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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Demi Moore ‘in shock’ after man drowns in her backyard pool LOS ANGELES — Demi Moore said she is stunned and saddened by the death of a 21-year-old man Sunday in the backyard pool of a Los Angeles home she owns.

“I am in absolute shock,” the 52-year-old actress said in a statement released through her publicist, Heidi Lopata. “I was out of the country traveling to meet my daughters for a birthday celebration when I got the devastating news.”

Moore said the death, which occurred at a party held by her assistant in her absence, was an “unthinkable tragedy, and my heart goes out to this young man’s family and friends.”

The man, Edenilson Steven Valle, had gone missing for

A videographer films a Mercedes Benz in front of an entrance to to the home of actress Demi Moore, in Beverly Hills, Sunday, July 19, 2015. Coroner’s officials say a 21year-old man accidentally drowned in the backyard pool of a Los Angeles home owned by actress Demi Moore.

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10 or 15 minutes before his friends found him floating in the deep end of the pool early Sunday morning, said Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. Fred Corral.

Valle’s family and friends told investigators he didn’t know how to swim, Corral said.

Police and paramedics responded to the home in west Los Angeles after a 911 call at about 5:15 a.m.

The paramedics started CPR, but Valle was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:30 a.m., Corral said.

The apparent drowning was first reported by TMZ. (ap)

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in tone and audience makeup. The movie, a more humorous heist film, appealed more to women (42 percent of the audience) and families (28 percent) than most Marvel releases.

“Most encouragingly in this one, the exit scores we’re seeing from women — their likelihood to recommend and how much they enjoyed the film — was higher here than almost any film we’ve had,” Hollis said. “It’s a great sign for what word of mouth should be for the run, but, two, what it means for how women think about these movies being for them as much as men might.”

The next question will be whether the result was strong enough to kick start an “Ant-Man 2.” Though “AntMan” had a rocky path to the screen, with director Peyton Reed replacing Edgar Wright shortly before shooting commenced, its CinemaScore from audiences is an A. It took in $56.4 million abroad.

The opening was closest to 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk” ($55 million),

the poorly received Edward Norton edition that didn’t spawn further installments. Rudd is already to appear as Ant-Man in “Captain America: Civil War.” “I say this was a success,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst. “This was never predestined to open with $80 (million) or $100 million. Marvel continues to evolve and surprised the audience.

This was about a perfectly solid result for a brand new property.”

The $30.2 million opening for Schumer’s big-screen debut, “Trainwreck,” which the comedian also wrote, earned an estimated $30.2 million, making the R-rated Universal release one of the biggest comedy successes this summer. It’s also the second best opening for Judd Apatow as a director following “Knocked Up.” Already a critically acclaimed star on Comedy Central for her sketch show “Inside Amy Schumer,” Schumer’s transition to movies has

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Tourists flocked in Taman Ayun, Badung Regency during holiday season in Bali Island.

To prevent the economic slowdown from being protracted, some parties, especially local entrepreneurs, must take strategic measures.

‘Ant-Man’ debuts with $58M NEW YORK — Marvel’s “AntMan” punched above its weight at the weekend box office, debuting with an estimated $58 million, while Amy Schumer’s “Trainwreck” also opened strongly with $30.2 million.

The result for “Ant-Man” didn’t match some of Marvel’s better known and brawnier properties. But “Ant-Man” — a relatively inexpensive superhero movie with a $130 million budget — still dominated North American multiplexes, edging out the little yellow guys of Universal’s “Minions,” which took in $50.2 million in its second week.

“Ant-Man,” starring Paul Rudd as a slightly more irreverent and distinctly smaller superhero, came in a little below earlier stand-alone Marvel films like “Thor” ($65.7 million in 2011) and “Captain America: The First Avenger” ($65.1 million in 2011).

Dave Hollis, head of distribution at Disney, credited Marvel for successfully expanding its universe both

70 years after WWII, Japanese company apologizes to US POWs

Related to economic slowdown

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This photo provided by Disney shows Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/AntMan in a scene from Marvel’s “Ant-Man.” The film releases in the U.S. on Friday, July 17, 2015.

drawn good reviews and opened above expectations, further showing the power of female moviegoers.

The audience was two-thirds women, Universal said.

“Amy Schumer is an absolute talent and should have a great career in the movies,” said Nick Carpou, distribution head for Universal. “The character that she portrays very effectively enables modern women.”

Opening in just five locations was Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone. The Sony Pictures Classic release packed those theaters for an average of $37,623 per screen.

The Roadside Attractions and Miramax release “Mr. Holmes,” starring Ian McKellen as an aged Sherlock Holmes, debuted with $2.5 million in 363 theaters. (ap)

Local employers must discover uniqueness of Bali

DENPASAR - A number of unrealized projects due to small absorption of government funds have caused the economic slowdown. To prevent the economic slowdown from being protracted, some parties, especially local entrepreneurs, must take strategic measures. One of them is by discovering more about the uniqueness of Bali, so that the business opportunities can be worked on.

“Simply discover the unique potential, like spa becoming a trend in the herbal product industry. It is for Balinese people having understood about herbs, or what the so-called Ayur Vedas and this must be captured,” said a lecturer of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Udayana, Prof.

Dr. Wayan Gede Supartha, when confirmed on Monday.

However, added Supartha, Balinese people tend to be less active in the business. It happens because most people tend to become civil

servant. Actually, the moment to re-move the economy can be an opportunity for local entrepreneurs primarily in retaking the areas currently being controlled by foreigners or those from outside Bali.

“At home we have less challenge. It is different from Balinese people in diaspora. Besides, we tend to take job opportunity selectively,” he continued. Supartha added that Balinese people can only compete in the middle class that requires specific competencies or certification. In the upper

class, Balinese people have been defeated by expatriates or foreign experts. Then at lower class, Balinese people have been defeated by unskilled labor from outside Bali. Thus, it will be very difficult to seize the opportunity having been controlled by foreigners or the outsiders.

“They can really do it, but have small possibility because to seize the opportunities we have to be well prepared first. Many business opportunities lie in the creative industries sector or in the service industry. When wishing to seize investment opportunity in tourism, for instance, it has been dominated by foreigners so that it seems rather difficult because we now see that star hotels and so forth have been mostly managed by management network or group,” he said.

A member of Commission II of the Bali House, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said that tourism sector is the most influencing in the economic slowdown of Bali.

Moreover, the current excessive number of hotels has caused the room occupancy rate to decline.

The government is asked to implement selective moratorium on the construction of hotels to boost room occupancy. Selective moratorium means that choosing upscale business that can attract room rate or at the lower level that simply selects tourism businesses being able to strengthen a region.

“In order that Balinese people have greater opportunities, it is required a regulation on the tourism business whose direction will be favorable for the domestic. For example, in terms of human re-

sources, those that can get involved in tourism sector must be qualified with Balinese culture so that Balinese people have a better chance,” he added.

In addition, continued Adhi Ardhana, local government should also facilitate the agricultural, fisheries and SMEs sector by launching propeople financing products such as cheap loans, subsidized fertilizer and assistance in fisheries sector. (kmb32) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Barong Ketet performance

Hundreds of elderly exchange waste for free health services

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Revive the spirit of barong

Taruna Yasa youth club holds barong ketet competition

GIANYAR - Barong ketet dance with the storyline Kunti Sraya has indeed been performed in a number of attractions in Badung and Denpasar. However, not many people know if the barong dance attracting thousands of travelers was born at Singapadu village, Sukawati. In the meantime, at its birthplace it was only popular in the 1960s. To revive the passion in the barong art show, the Taruna Yasa customary youth club of Sengguan hamlet, Singapadu, holds the competition of Barong Ketet Dance and Drum Play of Barong Ketet.

Prof. Dr. I Wayan Dibia said that the art of barong dance performance becoming the favorite attraction for travelers since 1936 has different characteristic such as the barong dance with storyline Calonarang, Kolekek and Batur Shaman.

“As for the barong dance with storyline Kunti Sraya was born in 1948 composed by three artists namely Tjokorda Oka Sukawati, I Made Kredek and I Wayan Gria,” he explained.

He said that barong dance with the storyline Kunti Seraya was subsequently staged at outermost courtyard of Dalem Tenggaling Pangukur-Ukur Temple, Sengguan hamlet, Singapadu. At the inaugural staging, the dance has managed to awe hundreds of travelers and up to the 1960s the dance was increasingly popular among foreign travelers.

However, today this dance is of-

ten performed at several attractions in Badung and Denpasar, while at its birthplace is rarely performed with the storyline Kunti Seraya to attract travelers. “At Singapadu is only performed the sacred barong dance when there is a ceremony around the temple or local village,” he explained.

To preserve the barong dance at its birthplace, the Taruna Yasa customary youth club of Sengguan hamlet, Singapadu, organized competition of barong ketet dance and playing drum of barong ketet. It took place at the outermost courtyard of the Dalem Tenggaling PangukurUkur Temple, Sengguan. “It is an effort of our young people at Sengguan hamlet to encourage the barong activities as well to stimulate the emergence of young barong dancers that will be able to replace the elderly figures,” he said.

He hoped the competition will yield new choreography, so that it can show off the dynamism and creativity of the artists. However, Prof. Dibia also stressed in order that young artists are given the understanding that barong ketet prioritizes grandeur in contrast to lion dance featuring acrobatic show. “We also hope that some dance styles must not be forgotten because this competition assesses the technique, expression and performance as a whole,” he said.

In the meantime, Deputy Chief of the Taruna Yasa youth club, I Wayan Kariana, said that the competition is held for the third time followed by 20 participants for two days (Jul. 17-18). “Most participants are from the counties across Bali, such as Klungkung, Bangli, Denpasar and Gianyar. It aims at preserving and exciting the art of barong,” he explained. (nik)

SINGARAJA - Hundreds of elderly at Kelod Kauh hamlet, Panji village, Sukasada subdistrict, came to local meeting hall, Sunday (Jul. 19).

Mostly consisting of poor people, they exchanged plastic waste with free medical treatment service.

Not only that, children at the local village also thronged the hall to exchange waste with a notebook as preparation for their new school academic year 2015/2016.

The waste barter action packaged in the activity entitled “Healthy with Waste” is deliberately held by the Kelod Kauh hamlet together with the alumni of SMAN 1 Singaraja high school of generation 2007, Satya Warga customary youth club of Kelod Kauh hamlet, Bali Youth Environmental Care (PPLB) and the Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) of Buleleng.

From the morning, the elderly and children came to and left the local meeting hall to redeem plastic waste having been collected at their homes.

They seemed very keen to pick up the waste in exchange for the service or medical treatment at free of charge. With the concept of barter, the elderly mostly belonging to the poor become aware and interested in collecting plastic waste to bring in something useful.

Similarly, the children of Kelod Kauh hamlet categorized into the poor are also very vivacious.

Since hamlet apparatus disseminated this program, children also fill in their time by collecting plastic waste in their respective environment. From the waste collection, the children get the benefits in the form of notebooks that are very helpful for their education.

Hamlet chief of Kelod Kauh hamlet, Panji village, I Nyoman Marsa Jaya, said that the action of “Healthy with Waste” is initiated to sensitize and change people’s mindset against the hazards of plastic waste to the environment. People’s awareness is stimulated to collect plastic waste from their respective home environment.

The plastic waste collected will be redeemed with health services, notebooks or other items, and can also be sold to Galang Panji Waste Bank. “Through this concept, the mindset of our society formerly considered waste useless thing can be changed if the waste can become helpful stuff,” he said.

Other than applying barter concept or selling waste, added Marsa Jaya, people began to be introduced to collect waste in the form of can waste or old tires to be converted into craft products having economic value and can bring in additional income for family. He exemplified that can waste is able to be used to make a craft of Vespa miniature or other crafts. Similarly, old tires can also be used as raw materials for chair or table craft.

The introduction of waste that can be made into craft product will continue to be promoted. After seeing the enthusiasm of people, we are confident to be followed and it is our participation in supporting the program of Plastic Waste-free Buleleng,” said Marsa Jaya. (kmb38)

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Visit a traditional Balinese house compound at Intercontinental Bali

JIMBARAN - Enrich your stay at InterContinental Bali Resort and delve into the Balinese culture with the help of the Resort’s unique brand concept ‘In the Know.’ Our savvy ‘In the Know’ team is proud to offer insider destination tips such as a visit to a traditional Balinese house compound, which will provide a fascinating insight into the island’s vernacular architecture.

Balinese architecture has a cosmic significance that is much more important than the physical materials. This cosmic order is made up of three parts – the world of Gods, the world of humans and the world of demons – and is practically applied with a system of orientation determined by the direction of Gunung Agung – the sacred mountain and dwelling place of the Hindu Gods.

The revered direction towards the mountain, and God, is called ‘kaja.’The less sacred and even impure, seaward direction, away from the holy mountain, is called ‘kelod’. The second-most sacred direction, east, from which the sun rises, is called ‘kangin.’ Everyone sleeps with his or her head towards either kaja or kangin.

Each Balinese compound, within its confining walls, typically houses two or three generations of families.

The entrance ‘angkul angkul’ is often a high pillared portico with solid, carved wooden doors; behind it is the ‘aling aling’, a short screen wall designed to deflect troublesome and malign influences because evil spirits have great difficulty in turning corners.

Inside the compound, the opensided raised pavilions all face inward, forming a circle around the inner courtyard; the residents spend most of their time on the shady verandahs of the main buildings. Analogous to the human body the compound has a head, the family temple, always positioned within its own walled yard in the kaja or mountain side of the compound, which is northeast in southern Bali.

The torso of the body is the courtyard; complete with its arms, which are the sleeping and living quarters. The centre of the courtyard – the navel of the body – is considered to be a very sacred place, so in this area a shrine may be constructed, where the family will place offerings to the spirit guardian of the land. The kitchen and rice granary represent the legs and the feet, the gates are the genitals, and the anus is symbolised by the backyard refuge tip, situated ‘downstream’ from the kitchen in the kelod or seaward part of the compound. There may also be an area outside of the compound allocated to pig pens, coconut and fruit trees, and enjoyed by free ranging ducks and chickens. This is where you might also find the well. This section of land is separated by a low wall, marking the border between the human quarters

and the animal quarters.

The occupation of the various pavilions by the family members relates to the different phases of incarnated life. The youth and children’s sleeping quarters is in the ‘bale daja’ or ‘bale meten.’As adults they will move to the pavilion known as the ‘bale dauh,’ and then with old age to the ‘bale dangin,’ the ceremonial pavilion nearest to the family temple where their souls will be enshrined after death.

The ceremonial pavilion is the most important pavilion in the compound and is used to celebrate rites of passage.

This is where the grandparents sleep, where life rites such as tooth filing and weddings take place, and where lying in state and death rituals occur. Inside is a raised wooden palette set between six, nine or twelve columns, dependent on the financial status of the family. The platform serves as a bed, an altar on which to place offerings, and a seat for

the priest. Normally built of wood and brick with a thatched or tiled roof and open on two sides, this may be the only building in the compound that is still constructed in the traditional style.

The only closed space is the sleeping pavilion or ‘bale meten,’ which may be a large eight-post structure on a high base. This is the procreation building and a newly married couple can expect to be locked in here for as long as three days. The bale dauh is normally an open pavilion with one bedroom; serving a variety of purposes, it is used as a gathering place and for the reception of guests. The working and guest pavilion, for relatives and children, is known as the ‘bale sakenam’ and varies in size and number according to family needs.

If you wish to visit a traditional Balinese house compound, you can arrange this through the concierge at InterContinental Bali Resort.

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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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‘Beautiful eye candy’: Frozen plains in Pluto’s heart

C A P E C A N AV E R A L , Florida — Vast frozen plains exist next door to Pluto’s big, rugged mountains sculpted of ice, scientists said Friday, three days after humanity’s first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet.

The New Horizons spacecraft team revealed close-up photos of those plains, which they’re already unofficially calling Sputnik Planum after the world’s first man-made satellite.

“Have a look at the icy frozen plains of Pluto,” principal scientist Alan Stern said during a briefing at NASA headquarters. “Who would have expected this kind of complexity?”

Stern described the pictures coming down from 3 billion miles away as “beautiful eye candy.”

“I’m still having to remind myself to take deep breaths,” added Jeff Moore, head of the New Horizons geology team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. “I mean, the landscape is just astoundingly amazing.”

Spanning hundreds of miles, the plains are located in the prominent, bright, heart-shaped area of Pluto. Like the mountains unveiled Wednesday, the plains look to be a relatively young 100 million years old — at the most. Scientists speculate internal heating — perhaps from icy volcanoes or geysers— might still be shaping these crater-free regions.

“This could be only a week old for all we know,” Moore said. He stressed that scientists have no hard evidence of erupting, geyser-like plumes on Pluto — yet.

Another possibility could be that the terrain, like frozen mud cracks on Earth, formed as a result of contrac-

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Bali exports million sculpture crafts

DENPASAR - Bali exported a million stone sculpture crafts to several countries and has earned the country US$15 million in revenue between January and June this year, Head of Section of Foreign Trade of Bali Department of Trade and Industries Made Suastika stated.

