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Impact from September 11 still felt a decade later AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

A test of the Tribute in Light rises above lower Manhattan, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011 in New York. The memorial, sponsored by the Municipal Art Society, will light the sky on the evening of Sept. 11, 2011 in honor of those who died ten years before in the terror attacks on the United States.

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WASHINGTON - The significance of Sept. 11 has not waned for many Americans, even a decade after the attacks.

WEATHER FORECAST

A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in Chicago finds that more Americans today say Sept. 11 had an impact on their lives than said so five years ago

— 57 percent compared with 50 percent in 2006.

As the nation prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of that haunting day, the chilling events that unfolded in New York, Washing-

ton and a field in Pennsylvania, still evoke a stir of emotions for everyday Americans — from anger and shock at so many innocent lives lost to patriotism and pride in the heroes who emerged on hijacked planes and in the rubble of fallen skyscrapers and a shattered Pentagon.

Ten years later, the United States is a nation changed — moving on, but still changed.

Lisa Schmidt, 48, thinks about Sept. 11 “just about every day” and almost every time she sees a plane.

“The intensity of thinking about it, and confronting the thought of it, still is very uncomfortable and I didn’t know anyone who was killed or injured,” said Schmidt, owner of a marketing company. “It was a defining moment for how Americans define tragedy.”

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Mass Mamukur Procession

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‘’Ngayut ke Segara’’ held on Matahari Terbit Beach

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Denpasar - The peak of the Mamukur (Maligia Punggel) ceremony which was held by Bali Government was held on Matahari Terbit Beach on Thursday, September 9, 2011. Before, the Murwa Daksina procession was also being held on Puputan Renon field.

The Pitra Yadnya Ritual was witnessed by the Vice Governor of Bali, A.A Puspayoga, the head of Bali House A.A Oka Ratmadi, Denpasar

Mayor I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, and other officers.

The ceremony was also filled with a mass Mepandes (tooth pealing) ceremony. The peak of the Mamukur ceremony was started by Mendak Lingga in Geria Tegal Denpasar and then it was being sent to the Puputan Margarana Renon Field.

Then, the ceremony followed by pemlapasan Sangge and Lingga and 523 sekah took part in the ceremony.

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Bali News Art Market Unused

No Profit for People of Manggis Amlapura (Bali Post) –

Manggis origin House of Representatives member, Gede Agung Puspada, last Wednesday (7/9) in commission gathering meeting at Karangasem House of Representatives stated his sadness of megaproject art market in front of a cemetery in Manggis which hasn’t been functioning alias unused. For the used to be productive land of coconut and banana trees caused complains from the people as those who have let their land for the market did not get the result.

It was said the two hectares land can produce up to 2,500 coconuts per month where each sold IDR 2,000 resulting IDR 5 million income per month. If its counted since this land was free from coconut trees times several years of it, for sure the land owners have loss billions of rupiah. It was also said the market was to lessen poverty also to complete Tanah Ampo Cruise Ship Harbour which still has not functioned either. “The land manager is devastated and suffering big loss due to the unsure art market. Can’t the market be used as traditional market first so it can be used by the people around for trading and selling items?”

Puspada clarified.

To answer this question,

Karangasem Regional Secretary, Drs. Nengah Sudarsa, who led the executives in the commission gathering meeting stated that his side is devastated too of the situation as the funds from central government have gone first to those hit by disasters in Papua and Merapi Mountain. “Central government was intending to fund it but then disasters happened so it went there first. We hope there will be help soon,” Sudarsa hoped.

Sudarsa agreed on researching again if Karangasem Budget allocation is suitable while waiting central government’s confirmation. Also in hardening the front building of the los should there be stairs to be used for selling, he agreed. (013)

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A man is trying to kill the cetrpillar by burning it

Caterpillars Pandemic Only Burnt Tabanan (Bali Post)

The management to take out caterpillars out of Banjar Tegal Belodan, Dauh Peken Village, Tabanan, is being questioned as it is only being burnt to clear up its population. It is worried that it wills till spread and it is hoped there will be extra pesticide sprayed so it is totally destroyed as stated by one resident nearby the pests attack area, Nyoman Muja, last Wednesday (7/9).

When it got to public, the Public Institute of Plant Illness Precention in Tabanan came to location last Tuesday (6/9) where caterpillars being on walls were all grouped and

burnt. The next morning another was found and spread to the next gardens where residents felt itch everywhere including pupils.

Team from Bali Province Food and Horticulture Plants Protection Board have came down to location on the afternoon where they did the same as this is the mechanic and simpler way according to the leader, Putu Oka Dharmawan in the middle of researching. Even so the workers will keep on observing the development of its population where three has been filled by it, others only some and others normal. If this way is not maximum, an insecticide contact will be

used which can be sprayed or injected to the affected trees. It is stated the kind of caterpillar attacking here is the same as the ones appeared at five cities last April due to uncertain weather. Besides being burnt workers have cut turi and lamtoro trees that are caterpillar’s favourites. “Rather than having it spread worse better its cut down,” Tabanan Sub District Leader, IGA Supartiwi, stated and asked Cleanliness and Grounds Agency to help solving the situation. She also asked the people to observe their area and if any caterpillar population was found it should be reported. (udi)

Regent Office turns quiet on work day

Health Community Centre Fees to Increase 500 Percent

CLIMATE of the Buleleng Regent’s office looked peculiar on Wednesday (Sep 7). On that weekday, the office was really quiet.

Rooms of the office were only occupied by a number of staff, while the courtyard and parking lot were empty.

Other than the regent, regional secretary, assistant as well as division heads were not in the office then.

Based on information, almost all officials in the Buleleng Regency attended the three-month ritual of his grandchild at the home of the Regent

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Bagiada at Celuk Buluh, Kalibukbuk, Lovina. A number of important officials were even mentioned to be the committee of the ceremony so their works in the office were abandoned.

Meanwhile, a staff in the office said last Wednesday if his superior was at Celuk Buluh to attend the three- month ritual of the Regent Bagiada’s grandchild. According to him, all staff was actually invited to the ceremony, but they should come in turn so the office would not be vacant. (kmb15)

The Law No 28 year 2009 on regional tax and retribution is being felt by the people with prove planned increased parking tariff and now payment for treatment to Health Community Centres (Puskesmas) also happening. Ironically the increase reached 500 percent from the fee it has been up to IDR 15,000 from IDR 3,000. Head of Commision D Denpasar House of Representatives, I Wayan Sugiata, accompanied by Hilmun

Nabi in his office last Wednesdany (7/9) stated the draft of the planned regulation has been sent to the House around two weeks ago where there will be increase on four kinds of health services such as Puskesmas fee, on the go Puskesmas and Puskesmas helping branch.

According to Sugiata they will decline it remembering this is a sensitive fee to pay for the people. “In general we are burdened as this is too high especially we got JKBM that is

free but why is it increased as well.

Very contradictive, public should be subsidised,” Nabi explained.

Even so his side does not know about the executives’ decision on it but for sure if the city wants a Real Regional Income don’t get it from retribution such as health services as it is a direct burden for the public just like education,” he explained. Meanwhile Head of Denpasar City Health Agency, Luh Putu Sri Armini, couldn’t be confirmed yet. (kmb12)

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Considered redundant

Subak members reject solutions of Badung Regency Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Subak members of Babakan Bengkel II and III, Carangsari Village, Petang Subdistrict, Wednesday (Sep 7), delivered a letter of rejection against the solution given by Badung Regency in addressing the drought experienced by local subak in the region. Farmers assessed the solution given would not resolve the problems and seemed to waste budget.

Rejection of subak members was set forth in a letter addressed directly to the Regent of Badung. In essence, the letter signed by the Chief of Subak Babakan Bengkel II and III respectively I Ketut Sandi Nata and I Wayan Sunantara rejected both solutions of Badung Regency to cope with the drought in the local subak in the form of irrigation improvement at the main Luwus dam and the making of artesian well.

Improvement of irrigation canal at Luwus was considered fruitless because the water source had been taken up by Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) and the water discharge was very small as it was truly far from the river upstream to subak territory, namely 53 km. The making of artesian well was equally considered superfluous, so the budget spent will be useless.

After delivering the letter of rejection to the office of Badung Regent, I Wayan Sunantara and Ketut Sandi Nata accompanied by subak members I Nyoman Artawa and I Nyoman Kraco, stated that Badung Government should take realistic solutions to cope with the drought at both subak territories. Artawa explained, the solutions offered by

farmers were to take up the water of Bangkung River and then made a culvert along 512 meters for water irrigation from Ngongkong and Bangkung River flowing to Grana River. Furthermore, it should be followed by the making of dam in the east of Puseh Temple of Telutug Hamlet.

“From the beginning, we have suggested these solutions. But, there is no real effort taken by government.

Instead, the projects implemented seem redundant and inappropriate with the needs,” said Artawa.

Though the rejection letter was just sent by subak members, reaction of the subak members was directly responded by Badung Government through the Badung Highway Construction and Irrigation Services by organizing a meeting with subak members at Carangsari. Head of Badung Highways and Irrigation Services, IB Soerya, stated that proposal of the subak members would be followed up. However, the proposal had to go through a comprehensive study because the dam construction on Bangkung River belonged to the authority of Bali Government and should get approval from the Ministry of Public Works.

The dam construction should also consider the land strength around the dam and canal that would be used to drain water to Subak Babakan Bengkel II and III. For short and medium term solutions, he said, his party would improve the existing water irrigation. “Based on the study, the water discharge is relatively small. But, it is one of the measures to take while looking for other solutions,” he said. (kmb25)

Kuwum Temple severely damaged as toppled by huge tree Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Compound wall and numerous shrines of Ganda Natar Sari Temple located at Nyelati Hamlet, Kuwum Village, Mengwi, was heavily damaged as toppled by a falling banyan tree on Sunday (Sep 4). Due to such incident, the losses were estimated to reach hundreds of millions of rupiahs. Until Wednesday (Sep 7), cleanup of the trees and debris in the local temple could not be carried out maximally as the location was difficult to reach.

