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Cumberbatch takes unsung WWII hero to Toronto Reuters
TORONTO - The code-breaking machine that may have cut World War II by two years and saved millions of lives was invented by British mathematician Alan Turing, a prickly genius and unlikely war hero unknown to most of the world. That might be because his work to crack Germany’s Enigma code remained classified for decades. But also, Turing met a tragic end following the war, taking his own life at 41 after he was convicted for being homosexual and sentenced to chemical castration. The star power of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and his new film “The Imitation Game” could bring Turing’s triumph and tragedy to a broad audience beyond Britain, where Queen Elizabeth recently pardoned the man who inspired the modern computer with his “Turing machine.” “The Imitation Game” is one of the most anticipated films at the Toronto
Film Festival, where it will screen on Tuesday, and has earned praise and early awards buzz after distributor The Weinstein Co. gave a sneak peek at the Telluride Film Festival. Cumberbatch, one of the most sought-after actors in film and television, gave an immediate “yes” to playing Turing. “There is a huge burden, an onus of responsibility,” Cumberbatch told Reuters on Sunday. “This was an extraordinary man and sadly, bizarrely not that well known a man of his achievements.” His Turing is terribly awkward and annoying, and when forced by the British government to work with a team of code-breakers, the lone genius is dismis-
sive. When he doesn’t get the backing for his machine, he sends a letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who grants him his wishes. For director Morten Tyldum, Cumberbatch “has that incredible screen charisma,” adding “you can hold on to his face and you feel he has a million things going on through his eyes.” Keira Knightley plays mathematician Joan Clarke, who as the lone woman on the team bonds with Turing and becomes his fiance, although he later tells her he is gay. Cumberbatch said the humor is true to Turing, whose niece relayed that “he was very funny in a very dry English way” and could joke about the forced estrogen injections of his sentence. The humor also lightens the mood for a team tasked with the impossible, breaking through the millions of combinations to crack the German code while the war rages.
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Denzel Washington explores his craft in Toronto Agence France-Presse
TORONTO - Easing into filming, becoming too emotionally involved in a role, and the pros and cons of playing a fictional versus real person -- acclaimed American actor Denzel Washington shared Sunday how he approaches acting. Oscar-winner Washington was at the Toronto film festival for the premiere of “The Equalizer,” director Antoine Fuqua’s adaptation of the 1980s television series that starred Edward Woodward. The film about a loner who dispenses justice from the barrel of a gun also stars Marton Csokas (“The Amazing Spiderman 2”) and Chloe Grace Moretz (“Kick-Ass”). Moretz is in two other Toronto film festival premieres this week: “Clouds of Sils Maria,” and “Laggies.” At a press conference, the cast and crew shared insights about their métier, their successes and missed opportunities. Washington last collaborated with Fuqua on “Training Day,” which premiered in Toronto and went on to earn Washington a best actor Oscar in 2001 for his performance as a rogue cop in Los Angeles. A brief telephone exchange in which Washington told Fuqua, “This is Robert McCall (the lead character in the film) calling,” set the stage for a reunion. Washington spent the first day of filming “The Equalizer” folding napkins over and over for a scene. Fuqua said he got lost in the moment and let it go on to the point that producers had to interrupt and
ask “are you going to (call) cut?” “He was just folding napkins... (but) when I get to sit and watch Denzel up close that way, it’s powerful for me, and it gets me excited,” Fuqua said. Fuqua likened the experience to the soothing rhythm of music. “I started to (feel) that rhythm again.” Washington revealed that he likes to start slowly on new film projects in order to find his footing, “because you’re not sure.” Actors generally, he said, “are real fragile day one, and a director can really crush an actor in the first day” with overly harsh criticisms. Washington recalled how he “made
the mistake” of turning down the lead role for the 1997 dark thriller “Seven,” because he feared it would affect him. “It was just too much when I read it,” he revealed. The role went to Brad Pitt and became a box office smash hit. Fuqua confided that he handed off directing “Prisoners” with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman to Quebec director Denis Villeneuve, because as a parent he felt uncomfortable spending a year on a film about child abduction. That film, which also premiered in Toronto, was nominated at the Academy Awards last year for its cinematography.
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge appear with their baby son, outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, in central London in this file photograph dated July 23, 2013. Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate are expecting their second baby, Buckingham Palace said on September 8, 2014.
Prince William, Kate expecting second baby
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LONDON - Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate are “very pleased” to announce that they are expecting their second child, Kensington Palace said on Monday.
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The prince’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was said to be “delighted” at the news, which comes less than 14 months after the birth of the couple’s first child, Prince
George. Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, is again suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, a form of very acute morning sickness that caused her
to be hospitalised when she was pregnant with George. The duchess, 32, is currently being treated by doctors at the couple’s London home in Kensington Palace, a spokesman said. She was due to attend an official engagement in Oxford on Monday but cancelled because she has morning sickness, the
palace said. “Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their second child,” the statement said. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news.” Prime Minister David Cameron
was among the first to offer his congratulations to the couple, saying he was “delighted by the happy news that they’re expecting another baby”. William and Kate’s first child, George Alexander Louis, was born on July 22, 2013 in London’s St. Mary’s Hospital, weighing eight pounds and six ounces (3.8kg).
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Bali News Forest fire on Mount Agung
Four hot spots, people at standby Bali Post
AMLAPURA - In dry this season, the protected forests on Mount Agung have started to be on fire. Secretary of the Karangasem Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ketut Prama Budarta, said on Sunday (Sep 7) in Karangasem that from the observation last Sunday, the fire burned the forests at four points.
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The fire is seen on the slope of Mount Agung last year. Now, the similar condition is faced by the locals in the area.
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Related to that issue, the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency team involved the military and police personnel from the Kubu Military Regional Command and Kubu Police Headquarters to climb and approach the fire. He said that currently the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency had set standby status. The team would come to the scene to extinguish the fire whenever the fire emerged to burn the forests. Related to the four hot spots near the mountain top, they were estimated to be in the west or at Juntal hamlet and west of Dukuh village, Kubu. From the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency station at Karangsokong, the hotspots were only seen like the puff of smoke. “Our team climbing from the morning has arrived at the scene at noon and managed to extinguish the fires,” he said. He said though the fires could be con-
trolled temporarily, there was possibility if they would rise again, either from the residual embers of the previous fire or the new fire source. The team faced difficulty to control and localize the flames because the area was hard to reach out to extinguish the entire flames. Prama said the forest fires on Mount Agung routinely occurred almost every dry season in October. By and large, the forest fires ranged from August to December. The source of fire was not known for sure. Allegedly, it was kindled by the habit of farmers near or at the foot of the slopes of the mountain that usually burned leaf or trashes either of the tree or grass reeds to quickly clean up their land. Afterwards, the fires spread to dry land area amidst the hot weather and the wind continuously blowing in the mountain caused the flames to quickly spread.
Protected forests on the Mount Agung were prone to fire and it almost happened every year during dry season at the most barren area, namely in the northern part of Ban village, eastern slopes, above Dukuh village, west of Tulamben village, above Datah village to the southeast area above Tanah Aron. Last year, the most severe and extensive fires burned out hundreds of hectares of local forests. Since the forests were burned almost every year during dry season, they consequently could not grow densely. Conversely, the shrubs and grasses or reeds could grow rapidly and flourishingly after the fires. A number of shrubs and grasses like reeds on Dausa Hill at Padangkerta village had grown flourishingly. Last month, the reeds on the hills were seen to have been partially set on fire to clear up the land. (013)
Dozens of hectares of paddy plants damaged
AMLAPURA - Paddy plants of six weeks old at Subak Gatep, Subak Setra, Subak Dalem and Subak Ageng were in damaged condition. Leaves of paddy plants at the subak area located at Budakeling village, Bebandem were turning red and the stems rotted. Such damage was caused by the attack of mouse, leafhoppers and caterpillars. A farmer at Subak Setra, I Ketut Candiasa, 45, revealed that the incident was the third time experienced by farmers in the four subak areas. He explained the three pests attacked his paddy plants simultaneously, namely mouse, planthoppers and caterpillar. “We have taken any efforts to cope with the pests until we run out of money. Unfortunately, the pest never recedes,” he said. After overcoming the planthoppers by spraying pesticides, the caterpillars and mouse even came and attacked more fe-
rociously. Mice attacked and devoured the rice stems, so that they instantly rotted and died. “It is very difficult for us to overcome the mouse attack because it cannot be expelled by spraying pesticides,” he said. The customary villagers and subak members had actually held ceremonies of nangluk merana or pest prevention, but so far the mouse attack remained ferocious. In addition to mouse attack, the difficulty to get irrigation water also aggravated the condition. As a result, all the paddy plants were damaged and yellowed due to lacking of water. These conditions had occurred since the past three years, primarily during dry season as happened today. “Similarly, we have difficulty to get water so that our paddy plants are shortage of water,” he complained. All this time, he admitted to get once help from the government, namely in the form of rice seedlings known as Cigeulis
variety. Unluckily, this variety was not free from pest attack. Another problem faced by farmers at the four subak areas was the high price of fertilizer and the high operating cost, including the purchase of pesticides for insect repellent. “The yield of our harvest crop is incomparable to the operating and production cost, reaching IDR 1.2 million. When on sale, the price of our harvest crop does not reach such amount,” he said. Farmers expected there would be assistance from the government to help farmers cope with the threat of food shortages due to the crop failure. Another farmer from Subak Gatep, I Nengah Darma, also complained about the difficulty in getting water for irrigation. “We also face difficulty to get water because of the drought. As consequence, many farmers at Subak Gatep are forced not to plant rice and prefer to plant peanuts,” he concluded. (dwa)
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InterContinental Bali Resort wins Seven Star Global Luxury Award
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JIMBARAN - InterContinental Bali Resort is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Signum Virtutis – the seal of excellence by The Seven Star Global Luxury Awards 2014. Known as “The award for the pinnacle in hospitality and lifestyle,” the Signum Virtutis honours the finest in the industry. This is a very exclusive club and it will remain this way as only the most prestigious are awarded. With the voting done by both guests and industry professionals, the award ceremony took place on 14th June 2014 in Malaysia. InterContinental Bali’s exceptional standard of luxury and excellence is showcased in its 417 splendid rooms, suites and villas, crowned with the elite Club InterContinental. Club guests benefit from anexclusive array of privileges and entitlements including a 24-hour bespoke butler service, exclusive access to the private Club Pool, use of the Inspiration Space, plus round the clock access
to Club InterContinental Lounge. More top ofthe line family facilities at InterContinental Bali Resort include six pools, Spa Uluwatu, a fitness centre and Planet Trekkers – a dedicated mini resort for young guests aged 4-12 years, as well as a wide and exciting range of activities. Additionally, the sheer size of the Resort lends itself as an outstanding venue for meetings, events and weddings, while culinary distinction abounds with superb ?choice of restaurants, bars and dining experiences. The Resort rests in 14 hectares of tropical gardens and is blessed with a spectacular stretch of white sand beach overlooking the tranquil waters of Jimbaran Bay. Designed with sensitivity towards the surrounding environment, Intercontinental Bali Resort pays respect to the island’s rich culture, fine artistry and Hindu heritage. General Manager, Mr. Michel Chertouh said, “Winning such a prestigious award is a great testament to our reputation of being one of Bali’s most luxurious family resort.”
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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud
The farmer of Subak Gatep in Karangasem Regency shows his damage crop.
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14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri 19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel
Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli
13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri 23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara
Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc. The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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Science
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Evil not so banal, says disturbing new probe
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PARIS - What prompts ordinary people to commit acts of evil? The question has been debated by philosophers, moralists, historians and scientists for centuries. One idea that carries much weight today is this: you, me -- almost anyone -- is capable of carrying out atrocities if ordered to do so. Commanded by an authoritarian figure, and wishing to conform, we could bulldoze homes, burn books, separate parents from children or even slaughter them, and our much-prized conscience would not as much as flicker. Called the “banality of evil,” the theory has been proffered as an explanation for why ordinary, educated Germans took part in the Jewish genocide of World War II. Now psychologists, having reviewed an opinion-shaping experiment carried out
more than 50 years ago, are calling for a rethink. “The more we read and the more data we collect, the less evidence we find to support the banality of evil idea, the notion that participants are simply ‘thoughtless’ or ‘mindless’ zombies who don’t know what they’re doing and just go along for the sake of it,” said Alex Haslam, a professor at the University of Queensland in Australia. “Our sense is that some form of identification, and hence choice, generally underpins all tyrannical behaviour.” Their detective work focused on legendary experiments conducted in 1961 by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.
Volunteers, told they were taking part in an experiment on learning, were led to believe they were administering an electric shock to a man, dubbed the “learner” who had to memorise pairs of words. Every time the learner made a mistake, the “teacher” was told by a stern-faced, lab-coated official to crank up the shock, starting with a mild 15 volts and climaxing at a lethal 450 volts. The experiment was fake -- the learner was an actor and the shocks never happened. The teacher could hear, but not see, the learner. Frighteningly, in one test, nearly twothirds of volunteers continued all the way to “lethal” voltage, even when the learner pleaded for mercy, wept or screamed in agony. These experiments became enshrined in textbooks as an illustration of how the conscience can be put on hold under orders. The
findings meshed with a landmark book by the writer Hannah Arendt on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust. Far from the monster she had expected, Arendt found that Eichmann came across more like a petty bureaucrat, prompting her to coin the term “banality of evil” to suggest how ordinary people, by conforming, could commit atrocities. The new research, published in the British Journal of Social Psychology, took a closer look at Milgram’s “teachers”. A team sifted through a box in the Yale archives that contained comments written by the volunteers after they were told the purpose of the experiment, and that the torture had been fake. Of the 800 participants, 659 submitted a reaction. Some said they had felt unease or distress during the tests, but most reported being positive about the experience, some extremely so.
New study clears up Greenland climate puzzle Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Greenland began heating up around 19,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, just like the rest of the northern hemisphere, researchers said Thursday in a report that resolves a paradox over when that warming happened. Previous studies had suggested this warming went back only 12,000 years, according to the study published in the
US journal Science. Huge sheets of ice covered North America and northern Europe some 20,000 years ago during the coldest part of the ice age. At the time, global average temperatures were about four degrees Celsius (seven degrees Fahrenheit) colder than during preindustrial times. Then, changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun increased solar energy reaching Greenland beginning some 19,000 years ago,
causing the release of carbon from the deep ocean. This led to a gradual rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). In the past, studies of ice cores from Greenland did not show any warming response as would be expected from an increase in CO2 and solar energy flux, said lead author Christo Buizert of Oregon State University. In the new study scientists reconstructed air temperatures by examining ratios of nitrogen isotopes in air
trapped within the ice, rather than in the ice itself, which had been used in past studies. The new method did in fact detect significant warming in response to increasing atmospheric CO2. According to this analysis of the period going from 19,000 years ago to 12,000 years ago, Greenland heated up by about five degrees. This is very close to what climate models predict, the researchers said.
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This rise heralded the start of the so-called Holocene period, which was warm and stable and allowed human civilization to develop. “The last deglaciation is a natural example of global warming and climate change,” Buizert said. “It is very important to study this period because it can help us better understand the climate system and how sensitive the surface temperature is to atmospheric CO2.”
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Road to Tampaksiring State Palace severely damaged
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GIANYAR - Highway of Pejeng, Tampaksiring is the main route to Tampaksiring Palace. However, along the path to the palace built by President Soekarno is badly damaged. Especially it happens on the road section passing through the Pejeng village, Sading village to the border of Tampaksiring village. A number of vehicles passed through the road becoming the responsibility of Bali Province. Due to such damage, both domestic and foreign road users drove very carefully when passing through the area from Pejeng to Tampaksiring. Moreover, the damaged road section was on the path to various tourist attractions such Tampaksiring village, Tirta Empul Temple or Gunung Kawi Temple. So, everyone must be careful because the road is badly damaged and full of potholes. “It is much deplored because this path leads to the state palace and various famous tourist attractions in Gianyar. Every day, I pass through this road section and must be careful with the road conditions,” said a tourist guide, Edi. Edi claimed to worry when passing on the road. Other than having many potholes, it was too slippery. Moreover at night, the potholes and slippery path were very dangerous as it was dark. Actually such condition had long been going on. The most severe damage occurred around the area of Sading village. Responding to such condition, many people
and businessmen living around the location hoped the road access to Tampaksiring could be promptly repaired. Meanwhile, the subdistrict head of Tampaksiring, Kadek Alit Wirawan, when asked for his confirmation justified the road damage along the path from Pejeng village to the border of Tampaksiring village. He said the most serious damage happened to area of Sading village. “No doubt the road damage occurred along this path, so that every road user passing the area has to be careful,” he said. He added that since serving as the subdistrict head in December 2013 the potholes had embellished the road section. It was dominantly caused by many trucks transporting sand that came from Kintamani. Such condition was exacerbated by the project of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM). However, the project contractor had been summoned to organize the technical work. “Now, the project of the Municipal Waterworks is under progress along this path, so it will be slightly annoying road users,” he said. (kmb35)
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Highway of Pejeng, Tampaksiring is the main route to Tampaksiring Palace. However, along the path to the palace built by President Soekarno is badly damaged.
