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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
‘The Butler’ serves boxoffice success at No. 1 Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is serving up success at the box office. Starring Forest Whitaker as a longtime White House butler and Oprah Winfrey as his boozy wife, the Weinstein Co. biopic debuted in the top spot with $25 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the weekend’s three other major new releases, including the action romp “Kick-Ass 2,” failed to find traction with fans. “We expected to do well, but we didn’t expect to do this well,” said Erik Lomis, president of distribution and home entertainment for Weinstein Co., adding that “The Butler” is the company’s first No. 1 debut since 2009’s “Inglourious Basterds” directed by Quentin Tarantino. Even with a full slate of newcomers, last week’s top movies claimed the second and third spots in the box-office race. The Jason Sudeikis-Jennifer Aniston Warner Bros. comedy, “We’re the Millers,” held onto second place in its second week of release with $17.78 million, while last week’s No. 1, Sony’s “Elysium,” dropped to third with $13.6 million.
“It was tough if you were any other film opening other than ‘The Butler,’” said Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracker Hollywood.com. “Kick-Ass 2,” Universal’s tale of everyday teenagers who dress up as superhero crime-fighters, opened in fourth place with $13.56 million. Open Road’s Steve Jobs biopic, “Jobs,” debuted in seventh place with $6.7 million. And Relativity’s “Paranoia,” which stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth, didn’t crack the top 12. “Maybe it should have been Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Jobs,’” Dergarabedian said. “It would have had a better shot.” Apart from Winfrey’s unmatched marketing
power, “The Butler” also marked the mogul’s return to the big screen for the first time since 1998’s “Beloved.” “She was a significant factor” in the film’s success this weekend, Lomis said. “Her publicity machine really kicked into high gear, and the entire cast, Lee Daniels and Forest Whitaker, they delivered a quality film and a great campaign.” The summer typically belongs to superheroes and big-action fare, which is why Weinstein chose to release “The Butler” now. “It’s different from pretty much everything else in the marketplace,” Lomis said. “That really seemed to help.”
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Malaysian tourist to Bali increasing Antara
DENPASAR - The number of tourists from Malaysia to Bali rose in the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year.
Malaysia has become the fourth largest in number of visitors to Bali from the fifth earlier, said Head of Bali Central Statistic Agency (BPS) I Gede Suarsa. “The number of visitors from Malaysia is larger than those from Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Britain,” Suarsa said.
He said around 92,410 Malaysians visited Bali in the first half of the year, up 11.35 percent from the same period last year. The number made up 6.19 percent of the total number of 1,493,020 foreign visitors to the world famous resort island in the January-June period this year - or an
increase from 6.81 percent. A significant increase was recorded in the number of visitors from 8 of 10 main countries of origin. A decline was recorded only in the number of visitors from South Korea and Britain, Suarsa said.
AP Photo/ The Weinstein Company, Anne Marie Fox, File
This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Oprah Winfrey as Gloria Gaines, left, and Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines in a scene from “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”
Lindsay Lohan vows her troubled past is behind her
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Lindsay Lohan says this time it’s going to be different. In an interview that aired Sunday with Oprah Winfrey, the trouble-prone actress declared that this, her sixth stint in rehab, has put her on a path of recovery.
Lohan said she’s in “a different head space” now and vowed to stay “present and clear-headed and focused.” “I feel whole again,” she told Winfrey, “and I have such a desire to want to keep this feeling and stay this way, and I’m willing to do whatever it takes.” Lohan, 27, completed her latest court-ordered
Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the Mr. Pink Ginseng launch party at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
stay in rehab in July. She must continue therapy into late next year. She acknowledged an addiction to alcohol, which “in the past was a gateway to other things for me,” but she offered no specifics other than cocaine, which she said she has used no more than 15 times. Winfrey asked her what she’s on these days. Lohan replied, “Vitamins.” “You’re not on any prescription drugs?” Winfrey pressed. “No, no,” Lohan insisted, then checked herself: “I take Nexium. Because I have acid reflux.” Clad in a form-fitting orange dress, Lohan said a comfort level with her past chaotic life had fed her much-reported partying and her brushes with the law. But she added that she takes full blame for her mistakes. When Winfrey asked if she can turn her life around this time, Lohan said with no hesitation, “Yeah.” The interview aired as an episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” on the Oprah Winfrey Network, which will spotlight Lohan next year in an eight-part docuseries based on her life. During the hour, an advertisement appeared for Cliffside Malibu, the rehab facility where Lohan was recently residing. That ad boasted of a treatment program so successful, it’s guaranteed. Lohan’s latest film, “The Canyons,” is in limited release.
ANTARA FOTO/ Nyoman Budhiana
A lifeguard watching Kuta Beach’s visitors from his binocular. The number of tourists from Malaysia to Bali rose in the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year.
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Water of Lake Batur polluted by lubricant Bangli (Bali Post)—
Before the overflowing water in Lake Batur recedes, many residents around the lake are complaining about the cleanliness of the lake water. Allegedly, it happened due to rampant suctioning of lake water by pumping machine, causing the color of lake water to start turning black due to lubricant spills. Some pumping machines used to suck the lake water to irrigate plantation are estimated to leak. Jro Mangku Gde Ariana said on Sunday (Aug 18) that polluted condition of Lake Batur was alleged to have been caused by rampant water suction by machine. Many engine pipes were alleged to also damage and caused the scattering lubricant to mix with lake water. Polluted condition of the lake water was clearly visible when the ripples on the lake were small. “When the ripples are small, the water color is highly visible to have mixed with lubricant,” said Jro Gde Mangku Ariana. He added the color change looked very striking because the lubricant compound could not blend with water. To date, there were about 25 pumping machines operating around the Lake Batur. All this time, the water of Lake Batur was widely used for consumption and irrigation of local garden. Other than polluting the lake water, the water pumping machines were also complained because the roars were highly disturbing people, especially those who were saying prayers in the Segara Ulun Danu Temple at Songan. “Surrounding residents and pilgrims absolutely complained about the condition. Moreover, it also pollutes the water of Lake Batur,” he added. He really deplored the current condition of Lake Batur having contaminated and mixed with lubricant. Moreover, the water of Lake Batur was the source of life for people around the lake. Related to the matter, he hoped relevant agencies could immediately find the solutions to the problems of community around the Segara Ulun Danu Temple so the water quality of Lake Batur could be back to normal and free from contamination. (ina)
Home numbering system in Denpasar was very chaotic. It happened because the house numbering along the street in Denpasar was irregular aka ‘jumping.’ By all means, such condition would make people difficult to find out the address of the house owner. The Division Head of Control and Urban Planning in the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP), Dewa Wesnawa Wedagama, revealed the matter on Sunday (Aug 18). A c c o r d i n g t o We s n a w a Wedagama, the chaotic house numbering in Denpasar was inseparable from the role of residents themselves. Each arrangement made to the house numbering, residents often did not want to receive any inputs. Even, some residents
were unwilling if their house numbering was re-arranged for various reasons. “Some people did not want to be given a new house number because the new one does not exactly bring luck (fortune—Ed) and still insist on using the same old number,” he deplored. In order to cope with the chaotic house numbering, he said, his party claimed to constantly make an approach to people. However, some residents still objected to the new house numbering. “Frankly, we encounter obstacles in the field. Our good intention to rearrange the house number was often not responded positively by residents,” he said. He hoped that residents could accept the new house number and there would be no longer objection on the grounds
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that the new number did not bring in luck. He added that even number would be given to houses located in the east side, while odd number to house located in the west side. “We will continue to undertake the new house numbering until the end of 2013. Our target is until November,” he said. He added the current arrangement to house numbering was being implemented at Serangan, South Denpasar. It was carried out based on the result of the Development Planning Meeting (Musrenbang). “We will make the arrangement only based on the results of the Musrenbang. We do not want to come down to the field immediately and perform the house numbering if people are still rejecting,” he affirmed. (kmb13)
drunken youths secured
Denpasar (Bali Post)—
The alertness of police officers on duty at Monang Maning police post, Denpasar, caused two suspected terrorists to be secured, Saturday (Aug 17). They respectively had the initial OJ, 22, living at Kampong Aji Sihu Lingga Medan and AKM, 26, from Kampung Sapta Marga Umayur Garang, Surabaya. After further interrogation, in fact the suspects had nothing to do with terrorist inmates that escaped from Tanjung Gusta Prison. Information gathered at police post on Sunday (Aug 18) mentioned if they were secured when coming into the Monang Maning police post, Denpasar, at 7:30 p.m. They were near the police post and under influence of alcoholic beverages. Well, one of them saw the photos of terrorists and said if one of them looked like his brother. Therefore, they were secured by local officers to be interrogated. Since showing off suspicious gestures,
they were subsequently taken to the Bali Police and underwent further examination in the Sub-directorate of Common Detective Criminal of Bali Police. “Initially, they were suspected in the case on the disappearance of dynamite and escape of hundreds of terrorist inmates from Tanjung Gusta Prison, Medan. However, after further investigation, they had no correlation. Apparently, they were drunk at the time,” said one of the police officers asking his name to be unpublished, Sunday. Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hariadi, when asked for his confirmation justified to have secured them. He said that so far the investigators did not find significant association with any crime and terrorist networks. However, the officials continued to monitor them and increased the alertness. They had been released because of insufficient evidence to arrest them as fugitives from the Tanjung Gusta Prison. (kmb21)
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24 Aug Purnama Sasih Kawulu & Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Desa Adat Sidakarya Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel-Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Pura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti Kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuninng Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling -Sengguan Singapadu Pura Kawitan Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bujangga Waisnawa Tegalcangkring Tabanan Pura Taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang Pura Dadia Pasek Gelgel-Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Banjar Menak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba-Klungkung Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pamerajan Alit Ubud Pura Batur Arya “Warih Kepaon” Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Dalem Majapahit Banjar Denuma Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Dalem batur Bangli Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Desa Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 25 Aug Hari Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar
28 Aug Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Besakih Pura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunugn Agung D u k u h Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi Badung Pemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud 3 Sep Anggarkasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja Tegalalang 4 Sep Tilem Sasih Karo Banjar Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 8 Sep Redite Keliwon Tulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kediri Tabanan 9 Sep Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba kaba
Kediri Tabanan Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin Lembongan Pura Batu Medeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih banjar saba 11 Sep Buda Pon Tulu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampaksiring 12 Sep Wrespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 18 Sep Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Desa Guwang Sukawati Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nanggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 19 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok Pura Kawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar Kubu Karangasem Pura Pedharman Arya Telabah Besakih Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur kintamani Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Salahin Desa Suwat Gianyar 25 Sep Buda Paing Wariga Pura Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli 28 Sep Hari Tumpek Uduh Pura puseh, desa Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Desa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih
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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Silicon Valley keenly awaits latest Lego robot kit
out of them are pretty sophisticated,” says Stanford University engineering professor Christian Gerdes, who uses them in his classroom. Professional hackers will also find plenty to do with the new Mindstorms, as the open source software uses Linux for the first time, and controller apps are integrated for tablets and mobile phones. San Francisco-based software engineer Will Gorman is one of those adult users. He has torn apart Mindstorms kits to create a Lego toilet flusher, a Wii-playing robot that bowled a perfect game and a Lego Mars Curiosity Rover. “I don’t consider myself an adult really,” said the 36-year-old father of two last week, setting up yet another creation on a table in a sunny Redwood City library overlooking San Francisco’s bay wetlands.
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Corby most likely free before the end of year Associated Press
KEROBOKAN — An Australian convicted of drug smuggling in Indonesia should go free before the end of this year after a correctional board approved her parole and reduced her sentence, officials said Saturday.
SAN JOSE, California — Few are more excited about Lego’s new Mindstorms sets rolling out next month than Silicon Valley engineers. who reaches into his bin of plastic blocks when he needs a quick prototype at the Silicon Valley medical robotic firm where he works. The new Mindstorms sets, on sale Sept. 1, are simpler for the younger crowd and more versatile for sophisticated users than two earlier versions. The sets are designed for kids over 10 and make it easy to build basic, remote-controlled robots, including a cobra-like snake that snaps Lego brick fangs. Some shoot balls, others drive along color-coded lines. But for $349, far more expensive than typical building toys, customers get a much more complex and powerful system. “There’s actually a lot of engineering that goes into Lego bricks and the systems you can prototype
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Sentence slashed by 6 months
Associated Press Writer
Many of them were drawn to the tech sector by the flagship kits that came on the market in 1998, introducing computerized movement to the traditional snap-together toy blocks and allowing the young innovators to build their first robots. Now, 15 years later, those robot geeks are entrepreneurs and designers, and the colorful plastic bricks have an outsized influence in their lives. Techies tinker at Lego play stations in workplaces. Engineers mentor competitive Lego League teams. Designers use them to mock up larger projects ideas. And executives stand Lego creations on their desks alongside family photos. “Everyone I work with played with them as children. We sit around talking Lego. It’s a shared common experience,” said Travis Schuh,
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In this Aug. 14, 2013, photo, Saci Marty, 10, watches as her robotic Lego Mindstorms unit gathers cardboard rolls during a Digital Media Academy workshop in Stanford, Calif.
Facebook to test mobile payments service Associated Press Writer
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File
FILE - In this Thursday, April 4, 2013, file photo, Michael Goodwin, Senior Partner for HTC, displays an HTC First cell phone wit the new Facebook mobile interface at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
NEW YORK — Facebook plans to test a mobile payments service that lets users make purchases inside mobile applications using payment information they have added to their account on the social network. Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it is working on a “very small test” and the company says there is no set schedule for making the service available to users. The service would use payment information that shoppers store on Facebook to automatically complete checkout forms of certain mobile apps. Then, the app would process the purchase. Spokeswoman Tera Randall said in an e-mailed statement that Facebook has a “great relationship with PayPal, and this product is simply to test how we can help our app partners provide a more simple commerce experience.” The test, she added, won’t involve moving payment processing “away from an app’s current payments provider, such as PayPal.” Nonetheless, shares of PayPal’s owner, eBay Inc. declined on news of the potential competition. The stock closed down $1.05, or 1.9 percent, at $53.18. Facebook’s stock closed down 9 cents at $36.56. Forrester Research analyst Denee Carrington thinks Facebook will face a challenge in offering mobile payments even though the company has been building up its database of users’ credit cards. “Consumers want safe, seamless and convenient mobile payments and there are a growing number of competitors that consumers trust more — such as PayPal, Visa (V.me) and others,” Carrington said in an e-mailed statement. News of the test was reported earlier by AllThingsD.
