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Monday, August 19, 2013

Rock bands’ plane makes emergency landing in US Associated Press Writer

MOLINE, Illinois — A private jet carrying the rock bands Ratt and Dokken had to make an emergency landing in northwestern Illinois after smoke was detected in the cabin

Saturday afternoon.

Chuck Brennan, a friend of the bands who chartered the flight, told The Associated Press that the plane took off from the Moline airport but pilots had to turn it around when smoke appeared in the front of the

plane at about 7,000 feet (2,100 meters).

Brennan said the pilots donned oxygen masks and landed the Challenger 601 with no incident. There were no injuries reported by the pilot or the 13 passengers.

“The cabin didn’t fill with smoke,” said Brennan, the owner of shortterm lender Dollar Loan Center.

Brennan, a former promoter who opened the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy in his hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, said he had

chartered the plane out of Santa Ana, California, for a four-city tour.

Ratt and Dokken, both big names from the 1980s hair metal scene, played in Moline on Friday night with Lita Ford and Sebastian Bach.

They were heading to the Chicago suburb of Wauconda for an outdoor show Saturday with Ford, Bach and Warrant.

Brennan said the two bands were taking SUVs to the Wauconda venue, which is about 170 miles (275 kilometers) from Moline, and were expected to make it to the show in time.

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‘Duck Dynasty’ star greets camo couple Associated Press Writer

MARS, Pennsylvania — A camouflage-clad bride and groom got a little advice from a bewhiskered witness on their wedding day: “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson. WTAE-TV reports Robertson told the couple to always love and forgive one another as they were wed Saturday morning at a Field & Stream store near Pittsburgh.

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This publicity image released by A&E shows Miss Kay Robertson, left, and Phil Robertson renewing their vows in a scene from the the season 4 premiere of “Duck Dynasty.” A&E says nearly 12 million birds of a feather caught the season premiere of the hit unscripted series on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013.

Robertson popped in for the nuptials of Mehgan Cook, who sported a camouflage sash on her dress, and Charlie Miller, who was completely clad in camo gear. The two hadn’t planned on marrying at the store but Cook said they were eager to meet Robertson.

“I was going to cancel the wedding ‘cause I heard Willie was coming,” Cook told KDKA-TV. Instead, Cook said, her mother came up with the idea of a wedding at the store — and they got a surprise when Robertson appeared during the ceremony.

“That’s a first for me, it’s good to be a part of that,” said Robertson. “They look like my kind of folks with the camouflage. that was cool.” Cook said she had been engaged to another man, but he died in a car crash four years ago. But she met Miller at the scene and eventually the two started dating. “I never thought it would happen again,” Cook said, tearing up.

On the “Duck Dynasty” Season 4 premiere, which aired Wednesday, family members threw a surprise wedding for patriarch Phil Robertson, wearing a black jacket over camouflage garb, and his wife, Miss Kay. They could only afford a justice of the peace when they married 48 years ago.

The show drew 11.8 million viewers on the A&E channel, making it the No. 1 nonfiction series telecast in U.S. cable television history in total viewers as well as all key demographic groups. The reality show chronicles the Robertson family in Louisiana’s bayou country who manufacture duck calls and love to go bird hunting.

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Moyes Delighted With Clinical Man United

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34 dead, dozens missing in sunken Philippine ferry

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Governor Pastika finally surrenders

Decree on reclamation revoked Bali Post

Activity surrounding a United Airlines flight from Britain which has made an emergency landing in Dublin Airport, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013.

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DENPASAR - The struggle of all components of Balinese community to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation and to urge the Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika in order to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit ended in sweet result.

After insisting, Governor Pastika eventually surrendered and officially revoked the Gubernatorial Decree No.2138/02-C/ HK/2012 on the Permit Conferral and Rights of Utilization, Development and Management of Benoa Bay waters dated December 26, 2012. Such assertion was made after chairing the 68th Independence Day of the RI at the Puputan Margarana Square, Denpasar, Saturday (Aug 17).

“I have received the House’s recommendation (on revocation of reclamation permit—Ed). As of yesterday (Aug 16—Ed), the Gubernatorial Decree (No. 2138—Ed) has been declared void,” said

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Pastika to reporters.

In other words, the decree is revoked and what is the reason? When asked so, Pastika said that revocation of the decree has gone through various studies based on legal aspects conducted by the legal team of the Bali government following an open dialogue on August 3 in Wiswa Sabha, the governor’s office. “Yes (it’s revoked—Ed). It is based on various aspects (reason of revoking the decree No. 2138). And we received advice, suggestions and scientific studies conducted by the legal team of Bali Government,” said the former Chief of Bali Police.

Another reason was based on a lot of

aspirations and inputs from various parties.

Among others, they were the elements of society, both from academicians, NGOs, religious leaders and some others. Similarly, it was based on recommendation of the Bali House No. 900/2569/DPRD dated August 12, 2013 with the subject of review and or revocation of the Gubernatorial Decree No.2138/02-C/HK/2012.

This Buleleng-origin governor added the Gubernatorial Decree No.2138/02-C/ HK/2012 was declared void by issuing the new decree. “There is a new decree declaring if the former decree is no longer applicable,” he said. When asked whether the revocation of the decree had been communicated and delivered to the investor, Pastika was reluctant to answer. Then, he hurriedly left reporters.

Previously, a wave of intense rejection occurred against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan and the issuance of the gubernatorial

decree. Various aspirations emerged from the community, either from the academia, NGOs, religious leaders, tourism practitioners or others related to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. They considered the gubernatorial decree should be revoked and the Benoa Bay reclamation plan should be canceled as having infringed various laws and regulations.

Some of the rules infringed consist of, firstly, the Presidential Regulation No.45/2011 on Spatial Planning of Sarbagita asserting that in Article 55 paragraph (5) a and b is mentioned the waters of Benoa Bay and Pudut Island belong to a conservation area.

Secondly, the Law No.27/2007 on the Management of Coastal Areas and Small Islands that has passed through a judicial review in the Constitutional Court (MK) and it has been decided to revoke the entire chapter related to the concession of coastal waters (HP3).

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The struggle of all components of Balinese community to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation and to urge the Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika in order to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit ended in sweet result.

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Bali News

Cafés spread to villages, govt and customary village asked to control Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The Ocean Star boat which was on fire is pulled to Gilimanuk Harbor.

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Ocean Star boat on fire in Lombok Strait

10 people including tourists suffer burns Amlapura (Bali Post)—

Ocean Star boat caught fire in Lombok Strait about two miles from Padangbai Harbor, Thursday (Aug 15) around 09:30 a.m. Of the 32 passengers and three crews, 10 of whom suffered burns, including a number of foreign tourists.

One of the boat crews, Komang Sujana, from Padangbai, Karangasem, told if the fire was kindled by the sparks due to short circuit in the boat accessories. After departing from Padangbai for some 15 minutes or about 2 miles from the harbor, the sparks of fire appeared from the right side of the boat that would carry tourists to Gili Trawangan, NTB. The fire immediately blazed. The boat crews attempted to put out the fire by extinguisher.

Unluckily, the fire did not go out but it even grew bigger and grabbed the jerrycan or reserve fuel tank. Then, the boat smoldered.

Luckily, at not too far distance came another boat namely the Ocean Star III. The boat crews of Ocean Star III were suspicious when they saw the Ocean Star billowing heavy smokes. The Ocean Star III directly approached it and provided help by evacuating passengers. A few minutes later, the other help from fishermen also came to do evacuation as well as the Karangasem Marine Police based at

Padangbai. They did a diving.

Passengers and crews suffering burns were evacuated immediately to mainland and rushed to the Penta Medica Clinic, Manggis. Having got treatment for a while, the six passengers were eventually referred to Sanglah Hospital. They were four foreign tourists and two crews.

Manager of Penta Medica Clinic, Putu Ardana, said last Saturday that his party received 10 victims suffering burns at the boat incident at 10:15 a.m. They were directly addressed. Two victims suffered severe burns of 45 percent, while eight others suffered burns of 1015 percent. The victims referred to Sanglah were Suzanna Ruth, 51, from the U.S. living in Mataram, Ilaria Cervelli, 28, Liugi Santone and Leonardo Callota entirely all from Italy. Meanwhile, the boat crew with quite severe burns was Komang Wibawa, 28, and Wayan Dadi, residents from Padangbai.

The other victims only got minor burns but were treated in Penta Medica Clinic such as Ibrahim

Turget (Turk), Thomas Wanstall (Australia) and Marte Tatola (Italy) as well as Kadek Sujana, a crew from Padangbai. Those who suffered minor burns were allowed to go home after getting treatment in the clinic.

Meanwhile, the Chief of Padangbai Harbor Police, Ketut Suartika Adnyana said last Sunday the burned Ocean Star had been pulled to the Padangbai Harbor.

Captain of the unlucky boat was still questioned by the Padangbai harbormaster. Another crew of the Ocean Star, Komang Wibawa, said the blazing fire was quickly extinguished, despite raging about one minute. The witness Wibawa claimed to have heard the blast of fire. The boat had four engines with the power of respectively 250 PK. Based on observation, the illfated boat passengers apparently were still shocked. Some people claimed thankful because they could survive, even though 10 passengers and crews suffered severe to mild burns. (013)

Café is a name for a nightlife venue providing food and drink. It is also a hangout place to meet up relations and release stresses. However, the connotation of café has started to slightly deviate in the community. Many people immediately associate it with sex when others mentions about the café.

Bali as a tourist destination definitely had a lot of nightlife spots, where one of which was café. The current problem was that those cafés were even available in rural areas.

It was revealed by the founder of Citra Usadha Foundation and Chairperson of the Sanglah VCT, Prof. Dr. K. Tuti Merati Parwati.

She explained the risky nightlife spots in Bali at this time were not even visited by tourists or migrants, but rather by local residents. It happened because the nightlife spots like cafés were not built at proper places. In terms of business aspect, those cafés should be established at location drawing many visitors, but in fact the rural cafés were established at quiet places like under bamboo trees, amidst the rice fields and other remote locations.

Visitors of those entertainment facilities were not coming from far away, but residents around the cafés. “Based on the result of research, a risky sexual relationship is made at the location that leads to the transmission of HIV and STIs,” said Tuti.

If such condition was left unchecked, then the transmission of HIV infection and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) would have an impact on both families of the perpetrators and those purchased the sexual service. “Similarly, young people will also have negative learning from the presence of the cafés existing in their environment as well as get infected by HIV from their parents. The overview of risky nightlife does not belong to Balinese culture and it should be avoided,” said Tuti.

On that account, Tuti expected each customary village in Bali to control the presence of those risky cafés as well as the government to issue a permit for the cafés and other nightlife spots. According to Tuti, the government should control and inspect whether the permit issued to build café had complied with the rules or deviated from the rules.

When known to have deviated, the government should decisively impose sanctions against the cafés and violating nightlife spots. (kmb24)

People wait for realization of sport center

Gianyar (Bali Post)—

Gianyar community is now waiting for the realization of the sport center discoursed by local government. Decision of the House having approved the status of Kebo Iwa Terminal to be revoked received positive appreciation from many circles in the community. After issuance of the recommendation, residents expected the conversion into the sport center can be realized, so that it is not only a discourse.

Chairman of the Gianyar Golkar Representative Council (DPD), Made Dauh Wijana, said on Thursday (Aug 15) his party positively welcomed the conversion of Gianyar terminal which had not been functioning optimally into a sport center. Moreover, it was the people’s aspirations. “We positively welcome the conversion. Moreover, the House has agreed it. Now, it is just waiting for the realization,” he said.

Rather than not functioning, the terminal should be converted so it could be really utilized for society. His party did not mind whether the sport center would be commercialized or not. According to him, the management would fully under the authority of Gianyar county government.

His party asserted the presence of the sport center would also have an economic impact on the community. In addition to carrying out a number of sport events, the communities wishing to sell sport equipment could be accommodated in it.

“Obviously, it will give a huge positive impact on the community,” he said.

Earlier, the former Chairman of the National Sport Committee (KONI) of Gianyar, Ida Bagus Nyoman Rai, expected the government to be consistent with the planning and the goal to convert the Gianyar terminal into a sport center.

“Utilization of the land formerly used as terminal into sport center should no longer be useless,” he hoped. To that end, the establishment on the land should be studied carefully. (kmb16)

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Holiday Inn Resort Baruna IBP

KURA - Book your paradise break at Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali, an idyllic beach-front spa retreat, 10 minutes from Denpasar International Airport.

The heavenly Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali is built in a traditional low-rise Balinese style, complementing its scenic setting. Order cocktails at the pool’s swim-up bar or dine on grilled specialties on the beach at ENVY, their chill-out restaurant, famous for its tagline; “food, cocktails, sunsets” apparently quite popular amongst the island’s jet-setters with its laid-back island feel.

Admire blissful views of Kuta beach or the pool and tropical gardens from your Guest room’s private balcony.

The 193 rooms are completed with wireless superior internet connectivity, 32’ flat screen satellite television, CD/ DVD player, individually controlled air-conditioning, direct dial telephone, mini refrigerator, in-room safe, iron & ironing board, tea & coffee making facilities as well as radio & ipod dock.

Stroll along the water’s edge to

downtown Kuta’s shops and restaurants, and catch Bali ‘s romantic multicolored sunsets from the sandy beach. There’s entertainment in the teens’ room and at Rascals kids’ club, so the kids can play while you indulge yourself with a soothing massage in ocean-facing Tea Tree Spa. Enjoy the resort’s evening entertainment, and lounge at the beach front bar listening to chill-out music.

Browse the web with reliable wireless Internet throughout the hotel.

Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali staff at the Meetings and Events Centre can organize events for 40-80 guests in one of 4 meeting rooms or in the 264capacity ballroom.

Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali has open-kitchen dining with an Asian twist at Palms Restaurant.

Work out in the gym or sun yourself at the sloping man-made beach beside the landscaped pool.

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Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013 24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuninng Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcangkring Tabanan Pura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang Pura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klungkung Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pamerajan Alit Ubud Pura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Banjar Denuma Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Dalem batur Bangli Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Besakih Pura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi Badung Pemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud 3 Sep Anggarkasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang 4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan 9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba

Kediri Tabanan Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin Lembongan Pura Batu Medeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba 11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksiring 12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Desa Guwang Sukawati Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu Karangasem Pura Pedharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamani Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar 25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli 28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

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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NYC museum exhibit shows virtues of living small

Working forces in Bali dominate by primary school-graduate

Associated Press Writer

Bali Post

NEW YORK — Many New Yorkers live in small apartments, yet most of them don’t camp out in a micro-unit at a museum in order to demonstrate the virtues of living in tight spaces.

DENPASAR - As a world’s tourist destination, Bali goes through a terrible growth. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali noted the economic growth reached 2.18 percent in the second quarter of 2013. Bali also got domestic investments (PMDN) and foreign investment (PMA) reaching IDR 3,168,885,401,728.00 (March 2013).

Challie Stillman and Lina Franco arrived at the Museum of the City of New York at 6 p.m. Friday for a 24-hour stay in a studio apartment that’s part of an exhibit called “Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers.”

The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 2, also features designs that were submitted to a small-apartment competition announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg last year.

Stillman and Franco normally live in a 650-square-foot (60-squaremeter) apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The museum’s 325-square-foot (30-square-meter) studio is half that size but seems spacious because of the specially designed furniture and appliances.

The murphy bed includes a couch that slides under when the bed is out of the wall. A chair converts to a stepladder for reaching storage spaces. The kitchen’s under-the-counter refrigerator, freezer and dishwasher leave ample work space. Stillman and Franco invited six friends for dinner Friday, but they had food delivered because

the appliances are not hooked up.

“Everyone had a place to sit, had a place to eat, and it worked out perfectly,” said Stillman, who is the design director for Resource Furniture, the distributor of the furniture in the apartment. Stillman said it would be possible for two people to live in the apartment for real.

“You’d have to edit your belongings, definitely,” she said. “And also, you have to be neat. Everything has to have its place, and if it’s not in its place, and it’s messy in here, you’re going to start to get agitated.” Her partner, Franco, a lawyer, couldn’t quite see living in the micro-apartment.

“We would need a little more closet space,” she said. “We’re both girls and we have clothes. And shoes.” Visitors to the exhibit Saturday said they were impressed.

“I would totally live in that apartment if I were on my own,” said Rebecca Hersh of Highland Park, New Jersey, who was accompanied by her mother, Pam, and her two children, ages 6 and 4. “It’s all about good design.”

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Challie Stillman, left, speaks to Yolanda Concepcion in the kitchen area during the “Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers,” exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013.

