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The first issue of the series published by Portland, Oregon-based Oni Press Inc. was released Wednesday. It’s illustrated by Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, colored by Guy Major, lettered by Shawn DePasquale and edited by Jill Beaton.

Soule says the new series is a measured essay on the human spirit, and the quest for knowledge knowing that there is life up there and it may not be friendly.

The story centers on President Stephen Blades who is told about the existence of an alien presence kept secret for years by his predecessor. It’s in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it’s unclassifiable, it won’t communicate and it may be girding for war.

From there, it’s one truth after another and

it changes everything for Blades as a leader, citizen, father and person.

Soule said the idea sprang forth in early 2011 about the time “when it was pretty clear that the last space shuttle mission was going to happen soon. The U.S. as a space power was going to change, dramatically.”

Inspired by that change, he was walking along the beach in Cape May, New Jersey, and pondering what it would take for America, among others, to get back to the stars.

“I wanted to write the story about what we could do and, if we really need to, could we get back up there? What would be the incentive? In the 1960s, it was the Cold War and the space race,” Soule said. “What could take us up there? The idea of aliens being up

there, and then it all fell into place.”And so it does, with Soule’s story focusing

not just on Blades and the political ramifica-tions of knowing what’s up there, but also the crew of the spaceship Clarke, which is poised to make the first, human contact with whatever is there.

Soule said the pieces of both plots will come together, over the course of the series, and “everything will make sense,” he says. “Even some of the weird stuff.”

This image provided by Oni Press shows one a version of the cover of

Charles Soule’s “Let-ter 44,” a series where

humanity finds the stars hold not just ambition,

but a threat kept hidden.

Associated Press Writer

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, Pe-ter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, and The Replacements are among first-time nominees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The hall of fame announced its annual list of nominees Wednesday morning and half the field of 16 were first-time nominees. YES, Link Wray and The Zombies also received their first nominations.

More than 600 voters will determine the class of 2014. Inductees will be announced in December and a ceremony will be held next April in New York. The induction will be aired on HBO in May.

Nirvana is nominated in its first year of eligibility. If se-lected for induction, the band would enter the hall of fame almost exactly 20 years after frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide at age 27.

Ronstadt receives her first nomination not long after she shared news that she has Parkinson’s disease. Fans have long questioned her absence from the hall’s roster of stars. Simi-larly, long-denied YES joins the list after Rush finally struck a blow for prog rock with its induction earlier this year.

Repeat nominees are KISS, LL Cool J, N.W.A., Cat Ste-vens, Deep Purple, The Meters, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Chic. It’s the eighth nomination for Chic since 2003, but comes as co-founder Nile Rodgers is enjoying widespread attention after his collaboration with Daft Punk earlier this year. KISS, LL Cool J and Stevens return to the list after absences of several years.

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 1993 file photo, Kurt Co-bain, lead singer for the Seattle-based band Nirvana, performs during the taping of MTV’s Live and Loud Production in Seattle.

In ‘Letter 44,’ a secret threatens a US presidentAssociated Press Writer

Secrets abound in America, but none on the scale as those revealed in the pages of Charles Soule’s “Letter 44,” a series where humanity finds the stars hold not just ambition, but a threat kept hidden.

AP Photo/Oni Press

Nirvana, Ronstadt among Rock Hall of Fame noms

AP Photo/Robert Sorbo, File

“From the number of complaints we have received, they are domi-nated by public service issues. In other words, it occupies the top five and this belongs to the classic

problem,” he explained.He said that almost 13 years after

the application of the Law No.8/1999 on Consumer Protection, in fact, the reality on the field showed that fraud

against consumers was increasingly prevalent. It meant that more and more businesses infringed the busi-ness ethics. “We are concerned with the consumers in Bali. To that end, we invite the community to become an intelligent and conscientious consumer,” he said.

Related to complaints on the public service, Armaya described that public complaints to the YLPK Bali from January to October 2013 had something to do with public services provided by the PLN, PDAM and banking services totally reaching 475

complaints. “Of the 475 complaints, 200 complaints are related to service of the PLN, PDAM and the remain-ing 114 complaints are related to banking services,” he said.

The complaints related to ser-vices provided by the PLN, Armaya explained that many people com-plained about the outages without prior notice, voltage fluctuation as well as new connection of the PLN services and some complained about the incessant effort of the PLN asking consumers to move from conventional to prepaid power

subscription. “The PLN may not force consumers to change their payment method from conventional to prepaid system,” he said.

As for the service of the Munici-pal Waterworks (PDAM), consum-ers complained that the clean water ran sluggishly in dry season. “In this condition, the YLPK Bali appeals to the PDAM management across Bali to establish good communica-tion to customers. Although getting no water, a good communication to customer is much needed,” he said.

Big electrical cable being put in the side of the road during a project conducted by PLN reaped complained from residents because it made traffic jam. Complained for public services increase on 2013. The complaints related to services provided by the PLN, such as out-ages without prior notice, voltage fluctuation as well as new connection of the PLN services.

Complained for public services increase

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Various kinds of fraud against consumers were recognized by Director of Consumer Protection Foundation (YLPK) Bali, Putu Armaya, to remain rampant. Consumer complaints related to public services even still dominated and then were followed by complaints on housing cases committed by mischievous developers and hazardous food case or unwor-thy food for consumption.

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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, 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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for October 4 through 28 , 2013

4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung Be-sakihOdalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Selod-ing BesakihPura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih

6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayu-putih Buleleng

8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi BangliPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Taro TegalalangPura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel TulikupPura manik Bingin Sidemen

9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh AbiansemalPura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan GianyarMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa JakatebelMerajan Pasek Prateka BatusesaMerajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon CemenggonPura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-GianyarPura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh GianyarLinggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih

17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Be-sakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PetemonMerajan Pasek Gelgel MelinggihOdalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih

19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung BesakihPura Meru Cakra LombokPura Lempuyang Madya KarangasemPura Penerejon KintamaniPura Pulaki BulelengPura Tirta Empul Tampak SiringPura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura

Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Tirta Negari SingapaduPura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub SukawatiPura Penataran Agung TegallalangPura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji BatubulanPura Puseh Singakerta UbudPura Nataran Sanding TampaksiringPura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan UbudPura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami BrabanPura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh KrambitanPura Pasek Bendesa Mas G a d u n g a n SelemadegPura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari SelemadegPura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem Karan-gasemPura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow SulutPura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang KarangasemPura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukaluwih Tejakula BulelengPura Pasraman Suci Renon DenpasarPura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah JakartaPura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang BulelengPura Ulun Danu Batur Songan KintamaniPura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura PapuaPura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung DenpasarMerajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh DenpasarPura Pejengaji TegalalangPura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Keram-bitanPura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang KarangasemPura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung TengahPura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh KerambitanPura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karan-gasemPura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon KapalPura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen KarangasemPura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga BulelengPura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa PenidaPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani

Pura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh ker-ambitanPura Penataran UbudPura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken BlahbatuhPemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu Bule-lengPura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel SukawatiPura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung Baturn-ingMambal Abiansemal

22 Oct Penampahan Galungan 23 Oct Hari raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTTPura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTBPura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang, NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman PontianakPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta TimurPura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur.

24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri TabananPura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel TabananMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa TiyinganMerajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, BadungPura Luhur Cemenggon, SukawatiPura Pasek Ubung Denpasar

26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

27 Oct redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti Batu-bulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung

28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah SelemadegPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gi-anyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan BusungbiuPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan

The Semara Resorts Manage-ment is proud of the fact that so many happy holidaymakers had such a positive experience that they took the time to nominate the property located in Seminyak for excellence.

To coincide with receiving the award Cubby House Kids Club, located at Semara Resort and Spa, Seminyak has launched a new Holiday Fun Pass. Prepurchasing 5 x 3 hours passes at a cost of Rp 120,000 * per pass offers a sig-nificant saving and is perfect for families holidaying in Bali for a

week or more or having more than one child. An added bonus of the Holiday Fun Pass is that a snack and drink will also be provided during the visit.

The Cubby House Kids Club also host themed parties twice per month that have proven to be very popular. Upcoming par-ties include Halloween on 27th October, Red Carpet Party on 3rd November & Thanksgiving on 24th November.

Located in Bali’s new hot spot Jalan Petitenget, Semara Resort and Spa is situated between the

famous landmarks of Ku De Ta and Potato Head and only a short walk to the beach.

Special Room Rates are avail-able for travel from 1st November until 31st January 2014 in all room categories, offering something for everyone.

Interconnecting rooms for Ex-ecutive Suites can be guaranteed when booking in advance. Chil-dren staying in this room category will receive two complimentary hours each at the resort’s own Cubby House Kids Club, regarded as the best kids club in Bali. IBP/Courtesy of Semara Resort

Semara Resort & Spa gets Top Ten Hotels AwardIBP

SEMINyAK - Semara resort & Spa is thrilled to be awarded as a Top Ten Hotels for Families in Bali. The award was judged by readers of the Australian publication, Holiday with Kids, was a culmination of a year’s work and over 4,000 reader surveys. It is the most comprehensive family travel award system in the Australia.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Increasing tourist arrival at Kertha

Gosa attraction, Klungkung, has not been accompanied with provision of

As observation to location on Tuesday (Oct 15), at least ten street vendors and hawkers were found at the parking lot. Due to many traders, the parking space was fully occupied so that tourists wishing to stop and see the monkeys as well as natural scenery in the area were difficult to park. Even, many tourists were forced to park on the road body.

The Head of the Buleleng Mu-nicipal Police, Putu Hartana, said the parking space was a forbidden area for traders. However, his party claimed not to perform a discipline because

it was still focused downtown Sin-garaja. “No, we do not ignore it, but we see the first priority because our personnel are limited. Meanwhile, our focus is downtown, such as on Jalan Diponegoro where violation can still be found,” he said.

Previously, the Municipal Police officers had disciplined the peak region. However, the action was opposed by a legislator of Buleleng House. The legislator asked in or-der the traders did need not to be disciplined because it was their only livelihood. When banned to sell, he

worried the residents could not sup-port their family.

Meanwhile, the information ob-tained in Buleleng government mentioned that the traders in the peak region would be tolerable first while waiting for the relocation to a specified place. So far, the land used for relocation had not been avail-able. County government planned to acquire the land around the region in 2014. Even, it was said that local government would allocate a budget worth IDR 2 billion for the land ac-quisition. (kmb15)

IBP/File

The street vendors are seen on the side of the road at Wanagiri village, Sukasada, Buleleng

After raided

Street vendors at peak area proliferate againSingaraja (Bali Post)—

Street vendors (PKL) at parking lot in the peak area or stop over at Wanagiri village, Su-kasada, have continued to proliferate. Actually, the existence of traders at the parking lot has been disciplined for several times by Municipal Police (Satpol PP) of Buleleng County.

Parking chaoticKertha Gosa needs alternative parking space

IBP/File

The crowded parking on the eastern part of Kertha Gosa

adequate parking space. Therefore, when a booming tourist arrival oc-curs, the available space cannot ac-commodate private cars and tourist

buses. Such condition can certainly tarnish the tourism image in Bali if without a proper handling.

As seen throughout October, after hosting the visit of APEC del-egates and the tourists especially foreign tourists continued to in-crease. On the one hand, such con-dition is certainly advantageous. However on the other side, the unready parking lot can result in a new and quite serious problem. Deputy Chairman of the Klung-kung House, Putu Tika Winawan, admitted on Tuesday (Oct 15) that he had repeatedly told the executive if the parking condition was chaotic. It had become a very disturbing scene for Klungkung tourism since long time having been synonymous with the icon of Kertha Gosa.

This legislator from Selat vil-lage repeatedly screamed to the executive to seriously resolve the parking problem of Kertha Gosa. However, his party considered there was no real measures to follow up the issue properly. “We are surely ashamed of Kertha Gosa being admired by foreign tourists, but having inadequate

parking space. This can tarnish the image of our tourism,” he said. He reminded the executive of utilizing the dormant land around the Kertha Gosa, such as in the area of night market. Actually, this area was un-used from the morning to evening and it would be more elegant to be used as central parking for tourist visiting Kertha Gosa.

Even, with such rapid tourism development, chiefly at Kertha Gosa, relevant agencies should have started thinking about an integrated tourism among the tour-ism potential in Klungkung such as the renowned Kertha Gosa and Kamasan village. “If the govern-ment wants to work, tourists com-ing to Klungkung should not just be offered to visit Kertha Gosa. Klungkung still has Kamasan vil-lage and various handicraft prod-ucts like coconut shell craft that has been known to tourists. Invite them to see the potentials. If there is intention, the local gigs can be empowered. Simply take tourists to see all the potentials while riding local gig,” he explained.

However, to realize the inte-grated tourism, Tika asked the

Klungkung tourism should resolve first the parking problem. Since the administration of Regent Candra to date, this issue was unresolved. He hoped the acting regent Tjokorda Gede Agung to be installed on Wednesday could provide real work to fix all the tourism prob-lems, although he only served for two months. “So, the regent should be sensitive and can make a break-through. Tourism should be made safe and convenient for visitors,” he explained.

The Head of Klungkung Cul-ture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, did not dismiss the con-dition. Condition of the parking service chiefly at Kertha Gosa had been very chaotic and needed representative area. Similarly, the Head of Transportation, Commu-nication and Informatics Agency, Nengah Sukasta, said the area around the night market had in-deed been functioned as a parking lot. However, he admitted to be unable to set the tourism busi-nesspeople insisting on parking in the east and north of Kertha Gosa with the reason of being closer to Kertha Gosa. (kmb31)

3Thursday, October 17, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTechnology Thursday, October 17, 2013

But making solid devices is not enough to stand apart from the crowd in the ultra-competi-tive mobile phone market, which probably pushed LG to make some bold design decisions in a bid to differentiate its G series from Samsung’s Galaxy line and Apple’s iPad mini.

For the G2, which was re-leased last month in the U.S., LG moved the power and volume controls to the back of the phone. For the G Pad, which goes on sale in the U.S. next week, LG added a full HD screen, a rarity in 8-inch tablet computers.

While these design choices set the G2 and the G Pad apart from ‘me too’ devices trying to catch up with Samsung and

Apple, they might also limit their appeal.

Not everyone will be pleased with having to change the basic habits of smartphone operation. They will scratch their heads looking for those buttons just like I did. The full HD screen display makes the G Pad a couple of hun-dred dollars more expensive than other 8-inch tablets.

It took a couple of days before my index finger ceased pressing a volume key when I intended to press a power key. But after that, I realized having a power button on the back makes it easier to use a big handset with one hand. The G2 has a 5.2-inch screen.

LG came up with a double-tap gesture to activate the phone. I

found it easier and quicker than pressing a home button and then sliding to unlock as with my iP-hone 4S. This double-tap to start also applies to the G Pad.

LG removed the physical home button on the front for the G2 and the G Pad. Instead, virtual buttons for back, home and menu actions appear when the screen is activated. I preferred these vir-tual buttons over physical ones because I could touch them with the same gesture and pressure I applied to the touchscreen. One downside of Samsung’s Galaxy devices is that the touchscreen and the three buttons for home, back and menu options all need a different level of pressure to be activated.


CUPERTINO, California — Apple is holding an event in San Francisco next week to announce new products — likely updated iPads. The company announced its most recent iPads around this time last year. The announcement included a smaller version, called the Mini, for the first time.

New iPads would get Apple’s latest operating system for mobile devices, iOS 7. The invitation sent Tuesday includes a graphic that mim-ics the color scheme in iOS 7.

Next Tuesday’s event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, a venue Apple has often used in the past.

It follows last month’s release of new iPhones with iOS 7 — the 5S model with a fingerprint sensor and a cheaper, 5C model with a variety of color options.