Farmers at Jatiluwih start to enjoy WCH benefits Bali Post
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Greenland began heating up around 19,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, just like the rest of the northern hemisphere, researchers said Thursday in a report that resolves a paradox over when that warming happened.
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TABANAN - Benefits of Jatiluwih tourist attraction having been included in the world cultural heritage of the UNESCO begin to be enjoyed by communities and local farmers. However, this international tourist attraction has not been poised with maximal management. One of them is the matter of parking space. All this time travelers wishing to enjoy the charms of panoramic rice terraces are forced to use the verge of highway as parking space. Related to parking space, the Head of Tabanan Tourism and Culture Agency, Wayan Adnyana, previously said that it was resolved with few alternatives. Among them, it was provided with the purchase or lease of land. “Procurement of the parking space is indeed becoming a major project in the Jatiluwih development. So, it should be considered immediately,” he said. Headman of Jatiluwih, Nengah Kartika, recently admitted that al-
though it still had weaknesses, the inclusion of Jatiluwih into a part of the world cultural heritage had enough benefit to society. Moreover, since it was confirmed by the UNESCO, the foreign tourist visit to Jatiluwih increased sharply. By all means, the increasing number of visits could also boost the management revenue reaching billions of rupiahs. The revenue was obtained from the admission fee, parking levy and other revenues such as the pre-wedding shoot. Admission fee for foreign traveler was set at IDR 20,000 while domestic traveler at IDR 15,000 and parking levy for vehicle at IDR 5,000. Later, the revenue would be distributed based on percentage between the government and the farmers and customary villagers. “We at customary village with chief of subak organization managing the seven subak groups have commitment to establish a tourist attraction management for the tourist attraction, not for the world cultural heritage. In other words, our
management is specifically handling the tourist attraction of Jatiluwih,” he said. After the inclusion by the UNESCO in June 2012, he said there had been attention from the government such as the mass issuance of land ownership certificate. Besides, he also hoped that more attention could be given such as the subsidy for fertilizer and rice seed to ease the burden of farmers. “With the heritage status, the subak members are automatically given a tough task to maintain and preserve it. In other words, I expect the concern of the government can be made through generations so that the world cultural heritage can be sustainably maintained,” he said. Related to the obstacle of parking area, Nengah Kartika said that local government was still developing and making socialization. “Public Works Agency and the Regional Development Planning Board have surveyed the land for the parking lot. Unfortunately, the land targeted has
not got any response yet from the owner,” he explained. Meanwhile, the secretary to Subak Jatiluwih Chief, Semarajaya, said there had been an effort from local government to preserve the sustainability of Jatiluwih after the inclusion into the world cultural heritage, where a number of irrigation channels of the local subak areas had been repaired. “Yeah, at least 60 percent of the irrigation channels have been repaired although they were not maximal,” he said. When asked about the presence of investors having been glancing at Jatiluwih, the man nicknamed Krisna said that to his knowledge there had been investors targeting the upper land (plantation—Ed). “Indeed, the upper land is often targeted by investors, but will not be converted. It is an internal agreement of subak organization set forth in the convention (prarem). Though it has been bargained at tempting price, I have confidence that almost all the farmers at Jatiluwih have committed
to preserve the existing nature. As evidence, no farmers are selling their land,” he said. He also said that the commitment to maintain the agricultural land in the region of Jatiluwih tourist attraction was very strong. After the inclusion into the world cultural heritage, the land of subak organization cultivated by 395 farmers and spreading across 303 hectares of land divided into 7 subgroup areas had been designated as sustainable agricultural land. In other words, farmers were prohibited from selling their land or building in the area. At the moment, he added the Jatiluwih tourist attraction had not owned a governing body that was responsible for managing the ticketing and trekking, not for preserving the subak. “The existing governing body only handles the ticketing and trekking affairs, not preserve the Subak Jatiluwih. Actually the subak has a number of constraints such as in the matter of productive economy and so on,” he added. (kmb28)
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Sunny weather, salt farmers at Tejakula increase production Bali Post
SINGARAJA - When entering dry season, a number of farmers at Tejakula village, Buleleng, regain their vivacity because the heat and sunny weather are beneficial for the salt making process. Over the past month, the salt farmers have started to produce salt in large amount. Even, the salt production of farmers has been double compared to normal days.
The salt farmer in Tejakula, Buleleng Regency is increasing their production due to the dry season
Marijuana of no man’s own found on vacant land Bali Post
KUTA - When about to mow grasses, Wayan Dana found 5 suspicious packages on Jalan Merdeka Raya IV, Kuta, Badung, Sunday (Sep 7). After that, the finding was reported to police. Having been checked, in fact the packages were suspected to be marijuana weighing 4.7 kilograms. Chief of Kuta Police, I Nyoman Sebudi, said that Dana originally would like to seek grass for fodder. In addition, he was also accustomed to trimming bushes on the vacant land on Jalan Merdeka Raya IV, Kuta. Approximately at 08:30 a.m., this grandfather arrived at the scene. At that moment, he saw an object resembling bricks wrapped in paper. “Initially, he thought it was grass, having had a closer look at, in fact it was not. Being suspicious, the witness (Dana) then reported the finding to police station,” added Sebudi. This former chief of Mengwi Police admitted that his party would check the prohibited items to forensic laboratory to make sure whether it was marijuana or not. “Tomorrow (Monday) we will send it to forensic laboratory. The witness has been checked, while the owner is still
being sought,” he said. After receiving the report, the Chief of Kuta Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Dewa Tagel, with his personnel directly came down to the scene. Once arriving at the scene, the officers secured the evidence whose position scattered. “Some items were found in the bushes, while some others in the gutter. Allegedly, the evidences were just taken from the courier service,” said a source at Kuta Police station. Probably the owner was being followed or fear of police, so that the marijuana was eventually disposed on the vacant land. To date, the officers still got trouble to track down the owner of the illicit goods. “If the packages were hidden at the location, why were they scattered when found? Allegedly, they were discarded because the owner may be afraid of being arrested,” he added. Furthermore, the five packages of marijuana were secured at the police station. “Right now, there are a lot of types of marijuana or other narcotics sent through courier service from Java. By and large, this kind of finding is difficult to disclose the owner because there were witnesses seeing it,” said the source requesting the anonymity. (kmb36)
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Weather condition is very much determining for farmers in the process of making salt. Moreover, the salt farmers cannot produce tens of kilograms of salt each day. Formerly, the salt farmers at Tejakula village reduced their salt production to only once every two days due to unfavorable weather for drying sea water. But this time they can produce salt every day to increase their income. “Fine weather and hot sunlight cause the salt-making process to get the perfect heat. A few months ago, I just got a basket of salt each day, but after the weather is good our current production reaches three baskets each day,” said one of the local salt farmers, Wayan Suastika, Sunday afternoon (Sep 7). He said there were a total of 21 salt farmers at Tejakula village coalesced into a salt farmer group. On average, each local farmer had 200 square meters of land. Since the salt production has been abundant for the past month, the price slumps in the market. When the salt production was in small amount, the salt of farmers was purchased at IDR 5,000 per kilogram; while after abundant salt flooded the market, the price decreased to IDR 4,000 per kilogram. “Our farmers here averagely cultivate 200 square meters of salt farming area. If the production increases, the price tends to decline. On the contrary, if the production declines, the price will increase, sir,” he said. Meanwhile, another salt farmer, Komang Juni, added that he had long not produced salt on his own land. It happened because the weather condition was uncertain. But, after the weather condition increasingly turned fine, he did not want to waste it. “Yes, I am now cleaning up the land as well as preparing baskets, furnace and pestle to produce salt. Previously, I have taken a break for almost three months and did not produce any salt. At that time, the weather was not good to produce salt, but now has been getting better,” said Juni. (kmb34)
Fuel price hike plan kindles inflation to rise
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DENPASAR - The fuel price hike plan is ascertained to have an impact on the price of goods leading to the rise in inflation. The Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Mahasaraswati, Wayan Sujana, said the increase in fuel price would be directly proportional to the surges in inflation. “I expect that Bank Indonesia (BI) can maintain its rate to avoid the influence of surge in inflation because the price hike of subsidized fuel will certainly drive the rate of inflation. Magnitude of the inflation will highly depend on the amount of fuel price hike,” said Wayan Sujana. According to him, the increase in inflation was directly proportional to the magnitude of fuel price hike. This condition would occur when the government decided to raise the fuel price. “This corresponds to the law of supply and demand. What makes it different is the rising inflation rate caused by the price (of fuel—Ed), not by decline in goods supply,” he said. He said the increase in fuel price might have an impact on the decline in the purchasing power and disrupted the economy. On that account, it required a strategy to protect the market. “People’s purchasing power declines
as the prices of goods have increased. Meanwhile, there is no increase of income, so that consumers diminish their purchase,” he said. He assessed the inflation could have an impact on bank where it could provoke Bank Indonesia to raise the interest rate (BI rate) benchmark. High rate of Bank Indonesia could cause the liquidity to be extremely tight. “To that end, Bank Indonesia is expected to reduce the rate of inflation so as not to be higher when the fuel price increase really occurs. The increase in BI rate will widely take effect on various sectors,” he expected. Meanwhile, an economist, Prof. Dr. Gede Sri Darma, DBA, stated that the price increase in subsidized fuel was clearly a blow for people. This policy would also lead to higher inequality. The increase in fuel price when the people’s welfare had not been evenly distributed would burden the people of Indonesia, especially the people belonging to poor category due to higher living costs incurred. “The price increase in subsidized fuel will also significantly influence the changes in the pattern of life and fulfillment of basic needs of the people of Indonesia. This happens because the increase is not followed by an increase in the people’s welfare or income,” he explained. (kmb27)
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Indian, Pakistani troops aid flood-stranded people Associated Press Writer
SRINAGAR, India — Army and air force troops on Monday worked to rescue thousands of people stranded in Indian-controlled Kashmir and northern and eastern Pakistan, where flooding and landslides have caused more than 320 deaths. Six days of rains in Indian Kashmir have left more than 120 people dead in the region’s worst flooding in more than five decades, submerging hundreds of villages and triggering landslides, officials said. In neighboring Pakistan, more than 205 people have died and thousands of homes have collapsed. In Islamabad, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority spokesman Ahmad Kamal said the death toll had risen to 205 people with at least 383 more injured over the past six days. Pakistani troops were helping civilian authorities in rescue operations and in getting aid to stranded villagers, the Pakistani army said in a statement. So far nearly 9,000 people have been evacuated from nearly 530 villagers that were inundated by flood waters, Kamal said. He said authorities were preparing for worsening conditions as the waters of the Chenab and Indus rivers were rising. Pakistani TV channels showed pictures of flooding from different cities and villagers, with the water raging through streets, causing heavy losses. Kamal said flash floods and landslides had killed 131 people in Pakistan’s Punjab district, and 74 others in the Kashmir and
Gilgit areas. The Kashmir region in the northern Himalayas is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both. Two of the three wars the countries have fought since independence from Britain in 1947 have been over control of Kashmir. In India’s portion of Kashmir, more than 5,200 people have been rescued, said O P Singh, director of India’s National Disaster Response Force. Blankets, medicine and food were being supplied to people stranded on rooftops, he said, as most parts of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, were submerged. At least 450 villages in Indian Kashmir have been submerged and 2,000 others have been affected by the floodwaters, officials said. All schools, colleges and offices have been shut, and electricity and
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Local residents with their livestocks wade through floodwaters as they move to safe place following heavy rains in Jafar Kot near Wazirabad, some 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014.
drinking water supplies have been limited. The floods and incessant rain hit the power supply in several
districts in Kashmir after electric pylons collapsed or wires snapped. Mobile phones services by private operators were disrupted and
landline telephone networks, too were not working, leading to panic among many people stranded with no means of communication.
Water shortages lead to ‘tanker mafia’ in India
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NEW DELHI — Every summer, when Minoo Phakey’s water runs out, she does what most people do in her middle-class neighborhood: She calls the mafia. Within an hour, a man in a tanker arrives, carrying a load of dubious water drawn illegally from the city’s groundwater. With India’s capital gripped by its annual hot season water shortage, the city’s so-called tanker mafia is doing a roaring trade. An estimated 2,000 illegal tankers ply New Delhi’s roads every day, lifelines to millions whose taps have run dry, and symptoms of a much bigger problem — the city’s desperately dysfunctional water system. The tankers don’t come cheap. But some Delhi-ites have no choice. “You need water, you will pay anything, right?” says Phakey, a marketing executive. She is hardly alone. In a city known for its vertiginous inequalities, the shortage affects people from both upscale gated communities and dust-blown slums, as every day, the city’s supply falls more than 160 million gallons short. Most residents have piped water for just a couple hours a day, and almost a quarter have none at all. With a leaky water infrastructure long
overwhelmed by new arrivals, New Delhi is grappling with a dizzying social and environmental challenge, worsened by chaotic management. For many, it is a distressing reminder of a daily reality that lags behind India’s superpower dreams. While New Delhi has had water troubles for decades, the shortage has become critical in recent years as the city’s population has grown with little or no planning, rising from 9 million in 1991 to almost 17 million today. Even many of the wealthiest neighborhoods get water for just an hour in the morning, with residents rushing to turn on pumps and fill storage tanks when the municipal supply flows. The most urgent problem, though, is getting water to the sprawling neighborhoods of illegally constructed buildings, home to 40 percent of the city’s residents and largely without water lines. The city’s water agency, the Delhi Jal Board, sends 900 tankers onto the crowded roads every day. In some neighborhoods, a tanker passes every few minutes, its load sloshing down its sides. But it’s nowhere near enough. Tankers usually stop for just 15 minutes, while dozens of people crowd around waving buckets and plastic AP Photo/Patrick Reevell tubes. Tempers flare in the fierce heat; fights are In this Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 photo, a woman carries plastic containers to fill frequent. In some areas, people get just 3 liters drinking water from a water tanker, due to unavailability of tap water supply, in New (quarts). Delhi, India.
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Dollar, euro in tight range as pound drops TOKYO - The dollar and euro moved in a narrow range Monday after the European Central Bank’s surprise stimulus moves, while the British pound dropped as next week’s Scottish independence vote tightens. The greenback was at 105.05 yen, against 105.06 yen in New York on Friday. The euro stood at $1.2953 and 136.08 yen, compared with $1.2951 and 136.14 yen in US trade. The pound bought $1.6225, extending its slide from $1.6323 after a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times showed Scotland was on course to vote break away from the United Kingdom at the September 18 referendum. A “Yes” vote would see the end of a 307 year union with England, although details of what currency an independent Scotland would use and what effect its secession would have on the British economy are murky. “The pound has gapped lower by more than a big figure” following the survey, the National Bank of Australia said in a note to clients. Previous polls have shown voters are expected
to opt for the status quo. Investors were also eyeing the ceasefire in Ukraine, which Kiev and pro-Russian rebels signed last week. Sporadic fighting and a lack of detail on the terms were casting doubt on its feasibility. The euro could face further pressure as investors digest the ECB’s deflation-fighting package, including an unexpected rate cut, to boost the economy. “The latest ECB policy surprise is likely to drive an even greater ‘yield-wedge’ between the euro, the dollar and other core currencies in the coming month,” Credit Agricole said in a note to its clients. Any further “refinement” of ECB chief Mario Draghi’s comments could also weigh on the single currency, the bank said. “Indeed, many investors are likely to be motivated to accelerate their rebalancing plans on seemingly greater ECB determination to lift eurozone competitiveness,” Credit Agricole said. The market reacted little to revised Japanese data showing the world’s third largest economy shrank 1.8 percent in three months to June, worse than the previously estimated fall of 1.7 percent.
