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The Hindus from Tabanan and Buleleng regency conduct “Pakelem” ceremony in Tamblingan Lake
“Pakelem” in Tamblingan Lake secure Singaraja (Bali Post)
Even tough there was heated situation because the separation of the village in Tamblingan area but the “pengening-ening” and “pakelem” ceremony in the lake on Saturday, October 3rd 2009, was carried out successfully. Thousands of Hindus from Tabanan and Buleleng regency crowded Gubug temple near Tamblingan Lake. The ceremony was centered in the temple. “Pakelem” ceremony was using three buffaloes, ducks, and other
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Criminal Researcher Unit of Denpasar Metro Police led by I Gede Alit Widana finally could answer the enigma who murdered Rikasano (30) from Japan. Having performed profound investigation in the field for some days, the butcher of Rikasano could be captured in Malang, Friday (Oct 2) afternoon. The butcher was David from Bandung. To this extent, there has no official information from police officer in connection with the success of capturing the murderer of Rikasano and robbery toward Mayumi. “The murderer was cap-
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lages in Tamblingan usually held the ceremony every two years while the Hindus in Tabanan held the similar one in every three years so once in six year both of them will held the ceremony together. Ida Manca Warna explained that
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animals. The buffaloes were prepared by Tabanan regency and from Tamblingan village. Several officers were also attending the ceremony. Ida Manca Warna, the head of four villages association in Tamblingan area, said that the vil-
the ceremony was held as the gratitude to God as the creator and the keeper of the nature. The people are using the water from the lake for many purposes so they need to thank the God for it. The people in the area also preserving the lake by rejecting investors to develop the Tamblingan area. “We will keep rejecting any investors who wanted to build hotels in the area. We wanted to conserve the lake,” he added.
tured in Malang at around 17:00 Local Time this afternoon (Oct 2— ed.),” explained a resource person in police station. Such resource person told that the reveal of uproarious murder case to Bali community in particular, was due to hard work of police officer. The victim Rikasano was found dead in bushes of vacant land, Jalan Mertanadi, Kuta, right in front of Pasar Oleh-Oleh Kampoeng Bali. After performing several times of identification at location where Rikasano was found, one of the evidences found was MP4. This finding helped the police to learn more about the case. Allegedly, such MP4 belonged to murderer. “We indeed
got indication that victim once struggled with the doer at location,” he explained. Well, joint officer of Denpasar Metro Police, Kuta Sector Police and Bali Police led by Director of Criminal Researcher, Wilmar Marpaung, investigated profoundly by means of cyber crime. Even, when the photo was shown, in fact it showed the same characteristic as explained by witnesses. Characteristic of the photo was puff-up and slightly obese. Then, the existence of the suspect was tracked in Malang. “Previously, we also frisked the boarding house of the suspect at Pemogan, South Denpasar,” he described. Such frisking was performed one
day before the doer was captured. “At that time, the doer was said to have left his boarding house few days before,” expressed a source asking his name not to be mentioned. Existence of the doer known from Bandung was then tracked. Based on information obtained, the doer was around Malang. Having frisked boarding house of the doer, police officer straightforwardly departed for Malang. As a result, the doer could be captured without resistance. “It was said the doer worked at one of cigarette companies on Jalan Bypass. The doer just worked there for a month and having received his salary he directly escaped to Malang,” he added. (kmb21)
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Bali News
Teens of Rare Animals Seized by BKSDA Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Officials of Conservation Agency of Natural Resources (BKSDA) could capture the smuggling of rare animals protected by government. Teens of rare animals that would be sent to Japan consisted of 12 eagles, 3 owls, 1 civet cat and some other birds. Four alleged smugglers of protected animal were arrested at the office of BKSDA, Jalan Suwung Batan Kendal, South Denpasar. “These four smugglers are under investigation at the office of BKSDA,” said Chief Unit of Quick Action Forest Police, Made Astra Wijaya, Friday (Oct 2).
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An officer of Conservation Agency of Natural Resources (BKSDA) shows the confiscated animal which was smuggled.
Anticipating Terrorist Attack
It was said that the four smugglers comprised a seller, an owner and two couriers from Java. They were captured in a boarding house on Jalan Pulau Adi VI No. 21 C, Denpasar. “Previously, we have carried out a surveillance for two days,” stated Astra Wijaya. BKSDA officials received information that there would be a smuggling of rare animals protected by government through air transport. “We got information that some rare animas would be sent to Japan through Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban,” he explained. Such information was then followed up. Control at Ngurah Rai was made more intensive. Other officials searched for information at location. He said the investigation gave satisfying result. Boarding house belonging to one of the couriers could be traced. “It made us spend the night around the location of frisking,” he said. The four doers frisked were Tolib, Amir, Lukman and another courier.
They were captured at 07:30 Local Time and teens of rare animals were seized. “They just arrived from Java Island by truck and reached location around 07:00 Local Time and we frisked and captured them,” he revealed. According to Astra Wijaya, the smuggling of these rare animals was the second time. The first one was successful. Its modus operandi was unique where the smuggled animals were put inside a handbag. “I regretted the matter. Strongly alleged, there was cooperation with security officer of the Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban,” he added. In the meantime, according to the doers those animals would be sold to Japanese guests identified as Nauki and his friend. Allegedly, both Japanese guests remained to stay in Bali. “We are still pursuing both Japanese guests. Related to their price, we do not get information how much they will be sold,” he described. (kmb21)
Inspection of Demographic Administration
Territorial Military Commander Instructed Not To Wait Three Ensnared Found Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Bali made as the main target of terrorists, beyond Jakarta, is not an exaggerated matter. On that account, important measure to be taken in years to come together with the elements of security is that never taking any waiting measures. “Please take prompt action and pick up should there be any suspicious thing. If it becomes a part of terrorist’s action, please resolve it pursuant to prevailing regulations in the community,” asserted the Commander of Territorial Military of IX Udayana, Hotmangaraja Panjaitan, in the midst of general rehearsal of Armed Forces Day celebration at Margarana Public Square, Renon, Friday (Oct 2). He emphasized that facing terrorism denoted a comprehensive action. In other words, such activity did not just absolutely belong to responsibility of security officer, but responsibility of all components. How to arrange all components in order became collective responsibility became our collective tasks. “Our emphasis that such
togetherness is not only on a theory, but more on practice,” he said. Bali, added this two-stared officer, was indeed undeniable to become the main target of terrorism. It did not intend to invite, but alertness should be maintained all the times. No body would like the continuation of Bali Bomb I and II that actually has killed many lives. “In actuality, we do not wait, but would not like if it happen again,” described Commander while stating that it was determination of apparatus of IX Udayana Territorial Military Commander in maintaining Bali from disturbance of terrorists. How to make Bali safe from disturbance of terrorist? According to Hotmangaraja Panjaitan, it could be carried out by collective endeavor. If anti-terrorist unit of police department kept on searching for the cells of terrorists up to its grass root level, so the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) pursuant to regulations could also take part in performing eradication. It was by taking advantage of elements
existing within the TNI. Intelligence element of TNI could make cooperation with national intelligence agency, police intelligence, battle unit of TNI and territorial unit. It was this territorial commander with local community informed every single suspicion occurring in their territorial. Periodically, TNI has performed inspection and patrol at housing complex. Similarly, his party also brought about data collection in cooperation with Civil Servant Police Unit (Satpol PP) of each region. On asking about what steps that should be taken by community in maintaining Bali to make it secure from terrorist attack, the son of revolutionary hero DI Panjaitan, said that community was necessary to be involved in patrol, inspection or data collection on population. Community should ask themselves what role to play. To find out the answer, community could perform it by looking to the right and left. In other words, community should have suspicion if they happen to see individual showing suspicious attitude. (015)
without Identity Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Today, Denpasar authority intensively performs sudden inspection to regional migrants to minimize the existence of population having no identity. Sudden inspection in South Denpasar, Thursday (Oct 1) night, was carried out integratively targeting Antap Hamlet, Panjer Village. Three residents having no identity were snared on that control. Head of South Denpasar sub district, IB Alit Wiradana, who was present on that occasion, revealed that the endeavor was meant to create Denpasar having neat demographic system. “Through sudden inspection like this we expect all residents existing in Denpasar to have ID card because it is very important for an individual,” said former Head of Sanur Village. Alit Wiradarma appealed all residents in order they could complete themselves with ID card. Moreover,
such control operation would be performed continuously and sustainably. “This operation could run flourishingly because of good cooperation delivered by local residents and related apparatus,” he said. Besides, the Head of sub district also appealed the owners of boarding house to report their dwellers as soon as possible. It was important to do in order the hamlet head promptly knew the resident of his territory. Such data collection was also intended to create secure atmosphere at surrounding environment. In the meantime, Head of Panjer Village, Made Rapog, said that such sudden inspection targeting Antap Hamlet was performed every week. Given the residents of Panjer Village were recorded 17,300. Based on the data collected, 66 residents had permit of temporary stay, 31 residents had Permit Card of Temporary Residence (KIPS) and 3 others had no identity at all. (kmb12)
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Nyepi Segara in Nusa Penida
Late Information, Ship’s Owners Protest Semarapura (Bali Post)—
In connection with ritual procession at Penataran Ped Temple, Nusa Penida, Saturday (Oct 3), it was resumed with Nyepi Segara or Day of Silence at Sea, on Sunday (Oct 4) starting from 06:00 Local Time through 06:00 Local Time, Monday (Oct 05). Concerning with the procession, entire community, particularly owner of crossing ship, were not allowed to operate their ships from and to the waters of Nusa Penida. However, some protests by ferry ship’s owners came into being recently. One of them was by Ketut Mahardika, owner of cruise ship BH providing services to guests to cross Lembongan Island, Nusa Penida. Mahardika protested because he received the notification late. Meanwhile, his guests have booked a month before. “In previous years, we received the notification a month in advance. This year, we just received it two days before the activity,” he said. Due to such cancellation, many guests complained to him where most of them were European. For Sunday (Oct 4), at least 250 guests have made reservation for crossing to Lembongan. However, due to the organization of Day of Silence at Sea, the crossing was cancelled. “Our guests got angry,” he said while admitted to inflict a loss of USD 90 per gust due to
such cancellation. Mahardika blamed the Office of Cultural and Tourism Services due to its late notification. He judged the authority did not respond the matter accordingly. “It does not mean that I do not appreciate such ritual procession. But, I want this experience would be made into a learning by the authority so it would not occur again in years to come,” he expected. No officials of Klungkung Office of Cultural and Tourism Services were ready to give clarification related to that matter. They did not obtain any mandate from the Head of Klungkung Office of Cultural and Tourism Services, Nengah Wijana, who was in overseas journey at that time. Meanwhile, the Head of Organizing Committee of the Ritual Procession, Wayan Pedoman, has sent notification letter to Klungkung Regent Wayan Candra, with carbon copy sent to the Office of Cultural and Tourism Services and related authorities like port officer, village head and others dated September 18, 2009. The committee asked the regent and related authorities to announce the organization of Day of Silence at Sea to related parties. Such ritual was meant as an appreciation to the Lord Varuna in order the community of Nusa Penida whose livelihood at sea could obtain abundant fortunes. (kmb20)
Endorsed by UNESCO
People’s Appreciation to Batik Remains Low Gianyar (Bali Post)—
At the end, Batik cloth of Indonesia was entered into the 76 world heritages by UNESCO. It was expected that the image of batik in Indonesia would revive again. One of the hand-made batik makers in Gianyar, Cokorda Agung Pemayun delivered the expectation from Intaran Hamlet, Pejeng, Tampaksiring, Friday (Oct 2). According to him, government was necessary to keep on encouraging and awakening the people’s appreciation to Indonesian batik. The love on the use of domestic products, he added, had a great impact, to not only its makers but also the economy in general. It was said that policy of government in preserving indigenous wisdom was very positive and should be continued constantly. “It is not only acknowledged by the world, but it needs an affinity to Indonesian products,” he explained. By such endorsement, he confessed he got many requests from hotels to organize exhibitions. However, when he made site in-
spection, it seemed to have no a good appreciation to batik makers, as done by a hotel where Cok Agung was reluctant to mention the name. As mentioned, real condition of local market for printing batik was relatively small than that of overseas market searching for the existence of printing batik. The maker and entrepreneur employing 76 artisans said most of his orders came from Japan, Malaysia and Europe. “They much more appreciated our traditional works. Moreover, when the batik is made by machine today. Of course, it will take out the traditional image of our printing batik handicraft having a particular artistic value and culture of our own,” he added. On the one hand, the products of hand batik has far different price from that of made by machine. Indeed, the hand made batik is more expensive than the machine-made batik. The owner of batik with natural color compared the order of batik, where some 80 percent from overseas and remaining 20 percent from domestic. (kmb16)
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A security officer was on guard outside of Vi Ai Pi club. The club will be one of the clubs closed by the government because not having the proper permit.