The parole recommendation was handed to prison officials Friday and Schapelle Corby could be released from her cell in Kerobokan jail soon after all legal process and supporting documents are completed, said Bali’s corrections board chief Ketut Artha. Corby, 35, was convicted in May 2005 of smuggling 9 pounds (4.2 kilograms) of marijuana onto the resort island of Bali and sentenced to 20 years in prison. In 2010, she asked for clemency, citing her poor mental state and last year, Indonesia’s president reduced her sentence by five years. It means, she has served two thirds of her sentence and was eligible for parole late last year. But complicated bureaucracy and legal processes have been hampering her parole bid, Artha said. He expected Corby to be released before the end of this year to live with her sister in Bali. Her case drew intense interest in Australia, where many people believe she is innocent. “Corby has showed her good behavior while in prison, and villagers
and local village officials are willing to accept her,” Artha told reporters in Bali on the board’s consideration over the parole, “Her family in Bali is ready to guarantee her presence.” He said corrections officers visited the home of Corby’s sister last Tuesday to assess whether it would be a suitable supporting place for her to live. Corby was among 67,349 prisoners across Indonesia whose jail terms were reduced to mark Independence Day, which fell ib Saturday. Of those, 2,197 were freed. For this time alone, Corby had her sentence slashed by 6 months. Another drug convict, Renee Lawrence, also 35, who is serving 20 years in Bali, had her sentence slashed by 6 months. She is one of nine Australians found guilty in April 2005 of attempting to smuggle 8.3 kilograms (18.3 pounds) of heroin. Six were sentenced to death and two others were given life imprisonment. Eleven other foreign inmates there also had their sentence slashed, including two Britons each by 2 months.
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In this March 11, 2008 file photo, Schapelle Corby, an Australian drug smuggling convict, talks to reporters at Kerobokan prison, Bali, Indonesia. Officials say Corby could be released from prison in Indonesia before the end of this year.
Lack of documentation
Many classical dances in Buleleng unknown by young generations
A dancer performed Palawakya Dance.
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APPROXIMATELY in the 1920s through the 1950s, it is believed that many classical dances composed have got good place in the hearts of community. However, since the dances are not well documented, many of them are then not recognized by the generations of young artist. One of them is the Cendrawasih Dance composed in 1930 by the artist Gede Manik. Recently, the dance was performed back by an old artist from Tejakula, Luh Menek, 74. Previously, no one remembered the dance. Finally Luh Menek re-introduced the dance to the community and of Buleleng. The area of Kedis village, Busungbiu subdistrict, had a number of dances depicting the human life and surrounding nature circa 1960s such as the Nelayan Dance and Merpati Dance. Both dances were composed by I Ketut Merdana and Putu Sumiasa. However, people only know the Nelayan Dance, while the Merpati Dance is forgotten and almost never performed in front of the public lately. Discovery efforts were constantly carried out by the artists of Buleleng. As a result, a number of dances previously unknown were then beginning
to be danced by young children such as the Palawakya Dance, Wiranjaya Dance and Kebyar Legong Dance. Yet, the discovery effort was not accompanied by good documentation, either in book or documentary film, so that one day the dances can be forgotten. The Head of Buleleng Development Planning Agency (Bappeda), Gede Suyasa, preparing the Buleleng Festival admitted that many typical art and cultural products of Buleleng such as classical dances and new creation dances were not well documented. To that end, his party would boost the efforts to document the art and cultural products with a number of programs. For example, in relation to the event of Buleleng Festival on August 23-25, his party would publish a book of dances composed by the artists of Buleleng. The collected dances were composed in the 1920s until the 2010s. “This endeavor is carried out as a documenting effort in order that young generation can know the dances ever composed in Buleleng and they can learn and preserve the dances,” he said. (ole)
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Transportation Agency designs motorcycle box Denpasar (Bali Post)—
The officers of Gianyar Regency inspect the condition of Gianyar Market
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Gianyar Public Market chaotic
Traders reluctant to occupy third floor Gianyar (Bali Post)—
Traders of Gianyar Public Market having location on the third floor seem still reluctant to peddle at their location. It happens because the merchandise they sell lacks of buyers. Customers wish everything can be done almost immediately so that they are reluctant to go up to the third floor of the market. Moreover, many traders are selling the same merchandise on their vehicle at the market courtyard as the traders of the third floor. Ultimately, the traders on the third floor go down and equally sell at the market courtyard and sidewalks. As a result, such condition make the Gianyar Public Market look chaotic in the morning. In addition, such chaotic atmosphere is also triggered by a number of traders on vehicle offering their merchandise at the market courtyard. It was revealed when the Market Control Team of Gianyar County made a site inspection, Saturday (Aug 17). The inspection was led by the Second Assistant of the Gianyar Regional Secretary I Ketut Suweta, accompanied by the Head of the Revenue Service I Putu Gede Bhayangkara, the Head of Industry and Trade Agency I Gede Widharma Suharta, the Division Head of Economic Affairs Gede Windia Berata, Chief of Gianyar Public Order Officer I Gde Daging as well as the elements of the Gianyar Development Planning Board (Bappeda) and Gianyar Office of National Unity and Community Protection (Kesbanglinmas). According to the Head of Gianyar Market, Nengah
Nama Artawa, the traders thronging the courtyard of Gianyar Market were basket traders that previously sold on the third floor. They came down because of lacking of visitors and buyers on the third floor. The Second Assistant to Gianyar Regional Secretary, Ketut Suweta, said that based on observation results, the chaotic condition of the Gianyar Market occurred because many traders on vehicle offering their merchandise at the market courtyard, so that it took the space of basket traders. “Shortage of space has caused the basket traders to move to the streets,” he explained. In this case the team appealed to the traders not to peddle their merchandise at the road body. This policy was enforced while waiting for the arrangement in the market. Throughout waiting process, they were allowed to peddle along the sidewalk of Jalan Beratha. Such condition would be arranged to the discipline the traders on vehicle and gradually relocated the basket traders remaining to peddle along the street. Other than the arrangement, the decisive action of the officials against any offenders was also required to resolve the chaotic condition of Gianyar Market, added Suweta. In addition to arranging the traders, it would also be accompanied with the arrangement of parking space around the Gianyar Market. Later on, no visitors would be allowed to park in front of the shopping complex in north side (along Jalan Ngurah Rai), while the parking of car would be routed to space along the Jalan Jata and along the Teger Hamlet Hall eastwards. (kmb16)
The Denpasar Transportation Agency would re-arrange the traffic on Jalan Sudirman to minimize traffic congestion in the area. After establishing a special motorcycle line facility, this time the Denpasar Transportation Agency would design a motorcycle box (RHK) or stopping space for motorcycle. It would complement the bike line specifically intended for two-wheeled vehicle so that it could turn right. The Division Head of Traffic in the Denpasar Transportation Agency, Nyoman Sustiawan, revealed the matter on Sunday (Aug 18). According to Sustiawan, his party would make four motorcycle boxes at the crossroads of Jalan Sudirman. They would be made at the intersection of Jalan Sudirman-Sudarsono, Jalan Sudirman-Jalan Dewi Sartika, Jalan Sudirman-Jalan Serma Mendra and Jalan Sudirman-Jalan Waturenggong. He said the motorcycle box was aimed at prioritizing motorcycle when stopping during the red signal phase. “Like at the intersection of Ubung, motorcycle is given space ahead of queuing traffic. At the red light, motorcycle can go earlier,” he said. He added the motorcycle box was made in order the motorcycles were not around four-wheeled vehicles. It was for the safety of motorcycle riders themselves. “We will secure the motorcycles so that they turn more orderly and the accident can be minimized,” he said. To make the motorcycle box at the four intersections, he said, the Denpasar Municipality allocated a budget of approximately IDR 190 million. However, the execution of the motorcycle box could not be worked on due to obstacle of laborer. “So far, the laborer has not come yet from their homecoming day-off. We are targeting at the end of September the facility construction can have been completed,” he said. Sustiawan affirmed the existence of such motorcycle box would also complement the function of special
bike line that had been made previously. Thus, motorcycles would not need to get into the lane of fourwheeled vehicles to turn right. “This is an innovation of the Denpasar Municipality to anticipate the congestion on the roads and prevent friction between two and four-wheeled vehicles frequently leading to accidents,” he said. Unfortunately, so far the existing specialized motorcycle line was frequently not obeyed by road users. The width of the track was just enough for two motorcycles, even it extended the line of motorcycle whose amount was much more than four-wheeled vehicles. Meanwhile, the special line for four-wheeled vehicle became more vacant with the presence of special line for motorcycle. This led motorists to pass through the lane of four-wheeled vehicles despite breaking the rules. “It’s hard to be overtaken because it’s too narrow. Even, it will be dangerous when motorcycle overtakes at this track,” said Nyoman Karsana, one of the motorists at the site. In response to such comment, Sustiawan said the issue would highly depend on the respective human resource. By complying with traffic signs, the track made would help create the safety of riders. “For the safety of all, we expect the motorists to obey the applicable traffic signs,” he said. (kmb13)
Holy Water at Tanah Lot for Staying Young
Tanah Lot tourist attraction is indeed a fantastic destination. In addition to offering a magnificent sunset sensation, it also exudes a positive aura coming from the temples at the surrounding areas. Even, such an aura penetrates into the very bottom of the heart. Well, another uniqueness kindling the tourist admiration is the fresh water springing in the middle of the ocean. “The holy spring amidst the ocean also serves as a main at-
traction,” said Operations Manager of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Toya Adnyana. Indeed, for tourists actively involving in spiritualism, other than being able to pray in Tanah Lot Temple, they could also make their time to wash their hands and even wash their face. Aside from conducted by the Balinese Hindu community, tourists or visitors of different religions also did it. They believed that by enjoying the holy
water, their mind would be fresh and clear like the crystal clear holy water. “Some people believe if they can wash hand, or even wash their face with the holy water, they will stay young,” he said. Besides, local society also believes if the holy water has a quality to cure various diseases. The holy water itself is also believed to be a blessing of salvation by the communities, including the non-Hindu. Another uniqueness retained
by Tanah Lot is the sacred snake inhabiting the cave below the cliff. Tourists loving animal like best this attraction and they even dare to hold the venomous snake. By all means, they should be guided by the snake charmer who specially takes care of the animal. This animal becomes a very nice attraction to be published. No one knows about the exact number of the snakes because they always change every day.
Well, one thing should be born in mind is that watching the snakes should not get through the afternoon because before the nightfall those snakes will come out and guard the entrance into the Tanah Lot Temple. “Local people believe that those snakes will be in charge of keeping the sanctity of the temple. At that time, no one will dare to go into the temple, even though they will say prayers,” he explained.
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JERUSALEM — Israel is quietly and carefully watching the turmoil in neighboring Egypt while maintaining close contacts with the Egyptian military amid concerns that the escalating crisis could weaken their common battle against Islamic militants in the Sinai Peninsula, officials said. As the week’s death toll in Egypt rises, this alliance has put Israel in a delicate position. Wary of being seen as taking sides in the Egyptian military’s standoff against Islamist supporters of the ousted president, Israel also needs the Egyptian army to maintain quiet along their shared border — and to preserve a historic peace treaty. The 1979 peace treaty, Israel’s first with an Arab country, has been a cornerstone of regional security for three decades. It has allowed Israel to divert resources to volatile fronts with Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. For Egypt, it opened the way to billions of dollars in U.S. military aid. Although diplomatic relations have never been close, the two militaries have had a good working relationship. These ties have only strengthened since longtime President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising two and a half years ago. With both armies battling extremist Jihadi groups in
the Sinai Peninsula, near the Israeli border, Israeli security officials often say that relations with their Egyptian counterparts are stronger than ever. With so much at stake, Israel has remained quiet since the Egyptian military ousted Mubarak’s Islamist successor, Mohammed Morsi, in a coup on July 3. Morsi, who became Egypt’s first democratically elected president, hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group considered the parent organization of militant Palestinian Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip and is a bitter enemy of Israel. Israel has not commented on this week’s bloodshed, in which the Egyptian troops killed hundreds of Morsi’s supporters who were rallying against the coup and demanding that he be reinstated. “Israel does not have to support the (Egyptian) regime, especially not publicly. It is not our place to defend all the measures taken, this is not our business,”
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FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, Egyptian Army soldiers stand guard outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, in the center of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, that was cleared by security forces, in the district of Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
said Giora Eiland, a former chairman of Israel’s National Security Council. At the same time, Eiland sug-
gested that international condemnations of the Egyptian military’s actions have been excessive. He said Israeli and Western interests
are “much closer” to the interests of Egypt’s military leader, Gen. Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi and his secular allies.
British navy arrives in Gibraltar South Korea, US begin amid tension with Spain annual military drills Reuters
Plymouth about a week ago for exercises in the Mediterranean and the Gulf with various allies. GIBRALTAR - British warships arrived in GiGibraltar’s creation of an artificial reef with conbraltar on Monday for scheduled exercises amid crete blocks, which Spanish fishermen say blocks tensions with Spain over fishing around the British their access to certain waters, has prompted Spain Mediterranean enclave. Although British, Spanish to toughen its border checks, leading to long queues and Gibraltarian authorities have said the navy’s for workers and tourists entering Gibraltar. arrival at the British overseas territory is long-schedSpain claims the territory, population just 30,000, uled, some in which it ceded to Spain see it as Britain by treaty provocative. 300 years ago. At about In Monday’s 0800 GMT German Sued(4:00 a.m. EDT) deutsche Zeitung, the frigate HMS Gibraltar Chief We s t m i n s t e r Minister Fabian sailed into the Picardo accused port of Gibraltar the Spanish flanked by two government of smaller ships. creating conflict It was folto distract attenlowed an hour tion from corlater by the auxruption allegailiary ship Lyme tions against the Bay, part of a ruling People’s task force of Party. “In the four warships AP Photo/Laura Leon 19th century, and five other With the rock of Gibraltar in the background, Britain’s Royal Navy gunboats were vessels that left ship HMS Westminster sails along the Gibraltar stretch near to La used to do poliPortsmouth and Linea de la Concepcion, Spain, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. tics,” he said.
Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean and U.S. militaries began annual drills Monday amid signs of easing tension on the divided peninsula, with Pyongyang’s state media shunning typical rhetoric against what they call a rehearsal for an invasion. Earlier this year, the Korean Peninsula saw a spike in tensions, with North Korea vowing nuclear wars during earlier annual springtime U.S.-South Korean military exercises. Pyongyang has since eased its rhetoric and pursued dialogues with Seoul and Washington. The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills that continue until Aug. 30 are computer-simulated war games that involve 30,000 American and 50,000 South Korean troops, according to South Korea’s Defense Ministry and the U.S. military command in Seoul. The allies say the drills are defensive in nature, but Pyongyang has reacted angrily to them in the past, calling the drills a preparation for a pre-emptive attack. But in an
unusual move, North Korean state media have not made any major statements on this year’s exercises so far. “North Korea appears to have determined it’s necessary to take a cool-headed attitude” over the drills to maintain efforts to resume jointly run economic cooperation programs, said analyst Cheong Seong-chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea. The two Koreas last week agreed to work toward reopening a shuttered jointly run factory park, and Pyongyang on Sunday accepted South Korea’s offer for talks on reuniting families separated by war. On Monday, South Korea approved a visit this week by four North Koreans to attend a U.N.-organized youth leadership program. They will be the second group of North Koreans to visit since the new South Korean government of President Park Geun-hye took office in February, according to Park’s Unification Ministry. A women’s soccer team was in South Korea last month to compete in a regional competition.
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A security guard stands at an entrance way of a container terminal in Tokyo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Japan’s Finance Ministry reported Monday a trade deficit of 1.02 trillion yen ($10 billion) for July, almost double a year earlier. Exports jumped 12 percent while imports surged nearly 20 percent.
