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Indonesia’s counter-terrorism agencychief Ansyaad Mbai confirmed that UmarPatek had arrived under tight security af-ter an overnight flight from Pakistan, andahead of an expected trial on terrorism-related charges.

“He’s been detained at a detention fa-cility... He’s a very important suspect. It’shard to rank him but you can say he’s abig fish,” Mbai told AFP.

Patek is expected to face trial over at-tacks including the Bali bombings thatkilled 202 people and Christmas Evechurch bombings that killed 19 people in2000, the counter-terrorism chief said.

“We still have to investigate further butit’s likely he will be charged over theChristmas bombings and the Bali bomb-ings, as well as others,” Mbai said, add-ing that Patek had confessed to involve-ment in both attacks.

The fatalities in the bombings of touristbars and nightclubs on the resort island ofBali, which thrust Muslim-majority Indo-nesia into the front lines of the “war on ter-ror”, included 88 Australian holidaymakers.

Police say Patek, 41, worked closely

PACIFICATION of twoBali’s main entrances, namelyGilimanuk and Padangbai Harborshould be carried out extra strictlyso that Bali will not be missedagain as in the case of the first andsecond Bali bombing. Strict cus-tody at the entrances to Balishould not only be done by hu-mans, but should also be sup-ported by sophisticated equip-ment. For that purpose, Bali Gov-ernment is preparing to install so-phisticated X-ray equipment atboth entrances to Bali.

So far, the Gilimanuk andPadangbai Harbor have beenclosely guarded. However, ac-cording to the Head of Bali De-velopment Planning Agency(Bappeda), Cokorda Ngurah

Bali bomb suspectsent to Indonesia

Entrance to Bali promptly installed with X-rayPemayun, the equipment used todetect goods brought into Bali wasnot adequate. On that account,Bali Government allocated a bud-get to purchase sophisticatedequipment in the form of X-raydetector to be installed at bothcrossing harbors. “Indeed, therehas been such a plan,” saidCokorda Ngurah Pemayun.

In the Regional Budget 2012,he said, it would be budgeted thepurchase of two units of X-raydetector to be installed at theGilimanuk and Padangbai Harbor.A unit of the equipment cost ap-proximately IDR 30 billion, so thetotal budget that should be pre-pared would be IDR 60 billion.Such budget draft had been agreedin the meeting between the Bud-

get Agency of Bali House andBudget Team of Bali Governmenton Tuesday (Aug 9). “Unit priceof the X-ray equipment is expen-sive. In the world, only three coun-tries that can provide such X-rayequipment namely Germany, Brit-ain and Australia,” he said.

Furthermore, he admitted toworry if any time the unit price ofX-ray equipment would increase.If that happened, then what wasbudgeted in the regional budget2012 would not be enough to buyit. “Hopefully, there will be noprice hike,” he said.

A member of Budget Agencyin the Bali House, Nengah Tamba,admitted that he responded posi-tively the plan to purchase the X-ray equipment. According to this

Chairman of Democratic Faction,such sophisticated equipment wasgreatly required at Gilimanuk andPadangbai Harbor. So far, the de-tection devices used for Bali paci-fication was still very limited.“Padangbai and Gilimanuk Harborshould be closely guarded. Bothcheckpoints determine the fate ofBali. Remember, condition ofGilimanuk Harbor also determinesthe economic life of Bali,” he re-minded.

Therefore, Tamba sincerelyhoped that procurement of X-rayequipment could be realized. Byoperating the X-ray equipment, allgoods entering to Bali can beclearly detected. “Indeed, it is timefor Bali to operate the equipment,”he said. (kmb13)

Merseyside Police officers helpclean up a burnt out caravan in

the Toxteth area of Liverpool,England Wednesday Aug. 10, 2011

following rioting in the areaTuesday night. Thousands of extra

police officers flooded intoLondon in a bid to end Britain’s

worst rioting in a generation.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - An alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings wasextradited from Pakistan to Indonesia on Thursday, after his arrest in thetown where Osama bin Laden was killed, a security official said.

with the attack’s mastermind, Indonesianextremist Dulmatin, and built the massivebombs that flattened several buildingsalong the Kuta beach tourist strip.

Officials said murder could be the mostserious crime he is charged with, as hisalleged crimes were committed before theSoutheast Asian archipelago passed itstough anti-terrorism law. Even so, hecould still face the death penalty.

Indonesian police killed Dulmatin lastyear and three of his Bali accompliceswere executed by firing squad in 2008.Until his arrest Patek was the last “bigfish” still at large over the Bali bombings.Continued on page 6

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BBPOM found dangerousBBPOM found dangerousBBPOM found dangerousBBPOM found dangerousBBPOM found dangeroussubstances in vasting snackssubstances in vasting snackssubstances in vasting snackssubstances in vasting snackssubstances in vasting snacksDenpasar (Bali Post) –

The supervision and routine raid from Bali Food and Medicine Supervisor Board (BBPOM) onthe beginning of fasting month has yet again found snacks with non food substance, proved from 25snacks samples of banana soup (kolak), fruit ice drinks, fish snacks (siomay), snake fruit (salak), fishpepes, and serabi taken from a number of the sellers on Ahmad Yani Street and Sudirman Street,two of them are positive to have contained Rhodamin B (sumba) or a textile dying substance asstated by Head of the Baord, Drs. I Wayan Eka Ratnata, Apt., when met last Wednesday (10/8).“From the lab tests, we found it on the kolak and a patulo (putu mayang) snack where the brownsugar was using colour not the real brown sugar (gula aren),” Ratnata explained.

Now BBPOM is waiting the mi-crobiology test of these samples.Retnata explained the team will go tothe sellers of this non food substancecontained snacks to give guidance tothem not to use such dangerous sub-

stance again.Rhodamin B can be distributed but

only for textiles. Other substancesBBPOM feared to be on these fastingbreak snacks are borax, formalin andmore. “For these fasting times we al-

ways do raids twice. This is the firstwith Rhodamin B still found and laterwe will do another raid. We do this baseto we kept finding lots of Rhodamin Bcontained snacks on last year’s fastingmonth,” Retnata stated. (bit)

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The sellers of food during vasting month.

Mangupura (Bali Post) –Guardians of Pura Dalem Pulo

Nyeti Puncakan Segara Madu atBatubelig area, Kerobokan Kelod,North Kuta, protested over a restau-rant building being built on abovethe Batubelig beach demarcation lineand in front of the Pura Segara (SeaTemple) which is marked will affectand disturb ceremonies in this loca-tion. Family of Satria DalemTangkeban, Kerobokan Kelod whoare the guardians have reported thisbuilding by letter to Badung Regentalso Bali House of Representatives

Denpasar (Bali Post) –Bali Police General Criminal Research Directorate successfully

revealed a case recently. A gang of 3 crime committers, Roni Riyadi,Adi Surayawan (Wawan) and Suhardi (Aris), from Lombok wascaught last Saturday (6/8) as stated by Head of the Sub DirectorateSection I, Police Commissioner Gede Bambang Wirawan, lastWednesday (10/8). The gang has operated in 14 rime scenes aroundKerobokan and West Teuku Umar Street, Denpasar, targeting laptopsand cell phones. “The modus was robbing houses on midnight,”Wirawan stated.

The revealing of this case started with information from residentsseeing Aris and Wawan odd movements. Police then observed andcaught them around 3 pm where a cell phone was found from them,admitted to have got it from their crime act. A development was thenundertaken and in Aris living place at West Teuku Umar No. 442,Denpasar, police found more evidences of 3 cell phones. “Aris thenadmitted there’s another person in this group besides them two,”Wirawan continued.

The other one was Roni Riyadi and Aris stated he’s on his way toLombok. For that police chased Roni and around 1 am he was cap-tured at Padangbai Harbour. In his bag a laptop was found expectedstrongly also a result of their crime acts. Roni was the mastermindand found to have been in Kerobokan Jail before where he got outthree years ago. Since a month ago, some of the goods have beensold in Lombok such as 10 cell phones, a laptop, modem and flashdisks. The five buyers from them were then selling it again. “Thecase is still further investigated and it’s possible there is new accusedform this case,” Wirawan concluded. (kmb21)

Lombok Crime Group Captured,1 Month 14 Crime Scenes

Pura Guardian Protest Building in Batubeligand Bali Governor on 8th June and30th July signed by I Made AlitWiartana on behalf of the family,stating how disturbing this buildingis and ask the government to avoidthis to actually happen and becomea very bad example to the residents.Yet until now, neither reply nor re-action has been given by BadungGovernment.

When contacted last Wednesday(10/8) Alit Wiartana stated the build-ing was suspected to have been ownedby a Spanish investor using a localBalinese person in running it. It is sus-

pected strongly the building was notcompleted with any kind of permitsas it clearly violating. “How is it per-mitted, the building was clearly abovethe sands. We really hope governmentwill do something yet until now they’renot doing anything,” he clarified.

Meanwhile Head of Police Man-agement and Operational Section,IGAK Suryanegara admitted not longago did check the place and found thatthe building is not permanent. BadungPolice Civil Service also have calledthe building owner yet the call is stillnot fulfilled. (kmb25)

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—Foreign exchange transaction in

Bali ranks second after Jakarta inIndonesia. This Paradise Island fortourists has become one of the re-gions with the largest foreign ex-change transaction reaching IDR4.8 trillion up to the second quar-ter. Such figure increased to IDR4.7 trillion from the previous quar-ter.

Directorate of Monetary Man-agement of Bank Indonesia, SriYulistiani, said in Denpasar onWednesday (Aug 10) that high

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A man is looking at the air measurement device which was placed in Denpasar.

