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Fanfare of galungan’s penjor Expected to move wheel of economy

According to a legislator of Bangli House, Ida Bagus San-tosa, the Bangli tourism indeed did not grow as progressively as the tourism in southern Bali. Even, if it was calculated from the rupiah value, only a certain percent of the tourist’s expenditure went to Bangli. “For example, of IDR 10 million of tourist’s expenditure, only IDR 100,000 goes to Bangli. It is negligible compared to the other tourist areas,” he said. Even, added

Tourism sector of Bali is never empty of tourist arrival. A number of tourism areas have always been a favor-ite destination for local and foreign tourists. However,

amid the rapid growth of Bali tourism, Bangli seems to always become a tourist destination put on the ump-

teen numbers and only serves as a sojourn.

Distribution of Bali tourism uneven

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BANGLI - Tourism sector of Bali is never empty of tourist arrival. A number of tourism areas have always been a favorite destination for local and foreign tourists. However, amid the rapid growth of Bali tourism, Bangli seems to always become a tourist destination put on the umpteen numbers and only serves as a sojourn.

Santosa, so far the tourist’s expenditure was far more spent for hotel and restaurant sector mostly owned by businessmen from outside the region. As a result, the impact of tourism could not be perceived directly by the people of Bangli.

This FKPI politician judged, although Bali recently hosted various international events, the benefits were not necessarily enjoyed directly by local community. So far, the tourism pie in

Bali, said Santosa, was still not evenly distributed. A disparity remained to happen between one county and other counties.

According to Santosa, in order the Bali tourism pie could be distrib-uted fairly, one of the ways that could be taken by the government was collecting levies to guest through a single door management.

“I think it better to apply a single door management to guests com-ing to Bali. Each guest coming to Bali, for instance, is charged at IDR 1 million. So, guest is no longer subject to other levies and hotel and restaurant taxes. For example, if each guest is charged at IDR 1 million and spends IDR 10 million, logically the hotel and restaurant tax is worth IDR 1 million as well. Well, if tourist arrival to Bali amounts to 7 million, just multiply them by IDR 1 million, so it can totally get IDR 7 trillion. Afterward, this amount is divided fairly and there will be a fair distribution of the Bali tourism pie,” he said. (ina)

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“Grateful” is employed frequently in conversation as the affable MacLeod re-flects on life, his born-again Christian faith and the long acting career that included the major TV hits “Mary Tyler Moore” and “The Love Boat.”

“That’s a big word in my life,” said Ma-cLeod who, at 82, has endured two heart attacks yet still looks and sounds energetic enough to set sail. “I’m just so grateful I’ve had another day, another day, another day, and that my kids are doing so well.”

“This is Your Captain Speaking,” with a cover photo of MacLeod as Capt. Merrill Stubing in his sparkling white “Love Boat” uniform and smile to match, is a candid look at his ups and downs in love and as an actor, including his unexpected jump from second banana to leading man.

But he is almost invariably kind to the many stars he worked with over the years in film and TV, including Cary Grant and Robert Redford, and the parade of previous-generation performers who came aboard “The Love Boat,” includ-ing Helen Hayes, Ethel Merman and Cab Calloway.

“The big stars are the best. I pinched my-self every single day” head- ing to work on “Love Boat,” M a -

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For ‘Love Boat’ star, life not all smooth sailingAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Gavin MacLeod’s new autobiography recounts childhood poverty and loss, alcohol abuse and a brush with suicide, but the man and the book emerge as determinedly upbeat.

cLeod said, anticipating who would be on set “and the experiences we would have working together.”

Then there’s Bette Davis. She wasn’t among those who boarded “Love Boat” during its 1977-87 cruise, but MacLeod’s social encounter with her provides a memorable anecdote.

A mutual friend asked MacLeod and his wife to invite Davis, then in her 70s, to dinner, because the star wanted to meet him. No effort or expense was spared (Davis’ drink of choice, Chivas Regal, and caviar were served), but the grande dame proceeded to quarrel with guests, insult her hosts and then pour salt on the wound with an interview in which she called the evening a “disaster.”

“She ripped us! I couldn’t believe it,” MacLeod says in the book (written with Mark Dagostino), which opens in a far different world.

MacLeod, born Allan See in 1931, was raised in the town of Pleas-antville, N.Y. His Depression Era-childhood included poverty and a household roiled by his father’s bouts of drinking and then death at age 39 from cancer. MacLeod was 13, and the loss hit him hard.

“I could have closed up into a ball right there,” he writes. “Could have turned into a ‘bad kid.’ ... But instead, I did the opposite.”

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BURBANK, Calif. — TV’s “House of Cards” and the movie “Promised Land” are being recognized for their eco-friendly messages.

The Netflix show and the Focus Features film were honored by the Environmental Media Association Saturday night at its 23rd annual awards presentation. The organization aims to channel the power of celebrity and media to promote sustainable behaviors and ecological awareness.

The HBO documentary “Gasland Part II” and reality show “VICE” also won awards, along with the ABC comedy “Last Man Standing” and Nickelodeon’s “Nick News with Linda Ellerbee.”

Matt Damon accepted the Ongoing Commitment award and Hayden Panetierre received the Futures award at the private event, held at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Monday, October 21, 2013

Calendar Event for October 4 through 28 , 2013

4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung Be-sakihOdalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Selod-ing BesakihPura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih

6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayu-putih Buleleng

8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi BangliPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Taro TegalalangPura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel TulikupPura manik Bingin Sidemen

9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh AbiansemalPura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan GianyarMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa JakatebelMerajan Pasek Prateka BatusesaMerajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon CemenggonPura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-GianyarPura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh GianyarLinggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih

17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Be-sakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PetemonMerajan Pasek Gelgel MelinggihOdalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih

19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung BesakihPura Meru Cakra LombokPura Lempuyang Madya KarangasemPura Penerejon KintamaniPura Pulaki BulelengPura Tirta Empul Tampak SiringPura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura

Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Tirta Negari SingapaduPura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub SukawatiPura Penataran Agung TegallalangPura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji BatubulanPura Puseh Singakerta UbudPura Nataran Sanding TampaksiringPura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan UbudPura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami BrabanPura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh KrambitanPura Pasek Bendesa Mas G a d u n g a n SelemadegPura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari SelemadegPura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem Karan-gasemPura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow SulutPura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang KarangasemPura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukaluwih Tejakula BulelengPura Pasraman Suci Renon DenpasarPura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah JakartaPura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang BulelengPura Ulun Danu Batur Songan KintamaniPura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura PapuaPura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung DenpasarMerajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh DenpasarPura Pejengaji TegalalangPura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Keram-bitanPura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang KarangasemPura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung TengahPura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh KerambitanPura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karan-gasemPura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon KapalPura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen KarangasemPura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga BulelengPura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa PenidaPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani

Pura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh ker-ambitanPura Penataran UbudPura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken BlahbatuhPemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu Bule-lengPura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel SukawatiPura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung Baturn-ingMambal Abiansemal

22 Oct Penampahan Galungan 23 Oct Hari raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTTPura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTBPura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang, NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman PontianakPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta TimurPura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur.

24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri TabananPura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel TabananMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa TiyinganMerajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, BadungPura Luhur Cemenggon, SukawatiPura Pasek Ubung Denpasar

26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

27 Oct redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti Batu-bulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung

28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah SelemadegPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gi-anyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan BusungbiuPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan

The ceremony consisted of two individual ceremonies: Mecaru (Blessing the hotel for good will from the Gods) and Melaspas (Bless-ing the new hotel that aims to cleanse the new land property from any bad spirits so later on the people who stay or work there will feel ease and comfortable).

This ceremony was attended by more than 100 people, mostly lo-cal dignitaries and VIP guests from

owning company, management, staff, other Accor properties team in Bali and the Banjar Kuta community to lend their support and pray for the success of our hotel.

Now that the Melaspas ceremony has taken place, the hotel can move forward with the opening of their exceptional hotel, in the knowledge that it will be free of bad influences and be ready to welcome the first guest very soon.

Melaspas ceremony at ibis Styles Bali Dewi Sri

IBP

KUTA - Ibis Styles Bali Kuta Dewi Sri held a traditional Hindu-Balinese “Melaspas” ceremony on Monday. The highly successful economy hotel project under ibis styles brand has 114 rooms having been recently completed. Ideally located just a short stroll from the famous Kuta, Legian and Seminyak areas and within walking distance of Kuta Central Park, the hotel offers superb accommodation close to the best that Bali has to offer for both business and leisure travelers: beaches, shopping, nightlife and dining experiences.

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Traditional means of transportation such as cariole has become a favorite in the 1960s. In harmony with the passage of time, the presence of cariole is increasingly marginalized by modern means of transportation such as motorcycles and cars. Now, the number of cariole remaining to operate around Denpasar is few and far between. According to a cariole driver met around the Badung Market, Nengah Purna, the number of surviving cariole was only about 10-15 units. Such number spread out in several places in the Badung Market. Like in the east of the temple, the place was only used by three cariole drivers to hang out.

Purna has deeply involved in such profession since 1963. “I have been here since I was a teenager. When the Mount Agung erupted, I have been a cariole driver,” said the 70-year old grandfather. He said that before the flooding means of transportation like motorcycles, the cariole was highly required to convey and escort passengers bringing along their groceries from the market. From the results of his livelihood, he was able to support his wife and three children and sent them school and college. However, his earning as a cariole driver today was not much. Though visitors to the market were crowded ahead of Galungan, he said, they had no great impact on his earning. “From eleventh o’clock just now until this time, I have not got passengers at all,” he said.

Within a day, he was only able to earn IDR 10,000 to IDR 30,000. “Except for transporting guests (foreign visitors) and on Sunday, I can earn more,” he said. However, Nengah Purna would like to maintain his profession. This grandpa from Ulakan, Karangasem, started his activity as a cariole driver from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. He used to take passengers from Badung Market to the farthest point on Jalan Nangka. The rate charged was adjusted to the distance of destination. He added that government also gave support to the presence of cariole such as to support the tourism of Denpasar. “If there is an anniversary of government, our cariole is usually involved and decorated. We are given compensation known as money of grass,” he said.

The Head of Klungkung Sani-tation and Landscaping Agency, Nyoman Rahayu, recently said that since the first Klungkung government had planned to ex-pand the landfill from the current acreage of only 0.98 hectares to 4 hectares in accordance with the standard of landfill in the county. Even, she said the plan had already been budgeted in the main regional budget of Klung-kung County. To follow up the matter, she said the Klungkung government had made coordina-tion for several times with central government to request a budget for the plan to create a central-ized waste treatment system so that the waste generated could be processed into organic fertilizer to perform incineration.

However, to obtain the as-sistance, she said the total area of landfill should meet the stan-dard of 4 hectares. The terms required the Klungkung County to make an expansion to the landfill through acquisition of private land around the landfill area. Klungkung government began having a trouble when lo-cal residents were not willing to release their land for the sake of the landfill. Though having been asked at high price, majority of the land owners still refused to release their land. Similarly, once negotiation had failed so the expansion plan had stagnated. “It is impossible to expand it,” she added.

Being unable to expand, the green light of central govern-ment to help realize the waste treatment system at Sente landfill ultimately vanished. As a result, with the increasing waste produc-tion by Klungkung community,

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Snatching action experienced by foreigner in Kuta occurred again. At

this time, Anita Kvernrod Sletold, 25, from Norway was snatched by two unidentified men around Jalan Double Six, Legian, Tuesday (Oct 15) at 9:30 p.m. As a result, a purse containing mobile phone, money and other important papers were taken away by the perpetrators. The case had been reported to Kuta Police for further action.

The snatching case occurred when the victim was having a promenade at the scene. Unexpectedly, the victim seemed to have been dogged by two men riding a motorcycle. The perpetrators got near the victim and then robbed the victim’s purse on the shoulder. The victim was surprised and tried to defend her purse. Since it happened so quickly, the victim’s purse could be taken away.

The victim staying in one of the villas in Seminyak was yelling for help. However, it was in vain because the perpetrators had disappeared in the darkness of the night. Although the residents attempted to catch up, the two perpetrators immediately fled. Her case was then reported to Kuta Police. “From the recognition of victim, the missing properties are an iPhone 4, cash worth IDR 119,000 and some important papers. Total loss reaches IDR 9 million,” the source said.

Based on the report, police came down to the scene to conduct an in-vestigation. A number of witnesses had been questioned, but police could not identify the perpetrators. Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Denpasar Metro Police, IB Sarjana, had not clarified related to the incident experienced by the foreigner. Obviously, the case was still under investigation and police were chasing the perpetrator. (kmb21)

Cariole Still Survives amidst Congestion of Denpasar

A Norway tourist snatched by two men

Expansion plan stagnates

Sente landfill at risk of being terminatedSemarapura (Bali Post)—

History of the landfill at Sente hamlet, Dawan, Klungkung, seems difficult to be extended again. The plan to expand the landfill area having looked overload has stagnated for years without a significant breakthrough to resolve the deadlock. Actually, central government has given the green light to assist Klungkung County to provide a representative landfill equipped with a standard waste management system.

the Sente landfill area was getting more crowded and estimated to only last for about three years. Condition of the Sente landfill looking to have been overloaded gave impression if it was still imposed by force. Thus, it once drew a protest from the former regent Tjokorda Gede Ngurah. The man currently serving as leg-islator in the Bali House admitted to receive many complaints from residents about the stench gener-ated. It was very pungent and spread to the residential area.

At that time, he also asked the relevant agencies to think more seriously about the issue. Tjok Ngurah explained the Sente landfill was built when he was the Head of Klungkung Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) in the period of 1992-1996. When building it, the Sente landfill was predicted to be overloaded after 20 years. So, before 20 years, the Klungkung government should

have thought of the measure to accommodate the rubbish of community whether through landfill expansion or building a new one.

If the Sente landfill was closed, Rahayu said the rubbish produced by community had to be sent to regional landfill at Bangklet, Bangli, because the plan to build a new landfill had not occurred. If the rubbish would be disposed to Bangli, she said the operat-ing cost would automatically increase where each cubic meter the county government should pay IDR 50,000 where each truck transported 8 to 9 cubic meters. The condition was get-ting more alarming because the waste production of Klungkung reached 172 cubic meters per day, while the DKP could only carry 67 percent of them. Moreover, after the holidays like Galungan and Kuningan the number could rise. (kmb31)

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The garbage pile up in Sente landfill in Klungkung.

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velopment of the Batur Volcano Museum, in fact, has more chaotic impact on the tourist area of Kinta-mani, Bangli. Virtually within the past a month, the main road sec-tion of Penelokan has been used as a place to peddle by dozens of traders who originally peddled in the parking lot of the Batur Volcano Museum. They peddle on the sidewalk, right in front of the cave becoming the favorite place for tourists to enjoy the Mount Batur view. As a result, from the

morning until late afternoon, the tourist area looks increasingly crowded coupled with the passing motor vehicles.

Based on information on Fri-day (Oct 18), dozens of traders formerly peddled in the parking lot of the Batur Volcano Museum were forced to move due to the second phase development of the museum. They were allowed to peddle at the right and left side of the road. Most of them sold basic needs from the morning until around 10:00 a.m. Though after that the rubbish had been

cleaned up by the officers, slum impression remained visible in the tourism area.

Not a few people who had crossed the Bangli region deeply regretted the removal of traders to tourist area. Actually, if the Bangli government wanted to arrange the tourism more seriously, in truth the traders could be removed to a more appropriate place that surely did not have an impact on the slum and crowdedness of the region.

One of the residents, Jro Gede Tindih, revealed that removal of the traders to the main route had

made the Penelokan tourism area increasingly crowded, especially in the morning. Not only that, the hawkers having been complained to have annoyed the convenience of visitors so far were increasingly more rampant.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Bangli government, I Made Putra Mahindra, when asked for his con-firmation justified the removal of the traders. He said the trader re-moval was undertaken temporarily while waiting for the completion of the second place development of the Batur Volcano Museum.

“The trader removal only lasts temporarily while waiting until there is a space to accommodate them,” he said.

He also added the assessment team consisting of the Govern-ment Division, Rural Community Empowerment Agency (BPMD) as well as the Industry and Trade Agency so far remained to make a study for the place to accom-modate the traders. As planned, the traders would be relocated to a place nearby. Even, there was possibility to use the local forest land. (ina)

Indeed, when observed closely, the welcome of Galungan in Bali in particular seems fairly festive. As characteristic of the festivity, the penjor stuck at the right side in front of each house compound looks more luxurious, beautiful and mesmerizing. In the past, the penjor of Galungan was relatively simple with some required paraphernalia.

In harmony with the passage of time, the appearance of penjor today widely varies with a variety of artistic elements just like the works of art. Most designs of penjor used in the Galungan feast are embellished with artistic creation. The bamboo stem is even wrapped in colorful papers, while some others wrap it in velvet cloth. Then, it is filled with rice ears and various kinds of fruits and color-ful sampian penjor festoon. Many people are now also making extrava-gant penjor. The cost expended is not half-hearted. At least, for a single penjor they will spend IDR 200,000. However, the average cost may reach IDR 500,000 to IDR 700,000. Even, some people are willing to spend up to millions of rupiahs for a penjor. As a matter of fact, penjor symbolizes the expression of gratitude for people’s prosperity. On that account, penjor is decorated with coconut, banana, sugarcane, rice, snacks and fabrics representing all the plants and element of food and clothing.

