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Monday, September 23, 2013

Miley Cyrus performs at IHeartRadio music festival

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LAS VEGAS — Miley Cyrus can’t stop. The pop singer was a crowd favorite at the iHeartRadio music festival day event Saturday in Las Vegas. Before she hit the stage, the crowd of a few hundred chanted: “Miley! Miley! Miley!”

The 20-year-old emerged onstage in all white, wearing a tight corset and high wasted shorts that revealed some of her backside. Her four-song set opened with the anthemic “We Can’t Stop,” where people onstage were dressed in flower, mushroom and rainbow costumes. She gyrated and slapped a dwarf-sized dancer’s butt onstage. She followed the colorful performance with “Party In the USA.” But it was her emotional rendition of “Wrecking Ball” that was her set’s highlight. Cyrus’ mascara was running as she left the stage after the song and the performance comes days after she announced she was no longer engaged to actor Liam Hemsworth. She thanked the audience for helping the song top the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week.

“I couldn’t have done it without all you guys,” she said. Cyrus broke a record with the debut of the song’s provocative video, which features her in the nude. It became the fastest music video to reach 100 million views on VEVO. The wild child singer said she knows “things I’m doing that’s getting me into trouble and it’s just me doing what my heart and soul is telling me what to do.” Everything she’s done is “inspired by the music,” she said.

Photo by Al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision /AP Cyrus, who will release her new album “Bangerz” Miley Cyrus performs at IHeartRadio Music Village, Saturday, next month, also sang a cover of Melanie’s “Look Sept. 21, 2013 in Las Vegas.

What They’ve Done to My Song.” The guitar tune

Rihanna poses with protected primate in Thailand Associated Press Writer

that led police to arrest two people for allegedly peddling protected primates.

BANGKOK — Pop star Rihanna On a break from her Diamonds World Tour, Rihanna stopped in Thailand to visit the island of Phuket, where she befriended some local wildlife.

She posted a link on Twitter to an Instagram photo that showed her in sunglasses snuggling up to a furry primate called the slow loris, and tweeted Friday: “Look who was talkin dirty to me!”

The slow loris, a squirrel-like animal with big eyes, is native to Southeast Asia and is listed as a protected species.

“Phuket authorities were alerted to the picture (of Rihanna), and last night police arrested the two individuals who brought out the loris as a photo opportunity for tourists,” a Phuket district chief, Weera Kerdsirimongkon, said by telephone Sunday.

Police confiscated two lorises from the pair — a 20-year-old man and a 16year-old boy — who could face charges AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File of possession of protected animals.

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 10, 2013 file photo, singer-songwriter The charge carries a penalty of up to Rihanna performs at “Le Sporting” in Monaco during her “Diamonds four years in prison and a 40,000 baht World Tour” to Europe. ($1,300) fine. spent a weekend at the beach in Thailand, leaving behind a trail of racy tweets and incriminating Instagram photographs

featured lyrics like “They think I’m half insane” and “I wish I could find a book to live in.” Cyrus has been added as one of the main performers for the second night at iHeartRadio’s festival at the MGM Grand Arena, joining a list that includes Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Paul McCartney and Drake. Elton John, Katy Perry and Chris Brown performed Friday.

Saturday’s day line-up also featured Jason Derulo, Avril Lavigne, The Wanted, The Band Perry and others.

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Balinese dancers performed Balinese dance during a ritual ceremony at Besakih Temple.

Governor may not sell off and exploit Besakih Temple

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DENPASAR - Inclusion of Besakih Temple in the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) based on proposal of Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika was not only opposed by the academicians and the Hindu Dharma Council (PHDI) of Bali, but also by the circles of Bali House.

A number of legislators reminded Pastika not to think too pragmatically to sell off and exploit the temple area for the sake of tourism. Moreover, the proposal on the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN was absolutely without discussion in the Bali House and

the governor seemed to take action alone.

“Do not sell off everything.

Never exploit the Besakih Temple.

I do not agree if the Besakih Temple is included in the KSN,” said Chairman of Commission III of the Bali House, Gusti Made Suryanta

Putra.

The politician fondly called Sena claimed just to know about the inclusion of Besakih into the KSPN from media because there had been no discussion in the Bali House about it. He also regretted why there was no coordination with the House. “We do not know at all and there has been no prior discussion in the House. Necessarily, it should first involve all parties,” said Sena.

This PDI-P politician strongly criticized the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN. He asked

the policy should be reviewed or even revoked. “The sanctum area should not automatically be sold off like that. Never exploit temples as tourist attraction. All this time, our temple has become tourist attraction in unwritten manner. Hopefully, it is not directly included in the KSPN. Let the temple be a Hindu spiritual place,” he protested.

When the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN had reaped rejection from various elements of society, his party hoped the Governor of Bali, Bali House,

PHDI, Karangasem government, community leaders and other components of Besakih to sit together.

Inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSNP might not be let disrupt the Hindus to worship and even injure the temple sanctity or become a boomerang and kindle the arrival of investment infringing the spatial plan. “The governor should listen first to the people’s aspirations.

If there are a lot of rejections, it should be proposed to revoke the status,” said the politician from Tabanan.

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Monday, September 23, 2013

Bali News

Seven South Asian countries learn about woman culture in Bali Gianyar (Bali Post)—

One of the short cut which is still being worked by Tabanan Government

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Shortcut project accelerated

Denpasar-Gilimanuk traffic stays uncertain Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The deadly Denpasar-Gilimanuk path passing through Tabanan began to get the attention from central government. At least, three shortcut or flyover projects were built at this path. Unfortunately, despite the project is accelerated, the traffic flows in the shortcut path remains uncertain.

The three shortcuts built are respectively over the Yeh Ho River (East Selemadeg), Yeh Lambuk River (Selemadeg) and Samsam (Kerambitan). The accelerated implementation is targeted to be in operations next year.

However, the previous path has not been ascertained to be functioned. “We have not been able to perform the study. It’s a national road, so the traffic engineering authority lies in central government,” said the Head of the Tabanan Transportation, Communication and Informatics Agency, Made Agus Hartawiguna, Saturday (Sep 21).

According to him, the study and traffic engineering of the three shortcuts would be held by the Ministry of Transportation through the Institute of Road and Lake Traffic. Representative of the Ministry of Transportation had existed in Bali. However, Agus said there had been no specific discussion related to the traffic engineering plan.

“So far, there has been no discussion how the traffic will look like later on,” said the former subdistrict head of West Selemadeg.

Nevertheless, Agus ensured the pres-

ence of the three shortcuts would reduce congestion and accidents on the DenpasarGilimanuk deadly pathway because location of the shortcut projects was the most accident-prone. Winding path and sharp climb condition required a shortcut. Agus said the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section belonged to national category of number two because it had the most climbs and sharp turns. Then, the traffic accidents that frequently occurred at the location were like truck rolling up to plunging into the abyss. Later on, the rugged terrain would be replaced with shortcut.

Aside from the shortcut, the cargo delivery could be made by sea. Moreover, most cargos transported through the DenpasarGilimanuk route were mostly unloaded in Denpasar area. “However, it is not an easy policy because the cargo transportation cannot be easily diverted to sea line,” he said.

Opening of the road section of Soka (Selemadeg) heading for Kuta (Badung) can be another solution to overcome death pathway of Tabanan. (kmb30)

Seven countries in South Asia learned about Balinese woman culture in Gianyar.

A total of 14 delegates learned about the culture, tourism, economy and so on in the business premises located at the Family Income Improvement Endeavor (UPPKS) Dahlia performed by Balinese women located at Dangin Jalan hamlet, Guwang village, Sukawati subdistrict.

Muhammad Bawardadi from the International Training Center of the National Family Planning Coordinating Agency (BKKBN) said the delegates comprising 14 people were from seven developing countries. The visit to Bali and Gianyar in particular was a part of the field activities

of the delegates who had previously got briefing in Jakarta for two (2) days. The delegates were directly led to womam empowerment program in improving the livelihoods of families. One of the delegates, Aishath Ibahath, from Maldives visiting Bali for the first time recognized the woman empowerment was very good and had been carried out since long ago because it was in harmony with Balinese culture.

Chairperson of the Women Empowerment and Family Planning (PP&KB) of Gianyar County, Ida Ayu Ambari, hoped of the arrival of the delegates would also indirectly promote the tourism potential of Gianyar to their country. (kmb16)

Patient of Bali Mental Hospital rises Bangli (Bali Post)—

Number of patients undergoing treatment at the Bali Mental Hospital (RSJ) in Bangli shows an increase through the years. Evidently, the data owned by the Mental Hospital indicate an increase in the number of patient both the outpatient and inpatient treatment reaching hundreds of people a year. They indicate the mental health of Balinese people continues to decline from year to year.

Based on the data from the past five years, the outpatient treatment in Bangli continues to show a significant increase. As recorded, a total of 7,087 patients were treated in 2008, then 7,989 patients (2009), 829 patients (2010), 15,943 patients (2011) and 19,923 patients (2012). Meanwhile, the number of patient hospitalized in 2008 reached 4,451 people, 4640 people (2009), 4,920 people (2010), 5,234 people (2011) and 5,060 people (2012). Then, until September this year, the number of patient hospitalized increased 308 people.

According to the Division Head of the Medical Services of the Bali Mental Hospital, I Wayan Sukrata, the increasing number of patient was caused by several factors. Aside from the increase in the community mental disorders, it could also be caused by higher level of public awareness to check their mental condition to Mental Hospital. In spite of the factors, he added, in general there were several factors causing mental disorders in the community.

Some of them were genetic or hereditary factor, parenting, stress in life and environmental factor, including socio-economic factor.

To recover the psychiatric condition of patients, all this time the Mental Hospital strived to provide a number of services, both the inbuilding services including for the outpatient

and inpatient care and outside the building services such as the integrated services to a number of clinics in Bali. “There are home visit and home care for patients with problems. For example, patients rarely making control often get recurrent and so forth,” said Sukrata.

Related to the persistence of mental patients put in the stocks by society, Sukrata also recognized the increasing cases from year to year.

In 2012, a total of 32 cases of mental disorder patient in the stocks could be treated properly.

Such amount had increased in 2013. As of September this year, his party had handled 38 patients with mental disorder in the stocks. The amount could possibly increase due to high stigma against people with mental disorders in the community. “A lot of people are still embarrassed when having family members suffering a mental disorder so that they are kept secret and do not get optimal treatment,” he said.

Specifically for the treatment of patients in the stocks, explained Sukrata, there were differences in the matter of handling compared to the other psychiatric patients. Patients in the stocks were also usually accompanied by physical abnormalities, such as injuries and some had contractures or stiffness in the joints due to prolonged stocks. “Therefore, patients in the stocks, other than in need of mental handling, also need treatment for their physical abnormalities. As the causes are complex, then the handling of patients with mental disorders including those in the stocks requires cooperation of various parties such as the Mental Hospital with the Health Agency along the staff, Social Affairs, the regent along the staff and Social Services, including the security forces,” he said while adding that his party would strive to accomplish the Stocks-free Bali Program in 2014. (ina)

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Monday, September 23, 2013

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Trisna Jayanti win Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2013 IBP

KUTA - Hard Rock Hotel Bali officially introduces Ms. Trisna Jayanti (Ina) as the winner of Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2013. Crowned during the Grand Final Night at Centerstage, 16 September 2013, Ina won the coveted title after becoming the best in all criteria. Prior to the Grand Final Night, the finalists were introduced to the public on Friday, 13 September, at the Finalist Midori Foam Party on Saturday, 14 September; and challenge events all the way until the final night. Ina will follow the success of former Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2012, Keiza Irene.

Ina, 22, is a Balinese with strong cultural influence. Ina is currently studying at Universitas Udayana majoring in Information Technology. Ina and her siblings were taught the Balinese dances ever since they were little at the age of 3. During the Opening Night and Grand Final Night, Ina chose to dance Oleg Tamulilingan, which is a Balinese dance depicting a love story.

The first runner-up is Glady Laksmi and the second runner-up is Anastasia Dewi, both from Denpasar. The three ladies will perform the duties as the Top 3 Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2013. The ladies achieved the highest scores in the criteria of Talent, Hard Rock Knowledge and Music Appreciation.

Andrew Khoo, General Manager of Hard

Rock Hotel Bali explains, “We are proud to introduce Ina to the world and to every Hard Rock enthusiasts. We believe Ina will carry out her duties well and make Bali proud.”

The winning ladies will represent Bali at the Ms. Hard Rock South East Asia 2013, to be held at Hard Rock Pattaya, from 4th- 6th October 2013. The regional competition will be held for the second time after the event’s first inception last year at Hard Rock Penang. Ina, Glady and Anastasia will compete against the other winners in local competitions held in Pattaya and Penang. Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2013 is supported by Blue Glue bikinis, Midori and Jim Beam.

Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013 24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuninng Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcangkring Tabanan Pura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang Pura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klungkung Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pamerajan Alit Ubud Pura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Banjar Denuma Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Dalem batur Bangli Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Besakih Pura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi Badung Pemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud 3 Sep Anggarkasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang 4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan 9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba

Kediri Tabanan Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin Lembongan Pura Batu Medeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba 11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksiring 12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Desa Guwang Sukawati Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu Karangasem Pura Pedharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamani Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar 25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli 28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

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

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

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

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

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

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Luxury river cruise opens up mysteries of Myanmar Associated Press Writer

us immediately felt relaxed.

Over the next 12 days we will tour sights rarely seen by foreign tourists: villages left back in time, gilded pagodas filled with Buddhist statues, thousands of them long neglected.

My cabin is spacious, with hardwood floors, fresh flowers and a walk-in closet. Best of all are the glass sliding doors facing the wide river, where one can lie in bed and watch the world glide by.

We travel first for six hours along the mighty Irrawaddy River, more than 400 meters (yards) wide. The shores are almost level with the land, the brush low with a few large trees.

Every hut or fishing boat we pass generates loud greetings. Groups of children wave and call. Water taxis carry passengers from one riverside village to the next, and huge, heavy boats laden with teak head downstream.

When we reach the confluence

Bali News

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Miss World final sets at BNDCC Antara

DENPASAR - The final round of the Miss World 2013 beauty pageant is to be held at Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center in Badung district on Saturday, September 28. “The finals will be staged at BNDCC,” chairwoman of Miss Indonesia Organization Liliana Tanoesoedibjo said.

The finals are to be broadcast to 160 countries, she said.

She also said that following the coronation of Miss World 2013 on Saturday, the winner is scheduled to meet with members of the media at Mangpura Hall at Bali International Convention Center in Nusa Dua. Initially the contest was to be held in Bali, with the final round in Sentul, Bogor, West Java. But following protests from Muslim organizations, the government requested that the entire pageant be hosted in Bali.

The contest includes 130 participants from across the world.

MANDALAY, Myanmar — After closing its doors to the West for half a century, Myanmar has reopened, inviting all to come and discover its treasures, ancient palaces of kings long gone, legends and mysteries told in stone. And the world is expected to come.

These are the early days, perhaps the best, and with illequipped roads and railways, there is no better way to explore than by river. Public ferries crisscross through glistening green paddies; old teak fishing boats can be rented by the day.

And now, there is the luxury riverboat cruise. In late July, the Orcaella made its maiden voyage on a 1,600kilometer (994-mile) journey deep into Myanmar’s interior, almost to the border of India. It is operated by the Orient Express, the group that runs luxury hotels, trains and boats globally.

It’s not a handsome ship from the outside. As the cruise’s first 30 travelers board in Mandalay, it seems squat and square and a bit worn out. But once we step over the gangplank and enter the roomy lounge, our impression changes completely. Totally remodeled from the hull up and gracefully furnished, it is a space where all of

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Pray for peace

Meanwhile, on Saturday, Miss World 2013 contestants prayed for world peace and harmony at the World Peace Monument in Kertalangu cultural village.

“This prayer is for the commemoration of World Peace Day that falls on Saturday (Sept 21),” Liliana said.

She added that the mass prayers, which were led by a number of priests and religious leaders, were organized by a group that has been created by the organizer to promote world peace.

“The program has been carried out since 1982 by the United Nations. This did not happen all of sudden or accidentally but (through it) we, as human beings, wish to preserve harmony in the world,” she said.

The contestants participating in the prayers wore white dresses as they prayed according to their faiths.

“We must celebrate that all unite for peace, (and are) peaceful towards each other. We live in this world and so must create peace,” the contestant from Britain, Kristy Heslewood, said.

She said to help create peace, she wished to help others who are not as fortunate by providing humanitarian aid.

When asked about the many conflicts throughout the world, Kristy said people should help, understand and love each other.

“We must work together and understand each other’s religion and culture. The more we can accept others, the greater the chance will be for us to be able to live side by side and love each other,” she said.

Besides praying together, the contestants also planted trees around the village, including coconut, mango and frangipani trees.