The sculptures shaped like various animals such as frog, horse, or primordial man have been exported to several countries for ornaments in gardens, houses, or offices, Suastika said.

Bali exported many sculptures and souvenirs made from limestone in Silakarang, Batubulan, and Gianyar Region.

The main markets of limestone sculptures is US and Australia, in addition to other European countries, one of the sculpture craftsman I Ketut Kencana, said in his workshop.

Kencana pointed out that Buddha statue in various sizes also appealed international markets such as Japan, France, Germany, and other European countries. Meanwhile, demand for antique sculptures and other crafts made from limestone is still strong.

The export commodities, mostly sculptures in various shapes and sizes, are able to attract the attention of foreign tourists who were enjoying a holiday on the Dewata Island.

The foreign tourists liked to watch a variety of sculptures made from limestone displayed at art shops along the roadside in the Batubulan Village, 15 kilometers northeast of Denpasar.

If they are interested in the sculptures and crafts, they will buy one or two, then later order in a lot of numbers.

He said tourists also buy sculptures to be later resold in their countries. (ant)

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Bali exported a million stone sculpture crafts to several countries and has earned the country US$15 million in revenue between January and June this year, Head of Section of Foreign Trade of Bali Department of Trade and Industries Made Suastika stated.

Badung supporting capacity needs assessing NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP

This photo taken Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT, shows Pluto’s largest moon Charon, left, with a captivating feature, a depression with a peak in the middle, shown in the upper left corner of the inset image at right. tion of the surface.

The plains — which include clusters of smooth hills and fields of small pits — are covered with irregular-shaped, or polygon, sections that look to be separated by troughs.

Each section is roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) across.

The height of the hills is not yet known, nor their origin. It could be the hills were pushed up from below,

or are knobs surrounded by eroded terrain, according to Moore. The fields of pits resemble glacial fields on Earth.

As of Friday’s news conference, New Horizons was just over 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) past Pluto and operating well. The spacecraft on Tuesday became the first visitor to the 4.5 billion-yearold Pluto, sweeping within 7,700

miles (12,400 kilometers) of its icy surface after a journey of 9½ years.

It represented the last planetary stop on NASA’s grand tour of the solar system, begun a half-century ago.

“I’m a little biased, but I think the solar system saved the best for last,” Stern, a Southwest Research Institute planetary scientist, told reporters.

It will take 16 months to transmit to Earth all the data collected dur-

ing the close encounter. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is managing the $720 million mission, which began with a launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2006 — months before Pluto was demoted from a full-fledged planet.

Stay tuned, meanwhile, for NASA’s next Pluto update — next Friday. The pictures should keep getting better and better. (ap)

an unglazed pottery jug and navigational instruments including a metal compass. Archaeologists who examined photos of the artifacts say the wreck appears to date back as far as the late 18th century, which would make it a rare find.

“This is an exciting find, and a vivid reminder that even with major advances in our ability to access and explore the ocean, the deep sea holds its secrets close,” Van Dover, director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory, said in a news release.

The scientists, whose primary

mission is studying deep-sea ecosystems, were returning to an area called the Blake Plateau that they had previously explored with sonar.

The expedition also includes scientists from North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon aboard a vessel from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The wreck was found using Woods Hole’s unmanned vehicle Sentry and the manned submarine Alvin.

The scientists turned their data over to National Oceanic and At-

mospheric Administration’s Marine Heritage Program, which hopes to return to the site to date and identify the lost ship.

Marine Heritage Program director James Delgado said the wreck sits about 150 miles offshore in the path of the Gulf Stream, which for centuries has been a maritime trade route. He said in a phone interview that the wreck could yield significant information about trade by the United States when it was a young country.

He noted that many ships have wrecked off the Carolina coasts

over the years, but few have been found because of the difficulty of working at extreme depths.

From the surface, older wooden vessels may only show up as pixelated dark spots — or not at all — which explains why such finds are rare despite modern efforts to map the sea floor, he said.

“A largely wooden ship, largely now consumed by marine organisms, it’s not going to show up,” he said. “It’s only when you fly closer or when you have eyes on the bottom that you find these wrecks.” (ap)

MANGUPURA - The growth of tourist accommodation in Bali, especially in Southern Badung, is getting more massive. This condition can be seen from the growth in hotel rooms, where in the past five years, the growth in hotel room reaches 5,000-6,000 per year. Therefore, local government

needs to assess the carrying capacity of Badung as the main tourist destination of Bali, so that the growth of accommodation can be controlled.

It was expressed by the member of the Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPBD) of Badung, I Putu Anom, when asked for his confirma-

tion on Sunday. This academician of the Udayana University from Kapal village, Mengwi, said that it is required a study on the carrying capacity of Bali especially in Southern Bali having been overloaded. It includes the needs of land, water, electricity, traffic density, needs of migrants, convenience

Shipwreck found off US coast, possibly from late 1700s RALEIGH, North Carolina — Scientists using underwater vehicles and sonar have found a shipwreck off the coast of the southern state of North Carolina that may date back to the American Revolution of the late 1700s, Duke University said Friday.

The expedition led by Duke marine scientist Cindy Van Dover found the previously unknown wreck in mile-deep waters on July 12 using an underwater robot and a manned submarine.

They’ve found artifacts including an iron chain, glass bottles,

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The growth of tourist accommodation in Bali, especially in Southern Badung, is getting more massive. This condition can be seen from the growth in hotel rooms, where in the past five years, the growth in hotel room reaches 5,000-6,000 per year.

rate, security and others.

“Do not always pursue the target of the regionally generated revenue from Hotel and Restaurant Tax and try to increase the revenue from other sectors remaining to have many opportunities that can be achieved,” he said.

He said that it can be achieved provided that the upcoming regent can carefully see the opportunities and carefully conduct cooperation with various parties inside and outside the country in the sectors beyond tourism.

“Do not just work on the existing things. By all means, it is needed the leader of Badung who has a breakthrough and strategies to continue the achievement obtained and it will be better to increase it again,” he explained.

Earlier, Chairman of the BPPD Badung, I Gusti Ngurah Ray Suryawijaya, also recognized that the very massive construction of hotels in Badung needs to be controlled.

“We even hope there is a temporary moratorium,” he said.

Such condition, recognized this Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI), is not comparable to the growth of hotel room. It happens because the tourist accommodation is far more than the number of tourist arrival, causing a negative impact on tourism.

“Massive growth in tourist accom-

modation results in a decreased quality of tourist destination and the rampant war of hotel room rates. Currently the hotel room rate widely occurs among the hotels,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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Mekorot, a medium for Buleleng children to fill in school holiday

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Yukio Okamoto, Outside Board Member of Mitsubishi Materials and former Special Advisor to Japan’s Prime Minister, left, and Hikaru Kimura, Senior Executive Officer Mitsubishi Materials, offer an apology as they hold hands with 94-year-old U.S. prisoner of war, James Murphy, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, Sunday, July 19, 2015.

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The “Mekorot” tradition in Buleleng

BULELENG - Strong winds hitting Buleleng lately does not only cause a number of fallen trees. In fact, this condition is also taken advantage by students or young people in Northern Bali for flying kites. The season of strong winds coinciding with school holidays is automatically used to fill in their holiday. Kite hobbyists are not just filling in holidays, but this moment is taken advantage for fair competition through mekorot or slicing through competition. It is deliberately organized by the Association of Buleleng Kite Sport (PORLAB).

From noon until late afternoon, the Singaraja City Park Square on Jalan Ngurah Rai Singaraja looked so crowded by a number of children and adults. They brought the equipment such as rope and a few sheets of kite paper. Enthusiastically with high sportsmanship, the children seemed vivacious to fly their kites.

Flying kites looked to writhe after the owners tried to pull the string. Graced with cheering of par-

ticipants, the atmosphere became boisterous. Peak of the attraction occurred when the two kites’ string got in touch or commonly called slicing through (mekorot). It was getting more boisterous. Although the atmosphere was so tense, all the kite hobbyists kept showing off the attitude of friendship and no grudge or emotion was visible.

Two of the participants, Kadek Yoda and Putu Kajeng said that implementation of the slicing through

competition poses a medium to channel their hobby in flying kites when entering the season of strong winds. No wonder both admitted that they never miss the moment. To them, the kites are much in demand among children in Buleleng and unlike the kites in southern Bali.

Typical kites of Buleleng have smaller size and are made of paper.

After that, the kite flyers do not just fly it, but after flying they contest them or so-called slice through.

With the peculiarities of playing the kites, Yoda and Kajeng hoped the game can still be preserved and held more frequently by PORLAB. “I am a kite hobbyist and prefer to get involved in slicing through.

If there is no competition like this, I usually do this at home with fellow hobbyists. It becomes a typical

game of Buleleng. Hopefully, it remains sustainable with such an event or the like,” he said.

In the meantime, Chairman of the PORLAB, Rudi Hartono, when met on the sidelines of the competition on Sunday (Jul. 19) said that it was deliberately held to fill in school holidays this year. In addition, this competition is also meant to enliven the celebration of the anniversary of the Independence Day of the Republic of Indonesia 2015 in Buleleng. More importantly, this competition is made into a moment to improve the relationship among the kite hobbyists in Buleleng.

“Competition of this time can draw 104 participants,” he said.

According to this former Spokesman of PDAM Buleleng, as the agreement made the committee

imposes a knockout system in the competition. Since there are many participants, the competition is held up to August 12, 2015. The competition is held every day from eleven o’clock in the morning to four o’clock in the afternoon.

Each winner will receive an award plaque and a cash of coaching fund. The first winner is entitled to get a plaque and coaching fund worth IDR 750,000; second winner (a plaque and cash worth IDR 500,000); and third winner (a plaque and coaching fund worth IDR 400,000).

“We are preparing the prizes for encouragement and motivation so that the kite tradition can remain sustainable because it is different from that of other regions,” he added. (mud)

Slum, rest area of Rambutsiwi refurbished

NEGARA - Rest area of Rambutsiwi at Yehembang Kangin village, Mendoyo subdistrict, built by the government of Bali Province seems dormant and rundown.

Moreover, this area is often used as an immoral site.

To eliminate the slum impression of the rest area, now it is refurbished and cleaned up. On Friday night (Jul. 17), in the rest area was performed a creativity and cul-

tural show in the form of Calonarang arja operetta by Mandala Suci Foundation from Penebel, Tabanan.

Headman of Yehembang Kangin, Mendoyo subdistrict, I Gede Suardika, said on Sunday (Jul. 19) that the activity is carried out to disseminate the utilization of Rambutsiwi rest area as a place of recreation for general public and the community of Yehembang Kangin in

particular. Besides, it is also meant to eliminate the slum impression of the rest area because some buildings cannot be functioned pursuant to its designation as well to enliven the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan.

Suardika hoped that the rest area can be utilized maximally in the future and find a solution as a place of recreation and convenient stopover for highway users.

“Later on, we at the village will also find solutions for the buildings in the rest area so that they can be taken advantage by local community. Mutual assistance activity to clean up the area will be carried out on regular basis,” he said.

In addition, the pond in the rest area, he said, will be stocked with fish so that it can be used as a fishing ground by the public. (kmb)

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Italy: 4 Italians kidnapped in Libya near Eni complex

ROME — Four Italian construction workers have been kidnapped in Libya near an industrial complex owned by the Italian energy giant Eni in the western city of Mellitah, Italy’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. A ministry statement said the four were employees of the Bonatti construction company.

The kidnapping occurred Sunday evening and family members had been informed overnight, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said in Brussels, adding that intelligence agents were working to get more information on the circumstances of the kidnapping.

The ministry noted it had closed its embassy in Libya on Feb. 15 and urged Italians to leave the North African nation because of the dangers. Many Italians work in oil, gas and construction

sectors in Libya, which was an Italian colony for much of the first half of the 1900s.

Libya has slid into chaos since the 2011 overthrow and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. It is now bitterly divided between an elected parliament and government cornered in the country’s east, with little power on the ground, and an Islamist militia-backed government in the west that has seized the capital of Tripoli.

Foreigners are often taken hostage in Libya, either for ransom and of because of their Christian faith.

Some, like 10 Tunisian diplomats seized by gunmen from government-linked militias last month, were freed after demands were met. Last month, an Italian doctor kidnapped in January was also freed.(ap)

70 years after WWII, Japanese company apologizes to US POWs LOS ANGELES — He was forced to toil in enemy mines as a prisoner of war, but James Murphy wasn’t angry or bitter. He was just happy to have lived long enough to hear the Japanese apology he had sought for seven decades.

Murphy, a POW during World War II and now 94 years old, accepted an unprecedented apology from Mitsubishi Materials Corp. on Sunday on behalf of his fellow POWs, few of whom remain alive, in a ceremony that was both solemn and joyful.

“This is a glorious day,” said Murphy, who stood tall and slender in a gray suit at the ceremony and looked much younger than his 94 years. “For 70 years, we wanted this.”

Saying they felt a “deep sense of ethical responsibility for a past tragedy,” Mitsubishis executives presented the apology privately then publicly to Murphy, of Santa Maria, California, at the Museum of Tolerance at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

Hikaru Kimura, senior executive officer for Mitsubishi, said through a translator that the company of-

fered a “most remorseful apology” to the about 900 POWs who suffered “harsh, severe hardships” while forced to work in Mitsubishi mines and industrial plants.

Murphy, who worked in Mitsubishi’s copper mines in the war, called the apology sincere, humble and revealing.

He stood and shook hands with Kimura and others as cameras clicked throughout the dimly lit museum theater, with giant American and Japanese flags projected sideby-side behind them. Other POWs subjected sat in the audience along with many members of Murphy’s family.

Stanley Gibson, whose late father worked alongside Murphy in the mines, overcame his fear of flight to come from Scotland to Los Angeles for the ceremony to represent his family after hearing about it in news reports just a few days

earlier. On the stage was a photo of the two men being liberated from their captors. “Considering what my father went through it was the least I could do,” Gibson said.

The Japanese government has twice apologized to U.S. POWs used as forced laborers during World War II. But Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean at the center whose primary focus in the past has been Holocaust education, said he and the event’s other organizers believe the apology is unprecedented from a major Japanese company.

Cooper, Murphy and others who spoke urged more Japanese companies to come forward to express their own remorse.

The ceremony was preceded by a private apology that ended with a long, deep bow from the Mitsubishi representatives. “I entered the room with a heavy heart, seeking forgiveness,” said Yukio Okamoto, outside board member for Mitsubishi.

Murphy said that after 70 years it was “the first time we’ve heard those words. They touch the heart.”(ap)

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The Bonatti construction company headquarters complex is seen in Parma, Italy, Monday, July 20, 2015.

Heavy storms in Poland kill 1 person, damage 800 homes

WARSAW — People in Poland are cleaning up after massive storms that killed one person, injured 17, left thousands without electricity and damaged about 800 homes.

The clean-up efforts on Monday come after the heavy storms battered vast areas across Poland late Sunday and overnight. Heavy winds knocked down trees and electricity lines and tore the roofs of many homes.

One person died when a tree crashed down on a car. Firefighters say that they were called to intervene in 5,800 emergencies around the country due to the storms.

The storms late Sunday also delayed a high-speed train carrying Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, who is traveling around the country campaigning ahead of general elections in October.(ap)

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Buleleng Harbor located in the northern Bali. Precisely on the centre of Singaraja, the capital of the Regency of Buleleng. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a legacy of its since the advent of Dutch colonization era.

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Sanggah cukcuk

Sanggah cucuk is the triangle shaped sanggah made from bamboo. It has the meaning as “pemucuk” or the start of human life. It also the symbol of self purifying so it is placed many offerings. Sanggah cucuk usually present during “mecaru” and other holy day of the Hindu. During Galungan, Sanggah Cukcuk is placed next to the penjor.

Suvery: US companies less optimistic about future sales WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses’ outlook on sales in the coming months has darkened after sales growth slowed in the second quarter, according to a survey released Monday.

More companies also expect to cut back on their investment in equipment and buildings in the JulySeptember quarter, the survey found. However, hiring and wage and salary increases are likely to continue at about the same pace in the third quarter as they did in the previous three months. The overall survey results, compiled by the National Association for Business Economics, portray an economy muddling along at a steady, if tepid, pace.

Fifty-nine percent of businesses expect their sales to grow in the next three months, down from the 71 percent who forecast sales growth three months ago from the 68 percent who projected growth in January.

The relatively pessimistic outlook may reflect that sales growth was not nearly as widespread in the second quarter as many companies hoped.

Just 46 percent of firms said their sales rose in the April-June quarter, down from 49 percent in the first quarter and 54 percent in the final three months of last year. And 18 percent said sales fell, the most in more than a year.

The NABE’s survey is based on responses from 112 member companies, about half of whom have more than 1,000 employees. The survey was conducted from June 17 to July 1.

The survey results echo recent data that suggest growth in the second quarter will be slower than many analysts had hoped earlier this year. Americans cut back their spending at stores and restaurants in June, even though hiring has been steady this year and there are signs wage growth may be picking up.

