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MANILA, Philippines – Au-thorities at Manila’s airport founda newborn baby in a garbage bagthat was apparently unloaded froman airplane that landed Sundayfrom the Middle East, officials said.

Security officials brought thebaby boy, who was covered inblood and wrapped in tissue pa-per, to an airport clinic, wheredoctors and nurses examined himand cleaned him up, wrapped himin cloth and gave him a bottle ofmilk, airport officials said.

“After he was cleaned, he let offa soft cry,” airport nurse Kate Calvo

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Nurses attend to a newborn baby found inside the lavatory of anairplane Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010 at Manila’s international airport,Philippines. Ground crew cleaning the just landed Gulf Air fromBahrain found the baby inside one of the airplane’s lavatory.Continued on page 6

Newborn baby found inManila airport garbage bag

said. “He was healthy, his vital signswere OK according to our doctors.”

A security officer noticed some-thing moving in a garbage bag thatwas reportedly unloaded from a GulfAir plane that landed earlier and foundthe baby inside, an airport statementsaid. The baby was later turned overto social workers posted at the NinoyAquino International Airport.

Gulf Air officials were not imme-diately available for comment. SocialWelfare Secretary Dinky Solimansaid she was outraged by what hap-pened and would order officials to tryto locate the infant’s mother, whocould be criminally charged.

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President Barack Obama hugs an unidentified woman as he greets family members of victims after speaking at the PentagonMemorial, marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010.

Obama commemorates 9/11with appeal for tolerance

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama appealed to an unsettled nation Saturday tohonor the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks by hewing to the values of diversity and tolerance.“We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion andmistrust,” the president declared.

plane smashed into the west sideof the building and killed 184

people, Obama conjured a solemnremembrance of that horrible day

but also spoke strongly in defenseof religious freedom.

“As Americans we are not — andnever will be — at war with Islam,”the president said. “It was not a reli-gion that attacked us that Septemberday — it was al-Qaida, a sorry bandof men which perverts religion.”

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Based on observations made lastFriday (Sep 10) evening and Saturday(Sep 11), Gilimanuk Harbor was morecrowded by private cars. Even, thewhole area of parking lot at the harborlast Friday afternoon was filled by pri-vate cars. Such a condition was esti-mated to continue until Sunday. Thereason was that domestic tourists inBali would be back to Java. Mean-while, the traffic of motorbikes ranmore smoothly and no accumulationoccurred as on the previous days.Nyoman Gamia, one of the residentsof Jembrana admitted to intentionallycross with friends to meet one of the

UNIVERSAL or kahyangan jagattemple being very famous in NusaPenida, Klungkung, is the DalemPenataran Peed Temple. Its temple an-niversary coincides with Buda CemengKlawu falling every six months. By andlarge, the festivity takes place or nyejerfor five days. Similar celebration oc-curred on the recent grandiose anniver-sary whose peak ensued last Saturday(Sep 8). The anniversary processionlasted for five days and ended this Mon-day (Sep 13) morning. During thenyejer period, Hindu devotees fromvarious regions had adequate opportu-nity to say prayers.

Hindu devotees—living outsideNusa Penida—wishing to say prayersto Dalem Peed have to cross the sea.Crossing time required is approxi-mately 30 minutes from PadangbaiHarbor and approximately one hourfrom Benoa Harbor, Denpasar, by ship.Similarly, people can get there fromSanur Beach by riding traditional boator jukung. Devotees do not only wor-ship during the temple festival, but alsoon particular days with the purpose ofinvoking holy water in the series oflarge religious ceremony in the templesof customary villages.

There are four temple’s courtyardsgetting coalesced into the area ofPenataran Agung Peed. The templesconsist of Segara Temple located on thenorthernmost section near seaside.Segara Temple is used to venerate theLord Varuna. Few meters toward thesouth follows the Taman Temple sur-rounded by a pond. This temple is func-tioned as a sanctum of purification andthe abode of Ida Bhatara Ulun Danu.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—As a tourism icon, Klungkung

Regency in fact does not necessarilymake Nusa Lembongan, Jungutbatuand its surrounding areas draw moreattentions. It occurs especially to en-vironmental sanitation and the ob-jects becoming a tourist attraction.On the contrary, it lacks for attentionto sanitation in and aroundLembongan Island. These conditionsare worried to have an impact on thedecrease of tourist visits.

Complaints about the lack forconcern about the sanitation ofLembongan are not only deliveredby tourists, but also by tourism per-petrator and observer from local vil-lage, namely Made Senaya. “Yes,frankly speaking, I also regret it verymuch. Attention to sanitation inLembongan is very low,” he said lastFriday (Sep 10).

As a matter of fact, he said a num-ber of large cruise ships made moneyby selling the uniqueness ofLembongan, one of the three smallislands in the Nusa Penida, every day.At least, he said, those cruise shipsconveyed passenger amounting to300 tourists to Lembongan with afairly expensive rate. “Unfortunately,the contribution to Lembongan isonly IDR 1,000 per person. It is very

Gilimanuk overrun by private carsGilimanuk overrun by private carsGilimanuk overrun by private carsGilimanuk overrun by private carsGilimanuk overrun by private carsNegara (Bali Post)—

Traffic of private cars coming out of Bali since last Idul Fitri was heavy enough. Accumulationin the area of Gilimanuk Harbor occurred in the morning until late afternoon. It was estimatedthose were private cars of Bali citizen going on holiday or visiting friends in Java.

colleagues in Banyuwangi. “Yes, wewould like to visit friends as many col-leagues are there. In fact, it is a bitcrowded. We are still in the harbor fromthis afternoon until evening,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mariati, a resident ofBanyubiru, claimed that she with fam-ily was also going to maintain kinshiprelation with her family in Rogojampi,Banyuwangi. “We have many brothersthere. I think the traffic on Idul Fitri isquiet, but in reality, many people alsocross,” she said. However, this motherof two children claimed she was not inthe long queue before entering the shipbecause she was in the same entourage

of motorcycle riders.Based on data issued by the waters

transportation services (ASDP), thenumber of passengers on one-day be-fore Idul Fitri was 43,553, motorcycle(8,443) and trucks (4,341).

In addition, there was increas-ing number of private vehiclesentering Bali since the two daysbefore Idul Fitri. Especially, thefour-wheeled vehicle or carreached 3,114 units. Its numberwas dominated by residents ofseveral towns on Java Island thatwere going to spend holiday inBali. (sur)

Dalem Peed Temple:A sanctum to invoke blessing and world’s safety

Meanwhile, in the west lies the RatuGede Temple as the abode of Ida RatuGede Mas Mecaling. Then, in the eastlies the Penataran Temple as the abodeof Ida Batara Lingsir or Ratu Mas.

Devotees generally start their pray-ing from Segara Temple, then resumedto Taman Temple, Ratu Gede Templeand end at Penataran Peed Temple. InSegara Temple lies a shrine with a hugefish effigy. Meanwhile, at TamanTemple also lies a shrine with palm fi-ber roof and surrounded by pond. Be-tween the pond and the shrine stands adividing wall. Similar shrine also ex-ists in the Ratu Gede Temple. To enterthe temple, there are three arched en-trance gates to choose from.

In the meantime, the Penataran Peedhas many shrines in a row on the eastside and north side. Somewhat to thecenter stands a big tall chamber build-ing. A Padmasana shrine exists in thetemple complex where it is situated innortheast facing to the southwest.

Coordinator of the temple priest ofPenataran Peed, Mangku Gede Mundraaccompanied by Jero Mangku Selametfrom Gianyar, said that devotees usu-ally invoked blessing or safety of theuniverse along with its contents. How-ever, there were also people begging tosharpen their spiritual knowledge.

“Devotees come to worship withvarious petitions, such as healthy, tran-quility, safety, blessing up to sharpen-ing spiritual knowledge and so forth,”Jero Mangku Selamet added.

Meanwhile, a lecturer at the HinduDharma Institute (IHDN Denpasar),Ketut Wiana, in his book entitledMengenal Pura Sad Kahyangan dan

Kahyangan Jagat (Introduction to SadKahyangan and Kahyangan JagatTemples) published by Pustaka Bali Postsays that Dalem Penataran Peed in NusaPenida is a temple to venerate the Al-mighty God as the creator and Purusha(cosmic male) and Prakriti (cosmic fe-male). Purusha poses the power of thesoul or spiritual power giving breath tolife in nature along its contents. Prakritidenotes material physical strength orphysical resources embodying into thereal strength of Purusha.

In Dalem Penataran Peed, Ida BataraDalem Peed is venerated in the Gedongshrine, while the shrine of Ratu GedeNusa is situated in different area, namelyin the western of Dalem Penataran Peedshrine. Shrine of Dalem Penataran Peedis located in the east, while Padmasanashrine as representation of Batara onMount Agung located in the north ofDalem Penataran Peed area. DalemPenataran Peed poses unification of theworship of Shiva on Mount Agung andGoddess Durgha or Goddess Uma inPuncak Mundi Temple. In short, DalemPenataran Peed is functioned for venera-tion of Shiva-Durgha and the worshipof king called Dalem Temple.

It is known as the Penataran Peedbecause the temple serves as the court-yard of Puncak Mundi Temple andworship of Goddess Uma-Durgha. Thetemple symbolizes the meeting point ofPurusha element of Batara on MountAgung and the Goddess Uma-Durghain Puncak Mundi. Based on theconfluence of both elements created byGod will be given forth various end-less means of life in what the so-calledRambut Sedhana. (lun)

To become a favorite iconof Klungkung tourismSanitation of Lembonganpoorly maintained

small. Hence, the sanitation manage-ment handled by local customary vil-lage is not maximal,” pointed outSenaya.

According to him, the manage-ment of the cruise ships should payattention to the sanitation, too. Atleast, they provided more contribu-tions to the region so the customaryvillage could prepare janitors. Or theycould directly get involved to the fieldby giving assistance in the form offunds or trash cans.

“By doing so, it will engender abalance and sustainability betweenthe making of money and participa-tion in maintaining the environmen-tal sanitation,” he said. Ideally,Lembongan should be clean as whatpromoted. He expected it would cer-tainly not disappoint the tourists vis-iting the island. Otherwise, it mightultimately decrease their visits.

More ironically, he said, therewere persons attempting “to sell”Lembongan by claiming a numberof land and objects in Nusa Penidaas their own. The promotion sale wasdone indirectly through the Internet.On that account, he invited all rel-evant stakeholders to promote thetourism of Lembongan Island. How-ever, the island should be kept as itwas. (kmb20)

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cars is seen park on tourism site in Bali on Sunday, September12th 2010

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Since D-2 (2 days before Lebaran),the flow of the visitors have been in-creasing. Thousands of tourists camefrom various Indonesia’s cities suchas Jakarta, Surabaya, Bogor, Malang,Sidoarjo, Bandung, Jogjakarta evenMakassar. The number visitors cameon 10th September 2010 were 10.830people is an increase of 48.13 % com-pared to last year which was 7.311.This time is a bit different because theholiday is one time with the weekendand a holiday for most people. Sosince D-2 it has been packed espe-cially in the afternoon. It is seen inthe morning the vehicles queue fromthe object’s border to its ticket gateand in 12.30 pm wita the spare park-ing space in an empty land and SuryaMandala Cutural Park were packedyet visitors kept coming. It is predictedon Sunday will be the peak of thecrowds and with the parking spaceprovided it is hoped can fill up 4 to 6wheels vehicles.

Especially with Surya MandalaCutural Park view towards the blueocean will added up satisfaction andcomforts the visitors of Tanah Lot.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—The first day of free medical ser-

vices organized by Bali Post MediaGroup (KMB) in Nusa Penida Ashramin the series of temple anniversary(piodalan) of Ped Temple, last Thurs-day (Sep 9), was besieged by residents.They comprised local people and devo-tees from Bali Mainland saying prayersto Ped Temple. They came and wentto ashram for getting health check-upsand free medical treatment denotingcollaboration with the doctors andnurses from Surya Husada Hospital.

Medical officers getting involved inthe activity included physicians GustiNgurah Agung (coordinator), Diana,Yustra, Nyoman Netty Santyari andnurses such as Putu Darsini, KarmilaDewi, Ni Kadek Ari Supardiani,Serinadi and I.B. Susrama.

