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“The strengthening of dollar ex-change rate brings in good and bad effect. As the good side, tourism industry and export businesspeople will get more rupiahs from their business transaction in dollar,” said Secretary of the ISEI Bali, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana.

On the contrary, he said, it would

have negative impact on importers because more rupiahs should be provided to purchase goods and services. “If the products purchased are in the form of raw materials for product, then it will result in an increase in final goods sold by do-mestic manufacturers. This impact is suffered by our society consum-

ing the products,” he said.According to him, the strong or

weak condition of rupiah highly depended on many factors such as social, political, economic and domestic economic condition in Europe and America. “The rupiah depreciation was suspected to hap-pen due to economic improvement in the United States and some Euro-pean countries. Besides, it was also kindled by a high enough demand for the dollar due to foreign debt maturity,” he predicted.

Similarly, he also predicted in terms of social aspect, where the condition had the potential to re-

duce the rate of economic growth. As consequence, the employment absorption would decrease and the unemployment could not surely be reduced. “Fluctuations of the rupiah exchange rate are com-monplace. Differently, if we have greater foreign exchange reserves, the fluctuations will not be much going on,” he concluded.

On the other hand, the attention of the stock market on Monday (Sep 15) was focused on the rupiah depreciation in large amount or freefall. Weakening of exchange rate got near the level of IDR 11,900 per US dollar. As a result,

the vivacity of speculation in the stock was affected.

“Generally, the exchange rate of rupiah lies in the level of around IDR 11,700 per US dollar. Rupiah at that level is good enough for the stock market, including at the level of around IDR 11,800 that is still acceptable although somewhat sup-pressed the vivacity of the market. But this time, the exchange rate of rupiah has moved to the level of around IDR 11,900 per US dol-lar so that it made the market less vivacious,” said Chairman of Panin Securities, Pande Suarsana.

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Tourists visit Kuta Beach on Tuesday, September 16, 2014. The strengthening of dollar exchange rate brings in good and bad effect. As the good side, tourism industry and export businesspeople will get more rupiahs from their business transaction in dollar.

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DENPASAR - The Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter stated that the depreciation of rupiah getting near the level of IDR 11,900 per US dollar was assessed to be beneficial for Bali relying on the tourism sector. Thus, the results of business activity in dollars will be getting more rupiahs.

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which decides the awards, said Clooney was chosen in large part for his humanitarian work, in particular for speaking out against the geno-cide in Darfur.

The prize honors a celebrity who had a sub-stantial impact on the entertainment industry and will be presented to Clooney at this year’s Globes ceremony on January 11.

Clooney, 53 and soon to marry British-Lebanese Amal Alamuddin, has won three Golden Globes, for “The Descendants,” and “Syriana,” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” He was nominated for four other films and for his role in the popular television drama “ER.”

The actor, producer, writer, and director co-founded “Not On Our Watch,” an organization that works

to fight genocides around the world. In 2010, he also co-produced a telethon, “Hope for Haiti,” which raised $66 million for earthquake relief.

Previous recipients of the Cecil B. DeMille award include Jodie Foster, Steven Spielberg, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Douglas and Martin Scorsese.

Associated Press

LONDON - Tom Ford has taken his runway to the disco — and with the dark room and all those sparkly sequins, guests almost missed one VIP sitting in their midst.

Actor Bradley Cooper took his seat on the front row at the U.S. designer’s London Fashion Week show Monday, chatting amiably with Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

The Hollywood star disappeared

backstage immediately after the show, and many guests did not even register his presence.

Even if Cooper drew attention to himself, he would have had a hard time competing with the shiny clothes on show. For his latest collection, Ford went full on rock’ n’ roll glam with lashings of sequins, jewels and leather in black, silver, burnished gold and metallic green prints with an oil slick or camouflage effect.

Models looked like members of a rock band with their thick tousled manes

and thick eyeliner, and wore skin-tight sequined tops and bell-bottom pants with an exaggerated flare.

One dramatic outfit featured what looked like a tight catsuit covered all over with black sequins, worn with a matching cape. The looks were finished with very high platform shoes in animal print.

The display was rounded off by a se-ries of risque sheer evening gowns with harness details — complete with jeweled flowers just barely covering the chest.

George Clooney to get prize for humanitarian work

Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood megastar George Clooney will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes for his work on screen and off, the organiza-tion said Monday.

Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File

Bradley Cooper drops in at Tom Ford show

Actor Bradley Cooper, cen-tre watches

designer Tom Ford’s Spring/Summer 2015

collection show, during

London Fash-ion Week, at Vincent

Square in cen-tral London,

Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

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Northern California wildfire burns 100 homes

Dirty water raising health risk in flooded Kashmir

Chelsea, Costa set to heap more misery on Schalke

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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

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

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

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

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

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

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

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

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

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

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

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

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

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

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

IBP

JIMBARAN - Anumana Bay View Jimbaran is a new branded Boutique Hotel which is close to tourism spots in Bali. It is located in a very strate-gic place exactly at Pondok Mekar Street, Kampus Jimbaran. It is only 15 minutes drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport.

From the hotel, it is very easy to reach some tourist attractions like Garuda Wisnu Kencana, and Uluwatu Temple which is well known as nice place to see the sunset with Balinese dance performance. Besides that, it is also easy to go to some beautiful beaches such as Nusa Dua, Dream-land, Padang Padang and even Ke-donganan which is filled with grilled sea food restaurants.

The Operational Manager I Wayan Budiarta revealed, the hotel not only has swimming pool, lobby, CCTV and Free WIFI, but also the roof top that offers a wonderful view. It has the splendid panorama of Benoa Har-bor, Bali International Airport, Nusa Dua Beach and also Jimbaran Bay.

“This is the best venue to see South Bali at night. Even, grill sea food can be arranged on roof op,” he said.

Budiarta said Anumana Bay View Jimbaran has luxury, large and comfortable accommodation. The building has 4 floors with 10 rooms, each rooms has 50m2 with two sofa and also private balcony. All rooms equipped with LCD Samsung TV 32 inch that has 85 International TV Channel. Private bathroom with hot and cold water, air conditioning, refrigerator, coffee & tea maker and safe deposit box is also available. “Our hotel features 10 guestrooms, perfect for a Bali family vacation, foreign guests and honeymooners,” he explained.

A Free Shuttle service is provided to Tanjung Benoa as the center of wa-ter sport in Bali. Nusa Dua, Kuta and Sanur can be reached within twenty minutes. “Our first few guests were coming from France and Jakarta. Mostly their impressions were very good. So guys, see you at Anumana Bay View Jimbaran if you come to Bali,” he suggested. (ocha)

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Anumana Bay View Jimbaran

Such condition was found by subdistrict head of Nusa Penida, Ketut Sukla, when in-specting the location of Guyangan spring and some surrounding hamlets, Monday (Sep 15). Aside from sold illegally, the water was also widely used to run a private business such as brick molding and other small industries. Ketut Sukla also found that pipeline had been made at some villages. However, the instal-lation at several hamlets was still found inef-fective because it could not drain the water to those hamlets. “It is only air coming out from the pipe, not water,” he said.

It happened at the hamlets like the Pelilit, Sebuluh, Sompang and several others in the vicinity. As the Guyangan spring continued to jam, the residents could not enjoy the clean water. According to residents, as heard in person by the subdistrict head, the Guyangan spring unit head never came down to the field, even though the surrounding people were screaming due to clean water shortages. The Guyangan springs whose water discharge

reaching 179 liters per second could only be used as much as 30 liters per second.

Besides, the utilization was not on target because there were unscrupulous people who deliberately exploited the situation by illegally selling it to people in need of clean water because it was far enough to reach the water flow from the spring. In addition, the residents could not do much because they were very difficult to meet the daily clean water needs.

He had the spring managed properly as the management carried out by the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) in Nusa Penida. He also hoped that all relevant parties to address the issue immediately. Similarly, he asked them to immediately sit together and resolve the problem on the distribution of Guyangan springs. Otherwise, it would kindle a bigger issue because a number of regions were cur-rently experiencing clean water crisis.

Headman of Batukandik, I Wayan Katon, admitted on Monday (Sep 15) that many

residents complained about the situation. Ironically, Batukandik becoming the location of the Guyangan spring even did not get any water. Meanwhile, the unscrupulous people suspected of cooperating with the local author-ity were alleged to have sold the Guyangan water to residents illegally.

This headman complained about the han-dling by the management of Guyangan spring. He had reported the condition for several times, but there was no response from the management whereas the maintenance budget from the Bali government was quite fantastic, reaching IDR 5 billion per year. He asked relevant agencies to come down to the field in order to cross-check the Guyangan spring management.

On the other hand, the unit manager of Guyangan spring when contacted on Monday was reluctant to respond. When contacted for several times, the mobile phone connection was not responded. (kmb31)

Bali Post

NEGARA - Virtually all the newly planted paddy plants at Subak Manusari Gilir, Melaya vil-lage, were ascertained to die due to running out of water. Other than declining water discharge from the dam in this dry season, the drought is also kindled by the ongoing irrigation project. The irrigation project is under progress, so the water flow to paddy fields of farm-ers is stopped.

A number of paddy field owners admitted on Monday (Sep 15) that they had difficulty to get irriga-tion water where the seedling had been transplanted. Even, the paddy plants of a few weeks old at some plots died and the land cracked. Of the total paddy planted in the subak area, 80 percent of them had died.

One of the local paddy growers, Dewa, said the water of the dam

was actually still available. Due to the ongoing irrigation project, the water flow declined and even a lot of paddy fields did not get any water. The water just flowed well at night, but could not meet the needs of the paddy fields. “My paddy plants spreading across some plots are still alive and the harvest stays a month away. Meanwhile, many paddy plants belong to other farm-ers have died due to the drought,” he said. He added that farmers spending up to millions of rupiahs should eventually resign and let their paddy field dry and paddy plant die.

Chief of Subak Manusari Gilir, Wayan Sudarma, when asked for his confirmation did not dismiss the subak condition. Even, of the area spreading across 36 hectares, 80 percent of the paddy plants were ascertained to die. He said there was miscommunication related to

the irrigation channel repair having an impact on the interruption of water irrigation supply. Necessar-ily, the project should be worked on when the paddy plants got near the harvest. “The project activity done at noon automatically causes the water flow must be closed and only drained at night. However, the water flow from the dam is not much,” said Sudarma. His paddy field also got affected.

Related to the water source, it was recognized that the dam needed to be dredged in order to hold more water. Subak authority had also sent a proposal to address the water re-source problem. “Whether it will be dredged or repaired, we have sent the proposal of assistance to county and provincial government. Hope-fully, there is a solution,” he added. His party hoped the assistance of dam repair could be realized in 2015. (kmb26)

IBP/Gus Olo

The dry ricefield of Subak Manusari Gilir, Melaya village is seen in the pciture.

Water hampered by irrigation projectHectares of paddy plants die

IBP/Bagiarta

The Head of Nusa Penida Distrik is inspecting the distribution of Guy-angan water.

Clean water crisis, Guyangan springs sold illegally

Bali Post

SEMArAPUrA - Utilization of Guyangan springs at Batukandik village, Nusa Penida, Klungkung, is criticized again by residents. Amidst the water crisis engulfing most parts of the hill areas of Nusa Penida, the Guyangan springs are even sold illegally. At the same time, the other areas still lack of clean water.

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTechnology Wednesday, September 17, 2014Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be delivered to custom-ers starting Friday and through-out September, but many won’t be delivered until October, Apple said. Phones will still be avail-able Friday on a walk-in basis at Apple retail stores and from various wireless carriers and au-thorized Apple resellers.

Apple’s website had intermit-tent outages last Friday because of heavy traffic as orders began online. The company said the 4 million orders set a new 24-hour

record, beating the 2 million orders in 2012. That was for the iPhone 5, the previous time Apple increased the iPhone’s screen size.

Last year, Apple sold 9 million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c phones in the first three days they were on sale, but the company didn’t say how many came in the first 24 hours of advance orders.

The iPhone 5, 5s and 5c have screens measuring 4 inches diago-nally. The iPhone 6 is 4.7 inches, and the iPhone 6 Plus is 5.5 inches.

Besides larger screens, the new phones announced last week offer faster performance and a wireless chip for making credit card payments at retail stores by holding the phone near the pay-ment terminal. The phones start at $199 with a two-year service contact.

The new phones will initially be available in the U.S., Austra-lia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the U.K. Avail-ability will expand to more than

20 additional countries a week later.

A free update to Ap-ple’s iOS software for mobile devices will be available to exist-ing users on Wednes-day. The new phones will come with the update , known as iOS 8.

Apple’s stock rose 30 cents to $101.96 in midday trading Monday.

Director of Flight Safety of Air Transportation Directorate General of the Transportation Ministry Yusfandri Gona stated here on Monday that the plan was expected to be implemented by 2016-2017.

However, the implementation of the program must be supported by the readiness of the supply for the renewable jet fuel.

“It depends on the providers (manufactures) of the renewable jet fuel,” Gona noted after the opening of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) meeting in

Kuta, Bali. During the forum, Indonesia

had proposed the use of oil-palm-based fuel as the resource for the renewable jet fuel for commercial flights.

The initiative, Gona said, had been discussed in a workshop on biofuel for renewable fuel for the Indonesian aviation industry.

“It is Indonesia’s initiative in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emission and the implementation of biofuel for aviation industry,” Gona said.

The Indonesian government has

set a target of reducing 26 percent of its greenhouse gas emission by 2020.

The greenhouse gas had resulted from some sectors, such as forestry, peat lands, industries, and transpor-tation, including air transportation industry.

According to Secretary of the Committee on Aviation Environ-mental Protection of the ICAO Jane Hube, quoting the Intergovernmen-tal Panel on Climate Change, com-mercial flights contributed around two percent of the world’s CO2 emission.

REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee

Android One based mobiles are on display during its launch in New Delhi September 15, 2014. Google Inc launched in India on Monday a $105 smartphone, the first device from its “Android One” initiative which is aimed at boosting sales in key emerging markets through cheaper prices and better quality software.

Associated Press

NEW DELHI - YouTube users in India will soon be able to save

videos from the Google-owned service, making it possible to watch them offline, and the feature will eventually be available glob-

ally, the company said Monday.The feature will be available

through the YouTube app on Google’s new $105-Android One smartphones unveiled in New Delhi on Monday.

“YouTube will be available offline soon, starting with India,” Google India communications manager Gaurav Bhaskar told AFP.

Smartphones using Google’s Android operating system are used by more than one billion people globally and the new Android One phone is part of the company’s drive to reach out to billions more.

The company said the YouTube save service will be available soon but gave no date. It did not give any indication when it would be extended to other parts of the world.

The new YouTube save feature will be “a great benefit for when there is a slow connection or re-watching videos without using up the data plan”, said Bhaskar.

Google has tied up with local Indian handset makers Micromax, Karbonn and Spice Mobiles to make Android One Smartphones that will start at 6,399-rupee ($105).

“While 1.75-billion people around the world already have a smartphone, the vast majority of the world’s population -- over five billion more -- do not,” said Sundar Pichai, a senior Google vice president.

Google said the phones will be “high-quality” and “affordable” smartphones sold through online Indian retailers.