A legislator of Badung House, who is also a local community leader, I Wayan Regep, revealed the damaged buildings in the temple hit by the falling tree and its trunk with diameter of three meters included the Pelik Sari pavilion, compound wall, Batu Meres

shrine, Batu Mujung shrine, Padmasana shrine, two-tiered Meru shrine and Batu Ngaus representative shrine. Badung Government through the Regional Disaster Management Agency and the Head of Mengwi Subdistrict had inspected the scene. For a while, said Regep, local residents and government still found difficulty to clean them up because location of the temple was quite difficult to reach, especially by large vehicles.

Furthermore, Regep said the centuries-old tree in the Natar Sari Temple toppled last Sunday around 4:00 p.m. Before the incident, the local area was flushed by heavy rains for two consecutive days. However, his party did not dare to ascertain whether the falling tree in the temple was caused by the rains, old age or any other causes. (kmb25)

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Suardana and his three children in Klungkung Regency. Currently many poor people are not able to receive the proper education.

Klungkung has 51 dropout students a year SO far the government has claimed to have been very committed in the field of education.

The budget allocated for education sector is considered to have been quite large compared to the budget for other sectors. In reality, there are many educational problems that cannot be addressed, included in Klungkung. One of the problems is the student dropping out of school or students who are unable to continue to higher education. Then, where has the budget allocated for education sector gone?

The data provided by Division Head of Program Preparation, Klungkung Education Agency, Wayan Sukrana, mentioned that during the academic year 2010/2011, at least 51 students dropped out of school. A total of 19 children were students of primary school, a student of junior high school, 29 students of high school and 2 students of vocational school. According to Sukrana, the data were taken by disseminating questionnaire to all schools in Klungkung Regency.

Dissemination of the questionnaire was carried out with data counting date as of August 31, 2010. “Those are the data recorded in the Klungkung Education Agency,” said Sukrana.

When about to ask for confirmation related to dropout students, the Head of Klungkung Education Agency, Nengah Wijana, was not in the office. According to a number of staff in the agency, Wijana did not go to work because he was attending a continued procession of mass cremation. Meanwhile, last Wednesday it was resumed with tooth-filing and mekala-kalaan ceremony.

Meanwhile, one of the families having difficulty to send their children to school was at Jelantik Kuribatu Hamlet, Klungkung. It was one kilo-

meter from the center town of Klungkung. The couple Wayan Suardana and Ni Kadek Widiani had five children and they were averagely under ten years old. Their first child, Wayan Yuliantari, was unable to continue her study after graduating from primary school (SD) a few years ago.

Currently, she was working in a laundry service. Two other children, namely Ni Made Sri Wahyuni and Ni Komang Noviani, were in the third grade in SDN 1 Tojan primary school (Ni Made Sri Wahyuni once did not pass grade—Ed). The other two children, Ketut Mariati, 4.5, and Gede Darmayasa, 3, had not attended school.

Suardana who worked as handyman and masseur admitted that he was possibly unable to continue the education of Wahyuni and Noviani who were now still studying in primary school. It might also happen to his two other children who had not attended school yet. “Indeed, school does not charge any education fee. However, I am unable to cover the uniforms, books and daily lunch for my children.

Moreover, I should meet the needs of family, ceremony and others. With a mediocre income, I often lack of money so I routinely borrow it every six months,” said Suardana when met

at his home.

As a handyman and masseur, Suardana admitted to only work when people needed his services.

Meanwhile, to help the family earnings, his wife, Ni Kadek Widiani, also worked as shallot picker and peeler. His maximum earning was IDR 15,000 per day and should work from 08:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. or even until 18:00 p.m. “My earning is a little, while prices of goods continue to rise,” said the 48-year old man who actually felt ashamed of holding a status as poor family.

Rice aid for the poor (raskin) regularly received every month had faltered lately. Within a month, he sometimes got and sometimes not. He said the allocation of rice aid for the poor was distributed in turn and it was also enjoyed by the haves. Suardana living within a single compound with four family heads admitted to have applied for the toilet assistance or house refurbishment becoming the government program. Unfortunately, the petition never materialized. At the moment, Suardana occupies an old relic house of his parents. The old building is divided into two rooms and occupied by seven family members. (bal)

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International

In new audio, Gadhafi denies rumor he fled Libya Associated Press Writer

BENGHAZI, Libya — From hiding, Moammar Gadhafi denied rumors that he fled Libya, vowed never to leave the land of his ancestors and rallied followers to keep fighting, according to an audio message broadcast Thursday on a loyalist TV channel.

The broadcast came amid conflicting statements about the former Libyan dictator’s whereabouts.

Gadhafi, who ruled Libya for nearly 42 years, hasn’t been seen in public for months, and has released only audio messages, trying to rally his supporters and lash out at opponents.

In Thursday’s five-minute-long audio, aired on Syrian-based Al-Rai TV, a voice purportedly of Gadhafi denounced reports that he had fled to neighboring Niger and claimed he is still in Libya. He also blasted former rebels who ousted him from power as “a bunch of mercenaries, thugs and traitors” and urged his follower to take up arms.

“We are ready to start the fight in Tripoli and everywhere else, and rise up against them,” Gadhafi said. “All of these germs, rats and scumbags, they are not Libyans, ask anyone.

They have cooperated with NATO.” “Gadhafi won’t leave the land of his ancestors,” he said, referring to

himself in the third person. The authenticity of the recording could not be independently verified but the voice and rhetoric strongly resembled Gadhafi, who has used the TV channel in the past.

Gadhafi went into hiding after opposition fighters swept into Tripoli on Aug. 21. The former rebels are still battling regime loyalists in three Gadhafi strongholds — Bani Walid, Sabha and Sirte. It took opposition fighters more than six months to drive Gadhafi out of power. Libya’s interim health minister, Naji Barakat, said Wednesday that at least 30,000 people were killed and 50,000 wounded in the civil war. The figures, though incomplete, were based on body counts from some areas and estimates from others, Barakat said.

Clashes broke out overnight near the town of Bani Walid, some 90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli. Shootings and loud explosions lasted for several hours, com-

AP Photo/Gaia Anderson

Rebel fighters take control of a military vehicle, centre, positioned to defend what used to be Gadhafi’s 32nd infantry regiment’s base at Mardun, some 10 kilometers from the outskirts of Ban Walid, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011.

ing from Wadi Dinar, an area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) outside the town, but subsided by daybreak.

Thousands of fighters have converged on areas outside Bani Walid and have threatened to attack if residents don’t surrender by Saturday.

Officials have said the town emerged

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (L), seen here speaking to the press at the leaders retreat on Waiheke Island outside Auckland, during the second day of the annual 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), on September 8

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Climate change ‘greatest threat’ to Pacific Agence France Presse

Climate change represents the greatest threat to the of the people of the Pacific region, a communique issued at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Auckland said.

The 16-nation grouping on Thursday said there was a urgent need to look at financing for Pacific nations where people may need to abandon their homes due to the impact of global warming.

“Climate change remains the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific,” the communique said.

Villagers in some Pacific countries, such as Kiribati, have already had to relocate due to

rising sea levels and the forum said practical steps needed to be taken to look at the issue of helping displaced people.

It ordered the PIF secretariat to examine how relocation options could be financed, taking into account “the specific capacities and needs of respective countries”.

The communique also called for a return to democracy in Fiji, which was expelled from the PIF in 2009 after its military regime reneged on plans to hold elections in the wake of a 2006 coup. “(Forum countries) expressed their continuing deep concern at the deteriorating human rights situation and serious political and economic challenges facing the people of Fiji,” it said.

as a focus because of the number of prominent regime loyalists believed to be inside.

A commander of the Libyan fighters, Daw Saleheen, said Gadhafi’s loyalists from inside Bani Walid tried to ambush the Libyan fighters’ positions in Wadi Dinar early Thursday

and the fighters clashed with them.

“They took advantage of our deadline and ongoing negotiations but they lost the chance when they tried to attack us,” Saleheen said. He said one Gadhafi follower was killed in the clashes and that one Libyan fighter was wounded.

Sonia Gandhi returns to India after US surgery Agence France Presse

Sonia Gandhi, the key powerbroker of Indian politics, has returned home after undergoing surgery in the United States five weeks ago for an undisclosed condition.

Gandhi, president of the ruling Congress party, was absent during a difficult period for the government with a deadly bombing in New Delhi and the sudden emergence of a nationwide anticorruption protest movement.

The 64-yearold widow of former premier Rajiv Gandhi is the influential patron behind Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and she is widely thought to lead the government on daily and strategic decisions. “ S o n i a Gandhi arrived

early this morning, she is doing fine,” Congress spokesman Janardan Dwivedi told AFP without giving further details about her recovery.

Party officials announced on August 4 that Gandhi had been operated on in the US. Since then there has been a total news blackout on her condition and even where she was admitted to hospital.

Italian-born Gandhi is often said to be preparing the ground for her only son Rahul to become prime minister at some stage after premier Singh, 78, steps down.

Rahul, 41, who sits in the lower house of parliament, has had joint charge of the Congress party while his mother has been away, but he adopted a low profile during a government crisis over mass anti-corruption protests.

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Ayana Resort and Spa Bali Present Chef Justin Quek International Bali Post

JIMBARAN - Singapore’s most celebrated chef Justin Quek will headline an inspiring calendar of events this festive season at AYANA Resort and Spa Bali, presenting a degustation menu of his signature dishes at Dava restaurant.

