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Force of ‘Gravity’ foils pirates at North American box office Reuters
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - The 3D outer space thriller “Gravity” kept a tight grip on U.S. and Canadian box offices over the weekend, eclipsing the debut of Somali pirate drama “Captain Phillips” in a battle between two Oscar hopefuls. “Gravity,” starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts stranded in space, held the top spot on movie charts for a second weekend, grabbing $44.3 million in domestic ticket sales from Friday through Sunday.
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The continued pull of “Gravity” beat the $26 million opening for “Captain Phillips,” a drama starring Tom Hanks in a story based on the real-life hijacking of a U.S. cargo ship. Animated “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2” took the No. 3 slot, collecting $14.3 million, according to studio estimates. Both “Gravity” and “Captain Phillips” earned glowing reviews and mentions as likely Oscar contenders. “Gravity” wowed critics with its 3D depictions of space and weightlessness, while Hanks won praise for his portrayal of Captain Richard Phillips, the man taken hostage when Somali pirates seized his ship in 2009. Ninety-seven percent of critics recommended “Gravity” in reviews on the Rotten Tomatoes website, slightly more than the 95 percent for “Captain Phillips.” In “Gravity,” Bullock plays a novice astronaut and engineer alongside Clooney as the mission commander. After flying debris damages their shuttle, the pair are sent
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’: Dakota Johnson Is Strapped In
Despite the sands shifting around her, Dakota Johnson is 100 percent committed to “Fifty Shades of Grey” — and the filmmakers are equally firm on keeping their Anastasia Steele. Though popular lore had it that intense chemistry with Charlie Hunnam won Johnson the part, the filmmakers are moving ahead with the “Ben and Kate” actress, a person familiar with the situation told TheWrap. Hunnam abruptly quit the project over the weekend, citing his TV schedule, though multiple sources have told TheWrap that Hunnam underestimated the attention he would receive from the media and rabid “Shades” fans. Anxiety and pressure are to be expected with a movie of this magnitude. But unlike Hunnam, Johnson knows what it’s like to live under a microscope, having grown up in the public eye as the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Now, whoever replaces Hunnam will be required to have chemistry with her, rather than the other way around. Multiple sources stress that the filmmakers will build the rest of the cast around her rather than let the new Christian Grey dictate the ensemble, which is expected to include Jennifer Ehle (“Zero Dark Thirty”) as Anastasia’s mother.
hurtling into space with depleting oxygen and remote chances of returning to Earth. The movie took in record sales for an October weekend when it debuted a week ago. Filmgoers kept coming during the week, with many opting to pay for higher-priced 3D tickets. The film scored the best second weekend ever for an IMAX film with a take of $9 million, and North American sales for “Gravity” through Sunday reached an estimated $123.4 million, according to Warner Bros. “It’s word-of-mouth,” said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution, explaining the film’s remarkable performance, which included a drop of only 21 percent in receipts from the opening weekend which he said was a record for a widerelease film.
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“We’re filling theaters in small, medium and large towns throughout North America, and our audience has really spread from (ages) eight to 80,” Fellman added. Though it couldn’t overcome “Gravity,” “Captain Phillips” exceeded predictions for a start of around $21 million. The film cost $55 million to make. “This was a terrific opening for ‘Captain Phillips’ and we’re just beginning,” said Rory Bruer, Sony Pictures’ worldwide president of distribution. “We’re going to be around for a very long time with this film. People are really talking about it,” Bruer added.
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Filipinos stand by a damaged Basilica Del Sto Nino in Cebu, central Philippines Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake collapsed buildings, cracked roads and toppled the bell tower of the Philippines’ oldest church Tuesday morning, killing at least 20 people across the central region.
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73 dead as quake hits Cebu
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CEBU - A powerful earthquake killed at least 73 people on Tuesday as it tore down modern buildings, destroyed historic churches and triggered terrified stampedes across popular tourist islands in the Philippines. Fifteen of the confirmed fatalities were in Cebu, the country’s second most important city and a gateway to some of its most beautiful beaches, the national disaster agency reported. The 7.1-magnitude quake killed another 57 people in the neighbouring island of Bohol, famed for its rolling “Chocolate Hills”, while one other person died on nearby Siquijor, which attracts tourists with its pristine white sands. “I was thrown to the ground by the strength of the quake. Broken glass rained on me,” Elmo Alinsunorin, a guard for a govern-
ment tax office in Cebu, told AFP. “I thought I was going to die.” Authorities said the death toll could still climb, with authorities struggling to assess the extent of the damage in the worst-hit areas of Bohol where roads were impassable and power was cut. Nevertheless, they expressed relief the earthquake occurred on a public holiday, meaning there were fewer people than normal in many of the major buildings that suffered damage. The quake struck at 08:12 (0012 GMT) near Balilihan, a town of about 18,000 people on Bohol, at a depth of 20 kilometres (12 miles), the USGS reported. The town lies across a strait about 60 kilometres from Cebu. Cebu, with a population of 2.5 million people, is the political, economic, educational and cultural centre of the central Philippines. It hosts the country’s busiest port and the
largest airport outside of the capital Manila. It also has a major ship building industry. A university, a school and two shopping
malls, public markets and many small buildings sustained damage in the quake. Continued on page 6
10 deadliest natural disasters in Philippine 1. A tsunami on August 16, 1976, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people. 2. Tropical Storm Thelma on November 15, 1991, killing more than 5,100. 3. Typhoon Bopha on December 3, 2012, about 1,900 people dead or missing. 4. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake on July 16, 1990, killing 1,621 people. 5. Typhoon Ike on August 31, 1984, killing 1,363 people. 6. Taal volcano erupted on January 30, 1911, killing about 1,300 people. 7. Mayon volcano on February 1, 1814, killing about 1,200 people. 8. Mountainside collapses on February 17, 2006, killing 1,126. 9. Typhoon Washi on December 16, 2011, killing at least 1,080 people. 10. Floods and landslides kills 995 people on October 16, 1952.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Bali News Sudaji local rice
Hard to be marketed, farmers forced to use for self-consumption Singaraja (Bali Post)—
Amid the intensive efforts of Buleleng government through the Agriculture and Livestock Agency to develop the distinctive local rice at Sudaji village, the marketing of local rice seems still to face a problem. Farmers growing the Sudaji typical rice are difficult to get a distributor because the price of local rice is more expensive than that of regular rice. Information obtained on Sunday (Oct 13) told that so far the Buleleng government was developing a pilot project for typical local rice cultivation in the paddy fields at Sudaji village across 70 hectares spreading at a number of subak areas. Currently, it had entered the rice harvest. Since the price was more expensive than that of regular rice, the Sudaji rice got difficulty in obtaining market share. Farmers set the rice price at IDR 15,000 to IDR 17,000 per kilogram. The price was almost the same as the price of brown rice at Gobleg and Munduk village reaching IDR 17,000 per kilogram. Sudaji local rice was more expensive than the price of regular rice because the growing period was longer namely between 3.5 months to 4 months. “In contrast to regular rice, it only needs between 2.5 months to 3 months,” said a farmer at Sudaji. Due to marketing problem, the Agriculture and Livestock Agency tried to facilitate a meeting between the farmers and the Association of Paddy Milling and Rice Entrepreneurs (Perpadi), Friday (Oct 11). It was expected the Perpadi could market the Sudaji typical rice. However, the Perpadi did not dare to promise to market it because it had not owned consumers yet, the price was expensive and it was rarely available in the market. The Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, when contacted on Sunday confirmed that the Sudaji rice produced by the pilot project at Sudaji village could not be marketed maximally. He claimed to have brought in Perpadi members to make a marketing agreement with farmers. But, the meeting could not result in any agreement. “Perpadi could not reach an agreement
The rice of Sudaji which is developed in Buleleng Regency to market the Sudaji rice,” he said. Though could not be marketed to the fullest, Swatantra said that farmers did not give up growing the distinctive Sudaji local rice. The rice obtained in the recent harvest was self-consumed and the rest was used for seed in the next planting. For marketing in years to come, said Swatantra, farmers planned to make special packing for the Sudaji rice and marketed it to supermarkets and special marketplaces. “Residents have agreed to continue the Sudaji rice cultivation. Even, people are planning to make a customary bylaw (awig-awig) requiring farmers to plant the Sudaji rice,” he said. Can this pilot project be called a
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failure? Swatantra said the pilot project did not fail because the ultimate goal was to preserve the typical local rice of Buleleng. Aside from developing the Sudaji rice, his party also developed red rice cultivation at Munduk, Gobleg and Gesing village. “It’s a preservation effort in order the typical rice of Buleleng will not be extinct,” he said. In this pilot project, said Swatantra, the local government was working with farmers. Local government helped by providing 40 kg of rice seed per hectare, a ton of organic fertilizer per hectare and one quintal of chemical fertilizer per hectare. “And the harvest yield can entirely be enjoyed by farmers,” he said. (kmb15)
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Unused, ambulance assistance turns useless Semarapura (Bali Post)—
The assistance of a unit of ambulance received by Klungkung government from a private bank in Klungkung seems useless. For more than a year, the car is only parked in the parking lot of the Klungkung government to be filled by bird droppings. Necessarily, it should be used to improve health services in the public health center or Klungkung Hospital. A number of residents making a visit to Klungkung government were surprised to see the assistance. A local legislator of Klungkung, Komang Gede Ludra, said on Sunday (Oct 13) the condition was very unfortunate. He agreed that such assistance should be maximized so that it would not seem useless. Outside the region, various political parties were vying to provide ambulance for health services. However, Klungkung government that had been given the assistance did not take advantage it properly. “I think it better when it’s handed over to public health center having not had an ambulance or just take it to Nusa Penida. The region much requires it rather than being parked and becoming a place for bird to poop,” he protested. Spokesperson of Klungkung government, Wayan Parna, did not dismiss such condition. Previously, he said that an error occurred when the private bank was handing over the official report to Klungkung government. Delivery of the assistance mentioned it was in the form of goods, but in the official report was mentioned in the form of cash. So, it was not then signed by the Klungkung government. “At that time, the deputy regent already asked the bank to fix it, but it seemed to have not been done,” he said. He also acknowledged if such situation could not be neglected. Both parties should equally be proactive so that it did not give dormant impression over the assistance. Previously, the Klungkung government through deputy regent at that time, Tjokorda Gede Agung, received the assistance symbolically on October 2, 2012 from the private bank in the Widya Mandala hall of the Klungkung Regent Office. However, after the handover, the ambulance seemed to become a sweetening to the parking lot. (kmb31)
The Ambulance given to Klungkung Government is ont being used properly
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Grand opening celebration of Harper Kuta IBP
LEGIAN - Last Friday, 11 October 2013 was marked the grand opening celebration of what has quickly become one of Kuta’s most popular hotels, the Harper Kuta. Having soft opened in July, the hotel has immediately enjoyed unusually high occupancy levels of 80% and above and immediately received loads of accolades on Tripadvisor and several other customer review websites. The Grand Opening Celebration marked an open invitation for several hundred travel agents, tour operators, media representatives and holiday makers residing in the central Kuta area to experience The Harper Kuta’s unique rustic yet ultra modern design concept and its signature restaurant “Rustik Bistro & Bar”, with great entertainment by the hotel’s resident DJ, door prizes and hotel front and back of house tours. The new Harper Kuta is being described as “modern – rustic,” and images posted to the brand’s Web site, www.HarperHotels. com, in some ways reflect the aesthetics of a cozy countryside home while remaining unmis-
takably Asian and modern in its core. The handsome hotel sits right of Jalan Legian in the very heart of Bali’s legendary surfer enclave of Kuta and offers 149 rooms and suites, many of which offer private balconies, a stunning outdoor pool with sun deck , a children’s pool, and an intimate spa, and the Harper brand’s signature restaurant “Rustik Bistro & Bar”. Conceptualized to be modern yet infused with rustic charm the hotel conveys a residential feel. Combining comfort and functionality, Harper’s design concept uses warm, rich colors to offer comfort in each room. Accents of
warm autumnal fabrics and soft orange hues promote relaxation - spiced pumpkin, tangerine and amber are popular variations of the orange palette - while modern grays create an understated cool elegance. The principal restaurant “Rustik Bistro & Bar” offers home comfort food cooking paired with great wine and cocktails in a fresh, light and elegant room placing an emphasis on creating dishes that promote the finest home cooking – both European and Indonesian such as Coq au Vin, Beef Stew – Beef Rendang and Soto Ayam. “The new Harper Hotel concept opens the doors onto a
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new world of well-being and sensations. We all like to have a place to call our own and while travelling; this means comfort, practicality and a true reflection of our personality, a hotel
Calendar Event for October 4 through 28 , 2013 4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Seloding Besakih Pura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih 6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayuputih Buleleng 8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi Bangli Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Taro Tegalalang Pura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup Pura manik Bingin Sidemen 9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande Bangli Pura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh Abiansemal Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan Gianyar Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Jakatebel Merajan Pasek Prateka Batusesa Merajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon Cemenggon Pura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja. Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Linggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih
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17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Petemon Merajan Pasek Gelgel Melinggih Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih 19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Meru Cakra Lombok Pura Lempuyang Madya Karangasem Pura Penerejon Kintamani Pura Pulaki Buleleng Pura Tirta Empul Tampak Siring Pura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura
Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Tirta Negari Singapadu Pura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub Sukawati Pura Penataran Agung Tegallalang Pura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji Batubulan Pura Puseh Singakerta Ubud Pura Nataran Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan Ubud Pura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami Braban Pura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh Krambitan Pura Pasek Bendesa Mas Gadungan Selemadeg Pura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Selemadeg Pura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem Karangasem Pura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow Sulut Pura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang Karangasem Pura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukaluwih Tejakula Buleleng Pura Pasraman Suci Renon Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Jakarta Pura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang Buleleng Pura Ulun Danu Batur Songan Kintamani Pura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura Papua Pura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung Denpasar Merajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh Denpasar Pura Pejengaji Tegalalang Pura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Kerambitan Pura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang Karangasem Pura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung Tengah Pura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh Kerambitan Pura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karangasem Pura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon Kapal Pura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem Pura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga Buleleng Pura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa Penida Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani
Pura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh kerambitan Pura Penataran Ubud Pura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken Blahbatuh Pemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu Buleleng Pura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel Sukawati Pura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung BaturningMambal Abiansemal 22 Oct Penampahan Galungan 23 Oct Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang, NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta Timur Pura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur. 24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru Tabanan Pura Lempuyang Luhur Karangasem Pura Kentel Gumi Klungkung Pura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel Tabanan Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Tiyingan Merajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa. 25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, Badung Pura Luhur Cemenggon, Sukawati Pura Pasek Ubung Denpasar 26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara Jembrana Pura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung 27 Oct Redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti Batubulan Pura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung 28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah Selemadeg Pura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gianyar Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan Busungbiu Pura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan
with inspirational and distinctive interiors, finished to the highest quality standards,” said Archipelago International’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr. Norbert Vas.
Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, 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.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
International
Ancient bug’s last supper of blood still in fossil Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — In a steamy tropical forest 46 million years ago, a prehistoric mosquito bit a critter, drew blood and was blown into a lake in what is now the northwestern state of Montana. Belly full, she died and sank. Flash forward to the present. Researchers found the minuscule female insect fossilized in a paper-thin piece of shale — which had sat in someone’s basement for 25 to 30 years with other rocks— and concluded it still contains its last supper. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science reports a first for biology: a blood meal found intact in a fossil. While the scenario sounds eerily similar to the Michael Crichton book and movie “Jurassic Park,” no new T. rexes will result. Unfortunately for would-be dinosaur cloners, the mosquito flew long after dinosaurs went extinct, and its meal was probably blood from a dino descendant, a bird. And an even bigger blow to the “Jurassic Park” scenario is that scientists have long known that DNA from other critters couldn’t survive in insect fossils, said study lead author Dale Greenwalt, a retired biochemist who collects and analyzes insect fossils from Montana for the Smithsonian Institution. So this is more a scientific curiosity, a look-what-we-found, that starts
out like early chapters of the sci-fi thriller. “It’s following Crichton’s script in that we’re using a blood engorged fossil mosquito and in this case we’re using the direct descendent of the dinosaurs, given that we’re 20 million years late,” Greenwalt said. Using two different types of lightrefracting x-rays that determine what chemicals are present, Greenwalt and colleagues determined that the female mosquito’s belly was full of iron, a major feature of blood that gets oxygen to the rest of the body. Iron levels were higher than elsewhere in her body and anywhere on a non-biting male used as a control subject. Then the team found evidence of porphyrins, which are bound to iron in blood. Putting the two together makes “a definitive case” for blood, Greenwalt said. Outside expert Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University said while the study is exciting and significant, it is preliminary and she thinks Greenwalt’s team didn’t prove their conclusion that it is blood by ruling out all other possibilities.
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This undated handout photo provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, taken June 6, 2013, shows wooden barracks that housed prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, at the museum in Washington.