Analysts at JPMorgan Chase now forecast the economy will expand just 2.2 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter, down from a previous estimate of 2.5 percent.

Weaker sales are likely a reason some firms are spending less on large equipment. Twelve percent of companies reduced their capital spending in the second quarter, roughly double the total in each of the previous four quarters.

Much of that cutback occurred in manufacturing, the survey found, where companies have been hit by a strong dollar. The dollar has risen about 14 percent in the past year against a basket of currencies. That makes U.S. goods more expensive overseas.

Thirty-eight percent of companies said the dollar’s strength has hurt their businesses. The impact has been more dramatic for manufacturers: 69 percent of the companies in that sector said it has had a negative effect. Only 20 percent of services firms said they were hurt by the strong dollar.

Meanwhile, businesses are largely split on the impact of an eventual increase in the short-term interest rate controlled by the Federal Reserve. Thirty-seven percent think it will have a negative effect on their business, while 25 percent think it will help. Thirtyeight percent said it won’t have any impact.

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has said the Fed may start to raise rates sometime this year if the economy continues to improve. (ap)

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Buleleng Harbor from Bali’s gateway to a recreation spot

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Customers wait to be served inside an Alpha Bank branch in Athens, Monday, July 20, 2015. Greek banks reopen on Monday morning, but many restrictions on transactions, including cash withdrawals, will remain. Also, many goods and services will become more expensive as a result of a rise in Value Added Tax approved by Parliament last Thursday, among the first batch of austerity measures demanded by Greece’s creditors.

Banks reopen in Greece after threeweek shutdown ATHENS - Greek banks reopened Monday after a three-week shutdown imposed by the government to avert a crash in the banking system over the country’s debt crisis.

Capital controls in force since June 29 remain in place, although a daily cash withdrawal limit of 60 euros ($65.03) has now been relaxed.

Louka Katseli, the head of Greece’s bank association, said Greeks would now be able to withdraw a maximum of 300 euros at one go until Friday, when a new weekly limit of 420 euros will come in force.

She also urged Greeks to bring their savings back to the banks.

“If we take out the money from our safes and our houses -- where, in any case, it isn’t safe -- and we deposit it in the banks, we will reinforce liquidity,” she told the Mega TV channel.

Some 40 billion euros have been withdrawn from Greek banks since December, she noted, seriously damaging their ability to function normally.

But for two customers waiting outside a branch of Alphabank in central Athens, there were more immediate concerns.

Maria had come to settle an electricity bill she had been unable to pay during the bank closure, while Grigoris, a 76-yearold pensioner, was seeking to withdraw the new maximum cash allowance for the week.

He was disappointed that the new 420-euro limit will not come in place until the weekend.

“I’ve been told I’ll have to wait until

Friday to take out that sum,” he said.

Greeks will also now be able to start using their credit cards for foreign purchases again.

Some exceptions to the capital controls have also been introduced, including a move to allow bank transfers of up to 5,000 euros per quarter to young Greeks studying abroad, while Greeks receiving medical care in other countries will be able to take out 2,000 euros a day.

But for most Greeks, the capital controls remain in place: they cannot transfer money abroad, take out large sums, or open new bank accounts.

The measures have cost the Greek economy some three billion euros, according to the centre-right Kathimerini newspaper, not least due to lost income from the country’s crucial tourism sector. (afp)

SINGARAJA - Buleleng Harbor located in the northern Bali. Precisely on the centre of Singaraja, the capital of the Regency of Buleleng. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a legacy of its since the advent of Dutch colonization era.

It was an entry point to come to Bali by sea, both for tourism and commercial purposes. A flock of tourists arrived in Bali via this seaport. From here, they travelled to the south where most of tourist facilities and tourist attractions were located. They generally went via Kintamani, where there was rest house perched on a hill looking a view of Mount of Batur, Lake Batur and surroundings of which their enjoyed.

Bali Hotel which is still operating up to know, was a popular one and might be the only hotel in Bali to accommodate overseas tourists as well travelers, particularly the Dutch. They travelled to Bali from respective countries by ocean-crossing vessels which operated by big shipping companies such the Dutch-owned “KPM” (Koninklijke Paketvaart Msatschpiii).

Due to relatively shallow water of the harbor, a wooden jetty was built jutted out into the sea to facilitating the passengers of the vessel and other cargos such live-stocks and other merchandizes. All these passengers and other cargos were transported by tug-boats from the vessel to the beach vice versa.

After the independence, the role of Dutch gradually diminishing so was the

role of Buleleng Harbor as the important gateway for Bali. The division of the Province of Sunda Kecil (the Province of Lesses Island) around the year of 1959 into three provinces namely the Province of Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara. Denpasar was adopted as the new capital of the Province of Bali and also gradually but surely all government of the former Sunda Kecil Province offices moved to Denpasar.

Singaraja lost its rule as the prominent town of the province. Later, the opening of Ngurah Rai International Airport in the south, on Tuban area, in the Regency of Badung, also make Singaraja role as important city in Bali diminished. This changing situation also made Buleleng Harbor hardly survive as a sea port.

The Regency of Buleleng’s administration took a bold step by transforming the ex-harbor into a new recreation area where residents of Singaraja and surroundings able to relax, enjoying sea breeze, and marveling to several tourist attractions close-by. The imposing statue depicting a fighting hero on top of a tower tells a historical event of when an independent fighter was killed by a salvo canon from the Dutch’s navy boat. To honor the bravery of the hero, a

statue was erected on the spot where the fighter was killed in the form of a fighter is pointing to the sea where the Dutch warship was anchoring.

The sharp tip bamboo as a weapon of the fighter symbolizing the brave spirit of the fighter against the well-armed of Dutch’s military power in fighting for the independent of Indonesia. The statue stands on a towering concrete pedestal.

Nearby, a Chinese temple, painted in striking golden colors is worth visiting.

An arched old bridge stands side by side with a new built one is the symbol of new and old to remind people that we should not forget what has gone-by and would not forget the past or history.

Several restaurants erected on concrete stilts which formerly was the wooden jetty. Not far away the dilapidated store-houses were demolished and one of it has been converted into more modern buildings, named “IMACO” (International Mask, Art and Culture Organization) building. Previously, in that building, Buleleng Regency’s Administration was host an international scaled event. The building is now generally used for exhibition, meeting, conference, and other events.

The ex-Buleleng harbor is now managed by special committee set-up by the Buleleng Regency’s Administration. An admission fee is imposed for those who wishing to enjoy the harbor as a recreation spot. (Nyoman Suwela)

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FILE - In this June 10, 2015 file photo, members of the media cover workers from Eastern Shores Flagpoles raising a flagpole at the Cuban Interest Section in Washington in preparation for re-opening of embassies in Havana and Washington.

5 decades later, US-Cuba diplomatic ties restored

WASHINGTON — The United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations Monday after more than five decades of frosty relations rooted in the Cold War. The new era began with little fanfare when an agreement between the two nations to resume normal ties on July 20 came into force just after midnight Sunday and the diplomatic missions of each country were upgraded from interests sections to embassies.

When clocks struck 12:00 in Washington and Havana, they tolled a knell for policy approaches spawned and hardened over the five decades since President John F. Kennedy first tangled with youthful revolutionary Fidel Castro over Soviet expansion in the Americas.

Without ceremony in the predawn hours, maintenance hung the Cuban flag in the lobby of the State Department alongside those of other nations with which the U.S. has diplomatic relations. The historic shift will be publicly memorialized later Monday when Cuban officials formally inaugurate their embassy in Washington and Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag will fly for the first time since the countries severed ties in 1961. Secretary of State John Kerry will then meet his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez, and address reporters at a joint news conference.

The U.S. Interests Section in Havana plans to announce its upgrade to embassy status in a written statement on Monday, but the Stars and Stripes

will not fly at the mission until Kerry visits in August for a ceremonial flag-raising.

And yet, though normalization has taken center stage in the U.S.Cuba relationship, there remains a deep ideological gulf between the nations and many issues still to resolve. Among them: thorny disputes such as over mutual claims for economic reparations, Havana’s insistence on the end of the 53year-old trade embargo and U.S. calls for Cuba to improve on human rights and democracy. Some U.S. lawmakers, including several prominent Republican presidential candidates, have vowed not to repeal the embargo and pledged to roll back Obama’s moves on Cuba.

Still, Monday’s events cap a remarkable change of course in U.S. policy toward the communist island under President Barack Obama, who had sought rapprochement with Cuba since he first took office and has progressively loosened restrictions on travel and remittances to the island.

Obama’s efforts at engagement were frustrated for years by Cuba’s imprisonment of U.S. Agency for International Development contractor Alan Gross on espionage charges.

But months of secret negotiations led in December to Gross’s release, along with a number of political prisoners

in Cuba and the remaining members of a Cuban spy ring jailed in the United States. On Dec. 17, Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced they would resume full diplomatic relations.

Declaring the longstanding policy a failure that had not achieved any of its intended results, Obama declared that the U.S. could not keep doing the same thing and expect a change.

Thus, he said work would begin apace on normalization.

That process dragged on until the U.S. removed Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in late May and then bogged down over issues of U.S. diplomats’ access to ordinary Cubans.

On July 1, however, the issues were resolved and the U.S. and Cuba exchanged diplomatic notes agreeing that the date for the restoration of full relations would be July 20. “It’s a historic moment,” said longtime Cuban diplomat and analyst Carlos Alzugaray.

“The significance of opening the embassies is that trust and respect that you can see, both sides treating the other with trust and respect,” he said.

“That doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be conflicts — there are bound to be conflicts — but the way that you treat the conflict has completely changed.” (ap)

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Russian scientists squeezed by sanctions, Kremlin policies NOVOSIBIRSK — Artur Bilsky’s Institute of Thermophysics recently sought to buy equipment from a Japanese company that was a routine purchase a few years ago.

The request was turned down “categorically,” said Bilsky, a researcher at the institute.

Hundreds of other Russian scientists are reporting similar experiences of being refused sale of scientific equipment from abroad, or seeing research papers curtly turned down

by Western publications. The reason, they believe, is a combination of sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine and rising hostility to Russia in the West seeping into the scientific community.

Since Russia annexed Crimea last year, it has become almost impossible for scientists in Russia to buy anything in the United States or Japan that has a dual purpose, said physicist Alexander Shilov, who works in the Institute of Laser Physics in Russia’s scientific hub of Akademgorodok, or Academy Town — part of Russia’s third-largest city of Novosibirsk.

“Due to the sanctions” or “the conflict in Ukraine” are the most common explanations Shilov hears for refusing orders from Russia. “When they sell a piece of glass, how do they know whether we will use it in a military laser or a medical one?” he said.

The U.S. and EU sanctions were designed to halt exports to the Russian defense sector. When announcing a new round of sanctions in July 2014, the European Union noted specifically that they “should not affect the exports of dual-use goods and technology” to Russia for “non-military use.” In reality, many Western companies were so spooked by the sanctions and the penalties they could face for violating them that the door was shut completely, the scientists say.

An American scholar who works with Russian universities — and asked to be unnamed because he was not authorized to speak on his university’s behalf — confirmed that his Russian counterparts are having difficulties with Western companies. In some cases, he said, companies are saying they fear that the equipment might get slapped with sanctions while it is being delivered, or that they no longer have support staff in Russia to service it.

What’s more, foreign-made equipment is now less affordable for Russian scientists because of the depreciation in the Russian ruble, which lost nearly half of its value since the Crimean annexation.

The scientists’ plight has been compounded by the Kremlin’s own crackdown on Russian private funding of science, stemming from suspicions of Western influence. The government this year labeled the Dynasty foundation, Russia’s largest source of private funding for science, a “foreign agent” — which makes the group vulnerable to an array of surprise checks and audits. It is a Cold War term that carries connotations of spying. The foundation fell afoul of the officialdom because its Russian founder funds the organization from money transferred from his foreign bank accounts.

“If Dynasty was named a foreign agent, then everyone who had contracts with Dynasty is an accomplice of a foreign agent,” said Shilov. “We are all spies now.”

The government has become increasingly suspicious of foreign-funded non-governmental organizations, seeing them as potential agents of a hostile West. Russia has brushed off the sanctions imposed by the United States and European Union, saying that Russia has plenty of resources to replace banned imports with its own production. (ap)

AP Photo/Alexander Lukin

In this Monday, June 8, 2015 photo, scientist Anatoly Bonert tends to a magnesium atomic clock in Novosibirsk, Russia.

Hundreds of Russian scientists are reporting experiences of being refused sale of scientific equipment from abroad, or seeing research papers turned down by Western publications.

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INDONESIA Tolikara incident

Muslims should not be provoked

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Mosque Managers’ Forum (Fahmi Tamami) Rhoma Irama appealed to all Muslims in Indonesia to not be provoked by the incident that occurred on Friday in Tolikara, Papua. “I call on all Muslims to not be provoked by the incident in Tolikara,” Irama affirmed on Monday.

According to Irama, the Islamic doctrine teaches both tolerance and respect for other religions to create unity.

In the context of the nation, he emphasized that all people should be able to realize and maintain religious harmony without making distinctions with regard to culture, language, and religion.

“Therefore, Muslims and Christians should not be provoked in a bid to maintain religious harmony,” Irama stated.

In connection with the Tolikara incident, he also urged the government to stringently enforce the laws.

“The Tolikara incident must be handled properly, so that religious harmony can be maintained,” he remarked.

Furthermore, he urged the government to provide relief to the victims and rebuild the mosque that had been burnt down.

Earlier, a spokesman for the XVIII/Cendrawasih Regional

Military Command that oversees Papua noted here on Saturday that reports on a house of prayer being burnt down in Tolikara district on Friday were untrue.

“Based on the results of the meeting initiated by the chiefs of the Cendrawasih Regional Military Command and the Papua Regional Police Command in Tolikara on Saturday morning, it was learnt that no mushola (Islamic house of prayer) had been burnt down by the local people,”

Lieutenant Colonel Teguh P. R., the spokesman, stated here on Saturday evening.

He added that the statement was issued to clarify rumors that had been spreading in the community and on social media platforms, as well as news reports that a mushola had been set on fire.

“Reports on a mushola being burnt down are not true. After the regional military commander and the regional police chief inspected the scene, it was found that the fire first burnt down kiosks before spreading to a mushola,” Teguh explained.

“Regional Military Commander Major General Fransen G. Siahaan

has expressed readiness to help enforce the law after accurate data is collected,” he pointed out.

He further noted that the commander was committed to handling the case in an expeditious and integrated manner.

“The TNI (military), along with the police and other national institutions, including the affected Muslims and members of GIDI (Evangelical Church in Indonesia), will rebuild the mushola, kiosks, and homes that were burnt down. The regional military commander will also help gather used clothes and food and deliver them to the location by helicopter,” Teguh affirmed. (ant)

Infrastructure promises derailed by bureaucrats JAKARTA - Investors hoping for President Joko Widodo to speed work on Indonesia’s infrastructure projects have been disappointed, with a plan for a $2-billion airport railway line in the capital spotlighting the delays and bureaucratic infighting involved.

Nearly half the 10 projects to which Widodo gave priority when he took office last year are languishing for lack of cooperation among ministries he has been unable to whip into line.

“Somebody has to coordinate the orchestra of stakeholders,” said Emma Sri Martini, head of government-owned infrastructure finance firm Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI). “If decisions for infrastructure are slow, there won’t be activity in any sector.”

Widodo is racing against time to create sufficient jobs for the 2 million Indonesians who enter the workforce annually, as he struggles to revive economic growth that has fallen to the weakest pace in around six years.

His promised splurge on roads, ports and power plants is critical as Indonesia’s traditional engines of growth, consumption and commodity exports, are faltering, while businesses are shedding jobs fast.

When governor of Jakarta, Widodo had managed to break an almost decade-long impasse over construction of a ring road around the Indonesian capital, and investors had hoped to see him, as president, repeat the feat on the national level.

Nine months into his tenure, the

signs are not encouraging.

The airport railway line, designed to cut the travel time to one of the world’s busiest airports to 30 minutes from as much as three hours, has suffered a delay of at least two years in construction.

Officials have locked horns over its route and how to fund it, but in the absence of significant government support, it hardly offers private investors a worthwhile return.

“The project is indeed taking quite a long time because of the preparation for all the studies,” said transport ministry official Sugiadi Waluyo.

Just last month, for example, newspaper Bisnis Indonesia reported that Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan had sought a route change to take advantage of existing tracks.

But all the authorities involved must sign off on the change, leading to a delay, SMI’s Martini said. “A single decision might seem simple, but the consequence can be a delay multiplier.”

The route must be hammered out before potential investors from countries such as China, Japan and South Korea will take even the first step, she added.

As the government weighs the merits of one-off or deferred funding for the railway project, it expects private bidders to get returns chiefly from future traffic volumes and fares.

“There’s potentially a lot of appetite for the airport train project, but the main question for inves-

tors and lenders is, ‘How do you make money out of it?’” said Mark Giblett, group head of Asia project finance for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.

Widodo must act fast, as Indonesia risks falling behind neighbours who are aggressively building in-

frastructure.

