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Shirley Jones offers naked truth in new book Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — Shirley Jones opens the door to her house and appears every inch the ladylike Marian the librarian or sweet farm girl Laurey or cheerfully steady Mrs. Partridge, offering a warm smile and handshake. Her elegant, modestly highnecked jacket is black, her makeup is discreet and her silver hair tidy. Jones’ living room has the sort of traditional furniture and knickknacks (exception: a prominent Academy Award) that would fit any suburban house. It all adds up to the publicly familiar Shirley Jones, whose crystalline soprano voice and dewy prettiness made her an immediate star in the 1950s film versions of “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel” and who captured a subsequent generation of fans in TV’s “The Partridge Family” in the 1970s. Then there’s “Shirley Jones,” her new autobiography (written with Wendy Leigh and published by Simon & Schuster’s
Gallery Books imprint) that turns the 79-year-old actress’ image on its head in startling — even shocking — ways. “So bring out the smelling salts, hang on to your hats, and get ready for the surprise of your lives!” she writes, coyly, in the book’s introduction. It’s not false advertising. There’s a recounting of her early life and dazzling career that included working with two musical theater masters, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, as well as many of Hollywood’s top actors, including Marlon Brando (king of the retakes to exhaustion, Jones said), Jimmy Stewart (charmingly ditsy) and Richard Widmark (the only co-star she
fell in love with). But a substantial part of the book is spent on her troubled marriage to the late Jack Cassidy, the glossily handsome actor and singer whom she describes in a passage as her first lover and “sexual Svengali,” and whose lessons she shares candidly. That includes — X-rated spoiler alert — Cassidy’s impressive endowment, Jones’ own “highly sexed” nature that made orgasms a breeze, their threesome with another woman (“yuck,” she says, when asked about the onetime experiment), Cassidy’s pre-marital sexual encounter with Cole Porter that Jones says left her unfazed, and her apparent tolerance for his infidelities.
The character of Marian, the spinsterish librarian in 1962’s “The Music Man,” another smash hit for Jones, “wasn’t me,” she said firmly. And her autobiography makes that abundantly clear, although she says it took the passing of years for to bring such candor. “I never would have written this book if I weren’t the age I am now,” she said. So she’s grown-up enough to tell her story, and her admirers should be grown-up enough to read it? “That’s exactly how I feel,” replied Jones. She overturned her squeakyclean image once before with her Oscar-winning portrayal of a vengeful prostitute in “Elmer Gantry” (1960) opposite Burt Lancaster, and the role that she considers her most important. It also brought backlash from her admirers. “I got letters up the kazoo: ‘Why would you ever take a part like this?” Jones recalls.
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In this Monday, July 15, 2013 photo, actress Shirley Jones poses for a portrait at her home in Los Angeles. Jones’ autobiography, “Shirley Jones,” is being released Tuesday, July 23.
‘R.I.P.D.’ continues Hollywood’s summer of big budget bombs films in theaters this weekend, according to the box office division of Hollywood.com. The $135 million “Turbo,” which was distributed by Fox , collected $21.5 million in its first weekend, a distant third behind the horror film “The Conjuring” and also behind “Despicable Me 2,” which continues to do well in its third week in theaters. “There are always going to be AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Scott Garfield This film publicity image released by Universal Pic- films that are green-lit two years tures shows Jeff Bridges, left, and Ryan Reynolds ago that aren’t going to make in a scene from “R.I.P.D.” The film will be released it,” Nikki Rocco, president of Universal’s distribution unit, said nationwide on Friday, July 19. of “R.I.P.D.” “There are always Reuters bombs for films that cost more going to be times when films just LOS ANGELES - Universal than $100 million to make. don’t work. It’s nothing new.” Pictures’ sci-fi action comedy “R.I.P.D.,” starring Jeff Still, analysts say the misfires “R.I.P.D.” and Dreamworks Ani- Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, could prompt a parade of film mation’s “Turbo” opened with a cost $130 million to make and writedowns for studios - a black thud in North American theaters tens of millions more to pro- eye for an industry that prides its this weekend, continuing a Holly- mote. It opened with ticket sales public image nearly as highly as wood streak of weekly box office of $12.8 million, seventh among its private jets and summers in
Europe. Janney Montgomery Scott analyst Anthony Wible says Disney will likely be forced to take a writedown for the Johnny Depp western “The Lone Ranger,” and Sony for the sci-fi adventure “After Earth” with Will Smith. Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz says a writedown is possible as well for “Turbo,” which he wrote in a July 17 report could drop his estimated earnings for the company to $0.25 per share in 2013 from his current $0.72. “It’s a little early. “We have a ton of summer play time left,” Chris Aronson, who heads Fox’s domestic distribution unit, said about “Turbo.” The film got lofty scores from test audiences under age 25, he said, “which bodes very well for playability since that’s our target audience.”
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An easel stands in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace in London on July 22, 2013, to announce the birth of a baby boy, at 4.24pm to Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at St Mary’s Hospital. Associated Press
LONDON — Champagne bottles popped and shouts of “Hip! Hip! Hooray!” erupted outside Buckingham Palace on Monday as Britain welcomed the birth of Prince William and his wife Kate’s first child, a boy who is now third in line to the British throne. Hundreds of Britons and tourists broke into song and dance outside the palace gates as officials announced that the future king was born at 4:24 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces (3.75 kilograms), at central London’s St. Mary’s Hospital — the same place where William and his brother Harry were born three decades ago. The imminent arrival of the royal baby was the subject of endless specula-
tion on social media and was covered for days on live television around the world, but in the end the royal family managed to keep it a remarkably private affair. In line with royal tradition, a terse statement announced only the time of birth, the infant’s gender and that mother and child were doing well. It gave no information about the baby’s name, and officials would say only that a name would be announced “in due course.”
“Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well and will remain in hospital overnight,” it said. William also issued a brief statement, saying “we could not be happier.” Officials said William, who was by his wife’s side during the birth, would also spend the night in the hospital. Royal officials say Kate and William will try to give their child as normal an upbringing as possible, a challenging goal in an age when the British royals are treated as major world celebrities. “He’ll have to be protected all the time,” said Edward Bentley, from near London. “But they’ll make him seem normal and connected to the public for sure.”
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Population of Kintamani dog declines Bangli (Bali Post)—
Population of Kintamani dog had declined by degrees since the past five years. At its native home, the dog having received a special recognition as a breed dog only left tens of heads in a whole. It was revealed by I Made Kari, a member of the Sari Kembang dog breeding group at Paketan hamlet, Sukawana village, Sunday (Jul 21). He said the population of Kintamani dog was previously in a large number. Even, the Kintamani dog belonging to very special classification had often participated in various festivals. It always went to high-rank nominations. At that time, the government also routinely provided guidance to the public and equalized the selling price. Over time, the government attention was considered to have diminished. Indirectly, it
was also considered to kindle the confusing selling price of the Kintamani dog. Even, there were some residents selling the dog at a fairly cheap price. Formerly, the selling price of Kintamani dog had jumped to around IDR700,000 to more than IDR 1 million. However, the price of local breed dog currently dropped to the range of IDR 200,000 to IDR 300,000. (013)
After suspect Nur Fake
Two other culprits of windshield shatter arrested Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Endeavor of the Criminal Detective Unit of South Denpasar Police to investigate the culprits of windshield shatter with the suspect Nur Fake alias Ambon reaped a result. The two other culprits respectively named Samsul Arifin, 25, and Ninik Lutfianti, 38, could be captured by the Criminal Detective led by Unit Chief Gusti Ngurah Yudhisthira, Friday (Jul 18). The suspect Samsul was arrested in Waru, Surabaya, East Java. Meanwhile, the suspect Ninik posing the elder sister of Samsul was arrested in her boarding house on Jalan Tukad Balian Gang Nagasaki 9, Renon. Chief of South Denpasar Police, Ikram Arrasyid, said on Monday (Jul 22) the success of arresting the suspect Nur Fake was due to hard work of the investigators. They continued to develop the case by looking to the suspect Nur Fake. As a result, another name (Samsul—Ed) belonging to his gang finally came into view. The investigators also continued to pursue the suspect Samsul. “We’re finding out information in the field to get the address of the suspect Samsul. Later on, we knew if he was in Surabaya,” said Chief Ikram. A number of personnel were ordered and assigned to Surabaya to track down the suspect. By making coordination with the Surabaya Metro Police, the hiding place of the suspect was finally revealed. Without resistance, the suspect could be arrested in Waru, Surabaya. The suspect was then taken to Bali and examined in depth. “The suspect admitted his act. Even, the suspect admitted to have
take action at 15 crime scenes,” he explained. Of the 15 crime scenes, both suspects had committed the crime since a year. The suspect Samsul served as a jockey, while the suspect Nur Fake served as the executor. Every taking action, he first surveyed which parked car had a bag inside. Once getting a target, they approached and the suspect Nur Fake dropped from his motor. Meanwhile, the suspect Samsul was away while waiting for the success of Nur Fake. “Nur Fake can do it in 2 minutes,” he said. Other than arresting the suspect Samsul, police also arrested the suspect Ninik. From both suspects, police could seize the evidence in the form of 3 units of laptop, iPad, camera, phone and a bag belonging to a victim. The suspect and evidence had been secured in the South Denpasar Police. “Involvement of the suspect Ninik occurred because she asked the suspect Samsul to take action. Besides, the suspect Ninik also enjoyed the results of their crimes. Samsul and Ninik are brother and sister, while the suspect Nur Fake is boyfriend of Ninik,” he added. When met at South Denpasar Police, the suspect Ninik denied her involvement in the case. She admitted to never ask Samsul to take such an action. She argued if she only introduced Nur Fake to Samsul because she went together with Nur Fake. “I never told my brother to commit such a crime (windshield shatter). I just asked Samsul to work with Nur Fake at Benoa,” confessed Ninik to reporters, Monday. (kmb21)
Bribery allegation, schools in Badung need auditing
Mangupura (Bali Post)—
Kintamani dogs, the local breed dog of Bali.
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Briberies disguised as voluntary donation are always troubling in every new student enrollment (PPDB). Voluntary donation worth millions of rupiahs is often complained by parents including in the Badung County for the academic year 2013/2014. The Badung House then urged the government chiefly the Badung Education Agency to audit the schools collecting such voluntary donation. “Such voluntary donation is widely complained by parents. Other than valuing costly, many people are suspicious if the voluntary donation will be taken for individual interest,” said Chairman of Commission D of the Badung House, AA Surya Wirawan, Monday (Jul 22). According to him, any voluntary donation though it was voluntary should be accounted. Moreover, the total donation reached a large amount. All schools collecting such donations should be audited. The Education Agency had to conduct an audit and take decisive action when finding any irregularities or schools looking for profits from the voluntary donation.
He said the funds from regional budget could not fully cover the education costs though it had been allocated to exceed the national targets. In other words, there was still a need of financial assistance from parents. However, the funds having been collected to support the education funding should be managed and accounted transparently so that it would not result in negative accusations from the public related to the utilization of the funds. Meanwhile, the Head of Badung Education Agency, Ketut Widia Astika, admitted to agree if the participation fund should be audited. Management of the funds should be transparent and accountable so that it did not cause any problems later on. He affirmed the Badung Education Agency would immediately request a report from each school chiefly regarding the utilization of public funds. His party would also evaluate all the school programs so that they would not become a reason to spend the fund collected from public participation. “We will also select tightly the school programs, so that they will not become a reason to spend the public funds,” he said. (kmb25)
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Archipelago International unveils “Harper Hotels and Resorts” IBP
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s maverick hotel group, Archipelago International, formerly known as Aston International, unveiled its latest up market hotel label “HARPER Hotels & Resorts” and at once confirmed that the first HARPER will open in Kuta, Bali as early as this summer while seven more are in an advanced state of constriction in Bandung, Banjarmasin, Bogor, Makassar, Samarinda, Surabaya and Yogyakarta. The Harper brand will present 3 star plus and 4 stars newly build hotels from 100 to 250 rooms in either city or resort locations. Rooms will be a minimum bay size of 28sqm and a maximum of 40sqm, while suites will be 1.5 bays. City location HARPER Hotels will feature executive floors with club lounges and ladies only rooms while all Harpers will offer the brands proprietary destination restaurant concept “Rustik Bistro & Bar” which as its name implies will offer home comfort food cooking paired with great wine and cocktails in
a fresh, light and elegant room. The brands Signature Style will be Modern Rustic using warm, rich colors to offer comfort in each room while accents of cozy autumnal fabrics and soft orange hues will promote relaxation juxtaposed with modern grays to create an understated cool elegance. Matching furniture will give way to mix-and-match pieces, which add an eclectic flair to the room. Upholstered furniture brings an air of sophistication and surprising textures are created with rich velvet silks and chintz cov-
ered with interesting patterns to provide bold contrast. Comfort pieces, like a single sofa or big couch will be layered with personality-filled cushions, rugs, and wall hangings. Harper hotel rooms will not have desks. Instead, they will all have comfortable sofas and high coffee tables - bigger and higher, so guests can eat and work at the same time while sitting in a sofa. Standard bathrooms will have showers only while suites will also have a separate bathtub. In an effort to eliminate wasteful bottles, bath amenities will be available in a dispenser format. “In our increasingly anxious world, people want comfort and functionality. It’s no secret today’s guests want to be reminded of home and feel cocooned” said
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Norbert Vas, VP Sales & Marketing for Archipelago International and added that the HARPER brand was conceptualized to appeal to Indonesia’s growing
Calendar Event for July 10 through August 10, 2013
10 Jul Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan - Pulasari Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Tarokaja Taro Tegallalang 17 Jul Buda Paing Wayang Pura Dang Khayangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli 20 Jul Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bathara Ratu Gede Celuk Sukawati Bathara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Bathara Ratu Allit lan Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba Kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel klungkung Pura Pemerajan Agung Sulang Dawan Klungkung Pura Padharman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih ( Dalem Klungkung ) Pura Penataran dan Pasraman Kuta Rejo , Kendal Rejo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Sidhi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 22 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa ApuanSusut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar
Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru- Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Luhur Candi Narmada Tanah Kilap Desa PemogaN Denpasar Selatan Pura Panca Tirta Sido Luhur Bakanheni Lampung Selatan Pura Ponjok Batu Tejakula Buleleng 24 Jul Buda Wage Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Pengembungan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Jawa Banjar Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Penataran Batupelang Kamasan klungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Kedonganan Kuta Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh/Bukit Kiwa Tengen Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Jati Ubud Pura Melanting Ubud Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Desa Sakti Nusa Penida
Pura Penataran Agung Anyar Liligundi Bebandem Karangasem 30 Jul Anggar Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Dalem Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar Pura Puser Jagat,Dalem Dukut, Puri Sukun Nusa Penida Pura Dalem Purwa Banjar Kawan Bangli Pura Desa Ketewel Sukawati 31 Jul Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibangkaja Abiansemal Pura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar Pura Paiobon Dukuh Segening Serongga Kelod Gianyar 4 Aug Redite Kliwon Watugunung Pura Penataran Agung Mahagotra Tirta Harum Srisrengga Desa Nyalian Banjarangkan Klungkung 6 Aug Tilem Sasih Kasa Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Desa Kukuh Marga Tabanan 10 Aug Hari Raya Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas - Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel - Sayan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Watugunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya - Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung Pura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning Desa Mambal Abiansemal
numbers of international tourists discovering the countries bountiful attraction beyond the island of Bali and an ever more sophisticated domestic clientele.
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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Health
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
International
Skipping breakfast increases heart attack risk Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA — Another reason to eat breakfast: Skipping it may increase your chances of a heart attack. A study of older men found those who regularly skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of a heart attack than those who ate a morning meal. There’s no reason why the results wouldn’t apply to other people, too, the Harvard researchers said. Why would skipping breakfast be a heart attack risk? Experts aren’t certain, but here’s what they think: People who don’t eat breakfast are more likely to be hungrier later in the day and eat larger meals. Those meals mean the body must process a larger amount of calories in a shorter amount of time. That can spike sugar levels in the blood and perhaps lead to clogged arteries. The researchers did not ask what the study participants ate for breakfast and were not prepared to pass judgment on whether a fatty, sugary breakfast is better than no breakfast at all. “ We d o n ’t k n o w w h e t h e r it’s the timing or content of breakfast that’s important. It’s probably both,” said Andrew Odegaard, a University of Min-
nesota researcher who has studied a link between skipping breakfast and health problems like obesity and high blood pressure. “Generally, people who eat breakfast tend to eat a healthier diet,” he added. The new research was released Monday by the journal Circulation. It was an observational study, so it’s not designed to prove a cause and effect. But when done well, such studies can reveal important health risks. The researchers surveyed nearly 27,000 men about their eating habits in 1992. About 13 percent of them said they regularly skipped breakfast. They all were educated health professionals — like dentists and veterinarians — and were at least 45. Over the next 16 years, 1,527 suffered fatal or non-fatal heart attacks, including 171 who had said they regularly skipped breakfast. In other words, over 7 percent of the men who skipped breakfast had heart attacks, compared to nearly 6 percent of those who ate breakfast. The researchers calculated
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FILE - This March 26, 2012 file photo shows a plate of pancakes with blueberries and granola mixed in the batter in Concord, N.H. A study of older men found those who regularly skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of a heart attack than those who ate a morning meal. the increased risk at 27 percent, taking into account other factors like smoking, drinking, diet and health problems like high blood pressure and obesity.
As many as 18 percent of U.S. adults regularly skip breakfast, according to federal estimates. So the study could be important news for many, said Eric
Rimm, one of the study authors at the Harvard School of Public Health. “It’s a really simple message,” he said. “Breakfast is an important meal.”