The new Google phones come with improved security features and more than a million apps, the company said.

Smartphone-makers are in a race to the bottom of India’s economic pyramid as they battle for customers in the fast-growing low-end market segment where analysts say opportunities are vast.

India is now the fastest-ex-

panding smartphone market glob-ally and the third-largest market after China and the United States, according to Britain-based consul-tancy Canalys.

The cheapest smartphones now retail at 2,000 rupees ($33), down from an average 15,000 rupees two years ago.

Technology consultancy IDC India projects annual smartphone sales growth of around 40 per-cent for the next five years in the price-sensitive nation, home to 33 percent of the world’s poor.

Smartphones now hold a 10 percent market share among In-dia’s mobile-phone-using popu-lation, according to consultancy IDC.

Handset makers in India and other emerging markets have been leapfrogging fixed-line technol-ogy that was used in developed markets.

They are employing mobile broadband to deliver Internet access to people who have no computers.

YouTube to go offline in India on Android phones

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Some iPhone users are not happy that U2’s new album, “Songs of Innocence,” was automatically added to their iTunes

music library, free of charge. In re-sponse, Apple has released a special tool that lets people remove the album from their collections.

U2 played at an Apple event last week that included the unveiling of

the iPhone maker’s new smartwatch and updated iPhone models. In a surprise move, the Irish rock band performed at the event and put out its 11-song release.

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced

that the new album would be given to the company’s 500 million iTunes users. The release showed up in users’ iTunes music libraries. The company said Monday that 33 million iTunes account holders have

accessed the free album.But some iTunes users took to

Twitter to complain and ask how to remove it. While it was already pos-sible to delete the album, Apple’s tool makes it possible in one step.

Apple releases tool to remove free U2 album

Record 4M orders of iPhones

on 1st day

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File

In this Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, file photo, the iPhone 6, at left, and iP-hone 6 plus are shown next to each other during a new product release in Cupertino, Calif. Apple had more than 4 million advance orders of its new iPhones in the first 24 hours, exceeding its initial supply, the com-pany said Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Apple had more than 4 million advance orders of its new, larger iPhones in the first 24 hours, exceeding its initial supply, the company said Monday.

Antara

KUTA - The International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, had held a discussion on reducing emissions from aircraft en-gines.

“We will be contributing in this discussion to the issuance of the global aviation policy for the environment, such as by the develop-ment of renewable energy,” stated the Indonesian Transportation Ministry’s Director of Aviation Safety, Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Yusfandri Gona, on Monday during a discussion on the world flight emission reduction in Bali, participated by many other international aviation institutions, including Indonesia.

Gona noted that the event was in line with Indonesian commit-ment to cut 26 percent of emission by 2020 from several sectors, aviation being one among them.

Regular commercial aircraft contributes to emission, beginning from its noise to fuel use impacts on the environment and sustainable development of civil aviation industry sector.

“The current issue is related to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and the development of technology, including operational efficiency and utilization of renewable fuels,” Gona said.

The secretary of Committee on Aviation Environmental Protec-tion (CAEP) Jane Hube said the committee has targeted that future aircraft will be able to reduce noise levels to zero.

Contribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel combustion has also been a concern, as each aircraft uses fuel that contributes about 80 percent of CO2.

Hopefully, the discussed issue that was submitted to the ICAO council will be proposed for formulating policies and regulations as well as standard for products by the CAEP member states and observer countries, and a plenary session will be held in 2016.

This event was attended by hundreds of delegates from 21 CAEP member countries, many international flights, airlines institutions, and flight professions.

Antara

DENPASAR - The government of Indonesia through the Ministry of Health has established coop-eration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to raise public awareness of Maternal and Child Health (KIA), an official reported.

“The cooperation aims at im-proving maternal and child health through the application of KIA guidebook,” health ministry’s Di-rector General for KIA Anung Sugihantono stated on Monday.

He noted that the application of KIA guidebook has been ongoing since early 2014, but the public has yet to realize the importance of the book.

“The target of Millennium De-velopment Goals on maternal and child health has not been achieved, and therefore, the cooperation is expected to raise public awareness on the importance of KIA,” he remarked.

According to him, the KIA guidebook could be used by the public to reduce child and maternal mortality in Indonesia.

Antara

DENPASAR - Together with all public elements, the Bali provincial administration is committed to real-izing sustainable regional develop-ment, according to local govern-ment spokesman I Made Teja.

“We are committed to making Bali remain green and clean because it is in line with the United Na-

tions conference on environmental management in Nusa Dua, Bali, on February 22, 2010,” Teja said on Tuesday.

He remarked that a joint com-mitment with all stake holders has been made to realize sustainable development in an effort to make the Indonesian island resort of Bali remain green, clean, beautiful, com-fortable, safe, and peaceful.

Bali to realize sustainable development

Indonesia cooperates with JICA on KIA

ICAO hold talks on emission reduction ANTARA FOTO/Maulana Surya

The Indonesian government has set a target of implementing the use of renewable jet fuel for national commercial airlines as part of the national programs in reducing CO2 emission by 26 percent in 2020.

Renewable jet fuel to be use by 2016Antara

KUTA - The Indonesian government has set a target of implementing the use of renewable jet fuel for national commercial airlines as part of the national programs in reducing CO2 emission by 26 percent in 2020.

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The town sawmill caught fire, and a Catholic church was de-stroyed. The blaze erupted at around 1:30 p.m. south of Weed, a scenic town of nearly 3,000 located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of the Oregon border and about half way between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.

“It was fast-moving, fanned by incredibly gusty winds of up to 40 mph (64 kph),” state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant. “It went into and around the town.” Blowing embers started spot fires as much as a half-mile (800 meters) ahead of the fire front, and evacuations were called for Weed and two outskirt subdivi-sions. About 1,500 to 2,000 people were ordered to evacuate, said Al-lison Giannini, spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s De-partment. The winds began to ease late in the day, and the fire’s pace slowed. By dusk it was 15 percent contained, state fire spokeswoman

Suzi Brady said. “We stopped the forward spread of the fire,” she said late Monday.

Randy Coates said he and his wife rushed to pick up their daugh-ter when her high school was evacu-ated. He said that on their way back home, they saw the town’s Catholic and Presbyterian churches, houses and backyards on fire. Driving by a wood mill, they saw piles of wood chips on fire. “As we came out of the high school both sides of the road were on fire,” Coates said.

For a while, authorities had to close Interstate 5, the main freeway between California and Oregon, in the area. The fire also knocked out power to most of the town, and people were left wandering the town center with flashlights Monday night. Weed, historically a lumber town, was named after the founder of a mill, Abner Weed, according to the town’s website.

Meanwhile, firefighters were

trying to gain better access to two raging wildfires that have forced hundreds to evacuate their homes, including one near a lakeside resort that destroyed nearly two-dozen

structures.In central California, firefight-

ers spent the day working to build and reinforce containment lines in steep terrain near a foothill com-

munity south of an entrance to Yosemite National Park. About 600 residents from 200 homes remained evacuated, Madera County sheriff’s spokeswoman Erica Stuart said.

Associated Press

EDINBURGH, Scotland — On Calton Hill, overlooking Edinburgh, stands Scotland’s National Monument. A colonnade of classi-cal stone pillars modeled on the Parthenon in Athens, it’s grand, inspiring — and unfinished, ever since the money to build it ran out two centuries ago. It’s a fitting image for the coun-try as seen by independence campaigners, who hope voters will finish Scotland’s incomplete journey to statehood by backing separation from Britain in a referendum on Thursday.

Polls suggest the outcome will be close. For many people south of the Scottish-English border, the idea that Scotland might leave the United Kingdom has come as a recent shock. But it has been decades, even centuries, in the making. “I’ve always felt we could run ourselves. We used to, years ago,” said David Hall, whose job is winding the clocks on some of Edinburgh’s most famous structures, including the Nelson Monument on Calton Hill.

He adds an often-heard sentiment: “We’ve always been treated as second-rate up here, by down south.” Scots have always felt different to their southern neighbor, whose population today is 10 times Scotland’s 5.3 million. The Romans never managed to conquer Scotland,

and remnants of Hadrian’s Wall still stand along the northern limit of their empire.

Scotland and England fought skirmishes and wars throughout the Middle Ages, and the exploits of Scottish heroes William “Brave-heart” Wallace and Robert the Bruce form part of the national mythology.

Britain — the country uniting England, Scotland and Wales — is a relatively recent development. England and Scotland have shared the same monarch since 1603. Political union came a century later, in 1707 — to the dismay of some Scots.

“Many felt it had been imposed upon them by a bullying England and that Scottish politi-cians had been bribed into submission,” said Christopher Whatley, professor of Scottish history at Dundee University. “That narrative ... has pulsed through the Scottish body politic through the centuries.”

But for a long time, in the eyes of most Scots, the Union worked. For almost three centuries, Britain was a global success story, carving out a vast empire. Scots were among the leading players, as colonists, soldiers, administrators, engineers and intellectuals. The 18th-century “Scottish Enlightenment” produced thinkers including economist Adam Smith, philosopher David Hume and poet Robert Burns.

Scotland took long road to independence vote

AP Photo/Matt DunhamA “Scotland welcomes you” sign stands beside a road near Gretna, Scotland, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

Northern California wildfire burns 100 homesAssociated Press

WEED, California — A fire driven by fierce winds raced through a small town near the Oregon border on Monday, burning a church to the ground, damaging or destroying 100 homes and prompting evacuation orders for at least 1,500 people, authorities said. This tiny town near the base of Mount Shasta in the Cascade Mountains was under siege from a 350-acre (140-hectare) blaze that surged toward and through it through timberland.

AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Mark CrosseIn this Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 photo, firefighters work a structure fire in Oakhurst, Calif., as two raging wildfires in the state forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.

Bali Post

GIANYAR - Related to the presence of deer frequently disrupting the agricul-tural crops of residents, a team of the Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) came down on Monday (Sep 15) to Pilan hamlet, Kerta village, Payangan subdistrict to see firsthand where the deer was. The team planned to check the popu-lation of the endangered animal so that it could be made a further study.

The team coming down to Pilan was led in person by the Head of Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency, Suhary-ono. He was accompanied by Conservation Section Chief I Ketut Catur Marbawa, Division Head of Forestry and Secretary of Kerta village.

Based on information from residents, the population of deer seen by people every day did not reach hundreds of heads. However, considering the condition of local nature, where customary village had 50 hectares of forest and located close to a river, there was a possibility if the number attained hundreds of heads. “We will check further the truth regarding the amount of wildlife population,” said the Head of the Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency, Suharyono.

People knowing the location of the deer

were expected not to hunt them because they belonged to protected animals pursuant to the law. In terms of the supporting habitat coupled with the natural conditions, it did not matter if the deer live there. Probably, they left the forest due to the current season and their food stock ran thin. As consequence, they came into the people’s plantation.

The encountered residents admitted that so far they saw the hordes of deer whose number reached hundreds of heads. But the deer coming to the people’s plantation for fodder was only a few. One to two heads of deer came into people’s plantation and ate some chili plants. “Existence of the animal cannot be categorized into pest for people’s plantation area,” he said.

All this time, the deer at Pilan had ex-isted from past time. It was supported by extensive forest habitat of the endangered animals. However, a few years ago, there was a release of some deer into the forest. Probably, those deer had proliferated.

In cooperation with local residents, the Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency would identify the deer popula-tion. Since the deer belonged to protected species, local residents were enabled to capture the deer in the forest for breeding purposes, so that it could become a commu-nity economic development activity under the supervision of the agency. (kmb16)

Other than general public, he said, the Mandarin language course was prioritized for the members of the HPI Bali. This effort was intended to produce ready-to-use human resources. “If we give pri-ority to general public, when being able to speak Mandarin they cannot be directly employed because they have not owned a license. On the contrary, when we teach the HPI members they can automatically be employed,” he explained.

According to him, in accordance with the Regional Bylaw of Bali No.5/2008 on Tourist Guides, it had been set forth that the education, certification and standard compe-tency should be owned by a tour-ist guide including some existing documents to be used in the field when being on duty.

“Currently, there are 700 Man-

darin-speaking tourist guides, while those who are still learning reach 52 people. Hopefully, the increasing number of personnel in the HPI can anticipate the future needs for Man-darin-speaking tourist guide during high season of tourist arrival, such as on Chinese New Year,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Association of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agency (ASITA) of Bali Chapter, I Ketut Ardana, said that based on experience through the years, every Chinese New Year Bali always lacked of Mandarin-speaking tourist guides. As a result, sometimes travel agencies em-ployed unlicensed tourist guides.

“ASITA along with the govern-ment will immediately find solu-tions to overcome the shortage of Mandarin-speaking tourist guides. By that way, travel agencies will

not use the services of unlicensed tourist guides,” he hoped.

Ardana acknowledged that the demand for tour packages for Chi-nese travelers staying in Indonesia

was increasing, approximately 10 percent of normal day. “However, we in the travel agencies, chiefly my travel agency, have no problem because they are living in Indonesia

and have been able to speak Indone-sian. Therefore, it does not require special tourist guides that can speak Mandarin language,” explained Ardana. (kmb27)

HPI Bali adds Mandarin-speaking tourist guideBali Post

DENPASAR - The Indonesian Tourist Guides Association (HPI) of Bali Chapter continues to increase the number of members mastering the Mandarin language. This effort is meant to meet the demand for travel agencies in harmony with the increasing Asian tourist arrivals to Bali. “We continue to organize Mandarin language course to increase the number of tourist guides who master the language. Thus, travel agencies will no longer complain about the shortage of Mandarin-speaking tourist guide,” said Chairman of the HPI Bali, Sang Putu Subaya.

IBP/fileThe guide is explaining the history of Kertagosa in Klungkung

BKSDA Bali checks deer population at Pilan

IBP/FileThe deer population in Bali need to be checked to prevent the rare species from extinction.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian police on Monday said the four foreigners arrested over the weekend suspected of being linked to the Islamic State jihadist group were from China’s ethnic Uighur minority.

A day after identifying the four men as Turks, police said they had investigated and found that they had entered Indonesia using forged Turk-ish passports.

The elite Detachment 88 police squad had arrested them, along with three Indonesians, after tailing their car on Saturday in the central Sulawesi district of Poso, a known hotbed for militant activity.

“It turned out that the four foreign-ers arrested were Uighurs, after in-vestigation by the anti-terror police,” national police spokesman Ronny Sompie told reporters.

“They had used fake passports,” he added.

The men had paid $1,000 to a broker in Thailand for each passport and used them to enter Malaysia and Indonesia, Sompie said. Agus Rianto, another police spokesman, said the men were being investigated for al-leged connections with the Islamic State jihadist group.

National police chief Sutarman said they wanted to meet Santoso, the leader of a group called the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen that hides out

in the jungles around Poso.“We are still investigating why

they wanted to meet Santoso, whether for training or for terror acts,” he added.

Indonesia is home to the world’s biggest Muslim population of about 225 million and has long struggled with terrorism. But a successful clampdown in recent years has seen the end of major deadly attacks.

Jakarta has estimated that dozens of Indonesians have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he was concerned about their return, adding that he had tasked agencies to oppose the spread of extremist ideology in the sprawling nation.

