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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Judge to Revoke Lindsay Lohan’s Probation: Report

Lindsay Lohan is not having a good week. After receiving scathing reviews for her portrayal of Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime’s “Liz & Dick,” now it looks like a judge is going to revoke her probation once she is formally charged with lying to police – and that could land the actress back in the jail.

According to TMZ, any moment now the Santa Monica City Attorney is going to file the charge against Lohan, 26, which stems from her car crash in June. As reported, she told police she was not the one behind the wheel when her rented Porsche slammed into the back of an 18-wheeler, but multiple witnesses and even her per-

sonal assistant all corroborated the opposite of her story. And when she’s arraigned on the new charges, the L.A. County Superior Court Judge, Jane Godfrey, is expected to immediately revoke Lohan’s probation (from her January 2011 jewelry theft) and schedule a hearing for the latest case.

A little over a year ago in October

2011, Judge Stephanie Sautner revoked Lohan’s probation after it was determined she was not completing her community service work with a local women’s shelter and a morgue. The actress was immediately handcuffed and booked into jail, but was bailed out soon after. A week later, she was given a 30-day jail sentence, but was released after spending only five hours in the slammer later due to overcrowding. At the time, the judge warned Lohan, “Probation is not a gift.”

But with the holidays coming up, Lohan may want to put it on her wish list.

Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Producer Ryan Murphy paid tribute at the International Emmy Awards to television legends Norman Lear and Alan Alda, whose cutting-edge, socially-conscious shows in the ‘70s paved the way for his own shows like “Glee” and “The New Normal.”

Unlike previous years when Britain dominated the International Emmys which honor excellence in television production outside the U.S., the winners in the nine categories this year spanned six countries. Argentina, Brazil and Britain each won two awards; Australia, France and Germany had one apiece.

Murphy closed M o n d a y n i g h t ’s awards ceremony by presenting the 40th Anniversary Special Founders Award to “All in the Family” creator Lear and “M(asterisk) A(asterisk) S(asterisk)H” star Alda. The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences decided to mark the milestone anniversary with special awards honoring a producer and performer who had groundbreaking shows on TV in 1972 when the International Emmys were first presented.

Murphy said he was pleased to be presenting the awards “to two of my idols, guys who really did change the face of television and thus the world.”

Fittingly, the night’s big

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winner was Argentina’s “Television x la Inclusion,” a drama produced by On TV Contenidos dealing with issues of social exclusion and inclusion. It became the first series in the history of the International Emmys to sweep both acting categories.

Dario Grandinetti, who starred in Pedro Almodovar’s film “Talk to Her,” won the best actor award for his portrayal of a divorced, xenophobic taxi driver determined to drive out his Peruvian neighbors.

Cristina Banegas, a veteran Argentine theater, film and TV actress, was honored as best actress for her role as the mother of a girl with Down syndrome who f i g h t s her health insurance company when it won’t authorize lifesaving heart surgery for her daughter.

“Every episode was about a topic related to discrimination,” said a surprised and weeping Banegas as she accepted her award. “It was an honor to participate in a work where ethics and television work together.”

The British winners were in the documentary category for “Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die,” about the author who after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis travels to a Swiss clinic for a firsthand look at assisted suicide procedures, and “The Twilight Zone”-inspired “Black Mirror,” a suspenseful and satirical look at the unease created by modern technology, in the TV movie/ mini-series category.

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Illegal tour guides besieged Bali Bali Post

DENPASAR - Bali is increasingly besieged by local and foreign illegal tour guides having no permit. The discipline effort continued to be made by the public order officer (Satpol PP) of Bali Province with its regency counterpart. However, those illegal tour guides often played hide-and-seek with the authorities so that they were troublesome the apparatus. Chief Unit of the Bali Public Order Officer, Made Sukadana, revealed the matter in Denpasar on Monday (Nov 19).

The control was usually and frequently carried out in the area of Bedugul. He said that up to this November, six illegal tour guides could be disciplined. One of them was foreigner taking a job as a tour guide, while the rest were mostly the locals and from outside Bali.

Though the enforcement had been frequently made against the tour guides constantly troubling the

tourism component in Bali, many of them persisted on operating.

Sukadana explained the illegal tour guides have violated Bylaw No. 5/2008 governing about tour guides. Cases of the six illegal tour guides disciplined had reached the level of investigation and the cases had been handed over to the judiciary institution.

When will they be heard? So far, his party did not know about

the matter because it no longer belonged to his authority. The Public Order Officer only handled up to the investigation against the violation, while decision regarding the fine would depend on the verdict of the hearing. “Such violation is categorized into misdemeanor with maximal fine of IDR 500,000 corresponding to stipulation mentioned in Bylaw,” he concluded. (kmb29)

Israeli aircraft hit Hamaslinked bank in Gaza Associated Press

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An Israeli soldier stands on top of a military vehicle as the sun rises in a staging area near the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012.

GAZA CITY — Israeli aircraft on Tuesday battered the headquarters of the bank Hamas set up to sidestep international sanctions on its rule, as efforts to negotiate an end to a week-old convulsion of the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence brought the U.N. chief to the region on an emergency mission.

The strike on the Islamic National Bank was part of a widening Israeli assault against Gaza militants meant to quell rocket fire that has struck deep into Israel’s heartland. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon’s itinerary was taking him on Tuesday to Egypt and Israel, where he hoped to prod the two sides to reach a deal.

From Cairo, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said he came because of the “alarming situation” in the region.

“This must stop, immediate steps are needed to avoid further escalation, including a ground operation,” Ban said. “Both sides must hold fire immediately ... Further escalation of the situation could put the entire region at risk.”

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Heavy rains, Singaraja flooded by rubbish Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Heavy rains taking place for some an hour in Singaraja town on Monday (Nov 19) caused puddles at a number of locations. More seriously, plastic rubbish also scattered everywhere.

Puddles and rubbish flooding occurred at Kaliuntu village, Jalan Leli, Jalan Anggrek and Jalan Ahmad Yani in the east and west section. In addition, the area of Jalan Udayana and Jalan Pramuka in front of the Buleleng Police were also overwhelmed by rubbish.

Even, the area of Buleleng Police situated lower than the road body was also flooded by flash rubbish.

An adequately severe flooding occurred in the area of Kaliuntu village. House of residents in the area was inundated with water as high as adult’s ankle. The flooding occurred around 11:00 a.m. starting with heavy rains. Having been flushed by rain for few hours, the volume of water in residential sewer lines was getting larger. Such volume could not be accommodated and eventually soaked the courtyard of residents. It was triggered by the culvert from the Bhuana Patra Stadium in Singaraja that was too

small, so the volume of water could not be accommodated and finally soaked the residential areas. Unfortunately, the narrow culvert was clogged up by plastic rubbish. Similarly, the flooding also soaked up the area on Jalan Anggrek so that many motorcycles were forced to turn back.

Motorists feared to pass through the puddles if it would cause their motorcycle to suddenly turn off.

A resident of Kaliuntu, Made Widia, said the flooding was inevitable because the culvert was too small. As consequence, the rain water overflowed and drained into the home yard. Luckily, the water did not come into the room because he had made a levee in front of doorstep before the rain. “Without the levee, probably my room has been inundated,” he said.

According to Widia, the flooding at Kaliuntu happened as the culvert from Bhuana Patra Stadium to Ka-

liuntu village area was too narrow and shallow. It was further aggravated because local residents often disposed rubbish into the culvert.

As a result, when it rained the water was clogged up and caused flooding mixed with plastic rubbish. Even, the problem of flooding had been frequently reported to local government. However, the response of the government to improve it was slow so that when rainy season came the flooding always threatened the residents of local neighborhood. Moreover, when entering December, the torrential rain had begun. Widia alarmed if a greater flooding would happen.

For that, Widia asked the government to immediately find a solution to fix the culvert in order to accommodate more rainwater. “It is a latent problem from the past time and was never resolved by the government. We worry because it has rained frequently and

the greater flooding can happen,” said Widia while being confirmed by other residents.

Aside from the area on Jalan Anggrek, the flooding with flash rubbish also overwhelmed the house of residents on Jalan Leli, not far from Jalan Anggrek. Residents expected

the government to immediately widen the culvert so the water could be drained without soaking the residential area. To deepen the culvert, local residents did mutual assistance to clean up the accumulated plastic rubbish. The rubbish was then transported by operational vehicle of the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency. (kmb)

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Grandpa watching TV, Village assembly of Sesetan requests a review grandson almost died Insistence to review the permit regarding the mangrove forest management in the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) at Suwung Kauh, South Denpasar, came to view again. After several components of community rejected it, then the village assembly of Sesetan declared a similar viewpoint. The Sesetan village assembly asked the governor of Bali to review the permit issued.

It was affirmed by the Sesetan village assembly, I Ketut Resmiyasa, in Denpasar on Monday (Nov 19). The review was important considering the existence of mangrove forests had been stipulated to become a strategic area in a presidential regulation and government regulation concerning with the national spatial arrangement.

Sesetan community leader doubling as Chairman of the Great Indonesia Faction (FIR) in the Denpasar House added that Sesetan was very concerned with the preservation of mangrove forest because Sesetan with several other villages, namely Pemogan, Sidakarya and Pedungan would be affected if the forest was damaged. Sea water intrusion causing pollution to residents’ well, for instance, would be threatening the health of residents when it happened due to environmental destruction to mangroves. “We strongly agree with the idea of Chairman of the Denpasar House who rejected the management of mangrove forest by investor PT TRB,” said Resmiyasa.

His party also asked the Mayor of Denpasar to issue building permit in the mangrove forest

carefully. There should be coordination with the ranks of legislative related to permit issuance in the region. “If necessary, please invite the entire components of community, customary village, village assembly and village advisory council having direct association with mangrove forest to make a good and correct decisions because it involves sensitive issues,” said the community leader doubling as the people’s representative of Denpasar.

As known, the land utilization plan of mangrove forest in part by investor after the issuance of permit by Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation with Decree No.77/ IV-SET/2012 and Governor Decree No.1051/03-L/HK/2012 drew bitter rejection from a number of circles. (kmb12)

Semarapura (Bali Post)-

A fiften months baby, A.A. Eka Raditya Saputra, was found dragged by current at Cau River almost 1 kilometer from where he was, Semarapura Klod, Klungkung last Monday (19/11) afternoon. He was found by a concrete maker Komang Santika and then brought the baby to Klungkung Hospital A & E as he was unconscious. The incident caused Banjar Jelantik Kuribatu, Tojan Village, Semarapura Klod people shocked as the baby was thought to be dead as his head hit several walls of the river.

The grandfather of the baby, A.A. Ngurah Putra (63) when met at Klungkung Hospital stated that he was watching TV at his house Kenanga Street 13 A Semarapura Kelod located next to Cau River and got confused when his grandson was missing

from the house garden playing around 12.30 am local time who happens to just started crawling only.

Neighbours did not know where he was and after searching at Cau River, Santika found him. His wife, Ni Ketut Kartini (32) was washing households at the river which suddenly an unconscious baby was seen dragged by the current. The baby that was left by his mother by 13 days old was treted by dr. Candra Maya Sari, who stated that there has been wounds on the head and it seemed that his lungs filled up with water which explained the amount of water keep coming out of his mouth when Santika tried to pump it out from the stomach. The grandparents to the baby, Ngurah and Jero Ratnasih (58) admitted to have been guilty. “Luckily he was saved,” Ratnasih sobbed. (kmb31)

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Marcel Sumarga, of Bulgari Bali Hotels and Resorts, has won the pre selection cook off and eligible to represent Indonesia in the upcoming international World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS)-sanctioned competition, the Hans Bueschkens Junior Chefs Challenge (HBJCC) at 7 – 10 May 2013 at Hong Kong. The cook off took place on November 10 in Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata (STP) Bali followed by 9 finest young chefs in Bali, all under 25, from Bulgari Bali Hotels and resorts, Banyan Tree, and STP Students. A panel of WACS certified judges evaluated contestants’ performance and menus to determine the winner.

Professionals (BCP), “They showed confidence and precision in preparing meal, worthy of international culinary competition. BCP is proud of their performance.”

Runner ups from Banyan Tree in second and third place, followed by Bulgari Bali in fourth place will be eligible to represent Indonesia in the young chefs competition category at the Food Show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia September 2013.

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The flood which happen in Singaraja caused the city filled with garbage.

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“Competing for an international level is a completely different ballgame,” said Marcel. “The pressure is greater, the stakes are higher and you don’t have the slightest idea of who you are up against. I kept reminding myself to compete against myself. It was also a great feeling knowing that I had done the best I could.”

“It was exciting to watch them all,” said Made Putra, vice president of Bali Culinary

As for permit on mangrove forest management Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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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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Pre-ski fitness can protect against post-ski problems Reuters

NEW YORK - Skiing is a such a skill-based activity that if you don’t start learning until you are 20, it will take 20 years to learn. But fitness experts say proper conditioning can make the difference between a fun weekend on the slopes and one waylaid by injury.

“Skiing first is technique,” said Robert Forster, a Los Angelesbased physical therapist and founder of Phase IV Scientific Health and Performance Center. “If your quads (muscles) are just burning up on the runs, then you’re not skiing right.

That’s a good sign that you might need a lesson.” To minimize fatigue and risk of injury, Forster, physical therapist to 42 Olympic medalists, suggests getting in ski-shape before hitting the slopes.

“All fitness begins with an aerobic base,” he said. “So six weeks before, start training with an elliptical trainer or stationary bike, or running or walking. Build up to 20 to 30 minutes three times a week.” Aerobic training also strengthens muscles, Forster said, so any subsequent agility drills, such as running sideways or skipping, will be even more effective if you’ve established an aerobic base.

Stretch before skiing to protect against injury and enhance freedom of motion; stretch afterward to return the

muscles to their normal length, said Forster. He calls stretching the single most important thing people can do for body health maintenance.

“Connective tissue shortens with time,” he explained. “We stretch to maintain good alignment of the bones.”

If your skiing holiday lasts a week, limit your time on the slopes the first day, Forster suggests. And reconsider that dehydrating après-ski cocktail.

“We know that a glass of wine and a hot tub is not a good idea. Heat adds to inflammation. It will only increase swelling the next day,” he said. Save that soak for the morning, and then not more than five minutes. Ice down any sore spots or tight areas. “Ice is a great treatment for tightness,” he said.

Jessica Matthews, an exercise physiologist with the American Council on Exercise, suggests that even those already in good condition would benefit by integrating sports-specific pre-ski training into their workout. “Prepare the body to move in short bursts,” said Matthews, who notes that skiing demands

carving back and forth, rapid turns and sudden changes of direction.

She said it’s easy to set up fitness drills using plastic cones, which can be had at any sporting goods store.

“There’s great stuff you can do with

CHICAGO - An influential U.S. panel has called for routine HIV screening for all Americans aged 15 to 65, a change that could help reduce some of the stigma about getting tested for the sexually transmitted infection that causes AIDS. The draft recommendations, released on Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed group of doctors

and scientists, also called for routine HIV testing for all pregnant women.

“The prior recommendations were for screening high-risk adults and adolescents,” said task force member Dr Douglas Owens who is a medical professor at Stanford University. “The current recommendation is for screening everyone, regardless of their risk,” said Owens, who is also affiliated with the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health

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A nurse arranges test tubes containing blood taken during a free HIV test, at an HIV/AIDS awareness rally on World AIDS Day in San Salvador.

groups, the fitness company Equinox recently launched a class at its clubs called Core Values, which uses low parallel bars, called parallettes, and medicine balls to enhance mobility and stability skills.

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To build toilets at tourist attraction

Badung Regency allocates IDR 1 billion Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Badung government planned to allocate a budget worth IDR 1 billion more for the construction of toilet in five tourist attractions. Amount of the budget was criticized in the consultation meeting between the executive and the Badung House regarding the Regional Budget Draft 2013, Monday (Nov 19). The Badung House criticized the construction of toilets worth IDR 1 billion planned by the Badung Government Tourism Office. The Badung House questioned about the amount and location of the toilet construction.

Standard of the quality was also specially highlighted, considering those toilets spent expensive costs. The Subdivision Head of Facilities and Infrastructure, the Badung Government Tourism Office, I Nyoman Suardana, revealed the budget would be used to repair the toilets at five tourist attractions in the Badung namely Jimbaran

Beach, north of Hotel Padma Kuta, Legian Beach, Seseh Beach and Canggu Beach. Each location was budgeted at IDR 200 million.

Meanwhile, construction of the toilets on Canggu and Seseh Beach would be handed over to customary village because both toilets were situated on the land belonging to local customary village.

The Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, earlier said that construction of the toilets was intended to improve the quality and competitiveness of tourist destinations. One of the efforts to improve the quality of tourist destination was realized by repairing the facility to meet the international standards. (kmb25)

Military attache from foreign countries visit Bali Antara

DENPASAR - Military attachés from 14 countries are on a visit to Bali to study the organisational structure of the local government, military administration and the culture of the people on the island of paradise.

“It is our annual visit to different places. Today, we are in Bali and on Wednesday, we will be in Lombok,” Brunei Darussalam’s Defence Attaché, Lieutenant Colonel Haslen Bin Haji Hassan, said on Monday.

He said that there are a total of 14 military attachés, from Myanmar, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, Italy, South Korea, Pakistan, Prance, India, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and New Zealand.

According to Haslen, they decided to visit Bali because of its unique culture, which continues to attract foreign tourists.

He hoped that through this visit, the military attachés will be able to learn more about the structure of the government and the military administration in Bali.

Targeting rice surplus REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler

A skier skis down a slope on a sunny autumn day in the western Austrian glacier ski resort of Soelden, some 100km (62 miles) west of Innsbruck, November 16, 2012.

Advisory panel moves to make HIV testing routine Reuters

cones,” she said. “Those newer to fitness can begin with stepovers, laterally, side to side. Those more seasoned can make them hops, or invent more intricate drills.”

For those who prefer to train in

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Care System in California.

Nearly 1.2 million people in the United States are infected with HIV, yet 20 to 25 percent of them do not know it. “This marks a monumental shift in how HIV in the United States can be prevented, diagnosed and treated,” said Carl Schmid, deputy executive director of The AIDS Institute, an AIDS advocacy group.

The new guidelines by the task force are expected to affect the reimbursement of HIV testing, removing one of the barriers to the tests, Schmid’s group said in a statement.

Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers are required to cover preventive services that are recommended by the task force. The change brings the group more in line with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which in 2006 recommended HIV testing for everyone between 13 and 64.

The recommendations, which had been expected, are based on the latest evidence showing the benefits of early HIV testing and treatment. Recent studies have shown that HIV treatment can reduce transmission of the virus to an uninfected partner by as much as 96 percent.

“Treatment has two benefits.

One is to the person who has HIV, and also treatment helps prevent transmission and protects a person’s partner,” Owens said.

Smoking in pregnancy tied to lower reading scores Reuters

NEW YORK - Babies exposed to their mother’s cigarette smoke in the womb later perform more poorly on reading comprehension tests, according to a new study.

“It’s not a little difference - it’s a big difference in accuracy and comprehension at a critical time when children are being assessed, and are getting a sense of what it means to be successful,” lead author Dr. Jeffrey Gruen of Yale University told Reuters Health.

In the study, researchers found that children born to mothers who smoked more than one pack per day struggled on tests specifically designed to measure how accurately a child reads aloud and if she understands what she read.

On average, children exposed to high levels of nicotine in utero -- defined as the minimum amount in one pack of cigarettes per day -- scored 21 percent lower in these areas than classmates born to non-smoking mothers.

The difference remained even when researchers took other factors -- such as if parents read books to their children, worked in lower-paying jobs or were married -- into account.

Put another way, among students who share similar backgrounds and education, a child of a smoking mother will on average be ranked seven places lower in a class of 31 in reading accuracy and comprehension ability, said co-author Jan Frijters of Brock University in Ontario, Canada.

Previous studies have found smoking during pregnancy is linked to lower IQ scores and academic achievement, and more behavioral disorders. The authors found no reports so far that zeroed in on specific reading tasks like accuracy and comprehension in a large population.

The team, which published their results in The Journal of Pediatrics, pulled data from more than 5,000 children involved in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPC) study that began in the early 1990s in the UK. Only data from children with IQ scores of 76 and higher were used. An IQ score of 70 and below can be the sign of a mental disability.

UK researchers collected questionnaires from mothers before and after giving birth.

Ministry of Agriculture optimizes marginal lands Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Many marginal or sub-optimal lands in Indonesia still have potential to be cultivated into farmland. Unfortunately, the potential has not been worked out maximally in order to reach the surplus target amounting to 10 million tons of rice in 2014.

“The current marginal or sub-optimal lands such as swamp and dry land including peat are still waiting for the opportunities to be exploited,” said Minister of Agriculture, Suswono, on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Conference on Higher Education in Nusa Dua some time ago.

Further, he said that to develop the Cooperative-based Food Production Improvement Movement (GP3K) was required the addition of land by utilizing marginal or sub-optimal lands. It was necessary considering the current farmland conversion had reached 100,000 hectares per year.

Moreover, the movement conducted through a partnership pattern between the state-owned enterprises and farmers so far was very positive. However, it needed developing further.

“If this can be developed further, of course it can make a contribution.

However, it is also required an extensification. And we need additional land because the farmland conversion is so massive reaching over 100,000 hectares per year,” he said.

On that account, he added that his party continued to innovate both through research and development and adoption to the results of research made by universities. “The current

marginal or sub-optimal lands such as swamp and dry land including peat are still waiting for the opportunities to be exploited. Research and development of Ministry of Agriculture keeps on undertaking the maximal efforts in order the lands can be utilized

immediately,” he added.

At the moment, the number of sub-optimal lands scattering on the island of Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi, according to Suswono, amounted to millions of hectares with the potential production reaching

six to seven tons. Besides, his party also continued to make management improvement between the central and regional government to achieve the surplus target of 10 million tons of rice in 2014.

“We also improve the manage-

ment between the central and local government. Such an effort should become an integral unit to produce a significant increase in production so that the surplus target of 10 million tons in 2014 can be realized,” he concluded. (kmb29)

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Many marginal or sub-optimal lands in Indonesia still have potential to be cultivated into farmland. Unfortunately, the potential has not been worked out maximally in order to reach the surplus target amounting to 10 million tons of rice in 2014.

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Revetment construction at Tembles collapses

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Paving blocks of the Penyaringan coastal breakwater project at Anyar Tembles hamlet, Penyaringan village, Mendoyo subdistrict, collapsed whereas it had not reached a month after the completion. According to information on Monday (Nov 19), the project of the Bali Public Works was just completed on October 23, 2012. party would immediately repair it.

Director of Asta Mandala Abadi, Nengah Arjana, said the damage happened due to strong tidal currents. As consequence, the bottom side was unable to hold the pressure and eventually collapsed. On the other hand, the Chairman of Commission C of the Jembrana House, IB Susrama, on hearing the information was disappointed and accused it was a kind of arrogance of the central and provincial government.

The House felt to be unappreciated and was not involved so that his party could not oversee the project.

Meanwhile, two members of Commission C, Putu Kamawijaya and Gede Suarna Adi immediately checked the truth to location. According to Kamawijaya, the project collapsed as it was hit by the waves and the quality was dubious. Besides, the mixture of materials was poor and the installation was not viscous. Necessarily, the province should be more responsive to the project.

Moreover, it was functioned to protect the Dalem Temple from the onslaught of A man shows the damage on the breakwater project in Mendoyo, Jembrana waves. (kmb26)

Car window smasher Provincial govt never coordinates still at large with Directorate of Traffic Affairs Gianyar (Bali Post) –

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

There was a shocking car window smasher seems to be existing again which happened to a Picanto DK 1037 QN causing victim’s bag, Ni Luh Wayan Adi Arsani (36) who lives at Banjar Tegal Saat, Pejeng Kangin, Tampaksiring Gianyar, consisting of IDR 18 million cash, handy-cam and ring gone missing. The car got smashed on the front left window which was parked at Galuh restaurant. Police are now still investigating the crime scene and have asked for witness statement from the sobbing victim.

Arsani who’s a midwife at Sanjiwani Hospital arrived at the location around 12.53 pm local time where she was going to meet a friend. Twenty minutes later when she was going back to her car, the incident had happened. Victim did state that she going to store it yet due to the BCA bank storing maching was damaged, she then went to BRI Bank yet it was so crowded. When about to be going to Blahbatuh Branch BRI Bank, she saw her friend’s car around By Pass Dharmagiri and so met at Warung Galuh.

As permitted by Gianyar Police, Head of Criminal Research Gianyar Police, APC Nengah Sadiarta, stated at this time the case is still being investigated and having difficulties in getting witnesses as very little who saw the incident. There has also been coordination with connected institutes to secure the area better. (kmb16)

Director of Traffic Affairs of Bali Police, Syamsul Bahri, finally spoke related to frequent accidents afflicting the trucks dispatching piles on the Jembrana-Tabanan route. As a result of the accident, it surely interfered with the convenience of other road users.

Aside from kindling traffic jam due to long evacuation process, most communities were also furious and made complain to face such condition.

Syamsul Bahri also questioned why the trucks conveying the piles were allowed to pass through overland route.

Meanwhile, pursuant to information the piles should be dispatched by sea.

“So far, the authority of Bali Province never makes coordination with us (Directorate of Traffic Affairs—Ed) on the entry of trucks allowed to convey piles overland. Necessarily, the piles should be dispatched by sea,” said Syamsul Bahri, Monday (Nov 19).

He considered the Transportation Agency should coordinate with the Directorate of Traffic Affairs of Bali

Police. In other words, if there was coordination, his party surely could take technical measures in the field.

Moreover, there had been a Governor Regulation. “As there is no coordination so far, we do not dare to take any action. We can only take a step in the regulation of traffic at location if there is any accident,” he explained.

He said even though the truck conveyed the piles for the road over the waters (JDP), relevant agencies should make coordination with Directorate of Traffic Affairs of Bali Police because the truck conveying the piles used public roads. “If there is an accident, especially involving truck that transports the piles, the hassling party will be the members of traffic police as they must control while the evacuation process takes place,” he said.

If coordination had been made since the beginning, both parties would be able to find solutions together. Regional government should expressly mandate the police to carry out the regulation No. 500/1999. If his party was given a mandate, then it could take

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Negara (Bali Post)—

Construction of the paving block as the main breakwater had collapsed. Based on notice board posted at location, it was worked on by PT Asta Mandala Abadi with a contract value worth IDR 2,339,250,000 and workmanship for 180 days. From the observation along 126 meters, the breakwater including five pieces of paving block installation came off. Likewise, a number of paving blocks also looked to slack and almost collapsed.

It was not known exactly when the paving blocks started to collapse. Allegedly, it was kindled by the abrasion of high tides.

Besides, it was caused by the installation of armor stones and paving blocks that was not permanently sealed so that they came off. The paving blocks were only placed on the pile of sand.

However, according to information, the installation of paving blocks had been carried out by using stamper so the installation was stronger. The project implementer, I Wayan Sukrada, admitted he just knew about the damage. Since it was newly completed and still under maintenance, his

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U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R), as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) looks on, at the East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh, November 20, 2012.

Obama urges restraint in tense Asian disputes Reuters

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action. For example, the driver of truck conveying the piles could be asked to go back. “So far, there is no request of escort, either,” he said.

Besides, there was no sign restricting the entrance of large trucks, whereas it had been governed in the regulation.

If the restriction sign had been posted and the trucks came in, then his party would definitely take action. With such conditions, Syamsul Bahri claimed to worry about the safety of other road users. “If the trucks are allowed to come in, I am concerned with the safety of community,” he added It should keep in mind, two accidents had happened involving the trucks carrying the piles on the road section of Jembrana-Tabanan. Even, both accidents occurred within two days. The first accident happened to trailer truck with license plate B 9927 BM. The truck rolled at Pangyangan, Pekutatan, on Thursday (Nov 15).

Meanwhile, two days later, another trailer truck with license plate N 8162 US also rolled at Pucuk hamlet, Bantas village, Tabanan. (kmb21)

PHNOM PENH - U.S. President Barack Obama urged Asian leaders to rein in tensions in the South China Sea and other disputed territory but stopped short of firmly backing allies Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam in their disputes with China.

The comments by Obama at a regional summit meeting illustrate how he intends to manage Sino-U.S. ties that have become more fraught across a range of issues, including trade, commercial espionage and the territorial disputes between Beijing and Washington’s Asian allies.

“President Obama’s message is there needs to be a reduction of the tensions,” Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said after the East Asia Summit in the Cambodian

capital Phnom Penh. Also present at the summit were leaders from China, Japan, the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), India, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

“There is no reason to risk any potential escalation, particularly when you have two of the world’s largest economies - China and Japan - associated with some of those disputes.”

That diplomatic response comes at the end of a three-day trip by Obama

to old U.S. ally Thailand, new friend Myanmar and China ally Cambodia in a visit that underlines the expansion of U.S. military and economic interests in Asia under last year’s so-called “pivot” from conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Obama’s attention was divided as he tried to stay on top of the unfolding crisis in Gaza. He dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the summit to the Middle East for a round of troubleshooting talks in Israel, the West Bank and Egypt.

In his first meeting with a Chinese leader since his re-election, Obama said Washington and its chief economic rival must work together to “establish clear rules of the road” for trade and investment.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Court of Justice ruled Monday that a group of tiny islands in the western Caribbean belongs to Colombia, but also granted Nicaragua control of a large swath of the surrounding sea and seabed that could hold oil reserves.

Based on evidence presented by lawyers for both nations, “Colombia and not Nicaragua has sovereignty over the islands,” the court’s President Peter Tomka told delegations from both sides.

But the decision not to grant Colombia full sovereignty over the waters connecting all the archipelago’s islands drew a vehement objection from Colombia.

President Juan Manuel Santos told Colombians in a national speech that the court had “committed grave errors” by ignoring the terms of the very treaty it had declared valid and that the decision would hurt the archipelago’s fishermen. The decision effec-

tively cut off four small islands from the rest of the archipelago and Santos said he could not accept the court’s “omissions, errors, excesses and inconsistencies.”

While Santos said he recognized that the court’s decision is final and legally binding, he said Colombia “emphatically rejects this aspect of the decision” and “we don’t rule out any recourse or mechanism that international law gives us to defend our rights.”

He said he would fly to San Andres immediately. Nicaragua hailed the ruling as an historic triumph.

President Daniel Ortega called it a “day of national victory, victory for all Nicaraguans,” and called on Santos to respect the court’s ruling.

Nicaragua’s representative at the court, Carlos Arguello, said the ruling gives the poor Central American country “incredible potential wealth and future exploitation of fisheries and other resources, such as minerals.”

“We’ve been given very important maritime territory,” he said.

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Nicaragua’s foreign minister Samuel Santos, center, looks on as ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez, left, shakes hands with Colombia’s agent Julio London Paredes.

Sarkozy ally wins French right leadership battle Reuters

PARIS - Rightist Jean-Francois Cope, an ally of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed the leadership of France’s main conservative party on Monday in a closely fought two-way contest marred by mutual accusations of voter fraud.

Cope, already the incumbent leader of the UMP party, beat centrist former prime minister Francois Fillon by 50.03 percent to 49.97 percent, the head of

AP Photo/Natalia Kolesnikova, Pool

an internal voting commission said - a margin of just 98 votes out of almost 175,000 cast.

The victory could pave the way for Cope, whose controversial campaign included accusations that “anti-white” racism was rife in France, either to run for president himself in 2017 or stand aside for Sarkozy if his mentor chooses to re-enter politics.

“My hands and my arms are wide open,” Cope told supporters at party

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, greets former French President Nicolas Sarkozy during their meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.

headquarters in Paris after the result was announced.

“It is in that state of mind that I telephoned Francois Fillon this evening, it is in that state of mind that I asked him to join me.”

Fillon, speaking at his campaign headquarters shortly after Cope’s victory speech, denounced ballot booth irregularities and warned of a deepening split in the center-right group.

“What strikes me is the rift at the heart of our political camp, a political and moral fracture,” Fillon said in a brief speech, adding that he had chosen not to dispute the result.

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shi Corp., Sumitomo Corp. and Marubeni Corp., the Nikkei said.

The two other projects are repair work on a thermal power plant near Yangon and infrastructure development in 14 rural regions aimed at reducing poverty.

Japan, with its export-reliant economy, is looking to foster growth in the resource-rich Mekong region, a part of the world that is also being courted

by China.

Unlike its Western allies, Japan maintained trade ties and dialogue with Myanmar, warning that a hard line on the then-ruling junta could push it closer to China, its key ally and commercial partner.

The European Union, Canada and Australia have suspended virtually all sanctions. The US move on Friday came ahead of a landmark trip by President Barack Obama to Myanmar.

The Tokyo government has in recent years provided other Asian nations with similar low-interest, long-term loans, known as “yen loans”, aimed at boosting economic development, including Vietnam and India.

In April, Japan agreed to forgive 300 billion yen of the 500 billion yen which Myanmar owed.

