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Rep: Green Day’s Armstrong getting treatment Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs at the iHeart Radio Music Festival on Friday, Sept., 21, 2012 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Floods, landslides displace 1 million in India; 33 dead

Police arrest 2 more terror suspects Associated Press

U.N. chief warns Iran’s Ahmadinejad on fiery rhetoric

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Batur Geopark impeded by quarry and forest looting

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NEW YORK — Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is headed to treatment for substance abuse. Sunday’s announcement by the band’s rep comes after the 40year-old frontman had a meltdown onstage at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Friday. As Green Day was wrapping up its performance during the all-star, two-day concert, Armstrong profanely complained that the band’s time was being cut short.

“One minute left, one minute (expletive) left. You’re gonna give me (expletive) one minute? ... I’m not (expletive) Justin Bieber, you (expletives)!” he yelled (although Bieber was not part of the night’s festivities).

Armstrong smashed his guitar before leaving the stage.

In a statement to The Associated Press, Green Day apologized “to those they offended at the iHeartRadio Festival” and

said its set was not cut short by Clear Channel, the host of the two-day festival.

The Grammy winning band also is canceling some of its promotional appearances. It is due to release the album “Uno” on Tuesday, the follow-up to “21st Century Breakdown,” released three years ago. “Uno” is the first in a trilogy of albums; the second is to be out in November, and the last in January. The band

is due to kick off a nationwide tour Nov. 26 in Seattle.

Armstrong was hospitalized in early September in Bologna, Italy, for an undisclosed ailment, but recovered well enough to perform at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 6. Since then, the band has made a series of performances, including a “Good Morning America” performance and a New York City concert for the launch of

Nokia Music on Sept. 15. No interviews of the band were allowed that evening, but the band chatted with fans and Nokia and AT&T executives before performing for about two hours.

It’s unclear what Armstrong is receiving treatment for; in 2003, he was arrested for DUI, and has acknowledged in the past taking various drugs but has said he now eschews them.

Green Day is one of rock’s top acts and had huge success with its 2004 politically charged album “American Idiot,” which went on to become a Broadway musical. Armstrong performed for a stretch in the musical.

Most recently, he was a mentor on the NBC talent competition “The Voice.”

‘Watch,’ ‘House,’ ‘Curve’ land in photo finish Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Open Road Films, Scott Garfield

This film image released by Open Road Films shows Michael Pena, left, and Jake Gyllenhaal in a scene from “End of Watch.”

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is in photo-finish mode with three new movies bunched up tightly for the No. 1 spot during a sleepy weekend at the box office. Studio estimates Sunday put two movies in a tie for first-place with $13 million each: Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena’s police story “End of Watch” and Jennifer Lawrence’s horror flick “House at the End of the Street.”

And right in the same ballpark was Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams’baseball tale “Trouble with the Curve,” which opened with $12.7 million. Actual rankings will be de-

termined Monday as studios release final numbers for the weekend.

No matter which movie comes out on top, it was another slow weekend for Hollywood, whose business has been sluggish throughout late summer. Revenues were down for the fourthstraight weekend, with all three of the top new movies opening to modest crowds.

“This was a clash of the nontitans,” said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. “When three films are duking it out for the top spot with only around $13 million, that doesn’t represent a very strong period at the box office.”

Coronation of Batur Caldera in Kintamani as a geopark territory has traversed long and arduous struggle.

Now, it is faced with a conundrum having something to do with the bread and butter of many people.

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BANGLI - Coronation of Batur Caldera in Kintamani as a geopark territory has traversed long and arduous struggle. Now, it is faced with a conundrum having something to do with the bread and butter of many people. Coronation of Batur as a geopark in Indonesia requires the nature conservation in the region. Meanwhile, the condition occurred has been known as a public secret in Kintamani, namely the quarry of rocks and materials. It also includes the constant forest clearing and converts it to farmland. Apparently, it is difficult to control.

Field observation made on Sunday (Sep 23) indicated if the quarry did not only happen at Tabu hamlet, Songan B village, Kintamani. Even, it had expanded to the west of Mount Batur.

Today, the quarry no longer relied on manual labor, but implementation of heavy equipment. Tire prints of

trucks hauling the excavation materials were clearly seen in the west and south of Mount Batur and so were near the Jati Temple and region of Seked.

Regent of Bangli, Made Gianyar, recently admitted the passing of Batur Caldera to become one of the world’s geopark was a remarkable

achievement. Besides, it also drew a great attention because the team of UNESCO had made frequent assessment to Kintamani. To qualify in the competition against several countries around the world was not easy. For Asia region, only Indonesia (Batur Caldera) and China could pass in the

assessment.

With the passing of Batur Caldera as a geopark, a tough task had been waiting. It especially related to encouragement of public awareness regarding the benefits and advantages obtained after the Batur Caldera set forth as a geopark by the world’s agency. According to him, people should feel ashamed to the world, especially to the Global Geopark Network (GGN).

“We are ashamed after being stipulated as a geopark but in fact it is unable to bring in a change in the nature conservation to Batur Caldera,” he said. (kmb17)

The cast and crew of “Modern Family,” winner of the Outstanding Comedy Series award, pose backstage at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday, Sept.

23, 2012, in Los Angeles.

‘Homeland’ and ‘Modern Family’ win big at Emmys Associated Press

The post-Emmy champagne surely tasted sweet for the people at “Modern Family” and “Homeland,” but they needed only to look around the Nokia Theatre to see how quickly popular tastes and Hollywood’s most unpredictable awards show can change perceptions.

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Pregnant women should undergo HIV/AIDS test Denpasar (Bali Post) –

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Due to the drought, the farmers in Tabanan are forced to breed ducks

Rice field in water crisis, farmers forced to breed ducks Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The drought afflicting paddy fields in Tabanan makes farmers increasingly scream. In order to survive, they are forced to switch professions pursuant to their best. One of them is becoming a duck breeder as carried out by a couple from Serampingan hamlet, Megati village, East Selemadeg, Ketut Arka, 45, and Ni Ketut Kriti, 30. As they are unable to cultivate their paddy field, they choose to utilize the land for breeding ducks.

Even though the results are not promising, the couple is still running the duck breeding whereas it costs quite expensive. This new effort has been made since last week by building a small cage amidst the drying up paddy field. “We no longer have other choices as being unable to take other occupations. So, we’re forced to raise ducks,” complained Ni Ketut Kriti, Sunday (Sep 23).

This woman claimed to raise about 600 heads of duck. For these ducks, she should provide the feed in a large amount. A sack of duck feed cost IDR 350,000. According to Kriti, raising ducks cost far more expensive than growing paddy. However, because there was no water supply at all, she remained to breed ducks. “My husband is unable to work other than

cultivating paddy field,” she added.

She bred broiler ducks and each was sold for IDR 16,000.

Apart from complaining about the high cost of raising ducks, Kriti was also difficult to find out drinking water for her ducks. She had to walk about two kilometers to get the water from the river nearby. Moreover, the discharge was very small.

Kriti said the water crisis had lasted for several months. The overlay of paddy fields at her village had dried up and could not be planted. According to Kriti, she was about to plant soybeans.

However, it was canceled for fear of facing harvest failure due to water crisis. Aside from breeding, some farmers chose to work as carpenter and construction worker. For those who

did not have skill as carpenter, they were forced to be unemployed and stayed at home. Kriti added the water crisis had made farmers confused.

She explained the paddy fields in the area were only rain-fed. Therefore, it could only be cultivated once a year.

In dry season, farmers chose to ignore their farmland. She hoped there would be dams or other means that could help resolve the water crisis in dry season.

She said, before there were dams in the upstream, the water discharge kept flowing though quite small. Now, when there had been dams, the irrigation to paddy fields totally did not flow. This year, the dry season was quite long compared to previous years.

Due to prolonged drought, farmlands began to crack. (kmb30)

To increase the discovery of HIV/AIDS sufferers in the society especially caused by heterosexual intercourse and that it is predicted 500,000 pregnant women or 1 percent from pregnant women in Bali per year are infected, health institutions should refer pregnant women in Indonesia to get an HIV/AIDS test undergo. “This is still suggested yet in the future it seemed to be an obligation to every pregnant woman,” Sanglah Hospital PMTCT (Preventing Mother to Child Transmission) Program Head, dr.

A.A.N. Jaya Kusuma, SpOG, stated a while ago.

Why is it so important to do so? It is known from the beginning a transferred HIV virus to the fetus has a potential of 30 percent that can be erased up to 0-1 percent not infecting the baby that will be born and so will prevent any new born baby infected by the virus. For Sangalah Hospital, this PMTCT program has existed since 2005 with 130 infected pregnant women undergo this program in the present. The result up to now has been negative or that the mother is not infected by it. “It is known that from the beginning of their PMTCT program, an ARV therapy was given so it pressurize the number of virus to the minimum. The earlier the treatment, the infection will get smaller sooner. For those who are infected, the baby has to be born through Caesar surgery as the HIV virus on the birth route is high so a normal birth method is avoided,” Kusuma continued. (kmb24)

River banks project, materials taken from the river itself Negara (Bali Post) –

The support project at a river in Banjar Tibusambi, YehembangKangin Village, Mendoyo used scattered bronjong rocks from the river. This questioned the society as the hundred millions of rupiah project won’t be possible using these materials as it will damage the river and has to have its permit in using so also this is the same thing as they are river miner with the mask of a support project. “What’s the difference with illegal galian C sites?” a local questioned last Sunday (23/9).

Even though there has been signs placed and the work is 60 percent completed, yet there is no sign of the project’s board placed and admitted never seen the management bringing other outside materials and used the river’s big rocks instead. The situation was admitted by the workers coming from East Java.

They say if the rocks in the river are not enough then there are rocks coming from other places or by buying it. These were done based on the director of the project’s direction and now with the rocks all finished, they all couldn’t work anymore.

In other hand the project management couldn’t be confirmed due to not being in the area. Workers admitted not knowing who the supervisor of it is. Head of Jembrana Police Civil Service, Putu Widarta, explained the rocks taken for a project has to have a permit of Galian C yet as this project has no clarity there will be some checking taking place first. “Taking materials using heavy equipment is mining (galian), even though it is used for that area as well,” Widarta exclaimed. (kmb26)

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Mercure Bali Nusa Dua makes its big debut

The stylish 201-room Mercure Hotel offers international leisure and business travelers an exciting new option in the Nusa Dua area The newlybuilt Mercure Bali Nusa Dua opened on 23 September 2012, offering guests a comfortable base in the Nusa Dua area. Just a stone’s throw from t h e p r o m i n e n t B a l i To u r i s m Development (BTDC) complex, the hotel is ideally located for access to the Bali International Convention Centre and many shopping, dining and entertainment options of the Bali Collection Shopping Mall. Located a mere 14 kilometers from Bali’s International Ngurah Rai Airport and 25 minutes from the chic and vivacious areas of Kuta, Legian and Seminyak, the hotel is ideal for business and leisure travelers alike.

A member of Accor, Mercure is known for its individually-styled and personalized hotels, each with its own distinctive character. Mercure Bali Nusa Dua is the fourth hotel to join the Mercure network in Bali. The hotel features 201 comfortable contemporary rooms including 150 Superior rooms, 43 Deluxe rooms and 8 Junior Suites. Guests can indulge at the restaurant which serves local and international dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, sit down for a drink at the lobby or pool bar, work out in the fully-equipped fitness centre, or relax in the hotel’s unique swimming pool, divided over two levels and connected by a waterfall. Three meeting rooms with a capacity of up to 200 people can accommodate conferences, weddings and other events, while the business centre services and lobby internet corner round out the

hotel’s business facilities.

All rooms are designed to reflect the identity and heritage of Bali, while embracing the contemporary style of Mercure.

Each room is equipped with premium in-room amenities including international cable television channels and free WiFi Internet access.

“We are very excited to part of the network of Mercure hotels in Bali,” said Peter Stolk, General Manager of Mercure Bali Nusa Dua. “The right location and contemporary design make this hotel an attractive destination for both business and leisure travelers looking for slice of paradise on Bali,” he added.

To c e l e b r a t e i t s o p e n i n g , Mercure Bali Nusa Dua is offering a special launch promotion with room rates starting from IDR 690,000++ per room per

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

night, valid until 20 December 2012.

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donesia or to make a reservation, visit http://www.accorhotels. com/gb/hotel-activities/package5837-mercure-bali-nusa-duaspecial-opening-offer.shtml

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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Fossil Forest May Sprout Again as the Arctic Warms sediments” line up with Earth’s magnetic orientation, scientists can use this to date the sediment layers.

They estimate the forest thrived between 2.6 million and 3 million years ago. The trees in the ancient forest, as interpreted from the pollen samples, usually grew in areas with a yearly average temperature of about 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), Guertin-Pasquier said. Currently, average temperatures on Bylot Island hover around 5 degrees F (minus-15 degrees C), he added.

Will our grandchildren actually see this forest come to life? “I think it’s very possible we might see forest compositions of the past returning with warming,” Larisa R. G. DeSantis who was not involved in the study told LiveScience. “The question is whether those trees will be able to make it up there,” DeSantis said, adding that in some ways it’s a lot easier for animals to migrate to different conditions.

“But trees have another whole level of difficulty, their potential for movement is based on their dispersal of seeds and that sort of thing, so their movement is constrained,” said DeSantis, who studies, among other topics, the reconstruction of ancient environments, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

New breast cancer clues found in gene analysis Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Scientists reported Sunday that they have completed a major analysis of the genetics of breast cancer, finding four major classes of the disease.

They hope their work will lead to more effective treatments, perhaps with some drugs already in use.

The new finding offers hints that one type of breast cancer might be vulnerable to drugs that already work against ovarian cancer.

The study, published online Sunday by the journal Nature, is the latest example of research into the biological details of tumors, rather than focusing primarily on where cancer arises in the body.

The hope is that such research can reveal cancer’s genetic weaknesses for better drug targeting.

“With this study, we’re one giant step closer to understanding the genetic origins of the four major subtypes of breast cancer,” Dr. Matthew Ellis of the Washington

University School of Medicine said in a statement. He is a co-leader of the research.

“Now we can investigate which drugs work best for patients based on the genetic profiles of their tumors,” he said. The researchers analyzed DNA of breast cancer tumors from 825 patients, looking for abnormalities. Altogether, they reported, breast cancers appear to fall into four main classes when viewed in this way.

One class showed similarities to ovarian cancers, suggesting it may be driven by similar biological developments. “It’s clear they are genetically more similar to ovarian tumors than to other breast cancers,” Ellis said. “Whether they can be treated the same way is an intriguing possibility that needs to be explored.”

The report is the latest from the Cancer Genome Atlas, a federally funded project that has produced similar analyses for brain, colorectal, lung, and ovarian cancers.

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Julah village in Tejakula subdistrict is known as an ancient village in Bali. It is evidenced by a number of megalithic relics found at the village, including the relic of sacred dance, ancient building, sacred temples, social custom and unique village administration.

Julah village arranged

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An ancient forest once flourished on the Canadian Arctic’s Bylot Island (shown here), and researchers say global warming may revive it.

Toyota drops plan for widespread sales of electric car

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TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp has scrapped plans for widespread sales of a new all-electric minicar, saying it had misread the market and the ability of still-emerging battery technology to meet consumer demands.

Toyota, which had already taken a more conservative view of the market for battery-powered cars than rivals General Motors Co and Nissan Motor Co, said it would only sell about 100 battery-powered eQ vehicles in the United States and Japan in an extremely limited release.

The automaker had announced plans to sell several thousand of the vehicles per year when it unveiled the eQ as an pure-electric variant of its iQ minicar in 2010.

“Two years later, there are many difficulties,” Takeshi Uchiyamada, Toyota’s vice chairman and the engineer who oversees vehicle development, told reporters on Monday.