Energy imports, yen swell Japan trade deficit
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TOKYO — Japan’s trade deficit ballooned in July as the cost of imports surged because of a cheaper yen and energy needs. The Finance Ministry reported Monday a trade deficit of 1.02 trillion yen ($10 billion) for July, almost double a year earlier. Exports jumped 12 percent while imports surged nearly 20 percent. The dollar has risen in recent months, a plus for exports. But that also makes imports more expensive when translated into yen. A l l b u t t w o o f J a p a n ’s 50 nuclear plants have been turned off for safety checks after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster sent three reactors into meltdowns. That
has meant Japan has imported much more oil and gas. Japan, once known for giant trade surpluses, has posted trade deficits for 13 straight months. The trade deficit was the biggest ever for the month of July since comparable records began in 1979, the ministry said. Weakening the yen is a key part of the Japan revival strategy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office last year. Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest, has stagnated for the better part of two decades.
A weak currency is a boon for exports, and is lifting the earnings of some of Japan’s best known companies such as Toyota Motor Corp. Some analysts are questioning how long the momentum from a cheap yen will last without more fundamental reforms in Japan to counter a shrinking population and encourage competition and foreign investment. Japan’s economy grew a slower-than-expected 2.6 percent last quarter. The country’s public debt surpassed the 1 quadrillion yen ($10.4 trillion) mark recently.
SINGAPORE - Singapore will build a new terminal that will double the capacity of Changi Airport in a bid to retain its edge as a regional aviation hub, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday. Construction work will begin soon and will be completed in 12 to 15 years, Lee announced in his annual policy speech. “T5 (Terminal 5) sounds like a terminal, but it is actually a whole airport by itself, as big as today’s Changi Airport,” said Lee. He did not reveal the cost of the new facility, but said it would include a third runway that would double the capacity of Changi, which handled 51.2 million passengers last year. Changi Airport, named the world’s best by Britain-based consultancy Skytrax this year, currently has three terminals with a total capacity of 66 million passengers a year. In February it started to demolish its terminal for budget airlines to replace it with a larger facility. The new facility, Terminal 4, will have the capacity to handle 16 million passengers a year when it opens in 2017. In his speech late Sunday, Lee said there was growing competition from other major international airports in Southeast Asia. He noted that Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport are planning to expand. “The question is do we want to stay this vibrant hub of Southeast Asia, or do we want to let somebody take over our position, our business and our jobs?” Lee said. Passenger traffic at Changi totalled 51.2 million last year, the first time in the airport’s 31-year history that the number of people passing through crossed 50 million. As of January 1, 2013, Changi handled more than 6,500 weekly scheduled flights with 110 airlines connecting Singapore to 240 cities in 60 countries.
Indian economic gloom ‘overplayed’
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NEGARA - Dozens of sailboats flocked the Gilimanuk Bay, Gilimanuk village, Sunday (Aug 18). The simple boats locally known as jukung owned by fishermen were vibrantly decorated with sails of various colors. They participated in a regatta organized by the Gilimanuk village, Jembrana County, in conjunction with the 68th celebration of the Indonesia’s Independence Day. The area denoting an underwater tourist attraction then looked more vibrant with the numerous sailboats lining up. Each sailboat was controlled by two people. Dozens of sailboats competed for the fastest time to arrive at finish line. The route to be traversed was approximately four kilometers across a number of small islands located around the bay. Aside from relying on the power of the wind through the main sail, participants also rowed their sailboat to increase the boat speed. “They passed through the Bird Island and were then back to Water Bee,” said Headman of Gilimanuk, IGN Rai Budhi, amidst the regatta event. The Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha and accompanied by a legislator of the Bali House IB Birawa was present to witness the regatta event at the westernmost village of Jembrana. Rai Budhi further said that a total of 24 boats participated in the race. Even, the event could enliven the bay area that lately lacked of attraction. (kmb26)
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Dozens of sailboats flocked the Gilimanuk Bay, Gilimanuk village, Sunday (Aug 18). The simple boats locally known as jukung owned by fishermen were vibrantly decorated with sails of various colors.
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NEW DELHI - The World Bank’s chief economist said Monday the gloom surrounding India’s economy had been “overplayed” and the country was not in danger of a full-blown crisis. “Growth may not have bottomed out. We have further to go (down), but the situation is not as bad as is being captured by the mood and captured in the headlines,” Kaushik Basu told an audience in New Delhi. Basu, who was an advisor in the Indian finance ministry until September, said the situation was different from 1991, when India had to seek a bail-out from the International Monetary Fund in that is considered a national humiliation. “India is nowhere near the 1991 crisis. The gloom is being overplayed,” he added. His comments came as India’s rupee hit a new low of 62.70 to the dollar and shares slipped another 2.11 percent Monday on growing fears about the economy and the government’s ability to deal with the situation. On Wednesday, in the latest in a series of measures to prop up the rupee, India’s central bank spooked investors when it tightened controls on the amount of money Indian firms and individuals can send abroad. The move has been criticised as a disturbing throwback to the days before India unleashed its economic liberalisation drive in the early 1990s when Indians’ access to foreign exchange was strictly limited.
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The overlay of paddy field at Subak Gadon, Sayan village in Ubud subdistrict now only lives in a memory. Even, based on the recent data in 2013, The subak has absolutely no farmland.
GIANYAR - The overlay of paddy field at Subak Gadon, Sayan village in Ubud subdistrict now only lives in a memory. Even, based on the recent data in 2013, the subak has absolutely no farmland. The entire area has been converted into buildings in the form of tourism facility. Besides, chief of the subak no longer exists because he has died. Extinction of the Subak Gadon also turns interesting. Amidst the recognition obtained by the subak in Bali from the UNESCO, as the world’s preservation agency, the Balinese people even does not preserve its existence. It indicates the failure of the government in maintaining the existence of subak through a number of programs. Disappearance of the subak becoming an intensive discourse on cultural tourism concept in a broader sense has so far been much shifting.
Pursuant to the data obtained on Sunday (Aug 18), the reduction of farmland in 2012 mostly occurred in Ubud. As cultural tourism resort in Gianyar, Ubud experiences the most severe farmland conversion. While overall, the depletion of green space farmland also occurs in several subdistricts in Gianyar County. Conversion of the farmland continues to occur each year. In 2010, the area of farmland reached 14,790 hectares. The number dropped to 14,732 hectares in 2011, so that in 2012 the farmland only remained 14,729 hectares. Aside from the farmland at Ubud area, similar condition also occurs to Subak Gadon and Subak Wahem Paregreg, Singapadu village. Currently, the farmland area only leaves three hectares. Ultimately, the subak was at the verge of extinction. The Head of Gianyar Agriculture and Plantation Agency, I
Gusti Ayu Dewi Hariani, did not deny the progressively decreasing farmland in Gianyar due to land use conversion. Too high land conversion would result in reduction of the agricultural productivity. “To overcome the declining production, it is necessary to intensify of the existing agricultural production,” she explained. She mentioned, in the agricultural program, the government had been providing subsidy, improvement of irrigation and other assistance to lessen the burden of farmers working on their farmland. The efforts to increase the agricultural revenue were undertaken by increasing the production, establishing the centers and empowering the subak. Dewi Hariani also explained the high farmland conversion happened based on the people’s willingness and it was their property right so that her party could not ban it. (kmb16)
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Filipino men struggle to cross strong currents as floodwaters rise at a residential area in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines Monday, Aug. 19, 2013.
Torrential rains shut down Philippine capital
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MANILA, Philippines — Torrential rains brought the Philippine capital to a standstill Monday, submerging some areas in waist-deep floodwaters and making streets impassable to vehicles while thousands of people across coastal and mountainous northern regions fled to emergency shelters. The national disaster agency and local officials reported at least two dead and several missing. Schools, offices, the stock exchange, courts and embassies were closed as the weather bureau placed metropolitan Manila — a sprawling area of 12 million people — under red alert. The flooding following a night of heavy rains brought by the monsoon, which was enhanced by Tropical Storm Trami. It hovered over the North Philippine Sea and drenched the main northern island of Luzon with up to 30 millimeters (just over an inch) of rain per hour. TV footage showed residents trapped on rooftops as raging floodwaters swept through Binan town on Lake Laguna, near Manila. Flooding has become more frequent in Manila because of de-
forestation of mountains, clogged waterways and canals where large squatter communities live and poor urban planning. In the chilly northern mountain town of Sagada, army troops and police rescued 29 tourists, including 13 Japanese, who were stranded for several hours inside a cave after two days of heavy rains caused a stream at the entrance to swell, Office of Civil Defense official Andrew Alex Uy said. One Filipino tourist remained missing. Several dams in Luzon were forced to open flood gates because of rising waters and thousands of residents downstream were told to move. A landslide and floods shut down traffic on a major highway leading out of Manila. In the
outlying provinces of Cavite, Batangas and Ilocos Norte father north, local authorities said flash floods forced thousands to take refuge in schools and other sturdy buildings. Waters started receding in some parts of Manila and neighboring areas Monday afternoon and roads were reopening. Forecasters said the storm was expected to strengthen into a typhoon with winds of up to 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour as it slowly moves away from the Philippines, passing just south of Japan’s Okinawa by Wednesday. The Philippine archipelago is among the most battered by typhoons and storms in the world. About 20 tropical cyclones hit the country every year.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — As the U.S. renews its effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, it will soon begin reconsidering the fate of prisoners such as Mohammed al-Shimrani. The 38-year-old Saudi is in a special category among the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo — one of nearly 50 men who a government task force decided were too dangerous to release but who can’t be prosecuted, in some cases, because proceedings could reveal sensitive information. While the rest of the prisoners have been cleared for eventual release, transfer or prosecution, al-Shimrani and the others can only guess at their fate. “The allegations against my client are no more serious than many, many Saudis who have been sent home,” New York-based attorney Martha Rayner said of al-Shimrani. “It just baffles me.” The Pentagon says the men in the indefinite detention category are held under international laws of war until the “end of hostilities,” whenever that may be. As a group, they are one of the chief hurdles to President Barack Obama’s attempts to close the detention center on the U.S. base in Cuba. For the most part, they have been accused of being al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, couriers and recruiters. After more than a decade, their lawyers say it’s time to let them go. Their lawyers recently began receiving notifications that intelligence officials from “various U.S. government agencies” would begin reviewing the detention of their clients to determine whether it was still necessary to hold them. A Defense Department spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Todd Breasseale, said the date for the first hearing hasn’t been set. Details of how the panels will be conducted, whether, for example, lawyers for the men will be allowed to be present or can only appear by videoconference, have not been disclosed. Rayner, a professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York, said she is hopeful because her client has family to receive him back in Saudi Arabia, and a government capable of providing any security assurances the U.S. might need. “I am going into this with an open mind,” she said.
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Plain-clothed police officers, fire fighters and curious onlookers stand outside Labuhan Ruku prison that was set ablaze during a riot in Batubara, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013. The riot began Sunday afternoon after a group of inmates who were transferred from other prisons staged a protest due to the overcrowding. Reports sayabout 30 inmates had escaped by climbing a prison wall.
Hunt for escapees after prison jailbreak
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican children troop back into their classrooms Monday, and they’re going to have a quick lesson: Not just school kids make mistakes. Their brand new textbooks have the kinds of errors that they are supposed to be learning not to make — words written with a “c’’ instead of an “s,” too many commas, not enough accents and at least one city located in the wrong state. The foul-up is shaping up as a national embarrassment in the midst of a planned government overhaul of Mexico’s much criticized school system. Teachers are getting a sheet to try to manually correct at least 117 mistakes that the Education Department has acknowledged it found only after 235 million elementary textbooks were being printed. “It’s unfortunate these things happen with the children’s textbooks,” said Consuelo Mendoza, president of the national parent teachers association. “We are talking about the education of millions of children.” Education Secretary Emilio Chuayffet has called the errors “unforgivable,” but is asking for the public’s understanding. He blames Mexico’s previous administration for the stumble. He says he was faced with the predicament of choosing between stopping the printing of flawed textbooks so they could be corrected and making sure the country’s 26 million school children had textbooks at the start of classes. Earlier this month, Chuayffet pledged to investigate to find out who was responsible. He also gave the Mexican Academy of Language the task of reviewing the textbooks so future editions won’t have the errors. “How are we going to nurture minds with grammatical mistakes?” he said when he signed an agreement with the academy. While Chuayffet has called the slipups inexcusable, his department has been less than transparent about the problem, failing to release the list of the errors to the public or even to the language academy members. The news blog Animal Politico did an independent review and found that words are misspelled in the Spanish textbook and accents forgotten or misplaced. A geography text wrongly puts the Caribbean resort city of Tulum in the state of Yucatan instead of Quintana Roo, it said.
LABUHAN RUKU - Indonesian security forces Monday hunted for a group of inmates who escaped from an overcrowded jail on Sumatra island, in the latest breakout to hit the country’s decrepit prison system. Prisoners rampaged through Labuhan Ruku jail on Sunday, setting fire to the building and attacking wardens, angered at a failure to give them sentence reductions and their treatment. Thirty prisoners managed to escape but authorities had recaptured 23 by 1:30 pm (0630 GMT), said national police spokesman Ronny Sompie. “Seven inmates have still not returned,” he added. Police and soldiers regained control of the prison in Batubara district overnight after firing tear gas and warning shots into the air, said district chief J.P. Sinaga. The prison had been almost three times over its capacity of 300 inmates when the violence erupted. Officials did not know what offences the escapees had committed although Labuhan Ruku is not a high-security jail and was unlikely to be holding serious offenders, such as terrorism convicts. Following two jailbreaks in Indonesia in July, Interpol issued an
alert saying it suspected Al-Qaeda involvement in those breakouts and other escapes that occurred around the same time in different countries. However, Indonesian officials have played down the possibility of links between the jailbreaks and the terror network. Anti-terror agency head Ansyaad Mbai said he did not suspect Al-Qaeda involvement in Sunday’s escape. “We see no indications of Al-Qaeda links,” he told AFP. Around 350 police were guarding the roads around the prison complex, parts of which were fireblackened and badly damaged, an AFP reporter at the scene said. Inmates had been moved to a church and a mosque within the complex. A prison guard sustained minor facial injuries in the unrest but there were no other injuries, said Budi Sulaksana, head of the government’s justice and human rights office in North Sumatra province.
The violence flared when some inmates became angry that they were not given sentence cuts on Saturday, Indonesian Independence Day, when convicts are traditionally given remissions. “Around 80 inmates protested because they did not get remissions,” Taufik, a prisoner held in Labuhan Ruku who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP. “We were also unhappy that we were treated badly by the guards, they put us in tiny isolation cells for the smallest offences and chained us up,” added the inmate, who is being held for drug offences. Sunday’s breakout followed the two in July from Indonesia’s prisons, which are generally grim and overcrowded. In the first, some 150 prisoners, including terror convicts, escaped from a jail in Medan, also on Sumatra. Days later 11 prisoners, all serving time for drug offences, escaped from a jail on Batam island, part of the Riau Islands chain south of Singapore.
