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Thousands ofunlicensed touristtransportsoperating in Bali

The nearly simultaneous blastsbroke what has been a period ofrelative calm since the end of theholy month of Ramadan nearly two

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BANGKOK - Thousands ofThai anti-government “RedShirts” massed Sunday to markfour years since a coup oustedtheir hero Thaksin Shinawatra andto commemorate those slain in aMay crackdown on their protests.In their biggest show of strengthin Bangkok since their rallies inApril and May, during which 91people were killed, police saidabout 5,000 Red Shirts gatheredin the city’s commercial centre,closely monitored by securityforces.

AFP PHOTO/Christophe ARCHAMBAULT

Thai anti-government “Red Shirt” protesters gather atRatchaprasong intersection, the focus of their two-month rallyfrom March to May 2010 during which 91 people were killedand nearly 1,900 were injured, in downtown Bangkok on Sep-tember 19, 2010.Continued on page 6

Thousands of Thai ‘Red Shirts’mark 2006 coup, May crackdown

Thousands were also seen byAFP marching through northernChiang Mai city — the formerstronghold of fugitive former pre-mier Thaksin, toppled from powerin 2006 — with some waving ban-ners calling for the dissolution ofparliament.

The mainly poor and workingclass Reds largely support Thaksinfor his populist policies when inpower, and their April and May ral-lies demanded snap elections, ac-cusing the current government ofbeing elitist and undemocratic.

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Iraqi security and fire fighters secure the scene following a car bomb in the residential district of Mansur in the west of thecapital Baghdad, on September 18, 2010, one of two near-simultaneous car bombs that rocked the city killing some 18 peopleand wounding 100 others.

Twin car bombs kill 21 in BaghdadAssociated Press Writer

BAGHDAD – A pair of car bombs tore through two differ-ent neighborhoods in Baghdad on Sunday morning, killing21 people and wounding dozens of others, Iraqi officials said.

weeks ago and underlined the chal-lenges in protecting Iraq’s capital.

Twelve people were killedwhen a car bomb exploded in

western Baghdad’s affluentMansour neighborhood near a mo-bile phone office, said Army Brig.Gen. Ali Fathal who is responsiblefor the west of the city.

He said 10 people were alsowounded in the attack. It was notclear if the offices of AsiaCell werethe target. Minutes later another carbomb exploded in Kazimiyah

neighborhood’s Adan square in thenorthern sector of the city, killingat least nine and wounding 38 oth-ers, police and hospital sourcessaid.

Two policemen were killed inthe blast. The officials spoke oncondition of anonymity becausethey were not authorized to speakon the record.

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Denpasar (Bali Post) –To the Green Hospital destina-

tion, one of the steps taken bySanglah Hospital is recyclingrubbishes. With 1000 visits perday, it can be imagined how muchrubbishes produced inorganic ororganic forms. Not yet those medi-cal rubbishes produced by the hos-pital itself. At least in a day thehospital collected 146 kg organicmedical rubbish, 283 kg inorganicmedical rubbish, 680 non-medicinorganic rubbish, and 122 kg non-medic organic rubbish. Those in-organic and organic medicalrubbishes are destroyed using in-cinerator and those non-medic in-organic rubbishes are collected tobe placed in End Rubbish Place(TPA). But for the non-medic or-

Head of Bungkulan Village, KetutKusuma Ardana said in the villagethere are around 3000 dogs whereeach family has one or more. Sincethe spreading rabies case happenedthe village and the agency has donesocialization, elimination and vacci-nation. In the first and second elimi-nation, they only succeed in elimi-nating tens of them as residents stilldon’t realize how dangerous rabiesis. Yet since it’s told there has been aresident died of rabies, the people

Tabanan (Bali Post) –Purnama Sasih Kapat (Fourth Full

Moon) on this coming Thursday (23/9) will be the peak of NgentegLinggih lan Mupuk Pedagingan cer-emony at Pura (temple) Luhur BukitSari, Apuan, Tabanan. This huge cer-emony is done remembering 30 yearsago been done also to welcome RatuGede.

The ceremony leader, I MadeRibek joined by the Pura’s priestWayan Singer, the Yadnya leaderWayan Sarwa Eddy and CommitteeSecretary Made Cendoarsa ex-plained last Friday (17/9) the ceremo-nies been starting since Wednesday(8/9) by mapakeling nyanggra karya,pegalang sasih, continued withnanceb wewangunan yadnya lastThursday (9/9) and negtegang manikgalih last Sunday (12/9).

On Sunday (19/9) it is continuedwith ngulap ngambe tetangunanyadnya and penangian SesuhunanLuhur Bukit Sari. The next day onMonday (20/9) Ida Ratu AlitPenenjoan, Tapakan Ratu Gede Baruand Tapakan Ratu Gede Penarunganwill come. Then Mapepada lanmendak Betara Tirtha Gana,Melaspas, Mupuk Pedagingan lanMemben Karya ceremonies onWednesday (22/9). These ceremo-nies will be led by Priest Ida Pedanda

Denpasar (Bali Post) –The crowded residents in

Denpasar have definitely been addedagain. As since this year’s Eid Al Fitrithe number of new comers have in-creased such as what’s seen in UbungTerminal for four days from last Tues-day (14/9) there has been around1.619 people coming to Denpasar and500 of them are new faces who willbecome Denpasar residents.

From the data by Denpasar CityCivil Data and Demography Agency,since the first day after Eid Al Fitri,on Tuesday (14/9) managed to note386 comers, then on Wednesday (15/9) 514 comers, Thursday (16/9) 284comers and last day Friday (17/9) 269

Anticipate Rabies

Hundreds of Dogs Eliminated in BungkulanHundreds of Dogs Eliminated in BungkulanHundreds of Dogs Eliminated in BungkulanHundreds of Dogs Eliminated in BungkulanHundreds of Dogs Eliminated in BungkulanSingaraja (Bali Post) –

To anticipate the spreading rabies virus in Bungkulan Village, Sawan Sub district, hundreds ofstray dogs have been eliminated last Friday (17/9). Workers from Faming and Husbandry Agencyhelped by village officials did not have difficulties to do it as residents have understood and gavein their dogs to be eliminated.

started to realize and gave in.More over there are some residents

that have killed their own dogs usingsimpler tools. The residents supportwas proved with the hundreds of dogscan be eliminated in Bungkulan bythe workers, “By its understandingwe gave to the residents now they arewillingly to have their dogs destroyedso in this third elimination there hasbeen 100 dogs we destroy and stillcontinuing.”

Meanwhile Head of Animal

Health from the agency, Drh. NyomanSurya Temaja, mentioned from 148villages there are in Buleleng it isnoted 56 of them are rabies positive.Dogs that are successfully eliminateduntil 15th September 2010 are asmuch as 12.929 dogs while it is esti-mated the dogs population inBuleleng is 97.748 dogs, “it is still asmall percentage of dogs eliminatedand it is caused by those residents whowere not willing to have their dogsdestroyed.” (kmb15)

Civil Data Found 500 New Comerscomers.

Head of Denpasar City Demogra-phy Mobilisation Board, Pande MadeArtatika, met on Friday (17/9) men-tioned from those 1.619 people noted,most of them has jobs and living placein Denpasar. Sadly there are still thosethat don’t have ID in Denpasar.

For those who are new faces aretotaled up to 512 people. Those newcomers have a purpose to try out findjobs in Denpasar.

Artatika said these comers willbe on data and are obligated to finda Temporary Resident Identity Card(Kipem) in where they live later,“From the first data we had most ofthose comers were laborer from

East Java.”It is hoped institutes involve will

make them the Kipem as stated atMayor Rules 610 year 2002 where itsaid to find Kipem it will cost IDR 50Thousand for those from outsideDenpasar City but still in Bali and IDR100 Thousand for those from outsidethe Bali province, “We hope there areno individuals that will use these com-ers to find their own profits.”

Meanwhile Head of the agency, INyoman Gede Narendra, admittedthere will be no limitation to comersin Denpasar. The agency only can askthose residents to just complete them-selves with necessary identities fromwhere they live. (kmb12)

Singaraja (Bali Post) –As much as 106 yachts, candi-

dates of Sail Indonesia or this yeartend to be called Sail Banda, willharbor in Lovina Beach,Singaraja. Around 400 tourists onthose yachts are hoped to give apositive effect towards North Balitourism development.

In Lovina last Friday (17/9)there have been tens of yachtsstarting to harbor when actuallythe tourists are scheduled fromWednesday (22/9) until Saturday(25/9) to visit Buleleng. Yet be-cause there are loads, touristscan’t wait to see Buleleng. A num-ber of tourism workers and resi-

Sail Indonesia Candidates Visits BulelengAgain

dents in Lovina are also ready towelcome Sail Indonesia candi-dates.

Head of Buleleng Culture andTourism Agency, Putu TastraWijaya, have said those who can-didates that came earlier provedthat they want to stay longer inBuleleng before continuing theirsea journey to other destinationsstated.

While in Buleleng, tourists willbe entertained by different art per-formances like angklung (bamboomade musical instrument), rindik,joget bungbung, wayang kulit (tra-ditional puppets) performance, andsapi grumbungan. Tourists will also

follow a tour around North Balisuch as to Anyar Market, GedongKertya, Buleleng Museum,Tamblingan Lake and Village, alsoBanjar Village’s Hot Spring.

According to Tastra this has beenthe fourth time Sail Indonesia cameover and it is hoped to give positiveeffect to the tourism and economydevelopment in Buleleng. Moreover it is predicted that every tour-ist will spend around USD 50 ev-ery day and if it’s timed with thenumber of days visited here it willtotal up to IDR 5 Billion which willbe an income to those workers andresidents who worked for tourismservices. (kmb15)

In A Week, Sanglah HospitalProduced 14 Cubics of Compos

ganic rubbishes are being recycledby equipment the hospital haswhich produced it to become com-pos. And in one week, it produced14 cubic of compos.

The hospital’s General and Op-erational Director, drg. TriputroNugroho, last Wednesday (15/9)said that not all non medic organiccan be a compos as it has to be cho-sen from those that are still fresh likebanana leaves of food wrappers,fallen leaves from trees around thehospital until offerings. These werethen brought to the compos produc-tion equipment located next to theCorpse Room. The rubbishes werethen thrown in and the cutting ma-chine will then produce it to the twocubic meter sized box, “We haveseven boxes. (kmb24)

”Ngenteg Linggih” in Pura Bukit SariMade Mas Dwija Putra from GriyaTaman Sari Baturiti. The peak ll beon Sunday (23/9) beginning withritual procession to the river, thenpiodalan Ngenteg Linggih andMecatur Rehab which will be led bythe same priest. Then on Sunday (26/9) there will be a closing ceremonywhich is Ida Batara masineb byNyegara Gunung to Pura Ulun DanuBeratan, nyenuk, ngereremkin,ngeluar lan ngeluwur then masineb.