Cadillac shows off big two-door coupe concept car Associated Press Writer

DETROIT — Cadillac is showing off a low-lying two-door coupe

that likely is the prototype for the brand’s re-entry into the big, elegant and expensive luxury car market.

The four-seat Elmiraj concept

car, with steep angles at the corners, vertical LED headlamps and huge 22-inch (55.8-centimeter) wheels, was unveiled Thursday at a luxury

car event in Carmel, California.

The car, about the length of an Audi A8 or Mercedes S-Class, is built on the underpinnings of a new full-sized Cadillac sedan that is under development, said David Caldwell, a spokesman for the General Motors brand. GM CEO Dan Akerson has said a new ultra-luxury rear-drive Cadillac is coming in the next two years.

The look of the Elmiraj could show up in the new sedan, and a coupe is an option as a variation of the new car, Caldwell said.

The Elmiraj is 205 inches long, about five inches (12.7 centimeters) longer than the XTS, which currently is the biggest Cadillac. If the Elmiraj or the sedan go into production, they would be GM’s first entry into the large luxury performance car category since the DTS went out of production in 2010.

“It explores performance driving, as well as how we’re approaching elevating the Cadillac range,” Mark Adams, the brand’s design director, said in a statement.

Cadillac said the Elmiraj will

take advantage of lightweight metals to cut weight and raise fuel economy. But the car will be powered by a 4.5-liter, twin-turbo V8 that puts out around 500 horsepower.

Inside, the Elmiraj has highperformance seats that are designed to support spirited driving, Cadillac said. The dash has backlit titanium trim with camel leather and wood trim from hand-picked fallen Brazilian rosewood. The car also has a large 10-inch (25.4-centimeter), high-resolution touch screen for navigation and Internet connectivity. The screen can be hidden in the instrument panel when not in use.

The car was designed at GM’s studios in North Hollywood, California., and built by hand in Michigan. Designers were influenced by the 1967 Cadillac Eldorado twodoor luxury coupe, as well as the CTS-V coupe now on the market, Cadillac said.

Caldwell said it’s too early to say when or if the Elmiraj would go on sale or how much it would cost. Its Audi and Mercedes competitors start from $75,000 to $90,000.

Unluckily, amidst the rapid growth, thousands of Balinese people were only recorded as workers with the elementary education background. As of February 2013, there were 910,770 people (38.74 percent) working as a laborer. Percentage of the workers having the status as laborer toward the working population in February 2013 reached over 2,350,990 compared to the conditions of the same month in the previous year amounting to 821,470 people (36.36 percent).

Besides, the percentage of people working with the elementary school education and lower was also quite staggering. As of February 2013, they reached 983,390 people (41.83 percent).

This figure slightly increased compared to August 2012 reaching 912,470 people (40.22 percent). Meanwhile, a total of 121,670 workers (5.18 percent) had diploma education and 186,130 workers (7.92 percent) had bachelor education. The workforce in the same period also increased by 80,340 people or reached 2,396,370 people compared to the workforce in August 2012 (2,316,030 people) or increased by 88,820 people from the workforce in February 2012 (2,307,550 people).

High increase in the workforce without balanced absorption of job opportuni-

ties would increase the unemployment rate. On that account, theoretically, 1 percent of the economic growth would absorb about 300,000 workforce or maximally 400,000 people.

Nevertheless, the Head of BPS Bali, Gede Suarsa, judged the labor conditions in Bali was quite good. It was evident from the high number of working population and the decrease in the unemployment rate. Of a total of 3,036,770 working-age population, as many as 2,396,370 people belonged to workforce. In other words, the workforce participation rate (TPAK) reached 78.91 percent.

Meanwhile, a total of 640,400 other people were classified into nonworkforce, namely those that only had school activities and cared of household and others. Workforce was divided into the group of working population and the unemployed. In February 2013, the working population reached 2,350,990 people or 98.11 percent of the total workforce, and the other 1.89 percent was not absorbed in the job opportunities.

Along with the increase in the number of working people from 2012, both in February 2012 and August 2012 to February 2013, the number of the unemployed people decreased. In

February 2013, the unemployment in Bali reached 45,380 people. The number decreased in August 2012 as many as 47,330 people and the number in February 2012 reached 48,590 people.

Thus, the open unemployment rate (TPT) in Bali in February 2013 (1.89 percent) showed a decrease compared to February 2012 (2.11 percent) and August 2012 (2.04 percent).

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Tegallalang subdistrict.

Wayang Wong dance is the ancestral heritage of the people of Pujung Kaja hamlet, Telepud customary village, Sebatu. When tourism started to come to Bali, particularly to Ubud, the Dewa Kusala Rata art troupe of Telepud frequently made a performance to entertain guests. At that time, the performances were under coordinator of Pande Bagia until they could purchase land which has now become the asset of the artists.

In the world of tourism, the art of Wayang Wong dance was first watched by Jack Bronet from French.

His interest then spread to the other travelers. Even, the classical art troupe was finally invited to the country. For tourism need, the troupe had duplicated the Wayang Wong to be staged. In particular years like the 1975, 1990 and 1996, the Wayang Wong troupe was invited to Europe.

Meanwhile, similar performance was also made in Malaysia in 1978. Even,

during the performance in Europe, one of the artists playing the Dewi Shinta figure, Ni Made Jujul, died from a stomachache.

Amidst the current tourism development, with the label of the art and cultural preservation, the traditional artists lead to an apprehensive period.

Sweet memories to share the tourism pie through the arts increasingly fade.

The presence of modern artists from outside combining the contemporary style becomes preferable option for tourism component to jazz up their events.

The artists of Wayang Wong doubling as Secretary of the Wayang Wong Cooperative, I Wayan Gine, said the presence of modern art today had caused the local consumption either for the community and the tourism actors to shift. The condition was actually different from the Westerners loving the arts, which even organized the art festival that also invited the classical arts.

Pragmatic thinking

A large number of working elementary school graduates, according to the Rector of the Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. Gede Sri Darma, DBA, occurred due to the system and individual management of the education as well as the community that just thought pragmatically, where they only thought win-lose rather than win-win.

“Ideally, the government gives all the poor an opportunity to get education, especially those that only attended primary and secondary education. There must be no distinction whether they have outstanding achievement or not.

The government should not only look at the achievement, but should also give empowerment to the poor,” he said.

He argued that all children should get high school education with a very good process, not just attend school,

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Children have to work in traditional market because they don’t have money to pay their tuition. sit down, hear and go home. Therefore, the education had to work with all stakeholders, where the formal education was the responsibility of the educational institution, while informal education should become the responsibility of family and the environment.

“The government should take notice to some aspects in advancing the education in Bali such as the synergies of all parties to educate the nation’s children.

Education does not only take place at schools but also in the environment. It must not only be taught, but more than that, where it must also be made a role model,” he said.

Further, he explained the education

had to be implemented systematically, directed, focused and adapted to time change. Besides, the education should also be performed holistically and connected to each other. Indeed, the concept of labor-intensive run by the government was to reduce the unemployment. However, the residents received to work through honorary worker and daily worker were precisely those that had worked in private sector (not unemployment), so the burden of regional budget increased due to personnel expenditure. “People who are really unemployed even getting more impoverished because of getting no job opportunities,” he said. (kmb27)

Nevertheless, the invitation of Wayang Wong performances were then mostly intended to the existing dance studios. The Wayang Wong troupe of Pujung Kaja had been famous to present the same dance.

It was a privately owned so that it easily made innovation to make adjustment to the contemporary tastes of the market.

Meanwhile, the existence of the Wayang Wong troupe denoting to private trope and public property (customary village) had limited movement. The style of Wayang Wong traditional art remains to be preserved. In addition, the performance of Wayang Wong has a ritual and passes through a bureaucracy in customary village.

Among the issues, the most urgent emphasis to be undertaken was making even distribution to the traditional potential so the traditional arts including the actors could survive.

Contribution of tourism should not

be made in one region. All this time, a monopoly had taken place at the tourist area itself. Tourism pie that should actually be distributed equally was even compartmentalized within the region itself.

The issue was not just experienced by the Wayang Wong troupe. Kecak Dance also suffered similar destiny.

The Kecak Dance formerly renowned at Bona had even been currently monopolized by the performance in Ubud and surrounding areas.

Amidst the increasingly shifting existence of traditional arts such as the Wayang Wong with a total member of 72 people, the Wayang Wong traditional troupe attempted to survive through the Art Cooperative he started. The Wayang Wong traditional art was then only performed on temple anniversary or piodalan at Telepud customary village, or other customary villages making the Wayang Wong dance one of their sacred dances. (kmb16)

Traditional arts start to be abandoned

GIANYAR - In the 1970s, the existence of traditional arts drew the attention of many travelers. They came to see our traditional artists presenting the heritage of traditional arts. Even, some of them invited the artists to make performance in their home country. Components of tourism also invited many freelance art troupes at remote villages to fill up dinner activities of tourists coming to their place.

Even though riding a truck, the innocent traditional artists proudly showed off their works of art having got appreciation from tourists who came from several countries on this hemisphere. Results of their hard work in performing the dance became the backbone of their family’s economy and rural communities. Similar condition was also experienced by the Wayang Wong (human puppet) dance artists from Pujung Kaja hamlet, Sebatu village,

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The workers are working on the statue project on Kediri Road, Tabanan

Reap protest, Bung Karno statue project continues

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Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Rampant protest against the Bung Karno statue project in Kediri roundabout was frigidly responded by Tabanan government. As evidence, the prestigious project construction continued on Thursday (Aug 15). Even, the project seemed to be accelerated.

A number of workers were busy installing stonework at the pedestal wall.

Continuation of the statue project kindled the reaction of Tabanan residents. A figure from Penebel, Wayan Gede Sutarja, accused the county government of acting like a deaf person that did not listen to people’s aspirations. “It’s very unfortunate. Waves of protest were ignored like the passing wind,” criticized the chief of Sunantaya customary village, Penebel. This candidate of Tabanan House assessed the regent and deputy regent of Tabanan just rekindled the spirit of Bung Karno. However, they did not listen to people’s aspirations. “Listen to people’s aspirations, do not wait another protest,” he protested. According to him, the figure Bung Karno always listened to people’s aspirations, did not keep silent. Then, Bung Karno was a figure who always appreciated the philosophy and culture.

With the insistence of the county government, the man nicknamed Ki Bendesa invited the people of Tabanan to come down the street to protest the statue project. “When they still insist on continuing, if necessary, let’s come down the street compactly to reject the policy of the Regent of Tabanan,” he said.

Similar protest also came out from the Deputy Chairman of the Tabanan House, Nyoman Suarsedana. This Golkar politician even challenged the House to make a recommendation on behalf of the institution to reject the statue project. “All this time, the comments were only revealed by the legislator individually. Necessarily, it should be made a plenary session and issued an official recommendation to reject the statue project,” he urged.

This measure, said Suarsedana, proved the House to have responded to people’s aspirations.

Moreover, the protest against the demolition of Vishnu Murti statue to be replaced with the Sukarno statue increasingly spread beyond Tabanan.

“Essentially, the House made a firm stand on behalf of the institution. Reject the Bung Karno statue project and return to the Vishnu Murti statue as before,” said the man from Marga. He hoped the recommendation of the House would not become a toothless tiger on paper. However, it should be accompanied with real action. He said the House’s decision bound to the philosophical, customary and cultural studies of Bali.

Within the past fortnight, the Bung Karno statue project continued to reap criticism.

Not only from residents of Tabanan, had some humanists of Bali and the Head of the Archaeological Agency for Bali and Nusra also commented. They deplored the demolition of Vishnu Murti statue that would be replaced with the Bung Karno statue. It was a sculpture donated by maestro Nuarta settled in Bandung, West Java. (kmb30)

If you have more time in Tanah Lot tourist attraction, you must try to walk along in surounding Tanah Lot area. You will find another beach beside Tanah Lot area that have ever seen before. That is located in the west side of Batu Mejan beach, exactly close with Surya Mandala Cultural Park Tanah Lot. The beach named “Yeh Kutikan” beach which include to Tanah Lot area. This beach truly never visit by visitor before, not like Tanah Lot. Because of the location is not easy to reached. But you must try to visit this beach because this beach also unique too.

On this beach there is waterfall too. The water coming from the river which exist above it. Above there is rice field carpet with green color if there is springtime season and with yellow color if there is crop season. Also, that place used for some event which performed in Tanah Lot area like last year such as kites festival on year 2006, 2007 and 2008. Because that venue very compatible and supporting to perform every event like kites festival. Even, this venue known as wide venue to perform kites festival in Bali.

Known for sunbathing and surfing, Yeh Kutikan is for those looking for a quiet beach where the life is easy and relaxing. Traditional Balinese fishermen here still use the beach and sea for livinghood, it offers a unique view to behold. Yeh Kutikan offers the visitors a double magnificent scene to see, a beautiful beach in front of you and mesmerizing rice fields complete with their wildlife – thousands of birds and butterflies are right behind you.

If day before evening, this place also very suitable for watching sunset besides from enjung galuh area, batubolong area, and sunset terrace.

From this place you can direct to watching sunset while enjoying the panorama of blue ocean. Also if you dont want to very close with coastal edge, you can try to having relax at Surya Mandala Cultural Park (open stage) or wasting evening time in Melasti Cafe Tanah Lot until sunset happen while having dinner or just enjoying a cup of tea.

School Carnival to welcome Independence Day

Bangli (Bali Post)—

In conjunction with the 68th commemoration of the Independence Day of the RI, it had been organized a carnival of kindergarten and elementary school students released in person by the Regent of Bangli I Made Gianyar and the Mother of Preschool Mrs. Erik

Gianyar in the square in front of the office of the Regent of Bangli, Thursday (Aug 15). The event was attended by Regional Leadership Council (Muspida), Acting Regional Secretary of Bangli and the heads of Bangli regional working unit.

The carnival organized by the P3 Agency in the effort to grace the Independence Day was filled up with

marching band of the SMPN 1 Bangli junior high school. For kindergarten level, the carnival was followed by TK Widyadarma, TK Widyadarma Pertiwi, TK Santo Yusuf, TK Kemala Bhayangkari, TK Negeri Pembina Bangli, TK Bilingual School, TK Prawidyalaya Gurukula, TK Lingga Kumara and TK Abdi Kumara Santi with a total participant of 280 stu-

dents. It was started from in front of the Bangli Regent’s office heading for the east (Jalan Lettu Kanten southwards to Jalan Merdeka, turned left to Jalan Lila, in front of the mosque and ended in Captain Mudita Square).

Meanwhile, the participant of the decorated bike carnival consisted of the elementary schools like SDN 1, 2, 4 Kubu, SDN 1, 2, 3 Cempaga,

SDN 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Kawan and SDN 1, 2, 3 Bebalang with a total of 148 participants. All the participants were released in front of the office of Bangli Regent and then moved northwards on Jalan Ngurah Rai, Jalan Kusuma Yuda to Jalan Nusantara southwards to Jalan Lettu Lila and ended at Captain Mudita Square. The theme featured in the event was Geopark. (ina)

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China’s Bo Xilai to stand trial on Thursday

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An oil slick is formed at the site as Philippine Navy and Coast Guard divers continue their search and rescue operation off Talisay coast, Cebu province Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 following Friday night’s collision of the passenger ferry MV Thomas Aquinas and the cargo ship MV Sulpicio Express Siete in central Philippines.

34 dead, dozens missing in sunken Philippine ferry

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CEBU, Philippines - Divers plucked two more bodies from a sunken passenger ferry on Sunday and scrambled to plug an oil leak in the wreckage after a collision with a cargo ship. The accident near the central Philippine port of Cebu that has left 34 dead and more than 80 others missing.

Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III said 751 passengers and crewmen of the MV Thomas Aquinas have been rescued after the inter-island ferry was in a collision late Friday with the MV Sulpicio Express Siete then rapidly sank off the Cebu pier.

Stunned passengers were forced to jump in the dark into the water after the captain ordered the doomed ferry abandoned.

Coast guard, navy and fishing vessels, backed by helicopters, scoured the choppy seas off Talisay city in Cebu, about 570 kilometers (350

miles) south of Manila, Sunday but found no sign of any more survivors.

Divers, however, retrieved the bodies of a man and a woman in the ferry, which sank in waters about 33 meters (100 feet) deep. “We’re still on a rescue mission,” Davide told reporters.

“We have not given up on them.”

Relatives flocked to a ticketing office of ferry owner, 2GO Group Inc., and pasted pictures of their missing loved ones. Others, like Richard Ortiz, waited quietly and stared blankly at the vast sea from the Talisay pier, where coast guard

and navy rescuers have encamped.