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A Sanctum to Worship Goddess Giri Putri

Kalong Temple is located in the middle of the Kalong Island, amid the Gilimanuk Bay, and still belongs to the area of Bali Barat National Park. When devotees would like to say prayers, they will be transported by a boat to a distance of not less than ten minutes sail. Anniversary of this temple falls right on the Kuningan feast day, while the venerated deity in the temple is the Goddess Giri Putri.

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Myanmar nominally ended nearly half a century of military rule last year and rapid changes have sparked a widespread lifting of sanctions and a scramble to tap a potentially lucrative market.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will make the loans announcement when he meets Myanmar’s President Thein Sein on the sidelines on a Southeast Asian summit in Cambodia on Monday, the Nikkei business daily said.

Japan’s first low-interest, long-term government loans to Myanmar in nearly three decades will “back up moves

by Japanese companies into the country and hold China in check after it increased its influence in Myanmar”, it said.

Japan will provide the loans in the fiscal year to March 2013 while the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and major creditor nations are expected to announce in January they will waive debts owed by Myanmar, the Nikkei said.

The 50 billion yen in loans will be used for three projects including infrastructure related to a Japan-led special economic zone outside former capital Yangon.

The huge Thilawa project is led by a consortium of Japanese companies including Mitsubi-

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Japan to give $615 million in loans to Myanmar TOKYO - Japan is to provide Myanmar with $615 million in government loans, a report said Sunday, just days after the United States scrapped a ban on most imports from the long-isolated Southeast Asian nation.

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Women check an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012 as the yen’s recent weakness helped boost Japan’s Nikkei 225 and its heavy orientation toward exporting companies. Asian stocks rose Tuesday as investors gained confidence that President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress will reach a budget deal to avert tax hikes and spending cuts that could throw the world’s No. 1 economy into recession.

US budget hopes boost Asia stocks Associated Press

BANGKOK — Asian stocks rose Tuesday as investors gained confidence that President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress will reach a budget deal to avert tax hikes and spending cuts that could throw the world’s No. 1 economy into recession.

News of a possible budget deal before the end of the year enabled markets to shake off a credit downgrade that was slapped on France late Monday. France’s prized AAA rating was yanked, Moody’s Investors Service said, over its weaker growth prospects and its exposure to Europe’s financial crisis.

Investors were further cheered

by U.S. housing data which showed sales of previously occupied homes rose in October, helped by a stronger job market and record-low mortgage rates. The pace of sales is roughly 11 percent higher than a year earlier.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index edged down 0.2 percent at 9,138.15, as i nve s t o r s wa i t e d f o r B a n k o f Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa’s comments following the central bank’s latest policy meeting where it left interest rates unchanged near zero.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose

0.8 percent to 21,423.99 and South Korea’s Kospi added 0.5 percent to 1,887.25. Australia’s S&P/ ASX 200 advanced 0.6 percent to 4,387.60. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines rose. Indonesia’s fell.

Mainland China’s were mixed.

Analysts at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong said hopes of a U.S. budget deal and the firmer U.S. housing data would underpin stocks despite the French downgrade.

Obama and congressional leaders are in talks to avoid going over a “fiscal cliff” on Jan. 1, when tax increases and government spending cuts are set to take effect. If they are allowed to take full effect, the cuts and tax increases will total about $800 billion in 2013. Economists say they could knock the U.S. economy back into recession.

Markets may be in for some volatility because volumes will likely be light leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. on Thursday. Big price swings are more likely when there are fewer buyers and sellers in the market.

Investors will also be monitoring this week’s developments in Greece’s bailout saga, amid hopes that the country’s euro partners and the International Monetary

Fund will finally sign off on the release of €31.5 billion, which is money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy.

Finance ministers from nations that use the euro will meet Tuesday.

Later in the week, leaders will convene to discuss the European Union’s budget for the next few years.

“We are waiting for fiscal cliff negotiations and tonight’s euro special finance ministers meeting to see whether they disburse the next tranche of funds to Greece,” said Jackson Wong, vice president of Tanrich Securities in Hong Kong.

“Things are leaning on the more positive side.”

Among individual stocks, rare earths miner Lynas Corp. jumped 5.5 percent in Sydney after saying it expects production at a plant in Malaysia to begin in December. The project has been targeted by activists over concerns about pollution.

Benchmark oil for December delivery was down 15 cents to $89.13 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $2.36, or 2.3 percent, to finish at $89.28 in New York on Monday.

In currencies, the euro fell to $1.2795 from $1.2807 late Monday in New York. The dollar fell to 81.23 yen from 81.33 yen.

Building of the Kalong Temple only consists of a Padmasana shrine along with a small and simple Piasan pavilion. Meanwhile, its wantilan hall is typically a four-pillared pavilion sizing 3 x 4 meters. There is no compound wall protecting the temple area, so that when the seawater rises, it will inundate the temple courtyard sizing 17 x19 meters. Supporting devotee of the temple only consists of 34 families where all of them are from the village of Gilimanuk.

According to Jro Mangku Yasa, one of the caretakers of the Kalong Temple, history of the temple was commenced by its discovery in 1970. At that time, one of the spiritualists from Negara had a piece of keris dagger. In each meditation, he had always got a vision that owner of the kris was the deity abiding in the Kalong Temple, but he did not know the location. Eventually, when meeting Jro Mangku Yasa, he asked this priest to take him to the temple concerned. From that time, they established a temporary shrine whose pillar used some trees (turus lumbung).

In the long run, the pillars of the temporary shrine were damaged and the temple was forgotten by the spiritualist. Then in 1980, a few young Hindu people of Gilimanuk seemed to get a vision instructing them to re-organize the temple by building a Padmasana shrine and it could have been completed in 2004.

On the other hand, according to Agung Putu Wirawan, a caretaker of the Kalong Temple, the late Gusti Made Beratha, a former headman of Gilimanuk, found a very unique holy bell in the vicinity of the location in 1980s. It was smaller than the holy bell usually used by a high priest. In the passage of time, the holy bell was taken by the Antiquities Agency to be saved. However, until Gusti Made Beratha died in 1999, existence of the holy bell was unclear. In other words, it was unknown whether the holy bell belonged to a spiritualist of the ancient human, considering location of the temple is also adjacent to the museum of ancient humans.

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Gunung Payung Temple Headspring of Life and Fortune

The Gunung Payung or Bukit Payung Temple is one of the Dang Kahyangan temples in Bali and Kahyangan Pangibeh temples. Gunung Payung is beautifully located on the coastal hill of the southern Bali, precisely at Kutuh customary village, South Kuta subdistrict, Badung Regency.

As perching on the edge of a solid barrier reef and having backdrop of stretching expanse of the sea, the Gunung Payung Temple has a magnificent view. The temple is a sacred place for the community of Kutuh village and the surrounding areas such as Kampial, Peminge and Ungasan customary village.

Gunung Payung Temple as a sanctum has a spring providing the needs of holy water. As a sanctum, it is also believed to exude holy light giving out sacred vibrations and enlightenment to devotees.

Therefore, the community has a confidence in this energy of nature.

Supporting devotees of the Gunung Payung Temple are customary villagers of Kutuh. According to local belief, the temple poses the manifestation of Supreme God namely the Goddess Sri and Goddess Danu providing a source of life or prosperity for the Kutuh villagers in particular and the whole universe in general.

Gunung Payung Temple is closely related to the sacred journey of Dang Hyang Nirartha or Dang Hyang Dwijendra. The Dharmayatra palm-leaf manuscript mentions that after coming to Uluwatu Danghyang Dwijendra provided suggestion to the surrounding community. Then, he resumed his journey eastward. As soon as arriving on a beautiful hilly area exuding a strong spiritual vibration, precisely in the southwest of Kutuh customary village, Dang Hyang Nirartha along with his entourage took a short break to unwind.

The arrival of maharishi was welcomed enthusiastically by the local community.

They took the opportunity to meet him in person and ask religious directions and guidance. He was also willing to help people by putting up the stick of his umbrella. Due to spiritual power he possessed, a holy water suddenly spurted from the location where the stick of the umbrella was stuck. The water source is known as kubung suci by local communities and located in the innermost courtyard of the Gunung Payung Temple functioned as a holy headspring.

Before leaving the village to resume his pilgrimage, Dang Hyang Nirartha provided advice to local people to always keep the amrita water coming out from where he stuck the umbrella handle. Later on, the surrounding community established a temple at that location known as the Gunung Payung Temple.

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Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader sits at a county court in Zagreb November 20, 2012. Sanader was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for taking bribes from two foreign companies, becoming the highest state official to be convicted of corruption in the future European Union member state.

Croatia jails ex-PM Sanader for 10 years over graft Reuters

ZAGREB - Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for taking bribes from two foreign companies, becoming the highest state official to be convicted of corruption in the future European Union member state.

A Zagreb county court found Sanader guilty of agreeing in 2008 to accept a payment from Hungary’s energy group MOL of 5 million euros in exchange for granting it full management rights over Croatia’s oil concern INA. Unless the ruling is overturned on appeal, it may prompt Croatia to review MOL’s shareholder agreement with INA. Judge Ivan Turudic also said Sanader had taken a fee from Austrian Hypo Alpe Adria Bank in 1995, which prosecutors had

described as “war profiteering”.

Sanader has strongly denied wrongdoing and dismissed the trial as politically motivated.

Croatia is due to join the EU in July 2013 and Sanader’s conviction is likely to be seen as proof it is cracking down on corruption.

Its efforts to fight crime and graft are being carefully monitored before it formally joins the bloc.

Separately, Sanader is on trial - together with his former conservative HDZ party, which is now in opposition - for allegedly cre-

ating slush funds for the party by skimming off profits from state companies and by manipulating public tenders.

Sanader was prime minister from late 2003 to the summer of 2009, when he quit the government unexpectedly and without explanation.

Jadranka Kosor, his handpicked successor, then launched an anti-graft campaign which helped Zagreb complete European Union entry talks in June 2011.

Church of England decision day on female bishops Associated Press Writer

LONDON — The Church of England’s governing body is voting on whether it will permit women to serve as bishops or continue debating the issue for several more years.

The push to muster a two-

thirds majority among lay members of the General Synod is expected to be close on two votes, beginning with whether to adopt the legislation as English law. A second vote would follow on whether to incorporate the change in church law.

Votes among bishops and cler-

gy in the synod are expected to pass easily. Archbishop Rowan Williams and his successor, Bishop Justin Welby, both strongly support the change.

If the measure fails, church officials say it could take five years to go through all the steps leading up to another vote.

Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers have staked tough, hard-tobridge positions, and the gaps keep alive the threat of an Israeli ground invasion. In the meantime, grieving Gazans buried militants and civilians killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes, and barrages of rockets from Gaza sent terrified Israelis scurrying to take cover.

The conflict erupted last week, when a resurgence in rocket fire from Gaza provoked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to strike back, killing Hamas’ military chief in an air attack and carrying out hundreds of assaults on militants’ underground rocket launchers and weapons stores.

The onslaught abruptly turned deadlier over the weekend as aircraft were ordered to go after Hamas military commanders and buildings suspected of housing their commands and weapons caches. In the narrow warrens of crowded Gaza, where militants often operate from residential areas, civilian casualties mounted.

By Tuesday, civilians accounted for 54 of the 113 Palestinians killed since the operation began. Some 840 people have been wounded, including 225 children, Gaza health officials said.

Tuesday’s attack on the Islamic National Bank in Gaza was the latest in a string of assaults on Hamas symbols of power. Leading Hamas members set up the bank after it violently overran Gaza in June 2007 because foreign lenders, afraid of running afoul of international terror financing laws, stopped doing business with the militant-led Gaza government.

Israel, the U.S. and other Western powers consider Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks, a terror group.

The inside of the bank, which was set up by leading Hamas members and describes itself as a private enterprise, was destroyed. Abuilding supply business in the basement was damaged.

Owner Suleiman Tawil, 31, grimly surveyed the damage to his store and six company cars. “I’m not involved in politics,” he said. “I’m a businessman. But the more the Israelis pressure us, the more we will support Hamas.”

Fuad Hijazi and two of his toddler sons were killed Monday evening when missiles struck their one-story shack in northern Gaza, leaving a crater about 7- to 10-feet (two to three meters) deep in the densely populated neighborhood. Residents said he was not a militant.

On Tuesday morning, the boys’ bodies lay next to each other on a rack in the local morgue, wrapped tightly in white burial shrouds. Their father lay in a rack below.

“We want to tell the world which is supporting the state of Israel, what this state is doing,” said neighbor Rushdie Nasser. “They are supporting a state that kills children. ... We want to send a message to the U.N. and the West: Enough of supporting the Zionists, who are killing children.”

Three Israeli civilians have also been killed and dozens wounded since the fighting began last week, the numbers possibly kept down by a rocketdefense system that Israel developed with U.S. funding. More than 1,000 rockets have been fired at Israel this week, the military said, including three that struck schools that had been emptied because of the fighting.

As part of global efforts to end the Gaza fighting, U.N. chief arrived in Cairo on Monday and was to meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Tuesday. In Cairo, Ban said he would also travel to the West Bank to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. With tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers dispatched to the Gaza border, awaiting a possible order to invade, his mission was all the more urgent.

Germany’s foreign minister was also headed to the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Turkey’s foreign minister and a delegation of Arab League foreign ministers were to visit Gaza on Tuesday.

Egypt, the traditional mediator between Israel and the Arab world, has been at the center of recent diplomatic efforts involving the U.S., Turkey, Qatar and other nations.

On Monday, Egyptian intelligence officials met separately in Cairo with an Israeli envoy and with Khaled Mashaal, the top Hamas leader in exile, to try to bridge the considerable differences.

Israel demands an end to rocket fire from Gaza and a halt to weapons smuggling into Gaza through tunnels under the border with Egypt. It also wants international guarantees that Hamas will not rearm or use Egypt’s Sinai region, which abuts both Gaza and southern Israel, to attack Israelis.

Hamas wants Israel to halt all attacks on Gaza and lift tight restrictions on trade and movement in and out of the territory that have been in place since Hamas seized Gaza by force in 2007. Israel has rejected such demands in the past.

Mashaal told reporters Monday that Hamas would only agree to a cease-fire if its demands are met. “We don’t accept Israeli conditions because it is the aggressor,” he said. “We want a cease-fire along with meeting our demands.”

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INDONESIA KPK have two suspects in century bank case Antara

JAKARTA - Disclosing new development in its investigation into the Century Bank alleged corruption case, anti-graft agency KPK named two suspects in their initials on Tuesday.

The chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Abraham Samad, said in a meeting with the House of Representatives’ Century Bank case monitoring team that “we have discovered a corruption crime causing losses to the state” in the case.

The KPK declared BM and SCF respectively former Bank Indonesia (central bank) fourth deputy for foreign exchange management and fifth deputy for bank supervision as the ones who have allegedly committed corruption crimes in the case.

Abraham said KPK had discovered an abuse of power committed by the two in the extension of SPDP (short-term loans) and also in declaring the Century Bank as a failed bank with a systemic impact.

He earlier said KPK had conducted an examination including seeking a second opinion from other medical personnel regarding the health condition of SCF and is now awaiting its complete results.

“Investigation (into the Century Bank case) has continuously been carried out including routine exposition of the case,” he said.

Abraham said KPK would follow up the discovery with a judicial action.

Following its failure the government decided to bail out the Century Bank during an economic crisis in 2008 for fear of its systemic impact.

The bailout funds needed soared from initially Rp600 billion to Rp6.7 trillion.

Minister to develop 5 sub-sectors of creative industries Antara

JAKARTA - Tourism and Creative Economic Minister Mari Elka Pangestu has said she would set her focus on the development of five sub-sectors in creative industries.

“We want to set our focus on the development of five sub-sectors that have very big potential in creative industries,” the minister said here on Wednesday.

According to her the five subsectors are film, music, fashion, culinary, and digital content which have a very big potential to be developed in Indonesia.

The minister noted that she was arranging a program which aims to encourage the development of film, music, fashion, culinary, and the digital content.

“We are arranging a program to increase the number of entrepreneurs in that sub-sectors, to improve their talent, to expand

their creative space, and to create their public room,” Mari said.

Further, the minister added that she would continue to make coordination with related stake holders to develop creative industries in the country.

She pointed out that the contribution of creative industries to the gross domestic product in 2010 was recorded at 7.3 percent and in 2015 it is expected to reach more than 8 percent.

Therefore, she added that the appeal of those creative industries’ sub-sectors should be improved in order to attract more investors.

“We need to expand the scope of their distribution, to increase market appreciation for the creative industries’ products and services, to go about market researches, to step up promotion, to revitalize distribution regulation, and to create health business climate for the five sub-sectors,” the minister noted.