By dropping plans for a second electric vehicle in its line-up, Toyota cast more doubt on an alternative to the combustion engine that has been both lauded for its oil-saving potential and criticized for its heavy reliance on government subsidies in key markets like the United States.

“The current capabilities of elec-

REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Toyota Motor Corp’s Executive Vice President Takeshi Uchiyamada poses next to the company’s newly developed compact electric vehicle eQ after a news conference in Tokyo September 24, 2012. tric vehicles do not meet society’s needs, whether it may be the distance the cars can run, or the costs, or how it takes a long time to charge,” said, Uchiyamada, who spearheaded Toyota’s development of the Prius hybrid in the 1990s.

Toyota said it was putting its emphasis on that technology, an area in which it is the established leader. Toyota said on Monday it expected to have 21 hybrid gaselectric models like the Prius in

its line-up by 2015. Of that total, 14 of the new hybrids will be allnew, the automaker said.

Toyota has previously said that it expects to have a hybrid variant available for every vehicle it sells. In a gas-electric hybrid like the Prius, a battery captures energy from the brakes to provide a supplement to the combustion engine, boosting overall mileage, particularly in stop-and-go city traffic.

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A fossilized forest that flourished more than 2.5 million years ago could return to life thanks to a warming planet, scientists say. The paleo-scene won’t sprout up overnight, of course, said Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of the University of Montreal, who will present his research at the Canadian Paleontology Conference in Toronto this week.

Rather, he said, climate forecasts suggest that, by 2100, the nowuninhabited Bylot Island where the fossilized forest was discovered will support temperatures similar to those prevalent when the forest thrived.

“The fossil forest found in Bylot Island probably looked like the ones actually found in the [present-day] south of Alaska, where tree-line boreal forest grows near some glacier margins,” Guertin-Pasquier wrote in an email. “The main plant diversity also seems to be similar between these two environments,” which both include willow, pine and spruce trees. [See Photos of the Fossil Forest Site] He and his colleagues analyzed samples of wood that had been preserved in the area’s peat and permafrost. They specifically looked for pollen, which would reveal the types of trees growing in the area at the time.

To help nail down a specific date when growth occurred, the researchers analyzed the sediments laid down at the time the forest lived. They specifically looked at magnetic particles found in the soil, particularly magnetite. This works because, throughout our planet’s history, the orientation of the magnetic north pole changed several times, a well-documented phenomenon. Since these “magnetic

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Preserve sacred temples, reject hotel establishment

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BULELENG - Julah village in Tejakula subdistrict is known as an ancient village in Bali. It is evidenced by a number of megalithic relics found at the village, including the relic of sacred dance, ancient building, sacred temples, social custom and unique village administration. To preserve the relics, the residents of Julah village are working hard to arrange the village seriously. In addition to managing the environment, they also set up the appearance of buildings in order to meet its original look.

Pursuant to the inscription in the Bale Agung temple of Julah village, the village situated in the eastern coast of Buleleng has existed since Caka Year 844 or January 24, AD 923 during the reign of Ratu Sri Ugrasena in Bali. Now, amidst the swift currents of modern culture, the Julah village has surely changed.

But, it is worth thumbing up, the changes occurred at the village does not touch the customary and cultural elements that have long been maintained by the residents.

Evidently, almost all kinds of the sacred arts such as the Baris Gede remain to be well maintained. A number of sacred temples at the village are well preserved, in terms of its construction and sacredness.

When coastal areas of the other villages in Tejakula subdistrict are besieged by villas and hotels, the coastal area at the village territory is still free from such tourist accommodation. Villagers reject the hotel development in coastal areas considered to be sacred.

Why can Julah village maintain the beach territory from the onslaught of hotel investment and

other tourism facilities? Headman of Julah village, Nengah Wijaya, said that his villagers seriously attempted to preserve the tradition and sanctity of the temple. They did not want any hotels to be established on the beach as they worried if it would contaminate the sanctity of temples at the village. “Our residents strongly hold the tradition so that they will think twice to accept the construction of waterfront hotels at the village,” he said.

Though remaining to hold the tradition and culture, in fact the Julah residents were not anti-tourism.

Even, this year Julah village had an environmental arrangement project intended to make it a tourism village. The village received a help from central government worth IDR 6 billion. The tourism village project was worked on through four phases. First phase with the fund of IDR 1.2 billion would cover the environmental arrangement such as village road improvement and refurbishment of ancient entrance to residents’ house compound. “The next phase will be resumed with the arrangement of ancient build-

ings at our village,” said Headman Wijaya.

Wijaya also said that his party would constantly think twice to permit the hotel construction though the village had the status as a tourism village. Selling point of the tourism village highlighted was the unique tradition and ancient Balinese culture. To that end, the whole management of tourism activities would be handled by local residents. Thus, for lodging facilities, residents would be directed to build a kind of home stay at home or small huts amidst their garden.

“Those houses and small huts will be offered to tourists,” he said.

Wijaya humbly said the entire planning of the village tourism was still being carefully deliberated. By all means, the formulation required a fairly accurate assessment. On the one hand, the customs and culture should remain sustainable while on the other hand the tourism was also expected to develop the welfare of community. “We still need some inputs from all parties,” said Wijaya also doubling as travel agency entrepreneur. (ole)

HINDU possesses a medical science that has been very renowned from time immemorial, namely Ayurvedic medicine.

Ayurvedic medicine refers to the contents of the scripture Ayurveda born thousands of years ago. Ayurvedic scripture denotes a part of Upaweda in the group of Smriti Vedas. However, the Ayurvedic scripture is often confused with Yajur Veda, the scripture containing sacrificial formula that also belongs to Smriti Veda. Yajur Veda itself is a scripture discussing about Yajña or ceremony.

Author of the book Usada Bali (Balinese Traditional Healing), the late Prof. IGN Nala, once said that to help the healing, the Ayurvedic healers usually provided natural herbal medicine having few side effects. Almost all plants existing around us could be eaten, they were medicine. On that account, all plants having efficacy for healing were necessary to be inventoried and developed.

In the meantime, the Dean of Faculty of Health Science, Hindu University of Indonesia (Unhi), I Nyoman Prastika, said that based Taru Premana palm-manuscript there were a number of beneficial herbs having the efficacy to cure diseases. Parts of those plants taken advantage consisted of its leaf, flower, fruit, bark or roots. Each herb had different quality such as cool, warm and mild.

To know whether a particular plant had a cold, warm or mild quality, it could be observed from the color of its flower and flavor. For instance, white, yellow and green flower had warm quality. If their flowers were red and blue, these plants had cool efficacy. Meanwhile, if the flower was multi-colors, they could be ensured to have mild efficacy.

Likewise, if they tasted sweet and sour, its quality might be warm. However, if they tasted bitter and hot, they had cool efficacy. Then, if they were tasteless, they belonged to mild plant.

In herbal medicine system, added Prastika, people would be healthy if they consumed (ahara) nutritious healthy foods regularly, had adequate rest or sleep (nidra), and behaved (vihara) healthy. If the three aspects had been committed well, but it was still found health disturbances, then a herbal treatment (ausadhi) was required. Preparation method of herbal medicine could be divided into three kinds, namely grinding, spraying and boiled.

Its healing method could be performed by drinking and dropping for internal healing, while the spraying or applying the paste for external use.

Then, what kinds of plant could be used to cure diseases?

Prastika said that virtually all edible plants by animals could be eaten by humans. Whether the herbs had medicinal quality, they could be observed from the color of their flowers and flavor as mentioned above. Similarly, the plants frequently used for spices in the cooking contained drug efficacy.

Red ginger for example, was good to increase warmth of the body as well as to stimulate or maintain immunity. If red ginger added with the flowers of carambola, bark of tamarind and kalmegh leaves, they could be used to accelerate breathing and relieve cough.

Meanwhile, to break up kidney stones and cure colic, people could also use herbal medicine. Its ingredients consisted of roots of reed, roots of palm tree, root of areca nut tree and added with palm sugar. All materials were thoroughly boiled. Afterward, its decoction water was drunk in the morning and afternoon.

Herbal remedies could also cope with cardiac palpitations. Its ingredients comprised the soy beans, green beans, ginger, cumin, fennel, bidara upas (Merremia mammosa) leaf, coriander and pulasari (Alyxia Stellata). All ingredients should be boiled and then water of its decoction was drunk regularly.

Meanwhile, Balinese traditional healing used several palmleaf manuscripts as reference. One of them was Lontar Usada Tiwang. This manuscript described about various types of diseases along with their treatments. Tiwang conveyed numerous symptoms in the form of disorder on the function of organ.

There were several types of tiwang presented in the manuscripts such as tiwang utara, tiwang tojos, tiwang wedul, tiwang pemali pepasangan, tiwang wong, and tiwang rajasa.

Prastika added that tiwang pemali pepasangan had symptoms like prickling pain in the chest and on the back. Being no resistant to the pain, the sufferers often groaned. The disease itself could be treated by means of bark of rauvolfia, temu tis (Curcuma purpurascens), grilled coconut, hazelnut and fennel.

It was applied by spraying its paste. (BTN/kmb)

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Dozens of hectares of corn in Abang at risk of harvest failure Amlapura (Bali Post) -

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UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the dangers of incendiary rhetoric when two men met in New York on Sunday before this week’s annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.

From the observation on Sunday (Sep 23), some hectares of maize plants in drought condition were found at Datah village in Abang subdistrict, Karangasem. Meanwhile, similar condition also hit the plants at Kesimpar village, overlay of paddy field at Kangkahang and Kerta Mandala village.

A farmer at Bingin Dulu hamlet, Datah village, Nyoman Rena, said that some plots of his corn plants had withered due to drought on the arid lands. Rena admitted to plant corn two months ago in the hope that in the third month of Balinese calendar (August or September) it would rain shortly. As in the past, there had always been heavy rains during that period. However, he miscalculated this year and in fact it did not rain at all. As a result, our corn plants dried up and turned unproductive. “As consequence, the corn plants can only be taken advantage for fodder,” said Rena.

Farmers at Kangkahang also said that other than the absence of rain, the water flow to the overlay of paddy fields also trickled so that it was not enough to irrigate the fields.

Another farmer, Wayan Ngambar, said that he planted beans but wilted and so did his cassava and corn. Due to no rain and the plants were at risk of crop failure, farmers estimated to suffer a loss which totally reached tens of millions of rupiahs. “We’re just sharecroppers, when facing crop failure we will loss out together. Plowing land by tractor is very expensive, where per 100 square meters will be charged at IDR 40,000,” said Ngambar. (013)

“The secretary-general drew attention to the potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric, counter-rhetoric and threats from various countries in the Middle East,” Ban’s press office said in a statement.

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was quoted as saying on Sunday that Iran could launch a preemptive strike on Israel if it was sure the Jewish state was preparing to attack it.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted that Israel could strike Iran’s nuclear sites and criticized U.S. President Barack Obama’s position that sanctions and diplomacy should be given more time to stop Iran getting the atomic bomb.

Iran denies that it is seeking nuclear arms and says its atomic work is peaceful, aimed at generating electricity.

The U.N. statement said Ban told Ahmadinejad that Iran should “take the measures necessary to build international confidence in

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Two Damaged roads, methamphetamine teachers reluctant to teach distributors captured Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Taufik Hidayat (30) and Made Mas Andi Widadnyana (31) who were two distributors of methamphetamine were captured by Criminal Research team from North Kuta Police last Saturday (22/9) where 0.32 gram and 0.36 gram were found from their hands. Head of Badung Police, GAPC Beny Arjanto, last Sunday (23/9) stated the captivity started with a suspicion from the officer who was patrolling in the area seeing Taufik acting weirdly, driving with his head looking to the right and left. As Taufik arrived at a Circle-K at Petitenget Street, North Kuta, Badung, accused was looking for something on the stack of stones. When he got it, he then left straight away and Police stopped him at Raya Kerobokan Kelod Street, North Kuta. “When investigated, accused looked staggered. After checked one package of methamphetamine was found,” Beny explained accompanied

by Head of North Kuta Police apc Michael Risakotta.

Taufik was then brought to his living place at Taman Sari II C3 Street, PCP Kerobokan Kelod Estate yet no other packages of illegal drugs were found. Taufik then opened about his colleague that used it too, Widiadnya from Seririt who lives at Gunung Soputan 3 Street No. 8, Denpasar. Yet Widiadnya’s place was raided, he was not there and later was found at PCP Marlboro Estate. “Form his hand we found a package of 0.36 gram Methamphetamine,” Beny concluded. (kmb21)

Damage road section from Bontihing village to Pakisan village, Kubutambahan subdistrict is not only complained by residents as finding difficulty to carry their crops. However, it also has adverse impacts on the sector of education at both villages. Due to damaged road, teachers are reluctant to teach because they have to pass through damaged roads to school.

Headman of Pakisan village, Nyoman Karya, admitted to get many complaints from his residents since the road at his village was damaged. Most complaints were from teachers who taught at school of his village. Even, they were reluctant to go to school as they should pass through damaged roads. Many teachers could not teach the students comfortably at the local elementary school.

Those teachers threatened to move to another school because every day they had to pass the damaged road and it was prone to traffic accident. “As a result, many teachers are unable to teach conveniently here. Even, they also ask to move to another school

because they cannot help passing such ascending and damaged terrain,” he said.

This condition kindled worries if the elementary school of the village would really lose the teachers.

Besides, many students were also late to attend school because they had to go on foot. Meanwhile, if the students were escorted by parents on a motorcycle would also take a long time and prone to traffic accident. “It is the impact.

Hopefully, this condition will not last long and the government could pay attention to our village,” hoped Karya.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Buleleng Public Works Agency, Ketut Yasa, when contacted on Sunday (Sep 23) explained his party would assigned his man to recheck the condition of damaged road at Pakisan village to Bontihing village. From the results of survey, the Public Works would plan an improvement in 2013. “We’re not sure when will be repaired, but we will check first to the scene.

This year is impossible because it has reached the middle of the year.

Probably, we will propose it next

year,” he said.

As reported previously, the rural roads in Kubutambahan subdistrict were badly damaged along 17 kilometers. Road body from Bontihing village to Pakisan village was damaged. Along the road, the asphalt layer had flaked off and potholes were deep enough. Other than being prone to traffic accidents, the residents were also forced to go on foot when going out of the village.

Additionally, they also found difficulty to sell their crops.

The village officials claimed to have submitted proposals asking for the assistance to repair the road, but failed. Even, one of the legislators in the Bali House had inspected the rural road and promised to fight for that, but failed either. The last proposal had been submitted to regency government to repair the damaged roads.

Village officials and residents expected the road repair could be done immediately. For many years, local residents had passed through damaged road and were forced to transport their crops on foot. (kmb)

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U.N. chief warns Iran’s Ahmadinejad on fiery rhetoric

Dozens of hectares of corn and crops in Abang subdistrict looked to wilt due to drought. Farmers said their wilted plants were ascertained to face crop failure.

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the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program.”

The two men also discussed Syria. Iran has been accused of using civilian aircraft to fly military personnel and large quantities of weapons across Iraqi airspace to Syria to aid President Bashar al-Assad in his attempt to crush an 18-month uprising against him, according to a Western intelligence report.

“The secretary-general stressed the grave regional implications of the worsening situation in Syria and underlined the devastating humanitarian impact,” the statement said.

Speaking to reporters in New York, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said that “to increase pressure and to increase the isolation of the regime of Assad is one of the goals this week.”

On Wednesday, Westerwelle will chair a ministerial meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the Arab Spring at which Syria is expected to be a major theme.

From Nigeria to Athens, Muslim protests rumble on

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tests to continue until the makers DUBAI - Musof the film and lims protested in cartoons are punNigeria, Iran, ished.