Air pollution inAir pollution inAir pollution inAir pollution inAir pollution inDenpasar examinedDenpasar examinedDenpasar examinedDenpasar examinedDenpasar examinedDenpasar (Bali Post)—

High growth rate of vehicles in Bali triggers the occurrence of air pollution. Since the vehicleexhaust emission is above the threshold, it tends to pollute the air quality. To ensure the airquality in Denpasar, the Denpasar Environment Agency (BLH) in cooperation with the UdayanaUniversity research center is now investigating the air quality in Denpasar. The research isrelated to the pollution caused by fumes of poorly maintained vehicles.

Head of the Denpasar EnvironmentAgency (BLH), AA BagusSudharsana, when contacted onWednesday (Aug 10) said that after theemission test two weeks ago againsthundreds of vehicle his party was cur-rently undertaking a study on the de-gree of air pollution in Denpasar. “Todiminish pollution, some measureshave been taken. Other than emissionstest, his party also undertook a studyon the quality of air,” he said whenaccompanied by Spokesperson ofDenpasar Municipality, Dewa GedeRai.

He said the research was under-taken in cooperation with the researchcenter of Udayana University and theMinistry of Environmental Affairs.“Right now, the research is in progressand we conduct it to know the air qual-

ity,” he added. However, he said theresults were not known yet becausethe process was still going on. Thestudy posed a part of endeavor to mini-mize the air pollution in Denpasar area.According to him, so far the largestair pollution was contributed by ve-hicles that were not well maintained.“The pollution is largely caused bycars, while motorcycles cause rela-tively small portion,” he added.

To reduce the air pollution, therehad appeared a discourse on the re-striction of old vehicles. Unfortunately,he was unwilling to give commentabout the discourse of old vehicle re-strictions on the grounds it was not hisauthority. “That authority lies in thetransportation agency,” he said.

When confirmed at separate place,the Head of Denpasar Transportation

Agency, Gede Astika, was unable togive more comments because the mat-ter of limiting the vehicle was the au-thority of Bali Transportation Agency.“It’s the authority of provincial gov-ernment like the restriction of touristtransport policy not long ago. There-fore, it’s beyond our authority,” he ex-plained.

Previously, a sampling test againsthundreds of vehicles had been under-taken two weeks ago. Such examina-tion was carried out at busy traffic areasuch as at Ubung area, JalanDiponegoro, Jalan Imam Bonjol, JalanTeuku Umar, Jalan Hayam Wuruk andaround Sesetan area. The exhaustemission test against hundreds of ve-hicles stayed to encounter vehicleswhose gas emission was above thethreshold. (kmb12)

Mangupura (Bali Post)—The Indonesia’s Tourism Industry

Association (GIPI) of Bali urged thegovernment to realize promptly thejoint clean water supply managementsystem by the five regencies and cityin Bali named Sarbagitaku to clear upthe water crisis in Bali. The programinvolving the Badung, Gianyar,Tabanan, Denpasar and KlungkungRegency has become a discourse ofgovernment, but it is not realized untilnow.

“The program should be realizedas a solution to overcome the watercrisis. We believe the Sarbagitaku pro-gram will address the problem of cleanwater complained by tourism perpe-trators, particularly among the hote-liers,” said Chairman of GIPI Bali,Ngurah Wijaya, in Denpasar, Wednes-day (Aug 10).

According to him, the raw watertreatment of Sarbagitaku would utilizethe abundant river water flow. So, thewater taken advantage had been in theriver downstream and ready to getwasted into the ocean. On that account,it would not interfere with the use ofriver water for irrigation and so on.

“To overcome the restrictedness ofclean water, it should not necessarilybe carried out by drilling to get theunderground water. By taking advan-tage of the surface water such as byprocessing the river water or waste-water into clean water will be able toresolve the restrictedness of clean wa-ter,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Head of Bali De-velopment Planning Agency(Bappeda), Cokorda NgurahPemayun, recently said that populationdensity and the progressively restrictedcarrying capacity due to massive landconversion had been resulting in thewater crisis in Bali.

Based on the data in the Bali De-velopment Planning Agency, the scar-city of clean water has happened toSouthern Bali area and elsewhere inkeeping with the rapid growth of popu-lation. As a consequence, the water

To clear up water crisisGIPI urges the realization

of Sarbagitakudemand is also increasing.

It was described the water crisis wastriggered by the increasing burden ofhigh density, which was not supportedby natural resources. The Badung Re-gency and Denpasar Municipalitywould face serious problems as animpact of the water crisis in the futureif there were no earnest endeavors toaddress the problem as well as publicawareness of maintaining and not ex-ploiting the natural resources.

“If the condition persists, the threatof water crisis will become a seriousproblem faced by other Balinese resi-dents. To that end, there should be aneffort to look for alternative solutionssuch as by setting up water infrastruc-ture in the form of dam or manage-ment of long rivers existing in Bali,”he explained.

He said the increase in human popu-lation led to deforestation and tree log-ging. As a result, the condition wouldreduce the soil absorbability against thewater and this ultimately became a cru-cial issue encountered by Bali.

Meanwhile, based on data of theMinister of Public Works, Indonesiais said to be the fifth country in theworld that is rich in water because ofhaving over 1,250 dams along withreservoir that can accommodate 12.5billion m3 of water. In the meantime,the large dams complying with the in-ternational standards amounts to 132units and those meeting the criteria ofGovernment Regulation No. 37/2010currently reach 284 units.

On that account, it is required amanagement effort for the utilizationof existing water sources like the largeand long rivers. Additionally, the ef-fort includes the search of rainwaterreserve which can be accommodatedin the dams or reservoirs. Five mea-sures taken to address the water crisisare undertaken through conservation,empowerment, repair to damagedsprings, people’s involvement in pre-serving the water source and provisionof adequate information system for thecommunity. (par)

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The water crisis make a woman must walk to find water source

Transaction of foreign exchangein Bali reaches IDR 4.8 trillion

transactions of foreign exchangetraders (PVA) made Bali suscep-tible to be used as location formoney laundering as the proceedsof crime. “We ask all members ofPVA in Bali to report every trans-action to Bank Indonesia properlyand correctly. All PVA membersshould be familiar with their cus-tomers or clients,” she said.

According to her, Bali had be-come the second largest transactionlocality that had great potential to beused as a locality of money launder-ing. Large amount of foreign ex-

change transactions by internationalcommunity starting from the timewhen stepping foot on the island tomeet their needs in Bali gave majorcontribution to promote the growthof people’s economic activities.

In the meantime, a senior asso-ciate economic researcher, RonaldL. Toroun, explained that onlinereporting would make PVA easierto report every transaction. By do-ing so, PVA no longer needed tocome to Bank Indonesia but bysending over the Internet had beenenough. (par)

International4 Friday, August 12, 2011 News

Even as Cameron promised not to let a“culture of fear” take hold, tensions flaredin Birmingham, where a murder probe wasopened after three men were killed in a hit-and-run drive as they took to the streets todefend shops from looting.

“We needed a fightback and a fightbackis under way,” Cameron said in a sombertelevised statement outside his DowningStreet office after a meeting of the nation’scrisis committee. As if to indicate his re-solve, he underlined “nothing is off thetable” — including water cannon, com-monly used in Northern Ireland but neverdeployed in Britain.

The number of arrests in London aloneclimbed to 820, with courts staffing aroundthe clock to process alleged looters, van-dals and thieves — including one as youngas 11. Cameron has recalled Parliamentfrom its summer recess for an emergencydebate on the riots Thursday.

An eerie calm prevailed over most of Lon-don as night fell Wednesday, with a highly-visible police presence throughout the city.Metropolitan Police said objects had beenthrown at officers in south London’s Elthamneighborhood but that the incident had been

Associated Press Writer

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan state tele-vision broadcast images Wednesday of a manit said was Moammar Gadhafi’s youngestson in an attempt to refute rebel claims thathe had been killed in a NATO airstrike.

Rebels claimed on Friday that 27-year-old Khamis Gadhafi, who commands one ofthe best trained and equipped units in theLibyan military, was killed in the westernfront-line town of Zlitan. The regime dis-missed the claim and said the rebels wereonly trying to deflect attention from the kill-ing last week of the opposition’s militarycommander, possibly by other rebels.

The images on television showed the son at

Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — North Koreaon Thursday denied firing shells near a dis-puted maritime line, saying a frightenedSouth Korea needlessly retaliated after mis-taking normal blasting from a constructionproject for artillery.

South Korea, which fired several shells inwhat it said were two artillery exchanges withNorth Korea on Wednesday, dismissed theNorth’s claim as a typical “hackneyed” argu-ment from a country that rarely acknowledgesits provocations and instead blames Seoul forhostilities between the sides.

Relations between the Koreas have re-cently improved, but the different versionsof what happened highlight the knife-edgetensions always present between the

Cameron vows ‘fightback’ as Birmingham seethesCameron vows ‘fightback’ as Birmingham seethesCameron vows ‘fightback’ as Birmingham seethesCameron vows ‘fightback’ as Birmingham seethesCameron vows ‘fightback’ as Birmingham seethesAssociated Press Writer

LONDON — Thousands of extra police officers flooded the streets of London on Wednes-day to deter rioters, and Prime Minister David Cameron warned that the government willtake any necessary action to restore order and confidence to Britain’s streets.

AP Photo/Tim Hales

Looters take electrical goods after breaking into a store during the second night of civildisturbances in central Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011.

“dealt with” and a group was dispersed.Outside the capital, in England’s second

largest city of Birmingham, police launcheda murder investigation into the deaths ofthree men hit by a car. Residents said thedead men, aged 21 to 31, were members ofBirmingham’s South Asian communitieswho had been patrolling their neighborhoodto keep it safe from looters.