Indonesia’s cost of moving goods was as much as 27 percent of gross domestic product in 2013, outstripping Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, a study backed by the World Bank showed.

Investors are eager for Widodo to

speed things up.

“The biggest thing that Jokowi thought he could do, and that he realized that he cannot do, is coordinate all his ministries,” said OCBC Bank economist Wellian Wiranto, referring to the president by his nickname. (rtr)

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Construction workers are seen on the site of the new Terminal 3 at Soekarno-Hatta International airport near Jakarta, Indonesia July 8, 2015. Investors hoping for President Joko Widodo to speed work on Indonesia’s infrastructure projects have been disappointed, with a plan for a $2-billion airport railway line in the capital spotlighting the delays and bureaucratic infighting involved.

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Ducati looking to regain confidence after mid-season MotoGP run

World Surf League via AP

In this image made available by the World Surf League, Australian surfer Mick Flanning is pursued by a shark, in Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa, Sunday, July 19, 2015. Knocked off his board by an attacking shark, a surfer punched the creature during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa before escaping. Fanning was attacked by a shark on Sunday during the JBay Open but escaped without injuries.

Gunung Kawi GIANYAR - Gunung Kawi is a Hindu Temple complex with old omission from the stone era located in Gianyar regency.

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Gunung Kawi Temple in Keliki countryside and Gunung Kawi Temple in Babitra countryside.

The ancient omission complex of Gunung Kawi is founded on 10th Century. It is founded in the era of Udayana about 989 M. At the period of Marakata governance on 1023, the omission which is called Katyagan Amarawati is developed and continued

by the governance of Anak Wungsu which is guess lead between the years of 1049 - 1077 M. Temple complex is consisted of 2 consecutions. The consecution in eastside Pakerisan River is consisted of 5 units and the consecution at west side of river is 5 units, in the north is 4 units and 1 unit is located far in south side separate from the others.

The Ducati MotoGP team has lost a little confidence over recent grands prix, admits its general manager Gigi Dall’Igna. Still attempting to end a win drought stretching back to the 2010 Australian GP, Ducati started 2015 strongly and had at least one rider on the podium in five of the first six races.

But since Andrea Iannone’s runner-up spot at Mugello at the end of May, the Italian team has drifted away from Honda and Yamaha. “I’d say that up to Mugello it was extremely positive, then there have been a few more problems that have not allowed us to get the results we had hoped for in the latter races, and a bit of confidence and feeling inside the garage has gone missing,” Dall’Igna told Gazzetta dello Sport.

“But the balance is satisfactory. We have a rider in third place in the championship and we have scored several podiums.” Asked if he was worried by the decline in confidence, Dall’Igna replied: “Absolutely not. It’s clear that when you believe you can reach certain results and then you don’t, you are not happy, you see things less positively.”

He denied that Ducati benefited from the likes of Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo having problems and Dani Pedrosa missing several races after arm surgery. “I don’t think [the podiums] came from particularly favourable circumstances,” said Dall’Igna.

“OK, Pedrosa wasn’t around, but besides positions, our gap to the leader was small. That means that the rider-bike package was competitive.

“At Austin, Marquez dominated, but [Andrea] Dovizioso finished a little more than two seconds behind; in Argentina Marc crashed, but we stayed with [Valentino] Rossi for almost the entire race.”(net)

3-time world champ fights off shark during South Africa comp

JOHANNESBURG — Knocked off his board by an attacking shark, three-time world champion Mick Fanning punched the creature before escaping unharmed during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa on Sunday. The Australian surfer was struck by the shark from behind and knocked into the water as he sat on his board waiting his turn during the JBay Open in Jeffrey’s Bay in the Eastern Cape Province.

As he scans the water, two fins appear and with a splash he disappears under the surface. He is next seen furiously trying to swim to safety before a rescuer pulls him out of the water. “A big sigh of relief seeing Fanning in one piece,” a commentator is heard saying, on the video of the event posted on the World Surf League website.

“I felt something grab, get stuck in my leg rope and instantly jump away. And it just kept coming at my board,” Fanning said, once safe on the rescue boat. Fanning said at first he swam away but then decided to defend himself and turned to punch the shark in the back.

“I saw it taking my board away

and I just started cracking it,” he told a crowd that gathered around him once he was back on shore, referring to how he struck the shark.

“I’m totally fine. I’ve got nothing wrong with me,” Fanning said in an interview. “There’s a small depression in my board and my leg wrap (was) bitten. I’m just totally tripping out. To walk away from that, I’m just so stoked. Oh man.”

Fanning’s mother, Elizabeth Osborne, who watched the incident live on television in Australia, wept as she told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio the attack was “the worst thing I’ve ever seen happen to any of my family because it was just there in front of me.”

“It was absolutely terrifying. I actually got up and walked across to the television because I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing and I thought we lost him,” she said in an ABC TV interview. “I went over to the television almost as though I could pull him out of the television. I just wanted to save him really, but there was nothing I could do.” Osborne said she believes Fanning’s brother Sean, who died in a car accident 17 years ago, was watching over his sibling.

Surfing great Kelly Slater said he was coming up the beach when he saw all the boats and skis heading toward the surfers. “I knew there was only one possible reason that would ever happen in a contest and that’s if someone got attacked by a shark,” Slater was quoted as saying. “I’m halfway between crying and laughing because he got so lucky. I’m lost for words to be honest.”(ap)

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Davis Cup: Argentina finishes with 4-1 win over Serbia BUENOS AIRES — Dusan Lajovic beat Diego Schwartzman 6-1, 6-4 to help Serbia avoid a clean sweep to Argentina in the Davis Cup quarterfinals on Sunday. Argentina wrapped up a spot in the semifinals by winning the doubles match on Saturday, and a day earlier it had won both singles matches in the clay-court tie at home.

In the second singles on Sun-

day, Serbia’s Filip Krajinovic retired while trailing 6-1, 3-0 to Argentina’s Carlos Berlocq.

Argentina is trying to win its first Davis Cup title. It has made it to the semifinals in eight of the last 10 years, but in 2014 it was knocked out in the first round.

Serbia, without top-ranked Novak Djokovic, was trying to reach the semis for the first time since 2013.(ap)

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Mexico tops Costa Rica 1-0 in Gold Cup on late penalty

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Mexico earned chance after chance to score against Costa Rica. The goal that finally came might not have been so well-deserved.

Mexico won 1-0 on Sunday night in the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals on Andres Guardado’s penalty kick in the final minute of extra time. Roy Miller had been whistled for a questionable foul on Oribe Peralta with the game seconds from both teams attempting penalty kicks.

Guardado converted to send six-time champion Mexico to the semifinals, where it will face Panama on Wednesday night in Atlanta.

Mexico had dominated play but c o u l d n ’t put the ball

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into t h e net until the final moments, and it took the penalty kick. Angry Costa Rica fans — heavily outnumbered by Mexico’s supporters in the crowd of 74,187 at MetLife Stadium — threw bottles toward the field in protest.

With Peralta leaping to try to head in a cross in front of the goal in the second minute of stoppage time, Miller appeared

to make little contact with him. But assistant referee Eric Boria of the United States called it a foul. Costa Rica coach Paulo Wanchope declined to criticize the ruling, saying, “That’s football.” “We shouldn’t take away from Mexico,” he said.

“They played a good game. They had their chances.”

The Mexico-Costa Rica matchup looked like a potential final at the start of the tournament, with Costa Rica coming off a World Cup quarterfinal appearance last year. But both teams were sluggish in the group stage to each finish second and set up the quarterfinal meeting.

Costa Rica lost in the quarterfinals for the third straight Gold Cup. Injury-plagued Mexico repeatedly broke down Costa Rica’s defense to set up good looks only for shots to sail high or wide.

“That has been our main concern since the beginning of the tournament, to be effective up front,” Mexico coach Miguel Herrera said.

“Unfortunately we haven’t been able to be as effective as we would want to.”

Carlos Esquivel nearly put Mexico ahead in the 63th minute, but goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado got his fingertips on the ball while leaning the other way to deflect it off the crossbar. Alvarado had five saves.

“You have only a certain number of plays to win a game before you start suffering, and you start thinking that if you give your opponent a break, you lose,” Herrera said.

Panama also went to extra time in the first game Sunday. That game made it to penalty kicks with the score tied 1-1, and Panama won 6-5. (ap)

Mexico’s Andres Guardado (18) celebrates after scoring a goal during the overtime period of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match against Costa Rica Sunday, July 19, 2015, at MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Mexico won 1-0.

Fluminense loses to Vasco, fails to take lead in Brazil SAO PAULO — Fluminense lost 2-1 to rival Vasco da Gama on the day Ronaldinho was introduced to its fans, missing a chance to go top of the Brazilian league. Ronaldinho was presented to the Fluminense crowd at the Maracana Stadium, but watched the match from the stands.

The former Brazil star won’t be playing until next month.

Substitute midfielder Jhon Cley gave Vasco the win with a remarkable long-range shot in the 71st minute.

Forward Andrezinho had put Vasco ahead with a header in the 40th, and striker Marcus Junior equalized from inside the area in the 58th.

Fluminense would have become the league leader with a victory, but it remained on 27 points, two behind Atletico Mineiro and Corinthians.

Vasco da Gama remains in relegation zone despite the win, only its third in 14 matches.

Atletico Mineiro had its six-match winning streak snapped by a 1-0 loss to Corinthians at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo on Saturday.

Corinthians scored with striker Malcom in the 42nd, then held on to the victory. It was the third straight win for Corinthians, and the fifth in the last six matches.

Fourth-place Sport defeated seventh-place Sao Paulo 2-0 in Recife,

ending a three-match winless streak.

Sao Paulo, which was coming off two wins in a row, had two players sent off near the end — playmaker Paulo Henrique Ganso and striker Luis Fabiano. Sao Paulo’s Colombian coach Juan Carlos Osorio also was sent off after complaining with the referee.

On Sunday, Palmeiras defeated rival Santos 1-0 with a first-half goal by striker Leandro Pereira, winning for the sixth time in seven matches and jumping to sixth in the 20-team standings, only four points behind leader Atletico Mineiro. Paraguay striker Lucas Barrios entered the match late in the second half to make his debut with Palmeiras. Santos, which has lost four of its last five games, moved back into relegation zone after the loss.

In the late matches, two-time defending champion Cruzeiro was held to a 1-1 draw by Avai at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, remaining 12th in the standings, while lastplace Joinville drew Ponte Preta 1-1 in Joinville.

In front of more than 50,000 fans at the Maracana on Saturday, Peru striker Paolo Guerrero scored the winning goal in Flamengo’s 1-0 win over fifth-place Gremio, a result that moved the popular Brazilian club farther from relegation zone. (ap)

LOS ANGELES - Barcelona coach Luis Enrique would rather the team did not have to fly off on longdistance tours before the regular season but understands they are important for the club’s marketing strategy.

Luis Enrique and his squad, missing resting Copa America participants like forwards Lionel Messi and Neymar, arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday and play their opening International Champions Cup game against MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy in Pasadena on Tuesday.

“Honestly I prefer not to go on tours,” Luis Enrique told a news conference at the team’s hotel. “It’s nice to come but there are aspects that are uncomfortable, for example the jet lag,” the former Barca and Spain midfielder added.

“But the club has commitments and the competition is interesting.

You could do the same in Europe but we have to accept it.” After taking on the LA Galaxy, the Spanish and European champions meet English Premier League sides Manchester United in Santa Clara on Saturday and Chelsea

in Landover on July 28.

They then return to Europe to play Serie A club Fiorentina in Florence on Aug. 2. Luis Enrique, who led Barca to a treble of Champions League and Spanish league and Cup titles in his debut season, defended Barca’s decision to allow the likes of Messi and Neymar to miss the tour, despite pressure from sponsors.

“The players need holidays and we are not going to change that for commitments like a tour,” he said. “Everyone wants to see the top players but they need to rest, which is vital. “It’s normal that they want to get close to Messi, (Javier) Mascherano, Neymar, (Dani) Alves, (Claudio) Bravo... but rest takes priority.”

Barca’s first official match of the 2015-16 season is the European Super Cup against Europa League winners and La Liga rivals Sevilla on Aug. 11.

They then play Athletic Bilbao over two legs for the Spanish Super Cup before they get their bid for a sixth La Liga title in eight years underway against the Basque club on the weekend of Aug. 22-23. (rtr)

Barca’s Luis Enrique bemoans long haul to play ball

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FIFA to decide on election date; Platini gains support

ZURICH — FIFA executives were meeting Monday to choose a presidential election date, with UEFA President Michel Platini gaining support to succeed Sepp Blatter.

Platini has been asked to run by the majority of FIFA’s confederations but has not yet decided whether to be a candidate, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because Platini is not discussing his plans in public. FIFA’s 209 members, rather than the six confederation leaders, vote on the FIFA president.

Discussing FIFA in an interview with the latest edition of “World Soccer” magazine, Platini said: “As for the future ... I do know, but I can’t tell you.”

Platini decided not to run in the May presidential election when Blatter beat Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al-Hussein. Platini sup-

ported the prince’s campaign but could not deliver all 53 European votes. Four days after winning a fifth term, Blatter announced plans to quit under the weight of criminal investigations into FIFA corruption.

December is the earliest possible date for a new election, but that could clash with the Club World Cup in Japan. An early 2016 election seems more likely, with the FIFA hierarchy and media already coming to Zurich for the Ballon d’Or ceremony on Jan. 11.

Prince Ali broke more than a month of silence on Monday to tell The Associated Press that a December election would not provide enough time for the “meaningful change in the leadership of FIFA that we so desperately need.” The prince, who advocates a March election but provided no indication of his own presidential ambitions, wants a leader

from outside the sport to oversee the next election and reforms of scandal-scarred FIFA — with Blatter out immediately.

Prince Ali believes that Blatter “cannot be permitted to plan his succession and manage this election process.” “President Blatter’s resignation cannot be dragged out any longer. He must leave now,” Prince Ali, a vice president for four years until May, said in a statement to the AP. “An interim independent leadership must be appointed to administer the process of the elections, in addition to the reforms that are being discussed prior to the elections,” he added.

Prince Ali joined longtime World Cup sponsor Coca-Cola and former FIFA advisers Transparency International in calling to exclude a man who presided over a scandal-hit organization from the process of shaping its future. (ap)

KALININGRAD - The scene looks more like a building project for the 2022 Qatar World Cup rather than Russia’s 2018 finals, with a flat sandy landscape stretching out to the far horizon.

While construction work has

yet to start on the delayed Baltika Arena stadium in Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave, at least the land on which it is to be built has been made stable with 4.5 million tonnes of sand imported from quarries around Russia. The project on Oktyabrskiy Island, by

the Pregolya River, appears out of synch with the rest of Russia’s preparations for the World Cup. Building work on the remainder of the 12 venues due to stage matches in 11 cities is either complete or well under way but not in Kaliningrad, bordered by Poland

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine Livepic

UEFA president Michel Platini in the stands

Kaliningrad’s ‘desert’ stadium will be ready, says city boss and Lithuania and with no land connection to the rest of Russia.

Alexander Rolbinov, deputy governor of the Kaliningrad regional government, agreed appearances were disconcerting.

“You’re right, it does look more like Qatar than Russia, it does not look like a normal place here, but we had to bring in the sand to make the earth secure because we are building it on an island in the middle of a river and the earth was very unstable,” he told reporters on a tour of World Cup venues.

“The sand was all delivered by last October, and although the ground is now safe to take the weight stresses of the stadium, the stadium itself was re-designed as a smaller 35,000 seater stadium, losing 10,000 seats from the original design -- and also losing the planned retractable roof.”

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The model of a new Kaliningrad stadium, which is expected to host the 2018 World Cup matches, is on display, with the construction site seen in the background in the Baltic Sea port of Kaliningrad, Russia, July 18, 2015. Kaliningrad is one of the Russian cities, which will host the 2018 World Cup.

Rolbinov said he was not worried about the pace of progress.

“Because the stadium is smaller, and there will be no roof, it will take less time to build and we are in no doubt it will be finished on schedule by the end of 2017. We are absolutely confident of that,” he said.

Kaliningrad, once German and with a rich and varied heritage, is 1,200km from Moscow and due to benefit from the World

Cup with a renovated airport, new roads and the opening up of border posts. The stadium will probably become home to Baltika FC, currently in the Russian second division, and will also be a cultural and social centre built on the only available land close to the city centre.

“That was at the heart of the problem,” said Rolbinov. “We wanted the new stadium in the heart of the city, not far out of town, and this was the only available site. But we have overcome the problems and the dream will soon be a reality.” After the final prepatory ground tests, work is due to start on the stadium at the end of July.

Contractor Crocus Group are confident the project will be finished on time even though it had to redesign the stadium after the original building firm Mostovik, which built venues for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, was declared bankrupt.

“We were asked to create a new concept, as the original was very expensive,” said Crocus Group President Aras Agalarov. “We removed the retractable roof which was originally planned and got rid off unnecessary spaces.

