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Book on bin Laden raid coming out Sept. 11 Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — A member of the U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden has written a firsthand account of the operation, triggering more questions about the possible public release of classified information involving the historic assault of the terror leader’s compound in Pakistan.

U.S. military officials say they do not believe the book has been read or cleared by the Defense Department, which reviews publications by military members to make sure that no classified material is revealed.

The book, titled “No Easy Day” and scheduled to be released next month

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on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, comes amid a heated debate over whether members of the military — both active duty and retired — should engage in political battles.

“I haven’t read the book and am unaware that anyone in the Department has reviewed it,” said Pentagon press secretary George Little. White House and CIA officials also said the book had not been reviewed by their agencies.

The book announcement comes just as a group of retired special operations and CIA officers have launched a campaign accusing President Barack Obama of revealing classified details of the mission and turning the killing of bin Laden into a campaign centerpiece. The group

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complains that Obama has taken too much credit for the operation.

Their public complaints drew a rebuke from Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as other special operations forces, who called the partisan criticism unprofessional. Dempsey said that such public political involvement by members of armed services erodes public confidence and trust in the military.

The author of the upcoming bin Laden book, who has left the military, is using the pseudonym Mark Owen. And in a news release from publisher Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), Owen describes the book as an effort to “set the record straight about one of the most important missions in U.S. military history.”

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Friday, August 24, 2012 Ahead of Galungan, ritual paraphernalia in demand

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LOS ANGELES — An A-list cast of celebrities is joining a telethon to raise money and awareness to fight cancer. Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Samuel L. Jackson and Emma Stone are among the stars participating in the third Stand Up to Cancer telethon, the organization announced Wednesday. multidisciplinary research “Dream Teams” and to scientists seeking innovative approaches to end cancer’s role as the world’s leading cause of death. Of the $180 million-plus that has been pledged, some larger donations are being made over a period of several years, a spokeswoman said.

Katie Couric, who joined with Ziskin and other women in the entertainment industry to found Stand Up to Cancer, will appear in the telethon.

Others taking part include Jessica Biel, Jeremy Renner, Seth Rogan, Masi Oka, Simon Baker and Rashida Jones. Couric lost her husband to colon cancer, while Paltrow’s late father, director Bruce Paltrow, had oral cancer. Some participants, such as Michael Douglas, have fought the disease themselves.

Cable channels carrying the telethon are BIO, Encore, HBO, Showtime, HBO Latino, ION Television, LMN, Logo, MLB Network, mun2, Palladia, Starz, TBS, Smithsonian and VH1.

Stand Up To Cancer, which also receives corporate donations, is a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, a philanthropic arm of the TV and movie industries.

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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2012 file photo shows actress Gwyneth Paltrow at the 84th Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

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Paltrow, Roberts, Swift set for cancer telethon

Paltrow also is an executive producer for the fundraiser that will be carried commercial-free from 8-9 p.m. EDT Sept.

7 on the four major broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC, and more than a dozen cable channels. Musical performances by Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Alicia Keys and Tim McGraw are planned, and more than 25 movie, TV and sports stars will be on hand to take phone pledges, said executive producer Joel Gallen.

Laura Ziskin, founder of Stand Up to Cancer and producer of its first two telethons in 2008 and 2010, lost her seven-year fight against breast cancer last year. The “Spider-Man” movie producer was 61. Ziskin represents “tremendous shoes to fill,” Gallen said.

“I can’t really replace Laura, but I’m coming from a different point of view, from a respectful point of view, and continuing the mission she was on.”

Hope is the theme for this year’s telethon, Gallen said. It will include information on how to prevent cancer and on the treatment research funded by Stand Up to Cancer, also known as SU2C. The experiences of several patients who are part of Stand Up to Cancer trials will be explored in minidocumentaries that show the progress made in just a few years of effort, Gallen said.

T h e o rg a nization said it has awarded about $120 million in grant commitments to

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A DC-10 drops fire retardant on the Ponderosa Fire Monday Aug. 20, 2012, near Paynes Creek, Calif. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in three Northern California counties on Wednesday after a wildfire that has already destroyed 64 homes advanced with 75-foot flames on a tiny community at the doorstep of a national park.

RED BLUFF - California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in three Northern California counties on Wednesday after a wildfire that has already destroyed 64 homes advanced with 75-foot flames on a tiny community at the doorstep of a national park.

Firefighters scrambled to head off the so-called Ponderosa Fire, which had scorched 24,000 acres, before it reached the outskirts of Mineral, a community of less than 200 people just south of Lassen National Volcanic Park.

Authorities issued an evacuation warning for Mineral as flames roared 75 feet high on the side of Highway 36, the main

route into town, and burned through a rocky canyon where firefighters struggled to make a stand.

Crews also bulldozed a trench to serve as a last line of defense between the fire and the town as thick smoke and ash choked the air for miles.

“All the vegetation is ready to burn and so once the afternoon winds begin to blow up the canyon, those fuels burn aggressively and you have what we call blowup conditions,” Chico fire Division Chief Shane Lauderdale told Reuters.

“It pushes the firefighters out of the area they are working and goes over the (containment) line and creates situations where we have to back out,” Lauderdale said.

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Homecoming backflows at Ngurah Rai reaches 12,763 people Bali Post

DENPASAR - Homecoming backflow through the Ngurah Rai Airport Bali since the day after the Eid 1433 H started to increase. Passengers arriving at the domestic arrival terminal were recorded to reach 12,763 people or an increase of 32 percent compared to last year’s.

Spokesperson of PT Angkasa Pura I (PAP I) of Ngurah Rai Airport, Sherly Yunita, said the airport on the day after the Eid was still dominated by the arrival of thousands of passengers from

various cities in Indonesia. Such high arrival of domestic passengers was caused by the long holiday in conjunction with the Eid 2012.

“We are not sure when the

peak of the homecoming backflow because the domestic arrival until Tuesday (Aug 21) remains quite high,” said Sherly.

She said the backflow passengers the day after the Eid was served by 104 aircrafts. Meanwhile, the departure of domestic passenger at Ngurah Rai Airport at the same time reached 12,719 passengers conveyed by 103 aircrafts. The Eid Integrated Post also noted the movement of international passenger where the arrival passenger

reached 8,644 people, while the departure passenger reached 10,365 people.

“Passengers who came to Bali on the second day after the Eid reached 14,312 passengers.

Meanwhile, the departure of passengers reached 15,472 people.

The flow of departure may still go up at the end of the holiday,” she said.

In the meantime, the homecoming domestic passenger reached the highest number on Friday (Aug 17)

or two days before the Eid namely reaching 14,312 passengers, or increased 7.86 percent over the last year. Meanwhile, the domestic departure reached 15,472 passengers. Then, to meet the needs of air transportation, 4 carriers provided extra flights to and from Bali with a total of 55 flights, or about 10,592 seats. “These figures have increased by 87 percent compared to the extra flight made for the last year’s Eid,” she said.

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Ahead of Galungan Order increases, taffy makers must work extra hard

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The officers are inspecting the passengers in Ubung terminal after the Eid holiday

Surge in regional migrants worried to kindle social impact Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Homecoming backflow of the Eid is worried to cause population explosion especially in Badung Regency. The government is then asked to take anticipatory measures to strengthen the surveillance system against the regional migrants.

A legislator in the Badung House, Wayan Puspa Negara, revealed the homecoming backflow tended to be followed by significant addition of migrant population. Moreover, Badung had so high population growth and even surpassed the national average as a result of the migration. Large impact of the migration would obviously affect the carrying capacity of the region.

“We do not rule out the population to migrate because it is the right of every resident to live and settle in the territory of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI). However, they have to meet the provisions of law as well as understand the conditions of nature, environment and socio-culture in the area. For the sake of regional defense, balance of ecosystem, population, regional aesthetic, cultural defense, security and comfort of the region, especially in the area of tourism, so the composition, density and quality of the population greatly affecting the carrying

capacity of the region should be considered,” he said.

On that account, Puspa stressed the need for strengthening the system and selection aggregation of the homecoming backflows by the government. Strategic and integrated measures should be taken. Filtration of population had to be done carefully, chiefly the examination of the papers completeness of the backflow migrants should be strengthened such as at the entrances of Bali starting from crossing harbor to traditional harbor spreading in the coastal areas of Bali Island.

Mainly for Badung Regency, Puspa asked the establishment of migrant integrated surveillance posts under coordination of the Population and Civil Registry Office, Public Order Officer and the Office of National Union, Politics and Public Protection (Kesbangpollinmas) as well as subdistricts and villages. “On that account, there will be an instrument of good monitoring and supervision to cre-

ate safety, comfort and public order in short and long-term period,” he said.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Badung Government, AA Raka Yuda, asserted on Wednesday (Aug 22) that government was unable to prohibit the movement of people because it was the right of citizens as long as they complied with the rules. However, his party also recognized the population explosion had become a burden to Badung and other regions in Bali.

It would turn more serious if the incoming migrants did not have sufficient life skills or expertise and did not comply with the population administration.

To anticipate the social impacts, chiefly due to population surge, the Badung Regency through technical units filtered the regional migrants through judicial population operation. Relevant agencies up to lower levels were also involved. Nevertheless, Raka Yuda said the active participation of the community was constantly needed. (kmb25)

TAFFY makers at a number of villages in Buleleng before Galungan festivity are forced to work extra hard, namely day and night.

This occurs because the demand for this distinctive cake of Buleleng is on the increase, not only from people in Buleleng, but also from people living in Denpasar, Badung, Tabanan and other regencies in Bali.

Taffy makers at Penglatan village, Buleleng subdistrict, have been very busy serving the orders from various regions in Bali since a few weeks ago. Due to many orders, the taffy makers are even forced to serve no retailers usually selling taffy in traditional markets. It happens because the process of making taffy cannot be done quickly. Moreover, its combustion process still takes advantage of firewood.

A taffy maker from Kelodan hamlet, Penglatan village, Ketut Sedana, said that on usual days he was only taking orders maximally two times a week. However, before Galungan Day the orders soared.

Within a week he could receive order for four times. For each order, he sent averagely three to four quintals of taffy. To address this

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issue, Sedana admitted to prefer meeting the orders from outside the region to serving the sales of retailers. “From the Sugihan Day, our orders continue to increase and this will continue to grow until the day before Galungan,” he said.

Although the order of his customers was booming, he had not thought of increasing the price of his taffy, whereas the price of ingredients such as sugar, palm sugar and sticky rice already increased. Currently, he sold one kilogram of taffy to his customers for IDR 21,000. Meanwhile, the price of ingredients such as sugar had increased from IDR 9,000 to IDR 11,000 per kilogram. Palm sugar (Balinese sugar) rose from IDR 12,000 to IDR 14,000 per kilogram.

In addition, the price of white sticky rice also rose from IDR 10,500 to IDR 11,500 per kilogram.

In the meantime, the price of coconut and dried corn husks used to wrap did not increase yet. “Indeed, the price of ingredients has gone up but the price of taffy has not. If increased, our consumer must be disappointed. Rather than losing customers, I decided not to raise the price though I only get a few profits,” he said. (kmb)

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Inna Grand Bali Beach, Sanur, Bali celebrated the 67th Indonesian Independence Day together with the opening of hotel anniversary at Pendawa Beach of the hotel on Friday, 17 August 2012. General Manager of Inna Grand Bali Beach, Mr. Sugeng Pramono declared the celebration activities started after the employees of the hotel together with its related partners, carry out joint flagraising ceremony in front of the hotel lobby.

Enliven the festive day of the event will be held at Pendawa Beach of the hotel which involves not only the hotel guests with the employees of Inna Grand Bali Beach, also a lively community with Fun Games: a variety of traditional games such as race traditional box “nyuun keben”, sack race, climbing Pedanan Tree and much more. The hotel employees will also perform Balinese traditional instrument ” Baleganjur “ during the event.

Mr. Sugeng Pramono added that the hotel anniversary already held social activities few days ago by inviting the orphans of Klungkung to join breaking fasting at the hotel. The 46th Anniversary of the Inna Grand Bali Beach is taking the theme of “Change with Passion” – with the purpose of changes to the sincere, not only in thoughts, words, but also in behavior, especially the implementation of daily work can be done with full sincerity in order to be able to provide services optimal to guests.

Calendar Event for August 1 through August 31, 2012 1 Aug T umpek Uduh/Pengatag Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih.

2 Aug P urnama Karo Aci-aci Pengenteg Jagat Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Pengukur-ukur Pejeng Merajan Gerya Kebon Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar-Kubu Karangasem Pura Ponjok Batu Tejakula-Buleleng.

8 Aug B uda Wage Warigadean Pura Kepisah Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel Gerih Abiansemal Badung Pura Puncaksari Penarukan Peninjoan Bangli Pura Bangun Sakti Besakih Pura Antegsari Kaba-Kaba Kediri Tabanan Pura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Kaba-Kaba Kediri Tabanan.

10 Aug Sukra Umanis Warigadean.

Odalan Ida Ratu Penataran Agung Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Puraus Merajan Salonding Besakih.

12 Aug Redite Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Banjar Singaraja.

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4 Aug T umpek Uduh/Pengatag Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

The taffy maker in Buleleng Regency recieved many orders near Galungan.

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14 Aug Anggar Kasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi Bangli Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Taro Tegalalang Pura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup Pura manik Bingin Sidemen 15 Aug Buda Umanis Julungwangi.

Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande Bangli

Pura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh Abiansemal Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan Gianyar Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Jakatebel Merajan Pasek Prateka Batusesa Mr. Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon Cemenggon Pr. Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.

23 Aug W raspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas Klungkung Pr. Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Petemon Merajan Pasek Gelgel Melinggih Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih 29 Aug B uda Keliwon Dunggulan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang, NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta Timur Pura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur.

30 Aug Wraspati Umanis Dunggulan Pura Watukaru Tabanan Pura Lempuyang Luhur Karangasem Pura Kentel Gumi Klungkung Pura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel Tabanan Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Tiyingan Merajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

31 Aug S ukra Paing Dunggulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, Badung Pura Luhur Cemenggon, Sukawati Pura Pasek Ubung Denpasar 31 Aug P urnama Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok.

Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja Denpasar Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Karangasem Pura Pedarman Arya Telabah Besakih.

