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Monday, November 5, 2012

Katy Perry wears dress with Obama slogan at rally Pop star Katy Perry is sporting a skin-tight minidress with President Barack Obama’s campaign slogan “Forward” emblazoned across it at the president’s campaign rally in Milwaukee.

Perry came on stage at Saturday’s event initially wearing a red, white and blue dress and holding a microphone shaped like the Statue of Liberty’s torch.

But after her first song, a cover of Al Green’s soul hit “Let’s Stay Together,” she tossed aside the dress to reveal the

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“Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax,” ‘’Frankenweenie,” ‘’Ice Age Continental Drift” and “ParaNorman” are among the highprofile movies vying for one of five nominations. Other contenders include France’s “The Rabbi’s Cat” and Japan’s “From Up on Poppy Hill.”

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bright blue minidress. Obama’s slogan “Forward” is also Wisconsin’s state motto. Perry paused midway through her set to make a pitch for donations to victims of Superstorm Sandy.

Obama’s rally with Perry comes before he’s set to be in Madison on Monday with rocker Bruce Springsteen.

Security to be stepped up ahead of BDF

21 animated features vying for Oscar nominations “Brave,” ‘’Wreck-It Ralph” and “Rise of the Guardians” are among the animated features angling for an Oscar nomination.

The motion picture academy said Friday that 21 films have been submitted for consideration in the Academy Awards’ animated feature category.

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and Sciences says several of the films listed have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying runs.

“Rango” won the prize earlier this year after 18 films were in nomination contention. The 85th annual Academy Awards are set for Feb. 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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Tourists are sunbathing in Kuta Beach during their holiday in Bali Island. The hot weather which Bali has experienced over the past few months is expected to end in November, according to the Bali branch of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

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In this undated file film image released by Disney/Pixar, the character Merida, voiced by Kelly Macdonald, follows a Wisp in a scene from “Brave.”

Springsteen, Bon Jovi join Sting in Sandy concert New Jersey natives Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi will join Sting and other top music stars on Friday for a special television benefit concert on NBC to aid victims of Sandy, the giant storm that killed scores and devastated large sections of the U.S. Northeast.

The Walt Disney Co meanwhile announced a $2 million donation for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts on Thursday, while Disney/ABC Television Group

designated Nov. 5 as a “Day of Giving” wherein viewers of network and syndicated programming would be encouraged to help.

Entertainment giant Viacom Inc. also announced a $1 million donation to the Mayor’s Fund NYC and local organizations. Springsteen and Bon Jovi are both New Jersey natives who have often taken inspiration from their home state and used their star platform to highlight both

its charms and challenges.

Bon Jovi cut short a promotional tour in the United Kingdom to rush back to his home state, where he established a charity restaurant several years ago.

“I really need to get back home having spoken to my wife and kids,” he told Britain’s Daily Mail before flying out of London. “I need to be with my people. Thankfully, my family are safe,” he said, adding “The devastation is off the charts.”

Heat in Bali will end in November Antara

DENPASAR - The hot weather which Bali has experienced over the past few months is expected to end in November, according to the Bali branch of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

“BMKG announced their weather forecasts, as most areas in Bali, such as Badung and Denpasar, will enter the rainy season this month,” the Head of sub services of Bali BMKG, Nyoman Suarsa.

Suarsa explained that the weather change is due to a shift in the posi-

tions of the sun, which is currently located at the equator, but will begin moving to the south towards the South Pole.

“Such movement contributes to triggering cloud formations, and the clouds are a sign of rain, which usually comes with strong winds,” he said.

Suarsa added that there are some areas that are expected to enter the rainy season this month, including Denpasar, the southern part of Badung, western and eastern parts of Jembrana, Buleleng, Gianyar, Klungkung, and the southern part of Karangasem.

“Meanwhile, areas in Bali that will enter the rainy season in December are on the north coast of Bali and Nusa Penida,” he added.

“Bali has 15 seasonal zones with different weather characteristics, that`s why the rainy season does

not come at once in all places in Bali,” he noted.

Suarsa further explained that during the rainy season the wind direction, which was originally from the east and carried higher temperatures, will turn into southeast winds, with average speeds of 10 to 28 knots, or about 38 kilometers per hour.

“Therefore, we keep warning people and tourists in Bali Island to be alert for tornadoes that might occur during the seasonal transition,” he stated.

NUSA DUA - Indonesia`s chief security minister, Djoko Suyanto, has called on security agencies in Bali to be on the alert ahead of and during the 5th Annual Meeting of Bali Democracy Forum (BDF), which will be held from November 8-10.

Some 12 heads of state as well as cabinet ministers and ambassadors from dozens of countries are scheduled to attend the meeting to discuss democracy issues.

“It is not impossible that terrorists in Poso would think of shifting their target to this place, as many heads of state will be gathered here,” Djoko said at a meeting on security preparations for the event.

He noted that the Balinese people might be concerned about security issues, because any disruption could negatively affect the arrival of foreign tourists in the island.

“There should be certain zones where not everybody should be able to enter. Only those people who are eligible should be allowed in,” Djoko stated.

“Such a policy can restrict the movement of tourists but it must be implemented for the sake of everyone`s security,” he explained.

National police chief General Timur Pradopo also emphasized the importance of beefing up security at the various entry points of the city.

“Security agencies must be on the alert to keep terrorists at bay,” he said.

“Almost as a rule, these terrorists launch attacks between September and December,” Timur added.

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Critical land in Bali reaches 22,395 hectares Bali Post

DENPASAR - The pressure faced by the environment in Bali remains very heavy. For instance, it happens because there are many critical land areas both inside and outside the forest reaching 22,395 hectares. “We continuously attempt to address the critical land in Bali which is registered to reach 22,395 hectares,” said the Head of Bali Forestry Agency, IGN Wiranata, in Denpasar on Friday (Nov 2).

Further, he described that based on the Decree of Governor dated 2006 the critical land in the forest area reached 22,995 hectares where the most extensive area was located in Buleleng (9,118 hectares), Karangasem (4,615 hectares) and Bangli (3,803 hectares).

Meanwhile, the critical lands outside the forest area amounted to 32,988 hectares, where the most extensive was located in Karangasem (17,100 hectares) and Klungkung (9,465 hectares).

Within the past six years, Bali government had made an effort to address critical lands so that by 2012 the handled critical land in the forest area reached 13,801 hectares and the remaining areas were 9,914 hectares.

Meanwhile, the critical land outside the handled forest area came to 19,907 hectares and the remaining areas were still 12,482 hectares. Thus, the total critical land in Bali reached 22,395 hectares.

Furthermore, Wiranata said his party had addressed the critical land by

degrees pursuant to the Medium Term Development Plan of Bali Province (RPPMP) until 2013. “Bali still has 22,395 hectares of critical land and the one included in the JPJMP of Bali by 2013 only covers the area of 7,000 hectares in the forest area and we will accomplish such amount in 2013.

Authority of the provincial government is only limited to critical lands in the forest area, while the critical land outside the forest area becomes the authority of the regency/municipal government,” he said.

He added that the budget, rehabilitation and forest conservation posed a shared responsibility of the central government and local government through the state budget and regional budget. In 2012, a total of IDR 4.9 billion was allocated from the regional budget and in 2013 the allocation reached IDR 4.6 billion.

“Such amount will still be assisted by funds of the central government,” he said. Wiranata also wished there would be active participation from the

community in addressing the critical land and forest preservation.

“In totality, we hope there will be active participation of the community to maintain the security because so far the case of forest encroachment is still rampant and we cannot resolve the past cases completely,” he said while adding that his party was still preparing a forest village program designed to further enhance the role of community in maintaining and preserving the forest.

Based on the data of the Bali Forestry Agency, the forest area in Bali Province reaches 130,686.01 hectares consisting of 3,415 hectares of marine water forest and 127,271.01 hectares of land forest. Then, the land forest area only comes to 22.59 percent of the total land area of Bali Province spreading across 563,286 hectares. Meanwhile, its protected forest reaches 95,766.06 hectares, conservation forest (26,293.59 hectares) and production forest (8,626.35 hectares). (kmb29)

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A total of 1,144 Bali families in waiting list

DENPASAR - A very contradictory and ironic condition happens when Bali is flooded by regional migrants, while Balinese people even take resettlement program to outside Bali. Ironically, location of placement area often gets involved in conflict and the Balinese often become the targets of violence as happened at Balinuraga village, South Lampung.

Resettlement Division Head of the Bali Manpower and Resettlement Agency, Gusti Ketut Rai Mataram, said on Friday (Oct 2) the resettlement program in Bali had been stopped during the period of 1999-2006 due to conflict in East Timor.

However, due to the insis-

tence of Balinese people, the resettlement program had been re-opened since 2006 and until now it took place each year.

Based on the data of the Bali Manpower and Resettlement Agency, from the Pre-PELITA (five-year development) in 1953 to 2000, it had been recorded 55,601 families or 218,632 people had been sent to placement destinations like Central Sulawesi (56,932 people), Southeast Sulawesi (36,078 people), South Sulawesi (32,125 people) and Lampung (29,253 people). Meanwhile, during the period of 2006-2011, the participants of resettlement program were recorded to reach 462 families or 1,697 people with the

placement destination to Sulawesi.

Furthermore, Rai Mataram added the interest of Balinese people to earn livelihood outside Bali by taking resettlement program was getting higher. In 2012, the waiting list of the program reached 1,144 families, while the quota available for Bali only came to 135 families. “Until now, there are 1,144 families in the waiting list of the program.

Unfortunately, the quota is limited,” he said.

Details of the prospective participant taking the resettlement program consisted of Jembrana (52), Tabanan (163), Buleleng (386), Denpasar (10), Gianyar (33), Bangli (49), Klungkung (65)

and Karangasem (386). He added that for resettlement program in 2012 Bali got allocation for 135 families. As further details, 25 families would join the launching program and filled by Jembrana with destination to Poso.

Meanwhile, the pure resettlement program reached 110 families with details that Karangasem got allocation for 22 families (Kalimantan), Klungkung for 25 families (Kalimantan), Tabanan for 25 families (Southeast Sulawesi), Gianyar for 10 families (Southeast Sulawesi) and the remaining was for Bangli and Buleleng (Southeast Sulawesi). “At the moment, they are still waiting for the placement and departure letter,” he explained.

In the meantime, in 2013 Bali would only get 50 families with the placement destination to Southeast Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi. “Apparently, the quota decreases every year because the placement destinations are unable to accommodate,” he said.

Further, Rai Mataram said the resettlement program implemented the five-year pattern. In the first five years, the participants were the joint responsibility of the central government in cooperation with the regent sending and receiving region. “During the first five years, the coaching and responsibilities lie in each regional working unit (SKPD) of the sending and receiving region. Meanwhile, after that they become

the responsibility of the local receiving government because the transmigrants have long settled and become the residents of the placement region,” said Rai Mataram.

Related to the insistence of Balinese community components asking to discontinue the resettlement program following the bloody tragedy afflicting the transmigrants from Bali at Balinuraga village, South Lampung, Rai Mataram said the resettlement was an optional program. If the provincial government wanted to terminate the program it could be done. “However, the policy poses the authority of the governor in accordance with the wishes of the people,” he concluded. (kmb29)

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KUTA - Sunset Road area has become a trending topic, brimming with new hotels and surrounded by shopping centers, restaurants and wholesale handicraft shops, Sunset Road has become the new destination for meeting and leisure. In the spirit of completing additional facility to the area, Harris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road is proud to announce the launching of our new hotel facility which is called “The Forest” . perfect for any social events.” Explained Hengky Tambayong, General Manager of Harris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road.

“We also would like to invite our friends in the event organizers, wedding organizers and others who might be interested to partnered up with us in hosting their event,” he adds.

Harris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road, along with our indoor venues also offers wide ranging selection of meeting, incentive, conference and exhibition. All of our indoor meeting rooms can accommodate up to 500 persons, all equipped with high speed internet access, LCD projectors, screen and advance sound system.

Our trained meeting and conference team will assist you in all meeting arrangements and execution.

Calendar Event for October 23 through November 27, 2012 Two girls walked in the empty road of rural area of Bali Island. he pressure faced by the environment in Bali remains very heavy. For instance, it happens because there are many critical land areas both inside and outside the forest reaching 22,395 hectares.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Harris Hotel Sunset Road launches The Forest Located in the north east part of the hotel, The Forest is a 800 m2 area of outdoor lush garden with full landscape surrounded by shady trees and romantic area in the afternoon will become a perfect addition to the hotel. The Forest at HARRIS Hotel & Residences Sunset Road is designed for various outdoor activities, such as outdoor dinner reception, outdoor wedding reception, team building and outbound activities, bazaar, carnival, concerts and other outdoor activities “The existence of The Forest has given Harris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road additional selling points which now we have both outdoor and indoor venues for our clients’ functions. The Forest will be able to hold any kinds outdoor activities ranging from 150 – 800 persons which is

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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International

‘Gangnam Style’ second most-viewed YouTube video Agence France-Presse

The 34-year-old singer, whose real name is Park Jae-Sang, rocketed to international fame after “Gangnam Style” -- a techno ode to a trendy Seoul neighbourhood -become a worldwide hit following its debut in July.

The video went viral online with its goofy signature horseriding dance and on Friday ousted singer Jennifer Lopez’s dance hit “On the Floor” from second place.

But it still trails behind Canadian teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber’s “Baby”, which has had over 795 million hits.

John Hirai, head of music at YouTube’s Korea-Japan branch, told a conference in Seoul that Psy would pass Bieber on YouTube’s most-watched list in about a month.

He thinks the secret of Psy’s success lies in the speed at which the singer uploaded a sequel video on his official website, as well as footage of the making of his video and interviews, for users wanting to know more about him

and “Gangnam Style”.

“It comes like a total package at the end, so it just generated views,” Hirai said, according to Yonhap news agency.

“I’ve been in this music business for 25 plus years and I’ve never seen anything like this and I’ve never imagined anything like this would come out of Asia. It’s just unbelievable but it’s overwhelming,” he said.

Psy has also remained at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart in the United States for a sixth straight week after topping charts in countries including Britain and Australia.

The popularity of the song and video, which spawned hundreds of parodies and tribute videos across the world, has helped the singer land a contract with Bieber ’s management agency.

Psy, currently on a promotional tour in the United States, last week performed on ABC’s “The View” talk show, after his appearances at the MTV awards and other prime-

time programmes last month boosted his profile.

The star is already a music veteran at home with six albums under his belt and next week he will begin a promotional tour in Europe that includes a speech at the Oxford Union and an appearance at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Germany.

In another sign of his international reach, Psy was featured on the front cover of the latest issue of US weekly music magazine Billboard, which analyses factors that have helped the singer succeed and hails him as “a readymade star”.

The story also examines how Scooter Braun, the music executive known for discovering YouTube sensations-turned pop stars like Bieber, ended up signing Psy for the US market.

The rapper recently unveiled plans for his next song in an interview on the US cable network CNN, saying the lyrics will be a mix of English and Korean.

Europe has crush on cycling

Associated Press

COPENHAGEN — Cycling through the heart of some European cities can be a terrifying experience as you jostle for space with cars, trucks and scooters

that whizz by with only inches to spare.

Thankfully for bicycle enthusiasts, a movement is afoot to create more room for cycling in the urban infrastructure.

From London’s “cycle su-

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A bicyclist leaves the 2,500-place three-story bicycle parking outside Central Station in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012.

perhighways” to popular bikesharing programs in Paris and Barcelona, growing numbers of European cities are embracing cycling as a safe, clean, healthy, inexpensive and even trendy way to get around town.

Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, and the Danish capital, Copenhagen, are the pioneers of this movement, and serve as role models for other cities considering cycling’s potential to reduce congestion and pollution, while contributing to public health.

The trend is catching on also outside Europe, says John Pucher, a professor of urban planning at Rutgers University in New Jersey and co-author of a new book titled “City Cycling.” Pucher says urban cycling is on the rise across the industrialized world, though Europe is still ahead of the pack.

“Americans make only 1 percent of their trips by bike compared to 26 percent in the Netherlands, 18 percent in Denmark, and 8-10 percent in Belgium, Germany, Sweden, and Finland,” Pucher told The Associated Press, citing official statistics.

BANDUNG - UNESCO has officially recognized Mount Batur in Bali, Indonesia, as a world geological park because of its unique and special characteristics, Geology Agency chief M Suchyar said.

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tra, Rajaampat in West Papua, limestone mountains in Pacitan, East Java, and Mount Rinjani in Jambi.

“We plan to submit the proposal in 2013 and hope they would add to the number of geoparks in Indonesia,” he said.

Suchyar said Indonesia actually has a lot of geoparks and until now around 33 locations have been identified such as Cukangtaneuh in South Ciamis, West Java.

He said his agency would keep conducting researches to identify other potential geoparks.

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UNESCO has officially recognized Mount Batur in Bali, Indonesia, as a world geological park because of its unique and special characteristics, Geology Agency chief M Suchyar said.

NUSA DUA - Dozens of chefs or cooks from a variety of star hotels in Bali competed in the race at the Nusa Dua Fiesta (NDF) on Saturday.