Greece and TurIn Pakistan, key on Sunday to where fifteen show anti-Western people were killed anger against a in protests on Frifilm and cartoons day, a government insulting Islam minister has ofhad not dissipatfered $100,000 to ed. As delegates anyone who kills from around the the maker of the world gathered short, amateurREUTERS/Faisal Mahmood in New York for ish video “The a U.N. General A girl is photographed as she attends an I n n o c e n c e o f Assembly where anti-U.S. demonstration with religious stu- Muslims”. Calls dents in the compound of the Red Mosque the clash between in Islamabad September 22, 2012. have increased for free speech and a U.N. measure blasphemy is bound to be raised, U.S. outlawing insults to Islam and blasphemy flags were once again burning in parts of in general. the Muslim world.

In Athens, some protesters hurled Iranian students chanted “Death to bottles of water, stones and shoes at poAmerica” and “Death to Israel” outside lice who responded with teargas. Calm the French embassy in Tehran in protest at returned when demonstrators interrupted the decision by satirical magazine Charlie the protest to pray.

Hebdo to publish cartoons of the Prophet Hours later, dozens of Muslim inmates Mohammad, days after widespread pro- in Athens’ main prison set mattresses and tests - some deadly - against a film made bed sheets on fire in protest. Firemen with in the United States. four engines battled the flames in some Shi’ite Muslims in the Nigerian town cells but police and government officials of Katsina burned U.S., French and Israeli said late at night the situation was under flags and a religious leader called for pro- control.

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U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki-moon listens to a speech in the Swiss National Council during his visit in the Autumn Parliament Session in Bern September 11, 2012.

Japan protests as Chinese ships enter disputed waters Reuters

TOKYO - Three Chinese ships briefly entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea on Monday, prompting an official protest from Tokyo and renewed diplomatic efforts to cool tensions between the rivals.

In a move that could further complicate the territorial row that is threatening relations between Asia’s biggest economies, a group of fishermen from Taiwan -- which also claims the rocky isles -- said as many as 100 boats escorted by 10 Taiwan Coast Guard vessels would arrive in the area later on Monday.

China’s Xinhua news agency said in the morning that two civilian surveillance ships were undertaking a “rights defense” patrol near the islands, citing the State Oceanic Administration, which controls the ships.

One fishery patrol vessel was also detected inside waters claimed by Japan.

Japan lodged an official protest. By afternoon, all three Chinese vessels had moved further away, the Japanese Coast Guard said.

Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated sharply after Japan bought the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, earlier this month, sparking anti-Japan protests across China. “In recent days, Japan has constantly provoked incidents concerning the Diaoyu islands issue, gravely violating China’s territorial sovereignty,” China’s Xinhua news agency said. The ship patrols were intended to exercise China’s “administrative jurisdiction” over the islands, it said. “Following the relevant laws of the People’s Republic

of China, (the ships) again carried out a regular rights defense patrol in our territorial waters around the Diaoyu islands.”

Sino-Japanese ties have long been plagued by China’s memories of Japan’s military aggression in the 1930s and 1940s and present rivalry over regional influence and resources.

Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai will visit China on Monday to discuss Sino-Japanese relations with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun, the Foreign Ministry said.

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An aerial photo shows a Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian No. 66 (front) cruising next to a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku isles in Japan and Diaoyu islands in China, in this photo by Kyodo September 24, 2012.

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German business climate falls despite ECB bond plan

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BERLIN - German business sentiment dropped for a fifth successive month in September to its lowest level since early 2010, showing the European Central Bank’s plan to buy the bonds of weak euro states has failed to convince firms the worst of the crisis is behind them.

The Munich-based Ifo think tank said on Monday its business climate index, based on a monthly survey of some 7,000 firms, fell to 101.4 in September from 102.3 in August, defying expectations for a slight rise,.

A Reuters poll of 45 economists had forecast a slight increase to 102.5.

“September’s fall in the German Ifo business survey is a reminder that even the euro-zone’s strongest

economies are suffering from a serious economic downturn,” Jennifer McKeown, an economist at Capital Economics wrote in a note.

“While Germany might have avoided a recession in the third quarter, it seems like only a matter of time before the economy starts to contract. This will make support for the peripheral economies even more difficult to muster.”

Business confidence in the Neth-

erlands also fell in September to -6.7 points from -4.6 in August, data showed on Monday.

Dragging on the Ifo index was a sharp decline in sentiment among manufacturers, although companies in retailing and wholesaling reported a slightly brighter mood.

Tough austerity measures in many European states have weakened demand for German exports, and a weaker global economic environ-

ment threatens to crimp demand from emerging economies.

Industrial group Bosch (ROBG. UL) and steelmaker ThyssenKrupp (TKAG.DE), have announced plans to introduce “Kurzarbeit” or government-subsidized short-time work at German plants.

While the German economy steamed ahead in the first three months of the year, saving the euro zone from recession by growing 0.5 percent, it lost momentum in the second quarter, with growth slowing to 0.3 percent.

The Finance Ministry warned in its monthly report last Friday that data pointed to economic growth weakening in the remainder of the year. Many

economists are now predicting a contraction for the third and possibly the fourth quarters.

Last week Markit’s composite Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), showed Germany’s private sector shrank for a fifth month, and a separate index for the euro zone showed that the ECB’s aggressive new bondbuying plan has so far failed to inspire any major improvement in business at ailing euro zone companies.

The ECB’s plan and a decision

by Germany’s Constitutional Court this month to allow the ratification of Europe’s new rescue mechanism, had sent a wave of optimism through markets.

Asian stocks sink as global economy fears rise Associated Press

HONG KONG — Asian stocks mostly drifted lower Monday as investors’ growing concerns about the shaky global economy overpowered any remaining optimism over central bank stimulus efforts.

Crude oil tumbled while the dollar rose against the euro but fell against the Japanese yen.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index dropped 0.4 percent to 9,070.78 and Seoul’s Kospi index shed 0.2 percent to 1,999.18. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down less than 0.1 percent to 20,724.17 while Sydney’s ASX S&P 200 fell 0.4 percent to 4,388.60. Benchmarks in Singapore and Indonesia also fell.

Strategists at Credit Agricole CIB wrote in a research note that the “euphoria emanating” from recent moves by the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan to stimulate growth is “fading quickly.”

“The reality of weak growth and underlying structural tensions is coming back to haunt markets.”

The Fed vowed in mid-September to buy billions in mortgage securities each month until the economy improves in a third round of what is known as quantitative easing, or QE3. The ECB and Bank of Japan followed with their own renewed bond-buying plans.

“There is this struggle between optimism towards QE3 and the concern about the global economic slowdown,” said Louis Wong, a director at Phillip Securities in Hong Kong. “So investors are weighing the easing measures of central banks and the health of the global economy.”

China’s Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.3 percent to 2,032.44, reversing losses earlier in the day. However, the benchmark is still at its lowest point since January 2009.

Chinese stocks are being hurt

Toyota Motor Corp. Vice Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada poses for photographers as he puts a plug to the newly-developed compact electric vehicle “eQ” during a press conference in Tokyo Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. Toyota is boosting its green vehicle lineup, with plans for 21 new hybrids in the next three years, a new electric car later this year and a fuel cell vehicle by 2015 in response to growing demand for fuel efficient and environmentally friendly driving.

by a dispute between China and Japan over disputed islands that has heightened tensions between Asia’s two biggest economies.

They’re also under pressure as investors worry about what Chinese authorities will do to restart growth amid the country’s economic slowdown. Wong said it’s unlikely that Chinese authorities will unveil any major stimulus

measures ahead of the National Day holiday next week or an expected but still unscheduled Communist Party meeting to hand over power to a next generation of leaders.

“This inaction by the Chinese government also weighs,” Wong said.

Asian markets were also reacting to some downbeat economic reports released over the weekend.

The U.S. Labor Department said that the unemployment rate rose in more than half of states last month, the latest evidence that hiring remains tepid across the world’s biggest economy. The World Trade Organization, meanwhile, cut estimates for global trade growth for this year and next. Both reports came out on Friday after Asian markets closed.

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Otonan: Real ‘Birthday’ Celebration for Companions

Month by month has gone by and another year is coming. Time is so significant to humans when he performs action and writes down his story of life.

When having arrived at certain point, he may need a short break for an introspection and commemoration of a beautiful moment in his lifetime. Yes, it’s commonly known as birthday, an annual celebration of the day on which one was born.

Etymologically, there may have been a common ‘misperception’ here where birthday in the Gregorian calendar should be celebrated on the same day as the word suggests and not the same date (should be birth date). On the contrary, otonan in the Balinese (Hindu) tradition is similar thing but of different context. This one is celebrated every 210 days on the same day based on Javano-Balinese wuku year. So, it can be said a real birthday. For example, if one was born on Wednesday (day) Kliwon (five-day week) Dungulan (one of thirty wukus), he will celebrate his otonan on the same day as above.

Another difference between the two is the dating system, particularly on the starting point of new date.

If the Gregorian starts at 00:01, the wuku at the sunrise.

Sometimes, there is also misunderstanding among some Balinese to determine the day of a baby that was born at dawn, let’s say on Wednesday Kliwon Dungulan at 04:00. Based on Gregorian calendar, the day and date have belonged to the next (Thursday) and will become its ‘birth date’ later. However, its otonan should not follow this calendar system, but as the baby was born at 04:00, it should belong to Wednesday (Buda) based on the wuku system.

This misdating may often inflict mistakes in determining his otonan day and its character does not accord with the Hindu astrology. This then needs something like ritual adjustment in Hindu belief to the appropriate day through an exorcism rite as mentioned in palmleaf manuscript that commonly used as reference like Wrehaspati Kalpa. Otonan in Balinese tradition is actually a private and comprehensive ritual that only celebrated by the family internally. By certain kinds of oblation, the ritual is intended for one’s inner and outer self along with his kanda empat or four companions that are believed to accompany him since birth to the end of lifetime and even the period after death.

They are expressed in personification as amniotic fluid, vernix cascosa, the afterbirth and the blood.

In Hindu belief, the names of the four companions will change in keeping with the increasing age of the human self and so are the places where they indwell.

The four will loyally keep the self in this world. If ‘spiritual’ communication and empowerment run well among the five, one will never feel fearful wherever he goes and can do healing. As loyal and eternal companions, too, they will accompany the self around the clock. By doing this, they will know every single deed of the self during its interaction with corporeal body. After death, on facing the court of Yama, no facts can be hidden or no lies can be told, as the four companions will deliver the true witness.

In essence, otonan is an immensely important celebration for the Hindus. It constitutes right moment to reorganize, encourage the relationship of human self with the four integrated companions as the otonan contains two dimensional aspects, both sekala (visible) and niskala (invisible). By this, it is also expected to promote harmony between the body with soul and finally reach eternal bliss here and after. (IBP/Doc)

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Ubud Market, Gianyar, dismantled after the renovation reaped complaints from tourists who traveled to Ubud. Demolition dusts of the market stalls scattered in the air and caused pollution. The demolition process in fact made some tourists and motorists passing by on the road complain.

Demolition dusts of Ubud Market disrupt tourists

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GIANYAR - Ubud Market, Gianyar, dismantled after the renovation reaped complaints from tourists who traveled to Ubud. Demolition dusts of the market stalls scattered in the air and caused pollution. The demolition process in fact made some tourists and motorists passing by on the road complain.

O b s e r va t i o n m a d e a t location on Sunday (Sep 23) showed that demolition carried out by a number of workers in recent days indeed made the dusts fly.

Moreover, the wind blew from the south, so that the demolition dusts flew to the roads and disturbed the tourists walking in the area.

As consequence, it made tourists shut up their nose

with disposable mask and their holiday was uncomfortable. Although the contractor has installed zinc sheets as a project cover, it was not high enough considering the demolition was carried out on the second floor.

A legislator from Ubud, Ketut Karda, recognized such condition. The contractor should also pay attention to condition at the surround-

ing environment, especially the air pollution generated by the project.

This democrat said the House had suggested the workers to keep the environment sanitation while working on the project as it was carried out in the heart of Ubud tourism and gathering point of many tourists, he explained. To prevent the dusts from scattering to the

road, the contractor should put a higher zinc barrier or install a net so the demolition materials would not get hurled to the road.

Renovation cutting the kiosk building to connect the Jalan Karna should also be done carefully, though having been carried out with sophisticated equipment. Similarly, safety of tourists and people around the area should also be considered, especially the environmental impact such as the dusts and debris would no longer get hurled to the road or afflict tourists, he said. (kmb16)

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A flood affected victim puts her goats on a raft made from banana trees outside her flooded hut at Lachi Bishnupur village in the northeastern Indian state of Assam September 22, 2012.

Floods, landslides displace 1 million in India; 33 dead Reuters

GUWAHATI, India - Floods and landslides caused by relentless rain in northeast India have killed at least 33 people and displaced more than a million over the past week, officials said on Monday. At least 21 people were killed in landslides and another eight were missing in the mountainous state of Sikkim, said state government spokesman A.S. Tobgay.

In Assam, still recovering from deadly floods that hit the tea-growing state in July, eight people were killed and 20 were missing, police said.

Floods displaced nearly one million in that state alone, and many were now sheltering in camps or beside roads, which tend to be built above the land they pass through, a senior official in Assam’s disaster management authority said. Four people were buried and killed in mudslides in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, police said.

The military and federal disaster response teams have launched operations to move people to higher ground by helicopter or in rubber boats. Nearly 100 shelters have been opened to accommodate the displaced. In July, at least 110 people were killed and more than 400,000 people were left homeless in Assam during floods which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said were among the worst in recent times.

Over the past 60 years, successive governments have built levees along

most of the Brahmaputra, which is Assam’s main river and is fed by Himalayan snow melt and some of the world’s heaviest rainfall. But experts say the embankments are not only poorly maintained but are a discredited form of flood management.

Floods have inundated three national parks in Assam including Kaziranga National Park, where two-thirds of the world’s Great Onehorned Rhinoceroses live. Some animals have been forced out of the park to nearby hills.

Drunken driver kills 7 at bus stop in Moscow Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW — Five teenage Russian orphans, their teacher and her husband were all killed when a speeding car driven by a drunken driver crashed into a Moscow bus stop, the Interfax news agency reported Sunday, citing city officials.

Police said the car was traveling more than 200 kph (120 mph)

when the heavily intoxicated driver lost control and slammed into the bus stop Saturday, killing seven people and injuring three.

The 30-year-old driver, Alexander Maximov, had been arrested for drunken driving in 2010 and told police that prior to Saturday’s accident he had been drinking for two days, Interfax said. The driver also had received two speeding

tickets this year.

The orphans were returning from an awards ceremony for a city arts and crafts competition held in a park in western Moscow.

Moscow police reported Sunday morning that they had detained more than 130 drunken drivers over the past 24 hours, perhaps eager to show they were taking the problem seriously.

KATMANDU, Nepal — Rescue helicopters flew over the high slopes of a northern Nepal peak again Monday to search for climbers lost in an avalanche that killed at least nine mountaineers and injured others. Many of the climbers were French, German and Italian.

The avalanche a day earlier hit a camp with more than two dozen climbers high up the slopes of the world’s eighth-highest peak, Mount Manaslu.

It came at the start of Nepal’s autumn climbing season, when the end of the monsoon rains makes weather in the high Himalayas unpredictable.

Police official Basanta Bahadur Kuwar said three rescue helicopters resumed the search on Monday morning. Bad weather had forced them to halt flyover searching Sunday afternoon. Other climbers and guides on the mountain were also searching on foot and had managed to bring three more bodies to the base camp on Monday, Kuwar said.

The bodies of a Nepalese guide and a German man were recovered on Sunday and rescue pilots had reported spotting seven other bodies on the slopes. Spain’s Foreign Ministry said from Madrid that one climber killed was Spanish. The identities of the others were still being confirmed.

Ten climbers survived, but many were injured and were flown to hospitals by rescue helicopters.