Officials in Singapore and Malaysia have responded furi-ously to Indonesian forest fires, which have intensified and be-come more frequent in recent years.

Singapore’s air pollution rose to unhealthy levels on Monday as Indonesian authorities failed to control fires in Sumatra island’s vast tracts of tropical forest.

Parliament’s decision has been passed into law.

The agreement obliges Indo-nesia to strengthen its policies on forest fires and haze, actively participate in regional decision-making on the issue and dedicate more resources to the problem, regionally and domestically.

Indonesia signed the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution 12 years ago and has been under increasing pres-sure to ratify the document, be-ginning deliberations in earnest in January.

“Indonesia has already carried out operations for the prevention, mitigation of forest fires and haze, and recovery activities, at the national level,” parliament

said in a statement.“But, to handle cross-border

pollution, Indonesia and other ASEAN nations recognise that prevention and mitigation need to be done together,” it said.

While Singapore and Malay-sia are smothered in haze from Indonesian forests every year, fires in June last year caused the region’s worst pollution crisis in a decade, renewing calls for ac-tion in Indonesia.

Authorities have said most of the fires are deliberately lit to clear land for commercial plantations, such as paper and palm oil, and have ar-rested people caught in the act.

The June 2013 haze crisis sparked a diplomatic row with Indonesia claiming Malaysian and Singaporean companies with plantations on Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo were among those starting the fires.

Singapore last month passed a bill that gives the government powers to fine companies that cause or contribute to haze up to Sg$2 million ($1.6 million), regardless of whether they have an office in Singapore.

Reuters JAKARTA - Indonesia’s pres-

ident-elect Joko Widodo said on Monday just over half of the mem-bers of his cabinet will be techno-crats, including the ministers of finance, energy and state-owned enterprises.

Widodo, who won a July elec-tion and will take office on Oct. 20, has promised a technocratic government in a country with a long tradition of ministers being appointed for political reasons.

“What is most important is that we want to build a strong cabinet,” Widodo told a news conference in Jakarta.

He said of the 34 ministerial positions, 18 would be filled by professionals while the rest would be “party professionals”.

Andi Wijajanto, an adviser to Widodo, told Reuters that meant ministers could be “from political parties but they must be experts in that field”.

Widodo did not name any cabi-net ministers. He is expected to an-nounce his team in early October.

In a departure from outgo-ing president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s unwieldy coalition-building, Widodo has tried to avoid cutting deals with political parties in exchange for support but he faces pressure from within his

camp to share out power.Yudhoyono faced criticism

during his second term for mak-ing political appointments to key portfolios such as the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry.

The energy minister, a senior figure in Yudhoyono’s ruling Dem-ocratic Party, stepped down this month after the anti-graft agency identified him as a suspect in a graft case. He has vouched for his integrity and agreed to follow the legal process.

Widodo, flanked by his tran-sition team, announced minor changes to the cabinet structure in a bid to streamline the bureau-cracy.

AP PhotoAustralian national Jake Drage, left, listens to the judge during his trial Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 at Cibadak District Court in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia. Drage is facing trial on charges of reckless driving that led to the death of an Indonesian woman after their motorbikes collided on June 30. Jake could face up to six years in prison if found guilty.

Indonesia to ratify ASEAN haze agreementAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday voted to ratify a regional agreement on cross-border haze as fires ripped through forests in west of the country, choking neighbouring Singapore with hazardous smog.

Islamic State suspects are China’s Uighurs

President-elect Widodo looks to technocrats for cabinet

REUTERS/Darren WhitesidePresident-elect Joko Widodo (L) and his vice president-elect Jusuf Kalla laugh while speaking to the media at their transition headquarters in Jakarta September 15, 2014.


BEIJING - China’s outbound investment more than doubled in August to $12.62 billion, data showed Tuesday, far outstripping foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country, which fell to a four-year low. China has been actively acquiring foreign assets, particularly energy and resources, to power its economy, with firms encouraged to “go out” and make overseas acqui-sitions to gain market access and international experience. Officials

have said overseas direct investment (ODI) could exceed FDI this year.

The 112.1 percent year-on-year increase in ODI announced by the commerce ministry was a dramatic contrast to the 14.0 percent fall in FDI, which sank to $7.20 billion. Both sets of figures exclude invest-ment in financial sectors.

FDI was also less than July’s $7.81 billion and was the lowest since July 2010, when it stood at $6.92 billion.

Commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang denied any link to Beijing’s multiple probes into for-

eign companies. Chinese authorities have in recent months launched anti-monopoly, pricing and other inquiries into scores of foreign firms in sectors ranging from auto manufacturing and pharmaceuticals to baby milk.

The investigations have raised con-cerns among investors that Beijing is targeting overseas companies.

But Shen denied any connection between the investigations and the fall in FDI. “They are not related,” he said, declining to comment fur-ther. But he added that China plans

to revise three laws governing over-seas companies and Sino-foreign joint ventures.

“By revising the laws, we hope to... create a more stable, transpar-ent and predictable legal environ-ment for foreign investment in China,” he told reporters.

For the first eight months of the year, China’s ODI was up 15.3 per-cent at $65.17 billion.

In that period, investment into the EU soared 257.1 percent, leaped 116.7 percent into Japan, and in-creased 73.3 percent into Russia, the

ministry said without giving totals. It climbed 16.0 percent into the US, reaching $3.26 billion.

Ministry officials were unable to explain immediately the huge monthly increase.

Also in the first eight months, FDI was down 1.8 percent year-on-year at $78.34 billion. It slumped 43.3 per-cent from Japan -- which is embroiled in territorial and historic rows with Beijing -- to $3.16 billion, fell 17.9 percent from the EU to $4.20 billion, and dropped 16.9 percent from the US to $2.08 billion.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a think tank dealing with the world’s developed countries, cut its fore-casts for the eurozone this year to 0.8 percent from 1.2 percent in its May assessment.

The Paris-based OECD also cut its growth forecasts for the U.S. and several other large economies but said the global economy over-all was continuing a moderate if uneven recovery. The outlook for the U.S. was cut to 2.1 percent from 2.6 percent and for Japan to 0.9 percent from 1.2 percent. Italy, one of the more troubled economies in Europe, was down-graded from 0.5 percent to minus 0.4 percent.

The OECD singled out the 18-country eurozone for special atten-tion, saying the European Central Bank needs to do more to help growth in the eurozone, including large-scale bond purchases, to ex-pand the amount of money in the financial system - a move known as quantitative easing. It also called on governments to loosen spend-ing within the flexibility afforded by European Union rules limiting deficits and debt.

The ECB has already taken a

number of steps aimed at support-ing a weak recovery. It has cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 0.05 percent, offered long-term cheap loans to banks on con-dition they lend to companies, and said it will buy bonds made up of loans to companies as another way to boost credit to businesses.

The OECD said “growth re-mains weak in the euro area, which runs the risk of prolonged stagna-tion if further steps are not taken to boost demand” and that “further measures, including quantitative easing, are warranted.”

The U.S. Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and Bank of England have all tried quantitative easing. The ECB has not ruled it out, but the step is more complicated in a cur-rency union with 18 countries.

The world economy continues to grow but forecasts are uneven across countries. China is expected to grow 7.4 percent his year but Brazil only 0.3 percent after falling into recession in the first half.

The OECD’s acting chief econ-omist, Rintaro Tamaki, said labor markets in the developed world were only slowly improving, “with far too many people still unable to find good jobs worldwide.”


SEOUL - South Korea’s finance minister said Tuesday that “alarm bells” were ringing over Asia’s fourth largest economy, and warned of the sort of protracted slowdown that hit Japan in the 1990s. While stressing that South Korea’s fiscal position remained “very strong” and provided a lot of room for manoeu-vre, Choi Kyung-Hwan said action was needed to avoid a damaging and extended slump.

“Alarm bells are ringing that the economy is falling into a low level equilibrium” trap of stagflation, where both economic growth and

price hikes become stagnant and both domestic consumption and overseas exports slump, he told journalists.

“Unless we respond in a timely manner, the Korean economy might take the road of Japan’s lost de-cades,” he added.

South Korea unveiled a 41 trillion won ($40 billion) stimulus package in July when Choi warned of a risk of recession after the economy grew at its slowest rate for more than a year in the second quarter.

Citing sluggish domestic demand in the wake of a devastating ferry di-saster in April, the finance ministry also cut its forecast for economic

expansion this year to 3.7 from 4.1 percent.

The stimulus includes 11.7 tril-lion won in expanded fiscal spending and 29 trillion won in extra financing support. The lion’s share will be spent in the remainder of this year, with 3.0 trillion won earmarked for the beginning of 2015.

“We are implementing stimulus packages but then that is to deal with sentiment that has been dampened by the Sewol ferry disaster,” Choi said.

The central bank cut its key inter-est rate by 25 basis points to 2.25 percent last month, but Choi stressed that the rate remained high among developed countries.

China’s overseas investment soars as FDI drops again

Eurozone economic growth forecast cutAssociated Press

FRANKFURT — A major international organization has cut its growth forecast for the countries that use the euro and says the troubled currency union needs even more stimulus from the central bank and governments.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-manCurrency traders work near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), right, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.

Alarm bells ringing over S. Korea economy

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From page 1He considered it the lowest depreciation of rupiah since Jokowi ran as

the presidential candidate. As a result, the investors became anxious. He added that during the period before the great rupiah depreciation indeed the Indonesian Composite Index (IHSG) was suppressed. But on the other hand, the stocks having the income in US dollar got a blessing from the situation of the Top Net Foreign Sell.

He added that the stock market in the first session indicated the decline in the Indonesian Composite Index at -0.24 percent to 5,131.17. It fol-lowed the decrease in regional markets and neighboring markets (except for Bangkok +0.02 percent). The decline in regional markets was trig-gered by the lowest China’s industrial output growth data since 2008. The figure raised the concerns if the China’s economic growth would be tough. (kmb27)

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“The chance of cholera, jaundice and leptospirosis spreading are high,” said Dr. Swati Jha with the aid group Americares. “The most essential need right now is that of clean water.” The scale of the disaster — described as an “unprec-edented catastrophe” by the region’s top elected official — has stunned many in India, with newspapers run-ning daily front-page aerial photos showing isolated rooftops framed by mud-brown waters. The Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided be-tween India and Pakistan, while be-ing claimed by both. And both sides have seen extreme devastation.

In Indian Kashmir, more than 200 people were killed and another 275,000 were evacuated after homes, shops and other buildings across the region filled to their rooftops almost two weeks ago.

On the Pakistani side, at least 328 people have died and 276,681 have been evacuated, with the floods affecting more than 3,000 villages extending beyond Paki-stani Kashmir into the country’s Punjab region. Pakistani doctors have so far treated 123,020 patients in flood-hit areas, according to the country’s National Disaster Man-agement authority.

Indian rescue workers were rushing in health workers, sewage pumps, water filters, water purifying tablets and 30 generators to electrify relief camps and field hospitals. Six medical camps and 80 medical teams have already treated around 53,000 patients, according to the army, which has 30,000 additional troops on the ground for rescue and relief efforts.

But doctors on the ground said the need was vast — and urgent — though they said the cooler moun-tain temperatures were helping to slow any disease spread. “There are pretty high chances of water-

borne disease and disease due to over-crowding,” said critical care specialist Dr. Javaid Naqishbandi in Srinagar, urging the government to send vaccines and avoid crowding people into shelters. Warned by experts to avoid the muddy flood-waters, many residents are rationing the water bottles brought by aid workers every few days.

Rescue workers were wearing masks to avoid disease contamina-tion. Local aid worker Fayaz Hamed said that, upon arriving in one sub-merged neighborhood of Srinagar on Monday night, the air was filled with

the smell of rotting flesh. “It was an overpowering stench, and we saw local residents pulling two bodies (of people) out of the water,” Hamed said. India’s health minister, Harsh Vardhan, said a “large number” of doctors from Delhi government hospitals had gone to the region.

“I can’t muster enough words in their praise,” he said in a state-ment, pledging to send even more medicine, health workers and tools for filtering and cleaning water. He also urged local authorities to clear animal carcases and monitor water supplies.

Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG — Several legal groups in South Africa have expressed concern about threats and harsh criticism of the judge who found Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide, but not guilty of the more serious charge of murder.

Some South Africans said they were surprised and even shocked when Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled last week that the Para-lympic champion was negligent but did not intend to kill when he fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a closed toilet door. Pistorius said he thought a dangerous intruder was in his house; prosecutors alleged he intentionally killed Steenkamp after an argument.

Police protection for Masipa has been stepped up since the verdict

Friday in the sensational case, South African media reported. The case will return to the global spot-light when Pistorius, who is free on bail, appears before the judge for a sentencing hearing on Oct. 13. In a statement, three legal groups described a “wave of criticism” directed at Masipa that in some cases could border on hate speech, defamation and contempt of court. The comments include allegations that the judge is corrupt, as well as attacks on her race and gender.

“In judging, there’s a lot of analysis of the information before the court and applying the law to what is before you,” Thabang Pooe, a researcher at legal group SECTION27, said Tuesday. “At-tacking the judge’s integrity and making insinuations of bribery or that she’s not fit because she’s a woman, or that she’s black, means that you’re breaking down the be-

lief in the law.”Masipa, 66, is a former social

worker and journalist who became one of the first black female judges in South Africa, which shed white racist rule in 1994. Her supporters have described her as a symbol of accomplishment in a country where poverty and unemployment remain obstacles for many people.

The legal groups, including SECTION27, the Legal Resources Centre and the Centre for Child Law, said people are entitled to dis-agree with the verdict and that the prosecution can appeal. Prosecutors have said they will decide whether to appeal after sentencing.

The sentence for a culpable ho-micide conviction is at the judge’s discretion and can range from a suspended sentence and a fine to as much as 15 years in prison. Legal experts have cited five years as a guideline.

Associated Press

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey — When Trump Plaza opened on May 14, 1984, real estate mogul Donald Trump called it the finest building in Atlantic City, and possibly the nation. But since then, The Donald has left town and cut ties to its casinos. And the Plaza, like many Atlantic City casinos, has seen better days.

A downward spiral that saw it ranked dead last among the city’s casinos will end Tuesday morning with the closing of Trump Plaza, the fourth Atlantic City casino to go belly-up this year. Unlike Revel, which opened just over two years ago and is still considered new and luxurious, or the still-profitable Showboat, shuttered by its owner in the name of reducing competition for the remaining casinos in town, the demise of Trump Plaza could be seen a long way off.

Despite its prime location at the heart of the Boardwalk and the end of the Atlantic City Expressway (its motto has been “The Center Of It All”), gamblers have been abandoning Trump Plaza for newer, ritzier casinos for years. Its owners, Trump Entertainment Resorts, let it dete-riorate in recent years, particularly after a sale for the bargain-basement price of $20 million to a California firm fell through last year.

Jim Redmond is a 60-year-old from Montreal who loves Atlantic City and regularly stayed at Trump Plaza. He says its decline was obvious over the last seven years.

“It did slip every year,” he said. “This year they had no bedspreads and they totally gave up on the ice machines. The common areas were a little dirtier than usual but we never felt our rooms were dirty. We did bring our own shower head because it was impossible to shower with that water-saver head.

