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MINERAL - One of the stron-gest earthquakes ever recorded onthe East Coast of the United Statesshook buildings and rattled nerveson Tuesday and forced the evacu-ations of parts of the Capitol,White House and Pentagon.

There were no immediate re-ports of deaths, but fire officialsin Washington said there were atleast some injuries.

The U.S. Geological Surveysaid the quake registered magni-tude 5.8 and was centered about40 miles (64 kilometers) north-west of Richmond, Virginia.

Two nuclear reactors at the

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People who came out on the street after an earthquake lookup at a window that cracked during the quake on MarketStreet in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.Continued on page 6

Such homecoming activity was also undertakenby diaspora communities from Tegal coalesced intothe Tegal Resident Fraternity of Bali departing to-gether from Denpasar to their home villages inTegal, Central Java, Tuesday morning (Aug 23).

The homecoming activity was followed 397 par-ticipants who worked in Denpasar and surroundingareas, such as Tabanan, Badung and Gianyar. Thebusiness opportunities left should be taken over byyounger generation who did not celebrate Idul Fitri.

Quake rocks East Coastof US, no major damage

North Anna Power Station, in thesame county as the epicenter, wereautomatically taken off line bysafety systems, said RogerHannah, a spokesman for the U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Around Mineral, Virginia, a smalltown close to the epicenter, peoplemilled around in their lawns, on side-walks and parking lots, still rattledand leery of re-entering buildings.There was least one aftershock.

All over town, masonry wascrumpled, and there were stores withshelved contents strewn on the floor.Several display windows at busi-nesses in the tiny heart of downtownwere broken and lay in jagged shards.

Families sit inside atrain wagon forhours before depar-ture to make surethey secure theseats at Jakarta’strain station onAugust 24, 2011 aweek before Eid al-Fitr celebrations.Fitri celebration stilla week to go leavesa variety of businessopportunities forlocal people be-cause most Moslembusinessmen aregoing home duringthat period.

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DENPASAR - Idul Fitricelebration remaining a weekto go leaves a variety of busi-

ness opportunities for localpeople because most Moslembusinessmen are going home

during that period. Continued on page 6

Unluckily, the generation that should take ad-vantage of the opportunities creatively and energeti-cally even tended to choose job with higher posi-tion. As a matter of fact, a number of informal busi-nesses that are never ogled by Balinese people,chiefly younger generation, if managed well andcoupled with innovation and creativity will surelybring in good earnings rather than working in anoffice.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—In fact, the Idul Fitri homecom-

ing season this year indicates achange of phenomenon in choos-ing the transport modes. Untilseven days before Idul Fitri feastday, the number of passengers us-ing interprovincial city buses(AKAP) stays minimal. Even, theticket reservation to several citiesin Java has not significantly in-creased.

It was delivered by one of theticket sellers of Malang Indah,Wawan, at Ubung Bus Terminalon Tuesday (Aug 23). Wawan ad-mitted the increase inhomecomers from Ubung Termi-nal would possibly occur fromfive days before holiday. “Mosthomecomers who have reserved aticket will depart on August 25,”he said.

According to Wawan, lackingof homecomers using intercitybuses occurred because manypeople rode motorcycles. Simi-larly, a new phenomenon had en-sued since several years agowhere the homecomers also tookadvantage of tourist transport asconsidered more practical. “Sincemany homecomers take tourist

Having been picked up at theNgurah Rai Airport, the group of in-vestors was treated to lunch at theregent’s official residence. Such lun-cheon took place extravagantly andfestively. The group of investors ar-rived at regent’s official residencearound 12:30 a.m. Local Time. Onceout of the car, they were immediatelygreeted by the presentation of gamelanmusic. Then, three beautiful womendraped flower garland to them.

Ridiculously, the officials of thesame level as the head of agency anddivision head were lining up neatlywhile conveying their greeting andwelcoming the investors. Those offi-cials lined up to make a posse likeschool children welcoming the regentor officials who visited their school.After receiving the greetings, the in-vestors were directed to the mainlobby fitted with red carpet. Prior toentering the room, the entourage wasgreeted again with a traditional Ba-linese dance. For approximately fif-teen minutes, the entourage was in-vited to have a seat for enjoying alunch with special dishes served bywell-known restaurant in North Bali.

Indian investors coming last Tues-day consisted of four persons namelyKarti Gajendra, Hari Adul Jafar,Mushasa Djalal and Raju. Unfortu-nately, there were no officials whoknew their position including theircompany name. Those investors wereaccompanied by the Regent PutuBagiada, Deputy Regent Made ArgaPynatih, Secretary of Buleleng Gov-ernment Dewa Ketut Puspaka and anumber of regional leaderships(SKPD) in the scope of Buleleng Re-gency. Meanwhile, no single legisla-tor of Buleleng House looked to at-tend the luncheon. After the luncheon

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The condition in Ubung Terminal near the Idul Fitri Day.

Idul Fitri homecoming

Interprovincial city bususers sucked by travel

Feasibility study completed

Investors ofInvestors ofInvestors ofInvestors ofInvestors ofairport welcomedairport welcomedairport welcomedairport welcomedairport welcomedlike a kinglike a kinglike a kinglike a kinglike a kingSingaraja (Bali Post)—

Atmosphere of the official residence of Buleleng Regent onTuesday (Aug 23) was completely different from usual. Inves-tors from India who had been doing a technical study for theinternational airport that will be built in Buleleng were wel-comed like a king.

and ceremonial program, it was re-sumed with mutual handover of sou-venirs. Later, the Regent Bagiada in-vited the four representatives of inves-tor to have a meeting in the villa ownedby the regent located in the region ofCeluk Buluh, Lovina.

Before departing to location of themeeting, the four representatives ofinvestor refused to be interviewed.Meanwhile, the Regent Bagiada statedthat their presence was in relation toconvey the development of investmentplans in Buleleng.

Regent Bagiada said the feasibilitystudy of the international airport un-dertaken by investors in Buleleng Re-gency took place for three months andit had now been accomplished. Ac-cording to the regent, the most urgentresults of the feasibility study was re-garding to location of the airport. Pur-suant to the results of feasibility study,the exact location had not been decidedby the investor. However, location ofthe airport was more focused on theregion of West Buleleng. “The exactlocation remains in a further study. But,from our talks, the project seems to bemore focused on the region of WestBuleleng,” he said.

When asked about the readiness ofland, the regent said it would be stud-ied further. It was in accordance withthe agenda of investors that after thefeasibility study would be continuedto the next stage. As planned, the re-sult of feasibility study including theland issues would be studied in depththrough a meeting in central govern-ment. “It will be included in subse-quent studies. After this, there willbe a discussion in central level. Ofcourse, the land issue would be dis-cussed and re-examined further,” headded. (kmb/kmb15)

transport, passenger of bus tendsto decline. Since 2009, the num-ber of homecomers taking regularbuses continued to decline,” hesaid.

Decline in passengers using theintercity buses had no significantimpact on the ticket fare set by busoperators. Even, for this year, aticket of executive class bus re-mained to be offered at IDR200,000 for Denpasar-Malangroute. “It is the same as the lastyear’s fare,” he added.

Comparable condition was alsorecognized by a bus driver ofDenpasar-Surabaya route, MadePurya. He acknowledged therewas a decline in the number of pas-sengers each year. For this IdulFitri, the bus he drove was onlyable to hold maximally 90 percent.Even, on normal days, the seat oc-cupancy was up to 75 percent.“Ahead of this Idul Fitri, it indeedshows a slight increase comparedto normal days,” he explained.

Wawan added again that in2010 and perhaps this year his partywould have no additional units ofbus. Such minimal number of pas-sengers could be accommodated bythe existing buses. “After 2005, the

bus operator where we work nolonger launch additional buses ev-ery Idul Fitri,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of theBali Land Transportation Organi-zation (Organda), Edi Ketut PutraDharma, assessed the choice oftransportation mode for home-coming was inseparable from thecomfort demand of each user. Onthat account, bus operators wererequired to provide more comfortto draw passengers. “If intercitybus wants to attract passengers,the service extended to passengersshould be improved. We cannotforce the passengers because theyhave freedom to choose their pref-erable transport. All passengerssurely choose the most conve-nient. Thus, the only way to lurepassengers is to improve ser-vices,” he explained.

In the meantime, the DenpasarTransportation Agency in this year’shomecoming season prepared 146units of regular intercity bus with4,964 seats. Besides, it was alsoadded with 18 units of reserve buswith a total of 630 seats. Totally,there were 164 units of buses with5,594 seats that were ready to servethe homecomers. (kmb12)

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Besides Gilimanuk itself, Indraalso observed posts alongDenpasar-Gilimanuk. Indra statedhis thank you for all the help andsupport that the regional govern-ment has gave for security in thisyear ’s homecoming. He alsochecked the motorcycle ticketlocket while having some conver-sation with a number of home com-ers then tested the transportationthat is used to go to KetapangHarbour.

Amlapura (Bali Post) –SD Filial primary school at Baru, Munti Gunung,

Kubu, Karangasem was holed after a technical prob-lem have failed the building’s state also being hit bylandslide three months ago. Due to the limited num-ber of classrooms and being used for meetings, anumber of students have to learn near a drain. Thiswas seen during a visitation by Karangasem Regent,I Wayan Geredeg, and Vice Regent, Made Sukerana,accompanied by several Agency Heads andKarangasem Representatives from Golkar Party Frac-tion last Tuesday (23/8) where two from 91 pupils,Gede Noki (8) and Dewi (8), year 2 pupils had to dotheir school task there. Noki is a smart boy, keen inlearning and got second rank in his class. He has adream to be a pilot so he can fly everywhere, no needto walk far as when he goes to his village he has togo through a severely damaged tarred road that wasnever repaired. Noki explained as the classroom is inthe hall or cooperative hall and now used for themeeting with Regent, so he moved near the drain forstudying. No matter what he loves studying here as itis near to his home.

Head of Karangasem Education Agency, Drs. IGede Ariyasa, M.Pd, who joined the group did notdecline the situation of this just one year existedschool built using Karangasem Budget and Expenses.From three classrooms roofed with aluminium onlytwo can be used as one of them is holed by the land-slide and its support also damaged three months agoas it can’t contain the soil with rain waters as it is onthe tip of a gorge. Ariyasa stated due to the construc-tion was managed by the locals, it might not look up

Police to securePolice to securePolice to securePolice to securePolice to securehomecominghomecominghomecominghomecominghomecomingflowflowflowflowflow

Gianyar (Bali Post)—The discourse on the swimming

pool development plan into a tour-ism water recreation at Bukit Jatiin East Gianyar has been ascer-tained to work in 2012. At leastnext year, the operation of thetourist object can be utilized forfamily recreation by the publicand tourists. Thus, the TeamLeader of the Bukit Jati TouristAttraction Development, in thisregard held by the Head ofGianyar Development PlanningAgency (Bappeda), Ida BagusNyoman Rai, revealed on Tuesday(Aug 23).

