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Nyong’o, Pharrell Williams among new Academy members

Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Kenyan Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, Somalia’s Barkhad Abdi, “Happy” songster Pharrell Williams and Irish-German star Michael Fassbender are among 271 actors newly invited to join Hollywood’s Oscar-bestowing Academy, organizers said Thursday.

Other non-US invitees include Britain’s Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan, as well as Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki and Israeli-born Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad.

Italy’s Paolo Sorrentino, whose “The Great Beauty” won this year’s foreign-language Oscar, will also join the illustrious Hollywood body, as will

Canadian “Dallas Buyers Club” director Jean-Marc Vallee.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invites a new batch of actors, filmmakers and related professionals every year to join the ranks of its 6,000 or so members who vote on the Oscars.

“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

“Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”

Nyong’o won the best supporting actress Oscar in March for her role in

harrowing historical drama “12 Years a Slave.” Fassbender was also nominated for his role in the film by British director Steve McQueen.

Hawkins was nominated in the same category as Nyong’o for her role in Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine,” while Coogan was shortlisted this year as writer for true-story based “Philomena.”

Williams, whose ubiquitous hit “Happy” took the Internet by storm with copycat dance videos from around the world, was nominated for his work on “Despicable Me 2.”

Other nominees included comic Chris Rock, actress June Squibb (Oscar nominee this year for “Nebraska”), “Hunger Games” star Josh Hutcherson and “Veep” TV star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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Shia LaBeouf charged over Broadway misconduct Agence France-Presse

NEW YORK - Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf, star of three “Transformers” movies, was hauled before a New York court Friday, charged with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct at a Broadway musical.

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Actor Shia LaBeouf walks through the media, Friday, June 27, 2014, in New York, after leaving Midtown Community Court following his arrest the previous day for yelling obscenities at the Broadway show “Cabaret.”

Officers were called to Studio 54 midway through a performance of “Cabaret,” where LaBeouf, 28, sat in the audience causing a disturbance and threatening theater security, a police spokesman said.

After security ejected him, he became loud and belligerent and threatened New York police at the scene.

“He was placed under arrest and charged with criminal trespass and two counts of disorderly conduct,” the spokesman told AFP. LaBeouf appeared before a Manhattan criminal court and was subsequently released.

A spokesman for the production confirmed that LaBeouf was escorted out by theater staff during the intermission after being “disruptive” during Act One. The Daily News website reported that he was puffing on cigarettes in the theater and appeared drunk, interrupting the performance and then flying into a rage when police turned up.

LaBeouf starred in the first three “Transformers” movies but was replaced by Mark Wahlberg in the fourth that opens in the United States on Friday. Critics have rubbished the latest installment of the franchise as too long.

Actors Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams are the current stars of “Cabaret” in a production directed by Sam Mendes.

Against reclamation

Resistance of Balinese people begin IBP/Eka

Activists rallied to revoke the Presidential Regulation at Renon on Friday. This week, various actions would be carried out including judicial review against the Presidential Regulation and the environmental analysis impact. Similarly, it would also be made a political pressure, mass rallies and debates to the State Palace.

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DENPASAR - This week, various actions would be carried out including judicial review against the Presidential Regulation and the environmental analysis impact. Similarly, it would also be made a political pressure, mass rallies and debates to the State Palace.

National Coordinator for Rejection against Benoa Bay Reclamation (KNPRTB) held a meeting attended by several professors, a number of lecturers in Denpasar, politicians, and environmental activists, Wednesday (Jun 25).

It was intended to develop the strength against the Presidential

Regulation No.51/2014 and environmental impact analysis (AMDAL) conducted by PT TWBI. In the meeting was revealed that the EIA team of the KNPRTB had made a thorough study so that investors would not dare to invest to Benoa Bay because they would suffer loses. Currently, the KNPRTB

had found a weakness to counter the Presidential Regulation and the environmental impact analysis made by the investor.

According to the lecturer from the Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ibrahim R., the union of all the strength to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation would be undertaken to Jakarta. So, the movement would be unlike in the past made independently by individual elements.

“Now, the movement is unified and takes place in national level. We’ve set the coordinator in Jakarta, so the action will be broader,” said Prof.

Ibrahim.

He added that Presidential Regulation did not qualify. On that account, with the data at hand his party would counter and establish a team of judicial review. “Similarly, the environmental impact analysis is problematic. We also conduct a research on the philosophical, legal, sociological and juridical aspect.

I am ready to argue with anyone about this issue,” he said.

Prof. Ibrahim revealed that issuance of the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 should ask for approval from the people in the area belonging to the region of Sarbagita (Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and

Tabanan). As per the Government Regulation No.68/2010, the spatial arrangement should ask the approval of community of the Sarbagita region. “It should be read carefully. This problem does not only have something to do with the customary community of Tanjung Benoa, but also with all the elements of community of Badung, Denpasar, Tabanan and Gianyar.

Without asking for their approval, it’s invalid,” he said.

Target of filing the judicial review, said Prof. Ibrahim, was set after the presidential election.

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HIV/AIDS cases estimated to proliferate

SEMARAPURA - Polemic on the closing of Dolly prostitute house in Surabaya has long been rolling out. Thousands of commercial sex workers are estimated to assault Bali, without exception for Klungkung. However, the preventive effort seems not massive. The AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPA) of Klungkung declared the estimation of HIV/AIDS case in Klungkung surged to 1,800 cases this year. Previously, the estimation was not more than 1,000 cases. Predictably, this figure could increase, considering that Klungkung had the pockets of transmission at a number of cafés.

Such concerns were revealed by Secretary of the KPA Klungkung, Wayan Sumanaya, when met at his office recently. Cumulative data of his agency indicated that from 2002 to 2013, there were 209 cases of HIV/AIDS in Klungkung. Meanwhile, on entering the year 2014, the number increased eleven people.

“Such additional data were got from the Health Agency because the sufferers were so hard to test,”

he said. He said the addition was quite surprising and the most compared to the previous years. Until the end of the year, there had been massive measures in response to the closing of Dolly localization. He worried that people living with HIV/AIDS would be getting more and more in keeping with the increase in the estimated number of the case.

Such estimation figures were in accordance with

to the results of the recent survey. Even, this phenomenon was like an iceberg, where the real number was believed to be more. Responding to the results of the survey findings, his party had initiative to organize a meeting with the leaders and general public at each village. The effort was a measure of the KPA Klungkung to coordinate and improve the public education, chiefly for re-instilling the nature of HIV/AIDS in more detail and massively because it was very difficult to anticipate the indirect sex workers living at people’s homes. “I more worry about this matter than those at cafés or elsewhere,” said Sumanaya.

Meanwhile, institutionally his party

had made several meetings with the judiciary team leader, Made Kasta.

The meeting was to draw up the measures more clearly and anticipate this threat. As first step, the judiciary team had directly raided aggressively against the existence of a number of cafés and boarding houses in the areas of migrants. Dozens of migrants were netted as being unable to present their temporary resident identity card (KIPS). They came from Java and Lombok. Unfortunately, they could not be ascertained whether they were the former residents of Dolly localization.

Made Kasta confirmed the raid would be intensified again to anticipate the threat. (kmb31)

Misprocess blowfish, one killed six gets medical treatment Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Poisoning case of blowfish occurred at Penyambangan hamlet, Penyambangan village, Gerokgak. The poisoning incident claimed a fatality while six others underwent an intensive care in Buleleng Hospital and Gerokgak community health center.

Starting from unwinding after working, the death toll named Wayan Madra, 57, having profession as farmer, gathered while chatting with six people including Komang Sriyasa, 40, Kadek Santini, 35, Komang Wirnata, 47, Wayan Padra, 37, Kade Sumantra, 49, and I Putu Indra, 66.

No one predicted if Thursday (Jun 26) around 4:00 p.m. would become the beginning of sorrow to a group of residents at Penyambangan village. Someone was said to bring a blowfish. It kindled the desire of the seven people to cook the fish known to have harmful toxin for human body. Consequently at 7:00 p.m., after the blowfish was processed into fish rawon delicacy, it was consumed together by the seven residents of Penyambangan hamlet. Allegedly, they cooked while drinking palm wine. Then, around 02:00 a.m., Wayan Madra got excruciating pain in the head and stomach. He rushed to ask for help to his children in order to get medical treatment.

“The deceased Wayan Madra asked for help because of having headache as a result of consuming the blowfish. We’ve tried to help and then took him to the Gerokgak community health center, but his life could not be saved,” said Gusti Nyoman Mulyadi, the son-in-law of the deceased Wayan Madra, Friday (Jun 27) at the funeral home.

Mulyadi said the blowfish was cooked at the home of Putu Indra. They had dinner together at that night considering they still had family relationship. The blowfish was suspected to have caused the poisoning and the death of Wayan Madra after misprocessing. “Actually they have been very familiar to cook blowfish. We suspect the blowfish poison remains to leave in the rawon food because it was not processed too cleanly,” he said.

The deceased Wayan Madra was immediately cremated, Sunday (Jun 29).

Meanwhile, another colleague, Putu Indra, still looked powerless in Cempaka Room of Buleleng Hospital. Putu Indra said he only gathered while cooking and eating the blowfish together. The symptoms still perceived were dizziness and abdominal pain.

“I am still dizzy after having dinner with the menu of blowfish with family at home.

At that time, we were hanging out only. I

DENPASAR - To strengthen the sense of kinship, improve health and love in the field of sports, the Bali Hotel Association (BHA) in cooperation with the Bali Travel News (BTN) held a Badminton Competition on June 24 to 27, 2014.

It was revealed in the meeting of the BHA and BTN, Wednesday (Jun 18). The BHA sports section head, Laetitia Delvart Sugandi, accompanied by Andy E. Soetjahyo to the General Manager of BTN Gde Palgunadi said that the event was in a series of exercise which to be held in 2014.

Previously, it had been held the championship of chess and table tennis. After the badminton championship held every month, it would also be organized the billiards, tennis, cultural, futsal, and fun walk activities.

So far, there had been at least 18 groups of 20 groups expected to enroll. Participants were including hotel employees. So far, the BHA consisted of 129 members.

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do not know why I get severe dizzy like this,” he said while lying powerlessly on hospital bed. Meanwhile, the other poisoning victims were still undergoing medical

treatment at Gerokgak community health center and Emergency Room of Buleleng Hospital in order to restore their health and condition. (dgk)

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Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014 1 Jun

Pura Sakenan Serangan Denpasar Pura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar Timur Pura Alas Harum Batur Kintamani Pura Alas Angker Munduk Kintamani Pura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

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Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesiman Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan

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4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi Batuan Pura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang Kapal Dalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida

One of the victim of the blowfish mishap in Gerokgak, Buleleng

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BHA organizes Badminton competition

Prostitutes overrun Bali

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10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung Selatan Pura Luhur Uluwatu Pura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badung Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud Pura Andakasa Karangasem Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung Pura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkung Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi Pura Suralaya Banda klungkung Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang Bangli Pura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

Gianyar Pura Gerya Sakti Tulikup Gianyar Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud Pura Segara Ketewel Sukawati Pura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud 11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacang Dawa Klungkung Pura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukahet Klungkung Pura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Dukuh Tegallalang Pura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah Kesiman Pura Sahab Nusa penida Pura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar 12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja Denpasar Pura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta Selatan Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar 15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai Karangasem Pura Aer jeruk Sukawati Gianyar Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel Gianyar Pura Pasek Bendesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem Karangasem Pura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Batur Sari Ubud 27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati 30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi 5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan Klungkung Pura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Penebel Tabanan Pura Benua Tarukan Besakih 9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan Pura Natih Kalah Batubulan Pura Desa Silakarang Singapadu Pura Dalem Petitenget Kuta Badung Pura Dalem Pulasari Gianyar Pura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar Selatan Pura Paibon Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar Pura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Pasar Agung Kediri Tabanan Pura Puaya Batuan Sukawati 11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri

12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

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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The 36th Bali Art Festival his undated product image made from a video provided by Lavazza, shows a prototype of Lavazza’s and Argotec’s “ISSpresso” machine.

Astronauts getting espresso maker

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Talk about a cosmic caffeine jolt. The International Space Station is getting a real Italian espresso machine. Astronauts of all nationalities — but especially the Italians — have long grumbled about the tepid instant coffee served in pouches and drunk with straws 260 miles (418.41 kilometers) above Earth. The pouches and straws aren’t going away, but at least the brew will pack some zero-gravity punch.

The specially-designed-for-space espresso machine is dubbed ISSpresso — ISS for International Space Station.

Its launch early next year from Wallops Island, Virginia, is timed to coincide with the six-month mission of Italy’s first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti. The 37-year-old fighter pilot and Italian Air Force captain will fly to the space station in November aboard a Russian capsule.

She’ll be the first out-of-this-world barista.

“How cool is that?” she said in a tweet earlier this month. “I’ll get to operate the first space espresso machine!”

Italy’s century-old coffee maestro Lavazza teamed up with a Turin-based engineering company, Argotec, and the Italian Space Agency to improve coffee conditions aboard the orbiting outpost.

Besides espresso, ISSpresso is capable of whipping up tea and consommé.

What more could an astronaut want?

During his 5½-month stay on the space station last year, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano repeatedly talked about missing espresso. (This is the cool-as-ice

test pilot who nearly drowned during a spacewalk last July when his helmet filled with water from his suit’s cooling system.)

Argotec already was working on a space espresso machine. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia will make the delivery on its Cygnus cargo ship; the launch is targeted for January.

NASA’s coffee-loving astronaut Donald Pettit actually offered some ideas for ISSpresso during its design phase.

He’s a two-time space station resident who invented and even patented a zerogravity cup for sipping his orbital joe versus sucking it with a straw.

No question, an espresso machine will be “a welcome addition” to space station life, Pettit said Wednesday from Johnson Space Center in Houston. The pre-measured bags of freeze-dried coffee served in orbit taste good — when you’re up there on the frontier, he said.

On Earth, any coffee lover would go “Yeeck.”

Argotec spokesman Antonio Pilello has sampled the ISSpresso espresso and gives it a thumbs-up. The space machine is designed to operate at the same tem-

perature and pressure as Earthly espresso makers, according to the company, to guarantee taste and flavor.

“You know, coffee is very important for Italian people. We are really hard to please about it!” Pilello wrote in an email.

Certified for safety and approved

by NASA, ISSpresso initially will fly with 20 coffee capsules. Extra packets will follow for the six-member crew, if the trial run goes well. The 44-pound machine — a compact 14 inches by 17 inches — will be housed in the U.S. laboratory, Destiny. It resembles a microwave oven, with all the action occurring inside.

Engineers replaced the typical plastic tubing in an espresso machine with steel for robustness. They also used buttons and switches similar to those already on the space station, so the astronauts would be familiar with the design.

Astronaut Pettit points out that the lack of gravity will prevent the bubbly foam from rising to the top. Yet even if the space espresso falls short by connoisseur standards, “it would be the best coffee that we’ve ever had in space.”

In the US --Raster

Coffee-flavored wine in a can Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Many Americans start their day with coffee and end it with a glass (or two) of wine.

Now, one US company is offering both beverages... in one can.

Friends Fun Wine -- whose canned products are made in the south of France -- have introduced what they call the “world’s first coffee-wine” -- Cabernet Coffee Espresso and Chardonnay Coffee Espresso.

“Why not both?” the company said on Twitter.

The Cabernet Coffee Espresso features the “rich flavor of fresh Cabernet grapes, espresso coffee, and a hint of chocolate,” while the Chardonnay variety includes wine, a hint of chocolate and vanilla cappuccino.

The canned beverages check in at 6% alcohol and cost $2.

“We know you must be curious, and it’s a bit hard to describe the taste -- you have to experience it,” the company said on Facebook.

Friends Fun Wine says it wants consumers to “think outside the bottle.”

But some were skeptical.

The industry website Daily Coffee News noted, “There are reasons some flavor combinations have never been brought to market.”

BAF Schedule Monday, June 30, 2014 Time 11.00 11.00 14.00 17.00 20.00 20.00 20.00

Place Angsoka Stage Ayodya Stage Wantilan Stage Angsoka Stage Ayodya Stage Wantilan

Ksirarnawa

Event Art Dances Reconstruction Performance Music and Dance by For Tuni Sayang Hati Mask Dance with Selonding Music Music Classic Performance Drama Gong Exhibition Arja Performance Contemporary Art Performance

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Dozens of preschool and elementary school students attended a workshop on the learning of making a kite with the theme Rare Angon organized

by BaliTV, Saturday (Jun 28). The seminar presented a keynote speaker of a maestro in international kite designer, IB Ugrasena Narendra.

Workshop of making traditional kite gathered crowd IBP/Wawan

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DENPASAR - Dozens of preschool and elementary school students attended a workshop on the learning of making a kite with the theme Rare Angon organized by BaliTV, Saturday (Jun 28). The seminar presented a keynote speaker of a maestro in international kite designer, IB Ugrasena Narendra.

The workshop took place for one day and participants were taught to make traditional kites, ranging from the simple to the elaborate creations.

