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The Spanish-designed CASA C-212 lost contact with air traffic con-trol early Thursday while flying from North Sumatra to Aceh province. Minutes later, it sent out a distress signal, then dropped off the radar.

Rugged, forested terrain and bad weather had prevented rescu-ers from reaching the crash site by foot, and the wreckage was spotted from a helicopter Friday in the Leuser mountains at an altitude of 5,000 feet (1,524 meters).

Early Saturday, 13 rescuers were lowered by helicopter by rope to the crash site, following two

others who had reached the site just before darkness fell Friday.

“They found the bodies in their seats with their seat belts on,” Su-narbowo Sandi, head of the local search-and-rescue team, told The Associated Press from his monitor-ing post in a village near the crash site in the Bahorok region, about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) north-west of the capital, Jakarta.

The bodies included all 14 pas-sengers and four crew members. Four of the dead were children.

Hopes had been raised that there may be survivors after the aircraft was

spotted intact with one of its doors open, and rescuers dropped food and medicine down to the crash site.

The victims’ relatives, who had been waiting for information, broke down in tears when they learned that their loved ones were found dead. Many of them accused the airline — PT Nusantara Buana Air — of taking far too long to give them information.

“The rescue operation was too slow and unprofessional,” Rosmawati Harahap, who lost her son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren in the crash, said while sobbing.

But rescuers insisted that tor-nado-like winds and heavy fog hampered their efforts to reach the crash site.

“The conditions were really bad,” said Sandi, the search-and-rescue official, adding that rescu-

ers were further hampered by the mountainous terrain and impen-etrable forests.

Robur Rizallianto, a safety manager with the airline, said “all efforts” were made to try to save the passengers. It was unclear what caused the crash, and Indonesia’s transportation safety commission was investigating the accident.

The aircraft, made in Indonesia in 1989, was last inspected Sept. 22, according to Rizallianto. It was in good condition, and a check ahead of takeoff Thursday also came up clean, he said.

Indonesia, a sprawling archipe-lagic nation of 240 million people, has been plagued by transporta-tion accidents in recent years, from plane and train crashes to ferry sinkings. Many are blamed on overcrowding and poor safety standards.

Associated Press

PADANG — Indonesia’s anti-terrorism squad has arrested one of the country’s most wanted Muslim militants for allegedly

plotting suicide attacks.Local police chief Lt. Col. Lufti

Martadian said Sunday that Beni Asri was captured without a fight on Friday near his parents’ house in Solok of West Sumatra province.

He says that Asri was flown to Jakarta hours after he was arrested for allegedly helping plot a suicide bombing in a church in the Central Java town of Solo on Sept. 25 that injured 22 worshippers.

The 26-year-old was one of five men wanted for allegedly plotting an April suicide bombing that injured 30 police officers praying in a mosque in the West Java town of Cirebon.

AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

Relatives of plane crash victims cry after they learned that their loved ones were found dead in Bahorok, Nort Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. The bodies of all 18 people who were on board the plane that crashed into the jungle-covered mountains of western Indonesia were recovered from the wreckage Saturday, an official said.

Associated Press

BAHOROK — The bodies of all 18 people who were on board a plane that crashed into the jungle-covered mountains of western Indonesia were recovered from

the wreckage Saturday, an official said.

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Mangupura (Bali Post) –Badung House of Representatives Commission A has been going to

the central government to solve the teacher crisis at Badung as they think there are still spaces for central government to produce moratorium in

-man Satria, when contacted last Friday (30/9) stated that Badung demand for teachers is high following 250 teachers retiring and predicted will be 650 by the end of 2012.

It was said if there are no recruitments until 2013 it is worried that Badung will have no teachers and affects studying processes. Even so schools took committee teachers, the other problem would be salary as committee teacher are less than minimal salary which in Badung IDR 1,221,000 per month. “This is the reality and a problem that needs at-tention so the quality of education can be better,” Satria stated.

Moreover stated, in the three ministers agreeing letter connected to the moratorium, It was said in the ‘shopping workers’ regulations stated can’t be more than 50 percent of the Regional Budget and Expenses

recruit civil state workers especially for teachers and medics. “Looking at these holes so we have to work hard to recruit them. This beginning of October we ask all institute involved such as Education Agency, Health Agency, BKD Badung, and Badung Hospital for consultation and listen to State Aparatur Sources Using Minister explanation,” Satria concluded. (kmb25)

Both hamlets in the most apprehensive condition are the Munduk Andong Tengah and Munduk Andong Atas. During this time, residents at both hamlets only rely on the supply of rainwater. When it never rains, they continue to get confused. “Our water sup-ply in the reservoir has bogged down for over three months as the rain never comes,” sighed Wayan Nuarta, 27, a resident of Munduk Andong Tengah, Friday (Sep 30).

Residents at both hamlets

In details, Munduk Andong Tengah came to 20 families and Munduk Andong Atas did 60 families. All residents relied on the rainwater accom-modated in each water tank. Every house compound had a water tank donated by a phi-lanthropist a few years ago. It

averagely could accommodate up to 500 liters of water. When being full, the water supply in the tank could be used up to four months. Since there was no rain, lots of water tanks were neglected as did not contain any water. “We have to take water to the source by passing through a steep path,” said Nuarta.

Last Saturday, this man was seen so busy carrying jerrycan. He went down the steep path on foot from the highway to the water source at Munduk Andong Bawah. Every day, Nuarta had to take at least two jerrycans of water. The water itself was used to meet the cooking and drinking needs. Meanwhile, for bathing and washing, they had to walk to the water source near the creek.

According to Nuarta, it was

impossible for his party to persistently buy clean water because it was quite expensive. Moreover, local residents only relied on the income from the yield of garden. Most local residents preferred to find clean water by their own ef-fort. They expected the springs could be taken up to the house of each resident.

Approximately in 1999, the local residents had set up a pump to drain the water into their homes. However, since it was required high cost of elec-tric bills, the facility eventually turned dormant. “Many people could not afford to pay the elec-tric bill. So, the water pump is no longer used,” said another resident. In reality, the spring at Munduk Andong Bawah was relatively large. However, the fairly steep location made peo-

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Singaraja (Bali Post) –The Language and Art (FBS) Faculty of Ganesha Education Uni-

versity (Undiksha) at Ahmad Yani Street last Friday (30/9) had a tense atmosphere and filled with batalyon Infantri Yonif 900 Raider troops who are trying to free a number of students and lecturers captivated by an armed group. In this simulation Ahmad Yani was closed from East and West sides, where the Raider troops show the fast way in freeing captives inside the campus. The simulation invited a lot of public to see. Two units of war vehicles including trail kind motorcycles also show how the army chased the bus with the captives.

In the simulation the negotiator of the Raider troops did try to front the armed group yet the group asked for IDR 2 billion. Even though it’s fulfilled, the unknown group still captivated a girl student and a lecturer which then brought by a bus. The Army led by Dan Yonif 900 Raider, Lieutenant Agustinus Dedy Prasetya, directed his terror management team, Gultor 900 Raider. Chase act between them happened all along Ahmad Yani Street, Singaraja, causing traffic, which then they success-fully stopped the bus in front of Mumbul Market. Without any fight back, the armed group surrendered. “We did the simulation to prepare in securing the coming ASEAN conference,” Prasetya explained.

Dandim 1609 Buleleng, Lieutenant Inf. Nugroho also stated the same and he thinks this is to prepare the Land Army in protecting territorial areas especially in their awareness. (kmb15)

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A resident of Baturiti shows the tap that doesn’t give any water.

Drought causes residents of two hamlets in clean water crisis Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Drought in Tabanan is getting more apprehensive. Not only farmer, the water crisis itself also engulfs the people at two hamlets of Bangli Village, Baturiti. Since three months ago, they have undergone clean water crisis. As a result, they have to buy water for their daily needs. For indigent residents, they are forced to take water as far as one kilometer.

Land Army Simulation

Raider Freed CaptivatedUndiksha Lecturers

Teacher Crisis in BadungCommission A Finds Out at Central

3International Bali News Monday, October 3, 2011

Moreover, the salt productioncom-pletely stopped during the rainy sea-son because the salt-making processheavily relied on the heat of the sunto get decent results. When it rained,the equipment of salt farmers practi-callystackedaway.Activityof farmerswas not so visible. Alternatively, theyamassed mosaic pebbles on the beacharound the salt production center.

production also increases,” said DewaOka who always made salt everydaywith his wife, DewaAyu Rai.