Nepal’s autumn mountaineering season is less popular than spring, when hundreds of climbers crowd the high Himalayan peaks. Italian, German and French teams were on the mountain, with a total of 231 climbers and guides, but not all were at the higher camps hit by the avalanche, officials said.

The avalanche hit a camp at 7,000 meters (22,960 feet) early in the morning as the climbers were preparing to head toward the summit, which is 8,156 meters (26,760 feet) high.

Rescue pilot Pasang, who uses only one name, said three injured French citizens and two Germans had been transported to hospitals in Katmandu.

He said rescuers were also attempting to bring the bodies of the dead back to the base camp.

Nepal has eight of the 14 highest peaks in the world. Climbers have complained in recent years that climbing conditions have deteriorated and risks of accidents have increased.

Veteran mountain guide Apa, who has climbed Mount Everest a record 21 times, traveled for months across Nepal earlier this year campaigning about the effects of global warming on the mountain peaks.

He told The Associated Press the mountains now have considerably less ice and snow, making it harder for climbers to use ice axes and crampons on their boots to get a grip on the slopes.

Loose snow also increases the risk of avalanches. The cause of Sunday’s avalanche was not immediately determined.

Bill Amos, of Portland, Oregon, an avid mountaineer and ice climber who founded the mountaineering apparel company NW Alpine, said “it’s super sad when our fellow climbers die.” Amos said his initial thought when he heard about the deadly avalanche in Nepal was that the mountain was being overcrowded with climbers.

Emmys...

From page 1 “Modern Family” continued its run as television’s most honored comedy at Sunday’s Emmys, winning the best comedy award for the third year in a row, a directing honor for co-creator Steve Levitan and acting trophies for Claire Bowen and Eric Stonestreet. They were already conscious that with such success may come an inevitable backlash. “I’m praying that everybody doesn’t get sick of us,” Levitan said backstage. Maybe the Emmys’ director did: music swelled and the stage lights were cut off as Levitan was in the middle of his acceptance speech for best comedy.

Across the theater was a reminder that things change: one-time Emmy darling Tina Fey sitting barely unnoticed and trophy-free as her show “30 Rock” is coming to an end. She was one of the quickest people to bolt from her seat and head for the exit when the three-hour telecast ended.

The terrorism thriller “Homeland” won critical plaudits and the best drama Emmy, as well as top acting awards for Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

The writing for “Homeland” was also recognized. Showtime’s first-ever best drama honoree prevented “Mad Men” from winning its fifth straight best drama Emmy.

Once showered with honors, “Mad Men” set a record Sunday with 17 nominations and zero wins, said Tom O’Neil of the Gold Derby website, which follows awards shows.

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U.S. plans $1.4-billion arms package for Indonesia Reuters

AP Photo/ A.K. Hendratmo

In This Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012 photo, Indonesian police officers walk at near the house of a suspected militant after a police raid in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia.

Police arrest 2 more terror suspects Associated Press

JAKARTA — An elite Indonesian anti-terror squad has arrested 2 more Islamic militants and seized a dozen homemade bombs from a group suspected of planning suicide attacks against security forces and the government, police said Sunday.

Eight suspects were arrested Saturday in Central Java’s Solo town and a ninth in West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, national police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said. He said a 10th suspect, Joko Parkit, was arrested Sunday in Solo.

Parkit’s brother, Eko Joko Supriyanto, was shot to death by police in 2009 during raids seeking Southeast Asia’s most wanted Islamist militant, Noordin M. Top. Noordin was killed by police a year later.

Amar said two of those arrested, Badri Hartono and Rudi Kurnia Putra, worked to recruit young men and taught at least one member of the group how to make bombs.

“They were the central figures 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 planned to bomb

the country’s Parliament, shoot police and attack members of the anti-terrorism squad as part of a plan to establish Islamic Sharia law in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.

Police seized 12 homemade bombs along with other partially assembled bombs, three rifles, four swords and several jihadist books.

Solo is the hometown of convicted radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. Police are investigating possible links between the unnamed group and other terrorism networks, Amar said.

Authorities believe it has now been largely broken up, but are continuing 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 of the suspects are believed to have been plotting domestic attacks, and some attended a military-style training camp in Poso on Sulawesi island.

Another member of the group, alleged bomb maker Muhammad Toriq, surrendered two weeks ago in Jakarta while carrying a gun 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 provided information that led to the arrests of other members of the group in Saturday’s raids, Amar said.

Indonesia, a secular nation, has been battling terrorists since 2002, when militants linked to the Southeast Asian network Jemaah Islamiyah began 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.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is proposing a potential $1.4-billion arms package for Indonesia, including eight Boeing Co Apache AH-64D attack helicopters, in a fresh tightening of security ties in a region rattled by China’s growing territorial assertiveness.

The deal would include fire control radars, common missile warning systems, radar signal detecting sets and 140 state-of-theart Lockheed Martin Corp Hellfire II AGM-114R precision-strike missiles, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a notice to the U.S. Congress published Friday.

Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s most populous country and the world’s most populous Muslim-majority state. Plans for several U.S. arms transfers to it have been announced since late last year that would make Jakarta a more militarily capable regional partner.

Indonesia would use the twin-engine Apache helicopters to defend its borders, conduct counterterrorism and counter-piracy operations, “and control the free flow of shipping through the Strait of Malacca,” the security agency said in its memo.

The proposed sale would provide Indonesia assets vital to deterring external and other potential threats, the Pentagon agency said.

The narrow and congested waterway is a potential choke point linking the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea and Pacific Ocean.

The shortest sea route between the Middle East and growing Asian markets, it washes the shores of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, and carries about 40 percent of the world’s trade.

Piracy, including attempted theft and hijackings, is a constant threat to tankers, though the number of attacks has dropped following stepped-up patrols by the littoral states.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who announced the planned Apache sale on Thursday without providing details on the rest of the arms package, said it would boost a comprehensive partnership with Indonesia and enhance security across the region.

She spoke in Washington during a meeting with visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa.

Indonesia represents just part of an increasing U.S. emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region for national security planning as China presses its claims on disputed territory, notably in the South China Sea. The United States is also building Guam as a strategic hub, deploying up to four shore-hugging littoral combat ships on a rotational basis to Singapore and preparing a 2,500-strong Marine Corps task force rotation as part of a growing military partnership with Australia.

The arms and services called for under the $1.4 billion Indonesia package will provide key elements required for “interoperability” with U.S. forces, the security agency’s notice said.

Also included are “Identification Friend or Foe transponders,” 30mm guns and ammunition, communication equipment, tools and test equipment, simulators, generators, personnel training and logistics support services, the agency said.

The Hellfire II, included in the package, is the primary air-toground precision missile of its size for U.S. armed forces as well as the Central Intelligence Agency’s paramilitary capabilities and many U.S. allies.

The notice of such a sale is required by law. It does not mean that a deal has been concluded.

President Barack Obama announced in November plans to give Indonesia 24 decommisioned Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets, with Jakarta paying up $750 million to upgrade them and overhaul their engines, which are made by United Technologies Corp’s Pratt & Whitney unit.

The Pentagon moved in August to supply Raytheon Co AGM-65 Maverick air-to-ground guided missiles and related gear valued at $25 million for Indonesia’s growing F-16 fleet.

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International

Vettel inherits win from neutralised Hamilton

AP Photo/Mark Baker

Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany stands on his car as he celebrates his win at the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012.

The expectation for an entertaining night race under the floodlights of the Marina Park Circuit set against the glittering city skyline of Singapore was given added spice by some of the line-ups on the grid: Lewis Hamilton on the front row alongside Pastor Maldonado, Mark Webber lining up next to most recent F1 ‘bad boy’ Romain Grosjean, back after his suspension at Monza. There was just time for a poignant moment’s silence on the grid in memory of the pioneering safety work of Professor Sid Watkins, before the drivers climbed into the cockpit and made themselves ready for action.

A solid start for Lewis Hamilton allowed him to take care of the threat from Pastor Maldonado starting on the front row alongside him, releasing the McLaren into the first corners and allowing Hamilton to start pulling away from the danger zone almost immediately.

That left Maldonado as Sebastian Vettel’s problem, and while the world champion was careful not to invite disaster by pressing too hard too soon, he was right on the back of the Williams when a slightly flustered Maldonado consequently understeering out of turn 1 and giving Vettel the chance he needed to get past. Button also opportunistically sneaked past in the same move, and Maldonado found himself having to settle into fourth place just ahead of Fernando Alonso.

Things had been messier further back: a dive down the inside of the start/finish straight by Michael Schu-

macher ended up with the other Mercedes of Nico Rosberg being bumped off the outside of turn 1 by Mark Webber, who was having to avoid Romain Grosjean in a four-wide moment through the apex. Rosberg wasn’t the only car to run off the track limits at the start - Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo were among a number of others to do the same - but the stewards were satisfied that no one had done so intentionally to gain an advantage and so no penalties were applied.

Otherwise the opening laps were remarkably free of actual collisions, with the exception of Vitaly Petrov who appeared to lose his front wing in contact with the back of his Caterham team mate Heikki Kovalainen, and Ferrari’s Felipe Massa who sustained a puncture and joined Petrov in pit lane for running repairs.

Almost of the drivers at the front of the grid had started the race on supersoft tyres, but they were shortlived.

While two-stop strategies were the aim of most of the teams it was by no means unanimous: Webber was clearly opting for a three-stop approach and was in at the end of lap 8, just 15 minutes into the two-hour race, and that dropped him down to 20th place by the time he came back out on track behind Marussia’s Charles Pic. Hamilton and Vettel had pulled away from Button at the front in the early laps but Vettel then mishandled the Singapore Sling chicane on lap 10 which allowed Button to close up on the Red Bull. Vettel was evidently

unhappy with the way his car was handling, and he ended up following the lead of his team mate by pitting for new soft tyres relatively early at the end of that lap. He came back out immediately behind 11th-placed Sergio Perez, who Vettel quickly dispatched.

More drivers were deciding that their initial supersofts were degrading badly and needed changing: Alonso and Schumacher were in the next time around, and at the end of lap 12 it was the race leader Lewis Hamilton who was in for new tyres; Hamilton resumed in fourth place ahead of Vettel who was scrapping with Kimi Raikkonen. Next time around it was Maldonado and Raikkonen in to pit lane, which left Jenson Button and Romain Grosjean briefly leading the race but yet to stop. It was clear that those on fresh tyres were much faster than those trying to stay out, as an easy pass by Alonso on the yet-to-stop Sauber of Sergio Perez dramatically illustrated.

Button and Grosjean both came in for their own second set of tyres at the end of lap 14, but a slow stop for Button meant that he resumed in third place behind Hamilton and Vettel again once the initial round of pit stops had shaken out. Behind them, Maldonado retook fourth place from a yet-to-stop Nico Hulkenberg but not before hanging on to a wild sideways slide as he deployed his DRS. Alonso had a far calmer time of it when his own opportunity to pass the Force.

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Milan lose again with two players sent off

Reuters

MILAN - AC Milan’s season slumped to a new low on Sunday as they had two players sent off and lost 2-1 at Udinese while the bizarre postponement of the Cagliari-AS Roma match further damaged Serie A’s fading credibility. Roberto Di Natale scored the winner for Udinese with a 68th minute penalty, while the visitors had Cristian Zapata and second-half substitute Kevin-Prince Boateng dismissed in their third defeat in four Serie A games.

Inter Milan also went down to a shock defeat, beaten 2-0 at home by lowly Siena with Simone Vergassalo and Francesco Valiani scoring in the last 15 minutes. Neither Milan nor Inter have won a game at San Siro this season in any competition in eight attempts between them.

Napoli, Sampdoria and Lazio all lost their 100 percent records, leaving Juventus as isolated leaders with 12 points from four games after their 2-0 win over Chievo on Saturday. Napoli, who have 10 points, were held 0-0 at Catania and Sampdoria were held 1-1 at home

by Torino in a match between two promoted teams.

Sampdoria have nine points, having had one deducted over their involvement in the Calcioscommesse match-fixing scandal. Lazio slumped to a shock defeat 1-0 defeat at home to Genoa as they dominated the game, missed a hatful of chances and were caught by a breakaway goal scored by Marco Boriello in the 79th minute.

Palermo’s latest coach Gian Piero Gasperini got off to a losing start as his side lost 1-0 at Atalanta and promoted Pescara picked up their first point with a 1-1 draw at Bologna. The action took place against the backdrop of the farci-

cal events in Sardinia where the Cagliari city government called off the Roma match after the home club defied its previous decision to stage the game behind closed doors.

On Saturday, Cagliari slammed “bureaucratic difficulties and the collective disinterest of the authorities” and invited fans to attend the game.

Cagliari have moved to the Is Arenas on the outskirts of the Sardinian capital but the local authorities ruled earlier this week that the stadium was not ready to host Serie A games despite recent improvements.

Milan were facing opponents who, like themselves, are struggling to rebuild after selling their top players during the close season. Udinese, who had not previously won a game this season in any competition, went ahead five-minutes before the break when Swedish striker Mathias Ranegia scored from close range following a free kick.

Boateng, rested from the starting line-up, came on in the 52nd minute and had an immediate impact as he was involved a move which ended with Stephan El Shaaraway rifling the equaliser from 30 metres. Milan, who channeled too much energy into arguing with the referee and wrangling with their opponents, failed to build on that and fell

AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini

AC Milan Dutch midfielder Urby Emanuelson, left, is tackled by Udinese’s Andrea Coda during a Serie A soccer match, at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012.

behind again in the 68th minute.

Zapata tripped Ranegia, picking up his second yellow card in three minutes, and 35-year-old Di Natale converted from the spot. Milan’s hopes of fighting back ended when Boateng was booked for fouls on Giampiero Pinzi and Roberto Pereyra and was also dismissed in the 83rd minute, the low point in yet another inept display by the

visitors.

Siena, who began with a sixpoint deduction for their part in the Calcioscommesse match-fixing scandal, moved up to minus one points after their first win of the season. Inter, who have six points after winning their two away games, dominated the game only to be beaten by two late counter-attacks.

Gasperini’s hopes of lasting

longer than his predecessors at Palermo were dented when Cristian Raimondi’s 88th minute goal sent them to a 1-0 defeat at Atalanta, leaving the Sicilians with one point.

Gasperini replaced Giuseppe Sannino, fired after only three games by Palermo’s volatile president Maurizio Zamparini, who has employed an average of two coaches a season at the club over the last decade.

Former England captain Terry quits internationals Reuters

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Chelsea’s John Terry, left, holds back Stoke City’s Jonathan Walters, No. 19, as he reacts to a foul by Chelsea’s David Luiz, unseen, during their English Premier League soccer match at Chelsea Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012.

LONDON - John Terry brought his long and often controversial England career to an end on Sunday when the Chelsea defender announced his retirement from international soccer. The 31-year-old, capped 78 times since his debut in 2003 and who appeared at two World Cups, issued a statement saying his position in the national team had become untenable due to the Football Association’s impending case against him.

Terry is due before an FA tribunal on Monday facing charges of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier

League game last October despite being acquitted in the law courts in July.

“I am today announcing my retirement from international football,” the former England captain said in his statement.

“I would like to thank the England managers who have selected me for my 78 caps. “I have had great pleasure in sharing that honour with all the players that I’ve played with. I would like to thank them, the fans and my family for their support and encouragement during my international career.

“Representing and captaining my country is what I dreamed of as a boy and it has been a truly great honour. I have always given my all and it breaks my heart to make this decision.”

Terry, who if found guilty of racially abusing Ferdinand could face a lengthy ban similar to the one served by Liverpool’s Luis Suarez last season, said the FA had left him in an impossible position.