Main road section of Penelokan increasingly chaotic

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

When celebrating Galungan, the entire Hindu society will stick a penjor exactly one day before the celebration in front of their house compound where it overlooks the road. The penjor itself will be installed for 35 days and withdrawn after the Galungan celebration.

Fanfare of Galungan’s penjor

Expected to move wheel of economyBali Post

DENPASAR - When cel-ebrating Galungan, the entire Hindu society will stick a pen-jor exactly one day before the celebration in front of their house compound where it overlooks the road. The penjor itself will be installed for 35 days and withdrawn after the Galungan celebration.

Unfortunately, in terms of eco-nomic aspect the symbol is not fully enjoyed by Balinese people. Symbol of prosperity aiming to achieve a bal-ance of all the aspects of life was even dominantly enjoyed by community from outside Bali because the materi-als used in the symbol such as young coconut leaf, coconut and fruits were brought in from outside Bali, domi-nantly from Java. Rector of the Un-diknas University Denpasar, Prof. Dr. Gede Sri Darma, admitted that penjor was made based on profound gratitude for the abundant blessings. However, the fortune sourcing from nature was no longer sufficient to meet the needs of the feast, so that they were brought

in from the other regions.“Balinese people should be mind-

ful and willing to change over the cur-rent necessities in the making of penjor accessories by taking advantage of the local agricultural yields. By changing the raw materials of penjor will mean to encourage the economy of Bali,” he said.

He said that to meet the needs, the public was advised to participate in planting a quality raw material by taking advantage of vacant land such as in Karangasem and Bangli. “By that way, people can certainly use the raw materials growing in Bali as an expression of gratitude to God. Why should be thankful for the imported

raw materials?” he said.According to him, the dominance

of imported products in everyday life of the Hindus was inseparable from the quality. For example, knick-knacks and Bali local young coconut leaf could only last about for two to three days, while similar products imported from outside the region could last longer.

“We should be proud to have abundant natural resources. Similarly, the government should also be serious and is not only busy with him and just wants the people when there is a project,” he said.

Prof. Sri Darma added that there were three key economic wheels

moving evenly Bali. Among them, the community should maintain the culture of Bali, Balinese people should be aware of the cultural values of the penjor and the chain of social life.

Meanwhile, an economist, IB Kade Perdana, said it was fair if they (Hindus—Ed) made extravagant penjor provided that it was based on a sincere heart and real abilities without debt. “Do not get into debt. Do not be burdensome, that’s the point. If they want to make beautiful penjor with artistic creativity, it is not extravagant but poses an appreciation in welcom-ing the Galungan celebration with the artistic creativity that they want to highlight,” he said. (bit)

But the measure, which comes just weeks ahead of the holiday shopping season, only temporarily averts a po-tential default on U.S. debt that could send the nation into a recession.

Retailers hope that short-term un-certainty won’t stop Americans from spending during the busiest shopping period of the year, but they’re fearful that it will.

“I am not nervous, but I am mind-ful,” said Jay Stein, chairman of Stein Mart, a 300-store chain that sells home goods and clothing. “The big-gest enemy of consumer confidence is uncertainty.”Retailers and industry watchers say Washington gridlock already has caused shoppers to hold back on purchases.

The number of people going into stores nationwide dropped 7.5 percent for the week that ended Oct. 5 and 7.1 percent during the follow-ing week compared with a year ago, according to ShopperTrak, which measures foot traffic at 40,000 retail outlets across the country. Men’s clothier Jos. A. Bank Clothiers and

furniture chain Ethan Allen said their customers cut back in recent weeks. And auto sales, which had been strong, trailed off last week, with experts blaming Washington law-makers.Retailers say the agreement that lawmakers approved, which funds the government until Jan. 15 and gives the Treasury the ability to borrow above its limit until Feb. 7, may not be enough to alleviate shoppers’ concerns.

Robert N. Wildrick, chairman of Jos. A. Bank, which has 623 U.S. stores, said retailers can’t afford more uncertainty during the holiday shop-ping season. “The more this nonsense goes on .... the more scared (consum-ers) become,” he said.

Even before the stalemate in Washington, retailers had reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the holiday season, which accounts for up to 40 percent of retailers’ annual revenue. While the job and housing markets are improving, that hasn’t yet translated into sustained spending increases among shoppers.

But retailers spend money on ads, order additional inventory and add sales staff during the holidays hoping shoppers will spending freely. If they don’t, stores have to discount, which eats away profits.

The National Retail Federation, the largest U.S. retail group, had fore-cast in early October that sales would climb 3.9 percent in November and December to $602.12 billion, higher than last year’s 3.5 percent gain. But the forecast didn’t account for the prolonged shutdown.

Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist for the Washington, D.C.-based group, told The Associated Press that he may lower the projection after he sifts through retail sales and jobs data, reports that had been delayed because of the shutdown. The uncertainty could hurt sales.

“It’s like having an ongoing fever that you would like to shake but just doesn’t go away,” Kleinhenz said. “That causes a backup in decision-making from consumers and busi-nesses.”

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — A violin believed to have been played on the Titanic before the doomed vessel sank was auctioned for more than 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) Saturday, a fantastic figure which one collector said may never be beaten.

The sea-corroded instrument, now unplayable, is thought to have belonged to bandmaster Wallace Hartley, who was among the disaster’s more than 1,500 victims.

The story of Hartley’s band, which stoically continued playing on the ship’s deck until the disaster’s final hour, is a memorable part of James Cameron’s “Titanic,” when Hartley and his colleagues are seen playing “Nearer, My God, To Thee” as the passengers around them scream and drown in the icy water.

The incredible story, and its heart-rending portrayal in one of the world’s most popular films, likely played a role in pushing the instrument’s price to 900,000 pounds, or past 1 million pounds when the buyer’s premium and tax are taken into account.

“It’s a world record for a Titanic artifact,” said Peter Boyd-Smith, a Titanic memorabilia collector at the auction, hosted by Henry Aldridge and Son in the western England town of Devizes.

“The only other items that are probably worth that kind of money are the items salvaged from RMS Titanic if they are ever put up for sale and those are in the exhibitions that go around America and Europe. “It may never get beaten.”

The violin, with Hartley’s name on it, is believed to have been found at sea with the musician’s body more than a week after the Titanic sank.

“Mr. Hartley and the band were very brave people ... standing by their posts to the bitter end,” auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said ahead of the sale.

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2012 file photo, Shopper Roxanna Garcia, middle, waits in line to pay for her over a $1000.00 gifts at the Target store in Burbank, Calif.

Season of uncertainty for US storesAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Will Washington be the Grinch who stole Christmas? After weeks of bickering between Congress and the White House, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a plan that ended a partial 16-day government shutdown and suspended the United States’ debt limit until early next year.

Titanic violin sells for over $1.6M at auction

AP Photo/PA, Tim Ireland

A violin, believed to be the one

played by Titanic bandmaster

Wallace Hartley, is displayed at auction house

Henry Aldridge and Son in

Devizes, Eng-land, Friday Oct.

18, 2013.

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The admonition from a frustrated president came amid the embarrass-ing start to sign-ups for the health care insurance exchanges. The president is expected to address the cascade of computer problems Monday during an event at the White House. Administration officials say more than 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges. The fig-ures mark the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of the insurance market place.

However, the officials continue to refuse to say how many people have actually enrolled in the insur-ance markets. And without enroll-ment figures, it’s unclear whether the program is on track to reach the 7 million people projected by the Congressional Budget Office to gain coverage during the six-month sign-up period.

The first three weeks of sign-

ups have been marred by a cascade of computer problems, which the administration says it is working around the clock to correct. The rough rollout has been a black eye for Obama, who invested signifi-cant time and political capital in getting the law passed during his first term.

The officials said technology experts from inside and outside the government are being brought in to work on the glitches, though they did not say how many work-ers were being added. Officials did say staffing has been increased at call centers by about 50 percent. As problems persist on the feder-ally run website, the administra-tion is encouraging more people to sign up for insurance over the phone.

The officials would not discuss the health insurance rollout by name and were granted anonymity. De-

spite the widespread problems, the White House has yet to fully explain what went wrong with the online system consumers were supposed to use to sign up for coverage.

Administration officials initially blamed a high volume of interest from ordinary Americans for the frozen screens that many people encountered. Since then, they have also acknowledged problems with software and some elements of the system’s design. Interest in the insur-ance markets appears to continue to be high. Officials said about 19 mil-lion people have visited HealthCare.gov as of Friday night.

Of the 476,000 applications that have been started, just over half have been from the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead in running the markets. The rest of the applications have come from the 14 states running their own markets, along with Washington, D.C.

Associated Press Writer

CANBERRA, Australia — Firefighters battling some of the most destructive wildfires to ever strike Australia’s most populous

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, FileFile- Thgis Oct. 17, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applica-tions have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Obama’s signature legislation.

For Obama, a frustrating health care rolloutAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Last week, President Barack Obama gathered some of his top advisers in the Oval Office to discuss the problem-plagued rollout of his health care legislation. He told his team the adminis-tration had to own up to the fact that there were no excuses for not having the health care website ready to operate on Day One.

Winds, heat keep wildfire risk high in Australia

REUTERS/StringerA Rural Fire Service firefighter sprays water onto a small fire burning near a home in western Sydney October 20, 2013.

state were focusing on a major blaze Sunday near the town of Lithgow that stretched along a 300-kilometer (190-mile) front.

Authorities warned that high temperatures and winds were

likely to maintain heightened fire danger for days in New South Wales state.

The fires have killed one man, destroyed 208 homes and dam-aged another 122 since Thursday,

the Rural Fire Service said.Firefighters have taken ad-

vantage of milder conditions in recent days to reduce the number of fires threatening towns around Sydney from more than 100 on Thursday night to 61 on Sunday, Rural Fire Service spokesman Matt Sun said.

Fifteen of these fires continued to burn out of control, including the blaze near Lithgow, west of Syd-ney, which was given the highest danger ranking by the fire service. Authorities expect that blaze will continue to burn for days and have advised several nearby communi-ties to consider evacuating ahead of worsening weather conditions.

Sun said temperatures in the fire zone on Sunday exceeded 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahr-enheit), with winds reaching 20 kilometers per hour (12 miles per hour) and humidity dropping to 30 percent.

“It’s not as dire as it could be, but it’s certainly challenging work for firefighters and expected to get worse,” Sun said.

The Defense Department, mean-while, said it was investigating

whether there was any link be-tween the Lithgow fire, which started Wednesday, and military exercises using explosives at a nearby training range on the same day. “Defense is inves-tigating if the two events are linked,” the department said in a statement on Saturday.

Sun said the cause of the fire was also under investigation by fire authorities and would be made public when determined.

Arson investigators are ex-amining the origins of several of more than 100 fires that have threatened towns surrounding Sydney in recent days. Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said the weather was forecast to dete-riorate further over Monday and Tuesday.

“The worst of that weather will be probably culminating on Wednesday, but (there won’t be) much relief in the interven-ing period,” he told Australian Broadcasting Corp. In February 2009, wildfires killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Victoria state.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Docking schedule of the roro

vehicle coinciding with the celebra-tion of Galungan and Kuningan feast seemed to have provoked strong reac-

The Farmer Market was opened by Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana. Having been opened, the market was directly thronged by visitors, especially housewives. A number of booth attendants looked overwhelmed to serve the com-ing shoppers, such as the booth of Tejakula subdistrict displaying fruit products of local farmers and a num-ber of processed herbal products.

Amid the event, a number of people complained about the price of agricultural products in the Farmer Market that remained expensive. Even, some products were sold at more expensive price than the market price. However, they still purchased because they believed the quality of products on sale in the Farmer Market was better. “The price is still expensive. But I’m sure the quality is good,” said one of the residents.

The Head of Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swa-tantra, stated the Farmer Market activity was held for three days from

Friday. The event also served as a forum to introduce the local agricul-tural products to people of Buleleng, especially ahead of Galungan. “We do hope people to get to know and choose local fruits rather than im-ported fruits,” he said.

He said the price offered in the Farmer Market was competitive with the market price considering the transaction occurred directly between farmers and consumers. According to him, the Farmer Mar-ket shortened the trading system so the price of fruit and ritual oblations could be cheaper than the price in the market. “In addition, farmers can immediately enjoy higher profits without going through middlemen,” he said.

On the other hand, Swatantra said, the stock of local fruits before Galungan remained safe. “Although the harvest peak of fruits slightly delays, we are optimistic to meet the market demand ahead of Galungan,” he said. (kmb15)

IBP/FileThe Buleleng Officers are joining the farmer market held in the regency

Farmer MarketComplained to be expensive, local fruits remain in demand

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Though some residents complained about the expensive price of

local fruits, the Farmer Market event held in the office courtyard of the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Friday (Oct 18), remained in demand. Even, in relatively short time a number of fruits such as bananas had sold out.

Roro vessel comes into a dock on feast Nusa Penida residents disappointed

tions from residents of Nusa Penida islands. They considered the docking schedule of the roro vessel ahead of the feast tended to ignore the interests of community highly in need of the roro

vessel transport mode. The policy was quite regretted by residents because during holidays such as Galungan and Kuningan certainly more than 10,000 people of Nusa Penida would return home to Nusa Penida.

One of the protests by Nusa Penida residents came from the Headman of Pejukutan, Nyoman Yudiadnyanawan, Friday (Oct 18). He confessed that after reading Bali Post newspaper on the docking of roro vessel before Galungan and Kuningan, many residents revealed their protest to him and assessed the policy was not accommodative to the needs of Nusa Penida community. He criticized of the Head of the Klungkung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency, Nengah Sukasta. According to him, he did not have the sensitivity to the interests of society. “This policy is really not aspirational and does not have a good spirit of public service,” he said.

He did not agree with the alternative crossing solution offered by the Head of Transportation, Communication and Informatics Agency to temporarily use a boat through traditional harbor. With the alternative, people were faced with

higher expenditure. For example, the fare of Celebrity fast boat at Kusamba Harbor was IDR 40,000 per person without the capability of transporting vehicle. When taking a boat from Sanur, it would cost IDR 75,000 per person. Meanwhile, the use of boat from Padangbai Harbor was also much more expensive. Then, they could not bring home their vehicle. Even, when transporting vehicle by traditional boat they would be charged at higher cost reaching IDR 120,000 per motorcycle.

According to him, the government had the task to provide convenient, safe and inexpensive transportation. So, it was natural if the agency as the leading sector could work well to an-ticipate the vessel docking schedule so as not to coincide with holidays such as Galungan and Kuningan. More-over, there was also Ngusaba Desa ritual in the Penataran Ped Temple. By all means, the number of passen-ger would be booming. “At the feast like this, more than 10,000 people of Nusa Penida will return home and the majority of them utilize roro vessel,” he said. He expected it would be the

last disappointing policy and could be-come a subject of evaluation because Galungan and Kuningan fell every six months. “If similar policy will also be made in the next Galungan and Kuningan, performance of the official in charge there (Klungkung mainland) is questionable,” he said.

Similar complaint was also dis-closed by another resident, Dewa Santana. The docking schedule should not coincide with the feasts so that people could go home comfortably and celebrate the holiday with fam-ily. As reported, the docking plan before Galungan and Kuningan was justified by the Head of Klungkung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency, Nengah Sukasta, Wednesday (Oct 16). He said the winning bidder could have been de-termined this week, so the roro vessel could not serve passengers on Galun-gan and Kuningan for the crossing to Nusa Penida. He said it was time for the vessel to have docking schedule so he asked people to understand it for the sake of safety in the future in making the crossing to Nusa Penida and vice versa. (kmb31)

IBP/FileThe roro vessel is deploying passengers in Nusa Penida Harbor

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BRUSSELS - The EU and Canada signed a free trade accord Friday after four years of tough talks, saying it will boost growth and set the stage for others, including a massive EU-US deal.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper hailed it as “the biggest (trade) deal our country has ever made” while European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said it was “highly ambitious and far-reaching ... (and) of great importance for the EU economy.”

It will provide new opportunities by increasing market access and “be the basis for gaining a strong foothold in the North American market and so provide a catalyst for growth and the creation of jobs in Europe,” Barroso said.

The accord is widely seen as a pos-sible template for EU efforts to con-clude a similar Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with

the United States, touted as one of the biggest free-trade agreements ever.

According to EU figures, bilateral trade in goods last year was worth 61.7 billion euros ($84 billion), with Canada the EU’s 11th largest trading partner, while the 28-member bloc was Ottawa’s second most important market after the United States.

EU investment in Canada mean-while came to 220 billion euros as of 2011, with Canada holding invest-ments worth 140 billion euros in the now 28-member European Union.

Barroso, noting the deal was the EU’s first with a Group of Eight coun-try, said it could increase trade by up to 26 billion euros and add 12 billion euros to EU economic output.

Some 99 percent of tariffs on both sides will be removed.

The talks began in 2009 and were supposed to end last year but were held up by sharp differences over ag-riculture, a sensitive subject for both, along with financial services, generic

medicines and public procurement in Canada’s provinces.

A key sticking point was Ottowa’s request for increased access for its beef while the EU wanted to cut tariffs of up to 300 percent shielding Canada’s dairy industry from imports of European cheese.

Reflecting such difficulties, the agreement signed Friday is one in principle, not a final document.

Outstanding technical issues will be resolved as it goes through the formal political and parliamentary approval process on both sides, with implementation expected in 2015.

