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Aniston, Hamm, Hudson set to Stand Up to Cancer Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Aniston, Jon Hamm, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland want to connect with you about cancer.

They are among the stars slated to appear on “Stand Up to Cancer,” the hour-long telethon set to air Sept. 5 on 31 broadcast and cable networks simultaneously.

Other celebrity participants announced Wednesday include Pierce Brosnan, Rob Lowe, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Eric Stonestreet and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Rather than the stars staffing phone

banks as they have on past “Stand Up to Cancer” telethons, they’ll be contacting with viewers by phone and online through Facebook and other platforms from a “digital lounge” hosted by Katie Couric. Fans can sign up for the “We’re Calling You” initiative beginning Wednesday at werecallingyou.org.

“We’ll have plenty of stars reaching out to donors via social media, thanking them through Facebook messages, digital shout outs, Instagrams and tweets,” Couric said. “In other words, this year, we are so 2014!”

“Instead of people calling in with the hope of talking to a celebrity, stars will be calling and sending so-

cial shout-outs to viewers at home,” Couric said.

The “Stand Up to Cancer” special will also feature performances by Jennifer Hudson, Ariana Grande, The Who, Common & Lupe Fiasco and Dave Matthews.

For the first time, the telethon will include a Canadian co-broadcast, with funds raised benefiting research and awareness programs in Canada.

Funds raised by the telethon support international, inter-disciplinary scientific research aimed at discovering new treatments for various types of cancer.

Since its first broadcast in 2008, Stand Up to Cancer has pledged more than $260 million.

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Friday, August 22, 2014

Porto, Celtic well set in Champs League playoffs

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Thai junta leader appointed PM by hand-picked parliament

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Photographer sues Bieber over Hawaii altercation Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A photographer sued Justin Bieber and one of his bodyguards Wednesday for assault and infliction of emotional distress over an altercation on Hawaiian beach last year.

The lawsuit by paparazzo Aja Oxman states Bieber ordered his bodyguard to take a memory card after the photog-

rapher took photos of the pop singer leaping from a cliff into the ocean. Bodyguard Dwayne Patterson placed Oxman in a chokehold and seriously injured him and damaged his camera during the November incident, the lawsuit states.

The complaint seeks unspecified damages in excess of $25,000 for assault and battery, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Patterson was arrested on suspicion of assault and later charged with seconddegree robbery. He pleaded no contest to criminal property damage and harassment and was ordered to pay Oxman $6,000 in restitution, court records show.

Patterson’s conviction won’t remain on his record if he does not get into further trouble, records show.

Bieber, 20, was not arrested, and no charges were filed against him due to a lack of evidence that he ordered Patterson to attack Oxman, Kauai County Prosecuting Attorney Justin Kollar said Wednesday. Kollar said Patterson had fully paid restitution to Oxman.

Email messages sent to Bieber’s publicist Melissa Victor and attorney Howard Weitzman were not immediately returned. A phone message left for attorney Craig De Costa, who represented Patterson in the criminal case, was not immediately returned.

In addition to Oxman’s lawsuit, Bieber is being sued by other photographers who accuse him of roughing them up. One case remains pending in Miami, and another paparazzo sued Bieber for assault and battery in June 2013 over an altercation at a shopping center in the celebrity enclave of Calabasas. The case remains pending and is scheduled for trial in AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File December.

Police fire tear gas as court rules on poll challenge REUTERS/Beawiharta

An Indonesian policeman argues with a supporter of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto during a protest near the Constitutional Court in Jakarta August 21, 2014. Indonesian police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters outside the country’s top court in Jakarta on Thursday, as judges started delivering their verdict into last month’s disputed presidential election.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian police used tear gas and water cannon Thursday to break up a rally by supporters of the exgeneral who lost last month’s presidential election, as a court was set to uphold his opponent’s victory.

As judges at the Constitutional Court started reading the lengthy verdict to Prabowo Subianto’s challenge of an election won by Joko Widodo, which could take several hours, police responded to a rowdy crowd of his supporters with force.

Officers fired multiple volleys of

tear gas and water cannon into the crowd, which was several hundred strong, after they earlier threw rocks and attempted to push past lines of riot police guarding the road to the court, which was closed off.

Some police chased supporters away and hit them with batons. It lasted only a few minutes and the

crowd dispersed afterwards. An AFP reporter at the scene said one unconscious protester was carried into an ambulance.

Dalianto, a 57-year-old protester who like many Indonesians goes by one name, earlier said that he was showing his support for Prabowo as he was the “true president”.

Independent analysts expect the nine-judge panel to reject Prabowo’s challenge. The verdict cannot be appealed.

Both Prabowo, a top military figure in the era of dictator Suharto with a chequered human

rights record, and Widodo, the reform-minded governor of Jakarta, declared victory at the July 9 election.

But official results released after a two-week count across the vast archipelago showed Widodo won a decisive, six-point victory after the hardest-fought, most polarising election since authoritarian rule ended in 1998.

The 53-year-old, who won legions of fans with his down-to-earth approach as Jakarta governor and is known by his nickname Jokowi, is the country’s first leader from

outside the political and military elites.

But Prabowo -- who has been seeking the presidency for a decade -- has refused to accept the results and his team filed a lengthy complaint against the election commission with the Constitutional Court, which has the final say on poll disputes.

His team say fraud occurred at tens of thousands of polling stations, and that election officials failed to order recounts in numerous places where they should have.

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International

Friday, August 22, 2014

Bali News

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69 years of independence

Many areas in Karangasem still get isolated

Activities

International

Friday, August 22, 2014

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The 1st aniversary of Harper Kuta Hotel

TABANAN - The 1st aniversary of Harper Kuta Hotel closed with fun outing at Eka Karya Bo-

tanical Garden Bedugul, Tabanan, Thursday (Aug 7). It was followed by staffs and management of Harper Kuta Hotel. The series of the activity colored the event such

as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to orphanage, Wisma Anak-Anak Harapan.

On the celebration day, the owner and Archipelago Inter-

national Indonesia also came to celebrate the event marked with cutting rice cone. “We are motivated continually to build our team members and strengthen our

business alliances and a brightet future for Harver Kuta Hotel,” said Public Relations Executive Margy Margaretha Leander. (ocha)

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - A number of isolated areas with hundreds of families in Seraya remained to be unreached by road access whereas the independence day of the Republic of Indonesia has reached the 69th years.

IBP/Budana

One of the road in Karangasem Regency is still very damaged and it makes the people is very difficult in moving around

It was submitted by a legislator of Karangasem House, Made Juwita, Wednesday (Aug 20) in Karangasem.

Juwita exemplified one of the regions at Seraya Tengah, namely the area of Kayu Wit. It was inhabited by tens of families and had not owned an adequate road access to their hamlet. The only road available to the hamlet was just dirt path or footpath. It could not still be passed through by vehicle and motorcycle.

Juwita said that due to the absence of road access people got difficulty to reach health facilities. Pregnant women about to give birth should suffer to reach the distant community health center at Seraya Tengah village. Similarly, children should go to school on foot.

“Clean water is difficult to get, while residents just cultivate corn or cassava,” said Juwita from Seraya.

Meanwhile, a legislator from Sidemen, Wayan Sumatra, also said there were still many areas with hundreds of families at the villages remaining isolated at Sidemen. The road to the hamlet could not still be passed through

Trial of U.S. gay murder

Fiancé of gay gives testimonies Bali Post

DENPASAR - Public prosecutor Gusti Nyoman Widana and Ni Made Lumisensi prosecuting the murder case against the U.S. citizen Paul Robb Latourell, Wednesday (Aug 20) presented three witnesses.

They included Wayan Ek, Made Ra (victim’s gay couple) and Kadek Wa (owner of the home contracted by victim). The case involved two defendants. However, since the file was separated, the trial was separated as well. The first defendant to be prosecuted was the defendant Multazam Aulawi, 19. He was accompanied by his lawyer named Very.

The first witness giving testi-

mony was Ek. The man looking like a woman in the trial led by AA Ketut Anom Wirakanta explained that he knew the victim was killed after getting information via phone that cellular phone of his boss (victim) could not be contacted. “I got a call if the cellular phone of Paul was inactive. His cellular phone vanished,” said Ek. To make sure, Ek rushed to go to Jalan Banteng, where the victim rented a house, on Monday after the murder.

Upon arrival in the area of the house, the padlock was not locked and the front door of the house, either. The witness tried to go in and push the door. “I shouted Paul, Paul, Paul, but there was no answer,”

said the witness. Through another door, Ek could get into guest room and there he found blood spots. “I also saw the victim’s legs on bed,” he said. Being afraid, Ek then screamed for help and local residents rushed to the victim’s house.

Defendant’s lawyer had asked whether Ek was also the gay couple of the victim Paul. Ek said no. He just worked like a house maid.

The second witness was Ra. Ra was the victim’s gay couple. Similarly, he did not know exactly how it happened. However, he knew about the victim’s belonging, including the cellular phone often used to make communication. Even, the witness Ra claimed to have a deal

by motorcycle, let alone by car.

In some areas of Kubu subdistrict, such as the road to Jatituhu customary village, Ban village, Kubu, had not been paved. Hundreds of residents traversed the narrow dirt road to the hills area of the village.

Meanwhile, a resident of Tegalsari, West Tianyar village, Kubu subdistrict, Wayan Pasek, complained about the road to local settlement connecting to Batu Meyeh had not been paved for a dozen of years. Actually, the road in front of his house had been paved with gravels few years ago. Since it was only paved with gravels without asphalt and located at a barren village, the gravels had already lost as washed away by flood during rainy season.

“The connecting road is only about 300 meters long, but never paved.

Maybe there is no official struggling for that. In the dry season like at this time, the road is dusty, so that we are worried if our children will fall sick due to such flying dust. We expect the government to pave the road,” said Pasek. (013)

where each of them could look for another partner. The defendant’s lawyer urged to ask a question about the relationship between Ra and Paul plunging him to sexual affair. To that question, the prosecutor Lumisensi interrupted that sex relationship was not a matter of trial and evidentiary context of the murder case. Presiding judge AA Anom Wirakanta justified it and defendant’s lawyer should not lead a question to Ra about sex or gay relationships conducted with the victim.

When the boarding house owner gave his testimony, he did not reveal much. On the testimony of the three witnesses, the defendant Multazam Aulawi claimed not to know the three witnesses. “I do not know them, sir,” said the defendant.

The judge clarified about the witness testimony because there were blood spots in the living room and

the defendant justified it.

The second trial presented the defendant Marsianus Simarto, 30, with the same panel of judges and prosecutor. Marsianus was accompanied by his lawyers Edy Hartaka and Agus Sujoko with the same witnesses, namely Wayan Ek, Made Ra and Kadek Wa. In essence, they gave almost the same testimony.

As reported previously, the murder case was alleged to begin with dissatisfaction of the gay couple occurred on Jalan Banteng, Denpasar. The victim was Paul, a U.S. citizen who contracted a house at the location. The victim died of some stabbings so that blood spurted everywhere. Two people were identified as the suspects (now the defendants) in this case. They included Marsianus Simarto, 30, and Multazam Aulawi, 19. Both were threatened with maximally death penalty. (asa)

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud 14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri

19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri

23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

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

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

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

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

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

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Friday, August 22, 2014

Fashion

International

Young Indian shakes up fashion with prints and pret

Agence France-Presse

MUMBAI - She’s already a leading name in Indian fashion, with customers ranging from top Bollywood stars to teenage girls on pocket money. Yet 25-year-old Masaba Gupta -- best-known for her quirky cow and camera prints that adorn saris, dresses and even smartphone covers -- puts much of her whirlwind success down to intuition.

“My gut just somehow ... tells me that this is going to be the next big thing. Luckily I know it before anyone else does,” she told AFP at her flagship “Masaba” store in Mumbai’s trendy suburb of Juhu.

The daughter of West Indies cricket legend Viv Richards and Bollywood actress Neena Gupta -- who shared a relationship in the 1980s -- the young designer said many people “write me off as a product of my parents and social media”, but her clothes appear to be challenging the critics.

Alongside the rise of her eponymous brand, Gupta was in 2012

appointed the youngest creative director for prestigious ethnic wear label Satya Paul -- a rare move in the world of Indian fashion houses, which tend not to hire big outside names.

From lipstick patterns to the Tamil script, her unconventional trademark prints have proved so popular that counterfeits have flowed into the market, spurring her recently to set up the more affordable “Masaba Lite” line for teenagers.

It is an impressive CV for someone who stumbled into fashion because no other college courses were

still open -- “I had nothing else to do,” admitted Gupta over tea in her store, dressed in high-street culottes and gold sandals.

Attending catwalk shows as a student, she found Indian fashion “was running at this really slow, stale pace” with an evident gap in the market.

“I felt like everybody was doing bridal, there was no such thing as ‘prêt’ - ready-to-wear was just not something that you heard of,” said Gupta, who officially opened the winter edition of Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai on Tuesday by displaying one of her collections.

“A designer needs to sell either bridal or mass (fashion) to be able to make money, and at the end of the day it is about making money.

I can’t do bridal, it’s not my aesthetic, so I thought that I’ll go the mass way.”

Selling clothes and accessories in the range of 900-6,000 rupees ($15-98) in her new Masaba Lite line, Gupta is hoping it will become “like an Indian H&M”, referring to the hugely popular Swedish high street chain.

“Why buy a fake when you can get the original at the same price?” says the website for the brand, which she has launched with Western wear but intends to expand into Indian clothing.

Gupta said she wants young girls “to own a sari each”, recalling an occasion when three teenagers walked into her shop and pulled

their pocket money together to buy a single drape.

When designing for the Masaba brand, her original higher-end label aimed at women in their twenties, Gupta naturally veered towards a fusion of styles -- be it Westernised prints on Indian silhouettes or vice versa.

Fashion writer Shefalee Vasudev, author of “Powder Room: The Untold Story of Indian Fashion”, hailed Gupta’s “refreshing” approach to prints, saying her idea of India “doesn’t derive from self-conscious patriotism for the crafts legacies of our country”.

Not all critics have been so impressed, but Gupta said she is most interested in the feedback of those who buy her clothes, so she keeps a close eye on her Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Niche, mainstream sellers carry kale into beauty Associated Press

NEW YORK — Kale has crept out of salads and juicers into beauty products from niche and mainstream sellers. The leafy superfood that many love and others love to hate can now be had in face masks, skin-brightening serums, creams and nail polish, pushed along by the march to healthier living and the frenzy to fend off aging.

Kale hasn’t displaced other botanicals, which remain a small segment of the multibillion-dollar beauty industry. There’s a wide range of plant life and consumables in beauty products, but where else would the new darling in greens land if not beauty aisles, spas and websites?

A look at kale on the beauty side : 1. Nailkale

Sprawled in ads on a bed of kale, British fashion darling Alexa Chung is the face of Nailkale, a new line of 12 nail shades from London-based Nails Inc. They just launched in the U.K. and will hit U.S. shelves in late August.

Nails Inc. founder Thea Green was inspired by a couple of trips to New York City last year.

“On one trip we saw a group of very lovely girls walking down the street all drinking their green juices, and no one in London was drinking green juice then,” she said in a recent interview.

“Then I heard a woman in a res-

taurant, a very proper Upper East Side New Yorker, reject her salad because it was rocket (arugula) and not kale. I thought the whole thing was fascinating,” Green said.

Green took kale for nails and its vitamins A, C and K to a laboratory and Nailkale was born.

“I think they thought I was a bit nutty.”

Nutty like a fox. She’s the first to offer kale for nails.

2. Spa Sales

Eminence Organic Skin Care sells luxury products to more than 3,000 spas worldwide. With roots in Hungary, that’s where the company headed when it decided to work with kale farmers for two new products.

Stephanie Baresh, the brand and product creative director in Vancouver, Canada, said a cold processing method is used on raw kale for the Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Masque. The chunky green product offers a slight whiff of lemon with kale, avocado and spinach.

Eminence is focused on kale’s antioxidant properties. Launched in June with the Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Serum, user feedback has been positive, she said.

“People will do anything to look good and to stop aging these

days. This is a natural approach rather than getting Botox or plastic surgery,” Baresh added.