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Sumatran tiger cubs that were born last month, sit in a cage before being shown to the public for the first time at Medan Zoo in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.

Conservationists fear that the critically endangered species, now only around 250 left in the wild, may become extinct in the next decade due to poaching and habitat loss.

Sumatran tiger poaching remains high

Antara

JAMBI - The poaching of Sumatran tiger in Kerinci Seblat National Park, Jambi, remains high as 120 tiger meshes to trap the large cat species were found and secured by the National Park Board.

Head of Area II Kerinci Seblat National Park Board (TNKS), Dian Rusdianto said the tiger meshes were set by poachers to trap the tigers so that they could illegaly sell the animals.

The traps, however, not only pose serious threat for the sumatran tigers population but also other protected animals in the national park, Rusdianto who is also a field director of sumatran tiger preservation program (PHS)

in TNKS said.

“We have sent three suspects of tiger poaching for legal process. Two of them are village heads in Merangin and a civilian,” Dian Rusdianto said here Tuesday.

The Kerinci Seblat has the most sumatran tiger population than other national parks in Indonesia. Data from 2011 census shows there are 165 tigers live in the national park.

However, the threats come not only from the poaching and illegal traps. The 1.4 million-hectares national park is threatened by encroachment of the protected forest area.

Thus, the natural habitat of sumatran tigers and the other protected animals, including the

tigers’ prey, is diminishing.

However, sumatran tigers could survive better than the javanese one-horned rhinoceros in term of diminishing habitat.

“Actually, the most important thing is to preserve the tigers’ preys as the big cat can breed in almost every (environment) condition provided the preys are still available and preserved,” Rusdianto said, adding that the one-horned rhino, in other hand, needed a naturally preserved habitat to breed.

The shrinking natural habitat would also lead to conflicts between human and animal. “There are some conflicts between tigers or even bears and human. Those might be caused by the damaged natural ecosystem,” Rusdianto said.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Nusa Dua Bali IBP

Nusa Dua is an elite resort area with international five star hotels and resorts existing on the costal side in south part of Bali. It is located in Badung Regency and about 25 minutes drive from Bali’s International airport. Nusa Dua with 350 ha size is the sample luxury resort area and one of best tourism places in the world. In fact, the name of Nusa Dua is coming from two small islands located in the south part of Bali Island (Nusa mean the island and Dua mean two) that is dissociated with the white sand.

Nusa Dua Area is start built in year 1974,as a result from study of French consultant, SCETO ( Societe Centrale pour l’equpeent Touristique Ouetre-Mer) in the year 1970 and also feasibil-

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Red Bull promises to attack in F1 2012 championship decider

ity study conducted by PCI (Pacific Consultants International) year 1971-1973 for financing of World Bank aid. The Indonesian Government has delivered this area management to PT. BTDC (Bali Tourism Development Corporation) which existing under the law and regulation of Republic Indonesia Government no.27 year 1972, on 12 November 1972.

This area owns the most complete tourism facilities in Bali and Indonesia like five star hotels, luxury accommodations, villas, convention hall, shopping center and beautiful beaches. There are also the sports activities are available in this are like tennis court, squash and golf course. Each hotel is completed by five star restaurant facilities, bar, pub and beach activities.

Red Bull has vowed to attack in the final race of the season even though the world championship is now at stake. Sebastian Vettel’s runner-up position in the United States Grand Prix was enough to clinch Red Bull the constructors’ championship and extend the German’s advantage over Fernando Alonso in the drivers’ standings to 13 points.

That gap means Vettel needs to proach the next race as we have the only finish fourth in Brazil to guar- previous 19,” he said. “We have to antee the championship. However, go there, attack the weekend, and get with rain forecast for next week, the best out of ourselves; the car, the and the Interlagos track having strategy, the drivers, and reliability. thrown up some unexpected results “Anything can happen, as we in previous years, there remains have seen this season. But it is good every chance of a surprise finish to be going there with a lead, and to the campaign. we go there determined to close Red Bull boss Christian Horner the job off.” said that the t e a m w o u l d CHAMPIONSHIP PERMUTATIONS stick to its VETTEL WINS THE TITLE IF: mindset of fo- He finishes in the top four cusing just on - He finishes fifth, sixth or seventh and Alonso doesn’t win doing the best - He finishes eighth or ninth and Alonso is third or lower job it can rath- He finishes 10th or worse and Alonso isn’t on the podium er than getting distracted by ALONSO WINS THE TITLE IF: how much is - He wins and Vettel is fifth or lower now at stake.

- He is second and Vettel eighth or lower “ We j u s t - He is third and Vettel is 10th or lower h ave t o a p -

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Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel, right, of Germany, and Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso, of Spain, react after the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at the Circuit of the Americas Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Vettel finished second and Alonso finished third.

Nuggets put brakes on Grizzlies’ sizzling streak Jorge Lorenzo to ponder MotoGP future after 2014 Reuters

Denver Nuggets’ Ty Lawson goes to the basket over Memphis Grizzlies’ Mike Conley (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Memphis, Tenn., Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. The Nuggets defeated the Grizzlies 97-92.

AP Photo/Danny Johnston

Denver snapped the Memphis Grizzles’ eight-game winning streak with a 97-92 victory over the NBA’s hottest team on Monday. In a battle that raged from start to finish, home team Memphis led 92-88 with about two minutes remaining but failed to close the game out, going scoreless and making critical mistakes in the final moments.

“We got what we deserved,” the Grizzlies’ Marc Gasol told reporters. “The last game we didn’t play that well, but the other team wasn’t as talented as (Denver). When you play with fire, sometimes you get burned.” Momentum switched back and forth the whole game as the Grizzlies went up by five in the third quarter on the back of a 14-4 run, before Denver returned the favor with an 8-0 stretch that put them ahead 77-70 early in the fourth.

The Nuggets outrebounded Memphis 47-33, with Kenneth Faried grabbing 13 to go with his 13 points. Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari made three free throws and, after JaVale McGee put visiting Denver on top 93-92, he drained a three-pointer in the last seconds to seal the win.

Gallinari finished with a game-high 26 points, McGee added 15 and eight rebounds off the bench as the Nuggets (5-6) brought a run of three straight defeats to an end. “This is the first game on the road where I think we executed at a high level,” said Denver coach George Karl.

“We’ve got to get better at making shots and I think we will once we win games, and I think confidence comes by winning.”

After losing their season opener, Memphis (8-2) had run through their competition until facing Denver. Rudy Gay led the way for the Grizzles with 22 points, while Zach Randolph put up 12 points and 13 rebounds.

Memphis coughed up two straight turnovers in the final minute, and kept putting Denver on the foul line as the game slipped away.

Despite the loss, the Grizzlies stayed a half-game ahead of San Antonio for the Southwest Division lead after the Spurs lost to the Los Angeles Clippers.

Newly-crowned MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo claims he will re-evaluate his future at the end of the 2014 season. The Spaniard was speaking just days after Casey Stoner competed in MotoGP for the final time at Valencia, having announced in May that he would quit the sport at just 27.

Lorenzo, two years Stoner’s junior, was offered a deal to replace the Australian at Honda, but opted instead to extend his contract with Yamaha for a further two years.

He duly clinched his second world title with the squad, having finished first or second in all but two races - Assen, when he was taken out at the first corner, and the Valencia finale, when he crashed violently while leading. Speaking at the International Motorcycle Show in Milan, Lorenzo explained he would look to re-evaluate his future in the sport’s premier class when his current deal expires.

“I will race for two more years, then we’ll see,” the Spaniard told Italian journalists. “At 15, everything is fun, but then the sport can become routine.” Lorenzo added that Marco Simoncelli’s fatal accident at Sepang last year had also given him cause to question his future.

“The death of Marco Simoncelli was a blow to us all, and made us think that it can happen to any of us, but we know that the risk is part of the sport.”

Lorenzo insisted however that his motivation will not be dimmed heading into next year – not least because of the return to Yamaha of seven-time champion Valentino Rossi. “It’s good for Yamaha, Valentino and me, because it will push me to go faster,” Lorenzo said of the 33-yearold’s switch.

“I’ve seen Valentino happy; the M1 is an easier bike, I’m sure he will be strong. “With the Ducati, besides Stoner, no one has succeeded; there is something that is not right.”

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MIAMI - Former England captain David Beckham, hailed as a success for soccer in the United States, will say his farewell to LA Galaxy in next month’s MLS Cup final with one more mission yet to accomplish. It was only in January that Beckham signed a new deal with the Galaxy but his departure, announced on Monday, paves the way for him to enjoy a last hurrah elsewhere while the Galaxy could take the chance to look for a new big name in his place.

After five-and-a-half seasons in Los Angeles, where Beckham moved from Real Madrid in 2007, the midfielder insists he feels ready for “one more challenge” before he

Reuters

LONDON - Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has an added incentive to keep his side’s slim Champions League hopes alive when they welcome Real Madrid to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday. Having yet to win a match in Group D, City are rock bottom with two points, yet victories over Real and in their final match away to group leaders Borussia Dortmund could see them squeeze into the last 16, depending on results elsewhere.

BIG VICTORY

Like City, Real are also buoyed by a big league victory, having thrashed Athletic Bilbao 5-1 at the weekend. France striker Karim Benzema, back after a thigh muscle injury, was in fine form in that victory, curling in a sweetly struck shot for Real’s third goal and unself-

ishly setting up Mesut Ozil for their fourth.

“We don’t like talking about individuals, but he (Benzema) had an outstanding game,” former Real striker Emilio Butragueno, now a club director, told Spanish television.

“His movement in attack was fabulous and he scored a great goal,” Butragueno added. “It was a delight to see him playing that way after his injury.”

Mourinho, hoping to lead Real to the 10th European crown that has eluded them since 2002, also has Sami Khedira back after injury. The German international, who came on in the second half of the Bilbao game and netted Real’s fifth, will likely rejoin Xabi Alonso in central midfield.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — West Ham missed a chance to move into the Europa League place after being held to a 1-1 draw by Stoke in the Premier League on Monday.

Stoke opened the scoring in the 13th minute after a set move from a corner involving Peter Crouch, Jonathan Walters and Glenn Whelan. As West Ham’s defenders focused on Crouch, Walters ran into space behind him and smashed Whelan’s low drive from a corner first time into the net.

Stoke manager Tony Pulis said his team had been practicing the elaborate play for several days.

“Jonathan Walters had never scored a goal from it.

It’s lovely when it comes off in a game,” Pulis said.

Midfielder Charlie Adam and center back Robert Huth performed blocking roles in the move, a fact that annoyed West Ham manager Sam Allardyce, who praised Walter’s “lovely finish” but said “the corner

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012, file photo, Los Angeles Galaxy’s David Beckham dribbles the ball during their MLS Western Conference championship soccer match against the Seattle Sounders in Seattle.

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates after scoring a penalty against Aston Villa during their English Premier League soccer match at The Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

West Ham held to 1-1 home draw by Stoke in league was un-defendable.”

West Ham equalized in the 48th minute at Upton Park. Mohamed Diame dribbled into the Stoke box, daring a defender to make a challenge. When no one did, he played the ball to Gary O’Neil, whose low pass across the six-yard box was turned in by Irish defender Joey O’Brien for his first goal at the club.

Replays showed O’Brien may have been marginally offside with his knee just ahead of the last defender.

“It’s a decision that went against us and we’ll have to take it on the chin. They’ve given it to West Ham and you just get on with it,” Pulis said. “The worst thing that happened to us was halftime.”

West Ham would have moved into the Europa League spot at fifth place in the standings with a win, but the result means it stays seventh and Stoke remains 14th. Stoke dominated the first half and nearly doubled its advantage when Stephen N’Zonzi’s halfvolley hit the underside of the bar in the 38th.

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Where next for Beckham after Galaxy exit?

Aguero clings to hope as City in last-chance saloon “It’s always special to play against a club like Real Madrid. Personally, my connection with Atletico Madrid gives it an additional kick - but there’s no difference in how much I want to win this match,” Aguero told City’s website (www.mcfc.co.uk) “Never defeating Real when I was with Atletico was a real regret for me - Atletico haven’t succeeded in beating them for many years - but I did get to score against them even if we never managed a win.

“Wednesday night will hopefully break that run for me.”

It looks a tall order, but a 5-0 home victory against Aston Villa on Saturday, when Aguero netted twice, sent them top of the Premier League and raised spirits in time for the visit of Jose Mourinho’s side who could go through if they better Ajax’s result against Dortmund.

City have only won three of their 10 matches in the Champions League since qualifying last season and failure to beat Real would eliminate them at the group stage for the second consecutive season although Aguero said they were determined to fight until the end.

“We should never give up,” the Argentine said. “Where there’s a will, there’s a way, right? “Of course, it’s harder now because we’re not just relying on ourselves but also on the other teams’ results. “What we mustn’t do is leave the pitch with any regrets and be content knowing that we have given our all. This club deserves nothing less and our supporters deserve as much, too.”

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Police disperse Galatasaray fans Associated Press Writer

ISTANBUL — A news report says Turkish police used pepper spray to disperse hundreds of Galatasaray fans who gathered at Istanbul’s main airport to jeer Manchester United players on their arrival for Tuesday’s Champions League game.

The private Dogan news agency said the fans lit firecrackers and flares, and battered doors of Ataturk Airport’s arrival terminal late Monday, prompting riot police to use pepper spray.

Manchester United players left the building through another exit and were not exposed to the unrest.

Dogan agency video footage showed fans singing Galatasaray chants inside a building and a club official urging calm. Dogan said police turned back busloads of other fans at the entrance to the airport.

hangs up his boots.

The 37-year-old Beckham has struggled with injuries of late, missing almost two months of action before this month’s play-offs, and it is hard to imagine him being recruited by a top European team. A year ago he was strongly linked to French club Paris St Germain but in the past 12 months not only has Beckham’s ability to deal with the aches and strains of the game declined but PSG have moved on with a series of high profile signings.

However the Englishman’s noted ability to grab media attention, sell merchandise and boost attendances while still curling in his trademark freekicks and spraying cross field passes, makes him an attractive proposition for an emerging club or league looking for a marketing breakthrough.

A source close to Beckham told Reuters that while it was still early in the process of him finding a new team, several clubs from several countries had already shown interest.

The Football Federation of Aus-

tralia (FFA) said last week that they had made an approach for Beckham, looking to bring him into the A-League where former Italy and Juventus star Alessandro Del Piero is already playing.

Australia would offer him a chance of a repeat performance - as with MLS he would again be trying to increase the profile of the game in one of the few countries where soccer is not the number one sport. But it would also be a low-key way for Beckham to bow out of the game and given that one of his reasons for re-signing with the Galaxy last year was because his family enjoyed life in California, it would perhaps only appeal as a shortterm option.

LUCRATIVE OPTION

So far, reports have suggested a 10-game cameo for an A-League club, such as Melbourne Heart, and that could be a lucrative and enjoyable option. The Chinese

league, whose clubs have increasingly targeted well-known international players such as Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka, would surely appeal to the marketers of ‘Brand Beckham’ but that would have the same drawbacks as Australia.

Beckham had a taste of Italian football during loan spells with AC Milan during MLS’s long off-season and while that club could certainly do with a morale boost, it is hard to imagine a return at this stage. What could well appeal more to Beckham’s pride would be a brief but romantic return to English football.

Beckham has never said goodbye to the game in his homeland injury cost him a place in the 2010 World Cup finals for England and then he was disappointed not to be picked for the Olympic team this year. So the chance to make an impact once again in English football, albeit at a lesser club level, may be tempting.

Managers want handball rule clarified, technology - survey Reuters

European soccer managers overwhelmingly favour clarification of the handball rule and the majority want to see video technology introduced to the game, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

The League Managers Association European Managers and Coaches Survey quizzed 110 managers working in 14 countries on a range of issues affecting the game and found 83 percent of managers feel the handball law requires further clarification.

Previous research carried out by the League Managers Association (LMA) found that coaches favoured a rule that meant that if a player was hit with their hand or arm in a natural position, they should not be penalised. If the movement was deliberate they should be penalised, but the referee had to be sure the interference was on purpose.

The introduction of video and goal-line technology received a 62 percent backing while 63 percent said football should consider a decision referral system such as in cricket and tennis. Just four percent opposed the use of any technology.

The International Football Association Board approved goal-line technology earlier this year which will be used at the Club World Cup next month before a possible introduction to the Premier League in 2013. The survey was backed

by Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho, who said it deals with the issues that affected managers every day including rules, technol-

ogy, transfers and finances.

“It brings together managers and coaches across Europe, demonstrating the subjects we feel strongly about and provides real insights from managers based on our combined experience.”

Managers identified refereeing as the main area that could help improve the standard of the game and backed a professional referee training academy. Next season referees will be invited to English clubs to take part in training sessions.