DENPASAR - Increasing demand for endek fabric makes it become a fashion trend among the employees either civil servants, private sector employees, employees of state enterprises or bank employees. They are vying to homogenize their clothes using Balinese distinctive woven fabric known as endek. This endek fabric is commonly encountered in various regions throughout Bali such as Bona (Gianyar), Bangli and Klungkung.
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People cross the street in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Japan’s economy contracted at an annualized rate of 7.1 percent in the April-June quarter after companies and households slashed spending following a tax hike.
Japan economy contracted 7.1 percent in 2Q TOKYO — Japan’s economy contracted at an annualized rate of 7.1 percent in the April-June quarter after companies and households slashed spending following a tax hike.
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Money traders of a foreign exchange company work in front of a an electric monitor displaying the current exchange rate of Japanese yen against U.S. dollar in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. The dollar and euro moved in a narrow range Monday after the European Central Bank’s surprise stimulus moves, while the British pound dropped as next week’s Scottish independence vote tightens.
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Endek, elegant fashion becoming a trend at workplace
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The revised data released Monday show business investment fell more than twice as much as estimated before, or 5.1 percent, while private residential spending sank 10.4 percent in annual terms. The earlier estimate showed the economy contracting 6.8 percent. The recovery of the world’s third-largest economy has slowed following the increase in the sales tax to 8 percent from 5 percent on April 1. “Theoretically, there should be no impact from the consumption tax increase on corporate spending or long-term corporate planning, but a large number of Japanese corporations seemed to see a large impact from the hike on final demand,” said Junko Nishioka, an economist at RBS
Japan Securities in Tokyo. The economy grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6 percent in the first three months of the year. In quarterly terms, the economy contracted 1.8 percent in April-June from the previous quarter. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has championed an aggressive stimulus program aimed at ending chronic deflation that has discouraged corporate investment and dragged on growth. But a sustainable recovery will require strong corporate and private spending, since exports and public spending have so far done little to lift growth. Business activity surged early in the year as consumers and businesses stepped up purchases to avoid paying more tax, and economists forecast a
rebound in coming months. “We are not that pessimistic for the future picture of the Japanese economy,” Nishioka said, forecasting a “V-shaped recovery,” supported by stronger wage growth. Conditions remained weak in July. Real incomes fell 6.2 percent from a year earlier and household spending dropped. “Industrial production was still 2 percent below the second quarter average in July, and we have yet to see a turnaround in capital spending,” Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics said in a commentary. He said a recovery in retail sales should help boost growth, despite the sharp drop in residential spending following the tax hike. Abe faces a tough decision over whether to go ahead with a further 2 point increase in the sales tax to 10 percent in 2015. The tax hikes are needed to counter ballooning public debt, which now is more than twice the size of the economy.
An endek fashion designer, Ni Wayan Ria Mariani, admitted that she could be flooded by the order of endek clothing in particular moments such as in the competition of endek fashion, innovation among companies or institutions, introduction of new endek innovation and the implementation of endek fashion show, she said, not long ago. Endek could be categorized into various classes. Those made of silk were categorized into high grade woven fabric, while troso belonged to the lower class woven fabric. The difference lay in the thickness, color and texture. Meanwhile, the other kinds of endek included the line endek and luster endek. Then, the thickness of endek was usually distinguished from its comb, where the endek with 80 combs belonged to the good quality, while the thinner one with 70 combs belonged to
the inferior quality. Each day, a weaver could accomplish two meters of endek fabric and it also depended on the motif to be worked on. Meanwhile, the price of endek fabric also varied depending on the type of endek itself. Even, the price could reach IDR 2 million per meter for the ikat woven fabric. Amidst her bustles, she also made her time to share her tips on how to distinguish the original endek fabric from the artificial one. According to her, the original endek was thicker than the artificial one. In terms of color, the original endek looked more natural because it applied natural dyes, and the motif usually featured traditional ornamental style such as patra, animal and so on. Compared to the other kinds of endek, Balinese endek had superiority in the matter of qual-
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Increasing demand for endek fabric makes it become a fashion trend among the employees either civil servants, private sector employees, employees of state enterprises or bank employees.
ity. Although it was washed again and again, the color would remain good and the fabric texture was not damaged like endek of the other kinds. To make the look of endek clothing more beautiful, she
usually combined it with a plain fabric or other ikat woven fabric so that the price would be more affordable. Superiority of this local product did not only lie in the making car-
ried out manually, but also in the application of natural materials. As a result, she could not fulfill all the demands and this portion was then taken by large industry by producing artificial endek. (May)
Ngaben Anyar tradition at Sampalan customary village Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Residents of Lekok hamlet, Sampalan customary village, held the tradition of ngaben anyar cremation, Monday (Sep 1). Implementation of the tradition was quite unique, where the body was handled first before continuing to the next stage of cremation procession. Chief of Sampalan customary village, Ketut Sujana, said that the ngaben anyar did not took place as usual. When a public figure or resident of higher social status died, they would be cremated through the ngaben anyar tradition. However, the implementation would also highly depend on the economic condition of the family. Sampalan village consisting of 16 hamlets remained to preserve the local ngaben anyar tradition. In regular cremation, the body was usually cremated, but in the ngaben anyar tradition the body was even worked on first. Sujana asserted that the cremation applied patus system in which that all residents participated in the process of cremation ceremony. “This ngaben anyar procession applies internal patus system. IBP/Bagiarta In other words, the activities only involved Residents of Lekok hamlet, Sampalan customary village, held the tradition of ngaben anyar the internal family, while other residents cremation, Monday (Sep 1). Implementation of the tradition was quite unique, where the body helped the preparation,” he explained. was handled first before continuing to the next stage of cremation procession. The difference of ngaben anyar from
the cremation in general lay in the process of preparation. After the body was handed over to residents, they would parade the body to the front of funeral home. The procession was held in tense condition. Moreover, when the body began to be put into bade tower, the residents mutually pulled it. “It is called ngarap procession. On that account, the ngaben anyar is also often called ngaben ngarap,” Sujana said. On the one hand, a group of people pulled the body so that it could be quickly put into the existing bade tower. On the other hand, another group held the body so that the body was not immediately put into that bade. People often referred to the process as a rwa bhineda (basic dualism) concept in order to respect the differences among the people. Besides, such a process was also believed to bring in fortune. People believed that they would get strength if they could palpate the body. In addition, it also represented sincerity (of family) against the resident who died. Thus, the process took place joyfully. The resident cremated with the ngaben anyar tradition was the deceased Ni Ketut Ribek, wife of the Chief of Lekok hamlet, Sampalan Klod, Nyoman Badung. She died four days ago due to aging and complication of disease. (gik)
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3 al-Shabab suspects arrested in Frankfurt Associated Press
BERLIN — German authorities say they have arrested three men at Frankfurt airport on suspicion they are members of the Somalian terrorist organization al-Shabab. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said Monday the three German nationals were arrested Saturday after landing in Frankfurt from Kenya, on suspicion of membership in a foreign terrorist organization. They were identified only as Steven N.,
26, Abdullah W., 28, and Abdulsalam W., 23, in line with German privacy laws. Prosecutors said in a statement the three went to Somalia in 2012 and 2013 to join al-Shabab, and received weapons and combat training. They say there is no evidence they had “concrete attack plans” upon their return but did accuse them of preparing an act of violence. Prosecutors would not elaborate on the statement.
Cease-fire holds in eastern Ukraine
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Palm oil vendor, Pauline Haba, poors palm oil from a container, with her business suffering as no one wants to buy her palm oil as it comes from the Macenta area were the Ebola out-brake has cost many lives in Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014.
Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back
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CONAKRY, Guinea — Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there. The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the first places where the outbreak surfaced, but they hadn’t seen a new case for weeks. So they packed up, leaving a handful of staff on standby. The outbreak was showing signs of slowing elsewhere as well. Instead, new cases appeared across the border in Liberia and then spread across West Africa, carried by the sick and dying. Now, months later, Macenta is once again a hotspot. The resurgence of the disease in a place where doctors thought they had it beat shows how history’s largest Ebola outbreak has spun out of control. It began with people leaving homes in Liberia to seek better care or reunite with families back in Guinea, a pattern repeating itself all over. “Currently in Guinea, all the new cases, all the new epidemic, are linked to people that are coming back from Liberia or from Sierra Leone,” said Marc Poncin, the emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Guinea. The epidemic also has touched Nigeria and Senegal while killing more than 2,000 people across West Africa. Never before has the disease
struck such a densely populated region, where so many people are on the move. For four decades, the virus struck in relatively remote areas, where doctors could quickly isolate communities and stop its spread. In previous outbreaks, a cleared pocket like Macenta would be easy to keep clear. This time, the virus is traveling effortlessly across borders by plane, car and foot, shifting from forests to cities and springing up in clusters far from any previously known infections. Border closures, flight bans and mass quarantines have been ineffective. “Everything we do is too small and too late,” said Poncin. “We’re always running after the epidemic.” Ebola has been able to follow its own course because West Africa lacks the health care workers it needs to monitor potential carriers and train communities
in how to avoid catching the disease. People in contact with the sick have evaded surveillance, moving at will and hiding their illnesses until they infect others in turn. Whole villages, stricken by fear, have repeatedly shut themselves off for days or weeks, giving the virus more opportunities to whip around and skip someplace else. Dr. Peter Piot, who co-discovered Ebola, said Ebola isn’t striking in a “linear fashion” this time. It’s hopping around, especially in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. “The epidemic is now so vast and so extensive that one should consider that in the three (hardesthit) countries, everybody is now at risk and it won’t be over until the last case has survived and six weeks have passed,” said Piot, who runs London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
KIEV, Ukraine — A cease-fire between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government troops appeared to be largely holding in eastern Ukraine Monday, a day after shelling and clashes rattled nerves and imperiled the peace deal. In a statement published online, the city council of Donetsk said there had been no reported casualties overnight and that public transport would be up and running on Tuesday. No shelling or explosions could be heard overnight in downtown Donetsk. The regional administration of Donetsk announced that Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko would be traveling to the coastal city of Mariupol on Monday, a symbolic show of strength in a governmentheld city that has come under rebel fire in recent days. The area around Mariupol had
remained relatively untouched by violence until recent weeks, when rebel forces pushed toward the coastal town, shelling the city’s outskirts as recently as Saturday. The city is strategically placed on the Sea of Azov coastline, raising fears that the Moscow-backed rebels could be pushing to link up mainland Russia with Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia in March. The Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Monday that 15 Ukrainian soldiers had been released by rebel forces, another key element of a peace deal between the rebels and Ukrainian troops. The cease-fire was imposed late Friday, but was thrown into peril over the weekend by the Mariupol shelling and fighting near the airport of Donetsk. A previous 10-day cease-fire in June was riddled by reports of violations on both sides.
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INDONESIA KPK searches house of former Papua Governor
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JAKARTA - The house of former Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu, has been searched by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). The house was search in the process of investigation into alleged corruption in the procurement of “Detailing Engineering Design” of a hydro electric plant at the Mamberamo river in Papua in 2009-2010. Barnabas was named suspect by KPK on August 5 together with former head of the provincial mining and energy service Jannes Jophan Karubaba and president director of PT Konsultasi Pembangunan Irian Jaya Lamusi Didi. KPK also searched the office of the provincial energy and
mining service, the offices of the autonomy service and Konsultasi Pembangunan Irian Jaya. Barnabas, who was Papua governor in 2006-2011, is an elected legislative candidate for 2014-2019 representing Papua. Barnabas was charged with abuse of power and together with
the two other suspects caused a loss of around Rp35 billion in state fund. The suspects were charged with inflating the price of the project valued at Rp56 billion. If found guilty Barnabas is facing a maximum jail term of 20 years with a fine of Rp1 billion.
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that the growing airline industry in Indonesia will need more energy. According to him, the government is currently developing green fuel technology, which is expected to be used in 2016. A non-binding government regulation supporting the use of biofuel for the airline industry will also be formulated, Santoso said. Meanwhile, operational director from the national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia Capt Novianto
Herupratomo expressed hope that the government will sell biofuel at a cheap price or, at least, a similar price with the fossil fuel avtur. Currently, Garuda Indonesia is operating 96 airplanes using avtur. The use of avtur is predicted to rise from 1.8 billion liters to 2 billion liters in 2016. Novianto noted that Garuda Indonesia had tried to reduce the use of avtur by using new planes that are more economical.
Government calls on airlines to use environmentally friendly fuel
JAKARTA - The Ministry of Transportation has asked airlines operating in Indonesia to use environmentally friendly fuel in anticipation of the future depletion of fossil fuels, the ministry’s Secretary General Santoso Edy Wibowo reported on Monday. “A new alternative is required in anticipation of the depletion of avtur in the future,” stated Santoso, adding
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Pro-Russian rebels lead suppressive fire at the positions of Ukrainian army, during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.
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Villagers inspect a dead Sumatran elephant allegedly killed by poachers for its tusks, in Jambo Reuhat village, East Aceh, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. The elephant was found dead Sunday with the tusks removed. Indonesia’s endangered elephants on Sumatra island are threatened by habitat loss and poaching.
District governments association opposed indirect regional head elections Antara
JAKARTA - The All-Indonesia District Government Association (APKASI) is opposed to the proposal to return regional head elections to local legislative councils (DPRD), arguing it runs counter to the mandate of reform movements. “Regional head elections that involve the people’s direct participation are one of the fruits of the 1998 reform struggle. Therefore, the direct regional head elections that are more transparent must not be returned to DPRD,” APKASI General Chairman Isran Noor said on Sunday. Returning direct regional head elections to DPRD amounts to depriving the people of their political rights, he said. If regional heads are elected by DPRD they will think a lot about how to reciprocate the kindness of local legislators who have elected them so they will hardly notice the people’s welfare, he said. “This happened when Law No. 22/1999 on Regional Head Elections was implemented. At that time there was instability in several regional governments as DPRD disturbed all activities of regional heads,” he said. Citing an example, he said two days before the then Bontang mayor conveyed an accountability report the DPRD had rejected it on the ground it did not serve the DPRD’s interests. Members of the House of Representatives (DPR) are divided over the proposal to elect regional heads indirectly, with the United Development Party (PPP) proposing a moratorium on direct regional head elections. “PPP has been seeking a moratorium on direct regional head elections for quite a long time,” PPP Secretary General Muhammad Romahurmuziy stated last Friday. The proposal is a political choice that the party has adopted as a recommendation at its national working meeting in the North Sumatra provincial capital of Medan in January 2012, he said. Romahurmuziy noted that direct regional head elections have various shortcomings. The elections require a great deal of investment, so that only wealthy candidates can afford to file nominations. However, chief of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) central executive board Puan Maharani told reporters in Semarang, Central Java, last Friday that the PDIP faction at the DPR has consistently supported direct regional head elections as a form of good democracy. “Currently, the bill on regional head elections is being deliberated at the DPR. From the beginning, the PDIP has wanted local heads to be elected directly by the people and not by regional legislators,” she said. Puan stated that she was surprised at the stand of three other factions on the election bill. The three factions are the National Mandate Party (PAN), the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, and the Golkar Party, which had formed the Red-and-White coalition to nominate Prabowo Subianto as its presidential candidate in July 9 polls. “We all know that our colleagues of the Red-and-White coalition have changed their minds and want regional heads to be elected by local legislators,” she said. The three factions should consider the impact of indirect regional head elections on the people, she noted. If the DPR insists on returning the election of regional heads to DPRD, all executive board members of the All-Indonesia District Governments Association (APKASI) and the All-Indonesia Provincial Government Association (APPSI), along with the public will file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court (MK) to make a judicial review of the law allowing the election of regional heads by DPRD, he said.