Cold caps tested to prevent hair loss during chemo Associated Press Writer
AP Photo/Eric Risberg
In this Wednesday, July 10, 2013, photo, Dr. Hope Rugo, right, an oncologist and breast cancer specialist, demonstrates the use of the Dignitana DigniCap system on Katherine Serrurier, a research assistant and pre-medical intern, at the University of California San Francisco Mount Zion Hospital cancer center in San Francisco. The caps chill the head and scalp allowing for hair preservation in chemo treatments.
WASHINGTON — The first time Miriam Lipton had breast cancer, her thick hair fell out two weeks after starting chemotherapy. The second time breast cancer struck, Lipton gave her scalp a deep chill and kept much of her hair — making her fight for survival seem a bit easier. Hair loss is one of chemotherapy’s most despised side effects, not because of vanity but because it fuels stigma, revealing to the world an illness that many would rather keep private. “I didn’t necessarily want to walk around the grocery store answering questions about my cancer,” recalled Lipton, 45. “If you look OK on the outside, it can help you feel, ‘OK, this is manageable, I can get through this.’” Now U.S. researchers are about to put an experimental hairpreserving treatment to a rigorous
test: To see if strapping on a cap so cold it numbs the scalp during chemo, like Lipton did, works well enough to be used widely, as it is in Europe and Canada. Near-freezing temperatures are supposed to reduce blood flow in the scalp, making it harder for cancer-fighting drugs to reach and harm hair follicles. But while several types of cold caps are sold around the world, the Food and Drug Administration hasn’t approved their use. Scalp cooling is an idea that’s been around for decades, but it never became popular in the U.S. in part because of a concern: Could the cold prevent chemotherapy from reaching any stray cancer cells lurking in the scalp? To Dr. Hope Rugo of the University of California, San Francisco, the impact of hair loss has been overlooked by health providers. She’s had patients
delay crucial treatment to avoid it, and others whose businesses suffered when clients saw they were sick and shied away. “Quite frankly, it’s the first or second question out of most patients’ mouths when I tell them I recommend chemotherapy. It’s not, ‘Is this going to cure me? It’s, ‘Am I going to lose my hair?’” said Dr. Susan Melin of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Later this summer, Rugo and Melin, along with researchers at a few other hospitals in New York and California, will begin enrolling 110 early stage breast cancer patients in a study of the DigniCap brand of scalp cooling. The tight-fitting, insulated cap is attached to a cooling machine as patients undergo chemo. Participants’ hair will be photographed for experts to assess, and they’ll be compared with a small group of similarly ill patients who get chemo alone.
Bali News
International
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
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In southern Bali
Tourists acommodation growth uncontrallable Bali Post
DENPASAR - Construction of tourist accommodation progressively accumulating in Southern Bali has become an issue to be resolved. Uncontrollable hotel growth has made the southern part of Island of the Gods such as Kuta Nusa Dua get narrower and more crowded. As consequence, the convenience of tourists when taking a promenade can be disrupted. Even, based on the data of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter the total number of accommodation in Bali in 2010 reached 2,190 units with 45,408 rooms. Such amount belonged to 158 star hotels with 20,558 rooms, 1,036 budget hotels (20, 410 rooms) and 996 cottages (4,440 rooms). Until 2011, the number of hotel room in Bali had reached 55,000 rooms where the majority of them were located in Southern Bali. “Southern Bali has been very crowded. Almost all the activities primarily the economic and tourism activities accumulate in the region whereas we previously promoted the balanced development between the Northern and Southern Bali. Now, why has it not been applied consistently?” asked the economist, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Raka Suardana, in Denpasar. According to him, the construction of hotel on the Island of the Gods was considered to have not
thought about the quality. Existence of hotel at one place could cause congestion. Apparently, it was inversely proportional to the area of Northern Bali. A lot of vacant lands remained available there. Though there were a number of obstacles in the form of supporting infrastructure for travelers, they should be resolved. “Why was the development not directed to Eastern Bali, for instance, the area of Kubu and Culik offering a good sea view? The presence of the underpasses and toll bridge has indeed slightly resolved the crowdedness. However, if it will be accompanied with a massive destination development, the crowdedness will certainly happen again,” he explained. He said the uncontrollable growth of tourist accommodation would also have an impact on the environment and socio-culture. Moreover, Bali had been designed by the predecessors for cultural tourism in order that religion, culture and traditions could be well maintained. To that end, the most ap-
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Construction of tourist accommodation progressively accumulating in Southern Bali has become an issue to be resolved. Uncontrollable hotel growth has made the southern part of Island of the Gods such as Kuta Nusa Dua get narrower and more crowded. propriate tourism to be developed was spiritual tourism. “When developing other tourism, Bali will be gradually disrupted and damaged. As a result, our pride will vanish,” he said. The Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, I Putu Anom, previously stated that typical Balinese culture inspired by Hinduism had become a basic capital for the
tourism development on the Island of the Gods. However, Bali needed a commitment in managing and directing the tourism development by single-island management. “It poses an effort to realize the concept of equitable tourism in nine counties / municipality in Bali. So far, the tourism development in Bali tends to be imbalanced and
results in a problem due to local autonomy,” he said. He added the management and the making of tourism-related government policy in Bali should be through a single door because the tourism product sold was the product of Bali, not of Badung, Denpasar, Gianyar or the products of other counties. (kmb27)
Kusamba residents also reject reclamation of Benoa Bay Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - More and more Balinese people spoke about the opposition to reclamation plan of Benoa Bay. Even, they demanded
an effort to investigate the bribery allegation. Now, similar aspiration is also delivered by the residents of Kusamba, Dawan subdistrict, Klungkung. The fishermen group
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The photo shows Kusamba beach that hit by severe abrasion. More and more Balinese people spoke about the opposition to reclamation plan of Benoa Bay. Even, they demanded an effort to investigate the bribery allegation. Now, similar aspiration is also delivered by the residents of Kusamba, Dawan subdistrict, Klungkung.
head of Segara Wisesa, Kusamba, Dewa Gede Wira, said on Monday (Jul 22) that reclamation of Benoa Bay would only provide environmental damage of volume II for residents of Kusamba after suffering from the impact of the environmental damage due to reclamation of Serangan Island. Wira explained the impact of reclamation on Serangan Island was clearly remembered by residents of Kusamba mostly making a living from the sea. At that time, Dewa Wira said the abrasion was getting worse, so that the location for mooring fishing boats was also increasingly eroded. If the reclamation of Benoa Bay would be undertaken, he worried the abrasion would be more extreme. Even, it was feared the four traditional ports would be more seriously eroded. By all means, it would be strongly felt by Kusamba residents. Moreover, the majority of Kusamba residents were working in coastal areas, either as fisherman, porter or salt farmer. “Based on the experience of Serangan Island reclamation, no other reclamation may be made,” he hoped. According to Wira, a total of 220 families of Kusamba relied their
life on fishing, 40 other families on working as salt farmers as well as hundreds of others working as porter in the traditional port of Kusamba. Most of them expected the leaders of Bali were willing to hear their aspirations to cancel the reclamation plan for the survival of Bali’s nature as a whole. Similar expectation was also expressed by Headman of Kusamba, Ketut Winastra, Monday. Whatever the reason was he asked there should be no other reclamation. Moreover, based on information, the reclamation area reached very fantastic amount of 830 hectares. “The impact has been felt in the reclamation of Serangan Island. In the past, we can moor three rows of boat on the beach, but now only one boat. If the reclamation will be made again, I am afraid no more places at Kusamba can be used to moor our boats,” he explained. He asked the legislators of the Bali House to respond to the reclamation wisely and struggle for the aspirations of small community, so that the concerns related to the impact of reclamation would not become a nightmare for coastal
community, chiefly the resident of Kusamba. “If possible, please do not only share the pie there (at Benoa Bay—Ed), while the damage affect us at Kusamba,” he concluded. As had been reported, the rejection to reclamation plan was also briefly expressed by a legislator of the Bali House from Klungkung, Ketut Mandia, not long ago. Mandia admitted to have received many aspirations from Klungkung residents that rejected the reclamation plan. Even, Mandia accused the reason of the reclamation to anticipate tsunami was inventing and great lie. He also considered the reclamation of the area did not make sense and was very threatening the life of residents in coastal areas. Moreover, Klungkung also had the island areas such as the Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan. Aside from the impact on coastal damage, Mandia also highlighted the social impact. Large-scale reclamation by investors would only benefit foreign parties, while Balinese people would only get the dregs making them progressively suppressed. (kmb31)
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Billboard installation in front of temple
Klungkung Electoral Commission criticized by residents Semarapura (Bali Post)-
The Klungkung Electoral Commission (KPUD) was criticized again by Klungkung residents. At this time, the Commission was protested due to careless installation of billboard at Kusamba village, Dawan subdistrict. A large-size billboard carrying the four pairs of regent-deputy regent candidate of Klungkung was posted right in front of the Pujud Gempel Temple, precisely at the 3-way intersection to Kampung Kusamba traditional port. Against such condition, the headman of Kusamba, Ketut Winastra, came to the office of the Klungkung Electoral Commission, Monday (Jul 22) and asked to move the billboard. Winastra claimed that since the 6x4-meter billboard was posted on Friday (Jul 19), his party received many complaints from Kusamba residents. Apart from covering up the temple front side, the jumbo size billboard also disrupted the traffic flow to Kampong Kusamba. In
fact, the Klungkung Electoral Commission installed it without coordination with Kusamba village. Winastra then criticized the Commission that prohibited the installation of billboard infringing the recommendation of the Electoral Supervisory Committee. However, the Commission
even installed it haphazardly. Installation of the billboard was also assessed to disrupt the parking space at Kusamba village market, so that traders also complained. Responding to the complaints of residents, Winastra admitted to have forwarded it to the Klungkung Electoral
Commission. He said the Commission had promised to check the billboard and moved it from previous location. Responding to the complaint, Chairman of the Klungkung Electoral Commission, AA Gede Parwata, argued on Monday if the installation of billboard was carried out by a partner, but he admitted if the selection of location was specified by the Commission. “If the Commission acts incorrectly, please protest because there is no super body institution,” he said while adding if the billboard had been
removed. Installation of the billboard to welcome the regent election of Klungkung was often complained by residents. Apart from the billboard of the Electoral Commission, previously the Klungkung Electoral Supervisory Committee had also issued a recommendation on the proliferation of candidate billboards mounted at restricted zones so that they violated the rules of the Commission because it contained an invitation to vote whereas the regional election had not yet entered into the election campaign period. (kmb31)
Warden held joint training at Buleleng Police
Singaraja (Bali Post)-
A number of Singaraja Jail Warden held training together at Buleleng Police field last Monday (22/7) connected to get them much prepared facing their working place. As seen at Buleleng Police, a number of wardens were enthusiast following the training under an instructor from the Police. They were using protectors and held warm ups before given training on how to tackle mass of people. Head of Buleleng Police operational Section, PC Ida Putu Wedanajati, as permitted by Buleleng Police GAPC Benny Arjanto, stated this training was a first and it is very needed. Warden officers own skills including shooting were also trained. “This is to make them use to target their gun and to make sure the bullets are active while using it,” Wedanajati stated. (kmb)
146 Bangli residents have HIV/AIDS
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The HIV/AIDS sufferers have increased with this time 146 people are infected in Bangli alone which two of them are toddlers. This number is from when the virus was found here up until today according to Head of Bangli AIDS Management Commission Manager, Pande Ayu Wayan Wati, S. KM. last Monday (22/7). She added, the toddlers were 2 and 3 years old while mostly are productive age around 30 and above. The highest causer would be unhealthy free sex. Even though Bangli is quiet from night entertainment but there are still possibilities the virus were caught while sufferers were not in Bangli as those infected were those who works outside the area as drivers, leabours and entrepreneurs. With the Health Agency, a number of socializations has been tking place and from these numbers were results from those who took blood test in Bangli Hospital. Meanwhile further treatment takes place in Sanglah and Gianyar Hospitals. (ina)
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Police armed with photos of terrorist syndicates Amlapura (Bali Post)—
Police at Padangbai Harbor, Karangasem, looked increasingly to tighten the security on the entry-exit point of Bali from the east, Monday (Jul 22). Aside from checking the luggage of passengers, police were also provided with photographs of the hazardous terrorist syndicate members. It was justified by Chief of Padangbai Marine Police, Ketut Suartika Adnyana, on the sidelines of tightening the harbor security. All personnel were equipped with the photos of terrorist syndicate
members with the hopes when found any suspicious individual, the personnel in charge were expected to immediately make coordination with command post. Suartika added that until Monday and within the past few days the personnel had not found any passengers carrying hazardous goods or related crimes. Meanwhile, related to the fasting month and the Eid, there had been no increase in the number of passengers leaving or coming to Bali so far. Even, the passenger situation looked a bit
deserted. As the security last year, the number of passengers was estimated to increase around seven days ahead of the Eid. Meanwhile, other related to the international events scheduled to be held in Bali, strict security guard at the exit and entry points into Bali like at Padangbai Harbor also had something to do with the missing of dozens of dynamites in Bogor some time ago as well as the escape of some terrorist inmates from a correctional institution in Sumatra a few days ago. (013)
Vietnam dismisses US concerns on human rights Associated Press Writer
HANOI, Vietnam — American concerns over the arrests of dissidents and other human rights abuses in Vietnam shouldn’t stand in the way of closer military and economic ties with the Southeast Asian nation, the country’s president said Tuesday ahead of talks in Washington with President Barack Obama. President Truong Tan Sang’s remarks, made in emailed responses to questions by The Associated Press, are a sign of Vietnam’s desire to strengthen relations with the United States, a country with which it shares concerns over Chinese assertiveness in the region. Sang’s trip to the United States is only the second such visit by a head of state since the former foes resumed relations in 1995. He will meet President Obama on Thursday. The United States is also seeking closer ties with Vietnam, part of its strategic “rebalancing” toward Asia, which is emerging as a vital partner for the sluggish economies of the West. But it wants to see the communist country release dissidents. Some officials have said progress on a closer relationship was contingent on an improved human rights record. On human rights, Sang said that in Vietnam “the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people are respected.” Asked about American concerns about the arrests of bloggers, he said: “There are a number of differences between Vietnam and the United States including those on human rights, but this is quite normal.” “It is my hope that after five years of no exchanges of high-level visits between the two countries, my official visit to the United States this time will contribute to elevating Vietnam-US relations into a profound, efficient and substantive framework,” he said. The invitation by Obama for talks at the White House took some analysts by surprise, who suggested that Washington’s desire to shift its military and diplomatic focus to Asia had trumped its stated concerns over human rights in Vietnam. “It looks like the human rights issue is being finessed. Behind closed doors Obama can raise the concerns, but it’s obviously not going to feature prominently,” said Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnam at the University of New South Wales in Australia. “For Obama, it is ‘how do you get more jobs for Americans.’ You sell more in Asia, that’s the larger gain.” Both sides are expected to discuss a trade pact that Washington is negotiating with Vietnam and 10 other Asia-Pacific nations, which the Obama administration wants signed by the end of the year. Two-way trade between the U.S. and Vietnam totaled $26 billion last year. Vietnam’s leaders, presiding over a stuttering economy, are also under pressure to deliver stronger economic growth.
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Ousted Egyptian leader’s family denounces military Associated Press Writer
CAIRO — The family of ousted President Mohammed Morsi furiously denounced the military Monday, accusing it of “kidnapping” him, and European diplomats urged that Egypt’s first freely elected leader be released after being held incommunicado for nearly three weeks since being deposed by the army. The fate of Morsi, who has been held without charge, has become a focus of the political battle between his Muslim Brotherhood and the new militarybacked government. The Brotherhood has tried to use Morsi’s detention to rally the country to its side, hoping to restore its badly damaged popularity. The interim government, in turn, appears in part to be using it to pressure his supporters into backing down from their protests demanding his reinstatement. Those protests again turned violent Monday, with clashes breaking out between Morsi supporters and opponents near Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and between pro-Morsi demonstrators and police in a city on the capital’s northern edge. At least four people were killed. More clashes erupted early Tuesday, with the Brotherhood claiming that one person was killed when police opened fire on a pro-Morsi march in Cairo. Police and health officials could not immediately be reached for comment. So far, however, the outcry over Morsi’s detention seems to have gained little traction beyond the president’s supporters, without bringing significantly greater numbers to its ongoing rallies around the country. Millions of Egyptians filled the streets starting June 30, demanding the president’s removal after a year in office and
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A supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a mat where protesters have set up a camp near Cairo University in Giza, Egypt, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of the country’s ousted president near the main campus of Cairo University left many dead, according to a senior medical official.
leading to the coup that ousted him. AntiBrotherhood sentiment remains strong, further fueled by protests that block traffic in congested city centers and by media that have kept a staunchly anti-Morsi line. Egyptian human rights groups have said he should either be freed or charged. Behind-the-scenes talks have been taking place through mediators between Brotherhood figures and the interim government — centered around releasing Morsi and other detained leaders of the group in return for an end to protests by his supporters, according to Mohammed Aboul-Ghar, head of a liberal political party that backed the president’s overthrow. The military fears that Morsi’s release “would only increase protests and make them more aggressive,” he told The Associated Press. At least five other prominent Brotherhood members have also been detained. The military also has
said that there is no way the measures taken against Morsi will be reversed. The Brotherhood so far seems unlikely to make a deal, saying it cannot accept a military coup. It and other Morsi supporters vow they will not stop protests until he is returned to office, and they have said there will be no negotiations with the new leadership unless it accepts his reinstatement. They have denied any back-channel talks are taking place. In a toughly worded statement Monday, the Brotherhood laid out a plan for resolving the crisis that was little changed from what Morsi proposed in his final days in office. It said Morsi must first be reinstated along with the now-dissolved upper house of parliament and the suspended constitution, followed by new parliament elections that would start a process for amending the constitution, and then a “national dialogue” could be held.