They were also following fruits and vegetable carving as well as creative wedding cake creation, which are able to invite visitors in the Bali area of NDF Culinary Challenge 2012, Peninsula Island Nusa

Dua, Badung Regency.

For creative “wedding cake” there are three participants in this competition, they represent the Aston Hotel, Sanur Paradise, and Patra Jasa.

As for the “fruit carving” were followed by nine participants, namely from Conrad Bali, The Vira Bali, Patra Jasa, Sanur Paradise, Aston Hotel, Ubud and Swasti Komaneka Eco Cottege Ubud.

Indonesia Chef Association (ICA) PR, I Gde Juastra explained, the second day of the NDF held several activities such as creative wedding cake creation, fruit & vegetable carving, including individual practicial ice carving.

“This time for the race carving fruits followed by nine participants, with the theme “Segara Lelangunan” or the natural beauty of the sea,” he said.

Puppets protest Romney threat to US public broadcasting Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Several hundred supporters of US public broadcasting marched on the US Congress Saturday in a “Million Puppet March” in favor of ongoing federal funding for non-commercial programming.

The good-humored protest was prompted by Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s threat, in a televised debate with President Barack Obama a month ago, to halt government funding to public media if he wins the White House on Tuesday.

Marching alongside “Sesame Street” characters such as Big Bird and Kermit the Frog, were a protester in a latex Romney mask and a Halloween-themed ensemble that billed itself as “the finest skeletons from the national closet.”

“It’s not just ‘Sesame Street’,” co-organizer Michael Bellavia

told AFP prior to the march, citing the long-running PBS educational television show tailored to young children.

“We’re saying we want to support the whole ecosystem of public media -- everything from the TV side, to radio, to all the Internet media that gets produced,” he said.

Fifteen percent of the overall public broadcasting budget in the United States comes from Washington.

Contributions from foundations and individuals makes up the rest.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, established by Congress in the 1960s to channel federal funds to PBS, National Public Radio and other non-commercial broadcasters, was not involved in Saturday’s protest.

But in a brief statement to AFP, it noted: “We appreciate the recent outpouring of support and affirmation for value of public broadcasting.

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Hotels chefs competed in NDF

Puppeteers manipulate likenesses of US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney during the Million Puppet march in support of public broadcasting in Washington on November 3, 2012.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Mt. Batur recognized as World Geopark “UNESCO has already included and recognized Mount Batur as a world geopark and it would be formally made known to the public on November 15, 2012” he said.

Mount Batur is one of the unique geological area and has own characteristic meeting the criteria set by the world body to be declared as a world geopark.

Suchyar said the Geology Agency has also planned to propose five other locations for being named world geoparks namely Merangin area in Jambi, Sumatra, the Lake Toba old caldera in North Suma-

SEOUL - South Korean pop sensation Psy’s “Gangnam Style” has become the second mostwatched YouTube video of all time with more than 620 million hits as the quirky rapper continues to take the world by storm.

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Balinese performed during the opening of Nusa Dua Fiesta in Nusa Dua. During the NDF, many attractions and races are held to entertaint visitors. Dozens of chefs or cooks from a variety of star hotels in Bali competed in the race at the Nusa Dua Fiesta (NDF) on Saturday.

DCVMN Conference commits to technology transfer Antara

KUTA - The president of Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DVCMN) conference, Mahendra Suhardono, has stated that participants of the 13th DVCMN conference held in Kuta, Bali, have agreed to cooperate in technology transfer for vaccine manufacturing in developing countries.

“Actually, many cooperation agreements have been established among the DVCMN members, such as among Indonesia, India and South Africa.

However, it was in this conference that the commitment to cooperate in technology transfer was reaffirmed,” he said here on Friday.

Mahendra noted that the member countries were already aware of the importance of vaccine technology transfer. Therefore, he added, the various panel discussions held from October 31 through November 2, ‘went smoothly with no significant obstacles or points of disagreement.’

“Ideally technology transfer starts from searching and finding the vaccine germs, followed by research and finally production of the vaccine,” Mahendra said.

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transfer efforts for the development of vaccines in a number of developing countries are hampered by the high population of these countries.

Large-scale production of these vaccines at affordable prices involves high costs, he pointed out.

“Technology transfers also face patent and territory issues. Certain countries may not be ready to accept technology transfer, which is actually mutual beneficial,” Mahendra continued.

He stated that the two main challenges facing vaccine manufacturing were high costs and time-consuming research.

“Vaccines must be of high quality and also should be competitively priced in order to be effective in fighting various diseases across the world,” Mahendra said.

He noted that the conference was an ideal platform for participants to not only exchange relevant information and experience but also expand their business network.

“For instance, Iran is now more familiar with the vaccines produced by Bio Farma, Indonesia sole vaccine manufacturer. Iran and Indonesia have also signed a memorandum of understanding,” Mahendra added.

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To overcome inequality, Bali must set a blue print

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Ministry of Public Works speeds up project development in Indonesia

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DENPASAR - Regencies beyond the southern Bali such as the eastern, western and northern Bali must make innovation in all areas, including in the areas of policy so that it can attract the interest of investors.

Deputy Chief Representative of Bank Indonesia Denpasar, I Made Gede Sadguna, said the investment imbalance in Bali posed a challenge for the other regencies. The regencies beyond the southern Bali should prepare a blue print of development so that investors got safety assurance of their investment.

“Such blueprint will enable the investors to know the potential that will be developed in the region in the short, medium and long term. Please be noted that investors want to get certainty and security of their investment,” said Gde Sadguna, Friday (Nov 2).

According to him, the regencies beyond the southern Bali should be able to provide the certainty, simplicity and security to invest. By that way, the investors would get interested to come in and invest.

A banking and SMEs ob-

server, Ida Bagus Kade Perdana, expected that other than preparing a blue print, the regencies beyond the southern Bali should give priority to infrastructure development such as roads as the main support to investment. The regencies beyond the southern Bali should dare to provide easier and cheaper licensing services.

“If the licensing process is complicated and expensive, investors will be reluctant to come in,” he said.

He added that government should also think about optimization of local investment. It was very convenient to suppress the capital escape out of the region or country.

“If it can be carried out then the quality economic growth will be more easily achieved. The economic growth will be directly proportional to the increase in the welfare of the community,” he said. (kmb27)

Workers finishing a toll-road project at Bali Island. Ministry of Public Works accelerated the achievement of physical activity or project development and budget absorption worth IDR 75.24 trillion in 2012 that could only be absorbed about 60 percent in 2012.

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DENPASAR - Ministry of Public Works accelerated the achievement of physical activity or project development and budget absorption worth IDR 75.24 trillion in 2012 that could only be absorbed about 60 percent in 2012.

Minister of Public Works, Djoko Kirmanto, said the budget absorption in 2012 remained under the program.

On that account, the ministry accelerated the budget absorption.

“So far, the realization of budget absorption has just reached IDR 43.55 trillion or 58 percent of the total budget upper limit reaching IDR75.1 trillion,” said Djoko Kirmanto in Denpasar on Friday (Nov 2).

He said that one of the reasons for the low budget absorption was the additional budget worth around IDR 13 trillion received by the ministry in September 2012. As a result, the budget absorption could not be realized.

Overall, the budget of the ministry was consequently still considered low.

“In appropriate with the original Checklist Budget Limit (DIPA), the absorption has reached 67.7 percent.

However, when calculated according to the budget as a whole after the addition it has just reached 58 percent.

Therefore, we consider it necessary to speed it up,” he explained.

The low budget absorption, he added, was also constrained by the existence of funds blocked by the Ministry of Finance. The blocked fund totally reached IDR 2.7 trillion and scattered in each Directorate-General (DG) of the Ministry of Public Works.

According to him, such conditions required a special attention and effort to accomplish all the remaining development programs over the period of

the next two months.

“There is no other solution but hard work to accelerate the achievement of the target. We appeal to the lineups especially those in the three Directorate Generals obtaining the fund allocation to take immediate measures for the realization to improve the financial and physical performance,” he said.

The measures were taken by speeding up the procurement process where so far there were a lot of project packages that had not been tendered, particularly in the three directorate generals, namely the Directorate General of Water Resources, Highways and Human Settlements.

“Directorate General of Water Resources (SDA) has 88 packages that have not been tendered with a total value of IDR 342 billion, Highways worth IDR 183 billion for totally 61 packages and Human Settlements worth IDR 18.9 billion for 25 packages,” he said. (kmb27)

Bali posts first deficit in trade with China Antara

DENPASAR - Bali began to suffer deficit of US$5.6 million in trade with China in the first seven months of the year.

Bank Indonesia’s economist Sunarto said in a report , Bali’s exports to China and Hong Kong were valued at US$20.7 million as against imports of US$26.3 million in the same period.

The basic materials of Bali’s major export commodities like fabrics and gar-

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A buyer grab one of chinese products that being displayed in the market.

Bali began to suffer deficit of US$5.6 million in trade with China in the first seven months of the year.

ments, are imported from China, Sunarto said.

Bali also imports textile and garment making machines from China in addition to other non oil/gas commodities, he said. Bali even imports clothes in various types with cheap prices from China, he said.

Other Bali’s export commodities include handicraft to China including Hong Kong, he added. He said Bali still has potential capacity to increase exports of non-oil/gas commodities to China such as handicraft products.

Indonesia’s foreign trade has expanded rapidly with China, one of the world’s largest trading countries. Fast growing China will need largest supply of goods including from Bali , he said.

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Lights back on in Manhattan 5 days after Sandy Associated Press

NEW YORK — The lights are back on in lower Manhattan to the relief of residents who had been plunged into darkness for nearly five days by Superstorm Sandy, but resentment festered Sunday in the city’s outer boroughs and suburbs over a lack of power and maddening gas shortages.

Falling temperatures added to being lower on the list.

At a gas giveaway station in the misery of those lacking power, heat or gasoline and Mayor Michael Queens, the scene was calmer but Bloomberg urged older residents not happier. More than 400 cars without heat to move to shelters, stretched for more than a dozen and said 25,000 blankets were being blocks, with one tanker filling cars one at a time. distributed across the city.

The 5,000-gallon (19,000-liter) “We’re New Yorkers and we’re going to get through it,” the mayor trucks from the Defense Departsaid Saturday. “But I don’t want ment were dispatched to five locaanyone to think we’re out of the tions around the New York City metropolitan area. woods.”

“Do not panic. I know there is Bloomberg also said that resolving gas shortages could take days. anxiety about fuel,” Gov. Andrew Lines snaked around gas stations for Cuomo said.

Hours later, after the long lines many blocks all over the stricken region, including northern New Jersey, formed, New York state officials where Gov. Chris Christie imposed said the public should stay away rationing that recalled the worst days from the refueling stations until emergency responders first got their of fuel shortages in the 1970s.

Ten people were arrested at gas gas and more supplies were made stations in various disputes over line available. National Guard Col. jumping, police said. The police Richard Goldenberg added, howpresence where there were gas lines ever, that those who were already at the distribution sites would not was increased on Saturday.

Domingo Isasi, waiting in a gas be turned away.

Gas rationing went into effect line on Staten Island, minced no words about the divide between at noon in 12 counties of northern Manhattan and the outer boroughs. New Jersey, where police began en“The priorities are showing, forcing rules to allow only motorists simply by the fact that Manhattan with odd-numbered license plates to got their power back,” he said, add- refuel. Those with even-numbered ing that Staten Islanders are used to plates must wait until Sunday.

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New Jersey state troopers keep order as motorists line up to purchase gasoline at the Thomas A. Edison service area on the New Jersey Turnpike, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012l.

About 2.6 million people remained without power in six states after Sandy came ashore Monday night.

About 900,000 people still didn’t have electricity in the New York metropolitan area, including about 550,000 on Long Island, Cuomo said. About 80 percent of New York

Belgian Crown Prince at heart of royal scandal Associated Press

BRUSSELS — This time, Belgium’s royal family came out swinging.

Crown Prince Philippe, 52, had been depicted in a book as less of a man than is needed to become the next king of Belgium.

Again.

So, in an exceptional move, the royal palace struck back this week with an official complaint to a media ethics body against a journalist who published “Royal Questions,” a new book that includes damaging allegations about the crown prince’s character and marriage.

The royal household almost never deigns to answer allegations but the crown prince himself also made an equally rare public denial to the book’s allegations last week.

“The day that Mathilde said ‘Yes’ to my proposal was the happiest day of my life,” he said.

“It is extremely rare to have a reaction like that,” historian Marc Reynebeau said Friday in a telephone interview. “It is as if they wanted to show: ‘You can claim whatever, but don’t exaggerate.’”

The image and credibility of the royal

family matters in this European Union nation, which is riven by divisions between its 6.5 million Dutch-speakers and its 4.5 million French-speakers. Three things still unite Belgium: Admiration for the king, a taste for fries and beer and a love of the national soccer team.

Journalists on Friday also questioned the significance of author Frederic Deborsu’s probing into the life of Philippe, who is expected to take over from King Albert.

Allegations about “ his ‘forced marriage,’ the birth of his children in a hospital specializing in artificial procreation,” the journalist group AJP said, “are they really in the public interest?”

For most of his life, the crown prince has been seen as a less-than-credible successor for his father, who is now 78.

Philippe was considered aloof and awkward, with the charisma of a civil servant.

Until his engagement a dozen years ago, he was seemingly headed for terminal bachelorship.

King Albert, who succeeded his brother in 1993, saw his own image darkened a dozen years ago when he had to acknowledge that he had fathered a daughter out of wedlock.

City’s subway service has been restored, he added.

The restoration of power beat the sunrise Saturday in the West Village in lower Manhattan, though just barely. Electricity arrived at 4:23 a.m., said Adam Greene, owner of Snack Taverna, a popular eatery.

“This morning, I took a really

long hot shower,” he said.

Throughout the West Village, people were emerging from their hibernation, happy to regain their footing. Stores started to reopen.

Signs at a Whole Foods Market promised that fresh meat and poultry and baked goods would return Sunday.

Playboy Clubs to enter India

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MUMBAI - The Playboy club is coming to India -- but with “bunnies” in nonrevealing outfits.

“The costumes of the bunnies, who are integral to the Playboy culture, will be based on Indian sensibilities and morals,” Sanjay Gupta, CEO of PB Lifestyle, which is bringing the brand to India through a licensing agreement, told Reuters.

India has strict censorship laws and there is no Indian version of Playboy, the magazine launched by Hugh Hefner that became as known for its pictures of naked women as for the hedonistic lifestyle propagated by its founder.

Playboy bunnies, or waitresses, typically wear black satin bodices, bow ties, cuffs and bunny ears. PB Lifestyle has not yet decided what waitresses will wear in India, a socially conservative country where it is frowned upon for couples to hold hands in public.

Even a popular cricket tournament

drew criticism and threats when it hired foreign cheerleaders in short clothes, forcing organisers to revamp the outfits to show less skin.

“Our clubs will not have any nudity.

So there should not be any problem and we are prepared to deal with it if there is any,” said Gupta, whose media and real estate company signed a 30-year licensing agreement with U.S.-based Playboy Enterprises Inc. Gupta’s company plans to use the Playboy brand and its iconic rabbit-head logo on clubs, bars, hotels and cafes and will spend 2 billion rupees ($37 million) in the first five years. The first Playboy property in India will be a club in the resort state of Goa, followed by one in Hyderabad.

Whether the Playboy brand will sell in a toned-down version remains to be seen.

“They are associated with scantily clad women, fun and pleasure. What is the point of getting Playboy to India in such a boring way?” asked 25-year old Yash Sanghavi, a digital advertising executive.

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BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe’s sovereign debt crisis will last at least five more years.

Facebook’s Sandberg sells $7.4 million in stock Reuters

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German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Party in Sternberg, eastern Germany Saturday Nov. 3, 2012.

Rothschild mulls counter-bid in Bumi battle Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - British financier Nathaniel Rothschild is mulling a bid for Bumi Plc coal assets to counter an offer

by Indonesia’s powerful Bakrie family, and has approached one of their rivals, a report said Saturday.

The formation of Bumi Plc by the Bakries and Rothschild brought Indonesian coal assets to the London Stock Exchange, but the tie-up was beset by boardroom squabbles.

Bumi’s board is currently considering a $1.2-billion proposal by the Bakries that would see the family sever ties with the London-listed mining group, an offer that prompted the resignation of Rothschild from the board last month.

In a new twist to a feud being carefully watched by foreign investors, Rothschild

has approached one of the Bakries’ most high-profile rivals, Prabowo Subianto, to join him in a bid, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Subianto has been approached several times since September but has rejected the moves, the paper said, citing people familiar with the plans.

Subianto, who was a general under former Indonesian dictator Suharto, is considered a front-runner for presidential elections in 2014, where he is likely to face Aburizal Bakrie, the patriarch of the Bakrie family.

A spokesman for Rothschild, the scion of a European banking dynasty, declined to confirm he was trying to form a rival bid but said he was in talks “with a number of parties”, the report said.

He did no respond to attempts by AFP to contact him. Subianto could not be im-

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BPK: No bargaining

Merkel: Euro debt crisis will last 5 years or more

Merkel says the continent is on the right path to overcome the crisis but “whoever thinks this can be fixed in one or two years is wrong.”

Two years ago some heavily indebted European countries were dragged into the turmoil that first gripped global financial markets in 2007.

