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Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy tie the knot Associated Press

NEW YORK — Donnie Wahlberg’s “Favorite Girl” Jenny McCarthy is now his wife. The couple tied the knot Sunday in a ceremony outside Chicago, McCarthy’s publicist, Brad Cafarelli, confirmed.

It’s the second marriage for both 45-year-old Wahlberg and 41-year-old McCarthy. Wahlberg still performs with

his boy band New Kids on the Block and also stars in the CBS police drama “Blue Bloods.” He also appears in an A&E

reality show about a family restaurant called Wahlburgers that’s run by his brother Paul.

He has two sons from his first marriage.

McCarthy recently left “The View” and now hosts a radio show on SiriusXM. She has a son from her first marriage.

The couple began dating last year.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Protesters clash with Pakistan police, storm TV

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Madrid stunned 4-2 at Sociedad, Barcelona wins

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Bad US thunderstorms delay flights, end concerts

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Jennifer Aniston on being a ‘badass’ after ‘Friends’ After playing sitcom sweetheart Rachel Green in longrunning television comedy “Friends” for 10 years, Jennifer Aniston has spent the last decade looking for roles where she can “kick some ass.” In “Life of Crime,” out in U.S. theaters on Friday, Aniston taps into a 1970s Detroit trophy wife and socialite, Mickey Dawson, who finds herself held for ransom while her cheating husband debates whether to pay for her release.

Aniston, 45, talked to Reuters about the excitement of being in a caper comedy, playing strong female characters and the “Friends” phenomenon 10 years after it concluded its run.

Q: What resonated with you about the character of Mickey?

A: It was such fun, as any Elmore Leonardadapted screenplay you would imagine would be, and her character’s arc was so awesome.

Q: How did you connect with her initial passiveness at her crumbling marriage?

A: I was a kid in the seventies, and women were stuck in unhappy situations that they didn’t know how to get out of, not like today where if something smells even a little bit bad, it’s like ‘I’m high-tailing it out of here.’ So I really loved how her character was written and she was actually a badass.

Q: How did you interpret Mickey’s eventual connection to Louis (played by John Hawkes), who kidnapped her?

A: Oh my lord, he was saving her, he was her savior in an odd, twisted way. And I think she could feel that, even under the mask, she could feel that, and it’s sort of this odd couple relationship that forms, and I think it’s quite lovely.

Q: What type of women have you found yourself drawn to after playing Rachel on “Friends” for 10 years?

A: Women usually who have a really positive arc and become stronger at the end of it, coming out from underneath cir-

cumstances that just seem unsurvivable, and the fact that you actually get through it and survive and get stronger and kick some ass. I like that. I can’t say (“Horrible Bosses” character) Doctor Julia’s that, she doesn’t deserve it.

Q: The 20th anniversary of “Friends”’ premiere is coming up.

A: Didn’t that already happen?

Q: September 2014 is 20 years after ...

A: The first time it aired? I thought it was last year. Oh good, I’m a year younger! I just saved a year, so great.

Q: How to you still reflect on the show and its fans?

A: I love how it sort of keeps on, it’s like the little Energizer bunny, it just keeps on ticking, it’s amazing. It transcends, I don’t know what it is about it, but it makes me very happy.

I love it even when it comes on.

Q: Do you miss Rachel?

A: I get her everyday in my house. I don’t have to miss her, she’s everywhere! (laughs)

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As per September 1

Foreign workers in Gianyar to pay USD 100 monthly fee IBP/Net

Foreign tourists riding elephants in Gianyar, Bali Island. Not only come as tourists, foreigners also work in Gianyar. Foreign workers who work in the area of Gianyar County are required to pay a monthly fee at USD 100 effective Monday (Sep 1).

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GIANYAR - Foreign workers who work in the area of Gianyar County are required to pay a monthly fee at USD 100 effective Monday (Sep 1). This policy relates to the enactment of the Law No. 8/2014 dated July 14, 2014 regarding the levies of the extension of Foreign Worker Employment Permit (IMTA).

As a major tourist destination in Bali, Gianyar has accommodation facilities becoming the center of tourism and handicraft production worth exporting that stimulates the Gianyar employers to hire foreign workers in order to win competition. This potential provides a great opportunity to increase the region-

ally generated revenue (PAD).

All this time, the extension of Foreign Worker Employment Permit was paid to central government.

However, through the regulation, Gianyar County had a chance to take it over. Moreover, the Government Regulation No.97/2012 has mandated the local government to

create a legal instrument for the levy collection of the extension of Foreign Worker Employment Permit.

Until the end of August 2014, a total of 67 foreign workers had been registered in the area of Gianyar County. They represent the data of central government whose levy collection of the Foreign Worker Employment Permit has now been bestowed. Of the 67 workers, 23 people have extended the permit of previous year.

Additional Foreign Worker Employment Permit from the Minister of Manpower in 2013 came to 21

workers and up to June 2014 it increased to 23 workers. “This potential will continue to grow after the issuance of new permit until the end of December 2014 and the results of the ongoing data collection,” said the Head of Gianyar Manpower and Settlement Agency, Gede Widarma Suharta.

Extension tariff of the Foreign Worker Employment Permit as much as USD 100 per person per month was remitted to the Regional Treasury via the Treasury Receipt at the Gianyar Manpower and Settlement Agency or through a bank specified for the extension

of permit expired on August 31, 2014 and so on. “This registration is made by the foreign worker users in Gianyar,” he said.

Amidst the existence of numerous tourism companies, there was possibility if some foreign workers have not been registered yet.

Against this condition, Widarma said that his party would conduct an inspection next month to several companies so as to know in person the foreigners working in the company existing in Gianyar County, but had not been registered or had the Foreign Worker Employment Permit, he explained. (kmb16)

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Hog-plum herbal drink, typical drink of Bangli County

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BANGLI - Traveling to Bangli County seems incomplete without enjoying loloh cemcem or hog-plum (Spondias pinnata) herbal drink. This typical traditional drink of Bangli is widely encountered at Penglipuran village, indeed denoting the center for the making of hog-plum herbal drink. Nowadays, this drink has been widely marketed to other regions and often becomes favorite drink in some culinary booths in the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). It is prepared with a very simple process. Even, the ingredients are widely available as they are used to make natural fence by residents of Penglipuran.

In Balinese language, it is known as loloh. If herbal drink has been imagined to have a bitter and unpleasant taste, the hog-plum herbal drink has a very refreshing taste in throat. So far, it is commonly served as a complementary drink while eating Balinese food.

One of the hog-plum herbal drink makers, Mom Nyampuh, said the making process of this herbal drink was very simple. Main ingredient of the herbal drink was hog-plum leaf growing in the home yard of local residents. Having been finely washed, the leaf had to be crushed or pulverized. Then, it was added with warm water as needed.

Since the leaf tended to have sour taste, it should be added with palm sugar to give sweet taste during the preparation. Besides, it needed to be added with grated young coconut to give fresh sensation. Additional ingredients added to the preparation of this herbal drink caused it to have a variety of flavors. In the past, this herbal drink was often mixed with fried peanuts.

According to Mom Nyampuh, although the herbal drink was totally made from natural ingredients, it could last long enough, moreover if it was chilled in refrigerator. “If this herbal drink is kept in refrigerator, it can hold for three days. Oth-

erwise, it can just hold for whole day,” she said.

Since it was in high demand, the herbal drink used to quench thirst was admitted to have a promising business prospect. Not a few people of Penglipuran had deeply involved in the making of this herbal drink and sold it to the market. “I have been selling this kind of herbal drink for 18 years,” she added.

Due to be in high demand, she could produce the hog-plum herbal drink as much as 1,000 bottles of mineral water each day. Selling price of this traditional drink was affordable. Her herbal drink of small-sized bottle was sold for IDR

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2,500 each, while the medium-sized one was sold for IDR 3,500 each.

Aside from being marketed in the region of Bangli, her product was also marketed to a number of other areas such as Denpasar, Gianyar, Karangasem and others. Even, her product had also been sold to other

regions such as Jakarta.

According to Mom Nyampuh, in addition to be used as a thirst quencher, the hog-plum herbal drink was also believed to have good benefits for health. One of them was to relieve heartburn. (ina)

Condition of quarry at risk of being unable to be restored

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AMLAPURA - Up to these days, the reclamation funds for quarry area in Karangasem have not been used.

The funds intended to restore the condition after the mining activities stay to settle because no entrepreneurs have been willing to carry out the reclamation since 2000. As a result, the environmental damage caused by

the quarry is at risk of being unable to be restored.

In accordance with Regulation of Karangasem Regent No. 14/2008 on the quarry reclamation warranty deposit, every entrepreneur carrying out a quarry activity is imposed with reclamation warranty fund worth about IDR 50 million. This limited amount of fees is charged for every one hectare of quarry area.

Unfortunately from 2000 to 2014, no entrepreneur wanted to use the funds to restore the quarry area.

When asked for his confirmation about the reclamation fund, the Head of Economic Affairs of the Karangasem government, I Wayan Mindra, revealed the reclamation funds deposited to the government had not been used so far for the reclamation of the quarry area.

According to him, many businessmen claimed the fund worth IDR 50 million was not enough to do reclamation for the area of one hectare.

“Reclamation fund worth IDR 50 million was just enacted in 2010.

Previously, the reclamation fund was approximately IDR 2.5 million.

The government admitted to face difficulty to make reclamation with such amount of fund,” he said.

Besides, the obligation to perform reclamation lay in the entrepreneurs that had owned a mining permit. In terms of the reclamation fund collected amounting to IDR 1.5 billion, the government was not able to perform the reclamation by using the existing fund. The condition was exacerbated by many quarry companies that were operating illegally without depositing reclamation warranty fund. (dwa)

Arrested for two weeks, murderers of traveler still keep silent

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DENPASAR - The suspects Tommy and Heather remain to keep silent and do not want to be examined. Actually they have been arrested behind bars for more than two weeks. Both suspects were charged under Article 338 of the Criminal Code regarding the murder case against Sheila Ann Von Weise.

Chief of Denpasar Police Criminal Investigation, Nengah Sadiarta, said on Sunday (Aug 31) that since they were arrested and detained on Wednesday (Aug 13), the lovers were still speechless and did not want to give any information when questioned. However, he said it did not have an impact on the process of investigation. “The investigation process keeps going, even if

the suspects do not want to talk,” he added.

The investigators had set them as suspects. They were subject to Article 338 of the Criminal Code with the threat of 15-year imprisonment and maximally lifetime imprisonment.

To prevent conspiracy, the arrest of the two suspects was separated. The suspect Heather was arrested at the Denpasar Police, while Tommy at

the Bali Police. “Being pregnant, the suspect Heather sometimes gets nausea and we immediately take her to Trijata Hospital. It is the only her complaint. We always monitor her health,” said Sadiarta.

For information, the body of Sheila Ann Von Weise, 64, from the United States was found in a suitcase in a parking taxi at St. Regis Hotel on Jalan Pantai Sawangan, Nusa

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Dua, Kuta, Tuesday (Aug 12). Police could reveal the case by arresting Tommy and Heather at one of the hotels in Kuta.

Motive of the murder case was alleged to have been caused by an offense. The victim, Heather’s foster mother, rejected to pay the bill of room occupied by Tommy. However, both suspects denied having an involvement in the case. (kmb36)

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Miracle launched CSR Program

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DENPASAR - Miracle Aesthetic Clinic launched its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program named ‘Believe in MIRACLE: The Miracle Touch for a Happy Healthy Home’ last week. The event held in Sector Bar, Inna Grand Bali Beach was also to celebrate the 18th Anniversary of Miracle. Present on the event was the Operational Director of Miracle Aestethetic Clinic Jap Budi Wijaya, management Miracle, Clareta Gozali as Branch Manager Habitat for Humanity Indonesia and media partner.

In the event, Budi Wijaya stated that Miracle cooperated with Habitat for Humanity Indonesia Foundation to build 10 houses for the needed families. It will start in September through December 2014 throughout Indonesia. In Bali, the program will be held in Gobleg Village, Buleleng. “We are partnering with the foundation that has a noble purpose. We are very happy,” he added In the event, there was also a signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Habitat for Humanity Indonesia. “In this partnership, we will responsible for survey, analysis, and the consyruction process,” said Clareta Gozali. (ocha)

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud 14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri

19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri

23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 considered 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 “umbulumbul”, 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.

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TABANAN - Thousands of kites from the regions across Bali vivaciously competed for the best in the arena of Ganesha Kite Festival held by the community of Bengkel Kawan customary village, Bengkel village, Kediri subdistrict, Sunday (Aug 31).

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, California — For years scientists have theorized about how large rocks — some weighing hundreds of pounds — zigzag across Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, leaving long trails etched in the earth.

The competition was held in the area of paddy field at Batu Tampih, Pangkung Tibah village, Kediri subdistrict. Chief of Bengkel Kawan customary village, and chairman of the Ganesha Kite Festival organizing committee, I Ketut Sutama, said the kite festival was held for fund raising in relation to temple renovation. “Other than for fund raising, the competition was also served as a means to channel the hobby of kite lovers,” he explained.

He added the Ganesha Kite Festival this year was the third implementation. The previous festivals were held in 2006 and 2009, “In the future, we do hope the Ganesha Kite Festival can be held every year,” he said.

Moreover, according to him, the response of local government was very positive to the implementation

Richard Norris, 55, a paleobiologist at Scripps, and James, 59, a research engineer, launched their “Slithering Stones Research Initiative” in 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported (http://lat.ms/VNVWou).

After getting permits from the National Park Service, they installed a weather station in the area and placed 15 stones equipped with global positioning devices on the playa.

The “GPS stones,” which were engineered to record movement and velocity, were stationed at the southern end of the playa where rocks begin their strange journeys after tumbling down a cliff.

At the end of last year, Richard and James Norris returned to inspect the instruments.

“We found the playa covered with ice,” Richard recalled to the Times. “We also noticed fresh rock trails near shards of thin ice stacked up along the shoreline.”

The following afternoon, “we were sitting on a mountainside and admiring the view when a light wind kicked up and the ice started cracking,” he said. “Suddenly, the whole process unfolded before our eyes.”

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This undated photo provided by the National Park Service shows rocks that have moved across a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California’s Mojave Desert.

of the Ganesha Kite Festival. Besides, he also expressed his gratitude for the assistance provided by the government of Tabanan.

Three categories were competed in the kite festival, namely the general, local Tabanan and children.

“Meanwhile, the three types of kites involved are consisting of the bebean (fish style), janggan (bird style) and pecukan (leaf style),” he said.

The kite contest, added Sutama, was also a refreshing means for kite lovers and the community as well as the economic driver for small traders selling around the location of the contest. “Indirectly, this activity is able to provide benefits for small traders. Various foods like satay, meatballs and drinks definitely sold out in this event,” he concluded. (kmb28)

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The payphone in Denpasar is neglected for many years due to the development of technology and increasing number of handphone. Few years ago, it was an important means of communication for many people.

Residents surprised by turtle of dozens of years old in the river Bali Post

DNA shows Arctic group’s isolation lasted 4,000 years WASHINGTON - A long-gone group of ancient people known as Paleo-Eskimos lived in isolation in the North American Arctic for more than 4,000 years, said a study on Thursday.

They trekked from Siberia across the Bering Strait to their new home, and made no contact with other cultures who’d made the same journey at different times in history, including Native Americans and the Inuit people.

These Paleo-Eskimos eventually disappeared about 700 years ago, around the time when the ancestors of the modern-day Inuit moved eastward from Alaska, researchers said in the US journal Science.

“They were, in a sense, sitting ducks and either they were pushed out into the fringes

of the Arctic area where they couldn’t survive economically or else they may simply have been annihilated in some strange way,” said William Fitzhugh, director of the Arctic study center at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Researchers obtained DNA from ancient human bone, teeth and hair samples from Arctic Siberia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland for the study.

They also sequenced the genomes of two present-day Greenlandic Inuit, two Siberian Nivkhs, one Aleutian Islander and two Athabascan Native Americans.

A study of their genetics shows the PaleoEskimos were not related to Native Americans or the Inuit.

Known as the Saqqaq and Dorset people,

these Paleo-Eskimos lived in small villages with just a handful of houses and 20-30 people in each.

Their population size is hard to know for certain, but researchers said it probably numbered a few thousand.

