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‘Straight Outta Compton,’ unexpected box office star

LOS ANGELES - “Straight Outta Compton,” a biopic about the pioneering rap group N.W.A., wowed Hollywood by taking first place in the North American box office in its debut weekend.

Racing past its rivals, and past even the most optimistic of expectations, the film took in an impressive $60.2 million, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations reported Monday.

Yet the movie, which opened in the United States on August 14, comes off as strikingly contemporary as the nation grapples with a

slew of recent deaths of African Americans in custody of law enforcement.

It was named after the 1988 debut studio album from the group that gave birth to the gangsta rap genre and launched the careers of Ice Cube and Dr Dre. “Fuck Tha Police,” N.W.A.’s heads-held-high cry of defiance

against the Los Angeles Police Department, so alarmed authorities that it generated a warning letter from the FBI, and the song remains a controversial anthem in many protests.

Directed by Gary Gray, best known for his music videos, “Straight Outta Compton” traces the roots of the then teenagers’ rage against mostly white police in their gang-ridden home of Compton and other parts of the Los Angeles area.

“What a welcome surprise and

Bon Jovi weekend concert in Vancouver canceled

Saturday, a day after Bon Jovi planned to release its special fan album “Burning Bridges” as a tie-in to its international tour. It’s Bon Jovi’s first album since guitarist Richie Sambora left the band in 2013.

Bon Jovi Tours Inc. issued a statement saying it “shares the disappointment of fans” over the cancellation.

“The band was ready and willing to give a great performance on Saturday,” the statement read. “Unfortunately, the local promoter, Paper Rain Performances, has proven unable to guarantee a properlyproduced event.”

The city of Vancouver said in a statement that it had proOwen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File vided initial support for the event but the organizers did not VANCOUVER — A weekend Bon Jovi concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, have the required city permits.

The promoter, Paper Rain Performanchas been canceled after the city said the promoter had failed to obtain the required es, said it asked for but could not secure a postponement from the rock band’s manpermits.

The show — which also featured the agement, but still hopes a future concert Kings of Suburbia — was scheduled for date can be confirmed. (ap)

the last blockbuster blast of the season,” Exhibitor Relations box office analyst Jeff Bock told AFP. “$60 million for an R-rated biopic featuring an ensemble of unknown African Americans -- as far as I know, that’s never happened before, so it’s quite rare.”

Until the film opened in theaters, Universal Pictures had expected just $20 million in weekend ticket sales.

The studio got a major coup in more than doubling its reported budget of $29 million. Relatively

unknown actors -- O’Shea Jackson Jr (Ice Cube’s son, who plays his father), Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell -- interpret the roles of the founding members of N.W.A., which stands for Niggaz Wit Attitudes. Bock says biopics rarely generate such success.

“But a couple of factors went into this opening: one, there hasn’t been any studio films that cater to the African-American crowd this summer and two, this was a seminal story in music history that was long overdue,” he added. (afp)

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Police investigate the scene around the Erawan Shrine the morning after an explosion in Bangkok,Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. A bomb exploded Monday within a central Bangkok shrine that is among the city’s most popular tourist spots, killing a number of people and injuring others, police said.

Tracy Morgan, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer to guest host ‘SNL’

NEW YORK — Tracy Morgan is coming home to “Saturday Night Live” as guest host on Oct. 17. His appearance also promises to be a coming-out party for the former “SNL” cast member and star of “30 Rock,” who has been recuperating from injuries he suffered in a June 2014 crash that also killed a fellow comedian when their limousine was hit by a Wal-Mart truck on the New Jersey Turnpike.

This past June, Morgan was interviewed on the “Today” show in his first public appearance since the accident. At that time, he said, “I can’t wait to get back to (comedy), but right now, my goal is just to heal and get better. Because I’m not 100 percent yet. I’m not. And when I’m there, you’ll know it. I’ll get back to making you laugh.

I promise you.”

NBC on Monday also announced that on Oct. 3, Miley Cyrus will return as host for a third time to kick off the 41st “SNL” season.

Then on Oct. 10, Amy Schumer will make her hosting debut. Schumer is coming off her summer box office hit, “Trainwreck,” for

which she served as both star and writer. She stars in the Comedy Central series, “Inside Amy Schumer,” and in an upcoming HBO comedy special “Amy Schumer: Live From the Apollo.”

Musical guests for these “SNL” editions will be announced later. (ap)

Miley Cyrus

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Two blasts hit Bangkok in two days, kill 20

BANGKOK - Two blasts hit Bangkok in two days. The latest happens on Tuesday near a busy train station. According to police, a small device was thrown into a canal and exploded near a busy train station in central Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon, a day after a bomb killed 20 at a religious shrine.

“No one was killed or injured. Police are at the scene to investigate what kind of device it was,” an officer at

Yanawa police station, who asked not to be named, told AFP. He said the incident took place shortly after 1pm (0600 GMT) near the Saphan Taksin BTS skytrain station.

CCTV footage of the incident posted by Thairath TV showed

commuters scurrying for cover over a footbridge after the device exploded in the canal, sending a large plume of water into the air.

The Yanawa police official said officers believed the device was thrown from a road and rail bridge which spans Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river and overlooks the canal below.

The luxury Shangri-La hotel, the Mandarin Oriental and the French embassy are close to Saphan Taksin

station.

No one claimed responsibility for the incident.

Bangkok is a city on edge after Monday night’s bomb attack, described by junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha as the “worst ever attack” on Thailand.

At least eight foreigners are known to have died in the attack alongside five confirmed Thai deaths. The rest have yet to be identified.

More than 100 other people

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were injured as the blast left body parts strewn across the pavement, alongside shattered windows and mangled motorcycles.

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The death toll from a bombing in the Thai capital rose to 20 on Tu e s d a y w i t h 1 2 3 wounded, police said, with at least 11 foreigners from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore among those killed.

Police revised down an earlier toll of 21 dead from Monday’s bombing of the popular Erawan shrine in the heart of Bangkok’s tourist and commercial centre.

“The bomb aimed at killing as many people as possible as the shrine is crowded at around 6 to 7 pm,” police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri told AFP. A police breakdown of the nationalities caught up in the blast showed three Chinese, two Hong Kongers, an Indonesian, four Malaysians, one Singaporean and six Thais were confirmed killed.

The three other victims have yet to be identified.

Thais made up the largest number of wounded with 42 being treated, followed by 28 Chinese according to an update released earlier Tuesday.

Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Oman, the Philippines and Singapore all had one or more nationals wounded.

The Erawan shrine sits at the foot of the five-star Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel and is surrounded by a string of other large hotels and malls that draw thousands of visitors each day.

Dedicated to the Hindu god Brahma, it is visited by thousands of Buddhist devotees every day, particularly Chinese visitors who travel to Thailand in larger numbers than any other nationality. (afp)

Thai junta says suspect identified in ‘worst ever’ bombing

Muslim rebels from the country’s BANGKOK - Thailand’s junta leader said Tuesday a suspect had been identified in the bombing of a packed Bangkok religious shrine, far south have also waged a separatist condemning the blast that killed at least 20 people as the “worst ever insurgency for more than a decade that has claimed thousands of lives, mostly attack” on the kingdom.

The attack occurred on Monday in one of the Thai capital’s most popular tourism hubs, ripping through a crowd of worshippers at the Hindu shrine close to five-star hotels and upscale shopping malls.

Chinese, Hong Kong, Singaporean, Indonesian and Malaysian citizens were among the 20 people killed, police said.

More than 100 other people were injured as the blast left body parts strewn across crushed pavement, alongside shattered windows and incinerated motorcycles.

Junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha on Tuesday branded the bombing the “worst ever attack” on Thailand, as he gave the first indications of who authorities believed were responsible.

“Today there is a suspect... we are looking for this guy,” Prayut told reporters, adding the man was seen on closed circuit television at the blast site.

Prayut said the male suspect was believed to be from an “anti-government group based in Thailand’s northeast”

-- the heartland of the kingdom’s Red Shirt movement that opposes the military junta.

Bangkok has endured more than a decade of deadly political violence, with the junta ruling the nation since May last year after toppling the elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra.

The Red Shirts are a grassroots network of rural and urban poor that are loyal to Yingluck and her self-exiled brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist politician who was a previous prime minister.

But no-one claimed responsibility for the assault and security analysts expressed scepticism over the government’s lightning move to cast suspicion on its opponents.

“Even if they (Red Shirts) are hellbent on bringing down the government I just can’t see them targeting a Hindu or any other religious shrine,” Zachary Abuza, an independent expert on Thai security, told AFP. “That would really alienate many of their supporters.”

civilians.

But they have never been known to carry out substantial attacks in Bangkok, and Abuza as well as other analysts said Monday’s bombing did not follow the insurgents’ typical modus operandi.

Paul Chambers, director of research at the Institute of South East Asian Affairs in Thailand, said groups with links to military factions also had to be considered as potential suspects.

Tourists ‘targeted’

Junta leaders said the bomb was aimed at damaging the country’s tourist industry, which is a rare bright spot in an otherwise gloomy economy, and tarnishing the junta’s reputation. “(The attackers) had the clear target of destroying our economy and tourism.... and discrediting the government,” Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon told reporters.

Thailand’s baht currency slumped to a more than six-year low on Tuesday and shares fell in Bangkok over concerns the attack could damage the tourism sector.

AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

Investigators walk towards the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, the morning after an explosion. Thailand’s prime minister on Tuesday promised that authorities would quickly track down those responsible for the central Bangkok bombing, which he described as the country’s worst attack ever.

The blast site remained cordoned off early as bomb experts photographed the area scouring for clues, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

Police also tightened security across Bangkok, with hundreds of schools closed and checkpoints thrown up across the city.

Built in 1956 the Erawan is an enormously popular shrine to the Hindu god Brahma but is visited by thousands of Buddhist devotees every day.

The bomb was detonated shortly before 7:00 pm (1200 GMT) in the middle of the city’s rush hour, sending a fireball into the sky as commuters and tourists fled in panic.

As dawn broke, Thais expressed fear about more potential violence in the coming days.

“I’m worried about Bangkok, I don’t know what will happen next,” one woman, who only gave her name as Rivewan, told AFP. Around 1,000 people queued for hours at a nearby blood donation centre, many crying as they waited to be seen by nurses.

“This shouldn’t have happened to the Thai people,” Pongchai Kulsitthiwong, a 45-year-old mobile phone seller told AFP, tears rolling down his cheeks while waiting to give blood.

Bangkok’s power struggle has seen repeated rounds of deadly street protests and bombings for nearly a decade.

But none on Monday’s scale.

Armed elements on both sides, in a kingdom awash with military-grade weapons, have been known to instigate unrest at key moments.

Many observers had predicted a fresh round of violence after the military seized power from Yingluck Shinawatra in last year’s coup.

Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled by a 2006 coup, sits at the heart of the political divide.

Parties led by him, his sister or their proxies have won every election since 2001 thanks to the votes of the rural north and northeast.

But the clan is loathed by the Bangkok-based royalist elite.

Monday’s attack drew quick expressions of grief from around the world.

The US government released a statement warning its citizens to avoid the area, while also voicing sympathy for the victims. (afp)

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September Dining Delights at The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas

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NUSA DUA - The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas – Nusa Dua, Bali presents exciting culinary journey from the signature Mediterranean & Pan-Asian restaurant at Soleil, to Oriental taste of Cantonese & Szechuan atTable8 or International Gastronomic experience at The Cafe and many more to choose from. This September 2015, explore the various indulgence from The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas – Nusa Dua, Bali.

- Korean Noodles at The Cafe

Savour the rich flavour of Korean noodles or guksu that are perfect for hot summertime, from the sweet-icy mul naengmyeon, to hot-spicy bibim Naengmyeon, or the cold-spicy bibin guksu.

- Mulia Mooncakes at Table8 (16 July – 27 September 2015)

Sanma or Pacific Saury is also known as the ‘fall sword fish’ that is seasonal representing autumn in Japanese cuisine. At Edogin the fish is prepared meticulously to draw out the combination of bittersweet and freshness.

Hotel Mulia Senayan, Jakarta and The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas – Nusa Dua, Bali celebrates the upcoming Mid-Autumn festival with our premium homemade Mooncake collection. Presented in a beautifully designed gift box, “Mulia Mooncakes” make for the perfect gift for family or friends. Special limited edition Mulia Mooncake cake gift box is available from 16 July – 27 September 2015.

- Cicchetti di Mare at Soleil & Sky Bar

- All you need is chocolate at Mulia Deli

- Sanma (Pacific Saury) Promotion at Edogin

Soleil’s delightful light bite from the Veneto is now introducing cicchetti di Mare - seafood delights from the Indian Ocean, featuring Tonno e Bottarga, Gamberi all’Acqua Pazza and Pesce Sciabola alla Salvia, to name but a few.

This month Mulia Deli promises sweet satisfaction for those looking for a little chocolate indulgence during the day or after dinner. Featuring your choice of Decadent Chocolate Tart, Strawberry Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake or Chocolate Gateau St Honore.

Schedule of events at Bale Banjar Bali Global Shankara Every Sunday, 8am - 12 noon: Sunday Market and craft delights 8 August, 7pm: Ubud Style Balinese Painting exhibition opening 16 August, 9am - 4pm: Live painting by Balinese master painters 15 August, 7pm: Film screening of Balinese movies 22 August, 7pm: India-Bali music concert with Sinta Wulur and friends 29 August: Indian/gamelan vocal exploration workshop with Sinta 2 Septembe: Interior Decor exhibition opening 3-4 September, 9 am-5pm: Interior Decor expo 15 September, 7pm: Human is Alien video and bamboo instalation For more information: Fb fage: shankaraartspace or friend us at Fb: balebanjarshankara

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine.

In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

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Google’s Android update: code name Marshmallow

SAN FRANSISCO - Google gave a name Monday to its soonto-be released operating system for its Android mobile devices: Marshmallow.

marshmallows?” product manager Jamal Eason asked in a post on the Android developer blog.

Eason said developers seeking to develop or update applications for Android can now download the software.

The latest version includes enhancements including fingerprint

sensors and an updated powersaving mode.

Marshmallow also streamlines the “permissions” model for users to install and upgrade apps.

Users running certain apps will not need to grant any permissions when they install or upgrade, and the applications instead request

permissions as it needs them, according to Google.

Android is used in nearly 80 percent of smartphones worldwide, although many devices use older versions for which upgrades are not available. Android is also the leading platform for tablets, according to market surveys. (afp)

tinues to transform the American workplace.

“Every company is somewhere in process toward using data to get a better handle on who their top performers are and to understand where people stand,” said John Challenger, CEO of outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. Companies, both large and small, have been moving away from traditional human resources reviews that rely on annual performance evaluations. They’re moving toward a

more data-driven approach with more frequent feedback, check-ins, and other metrics.

Consulting firms Accenture and Deloitte both said this year they would revamp their performance review processes, for example, adopting a more data driven approach that includes more frequent ratings by managers and other internal feedback and data that can be aggregated and analyzed to provide a better portrait of performance than a single rating.

Tech companies have been even

In this June 16, 2014, file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos walks onstage for the launch of the new Amazon Fire Phone, in Seattle. A New York Times article portrayed Amazon’s work culture as “bruising” and “Darwinian” in part because of the way it uses data to manage its staff.

speedier in applying data analytics to staffing. Google, for example, uses data to figure out how to put together optimal-sized teams for projects and figure out what makes effective leaders.

Paul Hamerman, a Forrester analyst who focuses on human resources management and financial applications, says the future may look more like what Glint Inc., based in Redwood City, Calif., is offering clients. The company, with clients including music-streaming site Pandora and marketing automation company Marketo, sends employees what it calls “pulses,” or short surveys about how they are feeling and how they feel about their job.

Glint CEO Jim Barnett said the surveys let executives see how the health of their employees and company are faring in real time, in the same speed with which they might be able to check sales results or marketing impressions.

Since the “pulses” to company employees recur more frequently than traditional reviews. And their data can be aggregated to give a clearer picture of how employees are faring overall.

The downside to a data-driven approach is it can seem “Big Brother-ish” to staffers. But Glint said the surveys that the company sends out have an 80 to 85 percent response rate. “Employees tend to be willing to share,” Barnett said.