Development plan of the waterrecreation at Bukit Jati was in-tended to maximize the existingfacilities. Function of swimmingpool would be changed, but itcould still be used for training ofthe athletes. To develop the waterrecreation was required a landarea of 2.5 hectares. For the timebeing, local government only had1.3 hectares of land. The shortagewould be added through expan-sion to the back of swimming poolarea. However, in the first stagethe investor would only maximizethe exist ing capacity, he ex-plained.

In the matter of later develop-

Gilimanuk (Bali Post) –Head of Bali police, General Ispector Police Totoy H Indra,

instructed the officers in Gilimanuk and posts nearby to maxi-mally give services to those on the way homecoming and no arro-gance during an observation at Gilimanuk last Tuesday (23/8)afternoon, which welcomed by Jembrana Council includingJembrana Regent, I Putu Artha and Head of Jembrana House ofRepresentatives I Ketut Sugiasa.

On Monday (22/8) evening therewas a queue of trucks at Gilimanukwhere they came almost all to-gether. The queue started at 10 pmwhich was seen from the Gilimanukterminal up to Gelung Kori around 2kilometres from the locket. Trucks thatusually queued at Manuver Parkingspace was moved to the front ofGilimanuk shops as there was a de-molishing of a retribution post build-ing. The queue went calmer at 3 am.(kmb26)

Ascertained to operate in 2012Development of waterrecreation at Bukit Jati

ment, the Regency Governmentappointed Bappeda as team leaderthat would only mediate the land-owners and investors. “At the mo-ment, there is a change in designplan to meet the local wisdom,such as buildings with Balinese ar-chitecture,” he explained.

As reported previously, in de-veloping the Bukit Jati tourist areaGianyar Regency made partner-ship with PT Karya MakmurDewata Group to develop a waterrecreation at the Bukit Jati swim-ming pool. On the land would beestablished a water park dividedinto three zones, including ampleparking that could accommodate10 tourist buses, dozens of carsand hundreds of motorcycles.

Meanwhile, at the zone of themain building would be builtchanging rooms and a place to re-lax, then third zone would be ear-marked for water rides such asswimming pool and other watergames. Recreational facilitiesplanned to be developed would besimilar to those in Bantul Regency.Additionally, it would be provideda special location for small traders.On that account, the Bukit Jati wasexpected to be a water tourist attrac-tion for the community of Gianyarand the surrounding areas. (kmb16)

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Students are forced to study near the drainage becuase their school is damaged

School building damaged

Students studied near drainageto the technical matters such as the strength of the soilwhere its wall base was not built diagonal. On the dryseason, the field is filled with dusts causing the pupilsclothes and body filled with it yet another pupil NengahMerta admitted to still have fun playing with it andstill wants to learn no matter what. “There is a plan tobuild the base and wall again. This school has defi-nitely helped pupils and locals to schooling their chil-dren having the location near yet sadly only until year4 as for 5th and 6th they have to go to the main schoolso their education is more intensive,” Ariyasa ex-plained.

Head of Tianyar Barat Village, I Gede Rudana,stated around here there are five SD filial consistingof 800 pupils. Public figure of Baru and Kulkul I MuntiGunung Group, Jero Ngoman Budiasa, explained thisprimary school is very important as mostly now chil-dren of this age here have joined the school, not onlyfrom Munti Gunung but also from Songan, Bangli.

The way to 28 groups (tempek) at Munti Gununghas always been an unfriendly road. Being a narrowwith never repaired severely damaged tarred road,steep, and zig zag, can easily cause traffic accidentssuch as falling to the gorge. The hardtop car year1979 DK 779 used by the group of Karangasem Pub-lic Works staffs accompanying the Regent had oneof its wheels coming off and the car still safe as itdidn’t follow the wheel that fell to the river. Thewheel got off because of its six bolts off before itwas used. It was managed found after several localshelped out. “Next time the bolts should be checkedfirst, is it still in place or not,” a local resident clari-fied. Thank you, Bli! (013)

International4 Thursday, August 25, 2011 News

Al-Rai TV said Wednesday itwould air the comments fromGadhafi in full soon and reported anexcerpt in which the leader of Libya’scrumbling regime vows his forceswill resist “the aggression with allstrength” until either victory or death.

It was not clear from the remarkswhen Gadhafi abandoned the Babal-Azaziya compound, which wasoverrun by rebel fighters Tuesday.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWSUPDATE. Check back soon for fur-ther information. AP’s earlier storyis below.

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Hun-

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW — Russian Presi-dent Dmitry Medvedev startedtalks with North Korean leaderKim Jong Il that are expected tofocus on energy deals, economicaid and nuclear disarmament, Rus-sian media reported Wednesday.

The summit takes place at a mili-tary garrison outside Ulan-Ude, thecapital of Buryatia, a Buddhistprovince near Lake Baikal.

Kim arrived at the base in anarmored Mercedes limousine andwore his trademark pea green suit,the Interfax news agency reported.

His custom-built, blast-prooftrain has rolled across sections ofeastern Russia in a trip that be-gan Saturday. He is expected tostart his return trip home “imme-diately” after the talks, the ItarTass news agency said.

It is Kim’s first visit to NorthKorea’s Cold War ally since 2002.

The Kremlin said the leaderswill discuss how to quickly re-

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW — North Korea isready to impose a moratorium onnuclear missile tests if internationaltalks on its nuclear program re-sume, a spokesman for Russia’spresident said Wednesday aftertalks between the two leaders.

Russian news agencies, mean-while, reported that North Koreanleader Kim Jong Il said his coun-try is ready to resume talks “with-out preconditions.” Kim and Rus-sian President Dmitry Medevdevmet Wednesday on a military basenear the city of Ulan-Ude in east-ern Siberia in Kim’s first trip to

AP Photo/Anna Ogorodnik

A special armored train, foreground, transporting North Korean leaderKim Jong Il is seen parked at a railway station in Ulan-Ude, Russia,Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.

NKorea reported ready to halt WMD testsRussia since 2002.

The six-sided nuclear talks havebeen long-stalled, but Kim’s Rus-sia trip comes as his country pushesto restart them. South Korea andWashington have demanded that theNorth first show its sincerity on ful-filling past nuclear commitments.

The Korean peninsula has seenmore than a year of tension duringwhich the North shelled a SouthKorean island and allegedly torpe-doed a South Korean warship.

Medvedev spokeswoman NatalyaTimakova was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying that Kimexpressed readiness to return to thesix-sided talks without preconditions

and “in the course of the talks, NorthKorea will be ready to resolve thequestion of imposing a moratoriumon tests and production of nuclearmissile weapons.”

Medvedev said Russia and NorthKorea also moved forward on a pro-posed project to ship natural gas toSouth Korea through a pipeline thatcrosses North Korea.

North Korea had long been reluc-tant about the prospect of helping itsindustrial powerhouse archenemyincrease its gas supply, but recentlyhas shown interest in the project. TheSouth wants the Russian energy butis wary of North Korean influenceover its energy supply.

AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, second right, and Russian Presi-dent Dmitry Medvedev, second left, walk during a meeting an amilitary garrison, outside Ulan-Ude, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011.

Medvedev in Siberia forsummit with Kim Jong Il

sume long-stalled six-nation talksaimed at ending the North’snuclear weapons program in re-turn for aid.

Another likely topic would beMoscow’s proposal to build apipeline through the North’s ter-ritory that would allow Russia tostream natural gas to South Ko-rea. North Korea, long reluctant,has recently shown interest in theproject, South Korea officialssaid. Seoul has expressed hopethat negotiations on the projectwill make progress.

“One of the pressing themes onthe agenda will be prospects forlaunching tripartite economicprojects with the participation ofRussia, South Korea and NorthKorea,” the Kremlin statement said.

Also under discussion is anenergy project that would involvethe extension of power lines tomake it possible for Russia to sellelectricity from plants like theBureya hydroelectric plant thatKim visited at the start of his trip.

Rebelfighterstrample on ahead ofMoammarGadhafiinside themaincompoundin Bab al-Aziziya inTripoli,LIbya,Tuesday,Aug. 23,2011.

AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev

Gadhafi says he retreatedGadhafi says he retreatedGadhafi says he retreatedGadhafi says he retreatedGadhafi says he retreatedfrom besieged compoundfrom besieged compoundfrom besieged compoundfrom besieged compoundfrom besieged compoundAssociated Press Writer

TRIPOLI, Libya — A TV channel is quoting Libyan leaderMoammar Gadhafi as saying he retreated from his Tripoli compoundin a “tactical move” after 64 NATO airstrikes turned it to rubble.

dreds of Libyan rebels stormedMoammar Gadhafi’s compoundTuesday, charging wildly throughthe symbolic heart of the crumblingregime as they killed loyalisttroops, looted armories andknocked the head off a statue of thebesieged dictator. But they foundno sign of the man himself.

The storming of Bab al-Aziziya,long the nexus of Gadhafi’s power,marked the effective collapse of his42-year-old regime. But withGadhafi and his powerful sons stillunaccounted for — and gunbattlesflaring across the nervous city —

the fighters cannot declare victory.The rebel force entered the com-

pound after fighting for five hourswith Gadhafi loyalists outside, us-ing mortars, heavy machine gunsand anti-aircraft guns. They killedsome of those who defended thecompound and hauled off thousandsof rifles, crates of weapons andtrucks with guns mounted on theback in a frenzy of looting.

“We’re looking for Gadhafi now.We have to find him now,” saidSohaib Nefati, a rebel sitting againsta wall with a Kalashnikov rifle.

Abdel-Aziz Shafiya, a 19-year-old rebel dressed in camouflage witha rocket-propelled grenade slungover one shoulder and aKalashnikov over the other, said therebels believe Gadhafi is inside thecompound but hiding underground.

