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That was enough to best Jason Su-deikis and Jennifer Aniston’s comedy “We’re the Millers,” the “Cars” spinoff “Planes,” and the fantasy sequel “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.” But despite stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, the $115 million “Elysium” still fell short of Blomkamp’s debut, 2009’s Oscar-nominated “District 9.”

The top 10 movies at U.S. and Ca-nadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com, are:

1. “Elysium,” Sony, $29,807,393, 3,284 locations, $9,077 average, $29,807,393, one week.

2. “We’re the Millers,” Warner Bros., $26,419,396, 3,260 locations, $8,104 average, $37,908,179, one week.

3. “Planes,” Disney, $22,232,291, 3,702 locations, $6,005 average, $22,232,291, one week.

4. “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” Fox, $14,401,054, 3,031 locations, $4,751 average, $23,258,113, one week.

5. “2 Guns,” Universal, $11,249,145, 3,028 locations, $3,715 average,

$48,638,050, two weeks.6. “Smurfs 2,” Sony, $9,328,495, 3,867

locations, $2,412 average, $46,471,998, two weeks.

7. “The Wolverine,” Fox, $8,024,404, 2,867 locations, $2,799 average, $112,010,574, three weeks.

8. “The Conjuring,” Warner Bros.,

$6,627,356, 2,650 locations, $2,501 average, $120,672,262, four weeks.

9. “Despicable Me 2,” Universal, $5,915,650, 2,395 locations, $2,470 average, $338,481,845, six weeks.

10. “Grown Ups 2,” Sony, $3,645,565, 2,102 locations, $1,734 average, $123,786,496, five weeks.

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File-This film publicity file image released by TriStar, Columbia Pictures-Sony shows Matt Damon, right, in a scene from “Elysium.” “Elysium” topped the weekend box office with $30.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, enough to beat three newcomers, including the Jennifer Aniston comedy “We’re the Millers.”

Box office top 20: $29.8 million for ‘Elysium’

Associated Press Writer

“You hear nothing. You see noth-ing. You only serve.” Such are the instructions Cecil Gaines receives as he embarks on his daunting new job at the Eisenhower White House in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” But of course Gaines, played by Forest Whitaker in a moving, grounded performance that anchors the film and blunts its riskier excesses, hears and sees everything.

And that means that over more than three decades on the job, he has a Forrest Gump-like view not only of the White House under seven presidents, but of the long arc of the civil rights struggle in 20th-century America.

Much has been said about this movie’s potential future as an Os-car powerhouse. The speculation is natural — especially given its star-studded cast — but it takes away from

the more important discussion of its simpler virtues, as an absorbing film that has the potential to teach a new generation (and remind an older one) about these crucial events.

The story is inspired by a Wash-ington Post profile of Eugene Allen, a White House butler from 1952 to 1986. Some anecdotes remain, but much is different. Most importantly, Daniels and screenwriter Danny Strong create a father-son dynamic between Gaines and a rebellious older son, Louis (a terrific David Oyelowo) that serves as a backdrop against which the civil rights struggle can play out — through the eyes of black characters, not white ones, for a refreshing change.

This is done most strikingly in a key montage in which Cecil and his fellow White House workers set up an elegant state dinner, china and crystal and all, while down South,

Louis is protesting at a segregated lunch counter, leading to a harrowing confrontation.

But the story begins in 1926, with the death of Cecil’s own father at the hands of the barbaric son of a land-owner on a Georgia cotton farm. The elderly landowner (Vanessa Redgrave, beginning the celebrity cameo parade) takes Cecil into her home, where he first learns to be a butler — how to act, she tells him, like the room is empty even when he’s in it.

Years later, working in a Wash-ington, D.C. hotel, Cecil is noticed by a White House official, leading to a job there. His wife, Gloria, is im-mensely proud. Gloria, as you may have heard, is played by one Oprah Winfrey, and her performance is often restrained and quite moving. To her credit, you’re not thinking “Wow, Oprah!” in every scene; that in itself is no small triumph.

‘The Butler’ tells a story we need to hear

AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Anne Marie Fox

This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, left, and Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines in a scene from “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”


NEW YORK — Neill Blom-kamp’s science-fiction thriller “Elysium” led a crowded field at the box office, topping the weekend with $29.8 million.

“We don’t want the reclamation to con-tinue because many of the Balinese people reject the idea. For that reason, Bali House urged the governor to revoke the permit,” said the Head of Bali House A.A> Ngurah Oka Ratmadi accompanied by the Vice Ketut Suwandhi and the Head of Commis-sion I Made Arjaya on Monday, August 12, 2013.

In the letter by Bali House, there are

several considerations why the Governor should revoke the permit. First, it is because many people reject the idea of reclamation on Benoa Bay. Second, the recommenda-tion given by Bali House previously is to do a feasibility study and not to publish a per-mit. Third, the pre-study done by Udayana University shows that the reclamation will give many negative effects. Fourth, there are many regulations that was violated by the

governor during the making of the permit such as the regulation on the protection of the coastline, the management of the small islands, and others.

Cok Ratmadi said that by the letter that urged the governor to revoke the permit, there is great hope that the controversy surrounding the reclamation plant will be finished. “We hope that the governor can act on this letter of recommendation,” he added.

He also stated that by the new letter, the previous letter by Bali House regarding the development of an island to protect from tsunami is canceled. The similar statement also said by Ketut Suwandhi and Made Arjaya.

According to Arjaya, the governor should revoke the permit immediately. However, all of them don’t want to say what the punishment is if the governor doesn’t obey the recommendation. Unfortunately, there is no certain date on the letter of the recommendation but the house expect that the governor will act promptly. (kmb29)

Bali House urge Governor to revoke reclamation permit

The photo shows Serangan Island after reclamation. Worried that

reclamation on Serangan case will be happening in Benoa Bay, Bali’s legislative body asks Bali’s gover-nor to revoke decree on reclama-

tion of Benoa Bay.

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Denpasar (Bali Post) -

After a month or so the controversy regarding the permit published by Bali Governor on the reclamation of Benoa Bay, Bali House of Representative finally determine their political action. The house has published a letter for the governor so he should review or even revoke the permit.

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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


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

Various competitions organized could pro-vide an atmosphere of togetherness among the participants. The competition held consisted of coloring contest, inserting pencil into a bottle, moving balloons and some others. Besides, there was also a competition of reading of the Divine Kalam, Saritilawah, and then followed by a speech from the General Manager, Jodie and delivery of groceries and stationery.

The atmosphere was turning more festive when the orphanage children performed his tambourine music, Balinese Dance by the staff and hotel employees. “This activity is a regular event organized to better establish the friendship among the religious communities in particular and other people,” said GM Jodie. IBP/Courtesy of BTN

Sharing happiness with orphanageIBP

KUTA - Best Western resort Kuta held a fasting break with Tunas Bangsa orphanage children, Friday (Aug 2). Such an event was also attended by col-leagues such as travel agencies, media, corporate management and other Best Western hotels. The event organized at the Ambrosia restaurant was started with implementation of competitions involving the orphanage children.

Gianyar (Bali Post)—With the appearance like a married

couple putting on Balinese customary attires while carrying the offerings, the regional working units (SKPD) of Gianyar County riding a bicycle around the Astina Raya Square were becoming an interesting spectacle, Monday (Aug 13).

Riding the past onthel bicycle was an innovation made in the 68th anniversary celebration of the Inde-pendence Day of the RI in Gianyar. Laughter of the audience welcomed the participants that were getting ready at the start line. The unique couples

were released in turn by the Regent of Gianyar AA Bharata around the Astina Raya Square. Diverse expressions of the participants were displayed to at-tract the attention of the audience and judges along the way. Some partici-pants were coming up in elderly style while dancing and singing psalmody.

Executive committee of the com-petition doubling as the Secretary of the Gianyar Culture Agency, Anak Agung Sri Mawarti, said the activity was expected to move the awareness and return to the national identity. One of the ways was by maintaining the noble cultural values. (kmb16)

“The pest is like virus and cutting the rice neck. They attacked the grain since it was young,” complained Nengah Sudiana, 54, one of the local farmers, Monday (Aug 12). This man claimed the virus was the most difficult pest to eradicate. Though having ap-plied various pesticides, the pest attack remained ferocious.

Since many ears of the grains were damaged, the crop yields dropped sharply. Sudiana pointed out, his rice yield could only reach 45 kg per 100 square meters, while under normal condition he could gain up to 80 kg per 100 square meters. “Many rice grains were rotting. Thus, the yields thor-oughly declined,” he added. Though harvest yield dropped, farmers still

Bangli (Bali Post)—Dozens of first grade students of

the SDN 6 Songan primary school are forced to learn in the emer-gency classroom bordered with plastic sheet wall. A number of those students are separated from the main classroom as it is beyond the capacity. Even, such apprehen-sive condition has been going on since the past few months.

Based on observation at loca-tion on Monday (Aug 12), con-dition of the school located at Serongga hamlet, Songan village B, was indeed very alarming. To reach the location of the school, people should go through a trail about 100 meters from the main road. The road could no longer be passed through by four-wheeled vehicle. At a local hamlet hall lay a building measuring about 6x8 meters. Walls of the build-ing were made of sheet of plastic sacks sewn in such a way and structured with bamboo in order to make a room without a win-dow, door and roof. “This build-ing is self-financed by donation

of local residents at Serongga, while the equipment such as the blackboard, chairs, and tables belong to SDN 6,” said Principal of the SDN 6 Songan, Wayan Suandara.

According to him, the emer-gency classroom was made be-cause local school at Songan surpassed the capacity. As a result, the school and Serongga residents had an initiative to build another classroom. In other words, the emergency class was a distance class of the SDN 6 Son-gan. Suandara said the classroom establishment was based on the agreement of Serongga residents in order the children of Songan village could still attend school. “Other than being overloaded, the distance from Serongga to the existing school at Songan is also pretty far, so we feel sorry for the students,” said Suandara.

To attend school, the students from Serongga should travel about three kilometers through the main road. When finding a shortcut through the village

lane, it was quite vulnerable and far. Since there was no attention from the Bangli government, the residents of Serongga finally took an initiative to establish the emergency school. “It is the first step and we plan to submit a proposal to the Education Agency for the establishment of a new school at Serongga. It’s the initia-tive of Serongga residents,” said Suandara.

A total of 32 students attended school in the emergency class-room. Meanwhile, the number of student at the main SDN 6 Son-gan primary school reached 34 put into a single class. Therefore, the total number of first grade students at the SDN 6 Songan totally reached 66 students. “If all the students are accommo-dated at the SDN 6 Songan, they will not fit. Therefore, we take an initiative to make a distance class at Serongga,” he explained. Meanwhile, the teachers in the emergency class were from the SDN 6 Songan primary school who taught in turn. (ina)

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The farmer is showing the rice paddy that is attacked by fungi in Kerambitan, Tabanan.

Attacked by fungi, rice harvest dropsTabanan (Bali Post)—

Apparently the destiny of farmers in Tabanan is far away from the predicate of being prosper-ous. Farmers at Tibubiu in Kerambitan subdistrict, for instance, experienced a decline in the harvest yield due to fungal attack. It harmed the neck and the yellow grain. Such pest attack was alleged to happen due to erratic weather. As a result, the rice stems rotted and were then followed by the destruction of rice grains. Some farmers claimed that such attack had lasted for a long time, even before the grains were turning yellow. Thus, the growth was not normal.

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cultivated their land with expensive planting cost.

Aside from facing dropped harvest, farmers also complained about the decline in the rice prices. Due to low quality, the price of rice fell from IDR 400,000 to IDR 350,000 per quintal. Such price was estimated to persist due to erratic weather. Moreover, many farmers were forced to delay their harvest due to lack of harvesters. Many harvesters were going home for celebrating the Eid in Java. “This rice harvest is already delayed due to wait-ing for the harvesters,” he said. All this time, said Sudiana, most rice collectors relied on labor from Java.

The attack of rotten neck to the rice was justified by the Head of Tabanan

Agriculture and Horticulture Agency, Nyoman Budana. He said due to de-clining harvest yield, the selling price of rice fell from IDR 200,000 to IDR 175,000 per 100 square meters. Even, it could also reach IDR 160,000 per 100 square meters. “Indeed, many paddy plants are attacked by rotten neck,” he said last Monday. Although the price of rice fell, the price of harvest rice (GKP) was relatively stable, averagely at IDR 3,800 per kg, while the mill rice (GKG) could reach IDR 4,200 per kg.

Budana also recognized the delay of harvest season happened due to la-bor crisis. He described that a number of areas in Tabanan were in harvest problem, particularly in Kerambitan area. The total land to be harvested in

the area reached 200 hectares. Of this amount, approximately 100 hectares should be harvested, while the rest would be harvested 2 weeks later.

“There are some areas having harvest problems. It is estimated the harvest schedule can be delayed about two weeks,” he explained. (kmb30)

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3Wednesday, August 14, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Wednesday, August 14, 2013

At one point, Merrill leaped from a platform into a pit full of foam blocks, and he shot right through them and landed on his head. He broke a vertebra in his neck, and was left paralyzed from the neck down.

Merrill’s injury underscores recent warnings from doctors and government officials about the dangers of the jump gyms amid a heightened effort to regulate the indoor trampoline parks as they have become a popular rain-or-shine suburban entertainment for birthday parties and summer camps.

“Anything where something like that can happen, I mean, it’s such a devastating injury,” the 22-year-old Merrill said of his mishap in Provo. “It doesn’t seem like things are properly regulated if something like that is possible.”

Citing broken necks, shat-tered leg bones and one death, some doctors say the parks are dangerous and can lead to serious injuries that eclipse any benefits. Governments are starting to take


KABUL , Afghanis tan — A cholera outbreak at a village in northeast Afghanistan has infected 1,492 people, killed a young wom-an and left another 100 in critical condition, a provincial official said Tuesday.

Abdul Marouf Rasekh, a spokes-man for the governor of Badakh-shan province, said the outbreak began three days ago and was restricted to one town that has been quarantined.

When it first appeared in the mountainous village of Chappa in the Darayen district, Rasekh said it infected 850 people but quickly spread until the quarantine was put in place.

“The village has been quaran-tined and they are all being treat-ed,” he said, adding that “treating such diseases is not easy.”

Rasekh said the source of the infection had been traced to a single spring of water that supplies the

entire town’s drinking water. Health authorities were bringing in water from nearby towns until the prob-lem was solved.

He said that 36 of the most se-rious cases have been taken to a hospital in the provincial capital of Faizabad and that the sole death so far was an 18-year old woman.

Afghanistan has had cholera outbreaks in the past but they are not common. Typhoid and other intestinal diseases and parasites are far more common but not as deadly if left untreated.

Access to clean drinking water is a problem in rural Afghanistan and health care is rudimentary in large parts of the country, which has one of the world’s lowest life expectancies at 50. Only 12 percent of Afghans living in rural areas have access to clean drinking water, according to the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The World Health Organization says cholera is virulent but mortal-ity rates are low if treated quickly.

Safety fears spur regulations for trampoline gymsAssociated Press Writer

PROVO, Utah — Stephen Merrill was finishing his freshman year of college two years ago when he and a group of friends went to an indoor trampoline park in Utah for a day of flipping, jumping and bouncing.

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

In this Wednesday, July 31, 2013 photo, Jacob Terrell, of Pleasantville, flips as others play at the Get Air Hang Time indoor trampoline park in Orem, Utah.

notice, with proposed regulations in Utah and California among the first attempts in America to address concerns about safety in the burgeoning industry.

Operators of the trampoline gyms say severe injuries are rare and safety fears are overblown.

They claim an injury rate lower than organized sports such as baseball or soccer and point out the gyms offer a place for adults and kids to have fun and get much-needed exercise.

The parks are typically giant warehouses filled with a series of trampolines that allow customers to bounce every which direction, slam-dunk basketballs and do gymnastics moves. Some parks feature angled trampolines slop-ing up the sides and pits filled with brick-size foam blocks. The industry has grown rapidly, from a handful of centers in the Western U.S. in 2007 to about 160 throughout the world, ac-cording to ASTM International, a standards-development orga-nization.

For safety, many of the gyms

post staffers around trampolines like lifeguards to enforce rules and require jumpers to first sign a waiver. Emergency room doctors in one Utah county say that’s not

enough, and they’ve asked the health board to step in.

“You’ll see a lot of these very severe, open wounds that you don’t see unless you’re in a high-

velocity type of injury,” Dr. Craig Cook, trauma director at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. “This is like a war type of injury or a motor vehicle crash.”

AP Photo/Nisar Ahmad

Afghan policemen inspect a damaged police checkpoint in Bati Kot district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013.

Cholera outbreak in northeast Afghanistan

Bali PostDENPASAR - Production

growth of the Micro and Small Enterprise (SME) on a quarterly basis in the second quarter of 2013 grew by 5.47 percent compared to the first quarter of 2013. “Achieve-ment of this growth occurs below the national growth of 6.52 percent in the same period,” said the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali, I Gde Suarsa.

