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Indonesian police ofďŹ cer stands guard near an armored vehicle outside a church after an explosion in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked the church packed with hundreds of worshippers Sunday, killing himself and wounding at least 20 other people, police and hospital ofďŹ cials said.

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JAKARTA — A suicide bomber attacked an Indonesian church packed with hundreds of worshippers Sunday, killing himself and wounding at least 20 other people, police and hospital ofďŹ cials said.

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The attack in Solo town in Central Java province occurred as services were ending.

A witness told local station MetroTV that she heard the blast

just after she walked out of the Kepunton church. “Everyone was screaming,�

Fani said. “I saw ďŹ ery sparks and, near the entrance, a man dead on

the ground, his entrails spilling out. People around him were splattered with blood.�

It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosion, which could be heard a half mile (500 meters) away.

Indonesia, a secular nation of 237 million, has been hit by a string of suicide bombings blamed on the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah and

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KATMANDU — A plane that was carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board, including 13 foreigners, ofďŹ cials said.

Ten Indians, two Americans and one Japanese were among the victims, Tourism Secretary Ganeshraj Joshi said.

The turboprop plane belonging to Buddha Air was also carrying three Nepalese passengers and three crew members when it crashed in Bisankunarayan village, just a few miles (kilometers) south of the capital, Katmandu.

A witness, Haribol Poudel, told Avenues Television that the plane hit the roof of a house in the village and broke into several

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its offshoots since 2002, when a strike on two Bali nightclubs killed 202 people, most of them foreign tourists.

Subsequent attacks have been far less deadly, however, and the last occurred more than two years ago, thanks to a security crackdown that led the arrests and convictions of hundreds of Islamic militants.

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Nepalese rescue workers and civilians gather at the wreckage of a Beechcraft 1900D operated

by Buddha Air after it crashed in the mountains outside Bisankunarayan village, just south of Katmandu, Nepal, early Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011.

pieces. No casualties were reported on the ground. Poudel said it was foggy and visibility was very low in the mountainous area.

Rewant Kuwar, an ofďŹ cial at Katmandu’s international airport rescue ofďŹ ce, said 18 bodies were pulled out of the plane’s wreckage, and another victim died after being rushed to a hospital. The two Americans were identiďŹ ed as Andrew Wade and Natalie Neilan, while the Japanese citizen was Toshinori Uejima. Their hometowns and other details were not immediately released.

The Beechcraft 1900D plane — manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft, now known as Hawker Beechcraft — had taken the passengers to view Mount Everest and other peaks on a one-hour “mountain ightâ€? and was returning to Katmandu.

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As for restrictedness of equipment

Home industry of mango processing tends to stagnate Singaraja (Bali Post)—

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Domestic tourist packed Sanur Beach during the holiday.

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Preserve Balinese culture amid the onslaught of JOREDO LQâ€ŤŰŒâ€ŹXHQFH

To resolve the pricing subterfuge of collectors, many mango farmers in Buleleng process their own mango into jam, sweets or chips. But lately, the production of processed mango carried out simply as a home industry was threatened to stagnate because the equipment in use was very restricted.

Some farmers at Depeha Village, Kubutambahan Subdistrict, Friday (Sep 23), said the production of processed mango in the form of jam and sweets began to be in demand by consumers.

However, farmers still found some obstacles to improve their businesses, such as lacking of capital and marketing channels had not been open. “Currently the production of processed mango is still very small and belongs to home industry,� he said.

In response to this condition, farmers expected that Buleleng Regency could help them to boost the production of processed mango. For example, government should help open the marketing channels and provide better equipment or processing machinery so their production could be increased.

Komang Artama, a successful entrepreneur of mango processing, said the development of mango processing had a good prospect. It was indicated by the production in the form of jelly, sweets and other processed products that were fairly favored by consumers. However, the development was stagnant due to various factors blocking. Among those factors, he had very limited equipment. In addition, local farmers also encountered GLIÂżFXOWLHV LQ WHUPV RI FDSLWDO WR VKRUH XS WKH SURFHVVLQJ EXVLQHVV deeply involved. Another factor impeding the mango processLQJ EXVLQHVV ZDV LQVXIÂżFLHQW DYDLODELOLW\ RI UDZ PDWHULDOV 7KLV happened because most farmers had already sold their mangoes on trees to entrepreneurs from outside Bali. “Since the very beginning Buleleng aspired to process mango into jam, sweets and other foods. Unfortunately, those efforts have not been realized optimally and we expect that government could facilitate farmers to produce the processed mango and SURYLGH XV DGGLWLRQDO EHQHÂżWV UDWKHU WKDQ VHOOLQJ WKH XQSURFHVVHG mango,â€? he explained. (kmb15)

SANUR Customary Village consisting of nine customary hamlets with inhabitant of 860 families has few differences from other customary villages in Bali considering this customary village is situated at tourist destination being famous since decades ago. Even, the initial pulse of tourism development in Bali originated from Sanur. On that account, it is not impossible if the onslaught of global culture experienced by the village is quite a lot. However, since the ability to sort out the positive and negative effects, the existence of customary village at the eastern end of Denpasar City still survives peacefully.

Chief of Sanur Customary Village, Ida Bagus Anom Buana, when contacted on Friday (Sep 23) acknowledged that as a tourist destination the management of customary village could not be equated to other customary villages in Bali. At least, the cultural LQĂ€XHQFHV EURXJKW E\ WRXULVWV DOVR affected the behavior of local community. “We expect the negative impact can be minimized and take WKH SRVLWLYH LQĂ€XHQFH RQO\ ´ VDLG Anom Buana.

He said that one of the positive impacts taken from the existence of Sanur as tourism village was the opportunity of getting some revenue sources for the customary village.

For instance, the management of Sunrise Beach delivered to Sanur

Customary Village was considered to be very helpful for the fund management of the village. “As far as possible the potential existing in the customary village territory can be taken advantage positively for survival of the operations and activities of customary village,� he said.

Similarly, implementation of the temple anniversary or pujawali in the trinity temples owned by Sanur Customary Village could be arranged properly so amid the RQVODXJKW RI JOREDO LQĂ€XHQFH WKH religious and customary activities remained to run smoothly. “Responsibility of the implementation of pujawali is handed over to each customary hamlet every six months.

However, a pujawali may also be

handled by two hamlets pursuant to the number of the existing villagers,� he said.

Related to harmonious relations among the customary villagers, his party along with other customary apparatus always improved the coordination with all components of the society. Even, if there were VPDOO ULSSOHV RI FRQĂ€LFW HPHUJLQJ DW the customary village, they would be immediately followed up to prevent them from getting more serious. In other words, no matter how small the problems emerged, they were always responded seriously.

Additionally, the commitment to maintain the togetherness and mutual assistance in the preparation of ritual works remained in place until today. (ara)

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Manggo seller is seen on a traditional market

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Power blackout hits Chile, halts copper mines Reuters

SANTIAGO - A massive power blackout paralyzed crucial copper mines in Chile on Saturday and darkened vast swaths of the country including the capital Santiago before energy was largely restored, officials said. The outage acutely exposed the fragility of the energy grid in the world’s top copper producer, which was devastated by a powerful earthquake in 2010.