According to the SelayangPandang Pura Bukit Sari book, it wastold this Pura was visited by the RatuNgurah Sakti from Majapahit aftercoming to Pura Luhur Pucak PadangDawa and Pura Bakungan. In thispura, Ratu Ngurah Sakti did a yogathen continued the journey to PuraPenenjoan and Pura Luhur NatarSari. That is why in this pura there isa shrine for Pura Pucak Padang Dawaand another for the Ida Batara in PuraDalem Peed. It is because before IdaNgurah Sakti going to holy places inBali, Ida did yoga, fasting, and medi-tation in Pura Dalem Peed. Whendoing yoga in the Pura Bukit Sariarea, there was a blessing from IdaSang Hyang Widhi which is fertilewater used for the world’s prosper-ity. There were lots of them and isimagined like a mountain or a hill sothen it’s called Bukit Sari. (08)

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Denpasar (Bali Post)-After the illicit laystalls had been intensively

highlighted, the Subdistrict Head of WestDenpasar, I Made Mudra, continued to buzz theillicit laystalls in his territory. This breakthroughwas made as the last action in his services as sub-district head because he would immediately fillthe new position as Head of Denpasar CulturalServices. Concrete measure had been done to cleanthe locations used as illicit laystall along JalanMahendradata by involving community leaderssuch I.B. Kompyang who is also a member of theCommission D of Denpasar House, communityfigures at Pemecutan Village, PadangsambianKelod Village and entire hamlet heads, last Fri-day (Sep 17).

Mudra said that the cleaning up was acciden-tally committed to target the laystalls along theprotocol roads by using heavy equipment. “Lastweek, we cleaned up the illicit laystalls along JalanMalboro and provided direct supervision to theplaces cleaned. Now, we continue to target someprotocol roads,” said Mudra.

According to him, it was a real action to moti-vate the public so they could participate in creat-ing the Denpasar clean and green. His party then

They removed the temple located in thenorthwest of the village because its buildinghad continued to be crushed by abrasion sincedozens of years ago. As a result, other thancausing the foundation of the building almostto collapse due to the brunt of abrasion andferocious waves, it was also difficult for vil-lagers to enter into the temple. Previously,its entrance gates faced to the beach. Whenorganizing a ceremony, they should passthrough sea water, especially during the wa-ter tided up. Furthermore, according to a num-ber of local prominent figures, their grave-yard area had been crushed by abrasion, too.

Violent abrasion has threatens approxi-mately 40 percent of the coastal areas inKarangasem or along more than 30 km.Meanwhile, the length of coast owned byKarangasem is 87 km. Similarly, severecoastal erosion has also ensued along theCandidasa tourist coastal area stretching fromBuitan, Mendira to Candidasa.

A legislator of Karangasem House fromTenganan, Manggis, Nyoman Sadra, esti-mated the land on the Candidasa coast hadalready eroded along 100 meters. As a result,residents at the coastal area along theMendira, Sengkidu and Manggis Beach thatpreviously had a shrine in the area shouldremoved the shrine onto the coastal safeguardconcrete crib.

Along the coastal area next to Jasri, namelyPrasi coast, also experiences severe abrasion.Dozens of palm trees have fallen, and nowthe bases of those coconut trees can be foundin the ocean. They can be seen when the tideis low. Similar abrasion also happens to theUjung tourist resort namely from Ujung upto Seraya Beach. In the West Seraya Beach,dozens of household heads originally settledon the beach as fishermen were forced toleave. Residents removed their wooden housetogether away from the shore. They antici-pated any natural disasters occurred at nightlike storms and huge sea waves. Last year,their house collapsed as hit by similar stormsand huge tidal waves.

Due to the loss of sandy beaches, hundredsof fishermen along the East Seraya Beach tothe beach of Bunutan Village, Abang subdis-trict, have had a conflict with the land ownerfew years ago. Fishermen were difficult tofind a place to park their traditional boat be-cause the beach was steep as crushed by abra-sion. When fishermen wanted to use the land,the owner objected. Moreover, the price ofland along that tourism beach area had soaredbecause land brokers and investors from out-side the region both foreign and from Javacontinued to chase the lands.

Last year, few demonstrations exploded orcomplaints of fisherman were delivered toKarangasem House. Fishermen had the House

Renon (DenPost)-Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika

remained to complain about the existence oftraders at sterile area of Ngurah Rai airport.Governor had sent a letter to the Minister ofTransportation in order the traders were movedout.

“If I were a terrorist, it would be very easyfor me to enter the area. Since there is a mer-chant doing business inside, having enteredone will be easy to buy a cutter. Then, it canbe used to sabotage a plane and divert it wher-ever he likes to fly to,” Pastika said in a meet-ing with the tourism components in JayaSabha, last Thursday (Sep 16) night.

According to Governor, such condition wastruly unsafe. “I have sent a letter to Ministerof Transportation to remove the traders to an-other place,” said Pastika. In the meeting, vari-ous inputs were also delivered by tourism com-ponents, including about the hotel develop-ment. Secretary of the Indonesia Hotel andRestaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali Chap-ter, Perry Markus, explained that hotel in southBali had already been saturated. The param-eter exposed was the rate of tourist visit to Baliincreased.

However, in reality the hotel occupancy wasstagnant. Of the 56 thousand hotel rooms in

Due to violentDue to violentDue to violentDue to violentDue to violentabrasion, Jasriabrasion, Jasriabrasion, Jasriabrasion, Jasriabrasion, JasriVillage moves itsVillage moves itsVillage moves itsVillage moves itsVillage moves itsDalem TempleDalem TempleDalem TempleDalem TempleDalem Temple

Jasri Customary Villagers, Karangasem, were forced to move their Dalem Templefurther ashore. The removal including the melaspas and ngenteg linggih ceremonyalong with other related processions had been accomplished not long ago.

mediated or found a solution so they couldobtain a parking location for their traditionalboat or jukung. Catching fish had becometheir daily bread and butter. In the meantime,few cases on land seizure, including the onerelated to the parking lot of traditional boats,had been resolved by Amlapura DistrictCourt.

?If’ we park the boats on the beach, ouronly one boat may disappear as washed awayby sea waves, or may be destroyed asslammed by sea waves onto the beach stones.Incidents on fishermen losing their boats be-cause of getting washed away or destroyedby sea waves have occurred more than 10times with sufficiently many losses,? saidWayan Matal, a fisherman from Seraya.

Rehabilitation projectRegent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg,

in Karangasem, last Friday (Sep 17), said thatKarangasem Regency Government had madea proposal to get rehabilitation assistance forthe crushed coast damaged by the abrasion.To get the assistance from central governmentwas very important because KarangasemRegency Government had very limited bud-gets, so it was impossible to finance such ex-pensive coastal reclamation. Moreover, thecoastal rehabilitation had to be performedcompletely, and it posed an international re-sponsibility. Allegedly, the coastal erosionhappened due to the impact of rising surfaceof sea water triggered by global warming phe-nomenon and caused the melting of peren-nial ice at the poles of the earth that had to beovercome by the international community.

Geredeg said Karangasem already got theassistance of coastal reclamation project worthmore than IDR 24 billion last year. With thefunds, reclamation had been undertaken on thebeach in front of the Candidasa Police Stationalong approximately 100 meters. The sameproject had also been carried out on the JasriBeach and Ujung Beach respectively along 100meters. The projects were deliberately givenpriority to beaches undergoing severe abrasionand functioned as public beach to support theCandidasa tourist attraction. Meanwhile,Ujung and Jasri Beach were functioned as pub-lic places. On both beaches, community of theirrespective customary village (desa pakraman)took advantage of the beach for Melasti pro-cession (deva yaj?a) or nganyut (pitri yaj?a).

Geredeg recognized that many beachescould not have been rehabilitated after theabrasion natural disaster. In the meantime, hisparty already submitted a proposal and ex-pected that Government of Japan could helpwith the assistance worth IDR 500 billion.Based on the research made by a team fromJapan recently, at least it could help amount-ing to IDR 50 billion. (bud)

Governor has tradersin airport area expelledThey can be exploited by terrorists

southern Bali, namely Denpasar, Badung andGianyar, their occupancy rate never rose. It re-mained in a stagnant position. “In fact, thenumber of tourist visiting Bali progressivelyincreased. This phenomenon indicates thatmany tourists are absorbed into villas or rentedexpatriate?s homes,” he said.

In response to this condition, there shouldbe courage to review the construction of ho-tels in southern Bali. Governor Pastika directlyasked whether the construction of hotels insouthern Bali should be stopped. Then, such aquestion was directly justified. There shouldbe courage of government to divert the devel-opment of tourist accommodation to east, northand west Bali.

The suggestion was addressed positively byPastika. Governor agreed if the condition insouthern Bali had been already saturated, build-ing of the hotels should be diverted to north,east and west Bali. It was also intended for thedistribution of development. “If it is the realcondition, kindly review it. It poses the task ofcolleagues in tourism component to performthe study. I agree if hotel development in south-ern Bali should be stopped. If government doesit, it will need a budget. It is better if my col-leagues of tourism component doing the task,”he said. (106)

Capture illicit trash wasterSubdistrict Head of West Denpasar gives reward

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Garbage is put carelessly but the people. It make the environment very dirty.

oversaw those illegal laystalls that had been cleanedand enclosed with a bamboo fence. For this pur-pose, Mudra claimed to have ordered the hamletheads to continuously monitor the places. The han-dling of waste problem was not only the responsi-bility of government, but it was also a shared re-sponsibility. On that account, other than carryingout cleaning up to illicit laystalls, Mudra also mo-tivated the society by providing a reward for who-ever could capture the illicit trash waster. “Tomotivate the community and get them involved inthe environmental sanitation, we will provide cashamounting to IDR 100 thousand for people whocan capture an illicit trash waster,” said Mudra.Mudra also expressed that such an action denoteda policy with the hope that in the upcoming De-cember 2010, West Denpasar would be free fromillicit trash wasters.

Meanwhile, a Pemecutan community leaderwho is also a legislator in Denpasar House, IBKompyang Wiranata said the cleaning up to illicitlaystalls constituted a form of common concernand the movement should be done regularly. “Iam sure people will be intrigued to see us whenwe continue to perform the clean up action,” saidI.B. Kompyang Wiranata. (kmb12)

International4 Monday, September 20, 2010 News

Washington upped the ante in July,when U.S. Secretary of State HillaryClinton told a regional security fo-rum in Vietnam that the peacefulresolution of the disputes over theSpratly and Paracel groups of islandswas an American national interest.

The United States was concernedthe conflicts could hamper access toone of the world’s busiest commer-cial sea lanes. Beijing angrily re-acted by saying Washington was in-terfering in an Asian regional issue.

Obama will meet leaders from the10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations on Friday to dis-cuss ways to bolster their allianceand discuss economic cooperationand security issues, including theSouth China Sea disputes.

Obama and the ASEAN leaderswill issue a joint statement whereWashington has proposed text to re-affirm the importance of freedom ofnavigation, regional stability, respectfor international law and unimpededcommerce in the South China Sea,according to a draft of the statementseen Sunday by The Associated Press.


KABUL – Afghanistan’s Westernsupporters praised Afghans Sundayfor their courage in voting in a parlia-mentary poll overshadowed byTaliban threats on a day NATO saidwas as violent as last year’s election.NATO said that 18 Afghans werekilled on Saturday as the country votedfor its second parliament since the2001 US-led invasion ousted the

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

President Barack Obama speaks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc.’s Annual LegislativeConference Phoenix Awards Dinner at the Washington Convention Center, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, inWashington.

Obama, ASEAN to call forObama, ASEAN to call forObama, ASEAN to call forObama, ASEAN to call forObama, ASEAN to call forpeaceful end to sea spatspeaceful end to sea spatspeaceful end to sea spatspeaceful end to sea spatspeaceful end to sea spatsAssociated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines – President Barack Obama and SoutheastAsian leaders will call for the peaceful settlement of South China Seaterritorial disputes and urge claimants not to resort to force, accord-ing to a draft communique.

The statement will oppose the“use or threat of force by any claim-ant attempting to enforce disputedclaims in the South China Sea.”

All the leaders will reaffirm theirbacking of a 2002 ASEAN-China dec-laration on the conduct of parties in theSouth China Sea, which calls on claim-ants not to take steps that could fomentviolence and spark new tension. Theywill encourage claimants to agree on astronger code of conduct.