“I just want to see my parents,” said Ortiz, who clutched a picture of his father and mother. “This is so difficult.”

Amid initial confusion over the number of ferry passengers and the missing, Cebu coast guard chief Commodore William Melad said authorities reported that there were 870 people on board the ferry, including 754 passengers and 116 crewmen.

The more than 30 crewmen of the MV Sulpicio Express Siete cargo ship, which had a huge gaping hole in its bow, were all safe, officials said.

Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Abaya said Saturday there were foreigners among the ferry passengers and all were fine, except for a New Zealand citizen who was brought to a hospital.

BEIJING - The trial of disgraced senior Chinese politician Bo Xilai will start on Thursday, Xinhua state news agency said, when he will face charges of bribery, corruption and abuse of power in an early test of new President Xi Jinping’s campaign against graft.

The trial of Bo, 64, a “princeling” son of a late vice premier who is still popular with conservatives and the disaffected, is the country’s most divisive since the 1976 downfall of Mao Zedong’s widow, Jiang Qing, and her Gang of Four at the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, and his estranged police chief, Wang Lijun, have both been jailed over the scandal stemming from the November 2011 murder of British businessman Neil Heywood in the southwestern city of Chongqing, where Bo was Communist Party chief.

Bo’s trial will open at the Intermediate People’s Court in Jinan, capital of the coastal province of Shandong, at 8:30 a.m. (0030

GMT) on Thursday, Xinhua said in a terse report on Sunday. It gave no further details.

It is almost certain Bo will be convicted as China’s prosecutors and judges are controlled by the ruling Communist Party.

How Bo’s case is handled will be a test of the effectiveness of Xi’s battle against corruption and also show how he has been able to stamp his authority on the party, which he leads.

Xi has vowed to fight both “tigers” and “flies” - in other words people at every level of the party as he combats a pervasive graft, so serious he has warned it threatens the party’s very survival.

However, his campaign has so far netted precious few “tigers”, and in any case the Bo scandal predates Xi’s time as national leader.

Bo, a former commerce minister, used his post as party boss of Chongqing to cast the sprawling, haze-covered municipality into a showcase for his mix of populist policies and bold spending plans that won support from leftists yearning for a charismatic leader.

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File

FILE - In this March 14, 2012 file photo, Bo Xilai, then Chongqing party secretary, attends the closing session of the annual National People’s Congress in the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China.

Merkel warns against over-confidence ahead of September election

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BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel warned her supporters on Saturday against complacency ahead of the September 22 election, voicing fears that three leftist parties could unexpectedly join forces to oust her center-right coalition after ballots are counted.

Even though Merkel’s conservatives hold a 16-point lead over the Social Democrats (SPD) in opinion polls, the chancellor told a rally in Cloppenburg the SPD might still break a vow and form a coalition with the ostracized far left “Linke”,

or Left Party.

The SPD and Greens, who have ruled out a coalition with the Left, trail Merkel’s center-right coalition by about eight points in polls. But the ruling coalition fears the SPD and Greens will ignore past promises and form a government with the Left, popular in the east and on 8 percent in voter surveys.

“Those who think the election is already in the bag and Merkel will still be chancellor no matter what might be in for a rude awakening after the polls close,” Merkel said, speaking in Lower Saxony state where her Christian Democrats lost

power to the SPD and Greens in a stunning upset in January.

“Those who think this election is already won might wake up and see Germany has a government with the Left Party in it,” she added, articulating the governing coalition’s fear that the lure of power could be too strong for the SDP. The Left traces its origins to the Communist Party in the former East Germany and has been ostracized by other mainstream parties.

“The election outcome is anything but certain,” said Merkel, who saw big opinion poll leads before the 2005 and 2009 elections melt

away. She launched her 56-stop election campaign on Wednesday.

An opinion poll published on Friday showed Merkel’s centerright coalition was in a 46-46 dead heat against three leftist opposition parties. If her center-right coalition falls short, many analysts expect the conservatives and SPD to form another “grand coalition”.

But SPD chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck, who spoke at a rally to some 300,000 in Berlin on Saturday, rules that option out for himself. Many in the SPD oppose teaming up with Merkel as the SPD’s support crumbled after the

last grand coalition.

“I’ve never seen a sight like this,” said Steinbrueck, at the rally at the Brandenburg Gate, part of celebrations this year marking the SPD’s 150th anniversary.

He drew applause during his 50-minute speech for promising to introduce a minimum wage should he take office.

“We need more ‘we together’ in this country again and not millions of sharp elbows,” he said. “I want Germany to be a country where it doesn’t matter where you come from but where the only thing that matters is where you want to go.”

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Fishery exports up 17 percent

Governments face extra debt costs

DENPASAR - Bali exported US$44.54 million worth of fishery commodities in the first five months of the year, up 16.95 percent from the same period last year. The fishery sector contributed 20.54 percent to Bali’s total export value of US$216.92 billion in the five months period.

Fresh and frozen tuna dominated the exports of eight types of fishery commodities from Bali in value.

Tuna exports, fresh and frozen, totaled 5,114 tons valued at US$28.36 million in the January-May period, according to data from Bali Central Statistic Agency (BPS).

The volume and value of tuna exports rose 3.88 percent and 5.35 percent respectively over the same period last year.

Other fishery commodities exported from Bali included the groupers, decorative fish, skip jacks, crabs, lobsters, shark fins, and sea weed.

Japan is the main market for fishery commodities from Bali, followed by the United States and Australia.

Other export destinations included Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Britain, France, Germany and Spain.

PARIS - Governments face a rise in their borrowing costs due to the winding down of monetary stimulus programmes and as investors bet on central banks hiking interest rates sooner than promised. the beginning of the year.

Ten-year British gilts were at 2.704 percent Friday, up from 2.401 percent at the beginning of August and 1.990 percent at the beginning of the year.

At the height of the eurozone debt crisis, some eurozone money flowed into less risky bonds, such as French debt. But as the debt crisis eases, bond yields for the countries in trouble have fallen and there are signs that yields on the safe haven countries may rise, with French bonds being closely watched.

For Germany, the yield on 10-year Bunds was 1.881 percent on Friday, up from 1.667 percent at the beginning of the month and 1.442 percent at the beginning of 2013.

F r a n c e ’s 1 0 - y e a r b o n d s yielded 2.400 percent Friday, up from 2.223 percent at the beginning of August and 2.077 percent at the beginning of the year.

The drop in sovereign bond yields to exceptionally low levels, thanks to the ultra-low interest rates set by central banks and huge monetary stimulus programmes, have masked the debt problems the countries face.

Now their governments face having to pay more to finance new debt as their borrowing costs rise in line with the yields on the secondary market where debt issued previously is traded.

The rise in sovereign yields has come even though central banks have pledged to keep those near-zero rates for the foreseeable future.

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Moody’s Analytics warned this week that “US rates could rise as the Fed moves to slow its purchases of long-term debt, which in turn could push up the yields on European government bonds.”

That has already begun.

The yield on the debt of the United States and top European countries, as well as emerging economies, has risen recently as investors bet that the US Federal Reserve could begin as soon as in September to lower the amount of monetary stimulus it injects into the economy.

The $85 billion (64 billion euros) per month that the Fed has ploughed into the US economy led to lower bond yields in the United States, as well in many other countries as easy money went abroad from the United States in search of somewhat higher risk and yields elsewhere.

B u t r e c e n t l y, i n v e s t o r s have factored in the prospect of the easy money tap being slowly closed down. This has pushed up yields on US Treasury bonds, and has caused some of the money placed abroad to be withdrawn, pushing up sovereign bond yields elsewhere.

The rate of return for investors on 10-year US Tr e a s u r i e s r o s e t o 2 - y e a r highs this past week, implying a more than 50 percent increase in US borrowing costs since the beginning of the year.

On Friday, 10-year Treasuries were trading at 2.812 percent, up from 2.689 percent at the beginning of the month and 1.828 percent at

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Bali exported US$44.54 million worth of fishery commodities in the first five months of the year, up 16.95 percent from the same period last year. The fishery sector contributed 20.54 percent to Bali’s total export value of US$216.92 billion in the five months period.

Export of silver product worth US$8.71 million

AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File

In this Feb. 20, 2012 file photo, port workers watch as steel pipes are loaded onto a freighter ship at Cao Feidian Port in Tangshan, in northern China’s Hebei province. The European Union on Friday asked the World Trade Organization to rule in a dispute over Chinese anti-dumping duties imposed on steel pipes imported from EU countries.

EU asks WTO panel to rule on China’s steel duties Associated Press

BEIJ IN G — The European Union on Friday asked the World Trade Organization to rule in a dispute over Chinese anti-dumping duties imposed on steel pipes imported from EU countries.

The EU said in a news release that it made the request to the WTO after unsuccessful consultations in July to resolve the dispute over the duties imposed by China on imports of high-performance stainless steel seamless tubes from EU countries.

“The EU continues its fight against unjustified Chinese trade defense measures, which do not comply with WTO rules and often seem to be motivated by retalia-

tion,” said EU Trade spokesman John Clancy in the statement.

But Beijing has said the duties would protect Chinese companies.

“This is not an act of retaliation but to protect the domestic steel trade,” said analyst Zhang Lin in a statement posted on the official site of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce in June when the EU lodged a complaint with WTO. The statement says China’s steel products are often subject to antidumping investigations in overseas markets. “It is a reasonable and logical measure for hitting back,” Zhang said.

China and the EU have been embroiled in a series of trade tiffs.

A dispute over China’s solar panels

was defused in July after Chinese companies agreed to set minimum prices. Meanwhile, the Chinese commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said last week that Beijing continued to investigate whether the EU has been dumping its wine and poly silicon products in China.

China imposed anti-dumping duties ranging from 9.2 percent to 14.4 percent on the highperformance steel pipes imported from EU countries and Japan in 2012.

The EU said that the duties have significantly hampered its access to the Chinese market and that the WTO consultations — joined by Japan and held in mid-July — were unsuccessful.

Antara

DENPASAR - Bali’s exports of silver handicrafts from January to May 2013 amounted to US$8.71 million, up 1.64 percent from the same period last year, an official said.

“However, Bali’s export volume during this five-month period in 2013 declined by 31.84 percent, with 2.94 million pieces exported during this period in 2012 compared with 2.04 million pieces exported during the same period in 2013,” stated Head of Bali Central Statistic Agency (BPS) I Gede Suarsa.

The data indicated an ongoing increase in the price of Bali’s exports of silver handicrafts, he said.

According to Suarsa, in 2013, 28.83 percent of these exports went to Singapore, 17.93 percent to Hong Kong, 13.09 percent to the United States, 14.43 percent to Australia, 0.34 percent to France, 0.18 percent to Japan, 8.10 percent to the Netherlands, 1.86 percent to England, and 2.1 percent to Germany.

Another 13.23 percent went to several other countries. He adding that Bali’s silver handicrafts were one of 17 types of local handicrafts that have penetrated the global market.

These handicrafts are very popular with tourists, who purchase these items to take home to their own countries.

Solomon Island PM visited BSMP

IBP

GIANYAR - On Tuesday, 13 August 2013, Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP) visited by special guests.

He is Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Hon Gordon Darcy Lilo, first lady Bronwyn Lilo and his delegation. The prime minister and his delegation also accompanied by ambassador of China, Imron Cotan and ambassador of Papua New Guinea, Andreas Sitepu.

They welcomed by Deputy General Manager of Bali Safari & Marine Park, Ana Dewi Permana.

It was the first trip to Bali Safari & Marine Park for the prime minister. The visit is especially to taste unique dining experience at Tsavo Lion Restaurant and wacth Bali Agung Show. “It’s a fantastic show about the fascinating people of Indonesia. I am so grateful for the honour to wacth the show,” said the prime minister after watched Bali Agung Show. He and the first lady also took picture with casts of Bali Agung Show.

Tsavo Lion Restaurant and Bali Agung Show are part of Bali Safari & Marine Park that present unique and wonderful experience to its guests. In Tsavo Lion Restaurant, guests can enjoy high quality Western, Asian, Balinese and African food while wacthing wild life of lion and lioness. Meanwhile, Bali Agung Show is a theatre with 1,200 capacity that present Balinese legend story. The show is supported by hundreads dancer in beautiful costume and choreography and composed by well known composer, Chong Lim.

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Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Hon Gordon Darcy Lilo (middle) during his visit to BSMP to watch Bali Agung Show.

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Obama golfs with Larry David on last vacation day Associated Press Writer

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. - President Barack Obama hit the links on his Martha’s Vineyard vacation with comedian Larry David.

The president played five hours of golf Saturday in an unlikely foursome that included the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star, former U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk and businessman Glenn Hutchins, a part owner of the Boston Celtics.

Obama spent a couple hours Saturday morning with his wife and daughters on a private beach on the island’s south shore. The first family went out for dinner Saturday night at The Boathouse Restaurant, which overlooks the harbor in historic Edgartown.

The president has kept a low profile during his stay and spent most days golfing. He spoke out publicly only once, to condemn escalating violence in Egypt. He flies back to Washington on Sunday night.

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INDONESIA Gunmen shoot dead two policemen Agence France-Presse

TANGERANG - Motorcycle gunmen shot dead two policemen on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital overnight, officials said Saturday, the latest in a series attacks against officers.

The two gunmen drove up to a police station on the southwest of Jakarta and shot one policeman on the street in the back of the head, national police spokesman Ronny Sompie said.

Four officers in a police car gave chase, but the driver was shot dead after crashing into the bike. One of the suspects drove off on the bike and the other ran away.

“The police crashed into the motorbike. The officer driving

Aircraft used to battle Idaho fire as smoke clears

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FILE-- In this file photo of Wednesday April 24, 2013, A Somali baby receives a polio vaccine, at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Somalia polio outbreak spreads; 105 recorded cases Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia is suffering an “explosive” outbreak of polio and now has more cases than the rest of the world combined, an official said Friday. Vaccine-wielding health workers face a daunting challenge: accessing areas of Somalia controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants, where 7 of 10 children aren’t fully immunized.

Polio is mostly considered eliminated globally except mainly in three countries where it is considered endemic: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. India marked a major success in February 2012 by being removed from the World Health Organization’s list of countries plagued by the disease.

Somalia now has 105 cases, figures released Friday show, and another 10 cases have been confirmed across the border in a Kenyan refugee camp filled with Somalis. Globally there have been 181 cases of polio this year, including those in Somalia and Kenya.

Vaccination campaigns in Somalia have reached 4 million people since the outbreak began in May, but those health officials have limited access to about 600,000 children who live

in areas of Somalia controlled by the armed Islamist group alShabab.

“It’s very worrying because it’s an explosive outbreak and of course polio is a disease that is slated for eradication,” said Oliver Rosenbauer, a spokesman for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the World Health Organization in Geneva. “In fact we’re seeing more cases in this area this year than in the three endemic countries worldwide.”

In a bit of good news, Rosenbauer said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that polio numbers are down in the three remaining endemic countries. “The only way to get rid of this risk is to eradicate in the endemic countries, and there the news is actually paradoxically very good,” he said.

Somalia was removed from the list of endemic polio countries in 2001, and this year’s outbreak is the second since then.

It began one month after Bill Gates helped unveil a six-year plan to eradicate polio at the Global Vaccine Summit. That effort will cost $5.5 billion, threequarters of which has already been pledged, including $1.8 billion from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The outbreak in Somalia does not set back the six-year plan, said Rosenbauer, because unpredictable and intermittent outbreaks were programmed into the timeline.

In al-Shabab controlled southcentral Somalia, disease surveillance is functioning, but health officials are likely not able to detect all polio cases.

HAILEY, Idaho — Fire crews on Saturday faced another challenging day battling a rapidly growing wildfire burning closer to two posh central Idaho resort communities, while other blazes in the West charred homes and devoured dry grass and brush.

In northern Utah, about 10 homes were destroyed when a wildfire raced through the community of Willow Springs late Friday, jumping a state highway and fire lines, authorities said.

As of midday Saturday, the Patch Springs Fire had burned more than 50 square miles. It was 20 percent contained.

In Idaho, the Beaver Creek Fire grew by 15 square miles late Friday and early Saturday, to 144 square miles. Overnight, flames moved closer to homes and subdivisions in the mountains west and north of the communities of Hailey and Ketchum and the Sun Valley Resort.

So far, authorities have issued mandatory evacuations for 1,600 residences in the valley, which serves as a vacation getaway for celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Hanks.