Pura Bukit Mentik, Gunung Lebah Batur Kintamani

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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Mars rover passes driving test, looks to hit road Associated Press Writer

How Face Paint Could Protect Soldiers’ Faces

PASADENA, Calif. — Now that Curiosity passed its driving test on Mars, the six-wheel NASA rover set its sights on longer treks. The first test drive around the pebbly Martian crater where it landed was just that — a test drive. The rover edged forward about 15 feet, rotated to a right angle and reversed a short distance, leaving tracks in the rust-tinged soil.

Mission managers were elated that Wednesday’s maiden trek of the $2.5 billion mission was glitch-free. In several days, Curiosity was poised to drive farther to study whether the red planet’s environment could have supported life.

“It couldn’t be more important,” said project manager Peter Theisinger at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We built a rover. So unless the rover roves, we really haven’t accomplished anything ... It’s a big moment.” The short spin came a day after Curiosity successfully wiggled its wheels to test its steering capabilities.

Curiosity landed in Gale Crater near the Martian equator Aug. 5 to explore whether the environment once supported microbial life.

The touchdown site has been named Bradbury Landing in honor of the late “The Martian Chronicles” author Ray Bradbury, who would have turned 92 on Wednesday.

The rover’s ultimate destination is Mount Sharp, a towering mountain that looms from the ancient crater floor. Signs of past water have been spotted at the base, providing a starting point to hunt for the chemical building blocks of life.

Before Curiosity journeys toward the mountain, it will take a detour to an intriguing spot 1,300 feet away where it will drill into bedrock. With the test drive out of the way, Curiosity was expected to stay at its new position for several days before making its first big drive — a trip that will take as long as a month and a half.

Curiosity won’t head to Mount Sharp until the end of the year.

hands and other exposed skin.”

To protect soldiers from bombs, scientists endeavored to develop a material that can get smeared on faces like sunscreen, leaving behind a coating that is thinner than a sheet of paper but can still protect against intense heat.

“We were able to achieve proof of concept and a working prototype in relatively short time,” Lochhead told InnovationNewsDaily.

In lab experiments, their invention is protective well beyond the two-second heat-wave threat from bombs — it often safeguarded the

face and hands for up to 15 seconds before its own temperature rose to the point where a mild first-degree burn might occur. In some tests, the heat-resistant makeup even protected for up to 60 seconds, which can help defend soldiers and firefighters from fires.

A challenge the researchers faced was avoiding the use of mineral oil, fatty substances and other traditional oily makeup ingredients, since such substances can burn in contact with the intense heat of flames. Instead, the scientists turned to silicones, which are not as flammable.

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fected actors will be able to resume work within 10 days, it added in a statement on its website, saying that testing was ongoing.

Last week, health officials in Los Angeles County announced they were investigating an increase in syphilis cases in the porn industry -- at least five in the previous week.

On Tuesday, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), which wants mandatory condom use by porn actors, said “reliable sources” suggest there could be as many as nine industry-related syphilis cases, “a

number that will likely grow.”

AHF, active in the fight against AIDS, is hoping California voters will approve a proposal on November 6 that would require the use of condoms during porn film shoots.

The city of Los Angeles adopted such language in January.

The X-rated movie industry temporarily halted filming last year after an actor tested positive for HIV. According to Film LA, about five percent of the 45,500 film shoots authorized annually in the city are for porn films.

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Ahead of Galungan, ritual paraphernalia in demand Bali Post

MANGUPURA - The moment of Galungan and Kuningan brings in special blessing for villagers of Kapal who sell a variety of ritual paraphernalia chiefly penjor and its festoons like sampian. On normal days, the order of penjor is only a few, but ahead of Galungan, the sellers are usually flooded with orders.

One of the traders peddling on Jalan Raya Kapal expressed that ahead of Galungan the need of community for the ornaments of penjor itself was very high. On normal days, her income was not much, but at the moment day Galungan, the turnover of her penjor sale including the ornamental elements significantly soared.

This middle-aged mother usually peddling ritual paraphernalia claimed to receive abundant orders ahead of Galungan. The demand for penjor decoration was very high and so was the demand for penjor itself. She said the buyers did not only come directly to her store to buy various ornaments of penjor for personal needs, but also for a resale.

Price of penjor ornament or sam-

pian varied, ranging from IDR 25,000 to IDR 500,000. As for the penjor, it was sold at the price ranging from IDR 250,000 to IDR 1.5 million. Its price also depended on the order. A penjor completed with ornaments and belonged to a good quality was sold for up to IDR 3 million.

Raw materials of the penjor like palmyra leaves were brought in from outside Bali, especially from eastern Indonesia. She chose the palmyra leaf rather than local one because it had a good quality and more flexible to be formed.

A local community leader doubling as a legislator in the Badung House, Nyoman Ardana, revealed the sales of penjor, its decorations and other ritual paraphernalia had long been developing at Kapal village. According to him, the creative economy worked on by local community, aside from increasing the economy, was also able to make Kapal village a central sale of penjor and ritual paraphernalia. (kmb25)

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The moment of Galungan and Kuningan brings in special blessing for villagers of Kapal who sell a variety of ritual paraphernalia chiefly penjor and its festoons like sampian.

On normal days, the order of penjor is only a few, but ahead of Galungan, the sellers are usually flooded with orders.

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DENPASAR - Bali`s coffee exports rose to 9.2 tons in the first semester from 3.7 tons in the same period last year, provincial administration spokesman I Ketut Teneng said.

Bali earned US$118,178 from the coffee exports in the period up from US$57,534 in the same period last year, he said here on Thursday.

C o ff e e i s o n e o f t h e island`s plantation products that is able to penetrate export markets besides vanilla.

Vanilla exports from the tourist island however have continued to drop reaching only 200 kilograms worth US$7,996 in the first semester this year down from 38.5 tons worth US$620,568 in

Syphilis scare prompts call to halt US porn shoots

Reports of several cases of syphilis among porn actors in California has prompted a trade group to call for a temporary halt to shooting in the lucrative US adult film industry.

The Free Speech Coalition, which brings together porn film producers, has advocated a “temporary moratorium on production until the risk to performers in the industry has been properly assessed and all performers have been tested.”

Once treated with antibiotics, in-

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Future camouflage face paint might not only hide soldiers from the enemy, but it could also shield them from the searing heat of bomb blasts, researchers say.

Bomb detonations generate two dangerous blasts, explained researcher Robert Lochhead at the University of Southern Mississippi.

“First comes a blast wave of high pressure that spreads out at supersonic speeds and can cause devastating internal injuries,” Lochhead said. “A thermal blast follows almost instantaneously. It is a wave of heat that exceeds 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit (600 degrees Celsius) — that’s as hot as a burning cigarette. The thermal blast lasts only two seconds, but it can literally cook the face,

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the same period last year, he said.

Teneng said exports of coffee and vanilla in the form of processes products depend upon supply and demand.

He said Balinese farmers have started developing organic coffee plantations using natural fertilizers.

He said processed coffee beans had been exported to Japan, France and several European countries.

In 2011 production of coffee beans reached 3,080 tons down from 3,245 from the previous year, due to weather conditions which were not conducive.

He said coffee plantations had been expanded now reaching 10,485 hectares up from previously 9,448 hectares.

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This image dated Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012 and provided by NASA shows the Curiosity rover’s wheel tracks on the surface of Mars an image sent from one of the rover’s cameras.

The image was posted on a Tweet by JPL mission engineer Allen Chen.

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Bali`s coffee exports rose to 9.2 tons in the first semester from 3.7 tons in the same period last year. Bali earned US$118,178 from the coffee exports in the period up from US$57,534 in the same period last year.

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RLD Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, speaks next to Jean Claude Juncker, unseen, prime minister, of Luxembourg and President of Eurogroup during a joint news conference after their meeting in Athens, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.

Samaras: Greece needs ‘air to breathe’ AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris

Promote culture and Mount Batur

Central Govt to hold Lake Batur Festival The beautiful scenery of Mount Batur Bangli (Bali Post)—

Central government in cooperation with Bangli Government is going to organize an international event in the form of Lake Batur Festival next November. The activity aimed at promoting the local culture of Bali and Bangli in particular has been done through the Internet.

Spokesperson of Bangli Government, Made Putra Mahindra, said on Wednesday (Aug 22) the Lake Batur Festival would be held for the second time in November. Last

year, such activity had been carried out. For this time, promotion of the activity would be enlarged.

Aside from aiming to promote Balinese culture in general, it was

also intended to promote Bangli in particular.

Additionally, the activity also aimed at promoting the panorama of Batur to international community. Especially for Indonesia, the Batur Caldera was one of the volcanic regions to be promoted as a geopark territory. On that account, many cultural attractions and beauties of Bangli would be promoted through the event. Moreover, the Lake Batur Festival had been made

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Tens of traffic accidents, four dead Singaraja (Bali Post) –

Buleleng Police noted there are 20 traffic accidents cases during the Ketupat Agung Operation 2012 which started two weeks ago. From that total, four victims were dead where two people died at Tejakula area, one at Singaraja area and another at Seririt area as stated by the Head of the Operation Ida Bagus Wedanajati as permitted by Head Police, GAPC T. Widodo Rahino after the operation evaluation meeting on Wednesday (22/8).

Meanwhile from the investigation of the accidents case it was stated the factor was due to driver’s ignorance such as motorcycle drivers was under the influence or not using a safety helmet.

According to Wedanajati a number of socializations have been given to public and students also a number of actions has been taken to those violating. “We have tried to decrease the number of traffic accidents yet it seemed there is more to do with these cases have happened,” Wedanajati explained. (kmb15)

a national event of Indonesia this year where the financing would be allocated through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the RI. However, as the field organizer it would still be accommodated by Bangli Regency. In order the event could take place flourishingly, Bangli Regency had worked with local entertainment in Bali. The use of Bali local entertainment service instead of the one from Jakarta was intended in order the whole event

To supervise the coming back current from celebrating Eid, Badung Police Head, GAPC Beny Arjanto, last Wednesday (22/8) stated a number of personnel have been sent to the field. Up to 4 pm local time on Tuesday (21/8) the situation on the main route is still normal while at Mengwi Terminal there hasn’t been a significant increase on the number of passengers and vehicles. To anticipate the increase the coming Thursday (23/8) to Sunday (26/8), Badung have optimized their supervision in security, service and observation posts up to 24 hours especially on sensitive areas

BERLIN — Greece’s prime minister struck a conciliatory tone Wednesday before a closely watched visit to Germany, insisting in interviews with two influential German newspapers that his country doesn’t want more money, just more time to deliver on promised economic reforms and government spending cuts.

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could be well organized. Moreover, the Bali local entertainment service knew better about the culture of Balinese people.

“The event becoming an annual agenda for the second time in Bangli has started to be promoted through the Internet. However, the official inauguration of the event is still coordinated with the central government. Obviously, it will be held next November,” he said. (kmb17)

Badung Police alert 24 hours post Eid traffic

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such as Raya Sempidi Street, Denpasar-TabananGilimanuk route and Denpasar-Singaraja route.

Besides that a supervision increase also applied at Mengwi Terminal to anticipate any crime happening with coordination with Transportation Agency, Police Civil Service and Badung Army.

A checking on passengers have also been applied especially non residents. Documents were checked also if there are any weapons or suspicions objects brought by them. “We have also prepared 40 taxis and 60 small busses. If these are not enough, Badung Police have also prepared three Dalmas trucks to bring passengers to Ubung Terminal,” Arjanto explained. (kmb21)

Antonis Samaras heads to Berlin on Friday for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is the largest single contributor to Greece’s €240 billion ($300 billion) bailout packages. German officials and some lawmakers in Merkel’s coalition government have made clear they are in no mood to grant significant concessions.

“Let me be very clear: we are not asking for extra money,” Samaras told Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper in an interview published Wednesday. “We stand by our commitments and the implementation of all requirements. But we must encourage growth, because that reduces the financing gaps.”

“All we want is a little ‘air to breathe’ to get the economy going and increase state income,” Samaras added, without specifying any timeframe. “More time does not automatically mean more money.”

Some German politicians have talked openly in recent weeks about the possibility of Greece leaving the euro, and the vice chancellor, Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, has said that the idea of a Greek exit has “lost its horror.” But Athens insists the country must remain in the 17nation currency zone — something which opinion polls have shown the vast majority of Greeks want.

Asked by Bild whether leaving the euro and returning to the drach-

ma would be better, Samaras replied that “the consequences would be a catastrophe for Greece.”

“It would mean at least five more years of recession and push unemployment above 40 percent,” he was quoted as saying. “A nightmare for Greece: economic collapse, social unrest and an unprecedented crisis of democracy.”

Before coming to power, Samaras pledged he would seek a two-year extension to the deadline for implementing unpopular cuts demanded in exchange for two international aid packages worth €240 billion that are keeping Greece afloat.

Greece’s debt stands at more than €300 billion, and its economy is struggling through a fifth year of recession with unemployment above 23 percent. Still, asked by Bild whether Greece needs a second debt write-down following one carried through earlier this year, Samaras replied: “that has never been discussed.”

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Syrian civil war shakes Damascus-Beirut ties

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BEIRUT — The Syrian civil war has spilled over into Lebanon, bringing with it sectarian street clashes, mob violence and general government paralysis in Beirut.

But it was the dramatic arrest earlier this month of a former Lebanese government minister and prominent supporter of Syria’s embattled president that has suggested the conflict may be causing Lebanon to slip further away from Damascus’ long domination.

The bloodshed in Syria has drawn Lebanon deeper into the unrest — a troubling sign for a country that has gone through its own 15-year civil war and has an explosive sectarian mix as well as deep divisions between pro- and anti-Syrian factions, many of which are armed.

The chaos could give Sunni Muslim fighters in northern Lebanon more leeway to establish supply lines to the rebels

inside Syria in their battle to oust President Bashar Assad.

Tensions and intermittent fighting in the northern Lebanon city of Tripoli continued Wednesday following two days of clashes between pro- and anti-Assad groups that killed at least six people and wounded more than 70.

In New York, United Nations political chief Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council Wednesday that as the crisis in Syria continues to deteriorate, “the situation in Lebanon has become more precarious and the need for continued international support to the government and the Lebanese Armed Forces increasingly important.”

