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JAKARTA - Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik ascertained that suicide bombing in Bethel Injil Sepuluh Church (GBIS) Kepunton, Solo, Central Java, did not affect the tourist arrivals to Bali. ”Foreign tourist visits to Bali remains in nor-mal condition. So, the Solo bomb-ing case had no impact,” affirmed Wacik in his press conference in Jakarta on Monday (Sep 26).

Wacik also revealed there were no reports on cancellation of tour packages. Even, added the Minis-ter of Culture and Tourism, there was no surge of passengers or tour-ists leaving the city of Solo after the suicide bombing. “If wishing to see any worries about a case against the security, it can be ob-served at the airport whether there was an exodus,” said Wacik.

He pointed out that when the first Bali bombing happened many tourists

left Bali, and it was the manifestation of their concern over the security circumstances. “Once the Solo bomb-ing occurred, I immediately check the airport in Solo and I received the reports if the flight activities went on normally,” he explained.

The minister also revealed that Solo case was unlikely to make foreign tourists to worry. Con-versely, the matter of bombing seemed to have made tourists im-mune because the bombing could

happen everywhere. However, Wacik reminded that all parties should continue to alert and main-tain the security so there would be no more such bombing cases.

Additionally, he expected all parties not to lose orientation to work properly and do the work in accordance with the outlines. “The total number of tourist visit did not change. We expect within the next few months, our target could be achieved,” he said. (010)

Ahmad Yosepa Hayat, 31 was sitting among the Bethel Injil Church congregation in central

Java’s Solo city during a service when he stood up and detonated a bomb strapped to his body,

wounding 27 people.“Fingerprint and DNA tests

showed that the bomber is Hayat,” national police spokesman An-ton Bachrul Alam told a press conference. “He is a member of Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT) in Cirebon.”

JAT was founded by militant spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir,

who was jailed in June for 15 years for funding a terrorist group plan-ning attacks against Westerners and political leaders.

Hayat, born in Cirebon in west-ern Java, accompanied a suicide bomber to an attack on a police mosque in that city in April which injured 30 people, Alam added.

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Indonesianpolice spokes-man Maj. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam holds up portraits of Pino Damayanto, taken before, right, and after a suicide bombing on a church in the Central Java town of Solo, during a press conference in Ja-karta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.

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JAKARTA - A man already on Indonesia’s most wanted list in connection with a suicide attack five months ago was the bomber who blew himself up in a packed church on Sunday, according to police.

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Celukan Bawang Harbor becomingone of the entrances to Bali by sea was

Celukan Bawang Harbor Police (KP3)led by Chief I Made JoniAntara Putra.

along the harbor area. Similarly, thecabin crews (ABK) whose vessels hap-pened to berth on the harbor were not

also monitored.Chief Joni Antara Putra said the

raids against the vessels, cabin crewsand residents were conducted untilearly morning last Monday. “Although

to perform this strict supervision,”he said.

Meanwhile, in Sawan Subdistrict,the ranks of subdistrict leadership as-

in Sangsit. So far the port had becomethe entrance to and exit from Bali re-gion. “The existing off the beaten pathis starting to get police’s surveillance.This measure denotes anticipationagainst the possibility of unwantedintruders,” said Nyoman Kartika, Chiefof the Sawan Police.

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groups, village apparatus and steve-

(PPI) of Sangsit posing the gatewayof Bali. For Sawan area, focus of thesecurity supervision was carried out onseveral coastal areas frequently usedas the crossing point such as Sangsit,Sawan, Bungkulan and Giri Mas.“These areas have become the targetof our security,” said Kartika.

Aside from conducting surveillanceagainst the harbor, the subdistrictleadership assembly of Sawan alsoperformed policing operation onMonday (Sep 26). Head of Kerobo-kan Village, I Wayan S. Katon Abadi,accompanied by the Head of SawanSubdistrict, I Gede Sandhiyasa, as

leadership assembly said the raid toregional migrants targeted the board-ing houses and project workers fromoutside Bali including the residentialhouse having the rooms to let. Theteam was divided into three groupstargeting the housing complex of BTNGriya Kerobokan, BTN Puri Persadaand Puri Lestari, Keloncing Hamlet,Dalem Hamlet and boarding houseson the way to Kerobokan Beach. As aresult, they could ensnare 33 migrantsbecause they have no citizen identitycard, expired identity card and identitybrought from the region of origin.

“We provide coaching to those whohad been ensnared. Then, we enjoinedthem to submit the document com-pleteness within three days. Otherwise,they will be imposed with sanctionsand there is possibility that they wouldforcibly be sent home to their nativeregion,” said Katon Abadi.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chief of Bule-leng Police, I Nyoman Suwija, stated

critical points in Buleleng had gotserious attention from the police byalerting a number of personnel. Ad-ditionally, the police also involved theelements of society to work togetherin conducting the surveillance andmonitoring. “All police personnelare alerted in securing the regionby promoting the role of police of-

builder,” he said.According to Deputy Chief Nyo-

man Suwija, the component ofcommunity was very importantto be involved in anticipating andmaking early prevention along withintegrated coordination with thepolice. “Active community involve-ment is very important and strategicfor prevention against the actionsthat could potentially cause a socialunrest,” he said. (kmb15)

Mangupura (Bali Post)—Anumber of circles urged to re-evaluate the route of Trans

Sarbagita bus that enters the BTDC area. The bus was con-sidered to provide an opportunity for the crimes includingterrorism in the BTDC tourist resort.

Chief of Bualu Customary Village, I Made Retha, saidon Monday (Sep 26) that passengers of Trans Sarbagitaamounting to dozens of people made the security of BTDCoverwhelmed in probing the passengers and their luggage.If all passengers were probed it would result in anotherproblem, namely a long line at the entrance of BTDC.

On that account, the possibility of leakage would behigh enough. In other words, those who had evil intentionincluding the gang of terrorists could take advantage of theopportunity. “Moreover, if irresponsible people disguisedas hotel employees riding the bus, it will obviously be quite

Responding to the matter, Retha who is also a legislatorof Badung House asked the management of Trans Sarbagitato review the route, especially in the area of BTDC. Rethareminded that BTDC area was an elite tourist resort thatwas frequently used for international event. In other words,in addition to services, safety factor should also be givenpriority. “In principle we support the existence of this modeof transportation. However, it should be reviewed including

Trans Sarbagita does not only enter the BTDC area but alsopark there,” he said.