Residents came up with varioushealth complaints such as rheuma-tism, skin diseases, eyes, back pain,muscle aches, joint aches and fever.They were largely of the elderly. How-ever, there were also a number of chil-dren suddenly suffering from feverand vomiting. They came from dif-ferent regions of Bali mainland likePadangbai, Bangli and others. Accom-panied by their parents, they came toashram with complaints of fever andvomiting. “My son suddenly got fe-ver and vomiting after saying

Denpasar City development con-cept planned by Mayor IB RaiDharmawijaya Mantra targeting tothe vision of creating Denpasar ac-knowledging culture with balancecontinuing harmony truthfully to TriHita Karana philosophy (three har-monic connection: with God, peopleand environment). This philosophyis adopted to be the base toDenpasar’s development.

Yet, in realiaty, it’s not that easyto plan such thing. For sure, still alot of physic constructions inDenpasar were silently violatingregulations due to its demarcationline, avoiding Balinese original or-naments and others.

The data from Denpasar SpatialPlanning and Housing Agency(DTRP) for last July 2010, the totalof violations connecting to the con-structions reached 93 cases. From thisnumber, the Building Permit viola-tions were 72 cases and demarcation

Mangupura (Bali Post) –Earth Check’s Head of Global

Markets Andre Russ not long agovisited BTDC office accompaniedby Bali Greenery Chairman who’salso Lecturer of Environment inUdayana University, Dr. AASuryawan and Ir. AA Raka in pre-sentation on how important an en-vironment is in a touristic place,“Bali as one of the favourite touristdestinations in the world has to givehuge effort in avoiding pollutionespecially from plastic rubbishes.For that an education andacknowledgement of these pollu-tions has to be implemented to thepeople.”

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The picture shows tourists packed in Tanah Lot on Sunday, September 12th 2010

Lebaran, Tourists packed in Tanah LotLebaran, Tourists packed in Tanah LotLebaran, Tourists packed in Tanah LotLebaran, Tourists packed in Tanah LotLebaran, Tourists packed in Tanah LotAs previous Lebaran/Idul Fitri days, Tanah Lot tourist at-

traction always flooded by foreign and domestic tourists. Eventhe cloudy weather and pouring rain were unavoidable, TanahLot is still a favourite destination for their holiday especiallydomestic tourists.

From its security, management hasbeen providing securities on locationand also for more guaranteed securitythere has been added CCTV incrowded points.

“With this we hope there won’t beany situation that will disadvantage thetourists. Of course we will always guardthem to make them feel comfortable inTanah Lot,” Operational Manager ofTanah Lot Tourist Place, Made Sujana.

He also said that he and his staffshave anticipate the increasing visitorsduring Lebaran, increase quality inservice by coordinating from each de-partment there is before.

In Tanah Lot, thousands have donemany activities from just walking theareal, temporary tattoos, seeing holysnake, holy water, picture taking,shopping, cooking or just sitting insome cafes and restaurants while talk-ing to friends and families.

But what’s most waited was itspopular beautiful sunset known by thewhole world. This particular momentis usually most waited by all touristsand of course those who portrait thatmoment by taking a picture of it. (122)

Series of anniversary at PedTemple, Nusa PenidaFree medical services on firstday besieged by residents

prayers,” said a mother fromPadangbai. Since she knew there wasa medical check-up post, she con-fessed to come directly to ashram forchecking up the health of her son.

Meanwhile, some other patients in-stead asked for an injection. “Yes, thereis also a disease perceived psychologi-cally. Hence, they felt more completeif they were injected in the treatment,”said physician Gusti Ngurah Agung.

It was said, the doctors and nursesof Surya Husada Hospital were alwaysready to cooperate with any institu-tions to hold social activities such asfree medical treatment. The treatmentwas not only intended for commoncitizens, but also for temple priests andoblation makers at the Ped Temple.They really needed to consume nutri-tion or vitamin supplements to keeptheir body fit in serving devotees say-ing prayers.

Moreover, they had to be ready fromearly morning until the next morningto serve the congregation. “We judgethat free medical treatment is very im-portant, chiefly devotees feeling fatigueand lacking for vitamins after the cross-ing and overcrowding when joining theprayers. Not only that, such servicescould also help the less fortunate peopleso they could afford a better healthcare,” pointed out Jero Mangku Paangand Jero Mangku Suasta.

Development Not HappeningTri Hita Karana Implementation Not Maximal

line 19 cases. This shows how highspace using violations still are inDenapasar.

These cases weren’t the first timeanymore. Before, DTRP took actionto at least 335 building owners by giv-ing warning letters. An lately it’s notrare Peace and Order Agency (DinasTramtib) and Police Civil Service(SatPol PP) who’s also agency whocan confiscate businesses who arestepping out the Region Regulationsof Denpasar City. Head of DenpasarDTRP, Ir. Made Kusuma Diputra, MTsaid those warning letters were givenas they are not following the validregulations for example not follow-ing demarcation line, outside the greenzone or the city’s green open space(RTHK), also no building permits.This letter will be a first warning andif there are more violations, there’llbe more supervising, “If that from su-pervising a violation occurred therewill be a first warning letter.”

If this first letter is ignored, thenthere’ll be a second one. Then there’llbe a third one and goes through toTramtib Agency as well. Taking itdown action or other sanctions will bedone by Region Regulations regula-tors or in this case it’s Tramtib andSatPol PP.

It is admitted from the 335 casesthat happened all this time, at most itconnects to the building permits. Lotsof building owners don’t want to takecare of it so warning letters goes mostdue to building permits. More of it wasmost for demarcation line.

For the future, there’ll be an ar-rangement for buildings presentationin Denpasar City which means thosethat are on main routs were hoped touse Balinese ornaments. At least, forits base arrangement it will use guard-ianship as base in taking action, “Toarrange the front face of the build-ings, we will use guardianship lawbase.” (ara)

Earth Check’s Head of Global Markets Visits BTDCHe suggested to group different

kinds of rubbishes: organic, non-or-ganic and plastic, which is done inhotels should be done outside too,“Earth Check is an award and cer-tificate given to services companiesincluding tourism services who arevery concentrating to preserve en-vironment even its energy sourceusing.”

BTDC First Director, Ir. I MadeMandra mentioned, they feel proudthat since BTDC operated they havebeen implementing preserving con-cepts which has been an issue to thepeople, “Since the beginning,BTDC has restricted the use of wa-ter from the well because it worries

the sea water instruction to the land.”BTDC also restricts rubbish burn-

ing in the areal and many ways ofthrowing rubbish to the sea. Thesedon’t suit Balinese culture valueswhich were symbolised in ButhaYadnya ceremonies which is to pro-tect the harmony and preservation ofthe environment, “BTDC have usedthe principal of Reduce, Recycle andReuse rubbishes to become compos,4000 cubic meters of used water arerecycled to be an irrigation water.”

Mandra also asked all hotels tomust implement Earth Check’s cri-teria. Andre Russ visit also wel-comed by hotels officials in NusaDua. (par)

International4 Monday, September 13, 2010 News

The nation’s first woman leaderannounced the appointment as shemade sweeping changes to her cabi-net, after last week ensuring her holdon power after elections failed tohand victory outright to her centre-left Labor Party.

Gillard, who leads a minoritygovernment supported by oneGreens MP, two country indepen-dents and a former Iraq warwhistleblower, had promised thatRudd would be a senior memberof her ministry if she won re-elec-tion.

“The foreign affairs and defenceteam will be Kevin Rudd as minis-ter for foreign affairs and StephenSmith as the minister for defence,”Gillard said, ending weeks of specu-lation concerning the fate of Rudd,a Mandarin-speaking former diplo-mat known for his interest in globalaffairs.

Smith, who has served as foreignminister since Rudd led Labor topower in a November 2007 landslideelection victory, will become de-fence minister to fill a vacancy leftby John Faulkner’s move to thebackbench.

Rudd was suddenly ousted asprime minister by Gillard on June24 after he lost the support of hisLabor Party colleagues following aseries of policy backflips and as hisratings slipped in the polls.

The 52-year-old, who was report-

Reuters

GENEVA – British Defense Sec-retary Liam Fox said on Saturdaythat Britain’s “battle against terror-ism” in Afghanistan was not the endof the global struggle, and the coun-try must be prepared to act elsewherein future.

Speaking to a meeting of the In-ternational Institute for StrategicStudies (IISS) think tank, Fox saidpulling British troops from Afghani-stan before 2015 would boost mili-tants everywhere, because only bythen would British forces, workingwith the U.S.-led coalition, haveachieved their security aims.

Fox told the gathering in Genevaof military officers and strategiststhat British defense planners con-ducting a review of military priori-ties had to take account of the possi-bility that its forces might have tointervene again elsewhere in theworld.

“We’re going to have a long-termbattle against transnational terrorismand it will pop up in a lot of differ-ent places over a long period and weare going to have to face up to that,”he said.

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Kevin Rudd

Former PM Rudd Australia’s new foreign ministerFormer PM Rudd Australia’s new foreign ministerFormer PM Rudd Australia’s new foreign ministerFormer PM Rudd Australia’s new foreign ministerFormer PM Rudd Australia’s new foreign ministerAFP

SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Saturday namedformer leader Kevin Rudd as her foreign minister, less than threemonths after she staged a sudden and ruthless coup against him.

edly left devastated by his lightningremoval from power, said he washonoured to take on the new role.

“There are national interests ofthis country which extend far be-yond the personal interests of anyindividual. That applies to me aswell,” he told journalists inCanberra.

Gillard has repeatedly defendedher decision to challenge the oncehugely popular Rudd, saying hisgood government had “lost its way”,and called a general election justthree weeks after taking power.

But Rudd’s sudden ousting —complete with his tearful farewellpress conference — cast a shadowover her campaign and Labor suf-fered a heavy backlash in the Au-gust 21 polls.

The election gave neither Labornor the opposition enough seats torule outright, leaving both partiescourting independents in a bid toform a government — somethingGillard’s Labor finally managed todo Tuesday after 17 days of fraughtnegotiations.

But the unlikely collection oflawmakers who allowed her to re-tain power have left her with a frag-ile 76-74 seats in her favour and thegovernment could be removed in abyelection prompted by the defec-tion or death of one MP.

As she reshuffled her cabinet,Gillard said the promises she had

made to secure the backing of thecountry independents had beenhonoured with the appointment ofSimon Crean as minister for re-gional Australia.

The prime minister said herdeputy Wayne Swan would con-tinue as Treasurer while SenatorPenny Wong will take on financeas she appointed some of thepowerbrokers who aided her coup

against Rudd to ministries.Bill Shorten was named as assis-

tant Treasurer and minister for finan-cial services and superannuationwhile Mark Arbib was given thevaried portfolios of indigenous em-ployment, sport and social housingand homelessness.

Conservative opposition leaderTony Abbott said the ministerialline-up rewarded “the plotters who

executed an elected prime minister.”“Today’s reshuffle promises a

continuation of unstable and incom-petent government,” he said in astatement.

“It delivers for faceless men, notthe Australian people.”

Australia’s new government isexpected to be sworn in by Gover-nor-General Quentin Bryce inCanberra early next week.

Reuters

British soldiers from the First Battalion The Royal Welsh mobilisefor Operation Moshtarak

UK says needs global military force post-AfghanOne of the lessons of recent Brit-

ish defense history, he added, wasthat combat troops should not be de-ployed unless authorities were will-ing to give them the resources to carryout their work.

“That’s one of the things we aregrappling with in the new defense re-view in the UK because this will notbe the last time, I would venture toguess, that we might be faced withsuch a situation.”

There was a diminished appetitefor intervention globally, but oftenwar was not something countries hadany choice about.

“No one would imagine the U.S.would have gone into Afghanistan...(but) a couple of hours in Manhattanchanged things,” he said, referring tothe September 11, 2001 attacks.

NO “FORTRESS BRITAIN”“While we can’t move to a pos-

ture that is heavily weighted towardintervention to the extent that we arein Afghanistan, nor can we move toa ‘fortress Britain’.. We need to main-tain a balanced posture.”

Kabul’s own army and policewould be sufficiently trained to as-sume adequate national security re-

sponsibility only in 2015, Fox said.“If we were to leave before

2015, a point at which on currentprogress we expect to haveachieved our security aims, it wouldbe a shot in the arm to violentjihadists everywhere, re-energizingviolent radical and extremist Islam-ists,” he said.

“It would send a signal that wedid not have the moral resolve andthe political fortitude to see throughwhat we ourselves have describedas national security imperative.”

Fox’s remarks on the timing ofa withdrawal are in line with thoseof Prime Minister David Cameronand Foreign Minister WilliamHague. But the tone of his remarks,and his reference to the possibilityof future interventions, suggest amore accepting approach towardarmed missions overseas.