To recognize peace, the contestant from Indonesia, Vania Larissa, and Miss World 2012, Wenxia Yu, representing all contestants, struck the gong of peace.

Contestants also released white balloons and doves as symbols of peace.

AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe

In this Sept. 16, 2013 photo, villagers transport merchandises in a river close to Buthidaung in Rakhine state, Myanmar. with the Chindwin River, we meet our first obstacle. The captain slows our 25-cabin ship to a near-standstill and struggles to navigate around a small whirlpool. The shifting sandbanks

make it difficult to read the riverbed.

Eventually we pass, continuing north on the Chindwin along the melted waters of the Himalayas.

We slice through sandstone cliffs

and patches of forest, but this is rare. For long stretches, sometimes days at a time, the view is more monotonous than I would have imagined.

Dragons rise by light of the full moon 3 sisters reunited in NY Associated Press Writer

HONG KONG — Straw “fire dragons” smoldering with tens of thousands of incense sticks have been visiting Hong Kong neighborhoods to bestow blessings on residents. The tradition began in the 19th century when, as legend has it, villagers stopped a plague with

a fire dragon dance. Now, it’s one of many traditions that residents of Hong Kong enjoy as the city celebrates the mid-autumn festival, one of the biggest holidays in the ethnic Chinese world.

The autumn harvest festival — a cross between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day — is celebrated on the 15th day of the eight month of AP Photo/Vincent Yu

In this Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 photo, a full moon rises over a building, a day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong. The autumn harvest festival, which is a cross between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day, is celebrated on the 15th day of the eight month of the Chinese lunar calendar, when the moon is at its roundest and brightest.

the Chinese lunar calendar, when the moon is at its roundest and brightest. The festival dates back hundreds if not thousands of years.

This year it fell on Sept. 19.

Other customs and traditions accumulated over the centuries. The holiday is also known as the Mooncake Festival because one of the most popular rituals is exchanging mooncakes, round pastries traditionally filled with lotus seed or red bean paste and salted duck egg yolk.

The roundness symbolizes a family reunion while the yolk represents the moon. Chang’e, the moon goddess of immortality, is a common figure on mooncake boxes.

Lighting lanterns is also a popular tradition, and the lanterns themselves can come in the shape of animals or other objects from nature. The festival’s romantic aspect comes with being associated with a god linked to a matchmaking practice. Above all the festival is a time for families to gather and pray for another year of good fortune.

after 73-year separation Associated Press Writer

PEMBROKE, N.Y. — Three sisters have been reunited in western New York some 73 years after their mother abandoned the older two and disappeared with the youngest sister.

The Daily News of Batavia reported Saturday that the sisters — 80-year-old Joan Billings, 78-year-old Shirley Mortellaro and 77year-old Mary Kidwell — were reunited this month after decades of searching for each other.

The sisters’ story begins in 1940 in Toronto, where their father was in the Canadian Air Force. The sisters told the newspaper that when their father was away, their mother would put them in the bedroom and tell them to stay there while she went partying.

One day, the sisters said, they caught their mother with a boyfriend and told their father. A fight ensued and the mother packed quickly and left with her youngest daughter. The two older sisters settled in western New York — Billings in Albion and Mortellaro in Pembroke — while Kidwell ended up in Columbus, Ohio.

Billings and Mortellaro both married, Billings twice. Billings has six surviving children, having lost a daughter at age 33. Mortellaro and her husband Tony have three daughters; Kidwell, who is widowed, has four children.

The two older sisters spent years looking for Mary, and she looked for them as well. That search ended about three weeks ago when Mortellaro got a call from her grandson’s girlfriend’s mother in Florida, who had taken up the search.

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Miss World 2012 Wenxia Yu of China, left, and Miss Indonesia Vania Larissa, right, hit a giant world peace gong during the International World Peace Day celebrations at a park in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.

The Miss World pageant final will be held Sept. 28 in Bali.

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Tourism leaders also reject Besakih Temple included in KSPN Bali Post

DENPASAR - After previously getting rejection from Hindu leaders on the decision of central government through the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy to include the Besakih Temple area in the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) program without coordination with local governments, similar rejection also came from a number of tourism leaders expressing their disapproval because Besakih was a sacred area of Hindus devotees that was inappropriate to be commercialized. It was delivered by a lecturer of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, Gusti Putu Bagus Sastrawan Mananda.

He firmly rejected because the central government made a decision without observations to the field and absorbing the aspirations of Balinese people as a subject that would surely have got the impact were not involved in the coordination. Allegedly, there was an indication of interests of central government to get profit over the Besakih Temple attraction as a tourist attraction. “I disagree because there is no coordination from the beginning. Why is suddenly like this, what actually happens behind this?” he affirmed.

Further, he questioned about the attitude of central government that did not involve the local governments, academicians and community leaders of Bali.

More seriously, when referring to the legal instrument in the Law No.10/2009 on tourism, there was disharmony between the national tourism development master plan and the tourism master plan of provincial and county/municipal government. “Actually, this goes up against the law why the Besakih Temple was abruptly set forth. There should be coordination from central government to local government, so that we can have clear access, and there is no flaming in the community,” he said.

Furthermore, he said that Besakih Temple was the area listed as a cultural heritage, so the existence had to be preserved. It should never be commercialized because Besakih Temple was a sacred place and could not be functioned as a profane place commercialized for tourists. “This must be observed whether visitors are allowed to enter or visit the outside area only and they uncertainly comply with the existing rules at Besakih Temple, like cuntaka (temporary impure due to family death) and menstruation,” he said. (nik)

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Farmers at Manik Aji hamlet and the surrounding areas, Ban village, Kubu, Karangasem, hoped the road on the hill ranges bordering with Trunyan could be paved, Friday (Sep 20). Condition of the unpaved road caused them to have difficulty to transport and market their crops. At the village, nobody wanted to buy, even if there were buyers. Theirs would be bargained at very cheap price. Farmers got difficulty to transport their agricultural products to be sold to the market as the road along 3 km had not been paved.

Actually, the agricultural products of local farmers were potential such as cassava, taro, bananas and garlic. Since a few months ago, farmers had started planting citrus. Aside from the potential agricultural products with fertile soil, the area also offers cool air on the high altitude. As a result, grass and forage are available almost throughout the year. Each farmer raises three to six cattle and theirs look fat. However, farmers should lead their cattle on foot far enough to reach truck on the asphalt road that will transport theirs to cattle market.

Hamlet Chief of Manik Aji, Nengah Subagia, said that local administrative hamlet consisted of three customary villages namely the Manikaji, Asti and Kaliaga. The road to Manikaji along 3 km had not been paved yet. It already had the road body and local people could independently concrete the climb only, so that it was easily passed through by motorcycles. Farmer said less smooth transportation caused their tobacco leaf to be unable to be sold outside the village. When sold, they would be bargained at very cheap price. Likewise, the price of cassava was very cheap, so that it was neglected and even discarded or used for fodder. However, if sold outside the village, the cost of motorcycle taxi was very high, so that it did not cover the selling price of the agricultural products.

Residents through Hamlet Chief Nengah Subagia expected the government to immediately pave the road, so that the access to market outside the village could be easier.

On the request of local residents, the Deputy Regent of Karangasem, Made Sukerana, said at Manik Aji that his party welcomed any input of local residents. In the near future, the staff of Karangasem Public Works was planned to conduct a survey and measurement to the road and path length. As planned, the road to Manik Aji would be paved based on budget availability and if it was enough, it would be entirely paved. If the budget was limited, the pavement would be carried out in stages.

In harmony with high vivacity of farmers at local hamlet to start planting citrus, his party handed over up to 10,000 cuttings of honey citrus. They were received by a group consisting of 55 families of farmer, from the three existing groups. “If farmers will plant citrus, it must be properly maintained. Please cultivate the citrus cuttings of CVPD-resistant and certified cuttings that are absolutely free from CVPD, so that it would not be like in 1984 where the citrus plants were totally attacked by such citrus disease,” said Sukerana. (kmb13)

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People inspect the site of a double suicide bomb attack, in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr city in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.

The yachts participating in Sail Indonesia arrive in Lovina

Participants of Sail Indonesia welcomed

by Lovina Festival Singaraja (Bali Post)—

For the umpteenth time, hundreds of yachts sailed the waters of Buleleng in the series of the Sail Indonesia 2013. For this year, travelers in the yacht would be welcomed with the opening ceremony of the Lovina Festival, Saturday afternoon (Sep 21).

The Head of Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Jero Ketut Warkadea, said on Friday (Sep 20) that participants of the Sail Indonesia stopping in Buleleng would indeed be welcomed on Saturday with the opening of the Lovina Festival at the Bina Ria Beach or around the dolphin

statue.

The Lovina Festival itself posed an annual event to showcase the potential of the arts and crafts of Buleleng. At the festival to be closed on Monday (Sep 23) were exhibited various kinds of typical handicrafts of Buleleng. It was also jazzed up

with traditional games, cultural attractions like bull race, genjek a cappella, mapang barong and Joged rindik competition.

According to Warkadea, in addition to enjoying many cultural attractions, the Sail Indonesia participants would also be served with administrative affairs such as travel visa extension and others. “Aside from welcomed with some kinds of arts, all the participants of Sail Indonesia are also serviced if they want to extend their visa and other travel document need,” he said. (kmb15)

Cariole Still Survives amidst Congestion of Denpasar

Traditional means of transportation such as cariole has become a favorite in the 1960s. In harmony with the passage of time, the presence of cariole is increasingly marginalized by modern means of transportation such as motorcycles and cars. Now, the number of cariole remaining to operate around Denpasar is few and far between. According to a cariole driver met around the Badung Market, Nengah Purna, the number of surviving cariole was only about 10-15 units. Such number spread out in several places in the Badung

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Market. Like in the east of the temple, the place was only used by three cariole drivers to hang out.

Purna has deeply involved in such profession since 1963. “I have been here since I was a teenager. When the Mount Agung erupted, I have been a cariole driver,” said the 70-year old grandfather. He said that before the flooding means of transportation like motorcycles, the cariole was highly required to convey and escort passengers bringing along their groceries from the market. From the results of his livelihood, he was able to support

his wife and three children and sent them school and college. However, his earning as a cariole driver today was not much. Though visitors to the market were crowded ahead of Galungan, he said, they had no great impact on his earning. “From eleventh o’clock just now until this time, I have not got passengers at all,” he said.

Within a day, he was only able to earn IDR 10,000 to IDR 30,000. “Except for transporting guests (foreign visitors) and on Sunday, I can earn more,” he said. However, Nengah Purna would like to maintain his profession.

This grandpa from Ulakan, Karangasem, started his activity as a cariole driver from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. He used to take passengers from Badung Market to the farthest point on Jalan Nangka. The rate charged was adjusted to the distance of destination.

He added that government also gave support to the presence of cariole such as to support the tourism of Denpasar. “If there is an anniversary of government, our cariole is usually involved and decorated. We are given compensation known as money of grass,” he said. (kmb)

Assault on Iraq funeral, other attacks kill 96 Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 96 people on Saturday.

The assaults, the latest in a months-long surge of violence, are a chilling reminder of insurgents’ determination to re-ignite sectarian conflict more than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion.

Thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violent attacks in recent months - a level of bloodshed not seen since Iraq pulled back from the brink of civil war in 2008 - despite appeals for restraint from Shiite and Sunni political leaders.

The attack on the funeral was one of the largest single terrorist

assaults on civilians in Iraq in recent years. It happened shortly before sunset in the densely populated Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad.

Police said at least 72 people were killed and more than 120 were wounded in that attack. One bomber was able to drive up near the tent before detonating his deadly payload, and another on foot blew himself up nearby, police said.

The explosions set the tents and several nearby cars on fire, sending a towering plume of thick black

smoke over the city.

“I saw several charred bodies on the ground and tents on fire and also burning cars. Wounded people were screaming in pain,” said Sheik Sattar al-Fartousi, one of the mourners. “The scene was horrible. The funeral turned into an inferno.”

He said the first blast went off as dinner was being served in one of several tents set up for the funeral of a member of the al-Fartousi tribe.

He estimated that more than 500 people were attending the event.

Civilian pickup trucks loaded with casualties and ambulances with sirens blaring were seen racing from the scene. Hussein AbdulKhaliq, a government employee who lives near the bomb site, said the tents were packed with mourners when the blasts went off.

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Bo Xilai found guilty of corruption A Chinese court has found prison after serving only part of disgraced former top politi- their original sentences. Chen Xician Bo Xilai guilty of bribery, tong, a former Politburo member, embezzlement and abuse of was released on medical parole power. The former party chief of after serving half of his original Chongqing was sentenced to life 16-year prison term. imprisonment, but has the right However, Bo Xilai is 64to appeal. years-old. Even before his poHe had denied all the charges litical downfall, he was moving against him in a fiery defence at towards the final chapter in his his trial. Bo was removed from career. It is difficult to envision a office last year amid a scandal scenario in which he can quickly which saw his wife convicted for revive his populist power base, the murder of British business- even if he gains an early release from prison. man Neil Heywood.

It is difficult to make predicThe verdict was handed down by the Intermediate People’s Court tions in the world of Chinese in Jinan, Shandong province. politics. Two years ago Bo apPassing sentence the judge told peared to be poised to move into Bo that he had damaged China’s Zhongnanhai, the government national interests and the interests compound in Beijing were Chiof its people, wrongfully using his na’s top leaders reside. Now, he position in power to receive bribes will spend the foreseeable future totalling 20 million Chinese Yuan inside a prison cell. ($3.2m; £2m).

He rejected Bo’s claims that his confession to the crimes was acquired through illegal means such as torture and interrogation, and said it therefore stood. The BBC’s John Sudworth, outside the court, said that the judge completely demolished Bo’s defence arguments.

During Bo’s trial last month the court took the unprecedented step of releasing details about proceedings on its Weibo microblog.

The curtains appear to have finally dropped on Bo Xilai’s once-glittering Communist Party career.

Bo can appeal against the trial verdict and his life sentence, but it is highly improbable he could engineer a future in which AP Photo/Jinan Intermediate People’s Court he re-enters China’s po- In this photo released by the Jinan Interlitical arena. He has been mediate People’s Court, fallen politician stripped of all political Bo Xilai, center, is handcuffed and held rights for life. by police officers as he stands at the Other convicted politi- court in Jinan, in eastern China’s Shancians were released from dong province Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.

North Korea postpones reunions of war-divided families

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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea on Saturday indefinitely postponed reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War scheduled to start Wednesday, an apparent setback after weeks of improving ties following springtime threats of war.

North Korea said the six days of reunions, which last happened three

years ago, could not be held because of South Korean conservatives’ “reckless and vicious confrontation racket” against Pyongyang, a claim that North Korea routinely makes. It also vowed, in similarly familiar rhetoric, to “take strong and decisive counteractions against the South Korean puppet regime’s everescalating war provocations.”

The development, which an analyst called a North Korean attempt

to gain an advantage in negotiations with Seoul, is a twist in what had been gradually easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang tempering its threats and pursuing talks meant to restart various inter-Korean cooperation projects.

The biggest highlight is the recent return of North and South Koreans to a jointly run factory park just across the border in North Korea after a five-month shutdown.

Pyongyang’s announcement was likely linked to its frustration over delayed talks with Seoul to resume lucrative, jointly run tours to a North Korean mountain resort, and to a perception that Seoul wasn’t supporting the North’s push to restart stalled international aid-fornuclear-disarmament negotiations, said Yoo Ho-Yeol, a professor of North Korean studies at Korea University in Seoul.

“The family reunion is something that South Korea wants. It is not surprising that Pyongyang is now using this as a bargaining chip,” Yoo said.

An unidentified spokesman for the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement that the family reunions will be postponed until a “normal atmosphere” for dialogue returns.

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NEW YORK CITY - BlackBerry Friday said it would cut 4,500 jobs as the struggling Canadian smartphone maker retrenches in the face of hefty losses and weak sales of its new handsets.

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Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey, left, listens to World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati, right, during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation finance ministers’ meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

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RI proposes priority be given to infrastructure NUSA DUA - The Indonesian government has proposed to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) that priority be given to infrastructure development as part of efforts to boost economic growth in the Asia-Pacific Region, a deputy minister said.

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In this July 9, 2013, file photo, People walk past BlackBerry’s headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, in Canada. BlackBerry said Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, it will lay off 4,500 employees, or 40 percent of its global workforce, and is announcing a nearly $1 billion second-quarter loss in a surprise early release of earnings.

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Spain wins back investors Agence France-Presse

MADRID - Cast as the sick man of the eurozone a year ago, Spain seems at last to be luring back investors despite lingering threats to its recovery.

“Viva Espana,” blared a recent report by the global financiers Morgan Stanley, advising clients to invest in bonds from the eurozone’s fourth-biggest economy, which came close to a full bailout in 2012.

