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LEMBONGAN - Fe-rocity of the waves in the waters of Nusa Lem-bongan, Nusa Penida, claimed another casualty. After the wooden boat Sri Murah Rejeki drowned in the waters around Jungutbatu, Lembongan, that killed 11 passengers and 13 others missed until now, this time a tourist from France, Jean Francois Frud Homme was found dead while

Damage in power station cause blackout

The General Manager of In-donesian Electrical Company (PLN) for Bali area, Dadan Koer-noadipoera, said, “The blackout caused by the broken isolator in the main generator. It is possibly because the earthquake which happened on Thursday, October 13, 2011.”

He explained that the prob-lem made the southern and eastern part of Bali suffered from total blackout. According to Dadan, the damage was found

out after the officers carry out maintenance for the generator.

“The blackout is out of our pre-diction and we are not scheduling the power cut,” he added. Because of the incident, the PLN suffer 51 million rupiah of loss because they lose the opportunity to sell electric-ity for 30 minutes.

“The capacity of electric-ity which was loss during the blackout was 80% from the total power which is 480 megawatts,” Dadan said.

Antara

Denpasar – The damage in the main power station in Kapal Village, Mengwi District, Badung Regency, caused blackout in Bali for 30 minutes on Monday, October 17, 2011. The broken components made the power station could not operate for several minutes.

Two technicians from State-owned Electricity Company repairing the

electricity tower.

FOTO ANTARA/Rosa Panggabean

Swimming in LembonganFrench tourist found dead

swimming in the waters of Lembongan, Saturday (Oct 15) afternoon. The 61-year old man having a profession as surgeon in his home country was found floating with some wounds on the body.

Chief of Klungkung Pol ice , Tr i Wahyudi , Sunday (Oct 16) men-tioned the body of Jean Francois would be im-mediately taken back to his country (France) by his family. The fam-ily did not al low the

autopsy against the body of victim that so far lived at the Chandra Asri Hous-ing Complex, Batubulan. “Dossier examination of the case has been made (last Saturday). However, the victim’s wife was not pleased, including when the authority was about to make autopsy, his wife did not allow as the body of her husband would be brought back to his home country,” said the Chief of Klungkung Police.

IBP/Net

Ferocity of the waves in the waters of Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Penida, claimed another casualty. After the wooden boat Sri Murah Re-jeki drowned in the waters around Jungutbatu, Lembongan, that killed 11 passengers and 13 others missed until now, this time a tourist from France, Jean Francois Frud Homme was found dead while swimming in the waters of Lembongan, Saturday (Oct 15) afternoon.

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It was revealed by a member of Karangasem House, Nengah Suparta, Sunday (Oct 16). The legislator from Samuh, Candidasa, said that his party received many complaints from a number of ho-teliers in Candidasa. Suparta asked not only the police, but also the Regent of Karangasem to intervene how to provide convenience for foreign tourists in Candidasa. He confessed to worry because tourists liked to have a promenade at night other than going to a restaurant.

“If the reckless speeding by young children is allowed to con-tinue in Candidasa, we worry and fear that tourists will leave Candi-dasa. During this time, Candidasa

-lems aside from the arrangement of buildings” he said.

Foreign tourists had long been disturbed by reckless speeding as the act of motorcycle gang. Addi-tionally, their actions also made the

situation noisy. Besides, Candidasa

was quite dense and often dan-gerous to pedestrians. “Reckless speeding by young motorcyclists is not only done on Saturday night, but also on other weekdays’ night. They play hide-and-seek with po-lice. When a police on guard, they are silent, but when police leave the location they will promptly do action,” he said.

On the other hand, Chief of Karangasem Police, Jefri Torunde,

on the speeding cases in Candidasa said that his party had often taken actions. Other than in Candidasa, similar action also occurred in Am-lapura right on Jalan PB Sudirman.

his party also participated in person to take action against the perpetrators of speeding until around 3:00 a.m. on Jalan PB Sudirman. “We directed the per-

petrators to Karangsokong and we took action there,” he said.

According to him, his party

guard in the police post of Candi-dasa. Speeding perpetrators were young boy of Karangasem alone. “We have also taken action against them, but some remain to act. We expect they should not only be banned by police, but also by their parents,” he said.

Chief of Karangasem Police alleged if the young people in Karangasem did so because they lacked of entertainment. To resolve it, they did speed-ing activities on the highway. Chief Jefri Torunde said there was a need to make a motor-cycle track for young children who liked doing so. “We hope they do not do speeding on the highway. If necessary, they can excel as a real motorcycle rider,” he said. (013)

ANOTHER quite unique tradition is shown off by customary village in Buleleng Regency. Three customary villages in Sawan Subdistrict, namely the Kerobokan, Kloncing and Sinabun customary village still maintain their distinctive nyekar tradition carried out by night watch (makemit) on Segara Beach, Kerobokan. It is a variant of pakelem ceremony held at sea. The tradition of night watch on the beach is not only done by the apparatus of customary village or family head, but it can also be done together with family.

By and large, this tradition is per-formed around the full moon in the fourth month in Balinese calendar (around October) and local people call it rahina nadi, or a very auspicious day. Kerobokan customary village, for in-stance, performed pakelem ceremony or nyekar right on the full moon of the fourth month. Sinabun Village does it the day after full moon, while Kelonc-ing Village takes a different day. On the appointed day, the road of Kerobokan Beach area has been crowded from the morning. Local villagers organizing the night watch ceremony bring some bam-boo poles of various sizes. The bamboo will be used to establish a kind of small hut on the beach. Meanwhile, the roof is made of new fabric or the one that has never been used. Similarly, the side walls are made of new fabric. Then, people will sleep or unwind as the initial series of nyekar ceremony.

Now and again, after passing the 00:00 p.m. Local Time, residents began to be busy preparing for the pinnacle of nyekar or pakelem procession. It ordinarily takes place around 03:00 a.m. or before sunrise.

washing away the sekah to the sea. Alter-natively people also wash away a canang

sari offering along with incense put inside a cubical frame made of banana midrib

Jro Mangku Made Sudirtha, a temple priest at Kerobokan customary village said that nyekar ceremony was an ex-

because the ceremony held in the village territory has run well. “Essentially, the ceremony poses an expression of grati-tude and apologies for the shortcomings or mistakes during the performance of ceremony. Then, we will start a new life at the customary village,” he said.

According to him, nyekar procession on Kerobokan Beach had been going on for generations. Though the time had evolved, people were excited to follow the nyekar procession until the end. However, the development of time had also affected the way the procession went on. Before the existence of a rapid means of transpor-tation, local customary villagers usually went to Kerobokan Beach on foot. Today, people used a means of transportation like car or motorcycle. “Most importantly, the core of the ceremony does not change, only people are getting more practical,” said Mangku Sudirtha.

Interestingly, the tradition of night watch on the beach is not only carried out by village apparatus or representative of the family. Occasionally local residents also take their families so the tradition then becomes a series of religious pro-cession and a recreational moment for the family. People coming to location bring along their offerings and dinner to be enjoyed together on the beach. On that account, they are willing to come to the beach early, just to enjoy the beautiful sunset and crashing waves while savoring the dinner brought from the home. Above all, the activities on Segara Kerobokan are preceded by prayers en masse. (ole)

Speeding recklessly, tourists turn scared

Candidasa feared to be getting more slumped

IBP/File

One of the hotel in Candidasa area

Amlapura (Bali Post)—Reckless speeding by motorcycle gang in Candidasa taking place for long time causes

tourists to fear when they would like to have a promenade at night. A number of foreign hoteliers complained because the action of young children was ignored by relevant au-thorities and it evidently continued to occur.

