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The similar department inDenpasar is also deportingcriminals to their native coun-try and the number was 27

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EDINBURGH - Pope BenedictXVI said Thursday the CatholicChurch had dropped its guard onpaedophilia and had failed to dealwith the issue quickly enough, ashe began an historic state visit toBritain.

The 83-year-old landed atEdinburgh airport before beingdriven to meet Queen Elizabeth IIat the start of the first state visitby a pope to Britain since KingHenry VIII broke with the Catho-lic church in Rome in 1534 andfounded the Church of England.

Despite the royal welcome at

Pope Benedict XVI startsstate visit to Britain

the Palace of Holyroodhouse, thetrip has already been clouded by theabuse scandal involving priests andcomments by a top Vatican officialwho likened Britain to a “ThirdWorld country”. During the flightto Edinburgh, the pope told jour-nalists on board his plane that theCatholic Church “has not been vigi-lant enough” on the issue of priestswho abused children .

The revelations of child abuse thathave shaken the church “were ashock to me”, he said, shortly beforelanding in Edinburgh, adding that itwas “difficult” to understand howsuch actions could be “possible”.Continued on page 6

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Pope Benedict XVI flanked by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth isgreeted by children as he leaves the Palace of Holyroodhouse,in Edinburgh, Scotland, Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. The Pontiff ison a four-day visit the first-ever state visit by a Pope to Britain.

2010, Tenth of foreignersviolate laws in Bali

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Tourists are taking picture of the beautiful scenery of Bali. Many tourists violate the laws in Bali so they must be deported totheir country.

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Denpasar – Tenth of foreigners violate the law in Bali, whether it was immigration law orconducting criminal act. The immigration office in Ngurah Rai Airport stated that from thedata in January through August 2010, the department had deported 21 foreign citizens whoviolated laws in Indonesia.

people. Darmawan Daud, thehead of Bali Immigration De-partment, said that every tenth offoreigners involved in crimes in

Bali such as drugs violation,theft, and immigration violationsuch as overstay.

“The foreigners who are already

being deported will also enter theblack list and they can not visit Balifor a year,” he added. Darmawanalso said that many of the touristsalso violated their permit.

The department often conductedinspection along with the tourismdepartment and there are foreign-ers who work or trade in Bali evenif they use tourist’s visa.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)Sanglah Hospital plans to pre-

pare a special area for smokers isconsidered redundant by the ViceChairman of Commission IVDPRD Bali, Ketut KariyasaAdnyana. According to represen-tatives of the people fromBuleleng, this facility should notbe built because they are logicallyvisitors who smoke will harm thehealth of patients who weretreated at the hospital.

According to me, it is not nec-essary to build the facility. Sim-ply set the Sanglah Hospital as afree area of Smoking a cigarette,said Kariyasa Adnyana to theBali Post, Wednesday (15 /9) yes-terday.

Once established as a regionfree of cigarettes, he said, themanagement of Sanglah Hospitalmust have the guts to take firmaction against the visitors and thefamilies of patients who gotcaught smoking in the area of theforbidden. Of course, decisiveaction was required to be accom-panied by sanctions create a de-terrent effect to the smoker. If lthere is a special smoking area inthe hospital, it meant to give le-gality to the smoker to smoke at

Location of the warehouse usedfor refilling was at Jalan TrengganaNo. 114, Denpasar. At least, 212subsidized LPG canisters (12 unitsof 12 kg and 200 units of 3 kg) withfull content were secured by policeofficers. In addition to the evidence,police also seized a red pick-upwith license plate DK 9678 AZ, fiveempty gas ccanisters, vacuum de-vices, and scales.

Sukanta and Subagia serving asemployees of the company werenow undergoing examination in theroom of Bali Police. Meanwhile,Eka touted as the owner of thewarehouse was being hunted bypolice. “Raid of the warehouse wascarried out at 09.30 am Local Time.A number of officers were involvedand they managed to confiscatehundreds of LPG canisters,” saidone of the police officers.

One of the officers explained that

(IBP/Wijaya)

Red pick-up car is confiscated by Bali Police Department and suspected to be used to transportilegal gas tubes

TAKING an action, seeminglytwo cases could be revealed byUnit III of police detective for spe-cial crime (Tipiter), Bali Police ledby I.B. Megeng. The raid made tothe warehouse located at JalanTrenggana No. 114, Denpasar, lastWednesday (Sep 15) afternoon,did not only reveal the illegal busi-ness of refilling the subsidizedLPG, but would also reveal an-other case, namely motortheft.

It was discernible from the evi-dence found at the scene. In addi-tion to hundreds of LPG canistersalong with other equipment, po-lice also found dozens of motor-cycle wreckages in the warehouse.Allegedly, those wreckages werethe result of crime. “There are 20motorcycle wreckages found at thescene. All motorcycles are nolonger intact. Allegedly, perpetra-tor has broken them,” said a po-lice officer last Wednesday.

Of a dozens of motorcycles, manyWarehouse of illegal LPG refilling raided

Police could secure 212Police could secure 212Police could secure 212Police could secure 212Police could secure 212subsidized LPG canisterssubsidized LPG canisterssubsidized LPG canisterssubsidized LPG canisterssubsidized LPG canistersDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Unit III of police detective for special crimes (Tipiter), Directorate of Criminal Investigation,Bali Police led by IB Megeng managed to disclose an illegal business operated by Nyoman Sukantaand Nengah Subagia. The two men were known to have been proven to illegally refill the subsi-dized LPG from 3 kilogram into 12 kilogram canister. The illegal refilling warehouse was finallyraided by troops of mobile detective of Bali Police, last Wednesday (Sep 15) afternoon.

in truth the Bali Police had sus-pected the scene since three daysago. Based on information gath-ered from the public, the ware-house was used for illegal LPG re-filling business. “Police had madesurveillance for three days. Afterthe investigation categorized to beA 1 (definite), police then raid thescene,” he explained.

As soon as the police enteredthe warehouse, two employees(Sukanta and Subagia—ed) wasencountered to be ‘injecting’ thecanister of 3 kg size. Accordingto the officers, such injection wasintended to remove the gas fromcanister of 3-kg into 12 kg. “Aswe entered, the two employeeswere distraught. They were fi-nally secured and interrogated onthe spot,” said the officer whileasking not to mention his nameon the newspaper.

Well, the police then performeda search and found 200 gas canis-ters sizing 3 kg and 12 units of can-ister sizing 12 kg. Both types ofcanister remained to contain fullgas. Allegedly, the canisters wouldbe refilled and then sold in thecommunity. “There are also someother evidence secured by police.They had been brought to BaliPolice for further process,” headded.

Spokesperson of Bali Police,Gde Sugianyar, stated that his partyremained to deepen the refillingcase of the subsidized LPG. Twoemployees found to inject the can-ister on the scene were still under-going an intensive investigation.“We are still investigating the caseand pursuing the existence of Eka,”said former Chief of BalikpapanPolice at the headquarters of BaliPolice last Wednesday. (kmb21)

Dozens of motorcyclewreckages found

of them were found to have licenseplate of outside Bali. Even, there werelicense plates of Java and Lampungand other regions. It was unknownwho the owner of those evidenceswas and police stayed to perform thetracking. “Such evidences are stillkept in the warehouse. Police havesealed the warehouse by installingpolice lines. Surely, police would beable to trace the discovery of suspi-cious evidence,” he explained.

Spokesperson of Bali Police,Gde Sugianyar, when asked for hisconfirmation last Wednesday con-firmed that his party found a doz-ens of motorcycle wreckages in thewarehouse touted to belong to Eka.Condition of those evidences wasnot intact and alleged to have beenstripped down by the perpetrators.“Police investigators were still in-vestigating the evidence findings.No suspects are secured up to thistime,” he told journalists lastWednesday. (jay)

Useless, Smokers SpecialAreas in Sanglah Hospital

an area hospital, he said.He added that the announce-

ment has actually been taped toban smoking in all rooms and stra-tegic locations in the largest hos-pital on the island of Bali. Sincethe ban was not accompanied bysanctions, then the bulletin boardthat was not unlike like the tigertoothless alias ignored by thesmoker. Creating special smokingareas in addition to great expense,will also take the room that shouldbe utilized for patient rooms orspaces other supporting facilities.If this is enforced for the procure-ment of the area or space forsmokers, there is a place that mustbe sacrificed for the suckers thatnicotine, he criticized.

As reported earlier, the Headof Public Relations DivisionSanglah Hospital, dr. IGN A PutraWibawa complained today manyvisitors who smoke around thehospital area. In fact, the sign wastaped to ban smoking everywhere.This shows awareness of the visi-tors still less to keep the hospitalarea free from pollution smokerssmoke. In fact, cigarette smoke ispotentially interfering with pa-tients treated healthy develop-ment. (Kmb13)

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Bangli (Bali Post) –The condition of Kintamani tourist

visits lately has been increasing as itpeaked during the Eid Al Fitri(Lebaran) day. Yet the flooding touristvisits have caused traffic from Banglito Singaraja and still goes one untilWednesday (15/9).

The hundreds of vehicles, small orbig, that carried tourists starting to fillup Kintamani from 11 am wita. Tensof police from Bangli Police Resortseemed busy arranging the traffic in thisarea and moreover those who are en-joying panoramic views of Mountainand Lake Batur keep coming.

Former Head of PHRI Bangli whoalso owned Restaurant and Hotel LikeView Kintamani, I Wayan Winurjaya,stated that the peak happened duringLebaran day where not only foreigntourists from all over the world but alsodomestic ones come filling upKintamani.

It is hoped, this condition will al-

Motivation was needed, saidTjok Agung, because so far the busi-ness run by women in Nusa Penidawas stagnant. In response to thatcondition, they were pessimistic todevelop it toward a better condition.Therefore, Tjok Agung made thedeclaration event of Aquatic Con-servation Region (KKP) of NusaPenida as the right moment for pro-viding motivation to women groupof Nusa Penida.

“Based on informal confirma-tion, it is mentioned that Minister ofWomen Empowerment, LindaGumelar will also attend the KKP

Denpasar (Bali Post) –The Head of Denpasar City Great

Police Commissioner SuryanbodoAsmoro and Head of Kuta Police Sec-tor Adjunct Police Commissioner IGede Ganefo seemed to be on the edgeof a horn as Head of Bali Police Gen-eral Inspector Police Drs. Hadiatmokogave a deadline to finish off the fraudcase involving a Swiss resident. Theunidentified Swiss admitted have beentricked by five unknown people andmillions of rupiah have gone.

Hadiatmoko gave a deadline after areport from Kartika Plaza Hotel ChiefSecurity, I Nengah Dana, who stated

Gianyar (Bali Post) –Firefighters (PMK) of Gianyar

Region have done their duty to killof the fires in incident locations yetstill have minimum supportingequipments. It is common thoseworkers were threatened to feel con-fused when doing the demanded pro-fessional work by the people. Thissituation was also mentioned by afirefighter from Melbourne, Austra-lia, Simon Delande (31) last Wednes-day (15/9) in its unofficial visit inGianyar Fire Brigade.

In the dialogue with Gianyarfirefighters, it is revealed Simonworks in the New South Wales FireBrigade United Workers. The manhas been working for 17 years as afirefighter saw the condition of threeunits of their vehicles and had dia-logues with a worker who was check-ing it. Simon purposely came to Balito see the fire brigades in Bali, “Be-sides on holiday I did plan to see howthe firefighters and fire brigades inBali are like.”

