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Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto

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Indonesia calls for vigilance in terrorism fight Agence France-Presse

NUSA DUA - Indonesia on Monday called for greater vigilance and cooperation in the fight against terror, as counterterrorism chiefs from around the world met in Bali.

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Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto told delegates from 22 countries that Indonesia had struck a significant blow against Southeast Asian terror networks in recent years but there was no room for complacency.

“Although a number of terror-

ists have been killed, captured and punished, some by way of execution, the entire terrorist network has not been uncovered,” he said at the start of the International Seminar on Counter-Terrorism, organised by Indonesia’s new Na-

tional Anti-Terror Agency (BNPT).

“The terror groups are still actively recruiting, training and making efforts to carry out attacks.”

Islamist militants with links to global networks including AlQaeda have struck mainly Muslim Indonesia repeatedly since 2000, notably the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali, which killed 202 people, mostly Western tourists.

Senior counter-terrorism chiefs from Australia, France, Germany,

India, Japan, Pakistan and the United States among others are attending the three-day meeting, according to Indonesian officials.

They are expected to discuss ways to improve cooperation and coordination of counter-terrorism efforts across international borders.

“Terrorism is not a problem of one country but an international problem which requires synergy and cooperation between various countries.

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Bin Laden living comfortably in Pakistan: CNN Agence France-Presse

KABUL – Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is living comfortably in northwest Pakistan closee to his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, CNN on Monday quoted a NATO official as saying.

The Saudi-born militant wanted for the September 11 attacks on the

United States nine years ago was being protected by local people and “some members of the Pakistani intelligence services,” CNN said.

“Nobody in Al-Qaeda is living in a cave,” the unnamed senior NATO official reportedly told the network.

“The official also confirmed the

US assessment that Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban, has moved between the cities of Quetta and Karachi in Pakistan over the last several months,” said the report on CNN’s website.

It said the NATO official could not be named “because of the sensitivity of the intelligence matters involved”.

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Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden

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Bali News Competition of Balinese Modified Bridal Makeup The unique one breaks record of MURI Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Competition of Balinese Modified Bridal Makeup held to enliven the Nusa Dua Fiesta 2010 on Sunday (Oct 17) was welcomed enthusiastically. The number of participants taking part exploded to 878 participants. Previously, the committee only targeted 500 participants. With that amount of participants, the event all at once broke a record of the Record Museum of Indonesia (MURI).

Such a quite unique event also drew the attention of visitors. The participants showed off their modification skill. Despite modifications, the makeup presented remained to refer to the Balinese culture and traditions. Most participants consisted of makeup artists that had received training in non-formal educational institutions growing in the community. In the meantime, participants were assessed by a team having a high competence in related sphere.

The competition was the result of cooperation of the family empower-

ment and prosperity (PKK) of Badung Regency, Agung Salon and Bali Tourism Development Corporation (BTDC) Nusa Dua. Chairperson of the Committee of Tokoh tabloid, Inten Indrawati, said the competition was one of the main activities carried out in the series of informal training and education process to provide insight and skills to the community members of Bali. In this regard, it was focused of Balinese bridal makeup for young people and women.

According to her, the sublime val-

ues of Balinese culture had to be well maintained. Nevertheless, there remained a great opportunity to make modifications, provided that it remained to refer to the local cultural values.

Meanwhile, Directorate General of non-formal and informal education (PNFI), Ministry of National Education, Hamid Muhammed, conveyed his great appreciation to the organization of the event. Similarly, he expressed his gratitude to the education institution that had provided non-formal education to the community. (kmb25)

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A girl is being make up by a contestant during the Nusa Dua Festival (NDF) on Sunday, October 17th 2010.

Early detection to child’s growth and development Identify delayed growth in children Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Parents certainly want their children to grow and develop normally.

But, what if it turns out there is a problem on their growth and development and just known when they are grown up, so that it has been a little late to be handled. For that purpose, there are several ways to perform early detection to their

early growth and development disorders.

Head of the Growth and Development Installation of Sanglah Hospital, A.A. Ayu Srikandhyawati, said that there were several ways to do early detection on child’s growth and development. One of them was the milestone, namely parameter used as reference in observing the growth

and development. The parameters contained that at the age of three months an infant was able to uphold its neck, face down on the age of 4 months, to move back and forth at the age of five months, to sit down in 6-7 months, to stand with the handle at the age of 10-11 months, and to walk at age of 12-14 months.

“If it can uphold its neck late,

Balinese children play traditional Balinese game.

other the processes will then be late, too. But, there are cases where the process up to the normal sitting, standing and walking occurred slowly,” said Sri. Of the cases ever handled by the Growth and Development Installation of Sanglah Hospital, Sri added that there was a case where a child was able to stand up late. Here, parents should carefully look at what caused it. “When the case was researched, in fact, the late ability to stand up on the child was caused by the weak ankle ligament so it could not support the body powerfully or its feet were flat so they could not track with a great force,” said Sri. For such cases, it needed an ongoing exercises and the child should be treated by using special shoes that could normalize the condition of its legs. Aside from late capability of standing up, some special cases such as down syndrome, cases of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) up to Attention Defiant Disorder (ADD) was also addressed in the Growth and Development Installation. For parents whose children were slow to speak should be wary of suffering from ADHD or ADD. How to find out was the lack of eye contact from the child when invited to speak and children’s attention switched quickly to other things.

Basically, according to Sri, there were four things conducted in the

Growth and Development Installation of Sanglah Hospital. They were physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and orthotic prosthetic. These four things were interrelated and mutually supportive.

Physiotherapy was usually used to train the skill of motor muscles such as the ability to stand up. Meanwhile, occupational therapy was to train the fine motor skills such as the skill of hand to hold a burden. This therapy was usually undertaken for children with special treatment such as Down Syndrome.

Speech therapy was to train the speech skills. It was not only intended for children being late to talk and children with special needs such as ADD and ADHD, but also given to deaf children receiving the Cochlear implant. “Basically, there is an early detection in use such as the Denver Development Screening Test (DDST) or Denver Scale in which there were four main things observed such as social contact, language, fine motor skill and gross motor skills,” said Sri. The success to maximize the growth and development of a child, Sri added, did not only depend on the growth and development team, but also on the involvement of parents. “Therapy only lasts for few hours, while the rest is the role of parents to continue it at home,” he added. (kmb24)

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Protect Bali

Temple Holiness Radius Should Always Exist

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The picture shows rice field in Bali. The traditional irrigation system in Bali or known as “Subak” should be preserved in the Island.

Maintain the subak land by regulations Gianyar (Bali Post)—

Subak as an institution regulating the matters of irrigation on agricultural land should have a legal protection to maintain and preserve the existence of agricultural land belonging to its members. Legal protection is manifested through awig-awig or internal regulation of the subak. This matter was revealed in the event of regulation inauguration belonging to Subak Abian Budhi Rahayu Leg, Buahan Customary Village, Payangan Subdistrict, Gianyar, Sunday (Oct 17). Inauguration of the regulation was attended by Deputy Regent of Gianyar Dewa Made Sutanaya.

According to I Wayan Suda, the Division Head of Customary Affairs in the Gianyar Cultural Services said that coaching, improvement and learning process among the members of Subak Budhi Rahayu Leg was driven by the high desire of each members to learn and have internal regulation as reference in performing the self-tasks properly. It was considered important in maintaining the Tri Hita Karana concept, particularly relating to the Ulun Suwi Temple and irrigation infrastructures within the territory of Subak

Abian Budhi Rahayu.

Chief of Subak Abian Budhi Rahayu, I Made Budiana, said that internal regulation posed an obligatory instrument used as reference in helping the development and progress of subak. If based on legal protection, the existence of the subak organization could engender an orderliness and good governance among the subak members.

Moreover, if the management was based on trust and sincerity to provide devotional services to Supreme God abiding in the Ulun Suwi Temple, of

course it would have an impact on the serenity of subak existence.

“This awig-awig denotes a regulation that must be underlain by an attitude of respect and obedience. If we have composed it based on clear mind and heart, it would have strict legal power,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Deputy Regent of Gianyar Dewa Made Sutanaya expected that the internal regulation inaugurated could later on function properly and could be made sacred and complied with. (kmb16)

Discipline illegal shacks

Public order agency stays to check land ownership Semarapura (Bali Post)—

Public order agency (Satpol PP) of Klungkung Regency could not move as such to discipline the increasingly rampant illegal shacks in the location of former C-class excavation. The public order officers should check the land ownership first whether they were built on state’s land or land belonging to private property. “We did so to avoid any mistake in taking action,” said the Chief of Public Order Agency of Klungkung Regency, Komang Darma Suyasa, recently.

According to Darma Suyasa, tens and even hundreds of illegal shacks

situated in two areas namely Tangkas and Gunaksa Village. On that account, the checking of land status should be undertaken by involving the village officials in both regions. “It is the bottom line apparatus knowing for sure about the real condition there. Hence, they must be involved,” he said.

Unfortunately, Darma Suyasa could not ensure when the checking would be carried out. “Obviously, we are going to move definitely. We will take action as we have performed against dozens of illegal shacks in the south of the long bridge of Unda River few months ago,” he said.

Meanwhile, the number of illegal shacks in the area of the former C-class excavation increasingly developed again. It indicated there were more and more activities committed by dwellers in that area that had been officially closed. Dominant dwellers of the shacks were from Lombok, while some others from Banyuwangi, East Java. On average, they worked as a sand sifter with income amounting to IDR 30,000 per day. Every month, they were obliged to pay IDR 10,000 for identity cards and IDR 50,000 for the need of electricity. (kmb20)

The support to Bali Province Government in facing accusation on Spatial Planning Plan (RTRW) Bali Regional Regulations (Perda) 2009-2029 by the Pecatu residents is not spreading. As the item that’s problemised involves the temple’s holiness radius which is clearly stated on Bhisama PHDI Number: 11/Kep/I/PHDI/1994 dated 25th January 1994. If Bali is still want to be preserved, then the temple holiness radius has to be clearly protected as this is a strategic way to protect, preserve and save Bali from its physical and spiritual aspects.

To the Bali post last Friday (15/10) Great Village Head Traditional Village Main Board (MUDP) for Bali Jero Gede Putu Suwena and Petajuh Bendesa Agung Ida I Dewa Gde Ngurah Swastha, stated to hope for Bali Government not to be afraid in facing the accusation that is brought to the Supreme Court. According to these two Bali public figures, the holiness radius to reach five kilometer is very essential and has to be defended as it is crucial in saving Bali’s context, “This radius should always exist. Bali’s small, let’s protect it together. Investors can go in, anyone can yet with the regulations still obeyed.”