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GIANYAR - As a culture reserve, the Cliff Temple of Tegallinggah is one of the historic tourist attractions. Located at Tegallinggah, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, this ancient site is also adjacent to the Pakerisan River currently including in the world cultural heritage. To reach the location, it will take visitors approximately 30 minutes from the capital of Denpasar by motor vehicle. When going to this object, visitors will pass through dozens of stairs with a view of fish and shrimp ponds adorned with lotus plants and water lettuce. Splashing waters along the stairs make the atmosphere very cool. Meanwhile, large trees and hanging roots make the panorama look beautiful. Uniqueness of this ancient site is visible on the temple carvings attached to the cliff wall. On the wall sit two very ancient temples. Each temple has three phalli symbolizing the gods of trinity namely Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. On the same rock, precisely on the right part of the temple there are 4 niches and 3 others on the left. Besides, there are also 8 niche of larger size. In the meantime, 3 additional niches can be found at the location separated by the Pakerisan River. Around the temple can be found some ruins of temples that have been damaged by objects. Then, there is a cave and place to deliver canangsari oblation. Some showers can also be found here where they are used for religious ceremonies and melukat or selfpurificatory rite. At the shower, visitors can wash the face just to feel the freshness of the falling water on the sidelines of the cliff.
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Serena Williams wins 3rd US Open in row, 18th Slam Associated Press
NEW YORK — A couple of months before Serena Williams capped her dominant run to a third consecutive U.S. Open championship and 18th major singles title Sunday night, she sat down with coach Patrick Mouratoglou to decipher why the season had been such a struggle by her standards.
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Serena Williams, of the United States, holds up the championship trophy after defeating Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, during the championship match of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, in New York.
At the time, Williams was coming off a third-round loss at Wimbledon, which followed a second-round loss at the French Open, which followed a fourth-round loss at the Australian Open — and, when Grand Slam success defines a legacy, that simply wouldn’t do. The quest to match Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova at 18 was weighing on her. “It was definitely on my shoulders,” Williams could acknowledge after that burden was gone. “It was definitely like, ‘Oh, get there. Get there. Get there.’” She knew, of course, there was one more big event left in 2014, and a finite amount of time to turn things around before heading to Flushing Meadows. In some ways starting from scratch, Williams regrouped and stopped her mini-slump, never dropping more than three games in any set, including a 6-3, 6-3 victory over close friend Caroline Wozniacki in Sunday’s final. “When Serena is on her game,” said the 10th-seeded Wozniacki, who admitted she was nervous in her second Grand Slam title match, “there’s not much we can do.” Williams matched Evert’s total of six U.S. Opens and became the first woman to win three in a row since Evert’s fourtitle run from 1975-78.
Add in Williams’ five titles apiece at Wimbledon and the Australian Open, plus two at the French Open, and only three players have more Slams: Margaret Court with 24, Steffi Graf with 22, and Helen Wills Moody with 19. Ranked and seeded No. 1, Williams let Wozniacki keep things competitive for about five games but wound up compiling a hard-to-believe 29-4 edge in winners. Until a cross-court backhand in the final game, the only winners registered by Wozniacki came on aces. When it was over, Williams dropped to her back behind the baseline, covering her hands with her face. Her first major trophy also came in New York, in 1999, when she was 17. This time, Williams earned $4 million, a record in tennis — $3 million for the title, plus a $1 million bonus for having had the best results during the North American summer hard-court circuit. A few weeks shy of her 33rd birthday, making the American the oldest major champion since Navratilova was 33 at Wimbledon in 1990, Williams powered this way and that in her black-and-pink hightops. Wozniacki is the one training for the New York City Marathon, but she was
tuckered out by the end. Wozniacki may as well have been an extra in this Williams highlight reel. Points were directed by Williams, via serves that reached 120 mph (194 kph), forceful returns that backed Wozniacki into a corner when not producing outright winners, unreachable groundstrokes or the occasional volley. “From a different planet,” said Wozniacki’s father, Piotr, who also coaches her. “Come on, there’s no chance.” Yes, this was all about Williams. At times, it felt as if Wozniacki were there because, well, someone needed to be on the opposite side of the net. They’ve been pals for years, and they hung out together in Miami — heading to the beach, watching an NBA playoff game — after both lost early at the French Open in May. Wozniacki says Williams helped her get over the end of her engagement to golf star Rory McIlroy. Williams said she planned to invite Wozniacki along for Sunday night’s championship celebration. “We’re both going to do anything possible to win the match,” said Wozniacki, a 24-year-old from Denmark who reached No. 1 in the rankings in 2010, a year after losing to Kim Clijsters in the U.S. Open final. “After the match, we’re friends again.” Mouratoglou noted the obvious: It didn’t matter one bit to Williams who she was facing. “Yeah, they’re friends,” the coach said, “but on the other side, believe me, Serena has zero friends.”
Bottas unsure over Kevin Magnussen penalty
Valtteri Bottas is unsure whether Formula 1 rival Kevin Magnussen deserved to be penalised for his defensive driving during their Italian Grand Prix battle. McLaren driver Magnussen was handed a five-second penalty for forcing Bottas to cut the second part of the first chicane as they fought over fifth place on the 31st lap of Sunday’s Monza F1 race. Finnish racer Bottas later passed Magnussen and went on to finish fourth for Williams, while the Dane crossed the line seventh but fell to 10th after the race stewards applied the penalty. Bottas told reporters after the race that Magnussen’s driving was “on the limit” of what is acceptable. “It’s difficult to say if it was worth a penalty,” Bottas said. “For me there was nowhere else to go - I had to cut the chicane. “I didn’t have the chance to overtake even though we were already side by side. “It’s a tough one. In the end it didn’t change anything for me, even though he got a penalty, because I still had to overtake him, so for me it didn’t really matter.” Nevertheless Bottas felt his rival could have handled the moment differently.
When asked by AUTOSPORT what he would have done in Magnussen’s position, Bottas replied: “There are two ways if you want to keep the position: do what he did or you carry a bit more speed but you leave a car’s width inside and then you can still get a good exit and stay ahead.” However, Williams performance chief Rob Smedley reckoned Magnussen’s five-second penalty was appropriate. “Whether or not Magnussen braked a little deep in there to try to keep the corner and found himself too deep at the apex of Turn 1 [Rettifilo], I don’t know,” Smedley said. “Valtteri had to put his car off the track in order to avoid having an accident, so I think a five-second penalty was justified.” Kevin Magnussen. Magnussen was also penalised during the previous race in Belgium, after forcing Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari off the track during a late dice. The Dane admitted he was frustrated to receive a second penalty in as many races, but said he would try to learn from the incident. “I don’t want to comment because it doesn’t matter what I think - those are the rules,” Magnussen said. “If they [the stewards] give me the penalty
it means that I broke the rules. Simple as that. “It’s getting better: last time it was 20 seconds; this time is five. “It’s getting a bit frustrating to get these penalties, but I just have to analyse it and see what I can
learn.” McLaren racing director Eric Boullier accepted the penalty but intimated that it was harsh. “In our view he was unfortunate to be penalised for what we saw as a legitimate defence,” he said. “But the stewards’ decision is final.”
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Finland driver Valtteri Bottas of steers his Williams during the third free practice session at the Monza racetrack, in Monza, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. The Formula One race will be held on Sunday.
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Germany wins, Portugal loses in Euro qualifiers Associated Press
LONDON — Two months after winning the World Cup, Germany opened its 2016 European Championship campaign with a 2-1 victory over Scotland on Sunday, while Portugal and Greece both slumped to defeats in their qualifying matches. Thomas Mueller scored both Germany’s goals — a difficult backward header in the 18th minute and a close-range effort in the 70th — just four minutes after Ikechi Anya had grabbed a deserved equalizer for Scotland.
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Germany’s Mario Goetze, left, takes the ball after Thomas Mueller, right, scored the opening goal against Scotland’s goalkeeper David Marshall, center, during the Euro 2016 soccer qualifying group D match between Germany and Scotland in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014.
Veteran defender Maicon dropped from Brazil squad
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SAO PAULO — The Brazilian football confederation says veteran right back Maicon has been dropped from the national squad ahead of Tuesday’s friendly against Ecuador in the United States. The confederation did not explain why
Maicon was dropped, calling it “an internal matter.” Local media quoted Gilmar Rinaldi, the confederation official overseeing the national team, saying the player was released because of “indiscipline.” He did not elaborate. Monaco youngster Fabinho was called up to replace Maicon for
the match in New Jersey. The confederation also said Sunday that Paris Saint-Germain defender David Luiz will not be able to play because of a left knee injury sustained when Brazil beat Colombia 1-0 on Friday in Miami. Luiz will remain with the squad and will not be immediately replaced.
Monday just hours after arriving in the country, was appointed Friday. He replaced Hong Myung-bo, who resigned in July after the 2002 World Cup semifinalists collected only one point from three games in Brazil. Stielike, a former Real Madrid
midfielder, signed a contract until the 2018 World Cup. The 59-yearold German’s first game in charge will come against Paraguay on Oct. 10, a warm-up for January’s Asian Cup when South Korea takes on Australia, Kuwait and Oman.
Stielike promises winning football to South Korea
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SEOUL — South Korea coach Uli Stielike has promised to deliver winning football to the team that struggled at the World Cup. The German coach, speaking
“I’m satisfied with the three points. It was important to start with a win,” said Germany coach Joachim Loew, whose side is unbeaten in 33 European Championship or World Cup qualifiers. Elsewhere, a Portugal side without injured Cristiano Ronaldo lost 1-0 at home to Albania, 10-man Romania beat Greece 1-0 and Serbia drew 1-1 with Euro 2016 host France in a friendly. Germany labored for long periods in the Group D match, particularly in the second half when the Scots were at their most dangerous, but still the home side might have scored more goals. “They’re very well organized. We missed one or two chances to make it more convincing. Then it got a bit close toward the end,” Mueller said. Mueller missed two good opportunities before making the most of his third, when he beat two defenders to Sebastian Rudy’s cross and looped the ball over the goalkeeper. Anya equalized when he raced onto Steven Fletcher’s through ball and beat Neuer with a cool finish inside the far post. But Mueller soon restored the home side’s lead after a goalmouth scramble, rifling the ball to the roof of the net after Scotland failed to clear. Scotland ended the game with 10 men after Charlie Mulgrew earned two yellow cards in injury time. In the other Group D matches, Poland routed Gibraltar 7-0 in Portugal on the “home” side’s competitive UEFA debut, and Ireland beat Georgia 2-1 in Tbilisi. Portugal sorely missed Ronaldo’s firepower as it was upset by unfancied Albania and was loudly jeered by unhappy fans. Bekim Bajal’s spectacular second-half volley embarrassed the Portuguese who couldn’t translate their dominance into goals, although Nani came close several times in his 75th ap-
pearance and newcomer Ricardo Horta hit the woodwork. The surprise result compounded Portugal’s problems after its disappointing first-round exit at the World Cup in Brazil. Portugal commonly struggles in qualifying campaigns and had to go through the playoffs to reach the 2010 World Cup, Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup. Also in Group I, Denmark came from behind to beat Armenia 2-1. Pierre Emile Hojbjerg leveled and substitute Thomas Kahlenberg netted the late winner for Denmark which fell behind to an early goal from Armenia’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Aleksander Kolarov’s 80thminute equalizer earned Serbia a 1-1 draw against France, which qualifies automatically as host country. Paul Pogba scored for the French. It was visitors’ day in Group F with 10-man Romania beating Greece, Northern Ireland finding late goals to defeat Hungary 2-1 and Finland beating the Faroe Islands 3-1 after being a goal down at halftime. Greece was perhaps lucky to have played in front of empty stands — due to a home stadium ban — as the players were spared the likely embarrassment of being booed by their own fans for a subpar performance. Romania captain Ciprian Marica scored the winner with a penalty in the 10th minute, and then left his teammates to eke out a victory after getting sent off with a second yellow card in the 53rd. In Budapest, Niall McGinn, in the 81st, and Kyle Lafferty, in the 88th, led Northern Ireland to the win over Hungary. Tamas Priskin had opened the scoring for the hosts in the 75th. At Torshavn, Riku Riski scored in the 53rd and 78th for Finland, with Roman Eremenko adding a third in the 78th. Christian Holst had opened the scoring for the Faroe Islands in the 41st.
Blatter to confirm presidential bid this month
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MANCHESTER, England — FIFA President Sepp Blatter says he will confirm later this month that he will stand for a fifth, fouryear term. The 78-year-old Swiss had pledged before his re-election in 2011 that his current term would be his last. But buoyed by a successful World Cup in Brazil and UEFA President Michel Platini opting not to stand in next year’s election, Blatter believes he has the backing of national associations. In a pre-recorded interview shown at the SoccerEx conference, Blatter says he will make an “official declaration definitely in September now when we have the executive committee.” The committee meets on Sept. 25-26. Blatter says he has waited until then “to say then to the football family, ‘Yes I will be ready. I will be a candidate.’”
Lewandowski hits four against debutants Gibraltar
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Robert Lewandowski hit four goals in the second half as Poland swept aside Gibraltar in their first ever competitive game 7-0 in Euro 2016 qualifying Group D on Sunday. There was to be no fairytale for the newcomers in a tough group also including world champions Germany, Ireland, Scotland and Georgia. Kamil Grosicki, who opened the scoring on 11 minutes, coolly took his second at the start of the second half and the floodgates opened. Lewandowski, Poland’s captain, quickly hit two and Lukasz Szukala headed in the fifth. In the final stages the unforgiving Bayern Munich striker slotted in two more. Gibraltar’s rocky enclave has a population of just under 30,000 and their Victoria Stadium fails to meet UEFA standards. The game was therefore played at the Algarve stadium in Portugal, where the Gibraltar fans that made the trip were in full voice for their national anthem and did their best to rally the players. There was a positive mood from the Gibraltar camp ahead of the game, encouraged by their first victory over Malta in June and they did not ever give up. The small British overseas territory that borders the southern part of Spain only became a UEFA member in May 2013, and played a first friendly match against Slovakia the following November, which they drew 0-0. Spain were against Gibraltar’s membership due to a dispute over sovereignty and Gibraltar were kept
away from the reigning European champions in the group stages for political reasons. Playing in a largely empty stadium on Sunday, they came under immediate pressure from Poland, and goalkeeper Jordan Perez was kept busy, notably by a Kamil Glik header from a corner. The Poles soon took the lead through Grosicki, whose shot took a slight deflection off David Artell. Poland continued to have the greater possession and carried a height advantage at set-plays but midway through the first half Gibraltar caused concern at the other end with a run from Brian Perez, who screwed his shot wide of the post from 20 yards. After the break Poland turned their dominance into goals as Grosicki came inside Joseph Chipolina and Artell before coolly finishing. Then Lewandowski struck twice in three minutes as he stooped to head in a Jakub Wawrzyniak cross and then slotted clinically into the corner. Next Szukala powered a header into the net from Mateusz Klich’s inswinging free-kick. The predatory Lewandowski did not let a Gibraltar side, now in disarray at the back, off the hook. He sprinted clear of Chipolina for his hat-trick and was on target again in injury time to complete the rout. Poland’s Robert Lewandowski heads the ball to score his goal against Gibraltar during their Euro 2016 qualification soccer match at Algarve stadium in Faro September 7, 2014.
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Bayern Munich’s Xherdan Shaqiri (L) jokes with team mate Franck Ribery during a photo call in Munich August 9, 2014.
Platini: Ribery faces ban if doesn’t answer France
Associated Press Writer
BERLIN — UEFA president Michel Platini has warned Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery that he could be banned for three matches at club level under FIFA rules if he doesn’t answer a call up for France.
Platini tells Bild am Sonntag magazine “Ribery can’t just decide himself whether he plays for France or not. If (France) coach Didier Deschamps calls him up, he has to go to the national team. If he doesn’t he’ll be suspended.” Ribery, who missed the World Cup through injury, announced his
international retirement last month. However, Deschamps has not ruled out calling up the 31-year-old. Platini told the magazine that he couldn’t understand his compatriot’s decision, saying “He’s French, the European Championship is in France in 2016, not Poland. He has to want to play.”
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Germany wins, Portugal loses in Euro qualifiers Associated Press
LONDON — Two months after winning the World Cup, Germany opened its 2016 European Championship campaign with a 2-1 victory over Scotland on Sunday, while Portugal and Greece both slumped to defeats in their qualifying matches. Thomas Mueller scored both Germany’s goals — a difficult backward header in the 18th minute and a close-range effort in the 70th — just four minutes after Ikechi Anya had grabbed a deserved equalizer for Scotland.
