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Sole MakotekTradition atMunggu Village

Unluckily, the clatters of thou-sands of dollars generated bythose accommodations have notbecome a fresh breeze for the

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GIANYAR - The artworks andcraft products of Bali residentsmany have been pirated by foreign-ers can be seen since year 2008 ac-cording to Head of Bali IndustrialIndustry Section, Ketut Darta, SH,in the opening of Intellectual Pros-perity Right (HKI) Socialization atCeluk Head of Village (Perbekel)

Clattering Dollars givelittle impact for Bali

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Tourists flocking in Legian Beach, Bali Island. Unfortunetly, the clatters of thousands of dollars generated tourism notgiving a fresh breeze for the people on the island.

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DENPASAR - Until 2010, Bali as a world tourist destina-tion records to have 2,190 units of tourist accommodation.They comprise 158 units of five-star hotels with a total of20,558 rooms, 1,036 units of budget hotel with a total of 20,410rooms and 996 units of tourist lodge with 4,440 rooms.

Balinese men making asculpture. The artworks andcraft products of Baliresidents many have beenpirated by foreigners canbe seen since year 2008.

Foreigners pirated thousands of Bali’s artworksOffice, Sukawati, last Wednesday(24/8). At least 1,800 artworks arecopied and 600 products are ongo-ing to be patented.

According to Darta this condi-tion got worse this year 2011 dueto the lack of realization of thepeople to register their copyrightor brand of their product or art-work. Many people like the Ba-linese ornaments and want to haveit then if it’s left being taken, it willdisadvantage the Balinese itself.For that it is hoped this event willunderstand more of the HKI im-portance and able to register theirproduct HKI in developing theirbusiness in this globalization andglobal free market era. (kmb16)

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people on the island. It happensbecause the results of the Bali’sleading sector are capital flightgoing overseas as triggered by

production and perpetrators oflarge scale industries in the sectordominated by foreigners.

Occurrence of the large capitalflight to the Bali’s economy, saidChairman of the Association ofBali’s Economic Scholars, Prof. Dr.Ketut Rahyuda, was caused bymost capital owners were not Ba-linese people and they stayed out-side Bali. It certainly caused theincome generated here in Bali to

go out. Ultimately, the entire moneywould be completely sucked out.

Suppose that those elites or capi-tal owners based in Bali or even wereBalinese, probably the economicdroplets received by lower socialclass was getting more because ofthe money earned was spent in Bali.As a result, it would make the eco-nomic wheels turn again, especiallyin the lower social class.

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HIGH threat of HIV/AIDS cases in Denpasar draws the attention of allparties. Moreover, the case in Bali has reached the amount of 4,552 where483 cases of which are new cases recorded from January to August 2011.Most cases are caused by sexual relationship that previously was domi-nated by the use of hypodermic needles happened among drug users.

Such high incidence of HIV/AIDS is inseparable from the rampant hid-den prostitution in some places. This condition makes it very difficult tomonitor the presence of prostitutes at the location. Those who come to loca-tion cannot be monitored well. Therefore, there is a thought to localize theexistence of such vice hang-outs in Bali. When localized, the process ofexamination against the commercial sex workers can be done routinely.

Chairman of Commission D of Denpasar House, I Wayan Sugiarta, ac-companied by Secretary of the Commission, AA Putu Wibawa, said in hisoffice recently that it was quite difficult to control who entered the prosti-tute localization. Moreover, all such kinds of location in Denpasar wereunclear.

According to this people’s representative, it was quite difficult to pre-vent the HIV/AIDS cases if there was no cooperation of all parties, espe-cially people who had more self-awareness. If indeed there was no way out,it would not be mistaken to accommodate them in localization. “We shouldlocalize them rather than their existence is unclear and hidden, but in factthey really exist. This mapping does not necessarily mean that we inten-tionally allow such a thing. But, it has been too late, so simply localizethem. Even, it will make us easier to detect, including dealing with theoutbreak of HIV/AIDS cases. At least, we can minimize the number ofcases,” he explained. From some of information disseminating in the com-munity, the existence of prostitution is scattered at several points, such asPadanggalak, Lumintang, Jalan Bung Tomo area, as well as a number ofother places. Not only that, those naughty women now often hang out atvery strategic locations to attract customers. (ara)

To Pastika the right to regulateor disciplined modern markets op-erational should be by the city/re-gency governments yet for thosenetworked around each city/re-gency, the province governmentalso has its right to regulate it.Rather than having it just as an an-nouncement letter, this should be ina higher level either that’s gover-nor regulation, regional regulationof other, which Pastika promisedwill coordinate with the Represen-tatives to discuss it.

Met separately, a Representative

Denpasar (Bali Post) –Head of Bali Province Livestock Agency Animal Health Section, I

Wayan Mardiana, stated from the two raids done at Sempidi and Badungmarkets, illegal meats still can be found where join team of Bali ProvinceLivestock Agency and Denpasar Livestock, Fishery and Sea Agency alsoPolice Civil Service caught 200 illegal duck meats sent from Java at BadungTraditional Market last Wednesday (24/8). “The meat does not suit itsdocuments where it said frozen chicken when actually its frozen duckalso it’s not as regulated, safe, healthy and complete,” Mardiana clarified.

It was stated this has violated Governor Regulation No 44 Year 2005which was strengthen by Livestock General Director announcement let-ter which obligated meat distribution between islands have to be frozenand cut well not only skinned with its head, feet and organs still completewhich will be a potential way for bird flu virus to get in between Java andBali. “We will report this supplier to the police to be further investigatedlegally as it has supplied unregulated and dangerous meats to Bali,”Mardiana continued.

For this situation, there has been a socialisation and guidance for sellernot to receive any illegal meats yet it’s always hard as sellers to tend thinkof their profit when actually it is dangerous especially bird flu virusescould not be detected on ducks. “If one meat is contaminated with bird fluthen it will put the seller in danger when in contact with it especially if notwashed well it could be an illness,” Mardiana concluded. The 200 ilegalduck meats have been confiscated and destroyed by the agency. (bit)

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One of the minimarket which is located in Denpasar.

Governor agreedGovernor agreedGovernor agreedGovernor agreedGovernor agreedminimarketminimarketminimarketminimarketminimarketmoratoriummoratoriummoratoriummoratoriummoratoriumDenpasar (Bali Post) –

The Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, responded positively the demand of Bali Houseof Representatives members to produce a announcement letter for minimarket, mall and supermarkets moratorium such as for Denapsar and Badung area. Principally this is due to thesekind of businesses have gone in to villages and potentially killing small businesses around itincluding traditional markets yet he still questions if an announcement letter would regulatethem even though it’s easy to make. “Will it be obeyed or not? That’s the problem,” Pastikastated to reporters last Wednesday (24/8).

from Golkar Party Fraction,Nyoman Sugawa Korry, stated hisopinion that the ideal legal productwould be regional regulation yet re-membering that would take timeGovernor has to produce an an-nouncement letter of moratorium.“The purpose is to not let moremodern markets built until the re-gional regulation is produced as ina short time modern markets willkeep on growing which can causewhen the regulation is out, Bali isfilled with it,” Korry explained.

Korry admitted there hasn’t

been a complete data on howmany of modern markets are inBali now also those which are le-gal and illegal as the involvinginstitutes, Trade Agency and Co-operative Agency of Bali, nevercensus it including mapping thecarrying capacity that can be tol-erated in an area which could killsmall businesses and traditionalmarkets around it. This can beused to state a policy how muchpermits should be produced andits radius so it won’t kill any ofthem. (kmb13)

Suspected to have bird flu200 illegal duckmeat destroyed

HIV/AIDS worryingprostitutes spreadeverywhere

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Denpasar (Bali Post) –The two months ongoing investigation of Best Western Kuta Hotel

case Badung Government report seemed unclear according to BadungRegent, A.A. Gede Agung, who came to Denpasar Tourism Police lastWednesday (24/8) with several other Badung Government officials. Hisvisitation was welcomed by Vice Head of the police, GAPC PutuMahasena, where they discussed the continuation of the investigation inone of the headquarter rooms.

After the meeting, Regent Agung admitted his visitation is one of BadungGovernment’s form of seriousness in justice moreover Badung Govern-ment was the one that reported this case connecting to the hotel’s violationon spatial planning. “Our report has been in since 6th June 2011 and for sureDenpasar Tourism police have further investigated,” Agung explained ac-companied by Head of Badung Public Relation Section, Gede WedaDharmaja, which continued with a report by his leagal counsel, Suryatin SHand colleagues accompanied by Badung Law Expert staff. “There has beenseveral witnesses checked for statements. If needed, we are ready to bringmore Badung Government officials to be checked,” Suryatin clarified.

Meanwhile Mahasena admitted not ready to comment on this case as hehasn’t got the report which witnesses have been investigated. For sure theinvestigation is still ongoing and in process by the Criminal Research Sec-tion of the police. (kmb21)

Numerous members of SubakBabakan Bengkel I and II met inthe local rice fields on Wednes-day (Aug 24) revealed that dis-charge of water in their subak ter-ritory was very small. As conse-quence, farmers highly dependedon the rainfall each year. Even,due to unavailability of water,farmers could only grow cropsonce a year.

Today, their condition wasvery apprehensive. The waterchannel used to irrigate a total of200 hectares at both subak terri-tories turned arid. Due to waterunavailability, the land on thewater channel was then plantedwith pumpkins and they had nowborn a fruit. Meanwhile, soil inthe rice fields began to dry andcrack.

A member of Subak BabakanBengkel II, I Wayan Ranci, saidthat until in 1975, the water dis-charge flowing to the local subakarea had no problems. However,since many damages occurredand the leakages of Luwus maindam utilizing the river basin areaof Penet River with the waterflows belonged to Tabanan, theproblem of drought at SubakBabakan Bengkel I and II set tohappen.