Three customary villages in Sawan

Maintain a night watch tradition on Kerobokan Beach

IBP/File

The Hindus in Buleleng Regency pray on Kerobokan Beach

3International Bali News Tuesday, October 18, 2011

keeping raw potential that should

transportation in this area.The only way of pulling inves-

tor is building toll road and airportin North Bali area. It emphasized

Bali, Panudiana Khun after a Con-sultation and ConsolidationApindo

many potential in Buleleng has notyetdevelopedbyassetowner.This is

Buleleng needs three hours through

investordoubtly investing theirassetin this area. Solving this problem,

This roadwill shorten the travel timefrom Denpasar to Buleleng. “Thisroad is very important due to assetowner interested with short traveltime,” said him.

In the other side Buleleng alsoneeds air transportation. It will

to develop existing potential inNorthBali.This internationalairport

Airport is veryneeded inBuleleng,”said him. Further Buleleng Regent,Putu Bagiada said businessman and

region government kept an effort tosupport investment development.“We saw existing businessman

absorption,” said him.

Deputy Chairman of the Ba-

said the planned investment in the

Regent of Badung in the plenary

positively.

the investment had not yet been

-

budget in the regional budget.-

eration with the third party.

we need to talk about the essentialmatters like business plans as wellas the amount of investment,” hesaid.

As reported previously, the

would soon be worked on. Permis-sion to the Minister of Forestry

had been issued. Meanwhile, re-garding the investment plan, GdeAgung previously had given apositive signal that Badung would

be set up in the main regional bud--

with the development priorities in(kmb25)

IN the endeavor to preserve the

-

government through the Ministryof Culture and Tourism is going to

-

development isplannedbasedonthe-

-

Until nowadays, many templeshave been restored, while some

-

of residential sites was one of the

development. The residential sites

interesting settlement. Residentialsites, as its name implied were al-leged to be the settlement during

developed.-

was relatively narrow if used as a

north and east side, where position

In the meantime, pursuant tothe agreement outlined by theMinister of Tourism and Culture

-ment of Indonesia. Those value

to thevaluesof thenationalwisdom

-sition.This site has an areaof 11x11

bytheresidents.Tobuild thesiteandthe park would be required a largeamount of budget.

this site has an amazing beauty andretainsprofoundvaluesrelated to thehistory of the nation. (dar)

Nusa Dua-Benoa toll road project

Investment plan not yet discussed

IBP/File

Benoa pictured from above.

Mangupura (Bali Post)—Investment plan of Badung Regency for the highway project on the waters of Nusa Dua

- Benoa that will be allocated through the Badung Regional Budget 2012 has been put into

House up to now.

Majapahit Park

Rescuing endeavor for Majapahit Site

Buleleng Needs Airport to Attract Investor

International4 Tuesday, October 18, 2011 News

Hollande, a 57-year-old moder-ate known more as a behind-the-scenes consensus-builder than a visionary, is seen by many as a wel-come contrast to the tough-talking, hard-driving Sarkozy. Opinion polls say Hollande is the leftists’ best chance to win the presidency for the first time since 1988.

Sunday’s vote for the main oppo-

sition party’s presidential nominee comes at a time when many French citizens are worried about high state debt, cuts to education spending, anemic economic growth and lin-gering unemployment.

With 2.2 million votes counted after Sunday’s run-off voting, the Socialist Party said 56 percent of the ballots were for Hollande and 44

percent for his challenger Martine Aubry, who had succeeded Hol-lande as Socialist Party leader.

The party estimates that more than 2.7 million people voted in Sunday’s run-off.

“I note with pride and respon-sibility the vote tonight, which ... gives me the large majority I had sought,” Hollande told supporters

in party headquarters as results rolled in.

He said the victory gives him “strength and legimitacy” to take on Sarkozy, who is widely expected to seek a second five-year term in elections in April and May.

Hollande pledged to reverse Sarkozy-era cuts in school fund-ing and defend “equality and progress” at a time when many voters in France — and around the world — are angry over economic troubles and the sway that finan-cial markets hold over politics.

Aubry quickly conceded de-

feat. She had sought to be France’s first female president.

“I warmly congratulate Fran-cois Hollande, who is clearly ahead. His victory is unques-tionable,” said Aubry, famed for authoring France’s 35-hour workweek law.

The bespectacled Hollande was the longtime partner of the Social-ists’ last presidential candidate, Segolene Royal. The two split after Royal’s 2007 presidential defeat to Sarkozy but stood side-by-side during Hollande’s victory speech Sunday.

French Socialist Party secre-

tary general Martine Aubry,

reacts before her vote for

the second round of primary

elections of the Socialist Par-

ty in Lille, northern France,

Sunday Oct, 16, 2011.

AP Photo/Michel Spingler

Hollande claims win in French presidential primary

Associated Press Writer

PARIS — Former French Socialist Party chief Francois Hollande declared victory Sunday in the party’s presidential primary, urging the left to unite around his bid to unseat embattled conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in elections next year.

Agence France Presse

The Philippines said Sunday it was prepared to defend its claims in the South China Sea, but downplayed a plan by Taiwan to deploy mis-siles in the area.

Defence department spokesman Zosimo Jesus Paredes said the coun-try enjoyed good relations with Taiwan and believed its plan to supply missiles to coastguard units in the areas it claims was not a threat to the Philippines.

“We cannot dictate on Taiwan on what or what not to do,” Paredes told reporters. “For as long as they don’t occupy what we already occupy, we have no problem. Live and let live.”

However, he said Manila was prepared to “defend to the hilt” islets it has already occupied in the Spraltys. He did not elaborate.

China claims all of the South China Sea, including the Spratlys, a group of islands and islets believed to sit atop vast oil and mineral reserves.

Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, the Philippines and Malaysia also lay claim to all or part of the Spratlys.

The overlapping claims have been a source of tension in the region, with the United States reiterating a call to all parties last week to peace-fully solve the problem following Taiwan’s threat.

Philippines unfazed by Taiwan Spratlys missile plan

IBP/afp

An aerial photo shows Thitu Island, part of the disputed Spratly group of islands, in the South China Sea located off the coast of western Philippines on July 20, 2011.

Activities Tuesday, October 18, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for October 11 through October 29, 2011

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

11 Oct Purnama Kapat Bhatara Tiga Sakti (Padmasana) Penataran Agung BesakihMeru Cakra LombokLempuyang Madya KarangasemPenerejon Temple KintamaniPulaki Temple BulelengTirta Emupul Tampak SiringPuseh, Village T, Penataran, Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Cemenggoan SukawatiTirta Temple Negari SingapaduPuseh-Pr. Desa. Penataran Tangsub SukawatiPenataran Agung TegalalangmDesa Denjalan BatubulanPuseh Temple Singakerta UbudNataran Sanding TampaksiringBakung Temple Ceningan Nusa PenidaPasek Getas Kawan Kedewatan UbudAgung Dukuh Sakti Pangku/Subamia BrabanPasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg TabananPasek Gelgel Klating Dukuh KerambitanPasek Bendesa Mas Gadungan SelemadengAgung Pasek Temple Tohjiwa Wanasari SelemadegPr. Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem KarangsemPuseh Werdi Agung emoga Bolang Mangondow SulutDukuh Segening Wangsiang KarangasemDalem Kahyangan Arya Gajahpare SukaluwihTejakula BulelengPasraman Suci Temple Renon DenpasarPenaratan Agung Kertabumi T. M. I. I. Jakarta TimurPuru Luwur Waisnawa, Asah Badung-Sepang BulelengUlun Danu Batur Songan KintamaniAgung Surya Bhuwana Skyline JayaPapuaDalem Bengkel Temple Ubung DenpasarMerajan Suci Geriya Penataran Gemeh DenpasarPejenggali Temple TegalalangPasek Bendesa Gadungan Selemadeg TabananPanti Pasek Gelgel Meliling KerambitanPajenengan Dukuh Ogan Sangkan Gunung Rendang KarangasemDadia Dukuh Segening Lampung Tengah