The blaze was started by lightning Aug. 7. It expanded significantly Friday, burning through tinder-dry brush and timber in the mountains west of the towns. Efforts Saturday were focused on protecting homes and structures in the gulches and foothills just west of Hailey and Ketchum.

Crews also planned to target erratic, wind-driven fire growth in one area north of Ketchum and two locations west of Hailey.

Heavy smoke that grounded firefighting aircraft early Saturday cleared enough to allow helicopters and a huge DC-10 tanker to start making drops in the afternoon.

Fire managers and more than 700 firefighters braced for another dose of hot temperatures and afternoon wind gusts up to 30 mph that could move flames closer to homes. Hundreds more firefighters were expected to arrive Saturday.

“This fire is consuming everything,” fire spokeswoman Madonna Lengerich said. “The fire is so hot, it’s just cremating even the biggest trees.”

Decree...

From page 1 Thirdly, the Presidential Decree No.122/2012 on the Reclamation of Coastal Areas and Small Islands where in Article 2 paragraph (3) is mentioned that reclamation cannot be done in conservation area and sea lane. Fourthly, it is also considered to have infringed the Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 on the Bali Provincial Spatial Plan (RTRWP). In addition, the gubernatorial decree does not include the Law No.32/2009 on the Protection and Management of the Environment as a legal reference.

Previously, on several occasions to media crews Pastika insisted and was reluctant to revoke the decree. He argued if it had been based on procedures and did not violate the laws. (kmb29)

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An armed paramilitary police guards the site where a police officer was shot and killed in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013.

got out and was shot dead in an exchange of gunfire,” Sompie said.

The shooting at the Pondok Aren police station in Tangerang district was the latest in a series of attacks against police officers.

Nobody has yet claimed responsibility but anti-terror police were dispatched to scour the streets for the two men.

Indonesia has been waging a campaign against Islamist militants for more than a decade and has successfully dismantled some of the deadliest groups.

Police officers have been the main target of recent attacks, which have included several deadly shootings, most in the district of Poso on central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.

Government unveils growth-boosting election year budget

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s president unveiled an ambitious 2014 draft budget Friday aimed at boosting a slowing economy before elections next year as his scandal-plagued party struggles to claw back popularity.

Once a darling with investors, Southeast Asia’s top economy has this year been faced with slowing growth, high inflation and a plunge in the value of the rupiah.

With the economy set to be a key battleground at presidential and legislative polls in 2014, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is desperate to restore the nation’s financial health.

Announcing the $173-billion budget to parliament, Yudhoyono insisted the package would ensure that “Indonesia will be in a better position to overcome the challenges that may emerge”.

The main themes of the budget were boosting consumer spending, a main driver of Indonesia’s economic boom, overhauling the nation’s ageing infrastructure to encourage investment, and narrowing current account and budget deficits.

He said the government would implement a “keep buying strategy” to make sure consumer spending remained strong, something economists

believe is key to maintaining economic growth as global demand for Indonesian commodities weakens.

“We acknowledge our infrastructure is far from perfect,” he conceded, vowing that major road, port and airport projects would be completed.

Investors often complain that doing business in the sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands is complicated by potholed roads, a creaking train network, leaky old boats and poor aviation infrastructure.

He also said the country would look at new markets to try to put the brake on a widening trade deficit, blamed on falling Chinese demand for Indonesian exports such as coal and palm oil.

Yudhoyono insisted he had already helped to lift some of the strain off the budget by hiking the price of fuel by up to 44 percent in June, reducing huge subsidies that were blamed for making the budget deficit balloon.

The budget still needs parliamentary approval.

The president’s ruling Democratic Party faces a tough time at next year’s elections following a string of scandals affecting leading party figures and without any obvious successor for Yudhoyono.

The president cannot stand in 2014 as he is constitutionally barred from running for a third term.

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

Participants struggle during a greased pole climbing competition held as a part of independence day celebration at Jaya Ancol Dream Park in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. Indonesia is celebrating its 68th independence from the Dutch colonial rule.

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Bolt cruises to easy win in 200 meters at worlds

Sidik Jari Museum IBP

DENPASAR - Sidik Jari Museum is a private fine art museum established and owned by I Gusti Ngurah Gede Pemecutan. It keeps the work of its owner, and its also keeps work of other artists. The uniqueness of the work here is that the paintings are done through the use of the tips of the fingers in applying different colours or paints in order to represent the artist’s imagination.

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW - Forget the race. With Usain Bolt, the real fun happens after he crosses the finish line. Now that’s entertainment. Certainly more than his 200-meter win, when the Jamaican was so far ahead of the field that he loafed to the line with teammate Warren Weir far behind him.

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates winning the men’s 200-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013.

AP Photo/David J. Phillip

And then the party was on at the world championships - Bolt style. Plenty of preening, lots of dancing and loads of over-the-top showboating. He did his trademark bow-and-arrow pose and kissed his muscles. He picked up a camera and snapped photos of Weir, who was trailing behind him just like in Saturday’s race.

“Happy to really get it done,” Bolt said.

“I pushed myself all season to be the best.”

As if there was ever any doubt.

Bolt almost worked up more of a sweat dancing than he did dashing down the track in 19.66 seconds (and that was with shutting it down with about 60 meters to go). He hopped and skipped to the reggae sounds of Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” much to the thrill of the crowd.

Guess that tender foot is quite all right, the one Bolt hurt when he dropped the starting blocks on it during a training session. Even on a bum wheel, Bolt’s still, well, Bolt.

This easy win, coupled with his leisurely stroll last weekend in the 100, gives him

seven career gold medals at the worlds.

He needs just one more to tie Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson for most-ever among men. And Bolt will go for another in the 4x100 relay on Sunday as the competition comes to a close.

“That guy is unbelievable,” said American Curtis Mitchell, who finished with the bronze medal. “I trained with him in London prior to the championships. He’s a great guy. He’s laughing and having fun.

He’s a normal guy - with superb talent.”

In this race, Bolt provided all the electricity. There was no lightning before the race, no rain drops to add to the drama.

He created the drama - or took the drama out - by pulling away after rounding the curve. Although Bolt promised to run allout all the way to the finish - and possibly make a run at his world record of 19.19 - he backed off the accelerator because of tired legs and an aching foot.

That’s good enough these days, especially with no Tyson Gay (doping offense) or Yohan Blake (hamstring injury) to push him.

Isner rallies for Cincinnati upset of del Potro

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Associated Press Writer

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John Isner reacts as he walks back on the court after defeating Juan Martin del Potro during a semifinal match at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, in Mason, Ohio.

Isner won 6-7 (5), 7-6 (9), 6-3.

MASON, Ohio — Unseeded American John Isner rallied from losing a first-set tiebreaker to upset seventh-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 6-7 (4), 7-6 (9), 6-3 in a grueling Western & Southern Open semifinal Saturday.

Isner, who fell from No. 20 to 22 this week, will return to the top 20 after a stimulating Cincinnati run that includes beating three straight top-10 players for the first time in his career while earning his second Masters 1000 series finals appearance and first in Cincinnati. His previous Masters 1000 final appearance was at Indian Wells in 2012.

“It’s awesome to be at this stage again,” said Isner, who beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals and No. 8 Richard Gasquet in the second round.

“I’ve been playing pretty well this season, but this tournament is where I’ve really started to put it all together. I’m playing pretty well in all facets of the game.”

Isner, in his first appearance in the tournament’s semifinals, had been 0-4 against the Argentine. He’ll play third-seeded Rafael Nadal, who beat sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych 7-5, 7-6 (4) in the other semifinal to reach the tournament final for the first time in nine appearances.

“This is one tournament that I’ve never been able to play well, so it’s something special to play well in a place I never did in the

past,” said Nadal, 3-0 in his career against Isner. “I’m very happy for that. I am having the right feelings on court. I’m playing aggressive, and the crowd here is great.”

Nadal extended his personal winning streak against the Czech to 14 matches while improving his overall season record 52-3, including 14-0 on hardcourts.

After winning at Montreal last week, the Spaniard will be making back-to-back appearances in hardcourt finals for the first time in his career. He’s 15-1 against top-10 players this season.

Top-ranked Serena Williams also will be making her first career appearance in the event’s championship match after ousting defending champion Li Na, 7-5, 7-5, in the first women’s semifinal. Williams, seeking her ninth title of the year, advanced when Li double-faulted on match point. Williams improved to 60-3 this season.

“I really would not have predicted myself being in the finals here at all, so it’s definitely pretty exciting for me,” said Williams, who clinched the 2013 Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series women’s title with the win and can earn a $1 million bonus if she wins the U.S. Open. “Really unexpected for me, too. I came in here not playing my best, and now I’m in the final.

It’s just almost weird.”

Williams will play second-seeded Victoria Azarenka in Sunday’s final. Azarenka beat 14th-seeded Jelena Jankovic 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in a semifinal that featured 23 service

breaks in 27 games.

Isner needed 2 hours, 47 minutes to improve to 16-3 since retiring from Wimbledon in the second round because of a left knee injury. He finished off the win when del Potro sent a backhand from the baseline into the net.

Despite tossing into a persistent swirling breeze and bright sunshine, both players served so effectively early that the first set included just one break point, fought off by the 22nd-ranked Isner. The 6-foot-6 Del Potro came up with a crucial minibreak on the 11th point of the tiebreaker when Isner sailed his backhand volley wide to lose the set.

Del Potro broke Isner in the eighth game of the second set to put himself into position to serve for the match, but he double-faulted on match point and Isner came up with his own break to stay alive and eventually force a tiebreak that he won when del Potro sent a forehand wide to the deuce court.

“I think I lost the match in the second set,” del Potro said. “That was my chance to beat him. He was fighting all the time and deserved to win the third set, but I missed my chance.”

“I know, at that moment, that the sun on that side was pretty bad,” said Isner, who can become the first American to win the tournament since Andy Roddick in 2006.

“We both struggled with that for about 30 minutes.”

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Sp rt Suarez Situation At Liverpool Has Been Resolved - Rodgers

Manchester United’s Robin van Persie, left, and Swansea City’s Ashley Williams in action during their English Premier League soccer match at the Liberty Stadium, Swansea, England, Saturday Aug. 17, 2013.

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said the Luis Suarez situation had been resolved but declined to reveal whether the Uruguay striker had apologised for speaking to the media about his desire to leave the club.

Suarez had been made to train away from the first team for more than a week after claiming Liverpool had gone back on a promise to allow him to leave Anfield if a Champions League side made a high enough offer for him.

“I won’t be saying anything on Luis Suarez and it’s only purely out of respect for the players that are working hard at the minute,” Rodgers said after Liverpool’s 1-0 win at home to Stoke City in their Premier League opner on Saturday.

“All I will say is I am very satisfied with how everything has been resolved and we as a club are now looking to the future and moving on,” he told a post-match news conference. Suarez returned to first-team training on Friday and attended the match at Anfield with his family, receiving a generally warm reception from the home fans.

He is midway through a 10-match ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic towards the end of last season.

“He’s a part of our team and a part of the club,” Rodgers added. “The supporters are a class act here - the classic Liverpool Way is to always support the players and the manager. That’s what they always do.”

Rodgers had previously said Suarez, who scored 30 goals in all competitions for Liverpool last season, had to apologise for his public outburst if he was to return to first-team training.

The Uruguayan was the subject of two bids from Arsenal, including an offer of 40 million pounds ($62.45 million) and one penny which he believed would trigger a release clause, something that Liverpool have denied.

AP Photo/Nick Potts, PA

Moyes Delighted With Clinical Man United Reuters

Manchester - David Moyes was a contented man after going one better than his predecessor as manager Alex Ferguson and leading Manchester United to victory in his first competitive match in charge of the club on Saturday.

United coasted to a 4-1 win at Swansea City in the opening game of their English Premier League title defence, a much better start than Ferguson made to his glittering 26-year reign at Old Trafford in an ignominious 2-0 defeat at Oxford United in 1986.

“It very much was a Manchester United display,” Moyes told the BBC. “We were clinical in attack and I am very pleased. “This is a tough place to come and we won well in the end.”

Robin van Persie and Danny

Welbeck scored two goals each to subdue a feisty Swansea side whose high-tempo passing game made life difficult for United in the opening half hour at a rainswept Liberty Stadium.

“Today was my first game at Manchester United. I was excited but it’s just work to me, it’s the same as I’ve done at Everton over the last 10 years or so,” said Moyes whose team failed to shine in their pre-season games before beating Wigan Athletic 2-0 to win the Community Shield on Sunday.

“Robin van Persie scored two brilliant goals. When he pulls the trigger it’s a goal all the way.” Van Persie continued the superb form he showed last season following his transfer from Arsenal.

BOUNCING BALL

The Dutch striker controlled a bouncing ball after 34 minutes and cleverly hooked it into the net with his unfavoured right foot to put United in front and Welbeck tapped in the second from close

range soon after.

Moyes sent on Wayne Rooney as a substitute on the hour and the England forward, whose future is the source of much media speculation, was involved in the move which set up the third goal 18 minutes from time.

Van Persie was freed to advance on a back-pedalling Swansea defence and, ignoring options either side, he lashed a fierce left-foot shot high into the net from the edge of the penalty area.

Swansea deservedly pulled one back through a neat finish by substitute Wilfried Bony but United finished the game on the front foot and added a fourth goal in stoppage time.

Rooney’s deft pass released

Welbeck down the right channel and the England striker, who scored only two goals for his club last season, dinked the ball high over goalkeeper Michel Vorm from a narrow angle and it nestled in the far corner of the net.

“I thought Danny Welbeck was terrific,” Moyes told Sky Sports.

“He sometimes doesn’t get the praise he deserves because of some of the other strikers we have. But that was a great finish.”

Swansea manager Michael Laudrup also praised United’s clinical finishing. “For the first 30 minutes we were very competitive and at moments we dominated,” he said. “You can come back from that but when they scored a second, against a team like Manchester United - it’s difficult.

Real Salt Lake defender Carlos Salcedo and Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Gyasi Zardes watch the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer game in Carson, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013.

AP Photo/Reed Saxon

Keane hat trick leads Galaxy past Salt Lake Associated Press Writer

CARSON, California — Robbie Keane scored three second-half hat trick to help the Los Angeles rally for a victory 4-2 over Major League Soccer Real Salt Lake on Saturday.

Keane scored in the 56th, 67th and 86th minutes to help the Galaxy pull four points behind Salt Lake and tighten an eight-team battle for five Western Conference playoff berths.

The top seven teams are separated by eight points, with San Jose another three points back.

Joao Plata gave Real Salt Lake a lead in the 53rd minute. Keane scored from a long pass by Jimenez to equalize, then volleyed Los Angeles ahead

11 minutes later.

Omar Gonzalez made it 3-1 with a header from Landon Donovan’s corner in the 75th, and Keane got his 10th goal of the season to complete his hat trick, lifting the ball over rushing goalkeeper Nick Rimando. Robbie Findley scored in the final minute of regulation for Salt Lake.

At Columbus, Ohio, Federico Higuain scored two goals for the second straight match, lifting Columbus to a 2-0 victory over Toronto FC. The Argentinean forward gave the Crew the lead in the 19th minute, then connected for an exquisite chip for his second in the 67th. Higuain perfectly placed a looping ball from 23 yards over the futile effort of goalkeeper Joe

Bendik, who was only a few yards off the goal line.

Montreal striker Marco Di Vaio scored twice to lead the Impact to a 2-1 win over D.C. United.

The former Italy forward scored in the in the 43rd minute before Conor Doyle equalized for D.C.in the 81st. Di Vaio then netted the winner two minutes later. Juan Agudelo returned to the New England lineup after a two-month injury to score in the 54th minute and lead the Revolution to a 2-0 win over the Chicago Fire.

Kelyn Rowe banged in a rebound of a Saer Sene shot in 1st minute of injury time for New England’s second goal.

Marseille beats Evian 2-0 in the French League Associated Press Writer

Liverpool’s Luis Suarez controls the ball against Thailand’s national soccer team during a friendly soccer match at Ratchamangkala Stadium in Bangkok, July 28, 2013.

PARIS — Marseille eased to a 2-0 win at home to Evian on Saturday as it continued its perfect start in the French league.

Last year’s runner-up took the lead in the 16th minute, when Rod Fanni lifted the ball over the defense to Andre-Pierre Gignac, who feinted past Jonathan Mensah and rifled a shot into the back of the net from the edge of the penalty area.

Marseille had several chances to double its advantage and eventually did so in the 66th minute.

Dimitri Payet, who was signed from Ligue 1 rival Lille in the offseason, controlled Mathieu Valbuena’s pass and did well to round Mensah before drilling the ball into the bottom left corner for his third goal in two matches.