China cracks down on building projects in anti-graft move Reuters
BEIJING - China on Tuesday ordered a five-year suspension of the construction of new official buildings, state media reported, in the latest move by President Xi Jinping to crack down on extravagance and pervasive corruption. The decision was “made in accordance with the country’s frugality campaign”, official news agency Xinhua said. Some structures built in violation of regulations had tainted the image of the Communist Party and stirred vehement public disapproval, the
agency said. “The directive called on all party and government bodies to be frugal and ensure that government spending goes toward developing the economy and boosting people’s wellbeing,” it added. The ban also covered “glitzy structures” built as training centers, hotels or government motels, it said. Numerous scandals in recent years have centred on extravagant expenditure on new government buildings by officials, often in poverty-struck inland regions. Some local governments have embezzled poverty-alleviation and disaster-relief funds to build for themselves offices and other facilities that sometimes re-
semble high-end resorts. Xi, who took office in March, has made the fight on graft a key objective of his administration, and the party has already targeted everything from the use of government cars to liquor served at official banquets. Corruption is so bad it could hurt the party’s grip on power, Xi has warned although so far few high-level officials have been caught in his dragnet and the party has shown no sign of wanting to set up an independent graft-fighting body. Similar orders in the past to rein in construction of over-the-top government buildings have had little apparent effect.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Hugo Chavez’s daughter Rosa Virginia Chavez and wife to Venezuela’s Vice President Jorge Arreaza, center, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Friday, July 19, 2013.
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Asian shares higher on US stimulus hopes
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HONG KONG - Asian markets rose on Tuesday as unexpectedly weak data out of the United States increased the likelihood the Federal Reserve would keep its stimulus programme in place for some time. current expectations of any actual increase in US interest rates from late 2014 at the earliest.” While a positive for equities traders, gains in Wall Street’s three main indices were capped by disappointing corporate results, including from market giant McDonald’s. The Dow was flat, the S&P 500 rose 0.20 percent and the Nasdaq added 0.36 percent. However, expectations that US stimulus would remain in place sent the dollar down to 99.59 yen in New York from 100 yen in Tokyo earlier in the day. In afternoon trade on Tuesday the greenback bought 99.48 yen, while the euro fetched 131.15 yen and $1.3183, compared with 131.33 yen and $1.3186 in New York on Monday. China’s Li was quoted in the Beijing News as saying: “The bottom line for economic growth is seven percent, and this bottom line must not be crossed.” The target was necessary to ensure China’s goal of doubling gross domestic product between 2010 and 2020, he told economic experts and business representatives. The comments buoyed Chinese traders as it indicated Beijing would introduce some form of economy-boosting measures should growth fall too much, as it tries to avoid a so-called hard landing. Mainland markets have suffered this year as months of data have pointed to a slowdown in the world’s number two economy and key driver of global growth. Eyes will now be on the release on Wednesday of an index of manufacturing activity that will provide a better idea about the state of the economy.
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Calonarang, a unique Balinese dance-drama
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Gains were led by Hong Kong and Shanghai after China’s premier hinted that the government had a lower limit below which it would not let economic growth fall. Tokyo rose 0.82 percent, or 120.47 points, to 14,778.51, Seoul added 1.27 percent, or 23.80 points, to close at 1,904.15 and Sydney advanced 0.30 percent, or 15.2 points, to 5,017.1. Shanghai ended 1.95 percent higher, adding 39.11 points to 2,043.88 after Li Keqiang was quoted in state media as saying economic growth must not slip below the “bottom line” of seven percent. In the afternoon Hong Kong added 2.26 percent. With few catalysts to drive action, hopes that the Fed would hold off winding down its bond-buying were taken as a positive, despite a soft lead from Wall Street. The National Association of Realtors said home sales fell 1.2 percent to an annual rate of 5.08 million in June, from a downwardly revised 5.15 million in May. The average analyst estimate was for a rise to a 5.28 million pace in June. Global markets steadied last week after Fed boss Ben Bernanke said the easy money policy would be kept in place for as long as needed until the economy was up to speed. Markets have been in turmoil for weeks prior as dealers bet on an end to the scheme in the near future. “Investors appear to be adjusting for a view that markets have overshot on the timing and impact of Fed monetary tightening,” CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner told Dow Jones Newswires. “Economic growth will need to pick up from current levels for markets to bring forward
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In this photograph taken on October 14, 2011 an Indian employee at a jewellery stall picks up a piece of gold jewellery during the 13th Edition of India’s Leading Jewellery Retail Exhibition “ Jewels of India”, in Bangalore. India, the world’s biggest gold-buying nation, has slapped fresh curbs on imports of the precious metal in a bid to curb a record current account deficit, late July 22, 2013.
Yahoo to buy 40 Million shares from Loeb Associated Press
SUNNYVALE, California — Activist investor Dan Loeb and two other directors nominated by his hedge fund are leaving Yahoo’s board after big gains in the Internet company’s stock price over the past year. Yahoo is also buying back 40 million shares of its common stock from Third Point LLC, Loeb’s hedge fund. That cuts Loeb’s stake in Yahoo from 5.8 percent to less than 2 percent. Loeb instigated the departure of former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson in 2012 by revealing that Thompson did not have a computer science degree, as Yahoo had previously stated. He left that May as Loeb and his two allies were named to Yahoo’s board. Longtime Google executive
Marissa Mayer became CEO two months later. The stock had risen about 83 percent since then on stock repurchases and earnings growth stemming from its stake in Chinese Internet company Alibaba. Shares slid more than 4 percent Monday morning. Yahoo is spending $1.16 billion to buy Third Point’s stock. It’s paying $29.11 per share, Friday’s closing price. It will pay cash. Yahoo said it will have about $700 million remaining under an existing $5 billion buyback announced last year. The Sunnyvale, California, company said it plans to continue making repurchases under that plan. Loeb’s allies, turnaround specialist Harry Wilson and former MTV executive Michael Wolf, will also be leaving Yahoo’s board, which will
then have seven directors. PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, who was named a board member upon mutual agreement between the board and Third Point, will continue in his post. Yahoo said that the remaining directors will take a look at the board’s size and composition. It did not say when, or if, any other board changes would be made. Shares of Yahoo fell $1.22 to $27.89 in Monday morning trading. Shares hit a 5-year high of $29.83 on Thursday. The company on Tuesday reported that its second-quarter profit rose 46 percent to $331 million, while net revenue declined 1 percent to $1.07 billion. Yahoo is losing ground to rivals Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. in the online advertising market that generates most of their revenue.
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Hindu community in Bali has a unique performing art known as Calonarang. The performing art poses a dance-drama whose artists should master the elements of dance, music and vocal. A troupe is supported by tens of artists. Interestingly, almost all the dancers consist of ‘selected’ artists. In other words, they have superior talent, so that every performance can draw the attention of spectators. Frequently, it is also graced by the contest of shakti power between the dancers and people having magical powers. It is commonly carried out in the ‘invitation’ scene, where the dancers invite people to get involved in a magical power contest. It is usually done by the player dancing the Rangda effigy. In this scene, it is filled with matebekan (stabbing kris dagger in the chest) performed by the other players against the Rangda. In this session, the performing area will usually turn magical, horrific and creepy. If the dancers have come into trance, the stabbers will stab themselves with the kris dagger. The more horrific atmosphere happens when living players are given a mantra and then act as a dead person (corpse). Afterward, the body is consecrated (as in cremation). Then, they are taken to cemetery. Mystical atmosphere is strongly felt in the show at this scene. Calonarang is indeed a special performing art that cannot be staged arbitrarily. However, after the development of tourism, the Calonarang is also staged for tourist entertainment. However, time and type of ceremony is not made specifically. AA Gde Raka, a religious philosopher, said the Calonarang dance-drama was actually a ritual event where the sanctified effigies in the form of Rangda and Barong venerated were taken down
and danced. The Calonarang itself was performed on the piodalan (temple anniversary) in the Dalem Temple and other temples. Players getting involved in the Calonarang attraction were those specifically having high spiritual knowledge and the arts. According to him, the story of Calonarang was inseparable from the concept of rwa bhineda or basic dualism such as the quality of good and bad being always side by side. The Calonarang story was taken from a fairy tale on a widow named Walu Nateng Girah from Girah village, Kediri. Walu meant widow, Nateng (Queen) and Girah was the name of a village in Kediri, East Java. Therefore, Walu Nateng Girah meant a widow queen from Girah village. Walu Nateng Girah is a disciple of left school representing the adharma. Meanwhile, the King Airlangga is the follower of goodness representing the dharma. “It has significance that in this life good and bad qualities are inseparable,” he said. In that struggle, none of Mpu Bharadah and Nateng Girah won symbolizing that good and bad was inseparable. The staging of Calonarang performance was not entertainment art, but due to influence of globalization, many Calonarang performances then led to profane art, too. According to Gde Raka, the word Calonarang was derived from the word arang meaning the ash related to plague caused by Nateng Girah where the Girah village was like to have been transformed into ashes because many people were sick and died. Calonarang performance was usually commenced with the presence of barong dance, telek dance and followed by the emergence of young ladies. The next scene told about Walu Nateng Girah and her followers practicing black magic getting involved in a struggle against the forces of King Airlangga belonging to white school.
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Hindu community in Bali has a unique performing art known as Calonarang. The performing art poses a dance-drama whose artists should master the elements of dance, music and vocal.
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The photo shows Benoa Bay taking from above. Utilization of the water area denotes one of the authorities owned by central government. To certain lineups, it can give a strong indication related to the intervention of central government in the Benoa Bay reclamation planned by investor. Moreover, the reclamation planned is in a large scale.
Do not exploit Bali for the sake of imaging Bali Post
MANGUPURA - Utilization of the water area denotes one of the authorities owned by central government. To certain lineups, it can give a strong indication related to the intervention of central government in the Benoa Bay reclamation planned by investor. Moreover, the reclamation planned is in a large scale. “Regardless of provincial policy, if the reclamation area planned to reach 838 hectares, it is a great indication if the central government has intervention in it. Moreover, it also has something to do with the utilization of coastal area,” said Putu Parwata, a legislator of the Badung House. According to him, within the framework of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, central government also had a responsibility to preserve the nature and culture in the region. Central government might not be negligent and only accentuated the international imaging so that it justified various forms of exploitation of nature. This PDI-P politician said that central government should also be transparent in managing policy. It should not in-
fringe any rules or regulations deliberately obscured for the sake of passing the development only orientated in the temporary imaging. If the investor plans qualified, the Bali tourism probably raised considering various high class facilities were planned to be established on the reclaimed land. However, was it true if Balinese people would find it useful? It still needed to be questioned and examined because basically the end of government policy was improving the quality of life and well-being of people, not on the contrary, leading people to miseries. Similarly, Bali had been known for its cultural tourism. Global eyes were focused here due to the uniqueness of nature and culture of Bali, not due to modern tourism facilities.
When the nature and culture of Bali got disturbed, its echo would reach every corner of the world. According to Parwata, this was worth noting by policy makers in addressing the investment plans coming into Bali. On the other hand, the nontransparency in the reclamation plan of Benoa Bay remained to draw a great question in the community. Parwata said, anyhow, the transparency was needed in the contemporary era. It was no longer the time for the government to cover up the plans having a great influence to the landscape and social culture of Bali. “Obviously, it should be opened to public and this issue cannot be assessed by a few circles only. Please involve all the components of society,” he said. (kmb25)
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Bus crash in central Thailand kills 19 Nineteen people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a lorry in central Thailand, reports say. At least 20 more people were injured in the incident, which took place in Saraburi province early on Tuesday. The double-decker tour bus - which was travelling from Bangkok to Roi Et in the north-east - burst into flames after the collision. It was not immediately known how many people were on board the bus. A police investigation is now under way. All of those who died were on the bus, Thai newspaper the Nation said. The accident happened around 05:00 local time (22:00 GMT) when the lorry veered across the road and hit the bus, the Bangkok Post said. “The truck crossed from the opposite lane of traffic and hit the bus,” said local police officer Lieutenant Colonel Assavathep Janthanari, according to AFP news agency. Police have arrested the lorry driver, reports say. A pick-up truck behind the bus was also reportedly involved in the collision.
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A masked protester holding a Brazilian flag marches with others to a police station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Monday, July 22, 2013. The protesters went to the police station to demand the release of fellow protesters arrested by police during clashes outside the palace hosting Pope Francis’ welcoming ceremony. About an hour after the pope concluded his short speech, police began cracking down on the protests, firing rubber bullets and tear gas in an effort to disperse the crowd.
Brazil crowds greet Pope Francis in Rio de Janeiro
Pope Francis has been greeted by tens of thousands of Brazilian pilgrims as he began his first trip abroad since becoming head of the Catholic Church. The first Latin American Pope toured Rio de Janeiro in an open car and then met President Dilma Rousseff at the state governor’s palace. After he left, police fired tear gas to disperse protests against both the government and the cost of the visit. He is in Brazil to attend the Roman Catholic World Youth Day festival. In a speech soon after his arrival, the Pope urged young Catholics to “make disciples of all nations”. “I came to meet young people coming from all over the world, drawn to the open arms of Christ the Redeemer,” he said at the governor ’s palace, referring to Rio’s famous vast statue of Jesus. “They want to find a refuge in his embrace, right near his heart to hear his call clearly and powerfully.” About an hour after the welcoming ceremony, police fired stun grenades and tear gas against the demonstrators outside the palace. It was the latest rally against what the protesters described as endemic government corruption
across the country. But some were also unhappy about $53m (£34m) in public fund being spent for the pontiff’s visit. There was little damage and few arrests, but it was a reminder that there is still a real possibility the pontiff ’s high-profile visit to a huge Catholic festival in Rio could be overshadowed by political events, the BBC’s Wyre Davies reports from Rio. In a separate development, the military said a homemade explosive device had been discovered at a shrine between Rio and Sao Paulo that the Pope is due to visit on Wednesday. The device at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Conception of Aparecida was described as being “of low power” and was destroyed. Relaxed and jovial
As Pope Francis disembarked from the Alitalia plane in Rio’s
airport earlier on Monday, he was welcomed by President Rousseff to cheers and applause from the waiting crowd. A choir sang an anthem linked to Youth Day and he was presented with a bouquet of flowers. The Pope waved before being taken by motorcade to the centre of Rio, where thousands of pilgrims have gathered. Pope Francis looked relaxed and jovial as he was driven into Rio de Janeiro in a modest family car, with the window wound down and security officials struggling to keep back the crowds, our correspondent says. Crowds mobbed the Pope’s car as it made its way from the airport There were chaotic scenes as his car became stuck in one of the city’s infamous traffic jams, after the pope’s driver reportedly took the wrong turn and missed lanes that had been cleared by the security services.
EU adds Hezbollah’s military wing to terrorism list Reuters
BRUSSELS - The European Union agreed on Monday to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist, a move driven by concerns over the Lebanese militant group’s involvement in a deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria and the Syrian war. The powerful Lebanese Shi’ite movement, an ally of Iran, has attracted concern in Europe and around the world in recent months for its role in sending thousands of fighters to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, helping turn the tide of Syria’s two-yearold civil war. Britain and the Netherlands have long pressed their EU peers to impose sanctions on the Shi’ite Muslim group, citing evidence it was behind an attack in the coastal Bulgarian city of Burgas a year ago that killed five Israelis and their driver. Until now, many EU capitals had resisted lobbying from Washington and Israel to blacklist the group, warning such a move could fuel instability in Lebanon and in the Middle East. Hezbollah, which functions as a political party that is part of the Lebanese government and as a militia with thousands of guerrillas under arms, rejected the EU’s “aggressive and unjust decision which is not based on any proof or evidence”. EU states had taken a dangerous step at the behest of the United States and Israel, Hezbollah’s staunchest foes, it said in a statement which described the declaration as “written by American hands, in Zionist ink”. Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said the decision was “hasty” and could lead to further sanctions against the movement that would complicate Lebanese politics. “This will hinder Lebanese political life in the future, especially considering our sensitivities in Lebanon,” he told Reuters. “We need to tighten bonds among Lebanese parties, rather than create additional problems.” The blacklisting opens the way for EU governments to freeze any assets Hezbollah’s military wing may have in Europe. “There’s no question of accepting terrorist organisations in Europe,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters. Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said in a statement that the EU had taken an important step by “dealing with the military wing of Hezbollah, freezing its assets, hindering its fundraising and thereby limiting its capacity to act”. In the United States, Secretary of State John Kerry said Syria was an important factor behind the EU vote. “A growing number of governments are recognising Hezbollah as the dangerous and destabilising terrorist organization that it is,” he said.
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INDONESIA Yudhoyono calls for prevention of radicalism
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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on the country’s Islam high-learning institutes to improve their quality so that Indonesian students would not choose to study abroad and end up studying at hardline institutions. He made the appeal when receiving members of the Forum of Rectors of Islam Universities at the state palace here on Tuesday. “I have visited Pakistan. I saw some of our children studying there including in Islamic boarding schools. Many of them are good but there are also hardline schools,” he said. President Yudhoyono also said when an upheaval happened in Yemen several years ago there were reports that several Indonesian students from hardline schools there took part in the fight. “I am sad to hear that. They are supposed to learn Islam there and so they must not take part in the political affairs in that country. With that stance we could get knowledge and would not bring bad things from that country,” he said. To prevent them from happening again he said he had asked offices concerned to be more selective in giving visas to those wishing to study abroad. He said very extreme schools abroad have the potential to “produce new extremism in Indonesia.” The behavior, he said, would only make their parents, who hope
that their children would return to be great clerics or Islamic intellectuals, sad. “Their parents hope by studying abroad their children would become Islamic intellectuals, their knowledge increase. But suddenly they bring extremism, show extreme behavior. That makes them sad. Moreover if they become suicide bombers,” he said. In view of that he urged leaders of Islam high-learning institutes in the country to improve their quality and take an active part in the fight against radicalism. “Save them, by improving the quality of the institutes you are leading so that they would not go abroad to study,” he said. President Yudhoyono underlined the importance of fighting in the Islamic way and prevent evils referring to the act of suicide bombing. “Save our children and prevent them from doing that, killing themselves and their brothers,” he said. President Yudhoyono was flanked by education minister Mohammad Nuh, religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali, cabinet secretary Dipo Alam and minister/ state secretary Sudi Silalahi in the meeting.
