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NEW YORK – Billionaire in-vestor George Soros blamed Ger-many for leading the implemen-tation of austerity measures thatwill throw the euro zone into a“deflation spiral.” Additional fis-cal stimulus —and not fiscal dis-cipline— is the way out of the cri-sis for both Europe and the UnitedStates, Soros said in a speech atColumbia University on Tuesday.

Taliban militants claimed theQuetta attack and other raids thisweek in which nearly 60 truckswere torched and three peopledied.

Pakistanisecurityofficials walkbeside burn-ing NATOsupplies oiltankersfollowing agunmenattack inQuetta onOctober 6,2010. Oneperson waskilled when atleast 10 NATOoil tankerswere setablaze inQuetta, seniorpolice offi-cials said —the fourthsuch attack insix days.

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QUETTA, Pakistan – Suspected Taliban gunmen Wednesday set fire to NATO oil tankers inPakistan for the fourth time in a week in an attack the Islamic extremist group claimed asrevenge for deadly US drone attacks. The militants opened fire on a depot housing 40 tankerson the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta, killing a member of staff and destroying atleast 10 vehicles, police official Hamid Shakeel told AFP.

They vowed more attacks todisrupt NATO’s supply routethrough Pakistan and to avenge anew wave of US drone strikestargetting Taliban and Al-Qaeda

militants linked to alleged terrorplots against European cities. “Weclaim responsibility for attackingand torching NATO tankers inQuetta today,” Tehreek-e-Taliban

spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP.“We will further intensify attackswith the intensification of USdrone strikes on us.”

The United States has mas-sively increased its drone cam-paign in Pakistan’s lawless north-west tribal region on the Afghanborder, which it calls the globalheadquarters of Al-Qaeda and isa hub of militants fighting in Af-ghanistan.

Soros blames Germany for Europe “deflation spiral”

Philanthropist George Soros, chairman of Soros FundManagement, speaks on “The Sovereign Debt Problem”

during a Sovereign Wealth Fund Conference on October 5,2010 at Columbia University in New York.

“Deficit reduction by a creditorcountry such as Germany is in di-rect contradiction of the lessonslearnt from the Great Depression ofthe 1930s. It is liable to push Eu-rope into a period of prolongedstagnation or worse,” Soros said.

Germany is unlikely to change itsways, however, because its economyis doing well and because the difficul-ties of other countries can be blamedon structural rigidities, Soros said.Continued on page 6

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Not many people guessed if theanniversary of the TNI this time wasfelt quite special. After the officialceremony, it was presented a culturalattraction in the form of fragmentarywith the title of”Red-white of Equa-torial Emerald.” The fragmentary wasperformed by the Indonesia Instituteof Arts (ISI) Denpasar in collabora-tion with Mahendradatta University,Denpasar, Ganesha Education Uni-versity (Undiksa), Teacher’s TrainingCollege (IKIP PGRI Bali), NationalEducation University (Undiknas),Bungkulan Health College (STIKES)Singaraja, STIE Triatma Mulya HighSchool of Economics, and SMAN 1Denpasar state senior high school. Ad-ditionally, the other participants back-ing up the event consisted of SMPHarapan Nusantara junior highschool, alumni of Bali Pageant Con-test, and School Boy-Girl Pageant,Hindu students association, associa-tion of tourism ambassador, and Purna

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Interfaith dialogue is important

to implement continuously. Eachreligion should be able to acceptand appreciate the existing differ-ences. It is required honesty andpositive outlook towards other re-ligions. As consequence, it cangive contribution to the realizationof peace and multicultural andmulti-religious societal harmony.Similarly, religion must become afundamental moral message tohumanity. Religion also turnsmore functional in overcoming theproblems of life.

Those were some points re-vealed in the seminar entitled‘Samawi and Ardhi Dialogue inHindu Dharma Land: Reflectingon Ardhi Religion organized in thePost Graduate Hall of HinduDharma University of Indonesia,Tuesday (Oct 5).

The seminar featured thespeakers Prof. Dr. Franz MagnisSuseno (STF Driyarkara), Prof.Dr. Nur Syam, (Rector of IAINSunan Ampel, Surabaya) and Di-rector of Postgraduate Program ofUnhi Dr. I.B. Gunadha. The semi-nar was attended by postgraduateand graduate students of Unhi anddirected by Assistant to Director Iof Postgraduate Program Prof. Dr.Putu Gelgel.

Prof. I.B. Gunada said humanswere religious creatures. On thataccount, religion became the mostideal requirement. Similarly, reli-gion becomes the guarantor of therealization of well-being life of theworld (jagadhita) and the highesthappiness (moksha). To achievesuch conditions, humans at-tempted to improve the quality ofhis faith; increase the frequencyand quality of worship and deepenthe scriptural learning. However,no less people established theirfaith by building subjective pride,namely by considering that theirown religion was superior andfinding the weaknesses of otherreligions. As a result, they weretrapped in a narrow fanaticism. Inaddition, it also appeared dichoto-mous classification of religions,such as tribal religions, religiouslaw, and liberation religions. Like-wise, it raised some dichotomiesof prophetic religion vs. spiritual-ity religion, Abrahamic religionvs. Oriental religions and worldlyreligion vs. heavenly religion.

A giant flag isstreched duringthe 65th Anni-versary ofIndonesianMilitary (TNI) inPuputanBadung field.The giant flagrecieve anaward byIndonesianRecord Mu-seum (MURI).

The 65th anniversary of Indonesian Military (TNI):

Graced by spread ofGraced by spread ofGraced by spread ofGraced by spread ofGraced by spread ofjumbo red-white flagjumbo red-white flagjumbo red-white flagjumbo red-white flagjumbo red-white flag

Celebration of the 65th anniversary of the TNI falling on Tuesday (Oct 5) was marked byholding a ceremony at the Puputan Badung Square by the ranks of Udayana Regional MilitaryCommand. The current anniversary looked so special because other than presentation of frag-mentary staged by hundreds of dancers, it was also jazzed up by the spread of super jumbo red-white flag sizing 120 meters x 80 meters. Even, due to the large size of the flag spread, the mu-seum record of Indonesia (MURI) noted the achievement in its record book. How many clotheswere spent for the jumbo flag?

Bona Dance Studio, Gianyar.However, before the presentation

of fragmentary, 12 painters showed offtheir capability through the scrape ofairbrush on canvas on the side of theeastern edge of the ceremony. Thepaintings made were in accordancewith military activities in performingtheir duties to maintain the integrityof the Unitary States of the RI (NKRI)and its commitment to unite with thepeople. In the sidelines of the paintertaking their action, it was resumed withthe performance of colossal fragmen-tary.

The fragments of dance told aboutthe triumph of Majapahit Kingdomcomposed nicely. As consequence, itcould win the attention of participantsattending the ceremony and inviteespresent at Puputan Badung Square.Agility of the dancers successfully re-freshed the atmosphere that was hotenough in the afternoon at the cer-emony location.

After the appearance of that colos-sal dance fragments, celebration of theTNI’s anniversary remarkably sur-prised the invitees. The reason, hun-dreds of children from several univer-sities and TNI soldiers expanded ajumbo red-white flag. Size of the flagwas 120 meters x 80 meters.

Gus Marhaen as the organizer ofthe jumbo red-white flag spread saidthe preparation to make the flag waslong time enough. Even, to sew theflag it took him about 14 days. ”Wespent at least 150 rolls of red-whiteclothes. “We completed the tasksthrough mutual assistance,” said GusMarhaen.

In fact, the colossal action arousedthe MURI to register the attraction inits book of record. That jumbo-size red-white flag was put on the number 4498.“The large-size flag was officially reg-istered on number 4498 in the recordof MURI,” said Senior Manager ofMURI, Paul Pangka. (ara)

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Religion should pass moralmessages for humanityInterfaith dialogue important to continue

According to Prof. I.B. Gunada,religion had become a fundamen-tal moral message to humanity.Religion would turn more func-tional in overcoming the problemsof life. Religious fanaticism wasalso expected to narrow the gapheading for the multi-religion andmulticultural societal harmony.Religion was also expected to takefunction and message as a providerof value system, motivator and in-spirer in the work, became a wayof life and establisher of con-science.

In the meantime, Franz MagnisSuseno said that interfaith dia-logue should be continued. As amatter of fact, religions couldwork together and be united by thevalues of humanity existing inside.Each religion should be able toaccept and appreciate differences.We had to be honest and have posi-tive thinking towards other reli-gions. Of course, it would be ableto give contribution to the realiza-tion of peace, unity and to get outof the conflict.

Comparable idea was deliveredby Prof. Nur Syam. The emer-gence of religious and interfaithconflicts because the parties in-volved assumed their religion wasthe most correct. In the context ofmaintaining the interfaith har-mony, Nur Syam alluded to theopinion of one of the religious fig-ures that different concept shouldnot be equated and the same oneshould not be distinguished. Thephrase was considered very simplebut full of meaning. In otherwords, the difference had to beappreciated. The Prophet alone,asserted Nur Syam, really appre-ciated pluralism. Therefore, wehad to appreciate the difference it-self.

To anticipate any conflict, ac-cording to Nur Syam, it was im-portant to organize religious dia-logue continuously, especiallythose regarding to the dimensionsof humanity owned by each reli-gion. Thus, the harmony and safetycould be achieved. “Concordancewill engender harmony, while har-mony will then engender safety,”he said.

In the meantime, in regard tothe dichotomy of those religions,according to him, it tended to becaused by social commentary or aman-made construction. (08)

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Denpasar (Bali Post) –The many unofficial harbors or

illegal routes there are in Bali hasmade Bali Police to intensify safetyespecially in the waters. They alsoadded force, at least 23 personnelspecial recruited to patrol the sea.Not only that, Bali Police alsoadded one more ship coming fromthe Indonesian Police, special to dopatrol and secure Bali waters.

This was told by Head of BaliPolice, Police General InspectorDrs. Hadiatmoko, when doing asupervision and patrol on SouthBali’s waters last Tuesday (5/10).It was said the ship that was givenwas named Punai and has a speedof 12 miles per hour which meansthose suspicious acts on the midocean and the shores, the ship cango fast to location, “This ship willpatrol for two months.”

The added personnel and shopwere purposed to do an increasedroutine supervision on Bali watersand also police will always takesteps to anticipate especially onradical group actions, “Bali openedgates especially illegal ones usuallyused for going through. This kindof things has to be anticipated.”

Joined by Head of Bali Police

According to Wacik, Indonesiahas a great potential for worldclass shooting locaions with therichness of the beautiful naturepanoramas also the variety of vol-canoes, beaches, seas, forests, riv-ers, waterfalls, sea corals, lakes,until ideal savannas for many kindof stories. That potential will al-ways be promoted so those pro-ducers will be interested to filmin Indonesia, “Eat, Pray, Lovefilm took place mostly in Bali, asan example that Indonesia becamea shooting location for a world’sfilm. Not long after, a film suchas Raja Ampat took its shootinglocation in West Papua because ofits sea corals beauty.”

It is mentioned, film and tour-ism are two sides of a coin, and tomake a quality film you need a

Singaraja (Bali Post) –After it was all huge two months

ago, now the international airportproject in Gerokgak Subdistrictthought to be blurry unsure. Also theTurkish investor that’s supposed tocome early August never came.

A Gerokgak resident, last Tuesday(5/10), admitted worried about thishuge project that probably now leftbehind just like any other hugeprojects there were. Meanwhile, thoseland proposers started to go aroundasking residents to sell their lands,“Things floating like this is danger-ous because it is affecting the safe-ness and disciplinary at some areas inGerokgak.”