A renowned Berlin antiquities museum is trying to get back an ancient gold tablet excavated from an Assyrian temple that a Holocaust survivor somehow obtained after World War II. Who gets it is up to New York’s top court, which is set to hear arguments Tuesday. The 9.5-gram tablet, about the size of a credit card, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what is now northern Iraq. It went on display in Berlin in 1934, was put in storage as the war began and later disappeared. Riven Flamenbaum brought it to the U.S. after surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp and settling on Long Island, east of New York City. Family lore says he had traded two packs of cigarettes to a Russian soldier for the tablet in the chaotic days at the end of the war. Flamenbaum’s family is trying to keep the 3,200-year-old relic, arguing the museum forfeited any claim to ownership by waiting 60 years to seek its return. Lawyers for the Vorderasiatisches Museum, a branch of the Pergamon Museum,
said it didn’t know Flamenbaum had the tablet until 2006, three years after he died. Steven Schlesinger, the lawyer representing the estate, said any claim is complicated by the passage of so much time and Flamenbaum’s death. He said he believes Flamenbaum was trading Red Cross packages and anything else he could get for silver and gold. The tablet is now in a safe deposit box in New York. One recent estimate put its value at $10 million, Schlesinger said, and the family wants to donate it to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. Lower courts were split on the decision, leading to the latest appeal. According to court documents, the tablet dates to 1243 to 1207 B.C., the reign of King Tukulti-Ninurta I of Assyria. Placed in the foundation of the temple of a fertility goddess, its 21 lines call on those who find the temple to honor the king’s name. The tablet was excavated by German archaeologists from about 1908 to 1914 in what was then the Ottoman Empire, with Germany giving half the found antiquities to Istanbul, Raymond Dowd, the museum’s lawyer, said. The modern state of Iraq has declined to claim it, he said.
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DENPASAR - Hotels at a number of resorts in Bali are packed with domestic tourists who are here to spend their Idul Adha holidays, according to a local official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI).
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Hotels at a number of resorts in Bali are packed with domestic tourists who are here to spend their Idul Adha holidays, according to a local official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI).
Accelerated, management agency of Jatiluwih WCH
Berlin museum seeks return of ancient gold tablet Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Hotels packed with domestic tourists “The average hotel occupancy rate in Bali reaches seventy-two percent,” PHRI spokesman I Gusti Ngurah Rai Suryawijaya said here on Monday. However, he added, the occupancy rate at hotels in Kuta, Nusa Dua, and Ubud was in the range of sixty-five to seventyeight percent. “The occupancy rate of the hotels in Kuta is seventy-eight percent,” he said, adding that the number of both domestic and foreign tourists in Bali will continue to rise until the end of the year. Although there is a surge in hotel occupancy rate due to arrival of domestic tourists, Suryawijaya said the hotel operators will not arbitrarily increase room rates, having arrived at an agreement with the management of travel agencies.
This image provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows a fossilized female mosquito in a paper-thin piece of shale. The 46 million year-old insect drew blood in its last meal, was blown into a lake in what is now northwestern Montana and sank, belly still full.
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Tourists visit Jatiluwih recently. Reprimand against the sluggish formation of the World Cultural Heritage Management Agency (WCH) of Jatiluwih, Penebel, was responded by Tabanan government. In relatively short time, the subak attraction will soon have a definitive management.
TABANAN - Reprimand against the sluggish formation of the World Cultural Heritage Management Agency (WCH) of Jatiluwih, Penebel, was responded by Tabanan government. In relatively short time, the subak attraction will soon have a definitive management. The proposal is being discussed by the Regent of Tabanan. The Head of Tabanan Tourism and Culture Agency, Wayan Adnyana, explained the draft of the Jatiluwih management agency had been submitted to the regent. As expected, it could have been completed this month, and then would be approved through a regent decree. “The Jatiluwih management agency is still under process. Hopefully, it can be completed this month,” he said. He described the establishment of the management agency should go through stages, including the absorption of aspirations of the leaders at Jatiluwih. Then, the proposal was presented to the regent. Furthermore, said Adnyana, the regent would review the proposal. If it was approved, the management agency would be made a decree. “Management agency will take care of business as well as a variety of interests at Jatiluwih,” he said. With the management agency, the monitor-
ing to subak tourist attraction would be made easier, including the coordination with central government. The governing body, he said, would also make coordination with provincial government. On that account, various issues about Jatiluwih could be dealt with quickly. As has been known, the area of Subak Jatiluwih was named the world cultural heritage by UNESCO. The United Nations handling the cultural matters assessed that Jatiluwih deserved to be an immortal paddy field due to its subak system and terraced paddy field agriculture. Other than Jatiluwih, a number of buffer zones are also included in this region. Since it was established in 2012, the formation of management agency seemed sluggish. Even, the Ministry of Tourism of the RI had reprimanded the Tabanan government. The number of farmers at Jatiluwih reached 395 people with the land area of 303 hectares. It is divided into 7 subak sub-groups. Since included in the world cultural heritage, the land at Jatiluwih has been designated as everlasting or sustainable agricultural land. In other words, farmers are prohibited from selling or building in the region. Should there be any sale or change of ownership, the making of permanent building is still banned. (kmb30)
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Much rubbish remains scattered Singaraja (Bali Post)—
The issue of waste management in Buleleng County is very complex. In addition to the limited number of roadworthy garbage truck, many people are also late to collect rubbish in the rubbish disposal so that much rubbish are still scattered.
The garbage is scattered all over the place on the side of the road.
Bitter Taste of Balinese Palm Sugar Palm sugar (brown sugar) makers at Besan Village, Dawan, Klungkung, have difficulty to get raw materials or wine seepage of coconut tree. It happens because within the past few days, in Klungkung, particular at Besan, it always rains. Actually, before Galungan and Kuningan the demand for brown sugar (also called Balinese sugar) increases. The price rises as well. During rainy season, sugar makers only acquire a small amount of wine. “Similarly, we do not dare to climb coconut trees, because it is slippery,” said sugar maker from Dawan, Nengah Koyog, at his home. According to Koyog and his wife, Nengah Yasa, they would get much sap of coconut tree during dry season. Climbing the coconut tree was not too worrisome because the trunk was dry. On that account, every day the sugar maker could harvest wine for two times, in the morning and afternoon. However, during rainy season, they could only climb once. Even, it highly depended on the condition of coconut trees. In dry season, a tree could produce 2 liters of wine. “But, in rainy season it only produces a little, nearly 1 liter,” said Koyog. However, the 65-year old man admitted if he no longer dared to climb because he was already old enough. Activity to slit into the bud of coconut tree for collecting its sap or wine had now been continued by his son, Nengah Sutarna. In normal condition, Koyog said, the wine obtained from nine coconut trees in his backyard reached up to 25 liters taken twice daily (morning and afternoon). Results of the wine seepage were directly boiled and could produce 4 kilogram of brown sugar. “Before Galungan and Kuningan, the price is rising. If previously was only IDR 13,000 per kilogram, now it reaches IDR 15,000 per kilogram,” said Koyog who also collected sugar product of the surrounding residents. Other than marketed in traditional markets across Klungkung, brown sugar produced by Besan Village was also sold to outside Klungkung such as Denpasar. Unfortunately, due to difficulty to get raw materials, this sweet sugar was tasted ‘bitter’ by the sugar makers. “I myself have a regular customer from Renon. In once delivery, it can reach hundreds of kilogram,” he said.
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The Head of Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Wayan Genep, said the garbage collection schedule undertaken by residents started from 04:00 a.m. until 07:00 a.m. However, many people collected the garbage after the specified schedule so that much rubbish was not transported. “Since the residents collect their rubbish in place late, so much rubbish is not transported and scattered,” he said. To that end, Genep said his party would continue to perform socialization so that residents could collect their rubbish on time. “We still do socialization and arrangement in order the waste management can be better,” he said. Aside from the rubbish collection schedule was not adhered to, it was also previously disclosed that many garbage trucks owned by the DKP were not roadworthy. Of the 21 garbage trucks owned, a total of 19 trucks were not roadworthy. Even, of the 19 trucks, three trucks could not totally be used. “According to the roadworthy test in the Transportation Agency, 16 trucks were not roadworthy and three others were completely out of order,” he said. Meanwhile, the Head of Buleleng Development Planning Board (Buleleng), Gede Suyasa, said the garbage truck procurement had been carried out every year. However, due to restricted funds, the procurement only amounted to a unit of new truck each year. “Last year, the procurement has been made to one unit. Similarly, we have also allocated another unit this year,” he said. (kmb15)
Legislator: Nusa Penida just like a desert Semarapura (Bali Post)—
Recent long dry season causes the community in the hill area to scream as experienced by residents on the upper area of Nusa Penida Island. They admitted to be difficult to obtain clean water for daily needs. Due to drought, the upper area of Nusa Penida was like a desert region where it was so difficult to obtain a single drop of clean water. Such condition was revealed by a Klungkung legislator from Nusa Penida, Wayan Baru, Sunday (Oct 13). After returning to his home village, he admitted to receive many complaints about the difficulty to get clean water. Upon hearing the complaints, he admitted furious with the Klungkung government and Bali government for the various totally failed programs conducted in Nusa Penida. Classic problem experienced by residents of Nusa Penida for years was never resolved. For instance, provincial government had a program to build the Guyangan water source to provide clean water for the people on the upper land of Nusa Penida but could have not accomplished or could not run normally. Initially, he was impressed with the program, but later on the program was not
known and seemed very dismissive to people’s fate and their complaints that always screamed about the difficulty to get clean water during dry season like today. “It’s hard to resolve the problem of clean water without seriousness. The Guyangan water source just flows every two weeks. Even, it sometimes does not flow for a month as today does. Please do it correctly. Do not make our region an experimental object. When wishing to help sincerely, it must be completed,” he said. He admitted to receive many complaints from the local community on the upper land of Nusa Penida such as Sakti, Bunga Mekar, Batu Madeg, Klumpu, Batukandik and Tanglad to Pejukutan. Most complaints had something to do with the difficulty to get clean water in the drought condition as occurred these days. Based on information he received from local residents, they questioned directly to the management of the Guyangan water source. The information obtained told if the pipelines from the water source were in damaged and the repairs were not completed. As a result, people on the upper land of Nusa Penida were completely helpless against the clean water crisis. “Today, Nusa Penida (upper land)
is just like a desert because of the drought,” he said. The drought experienced by residents was also justified by the subdistrict head of Nusa Penida, Ketut Sukla, Sunday. Meanwhile, the matter of clean water crisis due to less optimal management by the Guyangan water source was also recognized by this former secretary of Nusa Penida subdistrict. On that account, many people also complained directly to him. Other than residents on the upper land of Nusa Penida, similar complaint was also revealed by residents who previously got clean water from other areas. He admitted to have contacted the management of Guyangan water source. The management told if the Guyangan water source was having problems with the generator set, where something went wrong with the rubber. “Fortunately, the damage to the rubber of generator set can have been repaired this afternoon (Sunday—Ed). It is promised the water can flow back tonight. However, they have to take turns because the generator can only pump the water for eight hours,” said Sukla. He hoped the residents to be patient. Various complaints had been responded to and were being handled by the related parties. (kmb31)
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Israel warns against nuclear compromise with Iran Agence France Presse
Jerusalem - Israel on Tuesday urged the world to avoid a partial deal with Iran which could see a relaxing of sanctions, just hours before a new round of nuclear talks. Following a meeting late on Monday, the security cabinet warned the international community against any “partial agreement that would fail to bring about the full dismantling of the Iranian military nuclear programme...(which) could lead to the collapse of the sanctions regime.” Iran is due to begin two days of closed-door negotiations in Geneva on Tuesday with the so-called P5+1 countries -- the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a media blitz in recent days, warning against concessions to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani’s conciliatory tone has raised hopes of a breakthrough in the decade-long dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The security cabinet statement called on world powers to be wary of Iran at negotiations. “Iran believes it can get by with cosmetic concessions that would not significantly impede its path to developing nuclear weapons, concessions that could
be reversed in weeks,” the statement said. “In exchange, Iran demands an easing of the sanctions, which have taken years to put in place.” But the security cabinet said the P5+1 should “reject Iran’s attempts to reach a deal that would leave it with the capability to develop nuclear weapons.” An Israeli official told AFP that the seven-member ministerial committee had met on Monday night but released the statement the following morning to coincide with the talks. Israel, it said, did not oppose Iran having a peaceful nuclear energy programme -- one which would not require uranium enrichment or plutonium production, it said. “Iran claims that it supposedly has the ‘right to enrich.’ But a country that regularly deceives the international community, that violates UN Security Council resolutions ... has no such right,” it said. The Geneva talks are aimed at reaching accord over Iran’s nuclear programme, which Israel and the West say is aimed at developing an atomic bomb and Tehran says is for peaceful purposes only.
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening session of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013.
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Mass singing honoring Mao in anniversary bash sparks outrage Reuters
BEIJING - Celebrations costing $300 million to mark the birth date of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, including mass singing and a noodle feast, have sparked popular anger amid a crackdown by authorities on extravagance. The local government of Mao’s birthplace said on Monday that the events on December 26 marking the 120th anniversary of his birth will include 10,000 people singing a song comparing the revolutionary leader to the ris-
ing sun. Another 10,000 will eat “auspicious” birthday noodles at various locations. “Shaoshan is making the commemoration of comrade Mao Zedong’s birthday the paramount political mandate that overrides everything,” the city government of Xiangtan said on its Internet site. Xiangtan, which administers the smaller city of Shaoshan, where Mao was born, said it had spent 1.95 billion yuan ($318.60 million) on the celebrations. One of the pivotal figures of the 20th century and the focus of a personality cult, Mao led China for almost
three decades. Supporters say he created a strong, unified China out of the chaos of the 1930s. Detractors blame him for policy mistakes that led to millions of deaths in famine and repression. Mao died in 1976, aged 83. His body remains on display in a crystal coffin in a mausoleum in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where admirers from all over China wait in long queues on anniversary dates to pay homage. The lavish anniversary plans fly in the face of current leader Xi Jinping’s crackdown on
government waste and corruption and some citizens took to the Internet to express their anger. “Is it really worthy to spend 1.9 billion yuan on someone who has already died?” user Li Gaofeng wrote on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. “There are so many poor children and widowed or childless elderly people waiting for help in mainland China.” “This is blatant corruption,” fumed user Zheng Huoshen. Shaoshan, in the mountainous southern province of Hunan, had an annual GDP of less than 5 billion yuan in 2012.
Senators closing in on deal to reopen government Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders are closing in on an agreement to reopen the government and forestall an economy-rattling default on U.S. obligations. Congressional aides predicted Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky could seal an agreement on Tuesday, just two days before the Treasury Department
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., walks to the floor during a vote at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, as a partial government shutdown enters its third week. The Senate’s Democratic and Republican leaders closed in on a deal Monday night to avoid an economy-menacing Treasury default and end the two-week partial government shutdown.
says it will run out of borrowing capacity. The emerging pact would reopen the government through Jan. 15 and permit the Treasury to borrow normally until early to mid-February, easing dual crises that have sapped confidence in the economy and taken a sledgehammer to the GOP’s poll numbers. “The general framework is there” between Reid and McConnell, said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. He said conversations with the House were continuing and he thought it would be midday Tuesday at the earliest before a plan was finalized. Many House conservatives were unhappy about the emerging framework, though it remained to be seen whether they would seek to change it. The plan is a far cry from the assault on “Obamacare” that tea party Republicans originally demanded as a condition for a shortterm funding bill to keep the government fully operational. It lacks the budget cuts demanded
by Republicans in exchange for increasing the government’s $16.7 trillion borrowing cap. Nor does the framework contain any of a secondary set of House GOP demands, like a one-year delay in the health law’s mandate that individuals buy insurance. Instead, it appeared likely to tighten income verification requirements for individuals who qualify for Obamacare subsidies and may repeal a $63 fee that companies must pay for each person they cover under the big health care overhaul beginning in 2014. Democratic and Republican aides described the outlines of the potential agreement on condition of anonymity because the discussions were ongoing. But with GOP poll numbers plummeting and the country growing weary of a shutdown entering its third week, Senate Republicans in particular were eager to end the shutdown — and avoid an even greater crisis if the government were to default later this month.
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BlackBerry seeks to reassure customers in new campaign
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JEMBRANA - Vehicle traffic leaving Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor has started increasing since Saturday night (Oct 12). Authority of the Gilimanuk Harbor predicted the peak of vehicle traffic leaving Bali would occur on Monday (Oct 14).
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“You can continue to count on BlackBerry,” says an open letter to customers from the ailing Canadian smartphone maker s e t t o a p p e a r i n Tu e s d a y ’s Washington Post and other news outlets. “How do we know? We have substantial cash on hand and a balance sheet that is debt free.” The letter points out that the Canadian-based group is “restructuring with a goal to cut our expenses by 50 percent in order to run a very efficient, customeroriented organization.” “These are no doubt challenging times for us and we don’t underestimate the situation or ignore the challenges,” the letter continues. “We are making the difficult changes necessary to strengthen BlackBerry.” Canada’s Globe and Mail, another of the newspapers set to publish the letter, quoted BlackBerry regional managing director Andrew MacLeod as saying the campaign seeks to “lower the temperature” and reinforce the company’s viability and competitiveness. “We wanted to get the facts of the situation out there,” he told the Canadian daily. “We have strong assets and our ability to continue to fight and compete in this space remains very strong.” BlackBerry has said it is seeking a sale of the company among other “strategic options.” The company signed a letter of intent for a $4.7-billion buyout by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, but also left the door
open to other offers. Last week, BlackBerry cofounder Mike Lazaridis indicated in a regulatory filing he has boosted his stake in firm with the intention of making an acquisition bid. The private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, which specializes in distressed companies, also has expressed interest in a bid for BlackBerry. Some analysts have said however that BlackBerry has fallen so far behind Apple and manufacturers using the Google Android operating system that its only hope is a breakup, which could salvage its software and services operations. In January, BlackBerry unveiled a new corporate name and a new platform in January as it sought to regain momentum, but its most recent numbers suggest this has been a spectacular failure. BlackBerry still has some 70 million subscribers worldwide, but most of these are using older handsets, with the newer devices on the BlackBerry 10 platform failing to gain traction. Last month, the company announced it was laying off 4,500 staff -- or one third of its global workforce -- after losing $965 million dollars in its last quarter as sales plummeted. But BlackBerry still had some $2.6 billion in cash at the end of its past quarter, from its earnings when the company was at the top of the smartphone market.
