plant following high tide, reducing the risk of emergency action.
Sandy had been expected to force the closure of at least two other nuclear plants in New Jersey, although the NRC said none of the country’s other nuclear reactors had been shut by the storm.
The NRC spokesman said the company could use water from a fire suppression system to cool the pool if necessary. The used uranium rods in the pool could cause the water to boil within 25 hours without ad-ditional coolant; in an extreme sce-nario the rods could overheat, risking the eventual release of radiation.
Exelon spokesman David Tillman said the plant has “multiple and redun-dant” sources of cooling for the spent fuel pool. He said he did not know whether the service water system was operational at the moment.
After Sandy storm surgeU.S. nuclear plant declares “alert”
Japanese airport closed after WWII bomb found
AP Photo/6abc Action News, Dann Cuellar
This photo provided by 6abc Action News shows the Inlet section of Atlantic City, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy makes it approach, Monday Oct. 29, 2012. Sandy made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, which was already mostly under water and saw a piece of its world-famous Boardwalk washed away earlier in the day.
Sandy slams into Atlantic coastAssociated Press
NEW YORK - Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline and hurled a record-breaking four-metre surge of seawater at New York City on Monday, roaring ashore and putting the presidential campaign on hold a week before election day At least 13 deaths were blamed on the storm.WhEN penjors paraphernalia are erected
throughout the island, they epitomize that Galungan festivity has come. Every single devotee is in blooming heart welcoming it with joy. This six monthly celebration in Ba-linese calendar encourages people to make earnest preparation whole day and night. It’s time to glorify God and ancestors.
Based on the mythology, Galungan delineates the triumph of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth). According to Tatwa Mayadanawa transliterated by Made Gambar said that Bedaulu kingdom in Bali was once ruled by Mayadanawa. He was very powerful and proud of his power and feels to have more sovereign power than that of gods.
This arrogance until forbids all subjects to worship God together with the celebration to glorify all God’s manifestations. The non-existence of freedom to worship and other religious activities caused many subjects greatly suffered where diseases spread and harvests failed. Seeing this condition, Lord Mahadeva in heaven feels disappointed. Having organized an assembly session with other gods, it is decided to attack Mayadana-wa. Under the leadership of Lord Indra, the target can be timely destroyed. In short, the troops of the gods won the battle. This does
not only stand for the triumph of the gods, but also of the whole mankind on earth.
Afterwards, Galungan then can be re-celebrated after the triumph of Indra. Many subjects felt to regain their enlightenment as they were able to practice their religious life. This festivity lasts for ten days and ends in the day called Kuningan. Aside from paying homage at village temple, it is also intended to appreciate the ancestors at family shrine. Similarly, devotees thank for the prosperity bestowed and maintain the relationship with their ancestors. Though they have left for the beyond, hopefully they could illuminate their descendants.
Another version about Galungan is men-tioned by the manuscript Jaya Kasunu. It is said that the king Jaya Kasunu (AD 1204), meditated (held dewa sraya) to invoke guid-ance. His problem was that not one of his predecessors could rule longer. Through his solemn meditation he was inspired that he should re-organize religious activities, such as Galungan.
No matter what the version is, the essence of these mythologies implies that a devotee or creation should maintain their persistent contact to his Creator. The âtman dwelling within the human self should maintain his contact to Brahman, the Creator. By doing
so, humans can continuously obtain the il-lumination to walk in the path of dharma.
As manifestation of gratitude, devotees express it through worship at temples, garden, rice field and so forth. Everything that has given prosperity is also offered an oblation, including the means of transporta-tion. If you happen to take an excursion on that day you of course will rub up against many cars affixed with young coconut paraphernalia.