“It’s a dream start for me and for the team,” Payet said. “We have six points out of six, we’re very

happy tonight. We’re managing to find each other’s rhythm, work well together. We’re scoring goals, which is important to win matches.

“It was my first home match here and being substituted to an ovation was something special for me. I’m going to continue working hard so it can happen again.”

Newly-promoted Guingamp is still without a point after losing 1-0 at Saint-Etienne, following a 3-1 defeat at home to Marseille last week and.

Fabien Lemoine played a swift one-two with Brandao on the edge of the area before firing into the top left corner to score the only goal of the game in the 52nd minute.

Nice was also reeling from a hefty 4-0 defeat at Lyon last week, but it picked up its first points of the new campaign with a 2-1 victory over Rennes.

The match was played behind closed doors due to incidents in Nice’s match against Lyon in May.

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Sp rt Suarez Situation At Liverpool Has Been Resolved - Rodgers

Manchester United’s Robin van Persie, left, and Swansea City’s Ashley Williams in action during their English Premier League soccer match at the Liberty Stadium, Swansea, England, Saturday Aug. 17, 2013.

Reuters

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said the Luis Suarez situation had been resolved but declined to reveal whether the Uruguay striker had apologised for speaking to the media about his desire to leave the club.

Suarez had been made to train away from the first team for more than a week after claiming Liverpool had gone back on a promise to allow him to leave Anfield if a Champions League side made a high enough offer for him.

“I won’t be saying anything on Luis Suarez and it’s only purely out of respect for the players that are working hard at the minute,” Rodgers said after Liverpool’s 1-0 win at home to Stoke City in their Premier League opner on Saturday.

“All I will say is I am very satisfied with how everything has been resolved and we as a club are now looking to the future and moving on,” he told a post-match news conference. Suarez returned to first-team training on Friday and attended the match at Anfield with his family, receiving a generally warm reception from the home fans.

He is midway through a 10-match ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic towards the end of last season.

“He’s a part of our team and a part of the club,” Rodgers added. “The supporters are a class act here - the classic Liverpool Way is to always support the players and the manager. That’s what they always do.”

Rodgers had previously said Suarez, who scored 30 goals in all competitions for Liverpool last season, had to apologise for his public outburst if he was to return to first-team training.

The Uruguayan was the subject of two bids from Arsenal, including an offer of 40 million pounds ($62.45 million) and one penny which he believed would trigger a release clause, something that Liverpool have denied.

AP Photo/Nick Potts, PA

Moyes Delighted With Clinical Man United Reuters

Manchester - David Moyes was a contented man after going one better than his predecessor as manager Alex Ferguson and leading Manchester United to victory in his first competitive match in charge of the club on Saturday.

United coasted to a 4-1 win at Swansea City in the opening game of their English Premier League title defence, a much better start than Ferguson made to his glittering 26-year reign at Old Trafford in an ignominious 2-0 defeat at Oxford United in 1986.

“It very much was a Manchester United display,” Moyes told the BBC. “We were clinical in attack and I am very pleased. “This is a tough place to come and we won well in the end.”

Robin van Persie and Danny

Welbeck scored two goals each to subdue a feisty Swansea side whose high-tempo passing game made life difficult for United in the opening half hour at a rainswept Liberty Stadium.

“Today was my first game at Manchester United. I was excited but it’s just work to me, it’s the same as I’ve done at Everton over the last 10 years or so,” said Moyes whose team failed to shine in their pre-season games before beating Wigan Athletic 2-0 to win the Community Shield on Sunday.

“Robin van Persie scored two brilliant goals. When he pulls the trigger it’s a goal all the way.” Van Persie continued the superb form he showed last season following his transfer from Arsenal.

BOUNCING BALL

The Dutch striker controlled a bouncing ball after 34 minutes and cleverly hooked it into the net with his unfavoured right foot to put United in front and Welbeck tapped in the second from close

range soon after.

Moyes sent on Wayne Rooney as a substitute on the hour and the England forward, whose future is the source of much media speculation, was involved in the move which set up the third goal 18 minutes from time.

Van Persie was freed to advance on a back-pedalling Swansea defence and, ignoring options either side, he lashed a fierce left-foot shot high into the net from the edge of the penalty area.

Swansea deservedly pulled one back through a neat finish by substitute Wilfried Bony but United finished the game on the front foot and added a fourth goal in stoppage time.

Rooney’s deft pass released

Welbeck down the right channel and the England striker, who scored only two goals for his club last season, dinked the ball high over goalkeeper Michel Vorm from a narrow angle and it nestled in the far corner of the net.

“I thought Danny Welbeck was terrific,” Moyes told Sky Sports.

“He sometimes doesn’t get the praise he deserves because of some of the other strikers we have. But that was a great finish.”

Swansea manager Michael Laudrup also praised United’s clinical finishing. “For the first 30 minutes we were very competitive and at moments we dominated,” he said. “You can come back from that but when they scored a second, against a team like Manchester United - it’s difficult.

Real Salt Lake defender Carlos Salcedo and Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Gyasi Zardes watch the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer game in Carson, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013.

AP Photo/Reed Saxon

Keane hat trick leads Galaxy past Salt Lake Associated Press Writer

CARSON, California — Robbie Keane scored three second-half hat trick to help the Los Angeles rally for a victory 4-2 over Major League Soccer Real Salt Lake on Saturday.

Keane scored in the 56th, 67th and 86th minutes to help the Galaxy pull four points behind Salt Lake and tighten an eight-team battle for five Western Conference playoff berths.

The top seven teams are separated by eight points, with San Jose another three points back.

Joao Plata gave Real Salt Lake a lead in the 53rd minute. Keane scored from a long pass by Jimenez to equalize, then volleyed Los Angeles ahead

11 minutes later.

Omar Gonzalez made it 3-1 with a header from Landon Donovan’s corner in the 75th, and Keane got his 10th goal of the season to complete his hat trick, lifting the ball over rushing goalkeeper Nick Rimando. Robbie Findley scored in the final minute of regulation for Salt Lake.

At Columbus, Ohio, Federico Higuain scored two goals for the second straight match, lifting Columbus to a 2-0 victory over Toronto FC. The Argentinean forward gave the Crew the lead in the 19th minute, then connected for an exquisite chip for his second in the 67th. Higuain perfectly placed a looping ball from 23 yards over the futile effort of goalkeeper Joe

Bendik, who was only a few yards off the goal line.

Montreal striker Marco Di Vaio scored twice to lead the Impact to a 2-1 win over D.C. United.

The former Italy forward scored in the in the 43rd minute before Conor Doyle equalized for D.C.in the 81st. Di Vaio then netted the winner two minutes later. Juan Agudelo returned to the New England lineup after a two-month injury to score in the 54th minute and lead the Revolution to a 2-0 win over the Chicago Fire.

Kelyn Rowe banged in a rebound of a Saer Sene shot in 1st minute of injury time for New England’s second goal.

Marseille beats Evian 2-0 in the French League Associated Press Writer

Liverpool’s Luis Suarez controls the ball against Thailand’s national soccer team during a friendly soccer match at Ratchamangkala Stadium in Bangkok, July 28, 2013.

PARIS — Marseille eased to a 2-0 win at home to Evian on Saturday as it continued its perfect start in the French league.

Last year’s runner-up took the lead in the 16th minute, when Rod Fanni lifted the ball over the defense to Andre-Pierre Gignac, who feinted past Jonathan Mensah and rifled a shot into the back of the net from the edge of the penalty area.

Marseille had several chances to double its advantage and eventually did so in the 66th minute.

Dimitri Payet, who was signed from Ligue 1 rival Lille in the offseason, controlled Mathieu Valbuena’s pass and did well to round Mensah before drilling the ball into the bottom left corner for his third goal in two matches.

“It’s a dream start for me and for the team,” Payet said. “We have six points out of six, we’re very

happy tonight. We’re managing to find each other’s rhythm, work well together. We’re scoring goals, which is important to win matches.

“It was my first home match here and being substituted to an ovation was something special for me. I’m going to continue working hard so it can happen again.”

Newly-promoted Guingamp is still without a point after losing 1-0 at Saint-Etienne, following a 3-1 defeat at home to Marseille last week and.

Fabien Lemoine played a swift one-two with Brandao on the edge of the area before firing into the top left corner to score the only goal of the game in the 52nd minute.

Nice was also reeling from a hefty 4-0 defeat at Lyon last week, but it picked up its first points of the new campaign with a 2-1 victory over Rennes.

The match was played behind closed doors due to incidents in Nice’s match against Lyon in May.

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Bolt cruises to easy win in 200 meters at worlds

Sidik Jari Museum IBP

DENPASAR - Sidik Jari Museum is a private fine art museum established and owned by I Gusti Ngurah Gede Pemecutan. It keeps the work of its owner, and its also keeps work of other artists. The uniqueness of the work here is that the paintings are done through the use of the tips of the fingers in applying different colours or paints in order to represent the artist’s imagination.

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW - Forget the race. With Usain Bolt, the real fun happens after he crosses the finish line. Now that’s entertainment. Certainly more than his 200-meter win, when the Jamaican was so far ahead of the field that he loafed to the line with teammate Warren Weir far behind him.

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates winning the men’s 200-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013.

AP Photo/David J. Phillip

And then the party was on at the world championships - Bolt style. Plenty of preening, lots of dancing and loads of over-the-top showboating. He did his trademark bow-and-arrow pose and kissed his muscles. He picked up a camera and snapped photos of Weir, who was trailing behind him just like in Saturday’s race.

“Happy to really get it done,” Bolt said.

“I pushed myself all season to be the best.”

As if there was ever any doubt.

Bolt almost worked up more of a sweat dancing than he did dashing down the track in 19.66 seconds (and that was with shutting it down with about 60 meters to go). He hopped and skipped to the reggae sounds of Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” much to the thrill of the crowd.

Guess that tender foot is quite all right, the one Bolt hurt when he dropped the starting blocks on it during a training session. Even on a bum wheel, Bolt’s still, well, Bolt.

This easy win, coupled with his leisurely stroll last weekend in the 100, gives him

seven career gold medals at the worlds.

He needs just one more to tie Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson for most-ever among men. And Bolt will go for another in the 4x100 relay on Sunday as the competition comes to a close.

“That guy is unbelievable,” said American Curtis Mitchell, who finished with the bronze medal. “I trained with him in London prior to the championships. He’s a great guy. He’s laughing and having fun.

He’s a normal guy - with superb talent.”

In this race, Bolt provided all the electricity. There was no lightning before the race, no rain drops to add to the drama.

He created the drama - or took the drama out - by pulling away after rounding the curve. Although Bolt promised to run allout all the way to the finish - and possibly make a run at his world record of 19.19 - he backed off the accelerator because of tired legs and an aching foot.

That’s good enough these days, especially with no Tyson Gay (doping offense) or Yohan Blake (hamstring injury) to push him.

Isner rallies for Cincinnati upset of del Potro

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John Isner reacts as he walks back on the court after defeating Juan Martin del Potro during a semifinal match at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, in Mason, Ohio.

Isner won 6-7 (5), 7-6 (9), 6-3.

MASON, Ohio — Unseeded American John Isner rallied from losing a first-set tiebreaker to upset seventh-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 6-7 (4), 7-6 (9), 6-3 in a grueling Western & Southern Open semifinal Saturday.

Isner, who fell from No. 20 to 22 this week, will return to the top 20 after a stimulating Cincinnati run that includes beating three straight top-10 players for the first time in his career while earning his second Masters 1000 series finals appearance and first in Cincinnati. His previous Masters 1000 final appearance was at Indian Wells in 2012.

“It’s awesome to be at this stage again,” said Isner, who beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals and No. 8 Richard Gasquet in the second round.

“I’ve been playing pretty well this season, but this tournament is where I’ve really started to put it all together. I’m playing pretty well in all facets of the game.”

Isner, in his first appearance in the tournament’s semifinals, had been 0-4 against the Argentine. He’ll play third-seeded Rafael Nadal, who beat sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych 7-5, 7-6 (4) in the other semifinal to reach the tournament final for the first time in nine appearances.

“This is one tournament that I’ve never been able to play well, so it’s something special to play well in a place I never did in the

past,” said Nadal, 3-0 in his career against Isner. “I’m very happy for that. I am having the right feelings on court. I’m playing aggressive, and the crowd here is great.”

Nadal extended his personal winning streak against the Czech to 14 matches while improving his overall season record 52-3, including 14-0 on hardcourts.

After winning at Montreal last week, the Spaniard will be making back-to-back appearances in hardcourt finals for the first time in his career. He’s 15-1 against top-10 players this season.

Top-ranked Serena Williams also will be making her first career appearance in the event’s championship match after ousting defending champion Li Na, 7-5, 7-5, in the first women’s semifinal. Williams, seeking her ninth title of the year, advanced when Li double-faulted on match point. Williams improved to 60-3 this season.

“I really would not have predicted myself being in the finals here at all, so it’s definitely pretty exciting for me,” said Williams, who clinched the 2013 Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series women’s title with the win and can earn a $1 million bonus if she wins the U.S. Open. “Really unexpected for me, too. I came in here not playing my best, and now I’m in the final.

It’s just almost weird.”

Williams will play second-seeded Victoria Azarenka in Sunday’s final. Azarenka beat 14th-seeded Jelena Jankovic 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in a semifinal that featured 23 service

breaks in 27 games.

Isner needed 2 hours, 47 minutes to improve to 16-3 since retiring from Wimbledon in the second round because of a left knee injury. He finished off the win when del Potro sent a backhand from the baseline into the net.

Despite tossing into a persistent swirling breeze and bright sunshine, both players served so effectively early that the first set included just one break point, fought off by the 22nd-ranked Isner. The 6-foot-6 Del Potro came up with a crucial minibreak on the 11th point of the tiebreaker when Isner sailed his backhand volley wide to lose the set.

Del Potro broke Isner in the eighth game of the second set to put himself into position to serve for the match, but he double-faulted on match point and Isner came up with his own break to stay alive and eventually force a tiebreak that he won when del Potro sent a forehand wide to the deuce court.

“I think I lost the match in the second set,” del Potro said. “That was my chance to beat him. He was fighting all the time and deserved to win the third set, but I missed my chance.”

“I know, at that moment, that the sun on that side was pretty bad,” said Isner, who can become the first American to win the tournament since Andy Roddick in 2006.

“We both struggled with that for about 30 minutes.”

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Obama golfs with Larry David on last vacation day Associated Press Writer

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. - President Barack Obama hit the links on his Martha’s Vineyard vacation with comedian Larry David.

The president played five hours of golf Saturday in an unlikely foursome that included the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star, former U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk and businessman Glenn Hutchins, a part owner of the Boston Celtics.

Obama spent a couple hours Saturday morning with his wife and daughters on a private beach on the island’s south shore. The first family went out for dinner Saturday night at The Boathouse Restaurant, which overlooks the harbor in historic Edgartown.

The president has kept a low profile during his stay and spent most days golfing. He spoke out publicly only once, to condemn escalating violence in Egypt. He flies back to Washington on Sunday night.

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INDONESIA Gunmen shoot dead two policemen Agence France-Presse

TANGERANG - Motorcycle gunmen shot dead two policemen on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital overnight, officials said Saturday, the latest in a series attacks against officers.

The two gunmen drove up to a police station on the southwest of Jakarta and shot one policeman on the street in the back of the head, national police spokesman Ronny Sompie said.

Four officers in a police car gave chase, but the driver was shot dead after crashing into the bike. One of the suspects drove off on the bike and the other ran away.

“The police crashed into the motorbike. The officer driving

Aircraft used to battle Idaho fire as smoke clears

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FILE-- In this file photo of Wednesday April 24, 2013, A Somali baby receives a polio vaccine, at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Somalia polio outbreak spreads; 105 recorded cases Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia is suffering an “explosive” outbreak of polio and now has more cases than the rest of the world combined, an official said Friday. Vaccine-wielding health workers face a daunting challenge: accessing areas of Somalia controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants, where 7 of 10 children aren’t fully immunized.

Polio is mostly considered eliminated globally except mainly in three countries where it is considered endemic: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. India marked a major success in February 2012 by being removed from the World Health Organization’s list of countries plagued by the disease.

Somalia now has 105 cases, figures released Friday show, and another 10 cases have been confirmed across the border in a Kenyan refugee camp filled with Somalis. Globally there have been 181 cases of polio this year, including those in Somalia and Kenya.

Vaccination campaigns in Somalia have reached 4 million people since the outbreak began in May, but those health officials have limited access to about 600,000 children who live

in areas of Somalia controlled by the armed Islamist group alShabab.

