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Entertainment

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Cage, Kidman receive Chinese entertainment awards Associated Press Writer

MACAU — Nicolas Cage, accepting a film award in China, says he’s enjoying the warmth and enthusiasm he feels while working there on a new film.

Cage was named Best Global Actor in Motion Pictures at China’s Huading Awards on Monday night. Nicole Kidman, honored as best global film actress, wore a black Prada dress while she walked the red carpet in Macau alongside Hong Kong legend and pal Jackie Chan. Cage has been shooting “Outcast” in Hong Kong with Hayden Christensen.

“I believe in the genius loci of a place, the genie of the place is what I call it. I absorb that energy and it affects performance wherever I go,” Cage said on the red carpet. “... Making a movie in China, I’m buzzing with good energy, I feel great here. I love the people I’m working with, I love the crew, and there’s a genuine warmth and enthusiasm that I

get from my conversations.”

Quentin Tarantino, whose “Django Unchained” was released last year, was named Best Global Director in Motion Pictures.

“I’ve been a fan of Asian cinema my whole life growing up. I did my movie ‘Kill Bill’ as a complete tribute to my love for it and so to come here amongst the Chinese film industry, get this from the Chinese fans is a dream come true,” said Tarantino.

Television awards went to Matthew Perry of “Friends” and “Downton Abbey” actress Michelle Dockery, who were among the attendees who left a handprint on star-shaped plaques for Macau’s Avenue of Stars.

“Avatar” star Sam Worthington, who received an award for Best Global Ac-

NEW YORK — The foreign language Oscar competition this year will be wider than it ever has been before.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday that a record 73 countries, plus Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Palestinian territories, have submitted their entries to the Academy Awards.

The acclaimed “Wadjda” from Saudi Arabia, about an 11-year-old girl’s quest to obtain a bicycle, is the country’s first submission. “All God’s Children” is also the first entry from Moldova. Montenegro, previously a part of Yugoslavia, submitted a film for the first time as an independent country: “Ace of Spades.”

Entries are restricted to one per country and some nations’ choices were at odds with the film community.

China opted to submit the patriotic drama “Back to 1942” rather than Jia Zhang-ke’s festival favorite “A Touch of Sin.” The film, which depicts inequality in contemporary China, won best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Two other well-received films, Japan’s “Like Father, Like Son” and India’s “The Lunchbox,” weren’t cho-

China to host APEC Summit 2014

Italy divers find ‘wall’ of bodies in migrant ship

Portugal’s Ronaldo v Eusebio debate too close to call

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Actor Nicholas Cage poses with his award after he won the Best Global Actor in Motion Pictures award at the 10th Huading Awards ceremony in Macau, Monday, Oct, 7, 2013.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

In this Thursday Oct. 3, 2013 photo, British Sean Ellis, writer-director of “Metro Manila” - Britain’s nominee to the Oscar Awards’ best foreign language film, poses by his film’s poster prior to its premier screening at a cinema in Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines. sen by their respective home countries.

Japan instead opted for “The Great Passage,” while India chose “The Good Road.”

Last year, Michael Haneke’s Frenchlanguage “Amour,” an entry from Austria, won the Oscar best foreignlanguage film. Haneke’s drama was the overwhelming front runner, but this year’s competition is considered wide open. Notables include Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Hunt” (Denmark), Asghar Farhadi’s “The Past” (Iran), Amat Escalante’s “Heli” (Mexico) and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty” (Italy). The entries will be whittled

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tion Movie Actor, shared that his plans for next year include filming sequels of Academy Award-winning science fiction epic.

“Well, we start filming next year. We do ‘Avatar 2’, ‘Avatar 3,’ ‘Avatar 4.’ Then they’ll come out Christmas concurrently kind of thing, different Christmases. I’m not too sure where we’re shooting at the moment. I know they’re still writing it.

I know Jim (director James Cameron) loves China, loves it,” he said, referring to questions about returning to China.

“Those types of films, if we get the opportunity to work here that’ll be great.

We’ll see what happens.”

76 foreign language films to compete for Oscar Associated Press Writer

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down to a shortlist in January before the Oscars on March 2.

The foreign language category voting process has often been criticized, particularly for its practice of allowing the initial choices to be made by national selection committees. In an effort to smooth out the final selection, all academy members will for the first time be allowed to vote on the foreign language film category.

Previously, voting was limited to members who viewed all five nominees in a theater. DVD screeners of the nominees will be sent to members this year.

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, Pool

Host country Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, center wearing blue, and his wife Ani stand with other leaders of the Asia-Pacific region and their respective spouses, wearing traditional Balinese “endek” costume.

APEC leaders agree to accelerate achievement of Bogor Goals Antara

“With the commitment, we have reiterated the importance

NUSA DUA - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders agreed on Tuesday on the urgent of hampering protectionist measures through the World Trade need for accelerating efforts to achieve the “Bogor Goals” set out during the APEC Summit held in Organisation (WTO) mechanism and other international organisations,” he said.

1994 in Bogor, Indonesia.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who presented the results of the APEC Summit 2013, which was held in Nusa Dua, Bali, from October 1 to 8, stated that the APEC leaders’ commitment would be in line with providing opportunities to all parties.

“Through long discussions, we have agreed on a number of strategic points. We have common views that all APEC economies must be able to enjoy equal benefits stemming from the cooperation among APEC economies,” he said, while being flanked by 21 APEC leaders.

Bogor Goals were agreements formulated during the APEC Summit held in Bogor in 1994, which was one of the main agendas discussed at the latest APEC Summit in Bali.

Some of the Bogor Goals that need to be achieved

by 2020 are liberalization of trade and investment, business facilitation and economic and technical cooperation.

The agreement also includes support for the completion of the Doha round, boosting efficiency of logistics chain by up to 10 percent and implementing a reduction in barriers for environmental-friendly goods by 2015.

Leaders also expressed their commitment to fighting protectionism, which hinders the world’s economic trade and growth.

“We have agreed to extend our commitment till 2016 and reaffirmed our efforts to alleviate protectionism and trade limitations,” said SBY. Twenty-one economic leaders of the APEC region also expressed their determination to not limit trade with domestically oriented policies.

Director General of WTO Roberto Azevedo, who came as an invitee to the summit, earlier encouraged the 21 APEC economic leaders to adopt a multilateral trade system.

“APEC consists of countries that are big economic players and traders. I believe they have always actively supported a multilateral trade system,” he said, after attending a panel session with APEC ministers on Saturday.

Indonesia has also been encouraging an increase in multilateral service trade in the Asia-Pacific region and the development of APEC connectivity to support connectivity in ASEAN and Indonesia.

APEC is an economic cooperation forum involving 21 economies in the Asia-Pacific region aimed at promoting free trade and economic cooperation in the region.

The forum was established in 1989 and the summit in Bali is the second hosted by Indonesia after the event in Bogor, West Java, in 1994.

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International

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Bali News

Anticipate transmission to infants

Pregnant women undergo HIV/AIDS test

Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Side event of APEC Summit 2013

Road access to Kertha Gosa closed for five hours

Semarapura (Bali Post)—

Existence of Kertha Gosa in Klungkung County is really a magnet for the APEC delegates in Bali. Having been visited by APEC delegates from youth representatives, such historical relic was then planned to be visited by delegates of the Side Event of APEC Summit 2013 on Tuesday (Oct 8). For smoothness of the agenda, the Klungkung community should be patient because a number of road sections to Kertha Gosa would be closed for five hours.

It was affirmed by Chief of Klungkung Police, Ni Wayan Sri Yudatni Wirawati, Monday (Oct 7). This only woman police chief in Bali said the closure of road access leading to Kertha Gosa was made from 1:00 p.m. It aimed to sterilize the situation around the Kertha Gosa. Thus, it would not interfere with the intended agenda. Security was provided in three rings, where the first ring would be filled

by Presidential Security Forces (Paspampres), then the second and third ring were filled by police and military lineups. The road section to be closed included Jalan Puputan, Jalan Untung Surapati, Jalan Diponegoro, Jalan Gajah Mada as well as other minor road sections leading to Kertha Gosa. “We estimate the road closure lasts to 5 o’clock

p.m., but depending on the situation at the field later. Hopefully, people can understand the condition,” she explained.

Previously, some officers of the Presidential Security Forces had gone back and forth to Klungkung to comb out the Kertha Gosa area since last Saturday. They also made coordination with Klungkung government related to dinner function of the delegates. As planned, there would be four delegates coming to Kertha Gosa, namely the Prime Minister of Salomon, President of Kiribati, Fijian Foreign Minister and Ambassador of the Marshal Island.

Acting Officer of Klungkung Regent, Tjokorda Gede Agung, said last Monday that sterilization was not only carried out at Kertha

Gosa area, but also at the area of Klungkung government to the office area of Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency. “Later, we will also showcase a variety of typical handicrafts of Klungkung such as the Kamasan classic painting, songket fabric, coins industry to coconut shell handicraft industry,” he explained.

The visit of Pacific leaders was scheduled to arrive in Klungkung around 3:00 afternoon. Prior to visiting Kertha Gosa, they would transit at the Klungkung government office, precisely at the waiting room of Regional Secretary of Klungkung. Then, the visit was directly resumed to Kertha Gosa accompanied by tour guide that would explain about the history of Kertha Gosa. Apparently, the delegates

were deliberately directed to come into Kertha Gosa from the north, so they would not know if the roof of Kertha Gosa was damaged. Similar treatment also took place when the APEC delegates of youth elements made a visit to Kertha Gosa on October 4.

Did Klungkung government not feel ashamed of receiving the APEC delegates in Kertha Gosa under such condition? Tjok Agung admitted that his party never felt ashamed. “We show it off as it is.

Obviously, we have tried to refurbish it through the main regional budget 2014. We have allocated a budget worth IDR 1 billion,” he explained.

He hoped with so great attention given by world community to the existence of Kertha Gosa, central government was also concerned with the condition of Kertha Gosa.

The Kertha Gosa claimed as the asset of Klungkung government needed a thorough refurbishment.

Moreover, the Klungkung regional budget could not afford the thorough refurbishment. (kmb31)

Pregnant women in Gerokgak subdistrict are constantly advised to undergo HIV/AIDS test when getting antenatal checkup for the first time at public health center. It is carried out to anticipate the transmission of the hazardous virus to infants.

Ketut Indrawati, a midwife at the Gerokgak Public Health Center II as well as counselor having high concern for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the region of Gerokgak, said that her party always briefed pregnant women in order to be vigilant against the transmission of HIV/AIDS. They were advised to have a HIV/AIDS test when getting checkup at Public Health Center. Even, every pregnant woman having checkup at Gerokgak Public Health Center II would automatically get a blood test to find out whether the mother had been infected by HIV/AIDS or not. “At the Gerokgak Public Health Center II, each pregnant woman will be tested because the health center has owned a VCT service,” she said.

Indrawati said her party had found a pregnant woman with HIV/AIDS. It happened because the husband of the housewife was at high risk of being infected by HIV/AIDS. Having been found, the birth of the baby could be handled with special treatment so it was not infected by HIV/AIDS. Besides, she also found a couple with HIV, but they did not want to seek treatment so far.

Fortunately, their child was known not to get infected to date because it had been given special home treatment.

“It’s a pity, the couple has not yet been willing to seek treatment because they feel healthy,” she said.

As reported previously, up to August 2013 the cumulative data of HIV in Buleleng County showed there were 1,801 cases. Meanwhile, the average case finding ranged from 20 to 25 every month at 4 VCT services available in Buleleng. During the period of January to September 2013, averagely four people died of AIDS every month belonging to productive age from 21 to 40 years old. (kmb15)

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Activities

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BHA joins international coastal cleanup

IBP

SEMINYAK - Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali in conjunction with Bali Hotels Association (BHA) proudly instigated the International Coastal Cleanup campaign by clearing debris along Seminyak Beach. BHA members were encouraged to participate and be part of the solution to help protect this popular coastal strip.

Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup has developed over the past 25 years to become the world’s largest volunteer effort for ocean health. Each year millions of eco-friendly warriors from all over the world help to clear trash from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers and oceans. Thanks to these volunteers recording every article collected, Ocean Conservancy gains accurate insight into the manufactured items which are impacting our planet’s health.

Cleanups alone can’t solve this pollution problem. Nevertheless, the Ocean Trash Index provides a snapshot of what’s polluting our oceans so we can work to prevent specific items from reaching the

water in the first place.

BHA members together with Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali, Rotary Club Seminyak, media representatives and a numbers of local schools gathered at 7am to clean the beach for one hour. The “Green Army” covered a distance of 2 kilometres picking up all kinds of rubbish along the way. Plastic bags, containers, cutlery, cans, cigarettes and household waste as well as abandoned shoes and fishing debris were just some of the 7,565 items collected. The total trash haul ended up weighing in at over 142,6 kilograms.

“Bali Hotel Associations is extremely proud to take part in this eco-friendly initiative. It isdirectly in

line with our objective, which is to continuously strive to find ways to support programs that protect the environment,” commented Alessandro Migliore, Chairman of the Bali Hotels Association.

“We hope that our actions will encourage locals and tourists alike to take note and assume responsibility for the daily consumption of one-time products that effectively contribute to the ocean trash problem. We would very much like to start a ripple effect that gets everyone thinking about this issue,” continues Alessandro.

Christiane Wasfy, General Manager of Anantara Seminyak Bali Resort & Spa and BHA board member in charge of environmental affairs commented, “The International Coastal Cleaning initiative is a program that is very close to all of our hearts. Anantara Seminyak Bali Resort & Spa together with the Rotary Club has driven this program for 4 years now. We are pleased to be able to collaborate with BHA for a greater degree of support this year. Our team has worked incredibly hard to coordinate all aspects of

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the initiative so that the final report can be submittedto the International Coastal Cleaning Organization.”

The International Coastal Cleaning campaign involved members of BHA; Anantara SeminyakBali Resort & Spa, Anantara Vacation Club Seminyak Bali, The Oberoi Bali, The Royal BeachSeminyak Bali, The Breezes

Calendar Event for October 4 through 28, 2013 4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Seloding Besakih Pura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih 6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayuputih Buleleng 8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi Bangli Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Taro Tegalalang Pura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup Pura manik Bingin Sidemen 9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande Bangli Pura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh Abiansemal Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan Gianyar Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Jakatebel Merajan Pasek Prateka Batusesa Merajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon Cemenggon Pura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.

Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Linggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih 17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Petemon Merajan Pasek Gelgel Melinggih Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih 19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Meru Cakra Lombok Pura Lempuyang Madya Karangasem Pura Penerejon Kintamani Pura Pulaki Buleleng Pura Tirta Empul Tampak Siring Pura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Tirta Negari Singapadu

Pura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub Sukawati Pura Penataran Agung Tegallalang Pura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji Batubulan Pura Puseh Singakerta Ubud Pura Nataran Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan Ubud Pura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami Braban Pura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh Krambitan Pura Pasek Bendesa Mas Gadungan Selemadeg Pura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Selemadeg Pura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem Karangasem Pura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow Sulut Pura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang Karangasem Pura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukaluwih Tejakula Buleleng Pura Pasraman Suci Renon Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Jakarta Pura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang Buleleng Pura Ulun Danu Batur Songan Kintamani Pura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura Papua Pura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung Denpasar Merajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh Denpasar Pura Pejengaji Tegalalang Pura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Kerambitan Pura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang Karangasem Pura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung Tengah Pura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh Kerambitan Pura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karangasem Pura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon Kapal Pura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem Pura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga Buleleng Pura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa Penida Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani Pura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh kerambitan Pura Penataran Ubud

Pura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken Blahbatuh Pemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu Buleleng Pura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel Sukawati Pura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung BaturningMambal Abiansemal 22 Oct Penampahan Galungan

23 Oct Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang, NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta Timur Pura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur.

24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru Tabanan Pura Lempuyang Luhur Karangasem Pura Kentel Gumi Klungkung Pura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel Tabanan Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Tiyingan Merajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, Badung Pura Luhur Cemenggon, Sukawati Pura Pasek Ubung Denpasar 26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara Jembrana Pura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung 27 Oct Redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti Batubulan Pura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung 28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah Selemadeg Pura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gianyar Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan Busungbiu Pura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan

Bali Resort & Spa, Harris Resort Kuta Beach, SDN 1 Seminyak, SDN 2 Seminyak, and Rotary Club Seminyak.

Other members like Grand NikkoBali, Mercure Bali Nusa Dua, Maya Ubud Resort & Spa as well as Aerowisata Sanur Beach Hotel also participated by cleaning up beaches in different locations.

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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Technology

International

Twitter tunes in to TV partnerships ahead of IPO Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Victor Valenzuela, right, serves an espresso drink inside his ice cream truck on Friday, Sept.

20, 2013, in San Jose, Calif. Valenzuela is one of 111 food trucks financed with microloans from the San Jose-based Opportunity Fund.

Sloppy Silicon Valley techies find their style

NEW YORK — Americans don’t just watch TV anymore; they talk about it on Twitter. From the comfort of couches, they share reactions to touchdowns and nail-biting season finales — and advertisers and networks are taking note.

Examples of Twitter’s influence abound. The recent finale of “Breaking Bad” generated a record 1.24 million tweets. The conversation peaked at 22,373 tweets per minute according to analytics firm SocialGuide. People used the hashtag “GoodbyeBreakingBad” nearly 500,000 times. During this year’s Super Bowl, sports fans generated 24 million tweets about the competition and nearly half of the game’s nationally televised commercials contained hashtags that encouraged viewers to tweet.