Three Amusement Centers in Kuta to be Closed, Including Vi Ai Pi Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Justiciary team led by Civil Servant Unit Police (Satpol PP) of Badung, eventually performed the closure and sealing toward a number of amusement centers having no permit in Kuta area. Friday (Oct 2), Satpol PP closed three amusement centers namely Vi Ai Pi, Lanai Restaurant and Crusoe’s Land. Such closure drew public attention of Legian and its surroundings. Teens or even tens of apparatus looked to guard around such locations. The happening could run flourishingly enough without significant resistance from the owner or management. Nevertheless, at Vi Ai Pi for instance, closure of that amusement premises made its employees shocked. They could only keep silent and looked unhappy on seeing the apparatus closing their business premises. The management itself admitted to be disappointed due to government’s attitude judged sluggish in the matter of permit. Chief Unit of Satpol PP of Badung Regency, I Wayan Adi Arnawa, said that such closure and sealing of the business premises because up to that moment those business premises have not
had any permit. According to him, the owners have been reprimanded to complete their permit but they never did it. Still related to the closure, Satpol PP of Badung Regency has sent reprimand letter including briefings. However, since the measures were not noticed so the closure should be carried out. “We’d like to express our gratitude because Vi Ai Pi has shown its cooperation by closing the bar by itself,” he said. In the meantime, representative of Vi Ai Pi, Anggara, confessed to regret the attitude of Badung Gov-
ernment. His party actually has had some permits ranging from Building Permit, Environmental Management Endeavor (UKL), Environmental Monitoring Endeavor (UPL) and other permits. However, up to that moment, his proposal was not processed and such condition made his business premises illegal. In addition, the permit management had indication to have been handed over to provincial authority. As a result, his party appointed an advocate to investigate the stagnancy of permit process. “Why are we made difficult in this matter?” he complained. (ded)
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Japan’s ex-finance minister Nakagawa found dead
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Shoichi Nakagawa. Agence France-Presse
TOKYO - Former Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who was forced to resign over his apparently drunken behaviour at a meeting of world powers, has been found dead at his home, police said Sunday. “We will soon conduct an autopsy and specify the cause of his death,” said a spokeswoman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Nakagawa, 56, was lying face down on a bed at his home in Tokyo’s residential district of Setagaya when his wife found him early Sunday, Jiji Press news agency and other local media reported. They said that no suicide note was discovered, and there was no suggestion of foul play. The re-
ports said he had been dead for up to eight hours before he was found. Nakagawa, a close ally of then prime minister Taro Aso, was incoherent and slurred his speech at a news conference in February after the Group of Seven talks in Rome amid the global economic crisis. A heavyweight in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Nakagawa said he had sipped some wine with lunch before the press conference but blamed jet lag and cold medicine for his drowsiness. “I’m too shocked to think of any words to say,” Aso was quoted by public broadcaster NHK as saying after hearing the news. “As finance minister and state minister for finance services, he backed the Aso administration with his outstanding ability as we were tackling the financial crisis,” he said. “I offer my condolences.” The debacle dealt a blow to Aso, who resigned last month after his conservative LDP suffered a massive defeat against Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s Democratic Party of Japan in general elections in August. Nakagawa, who had made no secret about his fondness for drinking, promised to swear off alcohol ahead of the elections, but lost his seat in his rural constituency in Hokkaido, northern Japan. “I have no power anymore,” a disappointed Nakagawa told his supporters following the poll. “But I want to return your favour,” he added, hinting at running for a future election.
Eeast Timor deputy PM ‘abused power’ in UN job scandal: leaked report Agence France-Presse
DILI - East Timor’s deputy prime minister abused his power by securing a plum United Nations job for his wife in which she was overpaid thousands of dollars, a leaked ombudsman’s report alleges. The July 9 report by East Timor’s Ombudsman Sebastiao Ximenes, obtained by AFP, recommends an investigation be opened into Jose Luis Guterres over allegations that he improperly gave his wife, Ana Maria Valerio, a job as counsel to the UN ambassador in New York in 2006. Guterres’s actions were “an abuse of power, and breached the applicable laws resulting in irregularities and prejudice to the state in favour of the family,” the report said. “This conduct amounts to acts of collusion and nepotism,” it said. Appointees should be career diplomats who have worked through various lower-level posts, “prerequisites Ana Maria Valerio did not fulfill,” the damning report said. The alleged abuse of power in-
cluded the leader’s wife being overpaid about 12,000 dollars in housing allowances reserved only for East Timorese diplomats and citizens working overseas who don’t have homes, according to the report. Guterres was appointed as East Timor’s ambassador to the United States in 2002 before becoming the country’s ambassador to the UN. He returned to East Timor in 2006 to take up the post of foreign minister, but before he left, he gave his wife her new job, breaking a number of anti-corruption laws in the process, the report says. Current Foreign Minister Zacarias Albano da Costa was also accused in the report of failing to “immediately (stop) these payments to Ana Maria Valerio... after he took office in 2007.” Ombudsman Ximenes has passed the report to East Timor’s prosecutor general. In August, opposition Fretilin party lawmakers called for Justice Minister Lucia Lobato and Finance Minister Emilia Pires to be sacked after a report by Ximenes alleged abuse of power by the pair.
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100,000 protest for press freedom in Rome Agence France-Presse
ROME - More than 100,000 people rallied for press freedom in Rome’s central square on Saturday, protesting that scandal-plagued Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wants to muzzle the media. “Berlusconi is bad for Italy’s health,” read one banner emulating warnings on cigarette packets at the demonstration organised by the Italian Press Federation, opposition groups and left-wing trades unionists at Piazza del Popolo. The square was packed with protesters holding green, white and red balloons in the colours of Italy’s flag. Another banner read, “we are all scoundrels”, a term Berlusconi used to describe some TV journalists. “We ask the prime minister to stop the campaign of accusations against journalists and to tell the truth,” Franco Siddi, head of the Italian Press Federation, told the crowd. Organisers said 350,000 took part in the protest, while city authorities put the figure at 60,000. AFP correspondents estimated the crowd in the square at more than 100,000. The protest comes after months of revelations about Berlusconi’s private life spurred the prime minister cum media tycoon to file a series of lawsuits against newspapers in Italy, France and Spain. His supporters have also called on Italians to stop paying their public television viewing fees. Il Giornale, a newspaper belonging to the Berlusconi family’s media empire Mediaset, recently fumed: “On Rai (public TV), it’s anti-Berlusconism seven days a week,” Mediaset also owns three private TV stations while the government has de facto control over Rai. Accusations of an antiBerlusconi bias have spiked since Rai 2 twice invited to its studios a call girl who claims to have accepted money to spend the night with the prime minister. The government threatened to eliminate the show in question, “Annozero”, which claimed an au-
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Banners reading “To the press I answer like this” as people take part in a demostration for freedom of the press in central Rome’s Piazza del Popolo on 3 October 2009. Thousands rally in Rome to defend the freedom of the press against italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s press clampdown, claiming that their right to voice opinions against the italian Premier, is being dangerously undermined in print and, in particular, on television, which is dominated by Mr Berlusconi’s media empire.
dience of seven million, or 29 percent of the viewing public, the second time call girl Patrizia D’Addario appeared on the show Thursday. The government has suspended the contracts of the journalists who work for Annozero. Berlusconi has also sued the director of La Reppublica newspaper, Ezio Mauro, who has published 10
questions asking the prime minister to clarify the nature of his relationship with a teenage model. On Friday, the head of the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders, Jean-Francois Julliard, said Berlusconi was on the way towards becoming the first European head of government to join the group’s “list of predators of freedom of the press.”