He explained though Bali abso-lutely had no source of oil and gas, the economy of Bali was greatly supported by the agriculture, tour-ism and service sector supporting the tourism and creative economy

posing the multiplier effect of the rapid growth of tourism. “Along the 2012, for example, the growth of Bali’s economy reached 6.65 percent or higher than the growth occurred in 2011 reaching 6.49 percent. Aside from the rapidly growing tourism industry, the realization of a number of infra-structural developments also had a contribution to the economic growth of Bali, especially ahead of the APEC Summit in October 2013,” said Suarsa.

He added the data of the Gross Regional Domest ic Product (GRDP) Bali in 2012 indicated that more than 65 percent of Bali’s

economy was affected by tourism industry, and more than 80 percent was affected by export.

“Behind the declining contribu-tion of the primary sector (agricul-ture) to the GRDP of Bali marked by the high land conversion with an average of 436 hectares, or 0.50 percent per year during the period of 1997 to 2011 made the manufacturing industry in Bali increasingly important and stra-tegic,” he explained.

Amidst the tight competition and weakening of the global economy lately, the Bali manu-facturing industry was required to improve the quality and quantity

of product produced. “The gov-ernment must be able to provide enough space for private sector in the development of spatially and regionally-oriented industries, and the potential of export prod-ucts,” he said.

Nevertheless, in terms of one year or during the 2013, the pro-duction growth of small and mi-cro industry in Bali experienced a positive growth at 24.59 percent or above the national produc-tion growth only reaching 15.55 percent. According to Suarsa, some relevant observers often revealed the declining production growth of the small and micro

industry in Bali, among others, was caused by regulatory issues, prolonged licensing process and capital difficulty since there was no trust from the banking indus-try. Some banking companies assessed that many of them had been feasible but not been bank-able. Suarsa admitted that such classic and complicated problems had influence the movement of the creative economy in Bali so the small and micro economy was difficult to develop whereas the indigenous tourism in Bali was ascertained to have significant role in enhancing the allure of creative industry. (kmb28)

“The most obvious empirical evidence is the conversion of paddy fields in Bali, reaching an average of more than 1,000 hectares per year (BPS, 2010). I have confidence the destruction of Bali starts from the destruction of the agricultural sec-tor,” he said.

He added that theoretically many leaders were reluctant to build the agricultural sector well. They pre-ferred to do physical development in the sectors of industry, tourism, in-frastructure and others. Their reason was logical because the outcome in the form of physical evidence could be quickly known by their constitu-ents. However, to see the results of the agricultural development would take very long time, be very difficult to implement, and have to deal with people with different character and status. Meanwhile, their tenure only lasted for 5 years. Thus, the politi-cal system also played a great role in the passion of the agricultural development.

Destruction of the agricultural sector was showed by the increas-ingly obvious characteristics. It was re-flected by low Farmer Exchange Value (NTP), ranging from 101 to 108. This meant the ratio of revenue index and the expenditure index of farmers was

Second quarter of 2013 Production of SME’s in Bali grows 5.47 percent

Building agricultural sector need political commitmentBali Post

DENPASAR - Virtually all the stakeholders say if the agricul-tural sector in Bali poses a source of inspiration for the develop-ment of Bali dominated by tourism sector. But in reality, only a few cares about the agricultural development. According to the observation of the lecturer from the Udayana University, Prof. Wayan Windia, building the agricultural sector was required political commitment, ready not to be populist and having egalitarian character. He said this phenomenon could hardly be found in the current leaders, including the leaders in Bali.

very low, namely 101/100-108/100. Then, the contribution of the agri-cultural sector to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Bali continued to decline throughout the year, reaching approximately 19 percent. Actually, the residents relying on the agricultural sector remained very high, namely about 40 percent. It indicated the pro-ductivity in the agricultural sector was very low. Similarly, the value added of the agricultural products was the lowest compared to that of the industry and tourism sector. Contribution of the agricultural sector to the value added was only about 20 percent.

Meanwhile, the investment in the agricultural sector was very small. In Bali, the investment in the agricultural sector only reached around 1 percent of the total existing investment. Then, total loans to the agricultural sector only reached around 9 percent, while the total loans to SMEs was 22 percent. If the loans and investments in the agri-cultural sector were very small, it was impossible to expect the agricultural sector to grow and compete against the other sectors.

In the meantime, Chairman of the Indonesian Farmers Union (HKTI) of Bali, Prof. Suparta, said the agricultural sector was often glorified and revered, but it lacked of re-investment in the

conservation and development.Since the entry of the innovation in

green revolution with the characteris-tics such as the application of modern technology in production, new hybrid rice seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesti-cides to prevent plant diseases, water dam project, and so forth with the intention to achieve the high produc-tion rate and productivity had brought in significant changes in the life of

farmers and their communities.“I do not blame anybody, but the

fact indicates there seem no agricul-tural development programs that have been completed,” he said.

He said that many programs seemed to have been implemented as an imag-ing alone. The holistic, synergistic and dynamic agricultural development programs with a high policy commit-ment had not been visible. “I do not

know whose fault it is. The popular concept of counseling, mentoring and rural cooperative (KUD) during the New Order era (President Suharto) has been fragile. Stagnation between the current behavior and the condi-tions of the farmers with the growing globalization including the free market around the corner had become a threat to the agriculture of Indonesia, includ-ing Bali,” he sighed. (kmb28)

IBP/Ole

Men harvesting rice in the ricefield that still exist in the middle of properties complex. Virtually all the stakeholders say if the agricultural sector in Bali poses a source of inspiration for the development of Bali dominated by tourism sector. But in reality, only a few cares about the agricultural development.


KESENNUMA, Japan - A strand-ed fishing boat that became a sym-bol of the devastation of Japan’s 2011 tsunami has long divided a northeastern coastal city - between those who wanted to keep it as a monument of survival and those who wanted a painful reminder gone.

Last week, the city announced it will be torn down after a heated debate and citywide vote. The soul-searching over the ship highlights how the aftermath of the tsunami disaster continues to torment Japan two years later.

The 330 metric ton (360 ton) Kyotokumaru was swept by the towering tsunami from the city’s

dock for about 750 meters (800 yards) into a residential district.

It has become a landmark for Kesennuma, a port city of 70,000 people, and a testament to the destructive power of the tsunami set off by the magnitude-9.0 earth-quake on March 11, 2011, which killed nearly 19,000 people.

The nearby smashed buildings and debris were cleared, but the 60-meter (200-foot) tuna-fishing boat has stood, majestic but oddly jarring, on dry ground for more than two years. Opinion on the ship had been so divided it had been put to a vote by the city residents last month. Of the 14,083 responses, 68 percent, or 9,622 people, voted to have the ship destroyed. Only 16 percent voted to keep it.

Yoshimi Abe, a 72 year-old housewife and Kesennuma resident, was among those who wanted to get rid of the ship. It’s just a constant reminder of the terrible disaster,” she said. “When I walk by it every morning, my heart aches.”

The house that Abe grew up in was destroyed by the tsunami, and she now lives in temporary housing.

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Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Aside from kindling polemics, the statue projects downtown Tabanan also reaped criti-cism. Deputy Chairman of the Tabanan House, Nyoman Suarsedana, accused the Tabanan government of just being focused on the urban appearance refurbishment. In contrast, many rural roads were left damaged and destroyed.

This Golkar politician said the urban refurbish-ment projects should ideally be offset by improve-ment in the rural infrastructure. Meanwhile, many rural roads were severely damaged. “Ideally, the government should not only refurbish the urban appearance, but the rural infrastructure must also be considered seriously,” he criticized, Monday (Aug 12). This condition, he said, was very detrimental to society. Even, it hurt the people’s spirit.

Suarsedana accused the budget mechanism in Tabanan was not systematic and consistent. Even, it gave an impression to give birth to a power without direction. “The planning, budgeting, im-plementation, control and evaluation seem not sys-tematic and inconsistent,” he criticized. Even, he said, the budgeting process was not transparent. It would potentially lead to corruption and harm the society of Tabanan. This Marga politician hoped the budget of the Tabanan infrastructure would not only be focused on the town. However, it could be directed and reach the urban areas. Thus, people could enjoy the equitable development.

Similar opinion was disclosed by a member of the Democratic Faction in the Tabanan House, Putu Oka Mahendra. According to him, the devel-opment budget of infrastructure in Tabanan was no longer applying the priority scale. “Lately, I have seen if the budget of the second priority was even given the first priority. One of them is the statue project,” he protested. Supposedly, said Oka, the budget of infrastructure could be in line with the Public Budget Policy and Temporary Budget Utilization Limit (KUA-PPAS). In that document, it was always mentioned the budget priorities. In reality, the priority scale was even ignored.

Oka added there were many damaged roads in rural areas of Tabanan. Ideally, the road infrastruc-ture was given priority. “It should not be used for beautifying the urban appearance by building a lot of statues,” he sneered. Regrettably, the statue projects even kindled a polemic. This man wor-ried if the development focused on the urban areas would make villagers envy whereas they were also diligent in paying taxes and other levies. However, the concerns of the infrastructure development were still considered imbalanced.

Data of the Tabanan Public Works indicated that Tabanan had road with the length of 2,227.1 km. Of this length, the damaged road reached 200,672 km, where 184.278 km was moderately damaged and 154,454 km was heavily damaged. Damaged road that had been repaired by the end of 2012 reached 87.94 km. (kmb30)

Regent Geredeg said the devel-opment in Bali was uneven because it remained to focus on the Southern Bali such as Denpasar and Badung. Therefore, the development in Bali should be made even, chiefly to the east of Bali. “Abundance of dollar flows in Southern Bali, while East-ern Bali is still left behind. Hope-fully, with the construction of the new airport, either in Karangasem or in Buleleng, Karangasem will get the impact,” he said.

In front of the Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono, the officials and the people watching the opening of the exhibition, he delivered the number of poor people in Karan-gasem had declined quite a lot. In 2005, the number of poor people reached 42,767 families. Then, it decreased to some 17,000 families or 15 percent of the total population amounting to 367,666 people.

Based on the existing record on the recipient of the rice for the poor

(raskin), the number of poor family (RTM) was reported to reach over 26,000 families. Then, based on the recipient of temporary cash as-sistance (BLSM), the poor reached over 23,000 families. He said that Karangasem had the potential to develop because the agriculture supporting the tourism also retained a great potential, where the Bali cattle population was quite large in Karangasem.

In the meantime, the Coordi-nating Minister for People’s Wel-fare, Agung Laksono, said that if Karangasem indeed had the largest number of Bali cattle population it should be developed. “If the cattle population in Karangasem is the highest in Bali, it should be devel-oped. Have an aspiration to be the largest cattle population in Bali and even in Indonesia,” he said.

According to him, the beef import from Australia was made all this time to maintain the supply stability. Later, the need for beef

should be met with the production of domestic breeders.

Related to the poverty reduction in Karangasem, based on the report of the Regent Geredeg, Agung Lak-

sono said that the decrease was sig-nificant and exceeded the national average of reduction. However, in terms of the national average, the percentage of poor population

in Karangasem remained higher where the national poverty rate was about 13 percent, while that of Karangasem was reported to reach 15 percent. (013)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Although the identity card (KTP) in-spection has been made at Gilimanuk Har-bor and Mengwi Terminal, some seasonal migrants bringing no identity card could pass to Denpasar. As evidence, a number of migrants without identity newly arrived in Denpasar through the Ubung Terminal by interprovincial city (AKAP) buses could still be found. They were found at Ubung Terminal when a joint team consisting of the Civil Registry Office and Public Order Officer with other elements made an in-spection and enforcement on Monday (Aug 12). In the policing, three residents were found without carrying identity card.

The policing was done to anticipate the rampant seasonal migrants. The inspection was carried out from 06:00 a.m. targeting bus passengers that had just arrived in the largest terminal in Denpasar. The identity of passengers getting off the bus was im-mediately inspected by the joint officers.

The Head of Denpasar Civil Registry Office, Nyoman Gede Narendra, accom-panied by the Division Head of Population Mobilization, Nyoman Artayasa, when met amidst the inspection said the seasonal

migrants to Denpasar were ascertained to increase, but he could not predict the amount of the increase. Moreover, similar inspection had also been made at Mengwi Terminal and some had dropped in place. “Denpasar Municipality does not prohibit residents from coming to Denpasar, but we expect the incoming residents to comply with the rules of population in the city of Denpasar,” hoped Narendra.

After recording their identity, they would be directly checked at their des-tination with the involvement of hamlet/village authorities or local headman. He added the inspection at Ubung Terminal would last for three days. Surely, there might be seasonal migrants that had not been registered so they would be directly targeted at the hamlet or village of des-tination.

The Division Head of Population Mobilization, Nyoman Artayasa, said from the inspection his party managed to capture 128 seasonal migrants that had just arrived from outside Bali. They were ensnared in the bus coming into the Ubung Terminal. “Among the ensnared migrants, three migrants could not present their identity card,” he said. (kmb12)

Development in Bali uneven

Poverty of Karangasem still over national rateAmlapura (Bali Post)—

The Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, highlighted that development in Bali had not been even when opening the development exhibition in relation to the Independence Day of the RI, Sunday night (Aug 11). On the other hand, the Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare, Agung Laksono, in his speech when opening the exhibition highlighted the percentage of poor population in Karangasem re-mained above the national rate reaching 13 percent.

IBP/FileOne of the poor family in Abang, Karangasem.

Urban appearance beautified, rural roads left damaged

Inspection to backflow at Ubung TerminalThree migrants found bringing no identity

The craggy complex of rooms, rocks, trees and bushes looming over the 26-story building looks like something built into a seaside cliff, and has become the latest symbol of disregard for the law among the rich as well as the rampant practice of building illegal additions.

Angry neighbors say they’ve com-plained for years that the unauthor-ized, 800-square-meter (8,600-sq. feet) mansion and its attached land-scaping was damaging the building’s structural integrity and its pipe sys-tem, but that local authorities failed to crack down. They’ve also complained about loud, late-night parties.

“They’ve been renovating for years. They normally do it at night,” said a resident on the building’s 25th floor, who added that any attempts to reason with the owner were met with indifference. “He was very arrogant. He could care less about my complaints,” said the neighbor,

who declined to give his name to avoid repercussions. Haidian district urban management official Dai Jun said Tuesday that authorities would tear the two-story structure down in 15 days unless the owner does so himself or presents evidence it was legally built. Dai said his office has yet to receive such evidence.

View gallery.”A rooftop villa com-plete with rocks and flora built …

A rooftop villa complete with rocks and flora built on top of a high rise residential building stand …

The villa’s owner has been identi-fied as the head of a traditional Chi-nese medicine business and former member of the district’s political advisory body who resides on the building’s 26th floor. Contacted by Beijing Times newspaper, the man said he would comply with the dis-trict’s orders, but he belittled attempts to call the structure a villa, calling it “just an ornamental garden.”

Reuters

CARACAS - Venezuela’s Presi-dent Nicolas Maduro said on Mon-day he will ask for decree powers last used by his predecessor Hugo Chavez to ramp up a fight against corruption that has begun to cost him politically with supporters.

Maduro, who served as Chavez’s foreign minister and vice president, narrowly won an election four months ago after his socialist men-tor died of cancer.

He has struggled with slowing economic growth and rising inflation while also trying to impose control on the diverse coalition he inherited from Chavez. It ranges from military officers to businessmen, leftist ideo-logues and armed militants.

A new anti-corruption drive that Maduro launched with great fanfare has led to the arrest of some rela-tively senior officials from state-run businesses and institutions. But it has suffered from a widespread public perception that “big fish” with politi-cal connections have been spared.

In a nationally televised speech, Maduro said he would ask the National Assembly, which is dominated by his

supporters, to grant him decree powers to step up his battle to defeat graft.

“I’m going to call a national emergency in the fight against cor-ruption, and I’m going to ask for special powers in order to change the laws,” he said. “If I have to change all the laws to confront cor-ruption, I’m going to do it.”

To be granted decree powers, Maduro would need the votes of three-fifths of the National As-sembly, or 99 deputies. His ruling Socialist Party holds 98 seats, so he would need just one independent lawmaker to back him.

Chavez governed for months us-ing decree powers that he requested from lawmakers in 2010 to push through reconstruction and relief projects after floods left nearly 140,000 homeless. At the time, critics accused him of exploiting the disaster to sideline the Assembly before the arrival of a raft of opposi-tion legislators elected that year.

Chavez later said he was being demonized around the world for ruling by decree, and at one point said he would give up the powers if the post-flood measures were put in place quickly.

Beijing cracks down on bizarre apartment-top villaAssociated Press Writer

BEIJING — A medicine mogul spent six years building his own pri-

vate mountain peak and luxury villa atop a high-rise apartment block in China’s capital, earning the unofficial title of “most outrageous illegal structure.” Now, authorities are giving him 15 days to tear it down.