Another drawback: Relying strictly on numbers can lead to the perception of a cold-hearted workplace. “It’s easy to get so hung up on statistics that you miss the value of what that individual brings to the table in terms of personality, connectivity and those intangible pieces,” said David Lewis, CEO of HR outsourcing and consulting firm OperationsInc in Norwalk, Conn. (ap)

DUBLIN — Hawk-Eye, a system used to judge line calls in tennis, cricket and Premier League soccer, will operate at the upcoming Rugby

World Rugby, says “the system has clear benefits for the match official team, the medical team and fans around the world.” (ap)

The moniker for the 6.0 version of the dominant mobile computing system follows a tradition of using sugary treats for Android including Lollipop (5.0), KitKat (4.4), Jellybean (4.1) and

Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0).

“Whether you like them straight out of the bag, roasted to a golden brown exterior with a molten center, or in fluff form, who doesn’t like

Amazon’s data-driven approach becoming more common NEW YORK — Amazon isn’t the only company that is using data on employees to improve productivity. A New York Times article over the weekend portrayed Amazon’s work culture as “bruising” and “Darwinian” in part because of the way it uses data to manage its staff. The article depicted a work culture where staffers are under constant pressure to deliver strong results on a wide variety of detailed metrics the company monitors in real time — such as what gets abandoned in peoples

shopping cards and what videos people stream — and encouraged to report praise or criticism about colleagues to management to add to more data about workers performance. The story led to an outcry on social media.

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos said in a memo to staff over the weekend that the article doesn’t accurately describe the company culture he knows. But experts say the kind of data-driven staff management Amazon uses is set to become more common as technology con-

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File

Hawk-Eye technology to be used at Rugby World Cup World Cup to help television match officials with tight decisions.

World Rugby, the sport’s governing body, said Monday the video-

replay technology will be used following successful trials.

Hawk-Eye will give TMOs multiple angle replays in real time, slow

motion and with zoom-functionality. It will also help medical teams identify and review head impacts.

Brett Gosper, chief executive of

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Water discharge down by 70 percent

NEGARA - The annual cycle of drought is having an impact on the water resources of the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM). Between August and December, water flow from upstream areas has decreased by 70 percent and so now PDAM is relying on pumped water sources for the majority of its water.

Director of PDAM Jembrana, Ida Bagus Kertha Negara, said that they are forced to pump more water out of the ground, as groundwater is not available. PDAM needs 77 liters of water per second to fullfill Jembrana’s demand for water.

Negara requires the most water (41 liters per second), followed by Mendoyo (23 liters per second), Melaya (around 9 liters per second) and Pekutatan (3 liters per second).

“Mendoyo has the most surface water sources in their upstream

and downstream regions but the even the water levels their have decreased,” he explained.

There are springs at Yehembang Kauh, Mendoyo, Yehembang and Pangkung Apit, but both of these areas are still prone to water shortages such as Kaleran and Banjar Jati hamlet. are now experiencing. “The annual cycle of declining water discharge is ongoing and has reached 70 percent,” he explained.

PDAM has been trying to

access water sources and have submitted a proposal to the government of Jembrana requesting aid to build an additional pumps in Dangin Tukadaya, Tegalcangkring and Pendem, so that demands for water can be met. Many of the pumps currently being used need maintenance done to them, and because groundwater levels have gone down, pipes also need to be extended. With extra pumps and extended pipes, PDAM expects

to able to access an additional 20 litters per second.

“We can no longer rely on surface water because it continues to shrink. Unlike regions such as Bogor that can still rely on surface water, here we have to tap into groundwater,” he explained.

By relying on gravity systems (water pumps), the cost of water is bound to go up due to the need for electricity to power the pumps. (kmb26)

70 meter long Red-and-white flag paraded around Singaraja SINGARAJA - The town of Singaraja celebrated Indonesia’s 70th Independence Day by Jayastambha/ B-920 Singaraja Student Regiment Battalion from the University of Ganesha Education (Undiksha) Singaraja, unfurling a 70-meter long red-and-white flag and parading around the town of Singaraja.

This creative way of presenting the red and white flag is a regular practice for the Jayastambha Singaraja/ B-920 Student Regiment Battalion, however they had to undergo special physical training for this flag parade that began at Undiksha’s Central Campus. The participants paraded down Jalan Udayana Timur, Jalan Pramuka, Jalan Ahmad Yani, Jalan Udayana

Barat and returned full circle to Undiksha’s Central Campus.

According to Arief Billah, Commander of Jayastambha/B-920 Student Regiment Battalion, unfurling and parading of the 70-meter long flag was done in commemoration of 70th Years of Independence of the Republic of Indonesia and the 57th anniversary of the province of Bali.

Students from Unipas Singaraja, STKIP-AH as well as the students of the Widya Usadha health vocational school supported by soldiers from the 900/Raider Infantry Battalion, and Military District 1609 Buleleng and Rector of the Undiksha also joined in the event.

“Through the parading of the 70

meter long flag, we hope to install a sense of nationalism and love for the homeland and well as foster national unity in order to build a better Indonesia and a better Bali,” said Arief.

The parading of the giant flag by the youth of Singaraja is a creative way of celebrating Independence Day and it is hoped that this will inspire other young people, so that independence day celebrations are not just ceremonial. “Heroism and an unyielding spirit must be applied in the hearts of young road users who pass by the traffic lights on Jalan Dewi Sartika, Singaraja. We hope that in the future, such creativity will be shown by other young people,” said Arief. (kmb34)

The town of Singaraja celebrated Indonesia’s 70th Independence Day by Jayastambha/B-920 Singaraja Student Regiment Battalion from the University of Ganesha Education (Undiksha) Singaraja, unfurling a 70-meter long red-and-white flag and parading around the town of Singaraja.

AMLAPURA - A total of five inmates from Karangasem Prison could finally breathe easy after being granted clemency as part of celebrations of the 70th Anniversary of Indonesia’s Independence Day, Monday (Aug. 17), they are: Ni Ketut Sudiartini, I Nengah Suarta alias Cupak, Hendro Saputro, I Gede Suardana and I Kadek Sabeh Bayu Merta.

General remissions were also

granted to number of other prisoners at the Karangasem prison.

A total of 84 class B Karangasem Prison inmates were granted full remission while another 109 inmates were granted decade remission. Karangasem’s youth prison also gave out general remissions to 8 inmates and decade remission to 9 inmates.

The remission and clemencies were granted during a ceremony

led by acting regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda, along with members of the Regional Leadership Communication Forum of Karangasem and others prisoners.

Acting Regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda, said that Independence Day clemencies were granted to those prisoners who had a right to have their sentences reduced on the grounds of

good behaviour during their time at the Karangasem Prison. Arda then stated that all prisoners are capable of engaging in introspection and making improvements to their behaviour so that when they are released they can integrate back in society in a good way.

Head of the Karangasem Prison, Kusbiantoro, said that after granting clemency and remissions on August 17th, their re-

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Five Karangasem prison inmates granted clemency

State-owned firms donate computer laboratories to Bali’s vocational schools

NUSA DUA - A number of stateowned firms in Bali have donated computer laboratories to 17 vocational schools (SMK) in the region in an effort to improve the quality of education on the Bali Island.

“This aid is in conjunction with the participation of state-owned companies in helping the nation and in observance of the 70th anniversary of Indonesia’s independence,” Organizing Committee Chairman,

Budi Tjahyono, said on Monday.

According to him, the aid comprises of computers, printers, scanners and support facilities.

Tjahyono further said that stateowned companies would continue providing such donations in the future to help improve the quality of education in the region.

In addition, a number of stateowned firms in West Java have also donated computers to 38 vocational

schools (SMKs), as part of their efforts to help schools in the region.

“Computers and practice laboratories have been provided to vocational schools,” the Deputy Chairman of the state-owned firms’ donation organizing committee, Agus Prabowo, said in Bandung on Saturday.

Among the vocational schools that were scheduled to receive computers are SMK Bina Bhakti, SMK

Nusantara, SMK Endang Dharma, SMK Bina Wisata Lembang, SMK KP Margahayu, SMK At-Tasrif, SMK Suryalaya, SMK Asyuhada Garut, SMK Bhakti Kencana Ciamis, SMK Putra Pangandaran, SMK I Cibatu I Purwakarta, SMK Muhamadiyah Sumedang, SMK Radhita Subang, SMK Proklamasi Karawang, SMK Al-Muhajirin Bekasi, and SMK Galileo Bogor. (ant)

mains a total of 133 inmates and 17 detainees. in the Karagasem Prison. They consist of 133 inmates and 15 detainees. Karangasem’s youth prison now holds 17 inmates. (kmb31)

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Many women still ashamed to have pap test done GIANYAR - Cervical cancer is a serious threat to women. Unfortunately, many women are still reluctant to have a pap smear test done, even thought they only take 5 minutes. “Pap smears only takes five minutes for the examination, but the benefits can be enjoyed for a lifetime. By getting a pap smear, women can determine whether or not they have cervical cancer, early on and get treatment if necessary,” said Nyoman Rudi Susantha during an information session about cervical cancer in Bedulu.

According to Dr. Susantha who works at Sanjiwani Hospital, the reason that women in Gianyar do not go for pap smears has nothing to do with cost or location but rather it is because they feel ashamed to have their intimate organs checked.

This condition is clearly very worrying. Early detection is very important in preventing the disease from reaching an advanced stage without treatment. “Do not worry or feel embarrassed. Obstetrician always working professionally,” he said.

Susantha explained that cervical cancer can be caused by several things, such as unhealthy lifestyle, multiple partners and other factors. It is a woman’s responsibility to have a pap test done, especially if she has a sexual partner.

Chairwoman of the Gianyar Branch of the Indonesian Cancer Foundation (YKI), Mrs. Adnyani Mahayastra expressed a smilier opinion. According to Mahayastra, the number of cancer patient in Gianyar is increasing from year to year.

Currently their are 5 women with cervical cancer, 119 with breast cancer, 9 with colon cancer, 1 with lung cancer and 18 with nasopharyngeal cancer. She also said that based on this data, it is important that efforts be made to spread information about cervical and other cancers. Various efforts are already being made to prevent more people from getting cancer, including the YKI’s program of educating students though the PKTP, the establishment of cancer care groups and simulation activities, providing free pap smears (IVA) for the public, early detection of breast cancer, and checking on the hygiene of foods in markets and household products in an integrated manner. (kmb25)

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FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2015, file photo, members of South Korean conservative group shout slogans after burning an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and North Korean flags during a rally denouncing the North Korea at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea.

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The cow farmer is giving her cattle food

Price hikes, beef supply in Tabanan secure TABANAN - Head of the Tabanan Industry and Trade Agency, I.B. Wiryawan recently said that despite the fact that the price of beef is soaring, people need not worry about scarcity because beef supplies in Tabanan are secure and able to meet the market needs.

Wiryawan admitted that the price of beef in Tabanan has increases to IDR 90,000 per kg -an increase of IDR 10,000 from pre-Galungan and Eid prices. According to Wiryawan, during the feast period the slaughter of cattle in butcher houses declined so that beef stocks in the market reduced and caused prices to rise but that this price hike is somewhat normal.

“The price is still under IDR 100,000.

So, the increase is still within the limits of normal,” said Wiryawan who emphasized that there is still plenty of beef in Tabanan to meet the market demands.

In addition to beef, the price of the other commodities such as chicken meat is also increased from IDR 30,000 per kg to IDR 32,000 per kg. Similarly, the price of other

commodities such as chili went through a drastic price hike from IDR 20,000 per kg to IDR 30,000 per kg, while cayenne pepper rose from IDR 60,000 per kg to IDR 80,000 per kg. “The surge in the price of spices happened due to a decline in production as a result of the drought,” said Wiryawan.

Some commodities have however gone down in price, such as shallots that have gone down from IDR 15,000 per kg to IDR 14,000 per kg. Similarly, the price of garlic is also down from IDR 17,000 per kg to IDR 15,000 per kg. These price drops happen due to abundant supplies in the market. (kmb24)

Massive Dog elimination implemented

TABANAN - Rabbies infected dogs have been bitting people in Tabanan and Acting Regent of Tabanan, I Wayan Sugiada said that serious attention needs to be paid to the situation. The government of Tabanan has therefor drafted a plan to perform a massive dog elimination campaign. “The county government has allocated a budget

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to perform the mass elimination as an effort to suppress the rabies virus. Hopefully, it can soon be implemented,” he said.

Sugiada also explained that he has coordinated with existing agencies in Tabanan and has instructed them to continue running their pro-people campaigns. So far there have been 50 cases in 2015 of

people getting bitten by rabies carrying dogs in Tabanan The last case occurred on Tuesday (Jul. 28) with two residents of Pangkung Karung, Kerambitan, Ni Made R, 80, and Nengah Sdm, 45, being bitten by the same dog.

The Health Agency immediately coordinated with the Livestock Agency to have lab tests done on a

brain sample of the dog who did the bitting. The lab ascertained that the dog was in fact carrying the rabies virus, so the two victims were given anti-rabies vaccines (VAR).

Currently the Tabanan Health Agency has 1,700 vials of anti-rabies vaccines and each rabies center was given 50 vials in early July. Although the vaccine is available, the

Health Office of Tabanan still gives it out selectively given the limited availability from manufacturers.

The government of Tabanan plans to conduct a mass dog elimination in order to suppress the number of rabies cases and has allocated a budget worth IDR 100 million in the amended regional budget. (kmb24)

Seoul: N. Korea resumes loudspeaker broadcasts amid tension SEOUL, South Korea — The rival Koreas have resumed crossborder propaganda warfare as North Korea matched South Korea’s loudspeaker campaign with broadcasts of its own that reportedly included criticism of Seoul and praises for Pyongyang.

The mutual propaganda attacks mark a further deterioration of relations between the Koreas, who haven’t engaged in any serious talks in recent months.

Last week, South Korea blamed the North for land mine explosions that maimed two South Korean soldiers and resumed propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years in retaliation. North Korea has denied the accusations and threatened to launch strikes on South Korean loudspeakers.

Two to three days after South Korea’s restart of broadcasts, North Korea began its own loudspeaker campaign along the border, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said Tuesday speaking on condition of anonymity because of department rules.

The official gave no further details and South Korea’s military said in a statement that the North Korean broadcasts were not clearly audible

in South Korean areas. But South Korean public broadcaster KBS, citing an unidentified military official, reported that the North Korean broadcasts mainly included criticism of South Korea and praises for North Korea’s political system.

The North’s broadcasts mark the restoration of inter-Korean propaganda warfare along the border after the two Koreas stopped the practice in 2004 as part of their efforts to ease animosities. Other practices, including leafleting and the operation of front-line billboards, remain suspended, according to Seoul officials.

Animosities between the rivals are expected to continue as Seoul and Washington kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal. South Korean and U.S. officials have said that the drills are defensive in nature.

U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the “routine”

exercises were proceeding normally. “We look forward to completing the exercises, as we always do.

This is all about proving alliance capability,” he told reporters in Washington.

South Korea has said the two soldiers wounded from the mine explosion were on a routine patrol at the southern part of the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas. One soldier lost both legs, while the other lost one leg.

South Korean loudspeaker broadcasts were aimed at emphasizing that the mine blast was a provocation committed by North Korea and relaying messages about the superiority of Seoul-style democracy as well as world news and weather forecasts, the South Korean Defense Ministry official said.

North Korea is intolerant of any outside criticism of its leadership, led by Kim Jong Un. Last year, North Korean troops opened fire after South Korean activists floated balloons carrying propaganda leaflets across the border. South Korea returned fire, but no casualties were reported.(ap)

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Myanmar parliament opens; spotlight on beleaguered speaker NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s parliament reopened Tuesday for its final session before November’s national elections, with the spotlight on the influential speaker — who was violently ousted just days ago as head of the military-backed ruling party.

Opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi criticized the manner in which Shwe Mann, a close political ally, had been removed.

Hundreds of armed police seized the headquarters of the Union Solidarity and Development Party in the middle of the night, witnesses said, confiscating computers and preventing some members from leaving.

It was a political purge reminiscent of the days of dictatorship in the Southeast Asian country.

“This is not what you expect from a working democracy,” Suu Kyi told reporters. The Nobel laureate also slammed an impeachment bill Shwe Mann was being pressured to table — possibly later this week.

The bill says parliamentarians who have lost the trust of even 1 percent of their constituents can be stripped of their seats, meaning Shwe Mann could be a target.

“Ridiculous,” Suu Kyi said. “It is now clear who the enemy is and who is the ally.”

Myanmar only recently started moving from dictatorship to democracy, but critics say the strings

of power behind the quasi-civilian government remain members of the old military elite, including former dictator Than Shwe, who lives a generally secluded life in a sprawling compound in the capital, Naypyitaw.