The spas the company supplies were not a tough sell and include the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village, California, and the Go Green Organic Spa in lower Manhattan.

“They loved the idea of a superfood,” Baresh said. “Kale is the new go-to for the plate and in a smoothie, so why not

beauty products? But I don’t think you’re going to see kale products popping up all over Sephora.”

3. Good & Healthy

Cruelty free, organic and 100 percent vegetarian, Alba Botanica offers five new products “powered by leafy green goodness” — kale, spinach and Swiss chard extracts, to be exact, according to promotional materials.

The Good & Healthy line from the brand

owned by The Hain Celestial Group in Lake Success, New York, launched last spring and includes a tinted perfector for combination skin and a daily moisturizer with SPF 15.

The suggested retail price is on the low end at $9.99 each, available at Target, Walmart, Whole Foods Markets and drug stores.

“History has shown that it’s very common for food trends to trickle into beauty care products,” said Sarah Galusha, director of marketing for Hain. “As consumers learn about the amazing benefits of eating certain superfoods, they start to look for them in their personal care products as well. And the truth is that many superfoods are loaded with phytonutrients, antioxidant vitamins and minerals that happen to be great for replenishing skin.”

This product image released by Eminence Organic shows Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Serum, left, and Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Masque made with kale. With a boost in popularity as a food and juic, kale has made its way into the beauty industry.

Bali News

International

Friday, August 22, 2014

Bali exports US$3.12 million worth of rattan crafts

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DENPASAR - Bali earned US$3.12 million from the exports of rattan craft products in the first five months of 2014 or a 618.8 percent increase from the same period last year.

Head of the provincial office of the Central Bureau of Statistics Panasunan Siregar said here on Thursday that rattan craft products were exported mainly yo Japan, the United States and Europe.

In the January-May period in 2013, Bali’s exports of rattan craft products were valued at US$434,735, data at the provincial industry and trade office showed.

The export volume of rattan craft products from Bali surged 118.63 percent to 88,353 units from 40,412 units in the same period.

Rattan craft products contribute 1.45 percent to the total export value of Bali that reached US$215.04 million in the five month period.

Bali has no forests or plantation to produce raw rattan. Raw rattan, therefore, is supplied from other regions mainly Sulawesi, Kalimantan and Papua.

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Bali earned US$3.12 million from the exports of rattan craft products in the first five months of 2014 or a 618.8 percent increase from the same period last year.

Room disagreement preceded US citizen killing

Associated Press

DENPASAR — Police investigating an American couple suspected of killing the woman’s mother at a resort hotel on Indonesia’s Bali island say the three had a disagreement over who was paying for the rooms but that a motive for the crime has not been established.

Heather Mack and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, have been declared suspects in the killing of Mack’s 62-year-old mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose body was stuffed into a suitcase.

Naming someone a suspect is a formal step under Indonesian criminal law meaning police are preparing to bring charges.

Bali police chief Maj. Gen. Benny Mokalu said Wednesday officers had interviewed 19 witnesses, some of whom cited a disagreement between the three over who should pay for the rooms.

Mokalu said a motive has not been established.

Under Suicide Watch Heather and Tommy are being held under a suicide watch, their appointed lawyer said Wednesday.

Haposan Sihombing, an Indonesian lawyer assigned to the couple by

Bali police, said Heather Mack and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, are refusing to talk to investigators. Their American attorney said this week that Heather Mack is two months pregnant and complained about her treatment in custody.

Sihombing said Mack, 19, is being detained at the Denpasar police station while Schaefer, 21, is being held separately at the provincial police headquarters. Neither has been charged, but Indonesian police say they are investigating it as a possible case of premeditated murder, which carries a maximum sentence of death.

“All materials that can be used for suicide such as ropes, long trousers, and clothes with straps are being kept away from them,” Sihombing said.

The body of Mack’s 62-yearold mother, Sheila von WieseMack, was found last week inside a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi in front of an upscale Bali hotel. The couple was arrested the next day at a hotel about 10 kilometers (six miles) away.

The couple told police that von Wiese-Mack was killed by robbers, while they managed to escape. Security camera video showed that the victim earlier had an argument with

Schaefer in the first hotel’s lobby.

Von Wiese-Mack’s body was being flown back to the U.S. early Wednesday. An autopsy found she had died of asphyxiation after her nose was broken by a blunt blow.

Sihombing said the two are refusing to talk to investigators until the arrival of their American lawyer, Michael Elkin, who was en route to Indonesia on Wednesday.

“I’ve told them that it’s better to cooperate, because that could be a reason for a lighter punishment,” Sihombing said.

On Tuesday, Elkin said that Mack told him by phone that she is pregnant and wasn’t getting enough water. She also alleged that she was sexually assaulted at least three times in custody, a claim that both Indonesian authorities and Sihombing denied.

According to police records in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, officers were called 86 times in 10 years to the house where von Wiese-Mack and her daughter once lived. The records, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, indicated that von Wiese-Mack was repeatedly and violently abused by the daughter.

Von Wiese-Mack was the widow of highly regarded jazz and classical

composer James L. Mack, who died in 2006 at age 76.

On Wednesday, the Sun-Times reported that von Wiese-Mack collected more than $800,000 through a 2011 legal settlement, part of which was originally designated for Heather Mack.

Court records showed that von Wiese-Mack and her late husband

received the settlement in a lawsuit between the couple and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. A half million dollars of the money went to her husband’s estate and was designated for their daughter through an earlier will. But in 2011, a judge allowed von Weise-Mack to pay herself the $500,000 as the estate’s “sole beneficiary.”

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An Indonesian police officer escorts Tommy Schaefer, left, as he is brought to the police station for questioning in relation to the death of his girlfriend’s mother, in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014.

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MANGUPURA - The matter of rampant nomad and beggars in the tourism area is difficult to be completely resolved. As evidence, Badung Municipal Police organized a raid in Kuta, Tuesday night (Aug 19) and secured dozens of nomads and beggars.

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Thailand’s newly appointed Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha adjusts his cap during visit to the 2nd Infantry Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, Queen’s Guard in Chonburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok August 21, 2014.

The homeless was arrested by the police in Badung Regency

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Establishment of Pratama Hospital uncertain

International hospital keeps going Bali Post

DENPASAR - The failure of Pratama Hospital construction in Nusa Penida (Klungkung) and Seririt (Buleleng) in 2014 reaped disappointment of community, the rank of Bali House to local community leaders. Moreover, Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika did not dare to ascertain whether there were construction funds for the Pratama Hospital in the regional budget 2015 so that the fate of Pratama Hospital development would be increasingly unclear. On the other hand, the development plan of international hospital (RSI) costing nearly IDR 200 billion and reaped a series of rejection would actually go ahead and had been re-budgeted in the main regional budget 2015 and 2016 after twice bid failure.

A community leader of Klungkung, Ketut Gde Adi Saputra, deplored the Bali government because it gave more priorities to the development of the international hospital rather than the Pratama Hospital clearly more touching and more urgent for the community. Moreover, the Pratama Hospital was a program having been promised in the gubernatorial campaign in 2013 that had provided a glimmer of hope for Nusa Penida area separated by sea.

“In 2014, the construction of Pratama Hospital in Nusa Penida has been canceled. If it is not allocated in the regional budget 2015, the community of Nusa Penida will be disappointed and gets false promise as often happens in every regional leader election. As a part of the Klungkung community, I am very disappointed with this

condition,” said Adi Saputra, in Denpasar, Wednesday (Aug 20).

This Regional Secretary of the National Democrat Party added that a dilemma even emerged after there was certainty on the continuation of the international hospital development plan. It was ascertained to be built in fiscal year 2015 whereas it still reaped pros and cons in the community as requiring fantastic enough cost around IDR 200 billion. Actually the construction of Pratama Hospital promised to be built in Nusa Penida only required the budget approximately IDR 22 billion. If the allocation of fund for the development of the international hospital in 2015 could be transferred to the Pratama Hospital development, he added, every county would surely receive allocation in the form of a vital facility to serve

public health and would be more accessible, especially in emergency situations.

“If the international hospital is continued and the fate of the Pratama Hospital is uncertain, finally a question must be raised, was the Pratama Hospital promised to Nusa Penida community just a political commodity? Or, is the governor unable to determine the priorities for the benefit of lower-middle income people? Have the people of Bali erred when determining their option in last gubernatorial election?

Probably, it will be acceptable if the plan is not something promised in the last electoral campaign,” he affirmed while expecting the governor to hold the commitment to realize the Pratama Hospital development.

Previously, Governor of Bali,

Made Mangku Pastika, had not dared to ascertain whether there were funds for the construction of the hospital in the main regional budget 2015. “We are still calculating the budget first. So, there has been no (certainty—Ed). I cannot make sure if the money has not been enough,” said Pastika when met after the plenary session for the approval of the Regional Bylaw Draft on Regional Budget Amendment 2014 in the Bali House, Monday (Aug 18).

Nevertheless, Pastika considered the Pratama Hospital development in Nusa Penida should be given a priority because the people very much needed the facility. “Nusa Penida will get a priority because it is separated by sea. At least, it must be built in Nusa Penida first,” he affirmed. (kmb29)

Thai junta leader appointed PM by handpicked parliament Reuters

BANGKOK - Thailand’s coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha was appointed prime minister on Thursday by a legislature he handpicked, giving the army chief a veneer of legitimacy even while the military presses on with efforts to silence its critics.

The army seized power on May 22 in a bloodless coup following six months of sometimes deadly street protests that contributed to the ousting of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose populist government was opposed by the Bangkok royalist establishment.

Although Prayuth’s appointment paves the way for an interim government to be set up in the coming weeks, power will remain firmly in the junta’s hands. The general has said he plans to press ahead with a year of political reforms before a new election that he said will take place by late 2015.

“It is designed to give him the power to run the country according to the law. The premier position will give him legal power in the Thai governance system,” Gothom Arya, a lecturer in human rights studies at Mahidol University, told Reuters.

The nomination comes as no surprise - the National Legislative As-

sembly (NLA) that chose Prayuth is largely considered little more than a rubber stamp parliament tasked with enacting sweeping reforms under the army’s watch.

The 60-year-old Prayuth will retire as army chief in September but will stay on as head of the junta, formally known as the National Council for Peace and Order. His appointment will need to be endorsed by Thailand’s king.

In the weeks leading up to the coup Prayuth denied rumours that the military was planning to take control, but a Reuters report in May revealed the army had a plan ready that ran through various scenarios and how the military should respond.

Yingluck, the sister of self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, had already been forced to step down on May 7, after a court found her guilty of abuse of power, but the army said its putsch to re-

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With Erdogan at helm, Turkey to choose premier

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Bali Post

According to Division Head of Badung Municipal Police Operations and Control, Dewa Nyoman Oka, said on Wednesday (Aug 20) that a total of 12 nomads and beggars were arrested in the raid, where seven of them were minors. Result of the raid was relatively small.

By and large, the officers could secure more than that amount in a single raid. “Probably they are still at their home village due to ritual day,” he said.

Dewa Oka explained the nomads and beggars were arrested around Jalan Imam Bonjol precisely around the border of Denpasar and Badung, the intersection area of Tuban, Jalan Dewi Sri, Kuta Beach and coastal region of Kedonganan.

From the results of investigation by the officers, most of the beggars came from Karangasem County. They used to take action from late afternoon until early morning. After arrested by the officers, the beggars were taken to the office of Badung Social and Labor Agency to get coaching. After given a coaching, the beggars were repatriated to their home village.

Dewa Oka admitted that it was difficult to resolve the problem of beggars especially in the tourism area and was only handled by Badung alone. Beggars would come again in the destination area by a variety of reasons and ways. On that account, it was needed a special handling and coaching in their area of origin. (kmb25)

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ANKARA, Turkey — Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party were poised Thursday to choose his successor as party chairman and prime minister, with expectations high that the man who has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade will keep charge as president.

Erdogan has indicated that he plans to keep tight control of the government by transforming the normally ceremonial presidency.

He has said he would employ its seldom-used powers, such as summoning and presiding over Cabinet meetings. Turkey’s first popularly elected president, Erdogan takes office Aug. 28.

Senior officials of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, were meeting Thursday to pick a leader whom analysts expect to be loyal to Erdogan. The nominee to succeed

Erdogan as party chairman and prime minister is to be confirmed at the party’s extraordinary congress next week.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who has led Turkish foreign policy both as an adviser and as minister since 2003, is reported to be the strongest candidate. Binali Yildirim, a former transport minister and close Erdogan confidant, has also been tipped for the job.

President Abdullah Gul, who was once considered as a possible candidate for prime minister in a job swap with Erdogan, has been sidelined. He has publicly split with Erdogan, including recently over the government’s attempts to shutdown Twitter and YouTube in Turkey.

Presidents were previously voted in by parliament, but Erdogan — whose party required he step down after three terms — decided to make it an elected post.

move the remnants of her government two weeks later was necessary to restore order.

Prayuth, who was not present at Thursday’s vote in the legislature, has said he will hand over power once a three-phase roadmap of reconciliation, an interim government to oversee reforms and elections is complete.

Moments after his appointment Prayuth, who was inspecting troops at an army camp in Chonburi province south of Bangkok, was asked by reporters whether he had heard the news.

“I didn’t know I had been asked to join,” Prayuth said, shaking his head, adding: “First, I want the country to move on.”

“COSMETIC CHANGE” Since launching the coup, Prayuth has displayed signs of authoritarianism. A draft 2015 fiscal budget was approved on Monday in a unanimous vote, with only three abstentions by the NLA president and deputies according to convention. “Nobody had any problem. Nobody disagreed,” Prayuth said after the vote on Monday.

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In this Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 photo, Turkish Prime Minister and presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a business meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.

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BUSINESS Growth in China manufacturing weakens in August

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BANGLI - Poverty rate in Bangli remains quite high. The county being famous for the agricultural potential becomes the large enough contributor to poverty in Bali. For example, Pengotan village is considered to have high enough poor people estimated to reach 261 families in 2014.

HONG KONG — Growth in China’s vast manufacturing industry weakened in August, suggesting that the recovery in the world No. 2 economy is losing momentum and Beijing may need to spoon out more stimulus. unveiled mini-stimulus measures aimed at boosting areas such as public housing and railways. They need to prop up growth to meet the official full-year expansion target of 7.5 percent while also trying to guide the economy to growth based on domestic consumption rather than exports and investment that have powered China’s factories for decades.

“Today’s data suggest that the economic recovery is still continuing but its momentum has slowed again,” said HSBC’s chief China economist, Qu Hongbin. “Therefore, industrial demand and investment activity growth will likely stay on a relatively subdued path. We think more policy support is needed to help consolidate the recovery.”

The survey, compiled with Markit, is based on 85-90 percent of responses from 420 factories. The final version is due Sep. 1.

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A worker dressed a god of fortune costume to attract customers into his shop selling Chinese-made souvenirs in Beijing Thursday, July 24, 2014. China’s manufacturing rose in July to its highest level in 18 months, in a sign that mini-stimulus measures to shore up growth in the world’s No. 2 economy have taken hold.

Apple’s stock bounces back to hit a new high

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s stock touched a new high Wednesday, reflecting investors’ renewed faith in CEO Tim Cook’s ability to

outwit the competition and expand the technological hit factory built by the late Steve Jobs.

The milestone represents a dramatic turnaround in sentiment since Apple’s shares reached its previ-

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In this June 2, 2014 file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Apple’s stock touched a new high Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, reflecting investors’ renewed faith in Cook’s ability to outwit the competition and expand the technological hit factory built by the late Steve Jobs.

ous split-adjusted peak of $100.72 in September 2012. After hitting $101.09 Wednesday afternoon, shares closed up 4 cents at $100.57.

That gave Apple a market value of $602 billion — by far more than any other publicly held company.

Apple’s stock had fallen to a split-adjusted $55.01 in April 2013 to wipe out about $300 billion in shareholder wealth amid worries that the Cupertino, California, company had run out of ideas without Jobs as its mastermind. The anxiety escalated as sales of iPhones and iPads slowed amid the growing popularity of less expensive smartphones and tablet computers made

by Samsung Electronics and other rivals relying on Google’s free Android software.