Twitter, says Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at research firm eMarketer, “creates a community, a bond between people that doesn’t really exist without Twitter.”

As Twitter prepares for its initial public offering, the San Franciscobased company is also working hard to insert itself into the TV advertising economy. In recent months, the social networking company has forged partnerships with television content owners such as CBS, MTV and the NFL through a program it calls Amplify. The platform lets content owners beam real-time video clips to Twitter users who may have seen —or could be interested in — their TV programming.

It also allows marketers to communicate with viewers who saw their TV ads, extending commercial pitches to consumers’ smartphones and tablets.

TV tie-ins allow Twitter to diversify its revenue stream beyond the relatively small niche of digital advertising campaigns, a move that should appeal to potential investors. On Thursday, Twitter unsealed documents for a Wall Street debut that could take place before Thanksgiving. While the company did not reveal how much money it makes from its TV partnerships, it touted its own “strength as a second screen for television programming.”

Twitter wrote in its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that “45% of television ads shown during the Super Bowl used a hashtag to invite viewers to engage in conversation about those television ads on Twitter.”

Associated Press Writer

But that’s changing as a younger generation of engineers and designers have arrived seeking clothes that coordinate. “There’s definitely a shift happening here, and the age of the Silicon Valley culture has something to do with it,” said image professional Joseph Rosenfeld.

“As a generation,” he said, young professionals “tend to care more about style than engineers of the past.”

The market has responded to this new attitude among the region’s rising nerds, geeks and hackers with new online men’s stores, personal style consultants and an array of high-end shops at Northern California’s biggest mall. They’re catering to the emerging members of a creative industry who, nonetheless, are seeking something of a uniform.

“They’ll typically wear designer denim and a great button-up shirt by day, and throw on a sport coat at night to go to a cigar or wine

bar,” said Westfield Valley Fair mall general manager Matt Ehrie. “Silicon Valley’s dressy attire would be casual Friday in most other parts of the country.”

Josh Meyer, 30, a products manager at a leading high-tech firm, recognizes the generation gap. He said higher-level managers who have been in the industry for decades often wear baggy khakis and faded baseball shirts “like they’re going to a barbeque,” while millennials such as himself like to wear button-up dress shirts, “high-quality denim jeans with a roll at the bottom, nice shoes or possibly boots.” “I can pick out techies just walking down the street by these outfits,” he said.

The focus on men’s fashion has emerged in a sector where 3 of 4 workers are males. And it’s come late by comparison as women in technology have long faced style challenges.

Many have worked to strike a

casual, professional and creative balance, even as blogs and news stories regularly focus on the image of female high-tech executives — from the extraordinarily stylish Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, featured in last month’s Vogue magazine, to Facebook’s uber-chic chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Meanwhile, when men are similarly featured attention often shifts to casual attire — from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s famous hoodie to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ black turtleneck.

“As much as we want to think there isn’t a boys club, the Silicon Valley still feels very much run by men and there’s a difference in expectations,” says San Mateo-based image consultant Marina Sarmiento Feehan. “Women who rise to the top tend to be judged more, both by men and other women, and in order to succeed they do have to dress better.”

AP Photo/dpa, Soeren Stache, file

FILE - This Feb. 2, 2013, file photo shows a Twitter icon on the display of a smartphone in Berlin. The company tweeted Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, that it has “confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO.

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China to host APEC Summit 2014

Antara

NUSA DUA - China has officially accepted the chairmanship of the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings and the administration of the capital city Beijing would develop infrastructure to support the event, said an official.

The director general of China’s foreign ministry for Beijing region, Zhao Huimin, said on Tuesday that China, as the host of APEC 2014 and the world’s second largest economy, has started its preparations. He assured the public that the facilities to be provided will meet international standards like in Indonesia this year.

“Preparations are continuously being made. The website has also been completed and other facilities are being prepared according to international standards,” he said.

The Chinese delegation earlier said activities of the APEC 2014 would include the APEC CEO Summit, the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) meeting, the China-APEC forum, APEC forum for small and medium sized businesses, APEC forum for young entrepreneurs, and a

discussion forum for ministers from relevant sectors and businessmen.

China said at the APEC CEO summit this year, its delegation was the biggest, totalling 200 out of 1,200 business leaders present.

Next year, the APEC Business Council would be immediately established to involve more Chinese businessmen.

Huimin said he cannot disclose the details of China’s economic agenda at APEC 2014.

However, it has been reported that discussions on China’s detailed agenda for APEC 2014 would commence after the APEC 2013 in Indonesia and it would be consolidated with other APEC economies.

Besides Beijing, Hong Kong has also been touted as the host of the APEC Financial Ministers Meeting in September 2014.

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NUSA DUA - Leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries have reiterated their support for building more infrastructure in the region to improve connectivity.

“We share the view that greater connectivity will help reduce production and transportation costs, strengthen regional supply chains, and improve the business climate in the region. At the same time, infrastructure and connectivity building will create more jobs and ensure job security,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhyono said on Tuesday after the conclusion of the APEC Leaders Meeting 2013.

The economies in the Asia Pacific region reportedly need a total of US$850 billion to build infrastructure. This considerable amount of money needs to come from sizeable financial sources, which means the private sector. To meet this goal, the Indonesian President called for closer cooperation between the government and the private sector.

“A close collaboration will result in a win-win situation, especially at a time when the global economy is yet to fully recover,” he added.

Some big players in Asia Pacific have also been stating their interest in investing in infrastructure building in the region. Yasushi Takase, Japan’s Deputy Director General of the Economic Affairs Bureau had stated earlier that his country was willing to support infrastructure projects in the Asia Pacific.

“Enhancing connectivity is a very important issue for the region because this is the foundation for regional economic integration. We would like to make a contribution on this particular front,” he said.

Sharing Japan’s view, a Taiwan official said his country was also interested in boosting Asia-Pacific’s infrastructure sector.

“We want to participate in any project initiated within APEC,” Chung-Ming Kuan, Taiwan’s head of the Council for Economic Planning and Development, stated on Sunday on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, wearing traditional Balinese “endek” costume, and his wife Peng Liyuan during a dinner hosted for leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) nations in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. China has officially accepted the chairmanship of the 2014 APEC meetings.

Japan PM all smiles with China, South Korea leaders

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NUSA DUA - Japan’s prime minister reached out to the leaders of China and South Korea at an Asia-Pacific summit, officials said Tuesday, shaking hands and exchanging greetings in a bid to overcome deep tensions.

Shinzo Abe managed a brief encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday and with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Tuesday as all three attended group meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Indonesia.

“I understand that he shook hands with the two leaders,” Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo.

“I think it’s good that the leaders see each other repeatedly and exchange greetings,” he said, after Abe staged similar encounters with Xi and Park at a Group of 20

summit in Russia last month.

There was no immediate comment from China or South Korea on the encounters, which fell short of Abe’s desire for full meetings with his neighbours’ leaders.

“I want to seize on an opportune time to exchange views” with them in Bali, Abe said in Tokyo on Sunday before leaving for the two-day APEC gathering, which ended on Tuesday.

“I want to send a message that the door of dialogue is always open.”

Abe has not held formal talks with the Chinese and South Korean leaders since taking office last December. Tokyo’s ties with its neighbours have been strained by territorial disputes and the legacy of Japan’s 20th century wartime aggression.

Abe’s brief handshake with Xi at the G20 in Saint Petersburg represented the first encounter between leaders of the two countries since relations took a nosedive

in 2012 over the ownership of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, a row that has led to warnings of a possible armed confrontation.

The last trilateral meeting among China, Japan and South Korea was in May last year in Beijing, when the trio’s previous generation of leaders gathered.

Japanese officials in Bali and Tokyo were not explicit about any words exchanged at the APEC summit, but Japanese media played up the encounters, noting that Abe was all smiles as he sat next to Park at the start of a summit session on Tuesday.

Relations between Japan and South Korea had appeared to warm in the first half of 2012.

But they turned icy in August with then South Korean president Lee Myung-Bak’s sudden visit to Seoul-controlled islands that lie in waters between the two countries.

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Negara (Bali Post)— Eastern region of Jembrana, namely Pekutatan subdistrict, has a promising potential for plantation. One of the productions is clove.

Unfortunately, the average yearly production has not been able to meet the demand for factory. Besides, there is a far price range between factories and farmers.

A number of farmers in Pekutatan admitted the price was low compared to those purchased by cigarette factory. Each kilogram of dried clove was sold for about IDR 125,000-IDR 135,000. However, at the farmer level the price could

be cheaper. It happened due to long sales process passing through several buyers. From small to large collectors went through longer distribution chain.

“A collector purchases at Manggis Sari and then is sold to Pupuan.

The buyer in Pupuan sold it again to Singaraja and it is very long, isn’t it? This needs to be intensified in order the price is not much different,” said a member of Commission B of the Jembrana House, Nyoman Sandiyasa. The legislator from Pekutatan admitted the potential of clove in Jembrana was quite promising for plantation.

Moreover, there was a policy for factories not to import cloves and empowering the domestic products. Of the demand com-

Clove production unable to meet existing demand

ing to some 120,000 tons a year, Jembrana could just produce 80 percent, or approximately 100,000 tons. Besides, farmers had not enjoyed the same price as in the factory.

Meanwhile, the potential land for planting clove reached nearly 3,000 hectares, but only hundreds of hectares that had been productive and they were mostly located in Pekutatan. His party had also suggested the making of clove warehouses in each county, including in

Jembrana. Thus, it would facilitate the direct sales to factory and farmers obtained better price.

Additionally, the government should also encourage farmers to intensify their land for planting cloves. Many farmers originally planting cloves then replaced their plant because the price of clove dropped some time ago. Lately, when the price of clove started to rise, the plant became the leading commodity and farmers planted the clove again. (kmb26)

To resolve congestion, proposed to change school hours

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Crowdedness occurred on a number of road sections, especially those leading to schools, draws the attention of a number of people. Even, the discourse to change school hours comes to view again. One of the ways to break the congestion occurred on a number of road sections in Denpasar can be done by changing school hours, namely by putting it back or forward.

It was conveyed by a legislator of Commission B of the Denpasar House, I Wayan Suadi Putra, in his office on Monday (Oct 7).

Suadi Putra revealed that all this time the crowdedness occurred during peak hours between 07:00 a.m. through 08:00 a.m. “At these hours, the road sections in South Denpasar go through severe crowdedness, especially the road sections leading to schools,” he said.

Responding to such condition, he said, students who were driv-

ing vehicle greatly contributed to the crowdedness in Denpasar.

To minimize, it was required a discourse to change the school hours, particularly for junior high and high school. “Probably, this is one of the solutions to break the congestion,” said the politician from Sidakarya.

He said that during school hours as well as after school, condition of road sections at Sesetan, precisely at the intersection of Sesetan and Sidakarya (Pegok) was very crowded and it happened almost every day. Similarly, such severe condition also occurred at the junction of Jalan Pendidikan— Jalan Sidakarya – Jalan Dewata.

“Thus, I propose to delay the school hours for 30 minutes to 1 hour, so that it can be resolved. It is just applied to junior and senior high school,” he explained.

Previously, the Denpasar Transportation Agency had proposed an idea to change the school hours.

Even, the Transportation Agency planned to team up with a plan-

ning consultant to conduct a thorough study before making a decision.

The Head of Denpasar Transportation Agency, I Gede Astika, said the study was needed to ascertain to what extent the impact occurred when school hour of students was forwarded from the current schedule. “We do hope this study will give a clear outcome, whether it gives more positive impacts or adverse impacts. We need this first before making a decision,” said Astika.

Apart from involving a consultant team, his party had made socialization to schools through the Education Agency regarding the plan. Since the program would be dealing directly with the public, the socialization was expected to become a material of study for all parties. In other words, delivery of the program plan was expected to get inputs from all components of society, so that they could be used as a benchmark for decision making. (kmb12)

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Brazil demands explanation from Canada over spying report Reuters

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In this photo released by the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz meets Egyptian interim President Adly Mansour in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

Egypt’s president makes first trip to Saudi Arabia Associated Press Writer

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Egypt’s interim president visited Saudi Arabia on Monday for his first foreign trip, highlighting a regional realignment spurred by the military ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in Cairo.

Underscoring the tightening of relations between the two regional powerhouses, Adly Mansour was greeted in Riyadh airport by the kingdom’s Defense Minister and Crown Prince Salman.

Saudi Arabia has cemented itself as the new Egyptian leadership’s staunchest supporter since President Mohammed Morsi was ousted July 3, showering the interim gov-

ernment with $5 billion in critical aid and leading a foreign diplomacy blitz with Western nations to soften their stances toward the coup that ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected president.

Mansour met in Jiddah with King Abdullah, who was quoted in the state-run Saudi Press Agency after their meeting as saying his kingdom is “standing against any attempts to

touch Egypt’s internal affairs, particularly by the terrorists.”

Arab Gulf officials and their Egyptian counterparts often refer to members of former President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood group as terrorists. More than 2,000 Brotherhood members have been arrested in Egypt, most accused of inciting or taking part in violence.

Emboldened by Egypt’s fierce crackdown of the Brotherhood, several Arab Gulf states have also stepped up their clampdown of suspected Brotherhood members and Islamists, whom they see as a threat to the Gulf’s tightly run fraternity of monarchs, sheiks and emirs.

BRASILIA - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff demanded on Monday that Canada explain a media report that said it spied on Brazil’s Mines and Energy Ministry, and she called on the United States and its allies to stop spying over the Internet.

A Brazilian television report said on Sunday that Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency targeted the ministry that manages the South American nation’s vast mineral and oil resources. The report was based on documents leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

“That is unacceptable between nations that are supposed to be partners,” Rousseff said via Twitter. “We repudiate this cyber warfare.”

Rousseff, who canceled a planned state visit to the United

States this month because of previous reports that the NSA had spied on her telephone calls and emails, noted that Sunday’s report pointed to Canada’s interests in Brazilian mining, where many Canadian companies are active.

By targeting the mines ministry, Rousseff said, Canadian spying is nothing less than industrial espionage. She has rejected U.S. explanations that NSA spying is aimed solely at identifying terrorist threats and is not motivated by commercial interests.

“The United States and its allies must immediately stop their spying activity once and for all,” Rousseff tweeted.

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry summoned Canada’s ambassador to demand an explanation for what it called a “serious and unacceptable violation” of Brazilian sovereignty and the right to privacy of its citizens and companies, a ministry statement said.

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Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff makes a statement during a ceremony with Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013.

Crew testifies about Concordia chaos, maneuver Associated Press Writer

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The traffic jam often happen in certain part of Denpasar, for that reason there is a plan to change the school hour

GROSSETO, Italy — A crew member of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia testified Monday that the nautical charts aboard the doomed ship were perfectly adequate to navigate the liner along its planned route, disputing claims by the captain on trial for the deaths of 32 people.

First Deck Officer Giovanni Iaccarino was the first witness called

by the prosecution in the case against Capt. Francesco Schettino, who is accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship before everyone was off. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Schettino is accused of taking the Concordia off its planned route on Jan. 13. 2012 and bringing it closer to the island of Giglio for so-called “tourist navigation” — a publicity-generating maneuver to

give passengers a close-up view of the Tuscan island.

Schettino has said the navigational charts on board didn’t show the “Scole” reef off Giglio, which sliced a 70-meter (230-foot) gash in the ship’s hull. After the grounding, the ship listed, drifted and eventually capsized off Giglio’s port.

Iaccarino was asked by one of the lawyers representing civil parties to the case if the charts on board the ship were adequate. “Yes,

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for a half-mile” away, he said. The reef was about a quarter-mile from shore.

A court-ordered analysis of the dynamics of the shipwreck made clear that the charts on board weren’t adequate for the close-toshore maneuver Schettino allegedly had ordered. It quoted one of the Concordia’s navigation chiefs as expressing concern that the charts weren’t detailed enough, even though he plotted the revised course

anyway.

Iaccarino said he was in a crewmate’s cabin using his Playstation when the ship ran aground. He said he ran to the bridge to discover the electronic panels all registering alarms that the ship had lost propulsion, but was surprised at the level of “calm” on the bridge.

“We told the bridge that everything was out of service but it didn’t seem that they realized the gravity of the situation,” he said.

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Ngurah Rai to become environmentally friendly Airport

BUSINESS US launches new $100 banknote

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NUSA DUA - By using solar power, Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport will become one of the world’s environmentally friendly aerodromes, an official said on Tuesday.

“All solar panels are expected to be installed at the airport by at least early 2015 because we will be commencing a feasibility study at the end of this year,” PT Angkasa Pura I Corporate Secretary Farid Indra Nugraha revealed while signing a cooperation agreement with the Sintesa Group-SunEdison at the Grand Nikko Hotel on Tuesday.

The collaboration is part of the framework used in green technology, which will be initiated by the U.S. Commercial Services.

Meanwhile, Sintesa Group CEO Shinta Widjaja Kamdani said the solar panels capable of producing 15 megawatt (MW) of electricity will be installed at the Ngurah Rai Airport with an investment of US$45 million. She further pointed out that using solar panels will help reduce the use of electricity generated from fossils.