This tradition should be preserved and such training should be done early because Balinese traditional kites had been famous in the world.

One of them was the Janggan or birdstyle kite. “I can go around the world because of this traditional kite. Our country is also famous for its kites.

On that account, this tradition must be preserved,” said Ugrasena.

He emphasized that harmony in Bali was much preferred. With this kite, the family, village, and even the people in the world could be united.

“Preserving tradition can be done with simple materials, namely bamboo and simple tools. I go around the world by carrying these tools only. Indeed, I am very concern about the preservation of the kite in Bali,” he said.

In addition, Ugrasena admitted that he would teach the unstoppable technology. However, the advances of technology should be balanced with the preservation of kite tradition. He is optimistic that Bali had the next generation to preserve the tradition.

“I regret there is regional bylaw prohibiting kites in Bali whereas the tradition has existed since thousands of years ago. The regional bylaw equally means to go up against the Lord Rare Angon. So, I prefer to play kite overseas, rather than here under continuous attack,” he said.

Children flying kites in the paddy fields, said Ugrasena, actually had an impact on the fertility of soil as they played happily. Consequently, the tubers, fruits (vegetables) and crops turned so delicious. “No other products that can rival against the pleasure of fruits of Bali,” said Ugrasena.

Meanwhile, Chairperson of the

Hindu Dharma Women of Indonesia (WHDI) of Bali Chapter, Mrs. Bintang Puspayoga gave the highest appreciation to the implementation of the activities organized by BaliTV. She wished the participants attending the course could understand the philosophy of the kite. In addition, it was expected to bring forth children with quality, intelligent and independent character as well as healthy mental and spiritual. “The idea of this activity is great because it contributes to instill the character early on in order they can love the Balinese customs. Early character education is important,” he said.

The workshop was also attended by the Chairperson of the Lentera Anak Bali Foundation, AA Sri Wahyuni and Balinese musician Mr. Botak and other public figures. The activity was enlivened by the Rare Angon kecak dance presented by the elderly artists. (kmb36)

Many children prefer to play outside their home are the reality of modern living. Maumah-umahan game dance

by Gong Panji Kumara Mas Troupe from Gianyar try to capture this phenomenon during their performance at Bali Art Festival on Friday. This creation tries to make children take care and aware of their homeland, in the middle of globalization and making living away from home.

Diabetes survey in Bali

Residents of tourism village tend to be obese

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DENPASAR - Indonesia in 2010 was ranked ninth in the world in terms of the number of patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM). Diabetes denoting a metabolic disorder with the symptoms of blood sugar rise is triggered by two main factors, namely obesity and lack of activity.

Chairman of the Gerontology Medical Association of Indonesia (Pergemi) Bali, Prof. Dr. Ketut Suastika, explained that to see the prevalence of people with diabetes and pre-diabetes in Bali it had been conducted a survey at seven villages. The survey found if the prevalence of patients with diabetes mellitus in Bali was 5.9 percent of the total population, 10 percent of pre-diabetes and 35 percent of obesity disorders.

From the survey was also known if the residents at tourism village mostly suffered the diabetes mellitus and had the risk factors of diabetes mellitus, where one of which was central obesity or abdominal fat.

Suastika explained that good economic growth at tourism village led to better nutrition and availability of vehicle facilities so they were lazy to move and do activities. “Obesity is driven by eating much but little movement. In Bali, many cases of obesity and pre-diabetes are detected in people at tourism village with a good economy,” he said.

The seven villages surveyed included the Ceningan, Sangsit, Legian, Pedawa, Ubud, Tenganan and Penglipuran. Of the seven villages with a total sample of 1,840 adults examined, it was obtained the data on the prevalence of central obesity, pre-diabetes, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Most central obesity was found at Ubud village (70.1 percent), Legian (61.2 percent) and Penglipuran (43.4 percent). Meanwhile, the diabetes mellitus case was mostly found at Legian village (8.4 percent).

According to Suastika, if the obesity was experienced at early age, it would accelerate the occurrence of the diabetes mellitus case in the future.

“Currently, it is widely suffered by residents of 35 years old and over, even it also hits teenagers,” he said. The most dangerous pile of fat is the abdominal fat or central obesity. On that account, belly fat in men tends to become the benchmark factor for people to have been affected by diabetes. According to Suastika, the man with the abdominal circumference of above 90 cm and woman of 80 cm above could be called obesity and should be aware of diabetes.

The precautionary measure of diabetes mellitus was very easy, namely by arranging a balanced diet and regular exercise. For those having the risk of diabetes, they should regularly take glucose test. Blood sugar was an important benchmark to determine whether people had been affected by diabetes mellitus other than observing the classic symptoms such as frequent urination, thirst and hunger but the body was thin despite eating a lot. “Periodic glucose test is also important for diabetic patients to facilitate doctor in providing medication or appropriate insulin for their treatment,” said Suastika. (san)

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Japan government helps establish a building GIANYAR - Thousands of people with disability scattered throughout the subdistricts in Gianyar still need empowerment assistance for their artistic creativity and training that they have. However, the budget constraints become one of the obstacles in the policy. On Friday (Jun 27), the government of Japan helped one of their shelters, namely at the Senang Hati Foundation, Siangan village, Gianyar.

Cheerful and moved expression was implied on the face of the children with disabilities after Japan provided them with a grant aid in the form of learning and practice classroom building. The building valued at IDR 360 million was expected to

be a place to learn and practice for those with disabilities. Measuring 15 x 10 meters, the building with 4 rooms was intended for skill education, English and Japanese language course, computer room and art room.

Each room was equipped with facili-

ties in accordance with the designation such as wheelchairs, sewing machines, keyboards, computers, projectors, LED TVs and others.

Currently, there were 2,400 children with disabilities in Gianyar spreading in each subdistrict. Assistance from the Japanese government was expected to empower the people with disability to learn and produce works that would be beneficial to the well-being and independence.

Gianyar government appreciated the management and members of the Senang Hati Foundation being always vivacious and compact in

attaining advancement, intelligence and having determination to achieve a better future, said Second Assistant to Regional Secretary of Gianyar, I Ketut Suweta.

Concern of the Japanese government to people with disabilities was visible from the arrival of the Consul General of Japan in Denpasar, Kazuo Shibata, in the inauguration of the building, last Sunday. “This grant is a humanitarian mission from the Government of Japan to assist the learning of the disabilities in order to be independent,” said the Consul General of Japan, Kazuo Shibata.

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The management of Senang Hati Foundation, Ni Putu Suriati, admitted to be moved by the grant.

Existence of the building would further encourage the management and members of the foundation to learn about skills, foreign language, technology and the arts. With the building, her party hoped they could look to the future better like the normal people.

“We will use this assistance as well as possible to achieve independence amidst the limitations of the disability,” said Ni Putu Suriati. (kmb16)

Roof of building damaged

Inaugural plan of Bangli House cancelled Bali Post

BANGLI - Ultimately the Sasana Budaya Giri Kusuma Bangli was canceled as the venue of the inauguration and taking the oath of office for the 30 legislators of the Bangli House for the tenure of 2014-2019. The decision was made following the feasibility study conducted by the Bangli Public Works against the condition of the building considered less feasible due to damage in some parts.

Meanwhile, so far the Bangli government is still working hard to find a solution to the problem.

Additionally, it could not ascertain where the venue of the inauguration would be. Related to the issue, the General Affairs and Equipment Division Head of Bangli Regional Secretary, AA Tresnawijaya, when asked for confirmation on Tuesday (Jun 24) justified the cancellation.

He described that in accordance with the technical studies conducted by the Bangli Public Works recently, the Sasana Budaya Giri Kusuma building was declared unfeasible for the venue of the inauguration and oath taking of the Bangli legislators originally scheduled next August.

The cancellation was decided by considering the damage condition of the building in some parts, especially on the roof. Public Works, said Tresnawijaya, found the shift of ring beam of the roof and southern overlap to result in the existence of gap. The damage caused the construction of rafter to get pulled and curved to the center

and caused wooden poles apart.

Due to such conditions, the Public Works also recommended to improve it, so that the roof structure could function properly again. “A review of the Public Works declared if the building was not feasible to hold activities inviting a lot of people,” he said. In addition to the urgent time, Tresnawijaya admitted that his party could not make improvement due to budget constraint.

As per the budget plan, the costs required to repair approximately worth IDR 189 million. Initially the government had planned to make improvement by using windfalls.

But according to the rules, the windfalls could only be used when the condition of the building was collapsed and the damage was very urgent to be repaired. “I want like that, but we are hampered by the rules. So, for a while we will use the results of the study made by the Public Works for the preparation of improvement in 2015,” he added.

Responding to such conditions, the government was still attempting to find a replacement building for the inauguration activity. So far, there were three venues taken as the alternative to the buildings namely the meeting hall of the IHDN at Kubu Bangli, Batur Volcano Museum and meeting hall of the Bangli House as the last alternative. Before making decision, his party planned to conduct a survey on the condition of each building. “Tomorrow, we will make a survey first to the IHDN building and the Batur Volcano Museum,” he explained. (ina)

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The queue of vehicles is seen in Gilimanuk harbor

Strong wind, harbor imposes close-open system Bali Post

GILIMANUK - A strong wind occurred in the Strait of Bali, Thursday night (Jun 26) required the ASDP Ketapang-Gilimanuk to close crossing services. As a result, thousands of vehicles were piling up in the queue at the Gilimanuk Harbor to reach outside the harbor area. The closing was done for an hour around 8:00 p.m., when public transport, especially buses and private cars, exploded.

In addition, the trucks lined up until reaching the forest area of Cekik, Gilimanuk or 5 kilometers from the harbor. As field observation, it happened due to the return of tourist buses and domestic travelers.

Since at 4:.00 p.m., the line of vehicles dominated by tourist buses and private cars had reached the outside area of the harbor ticket counter. As the night went further, the buses including the interprovincial city buses was growing.

Meanwhile, the line of trucks had already reached about 3 kilometers long. The situation was exacerbated by the closure of crossing services due to strong winds. The vessels mooring at the jetty were intentionally left blank while waiting for the weather going back to normal.

One of the tourist bus passengers, Shinta, admitted to have been stuck in the line since 7:00 p.m.

The bus entourage could just come into the vessel on Friday morning

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Seoul: North Korea fires more short-range missiles

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around 3:00 a.m. In addition to closing the harbor, the repair of national road section at Cekik also triggered the line. The road repair activities continued to be undertaken until that night when the vehicle traffic to the harbor was busy.

Operations Manager of the ASDP Gilimanuk, Wahyudi Susianto, said the closing-opening system of the harbor was made because the weather at Ketapang Harbor did not allow for loading and unloading activities. The line of truck particularly happened because the pontoon pier at Banyuwangi could not be operated. In addition, the line also occurred as the buses and trucks coming out of Bali entered its peak on Saturday. (kmb26)

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired two short-range missiles into its eastern waters Sunday, a South Korean official said, an apparent test fire that comes just days after the country tested what it called new precision-guided missiles.

The Defense Ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department rules, said the missiles were fired from Wonsan and are presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles. The official said North Korea fired the missiles without designating no-sail zones, which the South Korean military views as provocative. South Korean media quoted officials as saying the projectiles appeared to be Scud missiles.

North Korea regularly test-fires missiles and artillery, both to refine its weapons and to express its anger over various developments in Seoul and Washington. North Korea has in recent days criticized alleged South Korean artillery firing drills near a disputed maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea that has been the scene of several bloody skirmishes between the rival nations in recent years. The missile displays also come days before the leader of North Korea’s only major ally, Chinese President Xi Jinping, is set to meet with South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Seoul and Beijing

have long pressed North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions.

North Korea said Friday that leader Kim Jong Un guided test launches of a newly developed precision-guided missiles, in a likely reference to three short-range projectiles South Korean officials say the North fired a day earlier.

It’s not possible to tell if this assertion about the new missiles is an exaggeration, something North Korea has frequently done in the past when trumpeting its military capability, analysts say. Its army is one of the world’s largest but is believed to be badly supplied and forced to use outdated equipment.

Still, the impoverished North devotes much of its scarce resources to missile and nuclear programs that threaten South Korea, Japan and tens of thousands of U.S. troops in the region. Outside analysts say North Korea has developed a handful of crude nuclear devices and is working toward building a warhead small enough to mount on

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People watch a TV news program showing the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 29, 2014.

a long-range missile, although most experts say that goal may take years to achieve.

After a brief period of warming ties earlier this year, animosity has risen on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea has in recent months

threatened South Korea’s president, calling her a prostitute, and the South has vowed to hit North Korea hard if provoked. Pyongyang conducted a series of missile and artillery tests earlier this year in response to annual U.S.-South

Korean military exercises it says it considers preparations for an invasion. North Korea also test-fired two medium-range ballistic missiles and exchanged artillery fire with South Korea near the disputed boundary in the Yellow Sea.

Bosnia marks end of Europe’s violent century

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Artists and diplomats declared a new century of peace and unity in Europe on Saturday in the city where the first two shots of World War I were fired exactly 100 years ago.

On June 28, 1914, the Austro-Hungarian crown prince Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, where he had come to inspect his occupying troops in the empire’s eastern province.

The shots fired by Serb teenager Gavrilo Princip sparked the Great War, which was followed decades later by a second world conflict. Together the two wars cost some 80 million European their lives, ended four empires — including the Austro-Hungarian — and changed the world forever.

Visiting the assassination site Saturday, Sarajevan Davud Bajramovic, 67, AP Photo/Amel Emric Tourists pose for photos inside a replica of the “Graf & Stift” car, parked in front of a museum at said that in order to hold a second of the historical street corner in downtown Sarajevo, where Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austro- silence for every person killed just during Hungarian heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, on Saturday, June 28, WWI in Europe, “we would have to stand 2014. silently for two years.”

A century later, Sarajevans again crowded the same street along the river where Princip fired his shots. And the Austrians were also back, but this time with music instead of military: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was scheduled to perform works of European composers reflecting the century’s catastrophic events and conclude with a symbol of unity in Europe — the joint European hymn, Beethoven’s “Ode of Joy.” The orchestra wanted to pay tribute to the history of Sarajevo, a place where religions meet, said the first violinist, Clemens Hellberg. Austrian President Heinz Fischer said Europeans “have learnt that no problem can be solved by war.”

The continent’s violent century started in Sarajevo and ended in Sarajevo with the 1992-95 war that took 100,000 Bosnian lives.

“If anything good can be found in this repeating evil, it’s more wisdom and readiness to build peace and achieve peace after a century of wars,” said Bosnia’s president, Bakir Izetbegovic.

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Eurozone growth stalls PARIS - Europe’s fragile recovery is stalling, a batch of economic data showed this week, with analysts warning that France, with the eurozone’s second-biggest economy, could be slipping into another downturn.

Even the eurozone’s economic powerhouse Germany -- whose performance is increasingly divergent from laggard France -- is starting to show signs of slowing growth and posted the lowest inflation for four years at 0.9 percent.

This adds to concerns that the spectre of eurozone deflation is coming closer.

Just a month ago, EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Siim Kallas

sounded the all-clear for the bloc’s economic health, saying that a “recovery has taken hold”.

With Portugal joining Ireland in exiting a billion-euro bailout programme, and even Greece successfully raising money on the markets, the eurozone was looking to put its debt crisis behind it.

Analysts have backed this up from the standpoint of monetary policy, saying that decisions by the

European Central Bank in the last two years to underpin the eurozone debt market have doused the debt crisis.

But, almost as quickly, data has emerged suggesting that the fallout from that crisis still weighs heavily on confidence, investment and growth.

The outlook for the French economy suffered several setbacks this week: official data showed a high payments deficit, a leading survey suggested that output is shrinking, and the state statistics agency forecast weaker growth than expected for 2014.

The survey found that leading indicators across the zone had slipped

from 53.5 points on the index in May to 52.8 points in June, still above the 50-point expansion level, but a setback at a point in the recovery cycle when it should be rising.

Chris Williamson, the chief economist at Markit Economics, which ran the survey, said: “France appears to be entering a renewed downturn after GDP (gross domestic product) stagnated in the first quarter.”

That survey showed business activity in France slumping to 48.0 points from 49.3 points, below the 50-point line which marks the difference between expansion and shrinkage of the economy.

On the other side of the scale, heavyweight Germany was still in

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expansion territory, at 54.2 points.

But even Germany was starting to flag, as the Ifo economic institute’s closely-watched business climate index tumbled to a six month low in June.

It was also the third drop in four months.

“The further decline in expectations suggests that businesses have been unimpressed by the ECB’s recent actions and bodes ill for actual activity in the coming months,” said Capital Economics economist Jennifer McKeown.

Inflation has been weak across the bloc: as well as hitting a four-yearlow in Germany, it is unduly weak in Spain and Italy.

GM issues 3 more recalls covering 474,000 vehicles

AMLAPURA - So far, the water from the Telaga Waja clean water pipeline project has not been flowing.

Meanwhile, residents along the pipeline project remaining to have a water problem have to buy water up to IDR 100,000 per tank.