AP Photo/Ng Han GuanA man looks at a roof top villa with binoculars from an overhead bridge in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013.

Japan city votes to destroy tsunami ship landmark

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, FileFILE - In this April 2, 2011 file photo, survivors look at a ship among the rubble at a March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed area in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, Japan.

Venezuela’s Maduro to seek decree powers in graft fight

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LONDON — Official figures show inflation in the U.K. eased back slightly last month despite higher petrol prices.

The Office of National Statistics said Tuesday that consumer prices were 2.8 percent higher in the year to July, down from the 2.9 percent rate in June. Airfares and clothing were largely behind the monthly fall.

Howard Archer, chief European economist at IHS Global, says inflation should continue to fall in 2013 but that much will depend on oil prices — as the economy hasn’t strengthened enough to stoke inflationary pressure just yet.

Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney revealed last week that interest rates will not rise until un-employment has dropped below 7 percent — but underscored that the link to unemployment will be cut should inflation rise out of control.

Next year, China’s net oil imports will exceed those of the United States on an annual basis and the gap between them will continue to widen, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said.

China is already the biggest energy user in the world and the second-largest oil consumer after the United States.

The shift has been driven by steady growth in Chinese demand, increased oil production in the United States, and stagnant or weakening demand in the US market, the EIA said in a report.

A graph on the EIA’s website shows China’s net imports steadily rising, with those of the US falling at a faster rate, and says the crossover point comes in two months’ time.

US annual oil output is expected to rise 28 percent between 2011 and 2014 to nearly 13 million barrels per day, while Chinese production is forecast to grow by six percent over the period, and will stand at just a third of US production in 2014, the EIA said.

Meanwhile, China’s liquid fuels use will increase 13 percent over the period to more than 11 million barrels per day while US demand hovers close to 18.7 million barrels per day.

That is below the US’s peak consumption level of 20.8 million barrels per day in 2005, the EIA added.

China imported 26.11 million tonnes (186.5 million barrels) of crude oil last month and its exports were a mere 0.17 million tonnes, according to official Beijing figures.

The Asian country’s ascendence to the top of the world’s net oil import rankings will have profound impact, an article carried by the China Business News said on Monday.

“China and the US will no longer be pure competitors in the energy sector -- China is likely to import energy in bulk from the US,” wrote commentator Li Dongchao.

“The (rising) independence of US energy will support the rejuvenation of US manufacturing, which will renew competi-tion with Chinese manufacturing,” Li said.

“Improving the safety and operational efficiency of the energy industry is a must for ensuring China’s energy and economic security.”

Agence France-Presse

FRANKFURT - The rate of inflation in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, continued to climb in July to reach the high-est level seen this year, final data showed on Tuesday.

The cost of living rose 1.9 percent this month on a 12-month basis, up from 1.8 percent in June, the federal statistics office Destatis said in a statement.

The pick-up in the rate of inflation was driven primarily by rising food prices, Destatis said.

Using the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), the European Central Bank’s infla-tion yardstick, the rate of infla-tion in Germany was also mea-sured at 1.9 percent in July.

The ECB defines price stabil-ity as increases in HICP of close to but just below 2.0 percent.

China set to become world’s biggest net oil importerAgence France-Presse

BEIJING - China is set to overtake the United States to become the world’s largest net oil importer from October, according to US figures.

Germany sees highest inflation rate of 2013

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, FileThis Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 file photo shows a view of London’s City financial district. Official figures show inflation in the U.K. eased back slightly last month despite higher petrol prices.

Lower airfares help UK inflation ease to 2.8 percent

Bali PostBANGLI - Inauguration of the Batur

Geopark in Kintamani, Bangli, as one of the Global Geopark Networks under the UNESCO is nearly entering the first year. Since it was established on September 20, 2012, existence of the geopark seems to have become a pride for the people of Bangli and Indonesia in general. Yet ironically, amidst of the recognition of geopark as terrestrial park, the Batur caldera region still keeps a very complex problem so far. The most highly visible activity is the rampant exploitation of quarry C amidst of the conservation area. Many circles consider the construction of geopark with three main objectives, namely the conservation, education, and improve-ment of local economic growth through the utilization of tourism remains at the level of concept and has not been able to contribute significantly.

A legislator of the Bangli House, Wayan Gelgel Wisnawa, judged the existence of Batur Geopark had not been able to give a real contribution to local community. “Surely, the concept is very good. However, there has been no real action made by the government. What I see is that the geopark has given nothing to the three objectives,” he explained. This politician from Songan also assessed the presence of the geopark was so far merely a symbol. According to him, if the government was really serious there should be measures to manage the geopark area. So, the existence of geopark targeting three aspects could ultimately contribute significantly to society.

Similar opinion was also revealed previ-ously by Deputy Chairman of the Bangli House, I Made Sudiasa. He added that many people still did not understand about the geopark itself. “I think a lot of societies still do not understand about what the geopark is,” he said.

This politician from Undisan village judged the geopark management by Bangli government still seemed out of focus. In response to previous information regard-ing the plan of tourism facilities like golf course in the geopark region, Sudiasa said it was obviously contrary to the geopark conservation effort. According to him, the making of golf course would indirectly exploit the conserved region. “If wishing to develop geopark, please go on. If it is part of the potential to be developed or exploited, please review it first. If it will ultimately prosper the society, the government should take a decision by choosing one of the two options,” he affirmed.

Onwards, Sudiasa hoped the government in this regard could more aggressively dis-seminate the understanding of geopark to the public and be more focused in its manage-ment. Thus, the presence of geopark all this time would not give impression if the idea was forced.

Meanwhile, the Regent of Bangli, I Made Gianyar, said although the Batur cal-dera area had been designated as a geopark by the UNESCO, it was not impossible if the taking of materials such as stone and sand was still allowed. “Geopark has the conservation and utilization function. There

are things to be preserved and utilized. So, it does not mean that after having the status as geopark, it will no longer be allowed to take sand or stone,” he explained. However, the regent added that in the level of man-agement was still required a rule related to that matter. One of them was the zonation setting the borders of the allowed quarry area and the allowed daily quota for the taking of materials.

All this time, the regent admitted to have established a team to manage the geopark. Specifically for education, the Bangli gov-ernment had begun to integrate it into some subjects in this year. The Head of Bangli Education Agency, I Nyoman Sumantra, said this year his party had begun to integrate the material of geopark into some subjects at all levels of education, from elementary to high school. He hoped the local community could understand about the geopark through the education. Ultimately, it could directly have an impact on the change of mindset of the local community. “Legality of the geopark is made by the UNESCO. It means the geopark will be primarily used for education. Later, the community is expected to understand about the values of the world’s heritage,” said Sumantra.

So far, the Bangli government remained to find an alternative to improve the welfare of society apart from the sector of quarry C. “It needs a touch of technology to improve the quality of their life, from the capability of digging stone, for example, to carving stones for souvenirs. It poses one of the measures to be taken,” he said. (ina)

“Bali has indeed been an international tour-ist attraction, so this Island of the Gods is an appropriate venue for tourism promotion,” said Chairman of the Association of Indonesia Tour and Travel Agency (ASITA) of Bali Chapter, Ketut Ardana, in Denpasar.

He said that wedding package and hon-eymoon package had a bright prospect to be developed because they were recently in high demand among foreign tourists. Other than pri-vate sector, the government was also facilitating the development of the wedding package such through roadshow for promotion.

“To that end, they come to Bali and would like to sell wedding package. Besides, they also request information related to the management of tourism so that Bali turns popular in the eyes of the world,” he said.

All this time, he said that foreign tourists generally organized wedding party on the beach. They did it in Bali just to catch the atmo-sphere on the beach, while the ritual had been accomplished in accordance with the tradition in their respective countries.

“I think this package should be taken seri-ously because the tourist arrivals are quite a lot. They usually hold wedding party here. More-over, Hainan also offers the similar potential, so that we can work together,” he said.

Deputy Director General of Hainan Provin-cial Tourism, Chen Tie Jun, coming with 15 travel agencies, said that his party did not only sell wedding package in Indonesia, especially in Bali, but also targeted the countries like Singapore and Malaysia.

“The country is the second largest inter-national market. Therefore, we do promotion to the country by offering the wedding party on yacht, wedding on cruises, weddings in Li Miao tradition, on the island and the others,” he explained.

Hainan Province is located at the southern-most tip of China, where its area spread across 35,000 square kilometers and the smallest province, including Hainan Island and Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands and Nansha Island. From this year to 2020, the government of China would build Hainan into an international excursion and holiday destination. Compared to other international tourist islands, such as Bali and Hawaii having been maturely ex-ploited, the original natural environment and unique socio-cultural characteristics would be exploited in Hainan Island because it had very great advantages.

Hainan also featured the beauty of the sea, blue sky, verdant forest and fresh air and they had become a series of tourism resources being beneficial to health. They had made foreign tourists to always feel homey so they forgot to go home. (kmb27)

China offers wedding package in BaliBali Post

DENPASAR - As an icon of the Indone-sian tourism having been well known in the world, Bali has always become a promotion target of numerous countries to sell their tourism potential. As carried out by the Hainan Tourism Development Commission, it sells wedding package to tourists spending holidays in Bali.

Geopark Batur

Batur Geopark Complex issues amidst UNESCO inauguration

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He was hit by an avalanche in February 2012 and buried for 15 minutes. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima are said to be on their way home from a holiday in Greece.

“Prince Friso has died of compli-cations related to the hypoxic brain injury, which he suffered as the result of his skiing accident in Lech, Austria on 17 February 2012,” a royal palace statement said.

News of a royal death is usually accompanied by images of faithful flower-laden subjects, converging en masse at the most conveniently located royal residence.

The fact that I found only a scattering of smart-phone pho-tographers at each of the three of-ficial palaces of the Dutch royal

family in the Hague perhaps reflects the feeling of a country that has already come to terms with the idea that Prince Friso will not return. “Most Dutch people are down to earth,” one told me. “When there is no hope of recovery, we think it is better this way.”

And that seems to be the gen-eral consensus - a lot of sadness, less shock. He died on Monday morning in The Hague, the palace added. The prince’s wife, Prin-cess Mabel, is said to have spent her 45th birthday on Sunday at his bedside.

‘Massive’ brain damage

Shortly before becoming king

on the abdication of Queen Bea-trix, his elder brother, Willem-Alexander spoke in April of the “terrible situation” the family had lived with for more than a year.

Prince Friso’s wife and Beat-rix had been doing their best to be there for him every day “to give him a chance”, he said. The prince had been skiing off-piste with friends in Lech when the avalanche struck.

An emergency beeper he was wearing enabled rescuers to find him but medical officials in Inns-bruck said it took some time to revive him and he suffered “mas-sive” brain damage. They said he had suffered a heart attack lasting some 50 minutes.

Reuters BUDAPEST - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has ordered

an inquiry into the deaths of eight premature babies in five days at a hospital in the northeastern city of Miskolc.

Health state secretary Miklos Szocska said alongside the announce-ment of the inquiry late on Monday that the National Surgeon General’s office was doing all it could to find out why the eight premature babies died. He told Kossuth radio on Tuesday that the babies died between August 5 and Aug 10.

“There are investigations under way to reveal any potential infec-tion,” Szocska said in a video posted on the government’s official website, adding he would not yet close the specialized department at the Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen hospital which treats hundreds of prematurely born babies each year.

Mortality rates in the department have dropped to around 30 per year from around 50 over the last two years, Szocska said.

“There are several hypotheses: the increase (in fatalities) gives reason for concern, therefore we need to reveal thoroughly what happened, whether there is any link (between the deaths) and what could be the cause,” he said in the video.

Szocska said lab tests would take about a week and he expected results from the inquiry in two weeks. The hospital’s director has been suspended.

A police spokeswoman said on Tuesday that a criminal investigation had been opened but declined to give any details.


PINE, Idaho — Firefighters were kept on high alert with a chance of thunderstorms in the forecast Tuesday that could pose problems as crews fight a fast-moving wildfire near a remote Idaho hamlet where residents have been evacuated ahead of a big blaze.

Electricity storms already sparked dozens of wildfires across the West in recent days, sending fire crews scrambling, threatening communities and impairing air quality in some areas.

Near the central Idaho community of Pine, the lightning-sparked Elk Complex Fire had burned 141 square miles of sage brush, grass and pine trees in rugged, mountainous terrain by Monday.

A few miles to the south, another big fire, the Pony Complex, had burned nearly 225 square miles of ground amid escalating winds and temperatures. Though it’s now about a third contained, downed power lines complicated efforts by firefighters to corral the flames.

Pine and neighboring Featherville were under mandatory evacu-ation orders Monday, a day after Elmore County sheriff’s deputies went from house to house, knocking on doors to alert residents to clear out of the area.

But some people, including Pine resident Butch Glinesky, opted to stay and watch over their property in this rustic vacation area some 50 miles east of Boise.

“As much as they say we need to be out, I think we can always of-fer something,” Glinesky said, watching as a crew from Colorado set up structure protection in his yard. “It’s just, you know the area.”

Residents’ insistence on staying wasn’t generally welcomed by federal officials, who expressed concerns about added traffic on the roads.

“People have a false sense of security,” Boise National Forest District Ranger Stephaney Church told The Associated Press. “We can’t do our job when they refuse to leave and we’re diverting re-sources” to get them out of their houses.

Last year, the Trinity Ridge Fire burned several miles away, blackening nearly 228 miles and forcing hundreds to temporarily evacuate Featherville.

This year, fire officials say the Elk Complex has moved much faster, dipping in and out of ravines and torching ponderosa pine trees on ridge tops visible as bright orange smudges through the smoke cloaking the valley floor. “Everything is behaving like it has no moisture at all,” Church said.


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Guards receive flowers in memory of Prince Friso at the gates of Palace Huis ten Bosch, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013.

Dutch Prince Johan Friso has died after a year and a half in a coma following an accident at an Austrian ski resort, officials say. Prince Friso, who was 44, was moved from hospital in London back to the Netherlands last month, but had since suffered complications.

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MAUROLE - A volcano on a tiny Indonesian island that erupted at the weekend and killed five people spewed more clouds of red-hot ash on Monday, as hundreds of villagers were evacuated to safety.

Mount Rokatenda, on Palue island in East Nusa Tenggara province, was belching out columns of smoke up to 100 metres (330 feet) high, an AFP journalist on the nearby island of Flores said.

“The activity inside the volcano is still high,” said Surono, a government volcanologist who like many Indonesians goes by one name, warning Roka-tenda could erupt violently again.

On Saturday the volcano threw scorching ash two kilometres (1.2 miles) into the sky and unleashed molten lava onto a beach, killing three adults and two children as they slept.

Rescuers have been battling through roads blocked by ash to reach affected areas and persuade reluctant villagers to leave their homes. More than 500 have so far been taken off the island to a camp in Maumere, on Flores.

“There are a lot of people here who seem to be traumatised due to the erup-tion,” said Bakri Kari, a member of the rescue team from the local disaster agency.

“Many lost their homes after they ran in a panic. People are in despair.”Six motor boats were being used to evacuate people and the government had

sent aid to help those displaced, including masks and blankets, said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

“Since the eruption on Saturday, 511 people living near the Rokatenda volcano have been evacuated from Palue island to Maumere,” he said.

Yosep Ansarera, head of Sikka district, of which Palue is part, said that those evacuated came from two villages.

However, he added: “Dozens of people remain in their villages, refusing to be evacuated as they don’t want to leave their livestock and homes.”

Many of those evacuated came from inside a three-kilometre exclusion zone around the crater.

Authorities had urged people to leave the exclusion area before the erup-tion and banned all activities inside but many had refused to abandon their homes.

Officials still hope to evacuate another 2,500 people but Kari said rescue efforts were proving difficult as “a lot of infrastructure has been damaged”.

Rokatenda had been showing signs of increased activity since October and erupted several times before Saturday.

Some 2,000 people had already been evacuated to Flores before the week-end eruption, leaving around 8,000 people on the island.

Indonesia has dozens of active volcanoes and straddles major tectonic fault lines known as the “Ring of Fire” between the Pacific and Indian oceans.

The country’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than 350 people in a series of violent eruptions in 2010.

“We will conduct a special fire arm raid. We will focus on fire arms,” the police deputy chief said here on Tuesday.

He said that the fire arms sweeping would be carried out across the country.Firm actions will be taken against those ille-gally carrying fire arms.

The rampant shooting in-cidents of late took place not because of police failed to take anticipatory measures against criminal acts. Intelligence also still functions well, he said.

“We should understand that crimes are always one step ahead of us. We are taking anticipatory steps with various ways. It does not mean that we are awaiting crimes to happen before we could take actions. But sometimes they acted ahead of us,” he said.

He also called on the public to take an active role in fighting against illegal possession of fire arms.