Indeed, he said, there were wa-ter sources from Yeh SangaRiver, but since they were takenby the Municipality Waterworks(PDAM), the water sources werefinally unable to be relied on. Af-terward, the subak members ini-t iated to take springs fromBangkung River. Design plan hadbeen completed and promises hadbeen disseminated by govern-ment. Unluckily, it never came

Tabanan (Bali Post)—Investigator team of Bali public order officers (Satpol PP) together with

the Metrology Officers of Bali Industry and Trade Agency organized aninspection to all petrol stations in Tabanan on Wednesday (Aug 24). As aresult, it was encountered an abnormal flow meter in a petrol station atSanggulan.

When inspecting the flow meter for the Premium fuel of motorcycle, theofficers found ever-changing results of measurement. Surprisingly, the mea-surement was far below the normal threshold. At the first measurement, itwas found a difference up to 36 ml per 10 liters. In the next measurement,the result decreased to 40 ml. In other words, every 10 liters of Premium fuelthere was shortage of oil volume nearly a half-liter. “It is detrimental toconsumers. On that account, it must be inspected,” said civil servant inves-tigator of Bali public order officers, Gusti Ngurah Suadnyana, in the midstof such inspection.

Deficiency in measurement had been examined up to 5 times. But theresults were always below the normal threshold. Afterward, the officers re-sumed the inspection to the pump of car’s gasoline and diesel pump. It wasobtained that measurement was still in normal condition.

Suadnyana added that such inspection provided assurance for fuel con-sumers, especially on entering the homecoming season. Petrol stations foundto have abnormal measurement were directly given a reprimand letter andasked to undergo a calibration again.

According to Suadnyana, such inspection was meant to enforce the lawNo. 2/2011 concerning with Public Service Levies and Law No. 21/1981concerning with the Legal Metrology. If violated, it could be imposed witha fine of IDR 50 million and imprisonment of six months. Aside from re-lated to the homecoming season, the inspection was responding to manyreports and complaints of the public. In essence, the complaints were aboutthe allegation of flow meter inaccuracy or rogue at petrol stations. “Thereare complaints via SMS and internet of Bali Government,” he explained.

If the reprimand letter was ignored, the investigator would send the sec-ond reprimand. Ultimately, when staying stubborn the violators would begiven sanction in the form of sealing. The inspection team lead by DivisionHead of Bali public order officers, Ketut Gede Arnawa, also involved aspecial criminal investigator of Bali Police and personnel of Satpol PP. Similarinspection was persistently scheduled to be held at all petrol stations acrossBali. It was intended to avoid the petrol stations from providing inappropri-ate measurement with the norms. Except for Sanggulan petrol station, theofficers also targeted other petrol stations. As a result, the team encounteredno violating stations. They were entirely within the limit of reasonableness.

Supervisor of Sanggulan petrol station, Ni Ketut Srinadi, dismissed thatsuch abnormal measurement was element of intent. She explained her partycarried out calibration for the measuring cup every day, including six-monthlycalibration by metrology officers and three- monthly by Pertamina. (udi)

Area of SubakArea of SubakArea of SubakArea of SubakArea of SubakBabakan Bengkel IBabakan Bengkel IBabakan Bengkel IBabakan Bengkel IBabakan Bengkel Iand II driedand II driedand II driedand II driedand II driedMangupura (Bali Post)—

Commitment to improvethe agricultural sector her-alded all the times by the Re-gent of Badung AA GdeAgung was not proved. It isindicated by the members ofSubak Babakan Bengkel IIand III at Carangsari Village,Petang Subdistrict, havinglonged for water for decadesseem to have been let struggleagainst the drought. Hispromises during the cam-paign of regent election weremerely a sweetener of dreamfor farmer communities.

true up to these days. “Our mem-bers have incredibly impover-ished. Now, our soils crack, soy-beans are scorched and corns die.The situation continues to occurin our rice fields,” he said.

I Wayan Sumantara explainedthat to increase the discharge ofwater into his subak area thecommunity planned to open awater channel from NgongkongRiver through the making of cul-verts along some 521 meters.From there, the water would betaken into the channel at Geranaarea. Additionally, it would bemade a dam in the east of RambutSiwi Temple. However, thepeople’s plan was finally coun-tered by the Badung Regencybecause it was considered redun-dant and only wasted the budget.

In l ine with the matter, I

Nyoman Artawa and a member ofSubak Babakan II, I NyomanKraco, admitted to be disap-pointed with the at t i tude ofBadung Regency. According tothem, the Regent AA Gde Agunghad promised to end the suffer-ing of farmers through two po-litical campaigns he won. In con-trary, the struggle of farmers waseven called fruitless. The agricul-tural sector was then claimed tohave been discriminated becausegovernment was busy prioritizingthe tourism sector. “Creating thewater channel is for the long termpurpose for the sake of our childrenand grandchildren. Rather than tak-ing transmigration, we want to de-velop our region. Where have thepromises of campaign gone? It isjust like a nut forgetting the skin,”Artawa criticized. (kmb25)

IBP/Dedi

The dry rice paddy is seen on Subak Babakan area. The gov-ernment must act promptly to solve the problem.

Badung Regent QuestionsBest Western Case

Inspection to petrol stationOfficers encounterabnormal flow meter

International4 Friday, August 26, 2011 News

Jubilant rebels swarmed throughGadhafi’s compound in the Tripolineighborhood of Bab al-AzizyaTuesday, “seizing arms and smash-ing symbols” of the tyrant who hasbrutally ruled the North African na-tion for the past 42 years, Reutersreported from Tripoli.

At about the 2-minute mark in thevideo below, you can see one euphoricLibyan freedom fighter delighting inhis find of what looks to be one ofGadhafi’s military hats, allegedlyseized from the Gadhafi compound.

Gadhafi taunted the rebels in aninterview with a pro-regime radiostation late Tuesday. He claimed his

Reuters

LIMA - A strong earthquake struck a remote Amazon region ofPeru on Wednesday, shaking buildings far away in the capital and inneighboring Brazil, although no injuries or damage were reported.

The 7.0-magnitude quake’s epicenter was near the town of Pucallpa,which lies some 370 miles from Lima in a sparsely populated central-eastern region close to the Brazilian border, the U.S. Geological Sur-vey said.

“There have been no damages reported, either to structures or topeople,” said Javier Urrelo, head of the government’s civil defenseagency in the Ucayali region, where Pucallpa is located.

Energy companies in the area, which produces some oil and natu-ral gas, said their facilities were operating normally.

It was the most powerful earthquake to hit the Andean country sincea 7.9-magnitude temblor killed more than 500 people and destroyedthousands of houses in 2007.

One seismologist said the depth of Wednesday’s quake — 90 miles— meant damage was unlikely.

Reuters

PORT OF SPAIN - Authoritiesrounded up nearly 120 people inTrinidad and Tobago after impos-ing emergency rule on the oil-richCaribbean nation this week to halta spike in violent crime.

Police Commissioner DwayneGibbs said 117 criminal suspectswere detained between Tuesdaynight and Wednesday morning,including at least 56 purportedgang members on charges rang-ing from drug possession and traf-ficking to illegal weapons posses-sion.

They were arrested under thelimited state of emergency an-nounced by Prime MinisterKamla Persad-Bissessar on Sun-day, which gave the police andmilitary broad powers to conductsearch and seizure operations andmake arrests.

The provisional suspension ofsome constitutional guaranteescame in response to a spate ofmurders blamed on the drug tradeand turf wars over smugglingroutes through Trinidad and To-

Strong 7.0-magnitude quake shakes Peruvian AmazonAcross the nearby border in the Brazilian city of Cruzeiro do Sul,

journalist Nelson Liano was in a supermarket at the time of the quakeand said some goods fell off the shelves. “It was that sensation whenyou’re on a boat and it rocks,” he told Reuters.

In Peru’s coastal capital of Lima, office buildings shook andmobile phone services were interrupted.

Local radio bulletins said the quake caused alarm across centralPeru, sending panicked students and workers rushing out of class-rooms and offices.

Earthquake-prone Peru is a leading metals exporter, but the re-gion hit on Wednesday is not a mining area.

Leading Peruvian miner Southern Copper, which is controlledby Grupo Mexico, said its operations in southern parts of the coun-try were not affected.

AP Photo/Steve Helber

Debris covers the floor of the Miller’s Mart food store inMineral, Va., a small town northwest of Richmond near the

earthquake’s epicenter, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.

REUTERS/Andrea De Silva

A lone policeman stops and checks a vehicle along the WesternMain Road in St James, about 4 km west of the capital Port ofSpain, August 23, 2011.

Trinidad reports mass arrestsin crackdown on crime

bago, which is a trans-shipmentpoint for South American cocaineheaded to Europe and the UnitedStates.

The twin-island southern Car-ibbean country, which is a lead-ing supplier of liquefied naturalgas to the United States, has faceda growing threat from heavilyarmed street gangs.

Attorney General AnandRamlogan urged gang members tolay down their arms and get on theright side of the law. Despite po-tential reprisals, he suggested theyhelp police uncover drug andweapons caches.

“If you share with us, informa-tion on a gang, not only will yoube able to come out of that gangbut we can snuff out the lifebloodand very existence of gangs so thatyou can be able to have a life ofyour own,” Ramlogan told a newsconference on Wednesday.

Authorities last imposed a stateof emergency in Trinidad and To-bago in July 1990 when membersof a local extremist Muslim group,Jamaat al Muslimeen, attempteda coup.

Rebelfighters lookover personalphotosbelonging toAishaGadhafi, thedaughter ofLibyandictatorMoammarGadhafi, inher house inTripoli, Libya,Wednesday,Aug. 24, 2011.

Libyan opposition offers $1.7Libyan opposition offers $1.7Libyan opposition offers $1.7Libyan opposition offers $1.7Libyan opposition offers $1.7million bounty for Gadhafimillion bounty for Gadhafimillion bounty for Gadhafimillion bounty for Gadhafimillion bounty for GadhafiAssociated Press Writer

Even as the Libyan rebels claimed to have most of the capital of Tripoliunder their control, the whereabouts of Moammar Gadhafi remain amystery. Libya’s opposition National Transition Council said Wednesdayit was offering a $1.7 million bounty for Gadhafi’s capture, dead or alive.

retreat from Azizya was a tacticalmatter necessitated by NATO airstrikes on the compound. “I havebeen out a bit in Tripoli discreetly,without being seen by people, and... I did not feel that Tripoli was indanger,” Gadhafi said, Reuters re-ported. He vowed, as he typicallydoes, to fight “until victory or mar-tyrdom.”

