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The Canadian pop singer will agree to attend an anger management class and make a 50,000 dollar charitable contribution, the Miami Herald said, quoting sources.

Bieber was arrested after an alleged drag racing incident, and police say he ad-mitted to having smoked marijuana and taken the pre-

scription drug Xanax.In a hearing Wednesday, prosecutors

are expected to drop the DUI charge. In exchange, Bieber’s lawyers will accept a guilty plea for careless driving and resisting arrest without violence, the paper said.

Bieber is not expected to attend the court session. As part of the deal he

will have to attend a 12-hour anger management course.

The 20-year-old drove a Lamborghini in the alleged race with his friend Khalil Sharieff and was reported to have used obscene words during his arrest.

The troubled pop star has had several run ins with the law of late.

In July he was sentenced in Los Angeles to two years’ probation for egg-bombing his neighbors’ home.

Bieber was also ordered to perform com-munity service, join an anger management program, and pay the owners of the vandal-ized home more than $80,000 in repairs.

Among his numerous other recent run-ins with the law, Bieber has a hearing pending in Canada into accusations he assaulted a limousine driver last year.

IBP/Net

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Not all the actors at a star-packed news conference Tuesday for the new film “The Giver” had been

familiar with Lois Lowry’s acclaimed 1994 book before they made the film. But Taylor Swift sure had been.

The 24-year-old singer read it in school, and says it had a huge influence on her outlook on life.

“It celebrates all the things I hold really dear and are important to me,” Swift said, “like our

history, our music, our art, our intellect and our memories.”

Swift, who has a small role in the film alongside the likes of Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep, waxed philosophical about the idea

that people should be protected from the darker side of life. In “The Giver,” people live in a com-

munity of Sameness. They have no memories of the past, to protect them from feelings like pain or loss.

But they also never experience love or real happiness. One boy, Jonas, seeks to change all that.“I’m seeing so many fans write to me on Instagram and

Twitter, or in letters, saying they’re having such a tough time with life,” Swift said, “because they can’t imagine that we can experience such great pain, such intense loss, such insecurity.

“And the thing that I just wish I could tell them, over and over, is that we live for these fleeting moments of happiness. Happi-ness is not a constant. It’s something that we only experience glimpses of every once in a while — but it’s worth it.

“And I think that’s what they’ll take away from this movie.”

“The Giver,” directed by Phillip Noyce, opens Friday.

Bieber to plead guilty in drag racing caseAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Justin Bieber will plead guilty to lesser charges fol-lowing his arrest for driving under the influence in Miami last January, a local newspaper reported Tuesday.

Taylor Swift waxes philosophical on

‘Giver’ themes

Taylor Swift arrives at New York premiere of “The Giver” at the Zeigfeld Theater on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in New York. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - The circle of Badung House urged local gov-ernment and central government to immediately respond to the as-pirations on the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. The government was asked not to ignore the aspirations persis-tently voiced by various elements of society.

“This polemic must be discontinued because the public has been long fretted with the Benoa Bay reclamation plan,” said a legislator of the Badung House, I Made Duama.

According to him, the aspiration on the rejection against the reclamation plan did not only arise from components of Badung and Denpasar community but also from various other counties in Bali. The aspirations, he said, were purely moral movement of people who did not want any excessive exploitation against the nature of Bali.

Duama said that people had a variety of considerations to reject the reclama-tion plan. Some of the main consider-ations included the need to maintain the balance and sanctity of nature, the loss in terms of economic aspect chiefly on the coastal communities having fishery livelihood and the negative impact on Balinese culture as a result of the large-scale development of tourist ac-commodation.

“People have considerations that must be respected by the stakeholders, especially the government. So, I ask the government both local government and central government to discontinue the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. We do not want this polemic prolongs and it can trigger unwanted things on our side,” said the politician from South Kuta. (kmb25)

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

The circle of Badung House urged local government and central government to immediately respond to the aspirations on the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

Aspiration rejecting reclamation keeps flowing

Government asked to immediately respond

Owner of sunken ferry arrested in Bangladesh

Real reinforcements shine in Super Cup victory

Egypt presents proposal to end war in Gaza

International2 Thursday, August 14, 2014 15International Activities

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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 August 9 through September 23, 2014

9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap BesakihPura Dangkahyangan TabananPura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem

13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal MengwiPura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri 19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan BulelengPura Gunung Pengsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Tengah TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan TabananPira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan DenpasarPura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala BesakihPura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Batu Sari UbudPura Penataran Dalem Guliang BangliPura Pasek Dangka Guwang SukawatiPura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak SiringPura Rambut Siwi JembranaPura Batu Bolong Canggu KutaPura Pasek Marga Klaci TabananPura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru NegaraPura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan BulelengPira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede TabananPura Desa Banyuning BulelengPura Srijong TabananPura Pucak Mundi Nusa PenidaPura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod GianyarPura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud

21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng

3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan BangliPura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba TabananPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah BulelengPura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang

9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTBPura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu KarangasemPura Padharman Arya Telabah BesakihPura Bukit Mentik Batur KintamaniPura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaBhatara Ratu Gede Celuk GianyarPura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Sesetan DenpasarBhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klung-kungPura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya

17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Cemenggaon GianyarPura Penataran Ped Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa AbiansemalPura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa PenidaPura Jati Ubud GianyarPura Melanting Ubud GianyarPura Dalem Ped Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Karangasem

19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri 23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

Many activities around wine have been developed, starting with the popu-lar Divine Fridays. As the name says, these special happy hours take place only on Fridays and have a different theme every week; a grape variety, a wine re-gion or a distinctive producer. Five wines that are normally not available by the glass are opened and guests can choose to taste all five, a set of three or just one glass of their choice. Delicious paired complimentary canapés are served on the restaurant’s terrace, accompanied by relaxing live acoustic music. These Fridays have become a favourite meet-

ing place in Ubud amongst the expat community as well as the visitors. A very nice way to kick off the weekend.

Now a new feature has been added: Divine Masterclass. Hosted by the res-taurant’s wine expert Antoine Olivain from France, guests can learn more about the week’s wines in a relaxed atmosphere, with like-minded people, in a quick and easy way. Antoine guides the tasting, shares his knowledge and an-swers questions. Printed tasting notes are handed out and with each wine, paired canapés are served to demonstrate food pairing ideas. IBP/Courtesy of Bridges

Divine Masterclass at BridgesIBP

UBUD - Wine has always played an important role at bridges; the restau-rant is also home to Ubud’s most extensive retail wine shop. The DIvINE wine cellar offers over 250 labels from all major wine growing regions at interesting prices. This dedication to great wine service has now been hon-oured by the prestigious Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2014!

IBP/Ocha

The cooperation between all elements of tourism in Bali is needed so the development of the industry will give more benefit to the people in the island. This is stated during the visit of Best Western International (BWI) Management, the chain hotel which based in Arizona, USA, to Bali Post Office. The management led by The General Manager Sales and Marketing BWI Area Development Office Indonesia Rudi Fajar Putra is welcomed by The General Manager of International Bali Post Gde Palgu-nadi, The Director of Bali TV Dewi Martika and The Secertary general of Bali Post Gugiek Savindra. Also coming during the visit were Andriana Hendrawati (Corporate Marketing Communication), Mukti Ali (Assistant Marketing Communication Manager Best Western Premier Sunset Road Kuta), Ketut Gunarta (General Manager Best Western Kuta Villa), Ryan Rusli (Marcom and Sales Executive Best Western Kuta Vila) dan Treshia Lim (Sales Manager Best Western Resort Kuta).

As information of local resident, Dewa Sentana, Tuesday (Aug 12), the tidal waves on local coast was pretty awful. The entire tourism activities such as jumping at Cenin-gan did not dare to operate. Meanwhile, the cavity of Batu Melawang Cave continued to be hit by tidal waves. Not long after, the cave of swallow nest was broken down. From the outside, the broken down cave surface was wide enough. Unfortunately, no one dared to make sure about the situation inside whether the interior of the cave collapsed or bird nest was still intact.

Afterward, the residents promptly reported the incident to the Nusa Kertha Kosala Re-gional Enterprise (PNDKK), Tuesday (Aug 12). Director of the PDNKK, Wayan Suka-dana, when met on Tuesday claimed to have known the matter. Based on public report, apparently the collapse only happened to the cavity. However, to make sure, his party would come down to location to ascertain the last condition after hit by tidal waves. “We need to identify the damage caused by the tidal waves as soon as possible,” he said.

The path leading to the cave was quite diffi-cult. Only local residents could go into the cave using a small ladder made of rope. The cavity was terrible. Moreover, during high tides, the cavity was covered by seawater. Management of the PNDKK last harvested the bird nest around February. The outcomes diminished to two kilograms only. However, with a differ-ent sales system in the form of packaging and harvest cost of IDR 9 million, the bird’s nest could generate revenue worth IDR 22 million. Unlike in the previous method, the harvest cost was IDR 24 million and the result was not clear due to lacking of transparency as indicated in the previous PNDKK.

Currently the population of swallow in the cave continued to decline. It was caused by ex-cessive exploitation carried out in the previous harvest. In the past, the harvest was done four times a year, while starting this year it was only done twice so the swallows could proliferate before the next harvest in different method. Thus, the habitat would not be damaged and could contribute to the regionally generated revenue through the PNDKK. (kmb31)

Bali PostGIANYAR - A number of tourist trans-

port drivers in the area of Goa Gajah, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, should take urine test held by a joint team of the Gianyar Police Narcotics Unit along with the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Gianyar, Tuesday (Aug 12).

Around 10:00 a.m., the drivers transport-ing guests to Goa Gajah were approached by plainclothes police to be invited to urine checkpoint at the parking lot of the Goa Gajah tourist attraction. Urine examina-tion for drivers of tourist transport was first performed in Gianyar, said Chief of BNN Gianyar, Made Pastika.

Meanwhile, Chief of Gianyar Police Nar-cotics Unit, I Kadek Ardika, said the urine test was performed in order to anticipate the tourism activities chiefly those undertaken by the drivers related to drug abuse. “This is a preventative measure,” he said.

It was made by a joint team by giving

more emphasis on humanitarian efforts. If the drivers of tourist transport used drugs, it would be certainly risky, such as kindling accidents as had occurred in other region. By all means, this would have a bad impact on tourism in Bali and Gianyar in particular.

Through such examination, if someone indeed used drug, it would be found from the results of urine test carried out. Since taking the drugs, it could still be detected until three days after. A total of fifty people took their urine to be examined further. “Positive or not will be known after the laboratory test completes. For those who are declared positive will later be developed by the BNN Gianyar,” he said.

Meanwhile, the current trend of drug use in Gianyar started to increase. It was evident from the results of operations performed on recent days. Within a month, police managed to reveal three cases of drug abuse. (kmb16)

IBP/Bagiarta

The Batu Melawang Cave is being hit by big waves

Hit by waves

Batu Melawang Cave broken downBali Post

SEMArAPUrA - Tidal waves on Monday (Aug 11) caused coastal areas of Ceningan Island, Nusa Penida subdistrict, Klungkung, to get eroded. More severely, amidst the coastal areas stood the Batu Melawang Cave denoting the swallow habitat. Surface of the cave looked to have been broken down after hit by tidal waves for whole day.

Tourist transport drivers go through urine test

3Thursday, August 14, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Thursday, August 14, 2014

AntaraDENPASAR - Indonesia’s tour-

ism industry has made the necessary efforts and preparations for facing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 in order to success-fully compete with other Southeast Asian countries.

“The process of obtaining com-petence certification for tourism workers has been rolled out, but there are a lot of constraints such as the employee not being able to fund the competency test,” Chief Master Program Study of Tourism Udayana University, Professor I Nyoman Darma Putra, M. Litt, stated on Wednesday.

He noted that the tourism workers in Indonesia did not find the compe-tency test useful as it did not help to improve their income.

Meanwhile, the companies that employed them did not finance the certification process.

“The certification will not nec-

essarily be a consideration in the salary component. The various issues can create barriers for the tourism industry to face the AEC,” he pointed out.

Darma remarked that the Udaya-na University will host a workshop on “Indonesian Tourism Readiness Facing the ASEAN Economic Com-munity (AEC) in 2015” at its campus on August 15, 2014.

The workshop featuring five speakers is expected to formulate ideas that can be used as the basis for the government in formulating its policy and strategic steps to face the AEC.

The workshop will be accompa-nied by focus group discussions with sources from various parties such as the government, organizations, tour-ism entrepreneurs, and academics.

“The workshop is especially expected to identify the constraints faced by the Indonesian tourism industry,” he emphasized.

The body of Sheila von Wiese Mack was found Tuesday stuffed into a suitcase in the boot of a taxi in front of the five-star St. Regis hotel in the upscale Nusa Dua resort area of Bali.

The 62-year-old victim was half naked, had several wounds to her head, and appeared to have put up a struggle, a doctor said.

She had been staying in the hotel with her daughter, Heather, 19, and her daughter’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21, local police chief Djoko Hari Utomo told reporters.

Mack and her daughter stayed in the hotel together for several days before the boyfriend joined them on Monday, Utomo said. Mack was recorded on CCTV arguing with Schaefer in the hotel lobby the same night, he said.

The next day, the couple were checking out and sent several suitcases down to a taxi, alleg-edly including the one that con-tained the victim.

The body was discovered when the couple failed to show up at the waiting taxi, Utomo said. They were seen on CCTV leaving the hotel via a stretch of beach at the back of the property, instead of the main entrance.

Police launched a hunt and the pair were found sleeping at a hotel in the tourist area of Legian, north of Nusa Dua, early Wednes-day, Utomo told AFP.

“This is murder, and we will decide from our investigation whether it is premeditated or spontaneous,” he said.

The victim’s body was sent to the main hospital in the Balinese capital Denpasar for an autopsy. A doctor there said it had several wounds to the head, which appeared to have been inflicted with “blunt tools”.

“Looking at the wounds, the victim must have fought back,” said Ida Bagus Alit, adding that one of her fingers on her left hand was broken.

The hotel said that it was

aware of the “terrible tragedy” and was assisting authorities in their investigation.

The US embassy in Jakarta said in a statement that it was “aware of the death of an Ameri-can citizen that took place in Bali and we understand that two individuals have been arrested in connection with the case”.

The beachfront St. Regis is one of the most exclusive hotels in Bali with rooms starting at $470 a night and a 24-hour butler ser-vice, according to its website.

IBP/Manik

Police doing an investiga-tion on the crime scene. An American tourist’s battered

body has been found in a suitcase at an exclusive hotel on Indonesia’s re-

sort island of Bali and her daughter and daughter’s

boyfriend have been arrest-ed over the killing.

American tourist’s body found in suitcase Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - An American tourist’s battered body has been found in a suitcase at an exclusive hotel on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali and her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend have been arrested over the killing, police said Wednesday.

Tourism industry prepared to face AEC

ANTARA FOTO/Nyoman Budhiana

A tourist passed a hat seller at Kuta Beach. Indonesia’s tour-ism industry has made the necessary efforts and prepara-tions for facing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 in order to successfully compete with other Southeast Asian countries.

Agence France-PressePARIS - Two in five American

adults are expected to develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime, accord-ing to a study published Tuesday that warned of spiralling health costs as a result.