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WASHINGTON - BlackBerry is launching a campaign aiming to reassure its customers it intends to stay in business, brushing aside suggestions of its impending demise.
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In this Oct. 4, 2013 photo shows a view of the newsroom of the International Herald Tribune, who will be rebranded as the International New York Times on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 at the International Herald Tribune headquarters in Paris.
Herald Tribune gets new name for digital age
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PARIS - A chapter in newspaper history drew to a close on Tuesday with the renaming of the 125-yearold International Herald Tribune, amid a time of unprecedented upheaval for print media. Editions of the paper that rolled off the presses early on Tuesday featured the publication’s new name -- the International New York Times -- although it retained its distinctive Gothic font masthead. Richard Stevenson, the paper’s editor in Europe, told AFP there would be nostalgia for the old title but that its “DNA” remained unchanged. “A couple of words in the name of the paper are changing (but) this paper’s name has changed multiple times throughout its history,” he said in an interview. “The name change on the print newspaper does nothing to change the DNA of the operation here. It is simply bringing more of the resources of The New York Times to the mix,” he said. The Paris-based IHT was coowned by The New York Times and Washington Post from 1967 until 2003 when the Times became its sole owner and restyled it as “the global edition of the New York Times”. News isn’t free
With a circulation of about 226,000 in 2011, it was printed at
38 sites and distributed in more than 160 countries. Stevenson said the rebranding had been necessary as part of the company’s drive to reinvent itself for the digital age. “(It’s) something that says to our readers all over the world that we are one news organisation capable of covering the world on any platform -- print, digital -- in any time zone,” he said. The rebranding comes as many newspapers worldwide struggle with the economic consequences of failure to find a new business model to counter changes in the way people consume news. Stevenson said The New York Times’ decision three years ago to charge for some online content had been crucial to its transition. For a long time the “assumption” was that news should be free, he said, but that much of the industry had started to wake up to the danger of giving away content. With 700,000 digital subscribers already in hand, and growing demand for news that could be delivered via people’s mobile phones, he said the future of the printed newspaper could not be guaranteed. ‘A sad day for expats’ “We love print, we would love to keep print going as long as possible. I don’t think it’s a matter of predicting something, it’s not up to us. The marketplace will decide and
we will respond.” But he added: “As long as there are enough readers who want to buy a print newspaper -- and frankly advertisers who want to advertise in it -- we will publish print newspapers.” Founded by publisher Gordon Bennett, the IHT began life as the European edition of his New York Herald newspaper catering for American expats in Paris. It was known as the New York Herald Tribune in 1960 when actress Jean Seberg appeared in Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Breathless” selling copies on the Champs-Elysees. Some Twitter users expressed regret about the name change. “A sad day for expats,” said one, while another tweeted: “All IHT had to do was redesign. The name change to ‘New York’ signals a new provincial thinking and outlook.” But Stevenson said he believed readers of the IHT would adapt quickly. “Newspapers are always evolving, there are always changes in them and I truly believe that the things that people are nostalgic about the International Herald Tribune will be just as present in the paper that starts appearing under the name International New York Times,” he said. “What you love about the International Herald Tribune will be in the International New York Times,” he added.
Through Sunday (Oct 13), more than 2,000 motorcycles were crossing through the Gilimanuk Harbor. It showed a 50percent increase compared to normal days only reaching around 1,500-1,600 motorcycles. Operations Manager of the Gilimanuk Harbor, Wahyudi Susianto, said the increase happened due to the joint leave of the Eid al-Adha and the entry of many traveler groups on Friday (Oct 11). Thus, the peak of vehicle traffic leaving Bali was predicted to occur on Monday. “Indeed, it’s unlike the Eid homecoming season. We predict the busy outflow of Bali happened due to large number of private vehicles and the entry of traveler groups last weekend,”
he said. It was estimated to grow 50 percent every day including the private vehicles that usually only reached 600 units and then increased to 1,000 vehicles. To anticipate it, the state-owned water transportation company (ASDP) claimed to have alerted up to 32 vessels including 19 special passenger vessels. “We have maximized the acceleration of vessel operations both the loading and unloading,” he explained. Besides, the arrangement was also focused on private vehicles, while the freight vehicles were directed straight to LCM dock. In addition to private vehicles, there was the backflow of tourist buses. (kmb26)
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Vehicle traffic leaving Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor has started increasing since Saturday night (Oct 12). Authority of the Gilimanuk Harbor predicted the peak of vehicle traffic leaving Bali would occur on Monday (Oct 14).
Balinese storytelling replete with life values Balinese life based on culture is rich in folk stories. In the past, parents always told bedtime stories to children or grandchildren to take them into a beautiful dream. Therefore, all parents on the Island of the Gods would know and could tell stories.
The theme could be very diverse, ranging from wildlife, human life up to mythology about gods. The story itself is also very simple and the figures are easily called and remembered. Interestingly, one of the prominent names in the stories can become a nickname for one
of the children considering his or her characteristics and behavior resembled to that of the figure in the story. Unfortunately, the tradition of storytelling gradually vanishes and even does not leave a single trace. The story filled with the philosophy
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Children gathered and listened a story over storytelling session. In the past, parents always told bedtime stories to children or grandchildren to take them into a beautiful dream. Therefore, all parents on the Island of the Gods would know and could tell stories.
of life is getting away from children because they prefer to enjoy modern stories, such as soap operas and animation films with uncertain messages. “Our children are now starting to lose the space where they can find a reflection, especially for children who live in urban areas,” said I Nyoman Sumandhi. This puppeteer from Tunjuk village said the current children were no longer interested in hearing folk stories. Instead, they tended to like modern stories completely involving electronic aspects. By all means, such phenomenon had made Balinese storytelling that had been known by generation of their parents an alien, even was no longer known. “Such conditions are very unfortunate whereas Balinese storytelling can become a reflection of life,” he said. According to the English puppeteer, the Balinese storytelling was full of life values through moral messages, good and bad deeds, attitudes, mutual assistance and character education. Such values could be delivered through storytelling. “In the storytelling activity, we can put all the messages of life to children. Today, children do not want to be told directly, so it should be inserted through stories,” he said. There were so many folk stories having rich moral messages. For
example, the story on Poor Lady and Rich Lady told the characters of the rich and the poor, Pan Balang ultimately reaped the results of his act due to laziness, cleverness of I Lutung (monkey) and many more. “Almost all the folk stories in Bali have a directive to be getting better,” he said. Too busy
Similar opinion was also revealed by Made Sidia, a lecturer in the Puppetry Department, the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar. This man from Gianyar also said that children were now very busy with their activities, while parents were too busy and had contribution to the loss of storytelling tradition. More sadly, some parents did not know about storytelling, so that they were more concerned with the academic aspects than character building contained in the folk stories. “Education on moral values should be given to children,” he reminded. Nyoman Sumandhi and Made Sidia then agreed if the storytelling that had once become a popular activity in the past could be incorporated into the school lessons through local content. Aside from educating mentally, this lesson also served as a kind of cultural preservation that had now become the cornerstone of tourism. (BTN)
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Motorcyclists ride past along fallen trees, caused by Typhoon Nari, along a street in Vietnam’s central Danang city, October 15, 2013.
Typhoon Nari hits Vietnam, 122,000 people evacuated Reuters
HANOI - Typhoon Nari knocked down trees and damaged hundreds of houses in central Vietnam early on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, state media said. More than 122,000 people had been moved to safe ground in several provinces, including Quang Nam and Danang city, by late Monday before the typhoon arrived, the official Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported. Nari later hit the Vietnamese coast with wind speeds of up to 102 kmh (63 mph). Soldiers were sent to help people reinforce their homes and
guide ships to shelter in Danang, a famous tourist destination, staterun Voice of Vietnam radio said. More than 2,000 passengers were stranded when national carrier Vietnam Airlines canceled 14 flights on Monday and planned to delay another eight on Tuesday, the airline said in a statement. Vietnam’s central region is widely exposed to the sea and is
often hit during the storm season between July and October. Typhoon Nari did not affect the Central Highlands, Vietnam’s coffee belt, which lies further to the south. Nari was moving west at about 15 kmh (10 mph) and was expected to weaken into a tropical depression later on Tuesday, the national weather station said.
‘Once in a decade’ typhoon threatens Japanese capital Reuters
TOKYO - A once-in-a-decade typhoon threatened Japan on Tuesday forcing the cancellation of flights and trains and disrupting oil shipments as it made its way across the Pacific directly towards the capital, Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha is expected to make landfall right around the morning rush hour on Wednesday, bringing hurricane-force winds to the metropolitan area of 30 million people. The center of the storm was 860 km (535 miles) southwest of Tokyo at 0800 GMT, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. It was moving north-northeast at 35 kph (22 mph). The storm had weakened as it headed north over the sea but was still packing sustained winds of about 140 kph (87 mph) with gusts
as high as 194 kph (120 mph), the agency said. The agency issued warnings for Tokyo of heavy rain, flooding and gales, and advised people to be prepared to leave their homes quickly and to avoid unnecessary travel. A spokesman for the agency said the storm was a “once in a decade event” and the strongest cyclone to approach eastern Japan since October 2004. That cyclone triggered floods and landslides that killed almost 100 people, forced thousands to evacuate their homes and caused billions of dollars in damage. Four Japanese oil refining companies said they suspended marine berth shipments in eastern Japan as the typhoon approached but there was no impact on refining operations. The affected facilities are Idemitsu
Kosan Co’s Chiba and Aichi refineries, JX Holdings Inc’s Negishi, Kashima and Sendai refineries, Fuji Oil Co’s Sodegaura refinery and Cosmo Oil Co’s Chiba refinery. Japan Airlines Co cancelled 183 domestic flights on Tuesday and Wednesday, mostly from Tokyo’s Haneda airport. Rival ANA Holdings Inc halted 210 flights in Japan with three international flights also cancelled. The combined cancellations will affect 60,850 passengers, the airlines said. East Japan Railway Co said it had cancelled 31 bullet trains going north and west from Tokyo. Nissan Motor Co said it was cancelling the Wednesday morning shift at its Oppama and Yokohama plants south of Tokyo. Oppama makes the all-electric Leaf and other models.
BEIJING - A Chinese man in a wheelchair who detonated a homemade bomb in Beijing’s airport after trying to draw attention to a nearly decade-long legal battle was sentenced to six years in jail, his lawyer said on Tuesday, sparking widespread sympathy and anger. A Beijing court found Ji Zhongxing, 34, guilty of intentionally causing an explosion, Ji’s lawyer, Liu Xiaoyuan, told Reuters by telephone. State media confirmed the sentence. Ji detonated the bomb at Beijing airport in July after being prevented from handing out leaflets that drew attention to his complaints. His case struck a chord with many Chinese seeking justice in an inflexible political system. Ji, from eastern Shandong province, had been seeking redress for a claimed beating by police in southern Guangdong province dating back to 2005 that left him wheelchair-bound. He had been petitioning for justice ever since. Detonating the bomb at Beijing’s main airport ensured widespread exposure for Ji, even though he and a policeman who received slight wounds were the only people hurt. He faced a maximum sentence of 10 years. “We believe that this verdict is questionable,” Liu said, adding that Ji did not intend to blow up the airport or commit suicide. “During the trial, (authorities) did not seek to find out the facts,” Liu said. “Although it was mentioned in the verdict statement, they never fully considered or discovered the cause of the bombing at the airport.” Liu said Ji, who was wheeled into court on a stretcher, would consider appealing against the decision. He has 10 days to file an appeal.
73 dead... From page 1 Three of the people who died in Cebu were crushed to death in a stampede at a sports complex, where poor people had gathered to collect regular government cash handouts, according to the provincial disaster council chief, Neil Sanchez. “There was panic when the quake happened and there was a rush toward the exit,” Sanchez told AFP. He said two other people were killed when part of a school collapsed on a car they had parked in, while four others died at a fish market that crumbled. The Philippines’ oldest church, Cebu’s Basilica Minore del Santo Nino, was badly damaged, according to Balido, the civil defence spokesman. It was first built in the 1500s by Spanish colonisers, although its current stone structure dates back to the 1700s. A church on Bohol that was first built in the early 1600s also collapsed, according to Robert Michael Poole, a British tourist who was visiting the area. “It’s absolutely devastated... the entire front of the church has collapsed onto the street,” Poole told AFP by telephone. However he said there was nobody in the church at the time of the quake. Aside from its beaches, Bohol is famous for its more than 1,000 small limestone “Chocolate Hills” that turn brown during the dry season. One of the main tourist venues there, the Chocolate Hills Complex, was severely damaged and may be beyond repair, according to Delapan Ingleterra, head of a local tourist police unit. “There are huge cracks in the hotel and there was a collapse of the view deck on the second floor,” Ingleterra told AFP, adding that no-one was injured at the complex. There were no reports of foreign tourists being killed anywhere in the disaster zone. Tuesday’s quake was followed by at least four aftershocks measuring more than 5.0 in magnitude. The epicentre was 629 kilometres from Manila. The Philippines lies on the so-called Ring of Fire, a vast Pacific Ocean region where many of Earth’s earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
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INDONESIA Muslims observe Idul Adha in peace
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JAKARTA - Millions of Indonesian Muslims across the archipelago took part in peaceful morning prayers held on Tuesday to mark the Idul Adha Islamic day of sacrifice and the Haj pilgrimage. Accompanied by their families and relatives, they packed mosques across Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, to mark the Idul Adha festivities. In Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Boediono attended the Idul Adha prayer service at the capital’s Istiqlal grand mosque. Besides the president and the vice president, other state officials and cabinet ministers were also present at the gathering where the prayer was led by Hasanudin Sinaga while the Idul Adha sermon was delivered by Faried Wajdy. Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said that after the prayer, President Yudhoyono was to make an offering of a sacrificial cow, weighing more than one ton, to the Istiqlal mosque. “After the prayer, the head of state and his family will offer a sacrificial cow, weighing more than one ton, to the mosque,” Julian said. In Yogyakarta, Muhyidin Mawardi said in his Idul Adha sermon that the Muslims in the country must be grateful for a safe and conducive environment for them to observe the religious event this year in peace. “We have to be grateful for this peaceful situation as we observe Idul Adha, since our Muslim brothers and sisters in countries such as Myanmar, Mindanao in the Philippines, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Palestine do not enjoy such an atmosphere,” he said. Muhyidin noted that the Muslims in those countries are in unsafe situations, and face tough circumstances as the devout observe the Islamic Day of Sacrifice and the Haj pilgrimage. “It is because those countries are still beset by unrest and conflicts of interest, besides a prolonged power struggle,” said the coordinator of Muhammadiyah central executive board. He called on the Muslims in Indonesia to, therefore, pray for the people in those countries so that they may get out of the chaos that they are facing. Meanwhile, former Religious Affairs Minister Maftuh Basyuni said at At-Tin Grand Mosque in East Jakarta that the leaders in the country should understand the real meaning of sacrifice involved in the observance of Idul Adha festivities. “The problem that this nation faces is that its leaders are not united and do not understand the spirit of sacrifice, and fail to let go of their personal interests in the larger interests of the nation,” Maftuh said. In Manado, the predominantly Christian city in North Sulawesi, thousands of Muslims packed the mosques and gathered in open fields to perform the Idul Adha prayers. North Sulawesi Governor Sinyo Sarundajang said the observance of Idul Adha festivities this year should lend a good momentum towards maintaining religious harmony and a spirit of tolerance in the province. “Besides, it is also an opportunity for the people here to continue preserving the unity, integrity, and a sense of brotherhood to sustain the community in an atmosphere of harmony,” Sarundajang said in Manado on Tuesday. The governor pointed out that Indonesia is a pluralist nation, and North Sulawesi is also made up of various ethnic groups and people with different religious background but they can coexist in perfect harmony. In the predominantly-Muslim Aceh province also, thousands performed the Idul Adha prayers at various mosques and in open fields in Banda Aceh city. Followers from several other districts in Aceh, such as Aceh Jaya, Central Aceh, Gayo Lues, Pidie, South Aceh, Southwestern Aceh, and West Aceh, also packed the mosque yards on Tuesday morning.