Dukuh Sakti Blatung Kuruh KerambitanGumang (bukit Juru) Bugbug KarangasemKawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon KapalPejenengan Pulasari Desa Dukuh Sidemen KarangasemSegara Penimbangan Bakti Segara BulelengPuseh Yeh Ulakan Suana Nusa PenidaPr. Mentik Ring Gunung Lebah Batur KintamaniPasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kuruh KerambitanPr. Penataran UbudLuhur Giri Kusuma Daun Peken Blahkiuh AbiansemalPemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang Busungbiu BulelengDalem Puri Temple Batuan SukawatiDalem Temple Kediri Silakarang SingapaduDalem Temple SukawatiDalem Temple Singakerta Ubud

19 Oct Buda Keliwon Ugu Dalem Tarukan Temple Peninjoan Tembuku - BangliPasek Gelgel Boading Kaba-kaba - TabananPemayun Temple Banyuning Tengah - BulelengDesa Kayangan Tiga Bubunan Seririt - BulelengAgung Gunung Raung Taro Kaja Taro - TegalalangMerajan Pasek Dangka Bungbungan

29 Oct Tumpek Wayang Majapahit Temple JembranaOdalan Betara ratu Gede Celuk SukawatiOdalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon SukawatiPanti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan DenpasarBetara Ratu Alit dan Ratu Lingsir Singakerta UbudPedarmaan Dalem Sukawati BesakihPedarmaan Mengwi BesakihPedarmaan Kaba-kaba BesakihPedarmaan dalem Bakas BesakihDadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel KlungkungMerajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung PengatepanPedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Temple Besakih (Dalem Klungkung)Penataran Giri Purwa & PesramanKendal Rejo Tegal Delimo BanyuangiPemrajan Agung Temple Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung

With exceptional determination and commitment the hotel’s manage-ment together with a dedicated team of employees implemented the ‘Tsu-nami Ready Hotels’ standard-even contributing to existing regulations with some innovative ideas.

Now guests at AerowisataSanur Beach Hotel can relax even more-knowing that in the event of a tsunami alarm a well-trained team will take care of them.

AerowisataSanur becomes IBP

SANUR - Congratulations to AerowisataSanur Beach Hotel As of 10.10.2011 this beautiful retreat on Bali’s popular Sanur Beach is ‘Tsunami Ready’ certified, setting new standards for the local hotel community, Alexander Kesper, Security & Safety Executive of Bali Hotels Association said.

Highlight of the certification ses-sion was a fully blown test evacua-tion involving guests as well as all hotel staff.

After the hotels internal tsunami warning siren was triggered, guests were rushed to the evacuation spot by members of the evacuation team which are dressed in orange signal vests for easy identification.

While guest safety is top prior-ity the hotel also closed down its

major departments, making for example sure that no gas leaks in the kitchens and that all essential documents are secured.

At the evacuation spot guests were greeted by the evacuation spot manager who makes sure nobody gets lost in the process. The evacuation spot is equipped with food and water for 2 days as well as essential medical and hygienic equipment.

While everybody enjoyed the excitement and rush of the very speedy and successful evacuation the event highlighted the need for meticulous preparation as well as training as when tsunami strikes its minutes that count.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6 News International

From page 1

It was a question many Italianswere asking as workmen swept up

churchwalls, repairedbrokenstatues,replaced shatteredbankwindowsandATM machines and towed away theburned-out shellsofcars.Hundredsofhooded, masked protesters rampagedthrough the capital on Saturday dur-ing a larger peaceful protest againstelites blamed for an economic crisis.Clashes with police raged for at leastsix hours.

Apart from the material damage,estimated by merchants’ groups atmore than a million euros, MayorGianni Alemanno said the capitalwould long suffer from the “moraldamage” and shock caused by therampageand thebadpublicityaroundtheworld.Manyaskedwhypolicedidnot intervene earlier to stop the hard-core protesters, who call themselves“BlackBloc,” fromarriving inRome,

The “Black Bloc” members ap-proached the demonstration alreadywearing masks, hoods or motorcyclehelmets and brandishing sticks, pipesand other objects.

“PROTESTERS NOT FROM MARS”

MassimoDonadi,a legislatorof theopposition ItalyofValuesparty, calledon the interior minister to addressparliament and explain why the situ-ation got out of hand and why morepreventive action had not been taken.“Theseprofessionalsofviolence ...didnot arrive from Mars,” Donadi said.“We want the interior minister to tellus how it happened.”

MayorAlemannocalled forpoliceto “strike out at the violent factionsbefore they can deploy.” Many Ital-ians also asked why police managedto arrest only 12 of the hundreds

of violent demonstrators who usedsticks, rock, bottles and even fireextinguishers in running battles withpolice in wide open piazzas as well asnarrow streets.

Whilediscontent is smouldering inItalyoverhighunemployment, politi-cal paralysis and60billioneuros ($83billion)ofausteritymeasures thathaveraised taxesandthecostofhealthcare,few expected the demonstrations todegenerate into such violence.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconisaid those responsible must be identi-

worrying. “They must be condemnedby everyone without reservation,”he said.

OnSundayasmallgroupofpeace-ful protesters re-deployed to asquare in front of a church nearwhere some of the violence tookplace to continue a sit-in. “We arethe real indignant ones,” one said.“They stole our day.”

REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Demonstrators vandalise a burning Carabinieri police vehicle during a demonstration of the “Indignant” group against banking and finance in Rome October 15, 2011.

Rome cleans up devastation, asks why it happenedReuters

ROME - Workers cleaned up the wreckage from some of Rome’s worst riots in years onunday and citizens asked why their city was the only one in which global demonstrations

turned violent. esterday we once again showed the world the anomaly of Italy and today weonce again have to feel shame, La tampa newspaper said in a front-page editorial. Why didit happen only here

Agence France Presse

A circus elephant in Vietnamscooped up an 11-year-old girlwith its trunk as she tried to feedit, threw her to the ground andtrampled her to death, policesaid.

Nguyen Thao Anh was offer-ing sugarcane to the animal in thecity of Lao Cai, on the Chineseborder, on Sunday when the at-

Phan Van Quang.“She was trampled to death on

the spot”, he told AFP.

Nguyen Xuan Quang, deputydirector of the Vietnam CircusFederation, said the girl’s fatherhad taken her in to feed the el-ephant, which was in a fencedcompound with its legs chained.The father was talking on his tele-phone when the attack happened,Quang added.

Children had been teasingthe elephant -- a veteran circusperformer whose behaviour wasnormally good, he added.

“We postponed our last showin the city yesterday because ofthe accident,” Quang said.

Circus elephant kills girl in Vietnam: police

Associated Press Writer

CANBERRA, Australia — ASydney-bound Qantas AirwaysBoeing 747 jumbo jet returned toBangkok due to an engine prob-lem, the airline said Monday.

The plane carrying 356 pas-

hour after taking off from Bang-kok on Sunday when “there wasa bang and some vibrations werefelt through the aircraft,” Qantasspokesman Luke Enright said.

The pilot turned off one of thefour engines as a safety precau-tion and the plane landed safelyback at the Thai capital, he said.

A passenger told Australia’sMacquarie Radio that he saw

“There were some white

sparks shooting out of the en-gine and then they informed usof what was going on, that theengine had been shut down andwe were returning to Bangkok,”

himself only as David.Enright said all passengers

airlines by Monday.The Australia-based airline

has canceled almost 100 domestic

due to an industrial action bymaintenance crews.

Qantas image has taken a bat-tering in recent years due to aseries of mechanical mishaps and

-trial action over Australian staffconcerns that the airline plans tomove jobs offshore.