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Germany’s Mario Goetze, left, takes the ball after Thomas Mueller, right, scored the opening goal against Scotland’s goalkeeper David Marshall, center, during the Euro 2016 soccer qualifying group D match between Germany and Scotland in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014.
Veteran defender Maicon dropped from Brazil squad
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SAO PAULO — The Brazilian football confederation says veteran right back Maicon has been dropped from the national squad ahead of Tuesday’s friendly against Ecuador in the United States. The confederation did not explain why
Maicon was dropped, calling it “an internal matter.” Local media quoted Gilmar Rinaldi, the confederation official overseeing the national team, saying the player was released because of “indiscipline.” He did not elaborate. Monaco youngster Fabinho was called up to replace Maicon for
the match in New Jersey. The confederation also said Sunday that Paris Saint-Germain defender David Luiz will not be able to play because of a left knee injury sustained when Brazil beat Colombia 1-0 on Friday in Miami. Luiz will remain with the squad and will not be immediately replaced.
Monday just hours after arriving in the country, was appointed Friday. He replaced Hong Myung-bo, who resigned in July after the 2002 World Cup semifinalists collected only one point from three games in Brazil. Stielike, a former Real Madrid
midfielder, signed a contract until the 2018 World Cup. The 59-yearold German’s first game in charge will come against Paraguay on Oct. 10, a warm-up for January’s Asian Cup when South Korea takes on Australia, Kuwait and Oman.
Stielike promises winning football to South Korea
Associated Press
SEOUL — South Korea coach Uli Stielike has promised to deliver winning football to the team that struggled at the World Cup. The German coach, speaking
“I’m satisfied with the three points. It was important to start with a win,” said Germany coach Joachim Loew, whose side is unbeaten in 33 European Championship or World Cup qualifiers. Elsewhere, a Portugal side without injured Cristiano Ronaldo lost 1-0 at home to Albania, 10-man Romania beat Greece 1-0 and Serbia drew 1-1 with Euro 2016 host France in a friendly. Germany labored for long periods in the Group D match, particularly in the second half when the Scots were at their most dangerous, but still the home side might have scored more goals. “They’re very well organized. We missed one or two chances to make it more convincing. Then it got a bit close toward the end,” Mueller said. Mueller missed two good opportunities before making the most of his third, when he beat two defenders to Sebastian Rudy’s cross and looped the ball over the goalkeeper. Anya equalized when he raced onto Steven Fletcher’s through ball and beat Neuer with a cool finish inside the far post. But Mueller soon restored the home side’s lead after a goalmouth scramble, rifling the ball to the roof of the net after Scotland failed to clear. Scotland ended the game with 10 men after Charlie Mulgrew earned two yellow cards in injury time. In the other Group D matches, Poland routed Gibraltar 7-0 in Portugal on the “home” side’s competitive UEFA debut, and Ireland beat Georgia 2-1 in Tbilisi. Portugal sorely missed Ronaldo’s firepower as it was upset by unfancied Albania and was loudly jeered by unhappy fans. Bekim Bajal’s spectacular second-half volley embarrassed the Portuguese who couldn’t translate their dominance into goals, although Nani came close several times in his 75th ap-
pearance and newcomer Ricardo Horta hit the woodwork. The surprise result compounded Portugal’s problems after its disappointing first-round exit at the World Cup in Brazil. Portugal commonly struggles in qualifying campaigns and had to go through the playoffs to reach the 2010 World Cup, Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup. Also in Group I, Denmark came from behind to beat Armenia 2-1. Pierre Emile Hojbjerg leveled and substitute Thomas Kahlenberg netted the late winner for Denmark which fell behind to an early goal from Armenia’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Aleksander Kolarov’s 80thminute equalizer earned Serbia a 1-1 draw against France, which qualifies automatically as host country. Paul Pogba scored for the French. It was visitors’ day in Group F with 10-man Romania beating Greece, Northern Ireland finding late goals to defeat Hungary 2-1 and Finland beating the Faroe Islands 3-1 after being a goal down at halftime. Greece was perhaps lucky to have played in front of empty stands — due to a home stadium ban — as the players were spared the likely embarrassment of being booed by their own fans for a subpar performance. Romania captain Ciprian Marica scored the winner with a penalty in the 10th minute, and then left his teammates to eke out a victory after getting sent off with a second yellow card in the 53rd. In Budapest, Niall McGinn, in the 81st, and Kyle Lafferty, in the 88th, led Northern Ireland to the win over Hungary. Tamas Priskin had opened the scoring for the hosts in the 75th. At Torshavn, Riku Riski scored in the 53rd and 78th for Finland, with Roman Eremenko adding a third in the 78th. Christian Holst had opened the scoring for the Faroe Islands in the 41st.
Blatter to confirm presidential bid this month
Associated Press
MANCHESTER, England — FIFA President Sepp Blatter says he will confirm later this month that he will stand for a fifth, fouryear term. The 78-year-old Swiss had pledged before his re-election in 2011 that his current term would be his last. But buoyed by a successful World Cup in Brazil and UEFA President Michel Platini opting not to stand in next year’s election, Blatter believes he has the backing of national associations. In a pre-recorded interview shown at the SoccerEx conference, Blatter says he will make an “official declaration definitely in September now when we have the executive committee.” The committee meets on Sept. 25-26. Blatter says he has waited until then “to say then to the football family, ‘Yes I will be ready. I will be a candidate.’”
Lewandowski hits four against debutants Gibraltar
Reuters
Robert Lewandowski hit four goals in the second half as Poland swept aside Gibraltar in their first ever competitive game 7-0 in Euro 2016 qualifying Group D on Sunday. There was to be no fairytale for the newcomers in a tough group also including world champions Germany, Ireland, Scotland and Georgia. Kamil Grosicki, who opened the scoring on 11 minutes, coolly took his second at the start of the second half and the floodgates opened. Lewandowski, Poland’s captain, quickly hit two and Lukasz Szukala headed in the fifth. In the final stages the unforgiving Bayern Munich striker slotted in two more. Gibraltar’s rocky enclave has a population of just under 30,000 and their Victoria Stadium fails to meet UEFA standards. The game was therefore played at the Algarve stadium in Portugal, where the Gibraltar fans that made the trip were in full voice for their national anthem and did their best to rally the players. There was a positive mood from the Gibraltar camp ahead of the game, encouraged by their first victory over Malta in June and they did not ever give up. The small British overseas territory that borders the southern part of Spain only became a UEFA member in May 2013, and played a first friendly match against Slovakia the following November, which they drew 0-0. Spain were against Gibraltar’s membership due to a dispute over sovereignty and Gibraltar were kept
away from the reigning European champions in the group stages for political reasons. Playing in a largely empty stadium on Sunday, they came under immediate pressure from Poland, and goalkeeper Jordan Perez was kept busy, notably by a Kamil Glik header from a corner. The Poles soon took the lead through Grosicki, whose shot took a slight deflection off David Artell. Poland continued to have the greater possession and carried a height advantage at set-plays but midway through the first half Gibraltar caused concern at the other end with a run from Brian Perez, who screwed his shot wide of the post from 20 yards. After the break Poland turned their dominance into goals as Grosicki came inside Joseph Chipolina and Artell before coolly finishing. Then Lewandowski struck twice in three minutes as he stooped to head in a Jakub Wawrzyniak cross and then slotted clinically into the corner. Next Szukala powered a header into the net from Mateusz Klich’s inswinging free-kick. The predatory Lewandowski did not let a Gibraltar side, now in disarray at the back, off the hook. He sprinted clear of Chipolina for his hat-trick and was on target again in injury time to complete the rout. Poland’s Robert Lewandowski heads the ball to score his goal against Gibraltar during their Euro 2016 qualification soccer match at Algarve stadium in Faro September 7, 2014.
REUTERS/Michael Dalder
Bayern Munich’s Xherdan Shaqiri (L) jokes with team mate Franck Ribery during a photo call in Munich August 9, 2014.
Platini: Ribery faces ban if doesn’t answer France
Associated Press Writer
BERLIN — UEFA president Michel Platini has warned Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery that he could be banned for three matches at club level under FIFA rules if he doesn’t answer a call up for France.
Platini tells Bild am Sonntag magazine “Ribery can’t just decide himself whether he plays for France or not. If (France) coach Didier Deschamps calls him up, he has to go to the national team. If he doesn’t he’ll be suspended.” Ribery, who missed the World Cup through injury, announced his
international retirement last month. However, Deschamps has not ruled out calling up the 31-year-old. Platini told the magazine that he couldn’t understand his compatriot’s decision, saying “He’s French, the European Championship is in France in 2016, not Poland. He has to want to play.”
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Cliff Temple of Tegallinggah IBP
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GIANYAR - As a culture reserve, the Cliff Temple of Tegallinggah is one of the historic tourist attractions. Located at Tegallinggah, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, this ancient site is also adjacent to the Pakerisan River currently including in the world cultural heritage. To reach the location, it will take visitors approximately 30 minutes from the capital of Denpasar by motor vehicle. When going to this object, visitors will pass through dozens of stairs with a view of fish and shrimp ponds adorned with lotus plants and water lettuce. Splashing waters along the stairs make the atmosphere very cool. Meanwhile, large trees and hanging roots make the panorama look beautiful. Uniqueness of this ancient site is visible on the temple carvings attached to the cliff wall. On the wall sit two very ancient temples. Each temple has three phalli symbolizing the gods of trinity namely Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. On the same rock, precisely on the right part of the temple there are 4 niches and 3 others on the left. Besides, there are also 8 niche of larger size. In the meantime, 3 additional niches can be found at the location separated by the Pakerisan River. Around the temple can be found some ruins of temples that have been damaged by objects. Then, there is a cave and place to deliver canangsari oblation. Some showers can also be found here where they are used for religious ceremonies and melukat or selfpurificatory rite. At the shower, visitors can wash the face just to feel the freshness of the falling water on the sidelines of the cliff.
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Serena Williams wins 3rd US Open in row, 18th Slam Associated Press
NEW YORK — A couple of months before Serena Williams capped her dominant run to a third consecutive U.S. Open championship and 18th major singles title Sunday night, she sat down with coach Patrick Mouratoglou to decipher why the season had been such a struggle by her standards.
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Serena Williams, of the United States, holds up the championship trophy after defeating Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, during the championship match of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, in New York.
At the time, Williams was coming off a third-round loss at Wimbledon, which followed a second-round loss at the French Open, which followed a fourth-round loss at the Australian Open — and, when Grand Slam success defines a legacy, that simply wouldn’t do. The quest to match Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova at 18 was weighing on her. “It was definitely on my shoulders,” Williams could acknowledge after that burden was gone. “It was definitely like, ‘Oh, get there. Get there. Get there.’” She knew, of course, there was one more big event left in 2014, and a finite amount of time to turn things around before heading to Flushing Meadows. In some ways starting from scratch, Williams regrouped and stopped her mini-slump, never dropping more than three games in any set, including a 6-3, 6-3 victory over close friend Caroline Wozniacki in Sunday’s final. “When Serena is on her game,” said the 10th-seeded Wozniacki, who admitted she was nervous in her second Grand Slam title match, “there’s not much we can do.” Williams matched Evert’s total of six U.S. Opens and became the first woman to win three in a row since Evert’s fourtitle run from 1975-78.
Add in Williams’ five titles apiece at Wimbledon and the Australian Open, plus two at the French Open, and only three players have more Slams: Margaret Court with 24, Steffi Graf with 22, and Helen Wills Moody with 19. Ranked and seeded No. 1, Williams let Wozniacki keep things competitive for about five games but wound up compiling a hard-to-believe 29-4 edge in winners. Until a cross-court backhand in the final game, the only winners registered by Wozniacki came on aces. When it was over, Williams dropped to her back behind the baseline, covering her hands with her face. Her first major trophy also came in New York, in 1999, when she was 17. This time, Williams earned $4 million, a record in tennis — $3 million for the title, plus a $1 million bonus for having had the best results during the North American summer hard-court circuit. A few weeks shy of her 33rd birthday, making the American the oldest major champion since Navratilova was 33 at Wimbledon in 1990, Williams powered this way and that in her black-and-pink hightops. Wozniacki is the one training for the New York City Marathon, but she was
tuckered out by the end. Wozniacki may as well have been an extra in this Williams highlight reel. Points were directed by Williams, via serves that reached 120 mph (194 kph), forceful returns that backed Wozniacki into a corner when not producing outright winners, unreachable groundstrokes or the occasional volley. “From a different planet,” said Wozniacki’s father, Piotr, who also coaches her. “Come on, there’s no chance.” Yes, this was all about Williams. At times, it felt as if Wozniacki were there because, well, someone needed to be on the opposite side of the net. They’ve been pals for years, and they hung out together in Miami — heading to the beach, watching an NBA playoff game — after both lost early at the French Open in May. Wozniacki says Williams helped her get over the end of her engagement to golf star Rory McIlroy. Williams said she planned to invite Wozniacki along for Sunday night’s championship celebration. “We’re both going to do anything possible to win the match,” said Wozniacki, a 24-year-old from Denmark who reached No. 1 in the rankings in 2010, a year after losing to Kim Clijsters in the U.S. Open final. “After the match, we’re friends again.” Mouratoglou noted the obvious: It didn’t matter one bit to Williams who she was facing. “Yeah, they’re friends,” the coach said, “but on the other side, believe me, Serena has zero friends.”
Bottas unsure over Kevin Magnussen penalty
Valtteri Bottas is unsure whether Formula 1 rival Kevin Magnussen deserved to be penalised for his defensive driving during their Italian Grand Prix battle. McLaren driver Magnussen was handed a five-second penalty for forcing Bottas to cut the second part of the first chicane as they fought over fifth place on the 31st lap of Sunday’s Monza F1 race. Finnish racer Bottas later passed Magnussen and went on to finish fourth for Williams, while the Dane crossed the line seventh but fell to 10th after the race stewards applied the penalty. Bottas told reporters after the race that Magnussen’s driving was “on the limit” of what is acceptable. “It’s difficult to say if it was worth a penalty,” Bottas said. “For me there was nowhere else to go - I had to cut the chicane. “I didn’t have the chance to overtake even though we were already side by side. “It’s a tough one. In the end it didn’t change anything for me, even though he got a penalty, because I still had to overtake him, so for me it didn’t really matter.” Nevertheless Bottas felt his rival could have handled the moment differently.
When asked by AUTOSPORT what he would have done in Magnussen’s position, Bottas replied: “There are two ways if you want to keep the position: do what he did or you carry a bit more speed but you leave a car’s width inside and then you can still get a good exit and stay ahead.” However, Williams performance chief Rob Smedley reckoned Magnussen’s five-second penalty was appropriate. “Whether or not Magnussen braked a little deep in there to try to keep the corner and found himself too deep at the apex of Turn 1 [Rettifilo], I don’t know,” Smedley said. “Valtteri had to put his car off the track in order to avoid having an accident, so I think a five-second penalty was justified.” Kevin Magnussen. Magnussen was also penalised during the previous race in Belgium, after forcing Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari off the track during a late dice. The Dane admitted he was frustrated to receive a second penalty in as many races, but said he would try to learn from the incident. “I don’t want to comment because it doesn’t matter what I think - those are the rules,” Magnussen said. “If they [the stewards] give me the penalty
it means that I broke the rules. Simple as that. “It’s getting better: last time it was 20 seconds; this time is five. “It’s getting a bit frustrating to get these penalties, but I just have to analyse it and see what I can
learn.” McLaren racing director Eric Boullier accepted the penalty but intimated that it was harsh. “In our view he was unfortunate to be penalised for what we saw as a legitimate defence,” he said. “But the stewards’ decision is final.”
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Finland driver Valtteri Bottas of steers his Williams during the third free practice session at the Monza racetrack, in Monza, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. The Formula One race will be held on Sunday.
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3 al-Shabab suspects arrested in Frankfurt Associated Press
BERLIN — German authorities say they have arrested three men at Frankfurt airport on suspicion they are members of the Somalian terrorist organization al-Shabab. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said Monday the three German nationals were arrested Saturday after landing in Frankfurt from Kenya, on suspicion of membership in a foreign terrorist organization. They were identified only as Steven N.,
26, Abdullah W., 28, and Abdulsalam W., 23, in line with German privacy laws. Prosecutors said in a statement the three went to Somalia in 2012 and 2013 to join al-Shabab, and received weapons and combat training. They say there is no evidence they had “concrete attack plans” upon their return but did accuse them of preparing an act of violence. Prosecutors would not elaborate on the statement.