Over the past several days, a

number of mysterious shooting attacks on police officers have taken place.

First Adjunct Inspector Dwi-atno, from the Cilandak sub-precinct police station in Ciputat, South Tangerang municipal-ity, Banten province, was shot dead by an unidentified man on Wednesday (August 7).

The police officer, from the Community Development Unit at the Cilandak sub-precinct police station, was shot at 5am, Western Indonesian Time (WIB), said Police Commissioner Sung-kono, chief of the Cilandak sub-precinct police station, later in the day.

Sungkono added that his team was still investigating the in-cident in order to identity the gunman.

Earlier, on July 27, Second Adjunct Inspector Saktiyono, from the Traffic Unit at Central Jakarta Police, was shot by two

motorcyclists on Cirendeu Road, Ciputat, at 4.30am.

Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has stated that police must an-alyze the several mysterious shooting attacks on its person-nel in recent days and train as hard as possible to tackle such situations.

“The National Police should examine the shooting phenom-enon seriously and train its mem-bers to the maximum extent pos-sible to deal with such problems,” IPW Presidium Chairman Neta S Pane stated here recently.

Neta said efforts at the grass-roots level were necessary for police personnel to earn the public’s respect and also antici-pate the actions of criminals who dare to shoot police officers in the field.

Based on IPW data, he added, there were three incidents of attacks on police personnel in Jakarta during the past month.

AntaraSLEMAN - A Russian tourist

went missing in Mount Mer-api since last Sunday. For the search, Mount Merapi’s spiri-tual caretaker Kliwon Surakso Hargo personally led the search for Ehbhrehnin Yeveny (26), who went missing during a trek to the summit of the active volcano in Central Java.

Kliwon climbed the moun-ta in , loca ted nor th o f the old town of Yogyakarta, in search of the Russian tourist, along with 10 personnel from the local Search And Rescue agency.

“I was asked to participate in the search. In practice, this southern path is not supposed to be used for climbing to Mount Merapi’s summit,” he explained.

He remarked that the Russian tourist had not notified anyone

of his plans to scale the moun-tain using this route.

Wearing a green T-shirt em-blazoned with the symbol of the traditional Yogyakarta Sultan-ate and the words “Yogyakarta Palace Servant,” Kliwon started his rescue mission at the SAR command post in Kinahrejo.

The Russian tourist was last heard from while he was stand-ing in one of the mountain’s dry riverbeds.

Kliwon said the Russian would not be able to see the lights of the city of Yogyakarta, making it highly likely that he has gotten lost in the valley.

Ehbhrehnin had taken the Volcano Tour in Kinahrejo, Cangkringan, Sleman, at 1 p.m. on Saturday, accompanied by his Indonesian girlfriend, Ester, who lives in Nologaten, Depok, Sleman.

The couple had returned to

Yogyakarta later that day, but on their return, Ehbhrehnin told Ester that he had wanted to climb to the mountain’s summit.

That evening, he had re-turned to Kinahrejo alone on a motorbike and had proceeded to climb the mountain unac-companied.

At 7:25 p.m. on Sunday, he sent a short message to Ester, admitting that he was lost and asking her to return on Monday to look for him.

Following the recent erup-tion that swept away the vil-lages on its slopes and claimed dozens of lives, Mount Merapi has attracted a great deal of at-tention from both domestic and foreign tourists who wish to see the impact of the eruption.

The number of visitors to the volcano increased during the Lebaran holiday.

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JAKARTA - Police will soon launch raids on illegal fire arms in efforts to prevent the rep-etition of shooting incidents by unidentified gunmen, National Police Deputy Chief Com. Gen Oegroseno said.

Russian tourist missing at Mt. Merapi

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Mount Rokatenda spews volcanic smoke on Palue island, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. The volcano spewed more hot ash and lava on the tiny Indonesian island Monday after causing six deaths during its eruption over the weekend.

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Playing in his first tournament since his shock opening-round loss at Wimbledon, Nadal showed he was back to near his best and his ailing body was ready for the gruelling demands of the North American hardcourt season.

Less than 24 hours after his hard-fought semi-final win over Novak Djokovic on Saturday, Nadal easily beat the dangerous Raonic in just over an hour, playing with all the conviction and freedom of a man near the peak of his powers. “To win here, I had to be playing my top level,” Nadal told reporters.

“I’m very happy the way that I played almost every match in this tournament. It’s very impor-tant for me, this title.”

Sunday’s victory provided Nadal with his third win at the Rogers Cup and his 25th career Masters title and the Spaniard will rise to three in the world rankings when they are released on Monday. Raonic will move into the top 10 for the first time after becoming the first Canadian man in more than half a century to reach the Rogers Cup final. “The breakthroughs I’ve had this week, with everything, from ranking to results, it’s all great things to have happen, especially here at home,” he said.

“Even though I don’t have the time now, there will be a time when I can stop, reflect upon it, learn as much as I can from it.”

Nadal was ruthless from the outset and never

allowed Raonic to settle his nerves in front of a partisan capacity crowd in Montreal.

The Canadian’s big first serve, normally one of his most reliable weapons, was nullified by Nadal’s aggressive returns, with the Spanish left-hander twice breaking Raonic’s serve in the opening set.

By contrast, Raonic was unable to make any inroads on Nadal’s serve with the fourth seed giv-ing up just one solitary point on serve in the entire first set, which lasted a mere 32 minutes.

Raonic fared better in the second set and earned three breaks points but was unable to convert any of them while Nadal capitalised on the two opportunities to get the double break and secure the title after 68 minutes.

“At some points, I wasn’t making him play enough,” said Raonic, who enjoyed a hard-fought win over in-form Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro on his way to the decider. “I think I was rushing a lot of the first set and a half. “The top four guys, when they get ahead that much, it’s very hard to get back.” While Nadal’s troublesome knees showed no signs of giving him problems this week, they remain under constant scrutiny, especially when he’s preparing for the U.S. Open, played on the most physically demanding surface of the four grand slam events.

But Nadal also won the Indian Wells Masters on hardcourt earlier this year and said he was steadily growing in confidence on the surface.

“I am doing things very well...on hard courts,” he said. “Today is an important example that I can play this way in the future.

“That’s given me confidence, that if I keep working this way, I can have a good results play-ing very aggressive.”


MOSCOW — Nobody walks quite like the Russians. After the host nation won the men’s 20-kilometer walk at the world championships, Elena Lashmanova and Anisya Kirdyapkina clinched a 1-2 finish in the women’s event on Tuesday.

Lashmanova, the Olympic champion in London, held off Kirdyapkina with a final burst of speed after she momentarily had stopped walking with one lap of the track to go, thinking she had already won.

It could have been a sweep but Vera Sokolova was disqualified with about 500 meters to go, leaving Liu Hong of China to take bronze.

If Jamaica has the fastest sprinters, the host nation used their walkers to move up the medal standings into second place with five overall and two gold, right behind the United States with six.

Marc Marquez believes Casey Stoner’s return to MotoGP test-ing with Honda will be a major boost for his and Dani Pedrosa’s title bids. Two-time world champion Stoner retired from MotoGP last season, but has agreed to help develop both Honda’s factory 2014 MotoGP bike and the production racer it is selling to customer teams next year.

He carried out his first test at Motegi earlier this month. Marquez believes Stoner’s presence offers major advantages over the Japanese test riders Honda usually calls up. “For us it’s quite important,” said Marquez of Stoner’s test. “It pays to ride that bike.

“I didn’t have information about the Motegi test because I didn’t speak with the Japanese guys, but I would like to at Indianapolis.

“I feel Casey is so fast and he put the bike on the limit for sure in that test. “I think it’s important for Honda, for Dani and for me. He tested that bike and all the limits. “Sometimes you can test some parts but if you are not doing the correct lap times or you didn’t push a lot, then you cannot feel good.”

Rookie sensation Marquez currently leads the MotoGP stand-ings by 16 points over Honda team-mate Pedrosa, with reigning champion Jorge Lorenzo a further 10 points back. Both Lorenzo and Pedrosa’s seasons have recently been disrupted by injuries.

Stoner has focused on circuit racing since quitting MotoGP, and is driving for top V8 Supercars team Triple Eight’s V8 Development Series squad. Despite constant rumours of a MotoGP comeback, Stoner reiterated after his Honda test that he has no interest in even occasional appearances.

“I’m happy with how the test went, but it doesn’t change my mind about the wildcards - this is not something I am planning to do,” he said.

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MONTrEaL - rafa Nadal thumped canada’s Milos raonic 6-2 6-2 in the final of the men’s rogers cup on Sunday to capture his eighth aTP title this season and boost his confidence ahead of the U.S. Open, starting later this month.

Rafael Nadal of Spain holds the champion-ship trophy after his win over Milos Raonic of Canada during the men’s finals match at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Mon-treal August 11, 2013.

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Russia’s Elena Lashmanova crosses the finish line to win the women’s 20 kilometer race walk final at the

World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia,

Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013.

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TABANAN - If you have more time in Tanah Lot tourist attraction, you must try to walk along in surounding Tanah Lot area. You will find another beach beside Tanah Lot area that have ever seen before. That is located in the west side of Batu Mejan beach, exactly close with Surya Mandala Cultural Park Tanah Lot. The beach named “Yeh Kutikan” beach which include to Ta-nah Lot area. This beach truly never visit by visitor before, not like Tanah Lot. Because of the location is not easy to reached. But you must try to visit this beach because this beach also unique too.

On this beach there is waterfall too. The water coming from the river which exist above it. Above there is rice field carpet with green color if there is springtime season and with yellow color if there is crop season. Also, that place used for some event which performed in Tanah Lot area like last year such as kites festival on year 2006, 2007 and 2008. Because that venue very compatible and supporting to perform every event like kites festival. Even, this venue known as wide venue to perform kites festival in Bali.

Known for sunbathing and surfing, Yeh Kutikan is for those looking for a quiet beach where the life is easy and relaxing. Traditional Balinese fishermen here still use the beach and sea for livinghood, it offers a unique view to behold. Yeh Kutikan offers the visitors a double magnificent scene to see, a beautiful beach in front of you and mesmerizing rice fields complete with their wildlife – thousands of birds and butterflies are right behind you.

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“Rooney looked good, as I expected. There was no doubt in my mind in the session that he was not suffering from a physical injury,” Hodgson said at a news conference after training. “It will be interesting to see how the data looks, and to speak to Wayne, and find out how he came through the session. He has not trained as intensely as he has trained today, so it will be interesting to see how that pans out.

“I do not expect him to have any repercussions from the session. He looked like he worked quite hard. “Myself, my coaches and our fitness people will analyse everything -- and in tandem with Wayne -- will give him the right amount of minutes.”

Rooney has been the subject of two transfer bids from Chelsea amid reports he wants to leave the current Premier League champi-ons, although manager David Moyes maintains he is not for sale. A number of players were missing from the England training session, including those United players who played against Wigan. United winger Ashley Young was withdrawn from the England squad on Sunday, having taken no part in the Shield match. The match be-tween England and Scotland is the first between the two since 1999, and comes ahead of England’s crunch 2014 World Cup qualification matches against Moldova and Ukraine in early September.

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PARIS - Former Barcelona de-fender Eric Abidal never thought he could play for France again while he was recovering from a liver trans-plant but now hopes he will play next year’s World Cup in Brazil.

Abidal, 33, left Barcelona in the summer amid doubts over his ability to recapture his form. His spell at Nou Camp was marked by a couple of lengthy absences after he was diagnosed with a liver tumour and underwent an operation in March 2011, followed by the transplant in April last year.

But, after joining big-spending Ligue 1 newcomers Monaco, he was rewarded for his convincing performances in the pre-season games when France coach Di-dier Deschamps called him up for Wednesday’s international friendly in Belgium.

“I never had any hope for this after what I went through during two years,” Abidal told a news con-ference at Clairefontaine’s training camp, near Paris, on Monday. “I am very proud to come back in the squad, to wear the blue jersey, which is so important for me, again,”

“I’m not going to say that being back with France was my first goal,” he added, referring to the months he spent recovering.

“Since it ended with Barca, a lot of things have happened. I’m very happy, I’m enjoying life, I want to have fun on the pitch. After all I’ve been through, I can only be happy to be able to play.”

Abidal, who last featured for Les Bleus in a friendly in Germany in February last year, is set to win his 62nd cap for France on Wednes-day. Deschamps hinted that Abidal would start at centre back.

“After including him in the

squad, it would seem logical to me that he starts, considering what he represents,” Deschamps told reporters.

“I can’t see myself calling up a player like him, with his experience, and telling him : ‘You’re coming to breathe Clairefontaine’s air’.”

Abidal, who has been named captain by his Monaco coach Clau-dio Ranieri, hoped the new start would help him play his third World Cup after 2006 and 2010.

“I take things day by day. If I have fun with Monaco and if we have a good season, I will definitely stay with les Bleus. And I hope I’ll go to Brazil,” he said. France are second in their World Cup quali-fying group with ten points, one behind world champions Spain. They visit Georgia on Sept. 6 and Belarus four days later, before hosting Finland in the last round of matches in October.

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LONDON - Wales midfielder Gareth Bale will not play against Ireland in a friendly on Wednesday due to a foot problem that has troubled him since mid-July, said assistant manager Kit Sy-mons.

Bale joined up with the squad despite being sidelined since pick-ing up the injury in a pre-season friendly for his club Tottenham Hotspur and had a light training session on Monday.

However, Symons told Sky Sports News there was no chance of Bale playing against the Irish at the Cardiff City Stadium.

“Gareth will do a light session. He’s not done sufficient work yet to feature (in the match) but the great thing is he wanted to be part of the group and we’re pleased to have him on board,” he said of a player being courted by Real Madrid.

Real are willing to pay a world record transfer fee of more than 85 million pounds ($131.58 million) for the 24-year-old English Footballer of the Year, according to media reports, although Spurs have repeatedly said he is not for sale.

Asked if the hordes of Spanish journalists at the new Wales training facility at Dragon Park were a problem, Symons said: “I don’t think it will be a distraction. They only want to talk to Gareth and we know Gareth won’t be featuring on Wednesday night, so I don’t think it will affect the group at all.”

Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey and central defender James Collins will also miss the game having withdrawn from the squad through injury with Swansea City fullback Jazz Richards and Brighton midfielder Andrew Crofts coming in as replacements.

Reuters

LONDON - Morocco striker Marouane Chamakh has ended his Arsenal nightmare by joining Crystal Palace on a one-year deal, the Premier League newcomers said in a statement on Monday.

Chamakh arrived at Arsenal on a free transfer from French club Girondins Bordeaux in 2010, but never es-tablished himself at the Emirates Stadium, scoring eight league goals in 40 appearances. The 29-year-old was loaned to West Ham United in January but only played three times.

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PARIS - An appeal commission has cancelled the two-point penalty handed to Ligue 1 newcomers Monaco for violent incidents by fans during last season’s second-division title celebrations, the French Federation (FFF) said on Tuesday.

“The superior appeal commission has decided to cancel the three-point penalty, including one suspended, handed to Monaco by the League disciplinary body after the club ap-pealed the ruling,” the FFF said in a statement.

Fireworks were set off during Monaco’s last home game against Le Mans in May before fans invaded the pitch after the final whistle. In the melee, a referee was struck by a fan, according to the match official’s report.

Monaco were also told to play one match behind closed

doors, a sanction the FFF commission upheld.It was not clear when this sanction would be enforced after

the club brought the case to the French Sports and Olympic Committee (CNOSF), the highest national sporting author-ity.

They host Montpellier on Sunday in their second Ligue 1 match of the season after they beat Girondins Bordeaux 2-0 in their opener last weekend.

Big-spending Monaco, owned by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, are widely regarded as the main challeng-ers to champions Paris St Germain this season.

They have splashed out around 150 million euros ($199.40 million) in transfers to sign Colombian striker Radamel Falcao, fellow countryman James Rodriguez and Portugal midfield Joao Moutinho.

England’s Wayne Rooney (R) runs with

teammate James Milner during a train-

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tional friendly match against Scotland on

Wednesday, at the St George’s Park train-

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LONDON - Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney completed a full training session for England on Monday and manager Roy Hodgson still expects him to feature in Wednesday’s international friendly against Scotland at Wembley Stadium. Rooney has taken a limited part in United’s pre-season and missed Sunday’s Community Shield victory over Wigan with a shoulder injury.

REUTERS/Darren Staples

Arsenal Flop Chamakh Joins Palace On One-Year Deal

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Monaco ‘s Eric Abidal, foreground, left, challenges for the ball with Bordeaux’s Ludovic Sane during their French League one soccer match in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Saturday, Aug.10, 2013.

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“Rooney looked good, as I expected. There was no doubt in my mind in the session that he was not suffering from a physical injury,” Hodgson said at a news conference after training. “It will be interesting to see how the data looks, and to speak to Wayne, and find out how he came through the session. He has not trained as intensely as he has trained today, so it will be interesting to see how that pans out.

