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Thursday, August 1, 2013 16 Pages Number 152 5 th Year e-mail: [email protected] online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- Page 6 Page 8 I N T E R N A T I O N A L DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST Page 13 A community leader of Songan village, Kintamani, Gelgel Wisna- wa, said that so far Bangli seemed to be treated as a ‘stepchild’ in the development process of Bali. “As a community member of Bangli, we feel to have been treated as a stepchild in the development pro- cess,” he said. According to him, the local lead- ers should be thinking of Bali, not of Buleleng alone. At least, the airport development should also be enjoyed by the public of Bangli. “Suppose the airport is established in Kubu- tambahan, we can also surely get the impact. I support it will be bet- ter to be built in Kubutambahan,” expected Gelgel Wisnawa. He supposed if only the airport would be established in Kubutam- bahan subdistrict, then the access of Bangli to the airport could be closer. Thus, the construction of the airport in Buleleng would not only be enjoyed by the people of Buleleng alone, but could also be enjoyed by the people of Bangli, Karangasem, Klungkung and Gianyar. He added if the airport would be built in the area of Sumberkima, only two counties that would be able to enjoy the closer access. Thus, the impact was judged in- comparable if the airport would be built in Kubutambahan sub- district. “For instance, it will not be preferable for the people from Karangasem to go to Sumberkima village or from Bangli to Sumber- kima, but they will surely prefer to Ngurah Rai Airport. So, the airport development is useless, as being incomparable to the benefits obtained by wider community,” explained the Chief of PKPI of Bangli County. Other than Wisnawa, the sup- port of the airport development in Kubutambahan subdistrict was also given by Chairman of Golkar Faction in the Bangli House, Koyan Eka Putra. “We agreed if the airport development is directed to the loca- tion in Kubutambahan subdistict,” said Koyan Eka Putra. According to Koyan, the hope to the airport development in Kubu- tambahan appeared considering the development at the location would have an impact on wider communi- ty. In addition, said Koyan, another breakthrough for the equitable development that could be done was by making a toll road from Ba- tubulan to Kubutambahan through Bangli and Karangasem. “Thus, people in the region could be more empowered,” he said. (ina) IBP/File Photo The photo shows Mount Batur that located in Bangli Regency, Bali Island. All this time, the process of development in Bali is considered imbalanced and Bangli is never involved Bangli in discussing about development issues whereas Bangli is one of the counties of the Bali Province. Uneven development in Bali Bangli feels to be treated as ‘stepchild’ Bali Post BANGLI - The discourse of government that will build an airport in Buleleng County gets a response from a number of circles, without exception for the figures in Bangli County. All this time, the process of development in Bali is considered imbalanced and Bangli is never involved Bangli in discussing about development issues whereas Bangli is one of the counties of the Bali Province. Morsi gets a visit, but Egypt crisis stalemated Mexico keeps constant eye on Popocatepetl volcano Substitute Neymar denied victory on Barcelona debut
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  • Thursday, August 1, 2013

    16 Pages Number 152 5th year

    e-mail: [email protected] online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com.

    Price: Rp 3.000,-

    Page 6 Page 8

    I N T E R N A T I O N A L I N T E R N A T I O N A L

    DPs 23 - 32

    EntertainmentWEATHER FORECAsT

    Thursday, August 1, 2013

    Page 13

    A community leader of Songan village, Kintamani, Gelgel Wisna-wa, said that so far Bangli seemed to be treated as a stepchild in the development process of Bali. As a community member of Bangli, we feel to have been treated as a stepchild in the development pro-cess, he said.

    According to him, the local lead-ers should be thinking of Bali, not of

    Buleleng alone. At least, the airport development should also be enjoyed by the public of Bangli. Suppose the airport is established in Kubu-tambahan, we can also surely get the impact. I support it will be bet-ter to be built in Kubutambahan, expected Gelgel Wisnawa.

    He supposed if only the airport would be established in Kubutam-bahan subdistrict, then the access of

    Bangli to the airport could be closer. Thus, the construction of the airport in Buleleng would not only be enjoyed by the people of Buleleng alone, but could also be enjoyed by the people of Bangli, Karangasem, Klungkung and Gianyar.

    He added if the airport would be built in the area of Sumberkima, only two counties that would be able to enjoy the closer access.

    Thus, the impact was judged in-comparable if the airport would be built in Kubutambahan sub-district. For instance, it will not be preferable for the people from Karangasem to go to Sumberkima village or from Bangli to Sumber-kima, but they will surely prefer to Ngurah Rai Airport. So, the airport development is useless, as being incomparable to the benefits obtained by wider community, explained the Chief of PKPI of Bangli County.

    Other than Wisnawa, the sup-port of the airport development in Kubutambahan subdistrict was also given by Chairman of Golkar

    Faction in the Bangli House, Koyan Eka Putra. We agreed if the airport development is directed to the loca-tion in Kubutambahan subdistict, said Koyan Eka Putra.

    According to Koyan, the hope to the airport development in Kubu-tambahan appeared considering the development at the location would have an impact on wider communi-ty. In addition, said Koyan, another breakthrough for the equitable development that could be done was by making a toll road from Ba-tubulan to Kubutambahan through Bangli and Karangasem. Thus, people in the region could be more empowered, he said. (ina)

    IBP/File Photo

    The photo shows Mount Batur that located in Bangli Regency, Bali Island. All this time, the process of development in Bali is considered imbalanced and Bangli is never involved Bangli in discussing about development issues whereas Bangli is one of the counties of the Bali Province.

    Uneven development in Bali

    Bangli feels to be treated as stepchildBali Post

    BANGLI - The discourse of government that will build an airport in Buleleng County gets a response from a number of circles, without exception for the figures in Bangli County. All this time, the process of development in Bali is considered imbalanced and Bangli is never involved Bangli in discussing about development issues whereas Bangli is one of the counties of the Bali Province.

    Reuters

    LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - The Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman as Marvel Comics sharp- clawed super-hero, slashed its way to $55 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales to claim the box office crown in a summer that hasnt been kind to some other big-budget action films.

    The Conjuring, the low-budget horror film that led last weekends box office, slipped to second place with $22.1 million in domestic sales from Friday through Sunday, according to studio esti-mates. The film has generated nearly $84 million in overall ticket sales, a surpris-ingly strong showing for a film that cost just under $20 million to make.

    The animated film Despicable Me 2, featuring the voice of comic actor Steve Carell, finished third with $16 million in ticket sales in its fourth week in movie theaters. The film was made by Universal Pictures and has collected more than $660 million in ticket sales around the world.

    Animated film Turbo, about a super-speedy snail with dreams of racing in the Indy 500, took the No. 4 slot with sales of $13.3 million. Ryan Reynolds provides the voice for the title character in the film produced by Shrek creator DreamWorks Animation.

    The Wolverine fell short of Hol-lywood insiders $72 million weekend estimates, the latest in a string of big-budget action films that failed to meet expectations, though it performed strongly overseas.

    In recent weeks R.I.P.D., Pacific Rim, The Lone Ranger, and White House Down all fizzled at the box office. Were incredibly happy with

    this result, said Chris Aronson, presi-dent of domestic distribution for 20th Century Fox, which distributed The Wolverine.

    Its good news on a global scale, and this is a global business, Aronson said. The film took in more than $86 million internationally, for a total worldwide gross of $141 million.

    The Wolverine, which cost an estimated $120 million to make, stars Jackman in his sixth film as the ageless mutant, which is also featured in the X-Men movies. Those six films have generated $1.9 billion in worldwide ticket sales, according to the movie site Box Office Mojo.

    The latest chapter was the lowest open-ing film in the X-Men franchise since

    the first film opened with $54.5 million in 2000, and fell far short of the $85 million take for the first Wolverine film, 2009s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

    Reviews were mixed to solid on Wolverine, with a 68 percent positive rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes and the film received an A-minus CinemaScore rating based on moviegoers input. Ticket site Fandango said the film grabbed 51 percent of ad-vance sales, with 73 percent saying they would not want to see the film without Jackman in the lead role.

    Aronson also pointed to the impor-tance of the star as a huge draw at the worldwide box office. Were going to be phenomenally successful at the end of the day, he said.

    Associated Press Writer

    LOS ANGELES Whether she was is-suing orders as an Army captain in Private Benjamin, rambling as a real-life rendition of Mrs. Peacock from Clue or blasting an immortal monster with a shotgun as a crazy cat lady in Jeepers Creepers, actress Eileen Brennan injected perfectly timed comedy into each of her roles.

    Brennan died Sunday at home in Burbank, California, after a battle with bladder cancer, said her managers, Jessica Moresco and Al Onorato. She was 80.

    Our world has lost a rare human, said Brennans Private Benjamin co-star Goldie Hawn in a statement Tuesday . Eileen was a brilliant comedian, a powerful dramatic actress and had the voice of an angel. I will

    miss my old friend.Brennan achieved her first major role on

    the New York stage in Little Mary Sunshine, a musical comedy that won her the 1960 Obie award for best actress, as well as the at-tention of director Peter Bogdanovich,, who cast her as a weary waitress who inherits the cafe where she works in 1971s The Last Picture Show.