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So far, the water from the Telaga Waja clean water pipeline project has not been flowing. Meanwhile, residents along the pipeline project remaining to have a water problem have to buy water up to IDR 100,000 per tank.

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DETROIT — General Motors extended its record-breaking string of safety problems, announcing Friday three more recalls, including a large one involving its top-selling vehicle.

The recalls, part of a top-to-bottom safety review, bring the company’s total for the year to 48, covering more than 20 million cars and trucks. That beats GM’s old full-year record of 10.75 million in 2004.

Friday’s recalls cover 474,000 vehicles worldwide for a variety of problems. The largest affects almost 467,000 four-wheel-drive Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, as well as GMC Yukon and Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban SUVs. The Sierra is GM’s top-selling vehicle.

The company said a software glitch can cause the transmission transfer cases to shift into neutral on their own on 2014 and 2015 models. That can cause loss of power, or it can let the trucks roll away if parked. GM says it knows of no crashes or injuries. Most were sold in the U.S. and Canada, with

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In this Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, file photo, the 2011 Chevrolet Camaro convertible debuts at the Los Angeles Auto Show. General Motors extended its record-breaking string of safety problems, announcing Friday three more recalls, including a large one involving its top-selling vehicle.

a small number of exports. Dealers will recalibrate the software.

The other recalls are much smaller and also had no reported injuries. One affects nearly 4,800 Chevrolet SS and Caprice police cars with faulty windshield wiper modules. Gear teeth can become stripped, causing the wipers to fail. Dealers will replace modules if needed.

In the other case, dealers will replace the two rear shock absorbers in about 2,000 2014 model year Chevrolet Corvettes with the FE1 or FE3 suspensions. An insufficient weld

could lead to a fracture.

GM’s safety troubles, coupled with some large recalls from other manufacturers, have pushed the U.S. auto industry to a new full-year record for the number of vehicles recalled.

Automakers have recalled 32.4 million vehicles in less than six months, surpassing the old annual record of 30.8 million, also set in 2004, according to Stericycle, a firm that tracks recalls and helps corporations manage them.

GM’s troubles started in February when it began recalling older small cars to fix ignition switches that can

turn off engines on their own. That kills power steering and brakes and can cause drivers to lose control. It also disables the air bags. The problem ballooned to 2.6 million vehicles, and GM was forced to admit that it knew of the defect for more than a decade yet didn’t recall the cars until this year. GM says the problem caused 54 crashes and at least 13 deaths, although lawmakers say the death toll is closer to 100.

The ignition switch problem touched off a massive safety review in the company, as well as investiga-

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Telaga Waja project has not been enjoyed by residents

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tions by Congress, the Justice Department and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. GM paid NHTSA a $35 million fine for delays in reporting problems to the safety agency, and it has announced or taken charges totaling $2 billion to cover recall costs.

On Thursday, NHTSA posted documents showing that GM would recall about 29,000 Chevy Cruze compacts in the U.S. for an air bag problem. GM said Friday that 4,000 Cruzes from Canada are included in the recall.

A resident of Nawa Kerti, Abang subdistrict, Karangasem, Wayan Tawani, said that people at his village were forced to buy clean water during dry season.

They bought water from tank truck of the PPK assistance. “The price can reach IDR 100,000 per tank,” he said. However, to obtain water service from the PPK tank truck, people should line up because many people were ordering.

In the meantime, residents at Butus and Tanah Aron, Buana Giri village, Bebandem subdistrict also continued to buy clean water. At these villages there is no clean water pipeline. “When it rains, we used to collect rainwater for drinking. However, it has not been raining over four months, so we have to buy water,” said one of the residents, last Wednesday.

Chairman of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, asked the Regent of Karangasem I Wayan Geredeg to follow up the grievances of Karangasem residents.

He said the budget for the water pipeline project from central government to Karangasem gov-

ernment had also been disbursed quite a lot.

According to him, the budget of Telaga Waja clean water pipeline project was worth more than IDR 120 billion. Besides, there was also a clean water project in four subdistricts financed with special allocation fund (DAK) worth IDR 29 billion. Unfortunately, this project could not be enjoyed by local residents.

Gede Dana requested the cistern projects as well as dozens of ponds to be well managed.

“Many pipeline and pond projects have been made. These projects must be managed well to meet the expectations of society, so that no more people face clean water crisis,” said Gede Dana.

Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, said that for the Telaga Waja River pipeline project, the pipe had been installed along approximately 87 km. The pipe installation had reached Kubu subdistrict. However, he could not ascertain when the water of the pipeline project having been done for six years ago could be enjoyed by residents. (013)

Royal Cremation at Ubud Grand Palace

GIANYAR - Cremation or ngaben is a common ritual organized

by Balinese Hindu community.

However, the cremation taking place at Ubud Grand Palace is relatively different. In addition to being unique, the royal cremation performed by the descendants of the royal family draws many local people and foreign travelers.

Cremation belongs to Pitri Yajna or a ceremony devoted to ancestral spirits as an obligation to the ancestors of the Hindus. It aims at cleansing the spirit of the deceased person by cremation at cemetery.

For a royal family, the cremation generally has the same meaning.

The difference only lies in the tradition as referring to the concept of desa (place), kala (time) and patra (situation).

One of the royal families of the Ubud Grand Palace, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, said the royal cremation held at Ubud Palace actually had the same general purpose. “In Hinduism, we know Tri Rna (three debts to be paid) namely the debt to God, debt to ancestors and debt to teacher. Well,

the debt to the ancestors must be paid with cremation ceremony as a form of last devotion of a child to his parents,” he explained The man familiarly called Tjok Ace revealed that cremation at Ubud Grand Palace was very complex and took a long time, ranging from the making of Bade tower used to transport the corpse and sarcophagus such as in the form of bull used to cremate the corpse.

“Royal cremation has a relative time depending on the circumstances, starting from the preparation to the summit of ceremony. By and large, the cremation ceremony held in the palace takes place for a month or more. However, when my mother died, such ceremony took about four months as the implementation depended on auspicious day. So, during which the body was kept at funeral home.

The ceremonial procession in general, explained Tjok Ace, was started with melaspas (purification ceremony to all the elements used in the cremation) and then it was resumed with the procession from Ubud Grand Palace towards the Dalem Puri cemetery. After that, the procession was carrying the ashes

into the ocean.

The communities involved, explained Tjok Ace, reached hundreds of people. They started from relatives and society from 12 hamlets existing in Ubud. “Actually only four hamlets are directly involved, but some other hamlets have kinship with us and others deliberately volunteer and participate in assisting the cremation activity,” he said.

“We also involve some Brahmin priests belonging to the school of Shiva and Buddha. In addition, there are reporters, photographers and television stations covering our event as a publication to introduce the tradition of cremation in Bali.

Royal cremation also has a special attraction for foreign tourists. This makes them come to see and immortalize it,” he said.

To complete the ceremony, the Ubud Grand Palace presented some sacred arts like gambang xylophone, saron, Sidakarya masks and other sacred dances. In addition, they also presented propane arts such as the dances intended for entertainment. People involved in the arts were communities around Ubud as well as those who had ties with royal family. “Not only that,

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The royal cremation performed by the descendants of the royal family draws many local people and foreign travelers.

even there are also foreign travelers who participate as they are interested,” he said.

“People with their own awareness lend a hand. So, we always keep this relationship. Our family

are very grateful to the people who have worked together sincerely to help the procession of cremation. It is a reflection and manifestation of harmonious relationship,” explained the former Regent of Gianyar.

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UN chief ‘adopts’ lion cub in Kenya Associated Press

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Rescuers search amid the rubble of a building that collapsed on the outskirts of Chennai, India, Sunday, June 29, 2014.

2 arrested, 22 dead in India building collapses Associated Press

NEW DELHI — Police in southern India detained two construction company directors Sunday as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for dozens of workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains. It was one of two weekend building collapses that killed at least 22 people.

The 12-story apartment structure the workers were building collapsed late Saturday while heavy rains and lightning were pounding the outskirts of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state. Police said 31 construction workers had been pulled out so far and the search was continuing for more than a dozen others.

Four of the workers died on the spot and another seven succumbed to injuries in a hospital, said police officer George Fernandes. Fourteen workers remained hospitalized, while six others were discharged, Fernandes said.

Police officer Kanan said two directors of the construction company, Prime Sristi, have been detained for questioning as authorities began investigating the collapse. The officer uses one name.

Balaguru, one of the builders, said

the structure collapsed possibly due to the impact of lightning.

“Usually, once the construction gets over we install the equipment to prevent the building from a thunder strike. It was nearing completion,” the Press Trust of India news agency quoted Balaguru, who uses one name, as saying. Nearly 300 police and fire service workers worked overnight, looking for survivors in the debris. They used gas cutters, iron rods and shovels to reach those trapped in the rubble, after cranes lifted concrete blocks to clear the way for the rescuers.

“Removing debris is a major challenge. It may take two to three days to clear the rubble,” said S.P. Selvam, who is heading the rescue operation. Earlier Saturday, a fourstory, 50-year-old structure toppled in an area of New Delhi inhabited by the poor. Eleven people died and

one survivor was being treated in a hospital, said fire service officer Praveer Haldiar.

Most homes in that part of the capital were built without permission and using substandard materials, police officer Madhur Verma said. The Press Trust of India news agency said the New Delhi collapse was triggered by construction work on an adjacent plot.

Building collapses are common in India, where high demand for housing and lax regulations have encouraged some builders to cut corners, use substandard materials or add unauthorized extra floors.

In April last year, 74 people were killed when an eight-story building being constructed illegally in the Mumbai suburb of Thane in western Maharashtra state caved in. It was the worst building collapse in the country in decades.

NAIROBI, Kenya — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon capped off a week of high-level U.N. discussions on the environment by “adopting” a 6-month-old lion cub Saturday. The young lioness, which was found abandoned in Nairobi National Park, will be raised by the Nairobi Animal Orphanage. Ban named the cub Tumaini, which means “hope” in Kenya’s language of Kiswahili, after his “hope that all people around the world will be able to live harmoniously with nature.”

“I sincerely hope this lion will grow healthy, strong and even fierce,” Ban said, drawing parallels with his hopes for the environment after this week’s first U.N. Environment Assembly.

The assembly was the highest-level U.N. body ever convened on the environment. More than 1,200 participants from 193 member states spent the week in Nairobi, where the U.N. Environment Program is headquartered. Ban said he hopes to see U.N. member states adopt a climate change deal during formal talks in Lima in December.

International environmental crime and terrorism ranked high on the assembly’s agenda. Illegal timber and products of wildlife crime — such as elephant ivory and rhino horn — are smuggled through the same routes as illegal weapons.

The Somali militant group al-Shabab makes tens of millions of dollars a year from the illegal charcoal trade. The Lord’s Resistance Army, which U.S. forces are helping fight across central Africa, trade in elephant ivory.

Ban warned that popular discontent and criminal activity within countries could spawn international terrorism. He urged world leaders to address terrorism comprehensively, beginning within their countries’ own borders.

“United Nations, through its global counterterrorism strategy, is trying to provide necessary assistance and work with African countries,” Ban said. “The political leaders should always have inclusive dialogue and inclusive policies embracing all different groups of people. That is one fundamental principle which I have been looking to the world leaders to practice.”

Resistance...

From page 1 Currently, his party would draw up a draft and collect some institutions, NGOs and individuals to join in accordance with legal standing. “The problem of Bali is not only the problem of Benoa Bay. It will have an impact on the Island of Bali and its spatial arrangement. Though my life is threatened, I still struggle to keep Bali,” he affirmed.

Meanwhile, Gede Bangun Nusantara asserted the meeting aimed to do something really intended for the future of Bali.

Actually, the presidential regulation could only be evaluated 5 years after enactment. “But the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 revised it directly. What is the urgency? What is the interest of Balinese people? If nothing, do not be revised,” he said.

According to him, in all countries, the heads of states extended the conservation area, but only in Indonesia, namely President SBY, who would eliminate the conservation area into a buffer area. On the other hand, SBY was said to love Bali and pro-environment, but in fact ‘he sold’ Bali. Bangun worried if the regent of Badung and the Badung House including the Bali House did the same by legalizing the reclamation because they were preparing a draft on zonation.

“Foundation of the Presidential Regulation is very weak.

It’s really a matter of an order. Their made it carelessly and the presidential regulation can be revoked. Balinese people must not be taken to be playful. Previously, it was probably a test case, but now the movement is in national level,” said Bangun. (kmb32)

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INDONESIA Muslims start Ramadan, World Voters place hopes in Cup fever undiminished would-be president’s past Agence France-Presse

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SOLO - In the Indonesian city of Solo, where powerful sultans once reigned supreme, residents are fervently backing a commoner who transformed their city in his bid to become president.

It’s hard to find anyone in Solo who isn’t wild about their former mayor Joko Widodo, a softlyspoken man with a slight frame better known as Jokowi.

They are hoping he will give the world’s third-largest democracy a much-needed facelift as he did in Solo, a functional yet charming city on the congested island of Java. But, as the July 9 poll approaches, Widodo’s once enormous lead over his only rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, has shrunk dramatically, and some are questioning whether his man-ofthe-people approach makes him too timid to lead Indonesia.

The sprawling archipelago’s public sector is rife with corruption, its economy is slowing and poverty is widespread. More than half the country’s 250 million people live below or around the $2-a-day poverty line.

Elected as Jakarta governor in 2012, the 53-year-old Widodo rose to national fame for pioneering a new style of leadership, visiting poor communities affected by his administration’s plans and getting his hands dirty with public works projects. But this strength could become a weakness if Widodo is elected president, political analyst Muhammad Qodari from polling firm Indo Barometer predicts.

“His impromptu visits to communities, going down into the drains and sewers to check on operations was

his way of asserting control, but how will he do that at the national level?”

Qodari told AFP. Those in Solo who lived under Widodo’s administration say their city is living proof that despite his gentle demeanour, Widodo is in fact firm, decisive and gets the job done.

During his seven years running the city he moved slum dwellers into multi-storey flats with working toilets, relocated hundreds of vendors clogging footpaths to a market, and spruced up public parks -- solving the kind of issues that plague every Indonesian city.

Many public walls are now painted with commissioned murals, while the city is filled with museums, colourful trishaws and handcrafted batik shops celebrating its cultural heritage.

“The sidewalks are swept every five hours so we can now lay mats on the ground to enjoy meals,” said Solo taxi driver Budi Purnomo, 31.

Trishaw driver Suprapto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, was equally enthusiastic.

“It’s stupid not to vote for him,” the 55-year-old said. “This village boy has done an excellent job in Solo and I have no doubt he will do the same for

Indonesia as president.”

During a recent trip to Solo, Widodo was met with throngs of supporters, including housewives, old men in Muslim skullcaps and teenage boys with tattoos and ear piercings.

Solo is small city of 500,000 people. But Widodo has proved himself too in bustling Jakarta, a sprawling megacity of some 20 million people on any given work day.

He has introduced health and education cards for the poor, initiated the construction of a long-overdue metro to ease the capital’s notorious traffic and begun a dredging programme to lessen crippling seasonal flooding.

His attention to the everyday Indonesian and his story of humble beginnings has enchanted millions.

Born to a timber seller, Widodo was raised in a bamboo shack on a river bank and worked as a furniture maker before becoming mayor. He appeals to people like Solo housewife Ani Albaini, 40, who says Indonesia is full of leaders “who talk too much” but do too little.

“It’s time they all shut up and get some work done, like Jokowi,” she said. “He is an ordinary man with extraordinary talent.”

JAKARTA - Muslims in much of Asia began celebrating the holy month of Ramadan Sunday but in Indonesia even threats by hardliners to raid “sinful” bars could not stop football fans heading to nightspots to watch the World Cup. Across the Muslim world, the faithful fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious during the holy month, which ends with the Eid holiday.

Ramadan got under way in Asian countries including Indonesia, which has the world’s biggest Muslim population at around 225 million people, war-torn Afghanistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.

Hardliners in Indonesia have pledged to raid bars that continue to sell alcohol, which Muslims are banned from drinking under Islamic law, or stay open too late.

Authorities order bars and other nightspots to close earlier during the holy month.

Radical group the Islamic Defenders’ Front would “monitor any sinful activities in entertainment places, cafes and bars during Ramadan”, said Salim Alatas, the group’s chief in the capital Jakarta.

“If law enforcement officials do nothing about immoral activities, we will do anything we can to stop them, using our own methods.”

But the threats did little to deter

people in the football-crazy nation, where most practise a moderate form of Islam, from heading out to catch the latest World Cup action.

Bars that remained open in the Jakarta were packed with locals and expatriates late Saturday and early Sunday.

“For me, the fasting does not really affect my enthusiasm to watch the World Cup,” said Intania Permata, a 22-year-old student, who was watching the Brazil versus Chile nail-biter at a South American bar and restaurant.

Endika Setiadi Putra, 27, said that with the World Cup now in the knockout stages, the excitement would keep drawing people to watch the matches in bars even during Islam’s holiest month.