Now, there are signs that Samsung’s devices are losing momentum while Apple prepares to release the next version of its iPhone this fall and investors wait for Cook to deliver on his promise to introduce a product that will open up new opportunities. The breakthrough is widely expected to be a smartwatch

that will include sensors to help people monitor their health.

Hewing to its secretive ways, Apple hasn’t provided details about its upcoming products.

Cook, though, has been raising hopes that Apple is poised to create a new product category for the first time since the iPad’s release four years ago. “We’ve got some great things that we’re working on that I’m very, very proud of and very, very excited about,” he told analysts in April.

Anticipation for the next iPhone already is running even higher than the usual frenetic buildup.

The device is expected to feature a display screen of at least 4.7 inches, an upgrade likely to spur many Apple fans to scrap their old models for a more spacious version.

Apple’s stock hit its previous high the last time the company increased the iPhone’s screen size in 2012, going from 3.5 inches to 4 inches that time.

Analysts are also enthused about Apple’s efforts to immerse its devices and services even more

deeply into people’s lives by creating a system that syncs the iPhone with display screens in autos and implanting a health-tracking system in the next version of its mobile software due out this fall. The new software, called iOS 8, could also work with a smartwatch, if Apple does release one.

Apple’s stock has bounced back with the help of some financial engineering, too. The company’s board voted in April to spend an additional $30 billion buying back Apple’s stock and approved an unusual 7-for-1 stock split.

The split, completed last month, was Apple’s first in nine years.

Although a split doesn’t change a company’s market value, it often helps lift a stock’s price by making the shares appear more affordable to a larger pool of potential investors. In Apple’s case, the split caused the stock price to fall from about $645 to $92 to adjust for the issuance of more than 5 billion additional shares. Apple’s stock has risen 34 percent since the split was announced in April.

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Poverty rate at Pengotan village stays high

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The preliminary version of HSBC’s manufacturing index, released Thursday, fell to a three-month low of 50.3 from 51.7 in July, indicating that manufacturing businesses are barely growing.

The index, based on a survey of a factory purchasing managers, uses a 100-point scale on which numbers below 50 indicate contraction China’s economy has been struggling to stabilize after slowing from double-digit rates of expansion in the past decade. Growth edged higher to 7.5 percent in the April-June quarter from 7.4 percent in the first quarter.

The HSBC report adds to other recent indicators that the recovery is still shaky. Earlier this month, data showed that China’s exports accelerated but imports sagged, which may reflect weakening domestic demand.

China’s leaders earlier this year

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Poverty rate in Bangli remains quite high. The county being famous for the agricultural potential becomes the large enough contributor to poverty in Bali.

Headman of Pengotan, I Wayan Suardana, said the effort to alleviate the poverty in Bangli was fairly not easy.

It required the role of various parties to reduce the high enough poverty rate in Bangli, especially at Pengotan village. “Alleviating poverty is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand.

It required the role of various parties, not only the government but also the support of poor people themselves,” he said when met at his office, Wednesday (Aug 20).

Various structured efforts as scheduled by central government had been undertaken and were currently underway. Even, his party had done the same thing to overcome the poverty at Pengotan village. “In addition to the handling by central government such as the Integrated Rural Development Movement (Gerbangsadu) as well as the house refurbishment assistance, we in the village authority also provide similar alleviation program such as house

refurbishment assistance every year for a family whose fund is budgeted by village authority started in 2013. In addition, it is also intended to motivate poor communities in order they can overcome poverty and improve their living standards,” he added.

Suardana also added that poverty alleviation was not easy. It required a process and took a long time to alleviate the quite high poverty rate. As experienced by the poor at Sunting hamlet, Pengotan village, I Wayan Muka, 54, he was classified into very poor family who still did not get any help from the government in relation to the agenda of poverty alleviation in Bangli region.

Muka said that he very much hoped for help from the government to support his life. “Yes, if we indeed get the assistance, it’s okay. Actually, I do not expect this condition. If we should get it, hopefully it can be realized quickly,” said the father of four children dropping out of school. (oka)

Gedong Kertya to build representative palm-leaf manuscript archive building Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Development plan of the more representative palm-leaf manuscript storage and reading room will be made at Gedong Kertya with the budget worth IDR 400 million. The Head of Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Ketut Warkadea, said on Wednesday (Aug 20) the new building site would be located in the south of Gedong Kertya. At least it could have been completed next October and could be used in November. “We target the completion next October and in November the palmleaf manuscript storage can have been used accordingly, either for storing palm-leaf manuscript, reading room or digitization process of the palm-leaf manuscript,” he said.

He said the new building construction would not disturb the process of storing and reading palm-leaf manuscript because the building space was quite far from the reading room. “We build the new building in the back. Surely it will not disrupt the process of storage because the storage space and reading room are located in front area,” he said.

The old collections of the palm-leaf manuscript of Gedong Kertya required special handling so that the storage process would be better. Storage room would also be equipped with digitization and translator of the manuscripts dominantly written in Old Javanese language. “It needs special care so that the existing palm-leaf manuscript turns more durable. Besides, this ancestral heritage will also be digitized,” said Warkadea. (kmb34)

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A worker takes an order from a customer at the counter while a display board, top right, shows FiletO-Fish burger available at a McDonald’s restaurant in Beijing, China Thursday, July 31, 2014.

Russia conducts checks at McDonalds

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MOSCOW — Russian news agencies reported Thursday that the country’s food safety agency will conduct checks on McDonald’s restaurants in the Urals following food safety complaints, a day after four branches of the chain were shuttered in Moscow.

Natalya Lukyantseva, an official in the Sverdlovsk regional office of the agency, told RIA Novosti and Interfax that unplanned checks were being carried out in a number of restaurants after residents voiced safety concerns. The inspections come one day after the agency, known in Russian as Rospotrebnadzor, ordered four Moscow-based restaurants to suspend operations, citing “numerous” sanitary law breaches.

One of those restaurants, on

Moscow’s central Pushkin Square, was the first to open in the Soviet Union in 1990, drawing crowds of thousands that circled around the block. The restaurant became a symbol of domestic reform and openness with the West, and today it is one of the company’s most visited venues in Russia.

The shutdown comes in the wake of rising tensions between Russia and the West. After the U.S. and the European Union slapped

sanctions on a range of Russian banks and crucial industries last month, Russia responded with a wide-ranging ban on food products imported from those regions.

McDonalds could not be immediately reached for comment about the checks in Sverdlovsk, but a statement posted on the Russian version of its website Wednesday said the company was doing “all it can for a speedy opening” of the four Moscow restaurants.

39 dead, dozens missing in Japan landslides

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TOKYO — Japanese police say the death toll from rain-triggered landslides on the outskirts of Hiroshima city has risen to 39, with 51 people still missing. Search efforts continued Thursday, a day after a series of landslides crushed dozens of houses, burying residents underneath them.

Hillsides caved in or were swept down into residential areas in at least five valleys in the suburbs of the western Japanese city after heavy rains left slopes unstable.

Hiroshima prefectural police said 39 people were confirmed dead and 51 others were missing as of midday Thursday. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said 23 people were injured, 13 seriously.

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Japan Ground Self Defense Force personnel search for missing residents in a mud-ridden residential area following a massive landslide in Hiroshima, western Japan, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014.

ATLANTA — At least one of the two American aid workers who were infected with the Ebola virus was to be discharged Thursday from an Atlanta hospital, a spokeswoman for the aid group he was working for said.

Meanwhile, Emory University Hospital planned to hold a news conference Thursday morning to discuss both patients’ discharge.

Alison Geist, a spokeswoman for Samaritan’s Purse, told The Associated Press she did not know the exact time Dr. Kent Brantly would be released but confirmed it would happen Thursday. Meanwhile, Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, said in a statement that Brantly

has recovered.

“Today I join all of our Samaritan’s Purse team around the world in giving thanks to God as we celebrate Dr. Kent Brantly’s recovery from Ebola and release from the hospital,” Graham’s statement said.

Brantly and Nancy Writebol were flown out of the west African nation of Liberia earlier this month and have been getting treatment for the deadly disease in an isolation unit at the hospital. The two were infected while working at a missionary clinic outside Liberia’s capital.

The Ebola outbreak has killed 1,350 people and counting across West Africa. Ebola is only spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of sick people experiencing symptoms.

German doctor accused of drugging, abusing women Associated Press

BERLIN — Authorities in Germany have arrested a hospital doctor on suspicion he drugged and sexually abused female patients participating in a fake clinical study he set up.

German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the unidentified 48-year-old worked at a clinic in the Bavarian town of Bamberg.

Prosecutors accuse him of pretending to conduct the clinical study in order to prey on his victims.

The case came to light after a young woman sought police help last month, and blood tests confirmed she had been sedated against her will.

Officers searched the man’s home and office Monday and found electronic evidence that indicated he had “conducted sexual acts on his helpless victim, and photographed them.”

Based on the evidence, investigators believe he also assaulted other — as yet unidentified — women.

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From page 1 But evidence presented by Prabowo’s team has not been regarded as convincing.

“They are going to throw out the suit,” said Tobias Basuki, a political analyst from Jakarta-based thinktank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, adding that the evidence was “very weak”.

Legal challenges were mounted after Indonesia’s two previous direct presidential elections, in 2004 and 2009, and both failed.

The huge team of lawyers for Prabowo, now a wealthy businessman, has been left red-faced at times by unconvincing witness testimony.

One witness claimed to be a village girl from the mountains who supported Prabowo -- only for it to emerge later she held a senior position with the ex-general’s party in eastern Papua province.

Security was tight for the announcement, with around 4,000 police on duty at the court, where Prabowo supporters have been staging peaceful rallies for the past fortnight.

Another 30,000 security personnel,

including soldiers and police, were deployed around the capital, while a total of 250,000 police were on duty across the vast archipelago.

There have been concerns about the Constitutional Court’s impartiality after its former chief justice was jailed in June for accepting bribes to sway his rulings in regional election disputes.

But analysts believe that the court will be desperate to appear clean following the recent scandal.

Even if he loses, Prabowo has pledged to fight on, telling supporters this week that “our struggle has just started”. But observers believe he has no other realistic options left to challenge the result.

A loss for Prabowo in court would clear the way for Widodo to focus on forming his administration and formulating policy before his October 20 inauguration.

He has already set up a “transition team” to shape policy and pick his cabinet, and asked the public to suggest who they would like to be ministers in an online poll.

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INDONESIA President says Islamic State ‘embarrassing’ Muslims Military chief orders officers not to carry live ammunition

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JAKARTA - Commander of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) General Moeldoko has instructed military officers securing the Constitutional Court (MK) to not carry live ammunition.

The general here on Thursday personally conducted a random weapon inspection to ensure that none of them were carrying live ammunition.

He warned errant officers of an impending sanction related to losing their positions.

“No officer is allowed to carry live ammunition. If they do not follow the instruction, I will punish the commanders,” General Moeldoko stated at a row call prior to securing the MK’s verdict on election dispute.

He, however, instructed the military officers to properly follow standard procedures including taking firm actions against those committing anarchism.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian National Police cordoned off 21 locations bordering Jakarta in a bid to secure the verdict session of the election dispute trial at the MK. National Police spokesman Inspector General Ronny F. Sompie stated on Wednesday that several locations near Jakarta have been cordoned off in an effort to prevent mass exodus to Jakarta.

“We have increased security and cordoned off 14 locations on the border between Jakarta and West Java,” Ronny noted.

However, he refused to divulge further details regarding the locations as he did not want to risk the safety of on-duty personnel.

“Information about the areas being cordoned off has been kept a secret. If we reveal the location it will endanger our personnel,” he affirmed.

Moreover, he noted that the police have cordoned off seven locations on the border between the Province of Banten and Jakarta to prevent mass exodus from Banten to Jakarta.

Ronnie denied news that the police had deployed snipers to secure the area around the MK. “We have not deployed snipers to secure the trial court. We have deployed personnel and are prepared to secure the area around MK,” he emphasized.

He stressed that the implementation of security measures at MK are directed at preventing disorder during the verdict session of the 2014 election dispute trial.

“In addition, we are prepared to prevent intrusion against the judges of the MK, the commissioner of the General Elections Commission, and all parties present at the hearing,” he noted.

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SYDNEY - The president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, on Thursday called the actions of Islamic State militants “embarrassing” to the religion and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the scale of the slaughter wrought by the extremists in overrunning large swathes of Iraq and Syria and the level of violence being used was appalling.

“It is shocking. It is becoming out of control,” he said in an interview with The Australian, a day after IS released a video showing a masked militant beheading US reporter James Foley, provoking worldwide revulsion.

“We do not tolerate it, we forbid ISIS in Indonesia,” he added, referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as IS was formerly known.

“Indonesia is not an Islamic state.

We respect all religions.”

He urged international leaders to work together to combat radicalisation.

“This is a new wake-up call to international leaders all over the world, including Islamic leaders,” he said, adding that the actions of IS were not only “embarrassing” to Islam but “humiliating”, the newspaper reported.

“All leaders must review how to combat extremism. Changing paradigms on both sides are needed -- how

the West perceives Islam and how Islam perceives the West.”

Indonesia is home to the world’s biggest Muslim population of about 225 million and has long struggled with terrorism. But a successful clampdown in recent years has seen the end of major deadly attacks.

Jakarta has estimated that dozens of Indonesians have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight and Yudhoyono said he was concerned about their return, adding that he had tasked agencies to oppose the spread of extremist ideology in the sprawling nation.

“Our citizens here in Indonesia are picking up recruitment messages from ISIS containing extremist ideas,” said the president, whose decade in office comes to an end in October.

“The philosophy of ISIS stands against the fundamental values we embrace in Indonesia. Last Friday, in my state of the union address to the nation, I called on all Indonesians to reject ISIS and to stop the spread of its radical ideology.

“My government and security agencies have taken decisive steps to curtail the spread of ISIS in Indonesia, including by prohibiting Indonesians to join ISIS or to fight for ISIS, and

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also by blocking Internet sites that promote this idea.”

Indonesia’s neighbour Australia has also seen up to 150 of its nationals join the militants, with the photo of an Australian boy holding a severed head in Syria last week sparking global condemnation.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday said IS was “as close to pure evil as we’re ever likely to find” and what happened to Foley was “sickening”.

He also voiced concern that jailed Indonesian militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir -- the chief ideologue of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah -- had pledged allegiance to IS. JI is blamed for the Bali bombings in 2002, which claimed 88 Australian lives, although a successful crackdown over the past decade has weakened such groups.

“That does indicate the potential for increased terrorist activity in our region,” Abbott told reporters when asked about Bashir’s pledge.

Bashir, a vocal supporter of AlQaeda style jihad, has been in and out of prison for years and is currently serving a 15-year term for funding terrorism.

Workers of a shoe factory walk as they make their home after work, at Pasar Kemis industrial park in Tangerang August 14, 2014. Negotiations over pay and working conditions have typically remained within national borders, but activists are now bringing more muscle to the table and putting more pressure on employers and governments by using shared experiences in nearby markets.

Three state-owned enterprises form joint venture bank

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JAKARTA - Three state-owned enterprises (BUMN) PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk, PT Pos Indonesia, and Taspen realized the formation of a joint venture bank with Bank Sinar Harapan Bali (BSHB) as a vehicle of implementation and cooperation.

President Director Mandiri Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated here on Thursday that the realization and formation of the joint venture bank

will expand access to financial services for the community. The bank will especially focus on developing small and medium enterprises.

“Through this joint venture bank, we also want to play an active role in supporting the government and Bank Indonesia in providing financial services for people in various parts of Indonesia,” Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated.

Earlier, in April 2013, Mandiri, Pos Indonesia, and Taspen had signed a memorandum of under-

standing to form a joint venture bank. In the memorandum, Mandiri will become the majority shareholder, while Pos Indonesia and Taspen will each hold 20.2 percent stake.

President Director Taspen Iqbal Latanro remarked that a study conducted to form a joint venture bank revealed that most retirees still needed funding to run a business, so that they can pay for the necessities of life and the education of their children.