“We went for a beach vacation and we gambled and ate at other casinos on the boardwalk,” Redmond said. “This year the Plaza bar was closed and the 24 hour cafe closed at 2 p.m. The higher-end restaurants were closed. It was so sad to see it get a little worse every year. They really seemed to give up about five years ago.”

Trump Plaza: 4th Atlantic City casino shutdown

Judge in Pistorius trial faces criticism


AP Photo/ Dar Yasin

Flood affected people wade through receding flood waters in Rakshalina village south of in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. Flooding from days of heavy monsoon rains partially submerged Srinagar and left more than 400 people dead in northern Pakistan and India.

Associated Press

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DENPASAR - Deluang Sari, a little delta overgrown by mangrove forests with coastal white sand and calm waves, is situated over-looking the sea recreation center of Benoa Harbor. Since it has an intact ecological system, clean beaches and lush mangrove forests, this place was then developed for breeding sea turtles. At low tide, we can get there on foot in the sidelines of the mangrove trees of Tanjung Benoa, while at high tides we have to cross by boat from Benoa Harbor for about 10 minutes. Aside from seeing turtle breeding, visitors coming here can also see different types of fighting cocks, animals and wild birds as well as a small temple, As a tourist destination, this small island has also been equipped with restaurants, souvenir shops and animal attractions.

Turtle Breeding at Deluang Sari

The league is now a $5.5 billion industry and arguably the most pop-ular international sport behind soc-cer. “I think basketball was about to explode and the dynamite stick to explode it was the Dream Team,” said U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski, an assistant on that team.

Springfield, Massachusetts, is basketball’s birthplace. But the modern NBA game was born in Barcelona. Major league baseball and the NFL would like to emulate the NBA’s international success. Since 1992, the league has played about 150 international basketball games and its contests been tele-vised in more than 200 countries and territories.

With Spain hosting the Bas-ketball World Cup the last three weeks— capped off with the U.S. beating Serbia 129-92 in Sunday’s gold-medal game — here’s a look back at the Barcelona Games and how the sport is changing:

The PlayerWhen Jerry Colangelo went to

sign the first players from behind the Iron Curtain, he didn’t do a Pat Riley and drop a couple of championship rings on the table to woo Georgi Glushkov. It was the mid-1980s, and the former Phoe-nix owner had been told about the Bulgarian big man who had done a good job against Hall of Fame cen-ter Arvydas Sabonis in a European tournament. So Colangelo and a Suns assistant traveled to Sofia to negotiate a contract.

Colangelo walked into a room at the Office of Sports Ministry to find six Bulgarians, some shot glasses and a Coke as a chaser. “We talked a few hours, made a deal where the government was getting most of the money and the player getting a small piece of it,” Colangelo said.

While the 6-foot-8 Glushkov’s career was short-lived — he’s now

the president of Bulgaria’s basket-ball federation — it’s much easier finding international prospects with NBA scouts packing under-19 and under-18 tournaments around the globe.

The 1992 Olympics “just all kind of changed everything,” said Colangelo, chairman of USA Bas-ketball. “It opened the door for a lot of people and then people started to jump into it.” People including eventual NBA MVPs, league cham-pions, No. 1 draft picks — players like Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol and Tony Parker.

But Jordi Villacampa, president of the Spanish basketball club Jo-ventut Badalona, cautions that just like American college kids, some international players bolt to the NBA too early.

“For me it is important that players, before going to the NBA, master the game and play very well and for several years growing in the European leagues, in our case, in the ACB,” said Villacampa, who played for Spain at the Barcelona Games and is the Spanish league’s No. 2 scorer. “Perhaps the timing (of some players) hasn’t been the best to get the most out of their talent.” Still, more than 90 interna-tional players began last season on NBA rosters.

Reuters

SINGAPORE - World number two Simona Halep has become the third player to book her place at the WTA Tour’s season ending Finals tournament in Singapore next month. The Roma-nian joins world number one and U.S. Open champion Serena Williams and Russian Maria Sharapova in booking places at the $6.5 million event for the top eight women over the season.

The 22-year-old has won the Qatar Open and her home Bucharest Open events this year to take her career tally to eight WTA titles and she also finished runner-up to Sharapova at the French

Open. Halep, who started the year ranked 11th in the world, made the last four at Wimbledon but was knocked out in the third round at the U.S. Open last month.

“It has always been a dream of mine to compete in the WTA Finals,” Halep said in a statement on Tuesday. “I’ve had great success this year, and I’m looking forward to competing against the best players in the world in Singapore.”

The WTA Finals switches to Singa-pore for the first time this year and will be held at the country’s Indoor Stadium, which forms part of their new $1 billion Sports Hub.

Agnieszka Radwanska, Petra Kvi-tova, Li Na, Eugenie Bouchard and Ana Ivanovic currently hold the re-maining qualifying places for the Oct. 17-26 event with U.S. Open runner up Caroline Wozniacki just outside the top eight.

Dream Team, Barcelona Games continue to impact NBAAssociated Press

Officially, it was the U.S. Olympic team, together for just a few weeks. To the basketball world, it was the Dream Team, and its gold-medal run changed hoops forever. An American sport was transformed into a global phenomenon when Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and the rest of the NBA’s best arrived in Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics. They sparked an interest in basketball that continues to impact the NBA —on and off the court.

AP Photo/Susan Ragan, FileFILE - In this Aug. 2, 1992, file photo, United States’ Earvin “Magic” Johnson (15) moves the ball past teammate David Robinson (5) during an Olympic basketball game against Spain in Barcelona, Spain.

Halep latest to qualify for WTA Finals

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Simona Halep of Romania serves to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia during their match at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, August 29, 2014.

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LONDON - When Randy Lerner put Aston Villa up for sale last May, the end game of the American bil-lionaire’s reign was predicted to cause only further doom and gloom for the Premier League strugglers. Instead, even those with a bit of blue blood in their claret could hardly have credited how, rather than worsening the dispiriting climate of uncertainty, Lerner’s announce-ment has, almost perversely, given his grand old Midlands club a new lease of life.

The idea of Villa lying second in the table and still unbeaten after four games - topped by a win at Liverpool at the weekend - would have been considered a wild fantasy by most supporters when Lerner revealed his plans to look for a buyer. Yet, even if Villa fans do not feel quite so dizzy after a tough run of upcom-ing games including tests against Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City, manager Paul Lambert is ada-mant that, by making his intentions clear, Lerner has somehow helped provide a fresh “feelgood factor” at Villa Park.

“The fans have had a hard time of it of late, everybody knows the situ-ation at the football club,” Lambert said at Anfield. “I think the chairman coming out and saying what he has said has actually galvanised the supporters and I really think they’re behind the team.”

Of course, the cloud of uncer-tainty over Villa’s future cannot evaporate until a buyer is found to take over from Lerner, whose 300 million pound ($487 million) investment in buying, modernising and professionalising the club has marked him out as one of the wor-thier Premier League owners.

Yet while the search continues, nobody could accuse the 52-year-old Lerner of losing his focus on Villa and of not trying to ensure that he leaves behind a thriving concern.

Long-term PlayerHe has chosen the final days of his

regime to appoint a new chief execu-tive, the former Arsenal high flyer Tom Fox, who has been instrumental in trying to pin down key players to long-term contracts. Striker Gabby Agbonlahor has already signed for another four years and Villa are confident midfielder Fabian Delph will follow suit.

After one of the least dis-tinguished spells for Villa in a generation - the club has finished 16th, 15th and 15th in the last three seasons - it seems a strange accident of timing that, Lambert should finally hit upon the right recipe for onfield success. The “feelgood factor” he talks about stems largely from the sense that, as he suggested after the Anfield triumph, his team had finally come of age, with the club’s thrusting young talent having “grown up

and become men this season” in front of some streetwise defend-ers such as Philippe Senderos and Alan Hutton.

It appears an encouraging mix with the new loan signing from Manchester United, Tom Cleverley, looking as if he may enjoy being freed from his Old Trafford difficul-ties. By the way the trio suffocated Liverpool’s midfield, he is going to savour playing alongside the ever-improving Delph and Ashley West-wood. Behind the scenes, Lambert’s decision to appoint Roy Keane to his coaching team has evidently been a roaring success too.

Villa’s highly-rated teenage mid-fielder Jack Grealish has talked about how the former Manchester United captain’s presence “flooded” him with confidence, even if their first meeting evidently gave a reminder of how Keane also comes armed with a touch of the fear factor.

“On the first day of training, I didn’t start the session that well,” recalled Grealish. “He tapped me on the shoulder after a half an hour, say-ing ‘Are you all right?’ and I replied ‘yeah’. Then he asked me: ‘When do you start training then?’”

You can imagine that, combined with the terrible cold-eyed Keane stare, that might have been a little intimidating but it may be more than coincidence that even with the future far from clear, Villa are learning win-ning ways again with a serial winner on their case.

Reuters

BERLIN - Hamburg SV have sacked coach Mirko Slomka after the former European champions’ bad start to the Bundesliga season that has seen them drop to last place, the club said on Tuesday.

The 47-year-old Slomka, who took over at Hamburg in Febru-ary, was informed of the decision on Monday, club officials told reporters.

Slomka was tasked with lift-ing them away from relegation last season but they still needed a playoff to stay up and protect their perfect record of having played in the top division every season since its creation in 1963.

The northern German club then got off to a bad start in the league this season, losing two of their three games and drawing the other to stay in last place on one point, despite spending big on the transfer market.

Newcomers Lewis Holtby, U.S. international Julian Green and winger Nicolai Mueller have so far failed to deliver with Hamburg having failed to score yet while Swiss international Valon Behrami and centre back Cleber have failed to plug the defence, letting in five goals in three games.

Hamburg, who lost 2-0 to Slom-ka’s former club Hanover 96 last week, take on champions Bayern Munich on Saturday.

Associated Press

HULL, England — Hull duo Abel Hernandez and Mohamed Diame scored on their debuts but West Ham equalized through an

own goal by Curties Davies to secure a 2-2 draw in the Premier League on Monday.

Hul l led twice af ter the club’s record signing Hernan-dez scored with an impeccable

first-half header and Diame restored the advantage against the side he left on transfer deadline day.

In between, Enner Valencia marked his first league start with

a spectacular strike from 25 yards and the draw was settled when Diafra Sakho’s modest shot evad-ed goalkeeper Allan McGregor, only for Davies to bundle over his own line.

Valencia almost won it in added time when his header rebounded off Dawson’s shoulder and rattled the crossbar. Hull has five points from four games, with West Ham a point behind.

Associated Press

EIBAR, Spain — Deportivo La Coruna scored early and hung on for a 1-0 win at Eibar on Mon-day, earning the promoted side its first victory of the Spanish league season. Midfielder Juan Rodriguez scored what proved to

be Deportivo’s winner in the 13th minute when a poor clearance by Eibar defender Eneko Boveda fell to him in the area.

After failing to threaten in the first half, Eibar substitute Dani Ni-eto had the hosts’ best chances with back-to-back solo efforts in the 58th and 59th. But goalkeeper German

Lux parried his first shot over the bar before Nieto hit the side netting on a second try. Deportivo defended well the rest of the way.

“I closed in on the net because I knew that there can always be a rebound that bounces your way, and I was lucky that’s what happened,” Rodriguez said. “We were able to

make good on the goal we had in our favor, something we hadn’t been able to do in the other matches.”

Eibar, playing its first season in Spain’s topflight, has lost two straight after winning its first-division debut.

“We hope that this won’t last just one year and we can keep

enjoying it,” said Eibar midfielder Mikel Arruabarrena.

After three rounds, Barcelona leads the league with Valencia, Sevilla and defending champion Atletico Madrid all two points be-hind. Real Madrid trails Barcelona by six points along with Eibar in the bottom half of the table.

Premier League

Hull draws 2-2 with West Ham

Spanish league

Deportivo wins 1-0 at Eibar

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

Chelsea’s Diego Costa celebrates scoring his side’s second goal against Swansea City during their English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge, London, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014.

Chelsea, Costa set to heap more

misery on Schalke

Schalke will have plenty to fear if, as expected, he plays against them at Stamford Bridge. Those goals, which included a hat-trick in Chelsea’s 4-2 win over previously unbeaten Swansea City on Saturday, have helped preserve Chelsea’s perfect start to the season, in contrast to winless Schalke’s start in the Bundesliga.

Chelsea are top of the Premier League with a maximum 12 points while Schalke are languishing near the foot of the German table with one point from their first three matches.

They know what to expect from Chelsea, too, after losing to them 3-0 both home and away in last season’s Champions League group stage, and on current early season form Chelsea look capable of beating them again by at least that margin.

After another impressive performance on Sat-urday, Costa, the first player since 1992 to score in his first four Premier League games, said despite his great start he had not yet settled down to life in London, but was settling in well at the club. “I have not yet been out in London, but I am trying to get to know it and bit by bit adapt to London,” the Brazil-born naturalised Spain international said.

“To have an old team mate (Filipe Luis) here is very important. Ramires, Willian, Oscar, Cesc Fabregas and Cesar Azpilicueta have all helped me a lot. I am very happy.” Fabregas, who joined Chelsea from Barcelona in the summer, has also made an excellent start at Stamford Bridge, with assists in every game he has played so far.

Schalke CrisisWhile Chelsea are on the crest of a wave, Schal-

ke, who finished third in the Budesliga last season, are in a crisis. The royal blues were crushed 4-1 by Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday and are two off the bottom with just one point and a goal difference of minus four. That point came from a 1-1 draw with champions Bayern Munich.

Schalke, who also lost 2-1 to third-tier Dynamo Dresden in the opening round of the German Cup a month ago, sought more consistency this season after last season’s rollercoaster ride.

But coach Jens Keller has yet to get the most out of a talented squad, with Kevin-Prince Boateng sluggish in midfield and attacking midfielder Julian Draxler and Dutch international striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar playing below par. Keller’s cause has not been helped by a thigh injury to defender Felipe Santana, while other injured squad players are also out and restricting his options.

Forward Sidney Sam, who has arrived from Bayer Leverkusen, has not yet added the pace to their game they expected, and their defence has let in seven goals in their three league games.

With Chelsea awaiting in the Champions League, Keller knows time is running out for him to start delivering. “There is no point in talking much about it now,” he said after Saturday’s defeat at Gladbach. “We will now work hard in the coming days, lick our wounds and pick ourselves up. We want to present ourselves well at Chelsea.”

Reuters

LONDON - The good news for Schalke 04’s defenders as they prepare to face Chelsea in their opening Champions League Group G match on Wednesday is that striker Diego Costa is nursing a slight hamstring injury. The bad news is that even without being fully fit he has scored seven goals in his opening four matches for his new club since his 32.0 million pounds ($52.03 million) transfer from Atletico Madrid.

Lerner farewell galvanises Villa talent

AP Photo/Jon Super

Aston Villa’s Gabriel Agbonlahor, right, is felled by Liverpool’s Dejan Lovren during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday Sept. 13, 2014.

REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

Hamburger SV coach Mirko Slomka give a thumbs up during the German soccer cup (DFB Pokal) match against Energie Cottbus in Cottbus August 18, 2014.