Critics have blamed Chilean President Sebastian Pinera for under-investment in infrastructure and his popularity ratings have dropped since taking office last year. Prior to the power failure, he was already struggling with massive protests by university students demanding deep educational reforms.

Scrambling engineers were able to fully restore power generation and get distribution up to 90 percent of normal, the government said after the blackout, which lasted a couple of hours in most places. “We’ve regained

power in various regions of the country,” said Chilean Energy Minister Rodrigo Alvarez.

At an earlier briefing, Alvarez said the cause of the outage was unknown but that computers that help run the energy grid had also malfunctioned. The blackout primarily hit the center of the country, where nearly 10 million of Chile’s 16 million people live.

Initially, Angloamerican said its Los Bronces mine was halted and state-run Codelco said its Andina division and El Teniente mine were also paralyzed. But Codelco later said power had been restored at the Andina division and El Teniente. It said output was not hurt at Andina as generators were used.

Meanwhile, Los Bronces said it was relying on generators and production was at a third of capacity as normal energy supplies had yet to come on line.

Authorities said the Collahuasi and Chuquicamata mines in the far north of Chile were not affected and that the blackout did not extend that far.

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A woman listens to news on the radio during a blackout in Vina del Mar city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago September 24, 2011.

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President Barack Obama delivers his remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Phoenix Awards in Washington Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011.

Obama tells blacks to ¶VWRS FRPSODLQLQ· DQG ‫ۋ‬JKW Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.

And though he didn’t say it directly, for a second term, too.

Obama’s speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he’s been giving away too much in talks with Republicans -- and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.

“It gets folks discouraged. I know.

I listen to some of y’all,” Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.

But he said blacks need to have faith in the future -- and understand

that the fight won’t be won if they don’t rally to his side.

“I need your help,” Obama said.

The president will need black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he’s to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday’s speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns.

He acknowledged blacks have suffered mightily because of the recession, and are frustrated that the downturn is taking so long to reverse. “So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on,” he said, then added: “And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way.”

But Obama said blacks know all too well from the civil rights struggle that the fight for what is right is never easy.

“Take off your bedroom slippers.

Put on your marching shoes,” he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. “Shake it off.

Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’.

Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

Topping the to-do list, he said, is getting Congress to the pass jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill two weeks ago. Obama said the package of payroll tax cuts, business tax breaks and infrastructure spending will benefit 100,000 black-owned businesses and 20 million African-American workers. Republicans have indicated they’re open to some of the tax measures -- but oppose his means of paying for it: hiking taxes on top income-earners and big business.

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FREIBURG, Germany — Facing discontent within his German flock, Pope Benedict XVI met with victims of clerical sex abuse as he called for Roman Catholics in the former communist East to rediscover their faith. The pontiff celebrated Mass with some 30,000 people early Saturday, unhindered by an incident on the edge of the security zone in which a man fired an air gun at a security guard about an hour before the service, Vatican and local officials said.

Benedict’s spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said there was “no worry” in the papal entourage

over the incident, and the pontiff edged that the collapse of commuwas not informed about it before nism in the former East Germany the Mass. “It didn’t seem particu- more than 20 years ago has allowed larly urgent,” he told reporters on the church to function freely, but the pope’s plane after the Mass. questioned whether that change has Police said the alleged shooter had brought any increase in faith. been arrested and that there were “Are not the deep roots of faith no injuries. and Christian life to be sought in Police later identified the suspect something very different from soas a 30-year-old Erfurt man who cial freedom?” the pope said. lived in Berlin. They said an air rifle and air pistol were found in his topfloor apartment, and that he was be- Pope Benedict XVI arrives to celing held on suspicion of attempting ebrate an open air mass in front to cause serious bodily harm. After of the St. Mary’s cathedral in Erthe Mass, the pope flew to Freiburg, furt, central Germany, Saturday, a city with a large Catholic populaSept. 24, 2011. Pope Benedict tion in southern Germany.

XVI is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany.

In his sermon, the pope acknowl-

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His professional experience includes Principal at the Baking Industry Training Centre in Singapore and Associate Director at the Drysdale Hospitality Institute in AustraliaLocated right on the sandy beach of Sanur and surrounded by 7 hectares of tropical garden, Aerowisata Sanur Beach Hotel Bali features 428 rooms, suites and villas, 2 large pools and a selection of restaurants and bars.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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14 killed as Filipino troops clash with militants Association Press Writer

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Russian President Vladimir Putin walks along the Khemchik River in southern Siberia’s Tuva region in this August 15, 2007 ďŹ le photo.

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Kudrin, 50, said in comments released in Washington, where he was meeting global policymakers. “The point is not that nobody has offered me the job I think that the disagreements I have (with Medvedev) will not allow me to join this government.�

Kudrin, who has hinted he would like to be prime minister, has won the respect of investors by saving windfall oil revenues for a rainy-day fund which helped Russia through the 2008 global economic crisis. Putin’s decision to return to the post he held from 2000 to 2008 is also likely to cause some nervousness in the West, where he is considered less liberal than Medvedev and more outspoken in his criticism of Western policies.

Washington said it expected to keep making progress in the “reset� toward better relations with Moscow, whoever was the next Russian president.

But many in the West are wary, and

economists fear economic stagnation under Putin. “This (announcement) shows that Russia is far away from open, democratic competition for the presidency,� said Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the German Bundestag, the lower house of parliament. James Goldgeier, a Russia expert at American University in Washington, said “There will be a businesslike relationship (between Washington and Moscow), but not a warm one.�

POWER-SHARING AGREEMENT

Putin, 58, and Medvedev, 46, have ruled in a power tandem’ since Putin was forced by the constitution to yield the presidency in 2008 after serving a maximum two consecutive terms. Putin accepted a proposal by Medvedev to return as president at a carefully choreographed congress of Putin’s ruling United Russia party on Saturday. “I want to say directly (Medvedev and I) reached an agreement between ourselves long ago, several years ago, on what to do in the future, on who should do what,� Putin said. Over 11 years in power, Putin has cultivated the image of a vigorous leader and

been filmed riding bare-chested on horseback, scuba diving and showing off his judo skills.

His policies -- crushing a Chechen separatist rebellion, taming super-rich businessmen and bringing wayward regions to heel -- have similarly won him popularity among Russians. But critics say his return to the Kremlin, virtually unopposed, could bring back memories of the economic and political stagnation under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in the 1970s and early 1980s. “It’s a sign of growing stagnation in the Russian political elite and it means that Mr Putin, if elected, can rule for another 12 years until 2024,� said Yevgeny Volk, deputy director of the Yeltsin Foundation think tank.

Opinion polls show other potential candidates, such as nationalist Vladimir hirinovsky or Communist Gennady yuganov, have much less support and Putin will easily be elected. The main liberal opposition leaders such as former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov have only limited appeal nationwide.

