Associated Press Writer PYONGYANG, North Korea — An

international film festival opens Thursday in what may seem the unlikeliest of places: North Korea. Held every two years, the Pyongyang International Film Festival of-fers North Koreans their only chance to see a wide array of foreign films on the big screen — from Britain, Germany and elsewhere (but not America). And it’s the only time foreigners are allowed into North Korean theaters to watch movies alongside locals.

This year, festivalgoers will get the chance to see two feature films shot in North Korea but edited overseas: the romantic comedy “Comrade Kim Goes Flying,” a joint North Korean-European production, and “Meet in Pyongyang,” made in conjunc-tion with a Chinese studio.

Foreign offerings include a Sherlock Holmes film and the romantic comedy “The Decoy Bride” from Britain, the Jet Li kung fu film “Flying Swords of Dragon Gate,” the French hit “Women on the 6th Floor” about a community of Spanish emigres to Paris, and two love stories from Iran.

While it’s true that homegrown movies predictably tend toward communist pro-paganda with a healthy dose of tear-jerker, North Korea is a film-crazy country. Well-to-do residents pay as much as 500 won (about $5 according to official exchange rates) to see new releases from the government-run Korean Film Studio, as well as Russian and

Chinese imports.Those who don’t have the means to go

to the theater tune into the Mansudae TV channel, which shows mostly Chinese and Eastern European films on weekends. Some recent offerings have included “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” and the only West-ern offering shown on state TV in recent memory, the British film “Bend It Like Beckham,” which aired in 2010.

This year, a huge screen in front of the Pyongyang train station has become another

popular place to watch movies. On Monday, hundreds of locals stood transfixed by a North Korean drama in a plaza in front of the station.

U.S. films are rare, with one exception: Disney films can be found at North Korean DVD shops. A concert for leader Kim Jong Un in July featured performers dressed as Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh and other Disney characters. Kim’s father and predecessor, the late Kim Jong Il, was a notorious film buff.

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star’s latest brush with the law took place early Wednesday morning in New York City, a spokesperson for the NYPD confirms to omg!. She was driving a 2010 Porsche Cay-enne SUV down an alley between the Maritime and Dream hotels in Midtown Manhattan when she allegedly struck a pedestrian. Lind-say, who was accompanied by two males, exited her car to speak with the 34-year-old male victim, then she got back in the vehicle, parked, and went inside the Dream.

When Lindsay emerged from the club at 2:25 a.m., police placed her under arrest, charging her with leav-ing the scene of an accident while causing an injury. She was issued a

desk appearance ticket for a future unspecified date.

The police spokesperson noted that drugs and alcohol were not fac-tors in Lindsay’s arrest. As for the person who was hit, he complained of a knee injury and was taken to Bellevue Hospital. He was later released.

When reached for comment, Lindsay’s publicist, Steve Honig, told omg!, “While some of the facts are still being gathered, it appears that this is much ado about nothing. We are confident this matter will be cleared up in the coming weeks and the claims being made against Lindsay will be proven untrue.”

Just a few days ago – on Sunday

night – Lindsay took to Twitter to weigh in on Amanda Bynes’ saga. “Why did I get put in jail and a nickelodeon star has had NO punishment(s) so far?” Lindsay complained. It was an odd com-ment from someone who has had a tremendous amount of legal trouble herself, including two DUIs, proba-tion violations, and a theft convic-tion. Bynes has yet to be convicted of any crime.

Also earlier this week, Lindsay’s mother Dina’s interview with Dr. Phil McGraw hit the airwaves. The 50-year-old mother of four’s behav-ior during the chat was bizarre, es-pecially when she gave Dr. Phil the finger. Also of note, when McGraw asked Dina about Lindsay’s long list of police run-ins, Dina said that if Lindsay were living in New York, instead of Los Angeles, “five of them would be obsolete.”

Lindsay Lohan arrested in New York CityJust days after calling out fellow former child star Amanda

Bynes for her legal woes, Lindsay Lohan has been arrested ... again!

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FILE - In a Saturday, April 28, 2012 file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the White House Correspondents’ Association Din-ner headlined by late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel, in Washington.

Film festival opens in movie-crazy North Korea

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FILE - In this file image made out of film “Comrade Kim Goes Flying” released by Another Dimension of An Idea/Koryo Group, Comrade Kim Yong Mi played by Han Jong Sim acknowledges applause from her comrades for her acrobatic performance.

Ferguson relief as United scrape winning start

Home and rice field of residents silted up

Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size

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So far, Bali tourism has not been able to resolve the congestion problem. Govern-

ment should have a clear target to ad-dress the congestion with the preparation of infrastructure from highways including

the adequate public transport facilities.

Chairman of the Indonesian Transportation Society, Prof. Dr. Tech. Danang Parikesit, said that major cities in the world relying on tourism sector had a target to address the traffic congestion in 15-20 years to come. Bali as a world’s tourism region should also have a long-term target to resolve the con-

gestion. Target to address the traffic congestion in this tourist resort could be realized if there was no conflict between the governor and regents/mayor throughout Bali.

“Bali can imitate the transpor-tation system in Singapore, Hong Kong, including Taiwan. The tour-ism resort in Hong Kong with a

dense population can cope with the traffic congestion because nearly 90 percent of vehicles in Hong Kong are public transport,” he said.

He said that Indonesia, including Bali in particular, needed to learn from the innovations made by the government of Hong Kong, Singa-pore and Taiwan in addressing traffic congestion. In arranging the trans-portation, the government should not only depend on regional budget.

“The government should also raise money smartly from the soci-ety and private sector to build and organize the transportation sector in Bali,” he said.

According to him, Singapore tourism could be free of congestion as virtually 60-70 percent of vehicles in Singapore were public transport. Bali could exemplify the effort made by the country to overcome the con-gestion with the provision of public transport. However, the government should provide the armada of public transport and other supporting trans-portation facilities according to the needs of society.

“To address the traffic congestion in the tourism resort, the government of Bali can direct the economic ac-tivities so that they will not only be concentrated in the area of Denpasar,

Badung and Gianyar (Sarbagita) but can spread across Bali,” he said.

He explained the provision of public transport in the main corridor of tourist areas should be served well. Public transport in the tourism area could not be disturbed so that the use of private vehicles could be sup-pressed. “The government should set a target for the smooth transportation in the tourism area,” he said.

Parikesit suggested in order the government equated the bylaws on spatial planning in the provincial level to the regency/municipality throughout Bali in arranging the transportation. (kmb27)

Bali should clearly overcome congestion

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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

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2 Sep Redite Wage Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekarmukti-BalubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi-Badung3 Sep Soma Keliwon Kuningan Pura Dasar Gelgel-KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah/Selemadeg-TabananPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin-GianyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuhan-Busungbiu BulelengPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan.8 Sep Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan Pura Taman Pule Mas-UbudPura Ularan Takmung-KlungkungPura Bukitjati Gulingan-Kawan BangliPura Dalem TegehePura Dalem TahakPura Dalem BatuajiPura Dalem Tegaljaya-BatubulanPura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon-SukawatiPura Dalem Guwang-SukawatiPura Sadha KapalPura Sakenan Sakenan SeranganPura Pekendungan Kediri-TabananPura Pasek Gaduh Grokgak Gede TabananPura Dalem Sanding TampaksiringPura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Puri Tanjung Periuk JakartaPura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang-BangliMr. Dukuh Tetek Peguyangan-DenpasarPura Agung Blambangan BanyuwangiPura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Gelgel -KlungkungDesa Adat Munggu (Mekotekan) Mengwi-BadungPura Panti Paksebali-Klungkung (Perang Jempana)Pura Penataran Agung MargoweningDesa Balong garut Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur2 Oct Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg(Meru Tumpang Sanga) BesakihPura Hyang Tibha i Batuan Sakah3 Oct Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti TabananPura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem.

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On Tuesday, June 14, 2012, Hard Rock Bali including; Hard Rock Hotel Bali, Hard Rock Cafe Bali and Hard Rock Radio Bali celebrated 41 years since the first day it was born. This is the time of the year when we get together as a family and party in pure hard rock style.

On this day, to honor 41 community heroes from Bali’s Fire Brigade and 41 children from orphanage for street kids were invited to enjoy a burger bash and to release 41 turtles to their habitats. Hard Rock’s Burger Badge Bash is offered to police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians or other community servants in recognition of their dedication and service to the community.

“On this 41st Anniversary of Founders’ Day, we look forward to celebrat-ing with local heroes and all Hard Rock fans around the world. Today we will honor and serve those who serve and protect us everyday.” said Andrew Khoo, General Manager of Hard Rock Hotel Bali.

In true spirit of Founder’s Day, Sara Wijayanto, an Indonesian rising star, performed at a foam party. She performed 4 songs and her voice is certainly as great as she looks. After the performance, Sara signed a guitar for Hard Rock Hotel’s memorabilia collection at Splash Bistro. Pictured from right; Ms. Sara Wijayanto and Ms. Aulianty Fellina Rizal, Director of Marketing Communications Hard Rock Hotel Bali.

41 and Still Rockin’ !!IBP

KUTA - If you love music, memorabilia, shop for merchan-dise, good food and great times, Hard rock is the place! In 1971, two music-loving Americans founded the first Hard Rock Cafe in an old rolls royce showroom in London, and an icon was born. Four decades later, Hard rock celebrates Founders’ Day (still true to) the brand’s core mantra “Love all – Serve All.”

Denpasar (Bali Post) –East Denpasar Criminal Research Team success-

fully revealed a car smuggling case where three women named Oval Novalina (38) from Cimahi, Jawa Barat who lives at Drupadi Street No. 2 Denpasar, Ni Nengah Sudiari alias Arik (30), from Banjar Laut, Blahbatuh, Village Gianyar and Ni Kadek Muliani alias Kadek Mitra (32), from Banjar Seme, Kelurahan Mitra, Gianyar were captured last Thursday (13/9). This group have taken cars they rent and auctioned it with a price of IDR 20 million around Gianyar and Jembrana. What’s worse two of them (Sudiari and Muliani, red) were recidivists of the same case taken place last year as stated by Head of the Police, APC I Putu Suprama, last Wednesday (19/9).

The case was revealed due to the reports of two victims, Made Suharini (43) who lives at Kertha Dalem VI Street, No. 6, Sidakarya, South Denpasar and Ketut Suprata which each of their cars were rented 10 days from 25th August 2012 yet never came back. Instead it was auctioned to other people. Suhartini’s car was a Toyota Avanza DK 716 JC which auctioned to Edi in Gianyar while Suprata’s car an APV DK 1178 AF was auctioned in Jembrana. Renters did try to find accused yet they never find it and so reported to the police.

The mastermind of the smuggling was Oval who got captured first at his house. After investigated at the headquarters, Oval admitted there were two others she worked with who auctioned it while she’s the one renting it. So far there were only two victims who reported the incident yet eight cars were found auctioned. “The case is still being investigated further. It is possible there were more accused. If someone feels like their car is being rented by accused, please report to the East Denpasar Police,” Suprama con-cluded. (kmb21)

As a result, local residents are difficult to transport their crops at harvest season. In addition, the dam-aged road body is very hazardous and prone to traffic accidents. This condi-tion forces many residents to prefer going on foot to riding a motorcycle to traverse the damaged roads. Even, since the road is damaged, public passenger vehicle rarely wants to transport cloves so that residents are forced to transport their cloves on foot.

F i e l d o b s e r v a t i o n m a d e o n Wednesday (Sep 19) indicated if the condition of paved road in the area was seriously damaged to be passed through by motorcycle and car. Along the road, the asphalt layer had flaked off and many deep potholes were found. The most hazardous point was on the ascending road section. Even, vehicles carrying heavy loads were

certainly unable to pass and forced to reduce the loads in order to do so.

A Pakisan resident told if the road at his village had been long left badly damaged. Local residents regretted the attitude of government that had not mended the damaged section whereas the road had very vital func-tion to support the economy of people mostly consisting of clove, coffee and cacao farmers. Since the road was damaged it was very difficult for them to transport their crops. “We have the road repaired because it is very difficult to pass over the dam-aged road like this. Hopefully, the new regent could pay attention to this road,” said one of the residents.

Headman of Pakisan vi l lage, Kubutambahan subdistrict, Nyoman Karya, said that aside from becoming a vital economic support of residents, the road also posed an alternative

way to get to Pelaga village, Badung. “Actually this road is a shortcut to Badung, but it is event left badly damaged like this,” he said.

Karya added that his party had recently submitted a proposal to get a fund for repairing the road to Buleleng Government. Earlier, a legislator of Bali House made a visit to the village and promised to fight for invoking the assistance to govern-ment. Unfortunately, the promise was never fulfilled. Currently, his party had also submitted similar proposal to local government together with the Headman of Bontihing, Gede Rasa. “We are both hoping the proposal could be responded and considered for the sake of our residents who have long longed for a convenient way to traverse,” said Karya confirmed by the Headman of Bontihing Gede Rasa. (kmb)

Bangli (Bali Post) –The fire that took over a shop owned by Gurun Pedo

(72) from Banjar Lebah, Songan Village B, Kintamani have caused panic to the locals last Tuesday (18/9) evening at 8.30 pm local time. The cause was suspected to be a short circuit which happened during Pedo was pouring premium petrol into a bottle under an electricity lamp. The incident also victimized his wife, Ni Wayan Nuasir (70), where both got burnt wounds. The fire was able to be turned off with traditional equipments and water by locals as confirmed by Head of Bangli Police Public Relation, APC Ida I Dewa Nyoman Rai last Wednesday (19/9).