Given the uniformity researchers found in mitochondrial DNA, which comes from the mother, there appeared to be few women among them, and inbreeding may have been common.

“The occupational history of the Arctic is unique compared to other regions of the world,” said Maanasa Raghavan a molecular biologist and researcher at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

“Cultural changes were brought about by movement of ideas and not new people coming

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Thousands of kites grace the sky of Tabanan

Mystery of Death Valley’s moving rocks solved Now two researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have photographed these “sailing rocks” being blown by light winds across the former lake bed.

Cousins Richard Norris and James Norris said the movement is made possible when ice sheets that form after rare overnight rains melt in the rising sun, making the hard ground muddy and slick.

On Dec. 20, 2013, the cousins catalogued 60 rocks moving across the playa’s pancake-flat surface.

“Observed rock movement occurred on sunny, clear days, following nights of sub-freezing temperatures,” they wrote in a report published Wednesday in the online scientific journal PLOS ONE. The conclusion proves theories that have been floated since geologists began studying the moving rocks in the 1940s.

The phenomenon doesn’t happen often because it rarely rains in the notoriously hot and dry desert valley.

The rocks move about 15 feet (5 meters) per minute, according to the report.

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into the region.”

Experts say the Dorset people were known for their art and their skill in making chipped stone points and small blades. However, they are not believed to have possessed bows and arrows.

They hunted and fished, and held ritual gatherings in traditional longhouses.

Still, Fitzhugh said archeologists “have a lot of trouble understanding their mindset.”

History also has no known comparison for groups that stayed on their own for as long as they did.

“I think it’s a very remarkable incidence of cultural stability and continuity. And I don’t think you can find any modern example in the last 4,000 or 5,000 years quite like this,” he said.

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The Coast Guard ship Des Groseilliers is seen near the arctic community of Pond Inlet, Nunavut August 23, 2014. A long-gone group of ancient people known as Paleo-Eskimos lived in isolation in the North American Arctic for more than 4,000 years, said a study on Thursday.

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Green turtle found by residents belonged to a rare turtle species that normally lived in sea water.

GIANYAR - If residents of Mas village, Ubud, were once surprised by the finding of crocodile in the river, last Sunday (Aug 31) around 07:00 a.m., residents of Wanayu Mas hamlet, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh, was surprised by the finding of green turtle in the river of Subak Wanayu Mas whereas it is ordinarily living at sea. Approximately the turtle found was 50 years old.

It was visible from the large size of green turtle found. It drew the attention of hundreds of residents.

Its carapace had the length of 65 cm and width of 64 cm. When found, the turtle condition was quite alarming. People said if the turtle carapace looked mossy, while the existing scales on the carapace seemed unclear.

It was first discovered by Wanayu Mas resident, Made Suweta. At that time, he was having a promenade and suddenly saw an object moving in the river. When approached, in fact it was a turtle.

He was afraid of seeing something unusual found in the river. The finding of turtle was then notified to surrounding residents. As consequence, hundreds of local residents

were made surprised by the findings of such green turtle.

When attracting the attention of local residents, the turtle entered the tunnel of the road. After that, local residents contacted Gusti Putu Ali Sudira, a Wanayu resident who worked in Gianyar Livestock Agency. The turtle was then captured and taken to his home and reported to the office of Bali Natural Resources Agency.

The Head of Conservation Section for Region II of the Bali Natural Resources Agency, I Ketut Catur Marbawa, said the green turtle had been rescued and commended in the Bali Safari for observation. When rescued, the turtle was in good health condition, but it only got a minor injury on foot when it was evacuated by residents.

According to him, the green turtle found by residents belonged to a rare turtle species that normally lived in sea water. Associated with the presence of the freshwater turtle, in this case he had not got any clear information from residents. “Judging from the age of turtle reaching 50 years, it is not possible for it to live in freshwater for a long time,” he said while adding that he would find out further information about it. (kmb16)

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good,” Gurjit added. He explained that there are approximately 60,000 tourists from India come to Bali.

Most of them said that Bali is a great tourist destination which offers peace and tranquility.

“I think that India’s tourist contribute in the development of local economics. The tourists who come to Bali need vegetarian food because most of them don’t consume meat but the vegetarian restaurants are quite limited,” he explained.

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JIMBARAN - The accident leading to death occurred at the intersection of Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Jimbaran-Jalan Kampus Unud, South Kuta, Saturday (Aug 30). As the pick-up truck carrying dozens of workers rolled over, 5 passengers were killed and 11 others were injured. Meanwhile, the driver of the truck with initial Bb from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) escaped.

Unit Chief of the Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs, Nyoman Nuryana, said on Sunday (Aug 31) that the pick-up truck getting involved in the accident at 10:00 p.m. was Daihatsu Grand Max with license plate DK 9637 FL. Meanwhile, passengers of the unlucky vehicle were construction workers at a hotel project in Jimbaran. Originally, the vehicle drove from the north (Kuta) to the project location. “Allegedly, the vehicle drove at high speed,” he added.

Upon arrival at the scene, said the Traffic Unit Chief, allegedly the pickup truck was about to overtake a taxi. However, no one saw the license plate of the taxi. When swerved to the left, the driver could not control the speed because the vehicle was probably loaded. “When swerving the steer to the left, it even crashed a shade tree,” said Nuryana.

This former Chief of Buleleng Police Traffic Affairs confirmed that the speed of vehicle was getting out of control and eventually overturned. As a result, all the pas-

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PHILADELPHIA — Severe thunderstorms across the northeastern U.S. delayed flights, halted outdoor sports events and concerts in New York and Philadelphia and sent people scurrying from a beach after three men were struck by lightning. The men were injured at Orchard Beach in New York’s Bronx neighborhood Sunday evening as bad storms rolled through, the Fire Department of New York said. The men were being treated at a hospital and the extent of their injuries was unknown.

Indian Ambassador for Indonesia Gurjit Singh, second from right, visited Bali for the 6th Global Forum by Alliance of Civilization in Nusa Dua.

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sengers were immediately thrown onto the road. “Upon receiving the report of the case, we immediately came down to the scene. We tried to rescue the victims by bringing them to hospital,” he said.

The victims who died in the accident consisted of Wiyoto, 31, M. Imron, 29, Junaedi, 27, M. Rofik, 25, and Agus Salim, 28. Meanwhile, the injured victims included Soleh, 43, Iwan Krisnawanto, 31, Bagus Sukardiono, 26, Yosi Hermawanto, 31, Ade Adriansah, 31, Kusnali, 32, Edi Santoso, 29, Muh. Amin Gozali, 31, Alvin Dwi Saputra, 34, Ketut Merta, 43, and Dwi Oky Setiaji, 30.

“All the victims have been taken to Sanglah Hospital. Some victims died because they got severe head injury,” said Nuryana.

Meanwhile, the terrible vehicle had been secured in the station house at Campus Intersection, Jimbaran. From testimonies of Mrs. Tegar, a resident around the scene, she heard the shriek of car brakes followed by a crunch. In addition, she also heard the cries and shouts for help.

Mrs. Tegar went out of the house and rushed to the scene. At that time, she saw a woman crying out for help while pointing out to the men lying down in the middle of the road. Besides, she saw a motorcycle lying down in wrecked condition. “Approximately 400 meters to the south, there was a car upside down. Similarly, I saw many people lying down on the road and on the sidewalk,” she added. (kmb36)

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Indian Ambassador visit Bali Indian Ambassador for Indonesia Gurjit Singh visited the Consulate General of India in Renon, Denpasar on Monday, September 1.

He was accompanied by the Consul General, Amarjeet Sings Takhi. The Ambassador came to Bali to join the 6th Global Forum by Alliance of Civilization in Nusa Dua. During his visit, Gurjit also came to Ganesha University in Singaraja Regency. He said that he was very happy to come to Bali and will increase the cooperation in tourism, economy, culture and education with the island.

He explained that there are many students from Bali who get the scholarship to India. “The cooperation between two countries is very

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Torrential rain, thunder and lightning interrupted the Labor Day holiday weekend celebrations in Philadelphia, where a music concert was evacuated for safety reasons.

Besides temporarily stopping the Made in America concert, the bad weather also forced the early end to the Electric Zoo musical festival on an island in New York’s East River and halted play for the first time at this year’s U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens.

Former champion Maria Sharapova took notice of the weather warnings as she answered ques-

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Minister of Education lack respond illegal international schools in Bali

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Bali Post DENPASAR - Decisive sanctions against international schools operating in Bali without permit from the Ministry of Education and Culture stays unclear so far. Letter of Bali governor to the Minister of Education and Culture regarding those illegal international schools in Bali has not got any response. So far, those illegal schools are still operating as usual.

Against the condition, a member of Commission X of the House of Representatives from Bali, Wayan Koster, asked the government to address the issue and immediately cracked down on the illegal international schools in Bali, for example, by directly closing the schools if they were not cooperative and did not want to submit their permit. “If the schools with international label in Bali have no permit, we will check them. If they really do not have any permit, just close them. Do not use any international label if they are in fact having no permit and do not comply with the regulations,” said Koster, Friday (Aug 29).

Wayan Koster in charge of education added that based on the results of monitoring all this time, many issues arose in international schools operating in Indonesia, including Bali. School tuition was very high so that it could disrupt the education system in Indonesia. Besides, there was also discrimination against local teachers. “Related to international schools and the incident of sexual abuse against

one of the students at the Jakarta International School (JIS), we ask the Ministry of Education and Culture to issue permit for international schools more strictly. The schools must comply with the rules prevailing in Indonesia, such as implementing the existing curriculum,” said this PDI-P politician from Buleleng.

He did not deny if all this time many problems and violations were committed by international schools, while the supervision and enforcement by the government was very weak. Many schools were escaped from supervision by inspectorate or directorate of the Ministry of Education and Culture. “So, we have conceded as there are many international schools having no permit and they do not implement our curriculum. These are violations and should be imposed with sanction,” said Koster who was re-elected as a member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia by a majority vote of Bali.

Separately, the Head of Bali

Education Agency, Tjok Istri Agung (TIA) Kusuma Wardani, said that so far there had been no responses from the Ministry of Education and Culture to the letter of Bali governor regarding the international schools in Bali.

“We’ve had asked directly to the Director General of Secondary Education because the letter has been sent quite long. In fact, there is no response from the Ministry of Education and Culture related to the follow up of letter sent by the governor,” she said while hoping the Ministry of Education and Culture could immediately address the issues because the provincial and county government was not authorized to take action.

He added that his party had invited the Education Agency of county/municipality to clarify and synchronize the data of international schools existing in the region. “We have asked the county and municipal agency to recheck them. In the near future, we will invite the international schools regarding the matter of permit,” said Kusuma Wardani. (wid)

tions about her loss to 10th-seeded Caroline Wozniacki just before the storm hit. “Is that the flood warning? Darn it. If I was only there a little longer,” she said to laughter.

The National Weather Service said wind damage and flash flooding hit East Orange, New Jersey, and large tree branches were down on Long Island.

More than 30 flights in and out of the New York metro area were delayed and at least one was cancelled because of the severe weather, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware. Storms also

Tennis fans exit the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center as a heavy rain falls suspending play of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014, in New York.

Paris suburb building blast death toll reaches 7

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PARIS — The death toll in the partial collapse of a four-story apartment building has risen to seven in a northeastern Paris suburb after emergency crews pulled the body of an elderly woman from the rubble.

Fire department spokesman Gabriel Plus

disrupted air travel in Philadelphia and the Baltimore-Washington region.

Flights leaving Newark Liberty in New Jersey and Washington Dulles in Virginia were held up nearly three hours, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Flights in and out of New York’s Kennedy Airport and Philadelphia International Airport were delayed up to two hours.

In the Midwest, storms began sweeping across Iowa and Nebraska late Sunday with heavy rains causing some flooding and wind gusts affecting power lines and snapping tree limbs. The National Weather Service said Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, and Dakota City, Nebraska, saw winds up to 90 mph (145 kph) that caused significant damage.

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2014 photo, a worker sprays insecticide to get rid of mosquitos to prevent dengue fever at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo.

said the body was found Monday morning in Rosny-sous-Bois.

Officials said there was no longer danger in the neighborhood after the explosion sheared part of the building Sunday, scattering scraps of metal and household belongings. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said a gas leak is believed to be the cause.

New Zealand gunman kills 2; 19 new dengue cases in Japan, suspect in custody

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A man suspected of killing two unemployment-office workers and critically injuring a third was taken into custody Monday following a manhunt that lasted seven hours and kept a town on edge.

Police spokeswoman Lisa-Marie Brooks said a police dog unit apprehended 48-year-old John Tully near a lake shortly after 5 p.m. following an extensive manhunt in the South Island town of Ashburton.

She said Tully would be treated for minor dogbite injuries. She said police were still searching for a weapon used in the shootings and a charging decision would likely be made Tuesday. Earlier, police had urged residents to remain inside their

homes as they searched an area near the town’s river and stormed a house that turned out to be empty.

Tully had been interviewed in recent weeks by the local newspaper about his struggles finding somewhere to live and had also written to lawmakers. The incident began about 10 a.m. when police said a man entered a Work and Income New Zealand office and started shooting. A witness said the man was wearing a black balaclava and shot at two women, according to the Ashburton Guardian newspaper. Other witnesses told the paper the man was carrying a shotgun that may have been sawed down and fled on a bicycle.

Ministry of Social Development Chief Executive Brendan Boyle said all three victims worked for the agency.

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TOKYO — Japan is urging local authorities to be on the lookout for further outbreaks of dengue fever, after confirming another 19 cases that were contracted at a popular local park in downtown Tokyo.

The cases announced Monday raise to 22 the number of dengue infections thought to have been contracted locally.

The health ministry earlier reported three local cases, the first in nearly 70 years.

Tokyo began spraying Yoyogi park, a vast green area next to Meiji Shrine

that is popular with young Japanese and performance artists, after discovering the outbreak.

Japan sees dozens of imported cases of dengue fever each year, mostly in tourists who catch the illness while traveling in tropical regions. The disease, which is transmitted only by mosquito, was common in Japan during World War II but was locally eradicated for decades.

Dengue causes symptoms including fever, severe joint pain and headaches.

There is no treatment, and some of those infected can suffer from severe and lifethreatening bleeding.

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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will tell his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at a summit on Monday that Japan aims to double its direct investment in India in five years from some $2 billion last year, the Nikkei business daily reported. nuclear energy pact, the Nikkei said, although hopes of striking a similar accord to one reached with the United States in 2008 had faded in the run-up to the visit.

Japan wants explicit guarantees from India, which has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, to limit atomic tests and allow closer in-

spection of its facilities to ensure that spent fuel is not used to make bombs.

Japanese firms also want clarity on nuclear disaster compensation, especially in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima catastrophe.

In a sign of their close ties, the two leaders greeted each other with a bear hug when they met on Saturday in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto for an informal dinner.

Modi is one of three people that Abe follows on Twitter, while the Indian leader admires Abe’s brand of nationalist politics.

Also under discussion will be

a proposal to formalise a ‘twoplus-two’ format for talks bringing together the foreign and defence ministers of both countries, and the possible sale of an amphibious aircraft to the India navy.

India and Japan will also likely agree to hold regular joint training exercises in maritime defense, some of which will involve the United States as well, the Nikkei said.

India, Asia’s third-largest economy after China and Japan, needs faster economic growth to create work for the one million young people who enter the workforce

Dominantly worked on by investors Bali Post

GIANYAR - Millions of foreign and domestic travelers always spend holidays Gianyar each year. However, of the 20 tourist destinations listed in the Gianyar Government Tourism Office, only seven destinations are managed by local government. Meanwhile, the remaining ones are worked on by private sectors or investors.

every month.

In early steps, Modi has allowed foreign investors to own 100 percent of railway projects with an eye to drumming up interest in building India’s answer to Japan’s high-speed ‘bullet’ trains. He is also courting Japanese investment in an ambitious industrial “corridor” to run between Delhi and Mumbai.

Japan’s Honda Motor Co Ltd, Suzuki Co Ltd, Sony Corp and Toyota Motor Corp are household names in India. Yet, India accounts for only 1.2 percent of Japan’s total outward foreign direct investment.

Alibaba IPO comes with unusual structure Associated Press BEIJING — Foreigners who want to buy Alibaba Group shares in the Chinese e-commerce giant’s U.S. public offering will need to get comfortable with an unusual business structure.