The risk was even higher for Hispanics and black women, half of whom are expected to de-velop the disease caused mainly by physical inactivity and excess bodyweight.

The study used data obtained from national population inter-

views and the death certificates of nearly 600,000 adults.

The lifetime risk of developing type 2 diabetes, also known as adult-onset or non-insulin depen-dent diabetes, rose from 20 percent for men and 27 percent for women in 1985-1989 to 40 percent for men and 39 percent for women in 2000-2011, researchers found.

“The largest increases were in Hispanic men and women, and non-Hispanic black women, for whom lifetime risk now exceeds 50 percent,” according to the au-

thors of the study in The Lancet medical journal.

Death rates have declined over the same period, however, due to better health care, which meant that people live longer with the disease than before.

“Years spent with diabetes increased by 156 percent in men and 70 percent in women,” said the study.

“As the number of diabetes cases continues to increase and patients live longer, there will be a growing demand for health

services and extensive costs,” said author Edward Gregg of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The World Health Organiza-tion says 347 million people worldwide have diabetes, which claimed about three million lives in 2010.

Ninety percent of those had type 2 diabetes, which the WHO said “is largely the result of ex-cess body weight and physical inactivity”.

Diabetes can damage the heart,

blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves, and increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.

“Diabetes can be prevented with lifestyle changes,” Lorraine Lipscombe of the University of Toronto wrote in a comment on the study, noting similar trends else-where in the developed world.

“Prevention strategies should include optimisation of urban planning, food marketing policies, and work and school environments that enable individuals to make healthier lifestyle choices.”

As the world mourned the ap-parent suicide of comedian Robin Williams on Tuesday, there were many questions about the state of mind of the Oscar-winner once called the funniest man alive.

“Artists are often people who are more sensitive, who feel emo-tions more strongly,” said Michel Reynaud, of the Paul Brousse Hospital’s psychiatry department in Paris.

“This can yield great writers, poets and musicians, but also anxi-ety, depression, anguish and mood disorders,” he told AFP.

Williams had suffered from de-pression, according to his publicist -- one more name on a long list of celebrity actors that includes Jim Carrey, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stephen Fry who have battled the debilitating ailment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 350 mil-lion people of all ages suffer from depression.

“Depression is different from usual mood fluctuations and short-lived emotional responses to chal-lenges in everyday life,” a WHO factsheet explains.

“Especially when long-lasting and with moderate or severe inten-sity, depression may become a seri-ous health condition. It can cause the affected person to suffer greatly and function poorly. At its worst, depression can lead to suicide. Suicide results in an estimated one million deaths every year.”

Fewer than half of sufferers of depression receive the treatment they need, it added.

Jeffrey Borenstein, president of the Brain and Behaviour Re-

search Foundation in New York, stressed depression was a physical condition that did not discriminate between victims, “whether they are rich or poor, any ethnic group, any religion”.

“We often think of depression occurring in the context of some difficult life event, and sometimes that does happen, but often depres-sion happens without a clearcut reason,” he said.

“That’s why even people who would seem to have it all can still have depression (just as) people who seem to have it all can still have a heart attack.”

Mental health problems are also closely linked to alcohol and drug abuse -- a battle that Williams had frequently spoken about.

“Between a third and 50 percent of addicts are depressed,” Reynaud told AFP.

People in the public eye may use drugs or alcohol to take shake off inhibitions and boost creativity, becoming addicted over time.

Vikram Patel, director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, agreed there seemed to be a link between creative talent and mental health problems.

“Most likely the causal path-ways work in both directions, i.e. the brain circuits which are respon-sible for creativity also seem to be associated with mental illness, and being creative exposes one to environments which may heighten the risk of mental illness.”

A study in the Journal of Phe-nomenological Psychology in 2009, which interviewed 15 well-known American celebrities, found that while fame brought wealth

Two in five Americans at risk from type 2 diabetes

AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian

Flowers are placed in memory of actor/comedian Robin Williams on his Walk of Fame star in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Despite fame and fortune, celebrity artists may be more vulnerable to depression than the rest of us, brought low by the same creative qualities that gave them success in the first place, analysts say.

Depression: indiscriminate stalkerAgence France-Presse

PARIS - Despite fame and fortune, celebrity artists may be more vulnerable to depression than the rest of us, brought low by the same creative qualities that gave them success in the first place, analysts say.

and privilege, gratification and “symbolic immortality”, there was a mental price to pay.

“It also robs the celebrity of privacy, leads to isolation, engen-ders mistrust of others, introduces temptations, can lead to creating

a character-split between the ‘ce-lebrity entity’ and the ‘private self’ and heightens concern about risks to other family members.”

The experts said they hoped Williams’ death would encourage people suffering from depression

to seek help.“The universal story in this

tragic loss is how pervasive men-tal illness is, and that it can not only disable you for a long time but can also cut short your life,” said Patel.

Bali News International4 Thursday, August 14, 2014 Thursday, August 14, 2014 13International RLDW

Palestinian officials told The Associated Press early Wednesday morning that Egypt’s proposal calls for easing parts of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, bringing some relief to the territory. But it leaves the key areas of disagreement, including the Islamic militant group Hamas’ demand for a full lifting of the blockade and Israeli calls for Hamas to disarm, to later negotiations.

If the sides accept the proposal it would have a significant impact on Palestinians in Gaza as it would im-prove the movement of individuals and merchandise to the West Bank, the officials said. Gaza exports and other businesses have been hit hard by restrictions imposed on the territory by Israel and Egypt after Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007. One of the Palestinian officials who spoke to AP said that according to the Egyptian proposal the blockade would be gradually eased.

He said it would stipulate that Israel would end airstrikes on mili-tants, and a 500-meter (547-yard) buffer zone next to the Gaza and

Israel frontier would be reduced over time, he said.

The Israeli and Palestinian nego-tiating teams retired after 10 hours of discussions and will resume the talks later Wednesday, about 12 hours before the current cease-fire is set to expire at midnight, the of-ficials said. It was not immediately clear if either side would accept the deal. The Palestinian officials spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the negotiations with the media.

The negotiations took place after a three-day truce brokered by Egypt took effect Monday. A similar truce collapsed last Friday after Gaza militants quickly resumed rocket fire with its expiration.

The monthlong Gaza war has killed more than 1,900 Palestin-ians, the majority of them civil-ians, Palestinian and U.N. officials say. In Israel, 67 people have been killed, all but three of them soldiers. Hamas is demanding an end to an Israel-Egyptian blockade that has ravaged Gaza’s economy. Israel says the blockade is needed to keep

Hamas, which fired thousands of rockets into Israel during the war, from smuggling weapons. Israel is seeking guarantees that it disarm.

With the truce set to expire, Egypt pressed the sides hard to

reach a deal. “The talks are difficult but serious,” Moussa Abu Marzouk, head of the Hamas delegation, wrote on his Facebook page. “The delegation needs to achieve the hopes of the people.”

Hamas, shunned by the inter-national community as a terrorist organization, seized control of Gaza from internationally backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.

Associated Press

MOSCOW - With a theatrical flourish, Rus-sia on Tuesday dispatched hundreds of trucks covered in white tarps and sprinkled with holy water on a mission to deliver aid to a desperate rebel-held zone in eastern Ukraine.

The televised sight of the miles-long convoy sparked a show of indignation from the gov-ernment in Kiev, which insisted any aid must be delivered by the international Red Cross. Ukraine and the West have openly expressed its concern that Moscow intends to use the cover of a humanitarian operation to embark on a military incursion in support of pro-Russian separatists.

Amid those anxieties, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday was set to travel to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Russia annexed in March, where he was to preside over a meeting involving the entire Russian Cabinet and most members of the lower house of parliament.

Putin so far has resisted calls from both pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine and national-ists at home to send Russian troops to back the mutiny, a move that would be certain to trigger devastating Western sanctions. But dispatching the convoy sent a powerful visual symbol helping

the Kremlin counter criticism from the national-ists who accuse Putin of betrayal.

The convoy provoked controversy as soon as it started moving early Tuesday from the out-skirts of Moscow on its long voyage toward the Ukrainian border.

Officials with both the International Com-mittee of the Red Cross and Ukraine’s govern-ment said they had no information about what the trucks were carrying or where they were headed.

A Ukrainian security spokesman said the convoy of white-canvased vehicles was being managed by the Russian army and could not as a result be allowed into the country. Moscow has rejected the claim, saying that the convoy is organized by the Emergencies Ministry, a non-military agency dealing with humanitarian relief tasks. The government in Kiev said the Russian trucks could unload their contents at the border and transfer the aid to vehicles leased by the ICRC.

U.S. State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said talks are under way for Russia to deliver the aid to the Ukrainian border where it would be transferred to the custody of the ICRC.

AP Photo/ RTR via Associated Press TelevisionIn this image taken from video a convoy of white trucks with humanitarian aid leaves Alabino, outside Moscow Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014.

Ukraine: Russian aid can enter with Red Cross

AP Photo/Hatem MoussaPalestinians crowd a window for food aid at a United Nations distribution center in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that ended a month of war was holding for a second day Wednesday, ahead on negotiations in Cairo on a long-term truce and a broader deal for the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Egypt presents proposal to end war in GazaAssociated Press

CAIRO — Egypt presented a proposed cease-fire to Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the monthlong war, Palestinian officials said early Wednesday after negotiators huddled for a second day of Egyptian-mediated talks meant to resolve the crisis and bring relief to the embattled Gaza Strip.

Bali Post

TABANAN - Restriction to diesel made rice milling entrepreneur unrest. After the govern-ment policy was in effect from August 1, 2014, the quota fulfillment of subsidized diesel to rice milling diminished from previous amount. This condition was even feared to result in production decline later on.

One of the rice milling businessmen at Cau Tua village, Marga, Tabanan, IB Widiadnyana, revealed the impact of restriction to subsidized diesel was strongly experienced by rice milling business. It was reflected in the diesel quota he usually received as much as 40 liters each day or about 1,500 liters each month. Since the rule was enforced, the quota diminished to only 33 liters each day or about 1,000 liters each month.

Even according to him, the quota reduction was very burdensome. Such restriction had an impact on the grain processing where it turned less optimal or the production reduced from usual capacity. He predicted the reduction could reach 60 tons each month or approximately 2 tons each day from the normal production reaching 5 tons.

In addition, the other impact of the quota reduction would also increase the selling price of rice product. “As of today, we have raised the price to IDR 8,000 per kg from IDR 7,850 per kg,” he said.

Related to this condition, he hoped the govern-ment could review the policy on diesel restriction as considered less appropriate to be applied today. The agricultural sector had heavy reliance on die-sel from the upstream to downstream. Responding to such condition, other than by increasing the price of rice product, he would also minimize the purchasing cost.

Contacted separately, Chairman of the Out-standing Farmers and Fishermen (KTNA) of Bali, Made Suparsa, revealed the subsidized diesel restriction policy should not be imposed to real sector related to the life of many people, such as the agricultural sector. He admitted the current production cost in the agricultural sector had been quite expensive because from the processing of grain in paddy field farmers predominantly used diesel-fueled engines. “If it is charged again with the burden of subsidy restriction, it will have an impact on the price increase of rice,” he said. (kmb28)

Based on information of the Me-teorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the wave height reached 0.5 m to 2.5 meters. “Coastal waves are very high, so it is difficult for vessel to moor at the quay. As a result, the skipper did not dare to moor at the quay,” said Mulyana.

As observation on Tuesday at Padangbai, the waves were high enough. Sometimes the seawater reached the parking area. Since the two quays were closed, the queue of passengers, especially cars and trucks, was long enough. Even, the harbor parking lot was fully oc-cupied, so that many trucks parked along the road section leading to Padangbai village. Last Tuesday morning, a vessel namely Marinda Segunda moored and unloaded its freight at Padangbai. Human passengers and motorcycle riders milled about to come into the ves-sel in order to arrive immediately at

Lembar, NTB.Mulyana said that other than

due to adverse weather condition at sea, the long passenger queue at Padangbai also happened due to adjustments to departure schedule of the vessels from Lembar.

Related to the adverse weather at sea, Mulyana said his party had delivered a warning to delay the voyage for vessels, fishing boats and boat operators. “The weather at sea is often uncertain or changeable. Wave height reaches 0.5 meter to 2.5 meters with the wind speed of 4 km to 40 km per hour,” he said.

Based on observation since the past few days, fishermen on the south coast of Karangasem rarely dared to go to sea. Even, fishermen at Ujung Pesisi had not dared to go to sea since the past two days. It happened because the weather in Indonesian Ocean and Lombok Strait was quite ferocious. (013)

Ferocious waves

Padangbai Harbor applies open-close system

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - Padangbai harbor applied open-close system due to bad weather condition where the waves were high. Subsection Head of Sailing Safety, Guard and Patrol of the Padangbai Harbor Authority, Ketut Mulyana, delivered on Tuesday (Aug 12) at Padangbai that two quays were closed for mooring activities and freight unloading at 01:00 a.m. Previously, on Monday (Aug 11) only the first quay was closed. However, last Tuesday both quays were closed due to high waves.

IBP/FileThe vehicles queue in Padangbai Harbor in Karangasem

Diesel restrictedProduction of rice milling gets disrupted

IBP/CubitThe rice mile in Tabanan is affected by the increasing price of diesel fuel

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HONG KONG - Cathay Pacific said Wednesday its first-half net profit soared to HK$347 million ($44.77 million) on higher passenger demand, but the Hong Kong flag carrier warned of a “challeng-ing” outlook as surging competition held down fares.

The figure for the six months ending June 30 compared with a net profit of HK$24 million in the same period last year. Its first half revenue rose 4.6 percent to HK$50.84 billion.

But despite its upbeat performance, the blue-chip airline faces several challenges including persis-tently high jet fuel prices.

“The operating environment for the Cathay Pa-cific Group -- and the aviation industry as a whole -- remains challenging,” group chairman John Slosar said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange.

“On the plus side, we continue to strengthen our passenger network and the connections available through Hong Kong,” he said.

Aviation analyst Daniel Tsang told AFP the huge increase in net profits was on account of the airline’s improving passenger operations, which contributed to a sharp jump in revenues.

The airline’s passenger revenue in the reported period was up 4.4 percent to HK$36.52 billion compared to the previous year, helped by the in-troduction of new long-haul routes to destinations such as Doha and Newark.

However, Tsang said the airline will need to im-prove its passenger yields, a key measure of airlines’ profitability, to maintain this earnings trend.

Passenger yield, the measure of the average fare paid by a passenger per mile, fell 3.5 percent to HK66.6 cents, reflecting weaker ticket prices in the face of surging competition.

“For this upward trend to be sustained, arresting this yield decline is paramount and a prerequisite,” he said.

Revenue for its air cargo business, which took a toll for more than two years due to the weak economy and demand for shipments, rose 3.4 percent compared to the first half of last year, at HK$11.66 billion.

But over-capacity in the air cargo market created downward pressure on rates, with the airline seeing cargo yield falling by 6.9 percent.

Cathay also indicated that high fuel prices were partly mitigated by operating more fuel-efficient aircraft. Five new aircraft, including two Boeing 777-300ERs, were delivered to Cathay during the reported period, as it retired two Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft.