Cease-fire holds in eastern Ukraine
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Palm oil vendor, Pauline Haba, poors palm oil from a container, with her business suffering as no one wants to buy her palm oil as it comes from the Macenta area were the Ebola out-brake has cost many lives in Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014.
Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back
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CONAKRY, Guinea — Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there. The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the first places where the outbreak surfaced, but they hadn’t seen a new case for weeks. So they packed up, leaving a handful of staff on standby. The outbreak was showing signs of slowing elsewhere as well. Instead, new cases appeared across the border in Liberia and then spread across West Africa, carried by the sick and dying. Now, months later, Macenta is once again a hotspot. The resurgence of the disease in a place where doctors thought they had it beat shows how history’s largest Ebola outbreak has spun out of control. It began with people leaving homes in Liberia to seek better care or reunite with families back in Guinea, a pattern repeating itself all over. “Currently in Guinea, all the new cases, all the new epidemic, are linked to people that are coming back from Liberia or from Sierra Leone,” said Marc Poncin, the emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Guinea. The epidemic also has touched Nigeria and Senegal while killing more than 2,000 people across West Africa. Never before has the disease
struck such a densely populated region, where so many people are on the move. For four decades, the virus struck in relatively remote areas, where doctors could quickly isolate communities and stop its spread. In previous outbreaks, a cleared pocket like Macenta would be easy to keep clear. This time, the virus is traveling effortlessly across borders by plane, car and foot, shifting from forests to cities and springing up in clusters far from any previously known infections. Border closures, flight bans and mass quarantines have been ineffective. “Everything we do is too small and too late,” said Poncin. “We’re always running after the epidemic.” Ebola has been able to follow its own course because West Africa lacks the health care workers it needs to monitor potential carriers and train communities
in how to avoid catching the disease. People in contact with the sick have evaded surveillance, moving at will and hiding their illnesses until they infect others in turn. Whole villages, stricken by fear, have repeatedly shut themselves off for days or weeks, giving the virus more opportunities to whip around and skip someplace else. Dr. Peter Piot, who co-discovered Ebola, said Ebola isn’t striking in a “linear fashion” this time. It’s hopping around, especially in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. “The epidemic is now so vast and so extensive that one should consider that in the three (hardesthit) countries, everybody is now at risk and it won’t be over until the last case has survived and six weeks have passed,” said Piot, who runs London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
KIEV, Ukraine — A cease-fire between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government troops appeared to be largely holding in eastern Ukraine Monday, a day after shelling and clashes rattled nerves and imperiled the peace deal. In a statement published online, the city council of Donetsk said there had been no reported casualties overnight and that public transport would be up and running on Tuesday. No shelling or explosions could be heard overnight in downtown Donetsk. The regional administration of Donetsk announced that Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko would be traveling to the coastal city of Mariupol on Monday, a symbolic show of strength in a governmentheld city that has come under rebel fire in recent days. The area around Mariupol had
remained relatively untouched by violence until recent weeks, when rebel forces pushed toward the coastal town, shelling the city’s outskirts as recently as Saturday. The city is strategically placed on the Sea of Azov coastline, raising fears that the Moscow-backed rebels could be pushing to link up mainland Russia with Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia in March. The Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Monday that 15 Ukrainian soldiers had been released by rebel forces, another key element of a peace deal between the rebels and Ukrainian troops. The cease-fire was imposed late Friday, but was thrown into peril over the weekend by the Mariupol shelling and fighting near the airport of Donetsk. A previous 10-day cease-fire in June was riddled by reports of violations on both sides.
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INDONESIA KPK searches house of former Papua Governor
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JAKARTA - The house of former Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu, has been searched by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). The house was search in the process of investigation into alleged corruption in the procurement of “Detailing Engineering Design” of a hydro electric plant at the Mamberamo river in Papua in 2009-2010. Barnabas was named suspect by KPK on August 5 together with former head of the provincial mining and energy service Jannes Jophan Karubaba and president director of PT Konsultasi Pembangunan Irian Jaya Lamusi Didi. KPK also searched the office of the provincial energy and
mining service, the offices of the autonomy service and Konsultasi Pembangunan Irian Jaya. Barnabas, who was Papua governor in 2006-2011, is an elected legislative candidate for 2014-2019 representing Papua. Barnabas was charged with abuse of power and together with
the two other suspects caused a loss of around Rp35 billion in state fund. The suspects were charged with inflating the price of the project valued at Rp56 billion. If found guilty Barnabas is facing a maximum jail term of 20 years with a fine of Rp1 billion.
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that the growing airline industry in Indonesia will need more energy. According to him, the government is currently developing green fuel technology, which is expected to be used in 2016. A non-binding government regulation supporting the use of biofuel for the airline industry will also be formulated, Santoso said. Meanwhile, operational director from the national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia Capt Novianto
Herupratomo expressed hope that the government will sell biofuel at a cheap price or, at least, a similar price with the fossil fuel avtur. Currently, Garuda Indonesia is operating 96 airplanes using avtur. The use of avtur is predicted to rise from 1.8 billion liters to 2 billion liters in 2016. Novianto noted that Garuda Indonesia had tried to reduce the use of avtur by using new planes that are more economical.
Government calls on airlines to use environmentally friendly fuel
JAKARTA - The Ministry of Transportation has asked airlines operating in Indonesia to use environmentally friendly fuel in anticipation of the future depletion of fossil fuels, the ministry’s Secretary General Santoso Edy Wibowo reported on Monday. “A new alternative is required in anticipation of the depletion of avtur in the future,” stated Santoso, adding
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Pro-Russian rebels lead suppressive fire at the positions of Ukrainian army, during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.
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Villagers inspect a dead Sumatran elephant allegedly killed by poachers for its tusks, in Jambo Reuhat village, East Aceh, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. The elephant was found dead Sunday with the tusks removed. Indonesia’s endangered elephants on Sumatra island are threatened by habitat loss and poaching.
District governments association opposed indirect regional head elections Antara
JAKARTA - The All-Indonesia District Government Association (APKASI) is opposed to the proposal to return regional head elections to local legislative councils (DPRD), arguing it runs counter to the mandate of reform movements. “Regional head elections that involve the people’s direct participation are one of the fruits of the 1998 reform struggle. Therefore, the direct regional head elections that are more transparent must not be returned to DPRD,” APKASI General Chairman Isran Noor said on Sunday. Returning direct regional head elections to DPRD amounts to depriving the people of their political rights, he said. If regional heads are elected by DPRD they will think a lot about how to reciprocate the kindness of local legislators who have elected them so they will hardly notice the people’s welfare, he said. “This happened when Law No. 22/1999 on Regional Head Elections was implemented. At that time there was instability in several regional governments as DPRD disturbed all activities of regional heads,” he said. Citing an example, he said two days before the then Bontang mayor conveyed an accountability report the DPRD had rejected it on the ground it did not serve the DPRD’s interests. Members of the House of Representatives (DPR) are divided over the proposal to elect regional heads indirectly, with the United Development Party (PPP) proposing a moratorium on direct regional head elections. “PPP has been seeking a moratorium on direct regional head elections for quite a long time,” PPP Secretary General Muhammad Romahurmuziy stated last Friday. The proposal is a political choice that the party has adopted as a recommendation at its national working meeting in the North Sumatra provincial capital of Medan in January 2012, he said. Romahurmuziy noted that direct regional head elections have various shortcomings. The elections require a great deal of investment, so that only wealthy candidates can afford to file nominations. However, chief of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) central executive board Puan Maharani told reporters in Semarang, Central Java, last Friday that the PDIP faction at the DPR has consistently supported direct regional head elections as a form of good democracy. “Currently, the bill on regional head elections is being deliberated at the DPR. From the beginning, the PDIP has wanted local heads to be elected directly by the people and not by regional legislators,” she said. Puan stated that she was surprised at the stand of three other factions on the election bill. The three factions are the National Mandate Party (PAN), the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, and the Golkar Party, which had formed the Red-and-White coalition to nominate Prabowo Subianto as its presidential candidate in July 9 polls. “We all know that our colleagues of the Red-and-White coalition have changed their minds and want regional heads to be elected by local legislators,” she said. The three factions should consider the impact of indirect regional head elections on the people, she noted. If the DPR insists on returning the election of regional heads to DPRD, all executive board members of the All-Indonesia District Governments Association (APKASI) and the All-Indonesia Provincial Government Association (APPSI), along with the public will file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court (MK) to make a judicial review of the law allowing the election of regional heads by DPRD, he said.
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Dollar, euro in tight range as pound drops TOKYO - The dollar and euro moved in a narrow range Monday after the European Central Bank’s surprise stimulus moves, while the British pound dropped as next week’s Scottish independence vote tightens. The greenback was at 105.05 yen, against 105.06 yen in New York on Friday. The euro stood at $1.2953 and 136.08 yen, compared with $1.2951 and 136.14 yen in US trade. The pound bought $1.6225, extending its slide from $1.6323 after a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times showed Scotland was on course to vote break away from the United Kingdom at the September 18 referendum. A “Yes” vote would see the end of a 307 year union with England, although details of what currency an independent Scotland would use and what effect its secession would have on the British economy are murky. “The pound has gapped lower by more than a big figure” following the survey, the National Bank of Australia said in a note to clients. Previous polls have shown voters are expected
to opt for the status quo. Investors were also eyeing the ceasefire in Ukraine, which Kiev and pro-Russian rebels signed last week. Sporadic fighting and a lack of detail on the terms were casting doubt on its feasibility. The euro could face further pressure as investors digest the ECB’s deflation-fighting package, including an unexpected rate cut, to boost the economy. “The latest ECB policy surprise is likely to drive an even greater ‘yield-wedge’ between the euro, the dollar and other core currencies in the coming month,” Credit Agricole said in a note to its clients. Any further “refinement” of ECB chief Mario Draghi’s comments could also weigh on the single currency, the bank said. “Indeed, many investors are likely to be motivated to accelerate their rebalancing plans on seemingly greater ECB determination to lift eurozone competitiveness,” Credit Agricole said. The market reacted little to revised Japanese data showing the world’s third largest economy shrank 1.8 percent in three months to June, worse than the previously estimated fall of 1.7 percent.
DENPASAR - Increasing demand for endek fabric makes it become a fashion trend among the employees either civil servants, private sector employees, employees of state enterprises or bank employees. They are vying to homogenize their clothes using Balinese distinctive woven fabric known as endek. This endek fabric is commonly encountered in various regions throughout Bali such as Bona (Gianyar), Bangli and Klungkung.
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People cross the street in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Japan’s economy contracted at an annualized rate of 7.1 percent in the April-June quarter after companies and households slashed spending following a tax hike.
Japan economy contracted 7.1 percent in 2Q TOKYO — Japan’s economy contracted at an annualized rate of 7.1 percent in the April-June quarter after companies and households slashed spending following a tax hike.
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Money traders of a foreign exchange company work in front of a an electric monitor displaying the current exchange rate of Japanese yen against U.S. dollar in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. The dollar and euro moved in a narrow range Monday after the European Central Bank’s surprise stimulus moves, while the British pound dropped as next week’s Scottish independence vote tightens.
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Endek, elegant fashion becoming a trend at workplace
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The revised data released Monday show business investment fell more than twice as much as estimated before, or 5.1 percent, while private residential spending sank 10.4 percent in annual terms. The earlier estimate showed the economy contracting 6.8 percent. The recovery of the world’s third-largest economy has slowed following the increase in the sales tax to 8 percent from 5 percent on April 1. “Theoretically, there should be no impact from the consumption tax increase on corporate spending or long-term corporate planning, but a large number of Japanese corporations seemed to see a large impact from the hike on final demand,” said Junko Nishioka, an economist at RBS
Japan Securities in Tokyo. The economy grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6 percent in the first three months of the year. In quarterly terms, the economy contracted 1.8 percent in April-June from the previous quarter. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has championed an aggressive stimulus program aimed at ending chronic deflation that has discouraged corporate investment and dragged on growth. But a sustainable recovery will require strong corporate and private spending, since exports and public spending have so far done little to lift growth. Business activity surged early in the year as consumers and businesses stepped up purchases to avoid paying more tax, and economists forecast a
rebound in coming months. “We are not that pessimistic for the future picture of the Japanese economy,” Nishioka said, forecasting a “V-shaped recovery,” supported by stronger wage growth. Conditions remained weak in July. Real incomes fell 6.2 percent from a year earlier and household spending dropped. “Industrial production was still 2 percent below the second quarter average in July, and we have yet to see a turnaround in capital spending,” Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics said in a commentary. He said a recovery in retail sales should help boost growth, despite the sharp drop in residential spending following the tax hike. Abe faces a tough decision over whether to go ahead with a further 2 point increase in the sales tax to 10 percent in 2015. The tax hikes are needed to counter ballooning public debt, which now is more than twice the size of the economy.
An endek fashion designer, Ni Wayan Ria Mariani, admitted that she could be flooded by the order of endek clothing in particular moments such as in the competition of endek fashion, innovation among companies or institutions, introduction of new endek innovation and the implementation of endek fashion show, she said, not long ago. Endek could be categorized into various classes. Those made of silk were categorized into high grade woven fabric, while troso belonged to the lower class woven fabric. The difference lay in the thickness, color and texture. Meanwhile, the other kinds of endek included the line endek and luster endek. Then, the thickness of endek was usually distinguished from its comb, where the endek with 80 combs belonged to the good quality, while the thinner one with 70 combs belonged to
the inferior quality. Each day, a weaver could accomplish two meters of endek fabric and it also depended on the motif to be worked on. Meanwhile, the price of endek fabric also varied depending on the type of endek itself. Even, the price could reach IDR 2 million per meter for the ikat woven fabric. Amidst her bustles, she also made her time to share her tips on how to distinguish the original endek fabric from the artificial one. According to her, the original endek was thicker than the artificial one. In terms of color, the original endek looked more natural because it applied natural dyes, and the motif usually featured traditional ornamental style such as patra, animal and so on. Compared to the other kinds of endek, Balinese endek had superiority in the matter of qual-
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Increasing demand for endek fabric makes it become a fashion trend among the employees either civil servants, private sector employees, employees of state enterprises or bank employees.
ity. Although it was washed again and again, the color would remain good and the fabric texture was not damaged like endek of the other kinds. To make the look of endek clothing more beautiful, she
usually combined it with a plain fabric or other ikat woven fabric so that the price would be more affordable. Superiority of this local product did not only lie in the making car-
ried out manually, but also in the application of natural materials. As a result, she could not fulfill all the demands and this portion was then taken by large industry by producing artificial endek. (May)
Ngaben Anyar tradition at Sampalan customary village Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Residents of Lekok hamlet, Sampalan customary village, held the tradition of ngaben anyar cremation, Monday (Sep 1). Implementation of the tradition was quite unique, where the body was handled first before continuing to the next stage of cremation procession. Chief of Sampalan customary village, Ketut Sujana, said that the ngaben anyar did not took place as usual. When a public figure or resident of higher social status died, they would be cremated through the ngaben anyar tradition. However, the implementation would also highly depend on the economic condition of the family. Sampalan village consisting of 16 hamlets remained to preserve the local ngaben anyar tradition. In regular cremation, the body was usually cremated, but in the ngaben anyar tradition the body was even worked on first. Sujana asserted that the cremation applied patus system in which that all residents participated in the process of cremation ceremony. “This ngaben anyar procession applies internal patus system. IBP/Bagiarta In other words, the activities only involved Residents of Lekok hamlet, Sampalan customary village, held the tradition of ngaben anyar the internal family, while other residents cremation, Monday (Sep 1). Implementation of the tradition was quite unique, where the body helped the preparation,” he explained. was handled first before continuing to the next stage of cremation procession. The difference of ngaben anyar from
the cremation in general lay in the process of preparation. After the body was handed over to residents, they would parade the body to the front of funeral home. The procession was held in tense condition. Moreover, when the body began to be put into bade tower, the residents mutually pulled it. “It is called ngarap procession. On that account, the ngaben anyar is also often called ngaben ngarap,” Sujana said. On the one hand, a group of people pulled the body so that it could be quickly put into the existing bade tower. On the other hand, another group held the body so that the body was not immediately put into that bade. People often referred to the process as a rwa bhineda (basic dualism) concept in order to respect the differences among the people. Besides, such a process was also believed to bring in fortune. People believed that they would get strength if they could palpate the body. In addition, it also represented sincerity (of family) against the resident who died. Thus, the process took place joyfully. The resident cremated with the ngaben anyar tradition was the deceased Ni Ketut Ribek, wife of the Chief of Lekok hamlet, Sampalan Klod, Nyoman Badung. She died four days ago due to aging and complication of disease. (gik)
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Sunny weather, salt farmers at Tejakula increase production Bali Post
SINGARAJA - When entering dry season, a number of farmers at Tejakula village, Buleleng, regain their vivacity because the heat and sunny weather are beneficial for the salt making process. Over the past month, the salt farmers have started to produce salt in large amount. Even, the salt production of farmers has been double compared to normal days.