Looking at the condition, it is finealready although it is better toequipped more with such as pipes,masks, jackets and head protector for

Craftswomen of NusaCraftswomen of NusaCraftswomen of NusaCraftswomen of NusaCraftswomen of NusaPenida need motivationPenida need motivationPenida need motivationPenida need motivationPenida need motivationIn advancing seaweed cultivation and weaving works

(IBP/Bali Putra)

A cepuk craftsman in Karang Gede, Nusa Penida

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Participation of women group in Nusa Penida to deeply involve in household industry is con-

sidered to grow significantly. For instance, it can be seen in the seaweed cultivation and Cepukand Keling weaving works. However, they stay to require strong motivation from various partiesto promote the spirit of Nusa Penida women in running their business. This condition was con-veyed by Deputy Regent of Klungkung Tjok Gede Agung, last Wednesday (Sep 15).

declaration. On that account, we willdirect the Minister to give encour-agement to women entrepreneurs inNusa Penida. Hopefully, it couldreinforce their motivation to deeplyinvolve in handicraft works,” af-firmed Tjok Agung.

In relation to that plan, at thedeclaration event would also bedisplayed various results of handi-craft produced by women group ofNusa Penida, such as Cepuk andKeling weaving clothes. Addition-ally, it would be served Balinesetypical culinary treasures likelawar and bread made from sea-

weed ingredient.Meanwhile, KKP Declaration

was planned to be attended by Min-ister of Culture and Tourism JeroWacik and Minister of Fisheriesand Maritime Affairs FadelMuhammad. Recently, it was alsoinformed that such an event wouldalso be attended by Minister ofWomen Empowerment LindaGumelar and the Ambassador ofthe United States. The declarationitself would last on September 24-25, 2010 with activities held at twoplaces, namely at Jungutbatu andNusa Besar. (kmb20)

Head of Bali Police Threaten to revokeHead of Denpasar City Police

that a Swiss guest who stayed in hishotel has been a fraud victim. The guestwas tricked by five locals, two of themwomen. It is explained chronologically,the victim went out of the hotel onTuesday (14/9) and in front of the ho-tel the victim met the five impostorsand has a chat.

In the chat, one of the impostorsadmitted had a family in Swiss and thevictim was then brought to a placewhere was given a drink. At that time,victim’s thinking went out of control.Is it because victim was hypnotized orsomething else? At that place, victimwas playing gambling with them and

lost so the impostors asked his paymentwhich at that time victim brought IDR200 thousand. So, victim was broughtto the ATM, “At the ATM, the victimthen took out IDR 5 million.”

Not satisfied with the money, theimpostors then brought victim to acell phone counter where impostorsasked victim to buy them 10BlackBerry phones at once. It is sus-pected caused by the drink given be-fore, that victim just agree to whatthe impostors direction. After that,victim was brought back to the ho-tel yet victim was just dropped offin front of the hotel. (kmb21)

Gianyar Firefighters Supportedby minimum equipment

the firefighters safety during duties.Confirmed separately, Head of

Gianyar Regional Technical Imple-mentation Unit (UPTD) for Fire Bri-gades, I Wayan Gede Eka Putra,stated the Gianyar Firefighters con-dition as stated by Simon was notbeing denied. There are still lots oflack in its supports especially for safe-ties. But for sure with the conditionnow his unit can reach all area includ-ing tackling fires with the equipmentowned now.

It is admitted for the fire zones thatare still hard to reach are Payangansub district, Tegallalang. It is causedby the far distance and traffic situa-tion. This is due to the fire frequencyin Gianyar all this time. Based on thedata, approximately a fire incidentcan reach 5-6 incidents per month inyear 2008 and 2009. Yet now in 2010there has been 48 incidents and so tominimize the incidents and with lim-ited equipments, UPTD Fire BrigadeGianyar spread brochures to thepeople through sub districts and vil-lages containing how to avoid firehappening, tackling it, and the phonenumber of the Fire Brigade that canbe contacted. (kmb16)

Foreign Tourists Flooded KintamaniEnjoy the Real Luak Badger Coffee

ways happen and of course with theguaranteed security that is very de-manded in the tourism world thesedays, “I am sure good and truly man-agement don’t only come fromgovernment but also all of thepeople so tourism can always belike this.”

Meanwhile former Bangl iHouse of Representative memberperiod 2004-2009, I Kadek ArdiNegara, from Songan Village,Kintamani , wi th wife RakaSanthi Harmini produced luak(badger) coffee production tothose visitors who came to theLike View Restaurant. He alsomentioned that Kintamani notonly known for its great naturebut also keeping agriculture re-sults potential such as luak cof-fee. Moreover, this Jiwa HarmoniBali Company coffee product hasbeen exported to Japan, Franceand Australia. (kmb17)

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Raka Santi Harmini from PT.Jiwa Harmoni Bali introduce luakcoffee to one of the tourist from YogyakartaGBPH.H.Prabukusumo,SPsi.

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The defendants, now frail octo-genarians, deny any guilt for theirroles in the radical communist ruleduring which about a quarter ofCambodia’s population died due tostarvation, overwork or execution.

The trial, due to start by mid-2011, will bring to the stand NuonChea, 84, the group’s ideologist;former head of state and public faceof the regime, Khieu Samphan, 79;former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary;and his wife Ieng Thirith, ex-min-ister for social affairs, both in their80s.

Each face four charges: crimesagainst humanity, genocide, warcrimes and a combined charge ofmurder, torture and religious per-secution, co-investigating judgeYou Bunleng told a news confer-ence.

The indictments follow the con-viction in July of the regime’s chiefjailer, Kaing Guek Eav, also knownas Duch, on charges of war crimes,crimes against humanity, tortureand murder. He was sentenced toserve 19 years in prison — a termcriticized by many Cambodians astoo lenient.

Duch, 67, (pronounced DOIK)was the first defendant to be tried.He supervised the notorious S-21

Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM – In less than amonth, globe-trotting Mideast peacemakers have traveled from the regalgrounds of the White House to thecalm shores of the Red Sea and the

Khmer Rouge tribunal indicts 4 senior leadersKhmer Rouge tribunal indicts 4 senior leadersKhmer Rouge tribunal indicts 4 senior leadersKhmer Rouge tribunal indicts 4 senior leadersKhmer Rouge tribunal indicts 4 senior leadersAssociated Press Writer

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia’s U.N.-backed genocide tri-bunal has indicted the four top surviving leaders of the Khmer Rougeregime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in the 1970s, paving the way forthe panel’s long-awaited second trial next year.

prison where as many as 16,000people were tortured before beingexecuted.

While Duch’s trial was assistedby his cooperation with the tribu-nal and the meticulous record-keeping of S-21, marshaling evi-dence against the Khmer Rougechiefs, could prove more compli-cated. Their trial will also likely bemore politically sensitive becausesome current Cambodian leaderswere once lower-level KhmerRouge cadre themselves.

The devastation to Cambodiacaused by the shadowy regime’sradical policies during its 1975-79is beyond doubt. Towns and citieswere depopulated in a disastrousagrarian experiment that shunnedtechnology and persecuted thenation’s educated classes. Per-ceived opponents of the regime,even within its own ranks, wereruthlessly purged. But the opaquenature of the regime’s workingsmay make it harder to establishcomplicity of the accused.

“Given the magnitude of thecrimes committed under the Demo-cratic Kampuchea regime” the newcase would focus on “a specific se-lection of sites and criminal activi-ties,” the tribunal said in a state-

ment.Several other major Khmer

Rouge figures have died, includ-ing the supreme leader, Pol Pot, in1998 — a factor that only adds tothe pressure on the tribunal to ex-pedite proceedings against the fourindicted Thursday. You Bunlengsaid the four have been interviewedby investigating judges 46 timessince being detained at the tribu-nal in 2007.

Their case file also extends toover 350,000 pages that include11,600 documents, more than1,000 written records of interviewswith witnesses and civil parties.

None of the four defendants hasshown any sign they may breakranks or speak openly, and someexperts said Duch’s relatively lightsentence could be an incentive for

him to testify.The judges presiding over

Duch’s case said they took into con-sideration the historical context ofthe Khmer Rouge atrocities: The re-gime — which took power as thewar in neighboring Vietnam wasending and in the wake of massiveU.S. bombing of Cambodia — wasthe product of the Cold War times.

They also recognized that Duch— unlike any of the others in de-tention — was not in the KhmerRouge’s inner circle, had cooper-ated with the court and shown ex-pressions of remorse, however“limited.”

But they flatly rejected Duch’sclaims that he merely was acting onorders from the top or that he wasa “cog in the machine” who couldnot get out. Prosecutors are appeal-

ing for a longer sentence him, whileDuch has filed his own appeal, seek-ing acquittal for what he says werelegal errors made by the tribunal.

Though the tribunal — more than10 years and $100 million in themaking — has been credited withhelping the traumatized nationspeak out publicly for the first timeabout atrocities committed threedecades ago, it has been criticizedas well.

The government insisted Cambo-dians be on the panel of judges,opening the door for possible inter-ference by current leaders — in-cluding the prime minister — whowere once low-level members of theKhmer Rouge. It also sought to limitthe number of suspects being tried— rather, some say, than implicateits own ranks.

AP Photo/Heng Sinith/Chor Sokunthea, File

This combo shows file photos of the four top surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime from left toright: Nuon Chea, 84, the group’s ideologist; former head of state and public face of the regime, KhieuSamphan, 79; former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary; and his wife Ieng Thirith, ex-minister for social affairs,both in their 80s.

Mideast peace talks rich in symbolismholy city of Jerusalem in a series ofcarefully choreographed meetingsrich in symbolism.

In Middle East peacemaking,symbolism is often just as importantas substance. Each venue in the re-cently renewed talks, the first in

nearly two years, has been carefullychosen — a set of gestures meantto send important messages to keyconstituencies.

Launched on the lawn of theWhite House on Sept. 2, the peaceefforts moved this week to theEgyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh,the Israeli prime minister’s officialresidence in Jerusalem, the WestBank and then to Jordan.

Obama has made Mideast peacea top priority in his foreign policy.Bringing the sides together at theWhite House after months of pains-taking mediation underscored thepersonal commitment of the U.S.president to the peace process whilegiving him an important boostahead of key midterm elections.

The high-profile stage of theWhite House also provided a bumpto Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu and Palestinian Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas. It helpedNetanyahu — widely seen as ahard-liner by the international com-munity — portray himself as apeacemaker, and aided the em-battled Abbas in shoring up his po-sition at home. But it was impor-tant to shift the talks quickly backto the Middle East.

All sides agreed to launch thelatest round of negotiations in Egypt

— a nod to the first Arab country toreach peace with Israel and a keymoderating force in the region.Sharm el-Sheikh, a frequent site ofMideast summits, was a naturalchoice.

The summit at the Red Sea re-sort town, which was anchored bySecretary of State Hillary RodhamClinton, was a clear sign of appre-ciation for Egypt’s 82-year-oldleader, Hosni Mubarak, and gaveAbbas an important “Arab” endorse-ment at a time when he has comeunder criticism for returning to thenegotiating table.

“We appreciate very much therole of Egypt, the leader of the Arabworld, in supporting the process ofIsraeli-Palestinian reconciliation,”said Mark Regev, a spokesman forIsraeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu. “Their providing avenue was a very tangible way ofexpressing support.”