Defending Bali

According to Suwena and Swastha, the RTRW Perda stated that the temple holiness radius is a strategic law product to save Bali. It is clarified, this is to protect Bali from being destroyed. And so they hoped no more Bali residents will put commercial needs to priority without thinking the environment and the nature of Bali especially it’s spiritual importance, “In this context MDP Bali will support the Bali Government to fight for the RTRW Perda.”

Moreover, Swastha also hoped Bali residents to not wrongly understand this radius. In the five kilometers, two kilometers and apanumpug (50 meters) from the temple doe not mean Balinese can’t build something in this area or just becoming empty spaces. Yet it is possible to build supporting facilities such as for farming, husbandry and other productive business that don’t damage the temple’s holiness. But for those tourism supporting facilities like hotels, discotheques, masseuse, pubs and its kind have to be forbidden as it potentially damaging the temple’s holiness, “So those productive business won’t be all forbidden. But for those that are potentially damaging the holiness should be forbidden of limited.”

The moral support for Bali Government to fight for Bali RTRW Perda was also coming from Bali academicians that joined the Bali Rector Forum, Indonesia Private Universities Association (APTISI) Bali and Bali Great Lecturers Forum. As an institute, Udayana University also planned to form a team to go through the law, environment, social culture, religious and more aspects to give a suggestion to the Bali Province to keep the RTRW Perda Bali going.

The readiness of these academicians to back up the fight was mentioned by

Head of Bali Rector Forum Prof. Dr. I Made Bakta, Head of APTISI Bali Prof.

Dr. I Gde Sridarma and Head of Bali Great Lecturers Forum Prof. Dr. I Wayan Wita. The three great teachers clarified that the RTRW Perda Bali is an official law product that is an aspiration of the Bali people to preserve Bali. If at this time there are public that is trying to erase it, then it is the Bali academician obligation to support the regional government as they were also involved intensively in making this regulations, “The same aspiration stated by the MUDP Bali, we also want support to defend and to implement this as stated.”

More over, the three lecturers also clarified this regulations is a facility to protect the continuing development to avoid explotation in Bali from its environment and economy aspect by the irresponsible investors.

It is said the judicial reviewed regulations was truly implemented as a base law to protect the Bali holy land, “We hope, all the Balinese people from academics, youth organizations, societies, public figures and religious ones, all the components of Bali residenst to give support fully to the government to fight for the regulation. Of course by stating their views can be brought through in a legally form so it will be heard by the Indonesian Republic Supreme Court.”

Tax Burden

In taking action with the burdened high tax to the Pecatu residents on unproductive lands, Suwena, Swastha, Bakta, Sridarma and Wita all asked the Bali government to appreciate the complain truly. They hoped the government will give a special policy to those lands in the temple holiness radius to be free of tax, “This kind of solution can be done to minimalise those complains.

Actually these problems can be discussed thouroughly so it will result a solution that advantaged the two sides.

Residents won’t be disadvantaged and government still does its commitment to save Bali’s nature in its real state.”

Sridarma and Wita admitted to very understand the situation. Yet the two disagree if this disadvantaging situation will cause RTRW Perda to be erased.

Also the two great lecturers asked the Bali Government and all regional/city governments in Bali to take strategic actions to minimalise the disadvantaging things that has to be paid by local residents. As a solution, each government is asked to pay the land taxes that is on the regulations and in the future to free those lands by buying lands, “And more important, regional governments are required to clarify their attitude on the buildings that are ther before the RTRW Perda was validated.

For example those local houses and other buildings that are there before the regulation validated. So regional governments should take notes on the buildings also to map out areas that are not potentially great.” They added after these steps are done, the regional and city governments are asked to clarify the law of the Perda. (ian)

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South Korea says North Korea’s peace gestures not sincere Agence France-Presse

SEOUL – South Korea expressed scepticism Monday about North Korea’s recent peace overtures as police said they are on high alert for any attempts by the communist state to disrupt the upcoming G20 summit.

A record 50,000 police will be deployed to guard the November 11-12 Group of 20 gathering against possible threats from the North, international terrorists or violent protesters, National Police Agency chief Cho Hyun-Oh told reporters.

“Recently international terrorism is on the rise and risks related to North Korea still remain,” Cho said.

His agency said in a statement Seoul is concerned about “unpredictable situations” during the start of the North’s power transfer from leader Kim Jong-Il to his youngest son Jong-Un. Unification Minister Hyun InTaek, in an interview with Monday’s JoongAng Daily, said Pyongyang has made “incredibly speedy” moves to put the succession process in place.

But he cautioned that this may not bring political stability in the nuclear-armed nation.

Relations have been icy since Seoul accused Pyongyang of a deadly torpedo attack in March on a South Korean warship, a charge it denies. The North in recent weeks has made some conciliatory gestures, including agreeing a new round of temporary reunions for separated families late this month.

But Hyun, in remarks confirmed by his ministry, said the North “cannot succeed in changing this state of affairs through insincere warm gestures”.

The minister said possible summit talks could be an important means of securing peace and stability but the North must prove its sincerity.

Media reports say the two sides held secret talks last year about another summit, following the 2000 and 2007 events, but discussions broke down.

“The questions we have now are when might they (summit talks) be held and what can be accomplished at a summit,” Hyun said.

“Another big question is whether North Korea is approaching the goal with sincerity, which could affect our decision on whether to hold the talks.

“However, we have not noticed that sincerity yet.”

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North Korean soldiers march at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone

School students attend a demonstration over pension reform in Paris, October 16, 2010.

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French pension protests intensify Reuters

PARIS – French truck drivers staged go-slow operations on highways, rail strikes intensified and petrol stations ran out of fuel on Monday as protests gathered pace ahead of a Senate vote on an unpopular pension overhaul.

The government, which has stood firm on President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to raise the retirement age through months of protests, assured the public infrastructure would not freeze up despite a week-long strike at refineries that has forced hundreds of petrol stations to close.

Rail services were also badly disrupted as strike action ramped up ahead of a fresh nationwide protest on Tuesday in what threatens to be a make-or-break week for Sarkozy over his reform.

Government ministers are stress-

ing the country has plenty of fuel and that airports in particular have ample supply.

“The government is in control,” Industry Minister Christian Estrosi told RTL radio on Monday. “There will be no blockade for companies, no blockade for transport and no blockade for road users.”

Workers at France’s 12 refineries continued their strike on Monday, a CGT union official told Reuters, and protesters blocked access to some fuel depots in the south.

France’s UFIP oil industry lobby has said France could see serious

fuel supply problems by mid-week, meaning the government may have to look at tapping emergency reserves.

A majority of French support protests against planned legislation to raise the minimum and full retirement ages by two years to 62 and 67 respectively, a measure the government says is the only way to stem a ballooning pension deficit.

The main points of Sarkozy’s bill have passed through both houses of parliament and following a Senate vote scheduled for Wednesday on the full package, the bill could soon be signed into law.

Truck drivers used vans from Sunday evening to slow the flow of traffic on motorways around cities like Lyon and Rennes, but had not yet resorted to using large trucks to block roads.

Australia hails first saint as unifying force Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Monday the canonisation of Outback schoolteacher Mary MacKillop as the nation’s first saint had united its people in “joy and celebration”.

Gillard, an avowed atheist, said Sunday’s historic anointing of MacKillop as St Mary of the Cross completed a “century-long journey of hope and aspiration” and was a moment of joy for every citizen.

“Mary was one of us — she inhabited the places we call home.

She was born in this land, she served in this land, and she died in this land, and now her remark-

able life has become a gift to the whole world,” Gillard told parliament.

The prime minister said “a less likely account could hardly be imagined” of a saint-to-be: a young, uneducated and poor woman doing battle with the church hierarchy to build schools in the wild outposts of colonial Australia.

“Sheer vision and strength of will” drove MacKillop to greatness, but Gillard said it was the “goodhumoured practicality and egalitarian decency that so distinctively proclaim that she could have only come from one place”.

“And that’s our very own home, Australia, land of the world’s newest saint. A nation today and yesterday

united in pride and joy and celebration,” she said.

The pioneering Outback schoolteacher and founder of Australia’s first religious order was famous for a rebellious streak which saw her briefly excommunicated, partly because she reported a priest for molesting a child.

Worshippers attend mass at St. Mary’s cathedral in Sydney on October 17, 2010. Thousands of jubilant Australians gathered to celebrate the life of Mary MacKillop, a pioneering Outback schoolteacher who was anointed as the country’s first saint.

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‘Indonesian Disjunction: Love hate Love’ AFFECTED by the low-brow from USA and where the world is the form of art which has different soul from the current modern art that we have.

In Indonesia, the movement has affected the youngsters since early 21st century. Similar to the movement in USA, the works are affected by comics, graffiti, mural art, illustration, cartoons and animations. From the works, we can found the freshness of the connection between visual method and lifestyle.

In this art, the work process is the thing that wanted to be expressed, visualized, and enjoyed.

After the City Murals from Apotik Comic Group in 2002, Yogyakarta artists see cities and public area as a part of the creative context which focusing on more intensive general viewers, from the media that they use through the character where we can see the contemporary theme in it.

Through the exhibition, there is great hope that the young Indonesian artists with their traditional street art could become the part of International pop art movement.

Temple Ceremony Calendar of Event Vol. XII/ 21 (Oct 08-21, 2010) 9 th – “Tumpek Landep”, the day devoted to Sanghyang Pasupati, the lord of all metal tools (including car) for magical power and proper function, held at every family- compound, especially at smiths and garages – Temple Festivals at: - Pr. Agung Tirtha Bhuwana, Bekasi, Jawa Barat.

- Pr. Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya, Jl. Dewata I, Ds Adat Sidakarya, Denpasar.

- Pr. Pasek Gelgel Ds.Pedungan, Denpasar.

- Pr. Agung Pasek, Ds. Tangguntiti Kaler,Tabanan.

- Pr. Agung Pasek Selemadeng, Tabanan - Pr. Pasek Tangkas, Kediri, Tabanan.

- Pr. Kertha, Banyuning Barat, Buleleng.

- Pr. Toya Katipat, Ds. Wanagiri, Buleleng.

- Pr. Dalem Tenggaling, Br. Sengguan, Singapadu.

- Pr. Kawitan Arya Bang Pinatih, Ds. Peguyangan, Singaraja.

- Pr. Bhujangga Wesnawa, Tegalcangkring, Jembrana.

- Pr. Taman, Ds. Bubunan, Seririt, Buleleng.

- Pr. Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati, Br. Pandean, Mengwi.

- Pr. Dalem Pingit, Br. Taro Kaja, Tegallalang.

- Pr. Dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg, Ds. Selat, Sukasada - Pr. Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo, Ds. Sudimara, Tabanan.

- Pr. Ida Ratu Pande, Besakih.