Activities Thursday, August 25, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for August 7 through August 30, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date forit annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 daysaccording to Balinese calendar, including the smallerancestral shrine which each family possesses. Becauseof this practically every few days a ceremony of festi-val of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali.There are also times when the entire island celebratedthe 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 onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless 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 dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade,sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimespainted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifullyarranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. Infront of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellasdepending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides theseumbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributesof Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”,long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments ofyoung 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 andcolored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires thegrace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

7 AugRedite Paing PahangPasek Toh Jiwa Kekeran - Mengwi -BadungPasek Sadra Peguyangan - Badung

9 AugAnggara Wage PahangBatu Madeg (Meru Tumpang Sanga) BesakihHyang Tibha Batuan Sakah

10 augBuda Keliwon PahangLuhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti TabananSilayukti Temple Padangbai-KarangasemAer Jeruk SukawatiDangin Pasar Batuan-SukawatiPenataran Temple Batuyang-BatubulanDesa Lembeng Ketewel-SukawatiPasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-TabananKawitan Dalem Sukawati GianyarKresek Banyuning-BulelengPuseh Temple Bebandem-KarangasemMerajan Pasek Kubayan-GajiMerajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-SonganMerajan Pasek Subrata TemagaMerajan Pasek Gelgel BungbunganSad Kahyangan Batu Medahu. S Nusa PenidaBuda Kliwon Penatih-DenpasarPenataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem KarangasemPasek Bendesa Temple Tagtag PaguyanganPulasari Temple Sibang Gede AbiansemalBatur Sari Temple UbudPenataran Agung Temple Sukawati

13 AugPurnama KaroGelap Temple BesakihDangkahyangan Temple Pengukur-ukur PejengMerajan Gerya Temple Kebon TabananCandi Goro Temple Tianyar-Kubu KarangasemPonjok Batu Temple Tejakula-Buleleng

15 AugSoma Keliwon KrulutPasel Gelgel Kekeran Temple Mngwi BadungMerajan Pasek Subadra Temple Kramas-Gianyar

20 AugTumpek KrurutPasek Gelgel Temple Br Tengah BulelengDalem Pemuteran Temple Jelantik Tojan - KlungkungPedarmaan Bhujangga W. Temple BesakihTaman Sari Temple Gunungsari Penebel - TabananDalem Tarukan Temple Bebalang BangliBenua Kangin Temple BesakihMerajan Kanginan Temple Besakih

21 AugRedite Umanis MerakihParangan Tengah Temple Ceningan Kangin - LembonganDalem Temple Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar

24 AugBuda Wage MerakihBendesa Mas Kepisah Temple Pedungan - Denpasar SelatanNatih Temple Banjar Kalah - BatubulanPuseh. Temple Silakarang - Singapadudalem Petitenget Temple Kerobokan - KutaDalem Pulasari Temple Samplangan - GianyarKubayan - Kepisah Temple Pedungan - Denpasar - SelatanPasek gelgel Temple Banjar Tanahpegat - TabananPaibon Banjar Bengkel Sumerta - DenpasarPasek Temple Lumintang - DenpasarPanti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding - TampaksiringPasar Agung Temple Kaba-kaba - Tabanan

30 AugAnggar Kasih TambirDalem Puri Batuan Temple SukawatiDalem Kediri Temple Silakarang - SingapaduDalem Temple SukawatiDalem Temple Singakerta - Ubuddalem Lembeng Temple Ketewel - SukawatiPaibon Pasek Tangkas Temple Peliatan - Ubud

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Green Globe Certification for Anantara Seminyaktage through resort and area experiences.Anantara Seminyak also proudly participatesin local, national and internationalsustainability and cultural events, such as En-vironment Day, Earth Hour and Earth Day.

I Wayan Sucitra, the resort’s EnvironmentOfficer, comments – “Ongoing environmen-tal and sustainability training for all of ourresort associates continuously strengthensour green, social and cultural initiatives andwe look forward to developing our heartfeltcommitment and sincere sense of responsi-bility to our beautiful island.”

“Our associates also implement our greenworkplace policy in their own homes”, com-mented Ivan Casadevall, General Managerfor Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, whoadds, “At the same time as celebrating ourachievements, we are fully aware that thereare even more opportunities to improve oursustainable efforts in an ever changing glo-bal climate. We are therefore delighted thatour international guests can enjoy completepeace of mind in knowing that AnantaraSeminyak is truly committed to a future ofcaring for our environment.”

Thursday, August 25, 20116 News

Even as the first hurricane of the2011 Atlantic season pounded theTurks and Caicos Islands and thesoutheast Bahamas with batteringwinds and rain and dangerous stormsurge, coastal residents in Floridaand the Carolinas were preparingfor Irene’s approach.

“I pray God’s blessing on usall,” Bahamas Prime MinisterHubert Ingraham said as he urgedresidents of his Atlantic archi-pelago nation southeast of Floridato take shelter.

Irene is the ninth named stormof the busy June-through-Novem-ber season and looks set to be thefirst hurricane to hit the UnitedStates since Ike pounded the Texascoast in 2008.

It weakened on Tuesday to aCategory 1 hurricane on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale of inten-sity, but could strengthen into a

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A boy walks in a flooded road after Hurricane Irene hit the municipality of Loiza, Puerto Rico,August 22, 2011.

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NASSAU - The U.S. put its eastern seaboard on alert forHurricane Irene on Tuesday as the powerful storm barreledup from the Caribbean on a path that could hit the U.S. coaston the weekend.

major Category 3 storm with windsover 111 miles per hour (178 kmper hour) by Thursday, the Hurri-cane Center forecasters said.

While warning the entire U.S.East Coast to be on the alert, Fed-eral Emergency ManagementAgency Administrator CraigFugate and National HurricaneCenter Director Bill Read said itwas too early to be certain whereIrene would directly hit the coast-line.

“We’re going to have a verylarge tropical cyclone move up theEastern Seaboard over the next fiveto seven days,” Read said on a con-ference call in which he spokealong with Fugate.

The “best guess” forecast wasthat it would approach the coast ofthe Carolinas on Saturday morningas a major storm of Category 3 orupward, Read said.

The earthquake came less thanthree weeks before the 10th an-niversary of the Sept. 11 attacks,and in both Washington and NewYork it immediately triggeredfears of something more sinisterthan a natural disaster.

Obama, who is vacationing onMartha’s Vineyard, led a confer-ence call Tuesday afternoon onthe earthquake with top admin-istration officials, including theadministrator of the FederalEmergency ManagementAgency.

At the Pentagon in Washing-ton, a low rumbling built until thebuilding itself was shaking, andpeople ran into the corridors ofthe complex. The shaking contin-ued there, to shouts of “Evacu-ate! Evacuate!”

The Park Service closed allmonuments and memorials onthe National Mall, and ceilingtiles fell at Reagan National Air-port outside Washington. Allflights there were put on hold.

Also in Washington, the Na-tional Cathedral said cracks hadappeared in the flying buttressesaround the apse at one end. “Ev-eryone here is safe,” the cathe-dral said on its official Twitterfeed. “Please pray for the Cathe-dral as there has been some dam-

Putu Suartama, 19, for example, ayouth graduated from senior highschool (SMU), preferred sitting athome as he was not absorbed in theexisting job opportunities. He admit-ted to feel ashamed of diving into busi-ness as a food seller where the oppor-tunity was mostly taken over by manyregional migrants. “I feel ashamed oftaking such kind of job. Now, I’m stilllooking for a job according to my com-petence,” he said.

Unavoidably, such mindset hascaused a number of regional migrantsspeculating on the Island of Bali to takethat potential easily. For example, sofar the opportunities as hawker of avariety of food were mostly taken bymigrants. Originally, many of themwere only working with others andeventually opened their own businesssuch as selling meatballs, fried foodand so forth.

The Head of Coordinator of PrivateHigher Education of Region VIII,Prof. Dr. I Nyoman Sucipta, said thatso far Balinese people especially theyounger generation indeed had a highcreativity and innovation, but theylacked of entrepreneurship. “We cansee in a kite and ogoh-ogoh (papiermâché demon) competition they lookvivacious to create a variety of highlycreative and innovative works. Unfor-tunately, their creativity and innova-tion in the field of entrepreneurship isvery minimal,” he said.

He said Bali was starting to lookdeserted because most of the informalsector businesses began closing as left

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to go home. Seeing this, young gen-eration should be able to take the po-tential business opportunity in accor-dance with their skills. “For instance,young creative and innovative peoplecan make meatballs or fried food withnew flavors. Now is the right time tomarket them. At least, after Bali is in-vaded by thousands of informal busi-nesses, the youth of Bali has managedto take these opportunities,” he af-firmed. Furthermore, the formerDeputy Rector III of Udayana Uni-versity said that a few opportunitiesin informal sector were taken by theyounger generation of Bali becausethey lacked of entrepreneurialism.Even, so far they seemed to pursuethe tourism sector becoming the ex-cellence of Bali. Sucipta added thatlately many analytical studies and re-searches related to solution of theproblems. Now, it was the right timeto implement them. According to him,the education on understanding of en-trepreneurship should be carried outpersistently to encourage the youngergeneration since entering senior high/vocational high school because the un-derstanding would trigger their cre-ativity and innovation in the field ofentrepreneurship.

“Here lies the important role offormal education, non formal educa-tion and government because basedon the data in 2011, the number of newentrepreneurship in Indonesia has justreached 0.02 percent, whereas thestandard set is 0.2 percent of the popu-lation,” he said. (bit/par)

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age.”In New York City, the 26-story

federal courthouse in lower Man-hattan, blocks from the site of theSept. 11, 2001, terror attacks onthe World Trade Center, beganswaying, and hundreds of peoplestreamed out of the building.

Also in New York, workers inthe Empire State Building spilledinto the streets, some having de-scended dozens of flights of stairs.

“I thought we’d been hit by anairplane,” said one worker, MartyWiesner.

Another, Adrian Ollivierre, a28-year-old accountant who was inhis office on the 60th floor whenthe quake struck, said: “I thoughtI was having maybe a heart attack,and I saw everybody running. Ithink what it is, is the paranoia thathappens from 9/11, and that’s whyI’m still out here — because, I’msorry, I’m not playing with mylife.”

The last quake of equal powerto strike the East Coast was in NewYork in 1944. The largest EastCoast quake on record was a 7.3that hit South Carolina in 1886.

Amtrak said its trains along theNortheast Corridor between Balti-more and Washington were oper-ating at reduced speeds and crewswere inspecting stations and rail-

road infrastructure before re-turning to normal.

More than 12 million peoplelive close enough to the quake’sepicenter to have felt shaking,according to the GeologicalSurvey.

Social media site Twitter litup with reports of the earth-quake from people using thesite up and down the U.S. east-ern seaboard.

“People pouring out of build-ings and onto the sidewalks andInto Farragut Park in downtownDC,” tweeted Republican strat-egist Kevin Madden.