For three nights from 27-29 December, Chef Justin will join Dava as guest chef, taking time out from his role heading up The Sky on 57, the pinnacle dining destination at Singapore’s exclusive Marina Bay Sands precinct. His degustation menu for Dava (scroll down to view) will feature signature dishes from his Franco-Asian menu at The Sky on 57.

“These are some of the most popular dishes at Sky on 57, proven dishes such as the live lobster sautéed in Asian pepper sauce, which is a variation on the famous Singaporean dish, pepper crab,” said Chef Justin. “In one week, I sell 200 live lobsters alone. People love it. In Bali, we will recreate the same dish but using local ingredients.

The degustation menu is about quality, subtlety and balance of flavors.”

He will be hosted by Dava’s Chef de Cuisine Jusman So, another renowned Singaporean who’s gained inter-

national recognition for his distinctive style partnering classic French technique and presentation with Asian flavors. Open to the public, this culinary collaboration is part of an exciting festive program at Ayana, which sparks to life with Christmas tree lighting on 30 November.

Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for August 31 through October 5, 2011 31 Aug Buda Umanis Tambir Sari Bankar Titih Temple Kapal 12 Sep Purnama Ketiga Gunung Sari Temple Lombok Pauman Bhujangga Tonja Denpasar Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Karangasem Pedarman Arya Telabah Besakih Bukit Mentik Temple Gunung Lebah Batur Kintamani 14 Sep Buda Keliwon Matal Village Temple Sukawati Merajan Agung Batuyang - batubulan Pasek Gelgel Bebetin Temple Sawan - buleleng Maspahit Temple Sesetan - Denpasar Selatan Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran - Tegalalang Panti Pasek Gaduh Temple Sesetan Merajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Pedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih 24 Sep Tumpek Kandang Puseh Temple Gianyar Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - Tabanan Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung 27 Sep Tilem Ketiga Ulun Kulkul Temple Ulun Kulkul Besakih 28 Sep Buda Wage Menail Tarukan Temple Cemenggaon Sukawati Mr. Pasek Dangke Bambang - Bangli Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja - Gianyar Puseh Menakaji Temple Peninjoan - Bangli Merajan Agung Temple Blangsinga - Blahbatuh Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh Gianyar Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi

4 Ock Anggar Kasih Perangbakat Bukit Buluh Temple Gunaksa - Klungkung Tirta Sudamala Temple Bebalang - Bangli Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit - sawan - Buleleng Pasek Gelgel Temple Pangi Dawan - Klungkung Gunung Tengsong Lombok Dalem Benawah Temple Benawah - Gianyar Dalem Temple Bitra - Gianyar Dalem Temple Banyuning Timur - Buleleng Dalem Pauman Batan Getas Pauman Batan Getas Titih Denpasar Tengah Padang Tegalalang Merajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan Tabanan Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Adat Pagan Denpasar Hyangaluh/Jenggala Besakih Merajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa Mr. Pasek Gelgel Selulung Merajan Pasek Subrata Medahan Merajan Pasek Munggu Munggu Tengkulak Temple Tulikup - Gianyar Penataran Badung Ogang Sidemen 5 Ock Buda Umanis Perangbakat Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Rambut Siwi Temple Jembrana Batu Bolong Temple Canggu - Kuta Pasek Marga Klaci Temple Tabanan Agung Pasek Temple Dauh Waru Jembrana Ratu Pasek Temple Sangsit Sawan - Buleleng Pasek Tangkas Darma R. Tabanan Village Temple Banyuning Buleleng Srijon Temple Tabanan Mr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah Pangkung Merajan Pasek Gelgel Patemon Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak Siring Dadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba Tegalalang Pedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel Tabanan Puncak Mundi Nusa Penida

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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News Police detain 3 as they probe deadly Delhi blast Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Misha Japaridze

Russian professional hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl fans grieve outside the ice hockey arena in Yaroslavl, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011.

Russians searching for crashed plane’s recorders Associated Press Writer

YAROSLAVL, Russia — Investigators on Thursday searched for flight recorders in the shattered remains of an airliner that crashed on the banks of the Volga River, killing 43 people including most of one of Russia’s premier hockey teams.

The recorders could provide key information explaining why the Yak42 crashed just after takeoff Wednesday from the Yaroslavl airport, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. The Interstate Aviation Committee says the recorders are believed to be in the tail section of the jet, which is partly submerged in the river.

The victims included 36 players, coaches and officials of Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, which had been heading to Minsk, Belarus to play its opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season.

On Thursday morning, hundreds of local residents gathered at the city’s Russian Orthodox cathedral to mourn the victims. Many of them wore team scarves, some of the women using them to cover their heads as church ritual requires.

In recent years, Russia and some other former Soviet republics have had some of the world’s worst air traffic safety records. Experts blame the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a costcutting mentality.

The crashed jet was built in 1993 and one of its three engines was replaced a month ago, Deputy Transport Minister Valery Okulov told Russian media on Thursday. It is unclear whether technical failure played a role in the crash, but the plane apparently struggled to gain altitude and then hit a signal tower before breaking apart along the Volga.

Okulov said federal transportation authorities are considering whether to halt flights by Yak-42s, Okulov was quoted as saying by the state news agency RIA Novosti. There are 57 of

the planes in service in Russia, the agency said.

There were only two crash survivors and both were reported as being in serious condition on Thursday.

Among the dead were Lokomotiv coach and NHL veteran Brad McCrimmon, a Canadian; assistant coach Alexander Karpovtsev, one of the first Russians to have his name etched on the Stanley Cup as a member of the New York Rangers; and Pavol Demitra, who played for the St. Louis Blues and the Vancouver Canucks and was the Slovakian national team captain.

Other standouts killed were Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek, Swedish goalie Stefan Liv, Latvian defenseman Karlis Skrastins and defenseman Ruslan Salei of Belarus.

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From page 1 According to Ida Bagus Made Putra, the member of offering committee, the purpose of the ceremony is to purify the sekah then followed

by Murwa Daksina which is turning around three times to the right.

After Murwa Daksina, the sekah is brought by their family member and welcomed by holy sacrifice from buffalo called Titi Manah as the symbol of the sole can climb up to heaven.

“The purpose of the Mamukur is to guide the soul of the dead to heaven so they can unite with Ida Sang

Hyang Widi,” Made Putra said.

During the ceremony, there were some dance performances such as Rejang Dewa, Baris Gede, and Topeng Sidakarya. The procession followed by nguyeg. All of them is the ceremonies to lead the sould to heaven.(kmb13)

NEW DELHI — Indian authorities detained three men for questioning Thursday as they scrambled for leads into a powerful briefcase bomb that tore through the crowds outside a New Delhi courthouse, killing 12. Investigators were looking into an email sent to several TV news channels hours after Wednesday’s blast, allegedly by a Pakistan-linked Muslim extremist group. They were trying to determine the authenticity of the claim.

The email demanded that a Kashmiri man convicted in a 2001 attack on India’s Parliament have his death sentence commuted. It also threatened to target other courts. Police in Indian Kashmir said investigators had traced the email to an internet cafe in the disputed Himalayan region’s Kishtwar area and had detained the owner and two other residents for questioning.

Authorities also were searching various locations in Kishtwar but police would not provide more details. The bomb exploded at about 10:14 a.m. near a line of more than 100 people waiting at a reception counter for passes to enter the courthouse to have their cases heard.

The bomb’s impact left a deep crater on the road and shook the building, creating panic and sending lawyers and judges running outside. The blast killed 12 people and wounded 80 others. The investigation was immediately handed over to the National Investigation Agency, created after the 2008 Mumbai siege to investigate and prevent terror attacks.

Police said they were combing the city for possible suspects and all roads out of the city were under surveillance. Police also released two sketches Wednesday they said were based on descriptions by witnesses who said they saw someone waiting outside the building with a briefcase.

The court bombing was the first major attack in India since serial blasts in Mumbai killed 26 people on July 13. Suspicion then fell on the shadowy terrorist group Indian Mujahedeen, though no arrests have been made.

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From page 1 For some people, like Susan Garrison, her fear of more attacks keeps her away from airports.

“I will not fly,” said the 54year-old Garrison, even with stepped-up security. She said she hasn’t set foot inside a plane since Sept. 11. “These people are the types of people who would get jobs in airports. If they want to kill people, they’re going to do it.”

Almost one-third, 32 percent, of those polled said they are concerned about becoming a victim of terrorism or having a family member harmed in an attack.

That’s down slightly, though, from 38 percent in 2004.

The poll also found Americans are less angry about having to fight a war on terrorism than they were a few months after the attacks — 57 percent say so now compared with 67 percent then — and worries about how the war on terrorism might affect daily life have faded since the days after Sept 11.

In the AP-NORC poll, broad majorities said Sept. 11 changed everything from the policy and spending decisions of our country’s leaders — 94 percent and 90 percent, respectively — to the unity of the American people.

Eighty-eight percent said it brought us together.

Soon after the attacks, the U.S. government was transformed with the creation of the Homeland Security Department, the Transportation Security Administra-

tion, the National Counterterrorism Center and a slew of other centers and government committees dedicated to keeping the country safe.

Sept. 11 also changed the way we talk to our children.

Conversations about “stranger danger” or “stop, drop and roll” have now been expanded to include delicate discussions about “people who don’t like us” and why we have to take our shoes off in those sometimes too-long airport security lines.

Fifty-five percent of the people polled who have children 10 and under said they have talked with their sons and daughters about what happened on Sept. 11. For the other 45 percent, the subject had not come up.