Meanwhile, a community leader of Nusa Dua, I Nyo-man Karyana, also claimed to agree if the route of TransSarbagita needed to be studied. One of the purposes relatedto the existence of BTDC area. Monitoring against the buspassengers should be tightened, so the security in the areacould be assured.

Related to the route issue of Trans Sarbagita needing tobe studied, Karyana also revealed that since the mode oftransportation was operated many drivers of local touristtransportation complained. It happened because their incomereduced since they should ‘compete’ to take passengersagainst Trans Sarbagita. (kmb25)

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Celukan Bawang Harbor in Buleleng is tightly guarded to prevent terorists from entering Bali.

Celukan Bawang Harbor strictly kept watchSingaraja (Bali Post)—

Following the suicide bombing in Solo, Central Java, the ranks of Buleleng Police and the

conducted a strict probe against regional migrants on Monday (Sep 26). In addition to policingoperations to boarding houses and settlement, the probe was also performed to a number ofseaports, including Celukan Bawang in Gerokgak.

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A senior State Department official said the Chinese had warned in sepa-rate conversations of potential damage to US-China military ties if the $5.85 billion F-16 upgrade is not revoked.

“They indicated they are going to suspend, or cancel or postpone a series of... military-to-military engagements,” the official told re-porters on condition of anonymity on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, on Monday.

China’s state news agency Xin-hua said Yang had indicated that Washington “grossly interfered in China’s internal affairs and serious-

ly undermined China’s security.”“China urged the US to attach

great importance to China’s sol-emn position and take it very seri-ously, correct the mistake of selling weapons to Taiwan by revoking the above-mentioned wrong decision, eliminate its negative influence, stop arms sales to Taiwan and US-Taiwan military contact, and take real actions to uphold the larger interest of China-US relations,” it quoted Yang as saying.

During his meeting in New York with Clinton, Yang made “very serious representations” about the

upgrade, the US official said.Yang “indicated that it would harm

the trust and confidence” between the two world powers, but Clinton gave no sign that the United States would reconsider, the official added.

In turn, the top US diplomat spoke of Washington’s firm com-mitment to expanding ties with China, according to Xinhua.

“The US welcomes and sup-ports the peaceful development of relations between China’s mainland and Taiwan, and will continue to be devoted to promoting peace and sta-bility in the Taiwan Straits,” Clinton was quoted as saying.

“The US is willing to properly handle the differences between the two countries and avoid disrupting cooperation between the two sides,” she said.

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MANILA, Philippines — Manila residents waded through waist-deep floodwaters, dodging branches and flying debris Tues-day as a powerful typhoon sent surging waves as tall as palm trees crashing over seawalls and sub-merging entire neighborhoods.

At least seven people were killed, most of them in metropoli-tan Manila, which already was soaked by heavy monsoon rains ahead of Typhoon Nesat’s arrival and where the old town areas by the bay suffered their worst flood-ing in decades.

Pounding rains obscured the view of anyone on the streets as soldiers and police scrambled to safely evacuate thousands of people in low lying areas, where rivers and the sea spilled into shanties, hospitals, swanky hotels and even the seaside U.S. Embassy compound, which was closed Tuesday.

“It’s flooded everywhere. We don’t have a place to go for shelter. Even my motorcycle got

filled with water,” said motorist Ray Gonzales, one of thousands stranded by fast-rising floodwa-ters.

The massive flooding came exactly a day after this sprawling, coastal city of 12 million held commemorations for the nearly 500 people killed during a 2009 cyclone, which dumped a month’s rainfall in just 12 hours.

Typhoon Nesat hit ashore before dawn Tuesday in eastern provinces and headed inland just north of Manila with up to an inch of rain per hour, half that of the storm two years ago, said govern-ment forecaster Samuel Duran.

The geography of the archi-pelago makes it a welcome mat for about 20 storms and typhoons forming in the Pacific each year but the latest onslaught still caught many by surprise.

In all, authorities ordered more than 100,000 people across the country to shelter from Typhoon Nesat’s rains, winds of 75 mph (120 kph) and gusts of up to 93 mph (150 kph) — enough to bend street signs.

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Workers try to remove a fallen tree that blocked a road in Manila at the height of typhoon Nesat Tuesday Sept. 27, 2011 in the Philippines.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shakes hands with Yang Jiechi, Foreign Minister of China, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, Monday, Sept. 26, 2011.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi asked Secretary of State Hil-lary Clinton to reconsider the US decision to upgrade F-16 fighters for Taiwan.

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Two Hong Kong-bound flights carrying more than 600 people narrowly missed each other over the Asian city, according to officials, after pilots scrambled to react to warning signals.

A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 arriving from New York and a Dragonair Airbus A330 from Tai-wan were both told to hold off landing due to bad weather on September 18 but strayed into each other’s path.

Airline officials said they were one nautical mile (2,000 metres) apart at the same altitude southwest of Hong Kong airport when the traffic collision avoidance system warning sounded.

The Dragonair pilot put his aircraft, carruying 284 passengers and 12 crew, into an immediate climb while the Cathay flight, with 299 passengers and 18 crew on board, descended to resolve the

conflict.According to Hong Kong’s former civil aviation

chief the two planes came within six seconds of impact, based on their distance and normal aircraft speed. “The chance of a crash is absolutely high. The passengers really came back from hell,” Albert Lam told The Standard newspaper.

A spokesman for Cathay Pacific, which also owns Dragonair, said that there had been a “loss of separation” but said: “There was no risk of col-lision and at no time was the safety of the flights compromised.

“At the closest, they were one nautical mile (2,000 meters) apart when abeam from each other with in-creasing vertical separation.” Both flights landed at the airport without incident, 14 minutes apart.

Cathay said the incident has been reported to civil aviation authorities and pledged to cooperate with the probe.