Alibaba’s online and mobile commerce businesses will be controlled by a “variable interest entity,” an arrangement meant to allow investors to buy into Internet and other businesses in which Beijing bans or limits foreign ownership.

Used since the 1990s by Internet operators such as Baidu Inc. and Sina Corp., VIEs are based on contracts that say an offshore entity in the Cayman Islands or another corporate haven will control a Chinese company. Foreign shareholders get a stake in that offshore vehicle and profits but no ownership of the Chinese company.

“The VIE structure is the only way at present to play this game,” said Paul Gillis, a professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. “So if you want to invest in restricted sectors of China’s economy, you have to get comfortable with the VIE structure.”

Chinese regulators have left the status of VIEs ambiguous. Most operate uneventfully, but courts have rejected contracts if they were deemed to be an attempt to evade ownership curbs.

Regulators could shut down VIEs, but “that would be too disruptive,” said Gillis. “They don’t mind the ambiguity because it puts them in a position of strength over the companies to make sure that they comply with government policy.”

Such uncertainty is one of a number of risks investors have accepted to gain a stake in China’s economy. Even after a steep deceleration in growth, it is forecast to expand by about 7 percent annually in coming years.

And Alibaba, based in founder Jack Ma’s hometown of Hangzhou, southwest of Shanghai, represents an especially appealing industry.

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Japan aims to double India investment in 5 years Modi, on his first major foreign visit since a landslide election win in May, arrived on Saturday for a five-day trip aimed at capitalising on a personal affinity with Abe to bolster security and business ties in the face of an assertive China.

The two leaders are also likely to agree to speed up talks on a

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Its Taobao, TMall and other platforms account for some 80 percent of Chinese online commerce.

Online spending by Chinese shoppers is forecast to triple from its 2011 size by 2015. And Alibaba is expanding into online banking, entertainment and other services.

Analysts believe demand for shares will be so strong that Alibaba could surpass the $16 billion raised by Facebook Inc. in 2012. That would value Alibaba at $150 billion to $200 billion, making it one of the most valuable U.S.-traded companies.

In a filing with U.S. regulators, Alibaba says licenses for its online and mobile commerce businesses are held by Chinese citizens to comply with legal restrictions but VIE contracts will give shareholders “effective control.” Still, it warns regulators “may not agree” they are legal.

An Alibaba spokeswoman, Florence Shih, declined to comment, citing the “quiet period” required by U.S. securities rules ahead of an IPO. Investors can find a VIE gives them less control than they expect, according to a March report by Tom Pugh, a lawyer for the firm Mayer Brown JSM in Hong Kong. He cited the case of shareholders who lost control of a Chinese company when its founder blocked them from firing him by seizing the seals used to sign corporate documents.

In a dispute, foreign shareholders have to work through the Chinese legal system, which “may not be adequate or effective,” Pugh wrote.

Jack Ma, chairman of China’s largest ecommerce firm Alibaba Group, attends a corporate event at the company’s headquarters on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in this April 23, 2013 file photograph.

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The photo shows Gunung Kawi, a tourism object at Gianyar. Millions of foreign and domestic travelers always spend holidays Gianyar each year. However, of the 20 tourist destinations listed in the Gianyar Government Tourism Office, only seven destinations are managed by local government.

Based on data from the Gianyar Government Tourism Office, the county has 20 tourist attractions, where the most is located in Ubud subdistrict having seven tourist attractions, Gianyar subdistrict (4), Tampaksiring (3), Blahbatuh (2), Sukawati (2) and Tegallalang (2). Unfortunately, Payangan subdistrict does not have any tourist destination.

Of the 20 tourist attractions, local government of Gianyar only manages seven tourist attractions. Ironically, only Tirta Empul and Goa Gajah become the leading destinations, while others begin to decline in tourist visit, even some attractions are only dropped in by travelers.

Gunung Kawi Sebatu tourist attraction in Ubud, for instance, was visited by 41,879 foreign travelers in 2011, but it dropped to 34,352 in 2012 and dropped again in 2013 to 30,350. Meanwhile, up to July 2014 the tourist visit dropped again to 16,847. Similar condition also occurred to Yeh Pulu tourist attraction in Blahbatuh diminishing from 99,920 foreign travelers in 2011, decreased to 8,631 (2012), decreased again to 7,838 (2013) and ultimately until July 2014 only reached 3,798.

In the meantime, the Gianyar subdistrict from 2011 to July 2014 was visited by 1,204 foreign travelers (Sidan nature tourism) without the visit of domestic travelers.

Conversely, the Bukit Jati attraction was visited by 19,471 domestic travelers and zero foreign travelers.

The Head of Gianyar Government Tourism Office, AA Ari Brahmanta, said that tourist destination in Ubud had been over capacity. To that end, his party was trying to establish some points of growth around Ubud and other areas in Gianyar, “We are trying to attract investors to invest in the entire region of Gianyar, not only in Ubud. As a result, there will be equal distribution of tourist visits,” he said.

The obstacle frequently encountered, according Brahmanta, was the public response recurrently rejecting to tourist destinations. Actually, it was intended to make the point of economic growth. “We just want to make a point of economic growth which can later on grow the economy of surrounding communities,” he said. (kmb35)

Liberty shipwreck shifts

Coastal abrasion threats Karangasem tourism

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AMLAPURA - The Liberty shipwreck amidst the sea of Tulamben, Kubu, has shifted and it is worried if it will get shifted further as swept away by ocean currents.

Additionally, the beach in the Tulamben tourist area is hit by abrasion. To that end, it becomes a threat to tourism sustainability in Karangasem, especially at Tulamben tourist area.

The USAT Liberty, a US-owned cargo ship, sank as torpedoed in the World War II. Today, it had become the leading tourist object of Tulamben offering a less beautiful beach.

Tulamben Beach does not have fine sand, but only has coarse and black sand. So far, the attraction offered by Tulamben Beach and surrounding areas is ornamental fish and coral reefs in the Liberty shipwreck.

It has become an amazing dive attraction.

Marine attraction both diving and snorkeling are frequently requested by travelers visiting the Jemeluk Beach to Bunutan.

In harmony with the increasing tourist visit to the region, many investors then

build hotels, restaurants and villas. Unfortunately, the arrangement looks mediocre.

Hotels and villas evolving naturally seem to have not been arranged and supervised by the government, so that it gives chaotic impression. Such condition causes a number of tourism practitioners to be worried as they cared for the sustainability of the region.

The Head of Bappeda Karangasem, Ketut Sedana Merta, revealed that sand mining industry had developed rapidly and became a major source of the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Karangasem.

On the other hand, the threat of marine tourism assets was clearly visible from the high abrasion rate in the coastal region.

“Liberty shipwreck site does not escape from the threat of loss or shift and damage.

Thus, prevention against the loss is very important,” he said.

He added that effectiveness of coastal protection needed to be investigated.

Meanwhile, Sedana Merta also planned the protection against the Liberty shipwreck site. A physical test would be planned in 2015. (013)

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The Liberty shipwreck amidst the sea of Tulamben, Kubu, has shifted and it is worried if it will get shifted further as swept away by ocean currents.

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Supporters of anti-government Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri chant slogans during a protest close to Prime Minister’s home in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 1, 2014.

Moscow urges Ukraine talks to back cease-fire

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MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister urged those holding a new round of talks Monday on easing Ukraine’s crisis to push for a cease-fire between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said Russia would not intervene militarily in Ukraine, defying reports by the Ukrainian government, NATO and Western nations that Russia has already sent troops, artillery and tanks across Ukraine’s southeast border to reinforce the separatists.

“There will be no military intervention,” Lavrov told students at Moscow State Institute of International Relations on Monday, the first day of classes for schools and universities across the country.

“We call for an exclusively peaceful settlement of this severe crisis, this tragedy.”

He said the priority of the socalled contact group at the talks in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, should be reaching agreement on an immediate, unconditional cease-fire.

The group, which last met in late July, includes representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. A separatist leader, Andrei Purgin, also was to take part.

Purgin told the Interfax news agency that the separatists’ priority was to win recognition of their independence in eastern Ukraine,

which has a large Russian-speaking population. He said they also were willing to discuss the exchange of prisoners and a temporary ceasefire.

Fighting in eastern Ukraine between the separatists and the Ukrainian government in Kiev began in mid-April, a month after Russia annexed Ukraine’s southern peninsula of Crimea.

Over the weekend, three people died and hundreds were injured in what amounted to running street battles between the police and the demonstrators. On Monday, protesters and police clashed in various areas of the city’s Red Zone, a sprawling complex of government buildings and grassy lawns in the center of Islamabad. The protesters, armed with clubs and many wearing gas masks, hurled rocks at the policemen. Five police officers, including a senior Islamabad police chief, and three protesters were taken to hospital, bleeding.

The protesters made it to a gate that surrounds the prime minister’s residence where they were met by paramilitary Rangers and army troops.

They also stormed into the building of the Pakistani state broadcaster, located in another area of the Red Zone, and forced the television briefly off the air. Inside the state TV building, the protesters moved through the corridors with sticks and clubs, smashing equipment as visibly nervous employees looked on.

The rallies against Sharif constitute the biggest threat to his government little more than one year in office. Several rounds of negotiations between representatives of Khan and Qadri and the government have failed to make any headway.

The two opposition leaders allege widespread fraud in the country’s May 2013 election, in which Sharif’s party won by a landslide. International observers had found no evidence indicating rampant election tampering.

The protests began with a march to Islamabad from the eastern city of

Lahore on the country’s Independence Day, Aug. 14. Once in the capital, the protesters camped out near the parliament, pushing their demands. Khan and Qadri had called for millions to join them but crowds at the most numbered tens of thousands early on and at the height of the demonstrations.

The rallies initially remained peaceful, though they forced a lockdown of Islamabad and badly harmed the city’s business life. Violence first erupted on Saturday, with police firing tear gas and clashing with protesters who pushed closer to the seat of government in the Red Zone.

On Monday, Qadri’s followers reached the gate of the prime minister’s residence — the first of at least two layers of security protecting the house, a few hundred meters (yards) from the residence itself — and staged a sit-in there. “We have reached near the prime minister’s residence, wait for some time and you will hear the news of our ultimate victory,” Qadri urged them.

At the state TV, senior official Athar Farooq said 20 cameras went missing as protesters overran the station. “The intruders seemed well trained” and were taking instructions over mobile phones during the breakin, he said. Several of the protesters took down Sharif’s portrait from a wall, threw it on the floor and stomped on it in anger.

Ismatullah Niazi, another senior TV official told The Associated Press that the intruders also destroyed computers and other equipment, scuffled with employees and took food from the cafeteria.

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Two police officers arrested in Malaysia over narcotics

PONTIANAK - Two Indonesian police officers have been arrested in Kuching, Malaysia, for alleged involvement in a narcotics syndicate.

The chief of the West Kalimantan regional police command,

Brigadier General Arief Sulistyanto, confirmed on Sunday

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during the holy month in July.

Eid falls at the end of Ramadan.

Imports slipped to $14.05 billion in July, down 19.31 percent from a year earlier.

The trade balance is keenly watched because a large shortfall adds to the current account deficit, which has been a key concern of foreign investors in recent times.

Narrowing the deficit is one of the main economic challenges facing Indonesia’s president-elect Joko Widodo, who will take office in October.

However on a more disappointing note, manufacturing activity in Indonesia contracted in August, according to HSBC’s purchasing managers’ index.

It slipped to 49.5, a surprise reading after months of expansion. A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while below signals contraction.

Indonesia posted slim trade surplus

JAKARTA - Indonesia posted a slim trade surplus in July, bouncing back from a deficit the previous month caused by increased imports before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and the Eid holiday, data showed Monday.

Meanwhile inflation eased further to 3.99 percent year-on-year in August from 4.53 percent in July, continuing a downward trend after a big rise in fuel prices sparked a surge last year.

The trade surplus came in at $125 million, compared to a deficit of around $290 million in June as shops stocked up on expensive imported food and clothes before Islam’s holiest month.

Suryamin, the head of the official statistics agency, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said imports surged in June before the start of Ramadan but actually slowed

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A Pro-Russian rebel prepares arms for the the assault on the positions of Ukrainian army in Donetsk airport, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014.

LONDON — Britain’s prime minister is expected to expand powers to combat terrorism in hopes of preventing attacks by Islamist militants returning for terror training in the Middle East.

David Cameron is unveiling a new package of legislation in the House of Commons on Monday.

Talks with the Liberal Democrats, his partners in the governing coalition, stretched into late morning in

hopes of finalizing a deal.

Measures under consideration include powers to take away passports from British citizens, though senior members of the Lib Dems have warned such measures may be illegal — even if they are temporary.

The moves come after Cameron pledged to plug gaps in Britain’s defenses to combat terror, describing the extremist threat posed by the Islamic State group as being more dangerous than even that of al-Qaida.

saying he is still waiting for further information about the development of the case which is now being tackled by the Bukit Aman police in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“What is clear is that what has happened has damaged what the West Kalimantan police com-

mand has done so far to improve the institution,” he said at a press conference.

He said he received information at around 7.30pm on Friday while he was on his way to Singkawang from Mempawah that the Malaysian police had arrested three people in a hotel, following the arrest of a suspect at Kuala Lumpurs international airport.

Two of the suspects were found to be members of the West Kalimantan police command,

namely Adjunct Senior Commissioner Idha Endri Prastiono and Chief Brigadier MH Harahap.

Brigadier General Arief Sulistyanto said in connection with the case he had informed the national police chief and sent a team to Kuching to deal with it on Saturday.

“They have met with the Malaysian police while the case is being handled by the Bukit Aman police in Kuala Lumpur,” he said.

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda met Monday and expected the two countries relations to get stronger in the future.

Yudhoyono, Fukuda expected stronger relations

UK to propose controversial anti-terror laws

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani anti-government protesters stormed the state TV building on Monday, forcing the channel briefly off the air as they clashed with police and pushed further into a sprawling government complex in the capital, Islamabad, in an effort to reach the prime minister’s residence. The violence is the latest in the turmoil roiling Pakistan, where anti-government cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan have been leading twin protests since mid-August calling on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign.

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Relatives weep at the coffin containing the body of Hendry, one of the passengers of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 who was killed when it was shot down over Ukraine in July, upon its arrival in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. Twelve Indonesians, including an infant, were on the ill-fated flight.

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda met Monday and expected the two countries relations to get stronger in the future.

“President Yudhoyono expects that the friendship of Indonesia and Japan should remain strong not only in economic but also political and security sectors,” Indonesian presidents spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said.

During the meeting, Fukuda was accompanied by Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yoshinori Katori, Deputy President

of Japan-Indonesia Association Naoki Kuroda and Yutaka Iimura, President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Takashi Shiraisi, CEO Teijin Oyagi and Regional Coordinator and Adviser of Mitsubishi Corporation in Indonesia Masataka Komiya.

President Yudhoyono was accompanied Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, Coordinating Minister of Legal, Political and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam, and Head of the Investment Coordinating Board Mahendra Siregar.

Julian Aldrin Pasha said Fukuda highly appreciated the Yudhoyono

government saying that Indonesia was able to play a significant role in promoting and maintaining peace in the Southeast Asian and East Asian regions as well as the world.

“This is something that Indonesia and Japan need to preserve,” Fukuda was quoted by Julian as saying adding that President Yudhoyono believed that the Indonesian government under its new president would continue the good relationship with Japan.

President-elect Joko Widodo had also shared President Yudhoyonos opinion about the importance of maintaining Indonesias good relationship with Japan when the two leaders recently met, he added.

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Federer marches on as wild weather, upsets hit U.S. Open

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NEW YORK - Baking heat, rain and the threat of lightning all forced stoppages in play at the U.S. Open on Sunday but Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki marched on through a day of wild weather and upsets. Former world number one Wozniacki had her fourth round match with Maria Sharapova halted briefly by the heat rule but it was the fifth-seeded French Open champion who wilted under a blazing sun, falling 6-4 2-6 6-2.

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Later, rain interrupted Federer’s clash with Marcel Granollers before the fivetime U.S. Open champion came back from a set down to crush the Spaniard 4-6 6-1 6-1 6-1 and storm into the fourth round.

