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Security at entrances to Bali tightened Bali Post

DENPASAR - After the arrest of the suspected terrorists and pacification of some bombs in Solo last Saturday, the ranks of Bali Police took action to anticipate the entry of other perpetrators to Bali.

The security at the entrance to the Island of the Gods was enhanced. It was revealed by Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hariadi, when asked for his confirmation on Saturday (Sep 22).

Hariadi explained that Chief of Bali Police, Budi Gunawan, had instructed all levels of Regency Police throughout Bali to increase the security in their respective region. The most important was to intensify the custody, surveillance and inspection at the entrances to Bali such as at the harbor of Gilimanuk and Padangbai, Ngurah Rai Airport as well as several entrances denoting traditional ports.

Besides, it was also asked to improve the vigorous patrolling, population data collection and vehicle inspections. In order to counteract the entry of radical groups to Bali, his party teamed up with all relevant agencies, including the Balinese community. In other words, police department continued to coordinate with the entire community. “If there is a suspicious person, they are expected to immediately report it to nearest police station,” he said.

Separately, Chief of Badung Police, Beny Arjanto, also said that his party had taken similar measures.

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After the arrest of the suspected terrorists and pacification of some bombs in Solo last Saturday, the ranks of Bali Police took action to anticipate the entry of other perpetrators to Bali.

Aussie Premier to attend Bali Memorial Service Antara

DENPASAR - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is scheduled to attend the 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings at the Garuda Wisnu Kencana cultural park in Bali on October 12, 2012.

“The event’s organizing com-

mittee has held an audience with the Australian government. About 800 to 1000 people, including the Australian Prime Minister will attend the ceremony,” deputy chief of the Bali provincial police Brig.

Gen. Ketut Untung Yoga Ana said here on Thursday.

He added that a number of

former Australian prime ministers, the chief of the Australian federal police, 60 senior government officials, politicians and staff members of the Australian embassy in Jakarta will also attend the event.

The police will cooperate with the presidential guards to safeguard the Australian Prime Minister dur-

ing the visit according to the Very Very Important Person (VVIP) security arrangement, he said.

He predicted that about 4,000 people, including relatives of the Bali bombing victims from Australia, Indonesia and other countries will also attend the commemoration.

The police will deploy 1,000 personnel to safeguard the event at the cultural park in Jimbaran and the humanity tragedy monument at Legian Street in Kuta.

He said that the police will also install metal detectors in a number of places and deploy a bombdefusing squad, as well.

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Bali News Russian died after snorkeling Gianyar (Bali Post) –

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A big truck is seen on the street of Denpasar. Mobilization of trailer trucks from Java to Bali has caused congestion at a number of road sections in Bali

Mobilization of trailer trucks to Bali causes congestion Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Mobilization of trailer trucks from Java to Bali has caused congestion at a number of road sections on the Island of the Gods. The congestion occurring along the route of Gilimanuk-Tabanan to Denpasar is the result of hundreds of vehicles passing each day on the crowded path.

According to the Secretary of the Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) of Bali, Putu Alit Suthanaya, Ph.D., a large number of trailers taking advantage of the overland route was due to high cost of sea transport. Exporters and importers preferred to choose overland route because it was cheaper and faster. “We cannot blame if the trailer trucks coming to Bali prefer the overland to sea transport that ultimately results in congestion. Government should make a policy that reduces the cost of sea transport. By doing so, the government can require the trailer trucks to take sea transport to minimize congestion,� said Alit Suthanaya in Denpasar on Friday (Sep 21).

So far, the government, said Alit Suthanaya, did not provide a solution for users of truck trailer.

Actually, if the condition persisted it would have a negative

spiral impact where the overland freight transport would double.

As consequence, the density of overland transport would be getting more severe if the road condition remained as at present.

Crowded overland trailers would cause congestion in Bali more serious and road access easily damaged, so that it would drain the regional budget of Bali. “Actually, trailer trucks to Bali are not allowed to take overland route because it exceeds the road capacity. But so far, there is no solution so that they will prefer the overland as long as no alternative is provided by the government such as the solution to reduce the cost by sea transport,� he said.

Aside from encouraging the use of sea transport, Alit Sutanaya also suggested the government to set up the mobility schedule of trailer trucks to Bali. This kind of large tonnage vehicles should

be driven to utilize the overland beyond working hours. “All this time, the entry of trailer trucks to Bali coincides with working hours, so that it FDXVHG WUDIÂżF MDPV 7KH\ VKRXOG use the time to pass beyond working hours, namely at night,â€? he said.

Chairman of the Tourism Industry Association of Indonesia (GIPI) of Bali, Ngurah Wijaya, previously argued that tourism line should not be combined with the economic line. If they are both put together, they would then be disturbed. “At this time, containers from Java to Bali or vice versa are transported through overland route. Meanwhile, the roads in Bali are small. If they are not organized then our tourism will suffer. This should get attention from the government as regulator,� he said.

A large number of contain-

ers transported overland did not pose a simple matter. Provision of building permit for warehouse had caused the proliferation of containers transported overland.

He compared to the warehouse in a number of countries. “Warehouses should be built at harbor area, but in Bali they scatter in the city. Therefore, the government should stop issuing the building permit for warehouse in urban areas,� said Ngurah Wijaya while suggesting that warehouses should be built near harbor, so the transportation of goods from outside was undertaken by sea route.

Based on the latest data of Pelindo III, the cargo trailers with containers taking overland route in the period of April 2012 reached 587 trailers. This ÂżJXUH LQFUHDVHG HYHU\ PRQWK where in January reached 445 trailers, February (504) and March (561). (kmb27)

Aldrei Ilarioshoki from Russia found ÀRDWLQJ E\ 1\RPDQ 6XUD D ¿VKHUPDQ at Gumicik Beach, Ketewel, Sukawati last Saturday (22/9) around 4 pm local time after VQRUNHOLQJ DURXQG WKH ZDWHUV $W ¿UVW 6XUD saw a woman tourist panicking then investigated and asked his colleague from Banjar Kacagan, Made Dirta, to help him bringing the body to the shores to be checked. The body was unconscious which hthen reported to the police. Friends of victims then came to see the body at location and there was no sign of harassment in the victim’s body as investigated by Head of Criminal Research and Sukawati Head Police. (kmb16)

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$ QXPEHU RI LOOHJDO ÂżVK ERDWV ZHUH IRXQG HYHQ WKRXJK QRQH RI WKHP ZHQW ÂżVKLQJ XVing dangerous substance such as chemicals and bombs. The supervision operation took place since Thursday (20/9) and still found boats without their legal documents. The operation was held by Maritime and Fishery Agency Bali targeted Pengambengan Harbour with workers from Jembrana Forestry, Plantation and Maritime Agency, Water Police, Harbour Management, Maritime Army targeted boats that are coming back IURP ÂżVKLQJ Head of Supervision of the Agency, Yohanes Bangkit Hermanto, last Friday (21/9) stated most of the boats or ships did not have the legal documents or doesn’t have the perPLW SHUPLVVLRQ WR JR ÂżVKLQJ LQ WKHVH ZDWHUV yet there has been a progress compared to the years before where most of the ship captains understood that ships above 10 GT has to have a permit. “Yet they still don’t know which documents they have to bring, we also pressurize non Jembrana origin ships and we hoped all, local and non local, ships and boats have the permit they’re suppose to KDYH ´ +HUPDQWR FODULÂżHG DFFRPSDQLHG E\ Head of Ocean and Shores Source Section, I Gusti Ngurah Oka Budi. )URP WKH ÂżYH VKLSV WKH\ DEOH WR ÂżQG four of them has no permits such as Mekar Abadi, Kota Jaya, Istambul Haikal and Bintang Armada. They were then given a socialization from the workers and to complete their permits. The agency is focusing on how far these ship crews understand the law and not how much sanction they will be given. (kmb26)

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Vice Governor of Bali AA Puspayoga on Saturday followed the Wirasa Bali TV Program to witnessed the hand over a refurbish house in Jembrana and dismantled a shack in Buleleng.