Eleven new aircraft will be delivered in the second half of 2014, as it continues to modernise its fleet.

“Cathay is pretty aggressive in renewing its fleet. By end of 2014, it will only have seven gas-guzzling 747-400s,” analyst Tsang said.

The International Air Transport Association in June said airline profits are improving and that it expects airline companies to record combined net profits of $18 billion for 2014, down from its earlier forecast of $18.7 billion made in March.

Japan’s gross domestic product, or the total output of goods and services, also contracted 1.7 percent during the April-June period from the previous quarter.

The decline in GDP was the worst since the March 2011 tsunami and quake disaster in northeastern Japan. In the first quarter of 2011, Japan’s economy shrank at an annual rate of 6.9 percent.

The weak figures were expected as consumers and businesses had front-loaded spending in the first quarter to beat the April 1 increase in sales tax. Economists expect spending to pick up again in coming months.

The results were a stark contrast to the annual 6.1 percent growth in the first quarter of the year, which reflected the buying rush to beat the tax rise.

The government, under Prime Min-

ister Shinzo Abe and his “Abenomics” strategy, has been trying to pull world’s third-biggest economy out of two de-cades of stagnation by expanding the money supply, freeing up regulations and encouraging the yen to fall, a move that helps exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp. and camera maker Canon Inc.

But the government is also concerned about ballooning public debt and raised the consumption tax to 8 percent from 5 percent to shore up its coffers.

Previous administrations have been nervous about raising taxes for fear the economy will slide into a recession. The Japanese economy has been eking out growth or at least staying flat in recent quarters, thanks partly to Abenomics.

Yasunari Ueno, chief market econo-mist at Mizuho Securities Co. in Tokyo,

said the second quarter contraction was within his expectations, but the slow-down reflected not only the tax hike but also lower incomes and price increases from other sources.

“The impact from the tax is going to be short-term,” Ueno said. “But the economy is ailing, and that’s not good.”

Public spending could prop up growth in the near term, he said. Even then, it will be hard for any expansion to immediately and totally make up for the big drop for the latest quarter, he said. Dramatic wage increases are not likely in Japan, and the recent trend of rising prices is part of Abe’s strategy to reverse Japan’s debilitating spiral of deflation, or falling prices.

Others were more optimistic.“We believe real GDP will return to

growth exceeding potential,” in the next quarter, Kyohei Morita and Yuichiro Nagai of Barclays said in a report.

They noted leading economic indica-tors have started to turn up already, such as public works and housing construction orders.

Cathay Pacific profits soar

AP Photo/Shizuo KambayashiShoppers come out of a store with sales signs in Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. The Japanese economy shrank at an annual pace of 6.8 percent in the second quarter after spending got slammed by a sales tax hike that kicked in from April, government figures showed Wednesday.

Japan’s economy shrinks as tax hike hits spendingAssociated Press

TOKYO — The Japanese economy shrank at an annual pace of 6.8 percent in the second quarter after spending got slammed by a sales tax hike that kicked in from April, government figures showed Wednesday.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Drug smuggling committed by a syndicate could be thwarted again by the Customs and Excise officers of Ngurah Rai Airport. A couple from Lithuania secured after smuggling crystal meth weighing 4 kg. The culprits respectively Lisenkovas Vitoras, 41, and his wife Lietovas Respublikos, 41, should undergo examination at the Directorate of Bali Police Drug Investigation.

The Head of Customs and Excise of Ngurah Rai Airport, Budi Harjanto, said on Tuesday (Aug 12) the culprits arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport by Hong Kong Airlines with flight number HX709 from Hong Kong to Denpasar around 1:30 a.m. “Initially, the officers suspected the culprits’ gestures when they would like to pass through the X-ray device,” he said.

Suspicion of the officers was get-ting stronger after seeing the results of the X-ray imaging that indi-cated there were suspicious objects. When examining a brown suitcase brought by the culprits, it was found two black backpacks. The officers searching on the inside wall of the bag found black aluminum-coated plastic containing drugs. “The plas-tic contained crystal meth weighing 994 grams,” he explained.

In another backpack, the offi-cers also found a package of black aluminum-coated plastic containing

crystal meth weighing 986 grams. The officers continuing the search found again crystal meth weighing 1,982 grams hidden in the four packs of tea sachet. “The total evidence of crystal meth weighs 3,962 grams,” he said.

When asked who ordered the cul-prits, Budi Harjanto was not willing to answer. He reasoned the culprits could not speak English, so it was unable to explore in-depth information. Fur-thermore, the couple from Lithuania would be submitted to Directorate of the Bali Police Narcotics Investigation to undergo further tests. “Only limited information can be extracted from the culprits because they were unable to speak English,” he said.

Previously, the Customs offi-cers also foiled narcotic smuggling through two overseas package ship-ments. The discomfiture began from the inspection by means of X-Ray device in the courier warehouse of PT Birotika Semesta (DHL Express) at the Ngurah Rai international Airport, Monday (Aug 4). Finally, the officers checked the delivery numbering AWB 69 3349 3490 and found crystal meth weighing 206 grams hidden inside the pump cylinder of Piusi brand. “The goods addressed to recipient with the initials NS remain under police investigation,” he said.

Two days later, the X-ray device detected suspicious objects sent from overseas shipment, Wednesday (Aug 6). After checking the package, in fact it contained the HWM Magazine

Malaysia. Unexpectedly, the officer making in-depth examination found two white plastic, where each of which was labeled with saying Magnesium 400 mg containing 60 white capsules weighing 33 grams. Another plastic read Zinc 30 mg containing 60 white capsules weighing 33 grams. Both plastics were suspected to contain nar-cotic preparation belonging to meth-

ylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), a very hazardous substance. “Total evidence found reached 120 capsules belonging to a new type of drug known as methylenedioxypyrovalerone. When the substance spread within human body, it will kindle a risk of being addicted and disrupts cerebral nerve,” he explained.

Other than the package addressed

to recipient with the initials AH, it was also found a white envelope containing 9 grams of cocaine in three plastic clips. Further, he said that police authority stayed to investigate related to the destination of package delivery containing illicit goods. “So far, none is arrested in relation to the delivery of the two packages,” he said. (kmb35)

“The LPSK has taken the initiative to strengthen regional cooperation in protect-ing the witnesses and victims of crimes,” LPSK Chief Semendawai announced after opening the second inter-regional Southeast Asia Nations meeting at Kuta on Tuesday.

The meeting was a follow up to a similar meeting held in the tourist island of Bali to form regional and inter-regional networks to identify possible areas of cooperation in protecting witnesses and victims of crimes.

At ASEAN level, witness and victim protection institution in each ASEAN member state will strengthen cooperation in developing models of legal assistance to protect witnesses and victims of crimes, he explained.

Semendawai noted that the meeting had focused on the protection of witnesses through more stable regional mechanism.

In addition, it had also discussed regional consultative board of ASEAN member states interested in the protection of witnesses and victims by drawing up the mandate of regional consultative board, exchanging information, and intensifying collaboration among agencies in charge of protecting witnesses and victims of crimes.

LPSK Deputy Chief Lies Sulistiyani added that ASEAN member states took common responsibilities for the protec-tion of witnesses and victims, as the states had ratified the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and UN Convention against Corruption.

LPSK initiates ASEAN corporation in protecting victims and witnesses

Antara

KUTA - The Witness and Victim Protection Institution (LPSK) has initiated close cooperation in protecting witnesses and victims of crimes at ASEAN regional level.

IBP/miasaLPSK Chief Semendawai

Smuggling 4 kg of crystal meth

A couple from Lithuania arrested

IBP/Yudi KarnaediDrug smuggling committed by a syndicate could be thwarted again by the Customs and Excise officers of Ngurah Rai Airport.

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AP Photo/Trisnadi

Villagers catch offering of a chicken thrown by Hindu worship-pers into the crater of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Every year people gathered for the annual festival where offerings of rice, fruit, vegetables, livestock or money are made to Hindu gods at the active vol-cano to ask for blessings and assure a bountiful harvest.

“We want to gain all informa-tion from them,” Triaspoetra stated in the company of Cilacap District Military Chief Lieutenant Colonel I Gusti Agung Adi Putra Winata on Wednesday.

The Cilacap Police chief re-vealed that he has an opportunity to prove the involvement of Her-mawan and six of his followers in the ISIS movement.

Therefore, he stated that they were grilled to uncover detailed

information as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has de-clared ISIS as a prohibited orga-nization in Indonesia.

However, he pointed out that Hermawan and his followers coop-erated during the interrogation.

Hermawan admitted that he became the Indonesian regional leader of ISIS because he wanted to control such an organization, so that it is not taken over by Muslim radicals.

AntaraJAKARTA - There was no need

to issue a travel advisory related to the Ebola virus for prospective Indonesian Hajj pilgrims, stated the Religious Affairs Ministry’s Director General of Hajj and Umrah, Abdul Djamil.

“A travel warning is not neces-sary because it will lead to a state of panic among the prospective Hajj pilgrims about the spread of the Ebola virus,” Djamil noted on Wednesday.

But, he emphasized that it can be considered as a warning for the Indonesian Muslims to be careful while performing their religious duty of Hajj pilgrim-age in the holy city of Mecca

this year.Djamil remarked that the Min-

istry of Religious Affairs is cur-rently coordinating with related parties such as the Ministry of Health Affairs and Hajj health centers to determine the neces-sary steps for safeguarding the prospective Hajj pilgrims from being infected by the deadly virus.

He stated that it was not nec-essary for Indonesia to issue the travel warning against the spread of the Ebola virus from the Af-rican countries such as Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

Djamil revealed that he will soon organize a meeting to dis-cuss ways of offering health

services to the pilgrims in an-ticipation of the spread of the Ebola virus.

“Saudi Arabian health officials are testing a patient suspected of contracting the deadly Ebola vi-rus, and therefore, we should not be negligent,” Djamil noted.

He further added that the Health Ministry has held an in-ternal meeting with the represen-tatives of the health department from all provinces to discuss the matter.

“We have sufficient number of Hajj health officials to give the best possible service. Therefore, we ask prospective Hajj pilgrims to stay calm and take preventive measures,” Djamil emphasized.

AntaraJAKARTA - President Susilo

Bambang Yudhoyono meets North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Minister Ri Su Yong at the Presidential palace on Wednesday.

President Yudhoyono on his speech before the meeting ex-pressed hope that Indonesia and North Korea will continue to in-crease bilateral relation in the

future.“Bilateral relation between In-

donesia and North Korea has been good. We hope that both countries can increase cooperation in the future,” Yudhoyono noted.

During the meeting, Minister Yong is accompanied by the For-eign Affairs Ministry’s Director General for Asia and Oceanic Af-fairs Kim Myong Gil and North

Korea’s Ambassador to Indonesia Ri Jong Ryul.

Meanwhile, President Yud-hoyono is accompanied by Co-ordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinating Minister for Economy Chairul Tanjung, Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa, State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, and Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam.

Police grill Indonesian ISIS leaderAntara

CILACAP - The Cilacap Police in Central Java have grilled the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Chep Hermawan, and his followers, stated local police spokesman Adjunct Senior Commissioner Andry Triaspoetra.

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong, left, is greeted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prior to their meeting at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014.

President meets with North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Minister

No need travel warning related to ebola

Forces from the anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion raided a house in the southeastern district of Chittagong, where the suspect Abu Bakar Siddique had been hiding since the overloaded ferry M.V. Pinak sank on Aug. 4., said commander Lt. Col. Miftah Uddin Ahmed.

Siddique faces charges of cul-pable homicide, unauthorized operation and overloading. Forty-eight bodies have been recovered so far and about 60 others remain missing and are presumed dead. If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison.

The ferry had a capacity of 85 passengers but was carrying more than 200 when it capsized in Munshiganj district near the capital, Dhaka. Many of the pas-sengers were returning from their

villages after celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.

The vessel’s captain and four others are also facing similar charges and are on the run too.

Authorities on Monday called off the search for the sunken ferry after scouring more than 50 square kilometers (about 20 square miles) of the Padma river without suc-cess. Bad weather and strong cur-rents hampered the operation.

The Padma is one of the largest rivers in the delta nation, which is crisscrossed by more than 130 rivers.

Overcrowding and poor safety standards are often blamed for ferry disasters. In May, about 50 people died when a ferry sank in the same district.

Associated Press Writer

PARIS — Five climbers died and a sixth was missing Wednes-day on France’s Mont Blanc, of-ficials said.

August is the height of the climbing season on Europe’s tallest mountain, where even in the warmest months fierce snow-storms can strike quickly. Several mountaineers have died already

this summer — including at least one experienced guide — and local officials say they fear many people come to Mont Blanc ill-prepared for the dangers.

The climbers disappeared over-night as they were trying to reach the Aiguille d’Argentiere, which tops out around 3,900 meters (12,800 feet). Mont Blanc, in ad-dition to its primary peak, contains some 200 summits.

The bodies of five climbers were located Wednesday, while a sixth has not been found, said Jean-Marc Peillex, mayor of Saint-Gervais, a town at the foot of Mont Blanc. Search and rescue teams in helicopters are flying over the area.

Mont Blanc touches France, Switzerland and Italy, and thou-sands come each year to reach its summit.


CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s prime minister has held open the possibility of sending a combat force to Iraq in addition to military transport aircraft to airlift humanitarian aid to refugees trapped by insurgents in northern mountains, though the defense minister played down the prospect.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters in London after meeting with British officials on the Iraq crisis on Tuesday that his government would not rule out taking military action in Iraq.

“The disposition of the Australian government is to provide what assistance we reasonably can to protect people who are at risk not just from the elements — from starvation, from dehydration, from exposure on Mount Sinjar — but also people who are at risk from ISIL forces,” Abbott told reporters, referring to the al-Qaida splinter group leading Sunni militants in Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, now known as Islamic State.

“Australia should do what it can ... to protect people from potential genocide,” Abbott said.

The suggestion that Australian combat troops could return to Iraq was widely attacked by the government’s political opponents. Abbott was a minister in a previous conservative government that sent 2,000 combat troops to back the U.S. and British militaries in the 2003 Iraq invasion, triggering Australia’s largest protests since the Vietnam War.

But Defense Minister David Johnston on Wednesday played down the prospect of an Australian combat force, saying the military had only committed to sending two unarmed C-130 Hercules transport planes for humanitarian aid air drops to begin within two or three days.

“I’m not getting into the rule-in, rule-out guarantee game,” Johnston told reporters. Asked whether the Obama administration ruling out combat troops effectively ruled out Australia from sending forces of its own, Johnston replied, “I think that’s a very reasonable conclusion to draw.” “What we have seen is an extreme act of barbarism by a group of terrorists. What the future holds, no one can predict,” he said. “The Australian government has signed off on providing humanitarian relief, and that is all.”


AP Photo/A.M. Ahad

Bangladesh’s anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion personnel escort Abu Bakar Siddique, in white, as they bring him to Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Aug.13, 2014.


DHAKA, Bangladesh — The owner of a Bangladesh ferry that sank earlier this month with more than 100 people dead or missing was arrested Wednesday after weeks in hiding, officials said.