“We hope that the synergy between these state-owned enterprises can help the retirees in getting access to funding, which is easier and cheaper,” Iqbal noted.

Moreover, the joint venture bank will focus on providing financial assistance to civil servants (PNS). According to data furnished by BPS, of the working population of about 118.2 million people in Indonesia, in February 2014, around 14.4 million people were civil servants.

Meanwhile, President Director

of PT Pos Indonesia Budi Setiawan stated that PT Pos Indonesia distributed retirement funds to approximately 700 thousand retirees and will help the growth of their credit portfolio.

He considered that the extensive network of Pos Indonesia will help the joint venture bank to gain a foothold in the market.

“Through this cooperation, all Indonesian people in different areas can get optimal access to banking service products,” he added.

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IBP

SINGARAJA - Sidatapa village is one of the old villages in the Central North Bali, precisely located 20 km west of Singaraja town. What interesting to see here is the rectangle house divided into three parts: innermost, middle and outermost part. The three sections are separated with wooden partition and connected with wooden door. Meanwhile, the innermost part consists of several smaller partitions used for sacred places. Here villagers place all the shrines in the house (unlike most Balinese people placing all shrines outside the house). Middle part is the place for the ancestors, kitchen and living room, while at the outermost part comprises the entrance to the house.

AP Photo/Tom Uhlman

Eugenie Bouchard, of Canada, returns a volley to Svetlana Kuznetsova, of Russia, at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Wednesday Aug. 13, 2014, in Mason, Ohio.

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Bouchard, Wozniacki upset at Connecticut Open Associated Press

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Third-seeded Eugenie Bouchard of Canada and four-time champion Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark both suffered straight-set upsets Wednesday in the second round of the Connecticut Open. Bouchard lost 6-2, 6-2 to Australian Samantha Stosur. The Canadian, ranked No. 8 in the world, played with her left thigh wrapped after straining her hamstring in practice this week. The injury left her visibly struggling with her mobility throughout the match.

“It’s obviously not ideal; I’ve had to cut back a little bit on practice time, but I should be good to go pretty soon,” she said. Bouchard said her personal trainer will join her in New York and said she does not expect the injury to have much of an impact on her performance at next week’s U.S. Open.

Stosur, ranked No. 25 in the world, dominated the match, winning almost 70 percent of the points on her serve, while breaking Bouchard’s serve twice in each set.

“My serve is a weapon, and sometimes it doesn’t act like that, so it’s important for me to really use that part of my game to my best advantage,” said Stosur, who will play in her first quarterfinal since January. Wozniacki, the fourth seed, was beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Camila Giorgi of Italy.

Giorgi, who also beat Wozniacki in last year’s U.S. Open, faced just two break points. Her first serves reached 117 mph and her second serves hovered around 107 mph.

She consistently hit ground strokes at Wozniacki’s feet, preventing her from moving laterally. The 37thranked Giorgi broke Wozniacki’s serve in the first game of the match and twice in the second set. “I think today the serve was the key and really consistent,” she said.

It was the earliest exit at this tournament for Wozniacki, who has appeared in New Haven seven times. She won in each of her first four trips and lost in the semifinals in 2012 and 2013.

Wozniacki is ranked No. 11 and was seeded fourth this year. But she also has been training to run the New York Marathon while keeping up a full tennis schedule. She said

the cross-training has not been a problem, but acknowledged being tired on Wednesday.

“I haven’t had a day off basically since I came to Montreal, so I’ve been playing almost every day,” she said. “The tank just wasn’t full today and when you play a player like that you just don’t get by with not moving 100 percent.” Giorgi will play Garbine Muguruza in the quarterfinals. Muguruza, ranked 26th in the world, needed three sets to dispatch qualifier Peng Shuai of China 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Muguruza dropped the first two games of the final set, but won the next five games en route to the victory.

“I was nervous because I didn’t know what to do at that point,” Muguruza said. “But I just said to myself, ‘Just continue, because she’s also going to get nervous or she’s going to miss and not continue like this.”

Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium came from behind to beat Andrea Petkovic of Germany 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6) in a match that lasted 3 hours, 11 minutes. Petkovic served for the match twice in the second set at 5-4 and again at 6-5, but could not close out Flipkins.

Justin Gatlin hasn’t felt this lean or this quick or even this hungry — he’s cut way back on cheeseburgers and chocolate — in quite some time. Using a shorter, more compact stride, the American sprinter has won all 11 of his 100-meter races this season, although none have been against a certain person named Usain Bolt.

Yet, no matter how many events Gatlin wins or how fast he flies down the track, there’s one thing he can’t outrun — his checkered past.

Although he’s four years removed from serving his four-year doping suspension, some meets still refuse to include him.

Gatlin wasn’t invited to the Diamond League race in Stockholm on Thursday. Same with Birmingham, England, three days later, or the competition in Zurich on Aug. 28. All these Diamond League races are considered the biggest in this, a middle year in the Olympic cycle that does not include outdoor world championships.

“I guess paying dues in their eyes is not ever running again in their races,” said Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic 100-meter gold medalist who tested positive test for excessive testosterone in 2006, was reinstated from his ban on July 24, 2010, and captured bronze at the London Games two years later. “I look at myself as the ‘Batman’ of track — a vigilante. You may not like me, but I’m needed.” Meet directors insist there’s no grudge and that different races simply have different protocols.

The race in Zurich, for instance, is owned by a private club and its bylaws include a provision where there will be no invitations extended to any athletes banned for two years or more.

However, there’s wiggle room. That particular meet invited Gatlin last season because he was leading the Diamond League in the 100 and that race was the final.

This season, since the 200 counts in the standings and the 100 is an invitational race, “we would certainly not invite him,” meet director Patrick Magyar said in a phone interview.

It could’ve been quite the showdown, too, with Bolt expected to attend. Gatlin beat Bolt on June 6, 2013, at a Diamond League race in Rome, one of the few to hold off the Jamaican sensation, who’s the world record holder in the 100 and 200.

“There’s no personal animosity,” Magyar said. “The decision of the general assembly stands as this: We don’t want to give our money to athletes that have brought the sport disrepute.”

AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File

FILE - In this July 18, 2014, file photo, Justin Gatlin, of the United States, wins the men’s 200 meters during the Herculis International Athletics Meeting, at the Louis II Stadium, in Monaco.

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Porto, Celtic well set in Champs League playoffs Associated Press

GENEVA — Former European Cup winners Porto and Celtic took big steps toward the Champions League group stage on Wednesday, as home teams struggled in their playoff round, first-leg matches. Two-time champion Porto won 1-0 in Lille, and Celtic took advantage of a reprieve from UEFA to play in the competition by drawing 1-1 at Maribor.

Russian league leader Zenit St. Petersburg’s 1-0 victory at Standard Liege helped ensure

all five home teams failed to win. APOEL is favored to advance next week in Cyprus after

drawing 1-1 against Aalborg in Denmark. BATE Borisov took a 1-1 draw back to Belarus after

AP Photo/Polfoto, Gregers Tycho

Aalborg BK’s Rasmus Thelander, left, and Apoel FC’s Tomas De Vincenti, right, vie for the ball during their Champions League play-off first leg soccer match at Aalborg Stadium, Denmark, Wedensday, Aug. 20, 2014.

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Slovan Bratislava got an 80thminute equalizer from veteran Slovakia forward Robert Vittek.

Second-leg matches are played next Tuesday, two days before the 32-team group stage is drawn in Monaco. Each club is then guaranteed at last 8.6 million euros ($11.5 million) in prize money from UEFA. Porto and Lille both finished third in their national leagues last season, and it was Portugal which looked the classier act on this evidence.

The only goal, in the 61st minute, had a World Cup flavor to it. Porto’s Mexico midfielder Hector Herrera pounced from close-range after Lille’s Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama parried a header by Jackson Martinez, the Colombia forward.

Lille rarely threatened, though defender Sebastien Corchia shot over from eight meters (yards) in the 45th after his first shot was blocked. Celtic, the 1967 champion, owed its appearance in the playoffs to UEFA’s lawyers after losing home and away to previous opponent Legia Warsaw.

Celtic advanced when the Polish champion was punished for fielding a suspended player.

The Scottish side led in the sixth minute from a third goal

in the competition by Callum McGregor, who seized on a loose ball after Jo Inge Berget’s shot was saved. Maribor, seeking a first group-stage appearance for 15 years, leveled eight minutes with Damjan Bohar’s goal. Celtic would have retaken the lead but Stefan Johansen, standing on the goalline, inadvertently blocked teammate Virgil van Dijk’s header. After four straight wins in its national league, coach Andre Villas-Boas’ Zenit team also won in Belgium.

Brazil forward Hulk’s pass across the penalty box set up Oleg Shatov’s winning goal in the 16th minute. APOEL, a surprise quarterfinalist three seasons ago, made its first shot on target count in the 54th minute at Aalborg. Brazilian midfielder Vinicius finished a surging run into the penalty area with a rising shot into the net.

The Danish champion Aalborg had dominated the first half and took the lead with Nicolaj Thomsen’s shot in the 16th from 15 meters (yards). BATE are well set to reach the group stage for the fourth time since 2008.

It led with a 44th-minute own goal by Slovan defender Tomas Jablonsky.

Vittek, whose four goals at the 2010 World Cup included two to eliminate defending champion Italy, came off the bench late to level the match with a left-foot shot from a tight angle.

Dzeko signs new four-year deal at Man City

Bosnia and Herzegovina captain Edin Dzeko has signed a new four-year contract with Manchester City, the Premier League champions announced on Wednesday. The 28-year-old striker, who signed for City from VfL Wolfsburg in 2011, penned the new deal to keep him at the club until 2018.

“I knew from the beginning when I started here that I wanted

to stay for a long time - I can’t see any place better than here,” Dzeko told the club’s website (www.mcfc.co.uk).

“Over the last three and a half years we’ve made history together but I feel like we are only at the start of something really special.

“There are still so many objectives and goals that I want to reach from my career in the game and I believe that I am in the perfect place to achieve them all.”

Dzeko joins team mates Aleksandar Kolarov, Samir Nasri, David Silva, Vincent Kompany and Sergio Aguero in penning a new long-term deal as the club looks to secure the futures of their most valuable players during the summer transfer window.

The Bosnian has scored 66 goals in 155 appearances in all competitions for City and was part of the squad that won two league titles, the FA Cup in 2011 and the League Cup this year.

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Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, left, and Olympiacos’ Kostas Manolas are seen battling for the ball during the first half of 2014 Guinness International Champions Cup, on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, in Minneapolis.

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Scholes “scared” about United’s future

Reuters

LONDON - Manchester United great Paul Scholes has said he is scared about the club’s future and believes they could spiral into decline in the same way rivals Liverpool did in the 1990s.

Scholes, who played for United throughout his whole career and won 11 Premier League titles, says the club need to sign five top players to arrest their current slump that saw them fail to qualify for the Champions League last season.

United finished seventh in the Premier League in May, having won the trophy the previous year, and began the latest campaign under new manager Louis van Gaal with a disappointing 2-1 home defeat to Swansea City on Saturday.

“I am scared for United. Genuinely scared they could go into the wilderness in the same way Liverpool did in the 1990s,” Scholes said in the Independent newspaper on Thursday.

“What do they need? Five play-

AP Photo/The News & Observer, Travis Long

United States’ Megan Rapinoe (15) celebrates her first-half goal against Switzerland during an exhibition soccer game Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, in Cary, N.C.

US women score 3 in 2nd half, beat Switzerland 4-1

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CARY, N.C. — Megan Rapinoe scored just three minutes into the game, and the United States got three goals in the second half to beat Switzerland 4-1 Wednesday night.

Carli Lloyd made a penalty kick early in the second half, Christen Press scored in the 77th minute and Abby Wambach got her 168th career score in the 87th.

“We knew Switzerland would be a good challenge and we played good, up-tempo soccer,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis said after improving to 2-0-1 since being officially named to the position. She was also 6-0-2 in two stints as interim coach. AnaMaria Crnogorcevic scored on a penalty kick in the 70th minute for Switzerland. It came on the Swiss’ only shot on goal and ended Hope Solo’s bid to set a new shutout record for the US women. Solo remained tied with Briana Scurry for the team mark with 71 shutouts.

“For me, the record is going to come when it comes — I’m not going to chase it,” said Solo,

playing her first game for the U.S. since her June 21 arrest on a domestic violence charge involving her sister and nephew. “It’s always disappointing to get scored on whether it’s a game with a recordbreaking opportunity or not. Of course I’d like to get the record so I can move on and focus on other things, but it’s not the end-all, beall for me.”

The U.S. had 15 shots in its first game since a 2-2 tie with France on June 19, and extended its home unbeaten streak to 85 games (740-11). The U.S. (8-2-3 this year) is ranked No. 1 in the world while the Swiss, who have already qualified for next year’s World Cup in Canada, are 19th.

Rapinoe quickly put the Americans ahead when she hit the lower right corner with a left-footed shot from the top of the circle.

Sydney Leroux had the assist.

Lloyd doubled the advantage with a penalty kick in the 56th minute, beating Stenia Michel to the lower left corner.

Crnogorcevic beat Solo to the

right side after the goalie moved in the opposite direction, with the penalty set up by Rapinoe’s hand ball in the box. Ellis had Rapinoe playing in the “10” spot, an unfamiliar position for the veteran midfielder. “(On the goal) it popped out wide to Sydney and I was kind of filling in in the box,” Rapinoe said. “I took a quick touch and hit it. I play out wide normally, so (the position) was comfortable for me. ... Yeah, it was a hand ball.

Sorry, Hope.” Press nailed down the victory in the 77th minute with a 25-yard shot that bounced in off the crossbar.

“I want to watch that again,” Press said with a smile. “It was one of those second balls, chest and volley. I don’t know if it was one of my best until I see it.” Michel replaced Gaelle Thalman, who had six saves for the Swiss, at halftime.

“Some of my players hadn’t played at this speed and didn’t know this level,” Swiss coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg said. “Tonight they saw how fast women’s soccer can be.”

ers. Five proper players who can hit the ground running and turn round a situation that looks desperate. Let me be clear: I am sick of having to criticise the club to which I gave my life as a footballer. But United need to arrest their decline.”

The defeat by Swansea shredded the close-season optimism that had been circulating since former Netherlands boss Van Gaal was chosen as the permanent replacement for David Moyes, who was sacked after just 10 months in the role.

With many pundits claiming United’s squad needs a root-andbranch overhaul, the club have so far struggled to make a major splash in the transfer market this window.

While some of the world’s best players have been linked with United, only left back Luke Shaw, midfielder Ander Herrera and defender Marcos Rojo have been recruited to date.

United will get the chance to get points on the board when they play Sunderland away on Sunday.

Rwanda appeals African Cup disqualification

Associated Press

CAIRO — The Confederation of African Football says Rwanda has appealed against its disqualification from African Cup qualifying for fielding a striker who was using two identities.

CAF says Rwanda’s appeal will be heard on Wednesday. The final round of qualifiers begins on Sept. 5.

CAF announced this week that it had thrown out Rwanda over its

fielding of forward Dady Birori, who was ineligible to play for the country because he was using two different identities when playing international and club football.

CAF said Birori was playing under another name for his Congolese club AS Vita and using a different, Congolese, passport and a different date of birth.

The African football body reinstated Republic of Congo in the qualifying competition in the place of Rwanda.

UEFA punishes Feyenoord for fans’ racist behavior

Associated Press

NYON, Switzerland — UEFA has punished Feyenoord for racist behavior by fans during a Champions League match against Besiktas of Turkey. UEFA says the Netherlands club must close a section of its De Kuip stadium for the second leg of its Europa League playoff, and pay a 45,000 euros fine ($60,000).

Footage posted online appears

to show Feyenoord fans chanting a religious insult at the visiting club during the July 30 match. Besiktas won 2-1 and later advanced to the playoff round.

UEFA says its disciplinary panel also charged Feyenoord with crowd disturbances after fans threw fireworks and missiles during the same match . Feyenoord’s sanction will be enforced when it hosts Ukraine’s Zorya Luhansk next week.