“I do not expect him to have any repercussions from the session. He looked like he worked quite hard. “Myself, my coaches and our fitness people will analyse everything -- and in tandem with Wayne -- will give him the right amount of minutes.”

Rooney has been the subject of two transfer bids from Chelsea amid reports he wants to leave the current Premier League champi-ons, although manager David Moyes maintains he is not for sale. A number of players were missing from the England training session, including those United players who played against Wigan. United winger Ashley Young was withdrawn from the England squad on Sunday, having taken no part in the Shield match. The match be-tween England and Scotland is the first between the two since 1999, and comes ahead of England’s crunch 2014 World Cup qualification matches against Moldova and Ukraine in early September.

Reuters

PARIS - Former Barcelona de-fender Eric Abidal never thought he could play for France again while he was recovering from a liver trans-plant but now hopes he will play next year’s World Cup in Brazil.

Abidal, 33, left Barcelona in the summer amid doubts over his ability to recapture his form. His spell at Nou Camp was marked by a couple of lengthy absences after he was diagnosed with a liver tumour and underwent an operation in March 2011, followed by the transplant in April last year.

But, after joining big-spending Ligue 1 newcomers Monaco, he was rewarded for his convincing performances in the pre-season games when France coach Di-dier Deschamps called him up for Wednesday’s international friendly in Belgium.

“I never had any hope for this after what I went through during two years,” Abidal told a news con-ference at Clairefontaine’s training camp, near Paris, on Monday. “I am very proud to come back in the squad, to wear the blue jersey, which is so important for me, again,”

“I’m not going to say that being back with France was my first goal,” he added, referring to the months he spent recovering.

“Since it ended with Barca, a lot of things have happened. I’m very happy, I’m enjoying life, I want to have fun on the pitch. After all I’ve been through, I can only be happy to be able to play.”

Abidal, who last featured for Les Bleus in a friendly in Germany in February last year, is set to win his 62nd cap for France on Wednes-day. Deschamps hinted that Abidal would start at centre back.

“After including him in the

squad, it would seem logical to me that he starts, considering what he represents,” Deschamps told reporters.

“I can’t see myself calling up a player like him, with his experience, and telling him : ‘You’re coming to breathe Clairefontaine’s air’.”

Abidal, who has been named captain by his Monaco coach Clau-dio Ranieri, hoped the new start would help him play his third World Cup after 2006 and 2010.

“I take things day by day. If I have fun with Monaco and if we have a good season, I will definitely stay with les Bleus. And I hope I’ll go to Brazil,” he said. France are second in their World Cup quali-fying group with ten points, one behind world champions Spain. They visit Georgia on Sept. 6 and Belarus four days later, before hosting Finland in the last round of matches in October.

Reuters

LONDON - Wales midfielder Gareth Bale will not play against Ireland in a friendly on Wednesday due to a foot problem that has troubled him since mid-July, said assistant manager Kit Sy-mons.

Bale joined up with the squad despite being sidelined since pick-ing up the injury in a pre-season friendly for his club Tottenham Hotspur and had a light training session on Monday.

However, Symons told Sky Sports News there was no chance of Bale playing against the Irish at the Cardiff City Stadium.

“Gareth will do a light session. He’s not done sufficient work yet to feature (in the match) but the great thing is he wanted to be part of the group and we’re pleased to have him on board,” he said of a player being courted by Real Madrid.

Real are willing to pay a world record transfer fee of more than 85 million pounds ($131.58 million) for the 24-year-old English Footballer of the Year, according to media reports, although Spurs have repeatedly said he is not for sale.

Asked if the hordes of Spanish journalists at the new Wales training facility at Dragon Park were a problem, Symons said: “I don’t think it will be a distraction. They only want to talk to Gareth and we know Gareth won’t be featuring on Wednesday night, so I don’t think it will affect the group at all.”

Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey and central defender James Collins will also miss the game having withdrawn from the squad through injury with Swansea City fullback Jazz Richards and Brighton midfielder Andrew Crofts coming in as replacements.

Reuters

LONDON - Morocco striker Marouane Chamakh has ended his Arsenal nightmare by joining Crystal Palace on a one-year deal, the Premier League newcomers said in a statement on Monday.

Chamakh arrived at Arsenal on a free transfer from French club Girondins Bordeaux in 2010, but never es-tablished himself at the Emirates Stadium, scoring eight league goals in 40 appearances. The 29-year-old was loaned to West Ham United in January but only played three times.

Reuters

PARIS - An appeal commission has cancelled the two-point penalty handed to Ligue 1 newcomers Monaco for violent incidents by fans during last season’s second-division title celebrations, the French Federation (FFF) said on Tuesday.

“The superior appeal commission has decided to cancel the three-point penalty, including one suspended, handed to Monaco by the League disciplinary body after the club ap-pealed the ruling,” the FFF said in a statement.

Fireworks were set off during Monaco’s last home game against Le Mans in May before fans invaded the pitch after the final whistle. In the melee, a referee was struck by a fan, according to the match official’s report.

Monaco were also told to play one match behind closed

doors, a sanction the FFF commission upheld.It was not clear when this sanction would be enforced after

the club brought the case to the French Sports and Olympic Committee (CNOSF), the highest national sporting author-ity.

They host Montpellier on Sunday in their second Ligue 1 match of the season after they beat Girondins Bordeaux 2-0 in their opener last weekend.

Big-spending Monaco, owned by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, are widely regarded as the main challeng-ers to champions Paris St Germain this season.

They have splashed out around 150 million euros ($199.40 million) in transfers to sign Colombian striker Radamel Falcao, fellow countryman James Rodriguez and Portugal midfield Joao Moutinho.

England’s Wayne Rooney (R) runs with

teammate James Milner during a train-

ing session, ahead of their interna-

tional friendly match against Scotland on

Wednesday, at the St George’s Park train-

ing complex near Burton upon Trent,

August 12, 2013.


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LONDON - Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney completed a full training session for England on Monday and manager Roy Hodgson still expects him to feature in Wednesday’s international friendly against Scotland at Wembley Stadium. Rooney has taken a limited part in United’s pre-season and missed Sunday’s Community Shield victory over Wigan with a shoulder injury.

REUTERS/Darren Staples

Arsenal Flop Chamakh Joins Palace On One-Year Deal

Monaco Have Two-Point Penalty Dropped After Appeal

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Monaco ‘s Eric Abidal, foreground, left, challenges for the ball with Bordeaux’s Ludovic Sane during their French League one soccer match in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Saturday, Aug.10, 2013.

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Playing in his first tournament since his shock opening-round loss at Wimbledon, Nadal showed he was back to near his best and his ailing body was ready for the gruelling demands of the North American hardcourt season.

Less than 24 hours after his hard-fought semi-final win over Novak Djokovic on Saturday, Nadal easily beat the dangerous Raonic in just over an hour, playing with all the conviction and freedom of a man near the peak of his powers. “To win here, I had to be playing my top level,” Nadal told reporters.

“I’m very happy the way that I played almost every match in this tournament. It’s very impor-tant for me, this title.”

Sunday’s victory provided Nadal with his third win at the Rogers Cup and his 25th career Masters title and the Spaniard will rise to three in the world rankings when they are released on Monday. Raonic will move into the top 10 for the first time after becoming the first Canadian man in more than half a century to reach the Rogers Cup final. “The breakthroughs I’ve had this week, with everything, from ranking to results, it’s all great things to have happen, especially here at home,” he said.

“Even though I don’t have the time now, there will be a time when I can stop, reflect upon it, learn as much as I can from it.”

Nadal was ruthless from the outset and never

allowed Raonic to settle his nerves in front of a partisan capacity crowd in Montreal.

The Canadian’s big first serve, normally one of his most reliable weapons, was nullified by Nadal’s aggressive returns, with the Spanish left-hander twice breaking Raonic’s serve in the opening set.

By contrast, Raonic was unable to make any inroads on Nadal’s serve with the fourth seed giv-ing up just one solitary point on serve in the entire first set, which lasted a mere 32 minutes.

Raonic fared better in the second set and earned three breaks points but was unable to convert any of them while Nadal capitalised on the two opportunities to get the double break and secure the title after 68 minutes.

“At some points, I wasn’t making him play enough,” said Raonic, who enjoyed a hard-fought win over in-form Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro on his way to the decider. “I think I was rushing a lot of the first set and a half. “The top four guys, when they get ahead that much, it’s very hard to get back.” While Nadal’s troublesome knees showed no signs of giving him problems this week, they remain under constant scrutiny, especially when he’s preparing for the U.S. Open, played on the most physically demanding surface of the four grand slam events.

But Nadal also won the Indian Wells Masters on hardcourt earlier this year and said he was steadily growing in confidence on the surface.

“I am doing things very well...on hard courts,” he said. “Today is an important example that I can play this way in the future.

“That’s given me confidence, that if I keep working this way, I can have a good results play-ing very aggressive.”


MOSCOW — Nobody walks quite like the Russians. After the host nation won the men’s 20-kilometer walk at the world championships, Elena Lashmanova and Anisya Kirdyapkina clinched a 1-2 finish in the women’s event on Tuesday.

Lashmanova, the Olympic champion in London, held off Kirdyapkina with a final burst of speed after she momentarily had stopped walking with one lap of the track to go, thinking she had already won.

It could have been a sweep but Vera Sokolova was disqualified with about 500 meters to go, leaving Liu Hong of China to take bronze.

If Jamaica has the fastest sprinters, the host nation used their walkers to move up the medal standings into second place with five overall and two gold, right behind the United States with six.

Marc Marquez believes Casey Stoner’s return to MotoGP test-ing with Honda will be a major boost for his and Dani Pedrosa’s title bids. Two-time world champion Stoner retired from MotoGP last season, but has agreed to help develop both Honda’s factory 2014 MotoGP bike and the production racer it is selling to customer teams next year.

He carried out his first test at Motegi earlier this month. Marquez believes Stoner’s presence offers major advantages over the Japanese test riders Honda usually calls up. “For us it’s quite important,” said Marquez of Stoner’s test. “It pays to ride that bike.

“I didn’t have information about the Motegi test because I didn’t speak with the Japanese guys, but I would like to at Indianapolis.

“I feel Casey is so fast and he put the bike on the limit for sure in that test. “I think it’s important for Honda, for Dani and for me. He tested that bike and all the limits. “Sometimes you can test some parts but if you are not doing the correct lap times or you didn’t push a lot, then you cannot feel good.”

Rookie sensation Marquez currently leads the MotoGP stand-ings by 16 points over Honda team-mate Pedrosa, with reigning champion Jorge Lorenzo a further 10 points back. Both Lorenzo and Pedrosa’s seasons have recently been disrupted by injuries.

Stoner has focused on circuit racing since quitting MotoGP, and is driving for top V8 Supercars team Triple Eight’s V8 Development Series squad. Despite constant rumours of a MotoGP comeback, Stoner reiterated after his Honda test that he has no interest in even occasional appearances.

“I’m happy with how the test went, but it doesn’t change my mind about the wildcards - this is not something I am planning to do,” he said.

Nadal Crushes Raonic To Win Rogers CupReuters

MONTrEaL - rafa Nadal thumped canada’s Milos raonic 6-2 6-2 in the final of the men’s rogers cup on Sunday to capture his eighth aTP title this season and boost his confidence ahead of the U.S. Open, starting later this month.

Rafael Nadal of Spain holds the champion-ship trophy after his win over Milos Raonic of Canada during the men’s finals match at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Mon-treal August 11, 2013.

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Stoner’s Honda MotoGP tests a big boost, says Marc Marquez

Russia’s golden walkers earn 1-2

finish in 20K

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Russia’s Elena Lashmanova crosses the finish line to win the women’s 20 kilometer race walk final at the

World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia,

Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013.

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TABANAN - If you have more time in Tanah Lot tourist attraction, you must try to walk along in surounding Tanah Lot area. You will find another beach beside Tanah Lot area that have ever seen before. That is located in the west side of Batu Mejan beach, exactly close with Surya Mandala Cultural Park Tanah Lot. The beach named “Yeh Kutikan” beach which include to Ta-nah Lot area. This beach truly never visit by visitor before, not like Tanah Lot. Because of the location is not easy to reached. But you must try to visit this beach because this beach also unique too.

On this beach there is waterfall too. The water coming from the river which exist above it. Above there is rice field carpet with green color if there is springtime season and with yellow color if there is crop season. Also, that place used for some event which performed in Tanah Lot area like last year such as kites festival on year 2006, 2007 and 2008. Because that venue very compatible and supporting to perform every event like kites festival. Even, this venue known as wide venue to perform kites festival in Bali.

Known for sunbathing and surfing, Yeh Kutikan is for those looking for a quiet beach where the life is easy and relaxing. Traditional Balinese fishermen here still use the beach and sea for livinghood, it offers a unique view to behold. Yeh Kutikan offers the visitors a double magnificent scene to see, a beautiful beach in front of you and mesmerizing rice fields complete with their wildlife – thousands of birds and butterflies are right behind you.

“Yeh Kutikan” Beach

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He was hit by an avalanche in February 2012 and buried for 15 minutes. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima are said to be on their way home from a holiday in Greece.

“Prince Friso has died of compli-cations related to the hypoxic brain injury, which he suffered as the result of his skiing accident in Lech, Austria on 17 February 2012,” a royal palace statement said.

News of a royal death is usually accompanied by images of faithful flower-laden subjects, converging en masse at the most conveniently located royal residence.

The fact that I found only a scattering of smart-phone pho-tographers at each of the three of-ficial palaces of the Dutch royal

family in the Hague perhaps reflects the feeling of a country that has already come to terms with the idea that Prince Friso will not return. “Most Dutch people are down to earth,” one told me. “When there is no hope of recovery, we think it is better this way.”

And that seems to be the gen-eral consensus - a lot of sadness, less shock. He died on Monday morning in The Hague, the palace added. The prince’s wife, Prin-cess Mabel, is said to have spent her 45th birthday on Sunday at his bedside.

‘Massive’ brain damage

Shortly before becoming king

on the abdication of Queen Bea-trix, his elder brother, Willem-Alexander spoke in April of the “terrible situation” the family had lived with for more than a year.

Prince Friso’s wife and Beat-rix had been doing their best to be there for him every day “to give him a chance”, he said. The prince had been skiing off-piste with friends in Lech when the avalanche struck.

An emergency beeper he was wearing enabled rescuers to find him but medical officials in Inns-bruck said it took some time to revive him and he suffered “mas-sive” brain damage. They said he had suffered a heart attack lasting some 50 minutes.

Reuters BUDAPEST - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has ordered

an inquiry into the deaths of eight premature babies in five days at a hospital in the northeastern city of Miskolc.

Health state secretary Miklos Szocska said alongside the announce-ment of the inquiry late on Monday that the National Surgeon General’s office was doing all it could to find out why the eight premature babies died. He told Kossuth radio on Tuesday that the babies died between August 5 and Aug 10.

“There are investigations under way to reveal any potential infec-tion,” Szocska said in a video posted on the government’s official website, adding he would not yet close the specialized department at the Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen hospital which treats hundreds of prematurely born babies each year.

Mortality rates in the department have dropped to around 30 per year from around 50 over the last two years, Szocska said.

“There are several hypotheses: the increase (in fatalities) gives reason for concern, therefore we need to reveal thoroughly what happened, whether there is any link (between the deaths) and what could be the cause,” he said in the video.

Szocska said lab tests would take about a week and he expected results from the inquiry in two weeks. The hospital’s director has been suspended.

A police spokeswoman said on Tuesday that a criminal investigation had been opened but declined to give any details.


PINE, Idaho — Firefighters were kept on high alert with a chance of thunderstorms in the forecast Tuesday that could pose problems as crews fight a fast-moving wildfire near a remote Idaho hamlet where residents have been evacuated ahead of a big blaze.

Electricity storms already sparked dozens of wildfires across the West in recent days, sending fire crews scrambling, threatening communities and impairing air quality in some areas.

Near the central Idaho community of Pine, the lightning-sparked Elk Complex Fire had burned 141 square miles of sage brush, grass and pine trees in rugged, mountainous terrain by Monday.

A few miles to the south, another big fire, the Pony Complex, had burned nearly 225 square miles of ground amid escalating winds and temperatures. Though it’s now about a third contained, downed power lines complicated efforts by firefighters to corral the flames.

Pine and neighboring Featherville were under mandatory evacu-ation orders Monday, a day after Elmore County sheriff’s deputies went from house to house, knocking on doors to alert residents to clear out of the area.

But some people, including Pine resident Butch Glinesky, opted to stay and watch over their property in this rustic vacation area some 50 miles east of Boise.

“As much as they say we need to be out, I think we can always of-fer something,” Glinesky said, watching as a crew from Colorado set up structure protection in his yard. “It’s just, you know the area.”