Australia won’t rule out sending troops to Iraq

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2003 file photo shows Mont Blanc, western Europe’s highest mountain. A mayor in the French Alps says five climbers have died on Mont Blanc and a sixth is missing.

5 climbers dead on Mont Blanc peak; 6th missing

AP Photo/Patrick Gardin, File

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First, he had to get past Simon. He had trouble putting away the Frenchman, whom he has now beaten eight straight times. The opening game of the third set went 20 points and 15 minutes, with Si-mon surviving six break points.

Djokovic finally broke through for a 4-3 lead and served out the 2-hour, 9-minute match. The last set alone took 59 minutes. Djokovic had 36 unforced errors in the breezy evening conditions. “Let’s be honest: I don’t enjoy playing bad,” Djokovic said. “I don’t enjoy missing a lot of balls from the baseline. That was frustrating for me. “I’m not playing at a level that I need to be, and it’s obvious. I keep pushing myself.”

The tournament lost its defend-ing women’s champion on Tuesday when Victoria Azarenka withdrew because of an injured right knee.

Defending men’s champion Rafael Nadal withdrew before the tourna-ment because of an injured wrist.

While Djokovic managed to ad-vance despite his struggles, Jo-Wil-fried Tsonga and Venus Williams made quick exits after leaving their winning touch in Canada. Two days after he beat Roger Federer for his sec-ond Masters title in Toronto, Tsonga lost to Mikhail Youzhny 6-1, 6-4.

“I don’t have the energy to compete,” Tsonga said after the 68-minute match. “I just gave every-thing last week. Before the match, I believed I was able to play at a good level. But on court, I realized that was going to be impossible. And it was.”

Williams beat sister Serena while reaching the finals in Montreal on Sunday, finishing runner-up. She lost to Lucie Safarova 6-7 (2), 6-3,

6-4 in the first round Tuesday. “I wish I could have felt today like I did in Montreal, just to make it more competitive,” Williams said.

Williams and Tsonga had ener-gizing weeks in Canada and hoped to keep their momentum going in Cincinnati, using it as a springboard to the U.S. Open. Both soon realized their successful weeks came with a cost. Williams arrived Sunday night and opened Tuesday morning, leav-ing little time to recover from her deep tournament run.

“Yeah, it was definitely a quick turnaround,” she said. “Maybe it would have been a little better to play a little later in the day. But I think she just played so well. No matter what shot I hit, she hit a winner.”

Tsonga beat Djokovic, Andy Murray, Grigor Dimitrov and Federer to win in Toronto, the first time in 12 years a player beat four straight top 10 opponents at a Masters tournament. He arrived Monday and couldn’t practice be-cause of rain. He plans to rest for a few days. “I didn’t have enough today to compete at a good level,” he said.

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday.

The team said the record $2 bil-lion sale closed after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise to the former Microsoft CEO. Her estranged husband, Donald Sterling, had unsuccess-fully fought the sale of the team he owned since 1981 in court.

Sterling bought the team in 1981 for $12 million and presided over decades of losing seasons before engaging in a fierce legal battle with his estranged wife to hold on to his most prized asset.

“I hate losing the team,” Shelly Sterling said at a news conference. She later added, “It feels good. It would have felt good to own the team, too.” The NBA Board of Governors had previously ap-proved the sale.

“Really excited — in a pretty hardcore way — to continue the path to making the Clippers a better and better basketball team, and a better and better citizen of the Los Angeles community,” Ballmer told The Associated Press

in a phone interview.The bizarre drama began in

April when a recording surfaced of Donald Sterling scolding his girlfriend for bringing black men to Clippers games. The audio spurred the NBA to ban Sterling for life and fine him $2.5 mil-lion.

Sterling was apologetic after the audio recording went viral, but his mea culpa backfired when he criticized Lakers great Magic Johnson, who had been photo-graphed with Sterling’s girlfriend, as a bad role model for kids because he had HIV. The 80-year-old real estate mogul was roundly condemned from locker rooms to the Oval Office, where President Barack Obama called Sterling’s remarks “incredibly offensive racist statements.”

With the NBA threatening to seize the team and auction it, Sterling initially gave his wife of 58 years permission to negotiate a sale but then refused to sign the Ballmer deal. He said he would sue the league instead and then re-voked the trust, which his lawyers said effectively killed the deal.

Shelly Sterling removed Don-ald as a trustee after doctors found he had symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

AP Photo/Tom UhlmanNovak Djokovic, of Serbia, returns a volley to Gilles Simon, of France, at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in Mason, Ohio.

Djokovic makes unconvincing start in CincinnatiAssociated Press

MASON, Ohio — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic came back to beat Gilles Simon 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in his opening match at the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday. The Cincinnati tournament is the only Masters series event Djokovic has never won, finishing as the runner-up four times. If he wins this week, he’ll become the first with titles at all nine ATP Masters events.

Clippers sale to Steve Ballmer goes through

AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, FileFILE - In this Oct. 16, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers team owner Donald Sterling watches his team play the Utah Jazz dur-ing the second half of their preseason NBA basketball game in Los Angeles.

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BULELENG - Lake Buyan and Tamblingan, both these lakes have an appeal that is very fascinating. The tourists can feel the authenticity of this natural places. Located in the District Sukasada, approximately 21 miles South of Singaraja City. Lake Buyan is one of three twin lakes formed within a large cal-dera. This lake is flanked by two other lakes, namely Lake Tam-blingan in the west and in the east of Lake Beratan. Buyan Lake is the largest of the three. Among the Lakes Buyan and Tamblingan separated by forests along ap-proximately one mile. There is a pool that is connected directly to the lake Buyan through a nar-row channel called Telaga Aya. The cool weather surrounded by mountains that completely green, quiet and comfortable atmosphere.

Lake Buyan and Tamblingan

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MANCHESTER, England — “Welcome to Vanchester” reads the message on a giant billboard on one of Manchester’s busy streets. Above the words, a picture of a smiling Louis van Gaal — his arms outstretched in a triumphant pose — dominates the red background. And it’s not just the landscape of the city that is changing following Van Gaal’s hiring as Manchester United manager.

With three days to go until the Premier League season begins, English football is also wising up to the fact it has a new firebrand coach in its midst, someone who has never been afraid to speak his mind or issue reminders of his qualities and past achievements.

Manchester City, the reigning Premier League champion, is talking about finally making its mark in Europe. Arsenal is sensing its best chance to win the league title in years. And Chelsea has been installed as one of the favorites for the championship following the arrival of attackers Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas.

But the real intrigue heading into the new campaign is how success-fully, and quickly, Van Gaal settles in at United and whether he can restore the fortunes of England’s biggest club, which went into free-fall in the 10-month reign of David Moyes last season. Van Gaal has wasted no time in making his presence felt at Old Trafford — and, as expected, he’s been in the thick of the headlines.

Already, he has spoken of his concerns that United’s vast commercial commitments were impinging on football matters. He has questioned the suitability of the main field at United’s training center. He has changed the formation of the team to one rarely used in English football — a 3-5-2. He has been openly critical of one of his player’s fitness (new signing Luke Shaw). And he is in the process of overhauling the playing squad, with some high-profile names either already out of Old Trafford or starting to pack their bags.

“He looks to be his own man who knows exactly what he wants to do,” United goalkeeping great Peter Schmeichel said. “I think we should be contending for the title again this season under him.” Many United fans will be of the same opinion.

Having collected league titles in spells at Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, Van Gaal already had a big opinion of himself before heading to the World Cup in Brazil with the Netherlands. There, his ego was massaged even further.

He made game-changing substitutions and tactical tinkerings, not least in a quarterfinal match against Costa Rica when he changed goalkeep-ers seconds before a penalty shootout. The incoming keeper, Tim Krul, saved two spot kicks and the Dutch advanced.

A third-place finish was better than most had anticipated and Van Gaal came away from Brazil with his reputation bolstered. From this position of strength, he has laid down the law in his first month at United.

Associated Press

MANCHESTER — Spain play-maker David Silva has signed a new five-year deal with Manchester City, tying one of the English champions’ most important players to the club until the summer of 2019.

Silva joined City from Valencia in 2010 and has been instrumental in the club’s rise as a force in English football, playing a key role in its Premier League title successes in 2012 and last season.

The 28-year-old Silva says on Tuesday it was a “straightforward decision to extend my stay here and spend my peak years” at City, and sees “no reason why we won’t become one of the top teams in the world.”

Silva is a regular in Spain’s na-tional team, with whom he won the World Cup in 2010 and the European Championship in 2012.

Reuters

SEOUL - South Korea’s hopes of winning gold in the Asian Games soccer tournament have suffered a setback after Bayer Leverkusen refused to release livewire forward Son Heung-min for the competi-tion.

South Korea had hoped Le-verkusen would release the 22-year-old for the latter stages after the German side denied their initial request for him to participate in the entire tournament.

The Korea Football Association (KFA) said earlier on Wednesday it had asked Leverkusen to free Son for the last 16 but later an-nounced that request had also been rejected.

“The KFA has decided not to in-clude Son Heung-min for the Asian Games,” it said in a statement.

“The association officially asked the team to release Son during its visit to South Korea but in a reply sent yesterday evening it said Son is an important player for the team and cannot release him due to the upcoming Champions League.

“In response, the KFA asked the team to release him for the last 16 but Leverkusen declined, say-ing they cannot release him for a tournament that is not part of FIFA’s official calendar.”

The Asian Games football tour-nament is not part of world soccer’s governing body FIFA’s official calendar so club sides are under no obligation to release players to take

part. Leverkusen visited Korea in July and played a friendly against FC Seoul.

Son, 22, left Seoul’s Dongbuk High School as a 16-year-old to join Hamburg SV’s youth academy and has flourished in the Bundesliga. He moved to Bayer Leverkusen for a fee of 10 million euros ($13.46 million) last year.

Son was one of the few players to emerge with any credit from South Korea’s woeful World Cup campaign in Brazil, scoring against Algeria in a 4-2 loss in Porto Alegre.

South Korea won the bronze medal at the last Asian Games in 2010. They have won gold three times - twice in Bangkok, in 1970 and 1978, and in Seoul in 1986.

Associated Press

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — It started when the small Indian Ocean island of Seychelles refused entry to Sierra Leone’s soccer squad, fearing that the deadly Ebola virus would arrive from West Africa along with the players.

The decision by Seychelles health authorities two weeks ago gave its team no choice but to forfeit the game against Sierra Leone and withdraw from qualifying for the Africa Cup of Nations, the continent’s main football competition.

“We cannot let down our guard,” Seychelles health commissioner Dr. Jude Gedeon said after Sierra Leone’s

players were prevented from leaving Kenya for the flight to the Seychelles. Some had already boarded their plane before being informed they wouldn’t be allowed to make the flight. The Confederation of African Football was powerless to act.

Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the four soccer-mad West African countries affected by the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded, have now stopped all football in their countries. Health officials say there is a lethal risk in allowing people to gather in large groups.

Togo said it would not travel to Guinea, another Ebola-affected coun-try, for a game at the start of the final round of Africa Cup qualifying in the

first week of September. That forced CAF to relocate that match.

The disease has no licensed vac-cine, has killed over 1,000 people in West Africa at the World Health Organization’s latest count and has spread through three countries and into a fourth, Nigeria. Controlling it takes priority over sport.

But if other nations follow the lead of Seychelles and Togo, as many as 18 games in the final qualifying com-petition starting next month could be affected. The qualifiers determine which teams get the 16 spots in the tournament, which is held every two years. The 2015 Africa Cup will be held in Morocco in January and February.

With the Spanish League season starting on the weekend of Aug. 23-24, Ancelotti’s players have more than a week to hone their fitness and skill levels, to pose even more of a threat to both their domestic and European rivals. Real go into the new season with an even stronger squad than the one that finished the last campaign when they won the Champions League and King’s Cup but finished third behind Atletico Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.

The squad has been bolstered by the arrivals of Toni Kroos from Bay-ern Munich, James Rodriguez from AS Monaco and goalkeeper Kayler Navas from Levante, an exciting trio of players who all shone at the

World Cup. In total, Ancelotti has around $840 million worth of talent at his disposal and perhaps one of his main tasks this coming season, as well as winning as many matches as possible, is to keep such an array of star players happy.

Ancelotti, however, seems totally at ease with the kind of problem that would cause plenty of headaches for most managers. “It will be impos-sible for anyone to play in the 65 matches ahead of us,” the Italian said. “It doesn’t work like that. Xabi Alonso, for example, suspended from tonight’s match, is a very important player for us and he will play his matches, even though we have Toni Kroos in midfield and all the others.

“We are capable of playing at a very high level this season, every player has a role to play.” Among those with a key role is Gareth Bale, who along with Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Rodriguez formed part of a front four against Sevilla that cost around $453 million - the most expensive attacking quartet ever assembled.

Returning SonBale had a night to remember

by playing his first club match in his home city since October 2006 when he was in a Southampton side that lost 1-0 to Cardiff City at the now-demolished Ninian Park in a Championship match. Since then, as

well as becoming the world’s most expensive player, Bale has also won the Champions League with Real, scoring the vital second goal in their 4-1 extra-time victory over Atletico in Lisbon in May.

“It was a really special night be-ing back in my home town,” Bale told reporters. “It was great to be part of the team that won the Super Cup, it was quite surreal being back in Cardiff with Real, but the Welsh fans were brilliant, we played well and we deserved to win.”

Bale also provided a truly stupen-dous cross-field pass for Ronaldo’s opening goal after 30 minutes, and came close to scoring himself with almost the last kick of the game when Sevilla keeper Beto did well to save his powerful angled shot. Ronaldo found the net for a second time four minutes into the second half with a left-footed strike that his Portugese international team mate got a hand to, but could not stop.

Bale said before the match he was pleased to no longer be “the new

kid on the block” at Real following the arrival of Kroos, Rodriguez and Navas. The goalkeeper sat out the game but Ancelotti was delighted with the way Kroos and Rodriguez played on their official debuts for the side. “It is still early days but Kroos played very well tonight, it was tougher for James but he played his part too.”

Sevilla also played their part in an entertaining match but apart from the occasional foray forward, never seriously threatened to win the game.

Afterwards, coach Unai Emery confirmed young Spain defender Al-berto Moreno was leaving for Liver-pool but said he was pleased with the way his new arrivals played.

Grzegorz Krychowiak, who joined from Rennes, and Denis Suarez, on loan from Barcelona, showed enough grit and invention to suggest that Sevilla, fifth in La Liga last season, will be challenging for somewhat more modest prizes than their opponents in Cardiff.

Reuters

CARDIFF - Real Madrid ended a 12-year wait for a 10th European Cup win in May but it would be no surprise if their next title arrives just 12 months later based on their performance in the 2-0 victory over Sevilla in the European Super Cup on Tuesday. Carlo Ancelotti’s expensively assembled team dominated the lively annual European club season curtain-raiser against the Europa League winners in Cardiff and could easily have won by more than the two excellent goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Leverkusen refuse to let South Korea’s Son go

Ebola fears infiltrate African sports

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Arsenal’s Calum Chambers, left, challenges Manchester City’s David Silva during the English FA Community Shield soccer match at Wembley Stadium, London Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014.