Qantas jet returns to Bangkok due to engine noise

Mentioned, the victim JeanFrancois had spent holiday andstayed in Coconut Beach Hotel,Nusa Lembongan, since Fri-day (Oct 14) together with hiswife, Isabelle Daubarede FrudHomme and a son. As schedule,they should check out on Satur-day (Oct 15) afternoon and wasabout to go home leaving NusaLembongan. However, since heshould long be waiting the vesselthat would transport them, thevictim returned to his wife andasked for permission to swim. He

to enjoy the panoramic beautyof the waters of Nusa Penida.Particularly, he liked best the ex-istence of reefs. “After asking forpermission to his wife, the victim

was swimming. It was around1:00 p.m. Local Time. However,at around 1:45 p.m. the victim

of Klungkung Police.

discovered by Bali Hai’s crewwho immediately took him to thebeach. Since he had been ascer-tained to be dead with wounds,the victim was then rushed toSanglah Hospital through Sanurfor autopsy. However, his wifedid not allow it. “Probably, thevictim was swimming at the loca-tion with huge waves (SanghyangCape) so that he was slammedinto the rocks causing him to getinjury. Lembongan is famousfor its reef,” added the Chief ofKlungkung Police. (kmb20)

tourist found dead...

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7Indonesia Today International

Antara

TIMIKA - PT Freeport Indonesia again appealed to protesting employ-ees to open blockade to smoothen flows of logistic supplies.

“We hope God would move you to open the access for the interest of many people,” the company`s presi-dent director and CEO Armando Mahler said in his appeal made in Tembagapura here on Sunday.

He said the impact of the block-ade in Mile 27 since October 10 was huge for PT Freeport Indonesia because all logistic supplies to the company`s operation areas come from Amamapare Portsite.

“Since the road was blocked logistic supplies to the areas have declined. If this happens for months the impact will be very serious in the future. If that happens it will af-fect the contribution of PT Freeport to the state,” he said.

He said everyday many containers of logistic, food, medical and other supplies have so far been taken by land from Timika to Tembagapura through the blocked road.

He said due to the blocking avia-tion turbine (avtur) fuel supply in

Mozes Kilangin airport in Timika has run out since Friday (Oct 14) and as a result the airport author-ity since Saturday (Oct 15) has no longer served avtur to some airline companies providing both com-mercial service and feeder service to inland areas.

The condition has since Saturday caused Garuda Indonesia to change its flight routes while Merpati Nu-santara canceled flight from Makas-sar to Timika.

As a lot of containers have failed to be brought from the Cargo Dock of Amamapare Portsite ships that carry Freeport containers have also failed to conduct loading and uploading at the port.

He said the Freeport manage-ment has referred the blocking problem to the security authorities concerned. “We have talked about it with the security apparatus on hope they could take a stern action to make the road section at Mile 27 immediately opened,” he said.

Sharing Armando, PT Freeport`s CAO and vice president`s executive director Sinta Sirait appealed to the All Indonesia Workers Union PT Freeport Working Unit (PUK SPSI)

to help open the blockade.She said since Freeport employ-

ees conducted a strike as of Septem-ber 15 PUK SPSI had expressed full commitment to assuring peaceful and orderly demonstrations.

“We hope for cooperation and help from friends in SPSI

so that the blockade could be immediately opened. While other employees have the right to conduct a strike others also have the right to continue to work. So, it is not allowed to block the road through which other employees go to work,” she said.

The blockade on Mile 27 has happened since Monday (Oct 10) following a clash between police and demonstrators at Gorong-gorong Terminal.

Employees that were angry over the death of their fellow, Petrus Ayamiseba after being hit by a live bullet then set a number of trailers carrying PT Freeport containers on fire and blocked a section of the road at Mile 27.

Until now security officials are still negotiating with demonstrators in an effort to make them open the blockade.

Whirlwind ravages homes in BitungGirian Indah village head Us

Langgori said in the disaster area practically nobody was really hurt by the whirlwind, by scores of local houses were badly damaged.

“According to reliable sources, 15 houses had been badly damaged and seven others seriously,” Lang-gori said.

The disaster had already been reported to the sub-district chief of Matuari and even to the Bitung mayor.

The villagers said a huge ball of wind came from the South to the North and the strong whirlwind passed and ravaged the houses of the villagers, leaving nothing behind.

The strong wind even uprooted many strong standing big trees, making the situation worse.

It was estimated that the strong wind had caused some hundreds of millions of rupiah in losses.

Right now the victims are stay-ing at close relatives while other are repairing their damaged homes.

Antara

BITUNG - A strong whirlwind ravaged the homes of people in Girian Indah village, Girian sub-district, Bitung, North Sulawesi on Sunday at 12.30 local time.

AntaraJAKARTA - State-owned oil/gas firm PT Pertamina has terminated

its aviation turbine fuel (Avtur) supply to Merpati Airlines at Juanda and Hasanuddin aiports as of 00:00 October 15, 2001, Merpati`s president director said.

“Consequently, we have to stop our flight operations from and to Surabaya`s Juanda and Ujung Pandang`s Hasanuddin`s airports until an unspecified time,” Merpati President Director Capt Sardjono Jhony told the press here on Saturday.

Marpati has imposed a limited termination of its Avtur supply to Marpati because the state-owned airlines had yet to settled its obliga-tion to pay for the avtur to Pertamina.

“Based on the Pertamina letter, the balance of our unpaid aircraft fuels for the August 27, 2011 - October 13, 2011 period amounts to Rp2.7 billion and US95.6 thousands,” the Merpati president director said.

Sardjono admitted that the problem had happened as a result of the fact that Merpati had been in financial troubles in the last several years and at present it was waiting for the disbursement of the government`s financial assistance.

He said that actually, we have agreed to settle the debts during a meeting on February 12, 2011 with Pertamina and the Asset Guaran-tor Company (PPA) which was led by the state-owned enterprises (BUMN) minister.

The results of hour meeting on August 18, 2011 concluded that Marpati`s accumulative debts amounting to Rp270 billion plus an avtur obligation would get payment priority when the government`s capital participation worth Rp561 billion was disbursed.

“This means that institutionally, Merpati`s obligation to Pertimina is guaranteed,” he said.

Pertamina terminates aircraft fuel supply to

Merpati

Antara

YOGYAKARTA - Head of the National Nuclear Energy Agency (Batan) said that Indonesian nucle-ar will not be used for war, but for the country`s welfare and peace.

“The use of nuclear in Indone-sia will not for war weaponry, but for human peace and prosperity,” said Batan Head Hudi Hastowo after introducing Indonesian nu-clear use in Taman Pintar here Saturday.

Indonesia has poses law on nuclear technology use, one of them is not for weapon building use, he said.

Based on Batan`s research, nu-clear energy use has been providing benefits to people in many fields.

For the plantation sector, nucle-ar has been used to create 16 su-perior rice seeds, buckwheat and soybeans which was conducted by Batan because Indonesia is still importing the main ingredi-ent for tempe (soybean cake) production.

In the animal husbandry, nu-clear also used to create food for-mula that can increase livestock`s weight properly and make it last longer.

Nuclear technology has also been used in health sector to help curing goiter disease as it was done for people at western slope of Mount Merapi, Central Java.

“Nuclear technology had also been used to detect ground water sources as it was done in Klaten, Malang, Madura and Gunung Kidul districts under the Bribin project,” Hudi said.

Hudi said that there are no fol-low up steps on the nuclear power plant (PLTN) development plan in Indonesia.

“More over after the major earthquake in Japan that hit Fu-kushima Nuclear Power Plant and causes some radioactive leakage, the plan is now delayed whereas it was previously accepted by the public,” he said.

Batan will continue to prepare the human resources and increas-ing mastery of the technology because it was mandatory as men-tioned in Law Number 17 Year 2007 regarding the long-term development plans.

Nuclear power plant (NPP) is planned to be built in Tanjung Ular Muntok Cape region, West Bangka where the feasibility study will be done at the planned site.