ANTARA - Bank Indonesia said the country succeeded in cutting its balance of payment deficit to US$2.5 billion in the second quarter of this year from US%6.6 billion in the previous quarter. Bank Indonesia Governor Agus Martowardojo attributed the decline to effective fiscal policies adopted by the central bank and the government. “The policy succeeded in reducing the impact of the global financial woes on the country’s balance of payments,” Agus said in a news release issued here on Monday. Agus said surplus which was recorded again in capital and financial account after a big deficit in the previous quarter, resulted in significant decline in the balance of payment deficit. On the other hand, normally the current account deficit rose in the second quarter compared with the previous quarter. In line with the deficit in the balance of payments, the country’s foreign exchange reserves fell to US$98.1 billion by the end of June after reaching more than US$110 billion several months earlier. The shrinking foreign exchange reserves, however, are still enough to finance imports and service the government’s foreign debts for 5.1 months or still well above the international adequacy standard. Seasonal factor and falling prices of export commodities contributed to widening the current account deficit from US$5.8 billion or 2.6 percent of the country’s GDP in the first quarter to US$9.8 billion in the second quarter or 4.4 percent of the GDP. The surge in the current account deficit was attributable to shrinking surplus in trade of commodities outside oil and gas and widening deficit in services and income accounts. The surplus in trade of non oil/gas commodities shrank on a surge in imports especially imports of industrial basic materials and consumer goods. Increase in domestic consumption has been normal in the second quarter compared with the first quarter every year. Earning from the exports of commodities outside oil and gas has declined on falling price of major export commodities as a result of the Chinese and Indian slowdown. Deficit in service account widened on increase in payment for the transport of growing import goods, and growing number of Indonesians traveling abroad in school holidays. Deficit also widened in income account with the payments of interest on foreign debts and transfer of proceeds by foreign investors. Meanwhile, deficit has continued in oil and gas trade although declining compared with the first quarter. In a bid to ward off the impact of the global financial turbulence , Bank Indonesia and the government have adopted fiscal policy and strategy which succeeded in creating surplus reaching US$8.2 billion in capital and financial account in the second quarter after a deficit of US$300 million in the first quarter. The improvement in performance was partly attributable to growing inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). “This indicates strong confidence of foreign investors in the fundamental condition and Indonesian economic prospects,” Agus said. In addition, significant surplus was still recorded in foreign portfolio investment despite a surge in capital outflows in June 2013 after the US plan to stop relaxation of its monetary policy. The improvement in the capital and financial account was also attributable to steps taken by the central bank keeping inflation under control by raising the FASBI (one week overnight rate given to commercial banks) and Bank Indonesia benchmark interest rate (BI Rate), steps by the government in issuing foreign exchange bonds as a source of financing fiscal deficit and an increase in corporate foreign exchange bonds, as well as surpluses in other investment especially in the form of withdrawal of savings abroad by domestic banks.
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Nadal, Azarenka win 1st titles in Cincinnati
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CINCINNATI - Rafael Nadal extended his sizzling summer with his first Cincinnati title Sunday, while No. 1 Serena Williams wilted just one set away from a breakthrough of her own. Nadal took advantage of the few openings he got against John Isner, grinding out a 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3) win at the Western & Southern Open that added yet another title to his sensa-
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Turtle Breeding at Deluang Sari
IBP Deluang Sari, a little delta overgrown by mangrove forests with coastal white sand and calm waves, is situated overlooking the sea recreation center of Benoa Harbor. Since it has an intact ecological system,
clean beaches and lush mangrove forests, this place was then developed for breeding sea turtles. At low tide, we can get there on foot in the sidelines of the mangrove trees of Tanjung Benoa, while at high tides we have to cross by boat from Benoa Harbor for about 10 minutes. Aside
from seeing turtle breeding, visitors coming here can also see different types of fighting cocks, animals and wild birds as well as a small temple, As a tourist destination, this small island has also been equipped with restaurants, souvenir shops and animal attractions. IBP/File Photo
Rafael Nadal, from Span, holds the championship trophy after defeating John Isner 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3) to win the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, in Mason, Ohio.
tional summer. The 27-year-old Spaniard won the championship in Montreal a week ago and has back-to-back hard-court championships for the first time in his illustrious career. He’d never even reached the finals in Cincinnati. When his backhand down the line finished it off, Nadal flopped on his back and screamed. “It means a lot winning two straight titles on hard (courts),” Nadal said. “It’s just amazing for me. I never did something like this in my career. “So
it was an emotional moment.” Williams had never won a Cincinnati title either. Like Nadal, she was trying for her second championship in two weeks, fresh off her championship in Toronto. She dominated the first set, then fell apart, giving No. 2 Victoria Azarenka a chance to rally for a 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6) win that ended Williams’ 14-match winning streak. Williams committed 58 unforced errors that turned the momentum. “I just felt really off this whole week, but I was surprised to be in the final and surprised to be doing well,” Williams said. “So I don’t know, there’s a few factors. I think what matters most was just fighting the whole time and survived to the end.”
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MOSCOW - Usain Bolt stumbled on the track, even almost fell down. Don’t worry, everybody, it wasn’t in the race. No, this neartumble happened in the middle of his celebratory dance, when a barefooted Bolt hammed it up after winning a third gold medal on the last day of the world championships. He even tossed his spikes into the crowd. And why not? He certainly didn’t need them anymore. His work was finished. In the very last race of the championships Sunday, Bolt grabbed the gold-colored baton for his anchor leg of the 4x100-meter relay and churned toward the finish line, huffing and puffing to generate more speed. Not that he needed it. Justin Gatlin couldn’t catch him. The rest of the field couldn’t catch him, either. Very few can catch him - he’s simply in a class by himself. “For me, my aim is to continue hard (toward) the greatness thing,” said Bolt, whose team finished in a world-leading time of 37.36 seconds. “Continue dominating.” Oh, he did that all right, winning gold in the 100, gold in the 200 and even more gold in the relay. With that, Bolt became the most decorated athlete in world championship history with eight golds and two silvers, moving past Carl Lewis (8 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze) and Michael Johnson (8 golds).
Sunday’s Indianapolis MotoGP ended in dramatic fashion for Ducati with Nicky Hayden and team-mate Andrea Dovizioso clashing at the final turn. Hayden had made a last-gasp lunge to retake eighth, but ended up bumping Dovizioso and sending them both wide and over the kerbing at the exit of the corner Bradley Smith then took advantage to accelerate past both Desmosedicis on the run to the finish line, leaving Hayden ninth and Dovizioso tenth. Hayden had been on the receiving end of contact with Dovizioso during the previous Laguna Seca race, but insisted there was no payback involved and that the clash was unintentional. Both Hayden and Dovizioso were called before Race Direction, with no action taken. “We went back and forth a lot,
and then in the last corner on the last lap, we had contact, which was my fault,” said Hayden. “When the door started to close, I was already committed and didn’t want him to take out my front wheel. Unfortunately, Smith still beat us to the line. “They [Race Direction] just wanted to review the last-corner incident between me and Dovi, any time there is contact,” Hayden added. “It was racin’ on the slowest corner on the track, so there is no deal between Dovi and me. No problem at all - just racin’.” Dovizioso wasn’t impressed with the move, but agreed it was a racing incident. “I was able to pass Nicky back on the final lap, but in the last corner, he wanted to get by me at any cost, using a really aggressive manoeuvre,” said the Italian.
“I didn’t expect it because I hadn’t left the door open. Nicky came beside me and we touched, and it certainly wasn’t a safe move, but we can say it was a racing incident. “We were called to Race Direction because of course it’s important to talk about these things and immediately clear them up. Honestly, I’m quite annoyed to have lost two positions, and I also wanted to keep Smith behind me. Still, there’s no sense in creating controversy in a situation like this, so for me it’s over.” Indianapolis marked Hayden’s last home race as a factory Ducati rider, with Cal Crutchlow joining Dovizioso at the team in 2014. Hayden would naturally like to end his Ducati career on a high, but the current situation remains bleak.
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Juventus crushes Lazio 4-0 to win Italian Supercup Associated Press Writer
ROME — Juventus won the Italian Supercup for a sixth time on Sunday after humiliating Lazio 4-0 with Carlos Tevez scoring in his first official match with the Italian champions.
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Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, center, holds up the trophy as he celebrates with teammates at the end of the Italian Supercup soccer match between Juventus and Lazio at the Rome Olympic stadium Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013.
The match was marred by racist chanting from the Lazio ultras shortly before fulltime and a warning had to be made over the loudspeaker. There was also trouble in the buildup as two local Juventus fans were stabbed in the backside and had to be taken to hospital. On the pitch, Juventus substitute Paul Pogba scored in the 23rd minute, less than three minutes after coming on for the injured Claudio Marchisio. Giorgio Chiellini and Stephan Lichtsteiner extended Juventus’ advantage early in the second half before Tevez’s 56th-minute strike. Juventus is level with AC Milan as having won the season’s traditional curtain-raiser between the league champion and the Italian Cup winner the most times. The ease with which Juventus tore Lazio apart in its own stadium will be a warning sign to the rest of Serie A. Antonio Conte’s team is already favorite to win the league for a third consecutive time. “I knew that we would face the match with the right attitude, and I am happy to have brought home for the second consecutive year the double of the title and the Supercup,” Conte said. “It was a deserved victory. “It’ all credit to these lads. I knew they would have the right attitude and that’s how it was. It will be a difficult year, we have to start fully charged as we did today, playing with our head and with desire.” The hefty defeat will have come as a shock for Lazio and its fans, still celebrating after beating bitter city rival Roma to lift the Italian Cup in May. “We collapsed after the second goal and we were a bit naive, while Juve was clinical,” Lazio coach Vladimir Petkovic said. “But until the second goal, they didn’t create much. “They deserved it, now we have to return with our feet on
the ground after winning the final against Roma. We have to examine our conscience, realize our errors and start again from zero.” There was an early blow for Juventus as a visibly frustrated Marchisio limped off with a knee injury in the 20th minute. It took replacement Pogba only 2 minutes, 35 seconds to put Juventus in front following a well-worked free kick. Specialist Andrea Pirlo was expected to have an attempt on goal but instead rolled it to Lichtsteiner and his cross was deflected by Stefan Radu into the path of Pogba, who swivelled and fired into the bottom left corner. Radu almost leveled 10 minutes later but Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon pulled off a fantastic save to fingertip the ball away to safety with his trailing hand. Juventus doubled its lead seven minutes after the break, with Chiellini tapping in Lichtsteiner ’s cross after a swift counterattack. Having made the two goals, Lichtsteiner — who was signed from Lazio in 2011 — found the net himself two minutes later, racing through the Lazio defense before firing into the bottom right corner. Juventus was running rampant and scored a fourth shortly after as Tevez opened his account following his offseason move from Manchester City. Lichtsteiner was again involved. His effort was acrobatically parried by goalkeeper Federico Marchetti, who reacted immediately to then save Pogba’s header. But the ball rebounded back to the Frenchman, who cut it back for Tevez to drill into the bottom left corner. Lazio went close to reducing the deficit in the 75th minute. Miroslav Klose easily beat Leonardo Bonucci to race clear on goal but Buffon did well to parry with his legs.
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Messi does it all in Barca romp on Neymar’s debut
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BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi scored two goals and set up another Sunday to help mark the debut of Neymar and Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino in a 7-0 thrashing of Levante, ensuring the Spanish champions start their title defense in style. While Barcelona rolled to victory, Real Madrid needed a late header by new midfielder Francisco “Isco” Alarcon to edge out Real Betis 2-1 at home in the first game with Carlo Ancelotti in charge after three season under Jose Mourinho. Madrid’s lackluster showing will add more pressure on president Florentino Perez to pay the hefty price Tottenham desires for forward Gareth Bale to reinforce its attack. Also, Atletico Madrid forward Diego Costa did his best to erase memories of Radamel Falcao by scoring twice, including a welltaken go-ahead goal off the break in the 79th minute, to lead a 3-1 win at Sevilla. Granada, meanwhile, won 2-1 at Osasuna. With signature signing Neymar watching from the bench, Messi
almost single-handedly dismantled the overmatched Levante. After Alexis Sanchez opened the scoring, Messi claimed Barcelona’s second goal, stole possession to create the third, and passed for Pedro Rodriguez to score the fourth. Messi scored his second goal from the penalty spot before Xavi Hernandez made it 6-0 against the demoralized visitors to equal a club record of goals in a first half. Neymar, who has been recovering from anemia since his €57 million move from Santos in the offseason, went on in the second half in time to see Pedro strike again and polish off the lopsided victory. “We saw great football and great goals in the first half,” said Neymar. “I’m getting better physically, little by little. I hope to be 100 percent soon. We have started well, with a win. That’s the important thing.” The applause Neymar received while warming up grew to a standing ovation when he went on for Alexis in the 64th for his first official minutes in Barcelona’s burgundy and blue. Those eager to see Neymar and Messi together
were disappointed, however. The two were only on together for seven minutes before Martino sent Andres Iniesta on for Messi. The 21-year-old Neymar was active on the left flank but couldn’t find his new teammates with crosses. Goalkeeper Keylor Navas saved his best chance before he was booked for tripping. Martino said that he had agreed with Messi to take him out once the game was resolved, keeping in mind the long season ahead and that the player is coming off a hamstring injury. “Everyone wants to see Neymar and Messi together,” said Martino. “I want his adaptation to be as quick as possible, but without forcing anything. Shortly we’ll see him at his best.” AP Photo/Manu Fernandez
FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, from Argentina, left, reacts after scoring a penalty against Levante during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013.
Monaco beats Montpellier 4-1 in French league
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PARIS — Monaco cruised to a 4-1 victory over 10-man Montpellier in the French league on Sunday following a hat trick from Emmanuel Riviere, while Edinson Cavani scored his first goal for Paris Saint-Germain as the French champion drew 1-1 at home to Ajaccio. Radamel Falcao gave Monaco a deserved lead from the penalty spot in the 18th minute after Lucas Ocampos was fouled by Siaka Tiene. M o n t p e l l i e r, w h i c h d r e w against defending champion PSG last week, leveled six minutes later when Victor Montano AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau
Monaco’s Emmanuel Riviere of France, reacts in front of his teammate Layvin Kurzawa of France, after scoring the second goal against Montpellier during their French League One soccer match, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, in Monaco stadium.
beat Monaco defender Ricardo Carvalho to head in Benjamin Stambouli’s cross. Monaco restored its lead just before halftime when Riviere won the ball off Daniel Congre and chipped the ball over goalkeeper Laurent Pionnier. Riviere doubled his tally in the 57th, and matters got even worse for Montpellier when Congre was sent off six minutes later following a foul on Yannick Ferreira Carrasco. Riviere completed his hat trick nine minutes from time, heading into an empty net after Pionnier had parried Ferreira Carrasco’s deflected shot. Despite being one of the three promoted sides, Monaco is widely expected to be the closest challenger to PSG this season after spending heavily in the offseason. It has won both its opening games, while PSG has drawn both. “It’s perfect at the moment,” Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri said. “Two games, six points. Today was very difficult, against a team which plays very compact. “But Monaco played well, I’m happy. It is important to win but also to play well. I’m happy with
that. Now I want to see how things continue, it won’t be easy.” In Paris, Ajaccio took a shock lead in the ninth minute. Adrian Mutu cut the ball back to Benoit Pedretti, who unleashed a stunning first-time shot into the top right corner. That was Ajaccio’s only shot all match as PSG dominated and had 39 attempts on goal, but it was frustrated by a well-organized defense and outstanding goalkeeping from Guillermo Ochoa. Thiago Silva headed a corner onto the crossbar in the 81st minute, before Cavani — who was signed from Napoli for 64 million euros ($84 million) — leveled five minutes later. Silva again hit the crossbar in stoppage time with a powerful strike, but new PSG coach Laurent Blanc is still without a victory. “It’s football ... we deserved to win,” Cavani said. “We had so many chances. But we will get better little by little. With a bit of work, we will reach our aims. “It’s my first goal and moreover it was a good one. But that doesn’t mean anything really if we don’t win at the end. At least it let us believe we could do it.”