“It’s very worrying because it’s an explosive outbreak and of course polio is a disease that is slated for eradication,” said Oliver Rosenbauer, a spokesman for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the World Health Organization in Geneva. “In fact we’re seeing more cases in this area this year than in the three endemic countries worldwide.”

In a bit of good news, Rosenbauer said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that polio numbers are down in the three remaining endemic countries. “The only way to get rid of this risk is to eradicate in the endemic countries, and there the news is actually paradoxically very good,” he said.

Somalia was removed from the list of endemic polio countries in 2001, and this year’s outbreak is the second since then.

It began one month after Bill Gates helped unveil a six-year plan to eradicate polio at the Global Vaccine Summit. That effort will cost $5.5 billion, threequarters of which has already been pledged, including $1.8 billion from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The outbreak in Somalia does not set back the six-year plan, said Rosenbauer, because unpredictable and intermittent outbreaks were programmed into the timeline.

In al-Shabab controlled southcentral Somalia, disease surveillance is functioning, but health officials are likely not able to detect all polio cases.

HAILEY, Idaho — Fire crews on Saturday faced another challenging day battling a rapidly growing wildfire burning closer to two posh central Idaho resort communities, while other blazes in the West charred homes and devoured dry grass and brush.

In northern Utah, about 10 homes were destroyed when a wildfire raced through the community of Willow Springs late Friday, jumping a state highway and fire lines, authorities said.

As of midday Saturday, the Patch Springs Fire had burned more than 50 square miles. It was 20 percent contained.

In Idaho, the Beaver Creek Fire grew by 15 square miles late Friday and early Saturday, to 144 square miles. Overnight, flames moved closer to homes and subdivisions in the mountains west and north of the communities of Hailey and Ketchum and the Sun Valley Resort.

So far, authorities have issued mandatory evacuations for 1,600 residences in the valley, which serves as a vacation getaway for celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Hanks.

The blaze was started by lightning Aug. 7. It expanded significantly Friday, burning through tinder-dry brush and timber in the mountains west of the towns. Efforts Saturday were focused on protecting homes and structures in the gulches and foothills just west of Hailey and Ketchum.

Crews also planned to target erratic, wind-driven fire growth in one area north of Ketchum and two locations west of Hailey.

Heavy smoke that grounded firefighting aircraft early Saturday cleared enough to allow helicopters and a huge DC-10 tanker to start making drops in the afternoon.

Fire managers and more than 700 firefighters braced for another dose of hot temperatures and afternoon wind gusts up to 30 mph that could move flames closer to homes. Hundreds more firefighters were expected to arrive Saturday.

“This fire is consuming everything,” fire spokeswoman Madonna Lengerich said. “The fire is so hot, it’s just cremating even the biggest trees.”

Decree...

From page 1 Thirdly, the Presidential Decree No.122/2012 on the Reclamation of Coastal Areas and Small Islands where in Article 2 paragraph (3) is mentioned that reclamation cannot be done in conservation area and sea lane. Fourthly, it is also considered to have infringed the Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 on the Bali Provincial Spatial Plan (RTRWP). In addition, the gubernatorial decree does not include the Law No.32/2009 on the Protection and Management of the Environment as a legal reference.

Previously, on several occasions to media crews Pastika insisted and was reluctant to revoke the decree. He argued if it had been based on procedures and did not violate the laws. (kmb29)

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An armed paramilitary police guards the site where a police officer was shot and killed in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013.

got out and was shot dead in an exchange of gunfire,” Sompie said.

The shooting at the Pondok Aren police station in Tangerang district was the latest in a series of attacks against police officers.

Nobody has yet claimed responsibility but anti-terror police were dispatched to scour the streets for the two men.

Indonesia has been waging a campaign against Islamist militants for more than a decade and has successfully dismantled some of the deadliest groups.

Police officers have been the main target of recent attacks, which have included several deadly shootings, most in the district of Poso on central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.

Government unveils growth-boosting election year budget

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s president unveiled an ambitious 2014 draft budget Friday aimed at boosting a slowing economy before elections next year as his scandal-plagued party struggles to claw back popularity.

Once a darling with investors, Southeast Asia’s top economy has this year been faced with slowing growth, high inflation and a plunge in the value of the rupiah.

With the economy set to be a key battleground at presidential and legislative polls in 2014, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is desperate to restore the nation’s financial health.

Announcing the $173-billion budget to parliament, Yudhoyono insisted the package would ensure that “Indonesia will be in a better position to overcome the challenges that may emerge”.

The main themes of the budget were boosting consumer spending, a main driver of Indonesia’s economic boom, overhauling the nation’s ageing infrastructure to encourage investment, and narrowing current account and budget deficits.

He said the government would implement a “keep buying strategy” to make sure consumer spending remained strong, something economists

believe is key to maintaining economic growth as global demand for Indonesian commodities weakens.

“We acknowledge our infrastructure is far from perfect,” he conceded, vowing that major road, port and airport projects would be completed.

Investors often complain that doing business in the sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands is complicated by potholed roads, a creaking train network, leaky old boats and poor aviation infrastructure.

He also said the country would look at new markets to try to put the brake on a widening trade deficit, blamed on falling Chinese demand for Indonesian exports such as coal and palm oil.

Yudhoyono insisted he had already helped to lift some of the strain off the budget by hiking the price of fuel by up to 44 percent in June, reducing huge subsidies that were blamed for making the budget deficit balloon.

The budget still needs parliamentary approval.

The president’s ruling Democratic Party faces a tough time at next year’s elections following a string of scandals affecting leading party figures and without any obvious successor for Yudhoyono.

The president cannot stand in 2014 as he is constitutionally barred from running for a third term.

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Participants struggle during a greased pole climbing competition held as a part of independence day celebration at Jaya Ancol Dream Park in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. Indonesia is celebrating its 68th independence from the Dutch colonial rule.

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Fishery exports up 17 percent

Governments face extra debt costs

DENPASAR - Bali exported US$44.54 million worth of fishery commodities in the first five months of the year, up 16.95 percent from the same period last year. The fishery sector contributed 20.54 percent to Bali’s total export value of US$216.92 billion in the five months period.

Fresh and frozen tuna dominated the exports of eight types of fishery commodities from Bali in value.

Tuna exports, fresh and frozen, totaled 5,114 tons valued at US$28.36 million in the January-May period, according to data from Bali Central Statistic Agency (BPS).

The volume and value of tuna exports rose 3.88 percent and 5.35 percent respectively over the same period last year.

Other fishery commodities exported from Bali included the groupers, decorative fish, skip jacks, crabs, lobsters, shark fins, and sea weed.

Japan is the main market for fishery commodities from Bali, followed by the United States and Australia.

Other export destinations included Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Britain, France, Germany and Spain.

PARIS - Governments face a rise in their borrowing costs due to the winding down of monetary stimulus programmes and as investors bet on central banks hiking interest rates sooner than promised. the beginning of the year.

Ten-year British gilts were at 2.704 percent Friday, up from 2.401 percent at the beginning of August and 1.990 percent at the beginning of the year.

At the height of the eurozone debt crisis, some eurozone money flowed into less risky bonds, such as French debt. But as the debt crisis eases, bond yields for the countries in trouble have fallen and there are signs that yields on the safe haven countries may rise, with French bonds being closely watched.

For Germany, the yield on 10-year Bunds was 1.881 percent on Friday, up from 1.667 percent at the beginning of the month and 1.442 percent at the beginning of 2013.

F r a n c e ’s 1 0 - y e a r b o n d s yielded 2.400 percent Friday, up from 2.223 percent at the beginning of August and 2.077 percent at the beginning of the year.

The drop in sovereign bond yields to exceptionally low levels, thanks to the ultra-low interest rates set by central banks and huge monetary stimulus programmes, have masked the debt problems the countries face.

Now their governments face having to pay more to finance new debt as their borrowing costs rise in line with the yields on the secondary market where debt issued previously is traded.

The rise in sovereign yields has come even though central banks have pledged to keep those near-zero rates for the foreseeable future.

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Agence France-Presse

Moody’s Analytics warned this week that “US rates could rise as the Fed moves to slow its purchases of long-term debt, which in turn could push up the yields on European government bonds.”

That has already begun.

The yield on the debt of the United States and top European countries, as well as emerging economies, has risen recently as investors bet that the US Federal Reserve could begin as soon as in September to lower the amount of monetary stimulus it injects into the economy.

The $85 billion (64 billion euros) per month that the Fed has ploughed into the US economy led to lower bond yields in the United States, as well in many other countries as easy money went abroad from the United States in search of somewhat higher risk and yields elsewhere.

B u t r e c e n t l y, i n v e s t o r s have factored in the prospect of the easy money tap being slowly closed down. This has pushed up yields on US Treasury bonds, and has caused some of the money placed abroad to be withdrawn, pushing up sovereign bond yields elsewhere.

The rate of return for investors on 10-year US Tr e a s u r i e s r o s e t o 2 - y e a r highs this past week, implying a more than 50 percent increase in US borrowing costs since the beginning of the year.

On Friday, 10-year Treasuries were trading at 2.812 percent, up from 2.689 percent at the beginning of the month and 1.828 percent at

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Bali exported US$44.54 million worth of fishery commodities in the first five months of the year, up 16.95 percent from the same period last year. The fishery sector contributed 20.54 percent to Bali’s total export value of US$216.92 billion in the five months period.

Export of silver product worth US$8.71 million

AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File

In this Feb. 20, 2012 file photo, port workers watch as steel pipes are loaded onto a freighter ship at Cao Feidian Port in Tangshan, in northern China’s Hebei province. The European Union on Friday asked the World Trade Organization to rule in a dispute over Chinese anti-dumping duties imposed on steel pipes imported from EU countries.

EU asks WTO panel to rule on China’s steel duties Associated Press

BEIJ IN G — The European Union on Friday asked the World Trade Organization to rule in a dispute over Chinese anti-dumping duties imposed on steel pipes imported from EU countries.

The EU said in a news release that it made the request to the WTO after unsuccessful consultations in July to resolve the dispute over the duties imposed by China on imports of high-performance stainless steel seamless tubes from EU countries.

“The EU continues its fight against unjustified Chinese trade defense measures, which do not comply with WTO rules and often seem to be motivated by retalia-

tion,” said EU Trade spokesman John Clancy in the statement.

But Beijing has said the duties would protect Chinese companies.

“This is not an act of retaliation but to protect the domestic steel trade,” said analyst Zhang Lin in a statement posted on the official site of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce in June when the EU lodged a complaint with WTO. The statement says China’s steel products are often subject to antidumping investigations in overseas markets. “It is a reasonable and logical measure for hitting back,” Zhang said.

China and the EU have been embroiled in a series of trade tiffs.

A dispute over China’s solar panels

was defused in July after Chinese companies agreed to set minimum prices. Meanwhile, the Chinese commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said last week that Beijing continued to investigate whether the EU has been dumping its wine and poly silicon products in China.

China imposed anti-dumping duties ranging from 9.2 percent to 14.4 percent on the highperformance steel pipes imported from EU countries and Japan in 2012.

The EU said that the duties have significantly hampered its access to the Chinese market and that the WTO consultations — joined by Japan and held in mid-July — were unsuccessful.

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DENPASAR - Bali’s exports of silver handicrafts from January to May 2013 amounted to US$8.71 million, up 1.64 percent from the same period last year, an official said.

“However, Bali’s export volume during this five-month period in 2013 declined by 31.84 percent, with 2.94 million pieces exported during this period in 2012 compared with 2.04 million pieces exported during the same period in 2013,” stated Head of Bali Central Statistic Agency (BPS) I Gede Suarsa.

The data indicated an ongoing increase in the price of Bali’s exports of silver handicrafts, he said.

According to Suarsa, in 2013, 28.83 percent of these exports went to Singapore, 17.93 percent to Hong Kong, 13.09 percent to the United States, 14.43 percent to Australia, 0.34 percent to France, 0.18 percent to Japan, 8.10 percent to the Netherlands, 1.86 percent to England, and 2.1 percent to Germany.

Another 13.23 percent went to several other countries. He adding that Bali’s silver handicrafts were one of 17 types of local handicrafts that have penetrated the global market.

These handicrafts are very popular with tourists, who purchase these items to take home to their own countries.

Solomon Island PM visited BSMP

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GIANYAR - On Tuesday, 13 August 2013, Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP) visited by special guests.

He is Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Hon Gordon Darcy Lilo, first lady Bronwyn Lilo and his delegation. The prime minister and his delegation also accompanied by ambassador of China, Imron Cotan and ambassador of Papua New Guinea, Andreas Sitepu.

They welcomed by Deputy General Manager of Bali Safari & Marine Park, Ana Dewi Permana.

It was the first trip to Bali Safari & Marine Park for the prime minister. The visit is especially to taste unique dining experience at Tsavo Lion Restaurant and wacth Bali Agung Show. “It’s a fantastic show about the fascinating people of Indonesia. I am so grateful for the honour to wacth the show,” said the prime minister after watched Bali Agung Show. He and the first lady also took picture with casts of Bali Agung Show.

Tsavo Lion Restaurant and Bali Agung Show are part of Bali Safari & Marine Park that present unique and wonderful experience to its guests. In Tsavo Lion Restaurant, guests can enjoy high quality Western, Asian, Balinese and African food while wacthing wild life of lion and lioness. Meanwhile, Bali Agung Show is a theatre with 1,200 capacity that present Balinese legend story. The show is supported by hundreads dancer in beautiful costume and choreography and composed by well known composer, Chong Lim.

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Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Hon Gordon Darcy Lilo (middle) during his visit to BSMP to watch Bali Agung Show.

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The workers are working on the statue project on Kediri Road, Tabanan

Reap protest, Bung Karno statue project continues

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Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Rampant protest against the Bung Karno statue project in Kediri roundabout was frigidly responded by Tabanan government. As evidence, the prestigious project construction continued on Thursday (Aug 15). Even, the project seemed to be accelerated.

A number of workers were busy installing stonework at the pedestal wall.

Continuation of the statue project kindled the reaction of Tabanan residents. A figure from Penebel, Wayan Gede Sutarja, accused the county government of acting like a deaf person that did not listen to people’s aspirations. “It’s very unfortunate. Waves of protest were ignored like the passing wind,” criticized the chief of Sunantaya customary village, Penebel. This candidate of Tabanan House assessed the regent and deputy regent of Tabanan just rekindled the spirit of Bung Karno. However, they did not listen to people’s aspirations. “Listen to people’s aspirations, do not wait another protest,” he protested. According to him, the figure Bung Karno always listened to people’s aspirations, did not keep silent. Then, Bung Karno was a figure who always appreciated the philosophy and culture.

With the insistence of the county government, the man nicknamed Ki Bendesa invited the people of Tabanan to come down the street to protest the statue project. “When they still insist on continuing, if necessary, let’s come down the street compactly to reject the policy of the Regent of Tabanan,” he said.

Similar protest also came out from the Deputy Chairman of the Tabanan House, Nyoman Suarsedana. This Golkar politician even challenged the House to make a recommendation on behalf of the institution to reject the statue project. “All this time, the comments were only revealed by the legislator individually. Necessarily, it should be made a plenary session and issued an official recommendation to reject the statue project,” he urged.

This measure, said Suarsedana, proved the House to have responded to people’s aspirations.

Moreover, the protest against the demolition of Vishnu Murti statue to be replaced with the Sukarno statue increasingly spread beyond Tabanan.

“Essentially, the House made a firm stand on behalf of the institution. Reject the Bung Karno statue project and return to the Vishnu Murti statue as before,” said the man from Marga. He hoped the recommendation of the House would not become a toothless tiger on paper. However, it should be accompanied with real action. He said the House’s decision bound to the philosophical, customary and cultural studies of Bali.

Within the past fortnight, the Bung Karno statue project continued to reap criticism.

Not only from residents of Tabanan, had some humanists of Bali and the Head of the Archaeological Agency for Bali and Nusra also commented. They deplored the demolition of Vishnu Murti statue that would be replaced with the Bung Karno statue. It was a sculpture donated by maestro Nuarta settled in Bandung, West Java. (kmb30)

If you have more time in Tanah Lot tourist attraction, you must try to walk along in surounding Tanah Lot area. You will find another beach beside Tanah Lot area that have ever seen before. That is located in the west side of Batu Mejan beach, exactly close with Surya Mandala Cultural Park Tanah Lot. The beach named “Yeh Kutikan” beach which include to Tanah Lot area. This beach truly never visit by visitor before, not like Tanah Lot. Because of the location is not easy to reached. But you must try to visit this beach because this beach also unique too.

