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Although Meyer was a producer for “The Twilight Saga-Breaking Dawn” films and the movie adaptation of her novel “The Host,” this is the first time she’s produced someone else’s work. She said in a recent interview that she got to be “a little bit more hands-on, a little more dirty” with producing duties.

“Austenland” is a romantic comedy about a single 30-something woman (Russell) obsessed with Jane Austen

novels who spends her life savings to visit a British Jane Austen theme park. “We made a lot of mistakes and we learned a lot more because we are al-lowed to make mistakes,” Meyer said of her “Austenland” crew, adding that she was “surprised that it all worked out so well.”

Meyer said she enjoyed the “collabo-ration” and “socialization” of producing and found a “different kind of creative

outlet.” She described writing as “a very solitary thing you do in a quiet room,” while producing is “something you do in a room full of people shouting all the time.”

Meyer has optioned the books “Down a Dark Hall” and “Anna Dressed in Blood” for film. She said it’s a coin-cidence that she’s turning back to the supernatural world with the two young adult ghost stories. “When you find a book that you’re excited about you just act first and then realize you’re stuck in a pattern,” she said.

Meyer wants to continue to write but isn’t planning any more “Twilight” novels. She says it is “possible,” but that spending so much time on them “in some ways completely burned me out on that whole world.”

Associated Press Writer

His grim visage has caused havoc in the Marvel universe before. Now, with Thanos’ galactic-domination plans set to play out beyond the printed pages of Marvel comics, the erstwhile villain is back in the six-issue miniseries “Infin-ity,” along with heroes from Earth and beyond.

“It’s called the Marvel universe for a reason. The stakes has never been just Earth, and no event proves that like ‘Infinity,’” said Marvel Entertainment editor-in-chief Axel Alonso. “And at the

root of the problem: the so-called mad titan, Thanos.”

Writer Jonathan Hickman said the scale of the book, released Wednesday and illustrated by Jim Cheung, is such that it’s got an event label, involving scores of plots, characters, arcs and struggles.

The series features Inhumans, Aveng-ers, Guardians of the Galaxy and other heroes familiar to Marvel Entertainment readers.

But Thanos is swirling at the center of everything, coming off his reintroduc-tion from “Thanos Rising,” the five-issue

series released this year.“The stories that Thanos has been

involved in all have a certain scale and importance and weight,” Hickman said. “That’s what we’re trying to do here.”

This comic book cover released by Marvel Entertainment LLC

shows “Infinity,” part one of a six-issue mini-series written by

Jonathan Hickman and available on Wednesday, Aug. 14.

In pages of Marvel’s ‘Infinity,’ Thanos a threat

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Film producing new passion for ‘Twilight’ author Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — When Stephenie Meyer’s name is mentioned, most people think of her “Twilight Saga” vampire books and films. But the author wants a new audience as a film producer. Meyer produced “Austenland,” starring Keri Russell and based on the novel by Meyer’s friend Shannon Hale. The film, directed by Jerusha Hess, opens in lim-ited release Friday.

Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision for Sony/AP Images, File

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 file photo, Executive Produc-

er Stephenie Meyer, left, Director Jerusha Hess, center, and writer

Shannon Hale arrive at the Los Angeles premiere for Sony Pic-

tures Classics’ “Austenland.”

Pastika stated he would not revoke the de-cree but merely reviewed the recommenda-tion of the House. Such assertion was made after chairing the ceremony to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Bali Provincial Gov-ernment at Bajra Sandi Monument Square, Denpasar, Wednesday (Aug 14).

When asked by reporters whether he would implement the recommendation of

the Bali House in order the decree on the reclamation permit was revoked, Pastika did not answer it firmly whether he would revoke the decree or not. He said that his party would examine and study the rec-ommendation. “It’s being assessed (the House’s recommendation-Ed),” he said.

So, will the decree not be revoked? When urged with the question, Pastika dodged and

did not want to give comment further. He reasoned if it was the celebration moment of Bali Provincial Government, not for dis-cussion about reclamation. “We are in the moment of anniversary (of Bali Province-Ed),” said Pastika briefly. To what extent has the study been made and when will the results be available? Asked by such ques-tion, Pastika said it was under process. So, it could not be ascertained when the results and decisions would be available. “It’s still being reviewed. So, we do not know the ex-act time. Obviously, it is being examined,” said the former Police Chief of Bali.

Previously (Bali Post/Aug 13), Chairman of the Bali House had officially issued a

recommendation to the Governor of Bali No.900/2569/DPRD dated August 12, 2013 on the review and or revocation of the Bali Governor Decree No.2138/02-C/HK/2012. “We do not want the polemics on reclamation to continue because there are a lot of rejections from the people of Bali. Thus, the Bali House recommends the governor to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit,” said Chairman of the Bali House, AA Ngurah Oka Ratmadi, accompanied by Deputy Chairman Ketut Suwandhi and Chairman of Commission I of the Bali House Made Arjaya in the Bali Parliamentary Hall, Monday (Aug 12).

Governor has not been willing to revoke decree

Recommendation of Bali House still assessed

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, showed off again his unassertive stance against the aspirations of the people of Bali that refused the reclamation and recommendation of the Bali House asking the governor to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit.

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People of Benoa Bay rallied against recla-mation plan on Benoa Bay recently. Gover-nor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, showed

off again his unassertive stance against the aspirations of the people of Bali that refused the reclamation and recommendation of the

Bali House asking the governor to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit.

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International2 Friday, August 16, 2013 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 July 10 through August 10, 2013

10 Jul Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan - Pulasari Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Tarokaja Taro Tegallalang 17 Jul Buda Paing Wayang Pura Dang Khayangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli 20 Jul Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bathara Ratu Gede Celuk Sukawati Bathara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Bathara Ratu Allit lan Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba Kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel klungkung Pura Pemerajan Agung Sulang Dawan Klungkung Pura Padharman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih ( Dalem Klungkung ) Pura Penataran dan Pasraman Kuta Rejo , Kendal Rejo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Sidhi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 22 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan- Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar

Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru- Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Luhur Candi Narmada Tanah Kilap Desa PemogaN Denpasar Selatan Pura Panca Tirta Sido Luhur Bakanheni Lampung Selatan Pura Ponjok Batu Tejakula Buleleng 24 Jul Buda Wage Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Pengembungan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Jawa Banjar Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Penataran Batupelang Kamasan klungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Kedonganan Kuta Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh/Bukit Kiwa Tengen Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Jati Ubud Pura Melanting Ubud Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Desa Sakti Nusa Penida

Pura Penataran Agung Anyar Liligundi Bebandem Karangasem 30 Jul Anggar Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Dalem Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar Pura Puser Jagat,Dalem Dukut, Puri Sukun Nusa Penida Pura Dalem Purwa Banjar Kawan Bangli Pura Desa Ketewel Sukawati 31 Jul Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibangkaja Abiansemal Pura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar Pura Paiobon Dukuh Segening Serongga Kelod Gianyar 4 Aug redite Kliwon Watugunung Pura Penataran Agung Mahagotra Tirta Harum Srisrengga Desa Nyalian Banjarangkan Klungkung 6 Aug Tilem Sasih Kasa Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Desa Kukuh Marga Tabanan 10 Aug Hari raya Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas - Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel - Sayan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Watugunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya - Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung Pura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning Desa Mambal Abiansemal

Perching right at zero point of the capital of Denpasar, right at Jalan Veteran 3 Denpasar, the hotel remains to intensely reflect the Dutch architecture. Rijsttafel menu is a traditional food having existed since the hotel was established. Such culi-nary specialty remains to be preserved until now. “In the past, Rijsttafel was presented to dignitaries and kings,” said the Assistant Chef of Inna Bali, Nyoman Suratni.

Rijsttafel is served on a bronze tray. It has various tastes because on a single tray is served several types of Inna Bali typical foods such as beef satay, fried chicken, gado-gado, soup, fried tuna, eggs, pickles, chili, Balinese raw sambal and crackers. “Other than white rice, we serve on differ-ent plates. This menu is perfect for lunch and dinner,” she said.

According to Nyoman Suratni, prepa-

ration of the rijsttafel had no fixed rules or could be done according to taste pro-vided that the tray remained to contain the servings like meat vegetable, rice and sambal. The latter was very important. Meanwhile, the dessert of rijsttafel could be accompanied with watermelon, melon and pineapple. “We also focus on soup and fried chicken,” she added.

The soup was composed of several in-gredients, such as carrot, cucumber, meat-ball and tuna. To prepare it, all ingredients were boiled in one container and then added with spices. Its spices were consist-ing of pulverized garlic and then stir-fried until looking lightly brown. After that, it was added with salt, pepper powder and flavoring.

In the meantime, the seasoning of fried chicken, added Suratni, used special

IBP/File Photo

Enjoy Rijsttafel at Inna Bali HotelIBP

DENPASAr - Certainly, the name of Inna Bali Hotel Denpasar remains inherent in the tourism community of Bali and Indonesia in general. The accommodation established in the Dutch colonial era has a restaurant offering distinctive and special menus. Aside from being good for relaxation, the dining venue also applies open concept making it very close to nature. And rijsttafel becomes one of the most favorite menus for tourists.

ingredients such as onion, garlic and large chili. All ingredients were then pulverized, and added with a slice of ginger, five seeds

of coriander and brown sugar to taste. Then, they were finely pulverized. Ultimately, the batter was steamed and smeared onto

the fried chicken. “If it has been processed correctly, it will give delicious flavor,” said the well experienced assistant chef.

Mangupura (Bali Post)—Commission B of the Badung House urged

the government to take stern action against the construction of three hotels located at Sawangan and Jimbaran. When the Commis-sion B held site inspection, the three hotels were alleged to do cliff dredging without paying attention to the environmental condi-tions. Commission B also found a number of violations in the projects.

“When we the Commission B and Com-mission A made site inspection on Tuesday (Aug 13) with relevant agencies, we found an excessive cliff cutting at the project of Kem-pinski Hotel and Ritz Carlton at Sawangan as well as Konde Ratu Hotel at Jimbaran. We think the hotel at Jimbaran has not licensed yet,” said Chairman of Commission B of the Badung House, I Made Sumerta, Wednesday (Aug 14).

According to Sumerta, the cliff cutting paid less attention to the topography. The hills dredged were assessed unstable because the local rocks did not belong to the hard type so that it tended to be porous. He worried about

the occurrence of landslides. Moreover, in one of the hotel projects there was the making of road access by cutting a 100-meter cliff.

His party also alleged the two hotel projects at Sawangan to violate the coastal borderline. The hotels also got around the borderline with land expansion by using beach sand and backfill.

He said further that when making the site inspection the team of the House and the ex-ecutive could not meet in person with the field coordinator or the hotel owner representative. Besides, it did not have a project office at the location. As a result, the House got difficulty to get information related to the project.

To follow up the results of inspection, Commission B of the Badung House would have a work meeting by inviting the entrepre-neurs. As scheduled, the meeting would ask for clarification from the hotels next week. “Next week, we will have a meeting again by inviting the entrepreneurs. If there is a violation, we ask the government through relevant agencies to act decisively,” said the PDI-P politician. (kmb25)

Secretary of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Den-pasar, AA Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said the county/municipal government so far only complained without doing any real action to attract tourists to their region. Actually, the potential owned by Northern, Eastern and Western Bali was no less interesting compared to the destinations existing in Southern Bali.

“If wishing an equal distribution, do not only keep silent. They (counties/municipality—Ed) must try to capture it with promotions at the airport where travelers first set foot in Bali. All this time, the incoming travelers only know Kuta, Denpasar and Gianyar because they do not receive information regarding the other destinations in Bali,” said AA Ngurah Adhi in Denpasar, Wednesday (Aug 14).

According to him, the county/mu-nicipality that had not enjoyed the impact

of tourism growth in Bali could take advantage of the Ngurah Rai Airport to promote the tourism potential in the re-gion. Such an effort was also applied in some countries to even up their tourism distribution. “They (the governments) can open a counter to promote their tourism potential. If necessary, each tourist destination provides shuttle bus to transport tourists wishing to visit their region,” he said.

He was optimistic that by completely promoting the existing tourist destina-tions, travelers would be interested in visiting the region outside the Southern Bali tourism. “The government should also shore up this effort by providing adequate infrastructure. Thus, when travelers have been willing to come, they are even hampered by miles of ac-cess, so that they will be lazy to come again,” he said.

Negara (Bali Post)—License application for three villas

owned PT Pasti at Perancak was finally returned by the Jembrana Integrated Li-censing Office. Based on field inspection, one of the villa units infringed the coastal borderline.

Although the license has not been approved, the villas are alleged to have been in operation. It was visible when the Jembrana House made a site inspec-tion. The integrated team with Chairman of the Jembrana House, I Ketut Sugiasa, on Monday (Aug 12) found the villas had been in operation though having no had li-cense yet. The three villas, namely villa 9, 12 and 20, had actively employed staff.

The Head of Jembrana Integrated Li-censing Office, Komang Suparta, said the licensing document submitted to licensing office for Villa 12 had been returned to management. The office rejected the ap-

plication because it was not eligible for further process. According to Suparta, the most fundamental thing was that the building violated the coastal borderline. The villa building located at Dangin Berawah hamlet was very close to the shoreline. In addition, the construction of building did not meet the standards, namely without a roof. The county gov-ernment only gave permission for building with roof. Meanwhile, the license of two other villas, namely villa 20 and 9, had not been submitted.

Meanwhile, the observation on Wednes-day (Aug 14) indicated the three villas were closed and empty. One of the vil-las, namely villa 9, looked to have been padlocked from the outside. Previously, the inspection made by the House and the integrated team found there were about 10 employees claimed to have been working at the villa. (kmb26)

Grab tourism pie in Southern Bali

County/municipal govt may not lack in vitalityDenpasar (Bali Post)—

The development of tourism in Bali remaining to be focused on Southern Bali especially in Badung must be grabbed by the other counties/municipal-ity on the Island of the Gods. The county/municipal government may not lack of vitality and only laments the imbalanced distribution of tourism, but should do something for the sake of people’s welfare.

IBP/File

Kuta, one of the tourism object in southern Bali

Three hotel projects alleged to violate

Build on coastal borderlineLicense application of villa at Perancak denied

3Friday, August 16, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, August 16, 2013

Makeup with menswear is a little more important than other styles because with a neutral, muted palette of grays, blacks and browns, “you want to have a little life to your face, a little health and vigor,” says Linda Wells, Allure magazine’s editor-in-chief.

When suiting up in this fall trend, women have choices for their beauty look, she says. “Are you go-ing to exaggerate the menswear look and play it up fully, or are you going to offset it with something feminine?” Wells says.

To soften menswear staples like gray flannel and houndstooth, which are so often fashioned into tailored items, add femininity by playing up the eyes or lips, experts advise, but not both at the same time so your features don’t compete. “You want to add feminine flair throughout the

face if you can’t have it on the body through the clothing,” says Myiesha Sewell, a Sephora Pro makeup artist.

For a ladylike touch, Wells envi-sions soft hair with a little wave to it falling over the forehead along with a rich burgundy lipstick, or dark, smoky eyes featuring gray eye shadow, eyeliner and lots of mascara. “Who doesn’t want to be a femme fatale?” she says of the “sexy androgyny” combination of feminine makeup and menswear.

If you want to keep the mens-wear feeling consistent from head to toe, Wells recommends a simpler style that doesn’t draw attention to the face: Hair is slick to the head and parted on the side “so it looks boyish,” and styled in a low ponytail or bun. Keep makeup natural looking, with clear or pale lip gloss, taupe eye

shadow, mascara and a darkened brow to give strength and defini-tion to the face.

However, Wells prefers the feminine face: “It’s taking men’s style and making it feminine. It’s the masculine-feminine — that conflict is always interesting. That tension is what makes it exciting.”

Sewell likes to add a shot of bold color while keeping the rest of it neutral to help soften the straight lines and sometimes boxy shapes of the clothing. For the eyes, try a bold blue liner along with a neutral brown or peach eye shadow. After mastering blue, Sewell says move on to experimenting with emerald or eggplant liner. “One of the easi-est looks and colors to wear with a neutral eye is navy blue or a cobalt eye liner,” Sewell says. “It really pops the whites of your eyes.”


NEW YORK — Macy’s Inc. reported a disappointing profit for its second quarter and cut its outlook for the year on Wednes-day. The department store chain blamed shoppers’ reluctance to spend for a rare slip in sales.

AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

FILE - In a Feb. 10, 2013 file photo a model walks the runway at the Victoria Beckham Fall 2013 fashion show during Fashion Week, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in New York.

AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011, file photo, pedestrians pass the Macy’s department store, in New York. Macy’s Inc. is reporting quarterly earnings on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013.

Makeup for menswear: Be a girlie girl or a tomboyAssociated Press Writer

If you’re slipping into a tweed blazer, an oversized cardigan or a sleek women’s tux this fall, the right beauty look is the perfect accessory to complete your menswear-inspired outfit. The choice is yours to do a 180-degree turn and go with hyper-girlie, or stay strictly tomboy: Either can complement the more masculine clothing silhouettes.

Macy’s sales slip, says shoppers wary of spendingIts shares fell nearly 5 percent in

regular trading. Over the past year, its stock is up almost 27 percent. The second-quarter weakness raises worries about consumer spending, an important part of the economy, and how other merchants fared dur-ing the spring and early summer.

Macy’s, the first of the major

retailers to report second-quarter results, has been a standout among its peers throughout the economic recovery. It’s a barometer of spending among middle- to upper-income shoppers.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kohl’s Corp. and Nordstrom Inc. are among the major retailers scheduled to report later this week.

Like other retailers, the Cin-cinnati-based operator of Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s is grappling with a yo-yo economic recovery that’s making people careful about their purchases heading into the heart of the key back-to-school selling period.

While jobs are easier to get and the turnaround in the housing market is showing promise, the im-provements haven’t been enough to get most Americans to spend more. Most are juggling tepid wage gains with higher costs of living. On top of that, Americans are still trying to digest higher payroll taxes that went into effect Jan. 1.