The next president will be elected for six years and is allowed up to two consecutive terms.

MANILA, Philippines Suspected Muslim militants attacked government troops guarding a school construction site in a rebel stronghold in the southern Philippines on Sunday, igniting a clash that killed 12 gunmen and two soldiers, a marine commander said.

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It was not immediately clear if the attackers belonged to the notoriously violent Abu Sayyaf, an al- aida-linked group regarded as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the Philippines. A larger Islamic rebel group, the Moro National Liberation Front, has a presence in the LPSRYHULVKHG IDU ÀXQJ FRPPXQLW\ *RYHUQPHQW WURRSV UHFRYHUHG VHYHQ UHEHO ¿UHDUPV DW WKH VFHQH RI WKH ¿JKWLQJ DQG ZHUH FKHFNLQJ LI WKHUH ZHUH PRUH ERGLHV RI VODLQ JXQPHQ LQ WKH DUHD 5HLQIRUFHPHQW WURRSV ZHUH SXUVXLQJ WKH ÀHHWLQJ PLOLWDQWV Tanalgo said. Washington has blacklisted the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist organization, blaming it for many bomb attacks, kidnappings for ransom and beheadings. The militants have attacked and killed American citizens in the past.

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Seattle, is already serving a 26- “So she’s holding up, and she’s year jail term after being found strong and she’ll be ready.�

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Boat capsizes, 13 found dead in east java Antara

SUMENEP - Thirteen people drowned and 14 others were saved after the boat they were traveling in capsized in waters between Guagua and Tonduk isles in Raas sub-district, Sumenep district, East Java, on Saturday.

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 photo, a student looks at the wall relief set up at the heroes’ cemetery in Rawagede, West Java, Indonesia. Six decades after Dutch troops massacred hundreds of men and boys in the village, relatives of the dead are still waiting for justice and compensation.

Massacred village in Indonesia awaits Dutch amends Associated Press

RAWAGEDE — Six decades have passed, but Kadun bin Siot’s voice still trembles as he recalls the morning Dutch troops surrounded his tiny Indonesian village and nearly wiped out its entire male population.

He was 12, peering through the slats of a wooden barn as soldiers flushed his father out of his hiding place in a trash heap, stabbing it with bayonets until he emerged, blood pouring from his face.

“They dragged him away,” the 76-year-old farmer said. “I never saw him again.”

Dutch troops clinging to their retreating colonial empire arrived in Rawagede by the hundreds just before dawn on Dec. 9, 1947, and opened fire, sending sleepy residents scattering from their homes in panic.

The troops were looking for resistance leader Lukas Kustario, known for ambushing Dutch bases. When villagers said they didn’t know where he was, the soldiers rounded up the boys and young men and took them to an open field.

Squatting in rows, with both hands placed on the backs of their heads, they were shot one by one.

The Dutch said 150 were killed in the massacre — for which they have yet to apologize — but villagers put the toll at nearly three times that. Only a few survived.

Relatives of the victims have spent a lifetime waiting for justice.

Though a landmark ruling by a Dutch court last week offered compensation to surviving widows, now in their 80s and 90s, it could take years

for the money to wind its way through the political and bureaucratic maze.

But time’s running short. Of the 10 claimants in the suit, three have already died, the most recent in May. Another $1.2 million in “development aid” promised to Rawagede 30 months ago for construction of a school, a hospital and a market is stuck in The Hague. It’s supposed to go to Indonesia’s Interior Ministry, but a dispute between two foundations representing the villagers’ interests is holding things up.

Standing on his toes, Wahidin carefully lifts a cardboard box off the top shelf from his office and sifts through a bundle of papers until he finds the blueprints.

“Ah, here they are,” the regional financial officer says, dusting off the drawings and letting out a deep sigh.

It’s as if he almost forgot as well.

“A lot of talk, plans, a rice field was even cleared at one point,” said Wahidin, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. “But we haven’t seen any of the money that was supposed to go toward helping building these. Not a cent.”

Though described as one of the worst massacres by Dutch troops during Indonesia’s bloody fight for independence, few in this nation of 240 million have ever heard of Rawagede.

Those who have know it only through a poem by Chairil Anwar that is still recited by schoolchildren.

It was up to survivors, he wrote, to decide if those who died, their bones scattered between the neighboring West Java towns of Karawang and Bekasi, were part of the price for

freedom, victory and hope.

But 92-year-old Wanti needs no such reminders.

With great clarity she describes hiding under her bed with her two children for a day, the rat-a-tat sound of gunfire assaulting her ears. The next morning, when women in the village thought it was safe, they went outside to look for their husbands, brothers and sons.

“We carried their bodies ... to our homes, dug holes with our bare hands, and buried them in our backyards,” said Wanti, recalling how her children helped cloak their father in sheets ripped off the bed.

Her face is grooved with thick lines, her eyes milky from cataracts.

“It was so sad.”

Indonesia declared its independence from Dutch colonial rule when World War II ended in 1945. The Netherlands fought unsuccessfully to try to maintain control of its lucrative Asian outpost and Indonesia was finally recognized as independent in 1949.

The massacre — like the failure of peacekeepers to protect Muslims in Srebrenica a half century later — remains a black page in Dutch history.

When Nikolaos van Dam, then the Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia, attended a memorial service in Rawagede in 2008, the first representative of his government do so, he said he was “sorry” about the killings.

The remarks, not cleared in The Hague, caused a diplomatic uproar.

Survivors can only hope this month’s court ruling will make it easier for the Netherlands to face its past.

Sumenep resort police chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Susanto said he had received a report from a member of the Raas police sector that 13 of the people who had been in the boat were found dead while 14 others were saved. “But this information is still temporary,” he added.

“Raas police are still on their way to the scene to know the chronology of the incident including the number of passengers on the boat. So for the time being we cannot yet confirm the real number of passengers,” he said.

He said some of the dead victims and survivors had been taken to Tonduk isle and some others to Guagua isle.

“Data is still being collected but according to information circulating among local villagers the number of passengers on

the ill-fated boat was above 30,” he said.

Susanto said he had also sent a team to Raas Island to help local police handle the case.

“In general the weather around Raas waters was not conducive.

There were strong winds,” he said.

The boat was carrying relatives of a villager of Guagua who married a villager of Tonduk on Friday (Sept 23) when it capsized.

The boat left for Guagua from Tonduk with the wedding delegation. Under normal conditions the trip from Guagua to Tonduk takes two to three hours.

The boat`s skeeper meanwhile has been found safe. “According to reports that we recieved the skipper namely Suriyanto is safe but he is still shocked,” Raas subdistrict head Eko Junaidi said here on Saturday.

Truck falls into ravine in Indonesia, killing 14 Associated Press

JAKARTA — Indonesian police say a truck carrying 34 passengers plunged into a ravine as its driver attempted to avoid hitting an oncoming bus, killing 14 people.

Police chief Lt. Col. Abdul Hasyim says the passengers were to have been employed at a palm

oil plantation.