Harper insisted Canadian farmers had not been sacrificed, stressing the country now gains greater ac-cess to an EU market of 500 million people.

That makes the accord bigger even than the landmark 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States and Mexico, he said.

From easing visa restric-tions to building on recent cur-rency cooperation and winning Beijing money for investment in British nuclear power plants, Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne can claim to have smoothed relations with the emerging economic power.

He in part managed to win over a Chinese government that had rebuffed Britain after Prime Minister David Cameron met Dalai Lama -- the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet -- last year.

The chancellor’s trip coin-cided with one made to China by London Mayor Boris John-son -- with the pair seen as potential rivals for the leader-ship of the Conservative party should Cameron come unstuck before or after the next general election in 2015.

In a speech at Peking Uni-versity, Osborne insisted “there is no country in the West more open to investment -- especial-ly from China” than Britain.

He said: “I don’t want Brit-ain to resent China’s success, I want us to celebrate it. I don’t want us to try to resist your economic progress, I want Britain to share in it.”

Osborne on Thursday said he would allow Chinese com-panies to take majority stakes in nuclear power projects across Britain.

The British government said the initial Chinese stakes in nuclear power stations were likely to be minority shares, but added: “Over time stakes in subsequent new power stations could be majority stakes.”

The announcement comes amid reports that China Gen-eral Nuclear Power and French energy giant EDF have agreed a controversial deal to build a new atomic power station at Hinkley Point, southwest England.

Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global In-

sight consultancy, said the nuclear tie-up made sense for Britain’s indebted economy.

Also last week, Beijing Con-struction Engineering Group signed a deal with British firms to develop a business district around Manchester airport.

The development of Brit-ain’s third busiest airport -- described as one of the largest construction projects in Britain since the 2012 London Olym-pics -- will cost £800 million (US$1.30 billion, 947 million euros).

Osborne used his trip also to announce plans to make it easier for China’s citizens to obtain British visas, as it seeks a bigger share of the multi-billion-dollar Chinese travel-ler market in the face of stiff European competition.

Chinese tourists visiting the European Union using selected travel agencies will no longer have to file a separate applica-tion to visit Britain, which is not part of the EU’s “Schengen Area” for border-free travel.

Business travellers will be able to apply for a “super-priority” visa, which will be processed within 24 hours rather than a week.

Some 210,000 visas were issued to Chinese nationals in 2012, adding around £300 mil-lion to the British economy as designer label-hungry Chinese shoppers snapped up goods.

Plans enabling Britons to invest up to 80 billion yuan ($13.1 billion) in China’s heav-ily restricted capital markets -- with the aim of making London a major trading hub for China’s currency -- also emerged dur-ing Osborne’s trip.

In June, the Chinese and British central banks signed a currency-swap deal with a maximum value of 200 billion yuan to promote bilateral trade and investment as well as the use of the yuan in global trade and finance.

AP Photo/Eugene HoshikoIn this Sept. 30, 2013 photo, a customer checks out the clothing at an Uniqlo store in Shanghai, China. Britain has assuaged its hunger for economic ties with China after finance minister George Osborne came away from a trip to the Asian powerhouse with a range of investment deals.

Britain grabs slice of Chinese investmentAgence France-Presse

LONDON - Britain has assuaged its hunger for economic ties with China after finance minister George Osborne came away from a trip to the Asian powerhouse with a range of investment deals.

EU, Canada strike landmark historic free trade accord

Previously, those rabies trans-mitting animals (HPR) had been briefly detained in the Quarantine Office due to entering Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor without the re-quired official documents. The dogs were secured by a joint team of the Quarantine Office and Gilimanuk Marine Police from a Daihatsu Xenia vehicle with license plate DK 902 AY. The officers conducting a regular check at cost 2 found the dogs in the vehicle.

The owner Agam Surya Dwi Pu-tra was questioned by the officers. From the results of examination, the owner could not present the shipping document to bring along the animal to Denpasar. Although the dogs had already owned a health and vaccine papers, the dogs remained to be banned from enter-ing Bali.

Coordinator of the Gilimanuk Quarantine Office, Nyoman Budi-

arta, told reporters on Saturday (Oct 19) that the dogs were classified into illegal dogs. The dogs arrested con-sisted of a head of Siberian Husky, 3 heads of pit bull, 2 heads of Cihuahua, 1 head of mini Pomerian and 2 heads of Pug. According to Budiarta, all dogs were still puppies and about three months old.

Even, one of the dogs died when it was examined. Probably it hap-pened due to stress. According to him, it could be categorized into smuggling action because they were not equipped with official documents and violated the Article 6 paragraph a and c, Article 9 of Law No.16/1992 as well as Article 3 letter a and d of the Government Regulation No. 82/2003 on Quaran-tine. After a one-week observation, Denpasar Quarantine Office (BKP) rejected the dogs from entering Bali and returned them to their place of origin. (kmb26)

IBP

Bali has many traditional dances and one of the most fun is the joged bumbung dance. Joged Bumbung dance can find in some place in Bali such as Tabanan regency, Gianyar regency, Karangasem regency, and Klungkung regency.

This dance usually danced by some young girl usually until five. Tourists will often see and participate in a joged bumbung dance. The joged bumbung is a flirtation dance and a solo female dancer will select men from the audience with a tap on the shoulder with her fan.

Back in 1937 during Miguel Cova-rrubias’s time in Bali, before the onrush of mass tourism, the joged bumbung was popular. Joged Bumbung usually accompanied with balinese gamelan called bumbung. Balinese gamelan is an ensemble of instruments indigenous to the island of Bali in Indonesia.

Bumbung is comprised of bamboo resonators lying horizontally and tied to bamboo frames. These resonators are struck with special mallets made of bamboo and tire rubber. This balinese music usually used for accompany joged bumbung dance. This balinese music usually brought by some people which joined into sekaa or group according to each village and each group of joged

bumbung dance. Each group of bumbung usually amounting among 18 until 27 people including the joged bumbung dancer.

A very popular dance that seems related to the legong is the joged, performed by a girl in a variation of the legong costume and in the traditional legong steps. The dance is considered erotic by the Balinese because the girl entices the men from the audience by ‘making eyes’ at them during the course of the dance. The man invited must dance with her in postures that rep-resent a love game of approach and refusal (ngibing), in which the man tries to come near enough to the girl’s face to catch her perfume and feel the warmth of her skin, the Balinese form of a kiss. As the audience becomes worked up, other men ‘cut in’ and dance with her.

The joged could easily be a modern-ized, decadent version of the ancient mating dance still to be found in some village in Bali, stronghold of native tradition. There, once a year, a dance called abuang is performed in which the unmarried girls of the village ap-pear dressed in their best, wearing gold flower head-dresses and meet bachelor boys who posture with the girl of their preference in a short dance in which the gestures make one think of a chaste and restrained joged.

IBP/OloNine smuggled breed dogs secured in the Integrated Quarantine Office (KPT) for Gilimanuk Area were returned to its origin. The breed dogs worth tens of millions of rupiahs brought in from Yogyakarta had been examined and they were not infected by rabies.

Nine smuggled breed dogs rejected from entering Bali Bali Post

JEMBRANA - Nine smuggled breed dogs secured in the Inte-grated Quarantine Office (KPT) for Gilimanuk Area were returned to its origin. The breed dogs worth tens of millions of rupiahs brought in from Yogyakarta had been examined and they were not infected by rabies.

IBP/NetBali has many traditional dances and one of the most fun is the joged bumbung dance. Joged Bumbung dance can find in some place in Bali such as Tabanan regency, Gianyar regency, Karangasem regency, and Klungkung regency.

Joged Bumbung

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JAKARTA - An Indonesian court Thursday jailed an em-ployee of US energy giant Chev-ron, after three of his colleagues were imprisoned over a case that has raised alarm among foreign investors in the country.

Bachtiar Abdul Fatah, a for-mer general manager at Chev-ron’s Indonesian subsidiary, was sentenced to two years’ prison for abuse of power.He said he planned to appeal the verdict.

“Corruption is an extraordi-nary crime and is a priority of law enforcers in Indonesia,” said chief Antonius Widijantono on a panel of three judges of the anti-corruption court.

The three other Chevron em-ployees were jailed for two years by the same court in July, causing concern among foreign investors who have said such cases should be and are usually settled out of court.

The court said that Chevron’s project to clean up 28 plots of land was never contaminated with oil in the first place.The court said the rigged project had caused state losses of more than $220,000.

In previous court cases against the Chevron employees, judges found in favor of prosecutors’ claims that the company con-tracted to carry out the clean-up was not qualified to do so and did not have the right permits.

Chevron, the country’s big-gest crude oil producer, denies all accusations and has said the clean-up was given government approval before it began.

The case has sparked concern among foreign energy companies and investors, who have battled fast-changing industry regula-tions and legal uncertainty in recent years.

Analysts fear it could scare off much-needed investment in the oil sector after the country slipped from being a net exporter to a net importer.

The company has said it would support its three employees to appeal to the high court, and has not ruled out international arbitration.

More than 100 elephants had been killed in Riau Province, since 2004 mainly due to elephant-hu-man conflict, Syamsidar, a spokes-man of WWF Riau office, said.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s elite anti-terrorism squad shot and killed one suspect and arrest-ed two others in a raid Thursday in the east of the country, seizing weapons and fertilizer allegedly for bomb making from a group suspected of planning terrorist attacks, police said.

National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said three men in a van resisted arrest in Bone district in South Sulawesi province for alleged connection to a group responsible for recent at-

tacks on police in Poso, a district in the neighboring province of Cen-tral Sulawesi. Authorities fatally shot one of the men, he said.

He said police seized two guns, ammunition and about 2 ki-lograms (4.4 pounds) of fertilizer, a material often used by militants to make bombs, and were inter-rogating the two suspects.

More than 1,000 people died in Poso in 2001 and 2002 in violence between Christians and Muslims. Authorities believe the district is now a terrorist hotbed.

Indonesia has been battling terrorists since the 2002 bomb-

ings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. Terrorist attacks aimed at foreigners have been largely replaced in recent years by smaller, less deadly strikes targeting the government, mainly police and anti-terrorism forces.

Indonesian police have been criticized for shooting suspected terrorists rather than trying to arrest them. Authorities respond that they are forced to shoot to defend themselves.

Since January, police have killed at least 21 suspected mili-tants and arrested 32.

AP Photo

Former Indonesian sports minister Andi Mallarangeng, center, is escorted by plain-clothed police officers as he leaves for a detention house after being questioned over a multimillion dollar corruption case at the Corruption Eradication Commission’s office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. The anti-graft commission has officially arrested Mallarangeng who was the first active cabinet member to be named as a suspect in a corruption case.

Elephant-human conflict inflicts losses worth Rp1,99 billionAntara

PEKANBARU - Elephant-human conflict at Tesso Nillo National Park (TNTN) in Sumatra has inflicted material losses worth more than Rp1.99 billion over the past nine years, according to WWF.

Almost all of the elephants were died of poisoning because the animals were regarded as pests that damaged plantations, he added.

The population of elephant in Riau Province is estimated at 300, Syamsidar, he said.

Nineteen elephants had been poisoned to death over the past

two years. In 2012, 12 dead el-ephants were found in the Tesso Nilo National Park and three oth-ers in somewhere else.

Up to September this year, four elephants were killed in the national park. All cases of the el-ephant deaths remained unsolved, he said.

To mit igate the elephant-human conflict, WWF in coop-

eration with the Riau natural resources conservation agency (BKSD) and the TNTN manage-ment has deployed an elephant Flying Squad since April 2004.

The squad is a rapid response unit made up of specially trained domestic elephants and their mahouts (riders). The squad is tasked to herd the animals back into the forest.

Corruption court jails fourth Chevron employee

Police kill suspected militant, arrest 2

Hospital wards are overwhelmed and tales abound of deaths and cases while New Delhi public authorities insist that only 3,500 have fallen sick so far this year -- with only five fatalities. “I took him first to a gov-ernment hospital. I was shocked to see that it was packed with dengue patients. There was not even a single bed available,” said Awwal’s mother, Mehrunissa, sitting in her one-room shack in east Delhi.

She is now treating him at their home, giving him multi-vitamins, paracetamol and water as he lies on the floor with two pillows and a bedsheet but no mattress.

In a sign that this year’s outbreak could be as bad as record-breaking 2010, the city’s largest public hospital, Hindu Rao, announced earlier this month that it had suspended all routine surgeries to make room for more den-gue patients. The Delhi government

has blamed prolonged monsoons for the hike in infections, but says it has added beds at hospitals and increased resources for spraying insecticides to tackle the mosquito menace.

“It’s nothing to worry about, there is no crisis,” Charan Singh, additional director of Delhi health services, told AFP, dismissing allegations that the city of 17 million under-reports the problem. “It is a lot of hype going on... The government is in action and we report all cases according to inter-national guidelines,” he added.

The virus -- first detected in the 1950s in the Philippines and Thailand -- affects two million people across the globe annually, with the number of cases up 30 times in the last 50 years, according to the World Health Organisation.

Transmitted to humans by the female Aedes aegypti mosquito, it causes high fever, headaches, itching

and joint pains that last about a week. There are four strains, one of which can cause fatal internal bleeding. In In-dia, cases have increased sharply over the last five years -- there have been 38,000 so far in 2013 -- but doctors say these numbers only capture part of the problem. At the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India’s most prestigious public hospital, doctors are overwhelmed by patients whose beds are squeezed together like Tetris tiles in the emergency ward with saline drips nailed to the walls.

Medics, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that they were seeing 60 new dengue patients a day -- an influx they suspected was not reflected in the official figures.

“Maybe it’s because they don’t want to create panic or because they don’t want to be blamed, but if they hide, people won’t know how bad the situation is,” said one doctor.

Associated Press Writer

CONYERS, Georgia — Thou-sands of miles from Spain, daredev-ils in white outfits and red scarves dodged bulls at a Georgia horse park to get a taste of the running of the bulls. WSB-TV reported about 3,000 people participated in the Great Bull Run on Saturday in Conyers, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Atlanta.

People on horseback herded 18 bulls into a fenced course. Many stood alongside the fence as the bulls ran by, but some tried to sprint with the animals. A few runners fell down or were knocked down by the bulls, but no serious injuries were reported.

The bull run at Georgia Interna-tional Horse Park was the second U.S. event this year for the group Great Bull Run. The next stop is Dec. 7 in Baytown, Texas.

Associated Press Writer

BRUSSELS — A plane carrying parachutists planning to celebrate a birthday with a skydive crashed in Belgium on Saturday, killing all 11 people aboard.

Minutes after the aircraft took off from a small airfield near the city of Namur, witnesses saw part of a wing break off, sending the plane into a spiraling nosedive and crash in a field close to Fernelmont town, said its mayor, Jean-Claude Nihoul. The skydivers and their instructors “were not able to jump out,” Nihoul said in a telephone interview.

“It has been a long time we have suffered a tragedy of such kind,” said Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, who traveled to the site of the accident.

The victims were almost all be-tween the ages of 20 and 40, and many families lost a father, Nihoul said. “There were 11 on board, and the trip was a birthday present for one of them,” he added.

Everyone aboard was killed and no one was hurt on the ground, Nihoul said, adding that three parachutes were found near the crash site. “Some were trying to get out but could not,” he said.

The 11 victims were not imme-diately identified by name, and the cause of the accident was being investigated.

The Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter plane took off in partly cloudy condi-tions over the wooded and hilly area about 40 miles (60 kilometers) south of Brussels.

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW — One of the Siberian cranes that Russian President Vladimir Putin helped teach to fly south last year lost its

flock along the way, but has been found and brought to Moscow.

In September 2012, Putin flew on a motor-ized hang glider as part of a project to teach the endangered birds who were raised in

captivity to later follow the aircraft on their migration south to Central Asia.

One of the cranes was recently spotted in the Tyumen region of Siberia and identi-fied by a tag on its right leg as belonging to

“Putin’s flock.”The crane was flown by airplane to Moscow,

where its arrival Friday was covered by state television. The white bird, called Raven, will spend the winter in a wildlife reserve.

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A Municipal Health Officer in India fumigates against mosquitos in a house in New Delhi

Delhi hospitals overflow with hidden dengue epidemicAgence France Presse

New Delhi - Factory worker Mohammad Awwal is gripped by fever, sweats and the sort of agonising aches that mean his condition is sometimes called “breakbone disease”. It’s an annual plague in India and a hidden epidemic, say experts. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding.

About 3,000 people run with bulls in Georgia

AP Photo/David Goldman

Participants are knocked over by charging bulls during the Great Bull Run at the Georgia International Horse Park, Sat-urday, Oct. 19, 2013, in Conyers, Ga.

Belgian plane crash leaves 11 dead

Putin’s crane is found after losing its way

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Bedugul poses a tourism area which lies on the altitude of 1,240 meters above sea level. This area is very cool with the average temperature of 18oC at night and 24oC during the day. Denpasar-Be-dugul-Alas Kedaton-Tanah Lot is a very pleasant route from Denpasar to Bedu-gul. Bedugul is a cold mountainous area where there are Lake Beratan and Ulun Danu Temple. We can enjoy the beauti-ful natural scenery, water recreation and some others. From Bedugul, we can then resume our journey to Alas Keda-ton where hundreds of grey monkeys and flying foxes live in the bijou forest surrounding the Alas Kedaton Temple built around the XV century AD. After that, we continue our trip to Tanah Lot which has been so familiar to all foreign tourists. At Tanah Lot lies a temple in the middle of the sea. When the sun will sink on the western horizon, it creates very magnificent scenery.