Berlusconi’s Fininvest hit with 750 mln euro court decision Agence France-Presse
ROME - The Italian company Fininvest, which is controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has been sentenced to pay 750 million euros to its rival media group CIR in a long-running legal dispute, the ANSA news agency reported Saturday.
Milan’s civil court ruled that the CIR holding company of Carlo De Benedetti was entitled to 749.995 million euros (1.093 billion dollars) in compensation for Fininvest destroying the value of its stake in Mondadori, Italy’s leading publishing house. Marina Berlusconi, the head of Fininvest and the daughter of the
prime minister, announced the company would appeal the court decision. The case dates from 1990, when Fininvest, then headed by the prime minister, wrestled control of Mondadori from De Benedetti. De Benedetti welcomed the court’s ruling, saying “it established in an irrevocable fashion the illegal behavior” of Fininvest.
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HOSPITAL Denpasar There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners Denpasar General Hospital (RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongaya and Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.
HOSPITAL Bangli Bangli General Hospital Jl. Kesumayuda 27, Bangli Phone : +62 366 91521 Gianyar
Royal Danish & Norwegian Mimpi Resort Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 070 The Czech Republic Jalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.286 465 France Consulate Agency Jalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.285 485 The Federal Republic of Germany Jalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.288 535 The Republic of Hungary Jalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.287 701 Italian Consulate Jalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 005 Honorary Consulate of Mexico Jalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.223 266 Honorary Consulate of The Netherlands Jalan Raya Kuta 127, Bali Phone +62.361.761 506 Honorary Consulate of Spain Komplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.769 286 USA Consulate Agency Jalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.222 426 Consulate General of Japan Jalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.227 628 Honorary Consulate of British Jalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.270 601 Swiss and Austria Consulate Jalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan Istana Galleria Phone +62.361.751 735 Honorary Consulate of Brazil Jalan Legian No. 186, Bali Phone +62.361.757 775 Honorary Consulate of Thailand Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.263 310 Embassy of India Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.241 978 Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf Finland Segara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.282 223 Honorary Consulate of Malaysia Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.752 520
RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. It is located on Jl. Kesehatan Selatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with : Phone : 227 911 – 15 Fax : 226 363 Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters for less serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, anemia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equipped to care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl. Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar. Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690. Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit) Jl. Kartini, Denpasar. Phone : 222 142. Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private) Jl. Sudirman No 50, Denpasar Phone : 227 560, 234 824 In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medical evacuation company, that is: AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali. PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 24X, Kuta 80361. Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768 One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that the Blood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh) Negative blood. Badung Bali Medical Clinics There are some medical clinics that are well known by foreigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and operated : Bali International Medical Center (BIMC) Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excellent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Services for tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali. Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance & Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone : 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta, Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com International SOS Clinic Bali Opened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visitors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency medical service. Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - Indonesia Phone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919 E-mail : info@sos-bali.com ttp ://www.sos-bali.com Bali Nusa Dua Emergency Clinic Jl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324 Kuta Clinic Jl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268 Dental Clinic Dr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, Denpasar Phone : 222 445, 234 375 DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81 Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324 Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4A Br. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501
Clinic Mas Jl. Raya Mas, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974573 Toyo Clinic Jl. Pengosekan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 978078 Permata Bunda Clinic Jl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 942082 Ubud Clinic Jl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974911 Gianyar General Hospital Jl. Ciung Wanara 2, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 943049 Karangasem Karangasem General Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai, Karangasem Phone : +62 363 21001 Klungkung Klungkung General Hospital Jl. Flamboyan 40-4, Klungkung Phone : +62 366 21371 Negara Negara General Hospital Jl. Gelar, Negara Phone : +62 365 41006 Tabanan Laboratorium Clinic Jl. Gunung semeru No. 8, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 819260 Mengwi Clinic Jl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 880550 Darma Kerti Hospital Jl. Teratai 16, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 812359 Tabanan General Hospital Jl. Pahlawan 14, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 811027 Singaraja Prodia Clinic Jl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 24-516 Singaraja Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 22-573 Pet Clinics Kayumas: (0361) 226934 Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121 Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018 Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518 Sidakarya: (0361) 724492 Pedungan: (0361) 720026
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News Aboriginal patrols curb illegal fishing in Australia Agence France-Presse
AFP PHOTO/JAY DIRECTO
Catholic priest Robert Reyes, (C-L) wades through mud and uses a tree branch to bless survivors, animals and flood ravaged homes in the slums of Bagong Silangan in Quezon city, suburban Manila on October 4, 2009, where he also officiated mass for the victims.
A wet Christmas for millions near flooded Philippine lake Agence France-Presse
TAGUIG - Two million people living around a huge lake east of the Philippine capital could spend Christmas with their homes partly submerged, after slapdash development left floodwaters nowhere to go. The mish-mash of farms, shantytowns, housing developments, factories and tourist resorts around Laguna de Bay remain swamped with muddy water following the September 26 floods which killed nearly 300 people in and around Manila. The area around the lake has six million residents and 2.2 million of them live in districts that could stay flooded for three months, according to Edgardo Manda, head of the government’s Laguna Lake Development Authority. Lacking a modern sewerage system, much of the sprawling area’s runoff, trash and liquid pollution goes into the lake. Manda advised people in the flooded areas to relocate, warning some may be forced to move if they don’t go voluntarily. However, Lorenzo Cruz and his family — who are among the last rice farmers in the narrow band of marshes in Taguig city between the lake’s western shore and metro Manila — have little choice but to stay. Cruz, 42, his wife and one of their children are living in a half-submerged home made of corrugated iron roof sheets and plywood walls to protect their pigs and ward off burglars. They are sleeping in beds on makeshift platforms that barely keep them above the water, while wooden palettes in the pigpen keep their five hogs from drowning.
“When we’re asleep rats crawl all over us,” he said. “The pigs are better off.” Cruz, like many in the area’s older communities who rely on fishing and farming, is angry about the new housing, roads and other development that critics say have worsened the flooding. “Ever since they built them, the floods have gotten worse because the catchment areas were lost,” he said, gesturing at a row of peach-coloured apartment units and a bridge across the mouth of the Napindan river. The Cruz family now paddle around home and above their rice fields on an improvised styrofoam raft. Throughout the water-logged region, there are other remarkable signs of a new way of life as people try to adapt to lives on water. Some boats are parked in what used to be driveways. In submerged houses, most of the furniture and appliances that can be moved have been hauled to the second floor, while chickens, including expensive fighting cocks, roost on rooftops. Residents of houses with no upper floors have nailed wooden palettes against the wall to keep their beds off the water. Some women wash clothes by hand in submerged living rooms, balancing on tall chairs and benches, while naked children cavort on the streets, which they
use as impromptu swimming pools. But as the crisis drags on, garbage is piling up in giant plastic containers on street corners. There is no electricity and, with toilets blocked for over a week, residents giggle or blush when asked how they relieve themselves. Trucks deliver tap water to the outskirts of the area, which residents put into plastic jugs that they bring home using boats and other flotation devices. Authorities now admit that chaotic urban planning, or no planning at all, has aggravated the Laguna flood debacle. “Our problem is we live where we should never have lived,” said Bayani Fernando, head of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, which is in charge of flood control, sanitation and traffic. Migrants as well as businesses have encroached riverbanks, impeding natural drainage, he said. But Gerry Balinas, a 40-year-old used car parts dealer whose shanty home was flooded, said informal settlers near Laguna had nowhere else to go. Balinas said he uprooted his family of five from the rebellion-torn southern island of Mindanao 11 years ago. “We had no jobs and no future there,” he added. “Now, if they want this area cleared, we are willing to leave as long as they give us new houses elsewhere.”
MANINGRIDA - As Aboriginal sea ranger Dion Cooper’s patrol boat cuts through Australia’s northern waters, he maintains a running commentary about what seems a featureless blue expanse. Off the port bow is a breeding ground for dugongs, the slow-moving sea cows still hunted by Aborigines in the Northern Territory, further on, a spot where traps have been laid to snare a five metre (16.4 foot) crocodile. “He’s a crafty one,” Cooper says with a laugh, his voice barely audible over the roar of the outboard motor. “We haven’t got him yet, keeps giving us the slip.” But Cooper turns serious as his open-topped aluminium craft approaches a submerged reef where an Indonesian fishing vessel ran aground about three years ago. “It was stuck, they couldn’t get away that time,” he says. Cooper is a sea ranger off the Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land, part of an effort by authorities to use indigenous know-how to curb illegal fishing in the remote area. Under a pilot programme, Australian Customs and Northern Territory Fisheries have contracted the Djelk Aboriginal people to patrol a 2,000 square kilometre (772 square mile) area of water off their traditional coastal lands. About 30 rangers using six boats conduct daily patrols looking for illegal foreign fishing vessels and Australian commercial fishing boats not authorised to be in the area. “A few years ago we would see them everywhere,” Cooper said of the foreign vessels, which mainly seek shark fins for Asian markets. Djelk ranger coordinator Shaun Ansell said the poachers used “incredibly destructive” fishing methods, including gill nets which indiscriminately scour the ocean and long lines that ensnare bird life. “It was very distressing for our rangers to come across this massive waste of the resources that we all depend on around here,” Ansell said. He said that the Djelk rangers’ patrols for Customs had been an outstanding success, with the number of foreign fishing vessels sighted in the area falling to zero shortly after they began three years
ago. “It’s been a great partnership between the Djelk and Customs,” he said. “Customs get local guys who know the area intimately, they’re out there day to day keeping a really close eye on what’s going on — they can detect things in an area where the Australian government can’t put resources on a large scale.” While large Customs ships still conduct weekly sweeps on the high seas, Ansell said his rangers came into their own in the shallower coastal waters most often targeted by maritime poachers. “We’ve got the local knowledge and the boats and the skill to get out there into the coastal environment, into all the small creeks where the (illegal) boats go and hide,” he said. The Djelk rangers have also proved successful against Australian commercial fishing vessels exceeding their quotas or operating in sacred Aboriginal sites, assisting in three successful prosecutions in the past year. The rangers do not have the power to arrest or apprehend illegal fishers but use high-tech equipment on their patrol boats to immediately report poachers to authorities and then shadow their movements to ensure they do not escape. They also monitor the coast for crocodiles, relocationg them to uninhabited areas where possible, as well as collecting debris such as nets and driftwood discarded by foreign ships that could harbour exotic pests. Ansell said if the pilot programme was expanded to other indigenous communities it would give Customs a cost-effective way of protecting Australia’s vast northern coastline. “There’s the potential there to create a web of surveillance right across the remote north,” he said. It also gives local Aborigines such as Dion Cooper full-time work in an area where jobs are scarce and allows them to protect waters their ancestors have fished for thousands of years. “I get to go out on patrol and after we do that I sometimes have time for fishing,” he said. “It’s the best job in the world and I get to do it every day.”