- Pr. Penataran Pande , Ds. Kusamba, Klungkung - Mr.Pasek Batan Tubuh, Melinggih.

- Mr.Pasek Gelgel, Ds. Akah, Klungkung.

- Mr.Pasek TohJiwa, Tangguntiti, - Pr. Dalem, Ds. Bungsu, Batubulan.

- Pr. Pasek Tatar Bale Agung, Buleleng.

- Pr. Panti Abian Buru, Ds. Kenderan, Buleleng.

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Pr. Penataran Agung Pinatih, Br. Menak, Tulikup.

Pr. Kumuda Saraswati, Ubud.

13th – Temple Festival at: - Pr. Pasar Agung, Besakih - Pr. Puseh + Desa, Ds. Bebalang, Bangli.

- Pr. Pasek Bandesa Hyang, Ds. Selat, Kerobokan, Badung.

- Pr. Hyang Agung Ibu Wanasari, Br. Tegal.

- Pr. Pr. Gede Gunung Agung, Ds. Dukuh, Munggu, Badung.

- Mr. Pasek Bandesa Pasar Badung, Br. Legian, Kuta Kaja.

- Mr. Ida Bhatara Dalem Tarukan, Br. Pakel, Satria, Klungkung.

- Pr. Kerebuan Langit, Ds. Sading, Mengwi.

- Pemerajan Saren Kangin, Ds. Baleran, Ubud.

- Pr. Pajenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman, Br. Jelantik Kuri Batu, Tojan, Klugkung.

19th _ Temple Festival at: - Pr. Penataran Tangkas, Br. Tebuwana, Sukawati.

- Pr. Dalem Lagan, Ds. Bebalang, Bangli - Pr. Puseh, Br. Lembeng, Batubulan, Sukawati.

- Pr. Pasek Gelgel Penulisan, Ds.Kerambitan, Tabanan.

- Pr. Gaduh, Ds. Sading.

- Pr. Dalem Gandamayu, Klungkung.

- Pr. Sanghyang Tegal, Br. Taro Kaja, Tegallalang.

- Pr. Penataran Agung, Besakih.

20th _ Temple Festival at: - Mr. Kawitan arya Pengalasan Pusat, Ds. Bedulu, Pejeng Gianyar.

- Pr. Pasek Tangkas, Ds. Pasekan Kaler, Tabanan.

- Pr. Gaduh Binoh, Ds. Ubung.

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “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.

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News Myanmar’s detained democracy icon dreams of tweets

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Passengers sit at North Habour after a shipping official announced their trip had been cancelled.

Super typhoon hits Philippines amid flood alerts Reuters

MANILA – Super Typhoon Megi became the strongest cyclone in years to buffet the Philippines on Monday, while floods in Vietnam swept away a bus and left 20 people missing, including a girl pulled from her mother’s grasp by the raging waters.

The huge storm striking the Philippines left at least one man drowned there, and was expected to plunge later into China, where authorities evacuated 100,000 people from a coastal province. The storm could head later in the week to Vietnam, where 24 deaths from flooding already have been reported in recent days.

Thousands of Filipinos sought shelter while authorities warned millions of residents and rice farmers along the typhoon’s path to look out for damage to crops, homes and power lines.

Megi packed sustained winds of 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour and gusts of 162 mph (260 kph) as it made landfall midday Monday at Palanan Bay in northeastern Isabela province, and was losing some of its power while crossing the mountains of the Philippines’ main northern island of Luzon.

One man trying to rescue his water buffalo slipped and fell into a river and probably drowned, said Bonifacio Cuarteros, an official with the Cagayan provincial disaster agency.

As it crashed ashore, the typhoon whipped up huge waves and toppled electricity poles, cutting off power, phone and Internet services in many areas. There was zero visibility and radio reports said the wind was so powerful that people could not take more than a step at a time.

More than 3,000 people in coastal areas moved to school buildings and town halls that were turned into evacuation centers. Ships and fish-

ing vessels were told to stay in ports, and several domestic flights also were canceled.

Thousands of military reserve officers and volunteers were on standby, along with helicopters, including six Chinooks that were committed by U.S. troops holding war exercises with Filipino soldiers near Manila, said Benito Ramos, a top disaster-response official.

“This is like preparing for war,” Ramos, a retired army general, told The Associated Press. “We know the past lessons, and we’re aiming for zero casualties.”

In July, an angry President Benigno Aquino III fired the head of the weather bureau for failing to predict that a typhoon would hit Manila.

That storm killed more than 100 people in Manila and outlying provinces.

Weather forecasts said the capital is expected to be spared a direct hit this time, although the lowest weather alert was in effect Monday with preschools closed.

Megi was the most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippines in four years, government forecasters say. A 2006 howler with 155-mph (250kph) winds set off mudslides that buried entire villages, killing about 1,000 people.

In central Vietnam, officials said 20 people on a bus were swept away Monday by strong currents from a flooded river, while another 17 managed to save themselves by swimming or clinging to trees or power poles.

The bus, traveling from the Cen-

tral Highlands province of Dak Nong to the capital, Hanoi, was yanked off the country’s main corridor, Highway 1, said local official Nguyen Hien Luong, head of Nghi Xuan district in Ha Tinh province.

One woman survived by treading water against the current for about 3 1/2 hours, but was forced to let go of her daughter due to exhaustion before rescuers reached her. The child remains missing.

Officials said 24 other people died in central Vietnam from flooding over the weekend, and said Megi could add to the misery.

“People are exhausted,” Vietnamese disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Giai said by telephone from Quang Binh province. “Many people have not even returned to their flooded homes from previous flooding, while many others who returned home several days ago were forced to be evacuated again.”

China’s National Meteorological Center said Megi was expected to enter the South China Sea on Tuesday, threatening southeasterern coastal provinces. The center issued its second-highest alert for potential “wild winds and huge waves,” warning vessels to take shelter and urging authorities to brace for emergencies.

Floods triggered by heavy rains forced nearly 140,000 people to evacuate from homes in the southern island province of Hainan, where heavy rains left thousands homeless over the weekend, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.

YANGON – Myanmar’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi wants to get a Twitter account once she is released from house arrest so she can get in touch with the younger generation after years of isolation, her lawyer said Monday.

The 65-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been detained by the military government for 15 of the past 21 years, entered her latest period of detention in May 2003, before the Twitter era started.

Her detention expires on Nov. 13, prompting speculation she will be freed though there has been no such official announcement from the ruling junta. The country’s first election in 20 years will take place days earlier on Nov. 7, timing that analysts say was designed to keep the opposition leader locked away for the polls.

“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s current wish is to sign up on Twitter when she is released,” said her lawyer Nyan Win, who has visited her twice in the past week. “Daw” is a title of respect in Myanmar.

“She told me she wants to use Twitter to get in touch with the

younger generation inside and outside the country,” he said. “She wishes to be able to tweet every day and keep in touch.”

Suu Kyi has no phone line or any access to the Internet, though she has a laptop computer, Nyan Win said. He described her as computer- and tech-savvy and adept with electronic gadgets.

Under the rules of her detention, Suu Kyi is allowed to read state-controlled newspapers and private local news journals and magazines, to listen to the radio and to watch state-run television but she has no satellite dish to receive foreign broadcasts.

Her lawyers are among the few people allowed to see Suu Kyi, aside from her doctors and occasional visits with U.N. and foreign dignitaries.

According to July statistics from the state-run Post and Telecommunication Ministry, there are 400,000 Internet users in Myanmar — a country of about 60 million — with the vast majority of accounts in the former capital Yangon and the second-largest city of Mandalay.

Bus swept away by floods in Vietnam, 20 missing HANOI – Vietnamese officials say 20 people on a bus were swept away by strong currents from a flooded river, while another 17 managed to save themselves by swimming or clinging to trees or power poles.

Nguyen Hien Luong, head of Nghi Xuan district in Ha Tinh province, says the bus was traveling from the Central Highlands

province of Dak Nong to the capital when it was yanked off the country’s main highway at around 4:30 a.m. Monday.

The driver, along with 16 others, managed to break free from the bus.

He says 20 others remain missing and are presumed dead.

Rescuers are still searching for the bus.

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From page 1 No country can deal with it alone,” Indonesian foreign ministry security official Febrian Ruddyard said.

BNPT director Ansyaad Mbai said countries had to be more “proactive” in combating extremist ideologies that lead to terrorism.

“We can’t be reactive and wait for bombings and armed attacks to take place. We must be more proactive.

The best prevention is through neutralising the radical ideologies that trigger terror acts,” he said.

Scores of suspected Islamist mili-

tants have been killed or captured in Indonesia since the last major attack — twin suicide blasts on US-owned luxury hotels in central Jakarta that killed seven people last year.

Three men convicted of organising the 2002 Bali bombings were executed by firing squad in 2008.

Another Indonesian Islamist, Hambali, is in Guantanamo Bay for allegedly plotting the Bali suicide bombings on behalf of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah.

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Indonesia to probe fresh torture claims Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian police said Monday they would investigate fresh reports of torture by security forces against civilians in restive Papua province, after a graphic video was posted online.

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Hundreds of demonstrator from Indonesia’s poor people alliance (SRMI) Makassar rallied during the Poor Eradication Day on South Sulawesi Governor office on Monday, October 18. On their action, they ask the government to give more attention to poor people in term of their health and education so the numbers of poor people in Indonesia can be minimize.

Indonesia judge ‘backs death penalty for corruption’ Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A top Indonesian judge has thrown his weight behind the death sentence for people found guilty of corruption in a bid to wipe out rampant graft in the country, news reports said Sunday.

Indonesia can take a leaf out of China’s book where the death penalty is enforced “with no protest from the people”, Constitutional Court chief Mohammad Mahfud was quoted as saying by MediaIndonesia.com website.

“The death penalty is possible if there’s danger. China has been

implementing it and the people are satisfied,” he added.

In Indonesia, those convicted of corruption are currently sentenced to “only three to four years in jail, lighter than sentences given to petty criminals”, Mahfud was quoted as saying by Detikcom news website Saturday.

“China has been implementing the death sentence for corruptors, there’s a deterrent effect. If this is applied in Indonesia, it will reduce the number of corruption (cases),” he said.

Those convicted of murder, drug trafficking and terrorism currently

face the death penalty in Indonesia.

Transparency International ranked Indonesia 111 out of 180 countries in a corruption survey last year.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a liberal ex-general who first came to power in 2004, was reelected in 2009 on a pledge to root out corruption, which riddles every aspect of Indonesian public life, from the courts to the customs office.

The International Monetary Fund in September said Indonesia must make fighting corruption a priority if it wants to build on its progress as one of the world’s best-performing economies.