Nazi-themed cafe to close amid outrage
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BANDUNG — The owner of a Nazi-themed cafe in central Indonesia said Monday he has decided to permanently close down amid intense pressure from home and abroad. Henry Mulyana, who ran the Soldatenkaffee in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung, met with local authorities Monday, and tourism chief Herry M. Djauhari suggested that Mulyana change the name and theme of the cafe. City officials had earlier expressed concerns about the cafe’s motives and worried it might incite hate and racism in the town, which is a tourist destination. Mulyana said he is considering his options, but will not reopen the Soldatenkaffee cafe. The cafe opened in 2011, but recent media reports about its Nazi-related memorabilia, including a red wall with a portrait of Adolf Hitler and a flag with a swastika symbol, have prompted angry responses from
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This Sunday, July 14, 2013 photo shows Nazi-related memorabilia hanging on a wall at Soldatenkaffe restaurant in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Authorities in central Indonesia will ask the restaurant owner to explain his reasons for opening the Nazi-themed cafe that has sparked controversy among locals and tourists, an official said Thursday. foreigners and Indonesians. Mulyana insisted that he was not pro-Nazi but that he was instead using the decorations to attract customers. It is the second time this month that Nazi images have provoked controversy in Southeast Asia. Last
week, Thailand’s premier university apologized for displaying a billboard that showed Adolf Hitler alongside Superman and other superheroes, saying it was painted by ignorant students who didn’t realize Hitler’s image would offend anyone.
Indonesian promoter to repay Chelsea fans Agence France-Presse
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Indonesian fans of English Premier League football club Chelsea chant as they welcome the team upon their arrival at the Halim airport in Jakarta on July 23, 2013. An Indonesian sports promoter will return thousands of dollars to local Chelsea fans who were charged a hefty sum to rub shoulders with the players without the Blues’ consent, the organiser said July 22.
JAKARTA - An Indonesian sports promoter will return thousands of dollars to local Chelsea fans who were charged a hefty sum to rub shoulders with the players without the Blues’ consent, the organiser said Monday. The scores of fans, some of whom paid more than $2,000 to attend exclusive sideline events, will now meet the players for free before a friendly against the Indonesia AllStars on Thursday. The promoter, Nine Sport, said it managed to sell out the nearly 150 tickets to various events within a month. It slapped a 22 million rupiah ($2,178) price tag for each of the 24 spots at a meetand-greet, seven million rupiah for a jersey signing event and 5.5 million rupiah for a coaching clinic. Both Chelsea, which does not charge fans to meet players, and the promoter put the debacle down to a cultural misunderstanding ahead of the team’s first-ever visit to Indonesia, a football-crazy nation of 240
million people. “While we understand this is accepted practice in Indonesia, it does not fit with our tour philosophy... towards leaving a lasting legacy in countries and communities we visit,” a Chelsea spokesman told AFP. He said the team still looked forward to the visit. The money handed over to meet the Blues is testament to Indonesia’s love of the English Premier League, with stadiums packed for friendlies against Arsenal and Liverpool in the past two weeks. Nine Sport CEO Arif Putra Wicaksono said the tickets to the sideline events were sold to cover the huge cost of Chelsea’s match fee. Nine Sport was informed by Chelsea last Thursday that they had a policy not to charge people to meet the players, Wicaksono said. In collaboration with its main sponsor, Bank Negara Indonesia, Wicaksono said the promoter would refund the money with some assistance from Chelsea.
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Humanity Tragedy Monument IBP
KUTA - This monument was built to remind us of a terrible incident, namely the bomb blast in Kuta Bali on Saturday night October 12, 2002 on Jalan Legian Kuta. It caused death toll as many as 202 people from 22 countries and 324 people suffered from serious injuries and wounds. Such very powerful bomb blast also caused damage to buildings and vehicles within a radius of one kilometer. Since the tragedy, tourism industry as the backbone of Bali’s economy suffered the most serious slump in the history, but thanks to the persistence of the whole society and government, now slowly but surely it has now undergone at restoration. The monument itself was established in the former area of explosion (Ground Zero). Most prominent part of the monument is Kayonan with a large white wooden leaf symbolizing the universe and its contents. At the bottom of this kayonan, there are inscription of `victims’ name list that died in the incident and their nationality.
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Radwanska upset by Polish uproar to nude photo shoot Reuters
STANFORD, California - Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska is upset and surprised about the negative reaction in her home country after posing nude for ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue.” The world number four, who was photographed naked while sitting beside a swimming pool filled with tennis balls, came under fire in her largely Catholic country with priests and a Catholic youth group calling her behaviour immoral. “I was little disappointed,” Radwanska told Reuters at the Bank of the West Classic where she is the top seed. “I was really surprised about everything that happened afterward. The Catholics reacted like
I did a photo shoot for a men’s magazine. I was surprised because they didn’t even know what I exactly the photo shoot was.” Radwanska, whose arms and positioning in the photo cover her private areas, is one of 21 athletes that appear nude in the annual issue that showcases the physiques of athletes, including a cover photo of 77-year-old golfer Gary Player. Three days ago, Radwanska took to Facebook to defend herself. She said she made
the decision because “the press and subject in Poland was huge. It was just to show the people what the magazine actually was.” On Facebook, Radwanska said that the pictures were not meant to cause offense and that “to brand them as immoral clearly does not take into account the context of the magazine. “Moreover, they do not contain any explicit imagery whatsoever. I train extremely hard to keep my body in shape and that’s what the article and the magazine is all about. “I agreed to participate to help encourage young people, and especially girls, to exercise, stay in shape and be healthy.” The 24-year-old Radwanska added that she is no longer reeling from her defeat to Germany’s Sabine Lisicki in the Wimbledon
semi-final in early July. The Pole was the highest seed remaining in the tournament at that point and, had she won the match, would have faced eventual champion Marion Bartoli in the final, whom she owns a 7-0 record against. Radwanska, who has yet to win a grand slam, said she grew exhausted late in the match because she had played three marathon matches prior to the semi-finals. “It was a huge chance this year,” she said. Definitely I had a chance to win a grand slam. “It’s always disappointing and of course I was sad that I didn’t use the opportunity that I had but I wasn’t 100 percent fit. I wanted to get to the balls and my legs were just staying in one spot. I couldn’t really move.”
Celtics sign Faverani, Pressey Associated Press Writer
BOSTON — The Boston Celtics on Monday signed center Vitor Faverani of Brazil and point guard Phil Pressey from Missouri. Faverani, 25, is a 6-foot-11 center who played last season for Valencia Basket in Spain, where
he averaged 9.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. Pressey is a 5-foot-11 point guard who was a member of the Celtics’ summer league roster. He averaged 9.4 points, 6.6 assists and two steals in 23 minutes in Orlando this month.
Pressey was a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award given to the best point guard in the nation last season while averaging 11.9 points and seven assists per game as a junior. He finished one assist shy of the second highest single season mark for assists in SEC history.
Jorge Lorenzo admitted he feared his MotoGP career could be over if he crashed again at Laguna Seca after his run of injuries. World champion Lorenzo had already undergone two operations in as many weeks following crashes at Assen and the Sachsenring that first broke his collarbone, then damaged the titanium plate that had been inserted to fix the original damage. He reversed an initial decision to skip the United States Grand Prix
and rode carefully to sixth place. “I feel proud and relaxed, finally,” Lorenzo said after the race. “It was a dangerous and difficult situation because obviously with a third crash and a third operation the championship or even my career could be finished. We saved this situation. “Now at Indy I’m sure I will be almost perfect and I can fight for victory again.” Lorenzo had finished fifth at Assen just two days after his first injury, but said the cumulative effect of recent weeks meant he was
in worse condition at Laguna. “I am not in shape, one month or more without training and two general anaesthetics,” he said. “I felt quite dizzy from the middle of the race to the end so my performance was getting worse. “The bike was also not working the same as in warm-up.” With Marc Marquez winning the race, Lorenzo is now 26 points behind Honda’s rookie at the season’s mid-way point. The championship resumes at Indianapolis after its summer break on August 19.
Lorenzo feared crash could have threatened MotoGP career
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Jorge Lorenzo, left, of Spain, leads Dani Pedrosa (26), also of Spain, and Carl Crutchlow (35), of England, as they race during the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix MotoGP world championship motorcycle race on Sunday, July 21, 2013, at Laguna Seca raceway in Monterey, Calif.
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Denmark shock France on penalties, meet Norway in semi Reuters
Brazil’s Atletico Mineiro’s Ronaldinho celebrates his team’s victory over Argentina’s Newell’s Old Boys at the end of a Copa Libertadores semifinal soccer match in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, early Thursday, July 11, 2013.
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Ronaldinho key to Atletico hopes in Copa final Associated Press Writer
SAO PAULO — Ronaldinho will need to produce a performance in keeping with his vintage best if his Atletico Mineiro team is to overturn a first-leg deficit and win the Copa Libertadores on Wednesday. The former two-time world player of the year has to help the Brazilian club — seeking its first international title— erase the 2-0 deficit established by Olimpia in Paraguay last week. “We still believe,” Ronaldinho wrote on Twitter. “It’s not over yet. We have one game to go and we will give our blood to win this title. We believe in the strength of this group and in the strength of the fans.” The Copa Libertadores is one of the few titles Ronaldinho hasn’t won in his career. After a decade in Europe with Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona and Milan, he returned to Brazilian glamor club Flamengo in 2011 before an abrupt departure to Atletico Mineiro last year. “This title means more than anything else for us,” the 33-year-old Ronaldinho said. His move to the Belo Horizonte club quickly vaulted it to being a top contender in Brazil and Latin America, and his teammates are hoping the former Brazil star will lead them to the coveted title on Wednesday.
“The team improved significantly after Ronaldinho arrived and we all have a lot of trust in him in a decisive moment like this,” striker Jo said. Forward Diego Tardelli added: “We know he is the star of our team and everybody respects him a lot for that.” It was a difficult first-leg loss for Ronaldinho and Atletico, with Olimpia’s second goal coming on a free kick in the final play of the match. Ronaldinho was far from his best, being ineffective through most of the game and being replaced in the second half. But there is reason for the Brazilian club to remain optimistic despite the loss. Atletico Mineiro was in the same situation in the semifinals after losing 2-0 to Newell’s Old Boys in the first leg in Argentina. Ronaldinho was great in the return game at home, though, and Atletico Mineiro won the match by the same score and eventually came out on top in a shootout, with goalkeeper Victor making a save in the last penalty. Victor also saved an injury-time penalty against Tijuana of Mexico
in the quarterfinals. Olimpia has already relinquished a two-goal first leg lead in the final of the Copa Libertadores. It happened in 1989, when it fell to Atletico Nacional of Colombia on penalties, marking the last time such advantage was lost. Olimpia won the tournament the following year, adding to the trophy it had won for the first time in 1979. The Paraguayans made it to this year’s final by holding on to that same two-goal advantage against Colombia’s Santa Fe. It won 2-0 at home and advanced despite a 1-0 loss in the away leg. Olimpia is hoping to repeat the success of the last time it played a final against a Brazilian club, in 2002. It lost 1-0 to Sao Caetano in the first leg at home but won the return in Brazil 2-1 and clinched the title on penalties. This is the ninth straight year that at least one Brazilian team has made the final. Brazilian clubs have won the past three titles: Corinthians last year, Santos in 2011 and Internacional in 2010.
STOCKHOLM - Denmark stunned France 4-2 on penalties on Monday to set up a European women’s soccer championship semi-final against Norway, who had a comfortable 3-1 win over Spain in Sweden. Janni Arnth struck the decisive spot kick to give Denmark a shock victory over a France team that had won all three group games, after the match had finished 1-1 following extra time, An upset was in the air as early as the 28th minute when Johanna Rasmussen gave Denmark the lead when she latched on to a long ball and flashed a left-foot shot past French goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi. France equalised from the penalty spot in the 74th minute after Camille Abily was pushed in the back by Line Roddik. Louisa Necib took the spot kick, and although Stina Petersen got both hands to the ball, she could not keep it out. The French pressed in vain for a winner but the game finished 1-1, and after extra time went to penalties. Necib and Sabrina Delannoy both missed from the spot for France leaving Arnth to fire home Denmark’s final kick. Denmark collected two points in the group stage and only made it into the quarter-finals when their name was drawn out of the hat ahead of Russia. They will now face Nordic neighbours Norway in the semifinal on Thursday. Solveig Guldbrandsen netted Norway’s first on 24 minutes as her cross from the right wrong-footed the defence and sailed into the Spanish goal. Spain defender Irene Paredes then shanked an attempted clearance past her goalkeeper to put Norway 2-0 up just before halftime. Ada Hegerberg swept in a sublime third for Norway and Spain’s Jennifer Hermoso managed to pull one back in injury time.
Trezeguet leaves River disappointment behind at Newell’s Reuters
BUENOS AIRES - Former France striker David Trezeguet joined Argentine champions Newell’s Old Boys on Monday after being discarded by River Plate last month. The 35-yearold, who helped River come back from relegation last year, will be at Newell’s on loan for a year having recovered from knee surgery in May. “This is a very special day for me. A month ago River told me they wouldn’t be counting on me,” Trezeguet told reporters after signing for Newell’s in the team’s home city of Rosario. “So, (it’s special) to sign for the last champions of Argentine football and an admirable performance in the Libertadores Cup, with a coach who’s off to take charge of the best team in the world.” Newell’s reached the semi-finals of South America’s top club tournament under Gerardo Martino, who on Monday became the leading candidate to take over at Spanish champions Barcelona. Trezeguet is expected to take on the mantle of Argentina striker Ignacio Scocco, top scorer in the league with 24 goals last season, who has left Newell’s for Brazil’s Internacional. He realised a dream playing for River, whom he has supported since his childhood in Buenos Aires, and had worked hard to get fit for the season starting on Aug. 2 before his hopes were dashed when coach Ramon Diaz said he was not in his plans. At Newell’s, Trezeguet said he can realise another dream of playing in the Libertadores Cup and “scoring the few goals I need to reach 300 in my career.” Trezeguet missed a large part of last season in which River finished second in the “Final” championship won by Newell’s last month due to knee trouble that required surgery.
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Arsenal beats Nagoya 3-1 in preseason friendly Associated Press Writer
TOYOTA, Japan — Olivier Giroud and Ryo Miyaichi scored in the first half to lead Arsenal to a 3-1 preseason win over Japan’s Nagoya Grampus on Monday. Giroud beat Nagoya goalkeeper Seigo Narazaki just three minutes in, converting a cross from Tomas Rosicky to give the visitors an early lead. Giroud was tripped in the box midway through the first half and local favorite Miyaichi doubled the lead from the penalty spot to the delight of the crowd at Toyota Stadium. Theo Walcott beat Narazaki in the 55th minute to make it 3-0 before Kisho Yano pulled one back for the hosts with a superb header that beat Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski in the 72nd. The match was a homecoming for Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger who managed Nagoya in 1995 and 1996.
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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, from Argentina, right, and Carles Puyol, left, attend a press conference at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain, Friday, July 19, 2013.
Puyol: Barcelona ready to back new coach
Associated Press Writer
BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona’s players, still deeply affected by Tito Vilanova’s illness, are ready to welcome his yet-to-be-named replacement in a sign of solidarity with their former coach. Barcelona captain Carles Puyol said Monday that Vilanova asked the squad to give its utmost for the club because it would be the best way of helping him now. “And that’s what we’ll do,” Puyol said. Vilanova stepped down as Barcelona coach following a recurrence of throat cancer. Barcelona’s squad, most looking ashen-
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Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud, left, is celebrated by teammate Ryo Miyaichi after scoring a goal against the Nagoya Grampus in the first half of their friendly soccer match at Toyota Stadium in Toyota, central Japan, Monday, July 22, 2013.
faced, attended Friday’s quickly convened news conference in which club president Sandro Rosell announced Vilanova’s decision. “We were not expecting it at all,” Puyol said. “The truth is that it was a hard blow. Unfortunately, lately we’ve received a few of those. This, however, was a little stronger.” Clearly rocked by the sudden departure, the club had initially called off its first preseason friendly, but on Monday announced it was re-scheduling the match for July 30. Eric Abidal visited his former teammates during training Monday to also show his solidarity. The 33year-old defender had a liver tumor removed in 2011 before doctors determined he needed a transplant. The operation in April 2012 proved so successful that the Frenchman played a full 90 minutes for Barcelona a year later. Puyol said all the names put forward to take over from Vilanova “are capable of leading the club.” Those most linked are Gerardo Martino, who led Argentine club Newell’s Old Boys last season, and former Barcelona B, Roma and now Celta Vigo coach Luis Enrique. Another name that is likely to join this list is Guus Hiddink, a Dutchman who left his post at Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala on Monday, only a month after signing a contract extension. Hiddink previously coached PSV Eindhoven and Real Madrid, and has also been caretaker coach at Chelsea. The Dutchman also found success at the international level, coaching the Netherlands, South Korea, Russia and Turkey. “Whenever he arrives, we’ll back him to the hilt,” Puyol said of whichever coach gets the job.