    Brennan went on to capture several sharp-tongued roles that won her fans on television and in movies, including gruff Army Capt. Doreen Lewis in 1980s Private Benjamin, aloof Mrs. Peacock in 1985s Clue, and cruel orphanage superintendent Miss Bannis-ter in 1988s The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking.

    I love meanies, and this goes back to Capt. Lewis in Private Benjamin, Brennan said

    a 1988 interview with The Associated Press. You know why? Because they have no sense of humor. People who are mean or unkind or rigid think about it cannot laugh at them-selves. If we cant laugh at ourselves and the human condition, were going to be mean.

    Private Benjamin brought her a support-ing actress nomination for an Oscar. She also won an Emmy for reprising her Private Ben-jamin role in the television version and was nominated six other times for guest roles on such shows as Newhart, thirtysomething, Taxi and Will & Grace, in which she played an over-the-top acting coach.

    Eileen Brennan was a brilliant actress, a tough and tender woman and a comic angel, tweeted Clue co-star Michael McKean.

    Brennans Private Benjamin role led to an enduring friendship with Hawn.

    Wolverine claws past ghosts to claim weekend box office crown

    Eileen Brennan of Private Benjamin, Clue dies

    AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File

    FILE - This March 20, 1982 file photo shows actress Eileen Brennan in Los Angeles. Brennans manager, Kim Vasilakis, says Brennan, who is best known for playing Capt.

    AP Photo/Twentieth Century Fox, Ben Rothstein

    This publicity photo released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Hugh Jack-man as Logan/Wolverine in a scene from the film, The Wolverine.

    Morsi gets a visit, but Egypt crisis stalemated

    Mexico keeps constant eye on Popocatepetl volcano

    Substitute Neymar denied victory on Barcelona debut

  • International2 Thursday, August 1, 2013 15International Activities

    Bali News

    Founder : K.Nadha, General Manager :Palgunadi Chief Editor: Diah Dewi Juniarti Editors: Gugiek Savindra,Alit Susrini, Alit Sumertha, Daniel Fajry, Mawa, Sri Hartini, Suana, Sueca, Sugiartha, Yudi Winanto Denpasar: Dira Arsana, Giriana Saputra, Subrata, Sumatika, Asmara Putra. Bangli: Pujawan, Buleleng: Adnyana, Gianyar: Agung Dharmada, Karangasem: Budana, Klungkung: Bali Putra Ariawan. Jakarta: Nikson, Hardianto, Ade Irawan. NTB: Agus Talino, Izzul Khairi, Raka Akriyani. Surabaya: Bambang Wilianto. Development: Alit Purnata, Mas Ruscitadewi. Office: Jalan Kepundung 67 A Denpasar 80232. Tele-phone (0361)225764, Facsimile: 227418, P.O.Box: 3010 Denpasar 80001. Bali Post Jakarta, Advertizing: Jl.Palmerah Barat 21F. Telp 021-5357602, Facsimile: 021-5357605 Jakarta Pusat. NTB: Jalam Bangau No.

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    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 con-sidered 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 umbul-umbul, 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.

    Balinese Temple Ceremony

    Thursday, August 1, 2013

    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 Apuan- Susut-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

    The Adhi Jaya Hotel is peaceful enclave tucked away in the heart of Kuta, a prime up market area on Balis south-western coast, just a five minutes drive from the international airport and convenient for all of the main shops, shopping malls, tourist attractions and vibrant nightspot.

    The property is only a few minutes walk from a wide choice of internationally acclaimed restaurants in kuta, to-gether with a varied collection of chic designer boutiques. It also just footsteps away from Waterbom and the sweep-ing kuta beach, renowned for its world class surf breaks, panoramic coastline view and legendary sunsets. Easily ac-cessible sporting amenities include a choice of spectacular championship 18 lane bowling center, golf course and tennis courts. IBP/File Photo

    Adhi Jaya HotelIBP

    KUTA - Combining the best of both world, Adhi Jaya Hotel is a destination within a destination- the tropical feel of your bali holidays mood with the seductive al-lure of cuisine that stands out Located in the heart of Kuta shopping scene, five minutes from the Ngurah Rai Airport, a short walk to the famed Kuta Beach and international night life of kuta area all the elements of a tropical holiday on a an island the world defines in one single world paradise. Adhi Jaya Hotel features 75 guest rooms that accentuate the grand presence of tropical ambience with modern amenities and soft lines to tuck you in and the morning sun soak you up.

    Bangli (Bali Post)In the second week of the Curriculum

    2013 implementation at school target in Ban-gli, the teachers seemed to have not showed off the essence of the new curriculum. They remained to be fettered by the old patterned in the teaching and learning process in classroom.

    Meanwhile, the students looked confused and did not know what to do. We still have to adapt to the classroom conditions. Its quite difficult for us to take the students to the learning process in accordance with the demands of the Curriculum 2013, said I Ketut Dumalada, one of the teachers at SMPN 1 Kintamani junior high school when met on Tuesday (Jul 30).

    According to the teacher of social sci-ences, his party realized that to change the old pattern into the new one took time and patience. Therefore, he quite understood about the conditions occurred in the class-room. Hopefully, the students could get accustomed to the new learning pattern in classroom after passing the process of ad-aptation for a few weeks, he said.

    Principal of the SMPN1 Kintamani, I Wayan Ariana, when asked for his confirma-

    tion admitted there were still some obstacles in the implementation of the new curriculum at school. Uneven textbook distribution to students and rudimentary adaptation of teachers caused the implementation of the new curriculum to be unable to run in line with the expectations. Nevertheless, Ariana understood it was a natural thing happening in every implementation of new educational program. We are confident after a few weeks of learning process it will take place in ac-cordance with the demand of the Curriculum 2013, he said.

    As observation at a number of school tar-gets, the implementation of the Curriculum 2013 in Bangli showed that both teachers and students had not indicated a change in the behavior when the learning process took place. Teachers still applied the old patterns that tended to teacher-centered learning.

    The demands of the Curriculum 2013 in the teaching and learning process should be student-centered with the emphasis on the scientific approach in terms of improving the balance between hard skills and soft skills including the aspects of competency on the attitudes, behavior and knowledge. (kmb)

    According to him, when observing one or two hotels, it could be fully occupied, but the number of hotel room in Bali today reached more than 80,000 and this year the target of tourist arrivals to the island reached 3.1 million. We consider it uncomfortable if the hotel occupancy rate in Bali is said to be fully occupied all the time and the number of hotel are still lacking. When an international activity is held, it can possibly be fully occupied, but most international events only last for a week, whereas there are 365 days a year, said the man doubling as Chairman of the PHRI Badung.

    He added that Bali actually had excessive sup-ply of room so that it had an impact on the low occupancy rates and ultimately kindled a price war. To draw tourists, some hotel managements sold off their room at very cheap rates. Aver-agely, the increase in tourist arrival is only nine percent, while the number of room increases 20 percent per year. So, it is not balanced and finally results in price war, he said.

    As a result, with an average occupancy rate of 62 percent, it was difficult for employers to

    benefit the hotel, while the situation was exac-erbated by the increase in electricity tariff, fuel price, employee wage increases and food price. Moreover, the length of stay of foreign tourists in Bali is also getting shorter to 5.5 days and the average spending comes to USD 100 dollars per day. Let us (the government) think positive and not be confused with the different data delivery, he said.

    His party expected the government to make synergy with the PHRI to advance and promote tourism in Bali so that it would be getting more de-veloped and increased the tourist arrivals. Please, if the government wants to pass the Benoa Bay reclamation in Badung, its none of our business. However, please do not state if our data are incor-rect. If the government wants to add more tourist accommodations, please go on because it is the domain of the government, he said.

    He also mentioned that the Australian tourist market that so far dominated the tourist arrival in Bali had turned to Europe and the United States, while Bali had not been making any addition to the market segmentation. (kmb/ant)

    Negara (Bali Post)Road widening project at the bend of

    Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section, precisely at Sumbersari village, Melaya, reaped a protest from the adjacent residents. A number of adja-cent residents whose land was affected by the project did not get any compensation.

    From information on Tuesday (Jul 30), at least two adjacent residents whose land was not given compensation strongly protested because the access to their house was destroyed. Even, since their complaint was ignored, they had brandished a machete to project workers.

    One of the residents, Ketut Darmayasa, complained about the project because it was not accompanied with a clear agreement. Indeed, the road was intended for public interests, but without permission it had harmed the driveway access whereas it was just made by the land owner. The residents even got angry while bringing a machete. Fortunately, their anger could be muted, said a resident.

