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Bieber charged with assault over photo incident Associated Press

TORONTO — Canadian pop star Justin Bieber faces new charges after he was arrested for dangerous driving and assault following a collision between a minivan and an ATV that led to a physical altercation involving a photographer, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Ontario Provincial Police said Bieber, who was driving the ATV, and an occupant of the minivan “engaged in a physical altercation,” Friday afternoon near Bieber’s hometown of Stratford.

“Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s peaceful retreat in Stratford this weekend was unfortunately disrupted by the unwelcome presence of the paparazzi,” Brian Greenspan, Bieber’s Toronto lawyer, said Tuesday.

“This has regrettably resulted in charges of dangerous driving and assault. Mr. Bieber and Ms. Gomez have fully cooperated in the police investigation. We are hopeful that this matter will be quickly resolved.”

Bieber, 20, turned himself in to a police station Monday and was arrested, then released on a promise to appear in court Sept.

29, Constable Kees Wijnands said.

Wijnands said there were no injuries as

a result of the collision, but could not say whether there were any injuries from the altercation.

“It wasn’t a big deal for us. We knew he was here. He’s a local boy. We weren’t going to make a big deal of it,” Wijnands said, adding that Beiber was riding with a passenger.

Bieber was photographed Friday riding on an ATV vehicle with on-and-off again girlfriend actress and a singer Selena Gomez.

Just a few days before the incident, Bieber’s car was hit from behind by a vehicle driven by a photographer in Hollywood and the Grammy Award-nominated singer tweeted: “There should be laws against what I just experienced. We should have learned from the death of Princess Diana...”

He also tweeted: “I don’t have a problem with Paparazzi but when they act recklessly they put us all in danger.”

Earlier this month, Bieber pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of careless driving and resisting arrest seven months after his arrest in Miami Beach following what police initially called an illegal street drag race.

Bieber is also charged in Toronto with assaulting a limousine driver in late December.

Police allege Bieber hit a limousine driver several times in the back of the head after he and five others were picked up in the early hours of Dec. 30.

Joan Rivers on life support

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NEW YORK — Joan Rivers’ family is confirming that the comedian is on life support after going into cardiac arrest last week during a procedure at a doctor’s office.

Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, said in a statement Tuesday that her mother is on life support “at this time.” Melissa said the family is extremely grateful for the public support.

Joan Rivers was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan last Thursday. The 81-year-old comic and red carpet commentator has maintained a busy career as host of “Fashion Police” on the E! network and co-star of the WEtv reality show, “Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?”

Melissa Rivers said Tuesday that she knows that her mother would be overwhelmed by the continuing outpouring of kindness.

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Also in Miami, Bieber faces a lawsuit by a photographer who alleges he was roughed up while shooting pictures of the singer outside a recording studio.

In July, Bieber pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor vandalism charge for throwing eggs at a neighbor’s house in Los Angeles. He agreed to pay more than $80,000 in damages, meet a number of other conditions and was sentenced to two years’ probation.

Bieber rocketed to fame at age 15. He was nominated for two Grammy Awards for his 2010 full-length album debut “My World 2.0,” but sales of his latest records have fallen off.

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Foreign players can help England, says Hodgson

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Motorist passed a hotel project near Kuta area, Bali Island, recently. City hotel continues to proliferate. Even, it has reached rural areas without compensated with any restrictions by the government and continues to reap criticism among the circles of Bali House.

Bali tourism getting cheaper

City hotel must be restricted Bali Post

DENPASAR - City hotel continues to proliferate. Even, it has reached rural areas without compensated with any restrictions by the government and continues to reap criticism among the circles of Bali House.

According to a member of the Bali House for the tenure of 20142019, Disel Astawa, other than disrupting home stay becoming one of the community-based economic activities in the tourism sector, the city hotel also made the Bali tourism increasingly cheap because they were selling rooms at low price. “City hotels must be minimized because they make Bali tourism increasingly cheap,” said

Diesel Astawa.

This PDI-P politician getting the position for the second term in the Bali House hoped the government to restrict the establishment of city hotels. Even, his party in the Bali House with the new members took the initiative to make a regional bylaw draft where one of the points would protect the community-based tourism and then clearly classified the existing

tourist accommodation. Besides, it would also set firmly the existence of city hotels so that they would disrupt the home stays operated by local communities with the concept of community-based economic activities.

“Without the regulation, the Bali tourism will be chaotic. Community-based tourism development will go bankrupt due to the onslaught of large investors and capitalists.

The regulations governing the classification of tourist accommodation and where people can build must be clear. Related to the regulation, we expect the House could have an initiative to prepare the regulations,” he said.

Diesel Astawa completely agreed with the statement of the elect president Joko Widodo (Jokowi) that tourism in Bali should be arranged with clear segmentation.

The development should be considered in terms of segmentation, calculations and studies on Balinese community. For instance, it had to be focused by targeting class travelers because Bali had become a leading tourist destination in the world and had its own uniqueness.

“Formerly, our tourism put emphasis on quality rather than quantity. In other words, even though the tourist arrival is only some few, their length of stay was long and

they were spending a lot in Bali.

Now, our tourism gives emphasis on the amount or quantity of tourist arrival so that it does not pay attention to the quality of tourism.

As a result, Bali tourism turns into mass tourism and it is increasingly cheap,” he said.

Similar opinion was also delivered by a new legislator, AA Ngurah Adhi Ardhana. This Secretary of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Denpasar Chapter affirmed that home stay was a part to increase the people’s economy. Distribution of travelers and tourism could occur with the existence of home stay.

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AMLAPURA - A legislator from Penginyahan, Kubu, Karangasem, Nyoman Musna Antara, said the water crisis in Kubu was severe. Since last May, the residents had even proposed to request clean water assistance.

IDR 20,000 and IDR 10,000 per person.

Distribution of the water using tank truck was managed by the Kubu subdistrict. However, the tank truck had been out of order since a few days. The tank truck was old enough and during the operation it should take water and distribute it through heavy road each day. “Each day, the tank truck of subdistrict

The severe drought happen in Kubu, Karangasem Regency

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can serve 10 times back and forth.

Even, the driver serves the water customers in turn to night. From the location of taking water, the driver must pass through difficult terrain to reach the cisterns of residents where it takes two hours for each trip,” said Musna.

He said that in recent days, many people organized wedding or cremation ritual in the barren

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subdistrict of Kubu. As a result, the water need increased, while the cisterns of local residents had dried out even since last May. Those who needed water were forced to ask for help. The price water was quite expensive. People living near state road of Amlapura-Singaraja also faced water crisis. They had no other choice but buying it at IDR 100,000 for each tank with the capacity of 5,000 liters. However, if the water seller had to serve the residents by passing through hard path, the water price would be IDR 150,000 each tank. “Residents living at the barren village in Kubu are unable to buy such expensive water because their income as farmers is erratic. Moreover, their cashew nuts have not borne fruit yet,” said Musna Antara.

The residents requiring clean water, as their rainwater in the cistern had dried out, generally originated from four villages in Kubu namely the Tianyar, West Tianyar, East Tianyar and Ban village. “At Tianyar village, the severe water crisis happens to Moncol, Pedahan, Padangsari and other hamlets in the mountain areas,” he said.

Meanwhile, a member of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, also revealed similar condition. He said that he was very concerned whereas all this time there had been a lot of pipeline projects for the provision of clean water.

However, the residents at the barren villages remained to face clean water crisis. Gede Dana lamented the clean water pipeline project from Telaga Waja spending the funds worth more than IDR 120 billion from central government could not be enjoyed by the com-

munity so far.

“The project owner should expedite the completion of the water pipeline project. Do not let the state budget worth hundreds of billions of rupiahs runs out, while the project can only install the pipelines.

Do not let the project only become a lighthouse project. I think it will be better to give assistance in the form of cisterns that can be managed in groups by two or five families living close to one another. So, it will be more effective and efficient than the pipeline project worth hundreds of billions, but does not give any benefit,” he said.

He added that residents in Kubu subdistrict as well as other villages such as Datah, Bunutan on the mountain areas, Seraya, Butus, Tanah Aron, Sebudi and Pempatan Rendang village stayed to face the same condition as Kubu. They were still facing clean water crisis. Musna Antara said there had been indeed a pipeline project of the Telaga Waja.

At the moment, pipe installation just reached the Kubu hamlet or village. Besides, the reservoir had also been built. “I expect the water of the project can be immediately enjoyed by residents, so the people’s burden will be lighter,” he said.

On the other hand, the Head of Karangasem Social Agency, Made Sosiawan, revealed different things last Tuesday. According to him, so far people rarely asked for help of clean water to his office. “Residents rarely need clean water assistance.

Even, there were no residents proposing to ask for clean water assistance. As long as they submit a proposal, we will surely help,” he said. (013)

Arrested, a courier of counterfeit banknotes

DENPASAR - Denpasar Police Criminal Investigation Unit uncovered a counterfeit banknote case, Monday (Sep 1). The culprit had the initials DW, 40. He was arrested while taking the consignment of counterfeit banknote package at the office of a courier service on Jalan Kapten Regug, East Denpasar.

Related to the case, the officer secured the evidence in the form

of counterfeit banknote worth IDR 21 million.

According to the officer of the Denpasar Police, Tuesday (Sep 2), the case disclosure began from the information that there was a suspicious package at the company.

Further, the information was followed up by the officers by making reconnaissance on the scene. “It is a package of glass mineral water containing money and allegedly it is counterfeit money,” the officer

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Since May, severe water crisis hit Kubu

Musna said that he had helped at least by subsidizing the cost of water assistance for a total of 180 tank trucks. Each truck was financed at IDR 70,000, such as for fuel of generator set to siphon water from the tank truck to cisterns of local residents. The assistance was also given for fuel of the tank truck as well as wage of driver and helper respectively amounted to

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added.

Furthermore, the officer waited for the owner of the package.

Around 11:57 a.m. came DW living on Jalan Ahmad Yani, North Denpasar. After picking up the package, a team led by Chief Unit I Sulhadi immediately arrested him. Afterward, the suspect was searched and it was found counterfeit money valued at IDR 21 million. The suspect was then taken to the Denpasar Police Headquarters.

When examined, the suspect confessed that he was asked by his friend to take the package. As planned, the counterfeit banknotes would be distributed in Denpasar and surrounding areas.

“The suspect admitted to have taken such kind of counterfeit banknote package for two times. As a rule, it is circulated in Denpasar, especially at the Badung Market.

The case remains to be explored whether the package is owned by

the suspect or others,” said the officer.

Chief of Denpasar Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Nengah Sadiarta, when asked for his confirmation justified the disclosure of the case. However, the former Chief of Badung Police Criminal Investigation Unit was reluctant to explain in more details about the case.

“The case is being explored. When everything is clear, it will be surely exposed,” he added. (kmb36)

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Let’s love all serve all

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KUTA - Although there many restaurants, cafés and night clubs around Kuta area, but General Manager Rudy Tjung never feel worry to compete with others. Even, he is optimist to introduce and grow Hard Rock Café Bali. “Hard Rock Café is different. We’re the unique one here,” said Rudy.

The man who familiar called Mr. Rudy revealed that showing the difference is a must. So that he has trick and tips to apply such as giving and offering delicious, healthy, hygiene food and beverages and unforgettable entertainment. “I never forget to spread the spirit of ‘Rock n Roll’ by creating authentic experience and memorable,” he said.

Besides that, the alumni of Tafe

Collage majoring in Hospitality also stated that the café has good selling point like a great location, in front of Kuta Beach, unique, friendly staff and always become a trend setter. “I encourage my team to give the best service and develop brand images reputation,” said the man who was born in Jakarta, March 10.

Besides that, to make the restaurant becomes the most favorite one in the area especially, he keep innovating, irreverent and respecting everybody. He and their team are also together in maintaining the environment by saving the Green Turtle, coral reef, Bali Starling and doing social work like cleaning beach. “Let’s love all serve all,” add the man who like travelling in the beach. (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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Double mastectomy doesn’t boost cancer survival rates

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Women fighting cancer in one breast don’t benefit from having both breasts removed, according to new research out Tuesday that found long-term survival was equivalent after targeted surgery plus radiation. Hollywood star Angelina Jolie famously announced last year she had a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of one day developing breast cancer, because she has a genetic mutation that substantially increases breast cancer risk.

And a growing number of women have begun choosing the most radical surgical option -- the double mastectomy, to remove all breast tissue -- after a diagnosis, even when cancerous tissue was found only in one breast.

But the researchers aimed to determine whether evidence showed double mastectomies led to longer lives for this category of breast cancer patients.

It was the first study to directly compare survival rates between

the three main surgical interventions used in breast cancer: a single or a double mastectomy, or a lumpectomy to removing only the cancerous tissue, followed by radiation therapy.

The study found that in 2011, just over 12 percent of patients diagnosed with a breast tumor opted for a double mastectomy, compared to just two percent in 1998.

However, “we can now say that the average breast cancer patient

who has bilateral mastectomy will have no better survival than the average patient who has lumpectomy plus radiation,” said lead author Stanford medical professor Allison Kurian.

Of the nearly 190,000 study subjects diagnosed between 1998 and 2011, 55 percent had a lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy, 38.8 percent had a single mastectomy, and 6.2 percent had a double mastectomy.

Women of color or minorities,

and those of more impoverished backgrounds, were more likely to have undergone a single mastectomy than other groups. In contrast, women who had both breasts removed were more likely to be middle class or wealthy, white, under the age of 50, or some combination.

The long-term survival rate for women who underwent lumpectomies with radiation was not statistically different from women who underwent double mastectomies, Kurian and co-author Scarlett Gomez found. The long-term survival rate after single mastectomies was slightly lower, however the authors said it was unclear whether that could be attributed to differences in socioeconomic status.

They noted these women may

have had other health problems and had more difficulty traveling to follow-up appointments for treatment, including for radiation.

Jolie carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that increases the risk of breast cancer by 85 percent. After a double mastectomy, that risk falls to just five percent.

The authors of this week’s study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, emphasized that their findings do not mean women with the BRCA1 mutation or another in the BRCA2 gene, or with a strong family history of breast cancer, should not have a double mastectomy. In those cases, the precautionary surgery may an effective choice, they said.

Playing music helps sharpen kids’ brains

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LOS ANGELES — The founder of a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides free music lessons to low-income students from gang-ridden neighborhoods began to notice several years ago a hopeful sign: Kids were graduating high school and heading off to

UCLA, Tulane and other big universities. That’s when Margaret Martin asked how the children in the Harmony Project were beating the odds.

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois believe that the students’ music training played a role in their educational achievement, helping as Martin

noticed 90 percent of them graduate from high school while 50 percent or more didn’t from those same neighborhoods.

A two-year study of 44 children in the program shows that the training changes the brain in ways that make it easier for youngsters to process sounds, according to results reported in Tuesday’s edi-

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Arielle Dominguez, from left, Elizabeth Lopez, Andres Lopez, Azariah Wright and Katie Bella play their trumpets during a lesson offered by Harmony Project, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides free music lessons to low-income students, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in Los Angeles.

tion of The Journal of Neuroscience. That increased ability, the researchers say, is linked directly to improved skills in such subjects as reading and speech.

But, there is one catch: People have to actually play an instrument to get smarter. They can’t just crank up the tunes on their iPod. Nina Kraus, the study’s lead researcher and director of Northwestern’s auditory neuroscience laboratory, compared the difference to that of building up one’s body through exercise. “I like to say to people: You’re not going to get physically fit just watching sports,” she said.

Kraus said studies like hers are challenging because researchers need to follow subjects for years in order to track changes in the brain. She said more and larger studies need to be done in a variety of districts around the country to “help us understand what are the most effective forms of learning and how might learning be tailored for an individual child.”

The latest findings are striking a chord with supporters of such programs who say music is frequently the first cut for school boards looking to save money.

April Benasich, a professor of neuroscience at Rutgers University who was not involved in the study, said previous research by Kraus has demonstrated the value of music is improving concentration, memory and focus in children. Benasich, who researches early brain development, said the study’s findings are “a game-changer for both

the scientific and public policy domains, particularly in an era when these sorts of enrichment activities are being aggressively eliminated from our schools.

Martin approached the National Institutes of Health, seeking to learn if there was a connection between music and the educational achievements of the program’s 2,000 students. The NIH put her in touch with Kraus, who studies the changes in the brain that occur through auditory exposure. Many of Harmony Project’s students have no interest in pursuing professional music careers, Martin said.

Ricardo Torriz, 13, wants to be an engineer. He took up the trumpet and is learning salsa, jazz and classical music. “I wanted to take up the trumpet so I could play in a band like my dad,” he said.

Researchers studied the students over two years, attaching scalp electrodes to monitor changes in their brains. Test subjects were selected at random from those on a waiting list to enter the program, hopefully ensuring all test subjects would be equally motivated to work hard.

