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‘No Good Deed’ defeats ‘Guardians’ Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — It took a murderous Idris Elba and a pair of dolphin buddies to defeat “Guardians of the Galaxy” at movie theaters.

The Sony thriller “No Good Deed,” which stars Elba as an escaped convict and Taraji P. Henson as the innocent he terrorizes, opened on top of the box office with $24.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

And Sony wasn’t surprised.

“It’s a movie that we really loved and felt that it was going to win,” said Sony distribution chief Rory Bruer.

“You have to give it to the cast in Idris

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and Taraji. Their chemistry together is fantastic.”

The film nearly doubled its reported budget in its first week of release, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak.

“It’s the first brand-new post summer release to really catch on,” he said.

The Warner Bros.’ feel-good film “Dolphin Tale 2” debuted in second 10 Box Office Movies place with $16.5 million. The No Good Deed. family-friendly Dolphin Tale 2. story stars MorGuardians of the Galaxy. gan Freeman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Ashley Judd reLet’s Be Cops. prising their roles The Drop.

If I Stay.

The November Man. The Giver.

The Hundred-Foot Journey.

This Jan. 4, 2014 file photo shows actor Idris Elba at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif.

Miss New York chosen as Miss America 2015 Associated Press

ATLANTIC CITY — Miss New York Kira Kazantsev was named the new Miss America Sunday night, marking the third year in a row that a contestant from her state has walked away with the crown in the nationally televised pageant.

Kazantsev received the crown at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall from outgoing Miss America — and Miss New York — Nina Davuluri.

For her talent performance, Kazantsev

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sang Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” while sitting cross-legged on the stage and banging a red plastic cup on the floor.

She named combating sexual assault in the military as the issue about which she would want female U.S. Senators to press their male counterparts.

The first runner-up was Miss Virginia Courtney Paige Garrett. Other top 5 finalists were Miss Arkansas Ashton Jo Campbell; Miss Florida Victoria Cowen; and Miss Massachusetts Lauren Kuhn.

Miss North Dakota, Jacky Arness was

chosen by her peers as Miss Congeniality.

The pageant shone a positive light on the struggling seaside gambling resort, which has been in the national news for all the wrong reasons lately: a rash of casino closings, thousands of unemployed workers, and a domestic violence case involving a former NFL star.

For three hours Sunday night, America got a different look at Atlantic City.

The Miss America pageant presented an upbeat view of the city where it began in 1921.

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from the 2011 original.

“Guardians” slipped to third place with $8 million in ticket sales. The Marvel space adventure, which held the No. 1 spot for four weeks, is the top-grossing film of the year domestically, collecting more than $300 million in North America and $600 million worldwide.

Paramount’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” finished fourth with $4.8 million, followed by the Fox comedy “Let’s Be Cops,” which collected $4.3 million.

Fox Searchlight’s crime drama “The Drop,” which stars Tom Hardy and the late James Gandolfini, opened in sixth place with $4.2 million — an impressive showing given it only played in 809 theaters.

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Forest on the slopes of Mount Batur on fire

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BANGLI - Due to hot weather, forest fire occurred in the area of Mount Batur. Fire also occurs in Munduk, Tanggun Titi, Trunyan village, Kintamani.

Sunny weather tending to be hot had caused the fire to quickly spread and burn trees in the forest. The officers had difficulty to extinguish the fire considering it was located on the hill. As a result, at least 10 hectares of forest were reported to catch fire.

Forests on the slopes of Mount Batur, Kintamani, Bangli, was on

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fire, Sunday (Sep 14). At least, 10 hectares of land located on the hiking trail were reportedly engulfed in the flames. A joint team including the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Kintamani Resort Ranger (RPH), police and the Indonesian Army (TNI) personnel assisted by a number of people around the location had

attempted to extinguish the fire since early days. Meanwhile, the fire could just be extinguished around 5:00 p.m.

The fire engulfing some hectares of the hiking trail on Mount Batur slopes began to appear around 9:00 in the morning. Before the emergence of the fire, several climbers reportedly had climbed Mount Batur. Allegedly, the fire burning the forest area resulted from carelessly discarded cigarette butts.

Commander of the Kintamani Military Region, Wayan Suradnya, with permission from the Com-

mander of the 1626/Bangli Military District Agus Wahyudi Irianto confirmed the fire incident on the slopes of Mount Batur, Sunday. The fire occurred early morning around nine o’clock. Shortly after receiving the information on the fire, his party coordinated it with relevant parties to extinguish the fire.

Meanwhile, Chief Executive of the Bangli Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Wayan Sugiarta, when asked for his confirmation last Sunday explained that mountain slopes on fire on Sunday morning was the

hiking path on the northeast side precisely over the Jati Temple and Pasar Agung Temple. Location of the fire was in the area of the Nature Tourism Park (TWA).

Due to hard work of the team, the fire could finally be extinguished around five o’clock in the afternoon. The fire incident at least burned 10 hectares of forest land.

When asked about the cause of fire, Sugiarta admitted not to know for sure. “The cause is still under investigation. Temporarily, it is estimated to have been caused by negligence,” he explained. (ina)

Due to hot weather, forest fire occurred in the area of Mount Batur.

Fire also occurs in Munduk, Tanggun Titi, Trunyan village, Kintamani.

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LEGIAN - Pullman Bali Legian Nirwana held the exhibition called ‘Rendezvous: An Artistic Odyssey’. The exhibition was opened officially by Director of Operations Jan Kroekel. In the event, there are dozens of artworks from famous artists exhibited for fifty three days starting August 15 to October 5, 2014. There also unique artworks about Balinese social life.

According to the artist Tatang, B.Sp, the theme ‘Rendezvous: An Artistic Odyssey’ means a meeting to bring the various wanderings of ideas, reasoning, intuition, passion and imagination of the artists in an exhibition event. The theme also mainly intended for reading and framing the aesthetic diversity of perspectives and approaches that carried each artist exhibitors.

Tatang explained that in the exhibition, three are three trends that support the idea of the narrative.

The first trends refers to subject of the personal can be seen on the artworks like Lay Down Series by Ni Nyoman Sani, Geliat by Ida Bagus Putu Purwa, Kamu dan Saya by I Wayan Jana and Penjaga Abstrak #3 by I Made Galung Wiratmaja.

The second trend refers to the social that shows social experience as reality. The works of these trends displayed on Tangkapan Besar by A.A. Gde Jaya Wikrama, Selamat Tidur by Herry Yahya Budiantoro, Perang Perbatasan by I Ketut Teja astawa,

AMLAPURA - When entering dry season, Karangasem government prepares 200 tanks of water for residents affected by the drought, especially those living in the areas of Kubu, Abang high lands, Bebandem and Seraya. However, due to restricted number of truck, the distribution can only be done in turn. In addition, the clean water can only be distributed to the region that can be passed through by tank truck.

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The drought which happen in Kubu, Karangasem is getting severer from time to time

Road body still used for parking space

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The car which is being parked on the side of the street often cause traffic jam

Model #2 by I Made Alit Suaja, Lamunan di Balik Tirai by Anthok S, Malu by I Ketut Putra Yasa, Heritage #1 by I Made ‘Romi’ Sukadana, Optimis by Teguh Santosa (Ogut), Magecel by I Made Duatmika and Memory of Childhood by Tatang, B.Sp. The last ones are the symbolic in reflecting the experience of each person. This artworks can be seen in Purnama Gadis Bali by Helena S.Arway, Simphony of Java by Winarto, In The Vortex

by I Nyoman Sujana (Kenyem), Tree of Life by I Made Gunawan, Obsolescene by I Nyoman Diwarupa, Animal by I Made Wiradana, Warisan Symbol by I Made Supena, ABSTRAKSI #28 by Lekung Sugantika, Wanita & Bunga by I Ketut Tenang, Wait Around by Moelyoto, Kisah Pertiwi

by I Wayan Setem, Sweet Morning by I Kadek Kencana Yasa, Magic Sound by I Putu Sudiana Bonuz, Bale Kul Kul Pura Sima by Ponco Setyohadi, Up Spray by Martin Sitepu and M.P.943

by Artanto S Nugroho. (ocha)

Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

Parking space unused yet Bali Post

GIANYAR - The government’s plan to make a parking area in Ubud in order to reduce the volume of parking vehicles that takes the road body cannot have been enjoyed by people. It happens because so far dozens of vehicles in Ubud still use road body for parking space.

One of the causes triggering the congestion problem is that many employers of restaurant, kiosk and stall along the main streets in Ubud do not have a parking lot for visitors and the employees.

As a result, part of the road is filled with vehicles whose parking time reaches eight hours.

In addition, violations against traffic signs also frequently occur. Starting from about the Astina Square Ubud, in front of the market and palace as well as the office of headman, many traffic signs are often violated.

As observation on Jalan Hanuman Ubud, dozens of cars or motorcycles were still parked by taking the road body. This condition often leads to congestion at 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m., where the peak occurs at 3:00 p.m. In addition, the lack of awareness of road users repeatedly breaking

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by truck. In addition, the restricted number of truck caused the water services to be provided in turn. “In this season, we are clearly overwhelmed. We make cooperation with the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Karangasem in the water supply,” he added.

Provision of water depended on the demand of community, namely through their respective headman. “We just served a few areas, depending on the demand of community through their respective headman,” he added. If the community faced water shortages due to drought, his party advised them to propose the clean water assistance through their headman to be further resumed to the subdistrict authority. (dwa)

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‘Rendezvous: An Artistic Odyssey’

Dry season, clean water services restricted The Head of Karangasem Social Agency, I Made Sosiawan, revealed that some people found it difficult to obtain clean water upon entering the drought this year in Karangasem County. A total of 200 tanks of water had been prepared for residents, especially those living on the upper regions, such as the Kubu, Abang, Bebandem and Seraya subdistrict.

Preparation of the clean water was allocated through the main budget of Karangasem County 2014. Meanwhile, in the amended budget, his party prepared 300 tanks of water.

“We will immediately deliver this preparation if the community requires any water,” he said.

However, his party could only bring the water to the area that could be passed through

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through the lines also aggravates the congestion in Ubud. Similarly, it is also kindled by the nondisciplined drivers who often drop off passengers at random, especially in front of the market and the palace.

The Head of Gianyar Transportation, Informatics and Communications Agency, IB Gaga Adisaputra, did not deny if the road body was still partially used as parking space at some points like on Jalan Hanuman. However, he claimed that several parking lots as cooperation of local government and the residents of Ubud had been ready to use. “Our parking lot is ready to use. Now, we just need to mediate the vehicle users so as to park their vehicle at the provided space,” he said.

The parking lots having been ready to use were located at Peliatan and Tegal village as well as some other points. To discipline the road users remaining to break the regulations, his party would make a perarem or convention. So, when any violation occurred the violator would be ticketed immediately. “Now, we just need to discipline the traders with perarem. Any violation will be directly ticketed,” he added. (kmb35)

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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

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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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Science to the rescue of art

This image provided by NASA, shows an extreme ultra-violet wavelength image of solar flare captured about 1:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. It’s been several years since Earth has had a solar storm of this size coming from sunspots smack in the middle of the sun, said Tom Berger, director of the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.

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Scientists unveil magnetic cure for bad blood Agence France-Presse

PARIS - Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” are losing their yellow cheer and the unsettling apricot horizon in Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” is turning a dull ivory.

Some of our most treasured paintings are fading, warn experts who would like more money for the use of sophisticated technology to capture the masters’ original palettes before the works are unrecognisably blighted.

“Our cultural heritage is suffering from a disease,” Robert van Langh, director of conservation and restoration at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, told AFP in Paris this week.

“These priceless icons of our culture are deteriorating,” he said. And the amount spent on conserving them “should be multiplied by ten.”

Van Langh was speaking on the sidelines of a conference on the use of synchrotron radiation technology in art conservation at the molecular level.

Synchrotrons, stadium-sized machines that produce beams of bright X-ray light, are used to analyse the chemical degradation of famous artworks gracing the museums of the world.

Much more science is needed to understand the chemical reactions that cause colour changes in canvases, in order to stop them, said Jennifer Mass, an art conservationist from Winterthur Museum in Delaware, who also attended the meeting. “There are heaps of researchers ready to do this work, but very little money.”

Understanding the degenerative process would allow museums to display the precious works in the appropriate light, atmosphere and humidity. But technology would also allow “digital reconstruction” of original pieces, as they were envisaged by their creators, for

posterity.

“The goal is more preservation than restoration,” said Mass, adding that restorers would only in very rare cases touch up the original work of an artist.

Experts already know that the iconic still life “Sunflowers” is browner today than when van Gogh captured it on canvas in 1888.

It turns out the Dutch Impressionist painter had opted for industrial pigments, then new on the market, for his yellows, according to Belgian chemist Koen Janssens of the University of Antwerp.

Exposed to air, the yellow in cadmium, also used by Munch for his 1910 work “The Scream”, loses its brightness, while ultraviolet light -as from the Sun -- turns it brown.

Janssens has also worked on van Gogh’s famous “Flowers in a Blue Vase”, which has suffered a similar fate but for a different reason.

In this case, it was a varnish applied after the artist’s death that became cracked and faded over time, obscuring the picture underneath.

Synthetic pigments like cadmium yellow, emerald green and zinc yellow -- some of which can start losing their depth of colour in only 20 years -- were also popular among other Impressionists of the 19th century and painters of the early 20th like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The works from this period are therefore more at risk of fading than those by the ancient masters, said Mass.

They are not exempt, though -for his blue hues the 17th century’s Rembrandt van Rijn used smalt, a type of ground-up glass with a tendency to turn grey over time.

According to Janssens, a further role of science could be to beat the drum for art conservation.

PARIS - Scientists said Sunday they had invented a device that uses a magnet to extract bacteria, fungi and toxins from blood, potentially throwing a lifeline to patients with sepsis and other infections.

The external gadget -- tested so far in rats but not yet humans -- could be adapted one day for stripping Ebola and other viruses from blood, they hoped.

Acting rather like a spleen, the invention uses magnetic nanobeads coated with a geneticallyengineered human blood protein called MBL. The MBL binds to pathogens and toxins, which can then be “pulled out” with a magnet, the developers wrote in the journal Nature Medicine.

The “bio-spleen” was developed to treat sepsis, or blood infection, which affects 18 million people in the world every year, with a 30-50 percent mortality rate.

The microbes that cause it are often resistant to antibiotics, and spread fast.

If the invention is shown to be

safe for humans, “patients could be treated with our bio-spleen and this will physically clean up their blood, rapidly removing a wide spectrum of live pathogens as well as dead fragments and toxins from the blood,” study co-author Donald Ingber told AFP. The cleansed blood is then returned to the circulatory system.

“This treatment could be carried out even before the pathogen has been formally identified and the optimal antibiotic treatment has been chosen,” said Ingber, of Harvard University, Massachusetts.

The MBL protein is known to bind to the Ebola virus “and so it potentially might be useful for treatment of these patients,” said Ingber in an email exchange.

“We potentially could treat patients with this bio-spleen during the most infectious, viraemic

phase of the disease and reduce the amount of virus in their blood.”

MBL has also been reported to bind to the Marburg and HIV viruses.

In live rats infected with the notorious bugs Staphylococcus aureus or Escherichia coli, the device removed 90 percent of bacteria from the blood, said the study.

“When we injected rats with a lethal dose of LPS endotoxin (a bacteria type)... we found that we could significantly improve animal survival” with the biospleen, it said.

Tests with human blood in the lab also showed the bio-spleen cleaned out multiple species of bacteria, fungi and toxins.

Years of testing in larger animals and then in humans lie ahead before the bio-spleen can be approved, Ingber cautioned.

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Chinese tourist arrivals rise 45.76 percent

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DENPASAR - Around 330,172 Chinese tourists visited Bali during the initial seven months of 2014, an increase of 45.76 percent as compared to 226,494 visitors recorded last year.

“China is ranked second after Australia in the number of tourists visiting Bali,” Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali Panusunan Siregar stated on Monday.

He explained that China has contributed 15.80 percent of the total number of tourists to Bali.

This year, Bali has drawn about 2.08 million tourists, an increase of 16.66 percent as compared to 1.79 million tourists recorded in the previous year.

The total number of Chinese tourists who traveled to Bali surpassed the number of travelers from Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia, except Australia.