Feltman said U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern about two-way arms smuggling across the SyrianLebanese border, which poses risks to both countries and violates a council resolution that ended the month-long war in 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah, which dominates Lebanese politics.

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In this Aug. 9, 2012 photo, Lebanese security forces stand at the entrance building of former Lebanese Information Minister Michel Samaha as they raid his house after they arrested him.

Sleepy woman’s epic 18-hr flight after she misses stop Agence France Presse

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A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane takes off in Islamabad in 2009.

A Frenchwoman endured an 18hour journey from the Pakistani city of Lahore to Paris and back again after sleeping through her plane’s stop in the French capital, officials said on Wednesday.

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) are investigating how ground crew failed to notice the woman during the plane’s two-hour stopover at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.

The woman, named as Patrice Christine Ahmed, who is married to a Pakistani, left Lahore at noon on Tuesday to fly to Paris via Milan,

but did not wake up to get off the plane, airline spokesman Sultan Hasan told AFP. The woman did not mention her mistake to cabin crew and the matter only came to light when she was stopped by immigration officials on arrival back in Lahore on Wednesday morning -- after a 12,000-kilometre (7700-mile) round trip.

Hasan said PIA were investigating the incident and the French subcontractor responsible for passenger handling in Paris.

“We have put questions to this French firm also about the incident but it is also the responsibility of

the passenger to disembark at the destination,” he said.

“It is a passenger’s responsibility to check about the destination and disembark when the plane arrives at the particular airport.”

PIA later arranged to send the woman back to Paris with another airline because none of its own flights were available, but said that the party responsible for the negligence will pay for the extra ticket.

“It depends who is at fault. If it is a mistake by the local firm, they will pay and if the woman herself is responsible than she will have to bear the cost,” Hasan said.

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Eid holiday

Lovina thronged by domestic tourists

Oil prices up on hopes for US central bank action Associated Press

BANGKOK — Crude prices rose above $98 per barrel Thursday, with oil markets being driven by hopes that the Federal Reserve is leaning toward action to help the U.S. economy’s stalled recovery.

Benchmark crude for October delivery rose 77 cents in midday Bangkok time to $98.03 per barrel in

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electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 42 cents to finish at $97.26 per

barrel in New York on Wednesday.

Brent crude rose $1.01 to $115.92 on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

Minutes from the Fed’s July meeting suggested its members were prepared to take new steps to boost the U.S. economy.

The minutes show that Fed of-

ficials spoke with increased urgency about the need to provide more help to the economy unless it improved significantly. But there were no specific details about what steps might be taken or when.

Oil prices have risen about $8 per barrel since Aug. 1, partly on hopes that the U.S., Europe and China would

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SINGARAJA - Simultaneous leaves in conjunction with the Eid celebration, in fact, significantly affected the domestic tourist visits to Lovina tourist resort, Singaraja. From Sunday (Aug 19) to Wednesday (Aug 22), hundreds of domestic tourists made a visit to Lovina every day to enjoy the beach and watch dolphin attraction.

do more to increase growth in their respective economies. Slower growth cuts into the demand for oil and other energy products.

In other futures trading on the Nymex, heating oil rose 1.9 cents to $3.1559 per gallon. Gasoline futures rose 2.7 cents to $2.9654. Natural gas rose 2.6 cents to $2.852 per gallon.

Australia’s Fairfax Media posts $2.87 billion loss

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Tourists thronged at Lovina Beach during the Eid holiday. From Sunday (Aug 19) to Wednesday (Aug 22), hundreds of domestic tourists made a visit to Lovina every day to enjoy the beach and watch dolphin attraction.

Field observation made last Wednesday indicated that crowded visits to Lovina Beach took place in the morning and evening. Majority of tourists preferred to play on the beach, some others rented a boat to see dolphins swimming in the sea, while foreign tourists chose to do snorkeling.

One of the visitors, Sugiono, claimed to deliberately spend holiday to Bali on the Eid feast of this year with her extended family. He decided to visit Lovina Beach because it was famous for its calm wavy beach and could see dolphin attraction or snorkel. “As incidentally having a few days off, we will travel to Bedugul and take families to

Lovina first,” he said.

Meanwhile, the hot spring bathing place at Banjar also showed a soaring visitors compared to usual days. The management said the increase in tourist visit reached 300 percent. On normal days, the attraction was only visited by 300 people. The hot spring believed to have an efficacy to cure skin diseases was not only visited by local people but also foreign tourists. They looked to try the efficacy of Banjar Hot Spring.

“Today, the number of visitor has virtually reaches 1,200 people.

Probably, it will increase because they still continue to come until this afternoon,” said Ida Bagus Satwika, operator of the local tourist attraction. (kmb)

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SYDNEY — Shares in Australia’s second largest newspaper publisher Fairfax Media Ltd. dived nearly 10 percent after the company unveiled a 2.73 billion Australian dollar ($2.87 billion) loss Thursday for the fiscal year ending June 24 due to writedowns in the value of assets and declining advertising.

News of the massive loss came as chief executive Greg Hywood said he would give up half his AU$840,000 bonus because of the difficult conditions facing the company.

Revenue at the Sydney-based media group, which is undergoing a massive restructuring, fell to AU$2.33 billion from AU$2.5 billion.

The profit result was hit by AU$2.9 billion in writedowns, comprising a AU$2.8 billion non-cash impairment charge and other significant items worth AU$140 million. Stripping out those significant items, underlying net profit fell to AU$212 million from AU$283 million a year earlier.

Hywood defended the result, saying the underlying performance showed that the company “has a sound and diversified business.”

“These results reflect a challenging environment,” he said in a statement.

Shares in Fairfax plunged 9.7 percent.

Fairfax said economic conditions “remain challenged” in core advertising markets and ongoing structural changes were affecting the city newspaper business.

It said early revenues for the current fiscal year were tracking 10 percent below the previous year.

“Difficult trading conditions are likely to continue,” the company’s statement said.

Hywood volunteered to give up half his bonus previously approved by the Fairfax board.

His pay for the year was AU$2.02 million.

Fairfax announced in June it will shed 1,900 jobs — almost one fifth of its 10,000 staff — over three years and erect pay walls for two flagship newspapers as readers increasingly move online.

The company owns more than 300 newspapers, 50 websites and 15 radio stations in Australia and New Zealand. Only News Corp. publishes more Australian newspapers.

Balinese women:

Qantas cancels $8.5 billion worth of Boeing 787 orders

In devotional services through the arts

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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, left, discusses the airline’s full-year financial results as CFO Gareth Evans listens in Sydney, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Qantas Airways Ltd. reported a 245 million Australian dollar ($257 million) annual loss in profits on Thursday, hurt by rising fuel prices, a series of strikes that temporarily grounded its fleet and its struggling international division.

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SYDNEY - Australian airline Qantas is canceling an order for 35 of Boeing’s new 787 jets as it tries to cut costs.

The jets would have been worth $8.5 billion at list prices, although dis-

counts are common on large orders.

The financially struggling airline is still buying 15 787-8s. It is also keeping options that allow it to buy as many as 50 of Boeing’s longer 787-9.

But it’s cancelling orders for 35 of those jets.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says the change is part of trying to make Qantas profitable.

Boeing Co. says Qantas has been a long-standing customer and it will work with the airline to help it adapt.

Beauty can stop everyone’s eyes flickering.

Beauty of the kid song can lullaby a baby.

Similarly, beauty also can toss the imagination, soothe the mind and draw people to get near. Bali has many sources of that beauty offering the charm of nature, culture or adventure.

By maintaining traditions inspired by Hinduism, Balinese people go on running in harmony with the time. In other words, they do not feel inferior because of inheriting those traditions. Beauty in the form of various dance movements has been introduced since early ages. On seeing a dance staged, a toddler may watch it attentively or its fingers move and move as if imitating the movement of the dance.

Virtually all customary villages in Bali have gamelan troupe. This troupe plays important role in expressing their entertainment arts and accompanying every ritual activity.

This existence gives opportunity to villagers from child to adult to express their artistic talent especially in dance, drama and gamelan arts. Young girls under twelve or elementary school age have a chance to participate in performing Rejang Dance. By wearing white and yellow costumes and floral decoration on head, they dance beautifully accompanied by gamelan music. Rejang Dance is one of the sacred dances performed in relation to the organization of temple anniversary or odalan. Other than putting a basic love to their tradition, they also show devotional service or ngatur ayah through the arts.

When they grow older, right on entering secondary school, they join customary village

youth club or Sekaa Taruna. Here, with their male friends and their brothers and sisters start to learn about organization. Many things can be learned through this organization. Since it has affiliation to customary village, they can learn about the making of some simple oblation under guidance of senior oblation maker and various traditional arts. In Bali, this youth club actually play important role in preparing young generation to maintain their valuable

cultural heritages or to prepare themselves for inheriting customary responsibility.

With their male counterpart, here the young girls also learn to play drama or more complex traditional arts. Popular genres of performance showed are pure entertainment and the one in combination with sacred dance.

The latter usually features Calonarang. This magical drama involves a combination of male and female players. In essence, this

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Calonarang drama highlights the endless fight between truth and untruth symbolizing by sanctified effigies or tapakan like Rangda and Barong. By and large, it is also associated with ritual events at local temple.

In the following stage, when woman gets married she will enter the new organization, namely customary village. Having learned much about ritual works, it is now the time to practice them in wider social life. They should attend some socio-religious activities when the events engage the members of customary village. At this stage, household mother can remain to show her devotional service through the arts other than social works. Through the arts, they may join the drama or individual psalmodic singing or pasantian.

How is about their private life? It is normal as others. They also have opportunity to build career in their profession. In modern life with heterogeneous professions as today, woman also works as men do. Traditions do not impede them to reach outstanding achievement in self-employee or office job. If they work at daytime, some social works will be held at the evening.

Tradition is not something obsolete. Even, it retains abundant inspirations to create something new and creative that is advantageous for modern life. However, traditions should also be reviewed and adjust to the current condition without leaving behind its core. Tradition does not hinder women to get their career achievement. Even, it stays to give them a channel to express their spiritual sense through devotional services. (BTN/punia)

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30 children in Germany injured in bus crash Associated Press Writer

BERLIN — German police say at least 30 children have been injured, some of them seriously, after a bus they were traveling in overturned on a southern highway.

A Bavarian police spokesman says the driver appeared to have lost control of the bus during a sudden hailstorm near the town of Freising on Wednesday afternoon.

Ulrich Poepsel said police sent “anything with a siren” to the site of the accident including several helicopters that ferried the injured children to nearby hospitals.

He says the bus was registered in the German town of Dachau and was taking children home from a holiday trip.

Poepsel said the overturned bus caused a second crash involving several vehicles for which casualty figures were still unclear.

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Britain’s Prince Harry takes part in a polo match in March 2012 in Campinas, Brazil. The prince caused outrage in 2005 when photographs of him attending a fancy-dress party wearing a swastika armband appeared in the press, and was forced to apologise in 2009 when video footage emerged of him calling an Asian colleague “our little Paki friend”.

Nude photos of Prince Harry are genuine: palace Agence France Presse

The British royal family said nude photographs of Prince Harry cavorting with friends on holiday in Las Vegas were genuine.

The photographs, published in the United States by celebrity news website TMZ.com, showed the thirdin-line to the throne naked in a hotel suite.

In one of the two photographs, the 27-year-old is pictured, apparently wearing only a watch and a necklace, covering his genitals with his hands while another person, who also appears to be nude, stands close behind him.

In the other, he is bent over bearhugging a second person, who also appears to be naked. It is not clear if the person is a man or a woman.

Clarence House confirmed to AFP on Wednesday that the images were genuine. “At this time we don’t have a comment,” a spokesman said, adding: “We may do later.”

It is rare for Clarence House to confirm the validity of such images, which raise questions about security surrounding the British royal.

A royal spokesman later confirmed the family had filed a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission, arguing that the publication of pictures

taken in the prince’s hotel suite were a breach of privacy, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The two images were taken at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas after a game of strip billiards last weekend, according to TMZ. A royal source told the UK’s Press Association news agency that Harry had been “letting off steam before the next phase of his military career”.

Video has also been released from the same trip that purports to show the prince racing US Olympic swimming gold medallist Ryan Lochte in the pool of a nightclub in the hotel.

Lochte, who was in Las Vegas belatedly celebrating his 28th birthday, told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper that he was “surprised” Harry had challenged him to the race, which the swimming star won.

“He’s a great guy, and it was a huge honour to meet him,” Lochte was quoted as saying, adding: “I definitely wasn’t going to take it easy on him!”

It is not the first time Harry has taken on one of the world’s top sportsmen -- during a Caribbean tour in March,

he managed to beat the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt in a joke race.

Harry was in Las Vegas after hosting a charity event in San Diego.

Known for his playboy reputation, the prince has tried to distance himself from that lifestyle.

He caused outrage in 2005 when photographs of him attending a fancy-dress party wearing a swastika armband appeared in the press, and was forced to apologise in 2009 when video footage emerged of him calling an Asian colleague “our little Paki friend”.

The prince has also been pictured scuffling with a photographer and admitted to drinking under-age and smoking cannabis aged 17, but has recently presented a more grown-up image and stood in for the queen at the Olympics closing ceremony.

A trained army helicopter pilot, he has expressed a strong interest in returning to serve in Afghanistan.

His first stint there had to be cut short in 2008 when a media blackout was breached.

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INDONESIA Earthquake shakes Mimika, Papua Antara

JAYAPURA - An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter Scale shook Mimika, Papua, Thursday at 1:01 pm local time.

From page 1 Beth Glenn, who said her family owns most of the businesses in tiny Mineral, said the town survived a fire that roared up the same canyon in the 1990s, but she worried the Ponderosa blaze could be worse.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen tonight,” said Glenn, 58, whose motel and general store in the heart of Mineral were being used by fire officials to disseminate information to residents.

Glenn said the fire had prompted cancellations for the motel during its typically busiest month of August, and she was forced to tell guests not to come after losing power for five days.

The lightning-sparked fire was threatening Mineral after crews had turned it away from two small communities to the west, Shingletown and Manton.

All told, more than 3,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the rural California counties of Tehama and Shasta, about 125 miles north of the state capital, Sacramento, although evacuation orders had been lifted by Wednesday afternoon from Shingletown and several other areas.