On this beach there is waterfall too. The water coming from the river which exist above it. Above there is rice field carpet with green color if there is springtime season and with yellow color if there is crop season. Also, that place used for some event which performed in Tanah Lot area like last year such as kites festival on year 2006, 2007 and 2008. Because that venue very compatible and supporting to perform every event like kites festival. Even, this venue known as wide venue to perform kites festival in Bali.

Known for sunbathing and surfing, Yeh Kutikan is for those looking for a quiet beach where the life is easy and relaxing. Traditional Balinese fishermen here still use the beach and sea for livinghood, it offers a unique view to behold. Yeh Kutikan offers the visitors a double magnificent scene to see, a beautiful beach in front of you and mesmerizing rice fields complete with their wildlife – thousands of birds and butterflies are right behind you.

If day before evening, this place also very suitable for watching sunset besides from enjung galuh area, batubolong area, and sunset terrace.

From this place you can direct to watching sunset while enjoying the panorama of blue ocean. Also if you dont want to very close with coastal edge, you can try to having relax at Surya Mandala Cultural Park (open stage) or wasting evening time in Melasti Cafe Tanah Lot until sunset happen while having dinner or just enjoying a cup of tea.

School Carnival to welcome Independence Day

Bangli (Bali Post)—

In conjunction with the 68th commemoration of the Independence Day of the RI, it had been organized a carnival of kindergarten and elementary school students released in person by the Regent of Bangli I Made Gianyar and the Mother of Preschool Mrs. Erik

Gianyar in the square in front of the office of the Regent of Bangli, Thursday (Aug 15). The event was attended by Regional Leadership Council (Muspida), Acting Regional Secretary of Bangli and the heads of Bangli regional working unit.

The carnival organized by the P3 Agency in the effort to grace the Independence Day was filled up with

marching band of the SMPN 1 Bangli junior high school. For kindergarten level, the carnival was followed by TK Widyadarma, TK Widyadarma Pertiwi, TK Santo Yusuf, TK Kemala Bhayangkari, TK Negeri Pembina Bangli, TK Bilingual School, TK Prawidyalaya Gurukula, TK Lingga Kumara and TK Abdi Kumara Santi with a total participant of 280 stu-

dents. It was started from in front of the Bangli Regent’s office heading for the east (Jalan Lettu Kanten southwards to Jalan Merdeka, turned left to Jalan Lila, in front of the mosque and ended in Captain Mudita Square).

Meanwhile, the participant of the decorated bike carnival consisted of the elementary schools like SDN 1, 2, 4 Kubu, SDN 1, 2, 3 Cempaga,

SDN 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Kawan and SDN 1, 2, 3 Bebalang with a total of 148 participants. All the participants were released in front of the office of Bangli Regent and then moved northwards on Jalan Ngurah Rai, Jalan Kusuma Yuda to Jalan Nusantara southwards to Jalan Lettu Lila and ended at Captain Mudita Square. The theme featured in the event was Geopark. (ina)

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An oil slick is formed at the site as Philippine Navy and Coast Guard divers continue their search and rescue operation off Talisay coast, Cebu province Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 following Friday night’s collision of the passenger ferry MV Thomas Aquinas and the cargo ship MV Sulpicio Express Siete in central Philippines.

34 dead, dozens missing in sunken Philippine ferry

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Associated Press Writer

CEBU, Philippines - Divers plucked two more bodies from a sunken passenger ferry on Sunday and scrambled to plug an oil leak in the wreckage after a collision with a cargo ship. The accident near the central Philippine port of Cebu that has left 34 dead and more than 80 others missing.

Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III said 751 passengers and crewmen of the MV Thomas Aquinas have been rescued after the inter-island ferry was in a collision late Friday with the MV Sulpicio Express Siete then rapidly sank off the Cebu pier.

Stunned passengers were forced to jump in the dark into the water after the captain ordered the doomed ferry abandoned.

Coast guard, navy and fishing vessels, backed by helicopters, scoured the choppy seas off Talisay city in Cebu, about 570 kilometers (350

miles) south of Manila, Sunday but found no sign of any more survivors.

Divers, however, retrieved the bodies of a man and a woman in the ferry, which sank in waters about 33 meters (100 feet) deep. “We’re still on a rescue mission,” Davide told reporters.

“We have not given up on them.”

Relatives flocked to a ticketing office of ferry owner, 2GO Group Inc., and pasted pictures of their missing loved ones. Others, like Richard Ortiz, waited quietly and stared blankly at the vast sea from the Talisay pier, where coast guard

and navy rescuers have encamped.

“I just want to see my parents,” said Ortiz, who clutched a picture of his father and mother. “This is so difficult.”

Amid initial confusion over the number of ferry passengers and the missing, Cebu coast guard chief Commodore William Melad said authorities reported that there were 870 people on board the ferry, including 754 passengers and 116 crewmen.

The more than 30 crewmen of the MV Sulpicio Express Siete cargo ship, which had a huge gaping hole in its bow, were all safe, officials said.

Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Abaya said Saturday there were foreigners among the ferry passengers and all were fine, except for a New Zealand citizen who was brought to a hospital.

BEIJING - The trial of disgraced senior Chinese politician Bo Xilai will start on Thursday, Xinhua state news agency said, when he will face charges of bribery, corruption and abuse of power in an early test of new President Xi Jinping’s campaign against graft.

The trial of Bo, 64, a “princeling” son of a late vice premier who is still popular with conservatives and the disaffected, is the country’s most divisive since the 1976 downfall of Mao Zedong’s widow, Jiang Qing, and her Gang of Four at the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, and his estranged police chief, Wang Lijun, have both been jailed over the scandal stemming from the November 2011 murder of British businessman Neil Heywood in the southwestern city of Chongqing, where Bo was Communist Party chief.

Bo’s trial will open at the Intermediate People’s Court in Jinan, capital of the coastal province of Shandong, at 8:30 a.m. (0030

GMT) on Thursday, Xinhua said in a terse report on Sunday. It gave no further details.

It is almost certain Bo will be convicted as China’s prosecutors and judges are controlled by the ruling Communist Party.

How Bo’s case is handled will be a test of the effectiveness of Xi’s battle against corruption and also show how he has been able to stamp his authority on the party, which he leads.

Xi has vowed to fight both “tigers” and “flies” - in other words people at every level of the party as he combats a pervasive graft, so serious he has warned it threatens the party’s very survival.

However, his campaign has so far netted precious few “tigers”, and in any case the Bo scandal predates Xi’s time as national leader.

Bo, a former commerce minister, used his post as party boss of Chongqing to cast the sprawling, haze-covered municipality into a showcase for his mix of populist policies and bold spending plans that won support from leftists yearning for a charismatic leader.

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File

FILE - In this March 14, 2012 file photo, Bo Xilai, then Chongqing party secretary, attends the closing session of the annual National People’s Congress in the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China.

Merkel warns against over-confidence ahead of September election

Reuters

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel warned her supporters on Saturday against complacency ahead of the September 22 election, voicing fears that three leftist parties could unexpectedly join forces to oust her center-right coalition after ballots are counted.

Even though Merkel’s conservatives hold a 16-point lead over the Social Democrats (SPD) in opinion polls, the chancellor told a rally in Cloppenburg the SPD might still break a vow and form a coalition with the ostracized far left “Linke”,

or Left Party.

The SPD and Greens, who have ruled out a coalition with the Left, trail Merkel’s center-right coalition by about eight points in polls. But the ruling coalition fears the SPD and Greens will ignore past promises and form a government with the Left, popular in the east and on 8 percent in voter surveys.

“Those who think the election is already in the bag and Merkel will still be chancellor no matter what might be in for a rude awakening after the polls close,” Merkel said, speaking in Lower Saxony state where her Christian Democrats lost

power to the SPD and Greens in a stunning upset in January.

“Those who think this election is already won might wake up and see Germany has a government with the Left Party in it,” she added, articulating the governing coalition’s fear that the lure of power could be too strong for the SDP. The Left traces its origins to the Communist Party in the former East Germany and has been ostracized by other mainstream parties.

“The election outcome is anything but certain,” said Merkel, who saw big opinion poll leads before the 2005 and 2009 elections melt

away. She launched her 56-stop election campaign on Wednesday.

An opinion poll published on Friday showed Merkel’s centerright coalition was in a 46-46 dead heat against three leftist opposition parties. If her center-right coalition falls short, many analysts expect the conservatives and SPD to form another “grand coalition”.

But SPD chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck, who spoke at a rally to some 300,000 in Berlin on Saturday, rules that option out for himself. Many in the SPD oppose teaming up with Merkel as the SPD’s support crumbled after the

last grand coalition.

“I’ve never seen a sight like this,” said Steinbrueck, at the rally at the Brandenburg Gate, part of celebrations this year marking the SPD’s 150th anniversary.

He drew applause during his 50-minute speech for promising to introduce a minimum wage should he take office.

“We need more ‘we together’ in this country again and not millions of sharp elbows,” he said. “I want Germany to be a country where it doesn’t matter where you come from but where the only thing that matters is where you want to go.”

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NYC museum exhibit shows virtues of living small

Working forces in Bali dominate by primary school-graduate

Associated Press Writer

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NEW YORK — Many New Yorkers live in small apartments, yet most of them don’t camp out in a micro-unit at a museum in order to demonstrate the virtues of living in tight spaces.

DENPASAR - As a world’s tourist destination, Bali goes through a terrible growth. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali noted the economic growth reached 2.18 percent in the second quarter of 2013. Bali also got domestic investments (PMDN) and foreign investment (PMA) reaching IDR 3,168,885,401,728.00 (March 2013).

Challie Stillman and Lina Franco arrived at the Museum of the City of New York at 6 p.m. Friday for a 24-hour stay in a studio apartment that’s part of an exhibit called “Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers.”

The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 2, also features designs that were submitted to a small-apartment competition announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg last year.

Stillman and Franco normally live in a 650-square-foot (60-squaremeter) apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The museum’s 325-square-foot (30-square-meter) studio is half that size but seems spacious because of the specially designed furniture and appliances.

The murphy bed includes a couch that slides under when the bed is out of the wall. A chair converts to a stepladder for reaching storage spaces. The kitchen’s under-the-counter refrigerator, freezer and dishwasher leave ample work space. Stillman and Franco invited six friends for dinner Friday, but they had food delivered because

the appliances are not hooked up.

“Everyone had a place to sit, had a place to eat, and it worked out perfectly,” said Stillman, who is the design director for Resource Furniture, the distributor of the furniture in the apartment. Stillman said it would be possible for two people to live in the apartment for real.

“You’d have to edit your belongings, definitely,” she said. “And also, you have to be neat. Everything has to have its place, and if it’s not in its place, and it’s messy in here, you’re going to start to get agitated.” Her partner, Franco, a lawyer, couldn’t quite see living in the micro-apartment.

“We would need a little more closet space,” she said. “We’re both girls and we have clothes. And shoes.” Visitors to the exhibit Saturday said they were impressed.

“I would totally live in that apartment if I were on my own,” said Rebecca Hersh of Highland Park, New Jersey, who was accompanied by her mother, Pam, and her two children, ages 6 and 4. “It’s all about good design.”

AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

Challie Stillman, left, speaks to Yolanda Concepcion in the kitchen area during the “Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers,” exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013.

Cadillac shows off big two-door coupe concept car Associated Press Writer

DETROIT — Cadillac is showing off a low-lying two-door coupe

that likely is the prototype for the brand’s re-entry into the big, elegant and expensive luxury car market.

The four-seat Elmiraj concept

car, with steep angles at the corners, vertical LED headlamps and huge 22-inch (55.8-centimeter) wheels, was unveiled Thursday at a luxury

car event in Carmel, California.

The car, about the length of an Audi A8 or Mercedes S-Class, is built on the underpinnings of a new full-sized Cadillac sedan that is under development, said David Caldwell, a spokesman for the General Motors brand. GM CEO Dan Akerson has said a new ultra-luxury rear-drive Cadillac is coming in the next two years.

The look of the Elmiraj could show up in the new sedan, and a coupe is an option as a variation of the new car, Caldwell said.

The Elmiraj is 205 inches long, about five inches (12.7 centimeters) longer than the XTS, which currently is the biggest Cadillac. If the Elmiraj or the sedan go into production, they would be GM’s first entry into the large luxury performance car category since the DTS went out of production in 2010.

“It explores performance driving, as well as how we’re approaching elevating the Cadillac range,” Mark Adams, the brand’s design director, said in a statement.

Cadillac said the Elmiraj will

take advantage of lightweight metals to cut weight and raise fuel economy. But the car will be powered by a 4.5-liter, twin-turbo V8 that puts out around 500 horsepower.

Inside, the Elmiraj has highperformance seats that are designed to support spirited driving, Cadillac said. The dash has backlit titanium trim with camel leather and wood trim from hand-picked fallen Brazilian rosewood. The car also has a large 10-inch (25.4-centimeter), high-resolution touch screen for navigation and Internet connectivity. The screen can be hidden in the instrument panel when not in use.

The car was designed at GM’s studios in North Hollywood, California., and built by hand in Michigan. Designers were influenced by the 1967 Cadillac Eldorado twodoor luxury coupe, as well as the CTS-V coupe now on the market, Cadillac said.

Caldwell said it’s too early to say when or if the Elmiraj would go on sale or how much it would cost. Its Audi and Mercedes competitors start from $75,000 to $90,000.

Unluckily, amidst the rapid growth, thousands of Balinese people were only recorded as workers with the elementary education background. As of February 2013, there were 910,770 people (38.74 percent) working as a laborer. Percentage of the workers having the status as laborer toward the working population in February 2013 reached over 2,350,990 compared to the conditions of the same month in the previous year amounting to 821,470 people (36.36 percent).

Besides, the percentage of people working with the elementary school education and lower was also quite staggering. As of February 2013, they reached 983,390 people (41.83 percent).

This figure slightly increased compared to August 2012 reaching 912,470 people (40.22 percent). Meanwhile, a total of 121,670 workers (5.18 percent) had diploma education and 186,130 workers (7.92 percent) had bachelor education. The workforce in the same period also increased by 80,340 people or reached 2,396,370 people compared to the workforce in August 2012 (2,316,030 people) or increased by 88,820 people from the workforce in February 2012 (2,307,550 people).

High increase in the workforce without balanced absorption of job opportuni-

ties would increase the unemployment rate. On that account, theoretically, 1 percent of the economic growth would absorb about 300,000 workforce or maximally 400,000 people.

Nevertheless, the Head of BPS Bali, Gede Suarsa, judged the labor conditions in Bali was quite good. It was evident from the high number of working population and the decrease in the unemployment rate. Of a total of 3,036,770 working-age population, as many as 2,396,370 people belonged to workforce. In other words, the workforce participation rate (TPAK) reached 78.91 percent.

Meanwhile, a total of 640,400 other people were classified into nonworkforce, namely those that only had school activities and cared of household and others. Workforce was divided into the group of working population and the unemployed. In February 2013, the working population reached 2,350,990 people or 98.11 percent of the total workforce, and the other 1.89 percent was not absorbed in the job opportunities.

Along with the increase in the number of working people from 2012, both in February 2012 and August 2012 to February 2013, the number of the unemployed people decreased. In

February 2013, the unemployment in Bali reached 45,380 people. The number decreased in August 2012 as many as 47,330 people and the number in February 2012 reached 48,590 people.

Thus, the open unemployment rate (TPT) in Bali in February 2013 (1.89 percent) showed a decrease compared to February 2012 (2.11 percent) and August 2012 (2.04 percent).

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Tegallalang subdistrict.

Wayang Wong dance is the ancestral heritage of the people of Pujung Kaja hamlet, Telepud customary village, Sebatu. When tourism started to come to Bali, particularly to Ubud, the Dewa Kusala Rata art troupe of Telepud frequently made a performance to entertain guests. At that time, the performances were under coordinator of Pande Bagia until they could purchase land which has now become the asset of the artists.

In the world of tourism, the art of Wayang Wong dance was first watched by Jack Bronet from French.

His interest then spread to the other travelers. Even, the classical art troupe was finally invited to the country. For tourism need, the troupe had duplicated the Wayang Wong to be staged. In particular years like the 1975, 1990 and 1996, the Wayang Wong troupe was invited to Europe.

Meanwhile, similar performance was also made in Malaysia in 1978. Even,

during the performance in Europe, one of the artists playing the Dewi Shinta figure, Ni Made Jujul, died from a stomachache.

Amidst the current tourism development, with the label of the art and cultural preservation, the traditional artists lead to an apprehensive period.