Unfortunately, the salt maker fromthe Pesatria II Hamlet, Kusamba,remained sad because when his saltproduction increased, the price in themarket even dropped. A month ago,thepriceofwas IDR10,000butwhenproduction increased this month iteven dropped to IDR 7,000 per foodcontainer (1.5 kg). “We have deeplyinvolved in the salt making for16years namely since 1995, but gave noincrease in family economy. It’s justenough for daily needs. Since havingno other activities, we are forced tocontinue this work,” said Dewa Okawhile adding the salt making hadbeencarriedout forgenerationsbyhisparents. Today, with his wife, DewaOkacultivated thesalt-makingareaof

seven ares yielding some 15-20 foodcontainers of salt in good weather astoday.

Similar destiny was also expe-rienced by another farmer, KetutKaping, 50. According to him, thesalt product of Kusamba actuallyhad quality. However, it was oftenwedged by salt product from the JavaIsland though its quality was muchlower. “However, the price is 50 per-cent cheaper. As consequence, manypeopleprefer tochoosesalt fromJava,

-cessing at Kusamba tend to use Javasalt,” said Kaping.

According toKaping, thesalt farm-ers at Kusamba often got orders fromforeign country like Japan. Only, thecurrentamountofsalt farmershadcon-tinued to shrink. Kaping had alreadybeen a salt maker for more than 20years.Hewasmorefortunatethanothersalt farmersashewasable tosendtheirtwochildrentoschool.Theeldestchildwasin thesecondgradeofhighschool,

grade of secondary school. “Manychildren of my friends dropped out ofschoolanddecidedtowork.Onlyafeware willing to follow the work of theirparents of making salt,” he said.

Currently, the price of salt was IDR

7,000 per food container from previ-ously reaching IDR 10,000.This goodweatherwaspredictedtolastuntilearlyDecember2011so itwas takenadvan-tageby farmers toproduce salt in largequantities. Moreover, recently, manytofuemployers required thedepositionofsaltwaterforthetofumixtureinsteadofusingformaldehyde.Priceof thesaltwater deposit, according to Kaping,was IDR 70,000 per cracker can.

Meanwhile, the salt farmers ad-mitted to face an obstacle such as theprogressively risingpriceof theequip-ment.For instance, thepriceof rubberfor the making of ladle, a tool used toconvey sea water to salt productionhut, was IDR 30,000 per piece and sowas the drying equipment.

Earlier, Deputy Chairman ofKlungkung House,A.A. Sarjana, re-quested the Klungkung Regency tointervene for resolving the issues ofsalt farmers.Anyhow, the traditionalsalt-making had to be preserved.According to Agung Anom, gov-ernment should provide assistanceto farmers for the procurement ofequipment. Currently, conditionof most salt making equipmentshad been damaged. Hence, the saltfarmers tended to divert the morepromising profession. (bal)

Dunami sapproach withThe7 Habits ofHighly Ef-f ec t ive Peop le ProgramTo build a great organi-

-leaders and an effect ivepeople who execute the

with excel lence.Great leaders who in-

spired trust are essential .Without themthere is no-vis ion of whereto go-nors t ra tegyynorsys tems forgetting there.But thegreatleaderareni t enough.

E ff e c t i v e i nd iv i dua l sa r e e s s e n t i a l . Wi t h o u teffect ive people , the or-

mediocri ty or worse. But IBP/File

A salt farmer is carrying his salt.

Salt farmers at verge of extinction Sandwiched between Java and imported salt

people have left this activity because the result is uncertain,” said Dewa Putu Oka when met at

Effective Individuals Can Build Something Important and Enduring

IBP/ist

Putu Sukadana, the General Manager of Dunamis Mitra Dewata

effect ive individuals areni t enough.Without a shared process for focusing on and exect-

capable people fa l l shar t ot greatness . But with sucha process , great people can bui ld something importantand enduring.

Putu Sukadana , Genera l Manager of DunamisMit raDewata sa id , an effec t ive individuals are individuals

the others . The habi t is a behavior pat tern that consis tsof three elements meet each other, namely: Knowledge,Desire, and Skil ls . Habits we acquire by learning, ratherthan we inheri ted, hence i t becomes a part of our l ives .However, what we have now is not our habi t . We cancreate or release our habi ts . One of the habi ts we haveto grow up to develop “Be Proact ive”.

Being proact ive has a sense that mankind is respon-sible for his own life. We always act naturally and not bethe target of the action. Responsibil i ty can be defined asthe abi l i ty to respond, abi l i ty to choose your response.People who proact ively learn responsibi l i ty. They donot blame circumstances and condi t ions that affect at-t i tudes. They develop the abi l i ty to choose an answer /response, so the response is a resul t of their values , theresul ts of feel ings or si tuat ions. The opposi te of proac-t ive is reac t ive . Regular ly remove the reac t ive char-acter is t ics responsibi l i t ies . React ive mean avoid fromresponsibi l i ty. “He made me very angry!”,” I am notresponsible”. “I am emotional ly affected bysomething

model behavior to human behavior in the form of rela-t ionship” St imulus-Response “that is react ive. The ideaisweare condi t ioned to respond in some cases to severals t imulus. This means that a proact ive model that asser tsthat between st imulus and response, there is freedom tochoose the response. Putu added.

-ey, based in Salt Lake City, USA-throughDunamisMitraDewataapproach with the program of The 7 Habits ofHighly Effective People. Workshop of The 7 Habits ofHighly Effective People will be held on 11 - 13 October,2011 at the Rama Beach Hotel, Kuta-Bali . The workshopwill be conducted by facili tators who have been certifiedby Dunamis-FranklinCovey. With the 7 Habits program,leaders will be able to improve personal and professionalachievement, develop more meaningful relationships, en-hance the abili ty to work with or through another person,increase effectiveness and productivity by focusing on the

-personal communication, creating effective collaboration,and achieve balance in work and dai ly l i fe .

International4 Monday, October 3, 2011 News

Khan is “the uncle of Siraj and Badruddin Haqqani ... one of the highest ranking members of the Haqqani network and a revered elder of the Haqqani clan,” the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.

Siraj, or Sirajuddin, Haqqani and his brother, Badruddin, are sons of veteran Afghan militant commander Jalaluddin Haqqani.

NATO said Khan had managed bases and operations in both Af-ghanistan and Pakistan, and moved forces across the border for attacks,

as well as transferring funds and sourcing supplies. The force called him “the senior Haqqani com-mander in Afghanistan.”

Khan was captured on Tues-day in Jani Khel district of Paktia province along with his deputy and bodyguard, in an operation by Afghan and foreign forces, NATO said.

He was heavily armed but “sub-mitted ... without incident or re-sistance,” the force said. It did not detail how they had identified Khan.

The Taliban, to whom the Haqqani network has pledged al-legiance, denied that Khan had been captured.

“I have just spoken with Haji Mali Khan, he is fine and is somewhere else and hasn’t been detained,” spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters. “This is a baseless news and it has been released in order to weaken Mujahideen’s morale,” he said.

Members of the Haqqani net-work declined to comment on the ISAF statement, but confirmed to Reuters that Khan is Sirajuddin Haqqani’s maternal uncle.

They said he was not a senior commander but his relatives are in-volved in the Haqqanis’ fight against NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Agence France Presse

Venezuela’s firebrand Presi-dent Hugo Chavez reiterated his support for ousted Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi and embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, calling them “brothers.”

“I ask God for the life of our brother Kadhafi... No one knows where Kadhafi is, I think he went to the desert,” Chavez told official television VTV on Saturday.

The 57-year-old Venezuelan leader has defended Kadhafi since the start of the uprising against his regime in February, accusing NATO of using the conflict to gain control over Libya’s oil.

The whereabouts of Kadhafi, who ruled the north African na-tion with an iron fist for more than

four decades, are unknown.Chavez has refused to recog-

nize Libya’s new interim leader-ship, ridiculing its UN repre-sentative Ibrahim Dabbashi as a “puppet” and a “dummy.”

The Venezuelan leader said he had spoken by telephone late Fri-day with Assad, who is fighting “an aggression from Yankee imperial-ists and their European allies.”

“Our solidarity is with the Syrian people, with President Bashar,” he added.