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Vice Governor attended hand over, dismantling of poor people houses NEGARA/BULELENG - House refurbishment from Bali Post readers and Bali TV viewers through Wirasa Bali TV Program handed over a house at Jembrana Regency. This hand over were witnessed by Vice Governor of Bali AA Puspayoga and Jembrana Regent I Putu Artha.

During the ceremony, Karti who owned the house can’t hide his happiness because he and his family can live in a better house.

Before, according to Karti, his house that has been built on 1960 only has one room. But, now, after refurbishment, the house has three rooms, including one bathroom.

“I feel grateful and would like to say thank you to Vice Governor of Bali AA Puspayoga and Bali TV. I also like to express my thanks to Jembrana Regent, I Putu Artha,” he said.

Beside Karti, the refurbishment also went to Buleleng. In there, Made Katon, 65, the poor at Kububatu hamlet, Jagaraga village, Sawan subdistrict, got successive VXUSULVHV 7KH ¿UVW VXUSULVH ZDV KH suddenly visited by Deputy Governor of Bali, AA Ngurah Puspayoga.

Another surprise was that his uninhabitable shack was immediately dismantled by Deputy Governor

Puspayoga to be replaced with a new home.

Made Katon was working as a farming laborer. He suddenly got information if his house would be visited by Deputy Governor. He rushed to go home and sat on a rock in front of his house with his wife. A few minutes later, Deputy Governor Puspayoga came with Chairman of the Buleleng House, Dewa Nyoman Sukrawan. Besides, he was also visited by subdistrict head of Sawan, Gusti Ngurah Suradnyana, headman of Jagaraga Made Sumendra and chief of Jagaraga customary village, Nyoman Sura.

Deputy Governor Puspayoga came to the home of Katon because on Friday (Sep 21) he read the news about the condition of Katon’s home that did not deserve to be called

a home. When making a visit to Buleleng, he immediately wanted to visit the home of Katon.

As soon as arriving at the courtyard of Katon, Deputy Governor Puspayoga directly joined to sit on the rock while chatting leisurely.

Deputy Governor considered the house of Katon was worth calling a shack. Other than being dirty, the small building was only surrounded by wall made of plaited bamboo.

Moreover, it was already porous and some holes here and there were covered with a dull curtain.

Just by looking at it, without surveys, without asking questions, without preceded with promises, Deputy Governor Puspayoga immediately decided to dismantle the house symbolically as a sign if the house was immediately replaced

with a new one through the BaliTV house refurbishment program.

Together with Chairman of the Buleleng House, Dewa Sukrawan, Puspayoga immediately went into the house and opened a piece of plaited bamboo wall of Katon so far functioned as a door to the house. By dismantling it, within few days to come, the BaliTV house refurbishment team in collaboration with a number of donors would immediately begin the construction of a new home for Katon.

Seeing the rapid decision of Vice Governor, Katon admitted to be nervous. He never expected to have a new home. He immediately thanked Vice Governor Puspayoga. “Thank you very much. I’m happy and unable to speak more words,” he said.

Made Katon was indeed one of the Jagaraga residents living in a broken and inhabitable shack. In a dry and rocky garden, he had three buildings. The main building was covered with plaited bamboo walls, WLQ URRIV DQG GLUW ÀRRUV 7KHUH KH

and his wife slept. Another building was functioned as kitchen with more severe condition. Interestingly, the bottom side of the building resembled a security post sizing about 2 x 2 meters. It was covered by tarps where some parts of it had perforated.

Made Katon said he had actually submitted to his fate since decades ago. He had four brothers whose fate was better as having a simple and more decent house to live in.

From his parents, he inherited about 1,000 square meters of land. On the piece of rocky land he erected a shack. “The land cannot be cultivated because it’s dry and rocky,” he said.

In daily life, Katon only worked as a farming laborer whose income could only be used for consumption needs. It was inadequate to build a house. Even, none of his ¿YH FKLOGUHQ FRXOG FRPSOHWH WKHLU primary school. “I have no money to send them to school,” said Katon. (kmb26/kmb15)

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The decreasing water is affecting the ďŹ sh farmer in Lake Beratan, Baturiti

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:DWHU RI ODNH UHFHGHV ‍ۋ‏VK IDUPHUV GLVWUDXJKW Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Decline in water discharge at Lake Beratan, Candikuning village, Baturiti, is not just complained by farmers around the lake. The ďŹ sh cage farmers taking advantage of the lake water get the impact, too. Due to decline in the surface of lake water, their ďŹ sh harvest drops. Likewise, the ďŹ sh growth also slows down due to lack of water in the lake.

Receding of the lake water has been going on since the past few months. As a result, the ďŹ sh cage used as medium of fish farming could be properly submerged. “Since the surface of the lake drops,

the ďŹ sh cage cannot be properly submerged. In effect, the growth of ďŹ sh is not normal,â€? said Darsa, a ďŹ sh breeder, Saturday (Sep 22).

Due to lack of water, the ďŹ sh in the ďŹ sh cage could not move freely and

their growth was disturbed.

Ideally, said Darsa, the ďŹ sh could freely reach for the water surface in order to grow. On that account, the ďŹ sh cage was usually placed amidst the water surface that was slightly deep. However, due to receding water of the lake, the previously deep surface was then turning shallower. Tilapia cultivated was unable to move freely. Such condition made ďŹ sh yields decline. The high market demand could not be met whereas the demand for lake fresh

ďŹ sh continued to grow. “As a result, we serve the order at our best,â€? he complained.

Other than ďŹ sh cage farmers, local residents also found difďŹ culty to look for ďŹ sh due to receding water of the lake. Usually, people could catch ďŹ sh by using a spear near the mouth of the lake. Since the water subsided, they could no longer get any ďŹ sh catch because the ďŹ sh herd preferred to look for deeper water surface.

Headman of Candikuning, Made Mudita, conďŹ rmed the receding wa-

,OOHJDO VKDFNV DW *LOLPDQXN GLVPDQWOHG Negara (Bali Post)—

A number of illegal shacks at Gilimanuk, precisely in the west of maneuver parking, were dismantled by the ofďŹ cers on Wednesday afternoon (Sep 19).

They were indeed not residents of Gilimanuk. They were captured

by the ofďŹ cers during a joint operation at Gilimanuk. Even, the shacks had been visited by the Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha and he saw the condition of a grandmother living there. Regent Artha was concerned about the grandmother living alone and asked to give her attention. In fact, the grandmother was from

The remains of the illagel shacks in Gilimanuk

Banyuwangi and stayed nomadically and the last was in that shack. All occupants of the shacks were then asked to leave and frail grandmother was returned to her family in Banyuwangi. In the afternoon, the village apparatus dismantled the shacks.

Previously, the village authority had frequently appealed to the users in order to dismantle their shack.

But, they ignored it and remained to stay in the shack. Headman of Gilimanuk, IGN Rai Budhi, said on Thursday (Sep 20) the shack dwellers were indeed stubborn and ignored the appeals of the ofďŹ cer. Even, they had moved around for three times and set up shacks at Gilimanuk.