With tyre problems forcing rid-ers to change bikes mid-race in a MotoGP first, the battle between the two-time world champion Lorenzo and Honda’s 20-year-old wunder-kind fizzled out in the 14th lap when Marquez was shown the dreaded black flag for failing to pit during the mandated window.

Riders were ordered to pit by the end of the 10th lap at the latest out of safety fears, but Marquez sped past the Honda garage as his team believed completing lap 11 was al-lowed. “The plan we had was not correct, we thought that we could do that lap. We thought we could go into the pit at the end of lap 11,” Marquez told reporters at the Phillip Island circuit.

“The problem was not with the pit board, that was fine, when I saw ‘Box’ I came in. Now we need to forget about it and just concentrate in Motegi.”

Having had the chance to wrap up the title in his debut season on Sunday and become motorcycling’s youngest premier class champion, a crushed Marquez slumped in a chair in his team’s garage with his head in his hands as Lorenzo toasted victory ahead of Honda’s Dani Pedrosa and third-placed team mate Valentino Rossi.

“I said on Thursday that the cham-pionship is very long. Today this happened and maybe in Motegi it’s something else,” Marquez added. “I know we’re going in the right way, I feel so good on the bike. I could have fought for the podium or the victory

today.” Team principal Livio Suppo apologised to his rider.

“Everybody understood correctly instead of us,” an embarrassed Suppo said. “Of course we are sorry (to Marc). It’s the first time I’ve seen him in a very disappointed situation and he reacted as expected.”

Pole-sitter Lorenzo was a deserv-ing winner, however, having endured enormous pressure from the two Honda riders amid chaotic race con-ditions at the bucolic seaside track.

The win breathed new life into his title defence, trimming fellow Spaniard Marquez’s lead to a more precarious 18 points with two races left in Japan’s Motegi and Valencia. “Today has been a crazy race,” the affable 26-year-old said after cel-ebrating his first win Down Under.

“With this changeover of bikes in the middle, we practised a lot before the race. So that was one of the keys. “Now, (the title defence) is still very, very tough ... Let’s see what happens in Motegi.”

IRKEDLorenzo enjoyed an excellent start

off the grid but was under heat within seconds, losing the lead briefly to Marquez in the first lap before snatching it back.

While placing riders and their teams under additional strain, the overhauled race added an intriguing tactical ele-ment as Pedrosa changed his bike first followed by Lorenzo a lap later.

Marquez wobbled dangerously as he wore his tyres to breaking point before the changeover and

narrowly averted catastrophe as he emerged from pit-lane to brush Lorenzo, charging up the inside on his Yamaha and desperate to snatch back the lead.

Lorenzo snuck past, leaving a wobbling Marquez in his wake, and powered away to win by nearly seven seconds after twice being denied at Phillip Island by Australian Casey Stoner.

Still enjoying a strong lead, the championship may be Marquez’s to lose but the rookie is likely to come under fierce scrutiny from the resur-gent Lorenzo and Pedrosa, who lies third in the championship and retains a mathematical chance of winning the title.

Winner at Sepang last week, Pedrosa has been irked by his team mate’s aggressive riding and there appeared little friendly about their rivalry during a fierce skirmish on the opening lap.

With the race reduced by a lap to 26 on Saturday and riders ordered to change bikes, officials announced only hours before that it had been cut again to 19 due to safety fears over the tyres’ degradation on the circuit’s newly-laid asphalt.

Lorenzo had earlier complained the overhaul was in itself a safety risk and appeared to be right as riders nearly came to grief when re-joining the fray from pit-lane. The Moto2 category, won by Spaniard Pol Es-pargaro, was also reduced to a nub of a race due to the tyre concerns, the original 25 laps cut to 13. Spaniard Alex Rins won the Moto3 category.

Associated Press Writer

SHANGHAI — Klay Thompson scored 25 points, going 5-of-6 from 3-point range, as the Golden State Warriors routed the Los Angeles Lakers 115-89 in a pre-season game in Shang-hai on Friday.

David Lee added 16 points and Draymond Green had 14 points and six rebounds for the Warriors, who followed up their 100-95 win over the Lakers in Beijing on Tuesday with another victory.

“It’s always good to beat (the Lakers),” Thompson said. “I’ve seen them rule the state of California for far too long so we want Golden State to be the team out West and it starts even tonight in the pre-season.”

Shanghai native Yao Ming, who watched the game courtside, got a huge cheer from the crowd before the game, but the loud-est ovation went to the injured Kobe Bryant when he joined the Lakers bench in the fourth quarter. Bryant is sitting out the start of the season as he recovers from a torn Achilles tendon.

Pau Gasol was the only Laker in double digits, scoring 16 points. The club struggled from 3-point range, going just 6 for 24.

“We’ve still got a lot of work to do,” Gasol said. “We’ve still got to make sure we work really hard these next 11 days before opening night so the team is really ready to go. We’ve got to be ready to go from the beginning.”

Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni said, however, he wasn’t wor-ried about his team’s performances in China this week.

“We’re pretty excited about what we can do. This is not nor-mal. This is preseason and it doesn’t matter come January if you won four games or six games or one game,” D’Antoni said.

The Warriors opened up a close game with a 26-5 run late in the third quarter to take an 84-68 lead late in the period. Golden State got 13 points from Thompson during the run, including three 3-pointers in a 1½-minute span. “I got lucky tonight,” Thompson said. “I got a lot of wide-open shots.”

The only slight concern for the team came three minutes into the game when Andrew Bogut left with back spasms after scoring a lay-up and didn’t return. The Australian center has battled injuries in recent years_only playing 32 regular-season games for the Warriors last year_but has been fit coming into this season.

“There’s no concern,” Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. “He actually waved me off and wanted to stay in the ballgame, but we’ve got plenty of time to make sure he’s healthy and whole and that’s important closing out this preseason.”

The Shanghai game was the final edition of the NBA’s Global Games, part of the league’s efforts to expand its brand by play-ing preseason games in China, Brazil, Turkey, the Philippines, Taiwan, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Warriors rout Lakers 115-89 in Shanghai

AP Photo/Eugene HoshikoJodie Meeks of Los Angeles Lakers, left, dives against Andre Iguodala of Golden State Warriors during a 2013-2014 NBA preseason game between Lakers and Warriors at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013.

Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa of Spain changes bikes during the Australian Motor-

cycle Grand Prix, at Phillip Island Circuit in this picture provided by Dorna October 20, 2013.

Lorenzo wins Down Under after Marquez DQ’d

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PHILLIP ISLAND, Australia - Jorge Lorenzo’s MotoGP title defence remains alive after the Spaniard won an incident-packed Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, as championship leader Marc Marquez suffered a disastrous disqualification due to a howling team error.

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Champions Barca, who visit AC Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday, were held 0-0 at Osasuna. It was the first time they failed to score in a domestic league game in 65 matches since a 0-0 draw at Villarreal in January 2012.

Atletico also lost 1-0 at Espa-nyol as Real Madrid’s record nine straight wins to kick off the 1968-69 campaign remained intact.

Associated Press Writer

MILAN — Injury-hit AC Mi-lan edged visiting Udinese 1-0

for just its third win in eight Serie A matches on Saturday. Slovenia midfielder Valter Birsa scored with a long, curling shot following an exchange with Robinho in the 22nd minute at the San Siro. “We played a great match,” Milan midfielder Andrea Poli said. “We haven’t had the results that are necessary for this club. Sometimes that’s due to bad luck but this squad has a lot of heart and a lot of desire to do well and we showed that tonight.”

Milan moved up to sev-enth place, 13 points be-hind leader Roma, which defeated Napoli 2-0 on Friday to stretch its win-ning start to the season to eight matches.

Udinese came close when former Italy for-ward Antonio Di Natale hit the crossbar with a free kick in the 63rd but the northeastern club still dropped one point behind Milan. Milan meets Barcelo-na in the Champions League on Tuesday. Earlier, Cagliari beat 10-man Catania 2-1 in its first match at its Sant’Elia Sta-

dium home in 1 1/2 years.Milan was originally ordered to

play Udinese behind closed doors as punishment for insulting chants by the club’s fans during a match at Juventus. But the league suspended its decision as it continues to debate territorial chants, in which fans use slogans that insult the opposing club’s city or geographical area, often in graphic terms.

Milan could be in for further pun-ishment, however, as fans continued to insult southern rival Napoli. Milan lost goalkeeper Christian Abbiati to a calf injury in the morning and was already without forwards Mario Balotelli, Stephan El Shaarawy, Gi-ampaolo Pazzini and defenders Mattia De Sciglio and Daniele Bonera due to physical problems. Also, Philippe Mexes and Nigel de Jong were sus-pended.

Gabriel, a 21-year-old Brazilian, started in goal for Milan and earned a clean sheet. Birsa directed Robinho and Alessandro Matri in attack. Mi-lan had chances to take a two-goal lead but Udinese goalkeeper Ivan Kelava denied Poli in the 73rd after the midfielder faked his way past two defenders.

Back from injury, Kaka replaced Matri for the final 13 minutes and provided a perfect setup for M’Baye Niang but the 18-year-old forward shot high just in front of the goal. It was Kaka’s first appearance with Milan at the San Siro since rejoining from Real Madrid.

Associated Press Writer

PARIS — Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edin-son Cavani scored spectacular goals as un-beaten Paris Saint-Germain beat Bastia 4-0 to provisionally move ahead of Monaco at the top of the French league on Saturday.

Ibrahimovic has some logic-defying goals during his illustrious career and added another to his collection.

Winger Lucas’ cross from the right inadvertently struck Hervin Ongenda and the ball looped up and behind Ibrahimovic, who showed amazing flexibility to volley it over his shoulder with the back of his heel. Moments later, he made it 2-0 after 15 minutes when Lucas’ cross went in off his shoulder.

Cavani replaced Ibrahimovic at halftime and dribbled past three players down the left before slotting in from a tight angle. He added a late penalty for 4-0.

“Ibra doesn’t surprise me, we know he’s capable of scoring goals like that. We’re very lucky to have a player like this, who is able to break the deadlock in any match,” PSG coach Laurent Blanc said. “Cavani’s goal was just as good, it wasn’t easier to score. I’ll be perfectly happy if he scores more like that.”

Monaco, the only other unbeaten side, can retain top spot on goal difference if it wins by three goals at lowly Sochaux on Sunday. Lille remained in third place, four points behind PSG after winning 1-0 at Montpellier thanks to an early goal from defender Pape Souare. Cavani has six league goals so far, one more than Ibrahimovic, although they rarely combine.

Bastia is strong at home but inconsistent away from home and had not won in its previous 25 visits to Paris. It was soon ob-vious that bad run was never going to end when Ibrahimovic, who has a black belt in taekwondo, put PSG ahead in the 10th.

“He must have raised his leg about two meters,” Bastia defender Francois-Joseph Modesto said. “That’s why people pay a lot for players like him.”

If only for one half, Cavani got a chance to play in his favored center forward role,

Reuters

Former Socceroos coach Graham Ar-nold would be willing to have another crack at the job to take Australia to the World Cup finals in Brazil next year --

but only on his terms.The Central Coast Mari-

ners coach was in charge of the national side on an interim basis in 2006-07

and has been tipped, along with Western Sydney’s Tony Popovic and Melbourne victory’s Ange Postecoglou, as a candi-date to replace Holgier Osieck.

Osieck was summarily dismissed last weeked following the Socceroos’ second successive 6-0 defeat in friendlies, which prompted a wave of soul-searching in the local media.

“It would be an honour to coach my country ... but there’s a lot of thinking to do

on my side of it as well,” Arnold told report-ers after his side’s A-League match with Melbourne Heart.

“You’ve got to think about it from the coach’s side of it as well because, no one has asked us to ... we didn’t apply for the job and it’s just been put out there that we are candidates for the job.

“So we also, whether it’s myself or Tony or Ange, we also have a say in what the job is about, and if we do want the job. “So at

this point in time, thats the thing that is all up in the air.”

Arnold replaced Dutchman Guus Hiddink after the 2006 World Cup finals on an interim basis and took the Socceroos to the 2007 Asian Cup finals, but was forced to shoulder much of the blame for a poor campaign.

“I had a period of six or seven months as an interim coach and it was murder, because it’s so hard if you can’t do things the way you want to do it,” he added.

AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

AC Milan midfielder Valter Birsa, of Slovenia, celebrates after scoring during the Serie

A soccer match between AC Milan and Sampdoria at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013.

Injury-hit AC Milan edges Udinese 1-0 in Serie A

Arnold interested in Socceroos job

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Paris Saint Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahi-movic jumps in the air after scoring the second goal against Bastia, during the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Bas-tia, at the Parc des Princes stadium, in Paris, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013.

Ibrahimovic scores twice as PSG beats Bastia 4-0

rather than wide right when he’s picked with Ibrahimovic in a 4-3-3 formation. His first goal even had a grinning Ibrahimovic leap-ing up from the bench to applaud.

Picking up Jeremy Menez’s pass from the left, he cut inside one defender, rolled the ball past another with great balance, forced goalkeeper Mickael Landreau to go to ground and then calmly curled the ball past another defender on the line from the narrowest of angles.

“They were two great goals scored by two great players,” PSG midfielder Blaise Matuidi said. “Zlatan’s goal is something else. But it’s also typical of him. (Cavani’s) goal is a different style. Edinson combines finesse with technical ability.”

Barca, Atletico stumble and miss out on recordReuters

MADRID - Barcelona and Atletico Madrid dropped their first points of the season on Sat-urday, missing the chance to equal the record for the best-ever La Liga start.

Third-placed Real won 2-0 at home to Malaga, Carlo Ancelotti’s side closing within three points of leaders Barca ahead of next week’s ‘Clasico’ at the Nou Camp and two points shy of Atletico.

Real won thanks to a goal from Angel Di Maria and a stoppage-time Cristiano Ronaldo penalty, won by world record signing Gareth Bale who was a late substitute.

Barca were unable to breach a well-drilled Osasuna defence in Pamplona and Atletico were thwarted by an Espanyol side who have made a strong start to the season under Mexican coach Javier Aguirre.

The only goal of the game at Espanyol’s Cornella-El Prat sta-dium in Barcelona came in the 54th minute when the ball deflected into

the net off the outstretched leg of Atletico goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

Argentine Lionel Messi, who had not played since the end of last month due to a thigh strain, came off the bench for the final 25 minutes of Barca’s game but not even the World Player of the Year could conjure a goal for the champions.

“We knew it was going to be tough,” said captain Carles Puyol after making his first appearance in almost eight months following knee surgery. “It’s always difficult playing at this stadium,” the 35-year-old told Canal Plus.

“We were missing some effec-tiveness in the final pass but it’s one more point. Now we have to recover from this and prepare well for Tuesday.”

DOMINANT BARCA

Barca dominated Osasuna, who sat back looking to catch the visitors on the break, and came closest to scoring midway through the second half when Neymar just failed to get on the end of a low Martin Montoya centre.

Cesc Fabregas had two golden chances but fluffed an attempt-ed chip before sending a wild shot sailing over the crossbar. Real warmed up for Wednesday’s Champions League game against Juventus with a victory.

It was hardly the sparkling display coach Ancelotti wanted to dispel doubts after some uncon-vincing performances this term but the Italian was happy about a general improvement from his expensive squad.

“Today I am pleased,” Ancelotti told a news conference. “Everyone was focused on defending, we pressed well and recovered pos-session quickly. “That was the dif-ference compared to other matches - we did not give them chances and were well positioned.

“We have to keep it going and do things better but today the team performed well. We started the week on a positive note.”

Ronaldo was comfortably Real’s most dangerous player at the Bernabeu and the Portuguese forward curled a shot against the

REUTERS/Vincent West

Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta (R) is challenged by Osasuna’s Miguel de la Cuevas during their Spanish first division soccer match at Reyno de Navarra stadium in Pamplona October 19, 2013.

crossbar in the eighth minute against defensive Malaga.

SUBSTITUTE BALE

The visitors did well to keep Real at bay until halftime but fell behind in the first minute after the break when Di Maria’s whipped cross from the right evaded goal-keeper Willy Caballero’s despair-ing dive before nestling in the back of the net.

Caballero was in inspired form and pulled off a bril-liant stop to deny Ronaldo eight minutes from time and made another stun-ning save to palm away a low shot from substitute Jese two minutes later.

Real winger Bale, who has been out for several weeks with a thigh strain, came on for Alvaro Morata with 15 minutes left, suggest-ing he could play a part against Juve.

Bale won a penalty when the referee ruled he was fouled by Weligton in the area and Ronaldo dis-patched the spot kick low to Caballero’s right for his eighth league goal of the season.

Real Soc iedad , who will chase a first victory in their third Champions League Group A outing at Manchester United on Wednesday, won in La Liga for the first time since the opening day of the season as they beat Valencia 2-1.

A n t o i n e G r i e z m a n n v o l l e y e d the visitors ahead in the 41st minute and Ruben Pardo a d d e d a long-range effort b e f o r e Dorlan Pabon pulled a late goal back for Valen-cia as Sociedad climbed to ninth on 10 points.

Valencia, who host St Gallen in the Europa League on Thursday, are eighth with 13 points, one fewer than Espanyol who climbed to fifth.