It was explained that before the incident a sound of short circuit was heard which then a spark of fire attacked the petrol that was being poured. As much as IDR 25 mil-lion cash was also got burnt which totaled the loss they’re experiencing IDR 200 million. (kmb17)

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The badly damaged road is making the transportation difficult in Pekisan Village, Buleleng.

Road of Pakisan village damaged

Residents take up cloves on footSingaraja (Bali Post)—

rural road along 17 km from Bontihing village to Mengandang hamlet, Pakisan village, Kubutambahan subdistrict is left badly damaged for years. village apparatus has been trying to submit a proposal asking for repair fund, but the government never repairs the road.

A shop caught on fire

Two victims rushed to Bangli Hospital

Smuggling eight cars, three women captured

3Friday, September 21, 201214 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Friday, September 21, 2012

The ice cap at the North Pole mea-sured 1.32 million square miles on Sunday. That’s 18 percent smaller than the previous record of 1.61 million square miles set in 2007, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. Records go back to 1979 based on satellite tracking.

“On top of that, we’re smashing a record that smashed a record,” said data center scientist Walt Meier. Sea ice shrank in 2007 to levels 22 percent below the previous record of 2005. Ice in the Arctic melts in summer and grows in winter, and it started growing again on Monday. In the 1980s, Meier said, summer sea ice would cover an area slightly smaller than the Lower 48 states. Now it is about half that.

Man-made global warming has melted more sea ice and made it thin-ner over the last couple decades with it getting much more extreme this year, surprisingly so, said snow and ice data center director Mark Serreze. “Recently the loss of summer ice has accelerated and the six lowest Septem-ber ice extents have all been in the past six years,” Serreze said. “I think that’s quite remarkable.”

Serreze said except for one strong

storm that contributed to the ice loss, this summer melt was more from the steady effects of day-to-day global warming. But he and others say the polar regions are where the globe first sees the signs of climate change.

“Arctic sea ice is one of the most sensitive of nature’s thermometers,” said Jason Box, an Ohio State Uni-versity polar researcher. What happens in the Arctic changes climate all over the rest of the world, scientists have reported in studies.

The ice in the Arctic “essentially acts like an air conditioner by keeping things cooler,” Meier said. And when sea ice melts more, it’s like the air conditioner isn’t running efficiently, he said.

Sea ice reflects more than 90 per-cent of the sun’s heat off the Earth, but when it is replaced by the darker open ocean, more than half of the heat is absorbed into the water, Meier said.

Scientists at the snow and ice data center said their computer models show an Arctic that would be es-sentially free of ice in the summer by 2050, but they add that current trends show ice melting faster than the com-puters are predicting. A Carthaginian burial site was not

for child sacrifice but was instead a graveyard for babies and fetuses, researchers now say. A new study of the ancient North African site offers the latest volley in a debate over the primary purpose of the graveyard, long thought to be a place of sacred sacrifice.

“It’s all very great, cinematic stuff, but whether that was a constant daily activity ? I think our analysis con-tradicts that,” said study co-author Jeffrey Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh.

The city-state of Carthage was founded in the ninth century B.C., when Queen Dido fled Phoenicia (along the eastern Mediterranean shore) for what is now Tunis, Tunisia.

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Congress un-veiled a new search engine Wednesday to help politicos, lobbyists, research-ers, students and any other interested citizens find legislation working its way through the House and Senate to become new laws. The Library of Con-gress says the new website Congress.gov is in beta form and will eventu-ally replace the THOMAS legislative search system after a year of fine-tuning the new system.

The new site is more like Google, with one box to search all data. It can filter search results like a shopping site with categories of merchandise. In this case, it can narrow search results by year, by subject, by House or Senate or other factors.

Congress.gov also is mobile friend-ly for Capitol Hill staffers glued to their Blackberries. It was built with respon-sive design technology to automatically rearrange a search screen to fit on a smartphone. This is Congress’ first new search engine since THOMAS was launched in 1995 after just three weeks of development when the Internet was in its infancy.

“It’s like comparing a tricycle to a Cadillac,” said Jim Karamanis, the library’s chief of web services, before a

test drive of the new site. “The web was not very advanced” when THOMAS was created.

THOMAS, named for Thomas Jefferson, gets 10 million visits each year. But the library found many us-ers outside the political world didn’t know what THOMAS was. The 17-year-old search system became slow and outdated, and it required insider knowledge to navigate.

For example, a search of “health care reform” on THOMAS only scans bill summaries for actions in the current Congress, and it returns a funding bill among other results — not President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Searching past congressional ac-tions is a separate function, and finding the text of a bill is three links deep in the old site.

The new search engine, built by the library’s tech and legislative experts, is more intuitive, designers said. It was developed entirely in-house with open source technology. Contracting out the project would have likely cost millions.

Now a search of “health care re-form” on the new site scans bill texts, summaries and statuses and all avail-able congressional years at the same time. Obama’s health care law immedi-ately rises to the top of the results.

AP Photo/U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center

This image made available by NASA shows the amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, at center in white, and the 1979 to 2000 average extent for the day shown, with the yellow line.

Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 sizeAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — In a critical climate indicator showing an ever warming world, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, obliterating old records.

New search engine offers better access to Congress

Ancient Baby Graveyard Not for Child Sacrifice, Scientists Say

Carthage burial

grounds called

Tophet holds urns

with the cremated

remains of thou-

sands of babies.

While some say

Tophet is a site

of child sacrifice,

others contend

it was used to

bury babies and

fetuses.

The empire became a powerhouse of the ancient world and fought several wars against the Romans.

When archaeologists began ex-cavating the ancient civilization last century, they found urns with the cremated remains of thousands of babies, young goats and lambs at a graveyard called the Tophet, which had been used from 700 to 300 B.C. At its peak, the Tophet may have been bigger than a football field and had nine levels of burials.

Based on historical accounts, scien-tists believed Carthaginians sacrificed children at the Tophet before burying them there. For instance, the Bible describes child sacrifice to the deity Baal, worshipped by a civilization in Carthage. A Greek and a Roman

historian both recount gory tales from this time period in which of priests slit the throats of babies and tossed them into fiery pits, Schwartz said. [8 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries]

However, those accounts came from Carthage’s enemies. “Some of this might have been anti-Carthag-inian propaganda,” Schwartz told LiveScience.

In 2010 Schwartz and his col-leagues used dental remains from 540 individuals to argue that the site was not primarily for ritual child slaugh-ter, and they reiterate that stance in this month’s issue of the journal Antiquity. In the new article, the re-searchers cite several older studies to validate their methods for estimating infant ages from tooth fragments.

IBP/ist

Bali PostSANUR - In response to rampant ac-

tions of terror against the people and police officers, Chairman of the Sanur Development Foundation (YPS), Ida Bagus Gede Sidharta Putra, appealed to the components of Sanur community to increase their awareness of the threat of terrorism in Bali.

“Components of the Sanur community should be more vigilant. As revealed by the Chief of Denpasar Metro Police, we will also make an integrated traffic system with the security by making a pedestrian zone in Sanur area,” said IB Sidharta in Denpasar, Wednesday (Sep 19).

He said that his party with police offi-cers would work together in securing Sanur as a tourist destination in Bali. Moreover, Sanur would hold the seventh Sanur Vil-lage Festival (SVF) on September 26-30, 2012. “We do hope the SVF could run smoothly and safely, so that it provides a positive impact on the tourism of Sanur and Bali,” said IB Sidartha doubling as Chairman of the SVF Committee.

Chief of Denpasar Metro Police, I Wayan Sunartha, also appealed to the people especially those living in Sanur tourism area to be constantly vigilant against terrorist threats. His party would also supervise the intruders having poten-tial to disrupt the security.

“We do strict security by inspecting vehicles, identifying suspicious people, knowing about their identity, where they

want to go, equipment and inspecting the goods brought along,” he explained.

He added the continuity and progress of Sanur tourism were greatly supported by the safety and comfort of Sanur area. Security process had to be created by security officials in cooperation with the components of Sanur community.

“Comfort and security are major supporting condition for tourism. It is impossible for tourists to come without the existence of comfortable atmosphere. The security cannot be instantly made but requires a process,” he affirmed.

He mentioned the security in Sanur had to be arranged carefully and perfectly, so that tourists would feel comfortable, while people could enjoy the prosperity of tourism activity. Security apparatus would also conduct strict safeguard against the Sanur tourist destination during the imple-mentation of the SVF. Each object and venue of event would be kept strictly.

“The target of terrorism is financial transaction such as money changer. Therefore, the personnel may not be com-placent. Terrorists have a lot of people to support their fundraising endeavor and so do their ‘brides’ or perpetrators of suicide bomb. The owner of the entertainment spots are given the time limit of operating hours, so look at visitors,” said Sunartha while adding that no matter what event they organized we should not ban them as long as they did not disturb the public and tourist activities. (kmb27)

Information compiled at location on Wednesday (Sep 19) mentioned the landslide took place around 3:00 p.m. local time. At that time, it was slightly cloudy at Galungan and did not rain. Nevertheless, the clove plantations lo-cated on highland in the south collapsed. Before the landslide, a thundering sound occurred and it was followed by loud enough explosion.

When the incident occurred, the Wenten’s house was empty because it was left to work by the owner. When landslide happened, his grandchildren were play-ing with other children around the house. Fortunately, the children survived after running away from the scene.

Homeowner, Ketut Wenten, en-countered when cleaning up the mud burying his home last Wednesday said that before the incident he was mowing grass for fodder. He suddenly heard a loud enough roar. Having turned to the south as considered to be a heavy rain, he saw his house on the cliff collapsed. He was amazed to see that a coconut tree on the cliff was also eroded and collapsed to the ground amidst the rice field. He screamed and tried to contact his son, Gede Antara, who was watering cloves. His house was instantly hit by mud, and it totally destroyed the walls. Its zinc roof was also partially buried. Meanwhile, a number of valuables could not be saved.

According to Wenten, before the incident it did not rain but was slightly

overcast. At the bottom of the cliff lay a flow of water for the irrigation. The land on cliff top was formerly a rice field but had long been converted to a clove plan-tation. He suspected the cliff avalanched because underneath there was a sort of small cave containing some springs. “It’s very strange because the steep ground was solid, but there is a kind of cave with springs underneath. Probably, the land in the cave collapsed and caused the avalanche,” explained Wenten as confirmed by his son, Antara.

Until Wednesday afternoon, Wenten and families assisted by relatives were busy cleaning up the mud burying his home while looking for the remaining items that could still be utilized. He admitted to surrender to the incident. Temporarily, he would stay with his son whose house was still close to his. “I do not know what to do. If there is govern-ment assistance, we’ll receive it. If on the contrary, it does not matter as it is caused by natural disaster,” he said.

Meanwhile, one of the sharecroppers cultivating the silted rice field, Ketut San-di, told that his cultivated field spreading across 0.85 hectare had been planted with rice and was ascertained to face harvest failure. As scheduled, next two months he would harvest. Sandi claimed to suf-fer a loss of more than IDR 9 million. In addition, he also lost his agricultural equipment stored in hut as buried by landslide. “The loss has not included the working capital,” he said. (kmb)

A perma-nent home owned by resident and two hectares of rice field at Dajan Pangkung hamlet, Galungan village, Sawan subdis-trict were silted up due to cliff avalanche in the area on Tuesday afternoon (Sep 18).

Hit by landslide

Home and rice field of residents silted up

Bali Post

DENPASAR - A permanent home owned by resident and two hectares of rice field at Dajan Pangkung hamlet, Galungan village, Sawan subdistrict were silted up due to cliff avalanche in the area on Tuesday afternoon (Sep 18). The house belonging to Ketut Wenten, 50, was badly damaged and the paddy plants in the field were also damaged and likely to face crop failure.

Sanur alerts terrorist infiltration

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Popular momentum for inde-pendence has never been stronger in Catalonia, a wealthy region in northeastern Spain that generates one fifth of the country’s economic output and is home to 16 percent of Spaniards. More than half of Cata-lans say they want a separate state, and hundreds of thousands marched in Barcelona last week - the biggest such show of separatist fervor.

Still, few see a rapid road to an in-

dependent Catalonia, a dream rooted in the Middle Ages when Barcelona was a Mediterranean trade centre with a parliament. “It’s going to be a difficult and long process ... For us to get it they would have to have a referendum, and they’re not going to give us that,” said Jose Maria Prats, a nurse who joined the march.

The upsurge in Catalan separatism is founded on a conviction that Madrid is draining the region financially. The

central government collects most taxa-tion payments then redistributes them to Spain’s 17 self-governing regions, which run their own schools and hos-pitals. Each year Catalans say they pay 16 billion euros more in taxes than the regional government spends.