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Reuters

MIAMI - Former England captain David Beckham, hailed as a success for soccer in the United States, will say his farewell to LA Galaxy in next month’s MLS Cup final with one more mission yet to accomplish. It was only in January that Beckham signed a new deal with the Galaxy but his departure, announced on Monday, paves the way for him to enjoy a last hurrah elsewhere while the Galaxy could take the chance to look for a new big name in his place.

After five-and-a-half seasons in Los Angeles, where Beckham moved from Real Madrid in 2007, the midfielder insists he feels ready for “one more challenge” before he

Reuters

LONDON - Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has an added incentive to keep his side’s slim Champions League hopes alive when they welcome Real Madrid to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday. Having yet to win a match in Group D, City are rock bottom with two points, yet victories over Real and in their final match away to group leaders Borussia Dortmund could see them squeeze into the last 16, depending on results elsewhere.

BIG VICTORY

Like City, Real are also buoyed by a big league victory, having thrashed Athletic Bilbao 5-1 at the weekend. France striker Karim Benzema, back after a thigh muscle injury, was in fine form in that victory, curling in a sweetly struck shot for Real’s third goal and unself-

ishly setting up Mesut Ozil for their fourth.

“We don’t like talking about individuals, but he (Benzema) had an outstanding game,” former Real striker Emilio Butragueno, now a club director, told Spanish television.

“His movement in attack was fabulous and he scored a great goal,” Butragueno added. “It was a delight to see him playing that way after his injury.”

Mourinho, hoping to lead Real to the 10th European crown that has eluded them since 2002, also has Sami Khedira back after injury. The German international, who came on in the second half of the Bilbao game and netted Real’s fifth, will likely rejoin Xabi Alonso in central midfield.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — West Ham missed a chance to move into the Europa League place after being held to a 1-1 draw by Stoke in the Premier League on Monday.

Stoke opened the scoring in the 13th minute after a set move from a corner involving Peter Crouch, Jonathan Walters and Glenn Whelan. As West Ham’s defenders focused on Crouch, Walters ran into space behind him and smashed Whelan’s low drive from a corner first time into the net.

Stoke manager Tony Pulis said his team had been practicing the elaborate play for several days.

“Jonathan Walters had never scored a goal from it.

It’s lovely when it comes off in a game,” Pulis said.

Midfielder Charlie Adam and center back Robert Huth performed blocking roles in the move, a fact that annoyed West Ham manager Sam Allardyce, who praised Walter’s “lovely finish” but said “the corner

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012, file photo, Los Angeles Galaxy’s David Beckham dribbles the ball during their MLS Western Conference championship soccer match against the Seattle Sounders in Seattle.

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates after scoring a penalty against Aston Villa during their English Premier League soccer match at The Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

West Ham held to 1-1 home draw by Stoke in league was un-defendable.”

West Ham equalized in the 48th minute at Upton Park. Mohamed Diame dribbled into the Stoke box, daring a defender to make a challenge. When no one did, he played the ball to Gary O’Neil, whose low pass across the six-yard box was turned in by Irish defender Joey O’Brien for his first goal at the club.

Replays showed O’Brien may have been marginally offside with his knee just ahead of the last defender.

“It’s a decision that went against us and we’ll have to take it on the chin. They’ve given it to West Ham and you just get on with it,” Pulis said. “The worst thing that happened to us was halftime.”

West Ham would have moved into the Europa League spot at fifth place in the standings with a win, but the result means it stays seventh and Stoke remains 14th. Stoke dominated the first half and nearly doubled its advantage when Stephen N’Zonzi’s halfvolley hit the underside of the bar in the 38th.

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Aguero clings to hope as City in last-chance saloon “It’s always special to play against a club like Real Madrid. Personally, my connection with Atletico Madrid gives it an additional kick - but there’s no difference in how much I want to win this match,” Aguero told City’s website (www.mcfc.co.uk) “Never defeating Real when I was with Atletico was a real regret for me - Atletico haven’t succeeded in beating them for many years - but I did get to score against them even if we never managed a win.

“Wednesday night will hopefully break that run for me.”

It looks a tall order, but a 5-0 home victory against Aston Villa on Saturday, when Aguero netted twice, sent them top of the Premier League and raised spirits in time for the visit of Jose Mourinho’s side who could go through if they better Ajax’s result against Dortmund.

City have only won three of their 10 matches in the Champions League since qualifying last season and failure to beat Real would eliminate them at the group stage for the second consecutive season although Aguero said they were determined to fight until the end.

“We should never give up,” the Argentine said. “Where there’s a will, there’s a way, right? “Of course, it’s harder now because we’re not just relying on ourselves but also on the other teams’ results. “What we mustn’t do is leave the pitch with any regrets and be content knowing that we have given our all. This club deserves nothing less and our supporters deserve as much, too.”

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Police disperse Galatasaray fans Associated Press Writer

ISTANBUL — A news report says Turkish police used pepper spray to disperse hundreds of Galatasaray fans who gathered at Istanbul’s main airport to jeer Manchester United players on their arrival for Tuesday’s Champions League game.

The private Dogan news agency said the fans lit firecrackers and flares, and battered doors of Ataturk Airport’s arrival terminal late Monday, prompting riot police to use pepper spray.

Manchester United players left the building through another exit and were not exposed to the unrest.

Dogan agency video footage showed fans singing Galatasaray chants inside a building and a club official urging calm. Dogan said police turned back busloads of other fans at the entrance to the airport.

hangs up his boots.

The 37-year-old Beckham has struggled with injuries of late, missing almost two months of action before this month’s play-offs, and it is hard to imagine him being recruited by a top European team. A year ago he was strongly linked to French club Paris St Germain but in the past 12 months not only has Beckham’s ability to deal with the aches and strains of the game declined but PSG have moved on with a series of high profile signings.

However the Englishman’s noted ability to grab media attention, sell merchandise and boost attendances while still curling in his trademark freekicks and spraying cross field passes, makes him an attractive proposition for an emerging club or league looking for a marketing breakthrough.

A source close to Beckham told Reuters that while it was still early in the process of him finding a new team, several clubs from several countries had already shown interest.

The Football Federation of Aus-

tralia (FFA) said last week that they had made an approach for Beckham, looking to bring him into the A-League where former Italy and Juventus star Alessandro Del Piero is already playing.

Australia would offer him a chance of a repeat performance - as with MLS he would again be trying to increase the profile of the game in one of the few countries where soccer is not the number one sport. But it would also be a low-key way for Beckham to bow out of the game and given that one of his reasons for re-signing with the Galaxy last year was because his family enjoyed life in California, it would perhaps only appeal as a shortterm option.

LUCRATIVE OPTION

So far, reports have suggested a 10-game cameo for an A-League club, such as Melbourne Heart, and that could be a lucrative and enjoyable option. The Chinese

league, whose clubs have increasingly targeted well-known international players such as Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka, would surely appeal to the marketers of ‘Brand Beckham’ but that would have the same drawbacks as Australia.

Beckham had a taste of Italian football during loan spells with AC Milan during MLS’s long off-season and while that club could certainly do with a morale boost, it is hard to imagine a return at this stage. What could well appeal more to Beckham’s pride would be a brief but romantic return to English football.

Beckham has never said goodbye to the game in his homeland injury cost him a place in the 2010 World Cup finals for England and then he was disappointed not to be picked for the Olympic team this year. So the chance to make an impact once again in English football, albeit at a lesser club level, may be tempting.

Managers want handball rule clarified, technology - survey Reuters

European soccer managers overwhelmingly favour clarification of the handball rule and the majority want to see video technology introduced to the game, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

The League Managers Association European Managers and Coaches Survey quizzed 110 managers working in 14 countries on a range of issues affecting the game and found 83 percent of managers feel the handball law requires further clarification.

Previous research carried out by the League Managers Association (LMA) found that coaches favoured a rule that meant that if a player was hit with their hand or arm in a natural position, they should not be penalised. If the movement was deliberate they should be penalised, but the referee had to be sure the interference was on purpose.

The introduction of video and goal-line technology received a 62 percent backing while 63 percent said football should consider a decision referral system such as in cricket and tennis. Just four percent opposed the use of any technology.

The International Football Association Board approved goal-line technology earlier this year which will be used at the Club World Cup next month before a possible introduction to the Premier League in 2013. The survey was backed

by Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho, who said it deals with the issues that affected managers every day including rules, technol-

ogy, transfers and finances.

“It brings together managers and coaches across Europe, demonstrating the subjects we feel strongly about and provides real insights from managers based on our combined experience.”

Managers identified refereeing as the main area that could help improve the standard of the game and backed a professional referee training academy. Next season referees will be invited to English clubs to take part in training sessions.

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Nusa Dua Bali IBP

Nusa Dua is an elite resort area with international five star hotels and resorts existing on the costal side in south part of Bali. It is located in Badung Regency and about 25 minutes drive from Bali’s International airport. Nusa Dua with 350 ha size is the sample luxury resort area and one of best tourism places in the world. In fact, the name of Nusa Dua is coming from two small islands located in the south part of Bali Island (Nusa mean the island and Dua mean two) that is dissociated with the white sand.

Nusa Dua Area is start built in year 1974,as a result from study of French consultant, SCETO ( Societe Centrale pour l’equpeent Touristique Ouetre-Mer) in the year 1970 and also feasibil-

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Red Bull promises to attack in F1 2012 championship decider

ity study conducted by PCI (Pacific Consultants International) year 1971-1973 for financing of World Bank aid. The Indonesian Government has delivered this area management to PT. BTDC (Bali Tourism Development Corporation) which existing under the law and regulation of Republic Indonesia Government no.27 year 1972, on 12 November 1972.

This area owns the most complete tourism facilities in Bali and Indonesia like five star hotels, luxury accommodations, villas, convention hall, shopping center and beautiful beaches. There are also the sports activities are available in this are like tennis court, squash and golf course. Each hotel is completed by five star restaurant facilities, bar, pub and beach activities.

Red Bull has vowed to attack in the final race of the season even though the world championship is now at stake. Sebastian Vettel’s runner-up position in the United States Grand Prix was enough to clinch Red Bull the constructors’ championship and extend the German’s advantage over Fernando Alonso in the drivers’ standings to 13 points.

That gap means Vettel needs to proach the next race as we have the only finish fourth in Brazil to guar- previous 19,” he said. “We have to antee the championship. However, go there, attack the weekend, and get with rain forecast for next week, the best out of ourselves; the car, the and the Interlagos track having strategy, the drivers, and reliability. thrown up some unexpected results “Anything can happen, as we in previous years, there remains have seen this season. But it is good every chance of a surprise finish to be going there with a lead, and to the campaign. we go there determined to close Red Bull boss Christian Horner the job off.” said that the t e a m w o u l d CHAMPIONSHIP PERMUTATIONS stick to its VETTEL WINS THE TITLE IF: mindset of fo- He finishes in the top four cusing just on - He finishes fifth, sixth or seventh and Alonso doesn’t win doing the best - He finishes eighth or ninth and Alonso is third or lower job it can rath- He finishes 10th or worse and Alonso isn’t on the podium er than getting distracted by ALONSO WINS THE TITLE IF: how much is - He wins and Vettel is fifth or lower now at stake.

- He is second and Vettel eighth or lower “ We j u s t - He is third and Vettel is 10th or lower h ave t o a p -

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Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel, right, of Germany, and Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso, of Spain, react after the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at the Circuit of the Americas Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Vettel finished second and Alonso finished third.

Nuggets put brakes on Grizzlies’ sizzling streak Jorge Lorenzo to ponder MotoGP future after 2014 Reuters

Denver Nuggets’ Ty Lawson goes to the basket over Memphis Grizzlies’ Mike Conley (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Memphis, Tenn., Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. The Nuggets defeated the Grizzlies 97-92.

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Denver snapped the Memphis Grizzles’ eight-game winning streak with a 97-92 victory over the NBA’s hottest team on Monday. In a battle that raged from start to finish, home team Memphis led 92-88 with about two minutes remaining but failed to close the game out, going scoreless and making critical mistakes in the final moments.

“We got what we deserved,” the Grizzlies’ Marc Gasol told reporters. “The last game we didn’t play that well, but the other team wasn’t as talented as (Denver). When you play with fire, sometimes you get burned.” Momentum switched back and forth the whole game as the Grizzlies went up by five in the third quarter on the back of a 14-4 run, before Denver returned the favor with an 8-0 stretch that put them ahead 77-70 early in the fourth.

The Nuggets outrebounded Memphis 47-33, with Kenneth Faried grabbing 13 to go with his 13 points. Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari made three free throws and, after JaVale McGee put visiting Denver on top 93-92, he drained a three-pointer in the last seconds to seal the win.

Gallinari finished with a game-high 26 points, McGee added 15 and eight rebounds off the bench as the Nuggets (5-6) brought a run of three straight defeats to an end. “This is the first game on the road where I think we executed at a high level,” said Denver coach George Karl.

“We’ve got to get better at making shots and I think we will once we win games, and I think confidence comes by winning.”

After losing their season opener, Memphis (8-2) had run through their competition until facing Denver. Rudy Gay led the way for the Grizzles with 22 points, while Zach Randolph put up 12 points and 13 rebounds.

Memphis coughed up two straight turnovers in the final minute, and kept putting Denver on the foul line as the game slipped away.

Despite the loss, the Grizzlies stayed a half-game ahead of San Antonio for the Southwest Division lead after the Spurs lost to the Los Angeles Clippers.

Newly-crowned MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo claims he will re-evaluate his future at the end of the 2014 season. The Spaniard was speaking just days after Casey Stoner competed in MotoGP for the final time at Valencia, having announced in May that he would quit the sport at just 27.

Lorenzo, two years Stoner’s junior, was offered a deal to replace the Australian at Honda, but opted instead to extend his contract with Yamaha for a further two years.

He duly clinched his second world title with the squad, having finished first or second in all but two races - Assen, when he was taken out at the first corner, and the Valencia finale, when he crashed violently while leading. Speaking at the International Motorcycle Show in Milan, Lorenzo explained he would look to re-evaluate his future in the sport’s premier class when his current deal expires.

“I will race for two more years, then we’ll see,” the Spaniard told Italian journalists. “At 15, everything is fun, but then the sport can become routine.” Lorenzo added that Marco Simoncelli’s fatal accident at Sepang last year had also given him cause to question his future.

“The death of Marco Simoncelli was a blow to us all, and made us think that it can happen to any of us, but we know that the risk is part of the sport.”

Lorenzo insisted however that his motivation will not be dimmed heading into next year – not least because of the return to Yamaha of seven-time champion Valentino Rossi. “It’s good for Yamaha, Valentino and me, because it will push me to go faster,” Lorenzo said of the 33-yearold’s switch.

“I’ve seen Valentino happy; the M1 is an easier bike, I’m sure he will be strong. “With the Ducati, besides Stoner, no one has succeeded; there is something that is not right.”

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Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader sits at a county court in Zagreb November 20, 2012. Sanader was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for taking bribes from two foreign companies, becoming the highest state official to be convicted of corruption in the future European Union member state.

Croatia jails ex-PM Sanader for 10 years over graft Reuters

ZAGREB - Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for taking bribes from two foreign companies, becoming the highest state official to be convicted of corruption in the future European Union member state.

A Zagreb county court found Sanader guilty of agreeing in 2008 to accept a payment from Hungary’s energy group MOL of 5 million euros in exchange for granting it full management rights over Croatia’s oil concern INA. Unless the ruling is overturned on appeal, it may prompt Croatia to review MOL’s shareholder agreement with INA. Judge Ivan Turudic also said Sanader had taken a fee from Austrian Hypo Alpe Adria Bank in 1995, which prosecutors had

described as “war profiteering”.

Sanader has strongly denied wrongdoing and dismissed the trial as politically motivated.

Croatia is due to join the EU in July 2013 and Sanader’s conviction is likely to be seen as proof it is cracking down on corruption.

Its efforts to fight crime and graft are being carefully monitored before it formally joins the bloc.

Separately, Sanader is on trial - together with his former conservative HDZ party, which is now in opposition - for allegedly cre-

ating slush funds for the party by skimming off profits from state companies and by manipulating public tenders.

Sanader was prime minister from late 2003 to the summer of 2009, when he quit the government unexpectedly and without explanation.

Jadranka Kosor, his handpicked successor, then launched an anti-graft campaign which helped Zagreb complete European Union entry talks in June 2011.

Church of England decision day on female bishops Associated Press Writer

LONDON — The Church of England’s governing body is voting on whether it will permit women to serve as bishops or continue debating the issue for several more years.