Siregar remarked that majority of the foreign tourists came through Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport. Only 20,295 people traveled to Bali through the sea route.

During 2013, Bali received 3.27 million foreign tourists,

which exceeded the target of about 2.8 million visitors set by the local tourism office.

An increase of 11.16 percent was recorded as compared to 2.94 million tourists last year.

Tjokorda Gede Agung, a Bali tourism observer, noted that Chinese people have since long known Bali as a paradise island. The cultural relations between China and Bali have led to deeper relations between Indonesia and China, especially with Bali. Therefore, the number of Chinese tourists increased every year.

Chinese tourist arrivals to Bali increased, but their numbers were still relatively small as compared to the number of Chinese tourists traveling overseas.

“The opportunity to draw foreign tourists from China is still large by maximizing the various efforts,” he emphasized.

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Tourists played Kite Surfing during their holiday in Bali Island. Around 330,172 Chinese tourists visited Bali during the initial seven months of 2014, an increase of 45.76 percent as compared to 226,494 visitors recorded last year.

Six counties have not received textbook of Curriculum 2013 Bali Post DENPASAR - The Head of Bali Education Agency, Tjokorda Istri Agung (TIA) Kusuma Wardani, acknowledged the issue on the textbook of Curriculum 2013 had not accomplished yet. So far, six counties, namely Buleleng, Tabanan, Bangli, Klungkung, Karangasem and Badung, had not received the book. “Until now, six counties have not received the book, especially for the elementary school level,” said TIA Kusuma Wardani.

She explained the textbooks of Curriculum 2013 were delivered to schools through a mechanism. Central government or Ministry of Education had set the printing company through the LKBP which would distribute the books to each school. Automatically, the money was from central government, not from provincial government.

“Well, the assistance (money—Ed) is transferred from central government to schools. Then, the schools receiving the money from central government must buy the book to the specified printing company,” she said.

To that end, schools were not allowed to buy the book elsewhere. If it was done, surely it would be considered to violate the rules. Admittedly, some schools in the area of Denpasar had received the book. However, the South Denpasar had not received it

yet. So far, the partner winning the tender held by the Ministry of Education had not distributed the book so far. “We have reported this condition.

Then, central government has warned the specified printing company,” she explained.

Previously, TIA Kusuma Wardani revealed that all the supplies and distributions of the textbooks of

Curriculum 2013 belonged to the authority of central government. At the moment, her party was still making data collection on the number of schools having not received the book.

She added that a number of schools had not received the book of Curriculum 2013. Probably, it happened due to geographical problems that could hamper the distribution. (kmb21)

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Six counties, namely Buleleng, Tabanan, Bangli, Klungkung, Karangasem and Badung, had not received textbook of Curriculum 2013.

Regent plans to patent geopark products Bali Post

BANGLI - The Regent of Bangli, Made Gianyar, plans to patent the geopark craft products. By that way, the geopark specialty products manufactured by craftsmen of Bangli will not be duplicated by others. Should there any traders outside Kintamani tourism selling the geopark products, they will be subject to royalty.

The plan was submitted by Made Gianyar on Sunday (Sep 14). In addition to re-arranging the Kintamani tourism region so as to be free of the impression of slum, he explained, his party also planned to direct the street vendors to sell geopark souvenir product. So far, he admitted the street vendors did not sell souvenirs produced in Bangli but purchased from crafters of outside Bangli. “In the future, souvenir sellers must sell special products of the geopark. Then, the production must be made by artisans of Bangli, so that it can also improve the welfare of local artisans,” said Gianyar.

To prevent the geopark products manufactured by Bangli craftsmen from being manipulated by other crafters, the regent planned to provide protection by patenting the product to the Ministry of Justice. “So, if later on there are traders from outside Kintamani which also manufacture and sell the geopark products, they will be imposed with royalties,” he added.

He admitted that the arrangement undertaken so far in the area of Kintamani tourism was still not optimal. To that end, his party was designing an institution that would manage the geopark.

Moreover, in the near future the traders occupying the stalls at Penelokan would be removed to the Geopark Art Market. (ina)

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LONDON — Now it’s Britain’s turn to mourn. British aid worker David Haines has been beheaded — like two American journalists before him — and the Islamic State group is threatening to kill a fourth captive. A grisly video released by the group showing Haines’ body both mocks the West and raises the pressure on Western leaders. It concludes with a death threat against British hostage Alan Henning, shown in the same kind of orange jumpsuit the other three were wearing when they were killed.

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Two ships are seen at Bali Straight. The tariff of crossing at Padangbai Harbor.

Crossing tariff at Padangbai Harbor increases up to 20 percent Bali Post

AMLAPURA - Starting on Monday at 00:00 p.m., PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry of Padangbai Harbor Branch began to impose the crossing rate adjustment. In accordance with the Regulation of the Minister of Transportation No.31/2014, the tariff adjustment applied to all types of ticket. As a result, the ticket price increased ranging from 5 percent to 20 percent.

Manager of the PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry of Padangbai Harbor Branch, Asril Usman, revealed the tariff adjustment would take effect from Monday (Sep 15) at 00:00 p.m. He said the rate adjustment was imposed after the issuance of the Regulation of Minister of Transportation No. 31/2014 on the tariff of the inter-provincial ferry transport.

The tariff increase is also based on the Decision of the Board of Directors of PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) Number KD.257/OP.404 /ASDP-2014 dated September 9, 2014 on the inter-provincial in-

tegrated ticket tariff on the crossing harbor within the ASDP Indonesia Ferry.

According to him, the adjustment was applied in the 26 routes managed by the ASDP or technical implementation unit.

“This tariff adjustment is imposed on the 26 routes. The tariff adjustment is not so high,” he said when asked for his confirmation related to the ticket tariff increase, Sunday (Sep 14). Asril Usman claimed to have made socialization early September by distributing pamphlets about the implementation of the crossing tariff adjustment.

The impact of tariff adjustment was not so significant considering the magnitude of the increase was not so high.

Tariff adjustment varied among the tickets available. Passenger ticket underwent tariff increase of IDR 5,000 or 20 percent of the previous tariff. Meanwhile, the highest increase occurred to ticket belonging to Class IX as much as IDR 309,000 or 5 percent.

In fact, the increase in ticket tariff was complained by a number of passengers.

A passenger from East Lombok (NTB), Hariyanto, claimed to object to the increase in the applicable tariff. He admitted the increase had caused the crossing cost more expensive. According to him, the tariff increase was inversely proportional to the service provided for crossing users.

“The crossing tariff increases, while the service provided to passengers remains bad,” he said. (dwa)

Prime Minister David Cameron praised the 44-year-old Haines on Sunday as a British hero, and his family asked that he be remembered for devoting his life to helping civilians caught in deadly conflicts. Haines is the third Westerner beheaded in recent weeks by the Islamic State group, which has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq and, according to Cameron, poses a “massive” threat to the rest of the Middle East.

“They are killing and slaughtering thousands of people — Christians, Muslims, minorities across Iraq and Syria,” Cameron said after an emergency meeting with military and security chiefs. “They boast of their brutality. They claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is nonsense.

Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters,” he said. Cameron said the group is planning attacks against Britain and the rest of Europe, and that Britain has to step up its counterterrorism efforts.

Britain will support U.S. military efforts against the Islamic State group by using British forces to help with logistics and intelligence gathering, he said, but will not send ground troops.

Cameron also raised the prospect that the black-clad, knife wielding Islamic State extremist on the video — who speaks with an East London accent — may in fact be a British man who has joined the terrorists.

“People across this country will have been sickened by the fact it could have been a British citizen — a British citizen who carried out this unspeakable act,” he said. The tall, masked figure in the video appears to be the same man who appeared in earlier videos announcing the killings of Americans James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

The video opens with footage of Cameron condemning the Islamic State group. The man with the knife then appears and condemns Britain’s support of U.S. action against the

group and says the captive must pay with his life. The Islamic State group’s videos have all followed a similar script, with the extremist dressed in black — only his eyes visible — and the victim dressed in an orange jumpsuit. They are in a desert landscape with no obvious identifying landmarks.

Each has also included a threat against another captive briefly shown on camera. Britain’s Foreign Office initially asked the press not to identify Henning as the captive shown on camera, but it dropped this request Sunday with his family’s approval. The family also distributed a photo of Henning.

The death of Haines expands the group’s on-camera victims beyond journalists to include international aid workers. His brother, Mike Haines, said David approached his humanitarian work with boundless enthusiasm. “He helped whoever needed help, regardless of race, creed or religion,” he said.

TABANAN - Dry season kindles drought at water sources in some areas in Bali. Reduction of water flow during this dry season also hit the Telaga Tunjung dam located at Timpag, Kerambitan. According to Headman of Timpag, I Gusti W. Sukewahana, the decline in lake water discharge at Telaga Tunjung was indeed a commonplace during dry season. Most water of the dam

holding the water from two sources, namely Ho River and Mawa River, was taken advantage for paddy field irrigation. Besides, the water was also used for fulfilling the raw water needs of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) in three subdistricts namely the Tabanan, Kerambitan and Selemadeg.

Sukewahana recognized the water discharge commonly decreased during dry season, but this year the dry season was quite long compared

to previous years. As a result, the water shortage from springs had significant impact on farmers and residents who needed the water for daily use. He said that under normal conditions, the water discharge flowing from the upstream to Telaga Tunjung dam was 1,500 liters per second. Of the amount, about 1,300 liters per second were used for agricultural irrigation, while the remaining 120 liters per second were used for raw water of the Mu-

nicipal Waterworks. The remaining was stored in the dam.

“However, the Municipal Waterworks only use 20 liters per second,” he said. During dry season, the water flow was much smaller than in normal condition and so that the ability of the dam to meet the water needs for the community and farmers.

As a result, the agricultural land depending on the Telaga Tunjung dam could not run optimally. For

instance, added Sukewahana, the farmers of Timpag village had to cultivate their land in turn. “Until now, the time of planting at Timpag village has no problem. Land cultivation could not be made simultaneously, but in turn,” he said. Indeed, the water demand during the land cultivation was greater so that to overcome the existing problem related to water needs, Timpag village handled it by cultivating land in turn. (kmb24)

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Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement to the media following the killing of Scottish aid worker David Haines, at Number 10 Downing Street in London September 14, 2014.

Dutch stage tomato fight against Russian sanctions

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AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of young Dutch men and women turned Amsterdam’s central Dam square into a blizzard of red goop on Sunday, as they pelted each other mercilessly with overripe tomatoes.

In theory, the event was set up as a protest against Russian sanctions blocking imports of European fresh produce. In practice, most participants turned out to experience the joy of smacking a loved one — or total stranger — with tomato pulp at close range. The idea was lifted from Spain’s famed annual “La Tomatina” festival in Bunol.

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Beggars and hawkers raided TABANAN - Municipal Police (Satpol PP) of Tabanan raided beggars and hawkers at several points of road section, Sunday (Sep 14). At least, nine beggars could be secured when taking action at the market of Tabanan town. Other than beggars, the police officers also secured two hawkers caught selling at traffic light at the Kediri intersection. After that, they were taken to the office of Municipal Police at Dangin Carik hamlet, Dajan Peken village.

As the information compiled, in fact, the nine beggars secured had already often been disciplined and repatriated to their village of origin.

Without deterrence, the beggars predominated by the elderly had actually been back to Tabanan and begged again. “Their action is quite clever because when raided during office days they cannot be found. In fact, they are taking action during holidays,” said one of the Municipal Police officers.

More sadly, three of the nine beggars were still minors. When asked, eight of the beggars claimed to come from Munti Gunung, Karangasem, while another from Java. They looked tense when secured in the office of the Tabanan Municipal Police. Even, the child beggars were sobbing during the interrogation. One of the beggars, Nyoman Sari, 12, claimed that she was forced to beg for meeting daily needs. She also claimed to have dropped out of school at fourth grade as having no money. Similar condition was also recognized

by Nyoman Rian, 13. However, his fate was worse because he should drop out of school at first grade of primary school. After leaving school, both Rian and Sari Genep should go down to beg.

After targeting the market of Tabanan, the officers resumed the raid by targeting hawkers at the traffic light along Jalan Bypass Soekarno. Two hawkers sell dumplings at traffic light of Kediri, east of Bung Karno statue could not escape from the raid. Eventually, they were also taken to the office of the Tabanan Municipal Police.

Chief of the Tabanan Municipal Police, Made Sudarya, said both the beggars and hawkers arrested would be trained first in the office. Meanwhile, the beggars would be handed over to Social Agency to get coaching. “We secure them at this office first and tomorrow will be submitted to Social Agency to be developed,” he said.

He affirmed the beggars and hawkers had violated the Regional Bylaw on public order. Despite breaking, the beggars were not directly given strict punishment. They would be trained first so as not to repeat their action. However, having been arrested for three times, they would be charged with misdemeanor. (kmb28)

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Participants hurl tomatoes in front of the Royal Palace, right, turning Amsterdam’s central Dam square into a red pulpy mess Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014.

“It was hard in there. It was mean.

But it was fun,” said a beaming Lois Bloedjes, who came with her sister Sil. “Everything became one big pile of mush. There were people swimming in it on the ground.”

Sil described the smell in the mush pit as “awful” and “somewhat like beer,” but the tomatoes that actually got in her mouth — “the taste was actually not bad.” Tickets to the one-hour fight cost 15 euros ($18) each and around 1,000 were sold. Organizer Joep Verbunt said proceeds will go to tomato growers hurt by the sanctions.

The Netherlands vies with Mexico as the world’s largest tomato exporter, and it sent $100 million worth to Russia last year. Dutch farmers have been offered a subsidy to either dispose of excess crops or donate them to food banks. Verbunt purchased 120,000 tomatoes labeled unfit for human consumption for the event.

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MANGUPURA - If you happen to pass through the road section of Denpasar – Plaga, precisely under the kapok tree at Latu hamlet, Abiansemal village, Badung, do not forget to ask for permission to the inhabitants at the location. At least, the road users must honk or give other signal when driving a vehicle or riding motorcycle. It is the way believed to provide safety during a journey.

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WASHINGTON — Income inequality is taking a toll on U.S. state governments. The widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has been matched by a slowdown in state tax revenue, according to a report being released Monday by Standard & Poor’s. politically delicate one. The allure of low taxes has been used by states to spur job creation, by attracting factories, businesses and corporate headquarters.

“If you’ve got political pressure to spend more money and pressure against raising taxes, then you’re in a pickle,” said David Brunori, a public policy professor at George Washington University.”

Income inequality isn’t the only factor slowing state tax revenue.

Online retailers account for a rising chunk of consumer spending. Yet they often manage to avoid sales taxes. Consumers are spending more on untaxed services, too.

S&P’s analysis builds on a previous report this year in which it said the widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has slowed the U.S. economy’s recovery from the Great Recession. Because consumer spending fuels about 70 percent of the economy, weak pay growth typically slows economic growth.

Adjusted for inflation, government

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This Dec. 27, 2013 file photo shows the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre, S.D. South Dakota is among the top 10 states most dependent on sales tax as its main revenue source for state government, according to a Standard & Poor’s study released Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

data show that median household income rose by a few thousand dollars since 1979 to $51,017 in 2012 and remains below its level before the recession began in late 2007. By contrast, the top 1 percent has thrived.

Their incomes averaged $1.26 million in 2012, up from $466,302 in 1979, according IRS data.

The combination of an increasingly global economy, greater productivity from technology and out-

size investment returns has shifted a rising share of money to the wealthy.

Of all the dollars earned in 2012, more than 22 percent went to the top 1 percent. That share has more than doubled since 1979.

India inflation slows to five-year low in August

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An elderly Indian woman alights from a rickshaw near a vendor selling mangoes in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. India’s wholesale price inflation slowed to its lowest level in almost five years in August, data showed Monday, after the right-wing government came to power pledging to wrestle down crippling prices.

MUMBAI - India’s wholesale price inflation slowed to its lowest level in almost five years in August, data showed Monday, after the right-wing government came to power pledging to wrestle down crippling prices.

The Wholesale Price Index increased 3.74 percent year on year -- far below market forecasts of around 4.40 percent -- and sharply lower from 5.19 percent last month.