Rebel fighters were meantimemoving Wednesday on Gadhafi’shometown of Sirte, over 300 mileseast of Tripoli, under suspicion hemay be there.

“Gadhafi sent a message [to hisloyalists in Sirte] telling them to

fight to the death,” National Transi-tion Council representative HassanDroy told Reuters. “A problem is thepeople there are totally discon-nected—they’ve had no electricityor telephones for three days—andthey don’t know what’s happening.”

Although there were continuedclashes in Tripoli between regime loy-alists and rebels, there were signs thatthe Libyan opposition was movingfrom being the government-in-wait-ing to the de facto Libyan government.

National Transition Council cabi-net chief Mahmoud Jibril was dueto meet French President NicolasSarkozy in Paris Wednesday.France, the United States and sev-eral European nations meantimesaid they would move to unfreezesome of the billions of dollars in theLibyan regime assets in foreign bankaccounts to the NTC, so it can pro-vide government services.

AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev

Activities Friday, August 26, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for August 7 through August 30, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date forit annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 daysaccording to Balinese calendar, including the smallerancestral shrine which each family possesses. Becauseof this practically every few days a ceremony of festi-val of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali.There are also times when the entire island celebratedthe 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 onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless 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 dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade,sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimespainted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifullyarranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. Infront of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellasdepending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides theseumbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributesof Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”,long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments ofyoung 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 andcolored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires thegrace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

7 AugRedite Paing PahangPasek Toh Jiwa Kekeran - Mengwi -BadungPasek Sadra Peguyangan - Badung

9 AugAnggara Wage PahangBatu Madeg (Meru Tumpang Sanga) BesakihHyang Tibha Batuan Sakah

10 augBuda Keliwon PahangLuhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti TabananSilayukti Temple Padangbai-KarangasemAer Jeruk SukawatiDangin Pasar Batuan-SukawatiPenataran Temple Batuyang-BatubulanDesa Lembeng Ketewel-SukawatiPasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-TabananKawitan Dalem Sukawati GianyarKresek Banyuning-BulelengPuseh Temple Bebandem-KarangasemMerajan Pasek Kubayan-GajiMerajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-SonganMerajan Pasek Subrata TemagaMerajan Pasek Gelgel BungbunganSad Kahyangan Batu Medahu. S Nusa PenidaBuda Kliwon Penatih-DenpasarPenataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem KarangasemPasek Bendesa Temple Tagtag PaguyanganPulasari Temple Sibang Gede AbiansemalBatur Sari Temple UbudPenataran Agung Temple Sukawati

13 AugPurnama KaroGelap Temple BesakihDangkahyangan Temple Pengukur-ukur PejengMerajan Gerya Temple Kebon TabananCandi Goro Temple Tianyar-Kubu KarangasemPonjok Batu Temple Tejakula-Buleleng

15 AugSoma Keliwon KrulutPasel Gelgel Kekeran Temple Mngwi BadungMerajan Pasek Subadra Temple Kramas-Gianyar

20 AugTumpek KrurutPasek Gelgel Temple Br Tengah BulelengDalem Pemuteran Temple Jelantik Tojan - KlungkungPedarmaan Bhujangga W. Temple BesakihTaman Sari Temple Gunungsari Penebel - TabananDalem Tarukan Temple Bebalang BangliBenua Kangin Temple BesakihMerajan Kanginan Temple Besakih

21 AugRedite Umanis MerakihParangan Tengah Temple Ceningan Kangin - LembonganDalem Temple Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar

24 AugBuda Wage MerakihBendesa Mas Kepisah Temple Pedungan - Denpasar SelatanNatih Temple Banjar Kalah - BatubulanPuseh. Temple Silakarang - Singapadudalem Petitenget Temple Kerobokan - KutaDalem Pulasari Temple Samplangan - GianyarKubayan - Kepisah Temple Pedungan - Denpasar - SelatanPasek gelgel Temple Banjar Tanahpegat - TabananPaibon Banjar Bengkel Sumerta - DenpasarPasek Temple Lumintang - DenpasarPanti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding - TampaksiringPasar Agung Temple Kaba-kaba - Tabanan

30 AugAnggar Kasih TambirDalem Puri Batuan Temple SukawatiDalem Kediri Temple Silakarang - SingapaduDalem Temple SukawatiDalem Temple Singakerta - Ubuddalem Lembeng Temple Ketewel - SukawatiPaibon Pasek Tangkas Temple Peliatan - Ubud

Signing Ceremony, (from Left to Right) Mr.Tio Soelayman – Commissioner PT. Indo

Eka Citra Abadi, Mr. Alim Satria – PresidentDirector PT. Indo Eka Cipta Abadi, Mr

Charles Brookfield – President & CEO AstonInternational, Mr. John Flood – Senior Vice

President Aston International.

IBP

JAKARTA - Jakarta based Aston Internationalannounced today that the group entered into amanagement agreement with PT Indo Eka CitraAbadi, under which Aston will manage the 320room 4 star Aston Tunjungan Hotel & Conven-tion Center - Surabaya.

The signing parties where represented by MrAlim Satria, President Directorof PT. Indo EkaCitra Abadi and Mr. Charles Brookfield, Presi-dent & CEO of Aston International.

The future 20 story hotel, which representsSurabaya’s most significant hotel development todate, is scheduled to open in early 2013 and willfeature several Surabaya superlatives such as thecities only revolving roof top restaurant, spaciousMICE facilities including a multi function hallfor up to 1200 guests and several auxiliary meet-ing rooms and a full service spa with gymnasium.

Norbert Vas, Aston International’s VP Sales& Marketing said, “The Aston Tunjungan Hotel& Convention Center has been conceptualized

Aston International securesHotel’s deal in Surabaya

to become one of Aston’s flagship hotels in In-donesia and enjoys an ideal location in close prox-imity to Tunjungan Plaza making it an ideal hubfor Surabaya’s economic and social activities “.

Mr. Charles Brookfield, President and CEOof Aston International addressed the AstonGroup’s gratitude towards PT. Indo Eka CitraAbadi for having chosen Aston as the operatorand underlined his confidence in the future ho-tels commercial viability.

The new Aston in Surabaya will join a stringof Aston Hotels set to open throughout the is-land of Java in the cities of Cirebon, Purwokerto,Yogyakarta, Solo, Bojonegoro, Madiun andMalang.

IBP/Courtesy of Aston

Friday, August 26, 20116 News

While the International SpaceStation has more than enough sup-plies, the accident threatens to de-lay the launch of the next crew, justone month away. That’s because theupper stage of the unmanned Soyuzrocket that failed is similar to theones used to launch astronauts tothe station.

In addition, three of the six spacestation residents who are due to re-turn to Earth in two weeks mightend up staying longer. NASA wantsa full staff to keep research going.The astronauts were just beginningto spend more time on scientificexperiments, now that the station iscomplete.

The Soyuz rocket soared right ontime from Kazakhstan, and every-thing seemed to be going perfectlyuntil just over five minutes into theflight. The third-stage ignited, butthe rocket commanded the engineto shut down because of a problem,

Reuters

ROME - Four Italian journalists were abducted by gunmen nearZawiyah in western Libya as they traveled toward Tripoli on Wednes-day, Italian officials said.

The four, who worked for Italian newspapers Corriere della Sera,La Stampa and Avvenire, are being held in an apartment in Tripoli,said Guido de Sanctis, the Italian consul in Benghazi, who was able tospeak to one of the journalists by phone.

“They are fine, even if everything happened in a very difficult at-mosphere,” de Sanctis told Reuters.

“They have been allowed to call Italy and they have been allowedto get calls from us. They were given food to eat when the Ramadanfast was broken.”

The four were seized near Zawiyah, on the coastal highway 50 km(30 miles) west of Tripoli by armed men who killed their driver, deSanctis said. The journalists were then handed to others, presumablyMuammar Gaddafi loyalists, he said.

The journalists believe the apartment they are being held in Tripoliis close to the Rixos hotel where foreign journalists who were trappedfor five days left unharmed earlier on Wednesday, de Sanctis said.

The journalist at Avvenire, the Italian bishops’ newspaper, wasalso allowed to call the newspaper and said they were well, Italianmedia said.

Italy’s government said it was closely monitoring the situation.AP Photo/Rossiya 24 TV Channel

In this image made from Rossiya 24 television channel a Soyuz rocket booster carryingProgress supply ship is launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednes-day, Aug. 24, 2011.

Russian supplyRussian supplyRussian supplyRussian supplyRussian supplyship for spaceship for spaceship for spaceship for spaceship for spacestation crashesstation crashesstation crashesstation crashesstation crashesAssociated Press Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A Russian space station supply ship crashed with a thunder-ous boom into Siberia minutes after launch Wednesday, rattling NASA and others in this newera without any shuttles to bail out the orbiting outpost. The rocket failed barely a month afterNASA’s final space shuttle flight.

said NASA’s space station programmanager, Mike Suffredini.

All contact with the spacecraftwas lost. Russian space officialsdeclared it a total failure after re-ports of wreckage falling with adeafening roar in a remote area ofSiberia.

“The explosion was so strongthat for 100 kilometers (60 miles)glass almost flew out of the win-dows,” Alexander Borisov, head ofthe Choisky region in Russia’s Altaiprovince, was quoted by state newsagency RIA Novosti as saying.Shuttle Atlantis’ final mission inJuly left the space station with ayear’s worth of provisions.

Without the shuttles, NASA nowis counting on Russia, Europe andJapan, as well as private U.S. busi-nesses, to keep the station stocked.The Russians had 3 tons of suppliesaboard the Progress ship that wasdestroyed. And it’s the Russians

who will be transporting astronautsback and forth until U.S. privateindustry can pick up the humanload.