Concerns about the expensiveNATO-led Afghan mission havemounted as governments slashspending to rein in budget deficits,and as the death toll has risen. Junewas the deadliest month for foreigntroops in the nine-year conflict.

Britain has 9,500 troops in Af-ghanistan.

Hotel Activities Monday, September 13, 2010 5International

Temple Ceremony

4h – “Tumpek Wayang”, day devoted to“Sanghyang Iswara”, the lord of puppeteers, whenblessing ceremony is given to shadow – puppet playsets for proper function and magical power.

Temple Festival at:- Pr.aspahit, Jembrana.- Pr. Panti Gelgel, Ds. Pangembungan, Sesetan,

Badung.- Pedharman Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan,

Besakih.- Pedharman Dalem Sukawati, Besaih.- Pedharman Kaba-Kaba , Besakih.- Pedharman Dalem Bakas, Besakih.- Pr. Pedharman Mengwi, Besakih.- Pr. Penataran Giri Purwa, Ds. Kutarejo, Tegal

Dalimo, Banyuwangi.

5th _ Temple Festival at:- Pr. Maospahit, Ds. Gerenceng Denpasar.

8th _ Temple Festival at:- Pr. Ulun Kulkul, Besakih.- Pr. Melanting, Ds. Camenggaon, Sukawati.- Pr. Penataran Agung, Teluk Padang,Karangasem.- Pr. Pasek Gelgel, Ds. Pangembungan,Bongkasa, abiansemal.- Pr. Pasek Bandesa, Ds. Riyang Gede, Penebel

Tabanan.- Pr. Pasek Banjar Jawa, Buleleng.- Pr. Gaduhan Jagat, Ds. Singakerta, Ubud.- Pr. Masceti Tengah, Ds. Mancawarna,

Tampaksiring.- Pr. Penataran Batulepang, Ds. Kamasan,

Klungkung.- Pr. Paibon Pasek Gobleg, Ds. Kedonganan,

Kuta- Pr. Pasek Gelgel, Ds. Songan, Batur,

Calendar of Event (Sep 3- 23 2010)Kintamani.- Pr. Pasanggerahan Agung, Ds. Bebandem,

Karangasem.- Pr. Penataran Dalem Peed, Nusa Penida.- Mr.Pasek Perateka, Ds. Pekandelan,Sidemen, Karangasem.- Mr.Pasek Perateka Taman Sari, Sukasada.- Pr. Kawitan Jero Wenayu, Ds. Wenayu,

Bedulu, Gianyar.- Pr. Jati, Ubud.- Pr. Gua, Besakih.10th _ Temple Festival at:

- Merajan Geriya Kebon – Tabanan.- Pr. Candi Gora, Ds. Tianyar, Karangasem.

14th _ Temple Festival at:- Pr. Puseh Jagat Dalem Dukut, Nusa Penida.- Pr. Dalem, Ds. Batuyang, Batubulan.- Pr. Pasek Magending, Kediri, Tabanan.- Pr. Pasek Undagi, Ds. Timpag, Kerambitan,

Tabanan.- Pr. Desa + Pura Pucak, Br. Taman Bedulu,

Gianyar.- Mr.Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung, Ds. Sulahan.- Mr.Pasek Padang Rata, Ds. Padang,

Karangasem.- Pr. Telaga Sakti/Dalem Tarukan, Ds.Ambengan, Nusa Penida.- Pr. Dalem, Ds. Padangan, Pupuan, Tabanan.- Pr. Yogha, Br. Teba Jero, Kaba-Kaba, Kediri

Tabanan.- Pr. Dalem Purwa, Br. Kawan, Bangli.

15th _ Temple Festival at:- Pr. Agung Pasek Gelgel, Ds. Sibang Kaja,

abiansemal.- Pr. Dalem Samprangan, Gianyar.- Pr. Ds. Galiran, Bhakti Seraga, Buleleng.

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annualCeremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Ba-linese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine whicheach family possesses. Because of this practically every fewdays a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in someVillage in Bali. There are also times when the entire islandcelebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan,Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day,Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is consid-ered its birth day and celebration always takes place on thesame day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When newmoon is used then the celebration always happens on new moonor full moon. The day of course can differ the religious cel-ebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some templecelebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakihtemple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and mostof the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importanceof the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed withpieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold andChinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the fourcorners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, whiteor black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped inthe shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, longflags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. Infront of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles,decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, riceand other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are thegirls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangementsof all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Everyvisitor admires the grace with which the carry their load ontheir heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

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NUSA DUA - Aston Interna-tional announced that the companyis on target to open Bali’s newestluxury boutique villa resort, TheNusa Dua Retreat, on Friday Octo-ber 1st, 2010.

The new property, which is itsproject phase, was referred to as theAston Nusa Dua Retreat will nowopen as the “Nusa Dua Retreat” andbe one of the Aston groups nonestandardized and highly individual-ized luxury properties followingAston’s intention of creating a plat-form that allows the group to high-light individual hotels and enabledifferent personalities to shine.

Other high end resorts managedby Aston such as The TaumSeminyak and a luxury villa resortin Langkawi are currently in anearly stage of development and willsoon compliment the Aston groupsgrowing portfolio of highly indi-vidualized luxury hotels. The NusaDua Retreat has been available forprivate viewings by selected tour

Aston to open Nusa Dua RetreatAston to open Nusa Dua RetreatAston to open Nusa Dua RetreatAston to open Nusa Dua RetreatAston to open Nusa Dua Retreatoperators since August this year andis currently undergoing a trial open-ing phase welcoming amongst oth-ers the famous Australian model Jes-sica Gomez.

Situated in the charming hillsidecountry of the Bukit Peninsulaabove the world class resort desti-nation of Nusa Dua, The Nusa DuaRetreat, will afford stunning viewsover the Indian Ocean and easy ac-cess to the nearby secluded KutuhBeach. Being a boutique villa resortwith the character of an eleganthide-away retreat the new propertyhas been kept small and will feature41 private pool villas of which 23offer roof top sundecks and 1 lavishthree bedroom residence. Resort fa-cilities will include a full servicedestination spa, a large infinity edgecenter pool, a smart casual caféoverlooking the surrounding hillsidecountry and nearby Indian Ocean, aromantic semi fine dining restaurant,a pool lounge and bar and a state ofthe art gym and Yoga studio.

Norbert Vas, AstonInternational’s VP of Sales & Mar-

keting said “Compared to our othervilla resorts in the main areas of Balisuch as Seminyak, Sanur, Nusa Duaand Ubud this new resort will bequite different and unique in thesense that it is a truly remarkable“retreat” with a very appealing andsecluded location.

Privacy is the main focus so resi-dents will not only benefit from spa-

cious villas with over sized pools andthe charming hillside location butalso have access to one of Bali’s mostbeautiful and pristine beaches, luxurytransportation service to Nusa Duaand Kuta and creative service con-cepts such as private butlers, person-alized excursions and VIP airportmeet and greet assistance.

We want to touch guests on an

emotional level so service will be themain point of differentiation”. Withits strong record of success in man-aging more than 30 hotels and resortsthroughout Indonesia and a commit-ment to preserving the distinct iden-tity of the Nusa Dua Retreat, Astonaims to attract well seasoned and de-manding vacationers who above allvalue individuality and serenity.

Monday, September 13, 20106 News

AP

TEHRAN, Iran – A senior Ira-nian prosecutor said Sunday that au-thorities will release a jailed Ameri-can woman on $500,000 bail be-cause of health problems, anothersudden about-face by Iran in a casethat has added to tension with theUnited States.

The news came during a week-end of start-and-stop announcementsabout the release of Sarah Shourd,who was detained with two friends,Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, alongthe Iran-Iraq border on July 31,2009, and accused of spying.

There were no details on whenshe would be released. Tehran pros-ecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadisaid the conditions of her bail did notbar her from leaving the country,though her case will still go to trialalong with those of the other twoAmericans, who must remain in cus-tody.

“Based on reports and the ap-

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MIAMI – Hurricane Igor isgetting a little stronger in theopen Atlantic Ocean.

The U.S. Hurricane Center inMiami said Sunday that Igorhad top sustained winds of 80mph (130 kph) and is movingwest at 18 mph (30 kph). Thestorm is forecast to continue inthis general direction during thenext couple of days, but shouldslow down some.

Igor is expected to continueto strengthen and could becomea major hurricane with maxi-mum sustained winds of at least111 mph (178 kph) by Mondaynight.

The storm poses no immedi-ate threat to land.

Agents deactivated the deviceand removed most of the explosivematerial to analyze it before safelydetonating the vehicle, the depart-ment said. There were no injuries.

Juarez is the same city where drugtraffickers staged the first success-ful car bombing in Mexico, killingthree people in July.

There have been three other ve-hicle explosions in recent weeks inCiudad Victoria, capital of the bor-der state of Tamaulipas. Ciudad,across from El Paso, Texas, has beenone of the cities most affected byMexico’s drug violence. More than2,100 people have been murderedthere so far this year — putting it on

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A crime sceneinvestigator points

his flashlight at abody in front of a

home in thenorthern border

city of CiudadJuarez, Mexico,

early Friday, Sept.10, 2010. Accord-ing to eyewitness

accounts at thescene, gunmen

opened fire from acar at people

standing outside ahouse, killing fiveand injuring two.


MEXICO CITY – Mexican police carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb Saturdayin the troubled border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas. A phone tip around midnight ledauthorities to a dead body in a car in a shopping center parking lot, the federal Public SafetyDepartment said in a statement. In a second car, police found the bomb.

pace to surpass its previous high of2,700, set last year.

Across the country, more than28,000 people have been killed sinceDecember 2006, when PresidentFelipe Calderon launched a militaryoffensive against the cartels soon af-ter taking office.

In the central state of Morelos,police discovered nine bodies in clan-destine graves Saturday in the samearea where four more were recentlyfound. The Public Safety Departmentsaid in a separate statement that all13 victims were believed to havebeen killed on the orders of U.S.-bornEdgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villarreal,one of the alleged kingpins fighting

for control of Morelos.Valdez was captured Aug. 30 by

federal police. Late Saturday, federalauthorities announced they had ar-rested two Colombian brothers whothey alleged have ties to Valdez andbelong to a group responsible forbuying cocaine in Colombia andsmuggling it to the United States.

The men were identified as DarioEmilio Valencia and Victor EspinosaValencia. The latter was said to ownthe ranch on the outskirts of MexicoCity where Valdez allegedly hid outbefore his arrest. The Public SafetyDepartment said both men arenamed in a U.S. warrant issued in2004 in Florida.

(AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)

AP –

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Sept. 11

Hurricane Igor getting stronger in open Atlantic

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Sarah Shourd

Iranian prosecutor ready torelease American woman

proval of the relevant judge about thesickness of Ms. Shourd, her deten-tion was converted to $500,000 bail,and if the bail is deposited, she canbe released,” the official IRNA newsagency quoted Dowlatabadi as say-ing.

Shourd’s mother has said she hasbeen denied treatment for serioushealth problems, including a breastlump and precancerous cervicalcells.

The prosecutor said the decisionhas been relayed to her lawyer.Reached by telephone, her lawyer,Masoud Shafiei, refused to make anyimmediate comment.

Shourd, who has been held in soli-tary confinement, was to have been re-leased Saturday as an act of clemencyto mark the end of the Muslim holymonth of Ramadan after the interven-tion of Iran’s president, MahmoudAhmadinejad. But the judiciaryabruptly halted that planned release, in-dicating such a decision would have tofirst go through the courts.

Soliman said the baby will beturned over to the mother’s relativesor put up for adoption. Many Fili-pinos are forced to work as maids

His comments came on a Sept. 11anniversary unlike others. In yearspast, the day was devoted to remem-brances of the nearly 3,000 who diedin jetliner attacks here, in New YorkCity and in Pennsylvania, and tovows to serve in their honor and con-tinue to pursue the terrorists behindthe attacks.

This year, the common bonds re-kindled by the memory of the attacksthreaten to fray amid growing sus-

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and laborers abroad, including theMiddle East, to escape crushingpoverty and unemployment athome.

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picion of Muslims in this countryand controversies about a mosqueplanned near ground zero in NewYork and a pastor’s threat to burn theMuslim holy book.

As Obama, joined by DefenseSecretary Robert Gates, laid a wreathat the Pentagon memorial whereAmerican Airlines Flight 77 crashed,New York City braced for protestsfor and against the proposed Islamiccultural center.