The salt farmer in Tejakula, Buleleng Regency is increasing their production due to the dry season
Marijuana of no man’s own found on vacant land Bali Post
KUTA - When about to mow grasses, Wayan Dana found 5 suspicious packages on Jalan Merdeka Raya IV, Kuta, Badung, Sunday (Sep 7). After that, the finding was reported to police. Having been checked, in fact the packages were suspected to be marijuana weighing 4.7 kilograms. Chief of Kuta Police, I Nyoman Sebudi, said that Dana originally would like to seek grass for fodder. In addition, he was also accustomed to trimming bushes on the vacant land on Jalan Merdeka Raya IV, Kuta. Approximately at 08:30 a.m., this grandfather arrived at the scene. At that moment, he saw an object resembling bricks wrapped in paper. “Initially, he thought it was grass, having had a closer look at, in fact it was not. Being suspicious, the witness (Dana) then reported the finding to police station,” added Sebudi. This former chief of Mengwi Police admitted that his party would check the prohibited items to forensic laboratory to make sure whether it was marijuana or not. “Tomorrow (Monday) we will send it to forensic laboratory. The witness has been checked, while the owner is still
being sought,” he said. After receiving the report, the Chief of Kuta Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Dewa Tagel, with his personnel directly came down to the scene. Once arriving at the scene, the officers secured the evidence whose position scattered. “Some items were found in the bushes, while some others in the gutter. Allegedly, the evidences were just taken from the courier service,” said a source at Kuta Police station. Probably the owner was being followed or fear of police, so that the marijuana was eventually disposed on the vacant land. To date, the officers still got trouble to track down the owner of the illicit goods. “If the packages were hidden at the location, why were they scattered when found? Allegedly, they were discarded because the owner may be afraid of being arrested,” he added. Furthermore, the five packages of marijuana were secured at the police station. “Right now, there are a lot of types of marijuana or other narcotics sent through courier service from Java. By and large, this kind of finding is difficult to disclose the owner because there were witnesses seeing it,” said the source requesting the anonymity. (kmb36)
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Weather condition is very much determining for farmers in the process of making salt. Moreover, the salt farmers cannot produce tens of kilograms of salt each day. Formerly, the salt farmers at Tejakula village reduced their salt production to only once every two days due to unfavorable weather for drying sea water. But this time they can produce salt every day to increase their income. “Fine weather and hot sunlight cause the salt-making process to get the perfect heat. A few months ago, I just got a basket of salt each day, but after the weather is good our current production reaches three baskets each day,” said one of the local salt farmers, Wayan Suastika, Sunday afternoon (Sep 7). He said there were a total of 21 salt farmers at Tejakula village coalesced into a salt farmer group. On average, each local farmer had 200 square meters of land. Since the salt production has been abundant for the past month, the price slumps in the market. When the salt production was in small amount, the salt of farmers was purchased at IDR 5,000 per kilogram; while after abundant salt flooded the market, the price decreased to IDR 4,000 per kilogram. “Our farmers here averagely cultivate 200 square meters of salt farming area. If the production increases, the price tends to decline. On the contrary, if the production declines, the price will increase, sir,” he said. Meanwhile, another salt farmer, Komang Juni, added that he had long not produced salt on his own land. It happened because the weather condition was uncertain. But, after the weather condition increasingly turned fine, he did not want to waste it. “Yes, I am now cleaning up the land as well as preparing baskets, furnace and pestle to produce salt. Previously, I have taken a break for almost three months and did not produce any salt. At that time, the weather was not good to produce salt, but now has been getting better,” said Juni. (kmb34)
Fuel price hike plan kindles inflation to rise
Bali Post
DENPASAR - The fuel price hike plan is ascertained to have an impact on the price of goods leading to the rise in inflation. The Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Mahasaraswati, Wayan Sujana, said the increase in fuel price would be directly proportional to the surges in inflation. “I expect that Bank Indonesia (BI) can maintain its rate to avoid the influence of surge in inflation because the price hike of subsidized fuel will certainly drive the rate of inflation. Magnitude of the inflation will highly depend on the amount of fuel price hike,” said Wayan Sujana. According to him, the increase in inflation was directly proportional to the magnitude of fuel price hike. This condition would occur when the government decided to raise the fuel price. “This corresponds to the law of supply and demand. What makes it different is the rising inflation rate caused by the price (of fuel—Ed), not by decline in goods supply,” he said. He said the increase in fuel price might have an impact on the decline in the purchasing power and disrupted the economy. On that account, it required a strategy to protect the market. “People’s purchasing power declines
as the prices of goods have increased. Meanwhile, there is no increase of income, so that consumers diminish their purchase,” he said. He assessed the inflation could have an impact on bank where it could provoke Bank Indonesia to raise the interest rate (BI rate) benchmark. High rate of Bank Indonesia could cause the liquidity to be extremely tight. “To that end, Bank Indonesia is expected to reduce the rate of inflation so as not to be higher when the fuel price increase really occurs. The increase in BI rate will widely take effect on various sectors,” he expected. Meanwhile, an economist, Prof. Dr. Gede Sri Darma, DBA, stated that the price increase in subsidized fuel was clearly a blow for people. This policy would also lead to higher inequality. The increase in fuel price when the people’s welfare had not been evenly distributed would burden the people of Indonesia, especially the people belonging to poor category due to higher living costs incurred. “The price increase in subsidized fuel will also significantly influence the changes in the pattern of life and fulfillment of basic needs of the people of Indonesia. This happens because the increase is not followed by an increase in the people’s welfare or income,” he explained. (kmb27)
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Indian, Pakistani troops aid flood-stranded people Associated Press Writer
SRINAGAR, India — Army and air force troops on Monday worked to rescue thousands of people stranded in Indian-controlled Kashmir and northern and eastern Pakistan, where flooding and landslides have caused more than 320 deaths. Six days of rains in Indian Kashmir have left more than 120 people dead in the region’s worst flooding in more than five decades, submerging hundreds of villages and triggering landslides, officials said. In neighboring Pakistan, more than 205 people have died and thousands of homes have collapsed. In Islamabad, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority spokesman Ahmad Kamal said the death toll had risen to 205 people with at least 383 more injured over the past six days. Pakistani troops were helping civilian authorities in rescue operations and in getting aid to stranded villagers, the Pakistani army said in a statement. So far nearly 9,000 people have been evacuated from nearly 530 villagers that were inundated by flood waters, Kamal said. He said authorities were preparing for worsening conditions as the waters of the Chenab and Indus rivers were rising. Pakistani TV channels showed pictures of flooding from different cities and villagers, with the water raging through streets, causing heavy losses. Kamal said flash floods and landslides had killed 131 people in Pakistan’s Punjab district, and 74 others in the Kashmir and
Gilgit areas. The Kashmir region in the northern Himalayas is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both. Two of the three wars the countries have fought since independence from Britain in 1947 have been over control of Kashmir. In India’s portion of Kashmir, more than 5,200 people have been rescued, said O P Singh, director of India’s National Disaster Response Force. Blankets, medicine and food were being supplied to people stranded on rooftops, he said, as most parts of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, were submerged. At least 450 villages in Indian Kashmir have been submerged and 2,000 others have been affected by the floodwaters, officials said. All schools, colleges and offices have been shut, and electricity and
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Local residents with their livestocks wade through floodwaters as they move to safe place following heavy rains in Jafar Kot near Wazirabad, some 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014.
drinking water supplies have been limited. The floods and incessant rain hit the power supply in several
districts in Kashmir after electric pylons collapsed or wires snapped. Mobile phones services by private operators were disrupted and
landline telephone networks, too were not working, leading to panic among many people stranded with no means of communication.
Water shortages lead to ‘tanker mafia’ in India
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NEW DELHI — Every summer, when Minoo Phakey’s water runs out, she does what most people do in her middle-class neighborhood: She calls the mafia. Within an hour, a man in a tanker arrives, carrying a load of dubious water drawn illegally from the city’s groundwater. With India’s capital gripped by its annual hot season water shortage, the city’s so-called tanker mafia is doing a roaring trade. An estimated 2,000 illegal tankers ply New Delhi’s roads every day, lifelines to millions whose taps have run dry, and symptoms of a much bigger problem — the city’s desperately dysfunctional water system. The tankers don’t come cheap. But some Delhi-ites have no choice. “You need water, you will pay anything, right?” says Phakey, a marketing executive. She is hardly alone. In a city known for its vertiginous inequalities, the shortage affects people from both upscale gated communities and dust-blown slums, as every day, the city’s supply falls more than 160 million gallons short. Most residents have piped water for just a couple hours a day, and almost a quarter have none at all. With a leaky water infrastructure long
overwhelmed by new arrivals, New Delhi is grappling with a dizzying social and environmental challenge, worsened by chaotic management. For many, it is a distressing reminder of a daily reality that lags behind India’s superpower dreams. While New Delhi has had water troubles for decades, the shortage has become critical in recent years as the city’s population has grown with little or no planning, rising from 9 million in 1991 to almost 17 million today. Even many of the wealthiest neighborhoods get water for just an hour in the morning, with residents rushing to turn on pumps and fill storage tanks when the municipal supply flows. The most urgent problem, though, is getting water to the sprawling neighborhoods of illegally constructed buildings, home to 40 percent of the city’s residents and largely without water lines. The city’s water agency, the Delhi Jal Board, sends 900 tankers onto the crowded roads every day. In some neighborhoods, a tanker passes every few minutes, its load sloshing down its sides. But it’s nowhere near enough. Tankers usually stop for just 15 minutes, while dozens of people crowd around waving buckets and plastic AP Photo/Patrick Reevell tubes. Tempers flare in the fierce heat; fights are In this Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 photo, a woman carries plastic containers to fill frequent. In some areas, people get just 3 liters drinking water from a water tanker, due to unavailability of tap water supply, in New (quarts). Delhi, India.
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Evil not so banal, says disturbing new probe
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PARIS - What prompts ordinary people to commit acts of evil? The question has been debated by philosophers, moralists, historians and scientists for centuries. One idea that carries much weight today is this: you, me -- almost anyone -- is capable of carrying out atrocities if ordered to do so. Commanded by an authoritarian figure, and wishing to conform, we could bulldoze homes, burn books, separate parents from children or even slaughter them, and our much-prized conscience would not as much as flicker. Called the “banality of evil,” the theory has been proffered as an explanation for why ordinary, educated Germans took part in the Jewish genocide of World War II. Now psychologists, having reviewed an opinion-shaping experiment carried out
more than 50 years ago, are calling for a rethink. “The more we read and the more data we collect, the less evidence we find to support the banality of evil idea, the notion that participants are simply ‘thoughtless’ or ‘mindless’ zombies who don’t know what they’re doing and just go along for the sake of it,” said Alex Haslam, a professor at the University of Queensland in Australia. “Our sense is that some form of identification, and hence choice, generally underpins all tyrannical behaviour.” Their detective work focused on legendary experiments conducted in 1961 by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.
Volunteers, told they were taking part in an experiment on learning, were led to believe they were administering an electric shock to a man, dubbed the “learner” who had to memorise pairs of words. Every time the learner made a mistake, the “teacher” was told by a stern-faced, lab-coated official to crank up the shock, starting with a mild 15 volts and climaxing at a lethal 450 volts. The experiment was fake -- the learner was an actor and the shocks never happened. The teacher could hear, but not see, the learner. Frighteningly, in one test, nearly twothirds of volunteers continued all the way to “lethal” voltage, even when the learner pleaded for mercy, wept or screamed in agony. These experiments became enshrined in textbooks as an illustration of how the conscience can be put on hold under orders. The
findings meshed with a landmark book by the writer Hannah Arendt on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust. Far from the monster she had expected, Arendt found that Eichmann came across more like a petty bureaucrat, prompting her to coin the term “banality of evil” to suggest how ordinary people, by conforming, could commit atrocities. The new research, published in the British Journal of Social Psychology, took a closer look at Milgram’s “teachers”. A team sifted through a box in the Yale archives that contained comments written by the volunteers after they were told the purpose of the experiment, and that the torture had been fake. Of the 800 participants, 659 submitted a reaction. Some said they had felt unease or distress during the tests, but most reported being positive about the experience, some extremely so.
New study clears up Greenland climate puzzle Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Greenland began heating up around 19,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, just like the rest of the northern hemisphere, researchers said Thursday in a report that resolves a paradox over when that warming happened. Previous studies had suggested this warming went back only 12,000 years, according to the study published in the
US journal Science. Huge sheets of ice covered North America and northern Europe some 20,000 years ago during the coldest part of the ice age. At the time, global average temperatures were about four degrees Celsius (seven degrees Fahrenheit) colder than during preindustrial times. Then, changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun increased solar energy reaching Greenland beginning some 19,000 years ago,
causing the release of carbon from the deep ocean. This led to a gradual rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). In the past, studies of ice cores from Greenland did not show any warming response as would be expected from an increase in CO2 and solar energy flux, said lead author Christo Buizert of Oregon State University. In the new study scientists reconstructed air temperatures by examining ratios of nitrogen isotopes in air
trapped within the ice, rather than in the ice itself, which had been used in past studies. The new method did in fact detect significant warming in response to increasing atmospheric CO2. According to this analysis of the period going from 19,000 years ago to 12,000 years ago, Greenland heated up by about five degrees. This is very close to what climate models predict, the researchers said.
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This rise heralded the start of the so-called Holocene period, which was warm and stable and allowed human civilization to develop. “The last deglaciation is a natural example of global warming and climate change,” Buizert said. “It is very important to study this period because it can help us better understand the climate system and how sensitive the surface temperature is to atmospheric CO2.”
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Road to Tampaksiring State Palace severely damaged
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GIANYAR - Highway of Pejeng, Tampaksiring is the main route to Tampaksiring Palace. However, along the path to the palace built by President Soekarno is badly damaged. Especially it happens on the road section passing through the Pejeng village, Sading village to the border of Tampaksiring village. A number of vehicles passed through the road becoming the responsibility of Bali Province. Due to such damage, both domestic and foreign road users drove very carefully when passing through the area from Pejeng to Tampaksiring. Moreover, the damaged road section was on the path to various tourist attractions such Tampaksiring village, Tirta Empul Temple or Gunung Kawi Temple. So, everyone must be careful because the road is badly damaged and full of potholes. “It is much deplored because this path leads to the state palace and various famous tourist attractions in Gianyar. Every day, I pass through this road section and must be careful with the road conditions,” said a tourist guide, Edi. Edi claimed to worry when passing on the road. Other than having many potholes, it was too slippery. Moreover at night, the potholes and slippery path were very dangerous as it was dark. Actually such condition had long been going on. The most severe damage occurred around the area of Sading village. Responding to such condition, many people
and businessmen living around the location hoped the road access to Tampaksiring could be promptly repaired. Meanwhile, the subdistrict head of Tampaksiring, Kadek Alit Wirawan, when asked for his confirmation justified the road damage along the path from Pejeng village to the border of Tampaksiring village. He said the most serious damage happened to area of Sading village. “No doubt the road damage occurred along this path, so that every road user passing the area has to be careful,” he said. He added that since serving as the subdistrict head in December 2013 the potholes had embellished the road section. It was dominantly caused by many trucks transporting sand that came from Kintamani. Such condition was exacerbated by the project of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM). However, the project contractor had been summoned to organize the technical work. “Now, the project of the Municipal Waterworks is under progress along this path, so it will be slightly annoying road users,” he said. (kmb35)
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Highway of Pejeng, Tampaksiring is the main route to Tampaksiring Palace. However, along the path to the palace built by President Soekarno is badly damaged.