“They lost their lives for other people,doing the job of the police,” said witnessMohammed Shakiel, 34. “They weren’tstanding outside a mosque, a temple, a syna-gogue or a church — they were standingoutside shops where everybody goes. Theywere protecting the community.”

Tariq Jahan, whose 21-year-old sonHaroon was killed, stood in a Birminghamstreet and pleaded with the South Asiancommunity not to seek revenge against thecar’s occupants, reported to be black.

“Today we stand here to plead with allthe youth to remain calm, for our commu-nity to stand united,” he said. “This is not arace issue. The family has received mes-sages of sympathy and support from all partsof the community — all races, all faiths andbackgrounds.”

This video imagebroadcast Wednes-day Aug. 10, 2011 byLibyan TV purportsto shows MoammarGadhafi’s youngestson KhamisGadhafi, left, whocommands one ofthe best trained andequipped units inthe Libyan military,visiting an injuredman in a hospital inTripoli, Libya onTuesday Aug. 9,2011.

AP Photo/LIbyan TV

Gadhafi son, reported killed,appears on Libyan TV

a Tripoli hospital visiting people wounded in aNATO airstrike and said it was on Tuesday. Ifgenuine, it would be the first time he has beenseen in public since the reports of his death.

The Libyan revolt that began in February hassunk into a deep stalemate in the past few months,with the rebels holding on to most of the easternhalf of the country that they captured early onand Gadhafi’s regime controlling most of thewest. Neither side has been able to tip the bal-ance into an outright victory, even with monthsof NATO airstrikes pounding regime targets.

State television also showed funerals for doz-ens of civilians it said had died in another NATOairstrike on Tuesday in Zlitan, a main front forthe rebels fighting Gadhafi’s troops. It is about90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli.

North Korea disputesSouth Korea’s artillery claim

Koreas, especially in the Yellow Sea watersthat both countries claim as their own.

“It was preposterous in the age of sci-ence when latest detecting and intelligencemeans are available that they mistook theblasting for shelling,” an unnamed NorthKorean representative to inter-Korean mili-tary talks said in a statement released bythe official Korean Central News Agency.

“It was a tragicomedy that they indis-criminately reacted to what happened withcounter-shelling even without confirmingthe truth about the case in the sensitive wa-ters,” the official said.

South Korean Defense Ministry spokes-man Kim Min-seok said three North Ko-rean shells originally fired near the North-ern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea promptedthe South to fire three shells back.

A boy rides his bicyclenear the banners wishing

for reunification of the twoKoreas on the wire fence

at the Imjingak Pavilionnear the border village of

Panmunjom, on thedemilitarized zone (DMZ)

that separates the twoKoreas since the Korean

War, in Paju, South Korea,Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

Activities Friday, August 12, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for August 7 through August 30, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date forit annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 daysaccording to Balinese calendar, including the smallerancestral shrine which each family possesses. Becauseof this practically every few days a ceremony of festi-val of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali.There are also times when the entire island celebratedthe same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan,Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day,Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days,depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade,sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimespainted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifullyarranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. Infront of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellasdepending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

Balinese TempleCeremony

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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JAKARTA – In accordance with Aston’s com-mitment to expand its trendy select servicefavehotel brand, Aston International announcedthe opening of the first favehotel in Jakarta – theFavehotel Wahid Hasyim.

The Favehotel Wahid Hasyim is a two star ho-tel offering 70 functional, comfy and trendy guestrooms and several appointed meeting rooms.While room rates are set to be very competitive,hotel guests will enjoy standards and services usu-ally associated with hotels of a higher price cat-egory such as top notch beddings, high qualitycotton linen, complimentary hi speed Wi-Fi, inroom massage and laundry services.

The new favehotels main draw will be its superblocation right in the heart of Jakarta just off Jalan M.H. Thamrin around the corner from the United Na-tions building and the Japanese Embassy. OtherJakarta landmarks such as Plaza Indonesia andJakarta’s most famous Expatriate hang out, the everso popular Jaya Pub, are within easy walking distance.

Aston Internationals Vice President of Sales &Marketing, Mr. Norbert Vas, said: “With

Favehotel Opened in Jakartafavehotels we aim to redefine the way travelersthink about budget hotels. Values for money ho-tels like our faves are “in” and can be trendy. Gooddesign, service from the heart and uncompromis-ing standards for safety and cleanliness do not haveto be expensive. The favehotel Wahid Hasyim is astellar example for this philosophy“.

The favehotel Wahid Hasyim joins the alreadywidely popular favehotels in Denpasar andSurabaya and will soon be followed by favehotelopenings in Bali’s fashionable districts ofSeminyak, Umalas and Legian and on Malaysia’sresort Island Langkawi.

Favehotel is a new select service brand estab-lished by Aston International, Indonesia’s largestHotel Group, aiming to offer inexpensive, fresh,attractive and contemporary 2 star hotels to smartbudget minded travelers.

Since its inception in July 2009 favehotel hasbeen on the forefront of the budget hotel sectorredefining the industry’s standards for select ser-vice hotels thru imaginary design, mid market fea-tures such as high quality beddings, complimen-tary high speed internet access and LCD televi-sions and have a small environmental footprint.

Friday, August 12, 20116 News

She’s a distant relative ofQueen Elizabeth and WinstonChurchill and you have to take adeep breath just to pronounce hername: Maria del RosarioCayetana Alfonsa VictoriaEugenia Francisca Fitz-JamesStuart y de Silva.

The twice-married matriarch’ssupreme title is Duchess of Alba,but she has more than 40 others.Her 60-year-old beau is a mannamed Alfonso Diez, who worksfor the Spanish social securityadministration.

They first met decades ago be-cause her then husband — No. 2— was fr iends with Diez’s

Agence France Presse

Teachers at a New Zealandschool received a macabre surprisewhen they realised a supposedlyplastic skeleton to be used inanatomy lessons was actually a realset of human bones, a report saidThursday.

Totara North School principalBastienne Kruger had removedthe skeleton from storage andwas about to use it in class whenon close examination she sawthat the teaching aid was notplastic as she hadassumed.Kruger said no oneknew how long the skeleton hadbeen at the school, which openedin 1852, the Northern Advocatenewspaper reported.“When werealised it was real, we wanted todo right by this poor person, butwe didn’t know how, so wephoned the hospital and they sug-gested we bring it to the police,”she told the newspaper.

Police approached the His-toric Places Trust, a heritageagency whose regional managerStuart Park concluded that theremains — a skull and bonesfrom one side of the body —belonged to a slightly-built adultmale.

Reuters

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A burqa-clad woman suicide bomber struck inthe heart of Pakistan’s northwesterncity of Peshawar on Thursday, killinganother woman hours after a bombblast killed five policemen in the samearea. The bombings occurred near apolice check post in the city, where alQaeda and Taliban militants oftenstage attacks. Police said the attackscould have been coordinated.

Female suicide bombers are rare inPakistan, and women often passthrough checkpoints without beingsearched in this conservative country.

The suicide bomber, which policesaid was around 25 years old, waswearing an explosive-laden vest. Shethrew a hand grenade before blow-

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MADRID — It’s the stuff of a soap opera starring European nobles: at age 85, one of Spain’srichest and most title-laden women wants to wed a civil servant young enough to be her son. Toplacate her six wary children, she’s signed over to them palatial chunks of her wealth.

brother, an antiques dealer, andafter running into each at a movietheater about three years ago theduchess and Diez eventuallystarted dating.

The Duchess of Alba said in arare radio interview early thisyear that she wanted to marryDiez but her children — five menand a woman — were against it.She denied any suggestion Diezwas a gold-digger.

“Alfonso does not want any-thing. He has renounced every-thing,” she told COPE radio. “Allhe wants is me.”

Last month the duchess andher children went to a notary in

Madrid and she registered themto be owners of palaces, castlesand other property around Spainupon her death, according towidespread Spanish press re-ports. For now, though, she willretain control of the fortune ofthe more than 500-year-oldHouse of Alba.

In this photo taken June 16,2010, the Duchess of Alba

arrives for a movie previewin Seville, Spain. AP Photo/Paul White

N.Z. schooldiscovers real

skeleton incloset

Woman bomber, roadsidebomb kill seven in NW Pakistan

ing herself near the checkpoint, po-lice official Tariq Omar told Reuters.Witness Yasir Ali said the woman’svest did not fully detonate, which lim-ited the number of casualties to onepasser-by. “She was on foot,” said Ali,a lorry driver, said.

Hospital officials said a child waskilled and 16 people were woundedin the earlier attack on the police lorry,which was hit by a remote-controlledbomb concealed in a push-cart.Taliban militants have waged a cam-paign of suicide bombings acrossPakistan, killing hundreds of peoplein recent years.

In December, a burqa-cladbomber killed more than 40 peoplein an attack on a food distributioncenter in Bajaur tribal region nearthe Afghan border.

REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

Police are framed through the torn canvas of a vehicle, whichwas transporting police officials, after it was hit by a bomb inPeshawar August 11, 2011.

The Bali attack was the work ofAl-Qaeda-linked regional extrem-ist group Jemaah Islamiyah, andIndonesian officials are hopingPatek will give valuable informa-tion on JI and other Southeast Asianterror networks.

“From the very beginning hislinks were with Jemaah Islamiyah,which we know is linked to Al-Qaeda,” Mbai said, adding thatPatek was being “cooperative”.

Patek is also believed to be indi-rectly associated with Indonesianterror suspect Hambali, who is inUS custody at Guantanamo Bay,and radical Indonesian cleric AbuBakar Bashir, who was recentlyconvicted on terror charges.