He says the truck fell into the 25-foot (8-meter) ravine in Central Kalimantan province’s Kotawaringin Timur district late Friday, trapping the victims underneath.

Road, train, boat and air accidents claim hundreds of lives each year in Indonesia, often due to poor safety standards.

Indonesia workers, Freeport fail at negotiation Associated Press

JAKARTA — Workers at Freeport-McMoran’s giant gold and copper mine in Indonesia are continuing their strike after two days of government mediation failed to achieve an agreement on pay hikes.

Union spokesman Juli Parorongan accused the company of a lack of good faith during the talks, which ended Friday.

About 90 percent of the mine’s 12,000 employees went on strike Sept. 15, demanding pay increases from the current $2.10 to $3.50 an hour to $17.50 to $43.

Parorongan said the company stuck to its offer of a 22 percent hike within two years.

It’s the second strike this year at the gold and copper mine, one of the world’s biggest. The first in July ended after eight days.

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Bali Today Proposed, an insurance for agricultural sector Bali Post

MAN UPURA - eak and apprehensive circumstance of the agricultural sector requires an innovative management. he innovation can take the form of agricultural insurance. his idea was stated by a legislator of the Badung House, I ayan Puspa Negara, Saturday (Sep ).

According to him, characteristics of the farmers were so weak, namely with the average educational background of not graduating from primary school and their age was averagely 55 years and over.

Meanwhile, the average land cultivated was less than 20 ares. Not only that, even there were many farmers serving as sharecroppers and farming laborers.

The agricultural sector experienced a weakening trend from time to time, not to mention the pressure on account of development activities leading to land conversion. “As a result, farmers and the agricultural sector seem to be marginalized,� he said.

Departing from such condition aQG UHĂ€HFWLQJ RQ WKH UROH RI LQVXUance, Puspa rated that agricultural insurance could provide established

protection against the farmers. So far farmers and agriculture, espeFLDOO\ LQ %DGXQJ DQG %DOL LQ JHQHUDO had not been insured and there were hardly ever covered by insurance.

Possibly, the insurance companies were not interested to do so.

On that account, Puspa stated that it required the policies of local government to insure the agriculture and production processes for ensuring the sustainability of the agricultural production. If they encountered a crop failure, then the insurance would guarantee them. “It poses the real manifestation RI JRRG ZLOO H[WHQGHG E\ %DGXQJ Regency. Therefore, in the regional budget 2012, we will encourage the relevant technical agencies to begin IBP/Net a comprehensive review regarding the provision of such agricultural Weak and apprehensive circumstance of the agricultural sector requires an innovative management. insurance,� he said. (kmb 5)

A Step Ahead, Pangsan Comes Out as Tourism Village Like tit for tat. The intenWLRQ RI %DGXQJ JRYHUQPHQW WR GHYHORS WKH 1RUWKHUQ %DGXQJ region as a tourism destination receive positive respond from the community of Pangsan Village, Petang Subdistrict.

The village inhabited by a population of 2,205 people and spreading on the extent of 553 hectares is now keeping on improving itself to craete Pangsan as a tourism village.

Aside from preserving the culture, maintaining the beauty of environment and indigenous wisdom, the village also has a tourism product invariably becomes a tourist attraction in the form of rafting and trekking attraction.

Village Head of Pangsan, I Made Suarjana, said that local community had done various preparations to realize Pangsan as a tourism village. Armed with the vivacity from us, by us, and for us� the community work hand in hand in managing the environment. For example, they planted trees, cleaned up the environment and cleared the path of trekking. He added

there are no investors or travel agents providing the support.

His party is only assisted by the %DGXQJ 5HJHQF\ *RYHUQPHQW in the form of coaching.

The pathways passing through the area of Pangsan Village had been already well prepared. Even, the existing bridge within the territory of Subak %UHJLGLQJ ZRXOG EH UHSDLUHG LQ the near future with the funds obtained from a French donor.

However, he was aware that there were some drawbacks, so they needed an improvement. “Pangsan has been prepared to be a tourism village and needs a little improvement. Even, it LV UHDG\ WR UHSUHVHQW %DGXQJ in the competition of tourism village,� he explained.

As a matter of fact, explained Suarjana, the idea to develop Pangsan into a tourism village was from foreign tourists. After enjoying rafting adventure, they saw an atmosphere of beautiful village, so the idea to develop a tracking program emerged. One of the participants was interested to stay longer at Pangsan Village, and

then it was resumed with the desire of establishing a home stay. “There have been many tourists staying in the people’s homes. As a result, the impact of tourism is truly enjoyed by the community of Pangsan Village,� he said.

Comparable opinion was also delivered by Chief of Pangsan Customary Village, I Nyoman Lendra, that for the preparation of human resources, his party made cooperation ZLWK WKH JRYHUQPHQW RI %DGXQJ Regency to provide foreign language training and the ways to receive guests. In addition, his party also took advantage of the WRXULVP ÂżJXUHV DW WKH ORFDO YLOlage. “Hopefully, government could lend a hand to this village in order ours could promptly become a tourism village,â€? he said.

Nyoman Kitha, as chairman of tourism venture group (Pokdarwis) of Pangsan Village said that it remained a single step ahead to develop Pangsan as a tourism village. This village, he explained, had appealing environmental aspect such

as agriculture, plantations, OLYHVWRFN DQG XQLTXH ÂżVKHU\ worth introducing to tourists. In addition, the village was rich in rare plants such as cacao, mangosten, durian, vanilla, papaya, kepundung %DFFDXUHD UDFHPRVD FHURUing (Lansium Domesticum), and many others. “In terms of cultural aspect, Pangsan is very rich in arts. We have a gamelan troupe, dancers, art of masks, unleashed dance, arja operetta, psalmodic group, and special barong dance for performing art. In addition, the village had potential in DSSHDOLQJ KDQGLFUDIW %DOLQHVH cake making, oblation making, ironsmith and rice milling as a home industry. In the near future, people will establish a woman’s cak a cappella troupe,â€? he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of %DGXQJ *RYHUQPHQW 7RXUism Office, Cokorda Raka Darmawan, admitted to be proud of the spirit indicated by Pangsan as a tourism village.

It was necessary because tourism sector was required to play

an important role in promoting the regional economic growth and welfare. The cultural, ecofriendly and community-based tourism posed an attempt to improve the participation of local communities in tourism management. “Developing tourism village denotes a concrete measure in building the tourismoriented economic empowerment of the local communities,� he said.