John Gurlach, air traffic con-troller at the Morgantown Mu-nicipal Airport was in a 40-foot(12-meter) tower when theearth trembled.

“There were two of us look-ing at each other saying,‘What’s that?’” he said, even asa commuter plane was landing.“It was noticeably shaking. Itfelt like a B-52 unloading.”

Immediately, the phone rangfrom the nearest airport inClarksburg, and a computer be-gan spitting out green strips ofpaper — alerts from other air-ports in New York and Wash-ington issuing ground stops“due to earthquake.”

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JAKARTA - The non-govern-mental organization (NGO) Gov-ernment Watch (GOWA) has re-ported suspected corruption in thehome affairs ministry‘s electronicidentity card (e-ID) project to theCorruption Eradication Commis-sion (KPK), a spokesman said.

GOWA Executive Director AndiW Syahputra said here on Tuesdaythere was suspicion that efforts hadbeen made to let a certain consor-tium win the tender on the e-ID cardproject.

The financial loss to the statecould reach Rp1 trillion if there hadbeen corruption in the process of

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Women shop around traditional dress for sale at a market place in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 23,2011. Muslims shop for new clothing for the celebration of Eid-al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of theholy fasting month of Ramadan all across the capitol of the world’s most populous Muslim country.

Critics say the proposal —however arbitrary — are anotherexample of growing religious in-tolerance.

The Taman Yasmin IndonesianChristian Church was supposedto open in the city of Bogor in2008, but residents protested,claiming its permit was illegal.

Though the Supreme Courtruled in favor of the church in De-cember, Mayor Diani Budiartorefused to comply. He argued hewas pushing for a decree to makeit illegal to open churches onstreets with Islamic names.

Indonesia, a secular nation of240 million, has a long history ofreligious tolerance, but a smallextremist fringe has become morevocal — and violent — in recentyears.

Critics said President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono — who re-lies heavily on Islamic parties inparliament — has remained silent

Antara

CIPATAT - Indonesia hasstopped the operations of its em-bassy in Tripoli, Libya, due to theinsecure situation in the country,and moved the mission‘s servicesto Tunisia.

“We have stopped the opera-tions of our representative officethere and for the time being alldiplomatic duties in the office arecarried out by the embassy or ourrepresentative office in Tunisia,”President Susilo BambangYudhoyono said here on Tuesday.

The security risks were too highand therefore the government haddecided to evacuate its citizensfrom Libya, he said during a visitto the Infantry Education Center.

President Yudhoyono hoped

Antara

MANADO - North Sulawesi‘sMount Lokon is showing increasedvolcanic activity again, meaningpeople had to prepare for the pos-sibility of another eruption.

“The volcano`s seismicity keepson increasing, this indicates thepossibility of another eruption inthe future, we are only predictingbut we don`t know when it will hap-pen,” said Farid Ruskanda Bina,head of a Mt Lokon observationpost in Tomohon, on Tuesday.

The mountain‘s increased activ-ity was indicated by a rise in itstremors‘ amplitude after the erup-tion on Wednesday (Aug 17) from0.5-5 millimeters to 2.12 millime-

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JAKARTA - A mayor is trying to ban Christian churches onstreets with Islamic names, the latest attempt to block constructionof a new parish in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.

as minorities have been attackedby hard-liners or seen their housesof worship torched or boarded up.

Christians, who make up 10percent of the population, also sayit can take years to get permits tobuild new churches.

The Taman Yasmin worship-pers have been holding weeklyservices in front of their sealed offbuilding for nearly three years,said Bona Singalingging, thechurch spokesman.

He called the mayor’s latestproposal part of a “dangerous”trend. The Setara Institute forPeace and Democracy, a humanrights group, says attacks on reli-gious freedom by hard-liners morethan tripled in the last two years.

In 2010, there were 64 inci-dents, ranging from physical abuseto preventing groups from per-forming prayers and burninghouses of worship, up from 18 in2009 and 17 in 2008.

RI halts Tripoli embassyoperations over security concerns

the war in Libya would end soonand that God would protect thepeople of Libya so that they couldbuild a better future in accordancewith their aspirations.

He said the Indonesian govern-ment was very concerned over thedeath of many civilians there andhoped a peaceful settlement couldbe reached to prevent more civil-ians from being victimized.

President Yudhoyono also saidthe democratic transition thatwould likely happen in Libya mustinvolve all elements so thatLibya‘s future would be like whatthe Libyans wished.

“We also hope that after the end ofthe conflict later Libya could conductconsolidation and transition towardsthe future that its people wish to buildand restore its economy,” he said.

Mt Lokon showing increased activity againters on Monday (Aug 22).

“The tremors` amplitudereached 2.12 millimeters on Mon-day (Aug 22), which indicates anincrease in volcanic activity,” Faridsaid.

Besides tremors, the observa-tion post had also recorded a localtectonic earthquake, one volcanicearthquake and three earthquakegusts.

“We just hope people will stayalert. Another eruption is possible.We will continuously monitor in-creases in its activity,” he said.

There is also still a statementthat relating Mount Lokon‘s in-creasing volcanic activity followedby the three kilometers radius resi-dent evacuation.

“We will evaluate this situation,for the moment, there is no residentevacuation plan yet,” Farid said.

According to Farid, the mount‘sstatus is now on the alert level III.

“The Center for Volcanology andGeological Hazard MitigationAgency (PVMBG) Bandung has notraised the status to be careful levelIV or alert level II,” Farid said.

Mount Lokon last erupted on July14 and 17, 2011 which forced thou-sands of residents of Kinilow VillageI, Kinilow and Kakaskasen I, theDistrict of North Tomohon,Tomohon to flee their homes.

On July 10, 2011, the alert levelIII status was raised to alert level IV,and lowered back to level II after theeruption on July 24, 2011.

GOWA reports suspectedcorruption in e-id card project

the e-ID card project‘s planning,budget proposal, up to the auction‘simplementation, he said.

“Everything had been directedto support a certain consortium,”Andi said.

GOWA had conducted an inves-tigation on the project from Marchto August 2011 and found indica-tions of collusion in the procurementof the e-ID card equipment carriedout by the home affairs ministry‘sdirectorate general of population andcivil registration, he said.

The NGO‘s forensic investiga-tors had found 11 visible irregulari-ties and violations in theequipment‘s procurement tender,he said.

The home affairs ministry hadallocated a total budget of Rp6.3 tril-lion from the state budget for the in-troduction of the e-ID card system,including for system‘s logistics suchas cards, card readers, finger printscanners, cameras, signature pads,servers, and training for 40,000 op-erators in every district/city.

“We need to be careful with thebudget because it requires around Rp6 trillion ($642 million),” Home Af-fairs Minister Gamawan Fauzie saidlast year.

The minister had asked the KPKto help monitor the project‘s imple-mentation to prevent corruption inthe procurement of the neededequipment.

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Investors in Bali also have thesame feeling to purchasing goldthese days. They choose gold overforeign exchange because they wor-ried that forex will keep drop amidthe economic crisis.

According to Operational ManagerGallery Kohinoor Nur OctavianaJiwaji, the rise of gold’s price doesn’tdeter investors to purchase this metal.She said the more expensive the price,the more people try to buy gold as theirinvestment portfolio. ‘’Gold’s price israrely dropping drastically like forex.Because of that, investors changingtheir portfolio to gold,” she explained.

She explained investment on goldcan be divided on three types, localgold, gold that being produces byAneka Tambang (Antam), and UBS.

Various handicrafts or householdcrafts begin to show off their pace inKlungkung Regency. One of them isthe weaving business of endek clothes.Amazingly, the demand continues toincrease, not only from the local com-munity of Klungkung, Bali or nation-ally, but also from overseas like Italy

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Operational Manager Gallery Kohinoor Nur Octaviana Jiwaji showing Antam’s gold that soughtby investors during the rising of gold’s price recently.

Investors set their eye ongold amid price keeps risingIBP

DENPASAR – The rise of gold’s price on global market dur-ing the crisis that hit United States and Europe making thisprecious metal look more promising than ever. Investors havebeen putting money into gold because of concerns about theslowing global economy and wild swings in stock indexes.

From all types, local gold is the cheap-est one. Usually local investors arepurchasing this gold because it is lotcheaper than UBS and Antam. Mean-while Antam is the expensive one andhave international certificate so it canbe sold throughout the world.

As per Tuesday afternoon, 100gram of local gold was sold aroundIDR520,500 per gram, whilstAntam production was soldIDR554,000 per gram.

Nur said the gold price in Indone-sia also being affected by Idul Fitricelebration. On this celebration, Mos-lem people purchasing gold’s acces-sories, like ring, bracelet, and neck-lace, to complete their celebration out-fit. During this time, gold price usu-ally rise steadily. (kmb18)

Endek Clothes of Klungkung Penetrates Italian and Japanese Marketand Japan. Though an earthquake fol-lowed by tsunami disaster hit Japan,the effect is not so significant to thedemand for endek fabric from the sun-rise country.

Increasing interests in endekclothes have an impact on craftsmenwhere the demand for endek clothes

also shows a rapid growth inKlungkung Regency. Even, a singlecraftsman can produce up to 500meters of endek clothes every day. Theendek clothes produced are dividedinto two types, namely plain cloth andcloth with motif. One of the handi-craftsmen is Wayan Suartika, theowner of ‘Ardini’ endek clothes handi-craft at Jabon, Sampalan Tengah,Dawan Subdistrict.

However, amidst the increasingdemand, labor difficulties haunt thecraftsmen. They have difficulty to ob-tain some labors that are willing toweave endek clothes in order they canmeet consumer demand. As a result,artisans are unable to meet all requests,whereas until now the KlungkungRegency actually still has thousandsof unemployment, both educated anduneducated ones.

Meanwhile, the Head ofKlungkung Social, Manpower andTransmigration Services, NyomanRahayu, said that unemployment ratein Klungkung Regency reached 4005people from about 134,380 job seek-ers with age of 15 years or older.Klungkung Regency was unable toreduce the number of unemploymentand to create job opportunities other

than opening vacancies of civil servantaspirants each year. Rahayu also ad-mitted that her party could not engen-der skilled unemployment because un-til now Klungkung Regency did nothave a vocational training center(BLK).

This condition is certainly in con-trary to the difficulty undergone by theendek weaving handicraftsmen.Wayan Suartika also experienced simi-lar condition. The demand for hisendekweaving works (Ardini EndekHandicraft) was admitted to increase.It was not only from locally Bali (ex-cept for Gianyar) but also from out-side Bali such as Lombok up to over-seas like Italy and Japan.