Defence Minister PurnomoYusgiantoro said previously therewas information that Patek hadbeen trying to meet bin Laden inAbbottabad before his arrest onJanuary 25, but this has not beenconfirmed.

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Foreign Minister MartyNatalegawa said last week that In-donesia did not want Patek’s trialto turn into a circus.

“We do not want to create self-fulfilling... attention to a personwho doesn’t deserve publicity,” hesaid.

Australia has warned thatPatek’s arrest could spark revengeattacks against Westerners in Indo-nesia, the world’s most populousMuslim-majority state.

National Police spokesmanAnton Bachrul Alam said securityhad been stepped up after Patek’sextradition.

“We have prepared tight securitybecause Umar Patek is a terroristleader. He’s highly rated so we’realways on the alert and ready toensure security,” he told reporters.

Patek is also wanted in the Phil-ippines, where he allegedly plottedattacks with militants after fleeingIndonesia.

Reuters

DENVER - Three fugitive siblings wanted in connection with crimes inFlorida and Georgia last week were taken into custody in Colorado after shotswere fired and a high-speed chase ended in a crash, police said on Wednesday.A citizen tip paved the way for their capture, with the Colorado State Patrollearning at about 9 a.m. local time that the siblings’ white car had been spottedat a campground near Colorado City.Authorities had been searching sinceAugust 2 for Ryan Edward Dougherty, 21, Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26, andLee Grace E. Dougherty, 29, who are accused of shooting at a Florida policeofficer and robbing a bank in Georgia on the same day.

Florida fugitive siblingscaught in Colorado

Friday, August 12, 2011 7Indonesia TodayInternational

Associated Press Writer

JAKARTA — Venture capitalistsfrom Silicon Valley to New York allhave the same question aboutIndonesia’s come-from-nowheretech frenzy: Are the young entre-preneurs that have piqued their in-terest smart bets or just surfing ahype that will soon burn out.

A few years ago, Internet con-nections were so slow in Indonesiathat trying to download a clip offYouTube could take 20 minutes ona good day.

Now the Muslim majority nationof 240 million people — despite thetangled balls of telephone wire thatdangle precariously over dusty,potholed roads — boasts theworld’s second largest number ofFacebook users and is third forTwitter.

It’s also seen an explosion ofWeb startups, with 200 popping upso far this year alone, said NataliArdianto, owner of StartupLokal,which offers a place for founders,developers and potential investorsto meet.

At the moment most ofIndonesia’s tech newbies aren’t dis-tinguished by their creativity. Manyare clones of well-established for-eign companies like Craig’s List orTripAdvisor, or Groupon, offeringdiscount coupons and deals.

But with a little nurturing andeventually funds to advertise andstrategize, venture capitalists andsmall-scale investors hope one dayto make some money and —maybe, along the way — help dis-cover Indonesia’s answer to MarkZuckerberg.

“It’s still early and there isn’t

Animal rights activists rejectedthe allegation, which was madeas a shipment of cattle preparedto leave port for Indonesia for thefirst time since the graphic imageswere shown in late May.

Liberal Senator Chris Back,who worked as a veterinary sur-geon for 40 years, said in a Sen-ate hearing in Canberra that aworker accepted money tobrutalise the cow.

Back said a reliable sourcewho had visited the abattoir inSumatra told him a foreign manand woman and a driver had cometo the abattoir and offered theworker 150,000 rupiah(US$17.50) to kick the beast.

“He kicked it a number oftimes and then stopped. Theyasked him to keep going and hedid,” he said.

Australia suspended the liveanimal trade to Indonesia afterfootage of the cruelty was broad-cast on state television.

Back said the worker wasbeaten and his wife raped in ret-ribution for the loss of work.

But Lyn White from AnimalsAustralia, which obtained thefootage, dismissed the allegationsas “very offensive”.

“The story you told about pay-

AP Photo/Heri Juanda

In this Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, photo, Acehnese browse Internet using free Wi-Fi access at a park in BandaAceh, Aceh province, Indonesia. Venture capitalists from Silicon Valley to New York all have the samequestion about Indonesia’s come-from-nowhere tech frenzy: Are the young entrepreneurs that have piquedtheir interest, smart bets or just surfing a hype that will soon burn out.

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AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

A vendor sells cucumber melon, locally known as “timun suri,” atype of fruit popular during the fasting month of Ramadan to beserved as sweet drink, on a roadside stall in Jakarta, Indonesia,Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011. Muslims around the world are observ-ing Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, where theyrefrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.

Agence France-Presse

An Indonesian abattoir worker was paid to kick a cow in the headto provide the footage of animal cruelty that helped stop the live ani-mal trade with Australia in June, a politician said on Wednesday.

ment for deliberate cruelty is justso outrageous that the further sug-gestions that he’s been ostracised,beaten and his wife raped shouldbe taken in the same sense,” Whitetold the hearing.

“It simply did not occur.”Back later said he accepted that

White had no knowledge of anypayments but told reporters heunderstood the driver paid moneyto slaughtermen in at least twoabattoirs “so that the footagewould be obtained”.

The first shipment of cattle ap-proved under a strict new licens-ing scheme was due to leave thenorthern port of Darwin in Aus-tralia for the Asian nation Wednes-day.

Indonesia last month indicatedit would import 180,000 cattlefrom Australia in the third quarterafter Canberra lifted its live cattleexport ban, and promised to auditand improve conditions at all itsabattoirs.

Live exports, which also in-clude sheep, were worth Aus$1.14billion (US$1.18 billion) to theAustralian economy in 2010 ac-cording to the most recent figures.Indonesia accounted for Aus$320million, making it the biggestmarket.

Indonesian tech frenzy tantalizes venture capitalmuch structure on the ground,” saidFaysal Sohail, managing directorof CMEA Capital, one of the lead-ing venture capital firms in SiliconValley, after a whirlwind trip toIndonesia.

“But from a growth point ofview, India and China has been pre-dominantly done at this stage, thereare a lot of investors there already,”he said. “So now the question is,what the markets beyond that are.”

That’s partially why I came,” hesaid, “to look for some new, worldclass entrepreneurs.”

He’s ready to invest somemoney, he said, but personally, notyet through a fund.

Most of the founders of newstartups are young, recent collegegrads working from their livingrooms or garages with two to sixpeople, using cash scraped togetherfrom their parents, friends and pro-fessors.

In the majority of cases, the op-erations are considered too smallto be able to handle infusions ofmore than $500,000 to $2 million.And business plans are still prettyrudimentary.

But there are several promisingyoung entrepreneurs out there,Sohail and others said.

Twenty-six-year-old EduardusChristmas, who hit the scene twoyears ago, is considered one of theearly birds.

Inspired by his literature-lovinggirlfriend, he started Evolitera, anonline publishing house offeringthousands of free novels, textbooksand scientific papers.

“I saw a need and was trying tofill it,” Christmas said, lighting upcigarette at an outdoor cafe. “I was

also genuinely interested in digitalpublishing.”

“A lot of the newcomers in digi-tal media seem to be attracted by thehype, they see how fast things aregrowing and want to jump in,” hesaid. “You’ve seen that especially inthe last year, year and a half.”

These days, Christmas is think-ing more seriously about ways tomake money — one of the biggestchallenges he and others face, be-cause with only 3 percent of thepopulation holding a credit card,there is almost no e-commerce.

There’s also little in the way ofadverting dollars.

Pulling an iPad from his bag,Christmas shows one of his latestprojects, interactive books, startingwith Indonesian classical pianistAnanda Sukarlan.

His newest company,Enervolution, is a registered Appledeveloper, and will allow users tobrowse content for free and then payfor and download Sukarlan’s musicwith the help of an iTunes app.

He’s hoping, in this way, to tapinto a premium market.

At this early stage, there haveonly been a few big success stories,most notably the forum andclassifieds portal Kaskus, which gota $100 million commitment from alocal investor, and the location-basedsocial network Koprol that Yahoo!recently acquired.

But plenty of others are gainingtraction, thanks in large part to highpenetration of BlackBerry, iPhoneand other smartphones — some ofthem knockoffs — which have al-lowed Indonesians, despite poor in-frastructure, to shoot straight intocyber space.

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Bali Today

Balinese community has severaltraditional sports and games. Prob-ably, the only one display of thosesports and games can be found inthe annual implementation of BaliArts Festival (BAF). It poses oneof the media used to preserve andpromote the treasure of culturalheritages together with other cul-tural elements.

Such an endeavor is required tobe introduced to modern genera-tion. If they never know about those

Traditional Sports:

Get the Experience as the Locals DoAside from sightseeing to nature, leisure experience can also be obtained by enjoying some

intriguing local traditions. There are light daily activities, hobbies, traditional sports and soforth. Many people do this just for getting the experience, not for the end result.

sports they will never appreciatetheirs. Moreover, they now tend tobe attracted by modern games thatsometimes make their parents wor-ried on account of characters playedin the video games or the like. Theymay turn less patient or when hav-ing no money to play the games itkindles them to commit crime. Nomatter small it is, it remains haz-ardous. However, it does not nec-essarily mean that modern gamesmust be rejected. The key is thatchildren should be persistently un-

der parental control to minimize thenegative impact because it also con-tains educational value.

Meanwhile, traditional gameswill teach them how to get in touchwith nature, prepare the tools, co-operate with others and toleratefriends. Here, their patience is re-quired until the toys can be com-pleted. In addition, their relation-ship will establish togetherness inthe level of their understanding.Since most traditional games areplayed outside the house, so they

can know better their surroundingenvironment and friends. Thesevalues enable them to enrich theiroutlook.