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Juventus crushes Lazio 4-0 to win Italian Supercup Associated Press Writer
ROME — Juventus won the Italian Supercup for a sixth time on Sunday after humiliating Lazio 4-0 with Carlos Tevez scoring in his first official match with the Italian champions.
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Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, center, holds up the trophy as he celebrates with teammates at the end of the Italian Supercup soccer match between Juventus and Lazio at the Rome Olympic stadium Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013.
The match was marred by racist chanting from the Lazio ultras shortly before fulltime and a warning had to be made over the loudspeaker. There was also trouble in the buildup as two local Juventus fans were stabbed in the backside and had to be taken to hospital. On the pitch, Juventus substitute Paul Pogba scored in the 23rd minute, less than three minutes after coming on for the injured Claudio Marchisio. Giorgio Chiellini and Stephan Lichtsteiner extended Juventus’ advantage early in the second half before Tevez’s 56th-minute strike. Juventus is level with AC Milan as having won the season’s traditional curtain-raiser between the league champion and the Italian Cup winner the most times. The ease with which Juventus tore Lazio apart in its own stadium will be a warning sign to the rest of Serie A. Antonio Conte’s team is already favorite to win the league for a third consecutive time. “I knew that we would face the match with the right attitude, and I am happy to have brought home for the second consecutive year the double of the title and the Supercup,” Conte said. “It was a deserved victory. “It’ all credit to these lads. I knew they would have the right attitude and that’s how it was. It will be a difficult year, we have to start fully charged as we did today, playing with our head and with desire.” The hefty defeat will have come as a shock for Lazio and its fans, still celebrating after beating bitter city rival Roma to lift the Italian Cup in May. “We collapsed after the second goal and we were a bit naive, while Juve was clinical,” Lazio coach Vladimir Petkovic said. “But until the second goal, they didn’t create much. “They deserved it, now we have to return with our feet on
the ground after winning the final against Roma. We have to examine our conscience, realize our errors and start again from zero.” There was an early blow for Juventus as a visibly frustrated Marchisio limped off with a knee injury in the 20th minute. It took replacement Pogba only 2 minutes, 35 seconds to put Juventus in front following a well-worked free kick. Specialist Andrea Pirlo was expected to have an attempt on goal but instead rolled it to Lichtsteiner and his cross was deflected by Stefan Radu into the path of Pogba, who swivelled and fired into the bottom left corner. Radu almost leveled 10 minutes later but Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon pulled off a fantastic save to fingertip the ball away to safety with his trailing hand. Juventus doubled its lead seven minutes after the break, with Chiellini tapping in Lichtsteiner ’s cross after a swift counterattack. Having made the two goals, Lichtsteiner — who was signed from Lazio in 2011 — found the net himself two minutes later, racing through the Lazio defense before firing into the bottom right corner. Juventus was running rampant and scored a fourth shortly after as Tevez opened his account following his offseason move from Manchester City. Lichtsteiner was again involved. His effort was acrobatically parried by goalkeeper Federico Marchetti, who reacted immediately to then save Pogba’s header. But the ball rebounded back to the Frenchman, who cut it back for Tevez to drill into the bottom left corner. Lazio went close to reducing the deficit in the 75th minute. Miroslav Klose easily beat Leonardo Bonucci to race clear on goal but Buffon did well to parry with his legs.
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Messi does it all in Barca romp on Neymar’s debut
Associated Press Writer
BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi scored two goals and set up another Sunday to help mark the debut of Neymar and Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino in a 7-0 thrashing of Levante, ensuring the Spanish champions start their title defense in style. While Barcelona rolled to victory, Real Madrid needed a late header by new midfielder Francisco “Isco” Alarcon to edge out Real Betis 2-1 at home in the first game with Carlo Ancelotti in charge after three season under Jose Mourinho. Madrid’s lackluster showing will add more pressure on president Florentino Perez to pay the hefty price Tottenham desires for forward Gareth Bale to reinforce its attack. Also, Atletico Madrid forward Diego Costa did his best to erase memories of Radamel Falcao by scoring twice, including a welltaken go-ahead goal off the break in the 79th minute, to lead a 3-1 win at Sevilla. Granada, meanwhile, won 2-1 at Osasuna. With signature signing Neymar watching from the bench, Messi
almost single-handedly dismantled the overmatched Levante. After Alexis Sanchez opened the scoring, Messi claimed Barcelona’s second goal, stole possession to create the third, and passed for Pedro Rodriguez to score the fourth. Messi scored his second goal from the penalty spot before Xavi Hernandez made it 6-0 against the demoralized visitors to equal a club record of goals in a first half. Neymar, who has been recovering from anemia since his €57 million move from Santos in the offseason, went on in the second half in time to see Pedro strike again and polish off the lopsided victory. “We saw great football and great goals in the first half,” said Neymar. “I’m getting better physically, little by little. I hope to be 100 percent soon. We have started well, with a win. That’s the important thing.” The applause Neymar received while warming up grew to a standing ovation when he went on for Alexis in the 64th for his first official minutes in Barcelona’s burgundy and blue. Those eager to see Neymar and Messi together
were disappointed, however. The two were only on together for seven minutes before Martino sent Andres Iniesta on for Messi. The 21-year-old Neymar was active on the left flank but couldn’t find his new teammates with crosses. Goalkeeper Keylor Navas saved his best chance before he was booked for tripping. Martino said that he had agreed with Messi to take him out once the game was resolved, keeping in mind the long season ahead and that the player is coming off a hamstring injury. “Everyone wants to see Neymar and Messi together,” said Martino. “I want his adaptation to be as quick as possible, but without forcing anything. Shortly we’ll see him at his best.” AP Photo/Manu Fernandez
FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, from Argentina, left, reacts after scoring a penalty against Levante during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013.
Monaco beats Montpellier 4-1 in French league
Associated Press Writer
PARIS — Monaco cruised to a 4-1 victory over 10-man Montpellier in the French league on Sunday following a hat trick from Emmanuel Riviere, while Edinson Cavani scored his first goal for Paris Saint-Germain as the French champion drew 1-1 at home to Ajaccio. Radamel Falcao gave Monaco a deserved lead from the penalty spot in the 18th minute after Lucas Ocampos was fouled by Siaka Tiene. M o n t p e l l i e r, w h i c h d r e w against defending champion PSG last week, leveled six minutes later when Victor Montano AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau
Monaco’s Emmanuel Riviere of France, reacts in front of his teammate Layvin Kurzawa of France, after scoring the second goal against Montpellier during their French League One soccer match, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, in Monaco stadium.
beat Monaco defender Ricardo Carvalho to head in Benjamin Stambouli’s cross. Monaco restored its lead just before halftime when Riviere won the ball off Daniel Congre and chipped the ball over goalkeeper Laurent Pionnier. Riviere doubled his tally in the 57th, and matters got even worse for Montpellier when Congre was sent off six minutes later following a foul on Yannick Ferreira Carrasco. Riviere completed his hat trick nine minutes from time, heading into an empty net after Pionnier had parried Ferreira Carrasco’s deflected shot. Despite being one of the three promoted sides, Monaco is widely expected to be the closest challenger to PSG this season after spending heavily in the offseason. It has won both its opening games, while PSG has drawn both. “It’s perfect at the moment,” Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri said. “Two games, six points. Today was very difficult, against a team which plays very compact. “But Monaco played well, I’m happy. It is important to win but also to play well. I’m happy with
that. Now I want to see how things continue, it won’t be easy.” In Paris, Ajaccio took a shock lead in the ninth minute. Adrian Mutu cut the ball back to Benoit Pedretti, who unleashed a stunning first-time shot into the top right corner. That was Ajaccio’s only shot all match as PSG dominated and had 39 attempts on goal, but it was frustrated by a well-organized defense and outstanding goalkeeping from Guillermo Ochoa. Thiago Silva headed a corner onto the crossbar in the 81st minute, before Cavani — who was signed from Napoli for 64 million euros ($84 million) — leveled five minutes later. Silva again hit the crossbar in stoppage time with a powerful strike, but new PSG coach Laurent Blanc is still without a victory. “It’s football ... we deserved to win,” Cavani said. “We had so many chances. But we will get better little by little. With a bit of work, we will reach our aims. “It’s my first goal and moreover it was a good one. But that doesn’t mean anything really if we don’t win at the end. At least it let us believe we could do it.”
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Nadal, Azarenka win 1st titles in Cincinnati
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CINCINNATI - Rafael Nadal extended his sizzling summer with his first Cincinnati title Sunday, while No. 1 Serena Williams wilted just one set away from a breakthrough of her own. Nadal took advantage of the few openings he got against John Isner, grinding out a 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3) win at the Western & Southern Open that added yet another title to his sensa-
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Turtle Breeding at Deluang Sari
IBP Deluang Sari, a little delta overgrown by mangrove forests with coastal white sand and calm waves, is situated overlooking the sea recreation center of Benoa Harbor. Since it has an intact ecological system,
clean beaches and lush mangrove forests, this place was then developed for breeding sea turtles. At low tide, we can get there on foot in the sidelines of the mangrove trees of Tanjung Benoa, while at high tides we have to cross by boat from Benoa Harbor for about 10 minutes. Aside
from seeing turtle breeding, visitors coming here can also see different types of fighting cocks, animals and wild birds as well as a small temple, As a tourist destination, this small island has also been equipped with restaurants, souvenir shops and animal attractions. IBP/File Photo
Rafael Nadal, from Span, holds the championship trophy after defeating John Isner 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3) to win the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, in Mason, Ohio.
tional summer. The 27-year-old Spaniard won the championship in Montreal a week ago and has back-to-back hard-court championships for the first time in his illustrious career. He’d never even reached the finals in Cincinnati. When his backhand down the line finished it off, Nadal flopped on his back and screamed. “It means a lot winning two straight titles on hard (courts),” Nadal said. “It’s just amazing for me. I never did something like this in my career. “So
it was an emotional moment.” Williams had never won a Cincinnati title either. Like Nadal, she was trying for her second championship in two weeks, fresh off her championship in Toronto. She dominated the first set, then fell apart, giving No. 2 Victoria Azarenka a chance to rally for a 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6) win that ended Williams’ 14-match winning streak. Williams committed 58 unforced errors that turned the momentum. “I just felt really off this whole week, but I was surprised to be in the final and surprised to be doing well,” Williams said. “So I don’t know, there’s a few factors. I think what matters most was just fighting the whole time and survived to the end.”
Bolt finishes Hayden, Dovizioso talk final turn clash worlds with another gold, wins 4x100 Associated Press Writer
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MOSCOW - Usain Bolt stumbled on the track, even almost fell down. Don’t worry, everybody, it wasn’t in the race. No, this neartumble happened in the middle of his celebratory dance, when a barefooted Bolt hammed it up after winning a third gold medal on the last day of the world championships. He even tossed his spikes into the crowd. And why not? He certainly didn’t need them anymore. His work was finished. In the very last race of the championships Sunday, Bolt grabbed the gold-colored baton for his anchor leg of the 4x100-meter relay and churned toward the finish line, huffing and puffing to generate more speed. Not that he needed it. Justin Gatlin couldn’t catch him. The rest of the field couldn’t catch him, either. Very few can catch him - he’s simply in a class by himself. “For me, my aim is to continue hard (toward) the greatness thing,” said Bolt, whose team finished in a world-leading time of 37.36 seconds. “Continue dominating.” Oh, he did that all right, winning gold in the 100, gold in the 200 and even more gold in the relay. With that, Bolt became the most decorated athlete in world championship history with eight golds and two silvers, moving past Carl Lewis (8 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze) and Michael Johnson (8 golds).
Sunday’s Indianapolis MotoGP ended in dramatic fashion for Ducati with Nicky Hayden and team-mate Andrea Dovizioso clashing at the final turn. Hayden had made a last-gasp lunge to retake eighth, but ended up bumping Dovizioso and sending them both wide and over the kerbing at the exit of the corner Bradley Smith then took advantage to accelerate past both Desmosedicis on the run to the finish line, leaving Hayden ninth and Dovizioso tenth. Hayden had been on the receiving end of contact with Dovizioso during the previous Laguna Seca race, but insisted there was no payback involved and that the clash was unintentional. Both Hayden and Dovizioso were called before Race Direction, with no action taken. “We went back and forth a lot,
and then in the last corner on the last lap, we had contact, which was my fault,” said Hayden. “When the door started to close, I was already committed and didn’t want him to take out my front wheel. Unfortunately, Smith still beat us to the line. “They [Race Direction] just wanted to review the last-corner incident between me and Dovi, any time there is contact,” Hayden added. “It was racin’ on the slowest corner on the track, so there is no deal between Dovi and me. No problem at all - just racin’.” Dovizioso wasn’t impressed with the move, but agreed it was a racing incident. “I was able to pass Nicky back on the final lap, but in the last corner, he wanted to get by me at any cost, using a really aggressive manoeuvre,” said the Italian.
“I didn’t expect it because I hadn’t left the door open. Nicky came beside me and we touched, and it certainly wasn’t a safe move, but we can say it was a racing incident. “We were called to Race Direction because of course it’s important to talk about these things and immediately clear them up. Honestly, I’m quite annoyed to have lost two positions, and I also wanted to keep Smith behind me. Still, there’s no sense in creating controversy in a situation like this, so for me it’s over.” Indianapolis marked Hayden’s last home race as a factory Ducati rider, with Cal Crutchlow joining Dovizioso at the team in 2014. Hayden would naturally like to end his Ducati career on a high, but the current situation remains bleak.
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Filipino men struggle to cross strong currents as floodwaters rise at a residential area in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines Monday, Aug. 19, 2013.