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BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs The news, showing BlackBerry’s efforts at reviving its fortunes a stunning failure, pushes the once high-flying firm one step closer to extinction, analysts said.

BlackBerry said it expects a loss of $950 to $995 million in second quarter mostly due to writedowns linked to poor sales of its Z10 smartphone, the device aimed at competing against Apple and Android devices.

The company’s highly-publicized launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform earlier this year failed to ignite sales. The company has said it is examining “strategic alternatives,” including a possible sale of the company.

Friday’s news marks the latest downer for a company whose products were once nick-named “crackberries” because of the customer loyalty they fostered.

“The Blackberry of the past is dying and changing and going away,” said technology analyst Jeff Kagan.

Kagan said only time will tell if BlackBerry vanishes completely or is reinvented, perhaps as part of another company.

Mark Sue, analyst at RBC Capital Markets said the results were “much worse than expected” and that the business “is facing significant challenges” and “trying to rapidly cut costs to reduce cash burn.”

The job cuts constitute 40 percent of the company’s workforce and will take staffing down to 7,000.

The loss in the upcoming quarter includes a $930 to $960 million charge resulting “from the increasingly competitive business environment impacting BlackBerry smartphone volumes” and a $72 million restructuring charge, the company said.

Revenues are projected at $1.6 billion, well below the $3.06 billion expected by analysts.

BlackBerry will cut its portfolio from six devices to four and expects to reduce its operating expenses by approximately 50 percent.

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ent. We were trying not to read analysts’ reports so as not to get depressed,” said Antonio Carrascosa, leader of Spain’s state bank-restructuring fund, known as the FROB. “Right now, it’s the opposite. We are seeing the start of a recovery.”

Having risen in mid-2012 as investors shunned the country, Spain’s sovereign borrowing costs -- the yields or rates of interest it must pay on the debt markets to finance its public spending -- have fallen sharply.

In July 2012 the yield on its

benchmark 10-year bond was around 7.5 percent -- a level considered unsustainable by economists. It is now around 4.4 percent.

The Madrid stock market has just broken back through the 9,000point barrier for the first time since October 2011.

“The concerns that were on the world’s front pages a little over a year ago have disappeared,” said Carrascosa.

Scrambling last year to stabilise public finances, Spain’s conservative government introduced a series of austere reforms which sparked

angry mass street protests.

The reforms included spending cuts and looser hiring-and-firing laws for companies, plus a shake-up of the banks to bolster their balance sheets and purge bad loans.

“With regards to structural reforms, certainly Spain, versus its neighbours, seems to be an exemplary case for progress, namely on the issues concerning the financial sector, labour market and fiscal framework,” Morgan Stanley’s analysts wrote.

The government is forecasting that the current quarter will see an

end to the recession -- the second in a double downturn sparked by the collapse of a construction boom in 2008.

“A year ago, Spain was a problem for the European economy and the world economy,” said Finance Minister Luis de Guindos last week.

“Now it is not.”

Strengthening exports and an easing in the decline of household spending “lead us to think that the Spanish economy has come out of recession,” he said.

“But this does not mean it has come out of the crisis.”

“Indonesia proposes that infrastructure development should be given a priority,” Deputy Finance Minister Mahendra Siregar said on the sidelines of the APEC finance ministers’ meeting on Friday.

Besides infrastructure development, trade credit financing should also be increased, although many international-scale banks were facing liquidity problems.

“Trade and investment are important things for economic growth,” he said.

Further, Indonesia also raised the idea of providing significant financial inclusion of small scale businesses since their involvement in the small and middle business sectors is vitally important.

“We should make sure that in the medium term we will be able to maintain the economic growth momentum,” he explained.

Delegates from 21 APEC economies and a number of world financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

(IMF), placed a spotlight on global economic conditions as their theme of their meeting.

Meanwhile, World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati said economic conditions were now moving towards a new phase where economies in advanced countries were being strengthened, though they have not proven as strong as earlier expected.

“The growth in developing countries is slowing down, including countries in the Asia Pacific region,” she said.

The World Bank recorded that developing countries and potential markets in APEC were expected to contribute 50 percent to world economic growth.

The global gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to increase by about 2.4 percent in 2013 and will gradually strengthen to 3.2 percent to 3.5 percent in 2014 and 2015.

Sri Mulyani has also suggested that Indonesia focus on infrastructure development to meet its public needs.

During her tenure as finance minister of Indonesia, Sri Mulyani had focused

on eradicating subsidies.

She pointed out that a lack of infrastructure support was an obstacle standing in the way of Indonesia’s boosting its economic growth, curbing inflation and reducing its current account deficit.

Mulyani further said that all countries throughout the world were confronted with the same problems, whether they were poor, developing or advanced.

Developing countries, she stated, needed US$1 trillion to US$ 2 trillion to support growth, increase productivity, alleviate poverty and improve people’s welfare.

Indonesia’s current Finance Minister, Chatib Basri, said earlier that Indonesia has chosen to focus on infrastructure development during the country’s APEC chairmanship.

Basri added that in order to strengthen and maintain economic growth, growing economies needed to attract long-term capital for investment in their best infrastructure projects.

This would not only benefit the economy of the country where the investment was being made, but also pave the way for international long-term investors finding stable and profitable investment projects, he noted.

SEMARAPURA - Echoes of Kerta Gosa tourist attraction indeed has spread worldwide through hundreds of foreign tourist visits every day. However, so far the condition remains concerned. Amid such concern, apparently the Kerta Gosa stays to get confidence to host a lunch for delegates of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on the upcoming October 4.

The plan was justified by the Head of Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana. He explained to have received a letter from the APEC CEO Summit Indonesia 2013 where in conjunction with the APEC implementation in Bali the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Indonesia had asked for permission to Klungkung government through the Culture and Tourism Agency to use the Kerta Gosa for the APEC Voices of the Future (APEC Youth). The program, said Sujana, pursuant to the letter posed an annual event held simultaneously with the ongoing ABAC and the APEC CEO Summit meeting where young people from 21 economic member of the APEC assembled to deepen the economic trade perspective in the Asia-Pacific region as well as an effort to learn about the local culture.

Sujana added the APEC Voices of the Future 2013 would be attended by more than 130 delegates aged 1725 years. The delegates consisted of the elected youths supported by the government to be an ambassador for the APEC youth program. Meanwhile, before the lunch at Kerta Gosa, he said that committee of the APEC Voices of the Future had chosen Kamasan village as one of the locations to be visited by the delegates considering the village had high historical and cultural values on the Kamasan puppet painting. He said if only the matter of permission to use the location was not actually a problem. However, the condition would be turned away because foreigners were so impressed with historical value. However, two buildings of Kerta Gosa itself were in damaged condition for so long.

Unfortunately, the historical values of Kerta Gosa lay on the ceiling of the two main buildings.

“Suppose that they look around the leaking roof tiles, the Kamasan paintings on the ceiling are at risk of damage, so we will be ashamed as if we did not maintain the historical building and painting,” he said.

However, he admitted to still welcome anyone coming to Kerta Gosa. Moreover, it was planned to be used by foreign guests. Other than related to condition of the building, it still had a problem related to ownership status. So far, the status of the most valuable asset of Klungkung remained uncertain because the application to certify the Kerta Gosa by Klungkung government to National Land Agency (BPN) of Klungkung stayed unclear.

“We officially sent a letter to the BPN long time ago. Similarly, we have attached the complete required documents. But strangely, we have not received any official response whether the certification can be done or not,” he explained.

He hoped that BPN dared take a stand to end the unclear status of Kerta Gosa. Ideally, the BPN should not give uncertainty after getting protests from the party opposing the certification. “If it can be certified, please declare it can be. Otherwise, please explain the reasons.

Thus, we can understand because we are required to maintain the Kerta Gosa. If the status is unclear, we cannot do much,” he concluded. (kmb31)

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Civilians who had been hiding during the gun battle hold their hands in the air as a precautionary measure before being searched by armed police leading them to safety, inside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.

39 dead in Kenya mall attack; hostages still held Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya - Terrified shoppers huddled in back hallways and prayed they would not be found by the Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi’s top mall Saturday. When the way appeared clear, crying mothers clutching small children and blood-splattered men sprinted out of the four-story mall.

At least 39 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in the assault, Kenya’s president announced on national TV, while disclosing that his close family members were among the dead.

Foreigners were among the casualties. France’s president said that two French women were killed. Two Canadians were killed, including a diplomat, said the Candadian prime minister.

Four American citizens were reported injured but not killed in the attack, the State Department said Saturday.

Early Sunday morning, 12 hours after the attack began, gunmen remained holed up inside the mall with an unknown number of hostages. President Uhuru Kenyatta called the security

operation under way “delicate” and said a top priority was to safeguard hostages.

As the attack began shortly after noon Saturday, the al-Qaida-linked gunmen asked the victims they had cornered if they were Muslim: Those who answered yes were free to go, several witnesses said. The non-Muslims were not.

Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility and said the attack was retribution for Kenyan forces’ 2011 push into Somalia. The rebels threatened more attacks.

Al-Shabab said on its Twitter feed that Kenyan security officials were trying to open negotiations. “There will be no negotiations whatsoever,” al-Shabab tweeted.

As night fell in Kenya’s capital, two contingents of army special forces troops moved inside the mall.

Police and military surrounded the huge shopping complex as helicopters buzzed overhead. An Associated Press reporter said he saw a wounded Kenyan soldier put into an ambulance at nightfall, an indication, perhaps, of a continuing shoot-out inside.

Witnesses said at least five gunmen - including at least one woman - first attacked an outdoor cafe at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, a shiny, new shopping center that includes Nike, Adidas and Bose stores. The mall’s ownership is Israeli, and security experts have long said the structure made an attractive terrorist target.

LA PINTADA, Mexico - Rescuers fighting tons of slippery, wet mud at the site of this week’s worst storm disaster unearthed the bodies of two women Saturday, possibly among the 68 people missing in a massive landslide that buried half of the remote coffee-growing town of La Pintada.

Houses were filled to their roofs with dirt and vehicles were tossed on their sides when the hillside collapsed Monday afternoon after several days of rain brought by Tropical Storm Manuel, which along with Hurricane Ingrid gave Mexico a one-two punch last weekend.

“As of today, there is little hope now that we will find anyone alive,” said President Enrique Pena Nieto after touring the devastation, adding that the landslide covered at least 40 homes.

Pena Nieto told storm survivors that La Pintada, a town of 800, would be relocated and rebuilt in a safer location as officials responded to a wave of criticism that negligence and corruption were to blame for the vast devastation caused by two relatively weak storm systems.

“I will come to inaugurate a new La Pintada,” he said. “That’s a promise I’m making today to this community, which has undergone such a misfortune.”

Authorities on Saturday also found the wreckage of a Federal Police helicopter that was working on the La Pintada rescue when it went missing nearby on Thursday. All aboard died, five federal police, according to local media. Security spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said he could not confirm the number on board.

All week in Mexico City, editorials and public commentary said the government had made natural disasters worse because of poor planning, lack of a prevention strategy and corruption.

“Governments aren’t responsible for the occurrence of severe weather, but they are for the prevention of the effects,” wrote Mexico’s nonprofit Center of Investigation for Development in an online editorial criticizing a federal program to improve infrastructure and relocate communities out of dangerous flood zones. “The National Water Program had good intentions but its execution was at best poor.”

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From page 1 Similar comment was delivered by the members of Commission I, Made Sumiati and Ngakan Made Samudra. According to them, there was indeed no discussion at all in the House regarding the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN. “There has been no discussion on the matter in the Bali House,” said Samudra and Sumiati. When asked whether he agreed or disagreed to the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN, Samudra added if it had been included in the KSPN it should be reviewed further. “We must review it first comprehensively and consider the positive and negative impacts. So, we do not necessarily reject or accept,” said the Democrat from Nusa Penida. Nevertheless, Samudra serving as Chairman of the Special Committee on Zoning Regulation Draft asserted that in the zonation draft the Besakih Temple belonged to sanctum area and would be specified what could and could not be developed or built in the vicinity of the sanctum area.

Meanwhile, Sumiati added that Besakih Temple area had long been the target to be included in cultural heritage and had been rejected by all elements of Balinese society so that it finally was not. If the Besakih Temple was then included in the KSPN, it should be observed accurately regarding the positive and negative impacts that might occur. “We all have to discuss this matter. People’s aspirations should be heard. Parliament should also summon the governor to get his basic considerations,” said the PDI-P politician from Karangasem.

Previously, (Bali Post/Sep 21) Pastika said the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN was actually proposed by Bali government. “Proposal (of Besakih Temple in the KSPN) was made by us,” said Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika, Friday (Sep 20) when asked whether the Bali government had made discussion about the status of Besakih Temple included in the KSPN. Why is it proposed? When asked the question Pastika quibbled that the Besakih development could not be carried out haphazardly so that it had to be carefully planned by involving the Karangasem, Bali and central government.

“Besakih Temple is very strategic so that it cannot be developed haphazardly but should be with careful planning by central, provincial and county government,” said Pastika.

How is actually the KSPN concept? According to Pastika, tourism development of an area included in the KSPN should be tailored to the interests of the national, provincial and county interest so that it could be well planned. “The tourism development at the area (Besakih) should be tailored to the national, provincial and county interest,” he explained. (kmb29)

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INDONESIA Bikini tensions mar Islamic games Agence France-Presse

PALEMBANG - The Islamic Solidarity Games open in Indonesia this weekend following a chaotic run-up, with controversy over female athletes competing in sports bikinis adding to the turmoil.

Some nations demanded that all women cover up for the beach volleyball, track and field, and swimming events, but organisers have refused to axe the two-piece sporting outfits.

“If some countries do not want to use the bikini, that’s fine, but if other countries want to, we will allow that,” senior organising committee member Djoko Pramono told AFP. “We agreed to apply international rules, including the dress code.”

Thousands of athletes from 44 nations with Muslim populations will come together for the games, but only those ruled by Islamic governments opposed the bikini, Pramono said, adding they complained collectively.

He did not mention the countries which complained by name.

This year is the second time the games have been held, the first in Saudi Arabia, where not only were there no bikinis, but men and women competed on separate days and men were barred from watching women swim.

Some countries also asked the organisers to again run male and female

events on separate days.

Pramono said he did not know which teams had decided to wear the bikinis.

Female players from Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei have worn them at previous international competitions.

The event has faced a string of other problems, in the latest chapter of Indonesia’s shambolic history of hosting of major sporting tournaments.

It is set to officially open Sunday and run until October 1 after months of delays and two changes of venue, now in Palembang city on Sumatra island.

Unpaid labourers shuttered the stadium in the original host city, Pekanbaru, with the governor embroiled in multiple corruption scandals unable to help.

It was moved to the capital, Jakarta, only to be shifted again to Palembang after Sumatran officials complained, giving organisers less than two months to move everything to the new venue.

Eyebrows have been raised over the Palembang complex, where parts of the ill-fated 2011 Southeast Asian

Games took place.

Some facilities were not fully constructed as the 2011 event opened and scores of athletes suffered food poisoning there.

During that event, two football fans were crushed to death in a stampede at a venue in the capital as security guards were unable to control a massive crowd.

But Pramono was optimistic about the Islamic games, which includes archery, badminton and karate, and brings together nations from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

“Everything is progressing, and I’m sure all 13 sports will be a success,” he said.

The religious-based row is not the first to hit an international sporting event.

Last year, the International Judo Federation told Saudi Arabia’s first woman to compete at the Olympics, Wojdan Shaherkani, that she could not compete in a Muslim headscarf.

A compromise was reached and she fought in a modified head covering at the London Games.

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Tengger tribesmen carry their offering, a buffalo, during the religious ritual of “Unan-unan” in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, Sept 20, 2012. The Hindu tribe celebrate the ritual once every five years to praise their god.

Honda eyes quadruple sales by 2016 Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Japan’s Honda Motor launched its first low-cost car for Indonesia’s booming automotive market Thursday, part of plans to more than quadruple sales in the country by 2016.The launch of the Mobilia, a multi-purpose vehicle, comes as Honda builds its second plant in Indonesia to boost both production and sales.

Honda sold nearly 70,000 vehicles in Indonesia in 2012, and 62,000 in the first nine months of this year.

“Now we are going to enter the more mass-oriented market,” president- director of Honda’s Indonesian arm, Tomoki Uchida, told reporters.

“Our target is to achieve 300,000 unit sales in 2016,” he said.

With its second plant Honda plans to increase production capacity in Indonesia from 80,000 units to 200,000 by early next year.

Japanese carmakers hold a 95 percent share of Indonesia’s market

of around one million units annually in recent years.

Honda holds an 8.4 percent share, far behind Toyota with 40 percent.

Toyota has stayed ahead with its multi-purpose vehicles, popular with Indonesians who often travel with large families and prefer high elevation to cope with floods during the wet season.