Foreign ministers of the eight member states in the leftist ALBA bloc plan to travel to Syria to prevent what Chavez called “the madness of war by (US) President (Barack) Obama and his impe-rial allies to destroy the Syrian people.”

Agence France Presse

Attackers used explosives and gunfire to target a military patrol near a wedding in violence-torn northeastern Nigeria, with residents reporting two civilians killed in the violence.

The incident on Saturday, Nige-ria’s independence day, occurred in Maiduguri, hit by scores of attacks blamed on an Islamist sect known as Boko Haram, which also claimed an August bombing of UN head-quarters in the capital Abuja.

“There was a bomb and gun attack on one of our patrol teams yesterday,” said Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mo-hammed, spokesman for a military task force deployed to Maiduguri. “Our men responded to the attack but details are still sketchy.”

Residents reported that two peo-ple were left dead after the bomb blast and an exchange of gunfire between soldiers and residents. It was unclear whether they were killed by the bomb or gunfire.

Those attending a nearby wed-ding took cover when the violence

broke out. Two residents said those killed were not part of the wedding.

Thousands have fled Maiduguri in recent months out of fears of further violence. Dozens of similar bomb blasts have hit the city as well as assassinations blamed on Boko Haram.

While most of its attacks have occurred in Nigeria’s northeast, Boko Haram also claimed responsi-bility for the August 26 bomb blast at UN headquarters in Abuja that killed at least 23 people.

AFP Photo/Aminu Abubakar

Attackers used explosives and gunfire to target a military patrol near a wedding in violence-torn northeastern Nigeria, with residents reporting two civilians killed in the violence.

Bomb blast, shootout in north Nigerian city

AFP Photo/Leo Ramirez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, seen here at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, on October 1.

Chavez backs his ‘brothers’

AP Photo/Mohammed Riaz, File

FILE- In this Aug. 22, 1998 file photo, Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant group the Haqqani net-work, speaks during an interview in Miram Shah, Pakistan.

Reuters

KABUL - NATO-led forces said on Saturday that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in eastern Paktia province earlier in the week.

Activities Monday, October 3, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for August 31 through October 5, 2011

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

31 Aug Buda Umanis Tambir Sari Bankar Titih Temple Kapal

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

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

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

27 Sep Tilem Ketiga Ulun Kulkul TempleUlun Kulkul Besakih

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

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

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

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KUTA - Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park received the 2011 Indonesia De-sign Magazine’s Editor’s choice award for smart budget hotel design.

Indonesia Design is Indonesia’s leading architecture, interior design and lifestyle magazine and has since its inception 8 years ago become the most respected showcase and trend spotter for quality architecture and interior design in Indonesia.

The Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park has been conceptualized by Aston International and opened in May 2011 as the first of Aston’s affordable lifestyle 3 star QUEST HOTELS in Bali.

Norbert Vas, Vice President Sales & Marketing for Aston International said: “We created Quest Hotels with the objective to offer affordable lifestyle

hotels to style conscious but budget minded travelers and to prove that trendy designer hotels do not necessar-ily need to be expensive. This important Editors Choice award is a vindication for us and fills us with a sense of mis-sion accomplished.”

Aston International also operates an affordable lifestyle Quest Hotel in Central Java’s Semarang and will open a 427 room Quest Hotel in Cebu in the Philippines later this year. Further Quest Hotels are under development in Tuban - Bali, Yogyakarta, Makassar and Surabaya.

Quest Hotel is Aston International’s affordable life-style 3 star hotel brand which aims to combine the value of premium budget hotels with unique and inspiring designs, creative hospitality concepts and state of the art technol-ogy for travelers seeking a stylish yet unpretentious environment.

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Monday, October 3, 20116 News International

“More than 700 peoplewere arrested. Most of themfor disorderly conduct,” aNew York Police Depart-ment spokesman told AFP.Some were released aftera few hours, while otherswould likely be held for aday or could receive a courtsummons, he said.

Earlier, another NYPDspokesman said there were“several hundred protestorswho decided to walk on theroadway and who blockedtraffic. Some heeded thewarnings, some left, and ar-rests were made.” The “Oc-cupy Wall Street” group in-spired by the pro-democra-cyArab Spring movementshad said on its website that“at least 50” protestors had

been arrested.Police shut down the

Brooklyn Bridge “for acouple of hours” in the lateafternoon, the NYPD said,adding that many protes-tors had remained on thebridge’s pedestrian walk-way without incident.

“Occupy Wall Street”said it had staked its groundin downtown Manhattan“as a symbolic gesture ofour discontent with the cur-rent economic and politicalclimate.” “We are all races,sexes and creeds. We arethe majority. We are the 99percent. And we will nolonger be silent,” it added.

Protestors have addedpolice brutality to theirlengthy and still vaguely

pepper spray against fourdemonstrators who hadalready been shut inside apolice pen a week ago. InBoston on Saturday, twen-ty-four protestors werearrested and charged withtrespassing as a vast crowdmarched outside Bank of

Right to the City, the co-alition of advocacy groupsthat organized the demon-stration, said the event washeld to protest corporategreed and to stop bankforeclosures. According toorganizers, around 3,000people marched outside thebank. Police did not pro-vide a crowd estimate.

AFP Photo/Mario Tama

A man scales the support cables above the pedestrian walkway on the Brooklyn Bridge as demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement attempt to cross the bridge in New York City.

More than 700 anti-Wall Street protestors arrestedAgence France Presse

Associated Press Writer

BANGKOK — The Twitter account of Thailand’s new prime min-ister has been hacked by someone posting criticism of her policies.

Government spokeswoman Thitima Chaisaeng says Prime MinisterYingluck Shinawatra’s account was hacked into Sunday morning.The Information and Communication Ministry is looking into whowas responsible.

At least eight messages were posted accusing Yingluck’s govern-ment of incompetence and cronyism.

Yingluck’s Pheu Thai Party won a landslide election victory in July,but critics charge she is just a puppet of her brother, former PrimeMinister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Thaksin was ousted by a military coup in 2006 after being accused

his opponents and supporters.

Thai prime minister’s Twitter account hacked

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — In a quiet, leafy neighborhood of Beijing,a woman has been living in enforced isolation in her book-

married to a Nobel Peace Prize winner the Chinese govern-ment calls a criminal.

In the year since jailed democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobowas awarded the prize, his wife Liu Xia has also becomea prisoner. She has largely been held incommunicado, ef-fectively under house arrest, watched by police, withoutphone or Internet access and prohibited from seeing all buta few family members.

“Liu Xia has been completely cut off from communica-tion with the outside world, and leads a lonely and oppressedlife,” said Beijing activist Zeng Jinyan, the wife of anotherwell-known dissident who has endured bouts of surveil-lance and harassment. “It has already been a year, I dare notimagine how much longer she must bear this pain.”

The Nobel prize announced last Oct. 8 cheered China’sfractured, persecuted dissident community and brought callsfrom the U.S., Germany and others for Liu’s release, but alsoinfuriated Beijing, and authorities harassed and detaineddozens of his supporters in the weeks that followed.

China has a long history of punishing family membersof government critics. But the Liu case is different because

the government seems intent on preventing the frail-looking51-year-old poet with close-cropped hair and wire-rimmedglasses from becoming a rallying point for political activ-ists.

“The Chinese government simply just do not want peopleto be reminded of the emotional, the human aspect of LiuXiaobo in jail, and to do that they also want to erase Liu Xiafrom people’s memory,” said Wang Songlian, a researcherwith China Human Rights Defenders in Hong Kong.

The harsh treatment of Liu Xia seemingly runs afoul ofChina’s laws and might be the most severe retaliation eversuffered by the family of a Peace Prize laureate. “As far as Iknow, the way she is treated is unprecedented in the historyof the Nobel Peace Prize,” said Geir Lundestad, secretaryof the Norwegian Nobel Committee. “Her situation is ex-tremely regrettable.”

Lundestad said the committee is also worried about LiuXiaobo because it has not received any new informationabout his situation since late last year. The government didnot comment.

Jailed China Nobel winner’s wife still silenced

Monday, October 3, 2011 7Indonesia Today International

Associated Press

JAKARTA — The chanting crowd at the radical Muslim protest in Indonesia stood out for its nor-malcy: smartly dressed business-men, engineers, lawyers, smiling mothers, scampering children.

At a time when al-Qaida seems to be faltering, the recruitment of such an educated, somewhat mainstream following is raising fears that Hizbut Tahrir, an enigmatic global move-ment, could prove more effective at radicalizing the Islamic world than outright terrorist groups.