On Wednesday, the talks movedto Jerusalem — the epicenter of theconflict and potentially the thorni-est stop on Clinton’s sweep throughthe Middle East.

“This is a city that holds suchdeep meaning for Jews, Christiansand Muslims,” Clinton noted duringan appearance with Israel’s presi-dent, Shimon Peres.

Israel claims the entire city as itscapital, while the Palestinians seekeast Jerusalem, which Israel capturedin the 1967 Mideast war, as the capi-tal of a future independent state. Theeastern sector is home to key Jew-ish, Christian and Muslim holy sites.

The main event of the day — ameeting between Clinton,Netanyahu and Abbas — took placeat Netanyahu’s official residence.While the Israeli and Palestinianleaders warily shook hands, eachtook pains to put the other at ease.

Netanyahu, who only a year agoendorsed the idea of creating a Pal-estinian state, made sure to place aPalestinian flag alongside U.S. andIsraeli flags at a joint appearancebefore their meeting — following acustom begun by his predecessor,Ehud Olmert. Abbas, who paid manyvisits to Jerusalem for peace talkswith Olmert, left a conciliatory notein the residence’s guest book.

“Today I returned to this houseafter a long period of absence in or-der to continue talks and negotiationsand with the hope of reaching eter-nal peace in the entire region andespecially peace between Israel andthe Palestinian people,” he wrote.U.S. State Department spokesmanP.J. Crowley said such interactionswere valuable.

AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Palestinian presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas meet with in Ramallah, West Bank, Thursday,Sept. 16, 2010.

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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

IBP

UBUD - The Ubud Hotels Asso-ciation (UHA) is promoting Ubudas a green destination with a seriesof charitable and environmental ac-tivities, as well as hosting a semi-nar. The UHA is a non-profit; non-government organization comprisedprimarily of hoteliers and alliedmembers who actively service thehospitality industry.

Ramia Adnyana, Chairman ofthe UHA, says: “Ubud is sur-rounded by most of the things thatbring people to Bali - scenic ricefields, small villages, art and craftcommunities, ancient temples, pal-aces, rivers, museums, and a tradi-tional market. These are all key at-tractions that must be well main-tained and preserved. Our endeavoris to highlight Ubud not only as acultural destination but also as agreen destination that will becomean exemplar. To realize this, weregularly undertake community-ledenvironmental campaigns, such as

The Ubud Hotels Association:Promotes Ubud as a Green Destination

Clean up the World, tree plantingand school mentoring. We are alsoencouraging and supporting mem-bers to take action at a local level tohelp address environmental issues.Our programmed is expected tobring together many tourism indus-tries, hamlets, schools, visitors andlocal citizens in order to collect asmuch rubbish as possible fromwithin their own communities andreconsider their waste managementon the Island of the Gods. Similarly,as part of our corporate social re-sponsibility to Ubud, we frequentlymake visits to orphanages, and or-ganize seminars.”

Ramia Adnyana summarizes: “Ibelieve that Ubud can become aquality destination that will benefitall layers of the community by re-maining true to the eco-friendly con-cept known as Tri Hita Karana, theBalinese Philosophy of life, whichadvocates that we should all live inbalance and harmony with God,other human beings, and the envi-ronment.”

In line with this concept, theUHA will be supporting humanitar-ian, religious and environmentalcauses. The UHA visited the hu-manitarian charity known asYayasan Senyum, the Smile Foun-dation of Bali, which helps peoplewith crania-facial disabilities by fa-cilitating operations for cleft lipsand palates. Besides that, UHA alsovisited the temple of Pura GunungRawung at the village of Taro, topray and to plant 300 white cempakatrees. Often planted near Hindutemples, the fragrant cempakaflower is used in offerings to thegods.

UHA also promoted the spirit ofecological responsibility in Ubud byparticipating in the annual ‘Clean Upthe World Weekend’.

The picture show the CamplungSari Hotel in Ubud IBP/ist

Friday, September 17, 20106 News

In the Atlantic, forecasters sayHurricane Igor has spun into a ma-jor Category 4 storm and is threat-ening to generate life-threateningrip currents along the U.S. EastCoast over the weekend and tobring large swells to the Bahamasand Virgin Islands before that. Cat-egory 3 Hurricane Julia is not athreat to land.

In Mexico, the government is-sued a hurricane watch for its east-ern Gulf Coast from La Cruz inTamaulipas state south to Nautlain Veracruz. It is expected to reachthe coast on Saturday.

Karl made landfall on Yucatanabout 30 miles (50 kilometers) upthe coast from the Quintana Roostate capital of Chetumal onWednesday, with winds of about65 mph (100 kph), according to theU.S. National Hurricane Center inMiami. It hit about midway be-tween the cruise ship port ofMajahual and the coastal town ofXcalak.

(AP Photo/Israel Leal)

Fishermen try to secure their boats as tropical storm Karl arrives in the town of Mahahual, south-ern Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Karl is expected to quickly weaken into a tropical depres-sion as it slogs across the flat peninsula before heading back out over the Gulf of Mexico, whereit could turn into a hurricane by the end of the week and threaten the central Mexican coast.

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CANCUN, Mexico – Tropical Storm Karl dumped heavy rains on the Yucatan Peninsula onThursday as it moved toward the Gulf of Mexico, where it is expected to pick up steam and be-come a hurricane threatening Mexico’s central coast by the weekend.

Violeta Pineda, who has oper-ated thatch-roof bungalows knownas the Hotel Kabah Na for 13 years,said waves were rolling about 25yards (meters) onto the beach andeating away at a stretch of road thatruns along the coast. “There is a lotof wind,” said Pineda, whose hotelis about 5 miles (8 kilometers)south of Majahual.

Electricity went out brieflyaround Majahual. But the towntook an almost-direct hit from Cat-egory 5 Hurricane Dean in 2007 —the third most powerful Atlantichurricane ever to hit land — and“this is nothing in comparison,”said Pineda.

Karl’s center passed close to thestate capital, where there were re-ports of heavy rain and wind,downed trees and power outages.The storm then moved inland overtiny rural hamlets and its winds de-clined to about 40 mph (65 kph).

It is expected to move back overwater and into the Gulf of Mexico

on Thursday. Assistant state Pub-lic Safety Secretary DidierVazquez said security forces hadtaken some people from coastaltowns to shelters, while others pre-ferred to ride out the storm in theirhomes.

The storm threw doubt over thearea’s celebration of Mexico’s bi-centennial anniversary of indepen-dence from Spain, although therewas no immediate decision to can-cel festivities.

But Mexico issued a tropicalstorm watch for the west coast ofthe Yucatan peninsula — where thestorm is expected to re-enter theGulf — from Ciudad del Carmennorth to Celestun.

On the other side of the Atlan-tic, Julia briefly intensified into apowerful Category 4 storm earlyWednesday before weakening to aCategory 3 with sustained winds ofnear 115 mph (185 kph.) AndIgor’s top winds also lost steam to135 mph (215 kph).

The pope admitted the church au-thorities “did not act quickly or firmlyenough to take the necessary action”to deal with the problem. He said hehoped the perpetrators of abuse wouldreceive an “appropriate punishment”and continued: “This is a time of peni-tence, of unity and of sincerity.”

The queen, who is head of theChurch of the England, officially wel-comed the pope at the Palace ofHolyroodhouse, her official residencein Scotland and the former home ofBritain’s last Catholic queen. “I ampleased that your visit will provide anopportunity to deepen the relationshipbetween the Roman Catholic churchand the Established Church of Englandand the Church of Scotland,” she said.

During a speech at Hollyrood, thepope echoed comments from one of hisaides about the dangers of “aggressivesecularism”. “Today, the United King-dom strives to be a modern andmulticultural society,” he said. “In thischallenging enterprise, may it alwaysmaintain its respect for those traditionalvalues and cultural expressions thatmore aggressive forms of secularismno longer value or even tolerate.

“Let it not obscure the Christianfoundation that underpins its free-doms.” After their meeting, Benedictdrove through the streets of Edinburghin his popemobile where he wasgreeted by thousands of locals, manywaving Scottish and Vatican flags, asa band played the bagpipes. The pope

“In order to monitor foreign tour-ists in Bali, the immigration depart-ment always cooperates with otherdepartments such as Bali TourismDepartment, and also the locals inthe island. If there are evidences thatthe foreigners violate the law in Balithen they will be deported to theirnative country,” Darmawan said.

Regarding the case of Bali sacreditems (pretima) that involved Roberto

Agence FRance Presse

ANKARA, Turkey – A roadsidebomb attack killed at least eightpeople Thursday in the latest vio-lence that shook Turkey’s turbu-lent southeast where Kurdish guer-rillas fought a bitter war for au-tonomy for decades, authoritiessaid.

The incident occurred near thevillage of Gecitli in the ruggedHakkari province, bordering Iranand Iraq. Gov. Muammer Guler ofHakkari said eight were killed andthree others, including a baby,were injured in the explosion. Ear-lier CNN-Turk television, citingCihan news agency, had put thedeath toll at 12, but authoritiesconfirmed eight deaths. Turkishtroops launched a manhunt to findthe rebels, believed to be behindthe attack, the governor said.

8 killed in minibus blast in TurkeyKurdish rebels have targeted

military vehicles with improvisedexplosive devices, includingWednesday in Hakkari province.There have also been several otherattacks on police by Kurdish mili-tants over the past week, whichwould violate a cease-fire that therebels declared before a religiousholiday as a pro-Kurdish partycalled on the government to opendialogue with rebels for a peacefulsolution.

The pro-Kurdish Peace and De-mocracy Party boycotted a refer-endum Sunday over the constitu-tion, arguing that ethnic Kurdishidentity was not fully recognizedby the state.

The rebels have been fightingfor autonomy in the country’sKurdish-dominated southeast since1984. The conflict has killed tensof thousands of people.

2010...From page 1 Gamba from Italy, Darmawan said

that the case is not the responsible ofthe immigration yet. “After he isfound guilty in court and finish hissentence in Bali then he will be de-ported to his country,” he added.

Darmwan said that there are alsotourists who become tour guide inBali so the need of tight monitoringsystem is very crucial. From the datain the immigration, the number oftourists who have temporary residentpermit in 2010 are 5,931 people.(par)

Pope Benedict XVI...From page 1 himself could be seen wrapped in a

green and blue tartan shawl.Benedict will hold a mass in

Glasgow later Thursday before trav-elling to London and the central En-glish city of Birmingham, where hewill preside over the beatification of a19th century cardinal, John HenryNewman.

He is set to face protests from dem-onstrators angry at the Vatican’s han-dling of the abuse scandal but also atissues such as the 20-million-pound(31-million-dollar, 37-million-euro)cost of the visit. Before the pope’splane even touched down, the Vaticanwas forced onto the defensive after oneof his closest aides described Britainas an “aggressively” secular “ThirdWorld country”.

Cardinal Walter Kasper toldGermany’s Focus magazine: “Englandis a secularised, pluralistic countrythese days. “When you land atHeathrow Airport, you sometimesthink you might have landed in a ThirdWorld country.”

“In England in particular, an aggres-sive neo-atheism has spread,” headded. Following the remarks, theVatican said the cardinal had droppedout of the entourage accompanyingBenedict for health reasons.

The head of the Catholic Church inEngland and Wales, Vincent Nichols,said Kasper’s comments were “inex-plicable” and defended Britain’smulticulturalism. Benedict’s visit isaimed at improving frayed ties be-tween Anglicans and Catholics.

