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Following in the footsteps of Lauren Conrad and Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Britney

Spears is poised to fictionalize her life in a novel. Spears’ rep confirmed that she’s “hav-ing discussions” with It Books, an imprint of

Harper Collins. The pop star’s tome would be similar to Conrad’s best-selling L.A. Candy trilogy, which is about a teen who moves to

L.A. and finds herself starring in a reality series, or Snooki’s A Shore Thing, the story

of two gals who spend the summer partying at the Jersey Shore.

Although Spears’ book would mark her first roman a clef, it surprisingly would not

be her first time as an author. Spears wrote a non-fiction book called Heart to Heart about

her rise to fame and her relationship with her mother Lynne Spears in 2000, and a children’s

book called A Mother’s Gift in 2001 about a poor girl from Mississippi who attends a

fancy performing arts school. “The X Factor” judge’s new novel could

be a chance for her to continue the story she started in her 2000 song “Lucky.” The music video shows a Hollywood star named Lucky

who is adored by the masses, yet feels isolated and alone in her personal life. Whether she

goes with the “Lucky” storyline or not, Spears won’t have a shortage of material to use for

her new project.

The singer, songwriter and producer — who also serves as a judge on the U.K. version of “The X Factor” — was honored Monday in London at a dinner held to benefit charities Nordoff Robbins and the BRIT Trust.

Barlow, perhaps best known as a mem-ber of the band Take That, said receiving

the award is “amazing” but added, “I’ve visited the schools that are benefiting from tonight, and they’re incredible places and they need help and they need funding, so that’s the real reason we’re here.”

Past recipients of the award include Sir Elton John and Kylie Minogue.

Photo by John Marshall JM Enternational/Invision/AP

Gary Barlow

Gary Barlow hailed for UK charity, music work

gary Barlow says he’s “flattered” to

receive the 21st Music industry Trusts Award

in recognition of his work with British music

and charities.

ShAron Osbourne says she had a double mastectomy after learning she carries a gene that increases the risk of developing breast cancer.

Osbourne told Hello! magazine that “I didn’t want to live the rest of my life with that shadow hanging over me.”

The 60-year-old “America’s Got Talent” judge, who had colon cancer a decade ago, said that without the surgery, “the odds are not in my favor.”

She added: “It’s not ‘pity me,’ it’s a decision I made that’s got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.”

The magazine went on sale Monday.Osbourne, husband Ozzy and children

Jack and Kelly became rock’s most fa-mous clan thanks to reality show “The Osbournes” a decade ago.

Jack Osbourne, 26, was recently diag-nosed with multiple sclerosis.

Sharon Osbourne has double mastectomy

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“The growth in the agricultural sector is only 0.04 percent due to decline in the harvested area of some commodities. Among others, the harvest of corn, green beans, sweet potatoes and rice reaches 30.99 percent,” said the Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Gde Suarsa, Mon-day (Nov 5).

He said the decline in harvest-

ed area of several commodities was affected by prolonged dry season. Meanwhile, the growth in the construction sector during the period was still caused by the development of infrastructure in the effort to shore up the imple-mentation of APEC Conference next year.

“The infrastructures under progress are in the form of

airport renovation as well as construction of the Dewa Ruci underpass and toll road on the waters planned to be completed in May 2013,” he said. He added that in general the Bali’s econ-omy grew well, but it showed a slowdown in the third quarter of 2012 compared to the previous quarter of the same year. In the previous quarter, the q to q GDP

growth was recorded to reach 2.81 percent, while in the third quarter of this year the Bali’s economic growth slowed to 2.49 percent.

“This slowdown happens due to slower growth in almost all the components, except for the Gross Domestic Fixed Capital Forma-tion (PMTDB),” he said.

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Agriculture shows lowest contribution to Bali’s economic growth

Contribution of the agriculture to the eco-nomic growth of Bali in the third quarter of 2012 occupied the lowest position. The Bali’s economic growth reaches 6.79 percent in this quarter predominantly driven by con-struction sector at 5.30 percent.

Bali PostDEnPASAr - Contribution of

the agriculture to the economic growth of Bali in the third quar-

ter of 2012 occupied the lowest position. The Bali’s economic

growth reaches 6.79 percent in this quarter predominantly

driven by construction sector at 5.30 percent.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for October 23 through November 27, 2012

23 Oct Anggar Kasih Tambir Pura Dalem Puri Batuan SukawatiPura Dalem Kediri Silakarang SingapaduPura dalem Desa SukawatiPura Dalem Desa SingakertaPura dalem Lembeng Ketewel - SukawatiPura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan - UbudPura Puseh ngukuhin Keramas - GianyarPura Pemerajan Agung Ki Telabah, Tuakilang - TabananPura Karang Buncing BlahbatuhPura Dalem Bubunan Desa - Seririt BulelengPura Desa Badung Kota DenpasarMerajan Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa - Kayuputih - TurupinghePura Luwur Pedengenan Bedha Bongan - Ta-bananMr. Dukuh SebudiMr. Pasek Ngukuhin KeramasPura Pucak Payongan Banjar Lungsiakan - Desa KedewatanPura Tanah Kilap Gria Anyar DenpasarPura Selukat Desa Keramas Keramas - Blahbatuh - GianyarPura Dalem Tampuagan Desa Peninjoan - Tem-buku - BangliPura Waturenggong Desa TaroPura Dalem Bentuyung UbudPura Puseh Ubud UbudPura Dalem Peliatan Peliatan Ubud.

24 Oct Buda Umanis Tambir Pura Sari Bankar Titih Kapal Badung

29 Oct Purnama Kelima Aci-aci Penaung Bayu Pura Batumadeg di BesakihPura Kentel Gumi BangliPura Pedarman Agung Satria DenpasarPura Pemerajan Agung Pemecutan DenpasarNgusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli

Pura Desa Pemenang LombokPura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Gobleg Kekeran MengwiPura Suranadi LombokPura Puncak Bukit Tampak SiringPura Dalem Puri Agung KintamaniPura Dalem Agung Nongan KarangasemPura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-TabananPura Dalem Balingkang KintamaniPr. TampurhyangPusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak Songan KintamaniPura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Bule-lengMerajan Pasek Gelgel LebihMerajan Pasek Gelgel TulambenPura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa S e l e m a d e g TabananPura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak KajaPura Suci Desa Tianyar Kubu KarangasemPura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Desa Batur KintamaniPura Narmada LombokPura Segara Ampenan LombokPura Ularan Seririt Buleleng

7 Nov Buda Keliwon Matal Pura Desa Ds. SukawatiMerajan Agung Batuyang - batubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin - sawan - bulelengPura Maspahit Sesetan - Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran - TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gaduh SesetanMerajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya GedePura Pedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

17 Nov Hari Tumpek Kandang

Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagenin Kediri - Tabanan

Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung

21 Nov Buda Wage Menail Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiMr. Pasek Dangke bambang - BangliPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja - Gi-anyarPura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - BangliMerajan Agung Blangsinga - BlahbatuhPura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh GianyarPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk, Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan, Kapal Mengwi.

27 Nov Anggar Kasih Perangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - KlungkungPura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - BulelengPura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - KlungkungPura Gunung engsong - LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Dalem Banyuning Timur - BulelengPura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas (Padang Entas) Titih DenpasarPura Tengah Padang TegalalangMerajan Pasek Gelgel Batu Dewa Kangin Banjar Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg di Desa Sande - Pupuan TabananPura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Adat Pagan DenpasarPura Hyangaluh Jenggala BesakihMerajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan GunaksaMr. Pasek Gelgel SelulungMerajan Pasek Subrata MedahanMerajan Pasek Munggu MungguPura Tengkulak Tulikup - GianyarPura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen

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Bali Post SINGARAJA - Buleleng Regency will not

interfere with the pending release of a number of lands in the area of Celukan Bawang Steam Power Plant (PLTU) project. Such assertion does not necessarily mean if the local govern-

A member of Commission B of the Badung House, I Nyoman Satria, said on Monday (Nov 5) that one of the main factors becoming the drawback of the government-owned hos-pital services, especially in Badung, was the less optimal utilization of human resources. Lack of personnel and imperfect hospital management often became a classic reason. Satria gave an example that it was a com-monplace for paramedics to direct patients to private hospital for various reasons.

“This matter often annoyed people when looking for treatment in the government-owned hospital. Moreover, the free treatment program is also complicated. As a result, people tend to pay a little more in order to get a better service,” he said.

Not to mention the matter of the physical

condition in the government-owned hospi-tals or public health centers. In the Badung Hospital, for instance, a lot of damages to the building could be found. Other sup-porting facilities such as the basement and representative garden also greatly affected the assessment of the community.

As observation made by Bali Post, the service provided in private hospitals were more organized. For example, in terms of room space, one of the hospitals in the area of Sunset Road Kuta even applied the concept of hotel lobby equipped with piano. As a result, it could create a different atmosphere in the hospital and certainly it was much more comfortable than the lobby of the Badung hospital that was currently poorly organized. (kmb25)

Less maximum service, government-owned hospitals need to improveBali Post

MANGUPUrA - The government must continuously improve the quality of services in the government-owned hospitals including the public health centers. Moreover, the services in the government-owned hospital are often complained. If the quality improvement is never considered by the government-owned hospitals and public health centers, it is feared they will be increasingly abandoned.

IBP/File Photo

The government must continuously improve the quality of services in the government-owned hospitals including the public health centers.

Land acquisition of steam power plantRegency government does not want interfere

IBP/kmb

Buleleng Regency will not interfere with the pending release of a number of lands in the area of Celukan Bawang Steam Power Plant (PLTU) project. Such assertion does not necessarily mean if the local government does not pay attention to the people.

ment does not pay attention to the people. However, the regency government does not want to be called a land broker for the project. Regency government only focuses the attention to the environmental impact assessment (Amdal) of the project.

It was announced by the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, Monday (Nov 5) in response to the demonstration conducted by residents in the area of the steam power plant on Sunday (Nov 4). The Regent Agus Suradnyana said his party did not want to get too much involved in the land acquisition and compensa-tion process of the public facilities in the project.

He said the land acquisition was left entirely to the investor PT GEB and CHEC with the land-owners. “We leave the issue of land acquisition or public facility to residents with the investor to resolve it,” he explained.

Related to the project, the regent said his party would focus on the environmental impact assess-ment of the steam power plant. He said the permit of the environmental assessment impact of the megaproject would be asked back to be studied. Even, document of the environmental assessment impact had been requested to investor. “We focus on reviewing the Amdal document,” he said.

On the other hand, the Regent Agus Surad-nyana said the agency related to the megaproject was instructed to jointly supervise. It would be specifically focused on the environmental contamination issues that started arising. By all means, the supervision was intended to provide protection to residents around the megaproject and

if found any contamination, the regency government would reprimand the inves-tor earlier. “I’ve instructed the relevant regional working unit (SKPD) to jointly supervise the environmental impact and if contamination happens it can be ad-dressed earlier,” he added.

For information, the residents of Celukan Bawang, Gerokgak subdistrict, rallied for many times in the area of Ce-lukan Bawang steam power plant. The demands of residents to investor remained the same, namely to accomplish the land acquisition affected by the project where the land of some 33 families had not been released. It happened because there was no price agreement between the residents and investor.

Residents asked in order their land could be purchased at IDR 140 million per 100 square meters, but the investors could only bargain at IDR 37 million per 100 square meters. In addition, the residents also asked the promise of investor to hand over the certificate of the land released and provide compensation to a number of public facilities. (kmb)

3Wednesday, November 7, 201214 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Bali PostDENPASAR - The electronic Bali

Mandara Health Insurance (e-JKBM) initiated by the Bali Government has not run optimally. So far, three regen-

Commander of the IX/Udaya-na Military Command, Wisnu Bawa Tenaya, said the security activities would not tolerate the slightest mistake, so that it was required a coordination among the elements, especially in the field. “We jointly keep the secu-rity. Thousands of personnel are seen in the field and at the place of duty,” said Wisnu when check-ing the readiness of the BDF V security in the Laguna Square, Nusa Dua, Monday (Nov 5).

Unfortunately, he did not men-tion how many military personnel were deployed in securing the BDF V over two days on Novem-ber 8-9, 2012. “Security of Nusa Dua as the venue of the event will be tightened especially at some entrances to the elite tourist resort,” he said.

He explained that some of the entrances to the island such as Gilimanuk Harbor in Jembrana Regency and Padangbai Harbor in Karangasem Regency were not

absent from the security monitor-ing by the apparatus.

In his briefing to thousands of personnel, the Commander of the IX /Udayana Military Command stressed the officers should un-derstand and master the standard security procedures for the very important officials such as the president, vice president, head of government, state guests and delegates of BDF.

In addition, the officers were also appealed to remain dis-ciplined by understanding the chain of command effectively and efficiently, preventing lax and being alert all the times. He also asked the officials in charge to not hesitate to act and always coordinate, follow and observe the situation.

“In order to realize the target, a maximum effort is needed to anticipate any possible threat that can disrupt such rallies and the acts of terror by radical network of terrorists,” he said. (kmb27)

Ahead of BDF, security apparatus tightens surveillanceBali Post

MANGUPURA - Implementation of the Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) V centered in Nusa Dua, Bali, gets strict security from the National Armed Forces. At least, thousands of military personnel are deployed to secure the annual meeting attended by 12 heads of state and heads of government.

AFP PHOTO/SONNY TUMBELAKA

A member of Indonesia’s maritime anti terror special forces takes part in an anti-terrorist drill ahead of the upcoming Bali Democracy Forum in Nusa Dua on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on November 6, 2012. The Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) will be held from November 8 to 9.

E-JKBM less optimalThree regencies have not been served

IBP/File Photo

People queueing to get medical treatment using JKBM. The electronic Bali Mandara Health Insurance (e-JKBM) initiated by the Bali Government has not run optimally. So far, three regen-cies cannot be served by the e-JKBM due to the lack of management information system in the hospital of those regencies.

Associated Press

CHICAGO — Here’s a reality check for health-conscious aging people: Even among those in good shape, at least 1 in 3 will eventually develop heart problems or have a stroke. The upside is that that will happen about seven years later than for their less healthy peers.

The findings come in a U.S. analysis of five major studies in-volving nearly 50,000 adults aged 45 and older who were followed for up to 50 years.

The best odds are in the healthi-est adults — those who don’t smoke, have diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol. Still, among

55-year-olds in that category, about a third can expect to develop heart or other cardiovascular problems as they age.

Dr. Vincent Bufalino, a Chicago-area cardiologist and spokesman for the American Heart Association, said the study is “a wake-up call that this disease is very prevalent in the United States and even if you’re doing a good job, you’re not immune.”

The researchers estimated risks older people face for developing these ailments in their lifetime, or by their 80s or 90s. They also estimated how many years they’ll live free of heart disease and related problems, depending on the most

common risk factors.Pooling follow-up data from

the five analyzed studies, the re-searchers found that the healthiest 45-year-olds lived up to 14 years longer free of heart ailments than those with at least two risk factors. The healthiest 55-year-olds lived up to about seven years longer than their less healthy peers.

The study was published on-line Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association and released in connection with the American Heart Association confer-ence meeting in Los Angeles. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute paid for the research.

The authors estimated higher

lifetime risks than previous studies, but their analysis involved a broader range of ailments, including heart failure and strokes.

While prevalence of heart disease and related deaths have declined across the U.S. in recent years, more than 82 million Americans — roughly one-third — have some form of cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association.

Most people in the analysis had high blood pressure or at least one of the other risk factors.

The results shouldn’t be dis-couraging, said lead author Dr. John Wilkins, an assistant pro-fessor of preventive medicine

and cardiology at Northwestern University’s medical school in Chicago. Maintaining an optimal lifestyle, by eating sensibly and staying active, is still the best way to live a long, healthy life, he said.

Heart disease remains the na-tion’s leading cause of death, and the study reinforces the idea that “cardiovascular disease is part of the aging process,” said Cleveland Clinic heart specialist Dr. David Frid, who was not involved in the research. Bodies wear out, “and ultimately, just exposure to living is going to cause people to develop some of these underlying problems,” Frid said.