Formerly, to accomplish the orders,Suartika employed more than 200workers. However, last year his work-ers only remained some 100 people.Related to decrease in the number ofworkers, the man familiarly ad-dressed as Songkrong by most of hisrelations said that younger genera-tion of Bali today, especially theyounger generation of theserombotan (assorted salads servedwith hot spices) land preferred tochoose other jobs such as working insupermarket or a career in offices,

public and private sector. In reality,income of an endek weaver was notless than a career in the office orworking in supermarket. “The weav-ers working with us get a minimumincome of IDR 800,000 per month.Of course, such amount of salary can-not certainly be earned if working insupermarket,” he said.

Suartika had pioneered the endekweaving handicrafts since 1982. Ini-tially, his business was initiated byone cagcag or non-mechanical loom(ATBM). Now, the numbers contin-ued to increase even reached 200units. The price of cagcag equipmentreached up to IDR 2.5 million perunit. With such a amount of equip-ment he owned, Suartika could pro-duce endek clothes up to 500 meterswith various motifs each day.

Other than endek clothes,Klungkung Regency also has uniqueweaving works, one of the productsis cepuk cloth in Nusa Penida. Un-fortunately, the number of weaver inNusa Penida has decreased. On thataccount, it requires serious attentionof government to re-encourage them,so distinctive characteristic ofKlungkung can be well maintainedin the future. (bal)IBP/Net

Balinese Culture

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Jukut Belimbing(Star Fruit Leaves in Sweet Sauce)

Star fruits treesgrow in manyBalinese gardens, aconvenient source ofleaves for vegetabledishes. The leaves arecrunchy with a slightlybitter tang. If notavailable substitutewith spinach leaves.

INGREDIENTS:400 gr star fruit

leaves, washed½ cup basic spice paste2 cups coconut milk2 salam leaves300 gr beef rump, minced30 cm square of banana leaf½ tsp salt¼ tsp black peppercorn, crushed

PREPARATION:Bring 3 liters (12 cups) of lightly salted water to the

boil in a stockpot. Add star fruit leaves. Reduce heatand simmer for 5 minutes. Drain leaves, and then coolsto room temperatures in ice water. Drain and dry well.Place half of the spice paste into saucepan and sautéfor 2 minutes. Add coconut milk and salam leaf, reduceheat and simmer until sauce thickens. Season mincedbeef with the remaining spice paste. Place on bananaleaf and roll up very tightly into the shape of asausage. Steam for 15 minutes. Allow to cool, openbanana leaf and break meat into its original mincedconsistency. Mix the coconut milk and mince beer welland add star fruit leaves and mix again. Season totaste with salt and pepper. Serve at room temperaturewith steamed rice. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Each region in Indonesia hasdifferent delicacy pursuant to sur-rounding environment providingthe ingredients and tradition main-tained. Bali, for instance, haslawar. It has been renowned andtasted by the tongue of foreigntourists. Hot spices supported bya variety of tubers and thinly-chopped vegetables like the youngcoconut shell, string bean, gratedcoconut or young papaya willkindle the appetite from the begin-ning until the end. Then, choppedmeat such as pork, beef, chicken,duck or others are used as themain ingredient, and it gives thename of the lawar itself. Thislawar delicacy is over and overagain introduced in every occa-sion of traditional culinary event.

At vil lages, the ngelawar(preparation of lawar) tradition isbegun by togetherness. Villagersusually slaughter a pig or the likeand prepare the dishes collec-tively for special occasions suchas personal life-cycle rituals ortemple anniversary. From early inthe morning, they have beenready to go by bringing alongwith a sharp knife. Few moments

BASE GEDE(Basic Spice Paste)

INGREDIENTS:300 gr large red chili halved, seeded and chopped100 gr garlic, peeled and chopped75 gr ginger, peeled and chopped500 gr shallot, peeled and chopped75 gr laos, peeled and chopped100 gr kencur root, peeled and chopped175 gr fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped2½ tbsp dried shrimp paste, roasted2½ tbsp coriander seed crushed75 gr candlenut1¼ tbsp black pepper corn crushed2½ pinch nutmeg, freshly grated8 cloves150 ml coconut oil250 water¾ tbsp salt

PREPARATION:Combine all ingredients except water in food

processor and grind coarsely. Place in heavy saucepan, add all remaining ingredients and cook overmedium heat for approximately 60 minutes or until allwater is evaporated and marinade changes to goldencolor.

Cool before using. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Ngelawar:

From Togethernesswith Love to Flavor

later, the chopping boards turncrowded soundingtek...tek…tek…tek and goes on.Some prepare spices and veg-etables, while the others slicethinly the meat in use. In essence,the pebat or kitchen departmentis very busy.

Meanwhile, when celebratingthe Galungan and Kuningan fes-tivity, Balinese people (Hindu)may join the collective slaughterknown as mepatung while foodpreparation is undertaken indi-vidually. This has something todo with slightly different tastesand interests. The food is pre-pared for filling some oblationsother than for consumption. Theirfood habitually consist of lawar,satay, komoh (clear soup), urutan(sausage), skin crackers, tum(chopped meat mix with spicesand then steamed) and so forth.

Other tradition remains to bemaintained is ngejot or present-ing food gift to neighbor and rela-tives. Though they equally havethe same delicacy, it is intendedto maintain social relationshipand exchange the food as theirsmay have different tastes. Simi-

larly, family members will alsovisit relatives where parent orgrandparent comes from. Toshare the happiness with the an-cestral souls, at least family willalso bring along sagi offering andbe presented to them in the homeplatform shrine at bale dangin oreastern pavilion.

Today, probably many peopleare very busy as they must be incharge to work. However, thereare always people offering theirservices by providing ready-to-serve lawar. It is variedly packedin nice bamboo basket containingparticular number of satay, lawarand serapah (grated coconut withmeat). On that account, peoplewill not be busy to prepare it incase of organizing an event orsocio-religious activity.

When making a visit to Bali,it also a good opportunity for youtry these delicacies. At least, trythe lawar as it has been identicalto Balinese cuisine. Seemingly,your visit to Bali would be incom-plete without ‘pampering’ yourtongue by this delicacy. Of course,it will enrich your culinary adven-ture, too! (BTN/punia)

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Bali is a bijou island, but the con-tent of traditional values, arts, historyand culture is not as small as the area.Artistic heritage, history and culturealmost spread throughout the nineregencies and city existing on the Is-land of the Gods. The search on theheritage, arts and cultural relics of thistime is to Yeh Pulu Relief.

Relief of the ancient rock stoneis located at the Bedulu (Bedahulu)Village, Blahbatuh Subdistrict,Gianyar Regency. Location toTampaksiring and Kintamani isonly about 40 minutes drive fromDenpasar City. The entrance to thetourist attraction of holy water is notfar from the main road east of GoaGajah Temple, to the right, into thevillage street. Visitors should becareful because there are many roadjunctions without a clue heading forthe object of Yeh Pulu Relief, or ask

Yeh Pulu Relief:

Description of Life in Bali Ancient Kingdomthe way to local residents.

The monument in the form of re-lief becoming the main attraction totourists, especially foreign tourists,was discovered in 1925 by a courtieror Ubud Royal family. The name wastaken from the barrel (or container ofrice in the past) located at the centralaxis of purified water nestling in thewest of the relief. The word yeh inBalinese language means water andpulu means a barrel.

The appeal of this monument isnot only because of the uniquenessof relief sculpture immortalized onthe rock stone wall of the hill, butalso due to the spread of rice fieldview along the two-hundred-metersand the sound of clinking water onthe left-right path to location is al-ways neatly trimmed and main-tained sustainably, emanating anatural beauty.

With such a natural atmosphere,the clear and the sharpness of splash-

ing water are always flowing alongthe trench making the ambiencearound this object really peacefuland enchanting. On that account, itis not mistaken if the niches (caves)in southern relief suspected as thehermitage of the last Balinese an-cient King before the collapse of Balito Majapahit administration in 1343.

Relief with magical nuance andmeaningful is 25 meters long and 2meters high. Many researches con-ducted by experts from home andoverseas to recognize the implicitmeaning behind the wall relief of therock cliffs on the hills. As conse-quence, it drove many commentariesand analysis to uncover the mysterybehind the veil of the true meaningof the relief. Overall, the theme of thisstory recounts the life in the forestatmosphere and daily life in the an-cient kingdom of Bali. In addition tothe Balinese classical carvings, thismonument also has niches of

Bedahulu Royal Hermitage before hisdeath against the army of theMajapahit kingdom in 1343 AD.

Yeh Pulu Relief poses one of themany historical classical monu-ments of Bali originating in ancientBali (14th century AD) retainingfull knowledge of art, which untilnow is still sustainable and be cared

by the members of Subak, as one ofthe classical organizations that inparticular organizes farmers andmanage all aspects of rice field cul-tivation. For tourists who would liketo visit this object first should pur-chase admission ticket of the object,at IDR 6,000 for adult and IDR3,000 for child.

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BUSINESS

The cut in Japan’s governmentbond rating Wednesday to Aa3from Aa2 puts the country threenotches below Moody’s top Aaarating. Moody’s Investors Servicesaid the outlook for the rating isstable.

The rating cut comes ahead ofanother leadership shuffle in Ja-pan. With his popularity sinking,Prime Minister Naoto Kan and hisCabinet are preparing to resignnext week. That would set thestage for a leadership electionwithin the ruling party and a newprime minister — Japan’s sixth infour years.

Frequent administrationchanges have prevented Japan’sgovernment from adopting effec-tive long-term economic and fis-cal policies, Moody’s said.

Kan has been criticized for lack-ing leadership after the March 11earthquake and tsunami and sub-sequent nuclear crisis, and survi-vors of the disasters complain ofslow relief and recovery efforts.Polls show his approval rating isbelow 20 percent.

The country’s economic prob-lems are compounded by the natu-ral disaster and the ongoingnuclear crisis. Japan’s ballooningdebt is now twice the size of the

Reuters

NEW YORK - Shares were setto fall on Wednesday, giving upsome of the hefty gains of the pre-vious session, which were based onhopes that Federal Reserve chair-man Ben Bernanke will announcemeasures to stimulate the strugglingU.S. economy

Bernanke speaks to a centralbank conference on Friday in Jack-son Hole, Wyoming. Analysts andcommentators are divided on howmuch scope he has to announce fur-ther stimulus measures.

Heineken NV , the world’s thirdlargest brewer, fell 12.3 percent af-ter first-half profit came in belowforecasts and it said volumes inEurope and the United States wouldsuffer from economic uncertainty.

AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO

Shoppers walk past an apparel shop with a sale sign in Tokyoon August 24, 2011. Ratings agency Moody’s downgradedJapan’s credit rating by one notch on August 24, blaming abuild up of borrowing and revolving-door politics for delayingefforts to cut the world’s largest debt.

Moody’s downgrades Japan’s credit ratingMoody’s downgrades Japan’s credit ratingMoody’s downgrades Japan’s credit ratingMoody’s downgrades Japan’s credit ratingMoody’s downgrades Japan’s credit ratingAssociated Press Writer

TOKYO — Moody’s downgraded Japan’s credit rating, citing the country’s weak growthprospects, massive government debt and constant political uncertainty.

country’s gross domestic product.“These developments further

hamper the economy’s ability toachieve a growth rate strongenough to steadily reduce the bud-get deficit,” Moody’s said.

The downgrade puts Moody’sJapan rating in line with other ma-jor agencies. Both Standard &Poor’s and Fitch rate Japan AA-,three notches below their top AAAratings.

In May, Moody’s warned itcould downgrade Japan after theworld’s No. 3 economy slippedback into recession in the firstquarter due to tumbling output andexports following the March 11earthquake and tsunami.

Moody’s has maintained itsAAA rating on the United Stateswhile Standard & Poor’s earlierthis month took the unprecedentedstep of downgrading the U.S.,blaming large deficits and politi-cal gridlock.

The decision compounded wor-ries about the fiscal health of theworld’s biggest economies and un-nerved already volatile financialmarkets.

Reaction to Japan’s rating cutWednesday was more muted. Ana-lysts described the move as hardlya surprise, and bond markets re-

mained calm.Noriatsu Tanji, a fixed income

strategist at Barclays Capital in To-kyo, said that unlike the U.S., a rat-ing cut is not new territory for Ja-pan. At one point in 2002, Moody’shad dropped its assessment on Ja-pan to as low as A2 before gradu-ally upgrading it starting 2007.

“The latest downgrade putsJapan’s rating at a level it has al-ready seen before,” he said in a re-search note.

Japanese government bondshave historically weathered ratingcuts without sharp drops. Unlikethe U.S., the vast majority of theJapan’s public debt is owned do-mestically.

Even as it downgraded its viewon Japan, Moody’s highlighted thecountry’s large economy and de-pendable domestic funding basethat enables the government tofund itself “at a lower nominal costthan any other advancedeconomy.”

“Furthermore, throughout theglobal financial crisis, in themonths after the March earth-quake, and in recent days with re-newed turmoil in global markets,(Japanese government bonds) con-tinue to demonstrate exceptionallystrong safe-haven features,” it said.

Michael Nagle/Getty Images/AFP

The street sign for Wall Street is displayed in front of the NewYork Stock Exchange on August 19, 2011 in New York City.

Wall Street set for fall

Bernanke speech awaitedThe Nikkei stock average fell 1.1

percent on Wednesday as Moody’sInvestors Service’s downgrade ofJapan’s sovereign debt ratingspurred investors to take profits,erasing intraday gains made onspeculation of more U.S. easing.

Orders for cars and planes prob-ably helped U.S. durable goods or-ders rebound. After a disappoint-ingly weak June, orders likely rose2.0 percent, reversing the priormonth’s 1.9 percent decline. Datafor July is due at 8:30 a.m. EDT.

Quarterly profit at Applied Ma-terials is expected to increase to 33cents per share, 4 cents per sharebetter than the same period one yearago. The chip-manufacturing equip-ment maker last month said tougheconomic conditions in Europe andthe United States were hurting de-

mand.U.S. stocks shot higher on Tues-

day on speculation Bernanke thisweek would signal new help for theeconomy, giving investors hope afour-week rout was nearing an end.Weak data in housing and regionalfactory activity triggered the latestround of bets that Bernanke will act,even though the Fed’s options ap-pear limited.

The Dow Jones industrial aver-age rose 3 percent; the Standard &Poor’s 500 Index rose 3.4 percent;the Nasdaq Composite Index rose4.3 percent.

A strong earthquake rattled theU.S. East Coast on Tuesday, send-ing tremors as far as Canada, dam-aging well-known buildings in thenation’s capital and sending scaredoffice workers into the streets.

Entertainment InternationalThursday, August 25, 201112

The 27-year-old soul diva, whohad battled drug and alcohol addic-tion for years, was found dead inher London home on July 23, andan initial post-mortem failed to de-termine the cause of death.

A statement released by spokes-man Chris Goodman on thefamily’s behalf said “toxicologyresults returned to the Winehousefamily by authorities have con-firmed that there were no illegalsubstances in Amy’s system at thetime of her death.” The statementdid not mention whether any legaldrugs were found.

It said the family awaited theoutcome of an inquest that is dueto begin in October. Winehouse’sfather, Mitch, has said his daughterhad beaten her drug dependencythree years before her death, but he

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Al Pacino says he got burnedwhile making “Scarface.” Literally, he grabbed thehot barrel of a gun that had just shot 30 rounds dur-ing one of Tony Montana’s violent scenes. “My handstuck to that sucker,” the 71-year-old actor recalled.He couldn’t work for two weeks.

Pacino relayed the experience during a discus-sion with “Scarface” co-stars Steven Bauer, Rob-ert Loggia and F. Murray Abraham and producerMartin Bregman at a party Tuesday heralding thefilm’s Blu-ray release. Part of the charm of thefilm, Pacino said, is that it wasn’t initially a hit.

“It’s one of my favorites because of its wholeevolution,” he said. “It (was) sort of evisceratedafter it opened by the press. ... Nobody was fondof it, except it had good audience participation.”He said “it’s almost a miracle” audiences con-tinue to discover and appreciate the film.

He wanted to make it after being inspiredby Paul Muni’s performance in the 1932 origi-nal. Sidney Lumet suggested he make the maincharacter Cuban instead of Italian.

Pacino’s “Scarface” is set in 1980s Miami,and Tony Montana is an ambitious immigrantwho runs a growing drug empire until he even-tually collapses under greed and addiction.Pacino’s performance as the gun-wielding, coke-snorting Montana is among his most memorable.

He said that during the nine months he wasshooting the film, his character practically in-habited him. When a friend’s yappy little doglunged at him, Pacino said he cocked back hisfist instinctively, as if threatening a punch. “SoI love Tony Montana, man, because I couldn’tdo that!” Pacino said Tuesday.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Ben Stilleris being honored for his comediccontributions by the British Acad-emy of Film and Television. Thegroup’s Los Angeles branch saysStiller will receive the Charlie

Chaplin Britannia Award for Ex-cellence in Comedy.

Veteran producer NigelLythgoe called Stiller “a mas-ter of comedy who, just likethe legendary filmmakerfor whom this award isnamed, embodies the re-markable multi-hyphen-ate talents of actor,writer, director and pro-ducer.”

Lythgoe serves aschairman of BAFTALos Angeles. Stiller willreceive the honor at theBrittania Awards onNov. 30, when actressHelena Bonham Carterand animator JohnLasseter are also beingrecognized.

The 45-year-oldStiller has earned box-office success and criti-cal acclaim as a writer,director, actor and pro-ducer. He will next beseen opposite EddieMurphy in “TowerHeist.”

Tests show no illegal drugs in Winehouse bodyTests show no illegal drugs in Winehouse bodyTests show no illegal drugs in Winehouse bodyTests show no illegal drugs in Winehouse bodyTests show no illegal drugs in Winehouse bodyAssociated Press Writer

LONDON — Amy Winehouse had no illegal drugs in her systemwhen she died, and it is still unclear what killed the singer, her familysaid Tuesday. The family said in a statement that toxicology testsshowed “alcohol was present” in the singer’s body but it hasn’t yetbeen determined if it contributed to her death.

admitted she was still struggling tocontrol her drinking after severalweeks of abstinence.

Mitch Winehouse told mournersat the singer’s July 26 funeral thatshe had said to him, “‘Dad I’ve hadenough of drinking, I can’t stand thelook on your and the family’s facesanymore.’”

The Winehouse family an-nounced plans to establish a chari-table foundation in the singer’sname to help people struggling withaddiction — although MitchWinehouse has said the plans areon hold because someone else hadregistered the name AmyWinehouse Foundation.

In her short lifetime, Winehousefrequently made headlines becauseof drug and alcohol abuse, eatingdisorders, destructive relationships

and abortive performances. Herhealth often appeared fragile. InJune 2008 and again in April 2010,she was taken to hospital andtreated for injuries after faintingand falling at home.

Her father said she had devel-oped the lung disease emphysemafrom smoking cigarettes and crack,although her spokeswoman latersaid Winehouse only had “earlysigns of what could lead to emphy-sema.” She turned her tumultuouslife and personal demons into songssuch as “Rehab,” from her Grammy-winning album “Back to Black.”

Her death prompted an outpour-ing of emotion from fans — manyof whom left flowers and offeringsoutside her house in north London’sCamden neighborhood — and fromfellow musicians. Her final record-ing, a duet with Tony Bennett on“Body and Soul,” is due to releasednext month as a charity single.

In Britain, inquests are held toestablish the facts whenever some-one dies violently or in unexplainedcircumstances. Winehouse’s inquestis due to begin Oct. 26 in London.

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

FILE - In this July 24, 2009 file photo, British singer Amy Winehouseleaves Westminster magistrates court in London after a judge acquit-ted her of assaulting a fan who asked to take her picture.

Ben Stiller to receiveBritish comedy award Pacino, ‘Scarface’ cast

celebrate film’s legacyBregman called “Scarface” a “perfect, per-

fect movie.” Its timeless themes of greed, de-sire and ambition would make it controversialeven if it were just released today, Pacino said.

Screenwriter Oliver Stone and director BrianDe Palma were both “trying to talk about theavarice of the ’80s,” Pacino said. “At that time,there was this whole thing about greed, whichwas Wall Street and everything, and I think that’spart of it. A great character, too, Tony Montana— a person who dares to do anything, who flieslike a Phoenix, like Icarus, close to the sun.”

AP Photo/Matt Sayles

Actor Al Pacino arrives at “Scarface” LegacyCelebration Event in Los Angeles, Tuesday,Aug. 23, 2011. “Scarface” will be released onBlu-ray September 6, 2011.

International Thursday, August 25, 2011 13Science

While some scientists and oth-ers may question why we need toknow the number of species, otherssay it’s important. There are poten-tial benefits from these undiscov-ered species, which need to befound before they disappear fromthe planet, said famed Harvard bi-ologist Edward O. Wilson, who wasnot part of this study. Some of mod-ern medicine comes from unusualplants and animals.