Highway 44, the main artery into Lassen Volcanic National Park, was also reopened, although portions of the Lassen National Park Highway were closed along with some trails and campgrounds, according to an alert on the park’s

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The blaze was 50 percent contained as of Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said, but they listed 500 homes, 10 commercial properties and 30 outbuildings as still at risk of being consumed by the explosive fire.

Officials say 64 homes had already been lost, along with 20 other structures.

The Ponderosa fire is one of dozens burning across droughtparched states in the U.S. West, including a blaze that destroyed dozens of homes this week in Washington state and another that threatened a town in Southern California.

“Firefighters are working aggressively to build approximately 11 miles of line and strengthen existing containment lines,” the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said on its website.

“As additional resources arrive, firefighters will continue to diligently defend structures, construct containment lines and build bulldozer perimeter lines,” it said.

Two firefighters have suffered minor injuries fighting the blaze.

Brown’s state-of-emergency declaration, which frees up funds to help combat the fires, cited the Ponderosa blaze, along with the Chips Fire in nearby Plumas County, which is roughly twice as big.

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From page 1 The four airlines served three routes, namely Jakarta, Surabaya and Yogyakarta which denoted the densest route. Extra flights took effect from August 12 and ended on August 27. As the regular flight schedule had been pretty busy, so the PAP I set up for extra flight between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. for Indonesia Air Asia and 2:00 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. for Garuda Indonesia.

She added the surge in domestic passengers, both for the arrival and departure, was predicted to reach 21,000 people per day from normal days only amounting to some 16,000 people. (kmb27)

The quake`s epicenter was located 4.14 degrees southern latitude, 136.8 degrees eastern longitude, at a depth of 56 km below sea level and around 45 km northwest of Mimika, the Jayapura meteorological, climatology and geophysics agency (BMKG) said in a statement here Thursday.

A day before, an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale rocked the regency of Bantul of Yogyakarta but no casualty and damage to property

reported.

The quake hit at 17.59 local time with epicenter in the Indian Ocean 29 kilometer deep around 424 kilometers southwest of Bantul, the Natural Disaster Rehabilitation Agency said.

The agency head Dwi Daryanti said the epicenter is quite far from Bantul that no significant damage caused by the quake.

Dwi quoted the meteorology office as saying the quake has no potential to trigger tsunami.

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High urbanization levels in cities can Two tourists drown, 2 missing boost crime rate at Palabuhanratu beach

Residents search through debris in the Kapuk Muara district of Jakarta on August 23, 2012, following a fire caused by a power surge on August 22. The north Jakarta fire department chief said that 300 houses were burnt down, making some 1500 people homeless.

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JAKARTA - High urbanization can lead to an increase in the crime rate of big cities like Jakarta, sociologist Musni Umar of the National University said on Wednesday.

“The crime rate might increase because of migrants, who will do anything to survive in a city like Jakarta. To do that, they can commit crimes such as pick pocketing and robbing,” Umar said.

He added that while the number of migrants coming to the city keeps increasing, the job opportunities available for them remain the same, which can lead to an extreme competition for work opportunities.

The sociologist also pointed out that new migrants coming to Jakarta should possess work skills and a good education, or they will be rendered jobless and create social unrest.

“Most of the new migrants coming to Jakarta lack skills and a good education,” Umar added.

However, this stiff competition for jobs benefits employers, who can easily fire disobedient workers who demand a reasonable pay.

“Employers can easily sack their workers and replace them with new ones,” he said.

As Jakarta remains an attractive destination for migrants hailing from rural areas, who are looking to improve the quality of their life, the city’s population is expected to rise considerably with the advent of new migrants.

Umar also pointed out that living in Jakarta is also made desirable by the obvious prosperity of the city’s residents, which is on ample display for relatives and families living in rural areas, when people living in Jakarta visit their home towns.

“Residents of rural areas also want to look similarly prosperous when they visit their hometowns from Jakarta. Thus, migrating to big cities like Jakarta becomes their main target,” he said.

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SUKABUMI - Two local tourists have died and two others are missing, and are expected to have drowned at sea while visiting the Palabuhanratu beach of Sukabumi in West Java during the Idul Fitr holiday, a rescuer said on Wednesday.

“All four are expected to have died, two were found drowned and two others are still missing,” chief rescuer Okih Fajrie Assidiqie said.

The tourists reportedly went missing after they swam too far from coastal lines and entered the danger zone.

Assidiqie said that his team of rescuers has been divided into two groups to search for the two people who are still missing.

Maman, a rescue team member said that supervision of other visiting tourists has also been stepped up, and the team has been directed to take firm action against any tourists, who try to

endanger themselves or others.

“But we are facing a tough time supervising all the tourists as there are a lot of them, and it is difficult to keep simultaneous tabs on those who are swimming and others who are simply bathing,” he said.

Earlier, the Indonesian Consumers Institute Foundation (YLKI) had called upon tourist operators to ensure the safety of visitors during the Idul Fitr holidays.

“There are two kinds of threats that Idul-Fitr holiday makers face, namely during transportation and while visiting tourist sites. Both of these are related to their safety,” YLKI Executive Chairman Sudaryatmo said.

He also noted that many tourist spots in the country do not have competent officials, the required safety certification, evacuation lanes, or official instructions that spell out dos and don’ts for travelers.

“Tickets sold for visiting a tourist site should also include an insurance guarantee. The inclusion of insurance is extremely important because it concerns the safety of consumers and protects them from unforeseen circumstances,” Sudaryatmo explained.

“A ticket that includes insurance, also ensures a certain degree of protection for consumers during their visits to tourist sites,” he added.

Sudaryatmo stated that tourist operators should also pay special attention to visitors with children. “For example, they should have a rule that says it is mandatory for children visiting tourist spots to always be accompanied by their parents.”

He also urged tourist operators to not just focus on profit, but also pay enough attention to the safety of visitors, so that such undesirable incidents can be avoided.

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Malaga take control in Champions League playoff Reuters

BERNE - Malaga gave themselves an excellent chance of qualifying for the Champions League for the first time by beating Panathinaikos 2-0 at home in the first leg of their playoff on Wednesday. Udinese, like Malaga hit by a flurry of summer departures, held Braga 1-1 away and Belarus champions BATE Borisov appear on the brink of a second successive group stage appearance after a 2-0 home win over Israel’s Hapoel Kiryat Shmona.

AEL Limassol, hoping to provide more success for Cyprus after APOEL’s run to the quarter-finals last season, won 2-1 against Anderlecht who, like Tottenham Hotspur, are suffering the consequences of Chelsea winning the trophy last season.

Tottenham missed out altogether because Chelsea, who finished outside the top four in the English Premier League, took their place under UEFA’s complex qualification system. Anderlecht, who should have gone straight into the group stage, were pushed back into the third qualification round.

Former Argentina defender Martin Demichelis put Malaga in front against group stage regulars Panathinaikos when he reacted quickly to flick home from close range in the 17th minute. Portuguese Eliseu volleyed the second just after the half hour. Although Malaga did not concede, they may have been disappointed not to have added to their tally after they dominated the match.

Udinese, beaten at the same stage by Arsenal last season, went ahead in the 23rd minute against the run of play with a Dusan Basta header before Braga’s Brazilian leftback Ismaily rifled in a stunning equaliser from long range in the 68th minute.

Defeat for Udinese against the Portuguese side would leave Italy with only two teams in the group stage after Serie A dropped below the Bundesliga in UEFA’s coefficients system.

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Malaga’s Eliseu (L) falls on Panathinaikos’ Victor Vitolo as they fight for the ball during their Champions League play-off first leg soccer match at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, southern Spain August 22, 2012.

Anderlecht, who beat Lithuania’s Ekranas 11-0 on aggregate in the previous round, found AEL a different proposition and they fell behind to a Dosa Junior goal in the 34th minute. Dieudonne Mbokani levelled just after the hour for the Belgian champions only for Rui Miguel to put the Cypriots back in front 10 minutes later.

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Usain Bolt mulls swapping sprint for long jump in Rio

Juve coach Conte loses appeal over 10-month ban Reuters

Agence France Presse

ROME - Juventus coach Antonio Conte is set to miss the whole of the Serie A season with the defending champions after losing his appeal against a 10-month ban over a match-fixing scandal on Wednesday.

Conte, who led an undefeated Juventus to the Italian title in his first season in charge last term, was banned on Aug.10 for failing to report two incidents of match-fixing in the 2010-11 season when he was coach of then Serie B side Siena.

The Italian federation (FIGC) said in a statement on Wednesday that Conte, whose hearing was heard on Monday, had lost his appeal over the sentence. Juventus President Andrea Agnelli said the ruling confirmed the club’s “worst suspicions” about Italy’s football justice system which “seems more and more like a witch-hunt”.

The FIGC’s prosecutor also lost an appeal against the decision to acquit Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci and winger Simone Pepe over an alleged attempt to fix a match between Bari and Udinese in 2010.

The FIGC’s prosecutor had wanted a threeand-a-half year ban for Italy’s Bonucci, who was playing for Bari at the time, and one-year ban for Pepe, who was with Udinese.

The Serie A season starts this weekend. Juve have said they will stick by Conte with a second appeal set to be launched and heard in September.

Conte’s assistant Massimo Carrera has taken charge of Juve’s pre-season friendlies and is poised to stay as temporary boss.

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has said he is considering switching sprinting for long jump before the 2016 Rio Olympics. The world’s fastest man, who claimed three gold medals at the London Olympics, dismissed rumours that he may retire before Rio but said he may compete in different events in four years’ time.

“It’s just about making different goals, there’s a lot of things I can do in the sport,” Bolt told Britain’s Sky News television channel.

“My coach wants me to do 400 metres, I want to try long jump,” said Bolt, who successfully defended his 2008 Beijing 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles in London this month. “I could always try to aim for the records again, so there’s different things -- but after the season we’ll decide what we want to do and work on

Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, hits a forehand during her 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory over Sofia Arvidsson, of Sweden, during the second round of the New Haven Open tennis tournament in New Haven, Conn., on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.

Wozniacki remains undefeated in New Haven

AP Photo/Fred Beckham

Associated Press Writer

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Caroline Wozniacki believes in treating the New Haven Open as much more than just a warm-up event for the U.S. Open. The third-seeded Dane remained undefeated at the Connecticut Tennis Center on Wednesday, beating Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Wozniacki is playing in the tournament for the fifth time and is the four-time defending champion. The victory Wednesday was her 19th without a loss at the tournament. ‘’I think I just have the same mentality every time I go into a match,’’ Wozniacki said. ‘’Out of respect for myself, the tournament and the opponent, I treat it as a match that I want to win.’’

Her chances for a fifth straight title improved Tuesday when topseeded Agnieszka Radwanska retired in the second set of a lackluster performance against qualifier Olga Govortsova with a sore shoulder.

Radwanska said she did not want

to risk aggravating the injury going into the U.S. Open.

But another top player advanced Wednesday. Second-seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic earned a 6-2, 6-4 win over NCAA champion Nicole Gibbs. The 2011 Wimbledon champion, the only Grand Slam winner in the New Haven field, is coming off a championship in Montreal and semifinal run in Cincinnati. She said the plan is to keep that roll going. ‘’I want to play a lot of matches here, and go for the U.S. Open with a good result,’’ she said. ‘’I want good matches in my bag.’’ The 19-

year-old Gibbs, who is going into her junior year at Stanford, earned a spot in just her third WTA main draw through qualifying.

But this was in her second match this summer against a top player.

She lost to Serena Williams earlier this season in the second round at Stanford. ‘’Having taking from that experience and this one tonight, I have more confidence that I can play at that level,’’ she said. She was able to come back from 4-1 down to tie Kvitova before world’s fifthranked player put her away.

Kvitova will play one of her best friends, Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals.

Safarova beat Jie Zheng of China 6-4, 6-0. Wozniacki had a tougher time in her match. She never trailed against Arvidsson, but dropped three straight games after being up 4-1 in the first set, and had to battle the rest of the way.

that next season.”

Bolt’s flirtation with long jump comes a week after he claimed he was considering playing cricket in Australia’s domestic Twenty20 Big Bash League. He played junior cricket before turning to the track and has long voiced a love for the game.

The sprinter has also said he would happily play football for Manchester United, “if the money’s right”. If Bolt does switch to long jump, he would be following in the footsteps of US sprinter Carl Lewis, who won the Olympic long jump title four times from 1984 to 1988 as well as four sprint golds.

Bolt also brushed off speculation that he was planning to quit ahead of the Rio Games. “Yes, definitely I will be there (in Rio), as long as I’m fit and I’m ready,” said the 26-year-old. “It’ll be a little bit harder but I’m looking forward to it.”

AP Photo / KEYSTONE/Jean-Christophe Bott

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, gestures during a conference “Art & Science of Winning” at IMD business School, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.

Massa optimistic of securing new Ferrari deal

Felipe Massa remains optimistic that he can deliver good enough results in the second half of the season to help secure a fresh deal at Ferrari. The Brazilian has been under pressure this season to lift his game and produce the kind of points-scoring finishes that his team needs for constructors’ championship positions.

And, on the back of a lift in his form since the Monaco Grand Prix, and a season-best fourth place finish in Britain, Massa feels that if he continues making progress then his future should take care of itself.

“I’m confident,” Massa was quoted as saying by Associated Press after an FIA road safety

seminar in Sao Paulo. “Even though the results have not been good, the performances were better. Now we need to have a clean race so the result can be positive in the end.” He added: “In the end the result is what matters the most.

That’s what’s crucial for every driver. I’ll need to stay prepared and finish the races well to try to

have better results in the second half of the year.”

Massa revealed that he had opened talks with Ferrari, which has also been linked with a number of drivers this year including Sergio Perez, Paul di Resta, Nico Hulkenberg and Kimi Raikkonen.

“The discussions began a long

time ago,” said Massa. “But until there is a deal finalised, nothing changes.”

Massa’s team-mate Fernando Alonso has scored 164 points this year, while the Brazilian has just 25 to his name. Ferrari is currently fourth in the constructors’ championship, three points behind Lotus and four behind McLaren.