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Muslims perform a morning prayer marking the Eid al-Adha holiday on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
President to sign regulation in lieu of law on MK Antara
JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Tuesday he would signed a controversial regulation in lieu of law (Perpu) on the graft tainted Constitutional Court this week. “Tonight I am heading a cabinet meeting to discuss the Perpu on MK. Hopefully I would sign the bill in two days,” Yudhoyono said in a statement. The plan to issue the Perpu followed the arrest of now suspended chief justice Akil Mochtar on charge of receiving bribe. The arrest of Akil on Oct 2 by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) came as a thunder stroke to many as MK has been considered the cleanest and most untarnished institution in this corruption infested country. The president said there are three important points in the Perpu including the requirements to be met by MK judges, recruitment system or process of electing the MK judges, and supervision of MK. “The Perpu is in line with the 1945 Constitution and we make it free from partisan political interest in electing MK judges,” he said. Hopefully the Perpu would regain the public trust in
MK that it could properly carry out its duties, he said. Despite the authority given by the 1945 Constitutions to the president, the House of Representatives (DPR) and the Supreme Court (MA), the process of electing MK judges should be accountable and transparent, he said. “It would be very dangerous if MK which holds such a huge power has no public trust. There should be no public suspicion left in MK,” he said. Former and first MK chief justice Jimly Asshiddiqie, however, raised a controversy when he expressed opposition to the Perpu, which he described as not constitutional. Jimly, who is highly respected for his contribution to building up MK’s reputation as a clean institution during his two terms as chief justice,had said MK should be allowed to keep the authority to settle election disputes. Control over MK and call for reducing its power have been widely debated by law experts. Previously the authority to settle election disputes lied in the hands of MA, but it was later handed over to MK as MA itself had failed to win public confidence. The president said relevant ministers, law experts were involved in drafting the Perpu.
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Lakers trying new combinations in China Associated Press Writer
BEIJING — Deprived of the injured Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers will be looking at different player combinations when they face the Golden State Warriors in Beijing on Tuesday.
Padangbai Beach: A delightful paradise of divers
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KARANGASEM - Padangbai is developed into a nature and cultural tourism in a tourism resort development of Candidasa, Padangbai Village, Manggis Subdistrict, Karangasem. It is about 25 km from the town of Amlapura, 13 km from Candidasa and about 31 km east of Denpasar. At this location sits a harbor becoming the access of transportation to Lombok Island, NTB. The name of Padang-
bai got influence from the Dutch as a result of colonial period. It was formerly known as Teluk Padang or the Padang Bay. It is a white sandy bay whose location is tranquilly surrounded by black rock. Due to its strategic location, the life of undersea nature is well maintained. Padangbai attraction has pure white and thick sandy beach that is good for sunbathing or swimming. Besides, its natural undersea beauty is very appropriate for diving and snorkeling because it is
rich in various kinds of coral reefs and amazing ornamental fish. Another attraction that can be found here is an exotic blue lagoon becoming a favorite destination for divers. Meanwhile, Padangbai also has a cultural attraction in the form of Dang Kahyangan Temple (universal temple) complex. In the east of Padangbai Beach lies the Silayukti Temple founded by Mpu Kuturan in the eleventh century during his pilgrimage to Bali. Mpu Kuturan was a priest hav-
ing a great merit in setting up the Hinduism in Bali where his teachings remained to be adhered to and implemented by the Hindus in Bali today. In the south of the temple lies the Tanjung Sari Temple built by Mpu Bharadah, the youngest brother of Mpu Kuturan. Then, in the west of Padangbai sits the Penataran Agung Temple founded in the sixteenth century by Danghyang Dwijendra also known as Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rawuh, a descendant of the Mpu Kuturan. IBP/File Photo
Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni said Monday he hopes to be able to start thinking about starting lineups following the Beijing game and another one Friday in Shanghai. “We’ve got to keep improving. I’m watching guys who play well together so we can start thinking about starting lineups and stuff like that,” D’Antoni said at a Monday practice session at the western Beijing arena where the teams will play. “And we have guys competing for jobs. They’re trying to earn jobs. So it’s a hard time for these players but they’re doing well.” Although he made the trip to China, Bryant is expected to be out for much of the season with a torn Achilles tendon and right knee. The trip to China is part of the NBA’s Global Games, part of efforts to promote the league’s global brand that also offers a break from the monotony of training camp and a chance to build camaraderie. Pau Gasol said the team has the offensive tools to make up for Bryant’s absence. But he said the most important thing was just for everyone to stay healthy. “It’s just a matter of having everybody else healthy so we have as many guys as possible to be able to make up for Kobe’s absence,” Gasol said.
Golden State guard Stephen Curry said Gasol and veteran guard Steve Nash will be the Lakers’ main threats. “They don’t have Kobe and probably won’t for a little bit, but they’ve still got a lot of talent,” Curry said. Bryant is easily one of the most popular NBA players in China and was the focus of local media attention at Monday’s practice. Amid questions about his latest signature shoe design and his teammates’ special skills, he looked back to last season when the Lakers struggled with injuries and were swept by San Antonio in the first round of the playoffs. “I think it was an unfortunate year. We got so many injuries, decimated with injuries, but ... we’re looking forward to getting back out there this year and making up for lost time,” Bryant said.
Los Angeles Lakers guard Jodie Meeks (20) looks to pass while along the baseline during the first half against the Denver Nuggets at Staples Center.
Phillip Island braces for Stoner-free era Reuters
Stoner, who pushed his Honda to a record sixth straight victory at Phillip Island last year before bowing out of the sport at the age of 27, will hit the bucolic seaside circuit again but only for an honorary lap with fellow Australian world title-winners Mick Doohan and Wayne Gardner. Stoner’s valedictory appearance lured a
bumper race-day crowd of 55,000 last year, with leather-clad enthusiasts riding thousands MELBOURNE - The retirement of Casey of miles from distant states to farewell the local Stoner will be keenly felt at Sunday’s Aushero whose family sold their farm to finance his tralian MotoGP, where the two-time world boyhood dream. champion’s domination was a guarantee of Organisers will be happy with 40,000 turnsolid crowds and a comfort to organisers under ing up this year and have pinned their hopes on pressure to rein in costs. 20-year-old Marc Marquez’s bid to become the youngest world champion - and a forecast of sunshine at Phillip Island’s notoriously changeable weather. “It’ll be tougher without Casey Stoner here, we had an unbelievable strong amount of revenue growth from Casey Stoner’s decision to retire last year but that will be difficult to match,” Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) CEO Andrew Westacott told Reuters in a phone interview on Tuesday. “Because if we’re not getting the same level of attendance, we’re going to be short of revenue.” Australia’s appetite for world class sport and major events has seen motorcycling’s premier championship make a stop Down Under since 1989, with Phillip Island hosting a race for all but six of the years. Like the higher-profile Formula One race held at Albert Park circuit a two hour drive up the road to Melbourne, the MotoGP has long been subsidised by taxpayers, albeit far less controversially than the four-wheel race which has posted losses of above A$50 million ($47.40 million) in recent years. As boss of both races, Westacott has one of the toughest jobs in Australian sport, caught between government officials determined to REUTERS/Samsul Said Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa of Spain celebrates before crossing the finish line to reap political capital from hosting prestigious win the Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix in Sepang October 13, 2013. events while demanding organisers cut costs.
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Czechs Stepanek, Rosol reach 2nd round in Vienna
Associated Press Writer
VIENNA — Czech players Radek Stepanek and Lukas Rosol earned straight-set wins in the opening round of the Erste Bank Open on Monday. The fifth-seeded Stepanek beat Martin Fischer of Austria 7-5, 6-3, despite being broken three times in the opening set. He converted six of his own 13 break points in total. In the only other first-round match, eighth-seeded Rosol hit 13 aces on his way to a 6-3, 7-5 win over Jesse Huta Galung of the Netherlands. Also, the son of 1988 Olympic champion Miloslav Mecir came through three qualifying rounds to earn his first main draw entry. The 25-year-old Miloslav Mecir Jr. of Slovakia, who is ranked 240th, plays Pablo Andujar of Spain on Tuesday.
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Sp rt Real Madrid could bid for Falcao next year, Perez says
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Cameroon’s Allan Romeo Nyom, left, and Tunisia’s Saber Khelifa, right, in action during their round 3, first leg World Cup qualifying soccer match, in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. The match ended 0-0.
MADRID - Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has hinted the world’s richest club by income could buy Monaco’s Colombia striker Radamel Falcao next year.
“Karim is a great player and we get offers for him all the time, every summer. “All I can say is that the coach is the one who has the authority to do what he believes is right.” STOP WHISTLING
Perez urged Real fans to get behind the players and suggested the whistling could destabilise the team. “I know how demanding the fans are. The players at this club have come to run, make sacrifices and fight, that’s what our fathers taught us and that is what we teach our children but we have to moderate these demands. “I am greatly disturbed by this whistling of our own players in our own stadium. “I ask that our members moderate the whistles and the criticism of our players because, if not, it could weaken us.” Perez also discussed the planned refurbishment of the Bernabeu stadium and raised the prospect of a sponsor’s name being added to the giant arena. “We want to start the works at the Bernabeu in the summer,” he said. “It will be emblematic, to create a Bernabeu for the 21st century. We are looking
for a sponsor and although the stadium will definitely still be called Bernabeu it could also have the name of a sponsor.” Spanish media have reported that the remodelling of the stadium will cost 400 million euros and the venue may take the name “Santiago Bernabeu Fly Emirates” after the club’s Dubai-based partner.
Fans vandalize World Cup stadium in Brazil Associated Press Writer
SAO PAULO — Another wave of fan violence hit Brazil over the weekend, with seats destroyed at a World Cup stadium in Fortaleza and dozens of supporters detained after clashes in Sao Paulo. World Cup organizers on Monday said that more than 80 seats were destroyed at the Arena Castelao on Sunday by Fortaleza fans upset with the team missing out on promotion to the second division. A day earlier, more than 30 seats were damaged by fans of second-division club Ceara following a disappointing draw at the venue. The stadium will host six matches in next year’s World Cup. Police also confronted fan groups inside two other stadiums, including where Brazilian league leader Cruzeiro played on Sunday. No serious injuries were reported in the incidents. Several teams have been punished by Brazil’s sports tribunal this year because of fan violence, and more penalties are expected after this weekend. Vasco da Gama, Corinthians and second-division club Palmeiras all have lost home-field
AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan
Colombia’s Radamel Falcao Garcia celebrates after scoring his team’s second goal against Chile during a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Barranquilla, Colombia, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Colombia tied 3-3 and booked its ticket for the 2014 finals in Brazil .
advantage because of fan confrontations this year. The tribunal has already said it will look into the problems this weekend. Little more than a week ago, the first-division match between Atletico Paranaense and Botafogo in the World Cup host city Curitiba was delayed at halftime because of fan fighting in the stands. That same weekend, a second-division game in the host city of Natal was delayed for nearly an hour as fans jumped onto the field to escape overcrowded stands. The problem at the Arena Castelao happened after third-division club Fortaleza couldn’t manage more than a 2-2 draw against Sampaio Correa, a result that kept the traditional northeastern club from having a chance to reach the second division. Nearly 60,000 Fortaleza fans packed the stadium, a n d some of them began destroying the seats after the final whistle.
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Seeding incentive for Uruguay against arch rivals Argentina
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Speaking on Spanish soccer chat show Punto Pelota on Monday night, Perez ruled out a bid for Falcao in the next transfer window in January but suggested Real could table one in the close season. Falcao, 27, left Real’s city rivals Atletico to join Monaco at the end of last season for a fee media reported was around 60 million euros ($81.5 million). “He (Falcao) won’t come in January but in June, who knows?” Perez said. “Nothing is impossible and there is a lot of time between now and then,” the construction magnate added. “Falcao is a great player and I am aware that he wants to play for (Real) Madrid. I am aware of that, but it’s normal. They told me.” One reason Real may be in the market for another striker is the patchy form of their French international Karim Benzema. A favourite of Perez, Benzema has failed to win over Real’s demanding fans since his arrival in 2009 and is regularly whistled by some sections of the Bernabeu crowd. Perez sought to defend the 25-year-old, who has been criticised by Real coach Carlo Ancelotti for not working hard enough on the pitch. “I have faith in all the players in our squad,” Perez said.
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Nigeria beats Ethiopia, Cameroon draws in Tunisia Associated Press Writer
Emmanuel Emenike converted a 90th-minute penalty for a secondhalf brace to lead Nigeria to a 2-1 win in Ethiopia in their World Cup playoff on Sunday, putting the African champion in a strong position to play at football’s main event in Brazil next year. In Sunday’s other playoff game, Samuel Eto’o reversed his brief international retirement and captained Cameroon in a 0-0 draw in Tunisia in their first leg, leaving his country with a slight advantage ahead of its home game next month. Nigeria, this year’s African Cup winner, needed a late comeback in Addis Ababa after a determined Ethiopia dominated with its highpaced passing game for the first hour. Nigeria’s Godfrey Oboabona had to clear off the line in the 23rd to deny Saladin Said an early goal for the Ethiopians and Behailu Assefa then put the hosts ahead in the 57th when goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama fumbled his shot into the net. But Fenerbahce forward Emenike equalized 10 minutes later and struck from the spot at the end to give Nigeria a lead to take to its home leg in Calabar on Nov. 16. Ethiopia is trying to reach its first ever World Cup but was left to rue a string of missed early chances as Nigeria closed in on its fifth trip to the tournament out of the last six. Ethiopia was convinced Saladin’s first-half attempt had crossed the line before Oboabona’s clearance, and the country’s football federation said it would register a complaint with the Confederation o f African
Football against referee Neant Alioum of Cameroon. Eto’o started for Cameroon in Rades on the outskirts of Tunis after being convinced by state president Paul Biya to rejoin the squad for the crucial playoff. He had a subdued role as Tunisia started rapidly and Yassine Chikhaoui twice failed to capitalize when one-on-one with Cameroon goalkeeper Charles Itandje in the first five minutes. “We are satisfied with the result,” Cameroon’s German coach Volker Finke said. “The final result is a good thing and now we have to win the next match.” Cameroon worked its way back into the game and should have taken the lead when Pierre Webo missed an open goal in the 69th minute, but at least managed a clean sheet ahead of the second leg at home in Yaounde on Nov. 17. “We had some problems in the first 25 minutes but we improved our game little by little,” Finke said.
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay may be resigned to having to face a playoff for their World Cup ticket but they take on Argentina on Tuesday with the incentive of protecting their high FIFA ranking to ensure that if they do make it they will be among the seeds in Brazil. Argentina have already qualified and it would take an unlikely combination of results for Uruguay to snatch another of the automatic berths but victory in Montevideo should go a long way to keeping them ranked in the world’s top eight. Uruguay seem destined for a playoff with Asia’s Jordan and if they then make it to Brazil 2014, they would hope to be one of the eight seeds - based on world rankings - when the groups are drawn which should mean avoiding an early encounter with one of the favourites. South America’s oldest rivalry, dating back to 1901 when Argentina and Uruguay played their first friendly in Montevideo, resumes at the Centenario on
Tuesday (2330 GMT) where the teams meet in their final qualifier. “It’s certainly an incentive to win the ‘clasico’ and if there’s a chance we have to defend it (our ranking) to the death,” said Uruguay captain Diego Lugano, whose team are number seven in the world. Lugano, who led Uruguay to the 2010 World Cup semi-finals in South Africa, said that despite being one yellow card away from a suspension he would not hold back for fear of missing the first leg of next month’s playoff. “Those three points could seal our place as seeds and that’s why they’re very important,” Uruguayan FA chief Sebastian Bauza told reporters.
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Coach Oscar Tabarez, on the other hand, gave little importance to the issue of seeding, saying: “It’s not something that worries me. “I recall that when the draw was made for 2010, we were practically re-
ceiving condolences because it was the group of death and I don’t how many other things. It’s all relative and the world won’t end for us if we’re not seeds.” Lugano and Tabarez have said the chances of qualifying directly on Tuesday defy logic since they need a big win and for Chile or Ecuador to win their match in Santiago by a large margin. As things stand, with Uruguay three points behind both of them, Chile and Ecuador look set to take the last two automatic berths, sending the Uruguayans to the playoff. Colombia have already qualified alongside group winners Argentina. The last time Argentina played at the Centenario in October 2009, Diego Maradona’s side beat Uruguay 1-0 to book their ticket to the South Africa finals in 2010. Since then, Uruguay eliminated hosts Argentina in the 2011 Copa America quarter-finals on penalties and Lionel Messi’s team exacted revenge with a 3-0 victory in their home qualifier in Mendoza a year ago.
World Cup playoff seeding unfair, say France Reuters
PARIS - France believe the seeding system is unfair for the World Cup playoffs in November and plan to ask soccer’s ruling body FIFA to review it ahead of next week’s draw. World and European champions Spain are three points ahead in Group I and host Georgia in their final qualifier on Tuesday when second-placed France, who look certain to go through to the playoffs, entertain Finland. The playoff seeds will be determined by FIFA rankings and 25th-placed France face a likely clash with another big footballing nation. Les Bleus believe the system is flawed because fewer ranking points were available in five-nation Group I while the other sections all contained six teams. “We’re going to contact (FIFA),” French Federation president Noel Le Graet told the radio station RMC. “There is a little injustice between the group of five and the groups of six. “Our rivals from other groups have been able to score more points ... that’s a fact.” Asked if he had discussed the issue with Le Great, coach Didier Deschamps said he was not aware of a potential appeal. “I don’t know if my president will bring the case,” he told a news conference at Stade de France. “I wouldn’t go that far in saying there’s an injustice but the fact is that we are sanctioned,” he added. “I see it from my position, from an ethical point of view. It’s already complicated to be in a group of five and we also lack some points.” Captain Hugo Lloris also found it hard for a team who won the 1998 World Cup and reached the final in
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France’s soccer head coach Didier Deschamps, left, and Laurent Koscielny, right, attend a training session at the Stade de France stadium in Saint Denis, north of Paris, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, ahead of their 2014 World Cup Group I qualifying soccer match against Finland. 2006 not to be seeded although he recognised it was up to the players to improve the rankings. “It shows us how much work we have to do. France should be seeded because of their history,” he said. “Our ranking has put us in a difficult position but we have to make do with it. It requires us to work harder, to make more effort.