Agalarov said the stadium construction would cost around 17.5 billion roubles ($307.36 million) despite the expensive ground works to combat the high water table and the weaker rouble, hit by Russia’s economic downturn. (rtr)

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Mexico tops Costa Rica 1-0 in Gold Cup on late penalty

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Mexico earned chance after chance to score against Costa Rica. The goal that finally came might not have been so well-deserved.

Mexico won 1-0 on Sunday night in the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals on Andres Guardado’s penalty kick in the final minute of extra time. Roy Miller had been whistled for a questionable foul on Oribe Peralta with the game seconds from both teams attempting penalty kicks.

Guardado converted to send six-time champion Mexico to the semifinals, where it will face Panama on Wednesday night in Atlanta.

Mexico had dominated play but c o u l d n ’t put the ball

AP Photo/Mel Evans

into t h e net until the final moments, and it took the penalty kick. Angry Costa Rica fans — heavily outnumbered by Mexico’s supporters in the crowd of 74,187 at MetLife Stadium — threw bottles toward the field in protest.

With Peralta leaping to try to head in a cross in front of the goal in the second minute of stoppage time, Miller appeared

to make little contact with him. But assistant referee Eric Boria of the United States called it a foul. Costa Rica coach Paulo Wanchope declined to criticize the ruling, saying, “That’s football.” “We shouldn’t take away from Mexico,” he said.

“They played a good game. They had their chances.”

The Mexico-Costa Rica matchup looked like a potential final at the start of the tournament, with Costa Rica coming off a World Cup quarterfinal appearance last year. But both teams were sluggish in the group stage to each finish second and set up the quarterfinal meeting.

Costa Rica lost in the quarterfinals for the third straight Gold Cup. Injury-plagued Mexico repeatedly broke down Costa Rica’s defense to set up good looks only for shots to sail high or wide.

“That has been our main concern since the beginning of the tournament, to be effective up front,” Mexico coach Miguel Herrera said.

“Unfortunately we haven’t been able to be as effective as we would want to.”

Carlos Esquivel nearly put Mexico ahead in the 63th minute, but goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado got his fingertips on the ball while leaning the other way to deflect it off the crossbar. Alvarado had five saves.

“You have only a certain number of plays to win a game before you start suffering, and you start thinking that if you give your opponent a break, you lose,” Herrera said.

Panama also went to extra time in the first game Sunday. That game made it to penalty kicks with the score tied 1-1, and Panama won 6-5. (ap)

Mexico’s Andres Guardado (18) celebrates after scoring a goal during the overtime period of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match against Costa Rica Sunday, July 19, 2015, at MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Mexico won 1-0.

Fluminense loses to Vasco, fails to take lead in Brazil SAO PAULO — Fluminense lost 2-1 to rival Vasco da Gama on the day Ronaldinho was introduced to its fans, missing a chance to go top of the Brazilian league. Ronaldinho was presented to the Fluminense crowd at the Maracana Stadium, but watched the match from the stands.

The former Brazil star won’t be playing until next month.

Substitute midfielder Jhon Cley gave Vasco the win with a remarkable long-range shot in the 71st minute.

Forward Andrezinho had put Vasco ahead with a header in the 40th, and striker Marcus Junior equalized from inside the area in the 58th.

Fluminense would have become the league leader with a victory, but it remained on 27 points, two behind Atletico Mineiro and Corinthians.

Vasco da Gama remains in relegation zone despite the win, only its third in 14 matches.

Atletico Mineiro had its six-match winning streak snapped by a 1-0 loss to Corinthians at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo on Saturday.

Corinthians scored with striker Malcom in the 42nd, then held on to the victory. It was the third straight win for Corinthians, and the fifth in the last six matches.

Fourth-place Sport defeated seventh-place Sao Paulo 2-0 in Recife,

ending a three-match winless streak.

Sao Paulo, which was coming off two wins in a row, had two players sent off near the end — playmaker Paulo Henrique Ganso and striker Luis Fabiano. Sao Paulo’s Colombian coach Juan Carlos Osorio also was sent off after complaining with the referee.

On Sunday, Palmeiras defeated rival Santos 1-0 with a first-half goal by striker Leandro Pereira, winning for the sixth time in seven matches and jumping to sixth in the 20-team standings, only four points behind leader Atletico Mineiro. Paraguay striker Lucas Barrios entered the match late in the second half to make his debut with Palmeiras. Santos, which has lost four of its last five games, moved back into relegation zone after the loss.

In the late matches, two-time defending champion Cruzeiro was held to a 1-1 draw by Avai at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, remaining 12th in the standings, while lastplace Joinville drew Ponte Preta 1-1 in Joinville.

In front of more than 50,000 fans at the Maracana on Saturday, Peru striker Paolo Guerrero scored the winning goal in Flamengo’s 1-0 win over fifth-place Gremio, a result that moved the popular Brazilian club farther from relegation zone. (ap)

LOS ANGELES - Barcelona coach Luis Enrique would rather the team did not have to fly off on longdistance tours before the regular season but understands they are important for the club’s marketing strategy.

Luis Enrique and his squad, missing resting Copa America participants like forwards Lionel Messi and Neymar, arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday and play their opening International Champions Cup game against MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy in Pasadena on Tuesday.

“Honestly I prefer not to go on tours,” Luis Enrique told a news conference at the team’s hotel. “It’s nice to come but there are aspects that are uncomfortable, for example the jet lag,” the former Barca and Spain midfielder added.

“But the club has commitments and the competition is interesting.

You could do the same in Europe but we have to accept it.” After taking on the LA Galaxy, the Spanish and European champions meet English Premier League sides Manchester United in Santa Clara on Saturday and Chelsea

in Landover on July 28.

They then return to Europe to play Serie A club Fiorentina in Florence on Aug. 2. Luis Enrique, who led Barca to a treble of Champions League and Spanish league and Cup titles in his debut season, defended Barca’s decision to allow the likes of Messi and Neymar to miss the tour, despite pressure from sponsors.

“The players need holidays and we are not going to change that for commitments like a tour,” he said. “Everyone wants to see the top players but they need to rest, which is vital. “It’s normal that they want to get close to Messi, (Javier) Mascherano, Neymar, (Dani) Alves, (Claudio) Bravo... but rest takes priority.”

Barca’s first official match of the 2015-16 season is the European Super Cup against Europa League winners and La Liga rivals Sevilla on Aug. 11.

They then play Athletic Bilbao over two legs for the Spanish Super Cup before they get their bid for a sixth La Liga title in eight years underway against the Basque club on the weekend of Aug. 22-23. (rtr)

Barca’s Luis Enrique bemoans long haul to play ball

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

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FIFA to decide on election date; Platini gains support

ZURICH — FIFA executives were meeting Monday to choose a presidential election date, with UEFA President Michel Platini gaining support to succeed Sepp Blatter.

Platini has been asked to run by the majority of FIFA’s confederations but has not yet decided whether to be a candidate, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because Platini is not discussing his plans in public. FIFA’s 209 members, rather than the six confederation leaders, vote on the FIFA president.

Discussing FIFA in an interview with the latest edition of “World Soccer” magazine, Platini said: “As for the future ... I do know, but I can’t tell you.”

Platini decided not to run in the May presidential election when Blatter beat Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al-Hussein. Platini sup-

ported the prince’s campaign but could not deliver all 53 European votes. Four days after winning a fifth term, Blatter announced plans to quit under the weight of criminal investigations into FIFA corruption.

December is the earliest possible date for a new election, but that could clash with the Club World Cup in Japan. An early 2016 election seems more likely, with the FIFA hierarchy and media already coming to Zurich for the Ballon d’Or ceremony on Jan. 11.

Prince Ali broke more than a month of silence on Monday to tell The Associated Press that a December election would not provide enough time for the “meaningful change in the leadership of FIFA that we so desperately need.” The prince, who advocates a March election but provided no indication of his own presidential ambitions, wants a leader

from outside the sport to oversee the next election and reforms of scandal-scarred FIFA — with Blatter out immediately.

Prince Ali believes that Blatter “cannot be permitted to plan his succession and manage this election process.” “President Blatter’s resignation cannot be dragged out any longer. He must leave now,” Prince Ali, a vice president for four years until May, said in a statement to the AP. “An interim independent leadership must be appointed to administer the process of the elections, in addition to the reforms that are being discussed prior to the elections,” he added.

Prince Ali joined longtime World Cup sponsor Coca-Cola and former FIFA advisers Transparency International in calling to exclude a man who presided over a scandal-hit organization from the process of shaping its future. (ap)

KALININGRAD - The scene looks more like a building project for the 2022 Qatar World Cup rather than Russia’s 2018 finals, with a flat sandy landscape stretching out to the far horizon.

While construction work has

yet to start on the delayed Baltika Arena stadium in Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave, at least the land on which it is to be built has been made stable with 4.5 million tonnes of sand imported from quarries around Russia. The project on Oktyabrskiy Island, by

the Pregolya River, appears out of synch with the rest of Russia’s preparations for the World Cup. Building work on the remainder of the 12 venues due to stage matches in 11 cities is either complete or well under way but not in Kaliningrad, bordered by Poland

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine Livepic

UEFA president Michel Platini in the stands

Kaliningrad’s ‘desert’ stadium will be ready, says city boss and Lithuania and with no land connection to the rest of Russia.

Alexander Rolbinov, deputy governor of the Kaliningrad regional government, agreed appearances were disconcerting.

“You’re right, it does look more like Qatar than Russia, it does not look like a normal place here, but we had to bring in the sand to make the earth secure because we are building it on an island in the middle of a river and the earth was very unstable,” he told reporters on a tour of World Cup venues.

“The sand was all delivered by last October, and although the ground is now safe to take the weight stresses of the stadium, the stadium itself was re-designed as a smaller 35,000 seater stadium, losing 10,000 seats from the original design -- and also losing the planned retractable roof.”

DESOLATE LANDSCAPE

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

The model of a new Kaliningrad stadium, which is expected to host the 2018 World Cup matches, is on display, with the construction site seen in the background in the Baltic Sea port of Kaliningrad, Russia, July 18, 2015. Kaliningrad is one of the Russian cities, which will host the 2018 World Cup.

Rolbinov said he was not worried about the pace of progress.

“Because the stadium is smaller, and there will be no roof, it will take less time to build and we are in no doubt it will be finished on schedule by the end of 2017. We are absolutely confident of that,” he said.

Kaliningrad, once German and with a rich and varied heritage, is 1,200km from Moscow and due to benefit from the World

Cup with a renovated airport, new roads and the opening up of border posts. The stadium will probably become home to Baltika FC, currently in the Russian second division, and will also be a cultural and social centre built on the only available land close to the city centre.

“That was at the heart of the problem,” said Rolbinov. “We wanted the new stadium in the heart of the city, not far out of town, and this was the only available site. But we have overcome the problems and the dream will soon be a reality.” After the final prepatory ground tests, work is due to start on the stadium at the end of July.

Contractor Crocus Group are confident the project will be finished on time even though it had to redesign the stadium after the original building firm Mostovik, which built venues for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, was declared bankrupt.

“We were asked to create a new concept, as the original was very expensive,” said Crocus Group President Aras Agalarov. “We removed the retractable roof which was originally planned and got rid off unnecessary spaces.

Agalarov said the stadium construction would cost around 17.5 billion roubles ($307.36 million) despite the expensive ground works to combat the high water table and the weaker rouble, hit by Russia’s economic downturn. (rtr)

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In this image made available by the World Surf League, Australian surfer Mick Flanning is pursued by a shark, in Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa, Sunday, July 19, 2015. Knocked off his board by an attacking shark, a surfer punched the creature during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa before escaping. Fanning was attacked by a shark on Sunday during the JBay Open but escaped without injuries.

Gunung Kawi GIANYAR - Gunung Kawi is a Hindu Temple complex with old omission from the stone era located in Gianyar regency.

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Gunung Kawi Temple in Keliki countryside and Gunung Kawi Temple in Babitra countryside.

The ancient omission complex of Gunung Kawi is founded on 10th Century. It is founded in the era of Udayana about 989 M. At the period of Marakata governance on 1023, the omission which is called Katyagan Amarawati is developed and continued

by the governance of Anak Wungsu which is guess lead between the years of 1049 - 1077 M. Temple complex is consisted of 2 consecutions. The consecution in eastside Pakerisan River is consisted of 5 units and the consecution at west side of river is 5 units, in the north is 4 units and 1 unit is located far in south side separate from the others.

The Ducati MotoGP team has lost a little confidence over recent grands prix, admits its general manager Gigi Dall’Igna. Still attempting to end a win drought stretching back to the 2010 Australian GP, Ducati started 2015 strongly and had at least one rider on the podium in five of the first six races.

But since Andrea Iannone’s runner-up spot at Mugello at the end of May, the Italian team has drifted away from Honda and Yamaha. “I’d say that up to Mugello it was extremely positive, then there have been a few more problems that have not allowed us to get the results we had hoped for in the latter races, and a bit of confidence and feeling inside the garage has gone missing,” Dall’Igna told Gazzetta dello Sport.

“But the balance is satisfactory. We have a rider in third place in the championship and we have scored several podiums.” Asked if he was worried by the decline in confidence, Dall’Igna replied: “Absolutely not. It’s clear that when you believe you can reach certain results and then you don’t, you are not happy, you see things less positively.”

He denied that Ducati benefited from the likes of Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo having problems and Dani Pedrosa missing several races after arm surgery. “I don’t think [the podiums] came from particularly favourable circumstances,” said Dall’Igna.

“OK, Pedrosa wasn’t around, but besides positions, our gap to the leader was small. That means that the rider-bike package was competitive.

“At Austin, Marquez dominated, but [Andrea] Dovizioso finished a little more than two seconds behind; in Argentina Marc crashed, but we stayed with [Valentino] Rossi for almost the entire race.”(net)

3-time world champ fights off shark during South Africa comp

JOHANNESBURG — Knocked off his board by an attacking shark, three-time world champion Mick Fanning punched the creature before escaping unharmed during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa on Sunday. The Australian surfer was struck by the shark from behind and knocked into the water as he sat on his board waiting his turn during the JBay Open in Jeffrey’s Bay in the Eastern Cape Province.

As he scans the water, two fins appear and with a splash he disappears under the surface. He is next seen furiously trying to swim to safety before a rescuer pulls him out of the water. “A big sigh of relief seeing Fanning in one piece,” a commentator is heard saying, on the video of the event posted on the World Surf League website.

“I felt something grab, get stuck in my leg rope and instantly jump away. And it just kept coming at my board,” Fanning said, once safe on the rescue boat. Fanning said at first he swam away but then decided to defend himself and turned to punch the shark in the back.

“I saw it taking my board away

and I just started cracking it,” he told a crowd that gathered around him once he was back on shore, referring to how he struck the shark.

“I’m totally fine. I’ve got nothing wrong with me,” Fanning said in an interview. “There’s a small depression in my board and my leg wrap (was) bitten. I’m just totally tripping out. To walk away from that, I’m just so stoked. Oh man.”

Fanning’s mother, Elizabeth Osborne, who watched the incident live on television in Australia, wept as she told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio the attack was “the worst thing I’ve ever seen happen to any of my family because it was just there in front of me.”

“It was absolutely terrifying. I actually got up and walked across to the television because I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing and I thought we lost him,” she said in an ABC TV interview. “I went over to the television almost as though I could pull him out of the television. I just wanted to save him really, but there was nothing I could do.” Osborne said she believes Fanning’s brother Sean, who died in a car accident 17 years ago, was watching over his sibling.

Surfing great Kelly Slater said he was coming up the beach when he saw all the boats and skis heading toward the surfers. “I knew there was only one possible reason that would ever happen in a contest and that’s if someone got attacked by a shark,” Slater was quoted as saying. “I’m halfway between crying and laughing because he got so lucky. I’m lost for words to be honest.”(ap)

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Davis Cup: Argentina finishes with 4-1 win over Serbia BUENOS AIRES — Dusan Lajovic beat Diego Schwartzman 6-1, 6-4 to help Serbia avoid a clean sweep to Argentina in the Davis Cup quarterfinals on Sunday. Argentina wrapped up a spot in the semifinals by winning the doubles match on Saturday, and a day earlier it had won both singles matches in the clay-court tie at home.

In the second singles on Sun-

day, Serbia’s Filip Krajinovic retired while trailing 6-1, 3-0 to Argentina’s Carlos Berlocq.

Argentina is trying to win its first Davis Cup title. It has made it to the semifinals in eight of the last 10 years, but in 2014 it was knocked out in the first round.

Serbia, without top-ranked Novak Djokovic, was trying to reach the semis for the first time since 2013.(ap)

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FILE - In this June 10, 2015 file photo, members of the media cover workers from Eastern Shores Flagpoles raising a flagpole at the Cuban Interest Section in Washington in preparation for re-opening of embassies in Havana and Washington.

5 decades later, US-Cuba diplomatic ties restored

WASHINGTON — The United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations Monday after more than five decades of frosty relations rooted in the Cold War. The new era began with little fanfare when an agreement between the two nations to resume normal ties on July 20 came into force just after midnight Sunday and the diplomatic missions of each country were upgraded from interests sections to embassies.