It’s also possible Apple will use the event to release its new Mac operating system, Mavericks. Apple unveiled the system in June. The system will support tagging to help you find files more easily. It also promises better battery life and a way to keep track of passwords across multiple devices more easily. Apple may also announce new Mac computers at the event.

Button location sets LG’s G2 apart

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

A man touches an LG Electronics’ G Pad 8.3 tablet in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. The G2 and the G Pad 8.3, the flagship smartphone and tablet from LG Electronics Inc., are great mobile devices that have fantastic screens, top-end cameras and ample processing power.


SEOUL, South Korea — The G2 and the G Pad 8.3, the flagship smartphone and tablet from LG Electronics Inc., are great mobile devices that have fantastic screens, top-end cameras and ample processing power.

New iPads likely at Apple event next week

AP Photo/Apple Inc.

FILE - This undated rendering provided by Apple Inc., shows a proposed 150-acre campus built around a gigantic circular building made almost entirely of curved glass, with a heavily landscaped center.

IBP

DENPASAR - Representatives of Governments, business and civil society will gather to examine cross-border Internet governance challenges at the annual session of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), to take place in Nusa Dua, Bali on 22-25 October. Each year the Secretary-General of the United Na-tions convenes the meeting through the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

The Forum, which is the leading global multi-stakeholder dialogue on public policy issues relating to the Internet, meets annually as an outgrowth of the 2006 World Sum-mit on the Information Society. It is intended to foster a common under-standing of how to maximize Internet opportunities and address risks and challenges that arise. The IGF, which is not a decision-making body, is also a space that gives developing countries the same opportunity as wealthier nations to engage in the debate on Internet governance and to facilitate their participation in exist-ing institutions and arrangements.

More than 1,500 delegates will convene in Bali over the course of the four-day meeting. Thousands more will actively participate re-motely from around the world. Sev-eral High-level government officials, CEO’s and directors of major global business organizations and civil so-ciety groups will be among those in attendance.

The IGF annually reviews the role of Governments in multi-stakeholder cooperation for Internet governance, and the Bali meeting will aim to create some form of consensus on the issue. Additional focus sessions will be dedicated to the Internet as engine for growth and sustainable development (a topic relevant to on-going discussions on the post-2015 development agenda); cyber-security; human rights and freedom of expression; the principles of Internet governance and enhanced multi-stakeholder cooperation; and emerging issues of concern, such as Internet surveillance.

The IGF in Bali will be preceded on 21 October by a pre-event high-level meeting on cyber ethics, hosted by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, followed by additional sessions hosted by other stakeholders in the global internet community. The host country for IGF 2013, Indonesia, is estimated to have 63 million Internet users, 47 million accounts on facebook and nearly 30 million twitter accounts. (iah)

IGF to meet in Bali

A number of housewives in Singaraja said that in this October they were still having trouble to get local fruits such as mango, man-gosteen and others. Actually, in previous years, the local fruits were easily found at the end of the year because it was in the harvest peak. “But, the mango is rarely found because it has not entered the harvest season,” he said.

If any local fruits could be found, they usually belonged to unseasonal fruits such as bananas and grapes. To that end, many housewives claimed to be forced to buy imported fruits to fill in the ritual oblation. “We actually want to use local fruits because our family is an enthusiast of local fruits. Unfortunately, they are difficult to get be-cause they are rare. At the end, we will probably buy some imported fruits,” said a housewife at Baktiseraga village, Singaraja.

The Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Live-stock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, when asked

for his confirmation on Tuesday justified the delay to the peak of local fruit harvest this year. According to him, indeed a number of fruits had entered their harvest period such as mango, mangosteen and others, but their amount was only a few. “Harvest peak of this year delays due to weather condition. Estimated, the harvest peak will fall early 2014,” he said.

Due to delayed harvest peak, said Swatan-tra, the scarcity of local fruits also frequently happened before Galungan. Meanwhile, the local fruits available were banana and grapes. “Indeed, mango is also available, but the amount is not as much as when the harvest peak occurs,” he said.

According to Swatantra, ahead of Galungan his party organized a Farmer Market in the of-fice courtyard of the Agriculture and Livestock Agency to bridge farmers and consumers. In the Farmers Market to be held on Friday (Oct 18)

through Sunday (Oct 20) would be sold local fruits to meet the needs of residents in conjunction with the celebration of Galungan. Other than fruits, the other commodities to be sold would be vegetables, chicken and ritual oblations commonly used for the celebration as well as processed products and plantation crops. “Later, we will provide 22 booths representing each subdistrict,” he said.

Swatantra said that each subdistrict would be given two booths to display their agricultural products, livestock and plantation seed. For ex-ample, Kubutambahan subdistrict would surely display more mangoes, while Banjar and Seririt subdistrict would display grapes. In addition to the subdistricts, the other agencies like the Coop-erative, Trade and Industry Agency, Forestry and Plantation Agency and the Maritime and Fisheries Agency were also given a booth each. “The Mari-time and Fishery Agency will display fishery and plantation products,” he said. (kmb15)

IBP/File Photo

A fruit seller serving a buyer who buy fruit at traditional market. Due to erratic weather, the harvest peak of fruits such as mango and mangosteen this year delays from the usual one. Consequently, ahead of Galungan feast people are es-timated to have obstacle in finding local fruits to fill in their ritual oblations.

Harvest peak delays

Residents difficult to get local fruits ahead of GalunganBali Post

SINGARAJA - Due to erratic weather, the harvest peak of fruits such as mango and mangosteen this year delays from the usual one. Consequently, ahead of Galungan feast people are estimated to have obstacle in finding local fruits to fill in their ritual oblations.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Stock of the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) at Sanglah Hospital has run out in recent days. On that account, some patients bitten by dog in need of anti-rabies vaccine to Sanglah Hospital were advised by the officers to look for to rabies center or buy their own. It was revealed by the Secretary of Sanglah Hospital Rabies Management, Ken Wirasandhi. “VAR stock is not available at Sanglah Hospital. For a while, we recommend them to buy at the pharmacy providing the VAR,” he said.

Emptiness of the anti-rabies vaccine was recognized by the Division Head of Disease Control and Environmental Sanitation, Bali Health Agency, Gede Wira Sunetra. He re-vealed that Bali had 58 Rabies Centers spread in Buleleng (7), Jembrana (10), Tabanan (6), Badung (7), Denpasar (3), Gianyar (14), Bangli (3), Klungkung (4) and Karangasem (4). “At the moment, the rabies centers run-ning out of VAR stock are Sanglah Hospital, Public Health Centers in Denpasar and Karan-gasem,” Wira said.

The Bali Health Agency would endeavor to replenish the VAR stocks at rabies centers running out of stocks considering there were dog bite cases requiring the vaccine and Bali had not been free from rabies. “We are trying to borrow 500 vials of the vaccine to Klung-kung, Buleleng (500 vials) and Department of Health Jakarta (5,000 vials),” he said.

The vaccine stock was expected to arrive on Wednesday (Oct 16) and would be further

distributed to rabies centers running out of stock.

At the moment, the final vaccine stock owned by Bali amounted to 10,137 vials divided further for 9 counties/municipality namely Denpasar (400 vials), Klungkung (1,334 vials), Buleleng (2,700 vials), Ba-dung (117 vials), Jembrana (1,015 vials), Bangli (3,945 vials), Karangasem (26 vials), Tabanan (500 vials) and Gianyar (100 vials). As for the stock of anti-rabies serum (SAR), it totally amounted to 252 vials scattered in the province (80 vials), Jembrana (106 vials), Buleleng (20 vials), Klungkung (8 vials), Ta-banan (21 vials), and the Badung (14 vials). In the meantime, Denpasar and Bangli had no stock at all.

According to Wira, procurement of the anti-rabies vaccine and anti-rabies serum sup-plies would be made again in October through local funds. “Hopefully, it could be realized this October and they will approximately consist of 41,000 vials of anti-rabies vaccine and 200 vials of anti-rabies serum,” he said.Though VAR stock continued to be provided by the government, according to Wira, some rabies centers had run a selective VAR admin-istration for those having the first-time dog bite. If the victim had been given the similar vaccine previously and got another dog bite, then they would not be give anti-rabies vac-cine. For the case of anti-rabies serum, it was only given to victims with deep bite and a lot of injuries and the bite was located on the shoulder upwards. (san)

Negara (Bali Post)—

Ahead of Galungan, the pork need in the community in-creases. The Jembrana Agriculture, Food Crops and Livestock Agency ensured the adequate supplies of pork. The calculation was based on monitoring of pigs made by the Livestock Agency at a number of pig farms.

The Head of Jembrana Livestock Agency, Ketut Wiratma, said on Tuesday (Oct 15) that based on the experience of previous years in Jembrana the pork stock was relatively safe. In contrast to the other regions in Bali, people should not necessarily rely on pork.

Another alternative was by slaughtering chicken, so it rarely experienced a shortage or should be supplied from other regions. He admitted the needs of Galungan always showed an increase in demand. However, the amount was predicted to be still sufficient. Data in the Jembrana Livestock Agency indicated there were 74 breeder groups and 5 pig farms having the stock of pork needs in Jembrana. Each group had ten members and each member raised at least two heads. With the estimation, there were at least 1,480 pigs from the breeder groups. It did not include the five employers of pig farms having at least 500 pigs per entrepreneur. In case the demand increased, according to him, the stock of 2,000 heads of pig was considered sufficient to meet the meat needs for Galungan.

Currently, the price of pork in the market ranges from IDR 37,000 to IDR 40,000 per kilogram. It is estimated the price will continue to rise ahead of Galungan and reach IDR 50,000 per kilogram. (kmb26)


After the joint team demolished two large billboards on Jalan Teuku Umar, then a similar discipline was made again. The billboard owners had been informed if their license had expired and been sent a reprimand letter by the Denpasar Mu-nicipal Police (Satpol PP) to dismantle itself. However, so far the owners had not dismantled their billboards. Therefore, the Denpasar Municipal Police will dismantle the billboard, Thursday (Oct 17).

Chief of Denpasar Municipal Police, I.B. Alit Wiradana, when contacted on Tuesday (Oct 15) said his party with Judiciary team members had been discussing about the demolition plan against the three billboards whose permit had expired. However, the owners did not want to dismantle by them-selves. “We’ve sent a reprimand letter to the owners of the three billboards whose license has expired,” said Alit Wiradana.

He admitted the third reprimand letter delivered to the owners of the illegal bill-boards was positively responded. Among the three illegal billboards, two of them namely Cang Jangkrik and Indomaret had been dismantled by the owners. Mean-while, another billboard, namely the Riori had not, so the judicial team would execute the billboard.

Previously, the Denpasar billboard ar-rangement team led by the Housing and Spatial Planning Agency (DTRP) set up a number of unlicensed billboards. The

first discipline was made to two billboard stages in the Telkom shop and office com-plex on Jalan Teuku Umar. Two billboard stages whose license had expired were dismantled by the arrangement team by in-volving relevant agencies in the Denpasar Municipality such as the Municipal Po-lice, Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Revenue Service, Transportation Agency, and the number of elements in the secretariat of the Denpasar Municipality.

The Spatial Division Head, the Denpasar Spatial Plan and Housing Agency, I Gede Cipta Sudewa, met amid the discipline said the billboard demolition was made because the owners did not pay taxes. Having been reprimanded for several times, the owners did not heed them well. Thus, the team was forced to discipline them by dismantling all the billboard stages.

Cipta Sudewa said the discipline against the billboard stage would continue because there were still some billboard stages that no longer paid taxes. “From the existing data, there are 10 billboard stages having been marked with X meaning if they are ready to be dismantled,” he said.

It was said the billboard discipline was by referring to the Mayoral Regulation No.14/2013 regarding the temporary delay of billboard permit in Denpasar, particu-larly the Article 4 paragraph 2. Moreover, it also referred to the Mayoral Regulation No.15/2013 concerning with the imple-mentation of billboard in the Denpasar Municipality. (kmb12)

Billboard demolition continues VAR stock at Sanglah runs out, patients must purchase their own

Ahead of Galungan, pork supplies adequate

IBP/FileThe pigs are placed in a barn before being slaughter.

Hardest hit from Typhoon Wipha was Izu Oshima island, which is about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Tokyo. Rescuers found 16 bodies, most of them buried by mudslides, police and town of-ficials said. Dozens of homes were destroyed, and about 45 people were missing.

A woman from Tokyo died after falling into a river and being washed 10 kilometers (6 miles) down-river to Yokohama, police said. Two sixth-grade boys and another person were missing on Japan’s main island, Honshu, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. More than 350 homes were dam-aged or destroyed, including 283 on Izu Oshima, it said.

The typhoon, which stayed off-shore in the Pacific, had sustained winds of 126 kilometers per hour (78 miles per hour), with gusts up to 180 kph (110 mph), before it was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday evening. The storm was moving northeast, off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

More than 80 centimeters (30 inches) of rain fell on Izu Oshima during a 24-hour period ending Wednesday morning, the most since record-keeping began in 1991.

The rainfall was particularly heavy before dawn, the kind in which “you can’t see anything or hear anything,” Japan Meteoro-logical Agency official Yoshiaki

Yano said.Izu Oshima is the largest island

in the Izu chain southwest of Tokyo. It has one of Japan’s most active volcanoes, Mount Mihara, and is a major base for growing camellias. About 8,200 people live on the island, which is accessible by ferry from Tokyo.

Yutaka Sagara, a 59-year-old sushi chef on the east coast of the island, said he spent a sleep-less night with colleagues at their company housing. Their hillside apartment barely escaped a mud-slide that veered off to the side. Later he found out the mudslide crushed several houses as it flowed to the sea.

“People on this island are some-what used to heavy rainstorms, but this typhoon was beyond our imagi-nation,” he said by phone.

Sagara came down to his seaside sushi restaurant on foot, wading through knee-deep mud, to check things out and make sushi for rescue workers.

Reuters

CAIRO - Relations between the United States and Egypt are now in turmoil and the entire Middle East could suffer, the Egyptian foreign minister said in remarks made a week after Wash-ington moved to curtail military aid to Cairo.

Nabil Fahmy told state-run Al-Ahram newspaper that Egypt had been dependent on U.S. aid for too long but Washington was wrong to assume the Cairo government would always follow its line.

“We are now in a delicate state reflecting the turmoil in the rela-tionship and anyone who says oth-erwise is not speaking honestly,” he said in comments published on Wednesday.

U.S. officials said the aid cut reflected Washington’s unhappi-ness with Egypt’s path since the army overthrew freely-elected President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood on July 3.

Egypt has already criticised the decision and suggested it could turn to other countries for military aid, possibly Russia.

Egyptian security forces have cracked down hard on Islamists since the army seized power, killing hundreds and arresting thousands, including Mursi and other leaders accused of inciting or carrying out violence.

Muslim Brotherhood leaders say they face more severe repres-sion than under veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by a popular uprising in 2011. The army-backed government calls the Brotherhood terrorists.

Islamists accuse the military of staging a coup and sabotag-ing democratic gains made since Mubarak’s demise.

Egypt has long been the sec-

ond-largest recipient of U.S. aid after Israel and its military - the largest in the Arab world - has worked closely with Washington for decades.

The United States now faces a policy dilemma - how to promote democracy while not alienating an Arab ally which has a peace treaty with Israel and controls the strategic Suez Canal.

Fahmy said an extended period of instability in ties would “reflect negatively on the entire region, in-cluding American interests”. The current situation was not solely the result of the U.S. decision to withhold aid, he said.

“The truth is that the problem goes back much earlier, and is caused by the dependence of Egypt on the U.S. aid for 30 years. (The aid) made us choose the easy option and not diversify our op-tions,” he said.

The long-standing military relationship caused Washington to wrongly assume that Egypt would always go along with its policies and goals, Fahmy said.