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Cameroon’s Allan Romeo Nyom, left, and Tunisia’s Saber Khelifa, right, in action during their round 3, first leg World Cup qualifying soccer match, in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. The match ended 0-0.
MADRID - Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has hinted the world’s richest club by income could buy Monaco’s Colombia striker Radamel Falcao next year.
“Karim is a great player and we get offers for him all the time, every summer. “All I can say is that the coach is the one who has the authority to do what he believes is right.” STOP WHISTLING
Perez urged Real fans to get behind the players and suggested the whistling could destabilise the team. “I know how demanding the fans are. The players at this club have come to run, make sacrifices and fight, that’s what our fathers taught us and that is what we teach our children but we have to moderate these demands. “I am greatly disturbed by this whistling of our own players in our own stadium. “I ask that our members moderate the whistles and the criticism of our players because, if not, it could weaken us.” Perez also discussed the planned refurbishment of the Bernabeu stadium and raised the prospect of a sponsor’s name being added to the giant arena. “We want to start the works at the Bernabeu in the summer,” he said. “It will be emblematic, to create a Bernabeu for the 21st century. We are looking
for a sponsor and although the stadium will definitely still be called Bernabeu it could also have the name of a sponsor.” Spanish media have reported that the remodelling of the stadium will cost 400 million euros and the venue may take the name “Santiago Bernabeu Fly Emirates” after the club’s Dubai-based partner.
Fans vandalize World Cup stadium in Brazil Associated Press Writer
SAO PAULO — Another wave of fan violence hit Brazil over the weekend, with seats destroyed at a World Cup stadium in Fortaleza and dozens of supporters detained after clashes in Sao Paulo. World Cup organizers on Monday said that more than 80 seats were destroyed at the Arena Castelao on Sunday by Fortaleza fans upset with the team missing out on promotion to the second division. A day earlier, more than 30 seats were damaged by fans of second-division club Ceara following a disappointing draw at the venue. The stadium will host six matches in next year’s World Cup. Police also confronted fan groups inside two other stadiums, including where Brazilian league leader Cruzeiro played on Sunday. No serious injuries were reported in the incidents. Several teams have been punished by Brazil’s sports tribunal this year because of fan violence, and more penalties are expected after this weekend. Vasco da Gama, Corinthians and second-division club Palmeiras all have lost home-field
AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan
Colombia’s Radamel Falcao Garcia celebrates after scoring his team’s second goal against Chile during a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Barranquilla, Colombia, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Colombia tied 3-3 and booked its ticket for the 2014 finals in Brazil .
advantage because of fan confrontations this year. The tribunal has already said it will look into the problems this weekend. Little more than a week ago, the first-division match between Atletico Paranaense and Botafogo in the World Cup host city Curitiba was delayed at halftime because of fan fighting in the stands. That same weekend, a second-division game in the host city of Natal was delayed for nearly an hour as fans jumped onto the field to escape overcrowded stands. The problem at the Arena Castelao happened after third-division club Fortaleza couldn’t manage more than a 2-2 draw against Sampaio Correa, a result that kept the traditional northeastern club from having a chance to reach the second division. Nearly 60,000 Fortaleza fans packed the stadium, a n d some of them began destroying the seats after the final whistle.
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Seeding incentive for Uruguay against arch rivals Argentina
Reuters
Speaking on Spanish soccer chat show Punto Pelota on Monday night, Perez ruled out a bid for Falcao in the next transfer window in January but suggested Real could table one in the close season. Falcao, 27, left Real’s city rivals Atletico to join Monaco at the end of last season for a fee media reported was around 60 million euros ($81.5 million). “He (Falcao) won’t come in January but in June, who knows?” Perez said. “Nothing is impossible and there is a lot of time between now and then,” the construction magnate added. “Falcao is a great player and I am aware that he wants to play for (Real) Madrid. I am aware of that, but it’s normal. They told me.” One reason Real may be in the market for another striker is the patchy form of their French international Karim Benzema. A favourite of Perez, Benzema has failed to win over Real’s demanding fans since his arrival in 2009 and is regularly whistled by some sections of the Bernabeu crowd. Perez sought to defend the 25-year-old, who has been criticised by Real coach Carlo Ancelotti for not working hard enough on the pitch. “I have faith in all the players in our squad,” Perez said.
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Nigeria beats Ethiopia, Cameroon draws in Tunisia Associated Press Writer
Emmanuel Emenike converted a 90th-minute penalty for a secondhalf brace to lead Nigeria to a 2-1 win in Ethiopia in their World Cup playoff on Sunday, putting the African champion in a strong position to play at football’s main event in Brazil next year. In Sunday’s other playoff game, Samuel Eto’o reversed his brief international retirement and captained Cameroon in a 0-0 draw in Tunisia in their first leg, leaving his country with a slight advantage ahead of its home game next month. Nigeria, this year’s African Cup winner, needed a late comeback in Addis Ababa after a determined Ethiopia dominated with its highpaced passing game for the first hour. Nigeria’s Godfrey Oboabona had to clear off the line in the 23rd to deny Saladin Said an early goal for the Ethiopians and Behailu Assefa then put the hosts ahead in the 57th when goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama fumbled his shot into the net. But Fenerbahce forward Emenike equalized 10 minutes later and struck from the spot at the end to give Nigeria a lead to take to its home leg in Calabar on Nov. 16. Ethiopia is trying to reach its first ever World Cup but was left to rue a string of missed early chances as Nigeria closed in on its fifth trip to the tournament out of the last six. Ethiopia was convinced Saladin’s first-half attempt had crossed the line before Oboabona’s clearance, and the country’s football federation said it would register a complaint with the Confederation o f African
Football against referee Neant Alioum of Cameroon. Eto’o started for Cameroon in Rades on the outskirts of Tunis after being convinced by state president Paul Biya to rejoin the squad for the crucial playoff. He had a subdued role as Tunisia started rapidly and Yassine Chikhaoui twice failed to capitalize when one-on-one with Cameroon goalkeeper Charles Itandje in the first five minutes. “We are satisfied with the result,” Cameroon’s German coach Volker Finke said. “The final result is a good thing and now we have to win the next match.” Cameroon worked its way back into the game and should have taken the lead when Pierre Webo missed an open goal in the 69th minute, but at least managed a clean sheet ahead of the second leg at home in Yaounde on Nov. 17. “We had some problems in the first 25 minutes but we improved our game little by little,” Finke said.
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay may be resigned to having to face a playoff for their World Cup ticket but they take on Argentina on Tuesday with the incentive of protecting their high FIFA ranking to ensure that if they do make it they will be among the seeds in Brazil. Argentina have already qualified and it would take an unlikely combination of results for Uruguay to snatch another of the automatic berths but victory in Montevideo should go a long way to keeping them ranked in the world’s top eight. Uruguay seem destined for a playoff with Asia’s Jordan and if they then make it to Brazil 2014, they would hope to be one of the eight seeds - based on world rankings - when the groups are drawn which should mean avoiding an early encounter with one of the favourites. South America’s oldest rivalry, dating back to 1901 when Argentina and Uruguay played their first friendly in Montevideo, resumes at the Centenario on
Tuesday (2330 GMT) where the teams meet in their final qualifier. “It’s certainly an incentive to win the ‘clasico’ and if there’s a chance we have to defend it (our ranking) to the death,” said Uruguay captain Diego Lugano, whose team are number seven in the world. Lugano, who led Uruguay to the 2010 World Cup semi-finals in South Africa, said that despite being one yellow card away from a suspension he would not hold back for fear of missing the first leg of next month’s playoff. “Those three points could seal our place as seeds and that’s why they’re very important,” Uruguayan FA chief Sebastian Bauza told reporters.
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Coach Oscar Tabarez, on the other hand, gave little importance to the issue of seeding, saying: “It’s not something that worries me. “I recall that when the draw was made for 2010, we were practically re-
ceiving condolences because it was the group of death and I don’t how many other things. It’s all relative and the world won’t end for us if we’re not seeds.” Lugano and Tabarez have said the chances of qualifying directly on Tuesday defy logic since they need a big win and for Chile or Ecuador to win their match in Santiago by a large margin. As things stand, with Uruguay three points behind both of them, Chile and Ecuador look set to take the last two automatic berths, sending the Uruguayans to the playoff. Colombia have already qualified alongside group winners Argentina. The last time Argentina played at the Centenario in October 2009, Diego Maradona’s side beat Uruguay 1-0 to book their ticket to the South Africa finals in 2010. Since then, Uruguay eliminated hosts Argentina in the 2011 Copa America quarter-finals on penalties and Lionel Messi’s team exacted revenge with a 3-0 victory in their home qualifier in Mendoza a year ago.
World Cup playoff seeding unfair, say France Reuters
PARIS - France believe the seeding system is unfair for the World Cup playoffs in November and plan to ask soccer’s ruling body FIFA to review it ahead of next week’s draw. World and European champions Spain are three points ahead in Group I and host Georgia in their final qualifier on Tuesday when second-placed France, who look certain to go through to the playoffs, entertain Finland. The playoff seeds will be determined by FIFA rankings and 25th-placed France face a likely clash with another big footballing nation. Les Bleus believe the system is flawed because fewer ranking points were available in five-nation Group I while the other sections all contained six teams. “We’re going to contact (FIFA),” French Federation president Noel Le Graet told the radio station RMC. “There is a little injustice between the group of five and the groups of six. “Our rivals from other groups have been able to score more points ... that’s a fact.” Asked if he had discussed the issue with Le Great, coach Didier Deschamps said he was not aware of a potential appeal. “I don’t know if my president will bring the case,” he told a news conference at Stade de France. “I wouldn’t go that far in saying there’s an injustice but the fact is that we are sanctioned,” he added. “I see it from my position, from an ethical point of view. It’s already complicated to be in a group of five and we also lack some points.” Captain Hugo Lloris also found it hard for a team who won the 1998 World Cup and reached the final in
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France’s soccer head coach Didier Deschamps, left, and Laurent Koscielny, right, attend a training session at the Stade de France stadium in Saint Denis, north of Paris, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, ahead of their 2014 World Cup Group I qualifying soccer match against Finland. 2006 not to be seeded although he recognised it was up to the players to improve the rankings. “It shows us how much work we have to do. France should be seeded because of their history,” he said. “Our ranking has put us in a difficult position but we have to make do with it. It requires us to work harder, to make more effort.
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Lakers trying new combinations in China Associated Press Writer
BEIJING — Deprived of the injured Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers will be looking at different player combinations when they face the Golden State Warriors in Beijing on Tuesday.
Padangbai Beach: A delightful paradise of divers
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KARANGASEM - Padangbai is developed into a nature and cultural tourism in a tourism resort development of Candidasa, Padangbai Village, Manggis Subdistrict, Karangasem. It is about 25 km from the town of Amlapura, 13 km from Candidasa and about 31 km east of Denpasar. At this location sits a harbor becoming the access of transportation to Lombok Island, NTB. The name of Padang-
bai got influence from the Dutch as a result of colonial period. It was formerly known as Teluk Padang or the Padang Bay. It is a white sandy bay whose location is tranquilly surrounded by black rock. Due to its strategic location, the life of undersea nature is well maintained. Padangbai attraction has pure white and thick sandy beach that is good for sunbathing or swimming. Besides, its natural undersea beauty is very appropriate for diving and snorkeling because it is
rich in various kinds of coral reefs and amazing ornamental fish. Another attraction that can be found here is an exotic blue lagoon becoming a favorite destination for divers. Meanwhile, Padangbai also has a cultural attraction in the form of Dang Kahyangan Temple (universal temple) complex. In the east of Padangbai Beach lies the Silayukti Temple founded by Mpu Kuturan in the eleventh century during his pilgrimage to Bali. Mpu Kuturan was a priest hav-
ing a great merit in setting up the Hinduism in Bali where his teachings remained to be adhered to and implemented by the Hindus in Bali today. In the south of the temple lies the Tanjung Sari Temple built by Mpu Bharadah, the youngest brother of Mpu Kuturan. Then, in the west of Padangbai sits the Penataran Agung Temple founded in the sixteenth century by Danghyang Dwijendra also known as Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rawuh, a descendant of the Mpu Kuturan. IBP/File Photo
Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni said Monday he hopes to be able to start thinking about starting lineups following the Beijing game and another one Friday in Shanghai. “We’ve got to keep improving. I’m watching guys who play well together so we can start thinking about starting lineups and stuff like that,” D’Antoni said at a Monday practice session at the western Beijing arena where the teams will play. “And we have guys competing for jobs. They’re trying to earn jobs. So it’s a hard time for these players but they’re doing well.” Although he made the trip to China, Bryant is expected to be out for much of the season with a torn Achilles tendon and right knee. The trip to China is part of the NBA’s Global Games, part of efforts to promote the league’s global brand that also offers a break from the monotony of training camp and a chance to build camaraderie. Pau Gasol said the team has the offensive tools to make up for Bryant’s absence. But he said the most important thing was just for everyone to stay healthy. “It’s just a matter of having everybody else healthy so we have as many guys as possible to be able to make up for Kobe’s absence,” Gasol said.
Golden State guard Stephen Curry said Gasol and veteran guard Steve Nash will be the Lakers’ main threats. “They don’t have Kobe and probably won’t for a little bit, but they’ve still got a lot of talent,” Curry said. Bryant is easily one of the most popular NBA players in China and was the focus of local media attention at Monday’s practice. Amid questions about his latest signature shoe design and his teammates’ special skills, he looked back to last season when the Lakers struggled with injuries and were swept by San Antonio in the first round of the playoffs. “I think it was an unfortunate year. We got so many injuries, decimated with injuries, but ... we’re looking forward to getting back out there this year and making up for lost time,” Bryant said.
Los Angeles Lakers guard Jodie Meeks (20) looks to pass while along the baseline during the first half against the Denver Nuggets at Staples Center.
Phillip Island braces for Stoner-free era Reuters
Stoner, who pushed his Honda to a record sixth straight victory at Phillip Island last year before bowing out of the sport at the age of 27, will hit the bucolic seaside circuit again but only for an honorary lap with fellow Australian world title-winners Mick Doohan and Wayne Gardner. Stoner’s valedictory appearance lured a
bumper race-day crowd of 55,000 last year, with leather-clad enthusiasts riding thousands MELBOURNE - The retirement of Casey of miles from distant states to farewell the local Stoner will be keenly felt at Sunday’s Aushero whose family sold their farm to finance his tralian MotoGP, where the two-time world boyhood dream. champion’s domination was a guarantee of Organisers will be happy with 40,000 turnsolid crowds and a comfort to organisers under ing up this year and have pinned their hopes on pressure to rein in costs. 20-year-old Marc Marquez’s bid to become the youngest world champion - and a forecast of sunshine at Phillip Island’s notoriously changeable weather. “It’ll be tougher without Casey Stoner here, we had an unbelievable strong amount of revenue growth from Casey Stoner’s decision to retire last year but that will be difficult to match,” Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) CEO Andrew Westacott told Reuters in a phone interview on Tuesday. “Because if we’re not getting the same level of attendance, we’re going to be short of revenue.” Australia’s appetite for world class sport and major events has seen motorcycling’s premier championship make a stop Down Under since 1989, with Phillip Island hosting a race for all but six of the years. Like the higher-profile Formula One race held at Albert Park circuit a two hour drive up the road to Melbourne, the MotoGP has long been subsidised by taxpayers, albeit far less controversially than the four-wheel race which has posted losses of above A$50 million ($47.40 million) in recent years. As boss of both races, Westacott has one of the toughest jobs in Australian sport, caught between government officials determined to REUTERS/Samsul Said Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa of Spain celebrates before crossing the finish line to reap political capital from hosting prestigious win the Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix in Sepang October 13, 2013. events while demanding organisers cut costs.
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Czechs Stepanek, Rosol reach 2nd round in Vienna
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VIENNA — Czech players Radek Stepanek and Lukas Rosol earned straight-set wins in the opening round of the Erste Bank Open on Monday. The fifth-seeded Stepanek beat Martin Fischer of Austria 7-5, 6-3, despite being broken three times in the opening set. He converted six of his own 13 break points in total. In the only other first-round match, eighth-seeded Rosol hit 13 aces on his way to a 6-3, 7-5 win over Jesse Huta Galung of the Netherlands. Also, the son of 1988 Olympic champion Miloslav Mecir came through three qualifying rounds to earn his first main draw entry. The 25-year-old Miloslav Mecir Jr. of Slovakia, who is ranked 240th, plays Pablo Andujar of Spain on Tuesday.
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Motorcyclists ride past along fallen trees, caused by Typhoon Nari, along a street in Vietnam’s central Danang city, October 15, 2013.
Typhoon Nari hits Vietnam, 122,000 people evacuated Reuters
HANOI - Typhoon Nari knocked down trees and damaged hundreds of houses in central Vietnam early on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, state media said. More than 122,000 people had been moved to safe ground in several provinces, including Quang Nam and Danang city, by late Monday before the typhoon arrived, the official Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported. Nari later hit the Vietnamese coast with wind speeds of up to 102 kmh (63 mph). Soldiers were sent to help people reinforce their homes and
guide ships to shelter in Danang, a famous tourist destination, staterun Voice of Vietnam radio said. More than 2,000 passengers were stranded when national carrier Vietnam Airlines canceled 14 flights on Monday and planned to delay another eight on Tuesday, the airline said in a statement. Vietnam’s central region is widely exposed to the sea and is
often hit during the storm season between July and October. Typhoon Nari did not affect the Central Highlands, Vietnam’s coffee belt, which lies further to the south. Nari was moving west at about 15 kmh (10 mph) and was expected to weaken into a tropical depression later on Tuesday, the national weather station said.