“I am making this statement today in advance of the hearing of the FA disciplinary charge because I feel The FA, in pursuing charges against me where I have already been cleared in a court of law, have made my position with the national team untenable,” Terry, whose last cap was in the recent World Cup qualifier in Moldova earlier this month, said. East-London born Terry has spent his entire career with Chelsea since joining as a 14-year-old.

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International

Vettel inherits win from neutralised Hamilton

AP Photo/Mark Baker

Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany stands on his car as he celebrates his win at the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012.

The expectation for an entertaining night race under the floodlights of the Marina Park Circuit set against the glittering city skyline of Singapore was given added spice by some of the line-ups on the grid: Lewis Hamilton on the front row alongside Pastor Maldonado, Mark Webber lining up next to most recent F1 ‘bad boy’ Romain Grosjean, back after his suspension at Monza. There was just time for a poignant moment’s silence on the grid in memory of the pioneering safety work of Professor Sid Watkins, before the drivers climbed into the cockpit and made themselves ready for action.

A solid start for Lewis Hamilton allowed him to take care of the threat from Pastor Maldonado starting on the front row alongside him, releasing the McLaren into the first corners and allowing Hamilton to start pulling away from the danger zone almost immediately.

That left Maldonado as Sebastian Vettel’s problem, and while the world champion was careful not to invite disaster by pressing too hard too soon, he was right on the back of the Williams when a slightly flustered Maldonado consequently understeering out of turn 1 and giving Vettel the chance he needed to get past. Button also opportunistically sneaked past in the same move, and Maldonado found himself having to settle into fourth place just ahead of Fernando Alonso.

Things had been messier further back: a dive down the inside of the start/finish straight by Michael Schu-

macher ended up with the other Mercedes of Nico Rosberg being bumped off the outside of turn 1 by Mark Webber, who was having to avoid Romain Grosjean in a four-wide moment through the apex. Rosberg wasn’t the only car to run off the track limits at the start - Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo were among a number of others to do the same - but the stewards were satisfied that no one had done so intentionally to gain an advantage and so no penalties were applied.

Otherwise the opening laps were remarkably free of actual collisions, with the exception of Vitaly Petrov who appeared to lose his front wing in contact with the back of his Caterham team mate Heikki Kovalainen, and Ferrari’s Felipe Massa who sustained a puncture and joined Petrov in pit lane for running repairs.

Almost of the drivers at the front of the grid had started the race on supersoft tyres, but they were shortlived.

While two-stop strategies were the aim of most of the teams it was by no means unanimous: Webber was clearly opting for a three-stop approach and was in at the end of lap 8, just 15 minutes into the two-hour race, and that dropped him down to 20th place by the time he came back out on track behind Marussia’s Charles Pic. Hamilton and Vettel had pulled away from Button at the front in the early laps but Vettel then mishandled the Singapore Sling chicane on lap 10 which allowed Button to close up on the Red Bull. Vettel was evidently

unhappy with the way his car was handling, and he ended up following the lead of his team mate by pitting for new soft tyres relatively early at the end of that lap. He came back out immediately behind 11th-placed Sergio Perez, who Vettel quickly dispatched.

More drivers were deciding that their initial supersofts were degrading badly and needed changing: Alonso and Schumacher were in the next time around, and at the end of lap 12 it was the race leader Lewis Hamilton who was in for new tyres; Hamilton resumed in fourth place ahead of Vettel who was scrapping with Kimi Raikkonen. Next time around it was Maldonado and Raikkonen in to pit lane, which left Jenson Button and Romain Grosjean briefly leading the race but yet to stop. It was clear that those on fresh tyres were much faster than those trying to stay out, as an easy pass by Alonso on the yet-to-stop Sauber of Sergio Perez dramatically illustrated.

Button and Grosjean both came in for their own second set of tyres at the end of lap 14, but a slow stop for Button meant that he resumed in third place behind Hamilton and Vettel again once the initial round of pit stops had shaken out. Behind them, Maldonado retook fourth place from a yet-to-stop Nico Hulkenberg but not before hanging on to a wild sideways slide as he deployed his DRS. Alonso had a far calmer time of it when his own opportunity to pass the Force.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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Milan lose again with two players sent off

Reuters

MILAN - AC Milan’s season slumped to a new low on Sunday as they had two players sent off and lost 2-1 at Udinese while the bizarre postponement of the Cagliari-AS Roma match further damaged Serie A’s fading credibility. Roberto Di Natale scored the winner for Udinese with a 68th minute penalty, while the visitors had Cristian Zapata and second-half substitute Kevin-Prince Boateng dismissed in their third defeat in four Serie A games.

Inter Milan also went down to a shock defeat, beaten 2-0 at home by lowly Siena with Simone Vergassalo and Francesco Valiani scoring in the last 15 minutes. Neither Milan nor Inter have won a game at San Siro this season in any competition in eight attempts between them.

Napoli, Sampdoria and Lazio all lost their 100 percent records, leaving Juventus as isolated leaders with 12 points from four games after their 2-0 win over Chievo on Saturday. Napoli, who have 10 points, were held 0-0 at Catania and Sampdoria were held 1-1 at home

by Torino in a match between two promoted teams.

Sampdoria have nine points, having had one deducted over their involvement in the Calcioscommesse match-fixing scandal. Lazio slumped to a shock defeat 1-0 defeat at home to Genoa as they dominated the game, missed a hatful of chances and were caught by a breakaway goal scored by Marco Boriello in the 79th minute.

Palermo’s latest coach Gian Piero Gasperini got off to a losing start as his side lost 1-0 at Atalanta and promoted Pescara picked up their first point with a 1-1 draw at Bologna. The action took place against the backdrop of the farci-

cal events in Sardinia where the Cagliari city government called off the Roma match after the home club defied its previous decision to stage the game behind closed doors.

On Saturday, Cagliari slammed “bureaucratic difficulties and the collective disinterest of the authorities” and invited fans to attend the game.

Cagliari have moved to the Is Arenas on the outskirts of the Sardinian capital but the local authorities ruled earlier this week that the stadium was not ready to host Serie A games despite recent improvements.

Milan were facing opponents who, like themselves, are struggling to rebuild after selling their top players during the close season. Udinese, who had not previously won a game this season in any competition, went ahead five-minutes before the break when Swedish striker Mathias Ranegia scored from close range following a free kick.

Boateng, rested from the starting line-up, came on in the 52nd minute and had an immediate impact as he was involved a move which ended with Stephan El Shaaraway rifling the equaliser from 30 metres. Milan, who channeled too much energy into arguing with the referee and wrangling with their opponents, failed to build on that and fell

AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini

AC Milan Dutch midfielder Urby Emanuelson, left, is tackled by Udinese’s Andrea Coda during a Serie A soccer match, at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012.

behind again in the 68th minute.

Zapata tripped Ranegia, picking up his second yellow card in three minutes, and 35-year-old Di Natale converted from the spot. Milan’s hopes of fighting back ended when Boateng was booked for fouls on Giampiero Pinzi and Roberto Pereyra and was also dismissed in the 83rd minute, the low point in yet another inept display by the

visitors.

Siena, who began with a sixpoint deduction for their part in the Calcioscommesse match-fixing scandal, moved up to minus one points after their first win of the season. Inter, who have six points after winning their two away games, dominated the game only to be beaten by two late counter-attacks.

Gasperini’s hopes of lasting

longer than his predecessors at Palermo were dented when Cristian Raimondi’s 88th minute goal sent them to a 1-0 defeat at Atalanta, leaving the Sicilians with one point.

Gasperini replaced Giuseppe Sannino, fired after only three games by Palermo’s volatile president Maurizio Zamparini, who has employed an average of two coaches a season at the club over the last decade.

Former England captain Terry quits internationals Reuters

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Chelsea’s John Terry, left, holds back Stoke City’s Jonathan Walters, No. 19, as he reacts to a foul by Chelsea’s David Luiz, unseen, during their English Premier League soccer match at Chelsea Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012.

LONDON - John Terry brought his long and often controversial England career to an end on Sunday when the Chelsea defender announced his retirement from international soccer. The 31-year-old, capped 78 times since his debut in 2003 and who appeared at two World Cups, issued a statement saying his position in the national team had become untenable due to the Football Association’s impending case against him.

Terry is due before an FA tribunal on Monday facing charges of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier

League game last October despite being acquitted in the law courts in July.

“I am today announcing my retirement from international football,” the former England captain said in his statement.

“I would like to thank the England managers who have selected me for my 78 caps. “I have had great pleasure in sharing that honour with all the players that I’ve played with. I would like to thank them, the fans and my family for their support and encouragement during my international career.

“Representing and captaining my country is what I dreamed of as a boy and it has been a truly great honour. I have always given my all and it breaks my heart to make this decision.”

Terry, who if found guilty of racially abusing Ferdinand could face a lengthy ban similar to the one served by Liverpool’s Luis Suarez last season, said the FA had left him in an impossible position.

“I am making this statement today in advance of the hearing of the FA disciplinary charge because I feel The FA, in pursuing charges against me where I have already been cleared in a court of law, have made my position with the national team untenable,” Terry, whose last cap was in the recent World Cup qualifier in Moldova earlier this month, said. East-London born Terry has spent his entire career with Chelsea since joining as a 14-year-old.

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Avalanche on Nepal peak kills at least 9 climbers

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

INDONESIA

Associated Press Writer

REUTERS/Utpal Baruah

A flood affected victim puts her goats on a raft made from banana trees outside her flooded hut at Lachi Bishnupur village in the northeastern Indian state of Assam September 22, 2012.

Floods, landslides displace 1 million in India; 33 dead Reuters

GUWAHATI, India - Floods and landslides caused by relentless rain in northeast India have killed at least 33 people and displaced more than a million over the past week, officials said on Monday. At least 21 people were killed in landslides and another eight were missing in the mountainous state of Sikkim, said state government spokesman A.S. Tobgay.

In Assam, still recovering from deadly floods that hit the tea-growing state in July, eight people were killed and 20 were missing, police said.

Floods displaced nearly one million in that state alone, and many were now sheltering in camps or beside roads, which tend to be built above the land they pass through, a senior official in Assam’s disaster management authority said. Four people were buried and killed in mudslides in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, police said.

The military and federal disaster response teams have launched operations to move people to higher ground by helicopter or in rubber boats. Nearly 100 shelters have been opened to accommodate the displaced. In July, at least 110 people were killed and more than 400,000 people were left homeless in Assam during floods which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said were among the worst in recent times.

Over the past 60 years, successive governments have built levees along

most of the Brahmaputra, which is Assam’s main river and is fed by Himalayan snow melt and some of the world’s heaviest rainfall. But experts say the embankments are not only poorly maintained but are a discredited form of flood management.

Floods have inundated three national parks in Assam including Kaziranga National Park, where two-thirds of the world’s Great Onehorned Rhinoceroses live. Some animals have been forced out of the park to nearby hills.

Drunken driver kills 7 at bus stop in Moscow Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW — Five teenage Russian orphans, their teacher and her husband were all killed when a speeding car driven by a drunken driver crashed into a Moscow bus stop, the Interfax news agency reported Sunday, citing city officials.

Police said the car was traveling more than 200 kph (120 mph)

when the heavily intoxicated driver lost control and slammed into the bus stop Saturday, killing seven people and injuring three.

The 30-year-old driver, Alexander Maximov, had been arrested for drunken driving in 2010 and told police that prior to Saturday’s accident he had been drinking for two days, Interfax said. The driver also had received two speeding

tickets this year.

The orphans were returning from an awards ceremony for a city arts and crafts competition held in a park in western Moscow.

Moscow police reported Sunday morning that they had detained more than 130 drunken drivers over the past 24 hours, perhaps eager to show they were taking the problem seriously.

KATMANDU, Nepal — Rescue helicopters flew over the high slopes of a northern Nepal peak again Monday to search for climbers lost in an avalanche that killed at least nine mountaineers and injured others. Many of the climbers were French, German and Italian.

The avalanche a day earlier hit a camp with more than two dozen climbers high up the slopes of the world’s eighth-highest peak, Mount Manaslu.

It came at the start of Nepal’s autumn climbing season, when the end of the monsoon rains makes weather in the high Himalayas unpredictable.

Police official Basanta Bahadur Kuwar said three rescue helicopters resumed the search on Monday morning. Bad weather had forced them to halt flyover searching Sunday afternoon. Other climbers and guides on the mountain were also searching on foot and had managed to bring three more bodies to the base camp on Monday, Kuwar said.

The bodies of a Nepalese guide and a German man were recovered on Sunday and rescue pilots had reported spotting seven other bodies on the slopes. Spain’s Foreign Ministry said from Madrid that one climber killed was Spanish. The identities of the others were still being confirmed.

Ten climbers survived, but many were injured and were flown to hospitals by rescue helicopters.

Nepal’s autumn mountaineering season is less popular than spring, when hundreds of climbers crowd the high Himalayan peaks. Italian, German and French teams were on the mountain, with a total of 231 climbers and guides, but not all were at the higher camps hit by the avalanche, officials said.

The avalanche hit a camp at 7,000 meters (22,960 feet) early in the morning as the climbers were preparing to head toward the summit, which is 8,156 meters (26,760 feet) high.

Rescue pilot Pasang, who uses only one name, said three injured French citizens and two Germans had been transported to hospitals in Katmandu.

He said rescuers were also attempting to bring the bodies of the dead back to the base camp.

Nepal has eight of the 14 highest peaks in the world. Climbers have complained in recent years that climbing conditions have deteriorated and risks of accidents have increased.

Veteran mountain guide Apa, who has climbed Mount Everest a record 21 times, traveled for months across Nepal earlier this year campaigning about the effects of global warming on the mountain peaks.

He told The Associated Press the mountains now have considerably less ice and snow, making it harder for climbers to use ice axes and crampons on their boots to get a grip on the slopes.

Loose snow also increases the risk of avalanches. The cause of Sunday’s avalanche was not immediately determined.

Bill Amos, of Portland, Oregon, an avid mountaineer and ice climber who founded the mountaineering apparel company NW Alpine, said “it’s super sad when our fellow climbers die.” Amos said his initial thought when he heard about the deadly avalanche in Nepal was that the mountain was being overcrowded with climbers.

Emmys...

From page 1 “Modern Family” continued its run as television’s most honored comedy at Sunday’s Emmys, winning the best comedy award for the third year in a row, a directing honor for co-creator Steve Levitan and acting trophies for Claire Bowen and Eric Stonestreet. They were already conscious that with such success may come an inevitable backlash. “I’m praying that everybody doesn’t get sick of us,” Levitan said backstage. Maybe the Emmys’ director did: music swelled and the stage lights were cut off as Levitan was in the middle of his acceptance speech for best comedy.

Across the theater was a reminder that things change: one-time Emmy darling Tina Fey sitting barely unnoticed and trophy-free as her show “30 Rock” is coming to an end. She was one of the quickest people to bolt from her seat and head for the exit when the three-hour telecast ended.

The terrorism thriller “Homeland” won critical plaudits and the best drama Emmy, as well as top acting awards for Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

The writing for “Homeland” was also recognized. Showtime’s first-ever best drama honoree prevented “Mad Men” from winning its fifth straight best drama Emmy.

Once showered with honors, “Mad Men” set a record Sunday with 17 nominations and zero wins, said Tom O’Neil of the Gold Derby website, which follows awards shows.

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U.S. plans $1.4-billion arms package for Indonesia Reuters

AP Photo/ A.K. Hendratmo

In This Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012 photo, Indonesian police officers walk at near the house of a suspected militant after a police raid in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia.

Police arrest 2 more terror suspects Associated Press

JAKARTA — An elite Indonesian anti-terror squad has arrested 2 more Islamic militants and seized a dozen homemade bombs from a group suspected of planning suicide attacks against security forces and the government, police said Sunday.

Eight suspects were arrested Saturday in Central Java’s Solo town and a ninth in West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, national police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said. He said a 10th suspect, Joko Parkit, was arrested Sunday in Solo.