Rhonda Weaver, a 42-year-old attorney, said she first talked about it with her 11-year-old daughter a few years ago. The child had come home from school asking about the attacks and why people would do that.

“We just told her that there are some people who don’t like the way we live,” said Weaver. “They see us as an enemy and they did that as a way to kind of get back at us and make us feel weak.”

Weaver said she has not yet talked about the attacks with her 8-year-old son.

Ken Kreitner, 64, was among the 89 percent in the poll who thought the attacks had an impact on the economy.

For Kreitner, a Vietnam veteran, Sept. 11 was a day that changed the country.

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Government optimistic economy to perform better next year Antara

JAKARTA - The government is optimistic that the domestic economy will perform better in 2012 and will always be realistic in setting macro economic targets, a minister said.

The government had always taken into account latest developments in the indicators of global and domestic economic performances as well as challenges to the domestic economy in 2012, Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said in his address to a House of Representatives (DPR) plenary meeting here on Wednesday.

While delivering the government‘s reply to House factions‘ general views on the bill on 2012 state budget and its financial notes, the finance minis-

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Judicial Commission deplores Supreme Court‘s rejection Antara

JAKARTA - The Judicial Commission (KY) has deplored the Supreme Court‘s (MA) decision to reject its recommendation to impose sanctions on judges in the case of former antigraft chief Antasari Azhar.

“We deplore the MA`s rejection because they arrived at the decision in way that was against existing regulations,” KY spokesman Asep Rahmat Fajar said here on Wednesday.

The KY recently recommended the suspension of several judges from their duties as judges after they finding them guilty of violating the judicial code of ethics when trying former anti-graft chief

Antasari Azhar.

The judges sentenced Antasari to 18 years in jail for his involvement in the murder of a businessman. Antasari had filed a request for a judicial review of his sentence after his appeal was turned down

by MA. Asep said MA‘s rejection was not in line with the joint decree on the judicial code of ethics and the reference for judges‘ conduct stating that a decision to suspend a judge temporarily or permanently must be referred to the Judges‘ Council of Ethics.

“The joint decree meanwhile is a joint agreement made following and in reference to the judiciary

law package of 2009 including that on MA,” he said.

Asep said KY would take an official stand after studying more thoroughly the MA‘s decision.

“What is clear is that whatever official stand we will take will be aimed at clarifying the position and authority of the institutions concerned so that in the future their performance will be more optimal with regard to supervision or sanctions,” he said.

Asep said some experts had suggested that the House of Representatives (DPR) immediately enact the revised law on KY or bring the dispute to the Constitutional Court for settlement.

Batam protected forest gutted by fire Antara

BATAM - A fire has gutted around 20 hectares of protected forest in Bukit Tiban, Batuaji, Batam, Riau Islands Province.

“The fire occurs because of lack of supervision,” Deputy Mayor of Batam Rudi said here on Wednesday after visiting the location of forest fire.

The Batam protected forest covering hundreds of hectares are supervised by a forest protection team

only.

The deputy mayor said Batam should have forest rangers to help preserve the forest.

“We don`t have forest rangers,” Rudi said.

The local community‘s awareness of forest preservation is also low, according to him. The local government would conduct a tree replanting program in the burned forest location, he said.

“We will make coordination with the local offices of marine af-

fairs, agriculture, fisheries and forestry of Batam,” he said.

Batam has only 25 officers of forest supervision, according to Burkan, the head of the local forest supervision and protection section.

To protect the whole forest in Batam, more officers are very much needed, he said.

The forest fire occurred on Tuesday (Sept 6) from 11.30 am local time to 4 pm, Jabhari, the head of RW 01 neighborhood of Kibing, said.

ter said the risks of global economic developments in 2012 would among others come from the fiscal and debt crisis affecting the United States and a number of European countries.

The fiscal and debt crisis could threaten the global economic recovery, he said.

In addition, the increase in the global prices of crude oil and food commodities and a sudden reversal of short-term funds would also pose a challenge to the domestic economy, he said.

(FILES) This file photo taken on September 22, 2010 shows motorists stuck in the morning gridlock at one of Jakarta’s main roads.

The government is optimistic that the domestic economy will perform better in 2012 and will always be realistic in setting macro economic targets, a minister said.

RI stock market more attractive than global Antara

JAKARTA - Investors consider Indonesia‘s stock market to be more attractive than the global bourses so that the Jakarta joint share price index continues to go up which indicates continued stock buying activity, stock market observer Ifan Kurniawan said.

Worries about worsening global economic conditions were having a negative impacts on the New York and regional stock markets but the price index of the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) strengthened 0.56 percent, Ifan said here on Wednesday.

Ifan Kurniawan who is an analyst of PT First Asia Capital said the buying actions by market players were relatively small as they during the past few days they had been consolidating themselves.

The BEI index had earlier dropped to nearly 3,600 points as market players worried about the unstable global economy, he said.

The relatively-small increase of the index was because the agents were still confident with the fundamental factor of the Indonesian economy which is ameliorating and the inflation rate was under five percent.

“We are optimistic that the inflation rate in August reaches 0.93

percent making Bank Indonesia (BI, the central bank) maintain the referred interest rate (BI rate) at 6.75 percent,” he said.

According to him, BI rate until the end of the year was expected to remain on the position of 6.7 percent to make the national economy keep growing.

BI will maintain the referred interest rate till the end of this year at the level of 6.75 percent, he said.

The US economy is also growing better after the US service index in August reached 53.3 from earlier 52.7 over the expectation from the analyst who predicted it only reached 51.

So, Europe is a negative market that gave pressure to the BEI index so as to drop 300 points, although it slightly grew, he said.

Ifan said the Indonesian economy till the end of this year would still grow in accordance with the market expectation which reached 6.7 percent.

“We are optimistic that the Indonesian economy still grows as it is supported by the consumption sector, foreign investment and exports,” he added.

Moreover, he said, the Indonesian exports to Europe and the US accounted only for 30 percent while the rest 70 percent to the Asian market.

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Dominating Cipta Award recipients Jakarta (Bali Post)—

Dozens of star hotels and tourist destinations in Bali were nominated to receive the Citra Pesona Wisata (Cipta Award) 2011 because they had nature tourist attraction, cultural tourism, and ecofriendly man-made tourist attraction. It was revealed by Director General of Destination Development, Firmansyah Rahim, in the press conference in Jakarta on Wednesday (Sep 7).

According to Firmansyah, recipients of the Cipta Award 2011 for the category of nature tourist attraction, cultural tourist attraction, and man-made tourist attraction managed by government agencies, regional government, state-owned enterprises, non-governmental organization (NGO), community groups and individuals had gone through the process of selection by

jury panel. The assessment applied three criteria consisting of the environmental, economic and sociocultural aspects.

Firmansyah said the presentation of Cipta Award aimed to encourage the operators of nature tourist attraction, cultural tourist attraction and man-made tourist attraction in the country to progressively increase their concern for the envi-

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ronment and communities around the tourist objects in order to be more prosperous.

He said the interest of government agency, regional government, state-owned enterprise, private companies, NGOs, community groups and individuals to participate in the Cipta Award 2011 was high enough. It was indicated by 131 participants of major tourist

destinations from 17 provinces across Indonesia to sign up.

“Among the 131 applicants, 57 destinations passed the verification.

After selection by the jury, it was obtained 23 finalists,” he said.

Among the finalists, said Firmansyah, would be selected 9 destinations as the best winners for the category of nature tourist attraction, cultural tourist attraction and man-made tourist attraction managed by government agencies, regional government, state-owned enterprise, private companies, NGOs, community groups and the individual.

Cipta Award, he said, was intended to encourage the management so they could improve the quality of tourist destination as well as sustainable and ecofriendly management capacity. In addition, it also meant to implement the four track strategies of tourism development namely economic growth (pro-growth), extensive job opportunity creation for the community (pro-job), identifying with the interests of the poor (pro-poor) and ecofriendly tourist development (proenvironment) including the preservation of cultural values. (010)

“Shanghai Dumpling and Noodle” restaurant open in Bali Denpasar (Bali Post) -

The first Depot 3.6.9 was opened in Surabaya in 1957 and now it open a store in Bali. The 3.6.9 Group opened the 11th restaurant with the capacity of 130 people on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. According to Nancy, the representative of 3.6.9 Group, said that the restaurant business is inherited from generation to generation and it was started by Soetojo.

Currently, the depot is operated by the third generation. The special dish in the restaurant is Shanghai Dumpling. “Since opened for the first time, we offer a different kind of dish because it is made from high quality material and natural. The skin of the dumpling is handmade so it is always fresh,” Nancy said.

She also stated that the depot in Surabaya and Jakarta already have regular customers who always come and eat there. For that reason, the traditional recipe is passed down and still maintained until now.

Meanwhile, the operational Manager of Depot 3.6.9, E Suprayogi, said

that the restaurant offer many dish with various taste. Not only dumplings and noodles but other dishes are also available.

All of the dishes are produced by using natural materials and without using any chemical in it.

Suprayogi added that the offer to open the restaurant in Bali had come last year but because it is not a franchise so the new restaurant can be opened this year.

“Currently, we have 11 depots throughout Surabaya, Jakarta and Bali. All of the restaurants have the same standard and the ingredients are coming from the main kitchen of depot 3.6.9 in Surabaya,” Suprayogi said.

There are four kinds of dumplings in the restaurant, they are Xiao Long Bao, Guo Tie, Jiao Zi and fried dumpling. While for the noodle, there are also four choices, which are yellow, white, vegetables noodle, and bihun. Other dish that is quite famous is Shanghai Soup which made from chicken boiled for 8 hours.