Residents’ insistence on staying wasn’t generally welcomed by federal officials, who expressed concerns about added traffic on the roads.

“People have a false sense of security,” Boise National Forest District Ranger Stephaney Church told The Associated Press. “We can’t do our job when they refuse to leave and we’re diverting re-sources” to get them out of their houses.

Last year, the Trinity Ridge Fire burned several miles away, blackening nearly 228 miles and forcing hundreds to temporarily evacuate Featherville.

This year, fire officials say the Elk Complex has moved much faster, dipping in and out of ravines and torching ponderosa pine trees on ridge tops visible as bright orange smudges through the smoke cloaking the valley floor. “Everything is behaving like it has no moisture at all,” Church said.


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Guards receive flowers in memory of Prince Friso at the gates of Palace Huis ten Bosch, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013.

Dutch Prince Johan Friso has died after a year and a half in a coma following an accident at an Austrian ski resort, officials say. Prince Friso, who was 44, was moved from hospital in London back to the Netherlands last month, but had since suffered complications.

Hungary investigates premature baby deaths at hospital

Hundreds evacuated amid wildfires, but some stay Agence France-Presse

MAUROLE - A volcano on a tiny Indonesian island that erupted at the weekend and killed five people spewed more clouds of red-hot ash on Monday, as hundreds of villagers were evacuated to safety.

Mount Rokatenda, on Palue island in East Nusa Tenggara province, was belching out columns of smoke up to 100 metres (330 feet) high, an AFP journalist on the nearby island of Flores said.

“The activity inside the volcano is still high,” said Surono, a government volcanologist who like many Indonesians goes by one name, warning Roka-tenda could erupt violently again.

On Saturday the volcano threw scorching ash two kilometres (1.2 miles) into the sky and unleashed molten lava onto a beach, killing three adults and two children as they slept.

Rescuers have been battling through roads blocked by ash to reach affected areas and persuade reluctant villagers to leave their homes. More than 500 have so far been taken off the island to a camp in Maumere, on Flores.

“There are a lot of people here who seem to be traumatised due to the erup-tion,” said Bakri Kari, a member of the rescue team from the local disaster agency.

“Many lost their homes after they ran in a panic. People are in despair.”Six motor boats were being used to evacuate people and the government had

sent aid to help those displaced, including masks and blankets, said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

“Since the eruption on Saturday, 511 people living near the Rokatenda volcano have been evacuated from Palue island to Maumere,” he said.

Yosep Ansarera, head of Sikka district, of which Palue is part, said that those evacuated came from two villages.

However, he added: “Dozens of people remain in their villages, refusing to be evacuated as they don’t want to leave their livestock and homes.”

Many of those evacuated came from inside a three-kilometre exclusion zone around the crater.

Authorities had urged people to leave the exclusion area before the erup-tion and banned all activities inside but many had refused to abandon their homes.

Officials still hope to evacuate another 2,500 people but Kari said rescue efforts were proving difficult as “a lot of infrastructure has been damaged”.

Rokatenda had been showing signs of increased activity since October and erupted several times before Saturday.

Some 2,000 people had already been evacuated to Flores before the week-end eruption, leaving around 8,000 people on the island.

Indonesia has dozens of active volcanoes and straddles major tectonic fault lines known as the “Ring of Fire” between the Pacific and Indian oceans.

The country’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than 350 people in a series of violent eruptions in 2010.

“We will conduct a special fire arm raid. We will focus on fire arms,” the police deputy chief said here on Tuesday.

He said that the fire arms sweeping would be carried out across the country.Firm actions will be taken against those ille-gally carrying fire arms.

The rampant shooting in-cidents of late took place not because of police failed to take anticipatory measures against criminal acts. Intelligence also still functions well, he said.

“We should understand that crimes are always one step ahead of us. We are taking anticipatory steps with various ways. It does not mean that we are awaiting crimes to happen before we could take actions. But sometimes they acted ahead of us,” he said.

He also called on the public to take an active role in fighting against illegal possession of fire arms.

Over the past several days, a

number of mysterious shooting attacks on police officers have taken place.

First Adjunct Inspector Dwi-atno, from the Cilandak sub-precinct police station in Ciputat, South Tangerang municipal-ity, Banten province, was shot dead by an unidentified man on Wednesday (August 7).

The police officer, from the Community Development Unit at the Cilandak sub-precinct police station, was shot at 5am, Western Indonesian Time (WIB), said Police Commissioner Sung-kono, chief of the Cilandak sub-precinct police station, later in the day.

Sungkono added that his team was still investigating the in-cident in order to identity the gunman.

Earlier, on July 27, Second Adjunct Inspector Saktiyono, from the Traffic Unit at Central Jakarta Police, was shot by two

motorcyclists on Cirendeu Road, Ciputat, at 4.30am.

Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has stated that police must an-alyze the several mysterious shooting attacks on its person-nel in recent days and train as hard as possible to tackle such situations.

“The National Police should examine the shooting phenom-enon seriously and train its mem-bers to the maximum extent pos-sible to deal with such problems,” IPW Presidium Chairman Neta S Pane stated here recently.

Neta said efforts at the grass-roots level were necessary for police personnel to earn the public’s respect and also antici-pate the actions of criminals who dare to shoot police officers in the field.

Based on IPW data, he added, there were three incidents of attacks on police personnel in Jakarta during the past month.

AntaraSLEMAN - A Russian tourist

went missing in Mount Mer-api since last Sunday. For the search, Mount Merapi’s spiri-tual caretaker Kliwon Surakso Hargo personally led the search for Ehbhrehnin Yeveny (26), who went missing during a trek to the summit of the active volcano in Central Java.

Kliwon climbed the moun-ta in , loca ted nor th o f the old town of Yogyakarta, in search of the Russian tourist, along with 10 personnel from the local Search And Rescue agency.

“I was asked to participate in the search. In practice, this southern path is not supposed to be used for climbing to Mount Merapi’s summit,” he explained.

He remarked that the Russian tourist had not notified anyone

of his plans to scale the moun-tain using this route.

Wearing a green T-shirt em-blazoned with the symbol of the traditional Yogyakarta Sultan-ate and the words “Yogyakarta Palace Servant,” Kliwon started his rescue mission at the SAR command post in Kinahrejo.

The Russian tourist was last heard from while he was stand-ing in one of the mountain’s dry riverbeds.

Kliwon said the Russian would not be able to see the lights of the city of Yogyakarta, making it highly likely that he has gotten lost in the valley.

Ehbhrehnin had taken the Volcano Tour in Kinahrejo, Cangkringan, Sleman, at 1 p.m. on Saturday, accompanied by his Indonesian girlfriend, Ester, who lives in Nologaten, Depok, Sleman.

The couple had returned to

Yogyakarta later that day, but on their return, Ehbhrehnin told Ester that he had wanted to climb to the mountain’s summit.

That evening, he had re-turned to Kinahrejo alone on a motorbike and had proceeded to climb the mountain unac-companied.

At 7:25 p.m. on Sunday, he sent a short message to Ester, admitting that he was lost and asking her to return on Monday to look for him.

Following the recent erup-tion that swept away the vil-lages on its slopes and claimed dozens of lives, Mount Merapi has attracted a great deal of at-tention from both domestic and foreign tourists who wish to see the impact of the eruption.

The number of visitors to the volcano increased during the Lebaran holiday.

Police to launch raids on illegal fire armsAntara

JAKARTA - Police will soon launch raids on illegal fire arms in efforts to prevent the rep-etition of shooting incidents by unidentified gunmen, National Police Deputy Chief Com. Gen Oegroseno said.

Russian tourist missing at Mt. Merapi

AP Photo/Jacob Herin

Mount Rokatenda spews volcanic smoke on Palue island, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. The volcano spewed more hot ash and lava on the tiny Indonesian island Monday after causing six deaths during its eruption over the weekend.

Mt. Rokatenda spews more ash as hundreds evacuated

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LONDON — Official figures show inflation in the U.K. eased back slightly last month despite higher petrol prices.

The Office of National Statistics said Tuesday that consumer prices were 2.8 percent higher in the year to July, down from the 2.9 percent rate in June. Airfares and clothing were largely behind the monthly fall.

Howard Archer, chief European economist at IHS Global, says inflation should continue to fall in 2013 but that much will depend on oil prices — as the economy hasn’t strengthened enough to stoke inflationary pressure just yet.

Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney revealed last week that interest rates will not rise until un-employment has dropped below 7 percent — but underscored that the link to unemployment will be cut should inflation rise out of control.

Next year, China’s net oil imports will exceed those of the United States on an annual basis and the gap between them will continue to widen, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said.

China is already the biggest energy user in the world and the second-largest oil consumer after the United States.

The shift has been driven by steady growth in Chinese demand, increased oil production in the United States, and stagnant or weakening demand in the US market, the EIA said in a report.

A graph on the EIA’s website shows China’s net imports steadily rising, with those of the US falling at a faster rate, and says the crossover point comes in two months’ time.

US annual oil output is expected to rise 28 percent between 2011 and 2014 to nearly 13 million barrels per day, while Chinese production is forecast to grow by six percent over the period, and will stand at just a third of US production in 2014, the EIA said.

Meanwhile, China’s liquid fuels use will increase 13 percent over the period to more than 11 million barrels per day while US demand hovers close to 18.7 million barrels per day.

That is below the US’s peak consumption level of 20.8 million barrels per day in 2005, the EIA added.

China imported 26.11 million tonnes (186.5 million barrels) of crude oil last month and its exports were a mere 0.17 million tonnes, according to official Beijing figures.

The Asian country’s ascendence to the top of the world’s net oil import rankings will have profound impact, an article carried by the China Business News said on Monday.

“China and the US will no longer be pure competitors in the energy sector -- China is likely to import energy in bulk from the US,” wrote commentator Li Dongchao.

“The (rising) independence of US energy will support the rejuvenation of US manufacturing, which will renew competi-tion with Chinese manufacturing,” Li said.

“Improving the safety and operational efficiency of the energy industry is a must for ensuring China’s energy and economic security.”

Agence France-Presse

FRANKFURT - The rate of inflation in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, continued to climb in July to reach the high-est level seen this year, final data showed on Tuesday.

The cost of living rose 1.9 percent this month on a 12-month basis, up from 1.8 percent in June, the federal statistics office Destatis said in a statement.

The pick-up in the rate of inflation was driven primarily by rising food prices, Destatis said.

Using the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), the European Central Bank’s infla-tion yardstick, the rate of infla-tion in Germany was also mea-sured at 1.9 percent in July.

The ECB defines price stabil-ity as increases in HICP of close to but just below 2.0 percent.

China set to become world’s biggest net oil importerAgence France-Presse

BEIJING - China is set to overtake the United States to become the world’s largest net oil importer from October, according to US figures.

Germany sees highest inflation rate of 2013

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, FileThis Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 file photo shows a view of London’s City financial district. Official figures show inflation in the U.K. eased back slightly last month despite higher petrol prices.

Lower airfares help UK inflation ease to 2.8 percent

Bali PostBANGLI - Inauguration of the Batur

Geopark in Kintamani, Bangli, as one of the Global Geopark Networks under the UNESCO is nearly entering the first year. Since it was established on September 20, 2012, existence of the geopark seems to have become a pride for the people of Bangli and Indonesia in general. Yet ironically, amidst of the recognition of geopark as terrestrial park, the Batur caldera region still keeps a very complex problem so far. The most highly visible activity is the rampant exploitation of quarry C amidst of the conservation area. Many circles consider the construction of geopark with three main objectives, namely the conservation, education, and improve-ment of local economic growth through the utilization of tourism remains at the level of concept and has not been able to contribute significantly.

A legislator of the Bangli House, Wayan Gelgel Wisnawa, judged the existence of Batur Geopark had not been able to give a real contribution to local community. “Surely, the concept is very good. However, there has been no real action made by the government. What I see is that the geopark has given nothing to the three objectives,” he explained. This politician from Songan also assessed the presence of the geopark was so far merely a symbol. According to him, if the government was really serious there should be measures to manage the geopark area. So, the existence of geopark targeting three aspects could ultimately contribute significantly to society.

Similar opinion was also revealed previ-ously by Deputy Chairman of the Bangli House, I Made Sudiasa. He added that many people still did not understand about the geopark itself. “I think a lot of societies still do not understand about what the geopark is,” he said.

This politician from Undisan village judged the geopark management by Bangli government still seemed out of focus. In response to previous information regard-ing the plan of tourism facilities like golf course in the geopark region, Sudiasa said it was obviously contrary to the geopark conservation effort. According to him, the making of golf course would indirectly exploit the conserved region. “If wishing to develop geopark, please go on. If it is part of the potential to be developed or exploited, please review it first. If it will ultimately prosper the society, the government should take a decision by choosing one of the two options,” he affirmed.

Onwards, Sudiasa hoped the government in this regard could more aggressively dis-seminate the understanding of geopark to the public and be more focused in its manage-ment. Thus, the presence of geopark all this time would not give impression if the idea was forced.

Meanwhile, the Regent of Bangli, I Made Gianyar, said although the Batur cal-dera area had been designated as a geopark by the UNESCO, it was not impossible if the taking of materials such as stone and sand was still allowed. “Geopark has the conservation and utilization function. There

are things to be preserved and utilized. So, it does not mean that after having the status as geopark, it will no longer be allowed to take sand or stone,” he explained. However, the regent added that in the level of man-agement was still required a rule related to that matter. One of them was the zonation setting the borders of the allowed quarry area and the allowed daily quota for the taking of materials.

All this time, the regent admitted to have established a team to manage the geopark. Specifically for education, the Bangli gov-ernment had begun to integrate it into some subjects in this year. The Head of Bangli Education Agency, I Nyoman Sumantra, said this year his party had begun to integrate the material of geopark into some subjects at all levels of education, from elementary to high school. He hoped the local community could understand about the geopark through the education. Ultimately, it could directly have an impact on the change of mindset of the local community. “Legality of the geopark is made by the UNESCO. It means the geopark will be primarily used for education. Later, the community is expected to understand about the values of the world’s heritage,” said Sumantra.

So far, the Bangli government remained to find an alternative to improve the welfare of society apart from the sector of quarry C. “It needs a touch of technology to improve the quality of their life, from the capability of digging stone, for example, to carving stones for souvenirs. It poses one of the measures to be taken,” he said. (ina)

“Bali has indeed been an international tour-ist attraction, so this Island of the Gods is an appropriate venue for tourism promotion,” said Chairman of the Association of Indonesia Tour and Travel Agency (ASITA) of Bali Chapter, Ketut Ardana, in Denpasar.

He said that wedding package and hon-eymoon package had a bright prospect to be developed because they were recently in high demand among foreign tourists. Other than pri-vate sector, the government was also facilitating the development of the wedding package such through roadshow for promotion.

“To that end, they come to Bali and would like to sell wedding package. Besides, they also request information related to the management of tourism so that Bali turns popular in the eyes of the world,” he said.

All this time, he said that foreign tourists generally organized wedding party on the beach. They did it in Bali just to catch the atmo-sphere on the beach, while the ritual had been accomplished in accordance with the tradition in their respective countries.

“I think this package should be taken seri-ously because the tourist arrivals are quite a lot. They usually hold wedding party here. More-over, Hainan also offers the similar potential, so that we can work together,” he said.

Deputy Director General of Hainan Provin-cial Tourism, Chen Tie Jun, coming with 15 travel agencies, said that his party did not only sell wedding package in Indonesia, especially in Bali, but also targeted the countries like Singapore and Malaysia.

“The country is the second largest inter-national market. Therefore, we do promotion to the country by offering the wedding party on yacht, wedding on cruises, weddings in Li Miao tradition, on the island and the others,” he explained.

Hainan Province is located at the southern-most tip of China, where its area spread across 35,000 square kilometers and the smallest province, including Hainan Island and Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands and Nansha Island. From this year to 2020, the government of China would build Hainan into an international excursion and holiday destination. Compared to other international tourist islands, such as Bali and Hawaii having been maturely ex-ploited, the original natural environment and unique socio-cultural characteristics would be exploited in Hainan Island because it had very great advantages.

Hainan also featured the beauty of the sea, blue sky, verdant forest and fresh air and they had become a series of tourism resources being beneficial to health. They had made foreign tourists to always feel homey so they forgot to go home. (kmb27)

China offers wedding package in BaliBali Post

DENPASAR - As an icon of the Indone-sian tourism having been well known in the world, Bali has always become a promotion target of numerous countries to sell their tourism potential. As carried out by the Hainan Tourism Development Commission, it sells wedding package to tourists spending holidays in Bali.

Geopark Batur

Batur Geopark Complex issues amidst UNESCO inauguration

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KESENNUMA, Japan - A strand-ed fishing boat that became a sym-bol of the devastation of Japan’s 2011 tsunami has long divided a northeastern coastal city - between those who wanted to keep it as a monument of survival and those who wanted a painful reminder gone.