Silva signs new 5-year deal at City

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s new manager Louis van Gaal, second left, shakes hands with supporters as he walks down th touchline after his team’s pre season friendly soccer match against Valencia at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, Eng-land, Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014.

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MANCHESTER, England — “Welcome to Vanchester” reads the message on a giant billboard on one of Manchester’s busy streets. Above the words, a picture of a smiling Louis van Gaal — his arms outstretched in a triumphant pose — dominates the red background. And it’s not just the landscape of the city that is changing following Van Gaal’s hiring as Manchester United manager.

With three days to go until the Premier League season begins, English football is also wising up to the fact it has a new firebrand coach in its midst, someone who has never been afraid to speak his mind or issue reminders of his qualities and past achievements.

Manchester City, the reigning Premier League champion, is talking about finally making its mark in Europe. Arsenal is sensing its best chance to win the league title in years. And Chelsea has been installed as one of the favorites for the championship following the arrival of attackers Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas.

But the real intrigue heading into the new campaign is how success-fully, and quickly, Van Gaal settles in at United and whether he can restore the fortunes of England’s biggest club, which went into free-fall in the 10-month reign of David Moyes last season. Van Gaal has wasted no time in making his presence felt at Old Trafford — and, as expected, he’s been in the thick of the headlines.

Already, he has spoken of his concerns that United’s vast commercial commitments were impinging on football matters. He has questioned the suitability of the main field at United’s training center. He has changed the formation of the team to one rarely used in English football — a 3-5-2. He has been openly critical of one of his player’s fitness (new signing Luke Shaw). And he is in the process of overhauling the playing squad, with some high-profile names either already out of Old Trafford or starting to pack their bags.

“He looks to be his own man who knows exactly what he wants to do,” United goalkeeping great Peter Schmeichel said. “I think we should be contending for the title again this season under him.” Many United fans will be of the same opinion.

Having collected league titles in spells at Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, Van Gaal already had a big opinion of himself before heading to the World Cup in Brazil with the Netherlands. There, his ego was massaged even further.

He made game-changing substitutions and tactical tinkerings, not least in a quarterfinal match against Costa Rica when he changed goalkeep-ers seconds before a penalty shootout. The incoming keeper, Tim Krul, saved two spot kicks and the Dutch advanced.

A third-place finish was better than most had anticipated and Van Gaal came away from Brazil with his reputation bolstered. From this position of strength, he has laid down the law in his first month at United.

Associated Press

MANCHESTER — Spain play-maker David Silva has signed a new five-year deal with Manchester City, tying one of the English champions’ most important players to the club until the summer of 2019.

Silva joined City from Valencia in 2010 and has been instrumental in the club’s rise as a force in English football, playing a key role in its Premier League title successes in 2012 and last season.

The 28-year-old Silva says on Tuesday it was a “straightforward decision to extend my stay here and spend my peak years” at City, and sees “no reason why we won’t become one of the top teams in the world.”

Silva is a regular in Spain’s na-tional team, with whom he won the World Cup in 2010 and the European Championship in 2012.

Reuters

SEOUL - South Korea’s hopes of winning gold in the Asian Games soccer tournament have suffered a setback after Bayer Leverkusen refused to release livewire forward Son Heung-min for the competi-tion.

South Korea had hoped Le-verkusen would release the 22-year-old for the latter stages after the German side denied their initial request for him to participate in the entire tournament.

The Korea Football Association (KFA) said earlier on Wednesday it had asked Leverkusen to free Son for the last 16 but later an-nounced that request had also been rejected.

“The KFA has decided not to in-clude Son Heung-min for the Asian Games,” it said in a statement.

“The association officially asked the team to release Son during its visit to South Korea but in a reply sent yesterday evening it said Son is an important player for the team and cannot release him due to the upcoming Champions League.

“In response, the KFA asked the team to release him for the last 16 but Leverkusen declined, say-ing they cannot release him for a tournament that is not part of FIFA’s official calendar.”

The Asian Games football tour-nament is not part of world soccer’s governing body FIFA’s official calendar so club sides are under no obligation to release players to take

part. Leverkusen visited Korea in July and played a friendly against FC Seoul.

Son, 22, left Seoul’s Dongbuk High School as a 16-year-old to join Hamburg SV’s youth academy and has flourished in the Bundesliga. He moved to Bayer Leverkusen for a fee of 10 million euros ($13.46 million) last year.

Son was one of the few players to emerge with any credit from South Korea’s woeful World Cup campaign in Brazil, scoring against Algeria in a 4-2 loss in Porto Alegre.

South Korea won the bronze medal at the last Asian Games in 2010. They have won gold three times - twice in Bangkok, in 1970 and 1978, and in Seoul in 1986.

Associated Press

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — It started when the small Indian Ocean island of Seychelles refused entry to Sierra Leone’s soccer squad, fearing that the deadly Ebola virus would arrive from West Africa along with the players.

The decision by Seychelles health authorities two weeks ago gave its team no choice but to forfeit the game against Sierra Leone and withdraw from qualifying for the Africa Cup of Nations, the continent’s main football competition.

“We cannot let down our guard,” Seychelles health commissioner Dr. Jude Gedeon said after Sierra Leone’s

players were prevented from leaving Kenya for the flight to the Seychelles. Some had already boarded their plane before being informed they wouldn’t be allowed to make the flight. The Confederation of African Football was powerless to act.

Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the four soccer-mad West African countries affected by the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded, have now stopped all football in their countries. Health officials say there is a lethal risk in allowing people to gather in large groups.

Togo said it would not travel to Guinea, another Ebola-affected coun-try, for a game at the start of the final round of Africa Cup qualifying in the

first week of September. That forced CAF to relocate that match.

The disease has no licensed vac-cine, has killed over 1,000 people in West Africa at the World Health Organization’s latest count and has spread through three countries and into a fourth, Nigeria. Controlling it takes priority over sport.

But if other nations follow the lead of Seychelles and Togo, as many as 18 games in the final qualifying com-petition starting next month could be affected. The qualifiers determine which teams get the 16 spots in the tournament, which is held every two years. The 2015 Africa Cup will be held in Morocco in January and February.

With the Spanish League season starting on the weekend of Aug. 23-24, Ancelotti’s players have more than a week to hone their fitness and skill levels, to pose even more of a threat to both their domestic and European rivals. Real go into the new season with an even stronger squad than the one that finished the last campaign when they won the Champions League and King’s Cup but finished third behind Atletico Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.

The squad has been bolstered by the arrivals of Toni Kroos from Bay-ern Munich, James Rodriguez from AS Monaco and goalkeeper Kayler Navas from Levante, an exciting trio of players who all shone at the

World Cup. In total, Ancelotti has around $840 million worth of talent at his disposal and perhaps one of his main tasks this coming season, as well as winning as many matches as possible, is to keep such an array of star players happy.

Ancelotti, however, seems totally at ease with the kind of problem that would cause plenty of headaches for most managers. “It will be impos-sible for anyone to play in the 65 matches ahead of us,” the Italian said. “It doesn’t work like that. Xabi Alonso, for example, suspended from tonight’s match, is a very important player for us and he will play his matches, even though we have Toni Kroos in midfield and all the others.

“We are capable of playing at a very high level this season, every player has a role to play.” Among those with a key role is Gareth Bale, who along with Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Rodriguez formed part of a front four against Sevilla that cost around $453 million - the most expensive attacking quartet ever assembled.

Returning SonBale had a night to remember

by playing his first club match in his home city since October 2006 when he was in a Southampton side that lost 1-0 to Cardiff City at the now-demolished Ninian Park in a Championship match. Since then, as

well as becoming the world’s most expensive player, Bale has also won the Champions League with Real, scoring the vital second goal in their 4-1 extra-time victory over Atletico in Lisbon in May.

“It was a really special night be-ing back in my home town,” Bale told reporters. “It was great to be part of the team that won the Super Cup, it was quite surreal being back in Cardiff with Real, but the Welsh fans were brilliant, we played well and we deserved to win.”

Bale also provided a truly stupen-dous cross-field pass for Ronaldo’s opening goal after 30 minutes, and came close to scoring himself with almost the last kick of the game when Sevilla keeper Beto did well to save his powerful angled shot. Ronaldo found the net for a second time four minutes into the second half with a left-footed strike that his Portugese international team mate got a hand to, but could not stop.

Bale said before the match he was pleased to no longer be “the new

kid on the block” at Real following the arrival of Kroos, Rodriguez and Navas. The goalkeeper sat out the game but Ancelotti was delighted with the way Kroos and Rodriguez played on their official debuts for the side. “It is still early days but Kroos played very well tonight, it was tougher for James but he played his part too.”

Sevilla also played their part in an entertaining match but apart from the occasional foray forward, never seriously threatened to win the game.

Afterwards, coach Unai Emery confirmed young Spain defender Al-berto Moreno was leaving for Liver-pool but said he was pleased with the way his new arrivals played.

Grzegorz Krychowiak, who joined from Rennes, and Denis Suarez, on loan from Barcelona, showed enough grit and invention to suggest that Sevilla, fifth in La Liga last season, will be challenging for somewhat more modest prizes than their opponents in Cardiff.

Reuters

CARDIFF - Real Madrid ended a 12-year wait for a 10th European Cup win in May but it would be no surprise if their next title arrives just 12 months later based on their performance in the 2-0 victory over Sevilla in the European Super Cup on Tuesday. Carlo Ancelotti’s expensively assembled team dominated the lively annual European club season curtain-raiser against the Europa League winners in Cardiff and could easily have won by more than the two excellent goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo.

IBP/ap

Leverkusen refuse to let South Korea’s Son go

Ebola fears infiltrate African sports

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Arsenal’s Calum Chambers, left, challenges Manchester City’s David Silva during the English FA Community Shield soccer match at Wembley Stadium, London Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014.

Silva signs new 5-year deal at City

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s new manager Louis van Gaal, second left, shakes hands with supporters as he walks down th touchline after his team’s pre season friendly soccer match against Valencia at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, Eng-land, Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014.

Van Gaal quick to make his mark at Man United


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First, he had to get past Simon. He had trouble putting away the Frenchman, whom he has now beaten eight straight times. The opening game of the third set went 20 points and 15 minutes, with Si-mon surviving six break points.

Djokovic finally broke through for a 4-3 lead and served out the 2-hour, 9-minute match. The last set alone took 59 minutes. Djokovic had 36 unforced errors in the breezy evening conditions. “Let’s be honest: I don’t enjoy playing bad,” Djokovic said. “I don’t enjoy missing a lot of balls from the baseline. That was frustrating for me. “I’m not playing at a level that I need to be, and it’s obvious. I keep pushing myself.”

The tournament lost its defend-ing women’s champion on Tuesday when Victoria Azarenka withdrew because of an injured right knee.

Defending men’s champion Rafael Nadal withdrew before the tourna-ment because of an injured wrist.

While Djokovic managed to ad-vance despite his struggles, Jo-Wil-fried Tsonga and Venus Williams made quick exits after leaving their winning touch in Canada. Two days after he beat Roger Federer for his sec-ond Masters title in Toronto, Tsonga lost to Mikhail Youzhny 6-1, 6-4.

“I don’t have the energy to compete,” Tsonga said after the 68-minute match. “I just gave every-thing last week. Before the match, I believed I was able to play at a good level. But on court, I realized that was going to be impossible. And it was.”

Williams beat sister Serena while reaching the finals in Montreal on Sunday, finishing runner-up. She lost to Lucie Safarova 6-7 (2), 6-3,

6-4 in the first round Tuesday. “I wish I could have felt today like I did in Montreal, just to make it more competitive,” Williams said.

Williams and Tsonga had ener-gizing weeks in Canada and hoped to keep their momentum going in Cincinnati, using it as a springboard to the U.S. Open. Both soon realized their successful weeks came with a cost. Williams arrived Sunday night and opened Tuesday morning, leav-ing little time to recover from her deep tournament run.

“Yeah, it was definitely a quick turnaround,” she said. “Maybe it would have been a little better to play a little later in the day. But I think she just played so well. No matter what shot I hit, she hit a winner.”

Tsonga beat Djokovic, Andy Murray, Grigor Dimitrov and Federer to win in Toronto, the first time in 12 years a player beat four straight top 10 opponents at a Masters tournament. He arrived Monday and couldn’t practice be-cause of rain. He plans to rest for a few days. “I didn’t have enough today to compete at a good level,” he said.

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday.

The team said the record $2 bil-lion sale closed after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise to the former Microsoft CEO. Her estranged husband, Donald Sterling, had unsuccess-fully fought the sale of the team he owned since 1981 in court.

Sterling bought the team in 1981 for $12 million and presided over decades of losing seasons before engaging in a fierce legal battle with his estranged wife to hold on to his most prized asset.

“I hate losing the team,” Shelly Sterling said at a news conference. She later added, “It feels good. It would have felt good to own the team, too.” The NBA Board of Governors had previously ap-proved the sale.

“Really excited — in a pretty hardcore way — to continue the path to making the Clippers a better and better basketball team, and a better and better citizen of the Los Angeles community,” Ballmer told The Associated Press

in a phone interview.The bizarre drama began in

April when a recording surfaced of Donald Sterling scolding his girlfriend for bringing black men to Clippers games. The audio spurred the NBA to ban Sterling for life and fine him $2.5 mil-lion.

Sterling was apologetic after the audio recording went viral, but his mea culpa backfired when he criticized Lakers great Magic Johnson, who had been photo-graphed with Sterling’s girlfriend, as a bad role model for kids because he had HIV. The 80-year-old real estate mogul was roundly condemned from locker rooms to the Oval Office, where President Barack Obama called Sterling’s remarks “incredibly offensive racist statements.”

With the NBA threatening to seize the team and auction it, Sterling initially gave his wife of 58 years permission to negotiate a sale but then refused to sign the Ballmer deal. He said he would sue the league instead and then re-voked the trust, which his lawyers said effectively killed the deal.

Shelly Sterling removed Don-ald as a trustee after doctors found he had symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

AP Photo/Tom UhlmanNovak Djokovic, of Serbia, returns a volley to Gilles Simon, of France, at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in Mason, Ohio.

Djokovic makes unconvincing start in CincinnatiAssociated Press

MASON, Ohio — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic came back to beat Gilles Simon 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in his opening match at the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday. The Cincinnati tournament is the only Masters series event Djokovic has never won, finishing as the runner-up four times. If he wins this week, he’ll become the first with titles at all nine ATP Masters events.

Clippers sale to Steve Ballmer goes through

AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, FileFILE - In this Oct. 16, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers team owner Donald Sterling watches his team play the Utah Jazz dur-ing the second half of their preseason NBA basketball game in Los Angeles.

IBP

BULELENG - Lake Buyan and Tamblingan, both these lakes have an appeal that is very fascinating. The tourists can feel the authenticity of this natural places. Located in the District Sukasada, approximately 21 miles South of Singaraja City. Lake Buyan is one of three twin lakes formed within a large cal-dera. This lake is flanked by two other lakes, namely Lake Tam-blingan in the west and in the east of Lake Beratan. Buyan Lake is the largest of the three. Among the Lakes Buyan and Tamblingan separated by forests along ap-proximately one mile. There is a pool that is connected directly to the lake Buyan through a nar-row channel called Telaga Aya. The cool weather surrounded by mountains that completely green, quiet and comfortable atmosphere.