When clocks struck 12:00 in Washington and Havana, they tolled a knell for policy approaches spawned and hardened over the five decades since President John F. Kennedy first tangled with youthful revolutionary Fidel Castro over Soviet expansion in the Americas.

Without ceremony in the predawn hours, maintenance hung the Cuban flag in the lobby of the State Department alongside those of other nations with which the U.S. has diplomatic relations. The historic shift will be publicly memorialized later Monday when Cuban officials formally inaugurate their embassy in Washington and Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag will fly for the first time since the countries severed ties in 1961. Secretary of State John Kerry will then meet his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez, and address reporters at a joint news conference.

The U.S. Interests Section in Havana plans to announce its upgrade to embassy status in a written statement on Monday, but the Stars and Stripes

will not fly at the mission until Kerry visits in August for a ceremonial flag-raising.

And yet, though normalization has taken center stage in the U.S.Cuba relationship, there remains a deep ideological gulf between the nations and many issues still to resolve. Among them: thorny disputes such as over mutual claims for economic reparations, Havana’s insistence on the end of the 53year-old trade embargo and U.S. calls for Cuba to improve on human rights and democracy. Some U.S. lawmakers, including several prominent Republican presidential candidates, have vowed not to repeal the embargo and pledged to roll back Obama’s moves on Cuba.

Still, Monday’s events cap a remarkable change of course in U.S. policy toward the communist island under President Barack Obama, who had sought rapprochement with Cuba since he first took office and has progressively loosened restrictions on travel and remittances to the island.

Obama’s efforts at engagement were frustrated for years by Cuba’s imprisonment of U.S. Agency for International Development contractor Alan Gross on espionage charges.

But months of secret negotiations led in December to Gross’s release, along with a number of political prisoners

in Cuba and the remaining members of a Cuban spy ring jailed in the United States. On Dec. 17, Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced they would resume full diplomatic relations.

Declaring the longstanding policy a failure that had not achieved any of its intended results, Obama declared that the U.S. could not keep doing the same thing and expect a change.

Thus, he said work would begin apace on normalization.

That process dragged on until the U.S. removed Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in late May and then bogged down over issues of U.S. diplomats’ access to ordinary Cubans.

On July 1, however, the issues were resolved and the U.S. and Cuba exchanged diplomatic notes agreeing that the date for the restoration of full relations would be July 20. “It’s a historic moment,” said longtime Cuban diplomat and analyst Carlos Alzugaray.

“The significance of opening the embassies is that trust and respect that you can see, both sides treating the other with trust and respect,” he said.

“That doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be conflicts — there are bound to be conflicts — but the way that you treat the conflict has completely changed.” (ap)

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Russian scientists squeezed by sanctions, Kremlin policies NOVOSIBIRSK — Artur Bilsky’s Institute of Thermophysics recently sought to buy equipment from a Japanese company that was a routine purchase a few years ago.

The request was turned down “categorically,” said Bilsky, a researcher at the institute.

Hundreds of other Russian scientists are reporting similar experiences of being refused sale of scientific equipment from abroad, or seeing research papers curtly turned down

by Western publications. The reason, they believe, is a combination of sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine and rising hostility to Russia in the West seeping into the scientific community.

Since Russia annexed Crimea last year, it has become almost impossible for scientists in Russia to buy anything in the United States or Japan that has a dual purpose, said physicist Alexander Shilov, who works in the Institute of Laser Physics in Russia’s scientific hub of Akademgorodok, or Academy Town — part of Russia’s third-largest city of Novosibirsk.

“Due to the sanctions” or “the conflict in Ukraine” are the most common explanations Shilov hears for refusing orders from Russia. “When they sell a piece of glass, how do they know whether we will use it in a military laser or a medical one?” he said.

The U.S. and EU sanctions were designed to halt exports to the Russian defense sector. When announcing a new round of sanctions in July 2014, the European Union noted specifically that they “should not affect the exports of dual-use goods and technology” to Russia for “non-military use.” In reality, many Western companies were so spooked by the sanctions and the penalties they could face for violating them that the door was shut completely, the scientists say.

An American scholar who works with Russian universities — and asked to be unnamed because he was not authorized to speak on his university’s behalf — confirmed that his Russian counterparts are having difficulties with Western companies. In some cases, he said, companies are saying they fear that the equipment might get slapped with sanctions while it is being delivered, or that they no longer have support staff in Russia to service it.

What’s more, foreign-made equipment is now less affordable for Russian scientists because of the depreciation in the Russian ruble, which lost nearly half of its value since the Crimean annexation.

The scientists’ plight has been compounded by the Kremlin’s own crackdown on Russian private funding of science, stemming from suspicions of Western influence. The government this year labeled the Dynasty foundation, Russia’s largest source of private funding for science, a “foreign agent” — which makes the group vulnerable to an array of surprise checks and audits. It is a Cold War term that carries connotations of spying. The foundation fell afoul of the officialdom because its Russian founder funds the organization from money transferred from his foreign bank accounts.

“If Dynasty was named a foreign agent, then everyone who had contracts with Dynasty is an accomplice of a foreign agent,” said Shilov. “We are all spies now.”

The government has become increasingly suspicious of foreign-funded non-governmental organizations, seeing them as potential agents of a hostile West. Russia has brushed off the sanctions imposed by the United States and European Union, saying that Russia has plenty of resources to replace banned imports with its own production. (ap)

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In this Monday, June 8, 2015 photo, scientist Anatoly Bonert tends to a magnesium atomic clock in Novosibirsk, Russia.

Hundreds of Russian scientists are reporting experiences of being refused sale of scientific equipment from abroad, or seeing research papers turned down by Western publications.

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Muslims should not be provoked

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Mosque Managers’ Forum (Fahmi Tamami) Rhoma Irama appealed to all Muslims in Indonesia to not be provoked by the incident that occurred on Friday in Tolikara, Papua. “I call on all Muslims to not be provoked by the incident in Tolikara,” Irama affirmed on Monday.

According to Irama, the Islamic doctrine teaches both tolerance and respect for other religions to create unity.

In the context of the nation, he emphasized that all people should be able to realize and maintain religious harmony without making distinctions with regard to culture, language, and religion.

“Therefore, Muslims and Christians should not be provoked in a bid to maintain religious harmony,” Irama stated.

In connection with the Tolikara incident, he also urged the government to stringently enforce the laws.

“The Tolikara incident must be handled properly, so that religious harmony can be maintained,” he remarked.

Furthermore, he urged the government to provide relief to the victims and rebuild the mosque that had been burnt down.

Earlier, a spokesman for the XVIII/Cendrawasih Regional

Military Command that oversees Papua noted here on Saturday that reports on a house of prayer being burnt down in Tolikara district on Friday were untrue.

“Based on the results of the meeting initiated by the chiefs of the Cendrawasih Regional Military Command and the Papua Regional Police Command in Tolikara on Saturday morning, it was learnt that no mushola (Islamic house of prayer) had been burnt down by the local people,”

Lieutenant Colonel Teguh P. R., the spokesman, stated here on Saturday evening.

He added that the statement was issued to clarify rumors that had been spreading in the community and on social media platforms, as well as news reports that a mushola had been set on fire.

“Reports on a mushola being burnt down are not true. After the regional military commander and the regional police chief inspected the scene, it was found that the fire first burnt down kiosks before spreading to a mushola,” Teguh explained.

“Regional Military Commander Major General Fransen G. Siahaan

has expressed readiness to help enforce the law after accurate data is collected,” he pointed out.

He further noted that the commander was committed to handling the case in an expeditious and integrated manner.

“The TNI (military), along with the police and other national institutions, including the affected Muslims and members of GIDI (Evangelical Church in Indonesia), will rebuild the mushola, kiosks, and homes that were burnt down. The regional military commander will also help gather used clothes and food and deliver them to the location by helicopter,” Teguh affirmed. (ant)

Infrastructure promises derailed by bureaucrats JAKARTA - Investors hoping for President Joko Widodo to speed work on Indonesia’s infrastructure projects have been disappointed, with a plan for a $2-billion airport railway line in the capital spotlighting the delays and bureaucratic infighting involved.

Nearly half the 10 projects to which Widodo gave priority when he took office last year are languishing for lack of cooperation among ministries he has been unable to whip into line.

“Somebody has to coordinate the orchestra of stakeholders,” said Emma Sri Martini, head of government-owned infrastructure finance firm Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI). “If decisions for infrastructure are slow, there won’t be activity in any sector.”

Widodo is racing against time to create sufficient jobs for the 2 million Indonesians who enter the workforce annually, as he struggles to revive economic growth that has fallen to the weakest pace in around six years.

His promised splurge on roads, ports and power plants is critical as Indonesia’s traditional engines of growth, consumption and commodity exports, are faltering, while businesses are shedding jobs fast.

When governor of Jakarta, Widodo had managed to break an almost decade-long impasse over construction of a ring road around the Indonesian capital, and investors had hoped to see him, as president, repeat the feat on the national level.

Nine months into his tenure, the

signs are not encouraging.

The airport railway line, designed to cut the travel time to one of the world’s busiest airports to 30 minutes from as much as three hours, has suffered a delay of at least two years in construction.

Officials have locked horns over its route and how to fund it, but in the absence of significant government support, it hardly offers private investors a worthwhile return.

“The project is indeed taking quite a long time because of the preparation for all the studies,” said transport ministry official Sugiadi Waluyo.

Just last month, for example, newspaper Bisnis Indonesia reported that Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan had sought a route change to take advantage of existing tracks.

But all the authorities involved must sign off on the change, leading to a delay, SMI’s Martini said. “A single decision might seem simple, but the consequence can be a delay multiplier.”

The route must be hammered out before potential investors from countries such as China, Japan and South Korea will take even the first step, she added.

As the government weighs the merits of one-off or deferred funding for the railway project, it expects private bidders to get returns chiefly from future traffic volumes and fares.

“There’s potentially a lot of appetite for the airport train project, but the main question for inves-

tors and lenders is, ‘How do you make money out of it?’” said Mark Giblett, group head of Asia project finance for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.

Widodo must act fast, as Indonesia risks falling behind neighbours who are aggressively building in-

frastructure.

Indonesia’s cost of moving goods was as much as 27 percent of gross domestic product in 2013, outstripping Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, a study backed by the World Bank showed.

Investors are eager for Widodo to

speed things up.

“The biggest thing that Jokowi thought he could do, and that he realized that he cannot do, is coordinate all his ministries,” said OCBC Bank economist Wellian Wiranto, referring to the president by his nickname. (rtr)

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Construction workers are seen on the site of the new Terminal 3 at Soekarno-Hatta International airport near Jakarta, Indonesia July 8, 2015. Investors hoping for President Joko Widodo to speed work on Indonesia’s infrastructure projects have been disappointed, with a plan for a $2-billion airport railway line in the capital spotlighting the delays and bureaucratic infighting involved.

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Buleleng Harbor located in the northern Bali. Precisely on the centre of Singaraja, the capital of the Regency of Buleleng. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a legacy of its since the advent of Dutch colonization era.

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Sanggah cucuk is the triangle shaped sanggah made from bamboo. It has the meaning as “pemucuk” or the start of human life. It also the symbol of self purifying so it is placed many offerings. Sanggah cucuk usually present during “mecaru” and other holy day of the Hindu. During Galungan, Sanggah Cukcuk is placed next to the penjor.

Suvery: US companies less optimistic about future sales WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses’ outlook on sales in the coming months has darkened after sales growth slowed in the second quarter, according to a survey released Monday.

More companies also expect to cut back on their investment in equipment and buildings in the JulySeptember quarter, the survey found. However, hiring and wage and salary increases are likely to continue at about the same pace in the third quarter as they did in the previous three months. The overall survey results, compiled by the National Association for Business Economics, portray an economy muddling along at a steady, if tepid, pace.

Fifty-nine percent of businesses expect their sales to grow in the next three months, down from the 71 percent who forecast sales growth three months ago from the 68 percent who projected growth in January.

The relatively pessimistic outlook may reflect that sales growth was not nearly as widespread in the second quarter as many companies hoped.

Just 46 percent of firms said their sales rose in the April-June quarter, down from 49 percent in the first quarter and 54 percent in the final three months of last year. And 18 percent said sales fell, the most in more than a year.

The NABE’s survey is based on responses from 112 member companies, about half of whom have more than 1,000 employees. The survey was conducted from June 17 to July 1.

The survey results echo recent data that suggest growth in the second quarter will be slower than many analysts had hoped earlier this year. Americans cut back their spending at stores and restaurants in June, even though hiring has been steady this year and there are signs wage growth may be picking up.

Analysts at JPMorgan Chase now forecast the economy will expand just 2.2 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter, down from a previous estimate of 2.5 percent.

Weaker sales are likely a reason some firms are spending less on large equipment. Twelve percent of companies reduced their capital spending in the second quarter, roughly double the total in each of the previous four quarters.

Much of that cutback occurred in manufacturing, the survey found, where companies have been hit by a strong dollar. The dollar has risen about 14 percent in the past year against a basket of currencies. That makes U.S. goods more expensive overseas.

Thirty-eight percent of companies said the dollar’s strength has hurt their businesses. The impact has been more dramatic for manufacturers: 69 percent of the companies in that sector said it has had a negative effect. Only 20 percent of services firms said they were hurt by the strong dollar.

Meanwhile, businesses are largely split on the impact of an eventual increase in the short-term interest rate controlled by the Federal Reserve. Thirty-seven percent think it will have a negative effect on their business, while 25 percent think it will help. Thirtyeight percent said it won’t have any impact.

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has said the Fed may start to raise rates sometime this year if the economy continues to improve. (ap)

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Buleleng Harbor from Bali’s gateway to a recreation spot

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Customers wait to be served inside an Alpha Bank branch in Athens, Monday, July 20, 2015. Greek banks reopen on Monday morning, but many restrictions on transactions, including cash withdrawals, will remain. Also, many goods and services will become more expensive as a result of a rise in Value Added Tax approved by Parliament last Thursday, among the first batch of austerity measures demanded by Greece’s creditors.

Banks reopen in Greece after threeweek shutdown ATHENS - Greek banks reopened Monday after a three-week shutdown imposed by the government to avert a crash in the banking system over the country’s debt crisis.

Capital controls in force since June 29 remain in place, although a daily cash withdrawal limit of 60 euros ($65.03) has now been relaxed.

Louka Katseli, the head of Greece’s bank association, said Greeks would now be able to withdraw a maximum of 300 euros at one go until Friday, when a new weekly limit of 420 euros will come in force.

She also urged Greeks to bring their savings back to the banks.

“If we take out the money from our safes and our houses -- where, in any case, it isn’t safe -- and we deposit it in the banks, we will reinforce liquidity,” she told the Mega TV channel.

Some 40 billion euros have been withdrawn from Greek banks since December, she noted, seriously damaging their ability to function normally.

But for two customers waiting outside a branch of Alphabank in central Athens, there were more immediate concerns.

Maria had come to settle an electricity bill she had been unable to pay during the bank closure, while Grigoris, a 76-yearold pensioner, was seeking to withdraw the new maximum cash allowance for the week.

He was disappointed that the new 420-euro limit will not come in place until the weekend.

“I’ve been told I’ll have to wait until

Friday to take out that sum,” he said.

Greeks will also now be able to start using their credit cards for foreign purchases again.

Some exceptions to the capital controls have also been introduced, including a move to allow bank transfers of up to 5,000 euros per quarter to young Greeks studying abroad, while Greeks receiving medical care in other countries will be able to take out 2,000 euros a day.

But for most Greeks, the capital controls remain in place: they cannot transfer money abroad, take out large sums, or open new bank accounts.

The measures have cost the Greek economy some three billion euros, according to the centre-right Kathimerini newspaper, not least due to lost income from the country’s crucial tourism sector. (afp)

SINGARAJA - Buleleng Harbor located in the northern Bali. Precisely on the centre of Singaraja, the capital of the Regency of Buleleng. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a legacy of its since the advent of Dutch colonization era.

It was an entry point to come to Bali by sea, both for tourism and commercial purposes. A flock of tourists arrived in Bali via this seaport. From here, they travelled to the south where most of tourist facilities and tourist attractions were located. They generally went via Kintamani, where there was rest house perched on a hill looking a view of Mount of Batur, Lake Batur and surroundings of which their enjoyed.

Bali Hotel which is still operating up to know, was a popular one and might be the only hotel in Bali to accommodate overseas tourists as well travelers, particularly the Dutch. They travelled to Bali from respective countries by ocean-crossing vessels which operated by big shipping companies such the Dutch-owned “KPM” (Koninklijke Paketvaart Msatschpiii).

Due to relatively shallow water of the harbor, a wooden jetty was built jutted out into the sea to facilitating the passengers of the vessel and other cargos such live-stocks and other merchandizes. All these passengers and other cargos were transported by tug-boats from the vessel to the beach vice versa.