As elections approach, tensions have been building between President Thein Sein and Shwe Mann, both former generals and members of the governing party. Tensions were exacerbated last week when the names of nearly 100 newly retired military members did not make it onto the party’s candidate lists. Some hardliners blamed Shwe Mann.

The parliament speaker — seen as a reformist — set a no-nonsense tone as parliament resumed Tuesday, immediately rejecting a motion by several USDP lawmakers to suspend the session because of floods and landslides. The MPs could excuse themselves, he said, but there was important business to attend to in the parliamentary chambers.

Shwe Mann had lost the support of conservatives in the party, in part because of his close ties to the wildly popular Suu Kyi. The two met for an hour on Monday, apparently to discuss the political upheaval and its potential impact.

There was murmuring Tuesday that polls now scheduled for Nov. 8 could be delayed by up to a month.(ap)

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Htay Oo, center, chairman of Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), arrives to attend a regular session at Parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Parliament has reopened for its final session before Myanmar’s nationwide election, with a spotlight on the influential speaker following his violent ouster as head of the military-backed ruling party.

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Asia’s ‘infrastructure gap’ threatens to hamper growth MANILA — Looking out at bumper-to-bumper Monday morning traffic crawling along the Philippine capital’s main avenue, taxi driver Ranilo Banez shook his head in frustration.

Congestion has gotten so bad as the economy grew, he said, that a 10-kilometer (six-mile) trip that once took 30 minutes can stretch to two hours.

“We lose so much,” said Banez, 64. “We waste a lot of gasoline and time.”

The Philippines is far from alone. The outpouring of support for a Chinese-led bank to finance infrastructure highlights a gap in Asia’s success story: From power-starved India to Thailand’s overburdened railways, developing economies face a shortage of basic facilities so severe that it threatens to hold back

growth and living standards.

Manila and other cities are choked with construction sites for office and apartment towers. But spending on roads, railways and other unglamorous but essential infrastructure collapsed after the 1997 financial crisis and has yet to recover.

“The catch-up they need to do is still considerable,” said Ramesh Subramaniam, deputy director general of the ADB’s Southeast Asia department.

If spending fails to pick up, “then this could possibly have an impact on future growth,” he said.

“Certainly it is going to reduce the

competitiveness of the countries in the region.”

That gap has given Beijing a chance to assert its ambition to be a regional leader and fueled a diplomatic alms race.

On top of its planned infrastructure bank, which 57 countries want to join, the government of President Xi Jinping has launched initiatives to improve road, rail and sea links.

Japan joined Washington in staying away from the Chinese bank. Instead, Tokyo responded in June by announcing its own credit package of $110 billion for the region.

The Asian Development Bank has estimated developing Asian economies need to invest $8 trillion in the decade through 2020 or some 80 times the planned $100 billion

capital of Beijing’s bank.

India is set to pass China this year as the world’s fastest-growing big economy. To keep that up, its government says, the nation of 1.2 billion people needs to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure in the five years through 2017.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called in May for India to speed up building “all projects that will ensure a modern infrastructure backbone.”

India’s most ambitious initiative is the $100 billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project. It calls for creating seven industrial cities, high-speed railways, six airports and three sea ports.

Thailand has a 3 trillion baht ($92 billion) building plan for 2015-

22 that includes high-speed train routes that eventually will stretch from China in the north through Malaysia in the south to Singapore.

It calls for expanding seaports and Bangkok’s commuter trains.

In the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino III in May approved $1.4 billion in spending for commuter rail in Manila and other projects. That brought the total for infrastructure investment to $31.8 billion since Aquino took office in 2010.

The Asian Development Bank says if the required facilities are built, the region’s people could get an extra $4.5 trillion in income in the decade through 2020 and another $8.5 trillion after that. Many have yet to work out how to pay for those projects. (ap)

Two Koreas reach agreement in Kaesong wage row SEOUL - South Korea said Tuesday it had reached agreement with Pyongyang on a wage hike for North Korean workers at their Kaesong joint economic zone, ending a sixmonth dispute.

The breakthrough came despite inter-Korean tensions going through one of their sporadic surges after the South accused North Korea of engineering mine blasts that maimed members of a military border patrol.

The five-percent hike will increase the minimum workers’ wage in Kaesong from $70.35 a month to $73.87, a spokesman for Seoul’s unification ministry said.

The agreement -- reached late Monday -- followed months of often testy negotiations prompted by Pyongyang’s unilateral announcement in February that a 5.18-percent pay rise would be implemented.

The North’s proposal exceeded a previously agreed five-percent annual wage rise cap and Seoul responded by insisting that any such change had to be a joint decision.

On Monday, both sides agreed to discuss the remaining 0.18-percent raise later, the ministry said.

The Kaesong industrial estate, which lies just 10 kilometres (six miles) over the border in the North,

hosts about 120 South Korean firms employing some 53,000 North Korean workers.

Kaesong is a key earner for the cash-strapped North. The hard currency wages are kept by the state, which passes on a fraction -- in local currency -- to the workers.

The South Korean companies get cheap labour as well as preferential loans and tax breaks from the government. Kaesong opened in 2004 and has generally managed to ride out repeated inter-Korea crises, even when every other avenue of cooperation was closed off.

The glaring exception came in 2013, when Pyongyang effectively shut down the zone for five months by withdrawing its workers.

Cross border tensions are currently running high following the landmine incident earlier this month, which has resulted in both sides resuming -- after a decade-long break -- a cross-border propaganda shouting match using banks of powerful speakers.

Pyongyang has also upped its military threat rhetoric in protest at the launch this week of an annual South Korea-US military drill that the North sees as a rehearsal for invasion. (afp)

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Crashed Indonesian plane found ‘destroyed’, no survivors

JAYAPURA - A plane that crashed in eastern Indonesia was Tuesday found “completely destroyed” with the bodies of all 54 people who had been aboard amid the wreckage in a fireblackened clearing at a remote site in dense jungle.

Rescuers finally reached the debris of the Trigana Air plane, which went down Sunday during a short flight in bad weather, after being forced to abandon search efforts a day earlier due to the mountainous terrain and bad weather.

“The plane has crashed, it is completely destroyed,” search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo said of the ATR 42-300 after rescue teams reached the site in Papua province at 9:30 am (0030 GMT).

“Everything was in pieces and part of the plane is burnt. We could see burn marks on some pieces.”

The disaster is just the latest air accident in Indonesia, which has a poor aviation safety record and has suffered major disasters in recent months, including the crash of an AirAsia plane in December with the loss of 162 lives.

Photos of the site showed a fire-blackened clearing in thick jungle strewn with debris. The twin-turboprop plane was carrying 54 people -- 49 passengers and five crew -- and officials said all the bodies had been found among the wreckage.

Some bodies were not intact, and others were badly burnt.

The plane’s “black boxes”, consisting of a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, were also found, the transport ministry said. The devices should provide clues about what caused the crash, which officials believe was likely due to the weather.

The harsh conditions meant authorities were planning to lift the bodies from the site by heli-

copter, the search and rescue agency said.

“The challenge is the weather, it changes from good to bad very fast and it’s very cold now,” Captain Beni Sumaryanto, Trigana Air’s service director of operations, told AFP. Officials said there was no immediate news on the fate of 6.5 billion rupiah ($470,000) that were being transported by the plane in cash, intended for distribution to poor families as social assistance funds.

A team of about 100 rescuers, including personnel from the military, police and search and rescue agency, were at the crash site, the transport ministry said.

Thick fog and rain had hampered attempts by more than 250 rescuers and 11 aircraft to reach the wreckage on Monday.

The plane had set off from Papua’s capital Jayapura on what was supposed to be a 45minute flight to Oksibil, a remote settlement in the mountains.

But it lost contact with air traffic control about 10 minutes before reaching its destination, soon after the crew requested permission to start descending in heavy cloud and rain to land.

Trigana Air’s Sumaryanto said “unpredictable weather and mountainous terrain” had likely caused the accident, adding that the plane was in good condition and the pilot experienced. (afp)

Plane wreckage is strewn across dense terrain in Pegunungan Bintang, Papua province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015.

The Trigana Air Service plane that went missing two days ago was destroyed when it slammed into a mountain, killing all 54 people on board, the country’s top rescue official said.

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Indonesia’s July trade BMKG denies claims of Indonesia surplus widest since as world’s largest emitter late 2013

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A Malaysian Muslim woman checks on rice grain in a mall outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Malaysia’s economy is expected to be resilient despite the weakening of the Malaysian ringgit.

JAKARTA - Indonesia recorded its largest trade surplus for more than a year and a half in July, official data showed Tuesday, as exports and imports plunged.

The country’s statistics agency said Indonesia posted a surplus of $1.33 billion in July -- meaning the value of its exports exceeded the cost of imports -- far wider than expectations.

Exports in July fell 19.23 percent on-year to $11.41 billion, while imports plunged 28.44 percent, down $10.08 billion from a year before.

The surplus was the biggest since December 2013 and more than double the $601 million forecast from

analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.

The steep fall in Indonesia’s exports and imports comes as economic activity continues to slow in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Growth in Indonesia fell to a six-year low of 4.7 percent in the second quarter, with the slowdown in China and a dip in commodity prices weighing on the economy.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has lowered economic expectations with a more modest initial growth forecast for next year of 5.5 percent, and reshuffled his cabinet last week in a bid to revitalise his reform agenda. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia did not deserve to be named one of the largest emitters in the world, Head of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Andi Eka Satya stated.

“This is not true. Indonesia is not one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world,” Satya noted after opening the International Workshop on Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) on Tuesday.

Satya remarked that the United States, China, and India are the largest emitters in the world.

Satya explained that the rate of increase in Indonesia’s emissions was only 0.174 parts per million (ppm) each month. This rate of increase was not as high

as compared to the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), which was measured at Mauna Loa Station in the United States.

Based on results of the measurements of greenhouse gases at Bukit Koto Tabang Station, the CO2 levels did not increase linearly, from 372 ppm to 397 ppm.

Globally, he noted that the agreement on emission threshold values is 450 ppm. In this regard, the government has committed to reducing greenhouse gases by 26 percent through its own efforts, or 41 percent with international support until 2020.

To support these efforts, the BMKG has built two GAW stations in Palu and Papua.

The main function of a GAW

station is to observe the level of greenhouse gases. The existence of the station will further strengthen the position of the Indonesian government in meeting international commitments to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

The report, based on the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington D.C., mentioned that China, as the highest emitter, released 10.26 billion tons of greenhouse gases. The United States came second, releasing 6.2 billion tons of greenhouse gases.

The European Union stood third, with 4.3 billion tons; India, with emissions of 2.4 billion tons; Russia, with 2.2 billion tons; and Indonesia, with as much as 2.05 billion tons. (ant)

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Thunderstorms complicate recovery from Tianjin port blasts

TIANJIN, China — Thunderstorms Tuesday complicated recovery efforts from last week’s massive explosions at a warehouse in China’s Tianjin port that killed at least 114 people, left 57 missing and exposed dangerous chemicals — including some that could become flammable on contact with water.

Chinese soldiers, policemen and paramilitary policemen attend a memorial service for victims of the Tianjin blasts near the disaster’s epicenter in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015.

Fan Jie joined other residents in lighting candles for first-responders killed in the explosions. “There were many firefighters who went into the blast and sacrificed themselves. So we’re here today for them, to give thanks to them and grieve for them,” Fan said.

As of Tuesday, 50 firefighters were confirmed killed and 52 others were among the 57 missing, making the disaster the deadliest ever for Chinese first-responders.

About 1,000 firefighters responded to the disaster.

The blasts originated at a warehouse for hazardous material, where 700 tons of sodium cyanide — a toxic chemical that can form combustible substances on contact with water — was being stored in amounts that violated safety rules.

That has prompted contamination fears and a major cleanup of a 3-kilometer (1.8-mile) -radius, cordoned-off area in the port city southeast of Beijing.

Cyanide contamination was found at levels up to 28 times those considered safe at eight of 29 testing sites within the blast zone, said Bao Jingling, chief engineer of the Tianjin Environmental Bureau. No unsafe levels were found at 14 inspection sites outside the zone, he said.

“If the rain gets heavy, water will have to be drained. It is not good for water to remain in the craters,” Bao told a news conference, referring to massive cavities left by the explosions.

Officials have said there have been no substantial leaks of sodium cyanide. They say they have sealed all waterways leading into the sea from the blast site and built retaining walls to prevent any runoff. Sodium cyanide can form a flammable gas upon contact with water, and several hundred tons would be a clear violation of rules cited by state media that the warehouse could store no more than 10 tons at a time. (ap)

JOHANNESBURG — Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s has been admitted to a South African hospital, for the third time in recent months.

In a press briefing on Tuesday, Tutu’s daughter Mpho Tutu said her father was hospitalized on Monday

days. Tutu, 83, was hospitalized on July 28 for a week after a stay in hospital earlier in July.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been treated for prostate cancer for many years. Earlier, Mpho Tutu said the cancer is under control. (ap)

Experts have expressed concern that rain could spread some of the vast quantities of hazardous material at the site or set off chemical reactions sparking further explosions.

Rain began falling mid-morning, but there was no immediate word of new blasts.

Underscoring the weakness of China’s system of industrial safety, the head of the national organization responsible for those efforts has been placed under investigation for suspected “severe violation of discipline and law” — standard shorthand for corruption — the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said Tuesday.

No details were given about the

allegations against Yang Dongliang, who was appointed head of the State Administration of Work Safety three years ago and also worked in state industry and local government in Tianjin for 18 years, including as a vice mayor from 2001 to 2012.

The storms began shortly after residents, firefighters, police, medical staff and officials held a moment of silence marking the sixth day since the disaster, the first observance in the 49-day traditional Chinese mourning cycle. Sirens wailed and car and boat horns blared while assembled groups bowed in respect for the dead.

At the now-evacuated Seaport City housing complex, 33-year-old

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Nobel winner Desmond Tutu back in hospital in South Africa evening. She said he is being treated for inflammation, adding that it is not the same infection that Tutu had been treated for earlier.

Mpho Tutu added that doctors anticipate that her father will be home from hospital within a few

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Two migrants pull an overcrowded dinghy with Syrian and Afghan refugees arriving from the Turkish coasts to the Greek island of Lesbos, Monday, July 27, 2015.

German Red Cross to distribute aid to migrants in Greece

BERLIN — The German Red Cross said Tuesday it will distribute hygiene kits to migrants to try to prevent disease from spreading as they arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos.

The aid organization said that starting in mid-September it will hand out more than 19,000 kits — each will include a two-month supply of toothpaste, soap, laundry detergent, baby-care products and diapers.

The head of the German Red Cross, Rudolf Seiters, called the situation on Lesbos desolate and said many of the migrants who come to Lesbos on boats crossing the Mediterranean are weakened, have to sleep on the floor and have no access to medical care.

“To prevent the spreading of diseases in this situation, it is extremely important to improve the hygienic conditions,” Seiters said.

The aid group said that the German Foreign Office would contribute to the cost of the project.

A spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency called on Greek authorities to show greater leadership and appoint someone to coordinate the aid operation on some of its smaller islands.

“It’s very difficult for us to start working on the ground if we don’t have somebody who is in charge,” spokesman William Spindler from the UNHCR told reporters in Geneva.

He said police were tired and overwhelmed, but migrants too were frustrated from having to wait for days for documents, and often not receiving basic assistance.

“The conditions in Athens are equally poor as on the islands,” Spindler said, adding that the vast majority of people arriving in Greece will leave the country for other European destinations after a few days. (ap)

Russian police bust $30 million contraband cheese ring

MOSCOW — Russian police said Tuesday they have busted an international ring involved in producing contraband cheese worth about 2 billion rubles ($30 million), arresting six people.

The arrests are part of a government campaign to enforce a ban on imports of Western cheese and other agricultural products imposed a year ago in retaliation for U.S. and European Union sanctions on Russia.

Police said the ring, whose operations began in March, had been supplying “as cheese a product made from cheese rennet whose import into Russia is forbidden.” The product was then fixed with counterfeit labels of known foreign cheese producers and sold in supermarket chains and distribution centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

During the investigation, police raided 17 homes, warehouses and offices in the Moscow region, where they found 470 tons of the rennet

product, equipment for making the counterfeit labels and documents confirming the illegal activity, the police statement said. It said six people were arrested, but did not identify them.

In recent weeks, in tacit acknowledgment that the import ban has been widely violated, the national agricultural oversight agency has been publicizing the destruction of tons of contraband food. As of Monday, 321 tons of animal products have been seized, of which 48 tons have been destroyed, the agency, Rosselkhznadzor, said. It said that of the 592 tons of fruit and vegetables seized, 552 tons have been destroyed.