Gilles Simon and Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer sweated it out under a midday sun, the 26th seeded Frenchman posting the first big surprise in the men’s draw with a 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-3 win. A stormy day finished off with another upset on Arthur Ashe Stadium court as 17-year-old Swiss sensation Belinda Bencic swept past ninth-seeded Serb and former world number one Jelena Jankovic 7-6 (6) 6-3.

“It was always a dream to play on this court,” said Bencic, who is coached by Martina Hingis’s mother Melanie Molitor.

“I watched it as a kid and I always dreamt about playing here.” Next up for Bencic is another giant-killer in China’s Peng Shuai.

The doubles specialist eased into the last eight with a 6-3 6-4 win over 14th-seeded Czech Lucie Safarova.

The departures of Sharapova and Jankovic leave only world number one Serena Williams, Canadian seventh seed Eugenie Bouchard and Wozniacki as the surviving members of the women’s top 10.

Marathon Training Wozniacki showed great grit in battling past Sharapova as the punishing conditions turned the match into a battle REUTERS/Adam Hunger Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates after defeating Marcel Granollers of Spain in the for survival. A grand slam title is the one men’s singles play following their match at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New major hole in Wozniacki’s considerable York, August 31, 2014. resume and the Dane may never have a

better opportunity to fill it with the draw having opened up. The 2009 U.S. Open runnerup is training to run the New York marathon later in the year and appeared better equipped to cope with the soaring temperatures and stifling humidity that took the players off court.

After play resumed, Wozniacki turned up her own heat on the five-time grand slam winner in the third set. “I think it will help me a lot,” said Wozniacki, who will next face 13th seed Sara Errani, a three-set winner over Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. “Today was a tough battle out there. It was humid. It was hot. I had to change my dress.

“That rarely happens. It was just soaked. Definitely (the training) is helping, because I felt fresh out there and I felt like I could keep going.” The Dane captured the decisive break in the third game after a spectacular point in which she raced three times across the baseline to retrieve shots before the Russian netted a backhand volley to fall behind 3-1.

Wozniacki broke Sharapova again for good measure in the final game to return to a grand slam quarter-final for the first time since the 2012 Australian Open.

Barring Ferrer’s upset, the men’s top 10 seeds remain intact, with sixth seed Tomas Berdych and seventh seed Grigor Dimitrov both advancing. Rising talent Dominic Thiem continued to surprise, following up his second round win over 11th seed Ernests Gulbis by dismantling 19th seed Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-4 6-2 6-3.

Down at half, US beats Turkey in basketball worlds

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BILBAO, Spain — They figured it would be simple, that they would just beat up on Turkey like they did Finland a night earlier.

Instead, the Americans were the ones on the ropes for nearly three quarters. “I guess we felt like last night’s game was pretty easy and tonight was going to be the same way, but Turkey came out and they gave us their punch from the beginning,” forward James Harden said. “We took it and we were sluggish. That second half we played a lot better.”

Kenneth Faried scored 22 points, Anthony Davis all of his 19 in the second half, and the U.S. rebounded from a rare deficit at halftime to beat Turkey 98-77 on Sunday in the Basketball World Cup. A night after crushing Finland by 59 in its biggest rout ever while using NBA players in the former world championship, the Americans couldn’t take control against Turkey until early in the fourth quarter after compiling a 17-1 run.

“I think we didn’t come ready to play in the first half and we can’t afford to do that if we want to win a gold medal,” Davis said. “So we’ve got to come out ready to play no matter who we’re playing against.” The Americans trailed 40-35 at halftime and Turkey led by six early in the third before the Americans could finally get the game into the quicker tempo

they prefer and pull away to win the rematch of the 2010 gold-medal game in Istanbul.

But it was a much tougher one than expected after the Americans hammered Finland 114-55 while Turkey was being outplayed for most of its opener by New Zealand before pulling out the victory. Harden added 14 points for the U.S. and Kyrie Irving added 13, playing extended minutes in the second half while struggling Derrick Rose sat. It was tied at 59 with 3:10 left in the third before the Americans closed the period with a 7-1 burst to lead 66-60 after Faried’s basket. The U.S. then ran off 10 in a row to open the fourth and open a 76-60 cushion.

The Americans haven’t lost since the semifinals of the 2006 world championship and outside of their victories over Spain in the last two Olympic gold-medal games, haven’t been in danger much since then. But they needed a long time to start looking like the team that is so considered the tournament favorite by so many.

“Before the game we talked about we trying to keep the tempo low, in fact slow down the game and we did it very well first half. I think actually three quarters we did it very well,” Turkey’s Ender Arslan said. “But after, physically United States team is great, they played 40 minutes ... so we get a little bit tired after third quarter and they still played

at the same level.”

The U.S. beat Turkey 81-64 four years ago to win gold, and though the Turks have eight players remaining from that team, they no longer have their best player, Hedo Turkoglu, or fellow NBA veteran Ersan Ilyasova. Cenk Akyol led Turkey with 12 points.

The Americans had to break from their pregame warmups to retake the official team picture that every team took Saturday before their opening games, because they were still wearing sweats instead of their uniforms. They soon had bigger problems than a fashion faux pas.

It was 16-all after one, and Turkey controlled the tempo in the second quarter, getting to the foul line as the Americans showed moments of frustration with the pace and some calls that went against them. Baris Hersek and Emir Preldzic made consecutive 3-pointers late in the half to give Turkey a 38-32 lead.

Unable to force the turnovers or missed shots to get their transition game going, the Americans looked ordinary in the halfcourt.

Davis, who scored 17 points in the opener and had been the Americans’ best player this summer, was scoreless with one rebound in the half, playing just 10 ½ minutes while picking up two fouls. “I tried to come out in the second half and just be a different player, just be the player I’m used to being,” he said.

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forward/center Anthony Davis, left, of the New Orleans Pelicans, watches teammate Kenneth Faried, of the Denver Nuggets, post up during basketball practice at the Brooklyn Nets ‘training facility in East Rutherford, N.J., Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014.

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AC Milan beats Lazio 3-1 in Inzaghi’s 1st game

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Real Madrid’s Benzema, left, jumps for the ball with Real Sociedad’s Zubikarai during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Real Sociedad at the Anoeta stadium in San Sebastian, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014.

Madrid stunned 4-2 at Sociedad, Barcelona wins

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BARCELONA — Real Madrid collapsed after leading by two goals to lose 4-2 at Real Sociedad in the Spanish league on Sunday, with the European champions left rudderless without the injured Cristiano Ronaldo. Lionel Messi, meanwhile, finished Barcelona’s 1-0 win at Villarreal with a right leg injury after he set up substitute Sandro Ramirez to score on his debut.

Messi assisted on the 82ndminute winner and played the full match, but his club said after the game he had injured a right leg muscle and would undergo tests on Monday. Madrid looked set to romp at Anoeta Stadium after dominating the first half hour with goals by Sergio Ramos and Gareth Bale.

But David Zurutuza scored twice on either side of goals by Inigo Martinez and Carlos Vela as the hosts roared back to leave Madrid’s players with blushes to match their bright pink kits. “We were horrible,” said Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas.

Elsewhere, Isaac Cuenca converted a penalty in stoppage time to salvage Deportivo La Coruna a 2-2

draw against Rayo Vallecano, while David Lomban also scored in added time to secure Elche a 1-1 draw with Granada. On Thursday, Sociedad was beaten 3-0 at Russian side Krasnodar, eliminating it from the Europa League playoffs and sparking speculation that coach Jagoba Arrasate’s job was in danger.

“We began with many doubts after our elimination the other day, but we turned it around with a lot of courage and attitude,” said Xabi Prieto, who flicked on a corner kick for Martinez’s goal and crossed for Zurutuza to score what proved to be the winner. Now Carlo Ancelotti will have to answer why his squad with stars like Bale, Karim Benzema and James Rodriguez

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failed to compete for the final hour.

Madrid, which had already lost the Spanish Super Cup to Atletico Madrid, slipped three points behind Barcelona.

“I don’t like this defeat at all because I think sometimes you can play poorly but when you are winning 2-0 you have to show more character to finish off the game and that is my responsibility,” said Ancelotti. “Something has to change and it will change.” With Ronaldo out to nurse his nagging leg injuries, Ramos and Bale took over the scoring duties. Ramos headed in Toni Kroos’ corner kick in the fifth minute before Bale doubled the lead six minutes later with an audacious dribble to put the ball be-

tween the legs of Gorka Elustondo before scoring.

Martinez swung the tide when he slipped behind Ramos to score in the 35th. Zurutuza equalized in the 41st when he thumped in Alberto de la Bella’s cross. Casillas grazed Imanol Agirretxe’s header wide in the 48th but could do nothing to stop Zurutuza’s second goal in the 65th before Vela added another in the 75th.

Earlier, Messi was as incisive as in Barcelona’s home opener last week when he scored two times in a win. But at El Madrigal Stadium he was twice denied by the goalframe when goalie Sergio Asenjo blocked his free kick off the post in the 28th and his shot stuck the upright in the 76th.

Neymar came on as a second-half substitute for his first competitive game since fracturing a vertebra at the World Cup, having missed last weekend’s league opener with a left ankle sprain. The striker misfired

twice before starting the move that led to Barcelona’s goal by passing to Messi in the area. Hemmed in

by Asenjo and a defender on the right side, Messi squeezed a low pass under Asenjo for the streaking Ramirez to tap home.

New coach Luis Enrique saw another successful debut by a player from Barcelona’s “B-Team,” which he coached from 2008-2011. Last week it was 18-year-old Munir El Haddadi who scored to round off Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Elche.

This time it was the 19-year-old Ramirez, who had a perfect debut after substituting Pedro Rodriguez in the 69th. “(Luis Enrique) looks to the youth team and we try to make the most of it,” Ramirez said.

Villarreal had its chances to go ahead after hitting the goalframe on two occasions. Barcelona defender Jeremy Mathieu almost scored an own goal in the 51st before Tomas Pina’s long strike rattled the bar in the 72nd.

MILAN — AC Milan got off to a great start under new coach Filippo Inzaghi as it eased to a 3-1 win over Lazio in its Serie A opener on Sunday.

Goals from Keisuke Honda and Sulley Muntari and a penalty from Jeremy Menez gave Milan a comfortable lead before Lazio pulled one back with an own goal from new Rossoneri signing Alex.

New Milan goalkeeper Diego Lopez saved Antonio Candreva’s penalty in stoppage time. It was a convincing performance from Milan, which showed how little it missed star striker Mario Balotelli, who moved to Liverpool last week. Balotelli’s replacement, Fernando Torres, was watching in the stands at San Siro after completing his two-year loan move from Chelsea.

“I’m happy, I saw a good spirit,” Inzaghi said. “We have to improve our game but the team is coming off the back of a difficult season.

Results like this are good for them.

I hope we can be the surprise of the season.” Inter Milan’s new signing Nemanja Vidic had a less than impressive Serie A debut as he gave away a penalty and was sent off in stoppage time in his side’s 0-0 draw at Torino.

Jonathan de Guzman had a better debut as his last-gasp goal saw Napoli snatch a late 2-1 win at Genoa, while 10-man Sampdoria also scored late to draw 1-1 against newly promoted-Palermo.

Andrea Stramaccioni got off to a winning start at Udinese with a 2-0

win over promoted side Empoli — with veteran striker Antonio Di Natale scoring twice — while new Cagliari coach Zdenek Zeman drew 1-1 at Sassuolo. Elsewhere it was: Atalanta 0, Hellas Verona 0; and Cesena 1, Parma 0. It was Inzaghi’s debut as first team coach after he was promoted from the club’s youth sector, replacing another former Milan great, Clarence Seedorf.

The 41-year-old had the perfect start as Milan took the lead with less than seven minutes on the clock.

Stephan El Shaarawy burst down the left flank with a brilliant run before putting a delightful ball into the area for an unmarked Honda to slot past Lazio goalkeeper Etrit Berisha.

More poor Lazio defending allowed Milan to double its lead in the 56th minute. There were four Lazio defenders surrounding Muntari in the box, but they all failed to pick him up as he volleyed home Ignazio Abate’s cross.

Milan further extended its advantage shortly after the hour mark when Menez was brought down by Stefan de Vrij. Menez, who had been signed from Paris Saint-Germain in the offseason, notched a debut goal with a perfectly placed penalty into the bottom left corner.

Lazio got one back minutes later in chaotic circumstances as Alex got the final touch on Candreva’s cross toward Filip Djordjevic. It almost grabbed another consolation deep into stoppage time when Candreva was brought down by Abate, but Lopez saved the resulting penalty.

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Liverpool prove life after Suarez in Spurs masterclass Reuters

LONDON - Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes his team are back to their sizzling form of last season after a superb victory over Tottenham defied those who predicted a gloomy outlook in the post-Luis Suarez era.

The Merseysiders’ 3-0 win at White Hart Lane on Sunday was achieved in the same swashbuckling manner as the run of 11 successive victories that took them to within two points of the Premier League title in May. After a disappointing defeat by Manchester City, this was Liverpool’s reminder to the Premier League that they remained a potent force, but also a clear sign of life following the departure of last season’s star attraction.

Although Suarez has gone, it seems so has the fear that Rodgers’s side may struggle for goals in his absence, with Sunday’s haul taking their tally to six in three games.

“We have risen to every challenge since we have been here. It was the same last year - will we score enough goals and how can we improve?,” the Liverpool manager told reporters. “The beauty of this group is that they’re very hungry... We played very well and probably clicked back into where we were last season - which was great to see.

Hopefully people enjoyed watching us as well.”

For Rodgers, Sunday’s win was a personal milestone, bringing up his

56th victory in 100 games as Liverpool manager, putting him level with Bill Shankly and only behind Kenny Dalglish (62).

There was perhaps no better place to show that the departure of a top player need not have an overly detrimental effect - coming against a Tottenham team who were in the same situation last year. Whereas Tottenham never quite recovered from Gareth Bale’s move to Real Madrid, Rodgers can look at his squad and be satisfied with the attacking options at his disposal.

Debutant Mario Balotelli was effective if unspectacular and Daniel Sturridge had an uncharacteristic off day, but Raheem Sterling confirmed his rising stature and importance with a goal and a man-of-the-match display that delighted his manager.

Playing at the tip of Rodgers’s diamond formation before switching to the more accustomed wing role, he showed the kind of tactical flexibility that managers love.

“He was fantastic today again and got another goal,” the Liverpool boss said. “His pressure and tactical awareness in the game is improving and, for a kid of 19, he has been great. “He’s flexible - we’ve tried to develop him to be able to not only be a wide player, but to have the freedom and awareness to play on the inside... “It’s important for me that they have the intelligence to play in a number of positions and I think he is developing that well.”

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Liverpool’s Mario Balotelli reacts after missing a chance to score against Tottenham Hotspur, during their English Premier League soccer match at White Hart Lane, London, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014.

Robben, Huntelaar, Van der Vaart out of Dutch team

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AMSTERDAM — Guus Hiddink’s attacking options in his first internationals back in charge of the Netherlands have been reduced after Arjen Robben, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Rafael van der Vaart pulled out of his squad.

The Dutch football association said Sunday that Robben withdrew from the squad for a friendly against Italy and a European Championship qualifier against the Czech Republic with an ankle injury. The association says Van der Vaart has a muscle injury and Huntelaar is ill.

Hiddink has called up PSV Eindhoven winger Luciano Narsingh as a replacement in a squad now reduced to 23 players.

In its first matches since finishing third in the World Cup, the Netherlands plays Italy in Bari on Thursday and takes on the Czech republic five days later in Prague.

terms being agreed to, the person told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not yet been completed.

Premier League clubs have until 2200 GMT Monday to sign players before the transfer window closes.

United’s need for reinforcements has been highlighted by the failure to win any of its opening four matches under manager Louis van

Gaal, who had been hired to halt the decline under David Moyes last season. United’s latest setback was a 0-0 draw at Burnley on Saturday, following a humiliating League Cup loss to third-tier club MK Dons.

Falcao, who signed with Monaco a year ago, would be joining a United side out of the Champions League after last season’s seventhplace finish.

Falcao heading to Man United on loan

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AC Milan forward Keisuke Honda, of Japan, celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Lazio, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014.

LONDON — Radamel Falcao is set to join Manchester United on loan after the Premier League club agreed to a loan deal with Monaco, a person with knowledge of the deal said Monday.