Hopefully, the festivity does not come to an end at the vibrant fiesta marked with grandiose oblation, assorted delicious food or luxurious paraphernalia. All the times it should help the spiritual development. Anything achieved in this life either tangible or intangible entities, should not make us ar-rogant. Sometimes, when having abundance of wealth or higher educational background, a human feels superior or more powerful than others. Even, it is not employed as a milestone to improve his devotion to God. It’s here where the achievement drags human to sluggish condition or gorge of destruction. Like Mayadanawa, he forgot that there is a vast sky above him. His power has led him to his dissolution. If we do not want to become the next Mayadanawa, consistent devotion must be established. (BTN/punia)
“Revenue in the tourism sec-tor should also be contributed to preserve the existence of subak, because so far the subak has be-come one of the tourist objects. Moreover, the people who preserve the subak are small community whose economic level has not been established. Meanwhile, they are imposed with an obligation to pre-serve the subak,” said Chairman of INCCA Bali, IB Surakusuma.
He said the recognition of UNESCO to subak in Bali as a world cultural heritage should provide benefits to the community. On that account, the government’s revenues obtained from the tour-ism sector such as the income tax should be returned to farmers. “The government should be keen to see the revenues in the tourism sector, including tax revenues,” he said.
The recognition of UNESCO to subak in Bali had consequences on the farmers where the subak that received the world’s recognition and was included in the concept
of cultural heritage required the farmers not to sell their farmland. So far, the farmers were forced to sell the farmland to meet the needs of ceremony, school fees and other necessities of life.
“When charged with the pres-ervation of subak, the government should assist the community in meeting the needs of life because when farmers are in desperate economic problems, they will not optimally help the tourism sector,” he said.
He mentioned the government should examine the land conver-sion and struggle for the airport tax, including income tax to provide subsidy for farmers because the community expected the govern-ment assistance for the preservation of culture and agriculture.
The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO had agreed to put the subak system as a world site under the name of Cultural Landscape of Bali. Subak system was referred to as a manifestation of the Tri Hita
Karana philosophy into the World Heritage on June 29, 2012.
The Cultural Landscape of Bali
includes the sites like the Ulun Danu Batur and Lake Batur, Pak-erisan Watershed, area of Catur
Angga Batukaru and Taman Ayun Temple. The sites have a total area of 20,974.70 hectares. (kmb27)
Tourism businesspeople should support Subak conservationBali Post
DENPASAR - Inclusion of the subak or Balinese traditional ir-rigation system as a world heritage site by UNESCO should get the attention from tourism businesspeople. So far, the sector has been getting a lot of benefits displayed by the agricultural sector, including the appeal of subak.
Mayadanawa: Feeling Superiority Results in Destruction
The photo shows line up of penjors that being erected during Galungan festivity in Bali Is-land. When penjors paraphernalia are erected throughout the island, they epitomize that Galungan festivity has come. Every single devotee is in blooming heart welcoming it with joy. This six monthly celebration in Balinese calendar encourages people to make earnest preparation whole day and night.
IBP/File Photo
The photo shows a farmer working at his ricefield. Inclusion of the subak or Balinese traditional irriga-tion system as a world heritage site by UNESCO should get the attention from tourism businesspeople. So far, the sector has been getting a lot of benefits displayed by the agricultural sector, including the appeal of subak.
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Reuters
LONDON - Acupuncture may help relieve fatigue in women who have had breast cancer, as well as easing anxiety, depression and quality of life, according to a UK study.
Cancer and cancer treatments can cause chronic pain, psychological stress and anemia, all of which contribute to fatigue. In addition, people who are nauseated after chemo might not be getting the most nutritious diet for maintaining energy levels.
For the research, which appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Alexander Molassiotis from the University of Manchester and his colleagues tracked 227 women with moderate or severe cancer-related fatigue treated with six weekly acupuncture sessions and another 75 fatigued women who didn’t get acupuncture.
The women had all received chemotherapy for breast cancer in the five years before the study, and most had felt chronically tired for a year or more. Participants were given a booklet about cancer-related fatigue when they started the study.
After six weeks, general fatigue had dropped by
almost four point on a 0-20 scale among women who had acupuncture, compared to a less than one point decline in the comparison group.
“Acupuncture is an effective intervention for managing the symptom of chemo-related fatigue and improving patients’ quality of life,” wrote Molassiotis and his colleagues.