”Pakelem”... From page 1 The ceremony was tightly guarded by police officers. This was needed because the security condition in the area. There was a riot happened in the village because some people rejecting the separation of the village. The Tamblingan village was planning to become an
own village, separated from the previous one. If Tamblingan become a separated village then Gubug temple will be in the area of the village and the outside people were affarid that they can not conduct the ceremony in the temple anymore. Several house were burn and broken in the riot but the police is handling the case. (kmb15)
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5.5-magnitude quake rocks eastern Indonesia: USGS Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - A 5.5-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia on Sunday, centred in the far east of the country about 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles) from the Sumatra quake disaster zone, seismologists said. The quake, which Indonesian seismologists had put at a magnitude of 6.1, hit West Papua province
at 12:36 am local time (0336 GMT) at a depth of 39 kilometres, 128 kilometres northwest of the provin-
cial capital of Manokwari, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. On Wednesday, a powerful 7.6-
magnitude quake rocked Sumatra Island in the west of the country, burying thousands and devastating the city of Padang and surrounding villages. Indonesian geophysics agency technical head Suharjono told AFP there were no immediate reports of injuries in West Papua.
“The earthquake in Papua has nothing to do with that in Sumatra. The tectonic plates in both incidents are different,” he said. Earthquakes are common in Indonesia, which sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where several tectonic plates converge.
Indonesia’s ‘unlucky’ president takes quake blame Agence France-Presse
AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN
Swiss rescue members look on as an excator digs into the rubble of a school in the Sumatran city of Padang on October 4, 2009 after a 7.6-magnitude quake toppled buildings and cut the main electricity supply in the area late on September 30.
Hopes fade for Indonesian quake victims Agence France-Presse
PADANG - Rescuers held out scant hope Sunday for Indonesian quake survivors, handing recovery teams the grim task of retrieving the decaying bodies of some 4,000 victims believed buried in rubble. More international rescue teams arrived with sniffer dogs and specialist equipment on the fourth day after the 7.6-magnitude quake, with large areas still unexplored. But few experts expected to pluck out people alive. In Padang, a vast team dug at the Ambacang hotel, a focus for rescue efforts, where hopes had been raised for survivors on Saturday after police received a mobile text message supposedly from someone inside. “I think the chances of finding survivors are very slim,” the team leader of Newmont Emergency Rescue Team, Samsubin, told AFP at the scene of the ruined Dutch colonial-era hotel. “We are taking an aggressive approach today to remove about 140 bodies that we believe are buried near the swimming pool.” Jack hammers and excavators worked over the huge pile of concrete, metal rods and debris which
has drawn large crowds despite the clouds of dust and lingering smell of decomposition. Outside of Padang, the scale of the disaster is only now being discovered. Desperate villagers complained to AFP reporters that they were being neglected while the focus remained on Padang. Whole villages northwest of Padang were found obliterated after giant landslides buried houses and hundreds of people. One local official put the death toll in one area at about 600. The dead outside Padang included an entire wedding party of 30 people swept away in an avalanche of mud and rock. “Today the military will be heading to landslide areas which we have not been able to access earlier because roads are closed and broken,” Indonesian military spokesman Sagom Tamboen told AFP. The mayor of Padang, Fauzi Bahar, said that only 60 percent of affected areas in West Sumatra had been accessed by emergency teams, adding that more equipment was needed given the scale of the task. He said people were “traumatised”
in his city, which now faces a colossal rebuilding task. “Some of the residents had spent 15 years saving money to build their houses and they’re gone with a blink of an eye,” he said. Countries from around the world have rushed aid and rescue teams to the scene and international aid groups are ramping up efforts to provide housing, medical services and basics such as food and water. Teams from Australia, Britain, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and the United States have arrived or are travelling to the scene to help overwhelmed and exhausted locals. Australia sent a warship carrying a full medical team while France dispatched two aircraft carrying humanitarian assistance experts and 25 tonnes of relief supplies. Both the United Nations and the Red Cross estimate that about 4,000 people were trapped when the quake struck in the early evening of Wednesday. The government death toll, which has not been revised since Thursday, stands at around 800.
JAKARTA - Some superstitious Indonesians are blaming a supposedly “unlucky” president — and not shifting tectonic plates — for the latest earthquake in this disaster-prone country. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, popularly known by his initials SBY, has long been burdened by murmurs that he carries with him the shadow of cosmic misfortune. A string of disasters both natural and man-made since his election in 2004, including the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 220,000 across Asia, has seen quips that SBY stands for “Selalu Bencana Ya”, roughly meaning “Always A Disaster”. The latest catastrophe, believed to have killed upwards of 1,100 people with another buried 4,000 under rubble, is viewed by many in this Muslim-majority country of 234 million as yet more proof that SBY’s stars are crossed. “SBY, because of his birth date, will always attract disasters to this country, according to the Primbon (a Javanese almanac of mysticism)” Permadi, a veteran politician from the opposition Gerindra party and practising shaman, told AFP. “Just look at the numbers of his birth date — the ninth of the ninth, ’49 — that’s unlucky. The more he holds on to power, the more great disasters will happen,” he said. If Yudhoyono stays president, “a much bigger disaster will strike Jakarta for sure,” Permadi said, referring to the Indonesian capital. “If SBY had a big heart, he would step down.” Not everyone believes this theory — and many see SBY’s birthday as enviably lucky — but such talk of supernatural misfortune has deep resonance in Indonesia, where Islam and Christianity are for many merged with older traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism and animism. The criticism has been long-standing enough that Yudhoyono lectured local government heads in the quake-hit region of West Sumatra two years ago that they should blame the region’s volatile geology, and not him. “Magma doesn’t move because SBY has become president. It’s malicious to link it to me being president,” he was quoted as saying at the time. Even the Jakarta Post, one of the top-selling English dailies, suggested a link between the disaster and the extravagance of politicians in a Sunday editorial entitled “The Gods Must Be Angry”. “Whether you subscribe to the theological or secular explanation, the 7.6-magnitude quake that killed more than 1,100 people came on the eve of the multi-billion-rupiah inauguration ball for newly elected members of the House of Representatives and the Regional Representative Council in Jakarta,” it said. Political analyst Bima Arya Sugiarto said that while some, particularly opposition politicians, try to paint the president as a spiritual liability, there are benefits for him in Indonesians’ gaze beyond the physical world. Criticism of the often slow aid response, and the poor planning that allowed shoddy buildings to spring up in the first place, has been muted by fatalism and a widespread belief that the disaster is God’s will, Sugiarto said. Indonesian media have carried accounts of divine symbols in the aftermath of the quake, including a ring-shaped sun surrounded by a rainbow and God’s name inscribed in Arabic calligraphy in the clouds. In the devastated city of Padang, a commonly heard refrain has been that the quake is a test, or a punishment, ordained by God. “I think the quake happened because many of the youths in Padang commit sins, especially during Ramadan,” chicken-feed factory worker Yasrizat, 36, said near a mosque in the city. “They’ve been engaging in sinful activities by the beach. I think God is punishing us with this quake.”
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Bali Today Development of Ngurah Rai Airport emphasize on safety Antara
DENPASAR – Bali Governor, Made Mangku Pastika, said that the expansion of Ngurah Rai Airport should emphasize on the safety and comfort of the passengers. “We hope that security become the priority in developing the airport. The security check should be started from the entrance door,” he added. The governor supported the development of the airport because it could make the passengers using the airport become more comfortable. However, the governor expected that the development use Balinese architecture. Pastika said “we expect there will be several Balinese ornaments so the tourists coming to the airport
will know the beautiful art and culture of Bali.” Meanwhile, Heru Legowo, the General Manager of Angkasa Pura I, said that the development will cost 5 billion rupiah and it will start in November. “There is great hope that by the development on Ngurah Rai Airport, the passengers will become more comfortable in the airport,” he added.
Garuda provides extra flights to Padang Antara
DENPASAR - National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is providing extra flights to Padang City, West Sumatra, to accommodate the need of people who have relatives who became victims in Wednesday’s earthquake. Garuda General Manager for Bali Bagus Y Siregar said here on Friday that Garuda had added extra flights to the West Sumatra province since Thursday, October 1, 2009. “The extra flights serve passengers from Soekarno-Hatta airport in Cengkarng to Padang with Airbus A330 aircraft with seating capacity for 260,” Seiregar, who was accompanied by Garuda Spokesman for Bali Wayan Supatra Yasa, said. He said based on Garuda’s schedules the flights with GA-1602 would depart from Jakarta to Padang at 1 pm and arrive in Padang at 2.4 pm while GA-1612 would depart from Padang at 3.40 pm and arrive in Jakarta at 7.20 pm. Siregar said that the price of Garuda ticket to Padang was decided
at a medium rate while the ticket price for the return flights from Padang to Jakarta was set at Rp50,000, excluding fuel surcharge and tax. In Jakarta, Vice President Jusuf Kalla has ordered the Transportation Ministry to take action against airlines that had raised ticket prices for flights to earthquake-battered West Sumatra province. “I have ordered (the ministry of transportation) to find those raising ticket prices and to take action against them,” the vice president said after conducting Friday prayers. It was reported earlier that a number of airlines had raised the price of their tickets for flights from Jakarta to Padang more than three-fold so that a one-way ticket could cost as much as Rp3 million. The vice president said that the ticket prices could have been raised by ticket brokers. “I summoned the president director (Emirsyah Satar) of Garuda Indonesia last night and asked him whether it was true that there were ticket price hikes,” the vice president said.
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The photo shows Ngurah Rai International airport from above. Bali’s governor Made Mangku Pastika hopes the expansion of Ngurah Rai Airport will focus on the safety and comfort of passengers that using the airport.