The figures will come as welcome news for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which swept to power to May promising to tackle high inflation that has long angered voters.

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Even as income for the affluent has accelerated, it’s barely kept pace with inflation for most other people.

That trend can cause two problems for states: The wealthy often manage to shield much of their income from taxes. And they tend to spend less of it than others do, thereby limiting sales tax revenue. As the growth of tax revenue has slowed, states have faced tensions over whether to raise taxes or cut spending to balance their budgets as required by law.

“Rising income inequality is not just a social issue,” said Gabriel Petek, the S&P credit analyst who wrote the report. “It presents a very significant set of challenges for the policymakers.” Stagnant pay for most people has compounded the pressure on states to preserve funding for education, highways and social programs. Their investments in education and infrastructure have also fueled economic growth. Yet they’re at risk without a strong flow of tax revenue.

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have hindered growth-stimulating investment.

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has made taming inflation one of its top priorities, despite business leaders clamouring for rate cuts.

The Consumer Price Index eased in August to 7.8 percent year-on-year from 7.96 percent the previous month, data showed Friday, although that is still above the central bank’s target of six percent by 2016.

While still keenly watched, the Wholesale Price Index has been ceding ground to the Consumer Price index as a measure used by the central bank to set monetary policy.

The bank last cut interest rates in May 2013 but has pushed them back up in subsequent months, citing persistent inflation.

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According to stories of local people, strange happenings commonly occur in the area of the kapok tree.

For example, the brake of a car may suddenly not work so that it is out of control resulting in crash. Sometimes there is a vehicle suddenly braking, so the vehicles in the rear are not able to control and crashes the front vehicle. Sometimes the driver sees if the highway is going to the east, so the car unwittingly gets plunged into the paddy fields.

Cars or motorbikes are often crossing towards pandanus trees in the middle of rice fields. Many residents including local people are used to seeing strange and big be-

ings whose size exceeds an ordinary human body. On other occasion, people hear the voice of children playing happily and other illogical and strange incidents.

One of the local residents, Desak Made Purni, said that many strange happenings occurred at the location previously. Especially, it happens at particular times during drizzling rain, nightfall, midday and midnight.

“Having been made a shrine around the location, such happenings almost never happen again,” said the 80year old woman.

The kapok tree located at roadside looks like a shade tree absorbing the vehicle’s pollution. However, the old

kapok tree is believed to be inhabited by astral beings. Even, the highway is also used by the supernatural beings. “Local residents believe that the path near the kapok tree is the highway of the supernatural beings,” she said.

She added that the area around the kapok tree had something to do with a mound located in the middle of rice fields at Subak Latu.

The path was believed to be the highway of the supernatural beings that wanted to go the kapok tree and the mound or vice versa. “The mound is indeed very haunted, so that local people often deliver a special offering for the supernatural beings,” she said.

If local people hold a ceremony, explained this old woman, they would put special offerings at the location. By that way, the procession would run smoothly. Similar effort was also carried out by farmers when organizing rituals related to their agricultural field.

Jati Temple at Pengambengan Village

Jati Temple is nestled within the area of Pengambengan village, about four kilometers south of the town of Negara, Jembrana. The temple spreading across an area of approximately 4,700 square meters is one of the dang khayangan temples (used to venerate a Hindu sage) in Jembrana. As the name implies, this temple has distinctiveness where teak trees grow inside the temple area. This temple is also closely related to the pilgrimage of Dang Hyang Nirartha on the Island of Bali.

In the innermost courtyard for worship lie an oblation pavilion, gamelan pavilion, piasan pavilion and a chamber to store cloth paraphernalia. Four teak trees grow in the temple area. According to many of supporting devotee chief, Ketut Astika Jaya, the teak trees had distinctiveness. Aside from prohibited from taking the teak seedlings, the branches of trees belonging to hundreds of years old never toppled over the padmasana shrine underneath. The branch broke itself into ashes and did not topple over the padmasana shrine.

Around the spring, there were four teak trees growing close to one another. Once upon a time, one of the trees bent and almost toppled over the temple compound

wall. Devotees originally worried if it would touch the wall, but after a few months the tree could stand upright by itself. “In addition, after several years, the distance of the padmasana shrine to the teak trees was once only a few centimeters, but now has gone farther up to two meters away. Formerly, the temple priest should lean his body when passing, but now he can pass freely,” he explained.

In the middle courtyard lay a resting pavilion, grand entrance gates, apit lawang, tower of wooden split drum (kulkul) and kitchen. Meanwhile, in the outermost courtyard lay the wantilan hall and quite ample parking lot. The temple also got assistance from the regent of Jembrana used to build a fence around the temple area and split gates. In the next five years, the innermost courtyard of the temple would be restored because some parts of the temple had been fragile.

Other than on the piodalan or temple anniversary, the temple supported by four customary villages in the Negara subdistrict was also visited by many pilgrims on full moon.

Those pilgrims were dominated by teenagers and students who wanted to have purificatory rite or malukat.

Similarly, myriad of pilgrims also came to worship on Sarasvati Day. In the innermost courtyard lay seven buildings including the padmasana,

Jati Temple

three-tiered meru shrine, pepelik pavilion, Sri Sedana, representation of Ulun Danu Temple, taksu, chamber to store sanctified effigies and anglurah shrine. The four customary villages supporting the temple were the Tegal Badeng Kauh, Tegal Badeng Kangin, Lelateng and Puseh Agung (Tengah hamlet).

This temple was closely associ-

ated with Dang Hyang Nirartha as well as two other dang khayangan temples in Jembrana, namely the Perancak and Mertasari. He dropped in at the temple after arriving at Perancak (Dang Khayangan Perancak) and at Mertasari village (Amerthasari Temple). At that time, it was a barren area called Awen and posed a swamp and forest area. Dur-

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ing the pilgrimage, he had unwound there and did meditation. Before meditating, he had stuck his stick in a pile and when unplugged it grew into teak trees. In one of the teak tree cavities lay an endless spring.

Until now, the trees remain to exist in the temple area. Meanwhile, the temple anniversary falls on Coma (Monday) Pon Wuku Sinta.

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Indonesian workers march during a rally against cheap wages in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept 15, 2014. Thousands of factory workers took to the streets in the capital to protest against outsourcing and low wages.

BANGKOK — Police say the bodies of two British tourists were found naked with gruesome head wounds on a beach at a popular island in southern Thailand.

Police Col. Prachum Ruangthong said Monday the man and the woman were found dead on a rocky beach on Koh Tao, an island in Surat Thani province known for its diving sites and serene beaches.

The victims’ clothes and a hoe with blood stains were found nearby, he said. Police suspect the two were slain with the hoe, leaving deep wounds on their heads, Prachum said.

Police were checking closed circuit TV footage at nearby restaurants, hotels and shops for clues, he said.

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A Filipino man carries a pig over floodwaters as residents who earlier evacuated due to a swollen river return to their homes in suburban San Mateo, Rizal province, Philippines Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

Typhoon Kalmaegi blows out of Philippines

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MANILA — A fast-moving typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines Monday after causing flash floods and landslides. Three people died when big waves and strong winds sank a stalled ferry over the weekend.

The government weather bureau said the eye of Typhoon Kalmaegi was over the South China Sea some 372 kilometers (231 miles) west of northwestern Laoag city before noon, moving northwest toward southern China at 30 kilometers per hour (19 kph). It was packing sustained winds of 120 kph (75 mph) and gusts of 150 kph (93.21 mile).

Schools in five regions, including metropolitan Manila, were suspended and dozens of flights were canceled. Hundreds of ship passengers were stranded in ports. Some 7,800 residents were moved to evacuation centers at the height of the typhoon but many have since returned home as the weather improved.

The storm whipped up big waves that swamped and sank a stalled ferry off Southern Leyte province in the central Philippines late Saturday.

Cargo and passenger ships plucked at least 110 survivors from the rough waters and recovered three bodies after the ferry sank. At least three other people remain missing.

Typhoon Kalmaegi, the Korean word for seagull, slammed into the boundary of northeastern Cagayan and Isabela provinces Sunday but moved quickly without causing major damage, officials said. But several provinces remain without power.

Residents in at least nine northern provinces, which have been drenched by days of rains, were earlier warned

to take precautions and stay away from already soggy mountainsides and swollen rivers.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development pre-positioned 3,000 family food packs in northern communities that may be isolated by the storm. Army and police forces, backed by rubber boats, trucks and air force helicopters, have been put on standby for possible search and rescue operations.

Kalmaegi is the 12th weather disturbance to batter the Philippines this year. The calamity-prone archipelago is lashed by about 20 storms and typhoons every year, each requiring major disaster-mitigation preparations.

China detains famed film director for prostitution

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BEIJING — Chinese film director Wang Quan’an, a Berlin International Film Festival winner known for the movies “Tuya’s Marriage” and “White Deer Plain,” has been detained on the charge of hiring prostitutes, Beijing police said Monday. Wang is the latest person caught up in a broad anti-vice campaign in which Chinese authorities appear to be making examples out of celebrities accused of engaging in prostitution or using drugs.

Wang was found with a suspected prostitute several days ago in a Beijing apartment and paid the woman 800 yuan ($130) for the service, police said in a statement. Wang paid for sex services for three nights in a row and on one night had sex with two women at once, the statement said. Wang was not immediately available for comment. Though illegal, prostitution is common in China, and authorities periodically crack down on the industry.

Earlier this year, police detained actor Huang Haibo for hiring a prostitute and sent him to a correctional facility for six months. Jaycee Chan, son of the movie superstar Jackie Chan, was detained last month on drug allegations.

Wang, 48, is the acclaimed director of the 2011 film “White Deer Plain.” His 2007 movie “Tuya’s Marriage” won the top Golden Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Police said they also detained eight other people, including an 18year-old woman accused of pimping. The others are likely suspected prostitutes, though the allegations against them were not specified.

Air France pilot strike amid low-cost tensions Associated Press

PARIS — At least half of Air France flights around the world were canceled Monday as pilots kicked off a weeklong strike, angry that the airline is shifting jobs and operations to a low-cost carrier to better keep up with competition.

Air France is urging passengers to change or postpone travel, estimating that it can only ensure 48 percent of flights Monday.

The company’s challenges echo those faced by flagship airlines across Europe, facing tough rivalry

from budget airlines and Gulf state carriers.

French labor law makes it complex and costly for companies to fire employees or adjust contracts in times of financial troubles. Air France-KLM announced an investment plan last week aimed at saving 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) over the next several years, and said it will transfer much of its European operations — and jobs — to lowcost carrier Transavia.

Air France pilots’ unions are calling foul, and called a weeklong strike starting Monday as they seek

better conditions under the plan.

The Paris airport authority said only half of Air France flights were operating out of Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. At Charles de Gaulle on Monday morning, crowds gathered at the Air France counter to try to change their tickets, and canceled flights were removed from departure and arrival screens.

“I thought that something was up when I saw that my flight wasn’t on the departures board,” said Austrian tourist Alice White.

“I hope I will be back to Vienna in time to be at work.”

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Antara BANDA ACEH - Aceh is open to every investor, including foreign company to invest in the resource-rich province, a senior economic minister said.

Aceh has opened as wide opportunities as possible to lure foreign investment, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Chairul Tanjung said while attending a meeting of the Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) forum on Sunday.

“I hope you will come to Aceh and Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah is delighted to receive all of you,” he told businessmen of neighboring countries attending the meeting.

Aceh which is located on the western tip of Sumatra island is rich in natural resources, particularly in the agriculture and mining sectors.

In the agriculture sector, the province has processing and packaging facilities for coffee and cocoa.

The province also has several gold and copper mining sites along with non-metallic mining sites for andesite and limestone.

According to data from the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), foreign direct investment to Aceh reached US$94.2 million in 2013 and US$172.3 million in 2012 compared with US$22.5 million in 2011 and US$4.6 million in 2010.

The IMT-GT which was initiated in 1991 and inaugurated in July 1993 is aimed at helping the three countries develop their resources.

Chairul expressed the hope the meeting of the IMT-GT forum held in Aceh would encourage local entrepreneurs to develop the creative economy in the province.

He made it clear that all IMT-GT programs would automatically play an important role in enhancing cooperation among the three nations without narrowing the moving space of businessmen to invest in Aceh.

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Monday questioned presidential special staff’s assistant for communication and politics, Nur Hasyim, for alleged corruption case.

“Nur Hasyim is questioned in connection with corruption case with Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik as the suspect,” KPK information spokesman Priharsa Nugraha remarked on Monday.

He noted that besides the assistant of the presidential special staff, the anti-graft body also on Monday questioned Dulhadi, the driver of presidential special staff for politics and communication Daniel Sparingga.

Sparingga was questioned by KPK last Tuesday as a witness in the alleged corruption case at the Energy and

Mineral Resources Ministry.

But during the questioning, he denied that he was involved in the corruption case the energy and mineral resources minister.”I had no role in the case,” Sparingga said after being grilled for seven hours by the Corruption Eradication Commission at the time.Energy Minister Jero Wacik, also the secretary of the High Council of the ruling Democratic Party, was charged with abuse of power and extortion, causing a loss of Rp9.9 billion in to the state. Sparingga said he was questioned only as a witness and that he had told his investigators every-

thing he knew about the case.

He denied any cooperation between himself and the energy and mineral resources ministry.

Sparingga was the first witness questioned by KPK in the case after the anti graft agency declared Jero Wacik as suspect last week.

Jero Wacik is facing a maximum jail term of 20 years with a fine of Rp1 billion if found guilty.

The case against Jero Wacik surfaced in the process of investigation of Waryono Karno, former secretary general of the energy and mineral resource ministry.

Antara JAKARTA - The world record for the largest Angklung (traditional musical instrument made of bamboo) ensemble was set by Indonesians residing in Canberra, Australia, during the Royal Adelaide Show 2014 held on Saturday (Sept. 13).

According to a press release issued by the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra received on Monday, about 6,358 Angklung instruments were played by Indonesians and Austra-

lians during the Royal Adelaide Show 2014 on Saturday.

The participants were playing Waltzing Matilda (an Australian folk song) and a happy birthday song to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Royal Agriculture and Horticulture Society of South Australia, the organizer of the Royal Adelaide Show 2014.

Although it takes time for the organizing committee to receive the official certificate from the Guinness

World Records, quantitatively, the number of Angklung instruments played at the Canberra event surpasses the current world record of 5,182 Angklung instruments played in Washington DC, the United States, on July 9, 2011.

Indonesian Ambassador to Australia Nadjib Riphat Kesoema stated that the Angklung-playing event in Canberra is an effort to strengthen people-to-people contact between Indonesia and Australia.

Largest angklung ensemble breaks world record in Canberra

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File - In this Feb. 17, 2007 file photo, Chinese film director Wang Quan’an shows his Golden Bear award for the best movie at the 57th International Film Festival Berlin ‘Berlinale’ in Berlin for his movie “Tuyas Marriage.”

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3rd Lovina Festival

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SINGARAJA - Buleleng Regency will hold 3rd Lovina Festival for 3 days (25-27 Sept, 2014) The theme of this festival is “The Sparkling of Lovina”. Head of Culture & Tourism of Buleleng Drs. I Ketut Warkadea, M.Si said before the event opened officially, first there will be cultural parade from 4 to 6 pm.

The start of the parade will take place from dolphin statue in Kalibukbuk Village and finish at Seririt Street. The distance is approximately 500 meters.

In the parade, the local youth will wear Balinese dress and walk as long as the parade route. They will bring ceremony equipment such as gebogan, janur, tedung, umbulumbul dan lontek. It is also followed by dance performances. Trance Dedari Dance from Kaliasem Village, Puppet show from Pemuteran Village, Ngelawang Barong from Tukad Mumbul Village, Ngelawang Sang Hyang Memedi from Anturan Village, Genjek Dance from Temukus Village and the parade of Jogeg Masal Buleleng.

“In addition to involving the local youth of Buleleng County, it also involved foreign tourists. It will put up four tour packages to destinations such as Pemuteran, Munduk, Sudaji Tourism Village and Sembiran,” he explained.

The Lovina Festival related to Sail Indonesia 2014 program, where one of the target areas is Lovina Beach. “Before the opening event, on September 22, there were 60 ships containing foreign tourists will rest in Lovina Beach special to witness the festival,” he explained.