Last week, the city announced it will be torn down after a heated debate and citywide vote. The soul-searching over the ship highlights how the aftermath of the tsunami disaster continues to torment Japan two years later.

The 330 metric ton (360 ton) Kyotokumaru was swept by the towering tsunami from the city’s

dock for about 750 meters (800 yards) into a residential district.

It has become a landmark for Kesennuma, a port city of 70,000 people, and a testament to the destructive power of the tsunami set off by the magnitude-9.0 earth-quake on March 11, 2011, which killed nearly 19,000 people.

The nearby smashed buildings and debris were cleared, but the 60-meter (200-foot) tuna-fishing boat has stood, majestic but oddly jarring, on dry ground for more than two years. Opinion on the ship had been so divided it had been put to a vote by the city residents last month. Of the 14,083 responses, 68 percent, or 9,622 people, voted to have the ship destroyed. Only 16 percent voted to keep it.

Yoshimi Abe, a 72 year-old housewife and Kesennuma resident, was among those who wanted to get rid of the ship. It’s just a constant reminder of the terrible disaster,” she said. “When I walk by it every morning, my heart aches.”

The house that Abe grew up in was destroyed by the tsunami, and she now lives in temporary housing.

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Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Aside from kindling polemics, the statue projects downtown Tabanan also reaped criti-cism. Deputy Chairman of the Tabanan House, Nyoman Suarsedana, accused the Tabanan government of just being focused on the urban appearance refurbishment. In contrast, many rural roads were left damaged and destroyed.

This Golkar politician said the urban refurbish-ment projects should ideally be offset by improve-ment in the rural infrastructure. Meanwhile, many rural roads were severely damaged. “Ideally, the government should not only refurbish the urban appearance, but the rural infrastructure must also be considered seriously,” he criticized, Monday (Aug 12). This condition, he said, was very detrimental to society. Even, it hurt the people’s spirit.

Suarsedana accused the budget mechanism in Tabanan was not systematic and consistent. Even, it gave an impression to give birth to a power without direction. “The planning, budgeting, im-plementation, control and evaluation seem not sys-tematic and inconsistent,” he criticized. Even, he said, the budgeting process was not transparent. It would potentially lead to corruption and harm the society of Tabanan. This Marga politician hoped the budget of the Tabanan infrastructure would not only be focused on the town. However, it could be directed and reach the urban areas. Thus, people could enjoy the equitable development.

Similar opinion was disclosed by a member of the Democratic Faction in the Tabanan House, Putu Oka Mahendra. According to him, the devel-opment budget of infrastructure in Tabanan was no longer applying the priority scale. “Lately, I have seen if the budget of the second priority was even given the first priority. One of them is the statue project,” he protested. Supposedly, said Oka, the budget of infrastructure could be in line with the Public Budget Policy and Temporary Budget Utilization Limit (KUA-PPAS). In that document, it was always mentioned the budget priorities. In reality, the priority scale was even ignored.

Oka added there were many damaged roads in rural areas of Tabanan. Ideally, the road infrastruc-ture was given priority. “It should not be used for beautifying the urban appearance by building a lot of statues,” he sneered. Regrettably, the statue projects even kindled a polemic. This man wor-ried if the development focused on the urban areas would make villagers envy whereas they were also diligent in paying taxes and other levies. However, the concerns of the infrastructure development were still considered imbalanced.

Data of the Tabanan Public Works indicated that Tabanan had road with the length of 2,227.1 km. Of this length, the damaged road reached 200,672 km, where 184.278 km was moderately damaged and 154,454 km was heavily damaged. Damaged road that had been repaired by the end of 2012 reached 87.94 km. (kmb30)

Regent Geredeg said the devel-opment in Bali was uneven because it remained to focus on the Southern Bali such as Denpasar and Badung. Therefore, the development in Bali should be made even, chiefly to the east of Bali. “Abundance of dollar flows in Southern Bali, while East-ern Bali is still left behind. Hope-fully, with the construction of the new airport, either in Karangasem or in Buleleng, Karangasem will get the impact,” he said.

In front of the Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono, the officials and the people watching the opening of the exhibition, he delivered the number of poor people in Karan-gasem had declined quite a lot. In 2005, the number of poor people reached 42,767 families. Then, it decreased to some 17,000 families or 15 percent of the total population amounting to 367,666 people.

Based on the existing record on the recipient of the rice for the poor

(raskin), the number of poor family (RTM) was reported to reach over 26,000 families. Then, based on the recipient of temporary cash as-sistance (BLSM), the poor reached over 23,000 families. He said that Karangasem had the potential to develop because the agriculture supporting the tourism also retained a great potential, where the Bali cattle population was quite large in Karangasem.

In the meantime, the Coordi-nating Minister for People’s Wel-fare, Agung Laksono, said that if Karangasem indeed had the largest number of Bali cattle population it should be developed. “If the cattle population in Karangasem is the highest in Bali, it should be devel-oped. Have an aspiration to be the largest cattle population in Bali and even in Indonesia,” he said.

According to him, the beef import from Australia was made all this time to maintain the supply stability. Later, the need for beef

should be met with the production of domestic breeders.

Related to the poverty reduction in Karangasem, based on the report of the Regent Geredeg, Agung Lak-

sono said that the decrease was sig-nificant and exceeded the national average of reduction. However, in terms of the national average, the percentage of poor population

in Karangasem remained higher where the national poverty rate was about 13 percent, while that of Karangasem was reported to reach 15 percent. (013)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Although the identity card (KTP) in-spection has been made at Gilimanuk Har-bor and Mengwi Terminal, some seasonal migrants bringing no identity card could pass to Denpasar. As evidence, a number of migrants without identity newly arrived in Denpasar through the Ubung Terminal by interprovincial city (AKAP) buses could still be found. They were found at Ubung Terminal when a joint team consisting of the Civil Registry Office and Public Order Officer with other elements made an in-spection and enforcement on Monday (Aug 12). In the policing, three residents were found without carrying identity card.

The policing was done to anticipate the rampant seasonal migrants. The inspection was carried out from 06:00 a.m. targeting bus passengers that had just arrived in the largest terminal in Denpasar. The identity of passengers getting off the bus was im-mediately inspected by the joint officers.

The Head of Denpasar Civil Registry Office, Nyoman Gede Narendra, accom-panied by the Division Head of Population Mobilization, Nyoman Artayasa, when met amidst the inspection said the seasonal

migrants to Denpasar were ascertained to increase, but he could not predict the amount of the increase. Moreover, similar inspection had also been made at Mengwi Terminal and some had dropped in place. “Denpasar Municipality does not prohibit residents from coming to Denpasar, but we expect the incoming residents to comply with the rules of population in the city of Denpasar,” hoped Narendra.

After recording their identity, they would be directly checked at their des-tination with the involvement of hamlet/village authorities or local headman. He added the inspection at Ubung Terminal would last for three days. Surely, there might be seasonal migrants that had not been registered so they would be directly targeted at the hamlet or village of des-tination.

The Division Head of Population Mobilization, Nyoman Artayasa, said from the inspection his party managed to capture 128 seasonal migrants that had just arrived from outside Bali. They were ensnared in the bus coming into the Ubung Terminal. “Among the ensnared migrants, three migrants could not present their identity card,” he said. (kmb12)

Development in Bali uneven

Poverty of Karangasem still over national rateAmlapura (Bali Post)—

The Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, highlighted that development in Bali had not been even when opening the development exhibition in relation to the Independence Day of the RI, Sunday night (Aug 11). On the other hand, the Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare, Agung Laksono, in his speech when opening the exhibition highlighted the percentage of poor population in Karangasem re-mained above the national rate reaching 13 percent.

IBP/FileOne of the poor family in Abang, Karangasem.

Urban appearance beautified, rural roads left damaged

Inspection to backflow at Ubung TerminalThree migrants found bringing no identity

The craggy complex of rooms, rocks, trees and bushes looming over the 26-story building looks like something built into a seaside cliff, and has become the latest symbol of disregard for the law among the rich as well as the rampant practice of building illegal additions.

Angry neighbors say they’ve com-plained for years that the unauthor-ized, 800-square-meter (8,600-sq. feet) mansion and its attached land-scaping was damaging the building’s structural integrity and its pipe sys-tem, but that local authorities failed to crack down. They’ve also complained about loud, late-night parties.

“They’ve been renovating for years. They normally do it at night,” said a resident on the building’s 25th floor, who added that any attempts to reason with the owner were met with indifference. “He was very arrogant. He could care less about my complaints,” said the neighbor,

who declined to give his name to avoid repercussions. Haidian district urban management official Dai Jun said Tuesday that authorities would tear the two-story structure down in 15 days unless the owner does so himself or presents evidence it was legally built. Dai said his office has yet to receive such evidence.

View gallery.”A rooftop villa com-plete with rocks and flora built …

A rooftop villa complete with rocks and flora built on top of a high rise residential building stand …

The villa’s owner has been identi-fied as the head of a traditional Chi-nese medicine business and former member of the district’s political advisory body who resides on the building’s 26th floor. Contacted by Beijing Times newspaper, the man said he would comply with the dis-trict’s orders, but he belittled attempts to call the structure a villa, calling it “just an ornamental garden.”

Reuters

CARACAS - Venezuela’s Presi-dent Nicolas Maduro said on Mon-day he will ask for decree powers last used by his predecessor Hugo Chavez to ramp up a fight against corruption that has begun to cost him politically with supporters.

Maduro, who served as Chavez’s foreign minister and vice president, narrowly won an election four months ago after his socialist men-tor died of cancer.

He has struggled with slowing economic growth and rising inflation while also trying to impose control on the diverse coalition he inherited from Chavez. It ranges from military officers to businessmen, leftist ideo-logues and armed militants.

A new anti-corruption drive that Maduro launched with great fanfare has led to the arrest of some rela-tively senior officials from state-run businesses and institutions. But it has suffered from a widespread public perception that “big fish” with politi-cal connections have been spared.

In a nationally televised speech, Maduro said he would ask the National Assembly, which is dominated by his

supporters, to grant him decree powers to step up his battle to defeat graft.

“I’m going to call a national emergency in the fight against cor-ruption, and I’m going to ask for special powers in order to change the laws,” he said. “If I have to change all the laws to confront cor-ruption, I’m going to do it.”

To be granted decree powers, Maduro would need the votes of three-fifths of the National As-sembly, or 99 deputies. His ruling Socialist Party holds 98 seats, so he would need just one independent lawmaker to back him.

Chavez governed for months us-ing decree powers that he requested from lawmakers in 2010 to push through reconstruction and relief projects after floods left nearly 140,000 homeless. At the time, critics accused him of exploiting the disaster to sideline the Assembly before the arrival of a raft of opposi-tion legislators elected that year.

Chavez later said he was being demonized around the world for ruling by decree, and at one point said he would give up the powers if the post-flood measures were put in place quickly.

Beijing cracks down on bizarre apartment-top villaAssociated Press Writer

BEIJING — A medicine mogul spent six years building his own pri-

vate mountain peak and luxury villa atop a high-rise apartment block in China’s capital, earning the unofficial title of “most outrageous illegal structure.” Now, authorities are giving him 15 days to tear it down.

AP Photo/Ng Han GuanA man looks at a roof top villa with binoculars from an overhead bridge in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013.

Japan city votes to destroy tsunami ship landmark

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, FileFILE - In this April 2, 2011 file photo, survivors look at a ship among the rubble at a March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed area in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, Japan.

Venezuela’s Maduro to seek decree powers in graft fight

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At one point, Merrill leaped from a platform into a pit full of foam blocks, and he shot right through them and landed on his head. He broke a vertebra in his neck, and was left paralyzed from the neck down.

Merrill’s injury underscores recent warnings from doctors and government officials about the dangers of the jump gyms amid a heightened effort to regulate the indoor trampoline parks as they have become a popular rain-or-shine suburban entertainment for birthday parties and summer camps.

“Anything where something like that can happen, I mean, it’s such a devastating injury,” the 22-year-old Merrill said of his mishap in Provo. “It doesn’t seem like things are properly regulated if something like that is possible.”

Citing broken necks, shat-tered leg bones and one death, some doctors say the parks are dangerous and can lead to serious injuries that eclipse any benefits. Governments are starting to take


KABUL , Afghanis tan — A cholera outbreak at a village in northeast Afghanistan has infected 1,492 people, killed a young wom-an and left another 100 in critical condition, a provincial official said Tuesday.

Abdul Marouf Rasekh, a spokes-man for the governor of Badakh-shan province, said the outbreak began three days ago and was restricted to one town that has been quarantined.

When it first appeared in the mountainous village of Chappa in the Darayen district, Rasekh said it infected 850 people but quickly spread until the quarantine was put in place.

“The village has been quaran-tined and they are all being treat-ed,” he said, adding that “treating such diseases is not easy.”

Rasekh said the source of the infection had been traced to a single spring of water that supplies the

entire town’s drinking water. Health authorities were bringing in water from nearby towns until the prob-lem was solved.

He said that 36 of the most se-rious cases have been taken to a hospital in the provincial capital of Faizabad and that the sole death so far was an 18-year old woman.

Afghanistan has had cholera outbreaks in the past but they are not common. Typhoid and other intestinal diseases and parasites are far more common but not as deadly if left untreated.

Access to clean drinking water is a problem in rural Afghanistan and health care is rudimentary in large parts of the country, which has one of the world’s lowest life expectancies at 50. Only 12 percent of Afghans living in rural areas have access to clean drinking water, according to the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The World Health Organization says cholera is virulent but mortal-ity rates are low if treated quickly.

Safety fears spur regulations for trampoline gymsAssociated Press Writer

PROVO, Utah — Stephen Merrill was finishing his freshman year of college two years ago when he and a group of friends went to an indoor trampoline park in Utah for a day of flipping, jumping and bouncing.

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

In this Wednesday, July 31, 2013 photo, Jacob Terrell, of Pleasantville, flips as others play at the Get Air Hang Time indoor trampoline park in Orem, Utah.

notice, with proposed regulations in Utah and California among the first attempts in America to address concerns about safety in the burgeoning industry.

Operators of the trampoline gyms say severe injuries are rare and safety fears are overblown.

They claim an injury rate lower than organized sports such as baseball or soccer and point out the gyms offer a place for adults and kids to have fun and get much-needed exercise.

The parks are typically giant warehouses filled with a series of trampolines that allow customers to bounce every which direction, slam-dunk basketballs and do gymnastics moves. Some parks feature angled trampolines slop-ing up the sides and pits filled with brick-size foam blocks. The industry has grown rapidly, from a handful of centers in the Western U.S. in 2007 to about 160 throughout the world, ac-cording to ASTM International, a standards-development orga-nization.

For safety, many of the gyms

post staffers around trampolines like lifeguards to enforce rules and require jumpers to first sign a waiver. Emergency room doctors in one Utah county say that’s not

enough, and they’ve asked the health board to step in.

“You’ll see a lot of these very severe, open wounds that you don’t see unless you’re in a high-

velocity type of injury,” Dr. Craig Cook, trauma director at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. “This is like a war type of injury or a motor vehicle crash.”

AP Photo/Nisar Ahmad

Afghan policemen inspect a damaged police checkpoint in Bati Kot district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013.

Cholera outbreak in northeast Afghanistan

Bali PostDENPASAR - Production

growth of the Micro and Small Enterprise (SME) on a quarterly basis in the second quarter of 2013 grew by 5.47 percent compared to the first quarter of 2013. “Achieve-ment of this growth occurs below the national growth of 6.52 percent in the same period,” said the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali, I Gde Suarsa.

He explained though Bali abso-lutely had no source of oil and gas, the economy of Bali was greatly supported by the agriculture, tour-ism and service sector supporting the tourism and creative economy

posing the multiplier effect of the rapid growth of tourism. “Along the 2012, for example, the growth of Bali’s economy reached 6.65 percent or higher than the growth occurred in 2011 reaching 6.49 percent. Aside from the rapidly growing tourism industry, the realization of a number of infra-structural developments also had a contribution to the economic growth of Bali, especially ahead of the APEC Summit in October 2013,” said Suarsa.

He added the data of the Gross Regional Domest ic Product (GRDP) Bali in 2012 indicated that more than 65 percent of Bali’s

economy was affected by tourism industry, and more than 80 percent was affected by export.

“Behind the declining contribu-tion of the primary sector (agricul-ture) to the GRDP of Bali marked by the high land conversion with an average of 436 hectares, or 0.50 percent per year during the period of 1997 to 2011 made the manufacturing industry in Bali increasingly important and stra-tegic,” he explained.

Amidst the tight competition and weakening of the global economy lately, the Bali manu-facturing industry was required to improve the quality and quantity

of product produced. “The gov-ernment must be able to provide enough space for private sector in the development of spatially and regionally-oriented industries, and the potential of export prod-ucts,” he said.