“We won’t know the benefits to

Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — Drunkenrevelers rejoice: Facebook will nowlet you decide whether your friendscan attach your name to a photobefore it is circulated. Currently,your friends can add your name toa photo on Facebook without yourconsent or knowledge. You can re-move it later, but only after lots ofothers may have seen the embar-rassing shots. Now, you can insiston pre-approval.

This won’t affect whether yourfriends can add a photo of you, onlywhether your name is attached toit. Still, not having the name, knownas a tag, can make it more difficultfor people to find a potentially em-barrassing photo in a search.

Facebook said on Tuesday thatthe change is in response to userrequests. Pre-approving photo tagshas been the most requested change,said Kate O’Neill, product managerfor Facebook. The pre-approvalprocess will also apply to written

IN a spectacular turnabout, hos-pitals are treating almost all majorheart attack patients within the rec-ommended 90 minutes of arrival, anew study finds. Just five years ago,less than half of them got theirclogged arteries opened that fast.The time it took to treat such pa-tients plunged from a median of 96minutes in 2005 to only 64 minuteslast year, researchers found.

Some hospitals are moving atwarp speed: Linda Tisch was treatedin a mere 16 minutes after she wasstricken while visiting relatives nearYale-New Haven Hospital in Con-necticut this month. Emergency re-sponders called ahead to mobilizea team of heart specialists.

AP Photo/Stephan Savoia

In this photo taken Aug. 19, 2011, Linda Tisch poses in her back yardat her home in Westerley, R.I. Tisch suffered a heart attack on Satur-day Aug. 13, 2011, was treated in a record 16 minutes and is returningto work today just 10 days after treatment.

Hospitals are giving faster heart care, study saysOnce she arrived, “they had a brief

conversation and I went straight intothe OR. My family was absolutelyflabbergasted,” said Tisch, 58, whowent home to Westerly, R.I., two dayslater. Tisch wasn’t a fluke. The hos-pital took 26 minutes on another caseon Thursday.

“Americans who have heart attackscan now be confident that they’regoing to be treated rapidly in virtu-ally every hospital of the country,”said Yale cardiologist Dr. HarlanKrumholz. He led the study, pub-lished online Monday by an Ameri-can Heart Association journal, Circu-lation.

What is remarkable about this im-provement, Krumholz said, is that it

occurred without money incen-tives or threat of punishment. In-stead, the government and a hostof private groups led research onhow to shorten treatment timesand started campaigns to persuadehospitals that this was the rightthing to do.

“It’s amazing and it’s verygratifying. I’m surprised that wewere able to achieve that type ofdramatic improvement” soquickly, said Dr. John Brush, acardiologist at Eastern VirginiaMedical School in Norfolk, Va.,who helped the American Collegeof Cardiology design its cam-paign, which involved more than1,000 hospitals.

AP Photo/Facebook

In this screen shot provided by Facebook, a photo pre-approvalfeature is shown. Facebook will now let you pre-approve photosbefore your friends can post them with your name attached.

Facebook to let userspre-approve photo tags

posts that others tag you in. In addi-tion, you have the option of pre-ap-proving what others tag on your ownphotos and posts.

The company is making otherchanges to its privacy controls,too. These changes won’t affectwhat information will be madepublic or private. Rather, they willaffect how users can control whatthey are sharing in an effort tomake the process simpler.

“We are making it easier forpeople to share what they want,every time (they) post,” O’Neillsaid. The changes will be rolledout starting Thursday.

Facebook has long been trying tosimplify its privacy settings, whichhave many moving parts and haveconfused a lot of users. That confu-sion partly results from Facebook’sefforts to let users apply different pri-vacy settings to different parts of theirprofile on the site. But the companyhas also come under fire for pushingusers toward disclosing more abouttheir interests to the public.

This undatedhandout imageprovided by theNational Mu-seum of NationalHistory in Paris,France, shows ablind newspecies, dis-tantly related tothe squat lobsterfamily, whichwas found in2005 in hydro-thermal ventswhere the EastPacific Risemeets Antarc-tica. We live in amuch wilderworld than itlooks.

Wild world: Millions ofWild world: Millions ofWild world: Millions ofWild world: Millions ofWild world: Millions ofunseen species fill Earthunseen species fill Earthunseen species fill Earthunseen species fill Earthunseen species fill EarthAssociated Press Writer

“We are really fairly ignorant of the complexity and colorfulnessof this amazing planet,” said the study’s co-author, Boris Worm, abiology professor at Canada’s Dalhousie University. “We need to ex-pose more people to those wonders. It really makes you feel differ-ently about this place we inhabit.”

humanity (from these species),which potentially are enormous,”the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wilsonsaid. “If we’re going to advancemedical science, we need to knowwhat’s in the environment.”

Biologists have long known thatthere’s more to Earth than it seems,estimating the number of species tobe somewhere between 3 millionand 100 million. Figuring out howmuch is difficult. Worm and CamiloMora of the University of Hawaii

used complex mathematical mod-els and the pace of discoveries ofnot only species, but of higher clas-sifications such as family to comeup with their estimate.

Their study, published Tuesdayin the online journal PLoS Biology,a publication of the Public Libraryof Science, estimated the number ofspecies at nearly 8.8 million.

Of those species, 6.5 million wouldbe on land and 2.2 million in the ocean,which is a priority for the scientistsdoing the work since they are part ofthe Census of Marine Life, an inter-national group of scientists trying torecord all the life in the ocean.

The research estimates that animalsrule with 7.8 million species, followedby fungi with 611,000 and plants withjust shy of 300,000 species.

AP Photo/Michel Segonzac, National Museum of National History in Paris, France

Thursday, August 25, 201114 InternationalSport

Polish side Krakow fell at the fi-nal qualifying hurdle for the seventhtime, losing 3-1 at APOEL Nicosiawho scored the decisive goal in the87th minute to win 3-2 on aggregate.Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia pro-gressed 4-3 overall despite losing 2-0 to Malmo in Sweden.

Racing Genk, who are without acoach, beat Maccabi Haifa on pen-alties to become the fifth team inthe hat for Friday’s draw in Monacowhere they will be joined byEurope’s elite. Another five clubswill go through on Wednesday, thepick of the matches being troubledArsenal’s visit to Udinese.

Bayern, who have played in 13of the last 14 group stages, werehaunted by the prospect of failingto qualify in the season their AllianzArena will host the final in May.

However, their tie with Zurichwas little more than a minor incon-venience and they effectivelybooked their place when MarioGomez scored in the seventhminute of the second leg at the

Reuters

MOSCOW - Cameroonstriker Samuel Eto’o is set toleave Inter Milan and join AnzhiMakhachkala after the twoclubs agreed terms, the RussianPremier League club said onTuesday.

Anzhi did not reveal thetransfer fee but media reportsput it at around 30 million eu-ros ($43 million), saying thefour-times African Footballer ofthe Year could become the rich-est player in the world by mak-ing 20 million euros a year.

“The transfer sum has beenagreed, making both clubshappy,” the wealthy club fromthe volatile North Caucasus re-gion, bankrolled by Russian bil-lionaire Suleiman Kerimov, saidon their website (www.fc-

AP Photo/Keystone/Steffen Schmidt

Bayern Munich’s Luiz Gustavo, right, and FC Zurich’s Marco Schoenbaechler, left, fight for the ballduring the Champions League qualification round second leg soccer match between FC Zurichand FC Bayern Munich at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich, Switzerland, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.

Bayern sail through,Bayern sail through,Bayern sail through,Bayern sail through,Bayern sail through,Rossi rescues VillarrealRossi rescues VillarrealRossi rescues VillarrealRossi rescues VillarrealRossi rescues VillarrealReuters

ZURICH - Bayern Munich sailed into the Champions League group stages with a 1-0 win atFC Zurich on Tuesday while two goals from Giuseppe Rossi rescued Villarreal in their playoffagainst Odense. Danes Odense were one of three teams who failed in their bid to qualify for thefirst time, along with Wisla Krakow and Malmo.

Letzigrund.

NOISY FANSAfter that most of the fireworks

came off the pitch as Bayern’s noisycontingent of fans ignored the sta-dium announcer and let off fire-crackers throughout the game whilelightning flashed around the groundon a sticky evening. Swiss SuperLeague runners-up Zurich werelively but rarely threatening whileBayern forward Franck Ribery wasgiven the freedom of the pitch.

Bayern, though, will be con-cerned they did not take advantageof the many openings created by theFrance playmaker’s trickery. “It’s ashame the goal came so early,” saidZurich coach Urs Fischer. “We sawthe difference between domesticand international football.”

Villarreal, facing a 1-0 first legdeficit against Odense, struggled tobreak the deadlock until Rossistruck twice in 16 minutes in thesecond half. The Italian, linked withJuventus in the close season, got in

front of his marker to open the scor-ing five minutes after halftime andthen rifled in a brilliant volley in the66th minute. Carlos Marchenaadded the third goal.

Brazilian Ailton netted twice asAPOEL produced more heartbreakfor Wisla who had a 1-0 lead fromthe first leg. Ailton’s second goalcame in the 87th minute just as thePoles appeared set to end their jinx.Dinamo, national champions for thelast six seasons, took a 4-1 lead toMalmo but were made to suffer af-ter Sime Vrsaljko was sent off in the50th minute.

Wilton Figueiredo put Malmoahead from a 69th-minute free kick.Pontus Jansson then scored to set upa tense finale and the visitors held onthanks to some fine saves from goal-keeper Ivan Kelava. Genk beat Israe-lis Maccabi 4-1 on penalties, afterwinning the second leg 2-1 to recorda 3-3 aggregate draw. The Belgianswere playing under stand-in coachPierre Denier after Frank Vercauterenquit following last week’s first leg.

IBP/ap

Samuel Eto’o

Russia’s Anzhi agreeto sign Eto’o from Inter

anji.ru).“Tomorrow, the player will

undergo a medical, and if hepasses it, he would sign a three-year contract.”

Eto’o, 30, won two Champi-ons League titles with Barcelonabefore joining Inter in 2009. Hewon a Serie A, Italian Cup andChampions League treble in hisfirst season in Italy. Anzhi, whoalso boast Brazilian left backRoberto Carlos and formerChelsea midfielder YuriZhirkov, said Eto’o could makehis Russian league debut thisweekend.

“Samuel should arrive onThursday to begin preparationfor our league match againstRostov,” said Anzhi, who playtheir home games inMakhachkala but train nearMoscow.