A burgeoning middle class is moving up from motorbikes to lowcost family cars, with multi-purpose vehicles representing more than 30 percent of the total market.

Indonesia, with a population of 240 million, has become a target for automakers as sales slow in developed nations and as its people become wealthier.

The car market is expected to exceed Thailand’s and become the biggest in Southeast Asia next year.

Earlier this week Nissan revived the iconic Datsun in Indonesia after having launched it in India in July.

Indonesia: South China Sea a ‘litmus test’ for ASEAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Indonesia’s foreign minister says Southeast Asia’s regional bloc faces a “litmus test” as it seeks to manage disputes in the South China Sea. Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said Thursday there’s now a “good degree of common understanding” within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on broad goals for a proposed code of conduct.

In an address webcast by the Asia

Society, Natalegawa said that until recently some nations viewed the code as a “magic wand” to address core disputes.

But he said Indonesia suggested more modest goals: to avoid security incidents, to promote confidence and on how to prevent escalating into full-blown conflict.

Natalegawa did not directly address the view of China which has been reluctant to negotiate with ASEAN over its conflicting territorial claims with several Southeast Asian nations.

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Monday, September 23, 2013

Destination Beratan Lake IBP

Beratan Lake is a shallow lake with the high caldera about 1231m above sea level and it is located at Bedugul, the famous tourist destinations in Bali. This lake have wide 3,8 km2 and also its deepness is up to 22 meters. The water volume in this lake is about 0,049 km3, so Beratan Lake is the closed lake. Tourist can access the Beratan Lake through the dock which have been provided or desist around Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. In this place, the visitor can do various activities like doing recreation to look around in dock or do the other outdoor activities. The various water recreation activities can also be conducted here, for example riding the boat motorize to circle the lake, parasailing, canoeing with the traditional

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boat, banana boating, water skiing, and others.

Fishing activities are also available in this places for who one love fishing in the lake.

Beratan Lake is situated in the plateau area with cool atmosphere surround it. It is an ideal place for relaxation while enjoy the beautiful panorama of lake. The accommodations are also available in this area where is the perfect place for overnight stay, resting and enjoy the beautiful panoramic of lake with the Ulun Danu Temple as a magnificence. The small scale of agriculture activities are likely conducted around this lake and can be perceived at the same time circle around it.

If we encircle it, we can take photograph with the beautiful background view or make the picture sketch face in painting mini studio at the lakeside with a short time as a souvenir.

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Radwanska defeats Pavlyuchenkova to win Korea Open Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea - Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska rallied from a set down on Sunday to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-4 and win the Korea Open. Radwanska hit five aces and took advantage of 10 double-faults by the third-seeded Russian player to win her third title of the year and 13th overall.

“It was a very close match, tight sets, all of them,” Radwanska said. “But I was just a little bit better in the important moments today.” Pavlyuchenkova rallied from 3-0 down in the first set and fought off four set points in her 5-6 service game before taking a one-set lead.

But the momentum shifted when Radwanska won the first three games of the second set.

The Pole stayed on serve with Pavlyuchenkova through the first nine games of the third set before one last break to close out the match in 2 hours, 45 minutes.

“It’s tough losing this match after fighting so long and coming so close,” Pavlyuchenkova said.

“It’s difficult and frustrating, but in tennis you can be up then down.”

Radwanska’s previous two

titles this year came in the first two weeks of the year, in Auckland and Sydney. She is the fourth player to win three or more titles so far this season, after Serena Williams (9), Simona Halep (4) and Victoria Azarenka (3).

Radwanska, No. 4 in the world rankings, improved to 3-1 in head-to-head matches against Pavlyuchenkova, who is ranked 32nd.

Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska kisses her winning trophy after defeating Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at the final of the Korea Open tennis championships in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Sept.

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France is 1 win away from first basketball gold Ben Spies says 2014 MotoGP ride is safe Associated Press Writer

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Tony Parker is one win away from finally guiding France to its first major basketball title.

Having scored 32 points to lead France past two-time defending champion Spain 75-72 in overtime in Friday’s semifinals at the European championship, Parker needs just one more big performance when his team plays Lithuania for the gold medal on

Sunday. He was in the same position two years ago, only for his team to lose to Spain in the final.

“Now, we have to control our joy.

Two years ago we were so happy for having qualified for the Olympics that we botched the final,” Parker said after France’s victory Friday night.

By beating Spain, France finally overcame an opponent that has long dominated Parker’s talented generation. France had a 5-19 record against Spain going into the semifinal, includ-

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France’s Florent Pietrus reaches for the ball during the EuroBasket European Basketball Championship semifinal match against Spain, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013.

ing the loss in the 2011 final and at last year’s Olympic quarterfinals in London.

France has two silvers and five bronze medals at the Europeans — and had it not been for the gifted Spanish generation, it probably would have won the gold, too. “We’ve been coming closer and we want the best medal now,” Parker said.

While Parker is the team’s leader, he is not the only talented player — the San Antonio Spurs star is one of six NBA players on the French roster that includes Boris Diaw and Nicolas Batum.

Parker tops France with 19.7 points per game and is close to a personal landmark — he needs 21 points in the final to become the tournament’s alltime leading scorer. By taking his total to 984 points, he passed Dirk Nowitzki by one and is 20 behind Nikos Galis.

France came back after trailing by 14 and being dominated by Spain in the first half, wearing down the Spaniards in the second half and overcoming 19 points from Marc Gasol — whose brother Pau is not playing this time.

“I would have left my life on the court but I was going to win this game.

This year, it’s our chance,” France forward Florent Pietrus said. France coach Vincent Collet said his team is in a better shape than two years ago.

“We are in a completely different state of mind,” Collet said.

Ben Spies is adamant his place on the 2014 MotoGP grid with the satellite Pramac Ducati squad is not in doubt. The American has only started two races since joining the team due to lingering injuries.

Pramac recently recruited Yonny Hernandez as a more long-term, but indefinite, stand in for Spies, with the Colombian being released from his contract with Paul Bird Motorsport.

Despite his struggles through 2013, and the arrival of Hernandez, Spies insists his relationship with Pramac remains strong and that the two-year deal he signed with the squad is not at risk.

“My relationship with Ducati is great. Nothing is going on there, like I have read about,” Spies told MotoGP’s official website. Asked about rumours he could lose his seat next year, he said: “You hear about all of these crazy stories, but that is basically it. There is nothing to [it].

“I am talking with Ducati every few days and they are keeping me up to date with what is going on with the bike, what is going to be tested, what I am doing and so on. That is where we are at right now.

“I wish [Hernandez] luck. It is a great opportunity for him - unfortunately at my expense - but I hope he does a good job and is able to do well. “Right now we are just watching, kind of from the outside, and waiting to see the first time we can come back.”

Spies said the extent of his injury was also being mis-reported, adding: “The other thing is that, for everybody who said my shoulder was dislocated, there is a major difference between a dislocation and a separation.

“A lot of people, and still to this day, are saying it has been dislocated, but the diagnosis was a Grade 5 separation.

“That is pretty much as bad as it gets; I had a Grade 2 or 3 separation on my right shoulder a long time ago and was able to race with that, but with Grade 5 there is no way of doing anything about it.

“Before setting any goal [for 2014] the first step is just to get back to 100 per cent and then we have plenty of time to get back on the bike and re-set goals.

“I haven’t felt that in a long time. If we can do that, then I know what we can do and the team knows what we can do.”

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Pedro leads Barca past Rayo, Atletico win again Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona maintained their perfect start to La Liga with a 4-0 victory at Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, a Pedro hat-trick and a penalty save by Victor Valdes helping them to win a game that was not a simple as it looked.

Spain striker Pedro took his tally for the season to five goals, while Cesc Fabregas netted the fourth, after Rayo had made life difficult for the visitors becoming the first team to edge them for possession in a match in five years.

The champions have 15 points from five games, and moved top ahead of Atletico Madrid on goal difference, after Diego Simeone’s side also maintained their 100 percent record with a 2-0 win at Real Valladolid.

Fourth-placed Real Madrid welcome Getafe on Sunday when Villarreal, who also have 10 points in third, visit Celta Vigo.

Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino rotated his squad again with Dani Alves, Andres Iniesta and Alexis Sanchez starting on the bench, and his side were quickly on the back foot against a hardrunning and aggressive Rayo.

Valdes was called into action after only three minutes as he saved a point-blank header from Alberto Perea,

the compact pitch at Vallecas and a turbo-charged start from Rayo unsettling Barca.

STARTING POINT An Alex Song interception was the starting point for the opener in the 33rd minute, as he set Lionel Messi on a jinking run past two defenders, and the Argentine forward laid the ball off for Pedro to fire low into the corner Rayo’s determination was undimmed, however, and minutes later Adriano bundled over Roberto Trashorras for a penalty. Valdes saved a spot kick against Ajax Amsterdam in Barca’s 4-0 Champions League win on Wednesday, and guessed right again as he denied Rayo captain Trashorras.

Rayo matched Barcelona in the first half but were caught out again as another interception saw Fabregas break down the left and cross low for Pedro to finish high into the net in the 47th.

Rayo began to run out of steam and Neymar almost bagged his first league goal for the club when he shot against the post, and shortly afterwards he self-

lessly squared for Pedro to tap home the third in the 72nd.

La Liga’s leakiest defence then conceded a fourth seven minutes later after another interception on the edge of their area, and Fabregas calmly curled a shot inside the post.

“I liked the second half,” Martino said. “As we did against Ajax we improved as the game progressed. The team has the ability to score goals and keeping a clean sheet always gives us a chance.”

Atletico built on their flying start to the season and a midweek 3-1 Champions League win at home to Zenit St Petersburg with a typically effective display at Valladolid.

Both goals were set up by Spain midfielder Koke, who had a freekick deflected against the bar in the first half and floated in the cross for Raul Garcia to loop in a header in the 56th.

Koke then played a ball over the top for Diego Costa to net the decider on a breakaway in the 72nd, helping the Brazilian frontman to his fifth goal of the campaign.

Mourinho urges out of favour Mata to prove him wrong Reuters

LONDON - Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has challenged Juan Mata to prove him wrong on the pitch for overlooking the Spaniard’s claims and preferring Brazilian Oscar as his number one playmaker.

Mourinho was quoted in Saturday’s British newspapers saying Mata, Chelsea’s player of the year for the last two seasons, had to adapt to the way the Portuguese wanted the team to play.

The former Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Porto manager also made it clear Oscar was his first-choice midfield orchestrator.

“I hope he (Mata) tells me on the pitch, ‘You are wrong, I am the best and I have to play every game’,” Mourinho told reporters after Chelsea beat West London neighbours Fulham 2-0 at Stamford Bridge to return to the top of the Premier League. “I would love that. That is to be professional.

My idea is that he is a top kid and a very good professional and I’m waiting for a professional reaction.

“History doesn’t play. The past is the past and you have to be judged on

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates scoring 1-0 during the Champions League group H soccer match between Ajax Amsterdam and F.C. Barcelona on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain.

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ROME - Cagliari and Sampdoria drew 2-2 in a wild finish, while promoted Livorno stayed on the tails of the Serie A leaders by earning a 0-0 draw at Genoa on Saturday.

Playing in Trieste due to stadium troubles in Sardinia, Cagliari was put in front by Swedish midfielder Albin Ekdal in the 26th minute. That was the lone goal until Manolo Gabbiadini equalized in the 89th when goalkeeper Michael Agazzi let the ball trickle through his legs.

Daniele Conti restored Cagliari’s lead in the first minute of added time with a splendid free kick and Gabbiadini scored again with a deflection two

minutes later.

In Genoa, the closest either side came to scoring came when Genoa’s Thomas Manfredini hit the crossbar with a header from a free kick in the 76th.

Livorno, which finished third in Serie B last season, is just two points behind league leaders Napoli and Roma.

At Chievo Verona, Brazilian midfielder Maicosuel gave Udinese the lead in the opening minute but Chievo struck back through Sergio Pellissier in the 13th and Luca Rigoni in the 40th to win 2-1.Udinese’s attempt to equalize fell short when defender Dusan Basta hit the crossbar with a long shot in the 72nd.

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Bayern routs Schalke 4-0 away in Bundesliga Associated Press Writer

BERLIN - Defending champion Bayern Munich routed Schalke 4-0 to join Borussia Dortmund atop the Bundesliga on Saturday in the side’s most impressive performance since Pep Guardiola took over as coach.

“It was our best game in the Bundesliga. We dominated completely. We were pressurizing for the whole game,” said Guardiola, who succeeded Jupp Heynckes in the summer. “I’m very happy and proud.”

It was Schalke’s biggest home defeat in the league since a 6-0 loss to Bochum in May 1981. “Today the difference in class was too big, especially in the second half. We started very well. For the first 20 minutes or so Bayern found it difficult,” Schalke defender Benedikt Hoewedes said. “Then we concede such a stupid goal.”

Bastian Schweinsteiger scored with a header from Arjen Robben’s corner in the 21st, before David Alaba crossed for Mario Mandzukic to make it 2-0 with the home side still reeling. Hoewedes was unable to clear the Croatian’s header off the line.

The third goal seemed just a matter of time and Alaba was involved again, setting up Franck Ribery to score from close range in the 75th. Then Claudio Pizarro scored his first goal of the season in the 84th, three minutes after coming on, when fellow substitute Thomas Mueller cut the ball back.

“We had our chances that we didn’t use. And Bayern made the most of our mistakes,” said Schalke midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, who was consoled by his brother, Bayern defender Jerome Boateng.

“He knows that it goes on and Schalke are allowed to win the next game,” Jerome joked. Dortmund drew 1-1 at Nuremberg to drop its first points of the season.

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Southampton’s Dejan Lovren, centre, celebrates after scoring against Liverpool during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday Sept.

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Southampton ends Liverpool’s unbeaten start Associated Press Writer

Cagliari and Sampdoria draw 2-2 in wild finish Associated Press Writer

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what you do now,” added Mourinho after Chelsea ended a dismal run of three consecutive defeats in three different competitions.

Fan favourite Mata has featured little this season and he did not even merit a place on the bench on Saturday.

Asked how the Spaniard reacted to his exclusion, Mourinho replied: “He took it the way I want. He trained this morning and my assistant told me he trained very, very hard so at the start the answer is very good.

“I gave Juan the chance to play from the beginning against Aston Villa and against Everton and I also gave him 35 minutes (as a substitute) against Basel - it’s not the same as say Michael Essien.

“I have not played Essien for one single minute and I left him off our Champions League squad list. The point is that I have my options but the thing I most love in football is when my players prove me wrong.

“If Juan proves that I am wrong then I will be the happy one,” Mourinho added with a smile, “because I want him to be fantastic.”

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Bayern’s Claudio Pizarro of Peru, left, dances with teammates after scoring the 4th goal during the German soccer Bundesliga match between FC Schalke 04 and Bayern Munich at the arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.

LIVERPOOL, England — Southampton ended Liverpool’s unbeaten start to the English Premier League, with Dejan Lovren clinching a 1-0 victory at Anfield on Saturday. The Croatia defender headed in the winner from Adam Lallana’s corner in the 54th minute to end Liverpool’s 12-match unbeaten league run spanning this season and last.

“Over 90 minutes we were superior to them and were able to capitalize on the chances we created,” Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino said. “(Goalkeeper Artur) Boruc was outstanding but the rest of the squad were outstanding. It is not easy to come here and win, so to do that makes us really pleased.”

This was Liverpool’s final match before striker Luis Suarez returns after a 10-game ban for biting an opponent. The Uruguay international is in line to return on Wednesday in the League Cup against Manchester United.

“Sometimes players like him can make the difference so it is going to be great to have him back and a real boost to have him back from Wednesday onwards,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said. “I think he is in good condition. He has been playing games behind closed doors and doing a lot of specific work with the conditioning team.

“He is not going to be 100 percent but he is a worker and a fighter and his condition is good.

He just needs to get games to bring him up to speed.” Rodgers was unhappy with a lackluster performance against Southampton, which led to the top spot being surrendered provisionally to Chelsea after the London club beat Fulham 2-0.

“This is our first defeat since March, funnily enough against Southampton,” Rodgers said.

“We’ve had two poor performances against them and it’s cost us. “We are very disappointed.

We never got going from the off, it was a bit lethargic, and techni-

cally we were short.”

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard tested Boruc with a first-half free kick and Daniel Sturridge should have had a penalty when caught by Lovren. But the Reds did not create nearly enough to trouble the visitors.

Rodgers put out a back four consisting of four central defenders but he justified the decision by claiming he had little option — although it provided little help when it came to the goal.

“We have to keep an eye on Jose Enrique’s knee and avoid an overload or it can put him out long term,” Rodgers said. “It was what we had available. Kolo (Toure) and Mamadou (Sakho) have played at full-back: You lose a bit of that offensive threat but I think they coped as well as they possibly could.