Dewa Batuan to held exhibition in Spain Antara
DENPASAR – Dewa Nyoman Batuan, 63 years old artists from Pengosekan, Ubud, will hold an exhibition in Spain. “Fifteen of my works themed ‘Mandala’ had been delivered to Spain. The exhibition will be held with the support of my best friend there,” he said. The exhibition will be held in mid October or early November 2009. Batuan said “the sponsor of the exhibition will come to Bali in order to pre-
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grandfather learnt from Rudof Bonet, a famous artist from Netherlands, stayed in Ubud. Bonnet along with the late Tjokorda Gde Agung Sukawati who was born in 1910 and a local artist, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, established “Pita Maha” in 1936 which inspires the imagination of Balinese arts and culture. “Pita Maha” is made to salvage and preserve the art of Bali by organizing all artists in Bali. Dewa Nyoman Batuan is one of the descendant of “Pita Maha”.
Painter from Malang to conduct exhibition in Ubud Antara
National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is providing extra flights to Padang City, West Sumatra, to accommodate the need of people who have relatives who became victims in Wednesday’s earthquake.
pare everything needed for the event.” The sponsor is also artists who had stayed in Ubud for several years and the artists also will hold exhibition in Ubud. The paintings already being sent to Spain last month but Batuan was still waiting for the right moments to hold a painting exhibition. The paintings were the result of selection done by Batuan himself from approximately 500 paintings. Dewa Nyoman Batuan is the third generation of Pita Maha because her
DENPASAR – A painter from Malang, Yosa Batuprasada, will hold exhibition in “T” Art Space, Ubud started on October 4th through October 11th 2009. The theme of exhibition is “Howmuch 2 Homage”. “The exhibition is the form of gratitude for the old painters such as Van Goh, Pablo Picasso, and others. I’m working on old artistic work with modern style,” he added. Yosa said that in the post impressionist age, the line was very strong but currently the style have been change because the effect of technology
such as computer. He rearranged the old paintings so the lines and colors become clearer. Yosa will exhibit 15 paintings and by the exhibition he wanted to explain that the beautiful culture of Indonesia started to diminish especially in his native land in Java. “Everybody is talking about fight against the western culture but actually the one being use to fight is not the Javanese culture but the culture of middle eats. So I think that we should not reject the outside culture, we can accept the good part of it,” Yosa said. He also explained that he him-
self is very hard to be said as an original Javanese people because is wearing clothes coming from US, his hair similar to Jamaican people, and his education was the heritage of the Netherlands, and his faith is from Middle East. “The fact is similar to that condition. The parents always say that they are the pure one but actually they also had been affected by outside culture,” he added. For that reason he use old painting styles and combined it with the current style. Yosa started to work on that kind of style since 2005 and exhibit his works since 2008.
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Balinese Culture Kehen Temple, Bangli
Gebog Domas as the Responsible Clan Kehen Temple is situated on a small hill side in northern part of Bangli at Pekuwon sub village, Cempaga Village, Bangli Regency about 45 Km from Denpasar. This great temple in the middle of Bangli stores several essential inscriptions declared as an Indonesian cultural heritage. How long has Kehen Temple existed? According to Bendesa (village responsible person) of Cempaga Village, I Nyoman Resiyasa, it’s hard to predict the temple’s existence. Obviously, Bangli’s history began and basically adopted Kehen inscriptions on the 10th of May 1204. “It means, that Kehen Temple had existed long before,” adding that the temple underwent renovation in 1917, after an earthquake demolished it. Resiyasa who is usually
called Mekel Bulakan, or Jero Mangku of Kehen Tehen said, there are 113 shrines existing around Kehen Temple. However, the main shrine is in the shape of Meru Tumpang Solas (eleven leveled shrine). On the left side of this Meru exists other shrines in line called Puncak Yang Ukir, Hyang Puserin Jagat, Betara Sanghyang Pujung Sari, Bhatara Gunung Tengah, Bhatara Gunung Koloka, Bhatara Gede Sema, Bhatara Tamansari, Bhatara Ratu Penyarikan, Bhatara Ratu Pasek Tugu and Bhatara Ratu Pasek Majembul. Whilst on the right side there are other shrines such as Bhatara Ngurah Agung, Bhatara Gunung Agung, Bhatara Manik Tirtha, Bhatara Ratu Maspahit, Bhatara Ratu Gede Pande and Bhatara Ratu Pande Madura all sited at the main temple area (utama mandala) with a further ten dif-
ferent also located at Jaba Duwur and Jaba Sisi. It was explained that historically the responsible clan/society of Kehen Temple is Gebog Domas (domas means eight hundred), which means the people who occupy 800 karang ayahan (dwelling land) and bebanoan spread within Bangli and surrounding areas. Gebog Domas, Bebanoan (supporting people) and also pakaseh/subak members around the temple’s area will be responsible on any ceremonial execution, temple’s maintenance under the coordination of the Jero Gede, Kehen Temple. The feast day ceremony of Kehen Temple falls every 210 days, Buda Kliwon Shinta (27 July 2005), whilst the Ngusaba ritual is carried out once in every 3 years, on Purnama Sasih Kelima (BTN/Suka)
Soto Babat
(Clear Tripe Soup) Overview: This is usually served with sambel tomat as a contrasting condiment. The sugar cane is used to help soften the tripe rather than to add any sweetness to the soup. Ingredients: 600 gr beef tripe, cleaned and washed well 3 liter water 1 liter beef stock 1 cup beef spice paste 5 cm sugar can stem, split lengthwise (optional) 2,5 cm ginger, peeled and sliced lengthwise 4 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 1 tbsp distilled white vinegar 200 gr giant white radish, peeled and diced in 1 cm cubes 5 sprigs celery leaf chipped 1 tbsp fried shallots Preparation: Rinse tripe well under running water until very clean. Bring water to boil in a large pan, add tripe and simmer until soft approx 1 hour. Strain water and cool tripe in ice water. Cut in pieces approx 2,5 cm x 1cm. Bring beef, beef spice paste, sugar cane, ginger, garlic and vinegar to boil. Add tripe and radish. Simmer until vegetables are soft. Garnish with celery leaf and fried shallots. Helpful hints: Any type of summer squash or Chinese winter melon can be used instead of giant white radish (Japanese daikon). This soup reheats well.sing cabbage, the cooking time will be much shorter. Season to taste with salt and pepper and garnish with fried shallots. (http:// www.baliguide.com/balifood)
Buah kacang mekuah (Long Bean with Coconut Sauce)
Overview: This soupy vegetable dish has plenty of savory liquid, which can be spooned over rice. Ingredients: 2 cups chicken stock ½ cup basic spice paste 1 stalk lemon grass, bruised 3 salam leaves 600 gr long beans cut in 2.5 cm pieces Salt and pepper to taste Fried shallots to garnish
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Two craftwomen were showing tourists how to make batik at Ayana Resort and Spa, Jimbaran. These was a performance to introduce the art of Batik that UNESCO acknowledges as Indonesian culture.
Preparation: Heat chicken stock in saucepan. Add spice paste, lemon grass and salam leaves and simmer for 5 minutes. Add beans and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer until beans are cooked. Season to taste with salt. Garnish with fried shallots. Helpful hints: Any type of green bean can be used instead of the long Asian variety. (http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)
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Jagatnatha Temple Jagatnatha Temple is a Hindu Temple located in the center of Denpasar town. It is precisely located in Major Wisnu street eastside field of Puputan Badung. This temple is categorized as Kahyangan Temple and become an altar to the god for Hindu people. If it is compared with the name of Kahyangan Temples or other temples around Bali Island , this temple’s name is taken from the name of mount or village which is relevant to the temple located in Besakih Temple area, Ulundanu Batur Temple area, Lempuyang Temple area, Andakasa Temple area, Puncak Mangu Temple area and others. Jagatnatha Temple is taking the special name which is not quit of various conception aspects. Among of the temples in Bali, Jagatnatha Temple is also opened by executing the small ceremony on 13 May 1968. The unique of Jagatnatha Temple does not own the
Pengempon (the group of community who manage like the temple). Since the temple opening, Jagatnatha Temple only owns a few of people who arrange the fund to construct it until everyday ceremony. It is handled by Jagatnatha development committee with other Hindu people. In furthermore growth after Jagatnatha Temple has been built, the ceremony execution is handled by committee of Hindu Holy Day (PAHARA HINDU) who is the institutionally personnel which is pursuant to Local Bali Government’s Decree. Those personnel of PAHARA HINDU are generally taken away from local government of Badung Regency and Denpasar town. Nowadays, the full of execution is handled by the government of Denpasar town. This temple is many visited by tourist from all over the word since this temple is opened for tourist destination. (http:// www.balistarisland.com)
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BUSINESS Asian textiles no longer a fading industry Agence France-Presse
SINGAPORE - Asian textiles, once considered a fading industry, are now showing strong growth prospects thanks to technology and demand from expanding middle classes, a leading industry player said. Known in the past for back-alley shops churning out cheap material, many Asian firms are shedding their sweatshop image as they move to compete in the global market, said Paul Hulme, president of Huntsman Textile Effects (HTE). Stricter environmental standards required by Western countries are also prompting consolidation and innovation in the industry, said Hulme, whose firm is one of the world’s top suppliers of textile dyes and chemicals. It moved its headquarters from Basel, Switzerland to Singapore in March to be closer to its Asian customer base. “These sweatshops and poor facilities — that is changing,” Hulme told AFP in an interview at the company’s corporate offices overlooking Singapore’s central business district. “When I visit our customers, I’m impressed with the facilities in terms of the equipment, in terms of the housekeeping standards and the way they treat their employees,” he said. “I would not pretend that sweatshops don’t exist and I’m sure you can go to parts of India and China where that very much is the case... But I think that image will change.” A key driver for the industry’s modernisation is Asia’s growing middle class, whose clothing tastes are becoming more sophisticated. Hulme said the global textile dyes and chemicals market is worth 16 billion dollars, and Asia accounts for some 45 percent of the total consumption, much of it destined for export markets outside the region. One year after the global financial crisis exploded, Asian economies are rebounding faster than the West, boosting the textile industry’s hopes. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently upgraded its forecast for the region’s 2009 economic growth to 3.9 percent. China is forecast to grow 8.2 percent this year
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This photo taken on September 5, 2009 shows people checking rolls of textile at a shopping centre in Singapore. Asian textiles, once considered a fading industry, are now showing strong growth prospects thanks to technology and demand from expanding middle classes, a leading industry player said. and 8.9 percent in 2010. “The market is changing, customer taste and demand is changing. For example, as you go into the provinces in China, the spending power is increasing,” said Hulme. “In this business, the future is in Asia. It’s going to be driven from Asia, not from Europe and America,” said Hulme. “You’ve got to be part of the region.” China, Bangladesh and India are the world’s top textile producers and are also major consumers. Pakistan and Southeast Asia are important and growing players as well. HTE is moving to further gain market share after sales totalled one billion dollars in 2008. The company’s patented products give fabrics used in clothing and industrial materials such as car seats and garden parasols special properties like sharper, deeper and more lasting colours. They can also make clothing resistant to ultra-violet rays and easier to wash, requiring less use of environmentally polluting detergents. “We supply the colours and also the special effects,” said Rohit Aggarwal, global vice president for apparel and home textiles at HTE. “You may have something that is wrinkle-free, something which is very soft.” Holding up a China-made Tshirt, Aggarwal said: “This one uses a type of chemical that allows the fabric to breathe. You don’t get
the sweat coming out, but you still get the fresh air going into your body.” Apart from apparel, a major driver for the industry is demand for “technical textiles” or fabrics used in cars, mattress covers, bags, tents and parachutes, among others, Hulme said. Car fabrics that do not fade easily even in extreme heat enhance the vehicle’s resale value, and there is rising demand for fireresistant materials in the construction sector as well, he said. In the medical field, chemicals are incorporated in surgeons’ gowns to repel blood and dirt, raising the hygiene level. HTE spends about four percent of its total annual sales for research and development, according to Hulme. Its dye production is carried out in facilities in India, Thailand, China, Switzerland and Mexico. Textile chemicals are produced from factories in Germany and China. As Asia’s spending power rises, “people want to buy different products and that’s going to lead to the development of a whole new market for technical textiles which didn’t exist before,” said Hulme. The market for technical textiles is likely to grow by 20 percent per year over the next decade, he said, urging Asian firms to ride the growth by moving up to higher value-added products.