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Malaga take control in Champions League playoff Reuters

BERNE - Malaga gave themselves an excellent chance of qualifying for the Champions League for the first time by beating Panathinaikos 2-0 at home in the first leg of their playoff on Wednesday. Udinese, like Malaga hit by a flurry of summer departures, held Braga 1-1 away and Belarus champions BATE Borisov appear on the brink of a second successive group stage appearance after a 2-0 home win over Israel’s Hapoel Kiryat Shmona.

AEL Limassol, hoping to provide more success for Cyprus after APOEL’s run to the quarter-finals last season, won 2-1 against Anderlecht who, like Tottenham Hotspur, are suffering the consequences of Chelsea winning the trophy last season.

Tottenham missed out altogether because Chelsea, who finished outside the top four in the English Premier League, took their place under UEFA’s complex qualification system. Anderlecht, who should have gone straight into the group stage, were pushed back into the third qualification round.

Former Argentina defender Martin Demichelis put Malaga in front against group stage regulars Panathinaikos when he reacted quickly to flick home from close range in the 17th minute. Portuguese Eliseu volleyed the second just after the half hour. Although Malaga did not concede, they may have been disappointed not to have added to their tally after they dominated the match.

Udinese, beaten at the same stage by Arsenal last season, went ahead in the 23rd minute against the run of play with a Dusan Basta header before Braga’s Brazilian leftback Ismaily rifled in a stunning equaliser from long range in the 68th minute.

Defeat for Udinese against the Portuguese side would leave Italy with only two teams in the group stage after Serie A dropped below the Bundesliga in UEFA’s coefficients system.

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REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Malaga’s Eliseu (L) falls on Panathinaikos’ Victor Vitolo as they fight for the ball during their Champions League play-off first leg soccer match at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, southern Spain August 22, 2012.

Anderlecht, who beat Lithuania’s Ekranas 11-0 on aggregate in the previous round, found AEL a different proposition and they fell behind to a Dosa Junior goal in the 34th minute. Dieudonne Mbokani levelled just after the hour for the Belgian champions only for Rui Miguel to put the Cypriots back in front 10 minutes later.

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Usain Bolt mulls swapping sprint for long jump in Rio

Juve coach Conte loses appeal over 10-month ban Reuters

Agence France Presse

ROME - Juventus coach Antonio Conte is set to miss the whole of the Serie A season with the defending champions after losing his appeal against a 10-month ban over a match-fixing scandal on Wednesday.

Conte, who led an undefeated Juventus to the Italian title in his first season in charge last term, was banned on Aug.10 for failing to report two incidents of match-fixing in the 2010-11 season when he was coach of then Serie B side Siena.

The Italian federation (FIGC) said in a statement on Wednesday that Conte, whose hearing was heard on Monday, had lost his appeal over the sentence. Juventus President Andrea Agnelli said the ruling confirmed the club’s “worst suspicions” about Italy’s football justice system which “seems more and more like a witch-hunt”.

The FIGC’s prosecutor also lost an appeal against the decision to acquit Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci and winger Simone Pepe over an alleged attempt to fix a match between Bari and Udinese in 2010.

The FIGC’s prosecutor had wanted a threeand-a-half year ban for Italy’s Bonucci, who was playing for Bari at the time, and one-year ban for Pepe, who was with Udinese.

The Serie A season starts this weekend. Juve have said they will stick by Conte with a second appeal set to be launched and heard in September.

Conte’s assistant Massimo Carrera has taken charge of Juve’s pre-season friendlies and is poised to stay as temporary boss.

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has said he is considering switching sprinting for long jump before the 2016 Rio Olympics. The world’s fastest man, who claimed three gold medals at the London Olympics, dismissed rumours that he may retire before Rio but said he may compete in different events in four years’ time.

“It’s just about making different goals, there’s a lot of things I can do in the sport,” Bolt told Britain’s Sky News television channel.

“My coach wants me to do 400 metres, I want to try long jump,” said Bolt, who successfully defended his 2008 Beijing 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles in London this month. “I could always try to aim for the records again, so there’s different things -- but after the season we’ll decide what we want to do and work on

Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, hits a forehand during her 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory over Sofia Arvidsson, of Sweden, during the second round of the New Haven Open tennis tournament in New Haven, Conn., on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.

Wozniacki remains undefeated in New Haven

AP Photo/Fred Beckham

Associated Press Writer

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Caroline Wozniacki believes in treating the New Haven Open as much more than just a warm-up event for the U.S. Open. The third-seeded Dane remained undefeated at the Connecticut Tennis Center on Wednesday, beating Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Wozniacki is playing in the tournament for the fifth time and is the four-time defending champion. The victory Wednesday was her 19th without a loss at the tournament. ‘’I think I just have the same mentality every time I go into a match,’’ Wozniacki said. ‘’Out of respect for myself, the tournament and the opponent, I treat it as a match that I want to win.’’

Her chances for a fifth straight title improved Tuesday when topseeded Agnieszka Radwanska retired in the second set of a lackluster performance against qualifier Olga Govortsova with a sore shoulder.

Radwanska said she did not want

to risk aggravating the injury going into the U.S. Open.

But another top player advanced Wednesday. Second-seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic earned a 6-2, 6-4 win over NCAA champion Nicole Gibbs. The 2011 Wimbledon champion, the only Grand Slam winner in the New Haven field, is coming off a championship in Montreal and semifinal run in Cincinnati. She said the plan is to keep that roll going. ‘’I want to play a lot of matches here, and go for the U.S. Open with a good result,’’ she said. ‘’I want good matches in my bag.’’ The 19-

year-old Gibbs, who is going into her junior year at Stanford, earned a spot in just her third WTA main draw through qualifying.

But this was in her second match this summer against a top player.

She lost to Serena Williams earlier this season in the second round at Stanford. ‘’Having taking from that experience and this one tonight, I have more confidence that I can play at that level,’’ she said. She was able to come back from 4-1 down to tie Kvitova before world’s fifthranked player put her away.

Kvitova will play one of her best friends, Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals.

Safarova beat Jie Zheng of China 6-4, 6-0. Wozniacki had a tougher time in her match. She never trailed against Arvidsson, but dropped three straight games after being up 4-1 in the first set, and had to battle the rest of the way.

that next season.”

Bolt’s flirtation with long jump comes a week after he claimed he was considering playing cricket in Australia’s domestic Twenty20 Big Bash League. He played junior cricket before turning to the track and has long voiced a love for the game.

The sprinter has also said he would happily play football for Manchester United, “if the money’s right”. If Bolt does switch to long jump, he would be following in the footsteps of US sprinter Carl Lewis, who won the Olympic long jump title four times from 1984 to 1988 as well as four sprint golds.

Bolt also brushed off speculation that he was planning to quit ahead of the Rio Games. “Yes, definitely I will be there (in Rio), as long as I’m fit and I’m ready,” said the 26-year-old. “It’ll be a little bit harder but I’m looking forward to it.”

AP Photo / KEYSTONE/Jean-Christophe Bott

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, gestures during a conference “Art & Science of Winning” at IMD business School, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.

Massa optimistic of securing new Ferrari deal

Felipe Massa remains optimistic that he can deliver good enough results in the second half of the season to help secure a fresh deal at Ferrari. The Brazilian has been under pressure this season to lift his game and produce the kind of points-scoring finishes that his team needs for constructors’ championship positions.

And, on the back of a lift in his form since the Monaco Grand Prix, and a season-best fourth place finish in Britain, Massa feels that if he continues making progress then his future should take care of itself.

“I’m confident,” Massa was quoted as saying by Associated Press after an FIA road safety

seminar in Sao Paulo. “Even though the results have not been good, the performances were better. Now we need to have a clean race so the result can be positive in the end.” He added: “In the end the result is what matters the most.

That’s what’s crucial for every driver. I’ll need to stay prepared and finish the races well to try to

have better results in the second half of the year.”

Massa revealed that he had opened talks with Ferrari, which has also been linked with a number of drivers this year including Sergio Perez, Paul di Resta, Nico Hulkenberg and Kimi Raikkonen.

“The discussions began a long

time ago,” said Massa. “But until there is a deal finalised, nothing changes.”

Massa’s team-mate Fernando Alonso has scored 164 points this year, while the Brazilian has just 25 to his name. Ferrari is currently fourth in the constructors’ championship, three points behind Lotus and four behind McLaren.

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30 children in Germany injured in bus crash Associated Press Writer

BERLIN — German police say at least 30 children have been injured, some of them seriously, after a bus they were traveling in overturned on a southern highway.

A Bavarian police spokesman says the driver appeared to have lost control of the bus during a sudden hailstorm near the town of Freising on Wednesday afternoon.

Ulrich Poepsel said police sent “anything with a siren” to the site of the accident including several helicopters that ferried the injured children to nearby hospitals.

He says the bus was registered in the German town of Dachau and was taking children home from a holiday trip.

Poepsel said the overturned bus caused a second crash involving several vehicles for which casualty figures were still unclear.

California...

AFP Photo/Nelson Almeida

Britain’s Prince Harry takes part in a polo match in March 2012 in Campinas, Brazil. The prince caused outrage in 2005 when photographs of him attending a fancy-dress party wearing a swastika armband appeared in the press, and was forced to apologise in 2009 when video footage emerged of him calling an Asian colleague “our little Paki friend”.

Nude photos of Prince Harry are genuine: palace Agence France Presse

The British royal family said nude photographs of Prince Harry cavorting with friends on holiday in Las Vegas were genuine.

The photographs, published in the United States by celebrity news website TMZ.com, showed the thirdin-line to the throne naked in a hotel suite.

In one of the two photographs, the 27-year-old is pictured, apparently wearing only a watch and a necklace, covering his genitals with his hands while another person, who also appears to be nude, stands close behind him.

In the other, he is bent over bearhugging a second person, who also appears to be naked. It is not clear if the person is a man or a woman.

Clarence House confirmed to AFP on Wednesday that the images were genuine. “At this time we don’t have a comment,” a spokesman said, adding: “We may do later.”

It is rare for Clarence House to confirm the validity of such images, which raise questions about security surrounding the British royal.

A royal spokesman later confirmed the family had filed a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission, arguing that the publication of pictures

taken in the prince’s hotel suite were a breach of privacy, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The two images were taken at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas after a game of strip billiards last weekend, according to TMZ. A royal source told the UK’s Press Association news agency that Harry had been “letting off steam before the next phase of his military career”.

Video has also been released from the same trip that purports to show the prince racing US Olympic swimming gold medallist Ryan Lochte in the pool of a nightclub in the hotel.

Lochte, who was in Las Vegas belatedly celebrating his 28th birthday, told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper that he was “surprised” Harry had challenged him to the race, which the swimming star won.

“He’s a great guy, and it was a huge honour to meet him,” Lochte was quoted as saying, adding: “I definitely wasn’t going to take it easy on him!”

It is not the first time Harry has taken on one of the world’s top sportsmen -- during a Caribbean tour in March,

he managed to beat the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt in a joke race.

Harry was in Las Vegas after hosting a charity event in San Diego.

Known for his playboy reputation, the prince has tried to distance himself from that lifestyle.

He caused outrage in 2005 when photographs of him attending a fancy-dress party wearing a swastika armband appeared in the press, and was forced to apologise in 2009 when video footage emerged of him calling an Asian colleague “our little Paki friend”.

The prince has also been pictured scuffling with a photographer and admitted to drinking under-age and smoking cannabis aged 17, but has recently presented a more grown-up image and stood in for the queen at the Olympics closing ceremony.

A trained army helicopter pilot, he has expressed a strong interest in returning to serve in Afghanistan.

His first stint there had to be cut short in 2008 when a media blackout was breached.

Friday, August 24, 2012

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INDONESIA Earthquake shakes Mimika, Papua Antara

JAYAPURA - An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter Scale shook Mimika, Papua, Thursday at 1:01 pm local time.

From page 1 Beth Glenn, who said her family owns most of the businesses in tiny Mineral, said the town survived a fire that roared up the same canyon in the 1990s, but she worried the Ponderosa blaze could be worse.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen tonight,” said Glenn, 58, whose motel and general store in the heart of Mineral were being used by fire officials to disseminate information to residents.

Glenn said the fire had prompted cancellations for the motel during its typically busiest month of August, and she was forced to tell guests not to come after losing power for five days.

The lightning-sparked fire was threatening Mineral after crews had turned it away from two small communities to the west, Shingletown and Manton.

All told, more than 3,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the rural California counties of Tehama and Shasta, about 125 miles north of the state capital, Sacramento, although evacuation orders had been lifted by Wednesday afternoon from Shingletown and several other areas.

Highway 44, the main artery into Lassen Volcanic National Park, was also reopened, although portions of the Lassen National Park Highway were closed along with some trails and campgrounds, according to an alert on the park’s

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website.

The blaze was 50 percent contained as of Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said, but they listed 500 homes, 10 commercial properties and 30 outbuildings as still at risk of being consumed by the explosive fire.

Officials say 64 homes had already been lost, along with 20 other structures.

The Ponderosa fire is one of dozens burning across droughtparched states in the U.S. West, including a blaze that destroyed dozens of homes this week in Washington state and another that threatened a town in Southern California.

“Firefighters are working aggressively to build approximately 11 miles of line and strengthen existing containment lines,” the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said on its website.

“As additional resources arrive, firefighters will continue to diligently defend structures, construct containment lines and build bulldozer perimeter lines,” it said.

Two firefighters have suffered minor injuries fighting the blaze.

Brown’s state-of-emergency declaration, which frees up funds to help combat the fires, cited the Ponderosa blaze, along with the Chips Fire in nearby Plumas County, which is roughly twice as big.

Homecoming...

From page 1 The four airlines served three routes, namely Jakarta, Surabaya and Yogyakarta which denoted the densest route. Extra flights took effect from August 12 and ended on August 27. As the regular flight schedule had been pretty busy, so the PAP I set up for extra flight between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. for Indonesia Air Asia and 2:00 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. for Garuda Indonesia.

She added the surge in domestic passengers, both for the arrival and departure, was predicted to reach 21,000 people per day from normal days only amounting to some 16,000 people. (kmb27)

The quake`s epicenter was located 4.14 degrees southern latitude, 136.8 degrees eastern longitude, at a depth of 56 km below sea level and around 45 km northwest of Mimika, the Jayapura meteorological, climatology and geophysics agency (BMKG) said in a statement here Thursday.