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This file photo shows an air-bound Cathay Pacific Airways Boeing 777 plane. Two Hong Kong-bound flights carrying more than 600 people narrowly missed each other over the Asian city on September 18, ac-cording to officials, after pilots scrambled to react to warning signals

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for August 31 through October 5, 2011

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

31 Aug Buda Umanis Tambir Sari Bankar Titih Temple Kapal

12 Sep Purnama Ketiga Gunung Sari Temple LombokPauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarKawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar KarangasemPedarman Arya Telabah BesakihBukit Mentik TempleGunung Lebah Batur Kintamani

14 Sep Buda Keliwon Matal Village Temple SukawatiMerajan Agung Batuyang - batubulanPasek Gelgel Bebetin Temple Sawan - bulelengMaspahit Temple Sesetan - Denpasar SelatanPasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran - TegalalangPanti Pasek Gaduh Temple SesetanMerajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya GedePedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

24 Sep Tumpek Kandang Puseh Temple GianyarLuhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - TabananMerajan Pasek GelgelTegal Gede Badung

27 Sep Tilem Ketiga Ulun Kulkul TempleUlun Kulkul Besakih

28 Sep Buda Wage Menail Tarukan Temple Cemenggaon SukawatiMr. Pasek Dangke Bambang - BangliPenataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja - GianyarPuseh Menakaji Temple Peninjoan - BangliMerajan Agung Temple Blangsinga - BlahbatuhKawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh GianyarKawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi

4 Ock Anggar Kasih Perangbakat Bukit Buluh Temple Gunaksa - KlungkungTirta Sudamala Temple Bebalang - BangliPaibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit - sawan - BulelengPasek Gelgel Temple Pangi Dawan - KlungkungGunung Tengsong LombokDalem Benawah Temple Benawah - GianyarDalem Temple Bitra - GianyarDalem Temple Banyuning Timur - BulelengDalem Pauman Batan Getas Pauman Batan Getas Titih DenpasarTengah Padang TegalalangMerajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan TabananKawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Adat Pagan DenpasarHyangaluh/Jenggala BesakihMerajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan GunaksaMr. Pasek Gelgel SelulungMerajan Pasek Subrata MedahanMerajan Pasek Munggu MungguTengkulak Temple Tulikup - GianyarPenataran Badung Ogang Sidemen

5 Ock Buda Umanis Perangbakat Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak SiringRambut Siwi Temple JembranaBatu Bolong Temple Canggu - KutaPasek Marga Klaci Temple TabananAgung Pasek Temple Dauh Waru JembranaRatu Pasek Temple Sangsit Sawan - BulelengPasek Tangkas Darma R. TabananVillage Temple Banyuning BulelengSrijon Temple TabananMr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah PangkungMerajan Pasek Gelgel PatemonTirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak SiringDadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba TegalalangPedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel TabananPuncak Mundi Nusa Penida

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JAMBI - Aston International and PT. Sabang Raya Hotel celebrated the ground breaking of the Aston Jambi Hotel and Conference Center.

The Aston Jambi hotel was conceptualized to become Jambi’s leading hotel and will feature 133 guest rooms and extensive conference facilities with 6 meeting rooms, an all day dining coffee shop, a well equipped fitness centre with swimming pool and a business centre.

Jambi which was one of the leading ancient political and economical centers of the Bud-dhist Srivijaya kingdom is the capital city of Jambi province

on the island of Sumatra and today is a significant river port and one of Indonesia’s most important palm oil and rubber producing centers.

Aston International’s Vice President of Sales & Market-ing, Mr. Norbert Vas said, “The Aston Jambi will be the first hotel in Jambi to offer a contemporary and stylish environment and state of the art meeting rooms on par with international 3 star standards. As such it will complement Astons other Sumatra Ho-tels like the recently opened Aston Palembang Hotel & Conference Center and our properties in Medan, Peka-nbaru, Bangka and Tanjung Pinang.”

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JAKARTA - Indonesia and Po-land are to cooperate more closely in the economic field, including in the joint production of various high-technology goods.

The two countries` plan was formalized in a Letter of Intent signed here by Waryono Karyo, secretary general of Indonesia`s energy and mineral resources min-istry, and Maciej Kaliski, Poland`s deputy economic affairs minister, at a ceremony here Monday.

The ceremony was also at-tended by Indonesian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Darwin Saleh, Polish Ambassador to Indonesia Grzegorz Wisniewski and Indonesian Ambassador to Poland Darmansjah Djumala.

“This letter of intent is a follow up to the Memorandum of Un-derstanding (MoU) the two two countries signed and the bilateral consultations and expert meetings they held in Warsaw in 2009,”

“We arrested them last week after receiving reports that a number of ships had been pirated in waters east of Aceh province,” Aceh police chief Inspector General Iskandar Hasan said here on Monday.

From the suspected pirates who were all Acehnes the police confis-cated an FN gun and its ammunition, two standard hand grenades and ship crew documents as evidence.

He said the police also suspected the mastermind of the piracy was a prisoner in the Tanjung Gusta State Penitentiary in Medan, North Sumatra.

“We are still investigating whether the mastermind of the piracy is in LP Tanjung Gusta in Medan. We are still developing all information we have ,” he said.

He said the suspects had confessed that they had often conducted armed operations against ships passing through the Malacca Strait. They usually take the ship`s crew hostage and then ask for a ransom in exhange for their release,” he said.

In the last incident, he said, the four held hostage six crew of a Singa-pore-flagged ship, the GM Galant.

The tugboat manned by six Indo-nesian nationals was carrying heavy-duty equipment from Singapore to Sabang, Aceh, when it was pirated in East Aceh last week.

“Negotiations were then held be-tween the pirates and the ship owner. During the negotiations we (the po-lice) then joined the negotiating team. Several days later a dialog was held so we were able to locate one of the pirates who was holding the ship`s crew hostage,” he said.

The group was believed to have a big network based on the documents that the police had confiscated from them, he said.

“They have an organizational structure and their operation areas and distribution of ransoms reach Riau Islands,” he said.

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JAKARTA - The Chief of Indonesia`s State Intelligence Agency (BIN), Sutanto, said terrorism was now being carried out individually and therefore its handling was not easy.

He made the statement here on Monday before meeting with the House of Representatives` Security Commission I follow-ing a suicide bomber`s attack on a church in Solo, Central Java, Sunday morning.

Sutanto said the police were still investigating and chasing alleged parties involved with regard to ar-resting their network members.

He said the suicide bomber in Solo had already been identified. “He is connected with the suicide bomber in Cirebon (last April),” he said.

Sutanto appealed to the media

not to pressure the BIN to unveil the process of investigation as it is very secret.

Asked on information from a foreign embassy about terrorist attack threats in Solo, Semarang and Jakarta Sutanto said that he he had never heard about it.

“I think the suicide bombing in Solo was a local action and would not affect other regions,” he said. He said conditions in other regions are different.

“Please do not blow it up,” he said.