Greece in particular has been struggling with the austerity conditions imposed on it by countries such as Germany.

But Merkel told a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Party on Saturday that the time had come for “a bit of strictness.”

Otherwise, she says, Europe won’t be able to attract international investment.

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Bumi Plc’s shares plunged as the battle heated up, but closed up almost 14 percent in London Friday after speculation about Rothschild’s counter-bid emerged.

Last month’s proposal by the Bakries would see the family give up their 23.8 percent stake in Bumi and pay about $1.2 billion for its mines.

The proposal, which would return control of some of Indonesia’s most productive mines to the Bakries but leave Bumi Plc with cash and no assets, prompted Rothschild to resign from Bumi’s board.

He said it would be a “disgrace” if Bumi accepted the Bakrie’s offer before the completion of a probe he has backed into alleged financial irregularities at Bumi Resources, a holding company related to Bumi Plc and controlled by the Bakries.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and two other executives at the social networking company sold millions of dollars worth of stock this week as restrictions on insider trading expired.

Sandberg netted about $7.44 million by selling roughly 353,000 Facebook shares on Wednesday, according to a filing with the SEC on Friday. Sandberg still owns roughly 20 million vested shares of Facebook stock, including shares held in her trusts, according to the filing.

Facebook General Counsel Theodore Ullyot and Chief Accounting Officer David Spillane also sold millions of dollars worth of shares this week, according to filings. All the Facebook executives’ sales were part of pre-arranged stock trading plans.

The sales are the first by Facebook’s senior management following the company’s high-profile initial public offering in May. The world’s No.1 online social network became the only U.S. company to debut with a market value of more than $100 billion, but has seen its value plunge more than 40 percent since then on concerns about its long-term money-making prospects.

Shares of Facebook, which were priced at $38 in the IPO, closed Friday’s regular session down 3 cents at $21.18.

The flood of shares set to hit the market as insider trading “lock-up” provisions expire in several phases have added to the pressure on Facebook’s stock.

Roughly 230 million shares of Facebook became eligible for trading this week, as trading restrictions for employees expired.

Another 800 million shares will be eligible for trading on November 14, significantly expanding the “float” of roughly 692 million Facebook shares that were available for trading as of September 30.

Facebook’s 28-year-old chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has committed to not sell any shares before September 2013.

Ullyot sold slightly more than 149,000 shares on Wednesday and Thursday, collecting $3.13 million. Ullyot has an additional 1.27 million in vested shares.

Spillane sold 256,000 shares on Wednesday, more than half of his vested shares, for proceeds of $5.4 million. Spillane had more than 863,000 Facebook shares, including unvested shares, according to a filing in May.

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Findings of BPK must be followed up pursuant to recommendation Bali Post

DENPASAR - Chief Representative of Supreme Audit Agency (BPK-RI) of Bali, Efdinal, said that so far there had been good faith of the Bali Government to follow up the findings of BPK. Even, it had reached 85 percent.

He explained that of the 15 findings, the BPK recommended 35 follows-up to the Bali Government and 28 recommendations had been followed up like the findings regarding the excess of payment and lacks of work volume in a number of projects.

“There are 28 recommendations that have been followed up. Some have been accomplished and some others remain under process. We are still waiting for the ones that have not been followed up,” said Efdinal when met in his office on Friday.

Meanwhile, five recommendations concerned with the findings such as costliness in the procurement of e-government system worth IDR 3.6 billion, costliness in the procurement of heavy equipment, studio equipment, CCTV, electrical installations and telephone in the Culture Agency worth IDR 6.2 billion as well as costliness in the procurement of mobile screening (X-Ray ). Against the findings, the BPK recommended and instructed the TPTGR team to draw an indication of loss to the region due to difference in the price or costliness and then returned it to the state treasury. “Probably, it is being coordinated with the partner because it is in a great amount,” said the former BPK Chief Representative of Gorontalo.

Then, what is the response of Bali Government denying the costliness in the findings and the different interpretation regarding the findings? Related to the matter, Efdinal said the Examination Result Report (LHP) was a legal product and BP had owned valid standards so that whatever the recommendation carried in the report should be followed up in appropriate with the recommendation.

There should be no bargaining and the provincial government might not interpret it differently.

Efdinal also said there was no opportunity for the provincial government to recalculate the findings of costliness.

“There is no bargaining in the BPK findings. The Examination Result Report has become a legal product that should be followed up as the recommendation issued by the KPK. It is not negotiable,” affirmed the man born 40 years ago in Jambi. He said before the report (LHP) was issued and submitted to the Bali House and Bali Government an in-depth discussion was possible regarding the indication of findings. At that time, the denials were still possible as long as they could be proved with valid and accurate data and documents. “After the report has been issued, the recalculation is no longer possible. Denial is okay but it should be made before the LHP was issued,” he said.

Efdinal who had served in the financial audit for 10 years in a number of state-owned enterprises added that BPK gave 60 days to follow up the findings.

However, it did not necessarily mean to totally accomplish the findings in 60 days but there should be a follow-up though being incomplete. If there were some findings that had not been followed up, the BPK would send a letter to Bali Government and Bali House because the House also had an authority to control the follow up.

“If any recommendation has not been followed up after 60 days, we will send a letter to Bali Government asking why it has not been followed up or whether it cannot be followed up. We will also report it to the central BPK. By all means, if there is a recommendation on the findings of the BPK there must be a sanction,” he said. The BPK submitted the findings on September 11 and gave a 60-day deadline to follow it up. In other words, the deadline would fall on October 10 and the provincial government should have followed up all the findings.

Previously, (BP, Nov 1) in responding to and following up the findings of the BPK regarding the costliness in the procurement of a number of goods and services, the Bali Government denied the existence of bargaining, but it was only the difference in perception regarding the findings. “It’s not a bargaining but a discussion to unify the perception regarding the legislation, and it’s a commonplace,” said Chief Inspector of Bali Province, AA Gede Alit Sastrawan, Thursday (Nov 1) in Denpasar.

With the persistence of differences in the perception regarding the costliness in the findings, Alit Sastrawan argued if the Bali Government had its own calculation regarding the findings of the BPK because he considered the procurement had met the procedures.

“We did not have our own calculations but procurement of the goods and services have been carried out according to regulations,” said the former head of the Bali Environment Agency.

Alit Sastrawan also denied if the Bali Government questioned about the findings of the BPK. “We have no doubt but we indeed have different results according to the procedure we have taken. The BPK has SOP and we’ve been doing it as applicable law,” he said. (kmb29)

Attacked by flies, cocoa harvest slumps

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DENPASAR - Destiny of cocoa farmers at Lalanglinggah village, West Selemadeg, is apprehensive. Within the past few years, the harvest yields of farmers slumps. It is triggered by flies attacking the cocoa pods that have been ready to harvest. As a result, farmers lose out.

The flies gnaw the cocoa when entering the harvest season. As a result, the beans inside the pod rot and dry up.

Due to serious attack, the pod that can be harvested decreases sharply. Previously, a single tree could produce about 5 kilograms of cocoa beans. After the attack, the yields dropped to 1 kilogram per tree. “The flies are black and attack the pods most ferociously,” said Wayan Suparta, 43, a cocoa farmer from Bangkiang Jaran hamlet, Lalanglinggah village on Saturday.

Suparta admitted the pest attack had been going on since the past five years whereas the cocoa plants of farmers were still fairly productive. As the harvest yields continued to fall, a number of farmers were forced to chop their cocoa plants. Moreover, the price of cocoa commodity tended to decline. Price of the cocoa bean only reached IDR 18,000 per kilogram. The price had slumped sharply from previously reaching IDR 25,000 per kilogram.

“Due to frequent crop failure, many farmers cut down their cocoa plants,” he said.

Suparta had one hectare of cocoa plantation. The man was reluctant to take care of his plants as the pest attack was tough to eradicate.

He admitted the Tabanan Agriculture Agency had provided the assistance of pesticides to spray the flies for several times. However, the results were not optimal. As consequence, farmers were often desperate to take care

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Destiny of cocoa farmers at Lalanglinggah village, West Selemadeg, is apprehensive. Within the past few years, the harvest yields of farmers slumps.

of their cocoa plantation.

Except for flies, the attack of squirrel was also quite ferocious. This insect gnawed the cocoa pods that have been ready to harvest and only left the rinds. The pods attacked by squirrel were usually perforated while the beans and

pulps were always missing.

Against the squirrel, farmers could only manually eradicate it. They hunted it in the morning and afternoon.

Ultimately, farmers hoped the flies could disappear and their harvest yields came back to normal. (kmb30)

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Pharaonic princess’s tomb found near Cairo, Egypt

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INDONESIA Ban on Olympic badminton pair lifted

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Campaign signs for both President Barack Obama, and his challenger, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are seen in yards outside Evans City, Pa., Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.

Obama, Romney make last push as campaign nears end Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, making their final arguments in a handful of battleground states that will decide the outcome of a tight presidential race, have embarked on the last stretch of a grinding presidential campaign.

National opinion polls showed a race for the popular vote in Tuesday’s election so close that only a statistically insignificant point or two separated the two rivals. Polls in the nine battleground states tightened after Obama’s poor performance in the first presidential debate, on Oct. 3, and the race has stayed close since then.

Under the U.S. system, the winner is not determined by the nationwide popular vote but in state-by-state contests, making “battleground” states that are neither consistently Republican nor Democratic extremely important in such a tight race. Romney and Obama are actually competing to win at least 270 electoral votes.

The electoral votes are apportioned to states based on a mix of population and representation in Congress.

Republicans quietly acknowledged that Romney had so far been unable to achieve the breakthroughs needed in such key swing states as Ohio, where polls show the Republican trailing by several percentage points. No

Republican has ever been elected president without carrying Ohio.

That leaves Romney with the tougher path to reach the required 270 electoral votes. He must win more of the nine most-contested states that are not reliably Republican or Democratic: Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa and New Hampshire.

About 27 million Americans already have cast ballots in early voting in 34 states and Washington, D.C. Obama tended to presidential business before leaving Washington Saturday as he led a briefing at the government’s disaster relief agency on the federal response to Superstorm Sandy. He said the recovery effort still has a long way to go but pledged a “120 percent effort” by all those involved.

“There’s nothing more important than us getting this right,” Obama said, keenly aware that a spot-on government response to the storm also was important to his political prospects. Then he began a three-state campaign day.

After holding mostly small and mid-size rallies for much of the campaign, Obama’s planned a series of larger events this weekend aimed at drawing big crowds in battleground states. Still, the campaign isn’t expecting to draw the massive audiences Obama had in the closing days of the 2008 race, when his rallies drew more than 50,000.

Romney began Saturday with a morning rally on the New Hampshire seacoast. He then headed to Iowa and made two stops in Colorado later in the day. He shifted an original plan to campaign in Nevada on Sunday in favor of a schedule likely to bring him back to Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. His running mate Rep. Paul Ryan hit Ohio and Pennsylvania before heading to two more swing states.

In crucial early voting, Obama holds an apparent lead over Romney in several key states. But Obama’s advantage isn’t as big as the one he had over John McCain four years ago, giving Romney hope that he could make up that gap in Tuesday’s election.

CAIRO — Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, in a finding that suggests other undiscovered tombs may be in the area, an official from Egypt’s antiquities ministry said Saturday.

Mohammed El-Bialy, who heads the Egyptian and GrecoRoman Antiquities department at the Antiquities Ministry, said that Princess Shert Nebti’s burial site is surrounded by the tombs of four high officials from the Fifth Dynasty dating to around 2,500 BC in the Abu Sir complex near the famed step pyramid of Saqqara.

“Discoveries are ongoing” at Abu Sir, El-Bialy said, adding that the excavation was in a “very early stage” and that the site was closed to the public.

Inscriptions on the four limestone pillars of the Princess’ tomb indicate that she is the daughter of King Men Salbo.

“She is the daughter of the king, but only her tomb is there, surrounded by the four officials, so the question is, are we going to discover other tombs around hers in the near future? We don’t know anything about her father, the king, or her mother, but hope that future discoveries will answer these questions,” El-Bialy said.

On Friday, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said that the antechamber to the princess’ tomb includes four limestone columns and hieroglyphic inscriptions. The current excavation has also unearthed an antechamber containing the sarcophagi of the four officials and statues of men, women, and a child, he said in a statement.

The Czech team’s discovery marks the “start of a new chapter” in the history of the burial sites of Abu Sir and Saqqara, Ibrahim added.

The archaeologists working at the site are from the Czech Institute of Egyptology, which is funded by the Charles University of Prague. Their excavation began this month.

The discovery comes weeks after the Egyptian government reopened a pyramid and a complex of tombs that had been closed for restoration work for a decade.

Egypt’s vital tourism industry has suffered from the country’s internal unrest in the wake of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak. A delegation from the International Monetary Fund is currently in Egypt for negotiations over a $4.8 billion loan aimed at bolstering the country’s ailing economy.

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JAKARTA — The Indonesian Badminton Association lifted a ban Saturday on its leading women’s doubles pair over the play-to-lose scandal at the London Olympics.

Greysia Polii and Meiliana Jauhari were kicked out of the games along with the Chinese world champions and two South Korean teams for trying to deliberately lose group matches to gain an easier path through the later stages.

The association, known as PBSI, banned the pair and their coach Paulus Firman in September for four months from all national and international tournaments. The suspension was reduced to three months on Oct. 22 after the players expressed remorse for their actions.

“They well aware of their mistake and eager to defend the red and white,” PBSI secretary general Koesdarto Pramono said, referring to the country’s national flag. “We believed it will not happen again in the future and they deserve to get our support.”

He said Polii and Jauhari have been training during their three months out in preparation for the Yonex-Sunrise Super-series in Hong Kong from Nov. 20-25.

Indonesia has called for future Olympics to return to a straight knockout tournament to prevent any manipulation of the draw. The Badminton World Federation will discuss future formats later this month.

The South Korean teams had their lifetime bans reduced on appeal to six months by their badminton officials. Yu Yang, half of China’s banned team and a 2008 Olympic gold medalist, decided to retire.

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Police officials display homemade bombs, bomb making components, ammunitions and assorted weapons at the Poso police headquarters on November 2, 2012. Indonesian anti-terrorism forces shot and killed an alleged militant and arrested another in a predawn raid Saturday in Central Sulawesi province, police said.

Police kill alleged militant in raid Associated Press

JAKARTA — Indonesian anti-terrorism forces shot and killed an alleged militant and arrested another in a predawn raid Saturday in Central Sulawesi province, police said.

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This undated image released Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, shows three recently discovered statues found in a complex of tombs, including one of a pharaonic princess, in the Abusir region, south of Cairo, Egypt.

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National police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said the two suspects were among fugitives wanted for the assassination of two police officers who were killed last month while investigating terrorist activities in the area.

The two men resisted arrest by throwing homemade bombs toward security forces during the raid at a house in Kayamaya village in Poso district, Amar said.

“They tried to harm the police ... we had to shoot and killed one of them,” he said, adding that the

other suspect was arrested and taken to a police detention center in the provincial capital, Palu.

Police seized several homemade bombs and other materials during Saturday’s raid, Amar said.

The incident came amid a security crackdown in a mountainous jungle area in Poso that is believed to be home to a terrorist training camp. One suspected militant was killed and two others arrested Wednesday.

Poso was a flashpoint for violence between Christians and

Muslims that left more than 1,000 people dead in 2001 and 2002.

Authorities believe the district is now a terrorist hotbed.

Indonesia has been battling terrorists since the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

Since March, more than 50 militant suspects have been arrested and nine others killed in a series of raids in Indonesia. Some of the suspects had attended a military-style training camp in Poso.

Judges face drug tests

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s judiciary will be randomly tested for drugs after a judge was arrested at a Jakarta nightclub last month on suspicion of possessing ecstasy and crystal meth, officials said Friday.

The arrest of the judge, who was allegedly accompanied by prostitutes when he was caught at the club called Illigals, sparked uproar and is the latest challenge for what critics say is a corruption-ridden judiciary.

The national narcotics agency said that it had struck an agreement with the judicial commission to subject judges to unannounced urine tests.

“The use of drugs by judges is a breach of their code of ethics and will clearly disrupt their performance,” said Asep Rahman Fajar, a spokesman for the commission, which oversees the work of the country’s judges.

Indonesia has tough drug laws and possession is punishable with up to 12 years in jail.

The district judge, who worked at a court in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, was arrested on October 16 by drug agency officials in the five-floor club, said narcotics agency spokesman Sumirat Dwiyanto.

The judge, whom officials have only identified by his initials of P.W., was found in possession of dozens of ecstasy pills and crystal methamphetamine in a room with a group that included friends and prostitutes, said the spokesman.

He tested positive for drugs and has admitted consuming them, Dwiyanto said. He is currently in custody.

Rampant corruption has crippled the public service in Indonesia and there have been a string of recent cases in which judges allegedly accepted bribes.

Anti-graft group Transparency International last year ranked the country 100 out of 183 in its global corruption perception index.

In a bid to tackle graft, the government has set up the the Corruption Eradication Commission which has been given wide-ranging powers to tackle the scourge.