The improvement was “mild to moderate,” according to Amit OVRSood at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota - not enough to allow someone who is stuck in bed to start walking, but maybe enough to get people who are too tired to exercise to start doing some activity.
Anxiety and depression scores, measured from 0 to 21, dropped by two additional points post-acupuncture, compared to scores in women given educational materials only. Emotional and physical well-being got a greater boost with acupuncture therapy as well, Malassiotis and his team found.
The study did not prove it was the needles themselves that boosted the women’s energy levels, and researchers couldn’t tell how much of the benefit might have been due to the “placebo effect” - feeling better because they expected to.
AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Maggie Wilcox, breast cancer survivor poses for a photograph at a news conference on breast cancer screening, in London, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.
GSK raises bet on AIDS drug with new Shionogi dealReuters
LONDON/TOKYO - GlaxoSmithKline has raised its bet on a promising drug for HIV/AIDS by redrawing a deal with Japan’s Shionogi which gives it a much bigger eco-nomic interest in the new product.
Dolutegravir, a once-daily drug that has performed strongly in clinical trials, is seen by analysts as a potential multi-billion-dollar-a-year seller and a strong competitor to treatments from market leader Gilead Sciences.
The drug belongs to a novel class known as integrase inhibitors that block the virus causing AIDS from entering cells.
Under the new agreement Shionogi will take a 10 percent stake in Viiv Healthcare - an HIV drug joint venture set up in 2009 between Britain’s biggest drugmaker and Pfizer - in exchange for its rights to dolute-gravir.
Previously income from the medicine would have been shared 50:50 between ViiV and Shionogi, which analysts calculate would have given GSK only around a 40 percent interest in the drug, after taking ac-count of Pfizer’s minority stake in ViiV.
Now GSK’s economic interest will be between 60 and 66 percent, its chief strategy officer David Redfern told Reuters.
“It’s an affirmation of our belief in dolute-gravir as a potential important medicine in
HIV,” he said in an interview on Monday. “We’re taking in house, in this case through ViiV, what we deem to be an important growth asset.”
Dolutegravir is scheduled to be submitted for regulatory approval in the United States and Europe by end of this year. Industry ana-lysts expect a launch by late 2013, with sales ramping up to around $1 billion by 2016, according to consensus estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters Pharma.
Redfern said the new arrangement was expected to dilute GSK’s earnings by around 1 pence a share in 2013 and 2014 but should boost earnings thereafter. Analysts currently expect earnings of just over 120p a share in 2013.
The decision fits with the group’s strategy of increasing investment in its new drug pipeline and echoes a move made in July to take full control of new lupus drug Benlysta by buying Human Genome Sciences for $3 billion.
GSK, like its rivals, has suffered a string of patent expiries in recent years. Despite coming through this so-called “patent cliff” earlier than most other drug firms, it is still struggling to grow sales.
Results for the third quarter, due on Wednesday, are expected to show another difficult period of trading, weighed on by price cuts in Europe and weak vac-cine sales.
Acupuncture may help ease cancer-related fatigue
Peak of the ceremony took place from 3:00 p.m. and was officiated over by Ida Pandita Siwa Sidemen Tembuku from Griya Pande Bangli, Ida Pandita Rai Keramas from Griya Bukit Bangli, Ida Pandita Buda Alang Kajeng from Griya Nongan and Ida Pandita Manuaba from Griya Selat.
After the peak of the ceremony, the penganyar procession would started to be held in turns by the gebog domas com-munity in Bangli and Susut subdistrict.
The deities would be ready to receive worship (nyejer) until Tuesday (Nov 6). The Perantihan deities of Kehen Temple venerated by the gebog domas community would be back to their respective abid-ing temple throughout the gebog domas hamlets simultaneously at 08:00 a.m. on Wednesday (Nov 7).