Sutanto said terrorism did not only happen in Indonesia but also in other countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and oth-ers with their bigger number of victims.

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Smoke rises above a fire at a crowded residential area in downtown Jakarta on September 27, 2011. A huge fire burned dozens of houses in central Jakarta, but no casualties were reported.

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BANDA ACEH - Police in Aceh have arrested four men suspected of having committed piracy against ships passing through the Malacca Strait, a spokesman said.

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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono`s plan to reshuffle his cabinet is some-thing natural if it is based on a clear benchmark with priority on professionalism, Golkar Party deputy secretary general Happy Bone Zulkarnain said.

“It is natural so long as a cabinet reshuffle is intended to build a better government, and now is the most appropriate moment to carry it out,” Happy Bone said in a discussion on “Polemic:

They Say There Will Be A Reshuffle”, here over the weekend.

The speakers in the discussion included Golkar Party Happy Bone Zulkarnaen, Indo Barometer Director Muhammad Qodari, and Sugeng Sardjadi Syndicate political observer Sukardi Rinakit.

Happy also agreed with presidential spokesman Daniel Sparingga that President Yudhoyono`s plan to reshuffle the cabinet was to improve the style of national leadership in

order to step up performance.Daniel said the president would reshuffle

his cabinet because the head of state wanted the cabinet ministers to change their leadership style, namely accelerate the implementation of all programs at all ministerial level.

“The president wants the ministers to change the style of national leadership by improving their performance,” Daniel said, adding that the President was almost certain to reshuffle the cabinet next month.

Darmansjah Djumala said follow-ing the document`s signing.

The cooperation would include the joint production of such high technolpgy goods as turbines, remote sensing devices, conveyor belts in Indonesia.

“We are also to cooperate in coal mining, energy, port and in-frastructure building and weapon production,” he said,

Ambassador Djumala said Indonesia needs to cooperate with Poland more closely, especially in the economic field because Poland was the only country in Europe en-joying positive economic growth and also possessed sophisticated coal mining technology.

“From Poland`s viewpoint , Indonesia was a potential market for tits products,” he said.

Meanwhile, Indonesia was already exporting many com-modities and products to Poland, such as coffee, tobacco, furniture, textiles, electronic equipment, and chemicals.

But Djumala admitted there were still problems that needed to be overcome to increase the two countries bilateral trade such as the fact that Indonesian products were still being exported to Po-land via third countries, namely Germany and the Netherlands.

“So under the agreement signed today, we will find a way to export our goods to Poland directly,” he said.

Indonesia-Poland trade in 2010 reached a total value of US$485, up 20 percent from the preceding year.

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Bali Today

The Circus is in Town, a musicalresponse to violence, is a musicalresponse to the acts of terror on

performed on 4 August 2007, whenFrode Barth played together withlocal Indonesian musicians and re-ceived considerable attention fromTV, radio and newspapers.

“This piece was created as part ofan anti-terror project in cooperationwith the Norwegian philosopherArne Næss (1912 - 2009), who es-tablished ANCFEP on Bali in 2001.When the piece was performedin 2007 we also presented art andculture books to a new library onBali,” says Frode Barth.

The reason why Frode Barth hasbeen invited back to Bali to performa concert at the commemorativemonument is that one of the pre-sumed ring leaders behind the Balibombs was arrested in March of thisyear. This time he will perform twosolo concerts for electric guitar andelectronica. Fearing the gathering

In preserving the customs and culture, thousands of people of Ke-disan, Kintamani, held a unique ritual named ngusaba tegen on Wednes-day (Aug 31). In contrast to the ceremony in general, the ingredients

or grilled.Thousands of people were walking side by side while bringing the

ritual paraphernalia in the form of offerings. Male residents carried theofferings of tegen-tegenan on carrying pole, while women carried anoffering named gebogan. They left the village for the local Dalem PrajaPati Temple, the venue of ngusaba tegen ritual.

According to Chief of Kedisan Customary Village, it was an ancienttradition of rural society of Kedisan as expressed in Shiva Purana palm-leaf manuscript. Actually, it had been carried out for generations sincethe Kedisan Village was established.

Content of this tegenan offering included a variety of agricultural

contents of carrying oblation consisted of twenty pieces. These carry-ing oblations would be presented by all men living at Kedisan Village.

Other uniqueness of usabha tegen procession was the implementationof census tradition throughout the community by collection of perforatedcoins. The census was intended to get the amount of the entire KedisanVillage community. Then, the perforated coins obtained from the census

inform the deity abiding in the Dalem Temple about the total number oflocal community. Based on the amount of coins collected, it was thenknown the number of Kedisan villagers, namely 2,992.

Usabha tegen ritual was held annually in the third month of Balinesecalendar falling around August or September. “Usabha tegen poses aform of citizen’s thanks giving to fertility goddess venerated in theDalem Prajapati Temple, in the hope of all citizens would be providedwith safety and prosperity,” he said. (B N kmb)

Circus is in town

Music performance against terror

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This week Frode Barth is returning to Lombok and Bali to perform the commissioned work The Circus is in Town, a musical response to violence. The piece, which he wrote in 2007, was part of an anti-terror project in cooperation with the Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss.

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DENPASAR - his week Frode Barth is returning to Lombok and Bali to perform the commis-sioned work he Circus is in own, a musical response to violence. he piece, which he wrote in 200 ,was part of an anti-terror project in cooperation with the Norwegian philosopher Arne N ss.

of large groups of people in Kuta,where the commemorative monu-ment has been erected, the authori-ties have instead suggested Barthperform The Circus is in Town, amusical response to violence, inLombok and on Bali.

“It is important for me to workwith art as an alternative to violence.When I made an effort against ter-rorism in 2007 it seemed unthink-able that a similar situation wouldever occur in Norway. On 22 July,Norway witnessed atrocities in theGovernment Quarter and on Utøyaisland, where a total of 77 peoplewere killed, many were injured andwill be scarred for the rest of theirlives. We experienced how impor-tant music can be as an alleviatingand unifying force in grief,’’ heexplained.

Frode Barth is a Norwegianguitarist, composer, educator andproducer. He was educated at theconservatory at the Barratt Dues In-stitute of Music and the Department

of Musicology at the University ofOslo (UiO).