Hamburg sack coach Slomka after poor start

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LONDON - When Randy Lerner put Aston Villa up for sale last May, the end game of the American bil-lionaire’s reign was predicted to cause only further doom and gloom for the Premier League strugglers. Instead, even those with a bit of blue blood in their claret could hardly have credited how, rather than worsening the dispiriting climate of uncertainty, Lerner’s announce-ment has, almost perversely, given his grand old Midlands club a new lease of life.

The idea of Villa lying second in the table and still unbeaten after four games - topped by a win at Liverpool at the weekend - would have been considered a wild fantasy by most supporters when Lerner revealed his plans to look for a buyer. Yet, even if Villa fans do not feel quite so dizzy after a tough run of upcom-ing games including tests against Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City, manager Paul Lambert is ada-mant that, by making his intentions clear, Lerner has somehow helped provide a fresh “feelgood factor” at Villa Park.

“The fans have had a hard time of it of late, everybody knows the situ-ation at the football club,” Lambert said at Anfield. “I think the chairman coming out and saying what he has said has actually galvanised the supporters and I really think they’re behind the team.”

Of course, the cloud of uncer-tainty over Villa’s future cannot evaporate until a buyer is found to take over from Lerner, whose 300 million pound ($487 million) investment in buying, modernising and professionalising the club has marked him out as one of the wor-thier Premier League owners.

Yet while the search continues, nobody could accuse the 52-year-old Lerner of losing his focus on Villa and of not trying to ensure that he leaves behind a thriving concern.

Long-term PlayerHe has chosen the final days of his

regime to appoint a new chief execu-tive, the former Arsenal high flyer Tom Fox, who has been instrumental in trying to pin down key players to long-term contracts. Striker Gabby Agbonlahor has already signed for another four years and Villa are confident midfielder Fabian Delph will follow suit.

After one of the least dis-tinguished spells for Villa in a generation - the club has finished 16th, 15th and 15th in the last three seasons - it seems a strange accident of timing that, Lambert should finally hit upon the right recipe for onfield success. The “feelgood factor” he talks about stems largely from the sense that, as he suggested after the Anfield triumph, his team had finally come of age, with the club’s thrusting young talent having “grown up

and become men this season” in front of some streetwise defend-ers such as Philippe Senderos and Alan Hutton.

It appears an encouraging mix with the new loan signing from Manchester United, Tom Cleverley, looking as if he may enjoy being freed from his Old Trafford difficul-ties. By the way the trio suffocated Liverpool’s midfield, he is going to savour playing alongside the ever-improving Delph and Ashley West-wood. Behind the scenes, Lambert’s decision to appoint Roy Keane to his coaching team has evidently been a roaring success too.

Villa’s highly-rated teenage mid-fielder Jack Grealish has talked about how the former Manchester United captain’s presence “flooded” him with confidence, even if their first meeting evidently gave a reminder of how Keane also comes armed with a touch of the fear factor.

“On the first day of training, I didn’t start the session that well,” recalled Grealish. “He tapped me on the shoulder after a half an hour, say-ing ‘Are you all right?’ and I replied ‘yeah’. Then he asked me: ‘When do you start training then?’”

You can imagine that, combined with the terrible cold-eyed Keane stare, that might have been a little intimidating but it may be more than coincidence that even with the future far from clear, Villa are learning win-ning ways again with a serial winner on their case.

Reuters

BERLIN - Hamburg SV have sacked coach Mirko Slomka after the former European champions’ bad start to the Bundesliga season that has seen them drop to last place, the club said on Tuesday.

The 47-year-old Slomka, who took over at Hamburg in Febru-ary, was informed of the decision on Monday, club officials told reporters.

Slomka was tasked with lift-ing them away from relegation last season but they still needed a playoff to stay up and protect their perfect record of having played in the top division every season since its creation in 1963.

The northern German club then got off to a bad start in the league this season, losing two of their three games and drawing the other to stay in last place on one point, despite spending big on the transfer market.

Newcomers Lewis Holtby, U.S. international Julian Green and winger Nicolai Mueller have so far failed to deliver with Hamburg having failed to score yet while Swiss international Valon Behrami and centre back Cleber have failed to plug the defence, letting in five goals in three games.

Hamburg, who lost 2-0 to Slom-ka’s former club Hanover 96 last week, take on champions Bayern Munich on Saturday.

Associated Press

HULL, England — Hull duo Abel Hernandez and Mohamed Diame scored on their debuts but West Ham equalized through an

own goal by Curties Davies to secure a 2-2 draw in the Premier League on Monday.

Hul l led twice af ter the club’s record signing Hernan-dez scored with an impeccable

first-half header and Diame restored the advantage against the side he left on transfer deadline day.

In between, Enner Valencia marked his first league start with

a spectacular strike from 25 yards and the draw was settled when Diafra Sakho’s modest shot evad-ed goalkeeper Allan McGregor, only for Davies to bundle over his own line.

Valencia almost won it in added time when his header rebounded off Dawson’s shoulder and rattled the crossbar. Hull has five points from four games, with West Ham a point behind.

Associated Press

EIBAR, Spain — Deportivo La Coruna scored early and hung on for a 1-0 win at Eibar on Mon-day, earning the promoted side its first victory of the Spanish league season. Midfielder Juan Rodriguez scored what proved to

be Deportivo’s winner in the 13th minute when a poor clearance by Eibar defender Eneko Boveda fell to him in the area.

After failing to threaten in the first half, Eibar substitute Dani Ni-eto had the hosts’ best chances with back-to-back solo efforts in the 58th and 59th. But goalkeeper German

Lux parried his first shot over the bar before Nieto hit the side netting on a second try. Deportivo defended well the rest of the way.

“I closed in on the net because I knew that there can always be a rebound that bounces your way, and I was lucky that’s what happened,” Rodriguez said. “We were able to

make good on the goal we had in our favor, something we hadn’t been able to do in the other matches.”

Eibar, playing its first season in Spain’s topflight, has lost two straight after winning its first-division debut.

“We hope that this won’t last just one year and we can keep

enjoying it,” said Eibar midfielder Mikel Arruabarrena.

After three rounds, Barcelona leads the league with Valencia, Sevilla and defending champion Atletico Madrid all two points be-hind. Real Madrid trails Barcelona by six points along with Eibar in the bottom half of the table.

Premier League

Hull draws 2-2 with West Ham

Spanish league

Deportivo wins 1-0 at Eibar

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

Chelsea’s Diego Costa celebrates scoring his side’s second goal against Swansea City during their English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge, London, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014.

Chelsea, Costa set to heap more

misery on Schalke

Schalke will have plenty to fear if, as expected, he plays against them at Stamford Bridge. Those goals, which included a hat-trick in Chelsea’s 4-2 win over previously unbeaten Swansea City on Saturday, have helped preserve Chelsea’s perfect start to the season, in contrast to winless Schalke’s start in the Bundesliga.

Chelsea are top of the Premier League with a maximum 12 points while Schalke are languishing near the foot of the German table with one point from their first three matches.

They know what to expect from Chelsea, too, after losing to them 3-0 both home and away in last season’s Champions League group stage, and on current early season form Chelsea look capable of beating them again by at least that margin.

After another impressive performance on Sat-urday, Costa, the first player since 1992 to score in his first four Premier League games, said despite his great start he had not yet settled down to life in London, but was settling in well at the club. “I have not yet been out in London, but I am trying to get to know it and bit by bit adapt to London,” the Brazil-born naturalised Spain international said.

“To have an old team mate (Filipe Luis) here is very important. Ramires, Willian, Oscar, Cesc Fabregas and Cesar Azpilicueta have all helped me a lot. I am very happy.” Fabregas, who joined Chelsea from Barcelona in the summer, has also made an excellent start at Stamford Bridge, with assists in every game he has played so far.

Schalke CrisisWhile Chelsea are on the crest of a wave, Schal-

ke, who finished third in the Budesliga last season, are in a crisis. The royal blues were crushed 4-1 by Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday and are two off the bottom with just one point and a goal difference of minus four. That point came from a 1-1 draw with champions Bayern Munich.

Schalke, who also lost 2-1 to third-tier Dynamo Dresden in the opening round of the German Cup a month ago, sought more consistency this season after last season’s rollercoaster ride.

But coach Jens Keller has yet to get the most out of a talented squad, with Kevin-Prince Boateng sluggish in midfield and attacking midfielder Julian Draxler and Dutch international striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar playing below par. Keller’s cause has not been helped by a thigh injury to defender Felipe Santana, while other injured squad players are also out and restricting his options.

Forward Sidney Sam, who has arrived from Bayer Leverkusen, has not yet added the pace to their game they expected, and their defence has let in seven goals in their three league games.

With Chelsea awaiting in the Champions League, Keller knows time is running out for him to start delivering. “There is no point in talking much about it now,” he said after Saturday’s defeat at Gladbach. “We will now work hard in the coming days, lick our wounds and pick ourselves up. We want to present ourselves well at Chelsea.”

Reuters

LONDON - The good news for Schalke 04’s defenders as they prepare to face Chelsea in their opening Champions League Group G match on Wednesday is that striker Diego Costa is nursing a slight hamstring injury. The bad news is that even without being fully fit he has scored seven goals in his opening four matches for his new club since his 32.0 million pounds ($52.03 million) transfer from Atletico Madrid.

Lerner farewell galvanises Villa talent

AP Photo/Jon Super

Aston Villa’s Gabriel Agbonlahor, right, is felled by Liverpool’s Dejan Lovren during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday Sept. 13, 2014.

REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

Hamburger SV coach Mirko Slomka give a thumbs up during the German soccer cup (DFB Pokal) match against Energie Cottbus in Cottbus August 18, 2014.

Hamburg sack coach Slomka after poor start

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DENPASAR - Deluang Sari, a little delta overgrown by mangrove forests with coastal white sand and calm waves, is situated over-looking the sea recreation center of Benoa Harbor. Since it has an intact ecological system, clean beaches and lush mangrove forests, this place was then developed for breeding sea turtles. At low tide, we can get there on foot in the sidelines of the mangrove trees of Tanjung Benoa, while at high tides we have to cross by boat from Benoa Harbor for about 10 minutes. Aside from seeing turtle breeding, visitors coming here can also see different types of fighting cocks, animals and wild birds as well as a small temple, As a tourist destination, this small island has also been equipped with restaurants, souvenir shops and animal attractions.

Turtle Breeding at Deluang Sari

The league is now a $5.5 billion industry and arguably the most pop-ular international sport behind soc-cer. “I think basketball was about to explode and the dynamite stick to explode it was the Dream Team,” said U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski, an assistant on that team.

Springfield, Massachusetts, is basketball’s birthplace. But the modern NBA game was born in Barcelona. Major league baseball and the NFL would like to emulate the NBA’s international success. Since 1992, the league has played about 150 international basketball games and its contests been tele-vised in more than 200 countries and territories.

With Spain hosting the Bas-ketball World Cup the last three weeks— capped off with the U.S. beating Serbia 129-92 in Sunday’s gold-medal game — here’s a look back at the Barcelona Games and how the sport is changing:

The PlayerWhen Jerry Colangelo went to

sign the first players from behind the Iron Curtain, he didn’t do a Pat Riley and drop a couple of championship rings on the table to woo Georgi Glushkov. It was the mid-1980s, and the former Phoe-nix owner had been told about the Bulgarian big man who had done a good job against Hall of Fame cen-ter Arvydas Sabonis in a European tournament. So Colangelo and a Suns assistant traveled to Sofia to negotiate a contract.

Colangelo walked into a room at the Office of Sports Ministry to find six Bulgarians, some shot glasses and a Coke as a chaser. “We talked a few hours, made a deal where the government was getting most of the money and the player getting a small piece of it,” Colangelo said.

While the 6-foot-8 Glushkov’s career was short-lived — he’s now

the president of Bulgaria’s basket-ball federation — it’s much easier finding international prospects with NBA scouts packing under-19 and under-18 tournaments around the globe.

The 1992 Olympics “just all kind of changed everything,” said Colangelo, chairman of USA Bas-ketball. “It opened the door for a lot of people and then people started to jump into it.” People including eventual NBA MVPs, league cham-pions, No. 1 draft picks — players like Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol and Tony Parker.

But Jordi Villacampa, president of the Spanish basketball club Jo-ventut Badalona, cautions that just like American college kids, some international players bolt to the NBA too early.

“For me it is important that players, before going to the NBA, master the game and play very well and for several years growing in the European leagues, in our case, in the ACB,” said Villacampa, who played for Spain at the Barcelona Games and is the Spanish league’s No. 2 scorer. “Perhaps the timing (of some players) hasn’t been the best to get the most out of their talent.” Still, more than 90 interna-tional players began last season on NBA rosters.

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SINGAPORE - World number two Simona Halep has become the third player to book her place at the WTA Tour’s season ending Finals tournament in Singapore next month. The Roma-nian joins world number one and U.S. Open champion Serena Williams and Russian Maria Sharapova in booking places at the $6.5 million event for the top eight women over the season.

The 22-year-old has won the Qatar Open and her home Bucharest Open events this year to take her career tally to eight WTA titles and she also finished runner-up to Sharapova at the French

Open. Halep, who started the year ranked 11th in the world, made the last four at Wimbledon but was knocked out in the third round at the U.S. Open last month.

“It has always been a dream of mine to compete in the WTA Finals,” Halep said in a statement on Tuesday. “I’ve had great success this year, and I’m looking forward to competing against the best players in the world in Singapore.”

The WTA Finals switches to Singa-pore for the first time this year and will be held at the country’s Indoor Stadium, which forms part of their new $1 billion Sports Hub.

Agnieszka Radwanska, Petra Kvi-tova, Li Na, Eugenie Bouchard and Ana Ivanovic currently hold the re-maining qualifying places for the Oct. 17-26 event with U.S. Open runner up Caroline Wozniacki just outside the top eight.

Dream Team, Barcelona Games continue to impact NBAAssociated Press

Officially, it was the U.S. Olympic team, together for just a few weeks. To the basketball world, it was the Dream Team, and its gold-medal run changed hoops forever. An American sport was transformed into a global phenomenon when Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and the rest of the NBA’s best arrived in Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics. They sparked an interest in basketball that continues to impact the NBA —on and off the court.

AP Photo/Susan Ragan, FileFILE - In this Aug. 2, 1992, file photo, United States’ Earvin “Magic” Johnson (15) moves the ball past teammate David Robinson (5) during an Olympic basketball game against Spain in Barcelona, Spain.

Halep latest to qualify for WTA Finals

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Simona Halep of Romania serves to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia during their match at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, August 29, 2014.

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From page 1He considered it the lowest depreciation of rupiah since Jokowi ran as

the presidential candidate. As a result, the investors became anxious. He added that during the period before the great rupiah depreciation indeed the Indonesian Composite Index (IHSG) was suppressed. But on the other hand, the stocks having the income in US dollar got a blessing from the situation of the Top Net Foreign Sell.