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Porto, Celtic well set in Champs League playoffs Associated Press

GENEVA — Former European Cup winners Porto and Celtic took big steps toward the Champions League group stage on Wednesday, as home teams struggled in their playoff round, first-leg matches. Two-time champion Porto won 1-0 in Lille, and Celtic took advantage of a reprieve from UEFA to play in the competition by drawing 1-1 at Maribor.

Russian league leader Zenit St. Petersburg’s 1-0 victory at Standard Liege helped ensure

all five home teams failed to win. APOEL is favored to advance next week in Cyprus after

drawing 1-1 against Aalborg in Denmark. BATE Borisov took a 1-1 draw back to Belarus after

AP Photo/Polfoto, Gregers Tycho

Aalborg BK’s Rasmus Thelander, left, and Apoel FC’s Tomas De Vincenti, right, vie for the ball during their Champions League play-off first leg soccer match at Aalborg Stadium, Denmark, Wedensday, Aug. 20, 2014.

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Slovan Bratislava got an 80thminute equalizer from veteran Slovakia forward Robert Vittek.

Second-leg matches are played next Tuesday, two days before the 32-team group stage is drawn in Monaco. Each club is then guaranteed at last 8.6 million euros ($11.5 million) in prize money from UEFA. Porto and Lille both finished third in their national leagues last season, and it was Portugal which looked the classier act on this evidence.

The only goal, in the 61st minute, had a World Cup flavor to it. Porto’s Mexico midfielder Hector Herrera pounced from close-range after Lille’s Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama parried a header by Jackson Martinez, the Colombia forward.

Lille rarely threatened, though defender Sebastien Corchia shot over from eight meters (yards) in the 45th after his first shot was blocked. Celtic, the 1967 champion, owed its appearance in the playoffs to UEFA’s lawyers after losing home and away to previous opponent Legia Warsaw.

Celtic advanced when the Polish champion was punished for fielding a suspended player.

The Scottish side led in the sixth minute from a third goal

in the competition by Callum McGregor, who seized on a loose ball after Jo Inge Berget’s shot was saved. Maribor, seeking a first group-stage appearance for 15 years, leveled eight minutes with Damjan Bohar’s goal. Celtic would have retaken the lead but Stefan Johansen, standing on the goalline, inadvertently blocked teammate Virgil van Dijk’s header. After four straight wins in its national league, coach Andre Villas-Boas’ Zenit team also won in Belgium.

Brazil forward Hulk’s pass across the penalty box set up Oleg Shatov’s winning goal in the 16th minute. APOEL, a surprise quarterfinalist three seasons ago, made its first shot on target count in the 54th minute at Aalborg. Brazilian midfielder Vinicius finished a surging run into the penalty area with a rising shot into the net.

The Danish champion Aalborg had dominated the first half and took the lead with Nicolaj Thomsen’s shot in the 16th from 15 meters (yards). BATE are well set to reach the group stage for the fourth time since 2008.

It led with a 44th-minute own goal by Slovan defender Tomas Jablonsky.

Vittek, whose four goals at the 2010 World Cup included two to eliminate defending champion Italy, came off the bench late to level the match with a left-foot shot from a tight angle.

Dzeko signs new four-year deal at Man City

Bosnia and Herzegovina captain Edin Dzeko has signed a new four-year contract with Manchester City, the Premier League champions announced on Wednesday. The 28-year-old striker, who signed for City from VfL Wolfsburg in 2011, penned the new deal to keep him at the club until 2018.

“I knew from the beginning when I started here that I wanted

to stay for a long time - I can’t see any place better than here,” Dzeko told the club’s website (www.mcfc.co.uk).

“Over the last three and a half years we’ve made history together but I feel like we are only at the start of something really special.

“There are still so many objectives and goals that I want to reach from my career in the game and I believe that I am in the perfect place to achieve them all.”

Dzeko joins team mates Aleksandar Kolarov, Samir Nasri, David Silva, Vincent Kompany and Sergio Aguero in penning a new long-term deal as the club looks to secure the futures of their most valuable players during the summer transfer window.

The Bosnian has scored 66 goals in 155 appearances in all competitions for City and was part of the squad that won two league titles, the FA Cup in 2011 and the League Cup this year.

Ann Heisenfelt/AP Images for Guinness International Champions Cup

Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, left, and Olympiacos’ Kostas Manolas are seen battling for the ball during the first half of 2014 Guinness International Champions Cup, on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, in Minneapolis.

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Scholes “scared” about United’s future

Reuters

LONDON - Manchester United great Paul Scholes has said he is scared about the club’s future and believes they could spiral into decline in the same way rivals Liverpool did in the 1990s.

Scholes, who played for United throughout his whole career and won 11 Premier League titles, says the club need to sign five top players to arrest their current slump that saw them fail to qualify for the Champions League last season.

United finished seventh in the Premier League in May, having won the trophy the previous year, and began the latest campaign under new manager Louis van Gaal with a disappointing 2-1 home defeat to Swansea City on Saturday.

“I am scared for United. Genuinely scared they could go into the wilderness in the same way Liverpool did in the 1990s,” Scholes said in the Independent newspaper on Thursday.

“What do they need? Five play-

AP Photo/The News & Observer, Travis Long

United States’ Megan Rapinoe (15) celebrates her first-half goal against Switzerland during an exhibition soccer game Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, in Cary, N.C.

US women score 3 in 2nd half, beat Switzerland 4-1

Associated Press

CARY, N.C. — Megan Rapinoe scored just three minutes into the game, and the United States got three goals in the second half to beat Switzerland 4-1 Wednesday night.

Carli Lloyd made a penalty kick early in the second half, Christen Press scored in the 77th minute and Abby Wambach got her 168th career score in the 87th.

“We knew Switzerland would be a good challenge and we played good, up-tempo soccer,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis said after improving to 2-0-1 since being officially named to the position. She was also 6-0-2 in two stints as interim coach. AnaMaria Crnogorcevic scored on a penalty kick in the 70th minute for Switzerland. It came on the Swiss’ only shot on goal and ended Hope Solo’s bid to set a new shutout record for the US women. Solo remained tied with Briana Scurry for the team mark with 71 shutouts.

“For me, the record is going to come when it comes — I’m not going to chase it,” said Solo,

playing her first game for the U.S. since her June 21 arrest on a domestic violence charge involving her sister and nephew. “It’s always disappointing to get scored on whether it’s a game with a recordbreaking opportunity or not. Of course I’d like to get the record so I can move on and focus on other things, but it’s not the end-all, beall for me.”

The U.S. had 15 shots in its first game since a 2-2 tie with France on June 19, and extended its home unbeaten streak to 85 games (740-11). The U.S. (8-2-3 this year) is ranked No. 1 in the world while the Swiss, who have already qualified for next year’s World Cup in Canada, are 19th.

Rapinoe quickly put the Americans ahead when she hit the lower right corner with a left-footed shot from the top of the circle.

Sydney Leroux had the assist.

Lloyd doubled the advantage with a penalty kick in the 56th minute, beating Stenia Michel to the lower left corner.

Crnogorcevic beat Solo to the

right side after the goalie moved in the opposite direction, with the penalty set up by Rapinoe’s hand ball in the box. Ellis had Rapinoe playing in the “10” spot, an unfamiliar position for the veteran midfielder. “(On the goal) it popped out wide to Sydney and I was kind of filling in in the box,” Rapinoe said. “I took a quick touch and hit it. I play out wide normally, so (the position) was comfortable for me. ... Yeah, it was a hand ball.

Sorry, Hope.” Press nailed down the victory in the 77th minute with a 25-yard shot that bounced in off the crossbar.

“I want to watch that again,” Press said with a smile. “It was one of those second balls, chest and volley. I don’t know if it was one of my best until I see it.” Michel replaced Gaelle Thalman, who had six saves for the Swiss, at halftime.

“Some of my players hadn’t played at this speed and didn’t know this level,” Swiss coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg said. “Tonight they saw how fast women’s soccer can be.”

ers. Five proper players who can hit the ground running and turn round a situation that looks desperate. Let me be clear: I am sick of having to criticise the club to which I gave my life as a footballer. But United need to arrest their decline.”

The defeat by Swansea shredded the close-season optimism that had been circulating since former Netherlands boss Van Gaal was chosen as the permanent replacement for David Moyes, who was sacked after just 10 months in the role.

With many pundits claiming United’s squad needs a root-andbranch overhaul, the club have so far struggled to make a major splash in the transfer market this window.

While some of the world’s best players have been linked with United, only left back Luke Shaw, midfielder Ander Herrera and defender Marcos Rojo have been recruited to date.

United will get the chance to get points on the board when they play Sunderland away on Sunday.

Rwanda appeals African Cup disqualification

Associated Press

CAIRO — The Confederation of African Football says Rwanda has appealed against its disqualification from African Cup qualifying for fielding a striker who was using two identities.

CAF says Rwanda’s appeal will be heard on Wednesday. The final round of qualifiers begins on Sept. 5.

CAF announced this week that it had thrown out Rwanda over its

fielding of forward Dady Birori, who was ineligible to play for the country because he was using two different identities when playing international and club football.

CAF said Birori was playing under another name for his Congolese club AS Vita and using a different, Congolese, passport and a different date of birth.

The African football body reinstated Republic of Congo in the qualifying competition in the place of Rwanda.

UEFA punishes Feyenoord for fans’ racist behavior

Associated Press

NYON, Switzerland — UEFA has punished Feyenoord for racist behavior by fans during a Champions League match against Besiktas of Turkey. UEFA says the Netherlands club must close a section of its De Kuip stadium for the second leg of its Europa League playoff, and pay a 45,000 euros fine ($60,000).

Footage posted online appears

to show Feyenoord fans chanting a religious insult at the visiting club during the July 30 match. Besiktas won 2-1 and later advanced to the playoff round.

UEFA says its disciplinary panel also charged Feyenoord with crowd disturbances after fans threw fireworks and missiles during the same match . Feyenoord’s sanction will be enforced when it hosts Ukraine’s Zorya Luhansk next week.

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Sprinter Gatlin still tripped up by checkered past

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SINGARAJA - Sidatapa village is one of the old villages in the Central North Bali, precisely located 20 km west of Singaraja town. What interesting to see here is the rectangle house divided into three parts: innermost, middle and outermost part. The three sections are separated with wooden partition and connected with wooden door. Meanwhile, the innermost part consists of several smaller partitions used for sacred places. Here villagers place all the shrines in the house (unlike most Balinese people placing all shrines outside the house). Middle part is the place for the ancestors, kitchen and living room, while at the outermost part comprises the entrance to the house.

AP Photo/Tom Uhlman

Eugenie Bouchard, of Canada, returns a volley to Svetlana Kuznetsova, of Russia, at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Wednesday Aug. 13, 2014, in Mason, Ohio.

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Friday, August 22, 2014

Bouchard, Wozniacki upset at Connecticut Open Associated Press

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Third-seeded Eugenie Bouchard of Canada and four-time champion Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark both suffered straight-set upsets Wednesday in the second round of the Connecticut Open. Bouchard lost 6-2, 6-2 to Australian Samantha Stosur. The Canadian, ranked No. 8 in the world, played with her left thigh wrapped after straining her hamstring in practice this week. The injury left her visibly struggling with her mobility throughout the match.

“It’s obviously not ideal; I’ve had to cut back a little bit on practice time, but I should be good to go pretty soon,” she said. Bouchard said her personal trainer will join her in New York and said she does not expect the injury to have much of an impact on her performance at next week’s U.S. Open.

Stosur, ranked No. 25 in the world, dominated the match, winning almost 70 percent of the points on her serve, while breaking Bouchard’s serve twice in each set.

“My serve is a weapon, and sometimes it doesn’t act like that, so it’s important for me to really use that part of my game to my best advantage,” said Stosur, who will play in her first quarterfinal since January. Wozniacki, the fourth seed, was beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Camila Giorgi of Italy.

Giorgi, who also beat Wozniacki in last year’s U.S. Open, faced just two break points. Her first serves reached 117 mph and her second serves hovered around 107 mph.

She consistently hit ground strokes at Wozniacki’s feet, preventing her from moving laterally. The 37thranked Giorgi broke Wozniacki’s serve in the first game of the match and twice in the second set. “I think today the serve was the key and really consistent,” she said.

It was the earliest exit at this tournament for Wozniacki, who has appeared in New Haven seven times. She won in each of her first four trips and lost in the semifinals in 2012 and 2013.

Wozniacki is ranked No. 11 and was seeded fourth this year. But she also has been training to run the New York Marathon while keeping up a full tennis schedule. She said

the cross-training has not been a problem, but acknowledged being tired on Wednesday.

“I haven’t had a day off basically since I came to Montreal, so I’ve been playing almost every day,” she said. “The tank just wasn’t full today and when you play a player like that you just don’t get by with not moving 100 percent.” Giorgi will play Garbine Muguruza in the quarterfinals. Muguruza, ranked 26th in the world, needed three sets to dispatch qualifier Peng Shuai of China 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Muguruza dropped the first two games of the final set, but won the next five games en route to the victory.

“I was nervous because I didn’t know what to do at that point,” Muguruza said. “But I just said to myself, ‘Just continue, because she’s also going to get nervous or she’s going to miss and not continue like this.”

Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium came from behind to beat Andrea Petkovic of Germany 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6) in a match that lasted 3 hours, 11 minutes. Petkovic served for the match twice in the second set at 5-4 and again at 6-5, but could not close out Flipkins.

Justin Gatlin hasn’t felt this lean or this quick or even this hungry — he’s cut way back on cheeseburgers and chocolate — in quite some time. Using a shorter, more compact stride, the American sprinter has won all 11 of his 100-meter races this season, although none have been against a certain person named Usain Bolt.

Yet, no matter how many events Gatlin wins or how fast he flies down the track, there’s one thing he can’t outrun — his checkered past.

Although he’s four years removed from serving his four-year doping suspension, some meets still refuse to include him.

Gatlin wasn’t invited to the Diamond League race in Stockholm on Thursday. Same with Birmingham, England, three days later, or the competition in Zurich on Aug. 28. All these Diamond League races are considered the biggest in this, a middle year in the Olympic cycle that does not include outdoor world championships.

“I guess paying dues in their eyes is not ever running again in their races,” said Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic 100-meter gold medalist who tested positive test for excessive testosterone in 2006, was reinstated from his ban on July 24, 2010, and captured bronze at the London Games two years later. “I look at myself as the ‘Batman’ of track — a vigilante. You may not like me, but I’m needed.” Meet directors insist there’s no grudge and that different races simply have different protocols.

The race in Zurich, for instance, is owned by a private club and its bylaws include a provision where there will be no invitations extended to any athletes banned for two years or more.

However, there’s wiggle room. That particular meet invited Gatlin last season because he was leading the Diamond League in the 100 and that race was the final.

This season, since the 200 counts in the standings and the 100 is an invitational race, “we would certainly not invite him,” meet director Patrick Magyar said in a phone interview.

It could’ve been quite the showdown, too, with Bolt expected to attend. Gatlin beat Bolt on June 6, 2013, at a Diamond League race in Rome, one of the few to hold off the Jamaican sensation, who’s the world record holder in the 100 and 200.

“There’s no personal animosity,” Magyar said. “The decision of the general assembly stands as this: We don’t want to give our money to athletes that have brought the sport disrepute.”

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FILE - In this July 18, 2014, file photo, Justin Gatlin, of the United States, wins the men’s 200 meters during the Herculis International Athletics Meeting, at the Louis II Stadium, in Monaco.

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A worker takes an order from a customer at the counter while a display board, top right, shows FiletO-Fish burger available at a McDonald’s restaurant in Beijing, China Thursday, July 31, 2014.

Russia conducts checks at McDonalds

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MOSCOW — Russian news agencies reported Thursday that the country’s food safety agency will conduct checks on McDonald’s restaurants in the Urals following food safety complaints, a day after four branches of the chain were shuttered in Moscow.

Natalya Lukyantseva, an official in the Sverdlovsk regional office of the agency, told RIA Novosti and Interfax that unplanned checks were being carried out in a number of restaurants after residents voiced safety concerns. The inspections come one day after the agency, known in Russian as Rospotrebnadzor, ordered four Moscow-based restaurants to suspend operations, citing “numerous” sanitary law breaches.