‘Once in a decade’ typhoon threatens Japanese capital Reuters
TOKYO - A once-in-a-decade typhoon threatened Japan on Tuesday forcing the cancellation of flights and trains and disrupting oil shipments as it made its way across the Pacific directly towards the capital, Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha is expected to make landfall right around the morning rush hour on Wednesday, bringing hurricane-force winds to the metropolitan area of 30 million people. The center of the storm was 860 km (535 miles) southwest of Tokyo at 0800 GMT, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. It was moving north-northeast at 35 kph (22 mph). The storm had weakened as it headed north over the sea but was still packing sustained winds of about 140 kph (87 mph) with gusts
as high as 194 kph (120 mph), the agency said. The agency issued warnings for Tokyo of heavy rain, flooding and gales, and advised people to be prepared to leave their homes quickly and to avoid unnecessary travel. A spokesman for the agency said the storm was a “once in a decade event” and the strongest cyclone to approach eastern Japan since October 2004. That cyclone triggered floods and landslides that killed almost 100 people, forced thousands to evacuate their homes and caused billions of dollars in damage. Four Japanese oil refining companies said they suspended marine berth shipments in eastern Japan as the typhoon approached but there was no impact on refining operations. The affected facilities are Idemitsu
Kosan Co’s Chiba and Aichi refineries, JX Holdings Inc’s Negishi, Kashima and Sendai refineries, Fuji Oil Co’s Sodegaura refinery and Cosmo Oil Co’s Chiba refinery. Japan Airlines Co cancelled 183 domestic flights on Tuesday and Wednesday, mostly from Tokyo’s Haneda airport. Rival ANA Holdings Inc halted 210 flights in Japan with three international flights also cancelled. The combined cancellations will affect 60,850 passengers, the airlines said. East Japan Railway Co said it had cancelled 31 bullet trains going north and west from Tokyo. Nissan Motor Co said it was cancelling the Wednesday morning shift at its Oppama and Yokohama plants south of Tokyo. Oppama makes the all-electric Leaf and other models.
BEIJING - A Chinese man in a wheelchair who detonated a homemade bomb in Beijing’s airport after trying to draw attention to a nearly decade-long legal battle was sentenced to six years in jail, his lawyer said on Tuesday, sparking widespread sympathy and anger. A Beijing court found Ji Zhongxing, 34, guilty of intentionally causing an explosion, Ji’s lawyer, Liu Xiaoyuan, told Reuters by telephone. State media confirmed the sentence. Ji detonated the bomb at Beijing airport in July after being prevented from handing out leaflets that drew attention to his complaints. His case struck a chord with many Chinese seeking justice in an inflexible political system. Ji, from eastern Shandong province, had been seeking redress for a claimed beating by police in southern Guangdong province dating back to 2005 that left him wheelchair-bound. He had been petitioning for justice ever since. Detonating the bomb at Beijing’s main airport ensured widespread exposure for Ji, even though he and a policeman who received slight wounds were the only people hurt. He faced a maximum sentence of 10 years. “We believe that this verdict is questionable,” Liu said, adding that Ji did not intend to blow up the airport or commit suicide. “During the trial, (authorities) did not seek to find out the facts,” Liu said. “Although it was mentioned in the verdict statement, they never fully considered or discovered the cause of the bombing at the airport.” Liu said Ji, who was wheeled into court on a stretcher, would consider appealing against the decision. He has 10 days to file an appeal.
73 dead... From page 1 Three of the people who died in Cebu were crushed to death in a stampede at a sports complex, where poor people had gathered to collect regular government cash handouts, according to the provincial disaster council chief, Neil Sanchez. “There was panic when the quake happened and there was a rush toward the exit,” Sanchez told AFP. He said two other people were killed when part of a school collapsed on a car they had parked in, while four others died at a fish market that crumbled. The Philippines’ oldest church, Cebu’s Basilica Minore del Santo Nino, was badly damaged, according to Balido, the civil defence spokesman. It was first built in the 1500s by Spanish colonisers, although its current stone structure dates back to the 1700s. A church on Bohol that was first built in the early 1600s also collapsed, according to Robert Michael Poole, a British tourist who was visiting the area. “It’s absolutely devastated... the entire front of the church has collapsed onto the street,” Poole told AFP by telephone. However he said there was nobody in the church at the time of the quake. Aside from its beaches, Bohol is famous for its more than 1,000 small limestone “Chocolate Hills” that turn brown during the dry season. One of the main tourist venues there, the Chocolate Hills Complex, was severely damaged and may be beyond repair, according to Delapan Ingleterra, head of a local tourist police unit. “There are huge cracks in the hotel and there was a collapse of the view deck on the second floor,” Ingleterra told AFP, adding that no-one was injured at the complex. There were no reports of foreign tourists being killed anywhere in the disaster zone. Tuesday’s quake was followed by at least four aftershocks measuring more than 5.0 in magnitude. The epicentre was 629 kilometres from Manila. The Philippines lies on the so-called Ring of Fire, a vast Pacific Ocean region where many of Earth’s earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
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INDONESIA Muslims observe Idul Adha in peace
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JAKARTA - Millions of Indonesian Muslims across the archipelago took part in peaceful morning prayers held on Tuesday to mark the Idul Adha Islamic day of sacrifice and the Haj pilgrimage. Accompanied by their families and relatives, they packed mosques across Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, to mark the Idul Adha festivities. In Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Boediono attended the Idul Adha prayer service at the capital’s Istiqlal grand mosque. Besides the president and the vice president, other state officials and cabinet ministers were also present at the gathering where the prayer was led by Hasanudin Sinaga while the Idul Adha sermon was delivered by Faried Wajdy. Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said that after the prayer, President Yudhoyono was to make an offering of a sacrificial cow, weighing more than one ton, to the Istiqlal mosque. “After the prayer, the head of state and his family will offer a sacrificial cow, weighing more than one ton, to the mosque,” Julian said. In Yogyakarta, Muhyidin Mawardi said in his Idul Adha sermon that the Muslims in the country must be grateful for a safe and conducive environment for them to observe the religious event this year in peace. “We have to be grateful for this peaceful situation as we observe Idul Adha, since our Muslim brothers and sisters in countries such as Myanmar, Mindanao in the Philippines, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Palestine do not enjoy such an atmosphere,” he said. Muhyidin noted that the Muslims in those countries are in unsafe situations, and face tough circumstances as the devout observe the Islamic Day of Sacrifice and the Haj pilgrimage. “It is because those countries are still beset by unrest and conflicts of interest, besides a prolonged power struggle,” said the coordinator of Muhammadiyah central executive board. He called on the Muslims in Indonesia to, therefore, pray for the people in those countries so that they may get out of the chaos that they are facing. Meanwhile, former Religious Affairs Minister Maftuh Basyuni said at At-Tin Grand Mosque in East Jakarta that the leaders in the country should understand the real meaning of sacrifice involved in the observance of Idul Adha festivities. “The problem that this nation faces is that its leaders are not united and do not understand the spirit of sacrifice, and fail to let go of their personal interests in the larger interests of the nation,” Maftuh said. In Manado, the predominantly Christian city in North Sulawesi, thousands of Muslims packed the mosques and gathered in open fields to perform the Idul Adha prayers. North Sulawesi Governor Sinyo Sarundajang said the observance of Idul Adha festivities this year should lend a good momentum towards maintaining religious harmony and a spirit of tolerance in the province. “Besides, it is also an opportunity for the people here to continue preserving the unity, integrity, and a sense of brotherhood to sustain the community in an atmosphere of harmony,” Sarundajang said in Manado on Tuesday. The governor pointed out that Indonesia is a pluralist nation, and North Sulawesi is also made up of various ethnic groups and people with different religious background but they can coexist in perfect harmony. In the predominantly-Muslim Aceh province also, thousands performed the Idul Adha prayers at various mosques and in open fields in Banda Aceh city. Followers from several other districts in Aceh, such as Aceh Jaya, Central Aceh, Gayo Lues, Pidie, South Aceh, Southwestern Aceh, and West Aceh, also packed the mosque yards on Tuesday morning.
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Muslims perform a morning prayer marking the Eid al-Adha holiday on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
President to sign regulation in lieu of law on MK Antara
JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Tuesday he would signed a controversial regulation in lieu of law (Perpu) on the graft tainted Constitutional Court this week. “Tonight I am heading a cabinet meeting to discuss the Perpu on MK. Hopefully I would sign the bill in two days,” Yudhoyono said in a statement. The plan to issue the Perpu followed the arrest of now suspended chief justice Akil Mochtar on charge of receiving bribe. The arrest of Akil on Oct 2 by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) came as a thunder stroke to many as MK has been considered the cleanest and most untarnished institution in this corruption infested country. The president said there are three important points in the Perpu including the requirements to be met by MK judges, recruitment system or process of electing the MK judges, and supervision of MK. “The Perpu is in line with the 1945 Constitution and we make it free from partisan political interest in electing MK judges,” he said. Hopefully the Perpu would regain the public trust in
MK that it could properly carry out its duties, he said. Despite the authority given by the 1945 Constitutions to the president, the House of Representatives (DPR) and the Supreme Court (MA), the process of electing MK judges should be accountable and transparent, he said. “It would be very dangerous if MK which holds such a huge power has no public trust. There should be no public suspicion left in MK,” he said. Former and first MK chief justice Jimly Asshiddiqie, however, raised a controversy when he expressed opposition to the Perpu, which he described as not constitutional. Jimly, who is highly respected for his contribution to building up MK’s reputation as a clean institution during his two terms as chief justice,had said MK should be allowed to keep the authority to settle election disputes. Control over MK and call for reducing its power have been widely debated by law experts. Previously the authority to settle election disputes lied in the hands of MA, but it was later handed over to MK as MA itself had failed to win public confidence. The president said relevant ministers, law experts were involved in drafting the Perpu.
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BlackBerry seeks to reassure customers in new campaign
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JEMBRANA - Vehicle traffic leaving Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor has started increasing since Saturday night (Oct 12). Authority of the Gilimanuk Harbor predicted the peak of vehicle traffic leaving Bali would occur on Monday (Oct 14).
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“You can continue to count on BlackBerry,” says an open letter to customers from the ailing Canadian smartphone maker s e t t o a p p e a r i n Tu e s d a y ’s Washington Post and other news outlets. “How do we know? We have substantial cash on hand and a balance sheet that is debt free.” The letter points out that the Canadian-based group is “restructuring with a goal to cut our expenses by 50 percent in order to run a very efficient, customeroriented organization.” “These are no doubt challenging times for us and we don’t underestimate the situation or ignore the challenges,” the letter continues. “We are making the difficult changes necessary to strengthen BlackBerry.” Canada’s Globe and Mail, another of the newspapers set to publish the letter, quoted BlackBerry regional managing director Andrew MacLeod as saying the campaign seeks to “lower the temperature” and reinforce the company’s viability and competitiveness. “We wanted to get the facts of the situation out there,” he told the Canadian daily. “We have strong assets and our ability to continue to fight and compete in this space remains very strong.” BlackBerry has said it is seeking a sale of the company among other “strategic options.” The company signed a letter of intent for a $4.7-billion buyout by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, but also left the door
open to other offers. Last week, BlackBerry cofounder Mike Lazaridis indicated in a regulatory filing he has boosted his stake in firm with the intention of making an acquisition bid. The private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, which specializes in distressed companies, also has expressed interest in a bid for BlackBerry. Some analysts have said however that BlackBerry has fallen so far behind Apple and manufacturers using the Google Android operating system that its only hope is a breakup, which could salvage its software and services operations. In January, BlackBerry unveiled a new corporate name and a new platform in January as it sought to regain momentum, but its most recent numbers suggest this has been a spectacular failure. BlackBerry still has some 70 million subscribers worldwide, but most of these are using older handsets, with the newer devices on the BlackBerry 10 platform failing to gain traction. Last month, the company announced it was laying off 4,500 staff -- or one third of its global workforce -- after losing $965 million dollars in its last quarter as sales plummeted. But BlackBerry still had some $2.6 billion in cash at the end of its past quarter, from its earnings when the company was at the top of the smartphone market.
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WASHINGTON - BlackBerry is launching a campaign aiming to reassure its customers it intends to stay in business, brushing aside suggestions of its impending demise.
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In this Oct. 4, 2013 photo shows a view of the newsroom of the International Herald Tribune, who will be rebranded as the International New York Times on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 at the International Herald Tribune headquarters in Paris.
Herald Tribune gets new name for digital age
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PARIS - A chapter in newspaper history drew to a close on Tuesday with the renaming of the 125-yearold International Herald Tribune, amid a time of unprecedented upheaval for print media. Editions of the paper that rolled off the presses early on Tuesday featured the publication’s new name -- the International New York Times -- although it retained its distinctive Gothic font masthead. Richard Stevenson, the paper’s editor in Europe, told AFP there would be nostalgia for the old title but that its “DNA” remained unchanged. “A couple of words in the name of the paper are changing (but) this paper’s name has changed multiple times throughout its history,” he said in an interview. “The name change on the print newspaper does nothing to change the DNA of the operation here. It is simply bringing more of the resources of The New York Times to the mix,” he said. The Paris-based IHT was coowned by The New York Times and Washington Post from 1967 until 2003 when the Times became its sole owner and restyled it as “the global edition of the New York Times”. News isn’t free
With a circulation of about 226,000 in 2011, it was printed at
38 sites and distributed in more than 160 countries. Stevenson said the rebranding had been necessary as part of the company’s drive to reinvent itself for the digital age. “(It’s) something that says to our readers all over the world that we are one news organisation capable of covering the world on any platform -- print, digital -- in any time zone,” he said. The rebranding comes as many newspapers worldwide struggle with the economic consequences of failure to find a new business model to counter changes in the way people consume news. Stevenson said The New York Times’ decision three years ago to charge for some online content had been crucial to its transition. For a long time the “assumption” was that news should be free, he said, but that much of the industry had started to wake up to the danger of giving away content. With 700,000 digital subscribers already in hand, and growing demand for news that could be delivered via people’s mobile phones, he said the future of the printed newspaper could not be guaranteed. ‘A sad day for expats’ “We love print, we would love to keep print going as long as possible. I don’t think it’s a matter of predicting something, it’s not up to us. The marketplace will decide and
we will respond.” But he added: “As long as there are enough readers who want to buy a print newspaper -- and frankly advertisers who want to advertise in it -- we will publish print newspapers.” Founded by publisher Gordon Bennett, the IHT began life as the European edition of his New York Herald newspaper catering for American expats in Paris. It was known as the New York Herald Tribune in 1960 when actress Jean Seberg appeared in Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Breathless” selling copies on the Champs-Elysees. Some Twitter users expressed regret about the name change. “A sad day for expats,” said one, while another tweeted: “All IHT had to do was redesign. The name change to ‘New York’ signals a new provincial thinking and outlook.” But Stevenson said he believed readers of the IHT would adapt quickly. “Newspapers are always evolving, there are always changes in them and I truly believe that the things that people are nostalgic about the International Herald Tribune will be just as present in the paper that starts appearing under the name International New York Times,” he said. “What you love about the International Herald Tribune will be in the International New York Times,” he added.
Through Sunday (Oct 13), more than 2,000 motorcycles were crossing through the Gilimanuk Harbor. It showed a 50percent increase compared to normal days only reaching around 1,500-1,600 motorcycles. Operations Manager of the Gilimanuk Harbor, Wahyudi Susianto, said the increase happened due to the joint leave of the Eid al-Adha and the entry of many traveler groups on Friday (Oct 11). Thus, the peak of vehicle traffic leaving Bali was predicted to occur on Monday. “Indeed, it’s unlike the Eid homecoming season. We predict the busy outflow of Bali happened due to large number of private vehicles and the entry of traveler groups last weekend,”
he said. It was estimated to grow 50 percent every day including the private vehicles that usually only reached 600 units and then increased to 1,000 vehicles. To anticipate it, the state-owned water transportation company (ASDP) claimed to have alerted up to 32 vessels including 19 special passenger vessels. “We have maximized the acceleration of vessel operations both the loading and unloading,” he explained. Besides, the arrangement was also focused on private vehicles, while the freight vehicles were directed straight to LCM dock. In addition to private vehicles, there was the backflow of tourist buses. (kmb26)
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Vehicle traffic leaving Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor has started increasing since Saturday night (Oct 12). Authority of the Gilimanuk Harbor predicted the peak of vehicle traffic leaving Bali would occur on Monday (Oct 14).
Balinese storytelling replete with life values Balinese life based on culture is rich in folk stories. In the past, parents always told bedtime stories to children or grandchildren to take them into a beautiful dream. Therefore, all parents on the Island of the Gods would know and could tell stories.