“The crisis has shown that Spain’s regional financing model does not work. There is no doubt we need to advance towards a fed-eral system of taxation,” said Jose Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, deputy head of think-tank FEDEA.

The flare-up in Catalonia has come at a difficult time for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who is struggling to bring Spain’s deficit under control and resisting follow-ing Greece, Ireland and Portugal into an international bailout.

Associated Press Writer

PARIS — France stepped up security Wednesday at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly revived a formula that it has already used to capture at-tention: Publishing crude, lewd caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Wednesday’s issue of the provocative satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, whose offices were firebombed last year, raised concerns that France could face violent protests like the ones targeting the United States over an amateur video produced in California that have left at least 30 people dead.

The drawings, some of which depicted Muhammad naked and in demeaning or pornographic poses, were met with a swift re-buke by the French government, which warned the magazine could be inflaming tensions,

even as it reiterated France’s free speech protections.

The principle of freedom of expression “must not be in-fringed,” Foreign Minister Lau-rent Fabius said, speaking on France Inter radio.

But he added: “Is it pertinent, intelligent, in this context to pour oil on the fire? The answer is no.”Anger over the film “Innocence of Muslims” has fueled violent protests from Asia to Africa. In the Lebanese port city of Tyre, tens of thousands of people marched in the streets Wednesday, chanting “Oh, America, you are God’s enemy!”

Worried France might be tar-geted, the government ordered its embassies, cultural centers, schools and other official sites to close on Friday — the Muslim holy day — in 20 countries. It also immediately shut down its embassy and the French school in Tunisia, the site of deadly protests at the U.S. Embassy last week.

Associated Press Writer

REYNOSA, Mexico — The death toll in a pipeline fire at a dis-tribution plant near the U.S. border has risen to 29, Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Wednes-day. At least 46 others were injured, and more might be missing.

Juan Jose Suarez, director of the state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos company, told local media earlier in the day that at least five workers had not been seen since the blast. On Tuesday, the company, known as Pemex, said in its Twitter account that a total of seven people were unaccounted for.

President Felipe Calderon said the quick reaction of emergency teams prevented a “real catastro-

phe,” by controlling the fire before it reached the huge tanks of a neigh-boring gas processing plant.

The enormous fire Tuesday hit a distribution center near the border with Texas that handles natural gas coming in from wells and sends it to a processing plant next door.

“The timely response by oil workers, firefighters and the Mexi-can army was able to control the fire relatively quickly and avoid a real catastrophe of bigger proportions and greater damages if the fire had spread to the center for gas process-ing, which is right there,” Calderon said in a speech in Mexico City.

The blast and ensuing fire left charred tanks and a mound of tan-gled steel at the walled plant near the border city of Reynosa, across from

McAllen, Texas. Two of the injured were reported in serious condition.

Dr. Jaime Urbina Rivera, deputy medical director of Hospital Materno Infantil de Reynosa just a few miles from the plant, said his hospital had received nine injured workers with first- and second-degree burns cover-ing 10 percent to 40 percent of their bodies, with the burns concentrated on their backs and legs. They all ar-rived conscious, he said.

Pemex officials said the blast appeared to have been caused by an accidental leak, and there was no sign so far of sabotage. The Mexican Attorney General’s Office opened an investigation into the ex-plosion Wednesday, sending more than 20 investigators into the site, which was blocked to the press.

29 dead, 46 injured in Mexico pipeline fire

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Morgue employees remove the bodies of people who were killed by an explosion at a gas pipeline distribution center in Reynosa, Mexico, near Mexico’s border with the U.S., Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012.

New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions

AP Photo/MIchel Euler

Publishing director of the satyric weekly Charlie Hebdo, Charb, displays the front page of the newspaper as he poses for pho-tographers in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012.

Marchers wave Catalo-nian national-ist flags as they demon-strate dur-ing Catalan National Day in Barcelona September 11, 2012.

REUTERS/Albert Gea

In Spain, economic crisis fans Catalan separatismReuters

MADRID - Spain’s economic crisis is exposing deep regional fault lines. Among Catalans on Barcelona’s boulevards the talk is of independence, and Madrid is worried. This week the king and prime minister called for national unity to get Spain through its worst downturn in decades, King Juan Carlos recalling the spirit that built a democracy after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Having escaped for a year from a detention cell, Mo-hamad Rawi eventually surrendered to Kuta Police on Tuesday afternoon (Sep 18). It was unknown what made the suspect of this marijuana case surrender. Kuta Police investigators were still examining the suspect intensively. His surrendering was justified by Chief of Kuta Police, Putu Dedi Ujiana, when asked for his confirmation on Wednesday (Sep 19).

Chief Dedi explained the suspect Rawi was a detainee escaping a year ago. Together with five other suspects consisting of I Gusti Abdi Pratama, Debi Restu Maulana, Apriono, Fajar Maulana and Arfi Yudi, he fled by break-ing the bathroom wall of police jail. Five suspects were arrested while trying to cross at Gilimanuk Harbor. Meanwhile, Rawi could escape from police chase.

Based on the results of provisional examination, dur-ing the escape over the past year the suspect Rawi roamed around to some regions. He admitted after escaping from the custody of Kuta Police, he immediately went to Jakarta. There, he worked at Tanjung Priok Harbor by peddling with small capital. After working there for some time, he moved to North Sumatra. The suspect originating from Banyuwangi and previously escaping on September 15, 2011 also peddled.

Having lived for months in North Sumatra, he admit-ted to be confused. He thought if he was pursued by police. Moreover, he also wanted to continue his study. Therefore, he went to Bali and surrendered to Kuta Po-lice. Before surrendering, he contacted a police officer and said he would surrender. “We are still examining the suspect. Now, he has been detained in Kuta Police,” he said.

For information, six detainees of Kuta Police escaped from their cells a year ago. They fled by breaking down the bathroom wall of the custody. However, the five prisoners escaping from the custody were the caught at Gilimanuk. Meanwhile, another detainee was still being chased by police. The six detainees who escaped were Gusti Abdi Pratama, Debi Restu Maulana, Apriono, Fajar Maulana, Arfi Yudi and Mohamad Rawi. (kmb21)

Collapse of the hall roof has been going on since a month ago. However, there are no indications if it will be repaired soon. Such incident is trig-gered by old age of the building. All the roof rafters are fragile, so that they are easy to fall and collapse. “The build-ing was established in 1992 funded by self-finance and assistance of the local government. We cannot rehabilitate it due to financial obstacles,” said the Vil-lage Secretary of Kukuh village, Made Buda Arta, Wednesday (Sep 19).

This official explained the damage of wantilan hall had long been com-

plained. However, the villager authority could not do much so the damage was getting worse and the peak happened when it rained heavily some time ago. Its roof rafters were fragile so that the roof finally collapsed and scattered at two points. Previously, said Buda Arta, the village authority only relied on the village allocation fund (ADD) for the maintenance of wantilan. Even, its amount was not too large, only IDR 5 million per year. The shortage of budget made the village unable to act.

Having collapsed, the wantilan hall spreading across 500 square meters

could no longer function. When orga-nizing an activity, it had to be diverted to hamlet wantilan hall. “By and large, this wantilan hall is often used for so-cietal activities. Now, it can no longer be used,” he explained. For repairs, said Buda Arta, his party had submitted a proposal through a legislator. He hoped to get help for totally rehabilitating the wantilan hall. As estimation, the fund required reached IDR 150-200 million.

The fund would be focused on to-tally dismantling the fragile roof, while the beams remained sturdy as made from concrete. His party did not dare to draw contribution from residents as they were in sluggish economic condi-tion. “We have submitted a proposal last August. Hopefully, it could be ap-proved,” he said. Land of the wantilan hall, added Buda, belonged to provin-cial government. (kmb30)

Gianyar (Bali Post) –

Even though it has been your pet for years doesn’t mean the owner is not in danger as experienced by an elder man from Selat Village, Payangan, Gianyar, Made Kerta (80), who was victimized during feeding it. Kerta got seriously wounded after being pushed suddenly by the cow and as family panicked Kerta was rushed to Payangan Health Community Center then forwarded to Sanjiwani Hospital.

Last Wednesday (19/9) it was stated a family member, Made Sindu, saw the incident around 2 pm local time on Tuesday (18/9). It seemed that the cow lost control when Kerta was going to get the remaining food and just forcely pushing him. The serious wound included four ribs were broken on the right, right back thigh ripped and bruises on the feet. The broken ribs caused a bleeding on the lungs so a surgery has to take place. The A & E doc-tor of the Hospital, dr. Ayu Suwandewi, stated victim’s condition has gone stabile yet has to be hospitalized to be observed intensively. (kmb16)

Attacked by cow, a man rushed to hospital

Being fugitive for a year, a detainee of Kuta Police surrenders

Lack of budget

Wantilan hall of Kukuh village allowed dropping off

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The roof of the hall in Kukuh Village is fallen due to the lack of budget

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Condition of wantilan hall of Kukuh village, Kerambitan, is apprehensive. Due to lack of budget, the hall building almost collapses. Without immediate rehabilitation, it is feared to collapse and endanger residents. More appre-hensively, its location is adjacent to the student parking lot of SMA Negeri 1 Kerambitan senior high school.

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Associated Press

BRUSSELS — An EU-China summit is emphasizing the increasing trade ties between the two.

The high-level meeting, which is being held Thursday in Brussels, is also being used as a fond farewell to Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. China will choose new leadership this fall.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said it was “appropri-ate” to use the occasion look at progress made since Wen took office ten years ago and almost ten years since the launch of a strategic partnership between the two sides.

Barroso pointed to greatly increased trade over the past 10 years -- 280 percent in goods, 380 percent in services.

For his part, Wen called for the EU’s arms embargo against China, which was imposed in 1989 following the suppres-sion of protests Tiananmen Square, to be lifted.

Samuel De Jaegere of the UN Development Program told an anti-corruption forum of the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation group on Thursday that compa-nies in Indonesia, Mexico, China and Russia are the most likely to

pay bribes when doing business overseas. He cited the 2011 Bribe Payer’s Index.

He says a recent survey by Enrst and Young shows a 26 percent rise in private sector corruption in China and a 52 percent increase in

Indonesia.He says cased handled by anti-

corruption prosecutors in Hong Kong and Singapore in the last two years also involved mostly private company employees.

Associated Press

LONDON — A closely-watched economic indicator is suggesting that the recession in the countries that use the euro is getting worse despite recent signs of improvement over Europe’s debt crisis.

Financial information com-pany Markit says Thursday its purchasing managers’ index — a gauge of business activity — for the 17-country eurozone fell to

45.9 in September from 46.3 the previous month. The consensus in the markets was for a modest improvement.

September’s rate was the low-est in over three years.

Analysts say the survey sug-gests that the eurozone economy is contracting by more than the 0.2 percent quarterly rate in the second quarter of 2012.

Anything below 50 indicates a contraction in economic activ-ity.

Survey points to deeper eurozone recession

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

The Trevi fountain is reflected in a shop’s window display-ing a placard announcing promotional sales up to 70%, in

Rome, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. A closely-watched economic indicator is suggesting that the recession in the countries that use the euro is getting worse despite recent signs of

improvement over Europe’s debt crisis.

Private sector corruption rising amid downturn

Associated Press

MANILA — An anti-corruption specialist says private sector corruption appears to be ris-ing in the Pacific Rim amid the global economic downturn, with countries in the region holding

the worst reputation for bribery abroad.

EU-China summit opens with emphasis on trade

AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi attend a round table at an EU-China summit in Brussels, Thursday Sept. 20, 2012.

Antara

KUPANG - A total of 446 Indonesian boat crew members are still held in Australian prisons until this month for smuggling asylum seekers to that country, an ambassador said.

“Out of the number, 26 are children who are held in immigration detention cells and prisons across Australian states such as Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania,” Indo-nesian ambassador to Australia Primo Alui Joelianto said at the Indonesia-Australia Joint Awareness Campaign on Anti-People Smuggling event here on Wednesday.

He said a total of 471 crew members meanwhile had been sent home to the country from 2008 to September this year consisting of 230 adult and 142 child crew members who were freed after a judicial process and 61 children who were sent home without a judicial process.

He said “among the factors or motives that drive them to get involved in the illegal activity is the pay, which is between Rp500,000 and Rp1 billion for carrying out the job which only takes three to five days to finish.”

Besides that he said there was also a pledge from their bosses that they could own the boats if they were able to carry out their job well.

Another factor is they were forced by their passengers to direct their boats to Australian waters while at sea, he said.

“They also have been deceived by the passengers who asked to be taken to a certain place but when they were in the middle of the sea they then boarded a number of foreign passengers and asked them to take the foreigners to Australia,” he said.

Primo said some crew members had also been willing to take the asylum seekers to Australia because they lacked information that they could be sent to jails like illegal fish poachers for one to two months for doing it.

According to Article 233 A of the Australian immigra-tion Law anyone carrying non-Australian citizens into that country illegally may be sentenced up to 10 years in jail, he said.