“It is expected to reduce carbon emissions by up to 200,000 tons,” Kamdani stated.

In addition to the Ngurah Rai Airport, airports in Surabaya, Makassar and Balikpapan are also expected to be converted into environment friendly airports later.

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WASHINGTON - The United States launches on Tuesday a new $100 bill that comes with, for the iconic greenback, a new touch of color, as well as special features to foil counterfeiters.

In its first remake since 1996, the $100 banknote, which takes a key role in cash transactions for everyone from small traders to big drug traffickers worldwide, sports the traditional portrait of American Revolutionary War statesman Benjamin Franklin on the front.

On the back, too, it depicts Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776.

But it adds a yellowish “100” in one corner and, next to Franklin, a tan quill and bronze-colored inkwell that holds inside it the Philadelphia Liberty Bell in changing colors from darker brown to green, depending on the angle the note is held.

Cutting vertically through the middle of the banknote is a blue security ribbon that shows numerous small Liberty Bells and 100s printed in darker blue, which appear to move as the note is shifted.

While the feature appears like a hologram, the 100s and bells are actually microscopic in size and are enlarged by millions of micro-lenses printed on the note which make the figures appear to move, said Sonja Danburg, program manager in charge of currency education at the Federal Reserve.

The new design comes primarily to fight the increasing sophistication of counterfeiters, Danburg told AFP. “It’s our most global banknote. Between a half and two-thirds of them are circulating outside of the United States, and it’s also the most counterfeited of US denominations outside of the United States,” she said.

“We want to stay ahead of counterfeiting threats, we want to protect the public.”

Danburg said that counterfeiters, from small-time printers to state-sponsored crooks, remain a challenge though their production is small in contrast to the total amount of greenbacks in global circulation -- about $80 million last year, compared with about $1 trillion in US notes circulating.

The new $100 banknote, printed on the traditional cotton and linen paper with green and black ink, has other foils for copiers.

For instance, the design includes showing the back of Independence Hall, rather than the building’s front as before, so copiers cannot just use their old printing plates.

The government has printed 3.5 billion of the new banknotes, which will hit the streets in the United States on Tuesday.

It will take some days before banks that receive them from the Federal Reserve ship them to branches and counterparts around the world.

But the Federal Reserve wants to make sure users around the world recognize the new design as valid and do not reject them.

“People are relying on it not only as a medium of exchange for business or consumer transactions. It also offers a store of value. We want to make sure that everybody who is relying on US currency maintains that faith and confidence in it.”

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Situation at Ngurah Rai Airport before the APEC Summit 2013. By using solar power, Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport will become one of the world’s environmentally friendly aerodromes, an official said on Tuesday.

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Office workers walk past China Dream propaganda boards, showing messages pushed by the current Chinese President Xi Jinping’s administration, on display near a construction site in Beijing, China Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013.

US and China tussle for trade dominate at APEC Agence France-Presse

NUSA DUA - The United States stepped up efforts to reinforce its economic might in the Asia-Pacific at a regional leaders’ summit in Indonesia on Tuesday, amid warnings from an increasingly bold China.

The two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) event at a five-star resort on the tropical island of Bali is aimed at breaking down trade barriers among all 21 member economies, but rival agendas by the world powers have overshadowed the talks.

Filling in for US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry has lobbied for the quick signing of a mega free trade pact grouping 12 APEC nations but not China and summit host Indonesia.

“We need modern rules for a changing road, rules that keep pace with the speed of today’s markets,” Kerry said in a speech on the sidelines of the summit on Monday that was in large part a hard-sell for the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Kerry was set to meet the leaders of the 11 other nations involved in the TPP on Tuesday afternoon in a bid to hit an

against-the-odds deadline set by Obama for a deal by the end of this year.

The United States has championed the TPP as setting “gold standards” to deal with complex changes to the 21stcentury economy, such as how to police cloud computing and patents.

But China and even some developing nations included in the TPP have expressed concern that it will set down trade rules primarily benefiting the richest countries and most powerful firms.

“China will commit itself to building a trans-Pacific regional cooperation framework that benefits all parties,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a speech following Kerry at the APEC business forum.

“We should enhance coordination... deepen regional integration and avoid the spaghetti bowl effect so as to build closer partnerships across the Pacific.”

Xi’s comments were interpreted in

China’s state-run media on Tuesday as direct criticism of the TPP. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership, featuring confidential talks and the highest free trade standard beyond mere lower tariffs, is widely considered a new step for the US to dominate the economy in the Asia-Pacific region,” the China Daily newspaper said in a front-page report on Xi’s speech.

Indonesia also signalled its irritation at the huge focus on TPP at the APEC summit, shunting the planned meeting on Tuesday afternoon of the 12 nations involved to a hotel outside the official venue.

“We mind actually, and one of the reasons, at the very least, is we don’t want any coverage that will overshadow APEC,” an Indonesian government official told AFP, when asked about why the TPP countries had been told to meet outside.

Meanwhile, China and Indonesia are involved in plans for a rival free trade pact involving 16 countries around the region and being spearheaded by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Negotiations for that pact are expected to be discussed at an East Asia Summit in Brunei this week.

A year after subak included in WCH

Threatened by land conversion, status can be revoked Bali Post

DENPASAR - For more than a year subak in Bali has been included in the world cultural heritage (WCH). However, it is considered to have not brought in any benefits.

On the one hand, the inclusion of subak in the WCH can be the pride and blessing for Bali if it is indeed supported by real programs to maintain and preserve the subak.

But on the other hand, the WCH status is feared as it can even be disastrous. If Bali cannot maintain the existence of subak amid the land conversion and expansion of the tourism industry going on massively, exploitatively and greedily with the land and the environment, the status of subak as WCH can be evaluated and revoked back by the UNESCO. It was revealed in the roundtable discussion on the topic “A Year after Subak Included in the WCH” in Denpasar, Wednesday (Oct 2).

Chairman of the Society of Agribusiness and Agro-Industry (MAI) of Bali Chapter, AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, judged the government was still not serious to maintain and preserve the existence of subak denoting one of the uniqueness and

strengths owned by Bali in agriculture with all kinds of cultural richness that could shore up the Bali tourism industry. Ironically, after over a year the subak included in the WCH, there had been no real action and programs that had actually been touching the subak.

He did not deny the international award as WCH given to subak was the pride and blessing for Bali.

Unfortunately, it was not more than just a reward without being followed up with an effort to preserve subak. “Inclusion of subak in the WCH can be a blessing and calamity. If we are not able to preserve the subak amid the threat of massive land conversion so for the sake of tourism interest, the status of subak as WCH can be revoked. If this happens it will certainly become a bad track record for Bali. International community will assume us as a nation that cannot maintain the noble culture inherited over the centuries. It will certainly tarnish the image of Bali,” said Wiraputra doubling as Chairman of the Badung Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin).

Challenge to preserve subak and agriculture in wider context in Bali was very heavy. Moreover, the

government still lacked of budget.

Necessarily, said the Bali legislator candidate of Badung region, the government had to increase the agricultural budget and design a real program to implement the subak into the WCH. The government ideally involved private entrepreneurs having a concern with the field and increased the active role of community and agricultural technology.

“Incentives for farmers that can maintain their farmland should also be increased and there must be a real program for community empowerment,” he said while questioning to what extent the Management Council of Bali Cultural Heritage had been working to follow up the inclusion of subak in the WCH. Wayan Swastika from the Denpasar Agriculture, Food Crops and Horticulture Agency did not dismiss if many subak areas in Denpasar ‘collapsed’, namely converted into residential areas, tourist accommodation and others. “Problem of the urban agriculture in Denpasar has indeed been very complex, chiefly related to the increasingly decrease in farmland as well as the massive and uncontrollable land conversion,” he said.

Denpasar Municipality gave tax

relief in the form of subsidies for the land designated as green belt, but in fact such an effort could not stem the rate of increasingly massive land conversion. On the other hand, there were many small farmers (with land less than 5,000 sqm) whose condition was very worrying. They were faced with difficult choices namely maintaining the farmland with unsatisfactory results or selling the land or converting the land with tantalizing results. Such condition also kindled the rampant land conversion in Denpasar. Even, many subak areas had disappeared and only left a memory or nameplate.

“Now, only 41 subak areas remain to survive. They totally spread across 2,597 hectares, while the disappearing ones almost reach 150 hectares. The subak areas in critical condition and nearly disappear also remain a lot. On the other hand, the land fertility has also been declining and water discharge is getting smaller. So, it is difficult to develop the agriculture in Denpasar,” he said while adding that his party focused on the agriculture and provided horticulture training to deal with the problems.

Head of the Bali Institute for

Agricultural Technology (BPTP), AANB Kamandalu, said that his party also attempted to assist the government in terms of the agricultural technology so the Bali agriculture could get the touch of technology. Challenges to preserve subak and develop the agriculture in Bali related to the restrictedness of land owned by farmers. According to him, the results of survey indicated that ownership of farmland in Bali only reached 0.2 to 0.3 hectares (2,000-3,000 square meters). “Our problem is the decrease of land, so farmers must be equipped with technology,” he said.

He hoped all parties had a concern in preserving subak and realizing the subak community empowerment programs after it was included in the WCH. His party also suggested the government to make collaboration with local universities having the faculty of agriculture to jointly provide mentoring and transfer of the agricultural technologies to farmers. “Community and farmer empowerment programs of Bali government such as Gerbangsadu and Simantri must also be guarded, evaluated and improved through facilitation so this program will be on target,” he concluded. (kmb29)

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Ramallah - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday condemned an attack on a nine-year-old Israeli girl the day before in the West Bank. “We oppose on principle aggression against anyone, and the spilling of blood,” he told a group of Israeli MPs visiting his headquarters in Ramallah.

The girl, Noam Glick, was variously described as having been shot or stabbed in a Sunday attack in her garden in the Psagot settlement near Ramallah. Police said it was probably a “terrorist” attack.

Medics at the Jerusalem hospital where she was treated said her condition was improving. Abbas spoke as Israeli forces closed in on an area in the West Bank town of Al-Bira, near Ramallah, in an arrest operation linked to the Psagot attack, an AFP correspondent said.

Abbas objected to the unilateral Israeli operation, insisting the Palestinian Authority should take responsibility for finding the culprits.

“The Israeli army’s incursions are unjustified. There’s security coordination with us, so why carry out these raids that harm (our efforts)?” Abbas said.

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A boat is moored at the Lampedusa island, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Authorities say divers have recovered new bodies from a fiery shipwreck of a fishing boat packed with 500 migrants from Eritrea.

Italy divers find ‘wall’ of bodies in migrant ship Associated Press Writer

LAMPEDUSA, Italy — Deep sea divers “unpacked a wall of people” from the hull of a smuggler’s trawler on the sea floor near this Italian island on Monday, gingerly untangling the dead would-be migrants in the latest and most painstaking phase of a recovery operation following the ship’s fiery capsizing.

It was the first time the divers had been able to reach the hull, and authorities said 38 more bodies were recovered, raising the death toll from last Thursday’s tragedy to 232.

Scores more are believed missing; most, if not all, were Eritreans trying to reach Europe in search of asylum and a better life.

“They unpacked a wall of people,” said Navy Capt. Paolo Trucco of the deep sea specialists. The bodies “were so entwined, one with the other, it is indescribable. They were so trapped they were difficult to pull out.”

Deep sea divers in their weighted suits and sturdy port-holed helmets were able to spend up to 30 minutes at a time at the site of the wreck 47 meters (154 feet) below the surface — much more than a scuba diver’s typical seven to 10 minutes at that depth.

This allowed them to remove debris that was still floating around

inside narrow passage ways to reach the vessel’s hull. “Mattresses, blankets, stairs. Anything that would float. Imagine if you put a house in a centrifuge and you see what winds up in the air. That is what happened,” Trucco said.

Diver Marco Presti said the bodies were packed together when the ship capsized, and he and his colleagues had to pull each out by the arms. “One diver after the other, we passed them from one to the other, and placed them on the stern of the boat,” he said.

Coast Guard Capt. Filippo Marini estimated it would take two more days to complete the search and recovery mission.

Only 155 of the migrants survived the fiery shipwreck. Survivors have said there were at least 500 people aboard the 18-meter-long (59-foot) boat when it sank.

Diver Riccardo Nobile, who did multiple dives on Sunday when 83

bodies were recovered in easier to reach areas, said he waited for more than an hour among the corpses on a recovery boat as other divers took their turns. Divers from the Navy, Coast Guard, Carabinieri military police and the fire department have done rotations.

“It was difficult to look straight at their faces, to see their wounds, see their tormented expressions, their outstretched arms,” Nobile said. “It was extremely difficult. But this is our job.”

The ship had arrived within sight of Lampedusa, a tiny island that is Italy’s southernmost point, after two days of sailing from Libya when a fire set to draw the attention of potential rescuers sparked a panic on board, leading the vessel to capsize.

Tens of thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East try to cross the Mediterranean Sea each year, seeking a better life in Europe.

Hundreds die in the process.

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Officials blamed in Mexico monster truck crash

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican government officials and event organizers on Monday blamed the driver of a monster truck for losing control and plowing into a crowd of spectators, killing eight and injuring 79. Motor-sports experts, however, pointed at the organizers, saying the setup of the state-sponsored show was blatantly deficient and life-threatening.

Organizers of the “Extreme Aeroshow” said hundreds of families had gathered without permission in what was supposed to be the pit area at one end of a makeshift arena in a park in Chihuahua, capital of the border state of Chihuahua.

The pit area was unprotected by any barrier and sat feet from where the monster truck known as “Big Show” was crushing a pair of old cars, leaping into the air and rolling over their hoods and roofs. Video of the accident shows the truck coming down hard off the second car, bouncing and then speeding out of control into the crowd.

One organizer said the spectators hadn’t been moved out of the pit zone before the show because “crowd management is very difficult.”

The safety situation was “about as bad as it could get,” said Marty Garza, spokesman for the Monster Truck Racing Association, the primary safety organization for the industry in the United States.

“There was some pretty blatant disregard for the safety of spectators,” he said. “There is no excuse for why the spectators were situated as they were, period.”

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People run as an out of control monster truck plows through a crowd of spectators at a Mexican air show in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 5, 2013. According to authorities, at least 8 people were killed and 80 were injured.

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BNN spokesman Senior Commissioner Sumirat Dwiyanto said that former Constitution Court Chief Justice Akil Mochtar has been tested negative for narcotic drugs consumption by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN).

Akil Mochtar tested negative for narcotic drug consumption Antara

JAKARTA - Former Constitution Court Chief Justice Akil Mochtar has been tested negative for narcotic drugs consumption by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN).

“The results of tests conducted on AM’s urine and hair are all negative,” BNN spokesman Senior Commissioner Sumirat Dwiyanto revealed at a press conference on Tuesday.

He stated that the BNN would take further steps to follow up the discovery of methamphetamine and marijuana in the working room of the former chief judge.

“The locations where pieces of evidence were found and where AM was arrested are different.

This is what we are going to investigate to find out who actually owns the drug stash,” Dwiyanto said.

Anti-graft agency, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) had discovered the drugs in the working room of the chief judge when it conducted searches

on Thursday and handed them over to the BNN on Friday for conducting checks to verify if they were really narcotic drugs.

The BNN later confirmed that they were really methamphetamine, which was found in the form green and purple pills and marijuana which was found rolled into four parts, with one of them having been used.

Dwiyanto further pointed out that the pill form of methamphetamine was categorized as new in Indonesia as so far it had been distributed in the form of crystals.

He said using marijuana or methamphetamine violated Narcotic Law Number 35 of 2009.

Akil Mochtar has been named a suspect by the KPK for allegedly receiving bribes linked

to elections of district heads in Gunung Mas, Central Kalimantan province and in Lebak, Banten province.

He was caught red-handed at his official residence, along with Chairun Nisa, a parliamentary member from Golkar Party and businessman Cornelius Nalau.

Cash of up to Rp5.7 billion was confiscated by the KPK from Mochtar¿s official car with the number plate ‘RI 9’ that was parked at his house.

KPK has also named Chairun Nisa and Cornelius Nalau suspects, along with the district head of Gunung Mas, Hamid Bintih, Tubagus Chairi Wardan, the husband of the Tangerang Selatan district head and Airin Diany, the brother of Banten governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah.

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has searched the office of Banten Governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah’s younger brother, Tubagus Chaeri Wardana, in connection with his alleged involvement in a bribery case.

“It’s true. From 5 p.m. yesterday till 1 a.m. today, KPK investigators have searched the office of TCW (Tubagus Chaeri Wardana),” said spokesman for KPK Johan Budi on Tuesday.

The office of PT Bali Pasific Pragama, the contractor of a number of infrastructure projects, is located on the 12th floor of The East Building in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta.

“The investigators have confiscated 15 boxes of documents,” Johan Budi said.

Tubagus Chaeri Wardana alias Wawan has been named a suspect for allegedly having bribed former Constitutional Court Chief Judge Akil Mochtar in connection with a dispute over Lebak district head’s election results.

KPK has confiscated Rp1 billion in Rp100 thousand and Rp50 thousand notes, put into a travel bag from the house of the parents of Susi Tur Handayani, who would hand over Wawan’s money to Akil Mochtar.

The panel of Constitutional Court judges, led by Akil Mochtar on October 1, 2013, decided to grant the appeal of Amir Hamzah-Kasmin from Golkar Party, following their loss and order the General Elections Commission chapter of Lebak district in Banten province to repeat the vote for the election of Lebak district’s head.