    Even, many residents came together to the project base camp to complain about the de-

    struction to their driveway access. They asked an agreement so that there were restrictions that might not be violated by counterparties. They worried after the project was completed, there would be no responsibility to restore the driveway access dismantled. At least, it hap-pened to six families on left side and 8 families on right side. They asked for clarity related to the compensation. On the right side, 200 meters of road should be repaired, while 100 meters on the left side.

    On the other hand, Chairman of Commis-sion C of the Jembrana House, IB Susrama, assessed the project carried out in Jembrana region, whether the funding came from central and provincial level, should make coordination with local government. Project implementer should consider about the aspirations of the ad-jacent residents and gave socialization to avoid any problem incurred later. On the other hand, when asking for confirmation to the officer of the National Roads Institute through cellular phone, its device seemed active but was not responded. (kmb26)

    PHRI deplores statement of Governor Mangku Pastika

    THE Indonesian Hotels and restaurants Association (PHrI) deplored the statement of Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, who argued that the Is-land of the Gods had excessive hotel rooms. Talking about the occupancy rate must be careful. Its our party having the data. So far, the tourist arrival could only fill in averagely 62 percent of the occupancy rate, said Deputy Chairman of the PHRI Bali, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Suryawijaya, Tuesday (Jul 30).

    IBP/File

    One of the big hotel in Jimbaran area.

    Second week of Curriculum 2013 implementationTeachers still fettered by old pattern

    Getting no indemnificationResidents protest against road widening project at Sumbersari

  • 3Thursday, August 1, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Thursday, August 1, 2013

    AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

    Firefighters try to extinguish a mock fire as police officers stand guard at Kerobokan prison dur-ing a security drill in Bali, Indonesia, recently. Indonesian military and police officer held the drill against prison riots.

    Bali remains crowded with tourists from Europe. Significant increase of 10 percent on-year was recorded in the number of tourists from Russia, France and Germany in the first half of the year, tourism observer Nyoman Sumada said here on Wednesday.

    A decline slightly was recorded only in the numbers of tourist from Britain and the Netherlands, Nyoman added.

    The number of visitors from Europe to Bali totaled 301,735 in the January-June period this year.

    Europeans made up 20.21 percent of the total number of foreign visitors to Bali in the six months period.

    Nyoman said there were 1.5 million foreign visitors to Bali flying in directly from their respective countries in the period.

    He said the increase in the number of visi-tors from the crisis hit Europe gave greater optimism that the target of 3 million in the number of foreign visitors to Bali this year would be reached.

    AntaraDENPASAR - A search and rescue team from the Den-

    pasar agency has evacuated the body of Slovenian tourist Alexander who died after he was swept away high waves in Sawangan beach, South Kuta, Badung district on Sat-urday (July 27).

    The member of the SAR Denpasar agency Amtarama said here on Tuesday his team initially received a report from someone who was fishing in the beach and saw the body of the victim.

    Shortly after receiving the report, the SAR team began its search efforts, he said.

    The SAR team, who began its search four days ago, had to search from the south coast near Mulia Hotel.

    SAR officers began to evacuate the body since at 08.00 a.m Central Indonesia Time (WITA) and took it to the beach.

    The body of the dead tourist was found floating 20 minutes later in the area within one mile from the site of accident or around Geger temple.

    The evacuation process went smoothly because waves at that time were not too big.

    The body of the victim then was taken to the Sanglah Center Hospital in Denpasar to be examined further.

    Previously, on Saturday (July 27), Alexander was travel-ing with his friend Ananda Mirsik on the beach near Nikko Hotel, but he was suddenly swept by high waves into the sea and disappeared.

    The beach security officer, who received the report about the incident conducted search for the body of the victim with team members from the SAR Denpasar agency, SAR from the Bali Police, Bali Beach Lifeguards (Balawista) and Bali Disaster Mitigation Agency.

    Bali continues to be crowded with European touristsAntara

    DENPASAR - Foreign tourists from Europe continue to throng to Bali, the countrys tourist island despite the global economic malaise.

    IBP/File Photo

    Tourists arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali Island. Foreign tourists from Europe continue to throng to Bali, the countrys tourist island despite the global economic malaise.

    SAR team evacuated dead body of Slovenian tourist

    Much isnt known about the ships, including the flag or flags they sailed under and the year they sank about 170 miles (273 kilometers) southeast of Galveston. They came to rest 4,360 feet (1,300 meters), or nearly three-quarters of a mile, below the surface, making them the deepest Gulf or North American shipwrecks to have been systemati-cally investigated by archaeologists, the researchers said.

    What youre going to see and hear I hope will blow your mind. Because it has ours, lead investigator Fritz Hanselmann told reporters at a Thursday news conference in which the team revealed its initial findings.

    We went out with a lot of ques-tions and we returned with even more. The big question were all ask-ing is: What is the shipwreck? And the answer is we still dont know, said Hanselmann, a researcher from Texas State University in San Mar-cos Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.

    During eight days of exploration that ended Wednesday, the scientists used remote-controlled machines to recover more than 60 artifacts from

    Associated Press Writer

    WASHINGTON Only a few species of mammals are monogamous, and now dueling scientific teams think they have figured out why they got that way. But their answers are not exactly romantic.

    The answers are not even the same. One team looked just at primates, the animal group that includes apes and monkeys. The researchers said the exclusive pairing of a male and a female evolved as a way to let fathers defend their young against being killed by other males.

    The other scientific team got a different answer after examining about 2,000 species of non-human mammals. They concluded that mammals became monogamous because females had spread out geographically, and so males had to stick close by to fend off the competition.

    So it is not about romance, said researcher Dieter Lukas of the University of Cambridge, lead author of the mammals study. Its just really the best he can do.

    The differing conclusions apparently arose because the two teams used different methods

    and sample sizes, the researchers said.But both teams discounted a long-standing

    explanation for monogamy, that it provides two parents rather than one for rearing off-spring. Thats just a side benefit, they said. Romance obviously came after monogamy, said Christopher Kit Opie, an anthropology researcher at the University College Lon-don, who was the lead author of the primate study

    The studies are published online Monday in the journals Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The mammal paper in Science excluded humans while the primate analysis in PNAS counted people both as monogamous and not, because that differs around the world.

    Researchers said they hesitated to apply their conclusions to humans, and they ac-knowledged that their results arent exactly the stuff of Valentines Day. Less than 9 per-cent of mammal species pair up socially.

    Among primates, about 25 percent of the species are socially monogamous, Opie said. Some, like gibbons, are highly monogamous while others, like chimps, are on the other end of the spectrum, Opie said.

    Team examining Gulf shipwreck finds 2 other wrecksAssociated Press Writer

    GALVESTON, Texas Marine archaeologists made a thrilling discovery this week while examining a well-preserved shipwreck deep in the Gulf of Mexico two other sunken ves-sels that likely went down with it during an early 19th century storm.

    AP Photo/NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program

    This photo provided by the NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program shows oxidized copper hull sheathing and possible draft marks visible on the bow of a wrecked ship in the Gulf of Mexico about 170 miles from Galveston, Texas.

    the initial shipwreck site, includ-ing musket parts, ceramic cups and dishes, liquor bottles, clothing and even a toothbrush. The artifacts, in-cluding china from Britain, ceramics from Mexico and at least one musket from Canada, will help researchers determine the ships histories, Han-selmann said.

    Nationalities, cultures, all col-lide in these shipwrecks. We hope to return in the future next year with more work, he said.

    Although they werent allowed to retrieve artifacts from the two new sites under the terms of their agree-ment to examine the initial one, the researchers took thousands of photos and closely examined the wreckage of all three ships, which came to rest within five miles (8 kilometers) of one another.

    Two of the ships were carrying similar items, and researchers believe they may have been privateers, or armed ships that governments would hire, Hanselmann said. The third ves-sel was loaded with hides and large bricks of tallow, suggesting that it may have been a prize seized by the privateers. The artifacts are headed

    for preservation work at a Texas A&M University research facility.

    For now, theres lot of conjecture, lots of hypotheses, said Jim Delgado, the director of the Maritime Heritage Program for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. We may have answered some questions,

    but we have a large number of new questions. But thats archaeology.

    Delgado said the ships likely went down during the first two decades of the 1800s, which was a time of great upheaval in the Gulf region and in the New World, in general.

    Empires were falling, Spain

    was losing its grip, France was sell-ing what it has, Mexico becomes independent, Texas independent, Latin America becomes indepen-dent and the U.S. is beginning to make a foothold in the Gulf, he said. So these wrecks are all tied to that, we are sure.

    AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File

    FILE - This Aug. 29, 2008 file photo shows a yellow-cheeked crested gibbon sitting in a cage at Cambodias Phnom Tamau Zoo in Takeo province, south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

    Monogamy may sound sweet, but why it evolved isnt

  • Bali News International4 Thursday, August 1, 2013 Thursday, August 1, 2013 13International RLDW

    Despite the militarys gesture, two days of efforts by the EUs Catherine Ashton to find a solution to Egypts crisis hit a brick wall. Some voices in the military-backed government, including Vice President Mohammed ElBaradei, have arisen hoping to avert a security crackdown on Morsis sup-porters, but neither side has budged in their positions, which leave no visible room for compromise.