The work involved just 30 pa-tients in Miami and Baltimore, but it proves the concept that anyone’s cells can be used to treat such cases. Doctors are excited because this suggests that stem cells could be banked for off-the-shelf use after heart attacks, just as blood is kept on hand now.

Results were discussed Monday at an American Heart Association conference in California and pub-lished in the Journal of the Ameri-can Medical Association.

The study used a specific type of stem cells from bone marrow that researchers believed would not be rejected by recipients. Unlike other cells, these lack a key feature on their surface that makes the im-mune system see them as foreign tissue and attack them, explained the study’s leader, Dr. Joshua Hare of the University of Miami.

The patients in the study had suffered heart attacks years earlier, some as long as 30 years ago. All had developed heart failure because the scar tissue from the heart attack had weakened their hearts so much that they grew large and flabby, un-able to pump blood effectively.

Researchers advertised for peo-ple to supply marrow, which is removed using a needle into a hip bone. The cells were taken from the marrow and amplified for about a month in a lab at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, then returned to Miami to be used for treatment, which did not involve surgery.

The cells were delivered through a tube pushed through a groin artery into the heart near the scarred area.

Fifteen patients were given cells from their own marrow and 15 oth-ers, cells from strangers.

About a year later, scar tissue had been reduced by about one-third. Both groups had improve-ments in how far they could walk and in quality of life. There was no significant difference in one mea-sure of how well their hearts were able to pump blood, but doctors hope these patients will continue to improve over time, or that re-finements in treatment will lead to better results.

The big attraction is being able to use cells supplied by others, with no blood or tissue matching needed.

Dr. Elliott Antman of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who heads the heart conference, praised the work.

The study was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Hare owns stock in a biotech company working on a treatment using a mixture of cells.

Juan Lopez received his own cells in the study, and said it im-proved his symptoms so much that at age 70, he was able to return to his job as an engineer and sales manager for a roofing manufac-turer and ride an exercise bike.

“It has been a life-changing ex-perience,” said Lopez, who lives in Miami. “I can feel day by day, week by week, month by month, my improvement. I don’t have any shortness of breath and my energy level is way up there. I don’t have any fluid in my lungs.”

Stem cells from strangers can repair heartsAssociated Press

LOS ANGELES — Researchers are reporting a key advance in using stem cells to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks. In a study, stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and ef-fective as patients’ own cells for helping restore heart tissue.

AP Photo/University of Miami

In this Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 photo provided by the University of Miami, Dr. Joshua M. Hare, director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, performs a heart biopsy, a preliminary step in one of several cardiac stem cell trials at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Even fit aging people won’t escape heart problems

cies cannot be served by the e-JKBM due to the lack of management infor-mation system in the hospital of those regencies.

“Three regencies consisting of

Bangli, Klungkung and Jembrana that have not been optimally served by the e-JKBM because the management information system in their hospital remains poor,” said the Head of Bali

Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, when met on Monday (Nov 5) in the Bali Parliament Hall.

Further, he said that Bangli Hospi-tal had not established a management information system to support the e-JKBM. Now, it was under tender process. “However, the e-JKBM services can run without the network. In other words, those who present the JKBM card can still be served but the integration has not worked yet. If the integration has worked properly, it will turn optimal or perfect,” he said while adding that the system for Jembrana and Klungkung would be processed immediately.

It was said the e-JKBM program remained under process of making the electronic card that could facilitate people in the bureaucratic process of treatment, both in hospital and public health center. Suarjaya revealed the making of the electronic card was targeted to print 900,000 cards. Un-fortunately, only 650,000 cards had been printed. “The printed card has just amounted to 650,000 from the

target of 900,000. Meanwhile, a total of 250,000 cards are under process in the government agency,” he said.

Furthermore to say, the card was given to each household head and activated. “In general, the card can be used and valid in all the areas of health care services,” he explained. According to Suarjaya, the problem was in the matter of integration only. For instance, in hospital the e-JKBM should be integrated with the hospital management information system. “Currently, the manage-ment information system of two hospitals namely the Sanglah and Wangaya have been integrated, while the others will follow later on,” he said.

He added that a total of 60 public health centers had been integrated with the management information system of the e-JKBM. “We want the e-JKBM can be integrated with the health management information system in the health service provid-ers, so that they can be optimized,” said Suarjaya. (kmb29)

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Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Rice field conver-sion in Buleleng seems increasingly out of control. As evidence, until this year the rice field conversion in Buleleng has reached more than 1,000 hectares of the total rice field area of 11,000 hectares. Most of the productive rice field areas are con-verted into residential areas. Even, a lot of productive rice fields are sold to investors to built villas and mansions.

Assistant III of Regional Secre-tary of the Buleleng Government doubling as the acting Head of the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Gede Dharmaja, amidst the development plan meeting of RPJMD in Lovina on Monday (Nov 5) affirmed that so far the amount of productive rice field in the region reached 11,000 hectares.

But within the past ten years, the rice field conversion in several sub-districts in Buleleng had been grow-ing rampant. Dharmaja pointed out the land conversion proliferating at Panji village in Sukasada subdistrict, Anturan and Tukadmungga village in

Buleleng subdistrict to the suburbs in Sawan subdistrict.

According to Dharmaja, most of the lands had now been converted into residential areas as rampantly happened at Panji and Anturan vil-lage. Besides, the land conversion for residential areas also occurred at Kaliasem and Temukus village in Banjar subdistrict.

“As at Panji village, the land conversion now widely happens from rice field into residential ar-eas. However, the land conversion at Temukus and Kaliasem happens from rice field to villas or luxury houses,” he explained. On the other hand, Darmaja realized the local government was unable to stop the land conversion through the binding laws. It happened because the sale of rice field from farmers to investors could not be stopped as it did not go up against the laws.

The only way to do was by pro-tecting it through the village level, particularly at the level of customary village. “Now, I hope the customary village bylaws can minimize the oc-currence of rice field conversion,” he added. (kmb)

Significant contributions also come from business in the trans-port, communications, finance and rental and corporate service, head of the Bali’s BPS Gede Suarsa said.

Bali has no significant natural resources other than its natural beauty and culture, Gede Su-arsa said.

Bali, therefore, relies more on its tourism industry and its supporting industries.

He said ahead of the APEC meeting here in 2013, develop-ment of infrastructure is brisk in the tourist island.

He cited work is in full gear for the expansion of the Nu-grah Rai International Airport and construction of toll road of Serngan-Benoa and underpass that provides new connection between Denpasar and a number of regencies on the island.

Meanwhile, he noted the con-tribution of the primary (agri-

cultural) sector to Bali gross regional domestic product is shrinking because of encroach-ing urbanization.

Encroaching urbanization re-duces 436 hectares or 0.5 percent of farm lands in Bali every year, Gede Suarsa said.

The manufacturing sector, therefore, growing more in con-tribution to Bali’s economic development.

Tourists walking at one of shoping arcades in Kuta,

Bali Island during their stay in Bali. Tourism industry

including trade, hotel and restaurant sector, contributes

more than 65 percent to Bali’s Gross Regional Domestic

Product every year, the Bali office of the Central Statistic

Agency said.

Tourism contributes 65 percent to Bali’s incomeAntara

DENPASAR - Tourism industry including trade, hotel and restaurant sector, contributes more than 65 percent to Bali’s Gross Regional Domestic Product every year, the Bali office of the Central Statistic Agency said.

IBP/File Photo

Rice field conversion uncontrollable

IBP/kmb

Rice field conversion in Buleleng seems increasingly out of control. As evidence, until this year the rice field conversion in Buleleng has reached more than 1,000 hectares of the total rice field area of 11,000 hectares.

Reuters

BEIRUT - An Islamist suicide car bomber killed at least 50 Syr-ian security men in Hama province on Monday, an opposition group said, in what would be one of the bloodiest single attacks on Presi-dent Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the 20-month-old uprising. Another day of relentless violence in Syria coincided with more unity talks in Qatar among opposition factions.

Syrian state media reported that a “terrorist” suicide bomber had targeted a rural development centre in Sahl al-Ghab in Hama province, putting the death toll at two.

Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,

said the centre was used by security forces and pro-Assad militia as one of their biggest bases in the area.

“A fighter from the Nusra Front drove his car to the centre and then blew himself up,” he said. “A series of explosions followed. At least 50 were killed.”

The Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-inspired group of ultra-orthodox Salafi Muslims, has claimed re-sponsibility for several suicide bombings in Damascus and else-where in the past. It operates mostly independently of other rebel fac-tions, some of which have criticised it for indiscriminate tactics.

Syrian officials often blame foreign-backed Islamist militants for the anti-Assad revolt, in which about

32,000 people have been killed since it began in March 2011.

In Damascus, a car bomb ex-ploded in the mostly Alawite west-ern district of Mezzeh 86, killing 11 people and wounding dozens more, including children, state media and the Syrian Observatory reported.

An Islamist group calling itself Seif al-Sham claimed responsibility for the attack, which it said targeted a meeting point for the army, police and pro-Assad militia.

Warplanes, tanks and artillery battered rebel-held parts of southern Damascus in what one Western dip-lomat said was an escalation in the government campaign to crush the insurgency. Opposition activists said at least 10 people were killed there.

The strike was called by Greece’s two biggest labour organisations and is the third in two months against spending cuts and reforms that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras wants par-liament to approve on Wednesday to unlock international aid.

Transport was severely disrupted across the country and schools, banks and local government offices were shut. Hospitals were working on emergency staffing.

The government has implored Greeks to endure the cuts to avoid national bankruptcy but a quarter of the nation is jobless, poverty and suicide levels are soaring and many feel angry with the political class.

“They should go to hell and be-yond,” said Anais Metaxopoulou, a 65-year-old pensioner.

“They should ask me how I feel when I have to go to church to beg for food. I wouldn’t hurt a fly but I would

happily behead one of them.”Athens needs parliamentary

approval for the package - which includes slashing pensions by as much as a quarter and scrapping holiday bonuses - to ensure its European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders release more than 31 billion euros ($40 billion) of aid, much of it aimed at shoring up banks.

The strike coincides with the vote in parliament on Wednesday when the government is expected to just about win backing for auster-ity cuts and labour reforms that the smallest party in Samaras’s coali-tion has refused to back.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Classical com-poser Elliott Carter, whose chal-lenging, rhythmically complex works earned him widespread ad-miration and two Pulitzer Prizes, died Monday at age 103.

His music publishing com-pany, Boosey & Hawkes, called him an “iconic American com-poser.” It didn’t give the cause of his death.

In a 1992 Associated Press interview, Carter described his works as “music that asks to be listened to in a concentrated way and listened to with a great deal of attention.”

“It’s not music that makes an overt theatrical effect,” he said then, “but it assumes the listener is listening to sounds and making some sense out of them.”

The complex way the instru-ments interact in his compositions created drama for listeners who made the effort to understand them, but it made them difficult for orchestras to learn. He said he tried to give each of the musicians individuality within the context of a comprehensible whole.

“This seems to me a very dramatic thing in a democratic society,” he said.

While little known to the gen-eral public, he was long respected by an inner circle of critics and musicians. In 2002, The New York Times said his string quar-tets were among “the most dif-ficult music ever conceived,” and

it hailed their “volatile emotions, delicacy and even, in places, plucky humor.”

Carter had remained astonish-ingly active, taking new commis-sions even as he celebrated his 100th birthday in December 2008 with a gala at Carnegie Hall.

Carter won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for his Second String Quartet; his second award was in 1973 for his Third String Quartet. The Juilliard String Quartet chose to mark its 45th anniversary in 1991 with a concert of all four Carter string quartets. A fifth quartet came out in 1995.

When the first National Medal of Arts awards were given in 1985, Carter was one of 10 people honored, along with such leg-ends as Martha Graham, Ralph Ellison and Georgia O’Keeffe. The awards were established by Congress in 1984.

The New Grove Dictionary of American Music said that at its best, Carter’s music “sustains an energy of invention that is unrivaled in contemporary composition.”

Carter said he found Europeans more receptive to his works than his fellow Americans because music in Europe is not purely en-tertainment but part of the culture, “something that people make an effort to understand.”

The lack of widespread atten-tion didn’t seem to bother him.

In 1939, he married sculptor Helen H. Frost Jones. They had one son. He is survived by his son and a grandson.

Composer, Pulitzer winner Carter dies at 103

AP Photo/John Lent, File

In this May 2, 1960 file photo, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Elliott Carter poses at the piano in his New York City apartment after the announcement of the award was made.

Suicide bomber kills 50 Syrian security men

AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis

Thousands of Greeks strike over spending cutsReuters

ATHENS - Tens of thousands of Greek workers began a 48-hour strike on Tuesday to protest a new round of austerity cuts that unions say will devastate the poor and drive a failing economy to collapse.

A cyclist drives in front of the Greek Parliament in central Athens, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. Greece is facing three days of escalating anti-austerity strikes, with state hospital doctors, taxi drivers, transport workers and journalists walking off the job.

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The use of purse seine nets has almost depleted the sea of fish around Bali, I Made Gunaja MSi, head of Bali maritime and fishery office said here on Monday.

Bali`s fish exports in August de-clined in value to US$11.9 million from US$12 million in July, Gunaja said.

Meanwhile, Bank Indonesia also reported a decline in Bali`s exports of fishery products on shrinking sea fish production.

The use of purse seine nets so far has rapidly depleted the fish in the sea around Bali, the report said.

Unfavorable climate and weather also contributed in fish production lately including sea fish and fresh fish water.

Fish production both sea fish and fresh water fish was valued at Rp673.5 million in the first half of the year , down from Rp1 billion in the same period last year, Gunaja said.

Probably, you have watched or are going to watch arja operetta or Ramayana Ballet during the visit in Bali. It would be more convenient if it is enjoyed while having dinner of Balinese cuisine. At the same time, you watch the beauty of culture and taste the delicacy of local culinary. You may hear the language spoken by players or puppeteer was not understandable. Of course, it is Balinese language.

As Japanese and Chinese, Ba-linese language also has its own characters. They consist of some 18 main characters and 10 vowel sounds. Ordinarily, Balinese char-acters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such char-

acters are incised with sharp knife or stylus. When the writing works have completed, they should be rubbed with a blend of oil and lamp shoot to blacken them. So they are visible easily. Since the works were performed manually, the copying of a manuscript took a long time.

At a glance, Balinese characters look like Old Javanese, Tamil (In-dia). It is inseparable from historical aspect where they had similarity of genealogical lines. Today, Balinese characters still have restricted use, namely at school for local subject from elementary school to senior high school. It is becoming the responsibility of local government to preserve and develop Balinese

language in order it could survive in the midst of the growth of other languages like Bahasa Indonesia and foreign languages.

Balinese language poses a me-dium and spirit of Balinese culture. To preserve Balinese culture should also simultaneously maintain and use of Balinese language in daily life. In other words, speaking Ba-linese language also characterizes one of the identities as a Balinese. Among the use of other languages, Balinese language should remain to give a space to grow and develop. Other than speaking and teaching it at schools, it should also accom-modate the need of modern com-munity or use in wider functions

of language. Balinese community receives

abundant heritages of lontar or palm-leaf manuscripts from the predecessors retained by individu-als and museums. They carry many aspects of knowledge, ranging from philosophy, local healing, literature, architecture, agriculture, herbal practice, astrology and so forth. Therefore, if they could be inter-preted and presented in popular lan-guage, they could become attractive information for young generation and saleable books for commercial needs. Today, there is also a trend of poising the tradition with modern science namely by re-interpreting the indigenous wisdoms that are relevant to the current time. People will get balanced inputs from the past and current orientation.

Of course, such treasures will be beneficial for the conservation and future development of Balinese cul-

ture because it stays in touch with its original roots. Young generation should be introduced to these roots at early stage. Later, they will not lose their identity and even could feel proud of it. Moreover, it could give them inspiration in making their creativities, either in fine arts, performance, traditional architec-ture or herbal healings.

Thanks to modern technology, the writing of Balinese characters now can be made easy by Bali Simbar font. It is the innovative thinking of I Made Suatjana (1986) lies behind the composing of this font. His work has helped the writ-ing of Balinese characters in word processing application like Micro-soft Word. Hopefully, there would be more creative software helping the development and learning of Balinese language so it would not come into extinction or be far left behind with the modern life.