Thursday, August 25, 2011 15International Sport

The 29-year-old Americanleads active women with 13 ma-jor championships, includingthree at Flushing Meadows — in1999, 2002 and 2008. She recentlywon consecutive hard-courttuneup tournaments at Stanfordand Toronto, making her one ofthe favorites to win the U.S. Open,which starts next Monday.

A former No. 1, the American isranked 29th this week. That’s upfrom 175th in July, a few weeks af-ter she returned to the tour follow-ing nearly a year off because of a

series of health problems.“After careful delibera-

tion regarding Serena Wil-liams’ seeding, we decided

to maintain the objectivecriteria in place to determine the

women’s singles seeds at this year’sU.S. Open,” tournament directorJim Curley said in a statement re-

Associated Press Writer

PORTLAND, Oregon — Adidas is going barefoot. The world’s sec-ond-largest athletic company unveiled its first “barefoot” training shoe Tues-day, which is designed to mimic the experience of exercising barefoot whileproviding the protection, traction and durability of a shoe. The AdipureTrainer, which is a cross between a glove for the feet and a traditional shoe,hits U.S. stores in November priced at $90.

The barefoot shoe is part of a strategy by Adidas, which is based inGermany, to expand into the U.S. where rival Nike dominates. Adidas joinsa list of athletic makers trying to tap into the small but burgeoning U.S.market of fanatical runners and gym-goers who swear by shoes designedwith as little material between the wearer and the ground as possible.

“People who believe barefoot is the way to go...are very emphatic aboutit,” said Matt Powell, an analyst with industry research organizationSportsOneSource Group. “They want to spread the message. It soundsreligious but some of them are evangelical about it.”

The athletic shoe and clothing business has been fairly resilient duringthe U.S. economic downturn, but it is an industry that thrives almost en-tirely on new products. When it comes to shoes, the latest and greatestcaptures the U.S. customer. While barefoot shoes make up a tiny fractionof the $22 billion U.S. athletic shoe industry, it is one of the fast-growingcategories. Sales have more than doubled in the past year to roughly $750million, according to SportsOneSource.

Nike, the world’s biggest athletic company, holds roughly 65 per-cent of the market and appeals to barefoot loyalists and mainstreamexercise enthusiasts alike with the traditional running shoe look of its“Free” line. Vibram has about 10 percent of the market with its Five-Finger shoe, which encases each toe separately and has come to de-fine the style. Other big companies such as Merrell, Fila, Saucony,Asics and New Balance also have their own barefoot or so-calledminimalist offerings.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Stymied by the NBA lockout, Blake Griffin is goingto work for Will Ferrell instead. This week, the Los Angeles Clippers All-Star forward is interning at Funny Or Die, the comedy website co-foundedby Ferrell and Adam McKay. Griffin arrived at the site’s LA offices Tues-day to begin three days of work in video production.

He will help write, shoot, edit and act in several videos for the site.Funny Or Die quickly creates digital comedy videos, often with celebrityguest appearances.

Griffin said he’s a big comedy fan and an avid viewer of Funny Or Die.As an intern, he hopes to learn more about film production. “Just to get aninside look at how things are run here is exciting to me,” Griffin said byphone Tuesday. “I don’t know what interns at Funny Or Die are like, butI’m about to find out, I guess.”

Mike Farah, president of production at Funny Or Die, pledged that Grif-fin will be treated like other interns. He noted that the 22-year-old Griffinis, after all, about the same age as most of the site’s college interns. (Theothers, of course, may not be able to dunk over midsize sedans.)

“We’re going to put him to work,” said Farah. “He’s shooting a series ofvideos, and he’s also coming to meetings. He’s basically doing everythingthat an intern does.”

Griffin counts “Old School,” ‘’Wedding Crashers” and “Anchorman:The Legend of Ron Burgundy” among his favorite movies. On Funny OrDie, he likes Zach Galifianakis’ mock interview series “Between Two Ferns.”“I’ll go see a bad comedy over a good action movie any day,” Griffin said. AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette

Serena Williams, of the United States, reacts moments after defeating Samantha Stosur, ofAustralia, during the Rogers Cup finals women’s tennis tournament in Toronto on Sunday,Aug. 14, 2011.

3-time champ3-time champ3-time champ3-time champ3-time champSerena WilliamsSerena WilliamsSerena WilliamsSerena WilliamsSerena Williamsseeded 28th at Openseeded 28th at Openseeded 28th at Openseeded 28th at Openseeded 28th at OpenAssociated Press Writer

Serena Williams was seeded 28th for the U.S. Open, which stuck with its policy of followingthe rankings instead of taking into account players’ past performances. That decision meansWilliams could face one of the Grand Slam tournament’s top eight seeded players as early asthe third round.

leased Tuesday by the U.S. TennisAssociation. Chris Evert, an 18-time major champion, thought thetournament erred by not lifting Wil-liams’ seeding.

“It hurts the field, is what it does.It really doesn’t hurt Serena asmuch as it hurts the other players.One of the top seeds will get her inthe third round,” said Evert, whowill call U.S. Open matches forESPN2. “I think they could havemade a much better judgment call.”

In the past, Grand Slam tourna-ments have taken into account fac-tors other than the official rankingswhen determining seedings.

At the most recent major tour-nament, Wimbledon, two-time de-fending champion Williams wasmoved up to No. 7 in the seedings,19 spots higher than her rankingat the time, even though it was onlythe second tournament of her

comeback. She wound up losing inthe fourth round at the All EnglandClub.

Her older sister Venus, a five-time Wimbledon champion, alsowas bumped up in the seedingsthere. But Venus Williams isn’tseeded at all for the U.S. Open,which she won in 2000 and 2001;she’s ranked 36th this week. Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki, the2009 U.S. Open runner-up, is alsoNo. 1 in the women’s singlesseedings announced Tuesday, fol-lowed by Vera Zvonareva, lastyear’s losing finalist.

Two-time reigning U.S. Openchampion Kim Clijsters, who isranked No. 3, will miss the tour-nament this year with a stomachmuscle injury. Fourth-rankedMaria Sharapova, the 2006 cham-pion in New York, moves up tothird in the seedings.

Adidas launches barefoot shoe

Blake Griffin beginsinternship at Funny Or Die

AP Photo/Adidas

In this product image provided by Adidas, the AdipureTrainer M, in red and black, is shown.

Thursday, August 25, 201116 SportI N T E R N A T I O N A L

The Japanese manufacturer is likely to have only two worksbikes, for Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa, which has raisedthe prospect of either Simoncelli or current works rider An-drea Dovizioso being dropped for 2012.

Simoncelli is reportedly close to agreeing an extension withHRC, with Italy’s Gazzetta reporting that an offer is on thetable - although it could force Simoncelli to abandon the crewthat has followed him since his 250cc title season, somethingthe Italian does not feel is right.

FERRARI is now working flat-out on the devel-opment of what it claims is a ‘very innovative’ 2012car, even though it still holds out some hope that it canhaul itself back into this year’s championship fight.

Fernando Alonso’s recent run of good form, whichincluded victory in the British Grand Prix, has put him89 points behind championship leader Sebastian Vettel- and his only realistic hope of closing that gap downdramatically is if his Red Bull rival hits some trouble.

Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali sayshis team’s approach right now is on simply tryingto win each grand prix, and then in a few race’stime the outfit can take a better look to see if thereis still a chance of the title.

Meanwhile, he openly admits that the real ef-fort at Maranello is on delivering a much moreaggressive car design for next year, having realisedthe team was too conservative this season.

“Our realistic goal for the remaining eightgrands prix is to win races, to score as many pointsas possible,” Domenicali told the official Ferrari

Ferrari working flat-out on 2012website. “I am sure we can achieve good results,but we should avoid looking at the classification,because we know the championship will be verydifficult given the current gap, but let’s see whereit is in a few races. We have the potential to dowell and we have to believe in ourselves.

“In terms of the development of the 150º Italia,we are almost at the end of the road but this doesnot mean that work on this year’s car has come toa complete halt, but as of now, we are working fullthrottle on the 2012 car.

“As far as next year’s regulations are concerned,apart from rules regarding the exhaust system, thereare not many changes; therefore the new cars canbe described as a development of the 2011 car. How-ever, what I can say, having seen the model in thewind tunnel and the work going on in the drawingoffice, is that it will be a very innovative machine.

“In fact, this is to be expected, this is necessarygiven that our first goal is that, in 2012, we must becompetitive right from the very start of the season.”

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Ferrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain drives duringthe Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit near BudapestJuly 31, 2011.

Marco Simoncelli close to extending contractMarco Simoncelli is close to extending his MotoGP

contract with Honda, with the Italian rider sayingnegotiations with HRC are ‘ongoing’ and now on atechnical details level. There has been much specu-lation over HRC’s 2012 line-up after the devastatingeffects of the tsunami that struck Japan in Marchput the team under pressure to make drastic cuts -said to be 30% - to its racing budget.

“Negotiations are ongoing,” Simoncelli is quoted as say-ing by Gazzetta. “We are discussing technical details. “I’mopen to reinforcements, but changing the crew completely isnot right. After two years where we’ve improved together, itwould be strange to break it all apart when it’s time to reapthe fruits.

“We’ll see in Indy and I hope to be as optimistic as I feelnow. I’d like to go back home with a clearer situation, be-cause it would be important to have a decision, even if it’s notthe proper contract yet, by Misano.” Livio Suppo, the formerDucati head who switched to Honda for 2010, confirmed thatHRC had asked Simoncelli to switch crews but said he wasopen to negotiation on the issue.

“[HRC vice president Shuhei] Nakamoto would like tostrengthen the technical side in order to give Marco maxi-mum support because, even if the team has improved, he stillsees something lacking. “We understand the importance therider gives to his current crew though so at Indy, during nego-tiations, we may backtrack on this point.”

If an agreement is reachedSimoncelli would stay with thesatellite Gresini team, forwhom he scored his first po-dium in MotoGP in the lastround at Brno. Fausto Gresinisays that retaining Simoncelli,and having two bikes to run, arecrucial if the relationship withHonda is to be maintained.

“This time is really delicateand I hope everything getssorted by Indianapolis already.That’s because for me it’s im-portant to continue the long re-lationship I have with Honda,but it’s vital to carry on withMarco.

“Being able to field twobikes is fundamental, even ifone of them has the engine de-rived from road production. It’sa bit of a troubling matter forthe Japanese.” Gazzetta reportsthat, as a result of the Simoncellidevelopments, Dovizioso is notexpected to be retained.

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Honda MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli of Italy cuts a curve during the sec-ond free practice session at the Czech Grand Prix in Brno August 12, 2011.