“We believe that much of our weakness is due to the health of the consumer and to the fact that consumers seem to be choosing to make purchases in non-depart-ment store categories such as cars,

housing and home improvement,” Karen Hoguet, Macy’s chief finan-cial officer, said during a confer-ence call with investors.

Hoguet also said that Macy’s was also partly to blame for the sales shortfall as well. The chain didn’t provide ample offerings of low-priced merchandise. To lure shoppers back in the store, Macy’s said it is stepping up marketing but declined to offer details.

Chris Donnelly, London-based global retail managing director at Accenture, said that in this still tough economic environment, shoppers are shifting their spend-ing around since they can’t afford to buy all the product categories at one time. The nature of back-to-school shopping adds even more pressure to retailers.

Unlike Christmas, “there is no artificial deadline,” he said. “There’s no reason you have to buy the new pair of jeans on the first day of school.”

For the three months that ended Aug. 3, Macy’s said it earned $281 million, or 72 cents per share. That’s short of the 78 cents per share analysts expected. It was the first time Macy’s profit missed ex-pectations since 2007. A year ago,

the company earned $279 million, or 67 cents per share.

Revenue slipped to $6.07 bil-lion, also short of the $6.26 billion analysts expected, according to FactSet.

Revenue at stores open a year, a key metric because it strips out the impact of newly opened and closed locations, slid 0.8 percent. That was Macy’s first decline since the fourth quarter of 2009.

Macy’s now expects the figure to climb between 2 percent and 2.9 percent for the full year, down from its previous projection of a 3.5 percent increase.

Hoguet said that weakness dur-ing the quarter affected many types of products, including shoes and cosmetics. The company had to mark down prices after a cool spring. But she said she was encour-aged by early back-to-school sales so far in August. Another piece of encouraging news: the company’s upscale Bloomingdale’s chain saw a rebound in business from a weaker first quarter.

But other retailers such as teen clothing sellers American Eagle Outfitters Inc. and Aeropostale Inc. have warned of a slow start to the back-to-school period.

Bali PostDENPASAR - Today, the de-

velopment occurred in Bali has not been able to prosper the com-munity. Even, within the past 10

Mercedes Corby told reporters outside Kerobokan prison on the resort island that officials from the country’s correctional agency had Tuesday inspected her own home on Bali, where her sister would live.

“Officials came to my house yesterday to begin the parole pro-cess,” she said after dropping off food and water for her sister.

“It’s great news -- one step closer to her freedom.”

“Our family is happy,” said Schapelle’s elder sister, who lives on the island with her Balinese husband.

Kerobokan prison warden I Gusti Ngurah Wiratna confirmed officials had visited Mercedes Corby’s home in the tourist district of Kuta and had also visited the prisoner the same day.

“The visits were part of Corby’s parole process. The officials also verified documents related to her parole,” he said.

The documents included a let-

ter of support from the Australian government and another from Corby’s family, he said.

Corby, 36, received a 20-year jail sentence in 2005 for smug-gling 4.1 kilograms (nine pounds) of marijuana into Bali.

Following a five-year sentence cut and several shorter reductions, she has been eligible for parole for almost a year but has yet to of-ficially apply as she must first meet stringent conditions.

These include requirements such as getting a letter of approval from the head of the village where she would live in Bali.

She is due for a sentence remis-sion Saturday to mark Indonesia’s independence day, when prisoners typically have three to six months cut from their sentences.

Indonesia enforces stiff penal-ties for drug trafficking, including life imprisonment and death.

IBP/Net

Australian drug offender Schapelle Corby is one step closer to being freed from prison in Indo-nesia’s Bali island after officials began preparing for her parole, her sister said Wednesday.

Corby closer to freedomAgence France-Presse

KEROBOKAN - Australian drug offender Schapelle Corby is one step closer to being freed from prison in Indonesia’s Bali island after officials began preparing for her parole, her sister said Wednesday.

Economy of Bali has not yet prospered community years a lot of developments have confronted the foundations of religion, culture and customs and they even harm Bali.

“More ironically, the rapid eco-

nomic growth should also be en-joyed by more people. This occurs because more economic growth belonging to the proportion of non-tradable sector (services), not of the

tradable sector (trade),” said the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, in Den-pasar, Wednesday (Aug 14).

According to him, the gap occurred in Bali was not only caused by the unequal income from tourism pie. However, it was also caused by people’s low edu-cational background, less optimal cultivation of local potential that could improve the living standard economically and others.

“There are some regions having local advantages or we prefer to call it local wisdom. This potential is ac-tually able to improve the economic life of the community,” he said.

He added that Balinese commu-nity could not expect much from the government. Aside from restricted budget, it was also caused by capital expenditure or the development in the regional budget that had inad-equate proportion to help drive the local economy. Even, there was a structure in the regional budget of a county whose proportion of per-sonnel and routine expenses had a range around 70 percent.

“It can be imagined how such imbalanced proportion can become a stimulus of development. The ideal structure shows that percent-age of routine and personnel expen-diture is less than 50 percent, while the rest is for capital expenditure and development,” he said.

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Today, the development occurred in Bali has not been able to prosper the community. Even, within the past 10 years a lot of developments have confronted the foundations of religion, culture and customs and they even harm Bali.

The gaps in Bali was also con-firmed by the data released by the World Bank requiring that the dis-tribution of income would declared low if 40 percent of the population having low income could enjoy at least 17 percent of total income.

In 2009, 40 percent of the low-income class in Bali had enjoyed 22.15 percent of the total income. It was much higher than the re-quired number (17 percent) so that Bali was categorized into a prov-ince having low level of inequality or the income distribution of the population was relatively even. However, a year later the economic pie that could be enjoyed by the low-income class had actually decreased to only 20.75 percent. Even, in 2011 the figure could be said to drop so that the low-income class only received a total of 17.20 percent of the total income generated by Bali compared to 20 percent of the upper class. In 2009, 20 percent of the upper class had received 39.10 percent of the total income generated. In 2010, the figure increased to 41.73 percent and in 2011 the figure had reached 46.42 percent.

“On that account, Bali needs a leader with a clear vision in the field of public welfare. It should not offer a bombastic vision in theoretical level, but it can be implemented substantially in the level of prac-tice,” he said. (kmb27)

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Sitting helplessly on the ground, exhausted by hours of inhaling tear gas, they pondered their next move as Egypt’s bloodiest day in years came to an end.

For more than 12 hours, security forces in black-clad body armor and helmets, backed by snipers, military helicopters and armored vehicles, used bulldozers to sweep away the encampment occupied by support-ers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. The crackdown set off run-ning street battles in Cairo and other Egyptian cities that left nearly 300 people dead nationwide.

“What was horrifying today were the snipers. The sound of bullets was extremely frighten-

ing,” said Mosa’ab Elshamy, a freelance photographer who said he was standing next to a medic who was shot in the head by sniper fire around noon.

“Most of the corpses I saw in the field hospital had been shot in the head or chest,” said Elshamy, who was in the camp for more than six hours during the clashes. In two main morgues, he said he counted 65 bodies.

Located near the Rabbah al-Adawiya Mosque that has served as the epicenter of the pro-Morsi campaign, the tent city was erected six weeks ago to show support for Morsi and demand his reinstate-ment after his overthrow in a July

3 military coup.On Wednesday, smoke and

flames poured from all corners of the camp, where cars and tents were set alight, along with wood fires set by the protesters in an effort to lessen the impact of tear gas.

It was in stark contrast to the festive mood that had prevailed in recent weeks, when couples got married and clerics took to the stage to announce they saw angels in their dreams that were a sign of impending victory. Posters with Morsi’s image and slogans call-ing him the “legitimate president” were plastered on tents and light poles, while giant loudspeakers played some of his fiery speeches and women chanted “Morsi is my president.”

During the first hour of Wednes-day’s crackdown, which began around 7 a.m., protesters said they tried to stop the bulldozers by ly-ing on the pavement in front of the vehicles.

Reuters

BELGRADE - Lucija Rajner last saw her father, Vladislav, on November 14, 1941, through a barbed-wire fence at a concentra-tion camp in Belgrade.

That autumn, Rajner and her mother passed food, letters and bedding to him, until a guard told them he wouldn’t need such supplies anymore. Rajner never learned his

fate, but assumes he died the same way as 6,000 other Jews and 1,500 Roma who passed through the camp - gunned down or gassed en masse.

The cluster of warehouses that formed the camp known as Topovske Supe still stands; rubbish litters the floors and graffiti scars the walls.

A small plaque is all that marks the location’s dark history. It was screwed to a crumbling brick wall in 2006, when most of the land had already been sold

for 27 million euros ($35 million) to a retail tycoon who plans to spend 160 million to turn it into the biggest shop-ping mall in the Balkans.

Rajner and a small group of historians and activists say the destruction of Topovske Supe is emblematic of how far Serbia still has to go in recognizing the Holo-caust on its soil.

“I don’t know why the state shows this kind of disrespect to

things which should not be forgot-ten,” said 79-year-old Rajner.

In a region dotted with memorials to Partisan battle victories, the 70,000 Jews who died in Yugoslavia during World War Two were subsumed into the narrative of Yugoslav victims of fascism, part of the doctrine of ‘Brotherhood and Unity’ propagated by Josip Broz Tito to diminish na-tional and ethnic differences within the federation he ruled from 1945

to 1980. After Estonia, Serbia was the second Nazi-occupied territory in Europe to be formally declared ‘free of Jews’ in August 1942, when 90 percent of the country’s 16,000 Jews had perished.

With Tito’s death, unity gave way to the virulent nationalism that would eventually tear Yugoslavia apart, and Serbia began stressing the suffering of Serbs at the hands of Nazi puppet rulers in Croatia.

Reuters

ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan dis-missed reports he was sick and had been hospitalized in the past week on Thursday and questioned the media’s motives for speculat-ing on his health.

On Monday, the Yurt newspa-per and other Turkish dailies said Erdogan had spent five days in hospital with an upset stomach but provided no source for the reports. His office called the reports “base-less allegations” later that day.

“Praise God, I am doing just fine. As to what hospital I was in, what happened in hospital and so on, nothing like that happened. I just rested after the holiday for a few days and adjusted my program accordingly. There is nothing wrong,” he told report-ers in Ankara before travelling to Turkmenistan.

“This side of the media is very bad, you should question your-selves a little. Where do they find

such lies? ... A person should have some shame,” he said.

Speculation about Erdogan’s health has been rife since he had surgery to remove polyps from his intestines in late 2011.

Polyps are abnormal growths of tissue which can be cancerous. Turkish media cited Erdogan’s doctor as saying the polyps had been harmless following the surgery.

The 59-year-old leader, in power since 2003, usually speaks daily on television and travels frequently in the country. But he had not appeared in public since speaking to reporters last Thurs-day after praying at a mosque at the start of the holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Power in Turkey is centralized around Erdogan, who has made little secret about his desire to become president. Previous ab-sences have sparked speculation over his health as well as possible rifts within his party.

Dark history hangs over tycoon’s plan for Balkan mega-mall

Turkey’s Erdogan dismisses speculation over his health

REUTERS/Umit BektasTurkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses the media before leaving for Turkmenistan at Esenboga Airport in Ankara August 15, 2013.

AP Photo/Khalil HamraEgyptian army soldiers stand guard outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Muslim Brotherhood protesters had a camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013.

Cairo’s Islamist camps overrun amid crackdownAssociated Press Writer

CAIRO — Crushed, dazed and chanting “Down, down with military rule!” hundreds of supporters of Egypt’s ousted president streamed out of a protest camp that had come to symbolize the resistance of Arab Spring Islamists. It now resembled a war zone — covered in debris, with thick black smoke billowing skyward.

As observation of Bali Post, many domestic tourists thronged Ulun Danu by midday. Some travelled by private cars. They arrived almost simultaneously at the nature tourist attraction. Though it tended to be cloudy, such condition did not dis-courage them to enjoy the lake view. By late afternoon, the domestic tour-

ist arrival increased and was domi-nated by group coming by buses. “Incidentally, the Eid holiday remains four days. So, we use the holiday by traveling to Bali,” said Risma, 25, one of the domestic tourists from Malang, East Java, Wednesday (Aug 14). The girl traveled in the group of her office. She admitted that in Java

the Eid holiday season just ended on Sunday (Aug 18). Thus, many choose to holiday in Bali after celebrating the Eid. In addition to domestic tourists, the number of foreign tourist arrivals also increased slightly. They mostly came from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Secretary of the Operations

Manager of the Ulun Danu Beratan tourist object, Wayan Parwata, said the domestic tourist visit during the Eid holiday skyrocketed. The peak occurred on Friday (Aug 9) and Saturday (Aug 10). Domestic tour-ist arrival reached 4,000 people per day. “It was the peak of tourist visit during the Eid holiday. After that, it gradually turned to normal,” he said last Wednesday. Though gradually coming back to normal, the domes-tic tourist arrival still reached 3,000 people per day.

Parwata predicted the domestic

tourist arrival would continue. The prediction was based on the Eid holiday period in Java that would end on Sunday (Aug 18). “We predict, the number of tourist visit continues to rise, though not many,” he said. On normal days, the num-ber of visit to Ulun Danu averagely reached 2,000 people. Parwata expected the weather in the area of Lake Beratan to remain fine. On that account, tourists would keep flowing. If the weather was cloudy and foggy, tourists usually canceled their visit. (kmb30)

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Rampant onslaught of plastic waste made hundreds of students in Baturiti subdistrict, Tabanan, furious. They rallied and protested against the lack of people’s awareness of waste management in the Baturiti Market, Wednesday (Aug 14). Such an action was marked with the presentation of theatrical show in the form of barong bangkung made from plastic waste.

The rally was commenced by ora-tion at Baturiti Square. All students shouted out an anti-plastic waste yell. They also unfurled a number of posters. In essence, those posters

invited the residents to fight against waste, especially plastic waste. The action was resumed with a long march leading to the market. In the market courtyard, the students made a circular formation. Then, two barong dances were staged with the bleganjur gamelan accompaniment. A barong was made from numerous sheets of plastic waste, while another was a common barong. Both fight. As a re-sult, the plastic barong collapsed. The rally ended with picking up litter en masse. “It’s part of campaign against plastic waste. So far, not many people are willing to care about the rampant plastic waste,” said Made Suparwata,

the action coordinator. He confessed such a peaceful protest was also a series of 52 movements related to the 52th Scout Anniversary and 68th Anniversary of the Independence Day of the RI.

He explained that plastic waste had become a chronic disease in Bali. Virtually every corner of the town and village had been filled up with plastic waste. However, the handling was very minimal. As a form of concern, his party invited the Scout group in Baturiti to come down to the road. It was intended to make people aware of the hazards of plastic waste. Then, his party in-

vited people to care about the waste management. “We also insinuate the government the government seeming less focused on the waste management program,” said the Scout builder of the SMPN1 Baturi-ti junior high school. By a peaceful protest with students, he hoped, the entire community could care about the hazard of plastic waste.

The action made on Wednesday became an interesting spectacle for residents, especially visitors to local market. After the march, the students returned to the previ-ous square. They were students of elementary, junior high and high

school across the Baturiti subdis-trict. According to Suparwata, the anti-waste campaign had become an annual agenda. Meanwhile, the action of this year was made different by presenting a theatrical attraction. The theme was quite relevant through a cultural ap-proach. “In other words, armed with togetherness, the plastic waste becoming a threat for Bali must be dealt with together,” he pleaded. He also urged the government to include character education related to waste at schools so the concern with waste could be instilled since early age. (kmb30)

Plastic waste rampant, hundreds of students rally

The crowded Ulun Danu during the Eid

holiday

During Eid season

Visitors to Ulun Danu increases by 100 percentTabanan (Bali Post)—

Ulun Danu Beratan tourist object, Baturiti, remained to be a favorite destination for domestic tourists. On the Eid holiday season, the domestic tourist visit increased by 100 percent. They were mostly tourists from Java. It was evident from the license plate of their vehicles. On average, they were from Surabaya, Malang and Jakarta.

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Associated Press

HONG KONG — State-owned China Mobile’s first half-profit rose just 1.5 percent as the world’s big-gest phone company by subscribers grappled with rising competition.

The Beijing-based company said Thursday that income in the Janu-ary-June period rose to 63.1 billion yuan ($10.3 billion) as wireless data revenue jumped by two-thirds.

Operating revenue rose 10 per-cent to 303.1 billion yuan.

The company said the number of subscribers rose to more than 740 million from 710 million at the end of 2012.

Competition between China Mo-bile and its two state-owned rivals, China Unicom and China Telecom, is intensifying as the three compa-nies invest heavily in new, faster fourth-generation networks to sup-port data-hungry smartphones and tablet computers.

China Mobile is at a disadvan-tage because its third-generation network technology, running its homegrown TD-SCDMA technol-ogy, doesn’t support Apple’s popu-lar iPhone.

Chairman Xi Guohua said the company “faced a number of chal-lenges” including slower economic growth and more complex compe-tition in the information and com-munications industry.

“Good progress was made in preparing for the commercialization of TD-LTE,” Xi said, referring to 4G “long-term evolution” network technology that may support newer iPhone models.

If American cannot grow by merging, it could decide to add flights to better compete with larger rivals. Doing so would likely reduce airfares — and profit margins — across the industry, an outcome that many airline investors fear. Airline stocks sank for a second straight day Wednesday.

American has faded to a distant third in the United States and is particularly weak along the U.S. East Coast. US Airways is No. 5 among U.S. carriers, lacks strength in the middle of the country and doesn’t even fly to Asia. But put them together under the American Airlines name, and you’ve got the biggest airline in the world.

Size helps airlines land impor-tant corporate-travel accounts — business passengers will pay higher fares for a carrier that gets them where they want to go.

That’s why American and US Airways are vowing to fight the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit to block their merger.

“If this merger does not take place, US Air will continue to have the gaps and weaknesses in its net-work that it has now, and American will continue to have the gaps and weaknesses in its network,” said Joe Sims, an antitrust lawyer hired by American. “Neither individually will be as effective a competitor to United and Delta and Southwest and all the smaller low-cost car-riers.”

Airline profits have improved in recent years as mergers elimi-nated several major airlines and the survivors limited the supply of air-plane seats, driving up fares. Many analysts think that if American remains independent, it will pursue a rapid-growth strategy — that was CEO Tom Horton’s plan before the merger. Wall Street didn’t like it.