More caterpillars, military personnel for Wasior Antara

WASIOR - More caterpillars and one battalion of military personnel would be deployed to support the cleaning of debris of Wasior disaster floods, an army officer said.

“The extra caterpillars will have immediately been deployed to Wasior,” Captain (Inf) Irawan of Manokwari military compound told ANTARA here Monday.

There have been 21 units of caterpillars and other heavy vehicles being used in the flood-hit town of Wasior, Teluk Wondama district, West Papua Province, he said.

The extra caterpillars and a battalion of army personnel had been transported by the Brawijaya regional military command in East Java on Sunday, he said.

The equipment and army personnel were expected to have arrived in Wasior a week later, he said.

Their presence would enable workers and volunteers to clean mud, log

woods, and stones and debris of collapsed houses and buildings in the flood-hit town, Irawan said.

“The cleaning activities have so far been hampered by the lack of heavy vehicles due to the huge amount of mud and debris of damaged buildings,” he said.

During his visit to Wasior last Thursday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had ordered related authorities to supply more heavy vehicles to help the recovery process.

At that time, President Yudhoyono had asked the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) to provide the extra supplies of heavy vehicles and zeni unit personnel.

The Wasior flash flood, which struck on October 3 and 4, had reportedly killed at least 150 people, and left a few hundreds of others still missing. Wasior town in Teluk Wondama, West Papua Province, was covered with mud, logs and rocks following the flood. The town badly needs heavy equipment for evacuation and clean-

ing operations.

The central government had ensured that there were no illegal logging activities around the thick forests of Wasior. Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said the absence of illegal logging activities had been ensured through visual observation from an aircraft flying over the Wasior region.

Regardless of the real causes of this disaster, it has encouraged the central government and various elements in the society to assist the victims.

The provincial government and state-own enterprises in West Sumatra, for instance, are to conduct a fund raising drive for flood victims in Wasior, West Papuan province.

In Gorontalo and South Sulawesi city of Makassar, a group of students and journalists also initiated fund raising program for the flood victims.

The flash flood has not only caused lots of families to lose their loved ones but also caused injury to 853 people and forced 4,625 others move to safer places.

The video, released on YouTube last week and reported Monday in The Sydney Morning Herald, showed two Papuan men being tortured during questioning by unknown interrogators about the whereabouts of a weapons cache.

Human rights groups accuse the Indonesian security forces of widespread abuse and torture against civilians in the remote eastern region, where a low-level separatist insurgency has been simmering for decades.

“We will investigate and find out what’s going on. We’ll also find out who recorded the video and spread it. If police are involved, we will take firm action,” national police spokesman Marwoto Soeto told AFP. Papua police spokesman Wachyono said the video could be an attempt to discredit the police force, which is known to torture and abuse detainees of all kinds, including women and those held on minor charges.

“I’m afraid this video could have been made up to discredit police or the military. The people making the video could be an armed gang,” he said.

“If it’s proven that the police

have committed human rights violations, we will take firm action,” he added.

The Australian media raised similar allegations last month against Indonesian police in the eastern province of Maluku, where rights groups say separatists and their supporters are regularly abused in custody.

One of the units allegedly responsible for much of the worst abuse is Kopassus, the Indonesian Special Forces.

US-based Human Rights Watch says Indonesian forces have pursued indiscriminate sweeps on villages in Papua and West Papua provinces, sometimes killing civilians, and imprisoned peaceful political activists.

The United States recently reopened military links with Kopassus despite objections from rights groups and several members of Congress.

US Rear Admiral Sean A. Pybus, special operations commander for the Pacific, met Indonesian Army Chief of Staff General George Toisutta and Special Forces Commander Major General Lodewijk F. Paulus in Indonesia last week.

President to launch maiden ore export Antara

MAKASSAR - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to launch the first iron ore export here on Tuesday, a regional government spokesman said.

South Sulawesi Regional Government Secretary A Muallim said here on Monday that the export launching was part of activities held in connection with the 341th anniversary of South Sulawesi.

In observing the anniversary, the regional government was ready to carry out a series of events.

Among the events were the inauguration of a number of infrastructural facilities and a working meeting of the all Indonesian provincial governors.

“All are ready, at least there

would be eight ministers who would accompany the president,” he said.

The president is expected to open the governors’ working meeting at Hotel Clarion before he heads to the Trans Studio area to launch the export which was worth Rp5.1 trillion.

The president will also inaugurate the Andi Mattalata ferry port in Garongkong Barru district. The port is built at a cost of Rp32 billion.

Pamatata seaport worth Rp54 billion in Selayar district will also be inaugurated by the president along with a facility of Sultan Hasanuddin international airport worth Rp548 billion, Lagalilog airport in Luwu district valued at Rp54 billion and the Trans Studo Mal and Theme Park projects.

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Bali Today Industries in Bali need to utilize bank’s credits

Badung district plans in 2014 to restore damaged coral reefs along the southern coasts of Bali where popular tourists’ site are located, an official said on Sunday.

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DENPASAR – The industries in Bali doesn’t able to gain credit properly so the fund available in Bank is still stayed on banks.

The fund which has not been used by the industries in Bali was 809 billion rupiah until June 2010.

Jeffrey Kairupan, the head of Indonesian Bank branch Denpasar in his report on Monday, October 18th 2010, said that the number decreased from the previous month which was 1.009 billion rupiah.

The businessmen in Bali still can’t utilize the credit available in Banks throughout the island because they are still waiting the business prospect from the tourism sector. Jeffrey said that the economic development in Bali was actually better than the last period which was 23.8% (y-o-y) and the total number was 21.3 trillion rupiah or 53.3% of the total assets.

The credit expansion was growing because the economics condition in Bali is getting better especially in the trade processing sectors. The development in investment along with the development of global econom-

ics condition and the high consumption are also taking part in the development of Bali’s economics condition.

Jeffrey said that the development of credit in Bali was growing thanks to the investment credits which were up to 41% while the work capital credit only grows 18% (y-o-y). The most credits in Bali were the short term credit such as consumption and business capital credit which up to 82%.

While the most sectors utilized the credit from banks were the trading sectors, hotel and restaurants which up to 7.1 trillion rupiah or 33.4% and other sectors used 3.4 trillion or 12% of the total credit available.

The pattern of credits use in Bali was still similar with the previous period because the island is still depends on tourism and farming sectors.

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Bali plans to complete coral reef restoration in 2014 Antara

NUSA DUA - Badung district plans in 2014 to restore damaged coral reefs along the southern coasts of Bali where popular tourists’ site are located, an official said on Sunday.

“Funds for the restoration project will be allocated gradually each year from various sources, central government, provincial budget and contributions from business circles and hotels,” I Made Badra, head of Badung fishery and maritime office said.

Speaking to the press at Coral Restoration and Body Painting Competition in Peninsula beach, Nusa Dua, Badra said the restoration project is expected to be completed in 2014 along the an 82-km coastline in southern Bali.

Badra added that restoration had

been conducted since 2008 to enable coral reefs grow and in fact the restoration was already done in the 1980s. The next project would be aimed at restoring coastal regions covering Tanjung Benoa, Mengiat beach, Uluwatu and Kuta beach.

“The coastal regions of southern Bali are in bad need of restoration because destruction caused by human activities. Coral reefs are important to preserve the sea environment,” Badra said, adding that the government has a strong commitment to restore the coral reefs.

Badra pointed out that there should be no more destructive activities to the coral reefs such as fish bombing by people in those areas. In local religious belief, there a concept called Tri Hita

Karana, namely balance in relations between the environment, human beings and God. Coral reefs in the southern coastal areas of Bali began to deface many years ago as people came and took them away for making cement for building houses as cement was still unknown during the time. But now there is already a law prohibiting the destruction of coral reefs, carrying heavy fines and two-year imprisonment for those who breach the law.

Global Coral Reef Restoration, an NGO working on the restoration of Bali coral reefs, says that Indonesia has 581 of the world’s 793 known reef coral species and at least 66 of the 82 reef coral genera in Indonesia or 80.5 percent of the 111 worldwide.

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Elementary school children washing their hand during the participation of Handwashing Day. Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika has urged the Balinese people to make hand washing part of their habits for the sake of their health.

DENPASAR - Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika has urged the Balinese people to make hand washing part of their habits for the sake of their health.

“We realize that diseases and health problems such as diarrhea and food poisoning are still rampant in the community, as they have not taken food care of hygiene and hand washing is not part of they habits,” Governor Pastika said.

The governor made the statement in an event to observe the Global Hand Washing Day 2010.

“We should use this momentum to make healthy and clean life style a habit. We must also motivate and encourage the Balinese people to make Bali a Green Province,” he said.

Oct. 15, 2010 is the third annual Global Hand Washing Day. The single largest factor that helped reduce the number of infection/disease-related deaths in the 19th century was sanitation, particularly hand washing.

Hand washing is the single most effective way to prevent infections and ill-

nesses.

Every year, diarrhea and acute respiratory infections cause the death of more than 3.5 million children under five. These figures could be cut dramatically if hand washing with soap were widely practiced, according to World Health Organization (WHO).

The global Public-Private Partnership for Hand washing with Soap (PPPHW) works to save children’s lives by promoting the awareness of this simple practice.

Research shows that, if widely practiced, hand washing with soap could reduce diarrhea by almost fifty percent and respiratory infections by nearly twenty-five percent.

A large-scale increase in the practice of hand washing with soap would make a significant contribution to meeting the Millennium Development Goal 5: reducing deaths among children under five by twothirds by 2015.

The Global Hand Washing Day was also commemorated in other cities such as Yogyakarta, Semarang (Central Java), Bandung (West Java), Jayapura (Papua), Pontianak (West Kalimantan), and Bandar Lampung (southern Sumatra).

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Abrasion and business waste haunt coastal regions Bali Post

MANGUPURA — Government must take strategic measures in an effort to save and preserve the coastal regions. Two threats deserving to get special attention in the Badung Regency are coastal erosion and water pollution on account of business waste.

A member of Commission B of the Badung House, I Wayan Puspa Negara, said that the coastal region was essentially a buffer zone, so its existence should be absolutely maintained.

However, in harmony with the growth and development of natural phenomena, the coastal regions were progressively getting serious threat.

In Badung Regency, the abrasion-prone coastal regions located in the area of Nusa Dua. Currently, a fairly worrying abrasion occurred in the vicinity of Melia Bali Hotel. Other abrasion also occurred between Seminyak and Batubolong Beach, said Puspa. Although the abrasion did not happen visibly at that location, the abrasion itself was actually underway. “Meanwhile, in other regions, abrasion is not considered alarming. Moreover, a number of initiatives have been taken to overcome them. For example, it has been resolved by installing some groins on the Seseh Beach and through the coastal structuring project at Kuta Beach,” he said.