The theme could be very diverse, ranging from wildlife, human life up to mythology about gods. The story itself is also very simple and the figures are easily called and remembered. Interestingly, one of the prominent names in the stories can become a nickname for one
of the children considering his or her characteristics and behavior resembled to that of the figure in the story. Unfortunately, the tradition of storytelling gradually vanishes and even does not leave a single trace. The story filled with the philosophy
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Children gathered and listened a story over storytelling session. In the past, parents always told bedtime stories to children or grandchildren to take them into a beautiful dream. Therefore, all parents on the Island of the Gods would know and could tell stories.
of life is getting away from children because they prefer to enjoy modern stories, such as soap operas and animation films with uncertain messages. “Our children are now starting to lose the space where they can find a reflection, especially for children who live in urban areas,” said I Nyoman Sumandhi. This puppeteer from Tunjuk village said the current children were no longer interested in hearing folk stories. Instead, they tended to like modern stories completely involving electronic aspects. By all means, such phenomenon had made Balinese storytelling that had been known by generation of their parents an alien, even was no longer known. “Such conditions are very unfortunate whereas Balinese storytelling can become a reflection of life,” he said. According to the English puppeteer, the Balinese storytelling was full of life values through moral messages, good and bad deeds, attitudes, mutual assistance and character education. Such values could be delivered through storytelling. “In the storytelling activity, we can put all the messages of life to children. Today, children do not want to be told directly, so it should be inserted through stories,” he said. There were so many folk stories having rich moral messages. For
example, the story on Poor Lady and Rich Lady told the characters of the rich and the poor, Pan Balang ultimately reaped the results of his act due to laziness, cleverness of I Lutung (monkey) and many more. “Almost all the folk stories in Bali have a directive to be getting better,” he said. Too busy
Similar opinion was also revealed by Made Sidia, a lecturer in the Puppetry Department, the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar. This man from Gianyar also said that children were now very busy with their activities, while parents were too busy and had contribution to the loss of storytelling tradition. More sadly, some parents did not know about storytelling, so that they were more concerned with the academic aspects than character building contained in the folk stories. “Education on moral values should be given to children,” he reminded. Nyoman Sumandhi and Made Sidia then agreed if the storytelling that had once become a popular activity in the past could be incorporated into the school lessons through local content. Aside from educating mentally, this lesson also served as a kind of cultural preservation that had now become the cornerstone of tourism. (BTN)
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Collection after schedule
Much rubbish remains scattered Singaraja (Bali Post)—
The issue of waste management in Buleleng County is very complex. In addition to the limited number of roadworthy garbage truck, many people are also late to collect rubbish in the rubbish disposal so that much rubbish are still scattered.
The garbage is scattered all over the place on the side of the road.
Bitter Taste of Balinese Palm Sugar Palm sugar (brown sugar) makers at Besan Village, Dawan, Klungkung, have difficulty to get raw materials or wine seepage of coconut tree. It happens because within the past few days, in Klungkung, particular at Besan, it always rains. Actually, before Galungan and Kuningan the demand for brown sugar (also called Balinese sugar) increases. The price rises as well. During rainy season, sugar makers only acquire a small amount of wine. “Similarly, we do not dare to climb coconut trees, because it is slippery,” said sugar maker from Dawan, Nengah Koyog, at his home. According to Koyog and his wife, Nengah Yasa, they would get much sap of coconut tree during dry season. Climbing the coconut tree was not too worrisome because the trunk was dry. On that account, every day the sugar maker could harvest wine for two times, in the morning and afternoon. However, during rainy season, they could only climb once. Even, it highly depended on the condition of coconut trees. In dry season, a tree could produce 2 liters of wine. “But, in rainy season it only produces a little, nearly 1 liter,” said Koyog. However, the 65-year old man admitted if he no longer dared to climb because he was already old enough. Activity to slit into the bud of coconut tree for collecting its sap or wine had now been continued by his son, Nengah Sutarna. In normal condition, Koyog said, the wine obtained from nine coconut trees in his backyard reached up to 25 liters taken twice daily (morning and afternoon). Results of the wine seepage were directly boiled and could produce 4 kilogram of brown sugar. “Before Galungan and Kuningan, the price is rising. If previously was only IDR 13,000 per kilogram, now it reaches IDR 15,000 per kilogram,” said Koyog who also collected sugar product of the surrounding residents. Other than marketed in traditional markets across Klungkung, brown sugar produced by Besan Village was also sold to outside Klungkung such as Denpasar. Unfortunately, due to difficulty to get raw materials, this sweet sugar was tasted ‘bitter’ by the sugar makers. “I myself have a regular customer from Renon. In once delivery, it can reach hundreds of kilogram,” he said.
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The Head of Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Wayan Genep, said the garbage collection schedule undertaken by residents started from 04:00 a.m. until 07:00 a.m. However, many people collected the garbage after the specified schedule so that much rubbish was not transported. “Since the residents collect their rubbish in place late, so much rubbish is not transported and scattered,” he said. To that end, Genep said his party would continue to perform socialization so that residents could collect their rubbish on time. “We still do socialization and arrangement in order the waste management can be better,” he said. Aside from the rubbish collection schedule was not adhered to, it was also previously disclosed that many garbage trucks owned by the DKP were not roadworthy. Of the 21 garbage trucks owned, a total of 19 trucks were not roadworthy. Even, of the 19 trucks, three trucks could not totally be used. “According to the roadworthy test in the Transportation Agency, 16 trucks were not roadworthy and three others were completely out of order,” he said. Meanwhile, the Head of Buleleng Development Planning Board (Buleleng), Gede Suyasa, said the garbage truck procurement had been carried out every year. However, due to restricted funds, the procurement only amounted to a unit of new truck each year. “Last year, the procurement has been made to one unit. Similarly, we have also allocated another unit this year,” he said. (kmb15)
Legislator: Nusa Penida just like a desert Semarapura (Bali Post)—
Recent long dry season causes the community in the hill area to scream as experienced by residents on the upper area of Nusa Penida Island. They admitted to be difficult to obtain clean water for daily needs. Due to drought, the upper area of Nusa Penida was like a desert region where it was so difficult to obtain a single drop of clean water. Such condition was revealed by a Klungkung legislator from Nusa Penida, Wayan Baru, Sunday (Oct 13). After returning to his home village, he admitted to receive many complaints about the difficulty to get clean water. Upon hearing the complaints, he admitted furious with the Klungkung government and Bali government for the various totally failed programs conducted in Nusa Penida. Classic problem experienced by residents of Nusa Penida for years was never resolved. For instance, provincial government had a program to build the Guyangan water source to provide clean water for the people on the upper land of Nusa Penida but could have not accomplished or could not run normally. Initially, he was impressed with the program, but later on the program was not
known and seemed very dismissive to people’s fate and their complaints that always screamed about the difficulty to get clean water during dry season like today. “It’s hard to resolve the problem of clean water without seriousness. The Guyangan water source just flows every two weeks. Even, it sometimes does not flow for a month as today does. Please do it correctly. Do not make our region an experimental object. When wishing to help sincerely, it must be completed,” he said. He admitted to receive many complaints from the local community on the upper land of Nusa Penida such as Sakti, Bunga Mekar, Batu Madeg, Klumpu, Batukandik and Tanglad to Pejukutan. Most complaints had something to do with the difficulty to get clean water in the drought condition as occurred these days. Based on information he received from local residents, they questioned directly to the management of the Guyangan water source. The information obtained told if the pipelines from the water source were in damaged and the repairs were not completed. As a result, people on the upper land of Nusa Penida were completely helpless against the clean water crisis. “Today, Nusa Penida (upper land)
is just like a desert because of the drought,” he said. The drought experienced by residents was also justified by the subdistrict head of Nusa Penida, Ketut Sukla, Sunday. Meanwhile, the matter of clean water crisis due to less optimal management by the Guyangan water source was also recognized by this former secretary of Nusa Penida subdistrict. On that account, many people also complained directly to him. Other than residents on the upper land of Nusa Penida, similar complaint was also revealed by residents who previously got clean water from other areas. He admitted to have contacted the management of Guyangan water source. The management told if the Guyangan water source was having problems with the generator set, where something went wrong with the rubber. “Fortunately, the damage to the rubber of generator set can have been repaired this afternoon (Sunday—Ed). It is promised the water can flow back tonight. However, they have to take turns because the generator can only pump the water for eight hours,” said Sukla. He hoped the residents to be patient. Various complaints had been responded to and were being handled by the related parties. (kmb31)
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Israel warns against nuclear compromise with Iran Agence France Presse
Jerusalem - Israel on Tuesday urged the world to avoid a partial deal with Iran which could see a relaxing of sanctions, just hours before a new round of nuclear talks. Following a meeting late on Monday, the security cabinet warned the international community against any “partial agreement that would fail to bring about the full dismantling of the Iranian military nuclear programme...(which) could lead to the collapse of the sanctions regime.” Iran is due to begin two days of closed-door negotiations in Geneva on Tuesday with the so-called P5+1 countries -- the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a media blitz in recent days, warning against concessions to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani’s conciliatory tone has raised hopes of a breakthrough in the decade-long dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The security cabinet statement called on world powers to be wary of Iran at negotiations. “Iran believes it can get by with cosmetic concessions that would not significantly impede its path to developing nuclear weapons, concessions that could
be reversed in weeks,” the statement said. “In exchange, Iran demands an easing of the sanctions, which have taken years to put in place.” But the security cabinet said the P5+1 should “reject Iran’s attempts to reach a deal that would leave it with the capability to develop nuclear weapons.” An Israeli official told AFP that the seven-member ministerial committee had met on Monday night but released the statement the following morning to coincide with the talks. Israel, it said, did not oppose Iran having a peaceful nuclear energy programme -- one which would not require uranium enrichment or plutonium production, it said. “Iran claims that it supposedly has the ‘right to enrich.’ But a country that regularly deceives the international community, that violates UN Security Council resolutions ... has no such right,” it said. The Geneva talks are aimed at reaching accord over Iran’s nuclear programme, which Israel and the West say is aimed at developing an atomic bomb and Tehran says is for peaceful purposes only.
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening session of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013.
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Mass singing honoring Mao in anniversary bash sparks outrage Reuters
BEIJING - Celebrations costing $300 million to mark the birth date of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, including mass singing and a noodle feast, have sparked popular anger amid a crackdown by authorities on extravagance. The local government of Mao’s birthplace said on Monday that the events on December 26 marking the 120th anniversary of his birth will include 10,000 people singing a song comparing the revolutionary leader to the ris-
ing sun. Another 10,000 will eat “auspicious” birthday noodles at various locations. “Shaoshan is making the commemoration of comrade Mao Zedong’s birthday the paramount political mandate that overrides everything,” the city government of Xiangtan said on its Internet site. Xiangtan, which administers the smaller city of Shaoshan, where Mao was born, said it had spent 1.95 billion yuan ($318.60 million) on the celebrations. One of the pivotal figures of the 20th century and the focus of a personality cult, Mao led China for almost
three decades. Supporters say he created a strong, unified China out of the chaos of the 1930s. Detractors blame him for policy mistakes that led to millions of deaths in famine and repression. Mao died in 1976, aged 83. His body remains on display in a crystal coffin in a mausoleum in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where admirers from all over China wait in long queues on anniversary dates to pay homage. The lavish anniversary plans fly in the face of current leader Xi Jinping’s crackdown on
government waste and corruption and some citizens took to the Internet to express their anger. “Is it really worthy to spend 1.9 billion yuan on someone who has already died?” user Li Gaofeng wrote on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. “There are so many poor children and widowed or childless elderly people waiting for help in mainland China.” “This is blatant corruption,” fumed user Zheng Huoshen. Shaoshan, in the mountainous southern province of Hunan, had an annual GDP of less than 5 billion yuan in 2012.
Senators closing in on deal to reopen government Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders are closing in on an agreement to reopen the government and forestall an economy-rattling default on U.S. obligations. Congressional aides predicted Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky could seal an agreement on Tuesday, just two days before the Treasury Department
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., walks to the floor during a vote at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, as a partial government shutdown enters its third week. The Senate’s Democratic and Republican leaders closed in on a deal Monday night to avoid an economy-menacing Treasury default and end the two-week partial government shutdown.
says it will run out of borrowing capacity. The emerging pact would reopen the government through Jan. 15 and permit the Treasury to borrow normally until early to mid-February, easing dual crises that have sapped confidence in the economy and taken a sledgehammer to the GOP’s poll numbers. “The general framework is there” between Reid and McConnell, said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. He said conversations with the House were continuing and he thought it would be midday Tuesday at the earliest before a plan was finalized. Many House conservatives were unhappy about the emerging framework, though it remained to be seen whether they would seek to change it. The plan is a far cry from the assault on “Obamacare” that tea party Republicans originally demanded as a condition for a shortterm funding bill to keep the government fully operational. It lacks the budget cuts demanded
by Republicans in exchange for increasing the government’s $16.7 trillion borrowing cap. Nor does the framework contain any of a secondary set of House GOP demands, like a one-year delay in the health law’s mandate that individuals buy insurance. Instead, it appeared likely to tighten income verification requirements for individuals who qualify for Obamacare subsidies and may repeal a $63 fee that companies must pay for each person they cover under the big health care overhaul beginning in 2014. Democratic and Republican aides described the outlines of the potential agreement on condition of anonymity because the discussions were ongoing. But with GOP poll numbers plummeting and the country growing weary of a shutdown entering its third week, Senate Republicans in particular were eager to end the shutdown — and avoid an even greater crisis if the government were to default later this month.
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Ancient bug’s last supper of blood still in fossil Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — In a steamy tropical forest 46 million years ago, a prehistoric mosquito bit a critter, drew blood and was blown into a lake in what is now the northwestern state of Montana. Belly full, she died and sank. Flash forward to the present. Researchers found the minuscule female insect fossilized in a paper-thin piece of shale — which had sat in someone’s basement for 25 to 30 years with other rocks— and concluded it still contains its last supper. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science reports a first for biology: a blood meal found intact in a fossil. While the scenario sounds eerily similar to the Michael Crichton book and movie “Jurassic Park,” no new T. rexes will result. Unfortunately for would-be dinosaur cloners, the mosquito flew long after dinosaurs went extinct, and its meal was probably blood from a dino descendant, a bird. And an even bigger blow to the “Jurassic Park” scenario is that scientists have long known that DNA from other critters couldn’t survive in insect fossils, said study lead author Dale Greenwalt, a retired biochemist who collects and analyzes insect fossils from Montana for the Smithsonian Institution. So this is more a scientific curiosity, a look-what-we-found, that starts
out like early chapters of the sci-fi thriller. “It’s following Crichton’s script in that we’re using a blood engorged fossil mosquito and in this case we’re using the direct descendent of the dinosaurs, given that we’re 20 million years late,” Greenwalt said. Using two different types of lightrefracting x-rays that determine what chemicals are present, Greenwalt and colleagues determined that the female mosquito’s belly was full of iron, a major feature of blood that gets oxygen to the rest of the body. Iron levels were higher than elsewhere in her body and anywhere on a non-biting male used as a control subject. Then the team found evidence of porphyrins, which are bound to iron in blood. Putting the two together makes “a definitive case” for blood, Greenwalt said. Outside expert Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University said while the study is exciting and significant, it is preliminary and she thinks Greenwalt’s team didn’t prove their conclusion that it is blood by ruling out all other possibilities.
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This undated handout photo provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, taken June 6, 2013, shows wooden barracks that housed prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, at the museum in Washington.
A renowned Berlin antiquities museum is trying to get back an ancient gold tablet excavated from an Assyrian temple that a Holocaust survivor somehow obtained after World War II. Who gets it is up to New York’s top court, which is set to hear arguments Tuesday. The 9.5-gram tablet, about the size of a credit card, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what is now northern Iraq. It went on display in Berlin in 1934, was put in storage as the war began and later disappeared. Riven Flamenbaum brought it to the U.S. after surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp and settling on Long Island, east of New York City. Family lore says he had traded two packs of cigarettes to a Russian soldier for the tablet in the chaotic days at the end of the war. Flamenbaum’s family is trying to keep the 3,200-year-old relic, arguing the museum forfeited any claim to ownership by waiting 60 years to seek its return. Lawyers for the Vorderasiatisches Museum, a branch of the Pergamon Museum,
said it didn’t know Flamenbaum had the tablet until 2006, three years after he died. Steven Schlesinger, the lawyer representing the estate, said any claim is complicated by the passage of so much time and Flamenbaum’s death. He said he believes Flamenbaum was trading Red Cross packages and anything else he could get for silver and gold. The tablet is now in a safe deposit box in New York. One recent estimate put its value at $10 million, Schlesinger said, and the family wants to donate it to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. Lower courts were split on the decision, leading to the latest appeal. According to court documents, the tablet dates to 1243 to 1207 B.C., the reign of King Tukulti-Ninurta I of Assyria. Placed in the foundation of the temple of a fertility goddess, its 21 lines call on those who find the temple to honor the king’s name. The tablet was excavated by German archaeologists from about 1908 to 1914 in what was then the Ottoman Empire, with Germany giving half the found antiquities to Istanbul, Raymond Dowd, the museum’s lawyer, said. The modern state of Iraq has declined to claim it, he said.
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DENPASAR - Hotels at a number of resorts in Bali are packed with domestic tourists who are here to spend their Idul Adha holidays, according to a local official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI).
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Hotels at a number of resorts in Bali are packed with domestic tourists who are here to spend their Idul Adha holidays, according to a local official of the Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI).