AFP PHOTO/STR

Villagers walk through mud as they salvage belongings following flash floods in the village of Desa Bhuvu in Donggala, Sulawesi on October 15, 2011. Flash floods on eastern Indonesia’s Sulawesi island killed three people October 14 and damaged scores of buildings, officials said October 15. Indonesia has been repeatedly afflicted by deadly floods and landslides in recent years, with activ-ists warning that logging and a failure to reforest denuded land in the world’s fourth-most populous country are often to blame.

Indonesian nuclear is not for war

Freeport appeals to protesters to open blockade

8 InternationalTuesday, October 18, 2011

Bali Today

Iwan J Azis, head of the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB)’s Re-gional Economic Integration divi-sion, said policy makers in Asiancountries should be alert to the

in the United States and Europe.“Decision or policy makers

in Asian countries should beaware of the impact of the crisisbecause we believe it will affectthe region in 2012,” Iwan saidafter attending a New Asia Ris-ing seminar here on Saturday.

Iwan said the crisis’ impacton Asia in 2012 would be greater

than in 2011. “All of us in Asiamust be prepared for the worstsituation due to the impact of theglobal crisis,” he said.

The impact of the crisis wouldlikely reach Asia via two path-ways, namely trade and financialchannels.

He suspected, currently tradefrom Asia to the economic crisis-hit regions was declining, whilethe value of inter-Asian trade wasincreasing.

Iwan was not certain whenexactly in 2012 the crisis’ impactwould hit the region.

Antara

DENPA AR - At least 500doctors from all over Indonesiawill attend the 15th National Con-gressof the IndonesianOsteoporo-sisAssociation (Perosi) to be heldhere on October 21-23, 2011.

“The congress will be at-tended by about 500 doctors,both specialists and generalpractitioners in the handling ofosteoporosis,” Prof Dr KetutSiki Kawiyana said.

The therapy and medicaltreatment of patients sufferingfrom osteoporosis which con-stitutes a degenerative diseasehas gained an extraordinaryprogress, he said.

“Usually, osteoporosis attacks

elderly people of over 60 yearsold, both male and female. Butthe early attack of the diseaseis mostly on women, particu-larly those who have entered themenopause period,” he said.

Siki said that if the patient un-derwent a bone fracture, she orhe would need a comprehensivetreatment to prevent disabilityand inability.

This is, he said, to achieve abetter life quality in accordancewith the theme of the congress,namely “Quality of Life will beBetter Through Bone Quality.”

“The aim of the congress isto increase doctors’ knowledge

in order to face global competi-tion,” he said.

Handicraft products of Balinesecommunity like sokasi or bamboobasket for offerings usually upheldby Balinese women to templedesigned in batik motive has itsown charms. Of course, it also at-tracts the interest of many foreigntourists.

Indeed, the Sokasi in batikmotive is different from severalexisting batik motives. Therefore,it is not only hunted by the Hindusin Bali, but also by foreign touristsspending holidays in Bali. “It is notonly purchased by local residents,but foreign tourists are also inter-ested to collect it, especially tour-ists from Japan and Europe such asItaly,” said Kamiyanti, a trader ofsokasi of batik style on the second

According to this woman, for-eign tourists were also interestedto collect the handicraft productbecause of the uniqueness and itwas not second to none. “The shapewas unlike the plaited sokasi ingeneral. The difference lies in the

Kamiyanti.Similar opinion was also given

by Pujiantini, another trader ofritual paraphernalia at the samelocation. According to Pujiantini,the making process of sokasi inbatik style was decorated by meansof small dipper as in the makingof batik clothes. To beautify theresult of batik, sokasi basket wasthen dyeing into natural dyes. Ac-cording to the trader, the sokasibasket in batik style was brought

in from handicraft center in Bangli.High demand of local markets andforeign tourists made her to orderevery week up to tens of pieces.

Pujiantini said that domestic tour-ists from outside Bali who happenedto spend holiday in Bali also pur-chased sokasi basket of batik style asa display in the living room or familyroom and even some purchased it forresale after arriving at home.

She admitted to have encoun-tered many sokasi products insome regions in Bali other thanin Bangli such as in Gianyar Re-gency and Denpasar. However, itdid not matter because each hadits own market share. The pricefor a piece of this sokasi basketvaried ranging from IDR 45,000to IDR 80,000. (BTN kmb)

IBP/Net

Handicraft products of Balinese community like sokasi or bamboo basket for offerings usually upheld by Balinese women to temple designed in batik motive has its own charms.

Beautiful Sokasi Basket in Batik Style

Asian policy makers advised to prepare for crisis impactAntara

NU A DUA - Policy makers in Asian countries should pre-pare action plans to overcome the impact of the crisis in theU and Europe that will hit the region soon, an e pert said.

Some 500 doctors to attend Perosi National Congress

Balinese Culture

9International Tuesday, October 18, 2011

UDANG PANTUNG KUNING(Lobster in Yellow Sauce)

OVERVIEW:A real gourmet treat from Bali, this could also be made with

huge prawns. In Bali, coconut chunks are roasted directly on

for making the coconut milk.

INGREDIENT4 sml lobsters, weighing about 500 gr each or 1 kg large

prawns5 cups water2 lemongrass, bruised2 fragrant lime leaves4 cups coconut milkfew drops white vinegarfried shallots to garnish

PICE PA TE5 red chilies, seeded and chopped3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped7 shallots, peeled and chopped5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped5 cm ginger, peeled and chopped4 candlenuts1 ½ tsp coriander½ tsp dried shrimp paste toasted1 sml tomato, peeled and seeded2 tbsp oil1 ½ tbsp tamarind pulp1 salam leaf1 lemon grass, bruised

PREPARATIONPrepare spice paste by grinding or blending all ingredients

except oil, tamarind, salam leaf and lemongrass. Heat oil, addspice paste and all other ingredients. Cook over moderate heatfor about 5 minutes, then cool.

Wash lobsters and leave whole. Bring water to the boil, addlobsters and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove lobsters, plungein iced water for 1 minutes, then drain and remove meat. Returnshells to the pot of water, keeping lobster meat aside.

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegar to thewater with the shells and simmer until 4 cups of stock remain.Add coconut milk and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain stock andreturn to pan. Add lobster and simmer for 1 minute. Serve gar-nished with fried shallots and accompanied by white rice.

Helpful hints:if using prawns instead of lobster, peel the raw prawns and put

prawns shells 4 cups of water. Simmer for 5 minutes, then combinethis stock with coconut milk, prawns and all other ingredients,simmering until cooked. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

In this photograph taken on October 12, 2011, employees work on roof frames at one of Accor hotels under construction located in Kuta on the Indonesian resort island fo Bali. France’s Ac-cor, one of the world’s biggest hotel groups, said it plans to open more than 200 new properties in Asia within three years as it looks to cash in on the region’s increasing affluence, targetting China, India and Indonesia as its key growth markets.

Tuesday, October 18, 201110 InternationalDestinations

The art crafting are sold in this art market consisted of vari-ous crafting, from traditional until contemporary crafting which its price is relatively cheap. You can do the transac-tion directly to the merchant which generally can be bar-

gained. All the crafting sold in this place you can bring home as souvenir like slipper, wood idol, bag, clothes, matting, painting and a lot of more.

It is very simple way and easily to find Ubud Mar-ket since it is very famous

among the Balinese and it is strategically located in the center of Ubud Village. This market is located just in the front of Ubud Palace with crowded of visitor who purchases the items every day.

Ubud Traditional Art MarketIBP

Ubud Traditional Art Market where the existence is not far different from other mar-kets available in the tourism area. This market as a society economics center of Ubud and it is apposite to the existence of Ubud Empire that is called Puri Saren. The market is unfolding from west to easterly divided become two group with different purpose. There are two markets available at the same area those are one block at the Westside is for a traditional artistic market and another block located in the east as an everyday traditional fundamental market requirement. This market is opened every day about at 08:00 until 18:00, even some from them still open until nighttime. While the traditional market for the fundamental requirement is opened everyday at 06:00 - even before that there is morning market started at 04:00 morning.