One of the researchers’ key findings was that one year of musical training didn’t make a difference in brain changes.

Two years did. “We know that a fundamental characteristic of the nervous system is our ability to change as we age, as we interact with our environment. But we can’t be changing every second or you’d have a very unstable system,” Kraus said.

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International flights to Bali increases Antara

DENPASAR - Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, has handled 2,228 international flights to overseas destinations in July 2014, an increase of 4.98 percent as compared to 2,123 flights during the last month.

“Those international flights have carried 376,445 foreign tourists for their vacations in Bali. The number of tourists has increased by 5.83 percent as compared to 355,702 visitors recorded in the previous month,” Head of Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) of Bali Panusunan Siregar stated.

He noted that there has been a steady increase in the number of tourists visiting Bali.

During the period between January and July 2014, the number of tourists visiting Bali reached 2.08 million, an increase of 16.66 percent as compared to 1.79 million tourists recorded in the same period last year.

Most of the visitors arrived in Bali via Ngurah Rai International

Airport, and the other 20,295 tourists came to Bali via seaport or by cruise ships.

Siregar explained that the rise in the number of foreign visitors to Bali has led to an increase in the amount of luggage and goods transported in July 2014, which was recorded at 5.92 percent or from 6,352.8 tons in June 2014 to 6,728.6 tons in July 2014.

In the meantime, 3,709 flights departed for domestic destinations in July 2014 or a decrease of 6.33 percent as compared to 3,287 flights recorded in the previous month.

These domestic flights have carried luggage and goods weighing 3,414.2 tons or a decrease of 17.37 percent as compared to 4,132.1 tons recorded in the previous month.

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Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, has handled 2,228 international flights to overseas destinations in July 2014, an increase of 4.98 percent as compared to 2,123 flights during the last month.

Endek increasingly in demand Bali Post

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Increasing demand for endek fabric makes it become a fashion trend. Many employees either civil servants, private sector employees, employees of state enterprises or bank employees are vying to homogenize their clothes using Balinese woven fabric known as endek.

DENPASAR - Increasing demand for endek fabric makes it become a fashion trend. Many employees either civil servants, private sector employees, employees of state enterprises or bank employees are vying to homogenize their clothes using Balinese woven fabric known as endek. This endek fabric is commonly encountered in various regions throughout Bali such as Bona (Gianyar), Bangli and Klungkung.

An endek fashion designer, Ni Wayan Ria Mariani, admitted that she could be flooded by the order of endek clothing in particular moments such as competition among companies or institutions, when a new model of endek innovation was introduced and the implementation of endek fashion show, she said.

Endek is available in various types which can be categorized based on certain classes such as silk type categorized into high grade woven fabric, while lower class woven fabric includes troso.

The difference lies in the thickness, color and texture. Meanwhile, the other kinds of endek are the line endek and luster endek. The thickness of endek is usually distinguished in terms of its comb, where the endek with 80 combs belongs to the good quality, while the thinner one has 70 combs, so that the quality is poorer.

Workmanship of the endek fabric will take the weaver a day to work on 2 meters of woven fabric and will also depend on the motif selected. Then, the price of endek fabric also varied depending on the type of endek itself. Even, the price can reach IDR 2 million for a meter of this ikat woven fabric.

Amidst her bustles, Ria Maria shared her tips on how to distinguish the original endek fabric from the artificial endek. According to her, the original endek was thicker than the artificial one. In terms of color, the original endek looked more natural because it used natural dyes, and the motif usually applied traditional ornamental style such as patra, animal and so on.

Compared to other kinds of endek, Balinese endek had superiority in the matter of better quality. Although it was washed again and again, the color would remain good and the fabric texture was not damaged like endek of the other kinds.

To beautify the look of endek clothing, Ria usually combined it with a plain fabric or other ikat woven fabric so that the price could also be more affordable.

This excellent local product was made manually and applied natural materials. As a result, she could not fulfill all the demands. On that account, this remaining share was then taken by large industry by producing artificial endek. (may)

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Fish farmers requested to scatter fingerlings after September

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BANGLI - Although the bursts of sulfur in Lake Batur, Kintamani, has been declared to cease since last week and condition of the lake has gradually recovered, the fish farmers are advised not to spread fingerlings in their floating net cages (KJA). Spreading of the fingerlings should be done after September.

It is made to anticipate the subsequent sulfur bursts that may re-occur this month. It was stated by the Head of Bangli Livestock and Fisheries Agency, Alit Parwata, Sunday (Aug 31).

According to Alit Parwata, pursuant to the experience so far, the incidence of sulfur burst in Lake Batur could not be predicted. The sulfur bursts occurred in mid-August causing thousands of tons of fish to die en masse would re-occur in September. “Though the lake currently seems not to be polluted by sulfur, people must remain vigilant. I expect that farmers will not spread fingerlings first. It is best done after September,” he explained.

Fish farmers were asked to be aware of spreading fingerlings in June-Septem-

ber. While waiting for the right time to spread fingerlings, his party requested fish farmers to fill in their time by taking care of cages. “Yes, to kill time, farmers can do cage maintenance,” he added.

As reported earlier, thousands of fish died in Lake Batur due to sulfur bursts.

Based on the data owned by the Bangli Livestock and Fishery Agency, from the 32 fish farmer groups in Bangli, the fish death reached tens of thousands of heads.

In details, they consisted of 86,000 fingerlings, 4,195 medium-sized fish and 36,600 kg of ready-to-harvest fish. Beyond the groups, a total of 25 fish farmers were forced to suffer the same losses. The death of fingerlings reached 8,000 heads, 1,000 kg of medium-sized fish and 25,070 kg of near-harvested fish. Overall, the loss suffered by fish farmers was estimated to reach IDR 5,476,670,000.

After the incident and so far, farmers could breed fish in their floating net cages. While waiting for the recovered condition of the lake, most fish farmers were switching profession to become a garden farmer, while some others were forced to idle because having no land to be cultivated. (ina)

Bali, made into distribution warehouse of bedding industry Bali Post

SURABAYA - Bali Island is a potential market for American products. Other than local community, many foreign travelers also live in Bali. Thus, it generates a promising potential market share.

Massindo Group, a manufacturer of well known American bed and mattress products, also targets the potential. Supported by 14 factories, it has 15 branches spreading across 15 major cities in Indonesia, including Denpasar. The branch in Denpasar is made into a distribution warehouse of the bedding products.

It was revealed by President Director of Massindo Group, Jeffri Massie. The closest bed factory to Bali was located in Krian Sidoarjo. So, to store the bed products did not need the warehouse facility existing in Bali.

According to him, the existing 15 branches were located in Medan, Pekanbaru, Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, Jakarta, Denpasar, Makassar, Kendari, Palu, Gorontalo, Manado, Ternate and Kotamobagu. Besides, Massindo also had 1,000 dealers with 24 units of Sleep Center or store. On that account, the products available at the Sleep

Center consisted of one local brand and four international brands becoming the superior products in Indonesia.

Meanwhile, the five brands included Comforta, Spring Water, Therapedic, My Side and Protect A Bed. “As a bedding company, we understand that convenience is the number one thing that customers look for. Our main target is premium bedding segment,” said Jeffri. Although marketing premium bedding products at the price above IDR 60 million, Massindo did not neglect the lower- and middle-end market segment.

He said that Massindo worked with a number of leasing companies for the lower and middle class. “With the money of IDR 100,000 to IDR 200,000 per month, customers can still enjoy a bed of high quality because the price of the cheapest bed is IDR 1 million,” he added. In the meantime, the premium bed market segment was 10 percent for three- to five-star hotels, while the remaining customers were still dominated by general public.

Until the year 2017, he said, Massindo Group targeted to have 50 units of Sleep Center and would add three more branches.

These three branches were also expected to add 150 dealerships. (059)

BAGHDAD — An international rights group says Islamic State militants carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June.

Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that new evidence indicates the Islamic State group killed between 560 and 770 men captured at Camp Speicher, near the city of Tikrit.

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Health workers spray the body of a amputee suspected of dying from the Ebola virus with disinfectant, in a busy street in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014.

Group says world is losing battle against Ebola Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The international group Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday that the world is losing the battle against Ebola and lamented that treatment centers in West Africa have been “reduced to places where people go to die alone.” In separate remarks after a United Nations meeting on the crisis, the World Health Organization chief said everyone involved had underestimated the outbreak, which has now killed more than 1,500 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. U.N. officials implored governments worldwide to send medical workers and material contributions.

Meanwhile in Liberia, a missionary organization announced that another American doctor has become infected.

Doctors Without Borders, which has treated more than 1,000 Ebola patients in West Africa since March, is completely overwhelmed by the disease, said Joanne Liu, the organization’s president. She called on other countries to contribute civilian and military medical personnel familiar with biological disasters.

“Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it,” Liu said at a U.N. forum on the outbreak. “Ebola treatment centers are reduced to places where people go to die alone, where little more than palliative care is offered.” In Sierra Leone, she said, infectious bodies are rotting in the streets. Liberia had to build a new crematorium instead of new Ebola care centers.

At the U.N. meeting, WHO Director Margaret Chan thanked countries that have helped but said: “We need more from you. And we also need those countries that have not come on board.” Later at a news conference, she warned that the outbreak will get worse before it gets better.

President Barack Obama urged West Africans on Tuesday to wear gloves and masks when caring for Ebola patients or burying anyone who died of the disease. He discouraged the burial practice of directly touching the body of Ebola victims, which is one way the disease has been spreading.

“You can respect your traditions and honor your loved ones without risking the lives of the living,” Obama said in the brief video message. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the situation is now the world’s first Ebola epidemic, given how widely it is spreading.

The latest missionary to come down with the disease, a male obstetrician, was not immediately identified by the group Serving In Mission. The group did not specify how he contracted the disease, but it can be spread through vaginal fluids. He did not work in an Ebola ward. A Liberian doctor on the missionary’s treatment team said it was too soon to tell whether he will be evacuated. The doctor would speak only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with reporters.

Last month, two Americans, in-

cluding one from the same missionary group, were evacuated to the United States for treatment after contracting Ebola in Liberia. The two recovered after receiving an experimental drug known as ZMapp. The manufacturer says it has run out of supplies of the drug and it will take months to produce more.

U.S. health officials on Tuesday announced a $24.9 million, 18-month contract with Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. to speed development of ZMapp. As part of the project, Mapp is to make a small amount of the drug for early-stage safety testing, while working with the Department of Health and Human Services to accelerate the manufacturing process.

The outbreak has taken a particularly high toll on health care workers, and nurses in Liberia and Sierra Leone have repeatedly gone on strike to demand hazard pay and better protective gear.

On Monday, nurses at a major hospital in the Liberian capital went on strike, according to spokesman Jerald P. Dennis III. While JFK hospital is treating Ebola patients, the striking nurses were all from non-Ebola wards.

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Islamic militants killed 770 Iraqi troops

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BANGLI - The intention of Bangli Urban Planning Agency to beautify the town area with the park concept is only still limited in discourse. It is indicated by some vertical plant media installed at some points of Bangli town all this time that are left unattended. Although overgrown by plants, none of the vertical plant media reflects the beauty of the park concept.

Such vertical plant media can be found at several points in the town of Bangli, including in front of the Social, Manpower and Settlement Agency, in the west of Bangli Prosecutor’s Office and in front of the Bangli Military District Command.

Condition of the vertical plant media made of iron is quite alarming. Aside from overgrown by a few vines, the condition is also unkempt. No beautiful impression exudes, let alone shady impression. Even, some of the media have dried out without overgrown by plants.

Other than in the town of Bangli, similar condition can also be found at some vertical plant media in the tourist area of Sekardadi, Kintamani. They are not overgrown by ornamental flowers, but the media are even filled with grasses and wild vines.

When asked for his confirmation about the matter, the Head of Bangli Urban Planning Agency, Ida Ayu Yudi Sutha, said on Tuesday (Aug 2) the concept of plant media for vines was actually made to beautify the appearance of Bangli town.

However, since it had not been maximally utilized all this time, her party promised to make an arrangement in 2015.

“Later, we will re-arrange it. We’ll plant the media with bougainvillea flowers so that it can look more beautiful,” she said.

Not only that, since the placement of some of the media all this time was considered inappropriate, her party would relocate them to a better place. One of them would be moved to the next of floating pavilion which would begin to be repaired in the near future. Thus, the media could be utilized properly and could make Bangli into the town of flowers. (ina)

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The New York-based watchdog says the number of slain Iraqi soldiers is several times higher than previously reported. Earlier, Human Rights Watch said between 160 and 190 men were killed.

Human Rights Watch says the new number is based on analysis of new satellite imagery, militant videos and a survivor’s account.

In June, the Islamic State group claimed it had “executed” about 1,700 soldiers and military personnel captured from Camp Speicher.

350 more troops assigned to US Embassy in Baghdad

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. is adding 350 more troops to help protect the American Embassy in Baghdad and its support facilities in the capital, raising the number of U.S. forces in the country to over 1,000, officials said Tuesday.

President Barack Obama approved the additional troops for protection of American personnel following a request by the State Department and a review and recommendation by the Defense Department, the White House said in a statement.

The buildup of U.S. troops in Baghdad follows the growing threat from Islamic State militants in northern Iraq. Since early August the U.S. has carried out 124 airstrikes against the militants, the

latest taking place near the Mosul Dam on Monday.

The additional troops will not serve in a combat role, the White House said. Most are from the Army and some are Marines, the Pentagon said in a statement.

Approximately 820 troops have now been assigned to augment diplomatic security in Iraq, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon’s spokesman.

The additional troops will come from within the U.S. Central Command area of operations and will include a headquarters element, medical personnel, associated helicopters and an air liaison team, Kirby said. Fifty-five troops in Baghdad since June will be redeployed outside of Iraq and replaced by 405 newly deployed troops, he said.

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Security forces and civilians inspect a crater caused by a car bomb explosion in commercial area of New Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014.

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Anti-poverty group urges G20 to tackle corruption Associated Press

CANBERRA — Anti-poverty organization ONE is urging leaders of the 20 largest economies to act decisively at an annual summit in November against money laundering, bribery, tax evasion and corruption which it estimates costs the world’s poorest countries more than $1 trillion a year.

The Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group launched its report on the economic cost of corruption on the developing world on Wednesday in the Australian capital Canberra at a Parliament House event attended by diplomats from the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

ONE is lobbying Australia to use its presidency of the G20 leaders’ summit in the city of Brisbane on

Nov. 15-16 to end what it calls a culture of secrecy that allows corruption and criminality to thrive in many countries.

The report, The Trillion Dollar Scandal, estimates that as many as 3.6 million deaths could be prevented if money drained from the poorest economies by corruption was invested in health systems.

“Developing countries are losing a trillion dollars every year as result

of money laundering, bribery and tax evasion, and the uncomfortable truth is that often the policies put in place by G20 countries are facilitating those outflows from the world’s poorest countries,” report author David McNair said.

McNair pointed to World Bank research that found 70 percent of major international financial scandals since 1980 involved shelf companies in which the owners were unknown. The British Virgin Islands and the U.S. state of Delaware were the most popular places for such companies to be registered.

The report found that the losses could be significantly reduced if policies were put in place to increase transparency and combat corruption

in four key areas: money laundering, a public register of principals of phantom firms in which ownership structures are hidden, public disclosure of company payments made in natural resource deals and an international exchange of tax information to combat tax evasion.

McNair held meetings in Canberra this week with officials from Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s office, Treasury Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to seek support for the recommendations.

Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Alan Tudge told the launch there was “significant alignment between the aspirations of the Australian government and

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the G20 on the one hand, and the call to action that you (ONE) have in your report, on the other.”

“In some cases, your suggestions might be running ahead of what some G20 members are currently able to achieve,” Tudge said, add that “Australia, as president of the G20 and co-chair of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, is absolutely determined to lead the work to improve transparency and to combat tax evasion and corruption,” he added.

ONE used three methodologies to calculate the costs of secrecy and corruption to the poorest countries.

All methodologies agreed that the cost was between $1 trillion and $2 trillion.

ANA, Lufthansa announce cargo business tie-up

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TOKYO - Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Lufthansa of Germany on Wednesday announced an air cargo tie up as they look to fight off intense competition from budget airlines on passenger routes.

The airlines said they had won regulatory approval for the agreement, which will see them integrate network planning, pricing, sales and handling on all routes between Japan and Europe.

“The two carriers aim to introduce the joint approach on shipments originating from Japan to Europe in winter 2014/2015 and for shipments from Europe to Japan in mid-2015,” they said in a statement.

“The joint venture will benefit customers by generating a greater selection of routings and a wider range of service options. Customers will especially profit from a larger and faster network with more direct flights, more destinations and more frequencies.”