China claims all of the SouthChina Sea, where Vietnam, Taiwan,Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philip-pines have also laid territorialclaims. Aside from rich fishing ar-eas, the region is believed to havehuge oil and natural gas deposits.The contested islands straddle busysea lanes that are a crucial conduitfor oil and other resources fuelingChina’s fast-expanding economy.

In a recent preparatory meetingin Washington ahead of the summit,Assistant State Secretary KurtCampbell and National SecurityCouncil Senior Director for AsiaJeffrey Bader told ASEAN ambas-

sadors that Clinton’s statement inHanoi was already earning divi-dends, with China “clearly movedback to a more collaborative ap-proach,” according to confidentialreport obtained by The AP.

The U.S. officials were quoted

in the report as saying that in a re-cent meeting in China, both sidesdiscussed how claimants were ex-pected to behave in the disputed re-gion. They assured Chinese officialsthat Clinton’s remarks in Hanoi didnot seek to single out China but was

addressed to all claimant countries.Clinton’s statement in July came

after Beijing told visiting Deputy Sec-retary of State James Steinberg inMarch the South China Sea was nowconsidered one of China’s “core in-terests,” alongside Taiwan and Tibet.

Afghans praised for voting in shadow of violence

AFP PHOTO/ MANAN VATSYAYANA

Afghan election workers move ballot boxes to the Independent Elec-tion Commission (IEC) warehouse in Kabul on September 19, 2010.Afghanistan’s western supporters praised Afghans for their couragein voting in a parliamentary poll overshadowed by Taliban threats on aday NATO said was as violent as last year’s election.

Taliban, though more than 3.5 millionAfghans took part in the election.

Insurgents fired rockets in severalcities and set off bombs at a pollingstation and beside a convoy carry-ing the governor of Kandahar, theTaliban’s southern stronghold, butofficials said several more attackswere foiled.

Stressing that it was not a finalfigure, Fazil Ahmad Manawi, thecountry’s senior election official,

said that 3,642,444 votes had beencast at 4,632 polling centres, ac-cording to preliminary data. “Thismakes 40 percent of the maximumnumber of voters,” he said.

The United States congratulatedAfghanistan on conducting its first“fully Afghan-led parliamentaryelections... under extremely diffi-cult circumstances”. “As expected,the Taliban made their best effortsto disrupt this important daythrough violence and intimidation,but the Afghan people who voteddefied them,” a statement releasedby the US embassy in Kabul said.

“Protected by competent andbrave Afghan National SecurityForces, the voters demonstrated theircourage, choosing to take ownershipof their future and shape their gov-ernment.” UN Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon also praised voters fortheir “courage and determination,”according to a UN statement.

Ban’s statement was echoed bythe European Union, which said“these elections constitute an im-portant and visible sign of Afghansovereignty, and underline the willof the Afghan people to shape thefuture of their country”.

NATO chief Anders FoghRasmussen lauded Afghanistan’scitizens for braving Taliban vio-lence. “I congratulate the Afghan

people today on the parliamentaryelections, despite the violence car-ried out by those attempting to denythe people’s most basic democraticright,” he said in a statement.

NATO figures provided to AFPshowed a total of 485 violent inci-dents on Saturday, compared to 479on August 20 last year, the day ofthe presidential election.

The Electoral Complaints Com-mission said it had received com-plaints of delayed poll station open-ing, intimidation, ineligible voters,misuse of registration cards, proxyvoting, poor ink quality and short-ages of ballot papers.

Among those who complainedwas the election monitoring groupthe Free and Fair Election Founda-tion of Afghanistan (FEFA), whichsaid that voting had been affectedby insecurity, violence and irregu-larities including ballot stuffing.“Taking these problems into ac-count, FEFA has serious concernsabout the quality of the elections,”the monitoring group said.

FEFA said that counting begansoon after polls closed at 4:00 pm(1130 GMT) Saturday, but in a hap-hazard fashion. “While countingwas under way shortly after the clos-ing of polls in some areas, in othersit was postponed until the next day,”FEFA said.

Preliminary results are expectedon Wednesday, with final certifiedresults due on October 31. Karzai —whose own re-election last year wasmired in massive fraud and recordeda turnout of 33 percent — had calledon people to vote to take their coun-try “forward to a better future”.

The United States and NATO havealmost 150,000 troops in the coun-try fighting to bring an end to thelong war, now dragging towards itstenth year.

ISAF’s commander, US GeneralDavid Petraeus, commended the roleplayed by the Afghan national secu-rity forces, who were supported byISAF troops in providing security forthe election.

“The voice of Afghanistan’s fu-ture does not belong to the violentextremists and terror networks. Itbelongs to the people,” Petraeus said.

More than 2,500 candidates con-tested 249 seats in the lower houseof parliament, the Wolesi Jirga.Among them, 406 women were vy-ing for 68 seats reserved for themunder legislation designed to bettertheir rights.

Final turnout among the 9.2-mil-lion-strong electorate will be key.Experts said violence, expectationsof fraud, vested interests and a vot-ing process that favours the statusquo would knock numbers.

Hotel Activities Monday, September 20, 2010 5International

Temple Ceremony

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

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

Badung.- Pedharman Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan,

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

Dalimo, Banyuwangi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Monday, September 20, 20106 News

In Mexico, people are cleaning upfrom flooding and wind damagecaused by the now dissipated Hurri-cane Karl. Officials said Saturdaythat at least seven people were killedafter the storm came ashore the pre-vious day.

Igor weakened slightly overnightand was downgraded to a Category1 hurricane, with maximum sus-tained winds of 90 mph (145 kph).

Associated Press Writer

PARIS – A Frenchman whosearms and legs were amputatedswam across the English Channelthis weekend using leg prosthesesthat have flippers attached.

Philippe Croizon, 42, had ex-pected the tough crossing to take upto 24 hours — and instead, he fin-ished in only 13 and a half.

“I did it, I’m happy, I’m sohappy, I can’t believe it, it’s crazy,”he told France-Info radio, soundinggiddy on arrival late Saturday.Three dolphins joined him for awhile.

“We took that as a sign of goodluck,” the swimmer’s father, GerardCroizon, told The Associated Press.Philippe Croizon set off fromFolkestone on the British side of theEnglish Channel and arrived nearthe French town of Wissant. At thenarrowest point, the crossing isabout 21 miles (34 kilometers).

Croizon’s specially designed legprotheses, which end in flippers, al-


BEIJING – An American-bornpanda gave birth to her eighth cubin southwest China, a rare accom-plishment for the endangered spe-cies known for being poor breed-ers.

Hua Mei gave birth to a malecub at 3 a.m. on Friday at theWolong China Giant Panda Re-search Center in Sichuan prov-ince, the official Xinhua NewsAgency said Friday. The cubweighed 5.7 ounces at birth.

This brings the number ofpanda births at the Wolong centerto 16 this year, equal to last year’stotal, the report said. Hua Mei —whose name means China-America — was the first giantpanda cub born in the UnitedStates in 1999, at the San DiegoZoo, after a decade of failedbreeding attempts. She returned toChina in 2003 and now has eightcubs, including three sets of twins.

Panda females have only threedays a year in which they can con-ceive — one reason their speciesis endangered. Some males neversucceed at natural breeding, so ar-tificial insemination has becomecommon practice when breedingcaptive pandas.

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Waves crash onto the beach at John Smith’s Bay


HAMILTON, Bermuda – Big waves are pounding Bermuda’s beaches while islanders rush toboard up windows, fill sandbags and stock up on water, food and other supplies before HurricaneIgor’s expected arrival late Sunday.

Tropical storm-force winds wereforecast to start battering the Atlan-tic island overnight.

With the storm expected to passover or very close to Bermuda lateSunday or early Monday, officialswarned that its pounding rains anddriving winds could be deadly.

“This storm will be a long andpunishing one,” Public Safety Min-ister David Burch said. “The poten-

tial for injury and physical damageis great.”

High surf kicked up by the stormalready swept two people out to seain Puerto Rico and the U.S. VirginIslands, far to the south. Waves of12 to 15 feet (4 to 5 meters) beganroaring onto Bermuda’s beaches Sat-urday afternoon, smashing intobreakwaters and splashing somehours.

Quadruple amputee swims across English Channellow him to propel himself throughthe water. His truncated upper armsgo through the motions of the crawl,and he breathes through a snorkel.

The swimmer lost his arms andlegs after suffering an electric shockin 1994 as he stood on a ladder ad-

justing his television antenna,which touched a power line.

Croizon made headlines in 2007for parachuting from an airplane.He wrote a book about his experi-ences called “J’ai decide de vivre”(I decided to live.)

A picture released by JeremyCroizon, the son of Frenchamputee and swimmerPhilippe Croizon, shows hisfather before he starts fromBritish coast nearFolkestone, on September 18,2010, to reach late on Sep-tember 18, the French coastnear Wissant. The FrenchmanPhilippe Croizon, who lost allhis limbs in an electricalaccident, succeeds hisattempt to swim the EnglishChannel, a challenge he hasbeen preparing for two years.

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US-born panda gives birthto her 8th cub in China

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In this photo taken Friday,Sept. 17, 2010, panda Hua Meihugs her newly-born pandababy

Pandas are threatened by lossof habitat, poaching and a low re-production rate. Females in thewild normally have a cub onceevery two or three years. The fer-tility of captive giant pandas iseven lower, experts say.

Only about 1,600 pandas live inthe wild, mostly in Sichuan prov-ince. An additional 290 are in cap-tive breeding programs worldwide.

Those protests paralysed partsof Bangkok, while deadly streetclashes with the security forces in-jured nearly 1,900, ending with abloody army crackdown on May19 and an angry campaign of ar-son by militant protesters.

On Sunday, army-led commandcentres closely monitored eventsin both cities, but by early eveningthere was no sign of further vio-lence as protesters began to dis-perse in the capital, where severalthousand police had been de-ployed. However the afternoon’sred-clad activities disrupted traf-fic in central Bangkok, defying astate of emergency currently inplace across the city and six otherprovinces, which bans politicalrallies of more than five people.

After tying red ribbons aroundthe Ratchaprasong intersection —the focus of their two-month rally— protesters released 10,000 redballoons and lit candles in remem-brance of those who died or wereinjured during the crackdown.

“I came here in memory of mydead Red friends who fought withus during the protest,” said a 68-year-old retired demonstrator whogave only his first name, Sunai.“The Red Shirts will never die,” headded. Thaksin, a telecommunica-tions billionaire who lives abroadto avoid a jail term for corruption,

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called on his followers via Twitterto avoid further violence ahead ofthe double anniversary.

“I want everyone to look to thefuture. I want to see the healingof people who suffered from theconflict. I want to see people for-give each other,” he said, addingthat he was currently in Lebanon.

The controversial former pre-mier remains hugely divisive inThailand despite his self-imposedexile. While popular with the RedShirts, he is detested by the roy-alist Yellow Shirts , who arebacked by the Bangkok-basedelites.

The Yellows’ 2006 ral l ieshelped tr igger the coup thattoppled Thaksin, whom they ac-cuse of being corrupt, dictatorialand a threat to Thailand’s widelyrevered monarchy.

He fled Thailand in 2008 beforehe was sentenced in absentia totwo years in jail, and Thai courtshave issued a series of warrantsfor the ex-premier on charges in-cluding terrorism — an accusationlinked to the Red Shirt protests.

Though none has been con-victed, 19 senior Red Shirts arecurrently in jail in Thailand, alsoon terrorism charges relating tothe unrest, while others thought tohave played key roles in the pro-tests remain on the run.