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Denmark shock France on penalties, meet Norway in semi Reuters
Brazil’s Atletico Mineiro’s Ronaldinho celebrates his team’s victory over Argentina’s Newell’s Old Boys at the end of a Copa Libertadores semifinal soccer match in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, early Thursday, July 11, 2013.
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Ronaldinho key to Atletico hopes in Copa final Associated Press Writer
SAO PAULO — Ronaldinho will need to produce a performance in keeping with his vintage best if his Atletico Mineiro team is to overturn a first-leg deficit and win the Copa Libertadores on Wednesday. The former two-time world player of the year has to help the Brazilian club — seeking its first international title— erase the 2-0 deficit established by Olimpia in Paraguay last week. “We still believe,” Ronaldinho wrote on Twitter. “It’s not over yet. We have one game to go and we will give our blood to win this title. We believe in the strength of this group and in the strength of the fans.” The Copa Libertadores is one of the few titles Ronaldinho hasn’t won in his career. After a decade in Europe with Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona and Milan, he returned to Brazilian glamor club Flamengo in 2011 before an abrupt departure to Atletico Mineiro last year. “This title means more than anything else for us,” the 33-year-old Ronaldinho said. His move to the Belo Horizonte club quickly vaulted it to being a top contender in Brazil and Latin America, and his teammates are hoping the former Brazil star will lead them to the coveted title on Wednesday.
“The team improved significantly after Ronaldinho arrived and we all have a lot of trust in him in a decisive moment like this,” striker Jo said. Forward Diego Tardelli added: “We know he is the star of our team and everybody respects him a lot for that.” It was a difficult first-leg loss for Ronaldinho and Atletico, with Olimpia’s second goal coming on a free kick in the final play of the match. Ronaldinho was far from his best, being ineffective through most of the game and being replaced in the second half. But there is reason for the Brazilian club to remain optimistic despite the loss. Atletico Mineiro was in the same situation in the semifinals after losing 2-0 to Newell’s Old Boys in the first leg in Argentina. Ronaldinho was great in the return game at home, though, and Atletico Mineiro won the match by the same score and eventually came out on top in a shootout, with goalkeeper Victor making a save in the last penalty. Victor also saved an injury-time penalty against Tijuana of Mexico
in the quarterfinals. Olimpia has already relinquished a two-goal first leg lead in the final of the Copa Libertadores. It happened in 1989, when it fell to Atletico Nacional of Colombia on penalties, marking the last time such advantage was lost. Olimpia won the tournament the following year, adding to the trophy it had won for the first time in 1979. The Paraguayans made it to this year’s final by holding on to that same two-goal advantage against Colombia’s Santa Fe. It won 2-0 at home and advanced despite a 1-0 loss in the away leg. Olimpia is hoping to repeat the success of the last time it played a final against a Brazilian club, in 2002. It lost 1-0 to Sao Caetano in the first leg at home but won the return in Brazil 2-1 and clinched the title on penalties. This is the ninth straight year that at least one Brazilian team has made the final. Brazilian clubs have won the past three titles: Corinthians last year, Santos in 2011 and Internacional in 2010.
STOCKHOLM - Denmark stunned France 4-2 on penalties on Monday to set up a European women’s soccer championship semi-final against Norway, who had a comfortable 3-1 win over Spain in Sweden. Janni Arnth struck the decisive spot kick to give Denmark a shock victory over a France team that had won all three group games, after the match had finished 1-1 following extra time, An upset was in the air as early as the 28th minute when Johanna Rasmussen gave Denmark the lead when she latched on to a long ball and flashed a left-foot shot past French goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi. France equalised from the penalty spot in the 74th minute after Camille Abily was pushed in the back by Line Roddik. Louisa Necib took the spot kick, and although Stina Petersen got both hands to the ball, she could not keep it out. The French pressed in vain for a winner but the game finished 1-1, and after extra time went to penalties. Necib and Sabrina Delannoy both missed from the spot for France leaving Arnth to fire home Denmark’s final kick. Denmark collected two points in the group stage and only made it into the quarter-finals when their name was drawn out of the hat ahead of Russia. They will now face Nordic neighbours Norway in the semifinal on Thursday. Solveig Guldbrandsen netted Norway’s first on 24 minutes as her cross from the right wrong-footed the defence and sailed into the Spanish goal. Spain defender Irene Paredes then shanked an attempted clearance past her goalkeeper to put Norway 2-0 up just before halftime. Ada Hegerberg swept in a sublime third for Norway and Spain’s Jennifer Hermoso managed to pull one back in injury time.
Trezeguet leaves River disappointment behind at Newell’s Reuters
BUENOS AIRES - Former France striker David Trezeguet joined Argentine champions Newell’s Old Boys on Monday after being discarded by River Plate last month. The 35-yearold, who helped River come back from relegation last year, will be at Newell’s on loan for a year having recovered from knee surgery in May. “This is a very special day for me. A month ago River told me they wouldn’t be counting on me,” Trezeguet told reporters after signing for Newell’s in the team’s home city of Rosario. “So, (it’s special) to sign for the last champions of Argentine football and an admirable performance in the Libertadores Cup, with a coach who’s off to take charge of the best team in the world.” Newell’s reached the semi-finals of South America’s top club tournament under Gerardo Martino, who on Monday became the leading candidate to take over at Spanish champions Barcelona. Trezeguet is expected to take on the mantle of Argentina striker Ignacio Scocco, top scorer in the league with 24 goals last season, who has left Newell’s for Brazil’s Internacional. He realised a dream playing for River, whom he has supported since his childhood in Buenos Aires, and had worked hard to get fit for the season starting on Aug. 2 before his hopes were dashed when coach Ramon Diaz said he was not in his plans. At Newell’s, Trezeguet said he can realise another dream of playing in the Libertadores Cup and “scoring the few goals I need to reach 300 in my career.” Trezeguet missed a large part of last season in which River finished second in the “Final” championship won by Newell’s last month due to knee trouble that required surgery.
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Arsenal beats Nagoya 3-1 in preseason friendly Associated Press Writer
TOYOTA, Japan — Olivier Giroud and Ryo Miyaichi scored in the first half to lead Arsenal to a 3-1 preseason win over Japan’s Nagoya Grampus on Monday. Giroud beat Nagoya goalkeeper Seigo Narazaki just three minutes in, converting a cross from Tomas Rosicky to give the visitors an early lead. Giroud was tripped in the box midway through the first half and local favorite Miyaichi doubled the lead from the penalty spot to the delight of the crowd at Toyota Stadium. Theo Walcott beat Narazaki in the 55th minute to make it 3-0 before Kisho Yano pulled one back for the hosts with a superb header that beat Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski in the 72nd. The match was a homecoming for Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger who managed Nagoya in 1995 and 1996.
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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, from Argentina, right, and Carles Puyol, left, attend a press conference at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain, Friday, July 19, 2013.
Puyol: Barcelona ready to back new coach
Associated Press Writer
BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona’s players, still deeply affected by Tito Vilanova’s illness, are ready to welcome his yet-to-be-named replacement in a sign of solidarity with their former coach. Barcelona captain Carles Puyol said Monday that Vilanova asked the squad to give its utmost for the club because it would be the best way of helping him now. “And that’s what we’ll do,” Puyol said. Vilanova stepped down as Barcelona coach following a recurrence of throat cancer. Barcelona’s squad, most looking ashen-
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Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud, left, is celebrated by teammate Ryo Miyaichi after scoring a goal against the Nagoya Grampus in the first half of their friendly soccer match at Toyota Stadium in Toyota, central Japan, Monday, July 22, 2013.
faced, attended Friday’s quickly convened news conference in which club president Sandro Rosell announced Vilanova’s decision. “We were not expecting it at all,” Puyol said. “The truth is that it was a hard blow. Unfortunately, lately we’ve received a few of those. This, however, was a little stronger.” Clearly rocked by the sudden departure, the club had initially called off its first preseason friendly, but on Monday announced it was re-scheduling the match for July 30. Eric Abidal visited his former teammates during training Monday to also show his solidarity. The 33year-old defender had a liver tumor removed in 2011 before doctors determined he needed a transplant. The operation in April 2012 proved so successful that the Frenchman played a full 90 minutes for Barcelona a year later. Puyol said all the names put forward to take over from Vilanova “are capable of leading the club.” Those most linked are Gerardo Martino, who led Argentine club Newell’s Old Boys last season, and former Barcelona B, Roma and now Celta Vigo coach Luis Enrique. Another name that is likely to join this list is Guus Hiddink, a Dutchman who left his post at Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala on Monday, only a month after signing a contract extension. Hiddink previously coached PSV Eindhoven and Real Madrid, and has also been caretaker coach at Chelsea. The Dutchman also found success at the international level, coaching the Netherlands, South Korea, Russia and Turkey. “Whenever he arrives, we’ll back him to the hilt,” Puyol said of whichever coach gets the job.
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Humanity Tragedy Monument IBP
KUTA - This monument was built to remind us of a terrible incident, namely the bomb blast in Kuta Bali on Saturday night October 12, 2002 on Jalan Legian Kuta. It caused death toll as many as 202 people from 22 countries and 324 people suffered from serious injuries and wounds. Such very powerful bomb blast also caused damage to buildings and vehicles within a radius of one kilometer. Since the tragedy, tourism industry as the backbone of Bali’s economy suffered the most serious slump in the history, but thanks to the persistence of the whole society and government, now slowly but surely it has now undergone at restoration. The monument itself was established in the former area of explosion (Ground Zero). Most prominent part of the monument is Kayonan with a large white wooden leaf symbolizing the universe and its contents. At the bottom of this kayonan, there are inscription of `victims’ name list that died in the incident and their nationality.
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Radwanska upset by Polish uproar to nude photo shoot Reuters
STANFORD, California - Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska is upset and surprised about the negative reaction in her home country after posing nude for ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue.” The world number four, who was photographed naked while sitting beside a swimming pool filled with tennis balls, came under fire in her largely Catholic country with priests and a Catholic youth group calling her behaviour immoral. “I was little disappointed,” Radwanska told Reuters at the Bank of the West Classic where she is the top seed. “I was really surprised about everything that happened afterward. The Catholics reacted like
I did a photo shoot for a men’s magazine. I was surprised because they didn’t even know what I exactly the photo shoot was.” Radwanska, whose arms and positioning in the photo cover her private areas, is one of 21 athletes that appear nude in the annual issue that showcases the physiques of athletes, including a cover photo of 77-year-old golfer Gary Player. Three days ago, Radwanska took to Facebook to defend herself. She said she made
the decision because “the press and subject in Poland was huge. It was just to show the people what the magazine actually was.” On Facebook, Radwanska said that the pictures were not meant to cause offense and that “to brand them as immoral clearly does not take into account the context of the magazine. “Moreover, they do not contain any explicit imagery whatsoever. I train extremely hard to keep my body in shape and that’s what the article and the magazine is all about. “I agreed to participate to help encourage young people, and especially girls, to exercise, stay in shape and be healthy.” The 24-year-old Radwanska added that she is no longer reeling from her defeat to Germany’s Sabine Lisicki in the Wimbledon
semi-final in early July. The Pole was the highest seed remaining in the tournament at that point and, had she won the match, would have faced eventual champion Marion Bartoli in the final, whom she owns a 7-0 record against. Radwanska, who has yet to win a grand slam, said she grew exhausted late in the match because she had played three marathon matches prior to the semi-finals. “It was a huge chance this year,” she said. Definitely I had a chance to win a grand slam. “It’s always disappointing and of course I was sad that I didn’t use the opportunity that I had but I wasn’t 100 percent fit. I wanted to get to the balls and my legs were just staying in one spot. I couldn’t really move.”
Celtics sign Faverani, Pressey Associated Press Writer
BOSTON — The Boston Celtics on Monday signed center Vitor Faverani of Brazil and point guard Phil Pressey from Missouri. Faverani, 25, is a 6-foot-11 center who played last season for Valencia Basket in Spain, where
he averaged 9.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. Pressey is a 5-foot-11 point guard who was a member of the Celtics’ summer league roster. He averaged 9.4 points, 6.6 assists and two steals in 23 minutes in Orlando this month.
Pressey was a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award given to the best point guard in the nation last season while averaging 11.9 points and seven assists per game as a junior. He finished one assist shy of the second highest single season mark for assists in SEC history.
Jorge Lorenzo admitted he feared his MotoGP career could be over if he crashed again at Laguna Seca after his run of injuries. World champion Lorenzo had already undergone two operations in as many weeks following crashes at Assen and the Sachsenring that first broke his collarbone, then damaged the titanium plate that had been inserted to fix the original damage. He reversed an initial decision to skip the United States Grand Prix
and rode carefully to sixth place. “I feel proud and relaxed, finally,” Lorenzo said after the race. “It was a dangerous and difficult situation because obviously with a third crash and a third operation the championship or even my career could be finished. We saved this situation. “Now at Indy I’m sure I will be almost perfect and I can fight for victory again.” Lorenzo had finished fifth at Assen just two days after his first injury, but said the cumulative effect of recent weeks meant he was
in worse condition at Laguna. “I am not in shape, one month or more without training and two general anaesthetics,” he said. “I felt quite dizzy from the middle of the race to the end so my performance was getting worse. “The bike was also not working the same as in warm-up.” With Marc Marquez winning the race, Lorenzo is now 26 points behind Honda’s rookie at the season’s mid-way point. The championship resumes at Indianapolis after its summer break on August 19.
Lorenzo feared crash could have threatened MotoGP career
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Jorge Lorenzo, left, of Spain, leads Dani Pedrosa (26), also of Spain, and Carl Crutchlow (35), of England, as they race during the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix MotoGP world championship motorcycle race on Sunday, July 21, 2013, at Laguna Seca raceway in Monterey, Calif.
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Bus crash in central Thailand kills 19 Nineteen people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a lorry in central Thailand, reports say. At least 20 more people were injured in the incident, which took place in Saraburi province early on Tuesday. The double-decker tour bus - which was travelling from Bangkok to Roi Et in the north-east - burst into flames after the collision. It was not immediately known how many people were on board the bus. A police investigation is now under way. All of those who died were on the bus, Thai newspaper the Nation said. The accident happened around 05:00 local time (22:00 GMT) when the lorry veered across the road and hit the bus, the Bangkok Post said. “The truck crossed from the opposite lane of traffic and hit the bus,” said local police officer Lieutenant Colonel Assavathep Janthanari, according to AFP news agency. Police have arrested the lorry driver, reports say. A pick-up truck behind the bus was also reportedly involved in the collision.
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A masked protester holding a Brazilian flag marches with others to a police station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Monday, July 22, 2013. The protesters went to the police station to demand the release of fellow protesters arrested by police during clashes outside the palace hosting Pope Francis’ welcoming ceremony. About an hour after the pope concluded his short speech, police began cracking down on the protests, firing rubber bullets and tear gas in an effort to disperse the crowd.
Brazil crowds greet Pope Francis in Rio de Janeiro
Pope Francis has been greeted by tens of thousands of Brazilian pilgrims as he began his first trip abroad since becoming head of the Catholic Church. The first Latin American Pope toured Rio de Janeiro in an open car and then met President Dilma Rousseff at the state governor’s palace. After he left, police fired tear gas to disperse protests against both the government and the cost of the visit. He is in Brazil to attend the Roman Catholic World Youth Day festival. In a speech soon after his arrival, the Pope urged young Catholics to “make disciples of all nations”. “I came to meet young people coming from all over the world, drawn to the open arms of Christ the Redeemer,” he said at the governor ’s palace, referring to Rio’s famous vast statue of Jesus. “They want to find a refuge in his embrace, right near his heart to hear his call clearly and powerfully.” About an hour after the welcoming ceremony, police fired stun grenades and tear gas against the demonstrators outside the palace. It was the latest rally against what the protesters described as endemic government corruption
across the country. But some were also unhappy about $53m (£34m) in public fund being spent for the pontiff’s visit. There was little damage and few arrests, but it was a reminder that there is still a real possibility the pontiff ’s high-profile visit to a huge Catholic festival in Rio could be overshadowed by political events, the BBC’s Wyre Davies reports from Rio. In a separate development, the military said a homemade explosive device had been discovered at a shrine between Rio and Sao Paulo that the Pope is due to visit on Wednesday. The device at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Conception of Aparecida was described as being “of low power” and was destroyed. Relaxed and jovial
As Pope Francis disembarked from the Alitalia plane in Rio’s
airport earlier on Monday, he was welcomed by President Rousseff to cheers and applause from the waiting crowd. A choir sang an anthem linked to Youth Day and he was presented with a bouquet of flowers. The Pope waved before being taken by motorcade to the centre of Rio, where thousands of pilgrims have gathered. Pope Francis looked relaxed and jovial as he was driven into Rio de Janeiro in a modest family car, with the window wound down and security officials struggling to keep back the crowds, our correspondent says. Crowds mobbed the Pope’s car as it made its way from the airport There were chaotic scenes as his car became stuck in one of the city’s infamous traffic jams, after the pope’s driver reportedly took the wrong turn and missed lanes that had been cleared by the security services.