The Colombia striker’s seasonlong loan deal will cost United about $9 million and is subject to a medical examination and personal

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AC Milan beats Lazio 3-1 in Inzaghi’s 1st game

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Real Madrid’s Benzema, left, jumps for the ball with Real Sociedad’s Zubikarai during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Real Sociedad at the Anoeta stadium in San Sebastian, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014.

Madrid stunned 4-2 at Sociedad, Barcelona wins

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BARCELONA — Real Madrid collapsed after leading by two goals to lose 4-2 at Real Sociedad in the Spanish league on Sunday, with the European champions left rudderless without the injured Cristiano Ronaldo. Lionel Messi, meanwhile, finished Barcelona’s 1-0 win at Villarreal with a right leg injury after he set up substitute Sandro Ramirez to score on his debut.

Messi assisted on the 82ndminute winner and played the full match, but his club said after the game he had injured a right leg muscle and would undergo tests on Monday. Madrid looked set to romp at Anoeta Stadium after dominating the first half hour with goals by Sergio Ramos and Gareth Bale.

But David Zurutuza scored twice on either side of goals by Inigo Martinez and Carlos Vela as the hosts roared back to leave Madrid’s players with blushes to match their bright pink kits. “We were horrible,” said Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas.

Elsewhere, Isaac Cuenca converted a penalty in stoppage time to salvage Deportivo La Coruna a 2-2

draw against Rayo Vallecano, while David Lomban also scored in added time to secure Elche a 1-1 draw with Granada. On Thursday, Sociedad was beaten 3-0 at Russian side Krasnodar, eliminating it from the Europa League playoffs and sparking speculation that coach Jagoba Arrasate’s job was in danger.

“We began with many doubts after our elimination the other day, but we turned it around with a lot of courage and attitude,” said Xabi Prieto, who flicked on a corner kick for Martinez’s goal and crossed for Zurutuza to score what proved to be the winner. Now Carlo Ancelotti will have to answer why his squad with stars like Bale, Karim Benzema and James Rodriguez

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failed to compete for the final hour.

Madrid, which had already lost the Spanish Super Cup to Atletico Madrid, slipped three points behind Barcelona.

“I don’t like this defeat at all because I think sometimes you can play poorly but when you are winning 2-0 you have to show more character to finish off the game and that is my responsibility,” said Ancelotti. “Something has to change and it will change.” With Ronaldo out to nurse his nagging leg injuries, Ramos and Bale took over the scoring duties. Ramos headed in Toni Kroos’ corner kick in the fifth minute before Bale doubled the lead six minutes later with an audacious dribble to put the ball be-

tween the legs of Gorka Elustondo before scoring.

Martinez swung the tide when he slipped behind Ramos to score in the 35th. Zurutuza equalized in the 41st when he thumped in Alberto de la Bella’s cross. Casillas grazed Imanol Agirretxe’s header wide in the 48th but could do nothing to stop Zurutuza’s second goal in the 65th before Vela added another in the 75th.

Earlier, Messi was as incisive as in Barcelona’s home opener last week when he scored two times in a win. But at El Madrigal Stadium he was twice denied by the goalframe when goalie Sergio Asenjo blocked his free kick off the post in the 28th and his shot stuck the upright in the 76th.

Neymar came on as a second-half substitute for his first competitive game since fracturing a vertebra at the World Cup, having missed last weekend’s league opener with a left ankle sprain. The striker misfired

twice before starting the move that led to Barcelona’s goal by passing to Messi in the area. Hemmed in

by Asenjo and a defender on the right side, Messi squeezed a low pass under Asenjo for the streaking Ramirez to tap home.

New coach Luis Enrique saw another successful debut by a player from Barcelona’s “B-Team,” which he coached from 2008-2011. Last week it was 18-year-old Munir El Haddadi who scored to round off Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Elche.

This time it was the 19-year-old Ramirez, who had a perfect debut after substituting Pedro Rodriguez in the 69th. “(Luis Enrique) looks to the youth team and we try to make the most of it,” Ramirez said.

Villarreal had its chances to go ahead after hitting the goalframe on two occasions. Barcelona defender Jeremy Mathieu almost scored an own goal in the 51st before Tomas Pina’s long strike rattled the bar in the 72nd.

MILAN — AC Milan got off to a great start under new coach Filippo Inzaghi as it eased to a 3-1 win over Lazio in its Serie A opener on Sunday.

Goals from Keisuke Honda and Sulley Muntari and a penalty from Jeremy Menez gave Milan a comfortable lead before Lazio pulled one back with an own goal from new Rossoneri signing Alex.

New Milan goalkeeper Diego Lopez saved Antonio Candreva’s penalty in stoppage time. It was a convincing performance from Milan, which showed how little it missed star striker Mario Balotelli, who moved to Liverpool last week. Balotelli’s replacement, Fernando Torres, was watching in the stands at San Siro after completing his two-year loan move from Chelsea.

“I’m happy, I saw a good spirit,” Inzaghi said. “We have to improve our game but the team is coming off the back of a difficult season.

Results like this are good for them.

I hope we can be the surprise of the season.” Inter Milan’s new signing Nemanja Vidic had a less than impressive Serie A debut as he gave away a penalty and was sent off in stoppage time in his side’s 0-0 draw at Torino.

Jonathan de Guzman had a better debut as his last-gasp goal saw Napoli snatch a late 2-1 win at Genoa, while 10-man Sampdoria also scored late to draw 1-1 against newly promoted-Palermo.

Andrea Stramaccioni got off to a winning start at Udinese with a 2-0

win over promoted side Empoli — with veteran striker Antonio Di Natale scoring twice — while new Cagliari coach Zdenek Zeman drew 1-1 at Sassuolo. Elsewhere it was: Atalanta 0, Hellas Verona 0; and Cesena 1, Parma 0. It was Inzaghi’s debut as first team coach after he was promoted from the club’s youth sector, replacing another former Milan great, Clarence Seedorf.

The 41-year-old had the perfect start as Milan took the lead with less than seven minutes on the clock.

Stephan El Shaarawy burst down the left flank with a brilliant run before putting a delightful ball into the area for an unmarked Honda to slot past Lazio goalkeeper Etrit Berisha.

More poor Lazio defending allowed Milan to double its lead in the 56th minute. There were four Lazio defenders surrounding Muntari in the box, but they all failed to pick him up as he volleyed home Ignazio Abate’s cross.

Milan further extended its advantage shortly after the hour mark when Menez was brought down by Stefan de Vrij. Menez, who had been signed from Paris Saint-Germain in the offseason, notched a debut goal with a perfectly placed penalty into the bottom left corner.

Lazio got one back minutes later in chaotic circumstances as Alex got the final touch on Candreva’s cross toward Filip Djordjevic. It almost grabbed another consolation deep into stoppage time when Candreva was brought down by Abate, but Lopez saved the resulting penalty.

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Liverpool prove life after Suarez in Spurs masterclass Reuters

LONDON - Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes his team are back to their sizzling form of last season after a superb victory over Tottenham defied those who predicted a gloomy outlook in the post-Luis Suarez era.

The Merseysiders’ 3-0 win at White Hart Lane on Sunday was achieved in the same swashbuckling manner as the run of 11 successive victories that took them to within two points of the Premier League title in May. After a disappointing defeat by Manchester City, this was Liverpool’s reminder to the Premier League that they remained a potent force, but also a clear sign of life following the departure of last season’s star attraction.

Although Suarez has gone, it seems so has the fear that Rodgers’s side may struggle for goals in his absence, with Sunday’s haul taking their tally to six in three games.

“We have risen to every challenge since we have been here. It was the same last year - will we score enough goals and how can we improve?,” the Liverpool manager told reporters. “The beauty of this group is that they’re very hungry... We played very well and probably clicked back into where we were last season - which was great to see.

Hopefully people enjoyed watching us as well.”

For Rodgers, Sunday’s win was a personal milestone, bringing up his

56th victory in 100 games as Liverpool manager, putting him level with Bill Shankly and only behind Kenny Dalglish (62).

There was perhaps no better place to show that the departure of a top player need not have an overly detrimental effect - coming against a Tottenham team who were in the same situation last year. Whereas Tottenham never quite recovered from Gareth Bale’s move to Real Madrid, Rodgers can look at his squad and be satisfied with the attacking options at his disposal.

Debutant Mario Balotelli was effective if unspectacular and Daniel Sturridge had an uncharacteristic off day, but Raheem Sterling confirmed his rising stature and importance with a goal and a man-of-the-match display that delighted his manager.

Playing at the tip of Rodgers’s diamond formation before switching to the more accustomed wing role, he showed the kind of tactical flexibility that managers love.

“He was fantastic today again and got another goal,” the Liverpool boss said. “His pressure and tactical awareness in the game is improving and, for a kid of 19, he has been great. “He’s flexible - we’ve tried to develop him to be able to not only be a wide player, but to have the freedom and awareness to play on the inside... “It’s important for me that they have the intelligence to play in a number of positions and I think he is developing that well.”

AP Photo/Bogdan Maran

Liverpool’s Mario Balotelli reacts after missing a chance to score against Tottenham Hotspur, during their English Premier League soccer match at White Hart Lane, London, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014.

Robben, Huntelaar, Van der Vaart out of Dutch team

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AMSTERDAM — Guus Hiddink’s attacking options in his first internationals back in charge of the Netherlands have been reduced after Arjen Robben, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Rafael van der Vaart pulled out of his squad.

The Dutch football association said Sunday that Robben withdrew from the squad for a friendly against Italy and a European Championship qualifier against the Czech Republic with an ankle injury. The association says Van der Vaart has a muscle injury and Huntelaar is ill.

Hiddink has called up PSV Eindhoven winger Luciano Narsingh as a replacement in a squad now reduced to 23 players.

In its first matches since finishing third in the World Cup, the Netherlands plays Italy in Bari on Thursday and takes on the Czech republic five days later in Prague.

terms being agreed to, the person told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not yet been completed.

Premier League clubs have until 2200 GMT Monday to sign players before the transfer window closes.

United’s need for reinforcements has been highlighted by the failure to win any of its opening four matches under manager Louis van

Gaal, who had been hired to halt the decline under David Moyes last season. United’s latest setback was a 0-0 draw at Burnley on Saturday, following a humiliating League Cup loss to third-tier club MK Dons.

Falcao, who signed with Monaco a year ago, would be joining a United side out of the Champions League after last season’s seventhplace finish.

Falcao heading to Man United on loan

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AC Milan forward Keisuke Honda, of Japan, celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Lazio, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014.

LONDON — Radamel Falcao is set to join Manchester United on loan after the Premier League club agreed to a loan deal with Monaco, a person with knowledge of the deal said Monday.

The Colombia striker’s seasonlong loan deal will cost United about $9 million and is subject to a medical examination and personal

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Federer marches on as wild weather, upsets hit U.S. Open

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NEW YORK - Baking heat, rain and the threat of lightning all forced stoppages in play at the U.S. Open on Sunday but Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki marched on through a day of wild weather and upsets. Former world number one Wozniacki had her fourth round match with Maria Sharapova halted briefly by the heat rule but it was the fifth-seeded French Open champion who wilted under a blazing sun, falling 6-4 2-6 6-2.

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Later, rain interrupted Federer’s clash with Marcel Granollers before the fivetime U.S. Open champion came back from a set down to crush the Spaniard 4-6 6-1 6-1 6-1 and storm into the fourth round.

Gilles Simon and Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer sweated it out under a midday sun, the 26th seeded Frenchman posting the first big surprise in the men’s draw with a 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-3 win. A stormy day finished off with another upset on Arthur Ashe Stadium court as 17-year-old Swiss sensation Belinda Bencic swept past ninth-seeded Serb and former world number one Jelena Jankovic 7-6 (6) 6-3.

“It was always a dream to play on this court,” said Bencic, who is coached by Martina Hingis’s mother Melanie Molitor.

“I watched it as a kid and I always dreamt about playing here.” Next up for Bencic is another giant-killer in China’s Peng Shuai.

The doubles specialist eased into the last eight with a 6-3 6-4 win over 14th-seeded Czech Lucie Safarova.

The departures of Sharapova and Jankovic leave only world number one Serena Williams, Canadian seventh seed Eugenie Bouchard and Wozniacki as the surviving members of the women’s top 10.

Marathon Training Wozniacki showed great grit in battling past Sharapova as the punishing conditions turned the match into a battle REUTERS/Adam Hunger Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates after defeating Marcel Granollers of Spain in the for survival. A grand slam title is the one men’s singles play following their match at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New major hole in Wozniacki’s considerable York, August 31, 2014. resume and the Dane may never have a

better opportunity to fill it with the draw having opened up. The 2009 U.S. Open runnerup is training to run the New York marathon later in the year and appeared better equipped to cope with the soaring temperatures and stifling humidity that took the players off court.

After play resumed, Wozniacki turned up her own heat on the five-time grand slam winner in the third set. “I think it will help me a lot,” said Wozniacki, who will next face 13th seed Sara Errani, a three-set winner over Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. “Today was a tough battle out there. It was humid. It was hot. I had to change my dress.

“That rarely happens. It was just soaked. Definitely (the training) is helping, because I felt fresh out there and I felt like I could keep going.” The Dane captured the decisive break in the third game after a spectacular point in which she raced three times across the baseline to retrieve shots before the Russian netted a backhand volley to fall behind 3-1.

Wozniacki broke Sharapova again for good measure in the final game to return to a grand slam quarter-final for the first time since the 2012 Australian Open.

Barring Ferrer’s upset, the men’s top 10 seeds remain intact, with sixth seed Tomas Berdych and seventh seed Grigor Dimitrov both advancing. Rising talent Dominic Thiem continued to surprise, following up his second round win over 11th seed Ernests Gulbis by dismantling 19th seed Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-4 6-2 6-3.

Down at half, US beats Turkey in basketball worlds

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BILBAO, Spain — They figured it would be simple, that they would just beat up on Turkey like they did Finland a night earlier.

Instead, the Americans were the ones on the ropes for nearly three quarters. “I guess we felt like last night’s game was pretty easy and tonight was going to be the same way, but Turkey came out and they gave us their punch from the beginning,” forward James Harden said. “We took it and we were sluggish. That second half we played a lot better.”

Kenneth Faried scored 22 points, Anthony Davis all of his 19 in the second half, and the U.S. rebounded from a rare deficit at halftime to beat Turkey 98-77 on Sunday in the Basketball World Cup. A night after crushing Finland by 59 in its biggest rout ever while using NBA players in the former world championship, the Americans couldn’t take control against Turkey until early in the fourth quarter after compiling a 17-1 run.

“I think we didn’t come ready to play in the first half and we can’t afford to do that if we want to win a gold medal,” Davis said. “So we’ve got to come out ready to play no matter who we’re playing against.” The Americans trailed 40-35 at halftime and Turkey led by six early in the third before the Americans could finally get the game into the quicker tempo

they prefer and pull away to win the rematch of the 2010 gold-medal game in Istanbul.

But it was a much tougher one than expected after the Americans hammered Finland 114-55 while Turkey was being outplayed for most of its opener by New Zealand before pulling out the victory. Harden added 14 points for the U.S. and Kyrie Irving added 13, playing extended minutes in the second half while struggling Derrick Rose sat. It was tied at 59 with 3:10 left in the third before the Americans closed the period with a 7-1 burst to lead 66-60 after Faried’s basket. The U.S. then ran off 10 in a row to open the fourth and open a 76-60 cushion.

The Americans haven’t lost since the semifinals of the 2006 world championship and outside of their victories over Spain in the last two Olympic gold-medal games, haven’t been in danger much since then. But they needed a long time to start looking like the team that is so considered the tournament favorite by so many.

“Before the game we talked about we trying to keep the tempo low, in fact slow down the game and we did it very well first half. I think actually three quarters we did it very well,” Turkey’s Ender Arslan said. “But after, physically United States team is great, they played 40 minutes ... so we get a little bit tired after third quarter and they still played

at the same level.”

The U.S. beat Turkey 81-64 four years ago to win gold, and though the Turks have eight players remaining from that team, they no longer have their best player, Hedo Turkoglu, or fellow NBA veteran Ersan Ilyasova. Cenk Akyol led Turkey with 12 points.