Wawan’s lawyer on Monday denied his client’s involvement in the legal district head’s election.

He also said Susi is not the lawyer of a conflicting party in the dispute in Lebak head’s election but a lawyer for a party in the dispute over Serang mayor’s election.

The post of Serang mayor is now held by Tubagus Haerul Jaman, who is also Ratu Atut’s half-brother.

Several relatives of Ratu Atut are holding various government positions in Banten province and also at a national level - Hikmat Tomet, who is her husband, is a member of the House of Representatives’ Commission V; Andhika Hazrumy, the first son of Ratu Atut, is a member of the Regional Representatives Council of Banten province; and Ade Rosi Khairunnisa, wife of Andhika, is a deputy speaker of the Serang city legislative assembly.

Andiara Aprilia Hikmat, the second child of Ratu Atut, meanwhile, is a candidate for House of Representatives membership, while Tanto Warsono Arban, Andiara¿s husband, is also a candidate for the House of Representatives membership.

Heryani, step mother of Atut, is currently the head of Pandeglang district and Ratu Tatu Chassanah, sister of Ratu Atut, is deputy head of Serang district.

Ratu Atut’s step brother, Tubagus Chaerul Jaman, meanwhile, is the mayor of Serang, while Airin Rachmi Diany, wife of Wawan, is the mayor of Tangerang Selatan.

KPK has named Akil Mochtar as a suspect in connection with the disputes over the elections of district heads of Gunung Mas in Central Kalimantan province and Lebak in Banten province.

It has also named parliamentary member Chairun Nisa from Golkar Party and Gunung Mas district head Hambit Bintih and Cornelis Nalau, a businessman, as suspects in connection with Akil’s case.

KPK has confiscated S$284,050 and US$22 thousand in connection with the case.

In the case of election dispute in Lebak, Akil and Susi Tur Handayani have been named suspects for allegedly receiving bribes while Tugagus Chaery Wardana has been named a suspect for paying the bribes.

Banten province has so far been known as the stronghold of Golkar Party, which is one of the biggest political parties in the country.

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Description of life in Bali ancient kingdom Bali is a bijou island, but the content of traditional values, arts, history and culture is not as small as the area. Artistic heritage, history and culture almost spread throughout the nine regencies and city existing on the Island of the Gods. The search on the heritage, arts and cultural relics of this time is to Yeh Pulu Relief.

Relief of the ancient rock stone is located at the Bedulu (Bedahulu) Village, Blahbatuh Subdistrict, Gianyar Regency.

Location to Tampaksiring and Kintamani is only about 40 minutes drive from Denpasar City. The entrance to the tourist attraction of holy water is not far from the main road east of Goa Gajah Temple, to the right, into the village street. Visitors should be careful because there are many road junctions without a clue heading for the object of Yeh Pulu Relief, or ask the way to local residents.

The monument in the form of relief becoming the main attraction to tourists, especially foreign tourists, was discovered in 1925 by a courtier or Ubud Royal family. The name was taken from the barrel (or container of rice in the past) located at the central axis of purified water nestling in the

west of the relief. The word yeh in Balinese language means water and pulu means a barrel.

The appeal of this monument is not only because of the uniqueness of relief sculpture immortalized on the rock stone wall of the hill,

but also due to the spread of rice field view along the two-hundredmeters and the sound of clinking water on the left-right path to location is always neatly trimmed and maintained sustainably, emanating a natural beauty.

With such a natural atmosphere, the clear and the sharpness of splashing water are always flowing along the trench making the ambience around this object really peaceful and enchanting. On that account, it is not mistaken if the

niches (caves) in southern relief suspected as the hermitage of the last Balinese ancient King before the collapse of Bali to Majapahit administration in 1343.

Relief with magical nuance and meaningful is 25 meters long and 2 meters high. Many researches conducted by experts from home and overseas to recognize the implicit meaning behind the wall relief of the rock cliffs on the hills. As consequence, it drove many commentaries and analysis to uncover the mystery behind the veil of the true meaning of the relief. Overall, the theme of this story recounts the life in the forest atmosphere and daily life in the ancient kingdom of Bali. In addition to the Balinese classical carvings, this monument also has niches of Bedahulu Royal Hermitage before his death against the army of the Majapahit kingdom in 1343 AD. Yeh Pulu Relief poses one of the many historical classical monuments of Bali originating in ancient Bali (14th century AD) retaining full knowledge of art, which until now is still sustainable and be cared by the members of Subak, as one of the classical organizations that in particular organizes farmers and manage all aspects of rice field cultivation.

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Federer already looking forward to ‘great’ 2014

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Looking back is a waste of time, as far as Roger Federer is concerned. While tennis fans and pundits are obsessed with his below-par performance at the four majors this year which has left him in danger of missing the cut for the season-ending ATP finale for the first time since 2001, Federer has already put a positive spin on his 2013 trials and tribulations.

“I always knew that this year, after a very tough year in 2012, the Olympics (and winning Wimbledon), was going to be a bit more quiet,” the Swiss told reporters in Shanghai on Monday after winning his first-round doubles match with little-known Chinese Zhang Ze. “I expected myself probably not to be as successful and as busy playing matches and tournaments.

“My mindset now is, okay, next year is going to be a great year again where I’m not going to have that many points to defend, especially at some very key moments where I consider myself a favourite.

“For that reason I’m really looking forward to 2014

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Roger Federer of Switzerland, right, chats with his partner, China’s Zhang Ze during the first round doubles against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

already.”

Federer, who won the last of his record 17 grand slam titles at Wimbledon 15 months ago before scooping a silver at the London Games, went through the 2013 season without reaching a major final for the first time since 2002 and his only success has been at the low-key Halle tournament.

He lost in the Australian Open semi-finals to Andy Murray, fell at the last-eight stage to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the French Open, suffered a shock secondround defeat at Wimbledon to journeyman Sergiy Stakhovsky before losing to Tommy Robredo in the U.S. Open fourth round last month.

“I didn’t want to focus too much on what happened the last two months. The U.S. Open, I hardly ever thought about it if I look back, at the Robredo match,” he said. “It wasn’t my day. It’s one of those things you just want to move on from.

“I think my game’s been coming back, which has been very important. Now it’s about staying positive and working hard every single day. That’s been the mindset.”

Lisicki, Linsanity hits Manila as Rockets warm up for game Date-Krumm advance at Japan Open Associated Press Writer

Associated Press Writer

OSAKA, Japan — Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki of Germany outlasted Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa 7-5, 7-6 (1) to reach the second round of the Japan Open on Tuesday. Lisicki struggled with a right wrist injury after making her first Grand Slam singles final, and has yet to win more than two matches in a row.

She hit five aces and took advantage of eight double faults by Scheepers to set up a second-round match against Polona Hercog of Slovenia, who beat Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic 6-4, 5-7, 6-1.

Also, Vania King of the United States ousted fourth-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy 3-6, 7-5, 6-0, and Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm dispatched seventh-seeded Laura Robson of Britain 6-4, 6-4.

Other winners included No. 6-seeded Madison Keys of the United States and No. 9 Kristina Mladenovic of France.

MANILA, Philippines — Jeremy Lin easily stole the spotlight as the Houston Rockets practiced on Tuesday for this week’s first NBA preseason game in the basketballobsessed Philippines. Lin was mobbed by reporters and photographers on a Manila basketball court, a day after the Rockets and Indiana Pacers arrived in the Philippine capital for Thursday’s game.

“I’m excited to play here and in Taiwan,” said Lin, the league’s first American-born player of Taiwanese descent. “I think the fans don’t get a chance to often watch an NBA game live, so hopefully they’ll really enjoy the experience and I think we’re going to definitely enjoy it as well.”

He said he’s had a taste of the “electric environment” of the Philippines, where basketball hoops are mounted in every available space and it tops the list of countries following the NBA on Facebook and Twitter outside the United States. Lin said his Taiwanese parents told him good things about the Philippines.

“I’m glad to see and feel the warmth they showed to me in person when I got the chance to walk in the mall last night.

Everyone was polite, respectful and I was really blown away,” he said. He said he was thankful for a chance “to inspire people, especially my fellow Asians.”

Last season was Lin’s first full season in the NBA, and he started all 82 games for Houston. In the previous two seasons, he played less than half seasons for the New York Knicks, when Linsanity exploded on the basketball world, and the Golden State Warriors.

“They were different times in my life,” he

said, comparing his tenures with the Rockets and Knicks. “Different stages, different roles, different systems. ... I can’t really compare the two. My goal is just to get better every year.”

Adjusting to his second full season, he said “There’s always some difficulties and hurdles but I think that’s part of the natural progression.”

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The Houston Rockets’ Jeremy Lin waves to Filipino fans upon arrival Monday Oct.7, 2013 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines.

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Cole out of England’s WCup qualifier v Montenegro

Cabaye feared for his France future during summer

Joan Cabaye

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — England will be without left back Ashley Cole for its penultimate World Cup qualifier against Montenegro on Friday.

Cole complained of a rib problem during Chelsea’s Premier League victory at Norwich on Sunday and scans Monday confirmed he won’t be fit for the match at Wembley Stadium.

But he could be available for the key qualifier against Poland next week after receiving treatment at Chelsea.

Arsenal’s Kieran Gibbs has been added to Roy Hodgson’s squad, although Leighton Baines is expected to start against Montenegro after his strong start to the season for Everton.

Sunderland opt for Poyet as new manager Reuters

Gus Poyet has been appointed Sunderland manager on a two-year-contract, the Premier League club said on Tuesday. The Uruguayan replaces controversial Italian Paolo Di Canio, who was sacked last month by bottom-of-the-table Sunderland following a 3-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion.

The former international midfielder, who played for Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, was sacked by Championship side Brighton and Hove Albion in June for an undisclosed breach of club discipline.

“We analysed a wide range of candidates and believe that Gus’s track record, experience, commitment and passion make him the right man to take us forward,” Sunderland chairman Ellis Short said in a statement on the club’s website (www.safc.com).

Poyet, 45, has been tasked with ensuring Sunderland’s Premier League survival after a dreadful start to the season during which they have managed only one point from their first seven matches.

Kevin Ball took temporary charge after Di Canio’s dismissal, and Sunderland beat third-tier Peterborough United in the League Cup but lost to Liverpool and Manchester United in the league.

Di Canio was brought in by Sunderland in March to replace Martin O’Neill when the club looked almost certainties for relegation. He managed to keep Sunderland in the Premier League but the side won only three of his 13 matches in charge.

British media said the Sunderland players were unhappy with Di Canio’s abrasive management style and public criticism of them but the Italian denied reports of a training ground bust-up following defeat to West Brom.

Poyet was an early favourite for the role, despite his acrimonious parting with Brighton, whom he led to the Championship (second tier) playoffs.

He was suspended following the playoff semi-final defeat to Crystal Palace in May, and found out he had been fired as manager while working as a pundit on live television.

IBP/ist REUTERS/Paul Hanna

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (R) fights for the ball with FC Copenhagen’s Rurik Gislason during their Champions League soccer match at Bernabeu stadium in Madrid October 2, 2013.

Portugal’s Ronaldo v Eusebio debate too close to call Reuters

LISBON - The fierce debate on who is the best Portuguese player of all time that erupted when Cristiano Ronaldo overtook Eusebio last month to go second on the country’s list of top marksmen is far from being settled.

Benfica’s 1960s great Eusebio has weighed in to the argument, saying he was upset by what he considered to be an unfair comparison because he had played fewer matches than Ronaldo.

“I am saddened because we can’t make that comparison. It’s a mistake because I played (around) 60 matches to score that amount (41 goals),” Eusebio told Portuguese national television.

Ronaldo reached 43 goals in 106 internationals after his hat-trick earned Portugal a 4-2 comeback win over Northern Ireland in last month’s World Cup qualifier. “This is historic.

I’d scored a lot of hat-tricks for Real Madrid but never any for Portugal,” he said after the game.

“Going above Eusebio in the scorers’ list was a natural thing to happen and it was only a matter of time but still I am really proud,” the smiling player said while showing off the match ball.

Ronaldo has the chance to add to his tally on Friday in the home qualifier against Israel as Portugal seek to secure at least second place in Group F and a berth in the playoffs for next year’s World Cup in Brazil.

While some of the football-mad Portuguese will angrily tell you not to compare the two because judging today’s football against that of the 1960s is flawed, there are plenty of arguments on each side.

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Ronaldo, 28, is set to rewrite Portugal’s soccer statistics as he is only four goals behind top scorer Pauleta and 21 matches away from the most-capped player Luis Figo. Striker Pauleta has said he does not consider himself equal to Eusebio, Ronaldo and Figo.

Still, simple maths tell you Eusebio’s goal rate is the best, with the ‘Black Panther’ grabbing 0.6 goals per match compared to Ronaldo’s 0.4 and

Pauleta’s 0.5. Eusebio, 71, believes Ronaldo has it easier than him.

“Now, after all these years, someone else scores (that many goals) but obviously that happens because today it is easier to play some of these teams. I never got to play against Liechtenstein or Azerbaijan,” he said. Portugal have also been to the major tournaments more often with Ronaldo.

He has shone for his country at five major competitions, including the Euro 2004 final where they lost at Lisbon’s Luz stadium to Greece.

Portugal also finished fourth at the 2006 World Cup in Germany and reached the semi-finals of Euro 2012.

Eusebio played at only one major tournament - the 1966 World Cup in England where he was the overall top scorer as Portugal grabbed a best-ever third place. Portugal and Real Madrid’s Pepe prefers his team mate.

“I hope Eusebio forgives me but, for me, the best player ever is Ronaldo. Despite his relatively young age, what he has already achieved for the ‘Seleccao’ leaves no doubts,” he told sports daily o Jogo. “Because of the goals he has scored and the clubs he has represented Ronaldo will leave a mighty footprint.”

Associated Press Writer

CLAIREFONTAINE, France — Yohan Cabaye says he feared for his international career when he was at loggerheads with Newcastle over a failed move to Arsenal.

Cabaye missed the start of the season and bore the brunt of the fans’ frustrations as he tried to push through a last-minute transfer. His lack of match fitness meant he was overlooked by France coach Didier Deschamps for a friendly against Belgium in August and he was then left out of World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Georgia

last month.

“Those are the ups and downs of football, but it wasn’t easy staying at home when the national team was playing,” Cabaye said Monday at France’s training camp. France hosts Australia in a friendly on Friday and Finland in its final World Cup qualifier four days later.

Asked if he had been wor-

ried about his future with France, Cabaye replied frankly. “Yes, of course, things change so quickly.

Even when you’re in (the squad) there are no guarantees you’ll stay,” he said. “It’s better to be called up as often as possible rather than staying at home for whatever reasons.

I’m full of determination and confidence and hope to be in the team on Friday and Tuesday.”

He has not played a full 90 minutes since the penultimate game of last season for Newcastle. “But I’ve trained a lot. I feel good, I lost weight over the summer and I’m ready to play,” he

said. “Maybe not 90 minutes in both games, but I feel good. I played most of the game at the weekend.”

Newcastle coach Alan Pardew accused Arsenal of showing a lack of respect by lodging a bid for Cabaye only hours before his team’s opening Premier League game against on Aug. 19 — a 4-0 loss against Manchester City.

Cabaye missed it because Pardew said he wasn’t in the right frame of mind to play, and he only made his first appearance as a substitute at home to Fulham 12 days later, amid reports that he had refused to train.

Some fans jeered him when he came on, although others backed him.

“My feelings haven’t changed.

What happened at Newcastle ... their (the fans’) feelings corresponded to what (message) the club wanted to get across as well.

Given that I haven’t spoken about it and won’t explain what happened, they (the fans) chose sides,” he said. “But that’s part of a career, you accept that and I don’t hold a grudge. The most important thing for me are the two games coming up and the rest of the season with Newcastle.”

Milan to play behind closed doors over abusive chants

Reuters

ROME - Italy’s soccer authorities have ordered AC Milan to play its next game behind closed doors and fined the club 50,000 euros ($67,900) following abusive chants by supporters against southern club Napoli.

During Sunday’s match against Juventus in Turin, hundreds of Milan supporters shouted “We are not Neapolitans”, a chant the Naples daily Il Mattino said reflected long-standing contempt for the south by northern clubs.

In the fiercely territorial world of Italian soccer, abusive rivalry between supporters of clubs in the rich north and those in the poorer south is not uncommon

and Milan officials reacted with shock to the verdict by Serie A sporting judges.

“To say I’m furious would be putting it mildly,” Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani told reporters. “I understand that racism is a big problem, a problem everywhere in the world but territorial discrimination is another thing entirely.”

The sentence means that Milan, in 12th place in the Serie A standings after a 3-2 loss to Juventus on Sunday, will play its next home game on Oct. 19 against Udinese behind closed doors.

The Serie A sporting judges also banned Milan defender Philippe Mexes for four matches for violent conduct after video

evidence showed him punching Juventus player Giorgio Chiellini as Juventus was taking a corner.

The punch was not seen by the referee but Mexes was sent off for a second yellow card.

AC Milan midfielder Sulley Muntari, of Ghana, left, vies for the ball with Juventus midfielder Claudio Marchisio during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and AC Milan at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.