TURN TO RUSSIA?Most worrying for the United

States is the possibility that the army will turn to a rival country for military aid. Egypt’s army is exploring its options. Military sources told Reuters last week that the army is planning to diversify its source of weapons, including a possible turn to Russia.

The government has insisted Egypt would not bow to U.S. pres-sure, saying it found American policy strange at a time when the country was facing what it calls a war against terrorism.

U.S. military aid to Cairo, put at $1.3 billion a year, was born out of the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

Egypt-US relations in turmoil: Egyptian foreign minister

REUTERS/Eduardo MunozEgypt’s Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy (L) shakes hands as he meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during a bilateral meeting in New York, September 22, 2013.

REUTERS/KyodoA man walks near collapsed houses following a landslide caused by Typhoon Wipha on Izu Oshima island, south of Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo October 16, 2013.

Typhoon, mudslides kill 17 in Japan; 50 missingAssociated Press Writer

TOKYO — A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweep-ing up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo’s transportation during the morning rush. At least 17 deaths were reported and nearly 50 people were missing.

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DENPASAR - Tourists vacationing in Bali during the ten days starting from Wednesday, October 23 until Saturday, No-vember 2, will be able to witness first hand how the Balinese elaborately decorate their towns and villages in their own individual way. According to the traditional Balinese calendar, the first day of this period of fes-tivities is the Galungan holiday on Kliwon Dungulan, and the last day is Kuningan.

During the ten-day festival period, many temples, streets, cities and rural sites will appear colorful and alive with offerings. Penjor poles made of bamboo will line the streets and is one kind of decoration which increases the beauty of

this Island of a Thousand Temples, highlighting the cultural activities and charming natural envi-ronment. On the whole, the religious activities and cultural traditions coupled with the natural charm of Bali have strongly contributed to tour-ism development since the 1920s.

The Galungan event takes place to praise the triumph of virtue (Dharma) over evil (Adharma). A week before Galungan, people celebrate Sugian Tenten, and on the following days Sugian Jawa and Sugian Bali celebra-tions. These three celebrations respectively symbolize the process of purifying the mind (Sugian Tenten), body (Sugian Jawa) and soul (Sugian Bali). The following Saturday and Sunday, are called Embang Sugi, and it is the time when people concentrate on the self.

Monday, Pon Dungulan, in the following week, is called Penyajaan Galungan, when people ask for power from God. The next day, Tuesday Wage Dungulan, is called Penampa-han Galungan, symbolizing the time when Dharma or truth fights against Adharma or evil. Penampahan means, “slaughtering” the evil or bad spirit. This moment is visual-ized on Galungan day as the symbol of the

Dharma victory against Adharma. On Galungan day, houses in Bali are splen-

didly decorated with penjor bamboo poles, with offerings hanging from it with woven coconut leaves, fruits, cakes, and flowers. On this day everybody dresses as best as possible in line with Balinese Hindu culture.

According to the Balinese pawukon cycle as stipulated by the traditional Balinese calen-dar, a Galungan celebration could sometimes fall twice within one year. Its occurrence is repeated after 210 days have elapsed.

The days after Galungan are a time for visiting friends and relatives, and this can often cause traffic jams! In many villages across Bali, Thursday after Galungan, known as Manis Ga-lungan, is a special day for young Balinese and many choose to get married on this day.

Kuningan day marks the end of the Galun-gan celebration. On Kuningan there are still more offerings dedicated to ancestor spirits returning to heaven. On this day, housewives usually make nasi kuning or yellow-colored cooked rice, enriched with spices and coco-nut milk. It tastes delicious especially when served with lawar made of sliced pork.

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TOKYO - The dollar rose in Asia Wednesday on cautious optimism that warring US lawmakers will reach a last-minute deal to resolve a budget impasse which threatens to spark a catastrophic default.

The greenback bought 98.51 yen in Tokyo midday trade, up from 98.16 yen in New York Tuesday afternoon. The euro was mixed at $1.3514 and 133.16 yen, compared with $1.3525 and 132.77 yen in US trading.

Despite the dollar’s resilience, the unit was likely to face selling pres-sure as the latest efforts to end the two-week US budget impasse fell apart late Tuesday. The Republican leadership failed to muster enough support for its own plans to avert default, with just over a day to raise the debt ceiling by the October 17 deadline.

Fitch ratings agency said it may downgrade Washington’s AAA credit rating, while the US Treasury has warned that if Congress fails to lift the $17.6 trillion debt ceiling by Thursday, it will lose its ability to borrow and could run out of cash to meet all its obligations.

“Tension is building up as we approach this deadline, and talks of hope and progress, rather than con-crete deals, might not be enough to keep sentiment from deteriorating,” Credit Agricole said.

“The dollar remains driven by the political uncertainty in Washington, especially against a backdrop of limited to no macro data.”

Dealers said the US government’s budget situation and its potential im-pact on the global economy meant the US Federal Reserve was likely to delay tapering its $85 billion-a-month bond buying programme -- a move that could weigh on the dollar.

Investors will be looking to the Fed’s Beige Book later in the day to gauge conditions in the world’s big-gest economy. An annual reception of the European Central Bank was likely to see officials hinting again they might launch further monetary easing measures, dealers said.

The vast increase -- an average of almost $400 million each -- highlights the growing inequality between the Communist country’s superrich and the millions who still live in poverty.

“The rich are getting richer,” Forbes Shanghai bureau chief Russell Flannery told a press conference as the magazine unveiled its annual China rich list.

“The rapid growth of wealth in China seems to be out of line with the Chinese eco-nomic slowdown,” he said.

The net assets of the top 100 richest people in China soared 44 percent from a year earlier to $316 billion, the magazine said, while the number of dollar billionaires rose to a record high of 168.

That came even as China’s economy has slowed. The Chinese economy expanded 7.7 percent last year, the worst performance

since 1999.Forbes attributed the increase in wealth

to growth in select industries, such as the Internet, auto, entertainment and property sectors.

Wang Jianlin, head of property giant Wanda Group and buyer of US cinema chain AMC Entertainment, topped the list with a net worth of $14.1 billion.

His fortune leaped from $8 billion last year, helped by a rebound in property prices and his investment in AMC.

Forbes had already announced last month that Wang had taken the top spot. Another ranking by the independent Hurun Report also put him at number one.

Last year’s leader, beverage tycoon Zong Qinghou, slipped to second place in the Forbes list, even though his wealth increased

12 percent to $11.2 billion.Robin Li, founder of China’s homegrown

search engine Baidu, dropped to third but his wealth jumped 37 percent from last year to $11.1 billion.

In a surprise new entry to the ranking Li Hejun, chairman of clean energy firm Hanergy Holding Group, appeared for the first time in fourth place with a net worth of $10.9 billion.

Yang Huiyan, who inherited a majority stake in property developer Country Garden, was China’s richest woman with a fortune of $7.2 billion giving her seventh place.

As well as Robin Li, two other Internet billionaires made the top ten.

Ma Huateng, owner of social gaming and networking company Tencent, took fifth place with net worth of $10.2 billion, jumping nearly 60 percent year-on-year due to a surge in his Hong Kong-listed firm’s share price.

And Jack Ma, founder of China’s leading e-commerce firm Alibaba, ranked eighth as his fortune more than doubled to $7.1 billion from $3.4 billion last year.

China’s rich get richer despite slowing economy

AP Photo/Andy Wong


SHANGHAI - China’s 400 richest people became $150 billion wealthier this year, Forbes magazine said Wednesday, despite a slowdown in the world’s second largest economy.

Women walk past a construction site and office

buildings at the Central Business

District during their lunch break in Beijing, China.

China’s 400 richest people became $150

billion wealthier this year, Forbes

magazine said Wednesday, de-

spite a slowdown in the world’s

second largest economy.

Dollar up in Asia as US debt deadline looms Headman of Gelgel village, Syahidin, said

that before the tradition was carried out, the Muslims performed the Eid al-Adha prayers. After that, people immediately gathered in front of the Nurul Huda Mosque to slaugh-ter 27 goats and 10 cattle for sacrifice. The aqiqah tradition was said to be performed by Muslim community who were having babies, where parents of a baby boy donated two goats, while parents of baby girl donated a goat to be slaughtered.

The tradition took place in a familial atmo-sphere, where people were very enthusiastic about implementing it. Syahidin said the tradition had been going on for hundreds of years since the time of the Gelgel Kingdom. Implementation of the aqiqah tradition was started by spraying water containing colorful flowers to goat body, before the goat body was wrapped in a white cloth. Babies seemed to be slept on the goat before the goat was slaughtered by residents. Blood of the sac-rificed animals was then taken a little to be smeared on the forehead of the baby.

“The ceremony was followed with the sprinkle of dimes by the aqiqah participating families. It poses an expression of excitement of the families because their children can be consecrated,” said Syahidin. The dime sprin-

kles were followed by people who seemed to scramble for collecting the dimes. One of the aqiqah participants, Nuraini, claimed to be grateful to follow the ritual. In order to participate in the ritual, she was saving to buy a goat and collect dimes since the baby was still in the womb.

The goats and cattle slaughtered were not apparently to be distributed to those who participated in the aqiqah ritual only. Syahi-din said the meat was also distributed to the poor at Kampong Gelgel. Even, the interfaith tolerance also looked very visible when the meat was also distributed to the Hindus at Gelgel village. (kmb31)

Eid al-Adha

Moslem community holds aqiqah tradition

Coinciding with the Eid al-Adha celebration, the Muslims at

Kampong Gelgel, Klungkung, held an aqiqah ceremony tradi-

tion at Nurul Huda Mosque, Gelgel, Tuesday (Oct 15). The tradition served as an expres-sion of gratitude of Moslem to

God marked with dozens of goats and cattle for sacrifice.

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - Coinciding with the Eid al-Adha celebration, the Muslims at

Kampong Gelgel, Klungkung, held an aqiqah ceremony tradition at Nurul Huda Mosque, Gelgel, Tuesday (Oct 15). The tradition served as an expression of gratitude of Moslem to God marked with dozens of goats and cattle for sacrifice.

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Galungan, festive days in Bali

Tourists vacationing in Bali during the ten days starting from Wednes-day, October 23 until Saturday, November 2, will be able to witness first hand how the Balinese elabo-rately decorate their towns and vil-lages in their own individual way.

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President inaugurates infrastructure project in Pacitan

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AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesia and Japan are

planning to open more direct flight routes connecting cities in both the countries, thus encouraging tourism, Japan’s Vice Ambas-sador to Indonesia Junji Shimada said here on Wednesday.

“We are planning to open flight routes from Jakarta to Kansai and Haneda airports. It is part of our commitment to have more tourists from the ASEAN countries, particularly Indonesia, coming to Japan and vice versa,” said the vice ambassador.

The Japan government is to ease off entry visa requirements for some ASEAN countries, as per which Malaysia and Thailand nationals will be exempted from visa while Indonesian nationals will get an extension in their period of stay provided they hold a multiple entry visa, official said.

“The visa-related policy will be imple-mented with effect from July 1,” Press At-taché of Japan`s Embassy in Jakarta Takayuki Kawai said.

The new policy has been formulated as part of the celebrations of the 40th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation. For Indonesia nationals holding multiple entry visas - ordinary passport holders who reside in their home country - the short-term stay’s duration will be extended from 15 days to a maximum of 30 days.

As a result of this step, Japan-Indonesia exchange will be enhanced, including an in-crease in the number of tourists from Indonesia visiting Japan and further easing of business transactions between the two countries.

“I am glad with what we have built. There was little infrastructure here before, but it has come up quickly now,” he said at the inaugura-tion ceremony. Pacitan has progressed at a fast pace in economic and infrastructural terms compared to the past, he noted.

“What I inaugurated today is part of Indo-nesia’s progress. Development must be spread evenly,” he said. The eight infrastructure proj-ects launched on Wednesday include coal-fired power plants in Paiton Unit 9 of PLTU 2 East Java with a capacity of 1x660 MW; PLTU 1

in Rembang, Central Java, with a capacity of 2x315 MW; and Unit 2 and 3 of PLTU 3, Lon-tar, Banten, with a capacity of 2x315MW.

Yudhoyono also unveiled Darul Falah Grand Mosque and Community Academy, a sports hall, and stadium in Pacitan. He also launched a number of other public works and projects such as a drinking water project, construction of an apartment complex for ath-letes, and building of a road in the district.

“What has been achieved by Pacitan in particular and Indonesia in general must be

continued,” he said. PLTU 1 East Java, built on 65 hectares

of land, is located in the village of Sukorejo, Sidomoro sub-district, about 30 kilometers east of Pacitan, off the Indian Ocean.

The project has two units of generators with in-dividual capacities of 315 MW and a total capacity of 630MW. Power from the plant will be distrib-uted through a 150kV high-voltage overhead line stretching 35.65 kilometers to the main distributing station in Pacitan Baru and 84.8 kilometer to the main distributing station in Wonogiri.

AntaraJAKARTA - Jakarta Governor Joko

Widodo expects cheap monorail fares to prompt the people to switch to mass transportation instead of using private vehicles.

“If the monorail fare is to be expensive, then it is certain that not many people would be interested in using it; it should be cheap,” said Joko Widodo after a monorail project groundbreaking ceremony here Wednesday.

Joko Widodo said that while he was not in a position to specify any ticket fare range for the monorail, it certainly has to be cheaper than what private vehicle usage costs.

“Ticket prices should be cheaper than if we used a private vehicle,” he said.

Joko Widodo also said that the MRT

(Mass Rapid Transportation), Monorail, TransJakarta, Kopaja, MetroMini, and the commuter line train (KRL) will all be integrated to serve those using public trans-portation.

“Once the monorail for the MRT starts functioning, additional new buses, TransJa-karta buses, MRT, Monorail, TransJakarta, Kopaja, MetroMini, or KRL will all be integrated,” he said.

Despite that, it all comes back the mar-ket laws because the city government only executes programs to reduce congestion in the Capital.

“I am only executing these projects, and eventually it will all depend on the laws of the market. Let’s hope that these projects are not stalled in a short span of time. We must remain optimistic,” he said.

Earlier, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo inaugurated the groundbreaking ceremony for the Jakarta monorail project devel-opment in Kuningan, South Jakarta, on Wednesday.

“The project remained stopped for five years, but thank God that on this day, the monorail project development will resume. We want to continue with the project,” said Joko Widodo.

Joko believes that the physical infra-structure for the monorail project will be completed by the end of 2016.

“If work on a project is carried out diligently through day and night, it would meet the deadline, of course with the help of financial support. We already have the funding and the documents ready from the private sector,” Joko said.

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

A worker walks at the site of a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a railway, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Monorail project begins in Jakarta

RI, Japan plan to open more direct flight routes

Antara

PACITAN - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday inaugu-rated eight infrastructure projects, including a 2x315 megawatt coal-fired power plant, in Pacitan, East Java.

That toll is far higher than the nearly 115,000 violent civilian deaths reported by the British-based group Iraq Body Count, which bases its tally on media reports, hospital and morgue records, and official and non-governmental accounts. The latest es-timate by university researchers in the United States, Canada and Baghdad in cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Health covers not only violent deaths but other avoidable deaths linked to the invasion, insurgencies and subsequent social breakdown.

It also differs from some previous counts by spanning a longer period of time and by using randomized surveys of households across Iraq to project a nationwide death toll from 2003 to mid 2011. Violence caused most of the deaths, but about a third were indirectly linked to the war, and these deaths have been left out of pre-vious counts, said lead author Amy Hagopian, a public health researcher at the University of Washington.

Those included situations when a pregnant woman encountered difficult labor but could not leave the house due to fighting, or when a

person drank contaminated water, or when a patient could not get treated at a hospital because staff was over-whelmed with war casualties. “These are all indirect deaths, and they are significant,” Hagopian told AFP.