According to Cok Darmawan, tourism village as alternative tourism offered the daily life acWLYLWLHV RI WKH UHDO %DOLQHVH FRPmunity. Through this tourism village, he hoped his party would be able to drive the growth of tourism businesses performed by local businessmen. Through this program, he added, other than balancing the tourist areas LQ 1RUWKHUQ %DGXQJ DQG 6RXWK %DGXQJ LW FRXOG FUHDWH MRE RSportunities for rural community. %DGXQJ 5HJHQF\ KDG HVWDEOLVK a rule form of the Decree of %DGXQJ 5HJHQW 1R concerning with the stipulation RI 7RXULVP 9LOODJH $UHD LQ %Ddung Regency. (B N 015)

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Balinese Culture JUKUT NANGKA MEKUAH

Indonesian contingents on SEA Games sponsored by League IBP

U A - League, one of Indonesia major sportwear factory EHFRPHV RI¿FLDO VSRQVRU RI ,QGRnesian contingent’s costume. This costume by League will be wear during the Sea Games VI on Palembang, South Sumatera that starts on November 11, 2011. &KLHI 2SHUDWLQJ 2I¿FHU %HUFD Retail Group, Hartono Wijaya said the costumes will be wear by the RI¿FLDO FRQWLQJHQWV GXULQJ VHYHUDO events, such as the opening and closing ceremony. ’They will be wearing all the products from League, including hat, shoes, and uniforms,’’ he said.

He also explained that all the sportswear being specially designed to give comfort and exposing the uniqueness of Indonesia. For example the sportswear using batik motifs with red, white, and gold colors combination.

He said besides sponsoring all the contingent costume, League DOVR VSRQVRUHG RI ,QGRQHVLD %DVNHW %DOO 7HDP ERWK ZRPHQ DQG men. The basket ball teams already wear the League sportswear during their game outside Indonesia. “We’re not only designing basket ball team costumes but we also trying to produce Futsal Chief Operating OfďŹ cer Berca Retail Group, Hartono Wijaya showing one of League products. footwear for women team.

(Young Jackfruit with Coconut Milk) OVERVIEW:

If jackfruit is not available substitute with summer squash, winter melon or turnip.

INGREDIENTS: 750 gr young jackfruit, peeled, cleaned and cut in pieces 2.5 x 1 cm 1 lt (4 cups) chicken stock ½ cup spice paste for vegetables 4 cups coconut milk 2 tsp salt ½ tsp black peppercorn, crushed Fried shallots to garnish PREPARATION: Bring 3 liters (12 cups) of lightly salted water to the boil. Add jackfruit, bring back to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Drain water and rinse jackfruit in ice water.

Heat chicken stock, add vegetables spice paste and jackfruit and bring to the boil. Add coconut, milk and simmer, stirring continuously, until jackfruit is tender and stock thickens a little.

Season to taste with salt and pepper and garnish with fried shallots.

SEMUR LIDAH (Ox Tongue In Sweet Nutmeg Sauce) OVERVIEW: Although native to Indonesia, the nutmeg is not often used in cooking. One exception is the braised meat dish known as Semur, which is generally made with beef. This Balinese version uses ox tongue and partners the inimitable fragrance of nutmeg with sweet soy sauce.

INGREDIENTS: 2,5 lt (10 cups) water 600 gr (1 Ÿ lb) ox tongue, washed well 1 cup beef stock 4 tbsp sweet soy sauce (kecap manis) 2 tbsp thin soy sauce ž tsp ground black pepper Ÿ tsp freshly grated nutmeg 4 ea salam leaves 3 fragrant lime leaves 3 tbsp fried shallots 3 medium size potatoes, peeled and cut in 2 cm (3/4 in dice) Fried shallots to garnish PREPARATION: 1. Bring water to boil in a heavy stockpot, add beef spice paste and salam leaves, whole ox tongue and bring back to boil.

2. Reduce heat and simmer for approximately 3 hours or until tongue is cooked and very tender.

3. Plunge ox tongue into ice water and cool for 5 minutes. Peel skin off with a sharp knife.

4. Slice ox tongue in thin even slices and place in saucepan.

5. Fill up with beef stock and add all remaining ingredients. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

6. Add potatoes and continue to simmer until potatoes are cooked.

7. Garnish with fried shallots.

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Nusa Dua Bali IBP

Nusa Dua is an elite resort area with international ďŹ ve star hotels and resorts existing on the costal side in south part of Bali. It is located in Badung Regency and about 25 minutes drive from Bali’s International airport. Nusa Dua with 350 ha size is the sample luxury resort area and one of best tourism places in the world. In fact, the name of Nusa Dua is coming from two small islands located in the south part of Bali Island (Nusa mean the island and Dua mean two) that is dissociated with the white sand.

Nusa Dua Area is start built in year 1974,as a result from study of French consultant, SCETO ( Societe Centrale pour l’equpeent Touristique Ouetre-Mer) in the year 1970 and also feasibility study conducted by PCI (PaciďŹ c Consultants International) year 1971-1973 for ďŹ nancing of World Bank aid. The Indonesian Government has delivered this area management to PT. BTDC (Bali Tourism Development Corporation) which existing under the law and regulation of Republic Indonesia Government no.27 year 1972, on 12 November 1972.

This area owns the most complete tourism facilities in Bali and Indonesia like ďŹ ve star hotels, luxury accommodations, villas, convention hall, shopping center and beautiful beaches. There are also the sports activities are available in this are like tennis court, squash and golf course. Each hotel is completed by ďŹ ve star restaurant facilities, bar, pub and beach activities.

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Monday, September 26, 2011

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BUSINESS &KLQD PXVW EDWWOH LQâ€ŤŰŒâ€ŹDWLRQ PDLQWDLQV JURZWK Reuters

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IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Bahrain’s Minister of Finance Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, IMF First Deputy Managing Director Richard Mills and World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick take part in a closing news conference of the IMF/ World Bank Annual Meetings at IMF headquarters in Washington Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011.

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IMF is already providing bailout support to three heavily indebted European countries — Greece, Portugal and Ireland.

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80 people arrested at ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest Associated Press

NEW YORK About 80 people were arrested Saturday as demonstrators who were camped out near the New York Stock Exchange marched through lower Manhattan, police said.

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Protest spokesman Patrick Bruner criticized the police response as “exceedingly violent� and said the demonstrators sought to remain peaceful. A police spokesman had no comment about the videos or the arrests.

ASHIN ON - China’s economic outlook is positive, but it must NHHS EDWWOLQJ LQÀDWLRQ DQG EH UHDG\ WR FRXQWHUDFW DQ\ H[WHUQDO VKRFNV WKH country’s top central banker said on Saturday.

People’s Bank of China Governor hou iaochuan said China should prevent rapid growth from overheating what many viewed as the world’s leading economic engine, and called on Europe to aggressively deal with the region’s worsening debt crisis.

It would be unrealistic for anyone to hope China could dramatically accelerate its growth rate, and such a rate would not be sustainable, hou said at a press conference during this week’s meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. “The reasonable expectation probably should be somewhere around 8 percent or 10 percent,� he said.

China’s economy grew at an annual rate of 9.5 percent in the second quarter, the slowest pace since the third quarter of 2009, but still faster than economists had expected.

Asked how he viewed the European debt crisis, hou said “We have to see if the euro zone countries can implement the decisions taken on July 21� before China can decide its response.

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Entertainment

International

Jay-Z, Coldplay open iHeartRadio concert in Vegas Associated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS — Jay-Z rapped about his beef with corporate radio in the monster jam “99 Problems,” noting that stations won’t play his hits if he doesn’t do their shows.