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Cole out of England’s WCup qualifier v Montenegro

Cabaye feared for his France future during summer

Joan Cabaye

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — England will be without left back Ashley Cole for its penultimate World Cup qualifier against Montenegro on Friday.

Cole complained of a rib problem during Chelsea’s Premier League victory at Norwich on Sunday and scans Monday confirmed he won’t be fit for the match at Wembley Stadium.

But he could be available for the key qualifier against Poland next week after receiving treatment at Chelsea.

Arsenal’s Kieran Gibbs has been added to Roy Hodgson’s squad, although Leighton Baines is expected to start against Montenegro after his strong start to the season for Everton.

Sunderland opt for Poyet as new manager Reuters

Gus Poyet has been appointed Sunderland manager on a two-year-contract, the Premier League club said on Tuesday. The Uruguayan replaces controversial Italian Paolo Di Canio, who was sacked last month by bottom-of-the-table Sunderland following a 3-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion.

The former international midfielder, who played for Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, was sacked by Championship side Brighton and Hove Albion in June for an undisclosed breach of club discipline.

“We analysed a wide range of candidates and believe that Gus’s track record, experience, commitment and passion make him the right man to take us forward,” Sunderland chairman Ellis Short said in a statement on the club’s website (www.safc.com).

Poyet, 45, has been tasked with ensuring Sunderland’s Premier League survival after a dreadful start to the season during which they have managed only one point from their first seven matches.

Kevin Ball took temporary charge after Di Canio’s dismissal, and Sunderland beat third-tier Peterborough United in the League Cup but lost to Liverpool and Manchester United in the league.

Di Canio was brought in by Sunderland in March to replace Martin O’Neill when the club looked almost certainties for relegation. He managed to keep Sunderland in the Premier League but the side won only three of his 13 matches in charge.

British media said the Sunderland players were unhappy with Di Canio’s abrasive management style and public criticism of them but the Italian denied reports of a training ground bust-up following defeat to West Brom.

Poyet was an early favourite for the role, despite his acrimonious parting with Brighton, whom he led to the Championship (second tier) playoffs.

He was suspended following the playoff semi-final defeat to Crystal Palace in May, and found out he had been fired as manager while working as a pundit on live television.

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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (R) fights for the ball with FC Copenhagen’s Rurik Gislason during their Champions League soccer match at Bernabeu stadium in Madrid October 2, 2013.

Portugal’s Ronaldo v Eusebio debate too close to call Reuters

LISBON - The fierce debate on who is the best Portuguese player of all time that erupted when Cristiano Ronaldo overtook Eusebio last month to go second on the country’s list of top marksmen is far from being settled.

Benfica’s 1960s great Eusebio has weighed in to the argument, saying he was upset by what he considered to be an unfair comparison because he had played fewer matches than Ronaldo.

“I am saddened because we can’t make that comparison. It’s a mistake because I played (around) 60 matches to score that amount (41 goals),” Eusebio told Portuguese national television.

Ronaldo reached 43 goals in 106 internationals after his hat-trick earned Portugal a 4-2 comeback win over Northern Ireland in last month’s World Cup qualifier. “This is historic.

I’d scored a lot of hat-tricks for Real Madrid but never any for Portugal,” he said after the game.

“Going above Eusebio in the scorers’ list was a natural thing to happen and it was only a matter of time but still I am really proud,” the smiling player said while showing off the match ball.

Ronaldo has the chance to add to his tally on Friday in the home qualifier against Israel as Portugal seek to secure at least second place in Group F and a berth in the playoffs for next year’s World Cup in Brazil.

While some of the football-mad Portuguese will angrily tell you not to compare the two because judging today’s football against that of the 1960s is flawed, there are plenty of arguments on each side.

SIMPLE MATHS

Ronaldo, 28, is set to rewrite Portugal’s soccer statistics as he is only four goals behind top scorer Pauleta and 21 matches away from the most-capped player Luis Figo. Striker Pauleta has said he does not consider himself equal to Eusebio, Ronaldo and Figo.

Still, simple maths tell you Eusebio’s goal rate is the best, with the ‘Black Panther’ grabbing 0.6 goals per match compared to Ronaldo’s 0.4 and

Pauleta’s 0.5. Eusebio, 71, believes Ronaldo has it easier than him.

“Now, after all these years, someone else scores (that many goals) but obviously that happens because today it is easier to play some of these teams. I never got to play against Liechtenstein or Azerbaijan,” he said. Portugal have also been to the major tournaments more often with Ronaldo.

He has shone for his country at five major competitions, including the Euro 2004 final where they lost at Lisbon’s Luz stadium to Greece.

Portugal also finished fourth at the 2006 World Cup in Germany and reached the semi-finals of Euro 2012.

Eusebio played at only one major tournament - the 1966 World Cup in England where he was the overall top scorer as Portugal grabbed a best-ever third place. Portugal and Real Madrid’s Pepe prefers his team mate.

“I hope Eusebio forgives me but, for me, the best player ever is Ronaldo. Despite his relatively young age, what he has already achieved for the ‘Seleccao’ leaves no doubts,” he told sports daily o Jogo. “Because of the goals he has scored and the clubs he has represented Ronaldo will leave a mighty footprint.”

Associated Press Writer

CLAIREFONTAINE, France — Yohan Cabaye says he feared for his international career when he was at loggerheads with Newcastle over a failed move to Arsenal.

Cabaye missed the start of the season and bore the brunt of the fans’ frustrations as he tried to push through a last-minute transfer. His lack of match fitness meant he was overlooked by France coach Didier Deschamps for a friendly against Belgium in August and he was then left out of World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Georgia

last month.

“Those are the ups and downs of football, but it wasn’t easy staying at home when the national team was playing,” Cabaye said Monday at France’s training camp. France hosts Australia in a friendly on Friday and Finland in its final World Cup qualifier four days later.

Asked if he had been wor-

ried about his future with France, Cabaye replied frankly. “Yes, of course, things change so quickly.

Even when you’re in (the squad) there are no guarantees you’ll stay,” he said. “It’s better to be called up as often as possible rather than staying at home for whatever reasons.

I’m full of determination and confidence and hope to be in the team on Friday and Tuesday.”

He has not played a full 90 minutes since the penultimate game of last season for Newcastle. “But I’ve trained a lot. I feel good, I lost weight over the summer and I’m ready to play,” he

said. “Maybe not 90 minutes in both games, but I feel good. I played most of the game at the weekend.”

Newcastle coach Alan Pardew accused Arsenal of showing a lack of respect by lodging a bid for Cabaye only hours before his team’s opening Premier League game against on Aug. 19 — a 4-0 loss against Manchester City.

Cabaye missed it because Pardew said he wasn’t in the right frame of mind to play, and he only made his first appearance as a substitute at home to Fulham 12 days later, amid reports that he had refused to train.

Some fans jeered him when he came on, although others backed him.

“My feelings haven’t changed.

What happened at Newcastle ... their (the fans’) feelings corresponded to what (message) the club wanted to get across as well.

Given that I haven’t spoken about it and won’t explain what happened, they (the fans) chose sides,” he said. “But that’s part of a career, you accept that and I don’t hold a grudge. The most important thing for me are the two games coming up and the rest of the season with Newcastle.”

Milan to play behind closed doors over abusive chants

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ROME - Italy’s soccer authorities have ordered AC Milan to play its next game behind closed doors and fined the club 50,000 euros ($67,900) following abusive chants by supporters against southern club Napoli.

During Sunday’s match against Juventus in Turin, hundreds of Milan supporters shouted “We are not Neapolitans”, a chant the Naples daily Il Mattino said reflected long-standing contempt for the south by northern clubs.

In the fiercely territorial world of Italian soccer, abusive rivalry between supporters of clubs in the rich north and those in the poorer south is not uncommon

and Milan officials reacted with shock to the verdict by Serie A sporting judges.

“To say I’m furious would be putting it mildly,” Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani told reporters. “I understand that racism is a big problem, a problem everywhere in the world but territorial discrimination is another thing entirely.”

The sentence means that Milan, in 12th place in the Serie A standings after a 3-2 loss to Juventus on Sunday, will play its next home game on Oct. 19 against Udinese behind closed doors.

The Serie A sporting judges also banned Milan defender Philippe Mexes for four matches for violent conduct after video

evidence showed him punching Juventus player Giorgio Chiellini as Juventus was taking a corner.

The punch was not seen by the referee but Mexes was sent off for a second yellow card.

AC Milan midfielder Sulley Muntari, of Ghana, left, vies for the ball with Juventus midfielder Claudio Marchisio during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and AC Milan at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.

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Description of life in Bali ancient kingdom Bali is a bijou island, but the content of traditional values, arts, history and culture is not as small as the area. Artistic heritage, history and culture almost spread throughout the nine regencies and city existing on the Island of the Gods. The search on the heritage, arts and cultural relics of this time is to Yeh Pulu Relief.

Relief of the ancient rock stone is located at the Bedulu (Bedahulu) Village, Blahbatuh Subdistrict, Gianyar Regency.

Location to Tampaksiring and Kintamani is only about 40 minutes drive from Denpasar City. The entrance to the tourist attraction of holy water is not far from the main road east of Goa Gajah Temple, to the right, into the village street. Visitors should be careful because there are many road junctions without a clue heading for the object of Yeh Pulu Relief, or ask the way to local residents.

The monument in the form of relief becoming the main attraction to tourists, especially foreign tourists, was discovered in 1925 by a courtier or Ubud Royal family. The name was taken from the barrel (or container of rice in the past) located at the central axis of purified water nestling in the

west of the relief. The word yeh in Balinese language means water and pulu means a barrel.

The appeal of this monument is not only because of the uniqueness of relief sculpture immortalized on the rock stone wall of the hill,

but also due to the spread of rice field view along the two-hundredmeters and the sound of clinking water on the left-right path to location is always neatly trimmed and maintained sustainably, emanating a natural beauty.

With such a natural atmosphere, the clear and the sharpness of splashing water are always flowing along the trench making the ambience around this object really peaceful and enchanting. On that account, it is not mistaken if the

niches (caves) in southern relief suspected as the hermitage of the last Balinese ancient King before the collapse of Bali to Majapahit administration in 1343.

Relief with magical nuance and meaningful is 25 meters long and 2 meters high. Many researches conducted by experts from home and overseas to recognize the implicit meaning behind the wall relief of the rock cliffs on the hills. As consequence, it drove many commentaries and analysis to uncover the mystery behind the veil of the true meaning of the relief. Overall, the theme of this story recounts the life in the forest atmosphere and daily life in the ancient kingdom of Bali. In addition to the Balinese classical carvings, this monument also has niches of Bedahulu Royal Hermitage before his death against the army of the Majapahit kingdom in 1343 AD. Yeh Pulu Relief poses one of the many historical classical monuments of Bali originating in ancient Bali (14th century AD) retaining full knowledge of art, which until now is still sustainable and be cared by the members of Subak, as one of the classical organizations that in particular organizes farmers and manage all aspects of rice field cultivation.

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Federer already looking forward to ‘great’ 2014

Yeh Pulu Relief: IBP

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Looking back is a waste of time, as far as Roger Federer is concerned. While tennis fans and pundits are obsessed with his below-par performance at the four majors this year which has left him in danger of missing the cut for the season-ending ATP finale for the first time since 2001, Federer has already put a positive spin on his 2013 trials and tribulations.

“I always knew that this year, after a very tough year in 2012, the Olympics (and winning Wimbledon), was going to be a bit more quiet,” the Swiss told reporters in Shanghai on Monday after winning his first-round doubles match with little-known Chinese Zhang Ze. “I expected myself probably not to be as successful and as busy playing matches and tournaments.

“My mindset now is, okay, next year is going to be a great year again where I’m not going to have that many points to defend, especially at some very key moments where I consider myself a favourite.

“For that reason I’m really looking forward to 2014

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

Roger Federer of Switzerland, right, chats with his partner, China’s Zhang Ze during the first round doubles against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

already.”

Federer, who won the last of his record 17 grand slam titles at Wimbledon 15 months ago before scooping a silver at the London Games, went through the 2013 season without reaching a major final for the first time since 2002 and his only success has been at the low-key Halle tournament.

He lost in the Australian Open semi-finals to Andy Murray, fell at the last-eight stage to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the French Open, suffered a shock secondround defeat at Wimbledon to journeyman Sergiy Stakhovsky before losing to Tommy Robredo in the U.S. Open fourth round last month.

“I didn’t want to focus too much on what happened the last two months. The U.S. Open, I hardly ever thought about it if I look back, at the Robredo match,” he said. “It wasn’t my day. It’s one of those things you just want to move on from.

“I think my game’s been coming back, which has been very important. Now it’s about staying positive and working hard every single day. That’s been the mindset.”

Lisicki, Linsanity hits Manila as Rockets warm up for game Date-Krumm advance at Japan Open Associated Press Writer

Associated Press Writer

OSAKA, Japan — Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki of Germany outlasted Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa 7-5, 7-6 (1) to reach the second round of the Japan Open on Tuesday. Lisicki struggled with a right wrist injury after making her first Grand Slam singles final, and has yet to win more than two matches in a row.

She hit five aces and took advantage of eight double faults by Scheepers to set up a second-round match against Polona Hercog of Slovenia, who beat Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic 6-4, 5-7, 6-1.

Also, Vania King of the United States ousted fourth-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy 3-6, 7-5, 6-0, and Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm dispatched seventh-seeded Laura Robson of Britain 6-4, 6-4.

Other winners included No. 6-seeded Madison Keys of the United States and No. 9 Kristina Mladenovic of France.

MANILA, Philippines — Jeremy Lin easily stole the spotlight as the Houston Rockets practiced on Tuesday for this week’s first NBA preseason game in the basketballobsessed Philippines. Lin was mobbed by reporters and photographers on a Manila basketball court, a day after the Rockets and Indiana Pacers arrived in the Philippine capital for Thursday’s game.

“I’m excited to play here and in Taiwan,” said Lin, the league’s first American-born player of Taiwanese descent. “I think the fans don’t get a chance to often watch an NBA game live, so hopefully they’ll really enjoy the experience and I think we’re going to definitely enjoy it as well.”

He said he’s had a taste of the “electric environment” of the Philippines, where basketball hoops are mounted in every available space and it tops the list of countries following the NBA on Facebook and Twitter outside the United States. Lin said his Taiwanese parents told him good things about the Philippines.

“I’m glad to see and feel the warmth they showed to me in person when I got the chance to walk in the mall last night.

Everyone was polite, respectful and I was really blown away,” he said. He said he was thankful for a chance “to inspire people, especially my fellow Asians.”

Last season was Lin’s first full season in the NBA, and he started all 82 games for Houston. In the previous two seasons, he played less than half seasons for the New York Knicks, when Linsanity exploded on the basketball world, and the Golden State Warriors.

“They were different times in my life,” he

said, comparing his tenures with the Rockets and Knicks. “Different stages, different roles, different systems. ... I can’t really compare the two. My goal is just to get better every year.”

Adjusting to his second full season, he said “There’s always some difficulties and hurdles but I think that’s part of the natural progression.”

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The Houston Rockets’ Jeremy Lin waves to Filipino fans upon arrival Monday Oct.7, 2013 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines.

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Palestinian leader condemns attack on Israeli girl

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KPK searches office of Ratu Atut’s brother

Ramallah - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday condemned an attack on a nine-year-old Israeli girl the day before in the West Bank. “We oppose on principle aggression against anyone, and the spilling of blood,” he told a group of Israeli MPs visiting his headquarters in Ramallah.

The girl, Noam Glick, was variously described as having been shot or stabbed in a Sunday attack in her garden in the Psagot settlement near Ramallah. Police said it was probably a “terrorist” attack.

Medics at the Jerusalem hospital where she was treated said her condition was improving. Abbas spoke as Israeli forces closed in on an area in the West Bank town of Al-Bira, near Ramallah, in an arrest operation linked to the Psagot attack, an AFP correspondent said.

Abbas objected to the unilateral Israeli operation, insisting the Palestinian Authority should take responsibility for finding the culprits.

“The Israeli army’s incursions are unjustified. There’s security coordination with us, so why carry out these raids that harm (our efforts)?” Abbas said.

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

A boat is moored at the Lampedusa island, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Authorities say divers have recovered new bodies from a fiery shipwreck of a fishing boat packed with 500 migrants from Eritrea.

Italy divers find ‘wall’ of bodies in migrant ship Associated Press Writer

LAMPEDUSA, Italy — Deep sea divers “unpacked a wall of people” from the hull of a smuggler’s trawler on the sea floor near this Italian island on Monday, gingerly untangling the dead would-be migrants in the latest and most painstaking phase of a recovery operation following the ship’s fiery capsizing.

It was the first time the divers had been able to reach the hull, and authorities said 38 more bodies were recovered, raising the death toll from last Thursday’s tragedy to 232.

Scores more are believed missing; most, if not all, were Eritreans trying to reach Europe in search of asylum and a better life.

“They unpacked a wall of people,” said Navy Capt. Paolo Trucco of the deep sea specialists. The bodies “were so entwined, one with the other, it is indescribable. They were so trapped they were difficult to pull out.”

Deep sea divers in their weighted suits and sturdy port-holed helmets were able to spend up to 30 minutes at a time at the site of the wreck 47 meters (154 feet) below the surface — much more than a scuba diver’s typical seven to 10 minutes at that depth.