The aim of the study was to pro-vide a truer picture of the suffering caused by war, and hopefully to make governments think twice about the harm that would come from an inva-sion, she said.

“I think it is important that people understand the consequences of launching wars on public health, on how people live. This country is forever changed.”

The research team from the Uni-versity of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, Simon Fraser University and Mustansiriya University conducted the work on a volunteer basis using pooled internal resources instead of seeking out-side funds. Their tally was compiled by asking adults living in 2,000 randomly selected households in 100 geographic clusters across Iraq if family members had died, when and why.

Researchers used the survey data, which was completed by 1,960 of

those chosen, to calculate the death rate before the war and after. When multiplied by the whole population, they returned a number that repre-sented “excess deaths.”

Researchers estimated there were

405,000 excess Iraqi deaths attribut-able to the war through mid-2011.

They also attempted to account for deaths missed because families had fled the country, and estimated 55,805 total deaths, bringing the total

to nearly 461,000.About 70 percent of Iraq deaths

from 2003-2011 were violent in na-ture, with most caused by gunshots, followed by car bombs and other explosions, said the study.

Agence France Presse

Seoul - South Korea unveiled its new “tourist police” force Wednesday, with snappy uniforms from rapper Psy’s costume designer and a “Gang-nam Style” launch in central Seoul. Around 100 young policemen and women make up the first batch of the new force -- formed to protect tourists from being ripped off during their stay in the South Korean capital.

The officers were handpicked for their linguistic skills, and can speak a range of languages including English, Japanese and Mandarin.

“Those who think they were over-charged by taxi drivers or street food ven-dors can come and talk to us. We will help settle the problem,” English-speaking recruit Park Jae-Hyoung told AFP.

Each officer wears a badge denot-ing his language expertise on a special dark-blue uniform created by one of the costume designers for the “Gangnam

Style” star Psy. The singer’s global hit was played at Wednesday’s launch event, with a police drill unit perform-ing his signature horse-riding dance.

“The tourist police wasn’t created because this country is unsafe,” Lee Charm, president of the Korea Tourism Organization told the new recruits. “You are ambassadors who promote how safe this country is,” he said. “From now on, you guys will be very busy having pictures taken with tourists.”

The police are unarmed and are meant to summon regular officers in the event of any serious crime.

The number of foreign travellers to South Korea has steadily grown over the years and topped 10 million for the first time in 2012, partly thanks to interest sparked by the global popular-ity of “Gangnam Style”.

The song, released a year ago, made Psy an international star, and is the most popular video of all time on You-Tube with nearly 1.8 billion views.


LONDON — Demand for emergency food aid has spiked this year in Britain, a leading charity said Wednesday, suggesting low-income households’ living standards are still sliding despite the end of the recession.

The Trussell Trust, a Christian charity that operates food banks throughout the country, said in a report that just under 356,000 people

received three days of non-perishable food between April and September — about 10,000 more than their entire 2012-2013 financial year.

Chris Mould, the Trussell Trust’s executive chairman, appealed to the government to launch an inquiry into the causes of hunger in the U.K. With winter approaching, the worst may be yet to come. “This is disturbing,” he said. “It’s not going away. It’s getting worse.”



Washington - Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday.

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Kurdish female fighters from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) are seen on a vehicle mounted with an anti-aircraft weapon in the Kurdish town of Ifrin, in Aleppo’s countryside October 14, 2013.

from page 1Meanwhile, related to bank-

ing services, Armaya said that many banks in Bali had not acted transparently in calculating the amount of installment and inter-est payments to consumers. Ac-cording to him, there was an ex-perience of one of the residents from Singaraja. “The consumer

was disappointed by the banking services because the debt paid through installments remained high whereas the consumer had regularly paid the installment. Allegedly, the individual bank officer has cheated,” he said.

Those complaints of public services indicated the weak-ness of businesses in providing protection against consumers.

“Local government interven-tion should also be encouraged. In this regard, the local lead-ers must not stand idly by,” he advised.

For Armaya, the public as consumers was entitled to get friendly, kind and professional services. Otherwise, they had the right to sue such as in the form of class action. (kmb28)

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BEIJING — David Lee scored 31 points and grabbed six rebounds to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 100-95 preseason win over a Kobe Bryant-less Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday in Beijing.

Stephen Curry added 24 points for the Warriors, while Andrew Bogut had 14 rebounds and nine points.

Lee was 12-of-16 from the floor and said his strategy was to keep attacking the basket to open things up for his teammates.

“I just try to come and be aggressive. That’s one of the rules I have on this team, to start us working inside out,” Lee said. “The way it’s supposed to work is that we can get some stuff on the inside early in the game and that will open up the outside for guys like Steph to shoot 3s as the game goes on.”

Nick Young led the Lakers with 18 points. Pau Gasol had 15 points and Chris Kaman scored 14 with 10 rebounds.

Although he made the trip to China, Bryant is sitting out the games to nurse a torn Achilles tendon and an ailing right knee. He was clearly missed by the Chinese fans, who chanted his name throughout the game in the vain hope he would take the court. The Lakers play a second exhibition game in Shanghai on Friday.

The Warriors trailed 11 points at the end of the third quarter, but tied the score at 84 with just over seven minutes remaining on a 3-pointer by Curry and never fell behind again.

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JIMBARAN - Designed and built by Nyo-man Nuarta, one of Indonesia’s foremost modern sculptor, the Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue or GWK and its pedestal building will be standing 150 meters tall with its wings span 64 meters across. Made from more than 4000 tons of copper and brass, the statue is picturing Lord Wisnu, as the source of wisdom, riding on the back of the mythical bird Garuda as the manifestation of con-science toward Amerta, the perennial goodness.

The statue and its pedestal will be surround-ed by more than 240 hectares cultural park

which was once an abandoned and unproduc-tive limestone quarry. The cultural park will provide attractions for both local and foreign visitors with supporting facilities such as Lo-tus Pond, Festival Park, Amphitheater, Street Theater, Exhibition Hall, as well as Jendela Bali The Panoramic Resto and souvenir shop. At present time, the statue of Wisnu, the statue of Garuda, and the hands of Wisnu have been placed temporarily in three different plazas within the park.GWK Cultural Park is intended to educate, especially the young generations about the importance of preserving and culti-vating world’s cultural heritage.

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Garuda Wisnu Kencana Statue


LUXEMBOURG — Top-seeded Caro-line Wozniacki of Denmark struggled to a 6-3, 7-6 (2) win over local favorite Mandy Minella to reach the second round of the Luxembourg Open on Tuesday. Second-seeded Sloane Stephens of the United States made lighter work of her day as she beat 2009 champion and Swiss wild card Timea Bacsinszky 6-3, 6-3.

Two seeds fell: No. 4 Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium lost to Katarzyna Piter of Poland 6-4, 6-2, and No. 6 Mona Barthel of Ger-many lost to Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Third-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany also was in trouble early on against Croatia’s Donna Vekic before she recovered to win in three sets 2-6, 6-3, 6-0.

Pospisil beats Hewitt in 2 sets in Vienna opener

Canada’s Vasek Pospisil gestures as he won a point

against France’s Richard Gasquet at the first round

of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at

Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center in Shanghai,

China, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. Pospisil won 6-3, 6-4.

Pospisil trailed the now 53rd-ranked Australian 6-4 in the tiebreaker before reeling off four straight points to take the opening set. An early break in the second proved enough for the seventh-seeded Canadian.

“It’s very special for me to beat a for-mer No. 1,” said the 23-year-old Pospisil, who won just two games in his only pre-vious match against Hewitt at Newport last year. “I’ve come a long way since. I started working with another coach and I’ve put in a lot of hard work.”

Pospisil next plays Robin Haase. The Dutchman, who won both of his career titles in Austria, rallied to beat Ilija Bozoljac of Serbia 5-7, 6-2, 6-2.

Also, the son of 1988 Olympic champion Miloslav Mecir stunned Pab-lo Andujar of Spain 6-4, 6-4 in his first ever main draw match. The 25-year-old Miloslav Mecir Jr. of Slovakia, who is ranked 240th and came through three qualifying rounds, served nine aces and never faced a break point.

Earlier, Daniel Brands of Germany

beat Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-4, 7-6 (5) despite the Austrian serving 16 aces. The 57th-ranked Brands managed one break in the opening set against the 2010 finalist and held serve through-out to set up a second-round match against top-seeded former champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Dominic Thiem, playing in only his second ATP event this year, defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The 20-year-old Austrian reached the second round for a third straight year and will play either sixth-seeded Gael Monfils or Marinko Mato-sevic of Australia.

Also, Michael Russell of the United States failed to convert any of his 13 break points in a 6-3, 6-4 loss to qualifi-er Mirza Basic of Bosnia-Herzegovina; Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium had 10 aces while beating Jan Hajek of Czech Republic 6-2, 6-0; and Slovakia’s Lu-kas Lacko defeated Austria’s Gerald Melzer, brother of former two-time champion Jurgen, 7-6 (5), 6-1.


VIENNA — Vasek Pospisil saved two set points before beating former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt 7-6 (6), 6-4 in the first round of the Erste Bank Open on Tuesday.

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

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England’s roller-coaster ride through a tough group which alternated wins and draws until vic-tories in the last two matches, culminating with Tuesday’s 2-0 triumph over Poland, ensured his men finished a point ahead of Ukraine to take the automatic qualifying spot for next year’s finals in Brazil.

Hodgson, 66, described the achievement as the finest of his long career, while at the same time emphasising he was also proud of leading Switzer-land to the World Cup in 1994 and the European championships two years later.

Ultimately, he was keeping his feet firmly on

the ground and not getting carried away with the achievement.

“I was lucky enough to go to a World Cup with Switzerland, and I was very proud of that especially as Switzerland did not have the quality of players that we have here,” Hodgson told reporters.

“But to be an Englishman and to take your own country to the World Cup makes me especially proud.

“This team is growing in terms of accepting pres-sure and dealing with it and the real beauty for me is the blend between the established players and the younger players.


SAN JOSE , Costa Rica — Mexico will play New Zealand for a spot in next year’s World Cup despite losing 2-1 at Costa Rica on Tuesday night.

The Mexicans advanced to the intercontinental playoff series when the United States rallied with two late goals to win at Panama. That kept Mexico in fourth place at the conclusion of the CONCACAF final qualifying round with only 11 points, three ahead of Panama, which would have advanced by holding off the Americans.

Mexico will host the first leg on Nov. 13 or 14 and play at New Zealand on Nov. 20. The Mexicans have made every World Cup since they were disqualified from the 1990 tournament for using an over-age player at a youth event, but they sure cut it close this time.

Goals by Brian Ruiz in the first half and Alvaro Saborio in the second gave Costa Rica the win. The Ticos already had qualified for Brazil 2014 and wound up second to the United States in the round.

Oribe Peralta scored in the 29th minute for Mexico, which won only two games in the 10-game finals. One of those victories came last Friday night against Panama in the first match for new coach Victor Manuel Vucetich, and that was the difference for El Tri. “We thought that we were out,” Peralta said.

Still, Mexico needs to start scor-ing goals against New Zealand. In their last 10 CONCACAF quali-fiers, the Mexicans scored seven goals.

“We’ve got to reflect, and we have to do whatever it takes to make it to the World Cup,” Peralta added. “Things are not working as we wish.”


SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Wild celebrations broke loose Sarajevo’s central square Tuesday after Bosnia qualified for its first World Cup as an independent nation.

Almost 10,000 delirious fans jumped, cried and screamed ‘Vamos Bosnia’ — or ‘Go Bosnia’ — when striker Vedad Ibisevic scored in the 68th minute to secure a 1-0 win over Lithuania at Kaunas.

Immediately after the match, the Bosnian players were seen on TV crying in each other’s arms at Kaunas, prompting tears to roll down thousands of cheeks at streets and homes in Bosnia. Thousands of fans, meanwhile, headed to the airport to wait for their “Dragons”.

“They have no idea what they have done to the people here,” wept unemployed Salih Redzic, 52. “We all need some ‘Brazil’. It’s not even about soccer any more. It’s about this feeling many of us have almost forgotten and the younger ones have never experienced. The feeling of success,” he said.

Bosnia has been close before. It narrowly missed out on the 2010 World Cup and 2012 European Championship, both times losing to Portugal in the playoffs. But the current team, led by Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko and German-born playmaker Zvjezdan Misimovic, made no mistake on Tuesday night.

For at least a while, they made their countrymen forget their nation’s more than 25 percent unemployment, the low standard of living, the 47 million euro of EU’s funds lost last week over internal political bickering.

“We are going to Brazil,” the crowd was chanting and TV screens were flashing. That’s all that mattered: to use the word ‘we’ in combi-nation with something synonymous to success.

For many Bosnians, football success has been a rare cause for cel-ebration since the country descended into nearly four years of war two decades ago. The conflict killed over 100,000 people and left a legacy of poverty, high unemployment and never-ending political strife.

“We do not have other reasons to be happy,” said Benjamin Saric, a 20 years-old student from Sarajevo who holds little hope of finding a job even when he graduates.

Reuters

SEOUL - Guus Hiddink, who led South Korea to the 2002 World Cup semi-finals, threw his support behind his former skipper Hong Myung-bo on Wednesday and said the new coach had put the Asian side on the right track after a hor-rid 2014 qualifying campaign.

Hiddink, who resigned as coach of Russian club Anzhi Makhachka-la in July and has been touted as a candidate for the vacant Australia job, is still worshipped in South Korea, where statues were built and a stadium named after him.

Speaking to reporters at a lunch meeting with some of the players from his 2002 side, which became the first Asian team to reach the last four of a World Cup, Hid-

dink said it was important to play adventurous football in Brazil next year.

The Koreans lost 2-0 to the World Cup hosts in a friendly on Saturday before beating Mali 3-1 on Tuesday.

“I saw in the game with Brazil ... they (Korea) are eager to go and play attractive football,” he said. “We don’t like to see a scared, defense-oriented team.

“If we see a Korea which is very adventurous, the whole world will recognise them. Maybe you are not going to the final but people all over the world will say: ‘I’d like to see this team.’”

Tuesday’s game against the African side was Hong’s eighth in charge after he took over from the much-maligned Choi Kang-hee.

“I now have six months to prepare for the World Cup and am not thinking about what we will do there yet. “But we have a chance, if you want to win the lottery, you have to buy a ticket, well, and now we have our ticket.”

DEBATES BEGIN

Now that qualification has been secured, all England soccer followers know exactly what to expect next.

The side’s chances will be discussed non-stop and at great length between now and the start of the finals because there is no escape from the microscopic scrutiny by newspapers, television and radio.

Every move, every decision, every mistake and every success will be analysed and dissected each day between now and next June, and the debate has already begun.

In previous years, England have been talked up as World Cup winners, even though they have only enjoyed success once nearly 50 years ago and the last time they reached the semi-finals was almost a quarter of century ago in 1990.

On Wednesday, former England winger John Barnes, a member of the side that finished fourth at Italia ‘90 and reached the quarter-finals four years earlier, criticised the formation Hodgson used on Tuesday, even though England won and qualified.

“If he plays the way he did against Poland with two wide players and two central midfield players against the likes of Spain, Italy, Brazil and Argentina, we will not get near the World Cup,” Barnes told Talksport radio.

However, plenty of other commentators praised Hodgson for “taking the handbrake off”, playing with an effective front four and coming through the group unbeaten.

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

England’s Steven Gerrard, right, scores the second goal of the game as Poland’s Kamil Glik looks on during the World Cup Group H qualification soccer match between England and Poland at Wembley stadium in London, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.


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LONDON - A month after being criticised for being too conservative and blinkered follow-ing a dour goalless draw with Ukraine, England coach Roy Hodgson was being heaped with praise for guiding the side to the World Cup finals on Wednesday.