Lake Buyan and Tamblingan

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Villagers catch offering of a chicken thrown by Hindu worship-pers into the crater of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Every year people gathered for the annual festival where offerings of rice, fruit, vegetables, livestock or money are made to Hindu gods at the active vol-cano to ask for blessings and assure a bountiful harvest.

“We want to gain all informa-tion from them,” Triaspoetra stated in the company of Cilacap District Military Chief Lieutenant Colonel I Gusti Agung Adi Putra Winata on Wednesday.

The Cilacap Police chief re-vealed that he has an opportunity to prove the involvement of Her-mawan and six of his followers in the ISIS movement.

Therefore, he stated that they were grilled to uncover detailed

information as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has de-clared ISIS as a prohibited orga-nization in Indonesia.

However, he pointed out that Hermawan and his followers coop-erated during the interrogation.

Hermawan admitted that he became the Indonesian regional leader of ISIS because he wanted to control such an organization, so that it is not taken over by Muslim radicals.

AntaraJAKARTA - There was no need

to issue a travel advisory related to the Ebola virus for prospective Indonesian Hajj pilgrims, stated the Religious Affairs Ministry’s Director General of Hajj and Umrah, Abdul Djamil.

“A travel warning is not neces-sary because it will lead to a state of panic among the prospective Hajj pilgrims about the spread of the Ebola virus,” Djamil noted on Wednesday.

But, he emphasized that it can be considered as a warning for the Indonesian Muslims to be careful while performing their religious duty of Hajj pilgrim-age in the holy city of Mecca

this year.Djamil remarked that the Min-

istry of Religious Affairs is cur-rently coordinating with related parties such as the Ministry of Health Affairs and Hajj health centers to determine the neces-sary steps for safeguarding the prospective Hajj pilgrims from being infected by the deadly virus.

He stated that it was not nec-essary for Indonesia to issue the travel warning against the spread of the Ebola virus from the Af-rican countries such as Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

Djamil revealed that he will soon organize a meeting to dis-cuss ways of offering health

services to the pilgrims in an-ticipation of the spread of the Ebola virus.

“Saudi Arabian health officials are testing a patient suspected of contracting the deadly Ebola vi-rus, and therefore, we should not be negligent,” Djamil noted.

He further added that the Health Ministry has held an in-ternal meeting with the represen-tatives of the health department from all provinces to discuss the matter.

“We have sufficient number of Hajj health officials to give the best possible service. Therefore, we ask prospective Hajj pilgrims to stay calm and take preventive measures,” Djamil emphasized.

AntaraJAKARTA - President Susilo

Bambang Yudhoyono meets North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Minister Ri Su Yong at the Presidential palace on Wednesday.

President Yudhoyono on his speech before the meeting ex-pressed hope that Indonesia and North Korea will continue to in-crease bilateral relation in the

future.“Bilateral relation between In-

donesia and North Korea has been good. We hope that both countries can increase cooperation in the future,” Yudhoyono noted.

During the meeting, Minister Yong is accompanied by the For-eign Affairs Ministry’s Director General for Asia and Oceanic Af-fairs Kim Myong Gil and North

Korea’s Ambassador to Indonesia Ri Jong Ryul.

Meanwhile, President Yud-hoyono is accompanied by Co-ordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinating Minister for Economy Chairul Tanjung, Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa, State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, and Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam.

Police grill Indonesian ISIS leaderAntara

CILACAP - The Cilacap Police in Central Java have grilled the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Chep Hermawan, and his followers, stated local police spokesman Adjunct Senior Commissioner Andry Triaspoetra.

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong, left, is greeted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prior to their meeting at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014.

President meets with North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Minister

No need travel warning related to ebola

Forces from the anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion raided a house in the southeastern district of Chittagong, where the suspect Abu Bakar Siddique had been hiding since the overloaded ferry M.V. Pinak sank on Aug. 4., said commander Lt. Col. Miftah Uddin Ahmed.

Siddique faces charges of cul-pable homicide, unauthorized operation and overloading. Forty-eight bodies have been recovered so far and about 60 others remain missing and are presumed dead. If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison.

The ferry had a capacity of 85 passengers but was carrying more than 200 when it capsized in Munshiganj district near the capital, Dhaka. Many of the pas-sengers were returning from their

villages after celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.

The vessel’s captain and four others are also facing similar charges and are on the run too.

Authorities on Monday called off the search for the sunken ferry after scouring more than 50 square kilometers (about 20 square miles) of the Padma river without suc-cess. Bad weather and strong cur-rents hampered the operation.

The Padma is one of the largest rivers in the delta nation, which is crisscrossed by more than 130 rivers.

Overcrowding and poor safety standards are often blamed for ferry disasters. In May, about 50 people died when a ferry sank in the same district.


PARIS — Five climbers died and a sixth was missing Wednes-day on France’s Mont Blanc, of-ficials said.

August is the height of the climbing season on Europe’s tallest mountain, where even in the warmest months fierce snow-storms can strike quickly. Several mountaineers have died already

this summer — including at least one experienced guide — and local officials say they fear many people come to Mont Blanc ill-prepared for the dangers.

The climbers disappeared over-night as they were trying to reach the Aiguille d’Argentiere, which tops out around 3,900 meters (12,800 feet). Mont Blanc, in ad-dition to its primary peak, contains some 200 summits.

The bodies of five climbers were located Wednesday, while a sixth has not been found, said Jean-Marc Peillex, mayor of Saint-Gervais, a town at the foot of Mont Blanc. Search and rescue teams in helicopters are flying over the area.

Mont Blanc touches France, Switzerland and Italy, and thou-sands come each year to reach its summit.


CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s prime minister has held open the possibility of sending a combat force to Iraq in addition to military transport aircraft to airlift humanitarian aid to refugees trapped by insurgents in northern mountains, though the defense minister played down the prospect.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters in London after meeting with British officials on the Iraq crisis on Tuesday that his government would not rule out taking military action in Iraq.

“The disposition of the Australian government is to provide what assistance we reasonably can to protect people who are at risk not just from the elements — from starvation, from dehydration, from exposure on Mount Sinjar — but also people who are at risk from ISIL forces,” Abbott told reporters, referring to the al-Qaida splinter group leading Sunni militants in Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, now known as Islamic State.

“Australia should do what it can ... to protect people from potential genocide,” Abbott said.

The suggestion that Australian combat troops could return to Iraq was widely attacked by the government’s political opponents. Abbott was a minister in a previous conservative government that sent 2,000 combat troops to back the U.S. and British militaries in the 2003 Iraq invasion, triggering Australia’s largest protests since the Vietnam War.

But Defense Minister David Johnston on Wednesday played down the prospect of an Australian combat force, saying the military had only committed to sending two unarmed C-130 Hercules transport planes for humanitarian aid air drops to begin within two or three days.

“I’m not getting into the rule-in, rule-out guarantee game,” Johnston told reporters. Asked whether the Obama administration ruling out combat troops effectively ruled out Australia from sending forces of its own, Johnston replied, “I think that’s a very reasonable conclusion to draw.” “What we have seen is an extreme act of barbarism by a group of terrorists. What the future holds, no one can predict,” he said. “The Australian government has signed off on providing humanitarian relief, and that is all.”


AP Photo/A.M. Ahad

Bangladesh’s anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion personnel escort Abu Bakar Siddique, in white, as they bring him to Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Aug.13, 2014.


DHAKA, Bangladesh — The owner of a Bangladesh ferry that sank earlier this month with more than 100 people dead or missing was arrested Wednesday after weeks in hiding, officials said.

Australia won’t rule out sending troops to Iraq

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2003 file photo shows Mont Blanc, western Europe’s highest mountain. A mayor in the French Alps says five climbers have died on Mont Blanc and a sixth is missing.

5 climbers dead on Mont Blanc peak; 6th missing

AP Photo/Patrick Gardin, File

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Agence France-Presse

HONG KONG - Cathay Pacific said Wednesday its first-half net profit soared to HK$347 million ($44.77 million) on higher passenger demand, but the Hong Kong flag carrier warned of a “challeng-ing” outlook as surging competition held down fares.

The figure for the six months ending June 30 compared with a net profit of HK$24 million in the same period last year. Its first half revenue rose 4.6 percent to HK$50.84 billion.

But despite its upbeat performance, the blue-chip airline faces several challenges including persis-tently high jet fuel prices.

“The operating environment for the Cathay Pa-cific Group -- and the aviation industry as a whole -- remains challenging,” group chairman John Slosar said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange.

“On the plus side, we continue to strengthen our passenger network and the connections available through Hong Kong,” he said.

Aviation analyst Daniel Tsang told AFP the huge increase in net profits was on account of the airline’s improving passenger operations, which contributed to a sharp jump in revenues.

The airline’s passenger revenue in the reported period was up 4.4 percent to HK$36.52 billion compared to the previous year, helped by the in-troduction of new long-haul routes to destinations such as Doha and Newark.

However, Tsang said the airline will need to im-prove its passenger yields, a key measure of airlines’ profitability, to maintain this earnings trend.

Passenger yield, the measure of the average fare paid by a passenger per mile, fell 3.5 percent to HK66.6 cents, reflecting weaker ticket prices in the face of surging competition.

“For this upward trend to be sustained, arresting this yield decline is paramount and a prerequisite,” he said.

Revenue for its air cargo business, which took a toll for more than two years due to the weak economy and demand for shipments, rose 3.4 percent compared to the first half of last year, at HK$11.66 billion.

But over-capacity in the air cargo market created downward pressure on rates, with the airline seeing cargo yield falling by 6.9 percent.

Cathay also indicated that high fuel prices were partly mitigated by operating more fuel-efficient aircraft. Five new aircraft, including two Boeing 777-300ERs, were delivered to Cathay during the reported period, as it retired two Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft.

Eleven new aircraft will be delivered in the second half of 2014, as it continues to modernise its fleet.

“Cathay is pretty aggressive in renewing its fleet. By end of 2014, it will only have seven gas-guzzling 747-400s,” analyst Tsang said.

The International Air Transport Association in June said airline profits are improving and that it expects airline companies to record combined net profits of $18 billion for 2014, down from its earlier forecast of $18.7 billion made in March.

Japan’s gross domestic product, or the total output of goods and services, also contracted 1.7 percent during the April-June period from the previous quarter.

The decline in GDP was the worst since the March 2011 tsunami and quake disaster in northeastern Japan. In the first quarter of 2011, Japan’s economy shrank at an annual rate of 6.9 percent.

The weak figures were expected as consumers and businesses had front-loaded spending in the first quarter to beat the April 1 increase in sales tax. Economists expect spending to pick up again in coming months.

The results were a stark contrast to the annual 6.1 percent growth in the first quarter of the year, which reflected the buying rush to beat the tax rise.

The government, under Prime Min-

ister Shinzo Abe and his “Abenomics” strategy, has been trying to pull world’s third-biggest economy out of two de-cades of stagnation by expanding the money supply, freeing up regulations and encouraging the yen to fall, a move that helps exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp. and camera maker Canon Inc.

But the government is also concerned about ballooning public debt and raised the consumption tax to 8 percent from 5 percent to shore up its coffers.

Previous administrations have been nervous about raising taxes for fear the economy will slide into a recession. The Japanese economy has been eking out growth or at least staying flat in recent quarters, thanks partly to Abenomics.

Yasunari Ueno, chief market econo-mist at Mizuho Securities Co. in Tokyo,

said the second quarter contraction was within his expectations, but the slow-down reflected not only the tax hike but also lower incomes and price increases from other sources.

“The impact from the tax is going to be short-term,” Ueno said. “But the economy is ailing, and that’s not good.”

Public spending could prop up growth in the near term, he said. Even then, it will be hard for any expansion to immediately and totally make up for the big drop for the latest quarter, he said. Dramatic wage increases are not likely in Japan, and the recent trend of rising prices is part of Abe’s strategy to reverse Japan’s debilitating spiral of deflation, or falling prices.

Others were more optimistic.“We believe real GDP will return to

growth exceeding potential,” in the next quarter, Kyohei Morita and Yuichiro Nagai of Barclays said in a report.

They noted leading economic indica-tors have started to turn up already, such as public works and housing construction orders.

Cathay Pacific profits soar

AP Photo/Shizuo KambayashiShoppers come out of a store with sales signs in Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. The Japanese economy shrank at an annual pace of 6.8 percent in the second quarter after spending got slammed by a sales tax hike that kicked in from April, government figures showed Wednesday.

Japan’s economy shrinks as tax hike hits spendingAssociated Press

TOKYO — The Japanese economy shrank at an annual pace of 6.8 percent in the second quarter after spending got slammed by a sales tax hike that kicked in from April, government figures showed Wednesday.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Drug smuggling committed by a syndicate could be thwarted again by the Customs and Excise officers of Ngurah Rai Airport. A couple from Lithuania secured after smuggling crystal meth weighing 4 kg. The culprits respectively Lisenkovas Vitoras, 41, and his wife Lietovas Respublikos, 41, should undergo examination at the Directorate of Bali Police Drug Investigation.

The Head of Customs and Excise of Ngurah Rai Airport, Budi Harjanto, said on Tuesday (Aug 12) the culprits arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport by Hong Kong Airlines with flight number HX709 from Hong Kong to Denpasar around 1:30 a.m. “Initially, the officers suspected the culprits’ gestures when they would like to pass through the X-ray device,” he said.

Suspicion of the officers was get-ting stronger after seeing the results of the X-ray imaging that indi-cated there were suspicious objects. When examining a brown suitcase brought by the culprits, it was found two black backpacks. The officers searching on the inside wall of the bag found black aluminum-coated plastic containing drugs. “The plas-tic contained crystal meth weighing 994 grams,” he explained.

In another backpack, the offi-cers also found a package of black aluminum-coated plastic containing

crystal meth weighing 986 grams. The officers continuing the search found again crystal meth weighing 1,982 grams hidden in the four packs of tea sachet. “The total evidence of crystal meth weighs 3,962 grams,” he said.

When asked who ordered the cul-prits, Budi Harjanto was not willing to answer. He reasoned the culprits could not speak English, so it was unable to explore in-depth information. Fur-thermore, the couple from Lithuania would be submitted to Directorate of the Bali Police Narcotics Investigation to undergo further tests. “Only limited information can be extracted from the culprits because they were unable to speak English,” he said.

Previously, the Customs offi-cers also foiled narcotic smuggling through two overseas package ship-ments. The discomfiture began from the inspection by means of X-Ray device in the courier warehouse of PT Birotika Semesta (DHL Express) at the Ngurah Rai international Airport, Monday (Aug 4). Finally, the officers checked the delivery numbering AWB 69 3349 3490 and found crystal meth weighing 206 grams hidden inside the pump cylinder of Piusi brand. “The goods addressed to recipient with the initials NS remain under police investigation,” he said.

Two days later, the X-ray device detected suspicious objects sent from overseas shipment, Wednesday (Aug 6). After checking the package, in fact it contained the HWM Magazine

Malaysia. Unexpectedly, the officer making in-depth examination found two white plastic, where each of which was labeled with saying Magnesium 400 mg containing 60 white capsules weighing 33 grams. Another plastic read Zinc 30 mg containing 60 white capsules weighing 33 grams. Both plastics were suspected to contain nar-cotic preparation belonging to meth-

ylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), a very hazardous substance. “Total evidence found reached 120 capsules belonging to a new type of drug known as methylenedioxypyrovalerone. When the substance spread within human body, it will kindle a risk of being addicted and disrupts cerebral nerve,” he explained.