Monday, September 13, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

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JAKARTA - Indonesia‘s globalcompetitiveness ranking (CGR) roseby 10 notches to 44th this year mainlybecause of improving macroeco-nomic indicators and health and pri-mary education, according to a WorldEconomic Forum (WEF) report.

Indonesia‘s macroeconomic indi-cators rose from 52nd to 34th andhealth and primary eduction from82nd to 62nd, the Indonesian ambas-sador/permanent representative to theUN, WTO and other international or-ganizations in Geneva, DianTriansyah Djani, said in a statement.

The country‘s quality of overallinfrastructure increased from 96th to90th, intellectual property protectionfrom 67th to 58th, national savings

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A sudden downpour catches Indonesian families traveling on motorcycle during the Eid al-Fitr holiday inJakarta on September 11, 2010. At least 182 people were killed in traffic accidents across the country eightdays after 16-day operations code-named “Ketupat 2010” were launched on Sept 3 to ensure public secu-rity during the post-fasting festivity.

“Since the Ketupat Operationswere launched the number of trafficaccidents has reached 927,” Head ofthe Public Relations Division at theNational Police Headquarters Brig.Gen. Iskandar Hasan said here on Sat-urday.

He said 261 people sustained seri-ous injuries and 497 others light in-juries in the traffic accidents.

“During the Ketupat Operations2010 the numbers of traffic violationswere recorded at 20,849 with 18,653motorists ticketed,” he said.

He said police also recorded a to-tal of 1,774 criminal offenses, con-sisting of 1,346 conventional crimesand 478 other crimes.

Police deployed 89,521 personneland set up 2,592 security posts across

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TANGERANG - An Iranianwas on Friday caught attemptingto smuggle in 340 grams of meth-amphetamine through Jakarta‘sSoekarno-Hatta airport, a customsofficial said.

“Customs officials at the airportfoiled an attempt by an Iranian tosmuggle in methamphetamine onIdul Fitri,” head of the airport`scustoms and excise service,Bahaduri Widjayanta said here onSaturday.

He said the Iranian was caughtafter a customs official was suspi-cious about his bag after the X-Ray

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JAKARTA - A blind man wastrampled to death in a crowd jostlingfor a turn to exchange Idul Fitri greet-ings with President Susilo BambangYudhoyono at the palace here on Fri-day. Joni Malela, who was 45 years old,died in an ambulance that was takinghim to hospital after falling to theground and trampled in a rush at thefront gate of the State Secretariat build-ing. According to witnesses, Joni triedto get out of the crowd but he couldnot, and was even pushed forward andfinally trampled to death.

A Jakarta health officer who wasstanding by at the gate, Theresia IndahSusanti, said Joni was weak when hewas taken to the ambulance and he diedafter being treated for 10 minutes.

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JAKARTA - At least 182 people were killed in traffic accidents acrossthe country eight days after 16-day operations code-named “Ketupat2010” were launched on Sept 3 to ensure public security during thepost-fasting festivity.

the country during the Ketupat op-erations.

The security posts were set upin the areas considered vulnerableto traffic accidents and criminaloffenses.

Police will conduct the Ketupatoperations until September 18 bycooperating with the relevant min-istries.

Five areas have received prior-ity attention during the operations,namely traffic flows, traffic acci-dents, crimes, center of public ac-tivities and weather conditions.

The government estimates thenumber of travelers to celebrateLebaran post-fasting festivities intheir hometowns this year amount-ing 15.5 million.

RI‘s global competitiveness index up 10 notches to 44thrate from 40th to 16th, effectivenessof anti-monopoly policy from 35thto 30th, and extent and effect of taxa-tion from 22nd to 17th.

Meanwhile, the country‘s busi-ness sophistication index also rose,including local supplier quantityfrom 50th to 43rd, value chainbreadth from 35th to 26th, control ofinternational distribution from 39thto 33rd, production process sophis-tication from 60th to 52nd.

The ranking was based on the re-sults of a comprehensive survey con-ducted in and on open data compiledfrom each of the countries surveyed,she said.

The CGR of 2010-2011 was alsobased on inputs from the WEF Ad-visory Board on Competitiveness, ofwhich Indonesia‘s Trade Minister

Mari Elka Pengestu is one of themembers.

Indonesia left Portugal behind in46th place, Italy 48th, India 51st,South Afrika 54th, Brazil 58th, Tur-key 61st, Russia 63rd, Mexico 66th,Egypt 81st, Greece 83rd and Argen-tina 87th.

Among ASEAN member states,Indonesia ranked 5th after Singaporein 3rd place, Malaysia 26th, Brunei28th, Thailand 38th, while Vietnamranked 59th, the Philippines 85th, andCambodia 109th.

“One of the outstanding issues inthe Global Competitiveness Report2010-2011 is the fact that the com-petitiveness of developed and devel-oping countries is moving in the di-rection of convergence point,” the am-bassador said.

Citing as an example, she said anumber of Middle Eastern and NorthAfrican countries joined the top 50on the list, led by Qatar in 17th place,Saudi Arabia 21st, United Arab Emir-ates 25th, Tunisia 32nd, Oman 34th,Kuwait 35th, and Bahrain 37th.

The WEF releases the report ev-ery year based on surveys of businessleaders and the latest economic indi-cators deemed critical to global com-petitiveness.

The report showed Switzerlandremaining at the top of the list un-changed from last year, followed bySweden, Singapore, the United Statesand Germany.

Japan came in sixth place, withFinland, the Netherlands, Denmarkand Canada making the top 10 on thelist this year.Hong Kong, Taiwan and

China ranked 11th, 13th and 27th re-spectively.

The GCR 2010-2011 covers re-ports on the competitiveness of 139countries/economies, up from 133the year before. The GCI was basedon 12 competitive sectors, namely in-stitutions, infrastructure, macroeco-nomic environment, health and pri-mary education, higher education andtraining, goods market efficiency,labour market efficiency, financialmarket development, technologicalreadiness, market size, business so-phistication, and innovation.

“The significant increase inIndonesia`s GCR shows the businessworld`s growing confidence in the In-donesian government`s efforts toimprove infrastructures and businessclimate in the country,” she said.

Iranian caught trying tosmuggle in methamphetamine

monitor showed a strange image init as well as the person‘s behavior.

After manually checking the bagthe official discovered white pow-der in its handler and upon testingit was confirmed as methamphet-amine. “He was immediately ar-rested,” Bahaduri said.

He said the person was one of thepassengers of an Emirate Airwaysplane arriving at the airport ataround 11.10pm on Friday.

According to him the drug wouldbe sent to a hotel on JalanHayamwuruk, West Jakarta. He be-lieved the suspect was a courier ofan international drug ring.

Before being a courier, the sus-

pect said he was actually an ex-porter of belts but allured by thehuge money they had offered hefinally agreed to become their cou-rier.

When he first came to Indone-sia he was given US$300,000 byone of his bosses.

The authorities are now still de-veloping the case. “The hotel roomwhere the stuff would be sent tohas been checked but nothing wasfound there including the personsaid to receive it. The case how-ever will still be developed,” thechief of narcotics affairs of the air-port police resort, Adjuct Commis-sioner Ahmad Junaedi, said.

Blind man trampled to deathin rush to greet president

“He was given oxygen but he didnot react to it, and died,” she said.

Theresia said Joni died with no in-juries and therefore it was believed hehad died of suffocation after beingtrampled on.

The body of the blind man fromCinangka, Bogor, West Java, was thentaken to Cipto Mangunkusumo Hos-pital. Thousands of people gathered atthe gate of the State Secretariate to geta turn to shake hands with PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the oc-casion of Idul Fitri.

Dozens of other people also faintedafter being squeezed while seekingentry into the palace. Some people saidthey were enthusiastic to shake handswith the President because they heardthey would each get Rp300,000 fromthe President.

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Bali Today

“Based on the results of ourmonitoring the number of touristarrivals in the resort island is quitegood with the average hotel occu-pancy rates ranging from 80 per-cent to 90 percent,” Secretary ofthe Bali Chapter of the IndonesianHotels and Restaurants Associa-tion (PHRI) Pery Markus said hereon Sunday.

“Most of the hotel guests aredomestic tourists hailing fromJakarta and Surabaya, among oth-ers,” he said.

Data from the Bali tourism of-fice show that the number of ho-tel rooms in Bali reached 46,014at the end of 2009.

Last year, more than 2.2 millionforeign tourists visited Bali andstayed an average of 8.75 days

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GIANYAR - Bali’s archaeologi-cal authorities are to lift four ancientsarcophaguses found recently in theBanjar Kembengan area, Tulikup,Gianyar district, from their excava-tion site after the Idul Fitri holidayson Monday (Sept 13), a spokesper-son said.

“Perhaps on Monday (Sept 13),after Idul Fitri, the ArchaeologicalObjects Conservation Agency willmove the sarcophaguses from theirexcavation site to the agency’sholding facility at Bedulu,Blahbatuh,” Ayu Kusumawati, aresearcher of the Denpasar Ar-chaeological Service, said here Sat-urday.

The four skeletons of pre-his-toric humans that were found in theancient caskets had already beenevacuated to a facility of theDenpasar Archeology Service, shesaid.

“All the bones found in the sar-cophaguses have been taken out andcarried to the Denpasar ArchaelogyService building,” she said.

The service was now studyingthe bones from the four sarcopha-guses found at Banjar Kembengan,Tulikup, Gianyar, and also skeletal

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DENPASAR - The travelers wholeaving Bali for celebrating Idul Fitriin their hometown through Gilimanukport got themselves pampers in thetravelers’ post that especially avail-able for them. They can enjoy freemassage, snack, supplement drink,and others facilities that designed fortravelers’ need.

One of posts in Gilimanuk areathat can be visits is Tokobagus.comand Senkom Mitra Polri post. This isthe post that available for travelers

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DENPASAR - Hotel occupancy rates in the resort island of Baliare estimated to increase by up to 90 percent during the Lebaranpost-fasting month festivities this year, a spokesman said.

there, while the number of domes-tic tourists reached 3.5 million withthe length of stay averaging threedays.

The province now has 157 starhotels with 21.118 rooms and 1,037non-star hotels with 20,516 rooms,not to mention cottages. Of the to-tal hotel rooms, 26,387 are foundin Badung district.

The doemstic touristscrowded during the Idul Fitri

holiday. The increasingnumber of tourists is also

affecting the hotel ocupancyrate in Bali

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Travelers got pampers in the travelers’ postwho go outside and inside Bali throughGilimanuk area. Beside on Gilimanukarea, Tokobagus and Senkom MitraPolri also have two others posts onJakarta and Yogyakarta. The three ofthe posts are made especially to accom-modate the travelers need during theLebaran holiday.

According to Corporate Communi-cation Tokobagus.com Ichwan Sitorusthis year tokobagus.com supportedMitra Senkom Polri in providing postsfor travelers. ‘’This is part of our cor-porate social responsibility program(CSR),’’ explained Ichwan.

He further explained that the onlineportal supporting the Mitra SenkomPolri as part of participating on theLebaran tradition in Indonesia. ‘’Ofcourse as the part of Indonesia, we tryto blend and honor the tradition in cel-ebrating Lebaran,’’ he said.

He stated that there are three poststhat supports by tokobagus.com,which are on Jl. Kerajinan No. 2,Jakarta Barat, Jl. Dr. Sutomo,Yogyakarta, and Jl. Raya Gilimanuk,Bali.. Travelers, added Ichwan, arewelcomed to come in the posts andtake a rest while enjoying the free fa-cilities. ‘’We’re also having some in-formation about tokobagus.comavailable in these posts’’.

The head of Bali’s Police IrjenHadiatmoko also supporting theseposts by visiting the post during hisvisits to Gilimanuk port recently.‘’This kind of post is really good be-cause it can ease the police duty onsecuring the Lebaran traffic,’’ he said.

The post was available from Sep-tember 7 until 12, 2010. In the post,travelers can take a rest, getting freehealth service check, snack, and re-flection massage.

According to Head of SenkomBali Sutrisno, by providing this postSenkom hope the travelers can gohome safely and have an enjoyablejourney. He also hopes thattokobagus.com will continue to sup-port this program next year. (kmb18)

Courtesy of Senkom Mitra Polri

The Head of Bali’s Police Irjen Hadiatmoko (m) made a visit topost that created by Senkom Mitra Polri and Tokobagus.com.

Four ancient Bali sarcophagusesto be secured after Lebaran

remains found earlier at SubakSaba, Keramas, Blahbatuh. Ayusaid.