“If it is the weekends, most people will go out (to watch the matches),” Putra told AFP. The holy season also presents a dilemma for Muslim players in the World Cup, as choosing to fast will affect the strict diets they usually have to follow.

The problem is most pressing for the team from Muslim-majority Algeria, who face a tough match against Germany on Monday.

For many other Indonesians, the start of Ramadan was a time to be with their families or take part in special prayers, with thousands heading to Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, the biggest in Southeast Asia, on Saturday evening.

Huge red-light district raided before Ramadan Agence France-Presse

SURABAYA - Hundreds of police and soldiers raided a huge red-light district in Indonesia’s second-biggest city Friday to close down brothels before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Scuffles briefly broke out between security forces and people protesting the raid in the area known as “Dolly” in Surabaya, on Indonesia’s main Java island, where women advertise their services by sitting in brightly-lit shop windows. “The raid was conducted to make sure that entertainment centres, including brothels, are closed during the whole month of Ramadan,” said Irvan

Widyanto, a Surabaya official responsible for maintaining public order.

Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, begins on Sunday in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslimmajority country. The faithful are supposed to abstain from eating, drinking and sex from dawn until dusk during Ramadan. The raid came about a week after the city’s mayor announced the closure of Dolly, but gave the prostitutes and pimps in the network of narrow alleys a few more weeks before the red-light district is finally closed.

The bid to close Dolly has sparked fierce resistance from sex workers and others whose jobs depend on the

red-light district, and they have staged regular protests. The government has pledged to give them financial assistance and training in new professions. Some 500 police, soldiers and public order officers -- who assist police in maintaining peace but have fewer powers -- were involved in Friday’s raid, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

One large brothel in the area was closed down permanently, said Widyanto. Scuffles broke out when public order officers sought to take down banners condemning the closure of Dolly. Islamic hardliners also regularly carry out raids on bars and brothels during Ramadan.

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

Muslim women perform an evening prayer called ‘tarawih’ marking the first eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, June 28, 2014. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.

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Charms of temples on Serangan Island

Serena suffers earliest Wimbledon exit since 2005

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DENPASAR - Get accustomed to strolling to Serangan Island?

Serangan Island or Turtle Island strategically located in the South of Sanur Beach, in fact, has a unique mystery. Precisely, it sits around the Pat Payung Temple, Pesalakan Temple, Dalem Ped and Dalem Beji located in the southern part of the island.

Reputedly, the region is inhabited by supernatural beings. The atmosphere resembles a forest overgrown by mangrove trees and other local trees. It is guarded by officers and no people’s home occurs around the location, so that its beauty remains to be well maintained. The road nearby is still unpaved and sometimes muddy in rainy season.

Atmosphere of the road is deserted, so that sometimes it makes people misguided. Once entering this area, visitors will feel thick aura.

Talking about supernatural beings, our body will instantly feel cold and the chilling creeps. However, such a nuance will sometimes vanish when hearing the entertaining bird songs on the trees around us.

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LONDON - It was not quite a Jill Craybas moment for Serena Williams at a soggy Wimbledon on Saturday but her third round defeat by Frenchwoman Alize Cornet was shocking all the same.

Just as when she was beaten by obscure fellow American Craybas at the same stage in 2005, no one saw it coming. Especially when, after a frustrating four-hour rain interruption, the 32-year-old five-times champion returned to Court Two in the early evening to romp through an opening set that lasted only 29 minutes.

Victory for top seed and most people’s pre-tournament favourite looked a formality, but Cornet, the world number 24, had other ideas and began a stirring fight back to claim a 1-6 6-3 6-4 victory - her second over Williams this year.

Williams seemed as mystified as everybody after the defeat, which came a round before last year’s exit to Sabine Lisicki and a day after sister Venus went out against former champion Petra Kvitova, meaning neither sister has reached the second week of the singles for the first time in eight years.

“Right now I don’t really know what I did wrong,” Williams told reporters. “Usually I do. Usually I know I did this and that. I have a few ideas, but this will be a really good one for me to kind of like assess and figure out.” Whereas Williams had been in total command against an apparently overwhelmed Cornet, the match suddenly flipped during

the early stages of the second set when the Frenchwoman cut loose.

“I think the rain delay killed me a little bit because I started the match very well, like the two first games were really good,” Cornet said.

“After that, I think she lost a little bit (of) her concentration in the beginning of the second set and I used it to come back in the match, and finally I played way better.” Still, the crowd expected Williams to flick the switch and recover but as the errors mounted and she began to look more and more awkward and hesitant, the match began slipping away.

With desperation in her eyes Williams roared in Cornet’s direction after saving a break point in the opening game of the third set but she dropped serve at 2-2 in the decider and quickly went 5-2 down before mounting a fightback. When Cornet, who had never beaten a top20 player in a grand slam, served for the match at 5-4 it seemed

inevitable that her nerve would fail her. But just like the 30-year-old Craybas nearly a decade ago, she seized her chances.

Instead, it was Williams who cracked, bungling a dreadful volley into the net to give Cornet a match point and then missing a passing shot to bow out. Rather than scold herself, however, Williams said Cornet had raised her game. “I think everyone in general plays the match of their lives against me,” she said.

“So I’m pretty sure that the next match, it won’t be the same. “I just have to always, every time I step on the court, be a hundred times better.

If I’m not, then I’m in trouble.”

It was Williams’ earliest exit at Wimbledon since that defeat to Craybas and means she has failed to reach the quarter-finals of the year’s first three grand slams.

She remains one behind the 18 grand slam titles won by Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova and four behind Steffi Graf’s professional era record of 22, but while the flow of silverware has slowed this year, Williams remains hungry for more. “I think it’s definitely pretty significant,” she said of at least emulating fellow Americans Evert and Navratilova. “It’s something I’m obviously going to keep going for. It’s definitely something in my mind, pretty important.”

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AP Photo/Sang Tan

Serena Williams of U.S. celebrates a point during the women’s singles match against Alize Cornet of France at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday, June 28, 2014.

Lorenzo apologises for ‘worst’ race Jorge Lorenzo accepted full responsibility for his uncompetitive 13th place in MotoGP’s Dutch Grand Prix, saying he lost all confidence amid memories of his 2013 Assen crash. Last year Lorenzo broke his collarbone in a practice accident on the TT meeting’s opening day, then incredibly returned to race from 12th to fifth on the Saturday.

But he was off the pace throughout this season’s race, languishing as low as 17th after losing ground when he stayed on wets too long in the drying race. “I have to say

AP Photo/Vincent Jannink

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Jorge Lorenzo of Spain powers his Yamaha during the second MotoGP Free Practice of the Dutch Grand Prix, in Assen, northern Netherlands, Thursday June 26,2014.

that the bike was working quite well in the wet and the dry, I just had a bad race as a rider,” said Lorenzo.

“My confidence wasn’t great; I didn’t want to crash like last year. “I would like to apologise to my team, the engineers and my fans because they all did their best but today it was definitely my worst race ever.

“In the dry I’m confident and not afraid of crashing but when it’s spitting maybe I have the memory of last year and I didn’t have things clear in my mind. “In future if something happens like this I hope to be more confident and less scared of crashing.”

It was a troubled race for the works Yamaha team, as Lorenzo’s team-mate Valentino Rossi had to start from the pitlane after gambling on slick tyres only to change his mind at the end of the green-flag lap and pit. Rossi eventually recovered to fifth.

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Valiant performance vindicates vilified keeper Reuters

SAO PAULO - Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar celebrated Saturday night after his dream performance helped erase the nightmare of the 2010 World Cup when his mistake helped lead to Brazil’s early elimination and four years of vilification by sceptical fans.

Julio Cesar provided a safe pair of hands throughout the 1-1 draw with Chile before he stopped two penalties in the 3-2 shootout win.

The match was one of the most thrilling of the World Cup so far and the Brazil goalkeeper picked up the Man of the Match award for his display.

“The match has proven that if you have dream then go after it and don’t give up,” he said after accepting his prize. “We haven’t won anything yet but this gives me the strength to go into the next match and help my teammates.”

It was welcome vindication for a man who shared the blame for Brazil’s early exit in South Africa four years ago. With the quarter final against the Netherlands tied 1-1 he flapped at a cross, allowing Wesley Sneijder to nod home the winning goal. The keeper famously cried after the defeat and then lost his international place - and his confidence.

He went from Inter Milan to Queens Park Rangers and was relegated with the London club. He sat on the sidelines for much of last season and only started playing again when he was loaned to modest North American outfit Toronto FC. Scolari, however, never doubted his class. The manager brought him back into the international fold in 2013 and rated him

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Suarez idolized, not blamed for Uruguay’s exit Associated Press Writer

RIO DE JANEIRO — Dejected but defiant, and still defending Luis Suarez. Uruguay’s support of the banned, biting striker was steadfast on Saturday even as the team was toothless in his absence and went out of the World Cup with a 2-0 loss to Colombia. Among the Uruguay fans in the stands, in the team dressing room and in the dugout, Suarez’s global pariah status is still mystifying. To them, the 27year-old player is not a pariah but a footballing hero, even if the bite on an opponent will prevent him representing the national team in competitive games for more than a year.

“People have been after him for a long time,” Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez said in the Maracana, echoing recent attacks on a perceived FIFA and English-language media campaign against Suarez.

World football’s governing body acted swiftly after the bite on Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini during Tuesday’s Group D finale, banning Suarez for four months, disrupting his Liverpool career, as well as nine international matches.

“It is an outrage,” veteran defender Diego Lugano said. “It is a violation of human rights which is far beyond winning or losing a football game.” While Suarez was more than 1,000 miles at home, his usual No. 9 jersey was hung in the dressing room as usual, tweeted out for the world to see by the team.

Outside the Maracana, some fans pretended to bite each other, inside many watched the game wearing Suarez face masks and “Ole, ole, ole, Suarez” was sung throughout.

“We all know the things that happened, but we had to take only positive things out of that situation,” Tabarez said. “In fact, it gave us a lot of strength for this game.

We really wanted to win.”

But apart from Suarez’s name, there was little to cheer as Uruguay fans were outnumbered by the swathes of Colombian yellow. Just like in the group stage opener when Suarez was still recovering from a knee injury, Uruguay couldn’t find a way to win in this round of 16 match without the lethal marksman, who scored twice in the victory over England.

At 35, Diego Forlan made little impact up front during his 53

minutes on the pitch. Only in the closing minutes was there any intensity from the 2010 semifinalists, but Cristian Rodriguez, Maxi Pereira and Edinson Cavani were all denied. Still, though, no fan in a Uruguay shirt could be found blaming Suarez as they left the stadium.

“He is not a criminal, he is a good boy,” said 43-year-old Santiago Pineyioz. “He has a problem.”

Suarez has now been handed a third biting ban after previous incidents with Ajax and Liverpool. But with the FIFA sanction preventing Suarez playing in next year’s Copa America, a perception is growing in Uruguay that the country of around three million is being unfairly targeted.

“It’s very easy for FIFA to punish Uruguay,” 33-year-old Jose Maria Blanco said. “They wouldn’t do it to Brazil ... we don’t have the power.” It’s a sentiment that’s shared by Uruguay midfielder Egidio Arevalo.

“Right now I’ve got a bitter feeling,” Arevalo said. “We really had to fight against all ... because the truth is that they wanted us out of the cup long ago.”

AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

Brazil’s goalkeeper Julio Cesar make a save in the shoot-out of the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Brazil and Chile at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Brazil won 3-2 on penalties after the match ended 1-1 draw after extra-time. highly enough to guarantee his spot on in the World Cup squad almost a year before the tournament started.

“After what happened in 2010 I saw how many people were cheering for me and I wanted to win the World Cup for what happened back then,” Julio Cesar said. “To be labelled as a villain, that is very bad, it is very complicated.” “I

need to keep focused so this dream will come true.” True to form the emotional keeper cried in front of cameras as he described his feelings after the win.

“My tears? Well, I am an emotional person,” he said, adding that this time they were tears of joy. “I was crying because individually, my team mates came to me and supported

me and said nice things and I couldn’t hold it back.”

After 2010 “I just tried to focus and concentrate on doing my job in the best possible way,” he added. “What would crown this would be to hold and kiss the cup with millions of Brazilians.

This is very special because of what happened in the last World Cup.”

Brazil ‘three steps from heaven’, says Scolari Reuters

BELO HORIZONTE - Brazil boss Luiz Felipe Scolari said his team were “three steps from heaven” after beating Chile on penalties to reach the World Cup quarter-finals on Saturday. The hosts’ excruciatingly tense 3-2 penalty win, after the game in Belo Horizonte ended 1-1 following extra-time, left them three games away from lifting the World Cup for a sixth time and exorcising the ghosts of defeat in the 1950 final on home soil.

“We took upon ourselves this mis-

sion that we must be champions. If you make a promise you must deliver. This is what the players are doing,” Scolari told reporters. “There are three more (games) to see if we can reach heaven,” he added. Scolari praised Chile, who nearly won with a last-minute shot that cannoned off the crossbar, and said Brazil must improve if they were to keep progressing.

“In every match, the difficulties are escalating,” the coach said. Brazil now face the winners of Colombia v Uruguay tie. “The World Cup has show that teams are very balanced. If you cannot

exploit one or two or three chances, as we didn’t today, then you might pay the price for that and go out.”

VERY CORDIAL

Asked about tension between the Brazil and Chile benches during the game, Scolari warned he may abandon a new-found patience and revert to a more explosive style. At times, the fourth official had to restrain Chile’s bench, with assistants to their coach Jorge Sampaoli straying beyond their area and gesticulating aggressively.

“We are being very cordial, very nice and polite to the foreign teams.

But perhaps it’s time for us to change,” he said, alleging someone threw stones at Brazil’s dugout. “They were almost encroaching into our area. It was almost like war, they were waging a battle. I can’t hold it in, I can’t be polite any more.”

Scolari was critical of the mix-up at the back between Hulk and Marcelo that led to Chile’s equaliser by Alexis Sanchez in the first half that cancelled out David Luiz’s early strike, saying it was unacceptable at international

level. But he piled the praise on his leading forward Neymar. The 22year-old striker had a quiet game by his standards but coolly converted his penalty in the shootout.

“He’s mature. He has been ready since he was 17 or 18 years old. He is a simple player, he likes playing football. He takes a penalty as if he was playing with friends,” Scolari said, adding that Neymar took a kick on the thigh and will take a few days to recover. “We will do our best to have him on the pitch for the next match,” added Scolari.

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Uruguay fans wear masks of Uruguay’s Luis Suarez before the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Colombia and Uruguay at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, June 28, 2014.

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France’s Karim Benzema controls the ball during a training session at Santa Cruz stadium in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, Saturday, June 28, 2014.

France will face Nigeria on Monday in the round of 16 at the World Cup.

France pinning hopes on Benzema for Nigeria clash

AP Photo/David Vincent

Reuters

BRASILIA - When France striker Karim Benzema was hauled off in the 83rd minute of their 1-0 World Cup qualifying defeat at home to Spain in March last year he was sent packing with a cacophony of boos and whistles. The fans’ angry reaction at the Stade de France to yet another limp performance from the Real Madrid forward seemed even harsher eight minutes later when they gave Spain playmaker Andres Iniesta a rousing ovation as he was substituted.

Fast forward to the World Cup in Brazil and Benzema is now the toast of the Gallic nation, with three goals in as many games and man-of-the-match performances in the victories over Honduras and Switzerland.

He has earned effusive praise from coach Didier Deschamps and his team mates and France will need the 26-year-old to maintain his form if they are to beat Nigeria in Monday’s last-16 clash in Brasilia and set up a quarter-final against Germany or Algeria. Benzema came into the World Cup following a fine season with Real when he netted 24 goals in 52 games in all competitions and helped the world’s richest club by income to win a 10th Champions League crown and the King’s Cup. He has put a scoring drought for Les Bleus behind him that stretched for more than 1,200 minutes, and led to him temporarily losing his place in the national team, and looks fit and hungry for success. A more mature personality after a series of off-field problems and struggles with his weight, he has become a leader in the French side not only in the forward line but in a wider sense as well.

“Karim is one of the top players on the global stage,” team mate Antoine

Griezmann told reporters in Brazil this week. “He is performing at an extremely high level and he is the one who makes us play,” added the Real Sociedad forward. Deschamps, who captained France to their 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 triumphs, is only too happy to agree.

The Basque-born 45-year-old coach, who took over in July 2012, is trying to lead France to a second World Cup crown after their triumph in 1998 following a series of woeful performances at major tournaments marred by infighting and ill-discipline.

“Benzema has extraordinary movement which underpins the team’s play,” Deschamps told reporters.

“We have always focused on his contribution apart from his goals, which is something that doesn’t happen elsewhere.”

MONEY ROW

Nigeria’s preparations have been disrupted after they became the latest African country to be embroiled in a money row and the players threatened not to train.

Team officials said on Friday promises of quick payment from the country’s president had resolved the situation but it is hardly the best way for the African champions to prepare for the France game.

Nigeria reached the second round on their first two World Cup appearances in 1994 and 1998 but were eliminated at the group stage at their two subsequent finals in 2002 and 2010.