Monday, September 20, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

Antara

KUALA LUMPUR - An Indonesian housemaid is cur-rently being treated in a hospital in Malaysia after beingraped and tortured by her employer.

The police in Pulau Penang, Malaysia, have arrested heremployer, ANTARA learned here on Saturday.

Georgetown police chief Gan Kong Meng said the maid,Wifa Indah (26) from East Java, told police she had been hitin the head, hands and legs by a buckle leaving her withserious injuries, according to Malaysian news agencyBernama.

He said she had also said she had been raped many timesby her male employer.

She is now still being treated at a hospital in Pulau Penang.Traces of wounds caused by hot water were seen on her back.

According to the results of a hospital examination, shehad wounds on her genitals, presumably inflicted by acts ofsexual violence.

The police arrested her male and female employers wholive at Jelutong Apartment on Friday.

After working for four months, her employer had onlypaid her RM30 (Rp75,000) and later dumped her on the roadside at Taman Cenderawasih, Nibong Tebal. She had lan-guished there for 12 hours before a passerby took her to theclosest police station.

Southeast Asia’s biggesteconomy expanded 4.5 percent in2009, the third fastest in the Groupof 20, and is poised for acceleratedgrowth in the years ahead, the IMFsaid in an annual report.

But it said foreign investors whoare needed to fund Indonesia’s ex-pansion into a regional powerhousewould be cautious until more is doneto fight rampant corruption and im-prove the rule of law.

“A decisive and successful re-sponse, as well as a decade of soundpolicies and structural reform,helped Indonesia recover quicklyfrom the 2008 global crisis,” the re-port said.

“However, lingering concernsover weak enforcement of the ruleof law, transparency, and governanceissues weigh on market perceptions.Addressing these weaknessesshould be a priority.”

The IMF praised Indonesia’s “re-markable achievements” over thepast decade, as it transformed fromthe Suharto dictatorship into a flour-ishing democracy and recoveredfrom near-bankruptcy in the 1998-1999 Asian financial crisis.

Indonesia was forced into a 43-billion-dollar bailout from the IMF

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - State-owned Garuda Airlines and KrakatauSteel are among a clutch of Indonesian firms planning pub-lic offerings as investors clamour to gain a foothold in South-east Asia’s emerging giant.

Foreigners have been pouring money into the region’sbiggest economy, which was largely unaffected by the glo-bal financial crisis due to strong domestic demand and lim-ited reliance on wobbly Western export markets.

The Jakarta Composite Index has soared threefold fromits low in October 2008, hitting historic highs last week asthe country’s improving prospects continued to attract for-eign capital, dealers said.

“Stable economic and political conditions in Indone-sia continue to be attractive to international investors,”Sucorinvest Central Gani analyst Gifar Indra Sakti toldAFP.

The World Economic Forum’s 2010-11 Global Competi-tiveness Index rankings, released this month, showed Indo-nesia as the third biggest mover, up 10 notches to 44th place.

A survey of business leaders from 523 companies by UKTrade and Investment and the Economist Intelligence Unit,published last week, put Indonesia fourth behind China, Viet-nam and India as a destination for investment capital overthe next two years.

“As (Asia’s) third-fastest growing economy, with hugeupside potential for our markets, Indonesia is one of thoseexciting growth stories and our companies are increasinglyreceiving wider access to financing,” Indonesia Coordinat-ing Investment Board chief Gita Wirjawan said.

Foreign direct investment in the archipelago of 240 mil-

Indonesian maidtortured, raped inMalaysia

Indonesian companies cash in on boom timeslion people — the fourth biggest country in the world bypopulation — soared 53 percent on-year to 35.6 trillion ru-piah (four billion dollars) in the April-June period, officialfigures show.

But analysts said concerns about corruption and therule of law made equities — rather than direct invest-ments in plant and infrastructure — a more attractiveentry point.

Around 20 local companies will have raised more thanfive billion dollars on the sharemarket by the end of the yearif current plans come to fruition. Many say they want to payoff debt and cash up for expansion.

Fourth-ranked lender Bank Negara Indonesia is targeting10 trillion rupiah in a December rights issue, while anotherstate-owned bank, PT Bank Mandiri, is marketing a 14-tril-lion-rupiah issue in the same month.

Indofood Sukses Makmur is expecting to raise about 700million dollars from offering 20 percent of its subsidiary PTIndofood CBP in October.

State-owned Krakatau Steel, the country’s biggest steelproducer, aims to list in November.

“Hopefully we can get fresh funds up to 600 million dol-lars. We plan to use the funds to expand our business andmodernise our machinery,” Krakatau president directorFazwar Bujang said.

Another state-owned enterprise, flag carrier Garuda, wantsto raise around 300 million dollars to strengthen its capitalstructure and help fund six new Airbus A330-200 aircraftvalued at 1.15 billion dollars.

The airline — which was on an EU safety blacklist from2007 to 2009 — has announced aggressive expansion plans,codenamed “Quantum Leap”, running through to 2014.

AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD

Latest trading results are displayed on an electronic board outside Jakarta’s Stock Exchange buidlingseen at left on September 17, 2010.

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JAKARTA - The International Monetary Fund warned Friday In-donesia must make fighting corruption a priority if it wants to buildon its progress as one of the world’s best-performing economies.

in 1998, and only exited supervisionby the Washington-basedorganisation in 2003.

But the Fund said Indonesia “stillfaces challenges to preserve finan-cial stability and develop its finan-cial system”, especially in areas suchas supervision and the developmentof the non-bank sector.

“Market participants view Indo-nesia as a country with great poten-tial, supported by a large consumerbase and rich in natural resources,”the report said.

“Yet, Indonesian securities con-tinue to trade at a discount relativeto regional peers and many wealthyIndonesian individuals still prefer toplace their savings offshore.”

As if to prove the point, 26 politi-cians were banned from leaving thecountry Friday amid investigationsinto graft related to the election of acentral bank deputy governor in 2004.

The Fund’s mission chief for In-donesia, Thomas Rumbaugh, toldreporters the corruption fight was a“big objective the government hasset for itself” and there had been im-provement in terms of removing ob-stacles to investment.

“Recently we have seen some in-terest from multinationals moving

into Indonesia ... but investors willbe watching closely and what hap-pens in this area will say a lot,” hetold reporters.

Foreign direct investment in thearchipelago of 240 million people —the fourth biggest country in theworld by population — soared 53percent on-year to 35.6 trillion ru-piah in the April-June period, offi-cial figures show.

The local stock market has leapt

more than 30 percent this year to pre-crisis levels thanks to strong offshoreinterest in emerging markets.

A survey of business leaders from523 companies by UK Trade and In-vestment and the Economist Intelli-gence Unit, published this week, putIndonesia fourth behind China, Viet-nam and India as a destination for in-vestment capital over the next twoyears.

But the country’s economic trans-

formation masks glaring social in-equalities reflected in indicatorssuch as maternal mortality, whichat 228 per 100,000 is considerablyhigher than its neighbours.

A recent “strategic assessment”of Indonesia’s prospects for growthand democratic governance by theHarvard Kennedy School found itwas “losing ground” to China, In-dia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnamand the Philippines.

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Bali Today

‘’There are many unlicensedrental cars belonging to entrepre-neurs of villas and hotels in Bali. Ifseen from the number of villas esti-mated to reach 1,600 units and eachunit of villa has two cars, so it isestimated there will be 3,200 unitsof unlicensed tourist vehicles,” saidChairman of Pawiba Bali, BagusSoediana in Denpasar, last Friday(Sep 17).

According to Soediana, thevehicles of villa or hotel, often servedtourist transfer from the airport tohotel and vice versa, and included inconveying tourists to some touristdestinations. ‘’This condition consid-erably harmed the entrepreneurs ofofficially licensed tourist transport.These unlicensed tourist carriers of-fered cheaper rates because they hadno official permission as tourist trans-port in Bali,” he said.

Soediana strongly deploredthe practice of such unlicensed tour-ist vehicles operated by villas andhotels without complying with theprevailing government’s rules. Pur-suant to the Ministerial DecreeNumber KM 35/2003, of course theoperational vehicles of villas andhotels conveying tourists wereobliged to have the operational per-

Antara

DENPASAR - Bali enjoyed astrong growth of exports in the firstsemester this year with a value of 320million U.S. dollars, an increase of21 percent compared to the sameperiod of last year.

“Handicraft products from ourlight industry are still strongly soughtafter in the export market,” PutuBagiada, head of the Bali industryand trade office said Friday. He wasreferring to the substantial growth inexports of Bali’s light industries tothe better economic climate in Eu-rope and the U.S.

Exports of various kinds ofhandicraft items in the January-Julyperiod, he added, were valued at 139million U.S. dollars, an increase of26 percent from the 110 million U.S.dollars during the same period of lastyear. The positive tendency in Bali’sexport performance during the firstsemester of 2010 also occurred in theexport of garments, canned fish andplastic items reaching 112.5 millionU.S. dollars, a 25 percent hike com-pared to the 89.8 million U.S. dol-lars during the January-July 2009 pe-riod.

A rather weak growth in exportsoccurred in fresh marine products,such as tuna, valued at 65.5 millionU.S. dollars during the period, a slightincrease of 4.8 percent from 62.5million U.S. dollars last year.

Exports of agricultural prod-ucts, especially vanilla and the re-nowned Balinese coffee, reached592,600 U.S. dollars, an increase of24.2 percent compared to 447,000U.S. dollars.

Exports from Bali are expectedto grow further in the second semes-ter in few of the positive economic

Thousands of unlicensed touristtransports operating in BaliBali Post

DENPASAR - Thousands of unlicensed tourist transports remain to operate in Bali. Mean-while, the Bali Tourist Transport Union (Pawiba) annunciated that a lot of illegal vehicles operat-ing in Bali belonged to villas and hotels.

mit of tourist transport. ‘’We expect that government

could quickly find out the solutionand discipline the unlicensed touristtransports operated in hotels and vil-las across Bali,” he said. Soedianaalso revealed the existence of a brib-ing tradition to personnel on duty ateach border point before enteringinto a tourist attraction.

‘’Likewise, this bribing tradi-tion has become a burden for us. Inevery document inspection, the per-sonnel even did not pay attention tothe complete document of vehiclesstipulated, but they instead accentu-ated the submission of money of cof-fee charges or bribes. Unavoidably,it also triggered the mushrooming ofunlicensed tourist transports on theroads. In reality, without any permitthey can still operate,” he added.

In response to these conditions,Bali Transportation Services wouldpromptly impose strict punishmentto unlicensed tourist transports andrental vehicles. Results of a surveyconducted by the Transportation Ser-vices showed an adequately stagger-ing data. It was recorded 70 percentof the existing tourist transports andrental vehicles were unlicensed. Al-legedly, the number of such unli-

censed tourist transports reachedmore than 8,631 units.

‘’Two months ago, we madedata collection on tourist transportsand rental vehicles. It was obtainedthat 70 percent of the tourist trans-ports and rental vehicles were unli-censed. Today, the number of rentalvehicles in Bali consists of 2,500units. Meanwhile, the number of li-censed tourist transports reached1,200 units only,” said the Head ofBali Transportation Services, MadeSantha.

Bali Provincial Governmenthas done enough counseling and so-cialization. Even, in the upcomingyear 2011, it will become the yearof law enforcement. There will beno excuse for any violations againstthe regional regulations (Perda).