Such demolition, according to him, should be done. Other than situating at beach borderline, it also looked shabby. Similarly, it was based on consideration that location belonged to the maneuver parking lot adjacent to the harbor. If they were allowed, it was feared to getting more crowded and rampant later on. When having proliferated, it would make the officers difficult to discipline them. (kmb26)

ter of the lake. This ofďŹ cial admitted to get many reports on the impact of decline in the lake water. One of them was the condition experienced by ďŹ sh cage farmers. “Indeed, the impact of receding water is indeed perceived by residents, though it is not too fatal,â€? he said. According to Mudita, the receding water of the lake was an annual cycle in dry season. Conversely, in the rainy season, the lake always overowed. Even, it frequently soaked the garden of residents. (kmb30)

3ROLFH FLYLO VHUYLFHV GLVPLVK VHOOHUV QHDUE\ 3DVDU $Q\DU Singaraja (Bali Post)-

Police Civil Service of Buleleng broke a crowd of sellers around Pasar Anyar Market, at Durian Street and Sawo Street last Friday (21/9) with their selling equipments conďŹ scated at the ofďŹ ce. As seen on the ďŹ eld, around 6 am local time the ofďŹ cials gave a suggestion not to sell around the pedestrians and road shoulder by using a loud speaker which then some wooden tables and baskets were left behind.

Some did not accept what has been done by the ofďŹ cers yet after stated that these sellers have violated rules the sellers let the equipments taken and up to 10 am local time, no sellers were around the area.

Head of the Services, Putu Hartana, stated that there has been an approach taken to the sellers based on the government rules moreover there was a time limit given by the ofďŹ cers not to sell around the area.

Yet up to the deadline, sellers are still there and not in the kiosks provided as some of them have rented it. Their reason to do it so was just because their items would be more sellable in the streets rather in the kiosks. A seller admitted this disciplinary won’t solve anything as after the disciplinary no ofďŹ cers were found around and so sellers would come back to the same location. For that, sellers hoped that the clariďŹ cation the ofďŹ cers made were genuine. “Moreover don’t let an individual from the market management taking retribution to those selling in the street as if it is allowed to do so,â€? the seller exclaimed. (kmb)

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Archeological protection in Bali and the role of the society

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Having passed through eleven days of trial, the public transportation feeder of Sarbagita bus launched by Denpasar municipality received positive response from the community.

During a 11-day trial

Feeder route of Sarbagita conveys 6,581 passengers Bali Post

DENPASAR - Having passed through eleven days of trial, the public transportation feeder of Sarbagita bus launched by Denpasar municipality received positive response from the community. As evidence, this new public transportation could carry 6,581 passengers.

It was disclosed by Head of Denpasar Transportation Agency, I Gede Astika, accompanied by the Division Head of Overland Transport Services, I Dewa K. Adi Pradnyana, in Denpasar, Friday (Sep 21).

Astika said that to support the existence of Sarbagita bus serving only the main corridor, his party had provided 56 units of public transport serving the feeder route. “In the early stages, we have four routes serving the area of South Denpasar,” he said.

During the trial period, passengers who used the service were free of charge as subsidized by the Denpasar Municipality. The service was

a form of commitment to Denpasar Municipality to optimize the mass transportation. So far, this mode of public transportation was abandoned by the community. “So far, the public transport could not provide timely services, so that people tended to use private vehicles,” he said.

Through this service, his party hoped that people could come back to the public transport. Moreover, the feeder route transport of Sarbagita would serve non-stop and keep going despite no passengers. “Vehicles serving the feeder route of Sarbagita may not stop at particular point until getting fully occupied. They must always move on each lane route,”

he said.

Adi Pradnyana added that from monitoring all this time, the number of passengers using the services was increasing. On average it was used by about 839 people per day. “The feeder route of Sarbagita transport can be evaluated according to the existing needs,” he said.

Currently, said Adi Pradnyana, the route I served passengers residing in the area of Jalan Kamboja, Melati, Hayam Wuruk, Narakusuma, Pandu, Moh. Yamin, Tukad Balian, Sudirman, Dewi Sartika, Diponegoro, Surapati, Kepundung, Patimura and returned to Ngurah Rai Stadium.

Meanwhile, the feeder route II included the Jalan Matahari Terbit, Sanur, Tukad Yeh Aya, Sanglah area and then returned to Matahari Terbit.

Route III served Jalan Teuku Umar, Pemogan and SMAN 5 and then route IV served Suci and Sidakarya. (kmb12)

ARCHEOLOGICAL protection through maintenance, preservation and conservation, even through reconstruction as well, has turned to be an international problem not only today, but actually in the future. Such matters were indicated by the activities of UNESCO as an international institution, who concerned with the most important of world cultural heritage e.g. archeological remains. UNESCO have done a lot of excellent work, which need a reasonable budgets, expert, equipment etc. and the best example is the safeguarding of Brobudur temple. As the UNESCO member, our governments are concerned and responsible to protect our monuments for our national interest, such as Brobudur temple.

Based on the development of archaeological studies and the related studies especially in field of archaeological protection, now such problems is a technical matter and besed on scientific consideration.

Facing such problem , Indonesian government have done a number of works e.g the safeguarding of borobudur tample {in cooperation with {UNESCO}, Prambanan tample, Demak mosque, and other tamples in Bali namely Pura Besakih, Pura Mengening, Pura Pegulingan, Pura Taman Sari etc. In this case, our government as one of the ASEAN countries have carried out a coordinate programmers through SPAFA (Sub project of archaeology and fine art) to find out the effective ways and means dealing with the problems of archaeological protection .

Discussing the archaeological protection in Bali, it should be remembered that Bali, even a very small island, but has a lot of archaeological monuments, which most of them belonged to living monuments. Among them are a number of Hindu tample, spreated nearly in the whole island, as well as Hindu statues, inscription etc. As the holy monuments for Balinese society, so the Balinese have the responsibility to take care their monuments as their religious function Officially, archaeological protection in Bali is done by Bali Office for Preservation of archaeological and Historical Heritage (Kantor Bali Suaka pening-gelang Sejarah dan Purbakala Bali) in coordialnation and corporation with the local government and local people as well. This office have done a lot of archaeological reconstruction, but not yet covered the whole of them, because of the limited budgets etc.

In case of protecting the archaeological monuments in Bali, Bali Office for Preservation of archaeological and Historical Heri-

tage has given a technical guidance to the local people for reconstructing their monuments and financial support as well. As the governments have a very limited budget for these works, and as the owner of the living monuments, so the Balinese people have their religious tasks and responsibility to protect sacred monuments. In Bali generally each village have three village temples named Pura Kyayangan Tiga e.g Pura Puseh,Pura Desa (sometime combined with Pura Bale Agung ) and Pura dalem. Among them are belonged to archaeological monuments and frequently in these temple a number of archaeological monuments are preserved such as statues, inscription etc. It is important to note here that the unity of the Balinese society is tightly bounded by the village temples and social organization.

Based on religious reasons, actuality Balinese society has a strong spirit to keep their monuments in a well condition as holy monuments. Since a very long time the Balinese people have maintained and restored their monuments in a very traditional ways, based on their own religious will and spirit, and for this purpose they collected the materials, even reasonable money from the village members. The village members, especially the skilled members (Balinese, undagi) did the restoration and led by the village leader, without any payment (Balinese, ngayah). This mutual model of works named gotong royong is one of the Indonesian spirits, which has been developed since the early time until today.

It is a remarkable fact since the early time Balinese people have done the archeological protection in their traditional ways, which really should be regarded as a community based conservation.

The most important meaning of these facts is the Balinese have done their religious task, which still continued from one generation to next generation and still retained until today. Therefore these facts indicated that the Balinese people from time to time have played important role for protecting their archeological monuments, for worshipping their ancestor’s spirit, the Hindu Trinity as well as their local deities. It is hoped that this religious traditions should be keep in people’s mind and increased, now and in the near future for the safeguarding the archeological monuments and its cultural values. Through this way it is hoped that our cultural identity could be preserved in the people’s mind for facing the forthcoming modern world. (IBP/Doc)

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Massacre of preachers in Mali sign of broken army Associated Press Writer

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In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 photo, Vu Dinh Son, left, cries as he is given a diary and other mementos of his father by army ofďŹ cer Nguyen Xuan Nang in northern province of Hai Duong, Vietnam.