It is very good for the person who is recovering from their sickness. (kmb18/bns)

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Balinese Culture Invoking Divine Inspiration of Arts in Dalem Petingan Temple In the area of Ambengan Hamlet, Pesanggaran, lies in a haunted ancient temple named Dalem Petingan Temple. The temple looks so classical and has much inspired the art of life in Bali. It includes in usadhic or traditional healing practices and guidance how to inhibit the Lapindo mudflows.

Why? To reach this temple, people should pass through a circular path toward Benoa Harbor. In the west of the road lies a path leading to the swamp to get through the temple. The temple itself has no compound wall and is situated in the middle of the swamp. Strangely, it has been securely protected by invisible compound wall.

This temple is easily accessible even though located in the middle of the swamp. From the street, we can walk along some five meters toward the temple. Jero Mangku Tanggu is responsible for overseeing and cleaning up the temple area every day. He receives these tasks from his ancestors.

During the period of temple anniversary, fifteen days before Galungan, it is always crowded by devotees.

The shrines existing in the temple consist of a main chamber as the sanctum to venerate deity Ida Ayu Mas having connection with Pulaki Temple. She is believed to be the source of life, so many traders and businessmen say prayers to this temple. Additionally, this temple is also the place to invoke divine inspiration

(taksu) in the field of arts. Many art troupes invoked such divine inspiration in this temple, said Nyoman Sukayasa, one of the devotees who frequently worshiped in this temple.

On the left front side of the chamber occurs the shrine used for meeting hall of deities. Meanwhile, in front of the meeting hall there is a gamelan pavilion. Then, in the north of chamber shrine, there are two shrines, namely the Panglurah and representative shrine of Ida Bhatara Pulaki.

Interestingly, under a big tree lies a shrine for venerating Ida Bhatara Lingsir Sidi Ngucap. People having profession as traditional healer usually invoke efficacy in this shrine. Then, at outermost courtyard lies a guardian shrine. This temple does have a compound wall, so that a series of stone are piled in such a way used as the wall, but its front wall is marked by a pile of bricks.

According to I Nyoman Sukayasa and Ida Bagus Sudira serving as mediator of the venerated deities in this temple confirmed the existence of invisible compound wall protecting the temple. These two devotees were often assigned as mediator to inform any instructions received in the temple.

Even, Bagus Sudira often performed a healing service in the temple and most people got their recovery within relatively a short time.

In the east of the temple, there is a pond without a shrine. It is believed

as the abode of Anantabhoga dragon.

Though without shrine, at this location lies a small burrow that often appears used as an augury. Guardian animal of the deities abiding in this temple are black tiger and ivory tiger. However, they have not been realized in the form of effigies.

Nyoman Sukayasa added that deities abiding in the temple also had ties and linkages to Dalem Warung Temple located at Benoa landfill.

The deity venerated in this temple was Ida Bhatara Manik Segara. His father abided in the Dalem Muter Temple, Kesiman, having the title of Ida Bhatara Catur Pramana Lingga.

In addition, it had relation to Uluwatu Temple as the mother called Ida Sang Hyang Ibu Pertiwi with the title of Ida Bhatara Baruna and Ida Bhatara Rudra. It was Ida Bhatara Rudra which endowed the cessation of Lapindo mudflows, said Nyoman Sukayasa.

In the meantime, Ida Ayu Mas in the Dalem Petingan Temple was also said to have a grandfather who was worshiped in Pulaki Temple as Ida Bhatara Lingsir. Meanwhile, his sibling was venerated in the Rambutsiwi Temple with the title of Ida Bhatara Sakti. Another brother was worshiped in the Dalem Perancak Temple at Canggu revered as Ida Bhatara Tri Premana Lingga and had relation to Ida Bhatara Sakti Pengadangan. (BTN/kmb)

BEBEK BETUTU

(Roast Duck In Banana Leaf) OVERVIEW: The rich flavor of duck is greatly enhanced by a host of pungent roots, herbs and seasonings in this dish, which is invariably a great favorite with visitors to Bali.

The Balinese have great admiration for the duck and consider it to be a particularly strong animal as it is, like the turtle, the only one able to survive on land as water.

INGREDIENTS: 1 whole duck, weigh about 2 kg (4 ½ lb) 18 shallots, peeled, cut in half, and sliced 6 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half, & sliced 3 stalks lemon grass, finely sliced 5 fragrant lime leaves, finely sliced 6 candlenuts, chopped 5 cm (2 in), ginger, peeled and chopped 8 cm (3in) fresh turmeric, peeled, chopped 8 cm (3in) kencur root, peeled, chopped 1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed 5 bird’s-eye chilies, slices 1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed 2 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted and coarsely crushed 1½ tbsp salt 3 tbsp oil Banana leaves, greaseproof paper or aluminum foil for wrapping PREPARATION: Wipe the duck dry and set aside. Combine all ingredients except banana leafs in a bowl and mix well.

Rub the duck outside with this mixture and fill the center of the duck with the remainder.

Close open duck with satay skewer. Wrap in several layers of banana leaves, greaseproof paper or foil and steam for 50 minutes. Transfer duck to a moderate oven and bake at 180o C (350o F) for 30 minutes.

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Remove banana leaves, cut duck meat up in small pieces and serve with stuffing. When cooked, the meat should be so tender that it falls off the bones. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

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Kintamani IBP

For those who love to go hiking or go to the mountainous area, Bali is famous for its beautiful mountainous scenery. Kintamani for example.

Kintamani is the most favorite tourist destinations in Bali with the active volcano of mount Batur and beautiful lake.

Kintamani is surrounded by the captivating nature and there are six ancient villages around cauldron of Batur Lake which is often conceived by Bali Age Village. The local people from these Bali Age villages own the unique cultures, houses and life style. Kintamani Area is consisted of some Villages those are Kedisan Village , Buahan, Abang, Trunyan, Songan, South Batur, Middle Batur, North Batur, Sukawana and Kintamani Village . The total of resident in these area are about 15 thousand who are mostly working as farmer, merchant, or work at industrial tourism.

Mount Batur is located at Kintamani and it has erupted about 24 times since year 1800 and still active up to now. Since the mount erupting, it has impacted to the local society life around this mount, like removing altar (Temple), improve or repairing the village and re-arrange the tradition.

Lake Batur is the biggest lake in Bali and functioning as irrigation source to all farmers around

it and it is also for all Bali society generally.

Kintamani area has been founded some lodging, hotels and restaurants which are located in Kintamani and Penelokan Village. It is a famous tourist place because Kintamani area owns the beautiful panorama and it is encircled by the cold atmosphere.

Kintamani is beautifully seen at the day time around 10:00 am until 15:00 pm especially having fine weather where entire Kintamani area will be able to be seen clearly. Generally, all tourists who pay a visit to this place will arrive in the day time where they can enjoy the panorama or enjoy the lunch in the local restaurant with lake view.

Mostly restaurants at Kintamani generally own very beautiful view where tourist merging into their lunch in this restaurant and meanwhile enjoy the panorama.

Kintamani is located in Kintamani sub district, Bangli Regency and about 50 km from Denpasar Town or about 2 hours by car. All roads are generally in good condition to access to this place. The fog will descend and blanket entire area of Kintamani with cold temperature in particular at late afternoon until the whole of night. The most amazing panorama at Kintamani can be seen in the morning time, when the sunrise emerges on the surface of earth precisely on the mount Batur.

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BUSINESS Bernanke unlikely to show his hand on Fed easing Reuters

WASHINGTON - Anyone expecting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to outline bold new measures to boost flagging U.S. growth on Thursday is likely to come away disappointed.

Bernanke, who speaks at 1:30 p.m. Eastern, no doubt will nod to the drumbeat of disappointing news on the recovery, but he will likely avoid getting out in front of what is shaping up to be an epic brawl among Fed officials who differ widely over the need for further monetary easing.

“Given the level of opposition coming out of the woodwork, it will be very difficult for the chairman to pre-emptively announce any further moves for monetary policy,” said Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University.

Nor will the Fed chairman want to trespass on President Barack Obama’s speech on job creation later on Thursday. If anything, Bernanke may renew his plea for fiscal authorities to do their bit to stimulate a more robust expansion by not choking off growth with overzealous austerity measures.

“The context is very useful to think about,” said Prasad. “Since Obama is going to speak, the chairman saying that such (fiscal) measures could be helpful could be a significant one-two punch.”

The Fed cut benchmark rates to near zero almost three years ago to pull the economy out of a sharp recession. It bought $2.3 trillion worth of longer-term securities in two installments ending in June to boost faster growth.

But the recovery has faltered.

The economy expanded at less than a 1 percent annual rate in the first half of the year, and looks to be doing no better now. A report on Friday showed job growth had stalled for first time in nearly a year.

With the confidence crumbling, the Fed on August 9 expanded on an earlier promise to hold shortterm rates at rock-bottom levels for an extended period, saying it expected to keep them low at least through mid-2013.

Since then, evidence that already tepid economic growth may be giving out altogether has piled up. Employers added no new jobs on net in August, and the unemployment rate remained stuck at a 9.1 percent. Surveys of regional manufacturing, consumer confidence and housing activity showed disappointing softness.

So bleak are prospects that analysts at BNP Paribas now project the economy will contract by an annualized 2 percent in the last three months of the year.

“We never moved out of recovery into expansion,” said BNP Paribas economist Yelena Shulyatyeva.

In a speech on August 26, Bernanke said the Fed would consider at its next meeting what more it could do to help the economy, although he offered no details on his thinking.

The most likely next step for the U.S. central bank would be to rebalance its bond portfolio to weight it more heavily toward longer-term securities, thus pushing down longer-term interest rates.

To do so, however, Bernanke would have to bridge the chasm between the views of policymakers at the central bank.