    Morsis Muslim Brotherhood and his Islamist allies say the only solution is for Egypts first freely elected president to be restored to office, and they have vowed to continue their street rallies until that happens. Tuesday evening, they

    held new marches in Cairo outside the military intelligence offices, and in other cities around the country.

    The military and interim govern-ment, in turn, have rejected releasing Morsi or other detained Brotherhood leaders, a step the Europeans have called for and that Islamists have said could improve the atmosphere. Instead, they appear determined to prosecute detained Brotherhood members for crimes purportedly committed during Morsis presidency and for violence after his fall.

    Looming over the deadlock is the possibility of security forces acting to clear the main pro-Morsi sit-in in Cairo, where a crowd of his support-

    ers have been camped out for nearly a month - a move that would almost certainly bring bloodshed.

    Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, was invited by several parties in the standoff, including ElBaradei, in what appeared to be a last ditch attempt to use her good offices with the Brotherhood to find a way to avert a showdown. The invite came after at least 80 protesters, mostly Morsi supporters, were killed Saturday in clashes with security forces in one of the worst single crackdowns on a protest in Egypts nearly three years of turbulence.

    U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke by phone with the head of Egypts military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, on Tuesday to urge restraint by Egyptian security forces in dealing with ongoing protests, the Defense Department said. Secre-tary of State John Kerry also spoke to Ashton by phone and backed her call for an inclusive political process.

    Associated Press Writer

    PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodias opposition party esca-lated its challenge to the countrys election results Wednesday, claim-ing it had actually won a majority of National Assembly seats. The action suggests that the opposition is digging in for a protracted battle over the results against the long-time Prime Minister Hun Sen.

    Hun Sen meanwhile made his first public appearance since Sun-days election, speaking briefly at the opening of a flyover bridge in the capital. He struck a conciliatory tone, saying that he would send two of his close party colleagues to hold talks with the opposition lead-ers. He did not otherwise commit to any course of action.

    Yim Sovann, spokesman for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, said that based on reports from party workers and election observers, his party had won at least 63 of the assemblys 123 seats. Party leader Sam Rainsy made a similar claim late Tuesday to a small group of reporters.

    Hun Sens Cambodian Peoples

    Party earlier claimed it had won 68 seats to the oppositions 55 in the election. Provisional official results support the ruling partys projection.

    The opposition has already called for an investigation of voting irregularities, including registration problems that could have disenfranchised more than a million people. There have also been accounts of people voting who were not entitled to.

    Hun Sen said Wednesday that he would support establishing such a body if the state National Election Committee approved it. The government-appointed body, criticized for failing to address registration problems before the election, has not appeared inclined to endorse such an action.

    Hun Sen said he did not wish the people to be upset by the conduct of the election. His ap-pearance came after rumors had circulated earlier that he had re-signed or fled the country.

    The oppositions complaints have been supported by a number of nonpartisan Cambodian and foreign groups.

    Reuters

    COLON, Panama - Panamanian investigators unloading the cargo of a seized North Korean ship car-rying arms from Cuba under sacks of brown sugar on Tuesday found 12 engines for MiG-21 fighter jets and five military vehicles that offi-cials said resembled missile control centers.

    Investigators earlier this month had found two MiG-21 fighter jets and two missile radar systems on board the Chong Chon Gang, which was bound for North Korea when it was stopped by officials.

    Panamanian Security Minister Jose Mulino said the cargo appeared to fall within what Cuba had said was a range of obsolete arms be-ing sent to North Korea for repair.

    Panama asked the United Nations to delay the arrival of investigators by a week until August 12, because the process of unloading cargo found under 100,000 tons of sugar has taken longer than expected. About 25 percent of the sugar has been removed so far, Mulino said.

    Investigators have gone through most of two storage houses in the 155-meter (510 foot) vessel, Mulino

    said, but three more warehouses remain. The process has involved about 500 police since June 15 when Panamanian law enforcement dis-covered the military equipment.

    They initially pulled over the Chong Chon Gang after receiving a tip it was carrying drugs, Pana-manian law enforcement have said. Cuban officials told Panama the cargo was a donation of sugar for

    the people of North Korea.Officials have found most of

    the weapons Havana said were on board, including the two fighter jets, originally produced by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s, and two missile radar systems.

    No missiles have been found, and though officials originally feared one container held explosive material, none was discovered.

    Panama uncovers fighter jet engines from seized North Korea ship

    Cambodian opposition claims election majority

    AP Photo/Heng SinithPresident of National Rescue Party Sam Rainsy gives a speech dur-ing a public forum on the topic of the election of July 28, at the partys office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, July 31, 2013.

    AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency, FileFILE - In this Wednesday, June 19, 2013 file image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian Presi-dent Mohammed Morsi, right, meets with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt.

    Morsi gets a visit, but Egypt crisis stalematedAssociated Press Writer

    CAIRO - Egypts military gave the ousted president his first con-tact with the outside world since removing him from office, allowing Europes top diplomat Tuesday to meet with Mohammed Morsi in his secret detention. She emerged from her two-hour talks with him urging all sides to move on toward a peaceful transition.

    Negara (Bali Post)

    A pickup truck hauling agricultural products crashed into a stall and a motorcycle parked in front of a stall at Sebual hamlet, Dangin Tuka-daya village, Tuesday (Jul 30). There were no fatalities in the accident caused by the sleepy driver. However, the front part of the car and motorcycle wrecked.

    A number of witnesses met at the scene after the occurrence revealed that the vehicle from Denpasar direction sped fast. Arriving on Jalan Hayam Wuruk, precisely in the east of the Dangin Tukadaya Bridge, the vehicle suddenly deviated to left side without being braked. The trader of the stall, Ni Putu Pur-namawati, 33, was sitting in front of the stall after serving a buyer.

    Meanwhile, the Supra motorcycle was parked in front of the stall, right on the edge of the sidewalk. Suddenly, I wanted to sit down in front and a vehicle with license plate P 8239 VG deviated to come to stall. So, I jumped up and heard a violent crash, said Purnamawati. After crashing into a tree to the ground, the vehicle also hit the Supra motorcycle with li-cense plate DK 5243 WR to be dragged about five meters. The vehicle just stopped in front of the store selling bike seat. The frangipani

    trunk toppled down the roof of the stall to col-lapse. Mother of Purnamawati, Ni Ketut Manis, admitted that she was in the back of her stall when the incident occurred. The motorcycle owned by her husbands friend was parked in front of the stall.

    Agus (motorcycle owner) has not had time to sit in the house, suddenly he heard the sound of collision, she explained. Fortunately, at the incident there were no children playing at the location. Every time they usually played there and the stall owner put the bottles of gasoline for her stall.

    The driver was estimated to have no time to brake because he was sleepy. His vehicle just stopped after hitting a motorcycle and dragged it under the vehicle. Afterward, the vehicle was towed from the location in wrecked condition at the front. The pick-up driver, Heri, 25, from Banyuwangi suffered abrasions, while the con-ductor, Hendi, injured on the left hand. Based on the confession of the driver, they wanted to go back to Java after selling vegetables in Denpasar.

    Before crashing, they actually had time to have a break at the Sebual petrol station, not far from the location. However, he suddenly continued the journey and finally crashed. (kmb26)

    Chief of Petiga customary village, Made Gunawan, said the investor had showed its good will to meet the custom-ary villagers. Representative of the investor has met with us. It promised to propose the demand to Jakarta. We provide it with a two-week deadline, said Gu-nawan, Tuesday (Jul 30). As the agreement, the investor agreed to pay compensation worth IDR 25 million to Petiga customary village.

    Unfor tuna te ly, sa id Gu-nawan, there was no certainty,

    when the compensation would be disbursed whereas, he said, many people were questioning about the legality of the cellu-lar tower. Essentially, we are waiting for the time limit from the investor to keep its prom-ise, he concluded. He hoped the investor would not disap-point the customary villagers. Moreover, the tower built had been in operation.

    As reported previously, the cellular tower project at Belan-ban hamlet was complained by residents. The 52-meter high tower was allegedly unlicensed. The authority of customary vil-lage had never been involved in the coordination related to the project. Another complaint was that the tower had been in

    operation for more than two months. Illegality of the tower project was also justified by the headman of Petiga, Made Kertayasa.

    This official stated that his party only issued a recommen-dation for the permit proposal and tower construction project. Such recommendation, he said, was based on the approval of the adjacent residents.