Returned Vietnam diary gives son glimpse of father Associated Press Writer

LONG XUYEN, Vietnam — Vu Dinh Son was 18 months old when his father left home to ¿JKW $PHULFDQ IRUFHV LQ 9LHWQDP DQG MXVW ZKHQ WKH PDQ ZDV NLOOHG LQ D IR[KROH HQFRXQWHU with U.S. Marines. But the son now has fresh glimpses into the life of the father he never knew thanks to a wartime diary, returned to him courtesy of the United States.

The pocket-sized book was brought to Vietnam in June by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who, in return, was handed a bundle of letters written by an American soldier that had been kept in Vietnam.

The high-level exchange of artifacts symbolized a joint desire for closer ties by the former enemies, who now share concerns over China’s rise.

U.S. Marine Robert “Iraâ€? Frazure took the diary from the chest of Son’s father, Vu Dinh Doan, in March 1966 and then took it home with him, presumably as a war souvenir. Earlier this year, he asked the sister of a fellow Vietnam vet to track down Doan’s family in Vietnam to return the diary. She did that with the help of the PBS television program “History Detectives,â€? which tracked down Doan’s family earlier this year. “When my father left for the EDWWOHÂżHOG , ZDV WRR VPDOO WR NQRZ anything, I was not even able to call out ‘Dad,’â€? Son said Friday after a tearful ceremony outside his house during which the diary was returned, along with a photo of him and two bank notes. “Whatever he wrote in his small diary will make us extremely happy,â€?

Son said. “We are tremendously proud of him, and in our heart he is a tremendous hero.�

The red book is hard to decipher LQ SODFHV EXW JLYHV D Ă€DYRU RI WKH OLIH of a North Vietnamese soldier at the beginning of the war: Entries talk of a 15-day march by Doan, hunger staved off with a meal of rice, salt and shrimp paste, and a vow to destroy “eight SODQHV DQG ÂżYH WDQNV ´ The artifacts were placed during the ceremony next to a photo of Doan, whose body was recovered four years ago, in his uniform in front of burning incense. Above him was a photo of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh.

Afterward, the family went to pray at his grave, which is in a cemetery reserved for war dead a short drive from the family house.

The United States and Vietnam normalized relations in 1995, 20 years after the end of a war that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 3 million Vietnamese and 58,000 U.S. soldiers.

They have largely agreed to move on from the war, though tensions remain over effects of dioxide sprayed by the United States and Vietnam’s human rights record. The U.S. relies on Vietnamese cooperation in its hunt for the remains of American soldiers in

the country. The two countries have exchanged artifacts before, but never at such a high level. Rarely, if ever, has the Vietnamese army invited the media to cover the events.

The United States is seeking to boost its military and economic ties with Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations, in a so-called “Asian 3LYRW´ WR FRQWDLQ &KLQDÂśV LQĂ€XHQFH in the region. Many of the countries, including Vietnam, share U.S. concerns regarding China and are looking toward Washington for diplomatic and military support.

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DIABALY, Mali — It was dusk when the aging Toyota pickup WUXFN SXOOHG LQWR WKH ¿UVW PLOLWDU\ FKHFNSRLQW ORDGHG ZLWK DW OHDVW EHDUGHG PHQ ¿QJHULQJ SUD\HU EHDGV 7KLV SLQSULFN RI D YLOODJH LQ central Mali is not even large enough to appear on most administrative maps. Cars pass through here so rarely that donkeys fall asleep in the center of the highway.

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Car bomb kills 6 in Thailand’s south after warning Associated Press Writer

PATTANI, Thailand — Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a car bomb in southern Thailand that killed six people Friday after businesses received warnings against opening on the Muslim holy day.

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No switch N i h ffor Rea next season AP Photo/Julie Jacobson

Sergio Martinez, right, lands a punch against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. during the WBC middleweight title fight, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, in Las Vegas. Martinez won by unanimous decision.

Chavez Jr. takes ‘full responsibility’ for positive drug test Saying that he takes “full responsibility for my actions and the consequences thereof,” middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. acknowledged having tested positive for marijuana metabolites consistent with the use of the drug in the aftermath of his unanimous decision loss to RING champion Sergio Martinez that dethroned him as WBC titleholder on Sept. 15 in Las Vegas.

“Any explanation or justification that I can attempt to provide about the recent developments will not be enough or not convincing, so I want to make it known to everyone that I take full responsibility for my actions and the consequences thereof,” read a statement that has been attributed to Chavez’s Twitter account, and which was authenticated by Top Rank Inc. publicist Ricardo Jiminez.

“I want to apologize to all of those who are disappointed or aggrieved by my behavior. Only I know the cause [of the failed test] and only I will take responsibility.

In contrast, I can say that I will emerge stronger from these events and I will vindicate my image in society.”

The post-fight infraction was confirmed by Nevada State Ath-

letic Commission executive director Keith Kizer on Friday, and Top Rank CEO Bob Arum said Chavez planned to address the issue in a hearing with the Nevada Commission. “Everything that happened generates an environment conducive to stopping and thinking about the future. Now its time to create the new Julio Cesar Chavez, to begin a stage to restore my career,” Chavez’s statement continued.

“I will prepare myself physically and mentally, to achieve new goals in the short term, [and one of them] is definitely a rematch with Sergio ‘Maravilla’ Martinez. I take this opportunity to thank everyone for the support that I have received and also recognize all of those who have sent messages of any kind.”

During a call from RingTV.com, Arum expressed optimism upon

hearing Chavez’s words for the first time. “It’s a great statement that shows a lot of maturity. To me, it’s very gratifying, because it shows maturity and it demonstrates that he has learned from this incident,” said Arum.

“I applaud the statement, and trust me, I had nothing to do with writing it, and I didn’t even know about it, so I am very gratified. “ But if Chavez is found guilty, he can be penalized or fined for the entire amount of his $3 million purse, suspended for up to a year, or a combination of both.

Chavez (46-1-1, 32 knockouts) is being associated with either a banned substance or alcohol abuse for at least the third time in his career, having tested positive for a banned diuretic following his unanimous decision victory over Troy Rowland in November, of 2009, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The result of the Rowland fight was later changed to a “no decision,” Chavez was fined $10,000, and he was suspended for seven months by the NSAC.

HONDA MotoGP stand-in Jonathan Rea will stay in the Superbike World Championship for 2013, despite suggestions of a full-time move into top-level grand prix racing. Rea is deputising for the injured Casey Stoner in Honda’s MotoGP line-up until the world champion is fully recovered from surgery on his Indianapolis crash injuries.

The Briton finished eighth on his MotoGP debut at Misano last weekend, and had been linked to the last remaining prototype seat in the 2013 field at the Gresini Honda squad. But instead Honda has announced that Rea will remain part of the Ten Kate line-up in World Superbikes for a fifth season. “I’m happy to continue my partnership with Honda in this exciting championship,” said Rea. “I’ve been loyal to Honda my whole career and that’s because I believe in them as a company and I believe that we can achieve more together in the future.”

Rea is expected to remain on the MotoGP Honda for the next three races before Stoner returns for his home round in Australia.

Alongside his MotoGP commitments, Rea is also contesting the remainder of the WSBK season, where he currently holds fifth in the championship. The two calendars do not clash for the rest of the year. calendar

The FIM has released a provisional calendar for the 2013 MotoGP season, which will include 19 rounds, one more than this year.

The season will start on March 31 in Qatar - traditionally a night event - and will be followed by back-to-back races at venues yet to be announced. The campaign will end at the Valencia circuit on November 10.

The Portuguese GP, which took place in May this year, is absent from the calendar. The open slots are believed to be for Argentina and Texas, which secured contracts to host races from next season.

“Next year we’ll have three GPs in Spain, we’ll have Argentina and Texas in April so as to start earlier in Qatar and to arrive in Europe in May,” said Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta earlier this year.