He added that the stock market in the first session indicated the decline in the Indonesian Composite Index at -0.24 percent to 5,131.17. It fol-lowed the decrease in regional markets and neighboring markets (except for Bangkok +0.02 percent). The decline in regional markets was trig-gered by the lowest China’s industrial output growth data since 2008. The figure raised the concerns if the China’s economic growth would be tough. (kmb27)

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“The chance of cholera, jaundice and leptospirosis spreading are high,” said Dr. Swati Jha with the aid group Americares. “The most essential need right now is that of clean water.” The scale of the disaster — described as an “unprec-edented catastrophe” by the region’s top elected official — has stunned many in India, with newspapers run-ning daily front-page aerial photos showing isolated rooftops framed by mud-brown waters. The Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided be-tween India and Pakistan, while be-ing claimed by both. And both sides have seen extreme devastation.

In Indian Kashmir, more than 200 people were killed and another 275,000 were evacuated after homes, shops and other buildings across the region filled to their rooftops almost two weeks ago.

On the Pakistani side, at least 328 people have died and 276,681 have been evacuated, with the floods affecting more than 3,000 villages extending beyond Paki-stani Kashmir into the country’s Punjab region. Pakistani doctors have so far treated 123,020 patients in flood-hit areas, according to the country’s National Disaster Man-agement authority.

Indian rescue workers were rushing in health workers, sewage pumps, water filters, water purifying tablets and 30 generators to electrify relief camps and field hospitals. Six medical camps and 80 medical teams have already treated around 53,000 patients, according to the army, which has 30,000 additional troops on the ground for rescue and relief efforts.

But doctors on the ground said the need was vast — and urgent — though they said the cooler moun-tain temperatures were helping to slow any disease spread. “There are pretty high chances of water-

borne disease and disease due to over-crowding,” said critical care specialist Dr. Javaid Naqishbandi in Srinagar, urging the government to send vaccines and avoid crowding people into shelters. Warned by experts to avoid the muddy flood-waters, many residents are rationing the water bottles brought by aid workers every few days.

Rescue workers were wearing masks to avoid disease contamina-tion. Local aid worker Fayaz Hamed said that, upon arriving in one sub-merged neighborhood of Srinagar on Monday night, the air was filled with

the smell of rotting flesh. “It was an overpowering stench, and we saw local residents pulling two bodies (of people) out of the water,” Hamed said. India’s health minister, Harsh Vardhan, said a “large number” of doctors from Delhi government hospitals had gone to the region.

“I can’t muster enough words in their praise,” he said in a state-ment, pledging to send even more medicine, health workers and tools for filtering and cleaning water. He also urged local authorities to clear animal carcases and monitor water supplies.

Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG — Several legal groups in South Africa have expressed concern about threats and harsh criticism of the judge who found Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide, but not guilty of the more serious charge of murder.

Some South Africans said they were surprised and even shocked when Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled last week that the Para-lympic champion was negligent but did not intend to kill when he fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a closed toilet door. Pistorius said he thought a dangerous intruder was in his house; prosecutors alleged he intentionally killed Steenkamp after an argument.

Police protection for Masipa has been stepped up since the verdict

Friday in the sensational case, South African media reported. The case will return to the global spot-light when Pistorius, who is free on bail, appears before the judge for a sentencing hearing on Oct. 13. In a statement, three legal groups described a “wave of criticism” directed at Masipa that in some cases could border on hate speech, defamation and contempt of court. The comments include allegations that the judge is corrupt, as well as attacks on her race and gender.

“In judging, there’s a lot of analysis of the information before the court and applying the law to what is before you,” Thabang Pooe, a researcher at legal group SECTION27, said Tuesday. “At-tacking the judge’s integrity and making insinuations of bribery or that she’s not fit because she’s a woman, or that she’s black, means that you’re breaking down the be-

lief in the law.”Masipa, 66, is a former social

worker and journalist who became one of the first black female judges in South Africa, which shed white racist rule in 1994. Her supporters have described her as a symbol of accomplishment in a country where poverty and unemployment remain obstacles for many people.

The legal groups, including SECTION27, the Legal Resources Centre and the Centre for Child Law, said people are entitled to dis-agree with the verdict and that the prosecution can appeal. Prosecutors have said they will decide whether to appeal after sentencing.

The sentence for a culpable ho-micide conviction is at the judge’s discretion and can range from a suspended sentence and a fine to as much as 15 years in prison. Legal experts have cited five years as a guideline.

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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey — When Trump Plaza opened on May 14, 1984, real estate mogul Donald Trump called it the finest building in Atlantic City, and possibly the nation. But since then, The Donald has left town and cut ties to its casinos. And the Plaza, like many Atlantic City casinos, has seen better days.

A downward spiral that saw it ranked dead last among the city’s casinos will end Tuesday morning with the closing of Trump Plaza, the fourth Atlantic City casino to go belly-up this year. Unlike Revel, which opened just over two years ago and is still considered new and luxurious, or the still-profitable Showboat, shuttered by its owner in the name of reducing competition for the remaining casinos in town, the demise of Trump Plaza could be seen a long way off.

Despite its prime location at the heart of the Boardwalk and the end of the Atlantic City Expressway (its motto has been “The Center Of It All”), gamblers have been abandoning Trump Plaza for newer, ritzier casinos for years. Its owners, Trump Entertainment Resorts, let it dete-riorate in recent years, particularly after a sale for the bargain-basement price of $20 million to a California firm fell through last year.

Jim Redmond is a 60-year-old from Montreal who loves Atlantic City and regularly stayed at Trump Plaza. He says its decline was obvious over the last seven years.

“It did slip every year,” he said. “This year they had no bedspreads and they totally gave up on the ice machines. The common areas were a little dirtier than usual but we never felt our rooms were dirty. We did bring our own shower head because it was impossible to shower with that water-saver head.

“We went for a beach vacation and we gambled and ate at other casinos on the boardwalk,” Redmond said. “This year the Plaza bar was closed and the 24 hour cafe closed at 2 p.m. The higher-end restaurants were closed. It was so sad to see it get a little worse every year. They really seemed to give up about five years ago.”

Trump Plaza: 4th Atlantic City casino shutdown

Judge in Pistorius trial faces criticism


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Flood affected people wade through receding flood waters in Rakshalina village south of in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. Flooding from days of heavy monsoon rains partially submerged Srinagar and left more than 400 people dead in northern Pakistan and India.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian police on Monday said the four foreigners arrested over the weekend suspected of being linked to the Islamic State jihadist group were from China’s ethnic Uighur minority.

A day after identifying the four men as Turks, police said they had investigated and found that they had entered Indonesia using forged Turk-ish passports.

The elite Detachment 88 police squad had arrested them, along with three Indonesians, after tailing their car on Saturday in the central Sulawesi district of Poso, a known hotbed for militant activity.

“It turned out that the four foreign-ers arrested were Uighurs, after in-vestigation by the anti-terror police,” national police spokesman Ronny Sompie told reporters.

“They had used fake passports,” he added.

The men had paid $1,000 to a broker in Thailand for each passport and used them to enter Malaysia and Indonesia, Sompie said. Agus Rianto, another police spokesman, said the men were being investigated for al-leged connections with the Islamic State jihadist group.

National police chief Sutarman said they wanted to meet Santoso, the leader of a group called the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen that hides out

in the jungles around Poso.“We are still investigating why

they wanted to meet Santoso, whether for training or for terror acts,” he added.

Indonesia is home to the world’s biggest Muslim population of about 225 million and has long struggled with terrorism. But a successful clampdown in recent years has seen the end of major deadly attacks.

Jakarta has estimated that dozens of Indonesians have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he was concerned about their return, adding that he had tasked agencies to oppose the spread of extremist ideology in the sprawling nation.

Officials in Singapore and Malaysia have responded furi-ously to Indonesian forest fires, which have intensified and be-come more frequent in recent years.

Singapore’s air pollution rose to unhealthy levels on Monday as Indonesian authorities failed to control fires in Sumatra island’s vast tracts of tropical forest.

Parliament’s decision has been passed into law.

The agreement obliges Indo-nesia to strengthen its policies on forest fires and haze, actively participate in regional decision-making on the issue and dedicate more resources to the problem, regionally and domestically.

Indonesia signed the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution 12 years ago and has been under increasing pres-sure to ratify the document, be-ginning deliberations in earnest in January.

“Indonesia has already carried out operations for the prevention, mitigation of forest fires and haze, and recovery activities, at the national level,” parliament

said in a statement.“But, to handle cross-border

pollution, Indonesia and other ASEAN nations recognise that prevention and mitigation need to be done together,” it said.

While Singapore and Malay-sia are smothered in haze from Indonesian forests every year, fires in June last year caused the region’s worst pollution crisis in a decade, renewing calls for ac-tion in Indonesia.

Authorities have said most of the fires are deliberately lit to clear land for commercial plantations, such as paper and palm oil, and have ar-rested people caught in the act.

The June 2013 haze crisis sparked a diplomatic row with Indonesia claiming Malaysian and Singaporean companies with plantations on Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo were among those starting the fires.

Singapore last month passed a bill that gives the government powers to fine companies that cause or contribute to haze up to Sg$2 million ($1.6 million), regardless of whether they have an office in Singapore.

Reuters JAKARTA - Indonesia’s pres-

ident-elect Joko Widodo said on Monday just over half of the mem-bers of his cabinet will be techno-crats, including the ministers of finance, energy and state-owned enterprises.

Widodo, who won a July elec-tion and will take office on Oct. 20, has promised a technocratic government in a country with a long tradition of ministers being appointed for political reasons.

“What is most important is that we want to build a strong cabinet,” Widodo told a news conference in Jakarta.

He said of the 34 ministerial positions, 18 would be filled by professionals while the rest would be “party professionals”.

Andi Wijajanto, an adviser to Widodo, told Reuters that meant ministers could be “from political parties but they must be experts in that field”.

Widodo did not name any cabi-net ministers. He is expected to an-nounce his team in early October.

In a departure from outgo-ing president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s unwieldy coalition-building, Widodo has tried to avoid cutting deals with political parties in exchange for support but he faces pressure from within his

camp to share out power.Yudhoyono faced criticism

during his second term for mak-ing political appointments to key portfolios such as the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry.

The energy minister, a senior figure in Yudhoyono’s ruling Dem-ocratic Party, stepped down this month after the anti-graft agency identified him as a suspect in a graft case. He has vouched for his integrity and agreed to follow the legal process.

Widodo, flanked by his tran-sition team, announced minor changes to the cabinet structure in a bid to streamline the bureau-cracy.

AP PhotoAustralian national Jake Drage, left, listens to the judge during his trial Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 at Cibadak District Court in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia. Drage is facing trial on charges of reckless driving that led to the death of an Indonesian woman after their motorbikes collided on June 30. Jake could face up to six years in prison if found guilty.

Indonesia to ratify ASEAN haze agreementAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday voted to ratify a regional agreement on cross-border haze as fires ripped through forests in west of the country, choking neighbouring Singapore with hazardous smog.

Islamic State suspects are China’s Uighurs

President-elect Widodo looks to technocrats for cabinet

REUTERS/Darren WhitesidePresident-elect Joko Widodo (L) and his vice president-elect Jusuf Kalla laugh while speaking to the media at their transition headquarters in Jakarta September 15, 2014.


BEIJING - China’s outbound investment more than doubled in August to $12.62 billion, data showed Tuesday, far outstripping foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country, which fell to a four-year low. China has been actively acquiring foreign assets, particularly energy and resources, to power its economy, with firms encouraged to “go out” and make overseas acqui-sitions to gain market access and international experience. Officials

have said overseas direct investment (ODI) could exceed FDI this year.

The 112.1 percent year-on-year increase in ODI announced by the commerce ministry was a dramatic contrast to the 14.0 percent fall in FDI, which sank to $7.20 billion. Both sets of figures exclude invest-ment in financial sectors.

FDI was also less than July’s $7.81 billion and was the lowest since July 2010, when it stood at $6.92 billion.

Commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang denied any link to Beijing’s multiple probes into for-

eign companies. Chinese authorities have in recent months launched anti-monopoly, pricing and other inquiries into scores of foreign firms in sectors ranging from auto manufacturing and pharmaceuticals to baby milk.

The investigations have raised con-cerns among investors that Beijing is targeting overseas companies.

But Shen denied any connection between the investigations and the fall in FDI. “They are not related,” he said, declining to comment fur-ther. But he added that China plans

to revise three laws governing over-seas companies and Sino-foreign joint ventures.

“By revising the laws, we hope to... create a more stable, transpar-ent and predictable legal environ-ment for foreign investment in China,” he told reporters.

For the first eight months of the year, China’s ODI was up 15.3 per-cent at $65.17 billion.

In that period, investment into the EU soared 257.1 percent, leaped 116.7 percent into Japan, and in-creased 73.3 percent into Russia, the

ministry said without giving totals. It climbed 16.0 percent into the US, reaching $3.26 billion.

Ministry officials were unable to explain immediately the huge monthly increase.

Also in the first eight months, FDI was down 1.8 percent year-on-year at $78.34 billion. It slumped 43.3 per-cent from Japan -- which is embroiled in territorial and historic rows with Beijing -- to $3.16 billion, fell 17.9 percent from the EU to $4.20 billion, and dropped 16.9 percent from the US to $2.08 billion.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a think tank dealing with the world’s developed countries, cut its fore-casts for the eurozone this year to 0.8 percent from 1.2 percent in its May assessment.

The Paris-based OECD also cut its growth forecasts for the U.S. and several other large economies but said the global economy over-all was continuing a moderate if uneven recovery. The outlook for the U.S. was cut to 2.1 percent from 2.6 percent and for Japan to 0.9 percent from 1.2 percent. Italy, one of the more troubled economies in Europe, was down-graded from 0.5 percent to minus 0.4 percent.

The OECD singled out the 18-country eurozone for special atten-tion, saying the European Central Bank needs to do more to help growth in the eurozone, including large-scale bond purchases, to ex-pand the amount of money in the financial system - a move known as quantitative easing. It also called on governments to loosen spend-ing within the flexibility afforded by European Union rules limiting deficits and debt.

The ECB has already taken a

number of steps aimed at support-ing a weak recovery. It has cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 0.05 percent, offered long-term cheap loans to banks on con-dition they lend to companies, and said it will buy bonds made up of loans to companies as another way to boost credit to businesses.

The OECD said “growth re-mains weak in the euro area, which runs the risk of prolonged stagna-tion if further steps are not taken to boost demand” and that “further measures, including quantitative easing, are warranted.”

The U.S. Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and Bank of England have all tried quantitative easing. The ECB has not ruled it out, but the step is more complicated in a cur-rency union with 18 countries.

The world economy continues to grow but forecasts are uneven across countries. China is expected to grow 7.4 percent his year but Brazil only 0.3 percent after falling into recession in the first half.

The OECD’s acting chief econ-omist, Rintaro Tamaki, said labor markets in the developed world were only slowly improving, “with far too many people still unable to find good jobs worldwide.”


SEOUL - South Korea’s finance minister said Tuesday that “alarm bells” were ringing over Asia’s fourth largest economy, and warned of the sort of protracted slowdown that hit Japan in the 1990s. While stressing that South Korea’s fiscal position remained “very strong” and provided a lot of room for manoeu-vre, Choi Kyung-Hwan said action was needed to avoid a damaging and extended slump.