The public display of steamrollers or bulldozers being used to crush wheels of cheese, whole geese or crates of peaches has met with much criticism in Russia, which is suffering through an economic recession. Many people have signed a petition urging the government to donate the food to the poor instead. (ap)

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AMLAPURA - Tirtagangga Park is one of the tourist attractions located at Ababi Village, Abang Subdistrict. It is about 5 km north of Amlapura—the regency capital— built in 1948 by the King Anak Agung Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem.

Before the construction, the park was a large spring and local people called it embukan, meaning spring. The spring

was then taken advantage by surrounding villages as a source of drinking water and sacred purification for Ida Bathara (deities). On that account, the spring was made sacred by the locals. From this spring, the King of Karangasem then got the idea to build a park because it was greatly supported by the cool air and later on was named Tirtagangga Park. Just as the Su-

kasada Ujung Park, the Tirtagangga Park had a close attachment to the Karangasem Grand Palace.

In the area of Tirtagangga Park sits several large ponds functioned as fish ponds and public bathing. The water flowing through the large and small fountains then coming out of the mouth of the sculptures in the pool originates from the fountain.

Therefore, the water is cool and refreshing. Here, there are also fountains and tiered-lotus statues dividing it into two large ponds.

Today, the Tirtagangga Park has re-

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ligious, social as well as entertainment function. Religiously, the spring at location is used as holy water by the surrounding community. In addition, it serves as a venue for organizing Deva Yajña ritual and pilgrimage.

Meanwhile, the Tirtagangga springs is socially used by local government as a source of clean water for the people of Karangasem. Then, as entertainment, the Tirtagangga is managed and developed into one of the tourist objects and attractions that is much in demand as well as visited by tourists as a place of recreation.

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Grosjean ‘needed help’ after 2012 crashes

Lotus’s Romain Grosjean admits he “needed help” after his 2012 crash streak and believes ongoing work with a psychologist plus fatherhood have helped him develop as a Formula 1 driver.

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The Frenchman was involved in seven first-lap accidents during the 2012 season and received a ban from the Italian Grand Prix after causing a first-corner pile-up at the previous race in Belgium.

He subsequently improved to become a regular podium finisher in 2013 before Lotus’s form declined.

Grosjean told AUTOSPORT: “I wanted to see my psychologist, I needed some help. I didn’t understand what was going on. “If you work in the right way you realise, you understand and you put it in action and then you see that it was

better and then you take the next step and then you get more and more. “It’s like having a tool box containing only a screwdriver and you add another tool.

“When a situation comes there’s always a tool in front of you and you can take the right one, whereas before you only had one and then you screw up.”

Grosjean continues to speak to his psychologist, the two conversing via Skype when the Frenchman is at races, with the subjects discussed wide-ranging. “We talk about anything,” he said. “It can be childhood, it can be race starts, it can be rumours, it can be problems back home, it can be sleeping.

“You chat and whenever something comes out she sees if something is blocked so she can push me a little bit in that direction to help

me fix and realise it.

“It’s up to you to understand what’s blocked, what’s blocking you and then she helps you to fix what’s blocking you and put it in action.”

Two-and-a-half years after that troubled 2012 season, Grosjean believes the work his psychologist has made a big difference to him not only as a racing driver but also a person and a father.

“If you come to a racetrack with a problem in your mind from home, you get in the car and you explode,” he said.

“If everything is clear and solved then you can take things more carefully and with better vision and you react better so it’s all related.

“It has made me a better driver, a better dad, a better husband, hopefully, and just a better man in general.” (net)

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Valentino Rossi lamented a lack of rhythm on his Yamaha that meant he could not challenge Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for victory in MotoGP’s Czech Grand Prix. Rossi maintained his perfect record of podium finishes in 2015 with third at Brno on Sunday, but was not a factor despite starting on the front row of the grid for just the second time this year.

He lost places to Bradley Smith and Andrea Dovizioso off the line, and was two

seconds behind Lorenzo and Marquez by the time he was back into third by the end of the second lap.

The gap continued to grow and he finished 10s behind team-mate Lorenzo, and six behind Honda’s Marquez. “I’m a little bit disappointed, because I expected a better race and better pace from me,” he said.

“With Jorge, it’s difficult, because through all of the weekend he was very

Venus Williams held off young challenger Zarina Diyas 7-6 (6) 6-4 on Monday to reach the second round of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, where she will meet Ana Ivanovic.

Diyas, a rising 21-year-old from Kazakhstan, fell behind in both sets but refused to back down.

Veteran Williams managed to win the opening set tie-breaker 8-6 and hit 32 winners in the match, sending a brief reminder of her old form.

A seven-time Grand Slam champion, Williams has long fallen into the background behind younger sister Serena, who will be shooting for the Calendar Year Grand Slam and attempt to win her 22nd major title at the US Open in

a couple of weeks.

“Preparations are underway (for the US Open) but it still doesn’t feel that close,” Venus told reporters. “My opponent (Diyas) played so well today. She was so determined out there.”

Venus will now face ninthranked Ivanovic, seeded sixth in the tournament, in the second round.

T h e t o u r n a m e n t ’s o p e n ing day featured a couple of upsets as ninth seed Garbine Muguruza of Spain went down to Yaroslava Shvedova 6-4 7-6.

Timea Bacsinszky, the 12th seed, also fell to Madison Keys 6-4 6-3. Germany’s Andrea Petkovic and former world number one Jelena Jankovic both advanced. (rtr)

Dan Hamilton

Venus Williams of the United States hits a shot against Sabine Lisicki of Germany (not pictured) during the Rogers Cup tennis tournament at Aviva Centre.

strong, but I expected to be faster and to stay closer to Jorge and to fight with Marc. “But unfortunately that didn’t happen.

“I was too far behind, the start was not fantastic and I lost a bit of time, but more than the start, I had no rhythm. “I wasn’t fast enough and for some reason I wasn’t able to make the pace of [Saturday].

“I expected a little bit more, because starting from the front row you expect to stay closer.”

With his fifth win of the season, Lorenzo drew level with Rossi at the top of the

MotoGP championship, and the Italian admits he will need to lift his game to win an eighth top-flight title. “It’s unbelievable that after 11 races we have identical points,” he said.

“Jorge after the summer break has come back in fantastic shape and done two fantastic races, also in Indy because he fought with Marc until the last lap.

“I know that for a fight with him for the championship, to arrive in Valencia fighting for the championship, I have to be stronger and try to go faster.” (rtr)

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Sp rt Bilbao holds off Barcelona to win Super Cup 5-1 on aggregate

BARCELONA, Spain — Athletic Bilbao ended a 31-year trophy drought with a 1-1 draw at Barcelona on Monday, claiming the Spanish Super Cup with a 5-1 aggregate victory over the reigning European champions.

After Bilbao’s stunning 4-0 win in Friday’s first leg, Barcelona threatened a comeback when Lionel Messi put the hosts ahead a minute before halftime. But their hopes of an improbable turnaround diminished when Gerard Pique earned a rash red card for screaming in the face of a line judge in the 56th.

That helped Bilbao withstand the onslaught before Aritz Aduriz netted the equalizer in the 74th, adding to the striker’s hat trick on Friday. Bilbao also finished with 10 men after Kike Sola was sent off in the 86th for a challenge on Javier Mascherano.

Bilbao won its last title in 1984,

when it beat Barcelona 1-0 in the Copa del Rey final to complete a double of cup and league trophies.

The Super Cup traditionally pits last season’s league winners against the cup champion — but since Barcelona won both, Bilbao played courtesy of its runner-up finish in the Copa del Rey. “We have been waiting for this for a long time,” said Bilbao coach Ernesto Valverde. “Generations of players have passed through Athletic since those league and

cup titles of the 1980s. We knew it would arrive eventually.”

The result means Barcelona can’t match the six titles it won in a single calendar year under Pep Guardiola in 2009. Last week, Barcelona won the UEFA Super Cup after completing a rare treble of the Champions League, Spanish League and Copa del Rey last season, and it will play in the Club World Cup in December.

Luis Enrique’s Barcelona won’t have to wait long to try and avenge

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Athletic Bilbao’s Inaki Williams lifts the trophy at the end of a second leg Spanish Super Cup soccer match between FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Aug.17, 2015. After a 1-1 draw Athletic Bilbao won the trophy following the first leg 4-0 win.

the defeat. His side travels back to Bilbao to start their defense of the Spanish league title on Sunday. After losing to Barcelona’s collection of international stars in three Copa del Rey finals since 2009, the win is quite an achievement for a club that only fields homegrown players from the northern Basque Country or neighboring territories.

And its players savored the moment with the smattering of fans wearing their red-and-white shirts after the final whistle. “This makes up for those finals we lost to Barca,” said Valverde. “It isn’t a league or a cup, but this has an enormous value for us. There will no better place than Bilbao for a party tonight.”

With its pride stung and nothing to lose, Barcelona showed the verve it lacked from the first leg right from the start. But missed chances and bad tempers soon quashed any slim hopes of a comeback. “I saw a very good Bilbao side, and we were seeing a very good final until Gerard was sent off,” Luis Enrique said.

Pedro Rodriguez had Barcelona’s first chance when he blasted the ball high from close range.

Moments later, Pique began his frequent incursions into attack and smashed the ball off the bar in the sixth minute.

The Camp Nou crowd finally erupted when Messi broke through just before the break after Luis Suarez chested Ivan Rakitic’s cross down for the forward to poke past goalie Gorka Iraizoz.

But instead of unsettling Bilbao, it was Barcelona that came undone.

The team paid dearly for Pique’s outburst at the line judge for what the Spain defender thought was an offside situation that wasn’t flagged.

Aduriz sealed the result against the undermanned back line when he was left unmarked and with enough time to put his own rebound. (ap)

Ton-up Lloris dampened by Spurs’ draw against Stoke Hugo Lloris made his 100th Premier League appearance for Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday but the occasion mattered little for the goalkeeper after his club were held to a 2-2 draw at home against Stoke City.

Spurs took a two-goal lead in the

first half against the Potters, thanks to goals from Eric Dier and Nacer Chadli, and looked set for a routine win until they conceded two goals in five minutes late in the match.

“We played so well for 70 minutes and that’s why it’s even more frustrating. We were 2-0 up and it

was a big mistake from us not to get the three points from there,” the 28-year-old told the club’s website (www.tottenhamhotspur.com).

“We were all disappointed after the game and I was thinking more about that than my 100th Premier League game.”

Marko Arnautovic’s 78th minute penalty and Mame Biram Diouf’s equaliser five minutes later ensured the clubs split points at White Hart Lane.

Tottenham make the trip to Leicester City, who have won their opening two Premier League

games, on Saturday and Lloris wants the club to return to winnings ways.

“You always have to think about the next game and we have a week now to work hard and prepare for Leicester,” the France captain said. (rtr)

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Kevin de Bruyne Schneiderlin expects improvement prompted to say he’ll from unbeaten United stay at Wolfsburg HAMBURG, Germany — Belgium midfielder Kevin de Bruyne might stay at Wolfsburg this season, saying Monday he would remain with the Bundesliga club after being prompted to do so by a television personality.

De Bruyne was linked with a move to Premier League side Manchester City but the 24-year-old Belgian said at the Sport-Bild awards that he liked the familiar atmosphere at Wolfsburg.

Pressed further by awards presenter Alexander Bommes, he repeated word-for-word after him, “I, Kevin de Bruyne, will definitely play this season at VfL Wolfsburg.”

De Bruyne, recently named Germany’s footballer of the year, has a contract with Wolfsburg through 2019.

The former Werder Bremen midfielder joined Wolfsburg from Chelsea in January 2014, going on to score 13 goals and set up 27 more in 51 Bundesliga games for the side. He was instrumental in Wolfsburg’s second-place finish last season. (ap)

New Manchester United midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin claims he is close to full fitness and that both he and the team will continue to improve as the season progresses.

“To play for such a team like Manchester United is a beautiful thing,” the 25-year-old Frenchman, who completed a 25 million pounds ($39 million) switch from Southampton during the close season, told the club’s website (www.manutd.com).

“We look strong and, personally, I feel like I am getting closer

to being 100 percent physically.

I am not quite there yet but it will come.”

“I have been pleased to be able to make some good interceptions, but I don’t want to lose any balls when I have possession and that’s what I will continue to improve upon,” he added.

Back-to-back 1-0 wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa have earned Louis van Gaal’s side a maximum six points from their opening two fixtures but Schneiderlin expects the

team to improve further.

“Two wins out of two is very good so far and a very good start to the Premier League,” he said.

“We are happy after the results but still not 100 percent happy with the performances because we know we can still improve.

“In the Premier League, it’s all about winning games to win titles, so sometimes you need to be able to get the victories when you don’t have the best performance, and that’s what we’ve done so far,” he added. (ap)

Liverpool beats Bournemouth 1-0 in Premier League

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Wolfburg’s Kevin De Bruyne from Belgium shows the trophy for the best Bundesliga player of the year prior the German Supercup final soccer match between VfL Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich in Wolfsburg, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015.

Goetze should be left in peace to improve, say Bayern

BERLIN - German champions Bayern Munich have urged for an end to the ongoing transfer speculation regarding attacking midfielder Mario Goetze, with the Germany international still without a starting spot in his third season at the club.

The 23-year-old, who scored the winner for Germany in last year’s World Cup final, has again started the season as a little used substitute while also refusing to commit to a future at Bayern despite a contract till 2017.

“Can we agree on one thing, to allow Mario to play football?” Bayern sports director Matthias Sammer told reporters after Monday’s 3-1 friendly win over Dynamo Dresden. “He enjoys our trust but we need to leave the boy in peace.”

Goetze has struggled under coach Pep Guardiola and last season the Spaniard used him over the full 90 minutes in just 16 of their 34 league games, raising questions about whether he would see out his contract or leave.

He was also a little-used substitute in the German Super Cup defeat to VfL Wolfsburg earlier this month and again came on as a second half substitute in their Bundesliga opening 5-0 win over Hamburg SV on Friday.

Instead of spearheading Bayern’s attacking midfield Goetze has languished on the Bayern bench, unable to find consistency and the player vented his frustration earlier this month saying it had been a difficult two-year period so far.

“We will see what happens,” Goetze, who joined from Borussia Dortmund in 2013, had said on Aug. 5. “Now I will just let things come to me. For anything else we will have to see.”

Sammer said the club and player were working hard on his form and it would work out for both sides.

“That lightness, the trust, the last two or three percent, we are all working on that together. It is all good. It does not get better if we constantly talk about it.” (rtr)

LIVERPOOL, England — Christian Benteke scored his first Premier League goal for Liverpool on Monday to give his new team a 1-0 win over promoted Bournemouth in a game that was marked by two disputed refereeing decisions. Benteke met a cross at the far post for an easy tap-in in the 26th minute, although the goal was questionable as Philippe Coutinho had tried to reach the ball first from what was a clear offside position.

Benteke was bought from Aston Villa in the offseason to provide more of a presence up front for Liverpool, and the Belgium striker also hit the bar from close range in the 90th minute. “It’s a good debut for myself and for the team,” Benteke

said. “It’s a great feeling, it’s important for the confidence.”

Bournemouth fell to its second straight 1-0 loss to start the season after having an early goal ruled out, when Tommy Elphick was adjudged to have fouled Dejan Lovren before heading the ball into the net.

“For me it’s a goal,” said Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe. “He’s competing and wrestling, but if that’s a free kick we’re going to be seeing a free kick given every time there’s a corner.”

The Liverpool goal, meanwhile, was allowed to stand despite Coutinho seemingly interfering with play from an offside position.

Jordan Henderson swung in a cross from the left and Coutinho tried to

get his foot on the ball but missed — freezing goalkeeper Artur Boruc and leaving Benteke free at the far post to tap into an empty net.

Under new rules implemented for this season, players can be flagged for interfering with play even if they don’t touch the ball.

“Under the new rules that’s clearly offside. Clearly our goalkeeper was affected by the movement in front of him,” Howe said.

“It was hugely frustrating for us tonight. ... The big decisions have gone against us.”

Liverpool also won 1-0 at Stoke in the opening round and is one of four teams with six points from the two opening rounds, along with both Manchester clubs and Leicester. (ap)

AP Photo/Clint Hughes

Liverpool’s Christian Benteke scores the first goal for his side during their English Premier League soccer match against Bournemouth at Anfield in Liverpool, England, Monday Aug. 17, 2015.