Active in 45 countries, Hizbut is now expanding in Asia, spreading its radical message from Indonesia to China. It wants to unite all Mus-lim countries in a globe-spanning bloc ruled by strict sharia law. It tar-gets university students and profes-sionals, working within countries to try to persuade people to overthrow their governments.

The movement’s appeal to an often influential part of society worries ex-perts. Its goal of an Islamic state may be far-fetched, but it could still under-cut efforts to control extremism and develop democracy in countries such as Indonesia, which the U.S. hopes will be a vital regional partner and a global model for moderate Islam.

“Our grand plan over the next five to 10 years is to reinforce the people’s lack of trust and hope in the regime,” said Rochmat Labib, the group’s Indonesia chairman in a rare interview with a Western reporter. “That’s what we are doing now: converting people from de-mocracy, secularism and capitalism to Islamic ideology.”

Hizbut Tahrir, which means The Party of Liberation, is also raising its profile in the U.S. after operat-ing largely underground since the 1990s. Its first major event was a 2009 conference, followed by an-other one in Chicago this June.

Starkly conflicting views swirl around Hizbut. It has been described as both a peaceful movement to restore one-time Islamic glory and a breeding ground for future suicide bombers, “a conveyer belt to terrorism,” in the words of Zeyno Baran, an expert on Islam in the modern world.

Banned in most countries, Hiz-but remains legal in others, includ-ing the United States, Great Britain, Australia and Indonesia, where its leaders say it has spread to all 33 provinces. It is closely monitored everywhere, and often operates on the knife-edge of legality.

“The rhetoric they have goes to the fringe of democracy,” said Hans Joergen Bonnichsen, the former head of Denmark’s intelligence service. But the Danish Justice Min-istry has twice asked the nation’s top prosecutor if Hizbut could be banned under Danish law, and both times the answer was no.

Its new frontier in Asia ranges from Indonesia and neighboring Malaysia to Pakistan and China, where Beijing has accused it of inciting violence among Muslim Uighurs in the remote west. It has also become the most widespread, and persecuted, radical Muslim group in Central Asia.

The Indonesia chapter is believed to be the largest, with a following estimated in the hundreds of thou-sands, according to Sidney Jones, an

expert on Islam in Southeast Asia.“They are a real force here. They

are a greater long-term threat to Indo-nesia than people who use violence,” said Jones, a Jakarta-based analyst with the International Crisis Group think tank. “Collectively, hardline civil society can have a bigger effect than jihadists and terrorists.”

Her words are echoed by anti-terrorism expert Zhang Jiadong of China’s Fudan University, who said Hizbut is “more harmful than ter-rorist organizations, because it has more influence on ordinary people.” The group, estimated at up to 20,000 members in China, is more likely to foment riots or rebellions than terrorist attacks, he said.

Ismail Yusanto, the group’s urbane spokesman in Indonesia, in-sists that “we are a peaceful Islamic movement.”

The claims of nonviolence con-trast with the movement’s fiery rhet-oric, which calls for the annihilation of Israel — that’s what led to it being outlawed in Germany in 2003 — and exhorts Muslims to fight coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. One flyer shows a decapitated Statue of Liberty with New York City aflame in the background.

The U.S. State Department says the group “may indirectly generate support for terrorism but there is no evidence that it has committed any acts of terrorism.”

Hizbut followers may later “graduate” to terror under the tu-telage of other groups. Often cited are the first British suicide bombers, Asif Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, who attacked a Tel Aviv bar in 2001 and had past Hizbut links.

The Chinese dominance in the domestic market was believed to have been caused by the low number of local industries producing similar goods causing imports to increase, House of Representatives (DPR) Commission VI nember Mustafa Kamal said here on Saturday.

Quoting the results of his own observations, Kamal who is also chief of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) faction in the DPR said in the January-August 2011 period alone, the import of certain products such as foods, drinks, electronics, garments and children`s toys from China reached US$962.8 mil-lion, while the overall value those imports during the period stood at US$2.86 billion.

“Our industries should be able to produce similar products of high quality so that we can minimize the import of goods from China,”

he said.He further criticized the

government`s policies of allowing the import of Chinese electronics which accounted for 33.3 percent or US$817.9 million.

As a matter of fact, one of the Industry Ministry`s visions was to develop technology into a spearhead of product development and market creation. “How can we develop domestic technological products if Chinese products are not restricted,” he said.

The lawmaker noted that the import of Chinese toys now repre-sented 70.6 percent of the overall figure.

The best solution to the Chinese domination of the domestic market was protecting the domestic market and empowering domestic traders so that they could compete with foreign rivals, he said.

Antara

AMBON - World Assembly of Youth (WAY) has awarded men of peace to former Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Maluku Governor Karel Albert Ralahalu.

The award was given to Kalla and Ralahalu by WAY deputy chairman and Central Executive Council`s Chairman of the Indo-nesian Youth National Committee (KNPI) Ahmad Doli Kurnia here on Saturday in connection with World Youth Forum on Peace and Harmony.

Ahmad Doli Kurnia the award was given to Jusuf Kalla because the former vice president was con-sidered an important figure who had a great contribution in peace process following the conflicts in Ambon, Maluku, Poso in Central Sulawesi, and Sampit in Central Kalimantan, and Nangroe Aceh Darusalam in Aceh.

And for Ralahalu, Doli said the former was a hard-working regional leader with a capability to overcome three-year sectarian

conflicts in Maluku from 1999-2002 and a communal clash in Ambon on September 11, 2011.

Doli said the men of peace award for Kalla and Ralahalu was the first from the World Assembly of Youth since the organization was established in 1943.

“This is the first ever award from WAY to former Vice Presi-dent Jusuf Kalla and Maluku Gov-ernor Karel Albert Ralahalu,” Doli said, adding that the organization would present the similar award to the world figures who contributed in various fields for peace and welfare of the community.

On Saturday, Governor Rala-halu officially opened the “World Youth Forum on Peace and Har-mony” in Ambon.

Organized by the World As-sembly of Youth (WAY), the two-day meeting is attended by around 100 members of the National Committee of Indonesian Youths (KNPI) and eight foreign youths representing Timor Leste, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Russia, and the Netherlands.

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

In this Aug. 19, 2011 photo, a boy wears a cap that says “It’s time for the caliphate to lead the world” during a protest against corruption held by members of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.

RI’s dependence on chinese goods alarming Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian public’s dependence on Chinese prod-ucts has reached an alarming level with imports from the Asian eco-nomic giant continuing to increase all the time, a lawmaker said.

Kalla, Ralahalu awarded men of peace

Global Islamic group rising in Asia

8 InternationalMonday, October 3, 2011

Bali Today

The director of vital objects security of the BaliRegional Police Command, Senior CommissionerAdhi S Putra, said here on Friday the security tight-ening was being done among others by stationingofficers at the locations of the bombings in 2002and 2005.

He said among the objects to be given specialattention were the Ground Zero on Jalan Legian inKuta as well as Kuta Square and Muaya JimbaranCoast which was the location of the bombing onOctober 1, 2005.

Adhi said police predicted a lot of people fromvarious countries would gather at the locations tocommemorate the incident that claimed the lives ofhundreds of people including tourists from manycountries.

“Special security measures will be taken as usu-ally many people from various countries would cometo commemorate the second bombings tomorrow orthe first bombings on October 12,” he said.

He said the police would also conduct patrols athotels to beef up hotel security.

In an effort to increase security on the tourist is-land he said the regional police plan to install CCTVsin two vital objects with which the National PoliceHeadquarters could also monitor situation there.

Antara

DENPASAR - Bali traders and exporters havebegun trying to gain a share in Middle Easternmarkets by offering garments, handicraft productsand other non-oil/non-gas commodities to consum-ers there, a provincial trade official said.

The province’s handicraft and other non-oil/non-gas exports to the Middle East reached US 2.3million in the January-August 2011 period withalmost 50 percent of the amount going to Dubai,the United Arab Emirates, said Putu Bagiada, headof the Bali Industry and Trade Office’s exportsection.

The figure represented an increase compared tothat in the same period in 2010 when it was US 2.2million, Putu said, adding, “To Dubai alone, theexport value totaled US 1.1 million”.