EU adds Hezbollah’s military wing to terrorism list Reuters
BRUSSELS - The European Union agreed on Monday to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist, a move driven by concerns over the Lebanese militant group’s involvement in a deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria and the Syrian war. The powerful Lebanese Shi’ite movement, an ally of Iran, has attracted concern in Europe and around the world in recent months for its role in sending thousands of fighters to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, helping turn the tide of Syria’s two-yearold civil war. Britain and the Netherlands have long pressed their EU peers to impose sanctions on the Shi’ite Muslim group, citing evidence it was behind an attack in the coastal Bulgarian city of Burgas a year ago that killed five Israelis and their driver. Until now, many EU capitals had resisted lobbying from Washington and Israel to blacklist the group, warning such a move could fuel instability in Lebanon and in the Middle East. Hezbollah, which functions as a political party that is part of the Lebanese government and as a militia with thousands of guerrillas under arms, rejected the EU’s “aggressive and unjust decision which is not based on any proof or evidence”. EU states had taken a dangerous step at the behest of the United States and Israel, Hezbollah’s staunchest foes, it said in a statement which described the declaration as “written by American hands, in Zionist ink”. Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said the decision was “hasty” and could lead to further sanctions against the movement that would complicate Lebanese politics. “This will hinder Lebanese political life in the future, especially considering our sensitivities in Lebanon,” he told Reuters. “We need to tighten bonds among Lebanese parties, rather than create additional problems.” The blacklisting opens the way for EU governments to freeze any assets Hezbollah’s military wing may have in Europe. “There’s no question of accepting terrorist organisations in Europe,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters. Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said in a statement that the EU had taken an important step by “dealing with the military wing of Hezbollah, freezing its assets, hindering its fundraising and thereby limiting its capacity to act”. In the United States, Secretary of State John Kerry said Syria was an important factor behind the EU vote. “A growing number of governments are recognising Hezbollah as the dangerous and destabilising terrorist organization that it is,” he said.
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INDONESIA Yudhoyono calls for prevention of radicalism
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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on the country’s Islam high-learning institutes to improve their quality so that Indonesian students would not choose to study abroad and end up studying at hardline institutions. He made the appeal when receiving members of the Forum of Rectors of Islam Universities at the state palace here on Tuesday. “I have visited Pakistan. I saw some of our children studying there including in Islamic boarding schools. Many of them are good but there are also hardline schools,” he said. President Yudhoyono also said when an upheaval happened in Yemen several years ago there were reports that several Indonesian students from hardline schools there took part in the fight. “I am sad to hear that. They are supposed to learn Islam there and so they must not take part in the political affairs in that country. With that stance we could get knowledge and would not bring bad things from that country,” he said. To prevent them from happening again he said he had asked offices concerned to be more selective in giving visas to those wishing to study abroad. He said very extreme schools abroad have the potential to “produce new extremism in Indonesia.” The behavior, he said, would only make their parents, who hope
that their children would return to be great clerics or Islamic intellectuals, sad. “Their parents hope by studying abroad their children would become Islamic intellectuals, their knowledge increase. But suddenly they bring extremism, show extreme behavior. That makes them sad. Moreover if they become suicide bombers,” he said. In view of that he urged leaders of Islam high-learning institutes in the country to improve their quality and take an active part in the fight against radicalism. “Save them, by improving the quality of the institutes you are leading so that they would not go abroad to study,” he said. President Yudhoyono underlined the importance of fighting in the Islamic way and prevent evils referring to the act of suicide bombing. “Save our children and prevent them from doing that, killing themselves and their brothers,” he said. President Yudhoyono was flanked by education minister Mohammad Nuh, religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali, cabinet secretary Dipo Alam and minister/ state secretary Sudi Silalahi in the meeting.
Nazi-themed cafe to close amid outrage
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BANDUNG — The owner of a Nazi-themed cafe in central Indonesia said Monday he has decided to permanently close down amid intense pressure from home and abroad. Henry Mulyana, who ran the Soldatenkaffee in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung, met with local authorities Monday, and tourism chief Herry M. Djauhari suggested that Mulyana change the name and theme of the cafe. City officials had earlier expressed concerns about the cafe’s motives and worried it might incite hate and racism in the town, which is a tourist destination. Mulyana said he is considering his options, but will not reopen the Soldatenkaffee cafe. The cafe opened in 2011, but recent media reports about its Nazi-related memorabilia, including a red wall with a portrait of Adolf Hitler and a flag with a swastika symbol, have prompted angry responses from
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This Sunday, July 14, 2013 photo shows Nazi-related memorabilia hanging on a wall at Soldatenkaffe restaurant in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Authorities in central Indonesia will ask the restaurant owner to explain his reasons for opening the Nazi-themed cafe that has sparked controversy among locals and tourists, an official said Thursday. foreigners and Indonesians. Mulyana insisted that he was not pro-Nazi but that he was instead using the decorations to attract customers. It is the second time this month that Nazi images have provoked controversy in Southeast Asia. Last
week, Thailand’s premier university apologized for displaying a billboard that showed Adolf Hitler alongside Superman and other superheroes, saying it was painted by ignorant students who didn’t realize Hitler’s image would offend anyone.
Indonesian promoter to repay Chelsea fans Agence France-Presse
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Indonesian fans of English Premier League football club Chelsea chant as they welcome the team upon their arrival at the Halim airport in Jakarta on July 23, 2013. An Indonesian sports promoter will return thousands of dollars to local Chelsea fans who were charged a hefty sum to rub shoulders with the players without the Blues’ consent, the organiser said July 22.
JAKARTA - An Indonesian sports promoter will return thousands of dollars to local Chelsea fans who were charged a hefty sum to rub shoulders with the players without the Blues’ consent, the organiser said Monday. The scores of fans, some of whom paid more than $2,000 to attend exclusive sideline events, will now meet the players for free before a friendly against the Indonesia AllStars on Thursday. The promoter, Nine Sport, said it managed to sell out the nearly 150 tickets to various events within a month. It slapped a 22 million rupiah ($2,178) price tag for each of the 24 spots at a meetand-greet, seven million rupiah for a jersey signing event and 5.5 million rupiah for a coaching clinic. Both Chelsea, which does not charge fans to meet players, and the promoter put the debacle down to a cultural misunderstanding ahead of the team’s first-ever visit to Indonesia, a football-crazy nation of 240
million people. “While we understand this is accepted practice in Indonesia, it does not fit with our tour philosophy... towards leaving a lasting legacy in countries and communities we visit,” a Chelsea spokesman told AFP. He said the team still looked forward to the visit. The money handed over to meet the Blues is testament to Indonesia’s love of the English Premier League, with stadiums packed for friendlies against Arsenal and Liverpool in the past two weeks. Nine Sport CEO Arif Putra Wicaksono said the tickets to the sideline events were sold to cover the huge cost of Chelsea’s match fee. Nine Sport was informed by Chelsea last Thursday that they had a policy not to charge people to meet the players, Wicaksono said. In collaboration with its main sponsor, Bank Negara Indonesia, Wicaksono said the promoter would refund the money with some assistance from Chelsea.
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Asian shares higher on US stimulus hopes
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HONG KONG - Asian markets rose on Tuesday as unexpectedly weak data out of the United States increased the likelihood the Federal Reserve would keep its stimulus programme in place for some time. current expectations of any actual increase in US interest rates from late 2014 at the earliest.” While a positive for equities traders, gains in Wall Street’s three main indices were capped by disappointing corporate results, including from market giant McDonald’s. The Dow was flat, the S&P 500 rose 0.20 percent and the Nasdaq added 0.36 percent. However, expectations that US stimulus would remain in place sent the dollar down to 99.59 yen in New York from 100 yen in Tokyo earlier in the day. In afternoon trade on Tuesday the greenback bought 99.48 yen, while the euro fetched 131.15 yen and $1.3183, compared with 131.33 yen and $1.3186 in New York on Monday. China’s Li was quoted in the Beijing News as saying: “The bottom line for economic growth is seven percent, and this bottom line must not be crossed.” The target was necessary to ensure China’s goal of doubling gross domestic product between 2010 and 2020, he told economic experts and business representatives. The comments buoyed Chinese traders as it indicated Beijing would introduce some form of economy-boosting measures should growth fall too much, as it tries to avoid a so-called hard landing. Mainland markets have suffered this year as months of data have pointed to a slowdown in the world’s number two economy and key driver of global growth. Eyes will now be on the release on Wednesday of an index of manufacturing activity that will provide a better idea about the state of the economy.
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Calonarang, a unique Balinese dance-drama
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Gains were led by Hong Kong and Shanghai after China’s premier hinted that the government had a lower limit below which it would not let economic growth fall. Tokyo rose 0.82 percent, or 120.47 points, to 14,778.51, Seoul added 1.27 percent, or 23.80 points, to close at 1,904.15 and Sydney advanced 0.30 percent, or 15.2 points, to 5,017.1. Shanghai ended 1.95 percent higher, adding 39.11 points to 2,043.88 after Li Keqiang was quoted in state media as saying economic growth must not slip below the “bottom line” of seven percent. In the afternoon Hong Kong added 2.26 percent. With few catalysts to drive action, hopes that the Fed would hold off winding down its bond-buying were taken as a positive, despite a soft lead from Wall Street. The National Association of Realtors said home sales fell 1.2 percent to an annual rate of 5.08 million in June, from a downwardly revised 5.15 million in May. The average analyst estimate was for a rise to a 5.28 million pace in June. Global markets steadied last week after Fed boss Ben Bernanke said the easy money policy would be kept in place for as long as needed until the economy was up to speed. Markets have been in turmoil for weeks prior as dealers bet on an end to the scheme in the near future. “Investors appear to be adjusting for a view that markets have overshot on the timing and impact of Fed monetary tightening,” CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner told Dow Jones Newswires. “Economic growth will need to pick up from current levels for markets to bring forward
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In this photograph taken on October 14, 2011 an Indian employee at a jewellery stall picks up a piece of gold jewellery during the 13th Edition of India’s Leading Jewellery Retail Exhibition “ Jewels of India”, in Bangalore. India, the world’s biggest gold-buying nation, has slapped fresh curbs on imports of the precious metal in a bid to curb a record current account deficit, late July 22, 2013.
Yahoo to buy 40 Million shares from Loeb Associated Press
SUNNYVALE, California — Activist investor Dan Loeb and two other directors nominated by his hedge fund are leaving Yahoo’s board after big gains in the Internet company’s stock price over the past year. Yahoo is also buying back 40 million shares of its common stock from Third Point LLC, Loeb’s hedge fund. That cuts Loeb’s stake in Yahoo from 5.8 percent to less than 2 percent. Loeb instigated the departure of former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson in 2012 by revealing that Thompson did not have a computer science degree, as Yahoo had previously stated. He left that May as Loeb and his two allies were named to Yahoo’s board. Longtime Google executive
Marissa Mayer became CEO two months later. The stock had risen about 83 percent since then on stock repurchases and earnings growth stemming from its stake in Chinese Internet company Alibaba. Shares slid more than 4 percent Monday morning. Yahoo is spending $1.16 billion to buy Third Point’s stock. It’s paying $29.11 per share, Friday’s closing price. It will pay cash. Yahoo said it will have about $700 million remaining under an existing $5 billion buyback announced last year. The Sunnyvale, California, company said it plans to continue making repurchases under that plan. Loeb’s allies, turnaround specialist Harry Wilson and former MTV executive Michael Wolf, will also be leaving Yahoo’s board, which will
then have seven directors. PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, who was named a board member upon mutual agreement between the board and Third Point, will continue in his post. Yahoo said that the remaining directors will take a look at the board’s size and composition. It did not say when, or if, any other board changes would be made. Shares of Yahoo fell $1.22 to $27.89 in Monday morning trading. Shares hit a 5-year high of $29.83 on Thursday. The company on Tuesday reported that its second-quarter profit rose 46 percent to $331 million, while net revenue declined 1 percent to $1.07 billion. Yahoo is losing ground to rivals Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. in the online advertising market that generates most of their revenue.
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Hindu community in Bali has a unique performing art known as Calonarang. The performing art poses a dance-drama whose artists should master the elements of dance, music and vocal. A troupe is supported by tens of artists. Interestingly, almost all the dancers consist of ‘selected’ artists. In other words, they have superior talent, so that every performance can draw the attention of spectators. Frequently, it is also graced by the contest of shakti power between the dancers and people having magical powers. It is commonly carried out in the ‘invitation’ scene, where the dancers invite people to get involved in a magical power contest. It is usually done by the player dancing the Rangda effigy. In this scene, it is filled with matebekan (stabbing kris dagger in the chest) performed by the other players against the Rangda. In this session, the performing area will usually turn magical, horrific and creepy. If the dancers have come into trance, the stabbers will stab themselves with the kris dagger. The more horrific atmosphere happens when living players are given a mantra and then act as a dead person (corpse). Afterward, the body is consecrated (as in cremation). Then, they are taken to cemetery. Mystical atmosphere is strongly felt in the show at this scene. Calonarang is indeed a special performing art that cannot be staged arbitrarily. However, after the development of tourism, the Calonarang is also staged for tourist entertainment. However, time and type of ceremony is not made specifically. AA Gde Raka, a religious philosopher, said the Calonarang dance-drama was actually a ritual event where the sanctified effigies in the form of Rangda and Barong venerated were taken down
and danced. The Calonarang itself was performed on the piodalan (temple anniversary) in the Dalem Temple and other temples. Players getting involved in the Calonarang attraction were those specifically having high spiritual knowledge and the arts. According to him, the story of Calonarang was inseparable from the concept of rwa bhineda or basic dualism such as the quality of good and bad being always side by side. The Calonarang story was taken from a fairy tale on a widow named Walu Nateng Girah from Girah village, Kediri. Walu meant widow, Nateng (Queen) and Girah was the name of a village in Kediri, East Java. Therefore, Walu Nateng Girah meant a widow queen from Girah village. Walu Nateng Girah is a disciple of left school representing the adharma. Meanwhile, the King Airlangga is the follower of goodness representing the dharma. “It has significance that in this life good and bad qualities are inseparable,” he said. In that struggle, none of Mpu Bharadah and Nateng Girah won symbolizing that good and bad was inseparable. The staging of Calonarang performance was not entertainment art, but due to influence of globalization, many Calonarang performances then led to profane art, too. According to Gde Raka, the word Calonarang was derived from the word arang meaning the ash related to plague caused by Nateng Girah where the Girah village was like to have been transformed into ashes because many people were sick and died. Calonarang performance was usually commenced with the presence of barong dance, telek dance and followed by the emergence of young ladies. The next scene told about Walu Nateng Girah and her followers practicing black magic getting involved in a struggle against the forces of King Airlangga belonging to white school.
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Hindu community in Bali has a unique performing art known as Calonarang. The performing art poses a dance-drama whose artists should master the elements of dance, music and vocal.
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The photo shows Benoa Bay taking from above. Utilization of the water area denotes one of the authorities owned by central government. To certain lineups, it can give a strong indication related to the intervention of central government in the Benoa Bay reclamation planned by investor. Moreover, the reclamation planned is in a large scale.
Do not exploit Bali for the sake of imaging Bali Post
MANGUPURA - Utilization of the water area denotes one of the authorities owned by central government. To certain lineups, it can give a strong indication related to the intervention of central government in the Benoa Bay reclamation planned by investor. Moreover, the reclamation planned is in a large scale. “Regardless of provincial policy, if the reclamation area planned to reach 838 hectares, it is a great indication if the central government has intervention in it. Moreover, it also has something to do with the utilization of coastal area,” said Putu Parwata, a legislator of the Badung House. According to him, within the framework of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, central government also had a responsibility to preserve the nature and culture in the region. Central government might not be negligent and only accentuated the international imaging so that it justified various forms of exploitation of nature. This PDI-P politician said that central government should also be transparent in managing policy. It should not in-
fringe any rules or regulations deliberately obscured for the sake of passing the development only orientated in the temporary imaging. If the investor plans qualified, the Bali tourism probably raised considering various high class facilities were planned to be established on the reclaimed land. However, was it true if Balinese people would find it useful? It still needed to be questioned and examined because basically the end of government policy was improving the quality of life and well-being of people, not on the contrary, leading people to miseries. Similarly, Bali had been known for its cultural tourism. Global eyes were focused here due to the uniqueness of nature and culture of Bali, not due to modern tourism facilities.