“We conceded possession poorly (for the goal) and then we ended up conceding the corner, and to lose a goal like that with so many defensive-minded players was criminal really.”

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Pedro leads Barca past Rayo, Atletico win again Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona maintained their perfect start to La Liga with a 4-0 victory at Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, a Pedro hat-trick and a penalty save by Victor Valdes helping them to win a game that was not a simple as it looked.

Spain striker Pedro took his tally for the season to five goals, while Cesc Fabregas netted the fourth, after Rayo had made life difficult for the visitors becoming the first team to edge them for possession in a match in five years.

The champions have 15 points from five games, and moved top ahead of Atletico Madrid on goal difference, after Diego Simeone’s side also maintained their 100 percent record with a 2-0 win at Real Valladolid.

Fourth-placed Real Madrid welcome Getafe on Sunday when Villarreal, who also have 10 points in third, visit Celta Vigo.

Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino rotated his squad again with Dani Alves, Andres Iniesta and Alexis Sanchez starting on the bench, and his side were quickly on the back foot against a hardrunning and aggressive Rayo.

Valdes was called into action after only three minutes as he saved a point-blank header from Alberto Perea,

the compact pitch at Vallecas and a turbo-charged start from Rayo unsettling Barca.

STARTING POINT An Alex Song interception was the starting point for the opener in the 33rd minute, as he set Lionel Messi on a jinking run past two defenders, and the Argentine forward laid the ball off for Pedro to fire low into the corner Rayo’s determination was undimmed, however, and minutes later Adriano bundled over Roberto Trashorras for a penalty. Valdes saved a spot kick against Ajax Amsterdam in Barca’s 4-0 Champions League win on Wednesday, and guessed right again as he denied Rayo captain Trashorras.

Rayo matched Barcelona in the first half but were caught out again as another interception saw Fabregas break down the left and cross low for Pedro to finish high into the net in the 47th.

Rayo began to run out of steam and Neymar almost bagged his first league goal for the club when he shot against the post, and shortly afterwards he self-

lessly squared for Pedro to tap home the third in the 72nd.

La Liga’s leakiest defence then conceded a fourth seven minutes later after another interception on the edge of their area, and Fabregas calmly curled a shot inside the post.

“I liked the second half,” Martino said. “As we did against Ajax we improved as the game progressed. The team has the ability to score goals and keeping a clean sheet always gives us a chance.”

Atletico built on their flying start to the season and a midweek 3-1 Champions League win at home to Zenit St Petersburg with a typically effective display at Valladolid.

Both goals were set up by Spain midfielder Koke, who had a freekick deflected against the bar in the first half and floated in the cross for Raul Garcia to loop in a header in the 56th.

Koke then played a ball over the top for Diego Costa to net the decider on a breakaway in the 72nd, helping the Brazilian frontman to his fifth goal of the campaign.

Mourinho urges out of favour Mata to prove him wrong Reuters

LONDON - Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has challenged Juan Mata to prove him wrong on the pitch for overlooking the Spaniard’s claims and preferring Brazilian Oscar as his number one playmaker.

Mourinho was quoted in Saturday’s British newspapers saying Mata, Chelsea’s player of the year for the last two seasons, had to adapt to the way the Portuguese wanted the team to play.

The former Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Porto manager also made it clear Oscar was his first-choice midfield orchestrator.

“I hope he (Mata) tells me on the pitch, ‘You are wrong, I am the best and I have to play every game’,” Mourinho told reporters after Chelsea beat West London neighbours Fulham 2-0 at Stamford Bridge to return to the top of the Premier League. “I would love that. That is to be professional.

My idea is that he is a top kid and a very good professional and I’m waiting for a professional reaction.

“History doesn’t play. The past is the past and you have to be judged on

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates scoring 1-0 during the Champions League group H soccer match between Ajax Amsterdam and F.C. Barcelona on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain.

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ROME - Cagliari and Sampdoria drew 2-2 in a wild finish, while promoted Livorno stayed on the tails of the Serie A leaders by earning a 0-0 draw at Genoa on Saturday.

Playing in Trieste due to stadium troubles in Sardinia, Cagliari was put in front by Swedish midfielder Albin Ekdal in the 26th minute. That was the lone goal until Manolo Gabbiadini equalized in the 89th when goalkeeper Michael Agazzi let the ball trickle through his legs.

Daniele Conti restored Cagliari’s lead in the first minute of added time with a splendid free kick and Gabbiadini scored again with a deflection two

minutes later.

In Genoa, the closest either side came to scoring came when Genoa’s Thomas Manfredini hit the crossbar with a header from a free kick in the 76th.

Livorno, which finished third in Serie B last season, is just two points behind league leaders Napoli and Roma.

At Chievo Verona, Brazilian midfielder Maicosuel gave Udinese the lead in the opening minute but Chievo struck back through Sergio Pellissier in the 13th and Luca Rigoni in the 40th to win 2-1.Udinese’s attempt to equalize fell short when defender Dusan Basta hit the crossbar with a long shot in the 72nd.

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Bayern routs Schalke 4-0 away in Bundesliga Associated Press Writer

BERLIN - Defending champion Bayern Munich routed Schalke 4-0 to join Borussia Dortmund atop the Bundesliga on Saturday in the side’s most impressive performance since Pep Guardiola took over as coach.

“It was our best game in the Bundesliga. We dominated completely. We were pressurizing for the whole game,” said Guardiola, who succeeded Jupp Heynckes in the summer. “I’m very happy and proud.”

It was Schalke’s biggest home defeat in the league since a 6-0 loss to Bochum in May 1981. “Today the difference in class was too big, especially in the second half. We started very well. For the first 20 minutes or so Bayern found it difficult,” Schalke defender Benedikt Hoewedes said. “Then we concede such a stupid goal.”

Bastian Schweinsteiger scored with a header from Arjen Robben’s corner in the 21st, before David Alaba crossed for Mario Mandzukic to make it 2-0 with the home side still reeling. Hoewedes was unable to clear the Croatian’s header off the line.

The third goal seemed just a matter of time and Alaba was involved again, setting up Franck Ribery to score from close range in the 75th. Then Claudio Pizarro scored his first goal of the season in the 84th, three minutes after coming on, when fellow substitute Thomas Mueller cut the ball back.

“We had our chances that we didn’t use. And Bayern made the most of our mistakes,” said Schalke midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, who was consoled by his brother, Bayern defender Jerome Boateng.

“He knows that it goes on and Schalke are allowed to win the next game,” Jerome joked. Dortmund drew 1-1 at Nuremberg to drop its first points of the season.

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Southampton’s Dejan Lovren, centre, celebrates after scoring against Liverpool during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday Sept.

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what you do now,” added Mourinho after Chelsea ended a dismal run of three consecutive defeats in three different competitions.

Fan favourite Mata has featured little this season and he did not even merit a place on the bench on Saturday.

Asked how the Spaniard reacted to his exclusion, Mourinho replied: “He took it the way I want. He trained this morning and my assistant told me he trained very, very hard so at the start the answer is very good.

“I gave Juan the chance to play from the beginning against Aston Villa and against Everton and I also gave him 35 minutes (as a substitute) against Basel - it’s not the same as say Michael Essien.

“I have not played Essien for one single minute and I left him off our Champions League squad list. The point is that I have my options but the thing I most love in football is when my players prove me wrong.

“If Juan proves that I am wrong then I will be the happy one,” Mourinho added with a smile, “because I want him to be fantastic.”

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Bayern’s Claudio Pizarro of Peru, left, dances with teammates after scoring the 4th goal during the German soccer Bundesliga match between FC Schalke 04 and Bayern Munich at the arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.

LIVERPOOL, England — Southampton ended Liverpool’s unbeaten start to the English Premier League, with Dejan Lovren clinching a 1-0 victory at Anfield on Saturday. The Croatia defender headed in the winner from Adam Lallana’s corner in the 54th minute to end Liverpool’s 12-match unbeaten league run spanning this season and last.

“Over 90 minutes we were superior to them and were able to capitalize on the chances we created,” Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino said. “(Goalkeeper Artur) Boruc was outstanding but the rest of the squad were outstanding. It is not easy to come here and win, so to do that makes us really pleased.”

This was Liverpool’s final match before striker Luis Suarez returns after a 10-game ban for biting an opponent. The Uruguay international is in line to return on Wednesday in the League Cup against Manchester United.

“Sometimes players like him can make the difference so it is going to be great to have him back and a real boost to have him back from Wednesday onwards,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said. “I think he is in good condition. He has been playing games behind closed doors and doing a lot of specific work with the conditioning team.

“He is not going to be 100 percent but he is a worker and a fighter and his condition is good.

He just needs to get games to bring him up to speed.” Rodgers was unhappy with a lackluster performance against Southampton, which led to the top spot being surrendered provisionally to Chelsea after the London club beat Fulham 2-0.

“This is our first defeat since March, funnily enough against Southampton,” Rodgers said.

“We’ve had two poor performances against them and it’s cost us. “We are very disappointed.

We never got going from the off, it was a bit lethargic, and techni-

cally we were short.”

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard tested Boruc with a first-half free kick and Daniel Sturridge should have had a penalty when caught by Lovren. But the Reds did not create nearly enough to trouble the visitors.

Rodgers put out a back four consisting of four central defenders but he justified the decision by claiming he had little option — although it provided little help when it came to the goal.

“We have to keep an eye on Jose Enrique’s knee and avoid an overload or it can put him out long term,” Rodgers said. “It was what we had available. Kolo (Toure) and Mamadou (Sakho) have played at full-back: You lose a bit of that offensive threat but I think they coped as well as they possibly could.

“We conceded possession poorly (for the goal) and then we ended up conceding the corner, and to lose a goal like that with so many defensive-minded players was criminal really.”

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Destination Beratan Lake IBP

Beratan Lake is a shallow lake with the high caldera about 1231m above sea level and it is located at Bedugul, the famous tourist destinations in Bali. This lake have wide 3,8 km2 and also its deepness is up to 22 meters. The water volume in this lake is about 0,049 km3, so Beratan Lake is the closed lake. Tourist can access the Beratan Lake through the dock which have been provided or desist around Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. In this place, the visitor can do various activities like doing recreation to look around in dock or do the other outdoor activities. The various water recreation activities can also be conducted here, for example riding the boat motorize to circle the lake, parasailing, canoeing with the traditional

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boat, banana boating, water skiing, and others.

Fishing activities are also available in this places for who one love fishing in the lake.

Beratan Lake is situated in the plateau area with cool atmosphere surround it. It is an ideal place for relaxation while enjoy the beautiful panorama of lake. The accommodations are also available in this area where is the perfect place for overnight stay, resting and enjoy the beautiful panoramic of lake with the Ulun Danu Temple as a magnificence. The small scale of agriculture activities are likely conducted around this lake and can be perceived at the same time circle around it.

If we encircle it, we can take photograph with the beautiful background view or make the picture sketch face in painting mini studio at the lakeside with a short time as a souvenir.

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Radwanska defeats Pavlyuchenkova to win Korea Open Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea - Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska rallied from a set down on Sunday to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-4 and win the Korea Open. Radwanska hit five aces and took advantage of 10 double-faults by the third-seeded Russian player to win her third title of the year and 13th overall.

“It was a very close match, tight sets, all of them,” Radwanska said. “But I was just a little bit better in the important moments today.” Pavlyuchenkova rallied from 3-0 down in the first set and fought off four set points in her 5-6 service game before taking a one-set lead.

But the momentum shifted when Radwanska won the first three games of the second set.

The Pole stayed on serve with Pavlyuchenkova through the first nine games of the third set before one last break to close out the match in 2 hours, 45 minutes.

“It’s tough losing this match after fighting so long and coming so close,” Pavlyuchenkova said.

“It’s difficult and frustrating, but in tennis you can be up then down.”

Radwanska’s previous two

titles this year came in the first two weeks of the year, in Auckland and Sydney. She is the fourth player to win three or more titles so far this season, after Serena Williams (9), Simona Halep (4) and Victoria Azarenka (3).

Radwanska, No. 4 in the world rankings, improved to 3-1 in head-to-head matches against Pavlyuchenkova, who is ranked 32nd.

Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska kisses her winning trophy after defeating Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at the final of the Korea Open tennis championships in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Sept.

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France is 1 win away from first basketball gold Ben Spies says 2014 MotoGP ride is safe Associated Press Writer

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Tony Parker is one win away from finally guiding France to its first major basketball title.

Having scored 32 points to lead France past two-time defending champion Spain 75-72 in overtime in Friday’s semifinals at the European championship, Parker needs just one more big performance when his team plays Lithuania for the gold medal on

Sunday. He was in the same position two years ago, only for his team to lose to Spain in the final.

“Now, we have to control our joy.

Two years ago we were so happy for having qualified for the Olympics that we botched the final,” Parker said after France’s victory Friday night.

By beating Spain, France finally overcame an opponent that has long dominated Parker’s talented generation. France had a 5-19 record against Spain going into the semifinal, includ-

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France’s Florent Pietrus reaches for the ball during the EuroBasket European Basketball Championship semifinal match against Spain, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013.

ing the loss in the 2011 final and at last year’s Olympic quarterfinals in London.

France has two silvers and five bronze medals at the Europeans — and had it not been for the gifted Spanish generation, it probably would have won the gold, too. “We’ve been coming closer and we want the best medal now,” Parker said.

While Parker is the team’s leader, he is not the only talented player — the San Antonio Spurs star is one of six NBA players on the French roster that includes Boris Diaw and Nicolas Batum.

Parker tops France with 19.7 points per game and is close to a personal landmark — he needs 21 points in the final to become the tournament’s alltime leading scorer. By taking his total to 984 points, he passed Dirk Nowitzki by one and is 20 behind Nikos Galis.

France came back after trailing by 14 and being dominated by Spain in the first half, wearing down the Spaniards in the second half and overcoming 19 points from Marc Gasol — whose brother Pau is not playing this time.

“I would have left my life on the court but I was going to win this game.

This year, it’s our chance,” France forward Florent Pietrus said. France coach Vincent Collet said his team is in a better shape than two years ago.

“We are in a completely different state of mind,” Collet said.

Ben Spies is adamant his place on the 2014 MotoGP grid with the satellite Pramac Ducati squad is not in doubt. The American has only started two races since joining the team due to lingering injuries.

Pramac recently recruited Yonny Hernandez as a more long-term, but indefinite, stand in for Spies, with the Colombian being released from his contract with Paul Bird Motorsport.

Despite his struggles through 2013, and the arrival of Hernandez, Spies insists his relationship with Pramac remains strong and that the two-year deal he signed with the squad is not at risk.

“My relationship with Ducati is great. Nothing is going on there, like I have read about,” Spies told MotoGP’s official website. Asked about rumours he could lose his seat next year, he said: “You hear about all of these crazy stories, but that is basically it. There is nothing to [it].

“I am talking with Ducati every few days and they are keeping me up to date with what is going on with the bike, what is going to be tested, what I am doing and so on. That is where we are at right now.

“I wish [Hernandez] luck. It is a great opportunity for him - unfortunately at my expense - but I hope he does a good job and is able to do well. “Right now we are just watching, kind of from the outside, and waiting to see the first time we can come back.”

Spies said the extent of his injury was also being mis-reported, adding: “The other thing is that, for everybody who said my shoulder was dislocated, there is a major difference between a dislocation and a separation.

“A lot of people, and still to this day, are saying it has been dislocated, but the diagnosis was a Grade 5 separation.

“That is pretty much as bad as it gets; I had a Grade 2 or 3 separation on my right shoulder a long time ago and was able to race with that, but with Grade 5 there is no way of doing anything about it.

“Before setting any goal [for 2014] the first step is just to get back to 100 per cent and then we have plenty of time to get back on the bike and re-set goals.

“I haven’t felt that in a long time. If we can do that, then I know what we can do and the team knows what we can do.”

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Civilians who had been hiding during the gun battle hold their hands in the air as a precautionary measure before being searched by armed police leading them to safety, inside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.

39 dead in Kenya mall attack; hostages still held Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya - Terrified shoppers huddled in back hallways and prayed they would not be found by the Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi’s top mall Saturday. When the way appeared clear, crying mothers clutching small children and blood-splattered men sprinted out of the four-story mall.

At least 39 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in the assault, Kenya’s president announced on national TV, while disclosing that his close family members were among the dead.

Foreigners were among the casualties. France’s president said that two French women were killed. Two Canadians were killed, including a diplomat, said the Candadian prime minister.

Four American citizens were reported injured but not killed in the attack, the State Department said Saturday.

Early Sunday morning, 12 hours after the attack began, gunmen remained holed up inside the mall with an unknown number of hostages. President Uhuru Kenyatta called the security

operation under way “delicate” and said a top priority was to safeguard hostages.