Bali PostDENPASAR - A number of

pig breeders in Denpasar are wor-ried that the local market is being treated unwell by investors when actually there’s an agreement between investors labelled Karya

Prospek Satwa (KPS) with Gabun-gan Usaha Peterbak Babi Indonesia (GUPBI) Bali where KPS will not sell their products in local markets yet it is violated as stated by Ketua Kelompok Ternak Kresek, Sesetan, Ketut Sudirta, to Denpasar House

of Representatives Ni Wayan Sari Galung, S.Sos. For that report, Sari Galung asked Animal Husbandry, Fishery and Sea Denpasar to take action.

Breeders admitted that the mar-keting of the pork is bad indicated

caused by KPS so to anticipate any of this violation it is hoped the re-sponsible Agency to take action in supporting the local producers just like what Badung, Tabanan and Gi-anyar. Since the arrival of KPS, lo-cal producers are having difficulties

in selling their products especially from Thailand. Head of the Agency, IB Bayu Bramasta, could not be confirmed of this condition as there was no answer from his phone. The same situation happened with to KPS. (kmb12)

IBP/File Photo

Bali has recorded a decline in its fish export earning on falling sea fish catch this year.

Investor suspected violated agreement, pig breeders worried

Balinese Characters:From Palm-leaf to Keyboards

Bali reports decline in fish

export earningAntara

DENPASAR - Bali has recorded a decline in its fish export earning on falling sea fish catch this year.

Reuters

PHNOM PENH - Hiroshi Uematsu had a tough start in Cambodia, where he heads an economic zone that aims to at-tract business from his native Japan. He arrived just before the global financial crisis sent the Asian economic minnow’s exports into a tailspin and dried up investment interest.

Now, though, business is looking up.

About a third of the lots on the 365-hectare (900-acre) site on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh remain vacant and overgrown, roamed by scrawny cattle. But they are being snapped up by household Japanese company names such as Yamaha Motor , food maker Ajinomoto and electronics firm Minebea.

Next to Uematsu’s office, a convenience store sells several brands of sake, “To-kyo burgers” and a variety of Japanese savoury treats for homesick executives.

The turnaround in Uemat-su’s fortunes mirrors a broad trend of surging Japanese investment in Southeast Asia as China’s appeal is under-mined by rising wage costs and spiking tensions with its neighbour over territorial disputes.

“China used to be the fac-

tory of the world,” said Ue-matsu, a 45-year-old from Japan’s mountainous Gifu prefecture who says he gets calls every day from compa-nies interested in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone. “We can’t say so anymore.”

Almost a quarter of Japa-nese manufacturers are re-thinking their China invest-ment plans, according to a Reuters Corporate Survey carried out after the recent tensions between the nations over disputed islands.

Japan’s tsunami disaster and flooding in Thailand last year provided another sharp reminder of the need to diversify operations to avoid another rupture in global sup-ply chains.

Japan’s net foreign direct investment (FDI) into the 10-country Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) more than doubled last year to a record 1.55 trillion yen ($19.5 billion), data from Japan’s Finance Ministry shows. Japan’s net FDI into China is still rising, jumping 60 percent in 2011 to a record 1 trillion yen.

But Japanese firms, en-couraged to expand abroad by a strong yen, are increas-ingly using Southeast Asia as an alternative manufacturing base to balance their China

risks. Japanese government and business leaders have also been among the fastest to tap the potential of Myan-mar’s dramatic opening, pouring in billions of dollars in infrastructure spending, debt forgiveness and refi-nancing.

It’s not just about cheap wages. The region of 600 million people also offers a

growing source of demand for Japanese cars, electronics and services as robust growth expands the middle class. Malaysia and the Philippines, where wages are higher than Vietnam or Cambodia, have also seen rising Japanese interest.

Infrastructure investment in railways and roads is booming and ASEAN is

working towards establish-ing a European Union style single market by the end of 2015, making it easier for multinationals to link up their cross-border opera-tions. The region’s econo-mies have been resilient this year to weak growth in the United States, Europe and China.

Japan’s net investment in

ASEAN came to 418 billion yen in January-August, fi-nance ministry data show, but those figures may not reflect many pledged deals. In the April-June quarter, net FDI in ASEAN rose 37 percent from a year ago.

ASEAN countries’ latest FDI data also suggest the trend of strong Japanese in-vestment is intact.

The Federal Court ruling on Monday is the first in the world

on a rating agency’s liability for investors’ losses and may

have implications for Fitch and Moody’s.

Judge Jayne Jagot ruled that S&P and ABN Amro, which is

now owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, were liable for ad-vice given and distribution of the derivatives to several Aus-tralian local governments.

The value of the deriva-tives, which were rated AAA

by S&P, tumbled during the crisis.

S&P plans to appeal the decision, which could cost it and the bank 30 million Aus-tralian dollars ($31 million) in damages.

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft and Apple are garnering the highest profit margins for their tablets, followed by Google and then Amazon, according to research firm IHS.

Microsoft Corp.’s first self-made tab-let, the Surface, costs about $267 in parts and labor when excluding its optional keyboard cover. It went on sale Oct. 26 priced at $499, for a profit margin of around 46 percent. Surface comes with

a 10.6-inch (26.9-centimeter) screen measured diagonally, and can access the Internet only through Wi-Fi. The price is for its base model with 32 gigabytes of memory. With a similar configura-tion, the Surface bakes in slightly more profit for Microsoft than Apple Inc. did when it released its third-generation iPad in March.

IHS’ analysis excludes costs for marketing, sales or operating system-software, which Microsoft has been touting with its device. The research firm

obtains the devices independently and breaks them apart to estimate the cost of the components.

The analysis suggests Microsoft is imputing a cost for its latest operating system, the slimmed-down Windows RT, which debuted last month. It also needs to price its flagship tablet high enough so that manufacturing partners like Dell and Lenovo can compete even after paying Microsoft for the operating system. Apple is maintaining premium pricing as the market leader.

CoSt PRoDuCtioN oN SmAllER-SizED tABlEtS

- The iPad Mini costs $198 for parts and labor. This 16GB model has a retail price tag of $329.

- The 7-inch Nexus 7, costs $159 for its 8GB model. It sells for $199.

- Amazon.com Inc. spends about $174 to make its 16GB Kindle Fire HD. Amazon sells it for $199.

Microsoft, Apple tablets have most profit margins

Australian court finds S&P misled investorsAssociated Press

SYDNEY — An Australian court has ruled that global ratings agency Standard & Poor’s misled investors when it gave the highest investment rating to complex and risky securities before the global financial crisis.

Japan firms turn to booming Southeast Asia

REUTERS/Samrang Pring

A man prepares to construct a new building at the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone on the outskirts of Phnom Penh November 1, 2012. Almost a quarter of Japanese manufacturers are re-thinking their China investment plans, according to a Reuters Corporate Survey carried out after the recent tensions between the nations over disputed islands. Picture taken November 1, 2012.

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”US ELECTION DAY”

INDONESIA

Democrat Obama, 51, leads his Republican foe by a whisker heading into polling day as he seeks to defy historical precedent that suggests incumbent presidents fail to win a second four-year term at times of high unemployment.

Romney, 65, a former Massachu-setts governor blasted by critics as a rich plutocrat indifferent to middle class pain, would make history as the first Mormon president and promises to ignite economic growth and job creation.

Both men, exhausted by the last manic Monday of a campaign that has raged for two years, made their final, heartfelt plea to voters in late night ral-lies attended by fervent supporters.

“Tomorrow, from the granite of New Hampshire to the Rockies of Colorado, from the coastlines of Florida, to Virginia’s rolling hills, from the valleys of Ohio to these Iowa fields, we will keep America moving forward,” Obama said.

As he spoke in Iowa, the state that

first nurtured his White House dreams in 2008, a single tear rolled down the president’s face as he wrapped up what was -- win or lose -- his last-ever campaign event.

Romney put an exclamation mark on his campaign with his own, rowdy late night rally, at a sports arena in New Hampshire, capping the most expensive campaign season in US history, which cost $6 billion.

Voters are not solely picking a president for the next four years on Tuesday.

They will also cast judgment on a third of the Democratic-led Senate and the entire Republican-run House of Representatives. But with neither chamber expected to change hands, the current political gridlock will likely linger.

In a quaint slice of Americana, the people of the hamlet of Dixville Notch, in northern New Hampshire, played their traditional roll of casting the first votes in the election as the clock struck midnight.

And in a possible precursor of the tight race to come, Obama and Romney were tied at five votes, a historic first.

A dispiriting, negative, White House race, so different from Obama’s euphoric change crusade of 2008, produced the election both sides expected -- a down-to-the wire scrap for thin victory margins in a clutch of swing states.

Obama, America’s first African American president, on Tuesday led by the slimmest of margins in averages of national polls, which measure the likely popular vote, possibly helped by his leadership during superstorm Sandy. The president’s polling leads in battleground states also stirred a quiet confidence in his campaign team.

Romney aides, however, predicted a surge of enthusiasm for the Repub-lican would confound state polls, which they said overestimated the likely Democratic turnout and did not register the undercurrent of antipathy for Obama.

“Tomorrow I will submit more names and cases in writing to the House of Representatives` (DPR) Ethics Council (BK),” he said here on Tuesday after a ministry leadership meeting.

He said the names to be submitted to BK on Wednesday were apart from the two he reported when he met with BK officials on Monday.

According to rumors the two that have been reported to BK are Idris Laena from Golkar Party faction and Sumaryoto from the opposition Indonesia Democratic Party (PDIP) faction.

Dahlan said the names that he would submit on Wednesday would be full names not in the form of initials.

“They would not be in the form

of initials but full names completed with an explanation about extortion methods used. The names we reported yesterday were also full names not in the form of initials,” he said.

Dahlan said it would be up to BK whether it would make them known to the public or not.

In a surprise move that shocked many quarters the minister recently told about extortion of state-owned companies by legislators. He said around 10 legislators had been indi-cated to have tried to extort money from state-owned companies.

But in a meeting with BK officials on Monday he only disclosed two names in three cases.

“Actually BK could follow it up after I have disclosed the two names

in detail. But because we have been asked to complete with the other names indicated we would immedi-ately do it,” he said.

Dahlan meanwhile denied any in-tervention from BK with regard to his disclosure of the names of legislators on Monday.

“There has been no intervention at all. BK has even asked him to submit more names indicated in the case,” he said. With regard to the extortion case Dahlan has called on all state-owned companies ̀executives to report direct-ly to him in case they found indications of extortion in their companies.

“I have asked them to be straight forward and not to be afraid to report in case they find indications of extortion to their companies,” he said.

The small hamlet of Dixville Notch in New Hampshire distinguishes itself every primary and general election by voting right at midnight.

Tune in to ABCNews.com on Tuesday, Nov. 6 for livestreaming coverage of Election 2012. Our Elec-tion Day show kicks off at noon, and the Election Night event begins at 7 p.m.

This year ten voters showed up and they split evenly - five votes apiece - for President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

Obama won the Dixville Notch

vote in 2008. But in elections before that, the town had stuck to more con-servative candidates, twice selecting a Republican instead of Bill Clinton.

Dixville Notch and its 10 voters may be symbolic, but they’re not a bellwether for the state. Obama won in Dixville Notch in 2008, but that was the first time a majority of the town went for a Dem in 40 years.

The other New Hampshire town with midnight voting- the slightly more populous (32 voters) Hart’s Location- swung towards Obama tonight- 23 Obama, 9 Romney.

AP Photo/Alan Diaz

In this Nov. 3, 2012, file photo, South Floridians mark their ballots during the last day of early voting in Miami Beach, Fla. Americans Tuesday decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama despite a plodding economy or to trust Mitt Romney to restore prosperity, in a close fought vote unlikely to heal a polarized nation.

Obama, Romney tie in Dixville Notch

Obama, Romney face voters on US election day

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Americans Tuesday decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama despite a plodding economy or to trust Mitt Romney to restore prosperity, in a close fought vote unlikely to heal a polarized nation.

REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C) walks with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (L) during a break on the second day of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Vientiane November 6, 2012. A high-profile group of leaders and foreign ministers from Asia and Europe gathered at the capital of Laos for the ASEM summit, held once every two years and scheduled from November 5 to 6.

AntaraJAKARTA - Security guards

arrested three Vietnamese women on charges of stealing clothes at Pondok Indah Mall in South Jakarta on Sunday, a police spokesman said on Monday.

They were found stealing while security guards were checking their bags before they left the shop, spokes-man for the Jakarta Metropolitan

Police Snr. Comr. Rikwanto said.The security guards seized a

leather jacket and two legging trou-sers bearing Top Man brand from them, he said.

The three Vietnamese women, identified as Le Thie Huyen, Pjam Thituy Dung and Nguyen Thi Thu Ngan, were being held at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police for legal process, he said.

AntaraJAKARTA - Representatives from

the U.S. Department of State`s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons travelled to Indonesia October 26 - November 3 to study Indonesia`s efforts to combat human trafficking, the US Embassy here said.

The embassy said in its official web site on Monday that U.S. representa-tives also explore opportunities for working together to eliminate modern-day slavery. Human trafficking is a trans-national crime, and no country working alone can solve it. While in country, the visiting U.S. team had an opportunity to see firsthand the work being done by Indonesian government officials and civil society representa-tives in Jakarta, Bandung, Sukabumi, and Manado to combat trafficking.

Trafficking in Indonesia takes many forms. Girls from Manado are

trafficked to West Papua where they are exploited in the commercial sex industry.

Men from Central Java are defraud-ed on foreign fishing vessels and paid unfair wages. Under-age girls from Indramayu are coerced into illegal marriages. Women from Sukabumi are sent across Asia and the Middle East and forced to work without a salary and under threat of physical abuse.

Two members of the team, Mark Taylor and Kendra Kreider, led a dis-cussion session at high-tech cultural center @america to share what they learned while in Indonesia. During the session, entitled “Combating Trafficking in Persons”, the two State Department officials engaged mem-bers of the Indonesian National Police, government, and civil society in a dialogue on strategies for eliminating human trafficking.

Three Vietnamese women nabbed on theft charges

US, RI explore opportunities for cooperation to fight

human trafficking Allegedly extorted state-owned companies case

Minister of State Enterprises to report

more legislator namesAntara

JAKARTA - State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said that he was not afraid and would tell more names of legislators that have allegedly extorted state-owned companies.

Agriculture...On the other hand, the development of investment in the third quarter of 2012 showed a better improvement than the previous quarter. Evidently, if the PMTDB in the previous quarter grew by 5.07 percent, then in this quarter it grew by 5.37 percent. “It is inseparable from the increasing investment activity, especially the physical development, such as the Benoa-Nusa Dua toll road, underpass, Ngurah Rai Airport and accommodation facilities expected to have been completed before the

APEC Conference 2013,” he said.He explained that based on the

Bali’s GDP growth, both pursuant to the current price and constant price it tended to increase. It was reflected by the current price in the third quarter of 2012 where the Bali’s GDP reached IDR 18.74 trillion and then increased to IDR 20.59 trillion in the second quarter of 2012, and then in the third quarter reached IDR 21.35 trillion.