Other than the package addressed

to recipient with the initials AH, it was also found a white envelope containing 9 grams of cocaine in three plastic clips. Further, he said that police authority stayed to investigate related to the destination of package delivery containing illicit goods. “So far, none is arrested in relation to the delivery of the two packages,” he said. (kmb35)

“The LPSK has taken the initiative to strengthen regional cooperation in protect-ing the witnesses and victims of crimes,” LPSK Chief Semendawai announced after opening the second inter-regional Southeast Asia Nations meeting at Kuta on Tuesday.

The meeting was a follow up to a similar meeting held in the tourist island of Bali to form regional and inter-regional networks to identify possible areas of cooperation in protecting witnesses and victims of crimes.

At ASEAN level, witness and victim protection institution in each ASEAN member state will strengthen cooperation in developing models of legal assistance to protect witnesses and victims of crimes, he explained.

Semendawai noted that the meeting had focused on the protection of witnesses through more stable regional mechanism.

In addition, it had also discussed regional consultative board of ASEAN member states interested in the protection of witnesses and victims by drawing up the mandate of regional consultative board, exchanging information, and intensifying collaboration among agencies in charge of protecting witnesses and victims of crimes.

LPSK Deputy Chief Lies Sulistiyani added that ASEAN member states took common responsibilities for the protec-tion of witnesses and victims, as the states had ratified the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and UN Convention against Corruption.

LPSK initiates ASEAN corporation in protecting victims and witnesses

Antara

KUTA - The Witness and Victim Protection Institution (LPSK) has initiated close cooperation in protecting witnesses and victims of crimes at ASEAN regional level.

IBP/miasaLPSK Chief Semendawai

Smuggling 4 kg of crystal meth

A couple from Lithuania arrested

IBP/Yudi KarnaediDrug smuggling committed by a syndicate could be thwarted again by the Customs and Excise officers of Ngurah Rai Airport.

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Palestinian officials told The Associated Press early Wednesday morning that Egypt’s proposal calls for easing parts of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, bringing some relief to the territory. But it leaves the key areas of disagreement, including the Islamic militant group Hamas’ demand for a full lifting of the blockade and Israeli calls for Hamas to disarm, to later negotiations.

If the sides accept the proposal it would have a significant impact on Palestinians in Gaza as it would im-prove the movement of individuals and merchandise to the West Bank, the officials said. Gaza exports and other businesses have been hit hard by restrictions imposed on the territory by Israel and Egypt after Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007. One of the Palestinian officials who spoke to AP said that according to the Egyptian proposal the blockade would be gradually eased.

He said it would stipulate that Israel would end airstrikes on mili-tants, and a 500-meter (547-yard) buffer zone next to the Gaza and

Israel frontier would be reduced over time, he said.

The Israeli and Palestinian nego-tiating teams retired after 10 hours of discussions and will resume the talks later Wednesday, about 12 hours before the current cease-fire is set to expire at midnight, the of-ficials said. It was not immediately clear if either side would accept the deal. The Palestinian officials spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the negotiations with the media.

The negotiations took place after a three-day truce brokered by Egypt took effect Monday. A similar truce collapsed last Friday after Gaza militants quickly resumed rocket fire with its expiration.

The monthlong Gaza war has killed more than 1,900 Palestin-ians, the majority of them civil-ians, Palestinian and U.N. officials say. In Israel, 67 people have been killed, all but three of them soldiers. Hamas is demanding an end to an Israel-Egyptian blockade that has ravaged Gaza’s economy. Israel says the blockade is needed to keep

Hamas, which fired thousands of rockets into Israel during the war, from smuggling weapons. Israel is seeking guarantees that it disarm.

With the truce set to expire, Egypt pressed the sides hard to

reach a deal. “The talks are difficult but serious,” Moussa Abu Marzouk, head of the Hamas delegation, wrote on his Facebook page. “The delegation needs to achieve the hopes of the people.”

Hamas, shunned by the inter-national community as a terrorist organization, seized control of Gaza from internationally backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.

Associated Press

MOSCOW - With a theatrical flourish, Rus-sia on Tuesday dispatched hundreds of trucks covered in white tarps and sprinkled with holy water on a mission to deliver aid to a desperate rebel-held zone in eastern Ukraine.

The televised sight of the miles-long convoy sparked a show of indignation from the gov-ernment in Kiev, which insisted any aid must be delivered by the international Red Cross. Ukraine and the West have openly expressed its concern that Moscow intends to use the cover of a humanitarian operation to embark on a military incursion in support of pro-Russian separatists.

Amid those anxieties, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday was set to travel to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Russia annexed in March, where he was to preside over a meeting involving the entire Russian Cabinet and most members of the lower house of parliament.

Putin so far has resisted calls from both pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine and national-ists at home to send Russian troops to back the mutiny, a move that would be certain to trigger devastating Western sanctions. But dispatching the convoy sent a powerful visual symbol helping

the Kremlin counter criticism from the national-ists who accuse Putin of betrayal.

The convoy provoked controversy as soon as it started moving early Tuesday from the out-skirts of Moscow on its long voyage toward the Ukrainian border.

Officials with both the International Com-mittee of the Red Cross and Ukraine’s govern-ment said they had no information about what the trucks were carrying or where they were headed.

A Ukrainian security spokesman said the convoy of white-canvased vehicles was being managed by the Russian army and could not as a result be allowed into the country. Moscow has rejected the claim, saying that the convoy is organized by the Emergencies Ministry, a non-military agency dealing with humanitarian relief tasks. The government in Kiev said the Russian trucks could unload their contents at the border and transfer the aid to vehicles leased by the ICRC.

U.S. State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said talks are under way for Russia to deliver the aid to the Ukrainian border where it would be transferred to the custody of the ICRC.

AP Photo/ RTR via Associated Press TelevisionIn this image taken from video a convoy of white trucks with humanitarian aid leaves Alabino, outside Moscow Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014.

Ukraine: Russian aid can enter with Red Cross

AP Photo/Hatem MoussaPalestinians crowd a window for food aid at a United Nations distribution center in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that ended a month of war was holding for a second day Wednesday, ahead on negotiations in Cairo on a long-term truce and a broader deal for the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Egypt presents proposal to end war in GazaAssociated Press

CAIRO — Egypt presented a proposed cease-fire to Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the monthlong war, Palestinian officials said early Wednesday after negotiators huddled for a second day of Egyptian-mediated talks meant to resolve the crisis and bring relief to the embattled Gaza Strip.

Bali Post

TABANAN - Restriction to diesel made rice milling entrepreneur unrest. After the govern-ment policy was in effect from August 1, 2014, the quota fulfillment of subsidized diesel to rice milling diminished from previous amount. This condition was even feared to result in production decline later on.

One of the rice milling businessmen at Cau Tua village, Marga, Tabanan, IB Widiadnyana, revealed the impact of restriction to subsidized diesel was strongly experienced by rice milling business. It was reflected in the diesel quota he usually received as much as 40 liters each day or about 1,500 liters each month. Since the rule was enforced, the quota diminished to only 33 liters each day or about 1,000 liters each month.

Even according to him, the quota reduction was very burdensome. Such restriction had an impact on the grain processing where it turned less optimal or the production reduced from usual capacity. He predicted the reduction could reach 60 tons each month or approximately 2 tons each day from the normal production reaching 5 tons.

In addition, the other impact of the quota reduction would also increase the selling price of rice product. “As of today, we have raised the price to IDR 8,000 per kg from IDR 7,850 per kg,” he said.

Related to this condition, he hoped the govern-ment could review the policy on diesel restriction as considered less appropriate to be applied today. The agricultural sector had heavy reliance on die-sel from the upstream to downstream. Responding to such condition, other than by increasing the price of rice product, he would also minimize the purchasing cost.

Contacted separately, Chairman of the Out-standing Farmers and Fishermen (KTNA) of Bali, Made Suparsa, revealed the subsidized diesel restriction policy should not be imposed to real sector related to the life of many people, such as the agricultural sector. He admitted the current production cost in the agricultural sector had been quite expensive because from the processing of grain in paddy field farmers predominantly used diesel-fueled engines. “If it is charged again with the burden of subsidy restriction, it will have an impact on the price increase of rice,” he said. (kmb28)

Based on information of the Me-teorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the wave height reached 0.5 m to 2.5 meters. “Coastal waves are very high, so it is difficult for vessel to moor at the quay. As a result, the skipper did not dare to moor at the quay,” said Mulyana.

As observation on Tuesday at Padangbai, the waves were high enough. Sometimes the seawater reached the parking area. Since the two quays were closed, the queue of passengers, especially cars and trucks, was long enough. Even, the harbor parking lot was fully oc-cupied, so that many trucks parked along the road section leading to Padangbai village. Last Tuesday morning, a vessel namely Marinda Segunda moored and unloaded its freight at Padangbai. Human passengers and motorcycle riders milled about to come into the ves-sel in order to arrive immediately at

Lembar, NTB.Mulyana said that other than

due to adverse weather condition at sea, the long passenger queue at Padangbai also happened due to adjustments to departure schedule of the vessels from Lembar.

Related to the adverse weather at sea, Mulyana said his party had delivered a warning to delay the voyage for vessels, fishing boats and boat operators. “The weather at sea is often uncertain or changeable. Wave height reaches 0.5 meter to 2.5 meters with the wind speed of 4 km to 40 km per hour,” he said.

Based on observation since the past few days, fishermen on the south coast of Karangasem rarely dared to go to sea. Even, fishermen at Ujung Pesisi had not dared to go to sea since the past two days. It happened because the weather in Indonesian Ocean and Lombok Strait was quite ferocious. (013)

Ferocious waves

Padangbai Harbor applies open-close system

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AMLAPURA - Padangbai harbor applied open-close system due to bad weather condition where the waves were high. Subsection Head of Sailing Safety, Guard and Patrol of the Padangbai Harbor Authority, Ketut Mulyana, delivered on Tuesday (Aug 12) at Padangbai that two quays were closed for mooring activities and freight unloading at 01:00 a.m. Previously, on Monday (Aug 11) only the first quay was closed. However, last Tuesday both quays were closed due to high waves.

IBP/FileThe vehicles queue in Padangbai Harbor in Karangasem

Diesel restrictedProduction of rice milling gets disrupted

IBP/CubitThe rice mile in Tabanan is affected by the increasing price of diesel fuel

3Thursday, August 14, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Thursday, August 14, 2014

AntaraDENPASAR - Indonesia’s tour-

ism industry has made the necessary efforts and preparations for facing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 in order to success-fully compete with other Southeast Asian countries.

“The process of obtaining com-petence certification for tourism workers has been rolled out, but there are a lot of constraints such as the employee not being able to fund the competency test,” Chief Master Program Study of Tourism Udayana University, Professor I Nyoman Darma Putra, M. Litt, stated on Wednesday.

He noted that the tourism workers in Indonesia did not find the compe-tency test useful as it did not help to improve their income.

Meanwhile, the companies that employed them did not finance the certification process.

“The certification will not nec-

essarily be a consideration in the salary component. The various issues can create barriers for the tourism industry to face the AEC,” he pointed out.

Darma remarked that the Udaya-na University will host a workshop on “Indonesian Tourism Readiness Facing the ASEAN Economic Com-munity (AEC) in 2015” at its campus on August 15, 2014.

The workshop featuring five speakers is expected to formulate ideas that can be used as the basis for the government in formulating its policy and strategic steps to face the AEC.

The workshop will be accompa-nied by focus group discussions with sources from various parties such as the government, organizations, tour-ism entrepreneurs, and academics.

“The workshop is especially expected to identify the constraints faced by the Indonesian tourism industry,” he emphasized.

The body of Sheila von Wiese Mack was found Tuesday stuffed into a suitcase in the boot of a taxi in front of the five-star St. Regis hotel in the upscale Nusa Dua resort area of Bali.

The 62-year-old victim was half naked, had several wounds to her head, and appeared to have put up a struggle, a doctor said.

She had been staying in the hotel with her daughter, Heather, 19, and her daughter’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21, local police chief Djoko Hari Utomo told reporters.

Mack and her daughter stayed in the hotel together for several days before the boyfriend joined them on Monday, Utomo said. Mack was recorded on CCTV arguing with Schaefer in the hotel lobby the same night, he said.

The next day, the couple were checking out and sent several suitcases down to a taxi, alleg-edly including the one that con-tained the victim.

The body was discovered when the couple failed to show up at the waiting taxi, Utomo said. They were seen on CCTV leaving the hotel via a stretch of beach at the back of the property, instead of the main entrance.

Police launched a hunt and the pair were found sleeping at a hotel in the tourist area of Legian, north of Nusa Dua, early Wednes-day, Utomo told AFP.

“This is murder, and we will decide from our investigation whether it is premeditated or spontaneous,” he said.

The victim’s body was sent to the main hospital in the Balinese capital Denpasar for an autopsy. A doctor there said it had several wounds to the head, which appeared to have been inflicted with “blunt tools”.

“Looking at the wounds, the victim must have fought back,” said Ida Bagus Alit, adding that one of her fingers on her left hand was broken.

The hotel said that it was

aware of the “terrible tragedy” and was assisting authorities in their investigation.

The US embassy in Jakarta said in a statement that it was “aware of the death of an Ameri-can citizen that took place in Bali and we understand that two individuals have been arrested in connection with the case”.

The beachfront St. Regis is one of the most exclusive hotels in Bali with rooms starting at $470 a night and a 24-hour butler ser-vice, according to its website.

IBP/Manik

Police doing an investiga-tion on the crime scene. An American tourist’s battered

body has been found in a suitcase at an exclusive hotel on Indonesia’s re-

sort island of Bali and her daughter and daughter’s

boyfriend have been arrest-ed over the killing.

American tourist’s body found in suitcase Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - An American tourist’s battered body has been found in a suitcase at an exclusive hotel on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali and her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend have been arrested over the killing, police said Wednesday.

Tourism industry prepared to face AEC

ANTARA FOTO/Nyoman Budhiana

A tourist passed a hat seller at Kuta Beach. Indonesia’s tour-ism industry has made the necessary efforts and prepara-tions for facing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 in order to successfully compete with other Southeast Asian countries.

Agence France-PressePARIS - Two in five American

adults are expected to develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime, accord-ing to a study published Tuesday that warned of spiralling health costs as a result.

The risk was even higher for Hispanics and black women, half of whom are expected to de-velop the disease caused mainly by physical inactivity and excess bodyweight.

The study used data obtained from national population inter-

views and the death certificates of nearly 600,000 adults.

The lifetime risk of developing type 2 diabetes, also known as adult-onset or non-insulin depen-dent diabetes, rose from 20 percent for men and 27 percent for women in 1985-1989 to 40 percent for men and 39 percent for women in 2000-2011, researchers found.

“The largest increases were in Hispanic men and women, and non-Hispanic black women, for whom lifetime risk now exceeds 50 percent,” according to the au-

thors of the study in The Lancet medical journal.

