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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 fiery sparks and, near the entrance, a man dead on

the ground, his entrails spilling out. People around him were splat-tered 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

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.

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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, officials 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 passen-gers 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

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

Rewant Kuwar, an official at Katmandu’s international airport rescue office, said 18 bodies were pulled out of the plane’s wreck-age, and another victim died after being rushed to a hospital. The two Americans were identified as Andrew Wade and Natalie Nei-lan, while the Japanese citizen was Toshinori Uejima. Their hometowns and other details were not immediately released.

The Beechcraft 1900D plane — manu-factured by Raytheon Aircraft, now known as Hawker Beechcraft — had taken the pas-sengers to view Mount Everest and other peaks on a one-hour “mountain flight” and was returning to Katmandu.

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Indonesian police officer 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 officials said.

Associated Press

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 officials said.

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Singaraja (Bali Post)—To resolve the pricing subterfuge of collectors, many mango

farmers in Buleleng process their own mango into jam, sweetsor chips. But lately, the production of processed mango carriedout simply as a home industry was threatened to stagnate becausethe equipment in use was very restricted.

Some farmers at Depeha Village, Kubutambahan Subdistrict,Friday (Sep 23), said the production of processed mango in theform of jam and sweets began to be in demand by consumers.However, farmers still found some obstacles to improve theirbusinesses, such as lacking of capital and marketing channels hadnot been open. “Currently the production of processed mango isstill very small and belongs to home industry,” he said.

In response to this condition, farmers expected that BulelengRegency could help them to boost the production of processedmango. For example, government should help open the marketingchannels and provide better equipment or processing machineryso their production could be increased.

Komang Artama, a successful entrepreneur of mango pro-cessing, said the development of mango processing had a goodprospect. It was indicated by the production in the form of jelly,sweets and other processed products that were fairly favoredby consumers. However, the development was stagnant dueto various factors blocking. Among those factors, he had verylimited equipment. In addition, local farmers also encountered

deeply involved. Another factor impeding the mango process-

happened because most farmers had already sold their mangoeson trees to entrepreneurs from outside Bali.

“Since the very beginning Buleleng aspired to process mangointo jam, sweets and other foods. Unfortunately, those effortshave not been realized optimally and we expect that governmentcould facilitate farmers to produce the processed mango and

mango,” he explained. (kmb15)

Chief of Sanur Customary Vil-lage, Ida Bagus Anom Buana,when contacted on Friday (Sep23) acknowledged that as a tour-ist destination the managementof customary village could not beequated to other customary vil-lages in Bali. At least, the cultural

affected the behavior of local com-munity. “We expect the negativeimpact can be minimized and take

Anom Buana.He said that one of the positive

impacts taken from the existence ofSanur as tourism village was the op-portunity of getting some revenuesources for the customary village.For instance, the management ofSunrise Beach delivered to Sanur

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

Customary Village was consideredto be very helpful for the fundmanagement of the village. “As faras possible the potential existingin the customary village territorycan be taken advantage positivelyfor survival of the operations andactivities of customary village,”he said.

Similarly, implementation ofthe temple anniversary or pujawaliin the trinity temples owned bySanur Customary Village couldbe arranged properly so amid the

religious and customary activitiesremained to run smoothly. “Re-sponsibility of the implementationof pujawali is handed over to eachcustomary hamlet every six months.However, a pujawali may also be

handled by two hamlets pursuantto the number of the existing vil-lagers,” he said.

Related to harmonious relationsamong the customary villagers, hisparty along with other customaryapparatus always improved thecoordination with all componentsof the society. Even, if there were

the customary village, they wouldbe immediately followed up to pre-vent them from getting more seri-ous. In other words, no matter howsmall the problems emerged, theywere always responded seriously.Additionally, the commitment tomaintain the togetherness and mu-tual assistance in the preparation ofritual works remained in place untiltoday. (ara)

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And though he didn’t say it di-rectly, for a second term, too.

Obama’s speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to in-creasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he’s been giving away too much in talks with Republicans -- and not doing enough to fight black unem-ployment, 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 dark-ened 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 pay-roll tax cuts, business tax breaks and infrastructure spending will benefit 100,000 black-owned businesses and 20 million African-American workers. Republicans have indi-cated 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.

Reuters

SANTIAGO - A massive pow-er blackout paralyzed crucial cop-per mines in Chile on Saturday and darkened vast swaths of the country including the capital San-tiago before energy was largely restored, officials said. The out-age acutely exposed the fragility of the energy grid in the world’s top copper producer, which was devastated by a powerful earth-quake in 2010.