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BUSINESSInternational

-nance ministers and central bankersof the Group of 20 major economiessaid they expected an October 23European Union summit to “de-cisively address the current chal-lenges through a comprehensiveplan”.

French Finance Minister Fran-cois Baroin, who chaired the meet-ing, said Berlin and Paris, the lead-ing euro zone powers, were well onthe way to agreeing a plan to reduceGreece’s debt, stop contagion andprotect Europe’s banks.

Non-euro countries highlightedthe damage the European crisis wasalready doing to their economiesand underlined the urgent need foraction by the 17-nation single cur-rency area.

“Europe needs to get its act to-gether because unless the crisis isput to an end, it will start to affectemerging economies which haveenjoyed strong growth,” JapaneseFinance Minister Jun Azumi said.

His Canadian counterpart, JimFlaherty, said the risk of a globalrecession would be dramaticallyhigher if next Sunday’s Europeansummit failed to deliver.

Osborne told reporters his continen-tal euro zone colleagues “will haveleft Paris under no misunderstand-ing that there is a huge amount ofpressure on them to deliver a solu-tion to the crisis”.

Treasury Secretary TimothyGeithner told reporters he was en-couraged that the latest EU movestoward an overall strategy to tacklethe two-year-old crisis containedthe right elements, notably a recapi-talization of European banks.

“They clearly have more work todo on the strategy and the details,but when France and Germanyagree on a plan together and decideto act, big things are possible,”Geithner said.

“I am encouraged by the speedand direction in which they aremoving.”

The communique urged the eurozone “to maximize the impact of theEFSF (bailout fund) in order to ad-

the most likely option was to usethe 440 billion euro fund to offerpartial loss insurance to buyers ofstressed member states’ bonds in abid to stabilize the market.

Efforts by some countries toincrease the IMF’s warchest to

from the United States and otherson Friday, burying the idea for now

on Europe.Geither said the IMF already had

and Washington would supportcommitting more of the existingresources to supplement a well-designed European strategy withmore euro zone funding.

As the G20 finance ministersand central bankers met in Paris,anti-capitalist protesters ralliedaround the world, shouting theirrage against bankers and politiciansaccused of ruining economies andcondemning millions to hardshipthrough greed and bad govern-ment.

Many of the protests, galvanizedby theOccupyWallStreetmovement,were small andpeaceful.But inRomehundreds of hooded rioters burnedcars and smashed shop and bank win-dows in some of the worst violence inthe Italian capital for years.

Germany and France are trying

resolution plan in time for the EUsummit.

It will involve plans to recapitalizebanks, make Greek’s debt mountainmore sustainable and ramp up the

Foronce in the long-runningcrisis,the timetable is ambitious. But ana-lysts see risks that forcing banks, themain source of business investmentin Europe, to raise more capital coulddoom the region’s faltering growth,and that the reduction in Greek debtmay be too small to avoid a default.

There were growing signs that

attempt to make them shoulder a big-ger burden in restructuring Greece’sdebts.The leadnegotiatorof thebank-ing lobby representing private bond-holders said there were no grounds toimpose bigger “voluntary” losses on

theirdebt than the21percentagreed in

“We do not see that a compellingcase has been made to reopen the(July) deal. A deal is a deal,” CharlesDallara, managing director of theInstituteof InternationalFinance (IIF)told the Financial Times.

The G20 statement pledged toensure banks are adequately capital-ized and have sufficient access tofunding, andsaidcentral bankswouldcontinue to provide liquidity to banksas required.

Fears of a Greek default have

markets since late July, with globalstocks falling 17 percent from their2011 high in May.

But they have picked up since theleaders of France and Germany set anend-Octoberdeadline forcomprehen-sive action.

While the European crisis was themain focus, Washington and Beijingcontinued to spar over China’s cur-rency.

Geithner said China should let

global growth.Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao re-

buffed U.S. pressure for a more rapidappreciation, assuringexporters at theCanton Fair in Guangzhou onSaturday that China’s exchangerate would remain “basicallystable” to protect them.

Chinese negotiators prevent-ed the G20 from going beyondwording issued at their lastmeeting in Washington on theneed for emerging market na-tions’ currencies to be moreflexible.

Ministers agreed that ad-vanced economies would cutdeficits while emerging econo-mies would continue their movetoward greater exchange rateflexibility and boost domesticconsumption.

French President NicolasSarkozy wants progress on biggergoals such as setting parametersto measure global imbalancesand reining in speculative capitalflows at a November 3-4 summitin Cannes, where France passesthe G20 baton to Mexico.

Agence France-Presse

TO O - The Japanese government on Monday downgraded its

slowdown weighed on output and exports, while a strong yen furtherclouded the outlook.

Japanese economy is still picking up although the pace has decel-

earthquake and tsunami.The previous report in September gave no reference to a slowing

recovery.Tokyo lowered its assessment of exports, industrial production

still pose a threat.The report stated that the pace of recovery in production is decel-

erating and that exports are levelling off.The government also warned of the need to pay attention to the

yen’s persistent strength, as it erodes the value of exporters’ repatri-ated earnings.

Analysts warn Japan’s recovery from recession may continue toslow amid concerns about the health of the global economy and theimpact of a strong yen on the nation’s exporters.

Japanese companies have worked to quickly to restore productionlevels after supply constraints in the wake of the March 11 earthquakeforced them to shutter plants.

But there are concerns that a strong currency could undermine

back production.There are also concerns that a strong yen could speed up a shift of

production overseas as companies search for lower labour costs.Japan has unveiled a plan to make $100 billion available to help

companies make the most of the unit’s strength and acquire assetsoverseas, while boosting its oversight of foreign exchange marketsagainst speculative moves.

debt crisis in eight daysReuters

PARI - The world’s leading economies pressed Europe on aturday to act decisively withineight days to resolve the euro zone’s sovereign debt crisis which is endangering the worldeconomy.

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

A man, left,stands in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan’s benchmark Nikkei average in central To-kyo, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Asian stock markets advanced Monday, bolstered by improved U.S. retail sales and Eu-rope’s renewed efforts to contain its debt crisis.

Japan cuts view of economy amid overseas slowdown

Entertainment InternationalTuesday, October 18, 201112

But “Real Steel” came in barely ahead of the remake “Footloose,” which opened with $16.1 million. The movies are close enough that they could switch rankings once final numbers are released Monday. Studio estimates are based on actual business Friday and Saturday and projections for Sunday based on how well similar movies typically hold up.

An executive at Disney, which is distributing “Real Steel” for Dream-Works Pictures, said he expects his movie will come out on top because of strong family crowds during day-time shows Sunday.

“Absolutely,” said Dave Hollis, Disney’s head of distribution. “The way we’ve been playing, the families who’ve been coming and the kind of day-time business we’ve had on each of the weekend days so far, we have the expectation that it won’t be terribly close. They’re free to estimate as they will, but we expect to be No. 1.”

Paramount, which released “Foot-

loose,” was tracking its movie’s revenues slightly ahead of those for “Real Steel,” said Don Harris, Para-mount’s head of distribution.

“Footloose” was doing especially strong business in the Midwest and South, and the studio had hopes that those rural crowds would turn out in big numbers Sunday, Harris said.

“It’s close enough to be a dead heat at this point,” Harris said. “If we get that middle of the country that seems to be preoccupied with high school football on Friday and college football on Saturday, then it bodes well not only for a big Sunday but for the legs of the movie.”

Universal’s horror update “The Thing,” about Antarctic researchers stalked by a shape-shifting alien, opened at No. 3 with $8.7 million. Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson’s bird-watching comedy “The Big Year,” released by 20th Century Fox, flopped at No. 9 with a $3.3 million opening.

“Real Steel” raised its domestic haul to $51.7 million. The movie

also took in $23.3 million overseas to lift its international total to $56.6 million and its worldwide earnings to $108.3 million. “Footloose” is a new take on the 1980s film about a youth (Kenny Wormald) challeng-ing a town’s ban on dancing. The remake also features Dennis Quaid and former “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Julianne Hough.