Uniquely, before the peak of the cer-emony, a procession of picking up the sanganan lanlanan (pingit) was carried out in the Bukit Bangli Palace. One of
the ritual committee of Kehen Temple, Wayan Suda, said the sanganan pingit was prepared by guru dangka istri. After picking up the sanganan pingit, it was then weighed by using ancient scale originating from hundreds of years belonging to the Kehen temple. The weight was weighed by symbolic stone of the deity in the Kehen Temple. If the weight of sanganan pingit was equal to symbolic stone, it meant that within the next three years the Bangli community would be in safe condition. (kmb17)
Thousands of devotees attend the peak of Ngusaba ceremony at Kehen Temple
IBP/File Photo
The photo shows Kehen Temple that located in Bangli Province. Thousands of Hindu devotees thronged the peak of Ida Bathara Turun Kabeh ceremony in the Kehen Temple, Bangli, Monday (Oct 29). Such ceremony was held every three years on the full moon of the fifth month in Balinese calendar.
Bali Post
BANGLI - Thousands of Hindu devotees thronged the peak of Ida Bathara Turun Kabeh ceremony in the Kehen Temple, Bangli, Monday (Oct 29). Such ceremony was held every three years on the full moon of the fifth month in Balinese calendar.
AntaraDENPASAR - Bali Police department will
deploy at least 1,300 personnel to ensure security at the 5th Annual Meeting of Bali Democracy Forum (BDF), to be held in Nusa Dua, Bali on November 8-9.
“We will cooperate with the National Police and deploy about 1,300 personnel to secure the event,” the Head of Bali Police Public Relations, Police Commissioner Hari-adi, said.
He stated that the event will be attended by 15 Asian countries. However, the police are still not sure how many heads of state will attend the annual forum.
“Bali police is also ready to step up security if necessary,” Hariadi said.
“We are optimistic that we can guarantee security at this event, since we managed to do a good job at the Bali bombing commemora-tion event in October,” he added.
Hariadi stated that the bombing incident in Poso, Central Sulawesi, on October 22, will not affect the security of Bali because both places have different social conditions.
AntaraDENPASAR - The government has to focus
on local production and take steps to reduce the nation’s dependence on imported products in order to achieve food security, according to an expert.
“By passing the Law of Food, the Board of Food Security is expected to help the nation achieve food security soon, because the board is responsible for tackling Indonesia’s food problems as stated in the law,” an agricultural expert from Udayana Univer-sity, Dewa Ngurah Suprapta said.
The President has granted the authority to the board to implement measures necessary for han-dling the nation’s food problems. Besides, the board is also supported by several ministries.
“With this authority, the national food board will be able to develop strategies to achieve food secu-rity based on local production,” Suprapta stated.
“Agricultural policies in Indonesia have so far not focused on the abilities and skills of farmers,” he continued.
“The government tends to be concerned with achieving food security targets by importing the products instead of increasing local production,” Suprapta pointed out.
He said Indonesia has the potential to produce sufficient agricultural products to ensure its food security.
“In order to fulfil Indonesia’s potential, the cen-tral government and local administrations have to make joint efforts to protect the nation’s agricultural land,” Suprapta added.
He also expressed hope that Indonesia would soon stop depending heavily on imported agricul-tural products and achieve food security.
Food security must based on local production
To ensure security BDF
1,300 police officers to be deployed
But that screening comes with a cost: The review found that for every life saved, roughly three other women were overdiagnosed, meaning they were unnecessarily treated for a can-cer that would never have threatened their lives.
The expert panel was commis-sioned by Cancer Research U.K. and Britain’s department of health and analyzed evidence from 11 trials in Canada, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S.
In Britain, mammograms are usually offered to women aged 50 to 70 every three years as part of the state-funded breast cancer screening program.
Scientists said the British program saves about 1,300 women every year from dying of breast cancer while about 4,000 women are overdiag-nosed. By that term, experts mean women treated for cancers that grow too slowly to ever put their lives at risk. This is different from another screen-ing problem: false alarms, which occur when suspicious mammograms lead
to biopsies and follow-up tests to rule out cancers that were not present. The study did not look at the false alarm rate.