For that, the resident hoped that thisproject plan can be informed clearlyif it’s cancelled or continuing. Espe-cially the investor that was said willcome in August yet it never appearedand caused residents to be more con-fused in the middle of the project bythe unsure information priory on theproject location, “The location is stillunsure. There are some that said inSumberklampok, some saidSumberkima, there’s also some thatsaid it’s not in Gerokgak but inKubutambahan.”

Head of Regional DevelopmentPlanning Board (Bappeda), GedeDharmaja, confirmed that the project

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Julia Roberts ride bicycle during the shooting of Eat, Pray, Love movie in Bali.

Post Eat, Pray, LovePost Eat, Pray, LovePost Eat, Pray, LovePost Eat, Pray, LovePost Eat, Pray, LoveScreening Bali InterestedScreening Bali InterestedScreening Bali InterestedScreening Bali InterestedScreening Bali InterestedWorld Film ProducersWorld Film ProducersWorld Film ProducersWorld Film ProducersWorld Film ProducersJakarta (Bali Post) –

Post to the Eat, Pray, Love film screening starred by Julia Robert, Bali became an interest to thefilm directors and producers of the world. “The Eat, Pray, Love film as inspired many film direc-tors and producers from the whole world to make Indonesia as a shooting location,” Culture andTourism Minister Jero Wacik mentioned during the Premiere of Eat, Pray, Love that was alsoattended by Vice President’s wife, Ny. Herawati Boediono, at Kuningan Epicentrum Studio 2,South Jakarta on Monday (4/10) evening.

beautiful shooting place also in-terest ing and unique such asscreened by Eat, Pray, Love withthe background tourist object as ashooting location, it will be an ef-fective promotion facility to causepublic to watch and make themone day to come to that locationor to Bali.

Other example is the success ofLaskar Pelangi film that tookshooting location in Belitung Is-land, Bangka-Belitung Province,which had brought positive effectto their tourism sector now. Thesuccess of the film caused a newbranding for Belitung with thename Laskar Pelangi World, “TheLaskar Pelangi film screeninghave pushed tourists interest tocome visit Belitung such as want-ing to see the shooting locations

in the film. Laskar Pelangi drewthe great nature with the whitesands and new granite stonesshores in varied shapes whichamazed audience and so interestedto visit that place.”

In the premiere Eat, Pray, Lovescreening in Siegfield Theater,New York, USA, went success-fully. Audiences were very amazedby the film with the views of beau-tiful Bali. They were also struck bythe Bali spiritual side that wasmentioned in the movie, “The suc-cess of Eat, Pray, Love we hopedit will increase the Bali popularityto the international world includ-ing the Americans. The popularitywill give an effect so the foreigntourists come to Indonesia whichin this year 2010 is targeted toreach 7 million of them.” (son)

Investor Did Not ComeInternational Airport Projectin Gerokgak ”Blurry Unsure”

is still ongoing. According to him theinvestor will still come with an officialfrom the Indonesian Republic Secre-tary Cabinet, “The project is a join workbetween two countries, Indonesia andTurkey. And President agreed to havethe location in Buleleng.”

Dharmaja confirmed that the projectplan is still in continuation. The RegionGovernment is still doing some re-searches that were asked by the inves-tors. For example, not long ago, inves-tor asked the result to the research onthe land and stones condition ofGerokgak. For that Buleleng Govern-ment sent the results, “Process is stillgoing on, so need to be patient as thisproject has a huge scale.”

In the other side, Dharmaja statedas it has been received by the investorit is possible that the project will be builtaround Letkol Wisnu Airport inSumberkima. Yet this project will noterase Letkol Wisnu Airport, “The air-port that has existed will be part of theinternational aiport.”

As the story before, in Buleleng itwill be built an international airport thatwill finish around 1.000 hectares ofland. In connecting to this project, Re-gent Bagiada with some officials si-lently visited Turkey and said fromTurkey there will be an investor com-ing early August, yet it never came un-til now. (kmb15)

Terrorists MovedThrough Illegal Routes23 Personnel Added, InvolvingIndonesian Police Patrol Ship

Public Relation Unit, Great PoliceCommissioner Gde Sugianyar,Hadiatmoko compared it with officialharbors such as Gilimanuk Harbor,Padangbai, Benoa and more. Thosegates are guaranteed safe and crimeactors will be detected if they are go-ing into Bali. While illegal routes arehard to detect if there is no tighten su-pervision, “The 36 times 6 meters shipwill patrol in Sanur, Serangan, TanjungBenoa, Nusa Dua, Uluwatu, Jimbaran,Kuta and Legian.”

According to the two starred gen-eral these areas are the ones with moststarred hotels and villas lived by for-eigners. A routine patrol for twomonths has to be done, “Our anticipa-tion is to those crime actors going inillegal routes and bringing ammuni-tion also illegal guns.” Besides that,Hadiatmoko also directed to straightaway shoot those radical groups thatare trying to get in.

Moreover, even there hasn’t beenany indication of armed group or ter-rorist that been coming in to Bali, thepolice will always anticipate. For that,there will be CCTV placed to do su-pervision. These cameras will be lo-cated at strategic locations, “Hopefullythe loved Bali Island will be alwayssafe and peaceful.” (kmb21)

International4 Thursday, October 7, 2010 News

Ambassador Hussein Haqqanitold the BBC that the increase instrikes in North Waziristan, a re-puted militant hotbed, came afterintelligence agencies uncovered aplot to “attack multiple targets inEurope.”

He also said that a strike on Mon-day in the district which killed eightmilitants, including five Germans,was linked to the plot.

“I think that the activity we seein North Waziristan in terms ofstrikes... is connected to the terror-ist warnings that we have heardabout potential strikes in Europe,”he told the British broadcaster.

But he urged people to stay calmand vowed intelligence agencieswould foil any plot.

US drone strikes in Pakistan haveincreased in recent weeks, with au-thorities there reporting 24 attacks

AFP

BANGKOK – Thailand onWednesday blamed a deadly blastat an apartment complex nearBangkok on the anti-government“Red Shirt” movement as investi-gators probed whether a bomb-maker caused the explosion acci-dentally.

Authorities said the powerfulblast, which killed at least threepeople and injured nine late Tues-day, was believed to be linked topolitical unrest.

“It’s clear that the bombers areRed Shirt people,” Defence Minis-ter General Prawit Wongsuwon toldAFP.

“As far as I know there were sev-eral bombs stored in that room, asyou can see that it was very power-ful. There are a lot of bombs keptin other places,” he said.

Police found three bodies andone severed limb, suggesting thefinal death toll could be four, saidChatree Charoencheewakul, headof the Emergency Medical Instituteof Thailand.

The blast — believed to haveoccurred in a room on the secondfloor of the apartment building inNonthaburi Province north ofBangkok — shattered windows anddamaged nearby buildings.

“It was about 10 kilos (22pounds) of explosive material,”Lieutenant Colonel KamthornUcharoen of the Explosive Ord-nance Disposal and IdentificationSpecial Operation Division said.

“We are checking what type ofbomb it was but we found nitrate.The bombers were probably mak-

Reuters

LONDON – A Saudi princekilled his servant in their room ata luxury London hotel in a fero-cious beating which had a sexualelement, a British court was toldTuesday.

Bandar Abdulaziz, was founddead in bed at the Landmark Ho-tel in central London on Febru-ary 15 this year, having sufferedextensive injuries, including bitemarks to his cheeks, the OldBailey jury was told.

The 32-year-old had spent theprevious three years traveling asan occasional companion of SaudAbdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud,whose father is a nephew of theSaudi king and whose mother isa daughter of the king, the courtheard.

The servant had suffered “a se-ries of heavy punches or blows tohis head and face,” leaving his left

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A US drone strike has killed eight militants, including five Germans, inPakistan’s anarchic tribal

AFP

LONDON – Increased US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas arelinked to a terror plot targeting Europe, Pakistan’s US envoy said Wednes-day, amid mounting fears that Al-Qaeda is planning a wave of attacks.

since September 3 which have killedmore than 140 people.

An Al-Qaeda plot planned in Pa-kistan is targeting Britain, Franceand Germany but planning for theattacks was at an early stage whenintelligence agencies learned ofthem, according to reports.

Japan, Sweden, the United Statesand Britain have warned their citi-zens travelling in Europe of the pos-sibility of a terrorist attack.

US channel Fox News, citing un-named intelligence officials, saidmilitants had a list of targets inFrance and Germany, includingParis’s Eiffel Tower and Notre DameCathedral, Berlin’s BrandenburgGate, the city’s central railway sta-tion and the Alexanderplatz TVtower.

French police arrested 12 peopleand seized guns Tuesday in anti-ter-

ror raids that came as Western se-curity officials warn that Al-Qaedamay be planning Mumbai-style at-tacks in Europe.

Police from France’s anti-terror-ism squad made nine arrests in thesouthern port of Marseille and innearby Avignon, police said.

They seized “some weapons, in-cluding a Kalashnikov (rifle) and apump-action shotgun, as well asammunition”, said one official, add-ing that the nine were being inves-tigated for suspected links to a “ter-rorist enterprise”.

US and German media said theinformation about possible targetswas provided by a German nationalinterrogated at Bagram Air Base inAfghanistan.

Germany said it was in contactwith Pakistani authorities about thedrone strike.

“The ministry and the embassyare actively pursuing their efforts toclarify the situation,” a foreign min-istry spokesman said. “But for themoment, there is no reliable evi-dence.”

Saud Abdulazizbin Nasser alSaud (L) is seenwith his servantBandarAbdulaziz in anelevator inLondon’sLandmark hotelon January 22,2010, in closedcircuit televi-sion footagewhich wasshown during amurder trial inLondon onOctober 5, 2010.

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Saudi prince killed servant,London court told

eye closed and swollen, his lipssplit open and his teeth chippedand broken, prosecutor JonathanLaidlaw said.

There also were injuries to hisears and internal bruising andbleeding to the brain, as well assevere injuries to the neck consis-tent with manual compression, thecourt was told.

The prosecution said the victimhad deep bruising to the back, arib fracture and trauma to thestomach caused by heavy punchesor kicks, the Press Association re-ported.

“The post-mortem examinationwas to reveal the ferocity of theattack to which he had been sub-jected before he died,” Laidlawsaid.

It was not the first time the vic-tim had been subjected to beatings,including one incident after whichhis ear needed reconstruction, hesaid.

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A Thai soldier patrols a station of the elevated railway as part of steppedup security in Bangkok

Thailand blames ‘Red Shirts’for deadly bomb blast

ing a crude bomb inside room 202and there was an accident and it ex-ploded prematurely,” he said.

The explosion came hours afterThailand extended a state of emer-gency in Nonthaburi and three otherprovinces, including Bangkok, forthree more months.

The emergency laws were intro-duced in the capital in early April inresponse to mass anti-governmentrallies by the “Red Shirt” movementthat ultimately left 91 people deadin clashes between demonstratorsand the army.

The rules ban public gatheringsof more than five people and givesecurity forces the right to detainsuspects for up to 30 days withoutcharge.The government has steppedup security following a string of gre-nade attacks in Bangkok, including

a blast at a bus stop in July that killeda man.

The Red Shirts deny any involve-ment in the explosions and have ac-cused the government of a con-spiracy to justify tougher securitypowers.A senior intelligence official,speaking on condition of anonymity,told AFP the latest blast was “relatedto the current political situation”.

He added: “This is a signal thatmore violence is expected.”