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

Scrambling engineers were able to fully restore power gen-eration and get distribution up to 90 percent of normal, the gov-ernment 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 pri-marily hit the center of the coun-try, 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 di-vision 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 ca-pacity 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 af-fected and that the blackout did not extend that far.

Associated Press Writer

FREIBURG, Germany — Fac-ing 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 was not informed about it before the Mass. “It didn’t seem particu-larly urgent,” he told reporters on the pope’s plane after the Mass. Police said the alleged shooter had been arrested and that there were no injuries.

Police later identified the suspect as a 30-year-old Erfurt man who lived in Berlin. They said an air rifle and air pistol were found in his top-floor apartment, and that he was be-ing held on suspicion of attempting to cause serious bodily harm. After the Mass, the pope flew to Freiburg, a city with a large Catholic popula-tion in southern Germany.

In his sermon, the pope acknowl-

edged that the collapse of commu-nism in the former East Germany more than 20 years ago has allowed the church to function freely, but questioned whether that change has brought any increase in faith.

“Are not the deep roots of faith and Christian life to be sought in something very different from so-cial freedom?” the pope said.

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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 Sep-tember 24, 2011.

Power blackout hits Chile, halts copper mines

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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 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.

Pope Benedict XVI arrives to cel-ebrate an open air mass in front of the St. Mary’s cathedral in Er-furt, central Germany, Saturday,

Sept. 24, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day official visit

to his homeland Germany. AP Photo/Jens Meyer

Activities Monday, September 26, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for August 31 through October 5, 2011

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 con-sidered 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, sail-ings, 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 “umbul-umbul”, 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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

31 Aug Buda Umanis Tambir Sari Bankar Titih Temple Kapal

12 Sep Purnama Ketiga Gunung Sari Temple LombokPauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarKawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar KarangasemPedarman Arya Telabah BesakihBukit Mentik TempleGunung Lebah Batur Kintamani

14 Sep Buda Keliwon Matal Village Temple SukawatiMerajan Agung Batuyang - batubulanPasek Gelgel Bebetin Temple Sawan - bulelengMaspahit Temple Sesetan - Denpasar SelatanPasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran - TegalalangPanti Pasek Gaduh Temple SesetanMerajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya GedePedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

24 Sep Tumpek Kandang Puseh Temple GianyarLuhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - TabananMerajan Pasek GelgelTegal Gede Badung

27 Sep Tilem Ketiga Ulun Kulkul TempleUlun Kulkul Besakih

28 Sep Buda Wage Menail Tarukan Temple Cemenggaon SukawatiMr. Pasek Dangke Bambang - BangliPenataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja - GianyarPuseh Menakaji Temple Peninjoan - BangliMerajan Agung Temple Blangsinga - BlahbatuhKawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh GianyarKawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi

4 Ock Anggar Kasih Perangbakat Bukit Buluh Temple Gunaksa - KlungkungTirta Sudamala Temple Bebalang - BangliPaibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit - sawan - BulelengPasek Gelgel Temple Pangi Dawan - KlungkungGunung Tengsong LombokDalem Benawah Temple Benawah - GianyarDalem Temple Bitra - GianyarDalem Temple Banyuning Timur - BulelengDalem Pauman Batan Getas Pauman Batan Getas Titih DenpasarTengah Padang TegalalangMerajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan TabananKawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Adat Pagan DenpasarHyangaluh/Jenggala BesakihMerajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan GunaksaMr. Pasek Gelgel SelulungMerajan Pasek Subrata MedahanMerajan Pasek Munggu MungguTengkulak Temple Tulikup - GianyarPenataran Badung Ogang Sidemen

5 Ock Buda Umanis Perangbakat Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak SiringRambut Siwi Temple JembranaBatu Bolong Temple Canggu - KutaPasek Marga Klaci Temple TabananAgung Pasek Temple Dauh Waru JembranaRatu Pasek Temple Sangsit Sawan - BulelengPasek Tangkas Darma R. TabananVillage Temple Banyuning BulelengSrijon Temple TabananMr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah PangkungMerajan Pasek Gelgel PatemonTirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak SiringDadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba TegalalangPedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel TabananPuncak Mundi Nusa Penida

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But in comments likely to worryforeign investors who have praisedhis guardianship of Russia’s economy,Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin madeclear he was unhappy with Putin’sdecision to ask Medvedev to be primeminister after the election. “I do notsee myself in a new government,”Kudrin, 50, said in comments releasedin Washington, where he was meetingglobal policymakers. “The point is notthat nobody has offered me the jobI think that the disagreements I have(with Medvedev) will not allow me tojoin this government.”