‘’Mr. Governor has instructedall ranks to conduct law enforce-ment. In the second semester of2010, we will set to take action incombination with coaching. Nomore negotiations for offenders par-ticularly the unlicensed rental ve-hicles. These measures are meant toenforce the rules and arrangementof the transportation services inBali,” said Santha. (par)

Bali enjoys a strongexport growth

situation in world major export mar-kets, Bagiada said.

Bali’s exports to Portugal Bali’snon-oil/gas exports to Portugal in thefirst seven months of 2010 reachedUS$1.1 million.

Putu Bagiada said foreign tradeof small industrial products, handi-craft goods, and farm products in-creased by 23 percent, while the for-eign exchange income in 2009reached only US$897,000.

Portugal is one of the potentialmarkets of Bali, which is a tourismdestination in Indonesia. Throughtourism, many handicraft goods werepurchased by the foreign tourists, hesaid.

He said that the number of Eu-ropean tourists to Bali had been in-creasing, including businessmen.And they bought a great deal of sou-venirs and handicraft items.

The garments made by Ba-linese female craftspeople with lo-cal cultural design were also exportedto Portugal.

Moreover some handicraftgoods made of silver, including ear-rings, brooches, stuffed birds andbutterflies, as well as flowers werealso exported to Portugal.

The exporters of various handi-craft goods from Mas Ubud village,Nyoman Sudana said the Balinesehandicraft products had also been ex-ported to Portugal and some othercountries.

He said that antique handicraftitems from Bali had been exportedto London, Germany, and Italy.

Cooperation between the Indo-nesian and Portuguese governmentsto strengthen the cooperation openedup opportunities for Bali to export itsproducts.

The photo showsproducts of spa asone of potentialproducts of Bali thatexported to variouscountries. Bali enjoyeda strong growth ofexports in the firstsemester this yearwith a value of 320million U.S. dollars, anincrease of 21 percentcompared to the sameperiod of last year.

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OVERVIEW:The French are

not the only ones tohave a liking forsnails. The Balinesegather snails in therice fields. But youcan use the cannedvariety. Cucumber,zucchini or anyother summersquash can beused instead ofgreen papaya.

INGREDIENTS:200 gr unripe green papaya1 liter chicken stock½ cup spice paste for seafood1 stalk lemon grass bruised2 salam leaves1 tbsp oil48 canned snails, washed and drained1 tsp saltFreshly ground black pepperFried shallots to garnish

PREPARATION:Peel the papaya, cut in half lengthwise and remove

the seeds, then cut it lengthwise in 4 or 6 slices. Cutcrosswise into slices about 0.5 cm thick.

Combine stock, spice paste, lemon grass, salamleaves and oil in a large pot. Bring to boil, and thensimmer for 5 minutes. Add papayas and simmer untilalmost tender. Add the snails and continue cooking untilthe papaya softens.

Season with salt and pepper to taste and garnish withfried shallots.

Helpful hint: If you do not care for snails. You cansubstitute 12 dried black Chinese mushroom. Washedand soaked I warm water for 20minutes. Add themtogether with the papaya to ensure they will be tenderby the time the papaya is cooked. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Antara

DENPASAR - The WestDenpasar sub district administra-tion promises to pay Rp100,000 toanyone who spots and catches an-other person throwing or spillinggarbage at random, a spokesmansaid.

“We have adopted this policyto teach the public to care forcleanliness in their neighbor-hoods,” West Denpasar Subdistrictchief I Made Mudra said here Fri-day.

Speaking to reporters whileleading a cleaning up operationagainst illegal garbage dumps, he saidfirm actions would be taken againstpeople who knowingly or unknow-

Antara SINGARAJA - Nineteen coun-

tries with 106 yachts will take part inSail Indonesia 2010 at Bina Ria, a tour-ist resort in Lovina, Singaraja, Bali,from September 22 to 25.

The countries taking part in SailIndonesia in northern Bali include theUnited States, New Zealand, Austra-lia, France, Austria, Germany, Argen-tina, Italy, Canada, Japan, and theNetherlands, with a total of 250 par-ticipants and also as tourists.

Head of the Buleleng culture andtourism agency Drs. Putu TastraWijaya said Sail Indonesia will notonly promote tourism in Bali, espe-cially the tourist potentials in Buleleng,but also raise the number of foreignand local tourists to North Bali.

Sail Indonesia will be held by theMarine and Fishery Affairs Ministry

19 countries take part in Buleleng Sail Indonesiain cooperation with the Cinta BahariIndonesia Foundation and with the sup-port of the local administration.

Tastra Wijaya said Sail Indonesia athree months annual sailing rally willpromote Indonesia as a destination ofmarine tourism.

In Buleleng regency, this year’sevent will be the fourth as host of eightsuch international events; Tastra said hefelt proud that Lovina had been chosenfor the Sail Indonesia event.

All the participants had been seenoff in Darwin on July 24 then saling toAustralia and Asia, and enter Indone-sia through Banda and Kupang toBatam, Rote Ndao regency, Sabu, EastSumba, Southwest Sumba, and Bau-Bau, and eventually meet in Lovina,Buleleng.

Buleleng known for its peacefulLovina beach is a meeting place of the

participants passing by way of the west-ern and eastern lanes.

Bina Ria in Lovina has become afocus of Sail Indonesia, head of theBulelang culture and tourism agencysaid, as it has become very popular tothe participants because of its beautifultourist objects, very kind people and thecomplete facilities meeting the needsof the participants.

Right now 8 small boats from a num-ber of countries had arrived in Bina Riabeach taking part in Sail Indonesia or-ganized by the international sail rallywhich had been held several times since2003

In four days, the foreign guests willbe entertained with art and cultural per-formances like “joged bumbung”, “sapigerumbungan”, angklung traditionalart, and “rindik”, shadow puppet, acolosal show, and Bali cooking course.

West Denpasar wages war on litteringingly littered residential areas.

The aim was to makeDenpasar free from illegal garbagedumps by the end of 2010.

“We will personally supervisecleaning up operations and patrolthe main streets. This is a real ac-tion to motivate people to create aclean and green Denpasar,” he said.

Illegal garbage disposal siteswere cleaned up and then sealedwith bamboo, Mudra said, addingthat he had ordered village chiefsin is jurisdiction to watch over theclosed sites.

“Garbage handling is notmerely the responsibility of the ad-ministration, but also of the publicin general. Therefore, I want tomotivate the public by promising a

reward for those who spot and catchpeople littering in the area,” he said.

The member of D commissionof the Denpasar Regional Legisla-tive Assembly, IB KompyangWiranata said the cleaning-up ac-tion was a representation of publicconcern and should be conductedfrequently.

“I am certain that the publicwill be more aware if we keep do-ing the cleaning-up action,” he said.

Made Sutarka, the chief ofPadangsambilan Kelod village, saidhe conducted cleaning-up opera-tions in his neighborhood fre-quently and suggested that othervillage chiefs familiarize people intheir respective villages with theanti-garbage program.

OVERVIEW:This dish is traditionally prepared after a cockfight,

when the winner receives the loosing chicken as areward.

INGREDIENTS:1 tsp coconut oil½ cup chicken spice paste400 gr boneless chicken, skin removed and minced1 liter chicken stock1 salam leaf1 stalk lemon grass, bruised1 tsp crushed black pepper salt to tast2 tbsp fried shallots

PREPARATION:Heat oil in heavy soup pot. Add spice paste and saute

until fragrant. Add minced chicken and continue to sautéuntil meat is evenly colored. Add stock and all remainingingredients and simmer for five minutes.(www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Jukut Kakul(Snail Soup)

Cram Cam(Clear Chicken Soup With Shallots)

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Museum is an interesting place to see many things depending onwhat it displays. In Bali you can find many painting museum becauseexcept famous with natural beauty, Bali also famous with its culturalactivities, such as painting and sculpture.

The famous and often visited by tourists that holidaying in Bali ispainting museum that located about 200 meters from Puri Saren / UbudPalace and it is dissociated by dell, climb a piece of wide plain withbeautiful view call Puri Lukisan.

It is situated in calm and peaceful area of Ubud Bali so that thisplace is an ideal place for who wish to see and enjoy result of art fromall big actor like I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, Ida Bagus Nyana, AnakAgung Gde Sobrat, I Gusti Made Deblog, Rudof Bonnet, Walter Spiesand more.

This museum is opened in the year 1956 by minister of Educationand Culture, Mr. Moh. Yamin. This museum is consisted of three spe-cial buildings in U-shape. In the middle of this museum is the court-yard and fishpond with the beautiful lotus flower.

The building no 1 is a place for a permanent exhibition of puppetsdressy or puppets style painting. This building is collecting the paint-ing from I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and the clarification about the ex-istence of Pita Maha Organization. The Building no. 2 is also a placefor permanent exhibition or still from masterpiece result of all artistof Balinese modern dressy style. The Building no.3 is for a temporaryexhibition.

There is only one museum is exist in Ubud Village that is PuriLukisan Museum, but Ubud sub district area until the year of 2003 isbuilt with 4 new painting museums those are: Puri Lukisan Museum,Neka Museum, Arma Museum and Rudana Museum.http://images.travelpod.com

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BUSINESS


WASHINGTON - Glimmers ofa revived economic recovery are ex-pected to give the US Federal Re-serve some breathing space when itstop committee meets Tuesday, avoid-ing a renewed battle inside the cen-tral bank.

Members of the Fed’spolicymaking panel will gather forthe last time before November’s mid-term elections, with the economicoutlook transformed since their lastmeeting from apocalyptic to vaguelypromising.

The Federal Open Market Com-mittee (FOMC) is expected anchorthe fragile recovery by promising toleave interest rates at historic lowsand keep stimulus spending at cur-rent levels.

But with the economic picturebrightening it is expected to hold offfrom dramatic increases in spendingdesigned to speed up growth.

“We see the improved data as buy-ing time for the Fed to sit on the side-lines at the September FOMC meet-ing,” said Michael Gapen of BarclaysCapital.

The US economy, after monthsof languishing in the doldrums, hasregained some momentum sincethe Fed meet at the end of June,when members expressed concernabout a “sluggish” economic recov-ery.

In July and August private firmscontinued to add jobs, albeit at pacethat was too slow to offset the loss of

Gold prices hit an all-time peakof 1,282.97 dollars an ounce on Fri-day as the dollar waned on mount-ing expectations that the FederalReserve will pump more money intothe flagging US economy.

Sister metal silver meanwhilestruck the highest levels for two anda half years, at 20.99 dollars anounce, on the back of gold’s recordrun higher.

“Gold is making a new highand stocks are rallying because themarkets think the Fed will printmore money before the end of thisyear just to ensure that the USeconomy remains on an even keel,”said analyst Neil MacKinnon atVTB Capital.

“The risk for investors is thatthe US economy does actually fallinto a ‘double-dip’ (recession) andnot the ‘soft landing scenario’ whichthe markets are currently discount-ing,” he told AFP.


PARIS - With strong growth, areduction in poverty and foreign in-vestment, a number of recent studieshave highlighted the African “eco-nomic miracle,” but economists sug-gest the picture is more complicated.

Since the start of the decade, theworld’s poorest continent has wit-nessed an economic boom. After abrief slowdown during the global eco-nomic crisis, growth this year is set toapproach a steady five percent conti-nent-wide.

“Africa’s growth accelerationresulted from more than a resourceboom,” consultancy firm McKinsey& Company said in a report publishedon Tuesday which analysed thecontinent’s “likely staying power.”

Jim O’Neill, the chief econo-mist at Goldman Sachs, suggested inan article in the Financial Times lastmonth that South Africa, along withNigeria and Egypt, could by 2050 jointhe BRIC group — Brazil, Russia,India and China — of emerging eco-nomic powerhouses.