Death rates have declined over the same period, however, due to better health care, which meant that people live longer with the disease than before.

“Years spent with diabetes increased by 156 percent in men and 70 percent in women,” said the study.

“As the number of diabetes cases continues to increase and patients live longer, there will be a growing demand for health

services and extensive costs,” said author Edward Gregg of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The World Health Organiza-tion says 347 million people worldwide have diabetes, which claimed about three million lives in 2010.

Ninety percent of those had type 2 diabetes, which the WHO said “is largely the result of ex-cess body weight and physical inactivity”.

Diabetes can damage the heart,

blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves, and increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.

“Diabetes can be prevented with lifestyle changes,” Lorraine Lipscombe of the University of Toronto wrote in a comment on the study, noting similar trends else-where in the developed world.

“Prevention strategies should include optimisation of urban planning, food marketing policies, and work and school environments that enable individuals to make healthier lifestyle choices.”

As the world mourned the ap-parent suicide of comedian Robin Williams on Tuesday, there were many questions about the state of mind of the Oscar-winner once called the funniest man alive.

“Artists are often people who are more sensitive, who feel emo-tions more strongly,” said Michel Reynaud, of the Paul Brousse Hospital’s psychiatry department in Paris.

“This can yield great writers, poets and musicians, but also anxi-ety, depression, anguish and mood disorders,” he told AFP.

Williams had suffered from de-pression, according to his publicist -- one more name on a long list of celebrity actors that includes Jim Carrey, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stephen Fry who have battled the debilitating ailment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 350 mil-lion people of all ages suffer from depression.

“Depression is different from usual mood fluctuations and short-lived emotional responses to chal-lenges in everyday life,” a WHO factsheet explains.

“Especially when long-lasting and with moderate or severe inten-sity, depression may become a seri-ous health condition. It can cause the affected person to suffer greatly and function poorly. At its worst, depression can lead to suicide. Suicide results in an estimated one million deaths every year.”

Fewer than half of sufferers of depression receive the treatment they need, it added.

Jeffrey Borenstein, president of the Brain and Behaviour Re-

search Foundation in New York, stressed depression was a physical condition that did not discriminate between victims, “whether they are rich or poor, any ethnic group, any religion”.

“We often think of depression occurring in the context of some difficult life event, and sometimes that does happen, but often depres-sion happens without a clearcut reason,” he said.

“That’s why even people who would seem to have it all can still have depression (just as) people who seem to have it all can still have a heart attack.”

Mental health problems are also closely linked to alcohol and drug abuse -- a battle that Williams had frequently spoken about.

“Between a third and 50 percent of addicts are depressed,” Reynaud told AFP.

People in the public eye may use drugs or alcohol to take shake off inhibitions and boost creativity, becoming addicted over time.

Vikram Patel, director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, agreed there seemed to be a link between creative talent and mental health problems.

“Most likely the causal path-ways work in both directions, i.e. the brain circuits which are respon-sible for creativity also seem to be associated with mental illness, and being creative exposes one to environments which may heighten the risk of mental illness.”

A study in the Journal of Phe-nomenological Psychology in 2009, which interviewed 15 well-known American celebrities, found that while fame brought wealth

Two in five Americans at risk from type 2 diabetes

AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian

Flowers are placed in memory of actor/comedian Robin Williams on his Walk of Fame star in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Despite fame and fortune, celebrity artists may be more vulnerable to depression than the rest of us, brought low by the same creative qualities that gave them success in the first place, analysts say.

Depression: indiscriminate stalkerAgence France-Presse

PARIS - Despite fame and fortune, celebrity artists may be more vulnerable to depression than the rest of us, brought low by the same creative qualities that gave them success in the first place, analysts say.

and privilege, gratification and “symbolic immortality”, there was a mental price to pay.

“It also robs the celebrity of privacy, leads to isolation, engen-ders mistrust of others, introduces temptations, can lead to creating

a character-split between the ‘ce-lebrity entity’ and the ‘private self’ and heightens concern about risks to other family members.”

The experts said they hoped Williams’ death would encourage people suffering from depression

to seek help.“The universal story in this

tragic loss is how pervasive men-tal illness is, and that it can not only disable you for a long time but can also cut short your life,” said Patel.

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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 August 9 through September 23, 2014

9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap BesakihPura Dangkahyangan TabananPura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem

13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal MengwiPura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri 19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan BulelengPura Gunung Pengsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Tengah TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan TabananPira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan DenpasarPura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala BesakihPura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Batu Sari UbudPura Penataran Dalem Guliang BangliPura Pasek Dangka Guwang SukawatiPura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak SiringPura Rambut Siwi JembranaPura Batu Bolong Canggu KutaPura Pasek Marga Klaci TabananPura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru NegaraPura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan BulelengPira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede TabananPura Desa Banyuning BulelengPura Srijong TabananPura Pucak Mundi Nusa PenidaPura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod GianyarPura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud

21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng

3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan BangliPura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba TabananPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah BulelengPura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang

9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTBPura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu KarangasemPura Padharman Arya Telabah BesakihPura Bukit Mentik Batur KintamaniPura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaBhatara Ratu Gede Celuk GianyarPura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Sesetan DenpasarBhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klung-kungPura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya

17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Cemenggaon GianyarPura Penataran Ped Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa AbiansemalPura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa PenidaPura Jati Ubud GianyarPura Melanting Ubud GianyarPura Dalem Ped Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Karangasem

19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri 23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

Many activities around wine have been developed, starting with the popu-lar Divine Fridays. As the name says, these special happy hours take place only on Fridays and have a different theme every week; a grape variety, a wine re-gion or a distinctive producer. Five wines that are normally not available by the glass are opened and guests can choose to taste all five, a set of three or just one glass of their choice. Delicious paired complimentary canapés are served on the restaurant’s terrace, accompanied by relaxing live acoustic music. These Fridays have become a favourite meet-

ing place in Ubud amongst the expat community as well as the visitors. A very nice way to kick off the weekend.

Now a new feature has been added: Divine Masterclass. Hosted by the res-taurant’s wine expert Antoine Olivain from France, guests can learn more about the week’s wines in a relaxed atmosphere, with like-minded people, in a quick and easy way. Antoine guides the tasting, shares his knowledge and an-swers questions. Printed tasting notes are handed out and with each wine, paired canapés are served to demonstrate food pairing ideas. IBP/Courtesy of Bridges

Divine Masterclass at BridgesIBP

UBUD - Wine has always played an important role at bridges; the restau-rant is also home to Ubud’s most extensive retail wine shop. The DIvINE wine cellar offers over 250 labels from all major wine growing regions at interesting prices. This dedication to great wine service has now been hon-oured by the prestigious Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2014!

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The cooperation between all elements of tourism in Bali is needed so the development of the industry will give more benefit to the people in the island. This is stated during the visit of Best Western International (BWI) Management, the chain hotel which based in Arizona, USA, to Bali Post Office. The management led by The General Manager Sales and Marketing BWI Area Development Office Indonesia Rudi Fajar Putra is welcomed by The General Manager of International Bali Post Gde Palgu-nadi, The Director of Bali TV Dewi Martika and The Secertary general of Bali Post Gugiek Savindra. Also coming during the visit were Andriana Hendrawati (Corporate Marketing Communication), Mukti Ali (Assistant Marketing Communication Manager Best Western Premier Sunset Road Kuta), Ketut Gunarta (General Manager Best Western Kuta Villa), Ryan Rusli (Marcom and Sales Executive Best Western Kuta Vila) dan Treshia Lim (Sales Manager Best Western Resort Kuta).

As information of local resident, Dewa Sentana, Tuesday (Aug 12), the tidal waves on local coast was pretty awful. The entire tourism activities such as jumping at Cenin-gan did not dare to operate. Meanwhile, the cavity of Batu Melawang Cave continued to be hit by tidal waves. Not long after, the cave of swallow nest was broken down. From the outside, the broken down cave surface was wide enough. Unfortunately, no one dared to make sure about the situation inside whether the interior of the cave collapsed or bird nest was still intact.

Afterward, the residents promptly reported the incident to the Nusa Kertha Kosala Re-gional Enterprise (PNDKK), Tuesday (Aug 12). Director of the PDNKK, Wayan Suka-dana, when met on Tuesday claimed to have known the matter. Based on public report, apparently the collapse only happened to the cavity. However, to make sure, his party would come down to location to ascertain the last condition after hit by tidal waves. “We need to identify the damage caused by the tidal waves as soon as possible,” he said.

The path leading to the cave was quite diffi-cult. Only local residents could go into the cave using a small ladder made of rope. The cavity was terrible. Moreover, during high tides, the cavity was covered by seawater. Management of the PNDKK last harvested the bird nest around February. The outcomes diminished to two kilograms only. However, with a differ-ent sales system in the form of packaging and harvest cost of IDR 9 million, the bird’s nest could generate revenue worth IDR 22 million. Unlike in the previous method, the harvest cost was IDR 24 million and the result was not clear due to lacking of transparency as indicated in the previous PNDKK.

Currently the population of swallow in the cave continued to decline. It was caused by ex-cessive exploitation carried out in the previous harvest. In the past, the harvest was done four times a year, while starting this year it was only done twice so the swallows could proliferate before the next harvest in different method. Thus, the habitat would not be damaged and could contribute to the regionally generated revenue through the PNDKK. (kmb31)

Bali PostGIANYAR - A number of tourist trans-

port drivers in the area of Goa Gajah, Bedulu village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, should take urine test held by a joint team of the Gianyar Police Narcotics Unit along with the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Gianyar, Tuesday (Aug 12).

Around 10:00 a.m., the drivers transport-ing guests to Goa Gajah were approached by plainclothes police to be invited to urine checkpoint at the parking lot of the Goa Gajah tourist attraction. Urine examina-tion for drivers of tourist transport was first performed in Gianyar, said Chief of BNN Gianyar, Made Pastika.

Meanwhile, Chief of Gianyar Police Nar-cotics Unit, I Kadek Ardika, said the urine test was performed in order to anticipate the tourism activities chiefly those undertaken by the drivers related to drug abuse. “This is a preventative measure,” he said.

It was made by a joint team by giving

more emphasis on humanitarian efforts. If the drivers of tourist transport used drugs, it would be certainly risky, such as kindling accidents as had occurred in other region. By all means, this would have a bad impact on tourism in Bali and Gianyar in particular.

Through such examination, if someone indeed used drug, it would be found from the results of urine test carried out. Since taking the drugs, it could still be detected until three days after. A total of fifty people took their urine to be examined further. “Positive or not will be known after the laboratory test completes. For those who are declared positive will later be developed by the BNN Gianyar,” he said.

Meanwhile, the current trend of drug use in Gianyar started to increase. It was evident from the results of operations performed on recent days. Within a month, police managed to reveal three cases of drug abuse. (kmb16)

IBP/Bagiarta

The Batu Melawang Cave is being hit by big waves

Hit by waves

Batu Melawang Cave broken downBali Post

SEMArAPUrA - Tidal waves on Monday (Aug 11) caused coastal areas of Ceningan Island, Nusa Penida subdistrict, Klungkung, to get eroded. More severely, amidst the coastal areas stood the Batu Melawang Cave denoting the swallow habitat. Surface of the cave looked to have been broken down after hit by tidal waves for whole day.

Tourist transport drivers go through urine test


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The Canadian pop singer will agree to attend an anger management class and make a 50,000 dollar charitable contribution, the Miami Herald said, quoting sources.

Bieber was arrested after an alleged drag racing incident, and police say he ad-mitted to having smoked marijuana and taken the pre-

scription drug Xanax.In a hearing Wednesday, prosecutors

are expected to drop the DUI charge. In exchange, Bieber’s lawyers will accept a guilty plea for careless driving and resisting arrest without violence, the paper said.

Bieber is not expected to attend the court session. As part of the deal he

will have to attend a 12-hour anger management course.

The 20-year-old drove a Lamborghini in the alleged race with his friend Khalil Sharieff and was reported to have used obscene words during his arrest.

The troubled pop star has had several run ins with the law of late.

In July he was sentenced in Los Angeles to two years’ probation for egg-bombing his neighbors’ home.

Bieber was also ordered to perform com-munity service, join an anger management program, and pay the owners of the vandal-ized home more than $80,000 in repairs.

Among his numerous other recent run-ins with the law, Bieber has a hearing pending in Canada into accusations he assaulted a limousine driver last year.

IBP/Net

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Not all the actors at a star-packed news conference Tuesday for the new film “The Giver” had been

familiar with Lois Lowry’s acclaimed 1994 book before they made the film. But Taylor Swift sure had been.

The 24-year-old singer read it in school, and says it had a huge influence on her outlook on life.

“It celebrates all the things I hold really dear and are important to me,” Swift said, “like our

history, our music, our art, our intellect and our memories.”

Swift, who has a small role in the film alongside the likes of Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep, waxed philosophical about the idea

that people should be protected from the darker side of life. In “The Giver,” people live in a com-

munity of Sameness. They have no memories of the past, to protect them from feelings like pain or loss.

But they also never experience love or real happiness. One boy, Jonas, seeks to change all that.“I’m seeing so many fans write to me on Instagram and

Twitter, or in letters, saying they’re having such a tough time with life,” Swift said, “because they can’t imagine that we can experience such great pain, such intense loss, such insecurity.

“And the thing that I just wish I could tell them, over and over, is that we live for these fleeting moments of happiness. Happi-ness is not a constant. It’s something that we only experience glimpses of every once in a while — but it’s worth it.

“And I think that’s what they’ll take away from this movie.”

“The Giver,” directed by Phillip Noyce, opens Friday.

Bieber to plead guilty in drag racing caseAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Justin Bieber will plead guilty to lesser charges fol-lowing his arrest for driving under the influence in Miami last January, a local newspaper reported Tuesday.

Taylor Swift waxes philosophical on

‘Giver’ themes

Taylor Swift arrives at New York premiere of “The Giver” at the Zeigfeld Theater on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in New York. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - The circle of Badung House urged local gov-ernment and central government to immediately respond to the as-pirations on the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. The government was asked not to ignore the aspirations persis-tently voiced by various elements of society.

“This polemic must be discontinued because the public has been long fretted with the Benoa Bay reclamation plan,” said a legislator of the Badung House, I Made Duama.

According to him, the aspiration on the rejection against the reclamation plan did not only arise from components of Badung and Denpasar community but also from various other counties in Bali. The aspirations, he said, were purely moral movement of people who did not want any excessive exploitation against the nature of Bali.

Duama said that people had a variety of considerations to reject the reclama-tion plan. Some of the main consider-ations included the need to maintain the balance and sanctity of nature, the loss in terms of economic aspect chiefly on the coastal communities having fishery livelihood and the negative impact on Balinese culture as a result of the large-scale development of tourist ac-commodation.

“People have considerations that must be respected by the stakeholders, especially the government. So, I ask the government both local government and central government to discontinue the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. We do not want this polemic prolongs and it can trigger unwanted things on our side,” said the politician from South Kuta. (kmb25)

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

The circle of Badung House urged local government and central government to immediately respond to the aspirations on the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

Aspiration rejecting reclamation keeps flowing

Government asked to immediately respond



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