Kudrin, who has hinted he wouldlike to be prime minister, has won therespect of investors by saving windfalloil revenues for a rainy-day fund whichhelped Russia through the 2008 globaleconomic crisis. Putin’s decision toreturn to the post he held from 2000to 2008 is also likely to cause somenervousness in the West, where he isconsidered less liberal than Medvedevand more outspoken in his criticism ofWestern policies.

Washington said it expected to keepmaking progress in the “reset” towardbetter relations with Moscow, who-ever was the next Russian president.But many in the West are wary, and

Association Press Writer

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

About 50 gunmen attacked a marine detachment in hilly Talipao

that killed 12 suspected militants and two soldiers, marine commanderCol. Romeo Tanalgo said. Six other military personnel were woundedbefore the gunmen split and withdrew into the forest, he said.

It was not immediately clear if the attackers belonged to the noto-riously violent Abu Sayyaf, an al- aida-linked group regarded as aterrorist organization by the U.S. and the Philippines. A larger Islamicrebel group, the Moro National Liberation Front, has a presence in the

Tanalgo said. Washington has blacklisted the Abu Sayyaf as a terroristorganization, blaming it for many bomb attacks, kidnappings for ran-som and beheadings. The militants have attacked and killed Americancitizens in the past.

14 killed as Filipino troops clash with militants

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

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economists fear economic stagnationunder Putin.

“This (announcement) shows thatRussia is far away from open, demo-cratic competition for the presidency,”said Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of theforeign affairs committee in the GermanBundestag, the lower house of parlia-ment. James Goldgeier, a Russia expertatAmerican University in Washington,said “There will be a businesslikerelationship (between Washington andMoscow), but not a warm one.”

POWER-SHARING AGREEMENT

Putin, 58, and Medvedev, 46, haveruled in a power tandem’ since Putinwas forced by the constitution to yieldthe presidency in 2008 after serving amaximum two consecutive terms. Putinaccepted a proposal by Medvedev toreturn as president at a carefully cho-reographed congress of Putin’s rulingUnited Russia party on Saturday.

“I want to say directly (Medvedevand I) reached an agreement betweenourselves long ago, several years ago,on what to do in the future, on whoshould do what,” Putin said. Over 11years in power, Putin has cultivatedthe image of a vigorous leader and

been filmed riding bare-chested onhorseback, scuba diving and showingoff his judo skills.

His policies -- crushing a Chechenseparatist rebellion, taming super-richbusinessmen and bringing waywardregions to heel -- have similarly wonhim popularity among Russians. Butcritics say his return to the Kremlin,virtually unopposed, could bring backmemories of the economic and po-litical stagnation under Soviet leaderLeonid Brezhnev in the 1970s andearly 1980s.

“It’s a sign of growing stagnation inthe Russian political elite and it meansthat Mr Putin, if elected, can rule foranother 12 years until 2024,” saidYevgeny Volk, deputy director of theYeltsin Foundation think tank.

Opinion polls show other poten-tial candidates, such as nationalistVladimir hirinovsky or Com-munist Gennady yuganov, havemuch less support and Putin willeasily be elected. The main liberalopposition leaders such as formerprime minister Mikhail Kasyanovhave only limited appeal nationwide.The next president will be elected forsix years and is allowed up to twoconsecutive terms.

Bombings by solo “jihadis” have continued, however.

bomber had died in Sunday’s attack.Around 20 other people were wounded, three of them critically,

Witnesses said they believed the perpetrator was not a churchmember.

“He walked about 4 meters (yards) behind me,” Abraham, achurchgoer, told El Shinta radio. “I believe he was disguised as achurchgoer.”

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, Italy - Italian pros-ecutors asked a court on Saturdayto put American student AmandaKnox behind bars for life formurdering her British housematein a frenzied sex game that turnedviolent. Knox, a 24-year-old fromSeattle, is already serving a 26-year jail term after being foundguilty in 2009 of the brutal killingof Meredith Kercher with the helpof her former Italian boyfriend,Raffaele Sollecito.

Wrapping up their case atKnox’s appeal hearing for her con-viction to be upheld, prosecutorsalso asked the court to sentenceher to six months of daytime soli-

Sollecito’s 25-year jail term to beincreased to life plus two months

Knox -- her hair in a pony-tail,a

and displayed no emotion asprosecutors read out the requestfor a life term.An equally impas-sive Sollecito sat a few places

away. Knox’s father said hisdaughter had been prepared tohear prosecutors demand that shebe locked away for life.