The four sarcophaguses werediscovered in a pandanus planta-tion owned by a local named I GustiNyoman Dirga, located about threekilometers east of a site at SubakSaba, Keramas, Gianyar district,where two other sarcophaguseswere found earlier.

“According to the archeologists,the four sarcophaguses are about2,500 years old, or date back to 500BC - 100 AD,” Dirga told report-ers.

“When I was digging the soil atthe pandanus plantation, my hoe hitsomething hard. When I examinedit, it proved to be a stone casket,”Dirga said.

Concerned about the find, Dirgaon Tuesday (Aug 31) reported it toKelian, an official of BanjarKembengan.

“Mr. Kelian then reported to thepolice in Gianyar city and on Tues-day (Aug 31) night, the police cameto check the location,” he said.

Dirga said it was the second timeancient objects were found on hisland. In 1998, a similar sarcopha-gus was unearthed at the pandanusplantation.

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Archaeological researches in Balihave found a number of archeologi-cal heritages, which belonged to pre-historic and historic remains. Prehis-toric remains proved the earliest ofthe people’s life, started from hunt-ing and food gathering through culti-vation up to mastering the advancedtechnology. Such remains indicatedthe struggle and the achievement ofthe people’s life gradually, after adapt-ing and exploring their environmentits natural resources for their life, be-cause the nature was still quite dan-gerous. On the other hands, the re-mains also demonstrated the relation-ship of the prehistoric Balinese peopleto those who lived in Java, Sumateraetc, even to the South-East Asianpeople.

The most important of the prehis-toric live in Bali is the invention ofthe metallic technology along withthe megalithic tradition. During theadvance technology the Balinesepeople have produced several kind ofbronze goods for ritual purpose suchas kettledrums and for daily uses aswell such as axes etc. Mastering theadvance technology, Balinese peoplehave succeeded to develop stonemoulds in the village of Manuaba(Gianyar) for casting bronze kettle-drum. The human-mask decoration,showed a remarkable similarities tothe decorations of the huge kettle-drums found in the village of Pejengnot so far of the east of Manuaba, butthe stone moulds of Manuaba aresmall in its size.

It should be noted here that bronzekettledrums were not only found inBali, but also in Java, and EasternIndonesian Island. Another bronzemoulds made of clay were also foundin West Java, but not for producing

Archaeological heritage in Balikettledrums, but for making spear-heads, axes, etc. Regarding the hu-man-mask decorations, which werefounds on the kettledrums of Pejeng,on the stone moulds of Manuaba andon the number of the sarcophagi foundin Bali, was regarded as symbol of theleader’s or the ancestor’s spirits. Thepeople believed that the spirit, whowere abode on the top of the moun-tain or on the inaccessible place havethe magic power for protecting the liv-ing society. When Hinduism havespread widely in Indonesia, the peoplebelieved to the sacred mountain as theplace of the Hindu pantheons and theancestor’s spirit as well. Based on thisconception, then the people built theirtemples on the mountain area such asas Pura Besakih on the slope of MountAgung.

Along with the development of themetallic industry, the megalithic tra-dition increased not only in Bali, butalso in Sumatera, Flores etc. Severalkinds of megalithic remains werefounds there namely menhirs,dolmens, menhirstatues, stepped pyra-mids etc. It is a matter of facts that themegalithic tradition have strongly in-fluenced the people’s life and it is notsurprising any more that living mega-lithic tradition could be found until topresent day in Nias, Toraja, Bali andEastern Indonesians Islands. In Bali,the megalithic remains, exe the sar-cophagi are regarded as sacred monu-ments and functioned for worshippingthje Hindu Trinity, the local deities andthe ancestor’s spirit (Sutaba 1984).

Researches on the advanced tech-nology and on the megalithic traditionin Bali in particular, have made con-clusions that Balinese people havebuild their social organization headedby the leaders. The well organizations

have made favorable conditions formastering the advance technology.Then the social and cultural develop-ment became the solid foundation forfacing the new era when Hinduismarrived in Bali (Sutaba, 1930).

Bali have got Hindu-Budhis influ-ences nearly at the 9 century A.D. asProved by the finding of clay stuphikasand seals beared Budhis formula, nearthe village of Pejeng, Gianyar. Then apillar inscription was rediscovered inBlanjong Sanur (Badung) which men-tioned the name of the king KesariWarmadewa. This inscription wasoriginated from c.10 century A.D.Since this period, Hinduism wasspread widely in Bali and went deeplyinto the life of the Balinese people andthen survived until today. Having welldeveloped social organization and cul-tural life before the arrival of Hindu-ism, have led the Balinese people suc-cessfully modified the new elementsin accordance with their characters andbecame the new one beared Balineseidentity.

The wellknown king of Bali is acouple royal named king Udayana andhis wife Gunapryadharmapati (c.10 cen-tury A.D), then succeeded by their fami-lies. During the ancient history of Bali, anumber of temples were built nearly inthe whole island. In these temple sev-eral kinds of historical remains were pre-served e.g. statues, inscriptions etc. Asthe follower of Hinduism, Balinesepeople regard the temples including theremains in them as sacred monumentsfor worshiping the Hindu pantheons,the local deities and the ancestor’sspirit as well. This religious functionwas the responsibility of the Balinesepeople for keeping the monumentsin well conditions and the welfare ofthe living society. (BTN)

INGREDIENTS:100 gr (3 ½ oz)

blanched cabbage100 gr (3 ½ oz)

spinach, blanched100 gr (3 ½ oz)

long beans cut in32,5 cm

(line) pieces,blanched

100 gr (3 ½ oz)bean sprouts,blanched

1 large red chili,sliced

1 tbsp grated coconut2 tbsp fried shallots

DRESSINGS:2 tbsp fried shallots2 tbsp sliced garlic clove1 large red chili, seeded and sliced2 tsp fried chili (Sambal Sereh Tabia)3 fragrant lime leaves, very finely sliced4 cm (1½ in) kencur, peeled & chopped¼ teaspoon salt¼ teaspoon crushed black pepper½ teaspoon white sugar1 tablespoon oil

PREPARATION:1. Cut cabbage into pieces about 2,5 cm by 1 cm (1 in

by ½ in).2. Combine all vegetables, chili, grated coconut and

fried shallots in salad bowl and mix well.

For the dressing:Combine all ingredients and mix well in separate

bowl. Mix the dressing thoroughly with the vegetables;season to taste with salt, pepper and limejuice. Serve atroom temperature. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Among the delicacy of Balinese food with hotspices, in fact, Balinese community also retains easy-peasy snack but sometimes a bit harder. One of themis the bean of teep. Its tree resembles to that ofbreadfruit. However, its beans are far smallercompared to that of breadfruit. When its fruits haveturned ripe, they usually attract the presence of civet.Actually, this nocturnal cat is only interested to eat theflesh of fruit. Similar thing also happens to coffeebeans. Since the skin of beans is hard it cannot digestthem so civet could only enjoy the flesh. On the nextday, those seeds could be found at the feces of civet.All seeds remain intact. However, if people see theripe fruits first, they will not need to wait the coming ofcivet to pick them.

To process the beans, they are first cleansedthoroughly and dry under the sun. Afterward, theyshould be fried without oil but sand. When they havebeen finely cooked they can be enjoyed while relaxingor lazing. As the shell and beans are slightly hard, itmay take a bit long time to open and chew them.However, if they are indeed dry enough and cookedwell they must be easy to open and crispy. They aregood to consume as slow snack while chatting orwatching TV. (BTN/punia)

JUKUT URAB(Mixed Vegetables With Grated Coconut)

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This is another unique village besides the traditionalvillage of Penglipuran. It offers plenty uniqueness, whichare different to those owned by Penglipuran. The peoplehave a different socio-life.

Their houses are arranged in uniqe patterns and madeof Bamboos. Mass marriage is another uniqueness ownedby the village. In this ritual, many couples are doing theirwedding rituals together, which are held at their PenataranAgung Temple. These event is conducted a Sasih Kadasa(around April-October).

The other different tradition worth knowing is the burialritual. The corpse is carried by two people to the cemetery,running. Arriving at the place, the corpse’s cover is un-veiled, making it naked. Then it is rolled down into thehole for burying that has been prepared. Afterward, it iscovered, face up-down-ward, overlooking northwestward.

Traditional arts also evolve well here, with arts like BarisJangkang, Baris Jojor, Baris Perasi, Baris Perancak, BarisBlongsong, Baris Bajra, Baris Juntal and Baris DapdapDance. The dances are often performed at the villagetemple. The so-caleed Perang Papah is a unique traditionwhere performers hit each other using the stems of bananaleaves. It is performed at Pedunungan Temple on Balinesecalendar of Purnama Sasih Kenem (around December).http://www.indonesiabestdestination.com

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THESSALONIKI – PrimeMinister George Papandreou of-fered no handouts to austerity-wearyGreeks but gave some relief to com-panies struggling with recession ina main speech on the economy onSaturday.

Bound by the conditions of a110-billion-euro ($140 billion) EU/IMF bailout deal to rescue Greecefrom bankruptcy, his Socialist gov-ernment has imposed tax rises anddraconian salary and pension cuts tofight deficits, prompting strikes andprotests.

“We are fighting for the sur-vival of Greece,” Papandreou saidin his annual economic policyspeech at a trade fair in the northerncity of Thessaloniki. “Either we’llwin together, or we’ll sink together.”

About 20,000 peoplemarched through the city to protestagainst belt-tightening measures. Afew hundred youths tried to breakthrough police lines cordoning offthe venue and were pushed backwith tear gas in clashes that lasted afew minutes.

Papandreou said his govern-ment will continue pushing reformsand opening up sectors of theeconomy such as electricity andfreight transport and also overhaulloss-making state firms including

The Economic CooperationFramework Agreement both sidessigned in late June also lets Taiwan-ese firms enter banking and insurancemarkets in China to further boost bi-lateral trade that amounts to $110billion annually.

Taiwan’s Cabinet-level MainlandAffairs Council and China’s Minis-try of Commerce announced the ef-fective date of the pact on theirwebsites Saturday, starting the tariff-reducing process.

Taiwan has said the duties onsome Chinese products will be low-ered starting next year, while Beijinghas not set a date when duties willbe reduced on the Taiwanese prod-ucts.

The agreement reduces Chinesetariffs on 539 Taiwanese products, in-cluding machine tools, textiles and


BEIJING - China’s inflationedged higher in August as thenation’s worst flooding in a decadedrove an increase in food costs andindustrial growth continued toquicken.

Consumer prices rose 3.5 percentin August compared with a year ear-lier, the National Bureau of Statis-tics announced Saturday. It was thehighest level in 22 months and asmall increase over July’s 3.3 per-cent.

Much of the increase was fueledby a jump in food prices, which roseby 7.5 percent because summerstorms and floods ruined crops anddisrupted shipping.

Overall, the country’s ConsumerPrice Index, increased 2.8 percentyear-on-year in the first eightmonths of 2010, said Sheng Laiyun,the NBS spokesman. The Chinesegovernment had set a target of try-ing to keep inflation within 3 per-cent for the year.

Sheng downplayed concernsabout rising inflation, saying:“There are factors fueling pricerises, but I think there are even morefactors reducing prices.”

Industrial growth acceleratedslightly to 13.9 percent year-on-yearin August from July’s 13.4 percentincrease as China’s recovery con-tinues.

“For the past three months, it hasfluctated between 13 percent to 14percent so it’s obvious that indus-trial operations have shifted fromfast growth to stable growth now,”Sheng said.

Taiwan-China pact toTaiwan-China pact toTaiwan-China pact toTaiwan-China pact toTaiwan-China pact toreduce tariffs takes effectreduce tariffs takes effectreduce tariffs takes effectreduce tariffs takes effectreduce tariffs takes effectAssociated Press Writer

TAIPEI - A pact that will reduce tariffs on hundreds of products traded between Taiwan andChina took effect Sunday, a significant step for the Taiwanese president’s efforts to forge closertrade ties with Beijing.

car parts. Those products valuearound $13.8 billion, about 16 per-cent of the mainland’s imports fromthe island in 2009.

In return, Taiwan will slash du-ties on 267 Chinese items totaling$2.86 billion, about 10.5 percent ofthe mainland exports to the islandlast year. Among some of those prod-ucts are agricultural produce and tex-tiles.

The tariffs are to be eliminated inthree stages over the next two years,under the bilateral pact.

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has hailed the pact as necessaryto prevent Taiwan’s economicmarginalization as Beijing strength-ens its commercial ties to its Asianneighbors and has said it would helpreduce tensions between the islandand mainland China.