He has furthered his educationin London, Havana and New York.Frode Barth has worked and playedwith, among others, Oscar Peterson,Reggie Workman, Fathy Salama,Arthur Maia, Robertinho Silva,Marilyn Mazur and Trygve Seim.In 1988, he played with Chet Baker.Barth has released and collaboratedon several CDs, played festivals athome and abroad and participated inTV and radio programs.At the sametime, he is an active composer witha production of around 400 pieceswithin many genres, such as stagemusic, serious music, jazz, pop/

as a soloist internationally and hasbeen awarded many commissionedworks. He has been a member ofNOPA (Association of Norwegiancomposers and lyricists) since 1990and received the Norwegian Gov-ernment work grant for artists as amusician in 1999.

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Do you know the longest fruits in Bali? Of course, you will answer the fruits arrangement carried in a parade. It is an amazing spectacle you can encounter on Paradise Island of Bali. Women carry it on their head on the parade in the arts and temple festival. Visitors will keep eyes incessantly on the splendor.

To Balinese community, aside from being used

for consumption, fruits are remarkably important for their ritual life. Virtually all sacrificial oblations require the presence of fruits. Expressing their gratitude in temple anniversary, human life cycle rituals and ceremony for rice in the field entail various fruits as well. Undeniably, they plant the frequently used fruits at their home yard or back yard. Other than for its fruits, it is also taken advantage for shady tree. Some fruits usually planted within the house compound are like guava, sapodilla, papaya, mango, rambutan, pomegranate and so forth.

Considering the high needs of fruits for ritual, the Hindus in Bali organize special ritual intended for the plants in the hope it could bear dense fruits. It is regularly held every 210 days falling on Saniscara (Saturday) Kliwon Wariga or better known as Tumpek Pengarah or Tumpek Pengatag. This ritual is 25 days before Galungan festivity. It is intended to express gratitude and hope those plants could yield sufficient crops for the celebration of festivities. The plant is treated as an elder so the oblation is filled with rice porridge.

Global market today has a great impact on the penetration of foreign fruits. People can purchase various kinds of imported fruits like pear, apple, kiwi fruit, green grape and so forth at traditional market and even at stalls nearby. In the long run, they have replaced the position of local fruits.

To maintain and preserve the sustainability of local fruits, local government through Department of Agriculture has made several efforts. One of them is by organizing competition of making gebogan (fruits and cakes arrangement) by means of purely local fruits. This measure is by considering the greater fruit demands are absorbed by the need of ritual activities. Another measure is by providing the cutting or hybrid seedlings of some local fruits. By doing so, people can cultivate them at ease. The no less important is implanting awareness that using local fruits for ritual needs is more relevant as they have got ritual pursuant to Hindu tradition in Bali.

A momentous moment to see such local fruits rendezvous is the cultural parade in Bali Arts Festival (mid of June) and other art festivals across the island as well as temple anniversary throughout the year. The latter can be checked on the Balinese calendar. Like an art event, various local fruits like banana, snakefruit, guava, orange, banana, sawo kecik, sapodilla, passion fruit, custard apple, kaliasem, mangosten, pomelo and many others are arranged nicely in combination with cakes and oblation on top. Of course, in most cases they are coming together with imported fruits. (BTN/punia)

At the same time as the an-niversary or piodalan in DalemSakenan Temple, on the Islandof Serangan, South Denpasarsubdistrict, a typical cuisine ofSerangan customary village is

the way to temple of DalemSakenan, many local traderssell various seafood and snacksmade of marine ingredients.What are those distinctivedelicacies?

The most famous one is-

lessly mixed with special sea-soning made from ginger,

and grated grilled-coconut does

type of serving is generallyfavored by the community.Such seaweed delicacy is reallyscrumptious when served to-gether with rice cake, fried redbean, klejat and crispy chips of

Among the several typesof seaweed, there is a speciesnamed bignay seaweed. It issimilar to the young brightgreen bignay. According tosome local traders on Serangancontacted on Saturday (Dec18), such bignay seaweed grew

seasonally.As fishermen area, there

were many fish traders onSerangan Island. They offered

and devotees saying prayers.By and large, they sold tunafish and other types of fish.They habitually purchasedfresh catch fish from local

it thoroughly. Once clean, thefish was coated in completespices. To make the seasoningget absorbed deeply into the

scratched lengthwise. Havingbeen coated with spices andsprinkled with some salt, the

of coconut fiber. Afterward,

was completed with seasoningand raw condiment.

In addition to grilled tuna,

also available. Those chipswere nicely packaged in clearplastic bag. At a glance, it hadbeen looked mouth-watering.One bag was sold at IDR2,000.

More interestingly was an-other serving called klejat. It

past, such klejat was very easy

turned quite rare. Before made

had to be separated from its

and then its flesh taken out.The flesh was chopped intosmall pieces and then driedfor several days. Having beenperfectly dry, the flesh wasfried. The marinade in use was

and salt. It tasted adequatelydelectable and a small pack ofthis typical food was sold atIDR 2,000.

Aside from klejat, local traderswere also selling dry marine eel.Such eels were also sold in theform of crispy chips. The priceper small pack was IDR 2,000as well.

Distinctive food of SeranganIsland was not only discovered onthe temple anniversary of DalemSakenan. During usual days is alsoavailable. Stalls on the roadsideare generally sell such specialfood. Similarly, grilled tuna canalmost be found on Serangan Is-land every day. No less enchantingfood specialty offered there wasthe seafood satay. (B N kmb)

Gebogan: Rendezvous of Assorted Local FruitsTypical Cuisine

of Serangan

Wednesday, September 28, 201110 InternationalDestinations

SULUBAN Beach is one of the places of interest belonging to Badung regency. It is known for its beautiful beach along with amazing wave; best for surfing. The natural beauty of the southern tip of Bali’s highland with its hollowing waves and peaceful sur-roundings has attracted more and more visitors to enjoy its serenity and peacefulness. The water is also clear.

Located a few kilometers north of the ancient temple of Uluwatu, facing the vast Indian ocean. From the parking area one must de-scend down stairs and pass through long narrow gap of cliff before reaching the large waves make it one of the best places for surfing in all of Bali, as surfing lovers throughout the world have already discovered.

This beach is located not so far to the north of Uluwatu, adjacent to the surf beach Bingin and Labuhan Sait.

Suluban derived from the Balinese language “Mesulub” which means “to run or pass under something. ”

Suluban Beach named, because visitors who want to go there must go through a rock cave on the beach before finally reaching a broad, white sand with the waves roaring fun for tourists surfers.