ANA and Lufthansa, both members of the Star Alliance global airline network, launched a joint venture for Japan-Europe passenger flights two years ago.

The Japanese carrier holds a 17 percent market share for air freight between Japan and Europe, while Lufthansa has 16 percent, the leading Nikkei business daily said Wednesday.

Mainline carriers’ cargo businesses have become increasingly crucial to their bottom line as they battle budget airlines in the passenger market.

In this April 2, 2014 file picture Lufthansa aircrafts are parked as Lufthansa pilots went on a three-days-strike in Frankfurt, Germany. Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Lufthansa of Germany on Wednesday announced an air cargo tie up as they look to fight off intense competition from budget airlines on passenger routes.

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NUSA DUA - The standard of production equipment, especially those of oil and gas, will be improved by the government to prevent corrosion, Director General of Manufacturing Industry Basis, Ministry of Industry, Harjanto stated on Tuesday.

“We keep trying to improve the national standards for oil and gas production equipment, and it will be mandatory,” Harjanto added.

He pointed out that standardization was essential, as corrosion was a significant menace for oil and gas companies causing loss in business.

According to a survey in the United States in 2002, oil and gas

companies in the country had lost US$276 billion due to corrosion.

Harjanto, however, could not provide the total loss to Indonesia due to corrosion.

“Currently, no record is available to determine loss due to corrosion.

The average loss for a country, however, could reach 2-5 percent of the gross domestic production,” he estimated.

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Bali to host international co-operative alliance meeting

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Meanwhile, secretary of Special Unit for Upstream Oil and Gas, Gde Pradnyana, noted that the total loss to a company due to corrosion could exceed the cost for refinement.

He maintained that the institution had anticipated corrosion and had used good quality equipment and applied a proper design, as most of the oil and gas refineries had been built during 1970-1980.

“The standards must be improved at regular intervals. Moreover, most of the refineries had been built in 1970-1980. The standards defined during that period are different from the current standards,” Pradnyana added.

JAKARTA - Indonesia will host the 11th International Cooperative Alliance Regional Assembly and the 8th Asia-Pacific Co-operative Forum which will be held from September 15 to 20 in Nusa Dua, Bali province.

“The two events will be attended by representatives from 25 member countries of the International Co-operative Alliance in the Asia-Pacific region which are supporting a total of 500 co-operative organizations,” said Chairman of Indonesian Co-operatives Board (Dekopin) Nurdin Halid on Tuesday.

Nurdin noted that hosting the international co-operative events is a good opportunity for Indonesia to strengthen its co-operative network with co-operatives from the other AsiaPacific countries.

Meanwhile, Dekopin Director for Foreign Affairs Ilham Nasai said the upcoming co-operative event in Bali will discuss strategic ways to make co-operatives contribute to people’s welfare.

“The discussion is expected to come up with a road map on how to further enhance the role of co-operatives in developing people’s welfare,” said Ilham.

Plow paddy field, Pengotan farmers pull okokan Though often referred to as the village with the highest poverty rate in Bangli County, Pengotan village is in fact rich in unique cultural traditions. At this ancient village, the community is still preserving their agrarian community dance known as the Okokan Dance.

IT is called as Okokan Dance because the people dancing it will put on okokan (wooden cow bell necklace). The wood used to make the cow bell is carefully selected from the jackfruit or champak tree as they are believed to create a melodious sound. “Cow bell has smaller size, while the okokan has bigger size and can reach half a meter,” said the Chief of Pengotan village, Jro Wayan Kopok, when met recently. Aside from involving the residents, the dance also involved dozens of pairs of decorated cows.

According to Jro Wayan Kopok, the Okokan Dance was just danced by farmers while plowing their rice field. By involving dozens of pairs of embellished cows, the dance aimed to invoke fertility to Goddess Sri. “Farmers hope what they cultivate can produce well,” he explained.

He added that the dance recounted about farmers who were plowing their paddy field. The cows used for plowing had usually been well trained and decorated. With a total of number reaching up to 20 pairs, they would go hand in hand when plowing. Before starting the

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Pengotan village is a unique cultural traditions. At this ancient village, the community is still preserving their agrarian community dance known as the Okokan Dance.

plowing, farmers would usually deliver an offering first to invoke blessing.

Kopok said that the number of cows embellished to plow paddy field was adjusted to the number of personnel getting involved and their land area. If the land plowed belonging to temple property, numerous cows would be deployed.

By all means, the cows in use were habitually of large size.

Through generations, the Okokan Dance has now become a dance frequently staged as an entertainment. According to Kopok, other than at Pengotan village, similar okokan could also still be found in Tabanan.

To Pengotan village, the ac-

tive okokan dance troupe could be found at Sunting hamlet. Until now, the number of okokan at Pengotan village was estimated to reach 60 pieces. They were usually owned by some community members. To keep its sound melodious when in use, the okokan would be stored in a warm place near kitchen furnace.

Aside from being a farmer dance during the planting season of rice on non-irrigated paddy field, the okokan was only performed by Pengotan residents at the night of Pengerupukan (one day before Day of Silence). At that time, the okokan would be paraded at forefront and accompanied by gamelan orchestra. (ina)

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In this Wednesday, June 18, 2014 photo, a North Korean woman walks on the peak of Mt. Paektu in North Korea’s Ryanggang province. More than a thousand years ago, a huge volcano straddling the border between North Korea and China was the site of one of the biggest eruptions in human history, blanketing eastern Asia in its ash.

Team seeks North Korea volcano secrets

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PYONGYANG — More than a thousand years ago, a huge volcano straddling the border between North Korea and China was the site of one of the biggest eruptions in human history, blanketing eastern Asia in its ash. But unlike other major volcanos around the world, the remote and politically sensitive Mount Paektu remains almost a complete mystery to foreign scientists who have — until recently — been unable to conduct on-site studies.

Fresh off their third visit to the volcano, two British scientists studying the mountain in an unprecedented joint project with North Korea say they may soon be able to reveal some secrets of the volcano, including its likelihood of erupting again. They’re collecting seismic data and studying rocks ejected in Paektu’s “millennium eruption” sometime in the 10th century.

“It’s one of the biggest eruptions in the last few thousands of years and we don’t have yet a historical date for it,” Clive Oppenheimer, a professor of volcanology at Cambridge University, told The Associated Press after returning to Pyongyang last week from an eightday trip to the volcano. “The rocks are a bit like the black box of a flight recording. There’s so much that we can read from the field site itself.”

For volcano researchers, studying Paektu is a golden opportunity to break new ground because so much about it remains a puzzle.

Oppenheimer said it is not located along any of the tectonic locations that often explain volcanic activity, so just figuring out why it exists at all is one question that needs to be answered. Little or no historical chronicles of the millennium eruption exist, so scientists are also interested in piecing together what exactly happened, what the volcano and the ecosystem around

it were like before the eruption and how life returned afterward.

Paektu is considered sacred ground in both China and in North Korea, where it is seen as a symbol of the ruling Kim family and of the revolution that led to the founding of the country, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. On the North Korean side, the area around the mountain is dotted with “revolutionary historical sites” and secret camps from which Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s first president, is said to have led guerrilla attacks against the Japanese, who held the Korean Peninsula as a colony until their 1945 surrender ended World War II. Tens of thousands of North Koreans visit the mountain for political indoctrination tours each year during the summer months, when the snows have melted enough for it to be accessible. North Korea is also hoping to develop the volcano, which has a crystal blue crater lake, for foreign tourism.

Fears that the 2,800-meter-tall (9,200-foot-tall) volcano might be unstable began to grow in 2002, when increased seismic activity and ground swelling suggested the magma below the volcano was shifting. That activity subsided in 2006. Though not seen as a serious possibility by most experts, concerns were raised in South Korea

and Japan that nuclear tests in the North — conducted at a site which is less than 100 kilometers away — might trigger an eruption.

“That activity sparked a lot of interest both in China and the DPRK, but also in Japan and South Korea and internationally,” said Oppenheimer’s colleague James Hammond, a seismologist at Imperial College in London. He added that fears of another major eruption soon are probably unfounded.

“It’s certainly very tranquil at the moment.”

Even so, Hammond said the activity prompted the North Korean government to reach out to the international scientific community for help in understanding Paektu’s inner workings. Until the 2002 activity, little scientific research on the volcano had been conducted in China or North Korea.

The project got underway in 2011 at the request of a North Korean government agency, the Pyongyang International Information Center on New Technology and Economy. With funding from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, a philanthropic organization based in Washington, D.C., that supports the sciences, Oppenheimer and Hammond became the first Westerners to visit the North’s six field stations on the volcano.

TOKYO — Japan appointed five women to the 18-member Cabinet Wednesday in a small but symbolic step toward gender equality in government, which remains maledominated in many nations.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has made the empowerment of women a centerpiece of his economic revival strategy for Japan, increased the number of female ministers from two in his previous Cabinet.

Many countries have female ministers, but they often remain far outnumbered by men. France is an exception, as are the Scandinavian countries.

GREAT BRITAIN: Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, who has been accused of packing his government with middle-aged, private-school-educated white men like himself, appointed more women in a Cabinet shakeup in July. Five of

the 22 members are now female.

FRANCE: About half the 34member Cabinet is female, fulfilling a 2012 election promise of Socialist President Francois Hollande.

UNITED STATES: Three of the 16 members of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet are women: the secretaries of the interior, commerce and health and human services. Obama has also appointed women to Cabinet-rank positions including the administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Administration.

CHINA: Three women are members of the Chinese government’s 36-member Cabinet, or State Council — one vice premier and the ministers of health and justice. The country’s apex of political power, the ruling Communist Party’s powerful 7-member Politburo Standing Committee, is all male.

Obama: Too early to gauge Ukraine cease-fire

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TALLINN, Estonia — President Barack Obama says “it’s too early to tell” how serious reports are of a cease-fire between Russia and eastern Ukraine.

Obama says the U.S. has consistently supported efforts by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to achieve a meaningful cease-fire that could lead to a political settlement after months of conflict between the countries.

P o r o s h e n k o ’s o ff i c e s a i d

Wednesday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached agreement on a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, where Russianbacked separatists have spent months battling the government in Kiev. Wednesday’s statement says mutual understanding was reached.

It provided no details.

Obama says no realistic settlement can be achieved if Russia continues to send tanks and troops into Ukraine under the guise of separatists. Obama commented at a news conference in Estonia.

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From page 1 He hoped in the future there would be clear alignments of the government for the development of home stay. Even, he hoped the home stay could be plasma of major hotels in Bali including in the sharing of guests. For example, when a hotel room was overbooked, guests could be directed to stay at home stay. “In livestock and agriculture, we have the term ‘plasma.’ Why do we not apply this pattern in tourism? For instance, large hotels can serve as the core, while home stays serve as the plasma,” he said.

He also expected the government could crack down on decisively and limit the city hotel progressively proliferating to rural areas as happened to a number of areas in Denpasar and Gianyar. “As the name implies, a city hotel should be located in urban areas. It may not proliferate to countryside. In this case, the government must be decisive,” said the politician of PDI-P Denpasar.

He also greatly supported the stance of Jokowi who kept encouraging the preservation of Balinese culture rather than simply pursuing the development and growth of tourism. Without the support of sustainable Balinese culture, the tourism would become extinct. “Around the world, there is no tourism relying on culture as found in Bali, so that Bali turns exclusive. On that account, Balinese culture has to be maintained all-out and the environment should not be destroyed by incoming investment,” he concluded. (wid)

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INDONESIA Fuel price hike looms for new leader

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JAKARTA — The first item on the to-do list of Indonesia’s president-elect is one that successive leaders have struggled with, and could be his toughest: how to wean the country off fuel subsidies that make gasoline almost as cheap as bottled water.

Each year the subsidies cost Indonesia billions of dollars that economists agree would be better spent on creating jobs and building badly needed roads, schools and hospitals in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

The problem for President-elect Jokowi Widodo is that Indonesians are accustomed to some of the cheapest fuel in the world. The subsidies also indirectly keep the cost of public transport and basic foodstuffs affordable, an important consideration in a country where about half of the 240 million people survive on $2 a day.

Widodo had been hoping for help from outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who could have cut the subsidies before leaving office on October 20, deflecting some of the public anger and political heat away from the new leader.

But Yudhoyono, who raised prices last year by 44 percent after delaying for five years, declined Widodo’s request, saying he had “taken pity” on the people.

Widodo, who won the election convincingly after a campaign that stressed his working class roots and record of progressive leadership as Jakarta governor, has pledged to reduce the subsidy bill, even as members of his own political party urge him not to. They fear more expensive fuel will cut short any honeymoon period.

“I am ready to be unpopular,” Widodo said last week. “We will reduce the fuel subsidies and divert the money to fund more productive projects, seeds for farmers, pesticides, and diesel fuel for fishermen and others sector that need

subsidies more. We have to begin to change.”

Indonesia was once an oil exporter and OPEC member, but now imports crude oil and refined fuel to meet demand. It pays overseas fuel suppliers around 11,500 rupiah ($0.98) per liter, but sells it to Indonesians at 6,500 ($0.55) per liter.

That’s close to the cost of a liter of bottled drinking water, which range in price from 3,500 to 10,000 rupiah depending on brand and outlet.

The fuel subsidy bill last year totaled $16.5 billion, which was 20 percent of the government budget.

That will rise further this year if the world oil price increases.

Cheap fuel also encourages consumption as can be seen in the still-widespread habit of Indonesian drivers to run their engines for several minutes to “warm up” their car before departing on a journey. Fuel imports add to the country’s trade deficit, leaving the rupiah vulnerable to sudden and potentially destabilizing weakness.

Cutting subsidies would send a signal to financial markets and investors that the Jokowi administration is committed to getting government finances in order in a country where economic growth has fallen to its lowest level in almost five years.

In recent weeks the government’s mismanagement of the fuel situation has been on display. State-owned oil company Pertamina began limiting supplies to fuel stations, fearing it would fun out of subsidized fuel.

This sparked panic buying and led to hours-long queues on Java island, home to more than half of the country’s people.

Faisal Basri, a former economic

adviser to Yudhoyono, described the subsidized fuel policy as a “cancer that risks spreading to the whole economy.” He said that two 20 percent hikes, one in September and one early next year, would be enough to help end the dependence.

“If we do that, then we can move full speed ahead in 2016 and escape from this myth” of the need for subsidized fuel, he wrote in a recent blog post.

The Yudhoyono government tried to create public awareness that that the main beneficiaries of cheap fuel are the middle and upper classes,

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when Southeast Asia’s top economy introduced the new regulations.

They include a ban on exports of some unprocessed minerals, and higher taxes on others that can still be shipped out of the country, and are an example of recent economic policies dubbed “resource nationalism” by critics.

Copper concentrate, a partially processed product that is a major export for Newmont and its US peer Freeport-McMoRan, was exempt

from the ban but the companies still faced paying the new, higher taxes on shipments.

However Newmont refused, saying that the levies conflict with its original agreements to operate in Indonesia, and stopped exports.

In June it ceased production at Batu Hijau after its stores filled up, and a month later filed an international arbitration claim against Jakarta over the regulations.

However late last month it

who drive cars and have large houses with multiple air conditioners and appliances. It gave cash handouts to the poor to try and cushion the blow of subsidy reductions, something that Widodo is also committed to doing.

But the effectiveness of that message was clouded by corruption scandals involving government officials and the wasteful spending of the political elite in general. Any leader who cuts subsidies is painted by most political parties and much of the media as being anti-poor. There is also pressure from the growing numbers of first-time car and motorbike owners.

In 1998, former dictator Suharto cut subsidies as a condition of receiving a bailout fund from the International Monetary Fund.

The move sparked rioting that ultimately led to his downfall. Protests and street unrest have erupted each time a government has cut subsidies since then.

Widodo is almost certain to face similar opposition. The coalition that nominated his challenger has yet to formally concede and has vowed to disrupt his administration. Even members of the political party that nominated Widodo for president are opposed to any move to raise the fuel prices.

“I personally do not agree with the plan to raise fuel prices before the new government has tried to overcome the deficit by making other sectors more efficient,” said Maruarar Sirait, a lawmaker with Widodo’s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

In this Sept. 1, 2014 photo, an attendant fills up the tank of a motorbike at a gas station in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Newmont reaches deal with government

JAKARTA - US mining giant Newmont has reached a tentative agreement with the Indonesian government that should allow it to resume exports after they were halted due to controversial restrictions on mineral shipments, reports said Wednesday.

The company stopped exporting copper from its huge Batu Hijau mine in central Indonesia in January

dropped the claim after a breakthrough in talks and late Tuesday reached a tentative deal that should soon allow it to resume exports, reports said.