But on Friday, he played savior to radio station giant Clear Channel, headlining a twonight concert billed as the largest in radio history and a major step toward keeping the industry alive in the dot-com era.

The rapper bounced across a stage outfitted with two drum sets and two guitarists as he spit out his biggest hits and swung the two oversized gold chains hanging from his neck.

It was the final performance of a night that saw confetti bombs dust the shoulders of pop sensations Kelly Clarkson, the Black Eyed Peas, Bruno Mars and Carrie Underwood.

The spectacle was scheduled to continue Saturday night, with headliners Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Sting and Steven Tyler.

The star-studded lineup usually reserved for charity concerts was a marketing blitz that drew thousands to the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and was broadcast to more than 10 million radio listeners across the country. Its intended beneficiary was iHeartRadio, Clear Channel’s revamped free

personalized music website that allows users to create custom radio stations and is meant to compete with the web’s most popular online music services, especially Pandora.

“This is our coming out party,” said Bob Pittman, chairman of media and entertainment platforms for Clear Channel Communications Inc. “What makes the festival so unusual is every act is a headliner.” The concert hosted by Ryan Seacrest began with the Black Eyed Peas taking the stage in a fit of confetti and pyrotechnics. Fergie, the pop group’s only female member, snaked across the stage in black shorts that revealed her butt cheeks.

Concertgoers also waved their glowing cellphones in the air for Alicia Keys, Coldplay and rock band Jane’s Addiction during

the nearly five-hour concert. In a nod to Las Vegas’ showgirl tradition, two feather-frocked, barely clad dancers frolicked across the stage as Jane’s Addiction performed.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and Mars each paid tribute to late British soul diva Amy Winehouse, with Mars performing Winehouse’s “Valerie” as a brass quartet waved their horns in unison, and Martin urging the packed arena to join him in a mournful chorus of her prophetic hit “Rehab.”

Fireworks later dusted the stage as Martin twirled his arms, curved his hips and then rolled over backward in a flurry of dance.

A psychedelic piano joined him on stage.

Keys and Jay-Z performed the only duet of the night, a sequin-drenched performance of their hit “Empire State of Mind.”

Jay-Z thanked the crowd for singing along.

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Chris Martin and the band Coldplay perform during the iHeartRadio music festival on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, in Las Vegas.

Paul McCartney, Beatle and ballet composer, too

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Sir Paul McCartney and fiance Nancy Shevell attend the New York City Ballet’s gala opening night of Paul McCartney’s “Ocean’s Kingdom” on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 in New York.

Malkovich delighted by role as Siberian mobster

Associated Press Writer

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NEW YORK — The world’s great ballet houses are accustomed to cheers, shouts of “Bravo,” even standing ovations. Rock star-groupie screams? Not so much. But all bets are off when there’s a Beatle in the house.

So there were genuine screams of adulation at New York City Ballet’s fall gala Thursday, not just at the redcarpet arrivals, but also from some of the designer gownclad patrons in the theater, who craned their necks to get a good view of the ballet’s composer: Sir Paul himself.

Each season, City Ballet puts on a gala fundraiser, and the aim is always to create a little buzz — with a new work, or an interesting honoree. This year’s gala, featuring McCartney’s “Ocean’s Kingdom,” surely had more buzz than all past galas combined.

Adding to the usual mix of New York power couples and plain old dance fans (you could tell by the attire who was staying for the gala dinner) were actresses Naomi Watts, Liv Tyler and City Ballet regular Sarah Jessica Parker. And a face not usually seen at the ballet: Steve Van Zandt, guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band. Also on hand: Paul’s daughter, designer Stella McCartney, who created the costumes.

The ballet, you ask? Oh yes, we’re getting to that.

Before it even started, though, the orchestra pit slowly rose to stage level, thanks to the David H. Koch Theater’s nifty hydraulic lift. Conductor Faycal Karoui proceeded to give a brief music lesson explaining parts of McCartney’s score, praising its “beauty, style, energy and wit” and throwing in a few bad Beatle puns (“But before we ‘Let It Be ...’’’)

City Ballet head (and this ballet’s choreographer) Peter Martins then came on to proffer his marquee guest a toast, not with vodka as his predecessor George Balanchine was wont to do, but, in a nod to McCartney’s provenance, with a cup of tea — poured from a kettle by a hand stretching out from the wings.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — John Malkovich says his latest acting role, an aging Siberian mobster trying to raise his grandson to be an honorable crook, proved to be a “delightful” experience. The movie, “Siberian Education,” is set in Trans-Dniester, now a separatist republic between Moldova and Ukraine, though filming of the U.S.Italian production took place in Lithuania and wrapped up this week.

Malkovich plays Kuzja, an old recividist

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FILE - In this Saturday, June 25, 2011 file photo actor John Malkovich attends the German premier of the movie Transformer 3 in Berlin.

exiled to Trans-Dniester along with numerous other ex-convicts by Soviet authorities in the waning years of the Soviet Union.

Kuzja tries to teach his grandson Kolyma — the film’s main protagonist, played by Lithuanian actor Arnas Fedaravicius — the arcane rules of “criminal morals.”

“It is an interesting story about the way of life that most of audience would not know about,” Malkovich said Friday before leaving Lithuania. “Things are so much global and Americanized. It’s interesting to think of that kind of (criminal) culture that the film addresses is kind of becoming extinct.”

“I found this experience delightful,” he added. The film is based on a memoir

by Nicolai Linin, also called “Siberian Education,” that was critically acclaimed for its portrayal of childhood innocence amid a community of violent men who romanticize their criminal life.

Malkovich, 57, praised Italian director Gabriele Salvatores for balancing his instincts with those of the actors. “It is certain that Gabriele has terrific balance between knowing what he wants and being willing to be surprised. That’s not the easiest balance to have, but I think better directors have that,” he said.

“I think directing is a terrible job. It’s an awful lot of pressure, and I think the part the actor should bring is to give your best performance, your best opinion, but to bring something to work instead of making the director always tell you what to do,” Malkovich said. “As a director I find that very tiresome,” he added.

Science

International

Monday, September 26, 2011

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Remains of satellite may never be found, NASA says Reuters

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - A six-ton NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about where a ton of space debris may have landed. The U.S. space agency said it believes the debris ended up in the Pacific Ocean, but the precise time of the bus-sized satellite’s re-entry and the location of its debris field have not been determined.

The Upper Atmosphere Research the fall, officials said.

Satellite, or UARS, ended 20 years As it fell to Earth, UARS passed in orbit with a suicidal plunge into from the east coast of Africa over the atmosphere sometime between the Indian Ocean, then the Pacific 11:23 p.m. on Friday and 1:09 a.m. Ocean, across northern Canada and EDT on Saturday (0323 to 0509 the northern Atlantic Ocean to a GMT Saturday), NASA said. The point over West Africa. Most of the satellite would have been torn apart transit was over water, with some during the fiery re-entry, but about flight over northern Canada and 26 pieces, the largest of which was West Africa, NASA said. “Because estimated to have weighed 330 we don’t know where the re-entry pounds (150 kg), likely survived point actually was, we don’t know where the debris field might be,” said Nicholas Johnson, chief orbital debris scientist at NASA’s Johnson The seven-ton Upper AtmoSpace Center in Houston. “We may sphere Research Satellite never know.”