The Americans had to break from their pregame warmups to retake the official team picture that every team took Saturday before their opening games, because they were still wearing sweats instead of their uniforms. They soon had bigger problems than a fashion faux pas.

It was 16-all after one, and Turkey controlled the tempo in the second quarter, getting to the foul line as the Americans showed moments of frustration with the pace and some calls that went against them. Baris Hersek and Emir Preldzic made consecutive 3-pointers late in the half to give Turkey a 38-32 lead.

Unable to force the turnovers or missed shots to get their transition game going, the Americans looked ordinary in the halfcourt.

Davis, who scored 17 points in the opener and had been the Americans’ best player this summer, was scoreless with one rebound in the half, playing just 10 ½ minutes while picking up two fouls. “I tried to come out in the second half and just be a different player, just be the player I’m used to being,” he said.

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forward/center Anthony Davis, left, of the New Orleans Pelicans, watches teammate Kenneth Faried, of the Denver Nuggets, post up during basketball practice at the Brooklyn Nets ‘training facility in East Rutherford, N.J., Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014.

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Supporters of anti-government Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri chant slogans during a protest close to Prime Minister’s home in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 1, 2014.

Moscow urges Ukraine talks to back cease-fire

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MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister urged those holding a new round of talks Monday on easing Ukraine’s crisis to push for a cease-fire between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said Russia would not intervene militarily in Ukraine, defying reports by the Ukrainian government, NATO and Western nations that Russia has already sent troops, artillery and tanks across Ukraine’s southeast border to reinforce the separatists.

“There will be no military intervention,” Lavrov told students at Moscow State Institute of International Relations on Monday, the first day of classes for schools and universities across the country.

“We call for an exclusively peaceful settlement of this severe crisis, this tragedy.”

He said the priority of the socalled contact group at the talks in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, should be reaching agreement on an immediate, unconditional cease-fire.

The group, which last met in late July, includes representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. A separatist leader, Andrei Purgin, also was to take part.

Purgin told the Interfax news agency that the separatists’ priority was to win recognition of their independence in eastern Ukraine,

which has a large Russian-speaking population. He said they also were willing to discuss the exchange of prisoners and a temporary ceasefire.

Fighting in eastern Ukraine between the separatists and the Ukrainian government in Kiev began in mid-April, a month after Russia annexed Ukraine’s southern peninsula of Crimea.

Over the weekend, three people died and hundreds were injured in what amounted to running street battles between the police and the demonstrators. On Monday, protesters and police clashed in various areas of the city’s Red Zone, a sprawling complex of government buildings and grassy lawns in the center of Islamabad. The protesters, armed with clubs and many wearing gas masks, hurled rocks at the policemen. Five police officers, including a senior Islamabad police chief, and three protesters were taken to hospital, bleeding.

The protesters made it to a gate that surrounds the prime minister’s residence where they were met by paramilitary Rangers and army troops.

They also stormed into the building of the Pakistani state broadcaster, located in another area of the Red Zone, and forced the television briefly off the air. Inside the state TV building, the protesters moved through the corridors with sticks and clubs, smashing equipment as visibly nervous employees looked on.

The rallies against Sharif constitute the biggest threat to his government little more than one year in office. Several rounds of negotiations between representatives of Khan and Qadri and the government have failed to make any headway.

The two opposition leaders allege widespread fraud in the country’s May 2013 election, in which Sharif’s party won by a landslide. International observers had found no evidence indicating rampant election tampering.

The protests began with a march to Islamabad from the eastern city of

Lahore on the country’s Independence Day, Aug. 14. Once in the capital, the protesters camped out near the parliament, pushing their demands. Khan and Qadri had called for millions to join them but crowds at the most numbered tens of thousands early on and at the height of the demonstrations.

The rallies initially remained peaceful, though they forced a lockdown of Islamabad and badly harmed the city’s business life. Violence first erupted on Saturday, with police firing tear gas and clashing with protesters who pushed closer to the seat of government in the Red Zone.

On Monday, Qadri’s followers reached the gate of the prime minister’s residence — the first of at least two layers of security protecting the house, a few hundred meters (yards) from the residence itself — and staged a sit-in there. “We have reached near the prime minister’s residence, wait for some time and you will hear the news of our ultimate victory,” Qadri urged them.

At the state TV, senior official Athar Farooq said 20 cameras went missing as protesters overran the station. “The intruders seemed well trained” and were taking instructions over mobile phones during the breakin, he said. Several of the protesters took down Sharif’s portrait from a wall, threw it on the floor and stomped on it in anger.

Ismatullah Niazi, another senior TV official told The Associated Press that the intruders also destroyed computers and other equipment, scuffled with employees and took food from the cafeteria.

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Two police officers arrested in Malaysia over narcotics

PONTIANAK - Two Indonesian police officers have been arrested in Kuching, Malaysia, for alleged involvement in a narcotics syndicate.

The chief of the West Kalimantan regional police command,

Brigadier General Arief Sulistyanto, confirmed on Sunday

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during the holy month in July.

Eid falls at the end of Ramadan.

Imports slipped to $14.05 billion in July, down 19.31 percent from a year earlier.

The trade balance is keenly watched because a large shortfall adds to the current account deficit, which has been a key concern of foreign investors in recent times.

Narrowing the deficit is one of the main economic challenges facing Indonesia’s president-elect Joko Widodo, who will take office in October.

However on a more disappointing note, manufacturing activity in Indonesia contracted in August, according to HSBC’s purchasing managers’ index.

It slipped to 49.5, a surprise reading after months of expansion. A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while below signals contraction.

Indonesia posted slim trade surplus

JAKARTA - Indonesia posted a slim trade surplus in July, bouncing back from a deficit the previous month caused by increased imports before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and the Eid holiday, data showed Monday.

Meanwhile inflation eased further to 3.99 percent year-on-year in August from 4.53 percent in July, continuing a downward trend after a big rise in fuel prices sparked a surge last year.

The trade surplus came in at $125 million, compared to a deficit of around $290 million in June as shops stocked up on expensive imported food and clothes before Islam’s holiest month.

Suryamin, the head of the official statistics agency, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said imports surged in June before the start of Ramadan but actually slowed

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A Pro-Russian rebel prepares arms for the the assault on the positions of Ukrainian army in Donetsk airport, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014.

LONDON — Britain’s prime minister is expected to expand powers to combat terrorism in hopes of preventing attacks by Islamist militants returning for terror training in the Middle East.

David Cameron is unveiling a new package of legislation in the House of Commons on Monday.

Talks with the Liberal Democrats, his partners in the governing coalition, stretched into late morning in

hopes of finalizing a deal.

Measures under consideration include powers to take away passports from British citizens, though senior members of the Lib Dems have warned such measures may be illegal — even if they are temporary.

The moves come after Cameron pledged to plug gaps in Britain’s defenses to combat terror, describing the extremist threat posed by the Islamic State group as being more dangerous than even that of al-Qaida.

saying he is still waiting for further information about the development of the case which is now being tackled by the Bukit Aman police in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“What is clear is that what has happened has damaged what the West Kalimantan police com-

mand has done so far to improve the institution,” he said at a press conference.

He said he received information at around 7.30pm on Friday while he was on his way to Singkawang from Mempawah that the Malaysian police had arrested three people in a hotel, following the arrest of a suspect at Kuala Lumpurs international airport.

Two of the suspects were found to be members of the West Kalimantan police command,

namely Adjunct Senior Commissioner Idha Endri Prastiono and Chief Brigadier MH Harahap.

Brigadier General Arief Sulistyanto said in connection with the case he had informed the national police chief and sent a team to Kuching to deal with it on Saturday.

“They have met with the Malaysian police while the case is being handled by the Bukit Aman police in Kuala Lumpur,” he said.

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda met Monday and expected the two countries relations to get stronger in the future.

Yudhoyono, Fukuda expected stronger relations

UK to propose controversial anti-terror laws

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani anti-government protesters stormed the state TV building on Monday, forcing the channel briefly off the air as they clashed with police and pushed further into a sprawling government complex in the capital, Islamabad, in an effort to reach the prime minister’s residence. The violence is the latest in the turmoil roiling Pakistan, where anti-government cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan have been leading twin protests since mid-August calling on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign.

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Relatives weep at the coffin containing the body of Hendry, one of the passengers of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 who was killed when it was shot down over Ukraine in July, upon its arrival in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. Twelve Indonesians, including an infant, were on the ill-fated flight.

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda met Monday and expected the two countries relations to get stronger in the future.

“President Yudhoyono expects that the friendship of Indonesia and Japan should remain strong not only in economic but also political and security sectors,” Indonesian presidents spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said.

During the meeting, Fukuda was accompanied by Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yoshinori Katori, Deputy President

of Japan-Indonesia Association Naoki Kuroda and Yutaka Iimura, President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Takashi Shiraisi, CEO Teijin Oyagi and Regional Coordinator and Adviser of Mitsubishi Corporation in Indonesia Masataka Komiya.

President Yudhoyono was accompanied Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, Coordinating Minister of Legal, Political and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam, and Head of the Investment Coordinating Board Mahendra Siregar.

Julian Aldrin Pasha said Fukuda highly appreciated the Yudhoyono

government saying that Indonesia was able to play a significant role in promoting and maintaining peace in the Southeast Asian and East Asian regions as well as the world.

“This is something that Indonesia and Japan need to preserve,” Fukuda was quoted by Julian as saying adding that President Yudhoyono believed that the Indonesian government under its new president would continue the good relationship with Japan.

President-elect Joko Widodo had also shared President Yudhoyonos opinion about the importance of maintaining Indonesias good relationship with Japan when the two leaders recently met, he added.

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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will tell his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at a summit on Monday that Japan aims to double its direct investment in India in five years from some $2 billion last year, the Nikkei business daily reported. nuclear energy pact, the Nikkei said, although hopes of striking a similar accord to one reached with the United States in 2008 had faded in the run-up to the visit.

Japan wants explicit guarantees from India, which has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, to limit atomic tests and allow closer in-

spection of its facilities to ensure that spent fuel is not used to make bombs.

Japanese firms also want clarity on nuclear disaster compensation, especially in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima catastrophe.

In a sign of their close ties, the two leaders greeted each other with a bear hug when they met on Saturday in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto for an informal dinner.

Modi is one of three people that Abe follows on Twitter, while the Indian leader admires Abe’s brand of nationalist politics.

Also under discussion will be

a proposal to formalise a ‘twoplus-two’ format for talks bringing together the foreign and defence ministers of both countries, and the possible sale of an amphibious aircraft to the India navy.

India and Japan will also likely agree to hold regular joint training exercises in maritime defense, some of which will involve the United States as well, the Nikkei said.

India, Asia’s third-largest economy after China and Japan, needs faster economic growth to create work for the one million young people who enter the workforce

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GIANYAR - Millions of foreign and domestic travelers always spend holidays Gianyar each year. However, of the 20 tourist destinations listed in the Gianyar Government Tourism Office, only seven destinations are managed by local government. Meanwhile, the remaining ones are worked on by private sectors or investors.

every month.

In early steps, Modi has allowed foreign investors to own 100 percent of railway projects with an eye to drumming up interest in building India’s answer to Japan’s high-speed ‘bullet’ trains. He is also courting Japanese investment in an ambitious industrial “corridor” to run between Delhi and Mumbai.

Japan’s Honda Motor Co Ltd, Suzuki Co Ltd, Sony Corp and Toyota Motor Corp are household names in India. Yet, India accounts for only 1.2 percent of Japan’s total outward foreign direct investment.

Alibaba IPO comes with unusual structure Associated Press BEIJING — Foreigners who want to buy Alibaba Group shares in the Chinese e-commerce giant’s U.S. public offering will need to get comfortable with an unusual business structure.

Alibaba’s online and mobile commerce businesses will be controlled by a “variable interest entity,” an arrangement meant to allow investors to buy into Internet and other businesses in which Beijing bans or limits foreign ownership.

Used since the 1990s by Internet operators such as Baidu Inc. and Sina Corp., VIEs are based on contracts that say an offshore entity in the Cayman Islands or another corporate haven will control a Chinese company. Foreign shareholders get a stake in that offshore vehicle and profits but no ownership of the Chinese company.

“The VIE structure is the only way at present to play this game,” said Paul Gillis, a professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. “So if you want to invest in restricted sectors of China’s economy, you have to get comfortable with the VIE structure.”

Chinese regulators have left the status of VIEs ambiguous. Most operate uneventfully, but courts have rejected contracts if they were deemed to be an attempt to evade ownership curbs.

Regulators could shut down VIEs, but “that would be too disruptive,” said Gillis. “They don’t mind the ambiguity because it puts them in a position of strength over the companies to make sure that they comply with government policy.”

Such uncertainty is one of a number of risks investors have accepted to gain a stake in China’s economy. Even after a steep deceleration in growth, it is forecast to expand by about 7 percent annually in coming years.

And Alibaba, based in founder Jack Ma’s hometown of Hangzhou, southwest of Shanghai, represents an especially appealing industry.

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Japan aims to double India investment in 5 years Modi, on his first major foreign visit since a landslide election win in May, arrived on Saturday for a five-day trip aimed at capitalising on a personal affinity with Abe to bolster security and business ties in the face of an assertive China.

The two leaders are also likely to agree to speed up talks on a

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Its Taobao, TMall and other platforms account for some 80 percent of Chinese online commerce.

Online spending by Chinese shoppers is forecast to triple from its 2011 size by 2015. And Alibaba is expanding into online banking, entertainment and other services.

Analysts believe demand for shares will be so strong that Alibaba could surpass the $16 billion raised by Facebook Inc. in 2012. That would value Alibaba at $150 billion to $200 billion, making it one of the most valuable U.S.-traded companies.

In a filing with U.S. regulators, Alibaba says licenses for its online and mobile commerce businesses are held by Chinese citizens to comply with legal restrictions but VIE contracts will give shareholders “effective control.” Still, it warns regulators “may not agree” they are legal.

An Alibaba spokeswoman, Florence Shih, declined to comment, citing the “quiet period” required by U.S. securities rules ahead of an IPO. Investors can find a VIE gives them less control than they expect, according to a March report by Tom Pugh, a lawyer for the firm Mayer Brown JSM in Hong Kong. He cited the case of shareholders who lost control of a Chinese company when its founder blocked them from firing him by seizing the seals used to sign corporate documents.

In a dispute, foreign shareholders have to work through the Chinese legal system, which “may not be adequate or effective,” Pugh wrote.

Jack Ma, chairman of China’s largest ecommerce firm Alibaba Group, attends a corporate event at the company’s headquarters on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in this April 23, 2013 file photograph.

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The photo shows Gunung Kawi, a tourism object at Gianyar. Millions of foreign and domestic travelers always spend holidays Gianyar each year. However, of the 20 tourist destinations listed in the Gianyar Government Tourism Office, only seven destinations are managed by local government.

Based on data from the Gianyar Government Tourism Office, the county has 20 tourist attractions, where the most is located in Ubud subdistrict having seven tourist attractions, Gianyar subdistrict (4), Tampaksiring (3), Blahbatuh (2), Sukawati (2) and Tegallalang (2). Unfortunately, Payangan subdistrict does not have any tourist destination.

Of the 20 tourist attractions, local government of Gianyar only manages seven tourist attractions. Ironically, only Tirta Empul and Goa Gajah become the leading destinations, while others begin to decline in tourist visit, even some attractions are only dropped in by travelers.

Gunung Kawi Sebatu tourist attraction in Ubud, for instance, was visited by 41,879 foreign travelers in 2011, but it dropped to 34,352 in 2012 and dropped again in 2013 to 30,350. Meanwhile, up to July 2014 the tourist visit dropped again to 16,847. Similar condition also occurred to Yeh Pulu tourist attraction in Blahbatuh diminishing from 99,920 foreign travelers in 2011, decreased to 8,631 (2012), decreased again to 7,838 (2013) and ultimately until July 2014 only reached 3,798.

In the meantime, the Gianyar subdistrict from 2011 to July 2014 was visited by 1,204 foreign travelers (Sidan nature tourism) without the visit of domestic travelers.

Conversely, the Bukit Jati attraction was visited by 19,471 domestic travelers and zero foreign travelers.

The Head of Gianyar Government Tourism Office, AA Ari Brahmanta, said that tourist destination in Ubud had been over capacity. To that end, his party was trying to establish some points of growth around Ubud and other areas in Gianyar, “We are trying to attract investors to invest in the entire region of Gianyar, not only in Ubud. As a result, there will be equal distribution of tourist visits,” he said.