Torrential rains shut down Philippine capital
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MANILA, Philippines — Torrential rains brought the Philippine capital to a standstill Monday, submerging some areas in waist-deep floodwaters and making streets impassable to vehicles while thousands of people across coastal and mountainous northern regions fled to emergency shelters. The national disaster agency and local officials reported at least two dead and several missing. Schools, offices, the stock exchange, courts and embassies were closed as the weather bureau placed metropolitan Manila — a sprawling area of 12 million people — under red alert. The flooding following a night of heavy rains brought by the monsoon, which was enhanced by Tropical Storm Trami. It hovered over the North Philippine Sea and drenched the main northern island of Luzon with up to 30 millimeters (just over an inch) of rain per hour. TV footage showed residents trapped on rooftops as raging floodwaters swept through Binan town on Lake Laguna, near Manila. Flooding has become more frequent in Manila because of de-
forestation of mountains, clogged waterways and canals where large squatter communities live and poor urban planning. In the chilly northern mountain town of Sagada, army troops and police rescued 29 tourists, including 13 Japanese, who were stranded for several hours inside a cave after two days of heavy rains caused a stream at the entrance to swell, Office of Civil Defense official Andrew Alex Uy said. One Filipino tourist remained missing. Several dams in Luzon were forced to open flood gates because of rising waters and thousands of residents downstream were told to move. A landslide and floods shut down traffic on a major highway leading out of Manila. In the
outlying provinces of Cavite, Batangas and Ilocos Norte father north, local authorities said flash floods forced thousands to take refuge in schools and other sturdy buildings. Waters started receding in some parts of Manila and neighboring areas Monday afternoon and roads were reopening. Forecasters said the storm was expected to strengthen into a typhoon with winds of up to 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour as it slowly moves away from the Philippines, passing just south of Japan’s Okinawa by Wednesday. The Philippine archipelago is among the most battered by typhoons and storms in the world. About 20 tropical cyclones hit the country every year.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — As the U.S. renews its effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, it will soon begin reconsidering the fate of prisoners such as Mohammed al-Shimrani. The 38-year-old Saudi is in a special category among the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo — one of nearly 50 men who a government task force decided were too dangerous to release but who can’t be prosecuted, in some cases, because proceedings could reveal sensitive information. While the rest of the prisoners have been cleared for eventual release, transfer or prosecution, al-Shimrani and the others can only guess at their fate. “The allegations against my client are no more serious than many, many Saudis who have been sent home,” New York-based attorney Martha Rayner said of al-Shimrani. “It just baffles me.” The Pentagon says the men in the indefinite detention category are held under international laws of war until the “end of hostilities,” whenever that may be. As a group, they are one of the chief hurdles to President Barack Obama’s attempts to close the detention center on the U.S. base in Cuba. For the most part, they have been accused of being al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, couriers and recruiters. After more than a decade, their lawyers say it’s time to let them go. Their lawyers recently began receiving notifications that intelligence officials from “various U.S. government agencies” would begin reviewing the detention of their clients to determine whether it was still necessary to hold them. A Defense Department spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Todd Breasseale, said the date for the first hearing hasn’t been set. Details of how the panels will be conducted, whether, for example, lawyers for the men will be allowed to be present or can only appear by videoconference, have not been disclosed. Rayner, a professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York, said she is hopeful because her client has family to receive him back in Saudi Arabia, and a government capable of providing any security assurances the U.S. might need. “I am going into this with an open mind,” she said.
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Plain-clothed police officers, fire fighters and curious onlookers stand outside Labuhan Ruku prison that was set ablaze during a riot in Batubara, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013. The riot began Sunday afternoon after a group of inmates who were transferred from other prisons staged a protest due to the overcrowding. Reports sayabout 30 inmates had escaped by climbing a prison wall.
Hunt for escapees after prison jailbreak
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican children troop back into their classrooms Monday, and they’re going to have a quick lesson: Not just school kids make mistakes. Their brand new textbooks have the kinds of errors that they are supposed to be learning not to make — words written with a “c’’ instead of an “s,” too many commas, not enough accents and at least one city located in the wrong state. The foul-up is shaping up as a national embarrassment in the midst of a planned government overhaul of Mexico’s much criticized school system. Teachers are getting a sheet to try to manually correct at least 117 mistakes that the Education Department has acknowledged it found only after 235 million elementary textbooks were being printed. “It’s unfortunate these things happen with the children’s textbooks,” said Consuelo Mendoza, president of the national parent teachers association. “We are talking about the education of millions of children.” Education Secretary Emilio Chuayffet has called the errors “unforgivable,” but is asking for the public’s understanding. He blames Mexico’s previous administration for the stumble. He says he was faced with the predicament of choosing between stopping the printing of flawed textbooks so they could be corrected and making sure the country’s 26 million school children had textbooks at the start of classes. Earlier this month, Chuayffet pledged to investigate to find out who was responsible. He also gave the Mexican Academy of Language the task of reviewing the textbooks so future editions won’t have the errors. “How are we going to nurture minds with grammatical mistakes?” he said when he signed an agreement with the academy. While Chuayffet has called the slipups inexcusable, his department has been less than transparent about the problem, failing to release the list of the errors to the public or even to the language academy members. The news blog Animal Politico did an independent review and found that words are misspelled in the Spanish textbook and accents forgotten or misplaced. A geography text wrongly puts the Caribbean resort city of Tulum in the state of Yucatan instead of Quintana Roo, it said.
LABUHAN RUKU - Indonesian security forces Monday hunted for a group of inmates who escaped from an overcrowded jail on Sumatra island, in the latest breakout to hit the country’s decrepit prison system. Prisoners rampaged through Labuhan Ruku jail on Sunday, setting fire to the building and attacking wardens, angered at a failure to give them sentence reductions and their treatment. Thirty prisoners managed to escape but authorities had recaptured 23 by 1:30 pm (0630 GMT), said national police spokesman Ronny Sompie. “Seven inmates have still not returned,” he added. Police and soldiers regained control of the prison in Batubara district overnight after firing tear gas and warning shots into the air, said district chief J.P. Sinaga. The prison had been almost three times over its capacity of 300 inmates when the violence erupted. Officials did not know what offences the escapees had committed although Labuhan Ruku is not a high-security jail and was unlikely to be holding serious offenders, such as terrorism convicts. Following two jailbreaks in Indonesia in July, Interpol issued an
alert saying it suspected Al-Qaeda involvement in those breakouts and other escapes that occurred around the same time in different countries. However, Indonesian officials have played down the possibility of links between the jailbreaks and the terror network. Anti-terror agency head Ansyaad Mbai said he did not suspect Al-Qaeda involvement in Sunday’s escape. “We see no indications of Al-Qaeda links,” he told AFP. Around 350 police were guarding the roads around the prison complex, parts of which were fireblackened and badly damaged, an AFP reporter at the scene said. Inmates had been moved to a church and a mosque within the complex. A prison guard sustained minor facial injuries in the unrest but there were no other injuries, said Budi Sulaksana, head of the government’s justice and human rights office in North Sumatra province.
The violence flared when some inmates became angry that they were not given sentence cuts on Saturday, Indonesian Independence Day, when convicts are traditionally given remissions. “Around 80 inmates protested because they did not get remissions,” Taufik, a prisoner held in Labuhan Ruku who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP. “We were also unhappy that we were treated badly by the guards, they put us in tiny isolation cells for the smallest offences and chained us up,” added the inmate, who is being held for drug offences. Sunday’s breakout followed the two in July from Indonesia’s prisons, which are generally grim and overcrowded. In the first, some 150 prisoners, including terror convicts, escaped from a jail in Medan, also on Sumatra. Days later 11 prisoners, all serving time for drug offences, escaped from a jail on Batam island, part of the Riau Islands chain south of Singapore.
ANTARA - Bank Indonesia said the country succeeded in cutting its balance of payment deficit to US$2.5 billion in the second quarter of this year from US%6.6 billion in the previous quarter. Bank Indonesia Governor Agus Martowardojo attributed the decline to effective fiscal policies adopted by the central bank and the government. “The policy succeeded in reducing the impact of the global financial woes on the country’s balance of payments,” Agus said in a news release issued here on Monday. Agus said surplus which was recorded again in capital and financial account after a big deficit in the previous quarter, resulted in significant decline in the balance of payment deficit. On the other hand, normally the current account deficit rose in the second quarter compared with the previous quarter. In line with the deficit in the balance of payments, the country’s foreign exchange reserves fell to US$98.1 billion by the end of June after reaching more than US$110 billion several months earlier. The shrinking foreign exchange reserves, however, are still enough to finance imports and service the government’s foreign debts for 5.1 months or still well above the international adequacy standard. Seasonal factor and falling prices of export commodities contributed to widening the current account deficit from US$5.8 billion or 2.6 percent of the country’s GDP in the first quarter to US$9.8 billion in the second quarter or 4.4 percent of the GDP. The surge in the current account deficit was attributable to shrinking surplus in trade of commodities outside oil and gas and widening deficit in services and income accounts. The surplus in trade of non oil/gas commodities shrank on a surge in imports especially imports of industrial basic materials and consumer goods. Increase in domestic consumption has been normal in the second quarter compared with the first quarter every year. Earning from the exports of commodities outside oil and gas has declined on falling price of major export commodities as a result of the Chinese and Indian slowdown. Deficit in service account widened on increase in payment for the transport of growing import goods, and growing number of Indonesians traveling abroad in school holidays. Deficit also widened in income account with the payments of interest on foreign debts and transfer of proceeds by foreign investors. Meanwhile, deficit has continued in oil and gas trade although declining compared with the first quarter. In a bid to ward off the impact of the global financial turbulence , Bank Indonesia and the government have adopted fiscal policy and strategy which succeeded in creating surplus reaching US$8.2 billion in capital and financial account in the second quarter after a deficit of US$300 million in the first quarter. The improvement in performance was partly attributable to growing inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). “This indicates strong confidence of foreign investors in the fundamental condition and Indonesian economic prospects,” Agus said. In addition, significant surplus was still recorded in foreign portfolio investment despite a surge in capital outflows in June 2013 after the US plan to stop relaxation of its monetary policy. The improvement in the capital and financial account was also attributable to steps taken by the central bank keeping inflation under control by raising the FASBI (one week overnight rate given to commercial banks) and Bank Indonesia benchmark interest rate (BI Rate), steps by the government in issuing foreign exchange bonds as a source of financing fiscal deficit and an increase in corporate foreign exchange bonds, as well as surpluses in other investment especially in the form of withdrawal of savings abroad by domestic banks.
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A security guard stands at an entrance way of a container terminal in Tokyo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Japan’s Finance Ministry reported Monday a trade deficit of 1.02 trillion yen ($10 billion) for July, almost double a year earlier. Exports jumped 12 percent while imports surged nearly 20 percent.
Energy imports, yen swell Japan trade deficit
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TOKYO — Japan’s trade deficit ballooned in July as the cost of imports surged because of a cheaper yen and energy needs. The Finance Ministry reported Monday a trade deficit of 1.02 trillion yen ($10 billion) for July, almost double a year earlier. Exports jumped 12 percent while imports surged nearly 20 percent. The dollar has risen in recent months, a plus for exports. But that also makes imports more expensive when translated into yen. A l l b u t t w o o f J a p a n ’s 50 nuclear plants have been turned off for safety checks after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster sent three reactors into meltdowns. That
has meant Japan has imported much more oil and gas. Japan, once known for giant trade surpluses, has posted trade deficits for 13 straight months. The trade deficit was the biggest ever for the month of July since comparable records began in 1979, the ministry said. Weakening the yen is a key part of the Japan revival strategy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office last year. Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest, has stagnated for the better part of two decades.
A weak currency is a boon for exports, and is lifting the earnings of some of Japan’s best known companies such as Toyota Motor Corp. Some analysts are questioning how long the momentum from a cheap yen will last without more fundamental reforms in Japan to counter a shrinking population and encourage competition and foreign investment. Japan’s economy grew a slower-than-expected 2.6 percent last quarter. The country’s public debt surpassed the 1 quadrillion yen ($10.4 trillion) mark recently.
SINGAPORE - Singapore will build a new terminal that will double the capacity of Changi Airport in a bid to retain its edge as a regional aviation hub, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday. Construction work will begin soon and will be completed in 12 to 15 years, Lee announced in his annual policy speech. “T5 (Terminal 5) sounds like a terminal, but it is actually a whole airport by itself, as big as today’s Changi Airport,” said Lee. He did not reveal the cost of the new facility, but said it would include a third runway that would double the capacity of Changi, which handled 51.2 million passengers last year. Changi Airport, named the world’s best by Britain-based consultancy Skytrax this year, currently has three terminals with a total capacity of 66 million passengers a year. In February it started to demolish its terminal for budget airlines to replace it with a larger facility. The new facility, Terminal 4, will have the capacity to handle 16 million passengers a year when it opens in 2017. In his speech late Sunday, Lee said there was growing competition from other major international airports in Southeast Asia. He noted that Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport are planning to expand. “The question is do we want to stay this vibrant hub of Southeast Asia, or do we want to let somebody take over our position, our business and our jobs?” Lee said. Passenger traffic at Changi totalled 51.2 million last year, the first time in the airport’s 31-year history that the number of people passing through crossed 50 million. As of January 1, 2013, Changi handled more than 6,500 weekly scheduled flights with 110 airlines connecting Singapore to 240 cities in 60 countries.
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NEGARA - Dozens of sailboats flocked the Gilimanuk Bay, Gilimanuk village, Sunday (Aug 18). The simple boats locally known as jukung owned by fishermen were vibrantly decorated with sails of various colors. They participated in a regatta organized by the Gilimanuk village, Jembrana County, in conjunction with the 68th celebration of the Indonesia’s Independence Day. The area denoting an underwater tourist attraction then looked more vibrant with the numerous sailboats lining up. Each sailboat was controlled by two people. Dozens of sailboats competed for the fastest time to arrive at finish line. The route to be traversed was approximately four kilometers across a number of small islands located around the bay. Aside from relying on the power of the wind through the main sail, participants also rowed their sailboat to increase the boat speed. “They passed through the Bird Island and were then back to Water Bee,” said Headman of Gilimanuk, IGN Rai Budhi, amidst the regatta event. The Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha and accompanied by a legislator of the Bali House IB Birawa was present to witness the regatta event at the westernmost village of Jembrana. Rai Budhi further said that a total of 24 boats participated in the race. Even, the event could enliven the bay area that lately lacked of attraction. (kmb26)
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Dozens of sailboats flocked the Gilimanuk Bay, Gilimanuk village, Sunday (Aug 18). The simple boats locally known as jukung owned by fishermen were vibrantly decorated with sails of various colors.
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NEW DELHI - The World Bank’s chief economist said Monday the gloom surrounding India’s economy had been “overplayed” and the country was not in danger of a full-blown crisis. “Growth may not have bottomed out. We have further to go (down), but the situation is not as bad as is being captured by the mood and captured in the headlines,” Kaushik Basu told an audience in New Delhi. Basu, who was an advisor in the Indian finance ministry until September, said the situation was different from 1991, when India had to seek a bail-out from the International Monetary Fund in that is considered a national humiliation. “India is nowhere near the 1991 crisis. The gloom is being overplayed,” he added. His comments came as India’s rupee hit a new low of 62.70 to the dollar and shares slipped another 2.11 percent Monday on growing fears about the economy and the government’s ability to deal with the situation. On Wednesday, in the latest in a series of measures to prop up the rupee, India’s central bank spooked investors when it tightened controls on the amount of money Indian firms and individuals can send abroad. The move has been criticised as a disturbing throwback to the days before India unleashed its economic liberalisation drive in the early 1990s when Indians’ access to foreign exchange was strictly limited.
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The overlay of paddy field at Subak Gadon, Sayan village in Ubud subdistrict now only lives in a memory. Even, based on the recent data in 2013, The subak has absolutely no farmland.