“We have reached an agreement with the government,” the head of Newmont’s Indonesian unit, Martiono Hadianto, was cited as saying in the Jakarta Post daily.

He said that once a letter relating to exports was filed with the trade ministry, Newmont would be able

to resume shipments.

R. Sukhyar, the energy ministry’s director general of minerals and coal, told Dow Jones Newswires that a deal had been reached and said the company had agreed to pay higher export taxes and royalties.

Freeport-McMoRan also halted exports from Indonesia after locking horns with the government over the new regulations but resumed shipments last month after striking a new deal.

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Wozniacki wallops Errani to reach semi-finals

Satria Bird Market IBP

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DENPASAR - If you are an animal hobbyist, you will be very familiar with this place, namely the Satria Bird Market. Indeed, the title does not exactly fit with the bird market because this business premise does not only trade birds but also other species of pets. They are dogs, fish, cats, monkeys and so on.

Meanwhile, the name Satria is closely related to location right within the area of Satria Palace.

Bird market is one of the unique tourist attractions downtown Denpasar.

It is located on Jalan Veteran, Denpasar, precisely in the outermost courtyard of family temple of Satria Palace Denpasar. The market was pioneered in 1980 and then arranged by the government in 1991. In 2000 the market began to grow until it was inaugurated by the deputy mayor at the time, I Ketut Robin.

Finally, in 2001-2012, the Denpasar Government To u r i s t O ffi c e s t a r t e d building some supporting facilities such as money changers and toilet.

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New Zealand’s Thomas Abercrombie, and Kenneth Faried of the U.S, bottom, duel for the ball during the Group C Basketball World Cup match, in Bilbao northern Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014.

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Unbeaten US routs New Zealand 98-71 Associated Press

BILBAO, Spain — American players paused from their warmups to stand and face their New Zealand opponents as they performed the haka, their traditional war dance challenge. The U.S. response wasn’t nearly as interesting. Just pound the ball inside and outmuscle an overmatched opponent.

Anthony Davis had 21 points and nine rebounds, Kenneth Faried added 15 and 11 boards and the U.S. remained unbeaten at the Basketball World Cup by beating winless New Zealand 98-71 on Tuesday. James Harden scored 13 points for the Americans, who will play two more games in Bilbao before moving on to Barcelona for the round of 16.

They face the Dominican Republic on Wednesday before wrapping up Group C play on Thursday against Ukraine.

“It was a good, solid performance,” U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I thought the intensity was excellent.” Two nights after having to rally from a halftime deficit and pull away in the fourth quarter for a 98-77 victory over

Turkey, the U.S. led this one wire to wire. The game was close only for a little more than a quarter.

BJ Anthony scored 11 points for New Zealand, which fell to 0-3. “It was pretty awesome getting to play against these guys. These are guys that we watch on TV all the time,” veteran forward Casey Frank said.

“To be able to get out there on the court against them and have a little bit of success offensively, obviously the result didn’t go our way, was pretty awesome.”

The Tall Blacks’ best work was before the game with their haka.

Krzyzewski said U.S. players were aware it would be part of the pregame and they lined up to face midcourt as the New Zealand players got into their formation.

“We actually were going to shake hands with them afterwards because we knew that that was a really neat thing to do and it’s part of their tradition, and we admire that,” Krzyzewski said.

Fans enjoyed it, then were largely quiet throughout the first half as the bigger U.S. team imposed its will, not needing the kind of highlight plays fans expect of the NBA stars.

But there was no shortage of energy from Faried, the Denver Nuggets forward who seems intent on raising his profile as a largely overlooked player in the league.

The Manimal came into the game shooting 14 of 17 in the tournament and then made all five shots in the first half while also grabbing six rebounds. He finished 7 of 9 from the field and is shooting 81 percent, Krzyzewski calling him the Americans’ “biggest and best surprise.” “I’m just playing out there,” Faried said. “I’m just having fun.

I’m just playing my game, having fun, enjoying life.”

NEW YORK - Caroline Wozniacki used her aggressive groundstroke game to near perfection on Tuesday and pummeled Italy’s Sara Errani 6-0 6-1 to reach the semi-finals of the U.S. Open. The 10th seed reached the last four at a grand slam for the first time since 2011 by beating Errani at her own strategy, engaging in long baseline rallies but using superior power to open the court and find lanes for winners.

Dane Wozniacki walloped winners of all varieties, belting 26 of them to just 12 for her Italian opponent, who looked dazed and confused at times on court. The match ended when an Errani forehand hit the net tape and flopped back on her own side of the net and the strains of “Sweet Caroline” began to serenade Wozniacki over the loudspeaker.

“It’s been a pretty up and down year for me,” said Wozniacki, whose two-year relationship with world number one golfer Rory McIlroy ended this year just days after their wedding invitations were sent out. “To be here in the semi-finals of the U.S. Open once again is an incredible feeling.

Definitely, hard work pays off. I’m here and I’m so happy.”

The match began inauspiciously for Wozniacki, who struggled with the warm winds that blew through the stadium. She hit an ugly double fault on her second serve of the opening game and had to fend off four break points to hold serve. “Love-40 isn’t really a good start, but it was really windy and it just took me a few serves

to kind of get into the rhythm and figure out where to throw the ball and what to aim for,” she said.

Wozniacki did not take long to adjust and ended up winning 57 points to a mere 26 for the overmatched Errani. Errani, accustomed to keeping the ball in play long enough to profit from an unforced error, tried to force the action by approaching the net, but Wozniacki whistled winners over her, past her and occasionally right at her.

Errani came to net 20 times and won only half those points. “She is much stronger than me physically. I think that was the most important difference today,” said the 13th seed. “She don’t miss a ball. “I tried to change my game in the second set and come more to the net. I was trying but was difficult.” Wozniacki, a finalist at the 2009 U.S. Open, reigned for 67 weeks as number one back in 2010 and 2011 but is still seeking her first grand slam crown.

Standing in her path to a return to a slam final is China’s unseeded Peng Shuai, who was equally impressive in routing 17-year-old Swiss Belinda Bencic in the lower half of the women’s draw where the leading seeds have vanished in upsets. “She’s been playing well. She’s playing aggressively,” Wozniacki said of Peng, who has lost in their last five meetings while winning one set.

“She’s strong from both sides.

She’s been serving w’ell. It’s going to be a difficult match.” “But it’s going to fun,” added a smiling Wozniacki, happy to be back on the main stage with a real shot at a major title.

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark celebrates defeating Sara Errani of Italy in their women’s quarter-finals singles match at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 2, 2014.

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Foreign players can help England, says Hodgson Reuters

LONDON - The world-class foreign talent in the Premier League could help English players improve, even though many of them are likely to be starting matches from the substitutes’ bench, England manager Roy Hodgson said on Tuesday. “Some of our players will be selected from the bench at club level, which would have been unthinkable five or 10 years ago,” Hodgson told reporters before Wednesday night’s friendly with Norway at Wembley Stadium.

“But if they are chosen and involved, then it can be advantageous for our players and very helpful for England.” The standard in the Premier League had made the country a magnet for worldclass players, added Hodgson, whose team travel to Switzerland - a country he used to coach - for their first Euro 2016 qualification match next Monday.

He said England striker Danny Welbeck’s move from Manchester

United to Arsenal for 16 million pounds ($26.4 million) on Monday was a bonus for the player. “I’m pleased for him. There is enormous competition for places and he is now at a club where he may get more starts,” he said. Hodgson was also upbeat about the young talent available to England, despite the disappointment of a poor World Cup in Brazil this year.

“I get the feeling the players can’t wait to kick off this new

campaign with a difficult game on Wednesday,” he said. “It’s a team that contains a lot of talent and I think one with enormous potential.” There is media speculation that the crowd for Wednesday’s match may be well down on recent matches but new England captain Wayne Rooney said he was grateful for the fans’ support after the disappointing showing in Brazil.

Manchester United striker Rooney took over the armband af-

ter the retirement of Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard. “There is no point looking back,” Rooney said. “We have young players coming through and it is exciting times. We need these young players to bring back good form to England. “Last summer we were all very disappointed. We went into the tournament with high hopes but unfortunately it didn’t happen.”

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as a right back, has been a regular at left back, preferred by manager Jose Mourinho to former England international Ashley Cole, who has moved to AS Roma.

Azpilicueta has made 95 appearances for Chelsea, scoring a single goal, and was a member of the side that won the Europa League

trophy in 2013. Last season he was voted the club’s players’ player of the year.

He has started all three of Chelsea’s Premier League matches this season.

Last season he was part of the Chelsea defence that conceded just 27 goals in 38 games - the lowest

total in the league.

The 25-year-old moved to Stamford Bridge from Olympique de Marseille for a fee of about 6.5 million pounds ($10.72 million) two years ago.

His contract extension comes despite the club’s acquisition in the close season of Filipe Luis, who was Atletico Madrid’s left back when they won the Spanish League last season.

In a statement on its website (www.chelseafc.com), the club said:

Azpilicueta signs new five-year deal at Chelsea LONDON - Chelsea full back Cesar Azpilicueta has signed a new five-year contract at Chelsea, the Premier League club announced on Tuesday.

The Spain international, who arrived at the London club in 2012

Asian teams turn focus from Brazil to Asian Cup

Associated Press

SEOUL — Less than three months after Asia’s teams earned just three points at the World Cup, Australia, Japan and South Korea are back in action and ready to put Brazil behind them as the countdown to the 2015 Asian Cup begins. Much has changed since June — Australia is the only team with the same coach in charge.

Japan has a new foreign tactician and South Korea is still seeking a new coach after Hong Myung-bo resigned in July.

Of the four nations that participated in Brazil, South Korea has endured the toughest time.

The Korea Football Association’s senior members have resigned and talks with the Netherlands’ 2010 World Cup coach Bert van Marwijk did not lead to an ap-

pointment.

With just four months until the Asian Cup kicks off in Australia, South Korea takes on Venezuela on Friday followed on Monday

by Uruguay, which will be without suspended star striker Luis Suarez. Former South Korea assistant coach Afshin Ghotbi, now in charge of Asian rival Iran, says South Korea needs good results. “”Korea had the quality and passion to perform better at the World Cup, and fans and media expect to see that,” Ghotbi told Associated Press on Monday.

“These two games are important to restore some good feeling in the national team and to identify players for the Asian Cup just around the corner.” The Korean public is normally fiercely supportive of the national team, but its standing among the people is the lowest in

years. With just one win in the past eight matches, players know they must urgently improve.

“We are ready to show that we have recovered from the World Cup in which we were lacking,” said Korea and Swansea midfielder Ki Sung-yeung. “There is no coach at the moment and that is a little awkward and it is true that the atmosphere around the team is unsettled but the players have to show what they can do on the field.” There was plenty of disappointment elsewhere after Brazil.

Japan held hopes of making the quarterfinals at the World Cup, but like Korea, it collected only one point. The Japan FA moved quickly to replace Italian Alberto Zaccheroni with Javier Aguirre, two-time coach of the Mexican national team.

“Chels e a Football Club is pleased to announce Cesar Azpilicueta has today signed a new five-year contract.”

Man United loans Cleverley to Aston Villa Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, England — Aston Villa has taken England midfielder Tom Cleverley on a season-long loan from Manchester United, completing the deal a day after the closing of the summer transfer window.

Villa had to wait until the Premier League confirmed that it had received the paperwork for the signing before Monday’s transfer deadline.

Villa announced Cleverley’s arrival on its Twitter account on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old Cleverley joined fellow England international Danny Welbeck in leaving Old Trafford after seeing his prospects of game time reduced following the club’s summer spending spree.

Midfielders Daley Blind, Ander Herrera and Angel Di Maria have been signed by new manager Louis van Gaal. Welbeck moved to Arsenal.

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Barca beaming, Real bickering over transfer dealings Reuters MADRID - Barcelona congratulated themselves on Tuesday for a job well done in the transfer window, while rivals Real Madrid were dealing with the fallout from Cristiano Ronaldo’s apparent criticism of president Florentino Perez. The world’s two richest clubs by income again spent big, with Barca’s signings including Uruguay striker Luis Suarez for 81.25 million euros (107 million US dollars) and Croatia midfielder Ivan Rakitic for around 20 million.

Real lured Colombia playmaker James Rodriguez to the Spani s h capital for around 80 million euros and snapped up Germany midfielder Toni Kroos for 30 million, seduced by the pair’s success at the World Cup finals in Brazil.

However, while Barca are widely perceived to have improved their squad as they look to bounce back from a season without major silverware, critics have suggested European champions Real will

be significantly weakened by the exit of midfielders Xabi Alonso and Angel Di Maria, sold to Bayern Munich and Manchester United respectively.

The sense of unease was heightened on Monday when dressingroom heavyweight Cristiano Ronaldo, Real’s top scorer and current World Player of the Year, appeared to criticise Perez’s transfer policies.

The construction magnate has spent hundreds of millions of euros of the club’s money on the top players, with his strategy also driven by how many shirts new recruits will help sell.

Alarm bells rang at the club when they let slip a two-goal lead to crash to a 4-2 defeat at Real Sociedad in La Liga on Sunday, when Ronaldo was sidelined by injury.

“I have a very clear opinion but I cannot always say what I think,” the Portugal forward told reporters when asked about his club’s recent transfer dealings. “If not I would be on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow and I don’t want that. But, if I was in charge, maybe I would not have done it like that.

“But if the president thinks that the best thing for the team is to buy the players he bought and let others leave we have to respect and support his decisions.” Ronaldo’s comments, together with grumbling from coach Carlo Ancelotti, will

be uncomfortable for Perez and stand in stark contrast to the upbeat tone of a news conference given

by Barca sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta on Tuesday.

Spanish sports dailies Marca and As both splashed Ronaldo’s remarks across their front pages, while Real’s Spain contingent were quizzed about the situation when they met up with their international team mates.

“Everyone has their opinion and it is respectable, I am not going to make any comment about Cristiano or any player,” centre back Sergio Ramos, one of Real’s captains, told reporters. “We belong to the club and we must respect the rules of the club,” he added. “I am not going to reveal my opinion, it’s not the time to be drawing conclusions.”

Transfer Ban Barca’s hand was forced in the market after the club were given a temporary reprieve from a transfer ban for breaching rules on the transfer of under-18 players while an appeal to soccer’s world governing body FIFA was ongoing. They lost the appeal and may not be allowed to buy again in the next two transfer windows but have added Suarez and Rakitic, as well as centre backs Thomas Vermaelen and Jeremy Mathieu, goalkeepers Claudio Bravo and Marc-Andre Ter Stegen and fullback Douglas

to their ranks.

They have begun the La Liga campaign in confident fashion and are the only side to have won their opening two games as they seek to improve on last term’s second-place finish. Zubizarreta said he was delighted with the squad and predicted Barca would be a major force under new coach Luis Enrique, who has replaced the discarded Gerardo Martino.

“We again have a team that is

at a very high competitive level,” former Barca and Spain goalkeeper Zubizarreta told reporters. “I am very pleased and we will see how far we can go.”

Champions Atletico Madrid are again expected to mount a realistic challenge after some astute business in the transfer market when they bought in the likes of Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic, France forward Antoine Griezmann and Italy winger Alessio Cerci.

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

FC Barcelona’s Belgian Thomas Vermaelen attends a training session at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014.

Khedira, Boateng, Hummels out of Argentina game Associated Press

DUESSELDORF — Real Madrid midfielder Sami Khedira is out of Germany’s upcoming games with Argentina and Scotland due to a muscle tear in his left thigh. The injury was confirmed by team doctor HansWilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt in Munich, the German football federation said on Tuesday.

Germany coach Joachim Loew had already called up Hoffenheim midfielder Sebastian Rudy for the friendly against Argentina on Wednesday because of “a shortage in defensive midfield.”

Rudy, 24, made his debut in the 0-0 friendly draw with Poland on May 13 before the World Cup. Defenders Jerome Boateng of Bayern Munich and Mats Hummels of Dortmund also withdrew with injuries on Tuesday, while Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil was already ruled out of Wednesday’s game with an ankle problem.

New captain Bastian Schweinsteiger has a lingering knee injury and Philipp Lahm, Miroslav Klose and Per Mertesacker have retired, Manchester United’s meaning Germany will field a muchAngel Di Maria is seen changed side to the one that beat during his team’s English Argentina in the World Cup final.

Premier League soccer Germany begins its 2016 Euromatch against Burnley pean Championship qualification at Turf Moor Stadium, campaign against Scotland in DortBurnley, England, Saturmund on Sunday. Ozil was working day Aug. 30, 2014. to be fit for that game.

REUTERS/Rebecca Naden

(L to R) Real Madrid’s Sami Khedira, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Daniel Carvajal and Toni Kroos attend a training session ahead of their UEFA Super Cup soccer match against Sevilla at Cardiff City Stadium, Wales, August 11, 2014.