“For the constant price, the Bali’s GDP increased from IDR 7.79 tril-lion in the third quarter of 2011 to IDR 8.12 trillion the third quarter of 2011, and then in the second quarter of 2012 increased to IDR 8.32 tril-

lion,” he explained.He mentioned the value of

Bali’s GDP by the business sec-tor was still dominated by trade, hotels and restaurants reaching IDR 5.76 trillion in the third quarter of 2011. Later, in the second quarter of 2012 it reached IDR 6.18 trillion and in the third quarter of 2012 rose to IDR 6.43 trillion. The next position was oc-cupied by the agricultural sector amounting to IDR 3.20 trillion in the third quarter of 2011, then rose to IDR 3.53 trillion in the second quarter of 2012 and IDR 3.60 trillion in the third quarter of 2012. (kmb27)

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Taman Sukasada or Sukasada Park is a beautiful park with big fish pond surrounds the old Karangasem Empire heritage building which is used by the Karangasem’s King for day relaxation or meeting place in their era. It is located in Ujung Countryside about 5 Km from Amlapura town. This park is originally met one pool only which is very Ghostlike and very secret called by Di Dirah and this pool at the period of I Gusti Gede Putu King (1849-1893) governance with his brother of Gde Oka (1849-1890) that the around of this pool is functioned as place of exile for the man who alleged to run the black magic (leak). At the period of I Gusti Bagus Jelantik governance which start to lead the Karangasem Kingdom in the year 1909, this pool area is extended and developed by some pools and also luxury building Bale Gili with European style (modern style), later then it is given the name called Ta-man Sukasada/ Sukasada Park Ujung Karangasem, that is estimate made in the year of twentieth.

his park is strategically located in the coastal side, south part of Karangasem town and founding a lot of wellspring around the area. If seen from the history aspect, most of all omissions from Karangasem Empire both for Lombok Island and also exist in Bali, altogether area consisted by the pool and Gili building which is exist in the middle of pool like Mayura and Narmada Park which are existing in west part of Lombok Island. We can say that this Sukasada Park as a mascot of tourist destinations in east part of Bali because Sukasada Park has been recognized until foreign countries since twenty’s year and more famous again in the year of thirtieth when all foreign tourist start to pay a visit to Bali.

King of Karangasem I Gusti Bagus Jelantik who is known as Anak Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem is a Statesman, Man of letters as well as an architect. He has created a lot of building not even in the form of park but he also done some building which are exist in Puri Agung Karangasem (Karangasem Palace) like gateway which is looking like pagoda.

Taman Sukasada Ujung Karangasem

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Reserve Gary Neal led five Spurs in double figures with 17 points, while Tim Duncan got a double-dou-ble with 14 points and 11 rebounds to lift the team to the win.

Despite winning four NBA cham-pionships between 1999 and 2007, the Spurs had never won their first four regular season games.

“It’s just a stat, it’s not that important in the long term,” San Antonio veteran Manu Ginobili told reporters. “At this point, we’re enjoying it.”

San Antonio grabbed an eight-point lead after the first quarter before scoring the first 11 points of the second to push their advantage to 37-18.

The visiting Pacers (2-2) never fully recovered, trimming the deficit to nine at halftime only to be pegged back again in the second half.

George Hill and Paul George had 15 and 14 points respectively but Indiana shot just 34 percent from the field.

The Pacers, who made a strong run to the second round of the play-offs last season, are off to a tough start and playing without leading scorer Danny Granger who is out with a left knee injury.

With Granger out, points have

been hard to come by for Indiana and San Antonio’s defense did not make things easier.

“I thought our defense was very good tonight,” said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. “We caught a break tonight. Without (Danny Granger) their team loses spacing.”

The Spurs’ bench scored 57 points and the team moved the ball around to the tune of 25 assists.

Lead scorer Tony Parker scored just six points on a rare off night, while Ginobili played his second game since returning from a back injury and scored three points and made seven assists in 17 minutes.

AP Photo/Eric Gay

San Antonio Spurs’ Tony Parker (9), of France, looks to pass as Indiana Pacers’ Sam Young, left, defends during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in San Antonio.

Spurs slam Pacers to move to franchise-best 4-0Reuters

SAN ANTONIO - The four-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs stormed to a franchise-best 4-0 start to the season after routing the Indiana Pacers 101-79 on Monday.

Results from the NBA games (home team in CAPS)

NY Knicks 110 PHILADELPHIA 88 Minnesota 107 BROOKLYN 96 MIAMI 124 Phoenix 99 MEMPHIS 103 Utah 94 DALLAS 114 Portland 91 SAN ANTONIO 101 Indiana 79 SACRAMENTO 94 Golden State 92 Cleveland 108 LA CLIPPERS 101

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LONDON - U.S. Open champion Andy Murray recovered from a faltering start to beat Tomas Berdych in his first match on home soil since winning his maiden grand slam title as the ATP World Tour Finals began in London’s Docklands on Monday.

Murray, the world number three, was greeted on court at the cavernous O2 Arena like a returning hero, but the atmosphere was subdued as Berdych took the first set before the Scot turned things round to win 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the opening Group A clash.

World number one Novak Djokovic, the man Murray conquered to win his first grand slam title less than two months ago in New York, opens against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga later on Monday.

Murray’s inability to convert the numerous break points he engineered almost cost him against Czech Berdych.

The Olympic champion was 15-40 ahead on Berdych’s serve in the opening game and was 0-40 up in fifth game but was frus-trated as Berdych produced some brutal attacking tennis to stay on terms.

The first set then swung Berdych’s way with a spurt of 13 points out of 15, including a crucial service break in the sixth game when a Murray yanked a forehand low into the net.

Berdych had to save another break point as he served for the first set at 5-3 but again Murray could not convert his chance and Berdych sealed the opener when a Murray forehand flicked the net tape and sailed long.

Murray saved two break points at 1-1 in the second set and finally achieved a service break, at the 11th attempt, in the follow-ing game despite Berdych again battling back from 0-40.

That proved the turning point as Murray, with the 20,000 crowd finally coming to life, fired himself up and began to dominate the baseline exchanges.

After levelling the match he gained a decisive break of serve in the third game of the decider against a becalmed Berdych and held on for victory, only his fourth in eight matches against Berdych, sealing it when his opponent slapped a backhand into the net.

Defending champion Roger Federer begins on Tuesday against world number nine Janko Tipsarevic, who qualified for the eight-man finale in the absence of the injured Rafael Nadal.

Murray recovers to beat Berdych at World Tour Finals

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Andy Murray of Britain serves to Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic during their ATP Tennis Finals singles match, in London, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012.

RESULTS Group A1-Novak Djokovic(Serbia) beat 7-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga(France) 7-6(4) 6-3 3-Andy Murray(Britain) beat 5-Tomas Berdych(Czech Republic) 3-6 6-3 6-4

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A 2-1 loss to the Ukrainian side two weeks ago left Chelsea in danger of becoming the first reigning champion to miss out on qualifying from the group stage.

Roberto di Matteo’s side is sec-ond in the standings — three points behind Shakhtar and one clear of Juventus — with three matches remaining, with a trip to Turin to play Juve still to come.

“It’s like a final for us if we want to finish first in our group,” said Chelsea playmaker Juan Mata, after Di Matteo labeled the game the team’s most important since the victory over Bayern Munich in last season’s final.

Fresh from seeing its 49-match

unbeaten domestic run end on Sat-urday, Juventus is home to bottom-place FC Nordsjaelland and will expect nothing less than three points against the Danish minnow.

“It had to happen sooner or later,” Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said. “If we lose once every 50 matches, we’ll be OK.”

The pressure is piled on Chel-sea, which was soundly beaten in Donetsk in what was its first loss of the campaign. But the team thrived in adversity en route to the title last season.

In Di Matteo’s first match in charge, the Londoners overturned at Stamford Bridge a two-goal deficit from the first leg against Napoli to reach the last eight.

They then somehow scraped past Barcelona in the semifinals despite being overrun in both legs before upsetting the odds in the final, played at Bayern’s stadium.

Chelsea’s home form in the Champions League has been superb — it hasn’t lost there in the group stage since October 2003 when Besiktas, led by current Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu, won 2-0. That’s a span of 27 games.

“At Stamford Bridge, it’ll be a different game (to Donetsk),” he said. “Because, obviously, we are very strong at home and it’ll be different.

“Certainly, the early goal we conceded was a big factor, espe-

cially for them,

because it al-lowed them to then

play on the counter-attack, rather than have to maybe be a little bit offensive.”

Chelsea lost its lead in the Pre-mier League on Saturday, and has won only one of its last four matches in all competitions.

John Terry is available again after a domestic ban for racially abusing an opponent but Juan Mata and David Luiz are injury doubts.

Led by its Brazilian stars, Shakhtar has won all 14 of its matches in the Ukrainian league and is unbeaten in the Champions League, too.

Grosjean’s performances have been under the spotlight after a spate of early-race inci-

dents over the course of this campaign - which resulted in a race ban at Monza

for causing a pile-up at the Belgian GP.

Lotus is waiting to see how Grosjean responds to the pres-sure he has been under to not get

involved in more accidents – but in Abu Dhabi he again hit trouble after

suffering a puncture in a collision with Nico Rosberg early on.

He later retired from the race when, while battling hard with Sergio Perez and Mark Webber for position, he was involved in a

crash.Speaking to AUTOSPORT, Boullier said

that he did not feel Grosjean was to blame for what happened at the Yas Marina, and says the events will not have any impact on the Frenchman’s future with the team.

“This fight with three cars ended in a crash, but we cannot blame him as it was a racing incident,” said Boullier.

“There is no concern. Obviously he did not have the best qualifying here, but we know why.

“He had a good start but unfortunately he had a puncture. I think we then tried to gamble in pushing the tyres to the end of the race, but he lost his tyres earlier than expected.”

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BERLIN - Bayern Munich are brimming with confidence ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League Group F clash at home to France’s Lille with president Uli Hoeness

labelling their current form as “foot-ball art”.Bayern, eager to take a decisive step

towards the round of 16, eased past hosts Hamburg SV 3-0 in the Bundesliga on Sat-urday to notch their ninth league win in 10 games, bouncing back from their first defeat a week earlier.

They also saw the return of Franck Rib-ery after a 10-day absence with the France international looking superb and ripping Hamburg’s defence to shreds.

With fellow winger Arjen Robben fully fit after coming back from a month out injured in their German Cup second round game last week and left back David Alaba back to his best after his own three-month injury break, the Bavarians are in good shape.

“That is almost art, football art,” beamed Hoeness after their win at Hamburg sent them seven points clear at the top of the Ger-man table. “It is so much fun just watching them play.”

Having beaten Lille last month in France to join Valencia and BATE Borisov on six points from three games in the Champions League, Bayern are well-placed to power on and snatch a top-two finish.

Jorge Lorenzo Jorge Lorenzo is determined to return to the top step of the MotoGP podium in the Va-lencia finale now the title pressure is off him.

The Spaniard sealed his second premier class championship last time out at Phillip Island, finishing second behind a dominant Casey Stoner.

That continued his record of finishing inside the top two in every race bar Assen, when he was wiped out at the first corner, but he has not win a grand prix since Misano in September.

Lorenzo says he aims to enjoy competing without having to worry about the championship, with vic-tory his primary goal after months of watching the points.

“This is the last round of the sea-

son, [and] it’s a great feeling to be coming home to my Spanish fans as the world champion,” he explained.

“It’s been a long, tough year and we have all worked so hard to get here.

“Now this weekend will be one to enjoy for all of us with less pres-sure.

“I will of course still be pushing for the top step of the podium - it would be amazing to end the year with a victory.”

Yamaha team director Massimo Meregalli hailed Lorenzo’s achieve-ment, but said the team’s joy was tempered by the fact Ben Spies will miss what was due to be his final race with Yamaha.

Ben SpiesThe American, who has agreed a switch onto Ducati machin-

ery for 2013, will miss Valencia due to the injuries that also ruled him out of Phillip Island.

As AUTOSPORT reported last weekend, he will be replaced by test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga.

“It’s with mixed emotions that we come to the last race of the year,” Meregalli admitted.

“We are obviously overjoyed to be world champions, a very deserved title after all the hard work Jorge and the team have put in to get there.

“On the other hand it is a great shame we won’t have Ben with us for what would have been his final appearance for Yamaha.

“We wish him well with his re-covery in the US and we welcome Nakasuga-san back into the team for this round.”

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HAMBURG - World heavy-weigh t champion Vlad imi r Klitschko remembered his late coach Emanuel Steward on Mon-day, saying victory over Poland’s Mariusz Wach in Hamburg at the weekend would also be for his long-time mentor.

The 68-year-old Steward, who worked with several world cham-pions at his fabled Kronk Gym in Detroit and joined forces with Klitschko in 2004, died on Oct. 25 after developing complications fol-lowing surgery for diverticulitis.

“It is a big blow to everyone,” said the Ukrainian, wearing his trademark red tracksuit at a news conference. “It felt strange in preparation ... but we know what he would do and what he would

want us to do.“It is a fight without Emanuel

Steward but I will be going into the ring on Saturday with his presence to defend those titles we gathered together.”

Vladimir, the younger of the Klitschko brothers who holds the WBO, IBF, IBO and WBA belts, defeated American Tony Thompson in July to retain his titles.

Brother Vitali holds the WBC crown.

The 36-year-old Vladimir, who has a record of 58 wins and three defeats, will face a taller opponent for the first time as the 2.02-metre Wach has four centimetres on him.

Wach, 32, has a perfect record, with 27 victories from 27 fights, and Klitschko said he would be an agile opponent.

“He is skilled, he can go the dis-tance, there is no doubt about that. For his height he moves very well,” explained the champion.

“But I will say one line that Emanuel used to say,” said Klitschko as he turned to the Pole sitting near him before adding: “Welcome to big-time boxing”.

Wach, dressed in a black shirt and grey suit, looked unfazed and thanked the Ukrainian for giving him a shot at his titles.

“On Saturday you will see a different Mariusz Wach, a Mariusz Wach who will want to take those belts off Klitschko,” said the softly-spoken challenger. “You will re-member that fight not for hours later but for days and months to come.

“If I need 12 rounds then 12 rounds it is. I am prepared for ev-erything.”

AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

John Terry of Chelsea FC controls the ball during a group E Champi-ons League soccer match against Shakhtar Donetsk at Donbas Arena stadium in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tues-day, Oct. 23, 2012.

Chelsea needs to step up to occasion vs Shakhtar

REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

Bayern Munich’s Bastian Schweinsteiger celebrates after scoring during the Ger-man Bundesliga first division soccer match against Hamburger SV in Hamburg, November 3, 2012.

Probable teams :

bayern munich: 1-Manuel Neuer; 21-Philipp

Lahm, 17-Jerome Boateng, 4-Dante, David Alaba; 31-Bastian Schwein-steiger, 8-Javi Martinez; 25-Thomas Mueller, 39-Toni Kroos, 7-Franck Ribery; 9-Mario Mandzukic

lille: 1-Mickael Landreau; 2-Mathieu

Debuchy, 14-David Rozehnal, 22-Aurelien Chedjou, 3-Lucas Digne; 4-Florent Balmont, 17-Benoit Pe-dretti, 10-Marvin Martin; 8-Salomon Kalou, 7-Dimitri Payet, 26-Nolan Roux

Probable teams :

Chelsea:1-Petr Cech, 2-Branislav Ivanovic,

26-John Terry, 24-Gary Cahill, 3-Ashley Cole; 12-John Obi Mikel, 7-Ramires; 17-Eden Hazard, 11-Oscar, 10-Juan Mata; 9-Fernando Torres

shakhtar Donetsk:30-Andriy Pyatov; 33-Darijo Srna,

5-Olexandr Kucher, 44-Yaroslav Rakytskiy, 26-Razvan Rat; 7-Fer-nandinho, 3-Tomas Hubschman; 22-Henrik Mkhitaryan, 10-Willian, 29-Alex Teixeira; 9-Luiz Adriano

Associated Press.

loNDoN — Chelsea stepped up when it really mattered in last season’s Champions league and the english team needs to rise to the occasion against shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday to stay on course to defend the trophy.

Artists Bayern in sparkling form as Lille await

Lotus unconcerned by Romain Grosjean’s latest crashes in Abu Dhabi

REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

Lotus F1 Formula One driver Romain Grosjean of France sits in his car during the first practice session of the Indian F1 Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, Oc-tober 26, 2012.

romain Grosjean abu Dhabi 2012lotus boss eric boullier says he has no con-cerns about romain Grosjean’s latest crashes in the abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Klitschko remembers late coach ahead of Wach fight

AP Photo/dapd, Joerg Sarbach

WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight world champion Vladimir Klitschko, left, from Ukraine, poses with his Polish challenger Mariusz Wach in Hamburg, Germany, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. The title bout between Klitschko and Wach is scheduled for upcoming Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012.

Pressure-free Jorge Lorenzo wants home victory

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Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo of Spain, left, signs autographs after his arrival at the international airport in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Lorenzo is the newly-crowned MotoGP champion.