(UARS) is deployed by the Stretching 35 feet long and 15 Space Shuttle Discovery (STSfeet in diameter, UARS was among 48) in this NASA handout photo the largest spacecraft to plumdated September 1991.

7KH $PHULFDQ ¶DOOHUJ\· WR JOREDO ZDUPLQJ :K\" Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.

“I don’t think there were any newspaper articles about it or anything like that,” the author recalls.

But the headline on the 1975 report was bold: “Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” And this article that coined the term may have marked the last time a mention of “global warming” didn’t set off an instant

outcry of angry denial.

In the paper, Columbia University geoscientist Wally Broecker calculated how much carbon dioxide would accumulate in the atmosphere in the coming 35 years, and how temperatures consequently would rise. His numbers have proven almost dead-on correct.

Meanwhile, other powerful evidence poured in over those decades, showing the “greenhouse effect” is real and is happening. And yet resistance to the idea among many in the U.S. appears to have hardened.

What’s going on? “The desire to disbelieve deepens as the scale of

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In this July 15, 2011 photo, atop roughly two miles of ice, technician Marie McLane launches a data-transmitting weather balloon at Summit Station, a remote research site operated by the U.S.

the threat grows,” concludes economist-ethicist Clive Hamilton.

He and others who track what they call “denialism” find that its nature is changing in America, last redoubt of climate naysayers. It has taken on a more partisan, ideological tone. Polls find a widening Republican-Democratic gap on climate. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry even accuses climate scientists of lying for money. Global warming looms as a debatable question in yet another U.S. election campaign.

From his big-windowed office overlooking the wooded campus of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., Broecker has observed this deepening of the desire to disbelieve.

“The opposition by the Republicans has gotten stronger and stronger,” the 79-year-old “grandfather of climate science” said in an interview. “But, of course, the push by the Democrats has become stronger and stronger, and as it has become a more important issue, it has become more polarized.”

The solution: “Eventually it’ll become damned clear that the Earth is warming and the warming is beyond anything we have experienced in millions of years, and people will have to admit...” He stopped and laughed. “Well, I suppose they could say God is burning us up.”

met uncontrollably through the atmosphere, although it is a slim cousin to NASA’s 75-tonne (68,000 kilogram) Skylab station, which crashed to Earth in 1979.

Russia’s last space station, the 135-tonne (122,000 kilogram) Mir, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2001, but it was a guided descent.

NASA now plans for the controlled re-entry of large spacecraft, but it did not when UARS was designed.

The 13,000-pound (5,897 kg) satellite was dispatched into orbit by a space shuttle crew in 1991 to study ozone and other chemicals in Earth’s atmosphere. It completed its mission in 2005 and has been slowly losing altitude ever since.

With most of the planet covered in water and vast uninhabited deserts and other land directly beneath the satellite’s flight path, the chance that someone would be hit by falling debris was 1-in-3,200, NASA said.

“The risk to public safety is very remote,” it said.

Photo illustration of a blood sample. A new US study heaps further doubt on the theory that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is linked to the XMRV retrovirus by questioning the results of a well-known October 2009 report IBP/ap

US study casts doubt FKURQLF IDWLJXH YLUXV OLQN Associated Press Writer

A new US study heaps further doubt on the theory that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is linked to the XMRV retrovirus by questioning the results of a well-known October 2009 report. That report, which found that patients with CFS were often infected with the virus, was published in the prestigious journal Science and attracted a lot of attention, but subsequent studies have failed to replicate the results.

The new study, published Thursday and based on the findings of researchers at nine different laboratories, including the authors of the original report, found that the

lab tests used to detect the retrovirus were unreliable. The researchers analyzed blood samples from 15 people previously reported to be infected with XMRV or a related virus and 15 healthy individuals.

The samples were “blind-coded,” meaning the labs did not know which samples they were testing.

“Only the two laboratories associated with the original report detected the virus,” said a summary of the new study published by Science.

“In these two labs, the virus was found in healthy controls as often as in the CFS patients, and tests on replicate samples... produced inconsistent results,” raising major doubts about the original report.

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Sport

Hat tricks for Messi and Ronaldo

FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, from Argentina, reacts after scoring against Atletico Madrid during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011.

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Associated Press Writer

BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo each scored his second hat trick of the season, leading Barcelona and Real Madrid to victories in the Spanish league on Saturday night following draws in midweek.

Messi scored on brilliant individual moves in the 26th and 78th minutes, and added a goal in secondhalf stoppage time, leading Barcelona over visiting Atletico Madrid 5-0. Messi also forced an own-goal

by Miranda in the 15th, six minutes after David Villa had put Barcelona ahead.

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¿QG WKH SODFH WR JHW KLP WKH EDOO ´ Although just 24 years old, Messi has 127 league goals and 192 overall for Barcelona, moving within four of Laszlo Kubala for second on the club career list in both categories.

Cesar Rodriguez leads with 195 in the league and 235 overall.

Messi has 12 goals in nine matches this season and leads the league with eight, one more than Ronaldo.

At Madrid, Ronaldo scored in the 39th minute and converted penalty kicks in the 51st and 84th to help Real defeat Rayo Vallecano 6-2.

Gonzalo Higuain, Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema also scored for the hosts.

Miguel Perez Cuesta put Rayo Vallecano ahead after just 12 seconds and added a goal in the 55th minute.

0DGULG ÂżQLVKHG D PDQ VKRUW ZKHQ Angel Di Maria was ejected for in the 56th for a handball.

Betis (4-0), which plays Monday at Getafe, leads with 12 points, one ahead of Barcelona and Sevilla (both 3-0-2), and two in front of Real Madrid and Valencia (both 3-1-1).

Freddie Kanoute’s 18th-minute goal gave Sevilla a 1-0 win over Valencia, which saw Ever Banega put a 68th-minute penalty kick off a post.

Sevilla’s Piotr Trochowski (56th minute) and Aritz Aduriz (71st) both received red cards, as did Valencia’s Julien Escude (68th).

Villarreal tied 1-1 at Athletic Bilbao, with Nilmar scoring for the Yellow Submarine in the 53rd from a cross by New Jersey-born forward Giuseppe Rossi.

International

United drop 1st points of season in Premier League Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Peter Crouch scored on a header in the 57th minute, giving Stoke a 1-1 tie with visiting Manchester United on Saturday and ending the Red Devils’ perfect start to the Premier League season. Nani scored in the 27th minute for Man U, which was without injured forward Wayne Rooney. Manager Alex Ferguson said Rooney, who leads the EPL with nine goals, will be sidelined more than a week because of a hamstring injury. &URXFKœV JRDO ZDV KLV ¿UVW VLQFH 6WRNH ERXJKW KLP IURP Tottenham for a club record transfer of $15.5 million last month. Manchester United and rival Manchester City are ERWK EXW 8QLWHG UHPDLQV ¿UVW RQ JRDO GLIIHUHQFH City defeated visiting Everton 2-0, getting second-half goals from substitutes Mario Balotelli and James Milner against American goalkeeper Tim Howard.