Farmers at Jatiluwih start to enjoy WCH benefits Bali Post
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Greenland began heating up around 19,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, just like the rest of the northern hemisphere, researchers said Thursday in a report that resolves a paradox over when that warming happened.
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TABANAN - Benefits of Jatiluwih tourist attraction having been included in the world cultural heritage of the UNESCO begin to be enjoyed by communities and local farmers. However, this international tourist attraction has not been poised with maximal management. One of them is the matter of parking space. All this time travelers wishing to enjoy the charms of panoramic rice terraces are forced to use the verge of highway as parking space. Related to parking space, the Head of Tabanan Tourism and Culture Agency, Wayan Adnyana, previously said that it was resolved with few alternatives. Among them, it was provided with the purchase or lease of land. “Procurement of the parking space is indeed becoming a major project in the Jatiluwih development. So, it should be considered immediately,” he said. Headman of Jatiluwih, Nengah Kartika, recently admitted that al-
though it still had weaknesses, the inclusion of Jatiluwih into a part of the world cultural heritage had enough benefit to society. Moreover, since it was confirmed by the UNESCO, the foreign tourist visit to Jatiluwih increased sharply. By all means, the increasing number of visits could also boost the management revenue reaching billions of rupiahs. The revenue was obtained from the admission fee, parking levy and other revenues such as the pre-wedding shoot. Admission fee for foreign traveler was set at IDR 20,000 while domestic traveler at IDR 15,000 and parking levy for vehicle at IDR 5,000. Later, the revenue would be distributed based on percentage between the government and the farmers and customary villagers. “We at customary village with chief of subak organization managing the seven subak groups have commitment to establish a tourist attraction management for the tourist attraction, not for the world cultural heritage. In other words, our
management is specifically handling the tourist attraction of Jatiluwih,” he said. After the inclusion by the UNESCO in June 2012, he said there had been attention from the government such as the mass issuance of land ownership certificate. Besides, he also hoped that more attention could be given such as the subsidy for fertilizer and rice seed to ease the burden of farmers. “With the heritage status, the subak members are automatically given a tough task to maintain and preserve it. In other words, I expect the concern of the government can be made through generations so that the world cultural heritage can be sustainably maintained,” he said. Related to the obstacle of parking area, Nengah Kartika said that local government was still developing and making socialization. “Public Works Agency and the Regional Development Planning Board have surveyed the land for the parking lot. Unfortunately, the land targeted has
not got any response yet from the owner,” he explained. Meanwhile, the secretary to Subak Jatiluwih Chief, Semarajaya, said there had been an effort from local government to preserve the sustainability of Jatiluwih after the inclusion into the world cultural heritage, where a number of irrigation channels of the local subak areas had been repaired. “Yeah, at least 60 percent of the irrigation channels have been repaired although they were not maximal,” he said. When asked about the presence of investors having been glancing at Jatiluwih, the man nicknamed Krisna said that to his knowledge there had been investors targeting the upper land (plantation—Ed). “Indeed, the upper land is often targeted by investors, but will not be converted. It is an internal agreement of subak organization set forth in the convention (prarem). Though it has been bargained at tempting price, I have confidence that almost all the farmers at Jatiluwih have committed
to preserve the existing nature. As evidence, no farmers are selling their land,” he said. He also said that the commitment to maintain the agricultural land in the region of Jatiluwih tourist attraction was very strong. After the inclusion into the world cultural heritage, the land of subak organization cultivated by 395 farmers and spreading across 303 hectares of land divided into 7 subgroup areas had been designated as sustainable agricultural land. In other words, farmers were prohibited from selling their land or building in the area. At the moment, he added the Jatiluwih tourist attraction had not owned a governing body that was responsible for managing the ticketing and trekking, not for preserving the subak. “The existing governing body only handles the ticketing and trekking affairs, not preserve the Subak Jatiluwih. Actually the subak has a number of constraints such as in the matter of productive economy and so on,” he added. (kmb28)
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Bali News Forest fire on Mount Agung
Four hot spots, people at standby Bali Post
AMLAPURA - In dry this season, the protected forests on Mount Agung have started to be on fire. Secretary of the Karangasem Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ketut Prama Budarta, said on Sunday (Sep 7) in Karangasem that from the observation last Sunday, the fire burned the forests at four points.
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The fire is seen on the slope of Mount Agung last year. Now, the similar condition is faced by the locals in the area.
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Related to that issue, the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency team involved the military and police personnel from the Kubu Military Regional Command and Kubu Police Headquarters to climb and approach the fire. He said that currently the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency had set standby status. The team would come to the scene to extinguish the fire whenever the fire emerged to burn the forests. Related to the four hot spots near the mountain top, they were estimated to be in the west or at Juntal hamlet and west of Dukuh village, Kubu. From the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency station at Karangsokong, the hotspots were only seen like the puff of smoke. “Our team climbing from the morning has arrived at the scene at noon and managed to extinguish the fires,” he said. He said though the fires could be con-
trolled temporarily, there was possibility if they would rise again, either from the residual embers of the previous fire or the new fire source. The team faced difficulty to control and localize the flames because the area was hard to reach out to extinguish the entire flames. Prama said the forest fires on Mount Agung routinely occurred almost every dry season in October. By and large, the forest fires ranged from August to December. The source of fire was not known for sure. Allegedly, it was kindled by the habit of farmers near or at the foot of the slopes of the mountain that usually burned leaf or trashes either of the tree or grass reeds to quickly clean up their land. Afterwards, the fires spread to dry land area amidst the hot weather and the wind continuously blowing in the mountain caused the flames to quickly spread.
Protected forests on the Mount Agung were prone to fire and it almost happened every year during dry season at the most barren area, namely in the northern part of Ban village, eastern slopes, above Dukuh village, west of Tulamben village, above Datah village to the southeast area above Tanah Aron. Last year, the most severe and extensive fires burned out hundreds of hectares of local forests. Since the forests were burned almost every year during dry season, they consequently could not grow densely. Conversely, the shrubs and grasses or reeds could grow rapidly and flourishingly after the fires. A number of shrubs and grasses like reeds on Dausa Hill at Padangkerta village had grown flourishingly. Last month, the reeds on the hills were seen to have been partially set on fire to clear up the land. (013)
Dozens of hectares of paddy plants damaged
AMLAPURA - Paddy plants of six weeks old at Subak Gatep, Subak Setra, Subak Dalem and Subak Ageng were in damaged condition. Leaves of paddy plants at the subak area located at Budakeling village, Bebandem were turning red and the stems rotted. Such damage was caused by the attack of mouse, leafhoppers and caterpillars. A farmer at Subak Setra, I Ketut Candiasa, 45, revealed that the incident was the third time experienced by farmers in the four subak areas. He explained the three pests attacked his paddy plants simultaneously, namely mouse, planthoppers and caterpillar. “We have taken any efforts to cope with the pests until we run out of money. Unfortunately, the pest never recedes,” he said. After overcoming the planthoppers by spraying pesticides, the caterpillars and mouse even came and attacked more fe-
rociously. Mice attacked and devoured the rice stems, so that they instantly rotted and died. “It is very difficult for us to overcome the mouse attack because it cannot be expelled by spraying pesticides,” he said. The customary villagers and subak members had actually held ceremonies of nangluk merana or pest prevention, but so far the mouse attack remained ferocious. In addition to mouse attack, the difficulty to get irrigation water also aggravated the condition. As a result, all the paddy plants were damaged and yellowed due to lacking of water. These conditions had occurred since the past three years, primarily during dry season as happened today. “Similarly, we have difficulty to get water so that our paddy plants are shortage of water,” he complained. All this time, he admitted to get once help from the government, namely in the form of rice seedlings known as Cigeulis
variety. Unluckily, this variety was not free from pest attack. Another problem faced by farmers at the four subak areas was the high price of fertilizer and the high operating cost, including the purchase of pesticides for insect repellent. “The yield of our harvest crop is incomparable to the operating and production cost, reaching IDR 1.2 million. When on sale, the price of our harvest crop does not reach such amount,” he said. Farmers expected there would be assistance from the government to help farmers cope with the threat of food shortages due to the crop failure. Another farmer from Subak Gatep, I Nengah Darma, also complained about the difficulty in getting water for irrigation. “We also face difficulty to get water because of the drought. As consequence, many farmers at Subak Gatep are forced not to plant rice and prefer to plant peanuts,” he concluded. (dwa)
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InterContinental Bali Resort wins Seven Star Global Luxury Award
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JIMBARAN - InterContinental Bali Resort is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Signum Virtutis – the seal of excellence by The Seven Star Global Luxury Awards 2014. Known as “The award for the pinnacle in hospitality and lifestyle,” the Signum Virtutis honours the finest in the industry. This is a very exclusive club and it will remain this way as only the most prestigious are awarded. With the voting done by both guests and industry professionals, the award ceremony took place on 14th June 2014 in Malaysia. InterContinental Bali’s exceptional standard of luxury and excellence is showcased in its 417 splendid rooms, suites and villas, crowned with the elite Club InterContinental. Club guests benefit from anexclusive array of privileges and entitlements including a 24-hour bespoke butler service, exclusive access to the private Club Pool, use of the Inspiration Space, plus round the clock access
to Club InterContinental Lounge. More top ofthe line family facilities at InterContinental Bali Resort include six pools, Spa Uluwatu, a fitness centre and Planet Trekkers – a dedicated mini resort for young guests aged 4-12 years, as well as a wide and exciting range of activities. Additionally, the sheer size of the Resort lends itself as an outstanding venue for meetings, events and weddings, while culinary distinction abounds with superb ?choice of restaurants, bars and dining experiences. The Resort rests in 14 hectares of tropical gardens and is blessed with a spectacular stretch of white sand beach overlooking the tranquil waters of Jimbaran Bay. Designed with sensitivity towards the surrounding environment, Intercontinental Bali Resort pays respect to the island’s rich culture, fine artistry and Hindu heritage. General Manager, Mr. Michel Chertouh said, “Winning such a prestigious award is a great testament to our reputation of being one of Bali’s most luxurious family resort.”
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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014 9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap Besakih Pura Dangkahyangan Tabanan Pura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem 13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi Pura Taman Limut Mas Ubud
The farmer of Subak Gatep in Karangasem Regency shows his damage crop.
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14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri 19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan Buleleng Pura Gunung Pengsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Tengah Tegalalang Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan Tabanan Pira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan Denpasar Pura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala Besakih Pura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Batu Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Dalem Guliang Bangli Pura Pasek Dangka Guwang Sukawati Pura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel
Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem 20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana Pura Batu Bolong Canggu Kuta Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Negara Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede Tabanan Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng Pura Srijong Tabanan Pura Pucak Mundi Nusa Penida Pura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod Gianyar Pura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud 21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng 3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang 9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTB Pura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu Karangasem Pura Padharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Batur Kintamani Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar 10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli
13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bhatara Ratu Gede Celuk Gianyar Pura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Sesetan Denpasar Bhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klungkung Pura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Gianyar Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa Penida Pura Jati Ubud Gianyar Pura Melanting Ubud Gianyar Pura Dalem Ped Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Karangasem 19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri 23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara
Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc. The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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TORONTO - The code-breaking machine that may have cut World War II by two years and saved millions of lives was invented by British mathematician Alan Turing, a prickly genius and unlikely war hero unknown to most of the world. That might be because his work to crack Germany’s Enigma code remained classified for decades. But also, Turing met a tragic end following the war, taking his own life at 41 after he was convicted for being homosexual and sentenced to chemical castration. The star power of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and his new film “The Imitation Game” could bring Turing’s triumph and tragedy to a broad audience beyond Britain, where Queen Elizabeth recently pardoned the man who inspired the modern computer with his “Turing machine.” “The Imitation Game” is one of the most anticipated films at the Toronto
Film Festival, where it will screen on Tuesday, and has earned praise and early awards buzz after distributor The Weinstein Co. gave a sneak peek at the Telluride Film Festival. Cumberbatch, one of the most sought-after actors in film and television, gave an immediate “yes” to playing Turing. “There is a huge burden, an onus of responsibility,” Cumberbatch told Reuters on Sunday. “This was an extraordinary man and sadly, bizarrely not that well known a man of his achievements.” His Turing is terribly awkward and annoying, and when forced by the British government to work with a team of code-breakers, the lone genius is dismis-
sive. When he doesn’t get the backing for his machine, he sends a letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who grants him his wishes. For director Morten Tyldum, Cumberbatch “has that incredible screen charisma,” adding “you can hold on to his face and you feel he has a million things going on through his eyes.” Keira Knightley plays mathematician Joan Clarke, who as the lone woman on the team bonds with Turing and becomes his fiance, although he later tells her he is gay. Cumberbatch said the humor is true to Turing, whose niece relayed that “he was very funny in a very dry English way” and could joke about the forced estrogen injections of his sentence. The humor also lightens the mood for a team tasked with the impossible, breaking through the millions of combinations to crack the German code while the war rages.
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Denzel Washington explores his craft in Toronto Agence France-Presse
TORONTO - Easing into filming, becoming too emotionally involved in a role, and the pros and cons of playing a fictional versus real person -- acclaimed American actor Denzel Washington shared Sunday how he approaches acting. Oscar-winner Washington was at the Toronto film festival for the premiere of “The Equalizer,” director Antoine Fuqua’s adaptation of the 1980s television series that starred Edward Woodward. The film about a loner who dispenses justice from the barrel of a gun also stars Marton Csokas (“The Amazing Spiderman 2”) and Chloe Grace Moretz (“Kick-Ass”). Moretz is in two other Toronto film festival premieres this week: “Clouds of Sils Maria,” and “Laggies.” At a press conference, the cast and crew shared insights about their métier, their successes and missed opportunities. Washington last collaborated with Fuqua on “Training Day,” which premiered in Toronto and went on to earn Washington a best actor Oscar in 2001 for his performance as a rogue cop in Los Angeles. A brief telephone exchange in which Washington told Fuqua, “This is Robert McCall (the lead character in the film) calling,” set the stage for a reunion. Washington spent the first day of filming “The Equalizer” folding napkins over and over for a scene. Fuqua said he got lost in the moment and let it go on to the point that producers had to interrupt and
ask “are you going to (call) cut?” “He was just folding napkins... (but) when I get to sit and watch Denzel up close that way, it’s powerful for me, and it gets me excited,” Fuqua said. Fuqua likened the experience to the soothing rhythm of music. “I started to (feel) that rhythm again.” Washington revealed that he likes to start slowly on new film projects in order to find his footing, “because you’re not sure.” Actors generally, he said, “are real fragile day one, and a director can really crush an actor in the first day” with overly harsh criticisms. Washington recalled how he “made
the mistake” of turning down the lead role for the 1997 dark thriller “Seven,” because he feared it would affect him. “It was just too much when I read it,” he revealed. The role went to Brad Pitt and became a box office smash hit. Fuqua confided that he handed off directing “Prisoners” with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman to Quebec director Denis Villeneuve, because as a parent he felt uncomfortable spending a year on a film about child abduction. That film, which also premiered in Toronto, was nominated at the Academy Awards last year for its cinematography.
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge appear with their baby son, outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, in central London in this file photograph dated July 23, 2013. Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate are expecting their second baby, Buckingham Palace said on September 8, 2014.
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LONDON - Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate are “very pleased” to announce that they are expecting their second child, Kensington Palace said on Monday.
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The prince’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was said to be “delighted” at the news, which comes less than 14 months after the birth of the couple’s first child, Prince
George. Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, is again suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, a form of very acute morning sickness that caused her
to be hospitalised when she was pregnant with George. The duchess, 32, is currently being treated by doctors at the couple’s London home in Kensington Palace, a spokesman said. She was due to attend an official engagement in Oxford on Monday but cancelled because she has morning sickness, the
palace said. “Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their second child,” the statement said. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news.” Prime Minister David Cameron
was among the first to offer his congratulations to the couple, saying he was “delighted by the happy news that they’re expecting another baby”. William and Kate’s first child, George Alexander Louis, was born on July 22, 2013 in London’s St. Mary’s Hospital, weighing eight pounds and six ounces (3.8kg).