NASA and its international part-ners want to keep the space stationrunning until at least 2020. At anews briefing, Suffredini said theSept. 22 launch of a new three-mancrew — one American and twoRussians — may need to be de-layed, depending on how the acci-dent investigation goes.

They are supposed to replaceAmerican Ronald Garan Jr. andRussians Andrey Borisenko andAlexander Samokutyaev who havebeen on the space station since Apriland are due to return to Earth onSept. 8. Their medical status willbe taken into account, as well astheir exposure to cosmic radiation,before any decision is made to keepthem in orbit an extra month or two,Suffredini said.

Four Italian journalistskidnapped in Libya

“There is no multiplier effectcaused by tourism growth due tohigh capital flight. The moneyearned from this leading sector isnot enjoyed by local communitybecause most investors are fromoutside,” said Ketut Rahyuda inDenpasar, Wednesday (Aug 24).

Meanwhile, the DepartmentHead of Economic Development,Faculty of Economics, UdayanaUniversity, Dr. IGW Murjana Yasa,said that Bali should begin to makeanticipation for suppressing thecapital flight. Today, Bali indeed re-quired investors, but Bali did nottoo much require raw materials andlabor from outside. “The keys liein the control against regional mi-grant population and economic net-works of Bali to prevent the leak-age of Bali’s economy,” he said.

He said that Bali was currentlyvery dependent on external produc-tion factors. The current raw mate-rials and workforce came from out-side Bali. It was certainly insepa-rable from of the coming of inves-tors whose networks lay outsideBali. Along Jalan Pantai Kuta or inthe BTDC area, for example, mostinvestors were from outside. Simi-larly, most perpetrators of handi-craft industry in Bali came fromoutside Bali, too.

To grow the justice-basedeconomy that could be enjoyed byall classes, it was required an effortto synergize the agricultural sectorwith tourism so both sectors couldgrow hand in hand. A lecturer inAgroindustrial Technology ofWarmadewa University, Dr. I GustiBagus Udayana, assessed that ag-ricultural sector in Bali had not re-ceived attention lately whereas the

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farming system known as subak hadbecome one of the most interestingattractions on the island.

“The results of tourism have notbeen able to prosper all walks of life.What government has done is notappropriate with the plan. Govern-ment has just given some dreams tothe public. All are merely dreamsand stand in the level of plan,” hesaid.

According to him, relevant agen-cies including government shouldfacilitate it. Travel agencies andhotels were directed to take advan-tage of the commodities producedby farmers such as crispy spinach,mushroom chips, corn chips andothers. By doing so, the agriculturalproducts could be purchased con-tinuously with a better added valuethan sold in unprocessed ingredi-ents. “For instance, tourists are takento see local farmers in action, travelagencies and their guests are happy,but farmers get nothing,” he said.

By synergizing both sectors,tourists would get what theywanted, while farmers could selltheir farming products. The matterof quality improvement could befacilitated by universities, whilegovernment would serve as facili-tator in the research and develop-ment.

“Resolving the agriculturalproblems must be undertakenfrom upstream to downstream.Among others, the market facil-ity should be set up first, and theagricultural products should beabsorbed by tourism where travelagencies were obliged to take theresults of the processed agricul-tural products,” he said. (par)

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Free mudik programs are amongothers offered by PT Jamu SidoMuncul, a major traditional herbalmedicine (jamu) producer and cel-lular phone operator PT Telkomsel,as well as by a political party, Na-tional Mandate Party (PAN).

On Thursday, at least 19,000Idul Fitri travelers who joined PTSido Muncul‘s free mudik‘s pro-gram were seen off by five minis-ters at the western parking lot of theJakarta Fair Ground.

Before they departed the travel-ers were entertained with musicperformance. The ‘Wali‘ band mu-sic group appeared with its popu-lar single songs on the stage dur-ing a function to see off 19,000 IdulFitri travelers in a free ‘mudik‘ (go-ing home) program here on Thurs-day.

The appearance of the Wali Bandgroup was greeted with cheers andapplause by the would-be travelersmost of whom were herb traders,hawkers and their families fromJakarta and its buffer towns.

Some of the travelers who weredominated by women and childrenalso took part and sang songs withthe artists on the stage.

Organized under the sponsorshipof herbal company PT SidoMuncul, the event was also enliv-ened by Piyu of ‘Padi‘ band music

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Women and children sit inside a bus as they return to their hometowns by free transport provided by oneof the poltical parties in Jakarta on August 23, 2011 a week before Eid al-Fitr celebrations.

Katingan water police spokes-man Adjunct CommissionerSudirman said here on Thursdaythat the speedboat carryingLebaran holiday travelers wasengulfed by huge waves atCemeti strait betweenKotawaringin Timur andKatingan districts at 8.30 localtime on Wednesday miring.

Sudirman said the six fatalitieswere made up of three women andthree men, respectively identifiedas Tugiyati, Sri Walujeng,Rumaningsih, and Kris, Rudi,Joni, while the missing passengerswere M.Nurhuda, Wika, and Nika.

Antara

SURABAYA - Deputy Trans-portation Minister BambangSusantono dispatched a free com-muter train for Lebaran holidaytravelers from Pasar Turi stationhere on Thursday.

Dispatching the Surabya toLamongan and Bojonegoro freetrain, the deputy transportationminister was accompanied byEast Java Governor Soekarwo,Surabya Mayor Tri Rismaharini,and railway transportation direc-tor general Tundjung Inderawan.

Associated Press

JAKARTA - The great grand-daughter of late Indonesian dic-tator Gen. Suharto is being sentto drug rehab.

Putri Aryanti Haryowibowowas ordered to spend one year ata drug rehabilitation centerThursday after being convicted ofusing illegal drugs.

South Jakarta District Courtheard that the 22-year-old was ar-

Thousands join freeThousands join freeThousands join freeThousands join freeThousands join free‘mudik‘ travel programs‘mudik‘ travel programs‘mudik‘ travel programs‘mudik‘ travel programs‘mudik‘ travel programsAntara

JAKARTA - While the tickets of various modes of transpirationare now difficult to obtain for ‘mudik‘ (home-bound trips), tens ofthousands of Idul Fitri travelers have opted to join free mudik pro-grams offered by a number of companies.

group and Sofie Vavita, wife ofPongki Jikustik.

Five ministers took part in bid-ding farewell to the departure of the19,000 travelers, namely ChiefPeoploe‘s Welfare Minister AgungLaksono, Women Empowermentand Child Protection MinisterLinda Amalia Sari Gumelar, Trans-portation Minister Freddy Numberiand Manpower Minister MuhaiminIskandar.

Also present were Meutia Hatta(presidential adviser), Deputy Po-lice Chief Com. Gen NananSoekarna, Jakarta Governor FauziBowo and Director of PT SidoMuncul Irwan Hidayat.

Some 300 buses were providedby PT Jamu Sido Muncul, a majortraditional herbal medicine (jamu)producer, to take mostly jamu ven-dors and their families, toYogyakarta, Cirebon, Kuningan(West Java), Tegal, Banjarnegara,Solo, and Wonogiri (Central Java),free of charge.

The government appreciatedprivate companies which organizedfree “mudik” and hoped more com-panies would follow the step nextyear. “Hopefully, in the future morecompanies will organize free`mudik`,” Coordinating Ministerfor People`s Welfare AgungLaksono said.

Minister Linda Gumelar mean-while in her remarks urged PT SidoMuncul to provide health insuranceand social security for jamu vendorsand their families, in order to stimu-late them to be more productive inmarketing jamu. Free “mudik” pro-gram could help protect women andchildren in general vulnerableamidst big crowds of home-boundtravelers.

The same program was also of-fered by cellular phone operator PTTelkomsel which on Thursday alsodispatched at least 1,000 Idul Fitritravelers for free using the trainmode of transportation.

The 1,000 Idul Fitri travelers wenthome towns through PT Telkomsel‘sMudik for free program or ‘MudikTelkomselSiaga Gratis.

“TelkomSiaga Mudik For Freeprogram is a form of appreciation ofTelkomsel for its customers and asynergy with state-owned railwaycompany PT Kreta Api Indonesia(KAI),” Telkomsel`s Vice Presidentfor Jakarta and West Java VenusianaPapasi said after bidding farewell tothe travelers at Gambir Railway sta-tion here on Thursday.

Vanusiana said the travelers weretransported by 136 coaches OF theexecutive Agro Anggrek, Bima andSembrani trains, with the farthestdestination of Surabaya in East Java.

She said that Telkomsel in its‘Mudik TelkomselSiaga for free‘ for2011 dispatched 5,000 Idul Fitri cus-tomer travelers who were trans-ported by five modes of transporta-tion, namely trains, ships, buses, carsand airplanes.

Six drown inSix drown inSix drown inSix drown inSix drown inspeed boatspeed boatspeed boatspeed boatspeed boataccidentaccidentaccidentaccidentaccidentAntara

SAMPIT - At least 6 people drowned and 3 others went missingafter Anugerah Jaya speed boat with 40 passengers on board cap-sized in Central Kalimantan on Wednesday, police said.

The bodies of all fatalities havebeen evacuated to Pegatan,Katingan district in CentralKalimantan.

Sudirman said the ill-fated speedboat, skippered by Aliansyah, leftMentawai Baru Hilir inKotawaringin Timur district at 7 inthe morning for Pegatan in inKatingan district but 90 afterwardit was hit by big waves and thencapsized at Cemeti strait.

As of Thursday the joint rescueworkers from Kotawaringin waterpolice and military officials werestill searching for the missing pas-sengers of the ill-fated speed boat.

Suharto’s great granddaughtersent to drug rehab

rested in March after being foundin a Jakarta hotel taking crystalmethamphetamines.

Suharto oversaw one of themost brutal dictatorships of the20th century. He was ousted in1998 and died 10 years later.

This was the second drug caseinvolving his family. In 2000,Putri’s mother Gusti Maya FirantiNoor was sentenced to eightmonths in jail for possessing am-phetamines.