Parkit’s brother, Eko Joko Supriyanto, was shot to death by police in 2009 during raids seeking Southeast Asia’s most wanted Islamist militant, Noordin M. Top. Noordin was killed by police a year later.

Amar said two of those arrested, Badri Hartono and Rudi Kurnia Putra, worked to recruit young men and taught at least one member of the group how to make bombs.

“They were the central figures 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 planned to bomb

the country’s Parliament, shoot police and attack members of the anti-terrorism squad as part of a plan to establish Islamic Sharia law in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.

Police seized 12 homemade bombs along with other partially assembled bombs, three rifles, four swords and several jihadist books.

Solo is the hometown of convicted radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. Police are investigating possible links between the unnamed group and other terrorism networks, Amar said.

Authorities believe it has now been largely broken up, but are continuing 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 of the suspects are believed to have been plotting domestic attacks, and some attended a military-style training camp in Poso on Sulawesi island.

Another member of the group, alleged bomb maker Muhammad Toriq, surrendered two weeks ago in Jakarta while carrying a gun 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 provided information that led to the arrests of other members of the group in Saturday’s raids, Amar said.

Indonesia, a secular nation, has been battling terrorists since 2002, when militants linked to the Southeast Asian network Jemaah Islamiyah began 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.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is proposing a potential $1.4-billion arms package for Indonesia, including eight Boeing Co Apache AH-64D attack helicopters, in a fresh tightening of security ties in a region rattled by China’s growing territorial assertiveness.

The deal would include fire control radars, common missile warning systems, radar signal detecting sets and 140 state-of-theart Lockheed Martin Corp Hellfire II AGM-114R precision-strike missiles, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a notice to the U.S. Congress published Friday.

Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s most populous country and the world’s most populous Muslim-majority state. Plans for several U.S. arms transfers to it have been announced since late last year that would make Jakarta a more militarily capable regional partner.

Indonesia would use the twin-engine Apache helicopters to defend its borders, conduct counterterrorism and counter-piracy operations, “and control the free flow of shipping through the Strait of Malacca,” the security agency said in its memo.

The proposed sale would provide Indonesia assets vital to deterring external and other potential threats, the Pentagon agency said.

The narrow and congested waterway is a potential choke point linking the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea and Pacific Ocean.

The shortest sea route between the Middle East and growing Asian markets, it washes the shores of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, and carries about 40 percent of the world’s trade.

Piracy, including attempted theft and hijackings, is a constant threat to tankers, though the number of attacks has dropped following stepped-up patrols by the littoral states.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who announced the planned Apache sale on Thursday without providing details on the rest of the arms package, said it would boost a comprehensive partnership with Indonesia and enhance security across the region.

She spoke in Washington during a meeting with visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa.

Indonesia represents just part of an increasing U.S. emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region for national security planning as China presses its claims on disputed territory, notably in the South China Sea. The United States is also building Guam as a strategic hub, deploying up to four shore-hugging littoral combat ships on a rotational basis to Singapore and preparing a 2,500-strong Marine Corps task force rotation as part of a growing military partnership with Australia.

The arms and services called for under the $1.4 billion Indonesia package will provide key elements required for “interoperability” with U.S. forces, the security agency’s notice said.

Also included are “Identification Friend or Foe transponders,” 30mm guns and ammunition, communication equipment, tools and test equipment, simulators, generators, personnel training and logistics support services, the agency said.

The Hellfire II, included in the package, is the primary air-toground precision missile of its size for U.S. armed forces as well as the Central Intelligence Agency’s paramilitary capabilities and many U.S. allies.

The notice of such a sale is required by law. It does not mean that a deal has been concluded.

President Barack Obama announced in November plans to give Indonesia 24 decommisioned Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets, with Jakarta paying up $750 million to upgrade them and overhaul their engines, which are made by United Technologies Corp’s Pratt & Whitney unit.

The Pentagon moved in August to supply Raytheon Co AGM-65 Maverick air-to-ground guided missiles and related gear valued at $25 million for Indonesia’s growing F-16 fleet.

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German business climate falls despite ECB bond plan

Reuters

BERLIN - German business sentiment dropped for a fifth successive month in September to its lowest level since early 2010, showing the European Central Bank’s plan to buy the bonds of weak euro states has failed to convince firms the worst of the crisis is behind them.

The Munich-based Ifo think tank said on Monday its business climate index, based on a monthly survey of some 7,000 firms, fell to 101.4 in September from 102.3 in August, defying expectations for a slight rise,.

A Reuters poll of 45 economists had forecast a slight increase to 102.5.

“September’s fall in the German Ifo business survey is a reminder that even the euro-zone’s strongest

economies are suffering from a serious economic downturn,” Jennifer McKeown, an economist at Capital Economics wrote in a note.

“While Germany might have avoided a recession in the third quarter, it seems like only a matter of time before the economy starts to contract. This will make support for the peripheral economies even more difficult to muster.”

Business confidence in the Neth-

erlands also fell in September to -6.7 points from -4.6 in August, data showed on Monday.

Dragging on the Ifo index was a sharp decline in sentiment among manufacturers, although companies in retailing and wholesaling reported a slightly brighter mood.

Tough austerity measures in many European states have weakened demand for German exports, and a weaker global economic environ-

ment threatens to crimp demand from emerging economies.

Industrial group Bosch (ROBG. UL) and steelmaker ThyssenKrupp (TKAG.DE), have announced plans to introduce “Kurzarbeit” or government-subsidized short-time work at German plants.

While the German economy steamed ahead in the first three months of the year, saving the euro zone from recession by growing 0.5 percent, it lost momentum in the second quarter, with growth slowing to 0.3 percent.

The Finance Ministry warned in its monthly report last Friday that data pointed to economic growth weakening in the remainder of the year. Many

economists are now predicting a contraction for the third and possibly the fourth quarters.

Last week Markit’s composite Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), showed Germany’s private sector shrank for a fifth month, and a separate index for the euro zone showed that the ECB’s aggressive new bondbuying plan has so far failed to inspire any major improvement in business at ailing euro zone companies.

The ECB’s plan and a decision

by Germany’s Constitutional Court this month to allow the ratification of Europe’s new rescue mechanism, had sent a wave of optimism through markets.

Asian stocks sink as global economy fears rise Associated Press

HONG KONG — Asian stocks mostly drifted lower Monday as investors’ growing concerns about the shaky global economy overpowered any remaining optimism over central bank stimulus efforts.

Crude oil tumbled while the dollar rose against the euro but fell against the Japanese yen.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index dropped 0.4 percent to 9,070.78 and Seoul’s Kospi index shed 0.2 percent to 1,999.18. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down less than 0.1 percent to 20,724.17 while Sydney’s ASX S&P 200 fell 0.4 percent to 4,388.60. Benchmarks in Singapore and Indonesia also fell.

Strategists at Credit Agricole CIB wrote in a research note that the “euphoria emanating” from recent moves by the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan to stimulate growth is “fading quickly.”

“The reality of weak growth and underlying structural tensions is coming back to haunt markets.”

The Fed vowed in mid-September to buy billions in mortgage securities each month until the economy improves in a third round of what is known as quantitative easing, or QE3. The ECB and Bank of Japan followed with their own renewed bond-buying plans.

“There is this struggle between optimism towards QE3 and the concern about the global economic slowdown,” said Louis Wong, a director at Phillip Securities in Hong Kong. “So investors are weighing the easing measures of central banks and the health of the global economy.”

China’s Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.3 percent to 2,032.44, reversing losses earlier in the day. However, the benchmark is still at its lowest point since January 2009.

Chinese stocks are being hurt

Toyota Motor Corp. Vice Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada poses for photographers as he puts a plug to the newly-developed compact electric vehicle “eQ” during a press conference in Tokyo Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. Toyota is boosting its green vehicle lineup, with plans for 21 new hybrids in the next three years, a new electric car later this year and a fuel cell vehicle by 2015 in response to growing demand for fuel efficient and environmentally friendly driving.

by a dispute between China and Japan over disputed islands that has heightened tensions between Asia’s two biggest economies.

They’re also under pressure as investors worry about what Chinese authorities will do to restart growth amid the country’s economic slowdown. Wong said it’s unlikely that Chinese authorities will unveil any major stimulus

measures ahead of the National Day holiday next week or an expected but still unscheduled Communist Party meeting to hand over power to a next generation of leaders.

“This inaction by the Chinese government also weighs,” Wong said.

Asian markets were also reacting to some downbeat economic reports released over the weekend.

The U.S. Labor Department said that the unemployment rate rose in more than half of states last month, the latest evidence that hiring remains tepid across the world’s biggest economy. The World Trade Organization, meanwhile, cut estimates for global trade growth for this year and next. Both reports came out on Friday after Asian markets closed.

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Otonan: Real ‘Birthday’ Celebration for Companions

Month by month has gone by and another year is coming. Time is so significant to humans when he performs action and writes down his story of life.

When having arrived at certain point, he may need a short break for an introspection and commemoration of a beautiful moment in his lifetime. Yes, it’s commonly known as birthday, an annual celebration of the day on which one was born.

Etymologically, there may have been a common ‘misperception’ here where birthday in the Gregorian calendar should be celebrated on the same day as the word suggests and not the same date (should be birth date). On the contrary, otonan in the Balinese (Hindu) tradition is similar thing but of different context. This one is celebrated every 210 days on the same day based on Javano-Balinese wuku year. So, it can be said a real birthday. For example, if one was born on Wednesday (day) Kliwon (five-day week) Dungulan (one of thirty wukus), he will celebrate his otonan on the same day as above.

Another difference between the two is the dating system, particularly on the starting point of new date.

If the Gregorian starts at 00:01, the wuku at the sunrise.

Sometimes, there is also misunderstanding among some Balinese to determine the day of a baby that was born at dawn, let’s say on Wednesday Kliwon Dungulan at 04:00. Based on Gregorian calendar, the day and date have belonged to the next (Thursday) and will become its ‘birth date’ later. However, its otonan should not follow this calendar system, but as the baby was born at 04:00, it should belong to Wednesday (Buda) based on the wuku system.

This misdating may often inflict mistakes in determining his otonan day and its character does not accord with the Hindu astrology. This then needs something like ritual adjustment in Hindu belief to the appropriate day through an exorcism rite as mentioned in palmleaf manuscript that commonly used as reference like Wrehaspati Kalpa. Otonan in Balinese tradition is actually a private and comprehensive ritual that only celebrated by the family internally. By certain kinds of oblation, the ritual is intended for one’s inner and outer self along with his kanda empat or four companions that are believed to accompany him since birth to the end of lifetime and even the period after death.

They are expressed in personification as amniotic fluid, vernix cascosa, the afterbirth and the blood.

In Hindu belief, the names of the four companions will change in keeping with the increasing age of the human self and so are the places where they indwell.

The four will loyally keep the self in this world. If ‘spiritual’ communication and empowerment run well among the five, one will never feel fearful wherever he goes and can do healing. As loyal and eternal companions, too, they will accompany the self around the clock. By doing this, they will know every single deed of the self during its interaction with corporeal body. After death, on facing the court of Yama, no facts can be hidden or no lies can be told, as the four companions will deliver the true witness.

In essence, otonan is an immensely important celebration for the Hindus. It constitutes right moment to reorganize, encourage the relationship of human self with the four integrated companions as the otonan contains two dimensional aspects, both sekala (visible) and niskala (invisible). By this, it is also expected to promote harmony between the body with soul and finally reach eternal bliss here and after. (IBP/Doc)

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Ubud Market, Gianyar, dismantled after the renovation reaped complaints from tourists who traveled to Ubud. Demolition dusts of the market stalls scattered in the air and caused pollution. The demolition process in fact made some tourists and motorists passing by on the road complain.

Demolition dusts of Ubud Market disrupt tourists

Bali Post

GIANYAR - Ubud Market, Gianyar, dismantled after the renovation reaped complaints from tourists who traveled to Ubud. Demolition dusts of the market stalls scattered in the air and caused pollution. The demolition process in fact made some tourists and motorists passing by on the road complain.

O b s e r va t i o n m a d e a t location on Sunday (Sep 23) showed that demolition carried out by a number of workers in recent days indeed made the dusts fly.

Moreover, the wind blew from the south, so that the demolition dusts flew to the roads and disturbed the tourists walking in the area.

As consequence, it made tourists shut up their nose

with disposable mask and their holiday was uncomfortable. Although the contractor has installed zinc sheets as a project cover, it was not high enough considering the demolition was carried out on the second floor.

A legislator from Ubud, Ketut Karda, recognized such condition. The contractor should also pay attention to condition at the surround-

ing environment, especially the air pollution generated by the project.

This democrat said the House had suggested the workers to keep the environment sanitation while working on the project as it was carried out in the heart of Ubud tourism and gathering point of many tourists, he explained. To prevent the dusts from scattering to the

road, the contractor should put a higher zinc barrier or install a net so the demolition materials would not get hurled to the road.

Renovation cutting the kiosk building to connect the Jalan Karna should also be done carefully, though having been carried out with sophisticated equipment. Similarly, safety of tourists and people around the area should also be considered, especially the environmental impact such as the dusts and debris would no longer get hurled to the road or afflict tourists, he said. (kmb16)

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Dozens of hectares of corn in Abang at risk of harvest failure Amlapura (Bali Post) -

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Reuters

UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the dangers of incendiary rhetoric when two men met in New York on Sunday before this week’s annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.

From the observation on Sunday (Sep 23), some hectares of maize plants in drought condition were found at Datah village in Abang subdistrict, Karangasem. Meanwhile, similar condition also hit the plants at Kesimpar village, overlay of paddy field at Kangkahang and Kerta Mandala village.

A farmer at Bingin Dulu hamlet, Datah village, Nyoman Rena, said that some plots of his corn plants had withered due to drought on the arid lands. Rena admitted to plant corn two months ago in the hope that in the third month of Balinese calendar (August or September) it would rain shortly. As in the past, there had always been heavy rains during that period. However, he miscalculated this year and in fact it did not rain at all. As a result, our corn plants dried up and turned unproductive. “As consequence, the corn plants can only be taken advantage for fodder,” said Rena.

Farmers at Kangkahang also said that other than the absence of rain, the water flow to the overlay of paddy fields also trickled so that it was not enough to irrigate the fields.

Another farmer, Wayan Ngambar, said that he planted beans but wilted and so did his cassava and corn. Due to no rain and the plants were at risk of crop failure, farmers estimated to suffer a loss which totally reached tens of millions of rupiahs. “We’re just sharecroppers, when facing crop failure we will loss out together. Plowing land by tractor is very expensive, where per 100 square meters will be charged at IDR 40,000,” said Ngambar. (013)

“The secretary-general drew attention to the potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric, counter-rhetoric and threats from various countries in the Middle East,” Ban’s press office said in a statement.

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was quoted as saying on Sunday that Iran could launch a preemptive strike on Israel if it was sure the Jewish state was preparing to attack it.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted that Israel could strike Iran’s nuclear sites and criticized U.S. President Barack Obama’s position that sanctions and diplomacy should be given more time to stop Iran getting the atomic bomb.

Iran denies that it is seeking nuclear arms and says its atomic work is peaceful, aimed at generating electricity.

The U.N. statement said Ban told Ahmadinejad that Iran should “take the measures necessary to build international confidence in

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Two Damaged roads, methamphetamine teachers reluctant to teach distributors captured Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Taufik Hidayat (30) and Made Mas Andi Widadnyana (31) who were two distributors of methamphetamine were captured by Criminal Research team from North Kuta Police last Saturday (22/9) where 0.32 gram and 0.36 gram were found from their hands. Head of Badung Police, GAPC Beny Arjanto, last Sunday (23/9) stated the captivity started with a suspicion from the officer who was patrolling in the area seeing Taufik acting weirdly, driving with his head looking to the right and left. As Taufik arrived at a Circle-K at Petitenget Street, North Kuta, Badung, accused was looking for something on the stack of stones. When he got it, he then left straight away and Police stopped him at Raya Kerobokan Kelod Street, North Kuta. “When investigated, accused looked staggered. After checked one package of methamphetamine was found,” Beny explained accompanied

by Head of North Kuta Police apc Michael Risakotta.