The Thai government has comeunder pressure from the UnitedStates and rights groups to roll backthe state of emergency to help thecountry recover from civil violencethat has left it deeply divided.

Authorities have used their emer-gency powers to arrest hundreds ofsuspects and silence anti-govern-ment media.

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Temple Ceremony

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annualCeremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Ba-linese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine whicheach family possesses. Because of this practically every fewdays a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in someVillage in Bali. There are also times when the entire islandcelebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan,Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day,Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is consid-ered its birth day and celebration always takes place on thesame day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When newmoon is used then the celebration always happens on new moonor full moon. The day of course can differ the religious cel-ebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some templecelebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakihtemple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and mostof the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importanceof the occasion.

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

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

Balinese TempleCeremony

Calendar of Event (Sep 24- Oct 7, 2010)25st – “Saraswati” holiday, the day devoted to

Sanghyang Aji Saraswati symbolized as a beau-tiful goddess of knowledge, sciences and arts,when blessing ceremony is given to holy scrip-tures of science and arts, held at every familycompound.

Temple Festival at:- Pr. Watugunung, Bima, NTB.- Pr. Agung Jagat Kerana, Surabaya- Pr. Aditya Jaya Rawamangun, Jakarta- Pr. Agung Wiraloka Natha, Cimahi, Jabar- Pr. Giri Jaya Natha,Balikpapan, Berneo.- Pr. Bhuwana Suci Saraswati, Ds. Ngaru-

aru, Kec. Banyudono, Boyolali,Solo, Jawa Tengah.- Pr. Pasek Tangkas Gempinis, Dalang,

Tabanan- Pr. Pasek Gelgel Sayan Bongkasa

Abiansemal- Pr. Dadya Agung Bendesa Tangkas

Koriagung, Ds Gerih, Abiansemal- Mr.Pulasari/Sentana Dalem Tarukan, Ds.

Penida Kelod, Bangli.- Mr.Pasek Kubakal, Ds. Kapal.- Mr.Pasek, Ds. Dalung.- Pr. Pasek Dukuh Ambengan, Ds. Sebudi.- Pr. Pemaksan , Ds. Bandalem, Buleleng.

26th –“Banyu Pinaruh” day, when the Balinesemostly go to the beaches, river and spring to pu-rify them selves and pray for wisdom with earlyin the morning

Pr. Gaduh, Ds. Sesetan, Denpasar.

27th .Temple Festival at:- Pr. Jati, Jembrana.- Pr. Kawitan Batu Gaing, Bangli.- Pr. Tirta Wening, Tambaksari, Surabaya.

- Pr. Desa Linggawana Kertha Mandala,Ds. Abang, Karangasem.

29th – “Pagerwesi”, holiday, the word literallymeans “iron fence” when Hindu followers wor-ship “Sanghyang Pramesti Guru” as lord of uni-verse and pray for strong mental defence againstany negative temptations. Held at every familytemple and holy place throughout Bali.

Temple Festival at:- Pr. Labaan Sindhu Jiwa, Ds. Kedewatan,

Ubud.- Pr. Kahen, Bangli- Pr. Wirabuana, Magelang, Jateng- Pr. Padangsakti Tangtu, Kesiman- Pr. Jogan Agung, Ketewel, Sukawati- Pr. Gaduh Pengiasan, Dauh Puri,

Denpasar- Pr. Siwa/Pasek Tohjiwa, Penebel- Pr. Pasek Ketewel, Sempidi, Mengwi- Pr. Pasek Gelgel, Buruan Kaja, Tabanan- Pr. Pasek Gobleg, Kerambitan- Pr. Pasek Gelgel, Meliling, Tabanan- Pr. Masceti Selasih, Sanding,

Tampaksiring- Pr. Dalem Ularan, Br. Tatasan Kaja,

Denpasar- Mr. Pasek Gaduh, Buduk- Mr.Pasek Gelgel, Ds. Kelabang Moding.- Pr. Pasek Gelgel, Sekalan Marga- Pr. Sada Br. Gaduh Desa Kaba kaba,

Kediri, Tabanan- Mr.Pasek Gelgel , Depaha, Ds. Depaha,

Kubutambahan, Buleleng.- Pr. Desa Linggawana, Kertamandala,

Abang, Karangasem- Pr. Lebah Ubud

Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, Hard Rock Hotel Baliwill join Hard Rock International in its annual, global PINKTOBER.The hotel will be doing its part to raise breast cancer awareness andfunds for this deadly disease by donating proceeds from its Pinktober“Pink Sheets” hotel room. The “Pink Sheets” offer, part of Hard RockInternational’s worldwide Pinktober campaign, offers select guestroomsat Hard Rock Hotel Bali that will be outfitted in special pink-hued, gui-tar-embossed Sleep Like a Rock bedding with 25% off the room ratebenefiting the Yayasan Kesehatan Payudara Jakarta (YKPJ). The roomswill also feature pink bathrobes and pink flower arrangements.

These initiatives will be throughout the hotel and these also include adonation of a portion of the proceeds from the sale of “Pink for a Cure”cocktail featured at Centerstage as well as from “Get Relax for a Cure” SpaPackage at our Rock Spa. Additionally, the Centerstage will host a PinkParty and all staff will be bedecked in pink. In addition, our Rock Shop willalso be offering limited-edition collectible Pinktober pins, key chains andT-shirts that will be benefiting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

“Philanthropy is a pillar of the Hard Rock brand and we are excitedto participate in the 11-year anniversary of this successful campaign tobenefit breast cancer awareness,” said Andrew Khoo, General Managerof Hard Rock Hotel Bali. “Our goal is to be involved and ensure ourguests have fun, and we can’t imagine a more enjoyable way to raisemoney than with cocktails, spa treatments and a blow-out party. Its phi-lanthropy Hard Rock-style and we encourage our guests to participatein this important cause. All guests will have an added opportunity tocontribute additional funds to the YKPJ upon checking out.”

Pink Sheets rooms will be offered from Oct. 1 - 30 and are bookedbased on availability.

Think Pink with Hard Rock Hotel Bali’s Pinktober™Campaign:Help Find a Cure for Breast Cancer

Thursday, October 7, 20106 News

Eight of the injured were in a seri-ous condition and six people weremissing after the walls of a reservoirof residue at an aluminium plantbroke on Monday afternoon. Offi-cials feared the death toll could rise.

The sludge left a path of devasta-tion destroying all vegetation otherthan trees, seeping into houses andleaving residents asking when theycould return.

The two-metre (six-and-a-half-foot) tide of mud overturned cars,swept away possessions and has

Associated Press Writer

MORELIA, Mexico – Twenty menkidnapped last week in the Pacific re-sort city of Acapulco had no criminalrecords and may have been targeted bymistake, Mexican investigators saidTuesday. Police have found no trace ofthe men, whose kidnapping is one ofthe biggest blows yet to a resort citywhose sparkling bay was a favoriteplayground of Hollywood’s elite de-cades ago.

Acapulco has long since lost itsformer glory and is now mostly popu-lar with Mexican tourists. Even thatsource of income has been jeopardizedas the port city becomes a drug traf-ficking battleground.

Shootouts have erupted near themain tourist strip and in August, sol-diers killed a U.S. man on a highwayoutside the city. The soldiers said theAmerican fired at them first, but themilitary says it is investigating thatclaim.

Police have confirmed that 19 of theabducted men were mechanics from thewestern city of Morelia and apparentlyhad been vacationing together in thePacific resort city, said JesusMontejano, the state attorney generalof Michoacan state, were Morelia islocated. A 17-year-old among the group

Agence France Presse

SYDNEY – Three Australian fish-ermen were rescued off the country’swest coast after their boat apparentlyhit a whale and sank in rough seas,police said Wednesday.

The men abandoned their 14-

Hungary declares emergencyHungary declares emergencyHungary declares emergencyHungary declares emergencyHungary declares emergencyas toxic mud kills fouras toxic mud kills fouras toxic mud kills fouras toxic mud kills fouras toxic mud kills fourAgence France Presse

BUDAPEST – Hungary declared a state of emergency after a toxic mud spill swamped sevenvillages killing four people and injuring 120 in what officials said was the country’s worst-everchemical accident.

raised fears that pollution leechingfrom it could reach the DanubeRiver, which courses throughCroatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romaniaand Ukraine before flowing into theBlack Sea.

Interior Minister Sandor Pinterinsisted there was no threat so far todrinking water in the area butwarned against eating home-grownproduce from the region for the timebeing.

“It’s an ecological catastrophe,”said environment state secretary

Zoltan Illes, who visited the areaTuesday, describing it as the worstchemical accident in the country.

The toxic sludge swamped sevenvillages with 1.1 million cubicmetres (38.8 million cubic feet) af-ter it spilt from the reservoir in Ajka,western Hungary. A state of emer-gency was called in the counties ofVeszprem, Gyor-Moson-Sopron andVas. Among the dead were two chil-dren aged three and one, said KarolyTily, the mayor of one of the affectedvillages, Kolontar.

AFP –

A man wades through his mud-soaked garden in Devecser, southwest of Budapest, on Octo-ber 5, 2010

Whale strike’ downs Australian fishing boat

Photo illus-tration. ThreeAustralianfishermenwere rescuedoff thecountry’swest coastafter theirboat appar-ently hit awhale andsank inrough seas

metre (46-foot) wooden boat afterstriking something “solid”, andwere eventually rescued by thecrew of an oil-drilling vessel.

“They hit something hard, solid,they suspect it’s a whale,” said se-nior sergeant Greg Trew of West-ern Australia’s Water Police. “They

abandoned ship and were in the wa-ter for about four hours.”

Trew said the trio were all in goodhealth despite their ordeal in “hor-rendous” seas. “It was pretty shock-ing conditions, 35-knot winds andthree to four metre swells, it waspretty nasty,” he said.

AFP/File –

20 kidnapped in Acapulcohad no criminal records

was the son of one of the mechanics.“They were all men of honorable

work,” Montejano told reporters.“Their families lived modestly and theywere all mechanics of different special-ties, and their shops have been located.”

The kidnapping was reported Fri-day by a man who said he had beentraveling with the group. He told po-lice that he and another man went tothe store and when they returned theircompanions, who had been travelingin four cars and were looking for a placeto stay, were gone. The man said wit-nesses told him an armed gang had kid-napped the group.

The man had told police the menwere mechanics who saved up eachyear to vacation together. FernandoMonreal, director of the investigativepolice in Guerrero state, whereAcapulco is located, said that the man’sstory seemed suspicious in a countrywhere people rarely vacation with outtheir families.

But a search through criminalrecords in Michoacan and Guerrerostates, and interviews with the familiesof the men, appeared to corroborate hisstory, officials have since said.

Police have found the four cars thegroup was traveling in but have foundno trace of the missing men despitescouring highways around Acapulco.

German Chancellor AngelaMerkel also gained the upper handin a recent G20 meeting where shejoined forces with Canada and newlyelected Conservative British PrimeMinister David Cameron to put pres-sure on other countries to adopt aus-terity measures, Soros noted. As aresult, President Barack Obamayielded to the majority and agreed

Soros...

Pakistan authorities have reported24 attacks since September 3 whichhave killed more than 140 people.Pakistan’s US envoy said Wednes-day that the increase in drone strikeswas linked to an alleged terror plottargeting Europe. The Al-Qaeda plotconceived in Pakistan apparently tar-gets Britain, France and Germanybut planning for the attacks was atan early stage when intelligenceagencies learned of them, accordingto intelligence and press reports.