The obstacle frequently encountered, according Brahmanta, was the public response recurrently rejecting to tourist destinations. Actually, it was intended to make the point of economic growth. “We just want to make a point of economic growth which can later on grow the economy of surrounding communities,” he said. (kmb35)

Liberty shipwreck shifts

Coastal abrasion threats Karangasem tourism

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AMLAPURA - The Liberty shipwreck amidst the sea of Tulamben, Kubu, has shifted and it is worried if it will get shifted further as swept away by ocean currents.

Additionally, the beach in the Tulamben tourist area is hit by abrasion. To that end, it becomes a threat to tourism sustainability in Karangasem, especially at Tulamben tourist area.

The USAT Liberty, a US-owned cargo ship, sank as torpedoed in the World War II. Today, it had become the leading tourist object of Tulamben offering a less beautiful beach.

Tulamben Beach does not have fine sand, but only has coarse and black sand. So far, the attraction offered by Tulamben Beach and surrounding areas is ornamental fish and coral reefs in the Liberty shipwreck.

It has become an amazing dive attraction.

Marine attraction both diving and snorkeling are frequently requested by travelers visiting the Jemeluk Beach to Bunutan.

In harmony with the increasing tourist visit to the region, many investors then

build hotels, restaurants and villas. Unfortunately, the arrangement looks mediocre.

Hotels and villas evolving naturally seem to have not been arranged and supervised by the government, so that it gives chaotic impression. Such condition causes a number of tourism practitioners to be worried as they cared for the sustainability of the region.

The Head of Bappeda Karangasem, Ketut Sedana Merta, revealed that sand mining industry had developed rapidly and became a major source of the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Karangasem.

On the other hand, the threat of marine tourism assets was clearly visible from the high abrasion rate in the coastal region.

“Liberty shipwreck site does not escape from the threat of loss or shift and damage.

Thus, prevention against the loss is very important,” he said.

He added that effectiveness of coastal protection needed to be investigated.

Meanwhile, Sedana Merta also planned the protection against the Liberty shipwreck site. A physical test would be planned in 2015. (013)

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The Liberty shipwreck amidst the sea of Tulamben, Kubu, has shifted and it is worried if it will get shifted further as swept away by ocean currents.

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good,” Gurjit added. He explained that there are approximately 60,000 tourists from India come to Bali.

Most of them said that Bali is a great tourist destination which offers peace and tranquility.

“I think that India’s tourist contribute in the development of local economics. The tourists who come to Bali need vegetarian food because most of them don’t consume meat but the vegetarian restaurants are quite limited,” he explained.

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JIMBARAN - The accident leading to death occurred at the intersection of Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Jimbaran-Jalan Kampus Unud, South Kuta, Saturday (Aug 30). As the pick-up truck carrying dozens of workers rolled over, 5 passengers were killed and 11 others were injured. Meanwhile, the driver of the truck with initial Bb from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) escaped.

Unit Chief of the Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs, Nyoman Nuryana, said on Sunday (Aug 31) that the pick-up truck getting involved in the accident at 10:00 p.m. was Daihatsu Grand Max with license plate DK 9637 FL. Meanwhile, passengers of the unlucky vehicle were construction workers at a hotel project in Jimbaran. Originally, the vehicle drove from the north (Kuta) to the project location. “Allegedly, the vehicle drove at high speed,” he added.

Upon arrival at the scene, said the Traffic Unit Chief, allegedly the pickup truck was about to overtake a taxi. However, no one saw the license plate of the taxi. When swerved to the left, the driver could not control the speed because the vehicle was probably loaded. “When swerving the steer to the left, it even crashed a shade tree,” said Nuryana.

This former Chief of Buleleng Police Traffic Affairs confirmed that the speed of vehicle was getting out of control and eventually overturned. As a result, all the pas-

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PHILADELPHIA — Severe thunderstorms across the northeastern U.S. delayed flights, halted outdoor sports events and concerts in New York and Philadelphia and sent people scurrying from a beach after three men were struck by lightning. The men were injured at Orchard Beach in New York’s Bronx neighborhood Sunday evening as bad storms rolled through, the Fire Department of New York said. The men were being treated at a hospital and the extent of their injuries was unknown.

Indian Ambassador for Indonesia Gurjit Singh, second from right, visited Bali for the 6th Global Forum by Alliance of Civilization in Nusa Dua.

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sengers were immediately thrown onto the road. “Upon receiving the report of the case, we immediately came down to the scene. We tried to rescue the victims by bringing them to hospital,” he said.

The victims who died in the accident consisted of Wiyoto, 31, M. Imron, 29, Junaedi, 27, M. Rofik, 25, and Agus Salim, 28. Meanwhile, the injured victims included Soleh, 43, Iwan Krisnawanto, 31, Bagus Sukardiono, 26, Yosi Hermawanto, 31, Ade Adriansah, 31, Kusnali, 32, Edi Santoso, 29, Muh. Amin Gozali, 31, Alvin Dwi Saputra, 34, Ketut Merta, 43, and Dwi Oky Setiaji, 30.

“All the victims have been taken to Sanglah Hospital. Some victims died because they got severe head injury,” said Nuryana.

Meanwhile, the terrible vehicle had been secured in the station house at Campus Intersection, Jimbaran. From testimonies of Mrs. Tegar, a resident around the scene, she heard the shriek of car brakes followed by a crunch. In addition, she also heard the cries and shouts for help.

Mrs. Tegar went out of the house and rushed to the scene. At that time, she saw a woman crying out for help while pointing out to the men lying down in the middle of the road. Besides, she saw a motorcycle lying down in wrecked condition. “Approximately 400 meters to the south, there was a car upside down. Similarly, I saw many people lying down on the road and on the sidewalk,” she added. (kmb36)

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Indian Ambassador visit Bali Indian Ambassador for Indonesia Gurjit Singh visited the Consulate General of India in Renon, Denpasar on Monday, September 1.

He was accompanied by the Consul General, Amarjeet Sings Takhi. The Ambassador came to Bali to join the 6th Global Forum by Alliance of Civilization in Nusa Dua. During his visit, Gurjit also came to Ganesha University in Singaraja Regency. He said that he was very happy to come to Bali and will increase the cooperation in tourism, economy, culture and education with the island.

He explained that there are many students from Bali who get the scholarship to India. “The cooperation between two countries is very

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Torrential rain, thunder and lightning interrupted the Labor Day holiday weekend celebrations in Philadelphia, where a music concert was evacuated for safety reasons.

Besides temporarily stopping the Made in America concert, the bad weather also forced the early end to the Electric Zoo musical festival on an island in New York’s East River and halted play for the first time at this year’s U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens.

Former champion Maria Sharapova took notice of the weather warnings as she answered ques-

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Minister of Education lack respond illegal international schools in Bali

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Bali Post DENPASAR - Decisive sanctions against international schools operating in Bali without permit from the Ministry of Education and Culture stays unclear so far. Letter of Bali governor to the Minister of Education and Culture regarding those illegal international schools in Bali has not got any response. So far, those illegal schools are still operating as usual.

Against the condition, a member of Commission X of the House of Representatives from Bali, Wayan Koster, asked the government to address the issue and immediately cracked down on the illegal international schools in Bali, for example, by directly closing the schools if they were not cooperative and did not want to submit their permit. “If the schools with international label in Bali have no permit, we will check them. If they really do not have any permit, just close them. Do not use any international label if they are in fact having no permit and do not comply with the regulations,” said Koster, Friday (Aug 29).

Wayan Koster in charge of education added that based on the results of monitoring all this time, many issues arose in international schools operating in Indonesia, including Bali. School tuition was very high so that it could disrupt the education system in Indonesia. Besides, there was also discrimination against local teachers. “Related to international schools and the incident of sexual abuse against

one of the students at the Jakarta International School (JIS), we ask the Ministry of Education and Culture to issue permit for international schools more strictly. The schools must comply with the rules prevailing in Indonesia, such as implementing the existing curriculum,” said this PDI-P politician from Buleleng.

He did not deny if all this time many problems and violations were committed by international schools, while the supervision and enforcement by the government was very weak. Many schools were escaped from supervision by inspectorate or directorate of the Ministry of Education and Culture. “So, we have conceded as there are many international schools having no permit and they do not implement our curriculum. These are violations and should be imposed with sanction,” said Koster who was re-elected as a member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia by a majority vote of Bali.

Separately, the Head of Bali

Education Agency, Tjok Istri Agung (TIA) Kusuma Wardani, said that so far there had been no responses from the Ministry of Education and Culture to the letter of Bali governor regarding the international schools in Bali.

“We’ve had asked directly to the Director General of Secondary Education because the letter has been sent quite long. In fact, there is no response from the Ministry of Education and Culture related to the follow up of letter sent by the governor,” she said while hoping the Ministry of Education and Culture could immediately address the issues because the provincial and county government was not authorized to take action.

He added that his party had invited the Education Agency of county/municipality to clarify and synchronize the data of international schools existing in the region. “We have asked the county and municipal agency to recheck them. In the near future, we will invite the international schools regarding the matter of permit,” said Kusuma Wardani. (wid)

tions about her loss to 10th-seeded Caroline Wozniacki just before the storm hit. “Is that the flood warning? Darn it. If I was only there a little longer,” she said to laughter.

The National Weather Service said wind damage and flash flooding hit East Orange, New Jersey, and large tree branches were down on Long Island.

More than 30 flights in and out of the New York metro area were delayed and at least one was cancelled because of the severe weather, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware. Storms also

Tennis fans exit the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center as a heavy rain falls suspending play of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014, in New York.

Paris suburb building blast death toll reaches 7

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PARIS — The death toll in the partial collapse of a four-story apartment building has risen to seven in a northeastern Paris suburb after emergency crews pulled the body of an elderly woman from the rubble.

Fire department spokesman Gabriel Plus

disrupted air travel in Philadelphia and the Baltimore-Washington region.

Flights leaving Newark Liberty in New Jersey and Washington Dulles in Virginia were held up nearly three hours, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Flights in and out of New York’s Kennedy Airport and Philadelphia International Airport were delayed up to two hours.

In the Midwest, storms began sweeping across Iowa and Nebraska late Sunday with heavy rains causing some flooding and wind gusts affecting power lines and snapping tree limbs. The National Weather Service said Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, and Dakota City, Nebraska, saw winds up to 90 mph (145 kph) that caused significant damage.

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2014 photo, a worker sprays insecticide to get rid of mosquitos to prevent dengue fever at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo.

said the body was found Monday morning in Rosny-sous-Bois.

Officials said there was no longer danger in the neighborhood after the explosion sheared part of the building Sunday, scattering scraps of metal and household belongings. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said a gas leak is believed to be the cause.

New Zealand gunman kills 2; 19 new dengue cases in Japan, suspect in custody

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A man suspected of killing two unemployment-office workers and critically injuring a third was taken into custody Monday following a manhunt that lasted seven hours and kept a town on edge.

Police spokeswoman Lisa-Marie Brooks said a police dog unit apprehended 48-year-old John Tully near a lake shortly after 5 p.m. following an extensive manhunt in the South Island town of Ashburton.

She said Tully would be treated for minor dogbite injuries. She said police were still searching for a weapon used in the shootings and a charging decision would likely be made Tuesday. Earlier, police had urged residents to remain inside their

homes as they searched an area near the town’s river and stormed a house that turned out to be empty.

Tully had been interviewed in recent weeks by the local newspaper about his struggles finding somewhere to live and had also written to lawmakers. The incident began about 10 a.m. when police said a man entered a Work and Income New Zealand office and started shooting. A witness said the man was wearing a black balaclava and shot at two women, according to the Ashburton Guardian newspaper. Other witnesses told the paper the man was carrying a shotgun that may have been sawed down and fled on a bicycle.

Ministry of Social Development Chief Executive Brendan Boyle said all three victims worked for the agency.

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TOKYO — Japan is urging local authorities to be on the lookout for further outbreaks of dengue fever, after confirming another 19 cases that were contracted at a popular local park in downtown Tokyo.

The cases announced Monday raise to 22 the number of dengue infections thought to have been contracted locally.

The health ministry earlier reported three local cases, the first in nearly 70 years.

Tokyo began spraying Yoyogi park, a vast green area next to Meiji Shrine

that is popular with young Japanese and performance artists, after discovering the outbreak.

Japan sees dozens of imported cases of dengue fever each year, mostly in tourists who catch the illness while traveling in tropical regions. The disease, which is transmitted only by mosquito, was common in Japan during World War II but was locally eradicated for decades.

Dengue causes symptoms including fever, severe joint pain and headaches.

There is no treatment, and some of those infected can suffer from severe and lifethreatening bleeding.

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TABANAN - Thousands of kites from the regions across Bali vivaciously competed for the best in the arena of Ganesha Kite Festival held by the community of Bengkel Kawan customary village, Bengkel village, Kediri subdistrict, Sunday (Aug 31).

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, California — For years scientists have theorized about how large rocks — some weighing hundreds of pounds — zigzag across Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, leaving long trails etched in the earth.

The competition was held in the area of paddy field at Batu Tampih, Pangkung Tibah village, Kediri subdistrict. Chief of Bengkel Kawan customary village, and chairman of the Ganesha Kite Festival organizing committee, I Ketut Sutama, said the kite festival was held for fund raising in relation to temple renovation. “Other than for fund raising, the competition was also served as a means to channel the hobby of kite lovers,” he explained.

He added the Ganesha Kite Festival this year was the third implementation. The previous festivals were held in 2006 and 2009, “In the future, we do hope the Ganesha Kite Festival can be held every year,” he said.

Moreover, according to him, the response of local government was very positive to the implementation

Richard Norris, 55, a paleobiologist at Scripps, and James, 59, a research engineer, launched their “Slithering Stones Research Initiative” in 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported (http://lat.ms/VNVWou).

After getting permits from the National Park Service, they installed a weather station in the area and placed 15 stones equipped with global positioning devices on the playa.

The “GPS stones,” which were engineered to record movement and velocity, were stationed at the southern end of the playa where rocks begin their strange journeys after tumbling down a cliff.

At the end of last year, Richard and James Norris returned to inspect the instruments.

“We found the playa covered with ice,” Richard recalled to the Times. “We also noticed fresh rock trails near shards of thin ice stacked up along the shoreline.”

The following afternoon, “we were sitting on a mountainside and admiring the view when a light wind kicked up and the ice started cracking,” he said. “Suddenly, the whole process unfolded before our eyes.”

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This undated photo provided by the National Park Service shows rocks that have moved across a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California’s Mojave Desert.

of the Ganesha Kite Festival. Besides, he also expressed his gratitude for the assistance provided by the government of Tabanan.

Three categories were competed in the kite festival, namely the general, local Tabanan and children.

“Meanwhile, the three types of kites involved are consisting of the bebean (fish style), janggan (bird style) and pecukan (leaf style),” he said.

The kite contest, added Sutama, was also a refreshing means for kite lovers and the community as well as the economic driver for small traders selling around the location of the contest. “Indirectly, this activity is able to provide benefits for small traders. Various foods like satay, meatballs and drinks definitely sold out in this event,” he concluded. (kmb28)

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The payphone in Denpasar is neglected for many years due to the development of technology and increasing number of handphone. Few years ago, it was an important means of communication for many people.

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DNA shows Arctic group’s isolation lasted 4,000 years WASHINGTON - A long-gone group of ancient people known as Paleo-Eskimos lived in isolation in the North American Arctic for more than 4,000 years, said a study on Thursday.

They trekked from Siberia across the Bering Strait to their new home, and made no contact with other cultures who’d made the same journey at different times in history, including Native Americans and the Inuit people.

These Paleo-Eskimos eventually disappeared about 700 years ago, around the time when the ancestors of the modern-day Inuit moved eastward from Alaska, researchers said in the US journal Science.

“They were, in a sense, sitting ducks and either they were pushed out into the fringes

of the Arctic area where they couldn’t survive economically or else they may simply have been annihilated in some strange way,” said William Fitzhugh, director of the Arctic study center at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Researchers obtained DNA from ancient human bone, teeth and hair samples from Arctic Siberia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland for the study.

They also sequenced the genomes of two present-day Greenlandic Inuit, two Siberian Nivkhs, one Aleutian Islander and two Athabascan Native Americans.