“It’s never easy when you’reon trial for your life, essentially,but yesterday was just pure char-acter assassination and today wasmore technical,” said Curt Knox.“So she’s holding up, and she’sstrong and she’ll be ready.”

Kercher’s half-naked bodywas found in 2007, with a deepstab wound in the throat, in theapartment she shared with Knoxin Perugia, a university townin the Umbrian hills. Prosecu-tors say Knox -- dubbed “FoxyKnoxy” in the press -- handledthe knife that killed the Englishstudent.

Knox has won support frommany in the United States, whereher family has helped keep at-tention on her case by appearingregularly on talk shows. Othershave portrayed her as a pot-smok-ing party girl who did not thinktwice about cuddling with herboyfriend outside the house whereKercher’s body was found.

Monday, September 26, 2011 7Indonesia Today International

Associated Press

RAWAGEDE — Six decades have passed, but Kadun bin Siot’s voice still trembles as he recalls the morn-ing 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 resis-tance 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 com-pensation 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 “develop-ment 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 care-fully 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 sup-posed 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 indepen-

dence from Dutch colonial rule when World War II ended in 1945. The Netherlands fought unsuccessfully to try to maintain control of its lucra-tive 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 — re-mains a black page in Dutch history.

When Nikolaos van Dam, then the Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia, attended a memorial service in Raw-agede 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 includ-ing the number of passengers on the boat. So for the time being we cannot yet confirm the real num-ber of passengers,” he said.

He said some of the dead vic-tims 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 villag-ers 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 mar-ried a villager of Tonduk on Fri-day (Sept 23) when it capsized.

The boat left for Guagua from Tonduk with the wedding delega-tion. 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 sub-district head Eko Junaidi said here on Saturday.

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 ac-cidents claim hundreds of lives each year in Indonesia, often due to poor safety standards.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Workers at Free-port-McMoran’s giant gold and cop-per mine in Indonesia are continuing their strike after two days of govern-ment mediation failed to achieve an agreement on pay hikes.

Union spokesman Juli Paro-rongan 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 increas-es 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.

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

Indonesia workers, Freeport fail at negotiation

Truck falls into ravine in Indonesia, killing 14

Boat capsizes, 13 found dead in east javaAntara

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.

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Bali Today

According to him, characteris-tics of the farmers were so weak,namely with the average educa-tional background of not graduatingfrom primary school and their agewas averagely 55 years and over.Meanwhile, the average land cul-tivated was less than 20 ares. Notonly that, even there were manyfarmers serving as sharecroppersand farming laborers.

The agricultural sector expe-rienced a weakening trend fromtime to time, not to mention thepressure on account of develop-ment activities leading to landconversion. “As a result, farmersand the agricultural sector seem tobe marginalized,” he said.

Departing from such conditiona -ance, Puspa rated that agriculturalinsurance could provide established

Like tit for tat. The inten-

region as a tourism destinationreceive positive respond fromthe community of PangsanVillage, Petang Subdistrict.The village inhabited by apopulation of 2,205 peopleand spreading on the extent of553 hectares is now keepingon improving itself to craetePangsan as a tourism village.Aside from preserving the cul-ture, maintaining the beauty ofenvironment and indigenouswisdom, the village also hasa tourism product invariablybecomes a tourist attraction inthe form of rafting and trekkingattraction.

Village Head of Pangsan, IMade Suarjana, said that localcommunity had done variouspreparations to realize Pangsanas a tourism village. Armedwith the vivacity from us, byus, and for us” the communitywork hand in hand in managingthe environment. For example,they planted trees, cleaned upthe environment and clearedthe path of trekking. He added

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Weak and apprehensive circumstance of the agricultural sector requires an innovative man-agement.

Proposed, an insurance for agricultural sector Bali Post

MAN UPURA - eak and apprehensive circumstance ofthe agricultural sector requires an innovative management. heinnovation can take the form of agricultural insurance. hisidea was stated by a legislator of the Badung House, I ayanPuspa Negara, Saturday (Sep ).

protection against the farmers. Sofar farmers and agriculture, espe-

had not been insured and there werehardly ever covered by insurance.Possibly, the insurance companieswere not interested to do so.