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — John Isner and Sam Querrey won their singles matches Sunday as the U.S. completed a 5-0 sweep of Slovakia in the Davis Cup World Group playoff. Isner captured the final nine games and beat Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-0.

Querrey then defeated Norbert Gombos 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Isner and Querrey each won two matches in the tie.

Entering play Sunday, the U.S. had already won the first three matches and clinched a spot in the 2015 World Group — extending a streak in the top tier that began in 1989. Isner defeated Gombos and Querrey beat Martin Klizan in singles Friday night, before Mike and Bob Bryan ensured the victory with a lopsided doubles triumph Saturday over Gombos and Lacko.

Isner then breezed past Lacko in 43 minutes Sunday. “We knew how important this tie was,” said Isner, who was sidelined by an ankle injury when the U.S. lost to Great Britain earlier this year.

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

United States players and team members celebrate after winning against Serbia in the final World Basketball match between the United States and Serbia at the Palacio de los Deportes stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014.

USA wins basketball worlds, 129-92 over Serbia Associated Press

MADRID — With golden confetti raining on their heads and “Party in the U.S.A” ringing in their ears, it must have been hard for the U.S. basketball players to hear anything. Doesn’t matter. They had stopped listening long ago. All the questions about their talent, the doubts about their ability, were put down as easily as their opponents.

“It kind of was, again, a smack to our face, saying the U.S. was sending the B-team to go play in the World Cup,” forward Kenneth Faried said.

“Just because LeBron’s not here, Kobe’s not here, (Kevin) Durant’s not here, doesn’t mean anything. We can step up and win the gold, too. That’s what we did tonight.” And just like every other game, the Americans did it easily.

Tournament MVP Kyrie Irving made all six of his 3-point attempts and scored 26 points, and the U.S. repeated as world champion for the first time by crushing Serbia 129-92 on Sunday in the Basketball World Cup. James Harden added 23 points for the Americans, who made 11 of 16 3-pointers in a sensational-shooting first half, adding one final romp to a tournament full of them. This depleted team that was supposedly weak enough to lose was too good to be touched.

“Obviously we didn’t have a very close game all tournament, but for that to happen we had to play hard for 40 minutes and not relax and not give any inch while we were out there,” guard Stephen Curry said. The Americans came in winning by 32.5 points per game and their closest victory in the

tournament was by 21 points over Turkey. They thought they would get a tough game Sunday, but were simply too good to let that happen. They finished at 58 percent from the field.

They made 15 of 30 3-point attempts and had eight of their 12 players score in double figures.

“I think the results were dominant, but we had spurts of dominance in a lot of games,” U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “And we had tough games and then all of a sudden we’d have a spurt and it looked like we dominated.

Tonight we had like about a 35-minute spurt.” The Americans were supposed to have All-Star forwards Durant, Kevin Love and Blake Griffin, who all informed USA Basketball not long before the tournament that they would be unavailable.

But Irving and Harden stuck around, and despite sending the youngest U.S. team since NBA players debuted in 1992, the Americans remained as dominant as ever. They have won 63 straight games — 45 in official FIBA events and 18 in exhibition play — and are automatically qualified for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

LeBron James, Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul might want

to return for that competition. But the Americans will have to leave room for some players from this team, which has loads of young talent that figures to get even better from the time it spent together. It was the fifth world title for the Americans, tying Yugoslavia for the most all-time. And the second for Derrick Rose, who used this tournament as his return after missing most of the last two seasons following a pair of knee surgeries, along with Curry and Rudy Gay. It was the first medal for Serbia, which had been a part of Yugoslavia when it won five. The Yugoslavians had been the last repeat champions, winning in 1998 and 2002.

The Serbians were only 2-3 in the group stage but then routed previously unbeaten Greece and Brazil before building a big lead and holding on for a 90-85 semifinal victory over France, which had beat them in the group stage and knocked out tournament cofavorite Spain in the quarters. Serbia carried that momentum into the early moments of this one. Using a fluid offense that produced layups and dunks, Serbia opened the biggest lead any team had against the U.S. in this tournament when Miroslav Raduljica’s three-point play made it 15-7.

That was wiped out in a minute, and Serbia’s hopes of winning didn’t last much longer. “I don’t think anything worked what we planned, but nevertheless I’m still happy with the effort that we put on the floor,” Serbia coach Sasha Djordjevic said.

“We belong in the World Group for sure and we’re back in there.

That was the goal all along, obviously.”

Lacko, ranked 86th in the world, replaced Slovakia’s No. 1 Klizan for Sunday’s first match.

Isner, ranked 16th, broke in the eighth game for a 5-3 lead, held at love to win the first set and then dominated the second. He had four breaks of serve and eight aces. “It’s a different feel. There is not much riding on the line for it beside just winning,” Isner said of his final match.

“We had already advanced. So as far as that goes, it’s a little bit maybe tough to get revved up for it. But I’m happy I won.” Querrey hit 13 aces and fought off a tough challenge from the spirited Gombos, the 126th-ranked player in the world. Sunday’s matches were shortened to best-of-3 since the team competition had already been decided.

“Today it was already decided, so it was something like a practice match,” Lacko said. “With John, you never have like a rhythm. So I never got into the match today.”

AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast

John Isner, of the United States, hits a shot to Lukas Lacko, of Slovakia, to win their Davis Cup tennis match-up Sunday, Sept.

14, 2014, in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Isner won 6-3, 6-0.

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United beats QPR 4-0 for 1st win in Premier League

Icardi hat trick helps Inter beat Sassuolo Associated Press

MILAN — Mauro Icardi scored his first ever hat trick as Inter Milan thrashed 10-man Sassuolo 7-0 on Sunday for its first victory of the fledgling Serie A season, while AC Milan won 5-4 at Parma in a highly entertaining match, which saw both teams reduced to 10 men. New signing Paolo Osvaldo netted twice and Mateo Kovacic also recorded his first league goal for Inter, while Fredy Guarin capped off a fantastic day for the Nerazzurri.

Sassuolo, which lost at home by the same scoreline in its first meeting with Inter last season, also had forward Domenico Berardi sent off for an elbow on Juan Jesus. “I never scored a hat trick, either with Sampdoria or with Inter,” Icardi said. “Today is the first and it’s something nice, because I managed to do it at San Siro. This hat trick is for my family, which is always with me.”

Jeremy Menez scored the pick of the night and took his tally to three goals in two matches as Milan started with two straight wins for the first time in eight years. That season it also won against Lazio and Parma.

Next weekend’s match will be a true test of the merits of Milan and new coach Filippo Inzaghi — who is in the first season of his senior managerial career — with the Rossoneri facing three-time defending champion Juventus and former boss Massimiliano Allegri.

“It was an incredible match,” Menez said.

“The fans saw a beautiful match tonight.

We never gave up, in football scoring a goal more is what matters.” Elsewhere, Gonzalo Higuain missed a penalty as Napoli went down to a surprise 1-0 loss at home to Chievo

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MANCHESTER, England — After a summer spending spree of $250 million, the good times just might be on their way back at Manchester United. To the backdrop of fans chanting “We’re going to win the league,” United beat Queens Park Rangers 4-0 on Sunday to end its winless start to the Premier League season with a result and performance that may be seen as the true beginning to the Louis van Gaal era.

The brilliant Angel Di Maria and Ander Herrera scored their first goals for United, Wayne Rooney added a third before the break and Juan Mata also found the net to give Van Gaal his first win in five competitive matches in charge. All that was missing for a home crowd that rediscovered its full voice was a goal for Radamel Falcao.

He came on as a substitute in the 67th minute for his debut in a season-long loan from Monaco that is costing a reported $25 million in salary and fee.

The Colombia striker was presented with a great opportunity from close range with seven minutes remaining, but his shot was blocked. Still, with the goals flying in elsewhere and the team showing more pace and intensity, it was like the old times again at Old Trafford.

“I said to the players before the match, ‘We have to make a new start today,’” Van Gaal said. “This is the selection — we start now.”

The victory lifted United to five points from four league matches and could make Van Gaal think again about his deployment of a 3-5-2 formation.

Against Harry Redknapp’s QPR, a team that offered very little and is

likely to be in a relegation fight come May, Van Gaal reverted to a 4-4-2 and some assuredness seemed to return to the players as a result. Left back Marcos Rojo and holding midfielder Daley Blind made solid debuts and, in Di Maria, Van Gaal has a player who could light up the Premier League this season. The Argentina winger crucially broke the deadlock in the 24th when his free kick evaded everyone in a crowded area and bounced into the far corner, leaving goalkeeper Rob Green rooted to the spot.

And from one of Di Maria’s many surges that quickly turned defense into attack, Herrera ended up making it 2-0 in the 36th. Rooney collected a pass from Di Maria, had a shot blocked and laid the ball off for Herrera to drive a bobbling effort into the corner.

After Rooney shot home low from the edge of the area for the third goal in the 44th, Di Maria was the architect of the fourth just before the hour, with his driven shot arriving at the feet of Mata and the Spain playmaker afforded time and space to lift a finish high into the net. “Can you do better when you prepare three goals and (score) one? It

is nearly impossible,” Van Gaal said of Di Maria.

A visiting defense that included Rio Ferdinand, who left United in May after 12 years, fell apart after Di Maria’s goal in the face of wave after wave of attacks. Ferdinand received a warm ovation during the warmup and a memento from United great Bobby Charlton before kickoff, but this was not an afternoon the veteran center back will remember fondly.

As Mata was scoring, United’s fans were giving Falcao a standing ovation as he trotted out of the dug-out to loosen up.

Within eight minutes, he was on the pitch. Falcao almost scored, too, pouncing on a parried save from Green off Blind’s low drive but seeing his first-time shot saved by the goalkeeper.

“We are building a process and we have to play in a certain style,” Van Gaal said. “At the end, I hope to be manager of the champion of the Premier League. If it is not this year, then in my second year or my third year.”

REUTERS/Andrew Yates

Manchester United’s Angel Di Maria (L) celebrates with teammate Wayne Rooney after scoring a goal against Queens Park Rangers during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford in Manchester, northern England September 14, 2014.

Bayern’s Badstuber faces another long injury break Associated Press

MUNICH — Bayern Munich says defender Holger Badstuber will need surgery after tearing a tendon in his left thigh and faces another long injury break.

Badstuber, who recently returned to action after missing 20 months with a knee

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

Bayern’s Holger Badstuber sits injured on the ground during the soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart in the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014.

injury, had to go off before the break in Bayern’s 2-0 win over Stuttgart on Saturday in the Bundesliga. At the time, he said the injury was “not too serious.”

But Bayern team doctor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt found it was worse than initially feared when he determined the extent of the injury on Sunday.

Badstuber is quoted as saying, “I’m obviously very disappointed right now, but of course I now know how you deal with situations like this.”

The 25-year-old had reestablished himself in Bayern’s starting lineup after working his way back from his previous injuries.

Verona, and Lazio beat Cesena 3-0. Fiorentina drew 0-0 with Genoa and Atalanta won 2-1 at Cagliari, while Sampdoria beat Torino 2-0 in the lunchtime kickoff and said it will donate half of the ticket sales to ALS research.

After kicking off its season with a goalless draw at Torino, Inter was keen for victory in front of its fans. The San Siro faithful had to wait less than four minutes for Inter to open its goal account for the season. Icardi beat the offside trap to run onto Kovacic’s through ball and although his first attempt was blocked by Andrea Consigli, he rounded the goalkeeper and bundled it into an empty net.

Kovacic netted his first Serie A goal in the 21st minute following a couple of flicks from Icardi and Osvaldo. The Sassuolo defense looked shaky and it left Icardi in acres of space on the half hour to control Hernanes’ pass and curl into the bottom right corner from outside the area. It was then Osvaldo’s turn to open his Inter account four minutes from halftime after Dodo’s initial shot was blocked by Consigli.

Icardi completed his hat trick eight minutes into the second half, with Kovacic again the provider and any hope Sassuolo had of keeping the scoreline down evaporated shortly afterwards when Berardi was dismissed. Guarin generously set up Osvaldo for the former Southampton forward’s second before getting on the scoresheet himself as Inter matched last season’s result. City rival Milan was eager to build on its opening 3-1 win against Lazio. Giacomo Bonaventura scored on his debut but Milan was caught napping as former forward Antonio Cassano immediately leveled. Keisuke Honda’s second goal in two matches and a penalty by Menez

gave Milan a comfortable halftime lead.

Felipe pulled one back for Parma before Milan was reduced to 10 men after Daniele Bonera was shown a second yellow. Nigel de Jong grabbed a great individual goal with a run from the halfway line after Parma lost possession and Menez bettered him with a backheel from close range after flicking the ball around the goalkeeper at the byline.

Alessandro Lucarelli had pulled a goal back for Parma before Felipe was also dismissed for a second booking.

There was a nervy final few minutes for Milan when Parma reduced the gap even more following a De Jong backpass from near the center of the pitch which Lopez completely missed.

Inter Milan forward Mauro Icardi, of Argentina, celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Sassuolo, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept.14, 2014.

Hannover defeats Hamburger Guangzhou march on SV 2-0 in Bundesliga towards fourth title Associated Press

BERLIN — Hannover defeated Hamburger SV 2-0 in the Bundesliga on Sunday to increase the pressure on its former coach Mirko Slomka after a poor start to the season. Leon Andreasen headed in the opening goal from Miiko Albornoz’ deep cross in the 13th minute and Artur Sobiech made it 2-0 in the 24th, bundling the ball over the line after an effective cross from Spanish striker Joselu.

Hamburg striker Nicolai Mueller should have pulled one back after the break but dragged his shot wide with only the goalkeeper to beat. It was the best chance of the game for the visitors, who are yet to score a goal in three Bundesliga games.

“We need a little time, we saw that today. We have to keep working on what we showed and make the most of

our goal chances,” said Slomka, who narrowly evaded relegation with Hamburg last season. “All the 50-50 balls fell in Hannover’s favor.” Slomka had dropped goalkeeper Rene Adler and made a host of changes to the side that lost 3-0 at home to promoted Paderborn — U.S. international Julian Green and former Schalke forward Lewis Holtby both started — but he was unable to improve his side’s poor record away from home.

Hamburg has not won an away game since a 3-0 win over Freiburg in October last year. Defending champion Bayern Munich and then Borussia Moenchengladbach are the side’s next opponents.

Earlier, Raul Bobadilla’s secondhalf strike was enough for Augsburg to grind out a 1-0 Bundesliga win at Eintracht Frankfurt for the club’s first victory of the season. The Argentine

struck four minutes after the break, when he scooped the ball in off the far post after Brazilian defender Anderson attempted to clear from Halil Altintop.

Frankfurt had a penalty appeal turned down in the 16th, when Dominik Kohr prevented Vaclav Kadlec from reaching a corner by tugging his shirt. Tobias Werner twice struck the post for Augsburg late on in what was otherwise a game of few chances. “A lot went wrong today. We played without heads and couldn’t get a grip on the game. I’ve no explanation for it,” Frankfurt coach Thomas Schaaf said.

Augsburg had been on a run of three straight defeats across all competitions this season. “We always stayed calm and kept full trust in the team,” Augsburg coach Markus Weinzierl said.

Reuters

BEIJING - Guangzhou Evergrande took another step towards a fourth successive Chinese Super League title with a 3-0 win at Shanghai Dongya at the weekend to maintain their six-point advantage over Beijing Guoan at the top of the table. Marcello Lippi’s side picked up where they left off with their 6-0 hammering of Liaoning before the two-week international break and a goal in the seventh minute from winger Gao Lin gave them an early lead at the Tianhe Stadium.

The big-spending Asian champions were kept to just the one score before the break but a brace after halftime from prolific Brazilian Elkeson - his 21st and 22nd of the season - gave them a comfortable win.

Evergrande have 57 points from 24 matches, while Guoan’s 51 puts them seven points in front of Guangzhou R&F, who moved clear of Shanghai Dongya in third place with a 4-0 hammering of Shanghai Shenhua on Sunday.