If American tries to grow to catch up to United and Delta, “the industry’s longer-term earnings prospects are jeopardized,” J.P. Morgan analyst Jamie Baker wrote

Without merger, airline industry faces uncertainty

Associated Press

DALLAS — The merger between American Airlines and US Airways was supposed to cap an era of consolidation that helped the airline industry return to profitability and produce a stronger competitor to giants United and Delta. Now, a government lawsuit to block the merger has put both of those expectations in doubt.

in a note to clients. Fitch Ratings said the government’s move against the merger could mean the end of airline consolidation, making the lawsuit a negative for the industry’s credit ratings.

American’s parent, AMR Corp., and US Airways Group Inc. an-nounced their merger in February and AMR made the deal part of its reorganization plan that a federal bankruptcy judge was expected to approve on Thursday. The plan would have allowed AMR to end nearly two years in bankruptcy.

But on Tuesday, the Justice Department and six states sued to block the deal, saying it would hurt competition and drive up prices for consumers. On a conference call with reporters Wednesday, lawyers for the airlines said they were confi-dent of winning when the case goes to trial. They said that the govern-ment has only stopped one merger in the last eight years.

“We were surprised that the

(lawsuit) wasn’t stronger,” said one of the lawyers, Paul Denis. “We usually expect the government to put on a better case.”

Justice Department spokes-woman Gina Talamona declined to address the lawyers’ specific comments but defended the lawsuit. “We allege that the deal will lessen competition, and passengers will pay higher fares and receive less service,” she said.

If the airlines win, the lawsuit will be just a speed bump in the merger plan. Or they could negoti-ate a settlement with the Justice Department — maybe by giving up coveted takeoff and landing slots at crowded Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C.

But if the merger gets scuttled, American and US Airways will remain far behind United and Delta — which grew through regulator-approved mergers in the last five years — and without any way to grow quickly.

“US Airways by itself doesn’t have the money to go out and create trans-Pacific routes,” said Robert Mittelstaedt, dean emeritus of the business school at Arizona State University and a longtime observer of the airline industry.

Executives for American and US

Airways have declined to say yet what they would do if the merger is blocked. AMR would have to file a new reorganization plan with the bankruptcy court, because the merger is the key element of its current plan. It would then have to get its creditors, who were instru-mental in steering American toward a merger, to support the changes. The creditors expected to be fully repaid under the merger plan but might get less if American remains on its own.

If AMR must go ahead without the merger, it can point to improv-ing financial results. It has cut labor and other costs in bankruptcy, and it posted a $220 million profit in the second quarter, its first profit for the period in six years. An important measure of performance, revenue per mile, hit a record in July.

The merged airline would be run by US Airways CEO Doug Parker. Several top executives at American (and some at US Airways) were not offered jobs at the new company and had planned to leave.

Some departing American man-agers might have to pull their resumes off job websites, but they haven’t left yet — they are due to get severance deals if they stay until the merger is completed.

AP Photo/Matt York, fileIn this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, file photo, a U.S. Airways jet passes an American Airlines jet at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. The merger of the two airlines has given birth to a mega airline with more passengers than any other in the world.

China Mobile 1H profit edges up just 1.5 percent

PAGERWESI feast is always grandi-osely celebrated every year by the people in Buleleng. Inevitably, such condition made the atmosphere of Singaraja town suddenly deserted. Traditional markets and a number of shops were also closed for the whole day. When the town atmo-sphere was deserted, the suburban tourist objects were even thronged by visitors. It happened because after saying prayers people took advantage of the holiday mo-ment to have a picnic with families.

Observation on Wednesday (Aug 14) indicated that residents had been passing on the road from early morn-ing to say prayers to family temple or public temples in Buleleng. In addition, residents also worshiped with relatives and close family in graveyard. They practiced the tradition with a belief that people remaining to have family mem-bers who died but had not been cremated were offered an oblation on the feast as an expression of devotion of the family left. However, within the past few years the people praying at graveyard had decreased. It was said, the decrease was caused by the frequent implementation of mass cremation and people preferred to join it for lower expenses.

After saying prayers at graveyard, the food in the oblation was savored together in the temple area. Despite at graveyard area, people remained to enjoy the food with gusto. Unsurprisingly, the ambience of graveyard turned into an attractive tourist area worth visiting.

Until noon, the roads stayed to look deserted. A number of shopping areas in the town of Singaraja were closed. Simi-larly, the traditional markets in Northern Bali chose to close all day long. People selling every day in the market kiosk only came to the market for the sake of worship. Only a few kiosks remained open because the traders were non-Hindu residents. Other than public markets and shops, the government offices were also closed on Wednesday.

Having worshipped, in the after-noon people enjoyed their free time by visiting tourist attractions in the suburbs. The coastal tourist areas such as Lovina Beach, Penimbangan, Ban-jar Hot Spring and Air Sanih looked so crowded. Aside from boosting the local tourist arrival, the moment was also taken advantage by street vendors. They claimed their turnover increased than usual days. (kmb)

“Keep maintaining and developing our culture”, said Try Sutrisno to Bali Safari after watching the Bali Agung Show.

Bali Agung is a great show of the legend of ancient goddess in Bali, involving more than 200 performers, 8 elephants and many other animals in the stage of 3200 square meters, with the setting stage with a width of 60 me-ters and a depth of 40 meters, the art lighting, sound systems, and seating capacity of 1200 is an international luxury. Bali Agung’ is on show every day at Bali Theatre of Bali Safari & Marine Park from Tuesday to Sunday on 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm

Bali Safari & Marine Park is located in Gianyar and can be reached in an hour from Denpasar. Bali Safari & Marine Park is the latest development of Taman Safari Indonesia, which has been famous as the leading wildlife conservation park in Indonesia with the first establishment of Taman Safari in Cisarua, Bogor, West Java and the second in Prigen, East Java.

IBP/Courtesy of BSMPhe former vice president of the Republic of Indonesia, Try Sutrisno, along with his children and grandchildren visiting Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP), specifically to see the colossal Bali Agung show at Bali Theatre.

Former VP Try Sutrisno watched Bali Agung show

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GIANYAR - The former vice president of the Republic of Indonesia, Try Sutrisno, along with his children and grandchildren visiting Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP), specifi-cally to see the colossal Bali Agung show at Bali Theatre. Try Sutrisno with families wel-comed by General Manager Hans Manansang and Deputy General Manager of Bali Safari & Marine Park Ana Dewi.

IBP/Eka AdhiyasaPAGERWESI feast is always grandiosely celebrated every year by the people in Buleleng. After saying prayers at graveyard, the food in the oblation was savored together in the temple area.

Pagerwesi Traditional market closes, tourist objects thronged by visitors

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donesia has urged the international community to support efforts to end the continuing political violence in Egypt.

Marty Natalegawa, Foreign Af-fairs Ministry of Indonesia, said in a press released issued early Thursday that Indonesia is “deeply concerned” about the worsening sit-uation and loss of lives in Egypt.

“We are deeply concerned by the worsening situation in Egypt. The

use of force, which has led to the loss of lives, will not address the issue,” he said.

Marty added that the interna-tional community needs to support efforts at reconciliation among political parties in Egypt and work to end the ongoing violence.

Egypt’s health ministry said 278 people had been killed in nationwide violence on Wednes-day, Aug 14, after police clashed with loyalists of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

The most deadly confrontations occurred at the Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo, where an AFP correspondent counted 124 bodies. In contrast, health ministry spokesman Mohammed Fathallah said 61 people died at Rabaa al-Adawiya.

Additionally, Fathallah said 21 people died at the Nahda Square camp in Cairo, 18 in Helwan, south of the capital, and the remaining fatalities occurred in outlying provinces.

Ironically, the scarcely popu-lated regions do not seem to be on par with the rest of the country in terms of economic and social development.

In reality, the people of Papua have not enjoyed the fruits of de-velopment and feel isolated from the rest of the country.

Therefore, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s special aide for regional development and autonomy Velix Wanggai has said the injustice felt by the local people with regard to economic and social gaps is being exploited by the outlawed Free Papua Or-ganisation (OPM) by inciting the fight for independence.

According to him, backward-ness, disappointment, and dissat-isfaction of the people of Papua serve as ammunition to incite re-sistance against the government.

He noted that the government is fully aware of the problem and has taken steps to reduce the gap and eliminate feelings of injustice.

However, international law and political observer of the University of Cenderawasi (Uncen) Marinus Yaung opined that a peaceful dia-logue between Papua and Jakarta is the best possible solution to the problem in Papua.

“We agree that Papua-Jakarta Dialogue will help solve the problem in Papua,” Marianus said in Jayapura recently.

He noted that the problem in Papua is not limited to economic and social development; it is a political problem that has to be solved through a peaceful dia-logue session with Jakarta.

Meanwhile, a hearing be-tween the People’s Assemblies of Papua’s two provinces of Papua

and West Papua at the end of late July indicated that the majority of people in Papua are in favour of dialogue sessions.

Therefore, Director of the Democracy Alliance for Papua (AlDP) Latifah Anum Siregar said all stakeholders in the region should support Papua People’s Assembly (MRP) in recom-mending Papua-Jakarta dialogue immediately.

“The regional administrations of Papua and West Papua, the regional legislative assemblies, and people of the two prov-inces should support MRP’s rec-ommendations,” added Latifah Anum Siregar.

Latifah explained that the dialogue is recommended since implementation of the Special Autonomy in Papua had failed.

Security has remained an issue in Papua, with separatists in jun-gles fighting for independence.

According to Yan Christian Warinussy, Director of Manok-wari-based Agency for Research, Study and Development of Legal Aid (LP3BH), the people of Pap-ua have repeatedly urged Jakarta to conduct peaceful, neutral, and transparent dialogue sessions, facilitated by third parties in a neutral environment.

MRP and MRPB have under-stood the importance of such dialogue sessions, he said.

“LP3BH of Manokwari, which serves as an advocate for human rights in Papua, has urged Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to consider a Papua-Jakarta dialogue in 2013,” added Yan in Jayapura on Wednesday.

He said the proposed dialogue should be held immediately, as there is no reason for a delay.

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MANADO - Two women from North Sulawesi - Ingka M Wangko and Jelita Karamoy - will conquer Russia’s Mount Elbrus (5,642 metres high) next week.

“We have conquered Papua¿s Puncak Jaya Mountain (4,884 meters high). In August this year, we are hoping to conquer Mount Elbrus. We will leave for Russia at the end of this month,” said Ingka on Thursday.

According to her, Mount Elbrus will be their second conquest.

There are seven mountains in the world, which are extremely tall, in-cluding Mount Everest (8,850 meters

high) in Asia; Aconcagua (6,962 me-ters high) in South America; Mount McKinley (6,194 meters high) in De-nali, the United States; Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters high) of Africa; and Vinson Massif (4,892 meters high) in Antarctica.

“On August 21, 2013, we will look into administration requirements in Jakarta before flying to Russia, as-sisted by the Indonesian Embassy in Russia,” Ingka said.

However, the team continues to face problems such as the lack of funds for the journey as they have managed to raise only half of the funds.

Ingka hopes that the Sulawesi

regional government will support their plan as their success will bring honour to the province.

“We are both mentally and physi-cally prepared. We have been training at Mount Klabat (2,100 meters high). We have reached the peak of Mount Klabat several times,” said Ingka.

If they are unable to raise the funds, the committee will send one of the climbers and operators to conquer Mount Elbrus.

“Our target is to conquer Mount Elbrus in two weeks. We plan to return to Manado in September. We really hope that the weather is clear, which is crucial for our success,” explained Ingka.

Peaceful dialogue to solve problem in PapuaAntara

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s easternmost island of Papua is known to be rich in natural resources, overflowing with gold, copper, silver, and oil.

Women from Sulawesi to conquer Mt. Elbrus of Russia

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

Indonesian Muslims hold posters and wave an Egyptian flag during a protest calling for an end to the violence used against the supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Egypt, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013.

Indonesia urges international support to end violence in Egypt

But visits by senior Japanese government officials to the shrine, whose grounds also house a war museum glorifying Japan’s wartime past, routinely anger neighboring China and South Korea, highlight-ing lingering resentments 68 years after the end of World War II that Japan marked Thursday.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose hawkish views have raised concerns in the region, appeared unlikely to visit the shrine on the anniversary, but had an aide present an ornamental offering bought with his own money.

Two of his Cabinet members, decked out in morning suits, did pay their respects at the shrine Thursday morning, prompting China to summon the Japanese

ambassador in Beijing to register a protest.

A shrine of Japan’s indigenous Shinto religion, Yasukuni evokes bitter memories across Asia of Ja-pan’s colonial and wartime aggres-sion. It honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including Class A war criminals such as Hideki Tojo, a prime minister during the war, who was executed in 1948.

Japan has repeatedly apologized for its wartime actions, but the shrine remains a flashpoint nearly 70 years after Emperor Hirohito is-sued his proclamation surrendering to Allied forces on Aug. 15, 1945.

North and South Korea marked the surrender anniversary Thursday with ceremonies of their own cel-ebrating their independence from

Japan’s 1910-1945 colonization of the peninsula. South Korean Presi-dent Park Geun-hye urged Japanese leaders to “show brave leadership in healing wounds of the past.”

Abe joined Emperor Akihito at a ceremony at a Tokyo indoor arena where they bowed deeply before a backdrop of white and yellow chrysanthemums in paying respects for the war dead. “I pray for world peace and our country’s further prosperity,” Akihito said.

Abe has said he regrets not visiting Yasukuni on the anni-versary during his first, one-year term in 2006-2007. When asked if he would go this year, he told reporters, “Since it would become a political and diplomatic problem, I cannot tell you that.”

The recommendation was forwarded to the leadership of the Bali House, Head of Bali Development Planning Board, Head of Bali Public Works as well as the Head of Bali Forestry Agency. In the recommendation of the House was mentioned several considerations underlying the issuance of the recommendation. Firstly, there were growing aspirations of the people of Bali coming from the circles of academicians, NGOs and leaders/religious leaders explicitly rejecting the reclamation plan to Benoa Bay waters. Secondly, the recommendation of the Bali House given to the executive essentially asked it to continue the pre-feasibility study and not to issue the decree. Thirdly, the recommendation of the Bali House included the support to follow up the pre feasibility study by the LPPM team of the Udayana University.

Fourthly, recommendation of the Bali House determined that the implementation should be in accordance with the legislation in force. However, there were some inappropriate rules of law such as, firstly, the Law No.27/2007 on the Management of Coastal Areas and Small Islands because the whole chapter related to the Coastal Concession Rights (HP3) had been revoked by the Constitutional Court. Secondly, one of the articles in the Presidential Regulation No.45/2011 on the Urban Spatial Plan of Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) stipulated that Benoa Bay area and Pudut Island belonged to conservation area. Thirdly, in the Presidential Regulation No.122/2012 on the Reclamation in Coastal Areas and Small Islands, Article 2 Paragraph 3 mentioned that reclamation could not be done on the conservation area and sea lanes and fourthly, Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 related to the Provincial Spatial Plan (RTRWP) of Bali.

Cok Ratmadi hoped the issuance of recommendation by the House order-ing Governor Pastika to revoke the decree could end the polemic regarding the reclamation. “We do hope the governor immediately follow up this recom-mendation,” said the senior figure of Satria Palace, Denpasar. (kmb29)

The international aid agency Doctors Without Borders is to permanently close its operations in Somalia because of repeated “extreme attacks” that it says the country’s authorities are doing little to curb.

The move came as a surprise, and contradicts popular perceptions of growing stability and reconstruction in Somalia that have been carefully crafted by the new government and its international donors.

It also threatens a new period in the troubled nation where many civilians in rural areas that relied on the famous aid group may be left bereft.

“In choosing to kill, attack, and abduct humanitarian aid workers, armed groups, and the civilian authorities who tolerate their actions, have sealed the fate of countless lives in Somalia,” said Unni Karunakara, the interna-tional president of the organization – known by its French acronym MSF, or Médecins Sans Frontières – in a statement.

The medical organization has operated in the country continuously since 1991 and was one of the few to stay throughout Somalia’s bitter 20-year civil war. Its 1,500-member staff help hundreds of thousands of people a year, often in areas considered too dangerous for the United Nations or other charities to operate. But MSF announced Wednesday it could no longer sustain its presence in Somalia because “armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly support, tolerate, or condone violence against humanitarian aid workers,” as the statement put it.

MSF in Somalia last year gave close to 625,000 medical consultations, admitted 41,100 people in hospital, helped deliver 7,300 babies, immunized 58,000 people, and treated 30,000 malnourished children.

Mr. Karunakara told the Monitor he includes “all civilian authorities” including Somalia’s government in his assessment that leaders are turning a blind eye to attacks on aid agencies.

“We have reached the point where I just don’t see the recognition of the value of impartial humanitarian assistance in Somalia anymore,” he says.

“We’re not therefore able to put our staff in places where they can work. The risks and the compromises that we must make are too high.” Two inter-national MSF aid workers were shot dead in Mogadishu in December 2011, adding to 14 other staff who have been killed in the country since 1991, a rate of one every 17 months.

Two Spanish MSF medical logistics workers who had been held hostage in Somalia for close to two years were released last month.

“I want to reiterate that the kidnapping was simply the latest in a series of incidents since we have been present in Somalia, but yes, it was the last straw,” Karunakara says.

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Japanese lawmakers visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to offer prayers Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Japan is marking the 68th anniversary of its surrender in World War II with somber ceremonies and visits by senior politicians to the shrine honoring 2.5 million war dead that remains a galling reminder of colonial and wartime aggression.

Japan shrine still flashpoint 68 years after warAssociated Press Writer

TOKYO — In the steamy heat of mid-August, the tranquil, cherry-tree shaded grounds of Yasukuni Shrine in the heart of Tokyo seem an unlikely hotbed of provocation.

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Bartoli, who is currently ranked a career-high seventh in the world, suf-fered a stunning 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 defeat to the 21-year-old Romanian. “It’s time for me to retire and to call it a career. I feel it’s time for me to walk away,” said the 28-year-old.