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Britain’s Jonathan Rea steers his Honda during a third free practice session of the San Marino MotoGP grand prix at the Misano circuit, in Misano Adriatico, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012.

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Chelsea leave it late, Everton up to second Reuters

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Badung Traditional Market

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Denpasar Traditional Market is a center of town’s economics which is located in Gajah Mada Street, that is main road and become a shopping centre of Bali. This traditional market is apposite to the village temple that is one of three biggest temples in Denpasar. It is initially does not as big as like now because have changed experiences and modification which is adapting to the requirement and town growth. This market cannot be discharged from the existence of an existing market in the cross Badung’s river that is called Kumbasari Market because the local society will feel incom-

pletely go for shopping if they are not come to Kumbasari Market, especially for the Balinese who want to buy the ceremony items.

Denpasar Market is a market selling the costume and clothing items with the prices are relative cheaper than clothing items sold at the shops in Gajah Mada Street which are most owned by citizen of Chinese clan.

Kumbasari Market is previously called by Peken Payuk (pot market), it sell the items from gerabah /jar like pot, pengedangan, cubek (plate from land), paso (pail from land), caratan (water jug from land), jeding (barrel from land), penyantokan (mixer from land), coblong (cup from land), kekeb (rice cover) and others. All of

these items are the kitchenware and also the items for ceremony. Since this market most popular as a place to sell payuk/pot, hence Kumbasari Market in the past referred as Peken Payuk or pot market. But now it sell the material or art items for tourist therefore it is one of tourist destinations in Denpasar Town.

Denpasar Market is opened on 24 April 1984 by Bali ‘s Governor, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Mantra. Then after experiencing of the fire accident, it has been repaired in year 2000 at that moment Bali ‘s Governor is Mr. Dewa Made Berata. This market owns the broadness about 14.544 M² and broadly park 9064 M² which is built in four floors. The

local people who go for shopping at this market are not only from environment of Denpasar community but also come from outside of town.

The moment before the big holiday like Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi and others, this market is always crowded by the buyer which are most of them the local society.

Denpasar Market is opened at 5 o’clock in the morning and close at 5 o’clock in the evening. Then, it is changed by the evening market opened from 05:00 pm until at 05:00 am the day after. Meanwhile at Senggol Market in Kumbasari is opened at 02:00 pm and closed at 11:30 pm.

The unique of Senggol Market’s name is possibility taken away from

the situation and condition of people movement on shopping where they each others jog because of visitor denseness. This Senggol Market is selling the variety of food, from the cheap Balinese, Javanese and Chinese cookery. It is also sell the various types of clothes from adult until children one.

Denpasar Market is encircled by shop along the street of Gajah Mada, in the right side there is Sulawesi Street which is famous of cloth items. Denpasar Traditional Market is progressively strengthening the identity of a center of Denpasar’s economics which is opened within 24 hours and never silent by visitor.

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Police arrest 9 more terror suspects Associated Press

JAKARTA — An elite anti-terror squad has arrested nine Islamic militants in Indonesia and seized a dozen homemade bombs from a group suspected of planning suicide attacks against security forces and the government, police said Sunday.

Two suspects were arrested Saturday in Central Java’s Solo town after authorities received information about their whereabouts from other militants in the group who had recently surrendered, said national police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar. The two were interrogated and led police to six other members of the group hours later in the same town. A ninth suspect was arrested late Saturday in West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.

Amar said two of those arrested, Badri Hartono and Rudi Kurnia Putra, both 45, worked to recruit young men and taught at least one member of the group how to make bombs. ³7KH\ ZHUH WKH FHQWUDO ¿JXUHV of the group who had planned several terror attacks,” Amar said. “They recruited, invited young men to be trained in a military-style jihadi camp and bought bomb-making materials.”

He said the group had planned to bomb the country’s Parliament building, shoot police and attack members of the antiterrorism squad.

Police seized 12 homemade bombs and others that were partially completed along with three rifles, four swords and several jihadist books from the homes of three suspects, Amar said. Five bombs were safely defused late Saturday at the scene in Solo, the hometown of convicted radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

Police are still investigating the possible link of the unnamed group to other terrorism networks, Amar said. Authorities believe it has now been largely broken up, but they continue to search for other members.

Since March, more than 30 militant suspects have been arrested and seven others killed in a series of raids in Indonesia.

All were plotting domestic attacks, and some — aged between 18 and 30 — had attended a military-style training camp in Poso on Sulawesi island.

Another member of the unnamed group, alleged bomb maker Muhammad Toriq, surrendered two weeks ago in the capital, Jakarta, while carrying a gun and ammunition and wearing a suicide bomber belt that did not contain any explosives.

A second militant, Yusuf Rizaldi, gave himself up to police in North Sumatra three days later.

Both cooperated to help bring down the group’s other members in Saturday’s raid, Amar said.

Police have said Toriq was allegedly part of an elaborate plan to shoot police and bomb the Parliament building as a way to wage jihad to establish Islamic Sharia law in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.

He had been on the run since police flushed him out of his Jakarta house earlier this month after neighbors reported seeing smoke billowing from it.

He escaped again a week later after a blast rocked a house in the capital’s outskirts. Police believe the bomb accidentally exploded while it was being prepared for a terrorist attack, killing one alleged militant inside the home.

When Toriq walked into a police station and surrendered after having a change of heart, he told authorities he had planned to go on a suicide bomb mission Sept.

10, targeting either police, Indonesia’s elite anti-terrorism squad or Buddhists as a way to protest against treatment of the minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

Indonesia, a secular nation, has been battling terrorists since 2002, when militants linked to the Southeast Asian network Jemaah Islamiyah started attacking Western nightclubs, restaurants and embassies. More than 260 people have been killed in the attacks, many of them foreign tourists.

Recent terror attacks in Indonesia have been carried out by individuals or small groups and have targeted local “infidels” instead of Westerners, with less deadly results.

AFP PHOTO / John SUMATRA

Indonesian bomb squad police defuse homemade bombs they’ve found from arrested terrorist suspects house in Solo-Central Java, on September 22, 2012. Indonesian anti terror police arrested eight suspected terrorists and found homemade bombs and explosive materials in Solo city of central Java province, police said.

Volcano erupts with smoke, ash in north Indonesia Associated Press

JAKARTA — A volcano in northern Indonesia has spewed hot smoke and ash thousands of feet into the air in two new eruptions.

Mount Lokon on Sulawesi island had been dormant before

rumbling back to life last year.

Government volcanologist Hendrasto says it unleashed two strong eruptions Friday.

Residents have been put on alert, but no evacuations are planned since the nearest villages are beyond the danger area about 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) from

the crater.

Mount Lokon’s last major eruption in 1991 killed a Swiss hiker and forced thousands to flee. The volcano is one of five on high alert in Indonesia. The archipelago straddles the “Pacific Ring of Fire” and has more active volcanoes than any other nation.

President must deliver message of muslim concern, says observer Antara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is on a visit to New York, must convey the message of Muslim concern regarding the excessive attitude of the West in using freedom of expression, an observer said.

“President Yudhoyono must utilize his visit to convey the concern of Muslim countries. The governments of Western countries should not be excessive in using the expression of freedom that insults Islam,” international law expert Hikmahanto Juwana

said here on Saturday.

He added that even though security in western countries was not disturbed, in Muslim countries such expressions disturbs security. “Even, it has caused many people to fall victim.”

Hikmahanto said if the expression of freedom would cause disturbances to international security, then international security should be given priority.

“The culprits of blaspheme must face legal processes in order to create legal deterrents so that the culprits or other parties would not repeat the

same deeds,” he said.

He further expressed hope that the closing of a foreign embassy in Jakarta should not happen again due to security concerns.

This would leave the impression in the international community that Indonesia was a failed country, such as Somalia, because security authorities could not provide and ensure adequate security.