There are a variety of traditionalsports and games such as stilts, sackrace, coconut-shell clog, tug-of-war, pulling areca-sheath and manyothers. When managed well, thesetraditional can create a good busi-ness. Craftsmen, for instance, canmake the tools and their replica thatmay be taken advantage for souve-nir by tourists. Moreover, if they aredesigned with the touch of Balineseornamental styles they are going togive added value.

In addition, the games like stilts

(tajog) can become an optional at-traction for tourists. Getting in-volved in the games of course willdrive a pleasure of its own. Trychange the orientation. If the gamesor sports usually played by the lo-cals, let’s share them with our guests.Then, if the games usually played atsmooth or even land can be playedwith a slight challenge such as bycrossing shallow-watered river oreven on the beach, near the edges ofwaves. With different condition andbackground along this challenge, itcertainly becomes an attractive andunique adventure.

Without doubt, there are more tra-ditional games and sports that needexploring and discovering. Thesetraditions actually are potential prod-ucts becoming attractive games of-fered to visitors. While preserving,we can also offer something differ-ent from modern games offered byother destinations. If Bali will ‘gogreen’ with its organic agriculture,its tradition can also offer ‘eco-friendly’ attraction where it is unnec-essary to exploit the nature exces-sively but it even can go hand inhand with the preservation of localtradition. One day, the treasures oftraditional games and sports couldbe coalesced into a ‘traditionalgames park.’ Ultimately, let’s sharethe fun of our traditions by involv-ing visitors in the experience as thelocals do. (BTN/punia)

Antara

DENPASAR - Bali’s exportsof various products such ashandicraft, fisheries and agricul-tural produce to Asia Pacific inthe January - May 2011 periodstood at US$111.2 million,Antara news agency reportedquoting a regional trade officialas saying.

The values of Bali’s exports tothe Asia Pacific region almost al-ways increased every month dur-ing the first five months of 2011,

Bali’s exports to Asia Pacific valued at US$111 millionExport Section Head of Bali’s In-dustry and Trade Service, PutuBagiada said here on Thursday.

Putu said that most importers ofBali’s products in the Asia Pacificregion came from the United States,Japan, Australia and Hong Kong.

The trade official said thatBali’s exports to the United Stateswere relatively stable this year, andconstituted the leading foreign ex-change earning contributor fromthe non oil/non gas commodities.Their values were US$41 million.

Japan was the second biggest

importer, with an import value ac-counting for US$38.6 million, fol-lowed by Australia with US$10.7million, Canada and Hong KongUS$5 million and US$3.2 millionrespectively.

The United States, Japan andHong Kong were biggest buyers forfishery products such as fresh andfrozen tuna, tongkol (a kind oftuna), crab and krapu fish, besidesgarment and accessories.

Bagiada said that about 12 AsiaPacific countries were importers ofBali’s non oil/non gas commodities.

Bali’s handicraft exports to Tai-wan also increased with a valueof US$2.5 million.

Hong Kong, one of the worldtrade cities, also imported vari-ous handicraft products from Baliwhich it resold to tourists visit-ing Hong Kong.

Countries in Asean like Ma-laysia, Singapore and Thailandalso are increasingly interested inBali’s arts products. The valuesof each of these countries’ im-ports from Bali were above US$1million dollars.

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GULING CELENG(Suckling Pig)

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

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

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

PREPARATION:Ensure inside of suckling pig is completely

cleaned out. Season inside and outside with salt.Combine all other ingredients, except turmericwater, and mix thoroughly. Fill inside of sucklingwith mixture, close belly with string or thin satayskewer. Rub the outside of the pig with turmericwater until the skin is shiny yellow.

Place suckling pig on roasting rack and roast inhot oven (220°C / 425°F) for approximately 1 hour.Rest for 10 minutes in warm place before serving.When serving, first remove the crisp skin with astrong carving knife, then loosen meat from thebones and cut into even dice or slices. Place aheaped tablespoon of stuffing on each servingplate, and then top with meat and skin. Traditionallythis dish is eaten with Jukut Nangka Mekuah andsteamed rice.

Helpful hint: If you have a large barbeque withrotisserie or constantly turning spit, you can cookthe pig over charcoal for an authentic Balineseflavor. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

“This means Bali’s export-ers had expanded its coverageand earned more foreign ex-change revenue,” head of theexport division of the Bali in-dustrial and trade agency PutuBagiada said here on Wednes-day.

While the US is Bali’s tra-ditional market, but for CentralAmerica and South America itis a new development, ashandicraft goods have an artis-tic value besides other nonoil/gas commodities, he said.

The businessmen and ex-porters of this area need to pro-mote the export market to othercountries, like Africa, SouthAsia, and the Middle East,which had not been coveredintensively.

Bali’s Exports ToCentral America

3.8 Million DollarsAntara

DENPASAR - Bali’s exports of handicraft goods and some other nonoil/gas commoditiesto Central America and South America had reached 3.8 million US dollars in the January-May 2011 period, an increase compared to the only 2.3 million US dollars in last year’s sameperiod.

The market share of thosecountries are potential like Cen-tral America and South America,Bagiada said adding that Bali’sexports to Puerto Rico, SouthAmerica, had reached 1.5 millionUS dollars in the January-May2011 period.

This is a relatively big num-ber considering the country is sofar away, after Costa Rica boughtBali’s nonoil/gas commoditiesworth Rp 649 thousand US dol-lars, and five other countries onlya couple of only a hundred thou-sands US dollars.

In the meantime in CentralAmerica there are more nonoil/gas export commodities fromBali in seven countries includingBahama, Panama and Costa Ricaimported commodities worth

only 2.2 million US dollars.While the consumers in the

United States are the biggestbuyers of Bali’s handicraftgoods, early in 2011 alone 41million US dollars worth of for-eign exchange revenue hadbeen received from the superpower.

The handicraft goods whichhad entered the US in a greatdeal included garments, silverjewelry with peals, and woodenhandicraft goods and freshtuna.

The foreign exchange rev-enue from the trade to CentralAmerica and South Americacould still be increased, but alldepends on the efforts of theexporters in the areas in utiliz-ing the opportunity.

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The village of Trunyan is squeezed tightlybetween the lake and the outer crater rim ofBatur, an almighty volcano in Kintamani. Thisis a Bali Aga village, inhabited by descendantsof the original Balinese, the people who pre-date the arrival of the Hindu Majapahit king-dom in the 16th century.

It is famous for the Pura Pancering Jagattemple, but unfortunately visitors are not al-lowed inside. There are also a couple of tradi-tional Bali Aga-style dwellings, and a largebanyan tree, which is said to be more than 1,100years old. At Kuban sub-village close toTrunyan is a mysterious cemetery that is sepa-rated by the lake and accessible only by boat -there is no path along the steep walls of thecrater rim.

The village of Trunyan itself is situated atthe edge of Batur Lake. This location is inac-cessible except by boat, and it takes aroundhalf an hour across the calm waters. Getting toLake Batur takes around two hours drive to thenortheast of Denpasar along the main road toBuleleng and through Bangli Regency.

Unlike the Balinese people, the people ofTrunyan do not cremate or bury their dead, but

Trunyanjust lay them out in bamboo cages to decom-pose, although strangely there is no stench. Amacabre collection of skulls and bones lies onthe stone platform and the surrounding areas.

The dead bodies don’t produce bad smellsbecause of the perfumed scents from a hugeTaru Menyan tree growing nearby. Taru means‘tree’ and Menyan means ‘nice smell’. Thename of Terunyan was also derived from thesetwo words.

The women from Trunyan are prohibitedfrom going to the cemetery when a dead bodyis carried there. This follows the deeply rootedbelief that if a woman comes to the cemeterywhile a corpse is being carried there, there willbe a disaster in the village, for example a land-slide or a volcanic eruption. Such events havebeen frequent in the village’s history, butwhether women had anything to do with it is amatter of opinion...

You can visit both the village of Trunyanand the Kuban cemetery by chartered boat fromKedisan. Sadly, nowadays the boat trips arenow blatant tourist traps, as touts and guidesstrongly urge you to donate your cash to thetemple project or leave a donation for the dead.These touts ruin an otherwise fascinating ex-perience.

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Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - It doesn’t take a visitto the Genius Bar to figure out howApple became the most valuable com-pany in America.

Its lineup of sleek phones, comput-ers and iPods, irresistible to custom-ers even in tough economic times, pro-pelled it to the No. 1 position by mar-ket value Wednesday, surpassingExxon Mobil. Apple’s stock on theopen market is now worth more thanany other company’s.

Apple’s stock fell for the day, butExxon’s fell more. Apple finished witha market value of $337 billion, beat-ing Exxon’s $331 billion. A singleshare of Apple stock now costs $363.

Apple occupies a rarefied spot onceheld by General Electric and Apple’sown rival Microsoft. Exxon had heldthe top spot since 2005.

The power shift is a substantialmilestone for Apple, which has en-joyed a triumphant comeback since the1990s, when it struggled to stay afloatbefore its co-founder Steve Jobs re-turned to take the helm.

But it’s not just the comeback.Gleacher & Co. analyst Brian Marshallsays Apple is giving investors somethingthat has never been seen before. Apple’snumbers are huge, with $30 billion inrevenue in the latest quarter, for example.Yet Marshall said the 35-year-old com-pany is “growing like a startup.”

“Even in 2008 and 2009 Applegrew like a weed and the world wascoming to an end,” Marshall said.

Apple grew its net income 70 per-cent to $14 billion and its revenue 52percent to $65 billion in the fiscal yearthat ended last September. A year ear-lier, even as other companies —though not Exxon — were reelingfrom the economic meltdown, Apple’searnings grew 35 percent and its rev-enue 14 percent.

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SINGAPORE — The Asian Development Bank’s chief economist says the region’s centralbankers will likely stop measures to contain inflation until global market turmoil subsides.