Their progress to the last 16 has been overshadowed by a suspected bomb attack in the capital Abuja during rush hour on Wednesday when at least 21 people died. An explosion overnight in the northeastern city of Bauchi killed 10 people.

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Valiant performance vindicates vilified keeper Reuters

SAO PAULO - Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar celebrated Saturday night after his dream performance helped erase the nightmare of the 2010 World Cup when his mistake helped lead to Brazil’s early elimination and four years of vilification by sceptical fans.

Julio Cesar provided a safe pair of hands throughout the 1-1 draw with Chile before he stopped two penalties in the 3-2 shootout win.

The match was one of the most thrilling of the World Cup so far and the Brazil goalkeeper picked up the Man of the Match award for his display.

“The match has proven that if you have dream then go after it and don’t give up,” he said after accepting his prize. “We haven’t won anything yet but this gives me the strength to go into the next match and help my teammates.”

It was welcome vindication for a man who shared the blame for Brazil’s early exit in South Africa four years ago. With the quarter final against the Netherlands tied 1-1 he flapped at a cross, allowing Wesley Sneijder to nod home the winning goal. The keeper famously cried after the defeat and then lost his international place - and his confidence.

He went from Inter Milan to Queens Park Rangers and was relegated with the London club. He sat on the sidelines for much of last season and only started playing again when he was loaned to modest North American outfit Toronto FC. Scolari, however, never doubted his class. The manager brought him back into the international fold in 2013 and rated him

International

Monday, June 30, 2014

Suarez idolized, not blamed for Uruguay’s exit Associated Press Writer

RIO DE JANEIRO — Dejected but defiant, and still defending Luis Suarez. Uruguay’s support of the banned, biting striker was steadfast on Saturday even as the team was toothless in his absence and went out of the World Cup with a 2-0 loss to Colombia. Among the Uruguay fans in the stands, in the team dressing room and in the dugout, Suarez’s global pariah status is still mystifying. To them, the 27year-old player is not a pariah but a footballing hero, even if the bite on an opponent will prevent him representing the national team in competitive games for more than a year.

“People have been after him for a long time,” Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez said in the Maracana, echoing recent attacks on a perceived FIFA and English-language media campaign against Suarez.

World football’s governing body acted swiftly after the bite on Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini during Tuesday’s Group D finale, banning Suarez for four months, disrupting his Liverpool career, as well as nine international matches.

“It is an outrage,” veteran defender Diego Lugano said. “It is a violation of human rights which is far beyond winning or losing a football game.” While Suarez was more than 1,000 miles at home, his usual No. 9 jersey was hung in the dressing room as usual, tweeted out for the world to see by the team.

Outside the Maracana, some fans pretended to bite each other, inside many watched the game wearing Suarez face masks and “Ole, ole, ole, Suarez” was sung throughout.

“We all know the things that happened, but we had to take only positive things out of that situation,” Tabarez said. “In fact, it gave us a lot of strength for this game.

We really wanted to win.”

But apart from Suarez’s name, there was little to cheer as Uruguay fans were outnumbered by the swathes of Colombian yellow. Just like in the group stage opener when Suarez was still recovering from a knee injury, Uruguay couldn’t find a way to win in this round of 16 match without the lethal marksman, who scored twice in the victory over England.

At 35, Diego Forlan made little impact up front during his 53

minutes on the pitch. Only in the closing minutes was there any intensity from the 2010 semifinalists, but Cristian Rodriguez, Maxi Pereira and Edinson Cavani were all denied. Still, though, no fan in a Uruguay shirt could be found blaming Suarez as they left the stadium.

“He is not a criminal, he is a good boy,” said 43-year-old Santiago Pineyioz. “He has a problem.”

Suarez has now been handed a third biting ban after previous incidents with Ajax and Liverpool. But with the FIFA sanction preventing Suarez playing in next year’s Copa America, a perception is growing in Uruguay that the country of around three million is being unfairly targeted.

“It’s very easy for FIFA to punish Uruguay,” 33-year-old Jose Maria Blanco said. “They wouldn’t do it to Brazil ... we don’t have the power.” It’s a sentiment that’s shared by Uruguay midfielder Egidio Arevalo.

“Right now I’ve got a bitter feeling,” Arevalo said. “We really had to fight against all ... because the truth is that they wanted us out of the cup long ago.”

AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

Brazil’s goalkeeper Julio Cesar make a save in the shoot-out of the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Brazil and Chile at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Brazil won 3-2 on penalties after the match ended 1-1 draw after extra-time. highly enough to guarantee his spot on in the World Cup squad almost a year before the tournament started.

“After what happened in 2010 I saw how many people were cheering for me and I wanted to win the World Cup for what happened back then,” Julio Cesar said. “To be labelled as a villain, that is very bad, it is very complicated.” “I

need to keep focused so this dream will come true.” True to form the emotional keeper cried in front of cameras as he described his feelings after the win.

“My tears? Well, I am an emotional person,” he said, adding that this time they were tears of joy. “I was crying because individually, my team mates came to me and supported

me and said nice things and I couldn’t hold it back.”

After 2010 “I just tried to focus and concentrate on doing my job in the best possible way,” he added. “What would crown this would be to hold and kiss the cup with millions of Brazilians.

This is very special because of what happened in the last World Cup.”

Brazil ‘three steps from heaven’, says Scolari Reuters

BELO HORIZONTE - Brazil boss Luiz Felipe Scolari said his team were “three steps from heaven” after beating Chile on penalties to reach the World Cup quarter-finals on Saturday. The hosts’ excruciatingly tense 3-2 penalty win, after the game in Belo Horizonte ended 1-1 following extra-time, left them three games away from lifting the World Cup for a sixth time and exorcising the ghosts of defeat in the 1950 final on home soil.

“We took upon ourselves this mis-

sion that we must be champions. If you make a promise you must deliver. This is what the players are doing,” Scolari told reporters. “There are three more (games) to see if we can reach heaven,” he added. Scolari praised Chile, who nearly won with a last-minute shot that cannoned off the crossbar, and said Brazil must improve if they were to keep progressing.

“In every match, the difficulties are escalating,” the coach said. Brazil now face the winners of Colombia v Uruguay tie. “The World Cup has show that teams are very balanced. If you cannot

exploit one or two or three chances, as we didn’t today, then you might pay the price for that and go out.”

VERY CORDIAL

Asked about tension between the Brazil and Chile benches during the game, Scolari warned he may abandon a new-found patience and revert to a more explosive style. At times, the fourth official had to restrain Chile’s bench, with assistants to their coach Jorge Sampaoli straying beyond their area and gesticulating aggressively.

“We are being very cordial, very nice and polite to the foreign teams.

But perhaps it’s time for us to change,” he said, alleging someone threw stones at Brazil’s dugout. “They were almost encroaching into our area. It was almost like war, they were waging a battle. I can’t hold it in, I can’t be polite any more.”

Scolari was critical of the mix-up at the back between Hulk and Marcelo that led to Chile’s equaliser by Alexis Sanchez in the first half that cancelled out David Luiz’s early strike, saying it was unacceptable at international

level. But he piled the praise on his leading forward Neymar. The 22year-old striker had a quiet game by his standards but coolly converted his penalty in the shootout.

“He’s mature. He has been ready since he was 17 or 18 years old. He is a simple player, he likes playing football. He takes a penalty as if he was playing with friends,” Scolari said, adding that Neymar took a kick on the thigh and will take a few days to recover. “We will do our best to have him on the pitch for the next match,” added Scolari.

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Uruguay fans wear masks of Uruguay’s Luis Suarez before the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Colombia and Uruguay at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, June 28, 2014.

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France’s Karim Benzema controls the ball during a training session at Santa Cruz stadium in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, Saturday, June 28, 2014.

France will face Nigeria on Monday in the round of 16 at the World Cup.

France pinning hopes on Benzema for Nigeria clash

AP Photo/David Vincent

Reuters

BRASILIA - When France striker Karim Benzema was hauled off in the 83rd minute of their 1-0 World Cup qualifying defeat at home to Spain in March last year he was sent packing with a cacophony of boos and whistles. The fans’ angry reaction at the Stade de France to yet another limp performance from the Real Madrid forward seemed even harsher eight minutes later when they gave Spain playmaker Andres Iniesta a rousing ovation as he was substituted.

Fast forward to the World Cup in Brazil and Benzema is now the toast of the Gallic nation, with three goals in as many games and man-of-the-match performances in the victories over Honduras and Switzerland.

He has earned effusive praise from coach Didier Deschamps and his team mates and France will need the 26-year-old to maintain his form if they are to beat Nigeria in Monday’s last-16 clash in Brasilia and set up a quarter-final against Germany or Algeria. Benzema came into the World Cup following a fine season with Real when he netted 24 goals in 52 games in all competitions and helped the world’s richest club by income to win a 10th Champions League crown and the King’s Cup. He has put a scoring drought for Les Bleus behind him that stretched for more than 1,200 minutes, and led to him temporarily losing his place in the national team, and looks fit and hungry for success. A more mature personality after a series of off-field problems and struggles with his weight, he has become a leader in the French side not only in the forward line but in a wider sense as well.

“Karim is one of the top players on the global stage,” team mate Antoine

Griezmann told reporters in Brazil this week. “He is performing at an extremely high level and he is the one who makes us play,” added the Real Sociedad forward. Deschamps, who captained France to their 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 triumphs, is only too happy to agree.

The Basque-born 45-year-old coach, who took over in July 2012, is trying to lead France to a second World Cup crown after their triumph in 1998 following a series of woeful performances at major tournaments marred by infighting and ill-discipline.

“Benzema has extraordinary movement which underpins the team’s play,” Deschamps told reporters.

“We have always focused on his contribution apart from his goals, which is something that doesn’t happen elsewhere.”

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Nigeria’s preparations have been disrupted after they became the latest African country to be embroiled in a money row and the players threatened not to train.

Team officials said on Friday promises of quick payment from the country’s president had resolved the situation but it is hardly the best way for the African champions to prepare for the France game.

Nigeria reached the second round on their first two World Cup appearances in 1994 and 1998 but were eliminated at the group stage at their two subsequent finals in 2002 and 2010.

Their progress to the last 16 has been overshadowed by a suspected bomb attack in the capital Abuja during rush hour on Wednesday when at least 21 people died. An explosion overnight in the northeastern city of Bauchi killed 10 people.

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DENPASAR - Get accustomed to strolling to Serangan Island?

Serangan Island or Turtle Island strategically located in the South of Sanur Beach, in fact, has a unique mystery. Precisely, it sits around the Pat Payung Temple, Pesalakan Temple, Dalem Ped and Dalem Beji located in the southern part of the island.

Reputedly, the region is inhabited by supernatural beings. The atmosphere resembles a forest overgrown by mangrove trees and other local trees. It is guarded by officers and no people’s home occurs around the location, so that its beauty remains to be well maintained. The road nearby is still unpaved and sometimes muddy in rainy season.

Atmosphere of the road is deserted, so that sometimes it makes people misguided. Once entering this area, visitors will feel thick aura.

Talking about supernatural beings, our body will instantly feel cold and the chilling creeps. However, such a nuance will sometimes vanish when hearing the entertaining bird songs on the trees around us.

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LONDON - It was not quite a Jill Craybas moment for Serena Williams at a soggy Wimbledon on Saturday but her third round defeat by Frenchwoman Alize Cornet was shocking all the same.

Just as when she was beaten by obscure fellow American Craybas at the same stage in 2005, no one saw it coming. Especially when, after a frustrating four-hour rain interruption, the 32-year-old five-times champion returned to Court Two in the early evening to romp through an opening set that lasted only 29 minutes.

Victory for top seed and most people’s pre-tournament favourite looked a formality, but Cornet, the world number 24, had other ideas and began a stirring fight back to claim a 1-6 6-3 6-4 victory - her second over Williams this year.

Williams seemed as mystified as everybody after the defeat, which came a round before last year’s exit to Sabine Lisicki and a day after sister Venus went out against former champion Petra Kvitova, meaning neither sister has reached the second week of the singles for the first time in eight years.

“Right now I don’t really know what I did wrong,” Williams told reporters. “Usually I do. Usually I know I did this and that. I have a few ideas, but this will be a really good one for me to kind of like assess and figure out.” Whereas Williams had been in total command against an apparently overwhelmed Cornet, the match suddenly flipped during

the early stages of the second set when the Frenchwoman cut loose.

“I think the rain delay killed me a little bit because I started the match very well, like the two first games were really good,” Cornet said.

“After that, I think she lost a little bit (of) her concentration in the beginning of the second set and I used it to come back in the match, and finally I played way better.” Still, the crowd expected Williams to flick the switch and recover but as the errors mounted and she began to look more and more awkward and hesitant, the match began slipping away.

With desperation in her eyes Williams roared in Cornet’s direction after saving a break point in the opening game of the third set but she dropped serve at 2-2 in the decider and quickly went 5-2 down before mounting a fightback. When Cornet, who had never beaten a top20 player in a grand slam, served for the match at 5-4 it seemed

inevitable that her nerve would fail her. But just like the 30-year-old Craybas nearly a decade ago, she seized her chances.

Instead, it was Williams who cracked, bungling a dreadful volley into the net to give Cornet a match point and then missing a passing shot to bow out. Rather than scold herself, however, Williams said Cornet had raised her game. “I think everyone in general plays the match of their lives against me,” she said.

“So I’m pretty sure that the next match, it won’t be the same. “I just have to always, every time I step on the court, be a hundred times better.

If I’m not, then I’m in trouble.”

It was Williams’ earliest exit at Wimbledon since that defeat to Craybas and means she has failed to reach the quarter-finals of the year’s first three grand slams.

She remains one behind the 18 grand slam titles won by Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova and four behind Steffi Graf’s professional era record of 22, but while the flow of silverware has slowed this year, Williams remains hungry for more. “I think it’s definitely pretty significant,” she said of at least emulating fellow Americans Evert and Navratilova. “It’s something I’m obviously going to keep going for. It’s definitely something in my mind, pretty important.”

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Serena Williams of U.S. celebrates a point during the women’s singles match against Alize Cornet of France at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday, June 28, 2014.

Lorenzo apologises for ‘worst’ race Jorge Lorenzo accepted full responsibility for his uncompetitive 13th place in MotoGP’s Dutch Grand Prix, saying he lost all confidence amid memories of his 2013 Assen crash. Last year Lorenzo broke his collarbone in a practice accident on the TT meeting’s opening day, then incredibly returned to race from 12th to fifth on the Saturday.

But he was off the pace throughout this season’s race, languishing as low as 17th after losing ground when he stayed on wets too long in the drying race. “I have to say

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Jorge Lorenzo of Spain powers his Yamaha during the second MotoGP Free Practice of the Dutch Grand Prix, in Assen, northern Netherlands, Thursday June 26,2014.

that the bike was working quite well in the wet and the dry, I just had a bad race as a rider,” said Lorenzo.

“My confidence wasn’t great; I didn’t want to crash like last year. “I would like to apologise to my team, the engineers and my fans because they all did their best but today it was definitely my worst race ever.

“In the dry I’m confident and not afraid of crashing but when it’s spitting maybe I have the memory of last year and I didn’t have things clear in my mind. “In future if something happens like this I hope to be more confident and less scared of crashing.”

It was a troubled race for the works Yamaha team, as Lorenzo’s team-mate Valentino Rossi had to start from the pitlane after gambling on slick tyres only to change his mind at the end of the green-flag lap and pit. Rossi eventually recovered to fifth.

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Rescuers search amid the rubble of a building that collapsed on the outskirts of Chennai, India, Sunday, June 29, 2014.

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NEW DELHI — Police in southern India detained two construction company directors Sunday as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for dozens of workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains. It was one of two weekend building collapses that killed at least 22 people.

The 12-story apartment structure the workers were building collapsed late Saturday while heavy rains and lightning were pounding the outskirts of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state. Police said 31 construction workers had been pulled out so far and the search was continuing for more than a dozen others.

Four of the workers died on the spot and another seven succumbed to injuries in a hospital, said police officer George Fernandes. Fourteen workers remained hospitalized, while six others were discharged, Fernandes said.

Police officer Kanan said two directors of the construction company, Prime Sristi, have been detained for questioning as authorities began investigating the collapse. The officer uses one name.

Balaguru, one of the builders, said

the structure collapsed possibly due to the impact of lightning.

“Usually, once the construction gets over we install the equipment to prevent the building from a thunder strike. It was nearing completion,” the Press Trust of India news agency quoted Balaguru, who uses one name, as saying. Nearly 300 police and fire service workers worked overnight, looking for survivors in the debris. They used gas cutters, iron rods and shovels to reach those trapped in the rubble, after cranes lifted concrete blocks to clear the way for the rescuers.

“Removing debris is a major challenge. It may take two to three days to clear the rubble,” said S.P. Selvam, who is heading the rescue operation. Earlier Saturday, a fourstory, 50-year-old structure toppled in an area of New Delhi inhabited by the poor. Eleven people died and

one survivor was being treated in a hospital, said fire service officer Praveer Haldiar.