GIANYAR - The overlay of paddy field at Subak Gadon, Sayan village in Ubud subdistrict now only lives in a memory. Even, based on the recent data in 2013, the subak has absolutely no farmland. The entire area has been converted into buildings in the form of tourism facility. Besides, chief of the subak no longer exists because he has died. Extinction of the Subak Gadon also turns interesting. Amidst the recognition obtained by the subak in Bali from the UNESCO, as the world’s preservation agency, the Balinese people even does not preserve its existence. It indicates the failure of the government in maintaining the existence of subak through a number of programs. Disappearance of the subak becoming an intensive discourse on cultural tourism concept in a broader sense has so far been much shifting.
Pursuant to the data obtained on Sunday (Aug 18), the reduction of farmland in 2012 mostly occurred in Ubud. As cultural tourism resort in Gianyar, Ubud experiences the most severe farmland conversion. While overall, the depletion of green space farmland also occurs in several subdistricts in Gianyar County. Conversion of the farmland continues to occur each year. In 2010, the area of farmland reached 14,790 hectares. The number dropped to 14,732 hectares in 2011, so that in 2012 the farmland only remained 14,729 hectares. Aside from the farmland at Ubud area, similar condition also occurs to Subak Gadon and Subak Wahem Paregreg, Singapadu village. Currently, the farmland area only leaves three hectares. Ultimately, the subak was at the verge of extinction. The Head of Gianyar Agriculture and Plantation Agency, I
Gusti Ayu Dewi Hariani, did not deny the progressively decreasing farmland in Gianyar due to land use conversion. Too high land conversion would result in reduction of the agricultural productivity. “To overcome the declining production, it is necessary to intensify of the existing agricultural production,” she explained. She mentioned, in the agricultural program, the government had been providing subsidy, improvement of irrigation and other assistance to lessen the burden of farmers working on their farmland. The efforts to increase the agricultural revenue were undertaken by increasing the production, establishing the centers and empowering the subak. Dewi Hariani also explained the high farmland conversion happened based on the people’s willingness and it was their property right so that her party could not ban it. (kmb16)
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Transportation Agency designs motorcycle box Denpasar (Bali Post)—
The officers of Gianyar Regency inspect the condition of Gianyar Market
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Traders reluctant to occupy third floor Gianyar (Bali Post)—
Traders of Gianyar Public Market having location on the third floor seem still reluctant to peddle at their location. It happens because the merchandise they sell lacks of buyers. Customers wish everything can be done almost immediately so that they are reluctant to go up to the third floor of the market. Moreover, many traders are selling the same merchandise on their vehicle at the market courtyard as the traders of the third floor. Ultimately, the traders on the third floor go down and equally sell at the market courtyard and sidewalks. As a result, such condition make the Gianyar Public Market look chaotic in the morning. In addition, such chaotic atmosphere is also triggered by a number of traders on vehicle offering their merchandise at the market courtyard. It was revealed when the Market Control Team of Gianyar County made a site inspection, Saturday (Aug 17). The inspection was led by the Second Assistant of the Gianyar Regional Secretary I Ketut Suweta, accompanied by the Head of the Revenue Service I Putu Gede Bhayangkara, the Head of Industry and Trade Agency I Gede Widharma Suharta, the Division Head of Economic Affairs Gede Windia Berata, Chief of Gianyar Public Order Officer I Gde Daging as well as the elements of the Gianyar Development Planning Board (Bappeda) and Gianyar Office of National Unity and Community Protection (Kesbanglinmas). According to the Head of Gianyar Market, Nengah
Nama Artawa, the traders thronging the courtyard of Gianyar Market were basket traders that previously sold on the third floor. They came down because of lacking of visitors and buyers on the third floor. The Second Assistant to Gianyar Regional Secretary, Ketut Suweta, said that based on observation results, the chaotic condition of the Gianyar Market occurred because many traders on vehicle offering their merchandise at the market courtyard, so that it took the space of basket traders. “Shortage of space has caused the basket traders to move to the streets,” he explained. In this case the team appealed to the traders not to peddle their merchandise at the road body. This policy was enforced while waiting for the arrangement in the market. Throughout waiting process, they were allowed to peddle along the sidewalk of Jalan Beratha. Such condition would be arranged to the discipline the traders on vehicle and gradually relocated the basket traders remaining to peddle along the street. Other than the arrangement, the decisive action of the officials against any offenders was also required to resolve the chaotic condition of Gianyar Market, added Suweta. In addition to arranging the traders, it would also be accompanied with the arrangement of parking space around the Gianyar Market. Later on, no visitors would be allowed to park in front of the shopping complex in north side (along Jalan Ngurah Rai), while the parking of car would be routed to space along the Jalan Jata and along the Teger Hamlet Hall eastwards. (kmb16)
The Denpasar Transportation Agency would re-arrange the traffic on Jalan Sudirman to minimize traffic congestion in the area. After establishing a special motorcycle line facility, this time the Denpasar Transportation Agency would design a motorcycle box (RHK) or stopping space for motorcycle. It would complement the bike line specifically intended for two-wheeled vehicle so that it could turn right. The Division Head of Traffic in the Denpasar Transportation Agency, Nyoman Sustiawan, revealed the matter on Sunday (Aug 18). According to Sustiawan, his party would make four motorcycle boxes at the crossroads of Jalan Sudirman. They would be made at the intersection of Jalan Sudirman-Sudarsono, Jalan Sudirman-Jalan Dewi Sartika, Jalan Sudirman-Jalan Serma Mendra and Jalan Sudirman-Jalan Waturenggong. He said the motorcycle box was aimed at prioritizing motorcycle when stopping during the red signal phase. “Like at the intersection of Ubung, motorcycle is given space ahead of queuing traffic. At the red light, motorcycle can go earlier,” he said. He added the motorcycle box was made in order the motorcycles were not around four-wheeled vehicles. It was for the safety of motorcycle riders themselves. “We will secure the motorcycles so that they turn more orderly and the accident can be minimized,” he said. To make the motorcycle box at the four intersections, he said, the Denpasar Municipality allocated a budget of approximately IDR 190 million. However, the execution of the motorcycle box could not be worked on due to obstacle of laborer. “So far, the laborer has not come yet from their homecoming day-off. We are targeting at the end of September the facility construction can have been completed,” he said. Sustiawan affirmed the existence of such motorcycle box would also complement the function of special
bike line that had been made previously. Thus, motorcycles would not need to get into the lane of fourwheeled vehicles to turn right. “This is an innovation of the Denpasar Municipality to anticipate the congestion on the roads and prevent friction between two and four-wheeled vehicles frequently leading to accidents,” he said. Unfortunately, so far the existing specialized motorcycle line was frequently not obeyed by road users. The width of the track was just enough for two motorcycles, even it extended the line of motorcycle whose amount was much more than four-wheeled vehicles. Meanwhile, the special line for four-wheeled vehicle became more vacant with the presence of special line for motorcycle. This led motorists to pass through the lane of four-wheeled vehicles despite breaking the rules. “It’s hard to be overtaken because it’s too narrow. Even, it will be dangerous when motorcycle overtakes at this track,” said Nyoman Karsana, one of the motorists at the site. In response to such comment, Sustiawan said the issue would highly depend on the respective human resource. By complying with traffic signs, the track made would help create the safety of riders. “For the safety of all, we expect the motorists to obey the applicable traffic signs,” he said. (kmb13)
Holy Water at Tanah Lot for Staying Young
Tanah Lot tourist attraction is indeed a fantastic destination. In addition to offering a magnificent sunset sensation, it also exudes a positive aura coming from the temples at the surrounding areas. Even, such an aura penetrates into the very bottom of the heart. Well, another uniqueness kindling the tourist admiration is the fresh water springing in the middle of the ocean. “The holy spring amidst the ocean also serves as a main at-
traction,” said Operations Manager of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Toya Adnyana. Indeed, for tourists actively involving in spiritualism, other than being able to pray in Tanah Lot Temple, they could also make their time to wash their hands and even wash their face. Aside from conducted by the Balinese Hindu community, tourists or visitors of different religions also did it. They believed that by enjoying the holy
water, their mind would be fresh and clear like the crystal clear holy water. “Some people believe if they can wash hand, or even wash their face with the holy water, they will stay young,” he said. Besides, local society also believes if the holy water has a quality to cure various diseases. The holy water itself is also believed to be a blessing of salvation by the communities, including the non-Hindu. Another uniqueness retained
by Tanah Lot is the sacred snake inhabiting the cave below the cliff. Tourists loving animal like best this attraction and they even dare to hold the venomous snake. By all means, they should be guided by the snake charmer who specially takes care of the animal. This animal becomes a very nice attraction to be published. No one knows about the exact number of the snakes because they always change every day.
Well, one thing should be born in mind is that watching the snakes should not get through the afternoon because before the nightfall those snakes will come out and guard the entrance into the Tanah Lot Temple. “Local people believe that those snakes will be in charge of keeping the sanctity of the temple. At that time, no one will dare to go into the temple, even though they will say prayers,” he explained.
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Israel quietly maintains ties with Egyptian army Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM — Israel is quietly and carefully watching the turmoil in neighboring Egypt while maintaining close contacts with the Egyptian military amid concerns that the escalating crisis could weaken their common battle against Islamic militants in the Sinai Peninsula, officials said. As the week’s death toll in Egypt rises, this alliance has put Israel in a delicate position. Wary of being seen as taking sides in the Egyptian military’s standoff against Islamist supporters of the ousted president, Israel also needs the Egyptian army to maintain quiet along their shared border — and to preserve a historic peace treaty. The 1979 peace treaty, Israel’s first with an Arab country, has been a cornerstone of regional security for three decades. It has allowed Israel to divert resources to volatile fronts with Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. For Egypt, it opened the way to billions of dollars in U.S. military aid. Although diplomatic relations have never been close, the two militaries have had a good working relationship. These ties have only strengthened since longtime President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising two and a half years ago. With both armies battling extremist Jihadi groups in
the Sinai Peninsula, near the Israeli border, Israeli security officials often say that relations with their Egyptian counterparts are stronger than ever. With so much at stake, Israel has remained quiet since the Egyptian military ousted Mubarak’s Islamist successor, Mohammed Morsi, in a coup on July 3. Morsi, who became Egypt’s first democratically elected president, hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group considered the parent organization of militant Palestinian Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip and is a bitter enemy of Israel. Israel has not commented on this week’s bloodshed, in which the Egyptian troops killed hundreds of Morsi’s supporters who were rallying against the coup and demanding that he be reinstated. “Israel does not have to support the (Egyptian) regime, especially not publicly. It is not our place to defend all the measures taken, this is not our business,”
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FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, Egyptian Army soldiers stand guard outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, in the center of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, that was cleared by security forces, in the district of Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
said Giora Eiland, a former chairman of Israel’s National Security Council. At the same time, Eiland sug-
gested that international condemnations of the Egyptian military’s actions have been excessive. He said Israeli and Western interests
are “much closer” to the interests of Egypt’s military leader, Gen. Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi and his secular allies.
British navy arrives in Gibraltar South Korea, US begin amid tension with Spain annual military drills Reuters
Plymouth about a week ago for exercises in the Mediterranean and the Gulf with various allies. GIBRALTAR - British warships arrived in GiGibraltar’s creation of an artificial reef with conbraltar on Monday for scheduled exercises amid crete blocks, which Spanish fishermen say blocks tensions with Spain over fishing around the British their access to certain waters, has prompted Spain Mediterranean enclave. Although British, Spanish to toughen its border checks, leading to long queues and Gibraltarian authorities have said the navy’s for workers and tourists entering Gibraltar. arrival at the British overseas territory is long-schedSpain claims the territory, population just 30,000, uled, some in which it ceded to Spain see it as Britain by treaty provocative. 300 years ago. At about In Monday’s 0800 GMT German Sued(4:00 a.m. EDT) deutsche Zeitung, the frigate HMS Gibraltar Chief We s t m i n s t e r Minister Fabian sailed into the Picardo accused port of Gibraltar the Spanish flanked by two government of smaller ships. creating conflict It was folto distract attenlowed an hour tion from corlater by the auxruption allegailiary ship Lyme tions against the Bay, part of a ruling People’s task force of Party. “In the four warships AP Photo/Laura Leon 19th century, and five other With the rock of Gibraltar in the background, Britain’s Royal Navy gunboats were vessels that left ship HMS Westminster sails along the Gibraltar stretch near to La used to do poliPortsmouth and Linea de la Concepcion, Spain, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. tics,” he said.
Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean and U.S. militaries began annual drills Monday amid signs of easing tension on the divided peninsula, with Pyongyang’s state media shunning typical rhetoric against what they call a rehearsal for an invasion. Earlier this year, the Korean Peninsula saw a spike in tensions, with North Korea vowing nuclear wars during earlier annual springtime U.S.-South Korean military exercises. Pyongyang has since eased its rhetoric and pursued dialogues with Seoul and Washington. The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills that continue until Aug. 30 are computer-simulated war games that involve 30,000 American and 50,000 South Korean troops, according to South Korea’s Defense Ministry and the U.S. military command in Seoul. The allies say the drills are defensive in nature, but Pyongyang has reacted angrily to them in the past, calling the drills a preparation for a pre-emptive attack. But in an
unusual move, North Korean state media have not made any major statements on this year’s exercises so far. “North Korea appears to have determined it’s necessary to take a cool-headed attitude” over the drills to maintain efforts to resume jointly run economic cooperation programs, said analyst Cheong Seong-chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea. The two Koreas last week agreed to work toward reopening a shuttered jointly run factory park, and Pyongyang on Sunday accepted South Korea’s offer for talks on reuniting families separated by war. On Monday, South Korea approved a visit this week by four North Koreans to attend a U.N.-organized youth leadership program. They will be the second group of North Koreans to visit since the new South Korean government of President Park Geun-hye took office in February, according to Park’s Unification Ministry. A women’s soccer team was in South Korea last month to compete in a regional competition.
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out of them are pretty sophisticated,” says Stanford University engineering professor Christian Gerdes, who uses them in his classroom. Professional hackers will also find plenty to do with the new Mindstorms, as the open source software uses Linux for the first time, and controller apps are integrated for tablets and mobile phones. San Francisco-based software engineer Will Gorman is one of those adult users. He has torn apart Mindstorms kits to create a Lego toilet flusher, a Wii-playing robot that bowled a perfect game and a Lego Mars Curiosity Rover. “I don’t consider myself an adult really,” said the 36-year-old father of two last week, setting up yet another creation on a table in a sunny Redwood City library overlooking San Francisco’s bay wetlands.
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Corby most likely free before the end of year Associated Press
KEROBOKAN — An Australian convicted of drug smuggling in Indonesia should go free before the end of this year after a correctional board approved her parole and reduced her sentence, officials said Saturday.