Ambassador Hussein Haqqanitold the BBC that the increase instrikes in North Waziristan came af-ter intelligence agencies uncovereda plot to “attack multiple targets inEurope.”

He also said that a drone strikeon Monday in the district whichkilled eight militants, including fiveGermans, was linked to the plot. “Ithink that the activity we see in NorthWaziristan in terms of strikes... isconnected to the terrorist warningsthat we have heard about potentialstrikes in Europe,” he said.

From page 1 to cut the U.S. budget deficit by halfby 2013.

“This may be the right policy butit comes at the wrong time,” Sorossaid. Soros doesn’t think Obamashould extend the tax cuts pushed byhis predecessor George W. Bush.Instead, he says, the governmentshould direct the extra money com-ing from higher taxes into fiscalmeasures to stimulate investment,not consumption.

Taliban...From page 1 The United States does not as a

rule confirm drone attacks, but itsmilitary and the Central IntelligenceAgency operating in Afghanistan arethe only forces that deploy the pi-lotless aircraft in the region.

The latest tanker attack came asthe main land route for NATO sup-plies crossing from Pakistan to Af-ghanistan remained closed for a sev-enth consecutive day.

Pakistan shut the route in protestat a cross-border NATO helicopterattack that officials blamed for thedeaths of three Pakistani soldiers.The alliance has said it shot backin self-defence. “NATO suppliesare still suspended and we are try-ing to improve the security situa-tion after the attacks on NATOtankers around the country,” said aFrontier Corps official on conditionof anonymity.

He said officials were waiting fora joint statement by the Pakistangovernment and NATO’s Interna-tional Security Assistance Force(ISAF) following their joint inves-tigation into the incident, before re-opening the crossing.

Thursday, October 7, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

AFP PHOTO

A picture shows the aftermath of deadly flooding caused by torrential downpours in Teluk Wondama, Indonesia’sWest Papua on October 5, 2010. At least 56 people were killed and 24 remain missing after the flash floods.

Antara

BOGOR - The ecosystem ofbirds in Indonesia will becomeextinct following the decreasinggreen open spaces due to eco-nomic growth which caused achange of the ecosystem into ur-ban areas.

The statement was made by RiaSaryanthi, Conservation Program-

The seaside town’s Sanduayneighbourhood was all but flattenedwhen a wall of mud, rocks and logshit it on Monday.

An AFP reporter who reached thearea, 240 kilometres (150 miles)southeast of Manokwari, WestPapua province, said hundreds ofhomes had been destroyed.

Residents and rescue teams weresearching the mud and debris forsurvivors but officials said the deathtoll is almost certain to rise.

Several bodies could be seenwedged beneath rocks and logs thatwere washed into the town from sur-rounding hillsides.

Some of the logs — felled by tim-ber workers in nearby forests —

Antara

JAKARTA - President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono is waiting forthe Dutch court’s final decision re-garding the petition of a group ofpeople on alleged human rights vio-lations in Indonesia, the president’sspokesman, Julian Aldrin, said.

Therefore, the Head of Statehad yet to reschedule his canceledstate visit to Holland, Julian toldANTARA here Wednesday.

President Yudhoyono canceledhis three-day state visit to theNetherlands on Tuesday on indi-cations a certain group in Hollandwas planning to raise human rightissues against Indonesia.

Speaking to newsmen at HalimPerdanakusuma Airport, EastJakarta, on Tuesday afternoon, hesaid his state visit to Holland hadto be postponed until a yet to bedetermined time frame.

The head of state and his entou-rage had been scheduled to leaveJakarta by the Indonesian Air ForceOne (Garuda Indonesia’s Airbus330-200) on Tuesday at about01:30 pm local time.

As a result of the movement ofcertain elements in Holland thatwould file lawsuit on human rightsissues in Indonesia, PresidentYudhoyono said he decided tocancel his state visit.

“More than that, there has evenbeen a demand for the arrest ofIndonesia’s president,” he said.

A spokesman of the IndonesianEmbassy in The Hague, FirdausDahlan, said earlier that the Dutch

Antara

JAKARTA - Bank Indonesia(BI) has estimated bank creditgrowth at 22-24 percent his year onbusinessman’s confidence inIndonesia’s economic prospects.The bank credits growth reached21.2 percent up to September 2010,compared to that in the same periodlast year, according to BI GovernorDarmin Nasution when announcingBI Rate here Tuesday said.

“The working capital credits in2010 grew higher than that of theconsumption credits. In the future,the credit growth will still be tar-geted toward productive sectors,”said the central bank’s governor.

Darmin said the bank industryremained solid as reflected by thehigh level of the Capital AdequacyRatio (CAR) and the protectedratio of Non-Performing Loangross under five percent.

Deputy Governor of Bank Indo-nesia Muliaman D Hadad said dur-ing January - August 2010, thebank credits increased Rp207 tril-lion, comprising working capitalcredits worth Rp110.4 trillion, con-

Bank credit up 24percent in 2010

sumption credits Rp64.3 trillion,and investment credits Rp27.8 tril-lion. BI has predicted that the In-donesian economy will expand bya range of 6.0-6.5 percent next yearon the back of improving global anddomestic economy.

Domestic consumption wouldremain strong and export perfor-mance would increase along withthe global economic recovery,Bank Indonesia Governor DarminNasution said here on Tuesday.

The rising foreign investmentinflows in line with strong domes-tic and global demand would alsocontribute to the economic growthnext year, he said. The 2011 eco-nomic growth forecast is higherthan the economic growth forecastof 6.0-6.3 percent for this year andis well above the assumed eco-nomic growth of 6.4 percent set inthe draft 2011 state budget.

Darmin said the economy grew6.2 percent until the second quar-ter of 2010. In the third quarteralone, the economy expanded 6.3percent, fueled by strong consump-tion, export performance and in-vestment inflows.

President yet toreschedule trip to Holland

government would fully ensure thesecurity of President Yudhoyonoduring his visit.

The Dutch government’s assur-ance was issued following a threatfrom John Wattilette, the self-styled president of the separatist“Republic of South Maluku”(RMS) movement in exile.

In response to the cancellationof President Yudhoyono’s trip, theDutch government on Tuesday re-gretted the sudden decision.

Political analyst of HasanuddinUniversity Prof.Dr.Aswanto urgedPresident Yudhoyono to give animmediate clarification for cancel-ling his state visit to Holland.

The clarification was needed tomaintain the existing cordial rela-tions with the Netherlands, he said.

“It would be a matter of greatregret if the two countries’ diplo-matic relations that have so farbeen running well and harmoni-ously is now disturbed (by the sud-den cancellation of the president’sstate visit),” he said.

The cancellation would onlyhave minor impact on the two coun-tries’ bilateral relations if PresidentYudhoyono could further clarify thereal cause of the cancellation, hesaid. Prof.Dr.Aswanto said Dutchleaders might be disappointed withPresident Yudhoyono’s decisionbecause his state visit was to bedone at the official invitation of theDutch queen.

Therefore, an immediate clari-fication was important to avoid un-necessary impact on the twocountry’s diplomatic ties, he said.

Indonesian bird ecosystem facing extinctionmer of Indonesian birds, betterknown as Association of IndonesianWild Birds Conservation on Tues-day observing the United NationsWorld Habitat Day.

She said World Habitat Day is anannual opportunity for a reflectionof how to build a better city for allof us.

“Hoogerwerf, a Dutch naturalist,noted in Jakarta back in 1948 that

there were still 256 bird species. Buta survey by a conservation NGO inJakarta found in the 2006-2007 pe-riod that there were only 121 birdspecies, including coastal birds,” shesaid.

The outcome of a survey in sixmajor cities in Java and Bali dem-onstrated that one of three homeskept birds in cages, while birds areliving freely anywhere else, she said.

Bodies unclaimed asBodies unclaimed asBodies unclaimed asBodies unclaimed asBodies unclaimed asIndonesia flood toll risesIndonesia flood toll risesIndonesia flood toll risesIndonesia flood toll risesIndonesia flood toll risesAgence France-Presse

WASIOR - The remote Indonesian town of Wasior was a scene ofdevastation Wednesday, with bodies lying unclaimed in the debris offlash floods that killed at least 86 people and left dozens missing.

were two metres (seven feet) wideand left a trail of destruction as theyswept through the town on the rag-ing flood waters.

“Earlier Monday morning therewere sudden floods but on a smallscale. But 30 minutes later I heard akind of big thunder and I saw pow-erful waters coming from the moun-tain,” 50-year-old resident WilemImburi told AFP.

“There was chaos and peoplepanicked and tried to run to safety.”

Father-of-two Mahmud, 36, saidhe managed to hold on to his son butlost his two-year-old daughter.

“I was holding my two kids whenthe waters came, but I didn’t haveenough strength and lost grip of my

daughter,” he said.The flood carried him and his

four-year-old son into the sea about500 metres (yards) away from hishome. Papua search and rescue offi-cial Mochamad Arifin said at least86 people were killed and 81 wereinjured in the disaster.

“We are still searching for doz-ens of missing people,” he said.

“The chance of survival for themissing people is slim.”

Experts fear such events will be-come more common in Indonesiadue to a combination of climatechange, land conversion and log-ging, which can contribute to land-slides and flash floods after mon-soonal downpours.

Indonesia’s climatology agencysaid most parts of the SoutheastAsian archipelago had experiencedtorrential rains, strong winds, highwaves and flooding due to extremeweather this year.

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Bali Post

MANGUPURA - The circle oftourism businesspeople regretted thediscourse expressed by a public fig-ure in regarding to the dissolution ofKuta Karnival (KK). In their eyes, KKhad strategic values and should becontinued.

Chairman of the Indonesia Ho-tel and Restaurant Association (PHRI)of Badung Chapter, Rai Suryawijaya,

Gede Suarsa, the head of BaliStatistics Department, said “the de-crease is very worrying and it isbecause the economics recessionwhich happened in Japan.” He alsosaid that even tough there was adecrase in the number or touristsfrom Japan visited Bali but it is stillon the second place of the top tencountries that citizen visited Bali.

Most of the tourists were com-ing through Ngurah Rai Airport andonly 9 of them used sea transporta-tions. Suarsa said that the numberof tourists from Japan was 10.06%from the total number of touristsvisited Bali during January throughAugust 2010 period which was

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Tourists at Kuta Beach, Bali Island.

Antara

Denpasar – The number of tourists from Japan visited Baliduring January through August 2010 period decreased 22.57%compare to the similar period last year. This year, the numberof Japanese tourists was 168,806 people while last year, the to-tal number of tourists from Japan during the eight months pe-riod was 218,298 tourists.

1,678,170 tourists.The number increased 9.11%

compared to the same period lastyear which was 1,438,048 people.

Gede Suarsa, said that from thetop ten countries on the list, six ofthem were increasing and 4 decreas-ing. The increased was happened onthe number of tourists of Australiawhich was 47%, China 2%, Taiwan9%, England 6%, Germany 7% andthe highest increased was made bythe number of tourists fromSingapore with 54$

He explained that in addition toJapan, the decrease also happenedon the number of tourists from Ma-laysia, South Korea, and France.

IBP/Eka Adhyasa

Foreigners parade during the closing ceremony of Kuta Carnival 2010. The circle of tourismbusinesspeople regretted the discourse expressed by a public figure in regarding to the disso-lution of Kuta Karnival (KK). In their eyes, KK had strategic values and should be continued.