Economic developmen is alsoboosting some of Africa’s smallereconomies.

“The absence of raw materials

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LONDON - Gold prices struck record highs close to 1,300 dollars this week as investorssought alternatives to the dollar amid heightened fears about the fragile state of the USeconomic recovery.

“Traditionally we see investorsflocking to gold in times of markettroubles, but this relationship is outthe window this week as inflationconcerns, expectations for furtherquantitative easing from the FederalReserve and technical triggers havedriven” up the metal, said analysts atthe trading group Spead Co.

Gold this week broke June’srecord of 1,265 dollars an ounce.

Metals consultancy GFMSexpects gold to top 1,300 dollars be-fore the end of 2010.

London-based GFMS onTuesday said demand from inves-tors had been the prime driver ofthe gold price’s rally during the firsthalf of the year.

“Gold certainly lived up to itsreputation as a safe haven in troubledtimes,” GFMS chairman PhilipKlapwijk said in the group’s latestannual survey of the precious metal.

“Just look at the explosion in

investor interest that followed thesovereign debt crisis unfurling inEurope,” he added.

The EU on Monday warnedthat fears of a resurgent eurozonedebt crisis were likely to stunt Eu-ropean economic growth prospectsthis year.

Analysts meanwhile said thatthe US economy remained fragiledespite a drop in the number ofpeople claiming jobless benefits inthe world’s biggest economy.

By late Friday on the LondonBullion Market, gold had jumpedto 1,274.00 dollars an ounce from1,246.50 dollars a week earlier.

Silver grew to 20.85 dollarsan ounce from 19.90 dollars.

On the London Platinum andPalladium Market, platinum ralliedto 1,618 dollars an ounce from1,545 dollars.

Palladium advanced to 547dollars an ounce from 518 dollars.

Economists cautious over African ‘miracle’has not stopped countries like Maliand Burkina Faso from recordinggood growth rates,” said Senegaleseeconomist Abdoulaye Diagne.

But for Bongani Motsa, aneconomist at South Africa’s Trade andIndustrial Policy Strategies institute,exports of natural resources remainthe principal engine for Africangrowth, which means it is fragile.

Furthermore, rosy long-termpredictions rest on the continentturning the page on a history of con-flict, political instability, health epi-demics and rampant corruption.

“Those obstacles are far frombeing removed,” said Motsa.

“The lack of good governanceremains total,” said LéonardWantchekon of the Benin-based In-stitute for Empirical Research in Po-litical Economy.

In addition to economicgrowth, the question of developmentremains a critical one. Two recentstudies have shown that poverty andinequality were being reduced.

“The conventional wisdomthat Africa is not reducing pov-er ty is wrong,” sa id MaximPinkovsky and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, US academics who wroteone of the studies.

The economic growth sup-ports the development of the middleclass, said Alwyn Young of the Lon-don School of Economics in a sec-ond study.

“The real household con-sumption in sub-Saharan Africa isgrowing around 3.3 percent peryear,” Young said, saying this washigher than official statistics sug-gested.

According to Motsa: “Africangrowth is not as sustainable as some-times said.” Recent food, economicand financial crises have alreadycaused a return of inequalities andevaporation of the middle class.

Local governments lack strat-egies to achieve sustainable growth,with the absence of human capitalthe main handicap.

Problems such as poorinfrastucture are “a real bottleneckon development,” said Wantchekon.

In addition, poverty remainsmassive and the reduction has notyet been significant, said Diagne.

“In oil-producing countrieslike (Democratic Republic of)Congo and Gabon, growth hastended to profit just a tiny part ofthe population and thus increase in-equality,” he said.

Fed expected to wait and seeas economy convalesces

tens of thousands of Census takingjobs.

A rapidly narrowing trade deficitand recovering consumer prices havealso pointed to a tempered, if tepid,recovery.

Most economists now expect theeconomy to grow faster in July, Au-gust and September than the previ-ous three months.

That could help avoid a show-down at the Fed over the need formore stimulus.

At recent meetings Fed membershave tussled over how and when torestart even modest crisis measures,which some fear would send thewrong signal to financial markets andforestall a return to normal monetarypolicy.

While “all but one member”agreed on the need to reinvest crisisspending that had expired, minutesshowed deep divisions about the im-pact these measures would have.

Any move to increase stimulusspending would likely deepen divi-sions, especially if the case for ac-tion was not clear cut.

Given this many analysts believea shift in policy will not now comeuntil the Fed’s November or Decem-ber meetings, and will be contingenton signs that the economy is in deepdistress.

“We believe the bar for furtherstimulus includes some combinationof below-trend growth in real GDP(gross domestic product), a worsen-ing labor market, and heighteneddeflation probabilities,” said Gapen.

Entertainment InternationalMonday, September 20, 201012

“Regrettably, I did in fact fail mymost recent drug test ,” she said onher Twitter feed, apparently confirm-ing reports on the TMZ celebrity newswebsite and People Magazine onlinewhich said she failed the test last week.

The failure would be a breach ofher bail conditions, which could re-quire her to return to jail for 30 days,the news outlets said. Lohan said shewas prepared to appear in court ifrequired next week.

“This was certainly a setback forme but I am taking responsibility formy actions and I’m prepared to facethe consequences” she wrote on themicroblogging site. “Substanceabuse is a disease, which unfortu-nately doesn’t go away over night. Iam working hard to overcome it.”

And she added:”I am so thankfulfor the support of my fans, loved onesand immediate family, who under-stand that i am trying hard, and takingpositive steps .. but also that I am awork in progress, just as anyone else.“I am keeping my faith, and I amhopeful....Thank you all!!!” she wrote.


LAS VEGAS – Paris Hilton hasagreed to plead guilty to two misde-meanors stemming from her arrest lastmonth at a Las Vegas resort, a Nevadaprosecutor said. Under the terms of aplea deal worked out with prosecutors,the celebrity heiress will serve a yearof probation and avoid a felony con-viction, Clark County District Attor-ney David Roger said Friday.

A plea agreement obtained by theLas Vegas Review-Journal showsHilton will plead guilty to drug pos-session and obstructing an officer.She must complete a drug abuse pro-gram, pay a $2,000 fine and serve200 hours of community service.

Hilton, 29, was arrested Aug. 26inside the Wynn resort, after policesay a small plastic bag containing0.8 grams of cocaine fell out of herChanel purse as she reached for atube of lip balm in front of a policelieutenant.

Roger and defense attorneyDavid Chesnoff confirmed the de-tails of the plea deal reported by theReview-Journal. The original felonycocaine possession charge would nothave resulted in any jail time. Roger


CAMPINAS - Actor Beniciodel Toro lent a touch of Hollywoodglamour Saturday to the campaignof Brazil’s ruling party candidatein presidential elections, DilmaRousseff. The two had a brief dis-cussion over breakfast in a hotel inthe northern of Sao Paulo suburbof Campinas.

Rousseff, the candidate ofPresidente Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’sleftwing Workers Party, told report-ers the two spoke about “cinema, theimportance of Latin America.”

Del Toro, whose leftist sympa-thies led him to play Che Guevarain an acclaimed role, declined tospeak to the media about his show


LOS ANGELES – British come-dian-turned Hollywood star RussellBrand was arrested after allegedlyattacking a photographer at Los An-geles airport, police said. Brand wasarriving with his fiancee singer KatyPerry when the altercation eruptedFriday, amid a scrum of photogra-phers and cameramen jostling totake pictures of the star couple.

The photographer who was al-legedly struck made a citizen’s ar-rest of the star, before airport po-lice arrived and detained him.

“About 1:50 pm today, Los An-

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Dilma Rousseff (L), former Chief of Staff and presidential candidatefor the ruling Workers Party (PT) and Puerto Rican actor Benicio delToro share a breakfast during a private meeting at a hotel in Campinas,some 75km north of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 18, 2010.

Benicio del Toro meetsBrazil presidential candidate

of support to Rousseff. “Whynot?”, the Puerto Rican actor re-plied when AFP asked him the rea-sons of this meeting with Rousseff

Rousseff, Lula’s 62-year-oldformer cabinet chief, has vowed tocontinue her boss’s policies. Hercampaign has benefited enormouslyfrom Lula’s participation, with theoutgoing president successfully le-veraging his massive popularity.

The surveys suggest Rousseffhad more than 50 percent supportamong voters — enough to win theOctober 3 election outright with-out a runoff. Lula himself is re-quired to step down at the end ofthe year, having served the maxi-mum two consecutive terms per-mitted under Brazil’s constitution.

British star arrestedafter scuffle at LA airport

geles Airport Police responded toTerminal 5 to a report of a batteryinvolving a celebrity and a com-mercial photographer,” said a state-ment by the airport police force.

“The victim involved placed thesuspect (Russell Brand) under pri-vate person’s arrest. Airport policetook the suspect into custody forPenal Code Section 242 — bat-tery,” it added.

He was taken to a nearby policestation to be booked, the statementadded. Some two hours later he wasreleased on 20,000 dollars bail. Acourt hearing was scheduled forOctober 15, although it was unclearif Brand will have to appear per-sonally.

Video footage of the incident onthe TMZ celebrity news agencywebsite showed Brand and Perrybeing surrounded by a scrum ofphotographers and cameramen.Brand — wearing a black T-shirtsaying “God, come on give me abreak” — pushed one of them awayand later has a verbal altercationwith the same photographer.

The hirsute star achieved infamyin Britain when he and fellow ce-lebrity DJ Jonathan Ross weresanctioned by the BBC after mak-ing a lurid prank on-air phone callto veteran actor, Andrew Sachs.

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FILE - In this July 20, 2010 file photo, Lindsay Lohan listens during acourt hearing in Beverly Hills, Calif.


LOS ANGELES - Troubled USstarlet Lindsay Lohan admitted Fri-day she failed a drugs test, meaningshe may be ordered back to jail amonth after she was freed on bail. The24-year-old stressed that drug addi-tion was a disease which she hopes toovercome, but acknowledged that shewas a “work in progress.”

DA: Paris Hilton to avoid felony in Vegas arrestsaid he wanted to obtain a pledgefrom the hotel heiress to stay out oftrouble, and said the plea deal ac-complished that goal.

“If she is arrested for anythingbesides a minor traffic violation shewill spend a year in jail,” Roger said.“There will be no discussion. Thecourt will have no discretion.”

Chesnoff said the agreement doesnot call for Hilton to be assigned aprobation officer, meaning she can’tbreak any laws but won’t have any-one to report to or check in with.

“Ms. Hilton understands the se-riousness of the situation and appre-ciates the chance she is being given,”Chesnoff told The Associated Press.“She has to stay out of trouble.”

Hilton initially told police thepurse and cocaine were not hers, butclaimed some items in the bag, in-cluding rolling papers, $1,300 in cashand several credit cards. She wasquestioned by police after her boy-friend, Las Vegas nightclub mogul CyWaits, 34, failed field sobriety testsgiven by a motorcycle officer.

The couple was stopped in a blackCadillac Escalade after the officersmelled a “vapor trail” of marijuanasmoke. Hilton was banned from two

Wynn resorts on the Las Vegas Stripafter the arrest, and her boyfriend wasdismissed as a nightclub partner.

Hilton briefly faced a marijuanacharge in July after a FIFA WorldCup match in South Africa, but thecase was dropped when a womanwho was with her pleaded guilty topossessing the drug. Hilton is sched-uled to appear at 7:30 a.m. Mondaybefore Judge Joe M. Bonaventure,Chesnoff said.

Paris Hilton

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Asia has become the new fron-tier for large-scale outdoor enter-tainment complexes thanks to grow-ing affluence in large emergingeconomies like China, India andIndonesia, and cheaper air travel.