The East Nusa Tenggara provincial administration spokesman, Fransiskus Salem meanwhile said that people smuggling is not a new case but its number has increased in the past few decades in Asia with Australia as the destination.

He said what is concerning is that East Nusa Tenggara has been mentioned as the most comfortable transit place because of its vicinity to the destination country.

He said the two countries could not close their eyes on the fact because the activity violates their territorial integrity.

To prevent the activity to continue further he said efforts must be made to create stability and economic growth in the countries of origin of the illegal immigrants.

About 50 students from an Islamic university gathered Thursday in Makas-sar, the capital of South Sulawesi province. They burned tires and forced a McDonald’s restaurant to close. The door was later covered with a sign say-ing, “This must be closed as a symbol of our protest of the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ made in the U.S.”

Meanwhile, The U.S. Consulate in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province, was closed for a second straight day.

The U.S. Embassy issued a notice to American citizens saying all of its mis-sions in Indonesia would be closed Fri-day, when bigger protests are expected.

US shuts Indonesia consulateThe U.S. temporarily closed its

consulate in Indonesia’s third-largest city Wednesday due to ongoing pro-tests over an anti-Islam film produced in America.

About 300 members of the pan-Is-lamic movement Hizbut Tahrir Indone-sia rallied Wednesday morning in front of the consulate in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province. Later, about 50 Muslim students protested, marking the third straight day of demonstrations there. Both groups called on Washing-ton to punish the makers of the film, “Innocence of Muslims,” which deni-grates the Prophet Muhammad.

The embassy sent a text message to U.S. citizens saying the consulate would be temporarily closed due to the demonstrations.

In Jakarta, around 300 members of the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party rallied outside the U.S. Embassy. They dispersed after throwing eggs on a mock U.S. flag.

Indonesia’s leaders and prominent Muslim clerics have urged calm, but convicted radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has called for a strong response to the film, urging Muslims to wage violent protests similar to those that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya last week.

“What happened in Libya can be replicated,” Bashir told the Islamic news portal voa-islam.com, which in-terviewed him in jail. “Punishment for defaming God and the Prophet is death. ...There is no excuse.”

Antara

JAKARTA - The British govern-ment has guaranteed the safety and security of President Susilo Bam-bang Yudhoyono when he visits the country at the invitation of the Brit-ish Queen in October, Presidential Spokesman Julian A Pasha said.

Julian made the statement on

Wednesday in response to a report that Ed Mc Williams, a West Papuan separatist activist, has offered a prize contest worth US$80,000 for Britons who are able to arrest Yud-hoyono during his visit to Britain in October.

Ed Mc Williams is an activist of the West Papuan Advocacy Team (WPAT).

“The British police have also assured and guaranteed that such arrest will not take place and the safety of the president is fully guar-anteed by the British government,” Julian said.

Julian said the circulation of the information about the prize contest had created inconvenience because the president would visit

that country at the invitation of the British Queen.

“We have communicated with the British embassy in Jakarta. Frankly speaking, this matter is in-convenient and needs to be straight-ened out. The president`s plan to visit Britain is at the invitation of the British Queen in her capacity as the head of state,” Julian added.

He said that both countries have communicated about the matter to avoid misunderstanding regarding the prize contest issue.

“The British government, the Queen in particular, has invited the president as a figure who has contributed a lot to the develop-ment of democracy in Indonesia,” Julian said.

Britain to guarantee safety of President Yudhoyono

446 Indonesian boat crew still at Australian detention cells

Anti-American protests continue

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

Police officers stand guard during a protest against American-made film “Innocence of Muslims” that ridicules Islam and Prophet Muhammad outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012.

Associated Press

MAKASSAR — Indonesians enraged over a film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad continue to hold protests, while the U.S. Consulate in the country’s third-largest city shut its doors for a second day.

BUSINESS

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Technical director Paddy Lowe revealed on Wednesday it had taken the team a long time to find the cause of the issue, which was in the fuel pump.

Lowe said the team had taken the

necessary measures to make sure the failure does not happen again

“It wasn’t an easy problem to identify, and not one we have ever seen before,” said Lowe during a Vodafone phone-in on Wednesday.

“We’re very disappointed about it actually, it was really gutting to see that car roll to a stop at Monza. We have fortunately managed to identify the root cause.

“It was a problem with the fuel pump. It is something we will have completely covered for the remain-ing races.”

After his retirement at Monza, Button is 78 points behind champi-onship leader Fernando Alonso.

Casey Stoner is adamant he will be back in time for his home grand prix at Phillip Island, although he played down his chances of triumphing for a sixth consecutive time. The Australian hasn’t raced since Brno after suf-fering ligament damage and frac-tures to his right ankle in a heavy qualifying crash at Indianapolis.

Speaking to Channel Seven, the reigning MotoGP world champion said there was no chance of him missing what will be his final home MotoGP race before he retires at the end of the season. He has won the previous five editions of the race.

“I think it’s going to be tough to make it six in a row, but we’ll definitely be there, even if they have to duct-tape me to the bike,” he said. “I’ll definitely be lining up for that one. I’m hoping to get back for a couple before that, but we’ll see how things go and cross the fingers we can be back there.

“[The ligaments are healing] as well as they can be. “We had a fantastic surgeon, he’s done a great job with very small scars, so healing time’s going to be minimal,

but unfortunately with what I’ve done we’ve really got to keep some weight off it and try and let it heal before I get back on a bike.”

His comments followed the revelation in his blog that he is planning to end his recuperation and return for the Japanese Grand Prix, the first of three back-to-back races which culminates in his home race a fortnight later. “I had a check up with the doctor last Thursday and he was happy with my recovery but we will know more in a couple of weeks - no confirmed return date yet but I’m hoping for Japan,” he wrote.

Stoner also indicated he could seek a switch into V8 Supercars fol-lowing his retirement from MotoGP. Asked whether he could move across to four wheels, he said: “I’m hoping to; it’s been a long time dream of mine. “Just recently I’ve shown more interest. It’s been around since I’ve been 12 or 14 years old. I’ve had a huge passion for V8s.

“I have to be realistic whether I’ll be quick enough or not to be competitive, but it’s something I’d like to give a go, and I’ll defi-nitely be around the paddock.”

Reuters

ATLANTA - Tiger Woods has not won a major title in more than four years but he is delighted with his progress this season, highlighted by three victories on the PGA Tour, after a frustrating 2011 campaign cut short by injury. The American for-mer world number one missed three months, and two of the four majors, last year after injuring his Achilles during the Masters in April.

“This has been a really good season to come back from last year, not being able to play at all, and then being able to train properly and practise properly,” Woods told

reporters on Wednesday ahead of this week’s Tour Championship.

“Hence I’m producing the results I know I can produce. I’ve made some great strides this year. I went from probably most of my career not being a very good driver of the ball to now being one of the bet-ter ones out here on tour. “That is exciting for me. That is one of the reasons why my scoring average is where it’s at right now. I’ve been very consistent.”

Helped by his three wins on the 2012 PGA Tour, Woods lies second behind Rory McIlroy in the FedEx-Cup points standings coming into this week for the fourth and final

playoff event of the season. He also occupies second place in the scoring average charts, his 68.892 being trumped only by McIlroy’s 68.836.

“My short game is finally start-ing to come around too, which is nice,” said Woods. “I made some good changes this summer, and they’re finally starting to click in.”

‘PUTTING IT TOGETHER’Asked what he still needed to do

to clinch a 15th major title, Woods replied: “I think just putting it all together at the right time. I’ve put it together at three events this year. They just happen to be not the major

championships. “I just need to have those weeks where I put it together and coincide with a major. They’re not easy to do. I haven’t really done it that often. I’ve done it 14 times ... so they’re a little harder to do.”

Woods won the most recent of his 14 major titles at the 2008 U.S. Open before his game went into decline after the 2009 season fol-lowing assorted leg injuries and the breakdown of his marriage.

However, the American has been in good health since October and he ended a two-year winless streak with victory in December at the limited-field Chevron World Chal-lenge which he hosts in California.

This week, though, Woods is fully focused on trying to land FedExCup honours for a third time, having previously triumphed in 2007 and 2009.

“It really would top it off,” the world number two said. “I’ve had a really good season, and to win the Tour Championship, the FedExCup, and then have my fourth win ... all of those are positive things.

“These are the 30 of the hottest players this year, so you’re beating a really good field,” Woods said of the elite field at East Lake. “The guys are all playing well. I’ve done it twice, and hopefully I can do it again.”

Tiger happy with 2012 season, despite major droughtCasey Stoner

Stoner sure he’ll race in Australian MotoGP despite injuries

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

McLaren Mercedes driver Jenson Button of Britain steers his car during the Italian Formula One GP, at the Monza racetrack, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012.

McLaren sure Button failure a one-off

McLaren has finally found the cause of the problem that put Jenson Button out of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza last week. The Briton retired from the race on lap 32 in what was a blow to his championship hopes, which had been invigorated by his victory at spa the previous weekend.

Reuters

MANCHESTER, England - Manchester United rejoined the Champions League on Wednesday with about as much conviction as they exited the competition last season, although their 1-0 win over Galatasaray provided two priceless improvements in three points and a clean sheet.

The three-times winners and 2011 finalists failed to reach the knockout rounds last season - the first time since 2005-06 they had fallen at the group stage - and they won just one game at home in a dismal campaign. Their undoing, acknowledged with rare candour by Alex Ferguson, had been compla-cency and a vulnerability in defence at Old Trafford that cost them dear in a 3-3 draw with Basle and a 2-2 draw with Benfica.

So Ferguson’s overriding emo-tion after Michael Carrick’s winner on Wednesday was one of relief at the result rather than concern at the performance. “Three points in the opening game are very important, especially when you look at what happened to us last season,” Ferguson, who celebrated his 100th Champions League win, told reporters.

“In the first half we gave the ball away too often and they counter-attacked really well. In the second half, we were much more solid at the back, and all the chances fell to us. “It was a good opening game, they were very confident in their possession, and missing the chances

we did in the second half we kept ourselves on the edge.”

The Scot might revise his think-ing when he reflects on the bigger picture. United were poor in pos-session, lacking control in midfield, unable to conjure a clear chance for Robin van Persie, and reliant on good fortune and the fingertips of David de Gea in safeguarding their lead.

Indeed, Galatasaray, returning to Europe’s elite club competition for the first time in six years, must be wondering how they failed to re-peat the achievements of Basle and Benfica. The Turkish champions hit the woodwork three times, through Nordin Amrabat, Hamit Altintop and Selcuk Inan, and had one strong penalty claim turned down.

Nani’s penalty miss for United -- his feeble 53rd-minute spot-kick was saved low by Fernando Muslera -- merely compounded his team’s struggle.

INCISIVE PASSESTheir jitters had been evident

as early as the first minute. Cap-tain Nemanja Vidic was slow to react under pressure from Umut Bulut, but even though the Serbian defender appeared to trip the Gal-atasaray striker, referee Wolfgang Stark waved play on.

Carrick’s seventh-minute break-through, his first Champions League goal in three years, was well worked and hinted at better things for the home side.

The England international ex-changed incisive passes with Van

Persie and Shinji Kagawa before taking on Muslera in a one-on-one, but even though the keeper clipped Carrick’s heels, the midfielder kept his composure as he lost his balance to slide home the finish.

“I don’t get many, so when the chance is there... “ Carrick told Sky Sports. “You can go down, and there’s a chance the keeper will be sent off, but we’ve missed three penalties now (this season), so taking the chance was the right one.” The goal did nothing to deter the visitors.

Galatasaray, working with a bold formation from coach Fatih Terim of two up front, forced United back-wards and twice before the break went close to an equaliser.

Amrabat cut in from the left and bent a curling right-foot shot from 25 metres on to David de Gea’s crossbar, and Altintop, the former Bayern Munich midfielder, ripped a low shot on to the base of the post.

Terim’s side struck wood for the third time in the 56th minute when Inan flicked a header on to the out-side of De Gea’s right-hand upright. By then Nani had blundered from 12 metres.

Right back Rafael won the pen-alty, drawing a foul from Burak Yil-maz as he burst into the area, but the Portuguese stuttered in his runup and his effort was easily saved by Muslera. Galatasaray came within millimetres of an equaliser again after 71 minutes.

The visitors broke quickly after a Nani penalty claim had been

ignored, and De Gea palmed away Yilmaz’s shot before brilliantly get-ting his fingertips to substitute Emre Colak’s fizzing follow-up.

Darren Fletcher, out for 10 months with a chronic bowel con-dition, came on as a substitute to make his first United appearance

since their Champions League draw with Benfica at Old Trafford last November.

Ferguson also introduced Javier Hernandez and Danny Welbeck in search of a second goal, but even that would not have masked a me-diocre night for the English team.

Ferguson relief as United scrape winning start

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Manchester United’s Michael Carrick celebrates after scoring against Galatasaray during their Champions League group H soccer match at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Wednesday Sept. 19, 2012.