According to Puspa, when speaking about coastal region it meant to get in touch with crossregency/city matters and they belonged to the authority of provincial government because the con-

dition in a regency or city would affect the coastal regions existing in other regency or city. However, it did not necessarily mean that regional government particularly Badung Regency could avoid the responsibility for this problem.

Badung Regency Government itself had been working on it both physically and non- physically. For example, it had been undertaken through the community empowerment program by putting ashore the traditional boats. Similarly, it had also been resolved by making the legal products. One of them was the draft of Badung Regional Spatial Layout Plan (RTRW) that was being discussed by special committee in the Badung House.

The special committee itself, he said, was making revision to shoreline area, including other things such as mangrove forests.

Puspa asserted that legal products themselves were not enough because the core of legal products lay in the hands of law enforcement officers. So far, the enforcement of regional regulations by relevant agencies in Badung Regency had been quite good. However, it still required more intense supervision to ensure the sustainability of the coastal regions.

Head of Badung Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, I Made Badra, revealed that coastal region in Badung Regency spread along 82 kilometers.

Of that length, only a small part underwent abrasion, namely about 400 meters. In details, it consisted of 300 meters in the Discovery coastal region, Kuta, and the remaining 100 meters in front of the Melia Bali Hotel, Nusa Dua. The abrasion happening in the

coastal region of South Bali had been handled by Bali Public Works with project assistance of Japan. Such handling of the abrasion project, he said, would be continued this year. “Clearly, the abrasion ensued in the coastal regions of Badung Regency will be addressed so that it would not more widespread,” he said.

Apart from abrasion, there were other problems threatening the coastal regions. One of them was pollution of sea water. Public awareness, especially the businesspeople, was considered less optimal. It was evident from the number of recent cases regarding to the water pollution.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Badung Environment Agency (BLH) I Wayan Suteja revealed that one of the most vulnerable water pollutions occurred in the area of Seminyak, Kuta and Legian. It also included in the area having a river estuary such as the Batubelig and Oberoi. The most common type of waste found was the laundry and restaurant waste.

Afterward, the waste caused the outfall of the river get polluted and then continued to the beach.

To resolve the problem, the Badung Environment Agency took preventive efforts by writing to and urged the entrepreneurs to subscribe waste management to the Denpasar Sewerage Development Project (DSDP). This measure was considered to gradually reduce the pollution occurred.

“We can only appeal the management or entrepreneur to no longer dispose their remaining production to the trench. In addition, we have also written for subscription to the DSDP,” he said. (ded)

Ingredients * 4 crabs * 6 Shallots * 2 Stalks lemon grass * 2 ts Tamarind * 1/2 c Boiling water * 1 Handful coriander leaves * 3 Cloves garlic * 1 tb Fresh galangal * 2 To 3 birdseye chillies, -seeded * 4 Candlenuts * 1 t Blachan * 1 t Tumeric * Salt and pepper to taste * 3 tb Oil * 2 c Coconut milk

Directions Cut the 4 crabs into quarters with a cleaver or large knife. With a hammer, gently crack the claws and harder sections of shell.

Finely chop 6 shallots and 2 stalks lemon grass.

Steep 2 teaspoons tamarind in half a cup of boiling water. Chop a handful of fresh coriander leaves.

In a food processor, grind together 3 cloves garlic, 1 tablespoon fresh galangal, 2-3 birdseye chillies, seeded, 4 candlenuts (or substitute 8-10 cashews) and 1 teaspoon blachan (hard dark brown shrimp paste), 1 teaspoon turmeric and salt and pepper to taste. Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a large wok or pan, and fry the paste until fragrant. Add shallots, lemon grass, crab pieces and 2 cups coconut milk. Simmer for quarter of an hour.

Strain the tamarind water and add half to the sauce.

Taste and add more if you wish. Ladle curvy into a serving dish and scatter the fresh coriander on top.

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Dendeng Pedas (‘hot’ Fried Beef) Ingredients * 1 kg (2 lb) topside (beef) * 1 tb Olive oil * 1/2 ts Black pepper 1 tb Dark soya sauce * 10 Shallots * 4 Red chillis (or 2 tbs -Sambal Ulek) * 2 tb Vegetable oil * Salt * 1 tb Lemon or fresh lime juice

Directions * Cut the beef fairly thin and trim it into small, square pieces. Marinate it for 1 hour or longer. Remember that pedas=hot++spicy hot! This is fried beef, with a robust flavour of chilli. Slice the shallots finely. Seed and slice the chillis. Fry them in a tablespoonful of oil, in a wok, stirring all the time until they are golden brown. Add salt to taste. Keep hot. Put a tablespoonful of oil in a thick frying-pan, and fry the slices of meat a few at a time.

Three minutes on each side will be ample*. When all the pieces are cooked, put them into the wok with the shallots and chilli. Heat, and mix well. Sprinkle over the mixture 1 tablespoonful of lemon juice, or, better still, fresh lime juice. Stir, and add more salt if necessary.

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Kehen Temple is a beautiful Hindu temple located in foothills, south part of Bangli Regency and it is about 45 Km from Denpasar town. Inside of this temple are, there is Panyimpenan Temple building keep 3 inscriptions which is relating to its contents and temple existence. It is strategically located in the high land, so we can see the beautiful view. It is a famous temple in Bali and many visitors from foreign country has visited it.

The existence of the inscription at Kehen Temple can be explained as follows: * Kehen Temple Inscription ‘A’ is mentioning the existence of 3 sanctums those are Hyang Api, Hyang Tanda, and Hyang Karimama * Kehen Temple Inscription ‘B’ from 11 century is mentioning the empire functionary that is the Senapati Kuturan pu Kandara and it elaborate with the anathema words in oath * The Inscription from 13 century (year 1204 M) is mentioning Hyang Kehen and Hyang Wukir. At the moment Hyang Kehen is equal to Kehen Temple and Hyang Wukir is Puncak Bukit Bangli Temple.

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* It is one of Monarchic Temple, The temple under the aegis of king while ceremony execution and construction is delivered to local countryside custom * As a sanctum which is used as a altar (oath) for empire functionary who disloyal to his obligation will incur the Sapata or very horrible anathema. The function of Kehen Temple as sanctum in execution of oath ceremony is supported by the existence of a circumlocutory canister by 4 dragon tails which is called canister Sarpantaka. Nowadays, the canister is placed in a building in form of Gedong * Worshiping supremacy Siwa God in the form of Eka Dasa Rudra utilizes to request the godsend to the good human life and universe for blessing of fertile life, secure, prosperous and peaceful.

The structure of Kehen Temple yard is arranged to have a terrace and it shows the existence of tradition megalithic which is continued as a symbol from the existence of mount that is one of the fertility sources.

The temple festival can be divided into 2 types those are Piodalan Ceremony which is executed every 6 month, that is on Wednesday Keliwon Sinta (Balinese Calendar) and Ngusaba Ceremony which is executed every 5 years.

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BUSINESS A woman rides an escalator in the financial district of Shanghai on October 18, 2010.

Nearby the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was meeting central bank officials in the city to discuss ways to strengthen the global economic recovery, amid mounting fears of a damaging allout currency war.

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IMF meets central bank chiefs in Shanghai Agence France-Presse

SHANGHAI - International Monetary Fund and central bank officials from around the world met in China Monday to discuss ways to boost the global economic recovery, amid mounting fears of a damaging currency war.

The People’s Bank of China hosted the conference in the country’s financial hub Shanghai, bringing together central bank chiefs and other officials from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, the IMF said.

The Shanghai conference follows IMF and World Bank annual meetings earlier this month, where finance officials discussed how to strengthen the recovery from the worst recession since World War II and the global financial system.

It also comes ahead of this week’s key Group of 20 meeting in South Korea, where currency reform is expected to dominate talks, amid fears that nations could adopt trade barriers to counter the rising prices of Asian exports.

“The conference is part of the ongoing international examination of the policy challenges posed by the global financial crisis,” the Washington-based IMF said in a statement.

PBOC chief Zhou Xiaochuan and IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn were co-chairing the meeting, the institution said.

The US Federal Reserve was represented by Kevin Warsh, a member of the central bank’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee.

Monday’s meetings had been planned for several months and IlHoung Lee, the IMF’s resident rep-

resentative in China, said all discussions would be carried out behind closed doors.

The talks were focused on macroprudential policies — the big systemic picture of reducing the risk of too-big-to-fail institutions, Chinese central bank policy adviser Xia Bin told reporters outside the meeting room.

In the run-up to the G20 finance ministers’ meeting, which begins Friday in preparation for next month’s Seoul summit, South Korea has warned that frictions over the currency upheaval are growing and could lead to trade protectionism.

The United States, facing midterm elections next month, has ratcheted up the pressure on China to allow the yuan to rise more rapidly, but Beijing insists its currency must not be used as a “scapegoat” for US economic woes.

When asked whether China feared a currency war, He Fan, an economist for the Chinese Academy of Social Science, a top government think tank, said he thought such a situation would be averted.

“Yes, we are concerned. But given historic lessons, a large-scale currency war is unlikely,” He said between attending meetings.

“But we are going to see continuing conflicts particularly in the East Asian region. Countries like Japan and South Korea have similar eco-

nomic structures and both have limited room for monetary policy adjustment.”

Beijing should now tighten capital controls even further to prevent a flood of hot money — speculative funds — from coming into China on expectations that the yuan will appreciate, which would fan inflation, He said.

With Beijing keeping a tight grip on the yuan, many other Asian economies are suffering as their currencies soar against the dollar. Despite Europe’s debt woes, the euro has also surged.

In its statement, the 187-nation IMF added the meeting followed an IMF-sponsored gathering in South Korea of Asian policymakers and leaders in July, at which it “committed to forging a new relationship with the region.”

A year ago, the Group of 20 developed and developing nations tasked the IMF with stepping up its focus on global systemic stability.

Authorities agreed a broader approach was needed to spot weakness in the increasingly interconnected financial system, to complement the traditional micro-prudential regulations of bank-by-bank audit and supervision.

Asia-Pacific leaders will meet for a summit in Japan following the G20 gathering in Seoul next month.

China carmakers’ plans raise overcapacity concerns Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - Booming auto sales in China have spurred manufacturers to step up production so fast that concerns over “blind investment” and overcapacity in the sector are emerging, analysts said. China’s auto market overtook the United States in 2009 as the world’s largest and will remain so this year with up to 17 million vehicles expected to be sold.

The Chinese market potential remains huge in the world’s most populous nation as the percentage of people owning cars is still relatively low, analysts have said.

Sales in 2010 are expected to increase by between 25 percent and 30 percent, after a massive 46 percent surge last year, as an emerging middle class snaps up cars along with other consumer status symbols.