On Friday, the US and French embassies were closed in fear of protests against the circulation of the C,QQRFHQFH RI 0XVOLPVC ¿OP

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Monday, September 24, 2012

BUSINESS

Apple, Samsung demand changes to $1 billion verdict Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Neither side in a bitter patent battle is satisfied with Apple Inc.’s $1 billion jury verdict over Samsung Electronics Co. after a three-week trial this summer.

Samsung wants a new trial. Apple is seeking an additional $707 million in damages and interest.

The two companies filed a blizzard of legal papers late Friday and early Saturday with their demands that a federal judge in San Jose significantly amend — or toss out altogether — the jury’s Aug. 24 verdict.

The jury found that 26 Samsung products ripped off Apple’s technology at the heart of its iPhones and iPads.

“Samsung made a calculated business decision to copy the industrial designs, graphical user interfaces, and touchscreen navigation technology of the iPhone and iPad,” Apple lawyers wrote in court papers, arguing for the additional damages. “Samsung has reaped extraordinary rewards from its wrongful sale of iPhone and iPad clones by taking market share, revenues, and profits from Apple.”

The Apple lawyers contend that the “massive damage to the iPhone’s distinctive product identity caused by Samsung’s sale of millions of iPhone clones is irreversible.”

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has scheduled a Dec. 6 hearing to discuss the myriad issues raised by both companies. Samsung says it will appeal if Koh turns down its demands.

The two companies are locked in a ferocious struggle for supremacy in the global smartphone market. Samsung is the worldwide leaders in smartphone sales, securing a market share of 33 percent in the second quarter, up from 17 percent a year ago.

Apple’s fell slightly to 17 percent, from 19 percent a year ago.

Apple accuses Samsung of essentially selling knockoffs of the Cupertino-based company’s iPhones. Apple filed a lawsuit in San Jose federal court, alleging patent infringement. It was the latest legal action between the two companies, who are battling in courts in 10 countries over smartphone technology.

On Friday, Samsung asked the San Jose judge for a new trial. The company’s lawyer argued that the jury’s verdict was unreasonable and unsupported by the testimony and evidence.

The company’s lawyers also complained that the judge’s strict constraints on the number of witnesses and testimony time deprived it of a fair trial.

“The Court’s constraints on trial time, witnesses and exhibits were unprecedented for a patent case of this complexity and magnitude, and prevented Samsung from presenting a full and fair case in response to Apple’s many claims,” the company’s lawyer wrote in court documents.

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

Fiat Viaggio, the first Italian model designed and made for Chinese market, is displayed during the launching event by GAC Fiat Thursday Sept. 13, 2012 in Shanghai, China. Italy’s Fiat and the Italian government said on Saturday they will look for ways to improve the company’s manufacturing efficiency, as the automaker pledged to keep building cars in Italy while shifting its focus to foreign export markets.

Fiat, Italy government to examine export-focused measures Reuters

MILAN/ROME - Italy’s Fiat and the Italian government said on Saturday they will look for ways to improve the company’s manufacturing efficiency, as the automaker pledged to keep building cars in Italy while shifting its focus to foreign export markets.

Fiat’s decision in late August to freeze planned investments to avoid further losses in a weak car market has sparked a firestorm of criticism from trade unions and politicians.

Unions are worried about potential job losses if the company eventually shifts manufacturing to countries where wages are lower.

Fiat said in a statement it planned to “re-orient” its business model in Italy “to focus on exports, particularly outside of Europe.”

That means, a person familiar with the situation said, Fiat could focus on possibly making Jeep and Chrysler

models for export.

Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti and three cabinet ministers met for five hours with Fiat chief executive Sergio Marchionne and chairman John Elkann at the prime minister’s office in Rome.

At the meeting, Fiat outlined its forecasts for the Italian and European markets, focusing on the strategic prospects offered by its integration with its U.S. unit Chrysler, the statement said, without providing any details.

Fiat CEO Marchionne has previously said he does not see the Italian car market recovering until at least 2014. Fiat recently postponed the launch of its new Punto compact to 2015.

“Fiat also confirmed its strategy of investing in Italy, at the right moment, to develop new products to take full advantage of the recovery of the European market,” the statement said, mentioning research and develop-

ment as an example.

The Industry Ministry will set up a working group to examine how to improve Fiat’s export capacity, the statement said.

Fiat plans to release full details of its new investment plans on October 30.

Marchionne and Elkann left Monti’s office without speaking to journalists.

The carefully-worded statement made no mention of further production halts or temporary layoffs, which Fiat is expected to continue throughout autumn to match slack demand.

“It’s a good thing that Fiat renewed its pledge to stay in Italy, where it aims to strengthen its competitiveness in research and innovation,” said UILM trade union secretary Rocco Palombella in a statement.

“In effect, the company has confirmed its plans to invest in Italy at the first sign of a recovery in the European market.”

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FILE - In this July 11, 2012 file photo, Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan speaks to the media after delivering a speech at the “RMB Cross-border Trade and Investment Forum” in Hong Kong.

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CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s deputy prime minister warned Friday that the greatest threat to the U.S. economy are the “cranks and crazies” in the Republican Party, a rare foray into American domestic politics that was blasted by the opposition.

Wayne Swan, who also is treasurer and his center-left Labor Party government’s ranking finance minister, took aim at the tea party during a speech to a business forum, breaking a convention among Australia’s major parties to steer clear of U.S. domestic political debates.

“Let’s be blunt and acknowledge the biggest threat to the world’s biggest economy are the cranks and

crazies that have taken over a part of the Republican Party,” Swan said.

He said “the extreme right tea party wing” of the Republican Party had held the national interest hostage during last year’s debate over the U.S. borrowing limit despite President Barack Obama’s “goodwill and strong efforts.”

He said it was imperative that Congress reach an agreement to support growth and avoid a “fiscal

cliff” of deep government spending cuts and higher taxes in January, which he said could push the U.S. economy back into recession.

The conservative opposition said Swan’s speech betrayed his “hatred” of Republicans.

“The Labor Party is peddling hatred and they’re got to stop,” opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey told reporters. “They hate the Republican Party. I’d like Wayne Swan to say something positive about someone somewhere.”

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who travels to New York next week to address the U.N. General Assembly, defended her deputy’s comments as “appropriate.”

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TOKYO — Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda handily beat three other contenders in a ruling party leadership election Friday and will remain Japan’s leader a while longer despite growing voter disappointment with his government’s performance.

Noda, in office a year, won 818 points out of a total of 1,231 points in the vote, suggesting the ruling Democratic Party of Japan has rallied around him even as his approval rating has fallen below 30 percent.

Noda had said he plans to call a national election “before long,” but has given no timeframe.

Lately, he has suggested he intends to stay on in office to try to finish tasks he set out to accomplish, including helping Japan deal with the impact of last year’s tsunami and nuclear crisis.

Polls suggest the DPJ would be badly defeated if elections were held now.

Voters appear to be disappointed over the DPJ’s inability to deliver

promised change to Japan’s stodgy politics and are upset with Noda’s push to double the sales tax to 10 percent, a step Noda argues is needed to meet increasing social security costs as Japan’s population ages and its national debt grows.

Noda, Japan’s sixth prime minister in six years, played up his resolve to make tough decisions in a speech before Friday’s vote, promising to “sweat with all of you to make a vigorous Japan together.”

“The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided,” Noda told party members gathered in a Tokyo hotel.

Noda also pledged to push forward with the goal of making Japan a nuclear free society by the 2030s. The pledge appeared to be an attempt to show his government was committed to phasing out nuclear power even though his Cabinet on Wednesday backpedaled from an advisory panel’s recommendation to eliminate nuclear power by 2040 in the face of opposition from pro-nuclear businesses and groups.

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara

Japanese Prime MinisterYoshihiko Noda, second from right, joins hands with contenders, from right, Michihiko Kano, Kazuhiro Haraguchi and Hirotaka Akamatsu, after winning in a leadership election of his ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in Tokyo Friday, Sept. 21, 2012.