The announcement comes just two weeks before Bartoli was scheduled to compete in the US Open in New York. Bartoli said Wimbledon helped her reach her goal of winning a Grand Slam but also took a toll on her physical and mental wellbeing.

“I’ve been a tennis player for a long time, and I had the chance to make my biggest dream a reality,”

said Bartoli, who won more than $11

million in prize money during her 13-year career.

“I felt I really, really pushed through the ultimate limits to make it happen. But now I just can’t do it anymore,” she said. “I’ve been through a lot of injuries since the beginning of the year. I really pushed through and left it all during ... Wimbledon.”

“I really felt I gave all the energy I have left inside my body. It (Wimble-don) will stay forever with me, but now my body just can’t cope with everything,” she added. Bartoli, who turned pro in 2000, has battled a se-ries of injuries over the past few years and has played just three matches since her Wimbledon victory.

She won a match last week in

Toronto over American Lauren Davis but lost to 33rd-ranked Magdalena Rybarikova the next day. “I have pain everywhere after 45 minutes or an hour of play,” Bartoli said. “I’ve been doing this for so long ... body wise I just can’t do it anymore.”

For the past several years, Bartoli has been by far France’s best female player. Besides Wimbledon, Bartoli won seven other WTA Tour titles, beginning with Auckland in 2006. Her most recent, prior to Wimbledon, were both in 2011 -- at Eastbourne, England, and Osaka, Japan.

“It’s been a tough decision to take, I don’t take this easily,” she said. Simply walking was now difficult for her, Bartoli said, adding that her hips and lower back also bothered her almost constantly.

“My Achilles is hurting me a lot, so I can’t really walk normally after a match like that, especially on the hard court when the surface is so hard,” she said. “And my shoulder and my hips and my lower back. My body is just done.”

Dani Pedrosa believes his still-healing collar-bone fracture will not be much of an issue in this weekend’s Indianapolis MotoGP race.

Pedrosa sustained the injury - along with con-cussion - in a practice crash at the Sachsenring, forcing him to sit that round out and limiting him to fifth at Laguna Seca a week later.

But he said the subsequent four-week gap had given him chance to almost completely recover. “It’s been a good summer break and I’m feeling much stronger physically,” said Pedrosa.

“I’ve had time to relax with some friends and also have lots of physiotherapy on my shoulder

to prepare myself for this second part of the season. “I’ve had

a medical check in the last days and we can see the

bone getting stronger.“It still needs a few

more weeks to recover completely but my feeling is already much better than in Laguna.”

With both Pedrosa and reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo injured in recent rounds, the former’s rookie Honda team-mate Marc Marquez has been able to extend a 16-point lead over Pedrosa, with Loren-zo a further 10 back.

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sprint great Alysson Felix had a gentle run out in her first round heat at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday as she got her campaign for a fourth 200 metres title under way.

The 27-year-old Olympic champion - who took silver in the event in Daegu in 2011 - can become the most successful athlete in the championships’ history if she wins the title on Friday for her ninth gold.

At present Felix shares the re-cord with legendary compatriots Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson while Jamaican Usain Bolt can equal the eight gold mark if he wins the 200m and Jamaica take the 4x100m relay.

Felix - who has five relay golds - will face a tough fight for her crown from Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who is bidding for a sprint double after regaining her 100m title.

Fraser-Pryce, who won the women’s 100m world title by the largest margin in the history of the world championships, blazed a lone trail through her heat, coming off the bend well clear and then eased up 60m from the finish.

However, both Fraser-Pryce and Felix will do well to keep an eye out for Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure, whose silver medal in the 100m on Monday was the first time that an African sprinter had won a medal in the women’s event.

The 25-year-old - known in her country as ‘the female Drog-ba’ - won her heat in a gentle canter and looks capable of also becoming the first African to win a 200m medal. Nigeria’s Blessing Okagabare could also achieve that.

Bidding to reach her third final of the championships - having taken silver in the long jump and was out of the medals in the 100m - the 24-year-old moved into the semi-finals winning her heat beating American Charonda Wil-liams. The Nigerian - who trains in the United States with 2011 100m world champion Carmelita Jeter - admitted wear and tear was setting in on her body.

“My legs aren’t feeling as fresh obviously as they were the first day of competition,” said Okagabare.

“As regards what I can do in this event? Well, I take each round as it comes, otherwise it is too much for my brain.”

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CinCinnaTi, Ohio - Marion Bartoli made a shock retirement an-nouncement Wednesday, ending her tennis career at the top of her game just six weeks after winning Wimbledon. The top French star, citing a string of injuries, dropped the bombshell shortly after losing in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters to Simona Halep.

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The village of Trunyan is squeezed tightly between the lake and the outer crater rim of Batur, an almighty volcano in Kintamani. This is a Bali Aga village, inhabited by descendants of the original Balinese, the people who predate the arrival of the Hindu Majapahit kingdom in the 16th century.

It is famous for the Pura Pancering Jagat temple, but unfor-tunately visitors are not allowed inside. There are also a couple of traditional Bali Aga-style dwellings, and a large banyan tree, which is said to be more than 1,100 years old. At Kuban sub-village close to Trunyan is a mysterious cemetery that is separated by the lake and accessible only by boat - there is no path along the steep walls of the crater rim.

The village of Trunyan itself is situated at the edge of Batur Lake. This location is inaccessible except by boat, and it takes around half an hour across the calm waters. Getting to Lake Batur takes around two hours drive to the northeast of Denpasar along the main road to Buleleng and through Bangli Regency.

Unlike the Balinese people, the people of Trunyan do not cremate or bury their dead, but just lay them out in bamboo cages to decompose, although strangely there is no stench. A macabre collection of skulls and bones lies on the stone platform and the surrounding areas.

The dead bodies don’t produce bad smells because of the perfumed scents from a huge Taru Menyan tree growing nearby. Taru means ‘tree’ and Menyan means ‘nice smell’. The name of Terunyan was also derived from these two words.

The women from Trunyan are prohibited from going to the cemetery when a dead body is carried there. This follows the deeply rooted belief that if a woman comes to the cemetery while a corpse is being carried there, there will be a disaster in the village, for example a landslide or a volcanic eruption. Such events have been frequent in the village’s history, but whether women had anything to do with it is a matter of opinion.

You can visit both the village of Trunyan and the Kuban cemetery by chartered boat from Kedisan. Sadly, nowadays the boat trips are now blatant tourist traps, as touts and guides strongly urge you to donate your cash to the temple project or leave a donation for the dead. These touts ruin an otherwise fascinating experience.

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Paraguay, bottom of their qualifying group and with al-most no hope of reaching a fifth World Cup finals in a row, man-aged a shock 3-3 draw away to an unusually sloppy Germany side on coach Victor Genes’s debut.

A largely experimental Spain team earned a 2-0 away win over Ecuador to keep the Euro-pean flag flying in the steamy Pacific port city of Guayaquil with goals from Alvaro Negredo and Santi Cazorla for the world champions.

England, by no means sure of a direct berth into the World Cup finals, fought back twice for a 3-2 win over Scotland at Wembley in an enthralling first clash between the bitter rivals since 1999.

In the night’s only World Cup qualifier, Russia blew a chance to overtake Portugal at the top of European Group F when they were upset 1-0 by Northern Ire-land in Belfast, Martin Paterson scoring the only goal two min-utes before halftime.

The 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil, fresh from their Con-federations Cup triumph, were disappointing in Berne where they failed to recover from a Dani Alves own goal just after the interval.

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Sco-lari argued that his team were less prepared than the Swiss for an international date at the end of the mid-year off-season.

Argentina, missing captain Messi due to muscle fatigue, won their first meeting with Italy for 12 years with striker Gonzalo Higuain, a fine succes-sor to Gabriel Batistuta, opening their account with his 21st goal in 34 internationals.

Substitute midfielder Ever Banega added the second before Lorenzo Insigne pulled one back in the match in Rome in honour of Argentine-born Pope Francis and preceded on Monday by

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MANCHESTER, England - Da-vid Moyes has no new weapons to deploy and instead must contend with a big question mark over the future of Wayne Rooney as he looks to mastermind Manchester United’s title defence in his first season in the Old Trafford hot seat.

This time last year, it had been an entirely different story for Alex Ferguson as he prepared to unleash prized new signing Robin van Persie, whose 26 league goals were to propel the club to a record 20th English championship.

Twelve months on, however, and United may have a new face in Moyes after Ferguson’s retirement,

but their shopping bags lie forlornly empty apart from a young Uruguayan defender.

To compound matters, their neigh-bours Manchester City have rubbed it in by splashing the cash to bolster their squad. A tricky series of fixtures means United will play rivals Chelsea and Manchester City, as well as bitter foes Liverpool, by the end of next month but United, who open their campaign at Swansea City on Saturday, are un-concerned by the lack of new blood.

“I think it has been a slow transfer window,” midfielder and coach Ryan Giggs said. “I said City had done their business early on but other than that, there has not been a lot of movement. It could be a hectic last two weeks (of the transfer window). We will just

have to wait and see.“If we sign someone - great. If not

we will just get on with it. We are quite happy with the players in our dressing room. We won the league with those players and we are looking forward to the start of the season.”

While last year’s runners-up City have forked out around 90 million pounds ($140 million) on Spanish duo Jesus Navas and Alvaro Negredo, Brazil midfielder Fernandinho and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic, United’s only buy is Guillermo Va-rela.

They have made no secret of their desire to sign Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona but the midfielder has said he is happy to stay at the Spanish champions.

Varela, 20, was not even on the bench for Sunday’s 2-0 win over Wigan Athletic in the Community Shield although another newcomer Wilfried Zaha - who was signed by Ferguson but arrived at Old Trafford under Moyes - showed promise at Wembley.

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Moyes classed the trophy as another piece of silverware for Ferguson as it was his predeces-sor’s team who had won the league to set up the game against FA Cup winners Wigan but anything from now on will be down to him.

While Van Persie’s two goals against Wigan showed Moyes has

inherited a class act, the Scot has also been lumbered with a trouble-some Rooney situation that just will not go away.

Despite endless repetitions of the “he is not for sale” mantra, Moyes encounters a barrage of questions on the subject whenever he faces the media after Ferguson said at the end of last season that the England striker wanted to leave the club.

Rooney himself has not spoken publicly on the subject, although Chelsea have openly been chasing him and the saga has continued to bubble on as the striker trained with England the day after miss-ing the Community Shield with a shoulder injury.

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ArsenalINYaya Sanogo (Auxerre) - undisclosed OUTGervinho (Roma) $12.40 million, Andre Santos (Flamengo)undisclosed, Sebastien Squillaci (Bastia) free, Andrey Arshavin(Zenit St Petersburg) free, Denilson (Sao Paolo) free, MarouaneChamakh (Crystal Palace) undisclosed, Vito Mannone (Sunder-land)undisclosed

Aston VillaINNicklas Helenius (Aalborg) undisclosed, Leandro Bacuna (FCGroningen) undisclosed, Aleksander Tonev (Lech Poznan)ndisclosed, Jores Okore (Nordsjaelland) undisclosed, AntonioLuna (Sevilla) undisclosed OUTRichard Dunne (Queens Park Rangers) free, Brett Holman (Al Nasr)free, Stiliyan Petrov - retired

Cardiff CityINSteven Caulker (Tottenham Hotspur) $12 million, AndreasCornelius (Copenhagen) $11.5 million, Gary Medel (Sevilla) $17million OUT

ChelseaINAndre Schurrle (Bayer Leverkusen) $28 million, Mark Schwarzer(Fulham) free, Marco van Ginkel (Vitesse Arnhem) - undisclosed OUTFlorent Malouda (Tranzonspor) free, Oriel Romeu (Valencia) loan,Jeffrey Bruma (PSV) undisclosed, Marko Marin (Sevilla) loan

Crystal PalaceINKevin Phillips (Blackpool) free, Dwight Gayle (PeterboroughUnited) undisclosed, Jose Campana (Sevilla) $2.6 million,Marouane Chamakh (Arsenal) undisclosed, Stephen Dobbie(Brighton) undisclosedOUTWilfried Zaha (Manchester United) $23 million

EvertonINGerard Deulofeu (Barcelona) loan, Antolin Alcaraz (Wigan) free,Joel Robles (Athletico Madrid) undisclosed, Arouna Kone (Wigan)$9 millionOUTPhil Neville - retired, Thomas Hitzlsperger - released

FulhamINAdel Taarabt (Queens Park Rangers) loan, Maarten Stekelenburg(Roma) undisclosed, Derek Boateng (Dnipro) free, Sascha Riether(Cologne) undisclosedOUTMark Schwarzer (Chelsea) free, Simon Davies released

Hull CityINYannock Sagbo (Evian) undisclosed, Danny Graham (Sunder-land)loan, Steve Harper (Newcastle United) free, Ahmed Elmohamady(Sunderland) $3 million, Curtis Davies (Birmingham) undisclosed,Maynor Figueroa (Wigan) free, Tom Huddlestone (TottenhamHotspur) $8.2OUT

LiverpoolINKolo Toure (Manchester City) free, Simon Mignolet (Sunderland)$14 million, Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo) undisclosed, Luis Alberto(Sevilla) undisclosedOUTPepe Reina (Napoli) loan, Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea) $7.5 million,Andy Carroll (West Ham United) $23 million, Jamie Carragherretired, Stewart Downing (West Ham United) undisclosed

Manchester CityINStevan Jovetic (Fiorentina) $34 million, Alvaro Negredo(Sevilla) $31 million, Jesus Navas (Sevilla) $23 million,Fernandinho (Shakhtar Donetsk) $46 millionOUTMaicon (Roma) undisclosed, Roque Santa Cruz (Malaga) free, KoloToure (Liverpool) free, Carlos Tevez (Juventus) $18.5 million,Wayne Bridge (Reading) free

Manchester United INGuillermo Varela (Atletico Penarol) undisclosed, Wilfried Zaha(Crystal Palace) $23 millionOUTPaul Scholes - retired

Newcastle UnitedINLoic Remy (Queens Park Rangers) loan, Olivier Kemen (Metz)undisclosed OUTSteve Harper (Hull City) free, Danny Simpson (Queens ParkRangers) free

Norwich CityINRicky van Wolfswinkel (Sporting) $12.25 million, Gary Hooper(Celtic) undisclosed, Leroy Fer (Twente Enschede) undisclosed,

Martin Olsson (Blackburn Rovers) undisclosedOUT Grant Holt (Wigan) $3 million

SouthamptonINVictor Wanyama (Celtic) $19 million, Dejan Lovren(Southampton)$10.5 millionOUT

Stoke CityINJuan Agudelo (New England Revolution) free, Marc Muniesa(Barcelona) free OUT Michael Owen retired, Jermaine Pennant released

SunderlandINEmanuele Giaccherini (Juventus) $10 million, Jozy Altidore (AZAlkmaar) free, Modibo Diakite (Lazio) free, Ondrej Celustka(Trabzonspor) loan, El Hadji Ba (Le Havre), Vito Mannone(Arsenal) undisclosed OUTJames McLean (Wigan) undisclosed, Danny Graham (Hull City) loan,Simon Mignolet (Liverpool) $14 million, Ahmed Elmohamady (HullCity) $3 million

Swansea CityINWilfried Bony (Vitesse Arnhem) $18.5 million, Jonjo Shelvey(Liverpool) $7.5 million, Jonathan de Guzman (Villareal) loan,Jordi Amat (Espanyol) $3.8 million, Jose Canas (Real Betis) freeOUTAlan Tate (Yeovil) loan

Tottenham HotspurINRoberto Soldado (Valencia) $40 million, Nacer Chadli (TwenteEnschede) $10.5 million, Paulinho (Corinthians) $26 millionOUTClint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders) $9 million, Steven Caulker(Cardiff City) $12 million, William Gallas released, DavidBentley released

West Bromwich AlbionINDiego Lugano (Paris St-Germain) free, Nicolas Anelka(Juventus)free Matej Vydra (Udinese) loanOUTZoltan Gera released

West Ham UnitedIN Andy Carroll (Liverpool) $23 million, Razvan Rat (ShakhtarDonetsk) free, Stewart Downing (Liverpool) undisclosed

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LONDON - Tetchy Brazil were upset 1-0 in Switzerland while Argentina beat Italy 2-1 even without Lionel Messi on a mostly successful night for South American teams in friendlies ahead of next month’s World Cup qualifiers.

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Argentina’s Rodrigo Palacio, left, and Italy’s Giorgio Chiel-

lini fight for the ball during a friendly soccer match between Italy and Argentina, at Rome’s

Olympic stadium, Wednesday, Aug.14, 2013.

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the visit of both teams to the Vatican.

“When Leo’s there we have extra potential up front but we were able to play and win with-out him,” midfielder Angel Di Maria told reporters referring to Messi.

Germany were 15 minutes away from a shock defeat, hav-ing ended the first half 3-2 down to Paraguay, but substitute Lars Bender came to their rescue with a 75th-minute equaliser.

A leveller from Crist iano Ronaldo, Messi’s regular rival for FIFA’s World Player of the Year award, salvaged a 1-1 draw for Portugal at home to the Netherlands in the Algarve while Belgium and France were deadlocked in a 0-0 draw in Brussels.

LAMBERT ELATED

Another of the world’s leading strikers, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, got a hat-trick as Sweden beat neigh-bours Norway 4-2 in Stockholm. He was, though, pipped for goal of the night by veteran Anders Svensson who hammered home a twisting, dipping shot for their fourth in his 142nd interna-tional.

U.S. forward Jozy Altidore also scored three goals as Juer-gen Klinsmann’s side came back from two goals down to beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 4-3 in Sarajevo.

E n g l a n d s t r i k e r Rickie Lambert o n l y s c o r e d o n c e b u t i t was a dream international debut for the substitute at the age of 31 as he s c o r e d the win-ner against

Scotland with his first touch b y h e a d i n g home a corner seconds after coming on.

“ I ’ v e b e e n d r e a m i n g o f that all my life, it mans so much,” s a i d a n e l a t e d L a m b e r t . Monte-n e -

gro, who lead European Group H by two points ahead of England having played a game more, were held 1-1 by Belarus in Zhodino.