“At the moment, the international joint ventures just don’t have enough capacity to build all the cars they could sell,” Klaus Paur, of TNS Research International, told AFP. “This of course triggers investment decisions,” he said, adding that much of the current growth was coming from China’s inland provinces where the potential for auto sales is the biggest.

To meet the rising demand, foreign automakers last year began announcing plans to increase their production capacity. While gearing up to open its 10th factory in China this year, German auto giant Volkswagen also announced it will open an 11th production facility in 2013.

PSA Peugeot Citroen will boost production capacity at its joint venture plant with Dongfeng from 450,000 units to 750,000 units, while also setting up a second joint venture plant with Chinese automaker Chang’an in Shenzhen.

Since the beginning of last year,

Nissan, Toyota, BMW, Hyundai, the Chinese automaker FAW and others have all announced plans to build new factories. Local provinces and cities are also adopting numerous initiatives to encourage the expansion of production facilities.

But the pace of investment in car production has raised concerns by the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s powerful economic planning agency.

“Serious overproduction capacity will lead to negative market competitiveness, a loss in enterprise efficiency, factory stoppages and other problems,” Chen Bin, a leading commission official, told the National Business Daily while warning of “blind investment” in the sector.

Production capacity of 31 million vehicles projected for 2015 by 30 major manufacturers is nearly double current capacity, but remains lower than the total capacity projected by China’s regional governments, the commission said.

“Manufacturers in the sector think that sales will exceed 30 million vehicles in 2015, but the NDRC (the reform commission) thinks that this figure will not be reached,” said Jia Xinguang, an auto sector consultant.

TNS researcher Paur raised concerns that there will be too much capacity in two or three years “because the market may be slowing down”. Projecting market trends is always difficult for auto makers who often need up to two years to build new plants, he added.

“It’s not the first time the government makes such an alert. It happens every three or four years,” said John Zeng, a market analyst with the consulting firm J.D. Power.

“Manufacturers are paying attention to market swings and will readjust their investment if necessary,” he said, adding that announced increases in production capacity were not always realised.

Singapore warns of technical recession in second half Agence France-Presse

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s tradereliant economy could slip into a technical recession in the second half but full year growth remains on track at up to 15 percent, the government said Monday. “A technical recession, which analysts define as two consecutive periods of negative quarter-on-quarter growth, could happen in the second half of the year,” said Senior Minister of State in the Ministry of Trade and Industry S. Iswaran.

“The pace of recovery in the global economy is expected to remain subdued for the rest of the year. This will affect the performance of our manu-

facturing and trade-dependent services sector,” he said in parliament.

Scheduled maintenance shutdowns for plants in the biomedicals sector, mainly those churning out pharmaceuticals, could also hit the economy’s performance in the second half, he said.

Despite the slowdown in the second half, Iswaran said Singapore remains on track to achieve full-year growth of 1315 percent, owing to the economy’s sizzling rebound in the first six months.

He said the economic outlook for the rest of the year will be underpinned by “continued growth in global demand electronics products” and a robust tourism sector, which has gained a boost from two integrated casino resorts.

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‘Jackass’ gang pulls biggest stunt with $50M debut Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Johnny Knoxville and his “Jackass” gang are even bigger hits in three dimensions. “Jackass 3D,” their latest big-screen collection of crazy stunts and antics, opened with a whopping $50 million, soaring past the debuts of their first two movies, according to studio estimates Sunday.

It was the third-straight No. 1 opening for Paramount’s franchise, which launched with a $22.8 million opening for 2002’s “Jackass: The Movie” and continued with a $29 million debut for 2006’s “Jackass Number Two.” This was the first 3-D outing for Knoxville and his pals, and it was a natural for “what they do. They don’t use it as a gimmick. It’s seamless in their stunts,” said Don Harris, Paramount executive vice president for distribution. “When some guy gets hit in the crotch with a baseball in 2D, it’s one thing, but when he’s kind of up in your face and it happens, it’s another experience.”

“Jackass 3D” set a record for biggest October debut, topping the $48.1 million opening weekend for “Scary Movie 3” in 2003. “Scary Movie 3” sold more tickets than “Jackass 3D,” though, factoring in ticket-price inflation and the premium charge for 3-D screenings, which cost a few dollars more than 2-D movies.

Premiering at No. 2 with $22.5 million was Summit Entertainment’s action comedy “Red,” starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Mary-

Louise Parker in the tale of retired black-ops agents targeted by the CIA. While “Jackass 3D” cornered the market for young crowds, with two-thirds of viewers under 25, “Red” drew an older set, with 58 percent of the audience over 35.

“Between their audience and ours, I think we’ve covered the spectrum of potential movie-goers this weekend,” said Richie Fay, head of distribution for Summit. “What was amazing about this cast was the chemistry and the obvious fun they had making the movie. Older guys and women are really capable of doing things more than sitting in rocking chairs and pushing the remote control.”

Despite the huge opening for “Jackass 3D,” Hollywood was unable to pull out of a box-office slide that has persisted this fall.

Overall revenues totaled $133 million, down 4 percent from the same weekend last year, when “Where the Wild Things Are” led with a $32.7 million debut and “Law Abiding Citizen,” “Paranormal Activity” and “Couples Retreat” combined to add nearly $60 million to the till.

“When you’ve got a $50 million gross and still can’t eke out a win

Bret Michaels hits reality road again

Reuters

LOS ANGELES – Rock ‘n’ roll is absurd, exciting and hyper-real — all ingredients for a fascinating reality TV series, as Bret Michaels (former frontman for Poison) proved with his “Rock of Love” competition shows.

And the plan for VH1’s new “Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It,” premiering Monday, was that cameras would follow him as he tries to be a better dad to his young girls and a better boyfriend to his long-time girlfriend and baby mama Kristi.

But Michaels suffered a life-

threatening brain hemorrhage right as cameras began to roll, putting the series on hold. He recovered, as most everyone knows, and grew his audience with a winning turn on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.” But with his health still in play (he’s also a lifelong diabetic), “Life” becomes a very different type of reality series. Every mundane gesture he makes — to say nothing of his leaping onstage to belt out the 8 millionth rendition of “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” — can be seen in a new light. Can reality TV actually transcend peeping Tom trash and evolve into genuine art?

OK, let’s not get in over our heads.

Michaels is a genuinely charismatic presence, likable even for nonfans of his music. Watching him interact with his mom, who drops by on tour, is a hoot; you’d have to be a stone not to feel for his youngest as she stands nose-to-glass watching him walk down the driveway to hit the road again; and his boneheaded generosity — who invites 20 roadies home for breakfast?

— is sincere and warmly hilarious. But without Michaels onscreen, the light on “Life” dims enough to turn it into an ordinary, plain brown wrapper. Put it this way: On her own, Kristi is no Sharon Osbourne.

AP Photo/Paramount Pictures

In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Johnny Knoxville is shown in a scene from ‘Jackass 3D.’

over the same weekend last year, that says a lot,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. “We’ve been in a slump since Labor Day and even really before that, because we saw kind of a slow end to the summer.”

So far this year, domestic revenue is at $8.5 billion, 3.2 percent above 2009’s record pace. But adding in higher ticket prices, attendance is down 2.3 percent from 2009, according to Hollywood.com.

Sony’s acclaimed Facebook drama “The Social Network,” which had been No. 1 the previous two weekends, held up well as it slipped to third-place with $11 million. The film raised its three-week total to $63.1 million.

In limited release, Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon’s “Hereafter” opened strongly with $231,000 in six theaters. That gave it an average of $38,500 a theater, compared with $16,228 in 3,081 cinemas for “Jackass 3D.” “Hereafter” follows three

characters with unusual connections to the afterlife. Distributor Warner Bros. expands the film to nationwide release this Friday.

Hilary Swank’s legal drama “Conviction,” based on the real-life story of a woman who put herself through law school to clear her brother on a murder rap, opened with $110,000 in 11 theaters, for a $10,000 average. Distributor Fox Searchlight expands “Conviction” to about 70 theaters on Friday.

Hathaway says ex’s arrest taught her to be wary Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – Anne Hathaway is now at a point where she can joke about her former boyfriend admitting he was a con artist. The 27-year-old actress opens up about the ordeal in the November issue of Vogue magazine. Asked to name her “dealbreakers” with men, Hathaway replied, “Uh ... fraud?” and laughs.

Raffaello Follieri pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of millions of dollars by falsely claiming he had Vatican connections that enabled him to buy church property at a discount. He was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison in 2008. Jewelry that Follieri gave Hathaway was recently auctioned off by U.S. marshals.

All joking aside, the actress admits the relationship took its toll. The experience taught her to be “more wary,” she said. “It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I’m very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting.”

Shooting the movie “Love and Other Drugs” opposite Jake Gyllenhaal helped Hathaway move forward, she said. Trust is a theme of the film, and it forced Hathaway to confront the issue. “I was a wreck from start to finish,” Hathaway told Vogue. “I think I cried every single day.” The Oscar-nominated actress is dating actor Adam Shulman. “Love and Other Drugs” opens Nov. 24.

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Bridges built to help Borneo orangutans meet mates Associated Press Writer

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Endangered orangutans on Borneo island are using fire hoses slung across rivers by humans to help them move around isolated forests to potentially meet new mates and boost the species’ chances for survival, an environmental group said Monday.

AP Photo/Courtesy of Ajiran Osman

In this January 2010 photo released by courtesy of Ajiran Osman, a young male orangutan begins his journey on a makeshift bridge across the Resang River, a tributary of the Kinabatangan in Borneo island Malaysia.

Malaysian authorities are building more of the makeshift bridges after some orangutans were spotted using them over the past year, said Marc Ancrenaz, co-founder of French-based conservation group Hutan, which is working with Malaysian state wildlife department officials on orangutan protection.

Conservationists estimate about 11,000 orangutans live in Malaysia’s Sabah state in Borneo, but many are isolated from each other because swaths of forest have been cut for development, logging and oil palm plantations.

Environmental groups and wildlife authorities have been hooking up old

fire hoses strung together between trees on different sides of rivers to help orangutans — which cannot swim — swing or walk across them. The first bridge was set up seven years ago, but it was only last year that an orangutan was captured on camera using one of them.

Witnesses have seen others doing so since then, prompting officials to build more bridges. “It takes a while for the animals to get used to it. ... If we are not able to reconnect them, they will go extinct very soon,” Ancrenaz said.

But the bridges are “just a quick fix” because the long-term solution would be reforestation, Ancrenaz said. Benoit

Goossens, an adviser for the Sabah Wildlife Department, said more bridges will soon also be hung across oil palm plantation moats.