One of those restaurants, on

Moscow’s central Pushkin Square, was the first to open in the Soviet Union in 1990, drawing crowds of thousands that circled around the block. The restaurant became a symbol of domestic reform and openness with the West, and today it is one of the company’s most visited venues in Russia.

The shutdown comes in the wake of rising tensions between Russia and the West. After the U.S. and the European Union slapped

sanctions on a range of Russian banks and crucial industries last month, Russia responded with a wide-ranging ban on food products imported from those regions.

McDonalds could not be immediately reached for comment about the checks in Sverdlovsk, but a statement posted on the Russian version of its website Wednesday said the company was doing “all it can for a speedy opening” of the four Moscow restaurants.

39 dead, dozens missing in Japan landslides

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TOKYO — Japanese police say the death toll from rain-triggered landslides on the outskirts of Hiroshima city has risen to 39, with 51 people still missing. Search efforts continued Thursday, a day after a series of landslides crushed dozens of houses, burying residents underneath them.

Hillsides caved in or were swept down into residential areas in at least five valleys in the suburbs of the western Japanese city after heavy rains left slopes unstable.

Hiroshima prefectural police said 39 people were confirmed dead and 51 others were missing as of midday Thursday. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said 23 people were injured, 13 seriously.

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Japan Ground Self Defense Force personnel search for missing residents in a mud-ridden residential area following a massive landslide in Hiroshima, western Japan, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014.

ATLANTA — At least one of the two American aid workers who were infected with the Ebola virus was to be discharged Thursday from an Atlanta hospital, a spokeswoman for the aid group he was working for said.

Meanwhile, Emory University Hospital planned to hold a news conference Thursday morning to discuss both patients’ discharge.

Alison Geist, a spokeswoman for Samaritan’s Purse, told The Associated Press she did not know the exact time Dr. Kent Brantly would be released but confirmed it would happen Thursday. Meanwhile, Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, said in a statement that Brantly

has recovered.

“Today I join all of our Samaritan’s Purse team around the world in giving thanks to God as we celebrate Dr. Kent Brantly’s recovery from Ebola and release from the hospital,” Graham’s statement said.

Brantly and Nancy Writebol were flown out of the west African nation of Liberia earlier this month and have been getting treatment for the deadly disease in an isolation unit at the hospital. The two were infected while working at a missionary clinic outside Liberia’s capital.

The Ebola outbreak has killed 1,350 people and counting across West Africa. Ebola is only spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of sick people experiencing symptoms.

German doctor accused of drugging, abusing women Associated Press

BERLIN — Authorities in Germany have arrested a hospital doctor on suspicion he drugged and sexually abused female patients participating in a fake clinical study he set up.

German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the unidentified 48-year-old worked at a clinic in the Bavarian town of Bamberg.

Prosecutors accuse him of pretending to conduct the clinical study in order to prey on his victims.

The case came to light after a young woman sought police help last month, and blood tests confirmed she had been sedated against her will.

Officers searched the man’s home and office Monday and found electronic evidence that indicated he had “conducted sexual acts on his helpless victim, and photographed them.”

Based on the evidence, investigators believe he also assaulted other — as yet unidentified — women.

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From page 1 But evidence presented by Prabowo’s team has not been regarded as convincing.

“They are going to throw out the suit,” said Tobias Basuki, a political analyst from Jakarta-based thinktank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, adding that the evidence was “very weak”.

Legal challenges were mounted after Indonesia’s two previous direct presidential elections, in 2004 and 2009, and both failed.

The huge team of lawyers for Prabowo, now a wealthy businessman, has been left red-faced at times by unconvincing witness testimony.

One witness claimed to be a village girl from the mountains who supported Prabowo -- only for it to emerge later she held a senior position with the ex-general’s party in eastern Papua province.

Security was tight for the announcement, with around 4,000 police on duty at the court, where Prabowo supporters have been staging peaceful rallies for the past fortnight.

Another 30,000 security personnel,

including soldiers and police, were deployed around the capital, while a total of 250,000 police were on duty across the vast archipelago.

There have been concerns about the Constitutional Court’s impartiality after its former chief justice was jailed in June for accepting bribes to sway his rulings in regional election disputes.

But analysts believe that the court will be desperate to appear clean following the recent scandal.

Even if he loses, Prabowo has pledged to fight on, telling supporters this week that “our struggle has just started”. But observers believe he has no other realistic options left to challenge the result.

A loss for Prabowo in court would clear the way for Widodo to focus on forming his administration and formulating policy before his October 20 inauguration.

He has already set up a “transition team” to shape policy and pick his cabinet, and asked the public to suggest who they would like to be ministers in an online poll.

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INDONESIA President says Islamic State ‘embarrassing’ Muslims Military chief orders officers not to carry live ammunition

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JAKARTA - Commander of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) General Moeldoko has instructed military officers securing the Constitutional Court (MK) to not carry live ammunition.

The general here on Thursday personally conducted a random weapon inspection to ensure that none of them were carrying live ammunition.

He warned errant officers of an impending sanction related to losing their positions.

“No officer is allowed to carry live ammunition. If they do not follow the instruction, I will punish the commanders,” General Moeldoko stated at a row call prior to securing the MK’s verdict on election dispute.

He, however, instructed the military officers to properly follow standard procedures including taking firm actions against those committing anarchism.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian National Police cordoned off 21 locations bordering Jakarta in a bid to secure the verdict session of the election dispute trial at the MK. National Police spokesman Inspector General Ronny F. Sompie stated on Wednesday that several locations near Jakarta have been cordoned off in an effort to prevent mass exodus to Jakarta.

“We have increased security and cordoned off 14 locations on the border between Jakarta and West Java,” Ronny noted.

However, he refused to divulge further details regarding the locations as he did not want to risk the safety of on-duty personnel.

“Information about the areas being cordoned off has been kept a secret. If we reveal the location it will endanger our personnel,” he affirmed.

Moreover, he noted that the police have cordoned off seven locations on the border between the Province of Banten and Jakarta to prevent mass exodus from Banten to Jakarta.

Ronnie denied news that the police had deployed snipers to secure the area around the MK. “We have not deployed snipers to secure the trial court. We have deployed personnel and are prepared to secure the area around MK,” he emphasized.

He stressed that the implementation of security measures at MK are directed at preventing disorder during the verdict session of the 2014 election dispute trial.

“In addition, we are prepared to prevent intrusion against the judges of the MK, the commissioner of the General Elections Commission, and all parties present at the hearing,” he noted.

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SYDNEY - The president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, on Thursday called the actions of Islamic State militants “embarrassing” to the religion and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the scale of the slaughter wrought by the extremists in overrunning large swathes of Iraq and Syria and the level of violence being used was appalling.

“It is shocking. It is becoming out of control,” he said in an interview with The Australian, a day after IS released a video showing a masked militant beheading US reporter James Foley, provoking worldwide revulsion.

“We do not tolerate it, we forbid ISIS in Indonesia,” he added, referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as IS was formerly known.

“Indonesia is not an Islamic state.

We respect all religions.”

He urged international leaders to work together to combat radicalisation.

“This is a new wake-up call to international leaders all over the world, including Islamic leaders,” he said, adding that the actions of IS were not only “embarrassing” to Islam but “humiliating”, the newspaper reported.

“All leaders must review how to combat extremism. Changing paradigms on both sides are needed -- how

the West perceives Islam and how Islam perceives the West.”

Indonesia is home to the world’s biggest Muslim population of about 225 million and has long struggled with terrorism. But a successful clampdown in recent years has seen the end of major deadly attacks.

Jakarta has estimated that dozens of Indonesians have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight and Yudhoyono said he was concerned about their return, adding that he had tasked agencies to oppose the spread of extremist ideology in the sprawling nation.

“Our citizens here in Indonesia are picking up recruitment messages from ISIS containing extremist ideas,” said the president, whose decade in office comes to an end in October.

“The philosophy of ISIS stands against the fundamental values we embrace in Indonesia. Last Friday, in my state of the union address to the nation, I called on all Indonesians to reject ISIS and to stop the spread of its radical ideology.

“My government and security agencies have taken decisive steps to curtail the spread of ISIS in Indonesia, including by prohibiting Indonesians to join ISIS or to fight for ISIS, and

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also by blocking Internet sites that promote this idea.”

Indonesia’s neighbour Australia has also seen up to 150 of its nationals join the militants, with the photo of an Australian boy holding a severed head in Syria last week sparking global condemnation.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday said IS was “as close to pure evil as we’re ever likely to find” and what happened to Foley was “sickening”.

He also voiced concern that jailed Indonesian militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir -- the chief ideologue of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah -- had pledged allegiance to IS. JI is blamed for the Bali bombings in 2002, which claimed 88 Australian lives, although a successful crackdown over the past decade has weakened such groups.

“That does indicate the potential for increased terrorist activity in our region,” Abbott told reporters when asked about Bashir’s pledge.

Bashir, a vocal supporter of AlQaeda style jihad, has been in and out of prison for years and is currently serving a 15-year term for funding terrorism.

Workers of a shoe factory walk as they make their home after work, at Pasar Kemis industrial park in Tangerang August 14, 2014. Negotiations over pay and working conditions have typically remained within national borders, but activists are now bringing more muscle to the table and putting more pressure on employers and governments by using shared experiences in nearby markets.

Three state-owned enterprises form joint venture bank

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JAKARTA - Three state-owned enterprises (BUMN) PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk, PT Pos Indonesia, and Taspen realized the formation of a joint venture bank with Bank Sinar Harapan Bali (BSHB) as a vehicle of implementation and cooperation.

President Director Mandiri Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated here on Thursday that the realization and formation of the joint venture bank

will expand access to financial services for the community. The bank will especially focus on developing small and medium enterprises.

“Through this joint venture bank, we also want to play an active role in supporting the government and Bank Indonesia in providing financial services for people in various parts of Indonesia,” Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated.

Earlier, in April 2013, Mandiri, Pos Indonesia, and Taspen had signed a memorandum of under-

standing to form a joint venture bank. In the memorandum, Mandiri will become the majority shareholder, while Pos Indonesia and Taspen will each hold 20.2 percent stake.

President Director Taspen Iqbal Latanro remarked that a study conducted to form a joint venture bank revealed that most retirees still needed funding to run a business, so that they can pay for the necessities of life and the education of their children.

“We hope that the synergy between these state-owned enterprises can help the retirees in getting access to funding, which is easier and cheaper,” Iqbal noted.

Moreover, the joint venture bank will focus on providing financial assistance to civil servants (PNS). According to data furnished by BPS, of the working population of about 118.2 million people in Indonesia, in February 2014, around 14.4 million people were civil servants.

Meanwhile, President Director

of PT Pos Indonesia Budi Setiawan stated that PT Pos Indonesia distributed retirement funds to approximately 700 thousand retirees and will help the growth of their credit portfolio.

He considered that the extensive network of Pos Indonesia will help the joint venture bank to gain a foothold in the market.

“Through this cooperation, all Indonesian people in different areas can get optimal access to banking service products,” he added.

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BUSINESS Growth in China manufacturing weakens in August

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BANGLI - Poverty rate in Bangli remains quite high. The county being famous for the agricultural potential becomes the large enough contributor to poverty in Bali. For example, Pengotan village is considered to have high enough poor people estimated to reach 261 families in 2014.

HONG KONG — Growth in China’s vast manufacturing industry weakened in August, suggesting that the recovery in the world No. 2 economy is losing momentum and Beijing may need to spoon out more stimulus. unveiled mini-stimulus measures aimed at boosting areas such as public housing and railways. They need to prop up growth to meet the official full-year expansion target of 7.5 percent while also trying to guide the economy to growth based on domestic consumption rather than exports and investment that have powered China’s factories for decades.

“Today’s data suggest that the economic recovery is still continuing but its momentum has slowed again,” said HSBC’s chief China economist, Qu Hongbin. “Therefore, industrial demand and investment activity growth will likely stay on a relatively subdued path. We think more policy support is needed to help consolidate the recovery.”

The survey, compiled with Markit, is based on 85-90 percent of responses from 420 factories. The final version is due Sep. 1.

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A worker dressed a god of fortune costume to attract customers into his shop selling Chinese-made souvenirs in Beijing Thursday, July 24, 2014. China’s manufacturing rose in July to its highest level in 18 months, in a sign that mini-stimulus measures to shore up growth in the world’s No. 2 economy have taken hold.

Apple’s stock bounces back to hit a new high

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s stock touched a new high Wednesday, reflecting investors’ renewed faith in CEO Tim Cook’s ability to

outwit the competition and expand the technological hit factory built by the late Steve Jobs.

The milestone represents a dramatic turnaround in sentiment since Apple’s shares reached its previ-

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In this June 2, 2014 file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Apple’s stock touched a new high Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, reflecting investors’ renewed faith in Cook’s ability to outwit the competition and expand the technological hit factory built by the late Steve Jobs.

ous split-adjusted peak of $100.72 in September 2012. After hitting $101.09 Wednesday afternoon, shares closed up 4 cents at $100.57.

That gave Apple a market value of $602 billion — by far more than any other publicly held company.

Apple’s stock had fallen to a split-adjusted $55.01 in April 2013 to wipe out about $300 billion in shareholder wealth amid worries that the Cupertino, California, company had run out of ideas without Jobs as its mastermind. The anxiety escalated as sales of iPhones and iPads slowed amid the growing popularity of less expensive smartphones and tablet computers made

by Samsung Electronics and other rivals relying on Google’s free Android software.

Now, there are signs that Samsung’s devices are losing momentum while Apple prepares to release the next version of its iPhone this fall and investors wait for Cook to deliver on his promise to introduce a product that will open up new opportunities. The breakthrough is widely expected to be a smartwatch

that will include sensors to help people monitor their health.

Hewing to its secretive ways, Apple hasn’t provided details about its upcoming products.

Cook, though, has been raising hopes that Apple is poised to create a new product category for the first time since the iPad’s release four years ago. “We’ve got some great things that we’re working on that I’m very, very proud of and very, very excited about,” he told analysts in April.

Anticipation for the next iPhone already is running even higher than the usual frenetic buildup.

The device is expected to feature a display screen of at least 4.7 inches, an upgrade likely to spur many Apple fans to scrap their old models for a more spacious version.

Apple’s stock hit its previous high the last time the company increased the iPhone’s screen size in 2012, going from 3.5 inches to 4 inches that time.

Analysts are also enthused about Apple’s efforts to immerse its devices and services even more

deeply into people’s lives by creating a system that syncs the iPhone with display screens in autos and implanting a health-tracking system in the next version of its mobile software due out this fall. The new software, called iOS 8, could also work with a smartwatch, if Apple does release one.

Apple’s stock has bounced back with the help of some financial engineering, too. The company’s board voted in April to spend an additional $30 billion buying back Apple’s stock and approved an unusual 7-for-1 stock split.

The split, completed last month, was Apple’s first in nine years.

Although a split doesn’t change a company’s market value, it often helps lift a stock’s price by making the shares appear more affordable to a larger pool of potential investors. In Apple’s case, the split caused the stock price to fall from about $645 to $92 to adjust for the issuance of more than 5 billion additional shares. Apple’s stock has risen 34 percent since the split was announced in April.

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Poverty rate at Pengotan village stays high

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The preliminary version of HSBC’s manufacturing index, released Thursday, fell to a three-month low of 50.3 from 51.7 in July, indicating that manufacturing businesses are barely growing.

The index, based on a survey of a factory purchasing managers, uses a 100-point scale on which numbers below 50 indicate contraction China’s economy has been struggling to stabilize after slowing from double-digit rates of expansion in the past decade. Growth edged higher to 7.5 percent in the April-June quarter from 7.4 percent in the first quarter.

The HSBC report adds to other recent indicators that the recovery is still shaky. Earlier this month, data showed that China’s exports accelerated but imports sagged, which may reflect weakening domestic demand.

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Poverty rate in Bangli remains quite high. The county being famous for the agricultural potential becomes the large enough contributor to poverty in Bali.