When the nature and culture of Bali got disturbed, its echo would reach every corner of the world. According to Parwata, this was worth noting by policy makers in addressing the investment plans coming into Bali. On the other hand, the nontransparency in the reclamation plan of Benoa Bay remained to draw a great question in the community. Parwata said, anyhow, the transparency was needed in the contemporary era. It was no longer the time for the government to cover up the plans having a great influence to the landscape and social culture of Bali. “Obviously, it should be opened to public and this issue cannot be assessed by a few circles only. Please involve all the components of society,” he said. (kmb25)
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Klungkung Electoral Commission criticized by residents Semarapura (Bali Post)-
The Klungkung Electoral Commission (KPUD) was criticized again by Klungkung residents. At this time, the Commission was protested due to careless installation of billboard at Kusamba village, Dawan subdistrict. A large-size billboard carrying the four pairs of regent-deputy regent candidate of Klungkung was posted right in front of the Pujud Gempel Temple, precisely at the 3-way intersection to Kampung Kusamba traditional port. Against such condition, the headman of Kusamba, Ketut Winastra, came to the office of the Klungkung Electoral Commission, Monday (Jul 22) and asked to move the billboard. Winastra claimed that since the 6x4-meter billboard was posted on Friday (Jul 19), his party received many complaints from Kusamba residents. Apart from covering up the temple front side, the jumbo size billboard also disrupted the traffic flow to Kampong Kusamba. In
fact, the Klungkung Electoral Commission installed it without coordination with Kusamba village. Winastra then criticized the Commission that prohibited the installation of billboard infringing the recommendation of the Electoral Supervisory Committee. However, the Commission
even installed it haphazardly. Installation of the billboard was also assessed to disrupt the parking space at Kusamba village market, so that traders also complained. Responding to the complaints of residents, Winastra admitted to have forwarded it to the Klungkung Electoral
Commission. He said the Commission had promised to check the billboard and moved it from previous location. Responding to the complaint, Chairman of the Klungkung Electoral Commission, AA Gede Parwata, argued on Monday if the installation of billboard was carried out by a partner, but he admitted if the selection of location was specified by the Commission. “If the Commission acts incorrectly, please protest because there is no super body institution,” he said while adding if the billboard had been
removed. Installation of the billboard to welcome the regent election of Klungkung was often complained by residents. Apart from the billboard of the Electoral Commission, previously the Klungkung Electoral Supervisory Committee had also issued a recommendation on the proliferation of candidate billboards mounted at restricted zones so that they violated the rules of the Commission because it contained an invitation to vote whereas the regional election had not yet entered into the election campaign period. (kmb31)
Warden held joint training at Buleleng Police
Singaraja (Bali Post)-
A number of Singaraja Jail Warden held training together at Buleleng Police field last Monday (22/7) connected to get them much prepared facing their working place. As seen at Buleleng Police, a number of wardens were enthusiast following the training under an instructor from the Police. They were using protectors and held warm ups before given training on how to tackle mass of people. Head of Buleleng Police operational Section, PC Ida Putu Wedanajati, as permitted by Buleleng Police GAPC Benny Arjanto, stated this training was a first and it is very needed. Warden officers own skills including shooting were also trained. “This is to make them use to target their gun and to make sure the bullets are active while using it,” Wedanajati stated. (kmb)
146 Bangli residents have HIV/AIDS
Bangli (Bali Post)-
The HIV/AIDS sufferers have increased with this time 146 people are infected in Bangli alone which two of them are toddlers. This number is from when the virus was found here up until today according to Head of Bangli AIDS Management Commission Manager, Pande Ayu Wayan Wati, S. KM. last Monday (22/7). She added, the toddlers were 2 and 3 years old while mostly are productive age around 30 and above. The highest causer would be unhealthy free sex. Even though Bangli is quiet from night entertainment but there are still possibilities the virus were caught while sufferers were not in Bangli as those infected were those who works outside the area as drivers, leabours and entrepreneurs. With the Health Agency, a number of socializations has been tking place and from these numbers were results from those who took blood test in Bangli Hospital. Meanwhile further treatment takes place in Sanglah and Gianyar Hospitals. (ina)
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Padang Bai Harbor
Guard Padangbai Harbor
Police armed with photos of terrorist syndicates Amlapura (Bali Post)—
Police at Padangbai Harbor, Karangasem, looked increasingly to tighten the security on the entry-exit point of Bali from the east, Monday (Jul 22). Aside from checking the luggage of passengers, police were also provided with photographs of the hazardous terrorist syndicate members. It was justified by Chief of Padangbai Marine Police, Ketut Suartika Adnyana, on the sidelines of tightening the harbor security. All personnel were equipped with the photos of terrorist syndicate
members with the hopes when found any suspicious individual, the personnel in charge were expected to immediately make coordination with command post. Suartika added that until Monday and within the past few days the personnel had not found any passengers carrying hazardous goods or related crimes. Meanwhile, related to the fasting month and the Eid, there had been no increase in the number of passengers leaving or coming to Bali so far. Even, the passenger situation looked a bit
deserted. As the security last year, the number of passengers was estimated to increase around seven days ahead of the Eid. Meanwhile, other related to the international events scheduled to be held in Bali, strict security guard at the exit and entry points into Bali like at Padangbai Harbor also had something to do with the missing of dozens of dynamites in Bogor some time ago as well as the escape of some terrorist inmates from a correctional institution in Sumatra a few days ago. (013)
Vietnam dismisses US concerns on human rights Associated Press Writer
HANOI, Vietnam — American concerns over the arrests of dissidents and other human rights abuses in Vietnam shouldn’t stand in the way of closer military and economic ties with the Southeast Asian nation, the country’s president said Tuesday ahead of talks in Washington with President Barack Obama. President Truong Tan Sang’s remarks, made in emailed responses to questions by The Associated Press, are a sign of Vietnam’s desire to strengthen relations with the United States, a country with which it shares concerns over Chinese assertiveness in the region. Sang’s trip to the United States is only the second such visit by a head of state since the former foes resumed relations in 1995. He will meet President Obama on Thursday. The United States is also seeking closer ties with Vietnam, part of its strategic “rebalancing” toward Asia, which is emerging as a vital partner for the sluggish economies of the West. But it wants to see the communist country release dissidents. Some officials have said progress on a closer relationship was contingent on an improved human rights record. On human rights, Sang said that in Vietnam “the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people are respected.” Asked about American concerns about the arrests of bloggers, he said: “There are a number of differences between Vietnam and the United States including those on human rights, but this is quite normal.” “It is my hope that after five years of no exchanges of high-level visits between the two countries, my official visit to the United States this time will contribute to elevating Vietnam-US relations into a profound, efficient and substantive framework,” he said. The invitation by Obama for talks at the White House took some analysts by surprise, who suggested that Washington’s desire to shift its military and diplomatic focus to Asia had trumped its stated concerns over human rights in Vietnam. “It looks like the human rights issue is being finessed. Behind closed doors Obama can raise the concerns, but it’s obviously not going to feature prominently,” said Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnam at the University of New South Wales in Australia. “For Obama, it is ‘how do you get more jobs for Americans.’ You sell more in Asia, that’s the larger gain.” Both sides are expected to discuss a trade pact that Washington is negotiating with Vietnam and 10 other Asia-Pacific nations, which the Obama administration wants signed by the end of the year. Two-way trade between the U.S. and Vietnam totaled $26 billion last year. Vietnam’s leaders, presiding over a stuttering economy, are also under pressure to deliver stronger economic growth.
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Ousted Egyptian leader’s family denounces military Associated Press Writer
CAIRO — The family of ousted President Mohammed Morsi furiously denounced the military Monday, accusing it of “kidnapping” him, and European diplomats urged that Egypt’s first freely elected leader be released after being held incommunicado for nearly three weeks since being deposed by the army. The fate of Morsi, who has been held without charge, has become a focus of the political battle between his Muslim Brotherhood and the new militarybacked government. The Brotherhood has tried to use Morsi’s detention to rally the country to its side, hoping to restore its badly damaged popularity. The interim government, in turn, appears in part to be using it to pressure his supporters into backing down from their protests demanding his reinstatement. Those protests again turned violent Monday, with clashes breaking out between Morsi supporters and opponents near Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and between pro-Morsi demonstrators and police in a city on the capital’s northern edge. At least four people were killed. More clashes erupted early Tuesday, with the Brotherhood claiming that one person was killed when police opened fire on a pro-Morsi march in Cairo. Police and health officials could not immediately be reached for comment. So far, however, the outcry over Morsi’s detention seems to have gained little traction beyond the president’s supporters, without bringing significantly greater numbers to its ongoing rallies around the country. Millions of Egyptians filled the streets starting June 30, demanding the president’s removal after a year in office and
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A supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a mat where protesters have set up a camp near Cairo University in Giza, Egypt, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of the country’s ousted president near the main campus of Cairo University left many dead, according to a senior medical official.
leading to the coup that ousted him. AntiBrotherhood sentiment remains strong, further fueled by protests that block traffic in congested city centers and by media that have kept a staunchly anti-Morsi line. Egyptian human rights groups have said he should either be freed or charged. Behind-the-scenes talks have been taking place through mediators between Brotherhood figures and the interim government — centered around releasing Morsi and other detained leaders of the group in return for an end to protests by his supporters, according to Mohammed Aboul-Ghar, head of a liberal political party that backed the president’s overthrow. The military fears that Morsi’s release “would only increase protests and make them more aggressive,” he told The Associated Press. At least five other prominent Brotherhood members have also been detained. The military also has
said that there is no way the measures taken against Morsi will be reversed. The Brotherhood so far seems unlikely to make a deal, saying it cannot accept a military coup. It and other Morsi supporters vow they will not stop protests until he is returned to office, and they have said there will be no negotiations with the new leadership unless it accepts his reinstatement. They have denied any back-channel talks are taking place. In a toughly worded statement Monday, the Brotherhood laid out a plan for resolving the crisis that was little changed from what Morsi proposed in his final days in office. It said Morsi must first be reinstated along with the now-dissolved upper house of parliament and the suspended constitution, followed by new parliament elections that would start a process for amending the constitution, and then a “national dialogue” could be held.
China cracks down on building projects in anti-graft move Reuters
BEIJING - China on Tuesday ordered a five-year suspension of the construction of new official buildings, state media reported, in the latest move by President Xi Jinping to crack down on extravagance and pervasive corruption. The decision was “made in accordance with the country’s frugality campaign”, official news agency Xinhua said. Some structures built in violation of regulations had tainted the image of the Communist Party and stirred vehement public disapproval, the
agency said. “The directive called on all party and government bodies to be frugal and ensure that government spending goes toward developing the economy and boosting people’s wellbeing,” it added. The ban also covered “glitzy structures” built as training centers, hotels or government motels, it said. Numerous scandals in recent years have centred on extravagant expenditure on new government buildings by officials, often in poverty-struck inland regions. Some local governments have embezzled poverty-alleviation and disaster-relief funds to build for themselves offices and other facilities that sometimes re-
semble high-end resorts. Xi, who took office in March, has made the fight on graft a key objective of his administration, and the party has already targeted everything from the use of government cars to liquor served at official banquets. Corruption is so bad it could hurt the party’s grip on power, Xi has warned although so far few high-level officials have been caught in his dragnet and the party has shown no sign of wanting to set up an independent graft-fighting body. Similar orders in the past to rein in construction of over-the-top government buildings have had little apparent effect.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Hugo Chavez’s daughter Rosa Virginia Chavez and wife to Venezuela’s Vice President Jorge Arreaza, center, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Friday, July 19, 2013.
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Skipping breakfast increases heart attack risk Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA — Another reason to eat breakfast: Skipping it may increase your chances of a heart attack. A study of older men found those who regularly skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of a heart attack than those who ate a morning meal. There’s no reason why the results wouldn’t apply to other people, too, the Harvard researchers said. Why would skipping breakfast be a heart attack risk? Experts aren’t certain, but here’s what they think: People who don’t eat breakfast are more likely to be hungrier later in the day and eat larger meals. Those meals mean the body must process a larger amount of calories in a shorter amount of time. That can spike sugar levels in the blood and perhaps lead to clogged arteries. The researchers did not ask what the study participants ate for breakfast and were not prepared to pass judgment on whether a fatty, sugary breakfast is better than no breakfast at all. “ We d o n ’t k n o w w h e t h e r it’s the timing or content of breakfast that’s important. It’s probably both,” said Andrew Odegaard, a University of Min-
nesota researcher who has studied a link between skipping breakfast and health problems like obesity and high blood pressure. “Generally, people who eat breakfast tend to eat a healthier diet,” he added. The new research was released Monday by the journal Circulation. It was an observational study, so it’s not designed to prove a cause and effect. But when done well, such studies can reveal important health risks. The researchers surveyed nearly 27,000 men about their eating habits in 1992. About 13 percent of them said they regularly skipped breakfast. They all were educated health professionals — like dentists and veterinarians — and were at least 45. Over the next 16 years, 1,527 suffered fatal or non-fatal heart attacks, including 171 who had said they regularly skipped breakfast. In other words, over 7 percent of the men who skipped breakfast had heart attacks, compared to nearly 6 percent of those who ate breakfast. The researchers calculated
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FILE - This March 26, 2012 file photo shows a plate of pancakes with blueberries and granola mixed in the batter in Concord, N.H. A study of older men found those who regularly skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of a heart attack than those who ate a morning meal. the increased risk at 27 percent, taking into account other factors like smoking, drinking, diet and health problems like high blood pressure and obesity.
As many as 18 percent of U.S. adults regularly skip breakfast, according to federal estimates. So the study could be important news for many, said Eric
Rimm, one of the study authors at the Harvard School of Public Health. “It’s a really simple message,” he said. “Breakfast is an important meal.”
Cold caps tested to prevent hair loss during chemo Associated Press Writer
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In this Wednesday, July 10, 2013, photo, Dr. Hope Rugo, right, an oncologist and breast cancer specialist, demonstrates the use of the Dignitana DigniCap system on Katherine Serrurier, a research assistant and pre-medical intern, at the University of California San Francisco Mount Zion Hospital cancer center in San Francisco. The caps chill the head and scalp allowing for hair preservation in chemo treatments.
WASHINGTON — The first time Miriam Lipton had breast cancer, her thick hair fell out two weeks after starting chemotherapy. The second time breast cancer struck, Lipton gave her scalp a deep chill and kept much of her hair — making her fight for survival seem a bit easier. Hair loss is one of chemotherapy’s most despised side effects, not because of vanity but because it fuels stigma, revealing to the world an illness that many would rather keep private. “I didn’t necessarily want to walk around the grocery store answering questions about my cancer,” recalled Lipton, 45. “If you look OK on the outside, it can help you feel, ‘OK, this is manageable, I can get through this.’” Now U.S. researchers are about to put an experimental hairpreserving treatment to a rigorous
test: To see if strapping on a cap so cold it numbs the scalp during chemo, like Lipton did, works well enough to be used widely, as it is in Europe and Canada. Near-freezing temperatures are supposed to reduce blood flow in the scalp, making it harder for cancer-fighting drugs to reach and harm hair follicles. But while several types of cold caps are sold around the world, the Food and Drug Administration hasn’t approved their use. Scalp cooling is an idea that’s been around for decades, but it never became popular in the U.S. in part because of a concern: Could the cold prevent chemotherapy from reaching any stray cancer cells lurking in the scalp? To Dr. Hope Rugo of the University of California, San Francisco, the impact of hair loss has been overlooked by health providers. She’s had patients
delay crucial treatment to avoid it, and others whose businesses suffered when clients saw they were sick and shied away. “Quite frankly, it’s the first or second question out of most patients’ mouths when I tell them I recommend chemotherapy. It’s not, ‘Is this going to cure me? It’s, ‘Am I going to lose my hair?’” said Dr. Susan Melin of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Later this summer, Rugo and Melin, along with researchers at a few other hospitals in New York and California, will begin enrolling 110 early stage breast cancer patients in a study of the DigniCap brand of scalp cooling. The tight-fitting, insulated cap is attached to a cooling machine as patients undergo chemo. Participants’ hair will be photographed for experts to assess, and they’ll be compared with a small group of similarly ill patients who get chemo alone.
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In southern Bali
Tourists acommodation growth uncontrallable Bali Post
DENPASAR - Construction of tourist accommodation progressively accumulating in Southern Bali has become an issue to be resolved. Uncontrollable hotel growth has made the southern part of Island of the Gods such as Kuta Nusa Dua get narrower and more crowded. As consequence, the convenience of tourists when taking a promenade can be disrupted. Even, based on the data of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter the total number of accommodation in Bali in 2010 reached 2,190 units with 45,408 rooms. Such amount belonged to 158 star hotels with 20,558 rooms, 1,036 budget hotels (20, 410 rooms) and 996 cottages (4,440 rooms). Until 2011, the number of hotel room in Bali had reached 55,000 rooms where the majority of them were located in Southern Bali. “Southern Bali has been very crowded. Almost all the activities primarily the economic and tourism activities accumulate in the region whereas we previously promoted the balanced development between the Northern and Southern Bali. Now, why has it not been applied consistently?” asked the economist, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Raka Suardana, in Denpasar. According to him, the construction of hotel on the Island of the Gods was considered to have not
thought about the quality. Existence of hotel at one place could cause congestion. Apparently, it was inversely proportional to the area of Northern Bali. A lot of vacant lands remained available there. Though there were a number of obstacles in the form of supporting infrastructure for travelers, they should be resolved. “Why was the development not directed to Eastern Bali, for instance, the area of Kubu and Culik offering a good sea view? The presence of the underpasses and toll bridge has indeed slightly resolved the crowdedness. However, if it will be accompanied with a massive destination development, the crowdedness will certainly happen again,” he explained. He said the uncontrollable growth of tourist accommodation would also have an impact on the environment and socio-culture. Moreover, Bali had been designed by the predecessors for cultural tourism in order that religion, culture and traditions could be well maintained. To that end, the most ap-
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Construction of tourist accommodation progressively accumulating in Southern Bali has become an issue to be resolved. Uncontrollable hotel growth has made the southern part of Island of the Gods such as Kuta Nusa Dua get narrower and more crowded. propriate tourism to be developed was spiritual tourism. “When developing other tourism, Bali will be gradually disrupted and damaged. As a result, our pride will vanish,” he said. The Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, I Putu Anom, previously stated that typical Balinese culture inspired by Hinduism had become a basic capital for the
tourism development on the Island of the Gods. However, Bali needed a commitment in managing and directing the tourism development by single-island management. “It poses an effort to realize the concept of equitable tourism in nine counties / municipality in Bali. So far, the tourism development in Bali tends to be imbalanced and
results in a problem due to local autonomy,” he said. He added the management and the making of tourism-related government policy in Bali should be through a single door because the tourism product sold was the product of Bali, not of Badung, Denpasar, Gianyar or the products of other counties. (kmb27)
Kusamba residents also reject reclamation of Benoa Bay Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - More and more Balinese people spoke about the opposition to reclamation plan of Benoa Bay. Even, they demanded
an effort to investigate the bribery allegation. Now, similar aspiration is also delivered by the residents of Kusamba, Dawan subdistrict, Klungkung. The fishermen group
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The photo shows Kusamba beach that hit by severe abrasion. More and more Balinese people spoke about the opposition to reclamation plan of Benoa Bay. Even, they demanded an effort to investigate the bribery allegation. Now, similar aspiration is also delivered by the residents of Kusamba, Dawan subdistrict, Klungkung.