Richmond Federal Reserve Bank Jeffrey Lacker said in an interview published on Monday that more stimulus would only fuel higher inflation and do little to boost growth.

On the other end of the spectrum, Chicago Fed leader Charles Evans has called for further easing until unemployment drops to 7.5 percent or inflation threatens to hit 3 percent. He said on Wednesday a jobless rate of 9 percent should set policymakers’ “hair on fire.”

The Fed’s August decision to expand on its forward interest-rate guidance drew three dissenting votes, and a decision to ease further would likely do the same.

While Bernanke may well go forward with fresh easing in spite of dissents, he may want to tread lightly.

Bernanke is mindful that a bruising battle in Congress over raising the U.S. debt ceiling impasse in July contributed to the uncertainty plaguing businesses and consumers.

A desire to provide as much policy clarity as possible suggests he will work hard to get the strongest show of support he can.

“He really can’t break new ground given a divided Federal Reserve,” said Allen Sinai of Decision Economics. “What is loud and clear is that some new measures will be taken on a downgraded outlook.”

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This photo taken on April 5, 2011 shows Liang Wengen (R), the co-founder of Chinese machinery company Sany, taking part in a donation ceremony for a school in Lianyuan, central China’s Hunan province.

Earth-moving magnate Tops yet another China rich list Reuters

SHANGHAI - Forbes’ latest ranking of China’s richest people pits stolid industrial muscle against high-tech, with the head of an earth-moving company pipping the co-founder of the nation’s biggest Internet search engine for the top spot.

Liang Wengen, the chairman of Sany Heavy Industry, came in at the top of Forbes Asia magazine’s China rich list released on Thursday, a day after the rival Hurun Rich List also gave the top spot to the magnate, whose company makes earth-movers, pile drivers and concrete mixers powering the nation’s urban transformation.

Forbes estimated Liang’s wealth at $9.3 billion.

“This is a remarkable story of people growing up dirt poor in Changsha in Hunan Province, and from one group of people, getting seven of them on the Forbes China Rich List, including four billionaires,” said Russell Flannery, a senior editor at Forbes who oversaw the compilation of this year’s list.

Along with Liang, three other entrepreneurs associated with Sany are on the rich list: Tang Xiuguo,

Mao Zhongwu of Xiang Wenbo.

Liang, Mao and Tang were all founders of the company.

But Flannery said growing numbers of China’s newly rich asked to be kept off the list, reflecting fears about the public jealousy and official scrutiny that wealth can bring in this country that is still run by a Communist Party.

Several once high-flying members of earlier rich lists have ended up in jail, including Huang Guangyu, the founder of Gome Electrical Appliance Holding Ltd, and Shanghai property tycoon Zhou Zhengyi.

“More people asked to be left off the list this year than in the last few years and I think it’s a reflection in a bit of a sea change in Chinese society right now,” said Flannery.

Other members of the Forbes top ten included Liu Yonghao, an agribusiness magnate, and several real estate investors.

Sany’s success partly reflects the rapid growth of China’s high-value added manufacturing sector over the past decade, with exports from makers of pricey machinery and construction equipment advancing faster than low-value goods like toys. Sany is based in Changsha, the capital of Hunan in southern China.

“We’ve seen a structural change in Chinese exports that started several years ago. If you look at the export compound annual growth rate from 2003-2008, you can see that low value goods are not growing fast — usually single digit or at most low teens. High value are growing at 40-50 percent,” said David Lee, a China-based partner with Boston Consulting Group, who specializes in industrial goods.

The company says it has over 60,000 employees and sales revenue of 50 billion yuan last year.

Despite the gritty image of earthmoving equipment, the company also says it channels at least 5 percent of that revenue into research and development and has production plants in the United States, Germany, India and Brazil.

Forbes gave the second place to Robin Li, a founder of Baidu, China’s dominant Internet search engine, who the magazine said had personal wealth of about $9.2 billion. Li could have snatched the top spot if it wasn’t for the volatility of share markets in the United States, where Baidu is listed.

All in all, Forbes estimated that China’s crop of billionaires grew from 126 last year to 146 now.

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Toronto film fest mixes stars, music, Oscar bait Associated Press Writer

TORONTO — There’s a broader vibe than the usual Hollywood A-listers this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the world’s top cinema showcases and a prelude for contenders at the Academy Awards. Stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Glenn Close, Robert De Niro and Viggo Mortensen are on the guest list for the 11-day festival that opens Thursday with an unusually heavy emphasis on music and documentaries.

Pitt is on hand for the premiere of “Moneyball,” a film he has been trying to bring to the screen for years as both star and producer. Directed

by Bennett Miller (“Capote”), “Moneyball” casts Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who rebuilt his team on a shoestring budget applying a fresh statistical approach to find under-appreciated players.

“Baseball had relied on a form of statistics that just hadn’t been questioned, and this discovery that had been around for 30 years but had been dismissed showed that there’s much more to it,” Pitt said. “There’s a lot of talented people out there who aren’t being used.”

Pitt’s “Ocean’s Eleven” pal Clooney stars in two Toronto films,

the family drama “The Descendants” from director Alexander Payne (“Sideways”) and his own latest directing effort, the political saga “The Ides of March,” in which he plays a presidential candidate opposite Ryan Gosling as an ambitious press secretary.

Weisz has three films playing Toronto: the 1950s drama “The Deep Blue Sea”; the sexual thriller “360,” co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law; and the British spy tale “Page Eight,” the festival’s closing-night premiere that co-stars Bill Nighy and Ralph Fiennes.

Fiennes has a second film at Toronto, too. He directed and stars with Vanessa Redgrave and Gerard Butler in the Shakespeare adaptation “Coriolanus.” Redgrave also has

another Shakespeare film at the festival, playing Queen Elizabeth I in “Anonymous,” which stars Rhys Ifans as an aristocrat some scholars believe is the actual author of the Bard’s work.

Other highlights among the 260 feature films playing Toronto: Williams and Seth Rogen in actress Sarah Polley’s latest directing effort, the marital tale “Take This Waltz’; Close in the cross-dressing story “Albert Nobbs,” about a 19th century Irishwoman who disguises herself as a male butler; De Niro, Jason Statham and Clive Owen in the action thriller “Killer Elite”; and Mortensen, Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender in the Sigmund Freud-Carl Jung drama “A Dangerous Method.”

Bon Jovi shares a light moment with FDNY firefighter Dominic Mele as he performs a rendition of America The Beautiful at the NYFD Battalion 8, Engine 8, Ladder 2 fire house Wednesday, Sept.

7, 2011 in New York to pay tribute to 9/11 first responders.

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Bon Jovi in 9/11 encore sings for NY firefighters Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Rocker Jon Bon Jovi returned to a Manhattan fire house Wednesday to pay tribute to firefighters marking the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The New Jersey native was filmed singing “America The Beautiful” by an NBC television crew preparing for a special “NFL Kickoff 2011: Back to Football” show Saturday. The joint NFL Network/NBC Sports production features football, music, and a tribute to 9/11 first responders.

He sang the same song for a performance that aired nationally on Sept. 23, 2001 prior

to the kickoff of the first NFL games after 9/11. Bon Jovi said in an interview after Wednesday’s performance that it was “as moving this time as it was then.” Bon Jovi said firefighters who were there a decade ago, as well as police officers from a nearby precinct, came to the taping at Engine Co. 8, Ladder 2. He said he felt some of the same camaraderie that he felt in 2001.

Bon Jovi said he was in his New Jersey home’s gym on Sept. 11, 2001 watching the news with his wife when the towers were hit by hijacked planes. He said later that day he joined others at the shore in Seabright, N.J. in Monmouth County, home to many of the victims.

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In this image released by the Toronto Film festival, the Irish rock band U2 are shown during the filming of the documentary “From the Sky Down,” which will premiere opening night at the Toronto Film Festival.

Nick Jonas to replace Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Producers looking for someone to replace Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway have landed their prize — a Jonas. Nick Jonas will step into the role of J. Pierrepont Finch next year in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” He begins Jan. 24 and will play the role until July 1.

“This is going to be an exciting journey,” the 19-year-old singer and actor said during his unveiling Wednesday at the venerable theaterdistrict hangout Sardi’s. Radcliffe’s final performance is set for Jan. 1. Darren Criss of Fox’s hit show “Glee” will make his Broadway debut in the role for three weeks, from Jan. 3 to Jan. 22. Then Jonas, the youngest of the three heartthrob siblings, begins.

He’s a veteran of the stage, appearing as Little Jake in “Annie Get Your Gun” in 2001 and Chip in “Beauty and the Beast” the following year before playing the young street urchin Gavroche in “Les Miserables” during its final months in 2003, his last time on Broadway. He also played the role of Marius in “Les Miserables” in London last year.

He made his stage debut in 2000 when he was cast in a production of “A Christmas Carol,” playing Tiny Tim opposite Frank Langella’s Scrooge at Madison Square Garden.

His other credits include playing Kurt in “The Sound of Music” at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey. Earlier this year, he was in “Hairspray” at the Hollywood Bowl. “It’s great

to come back to Broadway,” Jonas said. “I always said my return to Broadway would have to feel right — the right role at the right time.

This felt right.”

Tony and Emmy awards winner Rob Ashford, the director and choreographer of “How to Succeed,” suspects that Jonas probably has more experience on stage than many actors in the cast. “He understands the eightshow-a-week idea, he understands the commitment that it takes, he understands the family, he understands the support everyone gives to each other. It’s thrilling for us to have him.”

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Young, nearby supernova dazzles scientists Reuters

LOS ANGELES - California astronomers have found the closest, brightest supernova of its kind in 25 years, catching the glimmer of a tiny self-destructing star a mere 21 million light years from Earth and soon visible to amateur skywatchers.