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FOTO ANTARA/Widodo S. Jusuf

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (r) shake hand with one of the KPK Chief candidates on Thursday,September 16, 2010.

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JAKARTA - President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono at his officehere Thursday received the two re-maining candidates for the post ofCorruption Eradication Commission(KPK) chief, Busyro Muqodas andBambang Widjojanto.

Accompanying the President athis meeting with Busyro andBambang at 11 in the morning wereCoordinating Minister for Political,Legal, and Security Affairs DjokoSuyanto, Minister/State SecretarySudi Silalahi, and Cabinet SecretaryDipo Alam.

Before getting into the meetingroom, the president, Busyro andBambang posed for photographers.

The President in the meetingroom spoke a while with Bambangand Busyro before starting the gath-

Police said well-known Islamicradical Murhali Barda could faceup to 12 years in prison for incit-ing violence and assault, after agroup of men stabbed a Christianelder and bashed a priest on Sun-day.

The elder was hospitalised withabdominal injuries and the priest,Luspida Simandjuntak, receivedminor head wounds when she wasbeaten with a piece of wood as shetried to help her friend.

The attack came asSimandjuntak was about to holda service in Bekasi outside Jakarta,where a Protestant church grouphas faced months of violence andhostility from Muslim vigilantes.

Barda is the Bekasi area chiefof a violent vigilante group calledthe Islamic Defenders Front (FPI),which is known for its cosy rela-tions with government officialsand its armed attacks on moder-ates and minorities.

“The FPI’s chief is accused ofinciting people to do violence

Agence France-Presse

TIMIKA - Indonesian policeopened fire and killed two men andinjured a woman as a dispute overa traffic accident spun out of con-trol in the restive province of WestPapua, officials said Thursday.

Police were forced to use le-thal force in self-defence whendozens of angry residents becameviolent after a motorist fled thescene of an accident in the city ofManokwari, provincial policespokesman Wachyono told AFP.

The mob, armed with knivesand spears, blocked roads andthrew stones at police who arrivedat the scene late Wednesday, hesaid.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonois unlikely to attend a summit ofSoutheast Asian leaders called byUS President Barack Obama thismonth in New York, a spokesmansaid Wednesday.

The failure of the leader of theregion’s biggest economy and theworld’s most populous Muslim-majority country to attend thesummit will be a blow to Obama’sefforts to reach out to the strategi-cally important region.

Officials blamed the short no-tice given for the summit, whichwas announced on September 3,and Yudhoyono’s prior engage-ments.

“The US-ASEAN summit in-vitation was given in short notice.The president’s agenda at that timewas fixed earlier this year,”spokesman Teuku Faizasyah toldAFP.

Indonesia leader doubtful forASEAN summit in US: spokesman

The White House has saidObama will hold talks with lead-ers of the 10-member Associationof Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) in New York on Septem-ber 24, at the time of the annualUnited Nations General Assembly.

The summit is Obama’s latestattempt to reinvigorate US policytowards the rapidly developing re-gion, where US primacy is seen bysome as waning in the face ofChina’s growing economic andmilitary might.

Domestic affairs have forcedObama, who went to school in In-donesia as a child, to cancel twovisits to Jakarta in the past 12months.

The democratic, nominallysecular archipelago is a key found-ing member of ASEAN, which in-cludes members as diverse as re-gional financial hub Singapore,Buddhist Thailand, communistVietnam and military-ruledMyanmar.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian police detained an Islamic extremistleader Wednesday over an armed assault on Christian elders whichshocked moderates and raised fears for pluralism in the mainlyMuslim country.

against others,” Jakarta policespokesman Boy Rafli told AFP,adding that Barda had also beencharged under the criminal coderelated to premeditated assault.

President Susilo BambangYudhoyono Tuesday ordered policeto arrest and prosecute the attack-ers.

The leader of the most populousMuslim-majority nation stronglycondemned a US pastor’s plans toburn the Koran last week but hasbeen criticised at home for failingto protect minority rights in his owncountry.

Eighty percent of Indonesia’s240 million people are Muslims.

Human rights groups say reli-gious violence has been on the risein recent months, mainly by Mus-lims against minority groups in-cluding Christians.

Yudhoyono’s governing coali-tion, which includes Islamic par-ties, has failed to crack down onseveral violent Islamic vigilantegroups such as the FPI.

Indonesia police kill two in Papua road riot“Our members opened fire at the

angry residents. They did it auto-matically in self-defence againstpeople who brought knives, spearsand wooden sticks,” Wachyono said.

“I believe they felt their liveswere threatened. If they hadn’topened fire they would have been hitby the residents,” he added, reject-ing allegations the police used ex-cessive force.

Papuan tribal representativeDominikus Sorabut, from thePapuan Customary Council, saidheavily armed “Mobile Brigade”police acted out of revenge after themob pelted them with stones.

“The policeman who was hit bystones ran back to his station and cameback with a troupe and acted blindly

by shooting people,” he said.Indonesia’s police are notori-

ous for poor discipline, corruptionand torture. They are also widelyaccused of serious human rightsabuses against indigenousMelanesians in Papua, where alow-level insurgency has sim-mered for decades.

Earlier this month police killedsix people in Central Sulawesiprovince after locals rose upagainst them in anger at the deathin custody of a local man who hadbeen arrested for traffic infringe-ments.

Police had to be pulled out ofthe town of Buol for their ownsafety as furious residents roamedthe streets looking for them.

President receives two KPK chief candidatesering which was closed to newsmen.

No information was immediatelyavailable about the substance ofPresident’s meeting with the twoKPK chief candidates.

Asked before the start of themeeting, Djoko Suyanto admittedthat he head no idea of the topic tobe discussed but only said he wasasked by the president to be presentat the meeting.

Busyro Moqodas and BambangWidjojanto were chosen by a gov-ernment-appointed KPK leaderselection committee. They willsoon undergo a fit-and-proper testat the House of Representatives(DPR) next month to decidewhich one of them will lead theCommission.

President Yudhoyono late in Au-gust officially proposed BambangWidjojanto and Busyro Muqoddas

as candidates for the KPK leadershipto the DPR.

The head of state believed that thetwo candidates were the best figureswho had been confirmed by the KPKselection committee.

President Yudhoyono also ex-pressed hope that the House of Rep-resentatives would be able to choosean appropriate candidate so that hecould immediately carry out hisKPK duties soon after being in-stalled.

Bambang Widjojanto was theformer Legal Aid Foundation Boardchairman and the lawyer of KPKleaders Bibit and Chandra when theyfaced alleged extortion case whichwas later halted by the Attorney Gen-eral Office.

And Busyro Muqoddas was thechairman of Judicial Commissionand PP Muhammadiyah adviser.

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Bali Today

She said that the MPA inaugura-tion was the project under the CoralTriangle Initiatives (CTI) that sup-ported by US. She expressed herhopes that this area will become partof coral conservation program andmarines protection. ‘’The Ambas-sador of US plans to be here in Balito see the inauguration process,” sheexplained.

Besides working with Indone-sia on environment projects, suchas the MPA, she stated that USalso have an agriculture project inBali. ‘’We are helping farmers inBali on cocoa production”.

During her working visit ,Kristen also expressed her impres-sion on media in Indonesia. Shesaid media have important roleand seem to express their opinionmore freely compare to media in

Bali Post

MANGUPURA — Rise in do-mestic tourist visits remained tothrong a number of tourist desti-nations in Bali. Nature tourism at-tractions such as Kuta Beach and

US and Indonesia to inaugurateMarine Protected Area

Bali Post/Yudi Karnaedi

Kristen F Bauer (r) the Consul General of American Consulate General gives Nyoman Wirata,Bali Post Chief Editor some books about United States during her working visit to Bali PostMedia Group on Thursday.

IBPDENPASAR – The United States of America (USA) and In-

donesian government will inaugurate the Marine Protected Area(MPA) that located in Nusa Penida area at Klungkung regencyon 26 September, 2010. The plan was stated by Kristen F Bauerthe Consul General of American Consulate General during herworking visit to Bali Post Media Group on Thursday.

US. She also mentions that themedia trend in US is more to thetelevision stations. They have im-portant roles on shaping the pub-lic opinion.

She also explained that US havesome important projects in Indone-sia and have close and strong rela-tionship with Indonesia. Theprojects consist of many subjects,such as environment, building pros-perity, and democracy. ‘’We havevery broad relationship with Indo-nesia and keeps getting stronger andstronger in the next year to come,”Kristen said optimistically.

When asking about Bali,Kristen said she love to visit Bali.‘’The Americans also have greatinterest in visiting Bali, mostlybecause of the movie (The Eat,Pray, Love),” she added. (kmb18)

Five days after Idul Fitri

Tourists still packed some tourist destina-tions Sangeh, for instance, were densely

packed by tourists until the fifth dayafter Idul Fitri celebration whosenumber was predicted to increaseup to three times compared to nor-mal days.

“Up to today, those domestic

tourists reached an average of 1,500people per day. Meanwhile, the av-erage of foreign tourist is 300-400persons per day. This figure rose to200 percent compared to before theIdul Fitri celebration,” said theManager of the Sangeh Tourist Ob-

ject Management, Made Sumohon,last Wednesday (Sep 15).

It was also said that last week be-fore the celebration of Idul Fitri1431 H, the arrival of domestictourists from various regions suchas Central Java, Yogyakarta,Semarang, and others dropped dras-tically. Even, this tourist destinationoften afflicted by traffic jam dur-ing that period was only visited byfive tourists per day.

“When entering the period offasting month, among 50 visitorscoming here, there were only fivedomestic tourists, while the remain-ing were foreigners from Australiaand Europe. However, their num-ber today has risen significantly upto three times,” he said.

Similar conditions were alsoseen in the Kuta Beach tourist re-sort becoming the favorite destina-tion for tourists visiting Bali. Dur-ing the holiday season of Idul Fitri,especially domestic tourists visitingKuta Beach rose up to two-fold.

“Ambience of Kuta Beach afterIdul Fitri celebration stays to lookmore crowded than on usual days.

On normal days, the beach wasdominated by foreign tourists, butnow it is dominated by domestictourists,” revealed Coordinator ofthe Badung Lifeguard (Balawista),Made Suparka.

Increasing tourist visits to KutaBeach was estimated by Suparkawould continue to happen until theend of the Idul Fitri holiday season.To anticipate this surge of visitors,the party of Badung Lifeguard in-creased its security patrols along theKuta Beach by involving 128guards stationed at 16 posts.

“Based on our observations, mosttourists coming to Kuta were fromJakarta. Predominantly, they were en-trepreneurs. Meanwhile, foreign tour-ists were dominated by arrivals fromAustralia and Europe,” he said.

Those tourists performed variousactivities such as having a prom-enade along the beach, playingbeach sand, swimming and surfing.In the meantime, there were alsotourists that would like to enjoymassage service on the beach, trytemporary tattoos and purchase as-sorted Balinese accessories. (par)

Tourists doingparasailing in Benoabeach. Rise indomestic touristvisits remained tothrong a number oftourist destinationsin Bali. Naturetourism attractionssuch as Kuta Beachand Sangeh, forinstance, weredensely packed bytourists until the fifthday after Idul Fitricelebration whosenumber was pre-dicted to increase upto three times com-pared to normaldays.

Bali Post/Yudi Karnaedi

Balinese Culture

Friday, September 17, 2010 9al

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

made with huge prawns. In Bali, coconut chunks areroasted directly on charcoal, then the charred skinscrapped off and the flesh grated for making the coconutmilk.