Studies of the orangutan population in part of Sabah indicated they might go extinct within 60 years due to inbreeding and loss of habitat unless the jungle patches are reconnected.

Hutan estimates the number of orangutans in Sabah has decreased eight-fold in the past 15 years, though conservation efforts in recent times have slowed the decline.

Last year, Sabah’s government announced it would bar companies from planting palm oil and other crops near rivers to preserve the natural habitat of orangutans and other threatened animals. Authorities working with the World Wildlife Fund have also pledged to replant trees in crucial territory over the next five years.

Celebs, big donors push Africa’s war on malaria of mosquitoes which suck blood and in the process flush malaria parasites into the bloodstream.

SESHEKE, Zambia – It had These cause bouts of high fever and been a long and difficult journey, can end in fatal organ failure. Mafully deserving of the marching laria can be tamed with drugs, but band and choirs that greeted the there is no vaccine. convoy when it finally rolled into In this corner of Zambia, close this village deep in the African to Namibia and Angola, the bush. The shipment had traveled Zambezi River makes a fertile from a factory in India by sea to breeding ground for mosquitoes.

Kenya, then overland across much Those that carry the malaria paraof southern Africa to the place site usually bite at night, where the paved road which is why bed nets ended. treated with insecticide are The cargo was moslifesavers. quito nets — weapons in Malaria kills close to a a war against malaria, a million Africans a year, disease that has long taken mostly children, a death toll a back seat to AIDS in the close to that of AIDS. Isdell world’s consciousness of himself suffered malaria as Africa’s woes, even a boy growing up in Zamthough it kills almost as bia. “I have shivered in bed many Africans a year as with it, but luckily I got over the HIV virus. it,” he told villagers in In recent years, howSesheke when the nets arever, malaria’s profile has rived three weeks ago. risen in the world of ceFlowers discovered the lebrities and high-spendproblem while visiting ing philanthropists. Acprojects he was funding. In tress Sharon Stone gave Zambia he encountered a the cause a spectacular mother who had just lost boost in a 2005, and the her two-year-old son to shipment of 11,900 mosmalaria. He realized she quito nets to the Zambian did not understand what village of Sesheke was fisimple steps might have nanced and accompanied saved that life.

by Neville Isdell, a former “Your dollar goes a long Coca-Cola CEO, and AP Photo Chris Flowers, a billion- In this photo taken Sept. 30, 2010, a child holds a way toward helping people in a profound way,” he told aire American investor. mosquito net after receiving it at a distribution point It was organized by in Sesheke, Zambia. Malaria, transmitted by mosquito, The Associated Press. “It’s British-based Christian has long taken a back seat to AIDS in the world’s con- such a big problem, and it’s Aid, which works with sciousness of Africa’s woes, even though it kills al- one where people feel they can have some impact.” local churches to distrib- most as many Africans a year as the HIV virus.

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ute the nets free of charge. Chaze Simbotwe, a 72-year-old villager, was astonished at the spectacle of visitors traveling so far to help. She said she lost a child to malaria, and has suffered bouts of the disease herself.

“It is difficult for me to express my gratitude,” she said. “These people have good hearts. Who would have thought of buying an old woman like me a mosquito net?”

The disease comes from the bite

Freshly-harvested Bluefin tunas are uploaded from a “tuna farm”, off the Calabrian coast in southern Italy November 20, 2009.

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World needs urgent action to stop species loss : U.N. Reuters

NAGOYA, Japan – The world cannot afford to allow nature’s riches to disappear, the United Nations said on Monday at the start of a major meeting to combat losses in animal and plant species that underpin livelihoods and economies. The United Nations says the world is facing the worst extinction rate since the dinosaurs vanished 65 million years ago, a crisis that needs to be addressed by governments, businesses and communities.

The two-week meeting aims to prompt nations and businesses to take sweeping steps to protect and restore ecosystems such as forests, rivers, coral reefs and the oceans that are vital for an ever-growing human population.

These provide basic services such as clean air, water, food and medicines that many take for granted, the United Nations says, and need to be properly valued and managed by governments and corporations to re-

verse the damage caused by economic growth. More resilient ecosystems could also reduce climate change impacts, such more extreme droughts and floods, as well as help fight poverty, the world body says.

“This meeting is part of the world’s efforts to address a very simple fact — we are destroying life on earth,” Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Program, said at the opening of the meeting in Nagoya, central Japan.

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are being asked to agree new 2020 targets after governments largely failed to meet a 2010 target of achieving a significant reduction in biological diversity losses.

A U.N.-backed study this month said global environmental damage caused by human activity in 2008 totaled $6.6 trillion, equivalent to 11 percent of global gross domestic product. Greens said the meeting needed to agree on an urgent rescue plan for nature.

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Bayern scent last 16 berth Agence France Presse

AFP PHOTO/PAUL ELLIS

Everton’s English forward Jermaine Beckford (L) fouls Liverpool’s Slovakian defender Martin Skrtel during their English Premier League football match at Goodison Park in Liverpool, northwest England, on October 17, 2010. Everton won 2-0.

Everton down Liverpool as new era starts with loss Agence France Presse

LONDON - Liverpool were beaten 2-0 by Everton in the Merseyside derby on Sunday as the English footballing giants’ new era got off to a bitterly disappointing start. Goals in each half from Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta sealed the points for Everton, who moved up to 11th in the Premier League standings as Liverpool slipped to second from bottom.

In Sunday’s late game, Manchester City slashed Chelsea’s lead at the top of the table to just two points after two goals from talismanic skipper Carlos Tevez and David Silva secured a 3-2 victory at battling Blackpool. City, who were outplayed for long periods by their newly promoted opponents, moved up to second place after the victory.

Earlier, Liverpool’s new American owner John W. Henry looked on at Goodison Park as Roy Hodgson’s Reds crashed to their fourth defeat of the season, leaving them with only six points from eight games. Afterwards a defiant Hodgson denied Liverpool were in crisis despite a defeat which continued their worst start to a season for 57 years.

“I don’t feel it to be a crisis because the way we have played today I don’t think anyone would believe that is the type of football of a team in the bottom three,” Hodgson told the BBC. “I think we can consider our-

selves unlucky.” Hodgson also defended out-of-sorts striker Fernando Torres, who had another fruitless afternoon in front of goal, saying the Spanish international was still struggling to recover his best form after the World Cup. “We don’t have any injury problems with him. He got battered for his performances at the World Cup and mentally he is a bit low,” Hodgson said. “He needs a goal to get his confidence back.

I have no qualms with his performance against Everton.”

Everton boss David Moyes meanwhile was satisfied with a result which lifted them clear of the drop zone. “We are getting away from the wrong end of the table.

We are a good enough team to be at the top end,” he told Sky Sports.

“I thought we have played better in the majority of games than we did today but it was a derby and a different kind of game.

“Some of our performances (earlier in the season) were good but we did not get the result but today we did enough.”

A frenetic opening spell saw

Everton take the lead on 34 minutes. Irish wide player Seamus Coleman surged down the right and cut back an inviting cross for Cahill, who blasted high into the net past Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina. The goal was no less than Everton deserved after they dominated a feisty first half that saw referee Howard Webb book three players — Everton’s Cahill and Liverpool’s Maxi Rodriguez and Raul Meireles.

Ayegbeni Yakubu forced a smart low save from Reina shortly before Everton took the lead, while Reina had to be alert on the stroke of half-time to save a rising long-range shot from Leon Osman.

Spanish midfield maestro Arteta doubled Everton’s lead five minutes after the interval, lashing home a swerving right-foot shot from the edge of the area. With the clock ticking down, Torres saw a shot well-saved by Tim Howard but it could not mask another disappointing afternoon for the Spaniard, who also picked up a late booking.

MUNICH - Bayern Munich can take a large step towards securing a spot in the Round of 16 with a victory at home over CFR 1907 Cluj on Tuesday. The 2010 Champions League runners-up have already booked two wins in two matches in Group E and are looking for their sixth straight home victory in the Champions League dating back to last season.

But Bayern boss Louis van Gaal continues to have massive personnel problems, even though Bastian Schweinsteiger was able to play as a substitute in the Bundesliga on the weekend against Hanover 96 while Ivica Olic (broken nose) took part in Sunday morning training and Daniel van Buyten (back) is expected to be available.

Definitely out for the fourtime European champions against the Romanian title-winners will be Arjen Robben, Frank Ribery, Breno, Diego Contento, Mark van Bommel, Miroslav Klose and David Alaba.

Van Gaal even nominated Christoph Knasmuellner and Nicolas Juellich from the amateur U23 side for the bench

against Hanover. For all the success Bayern have had in the Champions League, they have struggled this term domestically, trailing surprise leaders Mainz by 13 points going into the national team break with two consecutive losses.

But Mario Gomez emerged with his first three Bundesliga goals of the season in helping the injury-riddled Bavarians to a 3-0 victory to move within 10 points of new leaders Borussia Dortmund.

With the injuries to Klose and Olic, the hat-trick by Gomez against Hanover is all the more important as the German international will be key to Bayern’s offensive attack in the coming weeks. “I hope that the team collected some confidence today because we have some important tasks ahead. Now we have to continue where we left off,” said Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

A victory over Cluj on Tuesday would also benefit Bayern in the Bundesliga. “Due to the situation in the Bundesliga, we have to make sure that we qualify for the Round of 16 as early as possible to put more focus on the league,” added Rummenigge.

Real eye top spot and Milan revenge Agence France Presse

MADRID - The two most decorated teams in European football Real Madrid and AC Milan, face off at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday with both teams looking to seize the upper hand in Champions League Group G. At present record nine-time winners Real are two points ahead of seven-time champions AC Milan having won all three of their matches without conceding a goal and victory would virtually put them in the knockout stage.

The other Group G teams Auxerre and Ajax have just one point between them leaving Real and Milan battling it out for top spot.

Real have plundered 10 goals in their past two league matches to go top of the Spanish first division where they have the best defence and attack, however, Milan defeated Real 3-2 at the Bernabeu in last season’s group stage thanks to a late Alexandre Pato winner.

Brazilian Pato, 21, is back from injury and scored twice in the 3-1 win over Chievo on Saturday to warm up for the Real clash. Real will have revenge on the brain and their Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, a two-goal hero in the 41 thumping of Malaga on Saturday, believes Real are clicking into gear.

“The Malaga victory gives us a lot of confidence for the Milan

game on Tuesday when we have a lot to play for,” said Ronaldo. “We know a win over the Italians would practically qualify us for the knockout phase. We are coming into the game in good form.”

Milan are also in good form lying join top of the table with Inter after the 3-1 win over Chievo on Saturday. Real boss Jose Mourinho won the trophy with Inter Milan last season and had an impressive record against city rivals AC Milan with three wins and one defeat in the four Serie A meetings.