    Since then, the village au-thority had never signed any permit, including the building permit (IMB). Meanwhile, the Head of Tabanan Investment and Licensing Office (BPMPD), Gusti Nyoman Arya Wardana, promised to come down to check the project, while ensuring the document. (kmb30)

    Denpasar (Bali Post)

    Ahead of the Eid celebration, the Bali Police implemented a consoli-dation rally or readiness of special and main equipment used for the Ketupat Agung Operation 2013 in order to secure the Eid holiday 2013 on Monday (Jul 29). The rally was held in the parking lot of the Petitenget Beach Monitoring Police Station, Northern Kuta. It was led in person by Chief of Bali Police, Arif Wachyunadi, accompanied by key officials of Bali Police, Chief of Badung Police and Chief of De-tachment B of Bali Police Mobile Brigade.

    Participants of the rally amount-ed to 280 people consisting of the personnel of the Badung Police, Detachment B Pioneer of Mengwi Badung, Transportation Agency, Public Order Officer and the Ba-dung Health Agency. All partici-pants attended the rally solemnly. Meanwhile, two-wheeled, four-wheeled and six-wheeled vehicles were functioned to check the readi-

    ness of personnel as well as special and main equipment used when carrying out the security of the Ketupat Agung Operation 2013.

    Bali Police Chief Arif affirmed that the rally was held in the prepa-ration for the Eid al-Fitr celebration having been around the corner. Af-ter checking, the Police Chief gave emphasis to the rally participants with the ranks of Badung Police to hold the analysis, evaluation as well as the learning on the anatomy of security, safety and the smoothness of traffic in 2011 and 2012.

    In the Ketupat Agung Operation 2013, the Bali Police Chief targeted to avoid any traffic accident at the same location, time and mode. He also hoped to avoid congestion, es-pecially on the main roads such as in the border of Denpasar, Badung to Tabanan. Execution of the op-eration is expected to prevent any incidence of criminal acts such as the case at the same place and time as the experience in the Ketupat Agung Operation a year ago, af-firmed Arif. (kmb21/dgk)

    Tower-related case, investor given deadline for 2 weeksTabanan (Bali Post)

    The complaints related to cellular tower at Belanban hamlet, Petiga village, Marga subdistrict, has found a solution. As soon as it was at issue, the investor came down to meet the customary villagers. As a result, the investor was given a time limit for two weeks to resolve the peoples demands. Otherwise, villagers would hold another meeting to determine the next measure.

    IBP/File

    The tower machine which is complained by the loclas in Petiga Village, Marga, Tabanan

    Bali Police Chief leads readiness rally ahead of Eid

    A pickup truck crashes into stall at Sebual

  • Bali News Thursday, August 1, 2013 5InternationalThursday, August 1, 201312 International

    Associated Press

    TAIPEI Dozens of Taiwanese scuffled with police Wednesday in the rowdiest demonstration yet against a new trade agreement with China.

    Signed on June 21, the pact allows each side to invest in the others service sectors, including banking. Its approval by Taiwans legislature is considered to be a foregone conclusion because President Ma Ying-jeous Nationalist Party enjoys a substantial majority in the 113-member body.

    During the fracas outside the islands legislature, some of the demonstrators breached a police line and climbed over the fence of the legislative building. They briefly protest inside the compound before being dis-persed. No arrests were reported.

    The pact is the latest in a series of China trade agree-ments promoted by Ma. The Taiwanese leader believes that unless Taiwan tightens its economic links with the mainland, the islands standard of living will suf-fer, particularly as neighboring Asian countries pursue their own commercial preferential arrangements with Beijing.

    The demonstrators reject this, insisting that the pact will increase Taiwans already considerable dependence on the mainland and enable China to dictate political conditions to the point where Taiwans hard-won demo-cratic freedoms will eventually be imperiled.

    Taiwan and the mainland split amid civil war in 1949. Beijing considers the island of 23 million people to be part of its territory and says it will bring it back into the fold, by persuasion if possible, by force if necessary.

    Cooper Tire and Rubber announced last month that it would be taken over by Apollo Tyres of India, making the combined group the seventh-largest such firm in the world.

    But thousands of staff at Cooper Chengshan, a joint venture in the eastern province of Shandong, have walked out in protest.

    They say the takeover cost could endanger their jobs, and express concern about cultural problems with future Indian bosses.

    Their union wants to block the transaction, which saw Cooper shares leap on the New York stock exchange.

    Yue Chunxue, director of the Cooper Chengshan union branch, accepted that the ambitious demand might not be achievable.

    But at least we can express our unease and demands and we hope we can draw the support of the media to success-fully block this deal, he told AFP.

    If we succeed, we will be very happy, Yue added. If we fail, we hope at least we can negotiate with them and win more benefits and safeguards.

    Employees have become increasingly vocal in China, with numerous labour disputes occurring in recent years. But the cause of the Cooper Chengshan strike is unusual, with protests normally focusing on pay and working condi-tions.

    It is the latest incident to hit a foreign joint venture after Chinese workers held an American factory executive hos-tage for nearly a week in late June over a plan by his US-based medical supply company to lay off 30 workers.

    The strike began on July 13, Yue said, because workers were concerned Apollo Tyres will be unable to repay debt taken on in the highly leveraged acquisition, so that their interests could be at risk.

    We oppose this purchase, first of all because Apollo does not have sufficient strength, he said, adding the $2.5 billion cost was mostly being funded through bank loans with annual interest of $100 million-$200 million.

    As a result worker wages and benefits could not be guar-anteed after the purchase, Yue said.

    He also expressed worries about potential conflicts with new Indian bosses.

    In the future because of cultural differences there will be difficulties faced in adapting to management, he said. We are very concerned about this point.

    The dispute comes as China and India have vowed to increase trade. Premier Li Keqiang visited India in May and promised to open Chinas market wider to India and forge a dynamic trade balance to deepen economic ties and ease political tensions.

    Cooper holds 65 percent of the joint venture while Chinas Chengshan Group has the remainder.

    I cannot imagine what the company will become after it is taken over by the Indian company, Cooper Chengshan worker Ma Rufu said, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tues-day.Zhang Huaqian, another employee, said: We shall fight to the end with anyone who allows us to lose our jobs.

    Chinese workers strike over takeover of US firmAgence France-Presse

    BEIJING - Nearly 5,000 Chinese workers at a Sino-US joint venture tyre manufacturer are on strike in protest at the American parent companys $2.5 billion takeover by an Indian firm, a union leader said Wednesday.

    AP Photo/Wally SantanaStudent protesters shout slogans against Taiwans latest trade pact agreement with China outside of the legis-lature, in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. The pact, signed between the sides on June 21, allows each to invest in the others service sectors, including banking. Signs read Occupy the Legislature and Reclaim our future!

    Scuffles erupt over Taiwan-China trade pact

    Bali PostNEGARA - Despite having got a

    reprimand and even protected with revetment on Yehembang Beach assisted the Indonesian Army (TNI AD), the action of sea sand theft remains rampant in the region. Even, the culprits seem to challenge the resi-dents caring for the environment.

    Last week, dozens of army per-sonnel from three Military Regional Commands (Koramil) in Jembrana helped through mutual cooperation with local residents to anticipate the coastal abrasion by installing safe-guarding levee so that the abrasion would not have a wider impact. How-ever, the measures taken by residents and military personnel were ignored by the culprit that remaining to dredge the sea sand. A number of residents having a concern with the coastal con-dition deeply regretted the action of

    the culprits on Monday (Jul 29). They got difficulty because the culprits also involved local residents. It is no use to make any levees painstakingly if the sand dredging still continues. After all, the abrasion persists, said one of the local residents.

    The residents claimed to have often seen the theft of sea sand on the beach after mutual assistance. Unmitigatedly, the culprits were desperate to bring along their pickup truck down to the beach at low tide. At least, three trucks and two vans were still being actively operated every night to take sea sand.

    Aside from bringing vehicle frank-ly, some other people took it by a motorbike. If such an action was not immediately addressed by the appa-ratus, the effort of the apparatus and community to create a safeguarding levee would be in vain. Residents

    believed the impact would be felt in a few years to come.

    Residents urged the administrative and customary village officials to actively make decision that banned the theft of sea sand. If necessary, any residents caught red-handedly when they were taking the sea sand should be imposed with a customary sanction.

    The Headman of Yehembang, I Made Semadi, said the village had tried to approach the culprits of lo-cal residents by give them guidance. However, the culprits seemed not to pay attention to the efforts made by the village and remained to take the sea sand. In the near future, the administrative village would try to coordinate the matter with custom-ary village to stop the action of the culprit by making a mutual agree-ment. (kmb26)

    Most investment is in the tertiary sector, namely the trade, hotel and restaurant, housing, transportation and oth-ers. During the period of January-March, we noted there were 68 projects in the sector, 10 projects in the secondary sector, while none in the primary sector, said the Division Head of Bali Investment Data and Licensing Agency, IB Adi Laksana, in Denpasar.

    According to him, the realization of foreign investment in that period reached IDR 1,945,502,951,728.00 and domes-tic investment reached USD 11,142,500. They were spread across nine counties and a municipality in Bali. The investors investing in Bali were from Denmark, Singapore, Australia, Spain, Belgium, PRC, Germany, Japan, the United States, Taiwan, India, England, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, South Korea and France.