This allowed them to remove debris that was still floating around

inside narrow passage ways to reach the vessel’s hull. “Mattresses, blankets, stairs. Anything that would float. Imagine if you put a house in a centrifuge and you see what winds up in the air. That is what happened,” Trucco said.

Diver Marco Presti said the bodies were packed together when the ship capsized, and he and his colleagues had to pull each out by the arms. “One diver after the other, we passed them from one to the other, and placed them on the stern of the boat,” he said.

Coast Guard Capt. Filippo Marini estimated it would take two more days to complete the search and recovery mission.

Only 155 of the migrants survived the fiery shipwreck. Survivors have said there were at least 500 people aboard the 18-meter-long (59-foot) boat when it sank.

Diver Riccardo Nobile, who did multiple dives on Sunday when 83

bodies were recovered in easier to reach areas, said he waited for more than an hour among the corpses on a recovery boat as other divers took their turns. Divers from the Navy, Coast Guard, Carabinieri military police and the fire department have done rotations.

“It was difficult to look straight at their faces, to see their wounds, see their tormented expressions, their outstretched arms,” Nobile said. “It was extremely difficult. But this is our job.”

The ship had arrived within sight of Lampedusa, a tiny island that is Italy’s southernmost point, after two days of sailing from Libya when a fire set to draw the attention of potential rescuers sparked a panic on board, leading the vessel to capsize.

Tens of thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East try to cross the Mediterranean Sea each year, seeking a better life in Europe.

Hundreds die in the process.

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Officials blamed in Mexico monster truck crash

Associated Press Writer

ANTARA FOTO/Reno Esnir

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican government officials and event organizers on Monday blamed the driver of a monster truck for losing control and plowing into a crowd of spectators, killing eight and injuring 79. Motor-sports experts, however, pointed at the organizers, saying the setup of the state-sponsored show was blatantly deficient and life-threatening.

Organizers of the “Extreme Aeroshow” said hundreds of families had gathered without permission in what was supposed to be the pit area at one end of a makeshift arena in a park in Chihuahua, capital of the border state of Chihuahua.

The pit area was unprotected by any barrier and sat feet from where the monster truck known as “Big Show” was crushing a pair of old cars, leaping into the air and rolling over their hoods and roofs. Video of the accident shows the truck coming down hard off the second car, bouncing and then speeding out of control into the crowd.

One organizer said the spectators hadn’t been moved out of the pit zone before the show because “crowd management is very difficult.”

The safety situation was “about as bad as it could get,” said Marty Garza, spokesman for the Monster Truck Racing Association, the primary safety organization for the industry in the United States.

“There was some pretty blatant disregard for the safety of spectators,” he said. “There is no excuse for why the spectators were situated as they were, period.”

AP Photo/El Diario de Chihuahua

People run as an out of control monster truck plows through a crowd of spectators at a Mexican air show in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 5, 2013. According to authorities, at least 8 people were killed and 80 were injured.

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BNN spokesman Senior Commissioner Sumirat Dwiyanto said that former Constitution Court Chief Justice Akil Mochtar has been tested negative for narcotic drugs consumption by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN).

Akil Mochtar tested negative for narcotic drug consumption Antara

JAKARTA - Former Constitution Court Chief Justice Akil Mochtar has been tested negative for narcotic drugs consumption by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN).

“The results of tests conducted on AM’s urine and hair are all negative,” BNN spokesman Senior Commissioner Sumirat Dwiyanto revealed at a press conference on Tuesday.

He stated that the BNN would take further steps to follow up the discovery of methamphetamine and marijuana in the working room of the former chief judge.

“The locations where pieces of evidence were found and where AM was arrested are different.

This is what we are going to investigate to find out who actually owns the drug stash,” Dwiyanto said.

Anti-graft agency, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) had discovered the drugs in the working room of the chief judge when it conducted searches

on Thursday and handed them over to the BNN on Friday for conducting checks to verify if they were really narcotic drugs.

The BNN later confirmed that they were really methamphetamine, which was found in the form green and purple pills and marijuana which was found rolled into four parts, with one of them having been used.

Dwiyanto further pointed out that the pill form of methamphetamine was categorized as new in Indonesia as so far it had been distributed in the form of crystals.

He said using marijuana or methamphetamine violated Narcotic Law Number 35 of 2009.

Akil Mochtar has been named a suspect by the KPK for allegedly receiving bribes linked

to elections of district heads in Gunung Mas, Central Kalimantan province and in Lebak, Banten province.

He was caught red-handed at his official residence, along with Chairun Nisa, a parliamentary member from Golkar Party and businessman Cornelius Nalau.

Cash of up to Rp5.7 billion was confiscated by the KPK from Mochtar¿s official car with the number plate ‘RI 9’ that was parked at his house.

KPK has also named Chairun Nisa and Cornelius Nalau suspects, along with the district head of Gunung Mas, Hamid Bintih, Tubagus Chairi Wardan, the husband of the Tangerang Selatan district head and Airin Diany, the brother of Banten governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah.

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has searched the office of Banten Governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah’s younger brother, Tubagus Chaeri Wardana, in connection with his alleged involvement in a bribery case.

“It’s true. From 5 p.m. yesterday till 1 a.m. today, KPK investigators have searched the office of TCW (Tubagus Chaeri Wardana),” said spokesman for KPK Johan Budi on Tuesday.

The office of PT Bali Pasific Pragama, the contractor of a number of infrastructure projects, is located on the 12th floor of The East Building in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta.

“The investigators have confiscated 15 boxes of documents,” Johan Budi said.

Tubagus Chaeri Wardana alias Wawan has been named a suspect for allegedly having bribed former Constitutional Court Chief Judge Akil Mochtar in connection with a dispute over Lebak district head’s election results.

KPK has confiscated Rp1 billion in Rp100 thousand and Rp50 thousand notes, put into a travel bag from the house of the parents of Susi Tur Handayani, who would hand over Wawan’s money to Akil Mochtar.

The panel of Constitutional Court judges, led by Akil Mochtar on October 1, 2013, decided to grant the appeal of Amir Hamzah-Kasmin from Golkar Party, following their loss and order the General Elections Commission chapter of Lebak district in Banten province to repeat the vote for the election of Lebak district’s head.

Wawan’s lawyer on Monday denied his client’s involvement in the legal district head’s election.

He also said Susi is not the lawyer of a conflicting party in the dispute in Lebak head’s election but a lawyer for a party in the dispute over Serang mayor’s election.

The post of Serang mayor is now held by Tubagus Haerul Jaman, who is also Ratu Atut’s half-brother.

Several relatives of Ratu Atut are holding various government positions in Banten province and also at a national level - Hikmat Tomet, who is her husband, is a member of the House of Representatives’ Commission V; Andhika Hazrumy, the first son of Ratu Atut, is a member of the Regional Representatives Council of Banten province; and Ade Rosi Khairunnisa, wife of Andhika, is a deputy speaker of the Serang city legislative assembly.

Andiara Aprilia Hikmat, the second child of Ratu Atut, meanwhile, is a candidate for House of Representatives membership, while Tanto Warsono Arban, Andiara¿s husband, is also a candidate for the House of Representatives membership.

Heryani, step mother of Atut, is currently the head of Pandeglang district and Ratu Tatu Chassanah, sister of Ratu Atut, is deputy head of Serang district.

Ratu Atut’s step brother, Tubagus Chaerul Jaman, meanwhile, is the mayor of Serang, while Airin Rachmi Diany, wife of Wawan, is the mayor of Tangerang Selatan.

KPK has named Akil Mochtar as a suspect in connection with the disputes over the elections of district heads of Gunung Mas in Central Kalimantan province and Lebak in Banten province.

It has also named parliamentary member Chairun Nisa from Golkar Party and Gunung Mas district head Hambit Bintih and Cornelis Nalau, a businessman, as suspects in connection with Akil’s case.

KPK has confiscated S$284,050 and US$22 thousand in connection with the case.

In the case of election dispute in Lebak, Akil and Susi Tur Handayani have been named suspects for allegedly receiving bribes while Tugagus Chaery Wardana has been named a suspect for paying the bribes.

Banten province has so far been known as the stronghold of Golkar Party, which is one of the biggest political parties in the country.

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Ngurah Rai to become environmentally friendly Airport

BUSINESS US launches new $100 banknote

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NUSA DUA - By using solar power, Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport will become one of the world’s environmentally friendly aerodromes, an official said on Tuesday.

“All solar panels are expected to be installed at the airport by at least early 2015 because we will be commencing a feasibility study at the end of this year,” PT Angkasa Pura I Corporate Secretary Farid Indra Nugraha revealed while signing a cooperation agreement with the Sintesa Group-SunEdison at the Grand Nikko Hotel on Tuesday.

The collaboration is part of the framework used in green technology, which will be initiated by the U.S. Commercial Services.

Meanwhile, Sintesa Group CEO Shinta Widjaja Kamdani said the solar panels capable of producing 15 megawatt (MW) of electricity will be installed at the Ngurah Rai Airport with an investment of US$45 million. She further pointed out that using solar panels will help reduce the use of electricity generated from fossils.

“It is expected to reduce carbon emissions by up to 200,000 tons,” Kamdani stated.

In addition to the Ngurah Rai Airport, airports in Surabaya, Makassar and Balikpapan are also expected to be converted into environment friendly airports later.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The United States launches on Tuesday a new $100 bill that comes with, for the iconic greenback, a new touch of color, as well as special features to foil counterfeiters.

In its first remake since 1996, the $100 banknote, which takes a key role in cash transactions for everyone from small traders to big drug traffickers worldwide, sports the traditional portrait of American Revolutionary War statesman Benjamin Franklin on the front.

On the back, too, it depicts Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776.

But it adds a yellowish “100” in one corner and, next to Franklin, a tan quill and bronze-colored inkwell that holds inside it the Philadelphia Liberty Bell in changing colors from darker brown to green, depending on the angle the note is held.

Cutting vertically through the middle of the banknote is a blue security ribbon that shows numerous small Liberty Bells and 100s printed in darker blue, which appear to move as the note is shifted.

While the feature appears like a hologram, the 100s and bells are actually microscopic in size and are enlarged by millions of micro-lenses printed on the note which make the figures appear to move, said Sonja Danburg, program manager in charge of currency education at the Federal Reserve.

The new design comes primarily to fight the increasing sophistication of counterfeiters, Danburg told AFP. “It’s our most global banknote. Between a half and two-thirds of them are circulating outside of the United States, and it’s also the most counterfeited of US denominations outside of the United States,” she said.

“We want to stay ahead of counterfeiting threats, we want to protect the public.”

Danburg said that counterfeiters, from small-time printers to state-sponsored crooks, remain a challenge though their production is small in contrast to the total amount of greenbacks in global circulation -- about $80 million last year, compared with about $1 trillion in US notes circulating.

The new $100 banknote, printed on the traditional cotton and linen paper with green and black ink, has other foils for copiers.

For instance, the design includes showing the back of Independence Hall, rather than the building’s front as before, so copiers cannot just use their old printing plates.

The government has printed 3.5 billion of the new banknotes, which will hit the streets in the United States on Tuesday.

It will take some days before banks that receive them from the Federal Reserve ship them to branches and counterparts around the world.

But the Federal Reserve wants to make sure users around the world recognize the new design as valid and do not reject them.

“People are relying on it not only as a medium of exchange for business or consumer transactions. It also offers a store of value. We want to make sure that everybody who is relying on US currency maintains that faith and confidence in it.”

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Situation at Ngurah Rai Airport before the APEC Summit 2013. By using solar power, Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport will become one of the world’s environmentally friendly aerodromes, an official said on Tuesday.

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Office workers walk past China Dream propaganda boards, showing messages pushed by the current Chinese President Xi Jinping’s administration, on display near a construction site in Beijing, China Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013.

US and China tussle for trade dominate at APEC Agence France-Presse

NUSA DUA - The United States stepped up efforts to reinforce its economic might in the Asia-Pacific at a regional leaders’ summit in Indonesia on Tuesday, amid warnings from an increasingly bold China.

The two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) event at a five-star resort on the tropical island of Bali is aimed at breaking down trade barriers among all 21 member economies, but rival agendas by the world powers have overshadowed the talks.

Filling in for US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry has lobbied for the quick signing of a mega free trade pact grouping 12 APEC nations but not China and summit host Indonesia.

“We need modern rules for a changing road, rules that keep pace with the speed of today’s markets,” Kerry said in a speech on the sidelines of the summit on Monday that was in large part a hard-sell for the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Kerry was set to meet the leaders of the 11 other nations involved in the TPP on Tuesday afternoon in a bid to hit an

against-the-odds deadline set by Obama for a deal by the end of this year.

The United States has championed the TPP as setting “gold standards” to deal with complex changes to the 21stcentury economy, such as how to police cloud computing and patents.

But China and even some developing nations included in the TPP have expressed concern that it will set down trade rules primarily benefiting the richest countries and most powerful firms.

“China will commit itself to building a trans-Pacific regional cooperation framework that benefits all parties,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a speech following Kerry at the APEC business forum.

“We should enhance coordination... deepen regional integration and avoid the spaghetti bowl effect so as to build closer partnerships across the Pacific.”

Xi’s comments were interpreted in

China’s state-run media on Tuesday as direct criticism of the TPP. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership, featuring confidential talks and the highest free trade standard beyond mere lower tariffs, is widely considered a new step for the US to dominate the economy in the Asia-Pacific region,” the China Daily newspaper said in a front-page report on Xi’s speech.

Indonesia also signalled its irritation at the huge focus on TPP at the APEC summit, shunting the planned meeting on Tuesday afternoon of the 12 nations involved to a hotel outside the official venue.

“We mind actually, and one of the reasons, at the very least, is we don’t want any coverage that will overshadow APEC,” an Indonesian government official told AFP, when asked about why the TPP countries had been told to meet outside.

Meanwhile, China and Indonesia are involved in plans for a rival free trade pact involving 16 countries around the region and being spearheaded by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Negotiations for that pact are expected to be discussed at an East Asia Summit in Brunei this week.

A year after subak included in WCH

Threatened by land conversion, status can be revoked Bali Post

DENPASAR - For more than a year subak in Bali has been included in the world cultural heritage (WCH). However, it is considered to have not brought in any benefits.

On the one hand, the inclusion of subak in the WCH can be the pride and blessing for Bali if it is indeed supported by real programs to maintain and preserve the subak.

But on the other hand, the WCH status is feared as it can even be disastrous. If Bali cannot maintain the existence of subak amid the land conversion and expansion of the tourism industry going on massively, exploitatively and greedily with the land and the environment, the status of subak as WCH can be evaluated and revoked back by the UNESCO. It was revealed in the roundtable discussion on the topic “A Year after Subak Included in the WCH” in Denpasar, Wednesday (Oct 2).

Chairman of the Society of Agribusiness and Agro-Industry (MAI) of Bali Chapter, AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, judged the government was still not serious to maintain and preserve the existence of subak denoting one of the uniqueness and

strengths owned by Bali in agriculture with all kinds of cultural richness that could shore up the Bali tourism industry. Ironically, after over a year the subak included in the WCH, there had been no real action and programs that had actually been touching the subak.

He did not deny the international award as WCH given to subak was the pride and blessing for Bali.

Unfortunately, it was not more than just a reward without being followed up with an effort to preserve subak. “Inclusion of subak in the WCH can be a blessing and calamity. If we are not able to preserve the subak amid the threat of massive land conversion so for the sake of tourism interest, the status of subak as WCH can be revoked. If this happens it will certainly become a bad track record for Bali. International community will assume us as a nation that cannot maintain the noble culture inherited over the centuries. It will certainly tarnish the image of Bali,” said Wiraputra doubling as Chairman of the Badung Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin).

Challenge to preserve subak and agriculture in wider context in Bali was very heavy. Moreover, the

government still lacked of budget.

Necessarily, said the Bali legislator candidate of Badung region, the government had to increase the agricultural budget and design a real program to implement the subak into the WCH. The government ideally involved private entrepreneurs having a concern with the field and increased the active role of community and agricultural technology.

“Incentives for farmers that can maintain their farmland should also be increased and there must be a real program for community empowerment,” he said while questioning to what extent the Management Council of Bali Cultural Heritage had been working to follow up the inclusion of subak in the WCH. Wayan Swastika from the Denpasar Agriculture, Food Crops and Horticulture Agency did not dismiss if many subak areas in Denpasar ‘collapsed’, namely converted into residential areas, tourist accommodation and others. “Problem of the urban agriculture in Denpasar has indeed been very complex, chiefly related to the increasingly decrease in farmland as well as the massive and uncontrollable land conversion,” he said.

Denpasar Municipality gave tax

relief in the form of subsidies for the land designated as green belt, but in fact such an effort could not stem the rate of increasingly massive land conversion. On the other hand, there were many small farmers (with land less than 5,000 sqm) whose condition was very worrying. They were faced with difficult choices namely maintaining the farmland with unsatisfactory results or selling the land or converting the land with tantalizing results. Such condition also kindled the rampant land conversion in Denpasar. Even, many subak areas had disappeared and only left a memory or nameplate.

“Now, only 41 subak areas remain to survive. They totally spread across 2,597 hectares, while the disappearing ones almost reach 150 hectares. The subak areas in critical condition and nearly disappear also remain a lot. On the other hand, the land fertility has also been declining and water discharge is getting smaller. So, it is difficult to develop the agriculture in Denpasar,” he said while adding that his party focused on the agriculture and provided horticulture training to deal with the problems.