Minister dispatches freeholiday train from Surabaya

Bambang Susantono dis-patched the free train to mark theoperation of fully air conditionedIndonesian diesel train (KRDI-AC) economic class.

The Lebaran holiday travelersfrom Surabaya will be transportedfree by the KRDI to Lamonganand Bojonegoro from August 25until September 9, 2011.

“We are grateful we can finallylaunch the fully air conditionedeconomic diesel train in our effortto strengthen the Lebaran trans-portation fleet,” BambangSusantono said.

8 InternationalFriday, August 26, 2011

Bali Today

Implementation of such reli-gious ceremony was intended toinvoke the safety of devotees. Se-ries of the makotek tradition wascommenced with a ceremony pick-ing up the lord to Dalem Templeand then resumed with encirclingthe village and came to an end atPuseh Temple.

Each male villager carried astick along of 2.5 to 3 meters. Theupper end of the stick or the so-called wooden spear was nicely em-bellished with foliages. Those vil-lagers then tightened their spear.Subsequently, they respectively at-tempted to lay down the spear oftheir opponent by mutually push-ing the spear.

Position of all spears were fac-ing upwards, forming a cone. Well,occasionally a young man climbed

Archeological protection throughmaintenance, preservation and con-servation, even through reconstruc-tion as well, has turned to be an in-ternational problem not only today,but actually in the future. Such mat-ters were indicated by the activitiesof UNESCO as an international in-stitution, who concerned with themost important of world cultural heri-tage e.g. archeological remains.UNESCO have done a lot of excel-lent work, which need a reasonablebudgets, expert, equipment etc. andthe best example is the safeguardingof Borobudur temple. As theUNESCO member, our governmentsare concerned and responsible to pro-tect our monuments for our nationalinterest, such as Borobudur temple.

Based on the development of ar-chaeological studies and the relatedstudies especially in field of archaeo-logical protection, now such prob-lems is a technical matter and besedon scientific consideration. Facingsuch problem , Indonesian govern-ment have done a number of works

Sole Makotek Traditionat Munggu Village

Munggu customary village, Mengwi subdistrict, had justheld a matchless tradition named makotek concurring withthe Kuningan Festivity on Saturday (Dec 18). The traditionorganized around the Munggu area was vigorously witnessedby thousands of spectators both of the local community andforeign tourists.

to the top of the spear and tried tohold the fort for some time. At thattime, other villagers would keep onpushing the spear one another untilthe cone leaned in one direction andbegan to fall apart. All participantswere absorbed in pleasurable atmo-sphere, though some of them werehit by the spear.

According to local communityleader, makotek or ngerebek traditionhad been performed through the gen-erations since 1932. Originally, themakotek tradition made use of ironspear. However, in harmony withpassage of time and avoiding any in-jury among the participants, since1948 it had began to be replaced bywooden spear, namely made of pulettree. Meanwhile, the original spearwas preserved and stored in the localtemple. (BTN/kmb)

Archeological protection in Bali and the role of the societye.g the safeguarding of borobudurtample {in cooperation with{UNESCO}, Prambanan tample,Demak mosque, and other tamplesin Bali namely Pura Besakih ,PuraMengening , Pura Pegulingan , PuraTaman Sari etc. In this case, our gov-ernment as one of the ASEAN coun-tries have carried out a coordinateprogrammers through SPAFA (Subproject of archaeology and fine art)to find out the effective ways andmeans dealing with the problems ofarchaeological protection .

Discussing the archaeological pro-tection in Bali, it should be remem-bered that Bali, even a very small is-land, but has a lot of archaeologicalmonuments, which most of them be-longed to living monuments. Amongthem are a number of Hindu tample,spreated nearly in the island, as wellas Hindu statues, inscription etc. Asthe holy monuments for Balinese so-ciety, so the Balinese have the respon-sibility to take care their monumentsas their religious function Officially,archaeological protection in Bali is

done by Bali Office for Preservationof archaeological and Historical Heri-tage (Kantor Bali Suaka pening-gelang Sejarah dan Purbakala Bali)in coordination and corporation withthe local government and local peopleas well. This office have done a lot ofarchaeological reconstruction, but notyet covered the whole of them, be-cause of the limited budgets etc.

In case of protecting the archaeo-logical monuments in Bali, Bali Of-fice for Preservation of archaeologi-cal and Historical Heritage has givena technical guidance to the localpeople for reconstructing their monu-ments and financial support as well.As the governments have a very lim-ited budget for these works, and asthe owner of the living monuments,so the Balinese people have their re-ligious tasks and responsibility to pro-tect sacred monuments. In Bali gen-erally each village have three villagetemples named Pura Kyayangan Tigae.g Pura Puseh,Pura Desa (sometimecombined with Pura Bale Agung ) andPura dalem. Among them are be-

longed to archaeological monumentsand frequently in these temple a num-ber of archaeological monuments arepreserved such as statues, inscriptionetc. It is important to note here thatthe unity of the Balinese society istightly bounded by the villagetemples and social organization.

Based on religious reasons, actu-ality Balinese society has a strongspirit to keep their monuments in awell condition as holy monuments.Since a very long time the Balinesepeople have maintained and restoredtheir monuments in a very traditionalways, based on their own religiouswill and spirit, and for this purposethey collected the materials, evenreasonable money from the villagemembers. The village members, es-pecially the skilled members (Ba-linese, undagi) did the restorationand led by the village leader, with-out any payment (Balinese,ngayah). This mutual model ofworks named gotong royong is oneof the Indonesian spirits, which hasbeen developed since the early time

until today.It is a remarkable fact since the

early time Balinese people havedone the archeological protection intheir traditional ways, which reallyshould be regarded as a communitybased conservation. The most impor-tant meaning of these facts is the Ba-linese have done their religious task,which still continued from one gen-eration to next generation and stillretained until today. Therefore thesefacts indicated that the Balinesepeople from time to time haveplayed important role for protectingtheir archeological monuments, forworshipping their ancestor’s spirit,the Hindu Trinity as well as theirlocal deities. It is hoped that this reli-gious traditions should be keep inpeople’s mind and increased, nowand in the near future for the safe-guarding the archeological monu-ments and its cultural values. Throughthis way it is hoped that our culturalidentity could be preserved in thepeople’s mind for facing the forth-coming modern world. (IBP/Doc)

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Wajik(Rice Flour Cake with Palm Sugar)

Overview:There are a couple of variations on this popular cake, which

can be stored in the refrigerator for several days. It is nor-mally served at room temperature, but can also be served warmtopped with coconut milk. Another variations are to add ripediced jackfruits (or substitute with sultanas) after the rice ispartially cooked.

Ingredients:1 cup glutinous white rice1 cup water1 pandan leaf½ cup palm sugar syrup¼ cup thick coconut milkPinch of salt

Preparation:Rinse rice very well under running water for 2 minutes and

soak for 4 hours. Rinse again until water becomes clear. Placerice, 1 cup of water and pandan leaf in rice cooker or steamerand cook for approx 20 minutes, or until liquid has evapo-rated.

Add palm sugar syrup, coconut milk and salt, and steamfor 15 minutes. Spread rice evenly 2.5 cm thick on tray andallow to cool to room temperature. Wet a sharp knife withwarm and cut into even squares to serve.

Helpful hint:to speed up the soaking process, pour boiling water over

the rice and let stand for 1 hour. Drain, then add another lot ofboiling water and soak for another 30 minutes. If you are us-ing a steamer to cook the rice, line the bottom with a wet clothto prevent the rice grains from falling through.(www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Sate Lilit(Minced Seafood Satay)

Overview:This probably the most delicious satay you will ever en-

counter. The delicate flavors of the shrimp and fish are greatlyimproved if you can find spears of fresh lemongrass to use asskewers, and if you can cook them over a fire of coconut husksrather than charcoal. Nonetheless, even with wooden skewersand a standard charcoal grill, you will have people comingback more.

Ingredients:600 gr skinned boneless snapper fillet1 cup freshly grated coconut or1½ cups moistened desiccated coconut½ cup seafood spice paste5 fragrant lime leaves, chopped1 tsp black peppercorns, finely crushed1 tsp salt3-5 bird’s eye chilies, very finely chopped2 tbsp palm sugarLemon grass or satay skewers

Preparation:1. Mince fish fillet very finely in a food processor or with a

chopper.2. Add all other ingredients & mix well.3. Mould a heaped tablespoon full of this mixture around a

wooden skewer or over trimmed stalks of lemon grass andgrill over charcoal until golden brown.

Note: This recipe won’t work with frozen fish.(www.baliguide.com/balifood)

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

People wait for a bus at Ubung bus station in Denpasar on the resort island of Bali on August24, 2011 a week before Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Millions of Indonesian Muslims are headinghome to their villages to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holidays with their relatives marking the endof the fasting month of Ramadan.

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For those who love to go hiking or go to themountainous area, Bali is famous for its beautifulmountainous scenery. Kintamani for example, is themost favorite tourist destinations in Bali with theactive volcano of mount Batur and beautiful lake.

Kintamani is surrounded by the captivating na-ture and there are six ancient villages around caul-dron of Batur Lake which is often conceived byBali Age Village. The local people from these BaliAge villages own the unique cultures, houses andlife style. Kintamani Area is consisted of someVillages those are Kedisan Village, Buahan,Abang, Trunyan, Songan, South Batur, MiddleBatur, North Batur, Sukawana and Kintamani Vil-lage . The total of resident in these area are about15 thousand who are mostly working as farmer,merchant, or work at industrial tourism.

Mount Batur is located at Kintamani and it haserupted about 24 times since year 1800 and stillactive up to now. Since the mount erupting, it hasimpacted to the local society life around thismount, like removing altar (Temple), improve orrepairing the village and re-arrange the tradition.Lake Batur is the biggest lake in Bali and func-tioning as irrigation source to all farmers around

Kintamaniit and it is also for all Bali society generally.Kintamani area has been founded some lodging,hotels and restaurants which are located inKintamani and Penelokan Village. It is a famoustourist place because Kintamani area owns thebeautiful panorama and it is encircled by the coldatmosphere.