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Technical director Paddy Lowe revealed on Wednesday it had taken the team a long time to find the cause of the issue, which was in the fuel pump.

Lowe said the team had taken the

necessary measures to make sure the failure does not happen again

“It wasn’t an easy problem to identify, and not one we have ever seen before,” said Lowe during a Vodafone phone-in on Wednesday.

“We’re very disappointed about it actually, it was really gutting to see that car roll to a stop at Monza. We have fortunately managed to identify the root cause.

“It was a problem with the fuel pump. It is something we will have completely covered for the remain-ing races.”

After his retirement at Monza, Button is 78 points behind champi-onship leader Fernando Alonso.

Casey Stoner is adamant he will be back in time for his home grand prix at Phillip Island, although he played down his chances of triumphing for a sixth consecutive time. The Australian hasn’t raced since Brno after suf-fering ligament damage and frac-tures to his right ankle in a heavy qualifying crash at Indianapolis.

Speaking to Channel Seven, the reigning MotoGP world champion said there was no chance of him missing what will be his final home MotoGP race before he retires at the end of the season. He has won the previous five editions of the race.

“I think it’s going to be tough to make it six in a row, but we’ll definitely be there, even if they have to duct-tape me to the bike,” he said. “I’ll definitely be lining up for that one. I’m hoping to get back for a couple before that, but we’ll see how things go and cross the fingers we can be back there.

“[The ligaments are healing] as well as they can be. “We had a fantastic surgeon, he’s done a great job with very small scars, so healing time’s going to be minimal,

but unfortunately with what I’ve done we’ve really got to keep some weight off it and try and let it heal before I get back on a bike.”

His comments followed the revelation in his blog that he is planning to end his recuperation and return for the Japanese Grand Prix, the first of three back-to-back races which culminates in his home race a fortnight later. “I had a check up with the doctor last Thursday and he was happy with my recovery but we will know more in a couple of weeks - no confirmed return date yet but I’m hoping for Japan,” he wrote.

Stoner also indicated he could seek a switch into V8 Supercars fol-lowing his retirement from MotoGP. Asked whether he could move across to four wheels, he said: “I’m hoping to; it’s been a long time dream of mine. “Just recently I’ve shown more interest. It’s been around since I’ve been 12 or 14 years old. I’ve had a huge passion for V8s.

“I have to be realistic whether I’ll be quick enough or not to be competitive, but it’s something I’d like to give a go, and I’ll defi-nitely be around the paddock.”

Reuters

ATLANTA - Tiger Woods has not won a major title in more than four years but he is delighted with his progress this season, highlighted by three victories on the PGA Tour, after a frustrating 2011 campaign cut short by injury. The American for-mer world number one missed three months, and two of the four majors, last year after injuring his Achilles during the Masters in April.

“This has been a really good season to come back from last year, not being able to play at all, and then being able to train properly and practise properly,” Woods told

reporters on Wednesday ahead of this week’s Tour Championship.

“Hence I’m producing the results I know I can produce. I’ve made some great strides this year. I went from probably most of my career not being a very good driver of the ball to now being one of the bet-ter ones out here on tour. “That is exciting for me. That is one of the reasons why my scoring average is where it’s at right now. I’ve been very consistent.”

Helped by his three wins on the 2012 PGA Tour, Woods lies second behind Rory McIlroy in the FedEx-Cup points standings coming into this week for the fourth and final

playoff event of the season. He also occupies second place in the scoring average charts, his 68.892 being trumped only by McIlroy’s 68.836.

“My short game is finally start-ing to come around too, which is nice,” said Woods. “I made some good changes this summer, and they’re finally starting to click in.”

‘PUTTING IT TOGETHER’Asked what he still needed to do

to clinch a 15th major title, Woods replied: “I think just putting it all together at the right time. I’ve put it together at three events this year. They just happen to be not the major

championships. “I just need to have those weeks where I put it together and coincide with a major. They’re not easy to do. I haven’t really done it that often. I’ve done it 14 times ... so they’re a little harder to do.”

Woods won the most recent of his 14 major titles at the 2008 U.S. Open before his game went into decline after the 2009 season fol-lowing assorted leg injuries and the breakdown of his marriage.

However, the American has been in good health since October and he ended a two-year winless streak with victory in December at the limited-field Chevron World Chal-lenge which he hosts in California.

This week, though, Woods is fully focused on trying to land FedExCup honours for a third time, having previously triumphed in 2007 and 2009.

“It really would top it off,” the world number two said. “I’ve had a really good season, and to win the Tour Championship, the FedExCup, and then have my fourth win ... all of those are positive things.

“These are the 30 of the hottest players this year, so you’re beating a really good field,” Woods said of the elite field at East Lake. “The guys are all playing well. I’ve done it twice, and hopefully I can do it again.”

Tiger happy with 2012 season, despite major droughtCasey Stoner

Stoner sure he’ll race in Australian MotoGP despite injuries

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McLaren Mercedes driver Jenson Button of Britain steers his car during the Italian Formula One GP, at the Monza racetrack, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012.

McLaren sure Button failure a one-off

McLaren has finally found the cause of the problem that put Jenson Button out of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza last week. The Briton retired from the race on lap 32 in what was a blow to his championship hopes, which had been invigorated by his victory at spa the previous weekend.

Reuters

MANCHESTER, England - Manchester United rejoined the Champions League on Wednesday with about as much conviction as they exited the competition last season, although their 1-0 win over Galatasaray provided two priceless improvements in three points and a clean sheet.

The three-times winners and 2011 finalists failed to reach the knockout rounds last season - the first time since 2005-06 they had fallen at the group stage - and they won just one game at home in a dismal campaign. Their undoing, acknowledged with rare candour by Alex Ferguson, had been compla-cency and a vulnerability in defence at Old Trafford that cost them dear in a 3-3 draw with Basle and a 2-2 draw with Benfica.

So Ferguson’s overriding emo-tion after Michael Carrick’s winner on Wednesday was one of relief at the result rather than concern at the performance. “Three points in the opening game are very important, especially when you look at what happened to us last season,” Ferguson, who celebrated his 100th Champions League win, told reporters.

“In the first half we gave the ball away too often and they counter-attacked really well. In the second half, we were much more solid at the back, and all the chances fell to us. “It was a good opening game, they were very confident in their possession, and missing the chances

we did in the second half we kept ourselves on the edge.”

The Scot might revise his think-ing when he reflects on the bigger picture. United were poor in pos-session, lacking control in midfield, unable to conjure a clear chance for Robin van Persie, and reliant on good fortune and the fingertips of David de Gea in safeguarding their lead.

Indeed, Galatasaray, returning to Europe’s elite club competition for the first time in six years, must be wondering how they failed to re-peat the achievements of Basle and Benfica. The Turkish champions hit the woodwork three times, through Nordin Amrabat, Hamit Altintop and Selcuk Inan, and had one strong penalty claim turned down.

Nani’s penalty miss for United -- his feeble 53rd-minute spot-kick was saved low by Fernando Muslera -- merely compounded his team’s struggle.

INCISIVE PASSESTheir jitters had been evident

as early as the first minute. Cap-tain Nemanja Vidic was slow to react under pressure from Umut Bulut, but even though the Serbian defender appeared to trip the Gal-atasaray striker, referee Wolfgang Stark waved play on.

Carrick’s seventh-minute break-through, his first Champions League goal in three years, was well worked and hinted at better things for the home side.

The England international ex-changed incisive passes with Van

Persie and Shinji Kagawa before taking on Muslera in a one-on-one, but even though the keeper clipped Carrick’s heels, the midfielder kept his composure as he lost his balance to slide home the finish.

“I don’t get many, so when the chance is there... “ Carrick told Sky Sports. “You can go down, and there’s a chance the keeper will be sent off, but we’ve missed three penalties now (this season), so taking the chance was the right one.” The goal did nothing to deter the visitors.

Galatasaray, working with a bold formation from coach Fatih Terim of two up front, forced United back-wards and twice before the break went close to an equaliser.

Amrabat cut in from the left and bent a curling right-foot shot from 25 metres on to David de Gea’s crossbar, and Altintop, the former Bayern Munich midfielder, ripped a low shot on to the base of the post.

Terim’s side struck wood for the third time in the 56th minute when Inan flicked a header on to the out-side of De Gea’s right-hand upright. By then Nani had blundered from 12 metres.

Right back Rafael won the pen-alty, drawing a foul from Burak Yil-maz as he burst into the area, but the Portuguese stuttered in his runup and his effort was easily saved by Muslera. Galatasaray came within millimetres of an equaliser again after 71 minutes.

The visitors broke quickly after a Nani penalty claim had been

ignored, and De Gea palmed away Yilmaz’s shot before brilliantly get-ting his fingertips to substitute Emre Colak’s fizzing follow-up.

Darren Fletcher, out for 10 months with a chronic bowel con-dition, came on as a substitute to make his first United appearance

since their Champions League draw with Benfica at Old Trafford last November.

Ferguson also introduced Javier Hernandez and Danny Welbeck in search of a second goal, but even that would not have masked a me-diocre night for the English team.

Ferguson relief as United scrape winning start

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s Michael Carrick celebrates after scoring against Galatasaray during their Champions League group H soccer match at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Wednesday Sept. 19, 2012.

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BRUSSELS — An EU-China summit is emphasizing the increasing trade ties between the two.

The high-level meeting, which is being held Thursday in Brussels, is also being used as a fond farewell to Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. China will choose new leadership this fall.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said it was “appropri-ate” to use the occasion look at progress made since Wen took office ten years ago and almost ten years since the launch of a strategic partnership between the two sides.

Barroso pointed to greatly increased trade over the past 10 years -- 280 percent in goods, 380 percent in services.

For his part, Wen called for the EU’s arms embargo against China, which was imposed in 1989 following the suppres-sion of protests Tiananmen Square, to be lifted.

Samuel De Jaegere of the UN Development Program told an anti-corruption forum of the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation group on Thursday that compa-nies in Indonesia, Mexico, China and Russia are the most likely to

pay bribes when doing business overseas. He cited the 2011 Bribe Payer’s Index.

He says a recent survey by Enrst and Young shows a 26 percent rise in private sector corruption in China and a 52 percent increase in

Indonesia.He says cased handled by anti-

corruption prosecutors in Hong Kong and Singapore in the last two years also involved mostly private company employees.

Associated Press

LONDON — A closely-watched economic indicator is suggesting that the recession in the countries that use the euro is getting worse despite recent signs of improvement over Europe’s debt crisis.

Financial information com-pany Markit says Thursday its purchasing managers’ index — a gauge of business activity — for the 17-country eurozone fell to

45.9 in September from 46.3 the previous month. The consensus in the markets was for a modest improvement.

September’s rate was the low-est in over three years.

Analysts say the survey sug-gests that the eurozone economy is contracting by more than the 0.2 percent quarterly rate in the second quarter of 2012.

Anything below 50 indicates a contraction in economic activ-ity.

Survey points to deeper eurozone recession

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

The Trevi fountain is reflected in a shop’s window display-ing a placard announcing promotional sales up to 70%, in

Rome, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. A closely-watched economic indicator is suggesting that the recession in the countries that use the euro is getting worse despite recent signs of

improvement over Europe’s debt crisis.

Private sector corruption rising amid downturn

Associated Press

MANILA — An anti-corruption specialist says private sector corruption appears to be ris-ing in the Pacific Rim amid the global economic downturn, with countries in the region holding

the worst reputation for bribery abroad.

EU-China summit opens with emphasis on trade

AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi attend a round table at an EU-China summit in Brussels, Thursday Sept. 20, 2012.

Antara

KUPANG - A total of 446 Indonesian boat crew members are still held in Australian prisons until this month for smuggling asylum seekers to that country, an ambassador said.

“Out of the number, 26 are children who are held in immigration detention cells and prisons across Australian states such as Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania,” Indo-nesian ambassador to Australia Primo Alui Joelianto said at the Indonesia-Australia Joint Awareness Campaign on Anti-People Smuggling event here on Wednesday.

He said a total of 471 crew members meanwhile had been sent home to the country from 2008 to September this year consisting of 230 adult and 142 child crew members who were freed after a judicial process and 61 children who were sent home without a judicial process.

He said “among the factors or motives that drive them to get involved in the illegal activity is the pay, which is between Rp500,000 and Rp1 billion for carrying out the job which only takes three to five days to finish.”

Besides that he said there was also a pledge from their bosses that they could own the boats if they were able to carry out their job well.

Another factor is they were forced by their passengers to direct their boats to Australian waters while at sea, he said.

“They also have been deceived by the passengers who asked to be taken to a certain place but when they were in the middle of the sea they then boarded a number of foreign passengers and asked them to take the foreigners to Australia,” he said.

Primo said some crew members had also been willing to take the asylum seekers to Australia because they lacked information that they could be sent to jails like illegal fish poachers for one to two months for doing it.

According to Article 233 A of the Australian immigra-tion Law anyone carrying non-Australian citizens into that country illegally may be sentenced up to 10 years in jail, he said.

The East Nusa Tenggara provincial administration spokesman, Fransiskus Salem meanwhile said that people smuggling is not a new case but its number has increased in the past few decades in Asia with Australia as the destination.