Coastal sea water is very clear and the waves are high enough, so that is the best known beach among surfers. In the afternoon, we could see a beautiful sunset views.

Some tourism facilities such as restaurants, bars, surf equipment rental and repair shop is available.

This beach is not too crowded like Kuta or Dreamland. So very ro-mantic to spend time with your partner or a walk with the family.

On the rocks there is a gazebo that allows us to take photos with perfect and is the best place to look around.

Suluban beach

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BUSINESSInternational

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WAS ING ON (AP) — he home-buying season was a bust. MarchthroughAugust are typically the peak buying months. But this time,Ameri-cans bought fewer new homes in that stretch than in any other si -monthperiod since record-keeping began a half-century ago.

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A man stands near the huge screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (Kospi) at the Korea Stock Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.

South Korea outlines budget to create jobs

Entertainment InternationalWednesday, September 28, 201112

EMI had planned to use the same inflatable pig, which had been kept at a workshop since the original shoot, but two weeks ago it was deemed not to be airworthy and a replica was made. The artwork on the Animals album was a combination of a photograph of the background of Battersea Power Station taken on December 2, 1976, and the pig photographed on December 4.

On December 3 that year, the pig slipped its moorings and floated into the Heathrow airport flight path before being recovered by a farmer in Kent, southeast England. Howard Bartrop, a photographer who worked on the 1976 shoot, recalled the difficulties involved.

“It was quite tricky that day and very cold and of course famously after a day or so we had the problem where he (the pig) floated up away from the building and was spot-ted by commercial pilots landing into Heathrow,” he told Reuters. “He then floated off toward Kent, followed by a police helicopter, landed in a farm I believe and frightened

all the cattle.“Basically he was retrieved, patched up and put back

in the air the next day so we could try and photograph him again.” Under the banner “Why Pink Floyd ... ?,” EMI Music is releasing all 14 Pink Floyd studio albums remastered and available digitally. They are also available as one Discovery Box Set.

Also on sale from Monday are special editions of one of the band’s most acclaimed albums, “The Dark Side of The Moon,” extended to feature unreleased music from Pink Floyd archives.

Pink Floyd, behind seminal albums The Dark Side of the Moon, “Wish You Were Here” and “The Wall,” is one of the most successful rock bands of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million albums worldwide. The group, also famous for its acrimonious split and one-off reunion at charity concert Live 8 in 2005, re-signed to long time record label EMI in January in a five-year deal.

The agreement also brought to an end a legal dispute between the sides over EMI’s right to “unbundle” their records and sell individual tracks online.

to mark albums reissue

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LOS ANGELES - Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres called paramedics on Monday after feeling pains and tightness in her chest, but jokingly brushed off the in-cident, saying she had a “baboon heart” and admitting she wasn’t sure what caused the discomfort.

“Everything is fine. I don’t know what it is but it’s fine,” DeGeneres told her TV audience, hours after getting checked out. Her remarks were taped on Monday and will be broadcast on Tuesday’s “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”.

Rumors over the health of the comedian flew around the Internet on Monday after celebrity website TMZ.com said that paramedics had been called to the studio near Los Angeles where DeGeneres tapes her show after she complained of chest pains. She was not hospitalized.

DeGeneres, 53, one of the most popular stand-up comics and hosts on U.S. television, said she had woken up in the middle of the night.

“I was feeling like a tightness of my chest and all the scary things ... like something was heavy on my chest and it was a cat so I moved it. I still felt the tight-ness and heaviness so there was another cat under that cat. There were two cats on my chest,” she told her studio audience.

“Then I got to work and it was still happening. I was still feeling the pains. So I was like, ‘ya know, I should check this out.’ It’s better to be safe than sorry. Who doesn’t want to see a fireman occasionally?,” she said.

DeGeneres said paramedics bombarded her with questions, and she thanked “all the paramedics and nurses who showed up and everybody and TMZ for caring so much.” “Let me just say I am fine,” she added.

Reuters

NEW YORK - Jay-Z will be the first musical performer to play at a new basketball arena under construction in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn-born rap star said on Monday. “This is where I’m from, I’ll always be Brooklyn, and opening this arena will mean more to me than anywhere else,” he told a news conference.

Dates and prices were not an-nounced, though Jay-Z said there could be up to three shows. The Barclays Center, under construc-tion since 2009, is due to open in September 2012 and will be the home court of the New Jersey Nets, who will be renamed the Brooklyn Nets, Jay-Z said.

The rapper is a minority owner of the team. Jay-Z, whose wife Beyonce is expecting their first child, released a collaboration album called “Watch the Throne” with fellow rap star Kanye West in August.

Reuters

LONDON - A large inflatable pig flew above Lon-don’s Battersea Power Station on Monday in a stunt designed to mark the re-issue of British band Pink Floyd’s 14 studio albums by record label EMI Music. The animal, measuring 30 feet long and 15 feet high, was inflated with helium at dawn for the event, held 35 years after the making of the album cover for “Animals” featuring a similar flying pig.

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An inflatable pink pig, which was made famous on the sleeve of the 1976 Pink Floyd album ‘Animals’, is inflated and prepared for flight over Battersea Power

Station in south west London, Monday, Sept. 26 2011, 35 years later, to announce the launch of the reissue

and collector’s edition of “Why Pink Floyd....?”.

Ellen DeGeneres is

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Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGe-neres speaks after receiving the Choice Comedian Award at the Teen Choice Awards at the Gibson amphitheater in Universal City, California August 7, 2011.

Jay-Z performs during the iHeartRadio music festival on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, in Las Vegas.

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International Wednesday, September 28, 2011 13Science

On Thursday, the world’s biggest physics lab unveiled a shocking finding: that one type of subatomic particle was clocked going faster than the speed of light. If true — a big if, even the scientists there con-cede — it could undercut Einstein’s theories. Physicist Michio Kaku of City College of New York called it “the biggest challenge to relativity in 100 years.”

Antonio Ereditato, who partici-pated in the European experiment as head of the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics in Bern, knows what is at stake. After his team fielded two hours of technical questions, some a bit sharp, from a skeptical audience Friday, Ereditato

had a beer in hand and was asked about the idea that his work was challenging the secular saint of modern physics.

“Yes, that’s why I’m concerned,” he said with a laugh. There’s a long history of experimental results that at first seem to contradict relativity, only later to be found to fit neatly with the theory Albert Einstein loved for its simplicity and elegance.