Tourism businesspeople deplore discourse on dissolution of Kuta Karnivalasked all parties to address wiser thecourse of current KK implementation.“As Chairman and on behalf of PHRIof Badung Chapter, KK should be con-tinued because KK is the icon ofBadung Tourism. If necessary, I amready to be invited to provide inputand advice,” observed Rai on Tues-day (Oct 5).

Meanwhile, Chairman of theBali Tourism Development Corpora-tion (BTDC), I Made Mandra, also

hoped that KK could remain to be heldas an annual marketing event. Manypeople were judged not understand onthe importance of promotional efforts.“There’s no business without a pro-motion. One thing required is tochange the nuance in order to obtainthe more creative one,” he said.

Support to the KK was alsoconveyed by a figure of Kuta, NengahCipta, stating that KK should remainin place, while things that should be

dissolved were jealousy, mistrust anda sense of disunity. “Let’s sit down to-gether to evaluate and equate the un-derstanding,” he invited.

He even criticized the idea orthe thinking of those who just wantedto be famous in newspaper because ofthe statement. “Is our ability just lim-ited to disperse the existing establishedevent? Let’s all be sincere and makeintrospection. Dissolving something isreally easy, but making something isbetter to commit,” he said.

In the meantime, NyomanBagiana Karang, a former legislator,also stated that KK was not neces-sary to dissolve. The important thingwas to perform an evaluation as partof the improvement. Importantly, itrequired an intention and positivethinking.

Meanwhile, the initiator ofKK, Made Supatra Karang, assertedthat any input or suggestions from allparties were required. However, KKdid not need a blasphemy, it neededa great support.

“We have sacrificed time andeffort, then why did the legislators be-haved like an angel? Rather than be-ing only able to convey the blas-phemy, it’s better to participate inadvancing the KK itself,” he said.

According to him, evaluationwas a must for such an internationalscale event. KK was very dynamicand could adapt to market trendswithout neglecting the values of lo-cal culture, an elegant and uniqueculture.

This public figure of Kutaclaimed to have received input from

the tourism businesspeople. Many ofthem expressed their disappointmentover the idea in order the KK was bet-ter to be dissolved.

“Many circles, especially tour-ism businesspeople deplored the at-tempt of KK dissolution. Even, theformer Head of Bali GovernmentTourism Office (Diparda), GdeNurjaya, recognized that KK hasgone international and it is eligibleto be made into a medium of cam-paign,” he explained.

Chairman of the KK Commit-tee, Morgan Made Suartha, hopedwhat was done during all this timecould be appreciated. “This KK be-longs to all of us and why should beabused. Should there be any weak-nesses, let’s improve it together. Donot be blasphemed, but give us a bet-ter solution. The House is the institu-tion of people’s representative, not in-stitution of blasphemer. Those sittingin the House are our representatives,”he said.

Most statement of a number ofpublic figures assessed the legislatorsshould not only criticize but alsomake sagacious introspection. Theyalso questioned what they had givento Badung Regency and if they en-joyed the people’s money just toblame others who had sacrificed theirtime and effort to Badung Regency.

If KK was not successful itmeant their failure (legislative and ex-ecutive) and they often forgot thismatter. They were just like spectatorswho could only blame. In fact, theyshould realize that they were the mainperpetrators. (par)

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Balinese Culture

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Ingredients

* DRESSING

1/2 c Flaked

coconut

* 1 c Hot water

* 1 Onion —

chopped

* 1 cl Garlic —

finely chopped

* 1 1/2 ts

Peanut oil

* 2/3 c Peanut

butter

* 1/2 c Water

* 1 tb Sugar

* 1/2 ts Salt

* 1/2 ts Chili powder

* 1/8 ts Ground ginger SALAD

* 1 c Bean sprouts

* 1 c Cabbage — shredded

* 4 oz Bean curd — drained and cut -into 1" pieces

* 2 tb Peanut or vegetable oil

* 1 c Potatoes — cooked, peeled -and sliced

* 1 c Green beans — cooked

* 1 c Carrots — cooked & sliced

* 1 Cucumber — sliced

* 2 Hard-cooked eggs — peeled -and sliced

Directions

To prepare Dressing, place coconut in blender

container. Add 1 cup hot water. Cover and blend on high

speed about 30 seconds. Cook and stir onion and garlic

in oil in 2-quart saucepan about 5 minutes. Stir in

coconut and remaining ingredients. Heat to boiling,

stirring constantly. Reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered,

stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 3

minutes.

To prepare Salad, pour enough boiling water over

bean sprouts and cabbage to cover. Let stand 2

minutes. Drain. Cook bean curd in oil in 10-inch skillet

over medium heat, turning pieces gently, until light

brown. Remove with slotted spoon. Drain. Cook

potatoes in same skillet until light brown. Drain. Arrange

bean sprouts, cabbage, bean curd, potatoes and

remaining ingredients on platter. Pour warm dressing

over Salad. (http://asiarecipe.com)

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DENPASAR - Rabies is tak-ing an average of 150 lives in In-donesia every year, Director Gen-eral for Disease Control andEnvironment’s Sanitation CandraYoga Aditama said.

“Though the number isrelatively smaller compared toother countries, effective andthorough treatment of the diseasewill allow us to reduce the num-ber of casualties further,” Candrasaid here on Tuesday.

According to official data,300,000 people die every year inIndia due to rabies while in Chinathere were 2,500 fatalities per year.

Rabies kills 150 people every year Apart from making an effort

to distance people from dog bites,he said, vaccination and culling ofinfected animals were also impor-tant to prevent the spread of ra-bies in the community.

Earlier, the Bali provincialadministration kept on killingstray dog despite internationalprotests, spokesman for the ad-ministration I Ketut Teneng said.

Teneng added the decisionto continue culling stray dogs wasaimed at preventing the spread ofrabies by the dogs. Apart fromkilling the dogs, he argued, Baliauthorities had also vaccinated petdogs.

Up till now some 977,461

stray dogs have been killed, and348,069 dogs vaccinated.

Cases of dog bite in Balisince the rabies outbreak hadreached 25,531 in 2008. The num-ber of dog bite cases had raiseddemand for anti-rabies vaccines.Up till now, Bali province hadspent 23,031 vials of the vaccines,and still has 15,582 more availableready for use.

Teneng said the Baliadministration‘s action in dealingwith stray dogs may eliminate ra-bies there in 2012.

The Bali provincial admin-istration has allocated Rp16.07billion from its own budget forrabies eradication this year.

Gado-Gado

Denpasar (Bali Post) -Although it has been many

times performed control operationof motor vehicles, yet still thereare many motorists who do viola-tions. As it happens, Tuesday (5 /10) found yesterday

Denpasar City Department ofTransportation parking violationcases. At least

10 Affair officers crack downon motor vehicle owner who wascaught violate the prohibitedparking signs.

The Operation led by KadidDal Ops Denpasar Affair KetutSriawan, SE. together with a num-ber of officers combed as long asJalan Gatot Subroto. The result is10 cars caught violating the banof parking and park above the

Officers tow 10 vehiclessidewalk. And along Jalan GatotSubroto already installed dozens ofsigns are prohibited from parking.“Many times we have done en-forcement, but still many peoplewho try to do violations, thisproves the people to obey the rulesof discipline traffic remains low,however, our ranks will continueto right the situation, because it isthe mandate of the law and for en-forcement of region regulation,“said Sriawan.

In addition to taking action car-ried out a traffic ticket the police,Denpasar Affair also include 1 unitof a tow truck. Sriawan said, thecrane action is performed if thedriver’s car vehicle was not in place.

Several days later the team con-trol the vehicles that the City Af-

fair Denpasar enough incentive todo action against the violator bea-con traffic. Previous along JalanGajah Mada, Affair also success-fully locked number of motor ve-hicles. After targeting the good ve-hicle at Jalan Ngurah Rai and ByPass I.B. Mantra.

Sriawan said it would continueto control vehicle both vehiclesthat violate parking and operationalvehicle in violation of the desig-nation. He said he had prepared thecrane and padlock for vehicles thatviolate parking. “I also ask for thedrivers of public transport andtransport goods to pay attention tosafety factors. Our Service rangeTransportation has a maximum tar-get for 2010 is zero incident, “hesaid. (Kmb12)

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Beratan Lake is a shallow lake with the high calderaabout 1231m above sea level and it is located at Bedugul,the famous tourist destinations in Bali. This lake havewide 3,8 km2 and also its deepness is up to 22 meters.The water volume in this lake is about 0,049 km3, soBeratan Lake is the closed lake. Tourist can access theBeratan Lake through the dock which have been pro-vided or desist around Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. Inthis place, the visitor can do various activities like do-ing recreation to look around in dock or do the otheroutdoor activities. The various water recreation activi-ties can also be conducted here, for example riding theboat motorize to circle the lake, parasailing, canoeingwith the traditional boat, banana boating, water skiing,and others. Fishing activities are also available in thisplaces for who one love fishing in the lake.

Beratan Lake is situated in the plateau area with coolatmosphere surround it. It is an ideal place for relax-ation while enjoy the beautiful panorama of lake. Theaccommodations are also available in this area where isthe perfect place for overnight stay, resting and enjoythe beautiful panoramic of lake with the Ulun DanuTemple as a magnificence. The small scale of agricul-ture activities are likely conducted around this lake andcan be perceived at the same time circle around it. If weencircle it, we can take photograph with the beautifulbackground view or make the picture sketch face inpainting mini studio at the lakeside with a short time asa souvenir.http://tourandtravelbali.com

Beratan Lake

Thursday, October 7, 2010 11

BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

KUALA LUMPUR - The Euro-pean Union and Malaysia announcedTuesday the start of free trade talksbetween them, with the Asian coun-try hoping the deal will boost inves-tor confidence and enhance its com-petitiveness.

The move is part of the EU’s plansto reach Free Trade Agreements(FTAs) with individual members ofthe Association of Southeast AsianNations (ASEAN), having given upon efforts to forge an overall dealwith the bloc.

Malaysian Premier Najib Razakand European Commission presidentJose Manuel Barroso announced thecommencement on the sidelines ofthe Asia-Europe Meeting in Brus-sels, the Malaysian Trade Ministry

Bank of England toBank of England toBank of England toBank of England toBank of England toexamine need forexamine need forexamine need forexamine need forexamine need forfresh stimulusfresh stimulusfresh stimulusfresh stimulusfresh stimulus

The Bank of England (BoE) isexpected to hold its key lending rateat a record-low 0.50 percent after atwo-day monetary policy meetingwhich concludes on Thursday.

Policymaker Adam Posen lastweek said the central bank shouldconsider injecting more money intothe economy to bolster recovery andwarned that inaction could under-mine growth and push down infla-tion.

On Tuesday, the Bank of Ja-pan (BoJ) surprised markets byadopting a near zero rate policy andother measures to help safeguard afaltering recovery from the threats ofdeflation, or falling prices, and astrong yen.

The BoJ lowered its key in-terest rate to a range of between zeroand 0.1 percent, from the 0.1 percentset at the height of the financial cri-sis in December 2008.

While the European CentralBank is expected to maintaineurozone borrowing costs at 1.0 per-

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - A loom-ing currency war and the fate ofthe global recovery will domi-nate a meeting of economicpowers in Washington later thisweek, with China’s policies inthe line of fire.

Finance ministers and centralbankers from the IMF’s 187member states will gather fromFriday amid mounting concernthat the slow recovery is fuel-ing increasingly protectionistpolicies.

US mumblings that Chineseexports unfairly benefit from anartificially weak yuan have es-calated to a din that threatens todominate the meeting as cur-rency spats also proliferate else-where.