INGREDIENTS:4 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

SPICE PASTE:5 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

PREPARATION:Prepare spice paste by grinding or blending all

ingredients except oil, tamarind, salam leaf andlemongrass. Heat oil, add spice paste and all otheringredients. Cook over moderate heat for about 5minutes, then cool.

Wash lobsters and leave whole. Bring water to theboil, add lobsters and simmer for 15 minutes. Removelobsters, plunge in iced water for 1 minutes, then drainand remove meat. Return shells to the pot of water,keeping lobster meat aside.

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegarto the water with the shells and simmer until 4 cups ofstock remain. Add coconut milk and simmer for 10minutes. Strain stock and return to pan. Add lobster andsimmer for 1 minute. Serve garnished with fried shallotsand accompanied by white rice.

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

prawns and put prawns shells 4 cups of water. Simmerfor 5 minutes, then combine this stock with coconut milk,prawns and all other ingredients, simmering untilcooked. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

The ritual of Tumpek Uduh orTumpek Bubuh performed by theBalinese bring human beings fromall over the world to preserve theenvironment well so that humans donot lose their food, clothing andhousing resources that constitutetheir primary needs. If you coinci-dentally spend a holiday in Bali youwill see Balinese people presentofferings on the trees, ritual proces-sion in the midst of vast estate andvarious socio-religious activitiesfrom the early morning to late night.The function and meaning of thisTumpek Bubuh is an awarenessmilestone to sustain the environ-mental preservation for the sake ofsurvival of all living creatures.

For Balinese people sustainingthe environmental preservationcomprises divine duty in imple-menting the Hindu teaching. Hence,human and living environment areinseparable and always in interde-pendency.

In the concept of Tat Tvam Asi(That art thou) human is an elementof this living environment, to makethe Balinese aware sustaining theharmonious relation to its environ-ment. In the kekawin (long poem)of Nitisastra, the interdependency

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Amed – The number of touristsvisited Amed beach in Kubu,Karangasem decreased gradually. IGede Suta, one of the businessmanin Amed, said “the decrease hasbeen happening since August andthe condition is because the end ofthe long holiday.’

He explained that during Julythrough August 2010, the hotel oc-cupancy rate in Amed was veryhigh, some hotel even up to 100%.

A Tradition to Sustain the Living Environmentrelationship of human and livingenvironment just likes a tiger in thewoods. The tiger sincerely guardsthe woods again wicked people, andon the contrary, the dense woods areglad to protect the habitat of tigerand provide it with the abundantfood.

In endeavor to preserve the envi-ronment, apart from doing real ac-tion in the field they also performthe ritual procession called TumpekBubuh or Tumpek Pengarah,Tumpek Pengatag, Tumpek Wariga.This rite is performed in the morn-ing, when the sun rises on the east-ern horizon the Balinese rush tobring the offering to their estatesbehind their home or the places thatis full of trees. In the midst of vastestate area, the offerings put onasagan (bamboo altar).

Such was Hindu devotes in Balicarrying out the rites of TumpekUduh or Tumpek Bubuh that fall onSaturday Kliwon Wariga, once in sixmonths (210 days).

Ingredients of offerings presentedon that day predominated by theform to porridge. But if devotees hasvast estate along with productiveplats, like coconut, coffee, clove, andso on, the offering is usually com-

pleted with roasted sucking pig.Tumpek Bubuh is constitutes the

preliminary celebration for thepreparation of welcoming for theGalungan holiday a festival for theuniverse (commemorative day forthe earth). In the Balinese calendarsystem, the range of Tumpek Bubuhwith Galungan counts 35 days or amonth in the system. Their forTumpek Bubuh apart from convey-ing thanksgiving to the AlmightyGod as the supreme authority ofsarwa tumbuh (useful plats for hu-man life) also signifies the expecta-tion that God in His manifestationas the Lord Sangkara at all time ex-tends boon for fertility, so all plantsgrow and bear fruit flourishingly asthe prayer recited on presenting theofferings.

If you travel to Bali you wouldbetter go to the village corner to seethe performance of Tumpek Bubuhrites. The sacredness vibration ofthis rite will help you to attain anawareness to behave wisely in pre-serving the environment. When yousucceed in sustaining yours well,actually you have made a saving foryour retirement age that is im-mensely beneficial for your futuregenerations. (BTN/doc)

Tourist’s visitation to Amed deceraseHowever, the end of the holidaymade the rate decrease and becomeonly 60%.

Even tough the number of tour-ists is decreasing but it did affect thediving activities on the beach. “Div-ing can not be limited by time. Thetourists want to dive at any givenmoment especially on the sunnyday,” Suta said.

He added that the tourists whodive in Amed are usually brought bytravel agent from Sanur, Nusa Dua,or Denpasar. “Some of them choose

to dive in Tulamben beach but itdoesn’t affect the diving activity inAmed,” he explained.

However, according to Suta, thelow season is affecting the boat own-ers in Amed. “The small tourist’svisitation made only some of thetourists use the boat to wonderaround the beach so it also reducestheir income,” he added.

Some of the boats owners changetheir field of works and become fish-ermen if there is no tourists come toAmed.

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Beratan Lake is a shallow lake with thehigh caldera about 1231m above sea leveland it is located at Bedugul, the famoustourist destinations in Bali. This lake havewide 3,8 km2 and also its deepness is up to22 meters. The water volume in this lake isabout 0,049 km3, so Beratan Lake is theclosed lake. Tourist can access the BeratanLake through the dock which have beenprovided or desist around Ulun DanuBeratan Temple. In this place, the visitorcan do various activities like doing recre-ation to look around in dock or do the otheroutdoor activities. The various water rec-reation activities can also be conductedhere, for example riding the boat motorizeto circle the lake, parasailing, canoeing withthe traditional boat, banana boating, waterskiing, and others. Fishing activities are alsoavailable in this places for who one lovefishing in the lake.

Beratan Lake is situated in the plateauarea with cool atmosphere surround it. It isan ideal place for relaxation while enjoythe beautiful panorama of lake. The accom-modations are also available in this areawhere is the perfect place for overnight stay,resting and enjoy the beautiful panoramicof lake with the Ulun Danu Temple as a

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Agence France-Presse

MUMBAI - India’s central bankraised its main interest rates morethan expected on Thursday, spring-ing the fifth hike in six months totame inflation in Asia’s third-biggesteconomy.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)raised its main repo rate — the rate atwhich it lends to commercial banks —by 25 basis points to 6.0 percent, amove that was in line with analysts’forecasts.

But it hiked the reverse repo rate —the rate it pays to banks for deposits —more aggressively than forecast, in-creasing it by 50 basis points to 5.0percent.

“Inflation remains the dominantconcern in macroeconomic manage-ment,” the bank said in a statement.

Inflation dipped to a seven-monthlow in August, but is still seen as too

“The appreciation of the renminbicannot solve the US trade deficit againstChina and it cannot solve the US do-mestic unemployment issue,” foreignministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu toldreporters.

“The issues in China and US eco-nomic relations and trade should beproperly solved through consultationson an equal footing. Exerting pressurecannot solve the issue. Rather, it maylead to the contrary.”

The People’s Bank of China onThursday set the central parity rate —the middle of the yuan’s allowed trad-ing band — at 6.7181 to the dollar, thestrongest level since Beijing in Junepledged to let the yuan trade morefreely.

It was trading at 6.7335 at the dollarlater in the day, according to Dow JonesNewswires. The yuan can move up ordown 0.5 percent from the central par-ity rate in any given trading day.

The currency has appreciated 1.6percent since the summer promise andgained 0.7 percent over the course ofthis week as US lawmakers readied forhearings on the sensitive issue.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Trade tensionsbetween the United States and Chinaratcheted up another notch Wednes-day, as Washington called on the WTOto probe unfair Chinese trade prac-tices.

The United States asked the WorldTrade Organization to investigateChina’s allegedly unfair treatment ofUS steel and electronic payment pro-viders, the first step toward sanctions.

“We are concerned that China isbreaking its trade commitments to theUnited States and other WTO part-ners,” US trade representative RonKirk said in a statement.

Amid mounting US anger aboutChina’s trade policies, Kirk’s officesaid it would ask the WTO for “con-sultations” about Beijing’s policies, astep that could lead to retaliatory mea-sures.

US authorities said China slapsunfair duties on US electrical steel andhas not opened up its market in elec-tronic payments.

Beijing claims that US steel hadbeen dumped onto the Chinese mar-ket and is subsidized.

The announcement comes on theeve of what is expected to be an acri-monious appearance by Treasury Sec-retary Timothy Geithner before the USCongress.

Facing November elections shapedby voter anger at the sour economy,US lawmakers will grill Geithner onwhat they charge are China’s unfairpolicies.

Key Senate and House of Repre-sentatives committees are weighing

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Chinese customers withdraw cash at a bank in Hefei, east China’s Anhui province on September15, 2010. China’s yuan on September 16 hit its highest level since Beijing pledged limited cur-rency reform in June, as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner prepares to face US lawmak-ers angry over its value.

Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - China on Thursday warned outside pressure on Beijing to change its currencyregime would not work, as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner prepared to address law-makers angry over the yuan’s value.

China has a history of allowing theyuan to strengthen slightly ahead ofevents at which it expects to come un-der heightened pressure over the valueof the currency, which Congressionalcritics say is grossly undervalued.

Geithner, who will testify beforeboth House and Senate lawmakers onThursday, told the Wall Street Journallast Friday that Beijing had done “verylittle” since vowing to loosen its gripon the currency.

When asked whether he was satis-fied with China’s progress on the is-sue, Geithner replied: “Of course not.”

World Bank president RobertZoellick threw his support behind callsfor a strengthening of the yuan onWednesday, telling reporters in Beijingthat it would be “appropriate to havean appreciation of the currency.”

China made the June pledge follow-ing intense pressure from the UnitedStates, Europe and other trading part-ners for a stronger currency. The yuanhad until then been effectively peggedat about 6.8 to the dollar since 2008.

Critics, led by US lawmakers, thinkthe yuan is undervalued by as much as

40 percent, giving Chinese exportersan unfair price advantage and floodingthe American market with cheap Chi-nese goods — but Beijing has repeat-edly refuted those allegations.

The US trade deficit with China fellslightly to 25.92 billion dollars in Julyfrom 26.15 billion dollars in June, theUS Department of Commerce said lastweek.

China said Friday its trade surplusunexpectedly shrank in August to 20.03billion dollars as imports accelerated— which analysts said would bolsterBeijing’s arguments for a limited ap-preciation of the yuan against the dol-lar.

Jiang’s comments came after theUnited States ratcheted up trade ten-sions with Beijing, asking the WorldTrade Organisation to investigateChina’s allegedly unfair treatment ofUS steel and electronic payment pro-viders, the first step toward sanctions.

“We are concerned that China isbreaking its trade commitments to theUnited States and other WTO partners,”US trade representative Ron Kirk saidin a statement.

India’s central bankhikes interest rates

high.“Though inflation rates have reached

a plateau, they are likely to remain atunacceptably high levels for somemonths,” the bank added.

The measures undertaken should helpcontain inflation without disrupting thecountry’s economic growth, the banksaid.

The wholesale price index — thegovernment’s preferred main inflationindicator — dropped to 8.51 percentyear-on-year in August, from 9.78 per-cent the previous month, official figuresshowed.