US economic decline forges new world order Agence France-Presse
ISTANBUL - The crisis is redrawing the world map of economic power as the influence of US consumer spending declines and major emerging markets like China and India take the lead, finance chiefs said. “One of the legacies of this crisis may be a recognition of changed economic power relations,” World Bank president Robert Zoellick said Friday in Istanbul ahead of annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. “Recent forecasts show that China and India are helping to pull the global economy out of recession.... A multipolar economy less reliant on the US consumer will be a more stable world economy,” he added. Consumer spending accounts for around two-thirds of economic activity in the United States — by far the world’s biggest economy — and experts say lower spending could have radical effects on the US’s world standing. The IMF on Thursday forecast emerging and developing economies would grow 5.1 percent in 2010 — in contrast with just 1.3 percent in advanced economies. China’s economy was projected to grow by 9.0 percent next year and India’s by 6.4 percent — far ahead of 1.5 percent expansion in the US economy. “The American engine is not as strong as it was before,” IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in a speech in which he called for emerging markets to be given more say in the IMF’s decisions. “Emerging economies are becoming more and more the real partners,” he said. In a BBC World debate on the crisis held in Istanbul, Niall Ferguson, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School in the United States, said: “The crisis has accelerated a shift from west to east.” “That means rebalancing not only economically... but rebalancing geopolitically, which I think makes some people nervous,” Ferguson said. “For the foreseeable future the US will be growing at a much lower rate while China is in fact growing at a much faster
rate,” he added. The shift is having farreaching effects around the world. In Latin America, IMF economists said the crisis is affecting countries differently depending on whether, like Mexico, they are more closely tied to the United States or, like Brazil, they have more links with China. “If it was not for China we wouldn’t have seen positive growth in the second quarter in Brazil,” Ilan Goldfajn, chief economist at Brazilian bank Itau Unibanco, said at an IMForganised conference in Istanbul. Goldfajn said the world would now start to “rebalance towards Asia.” Marek Belka, head of the IMF’s European department, cautioned however that for European countries, “demand from Asia is not enough — the recovery rests on the shoulders of European consumers and investors.” This upheaval is changing institutions too, with the G20 group of developed and emerging economies turning into the main forum for international economic policy and strengthening the IMF as a guarantor of global stability. The IMF has bailed out countries around the world in recent months and its members have tripled its lending resources to 750 billion dollars (515 billion euros). Strauss-Kahn has more ambitious plans yet and is seeking more funding to strengthen the IMF’s role as a global lender of last resort. “Our ultimate goal is financial and economic stability,” he said in a speech in Istanbul at which he outlined plans to even out global economic imbalances. The G20 summit in the US city of Pittsburgh last month also agreed to give more voting shares to emerging and developing economies in the IMF and the World Bank — a reflection of the shift in economic power. The World Bank’s Zoellick has also argued that developing countries in Southeast Asia, Latin Amercia, the Middle East and Africa should be seen as future “engines of growth” rather than recipients of charity from rich nations. In a recent speech in Washington, Zoellick said: “The old international economic order was struggling to keep up with change before the crisis.... It is time we caught up and moved ahead.”
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New York - Salma Hayek may be a few years removed from giving birth, but returning to the set for the first time since welcoming daughter Valentina in August 2007 still wasn’t easy. But taking on her role as Madame Truska in “The Vampire’s Assistant” was easier for the actress to tackle for one big reason - it was a small part. “This was very important for me because I hadn’t worked in some time,” Salma told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson. “I was supposed to do a movie right after Valentina [was born] and it was the first time in my career that I backed out of something because I just couldn’t. I couldn’t.” Also making the transition back to work easier for Salma was the fact she could bring her daughter to the set, along with several members of her family. “She did great [on the set]. She’s
a pro,” Salma joked, adding that husband Francois-Henri Pinault and his two children from a previous relationship also visited the set in New Orleans. The plot and the cast of “The Vampire’s Assistant” - which hits theaters on October 23, starring John C. Reilly and directed by Paul Weitz - also added extra incentive for her return to the big screen. “This movie, it was great. It was in New Orleans, it was with people that I love, some friends and some people that I didn’t know but that I’ve always wanted to work with,” she added. “It was the perfect movie too. It’s a family movie in a way, and it’s about youth and it’s about love and family.” As it turns out, getting back to work might have been easy compared to life at home with an active infant. “I had a talk with her not too long ago. I just said, ‘Listen, you have to slow down because I’m a first-time mommy and I’m not ready for some of the things you’re doing,’” she laughed. “She talks and she’s been walking since 9 months. She counts. She knows the ABCs.” Perhaps the biggest challenge Valentina has presented to her mom - potty training. “She’s potty trained on her own. She did it on her own!” Salma revealed. “She’s like, ‘Take these off mommy. I can go to the bathroom.’ But I’m like, ‘I don’t want you to because I still want you to wear the diaper when we go out because I don’t know how to handle the public bathrooms with you. Give me some time.’ But it’s like, ‘No, I don’t want to wear the diaper. I can do this mommy.’”
Megan Fox Will be in Transformers 3 New York - Michael Bay and Megan Fox have had their share of awkward moments this past year. Megan said in an interview that Bay should focus more on acting than action in his films, while Michael bashed Megan for being young and not knowing what she was talking about. Regardless of their differences however, director Michael Bay has personally invited Megan back for Transformers 3. He announced today: “Well its official: We have a great Transformers 3 story. The release date is now July 1st, 2011. Not 2012. Today is Day One. This morning started with an ILM meeting for five hours in San Francisco. Currently I’m flying with writer Ehren Kruger to Rhode Island to talk to Hasbro about new characters.” Bay continued, “P.S. Megan Fox, welcome back. I promise no alien robots will harm you in any way during the production of this motion picture. Please consult your Physician when working under my direction because some side effects can occur,
such as mild dizziness, intense nausea, suicidal tendencies, depression, minor chest hair growth, random internal hemorrhaging and inability to sleep. As some directors may be hazardous to your health, please consult your Doctor to determine if this is right for you. Michael” Megan may be a diva, but she sure brings a lot of people into the theaters!
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Polanski agreed to pay victim 500,000 dlrs to end suit: report Agence France Presse
LOS ANGELES- Disgraced filmmaker Roman Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim 500,000 dollars as part of a 1990s civil settlement but did not live up to the terms, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. The Times cited archived court filings emanating from a confidential 1993 settlement the Oscar-winning director made with Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at the time of the 1977 abuse, 15 years after he fled the United States to avoid sentencing. Although the settlement was confidential, the amount was disclosed because of a fight to get Polanski, now 76, to pay. The court records do not indicate whether he ever paid the funds he promised, the Times said. Polanski was detained in Switzerland last week in connection with the case. He could be extradited to the United States within 40 days. Under the deal, Polanski was to pay Geimer 500,000 dollars with interest by October 11, 1995, but the deadline passed with no check from Polanski, according to the court documents. In 1996, the victim’s attorneys sought help from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to obtain funds from movie studios, Polanski’s agent and the Screen Actors Guild that were originally intended for the filmmaker. According to the last document filed in the case — dated August 1996 — the director still owed Geimer 604,416 dollars, including interest. While it remains unclear whether Polanski paid, the Times said the victim’s later change of approach suggests the question may have been resolved. In 1997, she stopped asking the court for help in getting paid and wrote a letter to a judge supporting Polanski’s eventual return to the United States as well as settling his criminal case without additional time in prison. “It has long been my personal opinion that he be allowed to do so,” Geimer wrote about Polanski’s return to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler
In this Nov. 14 2008 file photo, Polish-born filmmaker Roman Polanski arrives for the opening ceremony at the 8th Marrakech Film Festival in Marrakech. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)
on May 28, 1997. “It is also my opinion as the victim of this crime that the 42 days he has already served is excessive,” she added, referring to the prison time Polanski served for psychiatric evaluation. Geimer has acknowledged in the past reaching a civil settlement with Polanski.
Judge empowers Jackson executors to handle debts Associated Presse
Los Angeles-Michael Jackson’s three children seem to be adjusting well to being raised by their grandmother, a judge said.Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff said Sunday he was “very pleased” with the contents of a probate investigator’s report detailing how the children are adjusting roughly three months after their father’s death. “It looks like the children are really doing wonderfully with their grandmother guardian,” Beckloff said in brief comments on the report during a hearing Friday. Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince II, 7, have been in Katherine Jackson’s care since their father died in late June. Beckloff appointed Katherine Jackson as the children’s permanent guardian in August and asked for an update on their conditions.