On that account, Puspa statedthat it required the policies of localgovernment to insure the agricul-ture and production processes forensuring the sustainability of theagricultural production. If theyencountered a crop failure, then theinsurance would guarantee them.“It poses the real manifestation

Regency. Therefore, in the regionalbudget 2012, we will encourage therelevant technical agencies to begina comprehensive review regardingthe provision of such agriculturalinsurance,” he said. (kmb 5)

A Step Ahead, Pangsan Comes Out as Tourism Villagethere are no investors or travelagents providing the support.His party is only assisted by the

in the form of coaching.The pathways pass ing

through the area of Pangsan Vil-lage had been already well pre-pared. Even, the existing bridgewithin the territory of Subak

the near future with the fundsobtained from a French donor.However, he was aware thatthere were some drawbacks, sothey needed an improvement.“Pangsan has been prepared tobe a tourism village and needsa little improvement. Even, it

in the competition of tourismvillage,” he explained.

As a matter of fact, explainedSuarjana, the idea to developPangsan into a tourism villagewas from foreign tourists. Af-ter enjoying rafting adventure,they saw an atmosphere ofbeautiful village, so the ideato develop a tracking programemerged. One of the partici-pants was interested to staylonger at Pangsan Village, and

then it was resumed with thedesire of establishing a homestay. “There have been manytourists staying in the people’shomes. As a result, the impactof tourism is truly enjoyed bythe community of Pangsan Vil-lage,” he said.

Comparable opinion wasalso delivered by Chief ofPangsan Customary Village, INyoman Lendra, that for thepreparation of human resourc-es, his party made cooperation

Regency to provide foreign lan-guage training and the ways toreceive guests. In addition, hisparty also took advantage of the

-lage. “Hopefully, governmentcould lend a hand to this villagein order ours could promptlybecome a tourism village,” hesaid.

Nyoman Kitha, as chairmanof tourism venture group (Pok-darwis) of Pangsan Village saidthat it remained a single stepahead to develop Pangsan asa tourism village. This village,he explained, had appealingenvironmental aspect such

as agriculture, plantations,

worth introducing to tour-ists. In addition, the villagewas rich in rare plants suchas cacao, mangosten, durian,vanilla, papaya, kepundung

-ing (Lansium Domesticum),and many others. “In termsof cultural aspect, Pangsan isvery rich in arts. We have agamelan troupe, dancers, artof masks, unleashed dance,arja operetta, psalmodic group,and special barong dance forperforming art. In addition,the village had potential in

cake making, oblation making,ironsmith and rice milling asa home industry. In the nearfuture, people will establisha woman’s cak a cappellatroupe,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of-

ism Office, Cokorda RakaDarmawan, admitted to beproud of the spirit indicated byPangsan as a tourism village.It was necessary because tour-ism sector was required to play

an important role in promotingthe regional economic growthand welfare. The cultural, eco-friendly and community-basedtourism posed an attempt toimprove the participation oflocal communities in tourismmanagement. “Developing tour-ism village denotes a concretemeasure in building the tourism-oriented economic empower-ment of the local communities,”he said.

According to Cok Darmawan,tourism village as alternativetourism offered the daily life ac-

-munity. Through this tourismvillage, he hoped his party wouldbe able to drive the growth oftourism businesses performedby local businessmen. Throughthis program, he added, otherthan balancing the tourist areas

-portunities for rural community.

a rule form of the Decree of

concerning with the stipulation-

dung Regency. (B N 015)

Balinese Culture

9International Monday, September 26, 2011

JUKUT NANGKA MEKUAH(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 cm1 lt (4 cups) chicken stock½ cup spice paste for vegetables4 cups coconut milk2 tsp salt½ tsp black peppercorn, crushedFried 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.

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U A - League, one of In-donesia major sportwear factory

-nesian contingent’s costume. Thiscostume by League will be wearduring the Sea Games VI onPalembang, South Sumatera thatstarts on November 11, 2011.

Retail Group, Hartono Wijaya saidthe costumes will be wear by the

events, such as the opening andclosing ceremony. ’They willbe wearing all the products fromLeague, including hat, shoes, anduniforms,’’ he said.

He also explained that all thesportswear being specially designedto give comfort and exposing theuniqueness of Indonesia. For ex-ample the sportswear using batikmotifs with red, white, and goldcolors combination.

He said besides sponsoring allthe contingent costume, League

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men. The basket ball teams al-ready wear the League sportswearduring their game outside Indo-nesia. “We’re not only designingbasket ball team costumes butwe also trying to produce Futsalfootwear for women team.

Indonesian contingents on SEA Games sponsored by League

Chief Operating Officer Berca Retail Group, Hartono Wijaya showing one of League products.

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) water600 gr (1 ¼ lb) ox tongue, washed well1 cup beef stock4 tbsp sweet soy sauce (kecap manis)2 tbsp thin soy sauce¾ tsp ground black pepper¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg4 ea salam leaves3 fragrant lime leaves3 tbsp fried shallots3 medium size potatoes, peeled and cutin 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.