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Nets celebrate Brooklyn opening by beating Raptors

Padangbai Beach:

A Delightful Paradise of Divers IBP

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Padangbai is developed into a nature and cultural tourism in a tourism resort development of Candidasa, Padangbai Village, Manggis Subdistrict, Karangasem. It is about 25 km from the town of Amlapura, 13 km from Candidasa and about 31 km east of Denpasar. At this location sits a harbor becoming the access of transportation to Lombok Island, NTB. The name of Padangbai got influence from the Dutch as a result of colonial period. It was formerly known as Teluk Padang or the Padang Bay. It is a white sandy bay whose location is tranquilly surrounded by black rock. Due to its strategic location, the life of undersea nature is well maintained. Padangbai attraction has pure white and thick sandy beach that is good for sunbathing or swimming. Besides, its natural undersea beauty is very appropriate for diving and snorkeling because it is rich in various kinds of coral reefs and amazing ornamental fish. Another attraction that can be found here is an exotic blue lagoon becoming a favorite destination for divers. Meanwhile, Padangbai also has a cultural attraction in the form of Dang Kahyangan Temple (universal temple) complex.

In the east of Padangbai Beach lies the Silayukti Temple founded by Mpu Kuturan in the eleventh century during his pilgrimage to Bali. Mpu Kuturan was a priest having a great merit in setting up the Hinduism in Bali where his teachings remained to be adhered to and implemented by the Hindus in Bali today. In the south of the temple lies the Tanjung Sari Temple built by Mpu Bharadah, the youngest brother of Mpu Kuturan. Then, in the west of Padangbai sits the Penataran Agung Temple founded in the sixteenth century by Danghyang Dwijendra also known as Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rawuh, a descendant of the Mpu Kuturan.

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NEW YORK - The Brooklyn Nets baptised their new Barclays Center home with a 107-100 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Saturday as the first major professional sports team in 55 years to call Brooklyn their home.

The Nets led by 13 points in the third quarter, but had to hold off the Raptors, who closed within 97-95 with 75 seconds left before a threepoint play by Brook Lopez gave Brooklyn the necessary cushion in their first game of the season.

“The experience was just absolutely amazing,” said Lopez. “The crowd brought so much energy, its Brooklyn energy.”

Center Lopez led the Nets with 27 points, while Kyle Lowry scored 28 points and DeMar DeRozan had 25 for Toronto, who fell to 0-2 after an opening home loss to the Indiana Pacers. The Nets, who moved to

Brooklyn from New Jersey, had been scheduled to play their home opener on Thursday against crosscity rivals the Knicks, but the game was postponed because of mass transit problems due to damage by the superstorm Sandy that hit the area on Monday.

National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern greeted the crowd, expressing concern for storm victims before declaring: “Welcome Brooklyn, USA, to the NBA.” Nets All-Star guard Deron Williams thanked the crowd for turning out given the hardships and destruction wrought by the storm

and said: “We hope to represent Brooklyn right.”

Williams scored 19 points and doled out nine assists in the win.

Former Brooklyn Dodgers players Ralph Branca and Joe Pignatano participated in pre-game festivities as ties to Brooklyn’s fabled sporting past, dormant since the Dodgers left for Los Angeles after the 1957 Major League Baseball season.

The Nets also debuted a new team anthem and dropped down from the rafters on a cable their new mascot a masked, shield-bearing “Brooklyn Knight”. Overcoming a slow start with Toronto leading by eight after the first quarter, the Nets turned on the jets in the second with help from their bench players to outscore them 33-17 for a 60-52 halftime lead.

The Nets extended their lead to double digits before the Raptors turned it into a nail-biter at the finish.

Bute recovers from first loss, outlasts Grachev Associated Press

MONTREAL — Former IBF champion Lucian Bute rebounded from his first defeat by outlasting Denis Grachev in a close bout for the minor NABF light heavyweight title on Saturday night.

Bute, of Canada, won a unanimous decision and improved to 31-1 in his first fight since losing his super-middleweight title to Carl Froch in May. Grachev, of Russia, fell to 12-1-1 despite landing more punches overall.

The ringside judges all favored Bute in their final scores: 115113, 116-112 and 118-112.

Bute took advantage of a hometown crowd. An announced attendance of 10,122 in the Bell Centre chanted the 32-year-old’s name throughout the fight.

Bute fought cautiously for 11 rounds, looking to avoid direct hits while taking single shots at Grachev. In the 12th, though, he dominated, as he stood in the center of the ring daring Grachev, 30, to hit his chin while firing off lefts.

There was question as to whether Bute could take a hard shot to the chin after his fiveround loss to Froch, but he was never in serious trouble even though he was backed against the ropes several times.

Next up for Bute (31-1) could be a rematch with Froch in March in Montreal.

In the undercard, former WBC flyweight champion Rodrigo Guerrero (18-4-1) defeated Sebastien Gathier (22-4) in eight rounds.

Lucian Bute, of Canada, holds up the belt after defeating Denis Grachev, from Russia, in a unanimous decision in their North American Boxing Federation light heavywieght title boxing match Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 in Montreal.

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Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry (3) shoots over Brooklyn Nets’ Joe Johnson (7) as Gerald Wallace (45) trails the play during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, in New York.

Disappointed NYC marathoners to run in aid of Sandy victims Reuters

NEW YORK - Hundreds of runners in New York City are refusing to let a canceled marathon spoil their Sunday plans and are channeling months of preparation into informal runs intended to benefit victims of superstorm Sandy.

Amid criticism from victims of Monday’s storm that the race would divert resources away from efforts to help flood-ravaged parts of the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday abruptly canceled Sunday’s marathon. The event was expected to draw more than 40,000 runners to the city - including Kelly Rooney, a 31-year-old stay-at-home mother from Florida.

Rooney was at first irked that Bloomberg called off the marathon after insisting earlier in the week that it would go ahead in spite of Sandy, whose 80 mile-per-hour (130-kph) winds and record surge of seawater devastated coastal communities and claimed at least 110 U.S. lives.

Rooney traveled with her husband and 6-year-old daughter in tow, while her parents flew in from Mexico to cheer her on.

By Saturday afternoon Rooney was over her disappointment and looking forward to a charity run on hard-hit Staten Island that she had

found advertised on the Internet.

On Sunday, Rooney will be running with a backpack full of dog food, cat food, batteries and some water donated by her hotel, the RitzCarlton across from Central Park.

“I truthfully at this point don’t care if I run, I just want to give this stuff out,” she said.

The idea for the Staten Island run came to 46-year-old Jordan Metzl, a doctor of sports medicine, and his running friends just as the debate was heating up last week about whether storm-battered New York City should hold a marathon.

He was discouraged that the running community was being perceived so negatively when it holds so many races to raise money for a variety of causes.

Metzl is expecting more than 500 runners to show up on Sunday at the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Manhattan, including participants from Germany and Italy. U.S. rower Alison Cox, who won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, is also expected to participate.

The runners will take different routes across Staten Island and distribute supplies along the way.

Other informal runs will be held on Sunday that loop around Central Park, mimicking the original 1970 route of the New York City marathon.

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Inter ends Juve’s unbeaten run

Associated Press.

TURIN — Inter Milan ended Juventus’ 49-match unbeaten streak in Serie A with a 3-1 comeback win over its bitter rival in “Italy’s derby” on Saturday and moved within one point of the lead.

For its ninth consecutive victory in all competitions, Inter also had to overcome questionable refereeing.

Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal put Juventus ahead after just 18 seconds, but replays clearly showed that Kwadwo Asamoah provided the cross while offside.

In the 12th minute, a goal from Inter forward Rodrigo Palacio was annulled for another questionable offside call, this time with replays indecisive.

However, Inter eventually equalized with a penalty from Diego Milito in the 59th after Claudio Marchisio tugged the Argentine’s jersey. Milito scored the winner by firing in a rebound in the 75th.

As Juve pressed forward for an equalizer, Palacio scored Inter’s third in the 90th, finishing off a counterattack with a pass from Japan fullback Yuto Nagatomo.

Juventus had not lost in the Italian league since being beaten by Parma 1-0 the penultimate match of

the 2010-11 season. The Bianconeri was unbeaten last season en route to the title.

AC Milan holds the record unbeaten streak at 58 matches, set from 1991 to 1993.

“The first goal was offside, but after that goal we reacted well and had a great match,” Milito said. “We had a lot of courage to play like this in this stadium. Nobody had ever done that before.”

Juventus Stadium opened last season and this marked the Bianconeri’s first loss there.

Juventus midfielder Stephan Lichtsteiner was fortunate not to be shown a second yellow card, and was substituted for before halftime.

“We’re following our own road,” Milito said. “We’ve still got an extraordinary squad ahead of us and I’m sure they won’t give up until the end. We’ve just got to try and keep winning and then we’ll see what happens at the end.”

REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

Juventus’ players react following the third goal scored by Inter Milan’s Rodrigo Palacio during their Italian Serie A soccer match at the Juventus stadium in Turin November 3, 2012.

Barca beat Celta to equal best La Liga start

Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona equalled the La Liga record for the most points after 10 games and moved three clear of Atletico Madrid at the top of the table thanks to a

3-1 win at home to Celta Vigo on Saturday.

A resurgent David Villa netted himself and also created a goal for Jordi Alba after Adriano had opened the scoring at the Nou Camp as Tito Vilanova’s unbeat-

en side moved on to 28 points, matching the previous best set by arch rivals Real Madrid.

However, Atletico’s undefeated run ended when they lost 2-0 at Valencia after Roberto Soldado’s stunning 20th-minute Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (L) tries to score against Celta Vigo’s goalkeeper Javi Varas during their Spanish First division soccer league match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, November 3, 2012.

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volley and a clever finish from substitute Nelson Valdez in the fifth minute of added time.

Valencia, who climbed to seventh on 14 points, finished with 10 men after Ricardo Costa was sent off late on for a second yellow card.

Champions Real, recovering from a shaky start to the campaign, climbed above Malaga into third thanks to a 4-0 home win over Real Zaragoza.

The club’s Argentina team mates Gonzalo Higuain and Angel Di Maria and new signings Michael Essien and Luka Modric were all on the scorsheet.

Real, who looked far from their best despite the lopsided scoreline, have 20 points, eight behind Barca.

Malaga are on 18 after they suffered their first home defeat of the campaign when they lost 2-1 at home to Rayo Vallecano.

Celta’s only previous victory at Barcelona came in the 194142 season but the promoted Galicians surprised their illus-

trious hosts when Mario Bermejo levelled at 1-1 three minutes after Adriano’s 21st-minute opener.

Forward Villa, who looks to be getting back to his best after a lengthy recuperation from a broken leg, put Barca back in front two minutes after Bermejo’s strike.

He sent Andres Iniesta clear with a deft back heel and raced into the area to sidefoot his Spain’s team mate’s low cross into the net for his fifth league goal of the season.

The 30-year-old then produced another delightful touch to put Alba through in the 61st minute and the referee allowed the fullback’s well-taken goal to stand despite the fact he was clearly offside when Villa made the pass.

Barcelona’s World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, who became a father for the first time when his son Thiago was born on Friday, had a quiet night, the La Liga top scorer failing to add to his 13 league goals this term.

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Bayern crush Hamburg to open up seven-point lead Reuters

BERLIN - Bayern Munich cruised past hosts Hamburg SV 3-0 on Saturday to go seven points clear at the top of the Bundesliga as rivals Schalke 04 and champions Borussia Dortmund slipped up.

Bastian Schweinsteiger headed in a deft Toni Kroos chip to give Bayern the lead in the 40th minute before early second half goals from Thomas Mueller and Kroos made sure the Bavarians bounced back in style from their first league defeat last week.

Bayern’s ninth win in 10 league games lifted them to 27 points.

Hoffenheim’s Sven Schipplock scored in injury time to condemn second-placed Schalke 04 to a 3-2 defeat that leaves them seven points adrift.

Dortmund also lost ground after drawing 0-0 against VfB Stuttgart and remain fourth on 16 points. Hamburg dropped to eighth on 13.

“It was a good goal and more importantly a crucial one,” said Mueller of his seventh goal of the season that helped Bayern clinch their first win in Hamburg in six years.

“Finally we won again here because it had been an issue for quite some time.”

Bayern, hosting Lille in the Champions League on Wednesday, were eager to shrug off last week’s defeat to Bayer Leverkusen and dispel any thoughts of a possible repeat of last season’s mid-season implosion.

With Franck Ribery back in the starting lineup but Arjen Robben back on the bench after his German Cup appearance in midweek, Bayern took the lead just before the break.

Kroos looked to have missed his chance when he was sent clear with only Rene Adler to beat but he managed to recover, sending a clever chip over the keeper to the far post for Schweinsteiger to score with a diving header.

Hamburg, with three wins in their last four games, struggled to make an impact in Germany’s traditional north-south derby.

It took only three minutes after the restart for Bayern to strike again with Mueller’s audacious shot from the tightest of angles beating Adler.

Kroos took any wind left out of Hamburg’s sails drilling in from close range in the 53rd minute as Bayern set a Bundesliga record for five wins in five straight away games since the start of the season, without conceding a goal.

AP Photo/Jacques Brinon

Paris Saint-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden, left, walks from the field after receiving a red card from the referee during the French League One soccer match against Saint Etienne, Saturday Nov. 3, 2012, in Parc des Princes stadium, in Paris.

Ibrahimovic sent off

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Bayern Munich’s Bastian Schweinsteiger celebrates after scoring during the German Bundesliga first division soccer match against Hamburger SV in Hamburg, November 3, 2012. Right is team mate Franck Ribery.

PARIS - Zlatan Ibrahimovic was sent off as leaders Paris St Germain suffered their first Ligue 1 defeat of the season when they lost 2-1 at home against St Etienne on Saturday.

Sweden striker Ibrahimovic was shown a straight red card 21 minutes from time after a high kick on keeper Stephane Ruffier’s chest as he was chasing the ball.

PSG, who have 22 points from 11 games, were already 1-0 down after Mamadou Sakho had deflected a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang cross into his own goal 10 minutes into the second half.

Aubameyang put the result beyond doubt in the 73rd, beating Salvatore Sirigu from close range after being set up by Alejandro Alonso.

Striker Guillaume Hoarau pulled one back with two minutes left when he controlled the ball from a Javier Pastore free kick before firing past Ruffier.

“The red card is not deserved because he was not looking at the keeper, but at the ball,” coach Carlo Ancelotti was quoted as

saying by French media.

“In the dressing room, he did not say anything, he was disappointed. But the problem was before (the red card). We had no pace. St Etienne played better than us and they deserved to win.”

PSG suffered a double injury blow in midfield as Blaise Matuidi was replaced by Bodmer shortly before halftime and Clement Chantome suffered a possible ankle injury and was substituted

by Mohamed Sissoko after the break.

Asked about Matuidi, Ancelotti said: “It’s not serious, he just took a big knock.”

PSG will be back at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday to take on Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League.

There was more disappointment for champions Montpellier whose difficult start to the season continued with a 1-1 draw against strugglers Troyes, while 2011 winners Lille claimed a 2-0 win at Evian Thonon Gaillard.

Second-placed Toulouse and third-placed Olympique Marseille, who are both three points behind PSG, travel to Girondins

Bordeaux and AC Ajaccio respectively on Sunday.

St Etienne stay fifth on 18 points and are behind Valenciennes on goals scored after the northern side continued their good run as they moved up to fourth with a 3-1 home win against Sochaux.

Foued Kadir opened the scoring with a free kick in the 12th minute and set up Gregory Pujol for the second 15 minutes later.

Pujol put the result beyond doubt on the hour mark, beating Simon Pouplin from close range after being set up once again by Kadir.

Sebastien Roudet scored a consolation goal two minutes later.

Lille moved up to seventh, a point behind St Etienne, after a Nolan Roux header and 25-metre strike from Florent Balmont gave them a 2-0 win at Evian Thonon Gaillard.

Montpellier stay 14th on 12 points after failing to beat secondbottom Troyes.

Younes Belhanda put the champions ahead with a low cross-shot in the 19th minute, only for Fabien Camus to level five minutes before the interval.

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Inter ends Juve’s unbeaten run

Associated Press.

TURIN — Inter Milan ended Juventus’ 49-match unbeaten streak in Serie A with a 3-1 comeback win over its bitter rival in “Italy’s derby” on Saturday and moved within one point of the lead.

For its ninth consecutive victory in all competitions, Inter also had to overcome questionable refereeing.

Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal put Juventus ahead after just 18 seconds, but replays clearly showed that Kwadwo Asamoah provided the cross while offside.

In the 12th minute, a goal from Inter forward Rodrigo Palacio was annulled for another questionable offside call, this time with replays indecisive.

However, Inter eventually equalized with a penalty from Diego Milito in the 59th after Claudio Marchisio tugged the Argentine’s jersey. Milito scored the winner by firing in a rebound in the 75th.

As Juve pressed forward for an equalizer, Palacio scored Inter’s third in the 90th, finishing off a counterattack with a pass from Japan fullback Yuto Nagatomo.

Juventus had not lost in the Italian league since being beaten by Parma 1-0 the penultimate match of

the 2010-11 season. The Bianconeri was unbeaten last season en route to the title.

AC Milan holds the record unbeaten streak at 58 matches, set from 1991 to 1993.