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Champions Barca, who visit AC Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday, were held 0-0 at Osasuna. It was the first time they failed to score in a domestic league game in 65 matches since a 0-0 draw at Villarreal in January 2012.

Atletico also lost 1-0 at Espa-nyol as Real Madrid’s record nine straight wins to kick off the 1968-69 campaign remained intact.

Associated Press Writer

MILAN — Injury-hit AC Mi-lan edged visiting Udinese 1-0

for just its third win in eight Serie A matches on Saturday. Slovenia midfielder Valter Birsa scored with a long, curling shot following an exchange with Robinho in the 22nd minute at the San Siro. “We played a great match,” Milan midfielder Andrea Poli said. “We haven’t had the results that are necessary for this club. Sometimes that’s due to bad luck but this squad has a lot of heart and a lot of desire to do well and we showed that tonight.”

Milan moved up to sev-enth place, 13 points be-hind leader Roma, which defeated Napoli 2-0 on Friday to stretch its win-ning start to the season to eight matches.

Udinese came close when former Italy for-ward Antonio Di Natale hit the crossbar with a free kick in the 63rd but the northeastern club still dropped one point behind Milan. Milan meets Barcelo-na in the Champions League on Tuesday. Earlier, Cagliari beat 10-man Catania 2-1 in its first match at its Sant’Elia Sta-

dium home in 1 1/2 years.Milan was originally ordered to

play Udinese behind closed doors as punishment for insulting chants by the club’s fans during a match at Juventus. But the league suspended its decision as it continues to debate territorial chants, in which fans use slogans that insult the opposing club’s city or geographical area, often in graphic terms.

Milan could be in for further pun-ishment, however, as fans continued to insult southern rival Napoli. Milan lost goalkeeper Christian Abbiati to a calf injury in the morning and was already without forwards Mario Balotelli, Stephan El Shaarawy, Gi-ampaolo Pazzini and defenders Mattia De Sciglio and Daniele Bonera due to physical problems. Also, Philippe Mexes and Nigel de Jong were sus-pended.

Gabriel, a 21-year-old Brazilian, started in goal for Milan and earned a clean sheet. Birsa directed Robinho and Alessandro Matri in attack. Mi-lan had chances to take a two-goal lead but Udinese goalkeeper Ivan Kelava denied Poli in the 73rd after the midfielder faked his way past two defenders.

Back from injury, Kaka replaced Matri for the final 13 minutes and provided a perfect setup for M’Baye Niang but the 18-year-old forward shot high just in front of the goal. It was Kaka’s first appearance with Milan at the San Siro since rejoining from Real Madrid.

Associated Press Writer

PARIS — Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edin-son Cavani scored spectacular goals as un-beaten Paris Saint-Germain beat Bastia 4-0 to provisionally move ahead of Monaco at the top of the French league on Saturday.

Ibrahimovic has some logic-defying goals during his illustrious career and added another to his collection.

Winger Lucas’ cross from the right inadvertently struck Hervin Ongenda and the ball looped up and behind Ibrahimovic, who showed amazing flexibility to volley it over his shoulder with the back of his heel. Moments later, he made it 2-0 after 15 minutes when Lucas’ cross went in off his shoulder.

Cavani replaced Ibrahimovic at halftime and dribbled past three players down the left before slotting in from a tight angle. He added a late penalty for 4-0.

“Ibra doesn’t surprise me, we know he’s capable of scoring goals like that. We’re very lucky to have a player like this, who is able to break the deadlock in any match,” PSG coach Laurent Blanc said. “Cavani’s goal was just as good, it wasn’t easier to score. I’ll be perfectly happy if he scores more like that.”

Monaco, the only other unbeaten side, can retain top spot on goal difference if it wins by three goals at lowly Sochaux on Sunday. Lille remained in third place, four points behind PSG after winning 1-0 at Montpellier thanks to an early goal from defender Pape Souare. Cavani has six league goals so far, one more than Ibrahimovic, although they rarely combine.

Bastia is strong at home but inconsistent away from home and had not won in its previous 25 visits to Paris. It was soon ob-vious that bad run was never going to end when Ibrahimovic, who has a black belt in taekwondo, put PSG ahead in the 10th.

“He must have raised his leg about two meters,” Bastia defender Francois-Joseph Modesto said. “That’s why people pay a lot for players like him.”

If only for one half, Cavani got a chance to play in his favored center forward role,

Reuters

Former Socceroos coach Graham Ar-nold would be willing to have another crack at the job to take Australia to the World Cup finals in Brazil next year --

but only on his terms.The Central Coast Mari-

ners coach was in charge of the national side on an interim basis in 2006-07

and has been tipped, along with Western Sydney’s Tony Popovic and Melbourne victory’s Ange Postecoglou, as a candi-date to replace Holgier Osieck.

Osieck was summarily dismissed last weeked following the Socceroos’ second successive 6-0 defeat in friendlies, which prompted a wave of soul-searching in the local media.

“It would be an honour to coach my country ... but there’s a lot of thinking to do

on my side of it as well,” Arnold told report-ers after his side’s A-League match with Melbourne Heart.

“You’ve got to think about it from the coach’s side of it as well because, no one has asked us to ... we didn’t apply for the job and it’s just been put out there that we are candidates for the job.

“So we also, whether it’s myself or Tony or Ange, we also have a say in what the job is about, and if we do want the job. “So at

this point in time, thats the thing that is all up in the air.”

Arnold replaced Dutchman Guus Hiddink after the 2006 World Cup finals on an interim basis and took the Socceroos to the 2007 Asian Cup finals, but was forced to shoulder much of the blame for a poor campaign.

“I had a period of six or seven months as an interim coach and it was murder, because it’s so hard if you can’t do things the way you want to do it,” he added.

AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

AC Milan midfielder Valter Birsa, of Slovenia, celebrates after scoring during the Serie

A soccer match between AC Milan and Sampdoria at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013.

Injury-hit AC Milan edges Udinese 1-0 in Serie A

Arnold interested in Socceroos job

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Paris Saint Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahi-movic jumps in the air after scoring the second goal against Bastia, during the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Bas-tia, at the Parc des Princes stadium, in Paris, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013.

Ibrahimovic scores twice as PSG beats Bastia 4-0

rather than wide right when he’s picked with Ibrahimovic in a 4-3-3 formation. His first goal even had a grinning Ibrahimovic leap-ing up from the bench to applaud.

Picking up Jeremy Menez’s pass from the left, he cut inside one defender, rolled the ball past another with great balance, forced goalkeeper Mickael Landreau to go to ground and then calmly curled the ball past another defender on the line from the narrowest of angles.

“They were two great goals scored by two great players,” PSG midfielder Blaise Matuidi said. “Zlatan’s goal is something else. But it’s also typical of him. (Cavani’s) goal is a different style. Edinson combines finesse with technical ability.”

Barca, Atletico stumble and miss out on recordReuters

MADRID - Barcelona and Atletico Madrid dropped their first points of the season on Sat-urday, missing the chance to equal the record for the best-ever La Liga start.

Third-placed Real won 2-0 at home to Malaga, Carlo Ancelotti’s side closing within three points of leaders Barca ahead of next week’s ‘Clasico’ at the Nou Camp and two points shy of Atletico.

Real won thanks to a goal from Angel Di Maria and a stoppage-time Cristiano Ronaldo penalty, won by world record signing Gareth Bale who was a late substitute.

Barca were unable to breach a well-drilled Osasuna defence in Pamplona and Atletico were thwarted by an Espanyol side who have made a strong start to the season under Mexican coach Javier Aguirre.

The only goal of the game at Espanyol’s Cornella-El Prat sta-dium in Barcelona came in the 54th minute when the ball deflected into

the net off the outstretched leg of Atletico goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

Argentine Lionel Messi, who had not played since the end of last month due to a thigh strain, came off the bench for the final 25 minutes of Barca’s game but not even the World Player of the Year could conjure a goal for the champions.

“We knew it was going to be tough,” said captain Carles Puyol after making his first appearance in almost eight months following knee surgery. “It’s always difficult playing at this stadium,” the 35-year-old told Canal Plus.

“We were missing some effec-tiveness in the final pass but it’s one more point. Now we have to recover from this and prepare well for Tuesday.”

DOMINANT BARCA

Barca dominated Osasuna, who sat back looking to catch the visitors on the break, and came closest to scoring midway through the second half when Neymar just failed to get on the end of a low Martin Montoya centre.

Cesc Fabregas had two golden chances but fluffed an attempt-ed chip before sending a wild shot sailing over the crossbar. Real warmed up for Wednesday’s Champions League game against Juventus with a victory.

It was hardly the sparkling display coach Ancelotti wanted to dispel doubts after some uncon-vincing performances this term but the Italian was happy about a general improvement from his expensive squad.

“Today I am pleased,” Ancelotti told a news conference. “Everyone was focused on defending, we pressed well and recovered pos-session quickly. “That was the dif-ference compared to other matches - we did not give them chances and were well positioned.

“We have to keep it going and do things better but today the team performed well. We started the week on a positive note.”

Ronaldo was comfortably Real’s most dangerous player at the Bernabeu and the Portuguese forward curled a shot against the

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Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta (R) is challenged by Osasuna’s Miguel de la Cuevas during their Spanish first division soccer match at Reyno de Navarra stadium in Pamplona October 19, 2013.

crossbar in the eighth minute against defensive Malaga.

SUBSTITUTE BALE

The visitors did well to keep Real at bay until halftime but fell behind in the first minute after the break when Di Maria’s whipped cross from the right evaded goal-keeper Willy Caballero’s despair-ing dive before nestling in the back of the net.

Caballero was in inspired form and pulled off a bril-liant stop to deny Ronaldo eight minutes from time and made another stun-ning save to palm away a low shot from substitute Jese two minutes later.

Real winger Bale, who has been out for several weeks with a thigh strain, came on for Alvaro Morata with 15 minutes left, suggest-ing he could play a part against Juve.

Bale won a penalty when the referee ruled he was fouled by Weligton in the area and Ronaldo dis-patched the spot kick low to Caballero’s right for his eighth league goal of the season.

Real Soc iedad , who will chase a first victory in their third Champions League Group A outing at Manchester United on Wednesday, won in La Liga for the first time since the opening day of the season as they beat Valencia 2-1.

A n t o i n e G r i e z m a n n v o l l e y e d the visitors ahead in the 41st minute and Ruben Pardo a d d e d a long-range effort b e f o r e Dorlan Pabon pulled a late goal back for Valen-cia as Sociedad climbed to ninth on 10 points.

Valencia, who host St Gallen in the Europa League on Thursday, are eighth with 13 points, one fewer than Espanyol who climbed to fifth.

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Bedugul poses a tourism area which lies on the altitude of 1,240 meters above sea level. This area is very cool with the average temperature of 18oC at night and 24oC during the day. Denpasar-Be-dugul-Alas Kedaton-Tanah Lot is a very pleasant route from Denpasar to Bedu-gul. Bedugul is a cold mountainous area where there are Lake Beratan and Ulun Danu Temple. We can enjoy the beauti-ful natural scenery, water recreation and some others. From Bedugul, we can then resume our journey to Alas Keda-ton where hundreds of grey monkeys and flying foxes live in the bijou forest surrounding the Alas Kedaton Temple built around the XV century AD. After that, we continue our trip to Tanah Lot which has been so familiar to all foreign tourists. At Tanah Lot lies a temple in the middle of the sea. When the sun will sink on the western horizon, it creates very magnificent scenery.

With tyre problems forcing rid-ers to change bikes mid-race in a MotoGP first, the battle between the two-time world champion Lorenzo and Honda’s 20-year-old wunder-kind fizzled out in the 14th lap when Marquez was shown the dreaded black flag for failing to pit during the mandated window.

Riders were ordered to pit by the end of the 10th lap at the latest out of safety fears, but Marquez sped past the Honda garage as his team believed completing lap 11 was al-lowed. “The plan we had was not correct, we thought that we could do that lap. We thought we could go into the pit at the end of lap 11,” Marquez told reporters at the Phillip Island circuit.

“The problem was not with the pit board, that was fine, when I saw ‘Box’ I came in. Now we need to forget about it and just concentrate in Motegi.”

Having had the chance to wrap up the title in his debut season on Sunday and become motorcycling’s youngest premier class champion, a crushed Marquez slumped in a chair in his team’s garage with his head in his hands as Lorenzo toasted victory ahead of Honda’s Dani Pedrosa and third-placed team mate Valentino Rossi.

“I said on Thursday that the cham-pionship is very long. Today this happened and maybe in Motegi it’s something else,” Marquez added. “I know we’re going in the right way, I feel so good on the bike. I could have fought for the podium or the victory

today.” Team principal Livio Suppo apologised to his rider.

“Everybody understood correctly instead of us,” an embarrassed Suppo said. “Of course we are sorry (to Marc). It’s the first time I’ve seen him in a very disappointed situation and he reacted as expected.”

Pole-sitter Lorenzo was a deserv-ing winner, however, having endured enormous pressure from the two Honda riders amid chaotic race con-ditions at the bucolic seaside track.

The win breathed new life into his title defence, trimming fellow Spaniard Marquez’s lead to a more precarious 18 points with two races left in Japan’s Motegi and Valencia. “Today has been a crazy race,” the affable 26-year-old said after cel-ebrating his first win Down Under.

“With this changeover of bikes in the middle, we practised a lot before the race. So that was one of the keys. “Now, (the title defence) is still very, very tough ... Let’s see what happens in Motegi.”

IRKEDLorenzo enjoyed an excellent start

off the grid but was under heat within seconds, losing the lead briefly to Marquez in the first lap before snatching it back.

While placing riders and their teams under additional strain, the overhauled race added an intriguing tactical ele-ment as Pedrosa changed his bike first followed by Lorenzo a lap later.

Marquez wobbled dangerously as he wore his tyres to breaking point before the changeover and

narrowly averted catastrophe as he emerged from pit-lane to brush Lorenzo, charging up the inside on his Yamaha and desperate to snatch back the lead.

Lorenzo snuck past, leaving a wobbling Marquez in his wake, and powered away to win by nearly seven seconds after twice being denied at Phillip Island by Australian Casey Stoner.

Still enjoying a strong lead, the championship may be Marquez’s to lose but the rookie is likely to come under fierce scrutiny from the resur-gent Lorenzo and Pedrosa, who lies third in the championship and retains a mathematical chance of winning the title.

Winner at Sepang last week, Pedrosa has been irked by his team mate’s aggressive riding and there appeared little friendly about their rivalry during a fierce skirmish on the opening lap.

With the race reduced by a lap to 26 on Saturday and riders ordered to change bikes, officials announced only hours before that it had been cut again to 19 due to safety fears over the tyres’ degradation on the circuit’s newly-laid asphalt.

Lorenzo had earlier complained the overhaul was in itself a safety risk and appeared to be right as riders nearly came to grief when re-joining the fray from pit-lane. The Moto2 category, won by Spaniard Pol Es-pargaro, was also reduced to a nub of a race due to the tyre concerns, the original 25 laps cut to 13. Spaniard Alex Rins won the Moto3 category.

Associated Press Writer

SHANGHAI — Klay Thompson scored 25 points, going 5-of-6 from 3-point range, as the Golden State Warriors routed the Los Angeles Lakers 115-89 in a pre-season game in Shang-hai on Friday.

David Lee added 16 points and Draymond Green had 14 points and six rebounds for the Warriors, who followed up their 100-95 win over the Lakers in Beijing on Tuesday with another victory.

“It’s always good to beat (the Lakers),” Thompson said. “I’ve seen them rule the state of California for far too long so we want Golden State to be the team out West and it starts even tonight in the pre-season.”

Shanghai native Yao Ming, who watched the game courtside, got a huge cheer from the crowd before the game, but the loud-est ovation went to the injured Kobe Bryant when he joined the Lakers bench in the fourth quarter. Bryant is sitting out the start of the season as he recovers from a torn Achilles tendon.

Pau Gasol was the only Laker in double digits, scoring 16 points. The club struggled from 3-point range, going just 6 for 24.

“We’ve still got a lot of work to do,” Gasol said. “We’ve still got to make sure we work really hard these next 11 days before opening night so the team is really ready to go. We’ve got to be ready to go from the beginning.”

Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni said, however, he wasn’t wor-ried about his team’s performances in China this week.

“We’re pretty excited about what we can do. This is not nor-mal. This is preseason and it doesn’t matter come January if you won four games or six games or one game,” D’Antoni said.

The Warriors opened up a close game with a 26-5 run late in the third quarter to take an 84-68 lead late in the period. Golden State got 13 points from Thompson during the run, including three 3-pointers in a 1½-minute span. “I got lucky tonight,” Thompson said. “I got a lot of wide-open shots.”

The only slight concern for the team came three minutes into the game when Andrew Bogut left with back spasms after scoring a lay-up and didn’t return. The Australian center has battled injuries in recent years_only playing 32 regular-season games for the Warriors last year_but has been fit coming into this season.

“There’s no concern,” Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. “He actually waved me off and wanted to stay in the ballgame, but we’ve got plenty of time to make sure he’s healthy and whole and that’s important closing out this preseason.”

The Shanghai game was the final edition of the NBA’s Global Games, part of the league’s efforts to expand its brand by play-ing preseason games in China, Brazil, Turkey, the Philippines, Taiwan, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Warriors rout Lakers 115-89 in Shanghai

AP Photo/Eugene HoshikoJodie Meeks of Los Angeles Lakers, left, dives against Andre Iguodala of Golden State Warriors during a 2013-2014 NBA preseason game between Lakers and Warriors at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013.

Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa of Spain changes bikes during the Australian Motor-

cycle Grand Prix, at Phillip Island Circuit in this picture provided by Dorna October 20, 2013.

Lorenzo wins Down Under after Marquez DQ’d

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JAKARTA - An Indonesian court Thursday jailed an em-ployee of US energy giant Chev-ron, after three of his colleagues were imprisoned over a case that has raised alarm among foreign investors in the country.

Bachtiar Abdul Fatah, a for-mer general manager at Chev-ron’s Indonesian subsidiary, was sentenced to two years’ prison for abuse of power.He said he planned to appeal the verdict.

“Corruption is an extraordi-nary crime and is a priority of law enforcers in Indonesia,” said chief Antonius Widijantono on a panel of three judges of the anti-corruption court.

The three other Chevron em-ployees were jailed for two years by the same court in July, causing concern among foreign investors who have said such cases should be and are usually settled out of court.

The court said that Chevron’s project to clean up 28 plots of land was never contaminated with oil in the first place.The court said the rigged project had caused state losses of more than $220,000.

In previous court cases against the Chevron employees, judges found in favor of prosecutors’ claims that the company con-tracted to carry out the clean-up was not qualified to do so and did not have the right permits.

Chevron, the country’s big-gest crude oil producer, denies all accusations and has said the clean-up was given government approval before it began.

The case has sparked concern among foreign energy companies and investors, who have battled fast-changing industry regula-tions and legal uncertainty in recent years.

Analysts fear it could scare off much-needed investment in the oil sector after the country slipped from being a net exporter to a net importer.

The company has said it would support its three employees to appeal to the high court, and has not ruled out international arbitration.

More than 100 elephants had been killed in Riau Province, since 2004 mainly due to elephant-hu-man conflict, Syamsidar, a spokes-man of WWF Riau office, said.

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JAKARTA — Indonesia’s elite anti-terrorism squad shot and killed one suspect and arrest-ed two others in a raid Thursday in the east of the country, seizing weapons and fertilizer allegedly for bomb making from a group suspected of planning terrorist attacks, police said.

National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said three men in a van resisted arrest in Bone district in South Sulawesi province for alleged connection to a group responsible for recent at-

tacks on police in Poso, a district in the neighboring province of Cen-tral Sulawesi. Authorities fatally shot one of the men, he said.

He said police seized two guns, ammunition and about 2 ki-lograms (4.4 pounds) of fertilizer, a material often used by militants to make bombs, and were inter-rogating the two suspects.

More than 1,000 people died in Poso in 2001 and 2002 in violence between Christians and Muslims. Authorities believe the district is now a terrorist hotbed.

Indonesia has been battling terrorists since the 2002 bomb-

ings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. Terrorist attacks aimed at foreigners have been largely replaced in recent years by smaller, less deadly strikes targeting the government, mainly police and anti-terrorism forces.

Indonesian police have been criticized for shooting suspected terrorists rather than trying to arrest them. Authorities respond that they are forced to shoot to defend themselves.

Since January, police have killed at least 21 suspected mili-tants and arrested 32.

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Former Indonesian sports minister Andi Mallarangeng, center, is escorted by plain-clothed police officers as he leaves for a detention house after being questioned over a multimillion dollar corruption case at the Corruption Eradication Commission’s office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. The anti-graft commission has officially arrested Mallarangeng who was the first active cabinet member to be named as a suspect in a corruption case.

Elephant-human conflict inflicts losses worth Rp1,99 billionAntara

PEKANBARU - Elephant-human conflict at Tesso Nillo National Park (TNTN) in Sumatra has inflicted material losses worth more than Rp1.99 billion over the past nine years, according to WWF.

Almost all of the elephants were died of poisoning because the animals were regarded as pests that damaged plantations, he added.

The population of elephant in Riau Province is estimated at 300, Syamsidar, he said.

Nineteen elephants had been poisoned to death over the past

two years. In 2012, 12 dead el-ephants were found in the Tesso Nilo National Park and three oth-ers in somewhere else.

Up to September this year, four elephants were killed in the national park. All cases of the el-ephant deaths remained unsolved, he said.

To mit igate the elephant-human conflict, WWF in coop-

eration with the Riau natural resources conservation agency (BKSD) and the TNTN manage-ment has deployed an elephant Flying Squad since April 2004.

The squad is a rapid response unit made up of specially trained domestic elephants and their mahouts (riders). The squad is tasked to herd the animals back into the forest.

Corruption court jails fourth Chevron employee

Police kill suspected militant, arrest 2

Hospital wards are overwhelmed and tales abound of deaths and cases while New Delhi public authorities insist that only 3,500 have fallen sick so far this year -- with only five fatalities. “I took him first to a gov-ernment hospital. I was shocked to see that it was packed with dengue patients. There was not even a single bed available,” said Awwal’s mother, Mehrunissa, sitting in her one-room shack in east Delhi.

She is now treating him at their home, giving him multi-vitamins, paracetamol and water as he lies on the floor with two pillows and a bedsheet but no mattress.

In a sign that this year’s outbreak could be as bad as record-breaking 2010, the city’s largest public hospital, Hindu Rao, announced earlier this month that it had suspended all routine surgeries to make room for more den-gue patients. The Delhi government

has blamed prolonged monsoons for the hike in infections, but says it has added beds at hospitals and increased resources for spraying insecticides to tackle the mosquito menace.

“It’s nothing to worry about, there is no crisis,” Charan Singh, additional director of Delhi health services, told AFP, dismissing allegations that the city of 17 million under-reports the problem. “It is a lot of hype going on... The government is in action and we report all cases according to inter-national guidelines,” he added.

The virus -- first detected in the 1950s in the Philippines and Thailand -- affects two million people across the globe annually, with the number of cases up 30 times in the last 50 years, according to the World Health Organisation.

Transmitted to humans by the female Aedes aegypti mosquito, it causes high fever, headaches, itching

and joint pains that last about a week. There are four strains, one of which can cause fatal internal bleeding. In In-dia, cases have increased sharply over the last five years -- there have been 38,000 so far in 2013 -- but doctors say these numbers only capture part of the problem. At the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India’s most prestigious public hospital, doctors are overwhelmed by patients whose beds are squeezed together like Tetris tiles in the emergency ward with saline drips nailed to the walls.

Medics, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that they were seeing 60 new dengue patients a day -- an influx they suspected was not reflected in the official figures.

“Maybe it’s because they don’t want to create panic or because they don’t want to be blamed, but if they hide, people won’t know how bad the situation is,” said one doctor.

Associated Press Writer

CONYERS, Georgia — Thou-sands of miles from Spain, daredev-ils in white outfits and red scarves dodged bulls at a Georgia horse park to get a taste of the running of the bulls. WSB-TV reported about 3,000 people participated in the Great Bull Run on Saturday in Conyers, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Atlanta.

People on horseback herded 18 bulls into a fenced course. Many stood alongside the fence as the bulls ran by, but some tried to sprint with the animals. A few runners fell down or were knocked down by the bulls, but no serious injuries were reported.

The bull run at Georgia Interna-tional Horse Park was the second U.S. event this year for the group Great Bull Run. The next stop is Dec. 7 in Baytown, Texas.

Associated Press Writer

BRUSSELS — A plane carrying parachutists planning to celebrate a birthday with a skydive crashed in Belgium on Saturday, killing all 11 people aboard.

Minutes after the aircraft took off from a small airfield near the city of Namur, witnesses saw part of a wing break off, sending the plane into a spiraling nosedive and crash in a field close to Fernelmont town, said its mayor, Jean-Claude Nihoul. The skydivers and their instructors “were not able to jump out,” Nihoul said in a telephone interview.

“It has been a long time we have suffered a tragedy of such kind,” said Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, who traveled to the site of the accident.

The victims were almost all be-tween the ages of 20 and 40, and many families lost a father, Nihoul said. “There were 11 on board, and the trip was a birthday present for one of them,” he added.

Everyone aboard was killed and no one was hurt on the ground, Nihoul said, adding that three parachutes were found near the crash site. “Some were trying to get out but could not,” he said.

The 11 victims were not imme-diately identified by name, and the cause of the accident was being investigated.

The Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter plane took off in partly cloudy condi-tions over the wooded and hilly area about 40 miles (60 kilometers) south of Brussels.

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW — One of the Siberian cranes that Russian President Vladimir Putin helped teach to fly south last year lost its

flock along the way, but has been found and brought to Moscow.

In September 2012, Putin flew on a motor-ized hang glider as part of a project to teach the endangered birds who were raised in

captivity to later follow the aircraft on their migration south to Central Asia.

One of the cranes was recently spotted in the Tyumen region of Siberia and identi-fied by a tag on its right leg as belonging to

“Putin’s flock.”The crane was flown by airplane to Moscow,

where its arrival Friday was covered by state television. The white bird, called Raven, will spend the winter in a wildlife reserve.

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A Municipal Health Officer in India fumigates against mosquitos in a house in New Delhi

Delhi hospitals overflow with hidden dengue epidemicAgence France Presse

New Delhi - Factory worker Mohammad Awwal is gripped by fever, sweats and the sort of agonising aches that mean his condition is sometimes called “breakbone disease”. It’s an annual plague in India and a hidden epidemic, say experts. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding.

About 3,000 people run with bulls in Georgia

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Participants are knocked over by charging bulls during the Great Bull Run at the Georgia International Horse Park, Sat-urday, Oct. 19, 2013, in Conyers, Ga.

Belgian plane crash leaves 11 dead

Putin’s crane is found after losing its way

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BRUSSELS - The EU and Canada signed a free trade accord Friday after four years of tough talks, saying it will boost growth and set the stage for others, including a massive EU-US deal.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper hailed it as “the biggest (trade) deal our country has ever made” while European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said it was “highly ambitious and far-reaching ... (and) of great importance for the EU economy.”

It will provide new opportunities by increasing market access and “be the basis for gaining a strong foothold in the North American market and so provide a catalyst for growth and the creation of jobs in Europe,” Barroso said.

The accord is widely seen as a pos-sible template for EU efforts to con-clude a similar Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with

the United States, touted as one of the biggest free-trade agreements ever.

According to EU figures, bilateral trade in goods last year was worth 61.7 billion euros ($84 billion), with Canada the EU’s 11th largest trading partner, while the 28-member bloc was Ottawa’s second most important market after the United States.

EU investment in Canada mean-while came to 220 billion euros as of 2011, with Canada holding invest-ments worth 140 billion euros in the now 28-member European Union.

Barroso, noting the deal was the EU’s first with a Group of Eight coun-try, said it could increase trade by up to 26 billion euros and add 12 billion euros to EU economic output.

Some 99 percent of tariffs on both sides will be removed.

The talks began in 2009 and were supposed to end last year but were held up by sharp differences over ag-riculture, a sensitive subject for both, along with financial services, generic

medicines and public procurement in Canada’s provinces.

A key sticking point was Ottowa’s request for increased access for its beef while the EU wanted to cut tariffs of up to 300 percent shielding Canada’s dairy industry from imports of European cheese.

Reflecting such difficulties, the agreement signed Friday is one in principle, not a final document.

Outstanding technical issues will be resolved as it goes through the formal political and parliamentary approval process on both sides, with implementation expected in 2015.

Harper insisted Canadian farmers had not been sacrificed, stressing the country now gains greater ac-cess to an EU market of 500 million people.

That makes the accord bigger even than the landmark 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States and Mexico, he said.

From easing visa restric-tions to building on recent cur-rency cooperation and winning Beijing money for investment in British nuclear power plants, Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne can claim to have smoothed relations with the emerging economic power.

He in part managed to win over a Chinese government that had rebuffed Britain after Prime Minister David Cameron met Dalai Lama -- the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet -- last year.

The chancellor’s trip coin-cided with one made to China by London Mayor Boris John-son -- with the pair seen as potential rivals for the leader-ship of the Conservative party should Cameron come unstuck before or after the next general election in 2015.

In a speech at Peking Uni-versity, Osborne insisted “there is no country in the West more open to investment -- especial-ly from China” than Britain.

He said: “I don’t want Brit-ain to resent China’s success, I want us to celebrate it. I don’t want us to try to resist your economic progress, I want Britain to share in it.”

Osborne on Thursday said he would allow Chinese com-panies to take majority stakes in nuclear power projects across Britain.

The British government said the initial Chinese stakes in nuclear power stations were likely to be minority shares, but added: “Over time stakes in subsequent new power stations could be majority stakes.”

The announcement comes amid reports that China Gen-eral Nuclear Power and French energy giant EDF have agreed a controversial deal to build a new atomic power station at Hinkley Point, southwest England.

Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global In-

sight consultancy, said the nuclear tie-up made sense for Britain’s indebted economy.

Also last week, Beijing Con-struction Engineering Group signed a deal with British firms to develop a business district around Manchester airport.

The development of Brit-ain’s third busiest airport -- described as one of the largest construction projects in Britain since the 2012 London Olym-pics -- will cost £800 million (US$1.30 billion, 947 million euros).

Osborne used his trip also to announce plans to make it easier for China’s citizens to obtain British visas, as it seeks a bigger share of the multi-billion-dollar Chinese travel-ler market in the face of stiff European competition.

Chinese tourists visiting the European Union using selected travel agencies will no longer have to file a separate applica-tion to visit Britain, which is not part of the EU’s “Schengen Area” for border-free travel.

Business travellers will be able to apply for a “super-priority” visa, which will be processed within 24 hours rather than a week.

Some 210,000 visas were issued to Chinese nationals in 2012, adding around £300 mil-lion to the British economy as designer label-hungry Chinese shoppers snapped up goods.

Plans enabling Britons to invest up to 80 billion yuan ($13.1 billion) in China’s heav-ily restricted capital markets -- with the aim of making London a major trading hub for China’s currency -- also emerged dur-ing Osborne’s trip.

In June, the Chinese and British central banks signed a currency-swap deal with a maximum value of 200 billion yuan to promote bilateral trade and investment as well as the use of the yuan in global trade and finance.

AP Photo/Eugene HoshikoIn this Sept. 30, 2013 photo, a customer checks out the clothing at an Uniqlo store in Shanghai, China. Britain has assuaged its hunger for economic ties with China after finance minister George Osborne came away from a trip to the Asian powerhouse with a range of investment deals.

Britain grabs slice of Chinese investmentAgence France-Presse

LONDON - Britain has assuaged its hunger for economic ties with China after finance minister George Osborne came away from a trip to the Asian powerhouse with a range of investment deals.

EU, Canada strike landmark historic free trade accord

Previously, those rabies trans-mitting animals (HPR) had been briefly detained in the Quarantine Office due to entering Bali through Gilimanuk Harbor without the re-quired official documents. The dogs were secured by a joint team of the Quarantine Office and Gilimanuk Marine Police from a Daihatsu Xenia vehicle with license plate DK 902 AY. The officers conducting a regular check at cost 2 found the dogs in the vehicle.

The owner Agam Surya Dwi Pu-tra was questioned by the officers. From the results of examination, the owner could not present the shipping document to bring along the animal to Denpasar. Although the dogs had already owned a health and vaccine papers, the dogs remained to be banned from enter-ing Bali.

Coordinator of the Gilimanuk Quarantine Office, Nyoman Budi-

arta, told reporters on Saturday (Oct 19) that the dogs were classified into illegal dogs. The dogs arrested con-sisted of a head of Siberian Husky, 3 heads of pit bull, 2 heads of Cihuahua, 1 head of mini Pomerian and 2 heads of Pug. According to Budiarta, all dogs were still puppies and about three months old.

Even, one of the dogs died when it was examined. Probably it hap-pened due to stress. According to him, it could be categorized into smuggling action because they were not equipped with official documents and violated the Article 6 paragraph a and c, Article 9 of Law No.16/1992 as well as Article 3 letter a and d of the Government Regulation No. 82/2003 on Quaran-tine. After a one-week observation, Denpasar Quarantine Office (BKP) rejected the dogs from entering Bali and returned them to their place of origin. (kmb26)

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Bali has many traditional dances and one of the most fun is the joged bumbung dance. Joged Bumbung dance can find in some place in Bali such as Tabanan regency, Gianyar regency, Karangasem regency, and Klungkung regency.

This dance usually danced by some young girl usually until five. Tourists will often see and participate in a joged bumbung dance. The joged bumbung is a flirtation dance and a solo female dancer will select men from the audience with a tap on the shoulder with her fan.

Back in 1937 during Miguel Cova-rrubias’s time in Bali, before the onrush of mass tourism, the joged bumbung was popular. Joged Bumbung usually accompanied with balinese gamelan called bumbung. Balinese gamelan is an ensemble of instruments indigenous to the island of Bali in Indonesia.

Bumbung is comprised of bamboo resonators lying horizontally and tied to bamboo frames. These resonators are struck with special mallets made of bamboo and tire rubber. This balinese music usually used for accompany joged bumbung dance. This balinese music usually brought by some people which joined into sekaa or group according to each village and each group of joged

bumbung dance. Each group of bumbung usually amounting among 18 until 27 people including the joged bumbung dancer.

A very popular dance that seems related to the legong is the joged, performed by a girl in a variation of the legong costume and in the traditional legong steps. The dance is considered erotic by the Balinese because the girl entices the men from the audience by ‘making eyes’ at them during the course of the dance. The man invited must dance with her in postures that rep-resent a love game of approach and refusal (ngibing), in which the man tries to come near enough to the girl’s face to catch her perfume and feel the warmth of her skin, the Balinese form of a kiss. As the audience becomes worked up, other men ‘cut in’ and dance with her.