Taufik was then brought to his living place at Taman Sari II C3 Street, PCP Kerobokan Kelod Estate yet no other packages of illegal drugs were found. Taufik then opened about his colleague that used it too, Widiadnya from Seririt who lives at Gunung Soputan 3 Street No. 8, Denpasar. Yet Widiadnya’s place was raided, he was not there and later was found at PCP Marlboro Estate. “Form his hand we found a package of 0.36 gram Methamphetamine,” Beny concluded. (kmb21)

Damage road section from Bontihing village to Pakisan village, Kubutambahan subdistrict is not only complained by residents as finding difficulty to carry their crops. However, it also has adverse impacts on the sector of education at both villages. Due to damaged road, teachers are reluctant to teach because they have to pass through damaged roads to school.

Headman of Pakisan village, Nyoman Karya, admitted to get many complaints from his residents since the road at his village was damaged. Most complaints were from teachers who taught at school of his village. Even, they were reluctant to go to school as they should pass through damaged roads. Many teachers could not teach the students comfortably at the local elementary school.

Those teachers threatened to move to another school because every day they had to pass the damaged road and it was prone to traffic accident. “As a result, many teachers are unable to teach conveniently here. Even, they also ask to move to another school

because they cannot help passing such ascending and damaged terrain,” he said.

This condition kindled worries if the elementary school of the village would really lose the teachers.

Besides, many students were also late to attend school because they had to go on foot. Meanwhile, if the students were escorted by parents on a motorcycle would also take a long time and prone to traffic accident. “It is the impact.

Hopefully, this condition will not last long and the government could pay attention to our village,” hoped Karya.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Buleleng Public Works Agency, Ketut Yasa, when contacted on Sunday (Sep 23) explained his party would assigned his man to recheck the condition of damaged road at Pakisan village to Bontihing village. From the results of survey, the Public Works would plan an improvement in 2013. “We’re not sure when will be repaired, but we will check first to the scene.

This year is impossible because it has reached the middle of the year.

Probably, we will propose it next

year,” he said.

As reported previously, the rural roads in Kubutambahan subdistrict were badly damaged along 17 kilometers. Road body from Bontihing village to Pakisan village was damaged. Along the road, the asphalt layer had flaked off and potholes were deep enough. Other than being prone to traffic accidents, the residents were also forced to go on foot when going out of the village.

Additionally, they also found difficulty to sell their crops.

The village officials claimed to have submitted proposals asking for the assistance to repair the road, but failed. Even, one of the legislators in the Bali House had inspected the rural road and promised to fight for that, but failed either. The last proposal had been submitted to regency government to repair the damaged roads.

Village officials and residents expected the road repair could be done immediately. For many years, local residents had passed through damaged road and were forced to transport their crops on foot. (kmb)

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U.N. chief warns Iran’s Ahmadinejad on fiery rhetoric

Dozens of hectares of corn and crops in Abang subdistrict looked to wilt due to drought. Farmers said their wilted plants were ascertained to face crop failure.

The dried corn in Karangasem Regency is seen on the picture

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the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program.”

The two men also discussed Syria. Iran has been accused of using civilian aircraft to fly military personnel and large quantities of weapons across Iraqi airspace to Syria to aid President Bashar al-Assad in his attempt to crush an 18-month uprising against him, according to a Western intelligence report.

“The secretary-general stressed the grave regional implications of the worsening situation in Syria and underlined the devastating humanitarian impact,” the statement said.

Speaking to reporters in New York, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said that “to increase pressure and to increase the isolation of the regime of Assad is one of the goals this week.”

On Wednesday, Westerwelle will chair a ministerial meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the Arab Spring at which Syria is expected to be a major theme.

From Nigeria to Athens, Muslim protests rumble on

Reuters

tests to continue until the makers DUBAI - Musof the film and lims protested in cartoons are punNigeria, Iran, ished.

Greece and TurIn Pakistan, key on Sunday to where fifteen show anti-Western people were killed anger against a in protests on Frifilm and cartoons day, a government insulting Islam minister has ofhad not dissipatfered $100,000 to ed. As delegates anyone who kills from around the the maker of the world gathered short, amateurREUTERS/Faisal Mahmood in New York for ish video “The a U.N. General A girl is photographed as she attends an I n n o c e n c e o f Assembly where anti-U.S. demonstration with religious stu- Muslims”. Calls dents in the compound of the Red Mosque the clash between in Islamabad September 22, 2012. have increased for free speech and a U.N. measure blasphemy is bound to be raised, U.S. outlawing insults to Islam and blasphemy flags were once again burning in parts of in general. the Muslim world.

In Athens, some protesters hurled Iranian students chanted “Death to bottles of water, stones and shoes at poAmerica” and “Death to Israel” outside lice who responded with teargas. Calm the French embassy in Tehran in protest at returned when demonstrators interrupted the decision by satirical magazine Charlie the protest to pray.

Hebdo to publish cartoons of the Prophet Hours later, dozens of Muslim inmates Mohammad, days after widespread pro- in Athens’ main prison set mattresses and tests - some deadly - against a film made bed sheets on fire in protest. Firemen with in the United States. four engines battled the flames in some Shi’ite Muslims in the Nigerian town cells but police and government officials of Katsina burned U.S., French and Israeli said late at night the situation was under flags and a religious leader called for pro- control.

REUTERS/Pascal Lauener

U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki-moon listens to a speech in the Swiss National Council during his visit in the Autumn Parliament Session in Bern September 11, 2012.

Japan protests as Chinese ships enter disputed waters Reuters

TOKYO - Three Chinese ships briefly entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea on Monday, prompting an official protest from Tokyo and renewed diplomatic efforts to cool tensions between the rivals.

In a move that could further complicate the territorial row that is threatening relations between Asia’s biggest economies, a group of fishermen from Taiwan -- which also claims the rocky isles -- said as many as 100 boats escorted by 10 Taiwan Coast Guard vessels would arrive in the area later on Monday.

China’s Xinhua news agency said in the morning that two civilian surveillance ships were undertaking a “rights defense” patrol near the islands, citing the State Oceanic Administration, which controls the ships.

One fishery patrol vessel was also detected inside waters claimed by Japan.

Japan lodged an official protest. By afternoon, all three Chinese vessels had moved further away, the Japanese Coast Guard said.

Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated sharply after Japan bought the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, earlier this month, sparking anti-Japan protests across China. “In recent days, Japan has constantly provoked incidents concerning the Diaoyu islands issue, gravely violating China’s territorial sovereignty,” China’s Xinhua news agency said. The ship patrols were intended to exercise China’s “administrative jurisdiction” over the islands, it said. “Following the relevant laws of the People’s Republic

of China, (the ships) again carried out a regular rights defense patrol in our territorial waters around the Diaoyu islands.”

Sino-Japanese ties have long been plagued by China’s memories of Japan’s military aggression in the 1930s and 1940s and present rivalry over regional influence and resources.

Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai will visit China on Monday to discuss Sino-Japanese relations with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun, the Foreign Ministry said.

REUTERS/Kyodo

An aerial photo shows a Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian No. 66 (front) cruising next to a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku isles in Japan and Diaoyu islands in China, in this photo by Kyodo September 24, 2012.

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Fossil Forest May Sprout Again as the Arctic Warms sediments” line up with Earth’s magnetic orientation, scientists can use this to date the sediment layers.

They estimate the forest thrived between 2.6 million and 3 million years ago. The trees in the ancient forest, as interpreted from the pollen samples, usually grew in areas with a yearly average temperature of about 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), Guertin-Pasquier said. Currently, average temperatures on Bylot Island hover around 5 degrees F (minus-15 degrees C), he added.

Will our grandchildren actually see this forest come to life? “I think it’s very possible we might see forest compositions of the past returning with warming,” Larisa R. G. DeSantis who was not involved in the study told LiveScience. “The question is whether those trees will be able to make it up there,” DeSantis said, adding that in some ways it’s a lot easier for animals to migrate to different conditions.

“But trees have another whole level of difficulty, their potential for movement is based on their dispersal of seeds and that sort of thing, so their movement is constrained,” said DeSantis, who studies, among other topics, the reconstruction of ancient environments, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

New breast cancer clues found in gene analysis Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Scientists reported Sunday that they have completed a major analysis of the genetics of breast cancer, finding four major classes of the disease.

They hope their work will lead to more effective treatments, perhaps with some drugs already in use.

The new finding offers hints that one type of breast cancer might be vulnerable to drugs that already work against ovarian cancer.

The study, published online Sunday by the journal Nature, is the latest example of research into the biological details of tumors, rather than focusing primarily on where cancer arises in the body.

The hope is that such research can reveal cancer’s genetic weaknesses for better drug targeting.

“With this study, we’re one giant step closer to understanding the genetic origins of the four major subtypes of breast cancer,” Dr. Matthew Ellis of the Washington

University School of Medicine said in a statement. He is a co-leader of the research.

“Now we can investigate which drugs work best for patients based on the genetic profiles of their tumors,” he said. The researchers analyzed DNA of breast cancer tumors from 825 patients, looking for abnormalities. Altogether, they reported, breast cancers appear to fall into four main classes when viewed in this way.

One class showed similarities to ovarian cancers, suggesting it may be driven by similar biological developments. “It’s clear they are genetically more similar to ovarian tumors than to other breast cancers,” Ellis said. “Whether they can be treated the same way is an intriguing possibility that needs to be explored.”

The report is the latest from the Cancer Genome Atlas, a federally funded project that has produced similar analyses for brain, colorectal, lung, and ovarian cancers.

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Julah village in Tejakula subdistrict is known as an ancient village in Bali. It is evidenced by a number of megalithic relics found at the village, including the relic of sacred dance, ancient building, sacred temples, social custom and unique village administration.

Julah village arranged

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An ancient forest once flourished on the Canadian Arctic’s Bylot Island (shown here), and researchers say global warming may revive it.

Toyota drops plan for widespread sales of electric car

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TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp has scrapped plans for widespread sales of a new all-electric minicar, saying it had misread the market and the ability of still-emerging battery technology to meet consumer demands.

Toyota, which had already taken a more conservative view of the market for battery-powered cars than rivals General Motors Co and Nissan Motor Co, said it would only sell about 100 battery-powered eQ vehicles in the United States and Japan in an extremely limited release.

The automaker had announced plans to sell several thousand of the vehicles per year when it unveiled the eQ as an pure-electric variant of its iQ minicar in 2010.

“Two years later, there are many difficulties,” Takeshi Uchiyamada, Toyota’s vice chairman and the engineer who oversees vehicle development, told reporters on Monday.

By dropping plans for a second electric vehicle in its line-up, Toyota cast more doubt on an alternative to the combustion engine that has been both lauded for its oil-saving potential and criticized for its heavy reliance on government subsidies in key markets like the United States.

“The current capabilities of elec-

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Toyota Motor Corp’s Executive Vice President Takeshi Uchiyamada poses next to the company’s newly developed compact electric vehicle eQ after a news conference in Tokyo September 24, 2012. tric vehicles do not meet society’s needs, whether it may be the distance the cars can run, or the costs, or how it takes a long time to charge,” said, Uchiyamada, who spearheaded Toyota’s development of the Prius hybrid in the 1990s.

Toyota said it was putting its emphasis on that technology, an area in which it is the established leader. Toyota said on Monday it expected to have 21 hybrid gaselectric models like the Prius in

its line-up by 2015. Of that total, 14 of the new hybrids will be allnew, the automaker said.

Toyota has previously said that it expects to have a hybrid variant available for every vehicle it sells. In a gas-electric hybrid like the Prius, a battery captures energy from the brakes to provide a supplement to the combustion engine, boosting overall mileage, particularly in stop-and-go city traffic.

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A fossilized forest that flourished more than 2.5 million years ago could return to life thanks to a warming planet, scientists say. The paleo-scene won’t sprout up overnight, of course, said Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of the University of Montreal, who will present his research at the Canadian Paleontology Conference in Toronto this week.

Rather, he said, climate forecasts suggest that, by 2100, the nowuninhabited Bylot Island where the fossilized forest was discovered will support temperatures similar to those prevalent when the forest thrived.

“The fossil forest found in Bylot Island probably looked like the ones actually found in the [present-day] south of Alaska, where tree-line boreal forest grows near some glacier margins,” Guertin-Pasquier wrote in an email. “The main plant diversity also seems to be similar between these two environments,” which both include willow, pine and spruce trees. [See Photos of the Fossil Forest Site] He and his colleagues analyzed samples of wood that had been preserved in the area’s peat and permafrost. They specifically looked for pollen, which would reveal the types of trees growing in the area at the time.

To help nail down a specific date when growth occurred, the researchers analyzed the sediments laid down at the time the forest lived. They specifically looked at magnetic particles found in the soil, particularly magnetite. This works because, throughout our planet’s history, the orientation of the magnetic north pole changed several times, a well-documented phenomenon. Since these “magnetic

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Preserve sacred temples, reject hotel establishment

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BULELENG - Julah village in Tejakula subdistrict is known as an ancient village in Bali. It is evidenced by a number of megalithic relics found at the village, including the relic of sacred dance, ancient building, sacred temples, social custom and unique village administration. To preserve the relics, the residents of Julah village are working hard to arrange the village seriously. In addition to managing the environment, they also set up the appearance of buildings in order to meet its original look.

Pursuant to the inscription in the Bale Agung temple of Julah village, the village situated in the eastern coast of Buleleng has existed since Caka Year 844 or January 24, AD 923 during the reign of Ratu Sri Ugrasena in Bali. Now, amidst the swift currents of modern culture, the Julah village has surely changed.

But, it is worth thumbing up, the changes occurred at the village does not touch the customary and cultural elements that have long been maintained by the residents.

Evidently, almost all kinds of the sacred arts such as the Baris Gede remain to be well maintained. A number of sacred temples at the village are well preserved, in terms of its construction and sacredness.

When coastal areas of the other villages in Tejakula subdistrict are besieged by villas and hotels, the coastal area at the village territory is still free from such tourist accommodation. Villagers reject the hotel development in coastal areas considered to be sacred.

Why can Julah village maintain the beach territory from the onslaught of hotel investment and

other tourism facilities? Headman of Julah village, Nengah Wijaya, said that his villagers seriously attempted to preserve the tradition and sanctity of the temple. They did not want any hotels to be established on the beach as they worried if it would contaminate the sanctity of temples at the village. “Our residents strongly hold the tradition so that they will think twice to accept the construction of waterfront hotels at the village,” he said.

Though remaining to hold the tradition and culture, in fact the Julah residents were not anti-tourism.

Even, this year Julah village had an environmental arrangement project intended to make it a tourism village. The village received a help from central government worth IDR 6 billion. The tourism village project was worked on through four phases. First phase with the fund of IDR 1.2 billion would cover the environmental arrangement such as village road improvement and refurbishment of ancient entrance to residents’ house compound. “The next phase will be resumed with the arrangement of ancient build-

ings at our village,” said Headman Wijaya.

Wijaya also said that his party would constantly think twice to permit the hotel construction though the village had the status as a tourism village. Selling point of the tourism village highlighted was the unique tradition and ancient Balinese culture. To that end, the whole management of tourism activities would be handled by local residents. Thus, for lodging facilities, residents would be directed to build a kind of home stay at home or small huts amidst their garden.

“Those houses and small huts will be offered to tourists,” he said.