A day before, an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale rocked the regency of Bantul of Yogyakarta but no casualty and damage to property

reported.

The quake hit at 17.59 local time with epicenter in the Indian Ocean 29 kilometer deep around 424 kilometers southwest of Bantul, the Natural Disaster Rehabilitation Agency said.

The agency head Dwi Daryanti said the epicenter is quite far from Bantul that no significant damage caused by the quake.

Dwi quoted the meteorology office as saying the quake has no potential to trigger tsunami.

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High urbanization levels in cities can Two tourists drown, 2 missing boost crime rate at Palabuhanratu beach

Residents search through debris in the Kapuk Muara district of Jakarta on August 23, 2012, following a fire caused by a power surge on August 22. The north Jakarta fire department chief said that 300 houses were burnt down, making some 1500 people homeless.

Antara

JAKARTA - High urbanization can lead to an increase in the crime rate of big cities like Jakarta, sociologist Musni Umar of the National University said on Wednesday.

“The crime rate might increase because of migrants, who will do anything to survive in a city like Jakarta. To do that, they can commit crimes such as pick pocketing and robbing,” Umar said.

He added that while the number of migrants coming to the city keeps increasing, the job opportunities available for them remain the same, which can lead to an extreme competition for work opportunities.

The sociologist also pointed out that new migrants coming to Jakarta should possess work skills and a good education, or they will be rendered jobless and create social unrest.

“Most of the new migrants coming to Jakarta lack skills and a good education,” Umar added.

However, this stiff competition for jobs benefits employers, who can easily fire disobedient workers who demand a reasonable pay.

“Employers can easily sack their workers and replace them with new ones,” he said.

As Jakarta remains an attractive destination for migrants hailing from rural areas, who are looking to improve the quality of their life, the city’s population is expected to rise considerably with the advent of new migrants.

Umar also pointed out that living in Jakarta is also made desirable by the obvious prosperity of the city’s residents, which is on ample display for relatives and families living in rural areas, when people living in Jakarta visit their home towns.

“Residents of rural areas also want to look similarly prosperous when they visit their hometowns from Jakarta. Thus, migrating to big cities like Jakarta becomes their main target,” he said.

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SUKABUMI - Two local tourists have died and two others are missing, and are expected to have drowned at sea while visiting the Palabuhanratu beach of Sukabumi in West Java during the Idul Fitr holiday, a rescuer said on Wednesday.

“All four are expected to have died, two were found drowned and two others are still missing,” chief rescuer Okih Fajrie Assidiqie said.

The tourists reportedly went missing after they swam too far from coastal lines and entered the danger zone.

Assidiqie said that his team of rescuers has been divided into two groups to search for the two people who are still missing.

Maman, a rescue team member said that supervision of other visiting tourists has also been stepped up, and the team has been directed to take firm action against any tourists, who try to

endanger themselves or others.

“But we are facing a tough time supervising all the tourists as there are a lot of them, and it is difficult to keep simultaneous tabs on those who are swimming and others who are simply bathing,” he said.

Earlier, the Indonesian Consumers Institute Foundation (YLKI) had called upon tourist operators to ensure the safety of visitors during the Idul Fitr holidays.

“There are two kinds of threats that Idul-Fitr holiday makers face, namely during transportation and while visiting tourist sites. Both of these are related to their safety,” YLKI Executive Chairman Sudaryatmo said.

He also noted that many tourist spots in the country do not have competent officials, the required safety certification, evacuation lanes, or official instructions that spell out dos and don’ts for travelers.

“Tickets sold for visiting a tourist site should also include an insurance guarantee. The inclusion of insurance is extremely important because it concerns the safety of consumers and protects them from unforeseen circumstances,” Sudaryatmo explained.

“A ticket that includes insurance, also ensures a certain degree of protection for consumers during their visits to tourist sites,” he added.

Sudaryatmo stated that tourist operators should also pay special attention to visitors with children. “For example, they should have a rule that says it is mandatory for children visiting tourist spots to always be accompanied by their parents.”

He also urged tourist operators to not just focus on profit, but also pay enough attention to the safety of visitors, so that such undesirable incidents can be avoided.

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Eid holiday

Lovina thronged by domestic tourists

Oil prices up on hopes for US central bank action Associated Press

BANGKOK — Crude prices rose above $98 per barrel Thursday, with oil markets being driven by hopes that the Federal Reserve is leaning toward action to help the U.S. economy’s stalled recovery.

Benchmark crude for October delivery rose 77 cents in midday Bangkok time to $98.03 per barrel in

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electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 42 cents to finish at $97.26 per

barrel in New York on Wednesday.

Brent crude rose $1.01 to $115.92 on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

Minutes from the Fed’s July meeting suggested its members were prepared to take new steps to boost the U.S. economy.

The minutes show that Fed of-

ficials spoke with increased urgency about the need to provide more help to the economy unless it improved significantly. But there were no specific details about what steps might be taken or when.

Oil prices have risen about $8 per barrel since Aug. 1, partly on hopes that the U.S., Europe and China would

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Simultaneous leaves in conjunction with the Eid celebration, in fact, significantly affected the domestic tourist visits to Lovina tourist resort, Singaraja. From Sunday (Aug 19) to Wednesday (Aug 22), hundreds of domestic tourists made a visit to Lovina every day to enjoy the beach and watch dolphin attraction.

do more to increase growth in their respective economies. Slower growth cuts into the demand for oil and other energy products.

In other futures trading on the Nymex, heating oil rose 1.9 cents to $3.1559 per gallon. Gasoline futures rose 2.7 cents to $2.9654. Natural gas rose 2.6 cents to $2.852 per gallon.

Australia’s Fairfax Media posts $2.87 billion loss

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Tourists thronged at Lovina Beach during the Eid holiday. From Sunday (Aug 19) to Wednesday (Aug 22), hundreds of domestic tourists made a visit to Lovina every day to enjoy the beach and watch dolphin attraction.

Field observation made last Wednesday indicated that crowded visits to Lovina Beach took place in the morning and evening. Majority of tourists preferred to play on the beach, some others rented a boat to see dolphins swimming in the sea, while foreign tourists chose to do snorkeling.

One of the visitors, Sugiono, claimed to deliberately spend holiday to Bali on the Eid feast of this year with her extended family. He decided to visit Lovina Beach because it was famous for its calm wavy beach and could see dolphin attraction or snorkel. “As incidentally having a few days off, we will travel to Bedugul and take families to

Lovina first,” he said.

Meanwhile, the hot spring bathing place at Banjar also showed a soaring visitors compared to usual days. The management said the increase in tourist visit reached 300 percent. On normal days, the attraction was only visited by 300 people. The hot spring believed to have an efficacy to cure skin diseases was not only visited by local people but also foreign tourists. They looked to try the efficacy of Banjar Hot Spring.

“Today, the number of visitor has virtually reaches 1,200 people.

Probably, it will increase because they still continue to come until this afternoon,” said Ida Bagus Satwika, operator of the local tourist attraction. (kmb)

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SYDNEY — Shares in Australia’s second largest newspaper publisher Fairfax Media Ltd. dived nearly 10 percent after the company unveiled a 2.73 billion Australian dollar ($2.87 billion) loss Thursday for the fiscal year ending June 24 due to writedowns in the value of assets and declining advertising.

News of the massive loss came as chief executive Greg Hywood said he would give up half his AU$840,000 bonus because of the difficult conditions facing the company.

Revenue at the Sydney-based media group, which is undergoing a massive restructuring, fell to AU$2.33 billion from AU$2.5 billion.

The profit result was hit by AU$2.9 billion in writedowns, comprising a AU$2.8 billion non-cash impairment charge and other significant items worth AU$140 million. Stripping out those significant items, underlying net profit fell to AU$212 million from AU$283 million a year earlier.

Hywood defended the result, saying the underlying performance showed that the company “has a sound and diversified business.”

“These results reflect a challenging environment,” he said in a statement.

Shares in Fairfax plunged 9.7 percent.

Fairfax said economic conditions “remain challenged” in core advertising markets and ongoing structural changes were affecting the city newspaper business.

It said early revenues for the current fiscal year were tracking 10 percent below the previous year.

“Difficult trading conditions are likely to continue,” the company’s statement said.

Hywood volunteered to give up half his bonus previously approved by the Fairfax board.

His pay for the year was AU$2.02 million.

Fairfax announced in June it will shed 1,900 jobs — almost one fifth of its 10,000 staff — over three years and erect pay walls for two flagship newspapers as readers increasingly move online.

The company owns more than 300 newspapers, 50 websites and 15 radio stations in Australia and New Zealand. Only News Corp. publishes more Australian newspapers.

Balinese women:

Qantas cancels $8.5 billion worth of Boeing 787 orders

In devotional services through the arts

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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, left, discusses the airline’s full-year financial results as CFO Gareth Evans listens in Sydney, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Qantas Airways Ltd. reported a 245 million Australian dollar ($257 million) annual loss in profits on Thursday, hurt by rising fuel prices, a series of strikes that temporarily grounded its fleet and its struggling international division.

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SYDNEY - Australian airline Qantas is canceling an order for 35 of Boeing’s new 787 jets as it tries to cut costs.

The jets would have been worth $8.5 billion at list prices, although dis-

counts are common on large orders.

The financially struggling airline is still buying 15 787-8s. It is also keeping options that allow it to buy as many as 50 of Boeing’s longer 787-9.

But it’s cancelling orders for 35 of those jets.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says the change is part of trying to make Qantas profitable.

Boeing Co. says Qantas has been a long-standing customer and it will work with the airline to help it adapt.

Beauty can stop everyone’s eyes flickering.

Beauty of the kid song can lullaby a baby.

Similarly, beauty also can toss the imagination, soothe the mind and draw people to get near. Bali has many sources of that beauty offering the charm of nature, culture or adventure.

By maintaining traditions inspired by Hinduism, Balinese people go on running in harmony with the time. In other words, they do not feel inferior because of inheriting those traditions. Beauty in the form of various dance movements has been introduced since early ages. On seeing a dance staged, a toddler may watch it attentively or its fingers move and move as if imitating the movement of the dance.

Virtually all customary villages in Bali have gamelan troupe. This troupe plays important role in expressing their entertainment arts and accompanying every ritual activity.

This existence gives opportunity to villagers from child to adult to express their artistic talent especially in dance, drama and gamelan arts. Young girls under twelve or elementary school age have a chance to participate in performing Rejang Dance. By wearing white and yellow costumes and floral decoration on head, they dance beautifully accompanied by gamelan music. Rejang Dance is one of the sacred dances performed in relation to the organization of temple anniversary or odalan. Other than putting a basic love to their tradition, they also show devotional service or ngatur ayah through the arts.

When they grow older, right on entering secondary school, they join customary village

youth club or Sekaa Taruna. Here, with their male friends and their brothers and sisters start to learn about organization. Many things can be learned through this organization. Since it has affiliation to customary village, they can learn about the making of some simple oblation under guidance of senior oblation maker and various traditional arts. In Bali, this youth club actually play important role in preparing young generation to maintain their valuable

cultural heritages or to prepare themselves for inheriting customary responsibility.

With their male counterpart, here the young girls also learn to play drama or more complex traditional arts. Popular genres of performance showed are pure entertainment and the one in combination with sacred dance.

The latter usually features Calonarang. This magical drama involves a combination of male and female players. In essence, this

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Calonarang drama highlights the endless fight between truth and untruth symbolizing by sanctified effigies or tapakan like Rangda and Barong. By and large, it is also associated with ritual events at local temple.

In the following stage, when woman gets married she will enter the new organization, namely customary village. Having learned much about ritual works, it is now the time to practice them in wider social life. They should attend some socio-religious activities when the events engage the members of customary village. At this stage, household mother can remain to show her devotional service through the arts other than social works. Through the arts, they may join the drama or individual psalmodic singing or pasantian.

How is about their private life? It is normal as others. They also have opportunity to build career in their profession. In modern life with heterogeneous professions as today, woman also works as men do. Traditions do not impede them to reach outstanding achievement in self-employee or office job. If they work at daytime, some social works will be held at the evening.

Tradition is not something obsolete. Even, it retains abundant inspirations to create something new and creative that is advantageous for modern life. However, traditions should also be reviewed and adjust to the current condition without leaving behind its core. Tradition does not hinder women to get their career achievement. Even, it stays to give them a channel to express their spiritual sense through devotional services. (BTN/punia)

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RLD Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, speaks next to Jean Claude Juncker, unseen, prime minister, of Luxembourg and President of Eurogroup during a joint news conference after their meeting in Athens, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.

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Promote culture and Mount Batur

Central Govt to hold Lake Batur Festival The beautiful scenery of Mount Batur Bangli (Bali Post)—

Central government in cooperation with Bangli Government is going to organize an international event in the form of Lake Batur Festival next November. The activity aimed at promoting the local culture of Bali and Bangli in particular has been done through the Internet.

Spokesperson of Bangli Government, Made Putra Mahindra, said on Wednesday (Aug 22) the Lake Batur Festival would be held for the second time in November. Last

year, such activity had been carried out. For this time, promotion of the activity would be enlarged.

Aside from aiming to promote Balinese culture in general, it was

also intended to promote Bangli in particular.

Additionally, the activity also aimed at promoting the panorama of Batur to international community. Especially for Indonesia, the Batur Caldera was one of the volcanic regions to be promoted as a geopark territory. On that account, many cultural attractions and beauties of Bangli would be promoted through the event. Moreover, the Lake Batur Festival had been made

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Tens of traffic accidents, four dead Singaraja (Bali Post) –

Buleleng Police noted there are 20 traffic accidents cases during the Ketupat Agung Operation 2012 which started two weeks ago. From that total, four victims were dead where two people died at Tejakula area, one at Singaraja area and another at Seririt area as stated by the Head of the Operation Ida Bagus Wedanajati as permitted by Head Police, GAPC T. Widodo Rahino after the operation evaluation meeting on Wednesday (22/8).

Meanwhile from the investigation of the accidents case it was stated the factor was due to driver’s ignorance such as motorcycle drivers was under the influence or not using a safety helmet.