The push to muster a two-

thirds majority among lay members of the General Synod is expected to be close on two votes, beginning with whether to adopt the legislation as English law. A second vote would follow on whether to incorporate the change in church law.

Votes among bishops and cler-

gy in the synod are expected to pass easily. Archbishop Rowan Williams and his successor, Bishop Justin Welby, both strongly support the change.

If the measure fails, church officials say it could take five years to go through all the steps leading up to another vote.

Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers have staked tough, hard-tobridge positions, and the gaps keep alive the threat of an Israeli ground invasion. In the meantime, grieving Gazans buried militants and civilians killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes, and barrages of rockets from Gaza sent terrified Israelis scurrying to take cover.

The conflict erupted last week, when a resurgence in rocket fire from Gaza provoked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to strike back, killing Hamas’ military chief in an air attack and carrying out hundreds of assaults on militants’ underground rocket launchers and weapons stores.

The onslaught abruptly turned deadlier over the weekend as aircraft were ordered to go after Hamas military commanders and buildings suspected of housing their commands and weapons caches. In the narrow warrens of crowded Gaza, where militants often operate from residential areas, civilian casualties mounted.

By Tuesday, civilians accounted for 54 of the 113 Palestinians killed since the operation began. Some 840 people have been wounded, including 225 children, Gaza health officials said.

Tuesday’s attack on the Islamic National Bank in Gaza was the latest in a string of assaults on Hamas symbols of power. Leading Hamas members set up the bank after it violently overran Gaza in June 2007 because foreign lenders, afraid of running afoul of international terror financing laws, stopped doing business with the militant-led Gaza government.

Israel, the U.S. and other Western powers consider Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks, a terror group.

The inside of the bank, which was set up by leading Hamas members and describes itself as a private enterprise, was destroyed. Abuilding supply business in the basement was damaged.

Owner Suleiman Tawil, 31, grimly surveyed the damage to his store and six company cars. “I’m not involved in politics,” he said. “I’m a businessman. But the more the Israelis pressure us, the more we will support Hamas.”

Fuad Hijazi and two of his toddler sons were killed Monday evening when missiles struck their one-story shack in northern Gaza, leaving a crater about 7- to 10-feet (two to three meters) deep in the densely populated neighborhood. Residents said he was not a militant.

On Tuesday morning, the boys’ bodies lay next to each other on a rack in the local morgue, wrapped tightly in white burial shrouds. Their father lay in a rack below.

“We want to tell the world which is supporting the state of Israel, what this state is doing,” said neighbor Rushdie Nasser. “They are supporting a state that kills children. ... We want to send a message to the U.N. and the West: Enough of supporting the Zionists, who are killing children.”

Three Israeli civilians have also been killed and dozens wounded since the fighting began last week, the numbers possibly kept down by a rocketdefense system that Israel developed with U.S. funding. More than 1,000 rockets have been fired at Israel this week, the military said, including three that struck schools that had been emptied because of the fighting.

As part of global efforts to end the Gaza fighting, U.N. chief arrived in Cairo on Monday and was to meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Tuesday. In Cairo, Ban said he would also travel to the West Bank to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. With tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers dispatched to the Gaza border, awaiting a possible order to invade, his mission was all the more urgent.

Germany’s foreign minister was also headed to the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Turkey’s foreign minister and a delegation of Arab League foreign ministers were to visit Gaza on Tuesday.

Egypt, the traditional mediator between Israel and the Arab world, has been at the center of recent diplomatic efforts involving the U.S., Turkey, Qatar and other nations.

On Monday, Egyptian intelligence officials met separately in Cairo with an Israeli envoy and with Khaled Mashaal, the top Hamas leader in exile, to try to bridge the considerable differences.

Israel demands an end to rocket fire from Gaza and a halt to weapons smuggling into Gaza through tunnels under the border with Egypt. It also wants international guarantees that Hamas will not rearm or use Egypt’s Sinai region, which abuts both Gaza and southern Israel, to attack Israelis.

Hamas wants Israel to halt all attacks on Gaza and lift tight restrictions on trade and movement in and out of the territory that have been in place since Hamas seized Gaza by force in 2007. Israel has rejected such demands in the past.

Mashaal told reporters Monday that Hamas would only agree to a cease-fire if its demands are met. “We don’t accept Israeli conditions because it is the aggressor,” he said. “We want a cease-fire along with meeting our demands.”

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INDONESIA KPK have two suspects in century bank case Antara

JAKARTA - Disclosing new development in its investigation into the Century Bank alleged corruption case, anti-graft agency KPK named two suspects in their initials on Tuesday.

The chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Abraham Samad, said in a meeting with the House of Representatives’ Century Bank case monitoring team that “we have discovered a corruption crime causing losses to the state” in the case.

The KPK declared BM and SCF respectively former Bank Indonesia (central bank) fourth deputy for foreign exchange management and fifth deputy for bank supervision as the ones who have allegedly committed corruption crimes in the case.

Abraham said KPK had discovered an abuse of power committed by the two in the extension of SPDP (short-term loans) and also in declaring the Century Bank as a failed bank with a systemic impact.

He earlier said KPK had conducted an examination including seeking a second opinion from other medical personnel regarding the health condition of SCF and is now awaiting its complete results.

“Investigation (into the Century Bank case) has continuously been carried out including routine exposition of the case,” he said.

Abraham said KPK would follow up the discovery with a judicial action.

Following its failure the government decided to bail out the Century Bank during an economic crisis in 2008 for fear of its systemic impact.

The bailout funds needed soared from initially Rp600 billion to Rp6.7 trillion.

Minister to develop 5 sub-sectors of creative industries Antara

JAKARTA - Tourism and Creative Economic Minister Mari Elka Pangestu has said she would set her focus on the development of five sub-sectors in creative industries.

“We want to set our focus on the development of five sub-sectors that have very big potential in creative industries,” the minister said here on Wednesday.

According to her the five subsectors are film, music, fashion, culinary, and digital content which have a very big potential to be developed in Indonesia.

The minister noted that she was arranging a program which aims to encourage the development of film, music, fashion, culinary, and the digital content.

“We are arranging a program to increase the number of entrepreneurs in that sub-sectors, to improve their talent, to expand

their creative space, and to create their public room,” Mari said.

Further, the minister added that she would continue to make coordination with related stake holders to develop creative industries in the country.

She pointed out that the contribution of creative industries to the gross domestic product in 2010 was recorded at 7.3 percent and in 2015 it is expected to reach more than 8 percent.

Therefore, she added that the appeal of those creative industries’ sub-sectors should be improved in order to attract more investors.

“We need to expand the scope of their distribution, to increase market appreciation for the creative industries’ products and services, to go about market researches, to step up promotion, to revitalize distribution regulation, and to create health business climate for the five sub-sectors,” the minister noted.

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Sumatran tiger cubs that were born last month, sit in a cage before being shown to the public for the first time at Medan Zoo in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.

Conservationists fear that the critically endangered species, now only around 250 left in the wild, may become extinct in the next decade due to poaching and habitat loss.

Sumatran tiger poaching remains high

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JAMBI - The poaching of Sumatran tiger in Kerinci Seblat National Park, Jambi, remains high as 120 tiger meshes to trap the large cat species were found and secured by the National Park Board.

Head of Area II Kerinci Seblat National Park Board (TNKS), Dian Rusdianto said the tiger meshes were set by poachers to trap the tigers so that they could illegaly sell the animals.

The traps, however, not only pose serious threat for the sumatran tigers population but also other protected animals in the national park, Rusdianto who is also a field director of sumatran tiger preservation program (PHS)

in TNKS said.

“We have sent three suspects of tiger poaching for legal process. Two of them are village heads in Merangin and a civilian,” Dian Rusdianto said here Tuesday.

The Kerinci Seblat has the most sumatran tiger population than other national parks in Indonesia. Data from 2011 census shows there are 165 tigers live in the national park.

However, the threats come not only from the poaching and illegal traps. The 1.4 million-hectares national park is threatened by encroachment of the protected forest area.

Thus, the natural habitat of sumatran tigers and the other protected animals, including the

tigers’ prey, is diminishing.

However, sumatran tigers could survive better than the javanese one-horned rhinoceros in term of diminishing habitat.

“Actually, the most important thing is to preserve the tigers’ preys as the big cat can breed in almost every (environment) condition provided the preys are still available and preserved,” Rusdianto said, adding that the one-horned rhino, in other hand, needed a naturally preserved habitat to breed.

The shrinking natural habitat would also lead to conflicts between human and animal. “There are some conflicts between tigers or even bears and human. Those might be caused by the damaged natural ecosystem,” Rusdianto said.

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shi Corp., Sumitomo Corp. and Marubeni Corp., the Nikkei said.

The two other projects are repair work on a thermal power plant near Yangon and infrastructure development in 14 rural regions aimed at reducing poverty.

Japan, with its export-reliant economy, is looking to foster growth in the resource-rich Mekong region, a part of the world that is also being courted

by China.

Unlike its Western allies, Japan maintained trade ties and dialogue with Myanmar, warning that a hard line on the then-ruling junta could push it closer to China, its key ally and commercial partner.

The European Union, Canada and Australia have suspended virtually all sanctions. The US move on Friday came ahead of a landmark trip by President Barack Obama to Myanmar.

The Tokyo government has in recent years provided other Asian nations with similar low-interest, long-term loans, known as “yen loans”, aimed at boosting economic development, including Vietnam and India.

In April, Japan agreed to forgive 300 billion yen of the 500 billion yen which Myanmar owed.

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A Sanctum to Worship Goddess Giri Putri

Kalong Temple is located in the middle of the Kalong Island, amid the Gilimanuk Bay, and still belongs to the area of Bali Barat National Park. When devotees would like to say prayers, they will be transported by a boat to a distance of not less than ten minutes sail. Anniversary of this temple falls right on the Kuningan feast day, while the venerated deity in the temple is the Goddess Giri Putri.

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Myanmar nominally ended nearly half a century of military rule last year and rapid changes have sparked a widespread lifting of sanctions and a scramble to tap a potentially lucrative market.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will make the loans announcement when he meets Myanmar’s President Thein Sein on the sidelines on a Southeast Asian summit in Cambodia on Monday, the Nikkei business daily said.

Japan’s first low-interest, long-term government loans to Myanmar in nearly three decades will “back up moves

by Japanese companies into the country and hold China in check after it increased its influence in Myanmar”, it said.

Japan will provide the loans in the fiscal year to March 2013 while the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and major creditor nations are expected to announce in January they will waive debts owed by Myanmar, the Nikkei said.

The 50 billion yen in loans will be used for three projects including infrastructure related to a Japan-led special economic zone outside former capital Yangon.

The huge Thilawa project is led by a consortium of Japanese companies including Mitsubi-

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Japan to give $615 million in loans to Myanmar TOKYO - Japan is to provide Myanmar with $615 million in government loans, a report said Sunday, just days after the United States scrapped a ban on most imports from the long-isolated Southeast Asian nation.

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Women check an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012 as the yen’s recent weakness helped boost Japan’s Nikkei 225 and its heavy orientation toward exporting companies. Asian stocks rose Tuesday as investors gained confidence that President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress will reach a budget deal to avert tax hikes and spending cuts that could throw the world’s No. 1 economy into recession.

US budget hopes boost Asia stocks Associated Press

BANGKOK — Asian stocks rose Tuesday as investors gained confidence that President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress will reach a budget deal to avert tax hikes and spending cuts that could throw the world’s No. 1 economy into recession.

News of a possible budget deal before the end of the year enabled markets to shake off a credit downgrade that was slapped on France late Monday. France’s prized AAA rating was yanked, Moody’s Investors Service said, over its weaker growth prospects and its exposure to Europe’s financial crisis.

Investors were further cheered

by U.S. housing data which showed sales of previously occupied homes rose in October, helped by a stronger job market and record-low mortgage rates. The pace of sales is roughly 11 percent higher than a year earlier.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index edged down 0.2 percent at 9,138.15, as i nve s t o r s wa i t e d f o r B a n k o f Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa’s comments following the central bank’s latest policy meeting where it left interest rates unchanged near zero.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose

0.8 percent to 21,423.99 and South Korea’s Kospi added 0.5 percent to 1,887.25. Australia’s S&P/ ASX 200 advanced 0.6 percent to 4,387.60. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines rose. Indonesia’s fell.

Mainland China’s were mixed.

Analysts at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong said hopes of a U.S. budget deal and the firmer U.S. housing data would underpin stocks despite the French downgrade.

Obama and congressional leaders are in talks to avoid going over a “fiscal cliff” on Jan. 1, when tax increases and government spending cuts are set to take effect. If they are allowed to take full effect, the cuts and tax increases will total about $800 billion in 2013. Economists say they could knock the U.S. economy back into recession.

Markets may be in for some volatility because volumes will likely be light leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. on Thursday. Big price swings are more likely when there are fewer buyers and sellers in the market.

Investors will also be monitoring this week’s developments in Greece’s bailout saga, amid hopes that the country’s euro partners and the International Monetary

Fund will finally sign off on the release of €31.5 billion, which is money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy.

Finance ministers from nations that use the euro will meet Tuesday.

Later in the week, leaders will convene to discuss the European Union’s budget for the next few years.

“We are waiting for fiscal cliff negotiations and tonight’s euro special finance ministers meeting to see whether they disburse the next tranche of funds to Greece,” said Jackson Wong, vice president of Tanrich Securities in Hong Kong.

“Things are leaning on the more positive side.”

Among individual stocks, rare earths miner Lynas Corp. jumped 5.5 percent in Sydney after saying it expects production at a plant in Malaysia to begin in December. The project has been targeted by activists over concerns about pollution.

Benchmark oil for December delivery was down 15 cents to $89.13 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $2.36, or 2.3 percent, to finish at $89.28 in New York on Monday.

In currencies, the euro fell to $1.2795 from $1.2807 late Monday in New York. The dollar fell to 81.23 yen from 81.33 yen.

Building of the Kalong Temple only consists of a Padmasana shrine along with a small and simple Piasan pavilion. Meanwhile, its wantilan hall is typically a four-pillared pavilion sizing 3 x 4 meters. There is no compound wall protecting the temple area, so that when the seawater rises, it will inundate the temple courtyard sizing 17 x19 meters. Supporting devotee of the temple only consists of 34 families where all of them are from the village of Gilimanuk.

According to Jro Mangku Yasa, one of the caretakers of the Kalong Temple, history of the temple was commenced by its discovery in 1970. At that time, one of the spiritualists from Negara had a piece of keris dagger. In each meditation, he had always got a vision that owner of the kris was the deity abiding in the Kalong Temple, but he did not know the location. Eventually, when meeting Jro Mangku Yasa, he asked this priest to take him to the temple concerned. From that time, they established a temporary shrine whose pillar used some trees (turus lumbung).

In the long run, the pillars of the temporary shrine were damaged and the temple was forgotten by the spiritualist. Then in 1980, a few young Hindu people of Gilimanuk seemed to get a vision instructing them to re-organize the temple by building a Padmasana shrine and it could have been completed in 2004.

On the other hand, according to Agung Putu Wirawan, a caretaker of the Kalong Temple, the late Gusti Made Beratha, a former headman of Gilimanuk, found a very unique holy bell in the vicinity of the location in 1980s. It was smaller than the holy bell usually used by a high priest. In the passage of time, the holy bell was taken by the Antiquities Agency to be saved. However, until Gusti Made Beratha died in 1999, existence of the holy bell was unclear. In other words, it was unknown whether the holy bell belonged to a spiritualist of the ancient human, considering location of the temple is also adjacent to the museum of ancient humans.

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Gunung Payung Temple Headspring of Life and Fortune

The Gunung Payung or Bukit Payung Temple is one of the Dang Kahyangan temples in Bali and Kahyangan Pangibeh temples. Gunung Payung is beautifully located on the coastal hill of the southern Bali, precisely at Kutuh customary village, South Kuta subdistrict, Badung Regency.

As perching on the edge of a solid barrier reef and having backdrop of stretching expanse of the sea, the Gunung Payung Temple has a magnificent view. The temple is a sacred place for the community of Kutuh village and the surrounding areas such as Kampial, Peminge and Ungasan customary village.

Gunung Payung Temple as a sanctum has a spring providing the needs of holy water. As a sanctum, it is also believed to exude holy light giving out sacred vibrations and enlightenment to devotees.

Therefore, the community has a confidence in this energy of nature.

Supporting devotees of the Gunung Payung Temple are customary villagers of Kutuh. According to local belief, the temple poses the manifestation of Supreme God namely the Goddess Sri and Goddess Danu providing a source of life or prosperity for the Kutuh villagers in particular and the whole universe in general.