“The industry is moving to Asia,”said Christian Aaen, Asian regionaldirector of research firm AECOMEconomics, which specialises inentertainment and leisure industryanalysis. “With key fundamentals inplace such as the growing middleclass and incomes in Asia as well


CLEVELAND – There is an ini-tial shock upon first glance atConnie Culp, the woman who re-ceived the nation’s first face trans-plant nearly two years ago. She tapsher way through the hospital wait-ing room, feeling along the floorwith a cane and smiling hesitantlyat a visitor, even though she canonly make out shadows and shapes.

Her face is wide and square-jawed. It is altogether too large forher diminutive frame, and thereinlies the jolt of surprise: Up close,it’s clear that this face does notbelong to that body.

Her nose is long and straight. Herskin is cream-colored and smooth.She’s wearing a soft gray shirt witha rhinestone brooch pinned to thecollar. Ever since her husband shother in the face in 2004, Culp doesn’tconcern herself with what otherpeople think of her appearance.

“It don’t matter what you looklike, somebody’s gonna find faultwith you,” she says, waving a handdismissively. “Either the way youtalk or something, you know?


NEW YORK – At first glance, theiPad looked like a heavy, overgrowniPod Touch. After just a few months ofuse, however, this iPad skeptic realizedthat it’s so much more — it’s one ofthose devices I’ve always needed.Those don’t come around very often.

Most things get less interestingthe more examples you see of them.If you’ve never seen a computer be-fore, the first one is a revelation, buteach successive model gets less andless remarkable.

Apple Inc.’s iPad is the other wayaround. It looks more impressive inlight of what’s come before it. I’veseen many tablet computers of dif-ferent stripes since 2002, whenMicrosoft introduced Windows XPTablet Edition. The quality has var-

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

An Apple iPad is displayed during an iPad launch event at the Appleretail store in San Francisco, California in this April 3, 2010 file photo.

Review: How the iPad won over a skepticied, but they’ve all been failures, eventhe recent ones. They’re a Stonehenge’sworth of near-useless slabs. The iPadfinally fulfills the promise of the tabletcomputer when it came out in April.

It cuts the mouse and keyboard outof the equation, giving us a straight,tactile connection. While the iPadbuilds on the iPhone, it feels like a big-ger achievement. The first iPhone wasa great phone, driven by far-thinkingnew ideas. But other people had madegood phones before. Before the iPad,no one had made a good tablet com-puter. Even Apple failed with its firstattempt, the Newton, back in the 90s.

When I first got my hands on aniPad for a review, I played games onit for about a month. My favorite strat-egy game, “Battle for Wesnoth,” waswritten for the PC, but actually worksbetter on the iPad, thanks to the im-

mediacy of the touch interface.Several other games conspired tosuck away my productivity, so ittook me a while to realize that theiPad actually fulfills a long-timetablet vision as well: It’s like asheet of paper, electronified. That’swhat made me plunk down $499for one of my own once I was donewith the borrowed review unit.

I knew I was waiting for a devicethat could replace printouts, maga-zines, newspapers and books in mylife. At first, I didn’t think the iPadwas it, because it’s too heavy to holdcomfortably in one hand. In particu-lar, I need one hand free to steadymyself on the New York subway.Better, I thought, to wait for a smallerdevice, something with a screen thatmeasures 5 to 7 inches diagonallyinstead of the iPad’s 9.7 inches.

AP Photo/Jason Miller

Connie Culp, who underwent the first face transplant surgery in theU.S. talks with the Associated Press at the Cleveland Clinic on Tues-day, Sept. 14, 2010 in Cleveland. The woman who had the nation’sfirst face transplant is asking Ohioans to register as organ donors.

US face transplant patientpromotes organ donation

Nobody’s perfect.”Life is on the upswing for Culp,

47, who underwent her final surgeryin July. In an interview with TheAssociated Press on Tuesday at theCleveland Clinic, Culp discussedher plans to become an advocate fororgan donation. It was the choiceof one anonymous donor thatspared her from a life of eating andbreathing through a tube, she says.

“My whole family had a hardtime even coming around me be-cause of the way I looked,” shesays. “We’re closer than ever now.”She stops, looking uncomfortable.“I mean, I hate to say that aboutmy family. But it’s hard.”

The most recent surgery — es-sentially a face-lift — removed theflaps of skin that hung from hercheeks and chin, which weigheddown her face and caused frequentheadaches. The result, to her de-light, is a face that’s much thinnerand more shapely. She can smilemore easily now. She can feel thelips of her 3-year-old grandsonwhen he kisses her on the cheek.And she recently ate a steak for thefirst time in years.

This photo takenon March 18,2010 showsvisitors riding onthe “BattlestarGalactica roller-coaster” atUniversal StudiosSingapore themepark during itsopening day inSingapore. Justsix months afteropening its gatesin March, 2010,Universal StudiosSingapore hasalready wel-comed more thanone millionvisitors, andother countries inAsia are buildingeven biggertheme parks.

AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN

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SINGAPORE - When Singapore first announced it was building a Uni-versal Studios theme park, sceptics wondered if the complex would drawenough crowds to be commercially viable. But just six months after opening,Universal Studios Singapore has already welcomed more than one millionvisitors, and other countries in Asia are building even bigger theme parks.

as demand for entertainment and lei-sure time, this is the perfect productfor tourism and economic develop-ment,” he told AFP.

Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea, the Universal Studios park inOsaka and South Korea’s home-grown Everland ranked among theworld’s top 10 theme parks in termsof visitors last year, according to in-dustry consultancy Themed Enter-tainment Association (TEA).

Encouraged by Asia’s promise,Universal Studios signed a deal in

January to build its largest themepark in the world in South Korea ata cost of around 2.67 billion dollars.

When completed in 2014, the re-sort will be bigger than UniversalStudios’ four other parks in Holly-wood, Florida, Osaka and Singaporecombined.

Disneyland has not fared well inHong Kong — with a 70 millionHong Kong dollar (nine million US)loss last year, according to the SouthChina Morning Post — but it is go-ing ahead with a new franchise inShanghai, with construction ex-pected to start in November.

Denmark’s Legoland is setting upits first Asian branch in Malaysia’sJohore state close to Singapore, hir-ing builders to use the famous littleplastic bricks to replicate nationaland state landmarks.

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Ronaldo saw his free-kicktake a huge deflection off team-mate Pepe and loop in 15 min-utes from time and the world’smost expensive player seemedembarrassed to celebrate thewinning goal which handedMourinho his first away win.Argentine international wingerAngel di Maria — a 25-million-euro summer signing fromBenfica — scored a memorablefirst Real goal on 51 minutesonly for veteran Raul Tamudo toequalise as Real conceded theirfirst goal under Mourinho.

However, Ronaldo had the fi-nal say with his freak goal andMadrid rode their luck to go top— a point ahead of AtleticoMadrid and Valencia who haveplayed one game less.

Despite the win, Mourinhowas far from happy throwing hiswater bottle in the dug-out lateon. “It was great to get my firstgoal and the points in a toughmatch against a very good team,”said di Maria. “Now we’ll seewhat Atlet ico (Madrid) doagainst Barcelona.”

Champions Barcelona are fourpoints behind Real and travel toleague leaders Atletico on Sun-day. It was Sociedad’s first de-feat of the season but the leaguenewcomers tested Real to thelimit in a sensational atmosphereat the Anoeta stadium and weredenied a late equaliser at 2-2 bygoalkeeper Iker Casillas.

Mourinho made just onechange from the side that con-vincingly beat Ajax 2-0 at theSantiago Bernabeu in the Cham-pions League on Wednesday withSergio Ramos replacing AlvaroArbeloa.

It was a special game forMadrid midfielder Xabi Alonsowho began his career at hometownclub Sociedad and was part of theSociedad side that finished leaguerunners-up to Real in 2003. Realstarted on the front foot but it wasSociedad who had the best chanceswith French midfielder AntoineGriezmann guilty of two glaringmisses.

In the fifth minute Xabi Prietofound Griezmann unmarked in thepenalty area but he headed over thecrossbar to the relief of Casillas.

Sociedad continued to attackand on 25 minutes everyone wascelebrating — in part icular


ROME – Filippo Inzaghi scoredhis 123rd AC Milan goal to rescuea point in a disappointing 1-1 drawwith Catania at the San Siro on Sat-urday. After opening their Champi-ons League campaign with a 2-0win over French side Auxerre inmidweek, Milan started without in-jured Brazilians Alexandre Pato andRobinho.

They fell behind to a 30-metrescreamer from Ciro Capuano justbefore the half-hour mark after theCatania midfielder had collected aclearance from Andrea Pirlo.

Milan levelled just on the strokeof half-time when Ronaldinho set-up 27-year-old Inzaghi to side-foothome from six yards. It gave thestriker his 123rd goal in Milan’scolours, just one behind the clubrecord of 124 held by DutchmanMarco van Basten.

The result put Milan into fourthplace, two points behind leaders

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(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal , left, is tackledby Real Sociedad’s Imanol Agirretxe during their Spanish LaLiga soccer match at Anoeta stadium in San Sebastian, north-ern Spain Saturday Sept. 18, 2010.


MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo scored a fortunate first goal of the season with his deflected75th minute free-kick proving the winner in a 2-1 win at promoted Real Sociedad as Real Madridmoved to the top of La Liga for the first time under Jose Mourinho.

Sociedad coach Martin Lasarte— the opening goal only torealise that Griezmann had shotjust wide. The Frenchman wasone-on-one with Casillas butcontrived to shoot wide and letMadrid off the hook again.

Real had long distance effortsfrom Ronaldo, di Maria andAlonso to show for their attacksbut then needed a last ditch in-tervention from RicardoCarvalho to stop the hosts fromscoring on 31 minutes.

Real were lucky to be level athalf-time after Sociedad’s missedchances, yet, Mourinho refusedto change things for the secondhalf and di Maria shot the visi-tors ahead on 51 minutes curlingin with his weaker right foot forhis first Real goal.

Sociedad showed real charac-ter to equalise 10 minutes laterwith Real failing to defend a fizz-ing cross and Tamudo was on

hand to slot in the leveller.However, Ronaldo’s deflected

free-kick 15 minutes from timesealed a fortunate win withCasillas pulling off a late savefrom the hapless Griezmann. Ear-l ier Danish coach MichaelLaudrup enjoyed his first win incharge of Real Mallorca as the is-landers recorded a 2-0 home vic-tory over Osasuna.

Mallorca scored their first goalof the season with a Chori Castropenalty on 25 minutes and a firstclub goal from Dutch midfielderJonathan de Guzman helpingformer Barcelona and RealMadrid star player Laudrup to hismaiden league win. “I can say thesame thing as (Jose) Mourinhoand that is that my teams play bet-ter in the second season,” ex-plained Laudrup. “It will comewith time, however, before it doeswe have to take the points and thisis an important victory.”

Inzaghi strikes to save Milan

AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE

AC Milan’s forward Filippo Inzaghi celebrates after scoringagainst Catania during their Serie A football match at San SiroStadium in Milan on September 18, 2010.

Chievo. “We ought to win thesegames on home turf, but there’s along way to go yet,” saidRonaldinho. “It is always difficultwhen an opponent defends enmasse. It could’ve been a good op-portunity to win, but the importantthing is to carry on working well.

“Now we’ve got to start winningwith a certain level of consistency.”Fiorentina lost for the second suc-cessive time when they were beaten2-1 at home by Lazio, a defeatwhich sent them to 17th place inSerie A.