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Foreign players can help England, says Hodgson Reuters

LONDON - The world-class foreign talent in the Premier League could help English players improve, even though many of them are likely to be starting matches from the substitutes’ bench, England manager Roy Hodgson said on Tuesday. “Some of our players will be selected from the bench at club level, which would have been unthinkable five or 10 years ago,” Hodgson told reporters before Wednesday night’s friendly with Norway at Wembley Stadium.

“But if they are chosen and involved, then it can be advantageous for our players and very helpful for England.” The standard in the Premier League had made the country a magnet for worldclass players, added Hodgson, whose team travel to Switzerland - a country he used to coach - for their first Euro 2016 qualification match next Monday.

He said England striker Danny Welbeck’s move from Manchester

United to Arsenal for 16 million pounds ($26.4 million) on Monday was a bonus for the player. “I’m pleased for him. There is enormous competition for places and he is now at a club where he may get more starts,” he said. Hodgson was also upbeat about the young talent available to England, despite the disappointment of a poor World Cup in Brazil this year.

“I get the feeling the players can’t wait to kick off this new

campaign with a difficult game on Wednesday,” he said. “It’s a team that contains a lot of talent and I think one with enormous potential.” There is media speculation that the crowd for Wednesday’s match may be well down on recent matches but new England captain Wayne Rooney said he was grateful for the fans’ support after the disappointing showing in Brazil.

Manchester United striker Rooney took over the armband af-

ter the retirement of Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard. “There is no point looking back,” Rooney said. “We have young players coming through and it is exciting times. We need these young players to bring back good form to England. “Last summer we were all very disappointed. We went into the tournament with high hopes but unfortunately it didn’t happen.”

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as a right back, has been a regular at left back, preferred by manager Jose Mourinho to former England international Ashley Cole, who has moved to AS Roma.

Azpilicueta has made 95 appearances for Chelsea, scoring a single goal, and was a member of the side that won the Europa League

trophy in 2013. Last season he was voted the club’s players’ player of the year.

He has started all three of Chelsea’s Premier League matches this season.

Last season he was part of the Chelsea defence that conceded just 27 goals in 38 games - the lowest

total in the league.

The 25-year-old moved to Stamford Bridge from Olympique de Marseille for a fee of about 6.5 million pounds ($10.72 million) two years ago.

His contract extension comes despite the club’s acquisition in the close season of Filipe Luis, who was Atletico Madrid’s left back when they won the Spanish League last season.

In a statement on its website (www.chelseafc.com), the club said:

Azpilicueta signs new five-year deal at Chelsea LONDON - Chelsea full back Cesar Azpilicueta has signed a new five-year contract at Chelsea, the Premier League club announced on Tuesday.

The Spain international, who arrived at the London club in 2012

Asian teams turn focus from Brazil to Asian Cup

Associated Press

SEOUL — Less than three months after Asia’s teams earned just three points at the World Cup, Australia, Japan and South Korea are back in action and ready to put Brazil behind them as the countdown to the 2015 Asian Cup begins. Much has changed since June — Australia is the only team with the same coach in charge.

Japan has a new foreign tactician and South Korea is still seeking a new coach after Hong Myung-bo resigned in July.

Of the four nations that participated in Brazil, South Korea has endured the toughest time.

The Korea Football Association’s senior members have resigned and talks with the Netherlands’ 2010 World Cup coach Bert van Marwijk did not lead to an ap-

pointment.

With just four months until the Asian Cup kicks off in Australia, South Korea takes on Venezuela on Friday followed on Monday

by Uruguay, which will be without suspended star striker Luis Suarez. Former South Korea assistant coach Afshin Ghotbi, now in charge of Asian rival Iran, says South Korea needs good results. “”Korea had the quality and passion to perform better at the World Cup, and fans and media expect to see that,” Ghotbi told Associated Press on Monday.

“These two games are important to restore some good feeling in the national team and to identify players for the Asian Cup just around the corner.” The Korean public is normally fiercely supportive of the national team, but its standing among the people is the lowest in

years. With just one win in the past eight matches, players know they must urgently improve.

“We are ready to show that we have recovered from the World Cup in which we were lacking,” said Korea and Swansea midfielder Ki Sung-yeung. “There is no coach at the moment and that is a little awkward and it is true that the atmosphere around the team is unsettled but the players have to show what they can do on the field.” There was plenty of disappointment elsewhere after Brazil.

Japan held hopes of making the quarterfinals at the World Cup, but like Korea, it collected only one point. The Japan FA moved quickly to replace Italian Alberto Zaccheroni with Javier Aguirre, two-time coach of the Mexican national team.

“Chels e a Football Club is pleased to announce Cesar Azpilicueta has today signed a new five-year contract.”

Man United loans Cleverley to Aston Villa Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, England — Aston Villa has taken England midfielder Tom Cleverley on a season-long loan from Manchester United, completing the deal a day after the closing of the summer transfer window.

Villa had to wait until the Premier League confirmed that it had received the paperwork for the signing before Monday’s transfer deadline.

Villa announced Cleverley’s arrival on its Twitter account on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old Cleverley joined fellow England international Danny Welbeck in leaving Old Trafford after seeing his prospects of game time reduced following the club’s summer spending spree.

Midfielders Daley Blind, Ander Herrera and Angel Di Maria have been signed by new manager Louis van Gaal. Welbeck moved to Arsenal.

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Barca beaming, Real bickering over transfer dealings Reuters MADRID - Barcelona congratulated themselves on Tuesday for a job well done in the transfer window, while rivals Real Madrid were dealing with the fallout from Cristiano Ronaldo’s apparent criticism of president Florentino Perez. The world’s two richest clubs by income again spent big, with Barca’s signings including Uruguay striker Luis Suarez for 81.25 million euros (107 million US dollars) and Croatia midfielder Ivan Rakitic for around 20 million.

Real lured Colombia playmaker James Rodriguez to the Spani s h capital for around 80 million euros and snapped up Germany midfielder Toni Kroos for 30 million, seduced by the pair’s success at the World Cup finals in Brazil.

However, while Barca are widely perceived to have improved their squad as they look to bounce back from a season without major silverware, critics have suggested European champions Real will

be significantly weakened by the exit of midfielders Xabi Alonso and Angel Di Maria, sold to Bayern Munich and Manchester United respectively.

The sense of unease was heightened on Monday when dressingroom heavyweight Cristiano Ronaldo, Real’s top scorer and current World Player of the Year, appeared to criticise Perez’s transfer policies.

The construction magnate has spent hundreds of millions of euros of the club’s money on the top players, with his strategy also driven by how many shirts new recruits will help sell.

Alarm bells rang at the club when they let slip a two-goal lead to crash to a 4-2 defeat at Real Sociedad in La Liga on Sunday, when Ronaldo was sidelined by injury.

“I have a very clear opinion but I cannot always say what I think,” the Portugal forward told reporters when asked about his club’s recent transfer dealings. “If not I would be on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow and I don’t want that. But, if I was in charge, maybe I would not have done it like that.

“But if the president thinks that the best thing for the team is to buy the players he bought and let others leave we have to respect and support his decisions.” Ronaldo’s comments, together with grumbling from coach Carlo Ancelotti, will

be uncomfortable for Perez and stand in stark contrast to the upbeat tone of a news conference given

by Barca sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta on Tuesday.

Spanish sports dailies Marca and As both splashed Ronaldo’s remarks across their front pages, while Real’s Spain contingent were quizzed about the situation when they met up with their international team mates.

“Everyone has their opinion and it is respectable, I am not going to make any comment about Cristiano or any player,” centre back Sergio Ramos, one of Real’s captains, told reporters. “We belong to the club and we must respect the rules of the club,” he added. “I am not going to reveal my opinion, it’s not the time to be drawing conclusions.”

Transfer Ban Barca’s hand was forced in the market after the club were given a temporary reprieve from a transfer ban for breaching rules on the transfer of under-18 players while an appeal to soccer’s world governing body FIFA was ongoing. They lost the appeal and may not be allowed to buy again in the next two transfer windows but have added Suarez and Rakitic, as well as centre backs Thomas Vermaelen and Jeremy Mathieu, goalkeepers Claudio Bravo and Marc-Andre Ter Stegen and fullback Douglas

to their ranks.

They have begun the La Liga campaign in confident fashion and are the only side to have won their opening two games as they seek to improve on last term’s second-place finish. Zubizarreta said he was delighted with the squad and predicted Barca would be a major force under new coach Luis Enrique, who has replaced the discarded Gerardo Martino.

“We again have a team that is

at a very high competitive level,” former Barca and Spain goalkeeper Zubizarreta told reporters. “I am very pleased and we will see how far we can go.”

Champions Atletico Madrid are again expected to mount a realistic challenge after some astute business in the transfer market when they bought in the likes of Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic, France forward Antoine Griezmann and Italy winger Alessio Cerci.

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

FC Barcelona’s Belgian Thomas Vermaelen attends a training session at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014.

Khedira, Boateng, Hummels out of Argentina game Associated Press

DUESSELDORF — Real Madrid midfielder Sami Khedira is out of Germany’s upcoming games with Argentina and Scotland due to a muscle tear in his left thigh. The injury was confirmed by team doctor HansWilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt in Munich, the German football federation said on Tuesday.

Germany coach Joachim Loew had already called up Hoffenheim midfielder Sebastian Rudy for the friendly against Argentina on Wednesday because of “a shortage in defensive midfield.”

Rudy, 24, made his debut in the 0-0 friendly draw with Poland on May 13 before the World Cup. Defenders Jerome Boateng of Bayern Munich and Mats Hummels of Dortmund also withdrew with injuries on Tuesday, while Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil was already ruled out of Wednesday’s game with an ankle problem.

New captain Bastian Schweinsteiger has a lingering knee injury and Philipp Lahm, Miroslav Klose and Per Mertesacker have retired, Manchester United’s meaning Germany will field a muchAngel Di Maria is seen changed side to the one that beat during his team’s English Argentina in the World Cup final.

Premier League soccer Germany begins its 2016 Euromatch against Burnley pean Championship qualification at Turf Moor Stadium, campaign against Scotland in DortBurnley, England, Saturmund on Sunday. Ozil was working day Aug. 30, 2014. to be fit for that game.

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(L to R) Real Madrid’s Sami Khedira, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Daniel Carvajal and Toni Kroos attend a training session ahead of their UEFA Super Cup soccer match against Sevilla at Cardiff City Stadium, Wales, August 11, 2014.

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Wozniacki wallops Errani to reach semi-finals

Satria Bird Market IBP

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DENPASAR - If you are an animal hobbyist, you will be very familiar with this place, namely the Satria Bird Market. Indeed, the title does not exactly fit with the bird market because this business premise does not only trade birds but also other species of pets. They are dogs, fish, cats, monkeys and so on.

Meanwhile, the name Satria is closely related to location right within the area of Satria Palace.

Bird market is one of the unique tourist attractions downtown Denpasar.

It is located on Jalan Veteran, Denpasar, precisely in the outermost courtyard of family temple of Satria Palace Denpasar. The market was pioneered in 1980 and then arranged by the government in 1991. In 2000 the market began to grow until it was inaugurated by the deputy mayor at the time, I Ketut Robin.

Finally, in 2001-2012, the Denpasar Government To u r i s t O ffi c e s t a r t e d building some supporting facilities such as money changers and toilet.

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New Zealand’s Thomas Abercrombie, and Kenneth Faried of the U.S, bottom, duel for the ball during the Group C Basketball World Cup match, in Bilbao northern Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014.

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Unbeaten US routs New Zealand 98-71 Associated Press

BILBAO, Spain — American players paused from their warmups to stand and face their New Zealand opponents as they performed the haka, their traditional war dance challenge. The U.S. response wasn’t nearly as interesting. Just pound the ball inside and outmuscle an overmatched opponent.

Anthony Davis had 21 points and nine rebounds, Kenneth Faried added 15 and 11 boards and the U.S. remained unbeaten at the Basketball World Cup by beating winless New Zealand 98-71 on Tuesday. James Harden scored 13 points for the Americans, who will play two more games in Bilbao before moving on to Barcelona for the round of 16.

They face the Dominican Republic on Wednesday before wrapping up Group C play on Thursday against Ukraine.

“It was a good, solid performance,” U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I thought the intensity was excellent.” Two nights after having to rally from a halftime deficit and pull away in the fourth quarter for a 98-77 victory over

Turkey, the U.S. led this one wire to wire. The game was close only for a little more than a quarter.

BJ Anthony scored 11 points for New Zealand, which fell to 0-3. “It was pretty awesome getting to play against these guys. These are guys that we watch on TV all the time,” veteran forward Casey Frank said.

“To be able to get out there on the court against them and have a little bit of success offensively, obviously the result didn’t go our way, was pretty awesome.”

The Tall Blacks’ best work was before the game with their haka.

Krzyzewski said U.S. players were aware it would be part of the pregame and they lined up to face midcourt as the New Zealand players got into their formation.

“We actually were going to shake hands with them afterwards because we knew that that was a really neat thing to do and it’s part of their tradition, and we admire that,” Krzyzewski said.

Fans enjoyed it, then were largely quiet throughout the first half as the bigger U.S. team imposed its will, not needing the kind of highlight plays fans expect of the NBA stars.

But there was no shortage of energy from Faried, the Denver Nuggets forward who seems intent on raising his profile as a largely overlooked player in the league.

The Manimal came into the game shooting 14 of 17 in the tournament and then made all five shots in the first half while also grabbing six rebounds. He finished 7 of 9 from the field and is shooting 81 percent, Krzyzewski calling him the Americans’ “biggest and best surprise.” “I’m just playing out there,” Faried said. “I’m just having fun.

I’m just playing my game, having fun, enjoying life.”

NEW YORK - Caroline Wozniacki used her aggressive groundstroke game to near perfection on Tuesday and pummeled Italy’s Sara Errani 6-0 6-1 to reach the semi-finals of the U.S. Open. The 10th seed reached the last four at a grand slam for the first time since 2011 by beating Errani at her own strategy, engaging in long baseline rallies but using superior power to open the court and find lanes for winners.

Dane Wozniacki walloped winners of all varieties, belting 26 of them to just 12 for her Italian opponent, who looked dazed and confused at times on court. The match ended when an Errani forehand hit the net tape and flopped back on her own side of the net and the strains of “Sweet Caroline” began to serenade Wozniacki over the loudspeaker.

“It’s been a pretty up and down year for me,” said Wozniacki, whose two-year relationship with world number one golfer Rory McIlroy ended this year just days after their wedding invitations were sent out. “To be here in the semi-finals of the U.S. Open once again is an incredible feeling.

Definitely, hard work pays off. I’m here and I’m so happy.”

The match began inauspiciously for Wozniacki, who struggled with the warm winds that blew through the stadium. She hit an ugly double fault on her second serve of the opening game and had to fend off four break points to hold serve. “Love-40 isn’t really a good start, but it was really windy and it just took me a few serves

to kind of get into the rhythm and figure out where to throw the ball and what to aim for,” she said.

Wozniacki did not take long to adjust and ended up winning 57 points to a mere 26 for the overmatched Errani. Errani, accustomed to keeping the ball in play long enough to profit from an unforced error, tried to force the action by approaching the net, but Wozniacki whistled winners over her, past her and occasionally right at her.

Errani came to net 20 times and won only half those points. “She is much stronger than me physically. I think that was the most important difference today,” said the 13th seed. “She don’t miss a ball. “I tried to change my game in the second set and come more to the net. I was trying but was difficult.” Wozniacki, a finalist at the 2009 U.S. Open, reigned for 67 weeks as number one back in 2010 and 2011 but is still seeking her first grand slam crown.

Standing in her path to a return to a slam final is China’s unseeded Peng Shuai, who was equally impressive in routing 17-year-old Swiss Belinda Bencic in the lower half of the women’s draw where the leading seeds have vanished in upsets. “She’s been playing well. She’s playing aggressively,” Wozniacki said of Peng, who has lost in their last five meetings while winning one set.

“She’s strong from both sides.

She’s been serving w’ell. It’s going to be a difficult match.” “But it’s going to fun,” added a smiling Wozniacki, happy to be back on the main stage with a real shot at a major title.

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Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark celebrates defeating Sara Errani of Italy in their women’s quarter-finals singles match at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 2, 2014.

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In this Wednesday, June 18, 2014 photo, a North Korean woman walks on the peak of Mt. Paektu in North Korea’s Ryanggang province. More than a thousand years ago, a huge volcano straddling the border between North Korea and China was the site of one of the biggest eruptions in human history, blanketing eastern Asia in its ash.