On Saturday, China’s Ministry ofCommerce highlighted the pact’sparamount role in stimulating bilat-eral trade exchanges.

“We believe the implementationof the pact will further promote ex-changes and cooperation in cross-strait trade and help cross-straiteconomies develop together,”Spokesman Yao Jian said in thestatement on the ministry’s website.

Taiwan and China split amid civilwar in 1949. Beijing continues toclaim the island as part of its terri-tory and threatens to attack if Tai-wan moves to formalize indepen-dence.

After taking office in May 2008,Ma has moved to improve relationsbetween the sides to boost Taiwan’ssluggish economy and avoid pos-sible cross-strait conflicts.

Greek PM offers some tax relief, but no handoutsHellenic Railways (OSE).

“I ask all the country’s pro-ductive forces to join us, to supportthis great change,” he said.

Bowing to calls from thebusiness world buckling under adeepening recession, he said hewould speed up relief for corpora-tions by bringing forward plannedcuts in retained earnings tax to 20from 24 percent in 2011 instead of2014.

But he avoided concretepledges to a restive public that hastaken to the streets in sometimesviolent protests this year, reluctantto displease international lenders orrisk the next installment of the loandue in the last quarter.

“We are still at the start ofour effort. I don’t want to make bigpromises but I understand the diffi-culties poor pensioners face,” hesaid. “I will ask the finance minis-ter to do his best depending on howrevenues go.”

Despite the harsh measures,opinion polls show his Socialistparty ahead of the conservative op-position. A poll by Kappa Researchfor To Vima on Sunday, showed theSocialists would win 29.1 percentof the vote versus 21.3 percent forthe conservatives if elections wereheld now.

Last October, Papandreoucapitalized on a wave of anger at

scandals to trounce his conservativerival, Costas Karamanlis, whobroke the tradition of making gen-erous promises at the Thessalonikifair and told Greeks he wouldfreeze public sector salaries, even-tually losing the election.

But huge deficits inheritedfrom the conservatives plungedGreece into a debt crisis that shookthe euro zone and internationallenders stepped in to rescue thecountry in exchange for tough fis-cal measures.

Consumption has been hit aspublic sector wages were cut by 15percent, pensions by 10 percent andvalue added tax increased by 4 per-centage points to 23 percent. Theeconomy is set to contract by 4 per-cent this year and unemploymenthit 11.6 percent in July from 8.6 theyear before.

Declining consumption ishurting state revenues and threat-ening targets to cut the deficit to 8.1of GDP this year from 13.6 percentin 2009.

“The market is pretty wor-ried about whether the governmentwill find the golden medium to kickstart the economy and secure therevenues that are missing,” an Ath-ens-based analyst said. “Only ifthey manage to find this golden me-dium, will the country be able toget out of this tunnel.”

China’s inflation edges up,driven by food costs

All 39 industries saw year-on-year growth in August, with textilesup 11.6 percent; chemical materi-als and products up 12.9 percent;general equipment manufacturingup 20.1 percent, and transportationequipment manufacturing up 16.6percent, Sheng said.

Analysts expect inflation will re-main in check, with the food pricespike expected to have only a tem-porary effect. Overall, China willcontinue to see a modest slowingin industrial growth by year’s end.

“On closer examination, under-lying inflation remains subdued,and in the details the growth datapoints to a continued slowdown inthe months ahead,” said Tom Orlik,an analyst in Beijing for Stone &McCarthy Research Associates.“We see little in the August data tochange the narrative of slowinggrowth and fading inflation in thefinal months of the year, or to sparka policy response from the govern-ment

China’s power generation in Au-gust rose 12.6 percent from a yearearlier to 390.3 billion kilowatt-hours, Sheng added.

Meanwhile, retail sales of con-sumer goods hit 1.257 billion yuan($185 million) in August, markingan 18.4 percent rise year on year.Sheng said the increase in consump-tion in August was mainly attrib-uted to better-than-expected autosales.

Investment in factories and otherfixed assets also increased, reaching14.1 trillion yuan ($2.1 billion) in thefirst eight months this year, a year-on-year increase of 24.8 percent.

AFP PHOTO / LIU Jin

Workers clean the facade of a shopping mall in Beijing on Sep-tember 12, 2010. China’s inflation edged higher in August as thenation’s worst flooding in a decade drove an increase in foodcosts and industrial growth continued to quicken.

Entertainment InternationalMonday, September 13, 201012

The pair joined David Guggenheim(“An Inconvenient Truth”) for the in-ternational premiere at the Toronto filmfestival of his latest documentary“Waiting for Superman,” which followsfive students as they try to navigate abroken US public school system.

Gates said he hoped to raise aware-ness “that the (US) school system isnot working well today” and encour-age fixes. “The global economy re-quires people to be better educated,”he said. In the United States, “We needsome real reforms.”

Gates noted that companies likeMicrosoft are finding it harder to re-cruit skilled workers in the UnitedStates, and said many local recruitsactually immigrated to the UnitedStates.

“If you look at computer sciencedepartments in the top (US) schools,the majority (of students) are not US-

Agence France Presse

SHANGHAI – California gover-nor Arnold Schwarzenegger saidduring a visit Sunday to the Shang-hai Expo that his state would bid tohost the 2020 World Expo in thetechnology hub of Silicon Valley. “Asthe hub of innovation, Silicon Val-ley is the most natural place to holdthe Expo, which will promote theinternational exchange of ideas, cre-ate jobs and increase revenues in ourstate,” Schwarzenegger said.

Schwarzenegger, who is on a six-day trade mission to Asia that alsowill take him to Japan and SouthKorea, made the announcement in apress conference at the USA pavil-


PARIS – Prolific French filmmaker Claude Chabrol, who helpedstart the New Wave movement inthe 1950s, died on Sunday aged 80,Paris deputy mayor ChristopheGirard told AFP.

Chabrol was “an immenseFrench film director, free, imperti-nent, political and verbose,” saidGirard, Paris city hall’s top cultureofficial.

Born in Paris on June 24, 1930,


TORONTO - One and a half cen-turies after US president AbrahamLincoln’s assassination, America isonce again deeply polarized follow-ing a great tragedy, legendary film-maker Robert Redford said Satur-day. “History is a series of loops,”he said. “We keep repeating our-selves. Right now we’re living in acondition of confusion, and anxietyand fear, and it was the same thing(almost) 150 years ago.”

In the film “The Conspirator,”

Bill Gates,right, speaks

with JohnLegend duringa press confer-

ence for thefilm “Waiting

for Superman”during the 2010

TorontoInternational

Film Festival inToronto

Saturday,September 11,

2010.

AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Darren Calabrese

Bill Gates, John Legend toutBill Gates, John Legend toutBill Gates, John Legend toutBill Gates, John Legend toutBill Gates, John Legend touteducation reform in new filmeducation reform in new filmeducation reform in new filmeducation reform in new filmeducation reform in new filmAgence France Presse

TORONTO - Harvard University dropout and Microsoft founder BillGates and once homeschooled Grammy-winning singer John Legend madea pitch Saturday for reforming America’s beleaguered public schools.

born. That just says something aboutour education system,” he said. Leg-end echoed Gates’ concerns, saying hecares about making America “a placewhere no matter where you come fromyou have the opportunity to succeed.”“But in America if you don’t have agood education you can’t do that.”

Legend admitted that he washomeschooled for part of his early life,before entering public school. As agifted student, he later was “put in atrack where you’re cultivated and in-vested in,” which is not afforded to moststudents.

He went on to graduate from an IvyLeague college. “I was an exception tothe rule at my school, but that doesn’tmean the system works, it just meansin that very small subset the systemworked, which is not nearly enough,”Legend said.

Most others “don’t have that same

opportunity to succeed,” he said. Gatesattended public school for six yearsbefore enrolling in a private school. “Idid drop out eventually (fromHarvard),” he noted.

Guggenheim told reporters heaimed with his latest movie to “attackthis mental block that a lot a of Ameri-cans have, which is that the problemswith our schools are too complex,they’ve been broken too long and it’simpossible.”

“I think that was true about globalwarning,” the subject of his last docu-mentary with Al Gore, he said. “Therewas a disconnect. You read about po-lar bears and you read about ice capsmelting, but you couldn’t put it all to-gether.”

“If a film punctures through thatdisconnect, then people feel like it ispossible and they can fix our schools,”he said, lamenting that 1.2 million kidsdrop out of school in America everyyear. But the problems “have becomeso extreme that these sort of incremen-tal changes are no longer going to doit,” he said. “We have to make funda-mental changes.”

Lincoln assassination film opensin Toronto on 9/11 anniv

which premiered at the Toronto filmfestival on the ninth anniversary ofthe September 11 attacks, Redfordreturns to his independent filmmak-ing roots to chronicle the true storyof the lone woman charged in the1865 conspiracy to assassinate Lin-coln.

“What’s unique about telling thisstory now... (is) the obvious paral-lels that exist with today and yester-day, but that’s not the story that we(wanted) to tell. We wanted to tell amore human, personal story.”

“On the other hand, I think, whether

it’s the reviewer or critic or (the) au-dience, that they’re going to discoverthe parallels on their own. Historyprovides that. We didn’t need to.”

“The political aspects wasn’tanything I had to reach for, it wasjust there.” Sombre ceremonies onSaturday marked an unusually tenseninth anniversary of the September11 attacks to honor the nearly 3,000people killed when Al-Qaeda ex-tremists slammed airliners into NewYork’s World Trade Center, the Pen-tagon outside Washington and afield in Pennsylvania.

Schwarzenegger saysCalifornia to bid for Expo 2020

AFP PHOTO/Philippe Lopez

California Governor ArnoldSchwarzenegger (L) addresses apress conference at the USA pa-vilion at the World Expo 2010 inShanghai on September 12, 2010.

ion at the Shanghai World Expo.“Shanghai demonstrated that

when you host the World Expo, theworld comes to you and I want theworld to come to California,” he said.A formal hosting application will besubmitted next year, with a decisionexpected in 2012.

Silicon Valley, along the southernrim of San Francisco Bay, is the heartof California’s technology industry.The area is home to world-leadingcomputer and Internet companieslike Apple, Google and Yahoo.

The Hollywood star and body-builder is travelling with nearly 100leaders from sectors including tech-nology, tourism and entertainment.

The governor, whose state hasbeen hit hard by the global recession,had vowed before the trip that hewould act as a “salesman-in-chief”for California in a bid to better tapgrowing Asian markets like China.

Saying he was “very impressed”by Shanghai’s high-speed rail sys-tem, he said he hoped Chinese firmswould bid for high-speed rail con-struction in his state.

The Shanghai World Expo, whichopened May 1 and closes at the endof October, has been a showcase ofworld culture and technology and thelatest example of China’s growingclout, after the 2008 Beijing Olym-pics. The three Asian countries onScharzenegger’s itinerary are keytrade partners of his state.

In 2009, California exported 120billion dollars’ worth of goods to over220 foreign markets, including 27billion dollars to China, Japan andSouth Korea. Schwarzenegger is dueto step down as governor in Novem-ber after seven years in office.

French New Wave film directorClaude Chabrol dies: official

Chabrol became famous for his darkportrayals of French provincialbourgeois life. Along with FrancoisTruffaut et Jean-Luc Godard, he wasan icon of French New Wave cin-ema, with all three writing for therenowned Cahiers du Cinema.

He authored dozens of filmsover more than 50 years, from hisfirst work, Le Beau Serge, made in1958 thanks to his wife’s inherit-ance, to his last film, Bellamy, star-ring Gerard Depardieu which wasreleased in 2009.

AP Photo, file

French filmdirector ClaudeChabrol relaxesas he smokes a

pipe in 1990.One of

France’s best-known film

directors,Claude Chabrolhas died at the

age of 80,according to

reports SundaySept 12 2010.

International Monday, September 13, 2010 13Life Style

Joan Sallas, 47, a Catalan masterof folding techniques, spent threemonths folding 200 metres (656 feet)of linen into more than 100 objects forthe show. All are copies of 16th- and17th-century originals, but his onlyguides were old engravings and docu-ments describing imperial and royalbanquets. So his work was akin to de-ciphering a coded message, Sallas ex-plained at a preview of the show, whichopened Wednesday and runs untilJanuary 23.