Colombia beat Serbia 1-0 in Barcelona with a late goal from midfielder Fredy Guarin while Uru-

guay and Chile, direct rivals for places at the 2014 finals, en-joyed high-scoring victories.

Diego Forlan netted two first half goals as Uruguay won 4-2

in Japan

with unsettled Liverpool striker Luis Suarez also on the scoresheet as both players increased their joint record national team tally to 36 each.

Chile crushed hapless Iraq 6-0 in Denmark with Alexis Sanchez in fine form, scoring twice and laying on two goals for winger Jean Beausejour.

Jordan, preparing to face Uz-bekistan in the Asian playoff for a berth in the intercontinental decider against South America’s fifth-placed team, beat Libya 2-1 in Amman.

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Paraguay, bottom of their qualifying group and with al-most no hope of reaching a fifth World Cup finals in a row, man-aged a shock 3-3 draw away to an unusually sloppy Germany side on coach Victor Genes’s debut.

A largely experimental Spain team earned a 2-0 away win over Ecuador to keep the Euro-pean flag flying in the steamy Pacific port city of Guayaquil with goals from Alvaro Negredo and Santi Cazorla for the world champions.

England, by no means sure of a direct berth into the World Cup finals, fought back twice for a 3-2 win over Scotland at Wembley in an enthralling first clash between the bitter rivals since 1999.

In the night’s only World Cup qualifier, Russia blew a chance to overtake Portugal at the top of European Group F when they were upset 1-0 by Northern Ire-land in Belfast, Martin Paterson scoring the only goal two min-utes before halftime.

The 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil, fresh from their Con-federations Cup triumph, were disappointing in Berne where they failed to recover from a Dani Alves own goal just after the interval.

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Sco-lari argued that his team were less prepared than the Swiss for an international date at the end of the mid-year off-season.

Argentina, missing captain Messi due to muscle fatigue, won their first meeting with Italy for 12 years with striker Gonzalo Higuain, a fine succes-sor to Gabriel Batistuta, opening their account with his 21st goal in 34 internationals.

Substitute midfielder Ever Banega added the second before Lorenzo Insigne pulled one back in the match in Rome in honour of Argentine-born Pope Francis and preceded on Monday by

Reuters

MANCHESTER, England - Da-vid Moyes has no new weapons to deploy and instead must contend with a big question mark over the future of Wayne Rooney as he looks to mastermind Manchester United’s title defence in his first season in the Old Trafford hot seat.

This time last year, it had been an entirely different story for Alex Ferguson as he prepared to unleash prized new signing Robin van Persie, whose 26 league goals were to propel the club to a record 20th English championship.

Twelve months on, however, and United may have a new face in Moyes after Ferguson’s retirement,

but their shopping bags lie forlornly empty apart from a young Uruguayan defender.

To compound matters, their neigh-bours Manchester City have rubbed it in by splashing the cash to bolster their squad. A tricky series of fixtures means United will play rivals Chelsea and Manchester City, as well as bitter foes Liverpool, by the end of next month but United, who open their campaign at Swansea City on Saturday, are un-concerned by the lack of new blood.

“I think it has been a slow transfer window,” midfielder and coach Ryan Giggs said. “I said City had done their business early on but other than that, there has not been a lot of movement. It could be a hectic last two weeks (of the transfer window). We will just

have to wait and see.“If we sign someone - great. If not

we will just get on with it. We are quite happy with the players in our dressing room. We won the league with those players and we are looking forward to the start of the season.”

While last year’s runners-up City have forked out around 90 million pounds ($140 million) on Spanish duo Jesus Navas and Alvaro Negredo, Brazil midfielder Fernandinho and Montenegro forward Stevan Jovetic, United’s only buy is Guillermo Va-rela.

They have made no secret of their desire to sign Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona but the midfielder has said he is happy to stay at the Spanish champions.

Varela, 20, was not even on the bench for Sunday’s 2-0 win over Wigan Athletic in the Community Shield although another newcomer Wilfried Zaha - who was signed by Ferguson but arrived at Old Trafford under Moyes - showed promise at Wembley.

ROONEY’S FUTURE

Moyes classed the trophy as another piece of silverware for Ferguson as it was his predeces-sor’s team who had won the league to set up the game against FA Cup winners Wigan but anything from now on will be down to him.

While Van Persie’s two goals against Wigan showed Moyes has

inherited a class act, the Scot has also been lumbered with a trouble-some Rooney situation that just will not go away.

Despite endless repetitions of the “he is not for sale” mantra, Moyes encounters a barrage of questions on the subject whenever he faces the media after Ferguson said at the end of last season that the England striker wanted to leave the club.

Rooney himself has not spoken publicly on the subject, although Chelsea have openly been chasing him and the saga has continued to bubble on as the striker trained with England the day after miss-ing the Community Shield with a shoulder injury.

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ReutersList of major Premier League transfers ahead of the 2013-14 sea-son

ArsenalINYaya Sanogo (Auxerre) - undisclosed OUTGervinho (Roma) $12.40 million, Andre Santos (Flamengo)undisclosed, Sebastien Squillaci (Bastia) free, Andrey Arshavin(Zenit St Petersburg) free, Denilson (Sao Paolo) free, MarouaneChamakh (Crystal Palace) undisclosed, Vito Mannone (Sunder-land)undisclosed

Aston VillaINNicklas Helenius (Aalborg) undisclosed, Leandro Bacuna (FCGroningen) undisclosed, Aleksander Tonev (Lech Poznan)ndisclosed, Jores Okore (Nordsjaelland) undisclosed, AntonioLuna (Sevilla) undisclosed OUTRichard Dunne (Queens Park Rangers) free, Brett Holman (Al Nasr)free, Stiliyan Petrov - retired

Cardiff CityINSteven Caulker (Tottenham Hotspur) $12 million, AndreasCornelius (Copenhagen) $11.5 million, Gary Medel (Sevilla) $17million OUT

ChelseaINAndre Schurrle (Bayer Leverkusen) $28 million, Mark Schwarzer(Fulham) free, Marco van Ginkel (Vitesse Arnhem) - undisclosed OUTFlorent Malouda (Tranzonspor) free, Oriel Romeu (Valencia) loan,Jeffrey Bruma (PSV) undisclosed, Marko Marin (Sevilla) loan

Crystal PalaceINKevin Phillips (Blackpool) free, Dwight Gayle (PeterboroughUnited) undisclosed, Jose Campana (Sevilla) $2.6 million,Marouane Chamakh (Arsenal) undisclosed, Stephen Dobbie(Brighton) undisclosedOUTWilfried Zaha (Manchester United) $23 million

EvertonINGerard Deulofeu (Barcelona) loan, Antolin Alcaraz (Wigan) free,Joel Robles (Athletico Madrid) undisclosed, Arouna Kone (Wigan)$9 millionOUTPhil Neville - retired, Thomas Hitzlsperger - released

FulhamINAdel Taarabt (Queens Park Rangers) loan, Maarten Stekelenburg(Roma) undisclosed, Derek Boateng (Dnipro) free, Sascha Riether(Cologne) undisclosedOUTMark Schwarzer (Chelsea) free, Simon Davies released

Hull CityINYannock Sagbo (Evian) undisclosed, Danny Graham (Sunder-land)loan, Steve Harper (Newcastle United) free, Ahmed Elmohamady(Sunderland) $3 million, Curtis Davies (Birmingham) undisclosed,Maynor Figueroa (Wigan) free, Tom Huddlestone (TottenhamHotspur) $8.2OUT

LiverpoolINKolo Toure (Manchester City) free, Simon Mignolet (Sunderland)$14 million, Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo) undisclosed, Luis Alberto(Sevilla) undisclosedOUTPepe Reina (Napoli) loan, Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea) $7.5 million,Andy Carroll (West Ham United) $23 million, Jamie Carragherretired, Stewart Downing (West Ham United) undisclosed

Manchester CityINStevan Jovetic (Fiorentina) $34 million, Alvaro Negredo(Sevilla) $31 million, Jesus Navas (Sevilla) $23 million,Fernandinho (Shakhtar Donetsk) $46 millionOUTMaicon (Roma) undisclosed, Roque Santa Cruz (Malaga) free, KoloToure (Liverpool) free, Carlos Tevez (Juventus) $18.5 million,Wayne Bridge (Reading) free

Manchester United INGuillermo Varela (Atletico Penarol) undisclosed, Wilfried Zaha(Crystal Palace) $23 millionOUTPaul Scholes - retired

Newcastle UnitedINLoic Remy (Queens Park Rangers) loan, Olivier Kemen (Metz)undisclosed OUTSteve Harper (Hull City) free, Danny Simpson (Queens ParkRangers) free

Norwich CityINRicky van Wolfswinkel (Sporting) $12.25 million, Gary Hooper(Celtic) undisclosed, Leroy Fer (Twente Enschede) undisclosed,

Martin Olsson (Blackburn Rovers) undisclosedOUT Grant Holt (Wigan) $3 million

SouthamptonINVictor Wanyama (Celtic) $19 million, Dejan Lovren(Southampton)$10.5 millionOUT

Stoke CityINJuan Agudelo (New England Revolution) free, Marc Muniesa(Barcelona) free OUT Michael Owen retired, Jermaine Pennant released

SunderlandINEmanuele Giaccherini (Juventus) $10 million, Jozy Altidore (AZAlkmaar) free, Modibo Diakite (Lazio) free, Ondrej Celustka(Trabzonspor) loan, El Hadji Ba (Le Havre), Vito Mannone(Arsenal) undisclosed OUTJames McLean (Wigan) undisclosed, Danny Graham (Hull City) loan,Simon Mignolet (Liverpool) $14 million, Ahmed Elmohamady (HullCity) $3 million

Swansea CityINWilfried Bony (Vitesse Arnhem) $18.5 million, Jonjo Shelvey(Liverpool) $7.5 million, Jonathan de Guzman (Villareal) loan,Jordi Amat (Espanyol) $3.8 million, Jose Canas (Real Betis) freeOUTAlan Tate (Yeovil) loan

Tottenham HotspurINRoberto Soldado (Valencia) $40 million, Nacer Chadli (TwenteEnschede) $10.5 million, Paulinho (Corinthians) $26 millionOUTClint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders) $9 million, Steven Caulker(Cardiff City) $12 million, William Gallas released, DavidBentley released

West Bromwich AlbionINDiego Lugano (Paris St-Germain) free, Nicolas Anelka(Juventus)free Matej Vydra (Udinese) loanOUTZoltan Gera released

West Ham UnitedIN Andy Carroll (Liverpool) $23 million, Razvan Rat (ShakhtarDonetsk) free, Stewart Downing (Liverpool) undisclosed

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Brazil Slump To Swiss Loss, Argentina Beat ItalyReuters

LONDON - Tetchy Brazil were upset 1-0 in Switzerland while Argentina beat Italy 2-1 even without Lionel Messi on a mostly successful night for South American teams in friendlies ahead of next month’s World Cup qualifiers.

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Argentina’s Rodrigo Palacio, left, and Italy’s Giorgio Chiel-

lini fight for the ball during a friendly soccer match between Italy and Argentina, at Rome’s

Olympic stadium, Wednesday, Aug.14, 2013.

Man United Launch Title Defence Without New Tools

the visit of both teams to the Vatican.

“When Leo’s there we have extra potential up front but we were able to play and win with-out him,” midfielder Angel Di Maria told reporters referring to Messi.

Germany were 15 minutes away from a shock defeat, hav-ing ended the first half 3-2 down to Paraguay, but substitute Lars Bender came to their rescue with a 75th-minute equaliser.

A leveller from Crist iano Ronaldo, Messi’s regular rival for FIFA’s World Player of the Year award, salvaged a 1-1 draw for Portugal at home to the Netherlands in the Algarve while Belgium and France were deadlocked in a 0-0 draw in Brussels.

LAMBERT ELATED

Another of the world’s leading strikers, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, got a hat-trick as Sweden beat neigh-bours Norway 4-2 in Stockholm. He was, though, pipped for goal of the night by veteran Anders Svensson who hammered home a twisting, dipping shot for their fourth in his 142nd interna-tional.

U.S. forward Jozy Altidore also scored three goals as Juer-gen Klinsmann’s side came back from two goals down to beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 4-3 in Sarajevo.

E n g l a n d s t r i k e r Rickie Lambert o n l y s c o r e d o n c e b u t i t was a dream international debut for the substitute at the age of 31 as he s c o r e d the win-ner against

Scotland with his first touch b y h e a d i n g home a corner seconds after coming on.

“ I ’ v e b e e n d r e a m i n g o f that all my life, it mans so much,” s a i d a n e l a t e d L a m b e r t . Monte-n e -

gro, who lead European Group H by two points ahead of England having played a game more, were held 1-1 by Belarus in Zhodino.

Colombia beat Serbia 1-0 in Barcelona with a late goal from midfielder Fredy Guarin while Uru-

guay and Chile, direct rivals for places at the 2014 finals, en-joyed high-scoring victories.

Diego Forlan netted two first half goals as Uruguay won 4-2

in Japan

with unsettled Liverpool striker Luis Suarez also on the scoresheet as both players increased their joint record national team tally to 36 each.

Chile crushed hapless Iraq 6-0 in Denmark with Alexis Sanchez in fine form, scoring twice and laying on two goals for winger Jean Beausejour.

Jordan, preparing to face Uz-bekistan in the Asian playoff for a berth in the intercontinental decider against South America’s fifth-placed team, beat Libya 2-1 in Amman.

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Bartoli, who is currently ranked a career-high seventh in the world, suf-fered a stunning 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 defeat to the 21-year-old Romanian. “It’s time for me to retire and to call it a career. I feel it’s time for me to walk away,” said the 28-year-old.

The announcement comes just two weeks before Bartoli was scheduled to compete in the US Open in New York. Bartoli said Wimbledon helped her reach her goal of winning a Grand Slam but also took a toll on her physical and mental wellbeing.

“I’ve been a tennis player for a long time, and I had the chance to make my biggest dream a reality,”

said Bartoli, who won more than $11

million in prize money during her 13-year career.

“I felt I really, really pushed through the ultimate limits to make it happen. But now I just can’t do it anymore,” she said. “I’ve been through a lot of injuries since the beginning of the year. I really pushed through and left it all during ... Wimbledon.”

“I really felt I gave all the energy I have left inside my body. It (Wimble-don) will stay forever with me, but now my body just can’t cope with everything,” she added. Bartoli, who turned pro in 2000, has battled a se-ries of injuries over the past few years and has played just three matches since her Wimbledon victory.

She won a match last week in

Toronto over American Lauren Davis but lost to 33rd-ranked Magdalena Rybarikova the next day. “I have pain everywhere after 45 minutes or an hour of play,” Bartoli said. “I’ve been doing this for so long ... body wise I just can’t do it anymore.”

For the past several years, Bartoli has been by far France’s best female player. Besides Wimbledon, Bartoli won seven other WTA Tour titles, beginning with Auckland in 2006. Her most recent, prior to Wimbledon, were both in 2011 -- at Eastbourne, England, and Osaka, Japan.

“It’s been a tough decision to take, I don’t take this easily,” she said. Simply walking was now difficult for her, Bartoli said, adding that her hips and lower back also bothered her almost constantly.

“My Achilles is hurting me a lot, so I can’t really walk normally after a match like that, especially on the hard court when the surface is so hard,” she said. “And my shoulder and my hips and my lower back. My body is just done.”

Dani Pedrosa believes his still-healing collar-bone fracture will not be much of an issue in this weekend’s Indianapolis MotoGP race.

Pedrosa sustained the injury - along with con-cussion - in a practice crash at the Sachsenring, forcing him to sit that round out and limiting him to fifth at Laguna Seca a week later.

But he said the subsequent four-week gap had given him chance to almost completely recover. “It’s been a good summer break and I’m feeling much stronger physically,” said Pedrosa.

“I’ve had time to relax with some friends and also have lots of physiotherapy on my shoulder

to prepare myself for this second part of the season. “I’ve had

a medical check in the last days and we can see the

bone getting stronger.“It still needs a few

more weeks to recover completely but my feeling is already much better than in Laguna.”

With both Pedrosa and reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo injured in recent rounds, the former’s rookie Honda team-mate Marc Marquez has been able to extend a 16-point lead over Pedrosa, with Loren-zo a further 10 back.

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sprint great Alysson Felix had a gentle run out in her first round heat at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday as she got her campaign for a fourth 200 metres title under way.

The 27-year-old Olympic champion - who took silver in the event in Daegu in 2011 - can become the most successful athlete in the championships’ history if she wins the title on Friday for her ninth gold.

At present Felix shares the re-cord with legendary compatriots Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson while Jamaican Usain Bolt can equal the eight gold mark if he wins the 200m and Jamaica take the 4x100m relay.

Felix - who has five relay golds - will face a tough fight for her crown from Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who is bidding for a sprint double after regaining her 100m title.

Fraser-Pryce, who won the women’s 100m world title by the largest margin in the history of the world championships, blazed a lone trail through her heat, coming off the bend well clear and then eased up 60m from the finish.

However, both Fraser-Pryce and Felix will do well to keep an eye out for Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure, whose silver medal in the 100m on Monday was the first time that an African sprinter had won a medal in the women’s event.

The 25-year-old - known in her country as ‘the female Drog-ba’ - won her heat in a gentle canter and looks capable of also becoming the first African to win a 200m medal. Nigeria’s Blessing Okagabare could also achieve that.

Bidding to reach her third final of the championships - having taken silver in the long jump and was out of the medals in the 100m - the 24-year-old moved into the semi-finals winning her heat beating American Charonda Wil-liams. The Nigerian - who trains in the United States with 2011 100m world champion Carmelita Jeter - admitted wear and tear was setting in on her body.

“My legs aren’t feeling as fresh obviously as they were the first day of competition,” said Okagabare.

“As regards what I can do in this event? Well, I take each round as it comes, otherwise it is too much for my brain.”