India’s Congress-led government hasbeen under intense pressure over highprices that have made life even more dif-ficult for the country’s hundreds of mil-lions of poor.

Food inflation is still contributing toinflation pressures, but about two-thirdsof inflation in August can be attributedto items beyond food, the statement said.

US takes two Chinatrade cases to WTO

bills to impose retaliatory measuresagainst Chinese goods amid accusationsthat Beijing keeps its currency — andthereby its exports — artificially cheap.

The White House’s Democratic al-lies have expressed frustration with bothChina and US President BarackObama’s administration, and warnedthat lawmakers may be forced to actunless Washington wrings some con-cessions from Beijing.

The administration will hopeWednesday’s announcement takessome of the sting out of what could be-come a damaging trade war betweentwo of the world’s largest economies.

“These two cases are critical stepsforward in our effort to enforce ourmarket access rights in China,” saidDemocratic Senator Max Baucus.

Kirk meanwhile echoed complaintscommonly heard on Capitol Hill.

“The duties imposed by China haveraised the price of hundreds of millionsof dollars’ worth of American steelheaded into China, with the practicaleffect of reducing or blocking exportsof our steel to that country. China mustnot abuse WTO procedures to protectits market,” said Kirk.

“This case makes clear that theUnited States will not permit China tothreaten American steelworkers’ jobs byusing anti-dumping and countervailingduty proceedings to harass US exports.”

The US announcement also comesafter the United Steelworkers unionasked US authorities to investigate Chi-nese subsidies to the green energy sec-tor.

US officials denied that the timingof the announcement was politicallymotivated.

Entertainment InternationalFriday, September 17, 201012

“Now I’m going to go look for allthose cards I’ve been saving over theyears, from folks who have comefrom Australia,” Winfrey told Austra-lian television Thursday.

“The idea of staying at a realAussie’s house is actually pretty ap-pealing to me. So I don’t know whothat would be, but I’m not ruling thatout,” the TV star said.

Australia paid 2.3 million US dol-lars to bring Oprah and 300 membersof her studio audience to Australia foran eight-day showcase of thecountry’s beaches, vineyards and theworld-famous Great Barrier Reef.

The whistlestop tour will finishwith a recording session in the tem-

Agence France Presse

LOS ANGELES - Late pop iconMichael Jackson’s mother has filedsuit against promotors of a concertseries he was supposed to give inLondon in 2009, claiming they sharedthe blame for his death during rehears-als. Katherine Jackson filed the suitin Los Angeles Superior Court in hername and those of the singer’s threechildren. The suit is for an unspeci-fied amount in damages.

The lawsuit charges that AEG isresponsible for medical decisionsmade by Dr. Conrad Murray. He haspleaded not guilty to involuntarymanslaughter in Jackson’s death.

Jackson’s mother charged thatthe AEG group did not give her sonappropriate medical care during re-hearsals for the shows, and allegednegligence in allowing Murray tocare exclusively for her son.

In addition, one of Jackson’s sons,Michael Jr., “witnessed his father

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – The Animalscored the home run on “Big Brother12.” Hayden Moss, a shaggy-haired24-year-old college student andformer baseball player from Tempe,Ariz., won the $500,000 grand prizeon the voyeuristic CBS reality TVcompetition’s season finale Wednes-day.

Moss, who was dubbed “TheAnimal” by his secret four-man al-liance, bested bearded 24-year-oldoil rig salesman Lane “The Beast”Elenburg from Decatur, Texas.

In this publicity image released by CBS, Hayden Moss, 24, a collegestudent from Tempe, Ariz., is shown in Los Angeles. Moss is a

finalist to win $500,000 on ‘Big Brother 12.’

College student Hayden Moss wins ‘Big Brother 12’

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This photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 and released by Harpo Productions, Inc., shows talk-showhost Oprah Winfrey interviewing Chris Wood, left, and Jim McNulty, two of the three hostages who wereheld at gunpoint inside Discovery Communications headquarters two weeks ago, during taping of “TheOprah Winfrey Show” in Chicago. The show will air nationally on Thursday, Sept. 16.

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SYDNEY - American talkshow megastar Oprah Winfrey Thursdaysaid she was “not ruling out” an impromptu sleepover with an Austra-lian family during a her whirlwind December tour Down Under. Tour-ism officials have been swamped with offers to host the TV star, fromrainforest and reef resorts to humble homes in Outback towns.

porarily-renamed Sydney “Oprah”House, and Tourism Queensland saidthey were working through a num-ber of itineraries with Oprah and herteam. “As you can appreciate this abig task and we hope to have every-thing finalised next week,” they said.

Select Australians will be given theopportunity to join Winfrey’s Sydneyaudience through a lottery on herwebsite, and the star said she believedthere was “quite a demand for tickets.”

Winfrey, 56, was coy on who herguests would be, although actorsHugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman andRussell Crowe joined director BazLuhrmann on a list of her favouriteAustralians, along with Bindi Irwin,

daughter of the late wildlife star“Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin.

“We have an idea, we’re just nottelling you, or anybody there yet,”Winfrey said, joking that maybe shecould meet Julia Gillard, recentlyelected Australia’s first femaleprime minister.

For her part, Winfrey said it wasthe “regular folks” she was mostlooking forward to meeting, as wellas sampling some of Australia’s cui-sine. “I intend to try anything that’snot crawling,” she said, agreeingeven to try Vegemite, a bitter, saltybrown sandwich spread considereda national icon.

“Vegemite doesn’t crawl, I will betrying it, yes,” she said. “It’s like ourversion of peanut butter right? Peanutbutter and jelly? I’m open, bring it on.”

Winfrey was ranked the world’smost powerful celebrity by Forbesmagazine this year, outclassing ac-tress Angelina Jolie and singerBeyonce Knowles.

Michael Jackson’s mothersues concert promotors

suffering and accordingly has suf-fered great trauma and severe emo-tional distress,” the suit claims. AnAEG spokesman, Michael Roth, saidthe company had not seen the law-suit and had no immediate comment.

Los Angeles judge Michael Pas-tor has set a January 2011 hearingto weigh whether there is sufficientevidence to prosecute Murray forinvoluntary manslaughter over thesinger’s death.

The 57-year-old doctor, who waswith Jackson when he died June 25,2009, was charged with involuntarymanslaughter in February this year,but is free on a 75,000 dollar bond.Officials have ruled that Jackson diedafter being injected with a powerfulcocktail of sedatives and painkillers,including propofol, which the singerregularly requested from Murray tohelp him sleep.

Jackson’s death sentshockwaves around the world, andfamily and fans were outraged tolearn that the man dubbed the Kingof Pop was administered a danger-ous mix of powerful prescriptiondrugs in the hours before his death.

Murray, who was born inGrenada and grew up in Trinidadbefore moving to the United States,has denied the charges against him,which were filed after a painstak-ing seven-month probe involvinglocal and federal investigators.

At a June hearing, Pastor refuseda California Medical Board requestthat Murray be banned from prac-ticing until the charges against himwere resolved. The judge said an-other court had already barredMurray from injecting patients withstrong sedatives, including propofol.

The doctor, who was the last per-son to see Jackson alive, has admit-ted administering drugs to thesinger to help him sleep shortlybefore his death. He could face upto four years in prison if convicted.

Jackson died from a drug over-dose at a rented Los Angeles man-sion on June 25 last year, a seismiccelebrity death that triggered a glo-bal outpouring of tributes for theeccentric genius known as “TheKing of Pop.” Jackson’s father, JoeJackson, has filed separate a wrong-ful death lawsuit against Murray.

AP Photo/Nick Ut

FILE - In this June 14, 2010 photo,Michael Jackson’s parents,Katherine Jackson and Joe Jack-son leave a Los Angeles court-house after a preliminary hearingsetting and motions in the trial ofMichael Jackson’s personal doc-tor Conrad Murray. KatherineJackson has sued the promoterof what were intended to be thepop star’s comeback concerts forfraud and other claims related tothe singer’s death on Wednesday,Sept. 15, 2010.

“It makes me think I can do any-thing,” Moss said of advancing to thefinale. Moss dominated by both win-ning several competitions and form-ing bonds with the other houseguestswhile always staying loyal to The Bri-gade alliance, which was formed onthe second day in the house.

He defeated Elenburg in the finalround of a three-part Head of House-hold contest, which allowed him topick Elenburg to battle against for hisfour jury votes.

Enzo “The Meow Meow”Palumbo, a trash-talking 32-year-oldinsurance adjuster from Bayonne,

N.J., became the seventh member ofthe jury and cast the deciding votebetween his alliance partners forMoss.

Matt “The Brains” Hoffman, a33-year-old web designer fromElgin, Ill., and the fouth Brigademember who was earlier ousted,also cast his final vote for Moss.

Hoffman, who described himself

as a “diabolical super-genius,”caused the most controversy this sea-son for lying and telling the othercontestants that his wife had a crip-pling disease called melorheostosis.He said he did it in hopes of secur-ing “sympathy votes” if he made itto the end of the competition. Theplan backfired when the cast learnedthe truth.

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Now, in a challenge planned for next summer, he aimsto do so with the help of a robot suit, called the HybridAssistive Limb (HAL), which works like an exoskel-eton and amplifies the muscle power of its wearer’s legs.

Battery-powered HAL — designed to help the eld-erly with mobility and manual work and to assist hospi-tal carers in lifting patients — detects muscle impulsesto anticipate and support the user’s body movements.

A full-body model of HAL, being developed byTsukuba University professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, assistsboth arms and legs, and allows users to carry a load ofup to 70 kilograms (154 pounds) with one arm.

Uchida and a support team used an earlier version ofthe suit in an unsuccessful attempt to conquer the 4,164-metre (13,661-foot) Breithorn peak in Switzerland in2006, when climbers wearing the robo-suits carriedUchida.

Uchida says he wants to visit the rocky tidal islandof Mont Saint-Michel where a steep and narrow traillead to an abbey and former fortress to “prove that it ispossible for disabled people to visit the world’s historicsites without relying on facilities like elevators,” he said.

Agence France Presse

WASHINGTON - Arctic sea icemelted over the summer to cover thethird smallest area on record, US re-searchers said Wednesday, warningglobal warming could leave the re-gion ice free in the month of Sep-tember 2030. Last week, at the endof the spring and summer “melt sea-son” in the Arctic, sea ice covered4.76 million square kilometers (1.84million square miles), the Univer-sity of Colorado’s National Snowand Ice Data Center said in an an-nual report.

“This is only the third time in thesatellite record that ice extent hasfallen below five million square ki-lometers (1.93 million squaremiles), and all those occurrenceshave been within the past fouryears,” the report said.

A separate report by the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Admin-istration (NOAA) found that in Au-gust, too, Arctic sea ice coveragewas down sharply, covering an av-erage of six million square kilome-ters (2.3 million square miles), or22 percent below the average extentfrom 1979 to 2000.

The August coverage was thesecond lowest for Arctic sea icesince records began in 1979. Only2007 saw a smaller area of thenorthern sea covered in ice in Au-gust, NOAA said.

The record low for Arctic sea ice

Agence France Presse

SAO PAULO - Graffiti’s longstruggle to be seen as valid urbanexpression, not vandalism, is be-ing crowned this month with an ex-hibition in Brazil by internationalartists who not only sprayed offi-cial works but also spruced upabandoned corners of Sao Paulo.