Team seeks North Korea volcano secrets

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PYONGYANG — More than a thousand years ago, a huge volcano straddling the border between North Korea and China was the site of one of the biggest eruptions in human history, blanketing eastern Asia in its ash. But unlike other major volcanos around the world, the remote and politically sensitive Mount Paektu remains almost a complete mystery to foreign scientists who have — until recently — been unable to conduct on-site studies.

Fresh off their third visit to the volcano, two British scientists studying the mountain in an unprecedented joint project with North Korea say they may soon be able to reveal some secrets of the volcano, including its likelihood of erupting again. They’re collecting seismic data and studying rocks ejected in Paektu’s “millennium eruption” sometime in the 10th century.

“It’s one of the biggest eruptions in the last few thousands of years and we don’t have yet a historical date for it,” Clive Oppenheimer, a professor of volcanology at Cambridge University, told The Associated Press after returning to Pyongyang last week from an eightday trip to the volcano. “The rocks are a bit like the black box of a flight recording. There’s so much that we can read from the field site itself.”

For volcano researchers, studying Paektu is a golden opportunity to break new ground because so much about it remains a puzzle.

Oppenheimer said it is not located along any of the tectonic locations that often explain volcanic activity, so just figuring out why it exists at all is one question that needs to be answered. Little or no historical chronicles of the millennium eruption exist, so scientists are also interested in piecing together what exactly happened, what the volcano and the ecosystem around

it were like before the eruption and how life returned afterward.

Paektu is considered sacred ground in both China and in North Korea, where it is seen as a symbol of the ruling Kim family and of the revolution that led to the founding of the country, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. On the North Korean side, the area around the mountain is dotted with “revolutionary historical sites” and secret camps from which Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s first president, is said to have led guerrilla attacks against the Japanese, who held the Korean Peninsula as a colony until their 1945 surrender ended World War II. Tens of thousands of North Koreans visit the mountain for political indoctrination tours each year during the summer months, when the snows have melted enough for it to be accessible. North Korea is also hoping to develop the volcano, which has a crystal blue crater lake, for foreign tourism.

Fears that the 2,800-meter-tall (9,200-foot-tall) volcano might be unstable began to grow in 2002, when increased seismic activity and ground swelling suggested the magma below the volcano was shifting. That activity subsided in 2006. Though not seen as a serious possibility by most experts, concerns were raised in South Korea

and Japan that nuclear tests in the North — conducted at a site which is less than 100 kilometers away — might trigger an eruption.

“That activity sparked a lot of interest both in China and the DPRK, but also in Japan and South Korea and internationally,” said Oppenheimer’s colleague James Hammond, a seismologist at Imperial College in London. He added that fears of another major eruption soon are probably unfounded.

“It’s certainly very tranquil at the moment.”

Even so, Hammond said the activity prompted the North Korean government to reach out to the international scientific community for help in understanding Paektu’s inner workings. Until the 2002 activity, little scientific research on the volcano had been conducted in China or North Korea.

The project got underway in 2011 at the request of a North Korean government agency, the Pyongyang International Information Center on New Technology and Economy. With funding from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, a philanthropic organization based in Washington, D.C., that supports the sciences, Oppenheimer and Hammond became the first Westerners to visit the North’s six field stations on the volcano.

TOKYO — Japan appointed five women to the 18-member Cabinet Wednesday in a small but symbolic step toward gender equality in government, which remains maledominated in many nations.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has made the empowerment of women a centerpiece of his economic revival strategy for Japan, increased the number of female ministers from two in his previous Cabinet.

Many countries have female ministers, but they often remain far outnumbered by men. France is an exception, as are the Scandinavian countries.

GREAT BRITAIN: Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, who has been accused of packing his government with middle-aged, private-school-educated white men like himself, appointed more women in a Cabinet shakeup in July. Five of

the 22 members are now female.

FRANCE: About half the 34member Cabinet is female, fulfilling a 2012 election promise of Socialist President Francois Hollande.

UNITED STATES: Three of the 16 members of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet are women: the secretaries of the interior, commerce and health and human services. Obama has also appointed women to Cabinet-rank positions including the administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Administration.

CHINA: Three women are members of the Chinese government’s 36-member Cabinet, or State Council — one vice premier and the ministers of health and justice. The country’s apex of political power, the ruling Communist Party’s powerful 7-member Politburo Standing Committee, is all male.

Obama: Too early to gauge Ukraine cease-fire

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TALLINN, Estonia — President Barack Obama says “it’s too early to tell” how serious reports are of a cease-fire between Russia and eastern Ukraine.

Obama says the U.S. has consistently supported efforts by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to achieve a meaningful cease-fire that could lead to a political settlement after months of conflict between the countries.

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Wednesday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached agreement on a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, where Russianbacked separatists have spent months battling the government in Kiev. Wednesday’s statement says mutual understanding was reached.

It provided no details.

Obama says no realistic settlement can be achieved if Russia continues to send tanks and troops into Ukraine under the guise of separatists. Obama commented at a news conference in Estonia.

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From page 1 He hoped in the future there would be clear alignments of the government for the development of home stay. Even, he hoped the home stay could be plasma of major hotels in Bali including in the sharing of guests. For example, when a hotel room was overbooked, guests could be directed to stay at home stay. “In livestock and agriculture, we have the term ‘plasma.’ Why do we not apply this pattern in tourism? For instance, large hotels can serve as the core, while home stays serve as the plasma,” he said.

He also expected the government could crack down on decisively and limit the city hotel progressively proliferating to rural areas as happened to a number of areas in Denpasar and Gianyar. “As the name implies, a city hotel should be located in urban areas. It may not proliferate to countryside. In this case, the government must be decisive,” said the politician of PDI-P Denpasar.

He also greatly supported the stance of Jokowi who kept encouraging the preservation of Balinese culture rather than simply pursuing the development and growth of tourism. Without the support of sustainable Balinese culture, the tourism would become extinct. “Around the world, there is no tourism relying on culture as found in Bali, so that Bali turns exclusive. On that account, Balinese culture has to be maintained all-out and the environment should not be destroyed by incoming investment,” he concluded. (wid)

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INDONESIA Fuel price hike looms for new leader

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JAKARTA — The first item on the to-do list of Indonesia’s president-elect is one that successive leaders have struggled with, and could be his toughest: how to wean the country off fuel subsidies that make gasoline almost as cheap as bottled water.

Each year the subsidies cost Indonesia billions of dollars that economists agree would be better spent on creating jobs and building badly needed roads, schools and hospitals in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

The problem for President-elect Jokowi Widodo is that Indonesians are accustomed to some of the cheapest fuel in the world. The subsidies also indirectly keep the cost of public transport and basic foodstuffs affordable, an important consideration in a country where about half of the 240 million people survive on $2 a day.

Widodo had been hoping for help from outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who could have cut the subsidies before leaving office on October 20, deflecting some of the public anger and political heat away from the new leader.

But Yudhoyono, who raised prices last year by 44 percent after delaying for five years, declined Widodo’s request, saying he had “taken pity” on the people.

Widodo, who won the election convincingly after a campaign that stressed his working class roots and record of progressive leadership as Jakarta governor, has pledged to reduce the subsidy bill, even as members of his own political party urge him not to. They fear more expensive fuel will cut short any honeymoon period.

“I am ready to be unpopular,” Widodo said last week. “We will reduce the fuel subsidies and divert the money to fund more productive projects, seeds for farmers, pesticides, and diesel fuel for fishermen and others sector that need

subsidies more. We have to begin to change.”

Indonesia was once an oil exporter and OPEC member, but now imports crude oil and refined fuel to meet demand. It pays overseas fuel suppliers around 11,500 rupiah ($0.98) per liter, but sells it to Indonesians at 6,500 ($0.55) per liter.

That’s close to the cost of a liter of bottled drinking water, which range in price from 3,500 to 10,000 rupiah depending on brand and outlet.

The fuel subsidy bill last year totaled $16.5 billion, which was 20 percent of the government budget.

That will rise further this year if the world oil price increases.

Cheap fuel also encourages consumption as can be seen in the still-widespread habit of Indonesian drivers to run their engines for several minutes to “warm up” their car before departing on a journey. Fuel imports add to the country’s trade deficit, leaving the rupiah vulnerable to sudden and potentially destabilizing weakness.

Cutting subsidies would send a signal to financial markets and investors that the Jokowi administration is committed to getting government finances in order in a country where economic growth has fallen to its lowest level in almost five years.

In recent weeks the government’s mismanagement of the fuel situation has been on display. State-owned oil company Pertamina began limiting supplies to fuel stations, fearing it would fun out of subsidized fuel.

This sparked panic buying and led to hours-long queues on Java island, home to more than half of the country’s people.

Faisal Basri, a former economic

adviser to Yudhoyono, described the subsidized fuel policy as a “cancer that risks spreading to the whole economy.” He said that two 20 percent hikes, one in September and one early next year, would be enough to help end the dependence.

“If we do that, then we can move full speed ahead in 2016 and escape from this myth” of the need for subsidized fuel, he wrote in a recent blog post.

The Yudhoyono government tried to create public awareness that that the main beneficiaries of cheap fuel are the middle and upper classes,

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when Southeast Asia’s top economy introduced the new regulations.

They include a ban on exports of some unprocessed minerals, and higher taxes on others that can still be shipped out of the country, and are an example of recent economic policies dubbed “resource nationalism” by critics.

Copper concentrate, a partially processed product that is a major export for Newmont and its US peer Freeport-McMoRan, was exempt

from the ban but the companies still faced paying the new, higher taxes on shipments.

However Newmont refused, saying that the levies conflict with its original agreements to operate in Indonesia, and stopped exports.

In June it ceased production at Batu Hijau after its stores filled up, and a month later filed an international arbitration claim against Jakarta over the regulations.

However late last month it

who drive cars and have large houses with multiple air conditioners and appliances. It gave cash handouts to the poor to try and cushion the blow of subsidy reductions, something that Widodo is also committed to doing.

But the effectiveness of that message was clouded by corruption scandals involving government officials and the wasteful spending of the political elite in general. Any leader who cuts subsidies is painted by most political parties and much of the media as being anti-poor. There is also pressure from the growing numbers of first-time car and motorbike owners.

In 1998, former dictator Suharto cut subsidies as a condition of receiving a bailout fund from the International Monetary Fund.

The move sparked rioting that ultimately led to his downfall. Protests and street unrest have erupted each time a government has cut subsidies since then.

Widodo is almost certain to face similar opposition. The coalition that nominated his challenger has yet to formally concede and has vowed to disrupt his administration. Even members of the political party that nominated Widodo for president are opposed to any move to raise the fuel prices.

“I personally do not agree with the plan to raise fuel prices before the new government has tried to overcome the deficit by making other sectors more efficient,” said Maruarar Sirait, a lawmaker with Widodo’s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.

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In this Sept. 1, 2014 photo, an attendant fills up the tank of a motorbike at a gas station in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Newmont reaches deal with government

JAKARTA - US mining giant Newmont has reached a tentative agreement with the Indonesian government that should allow it to resume exports after they were halted due to controversial restrictions on mineral shipments, reports said Wednesday.

The company stopped exporting copper from its huge Batu Hijau mine in central Indonesia in January

dropped the claim after a breakthrough in talks and late Tuesday reached a tentative deal that should soon allow it to resume exports, reports said.

“We have reached an agreement with the government,” the head of Newmont’s Indonesian unit, Martiono Hadianto, was cited as saying in the Jakarta Post daily.

He said that once a letter relating to exports was filed with the trade ministry, Newmont would be able

to resume shipments.

R. Sukhyar, the energy ministry’s director general of minerals and coal, told Dow Jones Newswires that a deal had been reached and said the company had agreed to pay higher export taxes and royalties.

Freeport-McMoRan also halted exports from Indonesia after locking horns with the government over the new regulations but resumed shipments last month after striking a new deal.

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Anti-poverty group urges G20 to tackle corruption Associated Press

CANBERRA — Anti-poverty organization ONE is urging leaders of the 20 largest economies to act decisively at an annual summit in November against money laundering, bribery, tax evasion and corruption which it estimates costs the world’s poorest countries more than $1 trillion a year.

The Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group launched its report on the economic cost of corruption on the developing world on Wednesday in the Australian capital Canberra at a Parliament House event attended by diplomats from the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

ONE is lobbying Australia to use its presidency of the G20 leaders’ summit in the city of Brisbane on

Nov. 15-16 to end what it calls a culture of secrecy that allows corruption and criminality to thrive in many countries.

The report, The Trillion Dollar Scandal, estimates that as many as 3.6 million deaths could be prevented if money drained from the poorest economies by corruption was invested in health systems.

“Developing countries are losing a trillion dollars every year as result

of money laundering, bribery and tax evasion, and the uncomfortable truth is that often the policies put in place by G20 countries are facilitating those outflows from the world’s poorest countries,” report author David McNair said.

McNair pointed to World Bank research that found 70 percent of major international financial scandals since 1980 involved shelf companies in which the owners were unknown. The British Virgin Islands and the U.S. state of Delaware were the most popular places for such companies to be registered.

The report found that the losses could be significantly reduced if policies were put in place to increase transparency and combat corruption

in four key areas: money laundering, a public register of principals of phantom firms in which ownership structures are hidden, public disclosure of company payments made in natural resource deals and an international exchange of tax information to combat tax evasion.

McNair held meetings in Canberra this week with officials from Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s office, Treasury Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to seek support for the recommendations.

Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Alan Tudge told the launch there was “significant alignment between the aspirations of the Australian government and

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the G20 on the one hand, and the call to action that you (ONE) have in your report, on the other.”

“In some cases, your suggestions might be running ahead of what some G20 members are currently able to achieve,” Tudge said, add that “Australia, as president of the G20 and co-chair of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, is absolutely determined to lead the work to improve transparency and to combat tax evasion and corruption,” he added.

ONE used three methodologies to calculate the costs of secrecy and corruption to the poorest countries.

All methodologies agreed that the cost was between $1 trillion and $2 trillion.

ANA, Lufthansa announce cargo business tie-up

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TOKYO - Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Lufthansa of Germany on Wednesday announced an air cargo tie up as they look to fight off intense competition from budget airlines on passenger routes.

The airlines said they had won regulatory approval for the agreement, which will see them integrate network planning, pricing, sales and handling on all routes between Japan and Europe.

“The two carriers aim to introduce the joint approach on shipments originating from Japan to Europe in winter 2014/2015 and for shipments from Europe to Japan in mid-2015,” they said in a statement.

“The joint venture will benefit customers by generating a greater selection of routings and a wider range of service options. Customers will especially profit from a larger and faster network with more direct flights, more destinations and more frequencies.”

ANA and Lufthansa, both members of the Star Alliance global airline network, launched a joint venture for Japan-Europe passenger flights two years ago.

The Japanese carrier holds a 17 percent market share for air freight between Japan and Europe, while Lufthansa has 16 percent, the leading Nikkei business daily said Wednesday.

Mainline carriers’ cargo businesses have become increasingly crucial to their bottom line as they battle budget airlines in the passenger market.

In this April 2, 2014 file picture Lufthansa aircrafts are parked as Lufthansa pilots went on a three-days-strike in Frankfurt, Germany. Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Lufthansa of Germany on Wednesday announced an air cargo tie up as they look to fight off intense competition from budget airlines on passenger routes.

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NUSA DUA - The standard of production equipment, especially those of oil and gas, will be improved by the government to prevent corrosion, Director General of Manufacturing Industry Basis, Ministry of Industry, Harjanto stated on Tuesday.

“We keep trying to improve the national standards for oil and gas production equipment, and it will be mandatory,” Harjanto added.

He pointed out that standardization was essential, as corrosion was a significant menace for oil and gas companies causing loss in business.

According to a survey in the United States in 2002, oil and gas

companies in the country had lost US$276 billion due to corrosion.

Harjanto, however, could not provide the total loss to Indonesia due to corrosion.

“Currently, no record is available to determine loss due to corrosion.

The average loss for a country, however, could reach 2-5 percent of the gross domestic production,” he estimated.

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Meanwhile, secretary of Special Unit for Upstream Oil and Gas, Gde Pradnyana, noted that the total loss to a company due to corrosion could exceed the cost for refinement.

He maintained that the institution had anticipated corrosion and had used good quality equipment and applied a proper design, as most of the oil and gas refineries had been built during 1970-1980.

“The standards must be improved at regular intervals. Moreover, most of the refineries had been built in 1970-1980. The standards defined during that period are different from the current standards,” Pradnyana added.

JAKARTA - Indonesia will host the 11th International Cooperative Alliance Regional Assembly and the 8th Asia-Pacific Co-operative Forum which will be held from September 15 to 20 in Nusa Dua, Bali province.

“The two events will be attended by representatives from 25 member countries of the International Co-operative Alliance in the Asia-Pacific region which are supporting a total of 500 co-operative organizations,” said Chairman of Indonesian Co-operatives Board (Dekopin) Nurdin Halid on Tuesday.