Gunung Payung Temple is closely related to the sacred journey of Dang Hyang Nirartha or Dang Hyang Dwijendra. The Dharmayatra palm-leaf manuscript mentions that after coming to Uluwatu Danghyang Dwijendra provided suggestion to the surrounding community. Then, he resumed his journey eastward. As soon as arriving on a beautiful hilly area exuding a strong spiritual vibration, precisely in the southwest of Kutuh customary village, Dang Hyang Nirartha along with his entourage took a short break to unwind.

The arrival of maharishi was welcomed enthusiastically by the local community.

They took the opportunity to meet him in person and ask religious directions and guidance. He was also willing to help people by putting up the stick of his umbrella. Due to spiritual power he possessed, a holy water suddenly spurted from the location where the stick of the umbrella was stuck. The water source is known as kubung suci by local communities and located in the innermost courtyard of the Gunung Payung Temple functioned as a holy headspring.

Before leaving the village to resume his pilgrimage, Dang Hyang Nirartha provided advice to local people to always keep the amrita water coming out from where he stuck the umbrella handle. Later on, the surrounding community established a temple at that location known as the Gunung Payung Temple.

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Revetment construction at Tembles collapses

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Paving blocks of the Penyaringan coastal breakwater project at Anyar Tembles hamlet, Penyaringan village, Mendoyo subdistrict, collapsed whereas it had not reached a month after the completion. According to information on Monday (Nov 19), the project of the Bali Public Works was just completed on October 23, 2012. party would immediately repair it.

Director of Asta Mandala Abadi, Nengah Arjana, said the damage happened due to strong tidal currents. As consequence, the bottom side was unable to hold the pressure and eventually collapsed. On the other hand, the Chairman of Commission C of the Jembrana House, IB Susrama, on hearing the information was disappointed and accused it was a kind of arrogance of the central and provincial government.

The House felt to be unappreciated and was not involved so that his party could not oversee the project.

Meanwhile, two members of Commission C, Putu Kamawijaya and Gede Suarna Adi immediately checked the truth to location. According to Kamawijaya, the project collapsed as it was hit by the waves and the quality was dubious. Besides, the mixture of materials was poor and the installation was not viscous. Necessarily, the province should be more responsive to the project.

Moreover, it was functioned to protect the Dalem Temple from the onslaught of A man shows the damage on the breakwater project in Mendoyo, Jembrana waves. (kmb26)

Car window smasher Provincial govt never coordinates still at large with Directorate of Traffic Affairs Gianyar (Bali Post) –

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

There was a shocking car window smasher seems to be existing again which happened to a Picanto DK 1037 QN causing victim’s bag, Ni Luh Wayan Adi Arsani (36) who lives at Banjar Tegal Saat, Pejeng Kangin, Tampaksiring Gianyar, consisting of IDR 18 million cash, handy-cam and ring gone missing. The car got smashed on the front left window which was parked at Galuh restaurant. Police are now still investigating the crime scene and have asked for witness statement from the sobbing victim.

Arsani who’s a midwife at Sanjiwani Hospital arrived at the location around 12.53 pm local time where she was going to meet a friend. Twenty minutes later when she was going back to her car, the incident had happened. Victim did state that she going to store it yet due to the BCA bank storing maching was damaged, she then went to BRI Bank yet it was so crowded. When about to be going to Blahbatuh Branch BRI Bank, she saw her friend’s car around By Pass Dharmagiri and so met at Warung Galuh.

As permitted by Gianyar Police, Head of Criminal Research Gianyar Police, APC Nengah Sadiarta, stated at this time the case is still being investigated and having difficulties in getting witnesses as very little who saw the incident. There has also been coordination with connected institutes to secure the area better. (kmb16)

Director of Traffic Affairs of Bali Police, Syamsul Bahri, finally spoke related to frequent accidents afflicting the trucks dispatching piles on the Jembrana-Tabanan route. As a result of the accident, it surely interfered with the convenience of other road users.

Aside from kindling traffic jam due to long evacuation process, most communities were also furious and made complain to face such condition.

Syamsul Bahri also questioned why the trucks conveying the piles were allowed to pass through overland route.

Meanwhile, pursuant to information the piles should be dispatched by sea.

“So far, the authority of Bali Province never makes coordination with us (Directorate of Traffic Affairs—Ed) on the entry of trucks allowed to convey piles overland. Necessarily, the piles should be dispatched by sea,” said Syamsul Bahri, Monday (Nov 19).

He considered the Transportation Agency should coordinate with the Directorate of Traffic Affairs of Bali

Police. In other words, if there was coordination, his party surely could take technical measures in the field.

Moreover, there had been a Governor Regulation. “As there is no coordination so far, we do not dare to take any action. We can only take a step in the regulation of traffic at location if there is any accident,” he explained.

He said even though the truck conveyed the piles for the road over the waters (JDP), relevant agencies should make coordination with Directorate of Traffic Affairs of Bali Police because the truck conveying the piles used public roads. “If there is an accident, especially involving truck that transports the piles, the hassling party will be the members of traffic police as they must control while the evacuation process takes place,” he said.

If coordination had been made since the beginning, both parties would be able to find solutions together. Regional government should expressly mandate the police to carry out the regulation No. 500/1999. If his party was given a mandate, then it could take

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World court: Disputed islands belong to Colombia

Negara (Bali Post)—

Construction of the paving block as the main breakwater had collapsed. Based on notice board posted at location, it was worked on by PT Asta Mandala Abadi with a contract value worth IDR 2,339,250,000 and workmanship for 180 days. From the observation along 126 meters, the breakwater including five pieces of paving block installation came off. Likewise, a number of paving blocks also looked to slack and almost collapsed.

It was not known exactly when the paving blocks started to collapse. Allegedly, it was kindled by the abrasion of high tides.

Besides, it was caused by the installation of armor stones and paving blocks that was not permanently sealed so that they came off. The paving blocks were only placed on the pile of sand.

However, according to information, the installation of paving blocks had been carried out by using stamper so the installation was stronger. The project implementer, I Wayan Sukrada, admitted he just knew about the damage. Since it was newly completed and still under maintenance, his

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U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R), as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) looks on, at the East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh, November 20, 2012.

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action. For example, the driver of truck conveying the piles could be asked to go back. “So far, there is no request of escort, either,” he said.

Besides, there was no sign restricting the entrance of large trucks, whereas it had been governed in the regulation.

If the restriction sign had been posted and the trucks came in, then his party would definitely take action. With such conditions, Syamsul Bahri claimed to worry about the safety of other road users. “If the trucks are allowed to come in, I am concerned with the safety of community,” he added It should keep in mind, two accidents had happened involving the trucks carrying the piles on the road section of Jembrana-Tabanan. Even, both accidents occurred within two days. The first accident happened to trailer truck with license plate B 9927 BM. The truck rolled at Pangyangan, Pekutatan, on Thursday (Nov 15).

Meanwhile, two days later, another trailer truck with license plate N 8162 US also rolled at Pucuk hamlet, Bantas village, Tabanan. (kmb21)

PHNOM PENH - U.S. President Barack Obama urged Asian leaders to rein in tensions in the South China Sea and other disputed territory but stopped short of firmly backing allies Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam in their disputes with China.

The comments by Obama at a regional summit meeting illustrate how he intends to manage Sino-U.S. ties that have become more fraught across a range of issues, including trade, commercial espionage and the territorial disputes between Beijing and Washington’s Asian allies.

“President Obama’s message is there needs to be a reduction of the tensions,” Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said after the East Asia Summit in the Cambodian

capital Phnom Penh. Also present at the summit were leaders from China, Japan, the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), India, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

“There is no reason to risk any potential escalation, particularly when you have two of the world’s largest economies - China and Japan - associated with some of those disputes.”

That diplomatic response comes at the end of a three-day trip by Obama

to old U.S. ally Thailand, new friend Myanmar and China ally Cambodia in a visit that underlines the expansion of U.S. military and economic interests in Asia under last year’s so-called “pivot” from conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Obama’s attention was divided as he tried to stay on top of the unfolding crisis in Gaza. He dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the summit to the Middle East for a round of troubleshooting talks in Israel, the West Bank and Egypt.

In his first meeting with a Chinese leader since his re-election, Obama said Washington and its chief economic rival must work together to “establish clear rules of the road” for trade and investment.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Court of Justice ruled Monday that a group of tiny islands in the western Caribbean belongs to Colombia, but also granted Nicaragua control of a large swath of the surrounding sea and seabed that could hold oil reserves.

Based on evidence presented by lawyers for both nations, “Colombia and not Nicaragua has sovereignty over the islands,” the court’s President Peter Tomka told delegations from both sides.

But the decision not to grant Colombia full sovereignty over the waters connecting all the archipelago’s islands drew a vehement objection from Colombia.

President Juan Manuel Santos told Colombians in a national speech that the court had “committed grave errors” by ignoring the terms of the very treaty it had declared valid and that the decision would hurt the archipelago’s fishermen. The decision effec-

tively cut off four small islands from the rest of the archipelago and Santos said he could not accept the court’s “omissions, errors, excesses and inconsistencies.”

While Santos said he recognized that the court’s decision is final and legally binding, he said Colombia “emphatically rejects this aspect of the decision” and “we don’t rule out any recourse or mechanism that international law gives us to defend our rights.”

He said he would fly to San Andres immediately. Nicaragua hailed the ruling as an historic triumph.

President Daniel Ortega called it a “day of national victory, victory for all Nicaraguans,” and called on Santos to respect the court’s ruling.

Nicaragua’s representative at the court, Carlos Arguello, said the ruling gives the poor Central American country “incredible potential wealth and future exploitation of fisheries and other resources, such as minerals.”

“We’ve been given very important maritime territory,” he said.

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Nicaragua’s foreign minister Samuel Santos, center, looks on as ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez, left, shakes hands with Colombia’s agent Julio London Paredes.

Sarkozy ally wins French right leadership battle Reuters

PARIS - Rightist Jean-Francois Cope, an ally of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed the leadership of France’s main conservative party on Monday in a closely fought two-way contest marred by mutual accusations of voter fraud.

Cope, already the incumbent leader of the UMP party, beat centrist former prime minister Francois Fillon by 50.03 percent to 49.97 percent, the head of

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an internal voting commission said - a margin of just 98 votes out of almost 175,000 cast.

The victory could pave the way for Cope, whose controversial campaign included accusations that “anti-white” racism was rife in France, either to run for president himself in 2017 or stand aside for Sarkozy if his mentor chooses to re-enter politics.

“My hands and my arms are wide open,” Cope told supporters at party

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, greets former French President Nicolas Sarkozy during their meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.

headquarters in Paris after the result was announced.

“It is in that state of mind that I telephoned Francois Fillon this evening, it is in that state of mind that I asked him to join me.”

Fillon, speaking at his campaign headquarters shortly after Cope’s victory speech, denounced ballot booth irregularities and warned of a deepening split in the center-right group.

“What strikes me is the rift at the heart of our political camp, a political and moral fracture,” Fillon said in a brief speech, adding that he had chosen not to dispute the result.

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Pre-ski fitness can protect against post-ski problems Reuters

NEW YORK - Skiing is a such a skill-based activity that if you don’t start learning until you are 20, it will take 20 years to learn. But fitness experts say proper conditioning can make the difference between a fun weekend on the slopes and one waylaid by injury.

“Skiing first is technique,” said Robert Forster, a Los Angelesbased physical therapist and founder of Phase IV Scientific Health and Performance Center. “If your quads (muscles) are just burning up on the runs, then you’re not skiing right.

That’s a good sign that you might need a lesson.” To minimize fatigue and risk of injury, Forster, physical therapist to 42 Olympic medalists, suggests getting in ski-shape before hitting the slopes.

“All fitness begins with an aerobic base,” he said. “So six weeks before, start training with an elliptical trainer or stationary bike, or running or walking. Build up to 20 to 30 minutes three times a week.” Aerobic training also strengthens muscles, Forster said, so any subsequent agility drills, such as running sideways or skipping, will be even more effective if you’ve established an aerobic base.

Stretch before skiing to protect against injury and enhance freedom of motion; stretch afterward to return the

muscles to their normal length, said Forster. He calls stretching the single most important thing people can do for body health maintenance.

“Connective tissue shortens with time,” he explained. “We stretch to maintain good alignment of the bones.”

If your skiing holiday lasts a week, limit your time on the slopes the first day, Forster suggests. And reconsider that dehydrating après-ski cocktail.

“We know that a glass of wine and a hot tub is not a good idea. Heat adds to inflammation. It will only increase swelling the next day,” he said. Save that soak for the morning, and then not more than five minutes. Ice down any sore spots or tight areas. “Ice is a great treatment for tightness,” he said.

Jessica Matthews, an exercise physiologist with the American Council on Exercise, suggests that even those already in good condition would benefit by integrating sports-specific pre-ski training into their workout. “Prepare the body to move in short bursts,” said Matthews, who notes that skiing demands

carving back and forth, rapid turns and sudden changes of direction.

She said it’s easy to set up fitness drills using plastic cones, which can be had at any sporting goods store.

“There’s great stuff you can do with

CHICAGO - An influential U.S. panel has called for routine HIV screening for all Americans aged 15 to 65, a change that could help reduce some of the stigma about getting tested for the sexually transmitted infection that causes AIDS. The draft recommendations, released on Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed group of doctors

and scientists, also called for routine HIV testing for all pregnant women.

“The prior recommendations were for screening high-risk adults and adolescents,” said task force member Dr Douglas Owens who is a medical professor at Stanford University. “The current recommendation is for screening everyone, regardless of their risk,” said Owens, who is also affiliated with the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health

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A nurse arranges test tubes containing blood taken during a free HIV test, at an HIV/AIDS awareness rally on World AIDS Day in San Salvador.

groups, the fitness company Equinox recently launched a class at its clubs called Core Values, which uses low parallel bars, called parallettes, and medicine balls to enhance mobility and stability skills.

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To build toilets at tourist attraction

Badung Regency allocates IDR 1 billion Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Badung government planned to allocate a budget worth IDR 1 billion more for the construction of toilet in five tourist attractions. Amount of the budget was criticized in the consultation meeting between the executive and the Badung House regarding the Regional Budget Draft 2013, Monday (Nov 19). The Badung House criticized the construction of toilets worth IDR 1 billion planned by the Badung Government Tourism Office. The Badung House questioned about the amount and location of the toilet construction.

Standard of the quality was also specially highlighted, considering those toilets spent expensive costs. The Subdivision Head of Facilities and Infrastructure, the Badung Government Tourism Office, I Nyoman Suardana, revealed the budget would be used to repair the toilets at five tourist attractions in the Badung namely Jimbaran

Beach, north of Hotel Padma Kuta, Legian Beach, Seseh Beach and Canggu Beach. Each location was budgeted at IDR 200 million.

Meanwhile, construction of the toilets on Canggu and Seseh Beach would be handed over to customary village because both toilets were situated on the land belonging to local customary village.

The Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, earlier said that construction of the toilets was intended to improve the quality and competitiveness of tourist destinations. One of the efforts to improve the quality of tourist destination was realized by repairing the facility to meet the international standards. (kmb25)

Military attache from foreign countries visit Bali Antara

DENPASAR - Military attachés from 14 countries are on a visit to Bali to study the organisational structure of the local government, military administration and the culture of the people on the island of paradise.

“It is our annual visit to different places. Today, we are in Bali and on Wednesday, we will be in Lombok,” Brunei Darussalam’s Defence Attaché, Lieutenant Colonel Haslen Bin Haji Hassan, said on Monday.

He said that there are a total of 14 military attachés, from Myanmar, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, Italy, South Korea, Pakistan, Prance, India, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and New Zealand.

According to Haslen, they decided to visit Bali because of its unique culture, which continues to attract foreign tourists.

He hoped that through this visit, the military attachés will be able to learn more about the structure of the government and the military administration in Bali.

Targeting rice surplus REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler

A skier skis down a slope on a sunny autumn day in the western Austrian glacier ski resort of Soelden, some 100km (62 miles) west of Innsbruck, November 16, 2012.

Advisory panel moves to make HIV testing routine Reuters

cones,” she said. “Those newer to fitness can begin with stepovers, laterally, side to side. Those more seasoned can make them hops, or invent more intricate drills.”

For those who prefer to train in

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Care System in California.

Nearly 1.2 million people in the United States are infected with HIV, yet 20 to 25 percent of them do not know it. “This marks a monumental shift in how HIV in the United States can be prevented, diagnosed and treated,” said Carl Schmid, deputy executive director of The AIDS Institute, an AIDS advocacy group.

The new guidelines by the task force are expected to affect the reimbursement of HIV testing, removing one of the barriers to the tests, Schmid’s group said in a statement.

Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers are required to cover preventive services that are recommended by the task force. The change brings the group more in line with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which in 2006 recommended HIV testing for everyone between 13 and 64.

The recommendations, which had been expected, are based on the latest evidence showing the benefits of early HIV testing and treatment. Recent studies have shown that HIV treatment can reduce transmission of the virus to an uninfected partner by as much as 96 percent.

“Treatment has two benefits.

One is to the person who has HIV, and also treatment helps prevent transmission and protects a person’s partner,” Owens said.

Smoking in pregnancy tied to lower reading scores Reuters

NEW YORK - Babies exposed to their mother’s cigarette smoke in the womb later perform more poorly on reading comprehension tests, according to a new study.

“It’s not a little difference - it’s a big difference in accuracy and comprehension at a critical time when children are being assessed, and are getting a sense of what it means to be successful,” lead author Dr. Jeffrey Gruen of Yale University told Reuters Health.

In the study, researchers found that children born to mothers who smoked more than one pack per day struggled on tests specifically designed to measure how accurately a child reads aloud and if she understands what she read.

On average, children exposed to high levels of nicotine in utero -- defined as the minimum amount in one pack of cigarettes per day -- scored 21 percent lower in these areas than classmates born to non-smoking mothers.

The difference remained even when researchers took other factors -- such as if parents read books to their children, worked in lower-paying jobs or were married -- into account.

Put another way, among students who share similar backgrounds and education, a child of a smoking mother will on average be ranked seven places lower in a class of 31 in reading accuracy and comprehension ability, said co-author Jan Frijters of Brock University in Ontario, Canada.

Previous studies have found smoking during pregnancy is linked to lower IQ scores and academic achievement, and more behavioral disorders. The authors found no reports so far that zeroed in on specific reading tasks like accuracy and comprehension in a large population.

The team, which published their results in The Journal of Pediatrics, pulled data from more than 5,000 children involved in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPC) study that began in the early 1990s in the UK. Only data from children with IQ scores of 76 and higher were used. An IQ score of 70 and below can be the sign of a mental disability.

UK researchers collected questionnaires from mothers before and after giving birth.

Ministry of Agriculture optimizes marginal lands Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Many marginal or sub-optimal lands in Indonesia still have potential to be cultivated into farmland. Unfortunately, the potential has not been worked out maximally in order to reach the surplus target amounting to 10 million tons of rice in 2014.

“The current marginal or sub-optimal lands such as swamp and dry land including peat are still waiting for the opportunities to be exploited,” said Minister of Agriculture, Suswono, on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Conference on Higher Education in Nusa Dua some time ago.

Further, he said that to develop the Cooperative-based Food Production Improvement Movement (GP3K) was required the addition of land by utilizing marginal or sub-optimal lands. It was necessary considering the current farmland conversion had reached 100,000 hectares per year.

Moreover, the movement conducted through a partnership pattern between the state-owned enterprises and farmers so far was very positive. However, it needed developing further.

“If this can be developed further, of course it can make a contribution.

However, it is also required an extensification. And we need additional land because the farmland conversion is so massive reaching over 100,000 hectares per year,” he said.

On that account, he added that his party continued to innovate both through research and development and adoption to the results of research made by universities. “The current

marginal or sub-optimal lands such as swamp and dry land including peat are still waiting for the opportunities to be exploited. Research and development of Ministry of Agriculture keeps on undertaking the maximal efforts in order the lands can be utilized

immediately,” he added.

At the moment, the number of sub-optimal lands scattering on the island of Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi, according to Suswono, amounted to millions of hectares with the potential production reaching

six to seven tons. Besides, his party also continued to make management improvement between the central and regional government to achieve the surplus target of 10 million tons of rice in 2014.

“We also improve the manage-

ment between the central and local government. Such an effort should become an integral unit to produce a significant increase in production so that the surplus target of 10 million tons in 2014 can be realized,” he concluded. (kmb29)

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Many marginal or sub-optimal lands in Indonesia still have potential to be cultivated into farmland. Unfortunately, the potential has not been worked out maximally in order to reach the surplus target amounting to 10 million tons of rice in 2014.

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Heavy rains, Singaraja flooded by rubbish Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Heavy rains taking place for some an hour in Singaraja town on Monday (Nov 19) caused puddles at a number of locations. More seriously, plastic rubbish also scattered everywhere.

Puddles and rubbish flooding occurred at Kaliuntu village, Jalan Leli, Jalan Anggrek and Jalan Ahmad Yani in the east and west section. In addition, the area of Jalan Udayana and Jalan Pramuka in front of the Buleleng Police were also overwhelmed by rubbish.

Even, the area of Buleleng Police situated lower than the road body was also flooded by flash rubbish.

An adequately severe flooding occurred in the area of Kaliuntu village. House of residents in the area was inundated with water as high as adult’s ankle. The flooding occurred around 11:00 a.m. starting with heavy rains. Having been flushed by rain for few hours, the volume of water in residential sewer lines was getting larger. Such volume could not be accommodated and eventually soaked the courtyard of residents. It was triggered by the culvert from the Bhuana Patra Stadium in Singaraja that was too

small, so the volume of water could not be accommodated and finally soaked the residential areas. Unfortunately, the narrow culvert was clogged up by plastic rubbish. Similarly, the flooding also soaked up the area on Jalan Anggrek so that many motorcycles were forced to turn back.

Motorists feared to pass through the puddles if it would cause their motorcycle to suddenly turn off.

A resident of Kaliuntu, Made Widia, said the flooding was inevitable because the culvert was too small. As consequence, the rain water overflowed and drained into the home yard. Luckily, the water did not come into the room because he had made a levee in front of doorstep before the rain. “Without the levee, probably my room has been inundated,” he said.

According to Widia, the flooding at Kaliuntu happened as the culvert from Bhuana Patra Stadium to Ka-

liuntu village area was too narrow and shallow. It was further aggravated because local residents often disposed rubbish into the culvert.

As a result, when it rained the water was clogged up and caused flooding mixed with plastic rubbish. Even, the problem of flooding had been frequently reported to local government. However, the response of the government to improve it was slow so that when rainy season came the flooding always threatened the residents of local neighborhood. Moreover, when entering December, the torrential rain had begun. Widia alarmed if a greater flooding would happen.

For that, Widia asked the government to immediately find a solution to fix the culvert in order to accommodate more rainwater. “It is a latent problem from the past time and was never resolved by the government. We worry because it has rained frequently and

the greater flooding can happen,” said Widia while being confirmed by other residents.

Aside from the area on Jalan Anggrek, the flooding with flash rubbish also overwhelmed the house of residents on Jalan Leli, not far from Jalan Anggrek. Residents expected

the government to immediately widen the culvert so the water could be drained without soaking the residential area. To deepen the culvert, local residents did mutual assistance to clean up the accumulated plastic rubbish. The rubbish was then transported by operational vehicle of the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency. (kmb)

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Grandpa watching TV, Village assembly of Sesetan requests a review grandson almost died Insistence to review the permit regarding the mangrove forest management in the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) at Suwung Kauh, South Denpasar, came to view again. After several components of community rejected it, then the village assembly of Sesetan declared a similar viewpoint. The Sesetan village assembly asked the governor of Bali to review the permit issued.

It was affirmed by the Sesetan village assembly, I Ketut Resmiyasa, in Denpasar on Monday (Nov 19). The review was important considering the existence of mangrove forests had been stipulated to become a strategic area in a presidential regulation and government regulation concerning with the national spatial arrangement.

Sesetan community leader doubling as Chairman of the Great Indonesia Faction (FIR) in the Denpasar House added that Sesetan was very concerned with the preservation of mangrove forest because Sesetan with several other villages, namely Pemogan, Sidakarya and Pedungan would be affected if the forest was damaged. Sea water intrusion causing pollution to residents’ well, for instance, would be threatening the health of residents when it happened due to environmental destruction to mangroves. “We strongly agree with the idea of Chairman of the Denpasar House who rejected the management of mangrove forest by investor PT TRB,” said Resmiyasa.

His party also asked the Mayor of Denpasar to issue building permit in the mangrove forest

carefully. There should be coordination with the ranks of legislative related to permit issuance in the region. “If necessary, please invite the entire components of community, customary village, village assembly and village advisory council having direct association with mangrove forest to make a good and correct decisions because it involves sensitive issues,” said the community leader doubling as the people’s representative of Denpasar.

As known, the land utilization plan of mangrove forest in part by investor after the issuance of permit by Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation with Decree No.77/ IV-SET/2012 and Governor Decree No.1051/03-L/HK/2012 drew bitter rejection from a number of circles. (kmb12)

Semarapura (Bali Post)-

A fiften months baby, A.A. Eka Raditya Saputra, was found dragged by current at Cau River almost 1 kilometer from where he was, Semarapura Klod, Klungkung last Monday (19/11) afternoon. He was found by a concrete maker Komang Santika and then brought the baby to Klungkung Hospital A & E as he was unconscious. The incident caused Banjar Jelantik Kuribatu, Tojan Village, Semarapura Klod people shocked as the baby was thought to be dead as his head hit several walls of the river.

The grandfather of the baby, A.A. Ngurah Putra (63) when met at Klungkung Hospital stated that he was watching TV at his house Kenanga Street 13 A Semarapura Kelod located next to Cau River and got confused when his grandson was missing

from the house garden playing around 12.30 am local time who happens to just started crawling only.

Neighbours did not know where he was and after searching at Cau River, Santika found him. His wife, Ni Ketut Kartini (32) was washing households at the river which suddenly an unconscious baby was seen dragged by the current. The baby that was left by his mother by 13 days old was treted by dr. Candra Maya Sari, who stated that there has been wounds on the head and it seemed that his lungs filled up with water which explained the amount of water keep coming out of his mouth when Santika tried to pump it out from the stomach. The grandparents to the baby, Ngurah and Jero Ratnasih (58) admitted to have been guilty. “Luckily he was saved,” Ratnasih sobbed. (kmb31)

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Marcel Sumarga, of Bulgari Bali Hotels and Resorts, has won the pre selection cook off and eligible to represent Indonesia in the upcoming international World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS)-sanctioned competition, the Hans Bueschkens Junior Chefs Challenge (HBJCC) at 7 – 10 May 2013 at Hong Kong. The cook off took place on November 10 in Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata (STP) Bali followed by 9 finest young chefs in Bali, all under 25, from Bulgari Bali Hotels and resorts, Banyan Tree, and STP Students. A panel of WACS certified judges evaluated contestants’ performance and menus to determine the winner.

Professionals (BCP), “They showed confidence and precision in preparing meal, worthy of international culinary competition. BCP is proud of their performance.”

Runner ups from Banyan Tree in second and third place, followed by Bulgari Bali in fourth place will be eligible to represent Indonesia in the young chefs competition category at the Food Show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia September 2013.

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The flood which happen in Singaraja caused the city filled with garbage.

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“Competing for an international level is a completely different ballgame,” said Marcel. “The pressure is greater, the stakes are higher and you don’t have the slightest idea of who you are up against. I kept reminding myself to compete against myself. It was also a great feeling knowing that I had done the best I could.”

“It was exciting to watch them all,” said Made Putra, vice president of Bali Culinary

As for permit on mangrove forest management Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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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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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Judge to Revoke Lindsay Lohan’s Probation: Report

Lindsay Lohan is not having a good week. After receiving scathing reviews for her portrayal of Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime’s “Liz & Dick,” now it looks like a judge is going to revoke her probation once she is formally charged with lying to police – and that could land the actress back in the jail.

According to TMZ, any moment now the Santa Monica City Attorney is going to file the charge against Lohan, 26, which stems from her car crash in June. As reported, she told police she was not the one behind the wheel when her rented Porsche slammed into the back of an 18-wheeler, but multiple witnesses and even her per-

sonal assistant all corroborated the opposite of her story. And when she’s arraigned on the new charges, the L.A. County Superior Court Judge, Jane Godfrey, is expected to immediately revoke Lohan’s probation (from her January 2011 jewelry theft) and schedule a hearing for the latest case.

A little over a year ago in October

2011, Judge Stephanie Sautner revoked Lohan’s probation after it was determined she was not completing her community service work with a local women’s shelter and a morgue. The actress was immediately handcuffed and booked into jail, but was bailed out soon after. A week later, she was given a 30-day jail sentence, but was released after spending only five hours in the slammer later due to overcrowding. At the time, the judge warned Lohan, “Probation is not a gift.”

But with the holidays coming up, Lohan may want to put it on her wish list.

Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Producer Ryan Murphy paid tribute at the International Emmy Awards to television legends Norman Lear and Alan Alda, whose cutting-edge, socially-conscious shows in the ‘70s paved the way for his own shows like “Glee” and “The New Normal.”

Unlike previous years when Britain dominated the International Emmys which honor excellence in television production outside the U.S., the winners in the nine categories this year spanned six countries. Argentina, Brazil and Britain each won two awards; Australia, France and Germany had one apiece.

Murphy closed M o n d a y n i g h t ’s awards ceremony by presenting the 40th Anniversary Special Founders Award to “All in the Family” creator Lear and “M(asterisk) A(asterisk) S(asterisk)H” star Alda. The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences decided to mark the milestone anniversary with special awards honoring a producer and performer who had groundbreaking shows on TV in 1972 when the International Emmys were first presented.

Murphy said he was pleased to be presenting the awards “to two of my idols, guys who really did change the face of television and thus the world.”

Fittingly, the night’s big

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winner was Argentina’s “Television x la Inclusion,” a drama produced by On TV Contenidos dealing with issues of social exclusion and inclusion. It became the first series in the history of the International Emmys to sweep both acting categories.

Dario Grandinetti, who starred in Pedro Almodovar’s film “Talk to Her,” won the best actor award for his portrayal of a divorced, xenophobic taxi driver determined to drive out his Peruvian neighbors.

Cristina Banegas, a veteran Argentine theater, film and TV actress, was honored as best actress for her role as the mother of a girl with Down syndrome who f i g h t s her health insurance company when it won’t authorize lifesaving heart surgery for her daughter.

“Every episode was about a topic related to discrimination,” said a surprised and weeping Banegas as she accepted her award. “It was an honor to participate in a work where ethics and television work together.”

The British winners were in the documentary category for “Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die,” about the author who after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis travels to a Swiss clinic for a firsthand look at assisted suicide procedures, and “The Twilight Zone”-inspired “Black Mirror,” a suspenseful and satirical look at the unease created by modern technology, in the TV movie/ mini-series category.

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Illegal tour guides besieged Bali Bali Post

DENPASAR - Bali is increasingly besieged by local and foreign illegal tour guides having no permit. The discipline effort continued to be made by the public order officer (Satpol PP) of Bali Province with its regency counterpart. However, those illegal tour guides often played hide-and-seek with the authorities so that they were troublesome the apparatus. Chief Unit of the Bali Public Order Officer, Made Sukadana, revealed the matter in Denpasar on Monday (Nov 19).

The control was usually and frequently carried out in the area of Bedugul. He said that up to this November, six illegal tour guides could be disciplined. One of them was foreigner taking a job as a tour guide, while the rest were mostly the locals and from outside Bali.

Though the enforcement had been frequently made against the tour guides constantly troubling the

tourism component in Bali, many of them persisted on operating.

Sukadana explained the illegal tour guides have violated Bylaw No. 5/2008 governing about tour guides. Cases of the six illegal tour guides disciplined had reached the level of investigation and the cases had been handed over to the judiciary institution.

When will they be heard? So far, his party did not know about

the matter because it no longer belonged to his authority. The Public Order Officer only handled up to the investigation against the violation, while decision regarding the fine would depend on the verdict of the hearing. “Such violation is categorized into misdemeanor with maximal fine of IDR 500,000 corresponding to stipulation mentioned in Bylaw,” he concluded. (kmb29)

Israeli aircraft hit Hamaslinked bank in Gaza Associated Press

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An Israeli soldier stands on top of a military vehicle as the sun rises in a staging area near the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012.

GAZA CITY — Israeli aircraft on Tuesday battered the headquarters of the bank Hamas set up to sidestep international sanctions on its rule, as efforts to negotiate an end to a week-old convulsion of the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence brought the U.N. chief to the region on an emergency mission.

The strike on the Islamic National Bank was part of a widening Israeli assault against Gaza militants meant to quell rocket fire that has struck deep into Israel’s heartland. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon’s itinerary was taking him on Tuesday to Egypt and Israel, where he hoped to prod the two sides to reach a deal.

From Cairo, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said he came because of the “alarming situation” in the region.

“This must stop, immediate steps are needed to avoid further escalation, including a ground operation,” Ban said. “Both sides must hold fire immediately ... Further escalation of the situation could put the entire region at risk.”

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