Headman of Pengotan, I Wayan Suardana, said the effort to alleviate the poverty in Bangli was fairly not easy.

It required the role of various parties to reduce the high enough poverty rate in Bangli, especially at Pengotan village. “Alleviating poverty is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand.

It required the role of various parties, not only the government but also the support of poor people themselves,” he said when met at his office, Wednesday (Aug 20).

Various structured efforts as scheduled by central government had been undertaken and were currently underway. Even, his party had done the same thing to overcome the poverty at Pengotan village. “In addition to the handling by central government such as the Integrated Rural Development Movement (Gerbangsadu) as well as the house refurbishment assistance, we in the village authority also provide similar alleviation program such as house

refurbishment assistance every year for a family whose fund is budgeted by village authority started in 2013. In addition, it is also intended to motivate poor communities in order they can overcome poverty and improve their living standards,” he added.

Suardana also added that poverty alleviation was not easy. It required a process and took a long time to alleviate the quite high poverty rate. As experienced by the poor at Sunting hamlet, Pengotan village, I Wayan Muka, 54, he was classified into very poor family who still did not get any help from the government in relation to the agenda of poverty alleviation in Bangli region.

Muka said that he very much hoped for help from the government to support his life. “Yes, if we indeed get the assistance, it’s okay. Actually, I do not expect this condition. If we should get it, hopefully it can be realized quickly,” said the father of four children dropping out of school. (oka)

Gedong Kertya to build representative palm-leaf manuscript archive building Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Development plan of the more representative palm-leaf manuscript storage and reading room will be made at Gedong Kertya with the budget worth IDR 400 million. The Head of Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Ketut Warkadea, said on Wednesday (Aug 20) the new building site would be located in the south of Gedong Kertya. At least it could have been completed next October and could be used in November. “We target the completion next October and in November the palmleaf manuscript storage can have been used accordingly, either for storing palm-leaf manuscript, reading room or digitization process of the palm-leaf manuscript,” he said.

He said the new building construction would not disturb the process of storing and reading palm-leaf manuscript because the building space was quite far from the reading room. “We build the new building in the back. Surely it will not disrupt the process of storage because the storage space and reading room are located in front area,” he said.

The old collections of the palm-leaf manuscript of Gedong Kertya required special handling so that the storage process would be better. Storage room would also be equipped with digitization and translator of the manuscripts dominantly written in Old Javanese language. “It needs special care so that the existing palm-leaf manuscript turns more durable. Besides, this ancestral heritage will also be digitized,” said Warkadea. (kmb34)

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MANGUPURA - The matter of rampant nomad and beggars in the tourism area is difficult to be completely resolved. As evidence, Badung Municipal Police organized a raid in Kuta, Tuesday night (Aug 19) and secured dozens of nomads and beggars.

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Thailand’s newly appointed Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha adjusts his cap during visit to the 2nd Infantry Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, Queen’s Guard in Chonburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok August 21, 2014.

The homeless was arrested by the police in Badung Regency

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Establishment of Pratama Hospital uncertain

International hospital keeps going Bali Post

DENPASAR - The failure of Pratama Hospital construction in Nusa Penida (Klungkung) and Seririt (Buleleng) in 2014 reaped disappointment of community, the rank of Bali House to local community leaders. Moreover, Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika did not dare to ascertain whether there were construction funds for the Pratama Hospital in the regional budget 2015 so that the fate of Pratama Hospital development would be increasingly unclear. On the other hand, the development plan of international hospital (RSI) costing nearly IDR 200 billion and reaped a series of rejection would actually go ahead and had been re-budgeted in the main regional budget 2015 and 2016 after twice bid failure.

A community leader of Klungkung, Ketut Gde Adi Saputra, deplored the Bali government because it gave more priorities to the development of the international hospital rather than the Pratama Hospital clearly more touching and more urgent for the community. Moreover, the Pratama Hospital was a program having been promised in the gubernatorial campaign in 2013 that had provided a glimmer of hope for Nusa Penida area separated by sea.

“In 2014, the construction of Pratama Hospital in Nusa Penida has been canceled. If it is not allocated in the regional budget 2015, the community of Nusa Penida will be disappointed and gets false promise as often happens in every regional leader election. As a part of the Klungkung community, I am very disappointed with this

condition,” said Adi Saputra, in Denpasar, Wednesday (Aug 20).

This Regional Secretary of the National Democrat Party added that a dilemma even emerged after there was certainty on the continuation of the international hospital development plan. It was ascertained to be built in fiscal year 2015 whereas it still reaped pros and cons in the community as requiring fantastic enough cost around IDR 200 billion. Actually the construction of Pratama Hospital promised to be built in Nusa Penida only required the budget approximately IDR 22 billion. If the allocation of fund for the development of the international hospital in 2015 could be transferred to the Pratama Hospital development, he added, every county would surely receive allocation in the form of a vital facility to serve

public health and would be more accessible, especially in emergency situations.

“If the international hospital is continued and the fate of the Pratama Hospital is uncertain, finally a question must be raised, was the Pratama Hospital promised to Nusa Penida community just a political commodity? Or, is the governor unable to determine the priorities for the benefit of lower-middle income people? Have the people of Bali erred when determining their option in last gubernatorial election?

Probably, it will be acceptable if the plan is not something promised in the last electoral campaign,” he affirmed while expecting the governor to hold the commitment to realize the Pratama Hospital development.

Previously, Governor of Bali,

Made Mangku Pastika, had not dared to ascertain whether there were funds for the construction of the hospital in the main regional budget 2015. “We are still calculating the budget first. So, there has been no (certainty—Ed). I cannot make sure if the money has not been enough,” said Pastika when met after the plenary session for the approval of the Regional Bylaw Draft on Regional Budget Amendment 2014 in the Bali House, Monday (Aug 18).

Nevertheless, Pastika considered the Pratama Hospital development in Nusa Penida should be given a priority because the people very much needed the facility. “Nusa Penida will get a priority because it is separated by sea. At least, it must be built in Nusa Penida first,” he affirmed. (kmb29)

Thai junta leader appointed PM by handpicked parliament Reuters

BANGKOK - Thailand’s coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha was appointed prime minister on Thursday by a legislature he handpicked, giving the army chief a veneer of legitimacy even while the military presses on with efforts to silence its critics.

The army seized power on May 22 in a bloodless coup following six months of sometimes deadly street protests that contributed to the ousting of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose populist government was opposed by the Bangkok royalist establishment.

Although Prayuth’s appointment paves the way for an interim government to be set up in the coming weeks, power will remain firmly in the junta’s hands. The general has said he plans to press ahead with a year of political reforms before a new election that he said will take place by late 2015.

“It is designed to give him the power to run the country according to the law. The premier position will give him legal power in the Thai governance system,” Gothom Arya, a lecturer in human rights studies at Mahidol University, told Reuters.

The nomination comes as no surprise - the National Legislative As-

sembly (NLA) that chose Prayuth is largely considered little more than a rubber stamp parliament tasked with enacting sweeping reforms under the army’s watch.

The 60-year-old Prayuth will retire as army chief in September but will stay on as head of the junta, formally known as the National Council for Peace and Order. His appointment will need to be endorsed by Thailand’s king.

In the weeks leading up to the coup Prayuth denied rumours that the military was planning to take control, but a Reuters report in May revealed the army had a plan ready that ran through various scenarios and how the military should respond.

Yingluck, the sister of self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, had already been forced to step down on May 7, after a court found her guilty of abuse of power, but the army said its putsch to re-

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With Erdogan at helm, Turkey to choose premier

Associated Press Writer

Bali Post

According to Division Head of Badung Municipal Police Operations and Control, Dewa Nyoman Oka, said on Wednesday (Aug 20) that a total of 12 nomads and beggars were arrested in the raid, where seven of them were minors. Result of the raid was relatively small.

By and large, the officers could secure more than that amount in a single raid. “Probably they are still at their home village due to ritual day,” he said.

Dewa Oka explained the nomads and beggars were arrested around Jalan Imam Bonjol precisely around the border of Denpasar and Badung, the intersection area of Tuban, Jalan Dewi Sri, Kuta Beach and coastal region of Kedonganan.

From the results of investigation by the officers, most of the beggars came from Karangasem County. They used to take action from late afternoon until early morning. After arrested by the officers, the beggars were taken to the office of Badung Social and Labor Agency to get coaching. After given a coaching, the beggars were repatriated to their home village.

Dewa Oka admitted that it was difficult to resolve the problem of beggars especially in the tourism area and was only handled by Badung alone. Beggars would come again in the destination area by a variety of reasons and ways. On that account, it was needed a special handling and coaching in their area of origin. (kmb25)

Friday, August 22, 2014

ANKARA, Turkey — Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party were poised Thursday to choose his successor as party chairman and prime minister, with expectations high that the man who has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade will keep charge as president.

Erdogan has indicated that he plans to keep tight control of the government by transforming the normally ceremonial presidency.

He has said he would employ its seldom-used powers, such as summoning and presiding over Cabinet meetings. Turkey’s first popularly elected president, Erdogan takes office Aug. 28.

Senior officials of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, were meeting Thursday to pick a leader whom analysts expect to be loyal to Erdogan. The nominee to succeed

Erdogan as party chairman and prime minister is to be confirmed at the party’s extraordinary congress next week.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who has led Turkish foreign policy both as an adviser and as minister since 2003, is reported to be the strongest candidate. Binali Yildirim, a former transport minister and close Erdogan confidant, has also been tipped for the job.

President Abdullah Gul, who was once considered as a possible candidate for prime minister in a job swap with Erdogan, has been sidelined. He has publicly split with Erdogan, including recently over the government’s attempts to shutdown Twitter and YouTube in Turkey.

Presidents were previously voted in by parliament, but Erdogan — whose party required he step down after three terms — decided to make it an elected post.

move the remnants of her government two weeks later was necessary to restore order.

Prayuth, who was not present at Thursday’s vote in the legislature, has said he will hand over power once a three-phase roadmap of reconciliation, an interim government to oversee reforms and elections is complete.

Moments after his appointment Prayuth, who was inspecting troops at an army camp in Chonburi province south of Bangkok, was asked by reporters whether he had heard the news.

“I didn’t know I had been asked to join,” Prayuth said, shaking his head, adding: “First, I want the country to move on.”

“COSMETIC CHANGE” Since launching the coup, Prayuth has displayed signs of authoritarianism. A draft 2015 fiscal budget was approved on Monday in a unanimous vote, with only three abstentions by the NLA president and deputies according to convention. “Nobody had any problem. Nobody disagreed,” Prayuth said after the vote on Monday.

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In this Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 photo, Turkish Prime Minister and presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a business meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.

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Friday, August 22, 2014

Fashion

International

Young Indian shakes up fashion with prints and pret

Agence France-Presse

MUMBAI - She’s already a leading name in Indian fashion, with customers ranging from top Bollywood stars to teenage girls on pocket money. Yet 25-year-old Masaba Gupta -- best-known for her quirky cow and camera prints that adorn saris, dresses and even smartphone covers -- puts much of her whirlwind success down to intuition.

“My gut just somehow ... tells me that this is going to be the next big thing. Luckily I know it before anyone else does,” she told AFP at her flagship “Masaba” store in Mumbai’s trendy suburb of Juhu.

The daughter of West Indies cricket legend Viv Richards and Bollywood actress Neena Gupta -- who shared a relationship in the 1980s -- the young designer said many people “write me off as a product of my parents and social media”, but her clothes appear to be challenging the critics.

Alongside the rise of her eponymous brand, Gupta was in 2012

appointed the youngest creative director for prestigious ethnic wear label Satya Paul -- a rare move in the world of Indian fashion houses, which tend not to hire big outside names.

From lipstick patterns to the Tamil script, her unconventional trademark prints have proved so popular that counterfeits have flowed into the market, spurring her recently to set up the more affordable “Masaba Lite” line for teenagers.

It is an impressive CV for someone who stumbled into fashion because no other college courses were

still open -- “I had nothing else to do,” admitted Gupta over tea in her store, dressed in high-street culottes and gold sandals.

Attending catwalk shows as a student, she found Indian fashion “was running at this really slow, stale pace” with an evident gap in the market.

“I felt like everybody was doing bridal, there was no such thing as ‘prêt’ - ready-to-wear was just not something that you heard of,” said Gupta, who officially opened the winter edition of Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai on Tuesday by displaying one of her collections.

“A designer needs to sell either bridal or mass (fashion) to be able to make money, and at the end of the day it is about making money.

I can’t do bridal, it’s not my aesthetic, so I thought that I’ll go the mass way.”

Selling clothes and accessories in the range of 900-6,000 rupees ($15-98) in her new Masaba Lite line, Gupta is hoping it will become “like an Indian H&M”, referring to the hugely popular Swedish high street chain.

“Why buy a fake when you can get the original at the same price?” says the website for the brand, which she has launched with Western wear but intends to expand into Indian clothing.

Gupta said she wants young girls “to own a sari each”, recalling an occasion when three teenagers walked into her shop and pulled

their pocket money together to buy a single drape.

When designing for the Masaba brand, her original higher-end label aimed at women in their twenties, Gupta naturally veered towards a fusion of styles -- be it Westernised prints on Indian silhouettes or vice versa.

Fashion writer Shefalee Vasudev, author of “Powder Room: The Untold Story of Indian Fashion”, hailed Gupta’s “refreshing” approach to prints, saying her idea of India “doesn’t derive from self-conscious patriotism for the crafts legacies of our country”.

Not all critics have been so impressed, but Gupta said she is most interested in the feedback of those who buy her clothes, so she keeps a close eye on her Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Niche, mainstream sellers carry kale into beauty Associated Press

NEW YORK — Kale has crept out of salads and juicers into beauty products from niche and mainstream sellers. The leafy superfood that many love and others love to hate can now be had in face masks, skin-brightening serums, creams and nail polish, pushed along by the march to healthier living and the frenzy to fend off aging.

Kale hasn’t displaced other botanicals, which remain a small segment of the multibillion-dollar beauty industry. There’s a wide range of plant life and consumables in beauty products, but where else would the new darling in greens land if not beauty aisles, spas and websites?

A look at kale on the beauty side : 1. Nailkale

Sprawled in ads on a bed of kale, British fashion darling Alexa Chung is the face of Nailkale, a new line of 12 nail shades from London-based Nails Inc. They just launched in the U.K. and will hit U.S. shelves in late August.

Nails Inc. founder Thea Green was inspired by a couple of trips to New York City last year.

“On one trip we saw a group of very lovely girls walking down the street all drinking their green juices, and no one in London was drinking green juice then,” she said in a recent interview.

“Then I heard a woman in a res-

taurant, a very proper Upper East Side New Yorker, reject her salad because it was rocket (arugula) and not kale. I thought the whole thing was fascinating,” Green said.

Green took kale for nails and its vitamins A, C and K to a laboratory and Nailkale was born.

“I think they thought I was a bit nutty.”

Nutty like a fox. She’s the first to offer kale for nails.

2. Spa Sales

Eminence Organic Skin Care sells luxury products to more than 3,000 spas worldwide. With roots in Hungary, that’s where the company headed when it decided to work with kale farmers for two new products.

Stephanie Baresh, the brand and product creative director in Vancouver, Canada, said a cold processing method is used on raw kale for the Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Masque. The chunky green product offers a slight whiff of lemon with kale, avocado and spinach.

Eminence is focused on kale’s antioxidant properties. Launched in June with the Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Serum, user feedback has been positive, she said.

“People will do anything to look good and to stop aging these

days. This is a natural approach rather than getting Botox or plastic surgery,” Baresh added.

The spas the company supplies were not a tough sell and include the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village, California, and the Go Green Organic Spa in lower Manhattan.

“They loved the idea of a superfood,” Baresh said. “Kale is the new go-to for the plate and in a smoothie, so why not

beauty products? But I don’t think you’re going to see kale products popping up all over Sephora.”

3. Good & Healthy

Cruelty free, organic and 100 percent vegetarian, Alba Botanica offers five new products “powered by leafy green goodness” — kale, spinach and Swiss chard extracts, to be exact, according to promotional materials.