“This isn’t an exhibit, it’s a researchproject in the form of an exhibit,” he


TOKYO – Japanese researcherssaid Friday they had developed tech-nology to scan a book as fast as a per-son can flip through it. A prototypeultra-speed scanner capable ofdigitising a book in one minute will bebuilt within two years, said the chiefresearcher of the team at the Univer-sity of Tokyo’s Graduate School of In-formation Science and Technology.

The “book-flipping scanning”system works with a camera thatcan take up to 500 photographs persecond, enabling it to record about170 book pages in 60 seconds as aperson thumbs through them.

The system adjusts for the dis-tortion caused by the curvature ofthe moving pages by measuringtheir three-dimensional forms us-ing infra-red beams, so that theimages can be electronically “flat-tened” to look like the original.

“We believe this is the world’s fast-est (scanning) system as far as the

Associated France Presse

LONDON – John Travolta was onto something. Women are mostattracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar tothe actor’s trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.

Kris McCarty and colleagues at Northumbria University and theUniversity of Gottingen in Germany asked 19 men aged 18 to 35 whowere not professional dancers to dance in a laboratory for one minuteto a basic drum rhythm. They filmed the men’s movements with a dozencameras, and then turned those movements into computer-generatedavatars so the study could focus on moves, not appearances.

Scientists then showed the dancing avatars to 37 women, who ratedtheir skills on a scale of 1 to 7. According to the women, the bestdancers were those who had a wide range of dance moves and fo-cused on the head, neck and torso.

The research was published this week in the journal, Biology Let-ters, a publication of Britain’s Royal Society. It was paid for byNorthumbria University.

Study: Flamboyant male dancing attracts women best“In principle, it is possible to break down the motion patterns that

are informative and attractive to women,” said Rufus Johnstone, areader in the evolution of animal behavior at Cambridge University.He was not connected to the research. Johnstone said there were simi-larities between animal mating rituals and what happens in moderndance clubs.

“There are lots of cues females use when choosing a mate, like apeacock puffing out its tail,” he said. “Dancing for humans couldsignal whether a male is fit because it requires the expenditure of a lotof energy.”

Nick Neave, an evolutionary psychologist at Northumbria Univer-sity and one of the study’s co-authors, said women may subconsciouslyjudge how fit a man is by the fluidity of his dancing. He said theirresearch was likely subjective and different cultures would have dif-ferent measures for what constitutes good dancing.

Neave advised bad dancers to improve their core body moves. “Themovements around the head, neck and trunk were the most impor-tant,” he said. “The good dancers had lots of different movementsand used them with flair and creativity.” Johnstone said men who arebad dancers shouldn’t despair.

“Among animals, courtship rituals are very important when thereare very obvious physical displays,” he said. “In humans, I suspect itis much more complicated and may come down to more than whetheror not a man is a good dancer.”

FILE- This is a file photo of John Travolta and Karen Gorneydance in a nightclub scene to disco music in ParamountPictures 1977 film “Saturday Night Fever”, which explores therestless generation growing up in the 70’s.AP Photo/HO, File

AFP PHOTO / HO

This handout picture, released from University of Tokyo’s GraduateSchool of Information Science and Technology on September 10, 2010shows a prototype ultra-speed scanner capable of digitising a book inone minute, develped by professor Masatoshi Ishikawa of the TokyoUniversity. The “book-flipping scanning” system works with a camerathat can take up to 500 photographs per second, enabling it to recordabout 170 book pages in 60 seconds as a person thumbs through them.

Japan rapid scanning systemcan digitize book in one minute

technologies already published areconcerned,” said Yoshihiro Watanabe,who leads the research team.

“We are considering using ro-bots to turn the pages automati-cally and more neatly,” he told AFPby telephone. The university re-searchers teamed up with Japan’sDai Nippon Printing this month toput the technology to practical use,with the aim of building a proto-type scanner within two years.

Japanese printing firms are di-versifying into e-books, which canbe read using handheld devicessuch as Apple’s iPad tablet com-puter or Amazon’s Kindle.

Watanabe said the technology torapidly capture 3-D images of fast-moving objects could be used in avariety of applications from roboticsto industrial and automotive design.

The technology could be usedfor quality control of industrialproducts, he said. “You would justscan products that come out ofmanufacturing lines,” he added.

This Undatedhandout picturereceived onSeptember 7,2010 showsCatalan artistJoan Sallasfolding a napkin.An exhibitionfeaturing napkinsfolded to makeorigami sculp-tures and tabledecorations byCatalan artistJoan Sallasopened in Viennaon September 8,2010 and will rununtil January 23,2011.

AFP PHOTO / HO/Schloss Schonbrunn Kultur/ Trude Lukacsek

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VIENNA - It is a dazzling array of birds, fans and intricate struc-tures, all made simply from folded linen: a lost Renaissance art thathas been revived for a Vienna exhibit called “Folded Beauty”. But thenew show at the Imperial Furniture Collection isn’t really about nap-kins. And to be honest, it isn’t really an exhibit either, says the artistbehind it, more of a life-sized research project.

said jovially. “The heart is not the ob-jects that are here on display but theresearch, which evolves dynamically.”

While dozens of examples of foldednapkins are on show, the most impres-sive pieces are not the kind you wouldever unfold on your lap. Supported bya wooden structure, a towering eagleand lion rear up against an intricate pa-goda, to form a four-metre-long table-top display.

Nearby, an even longer snake slith-ers along one wall, while elaborate pea-cocks, turkeys and even a crab and turtle— all made of delicate folds — throne

on the various cases. These were usedas table decorations at major banquetfunctions.

“It’s a luxury art that was practisedat the table of every European court andthere are so many different forms be-cause the courts competed over whohad the most beautifully dressed table,”Ilsebill Barta, scientific consultant at theImperial Furniture Collection, told AFP.

The art of folding paper and fabricgoes back centuries — the first recordeduse of folded napkins in Europe was in1529 — and did not originate in Asiaas commonly believed. But this tradi-tion has all but disappeared.

“I am very happy that we can spreadthis knowledge here, because it has ac-tually been completely lost: Mr Sallashas revived it,” noted Barta.

There are eight folding techniques— including fans, rolls and lilies —which Sallas used as keys to decode thehistoric works.

Monday, September 13, 201014 InternationalSport

Ancelotti played down his team’s flyingstart to the season, which has seen them openup an early four-point lead over perennialtitle rivals Manchester United. “It meansnothing,” Ancelotti said. “We’ve started bet-ter than Manchester United, but it will be along race. I said last year that the race is onlydecided at the end of the season. I will saythe same this year.”

Manchester United missed the chance tokeep the pressure on Chelsea after Evertonscored twice in stoppage time to scramble a3-3 draw against Sir Alex Ferguson’s menin Saturday’s early game at Goodison Park.

United had appeared to be cruising to vic-tory after goals from Darren Fletcher,Nemanja Vidic and Dimitar Berbatov had can-celled out Steven Pienaar’s first half opener.

However a late header from Tim Cahilland shot from Mikel Arteta gave Everton animprobable share of the points to leaveUnited four points behind Chelsea — andFerguson fuming. “Football can do that toyou,” Ferguson said. “In a game of a com-pletely comfortable position we’ve thrownit away - simple as that. We had chances tobury Everton and we didn’t do it.”

Arsenal stayed in touch at the top with a4-1 rout of 10-man Bolton at the Emirates,with summer signings Laurent Koscielnyand Marouane Chamakh both getting on thescoresheet for Arsene Wenger’s side.

Koscielny had fired the Gunners into a 1-0 lead on 24 minutes but Wanderers hit back


MADRID - Star-studded championsBarcelona slumped to an embarrassing 2-0home defeat at the hands of minnows Herculeson Saturday while Jose Mourinho savouredhis first win in charge of Real Madrid.

Paraguayan forward Nelson Haedo Valdez,signed from Borussia Dortmund, had a day totreasure scoring his first Hercules goal on 26minutes and then another on 58 minutes asBarcelona crashed to a shock defeat against aside who have returned to the top flight after a13-year absence.

Barcelona went the whole season unbeatenat home in the last campaign and this was theirfirst home defeat in the league since May 23,2009 when they lost to Osasuna having alreadywon the title.

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, who mustpick his side up for Tuesday’s ChampionsLeague opener against Panathinaikos at CampNou, refused to make excuses for the Herculessetback. “There have always been internationalbreaks and we didn’t fail to win because ofthat,” said Guardiola.

“I see how the players work every day andI don’t have any doubts about this team.”Guardiola handed a league debut to ArgentinaJavier Mascherano, his 22-million-euro sign-ing from Liverpool, and rested Spanish WorldCup winners Xavi, Sergi Busquets and PedroRodriguez.

Despite Barcelona dominating proceedingsit was underdogs Hercules who struck firstwith a well-worked set-piece. RoystenDrenthe, on loan from Real Madrid, floated ina free-kick which Barcelona defended poorlyand Valdez was allowed to bundle the ballhome.

At half-time Barcelona trailed 1-0 to thedismay of the home fans and Guardiola re-sponded with a double substitution with Xavion for debutant Mascherano and Pedro replac-ing Bojan.

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Chelsea’s Michael Essien, right, jumps to head in the ball to score his second goalagainst West Ham United during their English Premier League soccer match atUpton Park, London, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010.


LONDON – Chelsea maintained their perfect start to the Premier League seasonon Saturday as a dramatic injury time fight back saw a Wayne Rooney-less Manches-ter United throw away victory at Everton. Two goals from Michael Essien and aSalomon Kalou strike helped the Blues to a 3-1 win over West Ham at Upton Park asCarlo Ancelotti’s men preserved their two-point lead at the top of the table.

through Johan Elmander on the stroke of halftime after good work by South Korea inter-national Lee Chong-Yong. Moroccan inter-national Chamakh restored Arsenal’s leadhowever, capitalising on good work fromskipper Cesc Fabregas.

Bolton’s task was made harder when GaryCahill was given a straight red card for a wildlunge on Chamakh before goals from AlexSong and and Carlos Vela sealed the points.Wenger meanwhile said Arsenal’s refusal tobe unsettled by a physical Bolton team wasproof of his team’s growing resilience.

“We have had two games, at Blackburn andtoday, which we certainly would not havetaken six points from two years ago,” Wengersaid. “The players can handle these situa-tions.” At Eastlands, Manchester City’s fal-tering form continued as they were held to a1-1 draw by Blackburn Rovers.

A dreadful mix-up between England goal-keeper Joe Hart and Kolo Toure saw City fallbehind, Nikola Kalinic sneaking in to putBlackburn 1-0 up.

However City got back on level terms earlyin the second half when former French inter-national Patrick Vieira netted a vital equaliserfor Roberto Mancini’s multi-millionaires.City boss Mancini refused to blame Hart forhis blunder.

“This is a fluke, it can happen in footballbut I hope after today we finish making giftsto the opponent. It can happen. Joe Hart is agood goalkeeper,” Mancini stressed.

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Barca humbled by Hercules,Mourinho gets first win

An equaliser looked on the cards but closeto the hour mark Tiago Gomes did well downright and found Valdez who fired into the topcorner for a second Hercules goal. Real bossMourinho had Portuguese compatriot RicardoCarvalho to thank for scoring the decisive goalin the 1-0 win over Osasuna at the SantiagoBernabeu.

The 32-year-old Carvalho scored his firstgoal in Madrid colours on 48 minutes to en-sure a winning home debut for Mourinho fol-lowing a disappointing 0-0 draw at RealMallorca on the opening day of the campaign.

Carvalho, who has played for Mourinho atFC Porto, Chelsea and now Real, had a simpletap-in for the winning goal after being set-upby Cristiano Ronaldo.

“The Barcelona defeat is a surprise but it ispart of football and the important thing wasthat we won,” said Ronaldo. “We didn’t playfantastically well but at this stage winning isthe crucial thing.” The victory took Real a pointabove champions Barcelona. Mourinho madefour changes to the starting line-up againstMallorca handing first league starts to Germaninternationals Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira.

Ronaldo was expected to be out for anotherfortnight with an ankle injury but the Portu-guese winger made a miraculous recovery tostart. Ronaldo had the first real opening of thematch on 20 minutes latching on to a pass fromthe lively Ozil but his low shot was well saved.A flat goalless first half saw jeers at the half-time whistle from the unhappy home fans.However, three minutes after the break, Realgave Mourinho his first goal as coach.

Karim Benzema crossed for Ronaldo wholooked certain to score but goalkeeper Ricardoblocked well. Ronaldo reacted quickly, how-ever, to poke the ball to Carvalho for an easytap-in.

The goal repaid the faith from Mourinhowho signed Carvalho for Chelsea in 2004 be-fore recruiting him for Madrid this summer foreight million euros.