He said what is concerning is that East Nusa Tenggara has been mentioned as the most comfortable transit place because of its vicinity to the destination country.

He said the two countries could not close their eyes on the fact because the activity violates their territorial integrity.

To prevent the activity to continue further he said efforts must be made to create stability and economic growth in the countries of origin of the illegal immigrants.

About 50 students from an Islamic university gathered Thursday in Makas-sar, the capital of South Sulawesi province. They burned tires and forced a McDonald’s restaurant to close. The door was later covered with a sign say-ing, “This must be closed as a symbol of our protest of the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ made in the U.S.”

Meanwhile, The U.S. Consulate in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province, was closed for a second straight day.

The U.S. Embassy issued a notice to American citizens saying all of its mis-sions in Indonesia would be closed Fri-day, when bigger protests are expected.

US shuts Indonesia consulateThe U.S. temporarily closed its

consulate in Indonesia’s third-largest city Wednesday due to ongoing pro-tests over an anti-Islam film produced in America.

About 300 members of the pan-Is-lamic movement Hizbut Tahrir Indone-sia rallied Wednesday morning in front of the consulate in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province. Later, about 50 Muslim students protested, marking the third straight day of demonstrations there. Both groups called on Washing-ton to punish the makers of the film, “Innocence of Muslims,” which deni-grates the Prophet Muhammad.

The embassy sent a text message to U.S. citizens saying the consulate would be temporarily closed due to the demonstrations.

In Jakarta, around 300 members of the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party rallied outside the U.S. Embassy. They dispersed after throwing eggs on a mock U.S. flag.

Indonesia’s leaders and prominent Muslim clerics have urged calm, but convicted radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has called for a strong response to the film, urging Muslims to wage violent protests similar to those that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya last week.

“What happened in Libya can be replicated,” Bashir told the Islamic news portal voa-islam.com, which in-terviewed him in jail. “Punishment for defaming God and the Prophet is death. ...There is no excuse.”

Antara

JAKARTA - The British govern-ment has guaranteed the safety and security of President Susilo Bam-bang Yudhoyono when he visits the country at the invitation of the Brit-ish Queen in October, Presidential Spokesman Julian A Pasha said.

Julian made the statement on

Wednesday in response to a report that Ed Mc Williams, a West Papuan separatist activist, has offered a prize contest worth US$80,000 for Britons who are able to arrest Yud-hoyono during his visit to Britain in October.

Ed Mc Williams is an activist of the West Papuan Advocacy Team (WPAT).

“The British police have also assured and guaranteed that such arrest will not take place and the safety of the president is fully guar-anteed by the British government,” Julian said.

Julian said the circulation of the information about the prize contest had created inconvenience because the president would visit

that country at the invitation of the British Queen.

“We have communicated with the British embassy in Jakarta. Frankly speaking, this matter is in-convenient and needs to be straight-ened out. The president`s plan to visit Britain is at the invitation of the British Queen in her capacity as the head of state,” Julian added.

He said that both countries have communicated about the matter to avoid misunderstanding regarding the prize contest issue.

“The British government, the Queen in particular, has invited the president as a figure who has contributed a lot to the develop-ment of democracy in Indonesia,” Julian said.

Britain to guarantee safety of President Yudhoyono

446 Indonesian boat crew still at Australian detention cells

Anti-American protests continue

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

Police officers stand guard during a protest against American-made film “Innocence of Muslims” that ridicules Islam and Prophet Muhammad outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012.

Associated Press

MAKASSAR — Indonesians enraged over a film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad continue to hold protests, while the U.S. Consulate in the country’s third-largest city shut its doors for a second day.

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Popular momentum for inde-pendence has never been stronger in Catalonia, a wealthy region in northeastern Spain that generates one fifth of the country’s economic output and is home to 16 percent of Spaniards. More than half of Cata-lans say they want a separate state, and hundreds of thousands marched in Barcelona last week - the biggest such show of separatist fervor.

Still, few see a rapid road to an in-

dependent Catalonia, a dream rooted in the Middle Ages when Barcelona was a Mediterranean trade centre with a parliament. “It’s going to be a difficult and long process ... For us to get it they would have to have a referendum, and they’re not going to give us that,” said Jose Maria Prats, a nurse who joined the march.

The upsurge in Catalan separatism is founded on a conviction that Madrid is draining the region financially. The

central government collects most taxa-tion payments then redistributes them to Spain’s 17 self-governing regions, which run their own schools and hos-pitals. Each year Catalans say they pay 16 billion euros more in taxes than the regional government spends.

“The crisis has shown that Spain’s regional financing model does not work. There is no doubt we need to advance towards a fed-eral system of taxation,” said Jose Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, deputy head of think-tank FEDEA.

The flare-up in Catalonia has come at a difficult time for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who is struggling to bring Spain’s deficit under control and resisting follow-ing Greece, Ireland and Portugal into an international bailout.

Associated Press Writer

PARIS — France stepped up security Wednesday at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly revived a formula that it has already used to capture at-tention: Publishing crude, lewd caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Wednesday’s issue of the provocative satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, whose offices were firebombed last year, raised concerns that France could face violent protests like the ones targeting the United States over an amateur video produced in California that have left at least 30 people dead.

The drawings, some of which depicted Muhammad naked and in demeaning or pornographic poses, were met with a swift re-buke by the French government, which warned the magazine could be inflaming tensions,

even as it reiterated France’s free speech protections.

The principle of freedom of expression “must not be in-fringed,” Foreign Minister Lau-rent Fabius said, speaking on France Inter radio.

But he added: “Is it pertinent, intelligent, in this context to pour oil on the fire? The answer is no.”Anger over the film “Innocence of Muslims” has fueled violent protests from Asia to Africa. In the Lebanese port city of Tyre, tens of thousands of people marched in the streets Wednesday, chanting “Oh, America, you are God’s enemy!”

Worried France might be tar-geted, the government ordered its embassies, cultural centers, schools and other official sites to close on Friday — the Muslim holy day — in 20 countries. It also immediately shut down its embassy and the French school in Tunisia, the site of deadly protests at the U.S. Embassy last week.

Associated Press Writer

REYNOSA, Mexico — The death toll in a pipeline fire at a dis-tribution plant near the U.S. border has risen to 29, Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Wednes-day. At least 46 others were injured, and more might be missing.

Juan Jose Suarez, director of the state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos company, told local media earlier in the day that at least five workers had not been seen since the blast. On Tuesday, the company, known as Pemex, said in its Twitter account that a total of seven people were unaccounted for.

President Felipe Calderon said the quick reaction of emergency teams prevented a “real catastro-

phe,” by controlling the fire before it reached the huge tanks of a neigh-boring gas processing plant.

The enormous fire Tuesday hit a distribution center near the border with Texas that handles natural gas coming in from wells and sends it to a processing plant next door.

“The timely response by oil workers, firefighters and the Mexi-can army was able to control the fire relatively quickly and avoid a real catastrophe of bigger proportions and greater damages if the fire had spread to the center for gas process-ing, which is right there,” Calderon said in a speech in Mexico City.

The blast and ensuing fire left charred tanks and a mound of tan-gled steel at the walled plant near the border city of Reynosa, across from

McAllen, Texas. Two of the injured were reported in serious condition.

Dr. Jaime Urbina Rivera, deputy medical director of Hospital Materno Infantil de Reynosa just a few miles from the plant, said his hospital had received nine injured workers with first- and second-degree burns cover-ing 10 percent to 40 percent of their bodies, with the burns concentrated on their backs and legs. They all ar-rived conscious, he said.

Pemex officials said the blast appeared to have been caused by an accidental leak, and there was no sign so far of sabotage. The Mexican Attorney General’s Office opened an investigation into the ex-plosion Wednesday, sending more than 20 investigators into the site, which was blocked to the press.

29 dead, 46 injured in Mexico pipeline fire

AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik

Morgue employees remove the bodies of people who were killed by an explosion at a gas pipeline distribution center in Reynosa, Mexico, near Mexico’s border with the U.S., Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012.

New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions

AP Photo/MIchel Euler

Publishing director of the satyric weekly Charlie Hebdo, Charb, displays the front page of the newspaper as he poses for pho-tographers in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012.

Marchers wave Catalo-nian national-ist flags as they demon-strate dur-ing Catalan National Day in Barcelona September 11, 2012.

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In Spain, economic crisis fans Catalan separatismReuters

MADRID - Spain’s economic crisis is exposing deep regional fault lines. Among Catalans on Barcelona’s boulevards the talk is of independence, and Madrid is worried. This week the king and prime minister called for national unity to get Spain through its worst downturn in decades, King Juan Carlos recalling the spirit that built a democracy after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Having escaped for a year from a detention cell, Mo-hamad Rawi eventually surrendered to Kuta Police on Tuesday afternoon (Sep 18). It was unknown what made the suspect of this marijuana case surrender. Kuta Police investigators were still examining the suspect intensively. His surrendering was justified by Chief of Kuta Police, Putu Dedi Ujiana, when asked for his confirmation on Wednesday (Sep 19).

Chief Dedi explained the suspect Rawi was a detainee escaping a year ago. Together with five other suspects consisting of I Gusti Abdi Pratama, Debi Restu Maulana, Apriono, Fajar Maulana and Arfi Yudi, he fled by break-ing the bathroom wall of police jail. Five suspects were arrested while trying to cross at Gilimanuk Harbor. Meanwhile, Rawi could escape from police chase.

Based on the results of provisional examination, dur-ing the escape over the past year the suspect Rawi roamed around to some regions. He admitted after escaping from the custody of Kuta Police, he immediately went to Jakarta. There, he worked at Tanjung Priok Harbor by peddling with small capital. After working there for some time, he moved to North Sumatra. The suspect originating from Banyuwangi and previously escaping on September 15, 2011 also peddled.

Having lived for months in North Sumatra, he admit-ted to be confused. He thought if he was pursued by police. Moreover, he also wanted to continue his study. Therefore, he went to Bali and surrendered to Kuta Po-lice. Before surrendering, he contacted a police officer and said he would surrender. “We are still examining the suspect. Now, he has been detained in Kuta Police,” he said.

For information, six detainees of Kuta Police escaped from their cells a year ago. They fled by breaking down the bathroom wall of the custody. However, the five prisoners escaping from the custody were the caught at Gilimanuk. Meanwhile, another detainee was still being chased by police. The six detainees who escaped were Gusti Abdi Pratama, Debi Restu Maulana, Apriono, Fajar Maulana, Arfi Yudi and Mohamad Rawi. (kmb21)

Collapse of the hall roof has been going on since a month ago. However, there are no indications if it will be repaired soon. Such incident is trig-gered by old age of the building. All the roof rafters are fragile, so that they are easy to fall and collapse. “The build-ing was established in 1992 funded by self-finance and assistance of the local government. We cannot rehabilitate it due to financial obstacles,” said the Vil-lage Secretary of Kukuh village, Made Buda Arta, Wednesday (Sep 19).

This official explained the damage of wantilan hall had long been com-

plained. However, the villager authority could not do much so the damage was getting worse and the peak happened when it rained heavily some time ago. Its roof rafters were fragile so that the roof finally collapsed and scattered at two points. Previously, said Buda Arta, the village authority only relied on the village allocation fund (ADD) for the maintenance of wantilan. Even, its amount was not too large, only IDR 5 million per year. The shortage of budget made the village unable to act.

Having collapsed, the wantilan hall spreading across 500 square meters

could no longer function. When orga-nizing an activity, it had to be diverted to hamlet wantilan hall. “By and large, this wantilan hall is often used for so-cietal activities. Now, it can no longer be used,” he explained. For repairs, said Buda Arta, his party had submitted a proposal through a legislator. He hoped to get help for totally rehabilitating the wantilan hall. As estimation, the fund required reached IDR 150-200 million.

The fund would be focused on to-tally dismantling the fragile roof, while the beams remained sturdy as made from concrete. His party did not dare to draw contribution from residents as they were in sluggish economic condi-tion. “We have submitted a proposal last August. Hopefully, it could be ap-proved,” he said. Land of the wantilan hall, added Buda, belonged to provin-cial government. (kmb30)

Gianyar (Bali Post) –

Even though it has been your pet for years doesn’t mean the owner is not in danger as experienced by an elder man from Selat Village, Payangan, Gianyar, Made Kerta (80), who was victimized during feeding it. Kerta got seriously wounded after being pushed suddenly by the cow and as family panicked Kerta was rushed to Payangan Health Community Center then forwarded to Sanjiwani Hospital.