“The first goal was offside, but after that goal we reacted well and had a great match,” Milito said. “We had a lot of courage to play like this in this stadium. Nobody had ever done that before.”

Juventus Stadium opened last season and this marked the Bianconeri’s first loss there.

Juventus midfielder Stephan Lichtsteiner was fortunate not to be shown a second yellow card, and was substituted for before halftime.

“We’re following our own road,” Milito said. “We’ve still got an extraordinary squad ahead of us and I’m sure they won’t give up until the end. We’ve just got to try and keep winning and then we’ll see what happens at the end.”

REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

Juventus’ players react following the third goal scored by Inter Milan’s Rodrigo Palacio during their Italian Serie A soccer match at the Juventus stadium in Turin November 3, 2012.

Barca beat Celta to equal best La Liga start

Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona equalled the La Liga record for the most points after 10 games and moved three clear of Atletico Madrid at the top of the table thanks to a

3-1 win at home to Celta Vigo on Saturday.

A resurgent David Villa netted himself and also created a goal for Jordi Alba after Adriano had opened the scoring at the Nou Camp as Tito Vilanova’s unbeat-

en side moved on to 28 points, matching the previous best set by arch rivals Real Madrid.

However, Atletico’s undefeated run ended when they lost 2-0 at Valencia after Roberto Soldado’s stunning 20th-minute Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (L) tries to score against Celta Vigo’s goalkeeper Javi Varas during their Spanish First division soccer league match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, November 3, 2012.

REUTERS/Albert Gea

volley and a clever finish from substitute Nelson Valdez in the fifth minute of added time.

Valencia, who climbed to seventh on 14 points, finished with 10 men after Ricardo Costa was sent off late on for a second yellow card.

Champions Real, recovering from a shaky start to the campaign, climbed above Malaga into third thanks to a 4-0 home win over Real Zaragoza.

The club’s Argentina team mates Gonzalo Higuain and Angel Di Maria and new signings Michael Essien and Luka Modric were all on the scorsheet.

Real, who looked far from their best despite the lopsided scoreline, have 20 points, eight behind Barca.

Malaga are on 18 after they suffered their first home defeat of the campaign when they lost 2-1 at home to Rayo Vallecano.

Celta’s only previous victory at Barcelona came in the 194142 season but the promoted Galicians surprised their illus-

trious hosts when Mario Bermejo levelled at 1-1 three minutes after Adriano’s 21st-minute opener.

Forward Villa, who looks to be getting back to his best after a lengthy recuperation from a broken leg, put Barca back in front two minutes after Bermejo’s strike.

He sent Andres Iniesta clear with a deft back heel and raced into the area to sidefoot his Spain’s team mate’s low cross into the net for his fifth league goal of the season.

The 30-year-old then produced another delightful touch to put Alba through in the 61st minute and the referee allowed the fullback’s well-taken goal to stand despite the fact he was clearly offside when Villa made the pass.

Barcelona’s World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, who became a father for the first time when his son Thiago was born on Friday, had a quiet night, the La Liga top scorer failing to add to his 13 league goals this term.

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Bayern crush Hamburg to open up seven-point lead Reuters

BERLIN - Bayern Munich cruised past hosts Hamburg SV 3-0 on Saturday to go seven points clear at the top of the Bundesliga as rivals Schalke 04 and champions Borussia Dortmund slipped up.

Bastian Schweinsteiger headed in a deft Toni Kroos chip to give Bayern the lead in the 40th minute before early second half goals from Thomas Mueller and Kroos made sure the Bavarians bounced back in style from their first league defeat last week.

Bayern’s ninth win in 10 league games lifted them to 27 points.

Hoffenheim’s Sven Schipplock scored in injury time to condemn second-placed Schalke 04 to a 3-2 defeat that leaves them seven points adrift.

Dortmund also lost ground after drawing 0-0 against VfB Stuttgart and remain fourth on 16 points. Hamburg dropped to eighth on 13.

“It was a good goal and more importantly a crucial one,” said Mueller of his seventh goal of the season that helped Bayern clinch their first win in Hamburg in six years.

“Finally we won again here because it had been an issue for quite some time.”

Bayern, hosting Lille in the Champions League on Wednesday, were eager to shrug off last week’s defeat to Bayer Leverkusen and dispel any thoughts of a possible repeat of last season’s mid-season implosion.

With Franck Ribery back in the starting lineup but Arjen Robben back on the bench after his German Cup appearance in midweek, Bayern took the lead just before the break.

Kroos looked to have missed his chance when he was sent clear with only Rene Adler to beat but he managed to recover, sending a clever chip over the keeper to the far post for Schweinsteiger to score with a diving header.

Hamburg, with three wins in their last four games, struggled to make an impact in Germany’s traditional north-south derby.

It took only three minutes after the restart for Bayern to strike again with Mueller’s audacious shot from the tightest of angles beating Adler.

Kroos took any wind left out of Hamburg’s sails drilling in from close range in the 53rd minute as Bayern set a Bundesliga record for five wins in five straight away games since the start of the season, without conceding a goal.

AP Photo/Jacques Brinon

Paris Saint-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden, left, walks from the field after receiving a red card from the referee during the French League One soccer match against Saint Etienne, Saturday Nov. 3, 2012, in Parc des Princes stadium, in Paris.

Ibrahimovic sent off

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Bayern Munich’s Bastian Schweinsteiger celebrates after scoring during the German Bundesliga first division soccer match against Hamburger SV in Hamburg, November 3, 2012. Right is team mate Franck Ribery.

PARIS - Zlatan Ibrahimovic was sent off as leaders Paris St Germain suffered their first Ligue 1 defeat of the season when they lost 2-1 at home against St Etienne on Saturday.

Sweden striker Ibrahimovic was shown a straight red card 21 minutes from time after a high kick on keeper Stephane Ruffier’s chest as he was chasing the ball.

PSG, who have 22 points from 11 games, were already 1-0 down after Mamadou Sakho had deflected a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang cross into his own goal 10 minutes into the second half.

Aubameyang put the result beyond doubt in the 73rd, beating Salvatore Sirigu from close range after being set up by Alejandro Alonso.

Striker Guillaume Hoarau pulled one back with two minutes left when he controlled the ball from a Javier Pastore free kick before firing past Ruffier.

“The red card is not deserved because he was not looking at the keeper, but at the ball,” coach Carlo Ancelotti was quoted as

saying by French media.

“In the dressing room, he did not say anything, he was disappointed. But the problem was before (the red card). We had no pace. St Etienne played better than us and they deserved to win.”

PSG suffered a double injury blow in midfield as Blaise Matuidi was replaced by Bodmer shortly before halftime and Clement Chantome suffered a possible ankle injury and was substituted

by Mohamed Sissoko after the break.

Asked about Matuidi, Ancelotti said: “It’s not serious, he just took a big knock.”

PSG will be back at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday to take on Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League.

There was more disappointment for champions Montpellier whose difficult start to the season continued with a 1-1 draw against strugglers Troyes, while 2011 winners Lille claimed a 2-0 win at Evian Thonon Gaillard.

Second-placed Toulouse and third-placed Olympique Marseille, who are both three points behind PSG, travel to Girondins

Bordeaux and AC Ajaccio respectively on Sunday.

St Etienne stay fifth on 18 points and are behind Valenciennes on goals scored after the northern side continued their good run as they moved up to fourth with a 3-1 home win against Sochaux.

Foued Kadir opened the scoring with a free kick in the 12th minute and set up Gregory Pujol for the second 15 minutes later.

Pujol put the result beyond doubt on the hour mark, beating Simon Pouplin from close range after being set up once again by Kadir.

Sebastien Roudet scored a consolation goal two minutes later.

Lille moved up to seventh, a point behind St Etienne, after a Nolan Roux header and 25-metre strike from Florent Balmont gave them a 2-0 win at Evian Thonon Gaillard.

Montpellier stay 14th on 12 points after failing to beat secondbottom Troyes.

Younes Belhanda put the champions ahead with a low cross-shot in the 19th minute, only for Fabien Camus to level five minutes before the interval.

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Nets celebrate Brooklyn opening by beating Raptors

Padangbai Beach:

A Delightful Paradise of Divers IBP

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Padangbai is developed into a nature and cultural tourism in a tourism resort development of Candidasa, Padangbai Village, Manggis Subdistrict, Karangasem. It is about 25 km from the town of Amlapura, 13 km from Candidasa and about 31 km east of Denpasar. At this location sits a harbor becoming the access of transportation to Lombok Island, NTB. The name of Padangbai got influence from the Dutch as a result of colonial period. It was formerly known as Teluk Padang or the Padang Bay. It is a white sandy bay whose location is tranquilly surrounded by black rock. Due to its strategic location, the life of undersea nature is well maintained. Padangbai attraction has pure white and thick sandy beach that is good for sunbathing or swimming. Besides, its natural undersea beauty is very appropriate for diving and snorkeling because it is rich in various kinds of coral reefs and amazing ornamental fish. Another attraction that can be found here is an exotic blue lagoon becoming a favorite destination for divers. Meanwhile, Padangbai also has a cultural attraction in the form of Dang Kahyangan Temple (universal temple) complex.

In the east of Padangbai Beach lies the Silayukti Temple founded by Mpu Kuturan in the eleventh century during his pilgrimage to Bali. Mpu Kuturan was a priest having a great merit in setting up the Hinduism in Bali where his teachings remained to be adhered to and implemented by the Hindus in Bali today. In the south of the temple lies the Tanjung Sari Temple built by Mpu Bharadah, the youngest brother of Mpu Kuturan. Then, in the west of Padangbai sits the Penataran Agung Temple founded in the sixteenth century by Danghyang Dwijendra also known as Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rawuh, a descendant of the Mpu Kuturan.

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NEW YORK - The Brooklyn Nets baptised their new Barclays Center home with a 107-100 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Saturday as the first major professional sports team in 55 years to call Brooklyn their home.

The Nets led by 13 points in the third quarter, but had to hold off the Raptors, who closed within 97-95 with 75 seconds left before a threepoint play by Brook Lopez gave Brooklyn the necessary cushion in their first game of the season.

“The experience was just absolutely amazing,” said Lopez. “The crowd brought so much energy, its Brooklyn energy.”

Center Lopez led the Nets with 27 points, while Kyle Lowry scored 28 points and DeMar DeRozan had 25 for Toronto, who fell to 0-2 after an opening home loss to the Indiana Pacers. The Nets, who moved to

Brooklyn from New Jersey, had been scheduled to play their home opener on Thursday against crosscity rivals the Knicks, but the game was postponed because of mass transit problems due to damage by the superstorm Sandy that hit the area on Monday.

National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern greeted the crowd, expressing concern for storm victims before declaring: “Welcome Brooklyn, USA, to the NBA.” Nets All-Star guard Deron Williams thanked the crowd for turning out given the hardships and destruction wrought by the storm

and said: “We hope to represent Brooklyn right.”

Williams scored 19 points and doled out nine assists in the win.

Former Brooklyn Dodgers players Ralph Branca and Joe Pignatano participated in pre-game festivities as ties to Brooklyn’s fabled sporting past, dormant since the Dodgers left for Los Angeles after the 1957 Major League Baseball season.

The Nets also debuted a new team anthem and dropped down from the rafters on a cable their new mascot a masked, shield-bearing “Brooklyn Knight”. Overcoming a slow start with Toronto leading by eight after the first quarter, the Nets turned on the jets in the second with help from their bench players to outscore them 33-17 for a 60-52 halftime lead.

The Nets extended their lead to double digits before the Raptors turned it into a nail-biter at the finish.

Bute recovers from first loss, outlasts Grachev Associated Press

MONTREAL — Former IBF champion Lucian Bute rebounded from his first defeat by outlasting Denis Grachev in a close bout for the minor NABF light heavyweight title on Saturday night.

Bute, of Canada, won a unanimous decision and improved to 31-1 in his first fight since losing his super-middleweight title to Carl Froch in May. Grachev, of Russia, fell to 12-1-1 despite landing more punches overall.

The ringside judges all favored Bute in their final scores: 115113, 116-112 and 118-112.

Bute took advantage of a hometown crowd. An announced attendance of 10,122 in the Bell Centre chanted the 32-year-old’s name throughout the fight.

Bute fought cautiously for 11 rounds, looking to avoid direct hits while taking single shots at Grachev. In the 12th, though, he dominated, as he stood in the center of the ring daring Grachev, 30, to hit his chin while firing off lefts.

There was question as to whether Bute could take a hard shot to the chin after his fiveround loss to Froch, but he was never in serious trouble even though he was backed against the ropes several times.

Next up for Bute (31-1) could be a rematch with Froch in March in Montreal.

In the undercard, former WBC flyweight champion Rodrigo Guerrero (18-4-1) defeated Sebastien Gathier (22-4) in eight rounds.

Lucian Bute, of Canada, holds up the belt after defeating Denis Grachev, from Russia, in a unanimous decision in their North American Boxing Federation light heavywieght title boxing match Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 in Montreal.

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Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry (3) shoots over Brooklyn Nets’ Joe Johnson (7) as Gerald Wallace (45) trails the play during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, in New York.

Disappointed NYC marathoners to run in aid of Sandy victims Reuters

NEW YORK - Hundreds of runners in New York City are refusing to let a canceled marathon spoil their Sunday plans and are channeling months of preparation into informal runs intended to benefit victims of superstorm Sandy.

Amid criticism from victims of Monday’s storm that the race would divert resources away from efforts to help flood-ravaged parts of the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday abruptly canceled Sunday’s marathon. The event was expected to draw more than 40,000 runners to the city - including Kelly Rooney, a 31-year-old stay-at-home mother from Florida.

Rooney was at first irked that Bloomberg called off the marathon after insisting earlier in the week that it would go ahead in spite of Sandy, whose 80 mile-per-hour (130-kph) winds and record surge of seawater devastated coastal communities and claimed at least 110 U.S. lives.

Rooney traveled with her husband and 6-year-old daughter in tow, while her parents flew in from Mexico to cheer her on.

By Saturday afternoon Rooney was over her disappointment and looking forward to a charity run on hard-hit Staten Island that she had

found advertised on the Internet.

On Sunday, Rooney will be running with a backpack full of dog food, cat food, batteries and some water donated by her hotel, the RitzCarlton across from Central Park.

“I truthfully at this point don’t care if I run, I just want to give this stuff out,” she said.

The idea for the Staten Island run came to 46-year-old Jordan Metzl, a doctor of sports medicine, and his running friends just as the debate was heating up last week about whether storm-battered New York City should hold a marathon.

He was discouraged that the running community was being perceived so negatively when it holds so many races to raise money for a variety of causes.

Metzl is expecting more than 500 runners to show up on Sunday at the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Manhattan, including participants from Germany and Italy. U.S. rower Alison Cox, who won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, is also expected to participate.

The runners will take different routes across Staten Island and distribute supplies along the way.

Other informal runs will be held on Sunday that loop around Central Park, mimicking the original 1970 route of the New York City marathon.

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Pharaonic princess’s tomb found near Cairo, Egypt

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INDONESIA Ban on Olympic badminton pair lifted

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Campaign signs for both President Barack Obama, and his challenger, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are seen in yards outside Evans City, Pa., Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.

Obama, Romney make last push as campaign nears end Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, making their final arguments in a handful of battleground states that will decide the outcome of a tight presidential race, have embarked on the last stretch of a grinding presidential campaign.

National opinion polls showed a race for the popular vote in Tuesday’s election so close that only a statistically insignificant point or two separated the two rivals. Polls in the nine battleground states tightened after Obama’s poor performance in the first presidential debate, on Oct. 3, and the race has stayed close since then.

Under the U.S. system, the winner is not determined by the nationwide popular vote but in state-by-state contests, making “battleground” states that are neither consistently Republican nor Democratic extremely important in such a tight race. Romney and Obama are actually competing to win at least 270 electoral votes.

The electoral votes are apportioned to states based on a mix of population and representation in Congress.

Republicans quietly acknowledged that Romney had so far been unable to achieve the breakthroughs needed in such key swing states as Ohio, where polls show the Republican trailing by several percentage points. No

Republican has ever been elected president without carrying Ohio.

That leaves Romney with the tougher path to reach the required 270 electoral votes. He must win more of the nine most-contested states that are not reliably Republican or Democratic: Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa and New Hampshire.

About 27 million Americans already have cast ballots in early voting in 34 states and Washington, D.C. Obama tended to presidential business before leaving Washington Saturday as he led a briefing at the government’s disaster relief agency on the federal response to Superstorm Sandy. He said the recovery effort still has a long way to go but pledged a “120 percent effort” by all those involved.

“There’s nothing more important than us getting this right,” Obama said, keenly aware that a spot-on government response to the storm also was important to his political prospects. Then he began a three-state campaign day.

After holding mostly small and mid-size rallies for much of the campaign, Obama’s planned a series of larger events this weekend aimed at drawing big crowds in battleground states. Still, the campaign isn’t expecting to draw the massive audiences Obama had in the closing days of the 2008 race, when his rallies drew more than 50,000.

Romney began Saturday with a morning rally on the New Hampshire seacoast. He then headed to Iowa and made two stops in Colorado later in the day. He shifted an original plan to campaign in Nevada on Sunday in favor of a schedule likely to bring him back to Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. His running mate Rep. Paul Ryan hit Ohio and Pennsylvania before heading to two more swing states.