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A 2-1 loss to the Ukrainian side two weeks ago left Chelsea in danger of becoming the first reigning champion to miss out on qualifying from the group stage.

Roberto di Matteo’s side is sec-ond in the standings — three points behind Shakhtar and one clear of Juventus — with three matches remaining, with a trip to Turin to play Juve still to come.

“It’s like a final for us if we want to finish first in our group,” said Chelsea playmaker Juan Mata, after Di Matteo labeled the game the team’s most important since the victory over Bayern Munich in last season’s final.

Fresh from seeing its 49-match

unbeaten domestic run end on Sat-urday, Juventus is home to bottom-place FC Nordsjaelland and will expect nothing less than three points against the Danish minnow.

“It had to happen sooner or later,” Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said. “If we lose once every 50 matches, we’ll be OK.”

The pressure is piled on Chel-sea, which was soundly beaten in Donetsk in what was its first loss of the campaign. But the team thrived in adversity en route to the title last season.

In Di Matteo’s first match in charge, the Londoners overturned at Stamford Bridge a two-goal deficit from the first leg against Napoli to reach the last eight.

They then somehow scraped past Barcelona in the semifinals despite being overrun in both legs before upsetting the odds in the final, played at Bayern’s stadium.

Chelsea’s home form in the Champions League has been superb — it hasn’t lost there in the group stage since October 2003 when Besiktas, led by current Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu, won 2-0. That’s a span of 27 games.

“At Stamford Bridge, it’ll be a different game (to Donetsk),” he said. “Because, obviously, we are very strong at home and it’ll be different.

“Certainly, the early goal we conceded was a big factor, espe-

cially for them,

because it al-lowed them to then

play on the counter-attack, rather than have to maybe be a little bit offensive.”

Chelsea lost its lead in the Pre-mier League on Saturday, and has won only one of its last four matches in all competitions.

John Terry is available again after a domestic ban for racially abusing an opponent but Juan Mata and David Luiz are injury doubts.

Led by its Brazilian stars, Shakhtar has won all 14 of its matches in the Ukrainian league and is unbeaten in the Champions League, too.

Grosjean’s performances have been under the spotlight after a spate of early-race inci-

dents over the course of this campaign - which resulted in a race ban at Monza

for causing a pile-up at the Belgian GP.

Lotus is waiting to see how Grosjean responds to the pres-sure he has been under to not get

involved in more accidents – but in Abu Dhabi he again hit trouble after

suffering a puncture in a collision with Nico Rosberg early on.

He later retired from the race when, while battling hard with Sergio Perez and Mark Webber for position, he was involved in a

crash.Speaking to AUTOSPORT, Boullier said

that he did not feel Grosjean was to blame for what happened at the Yas Marina, and says the events will not have any impact on the Frenchman’s future with the team.

“This fight with three cars ended in a crash, but we cannot blame him as it was a racing incident,” said Boullier.

“There is no concern. Obviously he did not have the best qualifying here, but we know why.

“He had a good start but unfortunately he had a puncture. I think we then tried to gamble in pushing the tyres to the end of the race, but he lost his tyres earlier than expected.”

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BERLIN - Bayern Munich are brimming with confidence ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League Group F clash at home to France’s Lille with president Uli Hoeness

labelling their current form as “foot-ball art”.Bayern, eager to take a decisive step

towards the round of 16, eased past hosts Hamburg SV 3-0 in the Bundesliga on Sat-urday to notch their ninth league win in 10 games, bouncing back from their first defeat a week earlier.

They also saw the return of Franck Rib-ery after a 10-day absence with the France international looking superb and ripping Hamburg’s defence to shreds.

With fellow winger Arjen Robben fully fit after coming back from a month out injured in their German Cup second round game last week and left back David Alaba back to his best after his own three-month injury break, the Bavarians are in good shape.

“That is almost art, football art,” beamed Hoeness after their win at Hamburg sent them seven points clear at the top of the Ger-man table. “It is so much fun just watching them play.”

Having beaten Lille last month in France to join Valencia and BATE Borisov on six points from three games in the Champions League, Bayern are well-placed to power on and snatch a top-two finish.

Jorge Lorenzo Jorge Lorenzo is determined to return to the top step of the MotoGP podium in the Va-lencia finale now the title pressure is off him.

The Spaniard sealed his second premier class championship last time out at Phillip Island, finishing second behind a dominant Casey Stoner.

That continued his record of finishing inside the top two in every race bar Assen, when he was wiped out at the first corner, but he has not win a grand prix since Misano in September.

Lorenzo says he aims to enjoy competing without having to worry about the championship, with vic-tory his primary goal after months of watching the points.

“This is the last round of the sea-

son, [and] it’s a great feeling to be coming home to my Spanish fans as the world champion,” he explained.

“It’s been a long, tough year and we have all worked so hard to get here.

“Now this weekend will be one to enjoy for all of us with less pres-sure.

“I will of course still be pushing for the top step of the podium - it would be amazing to end the year with a victory.”

Yamaha team director Massimo Meregalli hailed Lorenzo’s achieve-ment, but said the team’s joy was tempered by the fact Ben Spies will miss what was due to be his final race with Yamaha.

Ben SpiesThe American, who has agreed a switch onto Ducati machin-

ery for 2013, will miss Valencia due to the injuries that also ruled him out of Phillip Island.

As AUTOSPORT reported last weekend, he will be replaced by test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga.

“It’s with mixed emotions that we come to the last race of the year,” Meregalli admitted.

“We are obviously overjoyed to be world champions, a very deserved title after all the hard work Jorge and the team have put in to get there.

“On the other hand it is a great shame we won’t have Ben with us for what would have been his final appearance for Yamaha.

“We wish him well with his re-covery in the US and we welcome Nakasuga-san back into the team for this round.”

Reuters

HAMBURG - World heavy-weigh t champion Vlad imi r Klitschko remembered his late coach Emanuel Steward on Mon-day, saying victory over Poland’s Mariusz Wach in Hamburg at the weekend would also be for his long-time mentor.

The 68-year-old Steward, who worked with several world cham-pions at his fabled Kronk Gym in Detroit and joined forces with Klitschko in 2004, died on Oct. 25 after developing complications fol-lowing surgery for diverticulitis.

“It is a big blow to everyone,” said the Ukrainian, wearing his trademark red tracksuit at a news conference. “It felt strange in preparation ... but we know what he would do and what he would

want us to do.“It is a fight without Emanuel

Steward but I will be going into the ring on Saturday with his presence to defend those titles we gathered together.”

Vladimir, the younger of the Klitschko brothers who holds the WBO, IBF, IBO and WBA belts, defeated American Tony Thompson in July to retain his titles.

Brother Vitali holds the WBC crown.

The 36-year-old Vladimir, who has a record of 58 wins and three defeats, will face a taller opponent for the first time as the 2.02-metre Wach has four centimetres on him.

Wach, 32, has a perfect record, with 27 victories from 27 fights, and Klitschko said he would be an agile opponent.

“He is skilled, he can go the dis-tance, there is no doubt about that. For his height he moves very well,” explained the champion.

“But I will say one line that Emanuel used to say,” said Klitschko as he turned to the Pole sitting near him before adding: “Welcome to big-time boxing”.

Wach, dressed in a black shirt and grey suit, looked unfazed and thanked the Ukrainian for giving him a shot at his titles.

“On Saturday you will see a different Mariusz Wach, a Mariusz Wach who will want to take those belts off Klitschko,” said the softly-spoken challenger. “You will re-member that fight not for hours later but for days and months to come.

“If I need 12 rounds then 12 rounds it is. I am prepared for ev-erything.”

AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

John Terry of Chelsea FC controls the ball during a group E Champi-ons League soccer match against Shakhtar Donetsk at Donbas Arena stadium in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tues-day, Oct. 23, 2012.

Chelsea needs to step up to occasion vs Shakhtar

REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

Bayern Munich’s Bastian Schweinsteiger celebrates after scoring during the Ger-man Bundesliga first division soccer match against Hamburger SV in Hamburg, November 3, 2012.

Probable teams :

bayern munich: 1-Manuel Neuer; 21-Philipp

Lahm, 17-Jerome Boateng, 4-Dante, David Alaba; 31-Bastian Schwein-steiger, 8-Javi Martinez; 25-Thomas Mueller, 39-Toni Kroos, 7-Franck Ribery; 9-Mario Mandzukic

lille: 1-Mickael Landreau; 2-Mathieu

Debuchy, 14-David Rozehnal, 22-Aurelien Chedjou, 3-Lucas Digne; 4-Florent Balmont, 17-Benoit Pe-dretti, 10-Marvin Martin; 8-Salomon Kalou, 7-Dimitri Payet, 26-Nolan Roux

Probable teams :

Chelsea:1-Petr Cech, 2-Branislav Ivanovic,

26-John Terry, 24-Gary Cahill, 3-Ashley Cole; 12-John Obi Mikel, 7-Ramires; 17-Eden Hazard, 11-Oscar, 10-Juan Mata; 9-Fernando Torres

shakhtar Donetsk:30-Andriy Pyatov; 33-Darijo Srna,

5-Olexandr Kucher, 44-Yaroslav Rakytskiy, 26-Razvan Rat; 7-Fer-nandinho, 3-Tomas Hubschman; 22-Henrik Mkhitaryan, 10-Willian, 29-Alex Teixeira; 9-Luiz Adriano

Associated Press.

loNDoN — Chelsea stepped up when it really mattered in last season’s Champions league and the english team needs to rise to the occasion against shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday to stay on course to defend the trophy.

Artists Bayern in sparkling form as Lille await

Lotus unconcerned by Romain Grosjean’s latest crashes in Abu Dhabi

REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

Lotus F1 Formula One driver Romain Grosjean of France sits in his car during the first practice session of the Indian F1 Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, Oc-tober 26, 2012.

romain Grosjean abu Dhabi 2012lotus boss eric boullier says he has no con-cerns about romain Grosjean’s latest crashes in the abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Klitschko remembers late coach ahead of Wach fight

AP Photo/dapd, Joerg Sarbach

WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight world champion Vladimir Klitschko, left, from Ukraine, poses with his Polish challenger Mariusz Wach in Hamburg, Germany, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. The title bout between Klitschko and Wach is scheduled for upcoming Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012.

Pressure-free Jorge Lorenzo wants home victory

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo of Spain, left, signs autographs after his arrival at the international airport in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Lorenzo is the newly-crowned MotoGP champion.

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Taman Sukasada or Sukasada Park is a beautiful park with big fish pond surrounds the old Karangasem Empire heritage building which is used by the Karangasem’s King for day relaxation or meeting place in their era. It is located in Ujung Countryside about 5 Km from Amlapura town. This park is originally met one pool only which is very Ghostlike and very secret called by Di Dirah and this pool at the period of I Gusti Gede Putu King (1849-1893) governance with his brother of Gde Oka (1849-1890) that the around of this pool is functioned as place of exile for the man who alleged to run the black magic (leak). At the period of I Gusti Bagus Jelantik governance which start to lead the Karangasem Kingdom in the year 1909, this pool area is extended and developed by some pools and also luxury building Bale Gili with European style (modern style), later then it is given the name called Ta-man Sukasada/ Sukasada Park Ujung Karangasem, that is estimate made in the year of twentieth.

his park is strategically located in the coastal side, south part of Karangasem town and founding a lot of wellspring around the area. If seen from the history aspect, most of all omissions from Karangasem Empire both for Lombok Island and also exist in Bali, altogether area consisted by the pool and Gili building which is exist in the middle of pool like Mayura and Narmada Park which are existing in west part of Lombok Island. We can say that this Sukasada Park as a mascot of tourist destinations in east part of Bali because Sukasada Park has been recognized until foreign countries since twenty’s year and more famous again in the year of thirtieth when all foreign tourist start to pay a visit to Bali.

King of Karangasem I Gusti Bagus Jelantik who is known as Anak Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem is a Statesman, Man of letters as well as an architect. He has created a lot of building not even in the form of park but he also done some building which are exist in Puri Agung Karangasem (Karangasem Palace) like gateway which is looking like pagoda.

Taman Sukasada Ujung Karangasem

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Reserve Gary Neal led five Spurs in double figures with 17 points, while Tim Duncan got a double-dou-ble with 14 points and 11 rebounds to lift the team to the win.

Despite winning four NBA cham-pionships between 1999 and 2007, the Spurs had never won their first four regular season games.

“It’s just a stat, it’s not that important in the long term,” San Antonio veteran Manu Ginobili told reporters. “At this point, we’re enjoying it.”

San Antonio grabbed an eight-point lead after the first quarter before scoring the first 11 points of the second to push their advantage to 37-18.

The visiting Pacers (2-2) never fully recovered, trimming the deficit to nine at halftime only to be pegged back again in the second half.

George Hill and Paul George had 15 and 14 points respectively but Indiana shot just 34 percent from the field.

The Pacers, who made a strong run to the second round of the play-offs last season, are off to a tough start and playing without leading scorer Danny Granger who is out with a left knee injury.

With Granger out, points have

been hard to come by for Indiana and San Antonio’s defense did not make things easier.

“I thought our defense was very good tonight,” said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. “We caught a break tonight. Without (Danny Granger) their team loses spacing.”

The Spurs’ bench scored 57 points and the team moved the ball around to the tune of 25 assists.

Lead scorer Tony Parker scored just six points on a rare off night, while Ginobili played his second game since returning from a back injury and scored three points and made seven assists in 17 minutes.

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San Antonio Spurs’ Tony Parker (9), of France, looks to pass as Indiana Pacers’ Sam Young, left, defends during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in San Antonio.

Spurs slam Pacers to move to franchise-best 4-0Reuters

SAN ANTONIO - The four-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs stormed to a franchise-best 4-0 start to the season after routing the Indiana Pacers 101-79 on Monday.

Results from the NBA games (home team in CAPS)

NY Knicks 110 PHILADELPHIA 88 Minnesota 107 BROOKLYN 96 MIAMI 124 Phoenix 99 MEMPHIS 103 Utah 94 DALLAS 114 Portland 91 SAN ANTONIO 101 Indiana 79 SACRAMENTO 94 Golden State 92 Cleveland 108 LA CLIPPERS 101

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LONDON - U.S. Open champion Andy Murray recovered from a faltering start to beat Tomas Berdych in his first match on home soil since winning his maiden grand slam title as the ATP World Tour Finals began in London’s Docklands on Monday.

Murray, the world number three, was greeted on court at the cavernous O2 Arena like a returning hero, but the atmosphere was subdued as Berdych took the first set before the Scot turned things round to win 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the opening Group A clash.

World number one Novak Djokovic, the man Murray conquered to win his first grand slam title less than two months ago in New York, opens against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga later on Monday.

Murray’s inability to convert the numerous break points he engineered almost cost him against Czech Berdych.

The Olympic champion was 15-40 ahead on Berdych’s serve in the opening game and was 0-40 up in fifth game but was frus-trated as Berdych produced some brutal attacking tennis to stay on terms.

The first set then swung Berdych’s way with a spurt of 13 points out of 15, including a crucial service break in the sixth game when a Murray yanked a forehand low into the net.

Berdych had to save another break point as he served for the first set at 5-3 but again Murray could not convert his chance and Berdych sealed the opener when a Murray forehand flicked the net tape and sailed long.

Murray saved two break points at 1-1 in the second set and finally achieved a service break, at the 11th attempt, in the follow-ing game despite Berdych again battling back from 0-40.

That proved the turning point as Murray, with the 20,000 crowd finally coming to life, fired himself up and began to dominate the baseline exchanges.

After levelling the match he gained a decisive break of serve in the third game of the decider against a becalmed Berdych and held on for victory, only his fourth in eight matches against Berdych, sealing it when his opponent slapped a backhand into the net.

Defending champion Roger Federer begins on Tuesday against world number nine Janko Tipsarevic, who qualified for the eight-man finale in the absence of the injured Rafael Nadal.

Murray recovers to beat Berdych at World Tour Finals

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Andy Murray of Britain serves to Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic during their ATP Tennis Finals singles match, in London, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012.