Nigerian Aaron Samuel grabbed a goal either side of halftime, Brazilian Davi scored his 12th of the season and Moroccan striker Abderrazak Hamdallah his 18th this year for Sven-Goran Eriksson’s R&F. Guoan had a potentially tricky away trip to Jiangsu Sainty on Saturday but twice came from behind to secure a 3-2 win courtesy of attacking midfielder Zhang Xizhe’s 74th minute penalty.

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United beats QPR 4-0 for 1st win in Premier League

Icardi hat trick helps Inter beat Sassuolo Associated Press

MILAN — Mauro Icardi scored his first ever hat trick as Inter Milan thrashed 10-man Sassuolo 7-0 on Sunday for its first victory of the fledgling Serie A season, while AC Milan won 5-4 at Parma in a highly entertaining match, which saw both teams reduced to 10 men. New signing Paolo Osvaldo netted twice and Mateo Kovacic also recorded his first league goal for Inter, while Fredy Guarin capped off a fantastic day for the Nerazzurri.

Sassuolo, which lost at home by the same scoreline in its first meeting with Inter last season, also had forward Domenico Berardi sent off for an elbow on Juan Jesus. “I never scored a hat trick, either with Sampdoria or with Inter,” Icardi said. “Today is the first and it’s something nice, because I managed to do it at San Siro. This hat trick is for my family, which is always with me.”

Jeremy Menez scored the pick of the night and took his tally to three goals in two matches as Milan started with two straight wins for the first time in eight years. That season it also won against Lazio and Parma.

Next weekend’s match will be a true test of the merits of Milan and new coach Filippo Inzaghi — who is in the first season of his senior managerial career — with the Rossoneri facing three-time defending champion Juventus and former boss Massimiliano Allegri.

“It was an incredible match,” Menez said.

“The fans saw a beautiful match tonight.

We never gave up, in football scoring a goal more is what matters.” Elsewhere, Gonzalo Higuain missed a penalty as Napoli went down to a surprise 1-0 loss at home to Chievo

Associated Press

MANCHESTER, England — After a summer spending spree of $250 million, the good times just might be on their way back at Manchester United. To the backdrop of fans chanting “We’re going to win the league,” United beat Queens Park Rangers 4-0 on Sunday to end its winless start to the Premier League season with a result and performance that may be seen as the true beginning to the Louis van Gaal era.

The brilliant Angel Di Maria and Ander Herrera scored their first goals for United, Wayne Rooney added a third before the break and Juan Mata also found the net to give Van Gaal his first win in five competitive matches in charge. All that was missing for a home crowd that rediscovered its full voice was a goal for Radamel Falcao.

He came on as a substitute in the 67th minute for his debut in a season-long loan from Monaco that is costing a reported $25 million in salary and fee.

The Colombia striker was presented with a great opportunity from close range with seven minutes remaining, but his shot was blocked. Still, with the goals flying in elsewhere and the team showing more pace and intensity, it was like the old times again at Old Trafford.

“I said to the players before the match, ‘We have to make a new start today,’” Van Gaal said. “This is the selection — we start now.”

The victory lifted United to five points from four league matches and could make Van Gaal think again about his deployment of a 3-5-2 formation.

Against Harry Redknapp’s QPR, a team that offered very little and is

likely to be in a relegation fight come May, Van Gaal reverted to a 4-4-2 and some assuredness seemed to return to the players as a result. Left back Marcos Rojo and holding midfielder Daley Blind made solid debuts and, in Di Maria, Van Gaal has a player who could light up the Premier League this season. The Argentina winger crucially broke the deadlock in the 24th when his free kick evaded everyone in a crowded area and bounced into the far corner, leaving goalkeeper Rob Green rooted to the spot.

And from one of Di Maria’s many surges that quickly turned defense into attack, Herrera ended up making it 2-0 in the 36th. Rooney collected a pass from Di Maria, had a shot blocked and laid the ball off for Herrera to drive a bobbling effort into the corner.

After Rooney shot home low from the edge of the area for the third goal in the 44th, Di Maria was the architect of the fourth just before the hour, with his driven shot arriving at the feet of Mata and the Spain playmaker afforded time and space to lift a finish high into the net. “Can you do better when you prepare three goals and (score) one? It

is nearly impossible,” Van Gaal said of Di Maria.

A visiting defense that included Rio Ferdinand, who left United in May after 12 years, fell apart after Di Maria’s goal in the face of wave after wave of attacks. Ferdinand received a warm ovation during the warmup and a memento from United great Bobby Charlton before kickoff, but this was not an afternoon the veteran center back will remember fondly.

As Mata was scoring, United’s fans were giving Falcao a standing ovation as he trotted out of the dug-out to loosen up.

Within eight minutes, he was on the pitch. Falcao almost scored, too, pouncing on a parried save from Green off Blind’s low drive but seeing his first-time shot saved by the goalkeeper.

“We are building a process and we have to play in a certain style,” Van Gaal said. “At the end, I hope to be manager of the champion of the Premier League. If it is not this year, then in my second year or my third year.”

REUTERS/Andrew Yates

Manchester United’s Angel Di Maria (L) celebrates with teammate Wayne Rooney after scoring a goal against Queens Park Rangers during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford in Manchester, northern England September 14, 2014.

Bayern’s Badstuber faces another long injury break Associated Press

MUNICH — Bayern Munich says defender Holger Badstuber will need surgery after tearing a tendon in his left thigh and faces another long injury break.

Badstuber, who recently returned to action after missing 20 months with a knee

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

Bayern’s Holger Badstuber sits injured on the ground during the soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart in the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014.

injury, had to go off before the break in Bayern’s 2-0 win over Stuttgart on Saturday in the Bundesliga. At the time, he said the injury was “not too serious.”

But Bayern team doctor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt found it was worse than initially feared when he determined the extent of the injury on Sunday.

Badstuber is quoted as saying, “I’m obviously very disappointed right now, but of course I now know how you deal with situations like this.”

The 25-year-old had reestablished himself in Bayern’s starting lineup after working his way back from his previous injuries.

Verona, and Lazio beat Cesena 3-0. Fiorentina drew 0-0 with Genoa and Atalanta won 2-1 at Cagliari, while Sampdoria beat Torino 2-0 in the lunchtime kickoff and said it will donate half of the ticket sales to ALS research.

After kicking off its season with a goalless draw at Torino, Inter was keen for victory in front of its fans. The San Siro faithful had to wait less than four minutes for Inter to open its goal account for the season. Icardi beat the offside trap to run onto Kovacic’s through ball and although his first attempt was blocked by Andrea Consigli, he rounded the goalkeeper and bundled it into an empty net.

Kovacic netted his first Serie A goal in the 21st minute following a couple of flicks from Icardi and Osvaldo. The Sassuolo defense looked shaky and it left Icardi in acres of space on the half hour to control Hernanes’ pass and curl into the bottom right corner from outside the area. It was then Osvaldo’s turn to open his Inter account four minutes from halftime after Dodo’s initial shot was blocked by Consigli.

Icardi completed his hat trick eight minutes into the second half, with Kovacic again the provider and any hope Sassuolo had of keeping the scoreline down evaporated shortly afterwards when Berardi was dismissed. Guarin generously set up Osvaldo for the former Southampton forward’s second before getting on the scoresheet himself as Inter matched last season’s result. City rival Milan was eager to build on its opening 3-1 win against Lazio. Giacomo Bonaventura scored on his debut but Milan was caught napping as former forward Antonio Cassano immediately leveled. Keisuke Honda’s second goal in two matches and a penalty by Menez

gave Milan a comfortable halftime lead.

Felipe pulled one back for Parma before Milan was reduced to 10 men after Daniele Bonera was shown a second yellow. Nigel de Jong grabbed a great individual goal with a run from the halfway line after Parma lost possession and Menez bettered him with a backheel from close range after flicking the ball around the goalkeeper at the byline.

Alessandro Lucarelli had pulled a goal back for Parma before Felipe was also dismissed for a second booking.

There was a nervy final few minutes for Milan when Parma reduced the gap even more following a De Jong backpass from near the center of the pitch which Lopez completely missed.

Inter Milan forward Mauro Icardi, of Argentina, celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Sassuolo, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept.14, 2014.

Hannover defeats Hamburger Guangzhou march on SV 2-0 in Bundesliga towards fourth title Associated Press

BERLIN — Hannover defeated Hamburger SV 2-0 in the Bundesliga on Sunday to increase the pressure on its former coach Mirko Slomka after a poor start to the season. Leon Andreasen headed in the opening goal from Miiko Albornoz’ deep cross in the 13th minute and Artur Sobiech made it 2-0 in the 24th, bundling the ball over the line after an effective cross from Spanish striker Joselu.

Hamburg striker Nicolai Mueller should have pulled one back after the break but dragged his shot wide with only the goalkeeper to beat. It was the best chance of the game for the visitors, who are yet to score a goal in three Bundesliga games.

“We need a little time, we saw that today. We have to keep working on what we showed and make the most of

our goal chances,” said Slomka, who narrowly evaded relegation with Hamburg last season. “All the 50-50 balls fell in Hannover’s favor.” Slomka had dropped goalkeeper Rene Adler and made a host of changes to the side that lost 3-0 at home to promoted Paderborn — U.S. international Julian Green and former Schalke forward Lewis Holtby both started — but he was unable to improve his side’s poor record away from home.

Hamburg has not won an away game since a 3-0 win over Freiburg in October last year. Defending champion Bayern Munich and then Borussia Moenchengladbach are the side’s next opponents.

Earlier, Raul Bobadilla’s secondhalf strike was enough for Augsburg to grind out a 1-0 Bundesliga win at Eintracht Frankfurt for the club’s first victory of the season. The Argentine

struck four minutes after the break, when he scooped the ball in off the far post after Brazilian defender Anderson attempted to clear from Halil Altintop.

Frankfurt had a penalty appeal turned down in the 16th, when Dominik Kohr prevented Vaclav Kadlec from reaching a corner by tugging his shirt. Tobias Werner twice struck the post for Augsburg late on in what was otherwise a game of few chances. “A lot went wrong today. We played without heads and couldn’t get a grip on the game. I’ve no explanation for it,” Frankfurt coach Thomas Schaaf said.

Augsburg had been on a run of three straight defeats across all competitions this season. “We always stayed calm and kept full trust in the team,” Augsburg coach Markus Weinzierl said.

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BEIJING - Guangzhou Evergrande took another step towards a fourth successive Chinese Super League title with a 3-0 win at Shanghai Dongya at the weekend to maintain their six-point advantage over Beijing Guoan at the top of the table. Marcello Lippi’s side picked up where they left off with their 6-0 hammering of Liaoning before the two-week international break and a goal in the seventh minute from winger Gao Lin gave them an early lead at the Tianhe Stadium.

The big-spending Asian champions were kept to just the one score before the break but a brace after halftime from prolific Brazilian Elkeson - his 21st and 22nd of the season - gave them a comfortable win.

Evergrande have 57 points from 24 matches, while Guoan’s 51 puts them seven points in front of Guangzhou R&F, who moved clear of Shanghai Dongya in third place with a 4-0 hammering of Shanghai Shenhua on Sunday.

Nigerian Aaron Samuel grabbed a goal either side of halftime, Brazilian Davi scored his 12th of the season and Moroccan striker Abderrazak Hamdallah his 18th this year for Sven-Goran Eriksson’s R&F. Guoan had a potentially tricky away trip to Jiangsu Sainty on Saturday but twice came from behind to secure a 3-2 win courtesy of attacking midfielder Zhang Xizhe’s 74th minute penalty.

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SINGARAJA - Buleleng Regency will hold 3rd Lovina Festival for 3 days (25-27 Sept, 2014) The theme of this festival is “The Sparkling of Lovina”. Head of Culture & Tourism of Buleleng Drs. I Ketut Warkadea, M.Si said before the event opened officially, first there will be cultural parade from 4 to 6 pm.

The start of the parade will take place from dolphin statue in Kalibukbuk Village and finish at Seririt Street. The distance is approximately 500 meters.

In the parade, the local youth will wear Balinese dress and walk as long as the parade route. They will bring ceremony equipment such as gebogan, janur, tedung, umbulumbul dan lontek. It is also followed by dance performances. Trance Dedari Dance from Kaliasem Village, Puppet show from Pemuteran Village, Ngelawang Barong from Tukad Mumbul Village, Ngelawang Sang Hyang Memedi from Anturan Village, Genjek Dance from Temukus Village and the parade of Jogeg Masal Buleleng.

“In addition to involving the local youth of Buleleng County, it also involved foreign tourists. It will put up four tour packages to destinations such as Pemuteran, Munduk, Sudaji Tourism Village and Sembiran,” he explained.

The Lovina Festival related to Sail Indonesia 2014 program, where one of the target areas is Lovina Beach. “Before the opening event, on September 22, there were 60 ships containing foreign tourists will rest in Lovina Beach special to witness the festival,” he explained.

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — John Isner and Sam Querrey won their singles matches Sunday as the U.S. completed a 5-0 sweep of Slovakia in the Davis Cup World Group playoff. Isner captured the final nine games and beat Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-0.

Querrey then defeated Norbert Gombos 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Isner and Querrey each won two matches in the tie.

Entering play Sunday, the U.S. had already won the first three matches and clinched a spot in the 2015 World Group — extending a streak in the top tier that began in 1989. Isner defeated Gombos and Querrey beat Martin Klizan in singles Friday night, before Mike and Bob Bryan ensured the victory with a lopsided doubles triumph Saturday over Gombos and Lacko.

Isner then breezed past Lacko in 43 minutes Sunday. “We knew how important this tie was,” said Isner, who was sidelined by an ankle injury when the U.S. lost to Great Britain earlier this year.

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United States players and team members celebrate after winning against Serbia in the final World Basketball match between the United States and Serbia at the Palacio de los Deportes stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014.

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MADRID — With golden confetti raining on their heads and “Party in the U.S.A” ringing in their ears, it must have been hard for the U.S. basketball players to hear anything. Doesn’t matter. They had stopped listening long ago. All the questions about their talent, the doubts about their ability, were put down as easily as their opponents.

“It kind of was, again, a smack to our face, saying the U.S. was sending the B-team to go play in the World Cup,” forward Kenneth Faried said.

“Just because LeBron’s not here, Kobe’s not here, (Kevin) Durant’s not here, doesn’t mean anything. We can step up and win the gold, too. That’s what we did tonight.” And just like every other game, the Americans did it easily.

Tournament MVP Kyrie Irving made all six of his 3-point attempts and scored 26 points, and the U.S. repeated as world champion for the first time by crushing Serbia 129-92 on Sunday in the Basketball World Cup. James Harden added 23 points for the Americans, who made 11 of 16 3-pointers in a sensational-shooting first half, adding one final romp to a tournament full of them. This depleted team that was supposedly weak enough to lose was too good to be touched.

“Obviously we didn’t have a very close game all tournament, but for that to happen we had to play hard for 40 minutes and not relax and not give any inch while we were out there,” guard Stephen Curry said. The Americans came in winning by 32.5 points per game and their closest victory in the

tournament was by 21 points over Turkey. They thought they would get a tough game Sunday, but were simply too good to let that happen. They finished at 58 percent from the field.

They made 15 of 30 3-point attempts and had eight of their 12 players score in double figures.

“I think the results were dominant, but we had spurts of dominance in a lot of games,” U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “And we had tough games and then all of a sudden we’d have a spurt and it looked like we dominated.

Tonight we had like about a 35-minute spurt.” The Americans were supposed to have All-Star forwards Durant, Kevin Love and Blake Griffin, who all informed USA Basketball not long before the tournament that they would be unavailable.

But Irving and Harden stuck around, and despite sending the youngest U.S. team since NBA players debuted in 1992, the Americans remained as dominant as ever. They have won 63 straight games — 45 in official FIBA events and 18 in exhibition play — and are automatically qualified for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

LeBron James, Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul might want

to return for that competition. But the Americans will have to leave room for some players from this team, which has loads of young talent that figures to get even better from the time it spent together. It was the fifth world title for the Americans, tying Yugoslavia for the most all-time. And the second for Derrick Rose, who used this tournament as his return after missing most of the last two seasons following a pair of knee surgeries, along with Curry and Rudy Gay. It was the first medal for Serbia, which had been a part of Yugoslavia when it won five. The Yugoslavians had been the last repeat champions, winning in 1998 and 2002.