Sweet memories to share the tourism pie through the arts increasingly fade.

The presence of modern artists from outside combining the contemporary style becomes preferable option for tourism component to jazz up their events.

The artists of Wayang Wong doubling as Secretary of the Wayang Wong Cooperative, I Wayan Gine, said the presence of modern art today had caused the local consumption either for the community and the tourism actors to shift. The condition was actually different from the Westerners loving the arts, which even organized the art festival that also invited the classical arts.

Pragmatic thinking

A large number of working elementary school graduates, according to the Rector of the Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. Gede Sri Darma, DBA, occurred due to the system and individual management of the education as well as the community that just thought pragmatically, where they only thought win-lose rather than win-win.

“Ideally, the government gives all the poor an opportunity to get education, especially those that only attended primary and secondary education. There must be no distinction whether they have outstanding achievement or not.

The government should not only look at the achievement, but should also give empowerment to the poor,” he said.

He argued that all children should get high school education with a very good process, not just attend school,

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Children have to work in traditional market because they don’t have money to pay their tuition. sit down, hear and go home. Therefore, the education had to work with all stakeholders, where the formal education was the responsibility of the educational institution, while informal education should become the responsibility of family and the environment.

“The government should take notice to some aspects in advancing the education in Bali such as the synergies of all parties to educate the nation’s children.

Education does not only take place at schools but also in the environment. It must not only be taught, but more than that, where it must also be made a role model,” he said.

Further, he explained the education

had to be implemented systematically, directed, focused and adapted to time change. Besides, the education should also be performed holistically and connected to each other. Indeed, the concept of labor-intensive run by the government was to reduce the unemployment. However, the residents received to work through honorary worker and daily worker were precisely those that had worked in private sector (not unemployment), so the burden of regional budget increased due to personnel expenditure. “People who are really unemployed even getting more impoverished because of getting no job opportunities,” he said. (kmb27)

Nevertheless, the invitation of Wayang Wong performances were then mostly intended to the existing dance studios. The Wayang Wong troupe of Pujung Kaja had been famous to present the same dance.

It was a privately owned so that it easily made innovation to make adjustment to the contemporary tastes of the market.

Meanwhile, the existence of the Wayang Wong troupe denoting to private trope and public property (customary village) had limited movement. The style of Wayang Wong traditional art remains to be preserved. In addition, the performance of Wayang Wong has a ritual and passes through a bureaucracy in customary village.

Among the issues, the most urgent emphasis to be undertaken was making even distribution to the traditional potential so the traditional arts including the actors could survive.

Contribution of tourism should not

be made in one region. All this time, a monopoly had taken place at the tourist area itself. Tourism pie that should actually be distributed equally was even compartmentalized within the region itself.

The issue was not just experienced by the Wayang Wong troupe. Kecak Dance also suffered similar destiny.

The Kecak Dance formerly renowned at Bona had even been currently monopolized by the performance in Ubud and surrounding areas.

Amidst the increasingly shifting existence of traditional arts such as the Wayang Wong with a total member of 72 people, the Wayang Wong traditional troupe attempted to survive through the Art Cooperative he started. The Wayang Wong traditional art was then only performed on temple anniversary or piodalan at Telepud customary village, or other customary villages making the Wayang Wong dance one of their sacred dances. (kmb16)

Traditional arts start to be abandoned

GIANYAR - In the 1970s, the existence of traditional arts drew the attention of many travelers. They came to see our traditional artists presenting the heritage of traditional arts. Even, some of them invited the artists to make performance in their home country. Components of tourism also invited many freelance art troupes at remote villages to fill up dinner activities of tourists coming to their place.

Even though riding a truck, the innocent traditional artists proudly showed off their works of art having got appreciation from tourists who came from several countries on this hemisphere. Results of their hard work in performing the dance became the backbone of their family’s economy and rural communities. Similar condition was also experienced by the Wayang Wong (human puppet) dance artists from Pujung Kaja hamlet, Sebatu village,

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Cafés spread to villages, govt and customary village asked to control Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The Ocean Star boat which was on fire is pulled to Gilimanuk Harbor.

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Ocean Star boat on fire in Lombok Strait

10 people including tourists suffer burns Amlapura (Bali Post)—

Ocean Star boat caught fire in Lombok Strait about two miles from Padangbai Harbor, Thursday (Aug 15) around 09:30 a.m. Of the 32 passengers and three crews, 10 of whom suffered burns, including a number of foreign tourists.

One of the boat crews, Komang Sujana, from Padangbai, Karangasem, told if the fire was kindled by the sparks due to short circuit in the boat accessories. After departing from Padangbai for some 15 minutes or about 2 miles from the harbor, the sparks of fire appeared from the right side of the boat that would carry tourists to Gili Trawangan, NTB. The fire immediately blazed. The boat crews attempted to put out the fire by extinguisher.

Unluckily, the fire did not go out but it even grew bigger and grabbed the jerrycan or reserve fuel tank. Then, the boat smoldered.

Luckily, at not too far distance came another boat namely the Ocean Star III. The boat crews of Ocean Star III were suspicious when they saw the Ocean Star billowing heavy smokes. The Ocean Star III directly approached it and provided help by evacuating passengers. A few minutes later, the other help from fishermen also came to do evacuation as well as the Karangasem Marine Police based at

Padangbai. They did a diving.

Passengers and crews suffering burns were evacuated immediately to mainland and rushed to the Penta Medica Clinic, Manggis. Having got treatment for a while, the six passengers were eventually referred to Sanglah Hospital. They were four foreign tourists and two crews.

Manager of Penta Medica Clinic, Putu Ardana, said last Saturday that his party received 10 victims suffering burns at the boat incident at 10:15 a.m. They were directly addressed. Two victims suffered severe burns of 45 percent, while eight others suffered burns of 1015 percent. The victims referred to Sanglah were Suzanna Ruth, 51, from the U.S. living in Mataram, Ilaria Cervelli, 28, Liugi Santone and Leonardo Callota entirely all from Italy. Meanwhile, the boat crew with quite severe burns was Komang Wibawa, 28, and Wayan Dadi, residents from Padangbai.

The other victims only got minor burns but were treated in Penta Medica Clinic such as Ibrahim

Turget (Turk), Thomas Wanstall (Australia) and Marte Tatola (Italy) as well as Kadek Sujana, a crew from Padangbai. Those who suffered minor burns were allowed to go home after getting treatment in the clinic.

Meanwhile, the Chief of Padangbai Harbor Police, Ketut Suartika Adnyana said last Sunday the burned Ocean Star had been pulled to the Padangbai Harbor.

Captain of the unlucky boat was still questioned by the Padangbai harbormaster. Another crew of the Ocean Star, Komang Wibawa, said the blazing fire was quickly extinguished, despite raging about one minute. The witness Wibawa claimed to have heard the blast of fire. The boat had four engines with the power of respectively 250 PK. Based on observation, the illfated boat passengers apparently were still shocked. Some people claimed thankful because they could survive, even though 10 passengers and crews suffered severe to mild burns. (013)

Café is a name for a nightlife venue providing food and drink. It is also a hangout place to meet up relations and release stresses. However, the connotation of café has started to slightly deviate in the community. Many people immediately associate it with sex when others mentions about the café.

Bali as a tourist destination definitely had a lot of nightlife spots, where one of which was café. The current problem was that those cafés were even available in rural areas.

It was revealed by the founder of Citra Usadha Foundation and Chairperson of the Sanglah VCT, Prof. Dr. K. Tuti Merati Parwati.

She explained the risky nightlife spots in Bali at this time were not even visited by tourists or migrants, but rather by local residents. It happened because the nightlife spots like cafés were not built at proper places. In terms of business aspect, those cafés should be established at location drawing many visitors, but in fact the rural cafés were established at quiet places like under bamboo trees, amidst the rice fields and other remote locations.

Visitors of those entertainment facilities were not coming from far away, but residents around the cafés. “Based on the result of research, a risky sexual relationship is made at the location that leads to the transmission of HIV and STIs,” said Tuti.

If such condition was left unchecked, then the transmission of HIV infection and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) would have an impact on both families of the perpetrators and those purchased the sexual service. “Similarly, young people will also have negative learning from the presence of the cafés existing in their environment as well as get infected by HIV from their parents. The overview of risky nightlife does not belong to Balinese culture and it should be avoided,” said Tuti.

On that account, Tuti expected each customary village in Bali to control the presence of those risky cafés as well as the government to issue a permit for the cafés and other nightlife spots. According to Tuti, the government should control and inspect whether the permit issued to build café had complied with the rules or deviated from the rules.

When known to have deviated, the government should decisively impose sanctions against the cafés and violating nightlife spots. (kmb24)

People wait for realization of sport center

Gianyar (Bali Post)—

Gianyar community is now waiting for the realization of the sport center discoursed by local government. Decision of the House having approved the status of Kebo Iwa Terminal to be revoked received positive appreciation from many circles in the community. After issuance of the recommendation, residents expected the conversion into the sport center can be realized, so that it is not only a discourse.

Chairman of the Gianyar Golkar Representative Council (DPD), Made Dauh Wijana, said on Thursday (Aug 15) his party positively welcomed the conversion of Gianyar terminal which had not been functioning optimally into a sport center. Moreover, it was the people’s aspirations. “We positively welcome the conversion. Moreover, the House has agreed it. Now, it is just waiting for the realization,” he said.

Rather than not functioning, the terminal should be converted so it could be really utilized for society. His party did not mind whether the sport center would be commercialized or not. According to him, the management would fully under the authority of Gianyar county government.

His party asserted the presence of the sport center would also have an economic impact on the community. In addition to carrying out a number of sport events, the communities wishing to sell sport equipment could be accommodated in it.

“Obviously, it will give a huge positive impact on the community,” he said.

Earlier, the former Chairman of the National Sport Committee (KONI) of Gianyar, Ida Bagus Nyoman Rai, expected the government to be consistent with the planning and the goal to convert the Gianyar terminal into a sport center.

“Utilization of the land formerly used as terminal into sport center should no longer be useless,” he hoped. To that end, the establishment on the land should be studied carefully. (kmb16)

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Calendar Event for August 24 through September 28, 2013 24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuninng Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcangkring Tabanan Pura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang Pura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klungkung Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pamerajan Alit Ubud Pura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Banjar Denuma Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Dalem batur Bangli Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Besakih Pura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi Badung Pemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud 3 Sep Anggarkasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang 4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan 9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba

Kediri Tabanan Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin Lembongan Pura Batu Medeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba 11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksiring 12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Desa Guwang Sukawati Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu Karangasem Pura Pedharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamani Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar 25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli 28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih

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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Monday, August 19, 2013

Rock bands’ plane makes emergency landing in US Associated Press Writer

MOLINE, Illinois — A private jet carrying the rock bands Ratt and Dokken had to make an emergency landing in northwestern Illinois after smoke was detected in the cabin

Saturday afternoon.

Chuck Brennan, a friend of the bands who chartered the flight, told The Associated Press that the plane took off from the Moline airport but pilots had to turn it around when smoke appeared in the front of the

plane at about 7,000 feet (2,100 meters).

Brennan said the pilots donned oxygen masks and landed the Challenger 601 with no incident. There were no injuries reported by the pilot or the 13 passengers.

“The cabin didn’t fill with smoke,” said Brennan, the owner of shortterm lender Dollar Loan Center.

Brennan, a former promoter who opened the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy in his hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, said he had

chartered the plane out of Santa Ana, California, for a four-city tour.

Ratt and Dokken, both big names from the 1980s hair metal scene, played in Moline on Friday night with Lita Ford and Sebastian Bach.

They were heading to the Chicago suburb of Wauconda for an outdoor show Saturday with Ford, Bach and Warrant.

Brennan said the two bands were taking SUVs to the Wauconda venue, which is about 170 miles (275 kilometers) from Moline, and were expected to make it to the show in time.

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‘Duck Dynasty’ star greets camo couple Associated Press Writer

MARS, Pennsylvania — A camouflage-clad bride and groom got a little advice from a bewhiskered witness on their wedding day: “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson. WTAE-TV reports Robertson told the couple to always love and forgive one another as they were wed Saturday morning at a Field & Stream store near Pittsburgh.

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This publicity image released by A&E shows Miss Kay Robertson, left, and Phil Robertson renewing their vows in a scene from the the season 4 premiere of “Duck Dynasty.” A&E says nearly 12 million birds of a feather caught the season premiere of the hit unscripted series on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013.

Robertson popped in for the nuptials of Mehgan Cook, who sported a camouflage sash on her dress, and Charlie Miller, who was completely clad in camo gear. The two hadn’t planned on marrying at the store but Cook said they were eager to meet Robertson.

“I was going to cancel the wedding ‘cause I heard Willie was coming,” Cook told KDKA-TV. Instead, Cook said, her mother came up with the idea of a wedding at the store — and they got a surprise when Robertson appeared during the ceremony.

“That’s a first for me, it’s good to be a part of that,” said Robertson. “They look like my kind of folks with the camouflage. that was cool.” Cook said she had been engaged to another man, but he died in a car crash four years ago. But she met Miller at the scene and eventually the two started dating. “I never thought it would happen again,” Cook said, tearing up.

On the “Duck Dynasty” Season 4 premiere, which aired Wednesday, family members threw a surprise wedding for patriarch Phil Robertson, wearing a black jacket over camouflage garb, and his wife, Miss Kay. They could only afford a justice of the peace when they married 48 years ago.

The show drew 11.8 million viewers on the A&E channel, making it the No. 1 nonfiction series telecast in U.S. cable television history in total viewers as well as all key demographic groups. The reality show chronicles the Robertson family in Louisiana’s bayou country who manufacture duck calls and love to go bird hunting.

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34 dead, dozens missing in sunken Philippine ferry

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Governor Pastika finally surrenders

Decree on reclamation revoked Bali Post

Activity surrounding a United Airlines flight from Britain which has made an emergency landing in Dublin Airport, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013.

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Monday, August 19, 2013

DENPASAR - The struggle of all components of Balinese community to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation and to urge the Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika in order to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit ended in sweet result.

After insisting, Governor Pastika eventually surrendered and officially revoked the Gubernatorial Decree No.2138/02-C/ HK/2012 on the Permit Conferral and Rights of Utilization, Development and Management of Benoa Bay waters dated December 26, 2012. Such assertion was made after chairing the 68th Independence Day of the RI at the Puputan Margarana Square, Denpasar, Saturday (Aug 17).

“I have received the House’s recommendation (on revocation of reclamation permit—Ed). As of yesterday (Aug 16—Ed), the Gubernatorial Decree (No. 2138—Ed) has been declared void,” said

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Pastika to reporters.

In other words, the decree is revoked and what is the reason? When asked so, Pastika said that revocation of the decree has gone through various studies based on legal aspects conducted by the legal team of the Bali government following an open dialogue on August 3 in Wiswa Sabha, the governor’s office. “Yes (it’s revoked—Ed). It is based on various aspects (reason of revoking the decree No. 2138). And we received advice, suggestions and scientific studies conducted by the legal team of Bali Government,” said the former Chief of Bali Police.

Another reason was based on a lot of

aspirations and inputs from various parties.

Among others, they were the elements of society, both from academicians, NGOs, religious leaders and some others. Similarly, it was based on recommendation of the Bali House No. 900/2569/DPRD dated August 12, 2013 with the subject of review and or revocation of the Gubernatorial Decree No.2138/02-C/HK/2012.

This Buleleng-origin governor added the Gubernatorial Decree No.2138/02-C/ HK/2012 was declared void by issuing the new decree. “There is a new decree declaring if the former decree is no longer applicable,” he said. When asked whether the revocation of the decree had been communicated and delivered to the investor, Pastika was reluctant to answer. Then, he hurriedly left reporters.

Previously, a wave of intense rejection occurred against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan and the issuance of the gubernatorial

decree. Various aspirations emerged from the community, either from the academia, NGOs, religious leaders, tourism practitioners or others related to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. They considered the gubernatorial decree should be revoked and the Benoa Bay reclamation plan should be canceled as having infringed various laws and regulations.

Some of the rules infringed consist of, firstly, the Presidential Regulation No.45/2011 on Spatial Planning of Sarbagita asserting that in Article 55 paragraph (5) a and b is mentioned the waters of Benoa Bay and Pudut Island belong to a conservation area.

Secondly, the Law No.27/2007 on the Management of Coastal Areas and Small Islands that has passed through a judicial review in the Constitutional Court (MK) and it has been decided to revoke the entire chapter related to the concession of coastal waters (HP3).

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The struggle of all components of Balinese community to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation and to urge the Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika in order to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit ended in sweet result.