A raid on a dilapidated factory bymany of the 66 artists on the eve ofthe event’s opening was a celebrationof the roots of graffiti, which emergedfour decades ago from New York’ssubway system. It was also a trium-phal declaration that, at last, they be-lieve they have reached legitimacy ascontemporary artists, a status en-hanced by their provocative legacy.

“Maybe that’s why it’s an artform. Because after 40 years start-ing in New York and everything, itstill gets people upset. And it is stillgetting people to think, and it’s stillmaking people happy. It stillmakes people talk,” said one of theartists, Anders Rebentlovlarsen, a25-year-old Dane.

He and the others — aroundhalf of them Brazilian, half for-eigners from the United States,Europe and Japan — are showcas-ing more official works in a firstBiennial of Graffiti Fine Art at SaoPaulo’s Brazilian Museum ofSculpture through October 3.

The designs, which range froma car decked with seductive eyes,though to a Manga-looking girlholding court in front of sinisterdolls, a Frankenstein-like headpierced with oversized nails, or anabstract bird’s nest of strokes andwords, reveal the derivations andreinventions of graffiti as it hasspread around the world.

The diversity and intricacy ofmany of the paintings reinforce theexhibition’s argument that graffitiis now a school of art to be reck-oned with, perhaps even to be val-

AFP PHOTO/Mauricio LIMA

In a picture taken on August 29, 2010, an artist works on his instal-lation ahead of the opening of the first Graffiti Fine Art Biennial atthe Museum of Sculpture (Mube), in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Graffiti’s longstruggle to be seen as valid urban expression, not vandalism, isbeing crowned this month with an exhibition in Brazil by interna-tional artists who not only sprayed up official works but also sprucedup abandoned corners of Sao Paulo.

Brazil graffiti artistsseen more as VanGoghs than vandals

ued by aficionados and collectors.“Not one work here doesn’t

bring you a special emotion orsomething that you are like ‘Wow,this person is so talented.’ That’sart, and that’s graffiti fine art,”Andrea Luis Carvalho, one of theexhibit’s organizers, told AFP.

Rebentlovlarsen, who regularlyreceives commissions for graffiticommercial projects in his nativeCopenhagen, said graffiti’s para-dox is that “you’re destroyingsomething but you’re actually cre-ating something.”

“I can say this is an art formbecause there’s a lot of colors forexample, or a lot of people doingit, or it’s all around the world, mak-ing many people happy. But it’salso making a lot of people veryangry and nervous, and so that’sthe clinch,” he said.

“I think that’s why I find it in-teresting. Because why is it somepeople can’t see the quality insome non-grey wall for example?”

The curators of the show saidthey saw Sao Paulo as a natural en-vironment for the works becauseof the city’s boast that it is the NewYork City of South America, withits melting-pot population, ebul-lient underground art scene anddizzying, vast landscape of sky-scrapers and industrial zones.

Sao Paulo, they claim, is “the cur-rent worldwide mecca of graffiti”thanks to those factors — and theblind eye police usually show to graf-fiti artists whose “vandalism” is con-sidered irrelevant alongside the ram-pant street crime that poses a muchmore serious threat to the public.

Rafael Calazans Pierre, a 32-year-old Brazilian industrial artistwhose sideline passion for paint-ing walls with interwoven wavesand swirls was on show at the mu-seum, said he could not begin tocount how many graffiti artistswere active in Sao Paulo.

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(FILES) Photo taken on August 3, 2009 showsJapan’s robotics venture Cyberdyne employeeswearing the robot-suit “HAL” (Hybrid Assistive Limb)and walking on a street in Tokyo during a demon-stration. A Japanese paralympian and adventurersays he wants to conquer a French medieval WorldHeritage site set on a rocky island next year with thehelp of a cutting-edge robotic suit.

Agence France Presse

TOKYO - A disabled Japanese adventurer sayshe is planning to leave his wheelchair behind andwalk up a medieval French World Heritage site nextyear with the help of a cutting-edge robotic suit. SeijiUchida, 48, who lost the ability to walk in a car acci-dent 27 years ago, said he has long dreamed of visit-ing the picturesque abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, seton a rocky islet in Normandy.

Arctic sea ice shrinks to third lowest area on recordcover at the end of the spring andsummer “melt season” in September,was also in 2007, when ice coveredjust 4.13 million square kilometers(1.595 million square miles).

Mark Serreze, director of theNSIDC, said climate-change skep-tics might seize the fact that Arcticsea ice did not hit a record-low ex-tent this year, but said they wouldbe barking up the wrong tree if theyclaimed the shrinkage had beenstopped.

“Only the third lowest? It didn’tset a new record? Well, right. It didn’tset a new record but we’re stillheaded down. We’re not looking atany kind of recovery here,” he toldAFP.

In fact, Serreze said, Arctic sea icecover is shrinking year-round, withmore ice melting in the spring andsummer months and less ice form-ing in the fall and winter. “The Arc-tic, like the globe as a whole, iswarming up and warming up

quickly, and we’re starting to see thesea ice respond to that. Really, in allmonths, the sea ice cover is shrink-ing — there’s an overall downwardtrend,” Serreze told AFP.

“The extent of Arctic ice is drop-ping at something like 11 percent perdecade — very quickly, in otherwords. “Our thinking is that by 2030or so, if you went out to the Arcticon the first of September, you prob-ably won’t see any ice at all. It willlook like a blue ocean, we’re losingit that quickly,” he said.

Losing sea ice cover in the Arcticwould affect everything from theobvious, such as people who live inthe far north and polar bears, to glo-bal weather patterns, said Serreze.

“The Arctic acts as a sort of re-frigerator of the northern hemi-sphere. As we lose the ice cover, westart to change the nature of that re-frigerator, and what happens up thereaffects what happens down here inthe middle latitudes,” he said.

Friday, September 17, 201014 InternationalSport

The Spanish giants penned Mar-tin Jol’s team inside their own pen-alty area right from the kick-off,with Gonzalo Higuain curling along-range strike against the cross-bar and Angel di Maria shootingover when well-placed.

The breakthrough arrived in for-tuitous fashion in the 31st minutewhen Higuain challenged VurnonAnita for Xabi Alonso’s corner andforced the Ajax defender to putthrough his goal.

Real put Ajax under increasedpressure in the second period andafter Cristiano Ronaldo had spurneda series of chances, Higuain madethe game safe with a close-rangevolley 17 minutes from the end. “Weplayed very well, pressured themwell and didn’t let them play howthey like to,” said Mourinho. “Oneday some poor team is going to payfor all these chances that we aremissing.”

The result gives Real a share ofthe Group G lead with AC Milan,who saw off an obdurate challengefrom Auxerre to win 2-0 at San Siro.The French side had a number offirst-half chances, with DennisOliech heading against the crossbarand Steeven Langil blazing over thebar from a good position.

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ROME - Zlatan Ibrahimovicquickly went from hero to villainfollowing his winning brace forAC Milan in the ChampionsLeague against Auxerre.

Following the rossoneri’s 2-0success at the San Siro on Wednes-day night, the Sweden forwardwas involved in an ugly bust-upwith legendary former Milan andItaly coach Arigo Sacchi.

Sacchi, who won two EuropeanCups and a Serie A title with Milanand guided Italy to the 1994 WorldCup final, was a guest on MediasetPremium’s post-match programmeand had joked that if it wasn’t forIbrahimovic’s big feet — Europeansize 47s — he wouldn’t havescored the first goal. Told ofSacchi’s comments, the Swede ex-ploded. “Sacchi needs to learn howto shut up,” he fired back about the64-year-old Italian great, causingshock in the TV studio.

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MANCHESTER - Manches-ter United winger AntonioValencia will be out for “a goodportion” of the season, the En-glish Premier League side an-nounced Thursday. The Ecuadorinternational had an operationWednesday on the ankle hebroke in Tuesday’s ChampionsLeague goalless draw againstRangers at Old Trafford.

United medical staff revealedThursday that Valencia had alsosuffered ligament damage in ad-dition to the fracture. “The op-eration went well, a plate hasbeen inserted to stabilise thefracture but there is obviouslysignificant ligament damage thatfollows a dislocation,” a United

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Ajax’s goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg, left, saves at the feet of Real Madrid’s Angel Di Mariafrom Argentina during a Group G Champions League soccer match at the Santiago Bernabeustadium in Madrid Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010.

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PARIS - Jose Mourinho enjoyed a winning start to his first Champions League campaign atReal Madrid as his side beat Ajax 2-0 on Wednesday, while Arsenal and Chelsea both strolled toemphatic wins. Mourinho was brought to the Bernabeu with the brief of delivering Real’s 10thEuropean crown and his team emerged with all three points from their Group G opener despitemaking heavy work of four-time champions Ajax.

Milan’s class finally told in the sec-ond period, with Zlatan Ibrahimovictouching home from close range afterKevin-Prince Boateng had flicked onRonaldinho’s cross and then adroitlyplacing the ball into the bottom-rightcorner from the Brazilian’s lay-off.

Ibrahimovic’s first goals for the clubenabled him to join former Milanfavourite Hernan Crespo as the onlyplayers to have scored for five differ-ent clubs in the competition.

London’s Wembley Stadium willhost this season’s Champions Leaguefinal and London-based sides Arsenaland Chelsea both made stunning starts.Chelsea opened their Group F accountwith a 4-1 victory at Slovakians MSKZilina, while Arsenal slipped throughthe gears in characteristically stylishfashion in a 6-0 demolition of Portu-guese competition debutants Braga.

A ninth-minute Cesc Fabregas pen-alty set Arsenal on their way at theEmirates and Marouane Chamakh andAndrey Arshavin both found the tar-get before Fabregas completed hisbrace in the 53rd minute. SubstituteCarlos Vela added two well-takengoals in the second half to give ArseneWenger’s side a perfect start in GroupH.

“It was good training because in thePremier League and the Champions

League we will have games where wewill not have it easy,” said Fabregas.

In the other group fixture, a 71st-minute free-kick by Darijo Srna wasenough for Shakhtar Donetsk to seeoff Partizan Belgrade in Ukraine.Strikes from Michael Essien and aNicolas Anelka brace put Chelsea 3-0up after half an hour at Zilina beforeDaniel Sturridge completed the routthree minutes into the second half.Tomas Oravec claimed a consolationfor the hosts.

“The first half was fantastic,” saidChelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti. “Weplayed very well on the counter-attack.We had a lot of chances. It was a fan-tastic performance.”

In the other Group F game, Frenchchampions Marseille fell to a 1-0 de-feat at home to Spartak Moscowthanks to an unfortunate 81st-minuteown goal from Spanish right-backCesar Azpilicueta.

A stunning, outside-of-the-footstrike from German World Cup starThomas Mueller enabled last season’sbeaten finalists Bayern Munich tobreak the deadlock in the 79th minuteof their Group E encounter with Roma.

Miroslav Klose claimed Bayern’ssecond in a 2-0 win, while RomaniansCFR Cluj edged Basel 2-1 in the sec-ond group game of the evening.

Valencia to miss mostof the season - United

statement said. “He will be outfor a good portion of the season.”

United manager AlexFerguson, immediately after theRangers match, ruled Valenciaout for the rest of the season andsaid the injury was similar toone suffered by United’s AlanSmith in 2006.

The statement also dismissedquotes attributed to the Ecuadorteam doctor about Valencia’smental state and said the formerWigan favourites was “verypositive” about his prospects ofrecovery. “Contrary to recentreports, there has been no offi-cial contact from the Ecuador-ian national team,” the state-ment said. “Antonio is perfectlyfine, very positive and very de-termined.”