AP Photo/Fernando Vergara

Costa Rica’s Johnny Acosta celebrates after his team defeated Mexico 2-1 during a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.

Mexico makes playoff despite 2-1 loss

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England’s roller-coaster ride through a tough group which alternated wins and draws until vic-tories in the last two matches, culminating with Tuesday’s 2-0 triumph over Poland, ensured his men finished a point ahead of Ukraine to take the automatic qualifying spot for next year’s finals in Brazil.

Hodgson, 66, described the achievement as the finest of his long career, while at the same time emphasising he was also proud of leading Switzer-land to the World Cup in 1994 and the European championships two years later.

Ultimately, he was keeping his feet firmly on

the ground and not getting carried away with the achievement.

“I was lucky enough to go to a World Cup with Switzerland, and I was very proud of that especially as Switzerland did not have the quality of players that we have here,” Hodgson told reporters.

“But to be an Englishman and to take your own country to the World Cup makes me especially proud.

“This team is growing in terms of accepting pres-sure and dealing with it and the real beauty for me is the blend between the established players and the younger players.


SAN JOSE , Costa Rica — Mexico will play New Zealand for a spot in next year’s World Cup despite losing 2-1 at Costa Rica on Tuesday night.

The Mexicans advanced to the intercontinental playoff series when the United States rallied with two late goals to win at Panama. That kept Mexico in fourth place at the conclusion of the CONCACAF final qualifying round with only 11 points, three ahead of Panama, which would have advanced by holding off the Americans.

Mexico will host the first leg on Nov. 13 or 14 and play at New Zealand on Nov. 20. The Mexicans have made every World Cup since they were disqualified from the 1990 tournament for using an over-age player at a youth event, but they sure cut it close this time.

Goals by Brian Ruiz in the first half and Alvaro Saborio in the second gave Costa Rica the win. The Ticos already had qualified for Brazil 2014 and wound up second to the United States in the round.

Oribe Peralta scored in the 29th minute for Mexico, which won only two games in the 10-game finals. One of those victories came last Friday night against Panama in the first match for new coach Victor Manuel Vucetich, and that was the difference for El Tri. “We thought that we were out,” Peralta said.

Still, Mexico needs to start scor-ing goals against New Zealand. In their last 10 CONCACAF quali-fiers, the Mexicans scored seven goals.

“We’ve got to reflect, and we have to do whatever it takes to make it to the World Cup,” Peralta added. “Things are not working as we wish.”


SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Wild celebrations broke loose Sarajevo’s central square Tuesday after Bosnia qualified for its first World Cup as an independent nation.

Almost 10,000 delirious fans jumped, cried and screamed ‘Vamos Bosnia’ — or ‘Go Bosnia’ — when striker Vedad Ibisevic scored in the 68th minute to secure a 1-0 win over Lithuania at Kaunas.

Immediately after the match, the Bosnian players were seen on TV crying in each other’s arms at Kaunas, prompting tears to roll down thousands of cheeks at streets and homes in Bosnia. Thousands of fans, meanwhile, headed to the airport to wait for their “Dragons”.

“They have no idea what they have done to the people here,” wept unemployed Salih Redzic, 52. “We all need some ‘Brazil’. It’s not even about soccer any more. It’s about this feeling many of us have almost forgotten and the younger ones have never experienced. The feeling of success,” he said.

Bosnia has been close before. It narrowly missed out on the 2010 World Cup and 2012 European Championship, both times losing to Portugal in the playoffs. But the current team, led by Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko and German-born playmaker Zvjezdan Misimovic, made no mistake on Tuesday night.

For at least a while, they made their countrymen forget their nation’s more than 25 percent unemployment, the low standard of living, the 47 million euro of EU’s funds lost last week over internal political bickering.

“We are going to Brazil,” the crowd was chanting and TV screens were flashing. That’s all that mattered: to use the word ‘we’ in combi-nation with something synonymous to success.

For many Bosnians, football success has been a rare cause for cel-ebration since the country descended into nearly four years of war two decades ago. The conflict killed over 100,000 people and left a legacy of poverty, high unemployment and never-ending political strife.

“We do not have other reasons to be happy,” said Benjamin Saric, a 20 years-old student from Sarajevo who holds little hope of finding a job even when he graduates.

Reuters

SEOUL - Guus Hiddink, who led South Korea to the 2002 World Cup semi-finals, threw his support behind his former skipper Hong Myung-bo on Wednesday and said the new coach had put the Asian side on the right track after a hor-rid 2014 qualifying campaign.

Hiddink, who resigned as coach of Russian club Anzhi Makhachka-la in July and has been touted as a candidate for the vacant Australia job, is still worshipped in South Korea, where statues were built and a stadium named after him.

Speaking to reporters at a lunch meeting with some of the players from his 2002 side, which became the first Asian team to reach the last four of a World Cup, Hid-

dink said it was important to play adventurous football in Brazil next year.

The Koreans lost 2-0 to the World Cup hosts in a friendly on Saturday before beating Mali 3-1 on Tuesday.

“I saw in the game with Brazil ... they (Korea) are eager to go and play attractive football,” he said. “We don’t like to see a scared, defense-oriented team.

“If we see a Korea which is very adventurous, the whole world will recognise them. Maybe you are not going to the final but people all over the world will say: ‘I’d like to see this team.’”

Tuesday’s game against the African side was Hong’s eighth in charge after he took over from the much-maligned Choi Kang-hee.

“I now have six months to prepare for the World Cup and am not thinking about what we will do there yet. “But we have a chance, if you want to win the lottery, you have to buy a ticket, well, and now we have our ticket.”

DEBATES BEGIN

Now that qualification has been secured, all England soccer followers know exactly what to expect next.

The side’s chances will be discussed non-stop and at great length between now and the start of the finals because there is no escape from the microscopic scrutiny by newspapers, television and radio.

Every move, every decision, every mistake and every success will be analysed and dissected each day between now and next June, and the debate has already begun.

In previous years, England have been talked up as World Cup winners, even though they have only enjoyed success once nearly 50 years ago and the last time they reached the semi-finals was almost a quarter of century ago in 1990.

On Wednesday, former England winger John Barnes, a member of the side that finished fourth at Italia ‘90 and reached the quarter-finals four years earlier, criticised the formation Hodgson used on Tuesday, even though England won and qualified.

“If he plays the way he did against Poland with two wide players and two central midfield players against the likes of Spain, Italy, Brazil and Argentina, we will not get near the World Cup,” Barnes told Talksport radio.

However, plenty of other commentators praised Hodgson for “taking the handbrake off”, playing with an effective front four and coming through the group unbeaten.

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

England’s Steven Gerrard, right, scores the second goal of the game as Poland’s Kamil Glik looks on during the World Cup Group H qualification soccer match between England and Poland at Wembley stadium in London, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.


Reuters

LONDON - A month after being criticised for being too conservative and blinkered follow-ing a dour goalless draw with Ukraine, England coach Roy Hodgson was being heaped with praise for guiding the side to the World Cup finals on Wednesday.

AP Photo/Fernando Vergara

Costa Rica’s Johnny Acosta celebrates after his team defeated Mexico 2-1 during a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.

Mexico makes playoff despite 2-1 loss

Bosnians celebrate World Cup qualification

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BEIJING — David Lee scored 31 points and grabbed six rebounds to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 100-95 preseason win over a Kobe Bryant-less Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday in Beijing.

Stephen Curry added 24 points for the Warriors, while Andrew Bogut had 14 rebounds and nine points.

Lee was 12-of-16 from the floor and said his strategy was to keep attacking the basket to open things up for his teammates.

“I just try to come and be aggressive. That’s one of the rules I have on this team, to start us working inside out,” Lee said. “The way it’s supposed to work is that we can get some stuff on the inside early in the game and that will open up the outside for guys like Steph to shoot 3s as the game goes on.”

Nick Young led the Lakers with 18 points. Pau Gasol had 15 points and Chris Kaman scored 14 with 10 rebounds.

Although he made the trip to China, Bryant is sitting out the games to nurse a torn Achilles tendon and an ailing right knee. He was clearly missed by the Chinese fans, who chanted his name throughout the game in the vain hope he would take the court. The Lakers play a second exhibition game in Shanghai on Friday.

The Warriors trailed 11 points at the end of the third quarter, but tied the score at 84 with just over seven minutes remaining on a 3-pointer by Curry and never fell behind again.

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JIMBARAN - Designed and built by Nyo-man Nuarta, one of Indonesia’s foremost modern sculptor, the Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue or GWK and its pedestal building will be standing 150 meters tall with its wings span 64 meters across. Made from more than 4000 tons of copper and brass, the statue is picturing Lord Wisnu, as the source of wisdom, riding on the back of the mythical bird Garuda as the manifestation of con-science toward Amerta, the perennial goodness.

The statue and its pedestal will be surround-ed by more than 240 hectares cultural park

which was once an abandoned and unproduc-tive limestone quarry. The cultural park will provide attractions for both local and foreign visitors with supporting facilities such as Lo-tus Pond, Festival Park, Amphitheater, Street Theater, Exhibition Hall, as well as Jendela Bali The Panoramic Resto and souvenir shop. At present time, the statue of Wisnu, the statue of Garuda, and the hands of Wisnu have been placed temporarily in three different plazas within the park.GWK Cultural Park is intended to educate, especially the young generations about the importance of preserving and culti-vating world’s cultural heritage.

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Garuda Wisnu Kencana Statue


LUXEMBOURG — Top-seeded Caro-line Wozniacki of Denmark struggled to a 6-3, 7-6 (2) win over local favorite Mandy Minella to reach the second round of the Luxembourg Open on Tuesday. Second-seeded Sloane Stephens of the United States made lighter work of her day as she beat 2009 champion and Swiss wild card Timea Bacsinszky 6-3, 6-3.

Two seeds fell: No. 4 Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium lost to Katarzyna Piter of Poland 6-4, 6-2, and No. 6 Mona Barthel of Ger-many lost to Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Third-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany also was in trouble early on against Croatia’s Donna Vekic before she recovered to win in three sets 2-6, 6-3, 6-0.

Pospisil beats Hewitt in 2 sets in Vienna opener

Canada’s Vasek Pospisil gestures as he won a point

against France’s Richard Gasquet at the first round

of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at

Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center in Shanghai,

China, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. Pospisil won 6-3, 6-4.

Pospisil trailed the now 53rd-ranked Australian 6-4 in the tiebreaker before reeling off four straight points to take the opening set. An early break in the second proved enough for the seventh-seeded Canadian.

“It’s very special for me to beat a for-mer No. 1,” said the 23-year-old Pospisil, who won just two games in his only pre-vious match against Hewitt at Newport last year. “I’ve come a long way since. I started working with another coach and I’ve put in a lot of hard work.”

Pospisil next plays Robin Haase. The Dutchman, who won both of his career titles in Austria, rallied to beat Ilija Bozoljac of Serbia 5-7, 6-2, 6-2.

Also, the son of 1988 Olympic champion Miloslav Mecir stunned Pab-lo Andujar of Spain 6-4, 6-4 in his first ever main draw match. The 25-year-old Miloslav Mecir Jr. of Slovakia, who is ranked 240th and came through three qualifying rounds, served nine aces and never faced a break point.

Earlier, Daniel Brands of Germany

beat Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-4, 7-6 (5) despite the Austrian serving 16 aces. The 57th-ranked Brands managed one break in the opening set against the 2010 finalist and held serve through-out to set up a second-round match against top-seeded former champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Dominic Thiem, playing in only his second ATP event this year, defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The 20-year-old Austrian reached the second round for a third straight year and will play either sixth-seeded Gael Monfils or Marinko Mato-sevic of Australia.

Also, Michael Russell of the United States failed to convert any of his 13 break points in a 6-3, 6-4 loss to qualifi-er Mirza Basic of Bosnia-Herzegovina; Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium had 10 aces while beating Jan Hajek of Czech Republic 6-2, 6-0; and Slovakia’s Lu-kas Lacko defeated Austria’s Gerald Melzer, brother of former two-time champion Jurgen, 7-6 (5), 6-1.


VIENNA — Vasek Pospisil saved two set points before beating former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt 7-6 (6), 6-4 in the first round of the Erste Bank Open on Tuesday.

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

Wozniacki , Stephens win openers at Luxembourg

Golden State Warriors beat LA Lakers 100-95

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonA member of the Flying Dubs, an acrobatic dunk team of the Golden State Warriors, performs during the NBA Global Games match between Los An-geles Lakers and Golden State Warriors in Beijing, October 15, 2013.

President inaugurates infrastructure project in Pacitan

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AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesia and Japan are

planning to open more direct flight routes connecting cities in both the countries, thus encouraging tourism, Japan’s Vice Ambas-sador to Indonesia Junji Shimada said here on Wednesday.

“We are planning to open flight routes from Jakarta to Kansai and Haneda airports. It is part of our commitment to have more tourists from the ASEAN countries, particularly Indonesia, coming to Japan and vice versa,” said the vice ambassador.

The Japan government is to ease off entry visa requirements for some ASEAN countries, as per which Malaysia and Thailand nationals will be exempted from visa while Indonesian nationals will get an extension in their period of stay provided they hold a multiple entry visa, official said.

“The visa-related policy will be imple-mented with effect from July 1,” Press At-taché of Japan`s Embassy in Jakarta Takayuki Kawai said.

The new policy has been formulated as part of the celebrations of the 40th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation. For Indonesia nationals holding multiple entry visas - ordinary passport holders who reside in their home country - the short-term stay’s duration will be extended from 15 days to a maximum of 30 days.

As a result of this step, Japan-Indonesia exchange will be enhanced, including an in-crease in the number of tourists from Indonesia visiting Japan and further easing of business transactions between the two countries.

“I am glad with what we have built. There was little infrastructure here before, but it has come up quickly now,” he said at the inaugura-tion ceremony. Pacitan has progressed at a fast pace in economic and infrastructural terms compared to the past, he noted.

“What I inaugurated today is part of Indo-nesia’s progress. Development must be spread evenly,” he said. The eight infrastructure proj-ects launched on Wednesday include coal-fired power plants in Paiton Unit 9 of PLTU 2 East Java with a capacity of 1x660 MW; PLTU 1

in Rembang, Central Java, with a capacity of 2x315 MW; and Unit 2 and 3 of PLTU 3, Lon-tar, Banten, with a capacity of 2x315MW.

Yudhoyono also unveiled Darul Falah Grand Mosque and Community Academy, a sports hall, and stadium in Pacitan. He also launched a number of other public works and projects such as a drinking water project, construction of an apartment complex for ath-letes, and building of a road in the district.

“What has been achieved by Pacitan in particular and Indonesia in general must be

continued,” he said. PLTU 1 East Java, built on 65 hectares

of land, is located in the village of Sukorejo, Sidomoro sub-district, about 30 kilometers east of Pacitan, off the Indian Ocean.

The project has two units of generators with in-dividual capacities of 315 MW and a total capacity of 630MW. Power from the plant will be distrib-uted through a 150kV high-voltage overhead line stretching 35.65 kilometers to the main distributing station in Pacitan Baru and 84.8 kilometer to the main distributing station in Wonogiri.

AntaraJAKARTA - Jakarta Governor Joko

Widodo expects cheap monorail fares to prompt the people to switch to mass transportation instead of using private vehicles.

“If the monorail fare is to be expensive, then it is certain that not many people would be interested in using it; it should be cheap,” said Joko Widodo after a monorail project groundbreaking ceremony here Wednesday.

Joko Widodo said that while he was not in a position to specify any ticket fare range for the monorail, it certainly has to be cheaper than what private vehicle usage costs.

“Ticket prices should be cheaper than if we used a private vehicle,” he said.

Joko Widodo also said that the MRT

(Mass Rapid Transportation), Monorail, TransJakarta, Kopaja, MetroMini, and the commuter line train (KRL) will all be integrated to serve those using public trans-portation.