The joged could easily be a modern-ized, decadent version of the ancient mating dance still to be found in some village in Bali, stronghold of native tradition. There, once a year, a dance called abuang is performed in which the unmarried girls of the village ap-pear dressed in their best, wearing gold flower head-dresses and meet bachelor boys who posture with the girl of their preference in a short dance in which the gestures make one think of a chaste and restrained joged.

IBP/OloNine smuggled breed dogs secured in the Integrated Quarantine Office (KPT) for Gilimanuk Area were returned to its origin. The breed dogs worth tens of millions of rupiahs brought in from Yogyakarta had been examined and they were not infected by rabies.

Nine smuggled breed dogs rejected from entering Bali Bali Post

JEMBRANA - Nine smuggled breed dogs secured in the Inte-grated Quarantine Office (KPT) for Gilimanuk Area were returned to its origin. The breed dogs worth tens of millions of rupiahs brought in from Yogyakarta had been examined and they were not infected by rabies.

IBP/NetBali has many traditional dances and one of the most fun is the joged bumbung dance. Joged Bumbung dance can find in some place in Bali such as Tabanan regency, Gianyar regency, Karangasem regency, and Klungkung regency.

Joged Bumbung

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Bali News International4 Monday, October 21, 2013 Monday, October 21, 2013 13International RLDW

The admonition from a frustrated president came amid the embarrass-ing start to sign-ups for the health care insurance exchanges. The president is expected to address the cascade of computer problems Monday during an event at the White House. Administration officials say more than 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges. The fig-ures mark the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of the insurance market place.

However, the officials continue to refuse to say how many people have actually enrolled in the insur-ance markets. And without enroll-ment figures, it’s unclear whether the program is on track to reach the 7 million people projected by the Congressional Budget Office to gain coverage during the six-month sign-up period.

The first three weeks of sign-

ups have been marred by a cascade of computer problems, which the administration says it is working around the clock to correct. The rough rollout has been a black eye for Obama, who invested signifi-cant time and political capital in getting the law passed during his first term.

The officials said technology experts from inside and outside the government are being brought in to work on the glitches, though they did not say how many work-ers were being added. Officials did say staffing has been increased at call centers by about 50 percent. As problems persist on the feder-ally run website, the administra-tion is encouraging more people to sign up for insurance over the phone.

The officials would not discuss the health insurance rollout by name and were granted anonymity. De-

spite the widespread problems, the White House has yet to fully explain what went wrong with the online system consumers were supposed to use to sign up for coverage.

Administration officials initially blamed a high volume of interest from ordinary Americans for the frozen screens that many people encountered. Since then, they have also acknowledged problems with software and some elements of the system’s design. Interest in the insur-ance markets appears to continue to be high. Officials said about 19 mil-lion people have visited HealthCare.gov as of Friday night.

Of the 476,000 applications that have been started, just over half have been from the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead in running the markets. The rest of the applications have come from the 14 states running their own markets, along with Washington, D.C.

Associated Press Writer

CANBERRA, Australia — Firefighters battling some of the most destructive wildfires to ever strike Australia’s most populous

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, FileFile- Thgis Oct. 17, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applica-tions have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Obama’s signature legislation.

For Obama, a frustrating health care rolloutAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Last week, President Barack Obama gathered some of his top advisers in the Oval Office to discuss the problem-plagued rollout of his health care legislation. He told his team the adminis-tration had to own up to the fact that there were no excuses for not having the health care website ready to operate on Day One.

Winds, heat keep wildfire risk high in Australia

REUTERS/StringerA Rural Fire Service firefighter sprays water onto a small fire burning near a home in western Sydney October 20, 2013.

state were focusing on a major blaze Sunday near the town of Lithgow that stretched along a 300-kilometer (190-mile) front.

Authorities warned that high temperatures and winds were

likely to maintain heightened fire danger for days in New South Wales state.

The fires have killed one man, destroyed 208 homes and dam-aged another 122 since Thursday,

the Rural Fire Service said.Firefighters have taken ad-

vantage of milder conditions in recent days to reduce the number of fires threatening towns around Sydney from more than 100 on Thursday night to 61 on Sunday, Rural Fire Service spokesman Matt Sun said.

Fifteen of these fires continued to burn out of control, including the blaze near Lithgow, west of Syd-ney, which was given the highest danger ranking by the fire service. Authorities expect that blaze will continue to burn for days and have advised several nearby communi-ties to consider evacuating ahead of worsening weather conditions.

Sun said temperatures in the fire zone on Sunday exceeded 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahr-enheit), with winds reaching 20 kilometers per hour (12 miles per hour) and humidity dropping to 30 percent.

“It’s not as dire as it could be, but it’s certainly challenging work for firefighters and expected to get worse,” Sun said.

The Defense Department, mean-while, said it was investigating

whether there was any link be-tween the Lithgow fire, which started Wednesday, and military exercises using explosives at a nearby training range on the same day. “Defense is inves-tigating if the two events are linked,” the department said in a statement on Saturday.

Sun said the cause of the fire was also under investigation by fire authorities and would be made public when determined.

Arson investigators are ex-amining the origins of several of more than 100 fires that have threatened towns surrounding Sydney in recent days. Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said the weather was forecast to dete-riorate further over Monday and Tuesday.

“The worst of that weather will be probably culminating on Wednesday, but (there won’t be) much relief in the interven-ing period,” he told Australian Broadcasting Corp. In February 2009, wildfires killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Victoria state.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Docking schedule of the roro

vehicle coinciding with the celebra-tion of Galungan and Kuningan feast seemed to have provoked strong reac-

The Farmer Market was opened by Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana. Having been opened, the market was directly thronged by visitors, especially housewives. A number of booth attendants looked overwhelmed to serve the com-ing shoppers, such as the booth of Tejakula subdistrict displaying fruit products of local farmers and a num-ber of processed herbal products.

Amid the event, a number of people complained about the price of agricultural products in the Farmer Market that remained expensive. Even, some products were sold at more expensive price than the market price. However, they still purchased because they believed the quality of products on sale in the Farmer Market was better. “The price is still expensive. But I’m sure the quality is good,” said one of the residents.

The Head of Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swa-tantra, stated the Farmer Market activity was held for three days from

Friday. The event also served as a forum to introduce the local agricul-tural products to people of Buleleng, especially ahead of Galungan. “We do hope people to get to know and choose local fruits rather than im-ported fruits,” he said.

He said the price offered in the Farmer Market was competitive with the market price considering the transaction occurred directly between farmers and consumers. According to him, the Farmer Mar-ket shortened the trading system so the price of fruit and ritual oblations could be cheaper than the price in the market. “In addition, farmers can immediately enjoy higher profits without going through middlemen,” he said.

On the other hand, Swatantra said, the stock of local fruits before Galungan remained safe. “Although the harvest peak of fruits slightly delays, we are optimistic to meet the market demand ahead of Galungan,” he said. (kmb15)

IBP/FileThe Buleleng Officers are joining the farmer market held in the regency

Farmer MarketComplained to be expensive, local fruits remain in demand

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Though some residents complained about the expensive price of

local fruits, the Farmer Market event held in the office courtyard of the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Friday (Oct 18), remained in demand. Even, in relatively short time a number of fruits such as bananas had sold out.

Roro vessel comes into a dock on feast Nusa Penida residents disappointed

tions from residents of Nusa Penida islands. They considered the docking schedule of the roro vessel ahead of the feast tended to ignore the interests of community highly in need of the roro

vessel transport mode. The policy was quite regretted by residents because during holidays such as Galungan and Kuningan certainly more than 10,000 people of Nusa Penida would return home to Nusa Penida.

One of the protests by Nusa Penida residents came from the Headman of Pejukutan, Nyoman Yudiadnyanawan, Friday (Oct 18). He confessed that after reading Bali Post newspaper on the docking of roro vessel before Galungan and Kuningan, many residents revealed their protest to him and assessed the policy was not accommodative to the needs of Nusa Penida community. He criticized of the Head of the Klungkung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency, Nengah Sukasta. According to him, he did not have the sensitivity to the interests of society. “This policy is really not aspirational and does not have a good spirit of public service,” he said.

He did not agree with the alternative crossing solution offered by the Head of Transportation, Communication and Informatics Agency to temporarily use a boat through traditional harbor. With the alternative, people were faced with

higher expenditure. For example, the fare of Celebrity fast boat at Kusamba Harbor was IDR 40,000 per person without the capability of transporting vehicle. When taking a boat from Sanur, it would cost IDR 75,000 per person. Meanwhile, the use of boat from Padangbai Harbor was also much more expensive. Then, they could not bring home their vehicle. Even, when transporting vehicle by traditional boat they would be charged at higher cost reaching IDR 120,000 per motorcycle.

According to him, the government had the task to provide convenient, safe and inexpensive transportation. So, it was natural if the agency as the leading sector could work well to an-ticipate the vessel docking schedule so as not to coincide with holidays such as Galungan and Kuningan. More-over, there was also Ngusaba Desa ritual in the Penataran Ped Temple. By all means, the number of passen-ger would be booming. “At the feast like this, more than 10,000 people of Nusa Penida will return home and the majority of them utilize roro vessel,” he said. He expected it would be the

last disappointing policy and could be-come a subject of evaluation because Galungan and Kuningan fell every six months. “If similar policy will also be made in the next Galungan and Kuningan, performance of the official in charge there (Klungkung mainland) is questionable,” he said.

Similar complaint was also dis-closed by another resident, Dewa Santana. The docking schedule should not coincide with the feasts so that people could go home comfortably and celebrate the holiday with fam-ily. As reported, the docking plan before Galungan and Kuningan was justified by the Head of Klungkung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency, Nengah Sukasta, Wednesday (Oct 16). He said the winning bidder could have been de-termined this week, so the roro vessel could not serve passengers on Galun-gan and Kuningan for the crossing to Nusa Penida. He said it was time for the vessel to have docking schedule so he asked people to understand it for the sake of safety in the future in making the crossing to Nusa Penida and vice versa. (kmb31)

IBP/FileThe roro vessel is deploying passengers in Nusa Penida Harbor

3Monday, October 21, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsLifestyle Monday, October 21, 2013

Bali PostBANGLI - Second phase de-

velopment of the Batur Volcano Museum, in fact, has more chaotic impact on the tourist area of Kinta-mani, Bangli. Virtually within the past a month, the main road sec-tion of Penelokan has been used as a place to peddle by dozens of traders who originally peddled in the parking lot of the Batur Volcano Museum. They peddle on the sidewalk, right in front of the cave becoming the favorite place for tourists to enjoy the Mount Batur view. As a result, from the

morning until late afternoon, the tourist area looks increasingly crowded coupled with the passing motor vehicles.

Based on information on Fri-day (Oct 18), dozens of traders formerly peddled in the parking lot of the Batur Volcano Museum were forced to move due to the second phase development of the museum. They were allowed to peddle at the right and left side of the road. Most of them sold basic needs from the morning until around 10:00 a.m. Though after that the rubbish had been

cleaned up by the officers, slum impression remained visible in the tourism area.

Not a few people who had crossed the Bangli region deeply regretted the removal of traders to tourist area. Actually, if the Bangli government wanted to arrange the tourism more seriously, in truth the traders could be removed to a more appropriate place that surely did not have an impact on the slum and crowdedness of the region.

One of the residents, Jro Gede Tindih, revealed that removal of the traders to the main route had

made the Penelokan tourism area increasingly crowded, especially in the morning. Not only that, the hawkers having been complained to have annoyed the convenience of visitors so far were increasingly more rampant.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Bangli government, I Made Putra Mahindra, when asked for his con-firmation justified the removal of the traders. He said the trader re-moval was undertaken temporarily while waiting for the completion of the second place development of the Batur Volcano Museum.

“The trader removal only lasts temporarily while waiting until there is a space to accommodate them,” he said.

He also added the assessment team consisting of the Govern-ment Division, Rural Community Empowerment Agency (BPMD) as well as the Industry and Trade Agency so far remained to make a study for the place to accom-modate the traders. As planned, the traders would be relocated to a place nearby. Even, there was possibility to use the local forest land. (ina)

Indeed, when observed closely, the welcome of Galungan in Bali in particular seems fairly festive. As characteristic of the festivity, the penjor stuck at the right side in front of each house compound looks more luxurious, beautiful and mesmerizing. In the past, the penjor of Galungan was relatively simple with some required paraphernalia.

In harmony with the passage of time, the appearance of penjor today widely varies with a variety of artistic elements just like the works of art. Most designs of penjor used in the Galungan feast are embellished with artistic creation. The bamboo stem is even wrapped in colorful papers, while some others wrap it in velvet cloth. Then, it is filled with rice ears and various kinds of fruits and color-ful sampian penjor festoon. Many people are now also making extrava-gant penjor. The cost expended is not half-hearted. At least, for a single penjor they will spend IDR 200,000. However, the average cost may reach IDR 500,000 to IDR 700,000. Even, some people are willing to spend up to millions of rupiahs for a penjor. As a matter of fact, penjor symbolizes the expression of gratitude for people’s prosperity. On that account, penjor is decorated with coconut, banana, sugarcane, rice, snacks and fabrics representing all the plants and element of food and clothing.

Main road section of Penelokan increasingly chaotic

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When celebrating Galungan, the entire Hindu society will stick a penjor exactly one day before the celebration in front of their house compound where it overlooks the road. The penjor itself will be installed for 35 days and withdrawn after the Galungan celebration.

Fanfare of Galungan’s penjor

Expected to move wheel of economyBali Post

DENPASAR - When cel-ebrating Galungan, the entire Hindu society will stick a pen-jor exactly one day before the celebration in front of their house compound where it overlooks the road. The penjor itself will be installed for 35 days and withdrawn after the Galungan celebration.

Unfortunately, in terms of eco-nomic aspect the symbol is not fully enjoyed by Balinese people. Symbol of prosperity aiming to achieve a bal-ance of all the aspects of life was even dominantly enjoyed by community from outside Bali because the materi-als used in the symbol such as young coconut leaf, coconut and fruits were brought in from outside Bali, domi-nantly from Java. Rector of the Un-diknas University Denpasar, Prof. Dr. Gede Sri Darma, admitted that penjor was made based on profound gratitude for the abundant blessings. However, the fortune sourcing from nature was no longer sufficient to meet the needs of the feast, so that they were brought

in from the other regions.“Balinese people should be mind-

ful and willing to change over the cur-rent necessities in the making of penjor accessories by taking advantage of the local agricultural yields. By changing the raw materials of penjor will mean to encourage the economy of Bali,” he said.

He said that to meet the needs, the public was advised to participate in planting a quality raw material by taking advantage of vacant land such as in Karangasem and Bangli. “By that way, people can certainly use the raw materials growing in Bali as an expression of gratitude to God. Why should be thankful for the imported

raw materials?” he said.According to him, the dominance

of imported products in everyday life of the Hindus was inseparable from the quality. For example, knick-knacks and Bali local young coconut leaf could only last about for two to three days, while similar products imported from outside the region could last longer.

“We should be proud to have abundant natural resources. Similarly, the government should also be serious and is not only busy with him and just wants the people when there is a project,” he said.

Prof. Sri Darma added that there were three key economic wheels

moving evenly Bali. Among them, the community should maintain the culture of Bali, Balinese people should be aware of the cultural values of the penjor and the chain of social life.

Meanwhile, an economist, IB Kade Perdana, said it was fair if they (Hindus—Ed) made extravagant penjor provided that it was based on a sincere heart and real abilities without debt. “Do not get into debt. Do not be burdensome, that’s the point. If they want to make beautiful penjor with artistic creativity, it is not extravagant but poses an appreciation in welcom-ing the Galungan celebration with the artistic creativity that they want to highlight,” he said. (bit)

But the measure, which comes just weeks ahead of the holiday shopping season, only temporarily averts a po-tential default on U.S. debt that could send the nation into a recession.

Retailers hope that short-term un-certainty won’t stop Americans from spending during the busiest shopping period of the year, but they’re fearful that it will.

“I am not nervous, but I am mind-ful,” said Jay Stein, chairman of Stein Mart, a 300-store chain that sells home goods and clothing. “The big-gest enemy of consumer confidence is uncertainty.”Retailers and industry watchers say Washington gridlock already has caused shoppers to hold back on purchases.

The number of people going into stores nationwide dropped 7.5 percent for the week that ended Oct. 5 and 7.1 percent during the follow-ing week compared with a year ago, according to ShopperTrak, which measures foot traffic at 40,000 retail outlets across the country. Men’s clothier Jos. A. Bank Clothiers and

furniture chain Ethan Allen said their customers cut back in recent weeks. And auto sales, which had been strong, trailed off last week, with experts blaming Washington law-makers.Retailers say the agreement that lawmakers approved, which funds the government until Jan. 15 and gives the Treasury the ability to borrow above its limit until Feb. 7, may not be enough to alleviate shoppers’ concerns.

Robert N. Wildrick, chairman of Jos. A. Bank, which has 623 U.S. stores, said retailers can’t afford more uncertainty during the holiday shop-ping season. “The more this nonsense goes on .... the more scared (consum-ers) become,” he said.

Even before the stalemate in Washington, retailers had reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the holiday season, which accounts for up to 40 percent of retailers’ annual revenue. While the job and housing markets are improving, that hasn’t yet translated into sustained spending increases among shoppers.