In his 2002 will, Michael Jackson designated his mother as his choice to care for his children if he died. Beckloff sealed the report on the children and said he sees no need to get future updates.Jackson’s estate is paying a $60,000 per month stipend to care for and protect the youngsters. Beckloff also increased the powers of two men currently administering Michael Jackson’s estate, a move made in part because of the singer’s substantial debts. Beckloff gave attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain general powers over Jackson’s estate, which allow them to consider creditors’ claims. They can also enter into business deals that aren’t opposed by Katherine Jackson without Beckloff’s approval, and they can begin to represent the estate in several court cases pending against the singer when he died. The judge made the ruling over the objections of Katherine Jackson’s attorney.Numerous people have al-
ready filed claims against the pop singer’s estate for unpaid bills. They include a stylist, security providers and Jackson’s criminal defense attorneys who won his acquittal against child molestation charges. Until Friday, no one could accept or reject creditor’s claims against Jackson, who died with an estimated $400 million in debt. Paul Gordon Hoffman, an attorney for Branca and McClain, said there are several people who haven’t filed claims against the estate because there was technically no one to accept them. Burt Levitch, an attorney for Katherine Jackson, declined to comment on the ruling. Levitch said Jackson’s mother is still hoping that a settlement will add a Jackson family member to the team administering the singer’s estate, which is expected to be worth more than $500 million.
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As swine flu intensifies, US rolls out first vaccine doses
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This undated image released by the Field Museum in Chicago shows a international team of scientists perform an autopsy and DNA analysis on Lyuba, a wooly mammoth. Sucked to her death in a muddy river bed, a baby wooly mammoth spent 40,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost where her body was so perfectly preserved traces of her mother’s milk remained in her belly.
Baby mammoth preserved in frozen soil heads to Chicago Agence France Presse
CHICAGO,- Sucked to her death in a muddy river bed, a baby woolly mammoth spent 40,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost where her body was so perfectly preserved traces of her mother’s milk remained in her belly. Three years after her discovery by nomadic reindeer herders, Lyuba will head to Chicago as the star of a mammoths and mastodons exhibit at the world-famous Field Museum. The exhibition, announced at mid-week, opens March 5 and will run through September 6. The Field Museum is the first US museum to display the prehistoric specimen. “There’s a visceral awe that takes hold of you in looking at a specimen like Lyuba, and the exhibition as a whole demonstrates how close
we can come to knowing what these animals were like,” said lead curator Daniel Fisher, a professor of geological sciences at the University of Michigan who is part of the international team studying the remains. Lyuba — who was about a month old when she died — has already taught researchers much about mammoths that they had been unable to glean from fossils and other less well preserved finds. “We had no idea from preserved skeletons and preserved carcasses that
young mammoths had a discrete structure on the back of the head of brown fat cells,” Fisher told reporters. The hump acted as a furnace to help maintain body temperature in cold climate, which supports the theory that mammoths were born in the early spring. Lyuba appeared to be in perfect health when she died and researchers found sediment and mud in her mouth, trunk and throat which indicates that she suffocated while struggling to free herself from a mud hole or slurry. She is intact enough to yield DNA, but “no one is on the threshold of cloning at this point,” Fisher said. Lubya then embarks on a 10-city tour whose final stop is scheduled for the Natural History Museum of London in 2014.
WASHINGTON,- US health authorities are hoping to contain what they say is an intensifying swine flu pandemic with a massive A(H1N1) vaccination campaign that begins this Tuesday. “We expect Friday in our weekly update of FluView that we will be reporting substantial flu illness in most of the country, significant flu activity in virtually all states,” said Anne Schuchat, director of the Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). “Most states do have quite a lot of disease right now, and that is unusual for this time of the year,” she said at a press conference on Sunday evening. Schuchat also shared her concern over the serious risks facing pregnant women infected with the virus, whose risk of dying from the A(H1N1) strain is effectively six times than for the general population. Between April and August, 100 pregnant women in the United States who contracted the virus were admitted to intensive care, and 28 died, Schuchat said. According to the most recent figures released by the CDC, 10,082 people have been hospitalized with swine flu in the United States so far, with 936 deaths from the virus, in-
cluding 36 children. An analysis of post-mortem samples from 77 people who died from the virus showed that most had contracted a secondary infection; a third had pneumonia, for which there is no vaccine. Schuchat reiterated the importance of vaccination for pregnant women and other groups considered particularly vulnerable to the virus, including children, young adults up to 24 years old, and those suffering from certain other chronic medical problems. US health authorities on Friday announced plans for a massive vaccination campaign intended to protect millions of Americans, with the first distribution of 600,000 vaccine doses set for Tuesday, two weeks ahead of schedule. The United States expects to quickly dispense some six or seven million doses and hopes to administer 250 million doses by the end of the year. Clinical trials carried out on five different vaccines showed that a single dose of 15 micrograms is sufficient to cause an efficient immune response. “We are transitioning from the planning phase to the implementation phase,” Schuchat said. “This is really just the beginning.”
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A man receives a flu vaccine nasal mist as he sits in his car during a drive-thru flu shot clinic October 2, 2009 in Napa, California. The County of Napa Public Health Department held the one of eight scheduled drive-thru flu shot clinics where seasonal flu shots will be given for free to anyone who attends in an effort to vaccinate as many people in Napa County as possible before the start of the flu season
Anti-Wi-Fi paint keeps your wireless signal
Developed by the University of Tokyo, the Wi-Fi paint is said to be the first that can block radio frequency in higher spectra where Wi-Fi and other higher-bandwidth communications occur rather than just lowfrequency wireless like FM radio
London - Don’t like the idea of your neighbors rudely snooping on the wireless signal you slaved to pay for from the lazy comfort of their living room? It’s not just about slowing down your connection; while they’re downloading Mad Men via bittorrent, you could be on the hook for their actions. Wireless security and encryption systems are fraught with problems and insecurity, and other methods to restrict your signal to a small area are cumbersome at best.Enter a new solution: Anti-Wi-Fi paint. The idea is simple: Use a special paint on walls where you don’t want wireless to pass through (say the exterior of your house). The secret
is mixing aluminum-iron oxide particles in with the paint. The metal particles resonate at the same frequency as Wi-Fi and other radio waves, so signals can’t pass through the thin layer of pigment. Outsiders would simply be unable to access your wireless network, just as you, inside the house, won’t be able to interlope on anything beamed on the outside. Developed by the University of Tokyo, the paint is said to be the first that can block radio frequency in higher spectra where Wi-Fi and other higher-bandwidth communications occur rather than just low-frequency wireless like FM radio. Most Wi-Fi technologies operate at 2.4GHz; the Tokyo paint can reportedly block fre-
quencies all the way up to 100GHz, with a 200GHz-blocking paint now in the works. The paint isn’t just of interest to those concerned about wireless leaking out of the building. Movie theaters have long been interested in finding a legal way to keep cell phones silent during screenings. Electronic jammers that actively block wireless signals are illegal, but passive materials that prevent wireless signals from getting through are not. Since the wirelessblocking paint can also block the lower-frequency signals that cell phones use, addled mobile junkies would have no outlet for reaching the outside world.
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Rio Olympic win latest step in Brazil transformation Agence France Presse
RIO DE JANEIRO-This Brazilian city’s historic winning bid to host the 2016 Olympics is the result of a long, impassioned and at times frustrating campaign by Latin America’s largest nation to reposition itself on the world stage. The campaign by Brazil’s most spectacular city is seen as part of a broader effort that includes Brazil’s bid to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council and take a lead role in global efforts to slow climate change. Now Brazil, a sports-obsessed football power with a record five World Cups, will have the opportunity to organize and host South America’s first Olympic Games after a successful bid in which President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva never tired of repeating the slogan: “This is Brazil’s turn.” “Brazil needs these Olympics,” said a teary-eyed Lula, who enjoys sky-high popularity of more than 80 percent in his seventh year in office, in his first words in Copenhagen after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the games to Rio. “These people deserve that opportunity.” And so they thought, with as many as 100,000 people partying to samba music on the sands of Rio’s Copacabana beach after learning of their city’s victory. Lula, who has already scored a massive sports triumph in bringing the World Cup back to Brazil in 2014, has positioned himself in global forums as the great articulator of the developing world’s aspirations, according to international relations expert Amado Cervo. The choice of Rio as host “is not
enough, but it helps in creating positive images of a country that has resources” and wishes to muscle onto an international stage already crowded with major powers, Cervo told AFP. “Lula has done very important work on three external fronts,” the analyst said, citing the president’s efforts on multilateralism, the “internationalization of the Brazilian economy” with Lula’s encouragement of foreign investment, and his becoming the de facto face of emerging economies. The evolution of the BRIC countries — named for emerging world powerhouses Brazil, Russia, India and China — “was largely a result of the political will of the Lula administration,” said Cervo, a professor at the National University of Brasilia. For Lula meanwhile, the Games will give Brazil some much-needed global clout. “I always thought that there was something that Brazil lacked. We are a country that has been colonized. Because of this fact, we had an inferiority complex, an obsession that we weren’t important,” Lula said Friday. The president had long reminded other leaders that his country, the 10th largest economy in the world with 190 million inhabitants, was gaining its rightful place among nations. A friend of the United States as well as key Washington adversaries Iran and Venezuela, Lula quickly received the congratulations of neighbors, partners and rivals in the Olympic competition.
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In this computer generated photo illustration released by Comite Rio 2016, the Olympic Training Center Hall is shown. The 2016 Olympics are going to Rio de Janeiro, putting the games in South America for the first time.