Last Wednesday (19/9) it was stated a family member, Made Sindu, saw the incident around 2 pm local time on Tuesday (18/9). It seemed that the cow lost control when Kerta was going to get the remaining food and just forcely pushing him. The serious wound included four ribs were broken on the right, right back thigh ripped and bruises on the feet. The broken ribs caused a bleeding on the lungs so a surgery has to take place. The A & E doc-tor of the Hospital, dr. Ayu Suwandewi, stated victim’s condition has gone stabile yet has to be hospitalized to be observed intensively. (kmb16)

Attacked by cow, a man rushed to hospital

Being fugitive for a year, a detainee of Kuta Police surrenders

Lack of budget

Wantilan hall of Kukuh village allowed dropping off

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The roof of the hall in Kukuh Village is fallen due to the lack of budget

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Condition of wantilan hall of Kukuh village, Kerambitan, is apprehensive. Due to lack of budget, the hall building almost collapses. Without immediate rehabilitation, it is feared to collapse and endanger residents. More appre-hensively, its location is adjacent to the student parking lot of SMA Negeri 1 Kerambitan senior high school.

3Friday, September 21, 201214 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Friday, September 21, 2012

The ice cap at the North Pole mea-sured 1.32 million square miles on Sunday. That’s 18 percent smaller than the previous record of 1.61 million square miles set in 2007, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. Records go back to 1979 based on satellite tracking.

“On top of that, we’re smashing a record that smashed a record,” said data center scientist Walt Meier. Sea ice shrank in 2007 to levels 22 percent below the previous record of 2005. Ice in the Arctic melts in summer and grows in winter, and it started growing again on Monday. In the 1980s, Meier said, summer sea ice would cover an area slightly smaller than the Lower 48 states. Now it is about half that.

Man-made global warming has melted more sea ice and made it thin-ner over the last couple decades with it getting much more extreme this year, surprisingly so, said snow and ice data center director Mark Serreze. “Recently the loss of summer ice has accelerated and the six lowest Septem-ber ice extents have all been in the past six years,” Serreze said. “I think that’s quite remarkable.”

Serreze said except for one strong

storm that contributed to the ice loss, this summer melt was more from the steady effects of day-to-day global warming. But he and others say the polar regions are where the globe first sees the signs of climate change.

“Arctic sea ice is one of the most sensitive of nature’s thermometers,” said Jason Box, an Ohio State Uni-versity polar researcher. What happens in the Arctic changes climate all over the rest of the world, scientists have reported in studies.

The ice in the Arctic “essentially acts like an air conditioner by keeping things cooler,” Meier said. And when sea ice melts more, it’s like the air conditioner isn’t running efficiently, he said.

Sea ice reflects more than 90 per-cent of the sun’s heat off the Earth, but when it is replaced by the darker open ocean, more than half of the heat is absorbed into the water, Meier said.

Scientists at the snow and ice data center said their computer models show an Arctic that would be es-sentially free of ice in the summer by 2050, but they add that current trends show ice melting faster than the com-puters are predicting. A Carthaginian burial site was not

for child sacrifice but was instead a graveyard for babies and fetuses, researchers now say. A new study of the ancient North African site offers the latest volley in a debate over the primary purpose of the graveyard, long thought to be a place of sacred sacrifice.

“It’s all very great, cinematic stuff, but whether that was a constant daily activity ? I think our analysis con-tradicts that,” said study co-author Jeffrey Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh.

The city-state of Carthage was founded in the ninth century B.C., when Queen Dido fled Phoenicia (along the eastern Mediterranean shore) for what is now Tunis, Tunisia.

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Congress un-veiled a new search engine Wednesday to help politicos, lobbyists, research-ers, students and any other interested citizens find legislation working its way through the House and Senate to become new laws. The Library of Con-gress says the new website Congress.gov is in beta form and will eventu-ally replace the THOMAS legislative search system after a year of fine-tuning the new system.

The new site is more like Google, with one box to search all data. It can filter search results like a shopping site with categories of merchandise. In this case, it can narrow search results by year, by subject, by House or Senate or other factors.

Congress.gov also is mobile friend-ly for Capitol Hill staffers glued to their Blackberries. It was built with respon-sive design technology to automatically rearrange a search screen to fit on a smartphone. This is Congress’ first new search engine since THOMAS was launched in 1995 after just three weeks of development when the Internet was in its infancy.

“It’s like comparing a tricycle to a Cadillac,” said Jim Karamanis, the library’s chief of web services, before a

test drive of the new site. “The web was not very advanced” when THOMAS was created.

THOMAS, named for Thomas Jefferson, gets 10 million visits each year. But the library found many us-ers outside the political world didn’t know what THOMAS was. The 17-year-old search system became slow and outdated, and it required insider knowledge to navigate.

For example, a search of “health care reform” on THOMAS only scans bill summaries for actions in the current Congress, and it returns a funding bill among other results — not President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Searching past congressional ac-tions is a separate function, and finding the text of a bill is three links deep in the old site.

The new search engine, built by the library’s tech and legislative experts, is more intuitive, designers said. It was developed entirely in-house with open source technology. Contracting out the project would have likely cost millions.

Now a search of “health care re-form” on the new site scans bill texts, summaries and statuses and all avail-able congressional years at the same time. Obama’s health care law immedi-ately rises to the top of the results.

AP Photo/U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center

This image made available by NASA shows the amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, at center in white, and the 1979 to 2000 average extent for the day shown, with the yellow line.

Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 sizeAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — In a critical climate indicator showing an ever warming world, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, obliterating old records.

New search engine offers better access to Congress

Ancient Baby Graveyard Not for Child Sacrifice, Scientists Say

Carthage burial

grounds called

Tophet holds urns

with the cremated

remains of thou-

sands of babies.

While some say

Tophet is a site

of child sacrifice,

others contend

it was used to

bury babies and

fetuses.

The empire became a powerhouse of the ancient world and fought several wars against the Romans.

When archaeologists began ex-cavating the ancient civilization last century, they found urns with the cremated remains of thousands of babies, young goats and lambs at a graveyard called the Tophet, which had been used from 700 to 300 B.C. At its peak, the Tophet may have been bigger than a football field and had nine levels of burials.

Based on historical accounts, scien-tists believed Carthaginians sacrificed children at the Tophet before burying them there. For instance, the Bible describes child sacrifice to the deity Baal, worshipped by a civilization in Carthage. A Greek and a Roman

historian both recount gory tales from this time period in which of priests slit the throats of babies and tossed them into fiery pits, Schwartz said. [8 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries]

However, those accounts came from Carthage’s enemies. “Some of this might have been anti-Carthag-inian propaganda,” Schwartz told LiveScience.

In 2010 Schwartz and his col-leagues used dental remains from 540 individuals to argue that the site was not primarily for ritual child slaugh-ter, and they reiterate that stance in this month’s issue of the journal Antiquity. In the new article, the re-searchers cite several older studies to validate their methods for estimating infant ages from tooth fragments.

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Bali PostSANUR - In response to rampant ac-

tions of terror against the people and police officers, Chairman of the Sanur Development Foundation (YPS), Ida Bagus Gede Sidharta Putra, appealed to the components of Sanur community to increase their awareness of the threat of terrorism in Bali.

“Components of the Sanur community should be more vigilant. As revealed by the Chief of Denpasar Metro Police, we will also make an integrated traffic system with the security by making a pedestrian zone in Sanur area,” said IB Sidharta in Denpasar, Wednesday (Sep 19).

He said that his party with police offi-cers would work together in securing Sanur as a tourist destination in Bali. Moreover, Sanur would hold the seventh Sanur Vil-lage Festival (SVF) on September 26-30, 2012. “We do hope the SVF could run smoothly and safely, so that it provides a positive impact on the tourism of Sanur and Bali,” said IB Sidartha doubling as Chairman of the SVF Committee.

Chief of Denpasar Metro Police, I Wayan Sunartha, also appealed to the people especially those living in Sanur tourism area to be constantly vigilant against terrorist threats. His party would also supervise the intruders having poten-tial to disrupt the security.

“We do strict security by inspecting vehicles, identifying suspicious people, knowing about their identity, where they

want to go, equipment and inspecting the goods brought along,” he explained.

He added the continuity and progress of Sanur tourism were greatly supported by the safety and comfort of Sanur area. Security process had to be created by security officials in cooperation with the components of Sanur community.

“Comfort and security are major supporting condition for tourism. It is impossible for tourists to come without the existence of comfortable atmosphere. The security cannot be instantly made but requires a process,” he affirmed.

He mentioned the security in Sanur had to be arranged carefully and perfectly, so that tourists would feel comfortable, while people could enjoy the prosperity of tourism activity. Security apparatus would also conduct strict safeguard against the Sanur tourist destination during the imple-mentation of the SVF. Each object and venue of event would be kept strictly.

“The target of terrorism is financial transaction such as money changer. Therefore, the personnel may not be com-placent. Terrorists have a lot of people to support their fundraising endeavor and so do their ‘brides’ or perpetrators of suicide bomb. The owner of the entertainment spots are given the time limit of operating hours, so look at visitors,” said Sunartha while adding that no matter what event they organized we should not ban them as long as they did not disturb the public and tourist activities. (kmb27)

Information compiled at location on Wednesday (Sep 19) mentioned the landslide took place around 3:00 p.m. local time. At that time, it was slightly cloudy at Galungan and did not rain. Nevertheless, the clove plantations lo-cated on highland in the south collapsed. Before the landslide, a thundering sound occurred and it was followed by loud enough explosion.

When the incident occurred, the Wenten’s house was empty because it was left to work by the owner. When landslide happened, his grandchildren were play-ing with other children around the house. Fortunately, the children survived after running away from the scene.

Homeowner, Ketut Wenten, en-countered when cleaning up the mud burying his home last Wednesday said that before the incident he was mowing grass for fodder. He suddenly heard a loud enough roar. Having turned to the south as considered to be a heavy rain, he saw his house on the cliff collapsed. He was amazed to see that a coconut tree on the cliff was also eroded and collapsed to the ground amidst the rice field. He screamed and tried to contact his son, Gede Antara, who was watering cloves. His house was instantly hit by mud, and it totally destroyed the walls. Its zinc roof was also partially buried. Meanwhile, a number of valuables could not be saved.

According to Wenten, before the incident it did not rain but was slightly

overcast. At the bottom of the cliff lay a flow of water for the irrigation. The land on cliff top was formerly a rice field but had long been converted to a clove plan-tation. He suspected the cliff avalanched because underneath there was a sort of small cave containing some springs. “It’s very strange because the steep ground was solid, but there is a kind of cave with springs underneath. Probably, the land in the cave collapsed and caused the avalanche,” explained Wenten as confirmed by his son, Antara.

Until Wednesday afternoon, Wenten and families assisted by relatives were busy cleaning up the mud burying his home while looking for the remaining items that could still be utilized. He admitted to surrender to the incident. Temporarily, he would stay with his son whose house was still close to his. “I do not know what to do. If there is govern-ment assistance, we’ll receive it. If on the contrary, it does not matter as it is caused by natural disaster,” he said.

Meanwhile, one of the sharecroppers cultivating the silted rice field, Ketut San-di, told that his cultivated field spreading across 0.85 hectare had been planted with rice and was ascertained to face harvest failure. As scheduled, next two months he would harvest. Sandi claimed to suf-fer a loss of more than IDR 9 million. In addition, he also lost his agricultural equipment stored in hut as buried by landslide. “The loss has not included the working capital,” he said. (kmb)

A perma-nent home owned by resident and two hectares of rice field at Dajan Pangkung hamlet, Galungan village, Sawan subdis-trict were silted up due to cliff avalanche in the area on Tuesday afternoon (Sep 18).

Hit by landslide

Home and rice field of residents silted up

Bali Post

DENPASAR - A permanent home owned by resident and two hectares of rice field at Dajan Pangkung hamlet, Galungan village, Sawan subdistrict were silted up due to cliff avalanche in the area on Tuesday afternoon (Sep 18). The house belonging to Ketut Wenten, 50, was badly damaged and the paddy plants in the field were also damaged and likely to face crop failure.

Sanur alerts terrorist infiltration

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for September 1 through October 17, 20121 Sep Saniscara Pon Dunggulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

2 Sep Redite Wage Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekarmukti-BalubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi-Badung3 Sep Soma Keliwon Kuningan Pura Dasar Gelgel-KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah/Selemadeg-TabananPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin-GianyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuhan-Busungbiu BulelengPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan.8 Sep Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan Pura Taman Pule Mas-UbudPura Ularan Takmung-KlungkungPura Bukitjati Gulingan-Kawan BangliPura Dalem TegehePura Dalem TahakPura Dalem BatuajiPura Dalem Tegaljaya-BatubulanPura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon-SukawatiPura Dalem Guwang-SukawatiPura Sadha KapalPura Sakenan Sakenan SeranganPura Pekendungan Kediri-TabananPura Pasek Gaduh Grokgak Gede TabananPura Dalem Sanding TampaksiringPura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Puri Tanjung Periuk JakartaPura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang-BangliMr. Dukuh Tetek Peguyangan-DenpasarPura Agung Blambangan BanyuwangiPura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Gelgel -KlungkungDesa Adat Munggu (Mekotekan) Mengwi-BadungPura Panti Paksebali-Klungkung (Perang Jempana)Pura Penataran Agung MargoweningDesa Balong garut Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur2 Oct Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg(Meru Tumpang Sanga) BesakihPura Hyang Tibha i Batuan Sakah3 Oct Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti TabananPura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem.