But retailers spend money on ads, order additional inventory and add sales staff during the holidays hoping shoppers will spending freely. If they don’t, stores have to discount, which eats away profits.

The National Retail Federation, the largest U.S. retail group, had fore-cast in early October that sales would climb 3.9 percent in November and December to $602.12 billion, higher than last year’s 3.5 percent gain. But the forecast didn’t account for the prolonged shutdown.

Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist for the Washington, D.C.-based group, told The Associated Press that he may lower the projection after he sifts through retail sales and jobs data, reports that had been delayed because of the shutdown. The uncertainty could hurt sales.

“It’s like having an ongoing fever that you would like to shake but just doesn’t go away,” Kleinhenz said. “That causes a backup in decision-making from consumers and busi-nesses.”

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — A violin believed to have been played on the Titanic before the doomed vessel sank was auctioned for more than 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) Saturday, a fantastic figure which one collector said may never be beaten.

The sea-corroded instrument, now unplayable, is thought to have belonged to bandmaster Wallace Hartley, who was among the disaster’s more than 1,500 victims.

The story of Hartley’s band, which stoically continued playing on the ship’s deck until the disaster’s final hour, is a memorable part of James Cameron’s “Titanic,” when Hartley and his colleagues are seen playing “Nearer, My God, To Thee” as the passengers around them scream and drown in the icy water.

The incredible story, and its heart-rending portrayal in one of the world’s most popular films, likely played a role in pushing the instrument’s price to 900,000 pounds, or past 1 million pounds when the buyer’s premium and tax are taken into account.

“It’s a world record for a Titanic artifact,” said Peter Boyd-Smith, a Titanic memorabilia collector at the auction, hosted by Henry Aldridge and Son in the western England town of Devizes.

“The only other items that are probably worth that kind of money are the items salvaged from RMS Titanic if they are ever put up for sale and those are in the exhibitions that go around America and Europe. “It may never get beaten.”

The violin, with Hartley’s name on it, is believed to have been found at sea with the musician’s body more than a week after the Titanic sank.

“Mr. Hartley and the band were very brave people ... standing by their posts to the bitter end,” auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said ahead of the sale.

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2012 file photo, Shopper Roxanna Garcia, middle, waits in line to pay for her over a $1000.00 gifts at the Target store in Burbank, Calif.

Season of uncertainty for US storesAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Will Washington be the Grinch who stole Christmas? After weeks of bickering between Congress and the White House, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a plan that ended a partial 16-day government shutdown and suspended the United States’ debt limit until early next year.

Titanic violin sells for over $1.6M at auction

AP Photo/PA, Tim Ireland

A violin, believed to be the one

played by Titanic bandmaster

Wallace Hartley, is displayed at auction house

Henry Aldridge and Son in

Devizes, Eng-land, Friday Oct.

18, 2013.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Monday, October 21, 2013

Calendar Event for October 4 through 28 , 2013

4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung Be-sakihOdalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Selod-ing BesakihPura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih

6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayu-putih Buleleng

8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi BangliPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Taro TegalalangPura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel TulikupPura manik Bingin Sidemen

9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh AbiansemalPura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan GianyarMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa JakatebelMerajan Pasek Prateka BatusesaMerajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon CemenggonPura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-GianyarPura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh GianyarLinggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih

17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Be-sakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PetemonMerajan Pasek Gelgel MelinggihOdalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih

19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung BesakihPura Meru Cakra LombokPura Lempuyang Madya KarangasemPura Penerejon KintamaniPura Pulaki BulelengPura Tirta Empul Tampak SiringPura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura

Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Tirta Negari SingapaduPura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub SukawatiPura Penataran Agung TegallalangPura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji BatubulanPura Puseh Singakerta UbudPura Nataran Sanding TampaksiringPura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan UbudPura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami BrabanPura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh KrambitanPura Pasek Bendesa Mas G a d u n g a n SelemadegPura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari SelemadegPura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem Karan-gasemPura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow SulutPura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang KarangasemPura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukaluwih Tejakula BulelengPura Pasraman Suci Renon DenpasarPura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah JakartaPura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang BulelengPura Ulun Danu Batur Songan KintamaniPura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura PapuaPura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung DenpasarMerajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh DenpasarPura Pejengaji TegalalangPura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Keram-bitanPura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang KarangasemPura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung TengahPura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh KerambitanPura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karan-gasemPura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon KapalPura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen KarangasemPura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga BulelengPura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa PenidaPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani

Pura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh ker-ambitanPura Penataran UbudPura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken BlahbatuhPemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu Bule-lengPura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel SukawatiPura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung Baturn-ingMambal Abiansemal

22 Oct Penampahan Galungan 23 Oct Hari raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTTPura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTBPura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang, NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman PontianakPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta TimurPura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur.

24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri TabananPura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel TabananMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa TiyinganMerajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, BadungPura Luhur Cemenggon, SukawatiPura Pasek Ubung Denpasar

26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

27 Oct redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti Batu-bulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung

28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah SelemadegPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gi-anyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan BusungbiuPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan

The ceremony consisted of two individual ceremonies: Mecaru (Blessing the hotel for good will from the Gods) and Melaspas (Bless-ing the new hotel that aims to cleanse the new land property from any bad spirits so later on the people who stay or work there will feel ease and comfortable).

This ceremony was attended by more than 100 people, mostly lo-cal dignitaries and VIP guests from

owning company, management, staff, other Accor properties team in Bali and the Banjar Kuta community to lend their support and pray for the success of our hotel.

Now that the Melaspas ceremony has taken place, the hotel can move forward with the opening of their exceptional hotel, in the knowledge that it will be free of bad influences and be ready to welcome the first guest very soon.

Melaspas ceremony at ibis Styles Bali Dewi Sri

IBP

KUTA - Ibis Styles Bali Kuta Dewi Sri held a traditional Hindu-Balinese “Melaspas” ceremony on Monday. The highly successful economy hotel project under ibis styles brand has 114 rooms having been recently completed. Ideally located just a short stroll from the famous Kuta, Legian and Seminyak areas and within walking distance of Kuta Central Park, the hotel offers superb accommodation close to the best that Bali has to offer for both business and leisure travelers: beaches, shopping, nightlife and dining experiences.

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Traditional means of transportation such as cariole has become a favorite in the 1960s. In harmony with the passage of time, the presence of cariole is increasingly marginalized by modern means of transportation such as motorcycles and cars. Now, the number of cariole remaining to operate around Denpasar is few and far between. According to a cariole driver met around the Badung Market, Nengah Purna, the number of surviving cariole was only about 10-15 units. Such number spread out in several places in the Badung Market. Like in the east of the temple, the place was only used by three cariole drivers to hang out.

Purna has deeply involved in such profession since 1963. “I have been here since I was a teenager. When the Mount Agung erupted, I have been a cariole driver,” said the 70-year old grandfather. He said that before the flooding means of transportation like motorcycles, the cariole was highly required to convey and escort passengers bringing along their groceries from the market. From the results of his livelihood, he was able to support his wife and three children and sent them school and college. However, his earning as a cariole driver today was not much. Though visitors to the market were crowded ahead of Galungan, he said, they had no great impact on his earning. “From eleventh o’clock just now until this time, I have not got passengers at all,” he said.

Within a day, he was only able to earn IDR 10,000 to IDR 30,000. “Except for transporting guests (foreign visitors) and on Sunday, I can earn more,” he said. However, Nengah Purna would like to maintain his profession. This grandpa from Ulakan, Karangasem, started his activity as a cariole driver from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. He used to take passengers from Badung Market to the farthest point on Jalan Nangka. The rate charged was adjusted to the distance of destination. He added that government also gave support to the presence of cariole such as to support the tourism of Denpasar. “If there is an anniversary of government, our cariole is usually involved and decorated. We are given compensation known as money of grass,” he said.

The Head of Klungkung Sani-tation and Landscaping Agency, Nyoman Rahayu, recently said that since the first Klungkung government had planned to ex-pand the landfill from the current acreage of only 0.98 hectares to 4 hectares in accordance with the standard of landfill in the county. Even, she said the plan had already been budgeted in the main regional budget of Klung-kung County. To follow up the matter, she said the Klungkung government had made coordina-tion for several times with central government to request a budget for the plan to create a central-ized waste treatment system so that the waste generated could be processed into organic fertilizer to perform incineration.

However, to obtain the as-sistance, she said the total area of landfill should meet the stan-dard of 4 hectares. The terms required the Klungkung County to make an expansion to the landfill through acquisition of private land around the landfill area. Klungkung government began having a trouble when lo-cal residents were not willing to release their land for the sake of the landfill. Though having been asked at high price, majority of the land owners still refused to release their land. Similarly, once negotiation had failed so the expansion plan had stagnated. “It is impossible to expand it,” she added.

Being unable to expand, the green light of central govern-ment to help realize the waste treatment system at Sente landfill ultimately vanished. As a result, with the increasing waste produc-tion by Klungkung community,

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Snatching action experienced by foreigner in Kuta occurred again. At

this time, Anita Kvernrod Sletold, 25, from Norway was snatched by two unidentified men around Jalan Double Six, Legian, Tuesday (Oct 15) at 9:30 p.m. As a result, a purse containing mobile phone, money and other important papers were taken away by the perpetrators. The case had been reported to Kuta Police for further action.

The snatching case occurred when the victim was having a promenade at the scene. Unexpectedly, the victim seemed to have been dogged by two men riding a motorcycle. The perpetrators got near the victim and then robbed the victim’s purse on the shoulder. The victim was surprised and tried to defend her purse. Since it happened so quickly, the victim’s purse could be taken away.

The victim staying in one of the villas in Seminyak was yelling for help. However, it was in vain because the perpetrators had disappeared in the darkness of the night. Although the residents attempted to catch up, the two perpetrators immediately fled. Her case was then reported to Kuta Police. “From the recognition of victim, the missing properties are an iPhone 4, cash worth IDR 119,000 and some important papers. Total loss reaches IDR 9 million,” the source said.

Based on the report, police came down to the scene to conduct an in-vestigation. A number of witnesses had been questioned, but police could not identify the perpetrators. Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Denpasar Metro Police, IB Sarjana, had not clarified related to the incident experienced by the foreigner. Obviously, the case was still under investigation and police were chasing the perpetrator. (kmb21)

Cariole Still Survives amidst Congestion of Denpasar

A Norway tourist snatched by two men

Expansion plan stagnates

Sente landfill at risk of being terminatedSemarapura (Bali Post)—

History of the landfill at Sente hamlet, Dawan, Klungkung, seems difficult to be extended again. The plan to expand the landfill area having looked overload has stagnated for years without a significant breakthrough to resolve the deadlock. Actually, central government has given the green light to assist Klungkung County to provide a representative landfill equipped with a standard waste management system.

the Sente landfill area was getting more crowded and estimated to only last for about three years. Condition of the Sente landfill looking to have been overloaded gave impression if it was still imposed by force. Thus, it once drew a protest from the former regent Tjokorda Gede Ngurah. The man currently serving as leg-islator in the Bali House admitted to receive many complaints from residents about the stench gener-ated. It was very pungent and spread to the residential area.

At that time, he also asked the relevant agencies to think more seriously about the issue. Tjok Ngurah explained the Sente landfill was built when he was the Head of Klungkung Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) in the period of 1992-1996. When building it, the Sente landfill was predicted to be overloaded after 20 years. So, before 20 years, the Klungkung government should

have thought of the measure to accommodate the rubbish of community whether through landfill expansion or building a new one.

If the Sente landfill was closed, Rahayu said the rubbish produced by community had to be sent to regional landfill at Bangklet, Bangli, because the plan to build a new landfill had not occurred. If the rubbish would be disposed to Bangli, she said the operat-ing cost would automatically increase where each cubic meter the county government should pay IDR 50,000 where each truck transported 8 to 9 cubic meters. The condition was get-ting more alarming because the waste production of Klungkung reached 172 cubic meters per day, while the DKP could only carry 67 percent of them. Moreover, after the holidays like Galungan and Kuningan the number could rise. (kmb31)

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The garbage pile up in Sente landfill in Klungkung.

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According to a legislator of Bangli House, Ida Bagus San-tosa, the Bangli tourism indeed did not grow as progressively as the tourism in southern Bali. Even, if it was calculated from the rupiah value, only a certain percent of the tourist’s expenditure went to Bangli. “For example, of IDR 10 million of tourist’s expenditure, only IDR 100,000 goes to Bangli. It is negligible compared to the other tourist areas,” he said. Even, added

Tourism sector of Bali is never empty of tourist arrival. A number of tourism areas have always been a favor-ite destination for local and foreign tourists. However,

amid the rapid growth of Bali tourism, Bangli seems to always become a tourist destination put on the ump-

teen numbers and only serves as a sojourn.

Distribution of Bali tourism uneven

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BANGLI - Tourism sector of Bali is never empty of tourist arrival. A number of tourism areas have always been a favorite destination for local and foreign tourists. However, amid the rapid growth of Bali tourism, Bangli seems to always become a tourist destination put on the umpteen numbers and only serves as a sojourn.

Santosa, so far the tourist’s expenditure was far more spent for hotel and restaurant sector mostly owned by businessmen from outside the region. As a result, the impact of tourism could not be perceived directly by the people of Bangli.

This FKPI politician judged, although Bali recently hosted various international events, the benefits were not necessarily enjoyed directly by local community. So far, the tourism pie in

Bali, said Santosa, was still not evenly distributed. A disparity remained to happen between one county and other counties.

According to Santosa, in order the Bali tourism pie could be distrib-uted fairly, one of the ways that could be taken by the government was collecting levies to guest through a single door management.

“I think it better to apply a single door management to guests com-ing to Bali. Each guest coming to Bali, for instance, is charged at IDR 1 million. So, guest is no longer subject to other levies and hotel and restaurant taxes. For example, if each guest is charged at IDR 1 million and spends IDR 10 million, logically the hotel and restaurant tax is worth IDR 1 million as well. Well, if tourist arrival to Bali amounts to 7 million, just multiply them by IDR 1 million, so it can totally get IDR 7 trillion. Afterward, this amount is divided fairly and there will be a fair distribution of the Bali tourism pie,” he said. (ina)

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“Grateful” is employed frequently in conversation as the affable MacLeod re-flects on life, his born-again Christian faith and the long acting career that included the major TV hits “Mary Tyler Moore” and “The Love Boat.”

“That’s a big word in my life,” said Ma-cLeod who, at 82, has endured two heart attacks yet still looks and sounds energetic enough to set sail. “I’m just so grateful I’ve had another day, another day, another day, and that my kids are doing so well.”

“This is Your Captain Speaking,” with a cover photo of MacLeod as Capt. Merrill Stubing in his sparkling white “Love Boat” uniform and smile to match, is a candid look at his ups and downs in love and as an actor, including his unexpected jump from second banana to leading man.

But he is almost invariably kind to the many stars he worked with over the years in film and TV, including Cary Grant and Robert Redford, and the parade of previous-generation performers who came aboard “The Love Boat,” includ-ing Helen Hayes, Ethel Merman and Cab Calloway.

“The big stars are the best. I pinched my-self every single day” head- ing to work on “Love Boat,” M a -

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FILE - In this Jan. 2007 file photo, the cast of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” from left, Gavin MacLeod, Cloris Leachman, Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Georgia Engel and Ed Asner, present the award for outstanding per-formance by an ensemble in a comedy series at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, in Los Angeles.

For ‘Love Boat’ star, life not all smooth sailingAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Gavin MacLeod’s new autobiography recounts childhood poverty and loss, alcohol abuse and a brush with suicide, but the man and the book emerge as determinedly upbeat.

cLeod said, anticipating who would be on set “and the experiences we would have working together.”

Then there’s Bette Davis. She wasn’t among those who boarded “Love Boat” during its 1977-87 cruise, but MacLeod’s social encounter with her provides a memorable anecdote.

A mutual friend asked MacLeod and his wife to invite Davis, then in her 70s, to dinner, because the star wanted to meet him. No effort or expense was spared (Davis’ drink of choice, Chivas Regal, and caviar were served), but the grande dame proceeded to quarrel with guests, insult her hosts and then pour salt on the wound with an interview in which she called the evening a “disaster.”

“She ripped us! I couldn’t believe it,” MacLeod says in the book (written with Mark Dagostino), which opens in a far different world.

MacLeod, born Allan See in 1931, was raised in the town of Pleas-antville, N.Y. His Depression Era-childhood included poverty and a household roiled by his father’s bouts of drinking and then death at age 39 from cancer. MacLeod was 13, and the loss hit him hard.

“I could have closed up into a ball right there,” he writes. “Could have turned into a ‘bad kid.’ ... But instead, I did the opposite.”

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BURBANK, Calif. — TV’s “House of Cards” and the movie “Promised Land” are being recognized for their eco-friendly messages.

The Netflix show and the Focus Features film were honored by the Environmental Media Association Saturday night at its 23rd annual awards presentation. The organization aims to channel the power of celebrity and media to promote sustainable behaviors and ecological awareness.

The HBO documentary “Gasland Part II” and reality show “VICE” also won awards, along with the ABC comedy “Last Man Standing” and Nickelodeon’s “Nick News with Linda Ellerbee.”

Matt Damon accepted the Ongoing Commitment award and Hayden Panetierre received the Futures award at the private event, held at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif.

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