As the attack began shortly after noon Saturday, the al-Qaida-linked gunmen asked the victims they had cornered if they were Muslim: Those who answered yes were free to go, several witnesses said. The non-Muslims were not.

Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility and said the attack was retribution for Kenyan forces’ 2011 push into Somalia. The rebels threatened more attacks.

Al-Shabab said on its Twitter feed that Kenyan security officials were trying to open negotiations. “There will be no negotiations whatsoever,” al-Shabab tweeted.

As night fell in Kenya’s capital, two contingents of army special forces troops moved inside the mall.

Police and military surrounded the huge shopping complex as helicopters buzzed overhead. An Associated Press reporter said he saw a wounded Kenyan soldier put into an ambulance at nightfall, an indication, perhaps, of a continuing shoot-out inside.

Witnesses said at least five gunmen - including at least one woman - first attacked an outdoor cafe at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, a shiny, new shopping center that includes Nike, Adidas and Bose stores. The mall’s ownership is Israeli, and security experts have long said the structure made an attractive terrorist target.

LA PINTADA, Mexico - Rescuers fighting tons of slippery, wet mud at the site of this week’s worst storm disaster unearthed the bodies of two women Saturday, possibly among the 68 people missing in a massive landslide that buried half of the remote coffee-growing town of La Pintada.

Houses were filled to their roofs with dirt and vehicles were tossed on their sides when the hillside collapsed Monday afternoon after several days of rain brought by Tropical Storm Manuel, which along with Hurricane Ingrid gave Mexico a one-two punch last weekend.

“As of today, there is little hope now that we will find anyone alive,” said President Enrique Pena Nieto after touring the devastation, adding that the landslide covered at least 40 homes.

Pena Nieto told storm survivors that La Pintada, a town of 800, would be relocated and rebuilt in a safer location as officials responded to a wave of criticism that negligence and corruption were to blame for the vast devastation caused by two relatively weak storm systems.

“I will come to inaugurate a new La Pintada,” he said. “That’s a promise I’m making today to this community, which has undergone such a misfortune.”

Authorities on Saturday also found the wreckage of a Federal Police helicopter that was working on the La Pintada rescue when it went missing nearby on Thursday. All aboard died, five federal police, according to local media. Security spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said he could not confirm the number on board.

All week in Mexico City, editorials and public commentary said the government had made natural disasters worse because of poor planning, lack of a prevention strategy and corruption.

“Governments aren’t responsible for the occurrence of severe weather, but they are for the prevention of the effects,” wrote Mexico’s nonprofit Center of Investigation for Development in an online editorial criticizing a federal program to improve infrastructure and relocate communities out of dangerous flood zones. “The National Water Program had good intentions but its execution was at best poor.”

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From page 1 Similar comment was delivered by the members of Commission I, Made Sumiati and Ngakan Made Samudra. According to them, there was indeed no discussion at all in the House regarding the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN. “There has been no discussion on the matter in the Bali House,” said Samudra and Sumiati. When asked whether he agreed or disagreed to the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN, Samudra added if it had been included in the KSPN it should be reviewed further. “We must review it first comprehensively and consider the positive and negative impacts. So, we do not necessarily reject or accept,” said the Democrat from Nusa Penida. Nevertheless, Samudra serving as Chairman of the Special Committee on Zoning Regulation Draft asserted that in the zonation draft the Besakih Temple belonged to sanctum area and would be specified what could and could not be developed or built in the vicinity of the sanctum area.

Meanwhile, Sumiati added that Besakih Temple area had long been the target to be included in cultural heritage and had been rejected by all elements of Balinese society so that it finally was not. If the Besakih Temple was then included in the KSPN, it should be observed accurately regarding the positive and negative impacts that might occur. “We all have to discuss this matter. People’s aspirations should be heard. Parliament should also summon the governor to get his basic considerations,” said the PDI-P politician from Karangasem.

Previously, (Bali Post/Sep 21) Pastika said the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN was actually proposed by Bali government. “Proposal (of Besakih Temple in the KSPN) was made by us,” said Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika, Friday (Sep 20) when asked whether the Bali government had made discussion about the status of Besakih Temple included in the KSPN. Why is it proposed? When asked the question Pastika quibbled that the Besakih development could not be carried out haphazardly so that it had to be carefully planned by involving the Karangasem, Bali and central government.

“Besakih Temple is very strategic so that it cannot be developed haphazardly but should be with careful planning by central, provincial and county government,” said Pastika.

How is actually the KSPN concept? According to Pastika, tourism development of an area included in the KSPN should be tailored to the interests of the national, provincial and county interest so that it could be well planned. “The tourism development at the area (Besakih) should be tailored to the national, provincial and county interest,” he explained. (kmb29)

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INDONESIA Bikini tensions mar Islamic games Agence France-Presse

PALEMBANG - The Islamic Solidarity Games open in Indonesia this weekend following a chaotic run-up, with controversy over female athletes competing in sports bikinis adding to the turmoil.

Some nations demanded that all women cover up for the beach volleyball, track and field, and swimming events, but organisers have refused to axe the two-piece sporting outfits.

“If some countries do not want to use the bikini, that’s fine, but if other countries want to, we will allow that,” senior organising committee member Djoko Pramono told AFP. “We agreed to apply international rules, including the dress code.”

Thousands of athletes from 44 nations with Muslim populations will come together for the games, but only those ruled by Islamic governments opposed the bikini, Pramono said, adding they complained collectively.

He did not mention the countries which complained by name.

This year is the second time the games have been held, the first in Saudi Arabia, where not only were there no bikinis, but men and women competed on separate days and men were barred from watching women swim.

Some countries also asked the organisers to again run male and female

events on separate days.

Pramono said he did not know which teams had decided to wear the bikinis.

Female players from Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei have worn them at previous international competitions.

The event has faced a string of other problems, in the latest chapter of Indonesia’s shambolic history of hosting of major sporting tournaments.

It is set to officially open Sunday and run until October 1 after months of delays and two changes of venue, now in Palembang city on Sumatra island.

Unpaid labourers shuttered the stadium in the original host city, Pekanbaru, with the governor embroiled in multiple corruption scandals unable to help.

It was moved to the capital, Jakarta, only to be shifted again to Palembang after Sumatran officials complained, giving organisers less than two months to move everything to the new venue.

Eyebrows have been raised over the Palembang complex, where parts of the ill-fated 2011 Southeast Asian

Games took place.

Some facilities were not fully constructed as the 2011 event opened and scores of athletes suffered food poisoning there.

During that event, two football fans were crushed to death in a stampede at a venue in the capital as security guards were unable to control a massive crowd.

But Pramono was optimistic about the Islamic games, which includes archery, badminton and karate, and brings together nations from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

“Everything is progressing, and I’m sure all 13 sports will be a success,” he said.

The religious-based row is not the first to hit an international sporting event.

Last year, the International Judo Federation told Saudi Arabia’s first woman to compete at the Olympics, Wojdan Shaherkani, that she could not compete in a Muslim headscarf.

A compromise was reached and she fought in a modified head covering at the London Games.

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Tengger tribesmen carry their offering, a buffalo, during the religious ritual of “Unan-unan” in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, Sept 20, 2012. The Hindu tribe celebrate the ritual once every five years to praise their god.

Honda eyes quadruple sales by 2016 Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Japan’s Honda Motor launched its first low-cost car for Indonesia’s booming automotive market Thursday, part of plans to more than quadruple sales in the country by 2016.The launch of the Mobilia, a multi-purpose vehicle, comes as Honda builds its second plant in Indonesia to boost both production and sales.

Honda sold nearly 70,000 vehicles in Indonesia in 2012, and 62,000 in the first nine months of this year.

“Now we are going to enter the more mass-oriented market,” president- director of Honda’s Indonesian arm, Tomoki Uchida, told reporters.

“Our target is to achieve 300,000 unit sales in 2016,” he said.

With its second plant Honda plans to increase production capacity in Indonesia from 80,000 units to 200,000 by early next year.

Japanese carmakers hold a 95 percent share of Indonesia’s market

of around one million units annually in recent years.

Honda holds an 8.4 percent share, far behind Toyota with 40 percent.

Toyota has stayed ahead with its multi-purpose vehicles, popular with Indonesians who often travel with large families and prefer high elevation to cope with floods during the wet season.

A burgeoning middle class is moving up from motorbikes to lowcost family cars, with multi-purpose vehicles representing more than 30 percent of the total market.

Indonesia, with a population of 240 million, has become a target for automakers as sales slow in developed nations and as its people become wealthier.

The car market is expected to exceed Thailand’s and become the biggest in Southeast Asia next year.

Earlier this week Nissan revived the iconic Datsun in Indonesia after having launched it in India in July.

Indonesia: South China Sea a ‘litmus test’ for ASEAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Indonesia’s foreign minister says Southeast Asia’s regional bloc faces a “litmus test” as it seeks to manage disputes in the South China Sea. Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said Thursday there’s now a “good degree of common understanding” within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on broad goals for a proposed code of conduct.

In an address webcast by the Asia

Society, Natalegawa said that until recently some nations viewed the code as a “magic wand” to address core disputes.

But he said Indonesia suggested more modest goals: to avoid security incidents, to promote confidence and on how to prevent escalating into full-blown conflict.

Natalegawa did not directly address the view of China which has been reluctant to negotiate with ASEAN over its conflicting territorial claims with several Southeast Asian nations.

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Kerta Gosa to be a venue of APEC delegate lunch

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NEW YORK CITY - BlackBerry Friday said it would cut 4,500 jobs as the struggling Canadian smartphone maker retrenches in the face of hefty losses and weak sales of its new handsets.

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Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey, left, listens to World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati, right, during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation finance ministers’ meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

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RI proposes priority be given to infrastructure NUSA DUA - The Indonesian government has proposed to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) that priority be given to infrastructure development as part of efforts to boost economic growth in the Asia-Pacific Region, a deputy minister said.

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In this July 9, 2013, file photo, People walk past BlackBerry’s headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, in Canada. BlackBerry said Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, it will lay off 4,500 employees, or 40 percent of its global workforce, and is announcing a nearly $1 billion second-quarter loss in a surprise early release of earnings.

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Spain wins back investors Agence France-Presse

MADRID - Cast as the sick man of the eurozone a year ago, Spain seems at last to be luring back investors despite lingering threats to its recovery.

“Viva Espana,” blared a recent report by the global financiers Morgan Stanley, advising clients to invest in bonds from the eurozone’s fourth-biggest economy, which came close to a full bailout in 2012.

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BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs The news, showing BlackBerry’s efforts at reviving its fortunes a stunning failure, pushes the once high-flying firm one step closer to extinction, analysts said.

BlackBerry said it expects a loss of $950 to $995 million in second quarter mostly due to writedowns linked to poor sales of its Z10 smartphone, the device aimed at competing against Apple and Android devices.

The company’s highly-publicized launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform earlier this year failed to ignite sales. The company has said it is examining “strategic alternatives,” including a possible sale of the company.

Friday’s news marks the latest downer for a company whose products were once nick-named “crackberries” because of the customer loyalty they fostered.

“The Blackberry of the past is dying and changing and going away,” said technology analyst Jeff Kagan.

Kagan said only time will tell if BlackBerry vanishes completely or is reinvented, perhaps as part of another company.

Mark Sue, analyst at RBC Capital Markets said the results were “much worse than expected” and that the business “is facing significant challenges” and “trying to rapidly cut costs to reduce cash burn.”

The job cuts constitute 40 percent of the company’s workforce and will take staffing down to 7,000.

The loss in the upcoming quarter includes a $930 to $960 million charge resulting “from the increasingly competitive business environment impacting BlackBerry smartphone volumes” and a $72 million restructuring charge, the company said.

Revenues are projected at $1.6 billion, well below the $3.06 billion expected by analysts.

BlackBerry will cut its portfolio from six devices to four and expects to reduce its operating expenses by approximately 50 percent.

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ent. We were trying not to read analysts’ reports so as not to get depressed,” said Antonio Carrascosa, leader of Spain’s state bank-restructuring fund, known as the FROB. “Right now, it’s the opposite. We are seeing the start of a recovery.”

Having risen in mid-2012 as investors shunned the country, Spain’s sovereign borrowing costs -- the yields or rates of interest it must pay on the debt markets to finance its public spending -- have fallen sharply.

In July 2012 the yield on its

benchmark 10-year bond was around 7.5 percent -- a level considered unsustainable by economists. It is now around 4.4 percent.

The Madrid stock market has just broken back through the 9,000point barrier for the first time since October 2011.

“The concerns that were on the world’s front pages a little over a year ago have disappeared,” said Carrascosa.

Scrambling last year to stabilise public finances, Spain’s conservative government introduced a series of austere reforms which sparked

angry mass street protests.

The reforms included spending cuts and looser hiring-and-firing laws for companies, plus a shake-up of the banks to bolster their balance sheets and purge bad loans.

“With regards to structural reforms, certainly Spain, versus its neighbours, seems to be an exemplary case for progress, namely on the issues concerning the financial sector, labour market and fiscal framework,” Morgan Stanley’s analysts wrote.

The government is forecasting that the current quarter will see an

end to the recession -- the second in a double downturn sparked by the collapse of a construction boom in 2008.

“A year ago, Spain was a problem for the European economy and the world economy,” said Finance Minister Luis de Guindos last week.

“Now it is not.”

Strengthening exports and an easing in the decline of household spending “lead us to think that the Spanish economy has come out of recession,” he said.

“But this does not mean it has come out of the crisis.”

“Indonesia proposes that infrastructure development should be given a priority,” Deputy Finance Minister Mahendra Siregar said on the sidelines of the APEC finance ministers’ meeting on Friday.

Besides infrastructure development, trade credit financing should also be increased, although many international-scale banks were facing liquidity problems.

“Trade and investment are important things for economic growth,” he said.

Further, Indonesia also raised the idea of providing significant financial inclusion of small scale businesses since their involvement in the small and middle business sectors is vitally important.

“We should make sure that in the medium term we will be able to maintain the economic growth momentum,” he explained.

Delegates from 21 APEC economies and a number of world financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

(IMF), placed a spotlight on global economic conditions as their theme of their meeting.

Meanwhile, World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati said economic conditions were now moving towards a new phase where economies in advanced countries were being strengthened, though they have not proven as strong as earlier expected.

“The growth in developing countries is slowing down, including countries in the Asia Pacific region,” she said.

The World Bank recorded that developing countries and potential markets in APEC were expected to contribute 50 percent to world economic growth.

The global gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to increase by about 2.4 percent in 2013 and will gradually strengthen to 3.2 percent to 3.5 percent in 2014 and 2015.

Sri Mulyani has also suggested that Indonesia focus on infrastructure development to meet its public needs.

During her tenure as finance minister of Indonesia, Sri Mulyani had focused

on eradicating subsidies.

She pointed out that a lack of infrastructure support was an obstacle standing in the way of Indonesia’s boosting its economic growth, curbing inflation and reducing its current account deficit.

Mulyani further said that all countries throughout the world were confronted with the same problems, whether they were poor, developing or advanced.

Developing countries, she stated, needed US$1 trillion to US$ 2 trillion to support growth, increase productivity, alleviate poverty and improve people’s welfare.

Indonesia’s current Finance Minister, Chatib Basri, said earlier that Indonesia has chosen to focus on infrastructure development during the country’s APEC chairmanship.

Basri added that in order to strengthen and maintain economic growth, growing economies needed to attract long-term capital for investment in their best infrastructure projects.

This would not only benefit the economy of the country where the investment was being made, but also pave the way for international long-term investors finding stable and profitable investment projects, he noted.

SEMARAPURA - Echoes of Kerta Gosa tourist attraction indeed has spread worldwide through hundreds of foreign tourist visits every day. However, so far the condition remains concerned. Amid such concern, apparently the Kerta Gosa stays to get confidence to host a lunch for delegates of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on the upcoming October 4.

The plan was justified by the Head of Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana. He explained to have received a letter from the APEC CEO Summit Indonesia 2013 where in conjunction with the APEC implementation in Bali the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Indonesia had asked for permission to Klungkung government through the Culture and Tourism Agency to use the Kerta Gosa for the APEC Voices of the Future (APEC Youth). The program, said Sujana, pursuant to the letter posed an annual event held simultaneously with the ongoing ABAC and the APEC CEO Summit meeting where young people from 21 economic member of the APEC assembled to deepen the economic trade perspective in the Asia-Pacific region as well as an effort to learn about the local culture.

Sujana added the APEC Voices of the Future 2013 would be attended by more than 130 delegates aged 1725 years. The delegates consisted of the elected youths supported by the government to be an ambassador for the APEC youth program. Meanwhile, before the lunch at Kerta Gosa, he said that committee of the APEC Voices of the Future had chosen Kamasan village as one of the locations to be visited by the delegates considering the village had high historical and cultural values on the Kamasan puppet painting. He said if only the matter of permission to use the location was not actually a problem. However, the condition would be turned away because foreigners were so impressed with historical value. However, two buildings of Kerta Gosa itself were in damaged condition for so long.