The discovery, announced on Wednesday, was made in what was believed to be the first hours of the rare cosmic explosion using a special telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego and powerful supercomputers at a government laboratory in Berkeley.

The detection so early of a supernova so near has created a worldwide stir among astronomers, who are clamoring to observe it with every telescope at their disposal, including the giant Hubble Space Telescope.

Scientists behind the discovery at

the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley say the extraordinary phenomenon — labeled by the rather obscure designation PTF 11kly — will likely become the most-studied supernova in history.

“It is an instant cosmic classic,” said Peter Nugent, the senior scientist at UC Berkeley who first spotted it. PTF 11kly occurred in the Pinwheel Galaxy, located in the Ursa Major constellation, better known as the Big Dipper. At a distance of roughly 21 million light years, that puts it, on a cosmic scale, practically “in

our backyard,” Nugent said. By comparison, most supernova found with the 48-inch Palomar telescope are about 1 billion light years away and far too faint for the general public to see, Nugent said.

Initially detected on August 24, the PTF 11kly has literally grown brighter by the minute and was already 20 times more luminous in just one day.

It is expected to reach its peak sometime between September 9 and 12, when it will become visible to stargazers using a good pair of binoculars or small telescope. It will appear, blueish-white, just above and to the left of the last two stars in the Big Dipper handle. “There are billions of stars in a galaxy. This supernova will outshine them all this weekend,” Nugent told Reuters.

Weight Watchers works, study finds Amid DC’s launch, 2 titles look at war, military Associated Press Writer

Adults referred to the commercial weight loss programme Weight Watchers shed twice as much weight as people who received standard care over a 12-month period, according to a study published Thursday. In clinical trials, researchers led by Susan Jebb of the UK Medical Research Council assessed 772 overweight and obese adults in Australia, Germany, and Britain.

About half the patients received a year’s standard care, while the other half were given a 12-month free membership for a Weight Watchers group near their homes. Sixty-one percent of the participants assigned to the commercial programme completed it, while 51 percent of the “standard care” group finished their programme.

Overall, individuals in Weight Watchers lost around twice as much weight as did those in the other group, a mean loss of 5.1 kilo-

grams versus 2.2. Among those who stuck with either programme to the end, the figures were 6.7 against 3.3 kg, respectively.

Participants randomised to Weight Watchers were also more than three times as likely to lose at least five percent of their bodyweight, said the study, published in The Lancet. Weight Watchers offers weekly weighing and group support. It also promotes a balanced, reduced-energy diet along with increased physical activity.

Primary care providers — sometimes nurses, sometimes doctors — generally offer weightloss treatment in line with national guidelines, but vary in the level of supervision.

“The similar weight losses achieved in Australia, Germany, and the UK implies that this commercial programme, in partnership with primary care providers, is a robust intervention that is generalisable to other economically developed countries,” the researchers concluded.

A customer is seen here at a Weight Watchers meeting location in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Adults referred to the commercial weight loss programme shed twice as much weight as people who received standard care over a 12-month period, according to a new study

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as possible, what, realistically, would the addition of superheroes to that world, what PHILADELPHIA — Sgt. Rock was a would that mean? How would you react to gruff, hard-charging Army soldier who that?” he asked.

“The answer, in a lot of cases, is not in a fought his way across Africa and Europe during World War II. Blackhawk was an positive way,” Brandon said. “Blackhawks” aerial daredevil who led a team of interna- is a makeover, with a new cast and charactional aviators fighting Axis powers. That ters, said Costa. was then. Now, the characters have been revitalized and given a modern flair more amenable to readers who’ve spent the better part of 10 years exposed to real stories about fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It’s part of DC Comics’ relaunch that this month sees 52 new series focusing on familiar — but decidedly different — characters ranging from Superman to Jonah Hex. Dubbed “The New 52,” the relaunch is part of the 76-year-old publisher’s efforts to stoke new readership.

“Men of War” and “Blackhawks” are hard restarts of DC’s famed war comics that, in their heyday in the 1960s and ’70s, included tales about Sgt. Rock, the Haunted Tank, Blackhawks and others in comics like “GI Combat” and “Our Army At War.” Those books, said Ivan Brandon and Mike Costa, the writers of “Men of War” and “Blackhawks,” are nothing like the new breed. For one thing, the new series will see a tacit involvement with superheroes, something that was not done in the past.

“It’s been interesting for me to play with,” Brandon told The AssoAP Photo/DC Comics ciated Press. “If you exist in this real In this comic book cover released by DC Comarmy and try to keep all of that real ics, the cover of “Men of War,” is shown.

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Milan still the favourites, says Ibrahimovic Reuters

MILAN - Juventus have a new stadium, AS Roma harbour ambitious plans to play the same way as Barcelona, but AC Milan are still the favourites to retain the Serie A title, according to striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Milan and Lazio, who meet at San Siro on Friday (1845 GMT), are the first teams in action as Serie A kicks off with what was initially scheduled as the second match day, the first round having been postponed by a players’ strike.

Ibrahimovic is attempting to win the eighth league title of his career and the sixth in a row. He has already claimed two Dutch titles with Ajax Amsterdam, one La Liga with Barcelona, three Serie A titles with Inter and another one, last season, with his current side.

“We are still the favourites. We strengthened our squad in the summer and we are stronger than last season, I like all our new signings,” said the Swede, adding that he was baffled about the strike which delayed the start of the championship. “To tell the truth, I don’t know why we stopped. I’m happy that we can finally get going.”

AC Milan have signed midfielders Alberto Aquilani from Liverpool and Antonio Nocerino from Palermo, defender Philippe Mexes and left back Taye Taiwo. However, they will play the first third of the season without Mathieu Flamini after a knee operation and have lost Andrea Pirlo after he joined Juventus, while bruising midfielder Mark van Bommel is also injured.

RED-FACED INTER

Last season’s runners-up Inter, who visit Palermo on Sunday (1845), were

left red-faced this week after it emerged that Uruguay striker Diego Forlan, signed along with Argentina Mauro Zarate to replace the departing Samuel Eto’o, could not play in the Champions League group stage.

UEFA said 32-year-old Forlan was ineligible as he had played for Atletico Madrid in a Europa League qualifier.

Forlan said in an interview with Spanish radio on Wednesday that he did not know the intricacies of the rules. Despite this mix-up, Inter, who have a number of the old guard still at the club including goalkeeper Julio Cesar and defenders Maicon, Lucio and Javier Zanetti, are seen as Milan’s biggest challengers.

Napoli, who start at Cesena on Saturday (1845), believe they can at least equal last season’s third place, although, with little strength in depth, their chances could slip dramatically if any of their top players are injured.

“The sky is the limit for Napoli, we will do our utmost in all competitions,” said Edinson Cavani, who promised not to relax after winning the Copa America with Uruguay in July.

“We have everything it takes to have a successful season,” added Cavani, second topscorer last season

with 26 goals. “It’s impossible not to do well with such fantastic fans. We are very optimistic.” Their first task is to get to grips with the newly-laid artificial pitch at Cesena, and the Sea Horses’ new signing Adrian Mutu.

Ambitious AS Roma host Cagliari on Sunday (1300) with Francesco Totti calling on fans to back new coach Luis Enrique — jeered during a Europa League qualifier for substituting the talismanic one-club striker. Cagliari are one of two teams who fired their coaches last month and Massimo Ficcadenti will make his debut after replacing Roberto Donadoni. The other is Palermo where Stefano Poli was dismissed for the second time this year and replaced by Devis Mangia.

Juventus, whose new stadium was being officially opened later on Thursday with a friendly against English third-tier side Notts Country, play their first competitive match at the same arena on Sunday against Parma (1030).

Having finished seventh in each of the last two seasons, Juventus have brought in former midfielder Antonio Conte as coach and made a flurry of new signings, including Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal and Montenegro striker Mirko Vucinic.

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Sweden’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic plays with the ball during his team’s training in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.

Sweden plays a Euro 2012 Group E qualifying soccer match against Hungary on Friday.

Bayern’s Gomez fit, Robben doubtful for ‘hot September’ Fergie backing de

Gea to succeed

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BERLIN - Bayern Munich top striker Mario Gomez should have recovered from a muscle injury by Saturday when the league leaders host Freiburg, the start of a string of games that will shape their season, but Dutchman Arjen Robben is still doubtful. Gomez, who has already struck four times in the league, will give Bayern a big lift but winger Robben looks unlikely to have overcome his groin injury in time for their defence of the top spot against offensive Freiburg.

“The break (because of international matches) did Robben a lot of good. But whether that is enough for him to play on Saturday still remains to be seen,” said Bayern sports director Christian Nerlinger.

Robben only resumed training a few days ago.

The Bavarians could do with their speedy winger at this stage of the season with tough Champions League group matches ahead of them against Villarreal and Manchester City in September. They also face Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen in successive league games this month. “We have a block of games in front of us which will challenge us but could also see us lay the foundations for a successful season,” Nerlinger said.

Their start to the season, despite an opening defeat to Borussia Moenchengladbach, has seen them go top

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of the Bundesliga with a three match-winning streak without conceding a goal and scoring nine. They have also kept a clean sheet in their two Champions League qualifiers against FC Zurich.

“These are the weeks for which we love playing football,” said captain Philipp Lahm. “We are on a good run but we have not yet reached the point where we want to be.”

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has backed new goalkeeper David de Gea to come good despite the Spaniard’s shaky start to his career at Old Trafford.

The highly rated £18 million signing has been at fault for goals conceded against Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion so far this season, suggesting the former Atletico Madrid guardian may take time to settle in England.