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The popular Belgian secondseed clinched her third Grand Slamtitle in style when she whackedanother forehand winner past a be-wildered Zvonareva.

It was the 15th straight-set USOpen women singles final in a rowdating back to Steffi Graf’s three-set win over Monica Seles in 1995and at 59 minutes the quickestsince timings were first kept in1980. There has not been a morelop-sided US Open final sinceMaria Bueno of Brazil defeatedCarole Caldwell Graebner of theUnited States 6-1, 6-0 in 1964.

“A little bit of experience defi-nitely helps,” she said. “It’s tough(for Zvonareva), but it took me sixor seven finals until I finally gotone.”

A distraught-looking Zvonarevasaid simply: “Kim just played tre-mendously well and she deservedto win.” In a repeat showing of lastyear, Clijsters was joined on theArthur Ashe Stadium court after theprize-award ceremony by two-and-a-half year-old daughter Jada andbasketball-playing husband BrianLynch.

The 27-year-old Clijsters wasplaying in her third US Open final,


FRANKFURT - World IBFand WBO heavyweight championWladimir Klitschko saw off chal-lenger Samuel Peter on Saturdaywith a 10th round technicalknock-out. The 34-year-oldKlitschko had few problems as he

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Kim Clijsters from Belgium and her daughter Jada after defeat-ing Vera Zvonareva from Russia during the Women’s SinglesFinal at US Open 2010 match at the USTA Billie Jean King Na-tional Tennis Center in New York September 11, 2010.

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NEW YORK - Kim Clijsters defended her US Open title on Saturday by crushing the chal-lenge of a shell-shocked Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-1 in just 59 minutes, the fastest final since timingrecords were first kept. It was a blowout of a championship match with Clijsters clamping astranglehold on the game from the first exchanges and never allowing the less-experienced Rus-sian a chance to claw her way back into it.

having won the title in 2005 and lastyear when she stepped out of a two-year retirement, during which shegave birth to Jada, to become thefirst wildcard to win a Grand Slamtitle.

Her tough three-sets win overVenus Williams in the second ofFriday’ssemi-finals was her 20thstraight win at Flushing Meadowsspread over five years. Zvonareva,a year younger at 26, reached herfirst Grand Slam final atWimbledon in July, losing instraight sets to Serena Williams,after proving that she could controlher volatile temperament over thecourse of a Grand Slam tournamentfortnight.

She reached Saturday’s finalwithout losing a set and with a hugestraight-set win over top seed andlast year’s runner-up CarolineWozniacki of Denmark in the semi-finals. The two finalists had playedeach other seven times, withClijsters leading the series 5-2, butit was Zonareva who had won theirlast two encounters, including athree-set victory in the Wimbledonquarter-finals.

Games went with serve until 3-2for Clijsters when a Zvonareva

double fault and two unforced errorsset up a break point for the Belgianwhich she took when the Russian hita forehand marginally long.

Zvonareva tested Clijsters withsome big-hitting down both flanksin the next game, but the secondseed more than held her ground andher serve to lead 5-2. The defend-ing champion then piled on thepressure to break Zvonareva to lovein the following game for a one-setlead.

Clijster won the first 10 points ofthe second set to jump out into a 3-0lead with Zvonareva losing her cooland smashing her racquet in abjectfrustration. Zvonareva finally brokea run of nine games in a row againsther to get to 3-1, but she just couldnot live with the relentless pressurethat Clijsters was applying with eachrally.

The Russian did manage onebreak point in the following game,but Clijsters blasted that out of theway to take a 4-1 ahead. A doublefault from Zvonareva set up anotherbreak point which she saved with atimely ace, but Clijsters then hit abooming forehand winner and a sec-ond double fault from the Russianmade it mission impossible for her.

Champion Klitschko knocks out Peter to retain titlessecured his 49th knock-out and55th victory in his 58th fight ashe enjoyed the second win of hiscareer against Peter, who turned30 on Saturday.

Klitschko had been due to boxIBF mandatory challengerAlexander Povetkin, but when theRussian pulled out of the fight,

Peter stepped in, but he rarelythreatened the champion.

With Peter tiring in the laterrounds, Klitschko finally brokefree of the Nigerian’s holding tac-tics and landed a flurry of puncheswhich rocked the African and ul-timately left him on the canvas.

“I did everything I could for the

win, I tried to go in to get it earlier.It didn’t happen, but eventually wegot it,” said Klitschko. “He cost mea lot of energy and he definitely de-serves a round of applause.”

This was the third t ime aKlitschko has beaten Peter as el-der brother Vitali beat the Nige-rian with an eighth-round knock-out in October 2008, two roundsquicker than his younger sibling,to win the WBC heavyweighttitle. “I am proud of my brotherand believe he is the better boxer,”said Wladimir when asked abouthis slower win.

Having started out by using hissuperior reach to keep Peter atbay, Klitschko landed a strongleft-right combination in the sec-ond which rocked the Nigerianearly on. The opening rounds weremarred by plenty of holding asPeter struggled againstKlitschko’s obvious reach andheight advantage.

The Ukrainian champion seemedwilling to wear down Peter and nei-ther fighter landed any punches ofsignificance.

Klitschko was put down threetimes when the pair last met in At-lantic City in September 2005 in anIBF eliminator when the 34-year-old survived the onslaught to earn

a unanimous decision over 12rounds. There was no such dramathis time as the challenger took amore conservative approach andPeter resorted to holding tactics,especially in the later rounds.

Peter was labouring by the endof the sixth round, but managed tocatch the champion with a goodright hook. Klitschko stepped up thepace in the seventh and looked forthe knock-out he had promised inthe fight build up.

Peter called a break in the fightearly in the round when he took the10 seconds allowed to re-tape hisgloves, but Klitschko wasted notime to keep up the pressure on thechallenge with a series of tellingpunches.

By the eighth, Peter’s face wasshowing signs of the punishmentKlitschko was dishing out and hisleft eye was starting to close as thereferee Robert Byrd kept warninghim for holding.

In the tenth, Klitschko finallybroke free of Peter’s holds to landthe punches which left the Nigerianflat out on the canvas before beinghelped to his feet.

With 27 knock-outs in 34 wins,Peter was WBC heavyweight cham-pion from 2006 to 2008, but thiswas the fourth defeat of his career.

Ukrainian heavy-weight championWladimirKlitschko (R)competes withNigeria ‘s SamuelPeter on Septem-ber 11, 2010during theirHeavyweight IBF,WBO and IBOChampionshipfight in Frankfurtam Main, Ger-many. Klitschkodefend his title inRound 10 withtechnical ko.against SamuelPeter of Nigeria onSeptember 11,2010 in Frankfurt’sCommerzbankArena.AFP PHOTO / PATRIK STOLLARZ

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He held on to second, but couldnot prevent Ogier pulling out a 15.7-second lead and claiming the vic-tory, despite the Frenchman havingnever contested this event before.

“It’s amazing, I’m really, reallyhappy,” said Ogier. “Arriving here Isaid ‘okay, it will be a difficult rallyfor me - I don’t like this kind ofstage, it’s very rough and it’s myfirst time.’ But immediately wefound a good feeling and a goodrhythm, and now we have won, soit’s perfect.”

Solberg’s participation in therally had initially been in doubt dueto illness, but once the full-lengthstages began on Friday he shruggedoff his fever and controlled theevent.

He briefly lost the lead when hewas given a 10s penalty for jump-ing a stage start on Saturday after-noon, before moving back to thefront as others used slowing tacticsto avoid running first on the roadtoday. The damper problem meant

FERNANDO Alonso has conceded that, despitebeing allowed to keep his controversial victory in theGerman Grand Prix, he needs to finish in the top threeat Monza to keep his title ambition on track.

The Spaniard, currently 41 points off top spot, will startfrom the best possible position for Ferrari’s home grandprix, having claimed the Scuderia’s first pole since Interlagos2008, and is confident that the F10 will be as competitive inthe race as it proved in qualifying. Team-mate Felipe Massaunderlined the car’s potential by taking third on the grid infront of the tifosi, sandwiching McLaren’s Jenson Button,who needs a good result as much as Alonso.

“I think we need a podium minimum to remain in thefight,” Alonso confirmed, “There is not a big pressure, abig stress, about winning the race or winning the nextfew races but, at the same time, we know we cannot af-ford another DNF or another bad result. We must try to

Ogier clinches victory in JapanJapan - Sebastien Ogier clinched his second World Rally Championship victory and his first in the

works Citroen team by overcoming Petter Solberg in Japan. Citroen privateer Solberg had led themajority of the event and looked set to take a stunning win, the first for an independent entry for atleast 16 years, until a broken damper cost him ground on the final loop of stages this afternoon.

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France’s Sebastien Ogier (R) and his co-driver Julien Ingrassiaof Citroen Total WRT spray champagne on the podium after theirvictory at the 2010 Rally of Japan FIA World Rally Champion-ship in Sapporo on September 12, 2010. Ogier and Ingrassiawon the competition with a total time of 3 hours, 10 minutes,26.4 seconds.

he was never able to demonstrate ifhe would have been able to hold offOgier despite his road position.

“Obviously I never thought wewould go so well after the flu andthe fever and everything - I felt ter-rible at the start of the rally,” saidSolberg. “But the car worked reallywell and I really had a good feelingfor everything. Unfortunately we hadthis problem with the car. But I’mreally happy.”

Both works Fords had also beenin the thick of the battle for victoryduring a thrilling weekend, but bothwere denied by mechanical prob-lems. Jari-Matti Latvala recoveredfrom a Saturday afternoon driveshaftbreakage - which happened just af-ter Solberg’s penalty had given himthe lead - to chase down Dani Sordoand reclaim third from the CitroenJunior driver with four stages to go.

Mikko Hirvonen fared worse,though. He started today second be-hind Solberg and poised to challengefor the lead, only for a differential prob-

lem to strike. With no service today,Hirvonen had to nurse his car throughthe entire leg, and tumbled to sixth.

He finished behind championshipleader Sebastien Loeb, who was outof sorts all weekend and finished53.3s behind team-mate Ogier infifth. But with Ogier still 43 pointsadrift in the standings, Loeb looksnear certain to clinch his seventhconsecutive WRC title on home turfin France at the start of October.

Henning Solberg (Stobart Ford)and Federico Villagra (Munchi’sFord) completed the WRC runners,with Ford’s Khalid Al Qassimi,Stobart’s Matthew Wilson andCitroen Junior’s Kimi Raikkonencrashing out on Friday, Saturdayand Sunday respectively.

Jari Ketomaa led the S2000 con-test from the outset and finishedninth overall ahead of class rivalMartin Prokop. Patrik Flodin domi-nated the Production division onceToshi Arai had crashed out of thelead on Friday morning.

Alonso admits podium is minimum requirement

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Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso of Spain steershis car on his way to set the pole position forSunday’s Italian Formula One Grand Prix at theMonza racetrack, in Monza, Italy, Saturday, Sept.11, 2010.

be consistent and try to be on the podium minimum.“If we can win the race, it would be great, but what

we need is consistency, something that we didn’t haveso far in the championship. For that reason, we are notfighting now for first position, but tomorrow we have agreat chance to get a strong result and we will see whereour opponents finish.

“I think, this season, one of our strongest points hasbeen race pace, not so much qualifying, so I don’t havetoo many worries about the pace [on Sunday]. We justneed to do a good start, a consistent pace in the first stintand also when we fit the prime tyres. We know how de-manding Monza is on the mechanical side of the car -we saw some problems on the car yesterday for manyteams, and we saw another problem this morning fortwo or three teams - so it is not an easy race to finish.Let’s try to have everything under control [and see] ifwe can and try to finish the race with the maximum pointspossible. Obviously, we’re in the best position possibleto avoid any risk at the start, but you never know.”

With drivers within the same team taking differentapproaches to qualifying and the race - notably Buttonand Lewis Hamilton at McLaren - the outcome of theirstrategies could prove to be the key to the result, butAlonso is optimistic that Ferrari will be more competi-tive that it proved at Spa.

“Yesterday, I think the maximum number of lapseverybody did was around eight or nine so, after ninelaps, nobody knows how the tyres will behave for any-one,” he noted, “We just need to remain calm and doour race and see what happens in the end.

“Obviously, Spa was a disappointment. We were nottoo quick there, so part of the disappointment of thebad result were concerns about our pace, about our levelof competitiveness. Now though I think we are muchmore focused and much more confident in our latestdevelopments on the car.

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