Most homes in that part of the capital were built without permission and using substandard materials, police officer Madhur Verma said. The Press Trust of India news agency said the New Delhi collapse was triggered by construction work on an adjacent plot.

Building collapses are common in India, where high demand for housing and lax regulations have encouraged some builders to cut corners, use substandard materials or add unauthorized extra floors.

In April last year, 74 people were killed when an eight-story building being constructed illegally in the Mumbai suburb of Thane in western Maharashtra state caved in. It was the worst building collapse in the country in decades.

NAIROBI, Kenya — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon capped off a week of high-level U.N. discussions on the environment by “adopting” a 6-month-old lion cub Saturday. The young lioness, which was found abandoned in Nairobi National Park, will be raised by the Nairobi Animal Orphanage. Ban named the cub Tumaini, which means “hope” in Kenya’s language of Kiswahili, after his “hope that all people around the world will be able to live harmoniously with nature.”

“I sincerely hope this lion will grow healthy, strong and even fierce,” Ban said, drawing parallels with his hopes for the environment after this week’s first U.N. Environment Assembly.

The assembly was the highest-level U.N. body ever convened on the environment. More than 1,200 participants from 193 member states spent the week in Nairobi, where the U.N. Environment Program is headquartered. Ban said he hopes to see U.N. member states adopt a climate change deal during formal talks in Lima in December.

International environmental crime and terrorism ranked high on the assembly’s agenda. Illegal timber and products of wildlife crime — such as elephant ivory and rhino horn — are smuggled through the same routes as illegal weapons.

The Somali militant group al-Shabab makes tens of millions of dollars a year from the illegal charcoal trade. The Lord’s Resistance Army, which U.S. forces are helping fight across central Africa, trade in elephant ivory.

Ban warned that popular discontent and criminal activity within countries could spawn international terrorism. He urged world leaders to address terrorism comprehensively, beginning within their countries’ own borders.

“United Nations, through its global counterterrorism strategy, is trying to provide necessary assistance and work with African countries,” Ban said. “The political leaders should always have inclusive dialogue and inclusive policies embracing all different groups of people. That is one fundamental principle which I have been looking to the world leaders to practice.”

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From page 1 Currently, his party would draw up a draft and collect some institutions, NGOs and individuals to join in accordance with legal standing. “The problem of Bali is not only the problem of Benoa Bay. It will have an impact on the Island of Bali and its spatial arrangement. Though my life is threatened, I still struggle to keep Bali,” he affirmed.

Meanwhile, Gede Bangun Nusantara asserted the meeting aimed to do something really intended for the future of Bali.

Actually, the presidential regulation could only be evaluated 5 years after enactment. “But the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 revised it directly. What is the urgency? What is the interest of Balinese people? If nothing, do not be revised,” he said.

According to him, in all countries, the heads of states extended the conservation area, but only in Indonesia, namely President SBY, who would eliminate the conservation area into a buffer area. On the other hand, SBY was said to love Bali and pro-environment, but in fact ‘he sold’ Bali. Bangun worried if the regent of Badung and the Badung House including the Bali House did the same by legalizing the reclamation because they were preparing a draft on zonation.

“Foundation of the Presidential Regulation is very weak.

It’s really a matter of an order. Their made it carelessly and the presidential regulation can be revoked. Balinese people must not be taken to be playful. Previously, it was probably a test case, but now the movement is in national level,” said Bangun. (kmb32)

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INDONESIA Muslims start Ramadan, World Voters place hopes in Cup fever undiminished would-be president’s past Agence France-Presse

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SOLO - In the Indonesian city of Solo, where powerful sultans once reigned supreme, residents are fervently backing a commoner who transformed their city in his bid to become president.

It’s hard to find anyone in Solo who isn’t wild about their former mayor Joko Widodo, a softlyspoken man with a slight frame better known as Jokowi.

They are hoping he will give the world’s third-largest democracy a much-needed facelift as he did in Solo, a functional yet charming city on the congested island of Java. But, as the July 9 poll approaches, Widodo’s once enormous lead over his only rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, has shrunk dramatically, and some are questioning whether his man-ofthe-people approach makes him too timid to lead Indonesia.

The sprawling archipelago’s public sector is rife with corruption, its economy is slowing and poverty is widespread. More than half the country’s 250 million people live below or around the $2-a-day poverty line.

Elected as Jakarta governor in 2012, the 53-year-old Widodo rose to national fame for pioneering a new style of leadership, visiting poor communities affected by his administration’s plans and getting his hands dirty with public works projects. But this strength could become a weakness if Widodo is elected president, political analyst Muhammad Qodari from polling firm Indo Barometer predicts.

“His impromptu visits to communities, going down into the drains and sewers to check on operations was

his way of asserting control, but how will he do that at the national level?”

Qodari told AFP. Those in Solo who lived under Widodo’s administration say their city is living proof that despite his gentle demeanour, Widodo is in fact firm, decisive and gets the job done.

During his seven years running the city he moved slum dwellers into multi-storey flats with working toilets, relocated hundreds of vendors clogging footpaths to a market, and spruced up public parks -- solving the kind of issues that plague every Indonesian city.

Many public walls are now painted with commissioned murals, while the city is filled with museums, colourful trishaws and handcrafted batik shops celebrating its cultural heritage.

“The sidewalks are swept every five hours so we can now lay mats on the ground to enjoy meals,” said Solo taxi driver Budi Purnomo, 31.

Trishaw driver Suprapto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, was equally enthusiastic.

“It’s stupid not to vote for him,” the 55-year-old said. “This village boy has done an excellent job in Solo and I have no doubt he will do the same for

Indonesia as president.”

During a recent trip to Solo, Widodo was met with throngs of supporters, including housewives, old men in Muslim skullcaps and teenage boys with tattoos and ear piercings.

Solo is small city of 500,000 people. But Widodo has proved himself too in bustling Jakarta, a sprawling megacity of some 20 million people on any given work day.

He has introduced health and education cards for the poor, initiated the construction of a long-overdue metro to ease the capital’s notorious traffic and begun a dredging programme to lessen crippling seasonal flooding.

His attention to the everyday Indonesian and his story of humble beginnings has enchanted millions.

Born to a timber seller, Widodo was raised in a bamboo shack on a river bank and worked as a furniture maker before becoming mayor. He appeals to people like Solo housewife Ani Albaini, 40, who says Indonesia is full of leaders “who talk too much” but do too little.

“It’s time they all shut up and get some work done, like Jokowi,” she said. “He is an ordinary man with extraordinary talent.”

JAKARTA - Muslims in much of Asia began celebrating the holy month of Ramadan Sunday but in Indonesia even threats by hardliners to raid “sinful” bars could not stop football fans heading to nightspots to watch the World Cup. Across the Muslim world, the faithful fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious during the holy month, which ends with the Eid holiday.

Ramadan got under way in Asian countries including Indonesia, which has the world’s biggest Muslim population at around 225 million people, war-torn Afghanistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.

Hardliners in Indonesia have pledged to raid bars that continue to sell alcohol, which Muslims are banned from drinking under Islamic law, or stay open too late.

Authorities order bars and other nightspots to close earlier during the holy month.

Radical group the Islamic Defenders’ Front would “monitor any sinful activities in entertainment places, cafes and bars during Ramadan”, said Salim Alatas, the group’s chief in the capital Jakarta.

“If law enforcement officials do nothing about immoral activities, we will do anything we can to stop them, using our own methods.”

But the threats did little to deter

people in the football-crazy nation, where most practise a moderate form of Islam, from heading out to catch the latest World Cup action.

Bars that remained open in the Jakarta were packed with locals and expatriates late Saturday and early Sunday.

“For me, the fasting does not really affect my enthusiasm to watch the World Cup,” said Intania Permata, a 22-year-old student, who was watching the Brazil versus Chile nail-biter at a South American bar and restaurant.

Endika Setiadi Putra, 27, said that with the World Cup now in the knockout stages, the excitement would keep drawing people to watch the matches in bars even during Islam’s holiest month.

“If it is the weekends, most people will go out (to watch the matches),” Putra told AFP. The holy season also presents a dilemma for Muslim players in the World Cup, as choosing to fast will affect the strict diets they usually have to follow.

The problem is most pressing for the team from Muslim-majority Algeria, who face a tough match against Germany on Monday.

For many other Indonesians, the start of Ramadan was a time to be with their families or take part in special prayers, with thousands heading to Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, the biggest in Southeast Asia, on Saturday evening.

Huge red-light district raided before Ramadan Agence France-Presse

SURABAYA - Hundreds of police and soldiers raided a huge red-light district in Indonesia’s second-biggest city Friday to close down brothels before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Scuffles briefly broke out between security forces and people protesting the raid in the area known as “Dolly” in Surabaya, on Indonesia’s main Java island, where women advertise their services by sitting in brightly-lit shop windows. “The raid was conducted to make sure that entertainment centres, including brothels, are closed during the whole month of Ramadan,” said Irvan

Widyanto, a Surabaya official responsible for maintaining public order.

Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, begins on Sunday in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslimmajority country. The faithful are supposed to abstain from eating, drinking and sex from dawn until dusk during Ramadan. The raid came about a week after the city’s mayor announced the closure of Dolly, but gave the prostitutes and pimps in the network of narrow alleys a few more weeks before the red-light district is finally closed.

The bid to close Dolly has sparked fierce resistance from sex workers and others whose jobs depend on the

red-light district, and they have staged regular protests. The government has pledged to give them financial assistance and training in new professions. Some 500 police, soldiers and public order officers -- who assist police in maintaining peace but have fewer powers -- were involved in Friday’s raid, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

One large brothel in the area was closed down permanently, said Widyanto. Scuffles broke out when public order officers sought to take down banners condemning the closure of Dolly. Islamic hardliners also regularly carry out raids on bars and brothels during Ramadan.

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Muslim women perform an evening prayer called ‘tarawih’ marking the first eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, June 28, 2014. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.

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Eurozone growth stalls PARIS - Europe’s fragile recovery is stalling, a batch of economic data showed this week, with analysts warning that France, with the eurozone’s second-biggest economy, could be slipping into another downturn.

Even the eurozone’s economic powerhouse Germany -- whose performance is increasingly divergent from laggard France -- is starting to show signs of slowing growth and posted the lowest inflation for four years at 0.9 percent.

This adds to concerns that the spectre of eurozone deflation is coming closer.

Just a month ago, EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Siim Kallas

sounded the all-clear for the bloc’s economic health, saying that a “recovery has taken hold”.

With Portugal joining Ireland in exiting a billion-euro bailout programme, and even Greece successfully raising money on the markets, the eurozone was looking to put its debt crisis behind it.

Analysts have backed this up from the standpoint of monetary policy, saying that decisions by the

European Central Bank in the last two years to underpin the eurozone debt market have doused the debt crisis.

But, almost as quickly, data has emerged suggesting that the fallout from that crisis still weighs heavily on confidence, investment and growth.

The outlook for the French economy suffered several setbacks this week: official data showed a high payments deficit, a leading survey suggested that output is shrinking, and the state statistics agency forecast weaker growth than expected for 2014.

The survey found that leading indicators across the zone had slipped

from 53.5 points on the index in May to 52.8 points in June, still above the 50-point expansion level, but a setback at a point in the recovery cycle when it should be rising.

Chris Williamson, the chief economist at Markit Economics, which ran the survey, said: “France appears to be entering a renewed downturn after GDP (gross domestic product) stagnated in the first quarter.”

That survey showed business activity in France slumping to 48.0 points from 49.3 points, below the 50-point line which marks the difference between expansion and shrinkage of the economy.

On the other side of the scale, heavyweight Germany was still in

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expansion territory, at 54.2 points.

But even Germany was starting to flag, as the Ifo economic institute’s closely-watched business climate index tumbled to a six month low in June.

It was also the third drop in four months.

“The further decline in expectations suggests that businesses have been unimpressed by the ECB’s recent actions and bodes ill for actual activity in the coming months,” said Capital Economics economist Jennifer McKeown.

Inflation has been weak across the bloc: as well as hitting a four-yearlow in Germany, it is unduly weak in Spain and Italy.

GM issues 3 more recalls covering 474,000 vehicles

AMLAPURA - So far, the water from the Telaga Waja clean water pipeline project has not been flowing.

Meanwhile, residents along the pipeline project remaining to have a water problem have to buy water up to IDR 100,000 per tank.

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So far, the water from the Telaga Waja clean water pipeline project has not been flowing. Meanwhile, residents along the pipeline project remaining to have a water problem have to buy water up to IDR 100,000 per tank.

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DETROIT — General Motors extended its record-breaking string of safety problems, announcing Friday three more recalls, including a large one involving its top-selling vehicle.

The recalls, part of a top-to-bottom safety review, bring the company’s total for the year to 48, covering more than 20 million cars and trucks. That beats GM’s old full-year record of 10.75 million in 2004.

Friday’s recalls cover 474,000 vehicles worldwide for a variety of problems. The largest affects almost 467,000 four-wheel-drive Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, as well as GMC Yukon and Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban SUVs. The Sierra is GM’s top-selling vehicle.

The company said a software glitch can cause the transmission transfer cases to shift into neutral on their own on 2014 and 2015 models. That can cause loss of power, or it can let the trucks roll away if parked. GM says it knows of no crashes or injuries. Most were sold in the U.S. and Canada, with

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In this Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, file photo, the 2011 Chevrolet Camaro convertible debuts at the Los Angeles Auto Show. General Motors extended its record-breaking string of safety problems, announcing Friday three more recalls, including a large one involving its top-selling vehicle.

a small number of exports. Dealers will recalibrate the software.

The other recalls are much smaller and also had no reported injuries. One affects nearly 4,800 Chevrolet SS and Caprice police cars with faulty windshield wiper modules. Gear teeth can become stripped, causing the wipers to fail. Dealers will replace modules if needed.

In the other case, dealers will replace the two rear shock absorbers in about 2,000 2014 model year Chevrolet Corvettes with the FE1 or FE3 suspensions. An insufficient weld

could lead to a fracture.

GM’s safety troubles, coupled with some large recalls from other manufacturers, have pushed the U.S. auto industry to a new full-year record for the number of vehicles recalled.

Automakers have recalled 32.4 million vehicles in less than six months, surpassing the old annual record of 30.8 million, also set in 2004, according to Stericycle, a firm that tracks recalls and helps corporations manage them.

GM’s troubles started in February when it began recalling older small cars to fix ignition switches that can

turn off engines on their own. That kills power steering and brakes and can cause drivers to lose control. It also disables the air bags. The problem ballooned to 2.6 million vehicles, and GM was forced to admit that it knew of the defect for more than a decade yet didn’t recall the cars until this year. GM says the problem caused 54 crashes and at least 13 deaths, although lawmakers say the death toll is closer to 100.

The ignition switch problem touched off a massive safety review in the company, as well as investiga-

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tions by Congress, the Justice Department and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. GM paid NHTSA a $35 million fine for delays in reporting problems to the safety agency, and it has announced or taken charges totaling $2 billion to cover recall costs.

On Thursday, NHTSA posted documents showing that GM would recall about 29,000 Chevy Cruze compacts in the U.S. for an air bag problem. GM said Friday that 4,000 Cruzes from Canada are included in the recall.

A resident of Nawa Kerti, Abang subdistrict, Karangasem, Wayan Tawani, said that people at his village were forced to buy clean water during dry season.

They bought water from tank truck of the PPK assistance. “The price can reach IDR 100,000 per tank,” he said. However, to obtain water service from the PPK tank truck, people should line up because many people were ordering.

In the meantime, residents at Butus and Tanah Aron, Buana Giri village, Bebandem subdistrict also continued to buy clean water. At these villages there is no clean water pipeline. “When it rains, we used to collect rainwater for drinking. However, it has not been raining over four months, so we have to buy water,” said one of the residents, last Wednesday.

Chairman of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, asked the Regent of Karangasem I Wayan Geredeg to follow up the grievances of Karangasem residents.

He said the budget for the water pipeline project from central government to Karangasem gov-

ernment had also been disbursed quite a lot.

According to him, the budget of Telaga Waja clean water pipeline project was worth more than IDR 120 billion. Besides, there was also a clean water project in four subdistricts financed with special allocation fund (DAK) worth IDR 29 billion. Unfortunately, this project could not be enjoyed by local residents.

Gede Dana requested the cistern projects as well as dozens of ponds to be well managed.

“Many pipeline and pond projects have been made. These projects must be managed well to meet the expectations of society, so that no more people face clean water crisis,” said Gede Dana.

Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, said that for the Telaga Waja River pipeline project, the pipe had been installed along approximately 87 km. The pipe installation had reached Kubu subdistrict. However, he could not ascertain when the water of the pipeline project having been done for six years ago could be enjoyed by residents. (013)

Royal Cremation at Ubud Grand Palace

GIANYAR - Cremation or ngaben is a common ritual organized

by Balinese Hindu community.

However, the cremation taking place at Ubud Grand Palace is relatively different. In addition to being unique, the royal cremation performed by the descendants of the royal family draws many local people and foreign travelers.