However Ferguson is in no doubt that United have acquired a goalkeeper of the highest quality as they attempt to fill the vacancy created

by Edwin van der Sar’s retirement at the end of last season. “David made a couple of mistakes in his first games, which we didn’t expect and nor did he,” Ferguson told Inside United.

“It was unusual because his form at Atletico Madrid as an 18-yearold was sensational.” De Gea’s next test comes against Bolton on Saturday, with the physical approach favoured by Wanderers striker Kevin Davies likely to mean the United keeper is in for another turbulent afternoon.

Ferguson is confident the Spaniard will rise to the challenge however. “There is no doubt we have a player of great potential. Our job at this club is to realise that potential and make sure he becomes a top goalkeeper,” Ferguson added.

“He’ll do that once he gains experience and adapt to the physical nature of the league.”

“It is a different game here compared to Spain - there are more crosses to deal with and there is more contact. Bit by bit, we will get there with him.”

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Pistorius surprised at omission from relay final Reuters

LONDON - Double amputee Oscar Pistorius expressed surprise on Wednesday that he had been left out of the South African 4x400 metres relay team who won silver at the world championships in Daegu last week after he had run in the first round.

Pistorius, the first amputee to compete at the biennial world championships, ran the first leg when the South African quartet set a national record in the semi-finals. He was replaced by 400 metres hurdles bronze medallist LJ van Zyl in the final. “After the final I looked at it in two respects,” Pistorius told Britain’s former world high hurdles champion Colin Jackson during a question-and-answer session at a London hotel.

“I was surprised I didn’t get to run, I really felt I deserved to according to the times I ran in the semi-final. But I’m really happy for my team, they’re phenomenal guys.” Pistorius, who finished last in his 400 metres semifinal in Daegu, was cleared to run at the championships after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overruled an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ban.

He now plans to compete in next year’s London Olympics as well as running in the 100, 200, 400 and 4x100 relay in the Paralympics.

The 24-year-old South African has

polarised opinion with some critics saying his prosthetic blades give him an unfair advantage. He had both legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old after he was born without a fibula in either limb.

“As far as I’m concerned the ones (blades) that I am using have been tested and proved to have no advantage,” he said. “Some of the top scientists in the world have tested the prosthetic legs and these are the guys who have come back and said there is no way a prosthetic leg can provide an advantage. “I’m used to it now, for every five percent of people that criticise me 95 percent of people support me.”

GOOD RELATIONSHIP

Pistorius said it was a misconception to think he had a bad relationship with the IAAF. “I believe they weren’t out to get me, they have a responsibility when it comes to the sport,” he said.

“I think unfortunately due to the limited amount of data they received

they made a decision that was ill-informed and when we came back with all the testing that we’d done and presented it to the Court of Arbitration for Sport the right decision was made.

“They (IAAF) have accepted that decision so we have moved on from that and I have a very good relationship with them.” Now Pistorius will concentrate on getting the qualification time that will allow him to complete in London after he failed to qualify for the final in Daegu. “There will definitely be a huge sense of relief if I can get that qualification time,” he said.

Pistorius attributed his success this year in reaching a qualifying time for Daegu to losing weight and running the first part of the race faster. “This season I have done it like most of the other guys do and run it hard on the first 200 and then died in the last 100,” he said. “I think ultimately if you want to move from 46 seconds to 45, you can’t be scared of the race.”

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FILE - The Sept. 1, 2011 file photo shows South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius, right, passing the baton to South Africa’s Ofentse Mogawane in a qualification round for the Men’s 4x400m Relay at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea. South Africa said Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 Oscar Pistorius has been left off 4x400-meter relay team for Friday’s final.

US Open hit by 2nd consecutive day of rain Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Unhappy about being sent out to play at the rain-soaked U.S. Open, a trio of tennis stars — Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick and Andy Murray — marched from their courts to the tournament referee’s office to voice their complaints. A second consecutive morning-to-evening damp day at Flushing Meadows washed out all but about 15 minutes of action Wednesday, leaving nerves frayed and the schedule in disarray.

“If you know you’re going to go on court only for 10 minutes, you don’t have to lie to the fans at that point, and you don’t have to lie to the players, too,” Nadal told The

Rafael Nadal of Spain sits underneath an umbrella during his match against Gilles Muller of Luxembourg at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Play was suspended due to rain.

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Associated Press. “The players knew when we (went) on court that it was still raining, so it was a very strange decision, and we were upset about that.”

Added Nadal, the defending champion, who trailed unseeded Gilles Muller 3-0 when they were ushered out of Arthur Ashe Stadium: “The court is dangerous. I cannot imagine what happens if somebody gets injured from that. ... We need to be more respected.”

The U.S. Tennis Association still was holding out hope of wrapping up the tournament on time with a men’s final Sunday, something that, because of rain in the past, last happened in 2007. But tournament director Jim Curley acknowledged that a Monday finish is possible only if the four incomplete men’s fourth-round matches — including Nadal’s — get done Thursday, when play was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., despite a forecast predicting more rain. And Friday and Saturday could be wet, too.

As it is, even if the weather is actually good enough to permit play the rest of the week, this would be a highly unusual Grand

Slam tournament. Instead of getting days off, a man on the bottom half of the draw — Nadal, Roddick or Murray, for example — would need to win four best-of-five-set matches in a span of four days to take the title. Nadal called that a “big disadvantage.”

“Thursday-Friday-SaturdaySunday would seem like a tall ask.

It’s tough,” 2003 U.S. Open champion Roddick said. “It almost puts it into who finishes a match quicker and is fresher.” Not everyone was all that sympathetic.

Jimmy Connors, a five-time U.S. Open champion, said playing back-to-back-to-back-to-back certainly would be a physical and mental test. But he also said that’s the sort of thing that makes the U.S. Open special.

“That’s why this is the toughest tennis in town, right here. You have to put up with not only the playing of the tennis but ... the waiting to play and everything else,” Connors said. “If they play four matches in four days, they’re going to like getting that check for $1.8 million at the end of the tournament, so it’s still worth fighting for, I would think.”

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Ferrari is building an ‘unbeatable structure’ Ferrari building ‘unbeatable structure’Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali is adamant 2011 will be the “last disappointing season” for the Maranello squad, the Italian confident the team is building “an unbeatable structure”. “We are convinced this is the last disappointing season,” Domenicali told Repubblica newspaper in an interview.

“[Jean] Todt won a lot, but he had time to build a winning team with extraordinary balance. I aim to do the same and am optimistic about the future.

“With this Red Bull... I may sound crazy, but I’m convinced we are building the basis to have an unbeatable structure. With a warning though: no lone men at the helm, like Red Bull with Newey, but a team.

“Alonso believes in it [the project]. He’s signed until 2016, he is in the middle of his career. A win-

ner like him wouldn’t throw it down the drain, if he was not more than convinced about the project.” He added: “Ferrari is condemned to win: in our history we’ll never be allowed to smile for a second place.”

Ferrari has won just one race this year, and its drivers are all but out of contention for the title, with Fernando Alonso over 100 points behind championship leader Sebastian Vettel. Despite its title chances nearly gone, Domenicali says Ferrari will not make the mistake of shifting focus to 2012 early again.

“It’s a mistake we’ve already done in the past and we must not repeat it. Some of the current developments can be an important basis for next year,” he added.

“The crucial point is to learn how to make full use of the tyres in every condition. From here to November we can experiment with peculiar set-ups and go forward with the work. Keep an aggressive approach, even though the champiFrom left, Ferrari drriver Fernando Alonso of Spain, Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali of Italy and Ferrari driver Felipe Massa of Brazil pose at pit with a Ferrari car.

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Red Bull face tough test at Monza Reuters

MONZA, Italy - Red Bull will need to be quicker than ever at Monza this weekend if Formula One’s runaway leader

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Red Bull driver Mark Webber of Australia, background, chases Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany during the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011.

Sebastian Vettel is to get on the podium at Ferrari’s home circuit.

The champion, winner of seven of the 12 races to date this season, has little to worry about given that he is 92 points clear at the top after leading Australian team mate and closest rival Mark Webber to a one-two at Spa in Belgium.

But Monza, the fastest circuit on the calendar as well as a temple of Italian motorsport, has played more to the strengths of Ferrari and McLaren in recent years.

Since Red Bull Racing appeared on the scene in 2005, the team has yet to finish on the podium at the circuit outside Milan while Ferrari have won eight of the last 15 there.

Vettel triumphed with Red Bull’s Italian-based sister team Toro Rosso in 2008, when he celebrated his first win, but the Monza fans are not alone in expecting Ferrari and Fernando Alonso to repeat last year’s success in Sunday’s final European race of the season.

“Of course this is our target, our objective but it will be very difficult,” Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali told Reuters at a fan event at Pirelli headquarters on Wednesday.

“I am expecting, I hope, that during the race we will be very competitive.

“This year in qualifying we have seen that we did not have the package to be quick on the single lap and I would say it is more difficult to be on pole,” he added.

“But this year with the two sectors of DRS (adjustable rear wing) and this new situation with the tyres, I think everything is possible.”

onship is gone.

The Italian, whose team enjoyed a strong winter of testing, conceded seeing the huge gap to the front in the season-opening race was “shocking”. “Arriving at the first race in Australia and realizing we were 1.4 seconds off the pace,” he said when asked what was the hardest part to accept about the season.

“Unacceptable and shocking. Hearing during the February test that everything was alright and then finding out in March that it wasn’t. We were superficial about the exhausts, it was a tool for a jump forward and we underestimated it.

“The areas that can make a difference must be identified, if possible, even before our rivals do. While Alonso has scored 41 points more than last year in the first 12 races, it’s not his fault if Vettel has killed the championship. We have made our mistakes, but he’s been phenomenal.”