Monday, September 26, 201110 InternationalDestinations

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Nusa Dua is an elite resort area with international five 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 Cen-trale pour l’equpeent Touristique Ouetre-Mer) in the year 1970 and also feasibility study conducted by PCI (Pacific Consultants International) year 1971-1973 for financing of World Bank aid. The Indonesian Government has de-livered 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 five star hotels, luxury accom-modations, 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 five star restaurant facilities, bar, pub and beach activities.

Nusa Dua Bali

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BUSINESSInternational

Reuters

ASHIN ON - China’s economic outlook is positive, but it must

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’sleading economic engine, and called on Europe to aggressively deal withthe region’s worsening debt crisis.

It would be unrealistic for anyone to hope China could dramaticallyaccelerate its growth rate, and such a rate would not be sustainable, housaid at a press conference during this week’s meetings of the InternationalMonetary Fund and the World Bank.

“The reasonable expectation probably should be somewhere around 8percent or 10 percent,” he said.

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

Asked how he viewed the European debt crisis, hou said “We have tosee if the euro zone countries can implement the decisions taken on July21” before China can decide its response.

Euro zone leaders agreed on July 21 to allow the European FinancialStability Facility (EFSF), a bailout fund, to buy bonds of distressed gov-ernments and give precautionary credit to governments before they are cutoff from markets.

it could consider new stimulus measures, but hou stressed that battling

time,” he said, adding that economic uncertainty outside of China could

Earlier on Saturday, hou said in remarks to the IMF’s steering com-

major disruptions to the economy, while facilitating growth over the mediumand long term.

At this week’s meetings of Group of 20 major economies and the IMF, of-

global growth amid turmoil in Europe and weakness in the United States.

ways to boost internal demand.

choose to spend more, but it would have to be careful to avoid side effects

served if any new stimulus spending is aimed at consumers, not increasedinvestment and bank credit.

said China had room for such spending, but this would likely only beneeded if its growth was severely hit by a systemic crisis in Europe thatalso weakened U.S. demand.

needed. Our sense is that it will help them if this is done through consump-

reduced employment taxes and direct transfers to lower income peoplewould avoid excesses that could result diverting it toward bank credit andinvestment projects. It also could be used to help build up more of a socialsafety net, which would increase consumption.

Even so, new spending would likely have less impact on the globaleconomy than a previous round of nearly $600 billion in stimulus had in2008, Singh said.

-ing pressures, including ensuring that credit quality does not deteriorate.

“In China, it is very important that the People’s Bank set a clear targetfor its growth of bank credit for this year,” Singh said. “And it’s also very

He said that any new stimulus from Beijing, however, would likely haveless of an impact on global growth than a previous round of spending inthe 2008-2009 timeframe.

The International MonetaryFund’s policy-setting committeesays the economy has entered a dan-gerous new phase. The panel saysclose watching of the situation anda willingness to take bold actionsquickly are crucial.

Associated Press

NEW YORK About 80 peoplewere arrested Saturday as demonstra-tors who were camped out near theNew York Stock Exchange marchedthrough lower Manhattan, policesaid.

The “Occupy Wall Street” protest-

onstrators said Saturday they wereprotesting against bank bailouts andthe mortgage crisis some also heldsigns decrying Georgia’s execution

AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

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.

Associated Press

by the willingness of the 17 nationsthat share the euro currency to dowhat’s needed to resolve Europe’sdebt crisis.

They say the IMF stands ready tostrongly support further efforts. The

IMF is already providing bailoutsupport to three heavily indebtedEuropean countries — Greece,Portugal and Ireland.

The IMF’s statement doesn’t

support might be possible.

80 people arrested at ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protestWednesday for the 1989 slaying of an

At Manhattan’s Union Square, po-lice tried to corral the demonstratorsusing orange plastic netting. Some of

posted the videos online. One video

spray on women who already were

up off the ground, blood tricklingdown his face.

Police say the arrests were mostly

disorderly conduct and resistingarrest. But one demonstrator wascharged with assaulting a police of-

suffered a shoulder injury.Protest spokesman Patrick Brun-

er criticized the police response as“exceedingly violent” and said thedemonstrators sought to remainpeaceful. A police spokesman hadno comment about the videos orthe arrests.

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The rapper bounced across a stage outfit-ted 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 entertain-ment platforms for Clear Channel Com-munications 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, Cold-play 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 perfor-mance of their hit “Empire State of Mind.” Jay-Z thanked the crowd for singing along.