It’s rare that the top two movies flip-flop in the rankings after final numbers come out Monday. Last summer, Universal’s “Cowboys & Aliens” and Sony’s “The Smurfs” were tied for No. 1 right to the dollar based on Sunday estimates. But “Cowboy’s & Aliens” finished $800,000 ahead once Monday’s final numbers were released.

“There have been a lot of close races this year,” said Paul Derga-rabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. “I don’t think there have been as many breakout hits, so you have a lot of these films just kind of bunched up together.”

AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, K.C. Bailey

In this image released by Paramount Pictures, Julianne Hough, center, and Kenny Wormald are shown in a scene from “Footloose.”

‘Real Steel,’ ‘Footloose’ Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The robot boxers of “Real Steel” and the dancers of “Footloose” are in a tight fight for the box-office title. The Hugh Jackman tale about machines in the boxing ring took in $16.3 million, which would make it the No. 1 movie for the second-straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Reuters

SAN ANTONIO - It’s been said that what the world knows about the United States is what people see in Hollywood movies, and those perceptions could soon become reality in Texas. Those who try to slip across the Rio Grande from Mexico into west Texas may find themselves arrested by newly sworn-in Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Deputy and action film star Steven Seagal.

Seagal, currently starring in an A&E Network reality show detailing his experiences as a reserve deputy in New Orleans, contacted County Sheriff Arvin West about his interest in “patrolling the border”, West said. He was sworn in this week for the position in Hudspeth County, which runs along the Rio Grande east of El Paso, West added. Seagal, 59, could not be reached for comment.

“Mr. Seagal is not in this for the celebrity or publicity,” West told Reuters. “He has a sincere passion for his country and he wants to do more to help. I think he will make a significant contribution to this office and to our community.” Seagal starred in big-budget films in the 1980s and early 1990s, earning a reputation as an action star in movies like “Above the Law” and “Under Siege.”

In the last decade, he has appeared mainly in direct-to-DVD, low-budget films while working in law enforcement. His last role was as a corrupt Mexican drug lord in the Robert Rodriguez grindhouse flick “Machete.”

After Seagal expressed interest in joining the Hudspeth County department, two members of the department traveled to Los Angeles to talk to the actor about his proposal and to make sure he was serious, said Rusty Fleming, a spokesman for the sheriff and one of the two who made the trip.

“We were very quick to find out that he was not doing this for publicity,” Fleming said. “He wants to come down to the border and work and try to do his part.” Hudspeth County, population 3,400, is on the front lines of border issues rang-ing from illegal immigration to drug gangs. West once made headlines when he urged people who live in the county to buy a gun and “learn how to use it.”

It was also in Hudspeth County that singer Willie Nelson was arrested on marijuana charges last fall. Two reality TV shows focusing on the border are being filmed in the county, Fleming said.

REUTERS/Mukhtar Kholdorbekov

Actor Steven Seagal (C) holds a Kazakh national dagger as he visits a nomadic civilization festival, part of the “Astana” action films festival, in Astana July 3, 2011.

International Tuesday, October 18, 2011 13Science

But other experts say that conclusion goes too far, blam-ing global warming for what may be natural changes. The new research was published online Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. It’s based on a review of other stud-ies and found that 38 of 85 ani-mal and plant species showed a documented reduction in size over decades, including a type of Scottish sheep that is 5

percent smaller than in 1985. Those studies looked at species over different time periods and in varying numbers.

The shrinking victims, ac-cording to the study, include cotton, corn, strawberries, bay scallops, shrimp, crayfish, carp, Atlantic salmon, herring, frogs, toads, iguanas, hooded rob-ins, red-billed gulls, California squirrels, lynx and wood rats.

Two years ago, Scottish re-

searchers made news with the shrinking sheep study. Several studies have shown that polar bears, which rely on sea ice during the summer, also are not as big. And this latest study said the house sparrow’s weight has dropped by one-seventh from 1950 to 1990. A bird called the graceful warbler showed a 26 percent weight drop during the same time period.

“There is a trend in a number

of organisms across the board from plants to big vertebrates getting smaller,” said study co-author Jennifer Sheridan, a biol-ogy researcher at the University of Alabama. “The theory is as things get warmer they don’t need to grow as large.”

Most of these animals are cold-blooded so the warmer the weather, the faster their me-tabolism is and the more calories they burn, Sheridan said. There’s a biological law, called Berg-mann’s rule, that says that as it gets colder, animals get bigger. This is the unwritten flip side of it, she said.

But Yoram Yom-Tov, a zoolo-

gist at Tel Aviv University whose studies Sheridan used in her research, said many species are shrinking, and you can’t blame global warming exclusively.

“Changes in body size are a normal phenomenon,” Yom-Tov wrote in an email. “When condi-tions are favorable, they increase in size or reproduce at higher rates, and when conditions are deteriorating, they do the op-posite. I think that most species will adapt to climate change and survive. No need for alarm.” And Stanford biologist Terry Root, an expert in climate change, said the study’s conclusions “seem kind of far-fetched.”

AP Photo/MTI,Zsolt Czegledi

In this picture made available Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 a flock of common cranes (Grus grus) fly over the puszta or Hungarian steppe of Hortobagy, the largest gathering place for migrating cranes in Europe situated some 200 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011.

Study blames global warming for shrinking species

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — From the mighty polar bear to the tiny house sparrow, many of Earth’s species appear to be shrinking in size, a new study reports. And the authors think it’s probably due to global warming, a little like wool sweaters that shrink when washed in hot water.

Associated Press Writer

TORONTO — A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday. Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guinness World Records for his accomplishment.

It took Singh more than eight hours to cross the finish line — more than six hours after Kenya’s Kenneth Mungara won the event for the fourth straight year — and he was the last competitor to complete the course.

But his time wasn’t nearly as remarkable as the accomplishment. Event workers dismantled the bar-ricades along the finish line and took down sponsor banners even as

Singh made his way up the final few hundred yards of the race.

Family, friends and supporters greeted Singh when he finished the race. “Beating his original predic-tion, he’s overjoyed,” his coach and translator Harmander Singh said. “Earlier, just before we came around the (final) corner, he said, ‘Achieving this will be like getting married again.’

“He’s absolutely overjoyed, he’s achieved his lifelong wish.” Sunday’s run was Singh’s eighth marathon — he ran his first at age 89 — and wasn’t the first time he set a record.

In the 2003 Toronto event, he set the mark in the 90-plus category, finishing the race in 5 hours, 40 minutes and 1 second.

And on Thursday in Toronto, Singh broke world records for runners older than 100 in eight dif-ferent distances ranging from 100 meters to 5,000 meters.

The 5-foot-8 Singh said he’s hopeful his next project will be participating in the torch relay for the 2012 London Games. He carried the torch during the relay for the 2004 Athens Games.

Fauja Singh, 100, receives a fin-

ishing medal after crossing the

line in the Toronto Waterfront

Marathon in Toronto on Sunday,

Oct. 16, 2011. AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 14 InternationalSport

and at home to FC Basel, Unitedknow they must return with threepoints from Tuesday’s visit to Ro-

have lost their opening two games inGroup C. If not, last year’s runners-up will find themselves having

and meet in Switzerland the sameevening.

-ly not gone the way we’d hoped,”United manager Alex Ferguson,whose side threw away a two-goallead at home to FC Basel and trailed

-lish media on Sunday. “There’s no

left with only two points on the

points, isn’t what I had hoped for.”Galati, who have to play home

own stadium is not up to Champions

-tional Dorinel Munteanu. Foundedin 1964, the team from the shipbuild-

Romanian title last season.

INTERIM COACH

Basel will be playing under

-

in Alexander Frei with three goals

Premier League leaders Man-

and three behind Napoli. Roberto

have lost their opening two games,and while they will have an eye onnext weekend’s derby against Unitedthey have little room for error.