“Once the monorail for the MRT starts functioning, additional new buses, TransJa-karta buses, MRT, Monorail, TransJakarta, Kopaja, MetroMini, or KRL will all be integrated,” he said.

Despite that, it all comes back the mar-ket laws because the city government only executes programs to reduce congestion in the Capital.

“I am only executing these projects, and eventually it will all depend on the laws of the market. Let’s hope that these projects are not stalled in a short span of time. We must remain optimistic,” he said.

Earlier, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo inaugurated the groundbreaking ceremony for the Jakarta monorail project devel-opment in Kuningan, South Jakarta, on Wednesday.

“The project remained stopped for five years, but thank God that on this day, the monorail project development will resume. We want to continue with the project,” said Joko Widodo.

Joko believes that the physical infra-structure for the monorail project will be completed by the end of 2016.

“If work on a project is carried out diligently through day and night, it would meet the deadline, of course with the help of financial support. We already have the funding and the documents ready from the private sector,” Joko said.

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A worker walks at the site of a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a railway, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Monorail project begins in Jakarta

RI, Japan plan to open more direct flight routes

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PACITAN - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday inaugu-rated eight infrastructure projects, including a 2x315 megawatt coal-fired power plant, in Pacitan, East Java.

That toll is far higher than the nearly 115,000 violent civilian deaths reported by the British-based group Iraq Body Count, which bases its tally on media reports, hospital and morgue records, and official and non-governmental accounts. The latest es-timate by university researchers in the United States, Canada and Baghdad in cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Health covers not only violent deaths but other avoidable deaths linked to the invasion, insurgencies and subsequent social breakdown.

It also differs from some previous counts by spanning a longer period of time and by using randomized surveys of households across Iraq to project a nationwide death toll from 2003 to mid 2011. Violence caused most of the deaths, but about a third were indirectly linked to the war, and these deaths have been left out of pre-vious counts, said lead author Amy Hagopian, a public health researcher at the University of Washington.

Those included situations when a pregnant woman encountered difficult labor but could not leave the house due to fighting, or when a

person drank contaminated water, or when a patient could not get treated at a hospital because staff was over-whelmed with war casualties. “These are all indirect deaths, and they are significant,” Hagopian told AFP.

The aim of the study was to pro-vide a truer picture of the suffering caused by war, and hopefully to make governments think twice about the harm that would come from an inva-sion, she said.

“I think it is important that people understand the consequences of launching wars on public health, on how people live. This country is forever changed.”

The research team from the Uni-versity of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, Simon Fraser University and Mustansiriya University conducted the work on a volunteer basis using pooled internal resources instead of seeking out-side funds. Their tally was compiled by asking adults living in 2,000 randomly selected households in 100 geographic clusters across Iraq if family members had died, when and why.

Researchers used the survey data, which was completed by 1,960 of

those chosen, to calculate the death rate before the war and after. When multiplied by the whole population, they returned a number that repre-sented “excess deaths.”

Researchers estimated there were

405,000 excess Iraqi deaths attribut-able to the war through mid-2011.

They also attempted to account for deaths missed because families had fled the country, and estimated 55,805 total deaths, bringing the total

to nearly 461,000.About 70 percent of Iraq deaths

from 2003-2011 were violent in na-ture, with most caused by gunshots, followed by car bombs and other explosions, said the study.


Seoul - South Korea unveiled its new “tourist police” force Wednesday, with snappy uniforms from rapper Psy’s costume designer and a “Gang-nam Style” launch in central Seoul. Around 100 young policemen and women make up the first batch of the new force -- formed to protect tourists from being ripped off during their stay in the South Korean capital.

The officers were handpicked for their linguistic skills, and can speak a range of languages including English, Japanese and Mandarin.

“Those who think they were over-charged by taxi drivers or street food ven-dors can come and talk to us. We will help settle the problem,” English-speaking recruit Park Jae-Hyoung told AFP.

Each officer wears a badge denot-ing his language expertise on a special dark-blue uniform created by one of the costume designers for the “Gangnam

Style” star Psy. The singer’s global hit was played at Wednesday’s launch event, with a police drill unit perform-ing his signature horse-riding dance.

“The tourist police wasn’t created because this country is unsafe,” Lee Charm, president of the Korea Tourism Organization told the new recruits. “You are ambassadors who promote how safe this country is,” he said. “From now on, you guys will be very busy having pictures taken with tourists.”

The police are unarmed and are meant to summon regular officers in the event of any serious crime.

The number of foreign travellers to South Korea has steadily grown over the years and topped 10 million for the first time in 2012, partly thanks to interest sparked by the global popular-ity of “Gangnam Style”.

The song, released a year ago, made Psy an international star, and is the most popular video of all time on You-Tube with nearly 1.8 billion views.


LONDON — Demand for emergency food aid has spiked this year in Britain, a leading charity said Wednesday, suggesting low-income households’ living standards are still sliding despite the end of the recession.

The Trussell Trust, a Christian charity that operates food banks throughout the country, said in a report that just under 356,000 people

received three days of non-perishable food between April and September — about 10,000 more than their entire 2012-2013 financial year.

Chris Mould, the Trussell Trust’s executive chairman, appealed to the government to launch an inquiry into the causes of hunger in the U.K. With winter approaching, the worst may be yet to come. “This is disturbing,” he said. “It’s not going away. It’s getting worse.”



Washington - Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday.

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Kurdish female fighters from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) are seen on a vehicle mounted with an anti-aircraft weapon in the Kurdish town of Ifrin, in Aleppo’s countryside October 14, 2013.

from page 1Meanwhile, related to bank-

ing services, Armaya said that many banks in Bali had not acted transparently in calculating the amount of installment and inter-est payments to consumers. Ac-cording to him, there was an ex-perience of one of the residents from Singaraja. “The consumer

was disappointed by the banking services because the debt paid through installments remained high whereas the consumer had regularly paid the installment. Allegedly, the individual bank officer has cheated,” he said.

Those complaints of public services indicated the weak-ness of businesses in providing protection against consumers.

“Local government interven-tion should also be encouraged. In this regard, the local lead-ers must not stand idly by,” he advised.

For Armaya, the public as consumers was entitled to get friendly, kind and professional services. Otherwise, they had the right to sue such as in the form of class action. (kmb28)

South Korea introduces ‘Gangnam Style’ tourist police Demand for food

aid spikes in Britain

Complained...

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DENPASAR - Tourists vacationing in Bali during the ten days starting from Wednesday, October 23 until Saturday, No-vember 2, will be able to witness first hand how the Balinese elaborately decorate their towns and villages in their own individual way. According to the traditional Balinese calendar, the first day of this period of fes-tivities is the Galungan holiday on Kliwon Dungulan, and the last day is Kuningan.

During the ten-day festival period, many temples, streets, cities and rural sites will appear colorful and alive with offerings. Penjor poles made of bamboo will line the streets and is one kind of decoration which increases the beauty of

this Island of a Thousand Temples, highlighting the cultural activities and charming natural envi-ronment. On the whole, the religious activities and cultural traditions coupled with the natural charm of Bali have strongly contributed to tour-ism development since the 1920s.

The Galungan event takes place to praise the triumph of virtue (Dharma) over evil (Adharma). A week before Galungan, people celebrate Sugian Tenten, and on the following days Sugian Jawa and Sugian Bali celebra-tions. These three celebrations respectively symbolize the process of purifying the mind (Sugian Tenten), body (Sugian Jawa) and soul (Sugian Bali). The following Saturday and Sunday, are called Embang Sugi, and it is the time when people concentrate on the self.

Monday, Pon Dungulan, in the following week, is called Penyajaan Galungan, when people ask for power from God. The next day, Tuesday Wage Dungulan, is called Penampa-han Galungan, symbolizing the time when Dharma or truth fights against Adharma or evil. Penampahan means, “slaughtering” the evil or bad spirit. This moment is visual-ized on Galungan day as the symbol of the

Dharma victory against Adharma. On Galungan day, houses in Bali are splen-

didly decorated with penjor bamboo poles, with offerings hanging from it with woven coconut leaves, fruits, cakes, and flowers. On this day everybody dresses as best as possible in line with Balinese Hindu culture.

According to the Balinese pawukon cycle as stipulated by the traditional Balinese calen-dar, a Galungan celebration could sometimes fall twice within one year. Its occurrence is repeated after 210 days have elapsed.

The days after Galungan are a time for visiting friends and relatives, and this can often cause traffic jams! In many villages across Bali, Thursday after Galungan, known as Manis Ga-lungan, is a special day for young Balinese and many choose to get married on this day.

Kuningan day marks the end of the Galun-gan celebration. On Kuningan there are still more offerings dedicated to ancestor spirits returning to heaven. On this day, housewives usually make nasi kuning or yellow-colored cooked rice, enriched with spices and coco-nut milk. It tastes delicious especially when served with lawar made of sliced pork.


TOKYO - The dollar rose in Asia Wednesday on cautious optimism that warring US lawmakers will reach a last-minute deal to resolve a budget impasse which threatens to spark a catastrophic default.

The greenback bought 98.51 yen in Tokyo midday trade, up from 98.16 yen in New York Tuesday afternoon. The euro was mixed at $1.3514 and 133.16 yen, compared with $1.3525 and 132.77 yen in US trading.

Despite the dollar’s resilience, the unit was likely to face selling pres-sure as the latest efforts to end the two-week US budget impasse fell apart late Tuesday. The Republican leadership failed to muster enough support for its own plans to avert default, with just over a day to raise the debt ceiling by the October 17 deadline.

Fitch ratings agency said it may downgrade Washington’s AAA credit rating, while the US Treasury has warned that if Congress fails to lift the $17.6 trillion debt ceiling by Thursday, it will lose its ability to borrow and could run out of cash to meet all its obligations.

“Tension is building up as we approach this deadline, and talks of hope and progress, rather than con-crete deals, might not be enough to keep sentiment from deteriorating,” Credit Agricole said.

“The dollar remains driven by the political uncertainty in Washington, especially against a backdrop of limited to no macro data.”

Dealers said the US government’s budget situation and its potential im-pact on the global economy meant the US Federal Reserve was likely to delay tapering its $85 billion-a-month bond buying programme -- a move that could weigh on the dollar.

Investors will be looking to the Fed’s Beige Book later in the day to gauge conditions in the world’s big-gest economy. An annual reception of the European Central Bank was likely to see officials hinting again they might launch further monetary easing measures, dealers said.

The vast increase -- an average of almost $400 million each -- highlights the growing inequality between the Communist country’s superrich and the millions who still live in poverty.

“The rich are getting richer,” Forbes Shanghai bureau chief Russell Flannery told a press conference as the magazine unveiled its annual China rich list.

“The rapid growth of wealth in China seems to be out of line with the Chinese eco-nomic slowdown,” he said.

The net assets of the top 100 richest people in China soared 44 percent from a year earlier to $316 billion, the magazine said, while the number of dollar billionaires rose to a record high of 168.

That came even as China’s economy has slowed. The Chinese economy expanded 7.7 percent last year, the worst performance

since 1999.Forbes attributed the increase in wealth

to growth in select industries, such as the Internet, auto, entertainment and property sectors.

Wang Jianlin, head of property giant Wanda Group and buyer of US cinema chain AMC Entertainment, topped the list with a net worth of $14.1 billion.

His fortune leaped from $8 billion last year, helped by a rebound in property prices and his investment in AMC.

Forbes had already announced last month that Wang had taken the top spot. Another ranking by the independent Hurun Report also put him at number one.

Last year’s leader, beverage tycoon Zong Qinghou, slipped to second place in the Forbes list, even though his wealth increased

12 percent to $11.2 billion.Robin Li, founder of China’s homegrown

search engine Baidu, dropped to third but his wealth jumped 37 percent from last year to $11.1 billion.

In a surprise new entry to the ranking Li Hejun, chairman of clean energy firm Hanergy Holding Group, appeared for the first time in fourth place with a net worth of $10.9 billion.

Yang Huiyan, who inherited a majority stake in property developer Country Garden, was China’s richest woman with a fortune of $7.2 billion giving her seventh place.

As well as Robin Li, two other Internet billionaires made the top ten.

Ma Huateng, owner of social gaming and networking company Tencent, took fifth place with net worth of $10.2 billion, jumping nearly 60 percent year-on-year due to a surge in his Hong Kong-listed firm’s share price.

And Jack Ma, founder of China’s leading e-commerce firm Alibaba, ranked eighth as his fortune more than doubled to $7.1 billion from $3.4 billion last year.

China’s rich get richer despite slowing economy

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SHANGHAI - China’s 400 richest people became $150 billion wealthier this year, Forbes magazine said Wednesday, despite a slowdown in the world’s second largest economy.

Women walk past a construction site and office

buildings at the Central Business

District during their lunch break in Beijing, China.

China’s 400 richest people became $150

billion wealthier this year, Forbes

magazine said Wednesday, de-

spite a slowdown in the world’s

second largest economy.

Dollar up in Asia as US debt deadline looms Headman of Gelgel village, Syahidin, said

that before the tradition was carried out, the Muslims performed the Eid al-Adha prayers. After that, people immediately gathered in front of the Nurul Huda Mosque to slaugh-ter 27 goats and 10 cattle for sacrifice. The aqiqah tradition was said to be performed by Muslim community who were having babies, where parents of a baby boy donated two goats, while parents of baby girl donated a goat to be slaughtered.

The tradition took place in a familial atmo-sphere, where people were very enthusiastic about implementing it. Syahidin said the tradition had been going on for hundreds of years since the time of the Gelgel Kingdom. Implementation of the aqiqah tradition was started by spraying water containing colorful flowers to goat body, before the goat body was wrapped in a white cloth. Babies seemed to be slept on the goat before the goat was slaughtered by residents. Blood of the sac-rificed animals was then taken a little to be smeared on the forehead of the baby.

“The ceremony was followed with the sprinkle of dimes by the aqiqah participating families. It poses an expression of excitement of the families because their children can be consecrated,” said Syahidin. The dime sprin-

kles were followed by people who seemed to scramble for collecting the dimes. One of the aqiqah participants, Nuraini, claimed to be grateful to follow the ritual. In order to participate in the ritual, she was saving to buy a goat and collect dimes since the baby was still in the womb.

The goats and cattle slaughtered were not apparently to be distributed to those who participated in the aqiqah ritual only. Syahi-din said the meat was also distributed to the poor at Kampong Gelgel. Even, the interfaith tolerance also looked very visible when the meat was also distributed to the Hindus at Gelgel village. (kmb31)

Eid al-Adha

Moslem community holds aqiqah tradition

Coinciding with the Eid al-Adha celebration, the Muslims at

Kampong Gelgel, Klungkung, held an aqiqah ceremony tradi-

tion at Nurul Huda Mosque, Gelgel, Tuesday (Oct 15). The tradition served as an expres-sion of gratitude of Moslem to

God marked with dozens of goats and cattle for sacrifice.

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - Coinciding with the Eid al-Adha celebration, the Muslims at

Kampong Gelgel, Klungkung, held an aqiqah ceremony tradition at Nurul Huda Mosque, Gelgel, Tuesday (Oct 15). The tradition served as an expression of gratitude of Moslem to God marked with dozens of goats and cattle for sacrifice.

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Galungan, festive days in Bali

Tourists vacationing in Bali during the ten days starting from Wednes-day, October 23 until Saturday, November 2, will be able to witness first hand how the Balinese elabo-rately decorate their towns and vil-lages in their own individual way.

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Stock of the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) at Sanglah Hospital has run out in recent days. On that account, some patients bitten by dog in need of anti-rabies vaccine to Sanglah Hospital were advised by the officers to look for to rabies center or buy their own. It was revealed by the Secretary of Sanglah Hospital Rabies Management, Ken Wirasandhi. “VAR stock is not available at Sanglah Hospital. For a while, we recommend them to buy at the pharmacy providing the VAR,” he said.