“It’s dangerous to lay odds against Einstein,” said Rob Plun-kett, a physicist at the Fermilab near Chicago who has tried similar speed-of-light experiments and will now try to test the new findings.

Even Einstein himself was wrong in 1929 when he called his cosmo-

logical constant his “biggest blun-der.” He introduced the constant in his general relativity theory as a force that keeps the universe from collapsing. In 1998, new findings showed that the universe is acceler-ating and that in general Einstein’s “blunder” wasn’t a mistake.

Harvard University science his-torian Peter Galison said Einstein’s relativity theories have been chal-lenged and “pushed on as hard as any theory in the history of physi-cal sciences ever” and they have survived.

The elegance of Einstein’s theory and its proven track record are why nearly every one of the more than a dozen physicists contacted by The Associated Press about the new findings has been cautious, skepti-cal or downright disbelieving. The research is the result of a collabo-ration between France’s National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research and Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory.

Agence France Presse

Forty-two percent of US doctors believe that their patients are getting too much medical care, according to a survey published Monday which suggests fears of malpractice suits may be to blame. A total of 28 percent said they felt they were treating their patients too aggressively, while 45 percent said one of every 10 patients they saw daily had issues that could have been dealt with by phone, by email or by a nurse.

Fifty-two percent said they felt their patients were receiving just the right amount of care and six percent said their patients were receiving too little, said the study in the Journal of the

American Medical Association.“Our findings show that many primary care

physicians believe there is substantial unnec-essary care that could be reduced, particularly by increasing time with patients, reforming the malpractice system, and reducing financial incentives to do more,” it said.

The United States has the world’s highest health spending per capita among developed nations, at $5,475 compared to the next-highest country, Switzerland at $3,581, according to a separate US study published in 2007 in the journal Health Affairs.

Health care in the United States is a hot politi-cal issue, and President Barack Obama’s moves

to reform the system and extend insurance coverage to an extra 32 million people has faced opposition from Repub-licans and sparked court challenges.

Seventy-six percent of survey respondents said that concerns about possible mal-practice suits were the main reason why they gave patients more ag-gressive treatment.

“Physicians believe they are paid to do more and exposed to legal punishment if they do less,” said the article.

IF you’ve been thinking of trying out a new social network, you’re not alone. Google Plus traffic has seen a sharp rise in traffic over the past week according to new data from Experian Hitwise.

Last week, right before the F8 confer-ence, Google Plus was made open to the public and introduced a number of new features including stuff for Hangouts, Google Docs and some added search functions. Since then, Google’s star so-cial networking service has seen a traffic surge of 1269 percent, with U.S. visits at 15 million—significantly trumping the paltry 1.1 million U.S. visits from the preceding week.

That data doesn’t even take into ac-count mobile users, or those that wander over to Plus using the black bar. It’s not exactly clear what caused the spike, though its possible to draw a correlation from the the drop of the invite feature or criticism over Facebook changes. What-ever the reason, Plus doesn’t seem to be

going the way of Orkut anytime soon.Currently, Hitwise is ranking Plus at

number 8 in the Social Networking and Forums category, just behind MySpace and way up from its former spot at 54. ReadWriteWeb also points out that Paul Allen’s estimates have the Google Plus user count now at 43 million.

Further chipping at the rivalry with Facebook, CityVille, Zynga’s most popular game on Facebook has recently come to Google’s social networking site. Cityville currently has 72 million users.

Google also rolled out an interesting change for one of Plus’ main features, Circles. Similar to Twitter lists, now Google Plus users will be able to share separate circles of friends with others. A share link will pop on the Google+ Circles page, which will allow you to share with your friends. The new feature doesn’t allow others to see the title of the circle or if the circle creator updates members.

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This undated file photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein.

Associated Press Writer

GENEVA — Betting against Einstein and his theory of relativity is a way to go broke. For more than a century, everyone from physicists to the Nazi Party — which encouraged the publication of the tract “One Hundred Authors Against Einstein” — has tried to find cracks in his work. And all have failed.

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A doctor meets with a patient in New York City in March 2011.

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“I’m looking forward to see-ing him and playing against him,we all are,” Valencia winger andMata’s former room mate PabloHernandez told reporters. “It willbe special for him as he returns towhat was his home for a numberof years but there are no friendsout on the pitch. We’ll be givingour all to beat them and Juan, thenafterwards I can wish him all thebest.”

Villas-Boas is unconcernedthat the emotion of the day willget to Mata. “He is a player of

magnificent in the ChampionsLeague for Valencia and is show-ing his potential in the PremierLeague now as well,” said theChelsea boss.

Valencia started their Europeancampaign with a disappointing0-0 draw at Racing Genk. They

Saturday when they lost 1-0 atSevilla. Just three days beforethat they had European champi-ons Barcelona on the rack at the

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Chelsea’s Juan Mata, left, vies for the ball with Sunderland’s Jack Colback during their Eng-lish Premier League soccer match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011.

Probable teams:Valencia: 1-Diego Alves; 23-Miguel, 4-Adil Rami, 18-Victor Ruiz, 22-Jeremy Mathieu; 19-Pablo Hernandez, 5-Mehmet Topal, 10-Ever Banega, 21-Daniel Parejo; 9-Roberto Soldado,14-Pablo Piatti

Chelsea: 1-Petr Cech; 2-Branislav Ivanovic, 4-David Luiz, 26-John Terry, 3-Ashley Cole;12-John Obi Mikel, 16-Raul Meireles, 8-Frank Lampard, 10-Juan Mata; 9-Fernando Torres,11-Didier Drogba.

Chelsea’s Mata makes quick return to ValenciaReuters

MADRID - Chelsea’s Juan Mata will be back among friends when the Spanish World Cupwinner returns to Valencia in the Champions League on Wednesday, just over a month afterleaving. Manager Andre Villas-Boas paid around 30 million euros ($40.4 million) to lure theplaymaker to the Premier League and the 23-year-old made an immediate impact, scoring inan opening 2-0 home Group E win over Bayer Leverkusen.

Mestalla, twice taking the leadand wasting chances to seal thewin before being pegged back toa 2-2 draw.

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Chelsea are in high spirits fol-lowing a 4-1 win over SwanseaCity on Saturday which left themthird in the Premier League, threepoints behind Manchester Unitedand Manchester City. AlthoughSpain striker Fernando Torres’s39th minute sending-off was a bloton the afternoon, he looked backto his old sharpness and scored

for the second successive leaguematch.