Ibrahimovic in TVSacchi tiff

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AC Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, of Sweden, celebratesafter scoring during a Champions League, Group G soccermatch between AC Milan and Auxerre at the San Siro sta-dium in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept.15, 2010.

“He also seems jealous becausehe’s talking too much, he needs totalk less about me on TV and inthe newspapers. “If he wantssomething he can come and see meabout it. If you don’t like the wayI play, don’t come and watch me.”

That sparked an on-air argu-ment between the pair as the pre-senter initially tried to explain thatit wasn’t a criticism. “He also saidthings about me when I was atBarcelona,” retorted Ibrahimovic.“I believe I can express my opin-ion in a polite and correct way, Idon’t believe I’ve offended you,”said Sacchi.

“When someone talks toomuch, they talk too much, you’reone of those people. If you don’tlike the way I play, don’t come andwatch me,” said Ibrahimovic. “Letme explain,” added Sacchi.

“You don’t need to explain any-thing to me,” spat Ibrahimovic.“You need to learn some manners,son,” concluded Sacchi.

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Djokovic was widely ap-plauded for his gutsy performancein going down to Rafael Nadal inNew York on Monday as the Span-iard completed a career GrandSlam. But he is adamant that theloss will not overshadow theDavis Cup semi-final against theCzech Republic in Belgrade.

“I cannot hide the disappoint-ment. It’s just I’m not going to cryor complain,” said Djokovic,looking back on his loss to Nadal.“It’s just the way it is. I wantedthat trophy, but I will continueworking hard and waiting for thenext chance to come.”

His first chance to put the USOpen behind him arrives on Fri-day. Serbia have been impressivein the Davis Cup this season, de-feating the USA 3-2 in Belgradeand then cruising past Croatia 4-1 in the quarter-finals in Split.

Serbian captain BogdanObradovic has named an un-changed team for the third con-secutive tie so Djokovic lines upwith Janko Tipsarevic, ViktorTroicki and Nenad Zimonjic.

The Czech Republic, last year’srunners-up, have recalled their toptwo players, Tomas Berdych andRadek Stepanek, after both missedthe 4-1 victory over Chile in thequarter-finals through injury.Berdych reached the French Opensemi-finals this year before finish-ing runner-up to Nadal atWimbledon.

“We have a great team and webelieve in ourselves,” saidStepanek. “We’ve been underdogsso many times, the same as wewill be in Serbia, and we will tryto use it to our advantage.” IvoMinar and Jan Hajek make up thefour-man Czech team. In the othersemi-final, France, who knockedout defending champions Spain inthe last eight, host Argentina inLyon.

World number 15 Gael Monfils,a quarter-finalist at the US Openwhere he lost to Djokovic, leadsthe French team in the absence ofthe injured Jo-Wilfried Tsonga,who is nursing a knee injury. “Foran emotional player like me to playin the Davis Cup is just somethingunbelievable,” Monfils toldwww.daviscup.com. MichaelLlodra, Richard Gasquet and GillesSimon make up the team.

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The Miami Heat announcedWednesday night that they’ll hold theirfirst camp with James, Dwyane Wadeand Chris Bosh at Hurlburt Field andEglin Air Force Base in Florida’s Pan-handle from Sept. 28 to Oct. 3. Miamihas typically held training camp at itshome arena, but in an effort to limitdistractions going into this much-hyped season, the Heat wanted a dif-ferent locale.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra wantedthe camp there after getting presentedwith the idea by team trainer Jay Sabol.Once military officials agreed, the dealwas struck.

“This is a terrific opportunity forour team,” Spoelstra said. “The basewill provide the ideal setting for us tofocus on basketball and building ca-maraderie with limited distractions. Italso presents us a unique and fantasticopportunity to spend time with theAirmen who defend our freedom. Ianticipate our team and each of us in-dividually will benefit tremendouslyfrom being around this environment.”

Eglin officials said Wednesdaynight they could not recall anotherprofessional sports team holding partof its training camp at the base, whichis about 650 miles away from Miami.Practices will take place at HurlburtField’s Aderholt Gymnasium. TheHeat said they would be involved inseveral other on-base events.

“We at Hurlburt Field have aproud tradition of excellence, sacri-

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Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, reacts during the men’s champion-ship match against Rafael Nadal, of Spain, at the U.S. Open ten-nis tournament in New York, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. Nadal wonthe match in four sets.

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PARIS - Novak Djokovic will hope to bury his US Open heartbreak when he spearheads Serbia’sbid to reach a first Davis Cup final, while the United States try to avoid sinking to a 22-year lowthis weekend.

and 2008, will rely on fit-againDavid Nalbandian, who has wonthe deciding fifth rubber in both histeam’s 3-2 victories this year, awayin Sweden and Russia. “It’s goingto be tough,” said former worldnumber three Nalbandian, who hasbeen rebuilding his career aftermissing nine months with a hip in-jury.

Juan Monaco, EduardoSchwank and Horacio Zeballos joinNalbandian on the Argentina team.Nine-time Davis Cup championsFrance will start as favourites, hav-ing defeated the South Americansin all four previous meetings.

The United States, meanwhile,

can boast a record 32 Davis Cuptitles but that legacy will count fornothing if they lose to Colombiain Bogota in one of eight play-offs. Defeat would send them outof the elite World Group for thefirst time since 1988.

The US, who will be withouttop player Andy Roddick, wereforced into the play-offs after los-ing to Serbia in the World Groupfirst round this season.

Australia, the second most suc-cessful Davis Cup nation with 28wins, welcome Belgium to Cairns,where a defeat would condemnLleyton Hewitt’s team to anotherseason in the zonal competition.

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Basketball player Lebron James walks along the sidelinesbefore an NFL football game between the Dallas Cowboysand Washington Redskins in Landover, Md., on Sunday,Sept.. 12, 2010.

Heat taking first campwith LeBron on the road

fice and commitment. Our world-classAirmen and facilities guarantee we cananswer the call — any time, anyplace,” said Col. Michael Plehn, 1stSpecial Operations Wing commander.“We know the Miami Heat share thissame commitment to excellence. Thisis why we’re pleased to support theirrequest to use our facilities.”

James famously said he would“take my talents to South Beach” whenannouncing his decision to join theHeat on July 8, and there will be plentyof time for that to happen. The Heatwill return to South Florida two daysbefore opening the preseason at homeagainst Detroit on Oct. 5.

“The Miami Heat is extremelyhumbled to train in an environmentwhere service, sacrifice and disciplineare the norm,” Heat president Pat Rileysaid. “We know our players will ap-preciate being immersed in that kindof environment, and supporting themen and women who defend our free-dom everyday.”

The Heat have many ties to mili-tary efforts, including their“HomeStrong” initiative where sol-diers returning from Iraq and Af-ghanistan are honored before everyhome game. Riley also has arrangedChristmas parties for soldiers andtheir families in recent years, andformer Heat first-round draft pickTim James joined the U.S. Army in2008 and was sent to Iraq shortlythereafter. The Heat plan to practicetwice daily during camp, althoughthat’s subject to change.

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“I would like to have a great race and dedicate it to Tomizawa,”said Yamaha rider Lorenzo. Tomizawa’s funeral took place on Wednes-day in Asahi, Chiba, where over a thousand mourners paid their re-spects. Fellow Japanese world championship riders Yuki Takahashiand Tomoyoshi Koyama were amongst those present, as wasTechnomag-CIP team boss Alain Bronec.

The death of 19-year-old Tomizawa has cast a cloud over Sunday’srace, named as a replacement for the Hungarian Grand Prix, whichlost its slot on the 2010 calendar when work on the country’s pro-posed circuit fell behind schedule.

Lorenzo has a 63-point advantage over rival Dani Pedrosa in thestandings although his fellow Spaniard has won the last two races, atIndianapolis and San Marino.

“It’s our third race in Spain but the first time at Aragon and I’mexcited,” said 23-year-old Lorenzo, who has won at Jerez andCatalunya on home soil in 2010.

Pedrosa is aiming for a fourth win of the season and has reignitedhis title challenge with back-to-back victories in his last two outings.

Although he is 63 points behind Lorenzo, there are still 150 to ridefor in the remaining six races. “It’s always very nice to race in Spainand I can imagine that the atmosphere will be incredible; I’m lookingforward to meeting the Spanish fans again,” said Pedrosa, who wassecond to Lorenzo at Jerez and Catalunya.

“The team and I also arrive in a very good mood thanks to the greatjob we have been doing and our good results in the last races.

“Our bike has been working well at very different circuits, so Ihope we can also do a good job. I’m really looking forward to thisGrand Prix.”

JENSON Button is convincedthis year’s championship fight willgo down to the wire judging by howtight the battle at the top is. RedBull’s Mark Webber is leading thestandings, five points ahead ofLewis Hamilton and 19 in front ofFernando Alonso. Button sits justone point behind the Spaniard, withSebastian Vettel two points adrift ofthe Briton with five races left.

The reigning world champion,who finished in second behindAlonso at Monza last Sunday, ad-mitted he finds it hard to believehow close this season has been.

He also conceded the result inItaly was a boost for his champion-ship hopes, despite losing out toAlonso. “Absolutely, because I tookthe opportunity with both hands,and I scored 18 points on a daywhen Lewis scored none, Mark tookhome eight and Sebastian 12,” saidButton on his website.

“Now, you can’t help but look atthe drivers’ championship table andjust think, ‘wow, how can it be soclose?’ It’s funny - after Spa, every-one was saying it was a two-horserace between Lewis and Mark, butI can easily see this championshipgoing right down to the last race.

“I think we’ve seen that no onedriver’s going to walk away with theworld title - there’s going to be afight right to the very end.”

Button says consistency will bekey to take this year’s title, but he

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ARAGON, Spain - World championship leader JorgeLorenzo wants to clinch victory at the Grand Prix of Aragonon Sunday and dedicate it to tragic Japanese rider ShoyaTomizawa. Spain’s Lorenzo, the runaway leader in theMotoGP championship with eight wins in 12 races, is deter-mined to pay fulsome tribute to Tomizawa, who was killed ina horror crash in the Moto2 support race at San Marino twoweeks ago.

Button predicts battle to the wire

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reckons there are times when a driversimply has to push hard and go forvictory. He believes the experiencefrom last year will be useful to himin the final races.

“I think you have to take each raceas it comes,” he said. “I think thatdriving just to score a certain num-ber of points isn’t in a racing driver’spsyche: I felt that a little bit last year,I knew I only had to keep scoringconsistently to take the title, but thatwas probably more mentally taxingthan just putting your head down andgoing for it.

“For instance, at Interlagos lastyear, I had nothing to really lose - Iwas 14th on the grid and my team-mate was on pole. What did I have to

gain by driving steadily and takinghome a handful of points? I just wentfor it, and that was a really liberat-ing race for me, and an experiencethat will be useful this year too.

“I think consistency is importantin some ways though: obviously,you need a car that will get you tothe finish of every grand prix, andyou don’t want to start makingknee-jerk, or radical, decisions onset-up or strategy because you thinkit might give you an advantage.

“We’re racers, so we’ll always beracing - but the pressure’s now onall of us, because none of us canafford another non-finish or a mis-take. And the guy who cracks leastwill be world champion.”

Britain’s Jenson Button steers his McLaren Mercedes duringthe Italian Formula One Grand Prix at the Monza racetrack inMonza, Italy, Sunday, Sept 12, 2010.