Kintamani is beautifully seen at the day timearound 10:00 am until 15:00 pm especially havingfine weather where entire Kintamani area will beable to be seen clearly. Generally, all tourists whopay a visit to this place will arrive in the day timewhere they can enjoy the panorama or enjoy thelunch in the local restaurant with lake view. Mostlyrestaurants at Kintamani generally own very beau-tiful view where tourist merging into their lunch inthis restaurant and meanwhile enjoy the panorama.

Kintamani is located in Kintamani sub district,Bangli Regency and about 50 km from DenpasarTown or about 2 hours by car. All roads are gener-ally in good condition to access to this place. Thefog will descend and blanket entire area ofKintamani with cold temperature in particular atlate afternoon until the whole of night. The mostamazing panorama at Kintamani can be seen in themorning time, when the sunrise emerges on thesurface of earth precisely on the mount Batur.

Friday, August 26, 2011 11

BUSINESS

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A surge indemand for autos and aircraft droveorders for long-lasting manufac-tured goods higher in July, easingfears that the U.S. economy mightbe on the verge of another recession.

The rebound in the auto indus-try helped offset a decline in ordersfor most other factory goods.

Stocks rose after the better-than-expected report showed the biggestincrease in durable-goods orderssince March, when the Japan earth-quake disrupted supply chains andslowed auto production.

The Dow Jones industrial aver-age jumped about 100 points afterthe report came out. It later gaveback some of those gains to be upmore than 40 points in the after-noon. Broader indexes were mixed.

Jobs, who fought and survived arare form of pancreatic cancer andrevolutionized the technology arenawith the iPhone and the iPad in thepast four years, is deemed the heartand soul of a company that this monthbriefly became the most valuable inAmerica.

“I have always said if there evercame a day when I could no longermeet my duties and expectations asApple’s CEO, I would be the first tolet you know. Unfortunately, that dayhas come,” Jobs, who takes on the newposition of chairman, said in a shortletter announcing his resignation.

The letter and a separate terse,somewhat cryptic statement fromApple raised more questions than itanswered about Jobs’ health and thefuture of the company.

While it’s unlikely that his depar-ture as CEO will derail Apple’s am-bitious product-launch roadmap in thenear term, there are concerns aboutwhether the company would stay acreative force to be reckoned withbeyond the next year or so withoutits founder and visionary at the helm.

That is why Apple’s stock droppedas much as 7 percent in after-hourstrading when Jobs’ departure wasannounced.

In the company statement, Appleco-lead director Art Levinson on be-

Steve Jobs quits as Apple CEO, Cook takes overSteve Jobs quits as Apple CEO, Cook takes overSteve Jobs quits as Apple CEO, Cook takes overSteve Jobs quits as Apple CEO, Cook takes overSteve Jobs quits as Apple CEO, Cook takes overReuters

SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES - Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple Inc on Wednes-day and passed the reins to his right-hand man Tim Cook, saying he could no longer fulfill theduties in a bombshell announcement that raised fears his health has deteriorated further.

half of the board praised Jobs’ “ex-traordinary vision and leadership” and“countless contributions to Apple’ssuccess”, saying he would continueto serve the company with “uniqueinsights, creativity and inspiration.”

However, the statement, whichalso talked about Cook’s outstandingperformance, said nothing about Jobs’health.

His battle with pancreatic cancer,which has stretched over severalyears, has been of deep concern toApple fans, investors and thecompany’s board. Over the past twoyears, even board members have con-fided to friends their concern thatJobs, in his quest for privacy, wasn’tbeing forthcoming with directorsabout the true condition of his health.

Jobs has been on medical leavesince January 17, with his duties be-ing filled by Cook, who was chiefoperating officer.

Jobs spent all Wednesday meetingwith board members and top manag-ers at Apple’s headquarters at 1 Infi-nite Loop in Cupertino, and plans toremain active in his new role, a sourceclose to Jobs told Reuters. A secondsource said Jobs will remain on theboard of Walt Disney Co.

Still, some industry insiders ex-press concern that Jobs’ has clearlysignaled he is too ill to keep up the

punishing pace of a top executive job.The 56-year-old Jobs had briefly

emerged from medical leave inMarch to unveil the latest iPad andlater attended a dinner hosted byPresident Barack Obama for technol-ogy leaders in Silicon Valley. But hisoften-gaunt appearance had sparkedquestions about how bad his illnesswas and his ability to continue atApple.

In each of Jobs’ three health-re-lated absences, Cook has taken overthe helm. But the 50-year-old Ala-bama native, a former Compaq ex-ecutive and an acknowledged mas-ter of supply-chain management, re-mains largely untested in WallStreet’s view.

That’s partly why, despite Cookbeing viewed as a safe bet to runApple’s sprawling empire, some stillthink his boss will be very badlymissed. One Silicon Valley CEO,who declined to be identified becauseof the sensitive issues involved, saidthe tone of Jobs’ statement indicatedhis health might be worse than pub-licly known.

Jobs has earned a reputation forcommanding every aspect of opera-tions - from day-to-day running tobroad strategic decisions - suggest-ing he would not have given up thejob if he had a choice.

Higher durable-goods orders ease economic worriesOverall orders for durable goods

rose 4 percent last month, the Com-merce Department said Wednesday.

The report “reinforces other datathat the economy wasn’t at seriousrisk of recession through July,” saidDavid Resler, chief U.S. economistat Nomura Securities. Retail salesand industrial production also heldup well last month, he said.

The data did offer a cautionarysignal: a key category that tracksbusiness investment plans fell 1.5percent, the biggest drop in sixmonths. That suggests businessesare pulling back on spending. Or-ders in all other major categoriesdropped, including computers, elec-tronic goods, and machinery.

Resler and other economists alsowarned that the turmoil in the stockmarkets could cause businesses topull back further this month.

“It remains to be seen whetherfirms cancelled or postponedplanned orders,” Paul Dales, aneconomist at Capital Economics,said in note to clients.

A durable good is a product thatis expected to last at least threeyears. Economists view the reportcautiously because orders tend tofluctuate from month to month.

Excluding transportation goods,orders rose just 0.7 percent. It wasthe third straight gain in so-calledcore orders. Demand for primarymetals surged 10.3 percent, themost since last November. Some ofthat increase was likely due tohigher prices for metals such ascopper.

Overall, orders rose to a season-ally adjusted $201.5 billion in July.That is 35 percent higher than therecession low hit in April 2009. But

it is still 18 percent below the levelin December 2007, when the reces-sion began.

Demand for autos and auto partsjumped 11.5 percent, the most ineight years. Aircraft orders, a vola-tile category, soared 43.4 percent,after falling 24 percent in June.

Auto production is reboundingafter a slowdown caused by the Ja-pan earthquake. The Federal Re-serve reported last week that fac-tory output rose 0.6 percent in July,mostly because of an increase inauto production.

A big order by American Airlineshelped boost the aircraft sector.American Airlines ordered 100 newBoeing 737 planes with fuel-effi-cient engines in July.

Manufacturing has been a keysource of economic growth sincethe recession officially ended in

June 2009. But it began to slumpthis spring, along with the broadereconomy.

Orders fell in April and June,partly because of supply disrup-tions stemming from the March 11earthquake in Japan. And a spikein gas prices earlier this year cutinto consumer spending, reducingdemand for big-ticket items, suchas computers, appliances and fur-niture.

Investors hope that Federal Re-serve Chairman Ben Bernanke an-nounces another round of bondpurchases on Friday in a highly an-ticipated speech in Jackson Hole,Wyoming. The bond purchases,known as quantitative easing, aredesigned to keep interest rates lowand boost stock prices. But econo-mists don’t expect Bernanke tolaunch any major efforts.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivers the keynote address at the2004 Worldwide Developers Conference June 28, 2004 in SanFrancisco, California.

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Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Like DavidLetterman, Ashton Kutcher isn’t afraid ofa little fatwa humor. Kutcher taped anappearance for Letterman’s talk showWednesday, and the actor came on stagewearing a helmet and a bulletproof vestprinted with the phrase, “Not Dave.”

Last week, a contributor to a jihadistwebsite posted a threat of violence againstLetterman because the comedian had made

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Amy Winehouse is still hittingmusic milestones after her untimely death lastmonth. Britain’s Official Charts Company saysWinehouse’s Grammy-award winning “Back toBlack” has become the best-selling album in theU.K. in the 21st century.

The company, which tracks music sales in theU.K., said Wednesday that “Back to Black” over-

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A brawny B-action picture with a gorgeous, grace-ful woman wreaking havoc at its center: Yup,“Colombiana” is a Luc Besson movie.

The director of “La Femme Nikita” and “The FifthElement” serves as co-writer and producer here, butthis is very much a spin-off of his brand, a continua-tion of the kind of stereotype- and gravity-defyingcharacters he’s made his name on. “Colombiana” feelsmore hammy and muscular, though — but knowinglyso, and that’s what makes it solid, late-summer es-capist fun.

Zoe Saldana stars as Cataleya, who saw her par-ents killed in front of her when she was just a 9-year-old schoolgirl living in the slums of Bogota. Playedas a child by the intense Amandla Stenberg in herfilm debut, she escapes by performing a dizzying se-ries of parkour moves across rooftops and throughwindows before making her way to the U.S. Embassyto vomit up the microchip her father entrusted withher.

No, the film from French director Olivier Mega-ton (“Transporter 3”) is not subtle. As the productionnotes so helpfully inform us, Megaton “takes his namefrom his birthday: The 6th of August 1965 is the 20thanniversary of the dropping of the Hiroshima A-bomb.” But certainly you weren’t looking for that,now, were you?

Anyway, 15 years later, with the help of her UncleEmilio (Cliff Curtis), Cataleya has become a highlyefficient professional assassin, but she still seeks re-venge against the drug kingpin (Beto Benites) and hisright-hand man (Jordi Molla) who are responsible forher parents’ deaths. The mark she leaves on her vic-tims’ bodies — a drawing of the orchid she’s namedfor — is a message for her childhood enemies but italso sparks the curiosity of the FBI agent who thinkshe’s tracking a serial killer. (Lennie James serves asthe film’s lone source of dignity and calm in the role.)