“It’s clear that screening saves lives,” said Harpal Kumar, chief executive of Cancer Research U.K. “But some cancers will be treated that would never have caused any harm and unfortunately, we can’t yet tell which cancers are harmful and which are not.”
Each year, more than 300,000 women aged 50 to 52 are offered a mammogram through the British program. During the next 20 years of screening every three years, 1 percent of them will get unnecessary treat-ment such as chemotherapy, surgery or radiation for a breast cancer that wouldn’t ever be dangerous. The review was published online Tuesday in the Lancet journal.
Some critics said the review was a step in the right direction.
“Cancer charities and public health authorities have been misleading women for the past two decades
by giving too rosy a picture of the benefits,” said Karsten Jorgensen, a researcher at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen who has previously published papers on over-diagnosis.
“It’s important they have at least acknowledged screening causes sub-stantial harms,” he said, adding that countries should now re-evaluate their own breast cancer programs.
In the U.S., a government-appoint-ed task force of experts recommends women at average risk of cancer get mammograms every two years start-ing at age 50. But the American Can-cer Society and other groups advise women to get annual mammograms starting at age 40.
In recent years, the British breast screening program has been slammed for focusing on the benefits of mam-mograms and downplaying the risks.
Maggie Wilcox, a breast cancer survivor and member of the expert panel, said the current information on mammograms given to British women was inadequate.
Mammograms: For 1 life saved, 3 women overtreatedAssociated Press
LONDON — Breast cancer screening for women over 50 saves lives, an independent panel in Britain has concluded, confirming findings in U.S. and other studies.
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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
Calendar Event for October 23 through November 27, 2012
23 Oct Anggar Kasih Tambir Pura Dalem Puri Batuan SukawatiPura Dalem Kediri Silakarang SingapaduPura dalem Desa SukawatiPura Dalem Desa SingakertaPura dalem Lembeng Ketewel - SukawatiPura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan - UbudPura Puseh ngukuhin Keramas - GianyarPura Pemerajan Agung Ki Telabah, Tuakilang - TabananPura Karang Buncing BlahbatuhPura Dalem Bubunan Desa - Seririt BulelengPura Desa Badung Kota DenpasarMerajan Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa - Kayuputih - TurupinghePura Luwur Pedengenan Bedha Bongan - Ta-bananMr. Dukuh SebudiMr. Pasek Ngukuhin KeramasPura Pucak Payongan Banjar Lungsiakan - Desa KedewatanPura Tanah Kilap Gria Anyar DenpasarPura Selukat Desa Keramas Keramas - Blahbatuh - GianyarPura Dalem Tampuagan Desa Peninjoan - Tem-buku - BangliPura Waturenggong Desa TaroPura Dalem Bentuyung UbudPura Puseh Ubud UbudPura Dalem Peliatan Peliatan Ubud.
24 Oct Buda Umanis Tambir Pura Sari Bankar Titih Kapal Badung
29 Oct Purnama Kelima Aci-aci Penaung Bayu Pura Batumadeg di BesakihPura Kentel Gumi BangliPura Pedarman Agung Satria DenpasarPura Pemerajan Agung Pemecutan DenpasarNgusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli
Pura Desa Pemenang LombokPura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Gobleg Kekeran MengwiPura Suranadi LombokPura Puncak Bukit Tampak SiringPura Dalem Puri Agung KintamaniPura Dalem Agung Nongan KarangasemPura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-TabananPura Dalem Balingkang KintamaniPr. TampurhyangPusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak Songan KintamaniPura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Bule-lengMerajan Pasek Gelgel LebihMerajan Pasek Gelgel TulambenPura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa S e l e m a d e g TabananPura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak KajaPura Suci Desa Tianyar Kubu KarangasemPura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Desa Batur KintamaniPura Narmada LombokPura Segara Ampenan LombokPura Ularan Seririt Buleleng
7 Nov Buda Keliwon Matal Pura Desa Ds. SukawatiMerajan Agung Batuyang - batubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin - sawan - bulelengPura Maspahit Sesetan - Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran - TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gaduh SesetanMerajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya GedePura Pedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih
17 Nov Hari Tumpek Kandang
Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagenin Kediri - Tabanan
Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung
21 Nov Buda Wage Menail Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiMr. Pasek Dangke bambang - BangliPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja - Gi-anyarPura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - BangliMerajan Agung Blangsinga - BlahbatuhPura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh GianyarPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk, Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan, Kapal Mengwi.