Head of the Bali Institute for

Agricultural Technology (BPTP), AANB Kamandalu, said that his party also attempted to assist the government in terms of the agricultural technology so the Bali agriculture could get the touch of technology. Challenges to preserve subak and develop the agriculture in Bali related to the restrictedness of land owned by farmers. According to him, the results of survey indicated that ownership of farmland in Bali only reached 0.2 to 0.3 hectares (2,000-3,000 square meters). “Our problem is the decrease of land, so farmers must be equipped with technology,” he said.

He hoped all parties had a concern in preserving subak and realizing the subak community empowerment programs after it was included in the WCH. His party also suggested the government to make collaboration with local universities having the faculty of agriculture to jointly provide mentoring and transfer of the agricultural technologies to farmers. “Community and farmer empowerment programs of Bali government such as Gerbangsadu and Simantri must also be guarded, evaluated and improved through facilitation so this program will be on target,” he concluded. (kmb29)

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Clove tree

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Negara (Bali Post)— Eastern region of Jembrana, namely Pekutatan subdistrict, has a promising potential for plantation. One of the productions is clove.

Unfortunately, the average yearly production has not been able to meet the demand for factory. Besides, there is a far price range between factories and farmers.

A number of farmers in Pekutatan admitted the price was low compared to those purchased by cigarette factory. Each kilogram of dried clove was sold for about IDR 125,000-IDR 135,000. However, at the farmer level the price could

be cheaper. It happened due to long sales process passing through several buyers. From small to large collectors went through longer distribution chain.

“A collector purchases at Manggis Sari and then is sold to Pupuan.

The buyer in Pupuan sold it again to Singaraja and it is very long, isn’t it? This needs to be intensified in order the price is not much different,” said a member of Commission B of the Jembrana House, Nyoman Sandiyasa. The legislator from Pekutatan admitted the potential of clove in Jembrana was quite promising for plantation.

Moreover, there was a policy for factories not to import cloves and empowering the domestic products. Of the demand com-

Clove production unable to meet existing demand

ing to some 120,000 tons a year, Jembrana could just produce 80 percent, or approximately 100,000 tons. Besides, farmers had not enjoyed the same price as in the factory.

Meanwhile, the potential land for planting clove reached nearly 3,000 hectares, but only hundreds of hectares that had been productive and they were mostly located in Pekutatan. His party had also suggested the making of clove warehouses in each county, including in

Jembrana. Thus, it would facilitate the direct sales to factory and farmers obtained better price.

Additionally, the government should also encourage farmers to intensify their land for planting cloves. Many farmers originally planting cloves then replaced their plant because the price of clove dropped some time ago. Lately, when the price of clove started to rise, the plant became the leading commodity and farmers planted the clove again. (kmb26)

To resolve congestion, proposed to change school hours

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Crowdedness occurred on a number of road sections, especially those leading to schools, draws the attention of a number of people. Even, the discourse to change school hours comes to view again. One of the ways to break the congestion occurred on a number of road sections in Denpasar can be done by changing school hours, namely by putting it back or forward.

It was conveyed by a legislator of Commission B of the Denpasar House, I Wayan Suadi Putra, in his office on Monday (Oct 7).

Suadi Putra revealed that all this time the crowdedness occurred during peak hours between 07:00 a.m. through 08:00 a.m. “At these hours, the road sections in South Denpasar go through severe crowdedness, especially the road sections leading to schools,” he said.

Responding to such condition, he said, students who were driv-

ing vehicle greatly contributed to the crowdedness in Denpasar.

To minimize, it was required a discourse to change the school hours, particularly for junior high and high school. “Probably, this is one of the solutions to break the congestion,” said the politician from Sidakarya.

He said that during school hours as well as after school, condition of road sections at Sesetan, precisely at the intersection of Sesetan and Sidakarya (Pegok) was very crowded and it happened almost every day. Similarly, such severe condition also occurred at the junction of Jalan Pendidikan— Jalan Sidakarya – Jalan Dewata.

“Thus, I propose to delay the school hours for 30 minutes to 1 hour, so that it can be resolved. It is just applied to junior and senior high school,” he explained.

Previously, the Denpasar Transportation Agency had proposed an idea to change the school hours.

Even, the Transportation Agency planned to team up with a plan-

ning consultant to conduct a thorough study before making a decision.

The Head of Denpasar Transportation Agency, I Gede Astika, said the study was needed to ascertain to what extent the impact occurred when school hour of students was forwarded from the current schedule. “We do hope this study will give a clear outcome, whether it gives more positive impacts or adverse impacts. We need this first before making a decision,” said Astika.

Apart from involving a consultant team, his party had made socialization to schools through the Education Agency regarding the plan. Since the program would be dealing directly with the public, the socialization was expected to become a material of study for all parties. In other words, delivery of the program plan was expected to get inputs from all components of society, so that they could be used as a benchmark for decision making. (kmb12)

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Brazil demands explanation from Canada over spying report Reuters

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In this photo released by the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz meets Egyptian interim President Adly Mansour in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

Egypt’s president makes first trip to Saudi Arabia Associated Press Writer

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Egypt’s interim president visited Saudi Arabia on Monday for his first foreign trip, highlighting a regional realignment spurred by the military ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in Cairo.

Underscoring the tightening of relations between the two regional powerhouses, Adly Mansour was greeted in Riyadh airport by the kingdom’s Defense Minister and Crown Prince Salman.

Saudi Arabia has cemented itself as the new Egyptian leadership’s staunchest supporter since President Mohammed Morsi was ousted July 3, showering the interim gov-

ernment with $5 billion in critical aid and leading a foreign diplomacy blitz with Western nations to soften their stances toward the coup that ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected president.

Mansour met in Jiddah with King Abdullah, who was quoted in the state-run Saudi Press Agency after their meeting as saying his kingdom is “standing against any attempts to

touch Egypt’s internal affairs, particularly by the terrorists.”

Arab Gulf officials and their Egyptian counterparts often refer to members of former President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood group as terrorists. More than 2,000 Brotherhood members have been arrested in Egypt, most accused of inciting or taking part in violence.

Emboldened by Egypt’s fierce crackdown of the Brotherhood, several Arab Gulf states have also stepped up their clampdown of suspected Brotherhood members and Islamists, whom they see as a threat to the Gulf’s tightly run fraternity of monarchs, sheiks and emirs.

BRASILIA - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff demanded on Monday that Canada explain a media report that said it spied on Brazil’s Mines and Energy Ministry, and she called on the United States and its allies to stop spying over the Internet.

A Brazilian television report said on Sunday that Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency targeted the ministry that manages the South American nation’s vast mineral and oil resources. The report was based on documents leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

“That is unacceptable between nations that are supposed to be partners,” Rousseff said via Twitter. “We repudiate this cyber warfare.”

Rousseff, who canceled a planned state visit to the United

States this month because of previous reports that the NSA had spied on her telephone calls and emails, noted that Sunday’s report pointed to Canada’s interests in Brazilian mining, where many Canadian companies are active.

By targeting the mines ministry, Rousseff said, Canadian spying is nothing less than industrial espionage. She has rejected U.S. explanations that NSA spying is aimed solely at identifying terrorist threats and is not motivated by commercial interests.

“The United States and its allies must immediately stop their spying activity once and for all,” Rousseff tweeted.

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry summoned Canada’s ambassador to demand an explanation for what it called a “serious and unacceptable violation” of Brazilian sovereignty and the right to privacy of its citizens and companies, a ministry statement said.

AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff makes a statement during a ceremony with Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013.

Crew testifies about Concordia chaos, maneuver Associated Press Writer

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The traffic jam often happen in certain part of Denpasar, for that reason there is a plan to change the school hour

GROSSETO, Italy — A crew member of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia testified Monday that the nautical charts aboard the doomed ship were perfectly adequate to navigate the liner along its planned route, disputing claims by the captain on trial for the deaths of 32 people.

First Deck Officer Giovanni Iaccarino was the first witness called

by the prosecution in the case against Capt. Francesco Schettino, who is accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship before everyone was off. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Schettino is accused of taking the Concordia off its planned route on Jan. 13. 2012 and bringing it closer to the island of Giglio for so-called “tourist navigation” — a publicity-generating maneuver to

give passengers a close-up view of the Tuscan island.

Schettino has said the navigational charts on board didn’t show the “Scole” reef off Giglio, which sliced a 70-meter (230-foot) gash in the ship’s hull. After the grounding, the ship listed, drifted and eventually capsized off Giglio’s port.

Iaccarino was asked by one of the lawyers representing civil parties to the case if the charts on board the ship were adequate. “Yes,

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for a half-mile” away, he said. The reef was about a quarter-mile from shore.

A court-ordered analysis of the dynamics of the shipwreck made clear that the charts on board weren’t adequate for the close-toshore maneuver Schettino allegedly had ordered. It quoted one of the Concordia’s navigation chiefs as expressing concern that the charts weren’t detailed enough, even though he plotted the revised course

anyway.

Iaccarino said he was in a crewmate’s cabin using his Playstation when the ship ran aground. He said he ran to the bridge to discover the electronic panels all registering alarms that the ship had lost propulsion, but was surprised at the level of “calm” on the bridge.

“We told the bridge that everything was out of service but it didn’t seem that they realized the gravity of the situation,” he said.

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Twitter tunes in to TV partnerships ahead of IPO Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Victor Valenzuela, right, serves an espresso drink inside his ice cream truck on Friday, Sept.

20, 2013, in San Jose, Calif. Valenzuela is one of 111 food trucks financed with microloans from the San Jose-based Opportunity Fund.

Sloppy Silicon Valley techies find their style

NEW YORK — Americans don’t just watch TV anymore; they talk about it on Twitter. From the comfort of couches, they share reactions to touchdowns and nail-biting season finales — and advertisers and networks are taking note.

Examples of Twitter’s influence abound. The recent finale of “Breaking Bad” generated a record 1.24 million tweets. The conversation peaked at 22,373 tweets per minute according to analytics firm SocialGuide. People used the hashtag “GoodbyeBreakingBad” nearly 500,000 times. During this year’s Super Bowl, sports fans generated 24 million tweets about the competition and nearly half of the game’s nationally televised commercials contained hashtags that encouraged viewers to tweet.

Twitter, says Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at research firm eMarketer, “creates a community, a bond between people that doesn’t really exist without Twitter.”

As Twitter prepares for its initial public offering, the San Franciscobased company is also working hard to insert itself into the TV advertising economy. In recent months, the social networking company has forged partnerships with television content owners such as CBS, MTV and the NFL through a program it calls Amplify. The platform lets content owners beam real-time video clips to Twitter users who may have seen —or could be interested in — their TV programming.

It also allows marketers to communicate with viewers who saw their TV ads, extending commercial pitches to consumers’ smartphones and tablets.

TV tie-ins allow Twitter to diversify its revenue stream beyond the relatively small niche of digital advertising campaigns, a move that should appeal to potential investors. On Thursday, Twitter unsealed documents for a Wall Street debut that could take place before Thanksgiving. While the company did not reveal how much money it makes from its TV partnerships, it touted its own “strength as a second screen for television programming.”

Twitter wrote in its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that “45% of television ads shown during the Super Bowl used a hashtag to invite viewers to engage in conversation about those television ads on Twitter.”

Associated Press Writer

But that’s changing as a younger generation of engineers and designers have arrived seeking clothes that coordinate. “There’s definitely a shift happening here, and the age of the Silicon Valley culture has something to do with it,” said image professional Joseph Rosenfeld.

“As a generation,” he said, young professionals “tend to care more about style than engineers of the past.”

The market has responded to this new attitude among the region’s rising nerds, geeks and hackers with new online men’s stores, personal style consultants and an array of high-end shops at Northern California’s biggest mall. They’re catering to the emerging members of a creative industry who, nonetheless, are seeking something of a uniform.

“They’ll typically wear designer denim and a great button-up shirt by day, and throw on a sport coat at night to go to a cigar or wine

bar,” said Westfield Valley Fair mall general manager Matt Ehrie. “Silicon Valley’s dressy attire would be casual Friday in most other parts of the country.”

Josh Meyer, 30, a products manager at a leading high-tech firm, recognizes the generation gap. He said higher-level managers who have been in the industry for decades often wear baggy khakis and faded baseball shirts “like they’re going to a barbeque,” while millennials such as himself like to wear button-up dress shirts, “high-quality denim jeans with a roll at the bottom, nice shoes or possibly boots.” “I can pick out techies just walking down the street by these outfits,” he said.

The focus on men’s fashion has emerged in a sector where 3 of 4 workers are males. And it’s come late by comparison as women in technology have long faced style challenges.

Many have worked to strike a

casual, professional and creative balance, even as blogs and news stories regularly focus on the image of female high-tech executives — from the extraordinarily stylish Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, featured in last month’s Vogue magazine, to Facebook’s uber-chic chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Meanwhile, when men are similarly featured attention often shifts to casual attire — from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s famous hoodie to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ black turtleneck.

“As much as we want to think there isn’t a boys club, the Silicon Valley still feels very much run by men and there’s a difference in expectations,” says San Mateo-based image consultant Marina Sarmiento Feehan. “Women who rise to the top tend to be judged more, both by men and other women, and in order to succeed they do have to dress better.”

AP Photo/dpa, Soeren Stache, file

FILE - This Feb. 2, 2013, file photo shows a Twitter icon on the display of a smartphone in Berlin. The company tweeted Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, that it has “confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO.

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China to host APEC Summit 2014

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NUSA DUA - China has officially accepted the chairmanship of the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings and the administration of the capital city Beijing would develop infrastructure to support the event, said an official.

The director general of China’s foreign ministry for Beijing region, Zhao Huimin, said on Tuesday that China, as the host of APEC 2014 and the world’s second largest economy, has started its preparations. He assured the public that the facilities to be provided will meet international standards like in Indonesia this year.

“Preparations are continuously being made. The website has also been completed and other facilities are being prepared according to international standards,” he said.

The Chinese delegation earlier said activities of the APEC 2014 would include the APEC CEO Summit, the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) meeting, the China-APEC forum, APEC forum for small and medium sized businesses, APEC forum for young entrepreneurs, and a

discussion forum for ministers from relevant sectors and businessmen.

China said at the APEC CEO summit this year, its delegation was the biggest, totalling 200 out of 1,200 business leaders present.

Next year, the APEC Business Council would be immediately established to involve more Chinese businessmen.

Huimin said he cannot disclose the details of China’s economic agenda at APEC 2014.

However, it has been reported that discussions on China’s detailed agenda for APEC 2014 would commence after the APEC 2013 in Indonesia and it would be consolidated with other APEC economies.

Besides Beijing, Hong Kong has also been touted as the host of the APEC Financial Ministers Meeting in September 2014.

APEC leaders reiterate support for boosting infrastructure development Antara

SAN JOSE, California — The Silicon Valley has had a men’s fashion problem dating back to its founders. From their inception, tech companies went out of their way to be different — and that meant no more business suits. Thus brilliant innovations took place in the dumpiest of outfits as leather sandals, elastic-waist jeans and old T-shirts became ubiquitous.

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NUSA DUA - Leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries have reiterated their support for building more infrastructure in the region to improve connectivity.

“We share the view that greater connectivity will help reduce production and transportation costs, strengthen regional supply chains, and improve the business climate in the region. At the same time, infrastructure and connectivity building will create more jobs and ensure job security,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhyono said on Tuesday after the conclusion of the APEC Leaders Meeting 2013.

The economies in the Asia Pacific region reportedly need a total of US$850 billion to build infrastructure. This considerable amount of money needs to come from sizeable financial sources, which means the private sector. To meet this goal, the Indonesian President called for closer cooperation between the government and the private sector.

“A close collaboration will result in a win-win situation, especially at a time when the global economy is yet to fully recover,” he added.

Some big players in Asia Pacific have also been stating their interest in investing in infrastructure building in the region. Yasushi Takase, Japan’s Deputy Director General of the Economic Affairs Bureau had stated earlier that his country was willing to support infrastructure projects in the Asia Pacific.

“Enhancing connectivity is a very important issue for the region because this is the foundation for regional economic integration. We would like to make a contribution on this particular front,” he said.

Sharing Japan’s view, a Taiwan official said his country was also interested in boosting Asia-Pacific’s infrastructure sector.

“We want to participate in any project initiated within APEC,” Chung-Ming Kuan, Taiwan’s head of the Council for Economic Planning and Development, stated on Sunday on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali.

AP Photo/Mast Irham, Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping, wearing traditional Balinese “endek” costume, and his wife Peng Liyuan during a dinner hosted for leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) nations in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. China has officially accepted the chairmanship of the 2014 APEC meetings.

Japan PM all smiles with China, South Korea leaders

Agence France-Presse

NUSA DUA - Japan’s prime minister reached out to the leaders of China and South Korea at an Asia-Pacific summit, officials said Tuesday, shaking hands and exchanging greetings in a bid to overcome deep tensions.

Shinzo Abe managed a brief encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday and with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Tuesday as all three attended group meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Indonesia.

“I understand that he shook hands with the two leaders,” Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo.

“I think it’s good that the leaders see each other repeatedly and exchange greetings,” he said, after Abe staged similar encounters with Xi and Park at a Group of 20

summit in Russia last month.

There was no immediate comment from China or South Korea on the encounters, which fell short of Abe’s desire for full meetings with his neighbours’ leaders.