According to Wedanajati a number of socializations have been given to public and students also a number of actions has been taken to those violating. “We have tried to decrease the number of traffic accidents yet it seemed there is more to do with these cases have happened,” Wedanajati explained. (kmb15)

a national event of Indonesia this year where the financing would be allocated through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the RI. However, as the field organizer it would still be accommodated by Bangli Regency. In order the event could take place flourishingly, Bangli Regency had worked with local entertainment in Bali. The use of Bali local entertainment service instead of the one from Jakarta was intended in order the whole event

To supervise the coming back current from celebrating Eid, Badung Police Head, GAPC Beny Arjanto, last Wednesday (22/8) stated a number of personnel have been sent to the field. Up to 4 pm local time on Tuesday (21/8) the situation on the main route is still normal while at Mengwi Terminal there hasn’t been a significant increase on the number of passengers and vehicles. To anticipate the increase the coming Thursday (23/8) to Sunday (26/8), Badung have optimized their supervision in security, service and observation posts up to 24 hours especially on sensitive areas

BERLIN — Greece’s prime minister struck a conciliatory tone Wednesday before a closely watched visit to Germany, insisting in interviews with two influential German newspapers that his country doesn’t want more money, just more time to deliver on promised economic reforms and government spending cuts.

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could be well organized. Moreover, the Bali local entertainment service knew better about the culture of Balinese people.

“The event becoming an annual agenda for the second time in Bangli has started to be promoted through the Internet. However, the official inauguration of the event is still coordinated with the central government. Obviously, it will be held next November,” he said. (kmb17)

Badung Police alert 24 hours post Eid traffic

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such as Raya Sempidi Street, Denpasar-TabananGilimanuk route and Denpasar-Singaraja route.

Besides that a supervision increase also applied at Mengwi Terminal to anticipate any crime happening with coordination with Transportation Agency, Police Civil Service and Badung Army.

A checking on passengers have also been applied especially non residents. Documents were checked also if there are any weapons or suspicions objects brought by them. “We have also prepared 40 taxis and 60 small busses. If these are not enough, Badung Police have also prepared three Dalmas trucks to bring passengers to Ubung Terminal,” Arjanto explained. (kmb21)

Antonis Samaras heads to Berlin on Friday for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is the largest single contributor to Greece’s €240 billion ($300 billion) bailout packages. German officials and some lawmakers in Merkel’s coalition government have made clear they are in no mood to grant significant concessions.

“Let me be very clear: we are not asking for extra money,” Samaras told Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper in an interview published Wednesday. “We stand by our commitments and the implementation of all requirements. But we must encourage growth, because that reduces the financing gaps.”

“All we want is a little ‘air to breathe’ to get the economy going and increase state income,” Samaras added, without specifying any timeframe. “More time does not automatically mean more money.”

Some German politicians have talked openly in recent weeks about the possibility of Greece leaving the euro, and the vice chancellor, Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, has said that the idea of a Greek exit has “lost its horror.” But Athens insists the country must remain in the 17nation currency zone — something which opinion polls have shown the vast majority of Greeks want.

Asked by Bild whether leaving the euro and returning to the drach-

ma would be better, Samaras replied that “the consequences would be a catastrophe for Greece.”

“It would mean at least five more years of recession and push unemployment above 40 percent,” he was quoted as saying. “A nightmare for Greece: economic collapse, social unrest and an unprecedented crisis of democracy.”

Before coming to power, Samaras pledged he would seek a two-year extension to the deadline for implementing unpopular cuts demanded in exchange for two international aid packages worth €240 billion that are keeping Greece afloat.

Greece’s debt stands at more than €300 billion, and its economy is struggling through a fifth year of recession with unemployment above 23 percent. Still, asked by Bild whether Greece needs a second debt write-down following one carried through earlier this year, Samaras replied: “that has never been discussed.”

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Syrian civil war shakes Damascus-Beirut ties

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BEIRUT — The Syrian civil war has spilled over into Lebanon, bringing with it sectarian street clashes, mob violence and general government paralysis in Beirut.

But it was the dramatic arrest earlier this month of a former Lebanese government minister and prominent supporter of Syria’s embattled president that has suggested the conflict may be causing Lebanon to slip further away from Damascus’ long domination.

The bloodshed in Syria has drawn Lebanon deeper into the unrest — a troubling sign for a country that has gone through its own 15-year civil war and has an explosive sectarian mix as well as deep divisions between pro- and anti-Syrian factions, many of which are armed.

The chaos could give Sunni Muslim fighters in northern Lebanon more leeway to establish supply lines to the rebels

inside Syria in their battle to oust President Bashar Assad.

Tensions and intermittent fighting in the northern Lebanon city of Tripoli continued Wednesday following two days of clashes between pro- and anti-Assad groups that killed at least six people and wounded more than 70.

In New York, United Nations political chief Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council Wednesday that as the crisis in Syria continues to deteriorate, “the situation in Lebanon has become more precarious and the need for continued international support to the government and the Lebanese Armed Forces increasingly important.”

Feltman said U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern about two-way arms smuggling across the SyrianLebanese border, which poses risks to both countries and violates a council resolution that ended the month-long war in 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah, which dominates Lebanese politics.

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In this Aug. 9, 2012 photo, Lebanese security forces stand at the entrance building of former Lebanese Information Minister Michel Samaha as they raid his house after they arrested him.

Sleepy woman’s epic 18-hr flight after she misses stop Agence France Presse

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A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane takes off in Islamabad in 2009.

A Frenchwoman endured an 18hour journey from the Pakistani city of Lahore to Paris and back again after sleeping through her plane’s stop in the French capital, officials said on Wednesday.

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) are investigating how ground crew failed to notice the woman during the plane’s two-hour stopover at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.

The woman, named as Patrice Christine Ahmed, who is married to a Pakistani, left Lahore at noon on Tuesday to fly to Paris via Milan,

but did not wake up to get off the plane, airline spokesman Sultan Hasan told AFP. The woman did not mention her mistake to cabin crew and the matter only came to light when she was stopped by immigration officials on arrival back in Lahore on Wednesday morning -- after a 12,000-kilometre (7700-mile) round trip.

Hasan said PIA were investigating the incident and the French subcontractor responsible for passenger handling in Paris.

“We have put questions to this French firm also about the incident but it is also the responsibility of

the passenger to disembark at the destination,” he said.

“It is a passenger’s responsibility to check about the destination and disembark when the plane arrives at the particular airport.”

PIA later arranged to send the woman back to Paris with another airline because none of its own flights were available, but said that the party responsible for the negligence will pay for the extra ticket.

“It depends who is at fault. If it is a mistake by the local firm, they will pay and if the woman herself is responsible than she will have to bear the cost,” Hasan said.

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Mars rover passes driving test, looks to hit road Associated Press Writer

How Face Paint Could Protect Soldiers’ Faces

PASADENA, Calif. — Now that Curiosity passed its driving test on Mars, the six-wheel NASA rover set its sights on longer treks. The first test drive around the pebbly Martian crater where it landed was just that — a test drive. The rover edged forward about 15 feet, rotated to a right angle and reversed a short distance, leaving tracks in the rust-tinged soil.

Mission managers were elated that Wednesday’s maiden trek of the $2.5 billion mission was glitch-free. In several days, Curiosity was poised to drive farther to study whether the red planet’s environment could have supported life.

“It couldn’t be more important,” said project manager Peter Theisinger at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We built a rover. So unless the rover roves, we really haven’t accomplished anything ... It’s a big moment.” The short spin came a day after Curiosity successfully wiggled its wheels to test its steering capabilities.

Curiosity landed in Gale Crater near the Martian equator Aug. 5 to explore whether the environment once supported microbial life.

The touchdown site has been named Bradbury Landing in honor of the late “The Martian Chronicles” author Ray Bradbury, who would have turned 92 on Wednesday.

The rover’s ultimate destination is Mount Sharp, a towering mountain that looms from the ancient crater floor. Signs of past water have been spotted at the base, providing a starting point to hunt for the chemical building blocks of life.

Before Curiosity journeys toward the mountain, it will take a detour to an intriguing spot 1,300 feet away where it will drill into bedrock. With the test drive out of the way, Curiosity was expected to stay at its new position for several days before making its first big drive — a trip that will take as long as a month and a half.

Curiosity won’t head to Mount Sharp until the end of the year.

hands and other exposed skin.”

To protect soldiers from bombs, scientists endeavored to develop a material that can get smeared on faces like sunscreen, leaving behind a coating that is thinner than a sheet of paper but can still protect against intense heat.

“We were able to achieve proof of concept and a working prototype in relatively short time,” Lochhead told InnovationNewsDaily.

In lab experiments, their invention is protective well beyond the two-second heat-wave threat from bombs — it often safeguarded the

face and hands for up to 15 seconds before its own temperature rose to the point where a mild first-degree burn might occur. In some tests, the heat-resistant makeup even protected for up to 60 seconds, which can help defend soldiers and firefighters from fires.

A challenge the researchers faced was avoiding the use of mineral oil, fatty substances and other traditional oily makeup ingredients, since such substances can burn in contact with the intense heat of flames. Instead, the scientists turned to silicones, which are not as flammable.

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fected actors will be able to resume work within 10 days, it added in a statement on its website, saying that testing was ongoing.

Last week, health officials in Los Angeles County announced they were investigating an increase in syphilis cases in the porn industry -- at least five in the previous week.

On Tuesday, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), which wants mandatory condom use by porn actors, said “reliable sources” suggest there could be as many as nine industry-related syphilis cases, “a

number that will likely grow.”

AHF, active in the fight against AIDS, is hoping California voters will approve a proposal on November 6 that would require the use of condoms during porn film shoots.

The city of Los Angeles adopted such language in January.

The X-rated movie industry temporarily halted filming last year after an actor tested positive for HIV. According to Film LA, about five percent of the 45,500 film shoots authorized annually in the city are for porn films.

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Ahead of Galungan, ritual paraphernalia in demand Bali Post

MANGUPURA - The moment of Galungan and Kuningan brings in special blessing for villagers of Kapal who sell a variety of ritual paraphernalia chiefly penjor and its festoons like sampian. On normal days, the order of penjor is only a few, but ahead of Galungan, the sellers are usually flooded with orders.

One of the traders peddling on Jalan Raya Kapal expressed that ahead of Galungan the need of community for the ornaments of penjor itself was very high. On normal days, her income was not much, but at the moment day Galungan, the turnover of her penjor sale including the ornamental elements significantly soared.

This middle-aged mother usually peddling ritual paraphernalia claimed to receive abundant orders ahead of Galungan. The demand for penjor decoration was very high and so was the demand for penjor itself. She said the buyers did not only come directly to her store to buy various ornaments of penjor for personal needs, but also for a resale.

Price of penjor ornament or sam-

pian varied, ranging from IDR 25,000 to IDR 500,000. As for the penjor, it was sold at the price ranging from IDR 250,000 to IDR 1.5 million. Its price also depended on the order. A penjor completed with ornaments and belonged to a good quality was sold for up to IDR 3 million.

Raw materials of the penjor like palmyra leaves were brought in from outside Bali, especially from eastern Indonesia. She chose the palmyra leaf rather than local one because it had a good quality and more flexible to be formed.

A local community leader doubling as a legislator in the Badung House, Nyoman Ardana, revealed the sales of penjor, its decorations and other ritual paraphernalia had long been developing at Kapal village. According to him, the creative economy worked on by local community, aside from increasing the economy, was also able to make Kapal village a central sale of penjor and ritual paraphernalia. (kmb25)

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The moment of Galungan and Kuningan brings in special blessing for villagers of Kapal who sell a variety of ritual paraphernalia chiefly penjor and its festoons like sampian.

On normal days, the order of penjor is only a few, but ahead of Galungan, the sellers are usually flooded with orders.

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DENPASAR - Bali`s coffee exports rose to 9.2 tons in the first semester from 3.7 tons in the same period last year, provincial administration spokesman I Ketut Teneng said.

Bali earned US$118,178 from the coffee exports in the period up from US$57,534 in the same period last year, he said here on Thursday.

C o ff e e i s o n e o f t h e island`s plantation products that is able to penetrate export markets besides vanilla.

Vanilla exports from the tourist island however have continued to drop reaching only 200 kilograms worth US$7,996 in the first semester this year down from 38.5 tons worth US$620,568 in

Syphilis scare prompts call to halt US porn shoots

Reports of several cases of syphilis among porn actors in California has prompted a trade group to call for a temporary halt to shooting in the lucrative US adult film industry.

The Free Speech Coalition, which brings together porn film producers, has advocated a “temporary moratorium on production until the risk to performers in the industry has been properly assessed and all performers have been tested.”

Once treated with antibiotics, in-

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Future camouflage face paint might not only hide soldiers from the enemy, but it could also shield them from the searing heat of bomb blasts, researchers say.

Bomb detonations generate two dangerous blasts, explained researcher Robert Lochhead at the University of Southern Mississippi.

“First comes a blast wave of high pressure that spreads out at supersonic speeds and can cause devastating internal injuries,” Lochhead said. “A thermal blast follows almost instantaneously. It is a wave of heat that exceeds 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit (600 degrees Celsius) — that’s as hot as a burning cigarette. The thermal blast lasts only two seconds, but it can literally cook the face,

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the same period last year, he said.

Teneng said exports of coffee and vanilla in the form of processes products depend upon supply and demand.

He said Balinese farmers have started developing organic coffee plantations using natural fertilizers.

He said processed coffee beans had been exported to Japan, France and several European countries.

In 2011 production of coffee beans reached 3,080 tons down from 3,245 from the previous year, due to weather conditions which were not conducive.

He said coffee plantations had been expanded now reaching 10,485 hectares up from previously 9,448 hectares.

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This image dated Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012 and provided by NASA shows the Curiosity rover’s wheel tracks on the surface of Mars an image sent from one of the rover’s cameras.

The image was posted on a Tweet by JPL mission engineer Allen Chen.

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Bali`s coffee exports rose to 9.2 tons in the first semester from 3.7 tons in the same period last year. Bali earned US$118,178 from the coffee exports in the period up from US$57,534 in the same period last year.