Chelsea were also boosted bythe return of Ivory Coast forwardDidier Drogba as a late substituteafter a four-week injury layoff. Hisstoppage-time goal was anotherbonus for Villas-Boas who has astrong squad at his disposal for amatch he describes as Chelsea’stoughest in the group.

game because you saw what Va-lencia can do against Barcelona,”he said. “But if we get a win thereit will be a major step towards

Associated Press Writer

MADRID — Getafe beat Spanish league leader Real Betis 1-0

three games on a 31st-minute counterattack.Betis (4-1) fell one win short of matching the best start in team

history. It leads with 12 points, one more than defending championBarcelona, Levante and Sevilla (each 3-0-2) and two in front of RealMadrid, Malaga and Valencia (all 3-1-1). Getafe (1-3-1) moved upto 16th with four points.

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erson Avila as coach after 22 daysin charge on Monday and namedVagner Mancini as his replacement,the fourth man to occupy the hotseat this year.

Ceara earlier this month, having

“Mancini’s contract is until De-cember. Emerson Avila will returnto his previous job as technicalco-ordinator,” said the Belo Hori-zonte club on their website (www.cruzeiro.com.br).

It was the 30th coaching change

division clubs. The decision cameone day after a 3-0 home defeat byBrazilian championship leadersVasco da Gama.

Angry fans protested on the ter-races and fought with police, whileon Saturday around 250 Cruzeirofans gathered in front of the team’straining ground to remonstrate withthe players over results.

Cruzeiro began the year withCuca in charge and he was replacedby former South Africa coach JoelSantana, who lasted three months.

Corinthians, Coritiba, Flamengo-

vision clubs to have avoided chang-ing coaches this year. At the otherend, strugglingAtletico Paranaense

Avila as coach after 22 days

Getafe beats Spanish leader Real Betis 1-0

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Getafe’s Cata Diaz (R) and Real Betis’ Alvaro Vadillo fight for the ball during their Spanish First Division soccer match at the Colisseum Alfonso Perez stadium in Madrid September 26, 2011.

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Stoner said however that he would continue to attack and would be looking for the win rather than championship points - particularly given his excellent form at Motegi last year, when he won for Ducati.

“As in Aragon, we will be going out there trying to win and not only looking for valuable Championship points,” Stoner insisted. “We had a fantastic race here last year, probably one of my best in my opinion and it will be fun to go there on the Honda and see how the bike works around the circuit.

“Motegi is quite a different circuit, a little like a go kart track, but in general it’s nice and more fun than some of the other circuits we visit. It has a lot of hard braking, a lot of hard accelerating, it’s pretty tough on the body and physically demanding.

“If you miss your braking points it’s easy to run wide so it will be important to get the set up on the bike just right.”

While Lorenzo will be hoping to disrupt Stoner’s win-ning ambitions, the Australian could also find himself challenged from within the official Honda team. Andrea Dovizioso took his first and to date only MotoGP pole at the circuit last year, while Dani Pedrosa arrives in Japan on the back of three consecutive second places.

“We go to Japan focused on return-ing to the podium, this has to be our target,” Dovizioso said. “We will arrive at the Japanese GP this year in the same position we were last year - straight from a crash and zero points, but I’m determined to trans-form this disappointment with extra motivation.

“Last season we had a great race and we almost won, so I’m confident to repeat a great performance at Motegi, a circuit that I like and where I have been on the podium in all the three classes.”

Pedrosa, who broke his collarbone in Friday practice at Motegi last year, said: “Obviously, last year I had a hard time there due to my injury, but I want to focus on my riding and enjoy the GP.

“We’ve been at a good level, with three second places in a row and I am looking forward to this race. I have won at this track in 125 and 250, but not yet in MotoGP, so that’s a big motivation for me.”

McLaren is still holding out hope that it can delay Red Bull Racing’s world cham-pionship party celebrations even longer, as Sebastian Vettel targets clinching his world championship title in Japan. Vettel’s triumph in the Singapore Grand Prix was not enough to secure him the crown, thanks to Jenson Button’s second place finish.

And although it is highly unlikely that Button will win every remaining race, with Vettel outside of the points, as is required for Button to win the champi-onship, McLaren team principal Martin

Whitmarsh says he will take satisfaction in simply delaying Red Bull Racing’s crowning moment.

“I think it is a tough one,” he said after the Singapore Grand Prix. “But it is math-ematically possible. “Adrian [Newey], Red Bull and Sebastian are doing a fantastic job, but in a way I am a little bit happy they are not having a party here in Singapore. I am happy for the fans and everything else, and we will keep fighting on.

“Who knows? It would be nice if they could not have that party in Japan,

but they are looking pretty strong.” Whitmarsh has said his team will keep pushing to improve its car over the remainder of the campaign, and he believes it should be well suited to the Suzuka track.

“I think they [Red Bull Racing] will be strong, but we will be working hard,” he said. “We will continue to develop the car and we will try and be as strong as we can there. “We know the weather can play a part there, it can be fairly torrid. All sorts of things can happen, but we will try and be as quick as we can and we will try and win that race.”

Whitmarsh also said that his team does not take any heart from the fact it is the only one that can still beat Vettel to the crown.

“At the moment you have to say Se-bastian and Red Bull are doing a fantastic job,” he said. “They are the ones you have to beat. Jenson is now in second place in the championship and deserv-edly so, but we can do all the self analysis we like - what we have to do is make the quickest racing car we can, not make any mistakes, perform as well as we can, and we can win some races.

“We have won four this year, some fantastic ones, and we would quite like to win some more. And there are five more that are possible to win.”

McLaren hopes to keep Vettel waiting

AP Photo/Tim Chong, Pool

McLaren’s Jenson Button of Britain drives away after a pit stop during the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011.

Stoner vows to keep attacking at Motegi Casey Stoner has vowed to keep attacking at

Motegi, despite extending his advantage over Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo following his eighth win of the season at Aragon. Stoner’s current 44-point advantage means he could win the title by finishing third in the remaining four races, even if Lorenzo won every time.

AP Photo/Paul White

MotoGP Honda rider Casey Stoner of Australia cel-ebrates on the podium after winning the MotoGP race

at the Aragon Grand Prix at the Motorland racetrack in Alcaniz, Spain Sunday Sept. 18, 2011.