In crucial early voting, Obama holds an apparent lead over Romney in several key states. But Obama’s advantage isn’t as big as the one he had over John McCain four years ago, giving Romney hope that he could make up that gap in Tuesday’s election.

CAIRO — Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, in a finding that suggests other undiscovered tombs may be in the area, an official from Egypt’s antiquities ministry said Saturday.

Mohammed El-Bialy, who heads the Egyptian and GrecoRoman Antiquities department at the Antiquities Ministry, said that Princess Shert Nebti’s burial site is surrounded by the tombs of four high officials from the Fifth Dynasty dating to around 2,500 BC in the Abu Sir complex near the famed step pyramid of Saqqara.

“Discoveries are ongoing” at Abu Sir, El-Bialy said, adding that the excavation was in a “very early stage” and that the site was closed to the public.

Inscriptions on the four limestone pillars of the Princess’ tomb indicate that she is the daughter of King Men Salbo.

“She is the daughter of the king, but only her tomb is there, surrounded by the four officials, so the question is, are we going to discover other tombs around hers in the near future? We don’t know anything about her father, the king, or her mother, but hope that future discoveries will answer these questions,” El-Bialy said.

On Friday, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said that the antechamber to the princess’ tomb includes four limestone columns and hieroglyphic inscriptions. The current excavation has also unearthed an antechamber containing the sarcophagi of the four officials and statues of men, women, and a child, he said in a statement.

The Czech team’s discovery marks the “start of a new chapter” in the history of the burial sites of Abu Sir and Saqqara, Ibrahim added.

The archaeologists working at the site are from the Czech Institute of Egyptology, which is funded by the Charles University of Prague. Their excavation began this month.

The discovery comes weeks after the Egyptian government reopened a pyramid and a complex of tombs that had been closed for restoration work for a decade.

Egypt’s vital tourism industry has suffered from the country’s internal unrest in the wake of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak. A delegation from the International Monetary Fund is currently in Egypt for negotiations over a $4.8 billion loan aimed at bolstering the country’s ailing economy.

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JAKARTA — The Indonesian Badminton Association lifted a ban Saturday on its leading women’s doubles pair over the play-to-lose scandal at the London Olympics.

Greysia Polii and Meiliana Jauhari were kicked out of the games along with the Chinese world champions and two South Korean teams for trying to deliberately lose group matches to gain an easier path through the later stages.

The association, known as PBSI, banned the pair and their coach Paulus Firman in September for four months from all national and international tournaments. The suspension was reduced to three months on Oct. 22 after the players expressed remorse for their actions.

“They well aware of their mistake and eager to defend the red and white,” PBSI secretary general Koesdarto Pramono said, referring to the country’s national flag. “We believed it will not happen again in the future and they deserve to get our support.”

He said Polii and Jauhari have been training during their three months out in preparation for the Yonex-Sunrise Super-series in Hong Kong from Nov. 20-25.

Indonesia has called for future Olympics to return to a straight knockout tournament to prevent any manipulation of the draw. The Badminton World Federation will discuss future formats later this month.

The South Korean teams had their lifetime bans reduced on appeal to six months by their badminton officials. Yu Yang, half of China’s banned team and a 2008 Olympic gold medalist, decided to retire.

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Police officials display homemade bombs, bomb making components, ammunitions and assorted weapons at the Poso police headquarters on November 2, 2012. Indonesian anti-terrorism forces shot and killed an alleged militant and arrested another in a predawn raid Saturday in Central Sulawesi province, police said.

Police kill alleged militant in raid Associated Press

JAKARTA — Indonesian anti-terrorism forces shot and killed an alleged militant and arrested another in a predawn raid Saturday in Central Sulawesi province, police said.

AP Photo/Egypt’s Supreme Council Of Antiquities

This undated image released Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, shows three recently discovered statues found in a complex of tombs, including one of a pharaonic princess, in the Abusir region, south of Cairo, Egypt.

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National police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said the two suspects were among fugitives wanted for the assassination of two police officers who were killed last month while investigating terrorist activities in the area.

The two men resisted arrest by throwing homemade bombs toward security forces during the raid at a house in Kayamaya village in Poso district, Amar said.

“They tried to harm the police ... we had to shoot and killed one of them,” he said, adding that the

other suspect was arrested and taken to a police detention center in the provincial capital, Palu.

Police seized several homemade bombs and other materials during Saturday’s raid, Amar said.

The incident came amid a security crackdown in a mountainous jungle area in Poso that is believed to be home to a terrorist training camp. One suspected militant was killed and two others arrested Wednesday.

Poso was a flashpoint for violence between Christians and

Muslims that left more than 1,000 people dead in 2001 and 2002.

Authorities believe the district is now a terrorist hotbed.

Indonesia has been battling terrorists since the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

Since March, more than 50 militant suspects have been arrested and nine others killed in a series of raids in Indonesia. Some of the suspects had attended a military-style training camp in Poso.

Judges face drug tests

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s judiciary will be randomly tested for drugs after a judge was arrested at a Jakarta nightclub last month on suspicion of possessing ecstasy and crystal meth, officials said Friday.

The arrest of the judge, who was allegedly accompanied by prostitutes when he was caught at the club called Illigals, sparked uproar and is the latest challenge for what critics say is a corruption-ridden judiciary.

The national narcotics agency said that it had struck an agreement with the judicial commission to subject judges to unannounced urine tests.

“The use of drugs by judges is a breach of their code of ethics and will clearly disrupt their performance,” said Asep Rahman Fajar, a spokesman for the commission, which oversees the work of the country’s judges.

Indonesia has tough drug laws and possession is punishable with up to 12 years in jail.

The district judge, who worked at a court in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, was arrested on October 16 by drug agency officials in the five-floor club, said narcotics agency spokesman Sumirat Dwiyanto.

The judge, whom officials have only identified by his initials of P.W., was found in possession of dozens of ecstasy pills and crystal methamphetamine in a room with a group that included friends and prostitutes, said the spokesman.

He tested positive for drugs and has admitted consuming them, Dwiyanto said. He is currently in custody.

Rampant corruption has crippled the public service in Indonesia and there have been a string of recent cases in which judges allegedly accepted bribes.

Anti-graft group Transparency International last year ranked the country 100 out of 183 in its global corruption perception index.

In a bid to tackle graft, the government has set up the the Corruption Eradication Commission which has been given wide-ranging powers to tackle the scourge.

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BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe’s sovereign debt crisis will last at least five more years.

Facebook’s Sandberg sells $7.4 million in stock Reuters

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German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Party in Sternberg, eastern Germany Saturday Nov. 3, 2012.

Rothschild mulls counter-bid in Bumi battle Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - British financier Nathaniel Rothschild is mulling a bid for Bumi Plc coal assets to counter an offer

by Indonesia’s powerful Bakrie family, and has approached one of their rivals, a report said Saturday.

The formation of Bumi Plc by the Bakries and Rothschild brought Indonesian coal assets to the London Stock Exchange, but the tie-up was beset by boardroom squabbles.

Bumi’s board is currently considering a $1.2-billion proposal by the Bakries that would see the family sever ties with the London-listed mining group, an offer that prompted the resignation of Rothschild from the board last month.

In a new twist to a feud being carefully watched by foreign investors, Rothschild

has approached one of the Bakries’ most high-profile rivals, Prabowo Subianto, to join him in a bid, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Subianto has been approached several times since September but has rejected the moves, the paper said, citing people familiar with the plans.

Subianto, who was a general under former Indonesian dictator Suharto, is considered a front-runner for presidential elections in 2014, where he is likely to face Aburizal Bakrie, the patriarch of the Bakrie family.

A spokesman for Rothschild, the scion of a European banking dynasty, declined to confirm he was trying to form a rival bid but said he was in talks “with a number of parties”, the report said.

He did no respond to attempts by AFP to contact him. Subianto could not be im-

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BPK: No bargaining

Merkel: Euro debt crisis will last 5 years or more

Merkel says the continent is on the right path to overcome the crisis but “whoever thinks this can be fixed in one or two years is wrong.”

Two years ago some heavily indebted European countries were dragged into the turmoil that first gripped global financial markets in 2007.

Greece in particular has been struggling with the austerity conditions imposed on it by countries such as Germany.

But Merkel told a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Party on Saturday that the time had come for “a bit of strictness.”

Otherwise, she says, Europe won’t be able to attract international investment.

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Bumi Plc’s shares plunged as the battle heated up, but closed up almost 14 percent in London Friday after speculation about Rothschild’s counter-bid emerged.

Last month’s proposal by the Bakries would see the family give up their 23.8 percent stake in Bumi and pay about $1.2 billion for its mines.

The proposal, which would return control of some of Indonesia’s most productive mines to the Bakries but leave Bumi Plc with cash and no assets, prompted Rothschild to resign from Bumi’s board.

He said it would be a “disgrace” if Bumi accepted the Bakrie’s offer before the completion of a probe he has backed into alleged financial irregularities at Bumi Resources, a holding company related to Bumi Plc and controlled by the Bakries.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and two other executives at the social networking company sold millions of dollars worth of stock this week as restrictions on insider trading expired.

Sandberg netted about $7.44 million by selling roughly 353,000 Facebook shares on Wednesday, according to a filing with the SEC on Friday. Sandberg still owns roughly 20 million vested shares of Facebook stock, including shares held in her trusts, according to the filing.

Facebook General Counsel Theodore Ullyot and Chief Accounting Officer David Spillane also sold millions of dollars worth of shares this week, according to filings. All the Facebook executives’ sales were part of pre-arranged stock trading plans.

The sales are the first by Facebook’s senior management following the company’s high-profile initial public offering in May. The world’s No.1 online social network became the only U.S. company to debut with a market value of more than $100 billion, but has seen its value plunge more than 40 percent since then on concerns about its long-term money-making prospects.

Shares of Facebook, which were priced at $38 in the IPO, closed Friday’s regular session down 3 cents at $21.18.

The flood of shares set to hit the market as insider trading “lock-up” provisions expire in several phases have added to the pressure on Facebook’s stock.

Roughly 230 million shares of Facebook became eligible for trading this week, as trading restrictions for employees expired.

Another 800 million shares will be eligible for trading on November 14, significantly expanding the “float” of roughly 692 million Facebook shares that were available for trading as of September 30.

Facebook’s 28-year-old chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has committed to not sell any shares before September 2013.

Ullyot sold slightly more than 149,000 shares on Wednesday and Thursday, collecting $3.13 million. Ullyot has an additional 1.27 million in vested shares.

Spillane sold 256,000 shares on Wednesday, more than half of his vested shares, for proceeds of $5.4 million. Spillane had more than 863,000 Facebook shares, including unvested shares, according to a filing in May.

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Findings of BPK must be followed up pursuant to recommendation Bali Post

DENPASAR - Chief Representative of Supreme Audit Agency (BPK-RI) of Bali, Efdinal, said that so far there had been good faith of the Bali Government to follow up the findings of BPK. Even, it had reached 85 percent.

He explained that of the 15 findings, the BPK recommended 35 follows-up to the Bali Government and 28 recommendations had been followed up like the findings regarding the excess of payment and lacks of work volume in a number of projects.

“There are 28 recommendations that have been followed up. Some have been accomplished and some others remain under process. We are still waiting for the ones that have not been followed up,” said Efdinal when met in his office on Friday.

Meanwhile, five recommendations concerned with the findings such as costliness in the procurement of e-government system worth IDR 3.6 billion, costliness in the procurement of heavy equipment, studio equipment, CCTV, electrical installations and telephone in the Culture Agency worth IDR 6.2 billion as well as costliness in the procurement of mobile screening (X-Ray ). Against the findings, the BPK recommended and instructed the TPTGR team to draw an indication of loss to the region due to difference in the price or costliness and then returned it to the state treasury. “Probably, it is being coordinated with the partner because it is in a great amount,” said the former BPK Chief Representative of Gorontalo.

Then, what is the response of Bali Government denying the costliness in the findings and the different interpretation regarding the findings? Related to the matter, Efdinal said the Examination Result Report (LHP) was a legal product and BP had owned valid standards so that whatever the recommendation carried in the report should be followed up in appropriate with the recommendation.

There should be no bargaining and the provincial government might not interpret it differently.

Efdinal also said there was no opportunity for the provincial government to recalculate the findings of costliness.

“There is no bargaining in the BPK findings. The Examination Result Report has become a legal product that should be followed up as the recommendation issued by the KPK. It is not negotiable,” affirmed the man born 40 years ago in Jambi. He said before the report (LHP) was issued and submitted to the Bali House and Bali Government an in-depth discussion was possible regarding the indication of findings. At that time, the denials were still possible as long as they could be proved with valid and accurate data and documents. “After the report has been issued, the recalculation is no longer possible. Denial is okay but it should be made before the LHP was issued,” he said.

Efdinal who had served in the financial audit for 10 years in a number of state-owned enterprises added that BPK gave 60 days to follow up the findings.

However, it did not necessarily mean to totally accomplish the findings in 60 days but there should be a follow-up though being incomplete. If there were some findings that had not been followed up, the BPK would send a letter to Bali Government and Bali House because the House also had an authority to control the follow up.

“If any recommendation has not been followed up after 60 days, we will send a letter to Bali Government asking why it has not been followed up or whether it cannot be followed up. We will also report it to the central BPK. By all means, if there is a recommendation on the findings of the BPK there must be a sanction,” he said. The BPK submitted the findings on September 11 and gave a 60-day deadline to follow it up. In other words, the deadline would fall on October 10 and the provincial government should have followed up all the findings.

Previously, (BP, Nov 1) in responding to and following up the findings of the BPK regarding the costliness in the procurement of a number of goods and services, the Bali Government denied the existence of bargaining, but it was only the difference in perception regarding the findings. “It’s not a bargaining but a discussion to unify the perception regarding the legislation, and it’s a commonplace,” said Chief Inspector of Bali Province, AA Gede Alit Sastrawan, Thursday (Nov 1) in Denpasar.

With the persistence of differences in the perception regarding the costliness in the findings, Alit Sastrawan argued if the Bali Government had its own calculation regarding the findings of the BPK because he considered the procurement had met the procedures.

“We did not have our own calculations but procurement of the goods and services have been carried out according to regulations,” said the former head of the Bali Environment Agency.

Alit Sastrawan also denied if the Bali Government questioned about the findings of the BPK. “We have no doubt but we indeed have different results according to the procedure we have taken. The BPK has SOP and we’ve been doing it as applicable law,” he said. (kmb29)

Attacked by flies, cocoa harvest slumps

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Destiny of cocoa farmers at Lalanglinggah village, West Selemadeg, is apprehensive. Within the past few years, the harvest yields of farmers slumps. It is triggered by flies attacking the cocoa pods that have been ready to harvest. As a result, farmers lose out.

The flies gnaw the cocoa when entering the harvest season. As a result, the beans inside the pod rot and dry up.

Due to serious attack, the pod that can be harvested decreases sharply. Previously, a single tree could produce about 5 kilograms of cocoa beans. After the attack, the yields dropped to 1 kilogram per tree. “The flies are black and attack the pods most ferociously,” said Wayan Suparta, 43, a cocoa farmer from Bangkiang Jaran hamlet, Lalanglinggah village on Saturday.

Suparta admitted the pest attack had been going on since the past five years whereas the cocoa plants of farmers were still fairly productive. As the harvest yields continued to fall, a number of farmers were forced to chop their cocoa plants. Moreover, the price of cocoa commodity tended to decline. Price of the cocoa bean only reached IDR 18,000 per kilogram. The price had slumped sharply from previously reaching IDR 25,000 per kilogram.

“Due to frequent crop failure, many farmers cut down their cocoa plants,” he said.

Suparta had one hectare of cocoa plantation. The man was reluctant to take care of his plants as the pest attack was tough to eradicate.

He admitted the Tabanan Agriculture Agency had provided the assistance of pesticides to spray the flies for several times. However, the results were not optimal. As consequence, farmers were often desperate to take care

IBP/Budi Wiriyanto

Destiny of cocoa farmers at Lalanglinggah village, West Selemadeg, is apprehensive. Within the past few years, the harvest yields of farmers slumps.

of their cocoa plantation.

Except for flies, the attack of squirrel was also quite ferocious. This insect gnawed the cocoa pods that have been ready to harvest and only left the rinds. The pods attacked by squirrel were usually perforated while the beans and

pulps were always missing.

Against the squirrel, farmers could only manually eradicate it. They hunted it in the morning and afternoon.

Ultimately, farmers hoped the flies could disappear and their harvest yields came back to normal. (kmb30)

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To overcome inequality, Bali must set a blue print

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Ministry of Public Works speeds up project development in Indonesia

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Regencies beyond the southern Bali such as the eastern, western and northern Bali must make innovation in all areas, including in the areas of policy so that it can attract the interest of investors.

Deputy Chief Representative of Bank Indonesia Denpasar, I Made Gede Sadguna, said the investment imbalance in Bali posed a challenge for the other regencies. The regencies beyond the southern Bali should prepare a blue print of development so that investors got safety assurance of their investment.

“Such blueprint will enable the investors to know the potential that will be developed in the region in the short, medium and long term. Please be noted that investors want to get certainty and security of their investment,” said Gde Sadguna, Friday (Nov 2).