Nurdin noted that hosting the international co-operative events is a good opportunity for Indonesia to strengthen its co-operative network with co-operatives from the other AsiaPacific countries.

Meanwhile, Dekopin Director for Foreign Affairs Ilham Nasai said the upcoming co-operative event in Bali will discuss strategic ways to make co-operatives contribute to people’s welfare.

“The discussion is expected to come up with a road map on how to further enhance the role of co-operatives in developing people’s welfare,” said Ilham.

Plow paddy field, Pengotan farmers pull okokan Though often referred to as the village with the highest poverty rate in Bangli County, Pengotan village is in fact rich in unique cultural traditions. At this ancient village, the community is still preserving their agrarian community dance known as the Okokan Dance.

IT is called as Okokan Dance because the people dancing it will put on okokan (wooden cow bell necklace). The wood used to make the cow bell is carefully selected from the jackfruit or champak tree as they are believed to create a melodious sound. “Cow bell has smaller size, while the okokan has bigger size and can reach half a meter,” said the Chief of Pengotan village, Jro Wayan Kopok, when met recently. Aside from involving the residents, the dance also involved dozens of pairs of decorated cows.

According to Jro Wayan Kopok, the Okokan Dance was just danced by farmers while plowing their rice field. By involving dozens of pairs of embellished cows, the dance aimed to invoke fertility to Goddess Sri. “Farmers hope what they cultivate can produce well,” he explained.

He added that the dance recounted about farmers who were plowing their paddy field. The cows used for plowing had usually been well trained and decorated. With a total of number reaching up to 20 pairs, they would go hand in hand when plowing. Before starting the

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Pengotan village is a unique cultural traditions. At this ancient village, the community is still preserving their agrarian community dance known as the Okokan Dance.

plowing, farmers would usually deliver an offering first to invoke blessing.

Kopok said that the number of cows embellished to plow paddy field was adjusted to the number of personnel getting involved and their land area. If the land plowed belonging to temple property, numerous cows would be deployed.

By all means, the cows in use were habitually of large size.

Through generations, the Okokan Dance has now become a dance frequently staged as an entertainment. According to Kopok, other than at Pengotan village, similar okokan could also still be found in Tabanan.

To Pengotan village, the ac-

tive okokan dance troupe could be found at Sunting hamlet. Until now, the number of okokan at Pengotan village was estimated to reach 60 pieces. They were usually owned by some community members. To keep its sound melodious when in use, the okokan would be stored in a warm place near kitchen furnace.

Aside from being a farmer dance during the planting season of rice on non-irrigated paddy field, the okokan was only performed by Pengotan residents at the night of Pengerupukan (one day before Day of Silence). At that time, the okokan would be paraded at forefront and accompanied by gamelan orchestra. (ina)

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The vertical plant media in Bangli is not being used properly

Fish farmers requested to scatter fingerlings after September

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BANGLI - Although the bursts of sulfur in Lake Batur, Kintamani, has been declared to cease since last week and condition of the lake has gradually recovered, the fish farmers are advised not to spread fingerlings in their floating net cages (KJA). Spreading of the fingerlings should be done after September.

It is made to anticipate the subsequent sulfur bursts that may re-occur this month. It was stated by the Head of Bangli Livestock and Fisheries Agency, Alit Parwata, Sunday (Aug 31).

According to Alit Parwata, pursuant to the experience so far, the incidence of sulfur burst in Lake Batur could not be predicted. The sulfur bursts occurred in mid-August causing thousands of tons of fish to die en masse would re-occur in September. “Though the lake currently seems not to be polluted by sulfur, people must remain vigilant. I expect that farmers will not spread fingerlings first. It is best done after September,” he explained.

Fish farmers were asked to be aware of spreading fingerlings in June-Septem-

ber. While waiting for the right time to spread fingerlings, his party requested fish farmers to fill in their time by taking care of cages. “Yes, to kill time, farmers can do cage maintenance,” he added.

As reported earlier, thousands of fish died in Lake Batur due to sulfur bursts.

Based on the data owned by the Bangli Livestock and Fishery Agency, from the 32 fish farmer groups in Bangli, the fish death reached tens of thousands of heads.

In details, they consisted of 86,000 fingerlings, 4,195 medium-sized fish and 36,600 kg of ready-to-harvest fish. Beyond the groups, a total of 25 fish farmers were forced to suffer the same losses. The death of fingerlings reached 8,000 heads, 1,000 kg of medium-sized fish and 25,070 kg of near-harvested fish. Overall, the loss suffered by fish farmers was estimated to reach IDR 5,476,670,000.

After the incident and so far, farmers could breed fish in their floating net cages. While waiting for the recovered condition of the lake, most fish farmers were switching profession to become a garden farmer, while some others were forced to idle because having no land to be cultivated. (ina)

Bali, made into distribution warehouse of bedding industry Bali Post

SURABAYA - Bali Island is a potential market for American products. Other than local community, many foreign travelers also live in Bali. Thus, it generates a promising potential market share.

Massindo Group, a manufacturer of well known American bed and mattress products, also targets the potential. Supported by 14 factories, it has 15 branches spreading across 15 major cities in Indonesia, including Denpasar. The branch in Denpasar is made into a distribution warehouse of the bedding products.

It was revealed by President Director of Massindo Group, Jeffri Massie. The closest bed factory to Bali was located in Krian Sidoarjo. So, to store the bed products did not need the warehouse facility existing in Bali.

According to him, the existing 15 branches were located in Medan, Pekanbaru, Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, Jakarta, Denpasar, Makassar, Kendari, Palu, Gorontalo, Manado, Ternate and Kotamobagu. Besides, Massindo also had 1,000 dealers with 24 units of Sleep Center or store. On that account, the products available at the Sleep

Center consisted of one local brand and four international brands becoming the superior products in Indonesia.

Meanwhile, the five brands included Comforta, Spring Water, Therapedic, My Side and Protect A Bed. “As a bedding company, we understand that convenience is the number one thing that customers look for. Our main target is premium bedding segment,” said Jeffri. Although marketing premium bedding products at the price above IDR 60 million, Massindo did not neglect the lower- and middle-end market segment.

He said that Massindo worked with a number of leasing companies for the lower and middle class. “With the money of IDR 100,000 to IDR 200,000 per month, customers can still enjoy a bed of high quality because the price of the cheapest bed is IDR 1 million,” he added. In the meantime, the premium bed market segment was 10 percent for three- to five-star hotels, while the remaining customers were still dominated by general public.

Until the year 2017, he said, Massindo Group targeted to have 50 units of Sleep Center and would add three more branches.

These three branches were also expected to add 150 dealerships. (059)

BAGHDAD — An international rights group says Islamic State militants carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June.

Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that new evidence indicates the Islamic State group killed between 560 and 770 men captured at Camp Speicher, near the city of Tikrit.

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Health workers spray the body of a amputee suspected of dying from the Ebola virus with disinfectant, in a busy street in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014.

Group says world is losing battle against Ebola Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The international group Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday that the world is losing the battle against Ebola and lamented that treatment centers in West Africa have been “reduced to places where people go to die alone.” In separate remarks after a United Nations meeting on the crisis, the World Health Organization chief said everyone involved had underestimated the outbreak, which has now killed more than 1,500 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. U.N. officials implored governments worldwide to send medical workers and material contributions.

Meanwhile in Liberia, a missionary organization announced that another American doctor has become infected.

Doctors Without Borders, which has treated more than 1,000 Ebola patients in West Africa since March, is completely overwhelmed by the disease, said Joanne Liu, the organization’s president. She called on other countries to contribute civilian and military medical personnel familiar with biological disasters.

“Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it,” Liu said at a U.N. forum on the outbreak. “Ebola treatment centers are reduced to places where people go to die alone, where little more than palliative care is offered.” In Sierra Leone, she said, infectious bodies are rotting in the streets. Liberia had to build a new crematorium instead of new Ebola care centers.

At the U.N. meeting, WHO Director Margaret Chan thanked countries that have helped but said: “We need more from you. And we also need those countries that have not come on board.” Later at a news conference, she warned that the outbreak will get worse before it gets better.

President Barack Obama urged West Africans on Tuesday to wear gloves and masks when caring for Ebola patients or burying anyone who died of the disease. He discouraged the burial practice of directly touching the body of Ebola victims, which is one way the disease has been spreading.

“You can respect your traditions and honor your loved ones without risking the lives of the living,” Obama said in the brief video message. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the situation is now the world’s first Ebola epidemic, given how widely it is spreading.

The latest missionary to come down with the disease, a male obstetrician, was not immediately identified by the group Serving In Mission. The group did not specify how he contracted the disease, but it can be spread through vaginal fluids. He did not work in an Ebola ward. A Liberian doctor on the missionary’s treatment team said it was too soon to tell whether he will be evacuated. The doctor would speak only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with reporters.

Last month, two Americans, in-

cluding one from the same missionary group, were evacuated to the United States for treatment after contracting Ebola in Liberia. The two recovered after receiving an experimental drug known as ZMapp. The manufacturer says it has run out of supplies of the drug and it will take months to produce more.

U.S. health officials on Tuesday announced a $24.9 million, 18-month contract with Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. to speed development of ZMapp. As part of the project, Mapp is to make a small amount of the drug for early-stage safety testing, while working with the Department of Health and Human Services to accelerate the manufacturing process.

The outbreak has taken a particularly high toll on health care workers, and nurses in Liberia and Sierra Leone have repeatedly gone on strike to demand hazard pay and better protective gear.

On Monday, nurses at a major hospital in the Liberian capital went on strike, according to spokesman Jerald P. Dennis III. While JFK hospital is treating Ebola patients, the striking nurses were all from non-Ebola wards.

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Islamic militants killed 770 Iraqi troops

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BANGLI - The intention of Bangli Urban Planning Agency to beautify the town area with the park concept is only still limited in discourse. It is indicated by some vertical plant media installed at some points of Bangli town all this time that are left unattended. Although overgrown by plants, none of the vertical plant media reflects the beauty of the park concept.

Such vertical plant media can be found at several points in the town of Bangli, including in front of the Social, Manpower and Settlement Agency, in the west of Bangli Prosecutor’s Office and in front of the Bangli Military District Command.

Condition of the vertical plant media made of iron is quite alarming. Aside from overgrown by a few vines, the condition is also unkempt. No beautiful impression exudes, let alone shady impression. Even, some of the media have dried out without overgrown by plants.

Other than in the town of Bangli, similar condition can also be found at some vertical plant media in the tourist area of Sekardadi, Kintamani. They are not overgrown by ornamental flowers, but the media are even filled with grasses and wild vines.

When asked for his confirmation about the matter, the Head of Bangli Urban Planning Agency, Ida Ayu Yudi Sutha, said on Tuesday (Aug 2) the concept of plant media for vines was actually made to beautify the appearance of Bangli town.

However, since it had not been maximally utilized all this time, her party promised to make an arrangement in 2015.

“Later, we will re-arrange it. We’ll plant the media with bougainvillea flowers so that it can look more beautiful,” she said.

Not only that, since the placement of some of the media all this time was considered inappropriate, her party would relocate them to a better place. One of them would be moved to the next of floating pavilion which would begin to be repaired in the near future. Thus, the media could be utilized properly and could make Bangli into the town of flowers. (ina)

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The New York-based watchdog says the number of slain Iraqi soldiers is several times higher than previously reported. Earlier, Human Rights Watch said between 160 and 190 men were killed.

Human Rights Watch says the new number is based on analysis of new satellite imagery, militant videos and a survivor’s account.

In June, the Islamic State group claimed it had “executed” about 1,700 soldiers and military personnel captured from Camp Speicher.

350 more troops assigned to US Embassy in Baghdad

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. is adding 350 more troops to help protect the American Embassy in Baghdad and its support facilities in the capital, raising the number of U.S. forces in the country to over 1,000, officials said Tuesday.

President Barack Obama approved the additional troops for protection of American personnel following a request by the State Department and a review and recommendation by the Defense Department, the White House said in a statement.

The buildup of U.S. troops in Baghdad follows the growing threat from Islamic State militants in northern Iraq. Since early August the U.S. has carried out 124 airstrikes against the militants, the

latest taking place near the Mosul Dam on Monday.

The additional troops will not serve in a combat role, the White House said. Most are from the Army and some are Marines, the Pentagon said in a statement.

Approximately 820 troops have now been assigned to augment diplomatic security in Iraq, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon’s spokesman.

The additional troops will come from within the U.S. Central Command area of operations and will include a headquarters element, medical personnel, associated helicopters and an air liaison team, Kirby said. Fifty-five troops in Baghdad since June will be redeployed outside of Iraq and replaced by 405 newly deployed troops, he said.

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Security forces and civilians inspect a crater caused by a car bomb explosion in commercial area of New Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014.

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Double mastectomy doesn’t boost cancer survival rates

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WASHINGTON - Women fighting cancer in one breast don’t benefit from having both breasts removed, according to new research out Tuesday that found long-term survival was equivalent after targeted surgery plus radiation. Hollywood star Angelina Jolie famously announced last year she had a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of one day developing breast cancer, because she has a genetic mutation that substantially increases breast cancer risk.

And a growing number of women have begun choosing the most radical surgical option -- the double mastectomy, to remove all breast tissue -- after a diagnosis, even when cancerous tissue was found only in one breast.

But the researchers aimed to determine whether evidence showed double mastectomies led to longer lives for this category of breast cancer patients.

It was the first study to directly compare survival rates between

the three main surgical interventions used in breast cancer: a single or a double mastectomy, or a lumpectomy to removing only the cancerous tissue, followed by radiation therapy.

The study found that in 2011, just over 12 percent of patients diagnosed with a breast tumor opted for a double mastectomy, compared to just two percent in 1998.

However, “we can now say that the average breast cancer patient

who has bilateral mastectomy will have no better survival than the average patient who has lumpectomy plus radiation,” said lead author Stanford medical professor Allison Kurian.

Of the nearly 190,000 study subjects diagnosed between 1998 and 2011, 55 percent had a lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy, 38.8 percent had a single mastectomy, and 6.2 percent had a double mastectomy.

Women of color or minorities,

and those of more impoverished backgrounds, were more likely to have undergone a single mastectomy than other groups. In contrast, women who had both breasts removed were more likely to be middle class or wealthy, white, under the age of 50, or some combination.

The long-term survival rate for women who underwent lumpectomies with radiation was not statistically different from women who underwent double mastectomies, Kurian and co-author Scarlett Gomez found. The long-term survival rate after single mastectomies was slightly lower, however the authors said it was unclear whether that could be attributed to differences in socioeconomic status.

They noted these women may

have had other health problems and had more difficulty traveling to follow-up appointments for treatment, including for radiation.

Jolie carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that increases the risk of breast cancer by 85 percent. After a double mastectomy, that risk falls to just five percent.

The authors of this week’s study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, emphasized that their findings do not mean women with the BRCA1 mutation or another in the BRCA2 gene, or with a strong family history of breast cancer, should not have a double mastectomy. In those cases, the precautionary surgery may an effective choice, they said.

Playing music helps sharpen kids’ brains

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LOS ANGELES — The founder of a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides free music lessons to low-income students from gang-ridden neighborhoods began to notice several years ago a hopeful sign: Kids were graduating high school and heading off to

UCLA, Tulane and other big universities. That’s when Margaret Martin asked how the children in the Harmony Project were beating the odds.

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois believe that the students’ music training played a role in their educational achievement, helping as Martin

noticed 90 percent of them graduate from high school while 50 percent or more didn’t from those same neighborhoods.

A two-year study of 44 children in the program shows that the training changes the brain in ways that make it easier for youngsters to process sounds, according to results reported in Tuesday’s edi-

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Arielle Dominguez, from left, Elizabeth Lopez, Andres Lopez, Azariah Wright and Katie Bella play their trumpets during a lesson offered by Harmony Project, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides free music lessons to low-income students, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in Los Angeles.

tion of The Journal of Neuroscience. That increased ability, the researchers say, is linked directly to improved skills in such subjects as reading and speech.

But, there is one catch: People have to actually play an instrument to get smarter. They can’t just crank up the tunes on their iPod. Nina Kraus, the study’s lead researcher and director of Northwestern’s auditory neuroscience laboratory, compared the difference to that of building up one’s body through exercise. “I like to say to people: You’re not going to get physically fit just watching sports,” she said.

Kraus said studies like hers are challenging because researchers need to follow subjects for years in order to track changes in the brain. She said more and larger studies need to be done in a variety of districts around the country to “help us understand what are the most effective forms of learning and how might learning be tailored for an individual child.”

The latest findings are striking a chord with supporters of such programs who say music is frequently the first cut for school boards looking to save money.