Over-the-top bad guys spew generically menacinglines and hot women parade around in bikinis and lin-gerie. The catlike Saldana herself kicks butt in little morethan tank tops and short-shorts, and prowls around dur-ing a thrilling jail hit in the kind of skin-tight body suitshe might have worn to do motion-capture work for“Avatar.” Her character also likes to suck lollipops whileshe’s cleaning out her guns; again, subtle.

The action, meanwhile, is totally preposterous, butthat’s what you pay your money to see. Cataleya seemsto be both omniscient and omnipresent, capable of arm-ing or disarming any device, adept at crawling throughor climbing over any obstacle in her path without eversmudging her sexy eyeliner. In fact, there’s only onescene where she seems to be in any real danger: a vis-ceral, bruising sequence of hand-to-hand combat fea-turing towels and toothbrushes reminiscent of the third“Bourne” movie.

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Winehouse album becomescentury’s bestseller

took James Blunt’s 2005 debut album to claimthe title this week.

Winehouse’s second album had jumped to theNo. 1 spot on the charts shortly after the soul singerwas found dead in her London town house on July23. An initial post-mortem failed to determinecause of death, and Winehouse’s family said Tues-day that toxicology tests showed she had no ille-gal drugs in her system when she died. An inquestinto Winehouse’s death begins in October.

Artist JohanAnderssonposes along-side hispainting ofBritish singerAmyWinehouse atthe LockTavern inLondon’sCamdenTown,Tuesday,Aug., 23, 2011.

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In this photo provided by CBS, “Two and a Half Men” star Ashton Kutcher, left,pokes fun at host David Letterman on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 in New York.

Ashton Kutcher teasesLetterman about fatwa

fun of al-Qaida leaders on a previous show.Letterman, back from vacation Monday,played the threat for monologue laughs.

During Wednesday’s taping, Lettermanasked Kutcher if his bowtie was bullet-proof. The actor replied that “you can’tbe too careful” sitting next to a guy fac-ing a threat.

Kutcher joined CBS’ “Two and a HalfMen” after Charlie Sheen was fired. Heand Letterman predicted success for therevamped sitcom.

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Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. hasdeveloped technology that enablessolar cells to be applied to build-ings, vehicles and even clothing inthe same way that paint is applied.The breakthrough means that theplaces where energy from the suncan be harvested are almost limit-less.

The new solar cells utilize car-bon compounds which, when driedand solidified, act as semiconduc-tors and generate electricity in re-action to being exposed to light.Most existing solar cell technologyrequires crystalline silicon to besandwiched between glass sheetsand positioned on the roofs ofhomes and office buildings, or in

There’s been a bit of chatter aboutit in recent days, and now ResearchIn Motion (RIM) has confirmed de-tails of what it’s calling its “musicsharing and discovery service.”

Called BBM Music (BlackBerryMessenger Music), the cloud-basedmusic service will cost users $4.99a month and enable subscribers toshare songs through the BlackBerryinstant messaging service.

Details of BBM Music were re-leased today in a statement issuedby the Ontario-based company.Users can choose from millions ofsongs from leading record compa-nies such as Universal, Sony Mu-sic, Warner and EMI.

The statement explains that

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NEW YORK — Scientistshave made a promising advancefor controlling dengue fever, atropical disease spread by mos-quito bites. They’ve rapidly re-placed mosquitoes in the wildwith skeeters that don’t spreadthe dengue virus.

More than 50 million peoplea year get the dengue virus frombeing bitten by infected mosqui-toes in tropical and subtropicalareas, including Southeast Asia.It can cause debilitating high fe-ver, severe headaches, and painin the muscles and joints, andlead to a potentially fatal com-plication. There’s no vaccine orspecific treatment.

Some scientists have been try-ing to fight dengue by limiting mos-quito populations. That was the goalin releasing genetically modifiedmosquitoes last year at sites in Ma-laysia and the Cayman Islands.Australian scientists took a differ-ent tack, they report in Thursday’s

BBM Music service unveiled by RIMshould you sign up, you’ll be ableto build a personal music profilewith 50 of your top tracks. Whenyour BBM friends sign up, they canjoin your BBM Music Community.Up to 50 tracks from your personalprofile are then shared with mem-bers of your community. The morefriends in your community, the big-ger your music collection becomes,as their favorites are available foryou to listen to at any time.

Users can easily discover musicthat their BBM Music friends arelistening to and can also commenton their friends’ songs and playlists.“Enjoy a truly social community-based music experience,” the state-ment implores.

Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO at Research In Motion, said ofthe new service: “More than 45 mil-lion customers already love the so-cial communication benefits deliv-ered through BBM and we arethrilled to be extending the experi-ence into a uniquely social and in-teractive music service.”

He added: “We have partneredwith leading music companies toprovide a ‘full track’ music sharingand discovery experience that willprovide users with quality music ondemand and allow them to connectwith friends on a whole new level.”A closed beta trial of the BBMMusic service begins Thursday inCanada, the US and the UK.

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This 2006 photo made available by the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito ac-quiring a blood meal from a human host at the Centers for Dis-ease Control in Atlanta.

Specialized mosquitoesmay fight tropical disease

issue of the journal Nature.First, they showed that Aedes

aegypti mosquitoes, the chief carri-ers of the dengue virus, resistspreading that virus if they are in-fected with a particular kind of bac-teria. Then they tested whether theseresistant mosquitoes could displacetheir ordinary cousins in the wild,thus reducing the number of den-gue-spreading mosquitoes.

The resistant mosquitoes havean advantage in reproduction. Re-sistant females can mate with ei-ther resistant or ordinary mosqui-toes, and all their offspring will beresistant. But when ordinary fe-males mate with a resistant male,none of the offspring survive.

For the experiment, scientistsreleased more than 140,000 resis-tant mosquitoes over 10 weeks ineach of two isolated communitiesnear Cairns in northeastern Aus-tralia, starting last January. Bymid-April, monitoring found thatresistant mosquitoes made up 90percent to 100 percent of the wildpopulation.

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As Japan seeks to optimize its use of environment-friendly energysources in the wake of the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11earthquake and tsunami, a company here may just have come upwith a major breakthrough: spray-on solar cells.

space-consuming “solar parks.”Scientists have been attempting

to increase both the energy-gather-ing efficiency of solar panels andmake them easier to install and use.

Mitsubishi Chemical is the firstcompany to create prototype spray-on solar cells, which at present havea practical conversion level of 10.1percent of light energy into electric-ity.

That figure is still some way be-hind the 20 percent that is standardin traditional crystalline silicon so-lar cells, but the firm expects to beable to improve the efficiency ratioto 15 percent by 2015 and is aim-ing to eventually reach 20 percent.

The company said the new

painted-on solar cells would be par-ticularly effective when applied toround or curved structures, such aschimneys or the noise-reductionbarriers that line many highways inbuilt-up areas of Japan.

It could also be applied to the ex-teriors of cars and theoretically usedto help power the vehicle and evento such flexible surfaces as cloth-ing.

The sprayed-on solar cells areless than 1 millimeter thick — farthinner than existing solar cell tech-nology — and weigh less than one-tenth of crystalline solar panels ofthe same size, the company said.

Mitsubishi Chemical said itplans to work with domesticcarmakers to build a car coated withthe new solar cells with the aim ofgiving the vehicle sufficient powerto travel 10 km after being exposedto sunlight for two hours.

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The achievement should aidthe Londoners in trying to attractnew recruits in the final days ofthe August transfer window asWenger attempts to fill the voidleft by the loss of Cesc Fabregasand Samir Nasri to Barcelona andManchester City. The Frenchmanwas giving little away but Lillewinger Eden Hazard, West HamUnited midfielder Scott Parker,Blackburn Rovers defender ChrisSamba and Bolton Wandererscentre back Gary Cahill have allbeen linked in the media.

“We work very hard (onsignings). I have said that manytimes, but we have many playersout as well so I think we can bevery positive as well,” Wengersaid in Udine. “There may besignings but I cannot give youany names tonight. I cannot lieand say we sign somebody to-

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Arsenal’s Robin Van Persie, center, celebrates with teammates Aaron Ramsey, left, CarlJenkinson (back to camera) and Theo Walcott, right, after scoring against Udinese duringa Champions League qualifying playoff second leg soccer match in Udine, Italy, Wednes-day, Aug. 24, 2011.

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LONDON - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was renewing his quest for major signings onThursday after his side battled through to the Champions League group stages and tried tomove on from an otherwise horrid start to the campaign. The 2-1 win at Udinese on Wednesdayset up a 3-1 aggregate victory in the Champions League playoff and meant the 2006 runners-upmade the group stages for the 14th season in a row.

morrow.”One of the big positives for

Arsenal from their trip to north-eastern Italy was the performanceof a signing they have alreadymade — former Lille forwardGervinho. The Ivorian was sentoff on his Premier League debutand had so far failed to convincethe Arsenal fai thful but heshowed superb pace, guile andcomposure on Wednesday as heset up both goals.

He helped an inexperiencedside belie their patchy early do-mestic form and bravely fightback after a first-half onslaughtput the hosts ahead. Robin vanPersie and Theo Walcott nettedfollowing Antonio Di Natale’sopener whi le Arsenal goal -keeper Wojc iech Szczesnymade a stunning penalty savefrom the Italian.

It was a small but hugely im-portant step to redemption forWenger, who has revolutionisedthe club in his 15-year reign buthas been criticised like never be-fore after six trophyless seasons.“We live in a society where ev-erybody has an opinion on every-thing. I’m like somebody whoflies a plane for 30 years and Ihave to accept that somebody cancome into the cockpit and thinkshe can fly the plane better than Ido,” he said.

“But that’s part of our job andwe have to accept that. I justwould like to say that the club isin overall a very strong position.”

The financial benefi ts ofreaching the group stage plus thevast transfer fees for Fabregasand Nasri could at least herald aspending spree rarely seen byWenger in the coming days.