He further said consumers in Iran also boughtBali non-oil/non-gas products worth US 1 millionduring the first six months of 2011 while peoplein Saudi Arabia purchased US 108,000 worth ofBalinese non-0il/non-gas commodities.

A man put a flower bou-quet in the Bali Bombing memorial dur-ing the com-memoration of the Bali Bomb-ing. Police in Bali are tight-ening security in a number of locations in Kuta and Jimbaranahead of the anniversary of the second Bali terrorist bombings on Saturday.

Police tighten security ahead of Bali bombings anniversary

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AntaraDENPASAR - Police in ali are ti htenin secu-

rity in a number of locations in uta and imbaranahead of the anniversary of the second ali terroristbombin s on Saturday

Bali exporters trying to gain share in Middle East

However, he said, the export of handicraftproducts including household utensils, furnitureand garments from Bali to the Middle East wasstill fluctuating.

Putu called on Bali’s exporters to intensivelyexplore the markets in other Middle Eastern coun-tries as well as those in Africa and South Asia.

According to Putu, countries where Balinesenon-oil/non-gas commodities had bigger marketshares were in Central America and South Americaincluding Bra il which imported Balinese non-oil/non-gas commodities worth US 2.9 million in theJanuary-August 2011 period.

Meanwhile, the export value of Bali’s prod-ucts to Central American countries like Bahama,Panama and Costa Rica was still relatively smallas it is only totaled US 3.1 million, he said.

Consumers in the United States contributed themost to Bali’s income from handicraft product ex-ports in the January-August 2011 period, namelyUS 71 million. Bali handicraft products enteringthe US market included garments, jewelry andsilver works.

Balinese Culture

9International Monday, October 3, 2011

GULING CELENG(Suckling Pig)

OVERVIEW:If there’s just one dish that people remember

after a visit to Bali, it’s this famous delicacy, usually known by its Indonesian name, Babi Guling.

INGREDIENTS:1 suckling pig, weighing about 6-8kg1½ tbsp salt200 shallots, peeled and sliced100 gr cloves garlic, peeled and sliced50 gr ginger, peeled & chopped300 gr candlenuts, chopped350 gr fresh turmeric, peeled &chopped3 tbsp coriander seeds, crushed80 gr laos, finely chopped120 gr bird’s-eye chilies, sliced10 stalks lemon grass, finely sliced1 tbsp black peppercorns, crushed1 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted5 fragrant lime leaves, finely shredded2 salam leaves2½ tbsp oil4 tbsp turmeric water

PREPARATION:Ensure inside of suckling pig is completely

cleaned out. Season inside and outside with salt. Combine all other ingredients, except turmeric water, and mix thoroughly. Fill inside of suckling with mixture, close belly with str ing or thin satay skewer. Rub the outside of the pig with turmeric water until the skin is shiny yellow.

Place suckling pig on roasting rack and roast in hot oven (220°C / 425°F) for approximately 1 hour. Rest for 10 minutes in warm place before serving. When serving, first remove the crisp skin with a strong carving knife, then loosen meat from the bones and cut into even dice or slices. Place a heaped tablespoon of stuffing on each serving plate, and then top with meat and skin. Traditionally this dish is eaten with Jukut Nangka Mekuah and steamed rice.

Helpful hint: If you have a large barbeque with rotisserie or constantly turning spit, you can cook the pig over charcoal for an authentic Balinese flavor. (http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Antara

Kuta - State airport operatorPT Angkasa Pura I will allocateRp2.1 trillion in funds for theexpansion of Ngurah Rai interna-tional airport in Bali.

“The funds will come fromAngkasa Pura I’s internal cashsources and syndicated loansfrom national banks,” Director ofNgurah Rai Airport DevelopmentProject Sri Unon Setyasih said onSaturday.

The funds would be used torenovate a number of buildingsand facilities at the airport built on285 hectares of land, she said.

“Through the project theairport`s international terminalwill be expanded to 129 thousandsq meters from 65.8 thousandsq meters. The domestic termi-nal which covers 13.3 thousandsq meters will be moved to theformer location of internationalterminal. The airport’s apron willbe expanded to 300.2 thousandsq meters from 214.5 thousand sqmeters,” she said.

The funds would also be usedto build four-storeyed parking loton 39 thousand sq meters of land,and expand international cargoterminal to 6 thousand sq meters,school complex and runway, shesaid.

She said the land used for the

Rp2.1 trillion for Ngurah Rai airport’s expansion

expansion project was owned byPTAngkasa Pura so that there wasno land clearance.

“Ideally, an international airportshould cover an area of at leasttwo thousand hectares. But sinceNgurah Rai airport has an area of285 hectares we must use it as op-timally as possible,” she said.

She said the expansion projecthad so far reached 1.7 percent.

“The project started in May

2011 and is scheduled for comple-tion in the second quarter of 2013prior to an APEC Summit here,”she said.

The project was also designedto anticipate the growing numberof foreign and domestic touristswhich was expected to reach 25million in 2025, she said.

“An average of 11 milliontourists currently come to Bali viaNgurah Rai airport,” she said.

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Ngurah Rai Airport

Monday, October 3, 201110 InternationalDestinations

IBP

Balangan is one of the surfing beaches on the western side of the Bukit peninsula located just north of Dreamland. To get there from Kuta you take Bypass Ngurah Rai heading towards Nusa Dua and look for the Uluwatu turn off to the right after about 10 minutes.

Basically head up the hill and go straight through the small cross-roads, ignoring the sign for Balan-gan to the right. Keep going and turn right at this entrance, which is also the Dreamland entrance. Follow the road downhill for a mile or so, you go through 3 roundabouts and will pass a small sign to the left saying Dreamland. Keep going and shortly you will see this turnoff with a sign for Balangan.

This road becomes heavily rut-ted, after all the Bukit is a lime-stone plateau and the rain just chews up the ground. Riding slowly you can get down and can actually get a motorbike or SUV

all the way to the beach, which is nice!

On the way down to the beach you will pass a couple of signs for accommodation. There are actually 3 places but the last one has not yet got themselves organized enough to fix up a sign. The 3 places are La Joya, Flower Bud Bungalows and Coconut Hummingbird.

All bungalows are in semi-mod-ern style with circular bamboo roof and sliding glass doors affording views of the surf.

Heading down the hill you can park your car / bike or continue down. The entry to the beach is split by a gully that is dry most of the year. To the right is a line of shacks that service the surfing crowd. None were doing much business when I visited being March, there was surf however and I saw plenty of locals enjoying good waves.

If you keep walking to the far right side of the beach you will dead end at Pura Balangan, the lo-cal temple.

Balangan Beach

Monday, October 3, 2011 11

BUSINESSInternational

Associated Press

S AN AI - China’s manufactur-ing improved slightly in September, fora second month of gains, with domesticdemand helping to offset weakness inthe export sector, according to a surveyreleased Saturday.

The China Federation of Logistics andPurchasing, an industry group, said itsmonthly purchasing managers index rose0.3 points from the month before to 51.2,showing activity expanding slightly.Figures above 50 show expansion, andbelow contraction.

The survey followed a similar onereleased Friday by HSBC that, at 49.9,showed little change from August,suggesting still sluggish growth in de-mand.

But both suggest the economy re-mains stable, with scant signs of a majorslowdown that could sap growth in othercountries that rely on Chinese industriesto drive demand for iron ore, factorymachinery and other goods.

controls on bank lending have raisedworries that China’s planners might over-shoot their goal and slow the economytoo much, especially if conditions inEurope and the U.S. deteriorate further.

A preliminary version of the HSBCpurchasing managers index, whichshowed a sharper weakening than the

markets as investors reacted to the pos-

sibility that China’s robust growth mightfalter.

The latest results “should provide-

dence, if only at the margin,” saidAlistairThornton of IHS Global Insight. “It isclear that despite the policy-driven slow-down and weakening external climate,

the economy.”Europe’s prolonged debt crisis and

sluggishness in the U.S. economy haveprompted many analysts to revise growthforecasts for China downward. Mostforecasts, however, put growth at a stilldynamic rate of between 8 percent and 9percent. “The domestic economy is nowin good shape, but from an internationalpoint of view, the global manufacturingindex has been declining since March,”the report by the Federation of Logisticsnoted.

It said most areas showed only modestimprovement, and warned of a need to

moderated to 6.2 percent in August afterhitting a three-year high of 6.5 percentin July.