After the independence, the role of Dutch gradually diminishing so was the

role of Buleleng Harbor as the important gateway for Bali. The division of the Province of Sunda Kecil (the Province of Lesses Island) around the year of 1959 into three provinces namely the Province of Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara. Denpasar was adopted as the new capital of the Province of Bali and also gradually but surely all government of the former Sunda Kecil Province offices moved to Denpasar.

Singaraja lost its rule as the prominent town of the province. Later, the opening of Ngurah Rai International Airport in the south, on Tuban area, in the Regency of Badung, also make Singaraja role as important city in Bali diminished. This changing situation also made Buleleng Harbor hardly survive as a sea port.

The Regency of Buleleng’s administration took a bold step by transforming the ex-harbor into a new recreation area where residents of Singaraja and surroundings able to relax, enjoying sea breeze, and marveling to several tourist attractions close-by. The imposing statue depicting a fighting hero on top of a tower tells a historical event of when an independent fighter was killed by a salvo canon from the Dutch’s navy boat. To honor the bravery of the hero, a

statue was erected on the spot where the fighter was killed in the form of a fighter is pointing to the sea where the Dutch warship was anchoring.

The sharp tip bamboo as a weapon of the fighter symbolizing the brave spirit of the fighter against the well-armed of Dutch’s military power in fighting for the independent of Indonesia. The statue stands on a towering concrete pedestal.

Nearby, a Chinese temple, painted in striking golden colors is worth visiting.

An arched old bridge stands side by side with a new built one is the symbol of new and old to remind people that we should not forget what has gone-by and would not forget the past or history.

Several restaurants erected on concrete stilts which formerly was the wooden jetty. Not far away the dilapidated store-houses were demolished and one of it has been converted into more modern buildings, named “IMACO” (International Mask, Art and Culture Organization) building. Previously, in that building, Buleleng Regency’s Administration was host an international scaled event. The building is now generally used for exhibition, meeting, conference, and other events.

The ex-Buleleng harbor is now managed by special committee set-up by the Buleleng Regency’s Administration. An admission fee is imposed for those who wishing to enjoy the harbor as a recreation spot. (Nyoman Suwela)

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Yukio Okamoto, Outside Board Member of Mitsubishi Materials and former Special Advisor to Japan’s Prime Minister, left, and Hikaru Kimura, Senior Executive Officer Mitsubishi Materials, offer an apology as they hold hands with 94-year-old U.S. prisoner of war, James Murphy, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, Sunday, July 19, 2015.

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The “Mekorot” tradition in Buleleng

BULELENG - Strong winds hitting Buleleng lately does not only cause a number of fallen trees. In fact, this condition is also taken advantage by students or young people in Northern Bali for flying kites. The season of strong winds coinciding with school holidays is automatically used to fill in their holiday. Kite hobbyists are not just filling in holidays, but this moment is taken advantage for fair competition through mekorot or slicing through competition. It is deliberately organized by the Association of Buleleng Kite Sport (PORLAB).

From noon until late afternoon, the Singaraja City Park Square on Jalan Ngurah Rai Singaraja looked so crowded by a number of children and adults. They brought the equipment such as rope and a few sheets of kite paper. Enthusiastically with high sportsmanship, the children seemed vivacious to fly their kites.

Flying kites looked to writhe after the owners tried to pull the string. Graced with cheering of par-

ticipants, the atmosphere became boisterous. Peak of the attraction occurred when the two kites’ string got in touch or commonly called slicing through (mekorot). It was getting more boisterous. Although the atmosphere was so tense, all the kite hobbyists kept showing off the attitude of friendship and no grudge or emotion was visible.

Two of the participants, Kadek Yoda and Putu Kajeng said that implementation of the slicing through

competition poses a medium to channel their hobby in flying kites when entering the season of strong winds. No wonder both admitted that they never miss the moment. To them, the kites are much in demand among children in Buleleng and unlike the kites in southern Bali.

Typical kites of Buleleng have smaller size and are made of paper.

After that, the kite flyers do not just fly it, but after flying they contest them or so-called slice through.

With the peculiarities of playing the kites, Yoda and Kajeng hoped the game can still be preserved and held more frequently by PORLAB. “I am a kite hobbyist and prefer to get involved in slicing through.

If there is no competition like this, I usually do this at home with fellow hobbyists. It becomes a typical

game of Buleleng. Hopefully, it remains sustainable with such an event or the like,” he said.

In the meantime, Chairman of the PORLAB, Rudi Hartono, when met on the sidelines of the competition on Sunday (Jul. 19) said that it was deliberately held to fill in school holidays this year. In addition, this competition is also meant to enliven the celebration of the anniversary of the Independence Day of the Republic of Indonesia 2015 in Buleleng. More importantly, this competition is made into a moment to improve the relationship among the kite hobbyists in Buleleng.

“Competition of this time can draw 104 participants,” he said.

According to this former Spokesman of PDAM Buleleng, as the agreement made the committee

imposes a knockout system in the competition. Since there are many participants, the competition is held up to August 12, 2015. The competition is held every day from eleven o’clock in the morning to four o’clock in the afternoon.

Each winner will receive an award plaque and a cash of coaching fund. The first winner is entitled to get a plaque and coaching fund worth IDR 750,000; second winner (a plaque and cash worth IDR 500,000); and third winner (a plaque and coaching fund worth IDR 400,000).

“We are preparing the prizes for encouragement and motivation so that the kite tradition can remain sustainable because it is different from that of other regions,” he added. (mud)

Slum, rest area of Rambutsiwi refurbished

NEGARA - Rest area of Rambutsiwi at Yehembang Kangin village, Mendoyo subdistrict, built by the government of Bali Province seems dormant and rundown.

Moreover, this area is often used as an immoral site.

To eliminate the slum impression of the rest area, now it is refurbished and cleaned up. On Friday night (Jul. 17), in the rest area was performed a creativity and cul-

tural show in the form of Calonarang arja operetta by Mandala Suci Foundation from Penebel, Tabanan.

Headman of Yehembang Kangin, Mendoyo subdistrict, I Gede Suardika, said on Sunday (Jul. 19) that the activity is carried out to disseminate the utilization of Rambutsiwi rest area as a place of recreation for general public and the community of Yehembang Kangin in

particular. Besides, it is also meant to eliminate the slum impression of the rest area because some buildings cannot be functioned pursuant to its designation as well to enliven the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan.

Suardika hoped that the rest area can be utilized maximally in the future and find a solution as a place of recreation and convenient stopover for highway users.

“Later on, we at the village will also find solutions for the buildings in the rest area so that they can be taken advantage by local community. Mutual assistance activity to clean up the area will be carried out on regular basis,” he said.

In addition, the pond in the rest area, he said, will be stocked with fish so that it can be used as a fishing ground by the public. (kmb)

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Italy: 4 Italians kidnapped in Libya near Eni complex

ROME — Four Italian construction workers have been kidnapped in Libya near an industrial complex owned by the Italian energy giant Eni in the western city of Mellitah, Italy’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. A ministry statement said the four were employees of the Bonatti construction company.

The kidnapping occurred Sunday evening and family members had been informed overnight, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said in Brussels, adding that intelligence agents were working to get more information on the circumstances of the kidnapping.

The ministry noted it had closed its embassy in Libya on Feb. 15 and urged Italians to leave the North African nation because of the dangers. Many Italians work in oil, gas and construction

sectors in Libya, which was an Italian colony for much of the first half of the 1900s.

Libya has slid into chaos since the 2011 overthrow and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. It is now bitterly divided between an elected parliament and government cornered in the country’s east, with little power on the ground, and an Islamist militia-backed government in the west that has seized the capital of Tripoli.

Foreigners are often taken hostage in Libya, either for ransom and of because of their Christian faith.

Some, like 10 Tunisian diplomats seized by gunmen from government-linked militias last month, were freed after demands were met. Last month, an Italian doctor kidnapped in January was also freed.(ap)

70 years after WWII, Japanese company apologizes to US POWs LOS ANGELES — He was forced to toil in enemy mines as a prisoner of war, but James Murphy wasn’t angry or bitter. He was just happy to have lived long enough to hear the Japanese apology he had sought for seven decades.

Murphy, a POW during World War II and now 94 years old, accepted an unprecedented apology from Mitsubishi Materials Corp. on Sunday on behalf of his fellow POWs, few of whom remain alive, in a ceremony that was both solemn and joyful.

“This is a glorious day,” said Murphy, who stood tall and slender in a gray suit at the ceremony and looked much younger than his 94 years. “For 70 years, we wanted this.”

Saying they felt a “deep sense of ethical responsibility for a past tragedy,” Mitsubishis executives presented the apology privately then publicly to Murphy, of Santa Maria, California, at the Museum of Tolerance at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

Hikaru Kimura, senior executive officer for Mitsubishi, said through a translator that the company of-

fered a “most remorseful apology” to the about 900 POWs who suffered “harsh, severe hardships” while forced to work in Mitsubishi mines and industrial plants.

Murphy, who worked in Mitsubishi’s copper mines in the war, called the apology sincere, humble and revealing.

He stood and shook hands with Kimura and others as cameras clicked throughout the dimly lit museum theater, with giant American and Japanese flags projected sideby-side behind them. Other POWs subjected sat in the audience along with many members of Murphy’s family.

Stanley Gibson, whose late father worked alongside Murphy in the mines, overcame his fear of flight to come from Scotland to Los Angeles for the ceremony to represent his family after hearing about it in news reports just a few days

earlier. On the stage was a photo of the two men being liberated from their captors. “Considering what my father went through it was the least I could do,” Gibson said.

The Japanese government has twice apologized to U.S. POWs used as forced laborers during World War II. But Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean at the center whose primary focus in the past has been Holocaust education, said he and the event’s other organizers believe the apology is unprecedented from a major Japanese company.

Cooper, Murphy and others who spoke urged more Japanese companies to come forward to express their own remorse.

The ceremony was preceded by a private apology that ended with a long, deep bow from the Mitsubishi representatives. “I entered the room with a heavy heart, seeking forgiveness,” said Yukio Okamoto, outside board member for Mitsubishi.

Murphy said that after 70 years it was “the first time we’ve heard those words. They touch the heart.”(ap)

AP Photo/Marco Vasini

The Bonatti construction company headquarters complex is seen in Parma, Italy, Monday, July 20, 2015.

Heavy storms in Poland kill 1 person, damage 800 homes

WARSAW — People in Poland are cleaning up after massive storms that killed one person, injured 17, left thousands without electricity and damaged about 800 homes.

The clean-up efforts on Monday come after the heavy storms battered vast areas across Poland late Sunday and overnight. Heavy winds knocked down trees and electricity lines and tore the roofs of many homes.

One person died when a tree crashed down on a car. Firefighters say that they were called to intervene in 5,800 emergencies around the country due to the storms.

The storms late Sunday also delayed a high-speed train carrying Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, who is traveling around the country campaigning ahead of general elections in October.(ap)

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‘Beautiful eye candy’: Frozen plains in Pluto’s heart

C A P E C A N AV E R A L , Florida — Vast frozen plains exist next door to Pluto’s big, rugged mountains sculpted of ice, scientists said Friday, three days after humanity’s first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet.

The New Horizons spacecraft team revealed close-up photos of those plains, which they’re already unofficially calling Sputnik Planum after the world’s first man-made satellite.

“Have a look at the icy frozen plains of Pluto,” principal scientist Alan Stern said during a briefing at NASA headquarters. “Who would have expected this kind of complexity?”

Stern described the pictures coming down from 3 billion miles away as “beautiful eye candy.”

“I’m still having to remind myself to take deep breaths,” added Jeff Moore, head of the New Horizons geology team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. “I mean, the landscape is just astoundingly amazing.”

Spanning hundreds of miles, the plains are located in the prominent, bright, heart-shaped area of Pluto. Like the mountains unveiled Wednesday, the plains look to be a relatively young 100 million years old — at the most. Scientists speculate internal heating — perhaps from icy volcanoes or geysers— might still be shaping these crater-free regions.

“This could be only a week old for all we know,” Moore said. He stressed that scientists have no hard evidence of erupting, geyser-like plumes on Pluto — yet.

Another possibility could be that the terrain, like frozen mud cracks on Earth, formed as a result of contrac-

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Bali exports million sculpture crafts

DENPASAR - Bali exported a million stone sculpture crafts to several countries and has earned the country US$15 million in revenue between January and June this year, Head of Section of Foreign Trade of Bali Department of Trade and Industries Made Suastika stated.

The sculptures shaped like various animals such as frog, horse, or primordial man have been exported to several countries for ornaments in gardens, houses, or offices, Suastika said.

Bali exported many sculptures and souvenirs made from limestone in Silakarang, Batubulan, and Gianyar Region.

The main markets of limestone sculptures is US and Australia, in addition to other European countries, one of the sculpture craftsman I Ketut Kencana, said in his workshop.

Kencana pointed out that Buddha statue in various sizes also appealed international markets such as Japan, France, Germany, and other European countries. Meanwhile, demand for antique sculptures and other crafts made from limestone is still strong.

The export commodities, mostly sculptures in various shapes and sizes, are able to attract the attention of foreign tourists who were enjoying a holiday on the Dewata Island.

The foreign tourists liked to watch a variety of sculptures made from limestone displayed at art shops along the roadside in the Batubulan Village, 15 kilometers northeast of Denpasar.

If they are interested in the sculptures and crafts, they will buy one or two, then later order in a lot of numbers.

He said tourists also buy sculptures to be later resold in their countries. (ant)

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Bali exported a million stone sculpture crafts to several countries and has earned the country US$15 million in revenue between January and June this year, Head of Section of Foreign Trade of Bali Department of Trade and Industries Made Suastika stated.

Badung supporting capacity needs assessing NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP

This photo taken Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT, shows Pluto’s largest moon Charon, left, with a captivating feature, a depression with a peak in the middle, shown in the upper left corner of the inset image at right. tion of the surface.

The plains — which include clusters of smooth hills and fields of small pits — are covered with irregular-shaped, or polygon, sections that look to be separated by troughs.

Each section is roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) across.

The height of the hills is not yet known, nor their origin. It could be the hills were pushed up from below,

or are knobs surrounded by eroded terrain, according to Moore. The fields of pits resemble glacial fields on Earth.

As of Friday’s news conference, New Horizons was just over 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) past Pluto and operating well. The spacecraft on Tuesday became the first visitor to the 4.5 billion-yearold Pluto, sweeping within 7,700

miles (12,400 kilometers) of its icy surface after a journey of 9½ years.

It represented the last planetary stop on NASA’s grand tour of the solar system, begun a half-century ago.

“I’m a little biased, but I think the solar system saved the best for last,” Stern, a Southwest Research Institute planetary scientist, told reporters.

It will take 16 months to transmit to Earth all the data collected dur-

ing the close encounter. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is managing the $720 million mission, which began with a launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2006 — months before Pluto was demoted from a full-fledged planet.

Stay tuned, meanwhile, for NASA’s next Pluto update — next Friday. The pictures should keep getting better and better. (ap)

an unglazed pottery jug and navigational instruments including a metal compass. Archaeologists who examined photos of the artifacts say the wreck appears to date back as far as the late 18th century, which would make it a rare find.

“This is an exciting find, and a vivid reminder that even with major advances in our ability to access and explore the ocean, the deep sea holds its secrets close,” Van Dover, director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory, said in a news release.

The scientists, whose primary

mission is studying deep-sea ecosystems, were returning to an area called the Blake Plateau that they had previously explored with sonar.

The expedition also includes scientists from North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon aboard a vessel from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The wreck was found using Woods Hole’s unmanned vehicle Sentry and the manned submarine Alvin.

The scientists turned their data over to National Oceanic and At-

mospheric Administration’s Marine Heritage Program, which hopes to return to the site to date and identify the lost ship.

Marine Heritage Program director James Delgado said the wreck sits about 150 miles offshore in the path of the Gulf Stream, which for centuries has been a maritime trade route. He said in a phone interview that the wreck could yield significant information about trade by the United States when it was a young country.

He noted that many ships have wrecked off the Carolina coasts

over the years, but few have been found because of the difficulty of working at extreme depths.

From the surface, older wooden vessels may only show up as pixelated dark spots — or not at all — which explains why such finds are rare despite modern efforts to map the sea floor, he said.

“A largely wooden ship, largely now consumed by marine organisms, it’s not going to show up,” he said. “It’s only when you fly closer or when you have eyes on the bottom that you find these wrecks.” (ap)

MANGUPURA - The growth of tourist accommodation in Bali, especially in Southern Badung, is getting more massive. This condition can be seen from the growth in hotel rooms, where in the past five years, the growth in hotel room reaches 5,000-6,000 per year. Therefore, local government

needs to assess the carrying capacity of Badung as the main tourist destination of Bali, so that the growth of accommodation can be controlled.

It was expressed by the member of the Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPBD) of Badung, I Putu Anom, when asked for his confirma-

tion on Sunday. This academician of the Udayana University from Kapal village, Mengwi, said that it is required a study on the carrying capacity of Bali especially in Southern Bali having been overloaded. It includes the needs of land, water, electricity, traffic density, needs of migrants, convenience

Shipwreck found off US coast, possibly from late 1700s RALEIGH, North Carolina — Scientists using underwater vehicles and sonar have found a shipwreck off the coast of the southern state of North Carolina that may date back to the American Revolution of the late 1700s, Duke University said Friday.