27 Nov Anggar Kasih Perangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - KlungkungPura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - BulelengPura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - KlungkungPura Gunung engsong - LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Dalem Banyuning Timur - BulelengPura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas (Padang Entas) Titih DenpasarPura Tengah Padang TegalalangMerajan Pasek Gelgel Batu Dewa Kangin Banjar Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg di Desa Sande - Pupuan TabananPura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Adat Pagan DenpasarPura Hyangaluh Jenggala BesakihMerajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan GunaksaMr. Pasek Gelgel SelulungMerajan Pasek Subrata MedahanMerajan Pasek Munggu MungguPura Tengkulak Tulikup - GianyarPura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Previously PT. Paramount Propertindo, a prominent Indonesian real estate developer, and Aston International, Indonesia’s leading International hotel operator, worked as close partners on several Paramount owned hotel projects including the already well established and popular Aston Paramount Serpong Hotel which now will be rebranded and fully man-aged by the Paramount group by the end of this year.
Norbert Vas, Aston International’s VP of Sales & Marketing and Ervan Adi Nugroho, representing PT. Paramount Propertindo in the capacity of Director , said in a joint statement “We both have enthusiastic expansion plans and together a pipeline of far more than 200 new hotels in Indonesia. Given that Aston already is well established in many Indonesian cities and
wants to continue its growth as an independent hotel management company while Paramount has chosen the hotel industry to become their core business and wants to grow into many of these cities, it made perfectly sense for us to shake hands, stay close friends but continue to develop independently from each other. “
Spokespeople of both companies underlined their close ties and mutual respect for each other and reaffirmed their confidence in Indonesia’s economy and demand growth for quality hotel accommodations saying that splitting up will create a new and important hotel group under Paramount’s leadership, allow Aston to remain fully independent and flexible and bring much needed additional hotel inventory and enhanced competition to Indonesia’s lodging sector ben-efiting the economy and the end consumer.
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Aston and Paramount Serpong discontinued partnershipIBP
JAKArTA – Aston International and the Paramount Group recently an-nounced that in order to facilitate each other’s expansion the two companies have mutually elected to discontinue their partnership.Bali Post
DENPASAR - Certificate of excel-lence describing the freshness and safe-ty of food products for consumption by consumers will become a requirement in the market for the agricultural prod-ucts. In the future, this certificate shall be owned by businesspeople including farmers engaged in the marketing of agricultural products.
“Farmers and farmer groups should have a certificate of excellence regard-ing the production process carried out in eco-friendly manner which is assessed by the Regional Food Safety Authority Component (OKKPD),” said the Section Head of the Yield Qual-ity Standardization, Bali Agriculture Agency, Ida Ayu Pidada, in Denpasar.
He said the agricultural product on sale to shopping centers, hotels, inter-island or export should have a certifi-cate of excellence showing the quality and safety assurance for consumption. Thus, the organic farming became an excellence in the marketing of the ag-ricultural products.
He said the components of the Food Safety Authority would promptly conduct a field observation as soon as receiving requests from farmer and farmer group to assess the require-ment of obtaining the certificate of excellence. “Requirements to submit the certificate of excellence are indeed
quite strict because farmers should have a record of process ranging from land preparation, seeding, planting, fertiliza-tion, maintenance to harvest,” said Ida Ayu Pidada.
He judged that farmers or farmer groups engaged in the cultivation of vegetable and horticulture had not been taking notes about the process of production. Actually, the record data became a requirement to file a certificate of excellence that would be cross-checked in accordance with the reality in the field.
“In planting process, farmers and members of farmer groups generally note it in the calendar, not in a par-ticular book. Therefore, it is difficult to find it when needed,” said Ida Ayu Pidada. He considered that many things should be improved in direct-ing farmers in order they had detailed notes as the basis for applying for the certificate of excellence.