“Alarm bells are ringing that the economy is falling into a low level equilibrium” trap of stagflation, where both economic growth and

price hikes become stagnant and both domestic consumption and overseas exports slump, he told journalists.

“Unless we respond in a timely manner, the Korean economy might take the road of Japan’s lost de-cades,” he added.

South Korea unveiled a 41 trillion won ($40 billion) stimulus package in July when Choi warned of a risk of recession after the economy grew at its slowest rate for more than a year in the second quarter.

Citing sluggish domestic demand in the wake of a devastating ferry di-saster in April, the finance ministry also cut its forecast for economic

expansion this year to 3.7 from 4.1 percent.

The stimulus includes 11.7 tril-lion won in expanded fiscal spending and 29 trillion won in extra financing support. The lion’s share will be spent in the remainder of this year, with 3.0 trillion won earmarked for the beginning of 2015.

“We are implementing stimulus packages but then that is to deal with sentiment that has been dampened by the Sewol ferry disaster,” Choi said.

The central bank cut its key inter-est rate by 25 basis points to 2.25 percent last month, but Choi stressed that the rate remained high among developed countries.

China’s overseas investment soars as FDI drops again

Eurozone economic growth forecast cutAssociated Press

FRANKFURT — A major international organization has cut its growth forecast for the countries that use the euro and says the troubled currency union needs even more stimulus from the central bank and governments.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-manCurrency traders work near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), right, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.

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The town sawmill caught fire, and a Catholic church was de-stroyed. The blaze erupted at around 1:30 p.m. south of Weed, a scenic town of nearly 3,000 located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of the Oregon border and about half way between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.

“It was fast-moving, fanned by incredibly gusty winds of up to 40 mph (64 kph),” state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant. “It went into and around the town.” Blowing embers started spot fires as much as a half-mile (800 meters) ahead of the fire front, and evacuations were called for Weed and two outskirt subdivi-sions. About 1,500 to 2,000 people were ordered to evacuate, said Al-lison Giannini, spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s De-partment. The winds began to ease late in the day, and the fire’s pace slowed. By dusk it was 15 percent contained, state fire spokeswoman

Suzi Brady said. “We stopped the forward spread of the fire,” she said late Monday.

Randy Coates said he and his wife rushed to pick up their daugh-ter when her high school was evacu-ated. He said that on their way back home, they saw the town’s Catholic and Presbyterian churches, houses and backyards on fire. Driving by a wood mill, they saw piles of wood chips on fire. “As we came out of the high school both sides of the road were on fire,” Coates said.

For a while, authorities had to close Interstate 5, the main freeway between California and Oregon, in the area. The fire also knocked out power to most of the town, and people were left wandering the town center with flashlights Monday night. Weed, historically a lumber town, was named after the founder of a mill, Abner Weed, according to the town’s website.

Meanwhile, firefighters were

trying to gain better access to two raging wildfires that have forced hundreds to evacuate their homes, including one near a lakeside resort that destroyed nearly two-dozen

structures.In central California, firefight-

ers spent the day working to build and reinforce containment lines in steep terrain near a foothill com-

munity south of an entrance to Yosemite National Park. About 600 residents from 200 homes remained evacuated, Madera County sheriff’s spokeswoman Erica Stuart said.

Associated Press

EDINBURGH, Scotland — On Calton Hill, overlooking Edinburgh, stands Scotland’s National Monument. A colonnade of classi-cal stone pillars modeled on the Parthenon in Athens, it’s grand, inspiring — and unfinished, ever since the money to build it ran out two centuries ago. It’s a fitting image for the coun-try as seen by independence campaigners, who hope voters will finish Scotland’s incomplete journey to statehood by backing separation from Britain in a referendum on Thursday.

Polls suggest the outcome will be close. For many people south of the Scottish-English border, the idea that Scotland might leave the United Kingdom has come as a recent shock. But it has been decades, even centuries, in the making. “I’ve always felt we could run ourselves. We used to, years ago,” said David Hall, whose job is winding the clocks on some of Edinburgh’s most famous structures, including the Nelson Monument on Calton Hill.

He adds an often-heard sentiment: “We’ve always been treated as second-rate up here, by down south.” Scots have always felt different to their southern neighbor, whose population today is 10 times Scotland’s 5.3 million. The Romans never managed to conquer Scotland,

and remnants of Hadrian’s Wall still stand along the northern limit of their empire.

Scotland and England fought skirmishes and wars throughout the Middle Ages, and the exploits of Scottish heroes William “Brave-heart” Wallace and Robert the Bruce form part of the national mythology.

Britain — the country uniting England, Scotland and Wales — is a relatively recent development. England and Scotland have shared the same monarch since 1603. Political union came a century later, in 1707 — to the dismay of some Scots.

“Many felt it had been imposed upon them by a bullying England and that Scottish politi-cians had been bribed into submission,” said Christopher Whatley, professor of Scottish history at Dundee University. “That narrative ... has pulsed through the Scottish body politic through the centuries.”

But for a long time, in the eyes of most Scots, the Union worked. For almost three centuries, Britain was a global success story, carving out a vast empire. Scots were among the leading players, as colonists, soldiers, administrators, engineers and intellectuals. The 18th-century “Scottish Enlightenment” produced thinkers including economist Adam Smith, philosopher David Hume and poet Robert Burns.

Scotland took long road to independence vote

AP Photo/Matt DunhamA “Scotland welcomes you” sign stands beside a road near Gretna, Scotland, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

Northern California wildfire burns 100 homesAssociated Press

WEED, California — A fire driven by fierce winds raced through a small town near the Oregon border on Monday, burning a church to the ground, damaging or destroying 100 homes and prompting evacuation orders for at least 1,500 people, authorities said. This tiny town near the base of Mount Shasta in the Cascade Mountains was under siege from a 350-acre (140-hectare) blaze that surged toward and through it through timberland.

AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Mark CrosseIn this Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 photo, firefighters work a structure fire in Oakhurst, Calif., as two raging wildfires in the state forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.

Bali Post

GIANYAR - Related to the presence of deer frequently disrupting the agricul-tural crops of residents, a team of the Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) came down on Monday (Sep 15) to Pilan hamlet, Kerta village, Payangan subdistrict to see firsthand where the deer was. The team planned to check the popu-lation of the endangered animal so that it could be made a further study.

The team coming down to Pilan was led in person by the Head of Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency, Suhary-ono. He was accompanied by Conservation Section Chief I Ketut Catur Marbawa, Division Head of Forestry and Secretary of Kerta village.

Based on information from residents, the population of deer seen by people every day did not reach hundreds of heads. However, considering the condition of local nature, where customary village had 50 hectares of forest and located close to a river, there was a possibility if the number attained hundreds of heads. “We will check further the truth regarding the amount of wildlife population,” said the Head of the Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency, Suharyono.

People knowing the location of the deer

were expected not to hunt them because they belonged to protected animals pursuant to the law. In terms of the supporting habitat coupled with the natural conditions, it did not matter if the deer live there. Probably, they left the forest due to the current season and their food stock ran thin. As consequence, they came into the people’s plantation.

The encountered residents admitted that so far they saw the hordes of deer whose number reached hundreds of heads. But the deer coming to the people’s plantation for fodder was only a few. One to two heads of deer came into people’s plantation and ate some chili plants. “Existence of the animal cannot be categorized into pest for people’s plantation area,” he said.

All this time, the deer at Pilan had ex-isted from past time. It was supported by extensive forest habitat of the endangered animals. However, a few years ago, there was a release of some deer into the forest. Probably, those deer had proliferated.

In cooperation with local residents, the Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency would identify the deer popula-tion. Since the deer belonged to protected species, local residents were enabled to capture the deer in the forest for breeding purposes, so that it could become a commu-nity economic development activity under the supervision of the agency. (kmb16)

Other than general public, he said, the Mandarin language course was prioritized for the members of the HPI Bali. This effort was intended to produce ready-to-use human resources. “If we give pri-ority to general public, when being able to speak Mandarin they cannot be directly employed because they have not owned a license. On the contrary, when we teach the HPI members they can automatically be employed,” he explained.

According to him, in accordance with the Regional Bylaw of Bali No.5/2008 on Tourist Guides, it had been set forth that the education, certification and standard compe-tency should be owned by a tour-ist guide including some existing documents to be used in the field when being on duty.

“Currently, there are 700 Man-

darin-speaking tourist guides, while those who are still learning reach 52 people. Hopefully, the increasing number of personnel in the HPI can anticipate the future needs for Man-darin-speaking tourist guide during high season of tourist arrival, such as on Chinese New Year,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Association of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agency (ASITA) of Bali Chapter, I Ketut Ardana, said that based on experience through the years, every Chinese New Year Bali always lacked of Mandarin-speaking tourist guides. As a result, sometimes travel agencies em-ployed unlicensed tourist guides.

“ASITA along with the govern-ment will immediately find solu-tions to overcome the shortage of Mandarin-speaking tourist guides. By that way, travel agencies will

not use the services of unlicensed tourist guides,” he hoped.

Ardana acknowledged that the demand for tour packages for Chi-nese travelers staying in Indonesia

was increasing, approximately 10 percent of normal day. “However, we in the travel agencies, chiefly my travel agency, have no problem because they are living in Indonesia

and have been able to speak Indone-sian. Therefore, it does not require special tourist guides that can speak Mandarin language,” explained Ardana. (kmb27)

HPI Bali adds Mandarin-speaking tourist guideBali Post

DENPASAR - The Indonesian Tourist Guides Association (HPI) of Bali Chapter continues to increase the number of members mastering the Mandarin language. This effort is meant to meet the demand for travel agencies in harmony with the increasing Asian tourist arrivals to Bali. “We continue to organize Mandarin language course to increase the number of tourist guides who master the language. Thus, travel agencies will no longer complain about the shortage of Mandarin-speaking tourist guide,” said Chairman of the HPI Bali, Sang Putu Subaya.

IBP/fileThe guide is explaining the history of Kertagosa in Klungkung

BKSDA Bali checks deer population at Pilan

IBP/FileThe deer population in Bali need to be checked to prevent the rare species from extinction.

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The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be delivered to custom-ers starting Friday and through-out September, but many won’t be delivered until October, Apple said. Phones will still be avail-able Friday on a walk-in basis at Apple retail stores and from various wireless carriers and au-thorized Apple resellers.

Apple’s website had intermit-tent outages last Friday because of heavy traffic as orders began online. The company said the 4 million orders set a new 24-hour

record, beating the 2 million orders in 2012. That was for the iPhone 5, the previous time Apple increased the iPhone’s screen size.

Last year, Apple sold 9 million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c phones in the first three days they were on sale, but the company didn’t say how many came in the first 24 hours of advance orders.

The iPhone 5, 5s and 5c have screens measuring 4 inches diago-nally. The iPhone 6 is 4.7 inches, and the iPhone 6 Plus is 5.5 inches.

Besides larger screens, the new phones announced last week offer faster performance and a wireless chip for making credit card payments at retail stores by holding the phone near the pay-ment terminal. The phones start at $199 with a two-year service contact.

The new phones will initially be available in the U.S., Austra-lia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the U.K. Avail-ability will expand to more than

20 additional countries a week later.

A free update to Ap-ple’s iOS software for mobile devices will be available to exist-ing users on Wednes-day. The new phones will come with the update , known as iOS 8.

Apple’s stock rose 30 cents to $101.96 in midday trading Monday.

Director of Flight Safety of Air Transportation Directorate General of the Transportation Ministry Yusfandri Gona stated here on Monday that the plan was expected to be implemented by 2016-2017.

However, the implementation of the program must be supported by the readiness of the supply for the renewable jet fuel.

“It depends on the providers (manufactures) of the renewable jet fuel,” Gona noted after the opening of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) meeting in

Kuta, Bali. During the forum, Indonesia

had proposed the use of oil-palm-based fuel as the resource for the renewable jet fuel for commercial flights.

The initiative, Gona said, had been discussed in a workshop on biofuel for renewable fuel for the Indonesian aviation industry.

“It is Indonesia’s initiative in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emission and the implementation of biofuel for aviation industry,” Gona said.

The Indonesian government has

set a target of reducing 26 percent of its greenhouse gas emission by 2020.

The greenhouse gas had resulted from some sectors, such as forestry, peat lands, industries, and transpor-tation, including air transportation industry.

According to Secretary of the Committee on Aviation Environ-mental Protection of the ICAO Jane Hube, quoting the Intergovernmen-tal Panel on Climate Change, com-mercial flights contributed around two percent of the world’s CO2 emission.

REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee

Android One based mobiles are on display during its launch in New Delhi September 15, 2014. Google Inc launched in India on Monday a $105 smartphone, the first device from its “Android One” initiative which is aimed at boosting sales in key emerging markets through cheaper prices and better quality software.

Associated Press

NEW DELHI - YouTube users in India will soon be able to save

videos from the Google-owned service, making it possible to watch them offline, and the feature will eventually be available glob-

ally, the company said Monday.The feature will be available

through the YouTube app on Google’s new $105-Android One smartphones unveiled in New Delhi on Monday.

“YouTube will be available offline soon, starting with India,” Google India communications manager Gaurav Bhaskar told AFP.

Smartphones using Google’s Android operating system are used by more than one billion people globally and the new Android One phone is part of the company’s drive to reach out to billions more.

The company said the YouTube save service will be available soon but gave no date. It did not give any indication when it would be extended to other parts of the world.

The new YouTube save feature will be “a great benefit for when there is a slow connection or re-watching videos without using up the data plan”, said Bhaskar.

Google has tied up with local Indian handset makers Micromax, Karbonn and Spice Mobiles to make Android One Smartphones that will start at 6,399-rupee ($105).

“While 1.75-billion people around the world already have a smartphone, the vast majority of the world’s population -- over five billion more -- do not,” said Sundar Pichai, a senior Google vice president.

Google said the phones will be “high-quality” and “affordable” smartphones sold through online Indian retailers.

The new Google phones come with improved security features and more than a million apps, the company said.

Smartphone-makers are in a race to the bottom of India’s economic pyramid as they battle for customers in the fast-growing low-end market segment where analysts say opportunities are vast.

India is now the fastest-ex-

panding smartphone market glob-ally and the third-largest market after China and the United States, according to Britain-based consul-tancy Canalys.

The cheapest smartphones now retail at 2,000 rupees ($33), down from an average 15,000 rupees two years ago.

Technology consultancy IDC India projects annual smartphone sales growth of around 40 per-cent for the next five years in the price-sensitive nation, home to 33 percent of the world’s poor.

Smartphones now hold a 10 percent market share among In-dia’s mobile-phone-using popu-lation, according to consultancy IDC.

Handset makers in India and other emerging markets have been leapfrogging fixed-line technol-ogy that was used in developed markets.

They are employing mobile broadband to deliver Internet access to people who have no computers.

YouTube to go offline in India on Android phones

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Some iPhone users are not happy that U2’s new album, “Songs of Innocence,” was automatically added to their iTunes

music library, free of charge. In re-sponse, Apple has released a special tool that lets people remove the album from their collections.

U2 played at an Apple event last week that included the unveiling of

the iPhone maker’s new smartwatch and updated iPhone models. In a surprise move, the Irish rock band performed at the event and put out its 11-song release.