Unfortunately, the historical values of Kerta Gosa lay on the ceiling of the two main buildings.

“Suppose that they look around the leaking roof tiles, the Kamasan paintings on the ceiling are at risk of damage, so we will be ashamed as if we did not maintain the historical building and painting,” he said.

However, he admitted to still welcome anyone coming to Kerta Gosa. Moreover, it was planned to be used by foreign guests. Other than related to condition of the building, it still had a problem related to ownership status. So far, the status of the most valuable asset of Klungkung remained uncertain because the application to certify the Kerta Gosa by Klungkung government to National Land Agency (BPN) of Klungkung stayed unclear.

“We officially sent a letter to the BPN long time ago. Similarly, we have attached the complete required documents. But strangely, we have not received any official response whether the certification can be done or not,” he explained.

He hoped that BPN dared take a stand to end the unclear status of Kerta Gosa. Ideally, the BPN should not give uncertainty after getting protests from the party opposing the certification. “If it can be certified, please declare it can be. Otherwise, please explain the reasons.

Thus, we can understand because we are required to maintain the Kerta Gosa. If the status is unclear, we cannot do much,” he concluded. (kmb31)

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Road unpaved, agricultural products sold cheaply

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Farmers at Manik Aji hamlet and the surrounding areas, Ban village, Kubu, Karangasem, hoped the road on the hill ranges bordering with Trunyan could be paved, Friday (Sep 20). Condition of the unpaved road caused them to have difficulty to transport and market their crops. At the village, nobody wanted to buy, even if there were buyers. Theirs would be bargained at very cheap price. Farmers got difficulty to transport their agricultural products to be sold to the market as the road along 3 km had not been paved.

Actually, the agricultural products of local farmers were potential such as cassava, taro, bananas and garlic. Since a few months ago, farmers had started planting citrus. Aside from the potential agricultural products with fertile soil, the area also offers cool air on the high altitude. As a result, grass and forage are available almost throughout the year. Each farmer raises three to six cattle and theirs look fat. However, farmers should lead their cattle on foot far enough to reach truck on the asphalt road that will transport theirs to cattle market.

Hamlet Chief of Manik Aji, Nengah Subagia, said that local administrative hamlet consisted of three customary villages namely the Manikaji, Asti and Kaliaga. The road to Manikaji along 3 km had not been paved yet. It already had the road body and local people could independently concrete the climb only, so that it was easily passed through by motorcycles. Farmer said less smooth transportation caused their tobacco leaf to be unable to be sold outside the village. When sold, they would be bargained at very cheap price. Likewise, the price of cassava was very cheap, so that it was neglected and even discarded or used for fodder. However, if sold outside the village, the cost of motorcycle taxi was very high, so that it did not cover the selling price of the agricultural products.

Residents through Hamlet Chief Nengah Subagia expected the government to immediately pave the road, so that the access to market outside the village could be easier.

On the request of local residents, the Deputy Regent of Karangasem, Made Sukerana, said at Manik Aji that his party welcomed any input of local residents. In the near future, the staff of Karangasem Public Works was planned to conduct a survey and measurement to the road and path length. As planned, the road to Manik Aji would be paved based on budget availability and if it was enough, it would be entirely paved. If the budget was limited, the pavement would be carried out in stages.

In harmony with high vivacity of farmers at local hamlet to start planting citrus, his party handed over up to 10,000 cuttings of honey citrus. They were received by a group consisting of 55 families of farmer, from the three existing groups. “If farmers will plant citrus, it must be properly maintained. Please cultivate the citrus cuttings of CVPD-resistant and certified cuttings that are absolutely free from CVPD, so that it would not be like in 1984 where the citrus plants were totally attacked by such citrus disease,” said Sukerana. (kmb13)

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People inspect the site of a double suicide bomb attack, in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr city in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.

The yachts participating in Sail Indonesia arrive in Lovina

Participants of Sail Indonesia welcomed

by Lovina Festival Singaraja (Bali Post)—

For the umpteenth time, hundreds of yachts sailed the waters of Buleleng in the series of the Sail Indonesia 2013. For this year, travelers in the yacht would be welcomed with the opening ceremony of the Lovina Festival, Saturday afternoon (Sep 21).

The Head of Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Jero Ketut Warkadea, said on Friday (Sep 20) that participants of the Sail Indonesia stopping in Buleleng would indeed be welcomed on Saturday with the opening of the Lovina Festival at the Bina Ria Beach or around the dolphin

statue.

The Lovina Festival itself posed an annual event to showcase the potential of the arts and crafts of Buleleng. At the festival to be closed on Monday (Sep 23) were exhibited various kinds of typical handicrafts of Buleleng. It was also jazzed up

with traditional games, cultural attractions like bull race, genjek a cappella, mapang barong and Joged rindik competition.

According to Warkadea, in addition to enjoying many cultural attractions, the Sail Indonesia participants would also be served with administrative affairs such as travel visa extension and others. “Aside from welcomed with some kinds of arts, all the participants of Sail Indonesia are also serviced if they want to extend their visa and other travel document need,” he said. (kmb15)

Cariole Still Survives amidst Congestion of Denpasar

Traditional means of transportation such as cariole has become a favorite in the 1960s. In harmony with the passage of time, the presence of cariole is increasingly marginalized by modern means of transportation such as motorcycles and cars. Now, the number of cariole remaining to operate around Denpasar is few and far between. According to a cariole driver met around the Badung Market, Nengah Purna, the number of surviving cariole was only about 10-15 units. Such number spread out in several places in the Badung

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Market. Like in the east of the temple, the place was only used by three cariole drivers to hang out.

Purna has deeply involved in such profession since 1963. “I have been here since I was a teenager. When the Mount Agung erupted, I have been a cariole driver,” said the 70-year old grandfather. He said that before the flooding means of transportation like motorcycles, the cariole was highly required to convey and escort passengers bringing along their groceries from the market. From the results of his livelihood, he was able to support

his wife and three children and sent them school and college. However, his earning as a cariole driver today was not much. Though visitors to the market were crowded ahead of Galungan, he said, they had no great impact on his earning. “From eleventh o’clock just now until this time, I have not got passengers at all,” he said.

Within a day, he was only able to earn IDR 10,000 to IDR 30,000. “Except for transporting guests (foreign visitors) and on Sunday, I can earn more,” he said. However, Nengah Purna would like to maintain his profession.

This grandpa from Ulakan, Karangasem, started his activity as a cariole driver from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. He used to take passengers from Badung Market to the farthest point on Jalan Nangka. The rate charged was adjusted to the distance of destination.

He added that government also gave support to the presence of cariole such as to support the tourism of Denpasar. “If there is an anniversary of government, our cariole is usually involved and decorated. We are given compensation known as money of grass,” he said. (kmb)

Assault on Iraq funeral, other attacks kill 96 Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 96 people on Saturday.

The assaults, the latest in a months-long surge of violence, are a chilling reminder of insurgents’ determination to re-ignite sectarian conflict more than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion.

Thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violent attacks in recent months - a level of bloodshed not seen since Iraq pulled back from the brink of civil war in 2008 - despite appeals for restraint from Shiite and Sunni political leaders.

The attack on the funeral was one of the largest single terrorist

assaults on civilians in Iraq in recent years. It happened shortly before sunset in the densely populated Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad.

Police said at least 72 people were killed and more than 120 were wounded in that attack. One bomber was able to drive up near the tent before detonating his deadly payload, and another on foot blew himself up nearby, police said.

The explosions set the tents and several nearby cars on fire, sending a towering plume of thick black

smoke over the city.

“I saw several charred bodies on the ground and tents on fire and also burning cars. Wounded people were screaming in pain,” said Sheik Sattar al-Fartousi, one of the mourners. “The scene was horrible. The funeral turned into an inferno.”

He said the first blast went off as dinner was being served in one of several tents set up for the funeral of a member of the al-Fartousi tribe.

He estimated that more than 500 people were attending the event.

Civilian pickup trucks loaded with casualties and ambulances with sirens blaring were seen racing from the scene. Hussein AbdulKhaliq, a government employee who lives near the bomb site, said the tents were packed with mourners when the blasts went off.

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Bo Xilai found guilty of corruption A Chinese court has found prison after serving only part of disgraced former top politi- their original sentences. Chen Xician Bo Xilai guilty of bribery, tong, a former Politburo member, embezzlement and abuse of was released on medical parole power. The former party chief of after serving half of his original Chongqing was sentenced to life 16-year prison term. imprisonment, but has the right However, Bo Xilai is 64to appeal. years-old. Even before his poHe had denied all the charges litical downfall, he was moving against him in a fiery defence at towards the final chapter in his his trial. Bo was removed from career. It is difficult to envision a office last year amid a scandal scenario in which he can quickly which saw his wife convicted for revive his populist power base, the murder of British business- even if he gains an early release from prison. man Neil Heywood.

It is difficult to make predicThe verdict was handed down by the Intermediate People’s Court tions in the world of Chinese in Jinan, Shandong province. politics. Two years ago Bo apPassing sentence the judge told peared to be poised to move into Bo that he had damaged China’s Zhongnanhai, the government national interests and the interests compound in Beijing were Chiof its people, wrongfully using his na’s top leaders reside. Now, he position in power to receive bribes will spend the foreseeable future totalling 20 million Chinese Yuan inside a prison cell. ($3.2m; £2m).

He rejected Bo’s claims that his confession to the crimes was acquired through illegal means such as torture and interrogation, and said it therefore stood. The BBC’s John Sudworth, outside the court, said that the judge completely demolished Bo’s defence arguments.

During Bo’s trial last month the court took the unprecedented step of releasing details about proceedings on its Weibo microblog.

The curtains appear to have finally dropped on Bo Xilai’s once-glittering Communist Party career.

Bo can appeal against the trial verdict and his life sentence, but it is highly improbable he could engineer a future in which AP Photo/Jinan Intermediate People’s Court he re-enters China’s po- In this photo released by the Jinan Interlitical arena. He has been mediate People’s Court, fallen politician stripped of all political Bo Xilai, center, is handcuffed and held rights for life. by police officers as he stands at the Other convicted politi- court in Jinan, in eastern China’s Shancians were released from dong province Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.

North Korea postpones reunions of war-divided families

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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea on Saturday indefinitely postponed reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War scheduled to start Wednesday, an apparent setback after weeks of improving ties following springtime threats of war.

North Korea said the six days of reunions, which last happened three

years ago, could not be held because of South Korean conservatives’ “reckless and vicious confrontation racket” against Pyongyang, a claim that North Korea routinely makes. It also vowed, in similarly familiar rhetoric, to “take strong and decisive counteractions against the South Korean puppet regime’s everescalating war provocations.”

The development, which an analyst called a North Korean attempt

to gain an advantage in negotiations with Seoul, is a twist in what had been gradually easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang tempering its threats and pursuing talks meant to restart various inter-Korean cooperation projects.

The biggest highlight is the recent return of North and South Koreans to a jointly run factory park just across the border in North Korea after a five-month shutdown.

Pyongyang’s announcement was likely linked to its frustration over delayed talks with Seoul to resume lucrative, jointly run tours to a North Korean mountain resort, and to a perception that Seoul wasn’t supporting the North’s push to restart stalled international aid-fornuclear-disarmament negotiations, said Yoo Ho-Yeol, a professor of North Korean studies at Korea University in Seoul.

“The family reunion is something that South Korea wants. It is not surprising that Pyongyang is now using this as a bargaining chip,” Yoo said.

An unidentified spokesman for the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement that the family reunions will be postponed until a “normal atmosphere” for dialogue returns.

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Luxury river cruise opens up mysteries of Myanmar Associated Press Writer

us immediately felt relaxed.

Over the next 12 days we will tour sights rarely seen by foreign tourists: villages left back in time, gilded pagodas filled with Buddhist statues, thousands of them long neglected.

My cabin is spacious, with hardwood floors, fresh flowers and a walk-in closet. Best of all are the glass sliding doors facing the wide river, where one can lie in bed and watch the world glide by.

We travel first for six hours along the mighty Irrawaddy River, more than 400 meters (yards) wide. The shores are almost level with the land, the brush low with a few large trees.

Every hut or fishing boat we pass generates loud greetings. Groups of children wave and call. Water taxis carry passengers from one riverside village to the next, and huge, heavy boats laden with teak head downstream.

When we reach the confluence

Bali News

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Miss World final sets at BNDCC Antara

DENPASAR - The final round of the Miss World 2013 beauty pageant is to be held at Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center in Badung district on Saturday, September 28. “The finals will be staged at BNDCC,” chairwoman of Miss Indonesia Organization Liliana Tanoesoedibjo said.

The finals are to be broadcast to 160 countries, she said.

She also said that following the coronation of Miss World 2013 on Saturday, the winner is scheduled to meet with members of the media at Mangpura Hall at Bali International Convention Center in Nusa Dua. Initially the contest was to be held in Bali, with the final round in Sentul, Bogor, West Java. But following protests from Muslim organizations, the government requested that the entire pageant be hosted in Bali.

The contest includes 130 participants from across the world.

MANDALAY, Myanmar — After closing its doors to the West for half a century, Myanmar has reopened, inviting all to come and discover its treasures, ancient palaces of kings long gone, legends and mysteries told in stone. And the world is expected to come.

These are the early days, perhaps the best, and with illequipped roads and railways, there is no better way to explore than by river. Public ferries crisscross through glistening green paddies; old teak fishing boats can be rented by the day.

And now, there is the luxury riverboat cruise. In late July, the Orcaella made its maiden voyage on a 1,600kilometer (994-mile) journey deep into Myanmar’s interior, almost to the border of India. It is operated by the Orient Express, the group that runs luxury hotels, trains and boats globally.

It’s not a handsome ship from the outside. As the cruise’s first 30 travelers board in Mandalay, it seems squat and square and a bit worn out. But once we step over the gangplank and enter the roomy lounge, our impression changes completely. Totally remodeled from the hull up and gracefully furnished, it is a space where all of

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Meanwhile, on Saturday, Miss World 2013 contestants prayed for world peace and harmony at the World Peace Monument in Kertalangu cultural village.

“This prayer is for the commemoration of World Peace Day that falls on Saturday (Sept 21),” Liliana said.

She added that the mass prayers, which were led by a number of priests and religious leaders, were organized by a group that has been created by the organizer to promote world peace.

“The program has been carried out since 1982 by the United Nations. This did not happen all of sudden or accidentally but (through it) we, as human beings, wish to preserve harmony in the world,” she said.

The contestants participating in the prayers wore white dresses as they prayed according to their faiths.

“We must celebrate that all unite for peace, (and are) peaceful towards each other. We live in this world and so must create peace,” the contestant from Britain, Kristy Heslewood, said.

She said to help create peace, she wished to help others who are not as fortunate by providing humanitarian aid.

When asked about the many conflicts throughout the world, Kristy said people should help, understand and love each other.

“We must work together and understand each other’s religion and culture. The more we can accept others, the greater the chance will be for us to be able to live side by side and love each other,” she said.

Besides praying together, the contestants also planted trees around the village, including coconut, mango and frangipani trees.

To recognize peace, the contestant from Indonesia, Vania Larissa, and Miss World 2012, Wenxia Yu, representing all contestants, struck the gong of peace.

Contestants also released white balloons and doves as symbols of peace.

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In this Sept. 16, 2013 photo, villagers transport merchandises in a river close to Buthidaung in Rakhine state, Myanmar. with the Chindwin River, we meet our first obstacle. The captain slows our 25-cabin ship to a near-standstill and struggles to navigate around a small whirlpool. The shifting sandbanks

make it difficult to read the riverbed.

Eventually we pass, continuing north on the Chindwin along the melted waters of the Himalayas.

We slice through sandstone cliffs

and patches of forest, but this is rare. For long stretches, sometimes days at a time, the view is more monotonous than I would have imagined.

Dragons rise by light of the full moon 3 sisters reunited in NY Associated Press Writer

HONG KONG — Straw “fire dragons” smoldering with tens of thousands of incense sticks have been visiting Hong Kong neighborhoods to bestow blessings on residents. The tradition began in the 19th century when, as legend has it, villagers stopped a plague with

a fire dragon dance. Now, it’s one of many traditions that residents of Hong Kong enjoy as the city celebrates the mid-autumn festival, one of the biggest holidays in the ethnic Chinese world.

The autumn harvest festival — a cross between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day — is celebrated on the 15th day of the eight month of AP Photo/Vincent Yu

In this Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 photo, a full moon rises over a building, a day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong. The autumn harvest festival, which is a cross between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day, is celebrated on the 15th day of the eight month of the Chinese lunar calendar, when the moon is at its roundest and brightest.

the Chinese lunar calendar, when the moon is at its roundest and brightest. The festival dates back hundreds if not thousands of years.