    There are also investors denoting a combination of some countries investing in Bali. A total of 25 projects existed in the first quarter of 2013 with the total investment of USD 2,317,500, he explained.

    Adi Laksana targeted the growth of investment in Bali in 2014 would reach IDR 11.16 trillion with the number of foreign and domestic investment projects reached 4,180 investors.

    On the other hand, according to the economist of Bali, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, the high growth of investment in Bali was still dominated by investors from outside Bali and overseas. As a result, the economic growth of Bali averagely over six percent was dominantly enjoyed by outsiders.

    The contribution of foreign investors to the environment, village and customary villagers in Bali must be clear, but provincial and county/municipal government has not set it. On that account, their presence does not give any multiplier effect at all, he said.

    He said that Balinese people did not have to reject the presence of foreign or outside investors wishing to invest in Bali. However, the government needed to regulate their contribution to Bali; it was not only in terms of taxes, but also in terms of the alignments to surrounding community.

    We cannot just rely on local investors because their capa-bility has not reached the large-scale investment, he said.

    However, he said the government was required to make a decisive rule against the investors that invested in Bali. For example, it had to set the distribution of Corporate Social Re-sponsibility (CSR), the labor absorbed, so that Bali would not only get the very small friction from their presence here.

    Investment inequality focused on the tertiary sector was also evident from the diminishing agricultural land, mostly functioned for tourism facilities such as hotels, restaurants, villas, and residential development, office, industrial and others. Even, according to Chairman of the Indonesian Farm-ers Union (HKTI) Bali, Prof. Nyoman Suparta, each farmer family should ideally work on the land area of 2 hectares, but in reality they only did 0.35 hectares.

    Structural policy and shifting of socio-economic values have resulted in a necessity for farmers to sell their farmlands, he said.

    In addition, the excessive development of tourism sector, industry, trade, and the others had given a great contribu-tion over the compulsion. Moreover, the selling value of tax object (NJOP) increasingly higher was beyond the ability of farmers to pay. Thats why the remaining farmers are only the part-timers that are constantly lamenting their poverty, he said. (kmb27)

    Foreign investors uninterested in agricultural sector of BaliBali Post

    DENPASAR - The agricultural sector is increasingly ex-cluded from the list of investments in Bali. Foreign investors are more interested to invest in trade, hotel and restaurant than in the sector currently cultivated by most communi-ties of Bali Island. Even, none of the foreigners is willing to invest in the sector with total realization of foreign and domestic investment reaching IDR 2,049,128,201,728.00 in the first quarter of 2013.

    IBP/OloDespite having got a reprimand and even protected with revetment on Yehembang Beach assisted the Indo-nesian Army (TNI AD), the action of sea sand theft remains rampant in the region. Even, the culprits seem to challenge the residents caring for the environment.

    Sea sand theft at Yehembang stays rampant

    BUSINESS

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    That kind of activity isnt unusu-al for the 15,000-foot (4,500-meter) volcano, Mexicos second-highest, whose formal name is Popocate-petl, or Smoking Mountain in the Aztec language Nahuatl. But this volcano, personified first as a war-rior in Aztec legend and now as an old man grumbling with discontent, is in the middle of two metro areas, where his every spurt can put 20 million people on edge.

    Mexicos National Disaster Prevention Center laboratory keeps a round-the-clock watch on Po-pocatepetl, with anywhere from six to 15 technicians analyzing data for signs of a full-scale eruption, which they can never fully anticipate.

    Though lava or glowing rock would only travel so far, an explo-sion could be deadly for 11,000 people in three farming villages within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of the base because of landslides and hot gas. A spectacular plume of ash could also wreak havoc on one of the worlds largest metro areas, much as it did in 2003, when the sky over Mexico City more than 40 miles (65 kilometers) away nearly went dark in the middle of

    the afternoon. The neighboring city of Puebla on the other side of the volcano from the capital would also be clouded over.

    The volcano is like a patient, and we observe the different as-pects, said the centers technical director Gilberto Castelan. Here we receive over 60 indicators in real time.

    The 20-by-30-foot (6-by-9-meter) laboratory resembles those that once housed old giant super-computers, everything plain white with a server at one end and screens all around. Five remote-controlled cameras positioned on the side of the mountain emit real-time im-ages, while sensors feed data to the constantly scrolling seismographs as the crew and volcanologists analyze the concentration of gases and changes in the shape of the mountain. The loudest laboratory sound is a regular ping that alerts technicians to every seismic shift, at least a half dozen an hour.

    The data helps set the volcano stoplight, a three-color system in which green means little activity, yellow means warning and red starts the evacuation process

    something that has occurred only twice since 1994, when the volcano awoke again after sitting dormant for seven decades.

    Its one of the most advanced laboratories of its kind in the world, and the scientists in charge are us-ing the best methods, said Michael Sheridan, a volcanologist at the University of Buffalo in New York who has studied Popocatepetl. It is very difficult to predict the behavior of a volcano that has not had an eruption in recent history.

    Earlier this month, Popocatepetl released ash that grounded plane flights and dusted cars, but it qui-eted down enough last week for the warning to drop from yellow-3 to yellow-2. The Mexican government has designated evacuation routes and shelter locations in the case of a bigger explosion.

    Popocatepetl, nicknamed Popo or Don Goyo, is a stratovolcano, a steep conical formation built from layers of thick, slow-moving lava and ash the same type as Mount St. Helens in Washington state, scene of a 1980 eruption that was the most deadly in the U.S., killing 57 people.

    Associated Press Writer

    MOSCOW - The father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said on Russian television that he is grateful to the Kremlin for protecting his son.

    Speaking on state Rossiya 24 television in remarks broadcast Wednesday, Lon Snowden of Allentown, Pennsylvania, thanked Presi-dent Vladimir Putin and his government for the courage they have shown in keeping his son safe.

    Addressing his son, Lon Snowden said that your family is well and we love you. He added that I hope to see you soon, but most of all I want you to be safe.

    The younger Snowden has been stuck in the transit zone of Mos-cows Sheremetyevo airport since arriving from Hong Kong on June 23. Russia is considering his request for temporary asylum.

    Snowdens lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told the Vesti-FM radio sta-tion on Wednesday that he is arranging for Snowdens father to visit Russia. Kucherena said that he would send Lon Snowden a letter of invitation to Russia later on Wednesday.

    Kucherena said that Snowden asked him to get in touch with his father because he needs moral support.

    Associated Press Writer

    MANILA, Philippines - Electricity was restored Wednesday to most of a Philippine province that was entirely cut off for more than 24 hours when the national power grid operator stopped its supply due to $93 million in unpaid bills, officials said.

    Shops had been closed and hospitals had been running on generators since Tuesday morning in Albay, a province of 1.2 million people southeast of Manila. Even the provincial governors office was not spared from the power outage.

    The Department of Energy said a disconnection notice was served to the Albay Electric Cooperative because it failed to settle a debt of nearly 4 billion pesos ($93 million) over 15 years.

    Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla said power was restored as of 5 p.m. Wednesday on the conditions that the top 100 delinquent custom-ers - most of them business establishments - remain disconnected and that the electric cooperative pay its current outstanding bill of 59 million pesos ($1.3 million).

    He said that as of midday Wednesday, roughly 40 million pesos ($922,000) had been paid, and the mayor of Legazpi, the provincial capital, promised to settle the balance soon even if it would mean declaring a state of emergency in the city to allow the quick disbursement of funds.

    Its really dark at night. Since it is also rainy here, it is like during a ty-phoon, health insurance company employee Cristie Recebido said earlier Wednesday. She said shops in Legazpi closed early and hospitals and offices were running on generators.

    Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said he was worried about the economic impact. Albay is an agricultural province and the countrys third largest source of geothermal power. The active Mayon volcano overlooking Legazpi is one of the regions top tourist attractions.

    Salceda said that the Energy Department laid down two conditions for restoring electricity, including keeping the top 100 non-paying customers off the grid and putting in place a rehabilitation plan to pay off the debt.

    AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File

    FILE - In this July 23, 2013 file photo, smoke rising from the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano is carried away by wind, next to dormant Iztaccihuatl volcano, front right, seen from a Mexican Navy aircraft on a volcano monitoring mission in Mexico.

    Mexico keeps constant eye on Popocatepetl volcanoAssociated Press Writer

    MEXICO CITY In a clean, hushed room in the south of Mexico City, cameras, computer screens and scrawling needles track the symptoms of a special patient, as they have every sec-ond of every day for the past two decades. The monitors indicate that Don Goyo is breathing normally, even as he spews hot rock, steam and ash.

    Edward Snowdens father thankful to Putin

    Power back in Philippine province with $93M bill

    The corpses were retrieved from five hamlets devastated by landslides and floods in Ambon, the capital of Maluku province, while more than 870 houses were flooded by an overflowing river, said Harmensyah, director of emergency relief at the Disaster Mitigation Agency.