Fiorentina could even find them-selves rock-bottom if AS Roma,Bologna and Udinese secure pointsthis weekend. The match startedwell for Fiorentina when 19-year-old Adem Ljalic opened the scor-ing with a 19th-minute penalty.

But Lazio levelled through Ar-gentine Cristian Ledesma in the32nd minute before Czech interna-tional Libor Kozak scored the win-ner after 67 minutes.

Spanish league results

Espanyol 1 (Callejon 47) Almeria 0

Real Mallorca 2 (Castro 25-pen, de Guzman 90) Osasuna 0

Sporting Gijon 2 (de las Cuevas 12, Sangoy 23) Athletic Bilbao 2 (Gurpegui 28, Llorente 58)

Real Sociedad 1 (Tamudo 61) Real Madrid 2 (di Maria 51, Ronaldo 75)

Italian league results

Fiorentina 1 (Ljajic 19-pen) Lazio 2 (Ledesma 32, Kozak 67)

AC Milan 1 (F. Inzaghi 45) Catania 1 (Capuano 27)

English Premier League results

Stoke City 1 (Jones 48) West Ham 1 (Parker 32)Aston Villa 1 (Ashley Young 13) Bolton 1 (Davies 35)Blackburn 1 (Samba 30) Fulham 1 (Dempsey 56)Everton 0 Newcastle 1 (Ben Arfa 45)Tottenham 3 (Van der Vaart 77-pen, Pavlyuchenko 87, Hutton 90) Wolves 1 (Fletcher 45)West Brom 3 (Dann o.g. 51, Odemwingie 59, Olsson 69) Birmingham 1 (Jerome 15)Sunderland 1 (Bent 90) Arsenal 1 (Fabregas 13)

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The fight turned into a defensivebattle and both fighters were booedby the Staples Center crowd. Mosley(46-6-1, 39 KOs) was the aggressorbut had trouble landing punches be-cause of Mora’s defensive tactics.

The former 154-pound titleholderconsistently stayed out of trouble andgrabbed onto Mosley to stop the ac-tion which only aggravated thecrowd who wanted to see more ex-changes in the centre of the ring.

Mosley started the match as theaggressor over the first five roundsbefore Mora began to counter. Mora


CAIRNS , Austral ia -Australia’s campaign for promo-tion to the Davis Cup WorldGroup was dealt a critical blowSunday, with top-ranked LleytonHewitt forced out with a hand in-jury, before rain halted the tie.Hewitt, world number 36 andAustralia’s most successful DavisCup player, was due to meetBelgium’s Olivier Rochus inCairns Sunday but had to standdown, officials said.

“Lleyton Hewitt was forced towithdraw from his reverse singlesmatch against Belgian number oneOlivier Rochus due to a right handinjury,” Cup officials said.

Australia lead Belgium 2-1 afterHewitt and Paul Hanley wonSaturday’s doubles. World number


BEIJING - Football legendDiego Maradona is due in Chinain November for a charity tour

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Sergio Mora, right,

hits Sugar Shane

Mosley during the

10th round of a

boxing match in

Los Angeles,

Saturday, Sept. 18,

2010. The fight

ended in a draw.


LOS ANGELES - Shane Mosley and fellow American Sergio Mora fought to a 12-round drawin a 154-pound non-title fight on Saturday. The 39-year-old Mosley had hoped to earn anotherbig-money fight after his lopsided loss to Floyd Mayweather four months ago, while Mora (22-1-2) was trying to re-establish himself as an elite fighter.

battled back in rounds six and sevenbefore Mosley took control again.

“We both fought hard,” Mosleysaid. “It was good fight, a good deci-sion.” One judge had Mosley win-ning, 116-112, another saw it Morawinning, 115-113, and the third judgecalled it a 114-114 draw. The crowdbooed the decision.

Mora, who held the 154-poundtitle two years ago, claims he wenteasy on Mosley because he thoughthe was winning the fight down thestretch. “I should’ve listened to mycorner,” Mora said. “They were tell-

ing me that it was a close fight. Ithought I was winning, so I didn’tfight as hard because I have respectfor Shane. I didn’t want to hurthim.”

Mosley had an edge in theCompuBox punchstats, landing 161of 522 punches to 93 of 508 for Mora.

The undercard of a promotion cel-ebrating Mexican Independence fea-tured Mexican sensation Saul“Canelo” Alvarez taking on Argen-tinian Carlos Baldomir. Alvarez hada spectacular third-round knockout ofveteran Baldomir.

Maradona due in China for charitylunch with fans: organiser

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The former coach of Argentina’s national football team, foot-ball legend Diego Maradona (L) meets with UNASUR’s (SouthAmerican Nations Union) general secretary and former Argen-tine president Nestor Kirchner at the presidential residence inOlivos, Buenos Aires, on September 17, 2010.

that will see him lunch with fansand sing in a concert , theorganiser said Sunday. Maradona,who was dismissed as Argentina’snational team coach in July, will

travel to China with 11 players toraise money for a Chinese RedCross Foundation project aimed athelping poor people who sufferfrom cancer.

“He will participate in a seriesof charity events including play-ing no less than 20 minutes in twofootball games,” Wang Ling, headof Guojin Yihui (Beijing) Interna-tional Culture Company, which isplanning the trip, told AFP.

“Maradona sings very well andwe are organising a concert forhim in China,” he added. Thefootball legend will also havelunch with the highest bidder ofan auction due to take place be-fore his arrival on November 3,Wang said.

According to the foundation’swebsite, the meal will last twohours and the winner will be ableto bring six friends. Maradona andthe players, whose names have notyet been revealed, will stay inChina for 10 days on a trip thatwill also take in Liaoning prov-ince in the northeast and Anhui inthe east.

(AP Photo/Brian Cassey)

Australian Lleyton Hewitt makes a shot during the doublesmatch of the the Davis Cup World Group play-off againstBelgium’s Olivier Rochus and Ruben Bemelmans in Cairns Aus-tralia Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. The Davis Cup tie continues overthree days.

Injured Hewittmisses crucialDavis Cup tie

126 Peter Luczak was 4-4 in thefirst set with Rochus, ranked 79th,but only 51 minutes’ play was pos-sible on Sunday due to heavy show-ers.

“Should it go down to the wire,Carsten Ball may find himself play-ing Steve Darcis, who was unableto compete on Friday and Saturdaydue to a shoulder injury,” officialssaid. Ball lost his opening match toRochus in straight sets. The twocountries are yet to decide who willplay the fifth rubber.

Australia, who have won theDavis Cup 28 times, are keen to wintheir way back into the elite group-ing of 16 for the first time since theywere dumped out of it by Belgiumin 2007 — an event in whichRochus was instrumental. Play willresume at 10:00 am (0000 GMT) onMonday.

(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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LONDON - Fernando Alonso started his Ferraricareer with a stunning maiden victory in his openingrace in Bahrain in March and he hopes to complete hisdebut season with another win - and the drivers’ worldtitle - when the F1 circus returns to the Gulf in No-vember.

That is for the final race of the year at Abu Dhabi -the fifth of five ‘flyaway’ races outside Europe in thenext two months during which one of the sport’s clos-est and most dramatic title tussles will be decided.

Spaniard Alonso, 29, wants to win his third worldtitle in his opening year with the Italian team and, af-ter a bold victory on home soil at Monza in lastweekend’s Italian Grand Prix, the final race of the yearin Europe, he is convinced he and Ferrari have the po-tential to do it.

He believes Ferrari’s recent point-scoring record inthe last four Grands Prix proves they are now genuinecontenders with a car that can compete on all kinds ofcircuit. “Despite failing to score in Belgium, wherethe accident on the first lap weighed heavily like a stone,Ferrari and I have scored more points than anyone else

The Italian lapped consistentlybelow his pole position time fromyesterday’s qualifying session, andled by over 10 seconds at one point,before throttling back over the fi-nal two laps.

Spaniard Julian Simon rode su-perbly to win the battle for secondplace. Simone Corsi fought himearly on before slipping back, whileIannone’s Hungarian team-mateGabor Talmacsi shadowed the pairin the first half of the race, beforemoving into third and then mount-ing a late but unsuccessful challengefor second.

As Simon claimed his third suc-

Italian Fimmco Speed Up team Andrea Iannone celebrates afterwinning the Aragon Grand Prix at Motorland’s racetrack inAlcaniz, on September 19, 2010. AFP PHOTO / JOSE JORDAN

Iannone dominatesAragon Moto2

Aragon - Andrea Iannone crushed the opposition to record a dominant victory in the Moto2support race at Aragon. The Fimmco Speed Up rider screamed into an immediate lead frompole position and never looked back. He displayed blistering pace to streak away from the oppo-sition and win by six seconds.

cessive second place finish, Talmacsicelebrated his maiden Moto2 podiumfrom the race that replaced his abor-tive home round on the MotoGP cal-endar.

Aside from the dominant Iannone,the ride of the race came from run-away championship leader ToniElias. The ex-MotoGP race winnercrashed in qualifying yesterday andwound up 12th on the grid. He sur-vived a hit during a midfield meleethat eliminated several riders at thestart, before moving steadily thoughfrom 14th to fourth. Elias was clos-ing on Talmacsi at the end but ranout of time.

JiR rider Corsi held on for fifth,ahead of impressive FrenchmanJules Cluzel, who rounded out thetop six. Corsi’s San Marinese team-mate Alex de Angelis ran inside thetop six at one stage, but crashed outon the seventh lap of 21.

Yesterday’s star of qualifyingScott Redding, who narrowlymissed out on pole to Iannone,struggled in today’s race. Theyoungest rider in the field at 17made a bad start and fell out ofthe top six on the opening lap,before finishing a subdued eighth,behind Swiss rider DominiqueAegerter.

Alonso confident ahead of Singaporein these last four races,” he said this week.

“That makes us even more confident and the factthese results came on tracks with very different char-acteristics to one another confirms for me that our caris pretty versatile.”

Since his controversial victory at the German GrandPrix at the end of July, Alonso and his Ferrari team-mate Brazilian Felipe Massa have out-scored all rivalsto consolidate themselves in third place in both the driv-ers and the constructors’ championships.

“I knew it would be tough, but I have kept my beliefall through this recent time. When I arrived at the Ferrarifactory at Maranello on Sunday, a week before the race,I was confident that we could reignite our champion-ship chances. “Now, a few days after that really happymoment at Monza, we can claim to have made a goodstep forward - a big step.

“Things did not go well at Spa-Francorchamps, so,it was hard to say beforehand what we might really becapable of. “However, we knew that, as long as we didour best, we would be in with a chance and that’s howthings turned out. Now our aim must be to try and dothe same in the final five races of the championship.”

Alonso added that he was personally very impressedby the superb performance of his pit crew during theItalian race - and the support he had from the entireteam.

So, he said, he went out of his way to thank them allafter the race and made a special visit to the factory atMaranello earlier this week. “I was able to personallythank everyone at the Gestione Sportiva, when they allgathered in the logistics building.

“It was nice to lift the winner’s trophy again in frontof the people who had made the victory possible, start-ing with the guys who did the pit-stop!”

That stop, in 3.4 seconds, was the key to Alonso’striumph ahead of defending champion Briton JensonButton of McLaren. The Englishman’s stop took 4.2seconds and that slight advantage gave Alonso the edgeand the momentum for victory.

“I think we have a strong team, a great car now anda great spirit,” he said. “We can do the job if we arecalm and consistent in the last five races.”

AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

Spain’s Fernando Alonso steers his Ferrari onhis way to win the Italian Formula One GrandPrix at the Monza racetrack in Monza, Italy,Sunday, Sept 12, 2010.

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