The Serbians were only 2-3 in the group stage but then routed previously unbeaten Greece and Brazil before building a big lead and holding on for a 90-85 semifinal victory over France, which had beat them in the group stage and knocked out tournament cofavorite Spain in the quarters. Serbia carried that momentum into the early moments of this one. Using a fluid offense that produced layups and dunks, Serbia opened the biggest lead any team had against the U.S. in this tournament when Miroslav Raduljica’s three-point play made it 15-7.

That was wiped out in a minute, and Serbia’s hopes of winning didn’t last much longer. “I don’t think anything worked what we planned, but nevertheless I’m still happy with the effort that we put on the floor,” Serbia coach Sasha Djordjevic said.

“We belong in the World Group for sure and we’re back in there.

That was the goal all along, obviously.”

Lacko, ranked 86th in the world, replaced Slovakia’s No. 1 Klizan for Sunday’s first match.

Isner, ranked 16th, broke in the eighth game for a 5-3 lead, held at love to win the first set and then dominated the second. He had four breaks of serve and eight aces. “It’s a different feel. There is not much riding on the line for it beside just winning,” Isner said of his final match.

“We had already advanced. So as far as that goes, it’s a little bit maybe tough to get revved up for it. But I’m happy I won.” Querrey hit 13 aces and fought off a tough challenge from the spirited Gombos, the 126th-ranked player in the world. Sunday’s matches were shortened to best-of-3 since the team competition had already been decided.

“Today it was already decided, so it was something like a practice match,” Lacko said. “With John, you never have like a rhythm. So I never got into the match today.”

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John Isner, of the United States, hits a shot to Lukas Lacko, of Slovakia, to win their Davis Cup tennis match-up Sunday, Sept.

14, 2014, in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Isner won 6-3, 6-0.

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Indonesian workers march during a rally against cheap wages in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept 15, 2014. Thousands of factory workers took to the streets in the capital to protest against outsourcing and low wages.

BANGKOK — Police say the bodies of two British tourists were found naked with gruesome head wounds on a beach at a popular island in southern Thailand.

Police Col. Prachum Ruangthong said Monday the man and the woman were found dead on a rocky beach on Koh Tao, an island in Surat Thani province known for its diving sites and serene beaches.

The victims’ clothes and a hoe with blood stains were found nearby, he said. Police suspect the two were slain with the hoe, leaving deep wounds on their heads, Prachum said.

Police were checking closed circuit TV footage at nearby restaurants, hotels and shops for clues, he said.

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A Filipino man carries a pig over floodwaters as residents who earlier evacuated due to a swollen river return to their homes in suburban San Mateo, Rizal province, Philippines Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

Typhoon Kalmaegi blows out of Philippines

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MANILA — A fast-moving typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines Monday after causing flash floods and landslides. Three people died when big waves and strong winds sank a stalled ferry over the weekend.

The government weather bureau said the eye of Typhoon Kalmaegi was over the South China Sea some 372 kilometers (231 miles) west of northwestern Laoag city before noon, moving northwest toward southern China at 30 kilometers per hour (19 kph). It was packing sustained winds of 120 kph (75 mph) and gusts of 150 kph (93.21 mile).

Schools in five regions, including metropolitan Manila, were suspended and dozens of flights were canceled. Hundreds of ship passengers were stranded in ports. Some 7,800 residents were moved to evacuation centers at the height of the typhoon but many have since returned home as the weather improved.

The storm whipped up big waves that swamped and sank a stalled ferry off Southern Leyte province in the central Philippines late Saturday.

Cargo and passenger ships plucked at least 110 survivors from the rough waters and recovered three bodies after the ferry sank. At least three other people remain missing.

Typhoon Kalmaegi, the Korean word for seagull, slammed into the boundary of northeastern Cagayan and Isabela provinces Sunday but moved quickly without causing major damage, officials said. But several provinces remain without power.

Residents in at least nine northern provinces, which have been drenched by days of rains, were earlier warned

to take precautions and stay away from already soggy mountainsides and swollen rivers.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development pre-positioned 3,000 family food packs in northern communities that may be isolated by the storm. Army and police forces, backed by rubber boats, trucks and air force helicopters, have been put on standby for possible search and rescue operations.

Kalmaegi is the 12th weather disturbance to batter the Philippines this year. The calamity-prone archipelago is lashed by about 20 storms and typhoons every year, each requiring major disaster-mitigation preparations.

China detains famed film director for prostitution

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BEIJING — Chinese film director Wang Quan’an, a Berlin International Film Festival winner known for the movies “Tuya’s Marriage” and “White Deer Plain,” has been detained on the charge of hiring prostitutes, Beijing police said Monday. Wang is the latest person caught up in a broad anti-vice campaign in which Chinese authorities appear to be making examples out of celebrities accused of engaging in prostitution or using drugs.

Wang was found with a suspected prostitute several days ago in a Beijing apartment and paid the woman 800 yuan ($130) for the service, police said in a statement. Wang paid for sex services for three nights in a row and on one night had sex with two women at once, the statement said. Wang was not immediately available for comment. Though illegal, prostitution is common in China, and authorities periodically crack down on the industry.

Earlier this year, police detained actor Huang Haibo for hiring a prostitute and sent him to a correctional facility for six months. Jaycee Chan, son of the movie superstar Jackie Chan, was detained last month on drug allegations.

Wang, 48, is the acclaimed director of the 2011 film “White Deer Plain.” His 2007 movie “Tuya’s Marriage” won the top Golden Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Police said they also detained eight other people, including an 18year-old woman accused of pimping. The others are likely suspected prostitutes, though the allegations against them were not specified.

Air France pilot strike amid low-cost tensions Associated Press

PARIS — At least half of Air France flights around the world were canceled Monday as pilots kicked off a weeklong strike, angry that the airline is shifting jobs and operations to a low-cost carrier to better keep up with competition.

Air France is urging passengers to change or postpone travel, estimating that it can only ensure 48 percent of flights Monday.

The company’s challenges echo those faced by flagship airlines across Europe, facing tough rivalry

from budget airlines and Gulf state carriers.

French labor law makes it complex and costly for companies to fire employees or adjust contracts in times of financial troubles. Air France-KLM announced an investment plan last week aimed at saving 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) over the next several years, and said it will transfer much of its European operations — and jobs — to lowcost carrier Transavia.

Air France pilots’ unions are calling foul, and called a weeklong strike starting Monday as they seek

better conditions under the plan.

The Paris airport authority said only half of Air France flights were operating out of Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. At Charles de Gaulle on Monday morning, crowds gathered at the Air France counter to try to change their tickets, and canceled flights were removed from departure and arrival screens.

“I thought that something was up when I saw that my flight wasn’t on the departures board,” said Austrian tourist Alice White.

“I hope I will be back to Vienna in time to be at work.”

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Antara BANDA ACEH - Aceh is open to every investor, including foreign company to invest in the resource-rich province, a senior economic minister said.

Aceh has opened as wide opportunities as possible to lure foreign investment, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Chairul Tanjung said while attending a meeting of the Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) forum on Sunday.

“I hope you will come to Aceh and Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah is delighted to receive all of you,” he told businessmen of neighboring countries attending the meeting.

Aceh which is located on the western tip of Sumatra island is rich in natural resources, particularly in the agriculture and mining sectors.

In the agriculture sector, the province has processing and packaging facilities for coffee and cocoa.

The province also has several gold and copper mining sites along with non-metallic mining sites for andesite and limestone.

According to data from the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), foreign direct investment to Aceh reached US$94.2 million in 2013 and US$172.3 million in 2012 compared with US$22.5 million in 2011 and US$4.6 million in 2010.

The IMT-GT which was initiated in 1991 and inaugurated in July 1993 is aimed at helping the three countries develop their resources.

Chairul expressed the hope the meeting of the IMT-GT forum held in Aceh would encourage local entrepreneurs to develop the creative economy in the province.

He made it clear that all IMT-GT programs would automatically play an important role in enhancing cooperation among the three nations without narrowing the moving space of businessmen to invest in Aceh.

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Monday questioned presidential special staff’s assistant for communication and politics, Nur Hasyim, for alleged corruption case.

“Nur Hasyim is questioned in connection with corruption case with Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik as the suspect,” KPK information spokesman Priharsa Nugraha remarked on Monday.

He noted that besides the assistant of the presidential special staff, the anti-graft body also on Monday questioned Dulhadi, the driver of presidential special staff for politics and communication Daniel Sparingga.

Sparingga was questioned by KPK last Tuesday as a witness in the alleged corruption case at the Energy and

Mineral Resources Ministry.

But during the questioning, he denied that he was involved in the corruption case the energy and mineral resources minister.”I had no role in the case,” Sparingga said after being grilled for seven hours by the Corruption Eradication Commission at the time.Energy Minister Jero Wacik, also the secretary of the High Council of the ruling Democratic Party, was charged with abuse of power and extortion, causing a loss of Rp9.9 billion in to the state. Sparingga said he was questioned only as a witness and that he had told his investigators every-

thing he knew about the case.

He denied any cooperation between himself and the energy and mineral resources ministry.

Sparingga was the first witness questioned by KPK in the case after the anti graft agency declared Jero Wacik as suspect last week.

Jero Wacik is facing a maximum jail term of 20 years with a fine of Rp1 billion if found guilty.

The case against Jero Wacik surfaced in the process of investigation of Waryono Karno, former secretary general of the energy and mineral resource ministry.

Antara JAKARTA - The world record for the largest Angklung (traditional musical instrument made of bamboo) ensemble was set by Indonesians residing in Canberra, Australia, during the Royal Adelaide Show 2014 held on Saturday (Sept. 13).

According to a press release issued by the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra received on Monday, about 6,358 Angklung instruments were played by Indonesians and Austra-

lians during the Royal Adelaide Show 2014 on Saturday.

The participants were playing Waltzing Matilda (an Australian folk song) and a happy birthday song to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Royal Agriculture and Horticulture Society of South Australia, the organizer of the Royal Adelaide Show 2014.

Although it takes time for the organizing committee to receive the official certificate from the Guinness

World Records, quantitatively, the number of Angklung instruments played at the Canberra event surpasses the current world record of 5,182 Angklung instruments played in Washington DC, the United States, on July 9, 2011.

Indonesian Ambassador to Australia Nadjib Riphat Kesoema stated that the Angklung-playing event in Canberra is an effort to strengthen people-to-people contact between Indonesia and Australia.

Largest angklung ensemble breaks world record in Canberra

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File - In this Feb. 17, 2007 file photo, Chinese film director Wang Quan’an shows his Golden Bear award for the best movie at the 57th International Film Festival Berlin ‘Berlinale’ in Berlin for his movie “Tuyas Marriage.”

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MANGUPURA - If you happen to pass through the road section of Denpasar – Plaga, precisely under the kapok tree at Latu hamlet, Abiansemal village, Badung, do not forget to ask for permission to the inhabitants at the location. At least, the road users must honk or give other signal when driving a vehicle or riding motorcycle. It is the way believed to provide safety during a journey.

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WASHINGTON — Income inequality is taking a toll on U.S. state governments. The widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has been matched by a slowdown in state tax revenue, according to a report being released Monday by Standard & Poor’s. politically delicate one. The allure of low taxes has been used by states to spur job creation, by attracting factories, businesses and corporate headquarters.

“If you’ve got political pressure to spend more money and pressure against raising taxes, then you’re in a pickle,” said David Brunori, a public policy professor at George Washington University.”

Income inequality isn’t the only factor slowing state tax revenue.

Online retailers account for a rising chunk of consumer spending. Yet they often manage to avoid sales taxes. Consumers are spending more on untaxed services, too.

S&P’s analysis builds on a previous report this year in which it said the widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has slowed the U.S. economy’s recovery from the Great Recession. Because consumer spending fuels about 70 percent of the economy, weak pay growth typically slows economic growth.

Adjusted for inflation, government

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This Dec. 27, 2013 file photo shows the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre, S.D. South Dakota is among the top 10 states most dependent on sales tax as its main revenue source for state government, according to a Standard & Poor’s study released Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

data show that median household income rose by a few thousand dollars since 1979 to $51,017 in 2012 and remains below its level before the recession began in late 2007. By contrast, the top 1 percent has thrived.

Their incomes averaged $1.26 million in 2012, up from $466,302 in 1979, according IRS data.

The combination of an increasingly global economy, greater productivity from technology and out-

size investment returns has shifted a rising share of money to the wealthy.

Of all the dollars earned in 2012, more than 22 percent went to the top 1 percent. That share has more than doubled since 1979.

India inflation slows to five-year low in August

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An elderly Indian woman alights from a rickshaw near a vendor selling mangoes in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. India’s wholesale price inflation slowed to its lowest level in almost five years in August, data showed Monday, after the right-wing government came to power pledging to wrestle down crippling prices.

MUMBAI - India’s wholesale price inflation slowed to its lowest level in almost five years in August, data showed Monday, after the right-wing government came to power pledging to wrestle down crippling prices.

The Wholesale Price Index increased 3.74 percent year on year -- far below market forecasts of around 4.40 percent -- and sharply lower from 5.19 percent last month.

The figures will come as welcome news for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which swept to power to May promising to tackle high inflation that has long angered voters.

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Even as income for the affluent has accelerated, it’s barely kept pace with inflation for most other people.

That trend can cause two problems for states: The wealthy often manage to shield much of their income from taxes. And they tend to spend less of it than others do, thereby limiting sales tax revenue. As the growth of tax revenue has slowed, states have faced tensions over whether to raise taxes or cut spending to balance their budgets as required by law.

“Rising income inequality is not just a social issue,” said Gabriel Petek, the S&P credit analyst who wrote the report. “It presents a very significant set of challenges for the policymakers.” Stagnant pay for most people has compounded the pressure on states to preserve funding for education, highways and social programs. Their investments in education and infrastructure have also fueled economic growth. Yet they’re at risk without a strong flow of tax revenue.

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have hindered growth-stimulating investment.

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has made taming inflation one of its top priorities, despite business leaders clamouring for rate cuts.

The Consumer Price Index eased in August to 7.8 percent year-on-year from 7.96 percent the previous month, data showed Friday, although that is still above the central bank’s target of six percent by 2016.

While still keenly watched, the Wholesale Price Index has been ceding ground to the Consumer Price index as a measure used by the central bank to set monetary policy.

The bank last cut interest rates in May 2013 but has pushed them back up in subsequent months, citing persistent inflation.

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According to stories of local people, strange happenings commonly occur in the area of the kapok tree.

For example, the brake of a car may suddenly not work so that it is out of control resulting in crash. Sometimes there is a vehicle suddenly braking, so the vehicles in the rear are not able to control and crashes the front vehicle. Sometimes the driver sees if the highway is going to the east, so the car unwittingly gets plunged into the paddy fields.

Cars or motorbikes are often crossing towards pandanus trees in the middle of rice fields. Many residents including local people are used to seeing strange and big be-

ings whose size exceeds an ordinary human body. On other occasion, people hear the voice of children playing happily and other illogical and strange incidents.

One of the local residents, Desak Made Purni, said that many strange happenings occurred at the location previously. Especially, it happens at particular times during drizzling rain, nightfall, midday and midnight.

“Having been made a shrine around the location, such happenings almost never happen again,” said the 80year old woman.

The kapok tree located at roadside looks like a shade tree absorbing the vehicle’s pollution. However, the old

kapok tree is believed to be inhabited by astral beings. Even, the highway is also used by the supernatural beings. “Local residents believe that the path near the kapok tree is the highway of the supernatural beings,” she said.

She added that the area around the kapok tree had something to do with a mound located in the middle of rice fields at Subak Latu.

The path was believed to be the highway of the supernatural beings that wanted to go the kapok tree and the mound or vice versa. “The mound is indeed very haunted, so that local people often deliver a special offering for the supernatural beings,” she said.

If local people hold a ceremony, explained this old woman, they would put special offerings at the location. By that way, the procession would run smoothly. Similar effort was also carried out by farmers when organizing rituals related to their agricultural field.

Jati Temple at Pengambengan Village

Jati Temple is nestled within the area of Pengambengan village, about four kilometers south of the town of Negara, Jembrana. The temple spreading across an area of approximately 4,700 square meters is one of the dang khayangan temples (used to venerate a Hindu sage) in Jembrana. As the name implies, this temple has distinctiveness where teak trees grow inside the temple area. This temple is also closely related to the pilgrimage of Dang Hyang Nirartha on the Island of Bali.