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Sp rt Bilbao holds off Barcelona to win Super Cup 5-1 on aggregate

BARCELONA, Spain — Athletic Bilbao ended a 31-year trophy drought with a 1-1 draw at Barcelona on Monday, claiming the Spanish Super Cup with a 5-1 aggregate victory over the reigning European champions.

After Bilbao’s stunning 4-0 win in Friday’s first leg, Barcelona threatened a comeback when Lionel Messi put the hosts ahead a minute before halftime. But their hopes of an improbable turnaround diminished when Gerard Pique earned a rash red card for screaming in the face of a line judge in the 56th.

That helped Bilbao withstand the onslaught before Aritz Aduriz netted the equalizer in the 74th, adding to the striker’s hat trick on Friday. Bilbao also finished with 10 men after Kike Sola was sent off in the 86th for a challenge on Javier Mascherano.

Bilbao won its last title in 1984,

when it beat Barcelona 1-0 in the Copa del Rey final to complete a double of cup and league trophies.

The Super Cup traditionally pits last season’s league winners against the cup champion — but since Barcelona won both, Bilbao played courtesy of its runner-up finish in the Copa del Rey. “We have been waiting for this for a long time,” said Bilbao coach Ernesto Valverde. “Generations of players have passed through Athletic since those league and

cup titles of the 1980s. We knew it would arrive eventually.”

The result means Barcelona can’t match the six titles it won in a single calendar year under Pep Guardiola in 2009. Last week, Barcelona won the UEFA Super Cup after completing a rare treble of the Champions League, Spanish League and Copa del Rey last season, and it will play in the Club World Cup in December.

Luis Enrique’s Barcelona won’t have to wait long to try and avenge

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Athletic Bilbao’s Inaki Williams lifts the trophy at the end of a second leg Spanish Super Cup soccer match between FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Aug.17, 2015. After a 1-1 draw Athletic Bilbao won the trophy following the first leg 4-0 win.

the defeat. His side travels back to Bilbao to start their defense of the Spanish league title on Sunday. After losing to Barcelona’s collection of international stars in three Copa del Rey finals since 2009, the win is quite an achievement for a club that only fields homegrown players from the northern Basque Country or neighboring territories.

And its players savored the moment with the smattering of fans wearing their red-and-white shirts after the final whistle. “This makes up for those finals we lost to Barca,” said Valverde. “It isn’t a league or a cup, but this has an enormous value for us. There will no better place than Bilbao for a party tonight.”

With its pride stung and nothing to lose, Barcelona showed the verve it lacked from the first leg right from the start. But missed chances and bad tempers soon quashed any slim hopes of a comeback. “I saw a very good Bilbao side, and we were seeing a very good final until Gerard was sent off,” Luis Enrique said.

Pedro Rodriguez had Barcelona’s first chance when he blasted the ball high from close range.

Moments later, Pique began his frequent incursions into attack and smashed the ball off the bar in the sixth minute.

The Camp Nou crowd finally erupted when Messi broke through just before the break after Luis Suarez chested Ivan Rakitic’s cross down for the forward to poke past goalie Gorka Iraizoz.

But instead of unsettling Bilbao, it was Barcelona that came undone.

The team paid dearly for Pique’s outburst at the line judge for what the Spain defender thought was an offside situation that wasn’t flagged.

Aduriz sealed the result against the undermanned back line when he was left unmarked and with enough time to put his own rebound. (ap)

Ton-up Lloris dampened by Spurs’ draw against Stoke Hugo Lloris made his 100th Premier League appearance for Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday but the occasion mattered little for the goalkeeper after his club were held to a 2-2 draw at home against Stoke City.

Spurs took a two-goal lead in the

first half against the Potters, thanks to goals from Eric Dier and Nacer Chadli, and looked set for a routine win until they conceded two goals in five minutes late in the match.

“We played so well for 70 minutes and that’s why it’s even more frustrating. We were 2-0 up and it

was a big mistake from us not to get the three points from there,” the 28-year-old told the club’s website (www.tottenhamhotspur.com).

“We were all disappointed after the game and I was thinking more about that than my 100th Premier League game.”

Marko Arnautovic’s 78th minute penalty and Mame Biram Diouf’s equaliser five minutes later ensured the clubs split points at White Hart Lane.

Tottenham make the trip to Leicester City, who have won their opening two Premier League

games, on Saturday and Lloris wants the club to return to winnings ways.

“You always have to think about the next game and we have a week now to work hard and prepare for Leicester,” the France captain said. (rtr)

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Kevin de Bruyne Schneiderlin expects improvement prompted to say he’ll from unbeaten United stay at Wolfsburg HAMBURG, Germany — Belgium midfielder Kevin de Bruyne might stay at Wolfsburg this season, saying Monday he would remain with the Bundesliga club after being prompted to do so by a television personality.

De Bruyne was linked with a move to Premier League side Manchester City but the 24-year-old Belgian said at the Sport-Bild awards that he liked the familiar atmosphere at Wolfsburg.

Pressed further by awards presenter Alexander Bommes, he repeated word-for-word after him, “I, Kevin de Bruyne, will definitely play this season at VfL Wolfsburg.”

De Bruyne, recently named Germany’s footballer of the year, has a contract with Wolfsburg through 2019.

The former Werder Bremen midfielder joined Wolfsburg from Chelsea in January 2014, going on to score 13 goals and set up 27 more in 51 Bundesliga games for the side. He was instrumental in Wolfsburg’s second-place finish last season. (ap)

New Manchester United midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin claims he is close to full fitness and that both he and the team will continue to improve as the season progresses.

“To play for such a team like Manchester United is a beautiful thing,” the 25-year-old Frenchman, who completed a 25 million pounds ($39 million) switch from Southampton during the close season, told the club’s website (www.manutd.com).

“We look strong and, personally, I feel like I am getting closer

to being 100 percent physically.

I am not quite there yet but it will come.”

“I have been pleased to be able to make some good interceptions, but I don’t want to lose any balls when I have possession and that’s what I will continue to improve upon,” he added.

Back-to-back 1-0 wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa have earned Louis van Gaal’s side a maximum six points from their opening two fixtures but Schneiderlin expects the

team to improve further.

“Two wins out of two is very good so far and a very good start to the Premier League,” he said.

“We are happy after the results but still not 100 percent happy with the performances because we know we can still improve.

“In the Premier League, it’s all about winning games to win titles, so sometimes you need to be able to get the victories when you don’t have the best performance, and that’s what we’ve done so far,” he added. (ap)

Liverpool beats Bournemouth 1-0 in Premier League

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Wolfburg’s Kevin De Bruyne from Belgium shows the trophy for the best Bundesliga player of the year prior the German Supercup final soccer match between VfL Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich in Wolfsburg, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015.

Goetze should be left in peace to improve, say Bayern

BERLIN - German champions Bayern Munich have urged for an end to the ongoing transfer speculation regarding attacking midfielder Mario Goetze, with the Germany international still without a starting spot in his third season at the club.

The 23-year-old, who scored the winner for Germany in last year’s World Cup final, has again started the season as a little used substitute while also refusing to commit to a future at Bayern despite a contract till 2017.

“Can we agree on one thing, to allow Mario to play football?” Bayern sports director Matthias Sammer told reporters after Monday’s 3-1 friendly win over Dynamo Dresden. “He enjoys our trust but we need to leave the boy in peace.”

Goetze has struggled under coach Pep Guardiola and last season the Spaniard used him over the full 90 minutes in just 16 of their 34 league games, raising questions about whether he would see out his contract or leave.

He was also a little-used substitute in the German Super Cup defeat to VfL Wolfsburg earlier this month and again came on as a second half substitute in their Bundesliga opening 5-0 win over Hamburg SV on Friday.

Instead of spearheading Bayern’s attacking midfield Goetze has languished on the Bayern bench, unable to find consistency and the player vented his frustration earlier this month saying it had been a difficult two-year period so far.

“We will see what happens,” Goetze, who joined from Borussia Dortmund in 2013, had said on Aug. 5. “Now I will just let things come to me. For anything else we will have to see.”

Sammer said the club and player were working hard on his form and it would work out for both sides.

“That lightness, the trust, the last two or three percent, we are all working on that together. It is all good. It does not get better if we constantly talk about it.” (rtr)

LIVERPOOL, England — Christian Benteke scored his first Premier League goal for Liverpool on Monday to give his new team a 1-0 win over promoted Bournemouth in a game that was marked by two disputed refereeing decisions. Benteke met a cross at the far post for an easy tap-in in the 26th minute, although the goal was questionable as Philippe Coutinho had tried to reach the ball first from what was a clear offside position.

Benteke was bought from Aston Villa in the offseason to provide more of a presence up front for Liverpool, and the Belgium striker also hit the bar from close range in the 90th minute. “It’s a good debut for myself and for the team,” Benteke

said. “It’s a great feeling, it’s important for the confidence.”

Bournemouth fell to its second straight 1-0 loss to start the season after having an early goal ruled out, when Tommy Elphick was adjudged to have fouled Dejan Lovren before heading the ball into the net.

“For me it’s a goal,” said Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe. “He’s competing and wrestling, but if that’s a free kick we’re going to be seeing a free kick given every time there’s a corner.”

The Liverpool goal, meanwhile, was allowed to stand despite Coutinho seemingly interfering with play from an offside position.

Jordan Henderson swung in a cross from the left and Coutinho tried to

get his foot on the ball but missed — freezing goalkeeper Artur Boruc and leaving Benteke free at the far post to tap into an empty net.

Under new rules implemented for this season, players can be flagged for interfering with play even if they don’t touch the ball.

“Under the new rules that’s clearly offside. Clearly our goalkeeper was affected by the movement in front of him,” Howe said.

“It was hugely frustrating for us tonight. ... The big decisions have gone against us.”

Liverpool also won 1-0 at Stoke in the opening round and is one of four teams with six points from the two opening rounds, along with both Manchester clubs and Leicester. (ap)

AP Photo/Clint Hughes

Liverpool’s Christian Benteke scores the first goal for his side during their English Premier League soccer match against Bournemouth at Anfield in Liverpool, England, Monday Aug. 17, 2015.

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Tirtagangga

AMLAPURA - Tirtagangga Park is one of the tourist attractions located at Ababi Village, Abang Subdistrict. It is about 5 km north of Amlapura—the regency capital— built in 1948 by the King Anak Agung Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem.

Before the construction, the park was a large spring and local people called it embukan, meaning spring. The spring

was then taken advantage by surrounding villages as a source of drinking water and sacred purification for Ida Bathara (deities). On that account, the spring was made sacred by the locals. From this spring, the King of Karangasem then got the idea to build a park because it was greatly supported by the cool air and later on was named Tirtagangga Park. Just as the Su-

kasada Ujung Park, the Tirtagangga Park had a close attachment to the Karangasem Grand Palace.

In the area of Tirtagangga Park sits several large ponds functioned as fish ponds and public bathing. The water flowing through the large and small fountains then coming out of the mouth of the sculptures in the pool originates from the fountain.

Therefore, the water is cool and refreshing. Here, there are also fountains and tiered-lotus statues dividing it into two large ponds.

Today, the Tirtagangga Park has re-

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ligious, social as well as entertainment function. Religiously, the spring at location is used as holy water by the surrounding community. In addition, it serves as a venue for organizing Deva Yajña ritual and pilgrimage.

Meanwhile, the Tirtagangga springs is socially used by local government as a source of clean water for the people of Karangasem. Then, as entertainment, the Tirtagangga is managed and developed into one of the tourist objects and attractions that is much in demand as well as visited by tourists as a place of recreation.

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Grosjean ‘needed help’ after 2012 crashes

Lotus’s Romain Grosjean admits he “needed help” after his 2012 crash streak and believes ongoing work with a psychologist plus fatherhood have helped him develop as a Formula 1 driver.

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The Frenchman was involved in seven first-lap accidents during the 2012 season and received a ban from the Italian Grand Prix after causing a first-corner pile-up at the previous race in Belgium.

He subsequently improved to become a regular podium finisher in 2013 before Lotus’s form declined.

Grosjean told AUTOSPORT: “I wanted to see my psychologist, I needed some help. I didn’t understand what was going on. “If you work in the right way you realise, you understand and you put it in action and then you see that it was

better and then you take the next step and then you get more and more. “It’s like having a tool box containing only a screwdriver and you add another tool.

“When a situation comes there’s always a tool in front of you and you can take the right one, whereas before you only had one and then you screw up.”

Grosjean continues to speak to his psychologist, the two conversing via Skype when the Frenchman is at races, with the subjects discussed wide-ranging. “We talk about anything,” he said. “It can be childhood, it can be race starts, it can be rumours, it can be problems back home, it can be sleeping.

“You chat and whenever something comes out she sees if something is blocked so she can push me a little bit in that direction to help

me fix and realise it.

“It’s up to you to understand what’s blocked, what’s blocking you and then she helps you to fix what’s blocking you and put it in action.”

Two-and-a-half years after that troubled 2012 season, Grosjean believes the work his psychologist has made a big difference to him not only as a racing driver but also a person and a father.

“If you come to a racetrack with a problem in your mind from home, you get in the car and you explode,” he said.

“If everything is clear and solved then you can take things more carefully and with better vision and you react better so it’s all related.

“It has made me a better driver, a better dad, a better husband, hopefully, and just a better man in general.” (net)

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Valentino Rossi lamented a lack of rhythm on his Yamaha that meant he could not challenge Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for victory in MotoGP’s Czech Grand Prix. Rossi maintained his perfect record of podium finishes in 2015 with third at Brno on Sunday, but was not a factor despite starting on the front row of the grid for just the second time this year.

He lost places to Bradley Smith and Andrea Dovizioso off the line, and was two

seconds behind Lorenzo and Marquez by the time he was back into third by the end of the second lap.

The gap continued to grow and he finished 10s behind team-mate Lorenzo, and six behind Honda’s Marquez. “I’m a little bit disappointed, because I expected a better race and better pace from me,” he said.

“With Jorge, it’s difficult, because through all of the weekend he was very

Venus Williams held off young challenger Zarina Diyas 7-6 (6) 6-4 on Monday to reach the second round of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, where she will meet Ana Ivanovic.

Diyas, a rising 21-year-old from Kazakhstan, fell behind in both sets but refused to back down.

Veteran Williams managed to win the opening set tie-breaker 8-6 and hit 32 winners in the match, sending a brief reminder of her old form.

A seven-time Grand Slam champion, Williams has long fallen into the background behind younger sister Serena, who will be shooting for the Calendar Year Grand Slam and attempt to win her 22nd major title at the US Open in

a couple of weeks.

“Preparations are underway (for the US Open) but it still doesn’t feel that close,” Venus told reporters. “My opponent (Diyas) played so well today. She was so determined out there.”

Venus will now face ninthranked Ivanovic, seeded sixth in the tournament, in the second round.

T h e t o u r n a m e n t ’s o p e n ing day featured a couple of upsets as ninth seed Garbine Muguruza of Spain went down to Yaroslava Shvedova 6-4 7-6.

Timea Bacsinszky, the 12th seed, also fell to Madison Keys 6-4 6-3. Germany’s Andrea Petkovic and former world number one Jelena Jankovic both advanced. (rtr)

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Venus Williams of the United States hits a shot against Sabine Lisicki of Germany (not pictured) during the Rogers Cup tennis tournament at Aviva Centre.

strong, but I expected to be faster and to stay closer to Jorge and to fight with Marc. “But unfortunately that didn’t happen.

“I was too far behind, the start was not fantastic and I lost a bit of time, but more than the start, I had no rhythm. “I wasn’t fast enough and for some reason I wasn’t able to make the pace of [Saturday].

“I expected a little bit more, because starting from the front row you expect to stay closer.”

With his fifth win of the season, Lorenzo drew level with Rossi at the top of the

MotoGP championship, and the Italian admits he will need to lift his game to win an eighth top-flight title. “It’s unbelievable that after 11 races we have identical points,” he said.

“Jorge after the summer break has come back in fantastic shape and done two fantastic races, also in Indy because he fought with Marc until the last lap.

“I know that for a fight with him for the championship, to arrive in Valencia fighting for the championship, I have to be stronger and try to go faster.” (rtr)

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Thunderstorms complicate recovery from Tianjin port blasts

TIANJIN, China — Thunderstorms Tuesday complicated recovery efforts from last week’s massive explosions at a warehouse in China’s Tianjin port that killed at least 114 people, left 57 missing and exposed dangerous chemicals — including some that could become flammable on contact with water.