This year it fell on Sept. 19.

Other customs and traditions accumulated over the centuries. The holiday is also known as the Mooncake Festival because one of the most popular rituals is exchanging mooncakes, round pastries traditionally filled with lotus seed or red bean paste and salted duck egg yolk.

The roundness symbolizes a family reunion while the yolk represents the moon. Chang’e, the moon goddess of immortality, is a common figure on mooncake boxes.

Lighting lanterns is also a popular tradition, and the lanterns themselves can come in the shape of animals or other objects from nature. The festival’s romantic aspect comes with being associated with a god linked to a matchmaking practice. Above all the festival is a time for families to gather and pray for another year of good fortune.

after 73-year separation Associated Press Writer

PEMBROKE, N.Y. — Three sisters have been reunited in western New York some 73 years after their mother abandoned the older two and disappeared with the youngest sister.

The Daily News of Batavia reported Saturday that the sisters — 80-year-old Joan Billings, 78-year-old Shirley Mortellaro and 77year-old Mary Kidwell — were reunited this month after decades of searching for each other.

The sisters’ story begins in 1940 in Toronto, where their father was in the Canadian Air Force. The sisters told the newspaper that when their father was away, their mother would put them in the bedroom and tell them to stay there while she went partying.

One day, the sisters said, they caught their mother with a boyfriend and told their father. A fight ensued and the mother packed quickly and left with her youngest daughter. The two older sisters settled in western New York — Billings in Albion and Mortellaro in Pembroke — while Kidwell ended up in Columbus, Ohio.

Billings and Mortellaro both married, Billings twice. Billings has six surviving children, having lost a daughter at age 33. Mortellaro and her husband Tony have three daughters; Kidwell, who is widowed, has four children.

The two older sisters spent years looking for Mary, and she looked for them as well. That search ended about three weeks ago when Mortellaro got a call from her grandson’s girlfriend’s mother in Florida, who had taken up the search.

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Miss World 2012 Wenxia Yu of China, left, and Miss Indonesia Vania Larissa, right, hit a giant world peace gong during the International World Peace Day celebrations at a park in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.

The Miss World pageant final will be held Sept. 28 in Bali.

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Tourism leaders also reject Besakih Temple included in KSPN Bali Post

DENPASAR - After previously getting rejection from Hindu leaders on the decision of central government through the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy to include the Besakih Temple area in the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) program without coordination with local governments, similar rejection also came from a number of tourism leaders expressing their disapproval because Besakih was a sacred area of Hindus devotees that was inappropriate to be commercialized. It was delivered by a lecturer of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, Gusti Putu Bagus Sastrawan Mananda.

He firmly rejected because the central government made a decision without observations to the field and absorbing the aspirations of Balinese people as a subject that would surely have got the impact were not involved in the coordination. Allegedly, there was an indication of interests of central government to get profit over the Besakih Temple attraction as a tourist attraction. “I disagree because there is no coordination from the beginning. Why is suddenly like this, what actually happens behind this?” he affirmed.

Further, he questioned about the attitude of central government that did not involve the local governments, academicians and community leaders of Bali.

More seriously, when referring to the legal instrument in the Law No.10/2009 on tourism, there was disharmony between the national tourism development master plan and the tourism master plan of provincial and county/municipal government. “Actually, this goes up against the law why the Besakih Temple was abruptly set forth. There should be coordination from central government to local government, so that we can have clear access, and there is no flaming in the community,” he said.

Furthermore, he said that Besakih Temple was the area listed as a cultural heritage, so the existence had to be preserved. It should never be commercialized because Besakih Temple was a sacred place and could not be functioned as a profane place commercialized for tourists. “This must be observed whether visitors are allowed to enter or visit the outside area only and they uncertainly comply with the existing rules at Besakih Temple, like cuntaka (temporary impure due to family death) and menstruation,” he said. (nik)

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Seven South Asian countries learn about woman culture in Bali Gianyar (Bali Post)—

One of the short cut which is still being worked by Tabanan Government

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Shortcut project accelerated

Denpasar-Gilimanuk traffic stays uncertain Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The deadly Denpasar-Gilimanuk path passing through Tabanan began to get the attention from central government. At least, three shortcut or flyover projects were built at this path. Unfortunately, despite the project is accelerated, the traffic flows in the shortcut path remains uncertain.

The three shortcuts built are respectively over the Yeh Ho River (East Selemadeg), Yeh Lambuk River (Selemadeg) and Samsam (Kerambitan). The accelerated implementation is targeted to be in operations next year.

However, the previous path has not been ascertained to be functioned. “We have not been able to perform the study. It’s a national road, so the traffic engineering authority lies in central government,” said the Head of the Tabanan Transportation, Communication and Informatics Agency, Made Agus Hartawiguna, Saturday (Sep 21).

According to him, the study and traffic engineering of the three shortcuts would be held by the Ministry of Transportation through the Institute of Road and Lake Traffic. Representative of the Ministry of Transportation had existed in Bali. However, Agus said there had been no specific discussion related to the traffic engineering plan.

“So far, there has been no discussion how the traffic will look like later on,” said the former subdistrict head of West Selemadeg.

Nevertheless, Agus ensured the pres-

ence of the three shortcuts would reduce congestion and accidents on the DenpasarGilimanuk deadly pathway because location of the shortcut projects was the most accident-prone. Winding path and sharp climb condition required a shortcut. Agus said the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section belonged to national category of number two because it had the most climbs and sharp turns. Then, the traffic accidents that frequently occurred at the location were like truck rolling up to plunging into the abyss. Later on, the rugged terrain would be replaced with shortcut.

Aside from the shortcut, the cargo delivery could be made by sea. Moreover, most cargos transported through the DenpasarGilimanuk route were mostly unloaded in Denpasar area. “However, it is not an easy policy because the cargo transportation cannot be easily diverted to sea line,” he said.

Opening of the road section of Soka (Selemadeg) heading for Kuta (Badung) can be another solution to overcome death pathway of Tabanan. (kmb30)

Seven countries in South Asia learned about Balinese woman culture in Gianyar.

A total of 14 delegates learned about the culture, tourism, economy and so on in the business premises located at the Family Income Improvement Endeavor (UPPKS) Dahlia performed by Balinese women located at Dangin Jalan hamlet, Guwang village, Sukawati subdistrict.

Muhammad Bawardadi from the International Training Center of the National Family Planning Coordinating Agency (BKKBN) said the delegates comprising 14 people were from seven developing countries. The visit to Bali and Gianyar in particular was a part of the field activities

of the delegates who had previously got briefing in Jakarta for two (2) days. The delegates were directly led to womam empowerment program in improving the livelihoods of families. One of the delegates, Aishath Ibahath, from Maldives visiting Bali for the first time recognized the woman empowerment was very good and had been carried out since long ago because it was in harmony with Balinese culture.

Chairperson of the Women Empowerment and Family Planning (PP&KB) of Gianyar County, Ida Ayu Ambari, hoped of the arrival of the delegates would also indirectly promote the tourism potential of Gianyar to their country. (kmb16)

Patient of Bali Mental Hospital rises Bangli (Bali Post)—

Number of patients undergoing treatment at the Bali Mental Hospital (RSJ) in Bangli shows an increase through the years. Evidently, the data owned by the Mental Hospital indicate an increase in the number of patient both the outpatient and inpatient treatment reaching hundreds of people a year. They indicate the mental health of Balinese people continues to decline from year to year.

Based on the data from the past five years, the outpatient treatment in Bangli continues to show a significant increase. As recorded, a total of 7,087 patients were treated in 2008, then 7,989 patients (2009), 829 patients (2010), 15,943 patients (2011) and 19,923 patients (2012). Meanwhile, the number of patient hospitalized in 2008 reached 4,451 people, 4640 people (2009), 4,920 people (2010), 5,234 people (2011) and 5,060 people (2012). Then, until September this year, the number of patient hospitalized increased 308 people.

According to the Division Head of the Medical Services of the Bali Mental Hospital, I Wayan Sukrata, the increasing number of patient was caused by several factors. Aside from the increase in the community mental disorders, it could also be caused by higher level of public awareness to check their mental condition to Mental Hospital. In spite of the factors, he added, in general there were several factors causing mental disorders in the community.

Some of them were genetic or hereditary factor, parenting, stress in life and environmental factor, including socio-economic factor.

To recover the psychiatric condition of patients, all this time the Mental Hospital strived to provide a number of services, both the inbuilding services including for the outpatient

and inpatient care and outside the building services such as the integrated services to a number of clinics in Bali. “There are home visit and home care for patients with problems. For example, patients rarely making control often get recurrent and so forth,” said Sukrata.

Related to the persistence of mental patients put in the stocks by society, Sukrata also recognized the increasing cases from year to year.

In 2012, a total of 32 cases of mental disorder patient in the stocks could be treated properly.

Such amount had increased in 2013. As of September this year, his party had handled 38 patients with mental disorder in the stocks. The amount could possibly increase due to high stigma against people with mental disorders in the community. “A lot of people are still embarrassed when having family members suffering a mental disorder so that they are kept secret and do not get optimal treatment,” he said.

Specifically for the treatment of patients in the stocks, explained Sukrata, there were differences in the matter of handling compared to the other psychiatric patients. Patients in the stocks were also usually accompanied by physical abnormalities, such as injuries and some had contractures or stiffness in the joints due to prolonged stocks. “Therefore, patients in the stocks, other than in need of mental handling, also need treatment for their physical abnormalities. As the causes are complex, then the handling of patients with mental disorders including those in the stocks requires cooperation of various parties such as the Mental Hospital with the Health Agency along the staff, Social Affairs, the regent along the staff and Social Services, including the security forces,” he said while adding that his party would strive to accomplish the Stocks-free Bali Program in 2014. (ina)

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Trisna Jayanti win Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2013 IBP

KUTA - Hard Rock Hotel Bali officially introduces Ms. Trisna Jayanti (Ina) as the winner of Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2013. Crowned during the Grand Final Night at Centerstage, 16 September 2013, Ina won the coveted title after becoming the best in all criteria. Prior to the Grand Final Night, the finalists were introduced to the public on Friday, 13 September, at the Finalist Midori Foam Party on Saturday, 14 September; and challenge events all the way until the final night. Ina will follow the success of former Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2012, Keiza Irene.

Ina, 22, is a Balinese with strong cultural influence. Ina is currently studying at Universitas Udayana majoring in Information Technology. Ina and her siblings were taught the Balinese dances ever since they were little at the age of 3. During the Opening Night and Grand Final Night, Ina chose to dance Oleg Tamulilingan, which is a Balinese dance depicting a love story.

The first runner-up is Glady Laksmi and the second runner-up is Anastasia Dewi, both from Denpasar. The three ladies will perform the duties as the Top 3 Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2013. The ladies achieved the highest scores in the criteria of Talent, Hard Rock Knowledge and Music Appreciation.

Andrew Khoo, General Manager of Hard

Rock Hotel Bali explains, “We are proud to introduce Ina to the world and to every Hard Rock enthusiasts. We believe Ina will carry out her duties well and make Bali proud.”

The winning ladies will represent Bali at the Ms. Hard Rock South East Asia 2013, to be held at Hard Rock Pattaya, from 4th- 6th October 2013. The regional competition will be held for the second time after the event’s first inception last year at Hard Rock Penang. Ina, Glady and Anastasia will compete against the other winners in local competitions held in Pattaya and Penang. Ms. Hard Rock Bali 2013 is supported by Blue Glue bikinis, Midori and Jim Beam.

Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013 24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuninng Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcangkring Tabanan Pura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang Pura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klungkung Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pamerajan Alit Ubud Pura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Banjar Denuma Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Dalem batur Bangli Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Besakih Pura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi Badung Pemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud 3 Sep Anggarkasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang 4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan 9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba

Kediri Tabanan Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin Lembongan Pura Batu Medeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba 11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksiring 12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Desa Guwang Sukawati Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu Karangasem Pura Pedharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamani Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar 25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli 28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

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

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

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

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

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

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LAS VEGAS — Miley Cyrus can’t stop. The pop singer was a crowd favorite at the iHeartRadio music festival day event Saturday in Las Vegas. Before she hit the stage, the crowd of a few hundred chanted: “Miley! Miley! Miley!”

The 20-year-old emerged onstage in all white, wearing a tight corset and high wasted shorts that revealed some of her backside. Her four-song set opened with the anthemic “We Can’t Stop,” where people onstage were dressed in flower, mushroom and rainbow costumes. She gyrated and slapped a dwarf-sized dancer’s butt onstage. She followed the colorful performance with “Party In the USA.” But it was her emotional rendition of “Wrecking Ball” that was her set’s highlight. Cyrus’ mascara was running as she left the stage after the song and the performance comes days after she announced she was no longer engaged to actor Liam Hemsworth. She thanked the audience for helping the song top the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week.

“I couldn’t have done it without all you guys,” she said. Cyrus broke a record with the debut of the song’s provocative video, which features her in the nude. It became the fastest music video to reach 100 million views on VEVO. The wild child singer said she knows “things I’m doing that’s getting me into trouble and it’s just me doing what my heart and soul is telling me what to do.” Everything she’s done is “inspired by the music,” she said.

Photo by Al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision /AP Cyrus, who will release her new album “Bangerz” Miley Cyrus performs at IHeartRadio Music Village, Saturday, next month, also sang a cover of Melanie’s “Look Sept. 21, 2013 in Las Vegas.

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that led police to arrest two people for allegedly peddling protected primates.

BANGKOK — Pop star Rihanna On a break from her Diamonds World Tour, Rihanna stopped in Thailand to visit the island of Phuket, where she befriended some local wildlife.

She posted a link on Twitter to an Instagram photo that showed her in sunglasses snuggling up to a furry primate called the slow loris, and tweeted Friday: “Look who was talkin dirty to me!”

The slow loris, a squirrel-like animal with big eyes, is native to Southeast Asia and is listed as a protected species.

“Phuket authorities were alerted to the picture (of Rihanna), and last night police arrested the two individuals who brought out the loris as a photo opportunity for tourists,” a Phuket district chief, Weera Kerdsirimongkon, said by telephone Sunday.

Police confiscated two lorises from the pair — a 20-year-old man and a 16year-old boy — who could face charges AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File of possession of protected animals.

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 10, 2013 file photo, singer-songwriter The charge carries a penalty of up to Rihanna performs at “Le Sporting” in Monaco during her “Diamonds four years in prison and a 40,000 baht World Tour” to Europe. ($1,300) fine. spent a weekend at the beach in Thailand, leaving behind a trail of racy tweets and incriminating Instagram photographs

featured lyrics like “They think I’m half insane” and “I wish I could find a book to live in.” Cyrus has been added as one of the main performers for the second night at iHeartRadio’s festival at the MGM Grand Arena, joining a list that includes Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Paul McCartney and Drake. Elton John, Katy Perry and Chris Brown performed Friday.

Saturday’s day line-up also featured Jason Derulo, Avril Lavigne, The Wanted, The Band Perry and others.

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Balinese dancers performed Balinese dance during a ritual ceremony at Besakih Temple.

Governor may not sell off and exploit Besakih Temple

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DENPASAR - Inclusion of Besakih Temple in the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) based on proposal of Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika was not only opposed by the academicians and the Hindu Dharma Council (PHDI) of Bali, but also by the circles of Bali House.

A number of legislators reminded Pastika not to think too pragmatically to sell off and exploit the temple area for the sake of tourism. Moreover, the proposal on the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN was absolutely without discussion in the Bali House and

the governor seemed to take action alone.

“Do not sell off everything.

Never exploit the Besakih Temple.

I do not agree if the Besakih Temple is included in the KSN,” said Chairman of Commission III of the Bali House, Gusti Made Suryanta

Putra.

The politician fondly called Sena claimed just to know about the inclusion of Besakih into the KSPN from media because there had been no discussion in the Bali House about it. He also regretted why there was no coordination with the House. “We do not know at all and there has been no prior discussion in the House. Necessarily, it should first involve all parties,” said Sena.

This PDI-P politician strongly criticized the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN. He asked

the policy should be reviewed or even revoked. “The sanctum area should not automatically be sold off like that. Never exploit temples as tourist attraction. All this time, our temple has become tourist attraction in unwritten manner. Hopefully, it is not directly included in the KSPN. Let the temple be a Hindu spiritual place,” he protested.

When the inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSPN had reaped rejection from various elements of society, his party hoped the Governor of Bali, Bali House,

PHDI, Karangasem government, community leaders and other components of Besakih to sit together.

Inclusion of Besakih Temple in the KSNP might not be let disrupt the Hindus to worship and even injure the temple sanctity or become a boomerang and kindle the arrival of investment infringing the spatial plan. “The governor should listen first to the people’s aspirations.

If there are a lot of rejections, it should be proposed to revoke the status,” said the politician from Tabanan.

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