According to him, the regencies beyond the southern Bali should be able to provide the certainty, simplicity and security to invest. By that way, the investors would get interested to come in and invest.

A banking and SMEs ob-

server, Ida Bagus Kade Perdana, expected that other than preparing a blue print, the regencies beyond the southern Bali should give priority to infrastructure development such as roads as the main support to investment. The regencies beyond the southern Bali should dare to provide easier and cheaper licensing services.

“If the licensing process is complicated and expensive, investors will be reluctant to come in,” he said.

He added that government should also think about optimization of local investment. It was very convenient to suppress the capital escape out of the region or country.

“If it can be carried out then the quality economic growth will be more easily achieved. The economic growth will be directly proportional to the increase in the welfare of the community,” he said. (kmb27)

Workers finishing a toll-road project at Bali Island. Ministry of Public Works accelerated the achievement of physical activity or project development and budget absorption worth IDR 75.24 trillion in 2012 that could only be absorbed about 60 percent in 2012.

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DENPASAR - Ministry of Public Works accelerated the achievement of physical activity or project development and budget absorption worth IDR 75.24 trillion in 2012 that could only be absorbed about 60 percent in 2012.

Minister of Public Works, Djoko Kirmanto, said the budget absorption in 2012 remained under the program.

On that account, the ministry accelerated the budget absorption.

“So far, the realization of budget absorption has just reached IDR 43.55 trillion or 58 percent of the total budget upper limit reaching IDR75.1 trillion,” said Djoko Kirmanto in Denpasar on Friday (Nov 2).

He said that one of the reasons for the low budget absorption was the additional budget worth around IDR 13 trillion received by the ministry in September 2012. As a result, the budget absorption could not be realized.

Overall, the budget of the ministry was consequently still considered low.

“In appropriate with the original Checklist Budget Limit (DIPA), the absorption has reached 67.7 percent.

However, when calculated according to the budget as a whole after the addition it has just reached 58 percent.

Therefore, we consider it necessary to speed it up,” he explained.

The low budget absorption, he added, was also constrained by the existence of funds blocked by the Ministry of Finance. The blocked fund totally reached IDR 2.7 trillion and scattered in each Directorate-General (DG) of the Ministry of Public Works.

According to him, such conditions required a special attention and effort to accomplish all the remaining development programs over the period of

the next two months.

“There is no other solution but hard work to accelerate the achievement of the target. We appeal to the lineups especially those in the three Directorate Generals obtaining the fund allocation to take immediate measures for the realization to improve the financial and physical performance,” he said.

The measures were taken by speeding up the procurement process where so far there were a lot of project packages that had not been tendered, particularly in the three directorate generals, namely the Directorate General of Water Resources, Highways and Human Settlements.

“Directorate General of Water Resources (SDA) has 88 packages that have not been tendered with a total value of IDR 342 billion, Highways worth IDR 183 billion for totally 61 packages and Human Settlements worth IDR 18.9 billion for 25 packages,” he said. (kmb27)

Bali posts first deficit in trade with China Antara

DENPASAR - Bali began to suffer deficit of US$5.6 million in trade with China in the first seven months of the year.

Bank Indonesia’s economist Sunarto said in a report , Bali’s exports to China and Hong Kong were valued at US$20.7 million as against imports of US$26.3 million in the same period.

The basic materials of Bali’s major export commodities like fabrics and gar-

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A buyer grab one of chinese products that being displayed in the market.

Bali began to suffer deficit of US$5.6 million in trade with China in the first seven months of the year.

ments, are imported from China, Sunarto said.

Bali also imports textile and garment making machines from China in addition to other non oil/gas commodities, he said. Bali even imports clothes in various types with cheap prices from China, he said.

Other Bali’s export commodities include handicraft to China including Hong Kong, he added. He said Bali still has potential capacity to increase exports of non-oil/gas commodities to China such as handicraft products.

Indonesia’s foreign trade has expanded rapidly with China, one of the world’s largest trading countries. Fast growing China will need largest supply of goods including from Bali , he said.

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Lights back on in Manhattan 5 days after Sandy Associated Press

NEW YORK — The lights are back on in lower Manhattan to the relief of residents who had been plunged into darkness for nearly five days by Superstorm Sandy, but resentment festered Sunday in the city’s outer boroughs and suburbs over a lack of power and maddening gas shortages.

Falling temperatures added to being lower on the list.

At a gas giveaway station in the misery of those lacking power, heat or gasoline and Mayor Michael Queens, the scene was calmer but Bloomberg urged older residents not happier. More than 400 cars without heat to move to shelters, stretched for more than a dozen and said 25,000 blankets were being blocks, with one tanker filling cars one at a time. distributed across the city.

The 5,000-gallon (19,000-liter) “We’re New Yorkers and we’re going to get through it,” the mayor trucks from the Defense Departsaid Saturday. “But I don’t want ment were dispatched to five locaanyone to think we’re out of the tions around the New York City metropolitan area. woods.”

“Do not panic. I know there is Bloomberg also said that resolving gas shortages could take days. anxiety about fuel,” Gov. Andrew Lines snaked around gas stations for Cuomo said.

Hours later, after the long lines many blocks all over the stricken region, including northern New Jersey, formed, New York state officials where Gov. Chris Christie imposed said the public should stay away rationing that recalled the worst days from the refueling stations until emergency responders first got their of fuel shortages in the 1970s.

Ten people were arrested at gas gas and more supplies were made stations in various disputes over line available. National Guard Col. jumping, police said. The police Richard Goldenberg added, howpresence where there were gas lines ever, that those who were already at the distribution sites would not was increased on Saturday.

Domingo Isasi, waiting in a gas be turned away.

Gas rationing went into effect line on Staten Island, minced no words about the divide between at noon in 12 counties of northern Manhattan and the outer boroughs. New Jersey, where police began en“The priorities are showing, forcing rules to allow only motorists simply by the fact that Manhattan with odd-numbered license plates to got their power back,” he said, add- refuel. Those with even-numbered ing that Staten Islanders are used to plates must wait until Sunday.

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New Jersey state troopers keep order as motorists line up to purchase gasoline at the Thomas A. Edison service area on the New Jersey Turnpike, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012l.

About 2.6 million people remained without power in six states after Sandy came ashore Monday night.

About 900,000 people still didn’t have electricity in the New York metropolitan area, including about 550,000 on Long Island, Cuomo said. About 80 percent of New York

Belgian Crown Prince at heart of royal scandal Associated Press

BRUSSELS — This time, Belgium’s royal family came out swinging.

Crown Prince Philippe, 52, had been depicted in a book as less of a man than is needed to become the next king of Belgium.

Again.

So, in an exceptional move, the royal palace struck back this week with an official complaint to a media ethics body against a journalist who published “Royal Questions,” a new book that includes damaging allegations about the crown prince’s character and marriage.

The royal household almost never deigns to answer allegations but the crown prince himself also made an equally rare public denial to the book’s allegations last week.

“The day that Mathilde said ‘Yes’ to my proposal was the happiest day of my life,” he said.

“It is extremely rare to have a reaction like that,” historian Marc Reynebeau said Friday in a telephone interview. “It is as if they wanted to show: ‘You can claim whatever, but don’t exaggerate.’”

The image and credibility of the royal

family matters in this European Union nation, which is riven by divisions between its 6.5 million Dutch-speakers and its 4.5 million French-speakers. Three things still unite Belgium: Admiration for the king, a taste for fries and beer and a love of the national soccer team.

Journalists on Friday also questioned the significance of author Frederic Deborsu’s probing into the life of Philippe, who is expected to take over from King Albert.

Allegations about “ his ‘forced marriage,’ the birth of his children in a hospital specializing in artificial procreation,” the journalist group AJP said, “are they really in the public interest?”

For most of his life, the crown prince has been seen as a less-than-credible successor for his father, who is now 78.

Philippe was considered aloof and awkward, with the charisma of a civil servant.

Until his engagement a dozen years ago, he was seemingly headed for terminal bachelorship.

King Albert, who succeeded his brother in 1993, saw his own image darkened a dozen years ago when he had to acknowledge that he had fathered a daughter out of wedlock.

City’s subway service has been restored, he added.

The restoration of power beat the sunrise Saturday in the West Village in lower Manhattan, though just barely. Electricity arrived at 4:23 a.m., said Adam Greene, owner of Snack Taverna, a popular eatery.

“This morning, I took a really

long hot shower,” he said.

Throughout the West Village, people were emerging from their hibernation, happy to regain their footing. Stores started to reopen.

Signs at a Whole Foods Market promised that fresh meat and poultry and baked goods would return Sunday.

Playboy Clubs to enter India

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MUMBAI - The Playboy club is coming to India -- but with “bunnies” in nonrevealing outfits.

“The costumes of the bunnies, who are integral to the Playboy culture, will be based on Indian sensibilities and morals,” Sanjay Gupta, CEO of PB Lifestyle, which is bringing the brand to India through a licensing agreement, told Reuters.

India has strict censorship laws and there is no Indian version of Playboy, the magazine launched by Hugh Hefner that became as known for its pictures of naked women as for the hedonistic lifestyle propagated by its founder.

Playboy bunnies, or waitresses, typically wear black satin bodices, bow ties, cuffs and bunny ears. PB Lifestyle has not yet decided what waitresses will wear in India, a socially conservative country where it is frowned upon for couples to hold hands in public.

Even a popular cricket tournament

drew criticism and threats when it hired foreign cheerleaders in short clothes, forcing organisers to revamp the outfits to show less skin.

“Our clubs will not have any nudity.

So there should not be any problem and we are prepared to deal with it if there is any,” said Gupta, whose media and real estate company signed a 30-year licensing agreement with U.S.-based Playboy Enterprises Inc. Gupta’s company plans to use the Playboy brand and its iconic rabbit-head logo on clubs, bars, hotels and cafes and will spend 2 billion rupees ($37 million) in the first five years. The first Playboy property in India will be a club in the resort state of Goa, followed by one in Hyderabad.

Whether the Playboy brand will sell in a toned-down version remains to be seen.

“They are associated with scantily clad women, fun and pleasure. What is the point of getting Playboy to India in such a boring way?” asked 25-year old Yash Sanghavi, a digital advertising executive.

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‘Gangnam Style’ second most-viewed YouTube video Agence France-Presse

The 34-year-old singer, whose real name is Park Jae-Sang, rocketed to international fame after “Gangnam Style” -- a techno ode to a trendy Seoul neighbourhood -become a worldwide hit following its debut in July.

The video went viral online with its goofy signature horseriding dance and on Friday ousted singer Jennifer Lopez’s dance hit “On the Floor” from second place.

But it still trails behind Canadian teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber’s “Baby”, which has had over 795 million hits.

John Hirai, head of music at YouTube’s Korea-Japan branch, told a conference in Seoul that Psy would pass Bieber on YouTube’s most-watched list in about a month.

He thinks the secret of Psy’s success lies in the speed at which the singer uploaded a sequel video on his official website, as well as footage of the making of his video and interviews, for users wanting to know more about him

and “Gangnam Style”.

“It comes like a total package at the end, so it just generated views,” Hirai said, according to Yonhap news agency.

“I’ve been in this music business for 25 plus years and I’ve never seen anything like this and I’ve never imagined anything like this would come out of Asia. It’s just unbelievable but it’s overwhelming,” he said.

Psy has also remained at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart in the United States for a sixth straight week after topping charts in countries including Britain and Australia.

The popularity of the song and video, which spawned hundreds of parodies and tribute videos across the world, has helped the singer land a contract with Bieber ’s management agency.

Psy, currently on a promotional tour in the United States, last week performed on ABC’s “The View” talk show, after his appearances at the MTV awards and other prime-

time programmes last month boosted his profile.

The star is already a music veteran at home with six albums under his belt and next week he will begin a promotional tour in Europe that includes a speech at the Oxford Union and an appearance at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Germany.

In another sign of his international reach, Psy was featured on the front cover of the latest issue of US weekly music magazine Billboard, which analyses factors that have helped the singer succeed and hails him as “a readymade star”.

The story also examines how Scooter Braun, the music executive known for discovering YouTube sensations-turned pop stars like Bieber, ended up signing Psy for the US market.

The rapper recently unveiled plans for his next song in an interview on the US cable network CNN, saying the lyrics will be a mix of English and Korean.

Europe has crush on cycling

Associated Press

COPENHAGEN — Cycling through the heart of some European cities can be a terrifying experience as you jostle for space with cars, trucks and scooters

that whizz by with only inches to spare.

Thankfully for bicycle enthusiasts, a movement is afoot to create more room for cycling in the urban infrastructure.

From London’s “cycle su-

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A bicyclist leaves the 2,500-place three-story bicycle parking outside Central Station in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012.

perhighways” to popular bikesharing programs in Paris and Barcelona, growing numbers of European cities are embracing cycling as a safe, clean, healthy, inexpensive and even trendy way to get around town.

Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, and the Danish capital, Copenhagen, are the pioneers of this movement, and serve as role models for other cities considering cycling’s potential to reduce congestion and pollution, while contributing to public health.

The trend is catching on also outside Europe, says John Pucher, a professor of urban planning at Rutgers University in New Jersey and co-author of a new book titled “City Cycling.” Pucher says urban cycling is on the rise across the industrialized world, though Europe is still ahead of the pack.

“Americans make only 1 percent of their trips by bike compared to 26 percent in the Netherlands, 18 percent in Denmark, and 8-10 percent in Belgium, Germany, Sweden, and Finland,” Pucher told The Associated Press, citing official statistics.

BANDUNG - UNESCO has officially recognized Mount Batur in Bali, Indonesia, as a world geological park because of its unique and special characteristics, Geology Agency chief M Suchyar said.

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tra, Rajaampat in West Papua, limestone mountains in Pacitan, East Java, and Mount Rinjani in Jambi.

“We plan to submit the proposal in 2013 and hope they would add to the number of geoparks in Indonesia,” he said.

Suchyar said Indonesia actually has a lot of geoparks and until now around 33 locations have been identified such as Cukangtaneuh in South Ciamis, West Java.

He said his agency would keep conducting researches to identify other potential geoparks.

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UNESCO has officially recognized Mount Batur in Bali, Indonesia, as a world geological park because of its unique and special characteristics, Geology Agency chief M Suchyar said.

NUSA DUA - Dozens of chefs or cooks from a variety of star hotels in Bali competed in the race at the Nusa Dua Fiesta (NDF) on Saturday.

They were also following fruits and vegetable carving as well as creative wedding cake creation, which are able to invite visitors in the Bali area of NDF Culinary Challenge 2012, Peninsula Island Nusa

Dua, Badung Regency.

For creative “wedding cake” there are three participants in this competition, they represent the Aston Hotel, Sanur Paradise, and Patra Jasa.

As for the “fruit carving” were followed by nine participants, namely from Conrad Bali, The Vira Bali, Patra Jasa, Sanur Paradise, Aston Hotel, Ubud and Swasti Komaneka Eco Cottege Ubud.

Indonesia Chef Association (ICA) PR, I Gde Juastra explained, the second day of the NDF held several activities such as creative wedding cake creation, fruit & vegetable carving, including individual practicial ice carving.

“This time for the race carving fruits followed by nine participants, with the theme “Segara Lelangunan” or the natural beauty of the sea,” he said.

Puppets protest Romney threat to US public broadcasting Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Several hundred supporters of US public broadcasting marched on the US Congress Saturday in a “Million Puppet March” in favor of ongoing federal funding for non-commercial programming.

The good-humored protest was prompted by Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s threat, in a televised debate with President Barack Obama a month ago, to halt government funding to public media if he wins the White House on Tuesday.

Marching alongside “Sesame Street” characters such as Big Bird and Kermit the Frog, were a protester in a latex Romney mask and a Halloween-themed ensemble that billed itself as “the finest skeletons from the national closet.”

“It’s not just ‘Sesame Street’,” co-organizer Michael Bellavia

told AFP prior to the march, citing the long-running PBS educational television show tailored to young children.

“We’re saying we want to support the whole ecosystem of public media -- everything from the TV side, to radio, to all the Internet media that gets produced,” he said.

Fifteen percent of the overall public broadcasting budget in the United States comes from Washington.

Contributions from foundations and individuals makes up the rest.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, established by Congress in the 1960s to channel federal funds to PBS, National Public Radio and other non-commercial broadcasters, was not involved in Saturday’s protest.

But in a brief statement to AFP, it noted: “We appreciate the recent outpouring of support and affirmation for value of public broadcasting.

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Puppeteers manipulate likenesses of US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney during the Million Puppet march in support of public broadcasting in Washington on November 3, 2012.

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Mt. Batur recognized as World Geopark “UNESCO has already included and recognized Mount Batur as a world geopark and it would be formally made known to the public on November 15, 2012” he said.

Mount Batur is one of the unique geological area and has own characteristic meeting the criteria set by the world body to be declared as a world geopark.

Suchyar said the Geology Agency has also planned to propose five other locations for being named world geoparks namely Merangin area in Jambi, Sumatra, the Lake Toba old caldera in North Suma-

SEOUL - South Korean pop sensation Psy’s “Gangnam Style” has become the second mostwatched YouTube video of all time with more than 620 million hits as the quirky rapper continues to take the world by storm.