Chinese soldiers, policemen and paramilitary policemen attend a memorial service for victims of the Tianjin blasts near the disaster’s epicenter in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015.

Fan Jie joined other residents in lighting candles for first-responders killed in the explosions. “There were many firefighters who went into the blast and sacrificed themselves. So we’re here today for them, to give thanks to them and grieve for them,” Fan said.

As of Tuesday, 50 firefighters were confirmed killed and 52 others were among the 57 missing, making the disaster the deadliest ever for Chinese first-responders.

About 1,000 firefighters responded to the disaster.

The blasts originated at a warehouse for hazardous material, where 700 tons of sodium cyanide — a toxic chemical that can form combustible substances on contact with water — was being stored in amounts that violated safety rules.

That has prompted contamination fears and a major cleanup of a 3-kilometer (1.8-mile) -radius, cordoned-off area in the port city southeast of Beijing.

Cyanide contamination was found at levels up to 28 times those considered safe at eight of 29 testing sites within the blast zone, said Bao Jingling, chief engineer of the Tianjin Environmental Bureau. No unsafe levels were found at 14 inspection sites outside the zone, he said.

“If the rain gets heavy, water will have to be drained. It is not good for water to remain in the craters,” Bao told a news conference, referring to massive cavities left by the explosions.

Officials have said there have been no substantial leaks of sodium cyanide. They say they have sealed all waterways leading into the sea from the blast site and built retaining walls to prevent any runoff. Sodium cyanide can form a flammable gas upon contact with water, and several hundred tons would be a clear violation of rules cited by state media that the warehouse could store no more than 10 tons at a time. (ap)

JOHANNESBURG — Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s has been admitted to a South African hospital, for the third time in recent months.

In a press briefing on Tuesday, Tutu’s daughter Mpho Tutu said her father was hospitalized on Monday

days. Tutu, 83, was hospitalized on July 28 for a week after a stay in hospital earlier in July.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been treated for prostate cancer for many years. Earlier, Mpho Tutu said the cancer is under control. (ap)

Experts have expressed concern that rain could spread some of the vast quantities of hazardous material at the site or set off chemical reactions sparking further explosions.

Rain began falling mid-morning, but there was no immediate word of new blasts.

Underscoring the weakness of China’s system of industrial safety, the head of the national organization responsible for those efforts has been placed under investigation for suspected “severe violation of discipline and law” — standard shorthand for corruption — the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said Tuesday.

No details were given about the

allegations against Yang Dongliang, who was appointed head of the State Administration of Work Safety three years ago and also worked in state industry and local government in Tianjin for 18 years, including as a vice mayor from 2001 to 2012.

The storms began shortly after residents, firefighters, police, medical staff and officials held a moment of silence marking the sixth day since the disaster, the first observance in the 49-day traditional Chinese mourning cycle. Sirens wailed and car and boat horns blared while assembled groups bowed in respect for the dead.

At the now-evacuated Seaport City housing complex, 33-year-old

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Nobel winner Desmond Tutu back in hospital in South Africa evening. She said he is being treated for inflammation, adding that it is not the same infection that Tutu had been treated for earlier.

Mpho Tutu added that doctors anticipate that her father will be home from hospital within a few

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Two migrants pull an overcrowded dinghy with Syrian and Afghan refugees arriving from the Turkish coasts to the Greek island of Lesbos, Monday, July 27, 2015.

German Red Cross to distribute aid to migrants in Greece

BERLIN — The German Red Cross said Tuesday it will distribute hygiene kits to migrants to try to prevent disease from spreading as they arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos.

The aid organization said that starting in mid-September it will hand out more than 19,000 kits — each will include a two-month supply of toothpaste, soap, laundry detergent, baby-care products and diapers.

The head of the German Red Cross, Rudolf Seiters, called the situation on Lesbos desolate and said many of the migrants who come to Lesbos on boats crossing the Mediterranean are weakened, have to sleep on the floor and have no access to medical care.

“To prevent the spreading of diseases in this situation, it is extremely important to improve the hygienic conditions,” Seiters said.

The aid group said that the German Foreign Office would contribute to the cost of the project.

A spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency called on Greek authorities to show greater leadership and appoint someone to coordinate the aid operation on some of its smaller islands.

“It’s very difficult for us to start working on the ground if we don’t have somebody who is in charge,” spokesman William Spindler from the UNHCR told reporters in Geneva.

He said police were tired and overwhelmed, but migrants too were frustrated from having to wait for days for documents, and often not receiving basic assistance.

“The conditions in Athens are equally poor as on the islands,” Spindler said, adding that the vast majority of people arriving in Greece will leave the country for other European destinations after a few days. (ap)

Russian police bust $30 million contraband cheese ring

MOSCOW — Russian police said Tuesday they have busted an international ring involved in producing contraband cheese worth about 2 billion rubles ($30 million), arresting six people.

The arrests are part of a government campaign to enforce a ban on imports of Western cheese and other agricultural products imposed a year ago in retaliation for U.S. and European Union sanctions on Russia.

Police said the ring, whose operations began in March, had been supplying “as cheese a product made from cheese rennet whose import into Russia is forbidden.” The product was then fixed with counterfeit labels of known foreign cheese producers and sold in supermarket chains and distribution centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

During the investigation, police raided 17 homes, warehouses and offices in the Moscow region, where they found 470 tons of the rennet

product, equipment for making the counterfeit labels and documents confirming the illegal activity, the police statement said. It said six people were arrested, but did not identify them.

In recent weeks, in tacit acknowledgment that the import ban has been widely violated, the national agricultural oversight agency has been publicizing the destruction of tons of contraband food. As of Monday, 321 tons of animal products have been seized, of which 48 tons have been destroyed, the agency, Rosselkhznadzor, said. It said that of the 592 tons of fruit and vegetables seized, 552 tons have been destroyed.

The public display of steamrollers or bulldozers being used to crush wheels of cheese, whole geese or crates of peaches has met with much criticism in Russia, which is suffering through an economic recession. Many people have signed a petition urging the government to donate the food to the poor instead. (ap)

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Asia’s ‘infrastructure gap’ threatens to hamper growth MANILA — Looking out at bumper-to-bumper Monday morning traffic crawling along the Philippine capital’s main avenue, taxi driver Ranilo Banez shook his head in frustration.

Congestion has gotten so bad as the economy grew, he said, that a 10-kilometer (six-mile) trip that once took 30 minutes can stretch to two hours.

“We lose so much,” said Banez, 64. “We waste a lot of gasoline and time.”

The Philippines is far from alone. The outpouring of support for a Chinese-led bank to finance infrastructure highlights a gap in Asia’s success story: From power-starved India to Thailand’s overburdened railways, developing economies face a shortage of basic facilities so severe that it threatens to hold back

growth and living standards.

Manila and other cities are choked with construction sites for office and apartment towers. But spending on roads, railways and other unglamorous but essential infrastructure collapsed after the 1997 financial crisis and has yet to recover.

“The catch-up they need to do is still considerable,” said Ramesh Subramaniam, deputy director general of the ADB’s Southeast Asia department.

If spending fails to pick up, “then this could possibly have an impact on future growth,” he said.

“Certainly it is going to reduce the

competitiveness of the countries in the region.”

That gap has given Beijing a chance to assert its ambition to be a regional leader and fueled a diplomatic alms race.

On top of its planned infrastructure bank, which 57 countries want to join, the government of President Xi Jinping has launched initiatives to improve road, rail and sea links.

Japan joined Washington in staying away from the Chinese bank. Instead, Tokyo responded in June by announcing its own credit package of $110 billion for the region.

The Asian Development Bank has estimated developing Asian economies need to invest $8 trillion in the decade through 2020 or some 80 times the planned $100 billion

capital of Beijing’s bank.

India is set to pass China this year as the world’s fastest-growing big economy. To keep that up, its government says, the nation of 1.2 billion people needs to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure in the five years through 2017.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called in May for India to speed up building “all projects that will ensure a modern infrastructure backbone.”

India’s most ambitious initiative is the $100 billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project. It calls for creating seven industrial cities, high-speed railways, six airports and three sea ports.

Thailand has a 3 trillion baht ($92 billion) building plan for 2015-

22 that includes high-speed train routes that eventually will stretch from China in the north through Malaysia in the south to Singapore.

It calls for expanding seaports and Bangkok’s commuter trains.

In the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino III in May approved $1.4 billion in spending for commuter rail in Manila and other projects. That brought the total for infrastructure investment to $31.8 billion since Aquino took office in 2010.

The Asian Development Bank says if the required facilities are built, the region’s people could get an extra $4.5 trillion in income in the decade through 2020 and another $8.5 trillion after that. Many have yet to work out how to pay for those projects. (ap)

Two Koreas reach agreement in Kaesong wage row SEOUL - South Korea said Tuesday it had reached agreement with Pyongyang on a wage hike for North Korean workers at their Kaesong joint economic zone, ending a sixmonth dispute.

The breakthrough came despite inter-Korean tensions going through one of their sporadic surges after the South accused North Korea of engineering mine blasts that maimed members of a military border patrol.

The five-percent hike will increase the minimum workers’ wage in Kaesong from $70.35 a month to $73.87, a spokesman for Seoul’s unification ministry said.

The agreement -- reached late Monday -- followed months of often testy negotiations prompted by Pyongyang’s unilateral announcement in February that a 5.18-percent pay rise would be implemented.

The North’s proposal exceeded a previously agreed five-percent annual wage rise cap and Seoul responded by insisting that any such change had to be a joint decision.

On Monday, both sides agreed to discuss the remaining 0.18-percent raise later, the ministry said.

The Kaesong industrial estate, which lies just 10 kilometres (six miles) over the border in the North,

hosts about 120 South Korean firms employing some 53,000 North Korean workers.

Kaesong is a key earner for the cash-strapped North. The hard currency wages are kept by the state, which passes on a fraction -- in local currency -- to the workers.

The South Korean companies get cheap labour as well as preferential loans and tax breaks from the government. Kaesong opened in 2004 and has generally managed to ride out repeated inter-Korea crises, even when every other avenue of cooperation was closed off.

The glaring exception came in 2013, when Pyongyang effectively shut down the zone for five months by withdrawing its workers.

Cross border tensions are currently running high following the landmine incident earlier this month, which has resulted in both sides resuming -- after a decade-long break -- a cross-border propaganda shouting match using banks of powerful speakers.

Pyongyang has also upped its military threat rhetoric in protest at the launch this week of an annual South Korea-US military drill that the North sees as a rehearsal for invasion. (afp)

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Crashed Indonesian plane found ‘destroyed’, no survivors

JAYAPURA - A plane that crashed in eastern Indonesia was Tuesday found “completely destroyed” with the bodies of all 54 people who had been aboard amid the wreckage in a fireblackened clearing at a remote site in dense jungle.

Rescuers finally reached the debris of the Trigana Air plane, which went down Sunday during a short flight in bad weather, after being forced to abandon search efforts a day earlier due to the mountainous terrain and bad weather.

“The plane has crashed, it is completely destroyed,” search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo said of the ATR 42-300 after rescue teams reached the site in Papua province at 9:30 am (0030 GMT).

“Everything was in pieces and part of the plane is burnt. We could see burn marks on some pieces.”

The disaster is just the latest air accident in Indonesia, which has a poor aviation safety record and has suffered major disasters in recent months, including the crash of an AirAsia plane in December with the loss of 162 lives.

Photos of the site showed a fire-blackened clearing in thick jungle strewn with debris. The twin-turboprop plane was carrying 54 people -- 49 passengers and five crew -- and officials said all the bodies had been found among the wreckage.

Some bodies were not intact, and others were badly burnt.

The plane’s “black boxes”, consisting of a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, were also found, the transport ministry said. The devices should provide clues about what caused the crash, which officials believe was likely due to the weather.

The harsh conditions meant authorities were planning to lift the bodies from the site by heli-

copter, the search and rescue agency said.

“The challenge is the weather, it changes from good to bad very fast and it’s very cold now,” Captain Beni Sumaryanto, Trigana Air’s service director of operations, told AFP. Officials said there was no immediate news on the fate of 6.5 billion rupiah ($470,000) that were being transported by the plane in cash, intended for distribution to poor families as social assistance funds.

A team of about 100 rescuers, including personnel from the military, police and search and rescue agency, were at the crash site, the transport ministry said.

Thick fog and rain had hampered attempts by more than 250 rescuers and 11 aircraft to reach the wreckage on Monday.

The plane had set off from Papua’s capital Jayapura on what was supposed to be a 45minute flight to Oksibil, a remote settlement in the mountains.

But it lost contact with air traffic control about 10 minutes before reaching its destination, soon after the crew requested permission to start descending in heavy cloud and rain to land.

Trigana Air’s Sumaryanto said “unpredictable weather and mountainous terrain” had likely caused the accident, adding that the plane was in good condition and the pilot experienced. (afp)

Plane wreckage is strewn across dense terrain in Pegunungan Bintang, Papua province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015.

The Trigana Air Service plane that went missing two days ago was destroyed when it slammed into a mountain, killing all 54 people on board, the country’s top rescue official said.

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Indonesia’s July trade BMKG denies claims of Indonesia surplus widest since as world’s largest emitter late 2013

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A Malaysian Muslim woman checks on rice grain in a mall outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Malaysia’s economy is expected to be resilient despite the weakening of the Malaysian ringgit.

JAKARTA - Indonesia recorded its largest trade surplus for more than a year and a half in July, official data showed Tuesday, as exports and imports plunged.

The country’s statistics agency said Indonesia posted a surplus of $1.33 billion in July -- meaning the value of its exports exceeded the cost of imports -- far wider than expectations.

Exports in July fell 19.23 percent on-year to $11.41 billion, while imports plunged 28.44 percent, down $10.08 billion from a year before.

The surplus was the biggest since December 2013 and more than double the $601 million forecast from

analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.

The steep fall in Indonesia’s exports and imports comes as economic activity continues to slow in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Growth in Indonesia fell to a six-year low of 4.7 percent in the second quarter, with the slowdown in China and a dip in commodity prices weighing on the economy.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has lowered economic expectations with a more modest initial growth forecast for next year of 5.5 percent, and reshuffled his cabinet last week in a bid to revitalise his reform agenda. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia did not deserve to be named one of the largest emitters in the world, Head of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Andi Eka Satya stated.

“This is not true. Indonesia is not one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world,” Satya noted after opening the International Workshop on Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) on Tuesday.

Satya remarked that the United States, China, and India are the largest emitters in the world.

Satya explained that the rate of increase in Indonesia’s emissions was only 0.174 parts per million (ppm) each month. This rate of increase was not as high

as compared to the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), which was measured at Mauna Loa Station in the United States.

Based on results of the measurements of greenhouse gases at Bukit Koto Tabang Station, the CO2 levels did not increase linearly, from 372 ppm to 397 ppm.

Globally, he noted that the agreement on emission threshold values is 450 ppm. In this regard, the government has committed to reducing greenhouse gases by 26 percent through its own efforts, or 41 percent with international support until 2020.

To support these efforts, the BMKG has built two GAW stations in Palu and Papua.

The main function of a GAW

station is to observe the level of greenhouse gases. The existence of the station will further strengthen the position of the Indonesian government in meeting international commitments to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

The report, based on the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington D.C., mentioned that China, as the highest emitter, released 10.26 billion tons of greenhouse gases. The United States came second, releasing 6.2 billion tons of greenhouse gases.

The European Union stood third, with 4.3 billion tons; India, with emissions of 2.4 billion tons; Russia, with 2.2 billion tons; and Indonesia, with as much as 2.05 billion tons. (ant)

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Many women still ashamed to have pap test done GIANYAR - Cervical cancer is a serious threat to women. Unfortunately, many women are still reluctant to have a pap smear test done, even thought they only take 5 minutes. “Pap smears only takes five minutes for the examination, but the benefits can be enjoyed for a lifetime. By getting a pap smear, women can determine whether or not they have cervical cancer, early on and get treatment if necessary,” said Nyoman Rudi Susantha during an information session about cervical cancer in Bedulu.

According to Dr. Susantha who works at Sanjiwani Hospital, the reason that women in Gianyar do not go for pap smears has nothing to do with cost or location but rather it is because they feel ashamed to have their intimate organs checked.

This condition is clearly very worrying. Early detection is very important in preventing the disease from reaching an advanced stage without treatment. “Do not worry or feel embarrassed. Obstetrician always working professionally,” he said.

Susantha explained that cervical cancer can be caused by several things, such as unhealthy lifestyle, multiple partners and other factors. It is a woman’s responsibility to have a pap test done, especially if she has a sexual partner.