Three farmer groups in Bali that had got a certificate of excellence from the Food Safety Authority, Bali Agriculture Agency were expected to become a model for other farmer groups. “Certificate of excellence has become one of the needs of farmers and farmer groups in the face of increasing competition in the present and in the future,” he explained. (kmb)
“There will be a full support for the farmer to focus on the four commodities even though there are others,” he stated.
He added, the government will maximally giving attention on this as its sector has positive affect on the people’s prosperity. To reach the target, programs of agribusiness is being implement-ed to increase farmers’ income and prosperity.
According to Buana, Bali has unique Arabica coffee product with brand “Kopi Arabika Kin-tamani Bali”. He stated that the product has distinctive character-istic of taste and aroma. In fact,
this product has reached third place in a contest of Indonesia Coffee a while ago.
Recently, Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Syarifuddin Hasan said Indonesia could easily become the world`s second largest pro-ducer of coffee as the country has large coffee plantations.
Currently Indonesia is the third largest producer after Brazil and Vietnam.
Indonesia, however, needs to promote its coffee as the quality of Indonesian coffee is com-petitive facing coffee from other producing countries, Syarifuddin
said in Nusa Dua, Bali on Tues-day night.
Development of Indonesia`s coffee industry will concern the interest of large number of people as the industry involves many small businesses and co-operatives, he said.
He said Indonesia needs to at least maintain its positions as the third largest producers of coffee in the world. The country is the second largest producer of robusta coffee after Vietnam.
“If necessary our position could be raised to become the second largest after Brazil,” he said. (kmb28/ant)
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Coffee is one of commodities that will be pursue by Bali’s Plantantion Department in next year program. Bali has unique Arabica coffee product with brand “Kopi Arabika Kintamani Bali” that have distinctive characteristic and aroma.
Plantation department to prioritize four main comoditiesBali Post
DENPASAr - Plantation department of Bali, in 2013 will prioritise four main com-modities such as arabica coffee, robusta coffee, cacao and cashewnut in its improvement. The commodities will be improved in all aspects, such as its cultivation, production and marketing. Head of Bali Plantation Agency, Ir. I Dewa Made Buana Duwuran, MP, stated when asked about the plan for next year program.
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The photo shows vendors arrange their products in one of traditional markets on Bali Island. Certificate of excellence describing the fresh-ness and safety of food products for consumption by consumers will become a requirement in the market for the agricultural products.
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Grammy-winning US punk band Green Day announced Monday it has canceled upcoming tour dates and post-poned shows in early 2013, as frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has treatment for substance abuse.
The band, founded in Berkeley, Cali-fornia in 1987, canceled nine dates be-tween now and December, and postponed 21 shows scheduled during January and February next year, it said in a statement. All the shows are in the United States.
“Obviously the timing for this isn’t ideal, but Billie Joe’s well-being is our
main concern,” said the band’s bassist and co-founder Mike Dirnt, without explicitly referring to the singer’s drug problems.
“We are happy to say that Billie Joe is doing well, and we want to thank you all for the outpouring of support and well wishes that we have received, and we can’t wait to see you all again soon,” he added.
Armstrong has checked in for rehab after an expletive-laden meltdown at a festival show in Las Vegas last month, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, which said he is being treated
for “substance abuse issues.”Earlier this year the band announced
a trilogy of albums, “Uno,” “Dos” and “Tre,” going on sale in September, No-vember and January, as follow-ups to their Grammy-winning 2009 hit album “21st Century Breakdown.”
The second album is still due out in November, but the release of “Tre” has been brought forward to December. Tickets for shows this year will be refunded, while new dates will be an-nounced for the January and February shows.
Swift, 22, who has won six Grammy awards, will join rapper-actor LL Cool J to announce nominees in some of the major categories dur-ing a one-hour live telecast on Dec. 5, featuring performances from country artist Luke Bryan and pop-rockers Maroon 5.