The report said the survey’s resultsshow slowing growth in the raw materialsand energy industries and stable progressin consumer goods industries. Strong ad-vances in machinery and electrical equip-ment and information technology suggestefforts to restructure the economy anddevelop those more advanced industriesare succeeding, it said.

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA)is probing whether Citigroup failed to offersufficient explanations to customers aboutinvestment trusts, which are similar to mutual

the source said.The regulator is also looking at whether con-

following punitive action in recent years for laxoversight in that area, the source said.

The FSAplans to order Citigroup to report onits legal compliance and will then decide wheth-er it deserves to be punished. Possible sanctionsinclude having some operations suspended for acertain period of time, the source said.

The source spoke on condition of anonymity

has not been made public.

No one at the FSA, which carries out routineinspections on all banks, could be immediatelyreached for comment.

“It is a matter of public record that the FSAis conducting an inspection and we don’t com-ment on conversations with our regulators,”a spokeswoman for Citigroup in Japan saidwithout elaborating.

Dow Jones.Sanctions would come as a fresh blow to

Citigroup, which had its name tarnished in Ja-pan in 2004 when regulators forced it to closeits private banking business due to lax controlsin the prevention of money laundering.

It was punished again in 2009 for the sameviolation and forced to suspend retail bankmarketing activities for a month.

ReutersEI IN - European countries must

act decisively to resolve the euro one debtcrisis or risk having some member statesforced out of the single currency, China’stop newspaper said in a front page com-mentary on Saturday.

The call came in the overseas edition of

ruling Communist Party.While such a piece does not amount to

the worries in Beijing about the safety of itsinvestments in the euro one.

“Europe is standing at a crucial juncturein its history. It must show great wisdom,great boldness and great resolve, andgenuinely go into action,” the commentarysaid.

Europe can still turn its luck around. If thedecision comes too late, some (euro) mem-bers may be forced to pull out.”

While that outcome would be painful, itcould work if the countries still remainedin the European Union, added the com-

Hong, an expert on international studies.“But if Europe keeps dilly-dallying, the

situation can only worsen and gather speed.Outsiders who want to help will not dare,and then the euro one may really disinte-grate. Without doubt, this would be a huge

disaster for Europe and the world.”China’s pile of 3.2 trillion in foreign

exchange reserves, the biggest in the world,keeps growing thanks to trade surpluses and

Analysts estimate that China holds abouta quarter of its foreign exchange in euro as-sets, and there are few other places for it topark investments of such a scale.

-dence in the euro and in the EU’s effortsto tackle the crisis. But a chorus of voiceshas revealed anxieties about the security ofeuro assets.

China remains willing to invest in Europebut wants rich economies to show they areserious about tackling debt, Premier WenJiabao said last month, sending the euroone a mix of reassurance and demands.

There has been debate in the EU about

union and better deal with the crisis.The People’s Daily said that with huge

differences in the economies of euro mem-ber states, especially in the north and southof Europe, this plan would not be easy toimplement.

“Leaving aside how enlightened thatplan may be, Europe’s efforts to put it inplace have been too sluggish. A failure toact when they should will certainly causemore trouble, and the euro one’s problemsare now getting greater and greater.”

Citigroup faces regulatory scrutiny in JapanReuters

O O - Citi roup is bein investi ated by apanese re ulators for possible in-

China paper urges Europe get act together on debt crisis

AP Photo/Reed Saxon

A woman with a child loads purchases from a Target store into her car in Culver City, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. The Commerce Department said Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 that consumer spending rose 0.2 percent in August after a revised 0.7 percent increase in July.

China manufacturing gains in Sept but exports weak

Entertainment InternationalMonday, October 3, 201112

In short, “American Horror Story” doesn’t really scare you. It just gets in your head. The big unknown: Is it wily enough to stay there, week after week?

Alert: Spoilers coming up — which is another way of saying you might just as well apply the time you’d spend reading this to watching the premiere (which airs Wednesday at 10 p.m. EDT), then making up your own mind. You’ll find it a memorable

experience, at least.From the fertile imaginations of

Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk (“Glee,” ‘’Nip/Tuck”), “American Horror Story” has a premise that is simple and time-honored: A haunted house is occupied by a likable, re-markably unsuspecting family.

Ben Harmon (played by Dylan McDermott) is a Boston psychiatrist who has been caught cheating by his wife, Vivien (the wonderful Connie

Britton of “Friday Night Lights”). She already was reeling from a late-term miscarriage. They need to make a fresh start. They and their teenage daughter, Violet (Taissa Farmiga) pull up stakes and head cross-country for Los Angeles.

“This p lace i s our second chance,” Ben tells Vivien, whose forgiveness he desperately seeks — if for no other reason than be-cause she hasn’t slept with him for almost a year.

This place, the family’s new home-stead, is a looming “classic L.A. Victorian from the 1920s,” accord-ing to the real-estate agent showing them around. But it seems more like a vestige of “Monster Chiller Horror Theater,” a domicile whose past residents have, of course, died gruesomely.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The judge overseeing the trial of the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death told the lead defense attor-ney Friday that he found an inter-view his law partner conducted on the case “shocking” and possible grounds for contempt.

Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor told attorneys he watched the interview during a break with his mouth open because attorney Matt Alford is identified as a member of Dr. Conrad Murray’s defense team and criticized a key prosecution witness.

The judge noted that Alford used the pronouns “we” and “our” to describe decisions about the doctor’s defense. Alford, a partner of Murray’s lead defense lawyer Ed Chernoff, was interviewed outside the courthouse by “The Today Show.”

“ I s a t there with m y

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Culinary confession time for Whoopi Goldberg: Potato chips are her undoing. At the New York City Wine and Food Festival on Fri-day, Goldberg said she “can’t resist them. It’s terrible. And fried chicken, but that’s so ethnic I’m afraid to say it out loud.” And, she added, she won’t “eat

watermelon in public, just on principle.”

Goldberg is hosting the festi-val’s annual Burger Bash compe-tition but admits that it’s an odd job for a woman who doesn’t cook. That is, with one excep-tion: Every year she tries to recre-ate her late mother’s Thanksgiv-ing turkey.

Goldberg says her mom “made a great holiday turkey. And every

year I try it.” She says it’s how they reconnect. And, Goldberg adds, it’s the only thing she knows how to make.

Whoopi Goldberg says potato chips are her weakness

AP Photo/Diane Bondareff

Whoopi Goldberg poses with a burger at the New York City

Wine and Food Festival’s Burger Bash, Friday, Sept. 30,

2011, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Jackson judge calls attorney’s interview shocking

AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool

Conrad Murray

AP Photo/FX, Robert Zuckerman

In this image released by FX, from left, Dylan McDermott, Taissa Farmiga and Connie Britton are shown in a scene from the “American Horror Story,” premiering Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 at 10 p.m. EDT.

‘American Horror Story’ brings the haunting homeAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Just when you needed it, the FX network is throwing “American Horror Story” at you. To judge from its first two episodes, it’s a robust diversion from the real-life droughts and hurricanes, jobless-ness and political stalemate that were already giving you the willies. It aspires to be “The Shining”-meets-”Rosemary’s Baby,” with “Carrie” and “Don’t Look Now” tossed in. But more than a dead-on horror show, it’s a homage to cinematic spookery. And a good one.

mouth open” while watching the interview, Pastor said, because Al-ford was identified as a member of Murray’s defense team, according to court transcripts. He also called the interview shocking.

Attorneys and the judge hud-dled in several sidebar confer-ences throughout the day on the issue. Alford criticized a key prosecution witness, Alberto Al-varez, in the interview. Alvarez, a bodyguard for Jackson, testified Thursday that Murray scooped up vials of medicine and placed them in a bag before telling him to call 911.

Pastor ordered Alford to appear in his courtroom on Nov. 15 for a contempt hearing. At the end of a heated conference on the issue, Pastor said Alford was considered a witness.

That came after Chernoff told the judge to hold him in contempt and not punish Alford. Prosecu-tors complained about the inter-

view Friday morning. The interview with Ann Curry

came hours after the judge warned defense attorneys not to com-ment on the case out of court.

“I am serious about interviews

and about com-menting on the state of the evi-dence or on cred-ibility or on the overall issues in the case,” Pastor told the defense team Thursday

afternoon, a tran-script shows.Alford is

not one of the attor-neys representing

the doctor in court in his involuntary

manslaughter case.