SAN JOSE, California — Few are more excited about Lego’s new Mindstorms sets rolling out next month than Silicon Valley engineers. who reaches into his bin of plastic blocks when he needs a quick prototype at the Silicon Valley medical robotic firm where he works. The new Mindstorms sets, on sale Sept. 1, are simpler for the younger crowd and more versatile for sophisticated users than two earlier versions. The sets are designed for kids over 10 and make it easy to build basic, remote-controlled robots, including a cobra-like snake that snaps Lego brick fangs. Some shoot balls, others drive along color-coded lines. But for $349, far more expensive than typical building toys, customers get a much more complex and powerful system. “There’s actually a lot of engineering that goes into Lego bricks and the systems you can prototype
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Sentence slashed by 6 months
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Many of them were drawn to the tech sector by the flagship kits that came on the market in 1998, introducing computerized movement to the traditional snap-together toy blocks and allowing the young innovators to build their first robots. Now, 15 years later, those robot geeks are entrepreneurs and designers, and the colorful plastic bricks have an outsized influence in their lives. Techies tinker at Lego play stations in workplaces. Engineers mentor competitive Lego League teams. Designers use them to mock up larger projects ideas. And executives stand Lego creations on their desks alongside family photos. “Everyone I work with played with them as children. We sit around talking Lego. It’s a shared common experience,” said Travis Schuh,
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In this Aug. 14, 2013, photo, Saci Marty, 10, watches as her robotic Lego Mindstorms unit gathers cardboard rolls during a Digital Media Academy workshop in Stanford, Calif.
Facebook to test mobile payments service Associated Press Writer
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FILE - In this Thursday, April 4, 2013, file photo, Michael Goodwin, Senior Partner for HTC, displays an HTC First cell phone wit the new Facebook mobile interface at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
NEW YORK — Facebook plans to test a mobile payments service that lets users make purchases inside mobile applications using payment information they have added to their account on the social network. Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it is working on a “very small test” and the company says there is no set schedule for making the service available to users. The service would use payment information that shoppers store on Facebook to automatically complete checkout forms of certain mobile apps. Then, the app would process the purchase. Spokeswoman Tera Randall said in an e-mailed statement that Facebook has a “great relationship with PayPal, and this product is simply to test how we can help our app partners provide a more simple commerce experience.” The test, she added, won’t involve moving payment processing “away from an app’s current payments provider, such as PayPal.” Nonetheless, shares of PayPal’s owner, eBay Inc. declined on news of the potential competition. The stock closed down $1.05, or 1.9 percent, at $53.18. Facebook’s stock closed down 9 cents at $36.56. Forrester Research analyst Denee Carrington thinks Facebook will face a challenge in offering mobile payments even though the company has been building up its database of users’ credit cards. “Consumers want safe, seamless and convenient mobile payments and there are a growing number of competitors that consumers trust more — such as PayPal, Visa (V.me) and others,” Carrington said in an e-mailed statement. News of the test was reported earlier by AllThingsD.
The parole recommendation was handed to prison officials Friday and Schapelle Corby could be released from her cell in Kerobokan jail soon after all legal process and supporting documents are completed, said Bali’s corrections board chief Ketut Artha. Corby, 35, was convicted in May 2005 of smuggling 9 pounds (4.2 kilograms) of marijuana onto the resort island of Bali and sentenced to 20 years in prison. In 2010, she asked for clemency, citing her poor mental state and last year, Indonesia’s president reduced her sentence by five years. It means, she has served two thirds of her sentence and was eligible for parole late last year. But complicated bureaucracy and legal processes have been hampering her parole bid, Artha said. He expected Corby to be released before the end of this year to live with her sister in Bali. Her case drew intense interest in Australia, where many people believe she is innocent. “Corby has showed her good behavior while in prison, and villagers
and local village officials are willing to accept her,” Artha told reporters in Bali on the board’s consideration over the parole, “Her family in Bali is ready to guarantee her presence.” He said corrections officers visited the home of Corby’s sister last Tuesday to assess whether it would be a suitable supporting place for her to live. Corby was among 67,349 prisoners across Indonesia whose jail terms were reduced to mark Independence Day, which fell ib Saturday. Of those, 2,197 were freed. For this time alone, Corby had her sentence slashed by 6 months. Another drug convict, Renee Lawrence, also 35, who is serving 20 years in Bali, had her sentence slashed by 6 months. She is one of nine Australians found guilty in April 2005 of attempting to smuggle 8.3 kilograms (18.3 pounds) of heroin. Six were sentenced to death and two others were given life imprisonment. Eleven other foreign inmates there also had their sentence slashed, including two Britons each by 2 months.
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In this March 11, 2008 file photo, Schapelle Corby, an Australian drug smuggling convict, talks to reporters at Kerobokan prison, Bali, Indonesia. Officials say Corby could be released from prison in Indonesia before the end of this year.
Lack of documentation
Many classical dances in Buleleng unknown by young generations
A dancer performed Palawakya Dance.
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APPROXIMATELY in the 1920s through the 1950s, it is believed that many classical dances composed have got good place in the hearts of community. However, since the dances are not well documented, many of them are then not recognized by the generations of young artist. One of them is the Cendrawasih Dance composed in 1930 by the artist Gede Manik. Recently, the dance was performed back by an old artist from Tejakula, Luh Menek, 74. Previously, no one remembered the dance. Finally Luh Menek re-introduced the dance to the community and of Buleleng. The area of Kedis village, Busungbiu subdistrict, had a number of dances depicting the human life and surrounding nature circa 1960s such as the Nelayan Dance and Merpati Dance. Both dances were composed by I Ketut Merdana and Putu Sumiasa. However, people only know the Nelayan Dance, while the Merpati Dance is forgotten and almost never performed in front of the public lately. Discovery efforts were constantly carried out by the artists of Buleleng. As a result, a number of dances previously unknown were then beginning
to be danced by young children such as the Palawakya Dance, Wiranjaya Dance and Kebyar Legong Dance. Yet, the discovery effort was not accompanied by good documentation, either in book or documentary film, so that one day the dances can be forgotten. The Head of Buleleng Development Planning Agency (Bappeda), Gede Suyasa, preparing the Buleleng Festival admitted that many typical art and cultural products of Buleleng such as classical dances and new creation dances were not well documented. To that end, his party would boost the efforts to document the art and cultural products with a number of programs. For example, in relation to the event of Buleleng Festival on August 23-25, his party would publish a book of dances composed by the artists of Buleleng. The collected dances were composed in the 1920s until the 2010s. “This endeavor is carried out as a documenting effort in order that young generation can know the dances ever composed in Buleleng and they can learn and preserve the dances,” he said. (ole)
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Water of Lake Batur polluted by lubricant Bangli (Bali Post)—
Before the overflowing water in Lake Batur recedes, many residents around the lake are complaining about the cleanliness of the lake water. Allegedly, it happened due to rampant suctioning of lake water by pumping machine, causing the color of lake water to start turning black due to lubricant spills. Some pumping machines used to suck the lake water to irrigate plantation are estimated to leak. Jro Mangku Gde Ariana said on Sunday (Aug 18) that polluted condition of Lake Batur was alleged to have been caused by rampant water suction by machine. Many engine pipes were alleged to also damage and caused the scattering lubricant to mix with lake water. Polluted condition of the lake water was clearly visible when the ripples on the lake were small. “When the ripples are small, the water color is highly visible to have mixed with lubricant,” said Jro Gde Mangku Ariana. He added the color change looked very striking because the lubricant compound could not blend with water. To date, there were about 25 pumping machines operating around the Lake Batur. All this time, the water of Lake Batur was widely used for consumption and irrigation of local garden. Other than polluting the lake water, the water pumping machines were also complained because the roars were highly disturbing people, especially those who were saying prayers in the Segara Ulun Danu Temple at Songan. “Surrounding residents and pilgrims absolutely complained about the condition. Moreover, it also pollutes the water of Lake Batur,” he added. He really deplored the current condition of Lake Batur having contaminated and mixed with lubricant. Moreover, the water of Lake Batur was the source of life for people around the lake. Related to the matter, he hoped relevant agencies could immediately find the solutions to the problems of community around the Segara Ulun Danu Temple so the water quality of Lake Batur could be back to normal and free from contamination. (ina)
Home numbering system in Denpasar was very chaotic. It happened because the house numbering along the street in Denpasar was irregular aka ‘jumping.’ By all means, such condition would make people difficult to find out the address of the house owner. The Division Head of Control and Urban Planning in the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP), Dewa Wesnawa Wedagama, revealed the matter on Sunday (Aug 18). A c c o r d i n g t o We s n a w a Wedagama, the chaotic house numbering in Denpasar was inseparable from the role of residents themselves. Each arrangement made to the house numbering, residents often did not want to receive any inputs. Even, some residents
were unwilling if their house numbering was re-arranged for various reasons. “Some people did not want to be given a new house number because the new one does not exactly bring luck (fortune—Ed) and still insist on using the same old number,” he deplored. In order to cope with the chaotic house numbering, he said, his party claimed to constantly make an approach to people. However, some residents still objected to the new house numbering. “Frankly, we encounter obstacles in the field. Our good intention to rearrange the house number was often not responded positively by residents,” he said. He hoped that residents could accept the new house number and there would be no longer objection on the grounds
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that the new number did not bring in luck. He added that even number would be given to houses located in the east side, while odd number to house located in the west side. “We will continue to undertake the new house numbering until the end of 2013. Our target is until November,” he said. He added the current arrangement to house numbering was being implemented at Serangan, South Denpasar. It was carried out based on the result of the Development Planning Meeting (Musrenbang). “We will make the arrangement only based on the results of the Musrenbang. We do not want to come down to the field immediately and perform the house numbering if people are still rejecting,” he affirmed. (kmb13)
drunken youths secured
Denpasar (Bali Post)—
The alertness of police officers on duty at Monang Maning police post, Denpasar, caused two suspected terrorists to be secured, Saturday (Aug 17). They respectively had the initial OJ, 22, living at Kampong Aji Sihu Lingga Medan and AKM, 26, from Kampung Sapta Marga Umayur Garang, Surabaya. After further interrogation, in fact the suspects had nothing to do with terrorist inmates that escaped from Tanjung Gusta Prison. Information gathered at police post on Sunday (Aug 18) mentioned if they were secured when coming into the Monang Maning police post, Denpasar, at 7:30 p.m. They were near the police post and under influence of alcoholic beverages. Well, one of them saw the photos of terrorists and said if one of them looked like his brother. Therefore, they were secured by local officers to be interrogated. Since showing off suspicious gestures,
they were subsequently taken to the Bali Police and underwent further examination in the Sub-directorate of Common Detective Criminal of Bali Police. “Initially, they were suspected in the case on the disappearance of dynamite and escape of hundreds of terrorist inmates from Tanjung Gusta Prison, Medan. However, after further investigation, they had no correlation. Apparently, they were drunk at the time,” said one of the police officers asking his name to be unpublished, Sunday. Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hariadi, when asked for his confirmation justified to have secured them. He said that so far the investigators did not find significant association with any crime and terrorist networks. However, the officials continued to monitor them and increased the alertness. They had been released because of insufficient evidence to arrest them as fugitives from the Tanjung Gusta Prison. (kmb21)
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Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc. The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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‘The Butler’ serves boxoffice success at No. 1 Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is serving up success at the box office. Starring Forest Whitaker as a longtime White House butler and Oprah Winfrey as his boozy wife, the Weinstein Co. biopic debuted in the top spot with $25 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the weekend’s three other major new releases, including the action romp “Kick-Ass 2,” failed to find traction with fans. “We expected to do well, but we didn’t expect to do this well,” said Erik Lomis, president of distribution and home entertainment for Weinstein Co., adding that “The Butler” is the company’s first No. 1 debut since 2009’s “Inglourious Basterds” directed by Quentin Tarantino. Even with a full slate of newcomers, last week’s top movies claimed the second and third spots in the box-office race. The Jason Sudeikis-Jennifer Aniston Warner Bros. comedy, “We’re the Millers,” held onto second place in its second week of release with $17.78 million, while last week’s No. 1, Sony’s “Elysium,” dropped to third with $13.6 million.
“It was tough if you were any other film opening other than ‘The Butler,’” said Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracker Hollywood.com. “Kick-Ass 2,” Universal’s tale of everyday teenagers who dress up as superhero crime-fighters, opened in fourth place with $13.56 million. Open Road’s Steve Jobs biopic, “Jobs,” debuted in seventh place with $6.7 million. And Relativity’s “Paranoia,” which stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth, didn’t crack the top 12. “Maybe it should have been Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Jobs,’” Dergarabedian said. “It would have had a better shot.” Apart from Winfrey’s unmatched marketing
power, “The Butler” also marked the mogul’s return to the big screen for the first time since 1998’s “Beloved.” “She was a significant factor” in the film’s success this weekend, Lomis said. “Her publicity machine really kicked into high gear, and the entire cast, Lee Daniels and Forest Whitaker, they delivered a quality film and a great campaign.” The summer typically belongs to superheroes and big-action fare, which is why Weinstein chose to release “The Butler” now. “It’s different from pretty much everything else in the marketplace,” Lomis said. “That really seemed to help.”
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Malaysian tourist to Bali increasing Antara
DENPASAR - The number of tourists from Malaysia to Bali rose in the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year.
Malaysia has become the fourth largest in number of visitors to Bali from the fifth earlier, said Head of Bali Central Statistic Agency (BPS) I Gede Suarsa. “The number of visitors from Malaysia is larger than those from Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Britain,” Suarsa said.
He said around 92,410 Malaysians visited Bali in the first half of the year, up 11.35 percent from the same period last year. The number made up 6.19 percent of the total number of 1,493,020 foreign visitors to the world famous resort island in the January-June period this year - or an
increase from 6.81 percent. A significant increase was recorded in the number of visitors from 8 of 10 main countries of origin. A decline was recorded only in the number of visitors from South Korea and Britain, Suarsa said.
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This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Oprah Winfrey as Gloria Gaines, left, and Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines in a scene from “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”
Lindsay Lohan vows her troubled past is behind her
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Lindsay Lohan says this time it’s going to be different. In an interview that aired Sunday with Oprah Winfrey, the trouble-prone actress declared that this, her sixth stint in rehab, has put her on a path of recovery.
Lohan said she’s in “a different head space” now and vowed to stay “present and clear-headed and focused.” “I feel whole again,” she told Winfrey, “and I have such a desire to want to keep this feeling and stay this way, and I’m willing to do whatever it takes.” Lohan, 27, completed her latest court-ordered
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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the Mr. Pink Ginseng launch party at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
stay in rehab in July. She must continue therapy into late next year. She acknowledged an addiction to alcohol, which “in the past was a gateway to other things for me,” but she offered no specifics other than cocaine, which she said she has used no more than 15 times. Winfrey asked her what she’s on these days. Lohan replied, “Vitamins.” “You’re not on any prescription drugs?” Winfrey pressed. “No, no,” Lohan insisted, then checked herself: “I take Nexium. Because I have acid reflux.” Clad in a form-fitting orange dress, Lohan said a comfort level with her past chaotic life had fed her much-reported partying and her brushes with the law. But she added that she takes full blame for her mistakes. When Winfrey asked if she can turn her life around this time, Lohan said with no hesitation, “Yeah.” The interview aired as an episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” on the Oprah Winfrey Network, which will spotlight Lohan next year in an eight-part docuseries based on her life. During the hour, an advertisement appeared for Cliffside Malibu, the rehab facility where Lohan was recently residing. That ad boasted of a treatment program so successful, it’s guaranteed. Lohan’s latest film, “The Canyons,” is in limited release.
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