Chairwoman of the Gianyar Branch of the Indonesian Cancer Foundation (YKI), Mrs. Adnyani Mahayastra expressed a smilier opinion. According to Mahayastra, the number of cancer patient in Gianyar is increasing from year to year.

Currently their are 5 women with cervical cancer, 119 with breast cancer, 9 with colon cancer, 1 with lung cancer and 18 with nasopharyngeal cancer. She also said that based on this data, it is important that efforts be made to spread information about cervical and other cancers. Various efforts are already being made to prevent more people from getting cancer, including the YKI’s program of educating students though the PKTP, the establishment of cancer care groups and simulation activities, providing free pap smears (IVA) for the public, early detection of breast cancer, and checking on the hygiene of foods in markets and household products in an integrated manner. (kmb25)

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FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2015, file photo, members of South Korean conservative group shout slogans after burning an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and North Korean flags during a rally denouncing the North Korea at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea.

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The cow farmer is giving her cattle food

Price hikes, beef supply in Tabanan secure TABANAN - Head of the Tabanan Industry and Trade Agency, I.B. Wiryawan recently said that despite the fact that the price of beef is soaring, people need not worry about scarcity because beef supplies in Tabanan are secure and able to meet the market needs.

Wiryawan admitted that the price of beef in Tabanan has increases to IDR 90,000 per kg -an increase of IDR 10,000 from pre-Galungan and Eid prices. According to Wiryawan, during the feast period the slaughter of cattle in butcher houses declined so that beef stocks in the market reduced and caused prices to rise but that this price hike is somewhat normal.

“The price is still under IDR 100,000.

So, the increase is still within the limits of normal,” said Wiryawan who emphasized that there is still plenty of beef in Tabanan to meet the market demands.

In addition to beef, the price of the other commodities such as chicken meat is also increased from IDR 30,000 per kg to IDR 32,000 per kg. Similarly, the price of other

commodities such as chili went through a drastic price hike from IDR 20,000 per kg to IDR 30,000 per kg, while cayenne pepper rose from IDR 60,000 per kg to IDR 80,000 per kg. “The surge in the price of spices happened due to a decline in production as a result of the drought,” said Wiryawan.

Some commodities have however gone down in price, such as shallots that have gone down from IDR 15,000 per kg to IDR 14,000 per kg. Similarly, the price of garlic is also down from IDR 17,000 per kg to IDR 15,000 per kg. These price drops happen due to abundant supplies in the market. (kmb24)

Massive Dog elimination implemented

TABANAN - Rabbies infected dogs have been bitting people in Tabanan and Acting Regent of Tabanan, I Wayan Sugiada said that serious attention needs to be paid to the situation. The government of Tabanan has therefor drafted a plan to perform a massive dog elimination campaign. “The county government has allocated a budget

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to perform the mass elimination as an effort to suppress the rabies virus. Hopefully, it can soon be implemented,” he said.

Sugiada also explained that he has coordinated with existing agencies in Tabanan and has instructed them to continue running their pro-people campaigns. So far there have been 50 cases in 2015 of

people getting bitten by rabies carrying dogs in Tabanan The last case occurred on Tuesday (Jul. 28) with two residents of Pangkung Karung, Kerambitan, Ni Made R, 80, and Nengah Sdm, 45, being bitten by the same dog.

The Health Agency immediately coordinated with the Livestock Agency to have lab tests done on a

brain sample of the dog who did the bitting. The lab ascertained that the dog was in fact carrying the rabies virus, so the two victims were given anti-rabies vaccines (VAR).

Currently the Tabanan Health Agency has 1,700 vials of anti-rabies vaccines and each rabies center was given 50 vials in early July. Although the vaccine is available, the

Health Office of Tabanan still gives it out selectively given the limited availability from manufacturers.

The government of Tabanan plans to conduct a mass dog elimination in order to suppress the number of rabies cases and has allocated a budget worth IDR 100 million in the amended regional budget. (kmb24)

Seoul: N. Korea resumes loudspeaker broadcasts amid tension SEOUL, South Korea — The rival Koreas have resumed crossborder propaganda warfare as North Korea matched South Korea’s loudspeaker campaign with broadcasts of its own that reportedly included criticism of Seoul and praises for Pyongyang.

The mutual propaganda attacks mark a further deterioration of relations between the Koreas, who haven’t engaged in any serious talks in recent months.

Last week, South Korea blamed the North for land mine explosions that maimed two South Korean soldiers and resumed propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years in retaliation. North Korea has denied the accusations and threatened to launch strikes on South Korean loudspeakers.

Two to three days after South Korea’s restart of broadcasts, North Korea began its own loudspeaker campaign along the border, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said Tuesday speaking on condition of anonymity because of department rules.

The official gave no further details and South Korea’s military said in a statement that the North Korean broadcasts were not clearly audible

in South Korean areas. But South Korean public broadcaster KBS, citing an unidentified military official, reported that the North Korean broadcasts mainly included criticism of South Korea and praises for North Korea’s political system.

The North’s broadcasts mark the restoration of inter-Korean propaganda warfare along the border after the two Koreas stopped the practice in 2004 as part of their efforts to ease animosities. Other practices, including leafleting and the operation of front-line billboards, remain suspended, according to Seoul officials.

Animosities between the rivals are expected to continue as Seoul and Washington kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal. South Korean and U.S. officials have said that the drills are defensive in nature.

U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the “routine”

exercises were proceeding normally. “We look forward to completing the exercises, as we always do.

This is all about proving alliance capability,” he told reporters in Washington.

South Korea has said the two soldiers wounded from the mine explosion were on a routine patrol at the southern part of the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas. One soldier lost both legs, while the other lost one leg.

South Korean loudspeaker broadcasts were aimed at emphasizing that the mine blast was a provocation committed by North Korea and relaying messages about the superiority of Seoul-style democracy as well as world news and weather forecasts, the South Korean Defense Ministry official said.

North Korea is intolerant of any outside criticism of its leadership, led by Kim Jong Un. Last year, North Korean troops opened fire after South Korean activists floated balloons carrying propaganda leaflets across the border. South Korea returned fire, but no casualties were reported.(ap)

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Myanmar parliament opens; spotlight on beleaguered speaker NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s parliament reopened Tuesday for its final session before November’s national elections, with the spotlight on the influential speaker — who was violently ousted just days ago as head of the military-backed ruling party.

Opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi criticized the manner in which Shwe Mann, a close political ally, had been removed.

Hundreds of armed police seized the headquarters of the Union Solidarity and Development Party in the middle of the night, witnesses said, confiscating computers and preventing some members from leaving.

It was a political purge reminiscent of the days of dictatorship in the Southeast Asian country.

“This is not what you expect from a working democracy,” Suu Kyi told reporters. The Nobel laureate also slammed an impeachment bill Shwe Mann was being pressured to table — possibly later this week.

The bill says parliamentarians who have lost the trust of even 1 percent of their constituents can be stripped of their seats, meaning Shwe Mann could be a target.

“Ridiculous,” Suu Kyi said. “It is now clear who the enemy is and who is the ally.”

Myanmar only recently started moving from dictatorship to democracy, but critics say the strings

of power behind the quasi-civilian government remain members of the old military elite, including former dictator Than Shwe, who lives a generally secluded life in a sprawling compound in the capital, Naypyitaw.

As elections approach, tensions have been building between President Thein Sein and Shwe Mann, both former generals and members of the governing party. Tensions were exacerbated last week when the names of nearly 100 newly retired military members did not make it onto the party’s candidate lists. Some hardliners blamed Shwe Mann.

The parliament speaker — seen as a reformist — set a no-nonsense tone as parliament resumed Tuesday, immediately rejecting a motion by several USDP lawmakers to suspend the session because of floods and landslides. The MPs could excuse themselves, he said, but there was important business to attend to in the parliamentary chambers.

Shwe Mann had lost the support of conservatives in the party, in part because of his close ties to the wildly popular Suu Kyi. The two met for an hour on Monday, apparently to discuss the political upheaval and its potential impact.

There was murmuring Tuesday that polls now scheduled for Nov. 8 could be delayed by up to a month.(ap)

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Htay Oo, center, chairman of Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), arrives to attend a regular session at Parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Parliament has reopened for its final session before Myanmar’s nationwide election, with a spotlight on the influential speaker following his violent ouster as head of the military-backed ruling party.

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Google’s Android update: code name Marshmallow

SAN FRANSISCO - Google gave a name Monday to its soonto-be released operating system for its Android mobile devices: Marshmallow.

marshmallows?” product manager Jamal Eason asked in a post on the Android developer blog.

Eason said developers seeking to develop or update applications for Android can now download the software.

The latest version includes enhancements including fingerprint

sensors and an updated powersaving mode.

Marshmallow also streamlines the “permissions” model for users to install and upgrade apps.

Users running certain apps will not need to grant any permissions when they install or upgrade, and the applications instead request

permissions as it needs them, according to Google.

Android is used in nearly 80 percent of smartphones worldwide, although many devices use older versions for which upgrades are not available. Android is also the leading platform for tablets, according to market surveys. (afp)

tinues to transform the American workplace.

“Every company is somewhere in process toward using data to get a better handle on who their top performers are and to understand where people stand,” said John Challenger, CEO of outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. Companies, both large and small, have been moving away from traditional human resources reviews that rely on annual performance evaluations. They’re moving toward a

more data-driven approach with more frequent feedback, check-ins, and other metrics.

Consulting firms Accenture and Deloitte both said this year they would revamp their performance review processes, for example, adopting a more data driven approach that includes more frequent ratings by managers and other internal feedback and data that can be aggregated and analyzed to provide a better portrait of performance than a single rating.

Tech companies have been even

In this June 16, 2014, file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos walks onstage for the launch of the new Amazon Fire Phone, in Seattle. A New York Times article portrayed Amazon’s work culture as “bruising” and “Darwinian” in part because of the way it uses data to manage its staff.

speedier in applying data analytics to staffing. Google, for example, uses data to figure out how to put together optimal-sized teams for projects and figure out what makes effective leaders.

Paul Hamerman, a Forrester analyst who focuses on human resources management and financial applications, says the future may look more like what Glint Inc., based in Redwood City, Calif., is offering clients. The company, with clients including music-streaming site Pandora and marketing automation company Marketo, sends employees what it calls “pulses,” or short surveys about how they are feeling and how they feel about their job.

Glint CEO Jim Barnett said the surveys let executives see how the health of their employees and company are faring in real time, in the same speed with which they might be able to check sales results or marketing impressions.

Since the “pulses” to company employees recur more frequently than traditional reviews. And their data can be aggregated to give a clearer picture of how employees are faring overall.

The downside to a data-driven approach is it can seem “Big Brother-ish” to staffers. But Glint said the surveys that the company sends out have an 80 to 85 percent response rate. “Employees tend to be willing to share,” Barnett said.

Another drawback: Relying strictly on numbers can lead to the perception of a cold-hearted workplace. “It’s easy to get so hung up on statistics that you miss the value of what that individual brings to the table in terms of personality, connectivity and those intangible pieces,” said David Lewis, CEO of HR outsourcing and consulting firm OperationsInc in Norwalk, Conn. (ap)

DUBLIN — Hawk-Eye, a system used to judge line calls in tennis, cricket and Premier League soccer, will operate at the upcoming Rugby

World Rugby, says “the system has clear benefits for the match official team, the medical team and fans around the world.” (ap)

The moniker for the 6.0 version of the dominant mobile computing system follows a tradition of using sugary treats for Android including Lollipop (5.0), KitKat (4.4), Jellybean (4.1) and

Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0).

“Whether you like them straight out of the bag, roasted to a golden brown exterior with a molten center, or in fluff form, who doesn’t like

Amazon’s data-driven approach becoming more common NEW YORK — Amazon isn’t the only company that is using data on employees to improve productivity. A New York Times article over the weekend portrayed Amazon’s work culture as “bruising” and “Darwinian” in part because of the way it uses data to manage its staff. The article depicted a work culture where staffers are under constant pressure to deliver strong results on a wide variety of detailed metrics the company monitors in real time — such as what gets abandoned in peoples

shopping cards and what videos people stream — and encouraged to report praise or criticism about colleagues to management to add to more data about workers performance. The story led to an outcry on social media.

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos said in a memo to staff over the weekend that the article doesn’t accurately describe the company culture he knows. But experts say the kind of data-driven staff management Amazon uses is set to become more common as technology con-

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File

Hawk-Eye technology to be used at Rugby World Cup World Cup to help television match officials with tight decisions.

World Rugby, the sport’s governing body, said Monday the video-

replay technology will be used following successful trials.

Hawk-Eye will give TMOs multiple angle replays in real time, slow

motion and with zoom-functionality. It will also help medical teams identify and review head impacts.

Brett Gosper, chief executive of

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Water discharge down by 70 percent

NEGARA - The annual cycle of drought is having an impact on the water resources of the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM). Between August and December, water flow from upstream areas has decreased by 70 percent and so now PDAM is relying on pumped water sources for the majority of its water.

Director of PDAM Jembrana, Ida Bagus Kertha Negara, said that they are forced to pump more water out of the ground, as groundwater is not available. PDAM needs 77 liters of water per second to fullfill Jembrana’s demand for water.

Negara requires the most water (41 liters per second), followed by Mendoyo (23 liters per second), Melaya (around 9 liters per second) and Pekutatan (3 liters per second).

“Mendoyo has the most surface water sources in their upstream

and downstream regions but the even the water levels their have decreased,” he explained.

There are springs at Yehembang Kauh, Mendoyo, Yehembang and Pangkung Apit, but both of these areas are still prone to water shortages such as Kaleran and Banjar Jati hamlet. are now experiencing. “The annual cycle of declining water discharge is ongoing and has reached 70 percent,” he explained.

PDAM has been trying to

access water sources and have submitted a proposal to the government of Jembrana requesting aid to build an additional pumps in Dangin Tukadaya, Tegalcangkring and Pendem, so that demands for water can be met. Many of the pumps currently being used need maintenance done to them, and because groundwater levels have gone down, pipes also need to be extended. With extra pumps and extended pipes, PDAM expects

to able to access an additional 20 litters per second.

“We can no longer rely on surface water because it continues to shrink. Unlike regions such as Bogor that can still rely on surface water, here we have to tap into groundwater,” he explained.

By relying on gravity systems (water pumps), the cost of water is bound to go up due to the need for electricity to power the pumps. (kmb26)

70 meter long Red-and-white flag paraded around Singaraja SINGARAJA - The town of Singaraja celebrated Indonesia’s 70th Independence Day by Jayastambha/ B-920 Singaraja Student Regiment Battalion from the University of Ganesha Education (Undiksha) Singaraja, unfurling a 70-meter long red-and-white flag and parading around the town of Singaraja.

This creative way of presenting the red and white flag is a regular practice for the Jayastambha Singaraja/ B-920 Student Regiment Battalion, however they had to undergo special physical training for this flag parade that began at Undiksha’s Central Campus. The participants paraded down Jalan Udayana Timur, Jalan Pramuka, Jalan Ahmad Yani, Jalan Udayana

Barat and returned full circle to Undiksha’s Central Campus.

According to Arief Billah, Commander of Jayastambha/B-920 Student Regiment Battalion, unfurling and parading of the 70-meter long flag was done in commemoration of 70th Years of Independence of the Republic of Indonesia and the 57th anniversary of the province of Bali.

Students from Unipas Singaraja, STKIP-AH as well as the students of the Widya Usadha health vocational school supported by soldiers from the 900/Raider Infantry Battalion, and Military District 1609 Buleleng and Rector of the Undiksha also joined in the event.

“Through the parading of the 70

meter long flag, we hope to install a sense of nationalism and love for the homeland and well as foster national unity in order to build a better Indonesia and a better Bali,” said Arief.

The parading of the giant flag by the youth of Singaraja is a creative way of celebrating Independence Day and it is hoped that this will inspire other young people, so that independence day celebrations are not just ceremonial. “Heroism and an unyielding spirit must be applied in the hearts of young road users who pass by the traffic lights on Jalan Dewi Sartika, Singaraja. We hope that in the future, such creativity will be shown by other young people,” said Arief. (kmb34)

The town of Singaraja celebrated Indonesia’s 70th Independence Day by Jayastambha/B-920 Singaraja Student Regiment Battalion from the University of Ganesha Education (Undiksha) Singaraja, unfurling a 70-meter long red-and-white flag and parading around the town of Singaraja.