Emptiness of the anti-rabies vaccine was recognized by the Division Head of Disease Control and Environmental Sanitation, Bali Health Agency, Gede Wira Sunetra. He re-vealed that Bali had 58 Rabies Centers spread in Buleleng (7), Jembrana (10), Tabanan (6), Badung (7), Denpasar (3), Gianyar (14), Bangli (3), Klungkung (4) and Karangasem (4). “At the moment, the rabies centers run-ning out of VAR stock are Sanglah Hospital, Public Health Centers in Denpasar and Karan-gasem,” Wira said.

The Bali Health Agency would endeavor to replenish the VAR stocks at rabies centers running out of stocks considering there were dog bite cases requiring the vaccine and Bali had not been free from rabies. “We are trying to borrow 500 vials of the vaccine to Klung-kung, Buleleng (500 vials) and Department of Health Jakarta (5,000 vials),” he said.

The vaccine stock was expected to arrive on Wednesday (Oct 16) and would be further

distributed to rabies centers running out of stock.

At the moment, the final vaccine stock owned by Bali amounted to 10,137 vials divided further for 9 counties/municipality namely Denpasar (400 vials), Klungkung (1,334 vials), Buleleng (2,700 vials), Ba-dung (117 vials), Jembrana (1,015 vials), Bangli (3,945 vials), Karangasem (26 vials), Tabanan (500 vials) and Gianyar (100 vials). As for the stock of anti-rabies serum (SAR), it totally amounted to 252 vials scattered in the province (80 vials), Jembrana (106 vials), Buleleng (20 vials), Klungkung (8 vials), Ta-banan (21 vials), and the Badung (14 vials). In the meantime, Denpasar and Bangli had no stock at all.

According to Wira, procurement of the anti-rabies vaccine and anti-rabies serum sup-plies would be made again in October through local funds. “Hopefully, it could be realized this October and they will approximately consist of 41,000 vials of anti-rabies vaccine and 200 vials of anti-rabies serum,” he said.Though VAR stock continued to be provided by the government, according to Wira, some rabies centers had run a selective VAR admin-istration for those having the first-time dog bite. If the victim had been given the similar vaccine previously and got another dog bite, then they would not be give anti-rabies vac-cine. For the case of anti-rabies serum, it was only given to victims with deep bite and a lot of injuries and the bite was located on the shoulder upwards. (san)

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Ahead of Galungan, the pork need in the community in-creases. The Jembrana Agriculture, Food Crops and Livestock Agency ensured the adequate supplies of pork. The calculation was based on monitoring of pigs made by the Livestock Agency at a number of pig farms.

The Head of Jembrana Livestock Agency, Ketut Wiratma, said on Tuesday (Oct 15) that based on the experience of previous years in Jembrana the pork stock was relatively safe. In contrast to the other regions in Bali, people should not necessarily rely on pork.

Another alternative was by slaughtering chicken, so it rarely experienced a shortage or should be supplied from other regions. He admitted the needs of Galungan always showed an increase in demand. However, the amount was predicted to be still sufficient. Data in the Jembrana Livestock Agency indicated there were 74 breeder groups and 5 pig farms having the stock of pork needs in Jembrana. Each group had ten members and each member raised at least two heads. With the estimation, there were at least 1,480 pigs from the breeder groups. It did not include the five employers of pig farms having at least 500 pigs per entrepreneur. In case the demand increased, according to him, the stock of 2,000 heads of pig was considered sufficient to meet the meat needs for Galungan.

Currently, the price of pork in the market ranges from IDR 37,000 to IDR 40,000 per kilogram. It is estimated the price will continue to rise ahead of Galungan and reach IDR 50,000 per kilogram. (kmb26)


After the joint team demolished two large billboards on Jalan Teuku Umar, then a similar discipline was made again. The billboard owners had been informed if their license had expired and been sent a reprimand letter by the Denpasar Mu-nicipal Police (Satpol PP) to dismantle itself. However, so far the owners had not dismantled their billboards. Therefore, the Denpasar Municipal Police will dismantle the billboard, Thursday (Oct 17).

Chief of Denpasar Municipal Police, I.B. Alit Wiradana, when contacted on Tuesday (Oct 15) said his party with Judiciary team members had been discussing about the demolition plan against the three billboards whose permit had expired. However, the owners did not want to dismantle by them-selves. “We’ve sent a reprimand letter to the owners of the three billboards whose license has expired,” said Alit Wiradana.

He admitted the third reprimand letter delivered to the owners of the illegal bill-boards was positively responded. Among the three illegal billboards, two of them namely Cang Jangkrik and Indomaret had been dismantled by the owners. Mean-while, another billboard, namely the Riori had not, so the judicial team would execute the billboard.

Previously, the Denpasar billboard ar-rangement team led by the Housing and Spatial Planning Agency (DTRP) set up a number of unlicensed billboards. The

first discipline was made to two billboard stages in the Telkom shop and office com-plex on Jalan Teuku Umar. Two billboard stages whose license had expired were dismantled by the arrangement team by in-volving relevant agencies in the Denpasar Municipality such as the Municipal Po-lice, Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Revenue Service, Transportation Agency, and the number of elements in the secretariat of the Denpasar Municipality.

The Spatial Division Head, the Denpasar Spatial Plan and Housing Agency, I Gede Cipta Sudewa, met amid the discipline said the billboard demolition was made because the owners did not pay taxes. Having been reprimanded for several times, the owners did not heed them well. Thus, the team was forced to discipline them by dismantling all the billboard stages.

Cipta Sudewa said the discipline against the billboard stage would continue because there were still some billboard stages that no longer paid taxes. “From the existing data, there are 10 billboard stages having been marked with X meaning if they are ready to be dismantled,” he said.

It was said the billboard discipline was by referring to the Mayoral Regulation No.14/2013 regarding the temporary delay of billboard permit in Denpasar, particu-larly the Article 4 paragraph 2. Moreover, it also referred to the Mayoral Regulation No.15/2013 concerning with the imple-mentation of billboard in the Denpasar Municipality. (kmb12)

Billboard demolition continues VAR stock at Sanglah runs out, patients must purchase their own

Ahead of Galungan, pork supplies adequate

IBP/FileThe pigs are placed in a barn before being slaughter.

Hardest hit from Typhoon Wipha was Izu Oshima island, which is about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Tokyo. Rescuers found 16 bodies, most of them buried by mudslides, police and town of-ficials said. Dozens of homes were destroyed, and about 45 people were missing.

A woman from Tokyo died after falling into a river and being washed 10 kilometers (6 miles) down-river to Yokohama, police said. Two sixth-grade boys and another person were missing on Japan’s main island, Honshu, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. More than 350 homes were dam-aged or destroyed, including 283 on Izu Oshima, it said.

The typhoon, which stayed off-shore in the Pacific, had sustained winds of 126 kilometers per hour (78 miles per hour), with gusts up to 180 kph (110 mph), before it was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday evening. The storm was moving northeast, off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

More than 80 centimeters (30 inches) of rain fell on Izu Oshima during a 24-hour period ending Wednesday morning, the most since record-keeping began in 1991.

The rainfall was particularly heavy before dawn, the kind in which “you can’t see anything or hear anything,” Japan Meteoro-logical Agency official Yoshiaki

Yano said.Izu Oshima is the largest island

in the Izu chain southwest of Tokyo. It has one of Japan’s most active volcanoes, Mount Mihara, and is a major base for growing camellias. About 8,200 people live on the island, which is accessible by ferry from Tokyo.

Yutaka Sagara, a 59-year-old sushi chef on the east coast of the island, said he spent a sleep-less night with colleagues at their company housing. Their hillside apartment barely escaped a mud-slide that veered off to the side. Later he found out the mudslide crushed several houses as it flowed to the sea.

“People on this island are some-what used to heavy rainstorms, but this typhoon was beyond our imagi-nation,” he said by phone.

Sagara came down to his seaside sushi restaurant on foot, wading through knee-deep mud, to check things out and make sushi for rescue workers.

Reuters

CAIRO - Relations between the United States and Egypt are now in turmoil and the entire Middle East could suffer, the Egyptian foreign minister said in remarks made a week after Wash-ington moved to curtail military aid to Cairo.

Nabil Fahmy told state-run Al-Ahram newspaper that Egypt had been dependent on U.S. aid for too long but Washington was wrong to assume the Cairo government would always follow its line.

“We are now in a delicate state reflecting the turmoil in the rela-tionship and anyone who says oth-erwise is not speaking honestly,” he said in comments published on Wednesday.

U.S. officials said the aid cut reflected Washington’s unhappi-ness with Egypt’s path since the army overthrew freely-elected President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood on July 3.

Egypt has already criticised the decision and suggested it could turn to other countries for military aid, possibly Russia.

Egyptian security forces have cracked down hard on Islamists since the army seized power, killing hundreds and arresting thousands, including Mursi and other leaders accused of inciting or carrying out violence.

Muslim Brotherhood leaders say they face more severe repres-sion than under veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by a popular uprising in 2011. The army-backed government calls the Brotherhood terrorists.

Islamists accuse the military of staging a coup and sabotag-ing democratic gains made since Mubarak’s demise.

Egypt has long been the sec-

ond-largest recipient of U.S. aid after Israel and its military - the largest in the Arab world - has worked closely with Washington for decades.

The United States now faces a policy dilemma - how to promote democracy while not alienating an Arab ally which has a peace treaty with Israel and controls the strategic Suez Canal.

Fahmy said an extended period of instability in ties would “reflect negatively on the entire region, in-cluding American interests”. The current situation was not solely the result of the U.S. decision to withhold aid, he said.

“The truth is that the problem goes back much earlier, and is caused by the dependence of Egypt on the U.S. aid for 30 years. (The aid) made us choose the easy option and not diversify our op-tions,” he said.

The long-standing military relationship caused Washington to wrongly assume that Egypt would always go along with its policies and goals, Fahmy said.

TURN TO RUSSIA?Most worrying for the United

States is the possibility that the army will turn to a rival country for military aid. Egypt’s army is exploring its options. Military sources told Reuters last week that the army is planning to diversify its source of weapons, including a possible turn to Russia.

The government has insisted Egypt would not bow to U.S. pres-sure, saying it found American policy strange at a time when the country was facing what it calls a war against terrorism.

U.S. military aid to Cairo, put at $1.3 billion a year, was born out of the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

Egypt-US relations in turmoil: Egyptian foreign minister

REUTERS/Eduardo MunozEgypt’s Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy (L) shakes hands as he meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during a bilateral meeting in New York, September 22, 2013.

REUTERS/KyodoA man walks near collapsed houses following a landslide caused by Typhoon Wipha on Izu Oshima island, south of Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo October 16, 2013.

Typhoon, mudslides kill 17 in Japan; 50 missingAssociated Press Writer

TOKYO — A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweep-ing up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo’s transportation during the morning rush. At least 17 deaths were reported and nearly 50 people were missing.

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But making solid devices is not enough to stand apart from the crowd in the ultra-competi-tive mobile phone market, which probably pushed LG to make some bold design decisions in a bid to differentiate its G series from Samsung’s Galaxy line and Apple’s iPad mini.

For the G2, which was re-leased last month in the U.S., LG moved the power and volume controls to the back of the phone. For the G Pad, which goes on sale in the U.S. next week, LG added a full HD screen, a rarity in 8-inch tablet computers.

While these design choices set the G2 and the G Pad apart from ‘me too’ devices trying to catch up with Samsung and

Apple, they might also limit their appeal.

Not everyone will be pleased with having to change the basic habits of smartphone operation. They will scratch their heads looking for those buttons just like I did. The full HD screen display makes the G Pad a couple of hun-dred dollars more expensive than other 8-inch tablets.

It took a couple of days before my index finger ceased pressing a volume key when I intended to press a power key. But after that, I realized having a power button on the back makes it easier to use a big handset with one hand. The G2 has a 5.2-inch screen.

LG came up with a double-tap gesture to activate the phone. I

found it easier and quicker than pressing a home button and then sliding to unlock as with my iP-hone 4S. This double-tap to start also applies to the G Pad.

LG removed the physical home button on the front for the G2 and the G Pad. Instead, virtual buttons for back, home and menu actions appear when the screen is activated. I preferred these vir-tual buttons over physical ones because I could touch them with the same gesture and pressure I applied to the touchscreen. One downside of Samsung’s Galaxy devices is that the touchscreen and the three buttons for home, back and menu options all need a different level of pressure to be activated.


CUPERTINO, California — Apple is holding an event in San Francisco next week to announce new products — likely updated iPads. The company announced its most recent iPads around this time last year. The announcement included a smaller version, called the Mini, for the first time.

New iPads would get Apple’s latest operating system for mobile devices, iOS 7. The invitation sent Tuesday includes a graphic that mim-ics the color scheme in iOS 7.

Next Tuesday’s event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, a venue Apple has often used in the past.

It follows last month’s release of new iPhones with iOS 7 — the 5S model with a fingerprint sensor and a cheaper, 5C model with a variety of color options.

It’s also possible Apple will use the event to release its new Mac operating system, Mavericks. Apple unveiled the system in June. The system will support tagging to help you find files more easily. It also promises better battery life and a way to keep track of passwords across multiple devices more easily. Apple may also announce new Mac computers at the event.

Button location sets LG’s G2 apart

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

A man touches an LG Electronics’ G Pad 8.3 tablet in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. The G2 and the G Pad 8.3, the flagship smartphone and tablet from LG Electronics Inc., are great mobile devices that have fantastic screens, top-end cameras and ample processing power.


SEOUL, South Korea — The G2 and the G Pad 8.3, the flagship smartphone and tablet from LG Electronics Inc., are great mobile devices that have fantastic screens, top-end cameras and ample processing power.

New iPads likely at Apple event next week

AP Photo/Apple Inc.

FILE - This undated rendering provided by Apple Inc., shows a proposed 150-acre campus built around a gigantic circular building made almost entirely of curved glass, with a heavily landscaped center.

IBP

DENPASAR - Representatives of Governments, business and civil society will gather to examine cross-border Internet governance challenges at the annual session of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), to take place in Nusa Dua, Bali on 22-25 October. Each year the Secretary-General of the United Na-tions convenes the meeting through the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

The Forum, which is the leading global multi-stakeholder dialogue on public policy issues relating to the Internet, meets annually as an outgrowth of the 2006 World Sum-mit on the Information Society. It is intended to foster a common under-standing of how to maximize Internet opportunities and address risks and challenges that arise. The IGF, which is not a decision-making body, is also a space that gives developing countries the same opportunity as wealthier nations to engage in the debate on Internet governance and to facilitate their participation in exist-ing institutions and arrangements.

More than 1,500 delegates will convene in Bali over the course of the four-day meeting. Thousands more will actively participate re-motely from around the world. Sev-eral High-level government officials, CEO’s and directors of major global business organizations and civil so-ciety groups will be among those in attendance.

The IGF annually reviews the role of Governments in multi-stakeholder cooperation for Internet governance, and the Bali meeting will aim to create some form of consensus on the issue. Additional focus sessions will be dedicated to the Internet as engine for growth and sustainable development (a topic relevant to on-going discussions on the post-2015 development agenda); cyber-security; human rights and freedom of expression; the principles of Internet governance and enhanced multi-stakeholder cooperation; and emerging issues of concern, such as Internet surveillance.

The IGF in Bali will be preceded on 21 October by a pre-event high-level meeting on cyber ethics, hosted by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, followed by additional sessions hosted by other stakeholders in the global internet community. The host country for IGF 2013, Indonesia, is estimated to have 63 million Internet users, 47 million accounts on facebook and nearly 30 million twitter accounts. (iah)

IGF to meet in Bali

A number of housewives in Singaraja said that in this October they were still having trouble to get local fruits such as mango, man-gosteen and others. Actually, in previous years, the local fruits were easily found at the end of the year because it was in the harvest peak. “But, the mango is rarely found because it has not entered the harvest season,” he said.