Cremation belongs to Pitri Yajna or a ceremony devoted to ancestral spirits as an obligation to the ancestors of the Hindus. It aims at cleansing the spirit of the deceased person by cremation at cemetery.

For a royal family, the cremation generally has the same meaning.

The difference only lies in the tradition as referring to the concept of desa (place), kala (time) and patra (situation).

One of the royal families of the Ubud Grand Palace, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, said the royal cremation held at Ubud Palace actually had the same general purpose. “In Hinduism, we know Tri Rna (three debts to be paid) namely the debt to God, debt to ancestors and debt to teacher. Well,

the debt to the ancestors must be paid with cremation ceremony as a form of last devotion of a child to his parents,” he explained The man familiarly called Tjok Ace revealed that cremation at Ubud Grand Palace was very complex and took a long time, ranging from the making of Bade tower used to transport the corpse and sarcophagus such as in the form of bull used to cremate the corpse.

“Royal cremation has a relative time depending on the circumstances, starting from the preparation to the summit of ceremony. By and large, the cremation ceremony held in the palace takes place for a month or more. However, when my mother died, such ceremony took about four months as the implementation depended on auspicious day. So, during which the body was kept at funeral home.

The ceremonial procession in general, explained Tjok Ace, was started with melaspas (purification ceremony to all the elements used in the cremation) and then it was resumed with the procession from Ubud Grand Palace towards the Dalem Puri cemetery. After that, the procession was carrying the ashes

into the ocean.

The communities involved, explained Tjok Ace, reached hundreds of people. They started from relatives and society from 12 hamlets existing in Ubud. “Actually only four hamlets are directly involved, but some other hamlets have kinship with us and others deliberately volunteer and participate in assisting the cremation activity,” he said.

“We also involve some Brahmin priests belonging to the school of Shiva and Buddha. In addition, there are reporters, photographers and television stations covering our event as a publication to introduce the tradition of cremation in Bali.

Royal cremation also has a special attraction for foreign tourists. This makes them come to see and immortalize it,” he said.

To complete the ceremony, the Ubud Grand Palace presented some sacred arts like gambang xylophone, saron, Sidakarya masks and other sacred dances. In addition, they also presented propane arts such as the dances intended for entertainment. People involved in the arts were communities around Ubud as well as those who had ties with royal family. “Not only that,

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The royal cremation performed by the descendants of the royal family draws many local people and foreign travelers.

even there are also foreign travelers who participate as they are interested,” he said.

“People with their own awareness lend a hand. So, we always keep this relationship. Our family

are very grateful to the people who have worked together sincerely to help the procession of cremation. It is a reflection and manifestation of harmonious relationship,” explained the former Regent of Gianyar.

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Japan government helps establish a building GIANYAR - Thousands of people with disability scattered throughout the subdistricts in Gianyar still need empowerment assistance for their artistic creativity and training that they have. However, the budget constraints become one of the obstacles in the policy. On Friday (Jun 27), the government of Japan helped one of their shelters, namely at the Senang Hati Foundation, Siangan village, Gianyar.

Cheerful and moved expression was implied on the face of the children with disabilities after Japan provided them with a grant aid in the form of learning and practice classroom building. The building valued at IDR 360 million was expected to

be a place to learn and practice for those with disabilities. Measuring 15 x 10 meters, the building with 4 rooms was intended for skill education, English and Japanese language course, computer room and art room.

Each room was equipped with facili-

ties in accordance with the designation such as wheelchairs, sewing machines, keyboards, computers, projectors, LED TVs and others.

Currently, there were 2,400 children with disabilities in Gianyar spreading in each subdistrict. Assistance from the Japanese government was expected to empower the people with disability to learn and produce works that would be beneficial to the well-being and independence.

Gianyar government appreciated the management and members of the Senang Hati Foundation being always vivacious and compact in

attaining advancement, intelligence and having determination to achieve a better future, said Second Assistant to Regional Secretary of Gianyar, I Ketut Suweta.

Concern of the Japanese government to people with disabilities was visible from the arrival of the Consul General of Japan in Denpasar, Kazuo Shibata, in the inauguration of the building, last Sunday. “This grant is a humanitarian mission from the Government of Japan to assist the learning of the disabilities in order to be independent,” said the Consul General of Japan, Kazuo Shibata.

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The management of Senang Hati Foundation, Ni Putu Suriati, admitted to be moved by the grant.

Existence of the building would further encourage the management and members of the foundation to learn about skills, foreign language, technology and the arts. With the building, her party hoped they could look to the future better like the normal people.

“We will use this assistance as well as possible to achieve independence amidst the limitations of the disability,” said Ni Putu Suriati. (kmb16)

Roof of building damaged

Inaugural plan of Bangli House cancelled Bali Post

BANGLI - Ultimately the Sasana Budaya Giri Kusuma Bangli was canceled as the venue of the inauguration and taking the oath of office for the 30 legislators of the Bangli House for the tenure of 2014-2019. The decision was made following the feasibility study conducted by the Bangli Public Works against the condition of the building considered less feasible due to damage in some parts.

Meanwhile, so far the Bangli government is still working hard to find a solution to the problem.

Additionally, it could not ascertain where the venue of the inauguration would be. Related to the issue, the General Affairs and Equipment Division Head of Bangli Regional Secretary, AA Tresnawijaya, when asked for confirmation on Tuesday (Jun 24) justified the cancellation.

He described that in accordance with the technical studies conducted by the Bangli Public Works recently, the Sasana Budaya Giri Kusuma building was declared unfeasible for the venue of the inauguration and oath taking of the Bangli legislators originally scheduled next August.

The cancellation was decided by considering the damage condition of the building in some parts, especially on the roof. Public Works, said Tresnawijaya, found the shift of ring beam of the roof and southern overlap to result in the existence of gap. The damage caused the construction of rafter to get pulled and curved to the center

and caused wooden poles apart.

Due to such conditions, the Public Works also recommended to improve it, so that the roof structure could function properly again. “A review of the Public Works declared if the building was not feasible to hold activities inviting a lot of people,” he said. In addition to the urgent time, Tresnawijaya admitted that his party could not make improvement due to budget constraint.

As per the budget plan, the costs required to repair approximately worth IDR 189 million. Initially the government had planned to make improvement by using windfalls.

But according to the rules, the windfalls could only be used when the condition of the building was collapsed and the damage was very urgent to be repaired. “I want like that, but we are hampered by the rules. So, for a while we will use the results of the study made by the Public Works for the preparation of improvement in 2015,” he added.

Responding to such conditions, the government was still attempting to find a replacement building for the inauguration activity. So far, there were three venues taken as the alternative to the buildings namely the meeting hall of the IHDN at Kubu Bangli, Batur Volcano Museum and meeting hall of the Bangli House as the last alternative. Before making decision, his party planned to conduct a survey on the condition of each building. “Tomorrow, we will make a survey first to the IHDN building and the Batur Volcano Museum,” he explained. (ina)

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The queue of vehicles is seen in Gilimanuk harbor

Strong wind, harbor imposes close-open system Bali Post

GILIMANUK - A strong wind occurred in the Strait of Bali, Thursday night (Jun 26) required the ASDP Ketapang-Gilimanuk to close crossing services. As a result, thousands of vehicles were piling up in the queue at the Gilimanuk Harbor to reach outside the harbor area. The closing was done for an hour around 8:00 p.m., when public transport, especially buses and private cars, exploded.

In addition, the trucks lined up until reaching the forest area of Cekik, Gilimanuk or 5 kilometers from the harbor. As field observation, it happened due to the return of tourist buses and domestic travelers.

Since at 4:.00 p.m., the line of vehicles dominated by tourist buses and private cars had reached the outside area of the harbor ticket counter. As the night went further, the buses including the interprovincial city buses was growing.

Meanwhile, the line of trucks had already reached about 3 kilometers long. The situation was exacerbated by the closure of crossing services due to strong winds. The vessels mooring at the jetty were intentionally left blank while waiting for the weather going back to normal.

One of the tourist bus passengers, Shinta, admitted to have been stuck in the line since 7:00 p.m.

The bus entourage could just come into the vessel on Friday morning

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around 3:00 a.m. In addition to closing the harbor, the repair of national road section at Cekik also triggered the line. The road repair activities continued to be undertaken until that night when the vehicle traffic to the harbor was busy.

Operations Manager of the ASDP Gilimanuk, Wahyudi Susianto, said the closing-opening system of the harbor was made because the weather at Ketapang Harbor did not allow for loading and unloading activities. The line of truck particularly happened because the pontoon pier at Banyuwangi could not be operated. In addition, the line also occurred as the buses and trucks coming out of Bali entered its peak on Saturday. (kmb26)

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired two short-range missiles into its eastern waters Sunday, a South Korean official said, an apparent test fire that comes just days after the country tested what it called new precision-guided missiles.

The Defense Ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department rules, said the missiles were fired from Wonsan and are presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles. The official said North Korea fired the missiles without designating no-sail zones, which the South Korean military views as provocative. South Korean media quoted officials as saying the projectiles appeared to be Scud missiles.

North Korea regularly test-fires missiles and artillery, both to refine its weapons and to express its anger over various developments in Seoul and Washington. North Korea has in recent days criticized alleged South Korean artillery firing drills near a disputed maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea that has been the scene of several bloody skirmishes between the rival nations in recent years. The missile displays also come days before the leader of North Korea’s only major ally, Chinese President Xi Jinping, is set to meet with South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Seoul and Beijing

have long pressed North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions.

North Korea said Friday that leader Kim Jong Un guided test launches of a newly developed precision-guided missiles, in a likely reference to three short-range projectiles South Korean officials say the North fired a day earlier.

It’s not possible to tell if this assertion about the new missiles is an exaggeration, something North Korea has frequently done in the past when trumpeting its military capability, analysts say. Its army is one of the world’s largest but is believed to be badly supplied and forced to use outdated equipment.

Still, the impoverished North devotes much of its scarce resources to missile and nuclear programs that threaten South Korea, Japan and tens of thousands of U.S. troops in the region. Outside analysts say North Korea has developed a handful of crude nuclear devices and is working toward building a warhead small enough to mount on

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People watch a TV news program showing the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 29, 2014.

a long-range missile, although most experts say that goal may take years to achieve.

After a brief period of warming ties earlier this year, animosity has risen on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea has in recent months

threatened South Korea’s president, calling her a prostitute, and the South has vowed to hit North Korea hard if provoked. Pyongyang conducted a series of missile and artillery tests earlier this year in response to annual U.S.-South

Korean military exercises it says it considers preparations for an invasion. North Korea also test-fired two medium-range ballistic missiles and exchanged artillery fire with South Korea near the disputed boundary in the Yellow Sea.

Bosnia marks end of Europe’s violent century

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Artists and diplomats declared a new century of peace and unity in Europe on Saturday in the city where the first two shots of World War I were fired exactly 100 years ago.

On June 28, 1914, the Austro-Hungarian crown prince Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, where he had come to inspect his occupying troops in the empire’s eastern province.

The shots fired by Serb teenager Gavrilo Princip sparked the Great War, which was followed decades later by a second world conflict. Together the two wars cost some 80 million European their lives, ended four empires — including the Austro-Hungarian — and changed the world forever.

Visiting the assassination site Saturday, Sarajevan Davud Bajramovic, 67, AP Photo/Amel Emric Tourists pose for photos inside a replica of the “Graf & Stift” car, parked in front of a museum at said that in order to hold a second of the historical street corner in downtown Sarajevo, where Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austro- silence for every person killed just during Hungarian heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, on Saturday, June 28, WWI in Europe, “we would have to stand 2014. silently for two years.”

A century later, Sarajevans again crowded the same street along the river where Princip fired his shots. And the Austrians were also back, but this time with music instead of military: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was scheduled to perform works of European composers reflecting the century’s catastrophic events and conclude with a symbol of unity in Europe — the joint European hymn, Beethoven’s “Ode of Joy.” The orchestra wanted to pay tribute to the history of Sarajevo, a place where religions meet, said the first violinist, Clemens Hellberg. Austrian President Heinz Fischer said Europeans “have learnt that no problem can be solved by war.”

The continent’s violent century started in Sarajevo and ended in Sarajevo with the 1992-95 war that took 100,000 Bosnian lives.

“If anything good can be found in this repeating evil, it’s more wisdom and readiness to build peace and achieve peace after a century of wars,” said Bosnia’s president, Bakir Izetbegovic.

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The 36th Bali Art Festival his undated product image made from a video provided by Lavazza, shows a prototype of Lavazza’s and Argotec’s “ISSpresso” machine.

Astronauts getting espresso maker

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Talk about a cosmic caffeine jolt. The International Space Station is getting a real Italian espresso machine. Astronauts of all nationalities — but especially the Italians — have long grumbled about the tepid instant coffee served in pouches and drunk with straws 260 miles (418.41 kilometers) above Earth. The pouches and straws aren’t going away, but at least the brew will pack some zero-gravity punch.

The specially-designed-for-space espresso machine is dubbed ISSpresso — ISS for International Space Station.

Its launch early next year from Wallops Island, Virginia, is timed to coincide with the six-month mission of Italy’s first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti. The 37-year-old fighter pilot and Italian Air Force captain will fly to the space station in November aboard a Russian capsule.

She’ll be the first out-of-this-world barista.

“How cool is that?” she said in a tweet earlier this month. “I’ll get to operate the first space espresso machine!”

Italy’s century-old coffee maestro Lavazza teamed up with a Turin-based engineering company, Argotec, and the Italian Space Agency to improve coffee conditions aboard the orbiting outpost.

Besides espresso, ISSpresso is capable of whipping up tea and consommé.

What more could an astronaut want?

During his 5½-month stay on the space station last year, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano repeatedly talked about missing espresso. (This is the cool-as-ice

test pilot who nearly drowned during a spacewalk last July when his helmet filled with water from his suit’s cooling system.)

Argotec already was working on a space espresso machine. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia will make the delivery on its Cygnus cargo ship; the launch is targeted for January.

NASA’s coffee-loving astronaut Donald Pettit actually offered some ideas for ISSpresso during its design phase.

He’s a two-time space station resident who invented and even patented a zerogravity cup for sipping his orbital joe versus sucking it with a straw.

No question, an espresso machine will be “a welcome addition” to space station life, Pettit said Wednesday from Johnson Space Center in Houston. The pre-measured bags of freeze-dried coffee served in orbit taste good — when you’re up there on the frontier, he said.

On Earth, any coffee lover would go “Yeeck.”

Argotec spokesman Antonio Pilello has sampled the ISSpresso espresso and gives it a thumbs-up. The space machine is designed to operate at the same tem-

perature and pressure as Earthly espresso makers, according to the company, to guarantee taste and flavor.

“You know, coffee is very important for Italian people. We are really hard to please about it!” Pilello wrote in an email.

Certified for safety and approved

by NASA, ISSpresso initially will fly with 20 coffee capsules. Extra packets will follow for the six-member crew, if the trial run goes well. The 44-pound machine — a compact 14 inches by 17 inches — will be housed in the U.S. laboratory, Destiny. It resembles a microwave oven, with all the action occurring inside.

Engineers replaced the typical plastic tubing in an espresso machine with steel for robustness. They also used buttons and switches similar to those already on the space station, so the astronauts would be familiar with the design.

Astronaut Pettit points out that the lack of gravity will prevent the bubbly foam from rising to the top. Yet even if the space espresso falls short by connoisseur standards, “it would be the best coffee that we’ve ever had in space.”

In the US --Raster

Coffee-flavored wine in a can Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Many Americans start their day with coffee and end it with a glass (or two) of wine.

Now, one US company is offering both beverages... in one can.

Friends Fun Wine -- whose canned products are made in the south of France -- have introduced what they call the “world’s first coffee-wine” -- Cabernet Coffee Espresso and Chardonnay Coffee Espresso.

“Why not both?” the company said on Twitter.

The Cabernet Coffee Espresso features the “rich flavor of fresh Cabernet grapes, espresso coffee, and a hint of chocolate,” while the Chardonnay variety includes wine, a hint of chocolate and vanilla cappuccino.

The canned beverages check in at 6% alcohol and cost $2.

“We know you must be curious, and it’s a bit hard to describe the taste -- you have to experience it,” the company said on Facebook.

Friends Fun Wine says it wants consumers to “think outside the bottle.”

But some were skeptical.

The industry website Daily Coffee News noted, “There are reasons some flavor combinations have never been brought to market.”

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Place Angsoka Stage Ayodya Stage Wantilan Stage Angsoka Stage Ayodya Stage Wantilan

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Event Art Dances Reconstruction Performance Music and Dance by For Tuni Sayang Hati Mask Dance with Selonding Music Music Classic Performance Drama Gong Exhibition Arja Performance Contemporary Art Performance

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Dozens of preschool and elementary school students attended a workshop on the learning of making a kite with the theme Rare Angon organized

by BaliTV, Saturday (Jun 28). The seminar presented a keynote speaker of a maestro in international kite designer, IB Ugrasena Narendra.