Injuries force Wimbledon champ Bartoli to retire

Agence France Presse

CinCinnaTi, Ohio - Marion Bartoli made a shock retirement an-nouncement Wednesday, ending her tennis career at the top of her game just six weeks after winning Wimbledon. The top French star, citing a string of injuries, dropped the bombshell shortly after losing in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters to Simona Halep.

Felix gets quest for titles record under way

Pedrosa not expecting collarbone issues at Indianapolis

IBP

The village of Trunyan is squeezed tightly between the lake and the outer crater rim of Batur, an almighty volcano in Kintamani. This is a Bali Aga village, inhabited by descendants of the original Balinese, the people who predate the arrival of the Hindu Majapahit kingdom in the 16th century.

It is famous for the Pura Pancering Jagat temple, but unfor-tunately visitors are not allowed inside. There are also a couple of traditional Bali Aga-style dwellings, and a large banyan tree, which is said to be more than 1,100 years old. At Kuban sub-village close to Trunyan is a mysterious cemetery that is separated by the lake and accessible only by boat - there is no path along the steep walls of the crater rim.

The village of Trunyan itself is situated at the edge of Batur Lake. This location is inaccessible except by boat, and it takes around half an hour across the calm waters. Getting to Lake Batur takes around two hours drive to the northeast of Denpasar along the main road to Buleleng and through Bangli Regency.

Unlike the Balinese people, the people of Trunyan do not cremate or bury their dead, but just lay them out in bamboo cages to decompose, although strangely there is no stench. A macabre collection of skulls and bones lies on the stone platform and the surrounding areas.

The dead bodies don’t produce bad smells because of the perfumed scents from a huge Taru Menyan tree growing nearby. Taru means ‘tree’ and Menyan means ‘nice smell’. The name of Terunyan was also derived from these two words.

The women from Trunyan are prohibited from going to the cemetery when a dead body is carried there. This follows the deeply rooted belief that if a woman comes to the cemetery while a corpse is being carried there, there will be a disaster in the village, for example a landslide or a volcanic eruption. Such events have been frequent in the village’s history, but whether women had anything to do with it is a matter of opinion.

You can visit both the village of Trunyan and the Kuban cemetery by chartered boat from Kedisan. Sadly, nowadays the boat trips are now blatant tourist traps, as touts and guides strongly urge you to donate your cash to the temple project or leave a donation for the dead. These touts ruin an otherwise fascinating experience.

Trunyan

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donesia has urged the international community to support efforts to end the continuing political violence in Egypt.

Marty Natalegawa, Foreign Af-fairs Ministry of Indonesia, said in a press released issued early Thursday that Indonesia is “deeply concerned” about the worsening sit-uation and loss of lives in Egypt.

“We are deeply concerned by the worsening situation in Egypt. The

use of force, which has led to the loss of lives, will not address the issue,” he said.

Marty added that the interna-tional community needs to support efforts at reconciliation among political parties in Egypt and work to end the ongoing violence.

Egypt’s health ministry said 278 people had been killed in nationwide violence on Wednes-day, Aug 14, after police clashed with loyalists of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

The most deadly confrontations occurred at the Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo, where an AFP correspondent counted 124 bodies. In contrast, health ministry spokesman Mohammed Fathallah said 61 people died at Rabaa al-Adawiya.

Additionally, Fathallah said 21 people died at the Nahda Square camp in Cairo, 18 in Helwan, south of the capital, and the remaining fatalities occurred in outlying provinces.

Ironically, the scarcely popu-lated regions do not seem to be on par with the rest of the country in terms of economic and social development.

In reality, the people of Papua have not enjoyed the fruits of de-velopment and feel isolated from the rest of the country.

Therefore, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s special aide for regional development and autonomy Velix Wanggai has said the injustice felt by the local people with regard to economic and social gaps is being exploited by the outlawed Free Papua Or-ganisation (OPM) by inciting the fight for independence.

According to him, backward-ness, disappointment, and dissat-isfaction of the people of Papua serve as ammunition to incite re-sistance against the government.

He noted that the government is fully aware of the problem and has taken steps to reduce the gap and eliminate feelings of injustice.

However, international law and political observer of the University of Cenderawasi (Uncen) Marinus Yaung opined that a peaceful dia-logue between Papua and Jakarta is the best possible solution to the problem in Papua.

“We agree that Papua-Jakarta Dialogue will help solve the problem in Papua,” Marianus said in Jayapura recently.

He noted that the problem in Papua is not limited to economic and social development; it is a political problem that has to be solved through a peaceful dia-logue session with Jakarta.

Meanwhile, a hearing be-tween the People’s Assemblies of Papua’s two provinces of Papua

and West Papua at the end of late July indicated that the majority of people in Papua are in favour of dialogue sessions.

Therefore, Director of the Democracy Alliance for Papua (AlDP) Latifah Anum Siregar said all stakeholders in the region should support Papua People’s Assembly (MRP) in recom-mending Papua-Jakarta dialogue immediately.

“The regional administrations of Papua and West Papua, the regional legislative assemblies, and people of the two prov-inces should support MRP’s rec-ommendations,” added Latifah Anum Siregar.

Latifah explained that the dialogue is recommended since implementation of the Special Autonomy in Papua had failed.

Security has remained an issue in Papua, with separatists in jun-gles fighting for independence.

According to Yan Christian Warinussy, Director of Manok-wari-based Agency for Research, Study and Development of Legal Aid (LP3BH), the people of Pap-ua have repeatedly urged Jakarta to conduct peaceful, neutral, and transparent dialogue sessions, facilitated by third parties in a neutral environment.

MRP and MRPB have under-stood the importance of such dialogue sessions, he said.

“LP3BH of Manokwari, which serves as an advocate for human rights in Papua, has urged Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to consider a Papua-Jakarta dialogue in 2013,” added Yan in Jayapura on Wednesday.

He said the proposed dialogue should be held immediately, as there is no reason for a delay.

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MANADO - Two women from North Sulawesi - Ingka M Wangko and Jelita Karamoy - will conquer Russia’s Mount Elbrus (5,642 metres high) next week.

“We have conquered Papua¿s Puncak Jaya Mountain (4,884 meters high). In August this year, we are hoping to conquer Mount Elbrus. We will leave for Russia at the end of this month,” said Ingka on Thursday.

According to her, Mount Elbrus will be their second conquest.

There are seven mountains in the world, which are extremely tall, in-cluding Mount Everest (8,850 meters

high) in Asia; Aconcagua (6,962 me-ters high) in South America; Mount McKinley (6,194 meters high) in De-nali, the United States; Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters high) of Africa; and Vinson Massif (4,892 meters high) in Antarctica.

“On August 21, 2013, we will look into administration requirements in Jakarta before flying to Russia, as-sisted by the Indonesian Embassy in Russia,” Ingka said.

However, the team continues to face problems such as the lack of funds for the journey as they have managed to raise only half of the funds.

Ingka hopes that the Sulawesi

regional government will support their plan as their success will bring honour to the province.

“We are both mentally and physi-cally prepared. We have been training at Mount Klabat (2,100 meters high). We have reached the peak of Mount Klabat several times,” said Ingka.

If they are unable to raise the funds, the committee will send one of the climbers and operators to conquer Mount Elbrus.

“Our target is to conquer Mount Elbrus in two weeks. We plan to return to Manado in September. We really hope that the weather is clear, which is crucial for our success,” explained Ingka.

Peaceful dialogue to solve problem in PapuaAntara

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s easternmost island of Papua is known to be rich in natural resources, overflowing with gold, copper, silver, and oil.

Women from Sulawesi to conquer Mt. Elbrus of Russia

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Indonesian Muslims hold posters and wave an Egyptian flag during a protest calling for an end to the violence used against the supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Egypt, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013.

Indonesia urges international support to end violence in Egypt

But visits by senior Japanese government officials to the shrine, whose grounds also house a war museum glorifying Japan’s wartime past, routinely anger neighboring China and South Korea, highlight-ing lingering resentments 68 years after the end of World War II that Japan marked Thursday.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose hawkish views have raised concerns in the region, appeared unlikely to visit the shrine on the anniversary, but had an aide present an ornamental offering bought with his own money.

Two of his Cabinet members, decked out in morning suits, did pay their respects at the shrine Thursday morning, prompting China to summon the Japanese

ambassador in Beijing to register a protest.

A shrine of Japan’s indigenous Shinto religion, Yasukuni evokes bitter memories across Asia of Ja-pan’s colonial and wartime aggres-sion. It honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including Class A war criminals such as Hideki Tojo, a prime minister during the war, who was executed in 1948.

Japan has repeatedly apologized for its wartime actions, but the shrine remains a flashpoint nearly 70 years after Emperor Hirohito is-sued his proclamation surrendering to Allied forces on Aug. 15, 1945.

North and South Korea marked the surrender anniversary Thursday with ceremonies of their own cel-ebrating their independence from

Japan’s 1910-1945 colonization of the peninsula. South Korean Presi-dent Park Geun-hye urged Japanese leaders to “show brave leadership in healing wounds of the past.”

Abe joined Emperor Akihito at a ceremony at a Tokyo indoor arena where they bowed deeply before a backdrop of white and yellow chrysanthemums in paying respects for the war dead. “I pray for world peace and our country’s further prosperity,” Akihito said.

Abe has said he regrets not visiting Yasukuni on the anni-versary during his first, one-year term in 2006-2007. When asked if he would go this year, he told reporters, “Since it would become a political and diplomatic problem, I cannot tell you that.”

The recommendation was forwarded to the leadership of the Bali House, Head of Bali Development Planning Board, Head of Bali Public Works as well as the Head of Bali Forestry Agency. In the recommendation of the House was mentioned several considerations underlying the issuance of the recommendation. Firstly, there were growing aspirations of the people of Bali coming from the circles of academicians, NGOs and leaders/religious leaders explicitly rejecting the reclamation plan to Benoa Bay waters. Secondly, the recommendation of the Bali House given to the executive essentially asked it to continue the pre-feasibility study and not to issue the decree. Thirdly, the recommendation of the Bali House included the support to follow up the pre feasibility study by the LPPM team of the Udayana University.

Fourthly, recommendation of the Bali House determined that the implementation should be in accordance with the legislation in force. However, there were some inappropriate rules of law such as, firstly, the Law No.27/2007 on the Management of Coastal Areas and Small Islands because the whole chapter related to the Coastal Concession Rights (HP3) had been revoked by the Constitutional Court. Secondly, one of the articles in the Presidential Regulation No.45/2011 on the Urban Spatial Plan of Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) stipulated that Benoa Bay area and Pudut Island belonged to conservation area. Thirdly, in the Presidential Regulation No.122/2012 on the Reclamation in Coastal Areas and Small Islands, Article 2 Paragraph 3 mentioned that reclamation could not be done on the conservation area and sea lanes and fourthly, Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 related to the Provincial Spatial Plan (RTRWP) of Bali.

Cok Ratmadi hoped the issuance of recommendation by the House order-ing Governor Pastika to revoke the decree could end the polemic regarding the reclamation. “We do hope the governor immediately follow up this recom-mendation,” said the senior figure of Satria Palace, Denpasar. (kmb29)

The international aid agency Doctors Without Borders is to permanently close its operations in Somalia because of repeated “extreme attacks” that it says the country’s authorities are doing little to curb.

The move came as a surprise, and contradicts popular perceptions of growing stability and reconstruction in Somalia that have been carefully crafted by the new government and its international donors.

It also threatens a new period in the troubled nation where many civilians in rural areas that relied on the famous aid group may be left bereft.

“In choosing to kill, attack, and abduct humanitarian aid workers, armed groups, and the civilian authorities who tolerate their actions, have sealed the fate of countless lives in Somalia,” said Unni Karunakara, the interna-tional president of the organization – known by its French acronym MSF, or Médecins Sans Frontières – in a statement.

The medical organization has operated in the country continuously since 1991 and was one of the few to stay throughout Somalia’s bitter 20-year civil war. Its 1,500-member staff help hundreds of thousands of people a year, often in areas considered too dangerous for the United Nations or other charities to operate. But MSF announced Wednesday it could no longer sustain its presence in Somalia because “armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly support, tolerate, or condone violence against humanitarian aid workers,” as the statement put it.

MSF in Somalia last year gave close to 625,000 medical consultations, admitted 41,100 people in hospital, helped deliver 7,300 babies, immunized 58,000 people, and treated 30,000 malnourished children.

Mr. Karunakara told the Monitor he includes “all civilian authorities” including Somalia’s government in his assessment that leaders are turning a blind eye to attacks on aid agencies.

“We have reached the point where I just don’t see the recognition of the value of impartial humanitarian assistance in Somalia anymore,” he says.

“We’re not therefore able to put our staff in places where they can work. The risks and the compromises that we must make are too high.” Two inter-national MSF aid workers were shot dead in Mogadishu in December 2011, adding to 14 other staff who have been killed in the country since 1991, a rate of one every 17 months.

Two Spanish MSF medical logistics workers who had been held hostage in Somalia for close to two years were released last month.

“I want to reiterate that the kidnapping was simply the latest in a series of incidents since we have been present in Somalia, but yes, it was the last straw,” Karunakara says.

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

Japanese lawmakers visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to offer prayers Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Japan is marking the 68th anniversary of its surrender in World War II with somber ceremonies and visits by senior politicians to the shrine honoring 2.5 million war dead that remains a galling reminder of colonial and wartime aggression.

Japan shrine still flashpoint 68 years after warAssociated Press Writer

TOKYO — In the steamy heat of mid-August, the tranquil, cherry-tree shaded grounds of Yasukuni Shrine in the heart of Tokyo seem an unlikely hotbed of provocation.

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HONG KONG — State-owned China Mobile’s first half-profit rose just 1.5 percent as the world’s big-gest phone company by subscribers grappled with rising competition.

The Beijing-based company said Thursday that income in the Janu-ary-June period rose to 63.1 billion yuan ($10.3 billion) as wireless data revenue jumped by two-thirds.

Operating revenue rose 10 per-cent to 303.1 billion yuan.

The company said the number of subscribers rose to more than 740 million from 710 million at the end of 2012.

Competition between China Mo-bile and its two state-owned rivals, China Unicom and China Telecom, is intensifying as the three compa-nies invest heavily in new, faster fourth-generation networks to sup-port data-hungry smartphones and tablet computers.

China Mobile is at a disadvan-tage because its third-generation network technology, running its homegrown TD-SCDMA technol-ogy, doesn’t support Apple’s popu-lar iPhone.

Chairman Xi Guohua said the company “faced a number of chal-lenges” including slower economic growth and more complex compe-tition in the information and com-munications industry.

“Good progress was made in preparing for the commercialization of TD-LTE,” Xi said, referring to 4G “long-term evolution” network technology that may support newer iPhone models.

If American cannot grow by merging, it could decide to add flights to better compete with larger rivals. Doing so would likely reduce airfares — and profit margins — across the industry, an outcome that many airline investors fear. Airline stocks sank for a second straight day Wednesday.

American has faded to a distant third in the United States and is particularly weak along the U.S. East Coast. US Airways is No. 5 among U.S. carriers, lacks strength in the middle of the country and doesn’t even fly to Asia. But put them together under the American Airlines name, and you’ve got the biggest airline in the world.

Size helps airlines land impor-tant corporate-travel accounts — business passengers will pay higher fares for a carrier that gets them where they want to go.

That’s why American and US Airways are vowing to fight the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit to block their merger.

“If this merger does not take place, US Air will continue to have the gaps and weaknesses in its net-work that it has now, and American will continue to have the gaps and weaknesses in its network,” said Joe Sims, an antitrust lawyer hired by American. “Neither individually will be as effective a competitor to United and Delta and Southwest and all the smaller low-cost car-riers.”

Airline profits have improved in recent years as mergers elimi-nated several major airlines and the survivors limited the supply of air-plane seats, driving up fares. Many analysts think that if American remains independent, it will pursue a rapid-growth strategy — that was CEO Tom Horton’s plan before the merger. Wall Street didn’t like it.

If American tries to grow to catch up to United and Delta, “the industry’s longer-term earnings prospects are jeopardized,” J.P. Morgan analyst Jamie Baker wrote

Without merger, airline industry faces uncertainty

Associated Press

DALLAS — The merger between American Airlines and US Airways was supposed to cap an era of consolidation that helped the airline industry return to profitability and produce a stronger competitor to giants United and Delta. Now, a government lawsuit to block the merger has put both of those expectations in doubt.

in a note to clients. Fitch Ratings said the government’s move against the merger could mean the end of airline consolidation, making the lawsuit a negative for the industry’s credit ratings.

American’s parent, AMR Corp., and US Airways Group Inc. an-nounced their merger in February and AMR made the deal part of its reorganization plan that a federal bankruptcy judge was expected to approve on Thursday. The plan would have allowed AMR to end nearly two years in bankruptcy.

But on Tuesday, the Justice Department and six states sued to block the deal, saying it would hurt competition and drive up prices for consumers. On a conference call with reporters Wednesday, lawyers for the airlines said they were confi-dent of winning when the case goes to trial. They said that the govern-ment has only stopped one merger in the last eight years.

“We were surprised that the

(lawsuit) wasn’t stronger,” said one of the lawyers, Paul Denis. “We usually expect the government to put on a better case.”

Justice Department spokes-woman Gina Talamona declined to address the lawyers’ specific comments but defended the lawsuit. “We allege that the deal will lessen competition, and passengers will pay higher fares and receive less service,” she said.

If the airlines win, the lawsuit will be just a speed bump in the merger plan. Or they could negoti-ate a settlement with the Justice Department — maybe by giving up coveted takeoff and landing slots at crowded Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C.

But if the merger gets scuttled, American and US Airways will remain far behind United and Delta — which grew through regulator-approved mergers in the last five years — and without any way to grow quickly.

“US Airways by itself doesn’t have the money to go out and create trans-Pacific routes,” said Robert Mittelstaedt, dean emeritus of the business school at Arizona State University and a longtime observer of the airline industry.

Executives for American and US

Airways have declined to say yet what they would do if the merger is blocked. AMR would have to file a new reorganization plan with the bankruptcy court, because the merger is the key element of its current plan. It would then have to get its creditors, who were instru-mental in steering American toward a merger, to support the changes. The creditors expected to be fully repaid under the merger plan but might get less if American remains on its own.