Associated Press Writer

VILNIUS, Lithuania — John Malk-ovich says his latest acting role, an aging Siberian mobster trying to raise his grand-son to be an honorable crook, proved to be a “delightful” experience. The movie, “Si-berian 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

exiled to Trans-Dniester along with numer-ous 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 inter-esting 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 direc-tor 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 be-ing 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.

Associated Press Writer

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 red-carpet arrivals, but also from some of the designer gown-clad 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 bal-let: 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 The-ater’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 Bal-anchine 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.

Jay-Z, Coldplay open iHeartRadio concert in Vegas

Chris Martin and the band Coldplay perform during the iHeartRadio music festival on

Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, in Las 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 two-night concert billed as the largest in radio history and a major step toward keeping the industry alive in the dot-com era.

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

Paul McCartney, Beatle and ballet composer, too

AP Photo/Evan Agostini

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

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

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

International Monday, September 26, 2011 13Science

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, ended 20 years in orbit with a suicidal plunge into the atmosphere sometime between 11:23 p.m. on Friday and 1:09 a.m. EDT on Saturday (0323 to 0509 GMT Saturday), NASA said. The satellite would have been torn apart during the fiery re-entry, but about 26 pieces, the largest of which was estimated to have weighed 330 pounds (150 kg), likely survived

the fall, officials said.As it fell to Earth, UARS passed

from the east coast of Africa over the Indian Ocean, then the Pacific Ocean, across northern Canada and the northern Atlantic Ocean to a point over West Africa. Most of the transit was over water, with some flight over northern Canada and West Africa, NASA said. “Because we don’t know where the re-entry point actually was, we don’t know where the debris field might be,” said Nicholas Johnson, chief orbital debris scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. “We may never know.”

Stretching 35 feet long and 15 feet in diameter, UARS was among the largest spacecraft to plum-

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 de-signed.

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 des-erts 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.

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 news-paper 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 Univer-

sity geoscientist Wally Broecker calculated how much carbon di-oxide 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 evi-dence poured in over those decades, showing the “greenhouse effect” is real and is happening. And yet resis-tance 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

the threat grows,” concludes econ-omist-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, ideo-logical tone. Polls find a widening Republican-Democratic gap on climate. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry even ac-cuses 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 Obser-vatory in Palisades, N.Y., Broecker has observed this deepening of the desire to disbelieve.

“The opposition by the Re-publicans has gotten stronger and stronger,” the 79-year-old “grand-father 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 be-yond 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.”

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 Octo-ber 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 atten-tion, but subsequent studies have failed to replicate the results.

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

lab tests used to detect the retrovi-rus were unreliable. The research-ers 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-cod-ed,” meaning the labs did not know which samples they were testing. “Only the two laboratories associat-ed 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.

AP Photo/Brennan Linsley

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

Remains of satellite may never be found, NASA says

Reuters

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 seven-ton Upper Atmo-sphere Research Satellite (UARS) is deployed by the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-48) in this NASA handout photo dated September 1991. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

Photo illustra-tion 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 Octo-ber 2009 report

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Messi scored on brilliant indi-vidual moves in the 26th and 78thminutes, and added a goal in second-half stoppage time, leading Barce-lona over visiting Atletico Madrid5-0. Messi also forced an own-goalby Miranda in the 15th, six minutesafter David Villa had put Barcelonaahead.

-footed as he used two sleek changes

across the front of the area and leftbehind a swarm of defenders beforean angled shot for the second, then

the third.“Leo is very fast in short dis-

tances. But you have to see Leo playto understand it,” Barcelona coachPep Guardiola. “You just have to

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, Sat-

urday, Sept. 24, 2011.

Associated Press Writer

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

Although just 24 years old, Messihas 127 league goals and 192 overallfor Barcelona, moving within fourof Laszlo Kubala for second on theclub career list in both categories.Cesar Rodriguez leads with 195 inthe league and 235 overall.

Messi has 12 goals in nine match-es this season and leads the leaguewith eight, one more than Ronaldo.At Madrid, Ronaldo scored in the39th minute and converted penaltykicks in the 51st and 84th to helpReal defeat Rayo Vallecano 6-2.Gonzalo Higuain, Raphael Varaneand Karim Benzema also scored forthe hosts.

Miguel Perez Cuesta put RayoVallecano ahead after just 12 secondsand added a goal in the 55th minute.

Angel Di Maria was ejected for inthe 56th for a handball.

Betis (4-0), which plays Mondayat Getafe, leads with 12 points, oneahead of Barcelona and Sevilla (both3-0-2), and two in front of Real Ma-drid and Valencia (both 3-1-1).