In recent weeks nearly adozen governments from Co-lombia to Japan have admittedto buying up local currency inthe hope of driving down itsprice to make exports cheaper.

A trio of top eurozone offi-cials on Tuesday urged ChinesePremier Wen Jiabao to live up to a Junevow to make the yuan more flexible,signaling Europe’s willingness to weighin as the euro gains against other cur-rencies.

Even as the US Congress pursuespunitive sanctions against China, Wash-ington and others are calling for the IMFto do more to stop a wider dispute fromerupting.

“Addressing exchange rate issuesshould also be a key priority for multi-lateral negotiations among a core groupof major economies,” said CharlesDallara, head of the Institute of Inter-national Finance, a group of the worldslargest banks.

In a letter to the IMF, Dallara calledfor a global accord and warned that re-surgent protectionism could “sap theeconomic recovery and further under-mine market confidence.”

IMF Director General DominiqueStrauss-Kahn however has urged gov-ernments to resist using currencies as“a policy weapon.”

“Translated into action, such an ideawould represent a very serious risk tothe global recovery... Any such ap-proach would have a negative and verydamaging longer-run impact,” hewarned in an interview Tuesday withthe Financial Times.

US officials are adamant that theIMF meetings address the need for“market oriented exchange rates” andthe fund’s growing role in “rebalanc-ing” the global economy.

“As America saves more those coun-tries that were overly reliant on exportsto the United States in the run up to thecrisis will need to change their policies,”

AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE

A currency exchange dealer countsUS dollar banknotes at a shop in ashopping centre in Tehran on Octo-ber 05, 2010.

Agence France-Presse

LONDON - Bank of England policymakers will this week consider pumping more new moneyinto Britain’s fragile economy, following fresh stimulus measures taken by the Bank of Japan tobolster a weak recovery.

cent on Thursday, it may also indi-cate moves towards fresh stimulusmeasures.

The US Federal Reserve hasmeanwhile hinted that it may adoptsimilar plans if recovery falters inthe world’s biggest economy.

The Bank of Japan on Tues-day announced an asset purchasescheme in an expansion of earlierefforts to generate demand, boost li-quidity and tackle persistent defla-tion.

It said it would examine es-tablishing a temporary fund to buyabout 5.0 trillion yen (60 billion dol-lars) in assets such as governmentbonds, commercial paper, corporatebonds and exchange traded funds.

The BoE’s own asset pur-chase scheme, known as quantitativeeasing (QE), has seen it effectivelycreate some 200 billion pounds (230billion euros, 317 billion dollars) ofnew money by purchasing govern-ment bonds and high-quality privatesector assets.

The scheme ended in Febru-ary but analysts believe the BoE’sMonetary Policy Committee (MPC)will soon have to revisit the policygiven the risks facing Britain.

“While perhaps not a majorrisk this month, the chances of theMPC resuming its QE operationshave increased recently amid fearsthat the UK recovery is losing mo-mentum and that activity could bedealt a downward jolt from the pro-posed cuts in public spending,” saidInvestec economist Philip Shaw.

Britain came out of a record-length downturn in late 2009 butsome economists fear another roundof brutal austerity measures, duefrom the government in two weeks,could help tip the economy into adouble-dip recession.

The BoE slashed interest ratesto the record low 0.50 percent inMarch 2009, when it also launchedQE in an attempt to drag Britain outof a deep recession sparked by theglobal financial crisis.

EU, Malaysia to startfree trade talks

said in a statement.The talks will comprise four main

areas of negotiations — market ac-cess for goods and services, invest-ment, trade facilitation issues andeconomic cooperation, according tothe statement.

“Stemming from this new bilat-eral development, Prime MinisterNajib proposed that the first roundof talks should be held this year totake advantage of the positive mo-mentum,” the ministry said.

The EU is a key trade and invest-ment partner for Malaysia. In 2009,the EU accounted for 11.2 percentof Malaysia’s global trade and 10.8percent of Malaysia’s total exports.

As a regional grouping, the EUremains Malaysia’s largest source offoreign direct investment with a to-tal investment inflow of 13.6 billion

dollars last year, mainly in manufac-turing.

The EU has held free trade talkswith Singapore — the region’s mostdeveloped economy — and expectsto conclude them by the end of nextyear. It has also agreed to open freetrade talks with Vietnam.

The EU has abandoned efforts tonegotiate a trade pact with ASEANas a whole, publicly citing differentlevels of economic developmentwithin the 10-member alliance.

Diplomats have said, however,that the change is also due to dis-agreements over the human rightsrecord of military-ruled ASEANmember Myanmar.

The EU still maintains sanctionson Myanmar, including a travel banon regime figures, a freeze of theirassets and an arms embargo.

World economies to meetamid currency threat

a senior US official said on Tuesday.“The IMF has a very important role

to play, in this process of surveillance,insuring progress toward rebalancingstrengthens.”

As part of that rebalancing IMFmembers are also expected to discusshow to reform decision-making at thefund, giving more say to emerging anddeveloping economies.

Europe, seen as a major loser fromthe reshuffle, has been reluctant to re-duce its voting share or representationon the IMF’s decision-making board.

European finance ministers lastweek agreed to review representationat the Washington-based internationallender, but attached significant condi-tions.

Of the 24 seats on the IMF’s board,Europe currently holds nine and said itwas willing to rotate two of those spotswith emerging markets.

Observers have called for a five per-cent shift in the institution’s votingpower from advanced to emerging anddeveloping economies.

More than two years after the col-lapse of Lehman Brothers, the IMF onTuesday warned that the financial sys-tem was still the “Achilles’ heel of theeconomic recovery.”

Particularly at risk are the richestregions — Europe, Japan and theUnited States — while emerging mar-kets remain “very resilient.”

But despite these concerns, the up-coming IMF meeting is likely to seepressure piled on Europe not to pullaway from stimulus spending tooquickly, which the United States fearscould risk plunging the global economyback into recession.

Entertainment InternationalThursday, October 7, 201012

The swelling music abruptlystops. The five actors on stage —including Reeve Carney as PeterParker/Spider-Man and JenniferDamiano as Mary Jane — becomestill. The stage lights end their dance.Taymor’s right: The sound of an an-gry door slam wasn’t heard.

“We’re on it,” says a sound engi-neer. There’s naturally much to getdone before the costly and compli-cated show opens on Dec. 21, but arecent visit by The Associated Pressrevealed a methodical and remark-ably calm production. Michael Cohl,the lead producer, is asked how it’sall going. “Very complicated, veryquickly and very slowly — all at thesame time,” he says with a wearysmile. “We’re fine. We’ll be there.”

The musical has been in the worksfor more than six years, starting withan announcement about the show in

Associated Press Writer

TORONTO – Robert De Niro isretiring. On screen, at least. In hislatest film, the psychological drama“Stone,” De Niro stars as a veteranparole officer ending his career ina showdown with a manipulativeinmate (Edward Norton) and se-duction by the prisoner’s wife(Milla Jovovich).

At 67, De Niro himself has noretirement plans, though he

does foresee an end to onefacet of his film career. Af-ter two outings as a direc-tor, he figures he has timeto oversee three more mov-ies, at most.

“They take a lot out ofme,” he said in an interviewat September’s Toronto In-ternational Film Festival,where “Stone” debuted.“They’re great to do, butjust the way I did the twothat I did (1993’s ‘A BronxTale’ and 2006’s ‘The GoodShepherd’) and the onesthat I would do, I say tomyself, maybe I would do

five altogether. So three more.”That’s three, tops, De Niro makes clear, talking about the time com-

mitment of years required as a director, compared to just weeks for someroles as an actor.

Thirteen years passed between his first and second directing gigs ashe maintained a busy acting schedule while developing potential film-making projects and trying to line up studio backing.

“It’s an uphill battle. ... The creative part, that’s difficult enough. Butthe fun stuff is all the other stuff that goes with it: people; the input fromstudios, and all the people who have to justify their jobs; and the money;and is this actor going to get more, or they’re not right for it. All theother things. It’s a lot you’ve got to field. A lot coming at you,” he said.

That’s also a lot of words coming from the typically close-lipped DeNiro, so you know he means it. Among possible future directing plans isanother installment of “The Good Shepherd” saga, De Niro’s epic taleof the roots of the CIA that starred Matt Damon. But nothing’s definite,unlike De Niro’s on-screen career and his sideline as co-founder of theTribeca Film Festival, launched to help revitalize lower Manhattan afterthe Sept. 11 attacks.

Along with “Stone,” De Niro co-starred in Robert Rodriguez’s re-venge romp “Machete” and reteams with Ben Stiller for this December’s“Little Fockers,” the third chapter in the “Meet the Parents” comedyfranchise.

De Niro has two other movies in the can — the action tale “TheKiller Elite” and the thriller “The Dark Fields” — and he’s doing aquick three-week shoot in Italy for the anthology romance “Manual ofLove 3.”

He’s also set to star as Vince Lombardi in a film biography about theGreen Bay Packers coach and hopes to do a sequel to his 1988 crimecomedy “Midnight Run.”

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – A theatrical ad-aptation of the movie “Sister Act”will be getting its groove on Broad-way style. Producers say the musi-cal based on the 1992 movie star-

Musical adaptation of‘Sister Act’ to hit Broadway

In this Thursday, July 31, 2008 file photo, Whoopi Goldberg respondsduring an interview in her dressing room in New York.

ring Whoopi Goldberg will beginperformances at the Broadway The-atre in late March with an openingon April 20.

The show has been a hit in Lon-don since it debuted there in 2009.Goldberg, who is also a producer,

stepped into the role of Mother Su-perior this summer. Casting was notimmediately announced.

The musical features a score byAlan Menken, who also wrote thesongs for “Beauty and the Beast”and “Little Shop of Horrors,” andlyrics by Glenn Slater, who did thesame for “The Little Mermaid.”None of the movie’s songs are be-ing used because of copyright is-sues.AP Photo/Richard Drew, File

AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, file

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2010 file photo,actor Robert De Niro of the film ‘Stone’poses for a portrait while promoting thefilm at the Toronto International Film Fes-tival.

De Niro turns to ‘Stone,’‘Fockers’ in busy season

AP Photo/Kathy Willens

A building-sized banner covers the front of the Foxwoods Theater on 42nd street in New York, Tuesday,Oct. 5, 2010, where preparations are underway for the opening of Spider-Man on Dec. 21, the most expen-sive show in Broadway history.

‘Spider-Man’ is off and running‘Spider-Man’ is off and running‘Spider-Man’ is off and running‘Spider-Man’ is off and running‘Spider-Man’ is off and runningAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK – There’s something wrong in “Spider-Man Turn Offthe Dark” — and only Julie Taymor can hear it. “Stop a second,” shesays inside the Foxwoods Theatre in Times Square during a recentrehearsal of the much-delayed show. “We need a sound effect.”

2004. Since then, producers havecome and gone, and so have somecast members — Evan Rachel Woodand Alan Cumming were once castas Mary-Jane and the Green Goblin.

Spider-Man may be the hero onthe stage, but it is Cohl who mightbe considered the production’s sav-ior after he came in and financiallystabilized a musical that had beendogged by money problems. “Thebudget’s OK,” he says. “It’s a newbudget every day.”

When open, this reported $60million show will have 41 cast mem-bers, 18 orchestra members andabout 18 new songs by U2’s Bonoand the Edge. It will have as its mainlead a singer in a rock band whosebiggest acting credit so far is inTaymor’s upcoming adaptation of“The Tempest.”