“I want to seize on an opportune time to exchange views” with them in Bali, Abe said in Tokyo on Sunday before leaving for the two-day APEC gathering, which ended on Tuesday.

“I want to send a message that the door of dialogue is always open.”

Abe has not held formal talks with the Chinese and South Korean leaders since taking office last December. Tokyo’s ties with its neighbours have been strained by territorial disputes and the legacy of Japan’s 20th century wartime aggression.

Abe’s brief handshake with Xi at the G20 in Saint Petersburg represented the first encounter between leaders of the two countries since relations took a nosedive

in 2012 over the ownership of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, a row that has led to warnings of a possible armed confrontation.

The last trilateral meeting among China, Japan and South Korea was in May last year in Beijing, when the trio’s previous generation of leaders gathered.

Japanese officials in Bali and Tokyo were not explicit about any words exchanged at the APEC summit, but Japanese media played up the encounters, noting that Abe was all smiles as he sat next to Park at the start of a summit session on Tuesday.

Relations between Japan and South Korea had appeared to warm in the first half of 2012.

But they turned icy in August with then South Korean president Lee Myung-Bak’s sudden visit to Seoul-controlled islands that lie in waters between the two countries.

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Anticipate transmission to infants

Pregnant women undergo HIV/AIDS test

Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Side event of APEC Summit 2013

Road access to Kertha Gosa closed for five hours

Semarapura (Bali Post)—

Existence of Kertha Gosa in Klungkung County is really a magnet for the APEC delegates in Bali. Having been visited by APEC delegates from youth representatives, such historical relic was then planned to be visited by delegates of the Side Event of APEC Summit 2013 on Tuesday (Oct 8). For smoothness of the agenda, the Klungkung community should be patient because a number of road sections to Kertha Gosa would be closed for five hours.

It was affirmed by Chief of Klungkung Police, Ni Wayan Sri Yudatni Wirawati, Monday (Oct 7). This only woman police chief in Bali said the closure of road access leading to Kertha Gosa was made from 1:00 p.m. It aimed to sterilize the situation around the Kertha Gosa. Thus, it would not interfere with the intended agenda. Security was provided in three rings, where the first ring would be filled

by Presidential Security Forces (Paspampres), then the second and third ring were filled by police and military lineups. The road section to be closed included Jalan Puputan, Jalan Untung Surapati, Jalan Diponegoro, Jalan Gajah Mada as well as other minor road sections leading to Kertha Gosa. “We estimate the road closure lasts to 5 o’clock

p.m., but depending on the situation at the field later. Hopefully, people can understand the condition,” she explained.

Previously, some officers of the Presidential Security Forces had gone back and forth to Klungkung to comb out the Kertha Gosa area since last Saturday. They also made coordination with Klungkung government related to dinner function of the delegates. As planned, there would be four delegates coming to Kertha Gosa, namely the Prime Minister of Salomon, President of Kiribati, Fijian Foreign Minister and Ambassador of the Marshal Island.

Acting Officer of Klungkung Regent, Tjokorda Gede Agung, said last Monday that sterilization was not only carried out at Kertha

Gosa area, but also at the area of Klungkung government to the office area of Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency. “Later, we will also showcase a variety of typical handicrafts of Klungkung such as the Kamasan classic painting, songket fabric, coins industry to coconut shell handicraft industry,” he explained.

The visit of Pacific leaders was scheduled to arrive in Klungkung around 3:00 afternoon. Prior to visiting Kertha Gosa, they would transit at the Klungkung government office, precisely at the waiting room of Regional Secretary of Klungkung. Then, the visit was directly resumed to Kertha Gosa accompanied by tour guide that would explain about the history of Kertha Gosa. Apparently, the delegates

were deliberately directed to come into Kertha Gosa from the north, so they would not know if the roof of Kertha Gosa was damaged. Similar treatment also took place when the APEC delegates of youth elements made a visit to Kertha Gosa on October 4.

Did Klungkung government not feel ashamed of receiving the APEC delegates in Kertha Gosa under such condition? Tjok Agung admitted that his party never felt ashamed. “We show it off as it is.

Obviously, we have tried to refurbish it through the main regional budget 2014. We have allocated a budget worth IDR 1 billion,” he explained.

He hoped with so great attention given by world community to the existence of Kertha Gosa, central government was also concerned with the condition of Kertha Gosa.

The Kertha Gosa claimed as the asset of Klungkung government needed a thorough refurbishment.

Moreover, the Klungkung regional budget could not afford the thorough refurbishment. (kmb31)

Pregnant women in Gerokgak subdistrict are constantly advised to undergo HIV/AIDS test when getting antenatal checkup for the first time at public health center. It is carried out to anticipate the transmission of the hazardous virus to infants.

Ketut Indrawati, a midwife at the Gerokgak Public Health Center II as well as counselor having high concern for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the region of Gerokgak, said that her party always briefed pregnant women in order to be vigilant against the transmission of HIV/AIDS. They were advised to have a HIV/AIDS test when getting checkup at Public Health Center. Even, every pregnant woman having checkup at Gerokgak Public Health Center II would automatically get a blood test to find out whether the mother had been infected by HIV/AIDS or not. “At the Gerokgak Public Health Center II, each pregnant woman will be tested because the health center has owned a VCT service,” she said.

Indrawati said her party had found a pregnant woman with HIV/AIDS. It happened because the husband of the housewife was at high risk of being infected by HIV/AIDS. Having been found, the birth of the baby could be handled with special treatment so it was not infected by HIV/AIDS. Besides, she also found a couple with HIV, but they did not want to seek treatment so far.

Fortunately, their child was known not to get infected to date because it had been given special home treatment.

“It’s a pity, the couple has not yet been willing to seek treatment because they feel healthy,” she said.

As reported previously, up to August 2013 the cumulative data of HIV in Buleleng County showed there were 1,801 cases. Meanwhile, the average case finding ranged from 20 to 25 every month at 4 VCT services available in Buleleng. During the period of January to September 2013, averagely four people died of AIDS every month belonging to productive age from 21 to 40 years old. (kmb15)

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BHA joins international coastal cleanup

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SEMINYAK - Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali in conjunction with Bali Hotels Association (BHA) proudly instigated the International Coastal Cleanup campaign by clearing debris along Seminyak Beach. BHA members were encouraged to participate and be part of the solution to help protect this popular coastal strip.

Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup has developed over the past 25 years to become the world’s largest volunteer effort for ocean health. Each year millions of eco-friendly warriors from all over the world help to clear trash from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers and oceans. Thanks to these volunteers recording every article collected, Ocean Conservancy gains accurate insight into the manufactured items which are impacting our planet’s health.

Cleanups alone can’t solve this pollution problem. Nevertheless, the Ocean Trash Index provides a snapshot of what’s polluting our oceans so we can work to prevent specific items from reaching the

water in the first place.

BHA members together with Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali, Rotary Club Seminyak, media representatives and a numbers of local schools gathered at 7am to clean the beach for one hour. The “Green Army” covered a distance of 2 kilometres picking up all kinds of rubbish along the way. Plastic bags, containers, cutlery, cans, cigarettes and household waste as well as abandoned shoes and fishing debris were just some of the 7,565 items collected. The total trash haul ended up weighing in at over 142,6 kilograms.

“Bali Hotel Associations is extremely proud to take part in this eco-friendly initiative. It isdirectly in

line with our objective, which is to continuously strive to find ways to support programs that protect the environment,” commented Alessandro Migliore, Chairman of the Bali Hotels Association.

“We hope that our actions will encourage locals and tourists alike to take note and assume responsibility for the daily consumption of one-time products that effectively contribute to the ocean trash problem. We would very much like to start a ripple effect that gets everyone thinking about this issue,” continues Alessandro.

Christiane Wasfy, General Manager of Anantara Seminyak Bali Resort & Spa and BHA board member in charge of environmental affairs commented, “The International Coastal Cleaning initiative is a program that is very close to all of our hearts. Anantara Seminyak Bali Resort & Spa together with the Rotary Club has driven this program for 4 years now. We are pleased to be able to collaborate with BHA for a greater degree of support this year. Our team has worked incredibly hard to coordinate all aspects of

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the initiative so that the final report can be submittedto the International Coastal Cleaning Organization.”

The International Coastal Cleaning campaign involved members of BHA; Anantara SeminyakBali Resort & Spa, Anantara Vacation Club Seminyak Bali, The Oberoi Bali, The Royal BeachSeminyak Bali, The Breezes

Calendar Event for October 4 through 28, 2013 4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Seloding Besakih Pura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih 6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayuputih Buleleng 8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi Bangli Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Taro Tegalalang Pura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup Pura manik Bingin Sidemen 9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande Bangli Pura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh Abiansemal Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan Gianyar Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Jakatebel Merajan Pasek Prateka Batusesa Merajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon Cemenggon Pura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.

Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Linggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih 17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Petemon Merajan Pasek Gelgel Melinggih Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih 19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Meru Cakra Lombok Pura Lempuyang Madya Karangasem Pura Penerejon Kintamani Pura Pulaki Buleleng Pura Tirta Empul Tampak Siring Pura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Tirta Negari Singapadu

Pura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub Sukawati Pura Penataran Agung Tegallalang Pura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji Batubulan Pura Puseh Singakerta Ubud Pura Nataran Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan Ubud Pura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami Braban Pura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh Krambitan Pura Pasek Bendesa Mas Gadungan Selemadeg Pura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Selemadeg Pura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem Karangasem Pura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow Sulut Pura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang Karangasem Pura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukaluwih Tejakula Buleleng Pura Pasraman Suci Renon Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Jakarta Pura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang Buleleng Pura Ulun Danu Batur Songan Kintamani Pura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura Papua Pura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung Denpasar Merajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh Denpasar Pura Pejengaji Tegalalang Pura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Kerambitan Pura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang Karangasem Pura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung Tengah Pura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh Kerambitan Pura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karangasem Pura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon Kapal Pura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem Pura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga Buleleng Pura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa Penida Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani Pura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh kerambitan Pura Penataran Ubud

Pura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken Blahbatuh Pemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu Buleleng Pura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel Sukawati Pura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung BaturningMambal Abiansemal 22 Oct Penampahan Galungan

23 Oct Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang, NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta Timur Pura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur.

24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru Tabanan Pura Lempuyang Luhur Karangasem Pura Kentel Gumi Klungkung Pura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel Tabanan Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Tiyingan Merajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, Badung Pura Luhur Cemenggon, Sukawati Pura Pasek Ubung Denpasar 26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara Jembrana Pura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung 27 Oct Redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti Batubulan Pura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung 28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah Selemadeg Pura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gianyar Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan Busungbiu Pura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan

Bali Resort & Spa, Harris Resort Kuta Beach, SDN 1 Seminyak, SDN 2 Seminyak, and Rotary Club Seminyak.

Other members like Grand NikkoBali, Mercure Bali Nusa Dua, Maya Ubud Resort & Spa as well as Aerowisata Sanur Beach Hotel also participated by cleaning up beaches in different locations.

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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MACAU — Nicolas Cage, accepting a film award in China, says he’s enjoying the warmth and enthusiasm he feels while working there on a new film.

Cage was named Best Global Actor in Motion Pictures at China’s Huading Awards on Monday night. Nicole Kidman, honored as best global film actress, wore a black Prada dress while she walked the red carpet in Macau alongside Hong Kong legend and pal Jackie Chan. Cage has been shooting “Outcast” in Hong Kong with Hayden Christensen.

“I believe in the genius loci of a place, the genie of the place is what I call it. I absorb that energy and it affects performance wherever I go,” Cage said on the red carpet. “... Making a movie in China, I’m buzzing with good energy, I feel great here. I love the people I’m working with, I love the crew, and there’s a genuine warmth and enthusiasm that I

get from my conversations.”

Quentin Tarantino, whose “Django Unchained” was released last year, was named Best Global Director in Motion Pictures.

“I’ve been a fan of Asian cinema my whole life growing up. I did my movie ‘Kill Bill’ as a complete tribute to my love for it and so to come here amongst the Chinese film industry, get this from the Chinese fans is a dream come true,” said Tarantino.

Television awards went to Matthew Perry of “Friends” and “Downton Abbey” actress Michelle Dockery, who were among the attendees who left a handprint on star-shaped plaques for Macau’s Avenue of Stars.

“Avatar” star Sam Worthington, who received an award for Best Global Ac-

NEW YORK — The foreign language Oscar competition this year will be wider than it ever has been before.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday that a record 73 countries, plus Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Palestinian territories, have submitted their entries to the Academy Awards.

The acclaimed “Wadjda” from Saudi Arabia, about an 11-year-old girl’s quest to obtain a bicycle, is the country’s first submission. “All God’s Children” is also the first entry from Moldova. Montenegro, previously a part of Yugoslavia, submitted a film for the first time as an independent country: “Ace of Spades.”

Entries are restricted to one per country and some nations’ choices were at odds with the film community.

China opted to submit the patriotic drama “Back to 1942” rather than Jia Zhang-ke’s festival favorite “A Touch of Sin.” The film, which depicts inequality in contemporary China, won best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Two other well-received films, Japan’s “Like Father, Like Son” and India’s “The Lunchbox,” weren’t cho-

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Actor Nicholas Cage poses with his award after he won the Best Global Actor in Motion Pictures award at the 10th Huading Awards ceremony in Macau, Monday, Oct, 7, 2013.

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In this Thursday Oct. 3, 2013 photo, British Sean Ellis, writer-director of “Metro Manila” - Britain’s nominee to the Oscar Awards’ best foreign language film, poses by his film’s poster prior to its premier screening at a cinema in Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines. sen by their respective home countries.

Japan instead opted for “The Great Passage,” while India chose “The Good Road.”

Last year, Michael Haneke’s Frenchlanguage “Amour,” an entry from Austria, won the Oscar best foreignlanguage film. Haneke’s drama was the overwhelming front runner, but this year’s competition is considered wide open. Notables include Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Hunt” (Denmark), Asghar Farhadi’s “The Past” (Iran), Amat Escalante’s “Heli” (Mexico) and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty” (Italy). The entries will be whittled

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tion Movie Actor, shared that his plans for next year include filming sequels of Academy Award-winning science fiction epic.

“Well, we start filming next year. We do ‘Avatar 2’, ‘Avatar 3,’ ‘Avatar 4.’ Then they’ll come out Christmas concurrently kind of thing, different Christmases. I’m not too sure where we’re shooting at the moment. I know they’re still writing it.

I know Jim (director James Cameron) loves China, loves it,” he said, referring to questions about returning to China.

“Those types of films, if we get the opportunity to work here that’ll be great.

We’ll see what happens.”

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The foreign language category voting process has often been criticized, particularly for its practice of allowing the initial choices to be made by national selection committees. In an effort to smooth out the final selection, all academy members will for the first time be allowed to vote on the foreign language film category.

Previously, voting was limited to members who viewed all five nominees in a theater. DVD screeners of the nominees will be sent to members this year.

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Host country Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, center wearing blue, and his wife Ani stand with other leaders of the Asia-Pacific region and their respective spouses, wearing traditional Balinese “endek” costume.

APEC leaders agree to accelerate achievement of Bogor Goals

“With the commitment, we have reiterated the importance

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NUSA DUA - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders agreed on Tuesday on the urgent of hampering protectionist measures through the World Trade need for accelerating efforts to achieve the “Bogor Goals” set out during the APEC Summit held in Organisation (WTO) mechanism and other international organisations,” he said.

1994 in Bogor, Indonesia.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who presented the results of the APEC Summit 2013, which was held in Nusa Dua, Bali, from October 1 to 8, stated that the APEC leaders’ commitment would be in line with providing opportunities to all parties.

“Through long discussions, we have agreed on a number of strategic points. We have common views that all APEC economies must be able to enjoy equal benefits stemming from the cooperation among APEC economies,” he said, while being flanked by 21 APEC leaders.

Bogor Goals were agreements formulated during the APEC Summit held in Bogor in 1994, which was one of the main agendas discussed at the latest APEC Summit in Bali.

Some of the Bogor Goals that need to be achieved

by 2020 are liberalization of trade and investment, business facilitation and economic and technical cooperation.

The agreement also includes support for the completion of the Doha round, boosting efficiency of logistics chain by up to 10 percent and implementing a reduction in barriers for environmental-friendly goods by 2015.

Leaders also expressed their commitment to fighting protectionism, which hinders the world’s economic trade and growth.

“We have agreed to extend our commitment till 2016 and reaffirmed our efforts to alleviate protectionism and trade limitations,” said SBY. Twenty-one economic leaders of the APEC region also expressed their determination to not limit trade with domestically oriented policies.

Director General of WTO Roberto Azevedo, who came as an invitee to the summit, earlier encouraged the 21 APEC economic leaders to adopt a multilateral trade system.

“APEC consists of countries that are big economic players and traders. I believe they have always actively supported a multilateral trade system,” he said, after attending a panel session with APEC ministers on Saturday.

Indonesia has also been encouraging an increase in multilateral service trade in the Asia-Pacific region and the development of APEC connectivity to support connectivity in ASEAN and Indonesia.

APEC is an economic cooperation forum involving 21 economies in the Asia-Pacific region aimed at promoting free trade and economic cooperation in the region.

The forum was established in 1989 and the summit in Bali is the second hosted by Indonesia after the event in Bogor, West Java, in 1994.