The expedition led by Duke marine scientist Cindy Van Dover found the previously unknown wreck in mile-deep waters on July 12 using an underwater robot and a manned submarine.

They’ve found artifacts including an iron chain, glass bottles,

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The growth of tourist accommodation in Bali, especially in Southern Badung, is getting more massive. This condition can be seen from the growth in hotel rooms, where in the past five years, the growth in hotel room reaches 5,000-6,000 per year.

rate, security and others.

“Do not always pursue the target of the regionally generated revenue from Hotel and Restaurant Tax and try to increase the revenue from other sectors remaining to have many opportunities that can be achieved,” he said.

He said that it can be achieved provided that the upcoming regent can carefully see the opportunities and carefully conduct cooperation with various parties inside and outside the country in the sectors beyond tourism.

“Do not just work on the existing things. By all means, it is needed the leader of Badung who has a breakthrough and strategies to continue the achievement obtained and it will be better to increase it again,” he explained.

Earlier, Chairman of the BPPD Badung, I Gusti Ngurah Ray Suryawijaya, also recognized that the very massive construction of hotels in Badung needs to be controlled.

“We even hope there is a temporary moratorium,” he said.

Such condition, recognized this Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI), is not comparable to the growth of hotel room. It happens because the tourist accommodation is far more than the number of tourist arrival, causing a negative impact on tourism.

“Massive growth in tourist accom-

modation results in a decreased quality of tourist destination and the rampant war of hotel room rates. Currently the hotel room rate widely occurs among the hotels,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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Barong Ketet performance

Hundreds of elderly exchange waste for free health services

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Revive the spirit of barong

Taruna Yasa youth club holds barong ketet competition

GIANYAR - Barong ketet dance with the storyline Kunti Sraya has indeed been performed in a number of attractions in Badung and Denpasar. However, not many people know if the barong dance attracting thousands of travelers was born at Singapadu village, Sukawati. In the meantime, at its birthplace it was only popular in the 1960s. To revive the passion in the barong art show, the Taruna Yasa customary youth club of Sengguan hamlet, Singapadu, holds the competition of Barong Ketet Dance and Drum Play of Barong Ketet.

Prof. Dr. I Wayan Dibia said that the art of barong dance performance becoming the favorite attraction for travelers since 1936 has different characteristic such as the barong dance with storyline Calonarang, Kolekek and Batur Shaman.

“As for the barong dance with storyline Kunti Sraya was born in 1948 composed by three artists namely Tjokorda Oka Sukawati, I Made Kredek and I Wayan Gria,” he explained.

He said that barong dance with the storyline Kunti Seraya was subsequently staged at outermost courtyard of Dalem Tenggaling Pangukur-Ukur Temple, Sengguan hamlet, Singapadu. At the inaugural staging, the dance has managed to awe hundreds of travelers and up to the 1960s the dance was increasingly popular among foreign travelers.

However, today this dance is of-

ten performed at several attractions in Badung and Denpasar, while at its birthplace is rarely performed with the storyline Kunti Seraya to attract travelers. “At Singapadu is only performed the sacred barong dance when there is a ceremony around the temple or local village,” he explained.

To preserve the barong dance at its birthplace, the Taruna Yasa customary youth club of Sengguan hamlet, Singapadu, organized competition of barong ketet dance and playing drum of barong ketet. It took place at the outermost courtyard of the Dalem Tenggaling PangukurUkur Temple, Sengguan. “It is an effort of our young people at Sengguan hamlet to encourage the barong activities as well to stimulate the emergence of young barong dancers that will be able to replace the elderly figures,” he said.

He hoped the competition will yield new choreography, so that it can show off the dynamism and creativity of the artists. However, Prof. Dibia also stressed in order that young artists are given the understanding that barong ketet prioritizes grandeur in contrast to lion dance featuring acrobatic show. “We also hope that some dance styles must not be forgotten because this competition assesses the technique, expression and performance as a whole,” he said.

In the meantime, Deputy Chief of the Taruna Yasa youth club, I Wayan Kariana, said that the competition is held for the third time followed by 20 participants for two days (Jul. 17-18). “Most participants are from the counties across Bali, such as Klungkung, Bangli, Denpasar and Gianyar. It aims at preserving and exciting the art of barong,” he explained. (nik)

SINGARAJA - Hundreds of elderly at Kelod Kauh hamlet, Panji village, Sukasada subdistrict, came to local meeting hall, Sunday (Jul. 19).

Mostly consisting of poor people, they exchanged plastic waste with free medical treatment service.

Not only that, children at the local village also thronged the hall to exchange waste with a notebook as preparation for their new school academic year 2015/2016.

The waste barter action packaged in the activity entitled “Healthy with Waste” is deliberately held by the Kelod Kauh hamlet together with the alumni of SMAN 1 Singaraja high school of generation 2007, Satya Warga customary youth club of Kelod Kauh hamlet, Bali Youth Environmental Care (PPLB) and the Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) of Buleleng.

From the morning, the elderly and children came to and left the local meeting hall to redeem plastic waste having been collected at their homes.

They seemed very keen to pick up the waste in exchange for the service or medical treatment at free of charge. With the concept of barter, the elderly mostly belonging to the poor become aware and interested in collecting plastic waste to bring in something useful.

Similarly, the children of Kelod Kauh hamlet categorized into the poor are also very vivacious.

Since hamlet apparatus disseminated this program, children also fill in their time by collecting plastic waste in their respective environment. From the waste collection, the children get the benefits in the form of notebooks that are very helpful for their education.

Hamlet chief of Kelod Kauh hamlet, Panji village, I Nyoman Marsa Jaya, said that the action of “Healthy with Waste” is initiated to sensitize and change people’s mindset against the hazards of plastic waste to the environment. People’s awareness is stimulated to collect plastic waste from their respective home environment.

The plastic waste collected will be redeemed with health services, notebooks or other items, and can also be sold to Galang Panji Waste Bank. “Through this concept, the mindset of our society formerly considered waste useless thing can be changed if the waste can become helpful stuff,” he said.

Other than applying barter concept or selling waste, added Marsa Jaya, people began to be introduced to collect waste in the form of can waste or old tires to be converted into craft products having economic value and can bring in additional income for family. He exemplified that can waste is able to be used to make a craft of Vespa miniature or other crafts. Similarly, old tires can also be used as raw materials for chair or table craft.

The introduction of waste that can be made into craft product will continue to be promoted. After seeing the enthusiasm of people, we are confident to be followed and it is our participation in supporting the program of Plastic Waste-free Buleleng,” said Marsa Jaya. (kmb38)

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Visit a traditional Balinese house compound at Intercontinental Bali

JIMBARAN - Enrich your stay at InterContinental Bali Resort and delve into the Balinese culture with the help of the Resort’s unique brand concept ‘In the Know.’ Our savvy ‘In the Know’ team is proud to offer insider destination tips such as a visit to a traditional Balinese house compound, which will provide a fascinating insight into the island’s vernacular architecture.

Balinese architecture has a cosmic significance that is much more important than the physical materials. This cosmic order is made up of three parts – the world of Gods, the world of humans and the world of demons – and is practically applied with a system of orientation determined by the direction of Gunung Agung – the sacred mountain and dwelling place of the Hindu Gods.

The revered direction towards the mountain, and God, is called ‘kaja.’The less sacred and even impure, seaward direction, away from the holy mountain, is called ‘kelod’. The second-most sacred direction, east, from which the sun rises, is called ‘kangin.’ Everyone sleeps with his or her head towards either kaja or kangin.

Each Balinese compound, within its confining walls, typically houses two or three generations of families.

The entrance ‘angkul angkul’ is often a high pillared portico with solid, carved wooden doors; behind it is the ‘aling aling’, a short screen wall designed to deflect troublesome and malign influences because evil spirits have great difficulty in turning corners.

Inside the compound, the opensided raised pavilions all face inward, forming a circle around the inner courtyard; the residents spend most of their time on the shady verandahs of the main buildings. Analogous to the human body the compound has a head, the family temple, always positioned within its own walled yard in the kaja or mountain side of the compound, which is northeast in southern Bali.

The torso of the body is the courtyard; complete with its arms, which are the sleeping and living quarters. The centre of the courtyard – the navel of the body – is considered to be a very sacred place, so in this area a shrine may be constructed, where the family will place offerings to the spirit guardian of the land. The kitchen and rice granary represent the legs and the feet, the gates are the genitals, and the anus is symbolised by the backyard refuge tip, situated ‘downstream’ from the kitchen in the kelod or seaward part of the compound. There may also be an area outside of the compound allocated to pig pens, coconut and fruit trees, and enjoyed by free ranging ducks and chickens. This is where you might also find the well. This section of land is separated by a low wall, marking the border between the human quarters

and the animal quarters.

The occupation of the various pavilions by the family members relates to the different phases of incarnated life. The youth and children’s sleeping quarters is in the ‘bale daja’ or ‘bale meten.’As adults they will move to the pavilion known as the ‘bale dauh,’ and then with old age to the ‘bale dangin,’ the ceremonial pavilion nearest to the family temple where their souls will be enshrined after death.

The ceremonial pavilion is the most important pavilion in the compound and is used to celebrate rites of passage.

This is where the grandparents sleep, where life rites such as tooth filing and weddings take place, and where lying in state and death rituals occur. Inside is a raised wooden palette set between six, nine or twelve columns, dependent on the financial status of the family. The platform serves as a bed, an altar on which to place offerings, and a seat for

the priest. Normally built of wood and brick with a thatched or tiled roof and open on two sides, this may be the only building in the compound that is still constructed in the traditional style.

The only closed space is the sleeping pavilion or ‘bale meten,’ which may be a large eight-post structure on a high base. This is the procreation building and a newly married couple can expect to be locked in here for as long as three days. The bale dauh is normally an open pavilion with one bedroom; serving a variety of purposes, it is used as a gathering place and for the reception of guests. The working and guest pavilion, for relatives and children, is known as the ‘bale sakenam’ and varies in size and number according to family needs.

If you wish to visit a traditional Balinese house compound, you can arrange this through the concierge at InterContinental Bali Resort.

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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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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Demi Moore ‘in shock’ after man drowns in her backyard pool LOS ANGELES — Demi Moore said she is stunned and saddened by the death of a 21-year-old man Sunday in the backyard pool of a Los Angeles home she owns.

“I am in absolute shock,” the 52-year-old actress said in a statement released through her publicist, Heidi Lopata. “I was out of the country traveling to meet my daughters for a birthday celebration when I got the devastating news.”

Moore said the death, which occurred at a party held by her assistant in her absence, was an “unthinkable tragedy, and my heart goes out to this young man’s family and friends.”

The man, Edenilson Steven Valle, had gone missing for

A videographer films a Mercedes Benz in front of an entrance to to the home of actress Demi Moore, in Beverly Hills, Sunday, July 19, 2015. Coroner’s officials say a 21year-old man accidentally drowned in the backyard pool of a Los Angeles home owned by actress Demi Moore.

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10 or 15 minutes before his friends found him floating in the deep end of the pool early Sunday morning, said Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. Fred Corral.

Valle’s family and friends told investigators he didn’t know how to swim, Corral said.

Police and paramedics responded to the home in west Los Angeles after a 911 call at about 5:15 a.m.

The paramedics started CPR, but Valle was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:30 a.m., Corral said.

The apparent drowning was first reported by TMZ. (ap)

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in tone and audience makeup. The movie, a more humorous heist film, appealed more to women (42 percent of the audience) and families (28 percent) than most Marvel releases.

“Most encouragingly in this one, the exit scores we’re seeing from women — their likelihood to recommend and how much they enjoyed the film — was higher here than almost any film we’ve had,” Hollis said. “It’s a great sign for what word of mouth should be for the run, but, two, what it means for how women think about these movies being for them as much as men might.”

The next question will be whether the result was strong enough to kick start an “Ant-Man 2.” Though “AntMan” had a rocky path to the screen, with director Peyton Reed replacing Edgar Wright shortly before shooting commenced, its CinemaScore from audiences is an A. It took in $56.4 million abroad.

The opening was closest to 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk” ($55 million),

the poorly received Edward Norton edition that didn’t spawn further installments. Rudd is already to appear as Ant-Man in “Captain America: Civil War.” “I say this was a success,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst. “This was never predestined to open with $80 (million) or $100 million. Marvel continues to evolve and surprised the audience.

This was about a perfectly solid result for a brand new property.”

The $30.2 million opening for Schumer’s big-screen debut, “Trainwreck,” which the comedian also wrote, earned an estimated $30.2 million, making the R-rated Universal release one of the biggest comedy successes this summer. It’s also the second best opening for Judd Apatow as a director following “Knocked Up.” Already a critically acclaimed star on Comedy Central for her sketch show “Inside Amy Schumer,” Schumer’s transition to movies has

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Tourists flocked in Taman Ayun, Badung Regency during holiday season in Bali Island.

To prevent the economic slowdown from being protracted, some parties, especially local entrepreneurs, must take strategic measures.

‘Ant-Man’ debuts with $58M NEW YORK — Marvel’s “AntMan” punched above its weight at the weekend box office, debuting with an estimated $58 million, while Amy Schumer’s “Trainwreck” also opened strongly with $30.2 million.

The result for “Ant-Man” didn’t match some of Marvel’s better known and brawnier properties. But “Ant-Man” — a relatively inexpensive superhero movie with a $130 million budget — still dominated North American multiplexes, edging out the little yellow guys of Universal’s “Minions,” which took in $50.2 million in its second week.

“Ant-Man,” starring Paul Rudd as a slightly more irreverent and distinctly smaller superhero, came in a little below earlier stand-alone Marvel films like “Thor” ($65.7 million in 2011) and “Captain America: The First Avenger” ($65.1 million in 2011).

Dave Hollis, head of distribution at Disney, credited Marvel for successfully expanding its universe both

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This photo provided by Disney shows Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/AntMan in a scene from Marvel’s “Ant-Man.” The film releases in the U.S. on Friday, July 17, 2015.

drawn good reviews and opened above expectations, further showing the power of female moviegoers.

The audience was two-thirds women, Universal said.

“Amy Schumer is an absolute talent and should have a great career in the movies,” said Nick Carpou, distribution head for Universal. “The character that she portrays very effectively enables modern women.”

Opening in just five locations was Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone. The Sony Pictures Classic release packed those theaters for an average of $37,623 per screen.

The Roadside Attractions and Miramax release “Mr. Holmes,” starring Ian McKellen as an aged Sherlock Holmes, debuted with $2.5 million in 363 theaters. (ap)

Local employers must discover uniqueness of Bali

DENPASAR - A number of unrealized projects due to small absorption of government funds have caused the economic slowdown. To prevent the economic slowdown from being protracted, some parties, especially local entrepreneurs, must take strategic measures. One of them is by discovering more about the uniqueness of Bali, so that the business opportunities can be worked on.

“Simply discover the unique potential, like spa becoming a trend in the herbal product industry. It is for Balinese people having understood about herbs, or what the so-called Ayur Vedas and this must be captured,” said a lecturer of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Udayana, Prof.

Dr. Wayan Gede Supartha, when confirmed on Monday.

However, added Supartha, Balinese people tend to be less active in the business. It happens because most people tend to become civil

servant. Actually, the moment to re-move the economy can be an opportunity for local entrepreneurs primarily in retaking the areas currently being controlled by foreigners or those from outside Bali.

“At home we have less challenge. It is different from Balinese people in diaspora. Besides, we tend to take job opportunity selectively,” he continued. Supartha added that Balinese people can only compete in the middle class that requires specific competencies or certification. In the upper

class, Balinese people have been defeated by expatriates or foreign experts. Then at lower class, Balinese people have been defeated by unskilled labor from outside Bali. Thus, it will be very difficult to seize the opportunity having been controlled by foreigners or the outsiders.

“They can really do it, but have small possibility because to seize the opportunities we have to be well prepared first. Many business opportunities lie in the creative industries sector or in the service industry. When wishing to seize investment opportunity in tourism, for instance, it has been dominated by foreigners so that it seems rather difficult because we now see that star hotels and so forth have been mostly managed by management network or group,” he said.

A member of Commission II of the Bali House, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said that tourism sector is the most influencing in the economic slowdown of Bali.

Moreover, the current excessive number of hotels has caused the room occupancy rate to decline.

The government is asked to implement selective moratorium on the construction of hotels to boost room occupancy. Selective moratorium means that choosing upscale business that can attract room rate or at the lower level that simply selects tourism businesses being able to strengthen a region.

“In order that Balinese people have greater opportunities, it is required a regulation on the tourism business whose direction will be favorable for the domestic. For example, in terms of human re-

sources, those that can get involved in tourism sector must be qualified with Balinese culture so that Balinese people have a better chance,” he added.

In addition, continued Adhi Ardhana, local government should also facilitate the agricultural, fisheries and SMEs sector by launching propeople financing products such as cheap loans, subsidized fertilizer and assistance in fisheries sector. (kmb32) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.