head of Segara Wisesa, Kusamba, Dewa Gede Wira, said on Monday (Jul 22) that reclamation of Benoa Bay would only provide environmental damage of volume II for residents of Kusamba after suffering from the impact of the environmental damage due to reclamation of Serangan Island. Wira explained the impact of reclamation on Serangan Island was clearly remembered by residents of Kusamba mostly making a living from the sea. At that time, Dewa Wira said the abrasion was getting worse, so that the location for mooring fishing boats was also increasingly eroded. If the reclamation of Benoa Bay would be undertaken, he worried the abrasion would be more extreme. Even, it was feared the four traditional ports would be more seriously eroded. By all means, it would be strongly felt by Kusamba residents. Moreover, the majority of Kusamba residents were working in coastal areas, either as fisherman, porter or salt farmer. “Based on the experience of Serangan Island reclamation, no other reclamation may be made,” he hoped. According to Wira, a total of 220 families of Kusamba relied their
life on fishing, 40 other families on working as salt farmers as well as hundreds of others working as porter in the traditional port of Kusamba. Most of them expected the leaders of Bali were willing to hear their aspirations to cancel the reclamation plan for the survival of Bali’s nature as a whole. Similar expectation was also expressed by Headman of Kusamba, Ketut Winastra, Monday. Whatever the reason was he asked there should be no other reclamation. Moreover, based on information, the reclamation area reached very fantastic amount of 830 hectares. “The impact has been felt in the reclamation of Serangan Island. In the past, we can moor three rows of boat on the beach, but now only one boat. If the reclamation will be made again, I am afraid no more places at Kusamba can be used to moor our boats,” he explained. He asked the legislators of the Bali House to respond to the reclamation wisely and struggle for the aspirations of small community, so that the concerns related to the impact of reclamation would not become a nightmare for coastal
community, chiefly the resident of Kusamba. “If possible, please do not only share the pie there (at Benoa Bay—Ed), while the damage affect us at Kusamba,” he concluded. As had been reported, the rejection to reclamation plan was also briefly expressed by a legislator of the Bali House from Klungkung, Ketut Mandia, not long ago. Mandia admitted to have received many aspirations from Klungkung residents that rejected the reclamation plan. Even, Mandia accused the reason of the reclamation to anticipate tsunami was inventing and great lie. He also considered the reclamation of the area did not make sense and was very threatening the life of residents in coastal areas. Moreover, Klungkung also had the island areas such as the Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan. Aside from the impact on coastal damage, Mandia also highlighted the social impact. Large-scale reclamation by investors would only benefit foreign parties, while Balinese people would only get the dregs making them progressively suppressed. (kmb31)
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Population of Kintamani dog declines Bangli (Bali Post)—
Population of Kintamani dog had declined by degrees since the past five years. At its native home, the dog having received a special recognition as a breed dog only left tens of heads in a whole. It was revealed by I Made Kari, a member of the Sari Kembang dog breeding group at Paketan hamlet, Sukawana village, Sunday (Jul 21). He said the population of Kintamani dog was previously in a large number. Even, the Kintamani dog belonging to very special classification had often participated in various festivals. It always went to high-rank nominations. At that time, the government also routinely provided guidance to the public and equalized the selling price. Over time, the government attention was considered to have diminished. Indirectly, it
was also considered to kindle the confusing selling price of the Kintamani dog. Even, there were some residents selling the dog at a fairly cheap price. Formerly, the selling price of Kintamani dog had jumped to around IDR700,000 to more than IDR 1 million. However, the price of local breed dog currently dropped to the range of IDR 200,000 to IDR 300,000. (013)
After suspect Nur Fake
Two other culprits of windshield shatter arrested Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Endeavor of the Criminal Detective Unit of South Denpasar Police to investigate the culprits of windshield shatter with the suspect Nur Fake alias Ambon reaped a result. The two other culprits respectively named Samsul Arifin, 25, and Ninik Lutfianti, 38, could be captured by the Criminal Detective led by Unit Chief Gusti Ngurah Yudhisthira, Friday (Jul 18). The suspect Samsul was arrested in Waru, Surabaya, East Java. Meanwhile, the suspect Ninik posing the elder sister of Samsul was arrested in her boarding house on Jalan Tukad Balian Gang Nagasaki 9, Renon. Chief of South Denpasar Police, Ikram Arrasyid, said on Monday (Jul 22) the success of arresting the suspect Nur Fake was due to hard work of the investigators. They continued to develop the case by looking to the suspect Nur Fake. As a result, another name (Samsul—Ed) belonging to his gang finally came into view. The investigators also continued to pursue the suspect Samsul. “We’re finding out information in the field to get the address of the suspect Samsul. Later on, we knew if he was in Surabaya,” said Chief Ikram. A number of personnel were ordered and assigned to Surabaya to track down the suspect. By making coordination with the Surabaya Metro Police, the hiding place of the suspect was finally revealed. Without resistance, the suspect could be arrested in Waru, Surabaya. The suspect was then taken to Bali and examined in depth. “The suspect admitted his act. Even, the suspect admitted to have
take action at 15 crime scenes,” he explained. Of the 15 crime scenes, both suspects had committed the crime since a year. The suspect Samsul served as a jockey, while the suspect Nur Fake served as the executor. Every taking action, he first surveyed which parked car had a bag inside. Once getting a target, they approached and the suspect Nur Fake dropped from his motor. Meanwhile, the suspect Samsul was away while waiting for the success of Nur Fake. “Nur Fake can do it in 2 minutes,” he said. Other than arresting the suspect Samsul, police also arrested the suspect Ninik. From both suspects, police could seize the evidence in the form of 3 units of laptop, iPad, camera, phone and a bag belonging to a victim. The suspect and evidence had been secured in the South Denpasar Police. “Involvement of the suspect Ninik occurred because she asked the suspect Samsul to take action. Besides, the suspect Ninik also enjoyed the results of their crimes. Samsul and Ninik are brother and sister, while the suspect Nur Fake is boyfriend of Ninik,” he added. When met at South Denpasar Police, the suspect Ninik denied her involvement in the case. She admitted to never ask Samsul to take such an action. She argued if she only introduced Nur Fake to Samsul because she went together with Nur Fake. “I never told my brother to commit such a crime (windshield shatter). I just asked Samsul to work with Nur Fake at Benoa,” confessed Ninik to reporters, Monday. (kmb21)
Bribery allegation, schools in Badung need auditing
Mangupura (Bali Post)—
Kintamani dogs, the local breed dog of Bali.
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Briberies disguised as voluntary donation are always troubling in every new student enrollment (PPDB). Voluntary donation worth millions of rupiahs is often complained by parents including in the Badung County for the academic year 2013/2014. The Badung House then urged the government chiefly the Badung Education Agency to audit the schools collecting such voluntary donation. “Such voluntary donation is widely complained by parents. Other than valuing costly, many people are suspicious if the voluntary donation will be taken for individual interest,” said Chairman of Commission D of the Badung House, AA Surya Wirawan, Monday (Jul 22). According to him, any voluntary donation though it was voluntary should be accounted. Moreover, the total donation reached a large amount. All schools collecting such donations should be audited. The Education Agency had to conduct an audit and take decisive action when finding any irregularities or schools looking for profits from the voluntary donation.
He said the funds from regional budget could not fully cover the education costs though it had been allocated to exceed the national targets. In other words, there was still a need of financial assistance from parents. However, the funds having been collected to support the education funding should be managed and accounted transparently so that it would not result in negative accusations from the public related to the utilization of the funds. Meanwhile, the Head of Badung Education Agency, Ketut Widia Astika, admitted to agree if the participation fund should be audited. Management of the funds should be transparent and accountable so that it did not cause any problems later on. He affirmed the Badung Education Agency would immediately request a report from each school chiefly regarding the utilization of public funds. His party would also evaluate all the school programs so that they would not become a reason to spend the fund collected from public participation. “We will also select tightly the school programs, so that they will not become a reason to spend the public funds,” he said. (kmb25)
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Archipelago International unveils “Harper Hotels and Resorts” IBP
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s maverick hotel group, Archipelago International, formerly known as Aston International, unveiled its latest up market hotel label “HARPER Hotels & Resorts” and at once confirmed that the first HARPER will open in Kuta, Bali as early as this summer while seven more are in an advanced state of constriction in Bandung, Banjarmasin, Bogor, Makassar, Samarinda, Surabaya and Yogyakarta. The Harper brand will present 3 star plus and 4 stars newly build hotels from 100 to 250 rooms in either city or resort locations. Rooms will be a minimum bay size of 28sqm and a maximum of 40sqm, while suites will be 1.5 bays. City location HARPER Hotels will feature executive floors with club lounges and ladies only rooms while all Harpers will offer the brands proprietary destination restaurant concept “Rustik Bistro & Bar” which as its name implies will offer home comfort food cooking paired with great wine and cocktails in
a fresh, light and elegant room. The brands Signature Style will be Modern Rustic using warm, rich colors to offer comfort in each room while accents of cozy autumnal fabrics and soft orange hues will promote relaxation juxtaposed with modern grays to create an understated cool elegance. Matching furniture will give way to mix-and-match pieces, which add an eclectic flair to the room. Upholstered furniture brings an air of sophistication and surprising textures are created with rich velvet silks and chintz cov-
ered with interesting patterns to provide bold contrast. Comfort pieces, like a single sofa or big couch will be layered with personality-filled cushions, rugs, and wall hangings. Harper hotel rooms will not have desks. Instead, they will all have comfortable sofas and high coffee tables - bigger and higher, so guests can eat and work at the same time while sitting in a sofa. Standard bathrooms will have showers only while suites will also have a separate bathtub. In an effort to eliminate wasteful bottles, bath amenities will be available in a dispenser format. “In our increasingly anxious world, people want comfort and functionality. It’s no secret today’s guests want to be reminded of home and feel cocooned” said
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Norbert Vas, VP Sales & Marketing for Archipelago International and added that the HARPER brand was conceptualized to appeal to Indonesia’s growing
Calendar Event for July 10 through August 10, 2013
10 Jul Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan - Pulasari Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Tarokaja Taro Tegallalang 17 Jul Buda Paing Wayang Pura Dang Khayangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli 20 Jul Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bathara Ratu Gede Celuk Sukawati Bathara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Bathara Ratu Allit lan Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba Kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel klungkung Pura Pemerajan Agung Sulang Dawan Klungkung Pura Padharman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih ( Dalem Klungkung ) Pura Penataran dan Pasraman Kuta Rejo , Kendal Rejo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Sidhi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 22 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa ApuanSusut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar
Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru- Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Luhur Candi Narmada Tanah Kilap Desa PemogaN Denpasar Selatan Pura Panca Tirta Sido Luhur Bakanheni Lampung Selatan Pura Ponjok Batu Tejakula Buleleng 24 Jul Buda Wage Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Pengembungan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Jawa Banjar Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Penataran Batupelang Kamasan klungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Kedonganan Kuta Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh/Bukit Kiwa Tengen Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Jati Ubud Pura Melanting Ubud Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Desa Sakti Nusa Penida
Pura Penataran Agung Anyar Liligundi Bebandem Karangasem 30 Jul Anggar Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Dalem Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar Pura Puser Jagat,Dalem Dukut, Puri Sukun Nusa Penida Pura Dalem Purwa Banjar Kawan Bangli Pura Desa Ketewel Sukawati 31 Jul Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibangkaja Abiansemal Pura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar Pura Paiobon Dukuh Segening Serongga Kelod Gianyar 4 Aug Redite Kliwon Watugunung Pura Penataran Agung Mahagotra Tirta Harum Srisrengga Desa Nyalian Banjarangkan Klungkung 6 Aug Tilem Sasih Kasa Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Desa Kukuh Marga Tabanan 10 Aug Hari Raya Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas - Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel - Sayan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Watugunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya - Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung Pura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning Desa Mambal Abiansemal
numbers of international tourists discovering the countries bountiful attraction beyond the island of Bali and an ever more sophisticated domestic clientele.
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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Shirley Jones offers naked truth in new book Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — Shirley Jones opens the door to her house and appears every inch the ladylike Marian the librarian or sweet farm girl Laurey or cheerfully steady Mrs. Partridge, offering a warm smile and handshake. Her elegant, modestly highnecked jacket is black, her makeup is discreet and her silver hair tidy. Jones’ living room has the sort of traditional furniture and knickknacks (exception: a prominent Academy Award) that would fit any suburban house. It all adds up to the publicly familiar Shirley Jones, whose crystalline soprano voice and dewy prettiness made her an immediate star in the 1950s film versions of “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel” and who captured a subsequent generation of fans in TV’s “The Partridge Family” in the 1970s. Then there’s “Shirley Jones,” her new autobiography (written with Wendy Leigh and published by Simon & Schuster’s
Gallery Books imprint) that turns the 79-year-old actress’ image on its head in startling — even shocking — ways. “So bring out the smelling salts, hang on to your hats, and get ready for the surprise of your lives!” she writes, coyly, in the book’s introduction. It’s not false advertising. There’s a recounting of her early life and dazzling career that included working with two musical theater masters, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, as well as many of Hollywood’s top actors, including Marlon Brando (king of the retakes to exhaustion, Jones said), Jimmy Stewart (charmingly ditsy) and Richard Widmark (the only co-star she
fell in love with). But a substantial part of the book is spent on her troubled marriage to the late Jack Cassidy, the glossily handsome actor and singer whom she describes in a passage as her first lover and “sexual Svengali,” and whose lessons she shares candidly. That includes — X-rated spoiler alert — Cassidy’s impressive endowment, Jones’ own “highly sexed” nature that made orgasms a breeze, their threesome with another woman (“yuck,” she says, when asked about the onetime experiment), Cassidy’s pre-marital sexual encounter with Cole Porter that Jones says left her unfazed, and her apparent tolerance for his infidelities.
The character of Marian, the spinsterish librarian in 1962’s “The Music Man,” another smash hit for Jones, “wasn’t me,” she said firmly. And her autobiography makes that abundantly clear, although she says it took the passing of years for to bring such candor. “I never would have written this book if I weren’t the age I am now,” she said. So she’s grown-up enough to tell her story, and her admirers should be grown-up enough to read it? “That’s exactly how I feel,” replied Jones. She overturned her squeakyclean image once before with her Oscar-winning portrayal of a vengeful prostitute in “Elmer Gantry” (1960) opposite Burt Lancaster, and the role that she considers her most important. It also brought backlash from her admirers. “I got letters up the kazoo: ‘Why would you ever take a part like this?” Jones recalls.
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In this Monday, July 15, 2013 photo, actress Shirley Jones poses for a portrait at her home in Los Angeles. Jones’ autobiography, “Shirley Jones,” is being released Tuesday, July 23.
‘R.I.P.D.’ continues Hollywood’s summer of big budget bombs films in theaters this weekend, according to the box office division of Hollywood.com. The $135 million “Turbo,” which was distributed by Fox , collected $21.5 million in its first weekend, a distant third behind the horror film “The Conjuring” and also behind “Despicable Me 2,” which continues to do well in its third week in theaters. “There are always going to be AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Scott Garfield This film publicity image released by Universal Pic- films that are green-lit two years tures shows Jeff Bridges, left, and Ryan Reynolds ago that aren’t going to make in a scene from “R.I.P.D.” The film will be released it,” Nikki Rocco, president of Universal’s distribution unit, said nationwide on Friday, July 19. of “R.I.P.D.” “There are always Reuters bombs for films that cost more going to be times when films just LOS ANGELES - Universal than $100 million to make. don’t work. It’s nothing new.” Pictures’ sci-fi action comedy “R.I.P.D.,” starring Jeff Still, analysts say the misfires “R.I.P.D.” and Dreamworks Ani- Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, could prompt a parade of film mation’s “Turbo” opened with a cost $130 million to make and writedowns for studios - a black thud in North American theaters tens of millions more to pro- eye for an industry that prides its this weekend, continuing a Holly- mote. It opened with ticket sales public image nearly as highly as wood streak of weekly box office of $12.8 million, seventh among its private jets and summers in
Europe. Janney Montgomery Scott analyst Anthony Wible says Disney will likely be forced to take a writedown for the Johnny Depp western “The Lone Ranger,” and Sony for the sci-fi adventure “After Earth” with Will Smith. Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz says a writedown is possible as well for “Turbo,” which he wrote in a July 17 report could drop his estimated earnings for the company to $0.25 per share in 2013 from his current $0.72. “It’s a little early. “We have a ton of summer play time left,” Chris Aronson, who heads Fox’s domestic distribution unit, said about “Turbo.” The film got lofty scores from test audiences under age 25, he said, “which bodes very well for playability since that’s our target audience.”
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An easel stands in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace in London on July 22, 2013, to announce the birth of a baby boy, at 4.24pm to Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at St Mary’s Hospital. Associated Press
LONDON — Champagne bottles popped and shouts of “Hip! Hip! Hooray!” erupted outside Buckingham Palace on Monday as Britain welcomed the birth of Prince William and his wife Kate’s first child, a boy who is now third in line to the British throne. Hundreds of Britons and tourists broke into song and dance outside the palace gates as officials announced that the future king was born at 4:24 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces (3.75 kilograms), at central London’s St. Mary’s Hospital — the same place where William and his brother Harry were born three decades ago. The imminent arrival of the royal baby was the subject of endless specula-
tion on social media and was covered for days on live television around the world, but in the end the royal family managed to keep it a remarkably private affair. In line with royal tradition, a terse statement announced only the time of birth, the infant’s gender and that mother and child were doing well. It gave no information about the baby’s name, and officials would say only that a name would be announced “in due course.”
“Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well and will remain in hospital overnight,” it said. William also issued a brief statement, saying “we could not be happier.” Officials said William, who was by his wife’s side during the birth, would also spend the night in the hospital. Royal officials say Kate and William will try to give their child as normal an upbringing as possible, a challenging goal in an age when the British royals are treated as major world celebrities. “He’ll have to be protected all the time,” said Edward Bentley, from near London. “But they’ll make him seem normal and connected to the public for sure.”