“I am happy with the evolution of the team,” Mourinho said. “We score goals because we have goalscorers in the team and if we beat Milan we are practically in the knockout stage.”

Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri had some run-ins with Mourinho during his time as Cagliari manager and Allegri was voted best coach of the 2009 season ahead of Mourinho despite the Portuguese coach winning an historic league, cup and Champions League treble at Inter.

Italian international Andrea Pirlo believes the current Milan side are reminiscent of the Carlo Ancelotti side that won the Champions League in 2003 and 2007.

“This team reminds me a lot of the Milan under Carlo Ancelotti when we played with an attacking midfielder, with Kaka or Rui Costa,” said Pirlo.

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Kleiza scores 23, Raptors top Suns 121-100 Associated Press Writer

TORONTO – Linas Kleiza scored 23 points, Jarrett Jack and Amir Johnson had 17 apiece and the Toronto Raptors beat the Phoenix Suns 121-100 in a preseason game Sunday. Sonny We e m s a d d e d 1 6 p o i n t s f o r Toronto, and Andrea Bargnani had 15 and DeMar DeRozan 14.

Steve Nash led Phoenix with 16 points, adding a team-high seven rebounds and six assists, but the Suns lost for the fifth time in six preseason games.

Hakim Warrick scored 14, Jason Richardson and Josh Childress each had 12, and Grant Hill added 10 for Phoenix, which has dropped three straight since beating Dallas on Oct. 9.

The Suns have allowed 100 points or more in all five of their preseason defeats. Bargnani had struggled with his shooting in Toronto’s first five games, going

16 for 64, but was better Sunday, making five of his first six and finishing 7 for 12.

Raptors forward Reggie Evans had 12 rebounds and Johnson had 11 as the Raptors outrebounded the Suns 57-38. Toronto trailed by 11 points after one quarter, but closed the gap in the second, outscoring Phoenix 31-22 and getting within 55-53 at the half.

The Raptors kept it up in the third, shooting 15 for 29.

DeRozan scored eight points and Jack had seven as Toronto took a 92-79 lead into the fourth.

Hedo Turkoglu, traded from Toronto to Phoenix this summer after one disappointing season with the Raptors, was booed during pregame introductions and every time he touched the ball.

Turkoglu, who scored five points in 19 minutes, jokingly booed fans sitting courtside as he checked in at the scorer’s table in the second quarter.

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Ivanovic ends title drought in Linz Agence France Presse

LINZ, Austria - Ana Ivanovic ended a title drought stretching back two years by defeating Switzerland’s Patty Schnyder 61, 6-2 to win the WTA event in Linz on Sunday. The seventhseeded Serb had reached four semi-finals this season, but had failed to win a tournament since she triumphed at the same event in 2008.

Schnyder, who also lost the 2005 and 2007 Linz finals as well as a final in Budapest this year, remains without a title since she won in Bali in 2008. The former French Open champion didn’t drop a set all week and wrapped up the final in just 47 minutes.

It might have been even swifter had she not conceded her serve when leading 5-0 in the second set and then allowed Schnyder to hold serve for the only time in the match. “Patty’s a tough opponent and I honestly didn’t expect this scoreline,” said Ivanovic, who will compete in Luxembourg next week.

“But I did take a lot of risk and tried to be aggressive and step in, and it was working for me today.”

Schnyder began with two doublefaults and went on to drop her opening service game when Ivanovic forced a backhand error.

And although Schnyder then broke in the next game, a further break for 3-1 when Schnyder netted

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Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic returns a ball of her opponent Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in the final of the WTA Open tournament on October 17, 2010 in Linz, some 200 kilometers west of Vienna. a weak backhand put the Serbian back in charge. Ivanovic closed out the first set by winning the last 10 points, and broke for 1-0 in the second when Schnyder mishit a forehand.

A fifth double fault then gave Ivanovic a further break for 3-0, and a brilliantly executed forehand around the netpost hit while on the run left Ivanovic leading 5-0. “I had confidence from the last few matches,” said Ivanovic, “and that helped me to stay aggressive today.

Even though there were a few tough games I still believed in my shots and came up with some good points.”

Ironically, Ivanovic had not even intended to play the event, but she accepted a late invitation to replace

the injured Serena Williams. “It’s amazing how some things work out.

I’m really glad I took the opportunity,” said Ivanovic. “I feel very good here and I’m very happy to have come back this year and win the title again.”

Schnyder admitted that she failed to take her early opportunities but that Ivanovic was simply too good for her on the day. “First and second place it was her performance,” said Schnyder.

“She really played great right from the start, taking the ball so early. It put a lot of pressure on me.

I had the two double-faults and also in the next game I had two points to make my serve, and then it really went away.”

British match referee cornered after Briggs mauling Agence France Presse

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Phoenix Suns guard Goran Dragic, top, drives to the hoop past Raptors guard Sonny Weems (24) during first-half NBA basketball game action in Toronto on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010.

BERLIN - British match referee Ian John-Lewis came under fire Monday after American boxer Shannon Briggs was left in hospital following a crushing defeat to WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine. Briggs bravely went the distance but was left with concussion and two fractured cheekbones during Saturday’s bout, which Klitschko won 120-107, 120107, 120-105 to extend his record to 41 wins, 38 by KO, with two defeats.

Although Briggs got out of the ring by himself, the dreadlocked American collapsed in the toilets minutes later while waiting to undergo doping control, according to Bild newspaper A number of reports Monday hit out at the “passive” approach of match referee John-Lewis, claiming that during the beating of Briggs he never consulted the American to see if he was fit to continue. Criticism was also levelled at Briggs’ coach, Herman Caceido, who later claimed Briggs has “forbidden” him to throw in the towel.

Even Klitschko’s coach, Fritz Sdunek, expressed surprise at Briggs’ corner men. “If that had been my boxer, I wouldn’t have let him go past the 10th round,” said Sdunek. “Briggs probably won’t be the same after being hit so many times.”

According to Bild, Briggs, who weighs 119 kg, took 302 punches to the face and body, 171 of which were deemed clean punches. Official ring doctor Stefan Bock was not asked to intervene in the match, but later ad-

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Ukrainian WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (R) and US boxer Shannon Briggs fight during the WBC heavyweight world championship boxing match in the northern German city of Hamburg on October 16, 2010. Klitschko won the bout on points and retained his title.

Briggs was brought to hospital after the fight. mitted: “I started to be concerned for Briggs as of the sixth round.”

Luan Krasniqi, a former European hevyweight champion, was also stunned by the referee’s decision not to stop the bout. “It’s irresponsible to let a fight go the distance when so many punches are being landed,” Krasniqi told Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

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Ducati hail Stoner after Aussie win Agence France Presse PHILLIP ISLAND - Ducati believe they have finally found the right balance in their bikes after Casey Stoner’s stunning weekend victory in the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island. Stoner destroyed his rivals as he charged to an 8.5 second victory over new world champion Jorge Lorenzo and seven-times world MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi on Sunday.

Stoner surged past Rossi into third place in the championship standings with his third victory in his last four GPs with everything pointing to Ducati finishing the season on a high. This season’s title has gone for the 2007 world champion Stoner, but Ducati are eyeing further wins at Estoril on October 31 and Valencia on November 7 to build a winning bike for the 2011 season.

“Our bike is working really well now,” Ducati team manager Vittoriano Guareschi said. “I would say we have found the right balance for it over the last five races and now we have two left that I think we can do well in.”

Stoner won at Aragon and Motegi before an error of judgement cost him on the opening lap at Sepang before his eye-catching showing at Phillip Island. “Casey

was simply incredible this weekend.

He was fast from the start here in practice, he took pole position, set an unbelievable pace in warm-up and then produced a frightening race,” Guareschi said.

“We don’t know where his true limit was in the race because I think if he needed to he could have won by an even bigger margin.” Rossi was another to marvel at Stoner’s stellar performance as he left his rivals flailing in his slipstream.

“Today Casey was riding in a different sport and I want to say congratulations to him,” Rossi said. “The podium was the maximum for us but it was still a hard fight to get there.”

Lorenzo said he was powerless to prevent Stoner from charging away to victory.

“We knew Casey would be hard to beat,” he said. “I tried my best,

riding as hard as I could at the start and occasionally it seemed like I was closing a little bit, but then on the next lap Casey would extend his lead again by a few tenths.

“I kept trying but I didn’t have much hope and halfway through I decided it was better not to take risks. I really enjoyed riding here and sliding a bit on my M1 (bike), it was fun but this was Casey’s race.”

Stoner, who stormed to his fourth consecutive Australian MotoGP, said he wanted to continue in his rich vein of form through to the end of the season.

“I have to admit that before the race I was feeling the pressure, I was more nervous than I normally am but maybe I should be like that more often because I didn’t make mistakes,” he said.

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McLaren: Writing drivers off ‘unwise’ MCLAREN boss Martin Whitmarsh has warned rivals that it would be “unwise” to write Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton off the title battle despite their gap to the top of the standings. With only three races remaining, Hamilton is 28 points behind championship leader Mark Webber, with Button three points adrift of his team-mate.

The gaps mean that the McLaren duo will need the drivers in front to endure a series of poor races in order to have a shot at the title.

Despite that, Whitmarsh says his team will not give up until the end, and insisted it would not be clever to rule his drivers out of the fight.

“With three races remaining, and 75 points on the table for the drivers, it would be unwise to write off Jenson, Lewis or McLaren,” said Whitmarsh.

“Both drivers have won world championships before - they understand the difficulties of such a unique situation, and both have learned how to deliver their best under high pressure. They will be ready for this battle.

“And it’s a battle that will doubtless be won by consistency. While we will continue with our aggressive development strategy, bringing

further new components to this race, we’re mindful of the need to bag points at every race. “Nonetheless, we are committed to winning, and won’t give up without a fight.”

Hamilton has scored just 10 points in the last three races, thanks to his fifth-place finish at the Japanese Grand Prix, where the Briton was hit by a gearbox failure. The 2008 world champion had already being hit with a penalty for changing the gearbox ahead of the race. Whitmarsh clari-

fied, however, that thanks to the rules, Hamilton will not have another penalty next week in Korea.

“Following his gearbox issue in Suzuka, Lewis will not face a second successive five-place grid penalty this weekend,” he said.

“The gearbox regulations were framed to ensure teams weren’t penalised twice for the same gearbox issue, so Lewis will go into the weekend without risk of further penalty.”

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Two McLaren cars is seen during a race.

Casey Stoner of Australia powers his Ducati motorbike out of Siberia Corner on his way to winning his fourth consecutive Australian Grand Prix motorcycling MotoGP race at Phillip Island on October 17, 2010.