If AMR must go ahead without the merger, it can point to improv-ing financial results. It has cut labor and other costs in bankruptcy, and it posted a $220 million profit in the second quarter, its first profit for the period in six years. An important measure of performance, revenue per mile, hit a record in July.

The merged airline would be run by US Airways CEO Doug Parker. Several top executives at American (and some at US Airways) were not offered jobs at the new company and had planned to leave.

Some departing American man-agers might have to pull their resumes off job websites, but they haven’t left yet — they are due to get severance deals if they stay until the merger is completed.

AP Photo/Matt York, fileIn this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, file photo, a U.S. Airways jet passes an American Airlines jet at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. The merger of the two airlines has given birth to a mega airline with more passengers than any other in the world.

China Mobile 1H profit edges up just 1.5 percent

PAGERWESI feast is always grandi-osely celebrated every year by the people in Buleleng. Inevitably, such condition made the atmosphere of Singaraja town suddenly deserted. Traditional markets and a number of shops were also closed for the whole day. When the town atmo-sphere was deserted, the suburban tourist objects were even thronged by visitors. It happened because after saying prayers people took advantage of the holiday mo-ment to have a picnic with families.

Observation on Wednesday (Aug 14) indicated that residents had been passing on the road from early morn-ing to say prayers to family temple or public temples in Buleleng. In addition, residents also worshiped with relatives and close family in graveyard. They practiced the tradition with a belief that people remaining to have family mem-bers who died but had not been cremated were offered an oblation on the feast as an expression of devotion of the family left. However, within the past few years the people praying at graveyard had decreased. It was said, the decrease was caused by the frequent implementation of mass cremation and people preferred to join it for lower expenses.

After saying prayers at graveyard, the food in the oblation was savored together in the temple area. Despite at graveyard area, people remained to enjoy the food with gusto. Unsurprisingly, the ambience of graveyard turned into an attractive tourist area worth visiting.

Until noon, the roads stayed to look deserted. A number of shopping areas in the town of Singaraja were closed. Simi-larly, the traditional markets in Northern Bali chose to close all day long. People selling every day in the market kiosk only came to the market for the sake of worship. Only a few kiosks remained open because the traders were non-Hindu residents. Other than public markets and shops, the government offices were also closed on Wednesday.

Having worshipped, in the after-noon people enjoyed their free time by visiting tourist attractions in the suburbs. The coastal tourist areas such as Lovina Beach, Penimbangan, Ban-jar Hot Spring and Air Sanih looked so crowded. Aside from boosting the local tourist arrival, the moment was also taken advantage by street vendors. They claimed their turnover increased than usual days. (kmb)

“Keep maintaining and developing our culture”, said Try Sutrisno to Bali Safari after watching the Bali Agung Show.

Bali Agung is a great show of the legend of ancient goddess in Bali, involving more than 200 performers, 8 elephants and many other animals in the stage of 3200 square meters, with the setting stage with a width of 60 me-ters and a depth of 40 meters, the art lighting, sound systems, and seating capacity of 1200 is an international luxury. Bali Agung’ is on show every day at Bali Theatre of Bali Safari & Marine Park from Tuesday to Sunday on 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm

Bali Safari & Marine Park is located in Gianyar and can be reached in an hour from Denpasar. Bali Safari & Marine Park is the latest development of Taman Safari Indonesia, which has been famous as the leading wildlife conservation park in Indonesia with the first establishment of Taman Safari in Cisarua, Bogor, West Java and the second in Prigen, East Java.

IBP/Courtesy of BSMPhe former vice president of the Republic of Indonesia, Try Sutrisno, along with his children and grandchildren visiting Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP), specifically to see the colossal Bali Agung show at Bali Theatre.

Former VP Try Sutrisno watched Bali Agung show

IBP

GIANYAR - The former vice president of the Republic of Indonesia, Try Sutrisno, along with his children and grandchildren visiting Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP), specifi-cally to see the colossal Bali Agung show at Bali Theatre. Try Sutrisno with families wel-comed by General Manager Hans Manansang and Deputy General Manager of Bali Safari & Marine Park Ana Dewi.

IBP/Eka AdhiyasaPAGERWESI feast is always grandiosely celebrated every year by the people in Buleleng. After saying prayers at graveyard, the food in the oblation was savored together in the temple area.

Pagerwesi Traditional market closes, tourist objects thronged by visitors

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Bali News International4 Friday, August 16, 2013 Friday, August 16, 2013 13International RLDW

Sitting helplessly on the ground, exhausted by hours of inhaling tear gas, they pondered their next move as Egypt’s bloodiest day in years came to an end.

For more than 12 hours, security forces in black-clad body armor and helmets, backed by snipers, military helicopters and armored vehicles, used bulldozers to sweep away the encampment occupied by support-ers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. The crackdown set off run-ning street battles in Cairo and other Egyptian cities that left nearly 300 people dead nationwide.

“What was horrifying today were the snipers. The sound of bullets was extremely frighten-

ing,” said Mosa’ab Elshamy, a freelance photographer who said he was standing next to a medic who was shot in the head by sniper fire around noon.

“Most of the corpses I saw in the field hospital had been shot in the head or chest,” said Elshamy, who was in the camp for more than six hours during the clashes. In two main morgues, he said he counted 65 bodies.

Located near the Rabbah al-Adawiya Mosque that has served as the epicenter of the pro-Morsi campaign, the tent city was erected six weeks ago to show support for Morsi and demand his reinstate-ment after his overthrow in a July

3 military coup.On Wednesday, smoke and

flames poured from all corners of the camp, where cars and tents were set alight, along with wood fires set by the protesters in an effort to lessen the impact of tear gas.

It was in stark contrast to the festive mood that had prevailed in recent weeks, when couples got married and clerics took to the stage to announce they saw angels in their dreams that were a sign of impending victory. Posters with Morsi’s image and slogans call-ing him the “legitimate president” were plastered on tents and light poles, while giant loudspeakers played some of his fiery speeches and women chanted “Morsi is my president.”

During the first hour of Wednes-day’s crackdown, which began around 7 a.m., protesters said they tried to stop the bulldozers by ly-ing on the pavement in front of the vehicles.

Reuters

BELGRADE - Lucija Rajner last saw her father, Vladislav, on November 14, 1941, through a barbed-wire fence at a concentra-tion camp in Belgrade.

That autumn, Rajner and her mother passed food, letters and bedding to him, until a guard told them he wouldn’t need such supplies anymore. Rajner never learned his

fate, but assumes he died the same way as 6,000 other Jews and 1,500 Roma who passed through the camp - gunned down or gassed en masse.

The cluster of warehouses that formed the camp known as Topovske Supe still stands; rubbish litters the floors and graffiti scars the walls.

A small plaque is all that marks the location’s dark history. It was screwed to a crumbling brick wall in 2006, when most of the land had already been sold

for 27 million euros ($35 million) to a retail tycoon who plans to spend 160 million to turn it into the biggest shop-ping mall in the Balkans.

Rajner and a small group of historians and activists say the destruction of Topovske Supe is emblematic of how far Serbia still has to go in recognizing the Holo-caust on its soil.

“I don’t know why the state shows this kind of disrespect to

things which should not be forgot-ten,” said 79-year-old Rajner.

In a region dotted with memorials to Partisan battle victories, the 70,000 Jews who died in Yugoslavia during World War Two were subsumed into the narrative of Yugoslav victims of fascism, part of the doctrine of ‘Brotherhood and Unity’ propagated by Josip Broz Tito to diminish na-tional and ethnic differences within the federation he ruled from 1945

to 1980. After Estonia, Serbia was the second Nazi-occupied territory in Europe to be formally declared ‘free of Jews’ in August 1942, when 90 percent of the country’s 16,000 Jews had perished.

With Tito’s death, unity gave way to the virulent nationalism that would eventually tear Yugoslavia apart, and Serbia began stressing the suffering of Serbs at the hands of Nazi puppet rulers in Croatia.

Reuters

ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan dis-missed reports he was sick and had been hospitalized in the past week on Thursday and questioned the media’s motives for speculat-ing on his health.

On Monday, the Yurt newspa-per and other Turkish dailies said Erdogan had spent five days in hospital with an upset stomach but provided no source for the reports. His office called the reports “base-less allegations” later that day.

“Praise God, I am doing just fine. As to what hospital I was in, what happened in hospital and so on, nothing like that happened. I just rested after the holiday for a few days and adjusted my program accordingly. There is nothing wrong,” he told report-ers in Ankara before travelling to Turkmenistan.

“This side of the media is very bad, you should question your-selves a little. Where do they find

such lies? ... A person should have some shame,” he said.

Speculation about Erdogan’s health has been rife since he had surgery to remove polyps from his intestines in late 2011.

Polyps are abnormal growths of tissue which can be cancerous. Turkish media cited Erdogan’s doctor as saying the polyps had been harmless following the surgery.

The 59-year-old leader, in power since 2003, usually speaks daily on television and travels frequently in the country. But he had not appeared in public since speaking to reporters last Thurs-day after praying at a mosque at the start of the holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Power in Turkey is centralized around Erdogan, who has made little secret about his desire to become president. Previous ab-sences have sparked speculation over his health as well as possible rifts within his party.

Dark history hangs over tycoon’s plan for Balkan mega-mall

Turkey’s Erdogan dismisses speculation over his health

REUTERS/Umit BektasTurkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses the media before leaving for Turkmenistan at Esenboga Airport in Ankara August 15, 2013.

AP Photo/Khalil HamraEgyptian army soldiers stand guard outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Muslim Brotherhood protesters had a camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013.

Cairo’s Islamist camps overrun amid crackdownAssociated Press Writer

CAIRO — Crushed, dazed and chanting “Down, down with military rule!” hundreds of supporters of Egypt’s ousted president streamed out of a protest camp that had come to symbolize the resistance of Arab Spring Islamists. It now resembled a war zone — covered in debris, with thick black smoke billowing skyward.

As observation of Bali Post, many domestic tourists thronged Ulun Danu by midday. Some travelled by private cars. They arrived almost simultaneously at the nature tourist attraction. Though it tended to be cloudy, such condition did not dis-courage them to enjoy the lake view. By late afternoon, the domestic tour-

ist arrival increased and was domi-nated by group coming by buses. “Incidentally, the Eid holiday remains four days. So, we use the holiday by traveling to Bali,” said Risma, 25, one of the domestic tourists from Malang, East Java, Wednesday (Aug 14). The girl traveled in the group of her office. She admitted that in Java

the Eid holiday season just ended on Sunday (Aug 18). Thus, many choose to holiday in Bali after celebrating the Eid. In addition to domestic tourists, the number of foreign tourist arrivals also increased slightly. They mostly came from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Secretary of the Operations

Manager of the Ulun Danu Beratan tourist object, Wayan Parwata, said the domestic tourist visit during the Eid holiday skyrocketed. The peak occurred on Friday (Aug 9) and Saturday (Aug 10). Domestic tour-ist arrival reached 4,000 people per day. “It was the peak of tourist visit during the Eid holiday. After that, it gradually turned to normal,” he said last Wednesday. Though gradually coming back to normal, the domes-tic tourist arrival still reached 3,000 people per day.

Parwata predicted the domestic

tourist arrival would continue. The prediction was based on the Eid holiday period in Java that would end on Sunday (Aug 18). “We predict, the number of tourist visit continues to rise, though not many,” he said. On normal days, the num-ber of visit to Ulun Danu averagely reached 2,000 people. Parwata expected the weather in the area of Lake Beratan to remain fine. On that account, tourists would keep flowing. If the weather was cloudy and foggy, tourists usually canceled their visit. (kmb30)

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Rampant onslaught of plastic waste made hundreds of students in Baturiti subdistrict, Tabanan, furious. They rallied and protested against the lack of people’s awareness of waste management in the Baturiti Market, Wednesday (Aug 14). Such an action was marked with the presentation of theatrical show in the form of barong bangkung made from plastic waste.

The rally was commenced by ora-tion at Baturiti Square. All students shouted out an anti-plastic waste yell. They also unfurled a number of posters. In essence, those posters

invited the residents to fight against waste, especially plastic waste. The action was resumed with a long march leading to the market. In the market courtyard, the students made a circular formation. Then, two barong dances were staged with the bleganjur gamelan accompaniment. A barong was made from numerous sheets of plastic waste, while another was a common barong. Both fight. As a re-sult, the plastic barong collapsed. The rally ended with picking up litter en masse. “It’s part of campaign against plastic waste. So far, not many people are willing to care about the rampant plastic waste,” said Made Suparwata,

the action coordinator. He confessed such a peaceful protest was also a series of 52 movements related to the 52th Scout Anniversary and 68th Anniversary of the Independence Day of the RI.

He explained that plastic waste had become a chronic disease in Bali. Virtually every corner of the town and village had been filled up with plastic waste. However, the handling was very minimal. As a form of concern, his party invited the Scout group in Baturiti to come down to the road. It was intended to make people aware of the hazards of plastic waste. Then, his party in-

vited people to care about the waste management. “We also insinuate the government the government seeming less focused on the waste management program,” said the Scout builder of the SMPN1 Baturi-ti junior high school. By a peaceful protest with students, he hoped, the entire community could care about the hazard of plastic waste.

The action made on Wednesday became an interesting spectacle for residents, especially visitors to local market. After the march, the students returned to the previ-ous square. They were students of elementary, junior high and high

school across the Baturiti subdis-trict. According to Suparwata, the anti-waste campaign had become an annual agenda. Meanwhile, the action of this year was made different by presenting a theatrical attraction. The theme was quite relevant through a cultural ap-proach. “In other words, armed with togetherness, the plastic waste becoming a threat for Bali must be dealt with together,” he pleaded. He also urged the government to include character education related to waste at schools so the concern with waste could be instilled since early age. (kmb30)

Plastic waste rampant, hundreds of students rally

The crowded Ulun Danu during the Eid

holiday

During Eid season

Visitors to Ulun Danu increases by 100 percentTabanan (Bali Post)—

Ulun Danu Beratan tourist object, Baturiti, remained to be a favorite destination for domestic tourists. On the Eid holiday season, the domestic tourist visit increased by 100 percent. They were mostly tourists from Java. It was evident from the license plate of their vehicles. On average, they were from Surabaya, Malang and Jakarta.

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3Friday, August 16, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, August 16, 2013

Makeup with menswear is a little more important than other styles because with a neutral, muted palette of grays, blacks and browns, “you want to have a little life to your face, a little health and vigor,” says Linda Wells, Allure magazine’s editor-in-chief.

When suiting up in this fall trend, women have choices for their beauty look, she says. “Are you go-ing to exaggerate the menswear look and play it up fully, or are you going to offset it with something feminine?” Wells says.

To soften menswear staples like gray flannel and houndstooth, which are so often fashioned into tailored items, add femininity by playing up the eyes or lips, experts advise, but not both at the same time so your features don’t compete. “You want to add feminine flair throughout the

face if you can’t have it on the body through the clothing,” says Myiesha Sewell, a Sephora Pro makeup artist.

For a ladylike touch, Wells envi-sions soft hair with a little wave to it falling over the forehead along with a rich burgundy lipstick, or dark, smoky eyes featuring gray eye shadow, eyeliner and lots of mascara. “Who doesn’t want to be a femme fatale?” she says of the “sexy androgyny” combination of feminine makeup and menswear.

If you want to keep the mens-wear feeling consistent from head to toe, Wells recommends a simpler style that doesn’t draw attention to the face: Hair is slick to the head and parted on the side “so it looks boyish,” and styled in a low ponytail or bun. Keep makeup natural looking, with clear or pale lip gloss, taupe eye

shadow, mascara and a darkened brow to give strength and defini-tion to the face.

However, Wells prefers the feminine face: “It’s taking men’s style and making it feminine. It’s the masculine-feminine — that conflict is always interesting. That tension is what makes it exciting.”

Sewell likes to add a shot of bold color while keeping the rest of it neutral to help soften the straight lines and sometimes boxy shapes of the clothing. For the eyes, try a bold blue liner along with a neutral brown or peach eye shadow. After mastering blue, Sewell says move on to experimenting with emerald or eggplant liner. “One of the easi-est looks and colors to wear with a neutral eye is navy blue or a cobalt eye liner,” Sewell says. “It really pops the whites of your eyes.”


NEW YORK — Macy’s Inc. reported a disappointing profit for its second quarter and cut its outlook for the year on Wednes-day. The department store chain blamed shoppers’ reluctance to spend for a rare slip in sales.

AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

FILE - In a Feb. 10, 2013 file photo a model walks the runway at the Victoria Beckham Fall 2013 fashion show during Fashion Week, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in New York.

AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011, file photo, pedestrians pass the Macy’s department store, in New York. Macy’s Inc. is reporting quarterly earnings on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013.

Makeup for menswear: Be a girlie girl or a tomboyAssociated Press Writer

If you’re slipping into a tweed blazer, an oversized cardigan or a sleek women’s tux this fall, the right beauty look is the perfect accessory to complete your menswear-inspired outfit. The choice is yours to do a 180-degree turn and go with hyper-girlie, or stay strictly tomboy: Either can complement the more masculine clothing silhouettes.

Macy’s sales slip, says shoppers wary of spendingIts shares fell nearly 5 percent in

regular trading. Over the past year, its stock is up almost 27 percent. The second-quarter weakness raises worries about consumer spending, an important part of the economy, and how other merchants fared dur-ing the spring and early summer.

Macy’s, the first of the major

retailers to report second-quarter results, has been a standout among its peers throughout the economic recovery. It’s a barometer of spending among middle- to upper-income shoppers.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kohl’s Corp. and Nordstrom Inc. are among the major retailers scheduled to report later this week.

Like other retailers, the Cin-cinnati-based operator of Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s is grappling with a yo-yo economic recovery that’s making people careful about their purchases heading into the heart of the key back-to-school selling period.

While jobs are easier to get and the turnaround in the housing market is showing promise, the im-provements haven’t been enough to get most Americans to spend more. Most are juggling tepid wage gains with higher costs of living. On top of that, Americans are still trying to digest higher payroll taxes that went into effect Jan. 1.