Pakistani bounty placed on DQWL ,VODP ‫ۋ‬OPPDNHU Reuters

REUTERS/Abrar Tanoli

Supporters of the Pakistani religious political party Jamaat-e-Islami burn a U.S. flag during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Mansehra September 22, 2012.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world. “I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000,” Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to applause.

“I invite the Taliban brothers and the al Qaeda brothers to join me in this blessed mission.” A spokesman for Pakistan’s prime minister said the government disassociated itself from the minister’s statement.

While many Muslim countries saw mostly peaceful protests on Friday, fifteen people were killed in Pakistan during demonstrations over the video. People involved in the film, an amateurish 13-minute clip of which was posted on YouTube, have said it was made by a 55-year-old California man, Nak-

oula Basseley Nakoula.

Nakoula has not returned to his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos since leaving voluntarily to be interviewed by federal authorities. His family has since gone into hiding.

In the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Saturday, thousands of Islamist activists clashed with police who used batons and teargas to clear an unauthorized protest. In Kano, northern Nigeria’s biggest city, Shi’ite Muslims burned American flags, but their protest passed off peacefully.

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Science

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23 Nuclear Plants in Tsunami Risk Zones, Study Finds

AP Photo/Eric Risberg

In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, city engineer Richard Simonitch looks over rows of membranes that ďŹ lter water at a desalination plant in Sand City, Calif.

Desalination no panacea for Calif. water woes Associated Press Writer

MARINA, Calif. — In the Central California coastal town of Marina, a $7 million desalination plant that can turn salty ocean waves into fresh drinking water sits idle behind rusty, locked GRRUV VKXWWHUHG E\ ZDWHU RI¿FLDOV EHFDXVH ULVLQJ HQHUJ\ FRVWV PDGH WKH SODQW WRR H[SHQVLYH Far to the north in well-heeled Marin County, plans were scrapped for a desalination facility despite two decades of planning and millions of dollars spent on a pilot plant.

Squeezing salt from the ocean to make clean drinking water is a worldwide phenomenon that has been embraced in thirsty California, with its cycles of drought and growing population. There are currently 17 desalination proposals in the state, concentrated along the 3DFLÂżF ZKHUH SHRSOH DUH SOHQWLIXO and fresh water is not.

But many projects have been stymied by skyrocketing construction costs, huge energy requirements for running plants, regulatory delays and legal challenges over environmental impacts on marine life. Only one small plant along Monterey Bay is pumping out any drinking water.

From Marin County to San Diego, some water districts are

asking themselves: How much are we willing to pay for this new water? “We found that our demand for water had dropped so much since the time we started exploring desalination, we didn’t need the water,� said Libby Pischel, a spokeswoman for the Marin Municipal Water District. “Right now, conservation costs less than desalination.�

Desalination plants can take water from the ocean or drill down and grab the less salty, brackish water from seaside aquifers. Because of their potential impacts to marine life, the California Coastal Commission reviews each project case-by-case.

There was great fanfare in 2009 when the last regulatory hurdle was cleared to build the Western Hemisphere’s largest desalination plant in Carlsbad, north of San Diego.

At the time, it was proposed that the $320 million project would

suck in 100 million gallons of seawater and be capable of producing 50 million gallons of drinking water a day. It was expected to come online by this year.

Since then, the plant owner, Poseidon Resources LLC, has been negotiating a water purchase agreement and is close to clinching a 30year deal with the San Diego County Water Authority, a wholesaler to cities and agencies that provide water to 3.1 million people.

The compact is essential for Poseidon to obtain financing to build what has become a $900 million project, which includes the seaside plant and a 10-mile pipeline. The San Diego agency hopes the plant opens in 2016 and anticipates desalination will account for 7 percent of the region’s supply in 2020. It estimates the cost is comparable to other new, local sources of drinking water, such as treated toilet water or briny groundwater.

In March 2011, a devastating earthquake and tsunami set off a partial meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant on Japan’s coast. A recent study led by European researchers found Fukushima is not alone, as 22 other plants around the world may be similarly susceptible to destructive tsunami waves, with most of them in east and southeast regions of Asia.

The 23 facilities on the list (including Fukushima) house a total of 74 nuclear reactors. Thirteen of the plants are active, while the others are either nearing completion or being expanded to house more reactors.

The researchers say East and Southeast Asia are at the greatest risk of a nuclear crisis triggered by a tsunami because of the rise of atomic power stations in the region, especially in China, which houses 27 of the world’s 64 nuclear reactors currently under construction. “The most important fact is that 19 (two of which are in Taiwan) RXW RI WKH UHDFWRUV DUH EHLQJ EXLOW LQ DUHDV LGHQWLÂżHG DV GDQJHURXV ´ state the authors of the study.

Meanwhile, in Japan, seven plants — one of which is currently under construction — are located in zones at risk of a tsunami, and South Korea is now expanding two plants in risk zones, the researchers said.

The study, which appears in a recent issue of the journal Natural +D]DUGV XUJHV HQHUJ\ RIÂżFLDOV LQ WKHVH FRXQWULHV WR FRQVLGHU KRZ they would deal with the potentially far-reaching consequences of a catastrophe. “The location of nuclear installations does not only have implications for their host countries but also for the areas which could be affected by radioactive leaks,â€? study researcher JoaquĂ­n RodrĂ­guez-Vidal, of the University of Huelva, told SINC, a Spanish news agency.

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New research powerfully strengthens the case against soda and other sugary drinks as culprits in the obesity epidemic. A huge, decades-long study LQYROYLQJ PRUH WKDQ $PHULFDQV KDV \LHOGHG WKH ¿UVW FOHDU SURRI WKDW drinking sugary beverages interacts with genes that affect weight, amplifying a person’s risk of obesity beyond what it would be from heredity alone.

This means that such drinks are especially harmful to people with genes that predispose them to weight gain. And most of us have at least some of these genes.

In addition, two other major experiments have found that giving children and teens calorie-free alternatives to the sugary drinks they usually consume leads to less weight gain. Collectively, the results strongly suggest that sugary drinks cause people to pack on the pounds, independent of other unhealthy behavior such as overeating and getting too little exercise, scientists say.

That adds weight to the push for taxes, portion limits like the one just adopted in New York City, and other policies to curb consumption of soda, juice drinks and sports beverages sweetened with sugar. Soda lovers do get some good news: Sugar-free drinks did not raise the risk of obesity in these studies. “You may be able to fool the taste� and satisfy a sweet tooth without paying a price in weight, said an obesity researcher with no role in the studies, Rudy Leibel of Columbia University.

The studies were being presented Friday at an obesity conference in San Antonio and were published online by the New England Journal RI 0HGLFLQH 7KH JHQH UHVHDUFK LQ SDUWLFXODU ÂżOOV D PDMRU JDS LQ ZKDW we know about obesity. It was a huge undertaking, involving three long-running studies that separately and collectively reached the same conclusions. It shows how behavior combines with heredity to affect how fat we become.

Having many of these genes does not guarantee people will beFRPH REHVH EXW LI WKH\ GULQN D ORW RI VXJDU\ EHYHUDJHV ÂłWKH\ IXOÂżOO that fate,â€? said an expert with no role in the research, Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University in New York. “The sweet drinking and the fatness are going together, and it’s more evident in the genetic predisposition people.â€?

Sugary drinks are the single biggest source of calories in the American diet, and they are increasingly blamed for the fact that a third of U.S. children and teens and more than two-thirds of adults are obese or overweight.

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Monday, September 24, 2012

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Aston opens Pasar Baru’s Favehotel IBP

JAKARTA - Aston International opened its third trendy select service favehotel in Jakarta, the favehotel Pasar Baru.