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced

that the new album would be given to the company’s 500 million iTunes users. The release showed up in users’ iTunes music libraries. The company said Monday that 33 million iTunes account holders have

accessed the free album.But some iTunes users took to

Twitter to complain and ask how to remove it. While it was already pos-sible to delete the album, Apple’s tool makes it possible in one step.

Apple releases tool to remove free U2 album

Record 4M orders of iPhones

on 1st day

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File

In this Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, file photo, the iPhone 6, at left, and iP-hone 6 plus are shown next to each other during a new product release in Cupertino, Calif. Apple had more than 4 million advance orders of its new iPhones in the first 24 hours, exceeding its initial supply, the com-pany said Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Apple had more than 4 million advance orders of its new, larger iPhones in the first 24 hours, exceeding its initial supply, the company said Monday.

Antara

KUTA - The International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, had held a discussion on reducing emissions from aircraft en-gines.

“We will be contributing in this discussion to the issuance of the global aviation policy for the environment, such as by the develop-ment of renewable energy,” stated the Indonesian Transportation Ministry’s Director of Aviation Safety, Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Yusfandri Gona, on Monday during a discussion on the world flight emission reduction in Bali, participated by many other international aviation institutions, including Indonesia.

Gona noted that the event was in line with Indonesian commit-ment to cut 26 percent of emission by 2020 from several sectors, aviation being one among them.

Regular commercial aircraft contributes to emission, beginning from its noise to fuel use impacts on the environment and sustainable development of civil aviation industry sector.

“The current issue is related to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and the development of technology, including operational efficiency and utilization of renewable fuels,” Gona said.

The secretary of Committee on Aviation Environmental Protec-tion (CAEP) Jane Hube said the committee has targeted that future aircraft will be able to reduce noise levels to zero.

Contribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel combustion has also been a concern, as each aircraft uses fuel that contributes about 80 percent of CO2.

Hopefully, the discussed issue that was submitted to the ICAO council will be proposed for formulating policies and regulations as well as standard for products by the CAEP member states and observer countries, and a plenary session will be held in 2016.

This event was attended by hundreds of delegates from 21 CAEP member countries, many international flights, airlines institutions, and flight professions.

Antara

DENPASAR - The government of Indonesia through the Ministry of Health has established coop-eration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to raise public awareness of Maternal and Child Health (KIA), an official reported.

“The cooperation aims at im-proving maternal and child health through the application of KIA guidebook,” health ministry’s Di-rector General for KIA Anung Sugihantono stated on Monday.

He noted that the application of KIA guidebook has been ongoing since early 2014, but the public has yet to realize the importance of the book.

“The target of Millennium De-velopment Goals on maternal and child health has not been achieved, and therefore, the cooperation is expected to raise public awareness on the importance of KIA,” he remarked.

According to him, the KIA guidebook could be used by the public to reduce child and maternal mortality in Indonesia.

Antara

DENPASAR - Together with all public elements, the Bali provincial administration is committed to real-izing sustainable regional develop-ment, according to local govern-ment spokesman I Made Teja.

“We are committed to making Bali remain green and clean because it is in line with the United Na-

tions conference on environmental management in Nusa Dua, Bali, on February 22, 2010,” Teja said on Tuesday.

He remarked that a joint com-mitment with all stake holders has been made to realize sustainable development in an effort to make the Indonesian island resort of Bali remain green, clean, beautiful, com-fortable, safe, and peaceful.

Bali to realize sustainable development

Indonesia cooperates with JICA on KIA

ICAO hold talks on emission reduction ANTARA FOTO/Maulana Surya

The Indonesian government has set a target of implementing the use of renewable jet fuel for national commercial airlines as part of the national programs in reducing CO2 emission by 26 percent in 2020.

Renewable jet fuel to be use by 2016Antara

KUTA - The Indonesian government has set a target of implementing the use of renewable jet fuel for national commercial airlines as part of the national programs in reducing CO2 emission by 26 percent in 2020.

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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

Wednesday, September 17, 2014Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

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

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

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

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

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

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

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

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

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

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

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

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

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

IBP

JIMBARAN - Anumana Bay View Jimbaran is a new branded Boutique Hotel which is close to tourism spots in Bali. It is located in a very strate-gic place exactly at Pondok Mekar Street, Kampus Jimbaran. It is only 15 minutes drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport.

From the hotel, it is very easy to reach some tourist attractions like Garuda Wisnu Kencana, and Uluwatu Temple which is well known as nice place to see the sunset with Balinese dance performance. Besides that, it is also easy to go to some beautiful beaches such as Nusa Dua, Dream-land, Padang Padang and even Ke-donganan which is filled with grilled sea food restaurants.

The Operational Manager I Wayan Budiarta revealed, the hotel not only has swimming pool, lobby, CCTV and Free WIFI, but also the roof top that offers a wonderful view. It has the splendid panorama of Benoa Har-bor, Bali International Airport, Nusa Dua Beach and also Jimbaran Bay.

“This is the best venue to see South Bali at night. Even, grill sea food can be arranged on roof op,” he said.

Budiarta said Anumana Bay View Jimbaran has luxury, large and comfortable accommodation. The building has 4 floors with 10 rooms, each rooms has 50m2 with two sofa and also private balcony. All rooms equipped with LCD Samsung TV 32 inch that has 85 International TV Channel. Private bathroom with hot and cold water, air conditioning, refrigerator, coffee & tea maker and safe deposit box is also available. “Our hotel features 10 guestrooms, perfect for a Bali family vacation, foreign guests and honeymooners,” he explained.

A Free Shuttle service is provided to Tanjung Benoa as the center of wa-ter sport in Bali. Nusa Dua, Kuta and Sanur can be reached within twenty minutes. “Our first few guests were coming from France and Jakarta. Mostly their impressions were very good. So guys, see you at Anumana Bay View Jimbaran if you come to Bali,” he suggested. (ocha)

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Anumana Bay View Jimbaran

Such condition was found by subdistrict head of Nusa Penida, Ketut Sukla, when in-specting the location of Guyangan spring and some surrounding hamlets, Monday (Sep 15). Aside from sold illegally, the water was also widely used to run a private business such as brick molding and other small industries. Ketut Sukla also found that pipeline had been made at some villages. However, the instal-lation at several hamlets was still found inef-fective because it could not drain the water to those hamlets. “It is only air coming out from the pipe, not water,” he said.

It happened at the hamlets like the Pelilit, Sebuluh, Sompang and several others in the vicinity. As the Guyangan spring continued to jam, the residents could not enjoy the clean water. According to residents, as heard in person by the subdistrict head, the Guyangan spring unit head never came down to the field, even though the surrounding people were screaming due to clean water shortages. The Guyangan springs whose water discharge

reaching 179 liters per second could only be used as much as 30 liters per second.

Besides, the utilization was not on target because there were unscrupulous people who deliberately exploited the situation by illegally selling it to people in need of clean water because it was far enough to reach the water flow from the spring. In addition, the residents could not do much because they were very difficult to meet the daily clean water needs.

He had the spring managed properly as the management carried out by the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) in Nusa Penida. He also hoped that all relevant parties to address the issue immediately. Similarly, he asked them to immediately sit together and resolve the problem on the distribution of Guyangan springs. Otherwise, it would kindle a bigger issue because a number of regions were cur-rently experiencing clean water crisis.

Headman of Batukandik, I Wayan Katon, admitted on Monday (Sep 15) that many

residents complained about the situation. Ironically, Batukandik becoming the location of the Guyangan spring even did not get any water. Meanwhile, the unscrupulous people suspected of cooperating with the local author-ity were alleged to have sold the Guyangan water to residents illegally.

This headman complained about the han-dling by the management of Guyangan spring. He had reported the condition for several times, but there was no response from the management whereas the maintenance budget from the Bali government was quite fantastic, reaching IDR 5 billion per year. He asked relevant agencies to come down to the field in order to cross-check the Guyangan spring management.

On the other hand, the unit manager of Guyangan spring when contacted on Monday was reluctant to respond. When contacted for several times, the mobile phone connection was not responded. (kmb31)

Bali Post

NEGARA - Virtually all the newly planted paddy plants at Subak Manusari Gilir, Melaya vil-lage, were ascertained to die due to running out of water. Other than declining water discharge from the dam in this dry season, the drought is also kindled by the ongoing irrigation project. The irrigation project is under progress, so the water flow to paddy fields of farm-ers is stopped.

A number of paddy field owners admitted on Monday (Sep 15) that they had difficulty to get irriga-tion water where the seedling had been transplanted. Even, the paddy plants of a few weeks old at some plots died and the land cracked. Of the total paddy planted in the subak area, 80 percent of them had died.

One of the local paddy growers, Dewa, said the water of the dam

was actually still available. Due to the ongoing irrigation project, the water flow declined and even a lot of paddy fields did not get any water. The water just flowed well at night, but could not meet the needs of the paddy fields. “My paddy plants spreading across some plots are still alive and the harvest stays a month away. Meanwhile, many paddy plants belong to other farm-ers have died due to the drought,” he said. He added that farmers spending up to millions of rupiahs should eventually resign and let their paddy field dry and paddy plant die.

Chief of Subak Manusari Gilir, Wayan Sudarma, when asked for his confirmation did not dismiss the subak condition. Even, of the area spreading across 36 hectares, 80 percent of the paddy plants were ascertained to die. He said there was miscommunication related to

the irrigation channel repair having an impact on the interruption of water irrigation supply. Necessar-ily, the project should be worked on when the paddy plants got near the harvest. “The project activity done at noon automatically causes the water flow must be closed and only drained at night. However, the water flow from the dam is not much,” said Sudarma. His paddy field also got affected.

Related to the water source, it was recognized that the dam needed to be dredged in order to hold more water. Subak authority had also sent a proposal to address the water re-source problem. “Whether it will be dredged or repaired, we have sent the proposal of assistance to county and provincial government. Hope-fully, there is a solution,” he added. His party hoped the assistance of dam repair could be realized in 2015. (kmb26)

IBP/Gus Olo

The dry ricefield of Subak Manusari Gilir, Melaya village is seen in the pciture.

Water hampered by irrigation projectHectares of paddy plants die

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The Head of Nusa Penida Distrik is inspecting the distribution of Guy-angan water.

Clean water crisis, Guyangan springs sold illegally

Bali Post

SEMArAPUrA - Utilization of Guyangan springs at Batukandik village, Nusa Penida, Klungkung, is criticized again by residents. Amidst the water crisis engulfing most parts of the hill areas of Nusa Penida, the Guyangan springs are even sold illegally. At the same time, the other areas still lack of clean water.


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“The strengthening of dollar ex-change rate brings in good and bad effect. As the good side, tourism industry and export businesspeople will get more rupiahs from their business transaction in dollar,” said Secretary of the ISEI Bali, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana.

On the contrary, he said, it would

have negative impact on importers because more rupiahs should be provided to purchase goods and services. “If the products purchased are in the form of raw materials for product, then it will result in an increase in final goods sold by do-mestic manufacturers. This impact is suffered by our society consum-

ing the products,” he said.According to him, the strong or

weak condition of rupiah highly depended on many factors such as social, political, economic and domestic economic condition in Europe and America. “The rupiah depreciation was suspected to hap-pen due to economic improvement in the United States and some Euro-pean countries. Besides, it was also kindled by a high enough demand for the dollar due to foreign debt maturity,” he predicted.

Similarly, he also predicted in terms of social aspect, where the condition had the potential to re-

duce the rate of economic growth. As consequence, the employment absorption would decrease and the unemployment could not surely be reduced. “Fluctuations of the rupiah exchange rate are com-monplace. Differently, if we have greater foreign exchange reserves, the fluctuations will not be much going on,” he concluded.

On the other hand, the attention of the stock market on Monday (Sep 15) was focused on the rupiah depreciation in large amount or freefall. Weakening of exchange rate got near the level of IDR 11,900 per US dollar. As a result,

the vivacity of speculation in the stock was affected.

“Generally, the exchange rate of rupiah lies in the level of around IDR 11,700 per US dollar. Rupiah at that level is good enough for the stock market, including at the level of around IDR 11,800 that is still acceptable although somewhat sup-pressed the vivacity of the market. But this time, the exchange rate of rupiah has moved to the level of around IDR 11,900 per US dol-lar so that it made the market less vivacious,” said Chairman of Panin Securities, Pande Suarsana.

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Tourists visit Kuta Beach on Tuesday, September 16, 2014. The strengthening of dollar exchange rate brings in good and bad effect. As the good side, tourism industry and export businesspeople will get more rupiahs from their business transaction in dollar.

Tourism benefited by rupiah depreciationBali Post

DENPASAR - The Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter stated that the depreciation of rupiah getting near the level of IDR 11,900 per US dollar was assessed to be beneficial for Bali relying on the tourism sector. Thus, the results of business activity in dollars will be getting more rupiahs.

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which decides the awards, said Clooney was chosen in large part for his humanitarian work, in particular for speaking out against the geno-cide in Darfur.

The prize honors a celebrity who had a sub-stantial impact on the entertainment industry and will be presented to Clooney at this year’s Globes ceremony on January 11.

Clooney, 53 and soon to marry British-Lebanese Amal Alamuddin, has won three Golden Globes, for “The Descendants,” and “Syriana,” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” He was nominated for four other films and for his role in the popular television drama “ER.”

The actor, producer, writer, and director co-founded “Not On Our Watch,” an organization that works

to fight genocides around the world. In 2010, he also co-produced a telethon, “Hope for Haiti,” which raised $66 million for earthquake relief.

Previous recipients of the Cecil B. DeMille award include Jodie Foster, Steven Spielberg, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Douglas and Martin Scorsese.

Associated Press

LONDON - Tom Ford has taken his runway to the disco — and with the dark room and all those sparkly sequins, guests almost missed one VIP sitting in their midst.

Actor Bradley Cooper took his seat on the front row at the U.S. designer’s London Fashion Week show Monday, chatting amiably with Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

The Hollywood star disappeared

backstage immediately after the show, and many guests did not even register his presence.

Even if Cooper drew attention to himself, he would have had a hard time competing with the shiny clothes on show. For his latest collection, Ford went full on rock’ n’ roll glam with lashings of sequins, jewels and leather in black, silver, burnished gold and metallic green prints with an oil slick or camouflage effect.

Models looked like members of a rock band with their thick tousled manes

and thick eyeliner, and wore skin-tight sequined tops and bell-bottom pants with an exaggerated flare.

One dramatic outfit featured what looked like a tight catsuit covered all over with black sequins, worn with a matching cape. The looks were finished with very high platform shoes in animal print.

The display was rounded off by a se-ries of risque sheer evening gowns with harness details — complete with jeweled flowers just barely covering the chest.

George Clooney to get prize for humanitarian work


LOS ANGELES - Hollywood megastar George Clooney will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes for his work on screen and off, the organiza-tion said Monday.

Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File

Bradley Cooper drops in at Tom Ford show

Actor Bradley Cooper, cen-tre watches

designer Tom Ford’s Spring/Summer 2015

collection show, during

London Fash-ion Week, at Vincent

Square in cen-tral London,

Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

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