“We know this week will be

the Champions League and after that

against Bayern in 13 games whenthey entertain the Bavarians.

The Italians are unbeaten in nine

Dortmund are among the other

who are pointless at the bottom ofGroup F. In the same group, lead-

The biggest surprise so far hasbeen provided by Group B lead-ers Trabzonspor, who were only

Trabzonspor, who have four points,

behind them as they travel to Lille,

win.

from their 3-1 defeat to Zenit StPetersburg in the previous round.

-

towards qualifying by winning at

home win over bottom side Genk as

Reuters

MADRID -

starting spot ahead of former Lyon forward Karim Benzema.“It’s hard for me to say this one’s a starter and that one isn’t,” Mourinho

a starter for me when one has players as good as these,” the Portugueseadded.

Lyon, has also been in good form for Real this term and Mourinho said

-

and on Monday.”

BASTOS DOUBLE

With the Real game in mind, Lyon eased off after halftime and remain

Manchester duo seek Champions League kickstartReuters

BERNE - Manchester rivals City and United have so far not taken their domestic form into

League group stage this week. While it is no surprise that the likes of Viktoria Plzen, BATEBorisov and Otelul Galati have failed to register wins as the third round of matches loom, Cityand United’s poor starts in the competition have raised eyebrows.

Manchester United’s Javier Hernan-dez, center, celebratesafter scoring his team’s openinggoal against Liverpoolduring an English Pre-mier League match at An-field, Liver-pool Satur-day Oct. 15, 2011.

AP Photo/Peter Byrne/PA Wire

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

Real Madrid’s Gonzalo Higuain from Argentina, left, cel-ebrates after scoring a hat trick during the Spanish La Liga soccer match against Betis at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011.

Red hot Higuain gives Real a welcome headache

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 15International Sport

“Things happen in this kind ofracing,” said Wade Cunningham,also caught up in the wreck. “It’sso close. Not much room for error.I was near the front of what causedall this, so I’m not thrilled about it.At this point, whose fault it was iskind of immaterial.”

The green f lag had barelystopped waving when disasterstruck. Wheldon, driving from the

million, was moving through thepack when he drove into a tangleof cars careening off each other inevery direction.

Unable to avoid the massivewreck unfolding before him, Whel-don clipped another car and wenthurtling through the air, his car

a fence. After just 11 laps, the race

was over. Two hours later, track of-

dead. The Englishman was 33.“One minute you’re joking

around at driver intros and thenext, Dan’s gone,” said DarioFranchitti, whose wife, actressAshley Judd, had to bring him abox of tissues. “I lost, we lost,a good friend. Everybody in theIndyCar series considered him afriend. He was such a good guy.He was a charmer.”

mph during practice — and acrowded 34-car field, a big worrywas aggressive driving early in the200-lap race. Chaos started whentwo cars touched tires comingaround turn 2 and almost no onehad time to react.

Within seconds, several cars

burst into flames and debris cov-ered the track nearly halfway upthe straightaway. Some pointsof impact were so devastatingworkers had to patch holes in theasphalt.

Video replays showed Whel-don’s car turning over as it wentairborne and sailed into what’scalled the catch fence, which sitsover a barrier designed to give a bitwhen cars make contact. Rescueworkers were at Wheldon’s carquickly, some furiously waving formore help to get to the scene.

“It’s unfortunate that early onin the race they’ve got to be racingso close. ...,” Team Penske ownerRoger Penske said. “You alwaysworry about those at these mile-and-a-halves at the speed and withthis many cars.”

Reuters

OSAKA - French second seed Marion Bartoli enjoyed twomatch wins in one day, including a straight-sets defeat of U.S.Open champion Samantha Stosur, to take the Japan Open titleon Sunday.

Bartoli’s seventh career title, and second of the year, keptalive her hopes of taking the last remaining spot in the season-ending WTA Championships in Istanbul. “I’m very happywith the way I played this week,” said Bartoli, who won inEastbourne in June.

“It has been a good season; I felt my level dropped in August,especially at the U.S. Open, but now I’m back playing wellagain. Obviously to win a title is great. Now I have two titlesthis year so I’m really happy.”

Stosur, who is already sure of her place in Istanbul, was taken

Jie of China 7-6 3-6 6-3. The WTA championships will feature

Associated Press Writer

ISTANBUL—Deron Williams(notes) scored 11 points and had

Kirmizi on Sunday in the NBA player’s Turkish league debut.New Jersey Nets guard Williams—a two-time NBA all-star—

is among a number of players from the North American leaguesigned to overseas clubs until the end of the lockout.

Another lockout signing, Cleveland Cavaliers’Turkish forward

help Besiktas open the season with an emphatic win.Marcelus Kemp led Besiktas with 27 points while David

of the NBA season have already been canceled.

AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jessica Ebelhar

Drivers, including Dan Wheldon (77, in air at left), crash during a wreck that involved 15 cars during the IndyCar Series’ auto race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. Wheldon died following the crash.

Indy 500 winner Wheldon dies after massive wreckAssociated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS — Every race car driver heads onto the track understanding this race could be thelast and hoping it won’t be. On Sunday, IndyCar drivers got a harsh reminder when the worst hap-pened to one of their own. Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died when his car gotcaught up in a 15-car pileup, sailed over another vehicle and smashed into a catch fence at IndyCar’sseason-ending race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

NBA guard Deron Williams wins on Turkish debut

Bartoli wins Japan Open with two victories in a day

AP Photo/Kyodo News

Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli, right, displays her win-ner’s trophy as Samantha Stosur of Australia shows her plate for the runner-up after their singles final in the Japan Open tennis tournament at Osaka, western Japan, on Sunday Oct. 16, 2011.

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The Milton Keynes-based outfit delivered its second succes-sive title double at the Korean Grand Prix, with its clinching of the constructors’ crown coming just one week after Sebastian Vettel won the drivers’ championship.

And, as the team now switches its focus to 2012, Horner says his team does not expect it will be able to repeat the level of dominance that it produced this year.

“It never gets easier that is for sure, it would be foolish to underestimate the likes of Ferrari,” said Horner, when asked by AUTOSPORT about the challenge his team will face gunning for a third consecutive title in 2012.

“They are a phenomenal team with tremendous pedigree, as are the likes of McLaren, the likes of Mercedes-Benz. “But we are not foolish enough or arrogant enough to think that this kind of performance is normal. It is abnormal, and it takes a super human effort to try and achieve.

“For sure our competitors are going to be pushing hard over the winter. To do it [win the title] once they can probably tolerate, to do it twice probably upsets a little. But for sure we have got continuity

in all areas and that is very important.”Red Bull Racing’s technical chief Adrian Newey elected to skip

the Korean Grand Prix so he could return to the factory to ramp up efforts on next year’s car And Horner says that the outfit must make the most of the limited track running opportunities it has before RB8 hits the track next February.

“The focus has to start moving towards next year,” he said. “We have less than four months to design and build a completely new car, which is why Adrian elected not to attend this race. He is busy back in the UK focused on RB8.

“The remaining races are the only track time other than a young driver test between now and when the new car is born, so we will look to learn everything we can out of the track with the time we have available and that means pushing right up until the chequered flag in Brazil.”Horner also paid tribute to the efforts of his staff this year in delivering a second world title in a manner that was even better than its first. “It is very special because when you do it for the first time, there is all the emotion of having achieved it and having done it for the first time.

Red Bull driver Sebastian

Vettel of Germany, center,

and team members celebrate

after Vettel won the Korean

Formula One Grand Prix

at the Korean International

Circuit in Yeongam, South

Korea, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011.

Red Bull expects closer race in 2012

Red Bull Racing expects a much stronger challenge from its rivals next year, with team principal Christian Horner thinking its back-to-back title success will have ‘upset’ the opposition.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man