April Benasich, a professor of neuroscience at Rutgers University who was not involved in the study, said previous research by Kraus has demonstrated the value of music is improving concentration, memory and focus in children. Benasich, who researches early brain development, said the study’s findings are “a game-changer for both

the scientific and public policy domains, particularly in an era when these sorts of enrichment activities are being aggressively eliminated from our schools.

Martin approached the National Institutes of Health, seeking to learn if there was a connection between music and the educational achievements of the program’s 2,000 students. The NIH put her in touch with Kraus, who studies the changes in the brain that occur through auditory exposure. Many of Harmony Project’s students have no interest in pursuing professional music careers, Martin said.

Ricardo Torriz, 13, wants to be an engineer. He took up the trumpet and is learning salsa, jazz and classical music. “I wanted to take up the trumpet so I could play in a band like my dad,” he said.

Researchers studied the students over two years, attaching scalp electrodes to monitor changes in their brains. Test subjects were selected at random from those on a waiting list to enter the program, hopefully ensuring all test subjects would be equally motivated to work hard.

One of the researchers’ key findings was that one year of musical training didn’t make a difference in brain changes.

Two years did. “We know that a fundamental characteristic of the nervous system is our ability to change as we age, as we interact with our environment. But we can’t be changing every second or you’d have a very unstable system,” Kraus said.

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International flights to Bali increases Antara

DENPASAR - Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, has handled 2,228 international flights to overseas destinations in July 2014, an increase of 4.98 percent as compared to 2,123 flights during the last month.

“Those international flights have carried 376,445 foreign tourists for their vacations in Bali. The number of tourists has increased by 5.83 percent as compared to 355,702 visitors recorded in the previous month,” Head of Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) of Bali Panusunan Siregar stated.

He noted that there has been a steady increase in the number of tourists visiting Bali.

During the period between January and July 2014, the number of tourists visiting Bali reached 2.08 million, an increase of 16.66 percent as compared to 1.79 million tourists recorded in the same period last year.

Most of the visitors arrived in Bali via Ngurah Rai International

Airport, and the other 20,295 tourists came to Bali via seaport or by cruise ships.

Siregar explained that the rise in the number of foreign visitors to Bali has led to an increase in the amount of luggage and goods transported in July 2014, which was recorded at 5.92 percent or from 6,352.8 tons in June 2014 to 6,728.6 tons in July 2014.

In the meantime, 3,709 flights departed for domestic destinations in July 2014 or a decrease of 6.33 percent as compared to 3,287 flights recorded in the previous month.

These domestic flights have carried luggage and goods weighing 3,414.2 tons or a decrease of 17.37 percent as compared to 4,132.1 tons recorded in the previous month.

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Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, has handled 2,228 international flights to overseas destinations in July 2014, an increase of 4.98 percent as compared to 2,123 flights during the last month.

Endek increasingly in demand Bali Post

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Increasing demand for endek fabric makes it become a fashion trend. Many employees either civil servants, private sector employees, employees of state enterprises or bank employees are vying to homogenize their clothes using Balinese woven fabric known as endek.

DENPASAR - Increasing demand for endek fabric makes it become a fashion trend. Many employees either civil servants, private sector employees, employees of state enterprises or bank employees are vying to homogenize their clothes using Balinese woven fabric known as endek. This endek fabric is commonly encountered in various regions throughout Bali such as Bona (Gianyar), Bangli and Klungkung.

An endek fashion designer, Ni Wayan Ria Mariani, admitted that she could be flooded by the order of endek clothing in particular moments such as competition among companies or institutions, when a new model of endek innovation was introduced and the implementation of endek fashion show, she said.

Endek is available in various types which can be categorized based on certain classes such as silk type categorized into high grade woven fabric, while lower class woven fabric includes troso.

The difference lies in the thickness, color and texture. Meanwhile, the other kinds of endek are the line endek and luster endek. The thickness of endek is usually distinguished in terms of its comb, where the endek with 80 combs belongs to the good quality, while the thinner one has 70 combs, so that the quality is poorer.

Workmanship of the endek fabric will take the weaver a day to work on 2 meters of woven fabric and will also depend on the motif selected. Then, the price of endek fabric also varied depending on the type of endek itself. Even, the price can reach IDR 2 million for a meter of this ikat woven fabric.

Amidst her bustles, Ria Maria shared her tips on how to distinguish the original endek fabric from the artificial endek. According to her, the original endek was thicker than the artificial one. In terms of color, the original endek looked more natural because it used natural dyes, and the motif usually applied traditional ornamental style such as patra, animal and so on.

Compared to other kinds of endek, Balinese endek had superiority in the matter of better quality. Although it was washed again and again, the color would remain good and the fabric texture was not damaged like endek of the other kinds.

To beautify the look of endek clothing, Ria usually combined it with a plain fabric or other ikat woven fabric so that the price could also be more affordable.

This excellent local product was made manually and applied natural materials. As a result, she could not fulfill all the demands. On that account, this remaining share was then taken by large industry by producing artificial endek. (may)

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AMLAPURA - A legislator from Penginyahan, Kubu, Karangasem, Nyoman Musna Antara, said the water crisis in Kubu was severe. Since last May, the residents had even proposed to request clean water assistance.

IDR 20,000 and IDR 10,000 per person.

Distribution of the water using tank truck was managed by the Kubu subdistrict. However, the tank truck had been out of order since a few days. The tank truck was old enough and during the operation it should take water and distribute it through heavy road each day. “Each day, the tank truck of subdistrict

The severe drought happen in Kubu, Karangasem Regency

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can serve 10 times back and forth.

Even, the driver serves the water customers in turn to night. From the location of taking water, the driver must pass through difficult terrain to reach the cisterns of residents where it takes two hours for each trip,” said Musna.

He said that in recent days, many people organized wedding or cremation ritual in the barren

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subdistrict of Kubu. As a result, the water need increased, while the cisterns of local residents had dried out even since last May. Those who needed water were forced to ask for help. The price water was quite expensive. People living near state road of Amlapura-Singaraja also faced water crisis. They had no other choice but buying it at IDR 100,000 for each tank with the capacity of 5,000 liters. However, if the water seller had to serve the residents by passing through hard path, the water price would be IDR 150,000 each tank. “Residents living at the barren village in Kubu are unable to buy such expensive water because their income as farmers is erratic. Moreover, their cashew nuts have not borne fruit yet,” said Musna Antara.

The residents requiring clean water, as their rainwater in the cistern had dried out, generally originated from four villages in Kubu namely the Tianyar, West Tianyar, East Tianyar and Ban village. “At Tianyar village, the severe water crisis happens to Moncol, Pedahan, Padangsari and other hamlets in the mountain areas,” he said.

Meanwhile, a member of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, also revealed similar condition. He said that he was very concerned whereas all this time there had been a lot of pipeline projects for the provision of clean water.

However, the residents at the barren villages remained to face clean water crisis. Gede Dana lamented the clean water pipeline project from Telaga Waja spending the funds worth more than IDR 120 billion from central government could not be enjoyed by the com-

munity so far.

“The project owner should expedite the completion of the water pipeline project. Do not let the state budget worth hundreds of billions of rupiahs runs out, while the project can only install the pipelines.

Do not let the project only become a lighthouse project. I think it will be better to give assistance in the form of cisterns that can be managed in groups by two or five families living close to one another. So, it will be more effective and efficient than the pipeline project worth hundreds of billions, but does not give any benefit,” he said.

He added that residents in Kubu subdistrict as well as other villages such as Datah, Bunutan on the mountain areas, Seraya, Butus, Tanah Aron, Sebudi and Pempatan Rendang village stayed to face the same condition as Kubu. They were still facing clean water crisis. Musna Antara said there had been indeed a pipeline project of the Telaga Waja.

At the moment, pipe installation just reached the Kubu hamlet or village. Besides, the reservoir had also been built. “I expect the water of the project can be immediately enjoyed by residents, so the people’s burden will be lighter,” he said.

On the other hand, the Head of Karangasem Social Agency, Made Sosiawan, revealed different things last Tuesday. According to him, so far people rarely asked for help of clean water to his office. “Residents rarely need clean water assistance.

Even, there were no residents proposing to ask for clean water assistance. As long as they submit a proposal, we will surely help,” he said. (013)

Arrested, a courier of counterfeit banknotes

DENPASAR - Denpasar Police Criminal Investigation Unit uncovered a counterfeit banknote case, Monday (Sep 1). The culprit had the initials DW, 40. He was arrested while taking the consignment of counterfeit banknote package at the office of a courier service on Jalan Kapten Regug, East Denpasar.

Related to the case, the officer secured the evidence in the form

of counterfeit banknote worth IDR 21 million.

According to the officer of the Denpasar Police, Tuesday (Sep 2), the case disclosure began from the information that there was a suspicious package at the company.

Further, the information was followed up by the officers by making reconnaissance on the scene. “It is a package of glass mineral water containing money and allegedly it is counterfeit money,” the officer

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Since May, severe water crisis hit Kubu

Musna said that he had helped at least by subsidizing the cost of water assistance for a total of 180 tank trucks. Each truck was financed at IDR 70,000, such as for fuel of generator set to siphon water from the tank truck to cisterns of local residents. The assistance was also given for fuel of the tank truck as well as wage of driver and helper respectively amounted to

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added.

Furthermore, the officer waited for the owner of the package.

Around 11:57 a.m. came DW living on Jalan Ahmad Yani, North Denpasar. After picking up the package, a team led by Chief Unit I Sulhadi immediately arrested him. Afterward, the suspect was searched and it was found counterfeit money valued at IDR 21 million. The suspect was then taken to the Denpasar Police Headquarters.

When examined, the suspect confessed that he was asked by his friend to take the package. As planned, the counterfeit banknotes would be distributed in Denpasar and surrounding areas.

“The suspect admitted to have taken such kind of counterfeit banknote package for two times. As a rule, it is circulated in Denpasar, especially at the Badung Market.

The case remains to be explored whether the package is owned by

the suspect or others,” said the officer.

Chief of Denpasar Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Nengah Sadiarta, when asked for his confirmation justified the disclosure of the case. However, the former Chief of Badung Police Criminal Investigation Unit was reluctant to explain in more details about the case.

“The case is being explored. When everything is clear, it will be surely exposed,” he added. (kmb36)

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Let’s love all serve all

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KUTA - Although there many restaurants, cafés and night clubs around Kuta area, but General Manager Rudy Tjung never feel worry to compete with others. Even, he is optimist to introduce and grow Hard Rock Café Bali. “Hard Rock Café is different. We’re the unique one here,” said Rudy.

The man who familiar called Mr. Rudy revealed that showing the difference is a must. So that he has trick and tips to apply such as giving and offering delicious, healthy, hygiene food and beverages and unforgettable entertainment. “I never forget to spread the spirit of ‘Rock n Roll’ by creating authentic experience and memorable,” he said.

Besides that, the alumni of Tafe

Collage majoring in Hospitality also stated that the café has good selling point like a great location, in front of Kuta Beach, unique, friendly staff and always become a trend setter. “I encourage my team to give the best service and develop brand images reputation,” said the man who was born in Jakarta, March 10.

Besides that, to make the restaurant becomes the most favorite one in the area especially, he keep innovating, irreverent and respecting everybody. He and their team are also together in maintaining the environment by saving the Green Turtle, coral reef, Bali Starling and doing social work like cleaning beach. “Let’s love all serve all,” add the man who like travelling in the beach. (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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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Bieber charged with assault over photo incident Associated Press

TORONTO — Canadian pop star Justin Bieber faces new charges after he was arrested for dangerous driving and assault following a collision between a minivan and an ATV that led to a physical altercation involving a photographer, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Ontario Provincial Police said Bieber, who was driving the ATV, and an occupant of the minivan “engaged in a physical altercation,” Friday afternoon near Bieber’s hometown of Stratford.

“Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s peaceful retreat in Stratford this weekend was unfortunately disrupted by the unwelcome presence of the paparazzi,” Brian Greenspan, Bieber’s Toronto lawyer, said Tuesday.

“This has regrettably resulted in charges of dangerous driving and assault. Mr. Bieber and Ms. Gomez have fully cooperated in the police investigation. We are hopeful that this matter will be quickly resolved.”

Bieber, 20, turned himself in to a police station Monday and was arrested, then released on a promise to appear in court Sept.

29, Constable Kees Wijnands said.

Wijnands said there were no injuries as

a result of the collision, but could not say whether there were any injuries from the altercation.

“It wasn’t a big deal for us. We knew he was here. He’s a local boy. We weren’t going to make a big deal of it,” Wijnands said, adding that Beiber was riding with a passenger.

Bieber was photographed Friday riding on an ATV vehicle with on-and-off again girlfriend actress and a singer Selena Gomez.

Just a few days before the incident, Bieber’s car was hit from behind by a vehicle driven by a photographer in Hollywood and the Grammy Award-nominated singer tweeted: “There should be laws against what I just experienced. We should have learned from the death of Princess Diana...”

He also tweeted: “I don’t have a problem with Paparazzi but when they act recklessly they put us all in danger.”

Earlier this month, Bieber pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of careless driving and resisting arrest seven months after his arrest in Miami Beach following what police initially called an illegal street drag race.

Bieber is also charged in Toronto with assaulting a limousine driver in late December.

Police allege Bieber hit a limousine driver several times in the back of the head after he and five others were picked up in the early hours of Dec. 30.

Joan Rivers on life support

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NEW YORK — Joan Rivers’ family is confirming that the comedian is on life support after going into cardiac arrest last week during a procedure at a doctor’s office.

Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, said in a statement Tuesday that her mother is on life support “at this time.” Melissa said the family is extremely grateful for the public support.

Joan Rivers was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan last Thursday. The 81-year-old comic and red carpet commentator has maintained a busy career as host of “Fashion Police” on the E! network and co-star of the WEtv reality show, “Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?”

Melissa Rivers said Tuesday that she knows that her mother would be overwhelmed by the continuing outpouring of kindness.

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Also in Miami, Bieber faces a lawsuit by a photographer who alleges he was roughed up while shooting pictures of the singer outside a recording studio.

In July, Bieber pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor vandalism charge for throwing eggs at a neighbor’s house in Los Angeles. He agreed to pay more than $80,000 in damages, meet a number of other conditions and was sentenced to two years’ probation.

Bieber rocketed to fame at age 15. He was nominated for two Grammy Awards for his 2010 full-length album debut “My World 2.0,” but sales of his latest records have fallen off.

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Motorist passed a hotel project near Kuta area, Bali Island, recently. City hotel continues to proliferate. Even, it has reached rural areas without compensated with any restrictions by the government and continues to reap criticism among the circles of Bali House.

Bali tourism getting cheaper

City hotel must be restricted Bali Post

DENPASAR - City hotel continues to proliferate. Even, it has reached rural areas without compensated with any restrictions by the government and continues to reap criticism among the circles of Bali House.

According to a member of the Bali House for the tenure of 20142019, Disel Astawa, other than disrupting home stay becoming one of the community-based economic activities in the tourism sector, the city hotel also made the Bali tourism increasingly cheap because they were selling rooms at low price. “City hotels must be minimized because they make Bali tourism increasingly cheap,” said

Diesel Astawa.

This PDI-P politician getting the position for the second term in the Bali House hoped the government to restrict the establishment of city hotels. Even, his party in the Bali House with the new members took the initiative to make a regional bylaw draft where one of the points would protect the community-based tourism and then clearly classified the existing

tourist accommodation. Besides, it would also set firmly the existence of city hotels so that they would disrupt the home stays operated by local communities with the concept of community-based economic activities.

“Without the regulation, the Bali tourism will be chaotic. Community-based tourism development will go bankrupt due to the onslaught of large investors and capitalists.

The regulations governing the classification of tourist accommodation and where people can build must be clear. Related to the regulation, we expect the House could have an initiative to prepare the regulations,” he said.

Diesel Astawa completely agreed with the statement of the elect president Joko Widodo (Jokowi) that tourism in Bali should be arranged with clear segmentation.

The development should be considered in terms of segmentation, calculations and studies on Balinese community. For instance, it had to be focused by targeting class travelers because Bali had become a leading tourist destination in the world and had its own uniqueness.

“Formerly, our tourism put emphasis on quality rather than quantity. In other words, even though the tourist arrival is only some few, their length of stay was long and

they were spending a lot in Bali.

Now, our tourism gives emphasis on the amount or quantity of tourist arrival so that it does not pay attention to the quality of tourism.

As a result, Bali tourism turns into mass tourism and it is increasingly cheap,” he said.

Similar opinion was also delivered by a new legislator, AA Ngurah Adhi Ardhana. This Secretary of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Denpasar Chapter affirmed that home stay was a part to increase the people’s economy. Distribution of travelers and tourism could occur with the existence of home stay.

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