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Balinese performed during the opening of Nusa Dua Fiesta in Nusa Dua. During the NDF, many attractions and races are held to entertaint visitors. Dozens of chefs or cooks from a variety of star hotels in Bali competed in the race at the Nusa Dua Fiesta (NDF) on Saturday.

DCVMN Conference commits to technology transfer Antara

KUTA - The president of Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DVCMN) conference, Mahendra Suhardono, has stated that participants of the 13th DVCMN conference held in Kuta, Bali, have agreed to cooperate in technology transfer for vaccine manufacturing in developing countries.

“Actually, many cooperation agreements have been established among the DVCMN members, such as among Indonesia, India and South Africa.

However, it was in this conference that the commitment to cooperate in technology transfer was reaffirmed,” he said here on Friday.

Mahendra noted that the member countries were already aware of the importance of vaccine technology transfer. Therefore, he added, the various panel discussions held from October 31 through November 2, ‘went smoothly with no significant obstacles or points of disagreement.’

“Ideally technology transfer starts from searching and finding the vaccine germs, followed by research and finally production of the vaccine,” Mahendra said.

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transfer efforts for the development of vaccines in a number of developing countries are hampered by the high population of these countries.

Large-scale production of these vaccines at affordable prices involves high costs, he pointed out.

“Technology transfers also face patent and territory issues. Certain countries may not be ready to accept technology transfer, which is actually mutual beneficial,” Mahendra continued.

He stated that the two main challenges facing vaccine manufacturing were high costs and time-consuming research.

“Vaccines must be of high quality and also should be competitively priced in order to be effective in fighting various diseases across the world,” Mahendra said.

He noted that the conference was an ideal platform for participants to not only exchange relevant information and experience but also expand their business network.

“For instance, Iran is now more familiar with the vaccines produced by Bio Farma, Indonesia sole vaccine manufacturer. Iran and Indonesia have also signed a memorandum of understanding,” Mahendra added.

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Critical land in Bali reaches 22,395 hectares Bali Post

DENPASAR - The pressure faced by the environment in Bali remains very heavy. For instance, it happens because there are many critical land areas both inside and outside the forest reaching 22,395 hectares. “We continuously attempt to address the critical land in Bali which is registered to reach 22,395 hectares,” said the Head of Bali Forestry Agency, IGN Wiranata, in Denpasar on Friday (Nov 2).

Further, he described that based on the Decree of Governor dated 2006 the critical land in the forest area reached 22,995 hectares where the most extensive area was located in Buleleng (9,118 hectares), Karangasem (4,615 hectares) and Bangli (3,803 hectares).

Meanwhile, the critical lands outside the forest area amounted to 32,988 hectares, where the most extensive was located in Karangasem (17,100 hectares) and Klungkung (9,465 hectares).

Within the past six years, Bali government had made an effort to address critical lands so that by 2012 the handled critical land in the forest area reached 13,801 hectares and the remaining areas were 9,914 hectares.

Meanwhile, the critical land outside the handled forest area came to 19,907 hectares and the remaining areas were still 12,482 hectares. Thus, the total critical land in Bali reached 22,395 hectares.

Furthermore, Wiranata said his party had addressed the critical land by

degrees pursuant to the Medium Term Development Plan of Bali Province (RPPMP) until 2013. “Bali still has 22,395 hectares of critical land and the one included in the JPJMP of Bali by 2013 only covers the area of 7,000 hectares in the forest area and we will accomplish such amount in 2013.

Authority of the provincial government is only limited to critical lands in the forest area, while the critical land outside the forest area becomes the authority of the regency/municipal government,” he said.

He added that the budget, rehabilitation and forest conservation posed a shared responsibility of the central government and local government through the state budget and regional budget. In 2012, a total of IDR 4.9 billion was allocated from the regional budget and in 2013 the allocation reached IDR 4.6 billion.

“Such amount will still be assisted by funds of the central government,” he said. Wiranata also wished there would be active participation from the

community in addressing the critical land and forest preservation.

“In totality, we hope there will be active participation of the community to maintain the security because so far the case of forest encroachment is still rampant and we cannot resolve the past cases completely,” he said while adding that his party was still preparing a forest village program designed to further enhance the role of community in maintaining and preserving the forest.

Based on the data of the Bali Forestry Agency, the forest area in Bali Province reaches 130,686.01 hectares consisting of 3,415 hectares of marine water forest and 127,271.01 hectares of land forest. Then, the land forest area only comes to 22.59 percent of the total land area of Bali Province spreading across 563,286 hectares. Meanwhile, its protected forest reaches 95,766.06 hectares, conservation forest (26,293.59 hectares) and production forest (8,626.35 hectares). (kmb29)

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A total of 1,144 Bali families in waiting list

DENPASAR - A very contradictory and ironic condition happens when Bali is flooded by regional migrants, while Balinese people even take resettlement program to outside Bali. Ironically, location of placement area often gets involved in conflict and the Balinese often become the targets of violence as happened at Balinuraga village, South Lampung.

Resettlement Division Head of the Bali Manpower and Resettlement Agency, Gusti Ketut Rai Mataram, said on Friday (Oct 2) the resettlement program in Bali had been stopped during the period of 1999-2006 due to conflict in East Timor.

However, due to the insis-

tence of Balinese people, the resettlement program had been re-opened since 2006 and until now it took place each year.

Based on the data of the Bali Manpower and Resettlement Agency, from the Pre-PELITA (five-year development) in 1953 to 2000, it had been recorded 55,601 families or 218,632 people had been sent to placement destinations like Central Sulawesi (56,932 people), Southeast Sulawesi (36,078 people), South Sulawesi (32,125 people) and Lampung (29,253 people). Meanwhile, during the period of 2006-2011, the participants of resettlement program were recorded to reach 462 families or 1,697 people with the

placement destination to Sulawesi.

Furthermore, Rai Mataram added the interest of Balinese people to earn livelihood outside Bali by taking resettlement program was getting higher. In 2012, the waiting list of the program reached 1,144 families, while the quota available for Bali only came to 135 families. “Until now, there are 1,144 families in the waiting list of the program.

Unfortunately, the quota is limited,” he said.

Details of the prospective participant taking the resettlement program consisted of Jembrana (52), Tabanan (163), Buleleng (386), Denpasar (10), Gianyar (33), Bangli (49), Klungkung (65)

and Karangasem (386). He added that for resettlement program in 2012 Bali got allocation for 135 families. As further details, 25 families would join the launching program and filled by Jembrana with destination to Poso.

Meanwhile, the pure resettlement program reached 110 families with details that Karangasem got allocation for 22 families (Kalimantan), Klungkung for 25 families (Kalimantan), Tabanan for 25 families (Southeast Sulawesi), Gianyar for 10 families (Southeast Sulawesi) and the remaining was for Bangli and Buleleng (Southeast Sulawesi). “At the moment, they are still waiting for the placement and departure letter,” he explained.

In the meantime, in 2013 Bali would only get 50 families with the placement destination to Southeast Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi. “Apparently, the quota decreases every year because the placement destinations are unable to accommodate,” he said.

Further, Rai Mataram said the resettlement program implemented the five-year pattern. In the first five years, the participants were the joint responsibility of the central government in cooperation with the regent sending and receiving region. “During the first five years, the coaching and responsibilities lie in each regional working unit (SKPD) of the sending and receiving region. Meanwhile, after that they become

the responsibility of the local receiving government because the transmigrants have long settled and become the residents of the placement region,” said Rai Mataram.

Related to the insistence of Balinese community components asking to discontinue the resettlement program following the bloody tragedy afflicting the transmigrants from Bali at Balinuraga village, South Lampung, Rai Mataram said the resettlement was an optional program. If the provincial government wanted to terminate the program it could be done. “However, the policy poses the authority of the governor in accordance with the wishes of the people,” he concluded. (kmb29)

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KUTA - Sunset Road area has become a trending topic, brimming with new hotels and surrounded by shopping centers, restaurants and wholesale handicraft shops, Sunset Road has become the new destination for meeting and leisure. In the spirit of completing additional facility to the area, Harris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road is proud to announce the launching of our new hotel facility which is called “The Forest” . perfect for any social events.” Explained Hengky Tambayong, General Manager of Harris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road.

“We also would like to invite our friends in the event organizers, wedding organizers and others who might be interested to partnered up with us in hosting their event,” he adds.

Harris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road, along with our indoor venues also offers wide ranging selection of meeting, incentive, conference and exhibition. All of our indoor meeting rooms can accommodate up to 500 persons, all equipped with high speed internet access, LCD projectors, screen and advance sound system.

Our trained meeting and conference team will assist you in all meeting arrangements and execution.

Calendar Event for October 23 through November 27, 2012 Two girls walked in the empty road of rural area of Bali Island. he pressure faced by the environment in Bali remains very heavy. For instance, it happens because there are many critical land areas both inside and outside the forest reaching 22,395 hectares.

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Harris Hotel Sunset Road launches The Forest Located in the north east part of the hotel, The Forest is a 800 m2 area of outdoor lush garden with full landscape surrounded by shady trees and romantic area in the afternoon will become a perfect addition to the hotel. The Forest at HARRIS Hotel & Residences Sunset Road is designed for various outdoor activities, such as outdoor dinner reception, outdoor wedding reception, team building and outbound activities, bazaar, carnival, concerts and other outdoor activities “The existence of The Forest has given Harris Hotel & Residences Sunset Road additional selling points which now we have both outdoor and indoor venues for our clients’ functions. The Forest will be able to hold any kinds outdoor activities ranging from 150 – 800 persons which is

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23 Oct Anggar Kasih Tambir Pura Dalem Puri Batuan S ukawati Pura Dalem Kediri Silakarang Singapadu Pura dalem Desa Sukawati Pura Dalem Desa Singakerta Pura dalem Lembeng Ketewel - Sukawati Pura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan - Ubud Pura Puseh ngukuhin Keramas - Gianyar Pura Pemerajan Agung Ki Telabah, Tuakilang - Tabanan Pura Karang Buncing Blahbatuh Pura Dalem Bubunan Desa - Seririt Buleleng Pura Desa Badung Kota Denpasar Merajan Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa - Kayuputih - Turupinghe Pura Luwur Pedengenan Bedha Bongan - Tabanan Mr. Dukuh Sebudi Mr. Pasek Ngukuhin Keramas Pura Pucak Payongan Banjar Lungsiakan - Desa Kedewatan Pura Tanah Kilap Gria Anyar Denpasar Pura Selukat Desa Keramas Keramas - Blahbatuh - Gianyar Pura Dalem Tampuagan Desa Peninjoan - Tembuku - Bangli Pura Waturenggong Desa Taro Pura Dalem Bentuyung Ubud Pura Puseh Ubud Ubud Pura Dalem Peliatan Peliatan Ubud.

24 Oct Buda Umanis Tambir Pura Sari Bankar Titih Kapal Badung 29 Oct Purnama Kelima Aci-aci Penaung Bayu Pura Batumadeg di Besakih Pura Kentel Gumi Bangli Pura Pedarman Agung Satria Denpasar Pura Pemerajan Agung Pemecutan Denpasar Ngusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli

Pura Desa Pemenang Lombok Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Gobleg Kekeran Mengwi Pura Suranadi Lombok Pura Puncak Bukit Tampak Siring Pura Dalem Puri Agung Kintamani Pura Dalem Agung Nongan Karangasem Pura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh PenebelTabanan Pura Dalem Balingkang Kintamani Pr. Tampurhyang Pusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak Songan Kintamani Pura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Buleleng Merajan Pasek Gelgel Lebih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tulamben Pura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa S elemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi Karangasem Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak Kaja Pura Suci Desa Tianyar K ubu Karangasem Pura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah D esaBatur Kintamani Pura Narmada Lombok Pura Segara Ampenan Lombok Pura Ularan Seririt Buleleng 7 Nov B uda Keliwon Matal Pura Desa Ds. Sukawati Merajan Agung Batuyang - batubulan Pura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin - sawan - buleleng Pura Maspahit Sesetan - Denpasar Selatan Pura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran - Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gaduh Sesetan Merajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Pura Pedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih 17 Nov H ari Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Sagenin Kediri - Tabanan

Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung 21 Nov B uda Wage Menail Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan C emenggaon Sukawati Mr. Pasek Dangke bambang - Bangli Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja - Gianyar Pura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - Bangli Merajan Agung Blangsinga - Blahbatuh Pura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk, Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan, Kapal Mengwi.

27 Nov A nggar Kasih Perangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - Klungkung Pura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - Buleleng Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - Klungkung Pura Gunung engsong - Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar Pura Dalem Banyuning Timur - Buleleng Pura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas (Padang Entas) Titih Denpasar Pura Tengah Padang Tegalalang Merajan Pasek Gelgel B atu Dewa Kangin Banjar Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg di Desa Sande - Pupuan Tabanan Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Adat Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyangaluh J enggala Besakih Merajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa Mr. Pasek Gelgel Selulung Merajan Pasek Subrata M edahan Merajan Pasek Munggu M unggu Pura Tengkulak T ulikup - Gianyar Pura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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bright blue minidress. Obama’s slogan “Forward” is also Wisconsin’s state motto. Perry paused midway through her set to make a pitch for donations to victims of Superstorm Sandy.

Obama’s rally with Perry comes before he’s set to be in Madison on Monday with rocker Bruce Springsteen.

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“Brave,” ‘’Wreck-It Ralph” and “Rise of the Guardians” are among the animated features angling for an Oscar nomination.

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Tourists are sunbathing in Kuta Beach during their holiday in Bali Island. The hot weather which Bali has experienced over the past few months is expected to end in November, according to the Bali branch of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

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In this undated file film image released by Disney/Pixar, the character Merida, voiced by Kelly Macdonald, follows a Wisp in a scene from “Brave.”

Springsteen, Bon Jovi join Sting in Sandy concert

New Jersey natives Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi will join Sting and other top music stars on Friday for a special television benefit concert on NBC to aid victims of Sandy, the giant storm that killed scores and devastated large sections of the U.S. Northeast.

The Walt Disney Co meanwhile announced a $2 million donation for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts on Thursday, while Disney/ABC Television Group

designated Nov. 5 as a “Day of Giving” wherein viewers of network and syndicated programming would be encouraged to help.

Entertainment giant Viacom Inc. also announced a $1 million donation to the Mayor’s Fund NYC and local organizations. Springsteen and Bon Jovi are both New Jersey natives who have often taken inspiration from their home state and used their star platform to highlight both

its charms and challenges.

Bon Jovi cut short a promotional tour in the United Kingdom to rush back to his home state, where he established a charity restaurant several years ago.

“I really need to get back home having spoken to my wife and kids,” he told Britain’s Daily Mail before flying out of London. “I need to be with my people. Thankfully, my family are safe,” he said, adding “The devastation is off the charts.”

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DENPASAR - The hot weather which Bali has experienced over the past few months is expected to end in November, according to the Bali branch of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

“BMKG announced their weather forecasts, as most areas in Bali, such as Badung and Denpasar, will enter the rainy season this month,” the Head of sub services of Bali BMKG, Nyoman Suarsa.

Suarsa explained that the weather change is due to a shift in the posi-

tions of the sun, which is currently located at the equator, but will begin moving to the south towards the South Pole.

“Such movement contributes to triggering cloud formations, and the clouds are a sign of rain, which usually comes with strong winds,” he said.

Suarsa added that there are some areas that are expected to enter the rainy season this month, including Denpasar, the southern part of Badung, western and eastern parts of Jembrana, Buleleng, Gianyar, Klungkung, and the southern part of Karangasem.

“Meanwhile, areas in Bali that will enter the rainy season in December are on the north coast of Bali and Nusa Penida,” he added.

“Bali has 15 seasonal zones with different weather characteristics, that`s why the rainy season does

not come at once in all places in Bali,” he noted.

Suarsa further explained that during the rainy season the wind direction, which was originally from the east and carried higher temperatures, will turn into southeast winds, with average speeds of 10 to 28 knots, or about 38 kilometers per hour.

“Therefore, we keep warning people and tourists in Bali Island to be alert for tornadoes that might occur during the seasonal transition,” he stated.

NUSA DUA - Indonesia`s chief security minister, Djoko Suyanto, has called on security agencies in Bali to be on the alert ahead of and during the 5th Annual Meeting of Bali Democracy Forum (BDF), which will be held from November 8-10.

Some 12 heads of state as well as cabinet ministers and ambassadors from dozens of countries are scheduled to attend the meeting to discuss democracy issues.

“It is not impossible that terrorists in Poso would think of shifting their target to this place, as many heads of state will be gathered here,” Djoko said at a meeting on security preparations for the event.

He noted that the Balinese people might be concerned about security issues, because any disruption could negatively affect the arrival of foreign tourists in the island.

“There should be certain zones where not everybody should be able to enter. Only those people who are eligible should be allowed in,” Djoko stated.

“Such a policy can restrict the movement of tourists but it must be implemented for the sake of everyone`s security,” he explained.

National police chief General Timur Pradopo also emphasized the importance of beefing up security at the various entry points of the city.

“Security agencies must be on the alert to keep terrorists at bay,” he said.

“Almost as a rule, these terrorists launch attacks between September and December,” Timur added.