Nevertheless, in terms of one year or during the 2013, the pro-duction growth of small and mi-cro industry in Bali experienced a positive growth at 24.59 percent or above the national produc-tion growth only reaching 15.55 percent. According to Suarsa, some relevant observers often revealed the declining production growth of the small and micro

industry in Bali, among others, was caused by regulatory issues, prolonged licensing process and capital difficulty since there was no trust from the banking indus-try. Some banking companies assessed that many of them had been feasible but not been bank-able. Suarsa admitted that such classic and complicated problems had influence the movement of the creative economy in Bali so the small and micro economy was difficult to develop whereas the indigenous tourism in Bali was ascertained to have significant role in enhancing the allure of creative industry. (kmb28)

“The most obvious empirical evidence is the conversion of paddy fields in Bali, reaching an average of more than 1,000 hectares per year (BPS, 2010). I have confidence the destruction of Bali starts from the destruction of the agricultural sec-tor,” he said.

He added that theoretically many leaders were reluctant to build the agricultural sector well. They pre-ferred to do physical development in the sectors of industry, tourism, in-frastructure and others. Their reason was logical because the outcome in the form of physical evidence could be quickly known by their constitu-ents. However, to see the results of the agricultural development would take very long time, be very difficult to implement, and have to deal with people with different character and status. Meanwhile, their tenure only lasted for 5 years. Thus, the politi-cal system also played a great role in the passion of the agricultural development.

Destruction of the agricultural sector was showed by the increas-ingly obvious characteristics. It was re-flected by low Farmer Exchange Value (NTP), ranging from 101 to 108. This meant the ratio of revenue index and the expenditure index of farmers was

Second quarter of 2013 Production of SME’s in Bali grows 5.47 percent

Building agricultural sector need political commitmentBali Post

DENPASAR - Virtually all the stakeholders say if the agricul-tural sector in Bali poses a source of inspiration for the develop-ment of Bali dominated by tourism sector. But in reality, only a few cares about the agricultural development. According to the observation of the lecturer from the Udayana University, Prof. Wayan Windia, building the agricultural sector was required political commitment, ready not to be populist and having egalitarian character. He said this phenomenon could hardly be found in the current leaders, including the leaders in Bali.

very low, namely 101/100-108/100. Then, the contribution of the agri-cultural sector to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Bali continued to decline throughout the year, reaching approximately 19 percent. Actually, the residents relying on the agricultural sector remained very high, namely about 40 percent. It indicated the pro-ductivity in the agricultural sector was very low. Similarly, the value added of the agricultural products was the lowest compared to that of the industry and tourism sector. Contribution of the agricultural sector to the value added was only about 20 percent.

Meanwhile, the investment in the agricultural sector was very small. In Bali, the investment in the agricultural sector only reached around 1 percent of the total existing investment. Then, total loans to the agricultural sector only reached around 9 percent, while the total loans to SMEs was 22 percent. If the loans and investments in the agri-cultural sector were very small, it was impossible to expect the agricultural sector to grow and compete against the other sectors.

In the meantime, Chairman of the Indonesian Farmers Union (HKTI) of Bali, Prof. Suparta, said the agricultural sector was often glorified and revered, but it lacked of re-investment in the

conservation and development.Since the entry of the innovation in

green revolution with the characteris-tics such as the application of modern technology in production, new hybrid rice seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesti-cides to prevent plant diseases, water dam project, and so forth with the intention to achieve the high produc-tion rate and productivity had brought in significant changes in the life of

farmers and their communities.“I do not blame anybody, but the

fact indicates there seem no agricul-tural development programs that have been completed,” he said.

He said that many programs seemed to have been implemented as an imag-ing alone. The holistic, synergistic and dynamic agricultural development programs with a high policy commit-ment had not been visible. “I do not

know whose fault it is. The popular concept of counseling, mentoring and rural cooperative (KUD) during the New Order era (President Suharto) has been fragile. Stagnation between the current behavior and the condi-tions of the farmers with the growing globalization including the free market around the corner had become a threat to the agriculture of Indonesia, includ-ing Bali,” he sighed. (kmb28)

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Men harvesting rice in the ricefield that still exist in the middle of properties complex. Virtually all the stakeholders say if the agricultural sector in Bali poses a source of inspiration for the development of Bali dominated by tourism sector. But in reality, only a few cares about the agricultural development.

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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


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

Various competitions organized could pro-vide an atmosphere of togetherness among the participants. The competition held consisted of coloring contest, inserting pencil into a bottle, moving balloons and some others. Besides, there was also a competition of reading of the Divine Kalam, Saritilawah, and then followed by a speech from the General Manager, Jodie and delivery of groceries and stationery.

The atmosphere was turning more festive when the orphanage children performed his tambourine music, Balinese Dance by the staff and hotel employees. “This activity is a regular event organized to better establish the friendship among the religious communities in particular and other people,” said GM Jodie. IBP/Courtesy of BTN

Sharing happiness with orphanageIBP

KUTA - Best Western resort Kuta held a fasting break with Tunas Bangsa orphanage children, Friday (Aug 2). Such an event was also attended by col-leagues such as travel agencies, media, corporate management and other Best Western hotels. The event organized at the Ambrosia restaurant was started with implementation of competitions involving the orphanage children.

Gianyar (Bali Post)—With the appearance like a married

couple putting on Balinese customary attires while carrying the offerings, the regional working units (SKPD) of Gianyar County riding a bicycle around the Astina Raya Square were becoming an interesting spectacle, Monday (Aug 13).

Riding the past onthel bicycle was an innovation made in the 68th anniversary celebration of the Inde-pendence Day of the RI in Gianyar. Laughter of the audience welcomed the participants that were getting ready at the start line. The unique couples

were released in turn by the Regent of Gianyar AA Bharata around the Astina Raya Square. Diverse expressions of the participants were displayed to at-tract the attention of the audience and judges along the way. Some partici-pants were coming up in elderly style while dancing and singing psalmody.

Executive committee of the com-petition doubling as the Secretary of the Gianyar Culture Agency, Anak Agung Sri Mawarti, said the activity was expected to move the awareness and return to the national identity. One of the ways was by maintaining the noble cultural values. (kmb16)

“The pest is like virus and cutting the rice neck. They attacked the grain since it was young,” complained Nengah Sudiana, 54, one of the local farmers, Monday (Aug 12). This man claimed the virus was the most difficult pest to eradicate. Though having ap-plied various pesticides, the pest attack remained ferocious.

Since many ears of the grains were damaged, the crop yields dropped sharply. Sudiana pointed out, his rice yield could only reach 45 kg per 100 square meters, while under normal condition he could gain up to 80 kg per 100 square meters. “Many rice grains were rotting. Thus, the yields thor-oughly declined,” he added. Though harvest yield dropped, farmers still

Bangli (Bali Post)—Dozens of first grade students of

the SDN 6 Songan primary school are forced to learn in the emer-gency classroom bordered with plastic sheet wall. A number of those students are separated from the main classroom as it is beyond the capacity. Even, such apprehen-sive condition has been going on since the past few months.

Based on observation at loca-tion on Monday (Aug 12), con-dition of the school located at Serongga hamlet, Songan village B, was indeed very alarming. To reach the location of the school, people should go through a trail about 100 meters from the main road. The road could no longer be passed through by four-wheeled vehicle. At a local hamlet hall lay a building measuring about 6x8 meters. Walls of the build-ing were made of sheet of plastic sacks sewn in such a way and structured with bamboo in order to make a room without a win-dow, door and roof. “This build-ing is self-financed by donation

of local residents at Serongga, while the equipment such as the blackboard, chairs, and tables belong to SDN 6,” said Principal of the SDN 6 Songan, Wayan Suandara.

According to him, the emer-gency classroom was made be-cause local school at Songan surpassed the capacity. As a result, the school and Serongga residents had an initiative to build another classroom. In other words, the emergency class was a distance class of the SDN 6 Son-gan. Suandara said the classroom establishment was based on the agreement of Serongga residents in order the children of Songan village could still attend school. “Other than being overloaded, the distance from Serongga to the existing school at Songan is also pretty far, so we feel sorry for the students,” said Suandara.

To attend school, the students from Serongga should travel about three kilometers through the main road. When finding a shortcut through the village

lane, it was quite vulnerable and far. Since there was no attention from the Bangli government, the residents of Serongga finally took an initiative to establish the emergency school. “It is the first step and we plan to submit a proposal to the Education Agency for the establishment of a new school at Serongga. It’s the initia-tive of Serongga residents,” said Suandara.

A total of 32 students attended school in the emergency class-room. Meanwhile, the number of student at the main SDN 6 Son-gan primary school reached 34 put into a single class. Therefore, the total number of first grade students at the SDN 6 Songan totally reached 66 students. “If all the students are accommo-dated at the SDN 6 Songan, they will not fit. Therefore, we take an initiative to make a distance class at Serongga,” he explained. Meanwhile, the teachers in the emergency class were from the SDN 6 Songan primary school who taught in turn. (ina)

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The farmer is showing the rice paddy that is attacked by fungi in Kerambitan, Tabanan.

Attacked by fungi, rice harvest dropsTabanan (Bali Post)—

Apparently the destiny of farmers in Tabanan is far away from the predicate of being prosper-ous. Farmers at Tibubiu in Kerambitan subdistrict, for instance, experienced a decline in the harvest yield due to fungal attack. It harmed the neck and the yellow grain. Such pest attack was alleged to happen due to erratic weather. As a result, the rice stems rotted and were then followed by the destruction of rice grains. Some farmers claimed that such attack had lasted for a long time, even before the grains were turning yellow. Thus, the growth was not normal.

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Aside from facing dropped harvest, farmers also complained about the decline in the rice prices. Due to low quality, the price of rice fell from IDR 400,000 to IDR 350,000 per quintal. Such price was estimated to persist due to erratic weather. Moreover, many farmers were forced to delay their harvest due to lack of harvesters. Many harvesters were going home for celebrating the Eid in Java. “This rice harvest is already delayed due to wait-ing for the harvesters,” he said. All this time, said Sudiana, most rice collectors relied on labor from Java.

The attack of rotten neck to the rice was justified by the Head of Tabanan

Agriculture and Horticulture Agency, Nyoman Budana. He said due to de-clining harvest yield, the selling price of rice fell from IDR 200,000 to IDR 175,000 per 100 square meters. Even, it could also reach IDR 160,000 per 100 square meters. “Indeed, many paddy plants are attacked by rotten neck,” he said last Monday. Although the price of rice fell, the price of harvest rice (GKP) was relatively stable, averagely at IDR 3,800 per kg, while the mill rice (GKG) could reach IDR 4,200 per kg.

Budana also recognized the delay of harvest season happened due to la-bor crisis. He described that a number of areas in Tabanan were in harvest problem, particularly in Kerambitan area. The total land to be harvested in

the area reached 200 hectares. Of this amount, approximately 100 hectares should be harvested, while the rest would be harvested 2 weeks later.

“There are some areas having harvest problems. It is estimated the harvest schedule can be delayed about two weeks,” he explained. (kmb30)

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That was enough to best Jason Su-deikis and Jennifer Aniston’s comedy “We’re the Millers,” the “Cars” spinoff “Planes,” and the fantasy sequel “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.” But despite stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, the $115 million “Elysium” still fell short of Blomkamp’s debut, 2009’s Oscar-nominated “District 9.”

The top 10 movies at U.S. and Ca-nadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com, are:

1. “Elysium,” Sony, $29,807,393, 3,284 locations, $9,077 average, $29,807,393, one week.

2. “We’re the Millers,” Warner Bros., $26,419,396, 3,260 locations, $8,104 average, $37,908,179, one week.

3. “Planes,” Disney, $22,232,291, 3,702 locations, $6,005 average, $22,232,291, one week.

4. “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” Fox, $14,401,054, 3,031 locations, $4,751 average, $23,258,113, one week.

5. “2 Guns,” Universal, $11,249,145, 3,028 locations, $3,715 average,

$48,638,050, two weeks.6. “Smurfs 2,” Sony, $9,328,495, 3,867

locations, $2,412 average, $46,471,998, two weeks.

7. “The Wolverine,” Fox, $8,024,404, 2,867 locations, $2,799 average, $112,010,574, three weeks.

8. “The Conjuring,” Warner Bros.,

$6,627,356, 2,650 locations, $2,501 average, $120,672,262, four weeks.

9. “Despicable Me 2,” Universal, $5,915,650, 2,395 locations, $2,470 average, $338,481,845, six weeks.

10. “Grown Ups 2,” Sony, $3,645,565, 2,102 locations, $1,734 average, $123,786,496, five weeks.


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File-This film publicity file image released by TriStar, Columbia Pictures-Sony shows Matt Damon, right, in a scene from “Elysium.” “Elysium” topped the weekend box office with $30.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, enough to beat three newcomers, including the Jennifer Aniston comedy “We’re the Millers.”

Box office top 20: $29.8 million for ‘Elysium’


“You hear nothing. You see noth-ing. You only serve.” Such are the instructions Cecil Gaines receives as he embarks on his daunting new job at the Eisenhower White House in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” But of course Gaines, played by Forest Whitaker in a moving, grounded performance that anchors the film and blunts its riskier excesses, hears and sees everything.

And that means that over more than three decades on the job, he has a Forrest Gump-like view not only of the White House under seven presidents, but of the long arc of the civil rights struggle in 20th-century America.

Much has been said about this movie’s potential future as an Os-car powerhouse. The speculation is natural — especially given its star-studded cast — but it takes away from

the more important discussion of its simpler virtues, as an absorbing film that has the potential to teach a new generation (and remind an older one) about these crucial events.

The story is inspired by a Wash-ington Post profile of Eugene Allen, a White House butler from 1952 to 1986. Some anecdotes remain, but much is different. Most importantly, Daniels and screenwriter Danny Strong create a father-son dynamic between Gaines and a rebellious older son, Louis (a terrific David Oyelowo) that serves as a backdrop against which the civil rights struggle can play out — through the eyes of black characters, not white ones, for a refreshing change.

This is done most strikingly in a key montage in which Cecil and his fellow White House workers set up an elegant state dinner, china and crystal and all, while down South,

Louis is protesting at a segregated lunch counter, leading to a harrowing confrontation.

But the story begins in 1926, with the death of Cecil’s own father at the hands of the barbaric son of a land-owner on a Georgia cotton farm. The elderly landowner (Vanessa Redgrave, beginning the celebrity cameo parade) takes Cecil into her home, where he first learns to be a butler — how to act, she tells him, like the room is empty even when he’s in it.

Years later, working in a Wash-ington, D.C. hotel, Cecil is noticed by a White House official, leading to a job there. His wife, Gloria, is im-mensely proud. Gloria, as you may have heard, is played by one Oprah Winfrey, and her performance is often restrained and quite moving. To her credit, you’re not thinking “Wow, Oprah!” in every scene; that in itself is no small triumph.

‘The Butler’ tells a story we need to hear

AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Anne Marie Fox

This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, left, and Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines in a scene from “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”


NEW YORK — Neill Blom-kamp’s science-fiction thriller “Elysium” led a crowded field at the box office, topping the weekend with $29.8 million.

“We don’t want the reclamation to con-tinue because many of the Balinese people reject the idea. For that reason, Bali House urged the governor to revoke the permit,” said the Head of Bali House A.A> Ngurah Oka Ratmadi accompanied by the Vice Ketut Suwandhi and the Head of Commis-sion I Made Arjaya on Monday, August 12, 2013.

In the letter by Bali House, there are

several considerations why the Governor should revoke the permit. First, it is because many people reject the idea of reclamation on Benoa Bay. Second, the recommenda-tion given by Bali House previously is to do a feasibility study and not to publish a per-mit. Third, the pre-study done by Udayana University shows that the reclamation will give many negative effects. Fourth, there are many regulations that was violated by the

governor during the making of the permit such as the regulation on the protection of the coastline, the management of the small islands, and others.

Cok Ratmadi said that by the letter that urged the governor to revoke the permit, there is great hope that the controversy surrounding the reclamation plant will be finished. “We hope that the governor can act on this letter of recommendation,” he added.

He also stated that by the new letter, the previous letter by Bali House regarding the development of an island to protect from tsunami is canceled. The similar statement also said by Ketut Suwandhi and Made Arjaya.

According to Arjaya, the governor should revoke the permit immediately. However, all of them don’t want to say what the punishment is if the governor doesn’t obey the recommendation. Unfortunately, there is no certain date on the letter of the recommendation but the house expect that the governor will act promptly. (kmb29)

Bali House urge Governor to revoke reclamation permit

The photo shows Serangan Island after reclamation. Worried that

reclamation on Serangan case will be happening in Benoa Bay, Bali’s legislative body asks Bali’s gover-nor to revoke decree on reclama-

tion of Benoa Bay.

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After a month or so the controversy regarding the permit published by Bali Governor on the reclamation of Benoa Bay, Bali House of Representative finally determine their political action. The house has published a letter for the governor so he should review or even revoke the permit.

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