    Authorities struggled to get tractors and bulldozers over washed-out roads. Television footage showed hundreds of police, soldiers and residents digging through debris with their hands, shovels and hoes.

    Harmensyah, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, said two young children were among the dead, while 28 people were rushed to hospitals with in-juries. About 4,300 people fled to temporary shelters.

    Rescuers were still searching for four others reportedly missing and believed to be buried under tons of debris.

    Lack of equipment and bad weather hampered our rescue efforts for those who are still missing and feared dead, said Harmensyah.

    He said rivers bloated by days of rain burst their banks in Way Ela hamlet last Thursday, forcing people to flee their flooded homes. Witnesses said water levels were more than a yard (meter) high in places when mud and rocks suddenly cascaded down hills early Tuesday.

    Seasonal rains and high tides in recent days have caused widespread flooding across much of Indo-nesia, home for 240 million people, many of whom live in mountainous regions and near fertile flood plains near rivers.

    AntaraJAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Com-

    mission (KPK) has urged state officials in the country not to ask for gifts in connection with the Islamic day of Lebaran often called THR or holiday allowance.

    Being state officials is different because he or she will be watched by the public and so state officials must not develop a tradition that gives signals to their offices business partners to give something in the form of goods or facilities (in connection with the holiday), he said at KPK Building here on Wednesday.

    Regarding the facilities he referred to services for overseas or out-of-town trips for an example.

    So, the circular that we have distributed is actually aimed at safeguarding the honor of state officials and therefore must be responded by their institutions, he said.

    This means, he added, government institutions

    also must discourage their officials from using office cars for traveling home or mudik in a local term.

    Using office cars for mudik is not right. Cars are intended for serving the public not state of-ficials personal interests, he said.

    With regard to parcels, Busryo said they are also given to state officials because of their posi-tions.

    If they are not in their present position they will certainly not receive them. Therefore those who give them must have a special interest, he said.

    Busryo said that giving a parcel to an official is actually insulting the recipient, adding that it is better to give and to take.

    It would be more respectful to give charity than awaiting parcels, he said.

    Busryo said that before KPK had already rep-rimanded state institutions that received parcels ahead of the post-fasting holidya of Lebaran.

    AntaraJAKARTA - A convict in high

    profile graft case Muhammad Naz-aruddin pledged to unveil more big corruption cases involving a number of government officials in the corrup-tion infested country.

    I promise to the Indonesian peo-ple, I will reveal all cases I know in big projects, Nazaruddin, a former trea-surer of the ruling Democratic Party, now serving a jail term for corruption in the construction of a sport facility in Palembang said on Wednesday.

    Two former top leaders of the ruling party have been implicated by Nazaruddin, who came to the Corruption Eradication Commission on Wednesday for questioning in money laundering case in which he is a suspect.

    Former sports minister Andi Ma-larangeng and former general chair-man of the ruling party Anas Urban-ingrum have been named suspects by

    ANTARA FOTO/Embong Salampessy

    Residents searching for their belongin in the ruin at Ambon, Maluku. Five hamlets devastated by landslides and floods in Ambon, the capital of Maluku province, while more than 870 houses were flooded by an overflowing river, said Harmensyah, director of emergency relief at the Disaster Mitigation Agency.

    Landslides, flooding kill 10 in eastern IndonesiaAssociated Press

    AMBON Rescuers pulled 10 bodies from mounds of mud Tuesday after flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rains in eastern Indonesia sent thousands fleeing for safety and left four others missing, a disaster official said.

    KPK asks state officials not asking THR

    Nazaruddin pledges drag more officials in big corruption casesKPK in the Hambalang sport center project case.

    I will bring all to the open . Many officials have claimed to be clean but I know they are all big thieves, Nazaruddin said.

    He said he already told his lawyers details of his allegation including proj-ects involving trillions of rupiahs in state funds, but he gave no names.

    He said he had evidence to back up his allegations, adding he would sup-port KPK in its investigations.

    Nazaruddin and his company the Permai Group, are involved in a number of corruption and graft cases including projects of the Education Ministry, Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry, Health Ministry and Religious Affairs Ministry.

    Earlier KPK said it was investigat-ing allegations against Nazaruddin over involvement in corruption cases in projects valued at Rp6.037 trillion.

    This publicity image released by NBC shows Lon Snowden, father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on the Today, show

    AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer

  • Thursday, August 1, 2013 7SportsThursday, August 1, 201310 InternationalInternationalDestination

    The 16-year-old from Bethesda, who also won the 400 freestyle gold medal on Sunday, powered away from defending champion Lotte Friis of Denmark in the final stages to break the previous best of 15:42.54 set by compatriot Kate Ziegler in 2007.

    It was the second world record of the championships in the specially constructed pool at the hilltop Palau Sant Jordi after Ruta Meilutytes mark in qualifying for the 100 metres breaststroke on Monday.

    Lithuanian Meilutyte, born two days after Ledecky in March 1997, went on to claim a first world cham-pionship gold for the tiny Baltic nation when she triumphed in Tuesdays final. She was unable to better Mondays effort but still produced the second-fastest time ever of 1:04.42, just seven hundredths slower than her record 1:04.35.

    Ledeckys team mate Missy Franklin, who won four gold medals and one bronze in last years London Olympics, secured her second gold of the week with victory in the 100 metres breaststroke and Matt Grevers claimed the 100 metres backstroke title.

    Ryan Lochte, the second-most decorated mens world championship medallist after compatriot Michael Phelps, provided a rare moment of disappointment for the U.S. team when he could manage only fourth in the

    200 metres freestyle final.Frenchman Yannick Agnel followed up on

    his triumph at last years London Olympics to take gold and Conor Dwyer salvaged some pride for the U.S. with silver. Weve had an absolutely incredible evening, an excited Franklin, who is swimming eight events in Barcelona, told reporters.

    Ledecky sat on the shoulder of Friis for much of their two-horse race but the Dane was left trailing by a powerful late charge from the Olympic 800 metres champion and finished with silver in 15:38.88, also inside Zieglers mark. Lauren Boyle of New Zealand was third in 15:44.71 ahead of Spains Mireia Belmonte Garcia in 15:58.83.

    It was really tough, my hardest race ever, Ledecky told reporters. I knew we were going pretty fast and I figured that whoever came out on top was probably going to get the world record.

    I had to be careful not to push it too early or push it too late and just touch the wall first. Around the last 200 I knew I could take off.

    Yamaha remains hopeful of retain-ing Cal Crutchlow for the 2014 MotoGP championship, and expects the Briton to make a decision on his future before the Indianapolis round in mid-August.

    The 27-year-old Briton has starred in 2013, claiming a maiden pole at Assen and collecting four podiums from the opening nine races. He is currently the top satellite rider in the championship, just one point behind Yamaha works rider Valentino Rossi and 47 in arrears to overall leader Marc Marquez.

    Despite such success the Briton remains the only Yamaha rider without a deal for 2014, and has previously spoken of his desire to land a factory ride. Lin Jarvis, managing director of the Yamaha Factory Racing, accepts he cannot offer Crutchlow a fac-tory role, but still hopes he can persuade the Briton to stay with the Japanese marque.

    We would love to see Cal stay with us next year, but we realise that his per-formances are extremely good and that, therefore, he is very hot property and our competitors are also interested in his ser-vices, Jarvis told motogp.com. I am hop-ing he will stay with Tech 3 Yamaha. That will probably all be sorted before the next race - that is what I am expecting.

    We have a situation where Cal has evolved in Tech 3 and, normally, Tech 3 is our team where young or developing riders will come on and then maybe step up into the factory team. Cal is at the prime moment to step up, but we are full. We have Valentino

    The Indian Grand Prix has been dropped from next years Formula 1 calendar - but is set to re-turn at the start of 2015. After intense speculation about the future of the event amid tax issues with Indian authorities, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone confirmed on Tuesday that the race was off.

    But rather than being dropped because of the tax matters, he says that its private owner Jaypee has shied away from a 2014 grand prix because of calendar issues. Dieter Rencken: F1s calendar convolutions

    It wants to move the race to a March slot to fit in with other flyaway events and reckons having two races within the space of six months does not make sense.

    Ecclestone told the Indian news agency IANS: When we signed the five-year deal with Jaypee, we were keen on going to India in the first half and Jaypee wanted it to be in October.

    We gave in at that time, but now it looks we will have the race early 2015. It was too close.

    Therefore, after speaking to promoters, we think it is best not to have a race in 2014 and have one in 2015.

    The ditching of the Indian GP clears the way for Ecclestone to slot in the Russian Grand Prix in October next year.

    Ledecky the brightest star in Americans galaxyReuters

    BaRCeLONa - american teenager Katie Ledecky smashed the world record in the womens 1,500 metres freestyle final by more than six seconds during a glittering session for the United States at the world championships on Tuesday.