AMLAPURA - A total of five inmates from Karangasem Prison could finally breathe easy after being granted clemency as part of celebrations of the 70th Anniversary of Indonesia’s Independence Day, Monday (Aug. 17), they are: Ni Ketut Sudiartini, I Nengah Suarta alias Cupak, Hendro Saputro, I Gede Suardana and I Kadek Sabeh Bayu Merta.

General remissions were also

granted to number of other prisoners at the Karangasem prison.

A total of 84 class B Karangasem Prison inmates were granted full remission while another 109 inmates were granted decade remission. Karangasem’s youth prison also gave out general remissions to 8 inmates and decade remission to 9 inmates.

The remission and clemencies were granted during a ceremony

led by acting regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda, along with members of the Regional Leadership Communication Forum of Karangasem and others prisoners.

Acting Regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda, said that Independence Day clemencies were granted to those prisoners who had a right to have their sentences reduced on the grounds of

good behaviour during their time at the Karangasem Prison. Arda then stated that all prisoners are capable of engaging in introspection and making improvements to their behaviour so that when they are released they can integrate back in society in a good way.

Head of the Karangasem Prison, Kusbiantoro, said that after granting clemency and remissions on August 17th, their re-

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Five Karangasem prison inmates granted clemency

State-owned firms donate computer laboratories to Bali’s vocational schools

NUSA DUA - A number of stateowned firms in Bali have donated computer laboratories to 17 vocational schools (SMK) in the region in an effort to improve the quality of education on the Bali Island.

“This aid is in conjunction with the participation of state-owned companies in helping the nation and in observance of the 70th anniversary of Indonesia’s independence,” Organizing Committee Chairman,

Budi Tjahyono, said on Monday.

According to him, the aid comprises of computers, printers, scanners and support facilities.

Tjahyono further said that stateowned companies would continue providing such donations in the future to help improve the quality of education in the region.

In addition, a number of stateowned firms in West Java have also donated computers to 38 vocational

schools (SMKs), as part of their efforts to help schools in the region.

“Computers and practice laboratories have been provided to vocational schools,” the Deputy Chairman of the state-owned firms’ donation organizing committee, Agus Prabowo, said in Bandung on Saturday.

Among the vocational schools that were scheduled to receive computers are SMK Bina Bhakti, SMK

Nusantara, SMK Endang Dharma, SMK Bina Wisata Lembang, SMK KP Margahayu, SMK At-Tasrif, SMK Suryalaya, SMK Asyuhada Garut, SMK Bhakti Kencana Ciamis, SMK Putra Pangandaran, SMK I Cibatu I Purwakarta, SMK Muhamadiyah Sumedang, SMK Radhita Subang, SMK Proklamasi Karawang, SMK Al-Muhajirin Bekasi, and SMK Galileo Bogor. (ant)

mains a total of 133 inmates and 17 detainees. in the Karagasem Prison. They consist of 133 inmates and 15 detainees. Karangasem’s youth prison now holds 17 inmates. (kmb31)

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The death toll from a bombing in the Thai capital rose to 20 on Tu e s d a y w i t h 1 2 3 wounded, police said, with at least 11 foreigners from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore among those killed.

Police revised down an earlier toll of 21 dead from Monday’s bombing of the popular Erawan shrine in the heart of Bangkok’s tourist and commercial centre.

“The bomb aimed at killing as many people as possible as the shrine is crowded at around 6 to 7 pm,” police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri told AFP. A police breakdown of the nationalities caught up in the blast showed three Chinese, two Hong Kongers, an Indonesian, four Malaysians, one Singaporean and six Thais were confirmed killed.

The three other victims have yet to be identified.

Thais made up the largest number of wounded with 42 being treated, followed by 28 Chinese according to an update released earlier Tuesday.

Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Oman, the Philippines and Singapore all had one or more nationals wounded.

The Erawan shrine sits at the foot of the five-star Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel and is surrounded by a string of other large hotels and malls that draw thousands of visitors each day.

Dedicated to the Hindu god Brahma, it is visited by thousands of Buddhist devotees every day, particularly Chinese visitors who travel to Thailand in larger numbers than any other nationality. (afp)

Thai junta says suspect identified in ‘worst ever’ bombing

Muslim rebels from the country’s BANGKOK - Thailand’s junta leader said Tuesday a suspect had been identified in the bombing of a packed Bangkok religious shrine, far south have also waged a separatist condemning the blast that killed at least 20 people as the “worst ever insurgency for more than a decade that has claimed thousands of lives, mostly attack” on the kingdom.

The attack occurred on Monday in one of the Thai capital’s most popular tourism hubs, ripping through a crowd of worshippers at the Hindu shrine close to five-star hotels and upscale shopping malls.

Chinese, Hong Kong, Singaporean, Indonesian and Malaysian citizens were among the 20 people killed, police said.

More than 100 other people were injured as the blast left body parts strewn across crushed pavement, alongside shattered windows and incinerated motorcycles.

Junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha on Tuesday branded the bombing the “worst ever attack” on Thailand, as he gave the first indications of who authorities believed were responsible.

“Today there is a suspect... we are looking for this guy,” Prayut told reporters, adding the man was seen on closed circuit television at the blast site.

Prayut said the male suspect was believed to be from an “anti-government group based in Thailand’s northeast”

-- the heartland of the kingdom’s Red Shirt movement that opposes the military junta.

Bangkok has endured more than a decade of deadly political violence, with the junta ruling the nation since May last year after toppling the elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra.

The Red Shirts are a grassroots network of rural and urban poor that are loyal to Yingluck and her self-exiled brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist politician who was a previous prime minister.

But no-one claimed responsibility for the assault and security analysts expressed scepticism over the government’s lightning move to cast suspicion on its opponents.

“Even if they (Red Shirts) are hellbent on bringing down the government I just can’t see them targeting a Hindu or any other religious shrine,” Zachary Abuza, an independent expert on Thai security, told AFP. “That would really alienate many of their supporters.”

civilians.

But they have never been known to carry out substantial attacks in Bangkok, and Abuza as well as other analysts said Monday’s bombing did not follow the insurgents’ typical modus operandi.

Paul Chambers, director of research at the Institute of South East Asian Affairs in Thailand, said groups with links to military factions also had to be considered as potential suspects.

Tourists ‘targeted’

Junta leaders said the bomb was aimed at damaging the country’s tourist industry, which is a rare bright spot in an otherwise gloomy economy, and tarnishing the junta’s reputation. “(The attackers) had the clear target of destroying our economy and tourism.... and discrediting the government,” Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon told reporters.

Thailand’s baht currency slumped to a more than six-year low on Tuesday and shares fell in Bangkok over concerns the attack could damage the tourism sector.

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Investigators walk towards the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, the morning after an explosion. Thailand’s prime minister on Tuesday promised that authorities would quickly track down those responsible for the central Bangkok bombing, which he described as the country’s worst attack ever.

The blast site remained cordoned off early as bomb experts photographed the area scouring for clues, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

Police also tightened security across Bangkok, with hundreds of schools closed and checkpoints thrown up across the city.

Built in 1956 the Erawan is an enormously popular shrine to the Hindu god Brahma but is visited by thousands of Buddhist devotees every day.

The bomb was detonated shortly before 7:00 pm (1200 GMT) in the middle of the city’s rush hour, sending a fireball into the sky as commuters and tourists fled in panic.

As dawn broke, Thais expressed fear about more potential violence in the coming days.

“I’m worried about Bangkok, I don’t know what will happen next,” one woman, who only gave her name as Rivewan, told AFP. Around 1,000 people queued for hours at a nearby blood donation centre, many crying as they waited to be seen by nurses.

“This shouldn’t have happened to the Thai people,” Pongchai Kulsitthiwong, a 45-year-old mobile phone seller told AFP, tears rolling down his cheeks while waiting to give blood.

Bangkok’s power struggle has seen repeated rounds of deadly street protests and bombings for nearly a decade.

But none on Monday’s scale.

Armed elements on both sides, in a kingdom awash with military-grade weapons, have been known to instigate unrest at key moments.

Many observers had predicted a fresh round of violence after the military seized power from Yingluck Shinawatra in last year’s coup.

Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled by a 2006 coup, sits at the heart of the political divide.

Parties led by him, his sister or their proxies have won every election since 2001 thanks to the votes of the rural north and northeast.

But the clan is loathed by the Bangkok-based royalist elite.

Monday’s attack drew quick expressions of grief from around the world.

The US government released a statement warning its citizens to avoid the area, while also voicing sympathy for the victims. (afp)

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September Dining Delights at The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas

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NUSA DUA - The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas – Nusa Dua, Bali presents exciting culinary journey from the signature Mediterranean & Pan-Asian restaurant at Soleil, to Oriental taste of Cantonese & Szechuan atTable8 or International Gastronomic experience at The Cafe and many more to choose from. This September 2015, explore the various indulgence from The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas – Nusa Dua, Bali.

- Korean Noodles at The Cafe

Savour the rich flavour of Korean noodles or guksu that are perfect for hot summertime, from the sweet-icy mul naengmyeon, to hot-spicy bibim Naengmyeon, or the cold-spicy bibin guksu.

- Mulia Mooncakes at Table8 (16 July – 27 September 2015)

Sanma or Pacific Saury is also known as the ‘fall sword fish’ that is seasonal representing autumn in Japanese cuisine. At Edogin the fish is prepared meticulously to draw out the combination of bittersweet and freshness.

Hotel Mulia Senayan, Jakarta and The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas – Nusa Dua, Bali celebrates the upcoming Mid-Autumn festival with our premium homemade Mooncake collection. Presented in a beautifully designed gift box, “Mulia Mooncakes” make for the perfect gift for family or friends. Special limited edition Mulia Mooncake cake gift box is available from 16 July – 27 September 2015.

- Cicchetti di Mare at Soleil & Sky Bar

- All you need is chocolate at Mulia Deli

- Sanma (Pacific Saury) Promotion at Edogin

Soleil’s delightful light bite from the Veneto is now introducing cicchetti di Mare - seafood delights from the Indian Ocean, featuring Tonno e Bottarga, Gamberi all’Acqua Pazza and Pesce Sciabola alla Salvia, to name but a few.

This month Mulia Deli promises sweet satisfaction for those looking for a little chocolate indulgence during the day or after dinner. Featuring your choice of Decadent Chocolate Tart, Strawberry Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake or Chocolate Gateau St Honore.

Schedule of events at Bale Banjar Bali Global Shankara Every Sunday, 8am - 12 noon: Sunday Market and craft delights 8 August, 7pm: Ubud Style Balinese Painting exhibition opening 16 August, 9am - 4pm: Live painting by Balinese master painters 15 August, 7pm: Film screening of Balinese movies 22 August, 7pm: India-Bali music concert with Sinta Wulur and friends 29 August: Indian/gamelan vocal exploration workshop with Sinta 2 Septembe: Interior Decor exhibition opening 3-4 September, 9 am-5pm: Interior Decor expo 15 September, 7pm: Human is Alien video and bamboo instalation For more information: Fb fage: shankaraartspace or friend us at Fb: balebanjarshankara

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine.

In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

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‘Straight Outta Compton,’ unexpected box office star

LOS ANGELES - “Straight Outta Compton,” a biopic about the pioneering rap group N.W.A., wowed Hollywood by taking first place in the North American box office in its debut weekend.

Racing past its rivals, and past even the most optimistic of expectations, the film took in an impressive $60.2 million, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations reported Monday.

Yet the movie, which opened in the United States on August 14, comes off as strikingly contemporary as the nation grapples with a

slew of recent deaths of African Americans in custody of law enforcement.

It was named after the 1988 debut studio album from the group that gave birth to the gangsta rap genre and launched the careers of Ice Cube and Dr Dre. “Fuck Tha Police,” N.W.A.’s heads-held-high cry of defiance

against the Los Angeles Police Department, so alarmed authorities that it generated a warning letter from the FBI, and the song remains a controversial anthem in many protests.

Directed by Gary Gray, best known for his music videos, “Straight Outta Compton” traces the roots of the then teenagers’ rage against mostly white police in their gang-ridden home of Compton and other parts of the Los Angeles area.

“What a welcome surprise and

Bon Jovi weekend concert in Vancouver canceled

Saturday, a day after Bon Jovi planned to release its special fan album “Burning Bridges” as a tie-in to its international tour. It’s Bon Jovi’s first album since guitarist Richie Sambora left the band in 2013.

Bon Jovi Tours Inc. issued a statement saying it “shares the disappointment of fans” over the cancellation.

“The band was ready and willing to give a great performance on Saturday,” the statement read. “Unfortunately, the local promoter, Paper Rain Performances, has proven unable to guarantee a properlyproduced event.”

The city of Vancouver said in a statement that it had proOwen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File vided initial support for the event but the organizers did not VANCOUVER — A weekend Bon Jovi concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, have the required city permits.

The promoter, Paper Rain Performanchas been canceled after the city said the promoter had failed to obtain the required es, said it asked for but could not secure a postponement from the rock band’s manpermits.

The show — which also featured the agement, but still hopes a future concert Kings of Suburbia — was scheduled for date can be confirmed. (ap)

the last blockbuster blast of the season,” Exhibitor Relations box office analyst Jeff Bock told AFP. “$60 million for an R-rated biopic featuring an ensemble of unknown African Americans -- as far as I know, that’s never happened before, so it’s quite rare.”

Until the film opened in theaters, Universal Pictures had expected just $20 million in weekend ticket sales.

The studio got a major coup in more than doubling its reported budget of $29 million. Relatively

unknown actors -- O’Shea Jackson Jr (Ice Cube’s son, who plays his father), Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell -- interpret the roles of the founding members of N.W.A., which stands for Niggaz Wit Attitudes. Bock says biopics rarely generate such success.

“But a couple of factors went into this opening: one, there hasn’t been any studio films that cater to the African-American crowd this summer and two, this was a seminal story in music history that was long overdue,” he added. (afp)

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Police investigate the scene around the Erawan Shrine the morning after an explosion in Bangkok,Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. A bomb exploded Monday within a central Bangkok shrine that is among the city’s most popular tourist spots, killing a number of people and injuring others, police said.

Tracy Morgan, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer to guest host ‘SNL’

NEW YORK — Tracy Morgan is coming home to “Saturday Night Live” as guest host on Oct. 17. His appearance also promises to be a coming-out party for the former “SNL” cast member and star of “30 Rock,” who has been recuperating from injuries he suffered in a June 2014 crash that also killed a fellow comedian when their limousine was hit by a Wal-Mart truck on the New Jersey Turnpike.

This past June, Morgan was interviewed on the “Today” show in his first public appearance since the accident. At that time, he said, “I can’t wait to get back to (comedy), but right now, my goal is just to heal and get better. Because I’m not 100 percent yet. I’m not. And when I’m there, you’ll know it. I’ll get back to making you laugh.

I promise you.”

NBC on Monday also announced that on Oct. 3, Miley Cyrus will return as host for a third time to kick off the 41st “SNL” season.

Then on Oct. 10, Amy Schumer will make her hosting debut. Schumer is coming off her summer box office hit, “Trainwreck,” for

which she served as both star and writer. She stars in the Comedy Central series, “Inside Amy Schumer,” and in an upcoming HBO comedy special “Amy Schumer: Live From the Apollo.”

Musical guests for these “SNL” editions will be announced later. (ap)

Miley Cyrus

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Two blasts hit Bangkok in two days, kill 20

BANGKOK - Two blasts hit Bangkok in two days. The latest happens on Tuesday near a busy train station. According to police, a small device was thrown into a canal and exploded near a busy train station in central Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon, a day after a bomb killed 20 at a religious shrine.

“No one was killed or injured. Police are at the scene to investigate what kind of device it was,” an officer at

Yanawa police station, who asked not to be named, told AFP. He said the incident took place shortly after 1pm (0600 GMT) near the Saphan Taksin BTS skytrain station.

CCTV footage of the incident posted by Thairath TV showed

commuters scurrying for cover over a footbridge after the device exploded in the canal, sending a large plume of water into the air.

The Yanawa police official said officers believed the device was thrown from a road and rail bridge which spans Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river and overlooks the canal below.

The luxury Shangri-La hotel, the Mandarin Oriental and the French embassy are close to Saphan Taksin

station.

No one claimed responsibility for the incident.

Bangkok is a city on edge after Monday night’s bomb attack, described by junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha as the “worst ever attack” on Thailand.

At least eight foreigners are known to have died in the attack alongside five confirmed Thai deaths. The rest have yet to be identified.

More than 100 other people

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were injured as the blast left body parts strewn across the pavement, alongside shattered windows and mangled motorcycles.

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