International Monday, October 3, 2011 13Science

The loss is important as a marker of global warm-ing, returning the Canadian Arctic to conditions that date back thousands of years, scientists say. Floating icebergs that have broken free as a result pose a risk to offshore oil facilities and potentially to shipping lanes. The breaking apart of the ice shelves also reduces the environment that supports microbial life and changes the look of Canada’s coastline.

Luke Copland is an associate professor in the ge-ography department at the University of Ottawa who co-authored the research. He said the Serson Ice Shelf shrank from 79.15 square miles (205 square kilometers) to two remnant sections three years ago, and was further diminished this past summer.

Copland said the shelf went from a 16-square-mile (42-square-kilometer) floating glacier tongue to 9.65 square miles (25 square kilometers), and the second section from 13.51 square miles (35 square kilometers) to 2 square miles (7 square kilometers), off Ellesmere Island’s northern coastline.

This past summer, Ward Hunt Ice Shelf’s central area disintegrated into drifting ice masses, leaving two

separate ice shelves measuring 87.65 and 28.75 square miles (227 and 74 square kilometers) respectively, re-duced from 131.7 square miles (340 square kilometers) the previous year. “It has dramatically broken apart in two separate areas and there’s nothing in between now but water,” said Copland.

Copland said those two losses are significant, espe-cially since the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has always been the biggest, the farthest north and the one scientists thought might have been the most stable.

“Recent (ice shelf) loss has been very rapid, and goes hand-in-hand with the rapid sea ice decline we have seen in this decade and the increasing warmth and extensive melt in the Arctic regions,” said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, remarking on the research.

Copland, who uses satellite imagery and who has conducted field work in the Arctic every May for the past five years, said since the end of July, pieces equaling one and a half times the size of Manhattan Island have broken off. Co-researcher Derek Mueller, an assistant professor at Carleton University’s geog-raphy and environmental studies department, said the loss this past summer equals up to three billion tons. Copland said their findings have not yet been peer reviewed since the research is new, but a number of scientists contacted by The Associated Press reviewed the findings, agreeing the loss in volume of ice shelves is significant.

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A rare virus has killed three people and sickened nearly 100 in Japan, the Philippines, the United States and the Netherlands over the past two years, US health au-thorities said Friday. The culprit is human enterovirus 68 (HEV68), and its respiratory symptoms can be particularly dangerous to chil-dren, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

In six separate clusters of the virus that showed up worldwide, patients commonly experienced cough, difficulty breathing and wheezing. The highest number of cases were found in Japan, where local public health authorities reported more than 120 cases last year.

However, the CDC said it could only confirm clinical data for 11 of those patients, all children, one of whom died. The Philippines had 21 cases in late 2008 and early 2009, causing two deaths, the CDC said.

Other cases surfaced in the Netherlands and the US states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona, for 95 total confirmed cases over two years.

The virus was first discovered in four children who were sick with pneumonia in California in 1962, but subsequent incidences have been rare and sporadic, according to the CDC.

“Identification of a large number of patients with HEV68 respiratory disease detected during a single season, such as described in this report, is a recent phenomenon,” it added.

Reuters

WASHINGTON - Hate morn-ings, especially on Mondays? You may be surprised to know that much of the world doesn’t share that grumpy feeling.

Twitter shows people are more cheerful in the morning, get gloomier as the day wears on and rebound in the evening, with a peak right before bedtime. They’re also happier from December to late June, when days gradually lengthen in the Northern Hemi-sphere.

Using the micro-blogging site Twitter as a gauge of global senti-ment, social scientists studied 509 million tweets from 2.4 million users in 84 countries between February 2008 and January 2010, according to research reported on Thursday in the journal Science.

Bad news, even if it happens to a complete stranger, brings

Twitter users down, research by scientists from Cornell University suggests.

Twitter, the five-year-old site that lets users communicate 140-character posts, offers an unprec-edented chance to study human behavior and social networks, the scientists said.

Those brief posts get down to the nitty-gritty, showing that Twit-ter users prefer bacon to sausage and Cheerios to Frosted Flakes, Cornell sociologist and co-author Michael Macy said in a telephone interview on Friday.

“Twitter offers an unprec-edented opportunity for social and behavioral scientists to study social behavior and interaction in real time with high temporal granularity -- hour by hour, day by day, over the course of the year -- and to do this at population scale with millions of people all over the world,” Macy said.

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A doctor wearing a protective mask against flu checks an X-ray scan at a hospital in 2009.

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A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles October 13, 2009.

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FILE - In this April 1, 2008 file photo, Canadian Ranger Samson Ejanqiaq looks along the length of one of the gaping new cracks in the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, the largest ice shelf left in the Arctic, during a patrol of the area.

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TORONTO — Two ice shelves that existed before Canada was settled by Europeans di-

minished significantly this summer, one nearly disappearing altogether, Canadian scientists

say in new research.

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After an end-to-end startat Inter the game turneddramatically on an incidentfour minutes before the breakwhen Joel Obi was handed asecond yellow card for bun-dling over Christian Maggioon the edge of the box.

Julio Cesar saved MarekHamsik’s resulting penaltybut defender Hugo Cam-pagnaro followed up to giveNapoli the lead. Ranieri wassent off for remonstratingwith the referee as the teamstrooped off at halftime. “Heruined a beautiful game,” theInter coach told Sky Sports.“He was not on his game.What he could get wrong, hedid get wrong.

“The boys gave their alland should not have beenpunished in this way. I don’tnormally complain aboutthese things but today wasan exceptional occasion.”In a more subdued secondperiod wing back Maggioadded a second goal on 57minutes, lifting the ball overJulio Cesar, before Hamsikslotted home the third witha quarter of an hour to go to

the San Siro in 17 years.Inter have only four points

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season, go two points clear ofJuventus, Udinese and Romaahead of Sunday’s main pro-gramme. The hosts, withoutWesley Sneijder and DiegoMilito, edged the opening ex-changes at the San Siro withDiego Forlan going closest

25-metre drive just wide on13 minutes.

Despite missing strikerEdinson Cavani through in-jury, Napoli enjoyed plenty ofpossession in a refreshinglyopen start and Colombianleft back Juan Zuniga headedweakly wide with a back-postheader after 19 minutes. Thehome crowd then started tojeer when Campagnaro putNapoli in front.

The visitors made it 2-0when Giuseppe Mascaraplayed an innocuous ballover the top of the Interdefence for the energeticMaggio to outpace substituteYuto Nagatomo and beat

Julio Cesar.

DISJOINTED INTER

With a disjointed Interleaving huge gaps at the back,

ensure Napoli ended a run ofeight straight defeats at Inter.

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day, thanked his players.“It’s a beautiful present

the boys have given me,” hesaid. “For the penalty I don’tknow if it was a mistake ornot, I have to see the replay.“But I do know Napoli playeda great game and deservedto win. We’ve had decisionsgo against us so I hope therewon’t be too much said aboutit.”

At the Stadio Olimpico,Roma resisted a second-half

-lanta to earn Luis Enrique’sside their second successivewin. Spanish striker Bojanopened the scoring on 20minutes, grabbing his firstgoal in the Giallorossi shirtwith a left-foot shot.

Argentine forward PabloOsvaldo doubled the lead

half-hour as Roma dominatedthe opening period. The sec-ond half was a different storyafter Argentine forward Ger-

with a back-post header froma well-worked corner on 48minutes.

The home side were thenmade to defend for longstretches until midfielderSimplicio played a delightfulone-two with Miralem Pjanic

game against the in-formside in the league,” Luis En-rique told Sky Sports after

season.“The Denis goal meant

-ments but we were able tosurvive. We’re improving butwe need more patience to beable to dominate possessionthroughout the match.” Ata-lanta, docked six points for

points after suffering their

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MADRID - A stunning over-head kick from Julio Baptistaearned Malaga a last-gasp 3-2 vic-tory over Getafe that put them topof La Liga on Saturday.

-ered in the air over the penalty spotin stoppage time and lashed his shotinto the top corner to leave the big-spending south-coast club on 13points from six games, ahead of

Napoli go top after winning at 10-man Inter

AP Photo/Daniele badolato, Lapresse

Napoli defender Hugo Armando Campagnaro jumps in celebration after scoring, during a Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Napoli at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct.1, 2011.