The singer is currently on a touring blitz to pro-mote her latest album, “Red”, and has become an awards show favorite, most recently premiering
her new single at the MTV Video Music Awards in September.
Swift`s addition to the roster is part of the Grammy organization`s celebration of country music this year, moving the nominations concert from Los Angeles to Nashville, home to the Grand Ole Opry and dozens of recording studios that have spawned artists such as Swift, Carrie Underwood and Lady Antebellum.
“Skyfall” has taken more in its opening weekend at the British box office than any previous James Bond film, its producers said on Monday.
Starring Daniel Craig as 007 for a third time, “Skyfall” has made £20.1 million ($32.2 million, 25.0 million euros) in Britain and Ireland since opening in both countries on Friday, according to a statement on its website.
“We are absolutely overwhelmed with the reaction to Skyfall this weekend,” said producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
“It is particularly thrilling as the
UK is home to James Bond and it being the 50th anniversary year.”
Critics have declared the 23rd Bond film, starring Spanish actor Javier Bardem as Bond’s latest nem-esis, to be one of the finest in the suave British spy’s 50 years on the screen.
Directed by Oscar winner Sam Mendes, it opens with a spectacular chase scene in an Istanbul market but returns to home ground with a terror attack in London.
Daniel Craig, left, and Beren-ice Marlohe
Taylor Swift to co-host Grammy nominations
Country-pop star taylor Swift will co-host the Grammy nominations live on television from nashville, the capital of country music, the recording academy said on monday.
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Green Day cancels shows for frontman treatment
‘Skyfall’ breaks 007’s British box office record
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Obama, Romney curtail campaign events
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Putra said his party was busy within the past few days because of paying devotional works related to the worship on the full moon in the fifth month of Balinese calendar. Be-ing busy, his party just saw the fire
burning the forest on Monday after-noon. Wayan Putra said that position of fire was very worrying because the burning forests and scrubs were under the Kunyit Temple.
On that account, his party imme-
diately reported it to Headman of Tulamben, Nengah Pica. The report was then immediately forwarded to the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Karangasem. “If the fire is not immediately ad-dressed or extinguished, we worry it will reach the Kunyit Temple in the upper slope,” he said.
The forest on Mount Agung had caught fire for several times in this month. The most severe fire had burned a quite extensive forest four weeks ago and last week. In the twice great fires, the protected forests in the northern, eastern to southern area were in flames at a
total area of 300 hectares. Slope of the mountain catching fire four weeks ago had looked verdant because the grass began to grow. Meanwhile, the burned forest last week reaching hundreds of hectares above the Batudawa Kaja hamlet to the area above Kedampal hamlet, Datah village, Abang subdistrict, still looked black or charred.
Last week, the forest on the high-est mountain in Bali could even be said to have been engulfed by fire. Since the fire occurred in the north-ern part, namely above the Daya hamlet and Pucang hamlet, Ban village. Meanwhile, on the eastern
slope, the fire occurred right above the Dukuh hamlet, in the west of Batudawa Kaja and above the Ke-dampal hamlet. Even, the hotspots appeared in the frontier of Nangka village, Bebandem subdistrict. However, the fire at Nangka village did not expand because the forest in southeastern slope was quite dense and verdant as condition of the slope was more humid.
Meanwhile, the fire in the protected forest within the area of Mount Abang-Mount Agung reached tens of hectares in the area of Puragae and Pule village.
Forest on the eastern slopes of Mount Agung, precisely above the area of Perancak, Batudawa Kaja hamlet, Tulamben village, Kubu, caught fire again.
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Forest on slopes of Mt. Agung and Mt. Abang catch fireBali Post
amLaPura/BanGLI - Forest on the eastern slopes of mount agung, precisely above the area of Perancak, Batudawa Kaja hamlet, tulamben village, Kubu, monday afternoon (oct 29) caught fire again. Head of apadsari Farmer Group of Batudawa Kaja, I Wayan Putra, said the area of burned forest was located above Perancak. However, up to monday afternoon the fire was still under Kunyit temple.