RESULTS Group A1-Novak Djokovic(Serbia) beat 7-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga(France) 7-6(4) 6-3 3-Andy Murray(Britain) beat 5-Tomas Berdych(Czech Republic) 3-6 6-3 6-4

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”US ELECTION DAY”

INDONESIA

Democrat Obama, 51, leads his Republican foe by a whisker heading into polling day as he seeks to defy historical precedent that suggests incumbent presidents fail to win a second four-year term at times of high unemployment.

Romney, 65, a former Massachu-setts governor blasted by critics as a rich plutocrat indifferent to middle class pain, would make history as the first Mormon president and promises to ignite economic growth and job creation.

Both men, exhausted by the last manic Monday of a campaign that has raged for two years, made their final, heartfelt plea to voters in late night ral-lies attended by fervent supporters.

“Tomorrow, from the granite of New Hampshire to the Rockies of Colorado, from the coastlines of Florida, to Virginia’s rolling hills, from the valleys of Ohio to these Iowa fields, we will keep America moving forward,” Obama said.

As he spoke in Iowa, the state that

first nurtured his White House dreams in 2008, a single tear rolled down the president’s face as he wrapped up what was -- win or lose -- his last-ever campaign event.

Romney put an exclamation mark on his campaign with his own, rowdy late night rally, at a sports arena in New Hampshire, capping the most expensive campaign season in US history, which cost $6 billion.

Voters are not solely picking a president for the next four years on Tuesday.

They will also cast judgment on a third of the Democratic-led Senate and the entire Republican-run House of Representatives. But with neither chamber expected to change hands, the current political gridlock will likely linger.

In a quaint slice of Americana, the people of the hamlet of Dixville Notch, in northern New Hampshire, played their traditional roll of casting the first votes in the election as the clock struck midnight.

And in a possible precursor of the tight race to come, Obama and Romney were tied at five votes, a historic first.

A dispiriting, negative, White House race, so different from Obama’s euphoric change crusade of 2008, produced the election both sides expected -- a down-to-the wire scrap for thin victory margins in a clutch of swing states.

Obama, America’s first African American president, on Tuesday led by the slimmest of margins in averages of national polls, which measure the likely popular vote, possibly helped by his leadership during superstorm Sandy. The president’s polling leads in battleground states also stirred a quiet confidence in his campaign team.

Romney aides, however, predicted a surge of enthusiasm for the Repub-lican would confound state polls, which they said overestimated the likely Democratic turnout and did not register the undercurrent of antipathy for Obama.

“Tomorrow I will submit more names and cases in writing to the House of Representatives` (DPR) Ethics Council (BK),” he said here on Tuesday after a ministry leadership meeting.

He said the names to be submitted to BK on Wednesday were apart from the two he reported when he met with BK officials on Monday.

According to rumors the two that have been reported to BK are Idris Laena from Golkar Party faction and Sumaryoto from the opposition Indonesia Democratic Party (PDIP) faction.

Dahlan said the names that he would submit on Wednesday would be full names not in the form of initials.

“They would not be in the form

of initials but full names completed with an explanation about extortion methods used. The names we reported yesterday were also full names not in the form of initials,” he said.

Dahlan said it would be up to BK whether it would make them known to the public or not.

In a surprise move that shocked many quarters the minister recently told about extortion of state-owned companies by legislators. He said around 10 legislators had been indi-cated to have tried to extort money from state-owned companies.

But in a meeting with BK officials on Monday he only disclosed two names in three cases.

“Actually BK could follow it up after I have disclosed the two names

in detail. But because we have been asked to complete with the other names indicated we would immedi-ately do it,” he said.

Dahlan meanwhile denied any in-tervention from BK with regard to his disclosure of the names of legislators on Monday.

“There has been no intervention at all. BK has even asked him to submit more names indicated in the case,” he said. With regard to the extortion case Dahlan has called on all state-owned companies ̀executives to report direct-ly to him in case they found indications of extortion in their companies.

“I have asked them to be straight forward and not to be afraid to report in case they find indications of extortion to their companies,” he said.

The small hamlet of Dixville Notch in New Hampshire distinguishes itself every primary and general election by voting right at midnight.

Tune in to ABCNews.com on Tuesday, Nov. 6 for livestreaming coverage of Election 2012. Our Elec-tion Day show kicks off at noon, and the Election Night event begins at 7 p.m.

This year ten voters showed up and they split evenly - five votes apiece - for President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

Obama won the Dixville Notch

vote in 2008. But in elections before that, the town had stuck to more con-servative candidates, twice selecting a Republican instead of Bill Clinton.

Dixville Notch and its 10 voters may be symbolic, but they’re not a bellwether for the state. Obama won in Dixville Notch in 2008, but that was the first time a majority of the town went for a Dem in 40 years.

The other New Hampshire town with midnight voting- the slightly more populous (32 voters) Hart’s Location- swung towards Obama tonight- 23 Obama, 9 Romney.

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In this Nov. 3, 2012, file photo, South Floridians mark their ballots during the last day of early voting in Miami Beach, Fla. Americans Tuesday decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama despite a plodding economy or to trust Mitt Romney to restore prosperity, in a close fought vote unlikely to heal a polarized nation.

Obama, Romney tie in Dixville Notch

Obama, Romney face voters on US election day

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WASHINGTON - Americans Tuesday decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama despite a plodding economy or to trust Mitt Romney to restore prosperity, in a close fought vote unlikely to heal a polarized nation.

REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C) walks with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (L) during a break on the second day of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Vientiane November 6, 2012. A high-profile group of leaders and foreign ministers from Asia and Europe gathered at the capital of Laos for the ASEM summit, held once every two years and scheduled from November 5 to 6.

AntaraJAKARTA - Security guards

arrested three Vietnamese women on charges of stealing clothes at Pondok Indah Mall in South Jakarta on Sunday, a police spokesman said on Monday.

They were found stealing while security guards were checking their bags before they left the shop, spokes-man for the Jakarta Metropolitan

Police Snr. Comr. Rikwanto said.The security guards seized a

leather jacket and two legging trou-sers bearing Top Man brand from them, he said.

The three Vietnamese women, identified as Le Thie Huyen, Pjam Thituy Dung and Nguyen Thi Thu Ngan, were being held at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police for legal process, he said.

AntaraJAKARTA - Representatives from

the U.S. Department of State`s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons travelled to Indonesia October 26 - November 3 to study Indonesia`s efforts to combat human trafficking, the US Embassy here said.

The embassy said in its official web site on Monday that U.S. representa-tives also explore opportunities for working together to eliminate modern-day slavery. Human trafficking is a trans-national crime, and no country working alone can solve it. While in country, the visiting U.S. team had an opportunity to see firsthand the work being done by Indonesian government officials and civil society representa-tives in Jakarta, Bandung, Sukabumi, and Manado to combat trafficking.

Trafficking in Indonesia takes many forms. Girls from Manado are

trafficked to West Papua where they are exploited in the commercial sex industry.

Men from Central Java are defraud-ed on foreign fishing vessels and paid unfair wages. Under-age girls from Indramayu are coerced into illegal marriages. Women from Sukabumi are sent across Asia and the Middle East and forced to work without a salary and under threat of physical abuse.

Two members of the team, Mark Taylor and Kendra Kreider, led a dis-cussion session at high-tech cultural center @america to share what they learned while in Indonesia. During the session, entitled “Combating Trafficking in Persons”, the two State Department officials engaged mem-bers of the Indonesian National Police, government, and civil society in a dialogue on strategies for eliminating human trafficking.

Three Vietnamese women nabbed on theft charges

US, RI explore opportunities for cooperation to fight

human trafficking Allegedly extorted state-owned companies case

Minister of State Enterprises to report

more legislator namesAntara

JAKARTA - State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said that he was not afraid and would tell more names of legislators that have allegedly extorted state-owned companies.

Agriculture...On the other hand, the development of investment in the third quarter of 2012 showed a better improvement than the previous quarter. Evidently, if the PMTDB in the previous quarter grew by 5.07 percent, then in this quarter it grew by 5.37 percent. “It is inseparable from the increasing investment activity, especially the physical development, such as the Benoa-Nusa Dua toll road, underpass, Ngurah Rai Airport and accommodation facilities expected to have been completed before the

APEC Conference 2013,” he said.He explained that based on the

Bali’s GDP growth, both pursuant to the current price and constant price it tended to increase. It was reflected by the current price in the third quarter of 2012 where the Bali’s GDP reached IDR 18.74 trillion and then increased to IDR 20.59 trillion in the second quarter of 2012, and then in the third quarter reached IDR 21.35 trillion.

“For the constant price, the Bali’s GDP increased from IDR 7.79 tril-lion in the third quarter of 2011 to IDR 8.12 trillion the third quarter of 2011, and then in the second quarter of 2012 increased to IDR 8.32 tril-

lion,” he explained.He mentioned the value of

Bali’s GDP by the business sec-tor was still dominated by trade, hotels and restaurants reaching IDR 5.76 trillion in the third quarter of 2011. Later, in the second quarter of 2012 it reached IDR 6.18 trillion and in the third quarter of 2012 rose to IDR 6.43 trillion. The next position was oc-cupied by the agricultural sector amounting to IDR 3.20 trillion in the third quarter of 2011, then rose to IDR 3.53 trillion in the second quarter of 2012 and IDR 3.60 trillion in the third quarter of 2012. (kmb27)

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The use of purse seine nets has almost depleted the sea of fish around Bali, I Made Gunaja MSi, head of Bali maritime and fishery office said here on Monday.

Bali`s fish exports in August de-clined in value to US$11.9 million from US$12 million in July, Gunaja said.

Meanwhile, Bank Indonesia also reported a decline in Bali`s exports of fishery products on shrinking sea fish production.

The use of purse seine nets so far has rapidly depleted the fish in the sea around Bali, the report said.

Unfavorable climate and weather also contributed in fish production lately including sea fish and fresh fish water.

Fish production both sea fish and fresh water fish was valued at Rp673.5 million in the first half of the year , down from Rp1 billion in the same period last year, Gunaja said.

Probably, you have watched or are going to watch arja operetta or Ramayana Ballet during the visit in Bali. It would be more convenient if it is enjoyed while having dinner of Balinese cuisine. At the same time, you watch the beauty of culture and taste the delicacy of local culinary. You may hear the language spoken by players or puppeteer was not understandable. Of course, it is Balinese language.

As Japanese and Chinese, Ba-linese language also has its own characters. They consist of some 18 main characters and 10 vowel sounds. Ordinarily, Balinese char-acters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such char-

acters are incised with sharp knife or stylus. When the writing works have completed, they should be rubbed with a blend of oil and lamp shoot to blacken them. So they are visible easily. Since the works were performed manually, the copying of a manuscript took a long time.

At a glance, Balinese characters look like Old Javanese, Tamil (In-dia). It is inseparable from historical aspect where they had similarity of genealogical lines. Today, Balinese characters still have restricted use, namely at school for local subject from elementary school to senior high school. It is becoming the responsibility of local government to preserve and develop Balinese

language in order it could survive in the midst of the growth of other languages like Bahasa Indonesia and foreign languages.

Balinese language poses a me-dium and spirit of Balinese culture. To preserve Balinese culture should also simultaneously maintain and use of Balinese language in daily life. In other words, speaking Ba-linese language also characterizes one of the identities as a Balinese. Among the use of other languages, Balinese language should remain to give a space to grow and develop. Other than speaking and teaching it at schools, it should also accom-modate the need of modern com-munity or use in wider functions

of language. Balinese community receives

abundant heritages of lontar or palm-leaf manuscripts from the predecessors retained by individu-als and museums. They carry many aspects of knowledge, ranging from philosophy, local healing, literature, architecture, agriculture, herbal practice, astrology and so forth. Therefore, if they could be inter-preted and presented in popular lan-guage, they could become attractive information for young generation and saleable books for commercial needs. Today, there is also a trend of poising the tradition with modern science namely by re-interpreting the indigenous wisdoms that are relevant to the current time. People will get balanced inputs from the past and current orientation.

Of course, such treasures will be beneficial for the conservation and future development of Balinese cul-

ture because it stays in touch with its original roots. Young generation should be introduced to these roots at early stage. Later, they will not lose their identity and even could feel proud of it. Moreover, it could give them inspiration in making their creativities, either in fine arts, performance, traditional architec-ture or herbal healings.

Thanks to modern technology, the writing of Balinese characters now can be made easy by Bali Simbar font. It is the innovative thinking of I Made Suatjana (1986) lies behind the composing of this font. His work has helped the writ-ing of Balinese characters in word processing application like Micro-soft Word. Hopefully, there would be more creative software helping the development and learning of Balinese language so it would not come into extinction or be far left behind with the modern life.

Bali PostDENPASAR - A number of

pig breeders in Denpasar are wor-ried that the local market is being treated unwell by investors when actually there’s an agreement between investors labelled Karya

Prospek Satwa (KPS) with Gabun-gan Usaha Peterbak Babi Indonesia (GUPBI) Bali where KPS will not sell their products in local markets yet it is violated as stated by Ketua Kelompok Ternak Kresek, Sesetan, Ketut Sudirta, to Denpasar House

of Representatives Ni Wayan Sari Galung, S.Sos. For that report, Sari Galung asked Animal Husbandry, Fishery and Sea Denpasar to take action.

Breeders admitted that the mar-keting of the pork is bad indicated

caused by KPS so to anticipate any of this violation it is hoped the re-sponsible Agency to take action in supporting the local producers just like what Badung, Tabanan and Gi-anyar. Since the arrival of KPS, lo-cal producers are having difficulties

in selling their products especially from Thailand. Head of the Agency, IB Bayu Bramasta, could not be confirmed of this condition as there was no answer from his phone. The same situation happened with to KPS. (kmb12)

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Bali has recorded a decline in its fish export earning on falling sea fish catch this year.

Investor suspected violated agreement, pig breeders worried

Balinese Characters:From Palm-leaf to Keyboards

Bali reports decline in fish

export earningAntara

DENPASAR - Bali has recorded a decline in its fish export earning on falling sea fish catch this year.

Reuters

PHNOM PENH - Hiroshi Uematsu had a tough start in Cambodia, where he heads an economic zone that aims to at-tract business from his native Japan. He arrived just before the global financial crisis sent the Asian economic minnow’s exports into a tailspin and dried up investment interest.

Now, though, business is looking up.

About a third of the lots on the 365-hectare (900-acre) site on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh remain vacant and overgrown, roamed by scrawny cattle. But they are being snapped up by household Japanese company names such as Yamaha Motor , food maker Ajinomoto and electronics firm Minebea.

Next to Uematsu’s office, a convenience store sells several brands of sake, “To-kyo burgers” and a variety of Japanese savoury treats for homesick executives.

The turnaround in Uemat-su’s fortunes mirrors a broad trend of surging Japanese investment in Southeast Asia as China’s appeal is under-mined by rising wage costs and spiking tensions with its neighbour over territorial disputes.

“China used to be the fac-

tory of the world,” said Ue-matsu, a 45-year-old from Japan’s mountainous Gifu prefecture who says he gets calls every day from compa-nies interested in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone. “We can’t say so anymore.”

Almost a quarter of Japa-nese manufacturers are re-thinking their China invest-ment plans, according to a Reuters Corporate Survey carried out after the recent tensions between the nations over disputed islands.

Japan’s tsunami disaster and flooding in Thailand last year provided another sharp reminder of the need to diversify operations to avoid another rupture in global sup-ply chains.

Japan’s net foreign direct investment (FDI) into the 10-country Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) more than doubled last year to a record 1.55 trillion yen ($19.5 billion), data from Japan’s Finance Ministry shows. Japan’s net FDI into China is still rising, jumping 60 percent in 2011 to a record 1 trillion yen.

But Japanese firms, en-couraged to expand abroad by a strong yen, are increas-ingly using Southeast Asia as an alternative manufacturing base to balance their China

risks. Japanese government and business leaders have also been among the fastest to tap the potential of Myan-mar’s dramatic opening, pouring in billions of dollars in infrastructure spending, debt forgiveness and refi-nancing.