Yet there seems no panic, no

screaming. The cast seems loose, theengineers unruffled, the pauses be-tween resets without tension. Some-one on the technical side even hasher tiny dog on her lap, its headbathed in the light of a computerscreen. Between scenes, the Cirquedu Soleil-designed aerial technologyis practiced. “OK, we’re going hot!”comes the warning. A moment later,a stuntman in a harness soars overthe crowd at 40 mph, looping hugecircles that make even the jaded gasp.

“It turns you into a 7-year-old,”says Isabel Keating, the Tony nomi-nated actress of “The Boy FromOz,” “Enchanted April” and“Hairspray” who will be playingPeter Parker’s Aunt May.

The scale of it all hits you as soonas you enter the massive theater,which will seat 1,960 when ready.The orchestra section’s seats havebeen yanked up to make room fordozens of makeshift boards actingas desks, crammed with laptops,phones and monitors. The balconyis packed with hulking equipmentblinking tiny LEDs. It resembles aNASA control room.

International Thursday, October 7, 2010 13Life Style

“But that was about one footsmaller than this,” Cheers proudlytold AFP. “This is the first time abook this size has ever been seen.”

Just to turn a page takes all hisstrength and the book took peoplethree hours to get into position forvisitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair,which runs until Sunday. Thismakes his Atlas the antithesis of thisyear’s book fair, which is devotedto smart, mobile content.

Associated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines – Flightattendants for a low-cost Philippineairline who dance to Lady Gaga tokeep passengers from snoozingthrough an in-flight safety demon-stration are the latest YouTube sen-sation. A video of stewardessesperforming a choreographed rou-tine aboard a Cebu Pacific flight lastweek to demonstrate safety proce-dures has received more than 6.5million hits after being posted onthe popular video sharing website.

The Manila-based airline,known for holding party gamesand singing contests on its low-fare domestic and Asian flights,said Tuesday it resorted to danc-ing stewardesses to draw morepassenger attention to its in-flightsafety reminders.

“People hardly pay attention tothe safety demo on the ground,”Cebu Pacific Vice President formarketing Candice Iyog said. “Theairline was very thrilled with theoutcome.” Three stewardesses inpastel shirts and khaki skirts dancedaway to Lady Gaga’s hit “JustDance” along a narrow A-320 pas-

Agence France Presse

SYDNEY - Scientists Wednes-day unveiled a spectacular array ofmore than 200 new species discov-ered in the Pacific islands of PapuaNew Guinea, including a white-tailed mouse and a tiny, long-snouted frog. The survey of remoteNew Britain island and the South-ern Highlands ranges, accessibleonly by a combination of smallplane, dinghy, helicopter and foot,found an exciting range of newmammals, amphibians, insects andplants.

“To find a completely new genusof mammal in this day and age ispretty cool,” said lead researcherSteve Richards of the new mousespecies discovery.

“I mean, people have heard ofbirds of paradise and tree-climbingkangaroos and stuff, but when you

AFP PHOTO / HO / CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL / Piotr Naskrecki

This handout image received from Conservation International on Oc-tober 6, 2010 shows a pink-eyed Caedicia, one of the 42 individuals ofthe leaf katydids (subfamily Phaneropterinae) in the Muller Rangemountains found by scientists Piotr Naskrecki and David Rentz inSeptember, 2009.

Scientists discover 200 new species in remote PNGlook even closer at the small thingsyou just realise that there’s a stagger-ing diversity out there that we reallyknow nothing about,” he told AFP.

Papua New Guinea’s jungles areone of just three wild rainforest ar-eas, along with the Amazon and theCongo basin, left in the world andRichards said they were a vast “store-house” of biodiversity, with scores ofnew species found by his Conserva-tion International team.

The “very, very beautiful mouse”,the two-centimetre (0.8 inch) long-snouted frog and another with brightyellow spots were among the high-lights, but the expedition docu-mented 100 new species in each ofthe spider and insect orders alone, hesaid. “I would say that pretty muchno matter where you go in NewGuinea you’re guaranteed to pick upnew or poorly known spectacularspecies,” said Richards, an expert in

frogs and reptiles who is based inCairns, Australia.

“For some lesser known groupsonly half of the things that wedocument actually have names, wearen’t even a fraction of the waythere,” he added. The rugged,mountainous and largely inacces-sible terrain meant biologists hadnot even been able to enter someregions and Richards said therewere “large areas of New Guineathat are pretty much unexploredbiologically”.

Sample animals were taken ofa number of species, including themouse, and genetic testing hadconfirmed that it was not relatedto any known creature, he said.“These kind of discoveries are al-most kind of a good news storyamongst all the gloom,” he said,referring to the creeping extinctionof other creatures.

A manturns pagesof what hecalls “theworld’slargestbook” as heposes for aphotobefore thestart of the62ndFrankfurtBook Fair inFrankfurtam Main, onOctober 5,2010.

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FRANKFURT - The world’s biggest book fair in Frankfurt is used to seeing some big book launches, butnone came larger than a six-by-nine-foot (two-by-three-metre) Atlas unveiled on Wednesday. Yours for acool 100,000 dollars, Australian publisher Gordon Cheers said that the last book even close in size to his128-page volume was the Klencke Atlas, produced in 1660 as a gift for Charles II of England.

“It’s all about creating a legacy,”the Sydney-based publisher said.“Today, everything is digital and it’sgone in a second. This will still bearound in 500 years.”

The book took around a month toproduce and Cheers is limiting theprint run of his monster Atlas to 31.He has already sold two volumes tomuseums in the United Arab Emir-ates and is confident he will sell thewhole lot.

Cheers worked for British pub-lishing giants Penguin and then Ran-dom House, but neither firm was in-terested in his project, so he left tofound his own company, he said.

The book contains maps of wholecontinents, as well as sharp images offamous sites collaged together from1,000 individual pictures. As far as heknows, no one else is producing bookson this scale. “I think we’re the onlyones crazy enough,” quipped Cheers.

AFP PHOTO JOHANNES EISELE

Filipino flight safetydemo is YouTube hit

senger cabin aisle last Thursday toteach passengers emergency proce-dures in case of severe turbulenceor a water landing.

A passenger on the one-hourflight from Manila to southernButuan province recorded the spec-tacle and uploaded it to YouTube.The video drew acclaim and criti-cisms. “American Idol” host RyanSeacrest was impressed and in-cluded the video on his website.

But a group of flight attendantsfrom the flag-carrier Philippine Air-lines frowned on the in-flight show,saying it was demeaning and undig-nified. Left-wing legislator TeddyCasino said that while the dance rou-tine may have captured passenger at-tention “it was obviously difficult tointently listen and hear the safety in-structions because of the loud music.”

But the airline was elated andhas decided to continue the flightshow. “We’d like to spread the cul-ture of fun — and safety,” Iyog toldThe Associated Press.

Crew members do regular pre-flight safety demonstrations —then follow up with the musicalversion when the plane reachescruising altitude, she said.

AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE

This photo taken in Manila on October 6, 2010 shows a man watch-ing the file sharing site YouTube playing a video of female cabincrew of Philippine airline Cebu-Pacific dancing to the tune of a LadyGaga song.

Thursday, October 7, 201014 InternationalSport

“I am delighted that we have beenable to successfully conclude the saleprocess which has been thorough andextensive,” Liverpool chairmanMartin Broughton said in a statementon the club’s website. “The board de-cided to accept NESV’s proposal onthe basis that it best met the criteriawe set out originally for a suitablenew owner. NESV’s philosophy isall about winning and they have fullydemonstrated that at the Red Sox.”

Americans Hicks and Gillett wereunder pressure to sell the five-timesEuropean champions with an Octo-ber 15 deadline for the repaymentof their 282-million-pound (448-million-dollar) loans from the RoyalBank of Scotland and Wachovia.Liverpool were put up for sale bythe unpopular duo in April, who ini-tially sought an asking price ofaround 800 million pounds, a figurethat they subsequently dropped to600 million.

The pair on Tuesday night at-tempted to remove two senior fig-ures from the club’s board of direc-tors before a meeting to review two

Agence France Presse

FLORENCE, Italy – Veteranfull-back Gianluca Zambrotta hasset his sights on reaching 100 Italycaps after being recalled to coachCesare Prandelli’s squad. The 33-year-old AC Milan stalwart’s inter-national career had seemed overafter he was overlooked byPrandelli for the coach’s first twosquads since taking over fromMarcello Lippi following Itay’sWorld Cup disaster in South Africa.

But ahead of Euro 2012 quali-fiers against Northern Ireland inBelfast and Serbia in Genoa,Zambrotta, who has 97 caps, hasset himself a new target. “At theWorld Cup I said that I didn’t feelfinished. Last Thursday whenPrandelli rang me to ask if I wasavailable, I didn’t think about anysort of revenge (for beingdropped),” he said Tuesday fromItaly’s Coverciano training base.

“I simply said yes. I’m not hereto take anyone’s place, I didn’t sayI’m returning and expecting toplay. “But I’m close to 100 appear-

Agence France Presse

LEVERKUSEN - Germany cap-tain Michael Ballack is not expectedto play football again in 2010 after itwas revealed on Wednesday his kneeinjury was worse than first thought.The 34-year-old fractured the tibiajust below his left knee in aBundesliga match against Hanoverlast month, but a further examinationhas revealed more bad news.

The defensive midfielder nowneeds to wear a protective cast forthe next four to six weeks to allowthe injury to heal. “The injury ismore serious than thought and as aresult Michael will be unavailableuntil the end of the year,” said hisclub Leverkusen in a statement.

Ballack picked up the injury ononly his third game back after dam-

AFP PHOTO/PAUL ELLIS/FILES

A St. George’s flag flies on a pub across the road from a signfor The Kop stand at Liverpool Football Club’s Anfield Stadiumin Liverpool, England. The board of directors at Liverpool hasaccepted an offer by New England Sports Ventures, owners ofthe Boston Red Sox baseball team, to buy the English footballclub, a statement said Wednesday, October 6, 2010. ChairmanMartin Broughton hit out at Liverpool’s current American own-ers, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, for trying to block the saleand said he hoped the deal would allow the team to focus onbuilding the team.

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LONDON - Liverpool’s board of directors agreed Wednesday to sell the English football gi-ants to the owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, despite fierce opposition from the side’scurrent American owners. The deal with New England Sports Ventures (NESV) is subject toapproval by the Premier League and a legal battle with Tom Hicks and George Gillett, whobought the club three years ago and tried to scupper the latest bid.

offers, one from NESV and the otherreportedly from Asia. Broughton hit outat the pair, saying: “I am only disap-pointed that the owners have tried ev-erything to prevent the deal from hap-pening and that we need to go throughlegal proceedings in order to completethe sale.”

He said the board had met NESV inBoston, London and Liverpool in re-cent weeks and he was “immenselyimpressed with what they haveachieved and with their vision forLiverpool Football Club.” “By remov-ing the burden of acquisition debt, thisoffer allows us to focus on investmentin the team,” he added.

The statement said, however, that thesale was “conditional on PremierLeague approval, resolution of the dis-pute concerning board membership andother matters”. New England SportsVentures is a group headed by JohnWilliam Henry II and Tom Werner.

Broughton was appointed as inde-pendent chairman as part of the saleprocess in April, meaning Gillett andHicks no longer had a majority vote andcould not prevent any sale that the board

viewed as being in the club’s best in-terests. The American pair have be-come increasingly unpopular onMerseyside with supporters blamingthe duo for Liverpool’s fall from grace,as the 18-time champions languish inthe Premier League relegation zone. Ina dramatic twist late Tuesday, Liverpoolreleased an unusual statement sayingthat Hicks and Gillett had tried to oustmanaging director Christian Purslowand commercial director Ian Ayre fromthe board.