The new “faveâ€? occupies a strategic location on Jalan Pasar Baru in the immediate vicinity of Jakarta’s China Town, the Mangga Dua trade complex DQG PDQ\ PDLQ JRYHUQPHQW RIÂżFHV With 84 fun, fresh and friendly rooms the new favehotel Pasar Baru aims to become the area’s best in class select service hotel. Guest rooms are equipped with LED televisions, top of the line beds with quality cotton bed linens and duvets, free and “trulyâ€? high speed WiFi and a complete set of comSOLPHQWDU\ LQ URRP DPHQLWLHV VXFK DV Ă€XII\ FRWWRQ towels, bathroom amenities, individual controlled air-conditioning and save deposit boxes.

Aston Internationals Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr. Norbert Vas, said: “Last August we RSHQHG RXU ÂżUVW IDYH LQ -DNDUWD WKH IDYHKRWHO :DKLG Hasyim, which is now one of the most successful budget hotels in Jakarta and almost always sold out. This proves that there is a healthy demand for quality budget accommodations that are up to international standards. We are convinced that the new favehotel Pasar Baru is set to repeat this success and plan to develop many more faves in Jakarta.â€?

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Snapshot of Press Conference Soft Opening favehotel Pasar Baru, seen in the image (center to left) Mr. Norbert Vas – VP Sales & Marketing Aston International, Ms. Fridi Harini – Corporate Sales & Marketing Director fave & NEO of Aston International, Mr. Abdurrachman Sumantri – Hotel Manager favehotel Pasar Baru and Ms. Febry M. Anindita – Corporate Marketing Communications Manager Aston International (third from far right).

Calendar Event for September 1 through October 17, 2012 1 Sep Saniscara Pon Dunggulan Pura Segara Jembrana Pura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung 2 Sep Redite Wage Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekarmukti-Balubulan Pura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi-Badung 3 Sep Soma Keliwon Kuningan Pura Dasar Gelgel-Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah/Selemadeg-Tabanan Pura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin-Gianyar Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuhan-Busungbiu Buleleng Pura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan.

8 Sep Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan Pura Taman Pule Mas-Ubud Pura Ularan Takmung-Klungkung Pura Bukitjati Gulingan-Kawan Bangli Pura Dalem Tegehe Pura Dalem Tahak Pura Dalem Batuaji Pura Dalem Tegaljaya-Batubulan Pura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon-Sukawati Pura Dalem Guwang-Sukawati Pura Sadha Kapal Pura Sakenan Sakenan Serangan Pura Pekendungan Kediri-Tabanan Pura Pasek Gaduh Grokgak Gede Tabanan Pura Dalem Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Puri Tanjung Periuk Jakarta Pura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang-Bangli Mr. Dukuh Tetek Peguyangan-Denpasar Pura Agung Blambangan Banyuwangi Pura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Gelgel -Klungkung Desa Adat Munggu (Mekotekan) Mengwi-Badung Pura Panti Paksebali-Klungkung (Perang Jempana) Pura Penataran Agung Margowening Desa Balong garut Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur 2 Oct Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg (Meru Tumpang Sanga) Besakih Pura Hyang Tibha i Batuan Sakah 3 Oct Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti Tabanan Pura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem.

Pura Aer Jeruk Sukawati Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan-Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang-Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Kediri-Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati Gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng Pura Puseh Bebandem-Karangasem Merajan Pasek Kubayan-Gaji Merajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan.

Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga Temaga Merajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan Gelgel Bungbungan Sad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih-Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag Paguyangan Pura Pulasari Sibang Gede Abiansemal Pura Batur Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati 8 Oct Soma Keliwon Krulut Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mngwi Badung Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar 13 Oct Hari Tumpek Krurut Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan - Klungkung Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Bebalang Bangli Pura Benua Kangin Besakih Pura Merajan Kanginan Besakih 14 Oct Redite Umanis Merakih Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin - Lembongan Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar 17 Oct Buda Wage Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan Pura Natih Banjar Kalah - Batubulan Pura Desa Silakarang Singapadu Pura dalem Petitenget Kerobokan - Kuta Pura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan - Gianyar Pura Kubayan Kepisah Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Pura Pasek gelgel Banjar Tanahpegat - Tabanan Pr. Paibon Banjar Bengkel Sumerta - Denpasar Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar Pr. Panti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding - Tampaksiring Pr. Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken Kaba-kaba - Tabanan

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 “umbulXPEXO´ ORQJ Ă€DJV DOO WKHVH DUH SUHURJDWLYHV RU DWWULEXWHV of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjorâ€?, 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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Entertainment

Monday, September 24, 2012

Kanye ‘in tears’ that sex tape could being shopped around Kanye West and Kim Kardashian sure do have a lot in common besides their love of fashion. A 20-minute sex tape starring the rapper and an 18-year old married woman is reportedly being shopped around to the highest bidder – and it’s apparently brought him to tears.

Photo by Victoria Will/Invision for FIJI Water /AP Images

Kanye West, left, and Kim Kardashian attend the FIJI Water-sponsored Marchesa Spring 2013 Fashion Show at Vanderbilt Hall on Wednesday Sept.

12, 2012, in New York.

It’s unclear how the video fell into the wrong hands since West is the one who shot it. According to Radar Online, which has viewed the footage and claims it is indeed the rapper (they also have a screen grab of him), he can be seen setting up the camera and making the woman state her age, and at the end of it, he looks directly into the lens as he shuts it off.

His partner – who tells West in the tape that she and her husband “don’t have sex anymore … that’s why I’m here” – is a dead ringer for Kardashian. Radar describes her as having “bodacious curves, dusky skin, and long black hair.”

But the reality star needn’t worry that her man is cheating. The video, which does not involve any kissing, was reportedly shot before he began seeing her shortly after her split from Kris Humphries last October.

But although the sex tape has already garnered a $1 million of-

Britney Spears’ Camp ‘Livid’ Over Glee Episode MANY Britney Spears fans were shocked by Thursday’s “Glee” episode after the show gave the superstar’s pop hits a second go -- this time dredging up Britney’s past tribulations, including her 2007 head-shaving incident and umbrella attack on the paparazzi.

And it wasn’t just Britney supporters who were angered. Speaking to Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush on Friday, Britney’s manager said the singer’s team was completely unaware “Glee” was going to revisit Britney’s troubled times and was “livid” over the episode.

In addition to the one-scene ode to bald Britney, the inflammatory ep (dubbed “Britney 2.0”) also recreated the pop princess’ much-maligned “Gimme More” performance at the 2007 MTV VMAs, where the singer was criticized for everything ranging from less-than-six-pack abs, to poorly hidden hair extensions, to sloppy, low-energy dance moves.

In the “Glee” episode, Brittany S. Pierce (played by Heather Morris) -- depressed over having to repeat her senior year of high school and missing her best friend/

sometimes lover Santana -- was chosen to lead the Glee Club’s pep assembly performance.

Donning a costume similar to Britney’s 2007 black two-piece ensemble, the show’s Brittany meandered lazily through a half-hearted performance of “Gimme More,” while lip-syncing and chowing

down on a large bag of cheese puffs.

Why “Glee” would choose to rehash Britney’s low points now that she’s made a triumphant comeback struck many as odd (if not mean-spirited), especially since the singer herself helped to boost the series’ ratings by appearing on an episode of the show in Season 2.

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Britney Spears, Heather Morris as Brittany Pierce on ‘Glee’

fer from Sex.com, West, 35, is not happy at all that it’s been leaked. “Kanye is freaking out,” a source tells Radar. “He doesn’t want this tape out and will do anything to make sure it stays private. If this were to hit the market it would be worth a fortune – there would definitely be a lot of people wanting to see this! … Kanye was practically in tears when he heard the tape was being shopped.”

And for those curious how West’s sex tape stacks up against Kardashian’s 2007 X-rated romp with Ray J – for which she reportedly made $5 million – the source adds, “In my expert opinion, Kanye’s performance far outweighs Kim’s!”