It’s not just about cheap wages. The region of 600 million people also offers a

growing source of demand for Japanese cars, electronics and services as robust growth expands the middle class. Malaysia and the Philippines, where wages are higher than Vietnam or Cambodia, have also seen rising Japanese interest.

Infrastructure investment in railways and roads is booming and ASEAN is

working towards establish-ing a European Union style single market by the end of 2015, making it easier for multinationals to link up their cross-border opera-tions. The region’s econo-mies have been resilient this year to weak growth in the United States, Europe and China.

Japan’s net investment in

ASEAN came to 418 billion yen in January-August, fi-nance ministry data show, but those figures may not reflect many pledged deals. In the April-June quarter, net FDI in ASEAN rose 37 percent from a year ago.

ASEAN countries’ latest FDI data also suggest the trend of strong Japanese in-vestment is intact.

The Federal Court ruling on Monday is the first in the world

on a rating agency’s liability for investors’ losses and may

have implications for Fitch and Moody’s.

Judge Jayne Jagot ruled that S&P and ABN Amro, which is

now owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, were liable for ad-vice given and distribution of the derivatives to several Aus-tralian local governments.

The value of the deriva-tives, which were rated AAA

by S&P, tumbled during the crisis.

S&P plans to appeal the decision, which could cost it and the bank 30 million Aus-tralian dollars ($31 million) in damages.

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft and Apple are garnering the highest profit margins for their tablets, followed by Google and then Amazon, according to research firm IHS.

Microsoft Corp.’s first self-made tab-let, the Surface, costs about $267 in parts and labor when excluding its optional keyboard cover. It went on sale Oct. 26 priced at $499, for a profit margin of around 46 percent. Surface comes with

a 10.6-inch (26.9-centimeter) screen measured diagonally, and can access the Internet only through Wi-Fi. The price is for its base model with 32 gigabytes of memory. With a similar configura-tion, the Surface bakes in slightly more profit for Microsoft than Apple Inc. did when it released its third-generation iPad in March.

IHS’ analysis excludes costs for marketing, sales or operating system-software, which Microsoft has been touting with its device. The research firm

obtains the devices independently and breaks them apart to estimate the cost of the components.

The analysis suggests Microsoft is imputing a cost for its latest operating system, the slimmed-down Windows RT, which debuted last month. It also needs to price its flagship tablet high enough so that manufacturing partners like Dell and Lenovo can compete even after paying Microsoft for the operating system. Apple is maintaining premium pricing as the market leader.

CoSt PRoDuCtioN oN SmAllER-SizED tABlEtS

- The iPad Mini costs $198 for parts and labor. This 16GB model has a retail price tag of $329.

- The 7-inch Nexus 7, costs $159 for its 8GB model. It sells for $199.

- Amazon.com Inc. spends about $174 to make its 16GB Kindle Fire HD. Amazon sells it for $199.

Microsoft, Apple tablets have most profit margins

Australian court finds S&P misled investorsAssociated Press

SYDNEY — An Australian court has ruled that global ratings agency Standard & Poor’s misled investors when it gave the highest investment rating to complex and risky securities before the global financial crisis.

Japan firms turn to booming Southeast Asia

REUTERS/Samrang Pring

A man prepares to construct a new building at the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone on the outskirts of Phnom Penh November 1, 2012. Almost a quarter of Japanese manufacturers are re-thinking their China investment plans, according to a Reuters Corporate Survey carried out after the recent tensions between the nations over disputed islands. Picture taken November 1, 2012.

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SINGARAJA - Rice field conver-sion in Buleleng seems increasingly out of control. As evidence, until this year the rice field conversion in Buleleng has reached more than 1,000 hectares of the total rice field area of 11,000 hectares. Most of the productive rice field areas are con-verted into residential areas. Even, a lot of productive rice fields are sold to investors to built villas and mansions.

Assistant III of Regional Secre-tary of the Buleleng Government doubling as the acting Head of the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Gede Dharmaja, amidst the development plan meeting of RPJMD in Lovina on Monday (Nov 5) affirmed that so far the amount of productive rice field in the region reached 11,000 hectares.

But within the past ten years, the rice field conversion in several sub-districts in Buleleng had been grow-ing rampant. Dharmaja pointed out the land conversion proliferating at Panji village in Sukasada subdistrict, Anturan and Tukadmungga village in

Buleleng subdistrict to the suburbs in Sawan subdistrict.

According to Dharmaja, most of the lands had now been converted into residential areas as rampantly happened at Panji and Anturan vil-lage. Besides, the land conversion for residential areas also occurred at Kaliasem and Temukus village in Banjar subdistrict.

“As at Panji village, the land conversion now widely happens from rice field into residential ar-eas. However, the land conversion at Temukus and Kaliasem happens from rice field to villas or luxury houses,” he explained. On the other hand, Darmaja realized the local government was unable to stop the land conversion through the binding laws. It happened because the sale of rice field from farmers to investors could not be stopped as it did not go up against the laws.

The only way to do was by pro-tecting it through the village level, particularly at the level of customary village. “Now, I hope the customary village bylaws can minimize the oc-currence of rice field conversion,” he added. (kmb)

Significant contributions also come from business in the trans-port, communications, finance and rental and corporate service, head of the Bali’s BPS Gede Suarsa said.

Bali has no significant natural resources other than its natural beauty and culture, Gede Su-arsa said.

Bali, therefore, relies more on its tourism industry and its supporting industries.

He said ahead of the APEC meeting here in 2013, develop-ment of infrastructure is brisk in the tourist island.

He cited work is in full gear for the expansion of the Nu-grah Rai International Airport and construction of toll road of Serngan-Benoa and underpass that provides new connection between Denpasar and a number of regencies on the island.

Meanwhile, he noted the con-tribution of the primary (agri-

cultural) sector to Bali gross regional domestic product is shrinking because of encroach-ing urbanization.

Encroaching urbanization re-duces 436 hectares or 0.5 percent of farm lands in Bali every year, Gede Suarsa said.

The manufacturing sector, therefore, growing more in con-tribution to Bali’s economic development.

Tourists walking at one of shoping arcades in Kuta,

Bali Island during their stay in Bali. Tourism industry

including trade, hotel and restaurant sector, contributes

more than 65 percent to Bali’s Gross Regional Domestic

Product every year, the Bali office of the Central Statistic

Agency said.

Tourism contributes 65 percent to Bali’s incomeAntara

DENPASAR - Tourism industry including trade, hotel and restaurant sector, contributes more than 65 percent to Bali’s Gross Regional Domestic Product every year, the Bali office of the Central Statistic Agency said.

IBP/File Photo

Rice field conversion uncontrollable

IBP/kmb

Rice field conversion in Buleleng seems increasingly out of control. As evidence, until this year the rice field conversion in Buleleng has reached more than 1,000 hectares of the total rice field area of 11,000 hectares.

Reuters

BEIRUT - An Islamist suicide car bomber killed at least 50 Syr-ian security men in Hama province on Monday, an opposition group said, in what would be one of the bloodiest single attacks on Presi-dent Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the 20-month-old uprising. Another day of relentless violence in Syria coincided with more unity talks in Qatar among opposition factions.

Syrian state media reported that a “terrorist” suicide bomber had targeted a rural development centre in Sahl al-Ghab in Hama province, putting the death toll at two.

Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,

said the centre was used by security forces and pro-Assad militia as one of their biggest bases in the area.

“A fighter from the Nusra Front drove his car to the centre and then blew himself up,” he said. “A series of explosions followed. At least 50 were killed.”

The Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-inspired group of ultra-orthodox Salafi Muslims, has claimed re-sponsibility for several suicide bombings in Damascus and else-where in the past. It operates mostly independently of other rebel fac-tions, some of which have criticised it for indiscriminate tactics.

Syrian officials often blame foreign-backed Islamist militants for the anti-Assad revolt, in which about

32,000 people have been killed since it began in March 2011.

In Damascus, a car bomb ex-ploded in the mostly Alawite west-ern district of Mezzeh 86, killing 11 people and wounding dozens more, including children, state media and the Syrian Observatory reported.

An Islamist group calling itself Seif al-Sham claimed responsibility for the attack, which it said targeted a meeting point for the army, police and pro-Assad militia.

Warplanes, tanks and artillery battered rebel-held parts of southern Damascus in what one Western dip-lomat said was an escalation in the government campaign to crush the insurgency. Opposition activists said at least 10 people were killed there.

The strike was called by Greece’s two biggest labour organisations and is the third in two months against spending cuts and reforms that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras wants par-liament to approve on Wednesday to unlock international aid.

Transport was severely disrupted across the country and schools, banks and local government offices were shut. Hospitals were working on emergency staffing.

The government has implored Greeks to endure the cuts to avoid national bankruptcy but a quarter of the nation is jobless, poverty and suicide levels are soaring and many feel angry with the political class.

“They should go to hell and be-yond,” said Anais Metaxopoulou, a 65-year-old pensioner.

“They should ask me how I feel when I have to go to church to beg for food. I wouldn’t hurt a fly but I would

happily behead one of them.”Athens needs parliamentary

approval for the package - which includes slashing pensions by as much as a quarter and scrapping holiday bonuses - to ensure its European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders release more than 31 billion euros ($40 billion) of aid, much of it aimed at shoring up banks.

The strike coincides with the vote in parliament on Wednesday when the government is expected to just about win backing for auster-ity cuts and labour reforms that the smallest party in Samaras’s coali-tion has refused to back.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Classical com-poser Elliott Carter, whose chal-lenging, rhythmically complex works earned him widespread ad-miration and two Pulitzer Prizes, died Monday at age 103.

His music publishing com-pany, Boosey & Hawkes, called him an “iconic American com-poser.” It didn’t give the cause of his death.

In a 1992 Associated Press interview, Carter described his works as “music that asks to be listened to in a concentrated way and listened to with a great deal of attention.”

“It’s not music that makes an overt theatrical effect,” he said then, “but it assumes the listener is listening to sounds and making some sense out of them.”

The complex way the instru-ments interact in his compositions created drama for listeners who made the effort to understand them, but it made them difficult for orchestras to learn. He said he tried to give each of the musicians individuality within the context of a comprehensible whole.

“This seems to me a very dramatic thing in a democratic society,” he said.

While little known to the gen-eral public, he was long respected by an inner circle of critics and musicians. In 2002, The New York Times said his string quar-tets were among “the most dif-ficult music ever conceived,” and

it hailed their “volatile emotions, delicacy and even, in places, plucky humor.”

Carter had remained astonish-ingly active, taking new commis-sions even as he celebrated his 100th birthday in December 2008 with a gala at Carnegie Hall.

Carter won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for his Second String Quartet; his second award was in 1973 for his Third String Quartet. The Juilliard String Quartet chose to mark its 45th anniversary in 1991 with a concert of all four Carter string quartets. A fifth quartet came out in 1995.

When the first National Medal of Arts awards were given in 1985, Carter was one of 10 people honored, along with such leg-ends as Martha Graham, Ralph Ellison and Georgia O’Keeffe. The awards were established by Congress in 1984.

The New Grove Dictionary of American Music said that at its best, Carter’s music “sustains an energy of invention that is unrivaled in contemporary composition.”

Carter said he found Europeans more receptive to his works than his fellow Americans because music in Europe is not purely en-tertainment but part of the culture, “something that people make an effort to understand.”

The lack of widespread atten-tion didn’t seem to bother him.

In 1939, he married sculptor Helen H. Frost Jones. They had one son. He is survived by his son and a grandson.

Composer, Pulitzer winner Carter dies at 103

AP Photo/John Lent, File

In this May 2, 1960 file photo, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Elliott Carter poses at the piano in his New York City apartment after the announcement of the award was made.

Suicide bomber kills 50 Syrian security men

AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis

Thousands of Greeks strike over spending cutsReuters

ATHENS - Tens of thousands of Greek workers began a 48-hour strike on Tuesday to protest a new round of austerity cuts that unions say will devastate the poor and drive a failing economy to collapse.

A cyclist drives in front of the Greek Parliament in central Athens, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. Greece is facing three days of escalating anti-austerity strikes, with state hospital doctors, taxi drivers, transport workers and journalists walking off the job.

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Bali PostDENPASAR - The electronic Bali

Mandara Health Insurance (e-JKBM) initiated by the Bali Government has not run optimally. So far, three regen-

Commander of the IX/Udaya-na Military Command, Wisnu Bawa Tenaya, said the security activities would not tolerate the slightest mistake, so that it was required a coordination among the elements, especially in the field. “We jointly keep the secu-rity. Thousands of personnel are seen in the field and at the place of duty,” said Wisnu when check-ing the readiness of the BDF V security in the Laguna Square, Nusa Dua, Monday (Nov 5).

Unfortunately, he did not men-tion how many military personnel were deployed in securing the BDF V over two days on Novem-ber 8-9, 2012. “Security of Nusa Dua as the venue of the event will be tightened especially at some entrances to the elite tourist resort,” he said.

He explained that some of the entrances to the island such as Gilimanuk Harbor in Jembrana Regency and Padangbai Harbor in Karangasem Regency were not

absent from the security monitor-ing by the apparatus.

In his briefing to thousands of personnel, the Commander of the IX /Udayana Military Command stressed the officers should un-derstand and master the standard security procedures for the very important officials such as the president, vice president, head of government, state guests and delegates of BDF.

In addition, the officers were also appealed to remain dis-ciplined by understanding the chain of command effectively and efficiently, preventing lax and being alert all the times. He also asked the officials in charge to not hesitate to act and always coordinate, follow and observe the situation.

“In order to realize the target, a maximum effort is needed to anticipate any possible threat that can disrupt such rallies and the acts of terror by radical network of terrorists,” he said. (kmb27)

Ahead of BDF, security apparatus tightens surveillanceBali Post

MANGUPURA - Implementation of the Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) V centered in Nusa Dua, Bali, gets strict security from the National Armed Forces. At least, thousands of military personnel are deployed to secure the annual meeting attended by 12 heads of state and heads of government.

AFP PHOTO/SONNY TUMBELAKA

A member of Indonesia’s maritime anti terror special forces takes part in an anti-terrorist drill ahead of the upcoming Bali Democracy Forum in Nusa Dua on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on November 6, 2012. The Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) will be held from November 8 to 9.

E-JKBM less optimalThree regencies have not been served

IBP/File Photo

People queueing to get medical treatment using JKBM. The electronic Bali Mandara Health Insurance (e-JKBM) initiated by the Bali Government has not run optimally. So far, three regen-cies cannot be served by the e-JKBM due to the lack of management information system in the hospital of those regencies.

Associated Press

CHICAGO — Here’s a reality check for health-conscious aging people: Even among those in good shape, at least 1 in 3 will eventually develop heart problems or have a stroke. The upside is that that will happen about seven years later than for their less healthy peers.

The findings come in a U.S. analysis of five major studies in-volving nearly 50,000 adults aged 45 and older who were followed for up to 50 years.

The best odds are in the healthi-est adults — those who don’t smoke, have diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol. Still, among

55-year-olds in that category, about a third can expect to develop heart or other cardiovascular problems as they age.

Dr. Vincent Bufalino, a Chicago-area cardiologist and spokesman for the American Heart Association, said the study is “a wake-up call that this disease is very prevalent in the United States and even if you’re doing a good job, you’re not immune.”

The researchers estimated risks older people face for developing these ailments in their lifetime, or by their 80s or 90s. They also estimated how many years they’ll live free of heart disease and related problems, depending on the most

common risk factors.Pooling follow-up data from

the five analyzed studies, the re-searchers found that the healthiest 45-year-olds lived up to 14 years longer free of heart ailments than those with at least two risk factors. The healthiest 55-year-olds lived up to about seven years longer than their less healthy peers.

The study was published on-line Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association and released in connection with the American Heart Association confer-ence meeting in Los Angeles. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute paid for the research.

The authors estimated higher

lifetime risks than previous studies, but their analysis involved a broader range of ailments, including heart failure and strokes.

While prevalence of heart disease and related deaths have declined across the U.S. in recent years, more than 82 million Americans — roughly one-third — have some form of cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association.

Most people in the analysis had high blood pressure or at least one of the other risk factors.