In the innermost courtyard for worship lie an oblation pavilion, gamelan pavilion, piasan pavilion and a chamber to store cloth paraphernalia. Four teak trees grow in the temple area. According to many of supporting devotee chief, Ketut Astika Jaya, the teak trees had distinctiveness. Aside from prohibited from taking the teak seedlings, the branches of trees belonging to hundreds of years old never toppled over the padmasana shrine underneath. The branch broke itself into ashes and did not topple over the padmasana shrine.

Around the spring, there were four teak trees growing close to one another. Once upon a time, one of the trees bent and almost toppled over the temple compound

wall. Devotees originally worried if it would touch the wall, but after a few months the tree could stand upright by itself. “In addition, after several years, the distance of the padmasana shrine to the teak trees was once only a few centimeters, but now has gone farther up to two meters away. Formerly, the temple priest should lean his body when passing, but now he can pass freely,” he explained.

In the middle courtyard lay a resting pavilion, grand entrance gates, apit lawang, tower of wooden split drum (kulkul) and kitchen. Meanwhile, in the outermost courtyard lay the wantilan hall and quite ample parking lot. The temple also got assistance from the regent of Jembrana used to build a fence around the temple area and split gates. In the next five years, the innermost courtyard of the temple would be restored because some parts of the temple had been fragile.

Other than on the piodalan or temple anniversary, the temple supported by four customary villages in the Negara subdistrict was also visited by many pilgrims on full moon.

Those pilgrims were dominated by teenagers and students who wanted to have purificatory rite or malukat.

Similarly, myriad of pilgrims also came to worship on Sarasvati Day. In the innermost courtyard lay seven buildings including the padmasana,

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three-tiered meru shrine, pepelik pavilion, Sri Sedana, representation of Ulun Danu Temple, taksu, chamber to store sanctified effigies and anglurah shrine. The four customary villages supporting the temple were the Tegal Badeng Kauh, Tegal Badeng Kangin, Lelateng and Puseh Agung (Tengah hamlet).

This temple was closely associ-

ated with Dang Hyang Nirartha as well as two other dang khayangan temples in Jembrana, namely the Perancak and Mertasari. He dropped in at the temple after arriving at Perancak (Dang Khayangan Perancak) and at Mertasari village (Amerthasari Temple). At that time, it was a barren area called Awen and posed a swamp and forest area. Dur-

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ing the pilgrimage, he had unwound there and did meditation. Before meditating, he had stuck his stick in a pile and when unplugged it grew into teak trees. In one of the teak tree cavities lay an endless spring.

Until now, the trees remain to exist in the temple area. Meanwhile, the temple anniversary falls on Coma (Monday) Pon Wuku Sinta.

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LONDON — Now it’s Britain’s turn to mourn. British aid worker David Haines has been beheaded — like two American journalists before him — and the Islamic State group is threatening to kill a fourth captive. A grisly video released by the group showing Haines’ body both mocks the West and raises the pressure on Western leaders. It concludes with a death threat against British hostage Alan Henning, shown in the same kind of orange jumpsuit the other three were wearing when they were killed.

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Two ships are seen at Bali Straight. The tariff of crossing at Padangbai Harbor.

Crossing tariff at Padangbai Harbor increases up to 20 percent Bali Post

AMLAPURA - Starting on Monday at 00:00 p.m., PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry of Padangbai Harbor Branch began to impose the crossing rate adjustment. In accordance with the Regulation of the Minister of Transportation No.31/2014, the tariff adjustment applied to all types of ticket. As a result, the ticket price increased ranging from 5 percent to 20 percent.

Manager of the PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry of Padangbai Harbor Branch, Asril Usman, revealed the tariff adjustment would take effect from Monday (Sep 15) at 00:00 p.m. He said the rate adjustment was imposed after the issuance of the Regulation of Minister of Transportation No. 31/2014 on the tariff of the inter-provincial ferry transport.

The tariff increase is also based on the Decision of the Board of Directors of PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) Number KD.257/OP.404 /ASDP-2014 dated September 9, 2014 on the inter-provincial in-

tegrated ticket tariff on the crossing harbor within the ASDP Indonesia Ferry.

According to him, the adjustment was applied in the 26 routes managed by the ASDP or technical implementation unit.

“This tariff adjustment is imposed on the 26 routes. The tariff adjustment is not so high,” he said when asked for his confirmation related to the ticket tariff increase, Sunday (Sep 14). Asril Usman claimed to have made socialization early September by distributing pamphlets about the implementation of the crossing tariff adjustment.

The impact of tariff adjustment was not so significant considering the magnitude of the increase was not so high.

Tariff adjustment varied among the tickets available. Passenger ticket underwent tariff increase of IDR 5,000 or 20 percent of the previous tariff. Meanwhile, the highest increase occurred to ticket belonging to Class IX as much as IDR 309,000 or 5 percent.

In fact, the increase in ticket tariff was complained by a number of passengers.

A passenger from East Lombok (NTB), Hariyanto, claimed to object to the increase in the applicable tariff. He admitted the increase had caused the crossing cost more expensive. According to him, the tariff increase was inversely proportional to the service provided for crossing users.

“The crossing tariff increases, while the service provided to passengers remains bad,” he said. (dwa)

Prime Minister David Cameron praised the 44-year-old Haines on Sunday as a British hero, and his family asked that he be remembered for devoting his life to helping civilians caught in deadly conflicts. Haines is the third Westerner beheaded in recent weeks by the Islamic State group, which has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq and, according to Cameron, poses a “massive” threat to the rest of the Middle East.

“They are killing and slaughtering thousands of people — Christians, Muslims, minorities across Iraq and Syria,” Cameron said after an emergency meeting with military and security chiefs. “They boast of their brutality. They claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is nonsense.

Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters,” he said. Cameron said the group is planning attacks against Britain and the rest of Europe, and that Britain has to step up its counterterrorism efforts.

Britain will support U.S. military efforts against the Islamic State group by using British forces to help with logistics and intelligence gathering, he said, but will not send ground troops.

Cameron also raised the prospect that the black-clad, knife wielding Islamic State extremist on the video — who speaks with an East London accent — may in fact be a British man who has joined the terrorists.

“People across this country will have been sickened by the fact it could have been a British citizen — a British citizen who carried out this unspeakable act,” he said. The tall, masked figure in the video appears to be the same man who appeared in earlier videos announcing the killings of Americans James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

The video opens with footage of Cameron condemning the Islamic State group. The man with the knife then appears and condemns Britain’s support of U.S. action against the

group and says the captive must pay with his life. The Islamic State group’s videos have all followed a similar script, with the extremist dressed in black — only his eyes visible — and the victim dressed in an orange jumpsuit. They are in a desert landscape with no obvious identifying landmarks.

Each has also included a threat against another captive briefly shown on camera. Britain’s Foreign Office initially asked the press not to identify Henning as the captive shown on camera, but it dropped this request Sunday with his family’s approval. The family also distributed a photo of Henning.

The death of Haines expands the group’s on-camera victims beyond journalists to include international aid workers. His brother, Mike Haines, said David approached his humanitarian work with boundless enthusiasm. “He helped whoever needed help, regardless of race, creed or religion,” he said.

TABANAN - Dry season kindles drought at water sources in some areas in Bali. Reduction of water flow during this dry season also hit the Telaga Tunjung dam located at Timpag, Kerambitan. According to Headman of Timpag, I Gusti W. Sukewahana, the decline in lake water discharge at Telaga Tunjung was indeed a commonplace during dry season. Most water of the dam

holding the water from two sources, namely Ho River and Mawa River, was taken advantage for paddy field irrigation. Besides, the water was also used for fulfilling the raw water needs of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) in three subdistricts namely the Tabanan, Kerambitan and Selemadeg.

Sukewahana recognized the water discharge commonly decreased during dry season, but this year the dry season was quite long compared

to previous years. As a result, the water shortage from springs had significant impact on farmers and residents who needed the water for daily use. He said that under normal conditions, the water discharge flowing from the upstream to Telaga Tunjung dam was 1,500 liters per second. Of the amount, about 1,300 liters per second were used for agricultural irrigation, while the remaining 120 liters per second were used for raw water of the Mu-

nicipal Waterworks. The remaining was stored in the dam.

“However, the Municipal Waterworks only use 20 liters per second,” he said. During dry season, the water flow was much smaller than in normal condition and so that the ability of the dam to meet the water needs for the community and farmers.

As a result, the agricultural land depending on the Telaga Tunjung dam could not run optimally. For

instance, added Sukewahana, the farmers of Timpag village had to cultivate their land in turn. “Until now, the time of planting at Timpag village has no problem. Land cultivation could not be made simultaneously, but in turn,” he said. Indeed, the water demand during the land cultivation was greater so that to overcome the existing problem related to water needs, Timpag village handled it by cultivating land in turn. (kmb24)

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Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement to the media following the killing of Scottish aid worker David Haines, at Number 10 Downing Street in London September 14, 2014.

Dutch stage tomato fight against Russian sanctions

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AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of young Dutch men and women turned Amsterdam’s central Dam square into a blizzard of red goop on Sunday, as they pelted each other mercilessly with overripe tomatoes.

In theory, the event was set up as a protest against Russian sanctions blocking imports of European fresh produce. In practice, most participants turned out to experience the joy of smacking a loved one — or total stranger — with tomato pulp at close range. The idea was lifted from Spain’s famed annual “La Tomatina” festival in Bunol.

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Beggars and hawkers raided TABANAN - Municipal Police (Satpol PP) of Tabanan raided beggars and hawkers at several points of road section, Sunday (Sep 14). At least, nine beggars could be secured when taking action at the market of Tabanan town. Other than beggars, the police officers also secured two hawkers caught selling at traffic light at the Kediri intersection. After that, they were taken to the office of Municipal Police at Dangin Carik hamlet, Dajan Peken village.

As the information compiled, in fact, the nine beggars secured had already often been disciplined and repatriated to their village of origin.

Without deterrence, the beggars predominated by the elderly had actually been back to Tabanan and begged again. “Their action is quite clever because when raided during office days they cannot be found. In fact, they are taking action during holidays,” said one of the Municipal Police officers.

More sadly, three of the nine beggars were still minors. When asked, eight of the beggars claimed to come from Munti Gunung, Karangasem, while another from Java. They looked tense when secured in the office of the Tabanan Municipal Police. Even, the child beggars were sobbing during the interrogation. One of the beggars, Nyoman Sari, 12, claimed that she was forced to beg for meeting daily needs. She also claimed to have dropped out of school at fourth grade as having no money. Similar condition was also recognized

by Nyoman Rian, 13. However, his fate was worse because he should drop out of school at first grade of primary school. After leaving school, both Rian and Sari Genep should go down to beg.

After targeting the market of Tabanan, the officers resumed the raid by targeting hawkers at the traffic light along Jalan Bypass Soekarno. Two hawkers sell dumplings at traffic light of Kediri, east of Bung Karno statue could not escape from the raid. Eventually, they were also taken to the office of the Tabanan Municipal Police.

Chief of the Tabanan Municipal Police, Made Sudarya, said both the beggars and hawkers arrested would be trained first in the office. Meanwhile, the beggars would be handed over to Social Agency to get coaching. “We secure them at this office first and tomorrow will be submitted to Social Agency to be developed,” he said.

He affirmed the beggars and hawkers had violated the Regional Bylaw on public order. Despite breaking, the beggars were not directly given strict punishment. They would be trained first so as not to repeat their action. However, having been arrested for three times, they would be charged with misdemeanor. (kmb28)

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Participants hurl tomatoes in front of the Royal Palace, right, turning Amsterdam’s central Dam square into a red pulpy mess Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014.

“It was hard in there. It was mean.

But it was fun,” said a beaming Lois Bloedjes, who came with her sister Sil. “Everything became one big pile of mush. There were people swimming in it on the ground.”

Sil described the smell in the mush pit as “awful” and “somewhat like beer,” but the tomatoes that actually got in her mouth — “the taste was actually not bad.” Tickets to the one-hour fight cost 15 euros ($18) each and around 1,000 were sold. Organizer Joep Verbunt said proceeds will go to tomato growers hurt by the sanctions.

The Netherlands vies with Mexico as the world’s largest tomato exporter, and it sent $100 million worth to Russia last year. Dutch farmers have been offered a subsidy to either dispose of excess crops or donate them to food banks. Verbunt purchased 120,000 tomatoes labeled unfit for human consumption for the event.

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Science to the rescue of art

This image provided by NASA, shows an extreme ultra-violet wavelength image of solar flare captured about 1:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. It’s been several years since Earth has had a solar storm of this size coming from sunspots smack in the middle of the sun, said Tom Berger, director of the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.

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Scientists unveil magnetic cure for bad blood Agence France-Presse

PARIS - Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” are losing their yellow cheer and the unsettling apricot horizon in Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” is turning a dull ivory.

Some of our most treasured paintings are fading, warn experts who would like more money for the use of sophisticated technology to capture the masters’ original palettes before the works are unrecognisably blighted.

“Our cultural heritage is suffering from a disease,” Robert van Langh, director of conservation and restoration at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, told AFP in Paris this week.

“These priceless icons of our culture are deteriorating,” he said. And the amount spent on conserving them “should be multiplied by ten.”

Van Langh was speaking on the sidelines of a conference on the use of synchrotron radiation technology in art conservation at the molecular level.

Synchrotrons, stadium-sized machines that produce beams of bright X-ray light, are used to analyse the chemical degradation of famous artworks gracing the museums of the world.

Much more science is needed to understand the chemical reactions that cause colour changes in canvases, in order to stop them, said Jennifer Mass, an art conservationist from Winterthur Museum in Delaware, who also attended the meeting. “There are heaps of researchers ready to do this work, but very little money.”

Understanding the degenerative process would allow museums to display the precious works in the appropriate light, atmosphere and humidity. But technology would also allow “digital reconstruction” of original pieces, as they were envisaged by their creators, for

posterity.

“The goal is more preservation than restoration,” said Mass, adding that restorers would only in very rare cases touch up the original work of an artist.

Experts already know that the iconic still life “Sunflowers” is browner today than when van Gogh captured it on canvas in 1888.

It turns out the Dutch Impressionist painter had opted for industrial pigments, then new on the market, for his yellows, according to Belgian chemist Koen Janssens of the University of Antwerp.

Exposed to air, the yellow in cadmium, also used by Munch for his 1910 work “The Scream”, loses its brightness, while ultraviolet light -as from the Sun -- turns it brown.

Janssens has also worked on van Gogh’s famous “Flowers in a Blue Vase”, which has suffered a similar fate but for a different reason.

In this case, it was a varnish applied after the artist’s death that became cracked and faded over time, obscuring the picture underneath.

Synthetic pigments like cadmium yellow, emerald green and zinc yellow -- some of which can start losing their depth of colour in only 20 years -- were also popular among other Impressionists of the 19th century and painters of the early 20th like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The works from this period are therefore more at risk of fading than those by the ancient masters, said Mass.

They are not exempt, though -for his blue hues the 17th century’s Rembrandt van Rijn used smalt, a type of ground-up glass with a tendency to turn grey over time.

According to Janssens, a further role of science could be to beat the drum for art conservation.

PARIS - Scientists said Sunday they had invented a device that uses a magnet to extract bacteria, fungi and toxins from blood, potentially throwing a lifeline to patients with sepsis and other infections.

The external gadget -- tested so far in rats but not yet humans -- could be adapted one day for stripping Ebola and other viruses from blood, they hoped.

Acting rather like a spleen, the invention uses magnetic nanobeads coated with a geneticallyengineered human blood protein called MBL. The MBL binds to pathogens and toxins, which can then be “pulled out” with a magnet, the developers wrote in the journal Nature Medicine.

The “bio-spleen” was developed to treat sepsis, or blood infection, which affects 18 million people in the world every year, with a 30-50 percent mortality rate.

The microbes that cause it are often resistant to antibiotics, and spread fast.

If the invention is shown to be

safe for humans, “patients could be treated with our bio-spleen and this will physically clean up their blood, rapidly removing a wide spectrum of live pathogens as well as dead fragments and toxins from the blood,” study co-author Donald Ingber told AFP. The cleansed blood is then returned to the circulatory system.