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On Tuesday, June 14, 2012, Hard Rock Bali including; Hard Rock Hotel Bali, Hard Rock Cafe Bali and Hard Rock Radio Bali celebrated 41 years since the first day it was born. This is the time of the year when we get together as a family and party in pure hard rock style.

On this day, to honor 41 community heroes from Bali’s Fire Brigade and 41 children from orphanage for street kids were invited to enjoy a burger bash and to release 41 turtles to their habitats. Hard Rock’s Burger Badge Bash is offered to police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians or other community servants in recognition of their dedication and service to the community.

“On this 41st Anniversary of Founders’ Day, we look forward to celebrat-ing with local heroes and all Hard Rock fans around the world. Today we will honor and serve those who serve and protect us everyday.” said Andrew Khoo, General Manager of Hard Rock Hotel Bali.

In true spirit of Founder’s Day, Sara Wijayanto, an Indonesian rising star, performed at a foam party. She performed 4 songs and her voice is certainly as great as she looks. After the performance, Sara signed a guitar for Hard Rock Hotel’s memorabilia collection at Splash Bistro. Pictured from right; Ms. Sara Wijayanto and Ms. Aulianty Fellina Rizal, Director of Marketing Communications Hard Rock Hotel Bali.

41 and Still Rockin’ !!IBP

KUTA - If you love music, memorabilia, shop for merchan-dise, good food and great times, Hard rock is the place! In 1971, two music-loving Americans founded the first Hard Rock Cafe in an old rolls royce showroom in London, and an icon was born. Four decades later, Hard rock celebrates Founders’ Day (still true to) the brand’s core mantra “Love all – Serve All.”

Denpasar (Bali Post) –East Denpasar Criminal Research Team success-

fully revealed a car smuggling case where three women named Oval Novalina (38) from Cimahi, Jawa Barat who lives at Drupadi Street No. 2 Denpasar, Ni Nengah Sudiari alias Arik (30), from Banjar Laut, Blahbatuh, Village Gianyar and Ni Kadek Muliani alias Kadek Mitra (32), from Banjar Seme, Kelurahan Mitra, Gianyar were captured last Thursday (13/9). This group have taken cars they rent and auctioned it with a price of IDR 20 million around Gianyar and Jembrana. What’s worse two of them (Sudiari and Muliani, red) were recidivists of the same case taken place last year as stated by Head of the Police, APC I Putu Suprama, last Wednesday (19/9).

The case was revealed due to the reports of two victims, Made Suharini (43) who lives at Kertha Dalem VI Street, No. 6, Sidakarya, South Denpasar and Ketut Suprata which each of their cars were rented 10 days from 25th August 2012 yet never came back. Instead it was auctioned to other people. Suhartini’s car was a Toyota Avanza DK 716 JC which auctioned to Edi in Gianyar while Suprata’s car an APV DK 1178 AF was auctioned in Jembrana. Renters did try to find accused yet they never find it and so reported to the police.

The mastermind of the smuggling was Oval who got captured first at his house. After investigated at the headquarters, Oval admitted there were two others she worked with who auctioned it while she’s the one renting it. So far there were only two victims who reported the incident yet eight cars were found auctioned. “The case is still being investigated further. It is possible there were more accused. If someone feels like their car is being rented by accused, please report to the East Denpasar Police,” Suprama con-cluded. (kmb21)

As a result, local residents are difficult to transport their crops at harvest season. In addition, the dam-aged road body is very hazardous and prone to traffic accidents. This condi-tion forces many residents to prefer going on foot to riding a motorcycle to traverse the damaged roads. Even, since the road is damaged, public passenger vehicle rarely wants to transport cloves so that residents are forced to transport their cloves on foot.

F i e l d o b s e r v a t i o n m a d e o n Wednesday (Sep 19) indicated if the condition of paved road in the area was seriously damaged to be passed through by motorcycle and car. Along the road, the asphalt layer had flaked off and many deep potholes were found. The most hazardous point was on the ascending road section. Even, vehicles carrying heavy loads were

certainly unable to pass and forced to reduce the loads in order to do so.

A Pakisan resident told if the road at his village had been long left badly damaged. Local residents regretted the attitude of government that had not mended the damaged section whereas the road had very vital func-tion to support the economy of people mostly consisting of clove, coffee and cacao farmers. Since the road was damaged it was very difficult for them to transport their crops. “We have the road repaired because it is very difficult to pass over the dam-aged road like this. Hopefully, the new regent could pay attention to this road,” said one of the residents.

Headman of Pakisan vi l lage, Kubutambahan subdistrict, Nyoman Karya, said that aside from becoming a vital economic support of residents, the road also posed an alternative

way to get to Pelaga village, Badung. “Actually this road is a shortcut to Badung, but it is event left badly damaged like this,” he said.

Karya added that his party had recently submitted a proposal to get a fund for repairing the road to Buleleng Government. Earlier, a legislator of Bali House made a visit to the village and promised to fight for invoking the assistance to govern-ment. Unfortunately, the promise was never fulfilled. Currently, his party had also submitted similar proposal to local government together with the Headman of Bontihing, Gede Rasa. “We are both hoping the proposal could be responded and considered for the sake of our residents who have long longed for a convenient way to traverse,” said Karya confirmed by the Headman of Bontihing Gede Rasa. (kmb)

Bangli (Bali Post) –The fire that took over a shop owned by Gurun Pedo

(72) from Banjar Lebah, Songan Village B, Kintamani have caused panic to the locals last Tuesday (18/9) evening at 8.30 pm local time. The cause was suspected to be a short circuit which happened during Pedo was pouring premium petrol into a bottle under an electricity lamp. The incident also victimized his wife, Ni Wayan Nuasir (70), where both got burnt wounds. The fire was able to be turned off with traditional equipments and water by locals as confirmed by Head of Bangli Police Public Relation, APC Ida I Dewa Nyoman Rai last Wednesday (19/9).

It was explained that before the incident a sound of short circuit was heard which then a spark of fire attacked the petrol that was being poured. As much as IDR 25 mil-lion cash was also got burnt which totaled the loss they’re experiencing IDR 200 million. (kmb17)

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The badly damaged road is making the transportation difficult in Pekisan Village, Buleleng.

Road of Pakisan village damaged

Residents take up cloves on footSingaraja (Bali Post)—

rural road along 17 km from Bontihing village to Mengandang hamlet, Pakisan village, Kubutambahan subdistrict is left badly damaged for years. village apparatus has been trying to submit a proposal asking for repair fund, but the government never repairs the road.

A shop caught on fire

Two victims rushed to Bangli Hospital

Smuggling eight cars, three women captured

Associated Press Writer PYONGYANG, North Korea — An

international film festival opens Thursday in what may seem the unlikeliest of places: North Korea. Held every two years, the Pyongyang International Film Festival of-fers North Koreans their only chance to see a wide array of foreign films on the big screen — from Britain, Germany and elsewhere (but not America). And it’s the only time foreigners are allowed into North Korean theaters to watch movies alongside locals.

This year, festivalgoers will get the chance to see two feature films shot in North Korea but edited overseas: the romantic comedy “Comrade Kim Goes Flying,” a joint North Korean-European production, and “Meet in Pyongyang,” made in conjunc-tion with a Chinese studio.

Foreign offerings include a Sherlock Holmes film and the romantic comedy “The Decoy Bride” from Britain, the Jet Li kung fu film “Flying Swords of Dragon Gate,” the French hit “Women on the 6th Floor” about a community of Spanish emigres to Paris, and two love stories from Iran.

While it’s true that homegrown movies predictably tend toward communist pro-paganda with a healthy dose of tear-jerker, North Korea is a film-crazy country. Well-to-do residents pay as much as 500 won (about $5 according to official exchange rates) to see new releases from the government-run Korean Film Studio, as well as Russian and

Chinese imports.Those who don’t have the means to go

to the theater tune into the Mansudae TV channel, which shows mostly Chinese and Eastern European films on weekends. Some recent offerings have included “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” and the only West-ern offering shown on state TV in recent memory, the British film “Bend It Like Beckham,” which aired in 2010.

This year, a huge screen in front of the Pyongyang train station has become another

popular place to watch movies. On Monday, hundreds of locals stood transfixed by a North Korean drama in a plaza in front of the station.

U.S. films are rare, with one exception: Disney films can be found at North Korean DVD shops. A concert for leader Kim Jong Un in July featured performers dressed as Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh and other Disney characters. Kim’s father and predecessor, the late Kim Jong Il, was a notorious film buff.

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star’s latest brush with the law took place early Wednesday morning in New York City, a spokesperson for the NYPD confirms to omg!. She was driving a 2010 Porsche Cay-enne SUV down an alley between the Maritime and Dream hotels in Midtown Manhattan when she allegedly struck a pedestrian. Lind-say, who was accompanied by two males, exited her car to speak with the 34-year-old male victim, then she got back in the vehicle, parked, and went inside the Dream.

When Lindsay emerged from the club at 2:25 a.m., police placed her under arrest, charging her with leav-ing the scene of an accident while causing an injury. She was issued a

desk appearance ticket for a future unspecified date.

The police spokesperson noted that drugs and alcohol were not fac-tors in Lindsay’s arrest. As for the person who was hit, he complained of a knee injury and was taken to Bellevue Hospital. He was later released.

When reached for comment, Lindsay’s publicist, Steve Honig, told omg!, “While some of the facts are still being gathered, it appears that this is much ado about nothing. We are confident this matter will be cleared up in the coming weeks and the claims being made against Lindsay will be proven untrue.”

Just a few days ago – on Sunday

night – Lindsay took to Twitter to weigh in on Amanda Bynes’ saga. “Why did I get put in jail and a nickelodeon star has had NO punishment(s) so far?” Lindsay complained. It was an odd com-ment from someone who has had a tremendous amount of legal trouble herself, including two DUIs, proba-tion violations, and a theft convic-tion. Bynes has yet to be convicted of any crime.

Also earlier this week, Lindsay’s mother Dina’s interview with Dr. Phil McGraw hit the airwaves. The 50-year-old mother of four’s behav-ior during the chat was bizarre, es-pecially when she gave Dr. Phil the finger. Also of note, when McGraw asked Dina about Lindsay’s long list of police run-ins, Dina said that if Lindsay were living in New York, instead of Los Angeles, “five of them would be obsolete.”

Lindsay Lohan arrested in New York CityJust days after calling out fellow former child star Amanda

Bynes for her legal woes, Lindsay Lohan has been arrested ... again!

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FILE - In a Saturday, April 28, 2012 file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the White House Correspondents’ Association Din-ner headlined by late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel, in Washington.

Film festival opens in movie-crazy North Korea

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FILE - In this file image made out of film “Comrade Kim Goes Flying” released by Another Dimension of An Idea/Koryo Group, Comrade Kim Yong Mi played by Han Jong Sim acknowledges applause from her comrades for her acrobatic performance.

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Home and rice field of residents silted up

Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size

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So far, Bali tourism has not been able to resolve the congestion problem. Govern-

ment should have a clear target to ad-dress the congestion with the preparation of infrastructure from highways including

the adequate public transport facilities.

Chairman of the Indonesian Transportation Society, Prof. Dr. Tech. Danang Parikesit, said that major cities in the world relying on tourism sector had a target to address the traffic congestion in 15-20 years to come. Bali as a world’s tourism region should also have a long-term target to resolve the con-

gestion. Target to address the traffic congestion in this tourist resort could be realized if there was no conflict between the governor and regents/mayor throughout Bali.

“Bali can imitate the transpor-tation system in Singapore, Hong Kong, including Taiwan. The tour-ism resort in Hong Kong with a

dense population can cope with the traffic congestion because nearly 90 percent of vehicles in Hong Kong are public transport,” he said.

He said that Indonesia, including Bali in particular, needed to learn from the innovations made by the government of Hong Kong, Singa-pore and Taiwan in addressing traffic congestion. In arranging the trans-portation, the government should not only depend on regional budget.

“The government should also raise money smartly from the soci-ety and private sector to build and organize the transportation sector in Bali,” he said.

According to him, Singapore tourism could be free of congestion as virtually 60-70 percent of vehicles in Singapore were public transport. Bali could exemplify the effort made by the country to overcome the con-gestion with the provision of public transport. However, the government should provide the armada of public transport and other supporting trans-portation facilities according to the needs of society.

“To address the traffic congestion in the tourism resort, the government of Bali can direct the economic ac-tivities so that they will not only be concentrated in the area of Denpasar,

Badung and Gianyar (Sarbagita) but can spread across Bali,” he said.

He explained the provision of public transport in the main corridor of tourist areas should be served well. Public transport in the tourism area could not be disturbed so that the use of private vehicles could be sup-pressed. “The government should set a target for the smooth transportation in the tourism area,” he said.

Parikesit suggested in order the government equated the bylaws on spatial planning in the provincial level to the regency/municipality throughout Bali in arranging the transportation. (kmb27)

Bali should clearly overcome congestion

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DENPASAR - So far, Bali tourism has not been able to resolve the congestion problem. Government should have a clear target to address the congestion with the preparation of infrastructure from highways including the adequate public transport facilities.