Wijaya humbly said the entire planning of the village tourism was still being carefully deliberated. By all means, the formulation required a fairly accurate assessment. On the one hand, the customs and culture should remain sustainable while on the other hand the tourism was also expected to develop the welfare of community. “We still need some inputs from all parties,” said Wijaya also doubling as travel agency entrepreneur. (ole)

HINDU possesses a medical science that has been very renowned from time immemorial, namely Ayurvedic medicine.

Ayurvedic medicine refers to the contents of the scripture Ayurveda born thousands of years ago. Ayurvedic scripture denotes a part of Upaweda in the group of Smriti Vedas. However, the Ayurvedic scripture is often confused with Yajur Veda, the scripture containing sacrificial formula that also belongs to Smriti Veda. Yajur Veda itself is a scripture discussing about Yajña or ceremony.

Author of the book Usada Bali (Balinese Traditional Healing), the late Prof. IGN Nala, once said that to help the healing, the Ayurvedic healers usually provided natural herbal medicine having few side effects. Almost all plants existing around us could be eaten, they were medicine. On that account, all plants having efficacy for healing were necessary to be inventoried and developed.

In the meantime, the Dean of Faculty of Health Science, Hindu University of Indonesia (Unhi), I Nyoman Prastika, said that based Taru Premana palm-manuscript there were a number of beneficial herbs having the efficacy to cure diseases. Parts of those plants taken advantage consisted of its leaf, flower, fruit, bark or roots. Each herb had different quality such as cool, warm and mild.

To know whether a particular plant had a cold, warm or mild quality, it could be observed from the color of its flower and flavor. For instance, white, yellow and green flower had warm quality. If their flowers were red and blue, these plants had cool efficacy. Meanwhile, if the flower was multi-colors, they could be ensured to have mild efficacy.

Likewise, if they tasted sweet and sour, its quality might be warm. However, if they tasted bitter and hot, they had cool efficacy. Then, if they were tasteless, they belonged to mild plant.

In herbal medicine system, added Prastika, people would be healthy if they consumed (ahara) nutritious healthy foods regularly, had adequate rest or sleep (nidra), and behaved (vihara) healthy. If the three aspects had been committed well, but it was still found health disturbances, then a herbal treatment (ausadhi) was required. Preparation method of herbal medicine could be divided into three kinds, namely grinding, spraying and boiled.

Its healing method could be performed by drinking and dropping for internal healing, while the spraying or applying the paste for external use.

Then, what kinds of plant could be used to cure diseases?

Prastika said that virtually all edible plants by animals could be eaten by humans. Whether the herbs had medicinal quality, they could be observed from the color of their flowers and flavor as mentioned above. Similarly, the plants frequently used for spices in the cooking contained drug efficacy.

Red ginger for example, was good to increase warmth of the body as well as to stimulate or maintain immunity. If red ginger added with the flowers of carambola, bark of tamarind and kalmegh leaves, they could be used to accelerate breathing and relieve cough.

Meanwhile, to break up kidney stones and cure colic, people could also use herbal medicine. Its ingredients consisted of roots of reed, roots of palm tree, root of areca nut tree and added with palm sugar. All materials were thoroughly boiled. Afterward, its decoction water was drunk in the morning and afternoon.

Herbal remedies could also cope with cardiac palpitations. Its ingredients comprised the soy beans, green beans, ginger, cumin, fennel, bidara upas (Merremia mammosa) leaf, coriander and pulasari (Alyxia Stellata). All ingredients should be boiled and then water of its decoction was drunk regularly.

Meanwhile, Balinese traditional healing used several palmleaf manuscripts as reference. One of them was Lontar Usada Tiwang. This manuscript described about various types of diseases along with their treatments. Tiwang conveyed numerous symptoms in the form of disorder on the function of organ.

There were several types of tiwang presented in the manuscripts such as tiwang utara, tiwang tojos, tiwang wedul, tiwang pemali pepasangan, tiwang wong, and tiwang rajasa.

Prastika added that tiwang pemali pepasangan had symptoms like prickling pain in the chest and on the back. Being no resistant to the pain, the sufferers often groaned. The disease itself could be treated by means of bark of rauvolfia, temu tis (Curcuma purpurascens), grilled coconut, hazelnut and fennel.

It was applied by spraying its paste. (BTN/kmb)

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Due to the drought, the farmers in Tabanan are forced to breed ducks

Rice field in water crisis, farmers forced to breed ducks Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The drought afflicting paddy fields in Tabanan makes farmers increasingly scream. In order to survive, they are forced to switch professions pursuant to their best. One of them is becoming a duck breeder as carried out by a couple from Serampingan hamlet, Megati village, East Selemadeg, Ketut Arka, 45, and Ni Ketut Kriti, 30. As they are unable to cultivate their paddy field, they choose to utilize the land for breeding ducks.

Even though the results are not promising, the couple is still running the duck breeding whereas it costs quite expensive. This new effort has been made since last week by building a small cage amidst the drying up paddy field. “We no longer have other choices as being unable to take other occupations. So, we’re forced to raise ducks,” complained Ni Ketut Kriti, Sunday (Sep 23).

This woman claimed to raise about 600 heads of duck. For these ducks, she should provide the feed in a large amount. A sack of duck feed cost IDR 350,000. According to Kriti, raising ducks cost far more expensive than growing paddy. However, because there was no water supply at all, she remained to breed ducks. “My husband is unable to work other than

cultivating paddy field,” she added.

She bred broiler ducks and each was sold for IDR 16,000.

Apart from complaining about the high cost of raising ducks, Kriti was also difficult to find out drinking water for her ducks. She had to walk about two kilometers to get the water from the river nearby. Moreover, the discharge was very small.

Kriti said the water crisis had lasted for several months. The overlay of paddy fields at her village had dried up and could not be planted. According to Kriti, she was about to plant soybeans.

However, it was canceled for fear of facing harvest failure due to water crisis. Aside from breeding, some farmers chose to work as carpenter and construction worker. For those who

did not have skill as carpenter, they were forced to be unemployed and stayed at home. Kriti added the water crisis had made farmers confused.

She explained the paddy fields in the area were only rain-fed. Therefore, it could only be cultivated once a year.

In dry season, farmers chose to ignore their farmland. She hoped there would be dams or other means that could help resolve the water crisis in dry season.

She said, before there were dams in the upstream, the water discharge kept flowing though quite small. Now, when there had been dams, the irrigation to paddy fields totally did not flow. This year, the dry season was quite long compared to previous years.

Due to prolonged drought, farmlands began to crack. (kmb30)

To increase the discovery of HIV/AIDS sufferers in the society especially caused by heterosexual intercourse and that it is predicted 500,000 pregnant women or 1 percent from pregnant women in Bali per year are infected, health institutions should refer pregnant women in Indonesia to get an HIV/AIDS test undergo. “This is still suggested yet in the future it seemed to be an obligation to every pregnant woman,” Sanglah Hospital PMTCT (Preventing Mother to Child Transmission) Program Head, dr.

A.A.N. Jaya Kusuma, SpOG, stated a while ago.

Why is it so important to do so? It is known from the beginning a transferred HIV virus to the fetus has a potential of 30 percent that can be erased up to 0-1 percent not infecting the baby that will be born and so will prevent any new born baby infected by the virus. For Sangalah Hospital, this PMTCT program has existed since 2005 with 130 infected pregnant women undergo this program in the present. The result up to now has been negative or that the mother is not infected by it. “It is known that from the beginning of their PMTCT program, an ARV therapy was given so it pressurize the number of virus to the minimum. The earlier the treatment, the infection will get smaller sooner. For those who are infected, the baby has to be born through Caesar surgery as the HIV virus on the birth route is high so a normal birth method is avoided,” Kusuma continued. (kmb24)

River banks project, materials taken from the river itself Negara (Bali Post) –

The support project at a river in Banjar Tibusambi, YehembangKangin Village, Mendoyo used scattered bronjong rocks from the river. This questioned the society as the hundred millions of rupiah project won’t be possible using these materials as it will damage the river and has to have its permit in using so also this is the same thing as they are river miner with the mask of a support project. “What’s the difference with illegal galian C sites?” a local questioned last Sunday (23/9).

Even though there has been signs placed and the work is 60 percent completed, yet there is no sign of the project’s board placed and admitted never seen the management bringing other outside materials and used the river’s big rocks instead. The situation was admitted by the workers coming from East Java.

They say if the rocks in the river are not enough then there are rocks coming from other places or by buying it. These were done based on the director of the project’s direction and now with the rocks all finished, they all couldn’t work anymore.

In other hand the project management couldn’t be confirmed due to not being in the area. Workers admitted not knowing who the supervisor of it is. Head of Jembrana Police Civil Service, Putu Widarta, explained the rocks taken for a project has to have a permit of Galian C yet as this project has no clarity there will be some checking taking place first. “Taking materials using heavy equipment is mining (galian), even though it is used for that area as well,” Widarta exclaimed. (kmb26)

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Mercure Bali Nusa Dua makes its big debut

The stylish 201-room Mercure Hotel offers international leisure and business travelers an exciting new option in the Nusa Dua area The newlybuilt Mercure Bali Nusa Dua opened on 23 September 2012, offering guests a comfortable base in the Nusa Dua area. Just a stone’s throw from t h e p r o m i n e n t B a l i To u r i s m Development (BTDC) complex, the hotel is ideally located for access to the Bali International Convention Centre and many shopping, dining and entertainment options of the Bali Collection Shopping Mall. Located a mere 14 kilometers from Bali’s International Ngurah Rai Airport and 25 minutes from the chic and vivacious areas of Kuta, Legian and Seminyak, the hotel is ideal for business and leisure travelers alike.

A member of Accor, Mercure is known for its individually-styled and personalized hotels, each with its own distinctive character. Mercure Bali Nusa Dua is the fourth hotel to join the Mercure network in Bali. The hotel features 201 comfortable contemporary rooms including 150 Superior rooms, 43 Deluxe rooms and 8 Junior Suites. Guests can indulge at the restaurant which serves local and international dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, sit down for a drink at the lobby or pool bar, work out in the fully-equipped fitness centre, or relax in the hotel’s unique swimming pool, divided over two levels and connected by a waterfall. Three meeting rooms with a capacity of up to 200 people can accommodate conferences, weddings and other events, while the business centre services and lobby internet corner round out the

hotel’s business facilities.

All rooms are designed to reflect the identity and heritage of Bali, while embracing the contemporary style of Mercure.

Each room is equipped with premium in-room amenities including international cable television channels and free WiFi Internet access.

“We are very excited to part of the network of Mercure hotels in Bali,” said Peter Stolk, General Manager of Mercure Bali Nusa Dua. “The right location and contemporary design make this hotel an attractive destination for both business and leisure travelers looking for slice of paradise on Bali,” he added.

To c e l e b r a t e i t s o p e n i n g , Mercure Bali Nusa Dua is offering a special launch promotion with room rates starting from IDR 690,000++ per room per

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NEW YORK — Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is headed to treatment for substance abuse. Sunday’s announcement by the band’s rep comes after the 40year-old frontman had a meltdown onstage at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Friday. As Green Day was wrapping up its performance during the all-star, two-day concert, Armstrong profanely complained that the band’s time was being cut short.

“One minute left, one minute (expletive) left. You’re gonna give me (expletive) one minute? ... I’m not (expletive) Justin Bieber, you (expletives)!” he yelled (although Bieber was not part of the night’s festivities).

Armstrong smashed his guitar before leaving the stage.

In a statement to The Associated Press, Green Day apologized “to those they offended at the iHeartRadio Festival” and

said its set was not cut short by Clear Channel, the host of the two-day festival.

The Grammy winning band also is canceling some of its promotional appearances. It is due to release the album “Uno” on Tuesday, the follow-up to “21st Century Breakdown,” released three years ago. “Uno” is the first in a trilogy of albums; the second is to be out in November, and the last in January. The band

is due to kick off a nationwide tour Nov. 26 in Seattle.

Armstrong was hospitalized in early September in Bologna, Italy, for an undisclosed ailment, but recovered well enough to perform at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 6. Since then, the band has made a series of performances, including a “Good Morning America” performance and a New York City concert for the launch of

Nokia Music on Sept. 15. No interviews of the band were allowed that evening, but the band chatted with fans and Nokia and AT&T executives before performing for about two hours.

It’s unclear what Armstrong is receiving treatment for; in 2003, he was arrested for DUI, and has acknowledged in the past taking various drugs but has said he now eschews them.

Green Day is one of rock’s top acts and had huge success with its 2004 politically charged album “American Idiot,” which went on to become a Broadway musical. Armstrong performed for a stretch in the musical.

Most recently, he was a mentor on the NBC talent competition “The Voice.”

‘Watch,’ ‘House,’ ‘Curve’ land in photo finish Associated Press Writer

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This film image released by Open Road Films shows Michael Pena, left, and Jake Gyllenhaal in a scene from “End of Watch.”

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is in photo-finish mode with three new movies bunched up tightly for the No. 1 spot during a sleepy weekend at the box office. Studio estimates Sunday put two movies in a tie for first-place with $13 million each: Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena’s police story “End of Watch” and Jennifer Lawrence’s horror flick “House at the End of the Street.”

And right in the same ballpark was Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams’baseball tale “Trouble with the Curve,” which opened with $12.7 million. Actual rankings will be de-

termined Monday as studios release final numbers for the weekend.

No matter which movie comes out on top, it was another slow weekend for Hollywood, whose business has been sluggish throughout late summer. Revenues were down for the fourthstraight weekend, with all three of the top new movies opening to modest crowds.

“This was a clash of the nontitans,” said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. “When three films are duking it out for the top spot with only around $13 million, that doesn’t represent a very strong period at the box office.”

Coronation of Batur Caldera in Kintamani as a geopark territory has traversed long and arduous struggle.

Now, it is faced with a conundrum having something to do with the bread and butter of many people.

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BANGLI - Coronation of Batur Caldera in Kintamani as a geopark territory has traversed long and arduous struggle. Now, it is faced with a conundrum having something to do with the bread and butter of many people. Coronation of Batur as a geopark in Indonesia requires the nature conservation in the region. Meanwhile, the condition occurred has been known as a public secret in Kintamani, namely the quarry of rocks and materials. It also includes the constant forest clearing and converts it to farmland. Apparently, it is difficult to control.

Field observation made on Sunday (Sep 23) indicated if the quarry did not only happen at Tabu hamlet, Songan B village, Kintamani. Even, it had expanded to the west of Mount Batur.

Today, the quarry no longer relied on manual labor, but implementation of heavy equipment. Tire prints of

trucks hauling the excavation materials were clearly seen in the west and south of Mount Batur and so were near the Jati Temple and region of Seked.

Regent of Bangli, Made Gianyar, recently admitted the passing of Batur Caldera to become one of the world’s geopark was a remarkable

achievement. Besides, it also drew a great attention because the team of UNESCO had made frequent assessment to Kintamani. To qualify in the competition against several countries around the world was not easy. For Asia region, only Indonesia (Batur Caldera) and China could pass in the

assessment.

With the passing of Batur Caldera as a geopark, a tough task had been waiting. It especially related to encouragement of public awareness regarding the benefits and advantages obtained after the Batur Caldera set forth as a geopark by the world’s agency. According to him, people should feel ashamed to the world, especially to the Global Geopark Network (GGN).

“We are ashamed after being stipulated as a geopark but in fact it is unable to bring in a change in the nature conservation to Batur Caldera,” he said. (kmb17)

The cast and crew of “Modern Family,” winner of the Outstanding Comedy Series award, pose backstage at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday, Sept.

23, 2012, in Los Angeles.

‘Homeland’ and ‘Modern Family’ win big at Emmys Associated Press

The post-Emmy champagne surely tasted sweet for the people at “Modern Family” and “Homeland,” but they needed only to look around the Nokia Theatre to see how quickly popular tastes and Hollywood’s most unpredictable awards show can change perceptions.

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