A study of their genetics shows the PaleoEskimos were not related to Native Americans or the Inuit.

Known as the Saqqaq and Dorset people,

these Paleo-Eskimos lived in small villages with just a handful of houses and 20-30 people in each.

Their population size is hard to know for certain, but researchers said it probably numbered a few thousand.

Given the uniformity researchers found in mitochondrial DNA, which comes from the mother, there appeared to be few women among them, and inbreeding may have been common.

“The occupational history of the Arctic is unique compared to other regions of the world,” said Maanasa Raghavan a molecular biologist and researcher at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

“Cultural changes were brought about by movement of ideas and not new people coming

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Thousands of kites grace the sky of Tabanan

Mystery of Death Valley’s moving rocks solved Now two researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have photographed these “sailing rocks” being blown by light winds across the former lake bed.

Cousins Richard Norris and James Norris said the movement is made possible when ice sheets that form after rare overnight rains melt in the rising sun, making the hard ground muddy and slick.

On Dec. 20, 2013, the cousins catalogued 60 rocks moving across the playa’s pancake-flat surface.

“Observed rock movement occurred on sunny, clear days, following nights of sub-freezing temperatures,” they wrote in a report published Wednesday in the online scientific journal PLOS ONE. The conclusion proves theories that have been floated since geologists began studying the moving rocks in the 1940s.

The phenomenon doesn’t happen often because it rarely rains in the notoriously hot and dry desert valley.

The rocks move about 15 feet (5 meters) per minute, according to the report.

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into the region.”

Experts say the Dorset people were known for their art and their skill in making chipped stone points and small blades. However, they are not believed to have possessed bows and arrows.

They hunted and fished, and held ritual gatherings in traditional longhouses.

Still, Fitzhugh said archeologists “have a lot of trouble understanding their mindset.”

History also has no known comparison for groups that stayed on their own for as long as they did.

“I think it’s a very remarkable incidence of cultural stability and continuity. And I don’t think you can find any modern example in the last 4,000 or 5,000 years quite like this,” he said.

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The Coast Guard ship Des Groseilliers is seen near the arctic community of Pond Inlet, Nunavut August 23, 2014. A long-gone group of ancient people known as Paleo-Eskimos lived in isolation in the North American Arctic for more than 4,000 years, said a study on Thursday.

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Green turtle found by residents belonged to a rare turtle species that normally lived in sea water.

GIANYAR - If residents of Mas village, Ubud, were once surprised by the finding of crocodile in the river, last Sunday (Aug 31) around 07:00 a.m., residents of Wanayu Mas hamlet, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh, was surprised by the finding of green turtle in the river of Subak Wanayu Mas whereas it is ordinarily living at sea. Approximately the turtle found was 50 years old.

It was visible from the large size of green turtle found. It drew the attention of hundreds of residents.

Its carapace had the length of 65 cm and width of 64 cm. When found, the turtle condition was quite alarming. People said if the turtle carapace looked mossy, while the existing scales on the carapace seemed unclear.

It was first discovered by Wanayu Mas resident, Made Suweta. At that time, he was having a promenade and suddenly saw an object moving in the river. When approached, in fact it was a turtle.

He was afraid of seeing something unusual found in the river. The finding of turtle was then notified to surrounding residents. As consequence, hundreds of local residents

were made surprised by the findings of such green turtle.

When attracting the attention of local residents, the turtle entered the tunnel of the road. After that, local residents contacted Gusti Putu Ali Sudira, a Wanayu resident who worked in Gianyar Livestock Agency. The turtle was then captured and taken to his home and reported to the office of Bali Natural Resources Agency.

The Head of Conservation Section for Region II of the Bali Natural Resources Agency, I Ketut Catur Marbawa, said the green turtle had been rescued and commended in the Bali Safari for observation. When rescued, the turtle was in good health condition, but it only got a minor injury on foot when it was evacuated by residents.

According to him, the green turtle found by residents belonged to a rare turtle species that normally lived in sea water. Associated with the presence of the freshwater turtle, in this case he had not got any clear information from residents. “Judging from the age of turtle reaching 50 years, it is not possible for it to live in freshwater for a long time,” he said while adding that he would find out further information about it. (kmb16)

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Hog-plum herbal drink, typical drink of Bangli County

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BANGLI - Traveling to Bangli County seems incomplete without enjoying loloh cemcem or hog-plum (Spondias pinnata) herbal drink. This typical traditional drink of Bangli is widely encountered at Penglipuran village, indeed denoting the center for the making of hog-plum herbal drink. Nowadays, this drink has been widely marketed to other regions and often becomes favorite drink in some culinary booths in the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). It is prepared with a very simple process. Even, the ingredients are widely available as they are used to make natural fence by residents of Penglipuran.

In Balinese language, it is known as loloh. If herbal drink has been imagined to have a bitter and unpleasant taste, the hog-plum herbal drink has a very refreshing taste in throat. So far, it is commonly served as a complementary drink while eating Balinese food.

One of the hog-plum herbal drink makers, Mom Nyampuh, said the making process of this herbal drink was very simple. Main ingredient of the herbal drink was hog-plum leaf growing in the home yard of local residents. Having been finely washed, the leaf had to be crushed or pulverized. Then, it was added with warm water as needed.

Since the leaf tended to have sour taste, it should be added with palm sugar to give sweet taste during the preparation. Besides, it needed to be added with grated young coconut to give fresh sensation. Additional ingredients added to the preparation of this herbal drink caused it to have a variety of flavors. In the past, this herbal drink was often mixed with fried peanuts.

According to Mom Nyampuh, although the herbal drink was totally made from natural ingredients, it could last long enough, moreover if it was chilled in refrigerator. “If this herbal drink is kept in refrigerator, it can hold for three days. Oth-

erwise, it can just hold for whole day,” she said.

Since it was in high demand, the herbal drink used to quench thirst was admitted to have a promising business prospect. Not a few people of Penglipuran had deeply involved in the making of this herbal drink and sold it to the market. “I have been selling this kind of herbal drink for 18 years,” she added.

Due to be in high demand, she could produce the hog-plum herbal drink as much as 1,000 bottles of mineral water each day. Selling price of this traditional drink was affordable. Her herbal drink of small-sized bottle was sold for IDR

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2,500 each, while the medium-sized one was sold for IDR 3,500 each.

Aside from being marketed in the region of Bangli, her product was also marketed to a number of other areas such as Denpasar, Gianyar, Karangasem and others. Even, her product had also been sold to other

regions such as Jakarta.

According to Mom Nyampuh, in addition to be used as a thirst quencher, the hog-plum herbal drink was also believed to have good benefits for health. One of them was to relieve heartburn. (ina)

Condition of quarry at risk of being unable to be restored

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AMLAPURA - Up to these days, the reclamation funds for quarry area in Karangasem have not been used.

The funds intended to restore the condition after the mining activities stay to settle because no entrepreneurs have been willing to carry out the reclamation since 2000. As a result, the environmental damage caused by

the quarry is at risk of being unable to be restored.

In accordance with Regulation of Karangasem Regent No. 14/2008 on the quarry reclamation warranty deposit, every entrepreneur carrying out a quarry activity is imposed with reclamation warranty fund worth about IDR 50 million. This limited amount of fees is charged for every one hectare of quarry area.

Unfortunately from 2000 to 2014, no entrepreneur wanted to use the funds to restore the quarry area.

When asked for his confirmation about the reclamation fund, the Head of Economic Affairs of the Karangasem government, I Wayan Mindra, revealed the reclamation funds deposited to the government had not been used so far for the reclamation of the quarry area.

According to him, many businessmen claimed the fund worth IDR 50 million was not enough to do reclamation for the area of one hectare.

“Reclamation fund worth IDR 50 million was just enacted in 2010.

Previously, the reclamation fund was approximately IDR 2.5 million.

The government admitted to face difficulty to make reclamation with such amount of fund,” he said.

Besides, the obligation to perform reclamation lay in the entrepreneurs that had owned a mining permit. In terms of the reclamation fund collected amounting to IDR 1.5 billion, the government was not able to perform the reclamation by using the existing fund. The condition was exacerbated by many quarry companies that were operating illegally without depositing reclamation warranty fund. (dwa)

Arrested for two weeks, murderers of traveler still keep silent

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DENPASAR - The suspects Tommy and Heather remain to keep silent and do not want to be examined. Actually they have been arrested behind bars for more than two weeks. Both suspects were charged under Article 338 of the Criminal Code regarding the murder case against Sheila Ann Von Weise.

Chief of Denpasar Police Criminal Investigation, Nengah Sadiarta, said on Sunday (Aug 31) that since they were arrested and detained on Wednesday (Aug 13), the lovers were still speechless and did not want to give any information when questioned. However, he said it did not have an impact on the process of investigation. “The investigation process keeps going, even if

the suspects do not want to talk,” he added.

The investigators had set them as suspects. They were subject to Article 338 of the Criminal Code with the threat of 15-year imprisonment and maximally lifetime imprisonment.

To prevent conspiracy, the arrest of the two suspects was separated. The suspect Heather was arrested at the Denpasar Police, while Tommy at

the Bali Police. “Being pregnant, the suspect Heather sometimes gets nausea and we immediately take her to Trijata Hospital. It is the only her complaint. We always monitor her health,” said Sadiarta.

For information, the body of Sheila Ann Von Weise, 64, from the United States was found in a suitcase in a parking taxi at St. Regis Hotel on Jalan Pantai Sawangan, Nusa

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Dua, Kuta, Tuesday (Aug 12). Police could reveal the case by arresting Tommy and Heather at one of the hotels in Kuta.

Motive of the murder case was alleged to have been caused by an offense. The victim, Heather’s foster mother, rejected to pay the bill of room occupied by Tommy. However, both suspects denied having an involvement in the case. (kmb36)

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Miracle launched CSR Program

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DENPASAR - Miracle Aesthetic Clinic launched its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program named ‘Believe in MIRACLE: The Miracle Touch for a Happy Healthy Home’ last week. The event held in Sector Bar, Inna Grand Bali Beach was also to celebrate the 18th Anniversary of Miracle. Present on the event was the Operational Director of Miracle Aestethetic Clinic Jap Budi Wijaya, management Miracle, Clareta Gozali as Branch Manager Habitat for Humanity Indonesia and media partner.

In the event, Budi Wijaya stated that Miracle cooperated with Habitat for Humanity Indonesia Foundation to build 10 houses for the needed families. It will start in September through December 2014 throughout Indonesia. In Bali, the program will be held in Gobleg Village, Buleleng. “We are partnering with the foundation that has a noble purpose. We are very happy,” he added In the event, there was also a signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Habitat for Humanity Indonesia. “In this partnership, we will responsible for survey, analysis, and the consyruction process,” said Clareta Gozali. (ocha)

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud 14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri

19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri

23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 considered 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 “umbulumbul”, 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.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy tie the knot Associated Press

NEW YORK — Donnie Wahlberg’s “Favorite Girl” Jenny McCarthy is now his wife. The couple tied the knot Sunday in a ceremony outside Chicago, McCarthy’s publicist, Brad Cafarelli, confirmed.

It’s the second marriage for both 45-year-old Wahlberg and 41-year-old McCarthy. Wahlberg still performs with

his boy band New Kids on the Block and also stars in the CBS police drama “Blue Bloods.” He also appears in an A&E

reality show about a family restaurant called Wahlburgers that’s run by his brother Paul.

He has two sons from his first marriage.

McCarthy recently left “The View” and now hosts a radio show on SiriusXM. She has a son from her first marriage.

The couple began dating last year.

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Jennifer Aniston on being a ‘badass’ after ‘Friends’ After playing sitcom sweetheart Rachel Green in longrunning television comedy “Friends” for 10 years, Jennifer Aniston has spent the last decade looking for roles where she can “kick some ass.” In “Life of Crime,” out in U.S. theaters on Friday, Aniston taps into a 1970s Detroit trophy wife and socialite, Mickey Dawson, who finds herself held for ransom while her cheating husband debates whether to pay for her release.

Aniston, 45, talked to Reuters about the excitement of being in a caper comedy, playing strong female characters and the “Friends” phenomenon 10 years after it concluded its run.

Q: What resonated with you about the character of Mickey?

A: It was such fun, as any Elmore Leonardadapted screenplay you would imagine would be, and her character’s arc was so awesome.

Q: How did you connect with her initial passiveness at her crumbling marriage?

A: I was a kid in the seventies, and women were stuck in unhappy situations that they didn’t know how to get out of, not like today where if something smells even a little bit bad, it’s like ‘I’m high-tailing it out of here.’ So I really loved how her character was written and she was actually a badass.

Q: How did you interpret Mickey’s eventual connection to Louis (played by John Hawkes), who kidnapped her?

A: Oh my lord, he was saving her, he was her savior in an odd, twisted way. And I think she could feel that, even under the mask, she could feel that, and it’s sort of this odd couple relationship that forms, and I think it’s quite lovely.

Q: What type of women have you found yourself drawn to after playing Rachel on “Friends” for 10 years?

A: Women usually who have a really positive arc and become stronger at the end of it, coming out from underneath cir-

cumstances that just seem unsurvivable, and the fact that you actually get through it and survive and get stronger and kick some ass. I like that. I can’t say (“Horrible Bosses” character) Doctor Julia’s that, she doesn’t deserve it.

Q: The 20th anniversary of “Friends”’ premiere is coming up.

A: Didn’t that already happen?

Q: September 2014 is 20 years after ...

A: The first time it aired? I thought it was last year. Oh good, I’m a year younger! I just saved a year, so great.

Q: How to you still reflect on the show and its fans?

A: I love how it sort of keeps on, it’s like the little Energizer bunny, it just keeps on ticking, it’s amazing. It transcends, I don’t know what it is about it, but it makes me very happy.

I love it even when it comes on.

Q: Do you miss Rachel?

A: I get her everyday in my house. I don’t have to miss her, she’s everywhere! (laughs)

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As per September 1

Foreign workers in Gianyar to pay USD 100 monthly fee IBP/Net

Foreign tourists riding elephants in Gianyar, Bali Island. Not only come as tourists, foreigners also work in Gianyar. Foreign workers who work in the area of Gianyar County are required to pay a monthly fee at USD 100 effective Monday (Sep 1).

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GIANYAR - Foreign workers who work in the area of Gianyar County are required to pay a monthly fee at USD 100 effective Monday (Sep 1). This policy relates to the enactment of the Law No. 8/2014 dated July 14, 2014 regarding the levies of the extension of Foreign Worker Employment Permit (IMTA).

As a major tourist destination in Bali, Gianyar has accommodation facilities becoming the center of tourism and handicraft production worth exporting that stimulates the Gianyar employers to hire foreign workers in order to win competition. This potential provides a great opportunity to increase the region-

ally generated revenue (PAD).

All this time, the extension of Foreign Worker Employment Permit was paid to central government.

However, through the regulation, Gianyar County had a chance to take it over. Moreover, the Government Regulation No.97/2012 has mandated the local government to

create a legal instrument for the levy collection of the extension of Foreign Worker Employment Permit.

Until the end of August 2014, a total of 67 foreign workers had been registered in the area of Gianyar County. They represent the data of central government whose levy collection of the Foreign Worker Employment Permit has now been bestowed. Of the 67 workers, 23 people have extended the permit of previous year.

Additional Foreign Worker Employment Permit from the Minister of Manpower in 2013 came to 21

workers and up to June 2014 it increased to 23 workers. “This potential will continue to grow after the issuance of new permit until the end of December 2014 and the results of the ongoing data collection,” said the Head of Gianyar Manpower and Settlement Agency, Gede Widarma Suharta.

Extension tariff of the Foreign Worker Employment Permit as much as USD 100 per person per month was remitted to the Regional Treasury via the Treasury Receipt at the Gianyar Manpower and Settlement Agency or through a bank specified for the extension

of permit expired on August 31, 2014 and so on. “This registration is made by the foreign worker users in Gianyar,” he said.

Amidst the existence of numerous tourism companies, there was possibility if some foreign workers have not been registered yet.

Against this condition, Widarma said that his party would conduct an inspection next month to several companies so as to know in person the foreigners working in the company existing in Gianyar County, but had not been registered or had the Foreign Worker Employment Permit, he explained. (kmb16)