Changyong Rhee said Thursdayin an interview with The AssociatedPress that policymakers will prob-ably halt interest rate hikes and cur-rency appreciation for the next fewmonths amid growing concern the

U.S. could fall into recession.Rhee said falling energy and food

costs should help ease inflation pres-sures. Rhee said emerging Asianeconomies grew more in the first halfthan the ADB had forecast, but prices

also rose faster than expected.Rhee said a sharp drop in export

demand would most hurt the econo-mies of South Korea, China and Tai-wan while India and Indonesiawould be less affected.

Japan sharpens verbalwarning vs yen spike

Reuters

TOKYO - Japan sharpened itswarning to currency markets onThursday in the wake of the yen’srise near record highs against thedollar, keeping markets jittery aboutthe possibility of a second round ofintervention.

Markets are also on guard afterthe Swiss National Bank said itwould flood the market with evenmore francs to dampen demand forits currency, which like the yen issoaring on safe-haven demand.

“We are keeping an extremelyclose watch on currency moves,while working closely with the glo-bal community,” Finance MinisterYoshihiko Noda told parliament,issuing a stronger warning than hisusual phrase that he is watchingmarkets carefully.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan alsotold parliament the government willconsider what it can do to addresswhat he saw as “somewhat one-sided moves” in the yen, althoughhe will probably not see throughany such measures as he has sig-naled his intention to step down inthe coming weeks.

Japan has kept firing warningsto markets against pushing up theyen too much, but that has not keptthe currency from rising past lev-els that triggered last week’s inter-vention.

The yen soared within sight ofits record high of 76.25 yen to thedollar, hit just after the March 11earthquake, as investors sought ref-uge from risk amid heighteninguncertainty over the global eco-nomic outlook.

In a sign of how jittery marketsare at the possibility of intervention,

the dollar briefly jumped above 77yen in London trading hours afterapproaching its record low againstthe yen.

Traders said they had not seenany yen-selling intervention byJapanese authorities and the dollarsoon fell back to around 76.50 yen.A Japanese finance ministry officialdeclined to comment on whether thegovernment stepped into the mar-ket.

Adding to the woes for Japan’sfragile economy, the Nikkei shareaverage fell after U.S. stockstumbled more than 4 percent as ru-mors about the health of Frenchbanks sparked concern the eurozone’s debt crisis could broaden.

Last week Japan intervened inthe currency market and the BOJeased monetary policy to ease thepain on the export-reliant economyfrom sharp rises in the yen. Butthose steps have done little to stemthe broad weakness in the dollar.

Tokyo stands ready to step intothe market again if yen rises per-sist, although market players say itmay not be able to sell yen in hugeamounts with its Group of Sevencounterparts expressing displeasureover Japan’s intervention.

Japanese policymakers say a G7call for coordinated action to ensuremarket stability, made in a statementissued on Monday, was meant to sig-nal the group’s readiness to jointlyintervene in the market if currencymoves become too volatile.

But markets doubt the UnitedStates and European countries areready for such a move as the G7statement also says exchange ratesshould be determined by markets.

Noda has said the G7 financeleaders, in their teleconference on

Monday, did not specifically dis-cuss intervention policy, a sign thatJapan may not have gained implicitconsent to step into the market, letalone any assurance of joint inter-vention.

Still, there is no guarantee To-kyo will not step in again.

“Every country has its own prob-lems to deal with so it’s hard to findcommon ground,” a source famil-iar with Japan’s currency policysaid. “Under these circumstancesyou might have to do somethingeven at the risk of being criticized.”

In the event of another currencyintervention, the BOJ is expectedto maximize the yen-weakeningeffect by holding off on draining theextra yen that goes into the market,as it did for last week’s currencyaction.

The central bank is also ready topump huge amount of fundsthrough its market operations onany signs of financial stress or risesin short-term borrowing costs.

If the yen soars above its recordhigh and triggers another sharp fallin equity prices, the BOJ may facepressure to ease monetary policyfurther even before its next rate re-view in September, analysts say,although the chances of this areslim.

BOJ officials do not rule out thepossibility of further monetary eas-ing, with Governor MasaakiShirakawa stressing that the centralbank will take appropriate action ifthe economy’s recovery prospectscome under threat.

But he has also signaled that theBOJ has done what it can for nowand hopes to spend more time ex-amining the effect of last week’smonetary easing.

iPads trump oilApple is mostvaluable US company

Apple wasn’t always a tech darling.The company, known as Apple Com-puter Inc. when it was founded in 1976,was on a steep decline before Jobs re-turned in 1997.

With Jobs as CEO, Apple is knownfor dreaming up gadgets that peopledon’t think they need until they gettheir hands on them — or see friendsand relatives with them. There weremusic players, smartphones and tab-let computers before Apple introducedthe iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Butthe Apple gadgets’ sleek, minimalistdesign and intuitive software have gar-nered them a loyal following amongtech geeks and everyday consumersalike.

“Never underestimate the power ofJoe Sixpack relative to expenditureson consumer electronics,” Marshallsaid.People want their gadgets, espe-cially those made by Apple, even in arecession and even as they watch theirstock portfolios and retirement fundsshrink.

Still, Apple commands just a sliverof the overall smartphone and com-puter market. For that reason, Applecan grow at such a fast pace. “Theyhave just a tremendous runway in frontof them,” Marshall said.

Exxon, which set a record in 2008for the highest quarterly earnings byany company, will find it hard to com-pete with Apple’s growth because itsprospects are tethered to oil prices andnew oil discovery.

Apple’s growth is limited only byinnovation. Investors expect it to growas long as it keeps making productsthat people want. So investors are bet-ting on Apple’s stock even though itcurrently makes less money thanExxon.In its latest quarterly report,Apple said stronger iPhone and iPadsales helped more than double its netincome to $7.3 billion and grow rev-enue by 82 percent to $29 billion.

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A screen displays the final numbers for the Dow Jones Indus-trial Average on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange,August 10, 2011.

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But “Glee: The 3D Concert Movie,” opening Fri-day, is an 83-minute romp with the fictional char-acters who populate the Fox TV series. It’s multi-purposing at its finest: Stars Lea Michele, CoryMonteith, Kevin McHale, Chris Colfer, AmberRiley, Heather Morris and the rest maintain their“Glee” personae while performing hits from theshow during the concert tour that traveled thecountry earlier this summer. And that’s what setsit up for success, says director KevinTancharoen.

“It would have been completely disconnectedfrom what made (the show) extremely popularif it had turned into, ‘Oh, look at Lea Micheleand Cory Monteith and Harry Shum Jr. be su-perstars and rehearse and do press and recordand go on tour,’” Tancharoen said.

“That’s why I think it’s different from thoseother concert films,” he continued. “Those areall rock stars and musicians, and these arecharacters who mean something different toeverybody else. They are extremely talentedand they all sing very well and perform verywell, and that’s another big part of the show thatwas very popular, so we kind of wanted to mix allthat stuff together to make this 3-D concert expe-rience.”

In addition to on-stage performances of songs suchas “Teenage Dream” and “I’m a Slave 4 U,” the filmalso shows its stars giving backstage interviews incharacter. In one segment, Michele’s character, thespotlight-loving Rachel Berry, explains her pre-perfor-mance ritual of drinking “lukewarm hot water.”

“I feel like I did a nice blend of Rachel and of Leawhile I was onstage performing,” Michele said Saturday.“We are our characters, but at the same time when we walkon stage, we are ourselves.”

Not so for Colfer: “I had to be in character because therewas no way I could have done ‘Single Ladies’ every night,” hesaid.

Fox says the film is aimed at fans of the “Glee” TV show,which regularly draws more than 10 million viewers a week.Fans are a part of the film, too. “Glee: The 3D Concert Movie”introduces viewers to three young fans who share how the show’scharacters and storylines boosted their own self confidence.

Even folks who aren’t fans of “Glee” can connect with thefilm, since its music spans generations “and it’s all about storylinesthat you are learning right as you are watching the film,” the di-rector said. And completing the multi-purposing thing, maybe thosefolks become series fans, too, says Fox Television Chairman DanaWalden.

“For families or for parents trying to get a sense of what thephenomenon is about, (they’ll) be able to see songs from the par-ents’ generation that have been reinvented a little bit so the kids canfeel like it’s relevant to them as well,” she said. “The feature hassimilar attributes: Great music, contemporary dance, and these char-acters that can be introduced to parents or grandparents.”

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — An executive producer of the hit musical realityTV show “American Idol” says celebrity judge Jennifer Lopez willreturn for another season. Lopez hasn’t said anything.

But executive producer Nigel Lythgoe (LITH’-goh) was on the“On-Air with Ryan Seacrest” program on Wednesday morning andmade the announcement. He acknowledged it wasn’t official. But headded he was “delighted to say that all three judges” and the show’s“brilliant host” are back for the next season.

Seacrest is the show’s host. Singer-actress Lopez debuted as a judgethis past season. The other judges are Aerosmith rocker Steven Tylerand record producer Randy Jackson. “American Idol” is due to re-turn to Fox television in January for its 11th season.

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LOS ANGELES — Concert movies typically offer apeek into the private moments of a pop star’s life.“Michael Jackson: This Is It” revealed theentertainer’s perfectionist tendencies, and sly sense ofhumor. “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” showed theteen singer’s drive for success.

Actress Lea Michelearrives at the pre-miere of the featurefilm “Glee The 3DConcert Movie” inLos Angeles onSaturday, Aug. 6,2011. The film opensin theaters on Aug.12.