The results shouldn’t be dis-couraging, said lead author Dr. John Wilkins, an assistant pro-fessor of preventive medicine

and cardiology at Northwestern University’s medical school in Chicago. Maintaining an optimal lifestyle, by eating sensibly and staying active, is still the best way to live a long, healthy life, he said.

Heart disease remains the na-tion’s leading cause of death, and the study reinforces the idea that “cardiovascular disease is part of the aging process,” said Cleveland Clinic heart specialist Dr. David Frid, who was not involved in the research. Bodies wear out, “and ultimately, just exposure to living is going to cause people to develop some of these underlying problems,” Frid said.

The work involved just 30 pa-tients in Miami and Baltimore, but it proves the concept that anyone’s cells can be used to treat such cases. Doctors are excited because this suggests that stem cells could be banked for off-the-shelf use after heart attacks, just as blood is kept on hand now.

Results were discussed Monday at an American Heart Association conference in California and pub-lished in the Journal of the Ameri-can Medical Association.

The study used a specific type of stem cells from bone marrow that researchers believed would not be rejected by recipients. Unlike other cells, these lack a key feature on their surface that makes the im-mune system see them as foreign tissue and attack them, explained the study’s leader, Dr. Joshua Hare of the University of Miami.

The patients in the study had suffered heart attacks years earlier, some as long as 30 years ago. All had developed heart failure because the scar tissue from the heart attack had weakened their hearts so much that they grew large and flabby, un-able to pump blood effectively.

Researchers advertised for peo-ple to supply marrow, which is removed using a needle into a hip bone. The cells were taken from the marrow and amplified for about a month in a lab at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, then returned to Miami to be used for treatment, which did not involve surgery.

The cells were delivered through a tube pushed through a groin artery into the heart near the scarred area.

Fifteen patients were given cells from their own marrow and 15 oth-ers, cells from strangers.

About a year later, scar tissue had been reduced by about one-third. Both groups had improve-ments in how far they could walk and in quality of life. There was no significant difference in one mea-sure of how well their hearts were able to pump blood, but doctors hope these patients will continue to improve over time, or that re-finements in treatment will lead to better results.

The big attraction is being able to use cells supplied by others, with no blood or tissue matching needed.

Dr. Elliott Antman of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who heads the heart conference, praised the work.

The study was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Hare owns stock in a biotech company working on a treatment using a mixture of cells.

Juan Lopez received his own cells in the study, and said it im-proved his symptoms so much that at age 70, he was able to return to his job as an engineer and sales manager for a roofing manufac-turer and ride an exercise bike.

“It has been a life-changing ex-perience,” said Lopez, who lives in Miami. “I can feel day by day, week by week, month by month, my improvement. I don’t have any shortness of breath and my energy level is way up there. I don’t have any fluid in my lungs.”

Stem cells from strangers can repair heartsAssociated Press

LOS ANGELES — Researchers are reporting a key advance in using stem cells to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks. In a study, stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and ef-fective as patients’ own cells for helping restore heart tissue.

AP Photo/University of Miami

In this Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 photo provided by the University of Miami, Dr. Joshua M. Hare, director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, performs a heart biopsy, a preliminary step in one of several cardiac stem cell trials at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Even fit aging people won’t escape heart problems

cies cannot be served by the e-JKBM due to the lack of management infor-mation system in the hospital of those regencies.

“Three regencies consisting of

Bangli, Klungkung and Jembrana that have not been optimally served by the e-JKBM because the management information system in their hospital remains poor,” said the Head of Bali

Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, when met on Monday (Nov 5) in the Bali Parliament Hall.

Further, he said that Bangli Hospi-tal had not established a management information system to support the e-JKBM. Now, it was under tender process. “However, the e-JKBM services can run without the network. In other words, those who present the JKBM card can still be served but the integration has not worked yet. If the integration has worked properly, it will turn optimal or perfect,” he said while adding that the system for Jembrana and Klungkung would be processed immediately.

It was said the e-JKBM program remained under process of making the electronic card that could facilitate people in the bureaucratic process of treatment, both in hospital and public health center. Suarjaya revealed the making of the electronic card was targeted to print 900,000 cards. Un-fortunately, only 650,000 cards had been printed. “The printed card has just amounted to 650,000 from the

target of 900,000. Meanwhile, a total of 250,000 cards are under process in the government agency,” he said.

Furthermore to say, the card was given to each household head and activated. “In general, the card can be used and valid in all the areas of health care services,” he explained. According to Suarjaya, the problem was in the matter of integration only. For instance, in hospital the e-JKBM should be integrated with the hospital management information system. “Currently, the manage-ment information system of two hospitals namely the Sanglah and Wangaya have been integrated, while the others will follow later on,” he said.

He added that a total of 60 public health centers had been integrated with the management information system of the e-JKBM. “We want the e-JKBM can be integrated with the health management information system in the health service provid-ers, so that they can be optimized,” said Suarjaya. (kmb29)

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for October 23 through November 27, 2012

23 Oct Anggar Kasih Tambir Pura Dalem Puri Batuan SukawatiPura Dalem Kediri Silakarang SingapaduPura dalem Desa SukawatiPura Dalem Desa SingakertaPura dalem Lembeng Ketewel - SukawatiPura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan - UbudPura Puseh ngukuhin Keramas - GianyarPura Pemerajan Agung Ki Telabah, Tuakilang - TabananPura Karang Buncing BlahbatuhPura Dalem Bubunan Desa - Seririt BulelengPura Desa Badung Kota DenpasarMerajan Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa - Kayuputih - TurupinghePura Luwur Pedengenan Bedha Bongan - Ta-bananMr. Dukuh SebudiMr. Pasek Ngukuhin KeramasPura Pucak Payongan Banjar Lungsiakan - Desa KedewatanPura Tanah Kilap Gria Anyar DenpasarPura Selukat Desa Keramas Keramas - Blahbatuh - GianyarPura Dalem Tampuagan Desa Peninjoan - Tem-buku - BangliPura Waturenggong Desa TaroPura Dalem Bentuyung UbudPura Puseh Ubud UbudPura Dalem Peliatan Peliatan Ubud.

24 Oct Buda Umanis Tambir Pura Sari Bankar Titih Kapal Badung

29 Oct Purnama Kelima Aci-aci Penaung Bayu Pura Batumadeg di BesakihPura Kentel Gumi BangliPura Pedarman Agung Satria DenpasarPura Pemerajan Agung Pemecutan DenpasarNgusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli

Pura Desa Pemenang LombokPura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Gobleg Kekeran MengwiPura Suranadi LombokPura Puncak Bukit Tampak SiringPura Dalem Puri Agung KintamaniPura Dalem Agung Nongan KarangasemPura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-TabananPura Dalem Balingkang KintamaniPr. TampurhyangPusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak Songan KintamaniPura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Bule-lengMerajan Pasek Gelgel LebihMerajan Pasek Gelgel TulambenPura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa S e l e m a d e g TabananPura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak KajaPura Suci Desa Tianyar Kubu KarangasemPura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Desa Batur KintamaniPura Narmada LombokPura Segara Ampenan LombokPura Ularan Seririt Buleleng

7 Nov Buda Keliwon Matal Pura Desa Ds. SukawatiMerajan Agung Batuyang - batubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin - sawan - bulelengPura Maspahit Sesetan - Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran - TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gaduh SesetanMerajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya GedePura Pedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

17 Nov Hari Tumpek Kandang

Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagenin Kediri - Tabanan

Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung

21 Nov Buda Wage Menail Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiMr. Pasek Dangke bambang - BangliPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja - Gi-anyarPura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - BangliMerajan Agung Blangsinga - BlahbatuhPura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh GianyarPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk, Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan, Kapal Mengwi.

27 Nov Anggar Kasih Perangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - KlungkungPura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - BulelengPura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - KlungkungPura Gunung engsong - LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Dalem Banyuning Timur - BulelengPura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas (Padang Entas) Titih DenpasarPura Tengah Padang TegalalangMerajan Pasek Gelgel Batu Dewa Kangin Banjar Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg di Desa Sande - Pupuan TabananPura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Adat Pagan DenpasarPura Hyangaluh Jenggala BesakihMerajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan GunaksaMr. Pasek Gelgel SelulungMerajan Pasek Subrata MedahanMerajan Pasek Munggu MungguPura Tengkulak Tulikup - GianyarPura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

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Bali Post SINGARAJA - Buleleng Regency will not

interfere with the pending release of a number of lands in the area of Celukan Bawang Steam Power Plant (PLTU) project. Such assertion does not necessarily mean if the local govern-

A member of Commission B of the Badung House, I Nyoman Satria, said on Monday (Nov 5) that one of the main factors becoming the drawback of the government-owned hos-pital services, especially in Badung, was the less optimal utilization of human resources. Lack of personnel and imperfect hospital management often became a classic reason. Satria gave an example that it was a com-monplace for paramedics to direct patients to private hospital for various reasons.

“This matter often annoyed people when looking for treatment in the government-owned hospital. Moreover, the free treatment program is also complicated. As a result, people tend to pay a little more in order to get a better service,” he said.

Not to mention the matter of the physical

condition in the government-owned hospi-tals or public health centers. In the Badung Hospital, for instance, a lot of damages to the building could be found. Other sup-porting facilities such as the basement and representative garden also greatly affected the assessment of the community.

As observation made by Bali Post, the service provided in private hospitals were more organized. For example, in terms of room space, one of the hospitals in the area of Sunset Road Kuta even applied the concept of hotel lobby equipped with piano. As a result, it could create a different atmosphere in the hospital and certainly it was much more comfortable than the lobby of the Badung hospital that was currently poorly organized. (kmb25)

Less maximum service, government-owned hospitals need to improveBali Post

MANGUPUrA - The government must continuously improve the quality of services in the government-owned hospitals including the public health centers. Moreover, the services in the government-owned hospital are often complained. If the quality improvement is never considered by the government-owned hospitals and public health centers, it is feared they will be increasingly abandoned.

IBP/File Photo

The government must continuously improve the quality of services in the government-owned hospitals including the public health centers.

Land acquisition of steam power plantRegency government does not want interfere

IBP/kmb

Buleleng Regency will not interfere with the pending release of a number of lands in the area of Celukan Bawang Steam Power Plant (PLTU) project. Such assertion does not necessarily mean if the local government does not pay attention to the people.

ment does not pay attention to the people. However, the regency government does not want to be called a land broker for the project. Regency government only focuses the attention to the environmental impact assessment (Amdal) of the project.

It was announced by the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, Monday (Nov 5) in response to the demonstration conducted by residents in the area of the steam power plant on Sunday (Nov 4). The Regent Agus Suradnyana said his party did not want to get too much involved in the land acquisition and compensa-tion process of the public facilities in the project.

He said the land acquisition was left entirely to the investor PT GEB and CHEC with the land-owners. “We leave the issue of land acquisition or public facility to residents with the investor to resolve it,” he explained.

Related to the project, the regent said his party would focus on the environmental impact assess-ment of the steam power plant. He said the permit of the environmental assessment impact of the megaproject would be asked back to be studied. Even, document of the environmental assessment impact had been requested to investor. “We focus on reviewing the Amdal document,” he said.

On the other hand, the Regent Agus Surad-nyana said the agency related to the megaproject was instructed to jointly supervise. It would be specifically focused on the environmental contamination issues that started arising. By all means, the supervision was intended to provide protection to residents around the megaproject and

if found any contamination, the regency government would reprimand the inves-tor earlier. “I’ve instructed the relevant regional working unit (SKPD) to jointly supervise the environmental impact and if contamination happens it can be ad-dressed earlier,” he added.

For information, the residents of Celukan Bawang, Gerokgak subdistrict, rallied for many times in the area of Ce-lukan Bawang steam power plant. The demands of residents to investor remained the same, namely to accomplish the land acquisition affected by the project where the land of some 33 families had not been released. It happened because there was no price agreement between the residents and investor.

Residents asked in order their land could be purchased at IDR 140 million per 100 square meters, but the investors could only bargain at IDR 37 million per 100 square meters. In addition, the residents also asked the promise of investor to hand over the certificate of the land released and provide compensation to a number of public facilities. (kmb)

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Following in the footsteps of Lauren Conrad and Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Britney

Spears is poised to fictionalize her life in a novel. Spears’ rep confirmed that she’s “hav-ing discussions” with It Books, an imprint of

Harper Collins. The pop star’s tome would be similar to Conrad’s best-selling L.A. Candy trilogy, which is about a teen who moves to

L.A. and finds herself starring in a reality series, or Snooki’s A Shore Thing, the story

of two gals who spend the summer partying at the Jersey Shore.

Although Spears’ book would mark her first roman a clef, it surprisingly would not

be her first time as an author. Spears wrote a non-fiction book called Heart to Heart about

her rise to fame and her relationship with her mother Lynne Spears in 2000, and a children’s

book called A Mother’s Gift in 2001 about a poor girl from Mississippi who attends a

fancy performing arts school. “The X Factor” judge’s new novel could

be a chance for her to continue the story she started in her 2000 song “Lucky.” The music video shows a Hollywood star named Lucky

who is adored by the masses, yet feels isolated and alone in her personal life. Whether she

goes with the “Lucky” storyline or not, Spears won’t have a shortage of material to use for

her new project.

The singer, songwriter and producer — who also serves as a judge on the U.K. version of “The X Factor” — was honored Monday in London at a dinner held to benefit charities Nordoff Robbins and the BRIT Trust.

Barlow, perhaps best known as a mem-ber of the band Take That, said receiving

the award is “amazing” but added, “I’ve visited the schools that are benefiting from tonight, and they’re incredible places and they need help and they need funding, so that’s the real reason we’re here.”

Past recipients of the award include Sir Elton John and Kylie Minogue.

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Gary Barlow hailed for UK charity, music work

gary Barlow says he’s “flattered” to

receive the 21st Music industry Trusts Award

in recognition of his work with British music

and charities.

ShAron Osbourne says she had a double mastectomy after learning she carries a gene that increases the risk of developing breast cancer.

Osbourne told Hello! magazine that “I didn’t want to live the rest of my life with that shadow hanging over me.”

The 60-year-old “America’s Got Talent” judge, who had colon cancer a decade ago, said that without the surgery, “the odds are not in my favor.”

She added: “It’s not ‘pity me,’ it’s a decision I made that’s got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.”

The magazine went on sale Monday.Osbourne, husband Ozzy and children

Jack and Kelly became rock’s most fa-mous clan thanks to reality show “The Osbournes” a decade ago.

Jack Osbourne, 26, was recently diag-nosed with multiple sclerosis.

Sharon Osbourne has double mastectomy

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“The growth in the agricultural sector is only 0.04 percent due to decline in the harvested area of some commodities. Among others, the harvest of corn, green beans, sweet potatoes and rice reaches 30.99 percent,” said the Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Gde Suarsa, Mon-day (Nov 5).

He said the decline in harvest-

ed area of several commodities was affected by prolonged dry season. Meanwhile, the growth in the construction sector during the period was still caused by the development of infrastructure in the effort to shore up the imple-mentation of APEC Conference next year.

“The infrastructures under progress are in the form of

airport renovation as well as construction of the Dewa Ruci underpass and toll road on the waters planned to be completed in May 2013,” he said. He added that in general the Bali’s econ-omy grew well, but it showed a slowdown in the third quarter of 2012 compared to the previous quarter of the same year. In the previous quarter, the q to q GDP

growth was recorded to reach 2.81 percent, while in the third quarter of this year the Bali’s economic growth slowed to 2.49 percent.

“This slowdown happens due to slower growth in almost all the components, except for the Gross Domestic Fixed Capital Forma-tion (PMTDB),” he said.

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Agriculture shows lowest contribution to Bali’s economic growth

Contribution of the agriculture to the eco-nomic growth of Bali in the third quarter of 2012 occupied the lowest position. The Bali’s economic growth reaches 6.79 percent in this quarter predominantly driven by con-struction sector at 5.30 percent.

Bali PostDEnPASAr - Contribution of

the agriculture to the economic growth of Bali in the third quar-

ter of 2012 occupied the lowest position. The Bali’s economic

growth reaches 6.79 percent in this quarter predominantly

driven by construction sector at 5.30 percent.

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