Reuters

LONDON - Manchester Unitedmanager Alex Ferguson has ended hislong boycott of BBC interviews, thePremier League champions said onThursday.

Ferguson stopped speakingto Britain’s national broad-caster both on television andradio in 2004 after it ran aprogramme about his son Ja-son, then a soccer agent.

“Sir Alex Ferguson andthe BBC have decided toput behind them the diffi-culties which led to SirAlex feeling unable to ap-pear on BBC programmes,”a club statement said.

“This follows a meetingbetween Sir Alex and theBBC’s director general, MarkThompson, and BBC North di-rector Peter Salmon, and the is-sues have been resolved to the sat-isfaction of both parties.”

Ferguson faced a series of es-calating fines for the boycott,which went against protocolwhereby managers and playersmust make themselves available tobroadcasters who pay to covermatches.

No details were given on the rea-sons why Ferguson has changed hisstance.

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Spain’s football league said on Thursday it is “optimistic” of reach-ing a deal to end a players’ strike after marathon talks stretching intothe early morning. The strike over unpaid players’ wages delayed thestart to the lucrative Liga — the first delay to the season in 27 years —and now clubs are trying to stop the action spreading to a second matchday.

Players’ and clubs’ representatives broke off 12 hours of talks inthe early morning, citing exhaustion, and were meeting again Thurs-day morning in the hope of snapping the deadlock. “The importantthing is that we have been here bringing the positions closer together,”said the president of the Professional Football League (LFP), Jose LuisAstiazaran.

“I hope we will be able to cancel this strike, if we have the capacityand opportunity to reach a deal,” he said. A visibly tired Astiazaran,whose LFP represents the clubs, said the two sides had advanced inthe overnight talks but had decided to take a rest before resuming.

“I am fairly optimistic that tomorrow we will carry on working andtry to reach an agreement,” he said. Players, too, reported progress.“We have been working many hours and those hours have led to ad-vances,” Luis Gil, spokesman of the Association of Spanish Footballers(AFE), told reporters as he emerged from the talks before dawn.

“I think we are working very hard. We will be here as many hoursas it takes.” Players in the first and second divisions — including starssuch as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo — went on strike on thefirst match day last Saturday.

The AFE says 200 players in the top two divisions are owed a totalof about 50 million euros ($72 million) in unpaid wages from cash-strapped clubs, some of which are in bankruptcy protection.

The AFE is demanding a wage guarantee and an agreement thatplayers be allowed to break their contracts if they are not paid forthree consecutive months, a proposal rejected by the league.

Spanish league ‘optimistic’of ending strike

Man United’s Fergusonends BBC boycott

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Bolt was the main attraction at theevent which drew more than 500 me-dia to a suburban “cultural centre” andthey waited patiently as Jamaican of-ficials opined in front of a banner pro-claiming the Caribbean island “Thefastest country in the world”.

Questions to the other Jamaican ath-letes were few and perfunctory as re-porters kept their powder dry fordouble world and Olympic championBolt’s appearance on the stage. Then,casually, sprinter Michael Frater let slip

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NEW YORK - Serbia’s world number one Novak Djokovicwas named Wednesday, as expected, as the top seed for the Au-gust 29-September 11 U.S. Open. It marked the first timeDjokovic was seeded number one for the year’s final grand slam.

Djokovic has never won the U.S. Open but has been in greatform this year, losing just two matches all season and winningthe Australian Open and Wimbledon.

Defending U.S. Open champion Rafa Nadal was seeded sec-ond as tournament organizers stuck with their practice of fol-lowing the official world rankings to decide the seedings.

Switzerland’s Roger Federer, a five-time U.S. Open winner,was seeded third, ahead of Britain’s Andy Murray, the onlyplayer in the top four yet to win a grand slam.

There were two other former champions among the 32 seeds.Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro, the 2009 winner, was listed 18thwhile American Andy Roddick, the 2003 victor, was seeded 21st.

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DOHA - Banned Asian soccerpresident Mohamed Bin Hammamhas launched an appeal against hislifetime ban by FIFA but said he didnot expect to win his case just yet de-spite the decision being ‘hugelyflawed.’ The 62-year-old Qatari wasgiven a lifetime ban from soccer bythe world governing body last monthafter being found guilty of bribingCaribbean officials during his bid tooust incumbent FIFA president SeppBlatter.

In a statement on his personal blog,the former Asian Football Confedera-tion (AFC) president said that he had

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Jamaica’s world record holder and Olympic and world champion in the men’s 100 and 200meters, Usain Bolt, performs his trademark stance after speaking on stage in a news confer-ence at a cultural center in Daegu, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011.

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DAEGU, South Korea - Asafa Powell has rarely, if ever, upstaged Usain Bolt but he managedit on Thursday when his withdrawal from the world championships dominated a farcical Ja-maican team press conference.

the news about Powell’s withdrawal.“I didn’t come here expecting to run

the 100 metres but unfortunately Asafacouldn’t make it,” he said. It took awhile for the significance of his com-ment to sink in but once it did, confu-sion briefly reigned in the hall.

Frater was asked to confirm hiscomment, which he did with a cau-tious nod, before the moderator in-tervened to prevent further questionson the subject. Jamaican team leaderGrace Jackson was then pressed

about the former 100 metres worldrecord holder but she could onlymanage an extended no comment.

So it was a slightlyunderwhelming moment when theworld’s most famous track and fieldathlete finally took the stage to dis-cuss his defence of his 100 and 200metres.

“This is the first I’m hearing ofit,” Bolt said of Powell, who hadbeen expected to be his main rivalin the shorter of the sprints.

Bin Hammam launches appealappealed after FIFA released the mo-tivated decisions of the Ethics Com-mittee, who banned him, last week.

“I have submitted my case to theFIFA Appeals Committee, not hop-ing for justice to prevail but as a pro-tocol to enable me to obtain access tothe Court of Arbitration of Sport(CAS),” the Qatari said(www.mohamedbinhammam.com).“After all, the panel from the AppealsCommittee is decided by my oppo-nent and in this case, as previously,the judge is the rival. Therefore, Ishould not exaggerate hope for a fairdecision.

“Going through the motivated de-cisions, we found them to be deeply

flawed and raises grave doubts onwhether any decision-making body ofFIFA has sufficient independence toensure a fair decision based solely onevidences and applicable laws.

“Based on our experiences, we ex-pect the appeal process and decisionto take approximately two months,not because this time is necessarilyneeded but more due to FIFA’s tacti-cal games and abuse of power, as evi-dent throughout this case.”

Last month, acting president AFCpresident Zhang Jilong of China saidafter their executive committee meet-ing in Kuala Lumpur that they wouldnot be able to replace Bin Hammamuntil after May 30.

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Novak Djokovic, from Serbia, hits a backhand return againstTomas Berdych, from the Czech Republic, during a semifi-nal match at the Western & Southern Open tennis tourna-ment, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 in Mason, Ohio.

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McLaren’s managing director Jonathan Neale insists thatMcLaren’s qualifying form has been improving however, andpredicts further progress at the Belgian Grand Prix as the teamaim to maintain the pressure on Red Bull. “In terms of clos-ing the gap to red Bull, we have had a competitive race carfor some time now,” Neale told a Vodafone McLaren Mercedesphone-in on Wednesday. “The qualifying pace is where wehave been falling short.

“I’m pleased to say that - except for the slight blip at theBritish Grand Prix – the trend has been good and we havebeen closing in. “We haven’t got the cars in the right part of

BRUNO Senna will return to Formula 1 at this weekend’sBelgian Grand Prix as the replacement for Nick Heidfeld atthe Renault team. As AUTOSPORT reported on Monday,Renault had decided over the summer break that it wanted toshake up its driver line-up - and hoped to move Senna into arace seat alongside Vitaly Petrov instead of Heidfeld.

The matter was complicated, however, by the fact that

McLarenaims toimprovequalifyingform

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McLaren is confident that new updates for the MP4-26 will help the team improve its qualifying perfor-mance at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend and thefollowing race at Monza. While the team’s race pacehas often been at least a match for Red Bull duringraces, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button’s startingpositions have often compromised their race plans, andsubsequent potential results this season.

the grid, but we are developing at a better rate and there are aseries of upgrades planned for these next two races.”

Neale said part of the disparity between McLaren’s rela-tive pace in qualifying and races could be explained by thedesign concept of the DRS wing, which can be optimisedeither for race balance or for one-lap speed. “To make theoptimum rear wing you wouldn’t make a DRS-enabled rearwing – it’s not as aero efficient,” he explained.

“You have a choice to make: do you want to the get thedownforce and aero efficiency from the car, or are you after thegreater drag reduction? “Now that we have got ourselves into asituation where we believe we are competitive, we have beenable to devote time to the DRS system and my expectations arethat our DRS system will be competitive at the next few races.

“However, what we try to do is add performance to the carin a variety of ways – there is no one way of doing it and thereis certainly no magic bullet.

“Our workforce, our drivers, our sponsors and our fansexpect us to fight through to the last race. That’s what McLarenis here to do – to run deep into the season and to win races.

Senna replaces Heidfeld at RenaultHeidfeld was not willing to simply walk away from his dealat the team - especially because there seemed little reason todismiss him on performance grounds as he was ahead of Petrovin the points’ standings.

Following intense discussions between representatives of bothRenault and Heidfeld over the past 48 hours, however, an interimsettlement was reached on Wednesday night – leaving the wayopen for Senna to be given the green light to race in Belgium.

A statement issued by Renault said that it was only con-firming Senna for this weekend’s race in Spa – with the team’splans for the rest of the season expected to be announced onThursday. “Bruno will attend the Official FIA Press Confer-ence tomorrow at 15.00. A press release with further detailson the matter will be issued tomorrow morning,” said Renault.

Senna’s chances of keeping hold of the seat for the rest ofthe campaign will likely depend on his level of competitive-ness, because Renault has made no secret of the fact that it islooking at handing GP2 Series leader Romain Grosjean an-other F1 chance.

Speculation has already suggested that Grosjean could bedrafted in at the team after the GP2 campaign finishes atMonza – which means he could do some of the final flyawayraces of this year.