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NEW YORK — AlecBaldwin says he’s thinking ofrunning for mayor of New York,but not until he learns moreabout the job. The “30 Rock”actor tells The New York Times,he’ll sit out the 2013 race butwill consider running in a laterelection.

In a wide-ranging interview,the 53-year-old says he’s talk-ing with two universities aboutenrolling in a master’s programin politics and government. Hesays he wants to better under-stand what the fiscal imperativesof the mayor’s job are.

He says running in 2013 isimpossible because he’s obli-gated to complete the currentseason of “30 Rock.”

Baldwin says he plans to es-tablish a permanent city resi-dence before running. His legal

residence is Amagansett, Long Island. He has owned a Manhattanapartment for two decades.

Alec Baldwin eyesNYC mayor office,but after 2013

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In this April 6, 2011 photo, actorAlec Baldwin speaks during anews conference on Capitol Hillin Washington, to discuss theFair Elections Now Act.

Producer says JenniferLopez will return to ‘Idol’

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FILE - In this May 25, 2011 file photo, actress and singer JenniferLopez arrives at the American Idol Finale in Los Angeles.

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Since then conservationists have been helpingit to spread further afield — and today (Thursday)it is to be released into one of the most diverse in-sect and spider habitats in the country at the RSPB’sArne reserve in Dorset, the organisation announced.

Scientists have come up with an ingenious low-tech method of transferring the spiders. They areusing empty plastic mineral water bottles whichare an ideal shape and size for the spiders to maketheir nests in.

The bottles were filled with heather and moss

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The United States and Japan have the high-est bills to pay from natural disasters, butAsia’s emerging giants — China, India andIndonesia — are proportionately at greater riskfrom them, a survey said on Thursday. Brit-ish risk assessors Maplecroft ranked 196 coun-tries according to their economic exposure toearthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides,floods, storms and wildfires.

Four nations — the United States, rankedfirst, followed by Japan, China and Taiwan— were deemed at “extreme risk” in absoluteterms, which means the overall cost in dollarterms from a natural disaster. Seven othercountries (Mexico, India, the Philippines,Turkey, Indonesia, Italy and Canada) wererated as “high risk” in absolute terms.

But a different picture emerged when coun-tries were assessed for their social and eco-nomic ability to cope with a disaster. China,

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An invasion of Yellowtail moths thatcause a form of dermatitis known as theCaripito itch has led the authorities in aregion of French Guiana to impose anighttime curfew. The affected region isSinnamary, located 110 kilometres (68miles) west of the French overseasterritory’s capital Cayenne.

Since the start of July, public lightinghas been switched off at dusk, shopsclosed and residents told to stay indoors,in the dark and under mosquito nets, theauthorities said. The Yellowtail moth —Hylesia Metabus — is found mainly inmangrove swamps but they swarm tolights in nearby towns between 7:00 pmand 11:00 pm.

“The female moths release thousandsof microscopic urticating hairs that causesevere itching,” the local health authority

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The UK’s rarest spider is moving house to-day — in a plastic bottle supplied by conserva-tion group the RSPB. The ladybird spider, socalled for its bright red body covered in blackspots, was on the brink of extinction in the mid1990s when a single colony of just 56 individu-als was left in the UK.

and then captured spiders from the donor site wereplaced inside and monitored while they settled inand made a web. The bottles will be buried in holesin the ground at Arne so that the spiders can colonisethe nearby area.

The spiders will be another piece of the inverte-brate jigsaw for the Arne reserve which is alreadyhome to a host of rare insect and spider species.The heathland site boasts 240 species of spider andhundreds of insect species including the threatenedsilver studded blue butterfly, the Purbeck masonwasp which is only found in Dorset and the Roesel?sbush cricket which was discovered on the site lastyear.

Toby Branston, RSPB Arne warden, said: “Arneis an amazing place for bugs and this is the besttime of year to see and hear them. To be introduc-ing such a rare new species here is very exciting,and I hope we can help it to spread further.”

The most striking thing about the ladybird spi-der is the unique colourful markings on the malewhich give it its name, but it also leads a fascinat-ing lifestyle. They spend most of their time under-ground where they create silk canopies which theydecorate with the remains of beetles, ants and otherspiders they have eaten.

The UK’s rarest spider is moving house today- in a plastic bottle supplied by conservationgroup the RSPBIBP/afp

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said. The hairs used by the female mothsto protect their eggs from predators cancause cutaneous conditions in humans.“The light produced by a television set isenough to draw the moths into homes,”Barbara Thomas, a local restaurant owner,told AFP.

“I’ve been closed every evening for amonth now,” she said, complaining that theinfestation had hit French Guiana’s economybadly at the peak of the tourist season.

At the nearby international space cen-tre in Kourou, the base used to launchRussian Soyouz rockets has set up lighttraps to fight the swarming moths, localengineer Claude Berteaud said. Sinnamaryresidents staged a march on July 29 to de-mand the authorities eradicate the moths.A committee was formed to tackle theproblem and consider measures such asspraying the swamps during the moths’reproductive period.

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Asia’s giants exposed tonatural disasters - survey

India, the Philippines and Indonesia were allin the high risk category, while the UnitedStates and Japan were rated low risk.

Seventeen countries, most of them Africanand headed by Somalia, were considered tobe at extreme risk, according to the barometerof socio-economic resilience.

The survey, the Natural Hazards Risk Atlas2011, looks at 11 indicators derived from data for2005-2010 compiled by the International Mon-etary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the US Cen-tral Intelligence Agency (CIA). It does not includethe effects of drought on national economies orthe cost to agriculture from natural disaster.

“Natural hazards have been more costly tothe world economy so far than any other yearon record,” Maplecroft observed. “The tsunamiin Japan, tornadoes in the United States, theChristchurch earthquake (in New Zealand) andflooding in Australia have all contributed to amassive $265 billion total for the first sixmonths of the year.”

A firefighteruses a rope torescue a groupof 36 Chinesevillagersstranded on asection of roaddestroyed by amudslide inChina’s Sichuanprovince in July2011.

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Friday, August 12, 201114 InternationalSport

“The police have done a fantas-tic job, but it’s been a crime sceneall week and the council have nothad enough time to do what theyneed,” Premier League chief execu-tive Richard Scudamore said Thurs-day. Tottenham said the decisionwas taken because of “safety con-cerns relating to the infrastructureof the High Road and access to thestadium caused by last Saturday’sriots.”

“We apologize for any inconve-nience caused to supporters due tomatters outside of the control of theclub,” Spurs said. The violence first

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Japan downplayed their convincing 3-0 victory over long-term rivals South Korea as the team turned its attention Thurs-day to the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. Borussia Dortmundstar Shinji Kagawa bagged a brace and World Cup hero KeisukeHonda scored another as the Asian champions claimed theirfirst home win over South Korea in 13 years on Wednesday.

“The Japanese men are strong, too,” read a headline in theNikkan Sports daily after the one-sided home game in Sapporo,which followed glory for the women’s team in the World Cupin Germany last month. But Kagawa and Honda said they hadwork to do before the Blue Samurai launch their campaign nextmonth to qualify for a fifth successive World Cup finals.

“It was purely a friendly match. The qualifiers will be muchtougher. So this result won’t get us anywhere,” Kagawa toldlocal media. The midfielder spent four months on the sidelinesafter breaking a metatarsal in his right foot at the Asia Cup inDoha in January, where Japan clinched a record fourth conti-nental title.

“The South Koreans looked heavy-footed,” said the 22-year-old, who made a big impact after his move to Dortmund in Julylast year, scoring eight goals in 17 league games before thewinter break. “When we passed the ball, it created space. Whenwe moved, they didn’t chase us.”

Honda, a CSKA Moscow midfielder and the driving forcebehind the team, said: “We were concerned about how we wouldplay, let alone the result. I feel happy that we fought a goodgame.”

But the 25-year-old, who says his ambition is to win the 2014World Cup in Brazil, added: “I want to refocus ourselves onthe World Cup qualifiers. It’s not that we got something out ofthis.” Coach Alberto Zaccheroni was delighted with the win.The Blue Samurai are now unbeaten in 11 matches, with sixwins and five draws since he took over following the WorldCup.

“It gave us a lot of confidence for the qualifying round,” thecoach said. In the World Cup Asian qualifying round, Japan, inGroup C, will host North Korea on September 2. The groupalso includes Uzbekistan and Syria. South Korea, in Group B,will face Lebanon on September 2, followed by Kuwait and theUnited Arab Emirates.

Associated Press Writer

BARRANQUILLA, Colombia— Brazil and Spain advanced inthe Under-20 World Cup onWednesday, setting up aquarterfinal matchup between thetitle favorites.

Brazil beat Saudi Arabia 3-0 inBarranquilla, while Spain escapedbeing upset by South Korea witha 7-6 penalty-shootout victory af-ter a 0-0 draw in regulation andextra time in Manizales.

Nigeria consolidated its status asone of the title contenders by beat-ing England 1-0 in Armenia for itsfourth straight victory, sending theEnglish team home without havingscored a goal in four matches. En-gland had reached the second roundwith three consecutive scorelessdraws in the group stage.

Tottenham’s season openerTottenham’s season openerTottenham’s season openerTottenham’s season openerTottenham’s season openeroff after riots in areaoff after riots in areaoff after riots in areaoff after riots in areaoff after riots in area

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Tottenham’s opening match of the Premier League season against Everton onSaturday has been postponed following disorder in the London neighborhood that sparkedtrouble across England. There are ongoing safety concerns in the area around the north Londonclub’s White Hart Lane stadium, which has seen police resources stretched.

broke out late Saturday in the low-income district of Tottenham innorth London after a protest againstthe fatal police shooting of MarkDuggan, a 29-year-old father of fourwho was gunned down in disputedcircumstances Thursday.