If any local fruits could be found, they usually belonged to unseasonal fruits such as bananas and grapes. To that end, many housewives claimed to be forced to buy imported fruits to fill in the ritual oblation. “We actually want to use local fruits because our family is an enthusiast of local fruits. Unfortunately, they are difficult to get be-cause they are rare. At the end, we will probably buy some imported fruits,” said a housewife at Baktiseraga village, Singaraja.

The Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Live-stock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, when asked

for his confirmation on Tuesday justified the delay to the peak of local fruit harvest this year. According to him, indeed a number of fruits had entered their harvest period such as mango, mangosteen and others, but their amount was only a few. “Harvest peak of this year delays due to weather condition. Estimated, the harvest peak will fall early 2014,” he said.

Due to delayed harvest peak, said Swatan-tra, the scarcity of local fruits also frequently happened before Galungan. Meanwhile, the local fruits available were banana and grapes. “Indeed, mango is also available, but the amount is not as much as when the harvest peak occurs,” he said.

According to Swatantra, ahead of Galungan his party organized a Farmer Market in the of-fice courtyard of the Agriculture and Livestock Agency to bridge farmers and consumers. In the Farmers Market to be held on Friday (Oct 18)

through Sunday (Oct 20) would be sold local fruits to meet the needs of residents in conjunction with the celebration of Galungan. Other than fruits, the other commodities to be sold would be vegetables, chicken and ritual oblations commonly used for the celebration as well as processed products and plantation crops. “Later, we will provide 22 booths representing each subdistrict,” he said.

Swatantra said that each subdistrict would be given two booths to display their agricultural products, livestock and plantation seed. For ex-ample, Kubutambahan subdistrict would surely display more mangoes, while Banjar and Seririt subdistrict would display grapes. In addition to the subdistricts, the other agencies like the Coop-erative, Trade and Industry Agency, Forestry and Plantation Agency and the Maritime and Fisheries Agency were also given a booth each. “The Mari-time and Fishery Agency will display fishery and plantation products,” he said. (kmb15)

IBP/File Photo

A fruit seller serving a buyer who buy fruit at traditional market. Due to erratic weather, the harvest peak of fruits such as mango and mangosteen this year delays from the usual one. Consequently, ahead of Galungan feast people are es-timated to have obstacle in finding local fruits to fill in their ritual oblations.

Harvest peak delays

Residents difficult to get local fruits ahead of GalunganBali Post

SINGARAJA - Due to erratic weather, the harvest peak of fruits such as mango and mangosteen this year delays from the usual one. Consequently, ahead of Galungan feast people are estimated to have obstacle in finding local fruits to fill in their ritual oblations.

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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, 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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for October 4 through 28 , 2013

4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung Be-sakihOdalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Selod-ing BesakihPura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih

6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayu-putih Buleleng

8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi BangliPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Taro TegalalangPura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel TulikupPura manik Bingin Sidemen

9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh AbiansemalPura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan GianyarMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa JakatebelMerajan Pasek Prateka BatusesaMerajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon CemenggonPura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-GianyarPura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh GianyarLinggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih

17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Be-sakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PetemonMerajan Pasek Gelgel MelinggihOdalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih

19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung BesakihPura Meru Cakra LombokPura Lempuyang Madya KarangasemPura Penerejon KintamaniPura Pulaki BulelengPura Tirta Empul Tampak SiringPura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura

Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Tirta Negari SingapaduPura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub SukawatiPura Penataran Agung TegallalangPura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji BatubulanPura Puseh Singakerta UbudPura Nataran Sanding TampaksiringPura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan UbudPura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami BrabanPura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh KrambitanPura Pasek Bendesa Mas G a d u n g a n SelemadegPura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari SelemadegPura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem Karan-gasemPura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow SulutPura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang KarangasemPura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukaluwih Tejakula BulelengPura Pasraman Suci Renon DenpasarPura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah JakartaPura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang BulelengPura Ulun Danu Batur Songan KintamaniPura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura PapuaPura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung DenpasarMerajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh DenpasarPura Pejengaji TegalalangPura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Keram-bitanPura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang KarangasemPura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung TengahPura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh KerambitanPura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karan-gasemPura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon KapalPura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen KarangasemPura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga BulelengPura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa PenidaPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani

Pura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh ker-ambitanPura Penataran UbudPura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken BlahbatuhPemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu Bule-lengPura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel SukawatiPura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung Baturn-ingMambal Abiansemal

22 Oct Penampahan Galungan 23 Oct Hari raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTTPura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTBPura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang, NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman PontianakPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta TimurPura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur.

24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri TabananPura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel TabananMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa TiyinganMerajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, BadungPura Luhur Cemenggon, SukawatiPura Pasek Ubung Denpasar

26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

27 Oct redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti Batu-bulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung

28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah SelemadegPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gi-anyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan BusungbiuPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan

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To coincide with receiving the award Cubby House Kids Club, located at Semara Resort and Spa, Seminyak has launched a new Holiday Fun Pass. Prepurchasing 5 x 3 hours passes at a cost of Rp 120,000 * per pass offers a sig-nificant saving and is perfect for families holidaying in Bali for a

week or more or having more than one child. An added bonus of the Holiday Fun Pass is that a snack and drink will also be provided during the visit.

The Cubby House Kids Club also host themed parties twice per month that have proven to be very popular. Upcoming par-ties include Halloween on 27th October, Red Carpet Party on 3rd November & Thanksgiving on 24th November.

Located in Bali’s new hot spot Jalan Petitenget, Semara Resort and Spa is situated between the

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Semara Resort & Spa gets Top Ten Hotels AwardIBP

SEMINyAK - Semara resort & Spa is thrilled to be awarded as a Top Ten Hotels for Families in Bali. The award was judged by readers of the Australian publication, Holiday with Kids, was a culmination of a year’s work and over 4,000 reader surveys. It is the most comprehensive family travel award system in the Australia.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Increasing tourist arrival at Kertha

Gosa attraction, Klungkung, has not been accompanied with provision of

As observation to location on Tuesday (Oct 15), at least ten street vendors and hawkers were found at the parking lot. Due to many traders, the parking space was fully occupied so that tourists wishing to stop and see the monkeys as well as natural scenery in the area were difficult to park. Even, many tourists were forced to park on the road body.

The Head of the Buleleng Mu-nicipal Police, Putu Hartana, said the parking space was a forbidden area for traders. However, his party claimed not to perform a discipline because

it was still focused downtown Sin-garaja. “No, we do not ignore it, but we see the first priority because our personnel are limited. Meanwhile, our focus is downtown, such as on Jalan Diponegoro where violation can still be found,” he said.

Previously, the Municipal Police officers had disciplined the peak region. However, the action was opposed by a legislator of Buleleng House. The legislator asked in or-der the traders did need not to be disciplined because it was their only livelihood. When banned to sell, he

worried the residents could not sup-port their family.

Meanwhile, the information ob-tained in Buleleng government mentioned that the traders in the peak region would be tolerable first while waiting for the relocation to a specified place. So far, the land used for relocation had not been avail-able. County government planned to acquire the land around the region in 2014. Even, it was said that local government would allocate a budget worth IDR 2 billion for the land ac-quisition. (kmb15)

IBP/File

The street vendors are seen on the side of the road at Wanagiri village, Sukasada, Buleleng

After raided

Street vendors at peak area proliferate againSingaraja (Bali Post)—

Street vendors (PKL) at parking lot in the peak area or stop over at Wanagiri village, Su-kasada, have continued to proliferate. Actually, the existence of traders at the parking lot has been disciplined for several times by Municipal Police (Satpol PP) of Buleleng County.

Parking chaoticKertha Gosa needs alternative parking space

IBP/File

The crowded parking on the eastern part of Kertha Gosa

adequate parking space. Therefore, when a booming tourist arrival oc-curs, the available space cannot ac-commodate private cars and tourist

buses. Such condition can certainly tarnish the tourism image in Bali if without a proper handling.

As seen throughout October, after hosting the visit of APEC del-egates and the tourists especially foreign tourists continued to in-crease. On the one hand, such con-dition is certainly advantageous. However on the other side, the unready parking lot can result in a new and quite serious problem. Deputy Chairman of the Klung-kung House, Putu Tika Winawan, admitted on Tuesday (Oct 15) that he had repeatedly told the executive if the parking condition was chaotic. It had become a very disturbing scene for Klungkung tourism since long time having been synonymous with the icon of Kertha Gosa.

This legislator from Selat vil-lage repeatedly screamed to the executive to seriously resolve the parking problem of Kertha Gosa. However, his party considered there was no real measures to follow up the issue properly. “We are surely ashamed of Kertha Gosa being admired by foreign tourists, but having inadequate

parking space. This can tarnish the image of our tourism,” he said. He reminded the executive of utilizing the dormant land around the Kertha Gosa, such as in the area of night market. Actually, this area was un-used from the morning to evening and it would be more elegant to be used as central parking for tourist visiting Kertha Gosa.

Even, with such rapid tourism development, chiefly at Kertha Gosa, relevant agencies should have started thinking about an integrated tourism among the tour-ism potential in Klungkung such as the renowned Kertha Gosa and Kamasan village. “If the govern-ment wants to work, tourists com-ing to Klungkung should not just be offered to visit Kertha Gosa. Klungkung still has Kamasan vil-lage and various handicraft prod-ucts like coconut shell craft that has been known to tourists. Invite them to see the potentials. If there is intention, the local gigs can be empowered. Simply take tourists to see all the potentials while riding local gig,” he explained.

However, to realize the inte-grated tourism, Tika asked the

Klungkung tourism should resolve first the parking problem. Since the administration of Regent Candra to date, this issue was unresolved. He hoped the acting regent Tjokorda Gede Agung to be installed on Wednesday could provide real work to fix all the tourism prob-lems, although he only served for two months. “So, the regent should be sensitive and can make a break-through. Tourism should be made safe and convenient for visitors,” he explained.

The Head of Klungkung Cul-ture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, did not dismiss the con-dition. Condition of the parking service chiefly at Kertha Gosa had been very chaotic and needed representative area. Similarly, the Head of Transportation, Commu-nication and Informatics Agency, Nengah Sukasta, said the area around the night market had in-deed been functioned as a parking lot. However, he admitted to be unable to set the tourism busi-nesspeople insisting on parking in the east and north of Kertha Gosa with the reason of being closer to Kertha Gosa. (kmb31)


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The first issue of the series published by Portland, Oregon-based Oni Press Inc. was released Wednesday. It’s illustrated by Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, colored by Guy Major, lettered by Shawn DePasquale and edited by Jill Beaton.

Soule says the new series is a measured essay on the human spirit, and the quest for knowledge knowing that there is life up there and it may not be friendly.

The story centers on President Stephen Blades who is told about the existence of an alien presence kept secret for years by his predecessor. It’s in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it’s unclassifiable, it won’t communicate and it may be girding for war.

From there, it’s one truth after another and

it changes everything for Blades as a leader, citizen, father and person.

Soule said the idea sprang forth in early 2011 about the time “when it was pretty clear that the last space shuttle mission was going to happen soon. The U.S. as a space power was going to change, dramatically.”

Inspired by that change, he was walking along the beach in Cape May, New Jersey, and pondering what it would take for America, among others, to get back to the stars.

“I wanted to write the story about what we could do and, if we really need to, could we get back up there? What would be the incentive? In the 1960s, it was the Cold War and the space race,” Soule said. “What could take us up there? The idea of aliens being up

there, and then it all fell into place.”And so it does, with Soule’s story focusing

not just on Blades and the political ramifica-tions of knowing what’s up there, but also the crew of the spaceship Clarke, which is poised to make the first, human contact with whatever is there.

Soule said the pieces of both plots will come together, over the course of the series, and “everything will make sense,” he says. “Even some of the weird stuff.”

This image provided by Oni Press shows one a version of the cover of

Charles Soule’s “Let-ter 44,” a series where

humanity finds the stars hold not just ambition,

but a threat kept hidden.


NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, Pe-ter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, and The Replacements are among first-time nominees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The hall of fame announced its annual list of nominees Wednesday morning and half the field of 16 were first-time nominees. YES, Link Wray and The Zombies also received their first nominations.

More than 600 voters will determine the class of 2014. Inductees will be announced in December and a ceremony will be held next April in New York. The induction will be aired on HBO in May.

Nirvana is nominated in its first year of eligibility. If se-lected for induction, the band would enter the hall of fame almost exactly 20 years after frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide at age 27.

Ronstadt receives her first nomination not long after she shared news that she has Parkinson’s disease. Fans have long questioned her absence from the hall’s roster of stars. Simi-larly, long-denied YES joins the list after Rush finally struck a blow for prog rock with its induction earlier this year.

Repeat nominees are KISS, LL Cool J, N.W.A., Cat Ste-vens, Deep Purple, The Meters, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Chic. It’s the eighth nomination for Chic since 2003, but comes as co-founder Nile Rodgers is enjoying widespread attention after his collaboration with Daft Punk earlier this year. KISS, LL Cool J and Stevens return to the list after absences of several years.

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 1993 file photo, Kurt Co-bain, lead singer for the Seattle-based band Nirvana, performs during the taping of MTV’s Live and Loud Production in Seattle.

In ‘Letter 44,’ a secret threatens a US presidentAssociated Press Writer

Secrets abound in America, but none on the scale as those revealed in the pages of Charles Soule’s “Letter 44,” a series where humanity finds the stars hold not just ambition, but a threat kept hidden.

AP Photo/Oni Press

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“From the number of complaints we have received, they are domi-nated by public service issues. In other words, it occupies the top five and this belongs to the classic

problem,” he explained.He said that almost 13 years after

the application of the Law No.8/1999 on Consumer Protection, in fact, the reality on the field showed that fraud

against consumers was increasingly prevalent. It meant that more and more businesses infringed the busi-ness ethics. “We are concerned with the consumers in Bali. To that end, we invite the community to become an intelligent and conscientious consumer,” he said.

Related to complaints on the public service, Armaya described that public complaints to the YLPK Bali from January to October 2013 had something to do with public services provided by the PLN, PDAM and banking services totally reaching 475

complaints. “Of the 475 complaints, 200 complaints are related to service of the PLN, PDAM and the remain-ing 114 complaints are related to banking services,” he said.

The complaints related to ser-vices provided by the PLN, Armaya explained that many people com-plained about the outages without prior notice, voltage fluctuation as well as new connection of the PLN services and some complained about the incessant effort of the PLN asking consumers to move from conventional to prepaid power

subscription. “The PLN may not force consumers to change their payment method from conventional to prepaid system,” he said.

As for the service of the Munici-pal Waterworks (PDAM), consum-ers complained that the clean water ran sluggishly in dry season. “In this condition, the YLPK Bali appeals to the PDAM management across Bali to establish good communica-tion to customers. Although getting no water, a good communication to customer is much needed,” he said.

Big electrical cable being put in the side of the road during a project conducted by PLN reaped complained from residents because it made traffic jam. Complained for public services increase on 2013. The complaints related to services provided by the PLN, such as out-ages without prior notice, voltage fluctuation as well as new connection of the PLN services.

Complained for public services increase

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DENPASAR - Various kinds of fraud against consumers were recognized by Director of Consumer Protection Foundation (YLPK) Bali, Putu Armaya, to remain rampant. Consumer complaints related to public services even still dominated and then were followed by complaints on housing cases committed by mischievous developers and hazardous food case or unwor-thy food for consumption.

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