Chelsea (4-1-1) is three points back after beating visiting Swansea 4-1. Fernando Torres scoring for his second straight league game, just his third goal since joining the Blues in January, then was ejected by referee Mike Dean in the 39th minute for a diving, two-footed tackle on Mark Gower Demba Ba had a hat trick for fourth-place Newcastle (3-0-3) in a 3-1 home win over Blackburn, while LiverSRRO FOLPEHG WR ¿IWK E\ EHDWLQJ :ROYHUKDPSWRQ :DQGHUHUV DW $Q¿HOG ² WKH WHDPœV ¿UVW ZLQ LQ WKUHH league games. Roger Johnson had an own goal in the 11th minute, and Luis Suarez scored in the 38th.

Tottenham (3-2) won 2-1 at Wigan on goals by Rafael van der Vaart and Gareth Bale for its third straight victory.

Robin van Persie scored twice for Arsenal in a 3-0 win over Bolton, giving him 100 goals for the Gunners. Fans sang “There’s only one Arsene Wenger!� the Arsenal manager under pressure for a 1-1-3 league start coming in. Fulham held West Bromwich Albion to a 0-0 draw in a game between two of the division’s bottom four.

Pastore shines as PSG move top Reuters

PARIS - Javier Pastore once again proved his worth as the Argentine midfielder netted twice to help earn Paris St Germain a 3-0 win at Montpellier and joint top spot in Ligue 1 on Saturday.

Pastore, who moved to PSG from Palermo for a French record 42 million euro ($56.8 million) fee, added to Kevin Gameiro’s opener with a stunning volley from Siaka Tiene’s

cross and made it 3-0 10 minutes from time after a defensive blunder.

Gameiro opened the scoring agains the Ligue 1 pacesetters ZLWK D ¿QH YROOH\ ¿YH PLQXWHV before the break but it was Pastore’s class that caught the eye. In six league appearances, the Argentina international has already scored four goals and set up two, adding much-needed technical ability to his team’s PLG¿HOG PSG have 17 points from

eight games, level on goal difference with Olympique Lyon who beat visitors Girondins Bordeaux 3-1 thanks to a Bafetimbi Gomis double.

Montpellier, on 16 points, GURSSHG IURP ÂżUVW WR IRXUWK RQH place behind Toulouse who beat Nancy 1-0 thanks to a secondhalf goal by Turkish striker Umut Bulut.

France striker Gomis put Lyon 2-0 up by halftime, with Brazilian Michel Bastos adding a third after the break.

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Manchester United’s Nani, second right, scores against Stoke City during their English Premier League soccer match at the Britannia Stadium, Stoke, England, Saturday Sept. 24, 2011.

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Makau breaks world record in Berlin Marathon Associated Press Writer

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/RULV &DSLURVVL WR PLVV -DSDQHVH *3 LORIS Capirossi will miss next weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix after dislocating his right shoulder at Aragon last time out.

The Pramac Ducati rider, who will retire from racing at the end of the season, had already injured the same shoulder in a fall at Assen in June and had been struggling with his recovery ahead of the crash with Toni Elias in Spain earlier this month.

Capirossi, 38, said that he had taken the decision to miss the Motegi race under advice from MotoGP medical delegate Dr Claudio Costa, and believes that doing so will prevent the need to bring forward his retirement.

“I wanted to race in Japan. It is one of my favorite tracks where I

have achieved many good results and much satisfaction, but the doctors were more than clear,” said the winner of nine premier class grands prix.

“After an initial consultation in Monaco, where it was recommended I immediately undergo surgery, which would have meant three months out and the end of my career, I went to Imola to see Dr. Costa. He is used to seeing other riders in these conditions, and I thought he might have other ideas.

“Unfortunately, he was also quite hard about it, and I was strongly advised not to take part in the Japanese race. My shoulder hurts, and it will take at least two weeks of full rest

plus a week of rehabilitation. I regret this very much, but I think this is the best choice for ending my season, and my career, in the best way possible for the last three races in Australia, Malaysia and Valencia.”

Pramac has not announced whether it will replace Capirossi at Motegi or slim down to a single-bike operation for Randy de Puniet.

Sylvain Guintoli deputised for Capirossi in Germany while Andrea Iannone has also tested for the squad this year. Both have commitments that weekend with Guintoli on World Superbike duty in France and Iannone competing in Moto2 at Motegi.

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Ducati MotoGP rider Loris Capirossi takes a curve during the first free practice session of the San Marino motorcycling Grand Prix at the Misano circuit September 2, 2011.

7HDPV VHHN FODUL‫ۋ‬FDWLRQ RYHU FDOHQGDU LVVXHV Formula 1 teams are to seek clarification from Bernie Ecclestone about the state of the 2012 calendar, because they insist that it was ratified without their support. As part of the Concorde Agreement, the document that binds F1 together, teams have to give approval to a calendar if there are more than 17 races and if more than half the races take place outside of Europe and the United States.

Under the version of the 2012 calendar that was published recently by the FIA, 11 of the 20 races are classified as these so-called ‘flyaways’. The Formula One Teams’ Association (FOTA) has written to both Ecclestone and FIA president Jean Todt to explain that it believes the calendar was implemented without the Concorde Agreement procedure having been followed.

AUTOSPORT understands that Todt has replied to FOTA stating that it is purely a matter for them and the sport’s commercial rights’ holder to sort out, as the FIA simply rubber stamps the schedule that is put forward to it by Ecclestone. FOTA vice chairman Eric

Boullier told AUTOSPORT that discussions with Ecclestone were now likely to resolve the matter - amid some concerns about the logistics and costs of the final sequence of races.

“There is a process for the validation of the calendar, especially with more flyaways, and we will be involved in this because there is a cost issue,” he explained. “There are different proposals at the moment, but it is not so easy to move one date.”

Sauber CEO Monisha Kaltenborn said that the issue was more related to the Concorde Agreement procedures than any push to get dates changed.

“We do have certain provisions in the

Concorde Agreement, which regulate team consent when it is required,” she told AUTOSPORT. “The procedure was, strictly speaking, not adhered to, but we should keep in mind what the outcome is. If something is not adhered to, we should rectify it quickly and be happy with the outcome.

“What matters here is that there are 20 races, in regions that we want to go to, so let’s sort this issue out and get on with more important things.”

Ecclestone himself brushed off the issue – and said that if the teams were not happy with the calendar then they had the option of not taking part. “They don’t have to go if they don’t want to,” he said.

When asked about the teams being unhappy that the procedures were not followed, Ecclestone replied: “Then they should go to the police. They are lucky we have got races. Otherwise they would all go out of business.”

AP Photo/Vincent Thian

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany leads the field into Turn One at the start of the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011.