“We believe that much of our weakness is due to the health of the consumer and to the fact that consumers seem to be choosing to make purchases in non-depart-ment store categories such as cars,

housing and home improvement,” Karen Hoguet, Macy’s chief finan-cial officer, said during a confer-ence call with investors.

Hoguet also said that Macy’s was also partly to blame for the sales shortfall as well. The chain didn’t provide ample offerings of low-priced merchandise. To lure shoppers back in the store, Macy’s said it is stepping up marketing but declined to offer details.

Chris Donnelly, London-based global retail managing director at Accenture, said that in this still tough economic environment, shoppers are shifting their spend-ing around since they can’t afford to buy all the product categories at one time. The nature of back-to-school shopping adds even more pressure to retailers.

Unlike Christmas, “there is no artificial deadline,” he said. “There’s no reason you have to buy the new pair of jeans on the first day of school.”

For the three months that ended Aug. 3, Macy’s said it earned $281 million, or 72 cents per share. That’s short of the 78 cents per share analysts expected. It was the first time Macy’s profit missed ex-pectations since 2007. A year ago,

the company earned $279 million, or 67 cents per share.

Revenue slipped to $6.07 bil-lion, also short of the $6.26 billion analysts expected, according to FactSet.

Revenue at stores open a year, a key metric because it strips out the impact of newly opened and closed locations, slid 0.8 percent. That was Macy’s first decline since the fourth quarter of 2009.

Macy’s now expects the figure to climb between 2 percent and 2.9 percent for the full year, down from its previous projection of a 3.5 percent increase.

Hoguet said that weakness dur-ing the quarter affected many types of products, including shoes and cosmetics. The company had to mark down prices after a cool spring. But she said she was encour-aged by early back-to-school sales so far in August. Another piece of encouraging news: the company’s upscale Bloomingdale’s chain saw a rebound in business from a weaker first quarter.

But other retailers such as teen clothing sellers American Eagle Outfitters Inc. and Aeropostale Inc. have warned of a slow start to the back-to-school period.

Bali PostDENPASAR - Today, the de-

velopment occurred in Bali has not been able to prosper the com-munity. Even, within the past 10

Mercedes Corby told reporters outside Kerobokan prison on the resort island that officials from the country’s correctional agency had Tuesday inspected her own home on Bali, where her sister would live.

“Officials came to my house yesterday to begin the parole pro-cess,” she said after dropping off food and water for her sister.

“It’s great news -- one step closer to her freedom.”

“Our family is happy,” said Schapelle’s elder sister, who lives on the island with her Balinese husband.

Kerobokan prison warden I Gusti Ngurah Wiratna confirmed officials had visited Mercedes Corby’s home in the tourist district of Kuta and had also visited the prisoner the same day.

“The visits were part of Corby’s parole process. The officials also verified documents related to her parole,” he said.

The documents included a let-

ter of support from the Australian government and another from Corby’s family, he said.

Corby, 36, received a 20-year jail sentence in 2005 for smug-gling 4.1 kilograms (nine pounds) of marijuana into Bali.

Following a five-year sentence cut and several shorter reductions, she has been eligible for parole for almost a year but has yet to of-ficially apply as she must first meet stringent conditions.

These include requirements such as getting a letter of approval from the head of the village where she would live in Bali.

She is due for a sentence remis-sion Saturday to mark Indonesia’s independence day, when prisoners typically have three to six months cut from their sentences.

Indonesia enforces stiff penal-ties for drug trafficking, including life imprisonment and death.

IBP/Net

Australian drug offender Schapelle Corby is one step closer to being freed from prison in Indo-nesia’s Bali island after officials began preparing for her parole, her sister said Wednesday.

Corby closer to freedomAgence France-Presse

KEROBOKAN - Australian drug offender Schapelle Corby is one step closer to being freed from prison in Indonesia’s Bali island after officials began preparing for her parole, her sister said Wednesday.

Economy of Bali has not yet prospered community years a lot of developments have confronted the foundations of religion, culture and customs and they even harm Bali.

“More ironically, the rapid eco-

nomic growth should also be en-joyed by more people. This occurs because more economic growth belonging to the proportion of non-tradable sector (services), not of the

tradable sector (trade),” said the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, in Den-pasar, Wednesday (Aug 14).

According to him, the gap occurred in Bali was not only caused by the unequal income from tourism pie. However, it was also caused by people’s low edu-cational background, less optimal cultivation of local potential that could improve the living standard economically and others.

“There are some regions having local advantages or we prefer to call it local wisdom. This potential is ac-tually able to improve the economic life of the community,” he said.

He added that Balinese commu-nity could not expect much from the government. Aside from restricted budget, it was also caused by capital expenditure or the development in the regional budget that had inad-equate proportion to help drive the local economy. Even, there was a structure in the regional budget of a county whose proportion of per-sonnel and routine expenses had a range around 70 percent.

“It can be imagined how such imbalanced proportion can become a stimulus of development. The ideal structure shows that percent-age of routine and personnel expen-diture is less than 50 percent, while the rest is for capital expenditure and development,” he said.

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Today, the development occurred in Bali has not been able to prosper the community. Even, within the past 10 years a lot of developments have confronted the foundations of religion, culture and customs and they even harm Bali.

The gaps in Bali was also con-firmed by the data released by the World Bank requiring that the dis-tribution of income would declared low if 40 percent of the population having low income could enjoy at least 17 percent of total income.

In 2009, 40 percent of the low-income class in Bali had enjoyed 22.15 percent of the total income. It was much higher than the re-quired number (17 percent) so that Bali was categorized into a prov-ince having low level of inequality or the income distribution of the population was relatively even. However, a year later the economic pie that could be enjoyed by the low-income class had actually decreased to only 20.75 percent. Even, in 2011 the figure could be said to drop so that the low-income class only received a total of 17.20 percent of the total income generated by Bali compared to 20 percent of the upper class. In 2009, 20 percent of the upper class had received 39.10 percent of the total income generated. In 2010, the figure increased to 41.73 percent and in 2011 the figure had reached 46.42 percent.

“On that account, Bali needs a leader with a clear vision in the field of public welfare. It should not offer a bombastic vision in theoretical level, but it can be implemented substantially in the level of prac-tice,” he said. (kmb27)

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for July 10 through August 10, 2013

10 Jul Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan - Pulasari Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Tarokaja Taro Tegallalang 17 Jul Buda Paing Wayang Pura Dang Khayangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli 20 Jul Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bathara Ratu Gede Celuk Sukawati Bathara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Bathara Ratu Allit lan Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba Kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel klungkung Pura Pemerajan Agung Sulang Dawan Klungkung Pura Padharman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih ( Dalem Klungkung ) Pura Penataran dan Pasraman Kuta Rejo , Kendal Rejo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Sidhi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 22 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan- Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar

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Perching right at zero point of the capital of Denpasar, right at Jalan Veteran 3 Denpasar, the hotel remains to intensely reflect the Dutch architecture. Rijsttafel menu is a traditional food having existed since the hotel was established. Such culi-nary specialty remains to be preserved until now. “In the past, Rijsttafel was presented to dignitaries and kings,” said the Assistant Chef of Inna Bali, Nyoman Suratni.

Rijsttafel is served on a bronze tray. It has various tastes because on a single tray is served several types of Inna Bali typical foods such as beef satay, fried chicken, gado-gado, soup, fried tuna, eggs, pickles, chili, Balinese raw sambal and crackers. “Other than white rice, we serve on differ-ent plates. This menu is perfect for lunch and dinner,” she said.

According to Nyoman Suratni, prepa-

ration of the rijsttafel had no fixed rules or could be done according to taste pro-vided that the tray remained to contain the servings like meat vegetable, rice and sambal. The latter was very important. Meanwhile, the dessert of rijsttafel could be accompanied with watermelon, melon and pineapple. “We also focus on soup and fried chicken,” she added.

The soup was composed of several in-gredients, such as carrot, cucumber, meat-ball and tuna. To prepare it, all ingredients were boiled in one container and then added with spices. Its spices were consist-ing of pulverized garlic and then stir-fried until looking lightly brown. After that, it was added with salt, pepper powder and flavoring.

In the meantime, the seasoning of fried chicken, added Suratni, used special

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Enjoy Rijsttafel at Inna Bali HotelIBP

DENPASAr - Certainly, the name of Inna Bali Hotel Denpasar remains inherent in the tourism community of Bali and Indonesia in general. The accommodation established in the Dutch colonial era has a restaurant offering distinctive and special menus. Aside from being good for relaxation, the dining venue also applies open concept making it very close to nature. And rijsttafel becomes one of the most favorite menus for tourists.

ingredients such as onion, garlic and large chili. All ingredients were then pulverized, and added with a slice of ginger, five seeds

of coriander and brown sugar to taste. Then, they were finely pulverized. Ultimately, the batter was steamed and smeared onto

the fried chicken. “If it has been processed correctly, it will give delicious flavor,” said the well experienced assistant chef.

Mangupura (Bali Post)—Commission B of the Badung House urged

the government to take stern action against the construction of three hotels located at Sawangan and Jimbaran. When the Commis-sion B held site inspection, the three hotels were alleged to do cliff dredging without paying attention to the environmental condi-tions. Commission B also found a number of violations in the projects.

“When we the Commission B and Com-mission A made site inspection on Tuesday (Aug 13) with relevant agencies, we found an excessive cliff cutting at the project of Kem-pinski Hotel and Ritz Carlton at Sawangan as well as Konde Ratu Hotel at Jimbaran. We think the hotel at Jimbaran has not licensed yet,” said Chairman of Commission B of the Badung House, I Made Sumerta, Wednesday (Aug 14).

According to Sumerta, the cliff cutting paid less attention to the topography. The hills dredged were assessed unstable because the local rocks did not belong to the hard type so that it tended to be porous. He worried about

the occurrence of landslides. Moreover, in one of the hotel projects there was the making of road access by cutting a 100-meter cliff.

His party also alleged the two hotel projects at Sawangan to violate the coastal borderline. The hotels also got around the borderline with land expansion by using beach sand and backfill.

He said further that when making the site inspection the team of the House and the ex-ecutive could not meet in person with the field coordinator or the hotel owner representative. Besides, it did not have a project office at the location. As a result, the House got difficulty to get information related to the project.

To follow up the results of inspection, Commission B of the Badung House would have a work meeting by inviting the entrepre-neurs. As scheduled, the meeting would ask for clarification from the hotels next week. “Next week, we will have a meeting again by inviting the entrepreneurs. If there is a violation, we ask the government through relevant agencies to act decisively,” said the PDI-P politician. (kmb25)

Secretary of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Den-pasar, AA Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said the county/municipal government so far only complained without doing any real action to attract tourists to their region. Actually, the potential owned by Northern, Eastern and Western Bali was no less interesting compared to the destinations existing in Southern Bali.

“If wishing an equal distribution, do not only keep silent. They (counties/municipality—Ed) must try to capture it with promotions at the airport where travelers first set foot in Bali. All this time, the incoming travelers only know Kuta, Denpasar and Gianyar because they do not receive information regarding the other destinations in Bali,” said AA Ngurah Adhi in Denpasar, Wednesday (Aug 14).

According to him, the county/mu-nicipality that had not enjoyed the impact

of tourism growth in Bali could take advantage of the Ngurah Rai Airport to promote the tourism potential in the re-gion. Such an effort was also applied in some countries to even up their tourism distribution. “They (the governments) can open a counter to promote their tourism potential. If necessary, each tourist destination provides shuttle bus to transport tourists wishing to visit their region,” he said.

He was optimistic that by completely promoting the existing tourist destina-tions, travelers would be interested in visiting the region outside the Southern Bali tourism. “The government should also shore up this effort by providing adequate infrastructure. Thus, when travelers have been willing to come, they are even hampered by miles of ac-cess, so that they will be lazy to come again,” he said.

Negara (Bali Post)—License application for three villas

owned PT Pasti at Perancak was finally returned by the Jembrana Integrated Li-censing Office. Based on field inspection, one of the villa units infringed the coastal borderline.

Although the license has not been approved, the villas are alleged to have been in operation. It was visible when the Jembrana House made a site inspec-tion. The integrated team with Chairman of the Jembrana House, I Ketut Sugiasa, on Monday (Aug 12) found the villas had been in operation though having no had li-cense yet. The three villas, namely villa 9, 12 and 20, had actively employed staff.

The Head of Jembrana Integrated Li-censing Office, Komang Suparta, said the licensing document submitted to licensing office for Villa 12 had been returned to management. The office rejected the ap-

plication because it was not eligible for further process. According to Suparta, the most fundamental thing was that the building violated the coastal borderline. The villa building located at Dangin Berawah hamlet was very close to the shoreline. In addition, the construction of building did not meet the standards, namely without a roof. The county gov-ernment only gave permission for building with roof. Meanwhile, the license of two other villas, namely villa 20 and 9, had not been submitted.

Meanwhile, the observation on Wednes-day (Aug 14) indicated the three villas were closed and empty. One of the vil-las, namely villa 9, looked to have been padlocked from the outside. Previously, the inspection made by the House and the integrated team found there were about 10 employees claimed to have been working at the villa. (kmb26)

Grab tourism pie in Southern Bali

County/municipal govt may not lack in vitalityDenpasar (Bali Post)—

The development of tourism in Bali remaining to be focused on Southern Bali especially in Badung must be grabbed by the other counties/municipal-ity on the Island of the Gods. The county/municipal government may not lack of vitality and only laments the imbalanced distribution of tourism, but should do something for the sake of people’s welfare.

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Kuta, one of the tourism object in southern Bali

Three hotel projects alleged to violate

Build on coastal borderlineLicense application of villa at Perancak denied


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Although Meyer was a producer for “The Twilight Saga-Breaking Dawn” films and the movie adaptation of her novel “The Host,” this is the first time she’s produced someone else’s work. She said in a recent interview that she got to be “a little bit more hands-on, a little more dirty” with producing duties.

“Austenland” is a romantic comedy about a single 30-something woman (Russell) obsessed with Jane Austen

novels who spends her life savings to visit a British Jane Austen theme park. “We made a lot of mistakes and we learned a lot more because we are al-lowed to make mistakes,” Meyer said of her “Austenland” crew, adding that she was “surprised that it all worked out so well.”

Meyer said she enjoyed the “collabo-ration” and “socialization” of producing and found a “different kind of creative

outlet.” She described writing as “a very solitary thing you do in a quiet room,” while producing is “something you do in a room full of people shouting all the time.”

Meyer has optioned the books “Down a Dark Hall” and “Anna Dressed in Blood” for film. She said it’s a coin-cidence that she’s turning back to the supernatural world with the two young adult ghost stories. “When you find a book that you’re excited about you just act first and then realize you’re stuck in a pattern,” she said.

Meyer wants to continue to write but isn’t planning any more “Twilight” novels. She says it is “possible,” but that spending so much time on them “in some ways completely burned me out on that whole world.”


His grim visage has caused havoc in the Marvel universe before. Now, with Thanos’ galactic-domination plans set to play out beyond the printed pages of Marvel comics, the erstwhile villain is back in the six-issue miniseries “Infin-ity,” along with heroes from Earth and beyond.

“It’s called the Marvel universe for a reason. The stakes has never been just Earth, and no event proves that like ‘Infinity,’” said Marvel Entertainment editor-in-chief Axel Alonso. “And at the

root of the problem: the so-called mad titan, Thanos.”

Writer Jonathan Hickman said the scale of the book, released Wednesday and illustrated by Jim Cheung, is such that it’s got an event label, involving scores of plots, characters, arcs and struggles.

The series features Inhumans, Aveng-ers, Guardians of the Galaxy and other heroes familiar to Marvel Entertainment readers.

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series released this year.“The stories that Thanos has been

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NEW YORK — When Stephenie Meyer’s name is mentioned, most people think of her “Twilight Saga” vampire books and films. But the author wants a new audience as a film producer. Meyer produced “Austenland,” starring Keri Russell and based on the novel by Meyer’s friend Shannon Hale. The film, directed by Jerusha Hess, opens in lim-ited release Friday.

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Pastika stated he would not revoke the de-cree but merely reviewed the recommenda-tion of the House. Such assertion was made after chairing the ceremony to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Bali Provincial Gov-ernment at Bajra Sandi Monument Square, Denpasar, Wednesday (Aug 14).

When asked by reporters whether he would implement the recommendation of

the Bali House in order the decree on the reclamation permit was revoked, Pastika did not answer it firmly whether he would revoke the decree or not. He said that his party would examine and study the rec-ommendation. “It’s being assessed (the House’s recommendation-Ed),” he said.

So, will the decree not be revoked? When urged with the question, Pastika dodged and

did not want to give comment further. He reasoned if it was the celebration moment of Bali Provincial Government, not for dis-cussion about reclamation. “We are in the moment of anniversary (of Bali Province-Ed),” said Pastika briefly. To what extent has the study been made and when will the results be available? Asked by such ques-tion, Pastika said it was under process. So, it could not be ascertained when the results and decisions would be available. “It’s still being reviewed. So, we do not know the ex-act time. Obviously, it is being examined,” said the former Police Chief of Bali.

Previously (Bali Post/Aug 13), Chairman of the Bali House had officially issued a

recommendation to the Governor of Bali No.900/2569/DPRD dated August 12, 2013 on the review and or revocation of the Bali Governor Decree No.2138/02-C/HK/2012. “We do not want the polemics on reclamation to continue because there are a lot of rejections from the people of Bali. Thus, the Bali House recommends the governor to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit,” said Chairman of the Bali House, AA Ngurah Oka Ratmadi, accompanied by Deputy Chairman Ketut Suwandhi and Chairman of Commission I of the Bali House Made Arjaya in the Bali Parliamentary Hall, Monday (Aug 12).

Governor has not been willing to revoke decree

Recommendation of Bali House still assessed

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, showed off again his unassertive stance against the aspirations of the people of Bali that refused the reclamation and recommendation of the Bali House asking the governor to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit.

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People of Benoa Bay rallied against recla-mation plan on Benoa Bay recently. Gover-nor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, showed

off again his unassertive stance against the aspirations of the people of Bali that refused the reclamation and recommendation of the

Bali House asking the governor to revoke the decree on the reclamation permit.

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