The violence morphed into gen-eral lawlessness in London and sev-eral other cities over the followingthree nights, with police strugglingto regain control.

Tottenham captain MichaelDawson expressed his disappointmentat his delayed start to the season, hav-ing already seen England’s friendly

against the Netherlands on Wednes-day at Wembley Stadium called off.“We’ve worked for six weeks tryingto get fit and now the first week’s notgoing to be happening for us,” the de-fender said. “But safety is the mainthing, and the police wouldn’t havecalled it off lightly.”

The league remains confident thatthe other nine matches on the open-ing weekend of the season will stillgo ahead. “At 6 p.m. tonight we willhave a very clear picture,”Scudamore said. “The Tottenhamgame is a real shame but we supportthe police in what they are doing.”

A burned out building,which was destroyedduring rioting andlooting on theTottenham High Road innorth London over theweekend , is seenMonday Aug. 8 2011.

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Japan downplaywin over S. Korea

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Japan’s Shinji Kagawa, second from right, scores a goalpast South Korea’s Ki Sung-yueng (16) in the first half oftheir international friendly soccer match at Sapporo Domein Sapporo, northern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011.Japan won 3-0.

Spain, Brazil to meet in U20 Cupquarterfinals

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Brazil’s Gabriel Silva, center, is congratulated by teammatesDanilo, left, and Willian after scoring during the U-20 WorldCup round of 16 soccer match against Saudi Arabia inBarranquilla, Colombia, Wednesday Aug. 10, 2011.

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In near invincible form thisseason winning eight t i t les,Djokovic appeared suddenly vul-nerable after a four week holiday,as the 30th ranked Russian re-corded two early breaks to grab a4-1 lead on the sluggish Serb.

But Davydenko would winonly two more games as Djokovicshifted into top gear reeling offsix straight service breaks to takethe first set and jump out in front4-0 in the second then hold serveto seal the victory as lightningcrackled around the stadium.

“I’m just trying to handle it(being number one) the best pos-

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MIAMI — Dwyane Wade has decided he cannot take a yearaway from basketball. And if the NBA goes that route, Wadehas decided to go somewhere else.

Though he remains cautiously hopeful that a deal betweenowners and players can be struck to end the lockout and ulti-mately save the 2011-12 NBA season, Wade told The Associ-ated Press on Tuesday that he will be playing somewhere thiswinter — whether that’s with the Miami Heat, as he’d obvi-ously prefer, or an international club.

“I’m going to play basketball this year,” Wade said fromNew York, where he’s taking some business meetings. “I don’tknow where, but I love the game so much that I will play it.And we will figure that out.”

Wade denied receiving any international offers yet, includ-ing a widely circulated report of a $2 million-per-month pro-posal from a Chinese team. He has said throughout the sum-mer that he would review any offers that come his way, a stancehe reiterated Tuesday, while noting that he was overwhelmedat times by the support he received from Chinese fans duringa nine-day trip to their nation that ended last week.

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Tour de France champion CadelEvans arrived back in Australia for avictory parade after spending “the bestpart of his life” working for the his-toric cycling victory. The 34-year-oldfulfilled his lifelong quest by securingthe title last month, three decades af-ter pioneering compatriot Phil Ander-son paved the way for Australians by

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Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates a point during his game against Russia’s Nikolay Davydenkoat the Rogers Cup in Montreal, August 10, 2011.

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MONTREAL - Novak Djokovic’s reign as world number one got off to a wild start as hescrambled to a 7-5 6-1 win over Russian Nikolai Davydenko at the Montreal Masters on Wednes-day, improving his season record to a dazzling 49-1. Back in action for the first time since hisWimbledon victory over Rafa Nadal, Djokovic’s competitive debut as world number one lookedin danger of ending in disaster.

sible way but on the other sidetrying to keep my l ife verysimple, the way it was before,”Djokovic told reporters. “Ofcourse, the world is looking at mea bit differently. It carries a littlebit more weight on your shoul-ders.

“I don’t want to think aboutnegatives and worry about thingsthat might happen because I havebecome number one: Will I keepit long enough? Will it come tomy head? Will I struggle withemotions? “I’ve become numberone. I achieved my dreams. Thisis all that is going on in my head,

all I’m thinking of, just enjoyingthe moment.”

Despite the early wobble, itwas a promising start to the hardcourt campaign and the buildupto the U.S. Open for the big Serb,who has twice before reached thefinal at Flushing Meadows andwill be favored to take the laststep next month. The big questionhanging over the final grand slamis who can stop the Serbian jug-gernaut? Roger Federer is theonly man to beat Djokovic thisseason and has won at least onegrand slam title every year since2002.

Tour de France champion Evans arrives homebecoming the first non-European towear the yellow jersey.

Evans’ win, the first by an Austra-lian, was hailed here as one of thecountry’s finest ever sporting achieve-ments, ranking alongside Rod Laver’stennis exploits and their America’s Cupyachting triumph. “It’s always nice tocome home and get a hug from yourmum,” said Evans on arrival atMelbourne airport on Thursday.

“I don’t know if it’s the greatestbut it’s been something that I’veworked hard on for so long. “I’vecome very close before, but just fora little bit of bad luck or something,it didn’t quite come through. But thatmakes it so much more worthwhileon a personal level.

“I’m just happy that everyone en-joyed following it and seeing it, and tocome out on top finally on the Champs-

Elysees — it’s the culmination ofmany, many years of work for a lot ofpeople.” Thousands of fans are ex-pected to greet Evans on Friday in aparade through Melbourne citycentre.His achievement has sparkedcalls for a bridge to be named afterhim at Barwon Heads in Victoria state,where he lives, while there are sug-gestions that a new cycling event couldbe created in his name. Evans said he

had been blown away by the responsefrom Australians and inundated withmessages of support.

“When you ride in the Tour deFrance you’re concentrated on eachday and each race and so on. Some-times you forget that there are 20 mil-lion people at home cheering you on,”he said. “It’s been so appreciated byeveryone. It’s an honour and a plea-sure.”

Wade: I will play‘somewhere’ next season

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NBA basketball player Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heatlaughs as he watches a basketball game against Chi-nese youths during a promotional event at an outdoorbasketball court in Beijing August 1, 2011.

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With an official Monday test following the raceweekend however, Brno will offer Rossi and histeam a chance to continue progressing the 2012bike as they bid to close the gap to Honda andYamaha. “After Laguna I took a few days of vaca-tion, enough to recharge the batteries followingan intense period,” Rossi said.

“Now we’ll spend a nice mid-August at Brno,and during both the race weekend and the Mon-day test we’ll continue concentrating on the bike’ssetup, with the goal of reducing the gap to the leadgroup.”

Rossi refrained from setting targets for theCzech Republic weekend, but did say he was look-ing forward to racing on a circuit which holds spe-cial memories for him. “I like the track not onlybecause I’ve always gone well there, but also be-cause it’s a special place for me since its where Iearned my first pole, my first win and my firstworld championship.

“It’s very nice, wide and fast and I’m alwayshappy to go there.” Rossi’s team-mate NickyHayden said that everyone at the team was work-ing to their maximum as he looked forward to get-ting a taste of Ducati’s 2012 challenger on theMonday test.

“It’s clear that everyone at Ducati is doing themaximum so we’ll go there and try to get a goodresult,” the American said. “Obviously the test onMonday will be really important for us, and I’llprobably just ride the GP11 on the race weekendand then test the new bike on Monday. “We knowit won’t be easy, but we’ve just got to keep chip-ping away.”

KIMI Raikkonen did not deserve the title he wonin 2007 and he only secured it because he was lucky,according to former world champion JacquesVilleneuve. Raikkonen took the 2007 title for Ferrariagainst all odds, after overcoming a 17-point gap inthe final two races of the season.

Villeneuve believes Raikkonen’s team-mate FelipeMassa deserved the title more. “If Kimi won the cham-pionship, he did it by luck, because he didn’t deserveit,” Villeneuve told Brazilian website TotalRace afterthe Canadian competed in the stock car race atInterlagos during the weekend.

“Felipe deserved it a lot more. He was always morecapable than Kimi and it was easy to beat him.”

The 1997 world champion says he does not under-stand criticism aimed at Massa for his performancesthis year, the Brazilian having been overshadowed byteam-mate Fernando Alonso. Villeneuve reckons

Villeneuve says Raikkonen did not deserve F1 titleMassa is performing strongly at the Italian squad.

“The problem is that Alonso arrived and, quickly,became powerful inside Ferrari,” he added. “When ithappens, it creates an energy that people put inside you,in this case, in Alonso. It seems that, if the car wins, itwill be with him. It creates a difficult situation for theother driver, who has a double task.

“That’s what Felipe has to do. He has the speed. Heis capable of driving strongly, working in the car. I don’thave any doubt about that.

“But he needs to do even more, because it’s Alonso’steam, which is normal, given that he is a double world cham-pion. That’s the logic. If your team-mate is a double worldchampion, it’s normal that the team will focus on him.

“He [Massa] has won races and almost a champion-ship, maybe two. He’s a great driver. Right now he isdriving strongly for Ferrari. I don’t get people whocriticise him.”

Refreshed Rossi seeks progress at BrnoValentino Rossi says he has been re-energised by the summer break, as he looks to Brno to help re-

establish Ducati’s fight back against the established Moto GP order. The Italian has struggled withthe Ducati bike this year, most recently finishing 30s down on race winner Casey Stoner despite set-up improvements at Laguna Seca.

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Valentino Rossi of Italy, races duringpractice for the Red Bull U.S. Grand PrixMotoGP world championship motorcycle

race Saturday, July 23, 2011, at LagunaSeca raceway in Monterey, Calif.