    AP Photo/Michael SohnKatie Ledecky

    Indian Grand Prix dropped from Formula 1 in 2014, but back for 2015

    Yamaha still hopeful Crutchlow will stay

    Monster Yamaha MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow of Britain competes in the German Grand Prix at

    the Sachsenring circuit, near the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernsthal, July 14, 2013.

    [Rossi] and Jorge [Lorenzo] on two-year contracts so, right now, we have no place at the Yamaha Factory team.

    It is a difficult circumstance. Ducati, with whom Crutchlow held talks for a 2013 ride, recently confirmed it would split with Nicky Hayden at the end of the current season.

    Cal Crutchlow MotoGP 2013Asked is he was aware of rivals interest in Crutch-low, Jarvis said: Yes, we are pretty aware of that. Two strong alternatives - and may-be both companies have more money than us at the moment, shall we say. Ducati especially have a different situation, so maybe they have more possibilities.

    REUTERS/Thomas Peter

    IBP/File Photo

    IBP

    Tirta Empul Temple or Tampak Siring Temple is a holy spring water temple located in Tampak Siring Village, Gianyar regency and it is about 39 km eastwards from Den-pasar town. It is set in the dale and encircled by the hill. In the west side of this temple, there is an Indonesian President palace which has been built by the first president, Soekarno.

    The name of Tirta Empul is loaded in a inscription which is kept at Sakenan Temple, Manukaya village, Sub district of Tampak Siring, about 3 km from Tirta Empul Temple. In this inscription, the Tirta Empul was named Tirta Ri Air Hampul and then the name has changed into Tirta Hampul and finally become Tirta Empul. Tirta Ri air hampul is meaning the water emerge or the holy pool (Petirthan) which is the water emerge from the ground.

    The wellspring emerges from the ground is believed that it is the infinite creation. Ac-cording to the history, this water source is arranged and sanctified by king Indrajayas-inghawarmadewa in the year 882 Saka (960 M). He has given name the place with Tirta ri air hampul. The data is loaded in the inscrip-tion that is located at Sakenan Temple.

    Besides of the above epigraphy data, in Tirta Empul Temple is also found the archaeology omission like Colossus Yoni,

    Arca Lion, Tepasana and Tirta Empul Pool. According to papyrus of Usana Bali, Tirta Empul was created by Bhatara Indra (Sun Deity) when fighting against the king whose palace located in Bedahulu Countryside. He known as a very miraculous king, named Mayadenawa. Because of its miracle, he becomes arrogance and calls himself God. The Mayadenawa King owns assistant (Patih) called Kalawong. Mayadenawa prohibit people to pray to God. Thats why in his kingdom, ill fated accidents occurred, such as natural disaster, disease epidemic, agriculture fail and finally miserable life society.

    Betara Indra (one of Hindu God) fights Mayadenawa in Tampak Siring and May-adenawa gone to the wall and disappeared. King Mayadenawa also created poisonous pools which make Bathara Indras soldiers die and faint after drinking this water. Then, Bathara Indra sticking the weapon to ground and finally the water is emerging that called Tirta Empul. It is passed to the dead and faint soldiers that made them back to live.

    Therefore at the moment, pool of water is sanctified by Hindu society in Bali. They be-lieve that this water source can heal various diseases, hence every day this place is visited by Hindu people to do ritual and sanctify them self. This place has been opened for public and becomes famous tourist destina-tion in Bali.

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    The standout performer in his nations triumph at last months Confederations Cup, Neymar joined up with his new team mates on Monday and made the trip to Poland to feature in a Barca squad for the first time since joining from Santos.

    He replaced Chile forward Alex-is Sanchez in the 78th minute, just after World Player of the Year Lionel Messi had been substituted,

    and was welcomed with a series of robust challenges from the home players.

    New coach Gerardo Martino did not make the trip to Poland and will make his debut on the bench when Barca host Neymars former club in a friendly at the Nou Camp on Friday.

    A minutes silence was held before the match in Gdansk after Barca announced earlier on Tues-

    day that their former goalkeeper Antoni Ramallets had died at the age of 89.

    Ramallets made 473 appear-ances for the Catalan club between 1946 and 1961 and won six La Liga titles and five Spanish Cups.

    He was awarded the Zamora trophy for the top goalkeeper in La Liga five times and was part of the Spain squad that finished fourth at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil.

    Associated Press Writer

    QUITO, Ecuador Officials were preparing Tuesday to repatriate the body of Ecuadorean soccer star Christian Benitez, who died in Qatar a day after playing a game for local soccer team El Jaish.

    Autopsy results have not been released, but Ecuadorean soccer chief Luis Chiriboga said he was told the 27-year-old was taken to a hospital with sharp stomach pains, developed peritonitis and died Monday of cardiorespiratory arrest.

    Efforts to repatriate Benitezs body to his home-land were being held up by paperwork Tuesday, but soccer officials said the funeral for the star was planned for Thursday in Quito and that a tribute would be held in the General Ruminahui coliseum, which holds 16,000 people.

    The burial will be Thursday in the Monte Olivo cemetery, near the home of our National Team, said Francisco Acosta, secretary for the Ecuadorean Soccer Federation. Chiriboga had earlier said the federation was planning to fly the chief doctor for Ecuadors national team as well as Benitezs father and mother to Qatar to accompany the remains.

    Christian Benitez led the Mexican soccer league in scoring last season and helped his club America win the championship last season. He had just played his first game for his new Qatari club when he died. El Jaish played Qatar Sports in the Sheik Jassim Cup, a warmup tournament for the upcoming season.

    The club said Benitez did not complain about his health on Sunday. The game was played in hot and humid conditions typical of the Persian Gulf this time of year. Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup and the searing heat has prompted many in soccer to call for the tournament to be moved to winter.

    Ermen Benitez told Futbolizados radio sta-tion in Ecuador on Monday that his daughter-in-law told him the soccer star had pain in his stomach and took a pill. They took him to a hospital and later came the news that we have all heard. We are destroyed, he said. Benitez left behind three children.

    ReutersLONDON - Former England soccer captain David Beckham will release

    a picture book in October featuring images from his playing career in a deal with a UK publishing unit of French media company Lagardere.

    The ex-Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder, who retired from football in May after a brief spell with French club Paris St Germain, is expected to release the book on Oct. 31 with Lagarderes UK-based Headline Publishing Group.

    Headlines non-fiction publishing director, Jonathan Taylor, bought the world rights in a deal with the 38-year-olds management company XIX Entertainment for a book the publisher said will be a personal celebration of his playing days.

    David Beckham is, without a doubt, the most universally recognised and popular sports person on the planet, and this gorgeous book will be a superb way for his millions of fans around the world to celebrate Davids remarkable achievements within football, Taylor said in a statement.

    Beckham earned 115 caps for England, a record for an outfield player, and won the Champions League, six Premier League titles and two FA Cups with Manchester United. He also won league titles with Real Madrid in Spain, LA Galaxy in the United States and PSG in France.

    His new book is just one part of the post-retirement plans for Britains richest sportsman, whose easy charm and image as a family man should ensure the Beckham brand continues to prosper.

    Managed by the XIX Entertainment group which has British motor racing driver Lewis Hamilton and Wimbledon tennis champion Andy Murray on its books, Beckham has capitalised on his film-star looks and athletes body to market underwear for Swedish fashion chain H&M and luxury watches for Swiss manufacturer Breitling.

    He is married to former Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham, with whom he has four children.

    Lagardere posted a 2.3 percent rise in first-quarter sales in May, driven by the publishing success of the Fifty Shades bestsellers and a biography of Sweden international soccer player, Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

    Reuters

    MUNICH - Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness was charged with tax evasion on Tuesday after months of investigations into the high-profile affair were concluded, a Munich court said.

    Hoeness, the face of Bayern Munich for many years, stunned Germany in April by saying he had voluntarily alerted tax authorities in January to a Swiss bank account he held, throwing the former West Germany internationals future into doubt. A charge has been lifted against Ulrich H. for tax evasion, Munich regional court spokes-woman Andrea Titz told Reuters Television. The defendant has now four weeks time to respond to this charge which was handed personally to him today, she said.

    She said it was now up to the court to decide whether to accept the charges and set a date for a trial.

    Hoeness, who could face a jail sentence but hopes for leniency after naming himself as a tax

    evader, has said the account had nothing to do with Bayern. He said it was a personal account, created for his stock market trading. He admitted to gambling bigger and bigger amounts and tak-ing a major hit as the dotcom bubble burst.

    The 61-year-old told reporters last week, after weeks of silence, that he was optimistic the matter would have a relatively good end.

    Bayern, who enjoyed their greatest success by winning the treble amid the furore of the affair this year, have stuck with their president, turning down an offer from Hoeness to step down.

    Hoeness, who had his villa on a Bavarian lake searched by authorities in March, has been at Bayern for more than 40 years, having served as a player during the 1970s, a period of great success.

    A World Cup and European championship winner with Germany, Hoeness, who also won three European Cups as a player at Bayern, spent 30 years as the teams general manager before being elected pres