Hicks wanted to replace them withhis son, Mack Hicks, and a close asso-ciate Lori Kay McCutcheon. Liverpool,Champions League winners in 2005,have not topped the English leaguesince 1990 and the disappointment oflast season’s seventh-place finish hasintensified this season. Manager RafaBenitez’s replacement by Roy Hodgsonhas failed to lift the team.

The Reds exited the League Cup athome to League Two Northampton onpenalties before going down 2-1 tonewly-promoted Blackpool at Anfieldon Sunday amid protests against Hicksand Gillett.

Germany’s Ballackexpected to missrest of 2010

aging ligaments in his right anklelast May which kept him out of theWorld Cup finals. Having spent fouryears at Chelsea, Ballack returnedto the German league this seasonwith Leverkusen, but the latest set-back is a blow to both his club coachJupp Heynckes and national trainerJoachim Loew.

“This development is very unfor-tunate. But I hope that MichaelBallack will return stronger after hisrehab and we can focus on his re-turn for the second half of the sea-son,” said Heynckes.

With 98 caps to his name,Ballack has already missedGermany’s first two Euro 2012qualifiers and sits out Friday’s gameagainst Turkey in Berlin and nextTuesday’s match againstKazakhstan in Astana.

Zambrotta homing in on 100 caps

AFP/File/Filippo Monteforte

Veteran full-back GianlucaZambrotta, seen here in June2010, has set his sights onreaching 100 Italy caps afterbeing recalled to coach CesarePrandelli’s squad.

ances and I want to reach it.”Lippi was previously heavily

criticised for his over-relience onveteran stars such as Zambrotta whowere part of the 2006 World Cup-winning squad. But Prandelli ini-tially rang the changes and bloodedseveral new faces into the Italy set-up. He also brought back players likeAntonio Cassano from the interna-tional wilderness.

Cassano missed out on the WorldCup as Lippi refused to pick him fortwo years, but Zambrotta refutedspeculation that it was because ofveteran players such as himself thatthe 28-year-old Cassano, a favouriteof Prandelli’s, was not offered an-other chance.

“It wasn’t due to us veteranswhether or not he went to the WorldCup. At the time the question wasbetween him and Lippi,” saidZambrotta. “The problems were be-tween the two of them but now he’shere and I’m happy for that. “It’s truethat we don’t have any world classplayers but Antonio, (Mario) Balotelliand (Andrea) Pirlo prove that Italianfootball still has some talent.”

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“Everyone has been waiting tosee us, to see what we’ve been do-ing in practice and bringing it into agame setting,” James said. “It wassomething I’ve waited for all sum-mer.” But the superstar trio lastedonly 3:17 before Wade limped offthe floor to the locker room for amedical evaluation on a hamstringthat had troubled him for severaldays, having scoring only two pointsin the exhibition opener.

“I just felt it pull,” Wade said. “Itwas a little sore coming into thegame the last couple days of prac-tice and stuff, so I tried to do every-

Agence France Presse

TOKYO - Dmitry Tursunovheld his nerve in the final set tobeat Richard Gasquet of France inthe second round of the JapanOpen tennis tournament onWednesday. The 27-year-old Rus-sian, who eliminated seventh seedErnests Gulbis of Latvia on Mon-day, scored his only break in theseventh game of the decider to win7-6 (7/2), 1-6, 6-4.

“Right now I’m happy, itdoesn’t matter how I win. You arealways happy if you win,” saidTursunov, who came back to ac-tion in May following a long lay-off with an ankle injury. After thefirst set went with serve, Tursunovwon the tie-break when Gasquetdouble-faulted at 2-6 down.

Tursunov also hit a double fault— his only one of the match — atthe beginning of the third game ofthe second set, which seemed toturn the momentum in favour ofGasquet. Gasquet won sevenstraight games to win the secondset and lead the final set 1-0 butmissed a break chance in the

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BOCHUM - Four suspectedringleaders of what is believed tobe European football’s biggestfraud scandal went on trial in Ger-many on Wednesday, accused offixing more than 30 matches acrossEurope. The quartet, who have notbeen named, could be jailed for upto 10 years if found guilty of fraudin a trial that will question the in-tegrity of lower league footballacross the continent.

The trial will focus on 32 gamesplayed in Germany, Belgium,Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia andSwitzerland, mostly last season,where it is alleged dozens of play-ers or referees were bribed to influ-ence the matches. In total, policehave investigated nearly 300 gamesin 15 countries in a surveillance op-eration which has spanned the con-tinent.

Bets totalling two million euros(2.8 million dollars) are said to havebeen placed on the matches in-volved, resulting in winnings in theregion of 1.6 million euros. In Ger-many, the games in question in-volve a German Cup match, gamesin the national league’s second di-vision and regional leagues.

Most of the matches involved are

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MIAMI - LeBron James scored 18 points in a triumphant pre-season debut for the NBA’sMiami Heat on Tuesday but star guard Dwyane Wade suffered a right hamstring strain in a 105-89 home victory over Detroit. All eyes have been on the Heat since James joined the club in July,making what is expected to be a formidable NBA force alongside Wade and fellow newcomerChris Bosh when the season begins on October 26 against Boston.

thing to make it go away. But it hap-pens. “I’m excited to see this teamto play together. It was only 3:17 butthis town will have a lot of time tosee the ‘Big Three’ together,” Wadesaid. “We will see how my body re-acts to therapy and check again in acouple of days.”

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said theinjury was not serious and that Wadewould be evaluated again in a week,still two weeks before the seasonstarts. “Like I told him, if we’re go-ing to have an injury, I’d rather haveit now than to have it when we re-ally get started,” James said.

James, the NBA Most ValuablePlayer the past two seasons with theCleveland Cavaliers, scored 12points in the first quarter while Boshscored 12 in the first half to sparkMiami to a 58-38 half-time lead. “Asa team, everyone has to pick it up,”James said.

The Heat pulled away to a hugelead in the second half before allow-ing the Pistons to close the gap inthe final minutes, James pleased that

the team improved and stayed to-gether even after losing Wade early.“I like the fact that we got better,”James said. “We didn’t waste an op-portunity to get better. That’s whatit’s about.”

Bosh finished with a game-high20 points on 8-of-13 shooting andgrabbed six rebounds while UdonisHaslem contributed 14 points forMiami. Ben Gordon led Detroit with17 points. Playmaker James treatedMiami supporters to the dynamicmoves he displayed for the Cava-liers, 3-point shots, spectaculardrives to the hoop, slam dunk set-ups and passes to teammates with-out looking their way. “To be ableto be back on the court, it was great,”James said. “The reception from thefans was awesome and it was greatwe were able to give them the sameenergy that they gave us.”

A packed-house crowd, far morethan what the Heat drew last seasonas a struggling club, roared for Jameswhen he was introduced for the firsttime as a Miami player.

Miami Heat forward LeBronJames, right, dunks asDetroit Pistons forwardCharlie Villanueva (31) lookson during the first quarterduring a preseason NBAbasketball game in Miami,Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010.

AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

Tursunov beatsGasquet in Japan Open

fourth game as Tursunov fired aforehand winner from the baseline.

“In the second set, he just sentme out of the court. I didn’t havetoo many answers, he was playingfast, he was going for big shots andI was making them,” Tursunovsaid.

“So at the beginning of the thirdset, I wasn’t too confident in my-self winning the match, but acouple of points here and there, hemade a couple of easy mistakes. Igot a feeling that he was not play-ing as well (as in the second set),”he added. In the quarter-finals,Tursunov will play either worldnumber one Rafael Nadal of Spainor Milos Raonic of Canada.

Earlier in the day, RadekStepanek of the Czech Republicbecame the first player to reach thequarter-finals when his opponent,Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland,retired from the match with a backproblem at 5-7, 7-6 (9/7), 4-1.

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ofSpain, stunned Nadal in the Thai-land Open semi-finals last week-end, outclassed his compatriotFeliciano Lopez 7-6 (7/5), 6-4.

Trial begins in European betting scandal

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Defendants Nurellin G. (front, C) and Kristian S. (back C) standin the Regional Court at the start of their trial in Bochum, west-ern Germany, October 6, 2010.

from the lower divisions in the re-spective countries across Europe,but a Europa League and EuropeanUnder-21 Championships qualifierhave also also come under the spot-light. In the Europa League, Euro-pean football’s second biggest do-mestic tournament behind theChampions League, a Group Ematch between FC Basel and CSKASofia on November 5, 2009, is un-

der suspicion.And an Under-21 qualifying in-

ternational between Switzerlandand Georgia on November 18,2009, will also be part of the evi-dence against the quartet.

But the German Football Federa-tion (DFB) look to have had theirblushes spared as none of the gamesin question are in the Bundesliga,Germany’s top domestic league.

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With Rubens Barrichello having battled to a fine sixth place on theSingapore streets, Michael said the team was heading to Suzuka in confi-dent mood with the top eight positions firmly in its sights.

“Suzuka is a high downforce circuit with a figure of eight layout,” hesaid. “The track has it all, but one of its highlights is the fantastic Essessection. Being able to deliver a strong sector time across that part of the lapis one of the best indicators of a driver’s ability.

“Both cars will be running our final upgrade components and we expectto run them all weekend. Our target will be for both FW32s to be fightingfor points among the top eight contenders and to therefore be racing forpoints.”

Like many of his rivals, Barrichello said he regarded Suzuka as one ofhis favourite circuits on the calendar and said he was optimistic of a strongweekend from the team.

“I love going to this race, it’s in my top three of all the tracks wevisit,” he said. “It’s a big effort to get there, especially from Brazil, butyou quickly forget about that when you engage first gear and leave thegarage for the first time. Suzuka is a lovely circuit. It’s a very highspeed track and has lots of high speed corners. You really have to be onit all the time.

“I’m fortunate enough to have raced in Japan since 1993 and it’s won-derful to keep going back. We will have to wait and see how we go but I amoptimistic that we can do well again this weekend.”

Casey Stoner is quietly confi-dent he can make it three MotoGPrace wins in a row at Sepang ashe looks to build on his currentrun of good form. The Australianreturned to the winners’ circle forthe first time this season atMotorland Aragon before goingon to reinforce his and Ducati’sreturn to prominence with a vic-tory in the Japanese Grand Prix.

Travelling immediately toKuala Lumpar and the MalaysianGrand Prix, Stoner is delightedthe hard work is beginning pay offnow and is feeling good about hischances of completing a hat-trick.“Motegi was our biggest questionmark about set up and we had toreally work hard to make the bikestable for the really heavy brak-ing,” he said. “Sepang isn’t toomuch about that, so we can mayberaise the bike back up again andget our traction a little better andsee what happens. But we canhopefully expect to have the bikeworking well there.

“We’ve all been giving 120 percent all season but it’s just theselast two races we’re getting some-thing back from it. It’s a huge,huge difference for us. Going intothese next two races is a big clumpin a small space for us, of course,but if things keep going like theyare we definitely have a goodchance of doing well again onSunday”

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Rubens Barrichello during the Singapore Grand Prix.

Williamstargetstop eight

Williams technical director Sam Michael says the team is tar-geting a double top eight finish in the Japanese Grand Prix thisweekend. The team will introduce the final upgrade onto theFW32 at Suzuka as it seeks to build on the double top tens se-cured at both Monza and in Singapore.

Revived Stoner targetsthree-in-a-row at Sepang