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ROME - Napoli shot to the top of SerieAwith a controversial3-0 win at 10-man Inter Milan on Saturday as Claudio Ranieri

Stunning Baptista goal puts Malaga top

A superb over-head kick in injury time from Julio Baptista, pictured in Janu-ary, completed a spectacular turn-around for Mal-aga who scored twice in the last four minutes to beat Getafe 3-2 on Saturday and take top spot in La Liga.

Valencia on goal difference.An early strike from Sergio

Canales earned Valencia a 1-0 homewin over promoted Granada earlierin the day.

The Spanish youth international,on loan from Real Madrid, scoredfrom outside the area in the fourthminute and although Valencia liveddangerously they held on for thevictory.

after a 35-year absence, hit the

crossbar in the second half but a

Liga’s joint lowest scorers with twogoals alongside Sporting Gijon.

On Sunday third-placed RealBetis (12 points) host Levante,fourth-placed Barcelona (11)visitGijon and Real Madrid (10) travelto Espanyol.

The troubled trio of Villarreal,Real Mallorca and Racing San-tander all rallied to grab draws onSaturday.

AFP Photo/Jose Jordan

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They couldn’t solve thatone, either. “I wouldn’t saythe r e was any p rog r e s s .What happened was, theyput some concepts up, weput some concepts up, andwe’ re s t i l l mi l e s apa r t , ”un ion execu t ive d i rec to rBilly Hunter said. “There’sa huge bridge, gap, that Idon’t know if we’re goingto be ab le to c lose i t o rnot.”

The sides will meet againMonday the day trainingcamps were to have begun

though time is gett ingshort to save the start of theregular season, scheduled

for Nov. 1 . Nei the r s idesounds optimistic.

In a seven-hour bargain-ing session, their longestsince the lockout began July1, the sides talked about oneof the two major issues thatdivides them. Owners wanta hard cap, or at least wanta number of changes to thecur ren t so f t cap sys tem,which the players prefer tokeep largely intact.

The s ide s d idn ’ t evena t tempt to dea l wi th thedivis ion of revenues, theother big obstacle to a laboragreement that would endthe lockout.

C o m m i s s i o n e r D a v i dStern said he had nothingto announce in t e rms ofcancellations. But the re-mainder of the preseasonschedule is in jeopardysome games already havebeen cance l ed . Regu la r-season games could now bethreatened, too.

“Our desire would be tonot cancel, and we had beenhopeful that this weekendwould be a broader marker,but for reasons which weu n d e r s t a n d , t h e p l a y e r ssuggested that we resumeon Monday, and we sa idfine,’” Stern said.

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ONDON - Carlos Teve ’s No.32 shirt was allocated to reserve goalkeeperCostel Pantilimon when Manchester City played at Blackburn Rovers in thePremier League on Saturday, another indication that he is unlikely to play forCity again. City fans also displayed banners saying “Teve Out” aimed at the27-year-old Argentine striker.

Teve was missing at Ewood Park, serving a two week club suspension forallegedly ignoring manager Roberto Mancini’s instructions to come on as a56th minute substitute against Bayern Munich in the Champions League onTuesday. City lost that game 2-0 but bounced back on Saturday with a 4-0 winover Rovers with goals from Adam Johnson, Mario Balotelli, and substitutes

City are level on points with champions Manchester United at the top of thetable, both unbeaten with 19 points from seven matches, though United are in

Following Tuesday’s incident in Munich, Mancini said Teve would

was concerned. The club have started an inquiry and suspended him for themaximum two weeks allowed under Premier League rules.

allocated to 24-year-old Romanian international goalkeeper Pantilimon, whohas made one appearance for City in the League Cup against BirminghamCity, was a telling point. City’s assistant manager David Platt told Sky Sports:“We needed to concentrate totally on this game.

“From having the day off on Wednesday after coming back from Munich,we came in on Thursday and put everything to bed -- the performance andeverything else that went with it.

AP Photo/John Minchillo

Derek Fisher, center, Los Angeles Lakers point guard and president of the NBA Players Association, speaks to reporters after a five-hour meeting with owners to discuss a new labor deal and possibly avert a lockout on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, in New York.

No NBA deal after day of salary cap talksAssociated Press Writer

NE OR ith a month until the N A season, players and owners don t soundmuch closer to a labor deal than they did when the lockout be an hey re so far apart onmoney they decided to leave it alone Saturday and focused mainly on the salary cap

Tevez’s No.32 shirt allocated to reserve goalie Pantilimon

AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson

Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez leaves the stadium after the Group A Cham-pions League soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Manchester City FC in Munich, southern Germany, on Tuesday , Sept. 27, 2011.

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Pedrosa’s route to the front happened more by fortune than design, as accidents dominated the Japanese Grand Prix. Rossi was the first casualty, as he made contact with Lorenzo at Turn 2 on the opening, losing the front end and also collecting Yamaha’s Ben Spies as he slid into the gravel and out of the race.

Stoner meanwhile had protected his lead and rapidly built a lead of more than 1s, but on lap four suffered a huge wobble over the back straight bumps and missed his braking point into Turn 11 - running through the gravel and dropping down to seventh as a result.

The lead therefore transferred to Andrea Dovizioso, who had passed his Honda team-mate Pedrosa in the opening stages. Dovizioso however was one of three riders adjudged to have jumped the

start, and on lap five came into the pits for his ride-through - Gresini’s Marco Simoncelli and Tech 3’s Cal Crutchlow following him in after also falling foul of the stewards.

Victory became a straight fight be-tween Pedrosa and Lorenzo, and a series of fastest laps was enough to earn the Honda man his third win of the year.

Third had been a fight between the one Suzuki of Alvaro Bautista and the re-maining works Ducati of Nicky Hayden, but by the halfway distance Stoner had passed both as he fought his way back to third.

As he did so, Motegi claimed an-other two victims. Hayden ran deep and through the gravel at Turn 1 while try-ing to follow Stoner, while several laps later Bautista made a mistake of his own

accord, losing the front of the Suzuki at Turn 12 and crashing out from fourth.

Dovizioso and Simoncelli meanwhile had fought their way back through the field, and the Gresini rider claimed fourth one lap from the end with a typically ag-gressive pass at Turn 11. Having fallen on the opening lap incident with Rossi, Spies capped a fine comeback ride by finishing sixth, ahead of Hayden and Tech 3 Yamaha’s Colin Edwards.

Toni Elias on the LCR Honda had held sixth but crashed with just seven laps to go, while on his MotoGP debut Damian Cudlin (Pramac Ducati) was another Motegi casualty, crashing out just after the half-distance mark.

SEBASTIEN Ogier continues to lead the Rally of France - but Dani Sordo is closing in again. Although Citroen driver Ogier managed to pull out a 9.5-second advantage over the chasing Mini yesterday afternoon, Sordo was quicker on today’s opener Graviere de Bis-chwiller, fastest of all on Vignoble de Cleebourg, then equalled Ogier on the Haguenau street stage.

The gap between them now stands at 4.5s with three stages to go. “That’s not bad, but we need to be faster if we want to win,” said Sordo. “I’m pushing hard, I just have to keep up the pressure.”

Ogier said he was relishing the fight and expected it to go down to the wire. “I think it will be close because Dani is pushing hard,” he said. “He had a good drive this morning. It’s good fun.”

Petter Solberg (Solberg Citroen) and Jari-Matti Latvala (Ford) remain third and fourth, with Ford yet to apply the team orders that will elevate title contender Mikko Hirvonen up a place from his current fifth. Ar-mindo Araujo crashed his Motorsport Italia Mini out of seventh on the first stage of the morning, where Dennis Kuipers (FERM Ford) cemented his potential career-best sixth by setting a surprise second-fastest time.

Also flying is Ken Block - two top-six stage times have brought the Monster Ford up to ninth.

as Dani Sordo closes in

Sebastien Ogier of France and Julien Ingrassia of France steer their Citroen DS3 during the 2nd stage of the Rally de France, in Nothalten, eastern France, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau

Dani Pedrosa handed Honda a home win in an eventful and attri-tional race at Motegi, which counted Ducati’s Valentino Rossi as one of its several victims. Jorge Lorenzo finished second and Casey Stoner a distant third following a mistake in the early stages. Stoner’s gap now stands at 40 points over Yamaha’s Lorenzo.

Spain’s Dani Pedrosa takes the checkered flag to win the Mo-toGP Grand Prix of Japan, at

the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Motegi, north of Tokyo, Sunday,

Oct. 2, 2011.

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