Safina makes scrappy start to number one duel with Serena Reuters
Dinara Safina of Russia returns hits a return to Roberta Vinci of Italy during their first round match of the China Open at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on October 4, 2009. Safina won 6-4, 6-4. AFP PHOTO/LIU Jin
BEIJING- Dinara Safina made a scrappy start to her Beijing duel with Serena Williams for the world number one spot by beating Italian Roberta Vinci 6-4 6-4 in the first round of the $6.6 million China Open on Sunday. The Russian must at least match Williams’s progress at the Olympic tennis centre over the next week to retain the number one ranking on Oct. 12, according to the WTA. The 23-year-old’s victory over 59th-ranked Vinci was certainly an improvement on her first round loss to Taiwanese qualifier Chang Kaichen at the Pan Pacific Open last week but it was not wholly convincing. Broken early in both sets, Safina immediately evened matters up with breaks of her own but was then forced to scrap it out with the dogged Italian to claim victory in a little under 90 minutes. Williams, who missed last week’s Pan Pacific Open
in Tokyo with knee and toe injuries, takes on Estonian Kaia Kanepi in her first round match later on Sunday. The Australian Open and Wimbledon champion has not played a singles match since her rant at a lineswoman in her semi-final loss to Belgian Kim Clijsters at the U.S. Open last month. Earlier on centre court, sixth seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova damaged hopes of a first local champion with a 7-6 7-5 defeat of China’s number two Zheng Jie. The French Open champion, three times a finalist and winner of the 2006 title here, also battled back after former Wimbledon semi-finalist Zheng grabbed service breaks early in both sets to secure a place in the second round. “It’s hard to play Chinese in China, but I knew it’s not gonna be worse than the Olympics so I was fine with that,” said Kuznetsova, who was beaten by China’s number one Li Na in the first round of last year’s Beijing Olympics
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Pedro helps Barcelona keep up perfect start Reuters
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Manchester United’s Patrice Evra, center, celebrates with teammates Nani, right, and Nemanja Vidic after scoring a late equalizer against Sunderland during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium.
United rescue last-gasp draw against Sunderland Agence France Presse
MANCHESTER- Anton Ferdinand’s stoppage-time own goal helped Manchester United salvage a 2-2 draw against 10-man Sunderland at Old Trafford on Saturday. Goals from Darren Bent and Kenwyne Jones had put Steve Bruce’s side within moments of their first win at United for 41 years despite Kieran Richardson’s late red card. But Sir Alex Ferguson’s side, who had gone into the match looking for their ninth successive victory, earned a point when Ferdinand brother of Untied defender Rio deflected a Patrice Evra shot into his own net. The draw left United one point clear of Chelsea at the top of the Premier League, but the champions will be knocked off top spot if the Blues beat Liverpool on Sunday. Sunderland opened the scoring in the seventh minute when Bent hit his seventh goal of the season. Lee Cattermole knocked a simple pass to Bent on the edge of the penalty box, who, noticing that John O’Shea had given him too much space, turned and rifled a low shot past Ben Foster. United looked uncharacteristically poor on the ball following Sunderland’s early goal with neither Paul Scholes or midfield partner Darren Fletcher influenc-
ing the game as they can. United’s frustrations were perfectly summed up by Scholes’ booking after 25 minutes for a deliberate trip on Bent - there was no malice there but the midfielder did have a little kick out in order to stop Bent from launching an attack. Although the pace was relentless, clear cut opportunities remained at a premium as the half progressed although Nemanja Vidic’s intelligent cross into a packed Sunderland box should perhaps have found a United shirt while at the other end a long-range effort from Jones was easily smothered by Foster. Anderson replaced Scholes at half-time, a tacit admission from Ferguson that he had produced little of note in the first half. United then had their first real opportunity of the game courtesy of a defensive mix-up from Sunderland. Ferdinand’s weak header back towards his own goalkeeper Craig Gordon did not quite reach, allowing Danny Welbeck to threaten but Gordon dived at his feet and although the ball landed at Rooney’s feet, Ferdinand had then recovered enough to block his effort. How-
ever, nobody could then have stopped Bulgaria striker Dimitar Berbatov as he produced a stunning moment of magic to equalise. After Sunderland only halfcleared a goalmouth scramble, O’Shea delivered a deep cross and Berbatov thought he would try his luck with an acrobatic bicycle kick which flashed into the far corner of the net. However, United’s hopes of capitalising were then dashed as Sunderland took a 2-1 lead through Jones. Andy Reid floated a ball towards the penalty spot and Jones out-jumped Vidic and crashed into Foster to head into an empty net. Such goals are normally disallowed for a foul on the keeper but not on this occasion. United continued to push but found a resilient Sunderland defence in the way although they were not helped when Richardson was dismissed for a second bookable offence with five minutes left for kicking the ball away. And they were left to rue his absence as the clock ticked down as Evra hit a long-range shot that was going comfortably wide until it bounced off Ferdinand to gift United a point.
MADRID- Pedro’s stunning strike gave champions Barcelona a 1-0 home win over Almeria on Suday to maintain their 100 percent start to the season. The 22-year-old forward brought the Nou Camp faithful to their feet when he collected Maxwell’s pass just after the half hour and smashed a shot on the turn into the top right corner. Barca have 18 points from six matches, three ahead of arch rivals Real Madrid who will be without the injured Cristiano Ronaldo at third-placed Sevilla on Sunday. The Portugal forward sprained his right ankle in Wednesday’s 30 Champions League win over Olympique Marseille. Elsewhere on Saturday, fourthplaced Deportivo Coruna won 10 at promoted Tenerife thanks to a second-half header from defender Diego Colotto. Barca coach Pep Guardiola in-
cluded Pedro in his team in place of the injured Thierry Henry and the home side dominated the early stages with their trademark slick passing. Almeria goalkeeper Diego Alves did well to deflect a Xavi volley on to the post in the 18th minute after good work from Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Pedro’s follow-up bounced off the same upright. Barca were unable to exert the same dominance in the second period but although Almeria managed to string together several good moves they were unable to create any clear chances. “I don’t expect (Guardiola) will be too happy with the performance,” Pedro said in a television interview. “We gave the ball away too often and missed a few chances.” Atletico Madrid, without a win this term and with pressure mounting on coach Abel Resino, host Real Zaragoza in Saturday’s late match (2000).
Last-gasp Sneijder sends Inter top Agence France Presse
ROME-Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder scored in the dying moments to send Italian champions Inter Milan to the top of the Serie A on Saturday with a 2-1 win at Udinese. Inter have 16 points, one ahead of Sampdoria and two in front of Juventus. However, positions could switch on Sunday when Sampdoria welcome Parma while Juve travel to Palermo. Victory on Saturday was a welcome boost for Jose Mourinho’s side who had lost 1-0 at Sampdoria last weekend before struggling to secure a 1-1 Champions League draw at
Kazan in Russia in midweek. “Sneijder’s goal was what the team deserved,” said Mourinho. “The team played well. We had lots of chances in the match especially since we had the injury to Diego Milito (replaced in the 25th minute) who is such an important player for us. “Tonight I am doubly happy because we have the three points and recovered from an error by the referee who should have awarded us a penalty. It was a victory of character.” Dejan Stankovic gave Inter a 22nd minute lead before Antonio Di Natale levelled five minutes later for his ninth goal of the season. Udinese at the San Siro stadium in Milan.
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Inter Milan Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder celebrates after scoring the winning goal in extra time during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and
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Vettel keeps title hopes alive with Japan victory
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SUZUKA- Sebastian Vettel kept alive his bid for this year’s world championship when he won Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix and cut Jenson Button’s lead over him to 16 points with two races remaining. The German delivered an impeccable drive from pole position to take his first victory since the British Grand Prix in June, his third of the season and the fourth of his career. The 22-year-old, in his Red Bull, now has a chance to overhaul Button and his Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello in the final events in Brazil and Abu Dhabi. Two years ago, as he will know, Finn Kimi Raikkonen lifted the title after trailing by 17 points with two races remaining. Button finished eighth, one place behind Barrichello. He had required a five points advantage over the Brazilian to lift the title, but in the end saw his lead trimmed again. The Briton now has 85 points, Barrichello 71 and Vettel 69. Brawn, meanwhile, need just one more point to take the constructors championship ahead of Red Bull.
Vettel won at the challenging Suzuka circuit comfortably, finishing ahead of Italian Jarno Trulli, in a Toyota, and third-placed outgoing world champion Briton Lewis Hamilton of McLaren. “It can still be done,” he said of winning the drivers title. “It would be nice to have a couple more races left, but with two races to go, we are here to fight and the best thing we can do is win like today. “We have a great car, still improving, everyone in the factory is improving so we’ll see.” His Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said: “He’s got nothing to lose. He just has to win the next two races.” Raikkonen finished fourth for Ferrari ahead of German Nico Rosberg, fifth for Williams, with German Nick Heidfeld sixth for
BMW Sauber. Button said he was happy to pick up a point. “I obviously lost a few (points) to Vettel but we expected him to win the race, their pace has been very good all weekend,” he told reporters. “It’s nice to pick up one or two points, whichever one it is, and to finish just behind Rubens.” Barrichello said he struggled with his set-up, and was now looking forward to his home race in Brazil. “I was struggling with tyres. I would have finished sixth if it hadn’t been for the safety car though. I’ll be going happily to Brazil to win the race and keep my chances alive.” Trulli, who had fought hard for his second place after an anonymous race in Singapore a week earlier, added: “I knew the start would be most difficult. It was a fantastic race for me after that though. “I enjoyed it because the car was very strong.”
No action taken on Rosberg incident
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Nico Rosberg
Suzuka - The Japanese Grand Prix stewards have decided Nico Rosberg did not deserve a penalty and so the Constructors’ Championship is still up for grabs. Rosberg and Williams technical director Sam Michael were summoned by the stewards after the race following claims from Jenson Button that the German had set his best sector time during the safety car period. Button reckoned he could have beaten the German had he been slower and the Briton expected Rosberg to be penalised. A penalty would have given Button’s Brawn team the title, as it needs just 0.5 points to clinch it and both the Briton and team-mate Rubens Barrichello would have moved up a position. The stewards, however, deemed Rosberg had done nothing wrong.”The Race Director reported to the Stewards that Car No 16, Nico Rosberg exceeded the time delta from when the ‘Safety Deployed’ message was displayed until crossing the Safety Car line,” a statement from the FIA said. “The Stewards met with the drivers and the team representatives and considered the telemetry data, GPS records, timekeeping and video evidence. This evidence showed a ‘low fuel’ message on the drivers display had overridden the time delta information preventing the driver from being able to accurately follow the timing information. “However the telemetry data shows that the driver from a safety point of view had reacted adequately to the yellow flags and safety car boards. In view of this the stewards intend to take no further action.”
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Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany kisses his trophy as he celebrates on the podium after winning the Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit, in Suzuka.