The Good & Healthy line from the brand

owned by The Hain Celestial Group in Lake Success, New York, launched last spring and includes a tinted perfector for combination skin and a daily moisturizer with SPF 15.

The suggested retail price is on the low end at $9.99 each, available at Target, Walmart, Whole Foods Markets and drug stores.

“History has shown that it’s very common for food trends to trickle into beauty care products,” said Sarah Galusha, director of marketing for Hain. “As consumers learn about the amazing benefits of eating certain superfoods, they start to look for them in their personal care products as well. And the truth is that many superfoods are loaded with phytonutrients, antioxidant vitamins and minerals that happen to be great for replenishing skin.”

This product image released by Eminence Organic shows Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Serum, left, and Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Masque made with kale. With a boost in popularity as a food and juic, kale has made its way into the beauty industry.

Bali News

International

Friday, August 22, 2014

Bali exports US$3.12 million worth of rattan crafts

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Antara

DENPASAR - Bali earned US$3.12 million from the exports of rattan craft products in the first five months of 2014 or a 618.8 percent increase from the same period last year.

Head of the provincial office of the Central Bureau of Statistics Panasunan Siregar said here on Thursday that rattan craft products were exported mainly yo Japan, the United States and Europe.

In the January-May period in 2013, Bali’s exports of rattan craft products were valued at US$434,735, data at the provincial industry and trade office showed.

The export volume of rattan craft products from Bali surged 118.63 percent to 88,353 units from 40,412 units in the same period.

Rattan craft products contribute 1.45 percent to the total export value of Bali that reached US$215.04 million in the five month period.

Bali has no forests or plantation to produce raw rattan. Raw rattan, therefore, is supplied from other regions mainly Sulawesi, Kalimantan and Papua.

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Bali earned US$3.12 million from the exports of rattan craft products in the first five months of 2014 or a 618.8 percent increase from the same period last year.

Room disagreement preceded US citizen killing

Associated Press

DENPASAR — Police investigating an American couple suspected of killing the woman’s mother at a resort hotel on Indonesia’s Bali island say the three had a disagreement over who was paying for the rooms but that a motive for the crime has not been established.

Heather Mack and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, have been declared suspects in the killing of Mack’s 62-year-old mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose body was stuffed into a suitcase.

Naming someone a suspect is a formal step under Indonesian criminal law meaning police are preparing to bring charges.

Bali police chief Maj. Gen. Benny Mokalu said Wednesday officers had interviewed 19 witnesses, some of whom cited a disagreement between the three over who should pay for the rooms.

Mokalu said a motive has not been established.

Under Suicide Watch Heather and Tommy are being held under a suicide watch, their appointed lawyer said Wednesday.

Haposan Sihombing, an Indonesian lawyer assigned to the couple by

Bali police, said Heather Mack and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, are refusing to talk to investigators. Their American attorney said this week that Heather Mack is two months pregnant and complained about her treatment in custody.

Sihombing said Mack, 19, is being detained at the Denpasar police station while Schaefer, 21, is being held separately at the provincial police headquarters. Neither has been charged, but Indonesian police say they are investigating it as a possible case of premeditated murder, which carries a maximum sentence of death.

“All materials that can be used for suicide such as ropes, long trousers, and clothes with straps are being kept away from them,” Sihombing said.

The body of Mack’s 62-yearold mother, Sheila von WieseMack, was found last week inside a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi in front of an upscale Bali hotel. The couple was arrested the next day at a hotel about 10 kilometers (six miles) away.

The couple told police that von Wiese-Mack was killed by robbers, while they managed to escape. Security camera video showed that the victim earlier had an argument with

Schaefer in the first hotel’s lobby.

Von Wiese-Mack’s body was being flown back to the U.S. early Wednesday. An autopsy found she had died of asphyxiation after her nose was broken by a blunt blow.

Sihombing said the two are refusing to talk to investigators until the arrival of their American lawyer, Michael Elkin, who was en route to Indonesia on Wednesday.

“I’ve told them that it’s better to cooperate, because that could be a reason for a lighter punishment,” Sihombing said.

On Tuesday, Elkin said that Mack told him by phone that she is pregnant and wasn’t getting enough water. She also alleged that she was sexually assaulted at least three times in custody, a claim that both Indonesian authorities and Sihombing denied.

According to police records in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, officers were called 86 times in 10 years to the house where von Wiese-Mack and her daughter once lived. The records, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, indicated that von Wiese-Mack was repeatedly and violently abused by the daughter.

Von Wiese-Mack was the widow of highly regarded jazz and classical

composer James L. Mack, who died in 2006 at age 76.

On Wednesday, the Sun-Times reported that von Wiese-Mack collected more than $800,000 through a 2011 legal settlement, part of which was originally designated for Heather Mack.

Court records showed that von Wiese-Mack and her late husband

received the settlement in a lawsuit between the couple and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. A half million dollars of the money went to her husband’s estate and was designated for their daughter through an earlier will. But in 2011, a judge allowed von Weise-Mack to pay herself the $500,000 as the estate’s “sole beneficiary.”

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

An Indonesian police officer escorts Tommy Schaefer, left, as he is brought to the police station for questioning in relation to the death of his girlfriend’s mother, in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014.

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International

Friday, August 22, 2014

Bali News

IBP

69 years of independence

Many areas in Karangasem still get isolated

Activities

International

Friday, August 22, 2014

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The 1st aniversary of Harper Kuta Hotel

TABANAN - The 1st aniversary of Harper Kuta Hotel closed with fun outing at Eka Karya Bo-

tanical Garden Bedugul, Tabanan, Thursday (Aug 7). It was followed by staffs and management of Harper Kuta Hotel. The series of the activity colored the event such

as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to orphanage, Wisma Anak-Anak Harapan.

On the celebration day, the owner and Archipelago Inter-

national Indonesia also came to celebrate the event marked with cutting rice cone. “We are motivated continually to build our team members and strengthen our

business alliances and a brightet future for Harver Kuta Hotel,” said Public Relations Executive Margy Margaretha Leander. (ocha)

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - A number of isolated areas with hundreds of families in Seraya remained to be unreached by road access whereas the independence day of the Republic of Indonesia has reached the 69th years.

IBP/Budana

One of the road in Karangasem Regency is still very damaged and it makes the people is very difficult in moving around

It was submitted by a legislator of Karangasem House, Made Juwita, Wednesday (Aug 20) in Karangasem.

Juwita exemplified one of the regions at Seraya Tengah, namely the area of Kayu Wit. It was inhabited by tens of families and had not owned an adequate road access to their hamlet. The only road available to the hamlet was just dirt path or footpath. It could not still be passed through by vehicle and motorcycle.

Juwita said that due to the absence of road access people got difficulty to reach health facilities. Pregnant women about to give birth should suffer to reach the distant community health center at Seraya Tengah village. Similarly, children should go to school on foot.

“Clean water is difficult to get, while residents just cultivate corn or cassava,” said Juwita from Seraya.

Meanwhile, a legislator from Sidemen, Wayan Sumatra, also said there were still many areas with hundreds of families at the villages remaining isolated at Sidemen. The road to the hamlet could not still be passed through

Trial of U.S. gay murder

Fiancé of gay gives testimonies Bali Post

DENPASAR - Public prosecutor Gusti Nyoman Widana and Ni Made Lumisensi prosecuting the murder case against the U.S. citizen Paul Robb Latourell, Wednesday (Aug 20) presented three witnesses.

They included Wayan Ek, Made Ra (victim’s gay couple) and Kadek Wa (owner of the home contracted by victim). The case involved two defendants. However, since the file was separated, the trial was separated as well. The first defendant to be prosecuted was the defendant Multazam Aulawi, 19. He was accompanied by his lawyer named Very.

The first witness giving testi-

mony was Ek. The man looking like a woman in the trial led by AA Ketut Anom Wirakanta explained that he knew the victim was killed after getting information via phone that cellular phone of his boss (victim) could not be contacted. “I got a call if the cellular phone of Paul was inactive. His cellular phone vanished,” said Ek. To make sure, Ek rushed to go to Jalan Banteng, where the victim rented a house, on Monday after the murder.

Upon arrival in the area of the house, the padlock was not locked and the front door of the house, either. The witness tried to go in and push the door. “I shouted Paul, Paul, Paul, but there was no answer,”

said the witness. Through another door, Ek could get into guest room and there he found blood spots. “I also saw the victim’s legs on bed,” he said. Being afraid, Ek then screamed for help and local residents rushed to the victim’s house.

Defendant’s lawyer had asked whether Ek was also the gay couple of the victim Paul. Ek said no. He just worked like a house maid.

The second witness was Ra. Ra was the victim’s gay couple. Similarly, he did not know exactly how it happened. However, he knew about the victim’s belonging, including the cellular phone often used to make communication. Even, the witness Ra claimed to have a deal

by motorcycle, let alone by car.

In some areas of Kubu subdistrict, such as the road to Jatituhu customary village, Ban village, Kubu, had not been paved. Hundreds of residents traversed the narrow dirt road to the hills area of the village.

Meanwhile, a resident of Tegalsari, West Tianyar village, Kubu subdistrict, Wayan Pasek, complained about the road to local settlement connecting to Batu Meyeh had not been paved for a dozen of years. Actually, the road in front of his house had been paved with gravels few years ago. Since it was only paved with gravels without asphalt and located at a barren village, the gravels had already lost as washed away by flood during rainy season.

“The connecting road is only about 300 meters long, but never paved.

Maybe there is no official struggling for that. In the dry season like at this time, the road is dusty, so that we are worried if our children will fall sick due to such flying dust. We expect the government to pave the road,” said Pasek. (013)

where each of them could look for another partner. The defendant’s lawyer urged to ask a question about the relationship between Ra and Paul plunging him to sexual affair. To that question, the prosecutor Lumisensi interrupted that sex relationship was not a matter of trial and evidentiary context of the murder case. Presiding judge AA Anom Wirakanta justified it and defendant’s lawyer should not lead a question to Ra about sex or gay relationships conducted with the victim.

When the boarding house owner gave his testimony, he did not reveal much. On the testimony of the three witnesses, the defendant Multazam Aulawi claimed not to know the three witnesses. “I do not know them, sir,” said the defendant.

The judge clarified about the witness testimony because there were blood spots in the living room and

the defendant justified it.

The second trial presented the defendant Marsianus Simarto, 30, with the same panel of judges and prosecutor. Marsianus was accompanied by his lawyers Edy Hartaka and Agus Sujoko with the same witnesses, namely Wayan Ek, Made Ra and Kadek Wa. In essence, they gave almost the same testimony.

As reported previously, the murder case was alleged to begin with dissatisfaction of the gay couple occurred on Jalan Banteng, Denpasar. The victim was Paul, a U.S. citizen who contracted a house at the location. The victim died of some stabbings so that blood spurted everywhere. Two people were identified as the suspects (now the defendants) in this case. They included Marsianus Simarto, 30, and Multazam Aulawi, 19. Both were threatened with maximally death penalty. (asa)

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud 14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri

19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri

23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

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

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

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

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

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

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Aniston, Hamm, Hudson set to Stand Up to Cancer Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Aniston, Jon Hamm, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland want to connect with you about cancer.

They are among the stars slated to appear on “Stand Up to Cancer,” the hour-long telethon set to air Sept. 5 on 31 broadcast and cable networks simultaneously.

Other celebrity participants announced Wednesday include Pierce Brosnan, Rob Lowe, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Eric Stonestreet and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Rather than the stars staffing phone

banks as they have on past “Stand Up to Cancer” telethons, they’ll be contacting with viewers by phone and online through Facebook and other platforms from a “digital lounge” hosted by Katie Couric. Fans can sign up for the “We’re Calling You” initiative beginning Wednesday at werecallingyou.org.

“We’ll have plenty of stars reaching out to donors via social media, thanking them through Facebook messages, digital shout outs, Instagrams and tweets,” Couric said. “In other words, this year, we are so 2014!”

“Instead of people calling in with the hope of talking to a celebrity, stars will be calling and sending so-

cial shout-outs to viewers at home,” Couric said.

The “Stand Up to Cancer” special will also feature performances by Jennifer Hudson, Ariana Grande, The Who, Common & Lupe Fiasco and Dave Matthews.

For the first time, the telethon will include a Canadian co-broadcast, with funds raised benefiting research and awareness programs in Canada.

Funds raised by the telethon support international, inter-disciplinary scientific research aimed at discovering new treatments for various types of cancer.

Since its first broadcast in 2008, Stand Up to Cancer has pledged more than $260 million.

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Photographer sues Bieber over Hawaii altercation Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A photographer sued Justin Bieber and one of his bodyguards Wednesday for assault and infliction of emotional distress over an altercation on Hawaiian beach last year.

The lawsuit by paparazzo Aja Oxman states Bieber ordered his bodyguard to take a memory card after the photog-

rapher took photos of the pop singer leaping from a cliff into the ocean. Bodyguard Dwayne Patterson placed Oxman in a chokehold and seriously injured him and damaged his camera during the November incident, the lawsuit states.

The complaint seeks unspecified damages in excess of $25,000 for assault and battery, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Patterson was arrested on suspicion of assault and later charged with seconddegree robbery. He pleaded no contest to criminal property damage and harassment and was ordered to pay Oxman $6,000 in restitution, court records show.

Patterson’s conviction won’t remain on his record if he does not get into further trouble, records show.

Bieber, 20, was not arrested, and no charges were filed against him due to a lack of evidence that he ordered Patterson to attack Oxman, Kauai County Prosecuting Attorney Justin Kollar said Wednesday. Kollar said Patterson had fully paid restitution to Oxman.

Email messages sent to Bieber’s publicist Melissa Victor and attorney Howard Weitzman were not immediately returned. A phone message left for attorney Craig De Costa, who represented Patterson in the criminal case, was not immediately returned.

In addition to Oxman’s lawsuit, Bieber is being sued by other photographers who accuse him of roughing them up. One case remains pending in Miami, and another paparazzo sued Bieber for assault and battery in June 2013 over an altercation at a shopping center in the celebrity enclave of Calabasas. The case remains pending and is scheduled for trial in AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File December.

Police fire tear gas as court rules on poll challenge REUTERS/Beawiharta

An Indonesian policeman argues with a supporter of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto during a protest near the Constitutional Court in Jakarta August 21, 2014. Indonesian police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters outside the country’s top court in Jakarta on Thursday, as judges started delivering their verdict into last month’s disputed presidential election.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian police used tear gas and water cannon Thursday to break up a rally by supporters of the exgeneral who lost last month’s presidential election, as a court was set to uphold his opponent’s victory.

As judges at the Constitutional Court started reading the lengthy verdict to Prabowo Subianto’s challenge of an election won by Joko Widodo, which could take several hours, police responded to a rowdy crowd of his supporters with force.

Officers fired multiple volleys of

tear gas and water cannon into the crowd, which was several hundred strong, after they earlier threw rocks and attempted to push past lines of riot police guarding the road to the court, which was closed off.

Some police chased supporters away and hit them with batons. It lasted only a few minutes and the

crowd dispersed afterwards. An AFP reporter at the scene said one unconscious protester was carried into an ambulance.

Dalianto, a 57-year-old protester who like many Indonesians goes by one name, earlier said that he was showing his support for Prabowo as he was the “true president”.

Independent analysts expect the nine-judge panel to reject Prabowo’s challenge. The verdict cannot be appealed.

Both Prabowo, a top military figure in the era of dictator Suharto with a chequered human

rights record, and Widodo, the reform-minded governor of Jakarta, declared victory at the July 9 election.

But official results released after a two-week count across the vast archipelago showed Widodo won a decisive, six-point victory after the hardest-fought, most polarising election since authoritarian rule ended in 1998.

The 53-year-old, who won legions of fans with his down-to-earth approach as Jakarta governor and is known by his nickname Jokowi, is the country’s first leader from

outside the political and military elites.

But Prabowo -- who has been seeking the presidency for a decade -- has refused to accept the results and his team filed a lengthy complaint against the election commission with the Constitutional Court, which has the final say on poll disputes.

His team say fraud occurred at tens of thousands of polling stations, and that election officials failed to order recounts in numerous places where they should have.

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