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Ahead of Galungan Order increases, taffy makers must work extra hard

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The officers are inspecting the passengers in Ubung terminal after the Eid holiday

Surge in regional migrants worried to kindle social impact Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Homecoming backflow of the Eid is worried to cause population explosion especially in Badung Regency. The government is then asked to take anticipatory measures to strengthen the surveillance system against the regional migrants.

A legislator in the Badung House, Wayan Puspa Negara, revealed the homecoming backflow tended to be followed by significant addition of migrant population. Moreover, Badung had so high population growth and even surpassed the national average as a result of the migration. Large impact of the migration would obviously affect the carrying capacity of the region.

“We do not rule out the population to migrate because it is the right of every resident to live and settle in the territory of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI). However, they have to meet the provisions of law as well as understand the conditions of nature, environment and socio-culture in the area. For the sake of regional defense, balance of ecosystem, population, regional aesthetic, cultural defense, security and comfort of the region, especially in the area of tourism, so the composition, density and quality of the population greatly affecting the carrying

capacity of the region should be considered,” he said.

On that account, Puspa stressed the need for strengthening the system and selection aggregation of the homecoming backflows by the government. Strategic and integrated measures should be taken. Filtration of population had to be done carefully, chiefly the examination of the papers completeness of the backflow migrants should be strengthened such as at the entrances of Bali starting from crossing harbor to traditional harbor spreading in the coastal areas of Bali Island.

Mainly for Badung Regency, Puspa asked the establishment of migrant integrated surveillance posts under coordination of the Population and Civil Registry Office, Public Order Officer and the Office of National Union, Politics and Public Protection (Kesbangpollinmas) as well as subdistricts and villages. “On that account, there will be an instrument of good monitoring and supervision to cre-

ate safety, comfort and public order in short and long-term period,” he said.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Badung Government, AA Raka Yuda, asserted on Wednesday (Aug 22) that government was unable to prohibit the movement of people because it was the right of citizens as long as they complied with the rules. However, his party also recognized the population explosion had become a burden to Badung and other regions in Bali.

It would turn more serious if the incoming migrants did not have sufficient life skills or expertise and did not comply with the population administration.

To anticipate the social impacts, chiefly due to population surge, the Badung Regency through technical units filtered the regional migrants through judicial population operation. Relevant agencies up to lower levels were also involved. Nevertheless, Raka Yuda said the active participation of the community was constantly needed. (kmb25)

TAFFY makers at a number of villages in Buleleng before Galungan festivity are forced to work extra hard, namely day and night.

This occurs because the demand for this distinctive cake of Buleleng is on the increase, not only from people in Buleleng, but also from people living in Denpasar, Badung, Tabanan and other regencies in Bali.

Taffy makers at Penglatan village, Buleleng subdistrict, have been very busy serving the orders from various regions in Bali since a few weeks ago. Due to many orders, the taffy makers are even forced to serve no retailers usually selling taffy in traditional markets. It happens because the process of making taffy cannot be done quickly. Moreover, its combustion process still takes advantage of firewood.

A taffy maker from Kelodan hamlet, Penglatan village, Ketut Sedana, said that on usual days he was only taking orders maximally two times a week. However, before Galungan Day the orders soared.

Within a week he could receive order for four times. For each order, he sent averagely three to four quintals of taffy. To address this

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issue, Sedana admitted to prefer meeting the orders from outside the region to serving the sales of retailers. “From the Sugihan Day, our orders continue to increase and this will continue to grow until the day before Galungan,” he said.

Although the order of his customers was booming, he had not thought of increasing the price of his taffy, whereas the price of ingredients such as sugar, palm sugar and sticky rice already increased. Currently, he sold one kilogram of taffy to his customers for IDR 21,000. Meanwhile, the price of ingredients such as sugar had increased from IDR 9,000 to IDR 11,000 per kilogram. Palm sugar (Balinese sugar) rose from IDR 12,000 to IDR 14,000 per kilogram.

In addition, the price of white sticky rice also rose from IDR 10,500 to IDR 11,500 per kilogram.

In the meantime, the price of coconut and dried corn husks used to wrap did not increase yet. “Indeed, the price of ingredients has gone up but the price of taffy has not. If increased, our consumer must be disappointed. Rather than losing customers, I decided not to raise the price though I only get a few profits,” he said. (kmb)

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Inna Grand Bali Beach, Sanur, Bali celebrated the 67th Indonesian Independence Day together with the opening of hotel anniversary at Pendawa Beach of the hotel on Friday, 17 August 2012. General Manager of Inna Grand Bali Beach, Mr. Sugeng Pramono declared the celebration activities started after the employees of the hotel together with its related partners, carry out joint flagraising ceremony in front of the hotel lobby.

Enliven the festive day of the event will be held at Pendawa Beach of the hotel which involves not only the hotel guests with the employees of Inna Grand Bali Beach, also a lively community with Fun Games: a variety of traditional games such as race traditional box “nyuun keben”, sack race, climbing Pedanan Tree and much more. The hotel employees will also perform Balinese traditional instrument ” Baleganjur “ during the event.

Mr. Sugeng Pramono added that the hotel anniversary already held social activities few days ago by inviting the orphans of Klungkung to join breaking fasting at the hotel. The 46th Anniversary of the Inna Grand Bali Beach is taking the theme of “Change with Passion” – with the purpose of changes to the sincere, not only in thoughts, words, but also in behavior, especially the implementation of daily work can be done with full sincerity in order to be able to provide services optimal to guests.

Calendar Event for August 1 through August 31, 2012 1 Aug T umpek Uduh/Pengatag Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih.

2 Aug P urnama Karo Aci-aci Pengenteg Jagat Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Pengukur-ukur Pejeng Merajan Gerya Kebon Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar-Kubu Karangasem Pura Ponjok Batu Tejakula-Buleleng.

8 Aug B uda Wage Warigadean Pura Kepisah Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel Gerih Abiansemal Badung Pura Puncaksari Penarukan Peninjoan Bangli Pura Bangun Sakti Besakih Pura Antegsari Kaba-Kaba Kediri Tabanan Pura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Kaba-Kaba Kediri Tabanan.

10 Aug Sukra Umanis Warigadean.

Odalan Ida Ratu Penataran Agung Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Puraus Merajan Salonding Besakih.

12 Aug Redite Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Banjar Singaraja.

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Simple and Festive the Celebration!

4 Aug T umpek Uduh/Pengatag Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

The taffy maker in Buleleng Regency recieved many orders near Galungan.

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14 Aug Anggar Kasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi Bangli Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Taro Tegalalang Pura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup Pura manik Bingin Sidemen 15 Aug Buda Umanis Julungwangi.

Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande Bangli

Pura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh Abiansemal Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan Gianyar Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Jakatebel Merajan Pasek Prateka Batusesa Mr. Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon Cemenggon Pr. Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.

23 Aug W raspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas Klungkung Pr. Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Petemon Merajan Pasek Gelgel Melinggih Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih 29 Aug B uda Keliwon Dunggulan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang, NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta Timur Pura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur.

30 Aug Wraspati Umanis Dunggulan Pura Watukaru Tabanan Pura Lempuyang Luhur Karangasem Pura Kentel Gumi Klungkung Pura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel Tabanan Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Tiyingan Merajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

31 Aug S ukra Paing Dunggulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, Badung Pura Luhur Cemenggon, Sukawati Pura Pasek Ubung Denpasar 31 Aug P urnama Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok.

Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja Denpasar Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Karangasem Pura Pedarman Arya Telabah Besakih.

Pura Bukit Mentik, Gunung Lebah Batur Kintamani

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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Book on bin Laden raid coming out Sept. 11 Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — A member of the U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden has written a firsthand account of the operation, triggering more questions about the possible public release of classified information involving the historic assault of the terror leader’s compound in Pakistan.

U.S. military officials say they do not believe the book has been read or cleared by the Defense Department, which reviews publications by military members to make sure that no classified material is revealed.

The book, titled “No Easy Day” and scheduled to be released next month

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on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, comes amid a heated debate over whether members of the military — both active duty and retired — should engage in political battles.

“I haven’t read the book and am unaware that anyone in the Department has reviewed it,” said Pentagon press secretary George Little. White House and CIA officials also said the book had not been reviewed by their agencies.

The book announcement comes just as a group of retired special operations and CIA officers have launched a campaign accusing President Barack Obama of revealing classified details of the mission and turning the killing of bin Laden into a campaign centerpiece. The group

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complains that Obama has taken too much credit for the operation.

Their public complaints drew a rebuke from Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as other special operations forces, who called the partisan criticism unprofessional. Dempsey said that such public political involvement by members of armed services erodes public confidence and trust in the military.

The author of the upcoming bin Laden book, who has left the military, is using the pseudonym Mark Owen. And in a news release from publisher Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), Owen describes the book as an effort to “set the record straight about one of the most important missions in U.S. military history.”

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Friday, August 24, 2012 Ahead of Galungan, ritual paraphernalia in demand

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LOS ANGELES — An A-list cast of celebrities is joining a telethon to raise money and awareness to fight cancer. Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Samuel L. Jackson and Emma Stone are among the stars participating in the third Stand Up to Cancer telethon, the organization announced Wednesday. multidisciplinary research “Dream Teams” and to scientists seeking innovative approaches to end cancer’s role as the world’s leading cause of death. Of the $180 million-plus that has been pledged, some larger donations are being made over a period of several years, a spokeswoman said.

Katie Couric, who joined with Ziskin and other women in the entertainment industry to found Stand Up to Cancer, will appear in the telethon.

Others taking part include Jessica Biel, Jeremy Renner, Seth Rogan, Masi Oka, Simon Baker and Rashida Jones. Couric lost her husband to colon cancer, while Paltrow’s late father, director Bruce Paltrow, had oral cancer. Some participants, such as Michael Douglas, have fought the disease themselves.

Cable channels carrying the telethon are BIO, Encore, HBO, Showtime, HBO Latino, ION Television, LMN, Logo, MLB Network, mun2, Palladia, Starz, TBS, Smithsonian and VH1.

Stand Up To Cancer, which also receives corporate donations, is a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, a philanthropic arm of the TV and movie industries.

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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2012 file photo shows actress Gwyneth Paltrow at the 84th Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

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California declares emergency as wildfire advances on town

Paltrow, Roberts, Swift set for cancer telethon

Paltrow also is an executive producer for the fundraiser that will be carried commercial-free from 8-9 p.m. EDT Sept.

7 on the four major broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC, and more than a dozen cable channels. Musical performances by Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Alicia Keys and Tim McGraw are planned, and more than 25 movie, TV and sports stars will be on hand to take phone pledges, said executive producer Joel Gallen.

Laura Ziskin, founder of Stand Up to Cancer and producer of its first two telethons in 2008 and 2010, lost her seven-year fight against breast cancer last year. The “Spider-Man” movie producer was 61. Ziskin represents “tremendous shoes to fill,” Gallen said.

“I can’t really replace Laura, but I’m coming from a different point of view, from a respectful point of view, and continuing the mission she was on.”

Hope is the theme for this year’s telethon, Gallen said. It will include information on how to prevent cancer and on the treatment research funded by Stand Up to Cancer, also known as SU2C. The experiences of several patients who are part of Stand Up to Cancer trials will be explored in minidocumentaries that show the progress made in just a few years of effort, Gallen said.

T h e o rg a nization said it has awarded about $120 million in grant commitments to

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A DC-10 drops fire retardant on the Ponderosa Fire Monday Aug. 20, 2012, near Paynes Creek, Calif. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in three Northern California counties on Wednesday after a wildfire that has already destroyed 64 homes advanced with 75-foot flames on a tiny community at the doorstep of a national park.

RED BLUFF - California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in three Northern California counties on Wednesday after a wildfire that has already destroyed 64 homes advanced with 75-foot flames on a tiny community at the doorstep of a national park.

Firefighters scrambled to head off the so-called Ponderosa Fire, which had scorched 24,000 acres, before it reached the outskirts of Mineral, a community of less than 200 people just south of Lassen National Volcanic Park.

Authorities issued an evacuation warning for Mineral as flames roared 75 feet high on the side of Highway 36, the main

route into town, and burned through a rocky canyon where firefighters struggled to make a stand.

Crews also bulldozed a trench to serve as a last line of defense between the fire and the town as thick smoke and ash choked the air for miles.

“All the vegetation is ready to burn and so once the afternoon winds begin to blow up the canyon, those fuels burn aggressively and you have what we call blowup conditions,” Chico fire Division Chief Shane Lauderdale told Reuters.

“It pushes the firefighters out of the area they are working and goes over the (containment) line and creates situations where we have to back out,” Lauderdale said.

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Homecoming backflows at Ngurah Rai reaches 12,763 people Bali Post

DENPASAR - Homecoming backflow through the Ngurah Rai Airport Bali since the day after the Eid 1433 H started to increase. Passengers arriving at the domestic arrival terminal were recorded to reach 12,763 people or an increase of 32 percent compared to last year’s.

Spokesperson of PT Angkasa Pura I (PAP I) of Ngurah Rai Airport, Sherly Yunita, said the airport on the day after the Eid was still dominated by the arrival of thousands of passengers from

various cities in Indonesia. Such high arrival of domestic passengers was caused by the long holiday in conjunction with the Eid 2012.

“We are not sure when the

peak of the homecoming backflow because the domestic arrival until Tuesday (Aug 21) remains quite high,” said Sherly.

She said the backflow passengers the day after the Eid was served by 104 aircrafts. Meanwhile, the departure of domestic passenger at Ngurah Rai Airport at the same time reached 12,719 passengers conveyed by 103 aircrafts. The Eid Integrated Post also noted the movement of international passenger where the arrival passenger

reached 8,644 people, while the departure passenger reached 10,365 people.

“Passengers who came to Bali on the second day after the Eid reached 14,312 passengers.

Meanwhile, the departure of passengers reached 15,472 people.

The flow of departure may still go up at the end of the holiday,” she said.

In the meantime, the homecoming domestic passenger reached the highest number on Friday (Aug 17)

or two days before the Eid namely reaching 14,312 passengers, or increased 7.86 percent over the last year. Meanwhile, the domestic departure reached 15,472 passengers. Then, to meet the needs of air transportation, 4 carriers provided extra flights to and from Bali with a total of 55 flights, or about 10,592 seats. “These figures have increased by 87 percent compared to the extra flight made for the last year’s Eid,” she said.

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