“This treatment could be carried out even before the pathogen has been formally identified and the optimal antibiotic treatment has been chosen,” said Ingber, of Harvard University, Massachusetts.

The MBL protein is known to bind to the Ebola virus “and so it potentially might be useful for treatment of these patients,” said Ingber in an email exchange.

“We potentially could treat patients with this bio-spleen during the most infectious, viraemic

phase of the disease and reduce the amount of virus in their blood.”

MBL has also been reported to bind to the Marburg and HIV viruses.

In live rats infected with the notorious bugs Staphylococcus aureus or Escherichia coli, the device removed 90 percent of bacteria from the blood, said the study.

“When we injected rats with a lethal dose of LPS endotoxin (a bacteria type)... we found that we could significantly improve animal survival” with the biospleen, it said.

Tests with human blood in the lab also showed the bio-spleen cleaned out multiple species of bacteria, fungi and toxins.

Years of testing in larger animals and then in humans lie ahead before the bio-spleen can be approved, Ingber cautioned.

Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”

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Chinese tourist arrivals rise 45.76 percent

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DENPASAR - Around 330,172 Chinese tourists visited Bali during the initial seven months of 2014, an increase of 45.76 percent as compared to 226,494 visitors recorded last year.

“China is ranked second after Australia in the number of tourists visiting Bali,” Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali Panusunan Siregar stated on Monday.

He explained that China has contributed 15.80 percent of the total number of tourists to Bali.

This year, Bali has drawn about 2.08 million tourists, an increase of 16.66 percent as compared to 1.79 million tourists recorded in the previous year.

The total number of Chinese tourists who traveled to Bali surpassed the number of travelers from Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia, except Australia.

Siregar remarked that majority of the foreign tourists came through Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport. Only 20,295 people traveled to Bali through the sea route.

During 2013, Bali received 3.27 million foreign tourists,

which exceeded the target of about 2.8 million visitors set by the local tourism office.

An increase of 11.16 percent was recorded as compared to 2.94 million tourists last year.

Tjokorda Gede Agung, a Bali tourism observer, noted that Chinese people have since long known Bali as a paradise island. The cultural relations between China and Bali have led to deeper relations between Indonesia and China, especially with Bali. Therefore, the number of Chinese tourists increased every year.

Chinese tourist arrivals to Bali increased, but their numbers were still relatively small as compared to the number of Chinese tourists traveling overseas.

“The opportunity to draw foreign tourists from China is still large by maximizing the various efforts,” he emphasized.

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Tourists played Kite Surfing during their holiday in Bali Island. Around 330,172 Chinese tourists visited Bali during the initial seven months of 2014, an increase of 45.76 percent as compared to 226,494 visitors recorded last year.

Six counties have not received textbook of Curriculum 2013 Bali Post DENPASAR - The Head of Bali Education Agency, Tjokorda Istri Agung (TIA) Kusuma Wardani, acknowledged the issue on the textbook of Curriculum 2013 had not accomplished yet. So far, six counties, namely Buleleng, Tabanan, Bangli, Klungkung, Karangasem and Badung, had not received the book. “Until now, six counties have not received the book, especially for the elementary school level,” said TIA Kusuma Wardani.

She explained the textbooks of Curriculum 2013 were delivered to schools through a mechanism. Central government or Ministry of Education had set the printing company through the LKBP which would distribute the books to each school. Automatically, the money was from central government, not from provincial government.

“Well, the assistance (money—Ed) is transferred from central government to schools. Then, the schools receiving the money from central government must buy the book to the specified printing company,” she said.

To that end, schools were not allowed to buy the book elsewhere. If it was done, surely it would be considered to violate the rules. Admittedly, some schools in the area of Denpasar had received the book. However, the South Denpasar had not received it

yet. So far, the partner winning the tender held by the Ministry of Education had not distributed the book so far. “We have reported this condition.

Then, central government has warned the specified printing company,” she explained.

Previously, TIA Kusuma Wardani revealed that all the supplies and distributions of the textbooks of

Curriculum 2013 belonged to the authority of central government. At the moment, her party was still making data collection on the number of schools having not received the book.

She added that a number of schools had not received the book of Curriculum 2013. Probably, it happened due to geographical problems that could hamper the distribution. (kmb21)

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Six counties, namely Buleleng, Tabanan, Bangli, Klungkung, Karangasem and Badung, had not received textbook of Curriculum 2013.

Regent plans to patent geopark products Bali Post

BANGLI - The Regent of Bangli, Made Gianyar, plans to patent the geopark craft products. By that way, the geopark specialty products manufactured by craftsmen of Bangli will not be duplicated by others. Should there any traders outside Kintamani tourism selling the geopark products, they will be subject to royalty.

The plan was submitted by Made Gianyar on Sunday (Sep 14). In addition to re-arranging the Kintamani tourism region so as to be free of the impression of slum, he explained, his party also planned to direct the street vendors to sell geopark souvenir product. So far, he admitted the street vendors did not sell souvenirs produced in Bangli but purchased from crafters of outside Bangli. “In the future, souvenir sellers must sell special products of the geopark. Then, the production must be made by artisans of Bangli, so that it can also improve the welfare of local artisans,” said Gianyar.

To prevent the geopark products manufactured by Bangli craftsmen from being manipulated by other crafters, the regent planned to provide protection by patenting the product to the Ministry of Justice. “So, if later on there are traders from outside Kintamani which also manufacture and sell the geopark products, they will be imposed with royalties,” he added.

He admitted that the arrangement undertaken so far in the area of Kintamani tourism was still not optimal. To that end, his party was designing an institution that would manage the geopark.

Moreover, in the near future the traders occupying the stalls at Penelokan would be removed to the Geopark Art Market. (ina)

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LEGIAN - Pullman Bali Legian Nirwana held the exhibition called ‘Rendezvous: An Artistic Odyssey’. The exhibition was opened officially by Director of Operations Jan Kroekel. In the event, there are dozens of artworks from famous artists exhibited for fifty three days starting August 15 to October 5, 2014. There also unique artworks about Balinese social life.

According to the artist Tatang, B.Sp, the theme ‘Rendezvous: An Artistic Odyssey’ means a meeting to bring the various wanderings of ideas, reasoning, intuition, passion and imagination of the artists in an exhibition event. The theme also mainly intended for reading and framing the aesthetic diversity of perspectives and approaches that carried each artist exhibitors.

Tatang explained that in the exhibition, three are three trends that support the idea of the narrative.

The first trends refers to subject of the personal can be seen on the artworks like Lay Down Series by Ni Nyoman Sani, Geliat by Ida Bagus Putu Purwa, Kamu dan Saya by I Wayan Jana and Penjaga Abstrak #3 by I Made Galung Wiratmaja.

The second trend refers to the social that shows social experience as reality. The works of these trends displayed on Tangkapan Besar by A.A. Gde Jaya Wikrama, Selamat Tidur by Herry Yahya Budiantoro, Perang Perbatasan by I Ketut Teja astawa,

AMLAPURA - When entering dry season, Karangasem government prepares 200 tanks of water for residents affected by the drought, especially those living in the areas of Kubu, Abang high lands, Bebandem and Seraya. However, due to restricted number of truck, the distribution can only be done in turn. In addition, the clean water can only be distributed to the region that can be passed through by tank truck.

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The drought which happen in Kubu, Karangasem is getting severer from time to time

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The car which is being parked on the side of the street often cause traffic jam

Model #2 by I Made Alit Suaja, Lamunan di Balik Tirai by Anthok S, Malu by I Ketut Putra Yasa, Heritage #1 by I Made ‘Romi’ Sukadana, Optimis by Teguh Santosa (Ogut), Magecel by I Made Duatmika and Memory of Childhood by Tatang, B.Sp. The last ones are the symbolic in reflecting the experience of each person. This artworks can be seen in Purnama Gadis Bali by Helena S.Arway, Simphony of Java by Winarto, In The Vortex

by I Nyoman Sujana (Kenyem), Tree of Life by I Made Gunawan, Obsolescene by I Nyoman Diwarupa, Animal by I Made Wiradana, Warisan Symbol by I Made Supena, ABSTRAKSI #28 by Lekung Sugantika, Wanita & Bunga by I Ketut Tenang, Wait Around by Moelyoto, Kisah Pertiwi

by I Wayan Setem, Sweet Morning by I Kadek Kencana Yasa, Magic Sound by I Putu Sudiana Bonuz, Bale Kul Kul Pura Sima by Ponco Setyohadi, Up Spray by Martin Sitepu and M.P.943

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

Parking space unused yet Bali Post

GIANYAR - The government’s plan to make a parking area in Ubud in order to reduce the volume of parking vehicles that takes the road body cannot have been enjoyed by people. It happens because so far dozens of vehicles in Ubud still use road body for parking space.

One of the causes triggering the congestion problem is that many employers of restaurant, kiosk and stall along the main streets in Ubud do not have a parking lot for visitors and the employees.

As a result, part of the road is filled with vehicles whose parking time reaches eight hours.

In addition, violations against traffic signs also frequently occur. Starting from about the Astina Square Ubud, in front of the market and palace as well as the office of headman, many traffic signs are often violated.

As observation on Jalan Hanuman Ubud, dozens of cars or motorcycles were still parked by taking the road body. This condition often leads to congestion at 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m., where the peak occurs at 3:00 p.m. In addition, the lack of awareness of road users repeatedly breaking

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by truck. In addition, the restricted number of truck caused the water services to be provided in turn. “In this season, we are clearly overwhelmed. We make cooperation with the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Karangasem in the water supply,” he added.

Provision of water depended on the demand of community, namely through their respective headman. “We just served a few areas, depending on the demand of community through their respective headman,” he added. If the community faced water shortages due to drought, his party advised them to propose the clean water assistance through their headman to be further resumed to the subdistrict authority. (dwa)

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Dry season, clean water services restricted The Head of Karangasem Social Agency, I Made Sosiawan, revealed that some people found it difficult to obtain clean water upon entering the drought this year in Karangasem County. A total of 200 tanks of water had been prepared for residents, especially those living on the upper regions, such as the Kubu, Abang, Bebandem and Seraya subdistrict.

Preparation of the clean water was allocated through the main budget of Karangasem County 2014. Meanwhile, in the amended budget, his party prepared 300 tanks of water.

“We will immediately deliver this preparation if the community requires any water,” he said.

However, his party could only bring the water to the area that could be passed through

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through the lines also aggravates the congestion in Ubud. Similarly, it is also kindled by the nondisciplined drivers who often drop off passengers at random, especially in front of the market and the palace.

The Head of Gianyar Transportation, Informatics and Communications Agency, IB Gaga Adisaputra, did not deny if the road body was still partially used as parking space at some points like on Jalan Hanuman. However, he claimed that several parking lots as cooperation of local government and the residents of Ubud had been ready to use. “Our parking lot is ready to use. Now, we just need to mediate the vehicle users so as to park their vehicle at the provided space,” he said.

The parking lots having been ready to use were located at Peliatan and Tegal village as well as some other points. To discipline the road users remaining to break the regulations, his party would make a perarem or convention. So, when any violation occurred the violator would be ticketed immediately. “Now, we just need to discipline the traders with perarem. Any violation will be directly ticketed,” he added. (kmb35)

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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

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

‘No Good Deed’ defeats ‘Guardians’ Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — It took a murderous Idris Elba and a pair of dolphin buddies to defeat “Guardians of the Galaxy” at movie theaters.

The Sony thriller “No Good Deed,” which stars Elba as an escaped convict and Taraji P. Henson as the innocent he terrorizes, opened on top of the box office with $24.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

And Sony wasn’t surprised.

“It’s a movie that we really loved and felt that it was going to win,” said Sony distribution chief Rory Bruer.

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and Taraji. Their chemistry together is fantastic.”

The film nearly doubled its reported budget in its first week of release, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak.

“It’s the first brand-new post summer release to really catch on,” he said.

The Warner Bros.’ feel-good film “Dolphin Tale 2” debuted in second 10 Box Office Movies place with $16.5 million. The No Good Deed. family-friendly Dolphin Tale 2. story stars MorGuardians of the Galaxy. gan Freeman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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This Jan. 4, 2014 file photo shows actor Idris Elba at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif.

Miss New York chosen as Miss America 2015 Associated Press

ATLANTIC CITY — Miss New York Kira Kazantsev was named the new Miss America Sunday night, marking the third year in a row that a contestant from her state has walked away with the crown in the nationally televised pageant.

Kazantsev received the crown at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall from outgoing Miss America — and Miss New York — Nina Davuluri.

For her talent performance, Kazantsev

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sang Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” while sitting cross-legged on the stage and banging a red plastic cup on the floor.

She named combating sexual assault in the military as the issue about which she would want female U.S. Senators to press their male counterparts.

The first runner-up was Miss Virginia Courtney Paige Garrett. Other top 5 finalists were Miss Arkansas Ashton Jo Campbell; Miss Florida Victoria Cowen; and Miss Massachusetts Lauren Kuhn.

Miss North Dakota, Jacky Arness was

chosen by her peers as Miss Congeniality.

The pageant shone a positive light on the struggling seaside gambling resort, which has been in the national news for all the wrong reasons lately: a rash of casino closings, thousands of unemployed workers, and a domestic violence case involving a former NFL star.

For three hours Sunday night, America got a different look at Atlantic City.

The Miss America pageant presented an upbeat view of the city where it began in 1921.

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from the 2011 original.

“Guardians” slipped to third place with $8 million in ticket sales. The Marvel space adventure, which held the No. 1 spot for four weeks, is the top-grossing film of the year domestically, collecting more than $300 million in North America and $600 million worldwide.

Paramount’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” finished fourth with $4.8 million, followed by the Fox comedy “Let’s Be Cops,” which collected $4.3 million.

Fox Searchlight’s crime drama “The Drop,” which stars Tom Hardy and the late James Gandolfini, opened in sixth place with $4.2 million — an impressive showing given it only played in 809 theaters.

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Forest on the slopes of Mount Batur on fire

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BANGLI - Due to hot weather, forest fire occurred in the area of Mount Batur. Fire also occurs in Munduk, Tanggun Titi, Trunyan village, Kintamani.

Sunny weather tending to be hot had caused the fire to quickly spread and burn trees in the forest. The officers had difficulty to extinguish the fire considering it was located on the hill. As a result, at least 10 hectares of forest were reported to catch fire.

Forests on the slopes of Mount Batur, Kintamani, Bangli, was on

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fire, Sunday (Sep 14). At least, 10 hectares of land located on the hiking trail were reportedly engulfed in the flames. A joint team including the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Kintamani Resort Ranger (RPH), police and the Indonesian Army (TNI) personnel assisted by a number of people around the location had

attempted to extinguish the fire since early days. Meanwhile, the fire could just be extinguished around 5:00 p.m.

The fire engulfing some hectares of the hiking trail on Mount Batur slopes began to appear around 9:00 in the morning. Before the emergence of the fire, several climbers reportedly had climbed Mount Batur. Allegedly, the fire burning the forest area resulted from carelessly discarded cigarette butts.

Commander of the Kintamani Military Region, Wayan Suradnya, with permission from the Com-

mander of the 1626/Bangli Military District Agus Wahyudi Irianto confirmed the fire incident on the slopes of Mount Batur, Sunday. The fire occurred early morning around nine o’clock. Shortly after receiving the information on the fire, his party coordinated it with relevant parties to extinguish the fire.

Meanwhile, Chief Executive of the Bangli Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Wayan Sugiarta, when asked for his confirmation last Sunday explained that mountain slopes on fire on Sunday morning was the

hiking path on the northeast side precisely over the Jati Temple and Pasar Agung Temple. Location of the fire was in the area of the Nature Tourism Park (TWA).

Due to hard work of the team, the fire could finally be extinguished around five o’clock in the afternoon. The fire incident at least burned 10 hectares of forest land.

When asked about the cause of fire, Sugiarta admitted not to know for sure. “The cause is still under investigation. Temporarily, it is estimated to have been caused by negligence,” he explained. (ina)

Due to hot weather, forest fire occurred in the area of Mount Batur.

Fire also occurs in Munduk, Tanggun Titi, Trunyan village, Kintamani.