Workshop of making traditional kite gathered crowd IBP/Wawan

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DENPASAR - Dozens of preschool and elementary school students attended a workshop on the learning of making a kite with the theme Rare Angon organized by BaliTV, Saturday (Jun 28). The seminar presented a keynote speaker of a maestro in international kite designer, IB Ugrasena Narendra.

The workshop took place for one day and participants were taught to make traditional kites, ranging from the simple to the elaborate creations.

This tradition should be preserved and such training should be done early because Balinese traditional kites had been famous in the world.

One of them was the Janggan or birdstyle kite. “I can go around the world because of this traditional kite. Our country is also famous for its kites.

On that account, this tradition must be preserved,” said Ugrasena.

He emphasized that harmony in Bali was much preferred. With this kite, the family, village, and even the people in the world could be united.

“Preserving tradition can be done with simple materials, namely bamboo and simple tools. I go around the world by carrying these tools only. Indeed, I am very concern about the preservation of the kite in Bali,” he said.

In addition, Ugrasena admitted that he would teach the unstoppable technology. However, the advances of technology should be balanced with the preservation of kite tradition. He is optimistic that Bali had the next generation to preserve the tradition.

“I regret there is regional bylaw prohibiting kites in Bali whereas the tradition has existed since thousands of years ago. The regional bylaw equally means to go up against the Lord Rare Angon. So, I prefer to play kite overseas, rather than here under continuous attack,” he said.

Children flying kites in the paddy fields, said Ugrasena, actually had an impact on the fertility of soil as they played happily. Consequently, the tubers, fruits (vegetables) and crops turned so delicious. “No other products that can rival against the pleasure of fruits of Bali,” said Ugrasena.

Meanwhile, Chairperson of the

Hindu Dharma Women of Indonesia (WHDI) of Bali Chapter, Mrs. Bintang Puspayoga gave the highest appreciation to the implementation of the activities organized by BaliTV. She wished the participants attending the course could understand the philosophy of the kite. In addition, it was expected to bring forth children with quality, intelligent and independent character as well as healthy mental and spiritual. “The idea of this activity is great because it contributes to instill the character early on in order they can love the Balinese customs. Early character education is important,” he said.

The workshop was also attended by the Chairperson of the Lentera Anak Bali Foundation, AA Sri Wahyuni and Balinese musician Mr. Botak and other public figures. The activity was enlivened by the Rare Angon kecak dance presented by the elderly artists. (kmb36)

Many children prefer to play outside their home are the reality of modern living. Maumah-umahan game dance

by Gong Panji Kumara Mas Troupe from Gianyar try to capture this phenomenon during their performance at Bali Art Festival on Friday. This creation tries to make children take care and aware of their homeland, in the middle of globalization and making living away from home.

Diabetes survey in Bali

Residents of tourism village tend to be obese

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DENPASAR - Indonesia in 2010 was ranked ninth in the world in terms of the number of patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM). Diabetes denoting a metabolic disorder with the symptoms of blood sugar rise is triggered by two main factors, namely obesity and lack of activity.

Chairman of the Gerontology Medical Association of Indonesia (Pergemi) Bali, Prof. Dr. Ketut Suastika, explained that to see the prevalence of people with diabetes and pre-diabetes in Bali it had been conducted a survey at seven villages. The survey found if the prevalence of patients with diabetes mellitus in Bali was 5.9 percent of the total population, 10 percent of pre-diabetes and 35 percent of obesity disorders.

From the survey was also known if the residents at tourism village mostly suffered the diabetes mellitus and had the risk factors of diabetes mellitus, where one of which was central obesity or abdominal fat.

Suastika explained that good economic growth at tourism village led to better nutrition and availability of vehicle facilities so they were lazy to move and do activities. “Obesity is driven by eating much but little movement. In Bali, many cases of obesity and pre-diabetes are detected in people at tourism village with a good economy,” he said.

The seven villages surveyed included the Ceningan, Sangsit, Legian, Pedawa, Ubud, Tenganan and Penglipuran. Of the seven villages with a total sample of 1,840 adults examined, it was obtained the data on the prevalence of central obesity, pre-diabetes, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Most central obesity was found at Ubud village (70.1 percent), Legian (61.2 percent) and Penglipuran (43.4 percent). Meanwhile, the diabetes mellitus case was mostly found at Legian village (8.4 percent).

According to Suastika, if the obesity was experienced at early age, it would accelerate the occurrence of the diabetes mellitus case in the future.

“Currently, it is widely suffered by residents of 35 years old and over, even it also hits teenagers,” he said. The most dangerous pile of fat is the abdominal fat or central obesity. On that account, belly fat in men tends to become the benchmark factor for people to have been affected by diabetes. According to Suastika, the man with the abdominal circumference of above 90 cm and woman of 80 cm above could be called obesity and should be aware of diabetes.

The precautionary measure of diabetes mellitus was very easy, namely by arranging a balanced diet and regular exercise. For those having the risk of diabetes, they should regularly take glucose test. Blood sugar was an important benchmark to determine whether people had been affected by diabetes mellitus other than observing the classic symptoms such as frequent urination, thirst and hunger but the body was thin despite eating a lot. “Periodic glucose test is also important for diabetic patients to facilitate doctor in providing medication or appropriate insulin for their treatment,” said Suastika. (san)

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HIV/AIDS cases estimated to proliferate

SEMARAPURA - Polemic on the closing of Dolly prostitute house in Surabaya has long been rolling out. Thousands of commercial sex workers are estimated to assault Bali, without exception for Klungkung. However, the preventive effort seems not massive. The AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPA) of Klungkung declared the estimation of HIV/AIDS case in Klungkung surged to 1,800 cases this year. Previously, the estimation was not more than 1,000 cases. Predictably, this figure could increase, considering that Klungkung had the pockets of transmission at a number of cafés.

Such concerns were revealed by Secretary of the KPA Klungkung, Wayan Sumanaya, when met at his office recently. Cumulative data of his agency indicated that from 2002 to 2013, there were 209 cases of HIV/AIDS in Klungkung. Meanwhile, on entering the year 2014, the number increased eleven people.

“Such additional data were got from the Health Agency because the sufferers were so hard to test,”

he said. He said the addition was quite surprising and the most compared to the previous years. Until the end of the year, there had been massive measures in response to the closing of Dolly localization. He worried that people living with HIV/AIDS would be getting more and more in keeping with the increase in the estimated number of the case.

Such estimation figures were in accordance with

to the results of the recent survey. Even, this phenomenon was like an iceberg, where the real number was believed to be more. Responding to the results of the survey findings, his party had initiative to organize a meeting with the leaders and general public at each village. The effort was a measure of the KPA Klungkung to coordinate and improve the public education, chiefly for re-instilling the nature of HIV/AIDS in more detail and massively because it was very difficult to anticipate the indirect sex workers living at people’s homes. “I more worry about this matter than those at cafés or elsewhere,” said Sumanaya.

Meanwhile, institutionally his party

had made several meetings with the judiciary team leader, Made Kasta.

The meeting was to draw up the measures more clearly and anticipate this threat. As first step, the judiciary team had directly raided aggressively against the existence of a number of cafés and boarding houses in the areas of migrants. Dozens of migrants were netted as being unable to present their temporary resident identity card (KIPS). They came from Java and Lombok. Unfortunately, they could not be ascertained whether they were the former residents of Dolly localization.

Made Kasta confirmed the raid would be intensified again to anticipate the threat. (kmb31)

Misprocess blowfish, one killed six gets medical treatment Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Poisoning case of blowfish occurred at Penyambangan hamlet, Penyambangan village, Gerokgak. The poisoning incident claimed a fatality while six others underwent an intensive care in Buleleng Hospital and Gerokgak community health center.

Starting from unwinding after working, the death toll named Wayan Madra, 57, having profession as farmer, gathered while chatting with six people including Komang Sriyasa, 40, Kadek Santini, 35, Komang Wirnata, 47, Wayan Padra, 37, Kade Sumantra, 49, and I Putu Indra, 66.

No one predicted if Thursday (Jun 26) around 4:00 p.m. would become the beginning of sorrow to a group of residents at Penyambangan village. Someone was said to bring a blowfish. It kindled the desire of the seven people to cook the fish known to have harmful toxin for human body. Consequently at 7:00 p.m., after the blowfish was processed into fish rawon delicacy, it was consumed together by the seven residents of Penyambangan hamlet. Allegedly, they cooked while drinking palm wine. Then, around 02:00 a.m., Wayan Madra got excruciating pain in the head and stomach. He rushed to ask for help to his children in order to get medical treatment.

“The deceased Wayan Madra asked for help because of having headache as a result of consuming the blowfish. We’ve tried to help and then took him to the Gerokgak community health center, but his life could not be saved,” said Gusti Nyoman Mulyadi, the son-in-law of the deceased Wayan Madra, Friday (Jun 27) at the funeral home.

Mulyadi said the blowfish was cooked at the home of Putu Indra. They had dinner together at that night considering they still had family relationship. The blowfish was suspected to have caused the poisoning and the death of Wayan Madra after misprocessing. “Actually they have been very familiar to cook blowfish. We suspect the blowfish poison remains to leave in the rawon food because it was not processed too cleanly,” he said.

The deceased Wayan Madra was immediately cremated, Sunday (Jun 29).

Meanwhile, another colleague, Putu Indra, still looked powerless in Cempaka Room of Buleleng Hospital. Putu Indra said he only gathered while cooking and eating the blowfish together. The symptoms still perceived were dizziness and abdominal pain.

“I am still dizzy after having dinner with the menu of blowfish with family at home.

At that time, we were hanging out only. I

DENPASAR - To strengthen the sense of kinship, improve health and love in the field of sports, the Bali Hotel Association (BHA) in cooperation with the Bali Travel News (BTN) held a Badminton Competition on June 24 to 27, 2014.

It was revealed in the meeting of the BHA and BTN, Wednesday (Jun 18). The BHA sports section head, Laetitia Delvart Sugandi, accompanied by Andy E. Soetjahyo to the General Manager of BTN Gde Palgunadi said that the event was in a series of exercise which to be held in 2014.

Previously, it had been held the championship of chess and table tennis. After the badminton championship held every month, it would also be organized the billiards, tennis, cultural, futsal, and fun walk activities.

So far, there had been at least 18 groups of 20 groups expected to enroll. Participants were including hotel employees. So far, the BHA consisted of 129 members.

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do not know why I get severe dizzy like this,” he said while lying powerlessly on hospital bed. Meanwhile, the other poisoning victims were still undergoing medical

treatment at Gerokgak community health center and Emergency Room of Buleleng Hospital in order to restore their health and condition. (dgk)

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Pura Sakenan Serangan Denpasar Pura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar Timur Pura Alas Harum Batur Kintamani Pura Alas Angker Munduk Kintamani Pura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

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Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesiman Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan

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4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi Batuan Pura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang Kapal Dalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida

One of the victim of the blowfish mishap in Gerokgak, Buleleng

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BHA organizes Badminton competition

Prostitutes overrun Bali

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10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung Selatan Pura Luhur Uluwatu Pura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badung Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud Pura Andakasa Karangasem Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung Pura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkung Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi Pura Suralaya Banda klungkung Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang Bangli Pura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

Gianyar Pura Gerya Sakti Tulikup Gianyar Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud Pura Segara Ketewel Sukawati Pura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud 11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacang Dawa Klungkung Pura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukahet Klungkung Pura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Dukuh Tegallalang Pura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah Kesiman Pura Sahab Nusa penida Pura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar 12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja Denpasar Pura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta Selatan Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar 15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai Karangasem Pura Aer jeruk Sukawati Gianyar Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel Gianyar Pura Pasek Bendesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem Karangasem Pura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Batur Sari Ubud 27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati 30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi 5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan Klungkung Pura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Penebel Tabanan Pura Benua Tarukan Besakih 9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan Pura Natih Kalah Batubulan Pura Desa Silakarang Singapadu Pura Dalem Petitenget Kuta Badung Pura Dalem Pulasari Gianyar Pura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar Selatan Pura Paibon Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar Pura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Pasar Agung Kediri Tabanan Pura Puaya Batuan Sukawati 11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri

12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

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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Nyong’o, Pharrell Williams among new Academy members

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LOS ANGELES - Kenyan Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, Somalia’s Barkhad Abdi, “Happy” songster Pharrell Williams and Irish-German star Michael Fassbender are among 271 actors newly invited to join Hollywood’s Oscar-bestowing Academy, organizers said Thursday.

Other non-US invitees include Britain’s Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan, as well as Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki and Israeli-born Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad.

Italy’s Paolo Sorrentino, whose “The Great Beauty” won this year’s foreign-language Oscar, will also join the illustrious Hollywood body, as will

Canadian “Dallas Buyers Club” director Jean-Marc Vallee.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invites a new batch of actors, filmmakers and related professionals every year to join the ranks of its 6,000 or so members who vote on the Oscars.

“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

“Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”

Nyong’o won the best supporting actress Oscar in March for her role in

harrowing historical drama “12 Years a Slave.” Fassbender was also nominated for his role in the film by British director Steve McQueen.

Hawkins was nominated in the same category as Nyong’o for her role in Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine,” while Coogan was shortlisted this year as writer for true-story based “Philomena.”

Williams, whose ubiquitous hit “Happy” took the Internet by storm with copycat dance videos from around the world, was nominated for his work on “Despicable Me 2.”

Other nominees included comic Chris Rock, actress June Squibb (Oscar nominee this year for “Nebraska”), “Hunger Games” star Josh Hutcherson and “Veep” TV star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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Shia LaBeouf charged over Broadway misconduct Agence France-Presse

NEW YORK - Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf, star of three “Transformers” movies, was hauled before a New York court Friday, charged with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct at a Broadway musical.

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Actor Shia LaBeouf walks through the media, Friday, June 27, 2014, in New York, after leaving Midtown Community Court following his arrest the previous day for yelling obscenities at the Broadway show “Cabaret.”

Officers were called to Studio 54 midway through a performance of “Cabaret,” where LaBeouf, 28, sat in the audience causing a disturbance and threatening theater security, a police spokesman said.

After security ejected him, he became loud and belligerent and threatened New York police at the scene.

“He was placed under arrest and charged with criminal trespass and two counts of disorderly conduct,” the spokesman told AFP. LaBeouf appeared before a Manhattan criminal court and was subsequently released.

A spokesman for the production confirmed that LaBeouf was escorted out by theater staff during the intermission after being “disruptive” during Act One. The Daily News website reported that he was puffing on cigarettes in the theater and appeared drunk, interrupting the performance and then flying into a rage when police turned up.

LaBeouf starred in the first three “Transformers” movies but was replaced by Mark Wahlberg in the fourth that opens in the United States on Friday. Critics have rubbished the latest installment of the franchise as too long.

Actors Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams are the current stars of “Cabaret” in a production directed by Sam Mendes.

Against reclamation

Resistance of Balinese people begin IBP/Eka

Activists rallied to revoke the Presidential Regulation at Renon on Friday. This week, various actions would be carried out including judicial review against the Presidential Regulation and the environmental analysis impact. Similarly, it would also be made a political pressure, mass rallies and debates to the State Palace.

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DENPASAR - This week, various actions would be carried out including judicial review against the Presidential Regulation and the environmental analysis impact. Similarly, it would also be made a political pressure, mass rallies and debates to the State Palace.

National Coordinator for Rejection against Benoa Bay Reclamation (KNPRTB) held a meeting attended by several professors, a number of lecturers in Denpasar, politicians, and environmental activists, Wednesday (Jun 25).

It was intended to develop the strength against the Presidential

Regulation No.51/2014 and environmental impact analysis (AMDAL) conducted by PT TWBI. In the meeting was revealed that the EIA team of the KNPRTB had made a thorough study so that investors would not dare to invest to Benoa Bay because they would suffer loses. Currently, the KNPRTB

had found a weakness to counter the Presidential Regulation and the environmental impact analysis made by the investor.

According to the lecturer from the Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ibrahim R., the union of all the strength to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation would be undertaken to Jakarta. So, the movement would be unlike in the past made independently by individual elements.

“Now, the movement is unified and takes place in national level. We’ve set the coordinator in Jakarta, so the action will be broader,” said Prof.

Ibrahim.

He added that Presidential Regulation did not qualify. On that account, with the data at hand his party would counter and establish a team of judicial review. “Similarly, the environmental impact analysis is problematic. We also conduct a research on the philosophical, legal, sociological and juridical aspect.

I am ready to argue with anyone about this issue,” he said.

Prof. Ibrahim revealed that issuance of the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 should ask for approval from the people in the area belonging to the region of Sarbagita (Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and

Tabanan). As per the Government Regulation No.68/2010, the spatial arrangement should ask the approval of community of the Sarbagita region. “It should be read carefully. This problem does not only have something to do with the customary community of Tanjung Benoa, but also with all the elements of community of Badung, Denpasar, Tabanan and Gianyar.

Without asking for their approval, it’s invalid,” he said.

Target of filing the judicial review, said Prof. Ibrahim, was set after the presidential election.

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