Accelerated, management agency of Jatiluwih WCH
Berlin museum seeks return of ancient gold tablet Associated Press Writer
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Hotels packed with domestic tourists “The average hotel occupancy rate in Bali reaches seventy-two percent,” PHRI spokesman I Gusti Ngurah Rai Suryawijaya said here on Monday. However, he added, the occupancy rate at hotels in Kuta, Nusa Dua, and Ubud was in the range of sixty-five to seventyeight percent. “The occupancy rate of the hotels in Kuta is seventy-eight percent,” he said, adding that the number of both domestic and foreign tourists in Bali will continue to rise until the end of the year. Although there is a surge in hotel occupancy rate due to arrival of domestic tourists, Suryawijaya said the hotel operators will not arbitrarily increase room rates, having arrived at an agreement with the management of travel agencies.
This image provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows a fossilized female mosquito in a paper-thin piece of shale. The 46 million year-old insect drew blood in its last meal, was blown into a lake in what is now northwestern Montana and sank, belly still full.
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Tourists visit Jatiluwih recently. Reprimand against the sluggish formation of the World Cultural Heritage Management Agency (WCH) of Jatiluwih, Penebel, was responded by Tabanan government. In relatively short time, the subak attraction will soon have a definitive management.
TABANAN - Reprimand against the sluggish formation of the World Cultural Heritage Management Agency (WCH) of Jatiluwih, Penebel, was responded by Tabanan government. In relatively short time, the subak attraction will soon have a definitive management. The proposal is being discussed by the Regent of Tabanan. The Head of Tabanan Tourism and Culture Agency, Wayan Adnyana, explained the draft of the Jatiluwih management agency had been submitted to the regent. As expected, it could have been completed this month, and then would be approved through a regent decree. “The Jatiluwih management agency is still under process. Hopefully, it can be completed this month,” he said. He described the establishment of the management agency should go through stages, including the absorption of aspirations of the leaders at Jatiluwih. Then, the proposal was presented to the regent. Furthermore, said Adnyana, the regent would review the proposal. If it was approved, the management agency would be made a decree. “Management agency will take care of business as well as a variety of interests at Jatiluwih,” he said. With the management agency, the monitor-
ing to subak tourist attraction would be made easier, including the coordination with central government. The governing body, he said, would also make coordination with provincial government. On that account, various issues about Jatiluwih could be dealt with quickly. As has been known, the area of Subak Jatiluwih was named the world cultural heritage by UNESCO. The United Nations handling the cultural matters assessed that Jatiluwih deserved to be an immortal paddy field due to its subak system and terraced paddy field agriculture. Other than Jatiluwih, a number of buffer zones are also included in this region. Since it was established in 2012, the formation of management agency seemed sluggish. Even, the Ministry of Tourism of the RI had reprimanded the Tabanan government. The number of farmers at Jatiluwih reached 395 people with the land area of 303 hectares. It is divided into 7 subak sub-groups. Since included in the world cultural heritage, the land at Jatiluwih has been designated as everlasting or sustainable agricultural land. In other words, farmers are prohibited from selling or building in the region. Should there be any sale or change of ownership, the making of permanent building is still banned. (kmb30)
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Bali News Sudaji local rice
Hard to be marketed, farmers forced to use for self-consumption Singaraja (Bali Post)—
Amid the intensive efforts of Buleleng government through the Agriculture and Livestock Agency to develop the distinctive local rice at Sudaji village, the marketing of local rice seems still to face a problem. Farmers growing the Sudaji typical rice are difficult to get a distributor because the price of local rice is more expensive than that of regular rice. Information obtained on Sunday (Oct 13) told that so far the Buleleng government was developing a pilot project for typical local rice cultivation in the paddy fields at Sudaji village across 70 hectares spreading at a number of subak areas. Currently, it had entered the rice harvest. Since the price was more expensive than that of regular rice, the Sudaji rice got difficulty in obtaining market share. Farmers set the rice price at IDR 15,000 to IDR 17,000 per kilogram. The price was almost the same as the price of brown rice at Gobleg and Munduk village reaching IDR 17,000 per kilogram. Sudaji local rice was more expensive than the price of regular rice because the growing period was longer namely between 3.5 months to 4 months. “In contrast to regular rice, it only needs between 2.5 months to 3 months,” said a farmer at Sudaji. Due to marketing problem, the Agriculture and Livestock Agency tried to facilitate a meeting between the farmers and the Association of Paddy Milling and Rice Entrepreneurs (Perpadi), Friday (Oct 11). It was expected the Perpadi could market the Sudaji typical rice. However, the Perpadi did not dare to promise to market it because it had not owned consumers yet, the price was expensive and it was rarely available in the market. The Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, when contacted on Sunday confirmed that the Sudaji rice produced by the pilot project at Sudaji village could not be marketed maximally. He claimed to have brought in Perpadi members to make a marketing agreement with farmers. But, the meeting could not result in any agreement. “Perpadi could not reach an agreement
The rice of Sudaji which is developed in Buleleng Regency to market the Sudaji rice,” he said. Though could not be marketed to the fullest, Swatantra said that farmers did not give up growing the distinctive Sudaji local rice. The rice obtained in the recent harvest was self-consumed and the rest was used for seed in the next planting. For marketing in years to come, said Swatantra, farmers planned to make special packing for the Sudaji rice and marketed it to supermarkets and special marketplaces. “Residents have agreed to continue the Sudaji rice cultivation. Even, people are planning to make a customary bylaw (awig-awig) requiring farmers to plant the Sudaji rice,” he said. Can this pilot project be called a
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failure? Swatantra said the pilot project did not fail because the ultimate goal was to preserve the typical local rice of Buleleng. Aside from developing the Sudaji rice, his party also developed red rice cultivation at Munduk, Gobleg and Gesing village. “It’s a preservation effort in order the typical rice of Buleleng will not be extinct,” he said. In this pilot project, said Swatantra, the local government was working with farmers. Local government helped by providing 40 kg of rice seed per hectare, a ton of organic fertilizer per hectare and one quintal of chemical fertilizer per hectare. “And the harvest yield can entirely be enjoyed by farmers,” he said. (kmb15)
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Unused, ambulance assistance turns useless Semarapura (Bali Post)—
The assistance of a unit of ambulance received by Klungkung government from a private bank in Klungkung seems useless. For more than a year, the car is only parked in the parking lot of the Klungkung government to be filled by bird droppings. Necessarily, it should be used to improve health services in the public health center or Klungkung Hospital. A number of residents making a visit to Klungkung government were surprised to see the assistance. A local legislator of Klungkung, Komang Gede Ludra, said on Sunday (Oct 13) the condition was very unfortunate. He agreed that such assistance should be maximized so that it would not seem useless. Outside the region, various political parties were vying to provide ambulance for health services. However, Klungkung government that had been given the assistance did not take advantage it properly. “I think it better when it’s handed over to public health center having not had an ambulance or just take it to Nusa Penida. The region much requires it rather than being parked and becoming a place for bird to poop,” he protested. Spokesperson of Klungkung government, Wayan Parna, did not dismiss such condition. Previously, he said that an error occurred when the private bank was handing over the official report to Klungkung government. Delivery of the assistance mentioned it was in the form of goods, but in the official report was mentioned in the form of cash. So, it was not then signed by the Klungkung government. “At that time, the deputy regent already asked the bank to fix it, but it seemed to have not been done,” he said. He also acknowledged if such situation could not be neglected. Both parties should equally be proactive so that it did not give dormant impression over the assistance. Previously, the Klungkung government through deputy regent at that time, Tjokorda Gede Agung, received the assistance symbolically on October 2, 2012 from the private bank in the Widya Mandala hall of the Klungkung Regent Office. However, after the handover, the ambulance seemed to become a sweetening to the parking lot. (kmb31)
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Grand opening celebration of Harper Kuta IBP
LEGIAN - Last Friday, 11 October 2013 was marked the grand opening celebration of what has quickly become one of Kuta’s most popular hotels, the Harper Kuta. Having soft opened in July, the hotel has immediately enjoyed unusually high occupancy levels of 80% and above and immediately received loads of accolades on Tripadvisor and several other customer review websites. The Grand Opening Celebration marked an open invitation for several hundred travel agents, tour operators, media representatives and holiday makers residing in the central Kuta area to experience The Harper Kuta’s unique rustic yet ultra modern design concept and its signature restaurant “Rustik Bistro & Bar”, with great entertainment by the hotel’s resident DJ, door prizes and hotel front and back of house tours. The new Harper Kuta is being described as “modern – rustic,” and images posted to the brand’s Web site, www.HarperHotels. com, in some ways reflect the aesthetics of a cozy countryside home while remaining unmis-
takably Asian and modern in its core. The handsome hotel sits right of Jalan Legian in the very heart of Bali’s legendary surfer enclave of Kuta and offers 149 rooms and suites, many of which offer private balconies, a stunning outdoor pool with sun deck , a children’s pool, and an intimate spa, and the Harper brand’s signature restaurant “Rustik Bistro & Bar”. Conceptualized to be modern yet infused with rustic charm the hotel conveys a residential feel. Combining comfort and functionality, Harper’s design concept uses warm, rich colors to offer comfort in each room. Accents of
warm autumnal fabrics and soft orange hues promote relaxation - spiced pumpkin, tangerine and amber are popular variations of the orange palette - while modern grays create an understated cool elegance. The principal restaurant “Rustik Bistro & Bar” offers home comfort food cooking paired with great wine and cocktails in a fresh, light and elegant room placing an emphasis on creating dishes that promote the finest home cooking – both European and Indonesian such as Coq au Vin, Beef Stew – Beef Rendang and Soto Ayam. “The new Harper Hotel concept opens the doors onto a
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Calendar Event for October 4 through 28 , 2013 4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Seloding Besakih Pura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih 6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayuputih Buleleng 8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi Bangli Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Taro Tegalalang Pura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup Pura manik Bingin Sidemen 9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande Bangli Pura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh Abiansemal Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan Gianyar Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Jakatebel Merajan Pasek Prateka Batusesa Merajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon Cemenggon Pura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja. Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Linggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih
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17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Petemon Merajan Pasek Gelgel Melinggih Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih 19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Meru Cakra Lombok Pura Lempuyang Madya Karangasem Pura Penerejon Kintamani Pura Pulaki Buleleng Pura Tirta Empul Tampak Siring Pura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura
Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Tirta Negari Singapadu Pura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub Sukawati Pura Penataran Agung Tegallalang Pura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji Batubulan Pura Puseh Singakerta Ubud Pura Nataran Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan Ubud Pura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami Braban Pura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh Krambitan Pura Pasek Bendesa Mas Gadungan Selemadeg Pura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Selemadeg Pura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem Karangasem Pura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow Sulut Pura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang Karangasem Pura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukaluwih Tejakula Buleleng Pura Pasraman Suci Renon Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Jakarta Pura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang Buleleng Pura Ulun Danu Batur Songan Kintamani Pura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura Papua Pura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung Denpasar Merajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh Denpasar Pura Pejengaji Tegalalang Pura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Kerambitan Pura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang Karangasem Pura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung Tengah Pura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh Kerambitan Pura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karangasem Pura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon Kapal Pura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem Pura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga Buleleng Pura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa Penida Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani
Pura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh kerambitan Pura Penataran Ubud Pura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken Blahbatuh Pemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu Buleleng Pura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel Sukawati Pura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung BaturningMambal Abiansemal 22 Oct Penampahan Galungan 23 Oct Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang, NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta Timur Pura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur. 24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru Tabanan Pura Lempuyang Luhur Karangasem Pura Kentel Gumi Klungkung Pura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel Tabanan Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Tiyingan Merajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa. 25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, Badung Pura Luhur Cemenggon, Sukawati Pura Pasek Ubung Denpasar 26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara Jembrana Pura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung 27 Oct Redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti Batubulan Pura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung 28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah Selemadeg Pura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gianyar Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan Busungbiu Pura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan
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Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, 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.
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Force of ‘Gravity’ foils pirates at North American box office Reuters
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - The 3D outer space thriller “Gravity” kept a tight grip on U.S. and Canadian box offices over the weekend, eclipsing the debut of Somali pirate drama “Captain Phillips” in a battle between two Oscar hopefuls. “Gravity,” starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts stranded in space, held the top spot on movie charts for a second weekend, grabbing $44.3 million in domestic ticket sales from Friday through Sunday.
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The continued pull of “Gravity” beat the $26 million opening for “Captain Phillips,” a drama starring Tom Hanks in a story based on the real-life hijacking of a U.S. cargo ship. Animated “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2” took the No. 3 slot, collecting $14.3 million, according to studio estimates. Both “Gravity” and “Captain Phillips” earned glowing reviews and mentions as likely Oscar contenders. “Gravity” wowed critics with its 3D depictions of space and weightlessness, while Hanks won praise for his portrayal of Captain Richard Phillips, the man taken hostage when Somali pirates seized his ship in 2009. Ninety-seven percent of critics recommended “Gravity” in reviews on the Rotten Tomatoes website, slightly more than the 95 percent for “Captain Phillips.” In “Gravity,” Bullock plays a novice astronaut and engineer alongside Clooney as the mission commander. After flying debris damages their shuttle, the pair are sent
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’: Dakota Johnson Is Strapped In
Despite the sands shifting around her, Dakota Johnson is 100 percent committed to “Fifty Shades of Grey” — and the filmmakers are equally firm on keeping their Anastasia Steele. Though popular lore had it that intense chemistry with Charlie Hunnam won Johnson the part, the filmmakers are moving ahead with the “Ben and Kate” actress, a person familiar with the situation told TheWrap. Hunnam abruptly quit the project over the weekend, citing his TV schedule, though multiple sources have told TheWrap that Hunnam underestimated the attention he would receive from the media and rabid “Shades” fans. Anxiety and pressure are to be expected with a movie of this magnitude. But unlike Hunnam, Johnson knows what it’s like to live under a microscope, having grown up in the public eye as the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Now, whoever replaces Hunnam will be required to have chemistry with her, rather than the other way around. Multiple sources stress that the filmmakers will build the rest of the cast around her rather than let the new Christian Grey dictate the ensemble, which is expected to include Jennifer Ehle (“Zero Dark Thirty”) as Anastasia’s mother.
hurtling into space with depleting oxygen and remote chances of returning to Earth. The movie took in record sales for an October weekend when it debuted a week ago. Filmgoers kept coming during the week, with many opting to pay for higher-priced 3D tickets. The film scored the best second weekend ever for an IMAX film with a take of $9 million, and North American sales for “Gravity” through Sunday reached an estimated $123.4 million, according to Warner Bros. “It’s word-of-mouth,” said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution, explaining the film’s remarkable performance, which included a drop of only 21 percent in receipts from the opening weekend which he said was a record for a widerelease film.
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“We’re filling theaters in small, medium and large towns throughout North America, and our audience has really spread from (ages) eight to 80,” Fellman added. Though it couldn’t overcome “Gravity,” “Captain Phillips” exceeded predictions for a start of around $21 million. The film cost $55 million to make. “This was a terrific opening for ‘Captain Phillips’ and we’re just beginning,” said Rory Bruer, Sony Pictures’ worldwide president of distribution. “We’re going to be around for a very long time with this film. People are really talking about it,” Bruer added.
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Filipinos stand by a damaged Basilica Del Sto Nino in Cebu, central Philippines Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake collapsed buildings, cracked roads and toppled the bell tower of the Philippines’ oldest church Tuesday morning, killing at least 20 people across the central region.
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73 dead as quake hits Cebu
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CEBU - A powerful earthquake killed at least 73 people on Tuesday as it tore down modern buildings, destroyed historic churches and triggered terrified stampedes across popular tourist islands in the Philippines. Fifteen of the confirmed fatalities were in Cebu, the country’s second most important city and a gateway to some of its most beautiful beaches, the national disaster agency reported. The 7.1-magnitude quake killed another 57 people in the neighbouring island of Bohol, famed for its rolling “Chocolate Hills”, while one other person died on nearby Siquijor, which attracts tourists with its pristine white sands. “I was thrown to the ground by the strength of the quake. Broken glass rained on me,” Elmo Alinsunorin, a guard for a govern-
ment tax office in Cebu, told AFP. “I thought I was going to die.” Authorities said the death toll could still climb, with authorities struggling to assess the extent of the damage in the worst-hit areas of Bohol where roads were impassable and power was cut. Nevertheless, they expressed relief the earthquake occurred on a public holiday, meaning there were fewer people than normal in many of the major buildings that suffered damage. The quake struck at 08:12 (0012 GMT) near Balilihan, a town of about 18,000 people on Bohol, at a depth of 20 kilometres (12 miles), the USGS reported. The town lies across a strait about 60 kilometres from Cebu. Cebu, with a population of 2.5 million people, is the political, economic, educational and cultural centre of the central Philippines. It hosts the country’s busiest port and the
largest airport outside of the capital Manila. It also has a major ship building industry. A university, a school and two shopping
malls, public markets and many small buildings sustained damage in the quake. Continued on page 6
10 deadliest natural disasters in Philippine 1. A tsunami on August 16, 1976, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people. 2. Tropical Storm Thelma on November 15, 1991, killing more than 5,100. 3. Typhoon Bopha on December 3, 2012, about 1,900 people dead or missing. 4. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake on July 16, 1990, killing 1,621 people. 5. Typhoon Ike on August 31, 1984, killing 1,363 people. 6. Taal volcano erupted on January 30, 1911, killing about 1,300 people. 7. Mayon volcano on February 1, 1814, killing about 1,200 people. 8. Mountainside collapses on February 17, 2006, killing 1,126. 9. Typhoon Washi on December 16, 2011, killing at least 1,080 people. 10. Floods and landslides kills 995 people on October 16, 1952.