Freddie Kanoute’s 18th-minutegoal gave Sevilla a 1-0 win over Va-lencia, which saw Ever Banega put a68th-minute penalty kick off a post.Sevilla’s Piotr Trochowski (56thminute) andAritzAduriz (71st) bothreceived red cards, as did Valencia’sJulien Escude (68th).

Villarreal tied 1-1 at AthleticBilbao, with Nilmar scoring for theYellow Submarine in the 53rd froma cross by New Jersey-born forwardGiuseppe Rossi.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Peter Crouch scored on a header in the57th minute, giving Stoke a 1-1 tie with visiting Man-chester United on Saturday and ending the Red Devils’perfect start to the Premier League season. Nani scoredin the 27th minute for Man U, which was without in-jured forward Wayne Rooney. Manager Alex Fergusonsaid Rooney, who leads the EPL with nine goals, willbe sidelined more than a week because of a hamstringinjury.

Tottenham for a club record transfer of $15.5 million lastmonth. Manchester United and rival Manchester City are

City defeated visiting Everton 2-0, getting second-halfgoals from substitutes Mario Balotelli and James Milneragainst American goalkeeper Tim Howard.

Chelsea (4-1-1) is three points back after beating visit-ing Swansea 4-1. Fernando Torres scoring for his secondstraight league game, just his third goal since joiningthe Blues in January, then was ejected by referee MikeDean in the 39th minute for a diving, two-footed tackleon Mark Gower

Demba Ba had a hat trick for fourth-place Newcastle(3-0-3) in a 3-1 home win over Blackburn, while Liver-

league games. Roger Johnson had an own goal in the 11thminute, and Luis Suarez scored in the 38th.

Tottenham (3-2) won 2-1 at Wigan on goals by Rafaelvan der Vaart and Gareth Bale for its third straight victory.Robin van Persie scored twice for Arsenal in a 3-0 winover Bolton, giving him 100 goals for the Gunners. Fanssang “There’s only one Arsene Wenger!” the Arsenalmanager under pressure for a 1-1-3 league start comingin. Fulham held West Bromwich Albion to a 0-0 draw ina game between two of the division’s bottom four.

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PARIS - Javier Pastore onceagain proved his worth as theArgentine midfielder nettedtwice to help earn Paris St Ger-main a 3-0 win at Montpellierand joint top spot in Ligue 1 onSaturday.

Pastore, who moved to PSGfrom Palermo for a Frenchrecord 42 million euro ($56.8million) fee, added to KevinGameiro’s opener with a stun-ning volley from Siaka Tiene’s

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Pastore shines as PSG move topcross and made it 3-0 10 min-utes from time after a defensiveblunder.

Gameiro opened the scoringagains the Ligue 1 pacesetters

before the break but it wasPastore’s class that caught theeye. In six league appearances,the Argentina international hasalready scored four goals andset up two, adding much-neededtechnical ability to his team’s

PSG have 17 points from

eight games, level on goal differ-ence with Olympique Lyon whobeat visitors Girondins Bordeaux3-1 thanks to a Bafetimbi Gomisdouble.

Montpellier, on 16 points,

place behind Toulouse who beatNancy 1-0 thanks to a second-half goal by Turkish striker UmutBulut.

France striker Gomis put Lyon2-0 up by halftime, with Brazil-ian Michel Bastos adding a thirdafter the break.

Hat tricks for Messi and Ronaldo

United drop 1st points of season in Premier League

AP Photo/Jon Super

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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For several kilometers (miles)he was second, about two minutesbehind Makau, but appeared to

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BERLIN — Patrick Makau of enya broke the world record to win the Berlin Marathon on

NBA players not taking serious look overseas yet

Martinez Sanchez wins tennis Hansol Korea Open

Maria Jose Martinez San-chez of Spain returns the ball to Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan during their final match of the 2011 Han-sol Korea Open tennis Cham-pionships at Olympic Park in Seoul.

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Patrick Makau from Kenia crosses the finish line to win the 38th Berlin Marathon in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011 in a new world record time of 2 hours, 3 minutes, 38 sec-onds. In background is the landmark Brandenburg Gate.

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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 discus-sions 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 propos-als 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.”

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 As-sen in June and had been strug-gling 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 consulta-tion 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, Malay-sia and Valencia.”

Pramac has not announced whether it will replace Capiro-ssi 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 week-end with Guintoli on World Superbike duty in France and Iannone competing in Moto2 at Motegi.

REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito

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.

AP Photo/Vincent Thian

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

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 docu-ment 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.